Episode 1408 Scott Adams： It's a Lovely Day For an International Simultaneous Sip
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Summary
On today's show, Scott Adams talks about Jeffrey Toobin's arrest in Times Square, the "Lube in the tubin" joke, and the unindicted co-conspirators in the January 6th protest on Capitol Hill.
Transcript
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Hey everybody, I'm glad you got here early. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, probably the
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best time anybody's ever had in the history of human civilization, and it's not going to get
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any worse today. I mean, today it's might even take it up a level. I can't promise it, but it
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might go from the best thing ever to slightly better. Not saying every time, but very possible,
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so stay around for that. Now, I know you want the simultaneous sip, but I have to share a joke I
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heard on Twitter before we do that. Credit to Twitter user Dr. Sexy, S-E-K-Z-I, who made this
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joke. Well, the context is the Jeffrey Toobin situation, and now somebody got arrested for
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lube-in-the-tubin in Times Square. And so there were many funny tweets about it, but Dr. Sexy's
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tweeted, can no longer do it on a plane, or you might get arrested for filling the joke. Let's
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see if you're funny. Are you funny? You can't pleasure yourself on a plane, or you might get
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arrested for hijacking. I wish I'd thought of that one. Well, if you'd like to enjoy the
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simultaneous sip to its maximum, maximum ability, what do you need? That's right. You need a
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copper mug or a glass of tech or jealous of a stein, a canteen, a junk of glass, a vessel of
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any kind. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the
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thing that makes everything better all over the world at the same time. It's called the
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simultaneous sip. And Mark, you made it just in time. Hope you have your cup. Go!
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Now, I didn't find my cheat sheet to remember the simultaneous sip introduction. I actually
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Googled it and then wrote it down. I had to actually listen to my own podcast, an earlier
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one, and then transcribe it. It's like, oh, what's the order of that? All right, well, there's
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lots of stuff going on. How many of you saw Tucker Carlson and he was interviewing a gentleman
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from Revolver, whose name I forgot to write down, but I wish I had. And the gentleman from
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Revolver had noted that apparently there are many domestic acts of violence. Let's call them
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terrorism, but domestic acts, domestic, yeah, terror attacks. And there's a weird coincidence
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to a lot of them, which is there were FBI informants or FBI assets, maybe is a better
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word, involved with all of the groups or not every one of them, of course, but they seem
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to be consistently involved. And the suggestion is that maybe they're more than just watching
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them. Maybe they're participating a little bit too much. Maybe they're even prodding people
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to do something that they wouldn't necessarily have done or maybe not done as soon. So what
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do you think about that? We've got some other evidence, Tucker Carlson's show talked about.
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Apparently there are some unindicted co-conspirators involved in the January 6th, let's say, demonstration
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on the Capitol. And the suggestion is, wait a minute, why would somebody be a co-conspirator?
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And evidently we know who they are, but they would not be indicted. Hmm. What are the reasons
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that somebody would be not indicted? Well, I'm not a lawyer, so, you know, if I'm wrong about
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this, somebody will correct me. But it sounds like one of the reasons is that they might be
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an informant or have some prior relationship with law enforcement. So that's out there.
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We don't know the details of that, but something to look at, right? And apparently there are,
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as Tucker was saying, 10,000 hours of video of the January 6th event that's not being made
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available to the public. What? Is there a reason for that? No reason given. Maybe one of the reasons
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is we'd see something they don't want us to see. Hmm. I don't know. So here's my take on that.
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I have a hard time believing that anybody in the FBI or law enforcement would talk somebody into
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doing an actual terror attack. For what reason? I don't know. But if you're talking about the
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January 6th event, which CNN calls an insurrection, and other people call it a demonstration of free
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speech that went a little too far. Somewhere in between is probably the truth. And a little bit
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closer to the free speech. But since that wasn't really something that people could have anticipated
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being an actual, you know, a violent thing where people died. At least in my opinion. In my opinion,
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I don't think it was obvious that violence would happen, you know. And maybe there are some law
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enforcement related people who had a little bit too much to do with that. But I think you'd have to
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put this in the speculation category. I would love to tell you. Yeah, I'm all mic'd. I'm all mic'd.
