Episode 1410 Scott Adams： Sometimes it is About the Anticipation
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Summary
The dopamine hit of the day, the one that makes everything better. Plus, a story about the coronavirus that could have caused the Uyghur holocaust, and an Apple story about anti-slavery in China.
Transcript
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Whoop, move it over here. All right, that's perfect. That's perfect.
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Well, I'm a little bit late. A little bit late. But, am I stopped? No.
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I was on the other side of the island, at Santorini, doing a little shopping, having a little lunch,
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and my internet connection died, and I couldn't get it back.
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But now, but now, it's all coming together, isn't it?
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The best time of the day. Slightly delayed, but still here.
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And suppose you wanted to enjoy it to its maximum extent. What would that take?
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Yeah, that's right. What you needed would be a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's going to happen now.
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Well, I might be a little bit unprepared today, because this vacation thing is very addictive.
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I don't know if you've ever taken a vacation. I'm not big on them.
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But lately, I've been trying to get into this whole vacation-y thing.
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And I've always had this theory that if I took a vacation, well, maybe it's more of a fear or a phobia than a theory,
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that if I took too much time off, I would never be able to do my job again.
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Because if you're a cartoonist, there's a very thin line between something that, you know, really makes an impact
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and something that people just go, eh, well, yeah, that was nice.
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And I feel that extra 5% is the difference between, you know, something that works and something that doesn't.
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And I feel like I lose 5% if I take a vacation.
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So I've always thought, I try to build a life where the vacation is already built into the life.
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Meaning that every day, I've got a whole bunch of good things happening.
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I think if I take a day off, I won't be as sharp when I come back.
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I actually do lose some sharpness if I don't do something pretty active every day.
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Because, you've noticed, that I do a lot of tightrope walking on a lot of different topics.
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And I think the net effect of it is it keeps my brain a little bit younger.
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I guess they were lobbying against an anti-slavery bill in China.
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Must have been a bill condemning, I don't know, condemning China for the Uyghur holocaust that's going on there.
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And so I guess Apple was against the antitrust.
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So against anything that's against the big platforms.
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And he says that the Wuhan lab should be given the Nobel Prize in medicine.
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Because I guess they sequenced or found the coronavirus first.
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Yes, the Wuhan lab did find the coronavirus first.
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But I don't know if that's quite Nobel Prize material because they may have caused it.
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How many people think that the virus was natural in the comments?
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Just coincidentally, as John Stewart famously said, that it came when a bat kissed a turtle.
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Now, check your, this is another one of those prediction situations.
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And I always tell you that if you've made a prediction, keep track.
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Or it might make you feel good if you're really good at predicting.
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I'm not sure anybody's really good at predicting.
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But if I recall, and maybe you can fact check me on this.
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I'm pretty sure my first statements about this were, that's a mighty big coincidence.
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But it's a mighty big coincidence that that lab is there.
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And I will tell you that, you know, in a non-public way, I saw some information early that would suggest it was definitely a lab.
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But that's stuff that you all know at this point.
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Yes, I did see the John Stewart clip, and it was hilarious.
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Elon Musk tweeted a picture of two of his rockets, I guess, getting staged for liftoff.
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Because they don't look like, you know, the old kind of rockets.
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They're kind of fatter, and they're all metal, like a proper sci-fi movie should be.
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And they don't even look real, because they're so big that your brain can't say, no, there can't be something that big that looks like that.
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It could either look like that and be small, or it could be really big, but it wouldn't look like that.
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But somehow he made it look like that and really big.
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In all likelihood, Elon Musk will put a man on Mars.
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There's going to be some mishaps, and he said the same thing.
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But I think he's young enough that he's going to put somebody on Mars.
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It will be one of the greatest human achievements.
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You know, fingers crossed, everybody's rooting for him.
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It's one of the few things probably everybody's in favor of, right?
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There's nobody who doesn't want to put a person on Mars.
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And when that happens, 30% of the public will think it was staged in a studio.
