Episode 1336 Scott Adams： How to Quit Coke and Other Junk Food, Virus News, and Updates
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Have you ever wondered what would it be like to watch Coffee with Scott Adams if he had no time to prepare and had literally just awakened 15 minutes earlier? What would that be like? Well, you're not going to want to miss this one.
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Well, well, well. Yeah, I'm a little bit late. A little bit late. You know, have you ever wondered
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what would it be like to watch Coffee with Scott Adams if he had no time to prepare and had
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literally just awakened 15 minutes earlier? What would that be like? Well, you're going to find
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out. And if you'd like to enjoy it, and I know you would, I mean, why not? Why not enjoy it, right?
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All you need is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask,
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a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip. If you haven't tried it, oh, I feel sorry for you. Those of
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you who have, get ready. It's happening now. Do you remember, some of you have been watching
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me for a while, I once told you that if you take the Dale Carnegie course, one of the things
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it teaches you is really, really valuable for some situations. One of those situations is
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happening right now. And let me tell you a little bit of a story before I get into that.
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Years ago, I was doing a book tour, going around the country, signing books for whatever book was
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out. And I got to a Denver bookstore, one of the biggest ones in, I don't know, the country or
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Denver, just some massive bookstore that had a room with a stadium audience and everything. I mean,
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it was just a big bookstore. And I get there and the owner of the bookstore greets me and says,
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all right, people have been waiting for two hours to see you. And I said, oh, that's great. And I
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thought they meant to sign books. And they said, yeah, they can't wait to hear your speech. And I
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said, what? Yeah, your speech that you're going to give in 10 minutes. They're really excited about it.
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And I said, huh, I didn't know I was giving a speech in 10 minutes. No idea. I thought I was
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just there to sign books. But apparently, the audience had already assembled. So there were,
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I don't know, several hundred people in the room waiting to hear my speech, which didn't exist.
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So my point is, if you take the Dale Carnegie course, they actually teach you how to be prepared
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to always have a speech. So you can walk into these situations, as I did, I just gave a speech,
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because you just always have one. Now, it's usually pieces of speeches, right? So you have
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these little components that if you get in one of these situations, you can just take them off the
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shelf. You say, okay, I'll take one of these, one of these, one of these, and I'll just put them
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together on the fly, which is what I just did. So that story about the bookstore, some of you have
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heard it before. And the point of it is, it's one of my shelf points. Always keep a few on the shelf.
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So anytime you get a little situation like this, you go, oh, I'll introduce it by the Denver bookstore
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story. And then I'll have a good momentum going, and then I'll find other pieces as I go.
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So I'm going to give you today my first mandatory Twitter follow recommendation. You ready? Now,
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when I say mandatory, I'm going to the next level. I'm taking it up. Because I've told you before,
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there are some people you should follow. I'll probably mention them again. But there are a
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number of people who are just way better to follow than other people, because they have some kind of
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insight, or they're just good at tweeting or something. And I'm going to give you my first
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ever mandatory follow. Meaning that if you follow me, I'm telling you, it's mandatory.
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Glenn Greenwald. Now, if you don't already follow Glenn Greenwald, here's the first thing you need to
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know. Has nothing to do with politics. He talks about politics. So his domain is politics. But that's
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not the recommendation. He's one of the few people who every time he writes or tweets,
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he can take the curtain of reality and just pushes it back. And then he's done. And then he brings it
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back, you know, after you're done reading them. And then you have to live in that other artificial
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world for a while. And then Glenn Greenwald says something, and he pulls the curtain back again,
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and you can see the real world for a little bit. Now, usually, he's pulling back the curtain on
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the media itself. So that you can see that you're living in an artificial world,
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literally, that you've created an artificial, subjective world that you're living in.
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And he's one of the people, and there aren't many of them, who don't live in that world.
