Episode 2976 CWSA 10⧸02⧸25
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 27 minutes
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139.1384
Summary
Scott Adams checks his Testosterone levels, and it's not what he expected. Then, he goes to the doctor, and things get really weird. And then, he gets a phone call from his doctor that changes his mind.
Transcript
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Just in time, we've got a podcast, we're getting ready here, but first I thought I would check
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my stocks because several months ago, well actually it was during the bottom of the pandemic,
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I did something I don't usually do, and I advise against it actually, but I did it.
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I put an unusually large amount of investment in one company, and I don't recommend that.
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It's a bad idea, but let me check on it to see how it was.
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The company was called, you've heard of it, it's called Tesla.
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All right, so the general market's up a little bit.
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Let me get your comments working here, and then we've got a show to do that you're going
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Brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum.
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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, but if you'd
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the dopamine to the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the
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Ah, well, you want to hear about the weirdest thing ever?
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Do you remember that at the beginning of yesterday's show, I decided to be a little
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bit vulnerable and opened up my test results for my testosterone levels, which is important
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to see that they're as low as possible for cancer reasons.
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You don't want high testosterone if you have cancer, because the cancer just eats the testosterone.
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So you want to lower your testosterone, depending on, I suppose, which cancer you have.
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But for mine, I wanted as close to zero as possible.
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And do you remember that I opened up the test results, while I was looking at it, I basically
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read it to you, and I could see that it had jumped up to the middle of the range, which
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would mean that the meds weren't working and I was basically going to die faster than I
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I did that live right in front of you, and I was looking at it, and I was just reading
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That test that I looked at in detail, and I had an opinion, and it changed my whole day,
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that doesn't exist, because when I talked to my doctor by Zoom later that same day, he
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said, you know, no, your testosterone's effectively zero.
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The meds are working, you know, the way they were supposed to.
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So I called it up, and it was not only were the numbers completely different, but even
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Did I hallucinate while I was completely awake and talking to you on live stream?
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Or was it some kind of preliminary number, because the number was just coming in?
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Maybe from the old number to the new number or something?
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But the good news and the bad news is that the meds were doing exactly what they were supposed
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to do, to lower my testosterone to what they consider full castration levels.
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However, the bad news is, since my PSA spiked, it means the meds are doing what they were supposed
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to do, but my cancer's already figured out a workaround.
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So it's essentially producing, probably producing something that doesn't measure as testosterone,
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So according to Grok, who I'm not sure I should believe in these situations, I'm pretty much
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So I don't have a solution at the moment, but I also don't know how bad it is.
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Once I get scanned, then you'll actually see, did anything get worse?
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But if I'm suddenly filled with extra tumors, which I might be, it means we don't have a
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Cambridge, I guess Cambridge, one of their science-y parts of their university, figured out how to
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You know how if you shine sunlight on a regular solar panel?
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And it used to be they could get, you know, they could convert 10% of the light to energy.
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Now, I think the best ones, correct me if I'm wrong, are maybe approaching 30% conversion
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These organic ones are close to 100%, which means you could put organic panels.
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I'm making this part up, but, you know, just to tell you how unlikely it is.
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It means that if you put these panels around the walls of your room and then you turned on
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the lights, the lights would create enough energy to power the lights.
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Not 100%, but it might be like 98% of all the energy you need to power the lights.
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Now, all of these solar breakthroughs, because it seems like there's one every day, but
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This is probably five to 10 years away, if they can do it at all, you know, because it's
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It would take years to figure out how to make a factory, to make it.
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You'd have to test it to see if it lasts as long and it's economical.
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So it would take forever to actually reach the market.
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But imagine if it worked and solar panels could get to something like unity, I think they call
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And my question is, which of the climate models has modeled that in five to 10 years, solar
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panels will be nearly 100% efficient and easier to make?
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If this one thing turns out to be true, plus battery storage so that your light can be used
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And it's just one thing that science is working on.
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The other thing that could change everything is these small Oclo-like nuclear power plants,
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So the government is now all about approving these sort of standardized, smaller nuclear
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As soon as they start building a few of those, that changes everything.
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So you've got unlimited fusion energy on the way.
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Actually, one or two plants have actually been approved for building fusion.
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They're so close to it that they think they should start building the thing.
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That's a new version of nuclear, but not fusion.
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And you might have these insane solar panels, and probably all of it looks to be hitting in
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the 10 to 15-year range, would be my guess, because it just takes a while.
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But in 10 to 15 years, if we could move to that, then even if climate change was a problem,
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I don't think it is, but even if it is, we're going to be in good shape with energy.
