Episode 2962 CWSA 09⧸18⧸25
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Join me for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine buzzer-beater, as I discuss the latest news involving the French first lady and the president of France, and some of my favorite news stories of the past week.
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come on in it's time for us to reframe the world that's right we're going to reframe the whole
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world today i got my comic done for the day but we couldn't load it up to x today yet
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some kind of technical problem i think it's on their side not mine but i'll try again later
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all right i'm gonna get my comments coming and then we got the show of shows
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often described as the best thing that has ever happened to the world
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see let's move that over there yeah that's looking good
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all right are you ready if you're ready i'm ready
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i'm trying something different with my lighting today so we'll see if that works
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all right uh i wonder if there's any science that says that coffee is good for you oh here's some
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um it turns out there's a new study that says that people who drink coffee
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have more favorable body composition and inflammatory profiles all right well there's nobody more
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inflammatory than me so i drink extra coffee just to tamp it down a little bit oh there he goes there he
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goes he's being inflammatory sip all right well by far my favorite story of the day is that uh uh french
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president uh emmanuel macron and his wife um they're gonna you you know that uh candace owens accused uh
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bridget macron of being born a man uh and believes that he's still a man because i guess that's the way it
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works and uh so the news is that uh macron and his wife are going to present photographic and scientific
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evidence to a u.s court to prove the french first lady is in fact a woman
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photographic evidence and scientific evidence that she's in fact a woman all right now
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i've i've never quite bought into the idea that she was a man
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i was amused by the whole thing and and i was amazed at how much evidence that candace could come
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up with that definitely look like it's possible i don't know if you've gone down that rabbit hole at
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all but if you listen to candace for 30 minutes talking about this you will go away thinking it's
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real but that's the documentary effect you know if you're if you're exposed to one point of view for
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half an hour you're probably going to be convinced you know that's all it takes is one point of view
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with now no counterpoint for half an hour and almost always you'll think it's true
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so i will say that it's a it's a persuasive argument candace makes that my
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my own let's say gut feeling and common sense says probably not probably not but i think it's possible
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yeah so the fact that she's going to give photographic evidence what exactly would the
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i just have this image of bridget macron she's at home and she's like all right
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oh i'll do my best french accent i'll try to no that's not french i won't do a french accent
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click click click almost click click click yeah there it is wow that's beautiful so
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can we um i don't maybe it's just me but i i like to look at these things from the entertainment
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perspective if you do it from the entertainment perspective and you realize that
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that candace owens is making the the wife of the president of france take pictures of her genitalia
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i don't know if any of it's true i'm guessing it's not
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but but there's not much that's funnier than making her take a picture of her junk
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and other news uh you know that meta has these new uh glasses that have all kinds of functions
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and i guess they can project a screen on the glasses themselves that people will barely know you're
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looking at and uh i saw a review somebody who had tried a number of these different you know uh
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enhanced reality glasses had said that it's the best one you've seen and it's actually kind of awesome
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it costs about 800 um what do regular glasses cost if you bought regular glasses
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um if it's like a designer pair this is several hundred dollars isn't it a designer pair so i don't
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know maybe maybe people will buy a free hundred dollars if they can make those glasses prescription
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yeah i didn't see in the story that they can do that but i said they can right do you think that
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they would make them prescription it would be very disappointing if the only thing that glasses
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couldn't do is correct your vision i feel like it ought to be able to do that
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however if it really works the odds of me trying it down to some point are pretty pretty good
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but apparently you can slightly detect when somebody's not paying attention to you so let me ask you
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this how happy would you be to spend time with a friend who has those glasses on and you don't really
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know if they're watching a tv show while you're talking to them because apparently you can have all kinds
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of content in the glasses uh i wouldn't like it at all i i don't think i would want to spend time
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having a conversation with somebody who was wearing those glasses because i would just assume that
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they're distracted you know even if i couldn't tell so i think that's the big question the big question
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will be the social element to that all right so um you know how everybody's got a podcast these days
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there's millions of podcasts and it's kind of hard to get attention you know for your your one podcast
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and um so people do a lot of teasing uh for example i'm i'll be on the jesse lee pearson show on
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friday so that's a tease but the best tease i ever saw for a podcast comes from pierce morgan so uh there
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was a a post on x that said that journalist don lemon is showing a picture of him and they said he's
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waiting for his interview with pierce morgan and then pierce uh reposts it the picture of don lemon
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and him waiting for the interview uh and he and he just says four words these are the most clever
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four words you'll ever use to tease somebody about your upcoming podcast and i quote it didn't go well
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now how am i not going to watch that are you kidding me finding out that a don lemon interview
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with pierce morgan didn't go well that's genius that is so good pierce you nailed it
