Episode 1759 Scott Adams： Day Two Of COVID, Not So Good. Hope Your Day Is Going Better, Let's Sip
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Today's episode is a special edition of the highlight of civilization, featuring a case of the COVID. It's Day 2 of symptoms, and let me tell you, it's really unpleasant. But the biggest part about it, which I'll tell you later, is the brain fog.
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Oh, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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Today will be the special COVID version, because I got myself a bad case of the COVID, day
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And let me tell you, it's really unpleasant, really, really unpleasant.
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But the biggest part about it, which I'll tell you later, is the brain fog.
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So, I may have some trouble getting through this.
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And all you need to take it up a level is a cup or mug or glass, a tanker, chalice, or stein,
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes
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I'm going to tell you something that was too embarrassing to tell you yesterday.
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And do you know why I did not succeed in getting it?
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Why did I not succeed in getting the Pavloxin or whatever it is?
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I actually couldn't figure out how to receive a phone call.
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I couldn't figure out how to receive a phone call.
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And my medical service, Kaiser, they have to call you back.
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I have my phone ringer turned off unless it's in my contacts, which I did a long time ago.
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And so, I said to myself, oh, if I'm going to get this call, I better turn my notifications back on, because I know I turned them off.
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So, I went into my iPhone, went to the part about notifications, went to the part about phone notifications.
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And there was nothing there about turning my ringer back on for contacts.
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Before you go on, you want to jump in and tell me how to do it, right?
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I just go to Google and say, how do I turn my ringer back on?
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Or, to put it in a more accurate way, I kind of knew it.
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So, I was actually mentally incompetent and trying to navigate a complicated situation that I hadn't been in.
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Now, for things which I've experienced before, I'm fine, right?
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But, yeah, somebody says it sounds like getting old.
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If I didn't have the brain fog, I just would have Googled it and changed my phone and taken the call and gotten the drug.
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And, I didn't want to call somebody and admit that I couldn't figure out how to use my phone.
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I was so degraded that I just couldn't get past it.
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And, ultimately, I decided not to take the drug anyway.
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Here, we've all been talking about the vaccinations.
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And, I thought, well, what makes the pill any better?
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So, if you take the assumption that you're going to be fine anyway, maybe it takes an extra day or two.
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I'm not sure it made sense to take the pill unless you were in a, let's say, a worse situation.
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Yesterday, I just sat there and just stared at a wall for 18 hours, I think.
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And, I tried sleeping a massive amount, which I never do.
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Because, I haven't dreamed in, I don't know, decades.
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Because, I don't sleep enough to actually get to the rapid eye movements.
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They're all just, like, annoying, frustrating things.
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I mean, it's not like I had, like, an awesome sex dream or something.
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Just, like, awesome, weird things that bother you.
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Did you know that George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed?
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But, the first dinosaur was discovered in the early 1800s.
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And, George Washington had already lived and died by then.
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Yeah, if you want to say, remember my dreams, that's more accurate.
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You're low in B vitamins if you can't remember your dreams?
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No, it just means I don't sleep more than four hours a night.
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So, I never get to the rapid eye movement stuff.
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But I also, I couldn't take a Tylenol because I couldn't eat.
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I also had this problem, which is I couldn't eat anything because my mouth was so dry that it would just turn into concrete in my mouth.
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Like, I couldn't just take a piece of bread and just eat it.
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It would turn into, like, I couldn't even swallow it.
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It just would turn into some kind of weird thing.
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Anyway, I saw a movie called The Lost City last night with Sandra Bullock.
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I think Sandra Bullock and Tom Cruise are the last, you know, great stars, it seems like.
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But, you know, I was watching Sandra Bullock and I was trying to figure out, how old is she?
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Because she looks exactly like she's always looked.
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And she looks, maybe when she made it, she was 55.
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Just whatever, whatever fitness thing she's doing is working out.
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And she's older than her co-star, so they finally had the older woman, younger guy situation going on there.
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Well, you know, when we've got these school shootings, we need AOC to tell us what the basic problem is.
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She said that the basic problem is America's patriarchal society and masculinity that's, quote, rooted in the subjugation of other people.
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So if we had less patriarchal society and our masculinity was not rooted in the subjugation of other people, we might shoot less people.
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But would that mean that wherever there is the greatest patriarchal societies, you would have the most mass shootings?
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Because when I run through my mind of all the mass shooting places that also have, well, all the places that have a patriarchal society, I don't feel like they have a lot of mass shootings there.
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I feel like the more patriarchal the society, the fewer there are.
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The other theory is that there's too many missing dads.