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Now, how would that feel if you were just, you know, thinking forward and imagine that Elon actually managed to put somebody on Mars?
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Yeah, no, that's just Photoshop and clever editing.
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So, I guess Joy Reid thinks that people don't want to teach critical race theory in schools
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because they don't want children to know the accurate history of this country.
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Is there anybody in the world who doesn't want children to learn the accurate history of the country,
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You know, certainly you could argue one of the two or three most important things in the country,
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you know, depending on how you want to measure things.
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Or there's a pretty good argument it's the number one most important thing
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that sort of defines us where we are at this moment.
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You know, I guess the Revolutionary War would be, you know, maybe number one.
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But do you think there are people, I think Joel Pollack made this point in a tweet,
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do you think there's even one person who fits the description of somebody who wants to get rid of critical race theory
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because they don't want accurate history taught to children?
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Most of our politics is about imaginary people.
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It's about things that people might do in the future, but you don't know.
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So, those are imaginary people because the future is imaginary, right?
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Then you've got your fake news about the things that people were doing that didn't really happen.
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So, you've got imaginary people in the past, you've got imaginary people in the future,
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And then you have the present, where you have our political pundits
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describing people who don't exist, not even any one person,
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and then making an entire impassioned plea, criticizing those imaginary people.
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Oh, don't get me started about the election integrity, which was perfect, by the way.
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It was Don Lemon who said that we're trying to whitewash racism
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So, Matt Gates shared some threatening texts that were going to people he knows.
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And apparently, some reporters, or at least one in particular, is getting pretty aggressive
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about sort of subtly, I don't want to use the word threaten, but let's say rattle the cage,
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put a little psychological pressure on him to come up with some dirt on Matt Gates.
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And what a world we live in, that people who don't have dirt are being pressured to come up with some
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The press is a little bit too strong, isn't it?
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Let's take a look at what's happening over on Fox News.
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I looked at CNN and nothing's happening over there.
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The most interesting thing in the news today is that guy who got swallowed by a whale
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There were some doubts about whether that was a real story.
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I'm not going to start a religion around it, but I'm close.
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I mean, he did get swallowed by a giant whale, and he did get spit out, apparently.
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Now, apparently, Fauci admitted that scientists acknowledged that COVID-19 could be lab-invented
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Or, you know, I don't think it ever got ruled out in any kind of, you know, rigorous way.
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Yeah, since my live stream today is, frankly, terrible, because I'm not prepared, I'm glad
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So, if you replay this, you might want to turn on the comments so you can see the way
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So, the Democrats are really all in on this critical race theory, and I'm a little bit
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Is there anybody here who thinks critical race theory is going to be a problem?
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The people who might have taken their kids out of public school and put them in a private
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school is always a reasonably big number, but the number of people who will do it if critical
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race theory becomes part of the public school curriculum, people are going to be desperate.
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People are going to cash in their IRAs and their, you know, SEPs and stuff.
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I feel like people are going to open their wallets to get their kids out of a public school
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if they're teaching racism, teaching kids to be racist.
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I think I'd pull my kid out of there right away.
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And I don't know what's happening in California on that, but yeah, I think it's going to spark
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a homeschool surge, then maybe the genie can never be put back in the bottle.
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The teachers' unions have figured out how to do everything wrong.
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It's like the teachers' unions either feel they have too much power so they can do anything
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they want, or they don't know that they're getting ready for their own demise by just
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Of course, Biden revealed the 16 most valuable infrastructure targets for Putin and said,
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I honestly can't think of anything more lame than that.
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You know, on one hand, it does kind of make sense that, you know, we have certain things
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that we say, okay, if you attack these things, it's basically war.
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So maybe that would have been a better way to say it.
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If we think that Russia attacks any of our top infrastructure, and let's say you name
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all 16, you could say that is equivalent to an armed conflict, because they would be that
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Now, if he told them that, that wouldn't be bad, right?
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Here are 16 things which will cause a shooting war, as far as you know.
