Episode 1320 Scott Adams： Cancer Cures, Trump Wax Punching Bag, CRT Index Fund, A Hypnosis Trick for Mind Reading
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the sudden death of LeBron James and how it has changed the way we think about the NBA and the future of the sport, and how we might be entering the engineering phase for curing cancer.
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you probably wondered where I was well I turned on the camera and I saw the preview and it turns
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out my shirt was inside out and you don't want to go live to the world with your shirt inside out
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and so I had to make you wait didn't want to see you do a didn't want you to have to watch the
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wardrobe adjustment wardrobe failure well it looks like the weather forecast for my kitchen
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is no rain yeah for the first time in two days the weather forecast inside my house in my kitchen
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no rain spent the entire day yesterday trying to fix a sprinkler system leak and a lot of rain in
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the kitchen let's just say but it's all fixed now so how would you like to enjoy the simultaneous sip
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I know I know that's why you're here of course you'd like to enjoy it and all you'd need is a
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cup or mug or glass a tank of chalice of time canteen jug of flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your
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favorite liquid and I don't like that kitchen rainwater I like coffee join me now for the
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dopamine the other day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it's
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going to excite people all over the world right now go
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you want a little hypnosis trick I know you do here's a little trick
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to make people listen to your points and this works in hypnosis but it can work in just communication
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the amount you pause and the emphasis you put on things can be really really sticky meaning that
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if you vary your voice just right people can't look away because they're going to wait for your next word
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so I'll give you an example that if I were going to say for example that the best thing in the world was
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spaghetti made you wait didn't I see how I made you wait one of the things about public speaking
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is that time flows differently for the person who's speaking than for the audience and you have to
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you have to understand that difference and compensate for it but that's another story
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let's talk about the golden age which is upon us you know I was talking about the golden age almost
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here and then the pandemic hit and people said Scott Scott Scott I don't think you've ever been more
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wrong about the golden age because we got ourselves a pandemic instead to which I said what kind of a bad
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optimist are you if you were a good optimist like me and like most of you you would say to yourself
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sometimes you've got to reboot the system sometimes before you can build an impressive new building you have
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to demolish the one that's there and the pandemic like some big reboot just made us rethink everything
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try different things change our priorities and here's one of the side effects that may have come out of
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the coronavirus pandemic apparently this mRNA vaccine is a platform which has a very good chance of working for
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not only you know obviously this this virus but future viruses so our position against future pandemics might be way better than it was because of what happened this year but here's the fun part one of the scientists behind the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine says that the same technology has a good chance of working for cancer
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and not only might it work for cancer but they might be able to make a vaccine that works on just your cancer a customized vaccine now we're not right knocking on the door of that but apparently there's nothing about the technology that tells you it can't be done which is to say it's looking at this point where it's more of an engineering problem where you've figured out the science-y part
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but now you've got to experiment your way to making it useful and once you've got to experiment your way to making it useful and once you pass out of that pure science part and you get into I'll call it the engineering part you know that trial and error trying to get a light bulb that will last longer type of thing you just keep trying it we might we might we might
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be entering the engineering phase for curing cancer now you didn't see that coming out of the pandemic did you have you noticed that even though Trump is out of the news he's just always in your head and he's like this filter and any news story you see at least if you've been talking about politics for the last several years like I have everything looks like a Trump story even when it isn't so here's a story about
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LeBron James he gets some kind of an ankle injury and he's going to be out indefinitely and this is a pure sports story and when I read this story all I think is wow it seems like Trump critics have a lot of bad luck that's the first thing I thought and I thought wait a minute it's not just Trump critics that have bad luck I feel as though even Trump supporters have bad luck that if
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if you care about Trump something bad is going to happen to you now of course you know it doesn't matter which way you care you hate him or you love him something bad will happen to you now of course this is just a psychological confirmation by his thing there's nothing to it statistically but because the news always calls out people who are famous for more than one thing and one of them is criticizing Trump it has this weird impression where
