Episode 1297 Scott Adams： Bombing Syria, The Obesity-Virus Pandemic, and How Not to ＂Log Off＂ on Zoom
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the new president, Donald Trump, and what it means to be a modern president. Scott Adams is the CEO of the world's largest financial company, a venture capitalist, an investor, a speaker, a strategist, a writer, and a podcaster. He is also the host of the daily financial news show, "Scott Adams' Morning Coffee" and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times.
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hey everybody come on in it's time it's time for coffee with scott adams best time of the day and
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it'll be one of the best ones ever yeah hey omar dr funk juice you too good morning everybody
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of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and people all
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yeah yep that's the stuff that's oh you can feel it just going down and making yourself healthier
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as you as you digest really good stuff well you want to talk about all the interesting things in
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the news i know you do i know you do but first a question for you what value do i uh do i produce
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that would make you want to watch this in the era of being after trump now when trump was in office
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a lot of people were watching me for my trump persuasion and other comments about him but why
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would you watch now i'll tell you what i'm going to try to do and i'll look for some feedback on this
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i'm going to try to make sure that anytime you watch me you're increasing your talent stack in other
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words i'm going to try to talk about what's happening in the news but that won't be the main
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thing the main thing will be to try to get you to understand it better by improving your talent stack
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so i'm going to make you more effective in your life not just informed that will be
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my my goal so if you're wondering why to watch this it will be because the people who do are getting
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smarter and better every single day and by the way i think a lot of you will confirm that that's true
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uh in the comments while i'm talking about other things for those of you who are newer tell me if
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you think you've gotten anything valuable from watching me for however long you've watched me
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and that'll tell the other people what's up all right uh biden decided to bomb some factions in
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syria that are being funded and supported by iran in response to iranian proxies hurting uh at least
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one contractor in an attack two weeks ago now i would like to say that this is a good move
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by biden now if you're if you're tuning into me to watch me say bad things about democrats
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and good things about republicans i'm not going to do that nothing like that will ever happen here
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i'm just going to talk about what works and what doesn't and you can you can play the politics yourself
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when when trump and pence won in 2016 i talked about the what i call the new ceo move
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which is how you establish who you are when a new ceo is uh is hired they'll often do something
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big and splashy right off the bat they'll uh maybe fire some executives who needed it they'll
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reorganize some things but the idea is to establish who you are as the new leader right off the bat
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because your first impression just has all this power forever whoever you are on day one it's going
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to be hard to change that so you want to get it right in the beginning so pence and trump did that
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when they started going talking to ford and carrier when when they first got elected before they'd even
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been sworn in it was really really good first move uh ceo kind of play and then trump did it again
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when he fired all of his cruise missiles into that airport in syria uh to give russia a little bit of a
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tap on the shoulder now people watching it said wow that might even be sort of an overreaction or
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wow trump sure went military quickly but it was a good positioning attack because it said
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oh yeah and it was also the mother of all bombs in afghanistan and i believe that trump played that
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exactly right by establishing right up front you don't know what i'm going to do which he would say
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that directly you can't predict what i'm going to do but you did see me drop that mother of all bombs
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and you did see me attack that airport so just be warned you don't know what i'm going to do but it
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could definitely include lots of violence that is exactly the positioning you want now biden comes in
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and of course our adversaries adversaries are going to be poking them they're going to find out hey do
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we have a little more a little more freedom under this new president are we going to be able to get a
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little get away with a little bit more and biden has now sent the following message no no you can't
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now i know what you're thinking was biden even involved in the decision is he so mentally degraded that
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it's his staff who's making the decisions i don't think it matters that much in this context because
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whether it's biden calling all the shots or some biden cartel collectively making decisions it looks
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the same the the message is the same which is if you mess with the united states there will be violence
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there will be violence there will be a response now i heard somebody on twitter say uh why do you
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wait so long two weeks that's also perfect waiting two weeks to do your attack perfect because it also
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sends the following message you don't know when it's going to come we're not going to forget it
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it's coming might be today might be in two weeks but the one thing you can be sure of
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it's coming now of course you want to do it right so it might take a few weeks to pick the right target
