Episode 2852 CWSA 05⧸27⧸25
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Summary
Coffee, gold, and a giant fish farm in a giant boat. Plus, a new kind of coffee, and the latest craze in the stock market, and more. Guests: Scott Adams, writer and podcaster, host of Coffee with Scott Adams and co-host of the show "The simultaneous sip" (featuring Scott Adams) joins me to talk about it.
Transcript
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Let's open our comments and get you the show that you deserve.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand
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with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass,
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a tank or a chelsea, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the best part of your day, the simultaneous sip, and it's happening now.
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Well, let's see if there's any science about coffee.
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Some new research, according to SciPost and Eric Nolan, shows that decaf coffee can, it can, not always,
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but it can mimic caffeine's effect in habitual drinkers.
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In other words, if you have decaf, your body might register it a lot like caffeinated coffee.
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Now, do you know who knew that before the science?
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So Pavlov, I was training his dog, dogs, and I give them a treat after he rang the bell,
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and then eventually he could just ring the bell and they would salivate.
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Decaf is just ringing the bell without the actual caffeine as the payoff.
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I'm pretty sure any hypnotist would have known that not every time and not for every person,
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that it's not going to fix your caffeine headache if you haven't had real caffeine.
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But then every once in a while you can have decaf and it gives you the same little kick as if you had the real thing.
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And even if you know, it doesn't make any difference if you know that you're getting decaf.
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I have used this trick on myself many times where I would give myself decaf because I had too much caffeinated stuff that day.
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And sure enough, I would feel as though I was getting a little boost.
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According to the Washington Times, Trump is no longer interested, or at least he's not exhibiting interest,
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in going to Fort Knox to find out if the gold is still there.
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Do you remember when Elon Musk and Trump were both saying,
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hmm, maybe we should check to see if that gold is still in Fort Knox?
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Well, that interest seems to have waned because nobody cares about it anymore.
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And the reason given is that apparently it gets audited on some kind of a regular basis,
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To which I say, hmm, hmm, that's one possibility.
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One possibility is that they know for sure the gold is there.
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So if you want to keep your suspicions alive, go ahead.
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Well, over in China, they've developed a giant salmon farming ship
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so that they can raise salmon inside the ship, basically like a fish farm.
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And it's better than using a regular fish farm, which would be in one place,
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Or there's some other kind of problem that can destroy your fish.
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But if you put it in a big old ship, I guess you have access to all the water you need.
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Some say it's going to be crappy salmon because they would feed it substandard food.
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I mean, you know, the possibility is they can feed it good food,
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According to the University of Cologne, which I can smell from here,
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Parents are not happier but have a greater sense of meaning in life,
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If you've ever seen any parent trying to get their kids to school
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or get them to do their homework or get them to do anything,
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So yes, having children is not about having a bunch of laughs.
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Probably the most well-known and understood phenomenon in all the world.
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Anyway, the UAE is giving every single resident free chat GPT,
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And it's part of their push to be the high-tech sort of hub of the world.
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I wonder if any other country will follow that model.
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You may have heard the story about the open AI.
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One of their models allegedly disobeyed the human instructions
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Well, it did not surprise me to find out that there's a report today
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that that was not the regular chat GPT in a regular setting,
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So it was an artificial condition, safety testing.
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It wasn't something that could have happened in the real world.
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So probably that's not really something you need to worry about.
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And I don't see how it could possibly change its own code.
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Yeah, there was something about that story that sounded a little sketchy.
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Well, Kamala Harris was over in Australia giving a speech at a big event there,
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because she was in full word salad Kamala Harris mode.
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And honestly, I couldn't tell if she was drunk or stupid.
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She does look drunk and stupid, but is it possible she's just stupid?
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Because I'm giving her the benefit of a doubt that she's drunk.
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Every time you see her talk, you think to yourself, oh, my God.
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She was within striking distance of being the president of the United States.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners,
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I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Speaking of other losers, Mayor Karen Bass of L.A.
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She posted on X that homes are under construction throughout the Palisades, ahead of expectations.
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And then there was a little video from above of a house being built.
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And I said to myself, huh, this is kind of strange.
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If your claim was that houses, plural, are being built, don't you think that your evidence would be more than one house?
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If you were trying to say, yeah, a lot of houses are being built, wouldn't you show more than one?
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But there are some things happening and there are some action and there are some things moving in the right direction.
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But if you were to drive there, it might not look like anything's happening.
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Anyway, she says they've taken action to cut the red tape and expedite the permits.
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But she's going to get destroyed in the comments to that.
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Did you know that, according to the Daily Wire, the Treasury officials in the U.S. are doing a good job of choking off the cash flow to the cartels?
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So they're figuring out what money flowing through the U.S. is cartel money.
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And they're shutting it down and sanctioning it and making sure that individuals are not getting it.
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And I said to myself, wait a minute, are you telling me that we always had the ability to know what was the cartel's cash
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and it took until Trump's second administration to start shutting it down?
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It does seem to me like Trump is the first person who's taken anything serious about Mexico or the border.
