Episode 2339 CWSA 12⧸31⧸23 Goodbye 2023, And Why Does 2024 Keep Trying To Make Me Love It？
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1 hour and 11 minutes
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143.06798
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about a new kind of diamond: lab-grown diamonds. Plus, a story about a baby named after a cartoon character, and why the name Delbert is no longer popular.
Transcript
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It's certainly the best thing you've seen all year long.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it's the best thing you're ever going to enjoy, period.
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And if you'd like to take it up to the next level to get ready for 2024, yeah, that's right.
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask.
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The thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip.
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Ah, I'm pretty sure that was the best sip of the year.
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Well, may I say something I will never say again?
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Well, I'm going to add to my list of accomplishments.
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And if you don't mind, I'd like to take a moment to brag.
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Sometimes, you know, you get into public life and you say to yourself,
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I wonder if I could make something better for somebody somewhere.
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If I could just make one person's life complete or just better,
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And it turns out, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, I have played my role.
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They were looking at the list of names, popular names for babies.
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It turns out that there's one name that used to be popular back in the 40s.
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But for some reason, and let's see if you can guess what that reason is,
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people might think it sounds a little bit too like Delbert.
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And people don't want to name their child after a hapless cartoon character.
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This is not the most fucked up story you've ever heard in your life.
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Millions of people put a vaccination into their body that they wish they hadn't.
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But the real problem was a shortage of diamonds.
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So do you know what happened when there was a shortage of diamonds?
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And apparently lab-grown diamonds have been a thing for a while, but they were not accepted.
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But now the lab-grown diamonds are certified as being identical to natural ones.
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In other words, in a lab setting, you basically couldn't tell the difference.
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So diamond companies have started feathering in, you know, more artificial diamonds, which are, of course, far less cost.
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They still have the normal ones, but they're, you know, a big substantial part of their business now is fake diamonds.
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They say that people getting married are actually requesting lab-grown diamonds because they're cheaper.
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Now, if you got married and you gave your fiancé a lab-grown diamond, is that a good omen?
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Isn't the whole point of a diamond to show off?
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Like, don't women get their diamond and they're like, ooh, look at me.
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He loves me so much that he paid, you know, two months of wages for my diamond.
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Two or three months of pay on your diamond, right?
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Well, what happens when you're showing your artificial lab-grown diamond around?
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I'd love to see an analysis in 20 years of the divorce rate of people who got real diamonds
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I have a feeling it's going to be a leading indicator.
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You know, they used to say that the number one indicator of divorce was the existence of contempt.
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But if you saw either partner show contempt, it was a guarantee of divorce, practically.
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It could be a sign that two people are well-adjusted, and that's a good sign.
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Well, here's something that doesn't surprise anybody.
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Would you like to hear the least surprising news of the day?
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Hawaii has one of the highest life expectancies in the country.
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Do you know what you won't find in Maui anyway?
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But imagine how your life would be, and your tension, and everything else,
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if the only change, the only change was no traffic.
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You could just sort of go anywhere you wanted easily.
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Of course, people are getting more sun because it's sunny all the time.
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Apparently, Hawaii has very low obesity levels and low smoking.
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And people do a lot of walking, and they have good health care.
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So it turns out that if you have a sun, low obesity, low smoking,
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you walk a lot, get outdoors, and you have good health care,
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I'm just adding the part about low stress and not much traffic.
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I have another theory that I'm going to add to it.
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I wouldn't put more than a 20% chance that this might be true.
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Yeah, Hawaii is sort of a barefoot kind of a place.
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You might have, you know, the sliders on or something,
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but you could have them on and off during the day.
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So what if it turns out that that grounding thing is real,
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where if you have your bare feet on the ground outdoors,
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or is it balances your electrical signals or something?
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But I'll tell you something I've been experimenting with.
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except I don't like taking my shoes off outdoors,
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because it's, you know, it's inconvenient to wash your feet,
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because nobody can tell me there's any electrical reason
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So I just go out of doors, and if there's like a, you know,
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a rock or something, I just lean on the rock for a few minutes.