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there is a 100 chance i'm going to watch that because of what you said about it it didn't go well
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that's just the best the best tea is well the fed cut the interest rate 25 points which really is
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0.25 and they think there might be a few more cuts this year maybe another in 2026 and if you're
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an economics nerd you might recognize that although inflation is not quite where we want it to be
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it's 2.6 but uh wouldn't it be good to get it down to two however the job market is starting to soften
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and you usually have those two competing things you know you don't want the interest rates high
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if you're trying to make sure jobs are good but um if you jack up the interest rates too much
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then you might cause some inflation because it might goose the economy and make it too hot
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but the fed has decided to lean toward improving employment uh as opposed to perfectly optimizing
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inflation is that the right choice well um i guess we'll always argue whether it could have been sooner
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but it does seem it does seem like a responsible position in my opinion well we have to talk about
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jimmy kimmel don't we how many of you were wondering what my take would be on jimmy kimmel
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was there any point where you said all right i gotta i gotta see what this guy says
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i guess adam carolla has not yet weighed in publicly um i will definitely watch that whatever whatever
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adam has to say about it because you know they they have a history from the man show
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and he is also a professional comedian type so what do you say all right i'm going to start
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with the conclusion and then we'll talk about it right um i'm on jimmy kimmel's side
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sorry i'm in his side now do would i like some revenge yes
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yes i would enjoy that but that doesn't mean i get it that doesn't mean i should pursue it doesn't
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mean the world's a better place if if it happens yeah i'd like a little schadenfreude because remember
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i got cancelled i get cancelled for something i said very similar do i think i should have been
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cancelled nope do i think roseanne should have been cancelled nope and i'm not going to change my mind
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because it's jimmy kimmel did he say something offensive and incorrect yeah did it make the world
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the worst place probably um but let's talk about all the things there are a lot of elements to this
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but uh i would be very hypocritical if i were to be opposed to free speech all right so just as a review
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um the the only speech that's not legal uh would be inciting violence and you know immediately
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it's not even illegal to incite violence over time you know with some cumulative effect which is what the
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democrats have done the cumulative effect of all the hill or hill or hitler stuff is that it incites
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violence but the law does not recognize cumulative effect it only it's only what do you what did you
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say just right now and did it cause somebody to do some violence right now now that would be illegal
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and it's not because of the speech it's because you'd be inciting violence what's the violence that's
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the illegal part the inciting it so that's your little uh little background there uh the the best
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joke i've heard about it so far was from joel pollack who posted on x first they came for the bad
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comedians i was laughing out loud at that this morning first they came for the bad comedians
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anyway a lot of people are speculating because we're suspicious people we never believe anything in
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the news is real a lot of people are saying that uh jimmy kimmel's bosses abc news i guess ultimately
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um not abc news but uh um disney who owns abc who owns the show etc so some people are saying that uh
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they probably wanted to cancel them anyway because the show probably loses a ton of money so you know
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maybe it really was a business decision having nothing to do with anything except it was an opportunity
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to get rid of a expensive asset maybe i don't know i i would guess that it's not unrelated meaning that
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if you were making a billion dollars a year for abc do you think they would cancel now let me ask you
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if he made a profit of one billion dollars per year for his corporate owners do you think they would
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have said oh that's that's a bad thing you did we got to get rid of you i would say not a chance if he
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was losing money every week and it looked like there was no chance i was going to reverse would they
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possibly find a convenient reason to get rid of them maybe well it might not be enough yeah they might
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all right so i wouldn't rule that out at all yeah that's certainly you know follow the money always
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works so i wouldn't say it's the only reason but it's probably in there somewhere um let's see what
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else we got here so he what he said was he he implied and i i guess some people said it was you know satire
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or parody or parody or something but it didn't look like it to me it looked like he was uh
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intentionally saying they believe that some maga person was responsible for killing uh
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kirk and that's by the time he said it that was known with pretty high level of certainty that that
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was not the case and the person who did it is almost certainly i put it at 95 98 percent
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that it's a left learning leaning person who just hated uh hated the trump administration and charlie in
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particular so here's the question how in the world is it legal for the trump administration
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the government to put pressure on a private industry to maybe cancel somebody which would look like
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a violation of free speech right now here's what would be a violation of free speech if the president
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said abc if you don't fire this guy and shut him up um i will punish you in some specific way
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that would be completely illegal everybody understands that right if the government tells you you can't
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talk that's illegal that would not be allowing free speech but suppose as fcc chairman brendan carr explains
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he was on hannity i think explaining this the fcc has a very specific job within the government and what
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it does is that uh it's responsible for making sure that the public airwaves which are limited by nature
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right there's not infinite um tv networks they're they're just you know the the uh there's not enough