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you're either you're either going to have a really good time you're either going to have a really good time like like Brady you know winning the Super Bowl or a really bad time like LeBron getting injured but somehow it's all about Trump but it isn't
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also about LeBron apparently LeBron was asked if he's going to get the vaccination now keep in mind
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that LeBron has voluntarily taken what I'd call a leadership position in society and for the the top athletes they almost can't avoid it right almost anything they do it just puts them in a position of you know what are you doing and then it's a leadership thing even if they didn't want that to be the case so LeBron has taken some leadership positions on the various wokeness items
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so he's he's all in on the wokeness stuff but and like the hoaxes in particular so he he pushed the pretty sure he pushed the Charlottesville hoax so when it comes to hoaxes and wokeness he's all in on leadership but when they asked him if he wanted if he was going to get the vaccination he said he'd uh planning on keeping that decision private
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he's planning on keeping his vaccination decision private now how much influence would LeBron James have on the black community who is hesitant to get the vaccination
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somebody says that means no but I'll bet not if if you wanted to bet against me I would bet it means yes that he got it because remember there are a lot of people who think that's a dumb idea
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so if you got the vaccination you wouldn't want to have to explain it all the time so it might be that it might be that not making a comment is the only way he can you know live his life because he doesn't want to have to be explaining this every day
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so I can see that but I do question why he would not take leadership in the thing that saves lives but he would take leadership in the thing that he gets everything wrong
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he can't tell the hoaxes from the real stuff and he's in the wokeness
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so here's the problem with making your sports stars your leaders they're not really trained for that
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you know if you ask me how smart is LeBron James I would say if you just based it on you know his ability to succeed so well at his sport
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it's not all about physicality he must have some kind of genius that applies to you know his his chosen sport
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and if you watch him play it does look like genius it's just a you know specialized kind
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uh but he doesn't really have the exactly the right material for this kind of leadership and I think
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here's a story that you're not hearing why is it that um the people who are most resistant to getting
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the vaccinations are black americans and trump supporters where are all the stories saying you know
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trump supporters and black americans sure have a lot in common
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wouldn't you expect that that there's always that story you know about the um the strange bedfellows and
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the the fish out of water and any any time two things that shouldn't be on the same team
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you know if ted cruz tweets something about aoc that's you know on the same side which he's done
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it's a national story right it's like wait a minute ted cruz can't be agreeing with aoc
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that can't be happening but here one of the biggest stories in the world
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is that trump supporters and black americans have very similar skepticism about the science and the
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experts and i feel like i've been saying this for four years now that it seems to me that black
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americans are natural republicans i know it seems weird but i i think i think the trend if you had to
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project forward there'll be a lot more black conservatives because it works it works if you tell
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you if you say i think i'll be a democrat let's say you're you're black you're american you're trying
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to decide you know who you are in life etc if you decide that you're you know one of the democrats you
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get thrown in with every other uh ethnic um gender situation and you're not very special you're just
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another person who's a victim in some ways right but have you noticed that every it seems like every
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black person who becomes a republican does really well you know they they get more attention because
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it's a little more special get get a more you know it's more uh non non-standard you know a little
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bit it's a little bit non-standard not a lot um so it just seems to me that the black population will
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probably eventually figure out that the republicans are the ones who have better systems and and they're
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just better off and they'll get more of what they need that way i told you that i was going to start a
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thing which i haven't yet started except a little bit of defending the hard to defend
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and i'm going to do this on tuesday i'll announce later who i'm defending but i'm going to i haven't
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signed on yet to clubhouse but i'm planning to do that and by tuesday and i'll do a clubhouse in which
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i'm going to defend a really hard to defend person all right and we'll let you know who it is later
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now keep in mind that the whole point of the exercise the point of the exercise is to pick somebody
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who's hard to defend right so i'm going to act like a defense attorney for somebody who maybe
