Episode 1431 Scott Adams: How to Predict the Future and Also the Past. Bring Coffee.
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1 hour and 5 minutes
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146.99162
Summary
Scott Adams talks about the billionaire summer camp, Goldie hawn and Goldie Hawn, and the mysterious billionaire club in Sun Valley, Utah. Plus, a new live stream from the Locals Live Stream, and why you should be a member of the locals.
Transcript
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a tank or a chalice, a canteen, a jug or a flask,
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I just saw a paparazzi picture of Goldie Hawn and...
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So it made me feel good because I'm aging better than some other people.
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But it made me feel good because maybe I'm doing better.
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there's a little thing happening called the billionaire summer camp.
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I'm checking for my invitation, but I don't see it.
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And you get to go there and hang out with other billionaires.
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Now, are you worried that there's an Illuminati?
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Do you worry that something like a trillion dollars worth of value is all in one place?
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the entrepreneurial life of the United States would be decreased quite a bit.
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Are you worried about all the billionaires talking?
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Apparently, this is the place where Jeff Bezos completed the deal to buy the Washington Post.
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It's just interesting that all the billionaires know each other.
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At what point could the billionaires decide to just run the world?
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Hypothetically, let's just do a mental thing here.
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Suppose all the most important billionaires in the United States
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hey, this country is just not going the right direction.
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Why don't we billionaires decide what to do with the country
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and then we'll just tell the politicians to do it?
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and we'll tell them through our TV shows and our newspapers and stuff.
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But basically, we'll just tell them what to do.
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but they would use it through influence and money and connections
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could they literally and directly just take control of the country?
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Now, I think it's unlikely that they would all agree
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because they're not all going to be on the same side on everything.
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They might not want to be in charge, some of them.
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You end up getting assassinated like the president of Haiti if you're in charge.
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Maybe they would prefer just ruling from the background.
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But at the moment, it's working better than YouTube.
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So if you have an option of seeing it on locals or YouTube,
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I just temporarily opened up the locals' channel
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so you don't have to be a subscriber for this live stream
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So you would see what it would look like without commercials
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but this one's open because we're doing some testing.
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Remember I told you I thought there was going to be
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in other words, that some people who have a certain genetic outcome
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or a certain genetic makeup probably have better and worse outcomes.
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So now there's a new manuscript published in Nature
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saying that they found a whole bunch of genetic clues
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Now apparently the genetic element could be as important to the outcome
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So if you're looking at the size of the genetic component,
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it could be as important as being overweight, obese.
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It could be as important as having diabetes, for example.
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But the importance is that we could identify who has the greatest risk,
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So if you're keeping score of who did good predicting during the pandemic,
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because early on I was saying there's almost certainly a genetic component to this.
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So let me, I promised in one of the titles, I think on YouTube,
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I promised that I would teach you how to predict the future.
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Now this is going to be really complicated stuff.
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You know, it's sort of, it's so obvious that you should see who's getting paid for anything
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to know what everybody's motivation is and what's likely to happen.
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Because in your mind you're thinking, well, that might work half the time.
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You know, 40% of the time, that might tell you what's going to happen.
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He's the director of Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center, Department of Anti-Racism.
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I'm sorry, he's the director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center.
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And he makes his money by telling the country that it's super racist and that people like
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There are people who can explain it to you and tell you how to fix it and you would give
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Now, if somebody who gets paid for something has a good idea about how to fix the world
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and, coincidentally, that person is likely to get a big promotion out of this idea, do
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Well, Ibram Kendi is apparently proposing that there be some new, I think it's a cabinet-level
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position he wants created called the Department of Anti-Racism.
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And they would have powers to punish other entities for being too racist.
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Who do you think would be the obvious person to make the director of the Department of Anti-Racism
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if the Department of Anti-Racism were to be created?
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Because it's probably a pretty good-paying job and I don't know how much Ibram Kendi makes
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in his current job, but I'll bet it would be a promotion.
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And should you trust anybody who suggests creating a job for themselves?
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I think you could have predicted that sooner or later, anybody who's in charge of an anti-racism
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thing will come up with a plan that coincidentally is good for them monetarily.