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You just go out of doors and just lean on a rock.
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I swear to God, it feels like it's working in real time.
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But I can't get over the fact that I can feel it.
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In real time, I can feel some kind of healthy feeling come over me.
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If you could put your hand on a rock and feel better,
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Go out of doors and put your hand on a big rock.
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Mr. Beast is the biggest social media presence in the world.
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So he's a big deal on social media, if you didn't know.
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And he was being asked why he's not putting his videos on the X platform.
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He had a little interchange with Elon Musk on that.
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And the basic answer is that YouTube pays better.
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And that if X monetized his videos better, that he would do it.
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He says it costs him millions of dollars to make his videos, which I believe is true.
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And he doesn't want to just give it away and have people watch it on X and not watch it on YouTube where he's monetized.
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But the fun part of this is that apparently X is working on competing with YouTube.
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But the rumor is that X will have a more of a YouTube-like monetary sharing situation.
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At which point, I think a lot more people are going to put video there.
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Let's see if you're as surprised as I am by this.
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But Facebook suspended the libs of TikTok account for violating its community standards.
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Now, I don't know if you're as surprised as I am, but did you know?
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How many of you knew that Facebook is still a product?
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It's such a product that they can cancel people?
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Some of you were surprised at the cancellation.
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I'm just surprised that Facebook is still something that somebody uses.
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So we don't know what they were suspended for, probably the usual stuff.
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But the person who runs that account, Jaya Rejic, she said this.
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It probably will because the censorship game isn't sustainable in the long run and the younger
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Like, it's my generation that's supposed to be using it, right?
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And I'm going to quote somebody on the X platform, Jay Dugan.
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And Jay Dugan weighed in on this question and said, and I quote, Facebook is a good way
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to stay in touch with your misinformed friends and family.
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It is a way to stay, stay connected to your misinformed friends and family.
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What is the Venn diagram and or overlap between these two groups of people?
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The people who say, you know, vaccine should be required and you should wear your mask.
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The very pro-vaccine, COVID vaccine specifically, and pro-mask.
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How many of them are also the climate alarmists?
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And then somebody added, how many of them are the trans activists?
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And do you know what the group all have in common?
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They believe what they were told by the people on TV.
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If the people on TV said it was true and their teachers said it was true.
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I don't know what's stupider in almost 2024, believing your teacher or believing science.
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It really has been a mistake lately, hasn't it?
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There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when I would have mercilessly mocked people who disagreed with the consensus of science.
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20 years of seeing science being wrong about fucking everything.
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And I've told this story before, but putting it in context helps.
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Many years ago, when Bill Burt first started making me a lot of money, I thought to myself, you know what?
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I'd like to, you know, maybe give back to the world that's been so nice to me.
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So I thought, I'm going to do a business that primarily is to help the world.
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So I started a food company that would try to make the most nutritious food item, a burrito,
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that would be packed with all the right food to have a good balance of all the nutrients and minerals you'd need.
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So if you ate normally the rest of the day, or abnormally too, you can guarantee that that day you'd get everything you needed.
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And not from vitamins, but rather from like real good whole foods.
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You know, we had a variety of flavors, so you could get the one you wanted.
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Problem number one, it is impossible to get nutrition from food.
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Did I say it's difficult and you have to work really hard?
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Did you know that if you made a list of all the minerals and nutrients you're supposed to get during the day,
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and you said, I'm going to go get those from just food,
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but I'm getting organic food, vegetables, you know, maybe really lean pieces of meat.
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Like I'm getting food and get my vitamins and minerals.
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You know exactly what to eat to get the good stuff.
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And you eat a wheelbarrow full of it all day long.
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Now, what you will do is you'll nail several things.
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So, for example, getting enough vitamin C, not too hard.
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But if you eat a bunch of things that give you good vitamin C,
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your belly will be full before you got any of your other whatever.