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That's why my shirt looks like this. I'd love to tell you that I'm buying in totally to the FBI as
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somehow causing domestic attacks. But it doesn't quite smell right to me. However, there are legitimate
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questions. And those questions do lean in that direction. There's no doubt about that. But just
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because we don't know the answers to why we haven't seen the video, why there are unindicted
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co-conspirators, that doesn't mean there's one explanation for it. There could be others. And
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there might be, you know, there might be one or more example of an FBI agent who did go too far.
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But I don't know that it's some kind of pattern. So I'm not going to go that far.
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But I will say that Tucker laying it out there and Revolver News being the original source of this,
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I think this is good work. Good work. You know, don't get too far ahead of the facts.
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But this is a good frame. We should understand this. The fact that it looks so damning,
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that's all you need to look into it a little further. But I'm not quite on the conspiracy side of this yet.
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Do you remember when CNN was mocking Trump when he was president for the G7 allegedly laughing at him?
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Now, I don't know that they really were laughing at him versus laughing near him or whatever.
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So I'm not even sure it's real news. But let's say it's true because CNN made a big deal about it
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and sort of mocked the president for that. Now, Sky News in Australia, if you've seen this clip,
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Sky News has been mocking CNN for basically just not even trying to be a news network anymore.
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And I think that's fair. I don't believe you could say that the point of CNN is news anymore.
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Could you? Is there anybody who would disagree with that statement?
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In the comments, I want to see how far you've gone in understanding what's going on here.
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How many people think CNN is actually trying, like legitimately in their minds,
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thinking we'll tell the news as objectively as possible?
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Because it doesn't look like they're trying, does it?
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It doesn't even look a little bit like they're trying.
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It looks like they're just a brain, yeah, as Ryan is saying in the comments,
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it looks like they're just a brainwashing organization built around a news model.
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But apparently Sky News in Australia is laughing at them.
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And they just did a segment showing how differently they treated Trump going to the G7 versus Biden.
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Hey, I'd like to give a shout out to Brian Machiavelli,
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who reports that he lost 40 pounds in the last six months.
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Now, if you're asking yourself, why am I talking about somebody's weight loss?
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The reason is that a lot of people are reporting amazing results during the pandemic.
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Another, these are two people that I know primarily from Twitter exchanges.
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And just took the opportunity to turn the pandemic into a plus.
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In Brian's tweet, he suggests that people read my book.
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Had it failed almost everything and still went big.
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Now, the point of the book, for those of you who shared, 20 pounds.
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Matt says he gained 300 pounds, but I don't think I believe that.
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I won't read all of them, but my mind is kind of boggled.
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So, many of you might remember, at the beginning of the pandemic, I was trying to find some
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way to be a helpful force during a difficult time, and I was recommending that people took
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the, holy, I'm, my mind is just blowing up here.
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So, I had advised people to use the pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime, I hope, situation where
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You didn't want the free time, and you wish you had your social life and maybe your job
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Now, as Brian Machiavelli noted, my book, How to Feel, Almost Everything and Still Win
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So, it teaches you how to build a system, your own system, you know, not my system.
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If I were telling you how to do it, it probably wouldn't work, because we're all a little different.
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But if I teach you how to build a system that works for you, which was the point of it, point
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And honestly, it might be the world's best diet program at this point.
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Is there anybody who gets this kind of results with normal diet programs?
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Now, the point of it is it's not a normal diet program.
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It just teaches you how to systemize what people treat as a goal and just turn it into a system,
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So, for all of you who did something amazing during the pandemic, you showed a lot of character
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there, because it would be really easy to just eat chocolate and sit out the pandemic.
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But those of you who did far more than that, I salute you.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire, you know her, MD, probably seen her on Fox News, et cetera.
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Another good person to follow, so I recommend her as a Twitter follow.
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And she's tweeting today that the FDA has updated some information on adolescents and the vaccinations.