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and get the right assets in place and all that so i'm going to give biden an a plus for um for
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handling this situation so far anybody disagree would it would anybody disagree with that grade now
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there there's a secondary question and maybe it's not a secondary maybe it should be primary some would
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argue the rand paul position that there's no authorization for this attack and the president
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can't just start a war basically can't just attack another country and i think that that position needs
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our full respect in fact uh rand paul's position is not unlike jen saki's uh position just a few years
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ago when trump was doing it and where she criticized trump trump for attacking syria basically not
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authorized all the rest now here's an interesting thing i don't really understand the whole situation
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with executive orders do you do any of you understand what's going on with let's say the
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whole body of executive orders over the last few years because i don't quite understand
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do stuff that you thought congress was supposed to do how does the president just decide to just do
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it himself and then people obey it why do they obey it why does anybody obey an executive order now i
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know that there's different kinds there's some executive orders that are just a clarification on an
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existing law and that's perfectly fine everybody's okay with that somebody has to clarify the law
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right it's fair fair game maybe the courts have to do it if people don't like how the president did it but
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it's a good process but what happens when the president does something with an executive order that the
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constitution didn't quite foresee do we let that happen i feel as if and this is just speculation i need
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somebody smart to tell me how wrong this is because it's probably pretty wrong but it feels like the country
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has a great um let's say a great flexibility with how they treat the executive the president when congress
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isn't effective because congress has such a low rating that we're happy when anything gets done you know you you see your
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government make a decision and then implement it and it goes well uh it's hard to disagree with it
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because the alternative would have been to take it to congress and nothing happens and it's a big fight
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and nothing good happens so it feels as if um it feels as if
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people are just sort of okay with executive orders because the alternative looks worse
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which is to depend on congress for making decisions so are we sort of drifting toward a dictatorship
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because people prefer it because the alternative is being incompetent having congress muddle around
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yeah now the problem of course is that if you take it too far let's say for example this latest
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bombing attack let's say that when trump did it and also when biden did it that let's say it was
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extra constitutional meaning the constitution doesn't quite support this act but what if the country
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does yeah the country might support it and by majority so i don't know it feels like it could be
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dangerous but on the other hand i like it when it happens generally i like it when something happens
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so i i think i do i do like our presidents including biden to have some executive order power
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now the congress and rand paul and i think rand paul is a is a great asset to the country by pushing
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back on it because you don't want the executive orders without the pushback right anytime this happens
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even if you like the executive order don't you have to also like that rand paul is pushing against it
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you could like both of those things because they're they work together pretty well it keeps the
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executive orders maybe a little bit constrained because there's some pushback but you still get
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to do them when they're important it's kind of perfect so thank you to rand paul for pushing back
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but at the same time i kind of like this i like this action in terms of national security
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i've told you before that uh it's handy to have a story of you here's the helpful part of my
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broadcast you should always have a heroic story of you which is the the sort of the imaginary story
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you have in your mind of who you are character wise or who you are capability wise or or who you are
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basically just who you are and i've told you before that my story and i'm going to add to this in a bit
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but the the personal story that i keep running as a little loop in my mind and always have is what i
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call prisoner island and prisoner island imagines that there's some island where all the prisoners go
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and there's no there's no law there they just are dropped on the island and there's no guards or
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anything it's just a prisoner society so it's pretty rugged there so i get convicted of something
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and i'm dropped by helicopter onto the prisoner island well australia is a little bigger so you
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know that that doesn't work for my story but imagine it's a smallish smallish island and all the
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prisoners know each other and stuff now on day one if you drop me in prisoner island how am i going to do
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not so well right because i'm not physically large etc so the prisoners would beat me up and rape me
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day one day two prisoners would beat me up and rape me again day three day four are going to look a lot
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alike beaten up raped beaten up raped three or four months go by beaten up raped but here's here's the