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I don't know why. I would love to know the history of what, you know, hallucinogenics he's ever tried in
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his life, if any. I would love to know how he became who he is. Because somehow he lives outside
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that world. And he can just pull the curtain back and look and show you. It's kind of amazing. So
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he's a mandatory follow, because he shows you what's on the other side of the curtain. And you
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don't get that from everybody. I'll give you other mandatories as we go along here. Here's a way to know
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if you are dumb. A lot of you have been wondering, am I dumb? You ever have that thought? You know,
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sometimes it might be the imposter effect. You're not really dumb, but you worry that you are compared
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to other people. But one way to know you are dumb is if you hear an argument, and the first thing you
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think is, oh, you love that person you're talking about. Why don't you just kiss them? Apparently,
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you love them. Okay, if that's your response to an argument, you're kind of dumb. You're not really
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ready for talking in public. Okay? If you say, oh, oh, Scott, you're defending, you're defending the
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worst person. You're an apologist for the worst person. If you if that's your feeling, you're dumb.
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Because you can't use for some reason, you can't separate an argument, which could be good or bad,
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from the people who are making it. If you can't do that, you just probably shouldn't talk in public.
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Maybe that's not for you. Okay? Have I set you up enough?
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All right, let's talk about Matt Gaetz. Because I refuse to be limited by dumb people not
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understanding that you can talk about people, you can talk about their situation, but you're not an
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apologist defending people. You're just not that person, right? Can we do that? All right, I would
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like to know that the people who follow me are smart enough to separate an argument from people. If you
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can't do that, you're on the wrong live stream. So let's do that. As these stories go, and of course,
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you all know the weird Matt Gaetz story, there's allegations of orgies with underage people with
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no evidence that we've seen to suggest any of that's true. But the longer you wait, don't you
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expect the evidence to come out? Big old story like this, you know, more and more evidence is coming
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out. So it becomes a different story. The longer you wait, it starts as one thing. And now it's,
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it's evolving. And it's so evolved to sort of a new thing. And that's, that's what I'm going to
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describe right now. Number one, Matt Gaetz has said from the beginning that any allegations that he was
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with a 70 year old are just completely false. It just doesn't exist. But he's gone further to say
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that the accuser doesn't exist. That's pretty gutsy, isn't it? How many people accused of something like
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this would go so far as to say, not only did I not do it, but the accuser doesn't exist?
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Now, that's a pretty big claim. Later, if you find out that the accuser does exist,
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you know, then there's a separate question of whether anything happened with that accuser,
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similar to what was accused. But isn't that it? Is that an unusual claim? Don't you think?
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Because if somebody knew that the accuser would exist, in other words, if Matt Gaetz knew the
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person exists, wouldn't that be the worst defense to say that they don't even exist? Right? Unless
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it's true. If you put yourself in that position, right? Now, we can't read his mind. Okay, so we're
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not reading his mind. But put yourself in the position, you've been accused of something with an
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underage person, 17. Would you say, if you knew you'd been accused of that, would you say,
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no, we did not do that thing? I know who you're talking about, but certainly we didn't do that
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thing. That's very different from saying nobody exists, that they just don't exist. That's really
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different. I don't know that, like, you'd have to be pretty sure they don't exist, wouldn't you?
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Because for sure, the simplest thing to prove is that a person exists.
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Am I wrong? Is there anything easier to prove than that a person exists? He's really, it's
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interesting, isn't it? Because what happens if they produce the person? He looks really, really bad.
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Would he put himself in a position, and it's not, it's obvious that he's thought about it and planned
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his defense, right? It's not like an off-the-cuff thing he said. He's saying this repeatedly and often,
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the person doesn't exist. Now, if that person ends up existing, that's going to completely change
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what I think about the situation, and for you too, I would think. But at the moment, every day that goes
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by, when we don't hear that the person exists, and by the way, I don't think the person would be
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still 17, right? A number of months have gone by since the accusations even began.
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So statistically speaking, it seems deeply unlikely that there's still a minor involved,
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at least today. It would be somebody over 18. So do you think that there is somebody deeply involved
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in some kind of a secret investigation who doesn't want to be known at this point,
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and the leaks don't produce that person? I don't know. There's something sketchy about the fact
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that the longer you wait, you don't find out. Now, if tomorrow we hear the name of the person
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and the person exists, change everything, right? I'm just saying that every day that goes by,
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you have to say, I'm starting to wonder if this person exists. That's the reasonable question.