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And apparently, there's just enough of a problem of side effects that they're recommending a halt for adolescents.
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But for adolescents, they're saying, well, the risk-reward is different because the adolescents have a very low risk.
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So until they know more about that, at least according to this tweet, it looks like they're going to look into that.
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Linda says, Greg Gutfeld is killing it in the ratings.
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You know, as soon as I heard he would have a show at that time period, you'd know it was going to be huge.
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And sure enough, sure enough, so congratulations to Greg.
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One of the big stories is Hunter Biden is selling his artwork for anywhere from $75,000 to half a million per painting.
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Now, you might say to yourself, hmm, is Hunter Biden a famous artist?
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I don't believe he'd be giving half a million dollars.
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I don't believe that Hunter Biden would get half a million dollars for a painting if his name were not Biden.
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Now, the real risk here to the country, if not the world, is that it's a bribery scheme.
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And if it's not obvious to you how it's a money laundering scheme, it goes like this.
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Hey, look, I made some scratchings on a piece of paper.
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Oh, look, somebody just offered me a half a million dollars for it.
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So, China sends somebody to buy a half-million-dollar painting, and then what does Hunter Biden say to himself?
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Hmm, I think I'll make some more paintings, and more Chinese people, maybe with government support, will be buying these paintings.
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But, I don't want to, you know, say bad things about China.
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And maybe it won't be China specifically that buys the paintings.
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Could be somebody else who kind of wants Hunter Biden to have a good impression of him for whatever political connections that might cause.
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And here's the amazing thing about this is that pretty much everybody who's, you know, at least alert to scams and money laundering schemes, almost everybody saw this immediately, right?
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Was there anybody who's sort of got a worldly viewpoint who didn't see this?
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Like, oh, well, that's like the most obvious money laundering scheme of all time.
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You could not come up with a better or more obvious or really more routine, you know, just an ordinary money laundering scheme.
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Because have you ever heard the standard that you want to avoid even the appearance of conflict?
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In the most obvious, right-in-your-face kind of way.
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Hey, you want to see some conflict, you know, of interest?
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Now, to be clear, I can't say that I know Hunter Biden has bad intentions or that, you know, he's up to no good.
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Maybe he's just an artist who's finding that people will pay more for his art than maybe he thought.
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But I think this is one of those situations where you have to avoid the appearance of money laundering if you're the president's son.
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Does it matter if he's doing it for that purpose?
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Does it matter if there's some kind of, you know, proof or even strong suggestion that he's doing this for some nefarious reason?
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If you do something that is so glaringly, obviously a conflict of interest, or maybe I'll soften that and say glaringly, obviously a risk of conflict of interest.
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Let's remove the certainty and just say it's clearly a risk.
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So at what point does somebody just stop caring if it's obvious?
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And I'm wondering what the conversation looked like between the president and Hunter.
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You know, Biden's only operating on half a brain, and even he would shut that shit down.
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Don't you think Joe Biden is sort of suggesting that maybe you back away from this a little bit?
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You know, sell a couple of paintings, but maybe you back away from this.
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And of course, the big guy gets 10%, but I doubt we're going to see any evidence of that happening.
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Apparently, the feds are investigating why so many presumed, of course, we don't know for sure, but presumed Chinese spy left China and came to the United States sooner than their normal schedule would have suggested.
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Some of them, you know, were students or whatever, so they have a, let's call it a cover story, and maybe they actually are students.
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But they are assumed, some of them or many of them, to be Chinese agents.
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And somehow, before the border closed, before Trump closed travel from China, they got out, and they got out suspiciously early and suspiciously in larger numbers than, you know, history would suggest.
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What did they know that you don't know, or didn't know at the time?
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Now, the suggestion is, at least in one report I was reading, the suggestion is that maybe they knew how bad things were, and therefore China, the government, was hiding it.
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But their spies certainly knew it, so the spies were acting as if they knew things were going to get really bad really fast.
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And so they quickly moved to, you know, traveled to America, because that's where they can be effective.
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Don't you think that China knows what the administration is discussing and when?
