Episode 2725 CWSA 01⧸19⧸25
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Summary
This is the highlight of human civilization so far, in which case, it's the greatest show on the planet. It's a show about stupid people, stupid things, and stupid things that happen in the world, and it's probably the most important show of them all.
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization so far
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if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with
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their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup of mugger a glass of tanker chalice
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stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee
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and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes
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everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now
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delicious all right i'd like to start out with two corrections
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assassins uh these would both go into the category of man i'm stupid um so yesterday
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uh i confused the two assassins because they're both white guys with rifles who didn't get it done
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and i thought that the i'd forgotten for a moment that the first one was dead on the scene and it
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was only the second one who survived so no there was no way that trump could go talk to the guy in
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prison because he's pretty dead so that's the first correction the other the other one i can't
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believe i just found this out today that uh when i said that david axelrod was the attorney for cnn
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and jake tapper in their lawsuit i just assumed it was david axelrod the one who's on the show
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and they just figured oh you're you're an attorney i didn't know he was maybe he's not but it turns out
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it's a whole different david axelrod so david axelrod on tv
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on cnn is a different one from david axelrod the lawyer who defended them from the lawsuit
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now that's my fault of course but i just have to say there are too many david axelrods associated
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with cnn they just need fewer of them that would make everything better for us
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if you're not following dilbert which you can only see on subscription these days either on x
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subscribe on x under my account or on locals you would know that today's the day the fire
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reaches his house and dilbert is going to stay behind and try to save his house
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so i don't want to give you a spoiler but he might die
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and he might not you never know it's a comic i can kill him anytime i want
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well you'll be amazed to learn according to nutrients some publication called nutrients
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coffee intake makes males more sociable and women more attractive according to studies of mice
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are think each other is more attractive or i don't know but i don't care if it says coffee is good for you
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i'm all in um did you know and again this is a big surprise according to surrey live and samantha leathers
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um it turns out that exercise is good for your mental health huh huh just like every single day
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we hear another story study but here's the interesting part uh it's not it's not every kind of exercise is
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equally good but rather for uh for men it was better to do yoga and peong
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i'm sure i pronounced that right kee gong kee gong we gong
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you know that's where they the old people get in the park and go
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like that that was my that was my impression of kee gong i don't know if i'm pronouncing that
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that's a word i've read a million times but i've never heard a single person say it out loud
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anyway so it's better for men to do yoga and this kee gong stuff and for women it might be better to do
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strength training uh but jogging and walking are good for everybody um did we really need a study
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when you can kind of just look around and the people who exercise every day are clearly happier
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than the people who don't is that not screamingly obvious in your own life that if you see somebody
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who's like really fit because they exercise every day they're almost always in a reasonably good
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mental health now some of this is cause and effect being reversed if you're depressed it's pretty hard
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to work out impossible really if you have actual you know real mental depression getting out of bed
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it's almost impossible so some of it is the correlation is backwards but some of it is clearly causation
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you know if you've been exercising since you're a kid you're almost certainly to be better off
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mentally the tiktok ban has gone into action and the tiktok lovers are hoping that trump will save
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them when he's officially in power tomorrow um and i think he will but at least with a 90-day
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presidential extension i don't know if you knew this but the the ban has built into it that the
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sitting president whoever it is can extend it for 90 days extend uh extend the pause before the ban
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so he can put off the ban for 90 days which would be reversing it for 90 days and he can do that under
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the condition that there's some kind of deal or sale being worked on and it's not complete now it's not
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exactly true that anybody's maybe getting close to negotiating um a deal to buy it but there are two
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possibilities out there the perplexity app which is an ai app on a search engine it's the best thing ever
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i recommend it all the time uh jeff bezos is one of the backers of that and they've offered to somehow
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merge with tiktok but not take the algorithm so some think the algorithm is the expensive part
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and so they would pay less they'd build the algorithm themselves i don't know if that's going to happen
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but at least it would be enough for trump to say oh well somebody's noodling on a deal that's close
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enough so i'll i'll give them 90 days to see if they can do it but also kevin o'leary the shark tank star
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an entrepreneur he's working with some group of investors and billionaire frank mccourt and they
