Episode 2280 Scott Adams： CWSA 11⧸02⧸23 Reframing Your Problems So You Can Solve Them, And News
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1 hour and 5 minutes
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139.37978
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott talks about a new character, Gen Z, and why he would pay for a professional cuddler to cuddle with you for $150 an hour. Plus, he explains why he thinks Mr. Bezos should get an iPhone.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the show that you've been waiting for.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and if you'd like to take this experience,
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the hint of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called a simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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Well, I know a number of you who are streaming in.
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Well, I think I'll wait to make this announcement in a little bit.
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If you were a subscriber to the Dilbert Reborn comic, either on the Locals platform,
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scottadams.locals.com, or you could be subscribing on the X platform,
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you would know that I've introduced a new character called Jennifer.
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Jennifer is her first name. Her last name is Z, C-E-E.
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And she's dealing with all the discrimination that people have about the Gen Z workers.
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Also, I think I'm going to keep doing this, probably.
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I'm starting to publish the Dilbert comic only in digital form this year
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because I got cancelled and it sort of set me back a little bit.
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Next year, I'll look into making a paper version.
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But for now, if you wanted to gift somebody the daily comic,
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I would recommend that you sign up for the, if it's all you want is the comic,
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just sign up for the, I'd probably sign up on the X platform
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So for $3 times 12, you get the daily Dilbert Reborn that's new every day.
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But I'm also including one page a day of the Dilbert calendar.
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And the approach I'm taking is that it'll be the 10 years ago comic.
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So whatever is today's date, the 10 year ago matching comic will run on the calendar.
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And if you wanted to gift it, you could buy yourself a subscription
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and then just email it to your spouse or friend or whatever.
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If they want it in paper, they can print it out.
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And they would have two comics a day coming to them by email.
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Also, if you wanted to get a Dilbert mug, they're running out.
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If you need one for Christmas as a Christmas present,
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you better hurry because they're always limited production.
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And if you want one of those, you should go to the X platform
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and look for Erica at her X profile is Zia Erika.
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Did you know that there's a professional cuddler?
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And she will cuddle with you for $150 an hour, non-sexually, non-sexually cuddling.
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In case there's anybody who's too embarrassed to say, oh, I'm not such a loser.
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I wouldn't admit that I would pay for somebody to hug me.
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In terms of things that could make you healthy, the dollar per value, if you could afford it,
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But if you could afford it, I would definitely pay for that.
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I would pay for that service once or twice a week.
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So that's just so you'll feel less embarrassed if you decide you want to do it.
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Just say, well, you know, that cartoonist guy does it.
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Has the biggest or one of the biggest social media presences in the world.
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And part of why he's so famous is he does cool things.
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Now, he's super, super rich from his social media work.
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The pile is about, you know, I don't know, it's four inches tall or something.
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So the trick-or-treater comes up and he hands her a big pile of cash.
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It was actually amazing, amazing entertainment.
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Apparently he testified in this case about the property values of the Trump properties
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and whether they were inflated or deflated or whatever.
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And he gave this answer that should have been the only headline, that the entire story about
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the Trump people, you know, allegedly inflating or deflating their property taxes to get benefits.
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Don Jr. says, and I'm paraphrasing, my accountant does that.
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But apparently 90% of the public will learn for the first time that the executives don't
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really make too many accounting decisions on their own.
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They kind of hire big, expensive accounting firms to do that for them.
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Now, they might ask some questions, but they're not going to do something illegal because the
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The big accounting firm, they're not going to take your word for it if it's just crazy.
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They will say, we did not audit, you know, the data to see if the data is correct.
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We're just, you know, doing the math on it to pay your taxes.
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But if you told them something that was patently ridiculous, they're not going to just take
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So I would be amazed if Trump got in trouble for the valuation stuff.
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I think that just always comes down to there was some accountant who thought it was his
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Somebody in the accounting world made an estimate.
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You may know that there was some controversy about windmills off the East Coast killing whales.
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And I think 75 whales have died recently, washed up.
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And it was the same time as the big windmills went in.
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You know, the humming disorients them or something.
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So you may know that the same Erica I mentioned with the mugs had been advocating to end at least the new builds.
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So the Orsted Company, they abandoned the projects they had planned to build off the coast of New Jersey.
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Now, that doesn't help the ones that are already there, I guess.
