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@leilaw8331
Leila,
I'm going to use your comment as an opportunity to reply to Lewis Howes.
First, though, your rather ugly attack on Christian: You're quite wrong to attack her for an ingratitude that is purely of your imagining. (Personal insults are almost always just the venting of the insult-thrower's own internal bitterness.) She doesn't owe Lewis any thanks: he's getting paid by YouTube. And her complaint is accurate.
You have two things faintly correct: Lewis Howes is a brilliant organizer of interviews, and he is trying, but I am afraid failing, to make his interviews interesting with his interjections.
Lewis,
I am in awe of your good taste in people to interview, and this one, Dr. Huberman, is your taste at its best. And, as I said to poor Leila, above, you are right to try to pace and modulate the interviewees' replies.
Your problems, though, are several. The biggest one in this interview -- as several, nay, many, people have pointed out in this comments section -- is that you sometimes don't have a clue what you're doing. You obviously are not listening to Huberman or don't understand what he's saying. Time after time here, your interjections are just painfully, well, there's no other word for it, stupid.
That's your big one in this particular case. A smaller, but very irritating, one is your addiction to the "Let me just summarize what you just said/If I understand you correctly..." trope. 1.) This is annoying as all get out if you use it more than twice in a two-hour video. 2.) You make a complete fool of yourself if your summary is wrong. Your guest won't tell you. They'll flatter you, or at least avoid hurting you, by talking around your error and pretending that you got it right -- but we, your audience don't have to be so forgiving.
On the basis of your taste in choosing topics plus your managerial ability in putting together competent production values -- "a good show" -- you have tremendous potential, and I wish you well.
Your errors -- sometimes gleefully noted by the quite accurate complaints here -- are a threat to your YouTube career.
Here's a suggestion. This will take work. Make a transcript of everything Huberman says in this video. Then watch a couple of his other excellent videos on the 'Net. Maybe talk them over with a couple of friends who are interested in his topics. This will take you days, I know. Stick with it. It's a necessary investment.
Then, make transcripts of your own interjections here, one each on a separate piece of paper apiece, and go back through the written texts, his and yours, and identify your errors. If you've done it right, you will cringe time after time after time. Your mistakes here really are horror stories. But you will learn from it.
Good luck! You have huge potential.
-dlj.
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"It's not the vaccines that people don't trust"
Quite right. The vaccines in general, often compulsory, use have been tested like crazy and are one of the main reasons we have average life expectancies above the traditional 28~32.
Our problem is that we have a lot of stupid people, usually Trump voters, spreading misinformation, fear, and doubt.
These people are a major reason why the United States, once the richest and healthiest country in the world, is now the fourth richest and dropping and has the average life expectancy of a developing country in Africa or Latin America.
America is unique in the advanced industrial countries in having states with declining life expectancies. The immediate cause of this is mostly opioid addictions and covid-19. The inability of America to handle these threats, however, is probably the massive ignorance spread by religious nit-wits, right-wing politicians, and marketing profiteers. Every society in the world faces these problems. The United States is unusual in the degree of pure fumblebummery it brings to bear on them.
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