Mark Rober
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But, like, live sports seems like a great first place to start.
I'm very non-conspiratorial.
like my tendency i tend to believe the like mainstream to a degree same skeptical of most people but do you okay so what is your opinion on conspiracy theorists like why why do why do they exist like what is uh my opinion on conspiracy theorists i think that they're exciting
If the Illuminati exists and is running everything, it's a nice model that just explains everything.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
similar i think as humans we're just hardwired to recognize patterns like that's probably evolutionarily like been good and helped us survive if you you know every time those bushes moved you know four to five times a tiger came out i'm gonna make a pattern that that's what's happening right um i think i think
I have empathy for them, really.
Like when people, even like flat earthers and stuff, when they're like, you idiot.
Like, you know, they're not willing to look at evidence that goes counter to what they believe because they're incentivized to keep those beliefs.
They have a community.
They have friends.
Belonging.
They belong.
And guess what?
Like pretty much everyone listening to this, myself included, all have some beliefs like that.
Just want that.
Yeah.
Well, and we have those, right?
Where it's like, if you can't tell me five things that you agreed with with Charlie Kirk, or take it the opposite way, that you agree with with like AOC, if you really think everything, like you've never actually listened to what they say, you just know they're the bad person on the other side, you're in the same camp.