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So the windmills that already exist are probably still going to kill whales.
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But at least there was enough pressure to stop a new project from killing more whales.
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A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, X is now a, quote, worthless platform some say is no longer safe for activists.
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It's a worthless platform that activists can't use?
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Twitter doesn't cause any violence because of the change of ownership.
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Is it because if you're an activist, you're not allowed to have an account?
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It's that Twitter has algorithms that suppress certain people if they don't like their opinions, right?
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Oh, no, it's not that because that's what Elon Musk got rid of.
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They can say anything they want, just like everybody else.
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Oh, could it be that community notes are attached to things that are obvious bullshit and that much of activism is just obvious bullshit?
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Could it be that now that the conservatives are now suppressed, that when somebody says something that's terrible bullshit, there's a lot more people saying that's terrible bullshit because they're not suppressed?
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Could it be that freedom of speech doesn't work if your idea is batshit fucking crazy?
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That whole freedom of speech is really fucking you up, isn't it?
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If you ever thought that ABC News was like a legitimate news entity, nope.
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They are just activists who are mad that they can't control the world.
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I would like to give you now the reframe of reframes.
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I'm going to give you a reframe that for some of you, I like to do this.
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It's like, you know, for some of you, this will be completely life altering.
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Anyway, I'm simply going to tell you something, just a few sentences.
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Therefore, some of you will completely change your life in a positive way.
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The usual reframe goes like this, and I think a lot of you are in this category.
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How many of you would say that's true of yourself?
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Instead of saying, I have trouble sleeping, say, I don't exercise enough.
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Now, I already told you about this one, but I'm going to extend it.
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My own experience is that when I exercise enough, I always sleep, and when I don't, I almost can't.
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No matter what else happened, doesn't matter if my day was good or bad or what tomorrow looks like, nothing.
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If you exercise enough, you're going to get enough sleep.
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If you get enough sleep, and I call this, by the way, you've heard of two-fers?
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Well, if you exercise in order to fix your sleep, that's two benefits.
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You've got to exercise because you had another reason to do it.
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Oh, I'm not exercising just to be handsome or good-looking or healthy.
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I'm also fixing my biggest problem is I can't get to sleep.
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If you're tired, your body will register hunger that's not a genuine hunger.
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It's just one of those feelings that have a crossover.
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Sometimes you think you're tired, but you're really thirsty because you're dehydrated.
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The thing you feel isn't necessarily the thing that's going on.
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Your sleep fixes your performance at work and, therefore, your potential in your career.
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Exercise, sleep, diet, mental health, relationships, work performance.
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So the next time you say you can't sleep, tell yourself, goddammit, I'm going to exercise tomorrow.
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I highly recommend doing at least lightweight training at every age.
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There's nothing stopping you from standing up and walking out the door and walking around the block,
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unless you live in a dangerous neighborhood like San Francisco.
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There's a painting that just sold at an auction in New York for $46.5 million.
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The top of the painting is yellow and the bottom is blue.
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I think it maybe is suggestive of the Ukraine flag or something.
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But has anybody ever heard of this guy, Mark Rothko?
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Do you think you could have made a painting that was just yellow at the top and blue at the bottom and that's it?
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Well, apparently Elon Musk said the other day, it might have been on Joe Rogan,
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a number of these very high-priced art things are tax evasion and money laundering.
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So you're telling me that Hunter Biden, after all that pressure for being the sketchy money guy,
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goes directly into the business that is the most obvious money laundering business in the history of the world.
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Now I ask again, have you seen a video of Hunter Biden making one of his paintings?
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And I'm not talking about the one where he's blowing paint through a straw.
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Because I do believe he can blow paint through a straw.
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But he also has paintings that look like they're a very high-level, skilled person who made them.
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Wouldn't you love to see about 10 minutes of Hunter Biden making a painting?
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Now, I don't think there's any law that would force him to show you that he paints them himself.
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I don't think you can force anybody to do that.
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It's one of the few crimes you can just do right in front of everybody.
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It's pretty good business to get into until they catch you, put you in jail.
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Does anybody think there's any chance that Hunter is just a legitimate artist selling paintings?
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But isn't it amazing that even though we know it's not real, it makes no difference in the real world.
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Here's a story that really tore me up this morning.
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So it turns out that Run DMC, which one was it?