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If you look at Black Lives Matter and you say to yourself, hey, let me make a prediction about
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We know that Black Lives Matter, representing largely the black population of America, should
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agree with the black population of America that we should fix, let's say, the school system.
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There's probably, I doubt you could find even one black person in America who doesn't think
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the school system should be fixed, specifically for black American children, but also for everybody.
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So, if you were Black Lives Matter, it would be obvious that you would be in favor of, let's
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say, working with Republicans who have the same opinion, that the school system needs to
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be fixed, that teachers' unions are too powerful, they're preventing school competition, and if
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you could fix that competition part, then schools could rise to a much higher level for everybody.
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But, what would happen to the leaders of Black Lives Matter if they fixed that problem, or fixed
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Well, you lose your job, because you don't want a job where if you succeed, you lose your
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job, and that's what leaders of sort of protest movements, if you will, that's the problem.
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You say to yourself, I'd sure like that dictator to retire, but how?
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They would immediately be killed by the new dictator, just to get them off the field.
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So, if you were to follow the money, you should assume that Black Lives Matter would oppose
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the legitimate interests of all of their members.
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Not some of their members, literally all of them.
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A hundred percent of Black Americans would like school to be better.
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If you did a poll, would you find anybody who said, you know, I'd like schools to be a little
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So, here you have an organization that tries to represent a population, Black Americans,
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The leaders only prosper if the conflict remains the conflict, and they don't prosper if Republicans
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Let's go to the important story of Britney Spears and her conservatorship.
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I have to say that while I generally do not like much of anything about celebrity news,
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But this conservatorship thing with Britney Spears, I've got to admit it bothers me.
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You know, it doesn't even feel like it's somebody else's problem.
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Like, it actually feels personal in a weird way.
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Does anybody else feel that this Britney conservatorship, like, it feels personal, doesn't it?
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Some of it, I think, is because Britney herself is so transparent, meaning that, you know,
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You feel like you know her a little bit, right?
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And she is a character who, I would say, she invites our empathy.
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Because I don't think that, have you ever heard of Britney Spears doing anything bad to anybody?
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She's sort of a good soul who's got some problems, which she admits.
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But now we hear that Madonna has thrown in, saying, with the Free Britney movement, and she went in hard.
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And how many celebrities does it take to change this situation?
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Because now here are the people who have spoken out.
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Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, Halsey, Rose McGowan, Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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So I will throw my weight behind these other people, my tiny weight behind these other people,
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So, Britney, if you need any help, let me know.
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I'm following the story of the Haitian president who got assassinated.
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And what we know so far, although it's still fog of war, so this could change,
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there was some team of highly trained commandos who stormed the palace and killed the president
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And at least two of them look like they're American citizens.
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They were apparently from a variety of countries, et cetera.
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And here's the thing that is sort of buried in the news.
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Well, what was the point of assassinating the president?
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Because generally when you do an assassination, it's part of a coup, right?
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So you have the new president who's trying to be president, and that one wants to come in.
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What was the point of assassinating the president?
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How did we get this far into the story and not even know the motive?
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Seriously, how do you not know the motive of killing a president of Haiti?
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Well, then I saw one sentence, and then I think it was a CNN report,
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that said that the president who got killed had been ruling by decree for more than a year.
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So a team of mercenaries killed a dictator and did not suggest a replacement.
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Because I see people speculating that Biden did it.
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So how can we get this far into the story without knowing, oh, there we go.
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It doesn't look like a political crime, does it?
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It looks like somebody was really pissed off and had the money to do this.
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And they hired a bunch of people and killed him.
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Oh, somebody says it's a McAfee dead man switch.
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I doubt that's true, but my goodness, that would be interesting.
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Now, other people are suggesting that there's some kind of Clinton connection,
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All right, so until we know who paid these mercenaries,
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Apparently the Spotify staff is still mad about Joe Rogan
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And I was trying to figure out what exactly is their problem with Joe Rogan.
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Now, I assume it means somebody who has a phobia,
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or some kind of, like, just some kind of emotional reaction to trans people?
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it could create unfairness and it doesn't make sense.
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Look, it's sort of what everybody's talking about.
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So, and he may have made some comments about the mental state of people who go through the transition.