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You actually cannot, under any circumstance, no matter how educated, no matter how rich,
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you cannot get even your minimum of vitamins and minerals from food.
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Because if you talk to your doctor, what's your doctor going to say?
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You just eat a good balanced diet and you'll be fine.
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Do you know that doctors don't know anything about nutrition?
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But they often don't have it as a lesson in their medical training.
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I've heard from a number of doctors that what they did not learn was nutrition.
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You went through doctor school without learning about, like, specifically classes on nutrition?
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Suppose tomorrow we started giving them the best science on nutrition.
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There's no such thing as science about nutrition.
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It's all driven by food companies or motivated somebody this or bad data or things that haven't been studied really.
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And the first thing I realized is you could not make a product that had all the vitamins and minerals you needed.
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Well, it turns out you would have to add so much supplements to get the mineral content.
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It would taste like you're sucking on a piece of rock.
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So then we thought, okay, is there any way to mask this taste?
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So, you know, it would still be healthy for you, but you couldn't detect it.
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It turns out you could do it by making it really spicy.
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But if you ate it with that level of spice, you would fart so hard that your socks would inflate.
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And you literally couldn't, you barely could, you couldn't be around people for the rest of the day.
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Let's say you could get a job inflating those Chinese spy balloons.
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You'd be like, oh, we have a job for you in China.
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If you could just stand over here, eat one of these dill burritos and inflate our balloon, we'd be much appreciated.
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Anyway, so in that process, I learned that everything that we thought was science, including that, you know, the food pyramid, it was all wrong.
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Now, that was my introduction to science being completely made up.
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As time went by, I became more alerted to noticing it.
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I learned that the most papers that are submitted to science, half of them don't pan out.
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And then I learned that peer review is basically nothing.
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Peer review just eliminates the people who didn't have any numbers to submit with their study.
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Peer review is just looking for the very top level, you know, does this look science-y or does it not look science-y?
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And beyond that, it's probably people who were your friends.
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It's your science buddy who you know is going to give you a good peer review.
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I mean, it's still better than the alternative, right?
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But it's been mostly bullshit for decades and continues to be.
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So if you were, let's say, on the side that kept buying everything that science told you, you would be in very bad shape.
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On the other hand, if you didn't believe anything that science told you, you'd be in very bad shape.
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So we're left to sort of our own devices to figure out what's real and what's not.
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And so in those cases, what do you do in the case where you can't trust the science?
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Well, if you're me, you make all your decisions with the assumption of bad data.
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So what would you do on climate if you had the assumption of bad data?
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You would try really hard to develop new forms of energy because you would do that anyway.
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So that doesn't matter what your data is about for climate change.
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You would still work as hard as you could to make fusion energy because it's better.
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Regardless, you might not do a lot for pulling CO2 out of the air.
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But on the other hand, if a startup wants to take a chance that that might be real and essential, why not?
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So you'd let the free market do that, even if you think it probably won't work.
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So I try to make my decisions on the assumption that I don't know.
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Likewise, with the vaccination, I said, I don't believe anything they say about the COVID virus itself.
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I also don't believe anything they say about the vaccination safety or effectiveness.
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If you don't know the danger of not getting it and you don't know the danger of getting it, how do you make your decision?
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Well, normally you would minimize any introduction of additional risk.
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But that one's tricky because the virus itself might have a risk if you're not vaccinated, more of a risk, they say.
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But it might be more of a risk to have a virus plus a vaccination.
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Now, you've got two things you're not so sure about.
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So here's how I make the decisions when, in the context of no believable data, here's how I make decisions.
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For climate change, you don't make gigantic big changes to your situation without being pretty sure you have to.
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So on climate change, I would be, let the free market work it out.
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I'm going to need a lot more information before I change society in general.
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So generally speaking, if you don't trust the data, don't make gigantic changes.
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Small changes, just in case the data is right, that would make sense.
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But a massive cultural change, if you're not sure, I'd hold on.
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On the vaccinations, I didn't like the risk of getting the original version, the dangerous version of COVID.