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the uh the prisoner island story it's a story i run in my head come back in a year come back in a year
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in a year i'm going to run the island and everybody who touched me will be dead but you have to wait a
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year day one won't go so well day two not so good come back in a year they'll all be dead and i'll be
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running the island every fucking time now is that true no i just made it up right it's just a story
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in my head is it also true that i would fight through you know adversity well i'm trying to make
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it true right i like to think it's true but having a story of you is like a program that runs in your
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head permanently and it can make it you it can it can turn you into that by being the story that
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guides you all right now let me take that story into this next news item there was a man i guess
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his last name was uh raja gopal i think it was india was india might have been pakistan i forget
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but uh he's from the uh karna tacos hassan district so somebody can tell me where that is
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but anyway he was riding his motorcycle and a uh a cheetah or a leopard it's not clear
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uh attacked his family just like came from the bushes and attacked his and bit his son on the
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leg and it starts attacking his son and wife this guy who's not some you know he's not some like
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fighter or hero or anything he's just a guy gets off his motorcycle and kills the leopard with his
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bare hands to save his family he actually grabbed the leopard and strangled it did he get hurt in the
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process oh yeah he did yeah he got hurt but he also saved his family and strangled a leopard or
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maybe a cheetah cheetah or leopard i don't know it's pretty bad either way now that's the prisoner
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island story this is the prisoner island story now i don't know anything about the guy who did this
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but it makes me wonder does he have the prisoner island story in his head some version of it has he
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carried a model of himself through his life that when he came to this situation the model kicked in
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and and there was no doubt who was going to win the fight and that he was going to fight
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now it probably was just reflex of you know somebody saving his family so probably there
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wasn't a lot of thinking going on it was just reflex but whether or not he had the prisoner island
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story in his head he has it now he has it now the next time he gets in a situation that you and i
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would be frightened to death of he knows he can get through it or has gotten through something
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similarly dangerous so make yourself a prisoner's island story it doesn't have to be real it just
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becomes the program that runs in your head could come in handy if you were attacked by a leopard
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have you seen the videos of the the tom cruise deep fakes look on my timeline if you haven't seen
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them yet um they're i don't even know what to think about them so there's some discussion about
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whether they're real deep fakes they're actually so good that you can't tell if they're deep fakes
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and some people are saying ah you got fooled it's really just a look-alike it's a look-alike
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pretending to be a deep fake maybe maybe i can't tell i can't tell if it's a real person i also can't
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tell if it's actually tom cruise who's playing a prank it doesn't quite look like tom cruise to me
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so my personal opinion is it's not tom cruise i can't rule out a look-alike
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but it did look a lot like him now uh somebody says too tall i don't know if you can tell from
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the video his height but here's the thing that's how good a deep fake is right now that we can't
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even tell if it was really a deep fake how good do you think the best ones are because this is just
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something that ran on twitter right it's just something on social media how is the best one
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don't you assume that there are government let's say government versions of this
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you know where we're we're working on it for both offensive and defensive reasons because i have to
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think these deep fakes have a military application that's through the roof what would happen and you
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know we're working on this right like i i don't feel like i'm giving away a state secret because
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it's kind of obvious don't you think that our government and probably other ones are putting
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together deep fakes of other leaders and deep fakes of terrorists don't you think if we had a good
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deep fake of osama bin laden we could have gotten we could have made some videos and put them into the
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system and cause people to act differently because they thought bin laden was giving them guidance
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but we could and i'm not sure we didn't how would we know right we wouldn't know if we'd done that
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nobody would tell you so the the uh opportunity for um weaponizing these deep fakes is really scary
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because imagine you get into a shooting war and we take the the deep fake of the leader of the other side
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put him on a video and he says hey everybody lay down your weapons we're surrendering
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his own military would probably think it was true
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right because everybody would even in the military they have the phones right or do they
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if you're on operation maybe not because you could track the phone but uh when they got back to base
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people would have phones and stuff right so even even if you're a terrorist you would see the video
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it wouldn't have to be on tv it would just be circulating and it would be your leader your