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doesn't have the same access to defend themselves now that doesn't mean i agree with them
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hear that clearly doesn't mean i'm on their side although i might be you don't know it's just not
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the point the point of it is to give somebody a voice so we'll do that on tuesday i'll give you
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more information about that uh matthew mcconaughey says he's considering running for texas governor
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says it's an honorable thing now i don't know if you've seen any video of matthew mcconaughey lately
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but he seems to be transitioning to become a middle-aged woman and it's an interesting choice
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because he was like the country's sexiest man i think a few years but he's decided at least
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visually to take on um to take on the appearance of a middle-aged woman i don't know why but if you've
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seen the videos you know what i'm talking about and he's a he's quite sincere
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in a weird way um in the democrats eat their own jack pasavik was uh tweeting this morning
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so you heard the story about alexi uh no i'm sorry yeah so uh alexi mccamond was going to work
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at teen vogue but she got canceled because she said some uh anti-asian things i think so she gets
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canceled but one of the people who canceled her another staffer at teen vogue turns out she used
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the n-word more than once in tweets and now she's canceled so now the democrats have canceled one of
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their own and then one of the cancelers of one of the cancelers of one of their own got canceled by
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their own do they see the problem yet i don't think they do i don't think they do now i should
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point out that this latest uh accused teen vogue staffer who used the n-word in her tweets if you
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read the tweets it's pretty clear she's not using it in an insulting way or a racist way but does it
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matter no indeed it looked like she was trying to use it in a in a way that was too familiar for
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twitter if you know what i mean she said something that maybe she could have said to her friend and
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gotten away with it but you don't say that on twitter in 2021 and expect not to get canceled
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fox news has created a story out of pretending they don't understand how analogies work
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how many times have you seen a story that depended on the person writing the story not knowing what an
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analogy was or how they work so here's fox news their headline says about governor cuomo it says
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cuomo threatened to compare a critic to a child rapist in the leaked audio that sounds pretty bad
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doesn't it listen to that headline a governor governor cuomo threatened to compare one of his critics to a
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child rapist that's pretty bad until you read the story and it goes like this so there were some
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some democrats so that's his party but they were endorsing him but they were going to give him sort
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of a tepid endorsement and say well he's not our first choice but he's better than a republican
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and cuomo was arguing with this person on the phone and saying you know that's not good enough
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we're both democrats essentially i'm paraphrasing and he was he uses this analogy
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um to argue his point so cuomo allegedly said if you ever say well he's better than a republican
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again then i'm going to say you're better than a child rapist how about that cuomo was heard telling
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lipton on the call now that's just an analogy that's not a threat do you read this and think to
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yourself that cuomo will actually go out and then just out of nothing he will start comparing this guy
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to a child rapist in public for no reason that the public can understand did this look like a real
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threat no this wasn't a threat it was an analogy the analogy is that that simply saying somebody's
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better than a child rapist is saying they're not that good simply somebody saying somebody is better
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than a republican if you happen to be a democrat is also not so good it was just an analogy
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and and fox news reports it like he threatened him
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what a slow news day um also fox news and i'm going to teach you a little hypnosis trick here again
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there's something i learned in hypnosis um training years ago and my hypnosis instructor told me this was
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true and i said i said there's no way that's true there's no way and i'm going to do the same thing to
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you i'm going to tell you something that i think is true and you're going to say to yourself no that's
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not true you might think it's true but that's confirmation bias that's not true but then you're
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going to have the experience i had which is once your filter is set you're going to start to see it
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everywhere and your confidence that this is not true is going to be eroded over time the same way
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your mind was and it goes like this you can often it's not a hundred percent thing but often you can
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tell people's inner thoughts by their accidental choice of words so if people use uh and i'll give