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I didn't like that risk, but I didn't know what it was.
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That's why I waited as long as possible and put it off.
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If I didn't get the vaccination, I couldn't travel internationally.
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So that was my deal breaker, or what did you call it?
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So making decisions in the context of really, really not trusting the data is a separate skill.
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The way people usually make decisions is they decide one of the data sets is right.
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So if you decided that the vaccination data one way or the other was right, I don't know how you did that.
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So I think believing the news is a big problem.
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And believing the news on science is an even bigger problem.
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And I would suggest that there's a certain type of person who is likely to believe the news and believe the science, and those people too much are in charge.
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I saw Jonathan Haidt, who's got a new book out, called The Anxious Generation.
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He's talking about what are the causes for why there's so many mental health problems in young people today.
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And they've got all this chaos and social problems and everything else.
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And apparently, if you look at all the science, you can determine that there are lots of things that could be.
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But anyway, according to Jonathan Haidt, if you look at each of those other potential causes, they don't hold up.
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So the statistical reality of those other things is they don't seem to be causal.
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But there is one thing that very, very much is right on point for causation.
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So smartphones probably are exactly as dangerous as you think.
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Suppose we reach a point where every single person is completely aware that it's causing major brain damage and destroying the lives of young people.
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You know how even if you tried to tell your team, oh, don't go to this site or don't use this app?
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It's a waste of time because they always have a way around it.
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I'll bet you that in maybe less than a year, your devices will all have AI as they're central to their operating system.
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Right now, the AI tends to be in an app, but what happens when the AI is central to the foundational operating system of every device, which is going to happen for sure.
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At that point, what can the parents do that they can't do now?
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We're probably a year away from a parent being able to say, hey, device, I'm going to give you to my teen, and I'm the one in charge.
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I own this device, and my orders for you are to watch every interaction and stop any interaction that is not child appropriate.
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Okay, we'll monitor all actions and internet traffic and prevent them from looking at bad material.
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Now, I don't need to describe to you what would be inappropriate for a teen, do I?
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I'm well informed about what would be bad for a teen.
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All right, let me know if there's anything I need to know.
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Isn't the whole smartphone problem about to get solved?
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Given that I believe it would be not trivially easy, but easy-ish, to completely censor all smart devices using AI.
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We're at a point where now it just will travel with the child,
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No, I don't think you could hack it if it's the operating system.
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If you tell me that the children can hack the operating system,
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I'm going to say they did a bad job in the operating system.
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You know, there's always the general rule that somebody can hack anything.
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And maybe the kids will find their own AI that gets around the other AI or something like that.
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But I've got a feeling that if you put AI on a kid's phone, you could really, really make a difference.
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But would Apple want to have anything that would cause children to use their phone less
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You don't want to do it if you're Apple, because if Android isn't doing it,
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every kid will ask for an Android from that day on, right?
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Apple and Android are going to have to, what's the word for this?
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I don't like interfering with the free market, but when it comes to kids, I do.
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That your device has to have some kind of AI monitoring for teens.
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But I don't see the competitors wanting to cripple themselves if the other one doesn't.
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And I don't think it's legal for Apple and Google to say, hey, let's do this at the same time.
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Anyway, I think AI is going to drastically change what we're doing to our children.
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Many of you saw the viral clips of Bill Maher in his Club Random talking to Seth MacFarlane on the situation of vaccinations.
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Now, a lot of people had a lot of comments about it, and I'm going to give you mine.
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Did Seth MacFarlane, who is relatively pro-vaccination, COVID vaccination, win?
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Or did Bill Maher, who wasn't anti-vaccination or anti-COVID vaccination, but rather thought they were overdone and mandatory?
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So even Bill Maher says, probably for the elderly and the obese, it probably gave them an advantage.
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So where they agree is it might have been better than bad for a certain class of people.
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But beyond that, Seth would be more pro-vaccination for COVID, at least in the past.
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And Bill would be, you know, hey, leave me alone.