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put together a 20 billion dollar cash offer which i think tiktok has just rejected some people think
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it's worth 50 billion if you bought the algorithm with it um but here's the thing that's puzzling me
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senator paul rand who in my opinion is almost always right and well informed unlike his his some of his
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peers and but he said that the real reason to use his words the real reason for the tiktok ban was
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censorship is that what you think do we ban it for censorship meaning that oh man
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uh i just suddenly got really sick so i might have to cut this short if i got it short wow
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um but rand paul says that the real reason for the tiktok ban was censorship
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that's sort of true but it's not the big picture
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the sort of true part is that uh the israel the israel stuff um when tiktok turned more
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anti-israel than pro-israel some say that the you know israeli lobby kicked in and got the congress
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to ban it i think that's true as the trigger you know that's the the most you know that was like the
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final straw or something but it's not the big reason the big reason is you don't want china to have a
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button they can push to change america's minds and wow um apparently that has happened there was a study
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that showed that tiktok was pretty anti-israel in terms of the quantity of content one direction versus
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the other so i wonder if does rand paul not know that the real problem is the persuasion risk in the
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future it's not so much that there was one particular issue about israel and and the propaganda on that
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so i don't know what what is up with rand paul why doesn't he just say or does he not know is it
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possible he doesn't know that the real risk is future persuasion i just don't know and and why would
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you equate a free speech platform that could be manipulated by your adversary with a free speech
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platform that could be manipulated potentially by your own country how in the world does anybody think
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that's about the same let me give you an analogy would you hand a gun to your friend before you would
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hand a gun to your enemy which one makes sense to you it's it's the same gun wait wait why would you
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trade it differently people don't censor it it's the same thing it's the same exact thing a gun so why
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would you discriminate who you gave it to an enemy who wants to shoot you versus your friend who wants
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to protect you why is it different i don't see any difference to you i'm rand paul i don't see any
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difference uh well it's it's gone both times right i don't get it so what's up with that now to be fair
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when he says it's censorship he is probably talking about the specific you know israeli situation
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um but is he using censorship as influence and he didn't think that the influence should be cancelled
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i don't know um if it was organic then then it's a free speech issue so maybe that's the way to put
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it yeah if the thing that got cancelled for was actually just happening on its own and and china
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didn't push any buttons it was just a natural phenomena of what the tiktokers thought because
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they're a certain age and then below a certain age they're not as pro-israel so maybe it was organic
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if they stopped something that was organic that's just pure censorship if they stopped something
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that was because china had already pushed the button and we have no way to know
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well then we'd be stopping a weapon of mass destruction pretty different
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anyway it opens the question what would happen if ai starts saying bad things about israel
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we know what happens when tiktok does that's pretty clear but what happens when ai does well
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maybe we'll find out because it turns out there's a school that was using an ai emulation of anne frank
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to teach the kids about that situation except this is reported in the bite by joe wilkins he says
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um that because um that because ai likes to show both sides
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so you know the ai doesn't like to say somebody's right and somebody's wrong
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it seemed to be trained to avoid uh blaming the nazis for what happened
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and it tries to redirect the conversation into a more positive light yeah let's not be so divisive
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about this you know let's try to treat this one right down the middle
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all right well i'd assume that's not going to last very long but uh does it does it begs the question
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if we can you know get out of the get out of the israel nazi mode just in general
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news in general can ai ever be the one who tells you what's true
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i don't think it can because whoever makes it and owns it and benefits from it has an opinion
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and they're going to want to put their opinion in the ai because they're going to think it's a real
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one and all the other opinions don't count so now there's no way that ai is ever going to be
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able to tell you the truth that's not there's no way there's not any logical way it could ever
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do it it could know the truth that's a thing it could know the truth it can't possibly tell the
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truth over time anyway uh national security advisor jake sullivan was saying that it was
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his last time at the podium and then he dropped this little scary thing he goes i hope this is my
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last time at this podium because you know last day of the administration he says the only thing
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that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days wait what what the national
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security advisor the guy who has access to all the secret stuff top secret clearance knows exactly
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what the democrats are doing knows exactly what foreign countries may or may not be planning
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the only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days
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what um so it does sound scary it sounds scary like you know he's he knows of some plan to do