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Because no matter what you think about the transgender situation,
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is there anybody who would disagree with the following statement?
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I'm not going to talk about a bunch of transgender stuff.
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How many of you would agree with the following statement?
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That there are undoubtedly people who are better off making the change,
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and there are almost certainly people who are not.
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would you say that it's just a flat statement of truth?
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I don't think I've ever seen anybody agree so hard at anything I've ever said in my life.
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I think the overriding truth of the whole transgender thing is that people are different.
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And you either think that people can make their own decisions, even if you don't think that they're good decisions.
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So, can Brittany make her own decisions, even if you think that they're not going to be as good decisions as somebody might make for her?
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Well, freedom kind of requires that Brittany does make her own decisions, even if they're not good ones, according to you.
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You have a bunch of people who want to make the choice for themselves.
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Now, when children are involved, that's a whole different situation.
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But for adults, I would say the evidence clearly shows that some people regret the change, and some people are really happy they did it.
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Unfortunately, we live in a world where people get to make these choices themselves, and some of them are bad.
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The sports stuff is interesting, but otherwise it's just a personal choice story.
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She just revealed that she smoked toad venom and got rid of 15 years of anxiety.
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She said that smoking the toad venom reset my brain.
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This will be a good test of your situational awareness.
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If you hear a story about an actress who smoked toad venom and cured her of a 15-year mental problem, do you say that's true?
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We don't know for sure, but do you say it's probably true or probably not?
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Well, look, you're all pretty sure that this is fake news.
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This toad venom is a hallucinogen, and I believe this is the basis of DMT.
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I'm not the expert on hallucinogens, but I think that's true.
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And do you believe it is likely or even possible that somebody could have a few minutes of smoking toad venom and cure a mental disease?
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Now, I don't know if it worked in a specific case, right?
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So I'm not making a claim that it always works in all people and you get only good results or anything like that.
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But if you think that this is unlikely to be true, you're missing one of the biggest stories in the world.
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Because the people who have studied this field, and I've had, you know, enough conversations with people who know this field, to know this is real.
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There are people who fix a lifetime of mental problems.
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Yeah, there is plenty of evidence that people are fixing lifetimes of mental problems in 15 minutes.
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Now, this isn't the only hallucinogen that can have that kind of benefit.
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Yeah, PTSD would be another thing that people have fixed fairly quickly with this.
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Because when I sort of disguised the story by saying it was toad venom, I got you off the, off the idea that it was a hallucinogen.
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If I had said a hallucinogen from the start, most of you would have said, well, maybe, maybe.
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But I, I, I fooled you by calling it toad venom, which I think is basically what it is.
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Um, Stephen Miller, the controversial, uh, former aide of President Trump, uh, was on TV saying that, uh, about Biden, that no president in history has been dealt a better hand on day one than President Biden.
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I mean, you can dislike Stephen Miller all you like, but really, could you argue with that point?
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You know, and then the people arguing with it say, are you kidding me?
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He, uh, Biden inherited a dead economy with a pandemic.
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Well, yeah, but he also inherited the known solution.
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So whoever was president was going to be president over the near solution of the pandemic.
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The huge improvement of the economy, all that was going to happen.
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The only thing that, uh, Biden added was me, he made some things worse, like immigration, made it worse.
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Um, I also wonder if Trump had been president and it looks like most of the, uh, vaccination resistors are Republican.
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Do you think that having Biden as president is creating more resistance to the vaccination because he's a Democrat and because the Republicans just have a sort of a natural resistance to anything that comes from a Democrat?
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So my take is that, uh, um, maybe, maybe Trump could have influenced people to take more vaccinations.
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Now, I'm not saying, you know, if you want to argue that wouldn't be a good idea, that's a separate conversation, but just would he have been able to successfully do that?
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Because remember, he took the vaccination himself, right?
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So, uh, when you see that Trump has convinced half the country that the election was a lie and, uh, and he's still controlling the party, it seems like, from the outside,
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does anybody still think Trump is not persuasive?
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Do you remember when people were laughing at me early on when they'd say, he's persuasive?
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How can he be so persuasive when he's only got 25% of the support in the primary, the Republican primary?