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Just hold that in your head that the Treasury had the ability to identify the cartel's money flow and we were not messing with it.
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How in the world is that even possible, that we weren't doing anything about it until now?
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The only thing I can imagine is that we were complicit and something about the Trump administration has decided not to be complicit.
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Anyway, there's a story in the New York Times that is just full of anonymous sources.
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And I saw Greta Van Susteren was mocking them for their anonymous sources.
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But the story is that Trump is backing away from sanctions on Russia because he wants to do business deals with them,
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meaning America wants to do business deals with them.
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Anonymous sources, what have I taught you about anonymous sources?
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Anonymous sources have basically no news value because they're usually made up.
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So it doesn't matter if it's the New York Times, if it's full of anonymous sources.
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But it does seem that Germany, France, this is another related news of news.
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But it says that Germany, France and the UK and the US have given Ukraine the green light to fire missiles with no range cap.
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In other words, go ahead, Ukraine, and just start lighting up Russia itself.
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That means that Ukraine will be striking targets deep inside Russia.
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I don't know if it's true because it's not coming from a news source I've ever heard of.
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I mean, it feels, maybe it's a little too on the nose, but it feels like the only thing that Europe could come up with is,
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All right, if Moscow and Russia are cranking it up and they're not talking about peace, let's just start sending missiles into the heart of Russia.
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Well, a lot could go wrong, but it kind of makes sense that they might loosen up the distance cap.
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So I guess we'll have to watch and see if Russia gets lit up with these new missiles and if it makes any difference at all.
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Or does it make Russia just twice as aggressive?
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Do you think that there are two stories about Putin right now?
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One is that he felt under attack by NATO and that really he's acting in a semi-defensive way by making sure that NATO doesn't surround him
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and that Ukraine had always been the red line and we crossed the red line.
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The other version of Putin is that he plans to dominate all of Europe and this is just one more step in doing that.
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It can't be true that he's defensively attacking Ukraine, but he's also looking to roll over and control all of Europe.
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Well, that would make a difference, wouldn't it?
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So I guess the best take about anything about Ukraine is that we can't tell what's true.
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But we'll see if any missiles are going into the heart of Russia.
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Well, Jake Tapper was on Piers Morgan and he's still talking about his new book that talks about Joe Biden's mental decline.
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And apparently Jake Tapper has admitted that the Democrat cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline might be, it might be worse than Watergate.
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I guess in his book he said it wasn't worse than Watergate.
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But now he's willing to admit, yeah, it might be, might be worse than Watergate.
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And not only that, but the Democrats have done lots of things that are worse than Watergate.
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It's not like the first thing that's worse than Watergate.
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When I think of Watergate, it just seems so tame.
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Like, imagine if the worst thing that was happening in the United States was Watergate.
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If that were the worst thing happening, I'd be pretty darn happy.
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Here's something I want to add to the whole Biden brain cover-up.
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Now, most of you are probably into the opinion that everybody in the news business
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were completely aware that Biden's brain wasn't working,
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but they were just pretending they didn't know.
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I don't think that's totally true, and here's why.
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Have you ever seen the psychology experiments where they'll have a bunch of,
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a small group of people, and they'll be asked to look at something and say,
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let's say, what line is longer than another line, or just some basic factual thing.
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And only one person will be an actual subject of the experiment,
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and all the rest will be participants who know that they're participants and they're lying.
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And what happens is, you can somewhat easily make the person who is the real subject believe whatever the other people all believe is true.
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So, it's so easy to change a person's perception until they don't see something,
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or they do see something that just isn't there.
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Now, this is a very repeatable experiment in psychology,
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and you've probably seen it a million times in the real world.
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For sure, no doubt about it, there were people in the news business,
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For sure, there were people in the news business who were aware that Biden's brain wasn't working,
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I don't know if Jake Tapper was one, but maybe, you know, maybe.
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But if you have enough people who are pretending that he's perfectly fine,
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and there certainly were enough people pretending that,
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then you can guarantee that some number of people were just sort of hypnotized into believing it was true,
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because when they looked at the other people, they weren't seeing anything that's a problem.
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So, my guess is that it was always a combination.
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It was a combination of people who knew they were lying,
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and just were trying to prevent Hitler from coming into office, you know, in their view.
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Some people who just preferred the Democrats to win, you know, that would be the Democrats.
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Some people who had the ability to know, but that ability was sort of shut off
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by the fact they were put in an environment where it seemed like nobody else noticed.
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In theory, they would be cognitively blinded to the obvious.
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So, I think that, I think you have to be a little bit careful about assuming that every single person
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was aware and knew it, because you could see it.
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Because if you were, if you were not a, if you were not in that environment,
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If your experience was turning on my podcast every morning,
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and listening to me say, since maybe 2017 or something like that,
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saying, no, Biden's brain is completely broken, he's obviously incompetent.
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you would be completely immune from the cognitive blindness,
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and probably lots more, who are telling you the truth.
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of being cognitively blinded by their own team,
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Well, were there other examples where they were cognitively blinded?