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You know, there's no leak, there's, you know, ways to find stuff out.
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I feel as if China would have known, well before Trump made the decision, they would have known it was being talked about.
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And if it was being talked about at the highest levels, that's all you need.
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Let's go now and reduce any risk that anything will change.
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Just a normal risk-reward kind of a calculation.
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The other possibility is, have I ever told you that I have this weird, I don't know, certainly the evidence that we live in a simulation is how often the headline news involves me personally?
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How many times has the news somehow been about me, like literally me, quite a few times?
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And here's what, I don't know the exact timing of when these alleged spies came to the United States in January of 2020.
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But at the end of January, Trump closed travel.
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Sometime before that, a week, more than a week or so, I think, if I recall, I was publicly calling for the border to be closed.
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Now, do you think China monitors its top, I don't know, let's say, top 20 critics in the United States, the people who have some kind of public platform and are talking about China in a critical way?
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And wouldn't you say, I don't know how to measure this kind of thing, so I'll put this in the form of a question, not a statement.
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If you were China, and you were trying to keep an eye on the critics, because they might influence public policy toward China, don't you think they're watching me?
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I don't think anybody's got a more hard-line but reasonable stance against China than I do.
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I mean, they've got to be looking at Tom Cotton, right?
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I mean, he's the senator, but, you know, obviously.
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They've got to be looking at, you know, everybody in Congress who's saying bad things about China.
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But also, they would be looking at Gordon Chang, right, and a number of other people who say bad things about China.
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But there's no way I'm not in the top 20, and certainly they're going to fall into the top 20.
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It would explain why she married me in the first place.
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So, my point is, depending on when those Chinese spies came out, I might have been the cause.
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I like to watch the news more than I like to be the news.
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But maybe in this case, I don't know what the odds are.
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It's more likely that they were hearing chatter before they heard me say it.
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CNN embarrassed themselves again by gushing over the Biden handshake with Putin.
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How many of you saw Putin and Biden having their little handshake before they went to the building?
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And Jim Scuto, you can pronounce his name at home any way you'd like.
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And by the way, I don't mispronounce people's names on purpose.
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I'm not trying to be disrespectful in that particular way.
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Quote, the handshake, Biden looked in the eye of Putin with a smile, and Putin looked away.
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These moments are about public posturing and how you project strength.
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And it is true that when they shook hands, they shook hands.
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Did Joe's steely gaze make him back down and have to look away to get away from the hot fire of Biden's presence?
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Was Biden's alpha personality so strong that Putin, the head of a nuclear power, couldn't handle it?
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Because Putin is so weak, apparently, according to CNN, that he can't even look our president in the eye.
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Or is it because Biden is so dragon-like with his fury at his resolution that nobody could stand that gaze for much long?
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Biden forgot the cameras were there or didn't care or didn't pick up on the cue or his dementia was setting in or he just didn't know what to do.
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Let me back up and make this not a Biden criticism because you don't know what he was thinking.
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He might have been operating at a higher level than I'm giving credit for.
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And that is that he didn't want to look at the camera to make the photo op like a little bit friendlier than he wanted it to be.
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Putin wants to make it look like they're friends and everything's good.
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Biden might not want to give him that photo, which would be smart.
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Just he basically took the took the friendly photo where they're both looking at the camera and he just didn't give him that.
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So I'm not going to say he was necessarily out of it and didn't understand the situation.
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But Putin was just looking at the camera and it was exactly the right thing he should have done.
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I asked a question on Twitter that so far has not gotten me banned, because when people like me ask or talk about medical anything, we're on shaky ground.
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But I asked this question and it's just the question.
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I noted that after I got my second vaccination, Moderna vaccination, that I seemed healthier than normal.
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And indeed, it seems like my allergies went away.
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He says, remember when presidents didn't need flashcards?
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Dunked him a lot recently because nobody made a good meme out of Macron going like this with Biden.
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Oh, I felt healthier and my allergies seemed to go away before I left my normal environment.
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And so I asked people on Twitter, hey, if you had this experience, has anybody had some beneficial thing happen after the second shot?