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terrorist leader saying uh lay down your weapons you know we got everything we wanted or whatever
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so that's common um twitter is talking about having some kind of pay model where you could
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optionally charge people for extra content maybe even newsletters so the world is moving toward this
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subscription base but twitter has a really big obstacle to overcome a psychological obstacle
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and the psychological obstacle is you're used to twitter being free once you get used to it being free
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people are going to complain if there's any anything that looks like it's extra and it's on twitter but
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you have to pay for it it's really going to make people angry let me tell you how are you going to
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feel um well this is how i feel now i'll read a story on let's say twitter or cnn or whatever and i'll
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click to see the original story and it's behind a paywall or you have to go and figure out how to turn
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off your ads and your ad blocker which is too much of a bother i would say i skip almost everything
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that's asking me for money or a password or or my email address or to turn off ad blockers and every
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time i go to one of those links i get angry now twitter users are going to have that experience they could
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be like hey that looks interesting click oh i'd have to pay for that i'm angry oh here's a good one
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oh i'd have to pay for that what would happen if everything that's useful on twitter turns into a
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paywall because that's the only thing that'll be behind the paywall right good stuff you're not going
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to put your worthless stuff behind the paywall so twitter has a really big challenge how to handle the
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the customer's psychology now as you know i have a full subscription account was separately on the
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locals platform but the locals platform was built for just that its only purpose is to be a
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subscription platform so there's no psychological barrier there nobody would sign up for it unless
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they knew exactly what they were getting so they're all happy but if you're used to it being free
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people don't like you adding any kind of friction to that even if it's the extra stuff because they're
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going to think we used to get the extra for free didn't we but i do think subscription is the way
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things have to go so twitter is making the right move it's just gonna be hard hard to implement in
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their case i think they'll be successful successful at some level all right but if you don't want to be
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banned etc something like locals would be better now i keep hearing about a new platform called clubhouse
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which as i understand it is uh some kind of open audio conversations with some set of rules
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and i have i've i've received a number of uh invitations to it i guess it's still invitation
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um and i've uh i've declined them all so far now the reason that someone someone says clubhouse is
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chinese that's not true is it i don't think that's true um so don't believe that unless you see some
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confirmation i don't think that's true but uh you got my interest if it is true i definitely want to
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know it somebody says it's not a u.s company i was sure it was a u.s company no the api they use is
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chinese somebody says all right so there may be some connection let's put that as an open question
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but that's not what i was going for today what i was going for is i don't understand it
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so this is the interesting thing clubhouse everybody's talking about it and signing up
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and everything so there must be something to it but i keep waiting to hear something about it
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that makes me want to do it and i haven't and i don't know what other people are hearing that makes
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them want to do it because lots of smart connected forward-thinking people are already on it and
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telling me i should be on it but i don't know why does anybody know why because i don't think you
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can monetize it right and if there's no video isn't it less good
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all right somebody says think live podcasts well um i suppose if they did a good job on the
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interface it would be interesting i'll probably check it out eventually but my only point is not
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that it is or is not valuable but why have i heard so much about it and yet nobody has told me
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what you would think that almost any business or product that you hear about people would tell
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you why to use it like what its extra advantages but i haven't heard that about clubhouse and i don't
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know why does that mean there isn't any extra advantage i don't know i guess i'll keep that as an
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open question um here there's a big news about the minimum wage 15 dollar thing that the democrats
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want to want to make a national law and i guess the uh there's a rules person who decides the
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parliamentary and rules person in the senate uh has decided that they can't include that minimum
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wage thing with this big omnibus bill there's some kind of rule that says you can't include things that
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are trivially related to the main purpose and this is too trivially related to the main purpose i guess
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so number one i don't agree with this parliamentary decision it might be correct in terms of interpreting
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the rules but why does congress uh put a rule on itself what what's the point of that why would why
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would congress limit its own its own uh flexibility yeah somebody says it's a rule it's a rule but why
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why is it a rule why in the world can't the congress say you know we all think we all think this should