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room on the airwaves for much more than we have so because it's a public good the the major networks uh
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abc nbc cbs they operate at the pleasure of the government now that's different from almost anything else
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so if if uh fox news said something that the government didn't like the government has no
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role with fox news because fox news is cable so cable is not using a limited public good which is the
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airwaves because the airwaves are limited but abc nbc cbs if they if they violate what is the phrase the
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public interest the public interest the public interest if they violate the public interest then
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the fcc could act and that could include potentially removing their license
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um so what do you what do you think the courts would say let's say that went to the supreme court
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do you think they'd say that's not that has nothing to do with freedom of speech
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the fcc's job is to say hey that thing you're doing is either in the public interest or it's not
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so if you said that's not in the public interest would you be violating free speech
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i feel like not i feel like that wouldn't be a violation of free speech but only if you're
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talking about abc nbc cbs because the fcc specifically has the responsibility to make
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sure they don't get down the line and what they're accused of is a pattern so it's not just this one
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thing it's a pattern of misinformation political especially now is that a good enough reason
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to pressure him to come off there although and let me say this if the government is pressuring somebody
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even if it's not stated but it's obvious let's say the entity wants to do a big merger and i think
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that's part of what's going on here um the the entities involved don't want to make the government
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mad and the government's making it pretty clear that they don't like this uh jimmy kimmel situation
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so does the government have to say directly if you keep him on we'll punish you you know that now
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remember the absentee is a special case but just talking generally if a government said to somebody
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uh you should quiet down or else uh we won't approve whatever it is you asked for next
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but if they say it directly now that i got this from grok by the way you all know that i'm not a
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lawyer right so anything i say that sounds like a legal opinion probably wrong so do your own research
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on this one i'd say but i'll do my best right so if the government uh makes a direct threat if you
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you know outside of the fcc that's a special case but if they made a direct threat shut up or we'll
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do bad things for you that's totally illegal that would be absolutely a violation of free speech but
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what if they don't make a direct threat but you just think they're the kind of people that would get
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revenge i don't know because at some point it's just an opinion suppose the president said it's my
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opinion that kimmel should be fired doesn't he have the right to just have an opinion if he said
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you should fire him or i'll punish you totally illegal totally illegal but if he just said it's my
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opinion they should get rid of him the country better be a better place is that illegal
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it's sort of a weird gray area isn't it because especially with trump you kind of say to yourself
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well i mean he's clearly not going to be friendly with him when they come to get some approval from
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the government right would you expect the trump administration to be fully cooperative
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with an entity that wasn't doing what they wanted in a fairly what they might consider an important
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way i don't know that would be a i don't know if that kind of case has ever been tested
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but uh some lawyer will tell me somebody will fill me in all right so the part i don't know is if
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uh brendan carr the fcc chairman has a solid enough argument that in the special case that's the fcc doing
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his job to make sure that the public interest is being met does this meet the standard of violating
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the public interest well maybe not because some people would say uh he's a comedian and it is completely
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legal to lie it is completely legal to lie in the service of a joke or just entertaining the public
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you're allowed to lie unfortunately i mean it has to be that way because otherwise everybody would be in
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jail if he made it illegal to lie there'd be nobody left so it has to be that way um
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um so so so i don't know the answer to the fcc part if it turns out that that's completely ordinary
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then i might alter my opinion but as a uh humorist slash cartoonist who has been cancelled for something
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i said uh i'm not going to be in favor of it in fact uh my preference is that conservatives defend
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kimmel on free speech um now we might encourage him you know because remember that this is private
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companies private companies can fire anybody for whatever reason they want so the private company
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is in you know completely clear territory it's just a business decision so can't can't go after them
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but i think the world would be a little better and it would change the news cycle in a way that would
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really flip the minds of the uh the democrats i think we should support him and just say nope we do not
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want to go down the path of getting somebody fired now keep in mind i don't believe that fcc uh chair
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brendan carr i don't believe he would be taking these moves unless he knew that at least the base
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would be happy with it would you agree do you think the fcc would would put any pressure on on kimmel
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unless the public felt the same way no no there's not really any chance of that because remember he's
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operating quote in the public interest if the public had no interest i mean i'm using interest
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differently here but if the public said we don't care he said that that doesn't bother us at all
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if they had said that well then there'd be no reason for the fcc to be involved and i'd have a
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problem with it but the fact that there are a lot of people almost entirely on the political right
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who say yeah yeah that guy's got to be punished and it looks like there's a
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there's sort of a you know special case here where maybe he could be or at least pressure could be
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put on go ahead and do it because we like the revenge and we like the schadenfreude i like the
