Episode 2132 Scott Adams： Tucker Is Back, CNN is Flailing, Depression Cure, NYC Now An Ashtray
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Summary
It's hard to breathe in New York City because of the smoke from the fires in Canada, but there's a new drug that could help cure your depression. And evolutionary biologists have discovered that the first humans started masturbating 40 million years ago.
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Turns out New York City and much of the northeast is under a thick veil of smoke from Canadian forest fires.
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I'll tell you, Canada is just becoming a troubled country, isn't it?
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You know, you think they're up there just minding their own business, sipping some Molson, wrestling with the mooses, the mice.
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Whatever they do up there, I don't really know.
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And we found the only way to make New York City less hospitable.
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So the good news is that it's sort of good news, bad situation.
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So the bad news is it's really hard to breathe in New York City.
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So if you're, you know, if you're going to do calling balls and strikes, you'd say the bad part is they can't breathe and it's giving them all asthma and headaches.
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On the plus side, you can't see the crime coming.
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I know that's not a lot because the crime will still come, but you don't see it as quickly, and I think that's an upgrade.
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Because you'll suffer less because you don't see it coming.
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So get out of New York City as soon as you can.
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There is, however, a hope for people who stay in New York City because researchers have found the reason that mushrooms and LSD work.
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They found the blah, blah, blah that binds to the blah, blah, blah.
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I don't want to get too technical here, but there's a thing that binds to a thing.
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And the way they found it is they looked at LSD as well as psilocybin because both of those are implicated in curing depression.
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They were trying to find out what's going on here.
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And it turns out that the thing that binds in the hallucinogens binds way better than the off-the-shelf stuff that is supposed to treat depression.
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So it does what the prescription drugs do, but 100 times better without negative consequences.
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Because you can just do your hallucinogens and then be done with it.
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But if you're on depression meds, you just take them all the time.
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So you've got the side effects forever, whereas if you do LSD or psilocybin, you've got an interesting trip, and then it's over.
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But they figured out how to isolate the part that helps you with your depression separate from the part that gets you in your trip.
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So that that might give them an avenue to commercialize it.
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Because the first thing that your drug company wants to do is take the fun out of your drugs, am I right?
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Now, the biggest story, I think, today, a lot of big stories, but none bigger than this.
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According to an article in The Guardian, evolutionary biologists, and this is important work.
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You know, sometimes you think science is not getting it done.
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Maybe their models are not all that accurate and stuff.
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But when they do good work like this, well, what I'll tell you about here, you have to give them some credit.
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So what the evolutionary biologists have done, according to The Guardian, they've traced back the origins of masturbations,
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Now, they think that it started 40 million years ago.
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Yeah, like, the first humans by tens of millions of years.
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So yeah, 40 million years ago, evolutionary biologists have determined,
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they've discovered the first masturbating monkeys.
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How do you think an evolutionary biologist can reach back in time 40 million years
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Does that sound like something that really happened in the actual real world?
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Did they really know which monkeys were beating off?
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I would call this another story where science is just making itself look ridiculous.
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Because, first of all, we don't really need to know which monkeys beat off first.
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I'm happy to know that evolution, after 40 million years, brought us to the point where Jeffrey Toobin can do it on Zoom.
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So, I mean, there's an interesting evolutionary story there.
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Was it terribly important why monkeys are masturbating?
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And then, after they got paid to figure out which monkeys are masturbating,
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40 billion years ago, let's say the monkeys were getting busy.
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Could you have a lower opinion of science right now?
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I mean, after we get through the pandemic, you're expecting some big wins for science.
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So far, the only win is they figured out how to cure your depression without you having a good time.
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We figured out how to cure your depression, but we've removed the part where you have a really good time while it happens.
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They took away the fun, and they kept the drug.
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And they figured out that monkeys were beating off 40 million years ago.
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How does that help you with your climate change?
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Well, speaking of masturbating monkeys, there's a story from CNN.
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Their CEO, Chris Lichterlite, or we never bothered to learn his name because we didn't think he'd stay.
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I never bothered to figure out how to pronounce his last name.
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Anyway, so I wondered if CNN would cover the story of their own problems.
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And the way they covered it was, this was unbelievable.
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Chris Lichterlite or Lichterlite or Lichterlite or whatever, the embattled chief executive and chairman of CNN.
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So they called their own CEO, embattled, whose brief one-year tenure at the network was stained by a series of severe missteps.
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And then the article links to the example of the biggest of all the missteps.
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The only successful thing that CNN did all year.
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Because the person who was most likely to be your next president of the United States was featured on their network.
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Because their job is to prevent him from being president.
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So he gets fired for being, probably for being an adult white guy.
