Episode 1932 Scott Adams: The News Is All Fun Today. Find Out What Twitter Is Up To And Lots More
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In this episode of the podcast, Scott Adams talks about the growing trend of factory-built tiny homes in California, and why they could be the next big thing in the backyards. Plus, a new food delivery service that could revolutionize the way we eat and drink.
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Well, the news is wonderful today. You know, if you do what I do, these live streams, you
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really hope that the news is going to give you some good stuff. Oh my God, do I have good
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stuff today. And none of it is sad. It's all mostly just funny stuff. The best kind of day.
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All right, let's just start. We'll start slow, and we'll build into it, okay? One of the
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founders, I don't know, or the founder of Airbnb, is doing a side business now, making tiny factory
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homes for backyards. Now, that's already a big thing, boxable. I think Musk is a big investor
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in that. But there are a number of little factory-built tiny homes. And they're going to start in
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California, because California, despite what you think about my state, California every
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now and then will do something just right. You know, that you say, oh, damn it. I want
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to hate my state and move out. And then they'll do something right. And you're like, okay.
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One of the things California did right, very right, like super right. You know, like I don't
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have anything to say about it except, well, that was right. The state overrode the local
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building, I think this is what happened, the local building requirements and said that if
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these little factory homes, you know, meet a certain standard, they can go anywhere in
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your backyard with fairly, fairly broad, you know, flexibility. So somebody having a problem
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on locals? I'll monitor that. It's working fine for me. But here's what I think. I think
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it's a, you know, big and growing industry, and that's interesting. But there's something
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more interesting coming. So these, these little units would be priced at the, around the low
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$300,000 for something in the 400 to 500 square feet range, like really tiny. It's basically
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a one person home or maybe a couple who's very close. But here's what I think is going to happen.
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The next phase is that these will not be for just backyards. The next phase is somebody's
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going to build a community of just these things. Now, it might not be one company. It might
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be, you know, Boxable will be your neighbor, and maybe this Airbnb thing will be your house,
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and, you know, another company will do anything. But if you build a small community that's well
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designed, so they have some common, you know, transportation, and they've got a park that they
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build around, they've all got a nice, you know, green zone. And here's the most important
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part. Essential cafeteria for food delivery or pickup, because they could just walk to
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it. So that nobody needs a kitchen. I think these little units have kitchens, but, you
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know, that, that would just be for a little extra. So imagine if your food was cafeteria
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created, you could just, it's two blocks away, and you just walk over there and pick up your
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food anytime you want. You know, you pay for it, but you get it anytime you want. I think that
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would be the model, because it's based on a college campus model that, you know, where
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I went to college. And here's what I experienced. My highest lifestyle was my college dorm.
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And it had everything to do with the fact that everything was convenient, so I never had to
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do, you know, house maintenance. I never had to, I didn't have to drive, right? I didn't have
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to cook. I didn't have to shop. So all the things that I need to do that are a pain in
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the ass, I didn't have to mow my lawn. You know, I didn't have a dog. You know, you could
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argue whether that's good or bad. But everything was easy. And then they, and then they surrounded
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me with people I wanted to be around. Young people my age. It was like a perfect situation.
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And plus, I was doing something useful, you know, going to school, so I felt I was productive
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and all that. And so my point is, not that you would reproduce a college environment,
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but that we don't, we don't engineer a community to be the most livable community it could be.
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Communities are optimized for what? You tell me. Any new development, wherever it is, what is it
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optimized for? What do they optimize? Sales. Sales. That's it. Sales. Right. So that's the
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reason that you don't have good closets. The reason that you don't have enough closet space
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in your house is that when you're looking to buy a home, you don't notice. You know, like,
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I didn't really notice there wasn't enough closet space until I bought it. So you need, you need
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to build homes that are optimized for the community, not for the seller. So that's something coming.
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This is just a prediction. I don't know, but I've been watching the news and I feel like a pattern
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is developing. And I feel like we might be only one week away from the following news item.