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revenge about aside from roseanne there's nobody who likes this more than i do right there's nobody who
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likes it more than i do but i asked grok if jimmy kimmel ever mocked me for getting canceled
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because i didn't know a lot of people did and grok says no i i need a fact check on that is it true
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that jimmy kimmel never mocked me for getting canceled a lot of people did you know public figures
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but uh i'll ask separately maybe somebody can so grok says no says there's no evidence that he ever
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mentioned me at all which counts because that was a national story and if he just wanted to pound on
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some conservative types there i was i mean i was an easy i was an easy victim but if he said to
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himself and i don't know this this would be purely mind-reading speculation if he said to himself you
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know what i'm not going to go after a humorist i don't know if he did that but if that's the
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reason he didn't mention it i would respect that and i'm going to return the favor i don't want to live
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in a world where jokes are punished you'd have to be a really bad joke for me to do it so i know this is
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very unpopular but if you want to be on the side of the angels i think we gotta give him a pass
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i don't think it'll make a difference you know i i suspect that this is a you know decision they're
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not going to reverse and i also don't think there's any chance that the majority of the political right
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will say yeah give him a pass because i don't think people are thinking at it beyond the revenge
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you know the revenge level and by the way like i say i'm totally in favor of revenge and um
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mutually assured destruction so that there's a little balance and stuff totally in favor of that
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i enjoy it it feels good but it's not the world i want to live in i don't want to live in that world
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so even though um i believe i was treated unfairly in a similar situation
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um i just can't live in that world so that's my take all right here's what um i mentioned this uh
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when i was on tucker's uh show the other day there's something different about the lies that are being
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told today compared to the old times and it used to be that if you said oh that reagan is hitler
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people understood that as just hyperbole they didn't think oh he's actually hitler but when
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you're doing it 24 hours a day hitler hitler hitler and every time you turn on cnn or msnbc
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every time somebody's comparing them to hitlers or nazis you should assume that young people who are
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exposed to that and it's all they know and they're not watching fox news or just watching those networks
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of course some of them would reach the point of violence because they'd think well you know
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everybody thinks they're hitler as far as i can tell so if i take care of hitler i'm fine so
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the laws as they were written were about uh slander you can't do slander but you can lie
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and you can you know exaggerate and insult and all those other things so if the cumulative effect
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of wall-to-wall hitler accusations creates a situation where violence is guaranteed
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is that inciting violence the answer is not legally no because it has to be immediate there's no such
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thing as a cumulative you know over time a lot of people did a lot of things and the cumulative effect
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was that somebody got killed charlie kirk in particular that's not illegal should it be
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well it makes me wonder because when you know our free speech rules were created
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this wasn't really an option there was no such thing as mass brainwashing that was coordinated through
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the government and the in my opinion and uh the news networks so it's a it's a danger of free speech
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that simply didn't exist at least at this level uh until fairly recently in history so there might
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be something we need to rethink about that but in general i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna be biased toward
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free speech if there's any gray areas this one's a gray area so i'm biased toward free speech
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so what kibble actually said might be a little different from what people are imagining you know
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uh he said uh he said the maggot people were trying hard to make it look like they were not
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responsible for it but you can interpret that two ways one he's saying that maggot is responsible for
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killing charlie kirk but would you take that seriously the other way you can interpret those exact words
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words is that he's not saying maggot was responsible he's only saying that they're trying to make sure
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you know they're not responsible that's not so bad so do you cancel somebody because they said something
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that could be taken two ways you see this gets a little personal at this point something that can be interpreted
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differently than it was intended is that how you get canceled that's what roseanne got canceled
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roseanne got canceled not for what she thought or what she said you know that right it wasn't for what
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she thought wasn't what she said it was what other people misinterpreted as her intention got canceled for that
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i would argue that although i was intentionally trying to cause some trouble i was trying to do it for a
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positive uh purpose including for black america but because people chose to interpret what i said a little
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bit out of context because the larger context was you know dei etc um should i be canceled because someone
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else interpreted what i said in a way that's not the way i intended it is that good enough reason to be
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canceled i don't know but there's some chance and i wouldn't know because i'm not i can't read his mind
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there's some chance that kimmel was trying to walk close to the line but he wasn't quite not quite
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you know blaming maga for maybe doing it um looking at a comment it's the fact that he ignored the horror
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and instead went political um that's just something you don't like that's not why you lose a job
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i i get what you're saying that he wasn't showing the uh no actually i think he did at some point
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i believe he did at some point um say the right words about the horror i think he did actually just
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a different day um i saw that dave portnoy weighed in on this and he said it's not canceling its
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consequences and that would be true if we're only looking at a business decision and or the fcc doing