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I imagine that, uh, Trump, if he had tried, if he, if Trump had put his level best effort into more vaccinations, and again, we don't know if he would have.
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Maybe he would have just been, yeah, wear a mask, you know, I think it's a good idea.
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But there's no, no way to know how he would have handled it.
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But at least there's a chance he could have gotten more Republicans to take it.
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Rasmussen asked people if they agree with the following statement, that media are truly the enemy of the people.
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What percentage of Americans, likely voters this is, agreed with the statement that the media is the enemy of the people?
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Either strongly or somewhat agreed that the media are the enemy of the people.
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Uh, do you remember when I said that Trump was persuasive?
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Trump is the reason that 58% of the public think the media is the enemy of the people.
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Now, it would have been at least 40% without him, probably.
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But this specific phrasing, don't you think that it was always true that people would have said, oh, I think the media is biased in one direction?
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But would they have gone the extra level and say, no, no, it's not just bias.
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I think this poll shows you how persuasive he is.
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That he just turned this into a thing, that the media is the enemy of the people, and now 58% of the public agrees.
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Now, they may disagree which side of the media is the enemy, but it's a lot of agreement on something.
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Do you trust the political news you're getting?
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43% of the public, the voting public, the people who need the media to tell them what's true so that their vote will be non-absurd.
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43% say no, we don't trust the political news we're getting.
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37% of the public thinks that the political news they see is accurate.
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I don't even know anybody who thinks political news is accurate.
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But it's a big country, so maybe I just talked to the wrong people.
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But here's even the funnier part of this same poll.
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You know, there's always a category for not sure or uncertain or no opinion.
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Well, 20% of the people said they were not sure that they can trust the political news.
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What would be very similar to not sure you could trust something?
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It's one thing to say that the news is working against you.
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But if you're not sure you can trust it, you don't trust it.
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If you're not sure you can trust it, then you don't trust it.
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So let's add the 20% that are not sure to the ones who said,
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You've got 63% of the voting public saying they don't trust political news.
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Adam Dopamine on Twitter is tweeting some good news,
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So there's a professor in a department of some tech department
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They figured out how to turn wastewater into clean water and electricity
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so they can take wastewater and run it through some filters and chips
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And they can turn it into electricity and clean water.
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Now, this is the sort of thing where, you know,
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who knows if this specific technology will take off or not.
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But it's the sort of thing where I look at it and I say to myself,
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they're not in the news, that could be big things.
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So they're not in the news, but could be completely transforming society.
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there's news that China is developing exotic nuclear weapons,
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when the ocean is filled with underwater nuclear drones?
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You know, I've been thinking that Mars would be the least safe place to be
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But I'm starting to feel that if the ocean gets filled with nuclear drones
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pointed at each other, that's not a good thing.
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how good do nuclear weapons have to be before they're good enough?
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Is there not something that's completely good enough
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Because it's not as if any country could wipe out
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the nuclear arsenal of another on day one, right?
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So I just wonder if it makes any sense whatsoever
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But remember I said you could predict the future
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who's in charge of a big, let's say, drone-building operation
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if the government improves their nuclear arsenal.
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It's the people with a lot of money, coincidentally.
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who are connected to the billionaire class, etc.
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But you could predict that this was going to happen
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even though it probably doesn't make any sense for China.
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I just don't see how China's better off doing this.
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like every country is run by the billionaires effectively,
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Well, let's give Joe Biden some props, if we could,
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because Joe Biden has announced that August 31st
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will be the end of the 20-year mission in Afghanistan.
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And I don't have anything to say about this except positive.
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This is one of those cases where if you can't full-throatedly say,
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then you have to really check your bias a little bit, don't you?
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Yeah, right, in the comments you beat me to it.
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So, you know, you can certainly make the argument
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So I think the current president always has to get credit
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You know, you have to discount that a little bit.
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you feel like I want to put like a disclaimer on that.
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Remember I told you that money could predict things.
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in which there was somebody looking to sell something
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And there was somebody who might be a buyer for that thing,
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about whether more of it should be created and purchased.
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Who would be in favor of creating and purchasing
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You're going to need that third dose for that extra booster
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No word yet on the Moderna, which is the one I have.