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Maybe we wouldn't, but we say if you touch any one of these things, and we find your
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These 16 are real war, and every weapon is in play.
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Now, realistically, we're not going to start bombing Russia, but we might get pretty darn
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aggressive, and aggressive could take many forms, and it could take some pretty bad ones.
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But if there was a good threat behind it, maybe it wasn't as bad as it looks.
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Did Biden actually start to call Putin President Trump?
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But again, how many of you have said president, and then you were going to say some other president,
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and you ended up saying Trump, not Trump, because he's just, you know, in your head all the time?
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Think about the biggest complaint about Trump that felt somewhat real, right?
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Now, he was always called a racist, blah, blah, blah, but we didn't see, you know,
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anything that looked like rounding up anybody for concentration camps, so it didn't get nearly
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as bad as what anybody thought, and actually he was pro-LGBTQ, pro-black Americans.
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But the biggest issue with Trump, I would say, is that people said he wasn't honest, that he lied, wouldn't you say?
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That and the imaginary people, the fine people hoax.
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So, you know, Biden's entire reason for running was Trump doesn't tell the truth, and then some things he imagined that happened that didn't.
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So what if we realized that Trump had failed the fact-checking for four years straight,
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which even his supporters would say, oh, yeah, he did fail some fact-checking.
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What if it was just one of the things that made him more interesting?
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Because Trump had this weird quality, which is that he was the best promise keeper we've ever seen, right?
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When he said he would do something, he tried like hell to do it.
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Now, you could argue he didn't get the wall done.
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He's still running for president, as far as we can tell, right?
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He tried like hell, and he got a lot of it done, all right?
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So I don't think anybody's ever been more faithful to the voters, period.
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But part of his style is the hyperbole, the exaggeration, the salesmanship, you know, all that.
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And in that realm, he didn't really care too much about the facts, we assume, because he didn't seem to adhere to them in any rigorous fashion.
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If they didn't have January 6th, literally the last thing that happened, they didn't have one example, unless somebody can come up with one.
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Yeah, I'd like to be proven wrong about this point.
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I don't think anybody could have come up with an example, after four years of allegedly lying, that any of it mattered, except, wait for it, here's the payoff.
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None of that lying mattered, except, it's what made him so interesting that everybody else disappeared.
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It bothered you, and that's why you watched him.
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You thought he might lie again, that's why you watched him.
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We said it was an actual lie, or just an exaggeration, or maybe it was true in a way, and it was interesting.
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He has a talent for being interesting, and he seems to favor that over the niceties that other people would think would be more important.
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And he just stays the most interesting person in the world, literally, the most interesting person in the world.
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And it helps him politically, gives him all kinds of power.
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So, if they didn't have January 6th, and say, Trump, you lied about the election, the big lie, right?
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Notice that the big lie is branded the big lie.
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It's not branded, I don't know, you could come up with a hundred different labels for it, but it's the big lie.
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Why? Because they finally found something they could sell as a consequence of his lying, or let's say, not passing the fact checking.
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If they didn't have January 6th, they wouldn't have one example, unless, and again, if I'm wrong, if he could give me another example of where it might have mattered that he said something that wasn't technically true, I don't think he could come up with one.
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And the big lie, we don't know, and the big lie, we don't know if he's wrong yet.
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My understanding is the Arizona audit has some surprises for you.
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So, one of the insiders for the Arizona audit says that we're going to see something that will be interesting.
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Don't know what that is, and I'm going to bet against it changing the election.
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I think that's an easy bet, but it might be interesting, and it might tell us something we didn't know, and it might change your idea of who is right and who is wrong, but we're going to hold off on that.
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So, if you want my prediction, I don't think the audit is going to find enough to overturn an election, and even if it found a lot, it wouldn't overturn the election.
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I guess Kamala Harris still hasn't been to the border.
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Somebody said that Trump was going to go to the border.
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He said, Syria used chemical weapons on his own people.