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something bad but the other the other possibility is that he did it before his last day if he said
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that before his actual last day in office then if there was some big event and trump had not been
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inaugurated yet presumably he would come back so i don't think he meant it as some kind of scary
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you know something's coming foreshadowing i think he just meant i'm not officially done with the job
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is that fair because he wasn't officially done with the job so if something big happened
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the next day or so he would in fact come back so that's my interpretation um i i it didn't turn
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into a bigger story so i think it's just a interpretation thing ontario the wait is over
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china was reacting to trump's election and it's not what you think how do you think the chinese citizens
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are reacting to trump's election well according to cnn and this this is part of the story it's cnn
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saying it that's almost bigger than the story itself watch this cnn did an extended segment
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in which the entire point of it was that the chinese public really likes trump uh and he's
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sort of a celebrity star over there they're making merchandise with his face on it in china they have
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merchandise and a lot of it is pro pro trump and um so he's got he even has positive nicknames
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so over there they have some kind of you know very positive nickname for him and they're all talking about
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him and and uh president she is sending the highest ranking person who's ever gone to an inauguration
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his vp and uh wow so cnn definitely seems to be trying to adjust and find that middle ground
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where they're not so just always anti-trump all the time more to that point jim acosta the
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correspondent slash host who is had been trump's biggest nemesis and one of the biggest liars on cnn
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um he got moved to the midnight hour so he went from 10 a.m where he was doing so well he was beating
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some of the prime time shows so there was nothing wrong with his uh his uh numbers relative to the other
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numbers um and so that seems like a pretty big trump win if cnn wants to move their most ridiculous guy
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to midnight where nobody will watch him and nobody's gonna watch him at midnight he's done as an influence
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um that's a pretty big deal but uh time magazines is handling it differently
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so time magazine has an article in which they're helpfully suggesting to democrats who are
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going to be very sad on inauguration day that maybe they should cope with it by forming crying groups
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so they can get together and cry together uh and also something about walking through the forest to
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make them i think they call the forest bathing or something where you just hang out in the forest
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for a while and try to get your mental health back anyway i have a better suggestion for time magazine
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instead of recommending that the losers go and cry or walk in the forest you know what would be really
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helpful why doesn't time magazine debunk the fine people hoax so all those people who are going to
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cry don't have to wouldn't it be better to remove the reason for the crying because the reason for the
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crying is the the fake news if the news had ever been honest about the fine people hoax or any of the
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other hoaxes people wouldn't be crying nobody would be crying over the reality they're only crying over this
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weird media created trump monster thing that not everybody has heard was fake
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so uh mark benioff who's the founder of salesforce force i believe owns time magazine now
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so i tagged him in my little comment on this saying that maybe they should just debunk the fine people hoax
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because you may have heard that yesterday the fine people hoax got another one
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so uh billionaire tech billionaire mark pinkus um i think he still lives in the bay area and he's
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been a lifelong democrat and was all in on the democrats but he was talking to chamath on the
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the all-in pod and he said he basically changed his mind on on trump and chamath stopped him and said
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what was the moment like what was the thing that made you change your mind after and he started he
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started talking generically but then he said okay there was one thing it was i read an article that
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debunked the fine people hoax and that was it and then and then it opened up his mind to all the other
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hoaxes and he could see it all now that's my my words not his but that's essentially what it was and
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and this is amazing so in may 2024 he said he read an article that talked about the and debunked the
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hoax now i'm really curious which article was it because because there have been lots of articles
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that you know i've been associated with you know joel pollack uh steve cortez i wonder if it was one of
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those it could have been anything could have been the daily wire or something but how often would
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a lifelong democrat read any press any that was just really identified with the right side of
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politics so i'd love to know what was it that broke through the bubble that he thought was worth reading
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as a lifelong democrat and then it actually just shattered his whole his whole story so remember
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i've been telling you that was the tentpole hoax that if you can just debunk that one all the
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us all the rest just fade and that's what happened so um more to that i was wondering do we have a
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pretty good list of all the people who have been converted by the finding people hoax i was trying
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to do it mentally but if somebody could pull that together i would love to see that as a post on x
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how many well-known people were converted by just that one thing the debunk of the finding people hoax
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because i think i think chamath said it himself so we got pinkis i think elon said it i thought
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joe rogan said it did zuckerberg say it i can't remember if zuckerberg said that but i feel like maybe that