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be in this bill why can't we just put it in there would that bother you as a citizen if you were a
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citizen would it bother you that there was some weird rule that they collectively decided to just
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ignore because there wasn't any purpose for the rule i can't see the purpose for it now i get that you
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don't want to have big you know messed up group things and you want to maintain the ability to do a
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filibuster and you know it's like complicated etc but none of this stuff serves the public i don't
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think uh somebody says in all capitals you don't understand the senate and house rules i'm gonna block
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you for telling me what i don't understand goodbye in all caps probably could have gotten away with that
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if you hadn't used all caps don't criticize me in all caps if you want to come back at the very least
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use upper and lower case then you've got a chance of surviving but you're not going to survive with
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all caps and no reasons just some some kind of weird insult because i'm telling you i don't know the
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rules so you don't need to yell at me that i don't know the rules when it's literally what i'm
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fucking saying to you i don't know the rules okay um i'm swearing at a guy who can't hear me
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all right uh so here's my take on the minimum wage so forget about the the rules the rule part
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this is you know you wish there could be some something like an executive order from
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mitch mcconnell who could just say yeah there's a rule but we're just going to ignore it
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because it doesn't serve us so what is your opinion on the 15 minimum wage in the comments
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can i get get a feel of the crowd yes no on the minimum wage going to 15 it doesn't look like
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it's going to be an option right away but what do you think i'm interested in my specific audience
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uh so take a second for the uh for the answers to come in i'll tell you my opinion it goes like this
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and i base this on the fact i have a degree in economics i have an mba from a high-end college
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you know uh university berkeley and here's my opinion about the 15 minimum wage i don't know
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i don't know every one of you who says yes or no what are you basing that on
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because i'm telling you i've got a degree in this i don't know i don't know if it's good
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how do you know where the hell do you get your opinion from seriously where the hell did you get
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these opinions because i don't think economists agree do they wouldn't you like to see two
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economists uh one on each side just get on the show and give you 15 minutes you don't need more
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but you don't need less just 15 minutes of two economists on either side saying here's why it's
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a good idea and then the other one says this is why it's a bad idea and then maybe then i could make
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a decision but have you ever seen that i haven't seen that i've seen complaints about people saying
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it should be different in different areas because not every area is the same it might hurt some places
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it might help some places and that feels like a good argument i don't know how accurate it is but it
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feels at least like it makes sense so here's my advice to you if you have a really strong feeling
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about this 15 minimum wage and you're not a small business owner yourself in other words it's not
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going to directly affect you immediately maybe you shouldn't maybe you shouldn't have that opinion
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because i don't think economists agree you know i don't i don't think all economists are on the same
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side do you do you do you think if you surveyed economists they'd all be like 95 of them would say
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either yes or no now i get the milton friedman argument of course that the free market you know
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is bad it is the best mechanism but we don't really have a free market we don't really have a free market
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we we have a very uh let's say we we do have a free market we don't have an efficient market that's
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what i should have said it is free but it's not efficient in order for this minimum wage to find its
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right level based on competition and the economy and everything else you need less friction you need
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the ability for things to adjust you know in real time fairly quickly and all that i don't believe
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that happens because people don't have that much mobility i they're just too much friction i think
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so i have no idea whether this is a good idea i have no idea now what do you do when you have no
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idea if something is a good idea anybody anybody what do you do if you're not sure it's a good idea
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you test it which one of the uh which one of the sides the democrats or the republicans
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are saying you know we can't tell if this is good or bad why don't we run it for a year and let's say
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one state or maybe some selected counties we'll just test it for one year and then we'll know
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right are the republicans saying that where are the republicans saying you know we think it's a bad
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idea but we don't hate testing things where's that guy or or woman right where's that person
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or any gender you like um the only thing we need we don't fucking have am i wrong is there some story
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i'm missing here tell me i'm wrong nobody knows the right answer it would be trivially easy to test
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relative to big national things it's easy you just say this county that's the rule for a year let's see
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how it goes right i don't understand why we as a population are putting up with this