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And that's the voice problem that made him so sad because he couldn't rap, because he had the same voice problem I used to have.
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It's the same one that RFK Jr. has, where the vocal cords clench.
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And he talks about how he tried to get treatment using Botox shots, but he passed out during the Botox shot.
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Now, if I've never described to you what the Botox into the vocal cords process looks like, I'm just going to say it's the scariest, thickest needle you've ever seen in your life, and it goes to the front of your throat.
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It penetrates the entire front to get to the back, because that's where your vocal cords are.
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The first needle is just to numb you so you don't scream when the second one goes in.
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Well, you'll feel a needle in your throat, poking around.
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It doesn't know exactly where to poke, because everybody's vocal cords are a little different.
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So there's a little bit of, you know, technique about it.
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When you get that shot, if it works, it only works for a few weeks, it sort of numbs your vocal cords so they have a hard time clenching.
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You talk sort of like you'd take gas from a balloon or something.
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So if you're a public performer, there isn't any really way you could be a rapper.
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You could be understood, but your voice would be like this forever.
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And that would only be good for a few weeks, if you're lucky.
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So you have to time it so when you get the new shot, it hasn't doubled the amount of Botox, because you got it too soon.
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So you never know quite how much poison you have in your vocal cords, because it's sort of a judgment, trial and error kind of thing.
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And each trial and error involves a giant needle through your neck.
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This is the scariest shit you've ever seen in your life, honestly.
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And after a few treatments of it, I think I did three, maybe, I said, no, thank you.
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I will live with my disability, and I'll try to figure out something else.
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Eventually, through my, let's say, tenaciousness, and the fact that I'm a...
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There's no way to say this other than to just say it directly.
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I'm a high-functioning individual in a modern society.
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So I was able to chase to ground a cure, which was very hard to find.
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Every time there was a suggestion of a cure, I would track it down, right?
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Do you know why I said, I will stop at nothing to fix this problem?
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The only reason I didn't is because other people depended on me.
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The quality of life was way below the line of being worth living.
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Every day you woke up was a bad day because you were like a ghost in the world.
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So apparently the rapper from Run DMC was suicidal, and he ended up with an addiction problem as well, and et cetera.
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Now, I think he still has the condition, as far as I know.
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Do you know why he didn't get the surgical cure?
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Well, why don't you take a Google search for spasmodic dysphonia, and then see what Google tells you are the treatments.
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It's going to tell you Botox, and also Botox, and also Botox.
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Do you think it will refer you to the surgeons who can cure it?
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After I got cured, and I realized that the reason other people were not being cured is that they simply didn't know there was a solution.
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So I did a fairly aggressive public relations thing.
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There was a big spread on me and People magazine, how I cured my voice problem.
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And, you know, I did other interviews, and I talked about it on social media.
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And I just wanted to create a base so that if anybody ever Googled spasmodic dysphonia, I would be the first person to come up.
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And then they would see my story, and then they would know there's a cure.
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Do you know where my story is now, after I got canceled?
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Because, you know, I'm not the only person who got it.
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In fact, the person who did my surgery sits on the board of directors of the Spasmodic Dysphonia Foundation, or whatever it's called, the organization, right?
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Remember, there are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have spasmodic dysphonia.
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We also know for sure that it causes you to have suicidal ideation.
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I've been in groups of spasmodic dysphonia people.
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They have some responsibilities, so they're hanging around.
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If you gave them a choice of, is this worth living, quite a few of them would say, you know, honestly, it's not.
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Now, how many people do you think didn't have anybody that they needed to support enough that it stopped them?
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Probably there are people who could have been cured by surgery who fucking killed themselves.
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Do you think the Google search is the way it is by accident?
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It just seems to me that when you fuck with the truth, people die.
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And this looks like a real clear example of somebody.
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But it looks like somebody fucked with the truth.
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Yeah, your algorithm can kill you if they hide the truth.
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Now, do you think that Run-DMC, even today, do you think he knows that there's a surgical cure?
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But anyway, you know how the Sphinx is kind of a mystery, how it got built,
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and it looks like it's been eroded by a wind or water or something.
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It turns out there's a new hypothesis that looks really strong.
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And I feel bad for the Egyptians, because let's say their reputation keeps going down.
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You remember when you thought the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids?