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Now, they're both, I would say, well above average in intelligence, based on their work.
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There's no way that Seth is anything but smarter than average.
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And there's no way that Bill Maher is anything but smarter than average.
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They're not just a little bit smarter than average.
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Now, what do two people who seem to genuinely care, so they care about the issue because they
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both tweeted and talked about it, you know, in public.
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But, you know, it wasn't exactly a fair contest.
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When I say that Seth won the debate, I mean that if you were a viewer who didn't know anything
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on your own, oh, we got the 34-minute glitch again.
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34 minutes in, we get some kind of technical glitch.
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If you did not know anything on your own about the vaccinations and you just saw these two
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people talk, you probably would have backed MacFarlane because he made his points where
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I thought that neither of them were well-informed.
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In my opinion, neither of them were well-informed.
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So I had this weird situation of watching two people who were both, in my opinion, poorly
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informed on really basic stuff, like real basic, you know, just everybody should know
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It's definitely true that somebody is right and somebody is more wrong about the benefits
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And it's not because their argument is good, because their arguments are terrible.
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It's almost universally, almost universally terrible arguments.
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I'm just saying it's my take that it's just all terrible.
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Both sides who are sure of their opinion have decided that some of the data is bad, but there
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How the hell did you come to that conclusion, that there's some good data?
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Even if some of it is correct, you have no way of knowing.
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Even if there's some correct data on the pandemic and vaccination, even if there is, you don't
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There is no way for you personally to know what is correct.
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So almost all of you have made the decision that you're looking at the correct stuff.
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The other people somehow missed all the correct stuff, and they're looking at the wrong stuff.
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I see two groups that are looking at things they couldn't possibly know are true or not.
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Well, sometimes you can know what's not true, but you can't tell what's true.
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So when I made my decisions, I made it under the assumption that none of the data is reliable
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So when I said, I'm guessing, I wanted to make sure that later, if I said I got the right
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answer, let's say, hypothetically, I could find out if I guessed right, I didn't want
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So we're in kind of an absurdity situation there.
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And I use that as my example of why we're probably in the simulation.
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And I'm going to take this down to another detail.
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But let me take a basic fact about the pandemic and watch what happens in the comments.
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True or false, we now know, you know, because some time has gone by.
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We now know with certainty, true or false, that young, healthy athletes were dropping
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dead on the field at an alarming rate that could only be related to the vaccinations.
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That we know for sure at this point that athletes were dropping like flies because of
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If you're one of the people saying it's true, how do you explain all the people saying it's
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And if you say it's false, how do you explain all the people saying it's true?
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In both cases, the people who think it's true and the people who think it's not true,
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you latched onto some data and you decided that one of them was true.
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And what reason and knowledge did you bring to decide which ones are true?
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I'll tell you the best I can do, since I don't know what data is true.
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The best I can do is say, does the data match observation and anecdotal?
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I mean, there's a very few things you can actually have some confidence on.
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Do you believe, for those of you who said it's true, that the athletes were dropping like flies,
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for those of you who think it was true, do you think that that story would have gone away?
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It would be the most obvious, noticeable, biggest story in the world.
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If that were true, it's all we would be talking about.
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We wouldn't be talking about anything else if that were true.
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Is my standard that by now, if such a radical, incredible, horrible thing had been happening,
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But today, you don't think today we have a pretty good handle on whether that was real?
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But I'll tell you, I live in the world in which it never happened.
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I can tell you that the sources that almost all of you used were definitely just made up.
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So, the primary sources for that claim are like one website that was pretty well proven
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They listed people who were alive, people who died of other things.
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So, I live in the world where that never happened.
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But as you saw in the comments, there are a whole bunch of you who are right here.
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You think you're living in the same reality, right?
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If you said yes to that, I absolutely don't live in your reality.
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Is it possible that athletes did, in fact, drop like flies, and then the big pharma was
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But if you said to me, but are you ruling that out?
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And that, as big and amazing as that would be, in a horrible way, that somehow we didn't
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Have you seen the news that they're going to study?