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The AP announces that Satan is actually an FBI informant. Yeah. Beelzebub himself, turns out he
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thought he was operating independently. But now for years, it turns out that he was actually an FBI
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informant the entire time. You've heard of that group ISIS? They were never real. All FBI informants,
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the entire organization. I know. Seems weird. Hitler's SS. It's kind of historical. But we now know
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all FBI informants. I know. Weird. This is like before the FBI, wasn't it? Or was it? When was the FBI
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started? 30s? 20s? 20s, right? Yeah, in the 20s. All right. Let's talk about Ray Epps. I saw a video of
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a young, I'm guessing conservative type fellow who got a chance to ask a public question of Liz Cheney
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some event. And he asked her, would she support jailing Ray Epps as a insurrectionist, given that
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we have him on video saying insurrection-y things like go into that Capitol, etc. And Liz Cheney gave
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the following answer, sort of a long, rambling general answer that at least Daniel Schmidt, who asked the
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question, believes was avoiding the question. But I'm not so sure. Watch me defend Ray Epps.
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You didn't see that coming, did you? Now, I don't know what the real story of Ray Epps is, and I'd like
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to know, if there is any real story. Might not be anything. But here's what I say. Why would Ray Epps
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be arrested? Don't you have to have some evidence of a crime? Why the hell would he be arrested?
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I saw the video. I didn't see anything illegal. Did you? You can't be arrested for standing
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outside and agitating, can you? Was anybody else arrested for saying, hey, go do something?
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Why? So here's my take. It might be illegal. It might be illegal to incite. But do you think
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anybody else was arrested who did not go into the Capitol and did not do violence? Was anybody
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else arrested? You're saying yes? You're saying somebody was arrested who did not trespass
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and did not do violence. They weren't even inside the building. You're saying people outside
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the building who were just standing there saying things were arrested. All right, you need to
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give me a fact check on that. You're going to need to give me a specific example of that.
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I need a specific example. Because I don't believe there was anybody who wasn't trespassing who
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got arrested. All right. If you're right, then I'll adjust my opinion. Okay? So I'm seeing
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Brandon Straka mentioned. Didn't he go inside? Brandon didn't get inside? No. What was he doing
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at the time of arrest? Because if he wasn't inside and he wasn't doing violence, then he was just
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doing what everybody else who didn't get arrested was doing. Really? He was standing there and he
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got arrested. He was standing there not trespassing. Okay, I don't believe you. Honestly, I don't
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believe you. You could be right. So let me say this as clearly as possible. I won't be shocked if I'm
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wrong. I won't be shocked and not be willing to be corrected on that. But I don't think you're right.
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Even Erica the Excellent is saying she's 100% sure I'm wrong. Okay. Make your case. You know,
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not right now, but send me... Oh, Erica actually spoke to Brandon. All right. But did everybody
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standing around him get arrested? Why was he singled out? Just answer that one thing. Why
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was he singled out? Because he must have been in a huge crowd. All right. There's something
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missing in the story. I hate to say I don't trust Brandon Straka, but if he said he was picked
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out of a group of people who were doing exactly what he was doing, then there's more to the story.
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He was famous. You think that's why? Maybe. But how many police officers would have recognized
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him? I wouldn't even recognize him. I've seen him on Twitter a million times. I wouldn't
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recognize him. I mean, I can get a picture in my head, but if I saw him in a crowd, I doubt
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I'd recognize him. They might have. It's possible they did. All right. So here's my statement.
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Liz Cheney also said that no information was ever presented to her that would suggest he was part of
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the FBI or part of some undercover thing. So if Ray Epps was one of the people who didn't get
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arrested doing the same stuff, well, let me say it a different way. If some people did get arrested,
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let's say Brendan Straka, let's say that he got arrested for no good reason, then that's bad
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and that should be fixed. But would you agree with the following statement? There were plenty
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of people who didn't get arrested who were doing roughly what Ray Epps was doing, inciting and saying
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bad things, but they didn't hurt anybody and they didn't trespass, right? So if there were hundreds
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of people who didn't get arrested for doing what Ray Epps did, is it shocking that he didn't get arrested?
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Because I don't think law enforcement wanted to arrest hundreds of people. I think they wanted to get
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the, you know, the ones that make a point, you know, the ones who are like notable.
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You know, I'm not, so let me be clear, I'm not defending Epps because I don't know what he was up to.
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I'm just saying that Liz Cheney's answer wasn't that bad, right? If we're going to be a little bit
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objective, she did not see evidence of him working for the FBI. She didn't see it. And she asked.