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was part of it you know the assassination attempt seemed to be uh persuasive with him as well so if
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we could put together uh ideally it would be a a clip where you showed each of the people saying what
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it was oh the find people hoax and then you know one after another so you can see how powerful it was
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that's what i want to see um wall street journal is going further and saying not just that trump's
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kind of popular but he's turning the culture the entire culture is turning conservative do you see
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that yet it feels like it so you know once you get the uh the richest entrepreneur in the world musk
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you get the all-in pod guys you've probably noticed a number of comedians that i would call mainstream
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are now turning at least a little bit trump you know they're willing to say things that
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are positive about trump they got at least one cartoonist snoop dogg and carrie underwood are
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going to perform and that's a pretty strong signal and by the way carrie underwood oh my god do i
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have respect for that did you know snoop is a unique character there's nobody like snoop he's the only
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person who could do all these bad things and be popular with everybody now i don't know exactly
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his secret except that his charisma is apparently just off the charts there's something about him
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that allows him to break every rule kind of trump like um so so snoop went from making a video where
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he was assassinating trump to performing at his event and he's the perfect crossover person because
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when you see him do anything you say well is that something that only snoop could do because he lives
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in this weird world where respectable people like him i do if you ask me why i like snoop so much i don't
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know i don't know i i it would be hard to come up with a reason um maybe it's because he's unapologetic
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and he doesn't apologize for anything that's pretty popular maybe it's because he's just his own person
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and and he is you know unforgiving in his effort to just be who he wants to be we kind of like that
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i don't know there's something about it that just reaches people but uh also carry underwood that
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that's a that's a brave move i will always respect that um and i think people like winners and they
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like strength and uh there was a manliness kind of a male energy that had been missing from the country
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and i think we could feel it i think both men and women republicans and democrats could feel
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the just extraordinary lack of male energy but it's back it's back the male energy as i imagined
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couldn't be stopped it would be like putting the toothpaste back in the tube you know it could be
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somewhere well that's a bad analogy forget that analogy but anyway the new york times shows in polling
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that americans now overwhelmingly support geo positions gop positions on numerous trans
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issues so daily wires reporting this amanda presta giacomo wow what a nice name
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amanda presta giacomo that's just a great name i can't pronounce it but i feel like if i could it would
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sound extraordinary anyway um she's writing that uh according to a new york times ipsos
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survey uh 79 of americans i looked at myself in a recording i realized that i looked down too much
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you're just looking at the top of my head so i'm gonna lift up my notes so it's not as egregious
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richer than you think um 79 of americans believe males should not be able to participate in female
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sports even if the athlete identifies as transgender 79 79 are on the same page now
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obviously it's you know weighted toward conservatives but even even the democrats by majority um
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so yeah even 54 of uh democrats were against medication for minors so converting minors
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wasn't popular with the majority of democrats or republicans and look how far it got i mean everything
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was broken everything was just broken and the reason it was broken is because honesty wasn't allowed
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you just couldn't be honest about it without getting cancelled so honesty is making a comeback
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and that changes a lot and then 77 percent of respondents agreed that society has quote gone too far
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to accommodate trans people uh well only 21 percent say we haven't gone far enough 21 a little bit more
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and it'd be one quarter couldn't even get up to 25 percent you know i joke if you're new to me
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uh i always joke that 25 will get every poll question wrong like no matter how how easy the question is
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uh the poll question is uh is it better for the economy to be strong or for the economy to be weak 25
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weak weak what no this isn't really a question strong is the only right answer weak 25 it's just so
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consistent couldn't even get 25 to say that we haven't gone too far
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um mike johnson talks about uh biden not even recalling that he had uh he had paused some lng shipments
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and so first of all i'm a little angry at mike johnson for not telling us this until it didn't matter
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um it wasn't that long ago so maybe maybe it never mattered because trump had already been elected
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but um apparently biden insisted to johnson that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural
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gas export permits even though he just signed off on it now that tells you a lot doesn't it
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it means that biden certainly wasn't in charge and you know maybe there were specific topics where he
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his influence was bigger but when it came down to you know the the nuts and bolts of running the
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government he didn't even know what he was signing they didn't even tell him what he was signing or
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he couldn't remember it which is i guess equally bad yeah johnson should have said something before
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but i don't think it mattered but we would have felt better about johnson if he said it