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you the example that the hypnotists use so let's say you're going to date with somebody it's the first
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date and you're wondering if they're interested in you and you're looking at your date and you use the
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example of it's a guy trying to figure out if the woman is interested and it's before dinner and the
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woman means to say i'm famished oh man i'm famished but there's a little uh slip of the tongue and she
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what that does is reveal that her inner thoughts were more sexual and that she's good to go because
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ravished has more to do with sex than it does to do with eating so that it would not be an accidental
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slip of the tongue it would be like a freudian slip if you will and it would mean something well i was
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reminded of that when i was looking at this fox news uh article about jeffrey toobin and they used
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the phrase pulled off at least three times cnn's chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin pulled off
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a stunning upset on saturday in his first round they're talking about some you know troll tournament
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about hacks and stuff story doesn't matter but they used the word pulled off i think two or three
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times in this story yeah toobin pulled it off and now somebody says that it was intentional and i think
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it might have been so it's possible that this was intentional and it was just somebody who thought
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i wonder if they're going to notice this is funny just just stick it in there if it's intentional
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that it's actually just funny and it's fine but and i'm not saying that this is an example of the
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mind reading thing but it reminded me that um i've been using this technique forever and man does it work
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it really works if you look for this accidental choice of words it's just like opening somebody's
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brain up and reading it it works so well that you're going to be mad at me when you find out how
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well it works and you didn't know that until now um i've asked the question why isn't there no list
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public list of public companies who are doing critical race theory training wouldn't you like to
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uh to uh to to to know what group so you could create maybe an index fund to either vet to either
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invest in them or to invest in the other group now if there if you think the reason i brought this up
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is to suggest that a company that was uh doing critical race theory training would have lower profits
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um don't assume that they could have higher profits because you've got what i call the
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in search of excellence um problem you know years ago the book in search of excellence um had as a
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thesis i hope i'm not rep i hope i'm not misrepresenting this that the better you treated your
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employees the more you could attract good employees and good employees are what make you successful
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so that the the the really good treatment of your staff would be way to predict who's going to do
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well now at the time when i was writing the dilbert comic as i still am i said to myself
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that feels a little backwards to me that feels like backwards thinking because in my experience
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the companies that could treat their their employees well were the ones that were already wildly
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profitable so instead of treating company instead of treating employees well and that makes you
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profitable it seemed obvious to me that companies who were rich had enough money to treat their
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employees well and that's all it was um so in the in likewise and now it's a different situation but
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you can see how i got there with the crt index fund it could be that only companies were doing so well
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that they can they can start worrying about non-core functions it might be an indication of companies
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that think they're doing so well that they can now you know worry about the the broader societal things
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it might actually be an index fund that outperforms the the other possibility is that it would end up
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being a bunch of companies that don't know what's important and then they would underperform it might tell
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you there's something wrong with management or it might tell you there's something right with management
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it might be it might be exactly the thing that makes them successful but wouldn't you like to know
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um rasmussen reminds us that half of american voters do not believe that joe biden uh is in
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charge of the presidency have we ever been in a situation where half of the country didn't know
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who the president was because they couldn't tell if the guy who got elected actually is making the
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decisions uh that's really different and shocking and on twitter somebody was noting that our system is so
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good that you can elect somebody with dementia and mostly it keeps working i would say there have been
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some mistakes but mostly it keeps working um did you see the story about the wax museum san antonio wax