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We might find that even if climate isn't the problem many people thought it was, and I
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think that's where we'll end up on climate, it will still be the greatest boon to humanity
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that we took energy costs from way too expensive to, oh, now it's practically a commodity.
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You're going to need that energy to be a commodity in the age of robots and self-driving cars and
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So for all the wrong reasons, we might be moving really quickly in the right direction,
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because the climate change people are going to love these new sources of energy.
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The AI and robot people are going to say, there's no limit to how much energy we need,
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So suddenly, for completely different reasons, the entire planet is on the same page about energy,
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energy, meaning that left and right would say, yes, we would prefer a world where we
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have all this clean nuclear, and finally, you know, we make the, let's say the economic
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argument for solar, we solve it in 15 years, you know, with batteries so that you don't have
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the, you know, can't watch your TV at night problem.
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And battery technology is having these huge, huge advantages, too.
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Apparently, according to PhysOrg, Will Borden Nobles III is writing about this.
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There is a small school in which they can put kids in this school, and the way they teach
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So they teach them, you know, what to do to maximize your brain.
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They teach young kids how to manage and maximize their own brain.
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So they teach them how to think critically, but they do a whole bunch of other exercises
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where they just learn sort of about their, believe it or not, their amygdala, and they
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do projects on how the brain works, and by fourth or fifth grade, they're doing that stuff,
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and they do, they have to do illustrations of how the brain works and how people learn
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Apparently, they've already demonstrated, although it's, you know, smallish samples,
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but they've demonstrated that they can get more of their kids into a college and get a
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Their low economic students, their poorest students, handily exceed the college,
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the college success of the richer students in regular schools.
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They have already built a model and demonstrated it in the real world in which the way they
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teach the kids is really teaching them how to learn, not just learning.
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They're teaching them how to learn at a level I've never seen before.
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And they've basically erased income as the major factor in how you do in life, income when
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So basically, you don't have to be a J.D. Vance genius to go from low income to Harvard
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You've got to be unusually smart to get past that low income barrier and into something else.
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But apparently, you could just randomly select people and teach them right, and they would
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The four books on the top of my shelf are written so that a 14-year-old and up, and I make sure
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that I write it with the kind of language that a 14-year-old can follow easily, but it works
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for adults, because adults like simple writing as well.
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How valuable is that if you were a teenager, to learn how to reframe all your experiences
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Winn-Bigley is teaching you persuasion instead of just logic, so you can see why persuasion
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How valuable would that be if you learned that at 14?
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How about Loser Think, where it teaches you how to avoid the bad, dumb arguments?
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Well, that's exactly what you need to know how to do.
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And then, you know, my seminal book, How to Failed Almost Everything and Still Win Big,
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is really the, I believe it's the most influential book in its genre for teaching you how to go from
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nothing to something, whatever your success looks like in your mind.
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Now, again, that was written specifically for a 14-year-old and up.
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And so, I'm all in on this concept that if you teach people how to think,
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then they can carve right through any income or other barriers.
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Probably doesn't matter too much what your age is.
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I'll bet you, I'll bet you, if you even had a prison record, but you mastered all three
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of my books, you'd probably be fine, even with a prison record.
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And when I see it, when I see a version of it, obviously, it's not based on my work.
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But when I see a like-minded version of this, working for young kids in fourth and fifth
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grade and elevating the poor kids above the rich kids, not just equal, well above, just
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Probably, this is probably the most exciting thing
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There's nothing I've seen more exciting than this.
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He wanted to come and visit me, and I didn't know if I'm healthy enough to do that, but
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I might see if he wants to stop by and do a podcast.
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Anyway, King Randall is a youngish black man who has a school for young kids, most of them
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And he's simply teaching them life skills that you wouldn't normally get, which would
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And you would just have all kinds of advantages.
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If you're a poor kid, imagine being a poor kid and learning which fork to use and where
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If you couldn't do that, that's the cap on your success right there.
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If you didn't know how to eat with proper people who could be your mentor, invested you,
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If you didn't know how to eat in a way that the other person says, oh, this person,
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You don't get a better job than somebody who can't eat in public.
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And I'd love to tell you more about that at some point.
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So OpenAI, the company is, it's the company that's beyond chat, GBT, their valuation is
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Now, the way you calculate that is because some of the current and former employees are
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And they have sold $6.6 billion worth of shares.
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That means that some number of current and former OpenAI people probably made, you know,
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If somebody already earned a billion dollars, and they've cashed it out, and it's just their
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Did they really earn that for the sakes of months they might have worked there?
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Well, probably they had to work longer to get vested.
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But maybe they really had to offer them good deals.
