Episode 1818 Scott Adams: How Democrats Solved All Of Our Problems By Redefining Words
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 12 minutes
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151.63696
Summary
The Saudis are building a floating city, and Joy Behar just got out of the Trump bubble. Plus, Elon Musk is making cities from scratch, and the Saudis have a plan to build a city without any electricity.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another amazing episode of Coffee with Scott Evans,
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the best thing that's ever happened to you in your whole life.
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I hate it when my nose is running, as soon as I go live.
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Well, I've got an idea, and it begins with a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or gels
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and a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine here of the day,
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You might know her as no friend of Republicans.
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I don't know if you've heard, but she's not a big fan of President Trump.
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And even she said of the January 6 hearings that there's no way Trump is going to be prosecuted
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Even Joy Behar said out loud in public that if all they have is the word find,
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Did you think she was going to escape the bubble first?
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Like, I somehow imagined, you know, the bubble that the left is in, that she'd be the last one out.
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Now, I don't know if she could stay out, but she literally could see the January 6 thing for what it actually is.
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And I can't think of one other prominent Trump supporter who's done that yet.
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Is there any, you know, well-known pundit who was anti-Trump who's looked at it and said,
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yeah, I'm still anti-Trump, but I've got to admit there's nothing there in that January 6 stuff.
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Listen, I've told you before that the biggest market in the future will be building cities from scratch.
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Because we're so much better at knowing what it is that somebody would need in the modern world.
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Trying to retrofit our old buildings for the modern lifestyle doesn't make sense.
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We have so much better ways to be, you know, zero energy and everything else.
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they started like a half a trillion dollar smart city.
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And they'll have all these underground layers of services and transportation.
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So above those layers would be the homes itself.
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And they'd have everything from, the city would be designed so that everybody can walk to everything they need.
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So you would never really need a car, you know, except to leave the city, I suppose.
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It's supposed to be zero energy, and there's, part of their thing would be a floating city.
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So they figured out how to make a floating city.
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You know, connected to land, still, so it's not floating way out.
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But they've apparently designed a floating city.
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But the Saudis are building a zero energy city.
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This is what I had hoped America would be first at.
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But, you know, it's hard to accept that America is not sort of the leader in doing cool, futuristic things anymore.
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I felt like if there was any kind of futuristic thing being built at all, it was always America.
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But now this, this, this Audi seemed to be way ahead of everybody building this futuristic city.
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Um, but along those lines, I realized yesterday that Elon Musk has sort of slowly assembled a 3D printer to make entire cities.
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Do you believe that, that Elon Musk has assembled the assets to create a 3D printer to just print a city?
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You know, these gigantic devices that bore tunnels.
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And so you can, if you wanted to build something like this Saudi futuristic smart city, you need a lot of underground facilities.
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So he's got the boring company to build the tunnels.
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Um, he had announced some time ago that they figured out how to make a brick maker so that the dirt from the tunnels can be pressed into bricks on site.
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He has also announced that, um, he's building robots.
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And also he's working, you know, he's deeply invested in AI, both through Tesla and other investments.
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And then, of course, he's got the solar panel stuff, you know, the solar wall for your home to have a zero energy home.
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Imagine this boring thing, you know, going through and making underground tunnels.
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The bricks, the dirt is being turned into bricks on site.
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The robots are taking the bricks and assembling them according to an AI, you know, guidance.
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So you don't have to worry if the home is poorly designed because it's the best design ever.
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The AI just found the best design ever and built a little home.
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And then after the little home is built, um, the robot slaps on some solar panels and makes it, uh, zero energy.
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And you basically, you could basically just 3D print a town without any humans involved.
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You could have the whole city being built by robots without any human being even being on site.
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Once you just, you know, release them to do with their thing.
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There's a startup in the East Coast called Wonder.
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They finish cooking the food in the truck at your curb.
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So what's the worst thing about, uh, pickup food?
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It gets, like, a little soggy by the time it gets to you.
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But you don't also want to go there to the restaurant.
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And the food, I think, is, is prepped so it's almost cooked.
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So they, they just finish it when they get there, which is easier.
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But the green people are complaining because it's a diesel truck.
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So apparently a big diesel truck parks in front of your suburban home for two hours or whatever it takes.
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And it's basically a food truck, but it's high-end.
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So you're getting high-end steaks and sushi and stuff that you wouldn't normally associate with a food truck.
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And apparently it's, you know, it's got, like, billions of dollars of funding.
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And I'll, and I'll give you an anecdote from my local Safeway.
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So I happen to live in the town, by coincidence, that is the headquarters for the Safeway grocery store brand.
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So the Safeways in my town tend to be the ones that try things first because that's where the CEO lives.
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You know, and basically they can check it out easier because it's right in town.
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So one of the things my town has is these special new-age shopping carts where you can scan your, you can scan your product as it's going into the cart.
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And the cart weighs it, and it's got some other technology.
