Episode 2317 CWSA 12⧸09⧸23 Fun Saturday News, Plus I Reframe Your Whole Life
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 6 minutes
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137.40573
Summary
In this week's show, we discuss the mysterious death of a man in a house that exploded, the growing trend of high-tech home robberies, and the growing problem of "de-China" in the world's largest economy.
Transcript
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me? Oh, okay. So I think the comments are maybe just late or something, but I'm going to go
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forward as if you're there. Anyway, so you got all these apps that will undress people. You just
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give them a photograph and it'll create a nude. Apparently, no big surprise. They're a really big
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thing now. But, so we're talking about the nudify apps. I'm going to say the same thing that I said
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that crashed it three times so far. You can see if I can crash it saying the same thing.
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For the third time in a row, make sure you wait until the end of the broadcast
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for a new reframe you haven't heard before that could change your life. See if it crashes. Okay,
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didn't crash that time. It took me three tries just to say that sentence. That's weird.
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Yes, we did the set. You missed it. So everybody coming in who says I'm late, it's actually just
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YouTube had a technical problem. I'm just going to skip this fucking first story because
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I've lost all of my momentum and my, you know, like the entire rhythm is gone.
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If you do this every day, you get kind of addicted to the opening rhythm, meaning I do.
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And if I get thrown out of the rhythm by a technical problem, it's hard to get it back,
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honestly. So you're just like swimming in the ocean. It's like, well, what do I do now?
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So let me go to the next story. You know, that story about that Arlington house that exploded
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and that James U guy was in there. And some people like me said, you know what? I think
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there's going to be a lot more to that story. Well, it turns out there's a lot more to that story.
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Now, I'm not going to get into the details because I don't know how much to believe.
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I mean, it could be all just garbage. I don't know. But apparently the individual, Mr. Yu,
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who was allegedly in the house and died in the house, had vast CIA connections. And he had
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something to do with underwater fiber optics across the ocean. And that maybe he was a CIA operative
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who was helping the CIA spy on the traffic under the water because he's a company, something like
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that. So there's nothing that I believe yet. I'm just telling you that when we said there might be
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something more, there's just a whole bunch more. It turns out it's the most suspicious looking death
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you've ever seen in your life. So we haven't heard the end of this.
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All right. House robberies are going crazy. Apparently there are these organized gangs of
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South American migrants who are looting homes. And I think it's related, but maybe not.
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There's now these high-tech robberies where they use some electronics to thwart your security.
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So there's a big boom in home robberies, upscale home robberies. Now, I feel like this is
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partly because there might be fewer stores to rob. Did we get to the point where all the retail
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stores are already robbed? So they're like, well, somebody got all the good stuff. We better start
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robbing homes. So I worry that this home robbery thing is not a blip, but rather the beginning
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of a very long-term trend that could be disturbing. I said on X, but people acted like they didn't
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believe me. I said that this gang hit my neighbor. My next-door neighbor had the organized gang
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of Central or South American robbers. And I know that I'm not making it up. I mean, we're
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all on a, my neighborhood's all organized. We're on an app. They had the security cameras,
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the local police said, oh yeah, this, they've been hitting people around here and it's an
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organized group. So it's a group of people who will kind of quickly come in, smash a back
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window usually, and just grab what they can and leave. It's usually multiple people from
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South America. And so they hit right there. I could literally take a baseball and throw
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it and hit the house that they robbed. That's how close it is. It's literally my next-door
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neighbor. Now, somehow they knew that they weren't home. I think they were away. How do they
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know that? You ever wonder about that? I suppose they ring the doorbell or something,
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right? Probably just ring the doorbell. If nobody answers, then they hit it.
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Anyway, so the de-China-fication continues. Has anybody coined that phrase yet? De-China-fication?
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I feel like that was, somebody needed to make that. Once it's a word, it'll happen more
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quickly. So that's what I call de-China-fication is getting our, getting our supply chain back from
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China and being able to make as much as we can without their bottlenecking. And apparently there's
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a, here's one I didn't see coming. There's a New Zealand startup that's turning forestry scraps,
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in other words, in other words, you know, wood and scraps into artificial graphite to make lithium
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batteries. Because apparently the, the materials, especially the graphite for making lithium batteries
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is, largely comes from China. So if we can make batteries from wood scraps, imagine that. Of course,
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we'll end up, you know, probably cutting down all of our old growth forest and maybe batteries, but
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we'll deal with that later. So that's kind of cool. Making batteries out of wood.
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This, I shouldn't laugh at this, but I laugh at stupidity. There's nothing funny about this next
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story. Except that I can't stop laughing at it. But it's not funny. Just to be clear, this is a very
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serious topic and not to be laughed at. But what percentage of people between 18 and 29
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believe that the Holocaust was exaggerated? What? Well, very good. Very good. You didn't even know
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the answer and you got the right answer. Yeah. 23%. A lot of you guessing 25, but I'm going to call
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that correct. Round it off. Yeah. About a quarter of the young people think the Holocaust was
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exaggerated or didn't exist at all. But the, an X user called Amuse, just like it sounds on X,
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said what this chart doesn't reveal is the racial disparity underlying these numbers. Because you
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know there's a racial disparity in absolutely everything. Did you know that? Yeah. When
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somebody says your, your ideas or your policy ideas are racist, you know what the right response
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to that is? Whatever it is, whether it's immigration or school or any other thing. And somebody says,
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hey, your policy preference is racist. You know what the correct, the correct answer to that
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is? They all are. They all are. Every policy. No, no exception. Now all the important ones,
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there might be some trivial ones that don't matter. But the important ones are going to affect your
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money, right? If you change the tax code in any way, does it have a racial outcome? Yes. 100% of the
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time and there's no way to avoid it. Because as long as humans don't have exactly the same financial
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situation across demographic groups, anything that, let's say, takes money from the rich and
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gives it to the poor is going to be racist. There's no way around it. So pretty much everything we do
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from immigration to everything that involves a budget, to healthcare, to war, there's no real
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exception. They all have a different racial outcome, and therefore are racist by definition. So I
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wouldn't deny it. I'd just say, well, it would be an example of something that didn't have a racial
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outcome. There's nothing. So anyway, but here's another one of those cases. Apparently among black survey respondents
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from between 18 and 29, 80% of them think the Holocaust is a myth. 80% of black Americans between 18 and 29,
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80% think the Holocaust is a myth. And as Amuse says, maybe this accounts for BLM support of Hamas.