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museum they had to remove their uh trump wax figure and put it in storage because people kept punching it
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i guess people kept punching the wax statue of trump and i've told you before that uh one of the best
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business um things to understand is that you don't tell your customers what business you're in
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you do on day one but eventually your customers tell you what business you're in
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because they treat you like you that you're in that business even if you didn't want to be in that
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business and so it seems to me that the customers at this wax museum were teaching the wax museum that
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maybe they needed to be a different kind of business maybe they should be more in the
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punching bag kind of business have you ever seen this punching bag that looks like a
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an adult white male and you punch it but he's got a face that i don't know is it me
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does that not look a little like a muscular trump with you know maybe a little bit different haircut
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just a little bit so it seems to me that the wax museum should have gone into the punching bag
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business make themselves a proper punching bag that'll take a punch and
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just become a boxing business yeah now if i were trump i would be very tempted to create one of these
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these punching bags as a fundraiser because would you buy well i don't know if trump supporters would
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buy a punching bag but maybe his his haters would could he fund himself entirely by getting his haters
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to buy expensive punching bags the trump punching bags trump punch anyway
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um so even the new york times is saying that trump's leadership on vaccinations was not just a success but
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a really big one and um compared to europe trump was the winner now here's here's how history is going to look at this
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i think history is not going to be too clear on whether masks and keeping schools closed made as much
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difference as people hoped but nobody's going to question that vaccines made a big difference
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so it seems to me that history is going to judge that on the thing that we can't measure made much of a difference
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and by the way there are plenty of people the experts still say masks make a difference so that the
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the bulk of experts are still solidly on the pro-mask side but nonetheless it is true that when we try to look
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at the data of how the masks worked in this pandemic it's not really clear is it like i'm still pro-mask
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because i think it had to at least decrease the viral load given that we know how much you
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are exposed to makes a difference in your outcomes i still think the odds that a mask makes some
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difference in some cases is you know was worth the risk management but given the history won't be sure
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about the masks but we will be very sure about vaccinations it's going to look like the thing
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that trump did right may have saved millions because you know our leadership on vaccines certainly
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affected the rest of the world trump might have saved millions how many did he kill to take the
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critics perspective how many did trump kill by not being let's say serious enough about masks early on
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we don't know don't know maybe some maybe a few maybe none it can't be measured we just don't know
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so history is just gonna freaking love trump because he did one of the greatest things that's ever been
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done now to be fair it could have gone wrong right it didn't have to work but it did and if you're a
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leader and you guess right you do get credit and it looks like he guessed right and he did he's getting
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credit it's an amazing thing but here's the question i asked what's happening with china and vaccinations
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because why don't i know that is china as uh as aggressive vaccinating because they get a lot of
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people how in the world can they get all their people vaccinated and here's the question i ask what
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happens when the united states and europe gets all vaccinated but china isn't close to being
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vaccinated doesn't that virus get back into china and doesn't china just get wiped out because they
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don't have vaccinations i feel as if there's something i don't understand here can china continue
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to live in a world where other countries are traveling because they've been vaccinated but china doesn't
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let those people in their country is that what's going to happen because either china has to stay in
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some kind of at least um international lockdown which i think there's somewhat internationally locked
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down right they're either going to have to stay isolated or they're going to have another wave of
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pandemic that doesn't hit the united states so i just have a question about that because if they
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don't have another wave why not how could it not happen um and let me and let me just throw this in the
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mix do you think that any intelligence agencies or countries are gaming this coronavirus for example do you