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So a number of people said, no, I felt worse or, I don't know, you know, various little medical problems seem to have come after.
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But surprisingly, quite a number of people said that their allergies seem to have gone away or substantially reduced after the second shot.
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It also is coincidentally right after the allergy season ends.
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I don't know if the placebo effect works on allergies.
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I respect the observation because we know the placebo effect is fairly universal and seems to be in just about everything we study.
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But the placebo effect would, number one, assume that you thought that was going to happen.
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So the placebo effect sort of depends on the person expecting an outcome.
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So probably the essential part of what makes a placebo work, which is the mental part.
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So to me, it would have been just a surprise, right, which is the opposite of a placebo.
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And I tweeted this, so you'll see it in my timeline from just a few hours ago.
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But apparently there's something called nonspecific effects from vaccinations.
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Apparently there is, it's a well, not well known, but it's a known phenomenon that you
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And that vaccination can cause a number of other problems.
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Things you didn't think were going to be a problem, side effects.
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And there's a little story about some, you know, older kinds of vaccinations that were
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used on some, you know, non-industrial tribe somewhere, and it reduced their overall mortality
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for reasons that had nothing to do with the vaccination.
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That sometimes a vaccination, the same vaccination, can cause some people some extra problems,
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And that could actually change your life expectancy.
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Now, I'm not saying that that's true necessarily of these vaccinations, because we've got some
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, or Raffensperger, not burger.
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He tweeted that new revelations that Fulton County is unable to produce all ballot drop
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box transfer documents will be investigated thoroughly, as we have when other countries
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So, Georgia is looking into the lack of transfer documents.
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The transfer documents would show, you know, who had it, where it went to, et cetera, and
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those are missing, which suggests, at least the possibility, that some of them could have
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What would happen if we can, if we determine that the chain of custody can never be determined?
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Because, I think, I think those votes don't count.
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But it's too late to really change the outcome.
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I mean, there's no real, I don't think there's any practical way that any election is going
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I think it would be terribly destabilizing to change things in the middle of a president's
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So, if anything, it might influence, you know, the next election.
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So, maybe increase the chances of Trump getting back in office.
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You know, for those of you who are American citizens watching this, what do you think about
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the fact that at the moment, we don't know if we had a real election?
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The fact that the transfer documents are missing tells you you don't know if you had a real election.
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Because I'm making a very specific claim, which is, you know, in the news and not in dispute, that these documents are missing.
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And if the documents are missing, we don't know if we had a proper election.
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Somebody was mocking me on Twitter, which is, you know, half of what Twitter is, saying that my prediction that Trump would win and that the slaughter meter was predicting his win with great certainty shows I had a wrong prediction.
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Is it wrong because I'm not good at reading the mood of voters?
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But I think it was wrong because the election was determined by lawyers.
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Meaning that prior to the vote by anybody, the lawyers had decided what the rules would be.
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And the rule change probably determined the election.
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And I don't think we know why, especially if these transfer forms are missing.
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So there could be more than one reason that I was wrong.
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One of them, at least, is that lawyers lawyered up the rules to favor one side over the other.
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Voters really, all we did is get the result close enough that the lawyers had the final vote.
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Basically, voters gave the imprint of something like Democratic-ish happening.
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If there had been different rules, probably different outcomes.
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I don't know if it would have changed the result, but it certainly would have been a big difference.
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Speaking of Biden, did you see the video where he confused Libya and Syria?
00:38:12.780
You know, one of those times, I'm not sure he really confused them.
00:38:19.140
And I have a little bit of sympathy for that because I confuse things all the time and always have.
00:38:32.040
So how many times have I said the wrong country?
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And I don't know that that's a big deal on its own.
00:38:52.240
Or even, honestly, forgetting what city you're in when you're campaigning.
00:39:10.160
I'm not sure that I would say that that by itself is a bad thing.
00:39:15.520
But do you think that the G7 leaders are laughing at him for not knowing the difference between Libya and Syria?
00:39:22.320
Oh, I think they might have had a chuckle over that.