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Somebody studied funeral homes, and they found all this blood clotting stuff that doesn't
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You know, it's like all their arteries all have all these clots.
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That they, that the, uh, all right, let's do it.
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Is it true or false that the autopsies are showing that there's all something clogging
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I'm going to use my same standard, and it goes like this.
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I'm going to make the decision the same way I made the decision about the dead athletes.
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Do you think that by now, that wouldn't be the biggest story in the world?
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If every coroner everywhere would have the same situation, right?
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Because the vaccines and the coronavirus were universal.
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Because apparently it's so noticeable you cannot notice it.
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Do you think you wouldn't know for sure by now, if every dead person had this problem?
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It's an educated guess based on the fact it would be the biggest story if it were true.
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Gateway Pundit is reporting that one of their investigators, Brian Lupo,
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he looked into the claim made by Georgia's Secretary of State, Raffzenberger, back in 2020,
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that they had done an audit using forensic techniques, as he says,
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Aren't you glad that the Secretary of State of Georgia,
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since there were some questions about that state's election,
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aren't you glad that they did those audits using forensic techniques
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And he went around to ask if he found the readout or the reports from the audit.
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Because you'd like to see it documented, wouldn't you?
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I don't want to love 2024, but, oh, God, it's looking good.
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Do you believe that this is true because it was in the Gateway Pundit
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and Brian Lupo could not find any evidence of the audits?
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I don't know if he meant every machine or if he meant a lot of machines.
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I don't know if that means every machine or just some.
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What do I always tell you about knowing something doesn't exist
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It doesn't mean it doesn't exist because there was one guy
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That's it's a strong indication that you should maybe ask more questions.
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So I'm not going to claim that anything has happened that will change
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It just feels like 2024 is going to reveal that the 2020 election was rigged.
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I feel like it's like the forces of the universe are all lining up like it
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But this is also me being hypnotized by the media, right?
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I am brainwashed by the sources I am looking at.
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Yes, I am not objective on this question because I want it to happen.
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It would be good for the country if, in fact, there was fraud and if, in fact,
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Now, the perfect situation is there was no fraud.
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But if there was, that would be the most entertaining.
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So don't be too influenced by seeing that I look like I'm certain about it.
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So the red-headed libertarian, you know her account on X, posted this.
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But she says, do you know anyone who actually supports Nikki Haley?
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And I responded to her that, and this is true, by the way, I know of one.
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I know of one Nikki Haley supporter who I can guarantee is a real human being.
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However, as I told the red-headed libertarian on my post, I do know one, but he is a Vivek curious,
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But he's getting kind of interested in this Vivek fellow who keeps saying some good stuff.
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The only one that I could come up with, the only one, told me the other day.
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It's like, hmm, this Vivek guy is kind of interesting.
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As you know, he's a well-connected, I guess, consultant type for the Democrats.
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And he's talking about the risk if Trump is taking off the ballot for the elections.
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He says, I have very, very strong reservations.
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May we take a moment to acknowledge that's too many uses of the word very.
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But he has very, very strong reservations about all of this, all of this meaning taking Trump
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He says, I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running,
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because tens of millions of people want to vote for him.
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He says, I think if you're going to beat Donald Trump, you're going to probably have to do it
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Now, when he says rip the country apart, rip the country apart.
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The reason I always recommend him, even if you disagree with his opinions, is that although
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he is an unabashed, Democrat, biased person, that's all transparent.
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Nobody listens to Axelrod and says, I wonder if you're trying to see it both ways or anything
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But what makes him interesting is he's not a crazy bastard.
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Like, I don't remember the last time Axelrod said something, it was just stupid or just
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But he's generally, he's like the sane, we lost the comments here on locals, so I'm going
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to call up my phone so I can see your comments here.
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Anyway, so Axelrod being concerned about the country being ripped apart, I feel like he's
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And he was basically warning his team, don't do this.
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You don't really have any idea how mad this is going to be.