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you know of course let me let me revise this if it didn't really make any difference because the
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election was over and it would just make heart make it hard for johnson to work on the transition
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well i probably wouldn't have said anything until i was sure the transition was working okay
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because it would have been creating a problem with biden that didn't need to be created because
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there was no benefit from it it was good that we found out eventually that part's good
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i'm gonna i'm gonna say mike johnson probably played it correctly because getting the transition
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right was at the moment more important than just one more piece of evidence that biden's brain was shot
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we already knew that but it was funny seeing a video from the time of this in which
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corinne john pierre the spokesperson was asked you know why does biden even care about this like what's
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what's behind this and she tried to explain it without knowing anything about the topic
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i was like uh uh well it's because the the importance of it uh to to the public on the to the uh
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to the uh to the to the to the way we the public and uh also the the very he cares about it he cares
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about it and the and it's because the importance uh is very important so the importance to the public
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and the importance of it is what and it was just hilarious she didn't even know what the issue was
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it was so who the hell was in charge anyway and so you put it all together and you can see that
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there's a complete collapse of the democrat party um and i i have a theory about what causes the
00:31:32.460
acceleration of the crash if you divide voters into two types there's the people who follow politics and
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maybe that's five percent and they kind of they would be influenced by seeing both sides of an issue
00:31:46.460
so mark pincus probably followed politics enough that he would read an article about the fine people
00:31:52.220
hoax and change his opinion based on new data that seems to be true for some of the tech leaders who
00:31:58.940
are who are leaning trump that they they did follow politics as they should you know it's part of their job
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and um so they they saw earlier that factually that they could make a change because the facts were
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now different than what they once understood but most people are not in that category so my my hypothesis is
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that for the vast number of people who vote but really couldn't answer any question about politics
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if you went to the average person and ask any question just any question about anything in politics
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and look what comes out of their mouth it doesn't matter if it's it doesn't matter who it is you
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just look what comes out of their mouth and you go uh do you follow the news at all you know that's
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what it feels like i think that that group the people with weak preferences or don't follow the news that
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much that for them their choice of candidate and choice of party is closer to a fashion accessory
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it's a way to support their brand so if you thought one side was the evil side and one side was the
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good and open-minded side and you thought you were good and open-minded you would back the good and
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open-minded side as you had been taught to but i think at this point biden and harris have so destroyed
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the brand i mean just absolutely destroyed it and there's nobody on deck it's not like everybody's
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waiting for pete buddha judge to step up there's absolutely no character in the democrat party
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none which anybody can say yeah there's my inspirational leader it it's interesting that
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hillary clinton was once that person but at least she had the first potentially the first female
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president thing going for so you know she had the sort of the uh the bill clinton glow you know so she had
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she had all the right people so even though she was a terrible character and she probably lost because
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she wasn't a good character but at least she had you know some something you could grasp onto if you're
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a woman in particular but now what would they grasp onto harris was the biggest incompetent we've seen
00:34:16.940
biden's brain wasn't there nobody's on deck what exactly are you gonna hitch your wagon to
00:34:22.060
nothing there's nothing there so people who want to brandish their brand are not going to look for
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the failed completely collapsed democrat party with unpopular views on everything
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there's no way you can just associate that your brand with it the only reason it worked before
00:34:43.020
is that the fake news that created such a bubble that you couldn't tell the difference between good and
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bad literally couldn't tell the difference so under that world you can say oh these are the good ones
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i want that associated with my brand but now when even snopes is debunking the find people hoax and
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you know we can see the total collapse of the traditional news specifically because it's fake
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then there's nothing to support the bubble anymore you know the podcasters broke the bubble
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bubble i think that's what it was i think the joe rogan elon musk vivek ramaswamy the communication
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skills of all these people just broke the bubble now now what do the republicans look like let's see
00:35:28.220
you've got trump who survived an assassination attempt attempt in the most remarkable way
00:35:35.180
people like to be associated with bravery and manliness and manliness which they missed
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um but also you have the smartest most successful people in the world taking sides with them
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or at least not resisting so now you know you're hearing good things from everybody from bill gates
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to uh bezos to uh elon kicking it off the all in pod guys i hate lumping them all together but it's
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faster to say that way um so now if you wanted to be associated with something where the most awesome
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people in the country are associated to me the most awesome people are the ones who are making the
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biggest difference positive and and they seem to be almost universally moving toward trump everybody
00:36:21.340
from jamie diamond saying hey hey those those tariffs are actually a good idea for negotiating it's really