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It even has a camera so it can tell if you put something in the cart and it didn't scan properly.
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Now, when you hear that you can, you can have all of your stuff paid for without standing in line, aren't you happy about that?
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Well, well, there was one little wrinkle with the process.
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They don't let you take these fancy carts into the parking lot.
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Once you've done your shopping, you have to unload your cart into a standard shopping cart, every item.
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Now, keep in mind that the items in your first shopping cart are not in bags.
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So one item at a time, you reach into this fucking high-tech cart and put it into the low-tech cart while you're swearing.
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What fucking piece of technology is making me, God, this piece of shit, why did I waste my goddamn fucking time doing this?
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If you're going to make me just move every little fucking piece of tic-tac and eye drop and fucking vegetable,
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one at a fucking time from this one to this one, by the time you're done,
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you want to rip the store apart for putting you through it.
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It's like the whole point of this thing was to save me time, and I can't even believe how hard it is.
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well, it'll still save time, you know, because it's not that hard to move it in.
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Almost every time, you've got to call an assistant and wait for them,
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and they'll pour through things and work it out.
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There are a hundred fucking people who have to touch it, including you, 15 times, just to get it in your mouth.
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You know, you drive to the store, you put it in your cart, you take it out of the cart, you put it on the checker thing.
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Refrigerator, and that's like halfway through the process.
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You've still got to cook the shit and throw it away and everything.
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So, one of the things that I think the pandemic did for us
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has sort of made us all deal with how bad our food delivery system is.
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We've got to get the production of the food right down close to your table
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Let the robots prepare it, grow the gardens locally.
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But the whole food delivery thing is just completely inefficient.
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But maybe this wonder truck will be part of a solution.
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In my perfect world, there would be trucks hovering nearby
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and I would open my app and I would see where the trucks are.
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And I would see, oh, there's a truck that has good steaks over here
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So my favorite truck is pretty far away, but I don't mind because, you know, I'm not that hungry.
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So it feels like my perfect world is to have the food ready to go on a truck
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but never too far from my neighborhood, you know, within 20 minutes, that sort of thing.
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So, well, let's put this all in context, could we?
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So we've got the Saudis building half-trillion-dollar smart cities.
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You've got Elon Musk, who's assembled so many assets doing other things
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that if he wanted, he could put them together and 3-D print a city,
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And then this wonder startup might be redefining food.
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Those are big, big things, really changing the nature of civilization.
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So the Saudis and Musk and these startups are changing civilization itself
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Checking in with the Democrats, let's see the headlines,
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Let me tell you about all the problems they've solved.
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For example, I used to be worried about a recession,
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but they tell us that the definition of a recession
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has now miraculously changed from what they specifically told us in 2008.
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economists have a technical definition of recession,
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which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth,
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And then yesterday, he's updated his definition of recession to
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So they saved us from a recession by redefining the word.
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At least we dodged the recession by redefining the word.
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They have decided to change the definition of inflation.
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Now, these are not the only victories they've had.
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They redefined a vaccination from something that protects you
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They redefined the word find to be stealing and lying.
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Insurrection used to mean trying to take over the government,
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That was it Planned Parenthood who redefined pregnancy.
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But they've made a distinction between ectopic pregnancy
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and those things which are real pregnancies, I guess, by their definition.
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So that they could still have what you might call an abortion,
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but they wouldn't call it that because that's not really a pregnancy.
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Fascism used to mean one thing, but now it means a whole different thing.
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White supremacy means, obviously, anything you want it to mean.
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Green, it used to mean no nuclear, which didn't make sense.
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As soon as they needed green to solve a problem,
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are doing gigantic things to re-engineer civilization
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The Democrats are telling us that we're using words wrong,
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but they're fixing it by changing the definitions
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And so now that they've made all of these terms
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mean something different than what you thought,
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The word I'm most worried about now is sustainable.
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started meaning the opposite of what they meant.
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But trust in media has gone to an all-time low.
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that we need a truth-in-naming law for legislation.
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and you can name it the Inflation and Reduction Act
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so that morons think they're voting for the wrong thing,
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that says that the bill should say something about what is in there.
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Because they know that the only way that they can make stuff work
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is to fool you into thinking of something else.
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it's called the Inflation and Reduction Act of 2022.
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to find out what are the details of this giant bill
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So if the biggest headline in the country is this bill,
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there's going to be a lot of reporting on what's in it.
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There is no document that tells us what's in the bill
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But I guess Medicare would be allowed to negotiate prices.
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$369 billion into energy and climate change programs
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with the goal of reducing carbon emissions by 40% by 2030.
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But if Congress produced a one-page fact sheet,
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first of all, there's no copyright problem on that, right?
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If the government publishes something, we all own it.
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Why would the news not publish one page of a fact sheet?
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instead of relying on them to interpret the one-page?
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You don't think CNN can get a one-page fact sheet