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Yeah, give those ancient Egyptians a little bit of credit.
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But, you know, there are lots of YouTube videos supposing something magical happened.
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But now the Sphinx, another big sort of Egyptian success story, I guess.
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They did a test, and they found out that the Sphinx can be formed, like 90% of its shape can be formed by the wind.
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If you have a desert where there's some hard parts, you know, something that's harder than something else, then if the wind is blowing past it, the sand will blow away, but the stiffer, hardened parts would remain behind.
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And they did test, and they found out that it often looks like a Sphinx.
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If you just have hard parts and soft parts and blow on them, they turn into a Sphinx.
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And by that I mean the body is just sort of a rounded rectangle.
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And sometimes there would be something that looks like a head, just because there might be a hardened thing that happened to be in that position.
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So the speculation is that the ancient Egyptians discovered it and said, hey, look at that thing.
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If you sort of squint at it, it looks like an animal, you know, on its haunches or whatever that is.
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Let's, like, put a nose on it and, you know, build it down a little bit and make it look like a lion.
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So it's possible that it was a natural, at least the interior of it was natural, and then they sort of coated it and carved it up a little bit and turned it into a Sphinx.
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Apparently there are some other examples of it around the world.
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Anyway, I don't know if that's true, but it's fun.
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Well, I guess Biden was giving a fundraiser talk and there was some crazed protester yelling at him.
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And then he made the following claims in public.
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He said he convinced Bibi, that would be Netanyahu to you, to call for a ceasefire, which apparently never happened.
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And he talked to Sisi, which I guess is the Egyptian leader, to convince him to open the door, which also never happened.
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I can't be sure they never talked or that he never said these things, but it's reported that he made two claims, which are, like, wildly important.
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Now, I don't know what the truth is there, but that's the allegation.
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Apparently, they sent Kamala Harris out in the aftermath of the October 7th slaughter in Israel.
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You know, the most worst terrorism, you know, really I've ever heard of.
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I've never heard of anything worse than that, honestly.
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So they send Kamala Harris down in that context to try to convince people to reduce their Islamophobia.
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So she thinks too much Islamophobia, and that's her message.
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She wants to get out the word that there's too much Islamophobia.
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How could she accidentally read the room that wrong?
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I mean, talk about the wrong reading of the room.
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I mean, if she had gone out and said, you know, we don't want any discrimination in any direction,
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and then called out anti-Jewish discrimination as well as anti-Islamic discrimination,
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We need a leader who goes out there and says, hey, stop hating each other for these reasons.
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But now, she decided to go full, got to counter this Islamophobia.
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Do you think there was any point where they said, all right, for sure we don't want her as our future president?
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What could we do today to reduce the chance she could ever be a president?
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Let's send her out right after October 7th to say there's too much Islamophobia.
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Not even going to mention, not even going to mention the anti-Semitism.
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We're going to send her out and see if she's dumb enough to go full, you know, countering anti,
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And we're just going to leave out the other part right after October 7th.
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It did guarantee that she'll never be president.
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So, well, do you think Kamala Harris has been a big move forward for black women or women?
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I feel like she's doing such a bad job that it's hard not to think she's a minority, you know, diversity hire.
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Like, she looks like the prototypical diversity hire mistake, you know, where you overcorrect it.
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It may be the most prominent diversity hire mistake of all time.
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I would argue that a lot of people would say Obama did a good job.
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How many people are saying that Kamala Harris is nailing it?
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There's no serious person who thinks she's doing a good job.
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So that's a step backwards for black people, black women, women, pretty much everybody.
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Now, women make up half or more of MBA classes.
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I guess since the 80s, women have been getting into college and graduating at higher rates than men.
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So women are doing great education-wise, thanks to tremendous effort on top of the MBA schools
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to make sure that white men don't get a fair shake in America.
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That the colleges are doing a great job increasing diversity, especially for women.
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Also, doing a great job of making this a shitty country for white men, reducing their chances of success.
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Here's a question that David Boxenhorn on the X platform asked.
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And I don't know if there is an answer to this.
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But if you've heard of anything like this, let me know.
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David asks, and he says, I've asked this twice on the X platform without getting an answer.
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Has any important Muslim religious leader, you know, keyword religious leader, condemned the Hamas attack as being un-Islamic?