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Here's the other part that I haven't heard anybody say. There's this weird element of it where apparently
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the Gateses had involved the FBI before any of this broke. They had involved the FBI in what they
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believed was an extortion attempt, all right? So here's the key point, that the Gates father and son
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both believed that it was an extortion attempt, so much so that they got the law enforcement involved.
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All right. Now, we've seen the documents. If you haven't seen them yet, they're in the news today.
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We see the documents and emails going back and forth between the two attorney types who were proposing
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to Gates Sr. that for $25 million, they could get this alleged, what would you call them, captive back
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from Iran who may or may not exist, right? He may or may not be alive. We don't know. There's indication
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he's not alive, but these two people said they had indication he was alive. You and I don't know.
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So we don't know if that guy exists. But imagine you're the Gateses and people approach you and say,
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for $25 million, we can maybe get this hostage back that you think might not even be real, okay?
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You're saying to yourself, I'm not even sure there's a real guy alive that could be saved. And if he is,
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why isn't the government doing it, right? So it's kind of sketchy, right? The government wouldn't do this?
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Are you saying that there's nobody in the government of the United States who would be
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interested in getting back this hostage? So right away, it's sketchy, right? Now, you could argue,
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oh, the government tried or they don't care or they don't believe the story, but it's true. So you
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could maybe, maybe come up with some stretch of a story that would say, yeah, this is the way to do it.
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You wouldn't use the government. You would, you would make some deal with a private citizen.
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I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't pass the sniff test, right? But, but it doesn't fail it so badly
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that you could say it's impossible, right? It doesn't pass the sniff test, but it's not completely ruled
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out. Okay. Now I looked at the documents, the emails back and forth. And the way it's, the way
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it's presented is that, Hey, there's an extra benefit. If you help us out with this $25 million
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that they called the loan, but I don't know if you would call it a loan because a loan is something
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you expect to get repaid. I don't know if anybody expected that to be repaid. So let's, let's first say
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that characterizing it as a loan is maybe a subjective call, even if there was some alleged
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plan to repay it feels a little iffy to me. Now, when you looked at the documents, did you say to
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yourself, there's an extortion thing? Because part of the offer was that they would try to lobby the
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government to get Matt Gaetz cleared or pardoned, presidentially pardoned of some wrongdoings,
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which were unspecific about whatever they heard about these sex crimes. Now, do you believe that
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these two lawyers had enough weight that they could have done anything at all to get a pardon
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from Matt Gaetz? Should he have done anything that so far we're not aware of? Right? So let me say it
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again. There's no evidence of a specific anything. None, no evidence, right? To the public. We don't know
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if anybody else has seen anything. But you and I have seen no evidence of a crime. Now imagine you're
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the Gaetz's and you've got this offer that will help you, will help you get out of this alleged crime
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if you help us with this alleged loan for a captive who is allegedly alive.
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What do you do with that? Well, what the Gaetz's did is they went to law enforcement and they said,
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this feels like extortion. All right? Now, let me ask you this. We're amateurs looking from the
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outside, right? And we take the clues and car pay. Good to see you. That wasn't worth $20. You should
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just text me. But thank you. What was I saying? I was just good to see you. Carpe. Carpe Dunctum
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has just joined the show here. So we're looking at this situation and here's my question that I
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haven't seen answered. What would cause the Gaetz's to think this was extortion? What would cause them
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to think that? I think one thing that would certainly cause you to think that is, wait for
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it, if you were Matt Gaetz and you knew for sure that you had not been involved in any sex crimes,
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right? If you thought you had been involved in sexual crimes and these people said, we have a way to
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maybe help you get out. Wouldn't you be a little bit interested in talking to them if you'd done the
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crime? Because if you've done the crime and allegedly there's an investigation, you know there's witnesses
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and you know there's real evidence and you know you're in real big trouble. You would at least listen
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to the offer, wouldn't you? Yeah, you would. The only situation in which you would say, my God,
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this looks like an obvious scam, is if you knew there was no crime. Thank you, Kevin.