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There are 80 million people who are heavily armed and they're not going to be happy.
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Meanwhile, over in the Red Sea, the Houthis have made 23 attacks on international shipping
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23 missiles and drones, I guess mostly missiles.
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We're just trying to shoot them out of the air when we can get them.
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Some shipping is being redirected around the Cape Horn.
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But weirdly, the experts are saying it's not going to have that much effect on your energy
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That you could take that as a shortcut away and, you know, what is it?
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Triple, probably triple the distance that they have to ship the energy.
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And the experts are saying it's not going to actually change your prices that much.
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It could be that if you have a tanker full of oil, you know, how much oil you use to get
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So I don't know what's going to happen there, but the United States is looking kind of weak.
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I like to think that we have a reason for not attacking.
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A good reason for not attacking the Hooties is we don't need yet another war.
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But I'm kind of surprised that the military-industrial complex hasn't made this a thing.
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So I think what's going to happen is if we wind down Ukraine, which looks like there's
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some potential for that happening in the coming months, then suddenly it's going to be a war
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in Yemen, and they're just going to crank it up.
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But we'll get back to you later, because we need to sell some weapons.
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There's a source talking to Axios about what Trump would do if he gets elected and who
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And the concern says a source, an anonymous source, called Axios.
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So what do we know about the rest of the story before I tell you?
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Because it came to Axios, and they don't tell you who it was.
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And there's an anonymous source in the Trump administration, and they're saying some negative
00:55:38.480
The anonymous source is saying something about Trump, and we don't know who it was who's
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In fact, when I put together my guide to how to interpret the news, which I haven't finished.
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I said the number one thing you should not trust is an anonymous source in the administration,
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Nothing is less reliable than an anonymous source.
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What they said was that this time, Trump might not try to get all these general deep
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state people in his administration who will thwart him, but rather, he's going to try to
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And maybe the key question will be if they believe the 2020 election was rigged.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was the basic job of presidents, putting their
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Because they're going to list specific, terrible people.
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I might have to take off my microphone for this.
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We're going to go full Blair Witch Project here.
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Tell you about the advisors that Trump might try to bring on.
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Let me tell you about what the anonymous source says could be the advisors.
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First name that is rumored who might come back.
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I guess I can't milk that bit any more than I already have.
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He's not going to be charged with some extra charges.
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You know, he obviously is convicted, but there's some extra charges they dropped.
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And some people are saying, like Paul Sperry, for example, what they wanted covered up, what
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Oh, so some people say that maybe they dropped these charges because what could come out in
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trial would be, this is Paul Sperry's idea, is how dirty FTX funds were laundered into
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the DNC through something called Mind the Gap, a Democrat dark money op, and how the whole
01:00:24.200
op was run by SBF's Sam Bankman-Fried's mom, a radical Democrat activist working under cover
01:00:33.660
Now, that's a hyperbolic description of what was happening.
01:00:50.860
It does sound suspiciously like that might be the reason that the charges were drawn.
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Now, it's also possible they didn't have the goods and they've charged them enough and
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But I think this other reason might be in the mix.
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Well, Trump is disagreeing with those who don't want to build a new FBI headquarters for
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So the idea was to move the FBI headquarters, I guess, out of D.C.
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And I know that people like Thomas Massey, and I think Vivek says this too, that maybe
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And I think Thomas Massey just says, you know, they don't need this big new building.
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But Trump is going the other direction, according to his truth post.
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Let me just say what he said and see if you feel the same, because people are having mixed
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So Trump says the FBI headquarters should not be moved to a faraway location, but should
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stay right where it is in a new and spectacular building.
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So he's in favor of them getting a new and spectacular building.
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In the best location in our now crime-ridden and filthy, dirty, graffiti-scarred capital,
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they should be involved in bringing back D.C., not running away from it, especially the
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An important part of my platform for the president is to bring back, restore, and rebuild
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Washington, D.C. into the crown jewel of our nation.