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And he was one of maybe hundreds of people doing what Ray Epps was doing, who also didn't get
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arrested. Because probably you don't want to arrest people who are just standing there yelling.
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Right? So, so I'm going to accept your point. Let me provisionally accept your point that people
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were arrested for doing what Ray Epps was doing, which is just saying stuff and not trespassing.
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But would you agree with me that the vast majority of them were not arrested? Could you say that?
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Even if some were, the vast majority were not, were they?
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Do I believe her? That's a good question. I feel like I would, I feel like we would know
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if anybody had presented information that Ray Epps was undercover. I feel like that would
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have gotten out somehow. No, you? But you're right. So I take that correction, which is you
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can't believe what a politician says. So, okay, I'll give you that. All right. Well, let's leave
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that interesting question. But I think, could I, could I at least, let's see if I could sell
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this. How many of you would be willing if the Republicans, you know, dig into this and
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they, they satisfy themselves that they know everything about Ray Epps? Could you accept
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if the right people looked into it, that he wasn't doing anything except exactly what you
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saw? He was just one of the people there yelling stuff. Could you accept that if it turned out that
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was, that was what came out? I could, I could, I could actually easily accept it. I do, I agree
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with every one of you who says, this is fishy and we need to look into it, you know, and really
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satisfy ourselves. This is, this is one of those you can't sort of like let it go. I feel like we
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need to be like pit bulls on this. You know, the country needs to have like an answer they
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can trust. But if the answer is he's innocent, I'll apologize publicly because I've used his
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name in this context as well. So if he, so if Ray Epps deserves an apology, I'm ready to
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give him one, but not until maybe some Republicans dig into it. All right, let's talk about Musk
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and Twitter and all the fun stuff happening there. So Musk has already reinstated the Babylon Bee,
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no big surprise. Kathy Griffin, good decision. Jordan Peterson, good decision. And Andrew Tate,
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also a good decision. Now I have to say something about Andrew Tate. As you know,
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I don't like him personally just because we have some bad blood between us. But there's
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no denying he puts on a show. Right? So, so I'm going to model what I, what I like to tell
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you you should learn to do, which is say whatever's the best thing you can say about somebody you
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don't like or somebody you oppose. I, I don't like Andrew Tate. I don't like him at all. But
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that's just personal. If I'm being objective, he is an energy monster. And the more you try to attack
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him, the stronger he gets. He got canceled on every platform and got twice as strong.
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Okay. I'm not going to ignore that. You can't ignore the fact that he's one of the best energy
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monsters in the country. That's just a fact. He really is. I'm going to give him another compliment
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that'll sound like a backhand compliment because it probably is. I saw a woman who was no, no fan
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of his on Twitter tweet a picture of him where he wasn't wearing his aviator goggles. And she was
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mocking him for not being handsome, basically. And here's my compliment. Years ago, and I've told you
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this story probably a few times, I was, you know, self-deprecating about my own, you know,
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baldness and, and a bald guy told me, well, if you go to the gym and work out, you'll distract people
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from your baldness and they'll see that you're fit. And then that will be sort of their main idea when
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they, they leave you as a, wow, that's a fit person, not like a bald guy. And so I, I've taken
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that advice. I, I do whatever I can to distract, distract from my weak points or my head, you know,
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the, the, the ugly face area and try to change whatever I can change. So I try to improve my physique
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to distract. He does that better than I've ever seen anybody do it. Because if I'm being honest,
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you know, he's sort of in my category of not really good looking guys, right? If we're being honest,
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neither of us are good looking, but he does a great job of working on his body and his whole vibe.
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You know, he's got the cigar, he's got the, he's got the beard, the beard's sort of a concealment thing.
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He's got the, the glasses and, you know, the whole story and everything. It's really well done.