00:33:37.360
its job for the public interest if you think that getting rid of him is a public interest
00:33:43.840
so but i do think that dave is you know sort of leaving out that the fcc is part of the government
00:33:52.800
and you don't ever want the government trying to directly or indirectly you know impinge on free
00:33:59.120
speech um but i understand what uh dave is saying so he's not wrong that it's primarily it's a consequence
00:34:07.280
situation more than a more than a free speech situation but if it's got a little bit of free speech in it
00:34:14.160
i'm still going to go with the free speech you know if you say well scott it's 90 he was a dick
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okay if it's 10 free speech i'm going to still be biased for the free speech
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um eric swalwell uh was defending kimmel um but of course the democrats feel they have to swear
00:34:39.280
and they're so bad at it listen to this swearing from eric swalwell so he's talking about kimmel
00:34:44.880
and sort of defending him for his free speech but he says it this way quote he's a fucking comedian
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now eric let me give you a little advice swearing is is good if you use it right
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like you know trump is just an expert at swearing in a way that people will laugh
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when he swears doing a rally speech people laugh because he puts it in just the right place you
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know you don't expect it etc and um he's also used it to make a really important point
00:35:23.200
so you know okay trump's not kidding about this one it's perfect use of cursing but swalwell's just
00:35:32.240
sort of randomly throwing it in a post he's a fucking comedian you know what would have worked
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just as well he's a comedian do you think that adding the f word made his point better do you
00:35:48.160
think it made him look tougher did it make him look stronger did it make him look like a better
00:35:53.760
better politician didn't do any of that no that was just a mistake in communication and i it's like
00:36:01.120
i feel like they don't even understand the point that you can definitely get away with some swearing
00:36:08.160
if you're a little bit wise about when you do it this is not wise it's not even close to wise
00:36:17.200
so uh i responded to eric swalwell who said he's an effing comedian
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by responding and i said so is roseanne and then i said do cartoonists count you know depending if you
00:36:29.680
call me a comedian or not um let me let me give you a little micro lesson now
00:36:38.160
something i've been meaning to discuss trump has a technique that i don't think i've ever talked
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about and it's really really good it's really good and i've never seen anybody use it so this is one of
00:36:52.800
the most persuasive things he does and he does it sort of all the time it goes like this he always favors
00:37:02.560
strength over getting something necessarily done so for example um when he says uh i'm going to do this
00:37:12.960
with immigration and then maybe the court blocks him and let's say it blocks him totally he doesn't
00:37:18.960
win in an appeal that would be him acting strong but he got blocked what you remember about that
00:37:28.080
is the strength and then the next thing comes up and once again he takes the most i don't want to say
00:37:34.400
extreme because that's the wrong thing but the strongest that the firmest strongest take i will
00:37:41.040
send the national guard into your city to stop crime that's the strong take now suppose it never worked
00:37:49.120
suppose uh you know the courts or something else blocked him from doing it what you would remember
00:37:56.960
is how strong he was in trying to stop crime and i can give you a hundred more examples that he always
00:38:04.400
takes the strong point of view even if the odds of that succeeding are low because then you remember
00:38:12.480
the strength and the reason that that's so important is that whenever the new thing comes up whatever the
00:38:17.920
new thing is you're going to respect how hard he's going to go at it and that's going to modify how you
00:38:24.720
respond and probably in a way that's good for trump so um framing yourself as always the strong one
00:38:33.440
in the conversation the strong one in politics that really works that and if i were to advise somebody
00:38:42.640
say all right do you want to be right about everything do you want everything you try to do to work
00:38:49.840
or do you want to be seen as somebody who is stronger than a typical president now the risk is you
00:38:56.720
get called an authoritarian and all that which we see happening that's a risk
00:39:02.080
but uh i would say that the the supporters of trump are probably triggered more by the strength
00:39:09.440
because you want to know that the person who's got your back you know the one who who literally has
00:39:14.240
your back you want to think he's the strongest person so if you said to me who do you want protecting
00:39:21.040
you uh because this president he tried to do something with i don't know social security reform and it didn't work
00:39:31.200
it wouldn't bother me at all but if he told me he did he did strong things on the border strong
00:39:38.400
things in the city about crime you know he went after other countries that weren't paying their their
00:39:44.640
dues uh i'm going to see a lot of strength and that is really really good persuasion even when stuff
00:39:52.720
doesn't work out it's still the right play that's the part people don't know the ordinary person would say
00:39:58.240
i'm only going to try to do this if i've got a pretty good chance of succeeding he doesn't need
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to do that he can try things that don't have a high chance of succeeding as long as it shows how
00:40:10.320
strong he is does that make sense i don't think this would work for most people but it's definitely
00:40:17.360
working for him all right uh according to the daily collar news foundation that impact is writing about
00:40:24.880
this uh i guess democrats are a little bit divided now over whether they should whether they should
00:40:31.840
keep using incendiary rhetoric and calling um the trump administration people uh nazis and hiller
00:40:41.600
uh but george takai you remember him sulu from the original star trek um he says that uh trump
00:40:49.760
employing the quote nazi playbook to exploit charlie kirk's assassination bright bars writing about that
00:40:56.560
paul boys and uh can you imagine being george takai and that that's the same week that charlie kirk is
00:41:07.200
assassinated probably because of people like george takai let me say it directly people like george takai
00:41:15.040
cumulatively not him specifically but cumulatively they caused the death of charlie kirk does anybody
00:41:22.320
even doubt that do you believe that there was any chance charlie kirk would have been assassinated
00:41:28.720
any chance if democrats didn't talk that way do you think they would have said i don't like his
00:41:35.040
policies and he would have been shot i don't i don't think there's any chance that i think they had
00:41:41.040
to not like the policies but also think everybody thinks he's sailor i think i you know this would be
00:41:46.720
popular i'll do this so it will be funny to watch them make the same mistake over and over but it's
00:41:56.720
not funny if it causes somebody else to take a shot um you know the news blaze media got a hold of i
00:42:05.360
guess they were first to look at it a report by a private entity who is the capital research center
00:42:13.280
and they did a study on george soros and his funding machine so it i guess it mapped out all the nodes
00:42:22.560
and you know where the money's coming and how much and stuff like that now that would be it's a 95
00:42:28.160
page report and apparently that's going to be turned over to the trump administration who also
00:42:35.600
said they wanted to do some research on the soros funding stuff
00:42:40.240
i guess also uh there's some talk about antifa being uh designated as a terrorist organization
00:42:50.240
that hasn't happened yet but uh remember i said trump is famous for taking the strong position
00:42:56.800
well what would be stronger than designated antifa as a terrorist organization now suppose it doesn't
00:43:04.960
work out like somehow he has to back up from that would it be a mistake nope it wouldn't be a mistake
00:43:12.480
even if he doesn't doesn't end up getting that done it wouldn't be a mistake because everybody would say
00:43:18.480
man that's strength he's going hard at at the people who need to to get a little pressure on him
00:43:27.200
well israel has completed the iron beam system um i don't think it's fully implemented in the idf but
00:43:34.240
technology wise it's passed its tests the iron beam is a laser that will shoot down drones now as you
00:43:42.800