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Yeah. And I haven't seen anybody mention that. It seems to me that given that these documents and
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the offer from the two lawyer people were, they were kind of sketchy, the way they handled it was as if
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they didn't believe there was any crime. That's the way they handled it. That means something.
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They didn't handle it as if, well, maybe there is a crime here. They handled it like no crime
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existed. That's the way you'd handle it. This must be a scam because there's no crime. They're trying to
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extort me over no crime. You go right to law enforcement. But suppose you had done the crime and you knew it.
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Is the first thing you do to get law enforcement involved? I don't think so. It doesn't quite fit,
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does it? So I would say the documents are quite exculpatory, but we are far from knowing the final
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conclusion to any of this. I'm just going to say that the Gates situation is looking better for Gates
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every day and worse for his accusers, but we'll keep watching this. Meanwhile, World War Three has
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begun. I don't know if you've heard about this. World War Three is underway. And I'm not even kidding.
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There's an actual world war that just started. Apparently, the way it's begun is that China has
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started to capture Philippine fishing territory by just moving 220 fishing boats to fish, but they're
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not exactly there to fish. They're really there as part of the military to occupy until they have so
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much functional control of the sea that for all practical purposes, China owns it, which is what
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they're doing to the entire South China Sea. It's hard to see that as not World War Three,
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because they are literally conquering territory. It just happens to be ocean territory. And they're
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doing it directly with assets. It's obvious. There's no question about it. It is World War Three.
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They are absorbing enormous swaths of the earth and putting it under Chinese control.
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Parts of the world that people think China doesn't control. Now, the thing that makes it
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a little different than, say, a normal world war,
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China might need that ocean to feed its people in the future. So apparently it's very rich in fish,
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and I don't think that they want to control it just for export. I think that China has a massive
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problem feeding its people just because there are so many of them, and they probably need that fish
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in the future. So it's not like a regular war of conquest. It might be a war of necessity,
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and I don't know what historical precedent there is for a war of necessity or presumed advantage
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slash necessity. It's a little different. But it's a similar strategy they're using that Russia
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used in the Ukraine, where you send in, I guess the Russians sent in what were called the little
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green men. So they were Russian soldiers, and they just took off their uniforms. And they just invaded
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Ukraine and said, oh, no, we're not military. Are you kidding? No, look at me. I'm not even wearing a
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uniform. How could I be Russian military? Until there are so many of them there, it becomes kind
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of a fact on the ground that Russia controls some territory. So China's doing the same thing with
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these fishing boats. They're just making it a fact that they own it over time. Let's talk about
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Coca-Cola. Let me start by saying I oppose boycotts. I oppose boycotts. As soon as you go down that boycott
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road, and you get re-boycotted, everybody's boycotting everybody, it's just better to let business be
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business and let politics be politics. It's just better, right? It's better for all of us. Let's just not be
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attacking companies. But sometimes, sometimes the company attacks you. That's not your fault, right?
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Sometimes the company attacks you. Well, that's different. I would say don't boycott a company
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just because they have some opinion or something. But if that company attacks you, well, you certainly
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have a right to defend yourself. And so let's talk about Coke. So there are many conservatives who would
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consider that Coke, Coca-Cola, the company has attacked them, in a way, by going after Georgia
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for their voting ID laws, which conservatives would say are just common sense. And it's the same laws or
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similar laws requiring an ID to vote similar to most countries, most places, nothing unusual about it.
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So this is just an attack by a company on the system and on conservatives, basically.