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everything so everybody who's smart and capable and especially manly because that matters
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you know what no matter what you think of manliness it matters to politics so it has to be mentioned
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um trump has it all china loves him the public loves him you can wear a red hat now
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um and i think that means that what it looks like is a complete collapse on the democrat side
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but i think you're also going to see it in polls you know you're going to see that they're just not going
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to vote for the ridiculousness anymore or at least enough of them won't and here here's a
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just such a good example of the total collapse of the democrat party so i always talk about two
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movies on one screen you know how you can watch the same thing and come up with two different views
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as uh owen gregorian was saying on x yesterday it seems this 28th amendment story has formed into two
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movies against all odds because it's it's a pure factual statement that is super easy to check
00:37:32.300
does the 28th amendment exist or does it not exist in a in a confirmed approved way and the answer is
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it's not it's not confirmed and therefore it doesn't exist but because both biden and harris
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posted on x that in social media that it was real and that they're responsible for making it real
00:37:55.420
democrats think it's real republicans no it's not so of all things it's literally the easiest thing
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you can check is this part of the constitution or not one google search would be the same answer every
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time it's not even being it's not even being covered up by part of the news so it's not like msnbc is
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saying it's real even they're not saying it's real you i need a fact check on that but they're not
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saying that's real right uh and still and still it creates two movies half the country probably thinks
00:38:34.380
it's real um anyway democrat strategists are whining about the future of the party and one of my favorite
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was uh jamal simmons one of the democrats uh uh strategists and he said uh that their vibe is their
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vibe is off our vibe is off got to burn down our image see how he talked about image he didn't say we
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have to improve our policies he didn't say our policies need to be to match the american public
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he's completely aware that their policies don't match the majority of the public so instead of
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saying we need better policies he says we have to work on our image that's what i'm saying i'm saying
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that they they treat it like it's an image problem and it worked you know under under clinton it worked
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but you're going to need a real candidate if you don't have a candidate image is not going to get
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you anywhere because your policies are dead on arrival so the fact that they haven't figured
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that out yet is amazing but when i asked when you poll democrats about who they'd like to see run next
00:39:48.540
time and you include that let's see newsom and uh governor whitmer uh and then harris if she ran again
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uh the preference is none of the above even democrats don't want any of the three leading
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you know likely candidates to come anywhere near the presidency or at least to run for it because
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they know they won't win so that's pretty bad um even according to breitbart uh after the election
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there's been a crash in public tolerance for illegal immigration illegal migration so now just 10 percent
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of americans oppose trump deporting illegal migrants with criminal records according to a new york
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times poll only 10 percent oppose getting rid of the criminals again you couldn't even get 25
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to support keeping criminals because it's just stupid so the night the 10 who say yeah let's keep the
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violent criminals i mean that's those are not serious people they're not serious people
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anyway um and just uh 19 percent strongly opposed deporting all immigrants who are here illegally
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it's a complete victory trump took the hardest the hardest topic and just owns it now he won
00:41:16.620
uh even cnn showing a recent poll shows his approvals at 48 percent it's up from 39 percent just last
00:41:25.660
year days before taking office a new high highest approval while biden's the lowest approval everything's
00:41:32.540
going his way um even the washington post has suffered has decided to soften its coverage
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uh i guess both washington post and cnn decided they didn't want to do the over the top thing where
00:41:46.620
everything is negative trump no matter what is happening and it looks like they're going to cover it more
00:41:52.700
more both sides ish which i see has already started it's already begun i think is real but um because
00:42:00.540
for example washington post says trump already conquered dc and the tech leaders are flocking to him
00:42:06.140
now normally that story would turn into that's how he's going to steal your democracy right instead of
00:42:12.700
just saying a lot of tech leaders think he's on the right on the right path you'd be good for the
00:42:17.980
country that would be the story but normally you expect the washington post to flip it into
00:42:23.900
and and with the help of all these tech leaders that's how he's building his dictatorship to steal your
00:42:29.500
democracy but they left out that crazy part and just told the story and the
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story was yeah he's doing really well converting people to his side that's the story and so they're
00:42:42.780
just telling it but msnbc i i love their plucky loser approach i don't think there's a single smart
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person that works at that network in management or anywhere else but they're going to bring back
00:42:58.620
let me make a long list of all the things you shouldn't do if you're trying to stay in business
00:43:08.940
don't bring the person with the most obvious mental health problems on to be the only person
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who still thinks that the democrats are are heroes and trump is going to steal your democracy
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the ridiculousness of even planning to do this is so beyond any reasonable thing that a reasonable
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person would do it's just purely stupid but they're gonna do it um and i like i kind of like the fact
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that they think that rachel maddow who i think has been honest i think she's been honest about a lifetime
00:43:43.020
of you know mental health depression issues maybe some other stuff so uh i never like to be the person who
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criticizes somebody for mental illness because nobody picks mental illness right that's just something
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that's there so i tend i prefer to be non-judgmental but uh i don't know that the management has a mental