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Well, Tesla, like I said, is up 100% since the day that Tim Walsh was publicly celebrating
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So if you went with Tim Walsh's opinion about Tesla, you missed a 100% gain.
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And, you know, I own some of the stock, as I said.
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So you shouldn't listen to me when it comes to investments in general.
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The only thing you should listen to me about is that diversification is good.
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That's the only thing you should take from me that's just like a fact, and you should bank
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But anyway, so yeah, Tim Walsh continues to be the worst public figure in the world.
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Anyway, so I guess Elon bought a billion dollars of Tesla stock last week or something, and it
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made a big impression because it showed that he was confident in the stock.
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But speaking of stock, did you know that there's a movement, mostly from the, entirely, from
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the political right to boycott Netflix, and Elon Musk is the biggest name in that.
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So Benny Johnson was explaining why people like Elon and others are not too happy with
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Netflix's content because, as Benny explains, that Netflix is sexualizing children by packaging
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explicit, graphic, radical sex topics as children's entertainment.
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Now, I'm not going to name the titles that have been coming up as the ones that are inappropriate,
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If these entirely reasonable people, Benny Johnson, Elon Musk, tons of other people, if
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these entirely reasonable people have looked at these titles, and they have, and said, no
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freaking way you're going to put that in my house because my kids can turn on Netflix and
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And in fact, not just see it, it would be served up to them specifically.
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So, and then apparently, Elon posted that 100% of Netflix employees' donations are to the
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Well, I knew that already, but when you think of this topic, it's sort of especially meaningful,
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But apparently, they've lost, Netflix has lost 15 billion in market value since people started
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Because, you know, in effect, that's why I'm canceled.
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Because somebody decided, somebody decided on your behalf that you shouldn't see Dilbert
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Is that a good model, that the people who are the customers had no say whatsoever in whether
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Books and, you know, not the books I've republished, but the original publisher all canceled.
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But on the other hand, I also have that, what we call the internet dad energy, meaning that
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if I had young kids in the house, I would cancel it today.
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Everybody, everybody know where I'm coming from?
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If I had any young kids in my house, I would cancel Netflix, for sure.
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So, I also am going to start monitoring to see if there's even one thing I can watch on Netflix
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that I want to watch, because usually not, but something might come back.
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I'm not sure which way I'll go on that, but I guarantee if I had a kid in the house, even
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There's no way I would let a kid watch that material.
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So, the meme story just keeps getting better and better.
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So, you know the meme story, which is Hakeem Jeffries was shown in a Trump passed around
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meme, where he had a sombrero and a big fake Mexican mustache.
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And there are three of them now that all have them in that, you know, one of them includes
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Now, the beautiful part about the third one, I think it was the third one in the same vein,
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is that if you've got Trump wearing the hat and playing mariachi music, is Trump making
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And I think he even has, did he have a mustache?
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So, he put himself in the meme in, you know, almost exactly the same context as Hakeem Jeffries.
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You don't put yourself in the meme if the meme isn't, you know, meant to be a racial insult.
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So, that makes it even more fun and interesting.
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But Caitlin Collins, CNN's Caitlin Collins, is talking about how apparently the White House
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has been playing the memes on a loop over the loudspeaker in the White House for the press
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They're not, not only are they not running away from it, they're doubling down, they're
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tripling down, and they're playing it on the White House speakers.
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Now, I could not be happier about this, because CNN, one of their hosts, already called it
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And I think it was Caitlin who said, they simply don't care about the criticism.
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They just figured out that the Republicans are in breakout mode, breakout mode.
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It was the most powerful, you know, the most powerful product that the Democrats had.
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They had this one thing, this psychological wall that they built, that if you did something
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they didn't like, and it really didn't even matter, they could make a story that it was
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Oh, well, that's obviously going to affect the, you know, the brown community more than
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But by Trump and company going directly at it, like instead of running away from it, running
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toward it and saying, all right, we're going to mock this.
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So, Republicans have just experienced breakout.
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I think the Charlie Kirk thing changed everything.
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You know, I didn't know at the time that it would, but in my opinion, it changed everything.
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And what it did was it changed people from, all right, I'm still on steroids at the moment,
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so if your four-year-old is listening, cover up the ears.
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I think the Charlie Kirk thing went from, we have a preference that you would not be saying
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You're seeing it with the so-called black fatigue theme that's going around.
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And you're definitely seeing it with the Mexican sombreros.
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Although I remind you that I'll bet you will never find a single Mexican who's honest who
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So, it's a fake everything is racist thing that CNN and MSNBC does.
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And I believe that this creates the model going forward.
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Every time they do the stupid racist thing where they torture the topic until it looks
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like they can make it racist, you just turn them into a meme.