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Is there a national security threat when our president can't remember which country is the important one?
00:39:47.140
And they do look like, you know, genuinely they're memory problems or whatever.
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Because these are the types of mistakes that his handlers would fix.
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You know, it's not like he's going to go to a meeting and make a decision about Libya when he thought he was talking about Syria.
00:40:10.700
So he's a weird president because we don't know exactly.
00:40:17.660
It's some combination of his handlers plus what he's willing to do.
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Because obviously he's not going to be willing to do everything his handlers want him to do.
00:40:27.920
He's still got free will and a lot of experience.
00:40:30.380
But we don't really have like a presidency with a strong leader.
00:40:35.860
We have some sort of a committee, mostly people we don't know, whose work we only see as it's presented through Biden.
00:40:48.220
You can assume that our adversaries would at least try to get a little more adventurous just to see what happens.
00:41:00.160
Is it a danger to the Republic and maybe the whole world?
00:41:06.000
Yeah, it's, he's a little too Joe Biden-ish at this point with his age and declining mental state that I think he's a genuine risk to the Republic.
00:41:23.080
But I don't know how big it is because his handlers are probably, probably doing a good job for Democrats.
00:41:31.620
Having the world leaders love you is not a good thing.
00:41:42.720
Yeah, Vanity Fair is photographing first ladies again.
00:41:49.340
Now, I'm not a historian, but let's say Jackie Kennedy was, you know, considered a cover-worthy model.
00:42:00.120
And there's certainly nobody in Melania's class, you know, somebody who's a professional model and looks it.
00:42:08.460
So the fact that they skipped her is just a big F you.
00:42:15.860
Barbara Bush is your favorite first lady, somebody says.
00:42:19.900
Yeah, Elena says, yeah, let's skip the supermodel when we're designing our covers.
00:42:30.120
Matt says that COVID was like acupuncture for your allergies.
00:42:36.280
Well, I don't know if I buy into that analogy, but.
00:42:43.260
Tikan the Jazz says it's closer now to the CCP.
00:42:47.720
Xi is the leader, but he's really just the most powerful guy in the committee.
00:42:55.900
But I have to think that you wouldn't want to go against Xi at this point.
00:43:00.460
On paper, it's the party that's in power, right?
00:43:04.360
And they just have somebody doing the work of the leader.
00:43:07.920
But I have a feeling that Xi has consolidated power to the point that if he had a strong critic in the CCP, probably just get killed or eliminated somehow.
00:43:41.700
So Christine and I took an e-bike tour of Santorini today.
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And if you haven't tried an e-bike, I know it's boring.
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I keep saying it all when I talk about e-bikes.
00:44:01.360
The moment you get on one, the first time you ever try an e-bike, you will be hooked.
00:44:06.740
And it doesn't matter if you like motorcycles better or you like your regular bike.
00:44:16.040
So anyway, we go to the middle of nowhere, this little shack basically, where they've got an e-bike and four-wheel drive things that you rent.
00:44:32.040
What I expected was kind of a leisurely stroll around the island, maybe the perimeter and stuff.
00:44:39.240
What I knew we wouldn't do, because that would be crazy, would be to go up these steep hills or to go through any of these narrow streets.
00:44:50.020
Because some of the streets are so narrow that the bicycle handles would be pretty close to the walls on both sides.
00:44:58.380
That's sort of a dangerous thing because the ground is all uneven everywhere.
00:45:02.000
So in any part of the city, the ground is uneven everywhere, right?
00:45:07.640
So you don't want to go through a narrow, steep hill with an uneven floor on a vehicle that you just got on, right?
00:45:20.180
So I knew we weren't going to go through any narrow streets.
00:45:23.160
And obviously, we're not going to go to the top of the mountain, because they didn't even know if we had the ability to do that, even with an e-bike.
00:45:32.040
So we went to the top of a mountain, and we went through the narrow streets.
00:45:39.360
By the way, the reason the streets are so narrow here is that they were designed that way originally to repel pirates and invaders.