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Instead it was mentioned that he had helped another adult white guy, Trump.
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Do you believe that he could be replaced by another adult white man?
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Do you think there's any chance that could happen at CNN?
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Their next hire will be based on race and gender.
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And if they don't pick a trans for that job, well, I call them haters.
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And I would say that would be a severe misstep.
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I'd like to see them walk the walk and talk the talk.
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They should do what they say and get themselves a properly diverse CEO.
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So I wonder if anything else is happening that would be relevant to give us context
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to this story about the struggling CNN whose best primetime shows get about 300,000 viewers.
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How would that compare to other things that we're seeing lately?
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Well, here's a story by, so Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was saying on a podcast with, I think,
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Jordan Peterson, that he thinks the 2024 election will be decided by podcasts.
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He thinks it will be podcasts, not network television.
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Now, did you hear anybody else say that, make that prediction?
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So, but it's not, I wouldn't say that's 100% of the story.
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I would say the story is you can use the podcasts to get enough traction that then the networks
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Because if you don't get to the networks, the old people will never know you exist.
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And if the old people don't know you exist, you're not getting elected.
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So the podcast might give you some life, and they might be able to test you out and get
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some good quotes and some viral videos and all that stuff, which is great.
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And, you know, when it comes out to the final two, they will be on TV.
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So I guess that takes care of itself when you get to the final two.
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But if you're running in the primaries, you're trying to make a dent, it's all podcasts.
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And I would say that's one of the best things that's happened to the country.
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You know, we like to focus on all the negative.
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I would say this year, you really see the maturity of the podcasting network.
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It's not just that the technology and the audience and everything is maturing.
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It's that the type of voices you get are completely different.
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You know, you're not going to see a Jordan Peterson on network news.
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There's a lot of voices that are now interesting and different and actually making an impact.
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Speaking of that, you may have heard that Tucker Carlson is back.
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He gets kicked off a show that was killing CNN by about 10 to 1 in viewership.
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He would have maybe 4 million when CNN would have less than 400,000.
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So the poor guy, poor, poor Tucker Carlson, has to take his show to Twitter.
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How many numbers, views did he get on his little, tiny little...
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Now, I don't know how many people watched the video, because somebody said that that number
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But 68 million impressions probably translates into the biggest audience for a news person
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I mean, it could be 6 million, but it would still be record-breaking.
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Well, he's got a technique that, I think Hannity does this a little bit, but Tucker perfected
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it, where you say a bunch of things that you know your audience agrees with, and they
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And then he gets to the thing that's not quite proven.
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You know, after you've been noddling along, yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true,
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And he gets to the last thing, and you're still nodding when he says it.
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And he did that with the, he starts with Nord Stream 2, and you're like, you know, Nord Stream
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2, it turns out that the Ukrainians and the Americans were behind the blowing it up.
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And his audience is like, yep, yep, we knew that.
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I mean, it wasn't official, but we knew that, absolutely, absolutely.
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Nord Stream 2, and Biden lied to the country about it, said they didn't know anything about
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And now you're like, and he says the Ukraine dam almost certainly was done by Ukraine, because
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And, you know, you don't really blow up a dam in your own territory.
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I mean, there's some speculation about maybe there's some advantage, but not really, right?
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So then Tucker goes from the Nord Stream thing, which is pretty much confirmed, to the dam
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thing, which is not confirmed, but you pretty much know it's true, right?
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So now you've gone from certainly true to almost probably true that Ukraine was behind it.
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And then after you're still nodding along, yep, yep, almost probably true.
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And the next thing you know, he's talking about the aliens being real and the whistleblower
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I still believe there are no aliens, but I'm not going to criticize Tucker for this, because
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he does what Joe Rogan does, and I call it recreational belief.
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It's different from actually believing something.
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So recreational belief would be, like when I see stories about the pyramids, and the story
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will be that the aliens built them, or the story is that there was an ancient civilization
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I don't know if any of that's true, but I like to believe it recreationally.
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So when Tucker talks about the aliens, it's either the biggest story in the history of
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human civilization, or it's just fun to believe it.
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And if you could just enjoy it for the fun of it, that's good.
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I mean, I'd really, really love to be wrong about it.
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Well, Mike Pence is in the race, and let me tell you all the interesting parts about that.
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Okay, there are no interesting parts about that.
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What he's offering you is, Trump's policy, but without the fun.
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I believe that Mike Pence would be in favor of taking the fun out of the hallucinogenics
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Yes, I'm going to give you Trump's policies, but with none of the interesting fun parts.
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The thing I hate about it, it's like a really good proposition.
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Like a really, really, really good offer that nobody's going to take.