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this is pure incompetence because the the people making the decision they don't know if 15 an hour
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is a good idea do you think there's anybody in congress who knows more than i do and i don't know
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much that's the whole point i don't know much about whether a 15 minimum wage is a good idea
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i don't think so and when i say good idea i mean good overall in the long run right all things
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considered it's obviously good for the people get the raise most of them if they keep their job
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so i don't think we can be happy with any opinion on this and i would tell you that if you have a firm
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opinion either yes or no on the minimum wage you shouldn't if you have a firm opinion on this
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you shouldn't because smart people don't know like really well-informed smart people don't really know
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they might lean one direction but without a test nobody knows all right um i've come to a
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potential decision about what's the biggest factor or factors in covid infections and it goes like
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this i feel as if there are two things and some of this is just speculation and a little bit of
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what i'm reading but here are some things we've learned about the covid infections we think number
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one in the uk surprisingly they say there's no real difference in minority outcomes for coronavirus
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except that they get infected more often but haven't we all been under the impression
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that your uh genetic makeup would probably make a difference in your outcomes but it might be that
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that's true but that genetic difference is not necessarily uh ethnically related in other words
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if you read between the lines here the uk outcome if let's say the data holds you know any
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preliminary study like this you can't you can't assume it's right but let's say it is
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it would be saying that genetically there wouldn't be much difference across ethnicities but there
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might be a big difference in terms of lifestyle and economic situation and that might be what's
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driving more infections for example at the lower economic end of things there might be more people
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living per house it could it could be that it could be they have less health care resources
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could be that so this this uh this may be really important information if it's true i'd still wait to
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get a confirmation of this all right so that's the first new piece of information there might not be
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that much difference ethnically even though the outcomes are very different might be lifestyle not
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genetics although there could still be and probably is a gigantic genetic difference across individuals
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but not necessarily across ethnicities um which seems unlikely to me frankly but
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doesn't it seem unlikely to you that there's no difference in ethnicity feels unlikely but that's
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that's what we have here all right um then we also have an hse university research study that says
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that uh oh i'm sorry that was that was the genetic difference study but there's a additional study
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that says that uh 63 percent of u.s hospitalizations for covid could have been prevented if we were not so
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darn fat so obesity according to this one study is responsible for 30 percent of the excess hospitalizations
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um and the same sentence it says 63 percent so it's it's written very poorly so i don't know uh
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exactly which of those numbers to look at because it looks like it's two different numbers saying the same
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thing but there's a gigantic difference in obesity now we all knew that right we all knew that
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but there's some kind of word that i didn't write down that says that uh sometimes it's the
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combination of two things you know you need the you need the comorbidity plus the virus one by itself
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doesn't doesn't kill you now how do why do we call this a simply a virus pandemic when it's clearly
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an obesity pandemic at the same time it's two pandemics if you call obesity a pandemic
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but we sort of ignore one of them and pay all of our attention to the other one when they're clearly
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both gigantic variables now i agree the virus itself is a bigger variable than obesity but the obesity
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thing is so big it's like you should talk about them in the same sentence every time we've got a big
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problem with the virus killing our fat people right now i don't do fat shaming so i'm just using fat
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in a casual way not to mean an insult uh you know i myself have been uh a few pounds overweight at various
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times in my life and so i don't do fat shaming but it's just simply a fact that americans are
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overweight so i feel as if the fact that we don't talk about that more is for what social reasons
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wokeness is there some reason we can't talk about people's health because they'll feel bad it'll be
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racist somehow sure um here's the most predictable thing what was the most predictable thing that
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would come out of the tiger woods uh thing and by by the way i don't mean to make fun of anything that
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happens to tiger woods we we all hope that he recovers and it is a tragedy so i'm not going to
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take anything away from how bad this is but the most predictable thing and i wish i'd said it in public
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because it was so predictable today we learn that woods does tiger woods does not remember the crash
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was that predictable as soon as i heard that he was awake when they found him and he was coherent
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and all that but that the actual cause of the crash was uh unknown as soon as i heard that i said to