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How are you going to fight Islamophobia if you don't have any important Muslim religious leaders condemning the Hamas attack as being un-Islamic?
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If the religious leaders think it's Islamic, then Islamophobia makes perfect sense.
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It would be crazy not to be Islamophobic if they don't condemn it.
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In fact, it's almost an invitation to be their enemy.
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Now, but, but let me just say, I would condemn Islamophobia in general.
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Like, I don't think there's any, there's no good reason to just hate somebody because of their religion.
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But if their religion includes some code that says it's okay to do what happened on October 7th,
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well, then I would say it's perfectly good to discriminate like crazy.
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Discrimination, bigotry has no place when it comes to, you know, hiring, renting a place, selling a home,
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having a personal relationship, who you marry, you know, where your kids go to school.
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Like all the normal things of society, no discrimination should be tolerated for these reasons.
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You know, race, religion, any of that stuff, gender.
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However, in the context of self-defense, you can do anything you want.
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And if that requires you to be Islamophobic to survive, go do that for self-defense.
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So, nobody's ever countered me on this point, that discrimination in normal civil society, completely unwelcome and destructive to the society.
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But, if you're trying to stay alive, discriminate all you want.
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You should discriminate as hard as you need to to stay alive, but no harder.
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If you're discriminating, you know, just for entertainment or whatever, that'd be crazy.
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But, for sure, if there's a group that has decided that your life is worthless, you should take that into consideration in your self-defense, keeping your family safe.
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Have you noticed that television is now unwatchable?
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So, obviously, you know that Israel is doing their best to frame this situation to get support.
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You know, of course, that the Palestinians and the supporters of Hamas are framing the situation, in a way, to get the most support.
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What that means, in the practical level, is that if you turn on the TV, somebody's going to be describing the vicious death of a baby.
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Because I need to understand, you know, how dire the situation is.
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So, my new thing is that the moment the propaganda comes on, and by the way, when I call it propaganda, that's not an insult.
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In the context of war, the propaganda is also a weapon.
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So, if they have a weapon they can use, use it.
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And short of a nuclear or, you know, maybe gas attack that's banned, all tools are on the table.
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So, when you watch the news, just be fully aware, it's not news during this war.
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You know, all the news of this area is just propaganda.
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But none of it is really an attempt to tell you what's going on in some balanced way.
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Now, that's why I told you early on, and I'll remind you, I'm not trying to be objective about the Israel-Gaza thing.
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And I'm taking sides because the October 7th thing was so beyond the pale of civilized behavior that it has to be addressed in the most aggressive way possible.
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Now, you might say, but Scott, what about the history of the region?
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There's no story you can tell about the bad things that happened.
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Maybe these people should have a right to return.
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You guys can care and kill each other over it, but I don't have to care.
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And what happened today, you know, this month, is something that civilization cannot, cannot let go unaddressed.
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So, when I say I'm backing Israel in their actions, that doesn't mean I back everything they do, you know, the way they do it, the specific way they do it.
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I'm just saying, in general, they have a full right to self-defense.
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I promise you that if Israel had done this attack on the Palestinians, I would be anti-Israel.
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Do you think I would have been okay if the Israelis had attacked the Gazans and ripped babies apart?
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And I'd be like, well, you know, if they had a good reason.
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There are some things that don't even, they're not even in the realm of politics.
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I would consider what Hamas did and what they've done to their people as mass brain damage.
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So, you have a population that are just brain damaged at this point, that their brains are not compatible with modern civilization.
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Because brain damage would be, you know, you can't function in the world as it exists, whereas other people can.
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So, I'm not in favor of the brain damaged people.
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I'm in favor of the people who are functioning people who did not, well, they suffered a terrible thing, and I don't want to see that happen anywhere again.
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But, as far as the question about, you know, the two-state solution and the blah, blah, blah about the Palestinians, it probably is terrible.
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There's nobody who had a better shot at success than Gaza.
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Because they had funding, they had a good location, and they had, if they had gone, you know, if they'd gone in any civilized direction,
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they would have the best trading partner in the world, in that part of the world,
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because they would have a, you know, connection to Israel if they had decided to go that direction.
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And, you know, you add the location, and the fact that they're right in a nice, good economic area,
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they could have easily been, you know, a paradise, very easily.
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Now, I do feel sympathy for the regular citizens who are not especially political, but, you know, get dragged into it.