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That all the bad behavior and the school shootings are from missing dads?
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So the people who don't have dads do seem to get in more trouble.
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If you don't have a dad, more likely to get in trouble.
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But do they have the correlation or the causation correct?
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Would there be anything about the people whose fathers left or didn't have a father in the first place?
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Would there be anything else that that group had in common other than the fact that the child doesn't have a dad?
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Don't the people who only have one parent have a lot in common?
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Do we believe that genetics don't have any role in anything?
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If you're a dad who's likely to leave or to not take care of a kid,
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does that genetic propensity, is it likely to follow to the child?
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And, yeah, did the father leave because the mother's crazy?
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What kind of mental health do couples have, on average, if they've broken up versus if they didn't?
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Seems to me, seems to me, they've got a lot of correlations there, and they've picked out one.
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Seems to me that the no dad thing and the bad behavior are both caused by the same thing,
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which is parents who are not quite fit to be parents.
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And if you have two parents that are not fit to be parents, and you put them together and have a child,
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But it seems like you're selecting for a certain personality type.
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That the single and having a baby, on average, this is not about every person, right?
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But on average, you don't think you could find a correlation with a lot of other stuff,
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other than that the dad was there or the dad was not there.
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To me, it seems like the missing dad is a symptom of some deeper problem.
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And, you know, it affected the dad in the same way it affected the kid.
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I'm just saying that I don't believe that it's as simple as no dad equals mass shooter, more likely.
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How many of the mass shooters also played violent video games?
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So of the mass shootings, the school mass shootings,
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how many of them played a lot of violent video games?
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Now, you're saying everyone plays violent video games, but not as often.
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Now, even if everyone did, that doesn't mean the game is causing it.
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You know, 99.9% of people are going to be completely unaffected by their entertainment choices.
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So I guess he was arguing that there's no constitutional right to own a gun and that it's a mirage.
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You know, there's no such thing as a constitutional right to own a gun.
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And it's not because the Constitution says you can own a gun.
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If the Supreme Court says that's what it says, then you have the right.
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The Constitution of the United States could be just a dictionary with nothing in it.
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But if the Supreme Court says, yeah, it's right there.
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The system is the Supreme Court tells you what's there.
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And if they make up something, that's your right.
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Because didn't they make up the right of abortion?
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I mean, that was basically they pieced together some privacy elements from different places and sort of made something up, right?
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But what if you bought the premise that the actual original Constitution did not contemplate gun ownership the way we have it today?
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Now, if you're arguing that the Supreme Court made a mistake, that's a good argument.
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But once they've decided, you do have the right.
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To have a right means, you know, somebody gave it to you.
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Now, some say you have rights to do everything until the government takes it away.
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But the government does tell you what is and what is not allowed in our current system.
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Yeah, the Federalist Papers help explain some of the framers thinking.
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It really doesn't matter if it's in the original document.
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It only matters if the Supreme Court is willing to say it's there.
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Washington Post senior editor Mark Fisher, I guess on Thursday, he tweeted that the AR-15 was, quote, invented for Nazi infantrymen.
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And the Volkswagen was invented by Hitler, so should you not buy a Volkswagen?
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I actually know some people who won't buy a Volkswagen for that reason.
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It's completely irrelevant to the question of whether you want one.
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And documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has called for the U.S. to repeal the Second Amendment entirely.
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Well, I guess you've got to say something pretty extreme to get some attention these days.
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And if you restricted gun laws in any way, would you agree that it encourages more restrictions?
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If somebody asks for a restriction and gets it, they're going to say, ooh, that worked.
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So I think we would pretty much all agree that the slippery slope is a real thing.
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In this specific example, I'm anti-slippery slope for lots of things.
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But in this specific example, there's no question that if you asked for something you want and you got it,
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I mean, in that case, it's pretty straightforward, right?
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Is there any area in American life in which the age limit disallowed young people from doing something?
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And then that situation specifically, just an age limit question.
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But that didn't lead to changes in non-age-related things, did it?
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To me, it just looks like there were just a bunch of things that were done.
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Is there anything that has an age limit on it now that you think should not?
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Is there anything that has an age restriction on it now that you think should not?
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Do you think that putting an age limit on firearms for, let's say, 21 or 25, for, let's say, an AR,
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do you think that that would become a slippery slope toward more restrictions?
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It makes you wonder if there's some way to manage that.
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Because I think if you could convince Republicans, let me ask you this.
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Behind closed doors, if you were talking privately to your Republican senator, do you think your Republican senator would say that increasing the age limit for ARs would be a bad idea?