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Yeah, the question is whether any of it mattered.
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I'm not telling you that he passed the fact-checking all the time.
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Well, I do love the Republican governors, you know, taking it up, and Arizona and, I guess, Texas and Florida is going to be helping those guys.
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So that means everybody's going to come to my state.
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I guess California is where they're all coming.
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And the kindling in our forests is getting ready to blow up.
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So, do you feel that things are poorly managed when we have a zillion people not working and nobody's cleaning up the low brush and debris that's in the forest?
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So, all right, that's about all I've got because there's not much happening in the news.
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Let me give you a, while you're typing, let me give you a little update on masks in Greece, where I am.
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So, their economy pretty much is just based on tourists.
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So, the law in Greek is that over here you have to wear a mask.
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And I think anywhere there are people or something.
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And at the hotel I'm at, they're all completely masked.
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There were close to zero tourists wearing masks.
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And when you went into any of the many, many shops, nobody asked me to put a mask on.
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And, you know, I'm in their country, so I put a mask on, right?
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If it were America, depending on the situation, I might push back.
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In an emergency, when the emergency starts, the government's in charge.
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And you kind of want that because you don't want everybody just running around and trying to do their own thing.
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But once the emergency reaches the, you know, the end zone, and we're getting close to the end of this pandemic, fingers crossed, the government isn't the right engine for that.
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And the people will express their will through economics.
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And let me tell you, there was not one shopkeeper in this island who wanted to lose a sale after being closed for however long they've been closed.
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I don't know if it's literally starving, but they've been struggling.
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No small business here was going to turn a tourist away.
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The lesson is economics will become the new government, right?
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The laws of economics will determine what's open and when.
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The Tucker Carlson question about why were there so many FBI agents seemingly connected to various domestic terror problems.
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Well, it makes sense that they would be penetrated.
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So it always makes sense that they would be around that.
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Dr. Funk Juice, I just noticed that you sent me a message, but I didn't open it yet.
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I'm going to open it right now while you're watching.
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Say happy birthday to Dr. Funk Juice, who's in the house.
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So I would like to dedicate this closing simultaneous sip to Dr. Funk Juice, whose birthday is today.
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And the good Dr. Funk Juice, happy birthday to you.
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Yes, as some of you know, I did catch up with Dr. Drew and his wife.
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And Christine and I had a lovely time with them.
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I don't think I've got anything else left for you.
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Tomorrow, maybe I'll actually have some content.
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You know, one of the strange elements of what I do at this part of my life is that you have sort of the Spider-Man problem.
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That with, you know, with power comes responsibility.
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And when people tell me that I've changed their lives, which I hear every day, by the way, literally every day, not a joke, every day, somebody messages me or tweets and says, you know, I lost 40 pounds.
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And most of them are accrediting me for usually my book, how to fill almost everything and still win big.
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And it's kind of a, it's great, but it's also a prison, but one that I would willingly go into,
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meaning that if you can help people and you don't, how do you live with that, right?
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If people are telling me that I've made a difference in their life in fairly large numbers,
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how do I, how do I stop doing that, right? I mean, there's, I can't even imagine that I could stop
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trying to be helpful anyway, whether I'm successful or not. All right.
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Thanks, Luz. Juneteenth, what do you think about Congress voting itself a paid holiday?
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What have I told you about selfishness? I gave a little lesson on this in the locals platform.
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If you were to just assume that the only variable you needed to look at was personal selfishness,
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how often would it predict what will happen next? Just about all the time. And you're going to say
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to yourself, but wait, there are all kinds of other variables. And some people are good people.