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Now, in terms of his philosophies, I don't know if anybody follows him enough to know where it all
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comes from. You can kind of see all the parts. Like you, you see a little bit from me, a little
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bit from Cernovich, maybe a little bit from Jordan Peterson, maybe, I'm not sure what mix or who else,
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but you can see where it all comes from. It's in, in some ways, it's a little bit ordinary,
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a little bit ordinary. I, I would say Jordan Peterson says new useful things you've never heard
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before. Cernovich says new useful things in ways you haven't heard before. I try to do the same
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thing. I'm not sure that Andrew Tate does that. I don't think he's adding to the intellectual
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conversation, but he packages it brilliantly. And, and here's what, persuasion-wise, he's very
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strong. So here's what he's actually pulled off that I have to, I have to give him like,
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you know, a sitting ovation for. He's basically selling a brand to men. He's, he's primarily a
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brand that men follow, right? And women get angry. Some women follow him, of course, but mostly he's
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appealing to a type of man who wants a, I don't know, maybe some kind of a role model, for example.
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But here's the thing he's pulled off. He's managed to convince men that following his example makes
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them alpha men. Now, I would argue that following his example makes you a beta man by definition.
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Like, if you're, if you're following yourself, and you're doing what you think is right, and you're
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just saying fuck everybody, you might be an alpha. Maybe, you might be. But if you're listening to
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Andrew Taint, tell you how to be a man, and then you're smoking cigars and drinking whiskey and
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looking at expensive cars like he is, I don't know that you're necessarily a alpha. I'm not even
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sure that alpha and beta make sense. Like, you know, maybe everybody's a little alpha and a little
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beta, depending on the situation, right? But while Andrew Taint himself does a great job of,
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you know, presenting himself as an alpha male, he pulls that off. How did he convince other men
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that following him and, you know, praising him makes them alpha males, when in fact, it does look
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exactly the opposite. But he's pulling it off. Like, he's, he's got over a half a million Twitter
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followers and gigantic video. So I have to say that for someone who has, you know, starting with a set
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of talents, he has maximized, he has maximized, you know, where his talent leads him, because he's got a
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good talent stack, too. So he's got, yeah, somebody says he's an FBI informant.
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That would be amazing. I don't think that's true, but it would be amazing. That would be the
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simulation giving us, you know, just what you wanted.
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They make affiliate money from selling his program. Is that true? He makes money that way?
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Anyway. Anyway, he is, he is a genuine, interesting character. And I'll, I will, I will give him
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legitimately skill. He is a very skilled guy. I'll give him that. I just don't like him personally.
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All right. So, uh, then Musk says, oh, I also think that if there's ever a nuclear holocaust,
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it's entirely possible the only survivor will be Andrew Tate.
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He might be, he, he just survived total cancellation by the entire planet, and he came back stronger.
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He, he might be the only survivor in a nuclear holocaust. Anyway.
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So, uh, Musk does a poll asking people if, uh, Trump should be reinstated.
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And what do you think of that? Could we be more entertained than Elon Musk buying Twitter
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and running a poll on Twitter to ask us if Trump should be reinstated?
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Uh, it doesn't get any better than this. This is like peak entertainment. Like, I, I just wake up and go,
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So, uh, the, uh, last I checked, and I'm sure it's changed, uh, it was 52% uh, wanted Trump reinstated.
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Uh, the best comment on this came from Kyle Becker, uh, who is a real strong follow. I've said it a number of times.
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If you don't follow Kyle Becker on Twitter, you're, you're missing, you're missing a good follow.
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All right, so go follow him. Uh, but he had this joke to, most of his stuff is news,
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but he, he entered my domain a little bit today by just doing a joke.
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And he did it so well, I'm going to compliment him on it.
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So, uh, commenting on the, the Trump poll, uh, Kyle Becker tweeted, uh,
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uh, Dems are going to need to stop the count so they can haul in some mail-in votes.
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And they followed up with, hold up, Maricopa just dropped another batch.
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Because I guess the, the vote, like, suddenly went anti-Trump for a moment.
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Uh, then I saw some other conversation in which, uh, Musk was responding,
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because he's real active today, yeah, on Twitter.
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And, uh, I, I took from the context of the comments plus his, his reaction,
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is that one of the things that Twitter might become is the ultimate polling place.
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Now, he didn't say that in direct language, but in context, I was sort of, like, picking up the vibe.
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Because, uh, right now Twitter does these, you know, totally unscientific little polls, right?
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I think they're still useful and fun, but they're unscientific.
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How hard would it be for Twitter to get a little more information about you voluntarily?
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And you could say, all right, I am this demographic.