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But, you know, I don't have a solution for that.
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If the coverage is just going to be more making you feel bad, just turn it off.
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Now, here's one of those situations where there's an obvious right answer, in my opinion.
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The Hamas leadership apparently is operating in the open, at least in Qatar.
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And here's how I think Israel should handle it.
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They should give the host country a reasonable deadline to turn the person over, just to be polite.
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But either way, they should make the host country completely understand that that person is going to be dead, and by a certain date.
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You could just say, after this date, if you've not handed him over to us, after this date, make sure you're not standing within a block of anywhere he is, because he's going to die.
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And then they would say, my God, that would be a war against Qatar if you did that, if you attacked him on our soil.
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And then Israel should say, yes, that's what it is.
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And then they should say, you will pay a huge price for this.
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You want to reframe it away from a negotiation and into a, how do you want him to die?
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If they imagine they're negotiating, you're in the wrong frame.
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They need to make Qatar know that in this case, this is not normal business.
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There's going to be a lot of exploding wherever he is after this date.
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You can either do it on your territory or ours.
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And I think just in general, the leaders need to have a little more skin in the game.
00:47:26.340
A judge has decided that the election was very rigged and the ballot box were stuffed.
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And they've got a video of people stuffing them, you know, obviously.
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And apparently, it was just so rigged that the judge was just, couldn't even believe it.
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Suppose there had been no video on those drop boxes.
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Suppose there had been no video and no witnesses.
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My understanding is that they were stealing ballots somehow and throwing away the ones they knew were against them
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How much of what happened in this small race could have happened in any race and also gotten away with it?
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It's hard to imagine that the Democrats are still sitting there thinking,
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well, it must have been a fair election because the courts didn't catch anybody.
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There are some things that are opinions, and there are some things that are so fucking stupid
00:48:59.640
If you think the election was fair because nobody got caught, you're a fucking idiot.
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Now, if I said, I know the elections were rigged, I'd be a fucking idiot, right?
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If I said, I know they're rigged, because I don't.
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But personally, I've not seen something that convinces me that somebody found something
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Because I think that no matter how much you suspect,
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no matter how much your anecdotal observations confirm it,
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We still live in a world where you've got to produce the goods.
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But if you're confident that the election was fair because nobody went to jail for rigging it,
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How could you live in the United States and see that every institution is corrupt
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I mean, you'd have to be super, super dumb to think that you know a national election is fair or not fair.
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Now, if they found proof it was rigged, then you might have something that you could be sure about.
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So being unsure is the correct, logical place to be.
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But if you were unsure but you had an opinion about the likelihood,
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The likelihood is that every institution is corrupt.
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The odds are any institution that's been around a while is corrupted by now
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because everything that can be corrupted gets corrupted eventually.
00:51:09.700
Remember the shooter Robert Card, the guy in Maine who killed a bunch of people?
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We still don't know what pharmaceutical drugs he may have been on, if any.
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Or do you think that big pharma is powerful enough to make sure that that's never in the news?
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I don't think it'll ever be in network news because they're all backed by big pharma.
00:51:36.800
But it might, you know, may come out in some internet platform.
00:51:46.020
You all know live streamer, Sticks, Hexenhammer666.
00:51:54.560
He's saying that YouTube is, you know, massively shadow banning him.
00:52:04.440
And I realized that one of the biggest benefits of the X platform
00:52:09.380
is it gives you a standard which you can compare to your other social media experiences.
00:52:18.660
So in my case, my YouTube channel has stayed basically flat no matter what.
00:52:26.140
There'll be a few bumps like when I got canceled.
00:52:28.140
But basically, then it goes right back to the same number.
00:52:31.080
In fact, I can tell you the number of viewers today.
00:52:38.140
I don't know the detail, but I will tell you the answer that when I turn it off, it'll be 6,600.
00:52:44.780
And I'll tell the locals people if I got it right.
00:52:47.440
And it's because the traffic doesn't seem to have any relationship to how well I'm doing or anything.
00:52:56.140
It just seems like it's flatlined and it has for years.
00:52:59.140
Likewise, my Instagram traffic or followers, pretty much just constant.
00:53:16.260
My number of subscribers, both on X and on the locals platform, doubled since last year.
00:53:29.420
Do you think my Instagram traffic is just completely natural?