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I have so much respect for Mike Pence, but it just doesn't translate into excitement.
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He's basically the guy who just makes the right decisions one time after another.
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And that doesn't get you to the presidency, I don't think.
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I'm sure I don't agree with him on everything, policy-wise.
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And I will add him to my list of people who would be perfectly acceptable presidents, left and right.
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We now have the best set of choices I've ever seen for interesting and capable young people.
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Now, Biden is the only person running that I think is incapable.
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Everybody else, they've got something to offer.
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Well, we like drama in our politics, so he's just not bringing that.
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There's a news story that's, I don't know what to think of it yet.
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So you know that Representative Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley are, after the FBI, saying that the FBI has a document, which apparently they've seen in person.
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And they would like that document to be, you know, entered into the record and made public, I think, I think made public, so that we can see it.
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And apparently it's an accusation about Biden taking a bribe.
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Now, the FBI does not want that available, but they did offer to show it to Comer and Grassley, so they've seen it.
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So they know it exists, and the FBI says it's part of an ongoing investigation, so they don't want to make it public.
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Because if it is an ongoing investigation, that means they will soon be able to determine if the accusation is valid or not.
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And wouldn't you rather only see accusations that have at least a little bit of checking out to make sure they're valid?
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Because otherwise you're just maligning somebody who doesn't have it coming.
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There must be lots of accusations that don't pan out.
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Because in terms of, you know, innocent until proven guilty, keeping this stuff out of the news until you've looked into it makes sense.
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On the other hand, it also seems like a transparent attempt to keep it out of the news because it would be bad for Biden.
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I don't think you should take out a president on a rumor or an allegation.
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On the other hand, every rumor and allegation about Trump became known.
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So at what point do we have a right to know the allegations?
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You know, you can make an argument that the public has a right to know, especially an allegation of that magnitude.
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But on the other hand, because we've got two hands, I think you should be innocent until proven guilty.
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And I don't think every accusation somebody makes should be public.
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I guess I'd have to see the document, but I don't know that we will.
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So the government can just keep this from you for whatever reason.
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Speaking of the FBI, Rasmussen did a poll on the FBI and found out its popularity here.
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Well, not popularity, but 60% of likely U.S. voters believe it is likely that top officials at the FBI
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helped cover up wrongdoing by Biden or his family members.
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60% of the FBI thinks the FBI was in on a plot.
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So that would include basically every Republican, but a slice of other people, too, independents and whatnot.
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Here's a story that didn't get a lot of attention, but apparently it's true.
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So at the same time that China's exports are down, I think, 7.5%, if you can believe any numbers on China.
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And American chip-making and basically the activity that predicts manufacturing booming is happening.
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So all of the investments in plants and manufacturing assets are happening.
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So at the moment, we're undergoing a manufacturing boom, and it does seem to be related to Biden policies.
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It does seem to be related to the chips, specifically the CHIPS Act that's trying to bring chips back to America.
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So I hate to say it, but it looks like the—well, no, I don't hate to say it.
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To me, it looked like a policy that probably just made sense.
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No, you're not willing to give him credit for that?
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But if it gets the job done, you're not going to give him credit.
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If it actually brings chip manufacturing back onto our shore, you're not going to say that's a clean win.
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You're going to be tough grading on this, aren't you?
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By the way, the reason you watch me is that I don't just take one side all the time.
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It'll block a naughty nude picture that's unsolicited.
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So if somebody sends you a picture, it'll block it until you choose to see it, I guess.
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So I'm wondering if this is the end of smartphones.
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I have this weird theory that 20% of all electronic traffic is dick pics.
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I mean, the total Internet traffic is just going to fall through the floor.
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And apparently they've changed it so that the autocorrect will no longer change the F word to the word duck.
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So the number of times I have typed this ducking thing or that ducking thing,
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except I didn't say ducking, and it changed it to ducking.
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It was one of the things I've hated the most about my phone.
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And the reason I hated it is not because it's an error or a bad user interface.
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I hated it because it felt like it was censoring me.
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It felt like somebody was telling me what I can and cannot say in my private conversations.
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That's the only autocorrect that I found offensive.
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I should tell you that I sold all my Apple stock because I don't know if they have an answer to AI yet.
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And I don't think the glasses thing is going to be big.
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What's your guess on the, what do you call it, the mixed reality headsets?
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I think it's going to be Apple Watch-like, you know, sort of a, maybe gamers will like it.
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I just don't see everybody in the family getting one.
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So you could, I knew that at some point we would see the loss of Steve Jobs.
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This is the one that stands out as something that I think Steve Jobs would not have done.