know lasers don't work as well on cloudy or rainy days but israel would also still have the iron dome
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which shoots up missiles to knock down other missiles but we are now we're now solidly in the domain of
00:43:59.840
uh lasers shooting down stuff uh scott uh you got canceled for telling the truth but kimmel was lying
00:44:16.800
yeah that's not really the important part that's not how analogies work analogies work when there's just
00:44:23.520
one thing that they have in common that this you know can tell a story and the one thing is that
00:44:31.280
if you're both comedians that's it lying is not against the law i don't like it i wish there would be
00:44:39.760
less of it but it's not against the law and so even if he does something i find very objectionable
00:44:47.360
well and he did uh it's not objectionable in the free speech sense unfortunately you know or maybe
00:45:02.720
i understand uh somebody can give me a fact check if i'm wrong about this but my understanding is that
00:45:09.440
uh if the us is involved in maybe funding the development of weapons in israel that what israel
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develops remember they're super high tech uh whatever they develop has some kind of licensing or
00:45:24.240
or the us has the ability to use it too so i don't know about that for sure that's that's just the
00:45:30.320
information i have right now but uh it's possible that israel just developed one of the best weapons
00:45:38.640
we'll ever have for defending the united states if that happened then that would be on the plus side
00:45:46.320
of arguing why funding israel makes sense if they happen to have a technical weapons development
00:45:53.840
industry that's in any way in any pockets is better than ours and we have a deal where if we funded it
00:46:01.760
we have access to some of that technology that might be a gigantic benefit for the united states
00:46:08.480
so if you're looking at all the pluses and minuses i'm generally not in favor of funding other
00:46:14.800
countries for anything i mean i'm just not in favor of it but uh you can't argue if that's true that we
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would get that technology you can't argue that we don't get anything out of it
00:46:27.680
in uh uh what's her name um kamala harris she's got her new book out and she is she's saying in her book
00:46:37.600
that tim waltz was not her first choice for a running mate her first choice was pete buddha judge
00:46:43.920
because as she said quote he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame
00:46:50.320
liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them
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um is that what you think do you think pete buddha judge has that rare talent to frame arguments so
00:47:03.840
conservatives can hear them wrong that's not even a little bit true i've listened to a lot of pete
00:47:12.000
buddha judge do you think he frames things in a way that conservatives go you know
00:47:16.480
uh huh oh wow wow i had the opposite opinion but now that i heard pete uh buddha judge explain it with
00:47:26.080
his you know his golden tongue um i've changed my mind that was pretty good argument there pete no
00:47:34.160
i don't think you'll find anyone who says oh you know pete buddha judge changed my mind on that topic
00:47:43.920
i don't know kamala harris she's funny well trump's approval level doesn't look so good
00:47:52.000
but i'm not sure i care he's not going to run for office again um and it's kind of normal that the
00:47:59.840
more somebody gets is on the job as president he's going to do so many things that everyone is going
00:48:07.600
to find at least one thing that they're not crazy about so i don't know it just feels normal that no
00:48:14.240
matter who the president is at this point yeah they're probably going to be a dip um no surprise i
00:48:21.760
i'm not worried about that the hill is reporting that um according to a uh walton family foundation
00:48:32.560
gallup poll that just came out um only 35 percent of respondents are satisfied with the state of k
00:48:41.440
through 12 education in the united states 35 percent now that would probably be the 35
00:48:49.360
whose kids are in good schools don't you think um i have a question is is the problem with schools
00:48:58.960
excuse me is the problem with schools because they are a mess is it the teachers is it the lack of uh
00:49:10.160
students i feel like it's the other students what do you think i feel like um you know 65 percent of the
00:49:21.680
schools have just enough troublemakers that it ruins the whole experience for everybody
00:49:30.000
now i do think that in many cases that teachers are
00:49:33.440
bad but i don't think the teachers could help if the class has too many troublemakers in it
00:49:45.840
what do you think and it seems to me that private schools um solve for that because the only people
00:49:52.800
who go to private schools are the people whose parents think that's going to work and
00:49:57.680
uh it generally gets you a less troublemaking group of people and i i feel like the private
00:50:04.560
school would kick you out if you were a troublemaker whereas the the public school would have you know
00:50:10.480
more of an obligation to keep you even if you're a little bit of a troublemaker but what is the
00:50:15.600
problem is it mostly the other people the other students um imagine imagine if you will
00:50:24.480
i spend a lot of time imagining uh what it would be like to be a poor black student do you do that
00:50:32.880
maybe that's weird but i literally i spend a lot of time and always have wondering could you escape
00:50:40.720
that trap so let's say you're born into a poor single single parent situation and you go to school and
00:50:50.640
um 70 of the people in the class don't care about graduating don't care about their grades don't
00:50:57.520
care about their future and they're just causing trouble can you escape that can you use your you
00:51:06.000
know let's say you've got good character and you're smart enough you're smart enough that you should do
00:51:11.200
well in life is that going to be enough if if you don't have the resources or wherewithal to go to a
00:51:17.360
private school and you had to stay there could you possibly get a good outcome if 70 of the students
00:51:25.120
just came to cause trouble i would think there's not a chance not a chance at all so the first problem
00:51:36.400
with what you have to do to solve any problems you have to figure out what the actual base problem is
00:51:43.040
some of it has to be the teachers but it does seem to me that as long as the students beyond a
00:51:50.080
certain percentage of the class are troublemakers it wouldn't matter who your who your teacher is
00:51:55.280
there's no way you could overcome that so now it could be that in the old days let's say when i was a kid
00:52:04.960
capital punishment was still okay i had a teacher who would beat you with a baseball bat
00:52:11.440
if you got it in line like an actual baseball bat kept it you know kept it in the he actually kept
00:52:17.440
it in the class and uh he would have fist fights uh he was pretty strong he had this big monkey muscular
00:52:27.360
body and he would have fist fights with kids and i'll tell you we were pretty well behaved after a couple
00:52:36.240
of uh bouts of violence and in a small town back in those days if if you if a parent found out that
00:52:45.040
the teacher punched a child the first thing they would ask is what do you do that's the first question
00:52:52.320
what do you do and then he would tell them and they'd say uh all right well i don't love the fact
00:52:57.200
that you punched him but he had it coming you know some version of that and that unfortunately and i'm not
00:53:03.040
saying that's you know all good i mean you you can have some childhood ptsd from that um but generally
00:53:11.600
speaking forget about that one teacher he was extreme but generally speaking there was just more
00:53:18.320
discipline and it helped everybody in the class now i don't think we should necessarily go back to the
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old ways but somehow you have to solve for the fact that not everybody in the room has the same goal
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and then back to my original point if your only problem was that you were poor and you had a single
00:54:07.680
mother but once you went to school everything worked smoothly i think you could you could do great i
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i think nothing would stop you under just those minimum conditions as long as school is good
00:54:23.200
you've got a way out that's the way it's supposed to work right it's supposed to be that you can work
00:54:27.600
your way out of poverty by working hard and going to school developing a skill tyson food said it's going to
00:54:35.120
halt the use of high fructose corn syrup which many people say is not healthy uh the hill is reporting on
00:54:43.280
this um and they also apparently they already on the roast they're going to halt the use of sucralose
00:54:51.680
that's a preservative i guess and they're they've already removed petroleum-based synthetic dyes