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illness shouldn't management be the one to decide maybe they shouldn't bring back the person with
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obvious mental health problems and some kind of a weird uh kicker to her mental health because of trump
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derangement syndrome how in the world does management think this is a good idea in what world anyway
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um i'm sure they think that behind closed doors like joe biden she's perfectly fine perfectly fine
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um the trump bump which all the media is hoping for because you know in his first administration the
00:44:46.220
news got more more audience so they've all been drained of their their followers for a while now
00:44:53.420
but there's some thought that uh maybe the traffic will go up but other people say yeah there will be
00:44:58.380
a trump bump but it might go mostly to the independence and fully starve the networks well i don't know what's
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true i can tell you it seems like the ratings for the major networks are all down and i can tell you
00:45:13.500
that my own traffic is up about 50 percent since trump since trump was looking like he would win up about 50
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yeah now i would guess that that's the same for any political oriented podcasts i'll bet you they're all up 50
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percent so yes uh i'm the canary in the coal mine uh so yeah the uh the corporate media
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doesn't seem to be what anybody trusts at this point just old people i guess uh you know i'm old and i
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don't even trust it well as you know trump launched a crypto coin and it went to the moon and it's worth
00:45:59.180
millions of dollars and some say trump's gonna sell it and make five billion dollars and others say it's
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a it's a crap coin and it's a scam and you know people should not be buying crypto unless it's bitcoin
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and everybody's got their opinion um let me say that my opinion on this is completely timing related
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if if trump had done this even just a few years ago i would have said oh that's a little too
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that's a little too scammy now he did do the uh the uh what is it when you buy the art
00:46:34.460
um it's got a word for it in the crypto world if you buy some digital crypto art that somehow they can
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tell you is exclusive uh he did that and i didn't mind that because that was just a fundraiser
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and i think people saw it as a fundraiser which had the extra element that well maybe you can make
00:46:51.980
some money but probably not just a fundraiser nfts thank you nfts so he's got some history and he's
00:46:59.580
pro crypto um now if this had been when we knew less about crypto and he launched this thing i would
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have said okay don't do that that that looks too scammy because people don't understand that they could
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lose money on crypto it's not like other things that could go to zero tomorrow bitcoin probably can't
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uh or at least not as easily but but a new issue it can go to the moon and then go to zero the next
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day there's nothing that would stop that so under normal conditions and maybe a few years ago i would
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have opposed this as a bad idea bad messaging bad look but i think everybody understands crypto
00:47:40.380
if they're going to buy something buying crypto is just just hard enough that if you didn't know
00:47:48.780
anything about crypto you'd probably prevent yourself from buying it because you don't want to look into
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it yeah it's not like you just go to your broker well you could but not this particular coin um so as
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long as people know exactly what they're buying and i think in some cases they're just gambling but they
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know it they're gambling but they know it and other times maybe it's just an expression of support for
00:48:11.820
the president which they know and maybe they treat it like a some of them might treat it like a donation
00:48:18.700
because if it pumps it up and then trump gets to sell his before you sell yours well your your money
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might go to zero his might go to five billion dollars and if you treat it as a donation you you think to
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yourself all right i don't mind that he gets some of his money back after you know being abused by the
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government for so many years probably lost a ton of money in his business just because of his politics
00:48:43.100
so i don't mind if he makes five million or five billion i guess five billion off the coin as long as
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everybody knew what they were doing and i think that's pretty close to true i think everybody knows
00:48:55.260
anyway there's a gaza ceasefire allegedly in effect and this would be the opening to allow hamas to
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release the uh i guess 33 hostages they promised to release i think that's there's going to be a whole
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bunch of problems with that i'm not sure hamas is organized enough that they can even just you know
00:49:20.300
say yes and all the all of a sudden all the the hostages are released that they were going to
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release i feel like they're all spread around and it's hard to communicate and maybe some of them are
00:49:33.020
dead that they didn't even know were dead and so i feel like it's not going to go smoothly the easiest
00:49:39.740
prediction in the world let's see it's gaza and israel have made an agreement will it go smoothly
00:49:48.220
or will there be some bumps yes the easiest prediction in the world it's not going to go
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smoothly and i don't know if there'll be any after this if it doesn't go smoothly so we'll see
00:50:01.020
what i'm what i'm interested about is i feel like reporting from that area kind of stopped
00:50:07.180
did you notice that if you ask me what is the israeli military doing in gaza
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let's say two weeks ago before this hostage deal started to solidify i would have said i don't know
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why did i stop seeing news about that yeah are they killing as many as they used to kill
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the the reporting which is not reliable is that 46 000 palestinians were killed
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now i say it's not real reliable because it won't be the same estimate that israel has and you and i can't
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tell the difference it's just people telling us what's true and we don't know so i wouldn't believe
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any war death claims except that i feel it's almost certainly in the tens of thousands but beyond that
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you know any kind of accuracy would be ridiculous
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so are they are they still is israel still making legitimate military progress of uh wrapping up
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the hamas fighters is it just every day they get a few more so they should just keep grinding until
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they're done or did they reach some kind of wall where the harder they fight they're not really getting