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Well, it turns out that the FDA and the European medicine
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agencies and other regulators, I think the CDC,
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I'm sure the Moderna people would love to tell you
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that there's, you know, works better than Pfizer,
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But don't you think the Moderna people are looking at the Pfizer people
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If we could make the case that you would get 10% extra coverage for a booster shot of the Moderna,
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Because if we recommend it, it will make $20 billion for us that we weren't going to get otherwise.
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And it would make people 10% safer, which might not make any difference in terms of deaths.
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If you want to predict what Moderna is going to do,
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they'll probably try to tell you their shot is better in the first place.
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But just to be safe, you better look at that booster shot.
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I mean, we're not saying you definitely need it, but 10% pandemic.
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So follow the money tells you that Moderna, no matter how well their shot works,
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are going to be influenced by this Pfizer thing and probably try to get away with the same thing.
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So Hunter Biden's going to sell this expensive art that he made himself
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And the worry was that people would buy these paintings as a way of bribing him,
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which would be an indirect way of bribing the senior Biden.
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And the solution, apparently, is that the White House worked on a deal with the art house
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that's going to be selling this stuff, that the buyers' names will be secret.
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So even the Bidens, the public, nobody will know who bought it.
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How would anybody ever know who bought this painting?
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Well, maybe everybody who visits the house or the person who bought it.
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Because do you buy a painting and then not put it on the wall?
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Seems to me that whoever spends half a million dollars for a painting
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How do you hide who buys this frickin' painting?
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If you wanted to bribe Hunter Biden by buying his painting,
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You just get the message to somebody who knows Hunter Biden personally.
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You say, hey, tell Hunter that when tomorrow comes,
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I'm going to buy his half-million-dollar painting,
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and I'm a Ukrainian oil company or whatever I am,
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How hard would it be for the Bidens to be the only ones to know
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The Bidens had a situation where somebody was going to buy this art,
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and everybody would know that the Bidens were beholden to whoever bought the art.
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that the only people who don't know who bought the art is us.
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Because you don't think the Bidens are going to find out one way or the other,
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You don't think the Bidens are going to find out who bought it?
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but do you think there's any chance the Bidens won't find out?
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and they found a way to make it look better by making it way worse.
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It's way worse in the sense that at least if we knew who bought them, right?
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At least if the public knew who bought the painting,
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that seem coincidentally favorable to the buyer of the art.
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you would buy the art and you would immediately destroy it
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There's a Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst,
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who's also a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton,
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is talking about it might be time to impose vaccine mandates and passports.
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but do you think you could push the public this far?
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All the way to mandatory vaccines and passports?
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You know, I think you have to read the room on this one, right?
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You could make, you know, let's say, charitably,
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Because the mood of the public is just not there.
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So, and I think the public has very clearly stated,
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that it will accept the predicted level of death
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See how many people are outside, walking around, living their life.
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We have decided that the risk is now small enough
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that it's like driving to the store to get a loaf of bread,
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Once you get to the point where you don't even consider the risk
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you know, I'm going to go to the grocery store today.
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Am I worried that if I don't have it delivered, I'll get COVID?
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where you're not even factoring it into your daily decisions,
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and, you know, I'm vaccinated, so I have a little advantage there.
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I think the government has to just get the fuck out of it.
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And I'm still uncertain whether I want that or don't want it.
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but if the shots can wear off in effectiveness,
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I mean, I wouldn't go out of my way to be infected,
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but given that I'm vaccinated, if I also got it,
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How many of you have been tested how many times?
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tell me how many times you've done a COVID test.
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I'm going to try to remember how many times I have.
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You know, we know that you don't have symptoms right away.
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All right, let's see if I've got anything else.
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So, Michael Avenetti got his two and a half years of prison
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I wonder if I should try to extort this major company.
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A lot of people making fun of him for all that.
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and this is just a pretty well-established fact,
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that males tend to occupy the extremes of every category?
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So there are more men who are literally geniuses
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which is not to say men are smarter than women.
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It just happens to be that the category I'm from
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and we have a different relationship with risk.
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And if you didn't have people like Michael Avenatti,
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Because it's the same thing that drives a Trump
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Trump will either be a triumphant returning president,