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think that anybody took a bunch of live virus and you know just spread it in the city of the other or put
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it on the doorknobs of the you know the parliament of some other country so all the all the people
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would get it i feel as if there's a a non-zero chance that somebody's intelligence agency is using the
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coronavirus for bad reasons and here's the question is there any country in the world that would get
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vaccinated and be really mad at china that would have the ability to reinfect china just for revenge
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now i don't think i don't think a proper government would do anything like that but there there were
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the uh what was it the opium wars it wasn't that long ago so anything's possible um here's a question
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i saw on twitter that has been bugging me a lot which is when we're watching the uh the crisis
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on the border and the all the kids who are coming in unaccompanied we have to assume that the kids did
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not make the deals with the cartels by themselves that is to say that the cartels no doubt dealt with
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the parents and the parents said yes i will pay you to take my children across the border and then the
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cartel delivers them to the border but doesn't that mean that every kid who comes into the united states
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is known by a cartel member who also knows their parents and has access to the parents
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doesn't that make tens of thousands of these migrant kids sort of have to do the bidding of
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the cartel once they get into this country because the alternative is you know i know where your parents
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live and there's nothing you can do about it i feel like we've we're letting in tens of thousands of
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kids who can easily be blackmailed by the cartel that's not a story that's not a story
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you know and of course obviously most of the tens of thousands could be just innocent children and
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they go on with their life but you wouldn't need that many kids who are in the pockets of the cartels
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to cause some trouble or at least participate in you know drug traffic or whatever
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um so you know what what is the worst thing about succeeding the worst thing about succeeding is that
00:33:25.820
breeds failure the the one thing will guarantee your failure is succeeding and you see that everywhere
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like if a company succeeds too much and it becomes known as this one thing it's too hard to change
00:33:38.300
to another thing and then they fail because of that one thing like polaroid cameras i use the example
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but ron desantis has this problem now so he's considered a success story as a governor in florida
00:33:51.580
but because he's so successful where are the spring break crowds going to go where are people going to travel
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if they if they're going to travel i feel like ron desantis is so successful
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that it's going to cause people to come in and wreck their state with outside coronavirus so success breeds
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failure and that's that's going to be ron desantis problem it's going to it's going to look like
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his latest decision was not so good it still looks like his past decisions were pretty good
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but this latest one to allow a spring break it's not going to look so good i think so um
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not many spring breaks actually i don't know what that means
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curfews are starting yeah in florida they're starting to arrest people and curfews and stuff but one thing
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you can tell for sure is that young people do not care if old people die and i think that's really
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clear that young people do not care about saving the lives of old people it's just not just not even
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interesting to them and i can't say that i would have been any different at that age
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um somebody says why young people are under virtually zero risk from the the virus is there
00:35:22.620
still somebody watching this a year into the pandemic who doesn't understand that young people can
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spread the coronavirus because in the question somebody was acting like young people don't have
00:35:35.580
anything to do with anybody else you know if they don't get sick that's just their business but if
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you don't understand that they can infect other people how could you have gone a year and not know
00:35:47.180
that somebody's saying we're at herd yeah i saw i saw an article today that some scientists are saying
00:35:53.660
we might be closer to herd than we think i wouldn't rule that out but i don't think that's credible yet
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um but if the elderly are vaccinated what's the risk um low and that's that's why things are opening
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up yeah between the fact that young people don't get it so much and old people are vaccinated we're
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we're uh we're getting ready to fix this i was i was taking a walk yesterday and i'm walking all by
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myself down the sidewalk and i see from a a great distance two other people one has a mask but it's
00:36:32.540
it's down and he's walking he's he's way ahead of me so he's nowhere near me and then there's a
00:36:37.820
bicyclist coming around the corner and is going to pass this other person now keep in mind there are no
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other humans in visual sight because my neighborhood is you know not that many people only three of us in
00:36:52.780
