Episode 2719 CWSA 01⧸13⧸25
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 10 minutes
Words per Minute
152.27025
Summary
In this week's episode of The Weekly Standard, I talk about a bunch of things, including: - the latest in the Dilbert cartoon saga - a major scientific study on dopamine and serotonin and words - why you should not go to Ohio State University - an article about how grapes can cure erectile dysfunction - and much more!
Transcript
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so Dilbert will stay in his house and try to defend it
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there are a bunch of laboratory only tests that
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament I've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side
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good thing Claudia is with intact the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under
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one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time I made it to my tournament
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and lost in the first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply
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73 percent of his audience thinks that climate change was responsible for the la fires
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and 27 percent think it was government mismanagement
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how would you like to be a cnn viewer and be so confused that you think climate change caused the la fires
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meanwhile uh elon musk's is bringing cyber trucks to la that will be
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so that people in the areas can get wi-fi just by being near the
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telling people they'll have to wait a week for their delivery because he's going to use them for this
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that are just always the right tool for whatever the emergency is
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i know i beat this too much and you don't care because if you don't live in california
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but i think there are a few things to learn from it
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first of all there's a claim that three of the major fires started at the same time
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if they started at the same time you can eliminate homeless people as the cause
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if it started in three places completely not near each other
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most of the natural accidental coincidental things
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i would say if it's true and i don't have a confirmation of this just something on the internet
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if it's true that three of the major fires in la started at the same time in different places
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i would say that's at least an 80 chance it's terrorism
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if it's not terrorism i don't understand why it wouldn't be
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so it looks like it was in my in my opinion it looks like it was but that's not confirmed
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people said to me scott what we should do is the japanese water defense system
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sprinklers sprayers being used in a japanese context where the roofs of the building
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these japanese structures were uh traditional older structures that you're trying to keep
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they would never burn they would never build that today
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i don't think you know correct me if i'm wrong but
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i doubt they would build something with highly flammable roof even in japan today
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so that japanese water defense system is not applicable
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so you know the story and again we're still in sort of the fog of war so i don't know what to believe yet
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but but i'll tell you what's being reported just put a
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pin in it and tell yourself check back later probably some of it will be debunked but i don't know
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uh but uh jim hoft at the gateway pun is talking about that smelt fish
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that allegedly was uh part of the reason that california doesn't have
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reservoirs and enough water to do what it wants
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uh state resource places because it was bad for the fish
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and the the only cost of that was the entire economy of california
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now it might exist in some other places in small numbers
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so i'm having trouble believing that this is real
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and it cost them the entire state of california
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to use trump's word that's a little bit hyperbolic
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if i had to bet on something that we think is a fact today
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i think there's something about this one we don't know
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all right there's also the empty reservoir story
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but somehow the fire department was not aware it was empty
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schiff is one of what i call the designated liars
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so when the democrats need to tell a really big lie
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and everybody's going to find out it's a lie later