00:45:47.420
Because you would make the invaders go through a narrow passage, and you could kill them one at a time.
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And once their bodies built up, they became a barrier to their own rest of the attack.
00:45:59.720
So the streets are insanely narrow, or at least the passageways between things are insanely narrow.
00:46:20.560
It was the most rugged, dangerous thing I've done in a long time.
00:46:33.460
If you ever get a chance to do an e-bike tour, even in Santorini,
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even though it's, let's say, by American nanny standards, almost none of this would have been even legal in the United States.
00:46:56.980
All the little narrow passageways and low barriers over a cliff.
00:47:03.640
I mean, you just would never do any of this stuff in the United States.
00:47:07.820
But we're trying to go up these narrow hills and stuff, and it was just amazing.
00:47:15.260
The best feature of the trip is that we ended up on all these narrow trails that it looks like only animals used.
00:47:32.560
So I've never been on a bicycle on anything that wasn't a paved thing for any length of time.
00:47:38.540
So this was my first experience riding up an unpaved in many places.
00:47:45.360
But in places, it was just a trail with big rocks everywhere, and you're hitting rocks and stuff.
00:47:56.920
So your front tire would go into it, and it would just go, and you'd be laying by the side of the road.
00:48:05.640
So I guess if you're experienced enough and you know the route, you're fine.
00:48:11.080
But if you're not that experienced with this route, and you've never ridden on a trail, it was pretty freaking dangerous.
00:48:20.360
Do you know what was at the top of the mountain?
00:48:24.980
So we went to the top of the mountain to the winery.
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And, no, I don't drink, so I just put my tongue in a glass and tasted it, so I didn't really drink.
00:48:45.620
But can you imagine their business model is to do this insanely dangerous ride and then have some drinks and ride back down the hill.
00:48:58.920
And there was one part that was so dangerous that I don't think a goat would have done it.
00:49:05.160
Like, you know, you've got a cliff, and you've got this narrow path, and you're on a bicycle on, like, dirt and rocks.
00:49:13.880
They said, you better walk your bike so you don't fall off the cliff.
00:49:19.240
So, you know, I make it sound like it's more dangerous than it probably was.
00:49:25.200
But the odds of you falling off your bike multiple times on this trip are really high.
00:49:33.280
As I see in the comments, you're asking about Dr. Drew.
00:49:36.440
I'm actually going to be having dinner with Dr. Drew in about half an hour.
00:49:56.800
The food is spectacular in many individual cases.
00:50:05.840
And then there are a lot of things that are a cultural difference that takes a little explaining.
00:50:13.780
For example, I ordered a bagel with cream cheese, toasted.
00:50:22.740
And the first time I ordered it, it came and it was cold.
00:50:25.460
And I thought, oh, probably they just forgot to toast it or something.
00:50:29.720
Then the second time I ordered it, it came sort of refrigerator cold with cream cheese.
00:50:35.540
Now, in the comments, is there anybody who would eat a cold bagel that had never been toasted with cream cheese?
00:50:44.160
Has anybody ever eaten that in the history of people eating bagels?
00:50:48.160
And I think it was a different sort of a cultural difference.
00:50:56.960
And I think that maybe some other countries do it or some other people.
00:51:00.940
Or they're just not used to Americans ordering bagels because it wasn't on the menu.
00:51:05.960
You know, it's such a nice hotel that you can just sort of order stuff that's not on the menu and it just shows up.
00:51:18.160
Some of you, Nick says, you've actually eaten a cold bagel, but with cream cheese.
00:51:23.600
I've eaten a delicious bagel without cream cheese, but why would you put it?
00:51:33.220
I'm talking it was cool to the touch, like it came out of a refrigerator recently.
00:51:42.440
I would say that the food and the service here are spectacular.
00:51:48.160
But, if you don't know what to order, you can get something you didn't expect.
00:52:03.340
I'm just looking at your comments for a moment.
00:52:06.920
Some of you have eaten bagels not toasted with cream cheese.
00:52:13.520
So, somebody says Trump is going to visit the border before Kamala Harris.
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