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They're not all acting selfish. They're thinking about other people. Sure. That's true. But what
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predicts best? And what predicts best is people do what's good for themselves consistently. You know,
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not a hundred percent of the time, maybe, because they might have a difference in opinion of what's
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good for them. Maybe it's not obvious to you, but it's pretty predictable. And when I heard that
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Congress was going to vote on whether Congress would get a day off with pay with everybody else
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who would get the day off, I think government employees, what were the odds that government
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employees would not vote for a paid holiday for themselves? Pretty low, right? I think it was
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unanimous, unanimous consent or something. So you didn't have to wonder where that was going to go
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now. And who exactly wanted to be on record opposing it, right? There were some people on
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No, I may be confusing two different things. If it was unanimous consent, there wasn't anybody
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on record. So I think I'm confusing two different stories. I have not seen an HBO show called
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The Leftovers. All right. Just looking at your comments here, because I just enjoy hanging out
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with you. Do I think Andrew Yang has a chance? Well, I don't know what the polls are doing. I did not
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understand he was at the top. Isn't there an ex-police chief? I think there's a black guy who was a
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police chief. So it's sort of the perfect demographic, right? If you were going to say
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to yourself, invent the perfect candidate for New York City right now, it would be a black
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ex-police chief. That would be your perfect New York City candidate. So I wouldn't be surprised if
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he wins. But to answer your question directly, Andrew Yang has a lot of capability. He has all the
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capability you need for pretty much any high-level job. But he has to get elected first.
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Okay. I just read your comment, but I didn't know what to say about it.
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Have you heard about the Portland police resigning? Yeah. Well, they resigned from the,
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I guess the task force or whatever it is that was working on the protests, but they didn't lose
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their jobs. They just got reassigned. But that was pretty gutsy. So I guess one of their members
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was charged with something, and they did not think that was appropriate. And all 50 of them just quit,
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at least from the task force only. So that's a pretty good statement.
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Eric Adams is the name of the New York City police chief candidate. Well, with a name like that,
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he's halfway elected. Thanks, Ian. You are too nice. Is the hotel tracking me? Good question.
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Um, I can tell you that the hotel is, is the hotel is definitely tracking Christina
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because she's, uh, she's Instagrammed, um, some photos. So I know they're tracking her.
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I don't know if the hotel has figured out who I am yet. The, one of the great things about, uh, my job
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back before I was doing the live streaming stuff and the political stuff, uh, I was famous ish for Dilbert,
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but people would not necessarily recognize me. So wherever I went, I could be famous and anonymous
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at the same time. But when I travel with Christina, um, everybody who sees her thinks she's famous
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because you look at her and you go, Oh, you're probably doing something famous. You know, people
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who look like you are always famous. Uh, and they don't look at me. I could be in a crowd of a thousand
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people. And if Christina is next to me, I'm invisible. You know what I mean? Right? Yeah.
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I'm not, I'm not being humble. It's just a fact. I'm literally, I just disappear. So I'm like the
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invisible man, you know, walking down the street and people are like bumping into me because they
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didn't even see that I'm here. So, uh, I feel as if, uh, I'm quite anonymous at the moment. Yeah.
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I'm the hollow man. So between that and sunglasses, it's all I need. Nobody knows who I am.
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Uh, Audrey wants that ability. Well, you have to get a Christina. It doesn't, it doesn't happen
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on its own. Can you show us her picture? Uh, just go to, uh, Instagram or just Google it and just
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Google Christina with a K, uh, last name Basham, B as in boy, A-S-H-M-A-N. And she'll be the first
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one that pops up. Um, oh, yes, there's a story about a China defector, which I don't believe.
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So that's one that at least the smart people say maybe, but apparently one of the common things to
00:37:19.400
do to mess with another country, a rival country is start a rumor that one of their high level people
00:37:25.800
is defecting. If you wanted to mess with China, what would be a really good way to do it?
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Figure out who one of their important people is, and then start a rumor that he's, he's prepping
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to defect. And then China has to kill them, kill that guy themselves. So I think you can get
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countries to jail or kill their own people. If you can successfully start a rumor that that person's
00:37:50.300
getting ready to be a traitor. So when you hear that a high level person is going to defect,
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your first thought should be probably not. If it happens, it happens. And I changed my mind,
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but just in terms of, uh, the odds, if you're going to play the odds, don't you think there
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would be far more rumors of high level of defections? Because you would, you would do
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that as much as you wanted, right? Because it works. Um, oh, I just, uh, yeah, right. I just,
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uh, misspelled Christina's name. You're right. B-A-S-H-A-M. Sorry. It's funny when I was doing
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it, I felt like there was an extra letter in there as I was saying it, but it wasn't until I saw your
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comment that I was like, okay, that was an extra letter. Let's get that in there.