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Do you think Steve Jobs would have introduced this headset?
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It's possible because they were running out of ideas.
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I think if I were Jobs, here's what I would have done.
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I would have introduced it as an alternative to in-person school.
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I would have introduced it as an education tool and training tool only.
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And then every expert in the world would say, whoa, that's the best thing anybody ever did for education.
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They would have said it was the best thing that ever happened in education.
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Because you could watch your shows and watch, you could homeschool, you could learn training, you could move objects around.
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But by making it the everything thing that everybody might want, but for a whole bunch of different disparate reasons, I think the marketing just fell apart.
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I want one for miscellaneous and various reasons.
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I mean, I don't know, but I would imagine it doesn't really add much for porn.
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But I think Steve Jobs would have said, we've developed the greatest product ever for homeschooling and for corporate training and everything else.
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Then it would look like the biggest hit of all time.
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Is there anything else happening that I've missed?
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Well, how many of you believe that the aliens are not only visiting Earth, but the government has their ships and their dead bodies?
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I feel like I may have embarrassed you out of that belief.
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I actually thought it would be close to half yes.
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We do have yeses, but it's at least 80% no's, it looks like.
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Now, you know, I'm just going to jump around a few things.
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As I'm watching RFK Jr. navigate all the podcasts.
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The one thing that I feel deeply bad for him about is that he gets asked the same questions.
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And he has to give the same long explanations, which are excellent, by the way.
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If you haven't heard his long explanations of how we got where we are with Big Pharma, it's riveting.
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Like, it's really tight and complete and a good story.
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But I think he ends up telling that story on every podcast.
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Do you know how tired you get of telling your own story three times a day?
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I'll tell you, when I do a book tour, which, by the way, I'll be doing some kind of a podcast book tour over the summer,
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which we're there, so it's only maybe a month or two.
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But I'm going to be really tired of talking about myself after the first, you know, ten podcasts.
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You know, I'm just waiting for Trump to be asked about Chris Christie's possibilities.
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What do you think about Chris Christie becoming president?
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Remember you asked me about RFK Jr. wanting to, quote,
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execute people who were opposed to climate change.
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How many of you thought he was referring to just ordinary people who were opposed to climate change
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He was talking about people who were polluting in a way that was killing people
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while lying about, while creating disinformation so that they could get away with what they were doing.
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So he was talking about way over-the-top corporate behavior that killed people.
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Corporate behavior in which people lied intentionally to do dangerous things that actually killed people or damaged them.
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Now, in that case, if you say somebody should be killed or executed or go to jail
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because they intentionally did something that killed people, like lots of people,
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If it's intentional and it killed lots of people, it's not crazy to call for their execution.
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It's the same reason I'm calling for the execution of cartels.
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And anybody we can get in China who's involved, we should kill them all.
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I mean, if you can catch them, you've got to treat them in the harshest possible way,
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I would agree with the Democrats halfway about crime,
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which is too many people are being picked up by police and put in jail for too many things.
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Getting rid of police was exactly the wrong thing, because then just people stole more stuff.
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So I have a plan for decreasing crime without police.
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Instead of taking somebody's freedom away, let's say they shoplifted.
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And you don't really want to put them in jail, because that's just going to cause some cascade of problems later.
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And at the same time, if you don't want to put them in jail, they're just going to steal some more.
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So I would suggest that there might be a middle ground here in which you take away their privacy.
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If you're going to let a criminal in a jail, you fucking owe me that information, my government.
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If you're letting somebody who did, let's say, a violent crime, and you let them out of jail,
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and then they walk into my store, you fucking owe me the information that that guy that you let out of jail
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As soon as you're dangerous, you don't get privacy.
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Because I have a right to protect myself, and I have a right to that information.
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And maybe not a legal right, but a, let's say, a moral and ethical right.
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If a criminal is let out of jail because our justice system doesn't want to keep him in there,
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but he's legitimately a risk, either for shoplifting or physical risk,
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I need to know where that fucker is all the time.
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I don't know what I can do about it in these days.
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If they're dangerous, I want to know to get away.
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I want to know who to stay away from and who not to.
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So, I believe we have the technology to take somebody's privacy away.
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But I would just keep the ankle bracelet on there forever, as long as they keep doing crimes.
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So, imagine the criminal walking down the sidewalk, and the people with their smartphones all get an alert,
00:39:24.000
Or how about you know that there's a dangerous person somewhere,
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and so you keep an eye on them in case you need to help somebody out.
00:39:31.460
Let's say you're on the subway, and a person with a violent criminal record gets on.
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Well, you would know to put them in a headlock.
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If you're going to let them out, you owe the rest of us that information.