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myself he's going to say he doesn't remember the crash he's going to say he doesn't remember what
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what would you do in that situation if that were me i would say i didn't remember the crash
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because he might have been texting i'm not saying he was he might have had something in his system
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uh the apparently he was not tested for any drugs now i i don't know if the rules are different in
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the uk but because there were there were no overt signs of drug use or inebriation in other words
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or there was nothing in his car that suggested he had taken something uh and nobody had no
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eyewitnesses that said ah we saw him put something in his mouth or anything like that so if you don't
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have any cause it's just an accident i guess they can't check so tiger woods can just say i don't
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remember they won't ever check his uh blood to find out if he was inebriated
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and it looks like he can just go with that story that he doesn't remember and he'll be fine from any
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kind of repercussions so i don't think anything was more predictable than he would say he doesn't
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remember do you believe it do you believe he doesn't remember i'm going to go on record as saying
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no i don't believe it it's not impossible it's traumatic very traumatic could be that the cause of
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the accident was that he blacked out so then of course he wouldn't remember it it certainly looks
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like he blacked down doesn't it wouldn't you say that the odds are based on how far the car went etc
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you'd have to think he wasn't conscious wouldn't you and so to me the the texting or the cell phone
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or even if an animal ran in the road i don't feel like i don't feel like they completely
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would describe what happened it feels like he was unconscious but that's just speculation
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amy do you know who amy siskind is or siskind but she's one of the more ridiculous characters
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on twitter i think she's blocked me and vice versa eventually but she was like a crazy anti-trump
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person and she tweeted after biden bombed syria she's tweeted so different having military action
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under biden no middle school level threats on twitter trust biden and his team's competence
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a tear is coming to my eye because biden he knows how to bomb syria in a responsible way
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not the way trump did it with his irresponsible taunts no trump bombed syria the wrong way
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whereas biden he's bombing syria in a responsible way so big difference there according to amy
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um so china apparently uh did some covid tests on some u.s diplomats
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and decided to go with the anal test test instead of the cheek swab
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that's right instead of the nasal swab or the cheek swab uh china decided to shove something up our
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diplomats asses uh they complained the diplomats complained about uh china shoving things up their
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asses and china said oh it was an error it was a mistake sorry didn't mean it sorry and what will the
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will we note that although america went to mars china went to uranus
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i would like to give this opportunity for all of you to add your own jokes
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about china shoving a covid test up the ass of our diplomats what would what would trump have done
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if china shoved things up the ass of our diplomats and then said whoops whoops sorry
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would he do what biden is likely to do complain
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but he should have closed the embassies should just close the fucking embassies
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like i don't know how you protect your diplomats
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but do you want to be a diplomat that was not protected the way these guys were not protected
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these guys and and women and genders of all types they were not protected
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now i think they probably had a choice of saying no but then they probably couldn't travel
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or i don't know there's probably some repercussion
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so i don't feel this can go unaddressed do you this should not be unaddressed i think trump would
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there's a new story of a uh a classroom assistant who didn't know his zoom was still on and uh he may
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have uh he may have done a tubing he may have been he may have been doing a
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and uh here's the funniest part is that the young man the 21 year old uh employee
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he he right he also has a side company when he's not being an assistant in schools he also runs pirate magic
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uh business and throws pirate parties for youngsters
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while he portrays a character named captain silly bones
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here's some good advice for you and you can take this to the bank
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if there's any chance at all that you're going to get caught masturbating on zoom
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don't do them at the same time that's like a comorbidity
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it's only a problem when you combine the two things on a zoom call
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i don't think he's going to get booked for another party
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that are facing me where i would sit at my office desk
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the first thing i do when i'm done with any kind of a zoom call
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because that's how you lose your pirate parties
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so i just assume that i'm being recorded all the time
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and he said it absolutely will be politically acceptable again
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now i don't think he associates himself that way
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nuclear power will absolutely be politically acceptable again