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The first thing I would say is that what you think of the FBI headquarters and the move
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is really more of a persuasion question than a financial question.
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You know, Vivek doesn't want to be wasting money on the FBI when he's reducing his size,
01:03:01.800
so you wouldn't need that big building if he becomes president.
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You know, that's why he's one of the crown jewels in the government, in my opinion, because
01:03:17.800
He just sort of goes where the argument goes instead of the party.
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You know, you can disagree, but it's a fair point, right?
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Now, what we don't know is would that new building give the FBI better capabilities?
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You know, maybe part of what they're doing is putting groups in the same place because
01:03:48.980
Maybe they're building a new lab because their old labs can't get the job right, right?
01:03:53.700
So there might be something in the argument we don't know about that probably is a stretch,
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Why would Trump, of all people, because of his history with the FBI, let's say, not being
01:04:12.280
totally on his side, why would he want to build them a new building, a spectacular new building?
01:04:37.360
Trump is rarely against a new real estate project.
01:04:45.980
If you spend your whole life building spectacular new buildings, and then somebody said, hey,
01:04:52.340
we'd like to build a spectacular new building while you're president, what the hell is he
01:05:01.260
So the first thing you should say is if you're a real estate developer, world-famous one, you're
01:05:09.140
not going to be too anti-big buildings, especially the spectacular ones.
01:05:14.640
So I think he's using it as more of a persuasion play to not only show that D.C. is crime-ridden,
01:05:22.420
which comes out of his point, but also I think he wants the FBI on his side.
01:05:31.580
I think Trump is playing a game where he says, if the FBI is not on my side, I can't
01:05:45.280
Now, compare that to Vivek, because I like Vivek.
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They don't need a big building if he's going to get rid of 80% of them.
01:06:08.300
So if Vivek has a solid reason that has nothing to do with real estate, nothing to do with
01:06:13.300
cost, it's just you don't need a new building if you don't have many people to put in.
01:06:20.400
So Vivek is consistent, has a reason, starts from first principles, explains it all the way
01:06:37.540
So he's not operating on that complete chain of logic, like Vivek does, where Vivek will
01:06:45.400
show you the assumptions, prove they're true, connect it all, and then, you know, you're
01:06:54.820
And I suspect what he's saying is, I can't read his mind, but I'm just going to guess.
01:07:01.680
About when he hears Vivek say he could cut 80% of the staff, he probably says to himself
01:07:09.020
That probably is pretty close to something that would work.
01:07:12.960
You know, maybe not 80%, but I'll bet you couldn't take a big piece out of it.
01:07:18.220
But I bet he's also saying that if you did that, you couldn't work with him.
01:07:24.200
You would basically lose the support of the FBI for your entire term.
01:07:31.380
Especially if the FBI might not be on your side to begin with.
01:07:38.020
So I think Trump may have learned from his first go-round that if you don't have the
01:07:43.460
intel people and the FBI on your side, you're just in trouble.
01:07:49.180
Because there's just too much lawfare, you know, too many decisions that could go either
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I don't think any of the people who have an opinion on this are crazy.
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Where you've got three separate opinions from three separate, very capable people.
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And they all show their work and they kind of make sense.
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Because you can easily agree with Trump on this, that even if you want to cut the budget
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I just kind of like that smart people have smart takes.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, today being a semi-holiday, free New Year's Eve situation,
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I will be doing a man cave live stream tonight for those subscribers on Locals.
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I'm tempted to do it at 9 o'clock California time, so it's midnight.
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I might just want to get it over with, do it earlier.
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In the meantime, I hope you appreciate that when the rest of the country is making no content
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And depending on what format you're using, you might not even see any commercials.
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Now, the man cave is my safe space, although it's not that safe.
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But tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning, after all the drinkers stayed up to midnight,
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will I be here in the morning at the usual time?
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And I will be the only live thing that isn't a stupid parade.
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And I will be the only host of a, uh, of a, let's say, entertainment product that does
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And remember, reality is a little bit things happening and a little bit things that you