the entire visual plane and i'm i'm completely out of their action the bicyclist is wearing a mask
00:37:05.100
i can't explain it how did we get to the point where a bicyclist is wearing a mask
00:37:11.020
biking where there are no people now the bicyclist is in sort of the middle of the road because there's
00:37:16.700
not even traffic there's not even people in cars so the bicyclist is pretty far from the guy on the
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sidewalk who has his mask off and the guy on the sidewalk puts his mask on just for the moment that
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the guy in the bicycle who is 20 feet away when he passes him in the road just so they have a mask on
00:37:37.980
when that guy goes by and i said to myself what's going on here because there's something happening
00:37:46.940
that is way beyond uh the virus there's like a psychological phenomenon here that i think will
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be studied for studied for decades um and i think that yeah somebody's saying in the comments it's
00:38:01.260
virtue signaling that's exactly what it is but i and i find myself doing very similar things
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which is i find myself giving people like way more space than they need if i'm passing them on
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sidewalks and stuff and i feel that i'm also virtue signaling but there's a little bit more to that
00:38:20.700
a little bit more somebody says being polite yeah that's closer to it because what you don't know
00:38:27.340
is what the other person is thinking and there are people who are scared to death of the virus
00:38:35.100
so if i'm you know if i see somebody coming the other way who i think since i don't know could be
00:38:42.220
scared to death of getting the virus maybe they have comorbidities you know maybe they're just a
00:38:46.620
scared person um i would like to make them feel more comfortable so i might wear a mask where it doesn't
00:38:54.300
make any sense i might give them extra space where it doesn't make any sense so a lot of it is just
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about making other people feel comfortable but there's another part of this that i don't know if
00:39:04.140
anybody's felt this yet but every time i see a stranger like you know from the distance they they
00:39:12.060
start giving me space before i'm even near them i feel like that stranger did something for me
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because i don't think that they were giving space for themselves because nobody's really afraid
00:39:24.940
outdoors really they're just trying to be considerate to whoever they're walking past and i have seen
00:39:31.900
because of the covid distancing stuff more people have acted considerate to me in the past year
00:39:39.420
than all of my life put together i've never seen so many physical acts of consideration you know i i
00:39:49.660
will consider getting out of your way i will put on this mask for you i have to admit it's not all bad
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you know i want the masks to go away as soon as possible just like all of you they're horrible
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um i mean i had to wear a mask all day in my house yesterday because uh one of the people working
00:40:10.860
had a mask on and you know if if you let somebody in your house with a mask on you're going to wear a
00:40:16.140
mask right just consideration i didn't have to but was being polite um somebody says it is terrible you're
00:40:26.700
wrong no it's net terrible i'm not disagreeing with you that the masking is on average terrible i don't
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we don't know yet exactly how much difference it made but i'm just saying that people have
00:40:40.860
demonstrated a willingness to be considerate to other people at a scale which we've never seen before
00:40:51.740
yeah it's it's my house so i could have done whatever i wanted but i want to be considerate
00:40:55.660
that's all um who's zao zao bae deng was mentally unable to memorize and resate the nuclear football
00:41:07.180
codes i don't know what you're talking about there's some story about dengs i guess i'll have to catch up
00:41:13.820
on that all right i don't have much else to say and so i will talk to you tomorrow bye for now
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what a um mind your own business on the vaccines
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um no more mass talk yeah people get mad when i talk about masks
00:41:50.860
um i'm just looking at your comments have you ever hypnotized someone to do what you want
00:41:59.260
well that's what hypnosis i've hypnotized lots of people i would say it's to do what they want
00:42:07.500
that's how it works oh so so you're making a joke on joe biden's name and calling him
00:42:15.820
uh show by den dang so it sounds chinese i get it okay i get it now
00:42:23.500
what book or course on hypnosis do i recommend i don't i've never seen a good book on it or and
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let's see are you listening to my persuasion book now good thanks
00:42:39.740
youtube is shadow banning me big time yeah my my youtube numbers are are way way down
00:42:48.700
and i'm gonna by the way i'm also on uh what's the name of it uh rumble so if you want to if you
00:42:58.140
want to watch on rumble you'd see it in replay um
00:43:01.500
can i hypnotize you to be happy to wear a mask i wish i wish i could oh my sprinkler broke in my
00:43:13.180
ceiling i've got a fire suppression sprinkler and it just got a little hole in it here's the weirdest
00:43:18.780
thing about the uh the fix of my sprinkler system so we open up open up the ceiling and you can see the
00:43:24.620
actual leak spraying out and it's spraying continuously so there's no doubt about where the
00:43:30.620
leak is so the guy comes in he removes that piece of pipe you know has to drain the pipes and turn off
00:43:36.700
the water and stuff and we take the pipe out where the leak was and he hands it to me he goes where's
00:43:42.220
the leak in this because i replaced the part you said had the leak but here's the tube i mean show
00:43:48.940
me where there's a hole in this because it wasn't where a joint was it was like right in the middle
00:43:54.060
of a length of tube and this thing is like this real thick pvc or some kind of pvc and there was
00:44:01.100
no hole in it there was nothing wrong with no crack no hole and we couldn't make it leak artificially
00:44:08.540
we put water in it we couldn't make it leak it was some kind of pvc and um but it stopped the problem
00:44:16.220
when he replaced it a micro hole yeah it was the uh the strangest thing well even with pressure
00:44:26.860
though you would still be able to see the hole wouldn't you because it's not that much water
00:44:31.260
pressure is it yeah i think it was a hairline fracture but we couldn't find it when we looked
00:44:36.940
at it it was which was weird all right that's all for now and i'll talk to you later