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And then when they complain, my God, you're even more racist because you turned it into
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Well, I told you that there was a, that Minneapolis had 50% of the immigrants had some kind of
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criminal, you know, outstanding criminal behavior.
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But I didn't realize that 50% of them had committed immigration fraud, New York Post is reporting.
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So, apparently, the former director of USCIS, some kind of Biden department, created a parole program
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that funneled unfettered military-age migrants into Minneapolis, establishing an Islamic enclave.
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Let's funnel the unvetted military-age migrants that have some kind of a parole program and create an Islamic enclave.
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I'm going to say more about that in a minute, but I'm going to go through this topic to get there.
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According to the post-millennial, 53% of Americans, there's a new Pew Research poll, 53% of Americans think that not having kids is bad for the nation.
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Only 53% think that it's a bad idea to not have enough kids.
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Do they understand what happens if you don't have enough kids?
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Are there really that many people who don't understand that if you don't have many kids, we're all dead, or the country's dead?
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Like, people don't really understand that, which is weird.
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I think, you know, my entire life I was told that we were overpopulated and we better have fewer kids.
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So, I think a lot of people have just been brainwashed in the, you know, we're overpopulated climate change stuff.
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So, think about how dangerous climate change has been, that it actually talked an entire civilization into killing itself by not reproducing at replacement rate.
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And, you know, it's not all climate change, but I'll bet it's, you know, a third of it.
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So, what happens, what happens if you don't have replacement rates for your own population, and at the same time, you have an immigration system that is allowing in a lot of people from other countries?
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If it's, say, a lot of people coming in from England, because they want to get away from their repressive government over there, probably they would assimilate pretty quickly.
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That would be one way to compensate for low birth rates.
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What if your people came in from an Islamic country, which there are lots of them?
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Well, that, too, would be okay if you kept that number lowish, and they were distributed around the country so that, you know, they just assimilated.
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It might take longer, but, you know, that'd be okay.
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But what would be the worst thing you could do?
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The worst thing you could do is have a low population naturally.
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While you're bringing in a lot of Islamic people and putting them in places where they will form caliphates effectively, they'll push for electing all their own people, because you don't need to have – you don't have to have a majority in, like, look at New York City.
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You just need that majority to all vote the same way, that minority to vote the same way, and then you control politics.
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So the Islamic model, where you really don't change religions, so that's a non – since you could actually be murdered by your own people if you change religions, it kind of locks you in to not assimilating, because literally, for some people, it would mean death.
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Also, if you put them in one place, like this Minneapolis model, you are designing a system that guarantees, in the long run, we become an Islamic country.
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Because the Islamic thing is not about the people, per se.
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You could call it a religion that doesn't – that is not compatible with other religions.
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The mind virus, if you put enough people who have the same mind virus in the same place, they will eventually take over your country, a little bit at a time.
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But we currently have a system, which it looks like the Trump administration is trying to undo, but the Biden administration had in place an entire system, which guaranteed we would become an Islamic country.
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Because if you simply brought in all kinds of different people at, let's say, the same rate, let's say 10% of your people coming in were from Mexico, 10% from other South America, 10% from Europe, 10% from Islamic countries, what would you end up with?
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10% probably would get you to an Islamic country.
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It's just that if you looked at it on paper, you'd say, let's see, the locals are not reproducing, and they're bringing in a lot of people.
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But, hmm, 10% might be the ones who, by their own preference, would not want to assimilate.
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If you bring a Mexican into America, and he wants to live in America and have American kids, do you think they want to assimilate?
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I mean, they might want to hold on to some of their, you know, Hispanic traditions, of course.
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Do the Islamic immigrants have the same intention and or ambition?
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I feel like their system is a different system, and it's more about making their host country more like them.
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I don't know of any situation in which a Mexican immigrant, even once, has tried to make America more like Mexico.
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Except, you know, unless they started a Mexican restaurant, but those are fun.
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They're not even trying to resist assimilation.
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But if you told me that the Islamic immigrants came here to assimilate, I would call you a liar, because I don't think that's true.
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So, we have a system that guarantees we would be Islamic, and only the Republicans can unwind it, if it's even possible.
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Well, Steve Molloy, and I saw this post by Amuse.
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In 2007, Al Gore warned that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2014.
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Well, it's now 2025, and 500,000 square kilometers more ice have been added.
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And that's about as wrong as you could possibly be.
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And the new news is that, according to Israel, Greta and her little flotilla, I think there are about 50 boats, heading with what they claim is food for Hamas.
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And some documents were found in Hamas's possession, or abandoned by them, I guess.
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And the documents suggested that Hamas is funding the flotilla and probably organizing it, too.