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So many conservatives have called for people to stop drinking Coca-Cola. Matt Walsh did a tweet,
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which he summed it up well. I'll just read it. He said, Coca-Cola went from indoctrinating its
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employees in critical race theory to fighting against Georgia's voter ID law. Is there any good reason
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for any conservative to ever buy another Coke product again? We could cut them off out of our
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life with no effort. Why shouldn't we? Now, here's my take on this. Quitting Diet Coke or Coke is really
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hard. I know, because I had a 12 Diet Coke a day habit for, I don't know, 30 years or something. And I did
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quit. But it was hard. And I'm going to tell you how. So I'm going to teach you how to stop your Diet Coke
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habit or Coke habit, soda habit. And it's not hard if you do it right. If you do it wrong, it's pretty hard. And I'll
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teach you how to do it right. And it goes like this. Don't quit anything else at the same time. It is such a strong
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addiction. At least that's how I found it to be. Not addiction is the scientific term, but, you know,
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functionally it's an addiction. That if you're trying to, let's say, improve your entire diet,
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the same time you're quitting Diet Coke, that's a lot to ask of you. All right? You want to be hungry
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and also not have a Diet Coke. Those are two really strong forces to be fighting at the same time.
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So I say take two months, give yourself a break on the rest of your diet, you know, eat healthy food,
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but don't obsess over it. And just do one thing. Just quit Diet Coke or Coke or soda. It doesn't have
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to be the Coca-Cola company. Just sugary drinks. Just quit that. In two months, you will not only not
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crave it, it will look like a chemical experiment, not even look like a food beverage.
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In two months, the way you think of it will completely change just by not drinking it.
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You don't have to do anything else. Just don't drink it for two months and you will think it's
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crazy that anybody puts that in their body. It won't even look like a beverage. I look at a soda
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now and I think, oh my God, I just feel sorry for anybody who drinks this stuff after drinking 12 sodas
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a day for 30 years, right? So I'm the biggest hypocrite in the world. And that's what I'm telling
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you. The moment you go two months without it, it doesn't look the same when you're done. Completely
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changes what it is subjectively. So two months, don't do anything else hard. Just do that. And here's the
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extra, extra benefit. You know, I like to find the benefit out of chaos, right? Whenever there's chaos,
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there's advantage. Whenever there's tragedy, there's something, some little thing somebody
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created to make money. And here's what the Coca-Cola company did for you. And you should thank them for
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this. Coca-Cola just made it the easiest it's ever been to stop drinking soda because they pissed you
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off. Use it. Use it. If you're pissed off, don't waste that. Do not waste a good anger. Employ it. Use it.
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When that Diet Coke's looking at you saying, drink me, drink me. Use this anger and say,
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I would love to drink you, you little freaking bastard. But I'm not because I hate you. I hate
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you. Use it. The Coca-Cola company made, I think, a gigantic business mistake because they made it
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easier for a third of the country to quit their product. And it's good for your health if you do.
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Now, I'm just going to quote people who know more than I do to make that claim that it's good for
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your health if you do. So do it. Take the good from this, which is they made it easy.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire tweeted on these sets of tweets. And she said, pandemic side, an unhealthy diet
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that contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths each year with diabetes, heart disease, and obesity
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making people vulnerable to COVID-19. And this number is much larger in 2020 because of the pandemic.
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678,000 people a year dying from basically eating themselves to death. That's the comorbidity that puts
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them in the vulnerable position. So let's get healthy. I want everybody who watches this live
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stream to be healthier than the average. Just take the tips and put together a system that works
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for you. All right, let's talk about the Floyd trial. So there was something interesting that came
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out of that. You know, I've been telling you that the defense for a shaven, they'd be missing,
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they'd be missing the most obvious play if they don't challenge the quality of video evidence.
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All right. You want to, you want to challenge the idea that just because you think you saw it with
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your own eyes on video, that doesn't mean anything because video lies. So the very, the point that video
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lies and lies a lot and lies easily, it has to be communicated to the, to the jury. Because if the jury
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sits there and thinks, well, it's on video, I saw it with my own eyes, it's over. So the defense,
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I'm going to give them a, they get an A plus for the following move. Apparently they had some camera
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angles in which it showed that a shaven's knee at some point, we don't know how often during the nine
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minutes. We don't know how often this was, but at some point, shaven's knee was actually on the
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shoulder blade above the neck. And it's very clear in the photos. But at other times, I think he was
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on the neck. So the way that, I guess the way the lawyer introduced this was he asked one of the
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experts, whoever was on stand, if he'd heard of a camera angle bias. Have you ever heard of camera
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angle bias? And I think the witness said no. And then he showed him two photos side by side,
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one, the one you've probably seen that looks exactly like the knee is on his neck. And then
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another camera angle of the same thing where it looks like it's on maybe further back on his shoulder
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blade. And apparently they time stamped it. So you can tell it's the same time. Now, imagine you're
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in the jury. The entire time you've been watching these videos, so because you've seen them as part of
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the trial, the entire time all you saw, all you saw was a knee on the neck. And now the defense says,
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okay, here's a different angle. It's not on the neck. Now you might say to yourself, but Scott,
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that doesn't matter. Because he took his, he just took it off at one point, put it back on.