00:53:38.880
Do you think my YouTube traffic is just natural?
00:53:43.980
So yesterday, I lost my monetization on Spotify.
00:53:49.000
Looks like it might be a technical problem or some other kind of problem, but they just eliminated my monetization.
00:53:55.640
So for podcasting, now, how many times have I had my monetization taken away?
00:54:07.580
It feels a lot like the Hamas strategy for trying to get Israel to leave.
00:54:13.580
You know, you just peck them to death with every little thing you can.
00:54:23.300
Do you think there are any left-leaning people who got demonetized on Spotify?
00:54:36.520
So, ladies and gentlemen, that is all I wanted to talk about today.
00:54:44.880
I don't talk about Israel's attack on Gaza because I don't believe any of it.
00:54:57.240
So there will be endless stories about what Israel did or did not do in Gaza.
00:55:07.440
I don't believe they'd necessarily killed one of the planners.
00:55:14.980
You know, for example, if they accidentally bombed the wrong place,
00:55:18.660
are they more likely to say, well, we're pretty sure there was a Hamas leader under there,
00:55:23.480
or are they likely to say, oh, shoot, we killed a bunch of civilians we didn't mean to kill?
00:55:34.700
So you would expect that both sides are shading the news to, you know, support their narrative,
00:55:43.320
and that there's nobody who knows what's happening who has an interest in telling you the truth.
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There's nobody who would have the information about what's really happening who also wants you to know it,
00:56:00.080
So, I'm kind of ignoring the stories about, you know, Israel increased their attack,
00:56:07.040
or they took out a leader, but some civilians died.
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And I would recommend you don't believe any of it either.
00:56:24.840
But there's nothing useful that you're going to learn by watching the news.
00:56:29.060
So, if Israel is doing its job right, and all indications are it's doing a good job for what it's trying to accomplish,
00:56:37.320
they would be completely managing the information flow by now.
00:56:41.240
They're probably turning off the power to make sure there aren't too many phones at work.
00:56:47.780
They can't get information out on their own, and then they can control the information universe.
00:56:54.120
So, part of the war is controlling the minds and the news.
00:57:00.740
And I'd say they're probably doing a good job of that.
00:57:07.260
Somebody, I saw Al Jazeera mentioned in the comments.
00:57:10.300
I think it was Peter Zayen who said that the best news source in general is Al Jazeera.
00:57:29.280
So, Al Jazeera seems to be an asset when it's something that they don't care about.
00:57:34.860
But the moment they care about it, it becomes useless, basically.
00:58:04.480
Is that one of those just generic insults because you don't have an opinion and your brain is broken?
00:58:15.480
You're not so dumb you can't figure out the left-right thing.
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But other times they'll act like they don't understand an easy point.
00:58:38.520
So Glenn here is pretending he doesn't understand a very simple concept.
00:58:45.640
Glenn, maybe it's just you not understanding something pretty simple.
00:58:50.260
PJ says that I only believe the news I want to believe even when it's from the same source.
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Did you miss everything I just said the last five minutes?
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And your interpretation of don't believe anything from anybody, your interpretation is that I believe in one side.
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But your take from it is, you just believe that one side.
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I think you don't know what the concept is or something.
01:00:04.300
I don't know if somebody told you that the only person who would suffer would be China if we stopped paying our debt.
01:00:11.160
You might need to improve your news sources if that's what somebody told you.
01:00:21.880
I saw a video of him on Oliver Stone's documentary about JFK.
01:00:34.500
And if you listen to RFK Jr.'s voice from what was probably, I don't know, a year or two ago,
01:00:41.280
and you compare it to today, it's really different.
01:00:44.280
So whatever procedure he had was different than the one I had.
01:00:47.320
But he had a procedure that improved it at least 30%, 40%.
01:01:07.140
They spell it differently, but I know what they mean.
01:01:10.300
What's the announcement you mentioned early in the broadcast?
01:01:39.240
Well, I'll give you my impression of myself talking.
01:01:56.240
Well, let's say if a flight attendant asked me for what beverage I wanted,
01:03:04.340
As soon as I asked you to tell me what I got wrong,
01:03:19.340
are the people who call other people narcissists.
01:03:43.720
I just want to make sure that was just a troll.
01:04:23.420
Boy, there's some broken people over here today.
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I'm going to look at the number of people who joined.