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If you could only do that, do you think any senators would disagree with that?
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They would just be worried about how it looks and what it might lead to, right?
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I think they would agree that everything needs an age limit.
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Suppose you're Republicans and you say, here's the deal.
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But in return, we want an age restriction on social media.
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Because if you make a deal, then you have less odds of the slippery slope, right?
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You'd say, okay, well, we fixed social media and we're giving up a little bit on guns.
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That's more like a deal where you both got something.
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See, the slippery slope happens when somebody gets something for free and the other team just gave something away.
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If you could get something just by asking for it, wouldn't you do more of it?
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But if you could only get something by making a deal where you've got to give up something to get it, well, you're going to do a lot less of it because there aren't that many deals to be had.
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So why don't we stop arguing about whether social media is hurting people or guns and just make a deal and say these are two things that kids shouldn't be doing or young people.
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Shouldn't be doing these, shouldn't be on social media until maybe 18 and shouldn't get it gone until maybe whatever, whatever we decide.
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I'm not sure 25 is the right number, but it feels like 21 is the right number at the very minimum because the number of people under 21 who are doing it.
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I think you ought to have to see the data to know what the right number is.
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You have to be 35 to be president, so why not make everything 35?
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Well, you know, the presidency is one of those few things where the older you are, maybe the better you are, up to a certain point.
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But certainly between 35 and 65, well, here's something I can speak to with great personal knowledge.
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If you compared what I know today at 65 to what I knew at 35, it's a pretty big difference.
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And I would be afraid of me being president at 35.
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It's just that you learn enough along the path that you think, oh, yeah, I could do that job.
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But at 35, I didn't know how anybody could do that job.
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Like, I thought, how in the world do you find somebody who could be president?
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And now I just look at it and think, oh, I could do that.
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You could make exceptions for, you know, hunting, I suppose.
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Or you could also make an exception that says, you know, if you're under a certain age,
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you could use a head gun if you're with somebody over a certain age.
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If you're just getting your permit, you can drive as long as you're with somebody older.
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Well, if you're hunting, correct me if I'm wrong.
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When you hunt, you usually go with somebody else, don't you?
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But it wouldn't be a big deal to say that if you're 18, you need to be with somebody older.
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I don't know that it would probably wouldn't make that much difference in your happiness, would it?
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Since women basically never do mass shootings, why should there be any age limit for women to own a handgun or any kind of gun?
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I hate that this is a clear case where discriminating against men makes complete sense.
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But if you ask me what's more dangerous, a man having access to guns at 17 or a woman, let's say a woman at 17,
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And if you want to throw in LGBTQ, okay with me.
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Until there's a mass shooting from an LGBTQ member.
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But if it's never happened, don't they have an argument?
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Somebody says there on comments on YouTube that they forgive me for getting vaccinated
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Well, let me be clear about my vaccination decisions.
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I mean, I'm happy to tell you what I did, but your opinion of what I should do doesn't have
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AR-15s are very seldom used in homicides, but they're used often in mass shootings.
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Pretty much all the data on the school shootings is fake.
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There was a story saying there were 27 mass school shootings, but really it was 27 school
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shootings, which would include any gun activity, including one-on-one, and even when nobody
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So it's a problem, but all our data is incorrect.
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So I saw on Fox, I think it was a Fox News story, in which buried at the bottom of the
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article, they basically say that Putin won the war, that his primary goal was controlling
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Has Russia won the war, and now all they're doing is consolidating?
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There doesn't seem to be, you know, massive civil war.
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So if that's true, if Russia essentially succeeded, then would you also say that all the money we
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Did we waste all of our money because we didn't prevent anything?
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Nothing happened except it took longer for Russia to do it and probably killed more people
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Now, I'm not saying that we didn't have good intentions, but I don't think it destroyed Russia.
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And it made a war on your neighbors look like a good idea.
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Because 10 years from now, Putin's going to, this is just going to look like a great victory
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So I would say that we managed to show that Russia can attack their neighbors with old
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All right, so let's, so somebody's saying, but wait, you claimed Ukraine victory a few days ago.
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If you believe that Putin's goal was to take over the entire country, then he failed.
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And it doesn't look like he will succeed anytime soon.
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But now even Fox News is saying, well, his primary goal was that stuff on the East, so
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To which I say, here's your story where Ukraine won and also Russia won.
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So the only way this can end is if Putin says, I got total success, I took the parts I wanted.
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And Ukraine says, total success or large success, because we're still Ukraine.
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We're smaller, but we're still Ukraine, and we're still fighting to liberate those entities.