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It's not really relevant to anything. To which I would say it is relevant to intent. The entire
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argument is that, you know, he intentionally put Floyd in a dangerous situation, not intentionally
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killed him. Intentionally killed him, I think is a higher charge, but intentionally put him in a
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dangerous situation. Where if he took his knee off every now and then, that would suggest he was
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trying to mitigate the danger, right? That he was aware of a situation that was trying to not kill him.
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Because sometimes he took his knee off the neck. But I think there's other evidence that suggests that
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might have been after he'd already passed out. So he might have been dead by then. Don't know that part.
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So the only thing I'll say is, I don't know if the evidence makes the point the defense wanted to
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make, because of the timing. It might have been too late when the knee was off. But it's a really
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good play in terms of persuasion. Because the persuasion of it is that the jury just learned that
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they can't trust their own eyes. Regardless of the timing of when the knee was on the neck or the
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shoulder, the lesson is the same. You can't tell by looking at it. That's really
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good defense. That's really good. We'll see what happens. Again, for the people who are watching
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this, I don't defend Shaven. I don't defend Matt Gaetz. We just talk about the persuasion element of it
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and see if we can learn anything. Carl Bergstrom, who often tweets about the virus and statistical
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truths about it, is warning us that we're misinterpreting, we being the public,
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excuse me, that we're misinterpreting what it means to reach herd immunity. And specifically,
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specifically, that herd immunity doesn't mean that we're past all the trouble and that the virus goes
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away. So herd immunity, you should understand, is not the point when you don't have any more virus or
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more deaths. Herd immunity is when it doesn't go as fast. In other words, it's not another pandemic
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peak coming. But the baseline infections could just go forever. I mean, you could just have new babies
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being born and being infected forever. So if you think that getting to herd immunity means, oh, we're
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done, throw away the masks, stop the social distancing, unfortunately, it might not mean that.
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Now, I'm not telling you that we're going to wear masks forever. I don't think we will.
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But we, the cough has to be a technique, somebody says. Nope, just woke up. And I got a little
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allergies at the moment. So here's what I would add to this. I'm less concerned because the weirdness
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of this virus is that we might be able to vaccinate basically 100% of the people who would die.
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So if the, it's not a dry cough, don't worry. I don't have COVID. So I'm going to disagree with
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Carl Bergstrom, even though he's about 100 times smarter than I am on the topic I'm disagreeing. And
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the only thing I'm going to add is that I think this virus is not like any other virus, because you
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actually could, you could vaccinate 100% of the people who might die from it. Nothing would stop you
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from doing that. All right. So what happens if 100% of the people who are vulnerable, or something
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like it, get vaccinated? Do you care if the rest of the people get it? I don't know. I don't know if
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you care. Now you got the long haul problem, but isn't the long haul problem probably, you know,
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even that people seem to get over it. It's just a really bad problem for several months.
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Elon Musk said he will not take the vaccine. Interesting. I should tell you that I have
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scheduled myself to take the vaccine. I've been telling you that I wouldn't make a decision until
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I had to, until it was available, because I'd get all the information I could. And I've decided that
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given my age, that I'm going to take it. If I were Elon Musk's age, I don't know. I might think
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differently, but I'm not. So I'm going to call this early today, because I'm going to go do some
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other things, and my allergies are killing me. So I'm not that old, but I've got asthma. You know,
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don't take a chance. And I will talk to you tomorrow.