00:54:58.560
how many of you knew you were eating oil that petroleum based synthetic dyes were in your food you're actually
00:55:09.040
eating oil right or is it processed to the point where that's an unfair thing to say
00:55:18.720
um so i think what's going to happen uh is that rfk jr etc is creating a situation where all the big
00:55:27.840
companies are going to have to act and if everybody has to act then presumably there will be industries and
00:55:36.560
products that pop up to be alternatives to whatever the ingredients are that seem to be unhealthy
00:55:42.720
if only one company wanted to switch to a healthier alternative it might not be enough to make an
00:55:49.040
industry out of the alternative but if everybody kind of needs to because it'd be too much pressure
00:55:54.400
from the public and rfk jr then suddenly it's a big money situation to to get healthier and people might
00:56:03.680
produce that product for you so i feel like everything's working going in the right direction
00:56:14.880
i saw a post by siki chen on x siki is uh in in the tech world he's well known in the tech world
00:56:26.080
he said i've lived in the united states for almost 42 years i've been alive and never had people be
00:56:31.040
openly racist to me until i heard from all the people either openly on x or privately in dms
00:56:37.920
hurling racist abuse at me for switching to the republican party and he says eye-opening
00:56:46.160
now that's shocking that is shocking all right um
00:56:59.760
so apparently the day before i saw this uh daniel greenfield wrote about this that uh the day
00:57:07.200
before charlie kirk was assassinated there was a free speech ranking in a fire survey fire being the
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name of the company or the name of the entity fire a fire survey of 68 000 college students a whole bunch
00:57:21.680
of universities and revealed that one in three students believed uh believe that using violence to stop a speaker
00:57:28.960
they disagreed with on campus was acceptable one in three people thought violence was acceptable
00:57:38.560
to stop people from saying things you don't like violence one in three now here's my take i don't believe
00:57:47.680
that survey do you do you think that's true that sounds a lot like something that college students
00:57:56.480
say in answer to a survey it doesn't sound like something they do
00:58:03.200
so you know if you say to me uh do you think uh young people whose brains are not developed and they
00:58:10.800
like causing trouble and you know maybe they like using a little hyperbole i feel like it's something you
00:58:21.760
that isn't really something you believe or if or if you were in the situation you wouldn't do any violence
00:58:31.040
it's alarming and i would certainly keep an eye on it i wouldn't i wouldn't completely discount it
00:58:38.880
it's happened but i'm not entirely sure that's telling us what we think
00:58:42.560
it's fake remember all data is fake um i told you that the us is going to overhaul the citizenship
00:58:50.880
test did you know that the citizenship was 100 questions but you only get 10 of them
00:58:58.320
so they randomly picked 10 of the questions but you would have to study all 100 to make sure you can get
00:59:06.720
most of them right so so used to be the only need to get a six out of ten
00:59:12.720
right uh but now you'll need 12 correct out of 20.
00:59:20.560
and i looked at the questions and i'm happy to say i think i could pass it
00:59:27.360
but if you had 128 facts that you had to learn and you only had to get 12 out of 20 right
00:59:35.760
how how long would you have to study before you could nail that you'd probably have to well not
00:59:41.440
probably you'd have to understand english otherwise you wouldn't be able to understand the test
00:59:47.280
and i guess it's a verbal test it's not even written somebody somebody just asks you 10 questions and then
00:59:56.480
i don't know what was there really some reason that we had to add 28 questions i don't know
01:00:02.880
know but there's probably a good reason for it um so according to just the news ben whedon already
01:00:13.600
2 million illegal uh residents have left the country 400 000 directly deported and then 1.6 million
01:00:23.680
self-deporting you know when i heard this whole self-deporting thing you know the commercials you
01:00:30.000
see on tv with christy gnome and she's saying you know if you leave now there's a chance we would let
01:00:36.080
you back in but if you don't leave and we have to get rid of you you'll never come back so some number
01:00:42.960
of people are self-deporting way more than i thought i i thought everybody would just hang tight
01:00:49.360
and try to ride it out you know try to hide from the law until there's a new new president or something
01:00:55.200
but that is if these numbers are right and you know there's always a question about that if really
01:01:02.480
1.6 million people left on their own on top of 400 000 deported wouldn't you call that a really good job
01:01:11.840
because remember the at least the 400 000 are not all but a lot of them are the worst i don't know what
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percentage i don't think it's very high percentage actually but if they got a lot of the bad people first
01:01:27.280
i don't know that feels very successful i would give a i would give a high mark for that number of people in six months
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um david sachs as you know he's in the administration he's got portfolio of crypto and i think ai and he
01:01:46.880
says that there's big news from china and that huawei their big tech company over there has introduced a
01:01:54.080
new ai chip that's going to compete with nvidia here we thought we were all awesome in the united states
01:02:01.120
because we had better chips so we could get better ai and you know rule the world but huawei is uh
01:02:08.240
competing now their chips are not as good as nvidia and people are saying things like well it's going to
01:02:15.680
be a long time before they can catch up we don't know that we don't know how long it'll take them to
01:02:22.080
catch up they've already figured out how to architect their lesser chips so that they act like better
01:02:29.280
chips they just use more of them and they can you know approximate nvidia they can't get there but
01:02:36.080
they can get close so china is not really desperate for our chips and they're doing essentially what
01:02:44.320
we're doing by trying to do better at mining rare earth so that we don't have to depend on them
01:02:50.720
well they're doing the same thing but what they're doing is building a chip building industry now
01:02:56.160
um the problem is that huawei will start selling its ai chips to other countries and if china is the
01:03:07.840
one providing the ai tech and not the united states then those countries are going to be a little bit
01:03:15.200
under the thumb of china because they will depend on china for their technology and they have to have ai
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because everybody will have to have it so david sachs is warning us that maybe we should look at
01:03:29.600
loosening up our sales to the non-china companies so that they don't buy from china which seems
01:03:37.520
commonsensical i would i would say that on the surface that makes sense
01:03:41.360
um but i would also say that in general i feel like it's more likely that china will match nvidia
01:03:51.840
in a few short years than the chances that they won't um there's just too much too much riding on it
01:03:59.840
and they'll do everything from bribery to blackmail to outright ip theft and i don't know is it impossible
01:04:08.960
for them to just get one of the nvidia chips and look at the you know look at the architecture and copy
01:04:15.760
it is that not possible or is it the software well even that they could copy so i'm gonna i'm gonna bet
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that china will surprise us in how quickly they reach parity if not more to nvidia
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another uh refinery in uh in russia this is a gas prom refinery in bashkatorstan russia so it's 1300
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kilometers from the front line so they're going pretty deep into russia and they use scores of
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drones and they had a direct hit on the facility now i don't know how much of it was destroyed or
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whether it stopped operation but i was wondering remember i've told you that i was guessing that if
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ukraine could take out 20 that was my own estimate of the refining capacity or the energy resources in
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russia that russia that russia's economy would uh be in such trouble that they might want to
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you know do a peace deal well according to uh whatever it was i was reading that i didn't write
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down the source um they may have already just expert projections indicate that sustained disruptions to 40