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And then have you randomly selected on various questions and have Twitter push you a poll
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so you don't even have to be following somebody.
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You go, oh, I signed up for this because I, I volunteered to be one of the demographic people who could be polled.
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And, and, and, and, and, and, and Musk also noted that you would want the polls to be, um, separated by country, at the very least.
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Imagine having something close to an instant poll that actually had a lot closer to, you know, scientific validity.
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I don't know if you could get there with volunteers.
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I need somebody who's smarter than me to tell me if you could ever get a random sample, no matter how you, how hard you tried, if it's only Twitter users.
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I don't know if you can get there, but you might be able to, you might be able to get close, or at least close.
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If everything had an instant, like, valid poll?
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Well, AOC continues to flirt with Musk and, uh, answering the question of, uh, Trump being reinstated.
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Last time he was here, this platform was used to incite an insurrection.
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The vice president of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured.
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But I guess that's not enough for you to answer the question.
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I said, it's going to be hard to gaslight Musk into believing Republicans staged an insurrection without firearms.
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Only Democrats believe the entire hoax catalog, and then I published the entire hoax catalog, you know, my list of hoaxes.
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Don't you wonder what AOC does if and when she sees that?
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You know, I figure, you know, I don't know, since I'm a blue check, but it doesn't mean anything anymore.
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Do you think AOC would notice a comment for me?
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I notice, I notice all the blue check comments about me.
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You know, she'd probably get so much hate on her Twitter feed, she might not look at the comments.
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Anyway, what do you think her brain does when she sees the hoax list?
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Does she say, oh, those are not real, and just dismiss it as right-wing fuckery?
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Do you think she reads the items on all 16 items on the list?
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All right, but this gets us to the next fascinating fact.
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CBS News announced on Twitter that it might be taking a pause from using Twitter.
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CBS News has some uncertainty about the platform.
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And then in the related news, Musk asked, what should we do next on Twitter?
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What should Twitter do next from the head of Twitter?
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And then you see a bunch of people made suggestions, and he actually reacted to the suggestions.
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You know, somebody said, bring back Alex Jones.
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But the fact that he's actually looking at the suggestions in detail from anybody, anybody.
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He probably looked at 300 suggestions this morning.
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So I made mine to find out what is causing the automatic unfollows.
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I'm going to tie this all together in a minute.
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I've talked about this before, and we know it's been going on before and after he took over.
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So people are definitely, definitely automatically being unfollowed.
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I thought TikTok might have too many permissions and be messing with your Twitter.
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But very few people who have, who responded to my poll on Twitter, very few of them also had TikTok, but they were having this problem.
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So it's not just TikTok, if it's TikTok at all.
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It's the second time I've tweeted at him to find out what that's about.
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I feel like if he found out why the automatic unfollows are happening, he would find the darkest, naughtiest part of Twitter.
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It could be like a weird technical bug that under just the right condition, somebody gets unfollowed from you accidentally.
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You know, that would be exactly what a bug would do.
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You know, you could easily imagine that being a bug.
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But do you think that bug could go on so long without being caught?
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It would be like a five-year bug that's well understood.
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Find out what the unfollow business is all about.
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Because I think you probably are going to find the nest of bad behavior when you find that.
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So what do you think is going to happen to all of the fake news, gaslighting media when Twitter starts fact-checking them?
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Now, when I say fact-checking, I mean including relevant context, which they're starting to do.
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So it used to be that only the right got fact-checked.
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What's going to happen if they all get fact-checked?
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Sometimes they say things that sound like a little bit of political team play and just sort of a hyperbole team thing.
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They actually would not be able to survive as a news organization if anybody prominent fact-checked them.
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And here's the weirdest thing, because reality is just giving us so much entertainment.
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Do you know what news entity is most likely to survive that?
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Which news entity is most likely to survive fact-checking on Twitter?
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I love my Fox News, but they're not going to...
00:34:31.540
Yeah, because they actually are executing on their plan to be closer to actual news.
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So ESG is, you know, the environmental, social, and governance stuff that BlackRock and some other financial entities are trying to rank other companies to say how wholesome they are in terms of good for the country according to these three things.
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And now there's a competitor called Strive, or Strive Funds, all one word on Twitter anyway.