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The fentanyl boss is defecting. I don't know if he was the boss of the fentanyl stuff,
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but if he was the boss of the fentanyl stuff, uh, we could kill him where he stands and we would be
00:38:53.300
totally justified in that in, in country. We could kill him in China. And I think that would be
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completely justified. Active war, but justified. Thanks, Sean. Appreciate it. Um,
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and how many of you just, uh, Googled her? I know you did.
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Our intelligence agencies don't seem concerned about foreign adversaries.
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Well, we don't know how, we don't know how concerned they are.
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Yeah, I don't think the, I don't think the high level defector is really defecting. I think that's
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a rumor. At least if you play the odds, it would be a rumor, but you know, 20% maybe.
00:39:39.260
Let's say 10, 20% chance is true. Would be pretty exciting. I don't think it's going to change
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anything. Um, all right. Why don't I buy a yacht and go around the world? Somebody says that's not
00:39:56.100
really my thing. I'm not a yacht kind of guy. Will your Apple podcasts ever return? Interesting you
00:40:09.340
would ask that because they never went anywhere. So the last time somebody said, where, where is your
00:40:15.300
podcast on Apple? Uh, we just looked and it was there. So I feel as if there might've been a
00:40:23.280
counterfeit one that maybe got taken off. So look for a real coffee with Scott Adams. I think that's
00:40:32.380
the name of the podcast and it it's there. Yeah. And Dax is telling you, he listens to it. So I'm
00:40:40.720
pretty sure it's, uh, yeah, look for a real coffee with Scott Adams. The real part, if that's missing,
00:40:48.100
I think you end up going to a counterfeit site. Nikki Haley supports the Charlottesville hoax. Oh,
00:41:01.980
Michael asks, did I realize when starting Dilbert that it was funny even to kids with no corporate
00:41:08.620
working experience that applied to anyone who'd had any exposure to an organization? Well, I found
00:41:14.360
that out fairly quickly, um, because a lot of kids would email me and, or parents would say, my kid
00:41:20.840
likes it, but it isn't every kid. It's the smart ones. If you find a kid who reads Dilbert and is a
00:41:30.760
Dilbert fan, they're the smart ones in the class. They're, they're the ones who are getting the good
00:41:36.080
grades very consistently. So there's, there's something about the comic that appeals to a certain type
00:41:42.020
of person, regardless of age. Uh, email wasn't around then. Yes. But, um, around 93 is when I started
00:41:52.360
using email and that was, yeah, several years after I started. You were correct. It's funny. I've been
00:42:00.740
doing this for over 30 years, the cartooning. So five years seems like the beginning, but that's
00:42:06.060
a good correction. Uh, did I, did I ever hear of Mafalda? I don't know what that is.
00:42:13.360
Joshua says, I wrote to you when I was 10. I probably read that.
00:42:19.740
Should people who had COVID get vaccinated, you ask? Well, that's a personal medical decision.
00:42:25.320
So I would not try to influence you on that. I would just say that, uh, smart people do, uh,
00:42:32.160
smart people do. So that doesn't mean it's right for you, but there are people who have looked into
00:42:38.780
it and said, well, I want the convenience of saying that I'm vaccinated. It's easier to prove that than
00:42:44.280
it is to prove my antibodies maybe. So just for practical purposes, people are doing it.
00:42:50.780
All right. I think we've said everything we need to say today. And I think I'm going to close this
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with a closing simultaneous sip. Get your cup or your mug. Go.
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That's good stuff. Now we'll talk to you tomorrow.