00:39:50.600
Not legally, not constitutionally, but you fucking owe us.
00:40:00.560
If they're going to let criminals out in jail, you better tell us.
00:40:03.540
All right, yeah, and I'm pretty adamant about that.
00:40:10.100
Now, I don't mean necessarily a first offender, right?
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I don't think a first offender for, let's say, shoplifting or something,
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I don't think a first offender needs to have, like, a privacy, you know, bracelet on their ankle.
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But if you're one of these rested 42 times a year people,
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yeah, you need a bracelet on your ankle so I can stay the hell away from you.
00:40:44.420
All right, yeah, it'd be sort of a scarlet letter, but it would be temporary.
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I mean, it would have to have some kind of time out.
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But women do seem to like men who are murderers and in prison for life, so it's a thing.
00:41:25.220
That was done to you in high school for smoking weed?
00:41:40.920
So if somebody gets picked up, then the parents don't let them come over for the sleepovers after that.
00:41:45.660
Oh, yeah, maybe that Apple mixed reality headset can help you see criminals.
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If the criminals are in kind of some system where their faces are known,
00:42:07.760
then the Apple mixed reality could actually light people up in a crowd to tell you who the criminals were.
00:42:13.440
I wonder if it could also tell you who's single.
00:42:19.720
Imagine going to an event, go to a bar or something,
00:42:23.240
and you put it on, and it just uses facial recognition to tell you who's single,
00:42:32.400
Of course, whether they wear a ring or not would tell you that as well.
00:42:56.280
Oh, the SPLC has labeled the Moms for Liberty as a hate group.
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I don't know enough about the Moms for Liberty to have an opinion on that,
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but I have an opinion on the SPLC, which is, I don't think they're a credible organization.
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If you get labeled by them, you're in bad shape.
00:43:58.440
Yeah, we don't want to cut off the hands of the thieves.
00:44:12.440
By the way, I'm very proud of that Twitter handle.
00:44:17.100
Because when I went to sign up for Twitter, of course, my own name was taken, etc.
00:44:24.580
And I thought, well, if I'm on here just saying stuff, I'll just put my name and then says.
00:44:33.320
Because when people quote me, they quote my Twitter handle as part of the sentence.
00:44:38.160
And as Scott Adams says, and then they say whatever I tweeted.
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And I've seen some people copy that, the says part.
00:44:48.880
Because there aren't that many things you can do after all the good stuff is taken.
00:45:14.420
Somebody said that Matt Walsh's video, what is a woman, got 180 million impressions, probably.
00:45:33.880
Meaning that their S-I-R-I is, it feels like something from the 90s.
00:45:41.420
And they have not announced anything that looks interesting to me there yet.
00:45:44.860
Aliens have a different frequency from us, okay?
00:46:08.780
You know, I used to use a Google alert to look for stories about myself, in case anything was important.
00:46:17.640
And, of course, there are too many people named Scott Adams, so it kicks up lots of stories about other people.
00:46:23.300
And I always look, I'm hoping that nobody with my name ruins, ruined my reputation.
00:46:28.900
Like, I would have hated it if there had been a Scott Adams who became like a serial killer, or did some heinous crime.
00:46:35.260
And then it turns out I was the one who ruined everyone.
00:46:43.600
It turns out having my name is a really bad deal.
00:46:50.980
I think it's hilarious that I'm the one who ruined the name.
00:47:18.240
Can't believe you would trust the government with people's privacy.
00:48:09.040
How would you like to be black Scott Adams now?
00:48:40.360
I once did a, what do you call it, the ancestor check, when you check your ancestry, and actually
00:48:54.600
And you look at the will, you know, the items that are being left to the next generation,
00:49:02.760
So here were the items left in one of my ancestors' will.
00:49:06.240
My good copper pot, that stick that I used to stir stuff, and a handkerchief.
00:49:29.560
That was the entirety of what my ancestor owned, was just some items that you could hold in
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And so, but apparently, starting with that nothing, thanks to slavery, I've prospered on the backs
00:50:02.040
I know that surprises you, but I actually thought about it.
00:50:20.400
Now, I wouldn't take, you know, I wouldn't take some unattended males, but if, you know,
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if it was a family of four, with a real mom and dad and two real kids, maybe.
00:50:42.080
It's unlikely, but it's not out of the question.
00:51:24.140
So the thing you don't understand about that culture, if you're not sort of deeply in it,
00:51:40.660
There's a lot of people coming in from other cultures who are just using that passing point.
00:51:46.400
But if you told me it would be an actual born in Central America or Mexico,
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Except for the fact that, you know, some laws are broken.
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And let's see if we find those aliens between now and then.