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I don't know. I think that might be a stretch, but it's probably not unrelated. You know, I think you would find a perfect correlation
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between how much you know about the Holocaust and how supportive you are of Israel.
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I've often said that the Holocaust is Israel's greatest asset, which is sort of counterintuitive
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when you think about it. But if they did not have the Holocaust as something that's, you know, a real
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salient piece of history, do you think Israel would exist as a country? I don't think Israel would exist,
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would it? Except for the Holocaust. Would Israel have as much support as it has from America in particular
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if the Holocaust did not exist? And the answer is, I doubt it. I doubt it. It's a pretty underlying concept.
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So, as horrible and tragic as, obviously, the Holocaust was, the fact that the Israelis turned
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it into an asset is one of the most impressive pieces of work you'll ever see in your life.
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I often tell you this, people don't, you know, it's hard to know the difference between good news and
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bad news. Now, while the Holocaust was happening, of course, it's all bad news.
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But the fact that that could ever be turned into a gigantic national asset is really impressive.
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However, it should be said that the actions in Gaza are working against that narrative.
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And, you know, this is not my opinion. I'm just saying that the effect it'll have on other people's
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opinions is that it will weaken the narrative of the Holocaust. Would you agree with that?
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That what's happening in Gaza will substantially weaken the narrative? Not that the narrative isn't true.
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You know, the Holocaust is real. But, by the way, despite what the ADL tells you,
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the head of the, I'd just like to remind you this, that the head of the ADL
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accused me personally, me personally, of being a Holocaust denier on the X platform this year.
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That happened this year. That the head of the ADL accused me of being a Holocaust denier.
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I mean, I'm pretty sure I don't have to explain that I'm not one, right?
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There's nobody here who's going to argue that, oh yeah, you're a Holocaust denier.
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Like, literally nobody thinks. And that was said in public.
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Just think about that. That was said in public.
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Maybe. I'm not going to bother, but that's pretty bad. Anyway.
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So, yes, as we watch these narratives shrink and grow right in front of us, it's going to change things.
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This is Trump talking about the debates. All right.
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So, Trump had a very long post on the truth platform.
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And I'm not going to read it because it has political interest whatsoever.
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He is one of the best writers in American history.
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I don't know anybody else who says that but me.
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But you really, really have to appreciate the quality of the writing.
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Now, I don't mean that he spells every word correctly.
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I don't mean that every sentence has the right grammar.
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But I'm just going to read, it's a long paragraph here,
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And just listen to it for the writing quality, right?
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And then listen to it for the visual persuasion.
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So, what you're listening for is how he paints pictures with words.
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And watch how every word is in the right place, right?
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I thought Ron DeSanctimonious was terrible with his bobblehead facial movements.
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telling you they're terrible in the most visual way you could possibly.
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The hypnosis kicker is that one of them might be worse.
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Because if he makes you think which one is worse,
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If he just said, this one's a clown, this one's a clown, and moved on,
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But when he says, when he gets to, but Chris Christie was worse,
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All right, so is being sloppy worse than being a bobblehead walking on eggs?
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Well, if it was just sloppy versus bobblehead, that'd be about a tie.
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But if you add the eggs to the sloppy, but wait a minute,
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So the fact that he does that to your head in one sentence,
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He says, he's not fit mentally or physically to be president.
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Plus, he suffers from TDS or Trump derangement syndrome
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Again, if he tells you it's levels not seen before,
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In other words, he puts it in quote, a sick puppy.
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On top of it all, on top of it all, even on top of it is visual.
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In a class with Ada Hutchinson, he puts Ada in quotes.
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Because he jokes, he used to joke that Hutchinson was ADA,
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So you can't read past that without stopping, right?
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Like, you just have to stop and laugh at the fact
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oh, no, I guess he's still talking about Christie.
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And he's giving her the name, Birdbrain, I guess.
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Now, I don't know if you had this take on Nikki Haley,
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You know, like, I'm not an expert on that stuff.
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then people get to see the image the way they want.
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So, that would give them something to disagree with.
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Because whether you think she looked better or worse,
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that you don't get too specific with your suggestions.
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Well, Alex Jones has been reinstated to the X platform.
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I don't know when X or maybe Musk himself made the decision,
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but I feel like maybe the decision was out there
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But you remember that Alex Jones had two rounds of cancellation
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So here's just a little back story you didn't know about.
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by the other social media platforms, but not Twitter,
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And I think he was just looking for some opinions
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do you think Ellis Jones should be banned on Twitter?
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And I don't know if I had any weight in that decision,
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that's probably why he lasted as long as he did.