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So I think you can say with complete confidence that Russia won the war and also Ukraine won
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Apparently, Trump is using ultra-mega to fundraise.
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So as soon as you heard Biden saying there was this ultra-mega group, and almost everybody
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So the Democrats are just hideously bad at this branding stuff.
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So every time they take the worst branders in the world, and they go against the best brander
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And as soon as they said it, you all knew what Trump was going to do.
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You knew he was going to snatch the gun out of their hand and turn it around.
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He's done it too many times for you not to know that.
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I mean, as soon as you heard it, you're like, okay, I see where this is going.
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And I guess Trump is calling the January 6th business, he says, calling it an insurrection
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Now, when you hear that word, hoax, does it make you feel like there are some kind of
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Because I'm not sure a hoax was a word that we would have used for this sort of thing five
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And I think Mike Cernovich is primarily the one who brought hoax into the political conversation.
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Now, I use it all the time, but I think Cernovich is the father of that word for political purposes.
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Now, I fixed a typo and then republished my list of 10 top 10 hoaxes.
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So I fixed the typo that I added when I fixed the other typo.
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But then there was another typo in there that I fixed.
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So I'm on my fourth edition of it this morning.
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If you're coming in late, I'm second day of COVID symptoms.
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Like, it took me half a day to figure out how to get Tylenol.
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Now, so I see you're prompting me about the Nancy Pelosi's husband getting a DUI.
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I don't know that that has anything to do with anything.
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I think when a family member gets in trouble, that's just too far for me.
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You know, if one of the Trump kids did something unsavory, I would just say that's about them.
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I don't think that Nancy Pelosi's husband is telling us anything about Nancy Pelosi or about politics or anything important.
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So I guess the Amber Heard jury continues tomorrow.
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Do you think, what do you think that's going to end up?
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Generally during a trial, there's some point where somebody describes the law.
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And then they say, you're seeing if this criteria is being met to say that the law has been broken.
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So what I haven't heard is you must prove this, and here's the evidence they presented.
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So I don't really have a sense of who's winning in this.
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In the court of public opinion, Johnny Depp won.
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In the court of public opinion, Johnny Depp won.
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Because it would just be more abuse on top of the other abuse.
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And by the way, I'm not so sure that he's never done anything wrong in his life.
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So it's not like I'm a huge Johnny Depp makes no mistakes kind of guy.
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But it would look like she was the abuser and she got away with even more.
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No, I haven't watched a Norm Macdonald special yet.
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The Norm Macdonald special that he did before he passed.
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That Biden implied in his speech recently that Trump supporters killed a cop on January 6th, which didn't happen.
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It is really amazing watching how much Biden lies and how much that's not being called out.
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Did he say they killed two cops when there were actually zero?
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Some of you are well behind on my personal life.
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So I'm divorced, in case anybody is not caught catching on.
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But I can tell you that whatever is going on now is not enhancing anything.
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Because apparently you can get it from, you know, like a week or two before you know you have it.
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The only other place that I was with a crowd, and there's nobody in my personal life that I know that has it.
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So, I don't know anybody that I've been anywhere near that has it.
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Because I had basically no human contact in Maui.
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Now, the movie theater is where I got the symptoms.
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But they would have been there for days before the movie.
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Yeah, you know, I do think that planes are relatively safe because their filtration systems are so good.
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But I don't really know where else I would have gotten it.
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In fact, the other day, I was saying, why is it I don't know anybody who has COVID?
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So, I'm effectively unvaccinated at this point.
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So, prior to getting COVID, whenever I got it the last few weeks, I was aware that my immunity was at its lowest point that I could remember.
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And I knew my natural immunity was in the basement because for about two weeks, I hadn't been able to sleep.
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And I was just completely exhausted all the time.
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So, I was very aware that I could get sick because my immunity was so low, and I'm sure enough.
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Which makes me wonder if the Omicron is so measly that you don't even get it if you're basically healthy.
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I wonder if my normal good health would have just slapped it away.
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I was trying to think the last time I felt this sick.
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Because I don't even get bad colds or, like, regular flus in decades.
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Even when I get a cold, it's just a sniffle for a day or something.
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Yeah, so let me say what other people have said.
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Whatever's happening in my head is not like any other thing that's ever happened to me.
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And the hardest part is the temperature dysregulation.
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Because if I just walk from my office to another part of the house,
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Because I'll put on my sweatshirt because I'm freezing.
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I'll open the door to walk down the hall, and I'll be sweating.
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I'll take off my sweatshirt to the end of the hall, and then I'll be freezing again.
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And I'm going to go do something else, which is probably just sleeping.