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or 50 of the capacity could tip the balance so i said 20 would put him in trouble the experts say 40 to 50
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so how much of that have they disrupted so far um if i wrote it down i think it was like 17 20
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something like that yeah 17 to 24 so it's possible that there that ukraine is halfway
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and there's nothing that would stop them from getting to 40 or 50 but they're already halfway
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to the number that would collapse um the russian economy now it's i would say it's obvious that
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that's the strategy because they don't really have any chance of winning you know a direct military
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battle but they could definitely take out 40 to 50 percent of their refinery capacity and then things
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things get pretty uh get pretty sketchy assuming any of those numbers are real
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now obviously russia would up their uh up their response so you can't predict that that would give
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ukraine any victory or anything but it might make russia sufficiently incentivized to at least talk peace we'll see
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um california legislature i can't even believe this passed a bill to create subsidies for
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news entities for media the media entities and uh it's because governor newsom thinks
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that the media entities in california need a little boost now how do you interpret that uh this is
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being reported by just the news how do you how do you understand that except for a way for the governor
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to control the news uh if you want your subsidy you better do you know positive reporting about me
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or do you think it's just another way um for the government to launder money do you think that
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there's anybody who's like a good friend or relative perhaps of newsom who might be a recipient of some
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of those subsidies well that's the way it usually goes on the democrat side if you hear they've created
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any kind of funding or subsidies for anything the first thing you could know is that that money is
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going to go to their cronies and people are going to give some of it back to the politicians who who
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created that law so i would say every part of this looks dirty to me
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well the pope has weighed in he's slamming elon musk for what he calls obscene greed
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he said uh talk about money he said if that is the only thing that has any value anymore then we're
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in big trouble he pointed out uh the continuous wider income gap he said uh yesterday there was
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the news that uh elon musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world and then he says what does
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that mean and um so he thinks that's bad if the only thing that has any value anymore we're in trouble
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blah blah um now i don't want to criticize the pope but i would point out that the pope's expertise
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does not seem to extend to the business world let me explain what the trillion dollars is all about
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the trillion dollars is not what he's going to spend on buying what better t-shirts
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elon musk wears basically a t-shirt and jeans every single day like what was he spending his
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trillion on is it because he he has a private jet that he flies around that would be a necessity
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for anyone who has that many businesses if you have more than one business and you're a global
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kind of a company and uh you need to run businesses in different places and you've got
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yeah private plane is just business there's nothing wrong with that and it's not like he
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even has a mansion or anything he doesn't have a mansion i don't know if he ever will he seems
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uninterested in that kind of stuff so elon musk is the least consumer driven person i've ever seen
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you know steve jobs you know arguably was in that domain but i think it's a complete misunderstanding
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that the trillion dollars is just his money no it's not the trillion dollars is the value of spacex and
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you know tesla and his other companies he's building robots and going to mars and you know solving all
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these uh physical problems with uh um the the brain chip thing uh that trillion dollars is almost
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i'd say 98 for the public good he only does companies that are for the public good he's not
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making a video game although he might someday the the things he does are so obviously good for the
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country if not the world at the very least it makes the u.s more competitive but it bothers me a little
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that the pope would weigh in on this and be so wrong about understanding the general situation
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i want elon musk to have two trillion dollars because his history is that he invests every
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penny he makes now that that's how he got to where he is he invests it all so pope come on come on pope
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all right i saw an estimate and tech explorer andrew zinn is writing that according to the wto ai might
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boost global trade values by at least 40 percent so so that would be a gigantic you know improvement in
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in business do you believe that do you believe that the wto can do a believable credible estimate
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about how much ai will boost global trade let's see how well i've trained you do you believe that's
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that's something they can estimate no this is as ridiculous as the climate models
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no there's no such thing as estimating the temperature in 20 years that's not a thing i mean
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not credibly doing it and it's not a thing that you can figure out how ai will boost global trade
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please really really nobody knows what ai is going to do it might be better than that it might be worse
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but nobody knows an estimate god all right nobody can legitimately estimate that sort of thing and
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once you learn that it will help you a lot because there's a tendency if all these experts say well we
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we estimated this thing we estimated this thing you say yourself well experts estimated a thing that
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sounds pretty good to me um but generally when experts are estimating a thing the odds that they
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know what they're doing and the estimate is credible very low it's very low all right that's all i got to
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say today i've got my cat in my lap who has been enjoying the show more than you because the cat likes
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it when i'm busy doing something else and he's just laying on my lap so gary i'm done now with the main
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show and i'm going to go private with the uh beloved very beloved local subscribers and the rest of you
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