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any extra hamas fighters because they're all dug in better or something and and i also don't know
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how much of gaza how much of gaza is even left uh in the best case scenario you know when we talk
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about the fires in la we're talking about five years before anybody can maybe get back in the house
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are we talking about that in gaza that there's nothing left there's no electricity there's no water
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everything's polluted and toxic how could they ever resettle it and it's not like israel is going
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to be you know working as hard as they can to get it ready for resettlement by hamas and their
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supporters so i feel like there's no real hope that gaza turns back into anything like it used to be
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but to be fair israel said that from the beginning that they said when we're done gaza won't be anything
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that you're used to and i think we interpreted that exactly the way it's it's turning out so
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um i guess my only point is that we've hit some kind of a uh i don't know if it's because of lack
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of interest or lack of access but we just stopped getting really interested in what's happening on the
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ground there and that's weird anyway uh researchers according to louisa louisiana state university
00:52:39.340
um there are some researchers that found a way to recycle uh plastic um they use electromagnetic
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waves to melt the plastic from the inside out which requires far less energy so are they yeah so they
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could reuse it now it's a ways off but they can you know they can do it in lab and if it's way less
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energy it's way less expensive and so there might be a way to recycle your plastic you know i've thought
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for a long time that what i really want is a electromagnetic plastic melting technology
00:53:18.140
that would turn plastic into something that i could use in my 3d printer so i'd like to take all my
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plastic bottles and throw them in a bin and then at the end of the month push a button and the it just
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crushes them into basically ink for the printer but they would print goods so you'd make yourself a
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you know make yourself some i don't know you wouldn't want to do dishwasher dishware because
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maybe you don't want to eat off of plastic but you could probably find things you would use
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you know make some goods out of it sell them maybe who knows
00:53:54.140
all right ladies and gentlemen that's all i have for this sunday um the rumors about the inauguration
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appear to be fake so yesterday there were some rumors that even the indoor rotunda inauguration was
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going to be moved yet again for security reasons people speculated but i don't think that's true
00:54:18.460
i don't think that's true i think it's going to be in the rotunda and the the capital one stadium
00:54:28.060
that the the people the overflow people are going to be in is covered so people are going to be warm
00:54:35.660
and uh they're going to be with each other which is almost as important as being with trump and then
00:54:40.540
trump's going to show up at the stadium where everybody's warm and they've been partying and they're
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just dying to see him so i think trump's going to make this even better than it was i i don't think
00:54:51.580
he gave up anything i think packing him into the stadium and keeping them warm was the right answer
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in every way you know not just for safety but also for uh weather and keeping everybody safe and happy
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giving them a good memory of the event so to me that's all positive and uh we'll be we'll be paying
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attention especially for the security concerns i don't want to see anything like that
00:55:25.260
owen says so there's a rally today is there something happening today and then then another one tomorrow
00:55:34.860
what about the poor cia who wanted to kill him well allegedly we don't know that for sure
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uh i got a screen for micro drone the swarms well if they could get inside the building yeah
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so one of the things i worry about micro swarms
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is let's say you have a a door to a secure place and it's guarded well and they're searching everybody
00:56:06.860
so nobody can get in unless they're searched but the door is open it's just that it's guarded by people
00:56:13.980
how hard would it be for a drone swarm to just go right through an open door and just you know knock
00:56:21.100
the guards out of the way it feels like it'd be pretty easy you know maybe the first one just
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explodes and kills the guard but after that the swarm just goes right through the door or the window
00:56:31.980
so that's what i'd be worried about i don't think we're quite there but right on the edge of it
00:56:44.540
yeah of course they would also have drone anti-drone technology i suppose
00:56:58.860
uh so keith boykin goes on cnn and he says any black person who performs at trump inauguration
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dishonors black families he refused to rent to in the 1970s
00:57:13.980
now do you know that story do you know that there's no evidence he was aware of it
00:57:18.700
it's true that his staff was discriminating so the court found that the staff discriminated
00:57:24.780
it was never tied to him and the staff would absolutely have an incentive to discriminate
00:57:30.380
because they were you know they were well their incentives were that they thought they could do a
00:57:37.100
better job of filling the building if they discriminated now that was illegal
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but there's no evidence that trump ordered it um the black kids you want to execute the central park
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case that's fake news he never said he wanted to execute those black kids he said that the
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crime rate should bring should be a trigger to bring back the death penalty
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um but he wasn't talking about them and we don't know for sure that they were
00:58:04.140
innocent or not i'll presume they're innocent because they're americans but i don't think it was proven
00:58:11.980
and then the black haitian immigrants he lied about okay does anybody care about the
00:58:18.780
haitian immigrants forget about the race does anybody care about the haitian immigrants being
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offended because he said they'll they might eat your pets i i think the haitian immigrants have so
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different problems like i don't think it probably i'd be surprised if they're they even care
00:58:37.900
i mean it might be something that just didn't even affect them so i think this is just uh
00:58:44.940
you know a desperate attempt to not lose the black vote
00:58:49.980
oh i guess nelly is also so so snoop dogg and nelly are both performing okay
00:58:56.060
okay all right that's all i got for now so i'm going to talk to the locals people for a few minutes
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privately and then we'll see you all tomorrow same time same place locals coming at you privately