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So now the free market, now the free market has provided an alternative to ESG.
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So, don't you think ESG is just going to be crushed?
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Because, by definition, a non-ESG will have a wider palette of things to choose from.
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And if they're looking for profitability, it seems like they'd find it.
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So I remind you that FTX, that just went out of business, had a very high ESG rating.
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I tweeted yesterday something I thought would get, probably would have got me kicked off of Twitter in the old days.
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Like, you can just, you feel like you can say the truth.
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But you can say it without hesitation now on Twitter.
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I said, I'm not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature 100 years in advance won't have any trouble handling climate change.
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If we're clever enough to know what the temperature will be in 100 years, we're definitely clever enough to figure out how to survive climate change.
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Because one of those things is close to impossible.
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If we can do impossible, I think we can handle really, really hard.
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And I would recommend that as your holiday answer.
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So try that on your relatives, and then just walk away.
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You know, you'll be having a sip of your beverage.
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And you'll be with your family members, the cousins, you don't see that often, and the uncles and stuff.
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And they'll say, you know, climate change is going to kill us all.
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And you just sip your beverage and just take a sip and go.
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I think a species that can predict the sea level 100 years from now won't have much trouble handling climate change.
00:38:23.160
Geraldo is not pleased that Republicans getting control of the House are going to go launch investigations.
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He said, Republicans get control of the House, and the first they do is, no, not explore how to tame inflation or crime, et cetera.
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They launch an investigation of President and Hunter Biden.
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Boring, divisive, retro, unwanted, zero positive impact on the lives of Americans.
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To which I say, first of all, I love me some Geraldo.
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I love Geraldo because he's my role model of not being affected by embarrassment.
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That's a big part of his career success, is that that fucker has balls the size of Iowa.
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But here was my comment to him about all these investigations.
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It's not as if Republicans can pass any legislation.
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The public decided that we would tie them up and not let them make any more laws.
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So we voted ourselves a totally deadlocked Congress so that we would make them not do stuff anymore because they're doing too much.
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So we've got plenty of time because they don't have to worry about legislation.
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The Hunter Biden investigation is my top priority.
00:40:25.320
Now, when you say top priority, it doesn't mean it's the most important thing in the world because, you know, maybe that's defense or something else.
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But those other things are largely being dealt with.
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But the Hunter Biden thing, the laptop, nothing is happening.
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And I believe that the country really, really needs to know if those 50 intel professionals who said it was Russian disinformation, are they working on the side of the United States or not?
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To know if our intelligence agencies are working on the side of the United States, I would like to know that.
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You tell me there's something more important than that?
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So don't be gaslighted into thinking any of this is unimportant.
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Some of the other investigations might be gratuitous, you know, revengey.
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But the laptop thing and whatever Hunter was doing, we need to know that.
00:41:36.320
We're fighting a war in Ukraine and a sort of a war with China in a different way.
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And we don't know if our commander-in-chief is compromised.
00:41:48.060
The reason we did the Russia collusion investigations was that there was enough, it turned out fake evidence, but there was enough reason to say,
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I don't know if this is true, I think it's not true, but if there's any chance that a sitting president is colluding with Putin, we probably need to know that, right?
00:42:13.140
Now, it turns out the evidence was manufactured in bullshit.
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But I don't hate the fact that we looked into it.
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As it turns out, it was a huge waste of time, but probably had to do it.
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So, yeah, I'm pro-investigation of that one anyway.
00:42:32.040
I honestly think that's pretty close to the top of our national priorities.
00:42:38.140
I don't think it's revenge, and I don't think it's purely political.
00:42:42.120
It has those elements, but I don't think that's why you do it.
00:42:51.740
Apparently this FTX thing just continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.
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Now we learn the FTX didn't only fund Democrats.
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They were funding what they believed would be normal Republicans who were anti-Trump.
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which was associated with FTX and was part of the whole scam.
00:44:37.220
And she was the girlfriend, 20-year-old girlfriend of Sam Bankman.
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So Forbes does a major piece about the girlfriend of Sam Bankman.
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Apparently there's one person who's on the alt-right
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who is saying that the problems weren't so much her fault
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that some of the details of the story are wrong
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and that she might be getting blamed for something