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And the reason for it is, you know, to make Israel look bad.
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And one of the reasons you know that they are not genuinely intending to deliver food and that the food delivery thing is a fake is that Israel already offered a way to offload that food in Italy where it's not a political event.
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And then Italy had already offered to ship the rest of it to Israel and Gaza.
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So they have a way to get all of the food to Hamas, and they've turned it down because they want to make the political statement of being, you know, turned down when they reach the border, I guess.
00:37:29.400
So Greta went from the wonder kid of climate change, which was, of course, a gigantic scam as far as we can tell, to being scammed by Hamas because she's not smart enough to figure out who funded her.
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And now she's just a dupe of a terrorist organization.
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So she went from being the most destructive person on Earth by pushing climate change.
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That would mean, literally, that makes her the most destructive person on Earth to being duped by a terrorist organization.
00:38:05.320
So I don't know how Wikipedia is going to write that up, but I think Grokipedia might get it right, if you know what I mean.
00:38:12.340
Anyway, it's possible that all data is fake, so maybe that whole story is made up.
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You know, anything from a war zone, you can't totally trust it.
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So if Israel said, oh, we found these documents, which coincidentally are right on the nose, do you believe it?
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Should you believe, Israel, that they found this thing that's just perfect?
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Oh, isn't that perfect that they found that the flotilla was funded by Hamas?
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Now, I don't know if it was or wasn't, but would you believe it because it's reported?
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The answer is you should not believe it because it was reported.
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It's exactly the kind of fake bullshit that gets made up during a war.
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I want to believe it's true because it makes a good story, but a little too good.
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It's a little too good, a little too on the nose.
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So I'm going to say that all data is fake and probably that, but we see if there's follow-up
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or we see the documents and somebody confirms the documents are real somehow, I'll change my mind.
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But right now, I'm leaning toward no, probably not true.
00:39:43.540
Well, there's a new poll that says one in three Americans now think political violence might be necessary.
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Now, all data is fake and most polls have some problems too.
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Do you believe any poll that has this high percentage of people that say that violence might be necessary?
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Do you believe, let's see, I'll give some details.
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Let's see, the support for violence is rising faster among Democrats, jumping from 12% thought
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violence might sometimes be necessary for politics to 28% in just 18 months.
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And they probably did this after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
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Imagine the number among Democrats going up for violence after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
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I mean, just try to hold that in your head for a second.
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I mean, now I believe that this poll was taken after he was assassinated, but I don't have a confirmation on it.
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So, NPR is writing about this, if you want to follow up.
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And let's see, I guess Republicans, well, Republicans still slightly outpace them at 31%.
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And then independents aren't too far behind, 25% of them, 25% say violence is all right.
00:41:19.820
Well, the 28%, as you know, is close to my magical 25%, which I say 25% of people in every poll, no matter what the topic is, no matter who does the poll, no matter who answers it, 25% of the respondents will have the most batshit, stupid answer that is possible.
00:41:42.660
I think if you call somebody and the only thing that they have to worry about is what they say on the phone, they say, oh, yeah, it's time to get violent.
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That's what you say if you're answering a poll question, because you might want that answer to be there.
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But what happens if you go to your neighbor and say, go to your Democrat neighbor and say, all right, it's go time.
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Grab your gun and meet me in the street, because we've got to start shooting the bad guys.
00:42:16.020
That guy who said, yeah, violence would be a good idea, he realizes that he doesn't own a gun.
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If he goes out in the street, he will be opposed to the people who have all the guns.
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So, do you think that that guy is going to be in favor of violence if violence was a real option in both directions?
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I've got a feeling that that 28% are just full of shit.
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You know, a few of them are going to be Antifa types that would do violence, and they're just crazy and broken, and, you know, they're just broken people.
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But the average, ordinary Democrat, they might say yes in a poll.
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They're not going to say yes if there are gunshots outside.
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You know, they're suddenly going to realize they're unarmed.
00:43:10.440
Except for the criminals, I guess, who will just be robbing the people who are trying to do something political.
00:43:31.820
What are the new technologies that will change aviation?
00:43:35.860
Well, hydrogen would be one for sure if we got there.
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I mean, hydrogen is not just an alternative fuel.
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I mean, hydrogen would change it significantly if we ever managed to break the back of that.
00:43:46.140
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00:43:55.860
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That's a big golfing thing where various countries compete against other countries.
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But the big story is that a New York PD police detective snuck in.
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And the way he did it was wearing his full police uniform with guns and everything.
00:44:32.920
And he talked his way into the highly secured area where Trump was, where Trump was.
00:44:39.560
He talked his way in without credentials just by saying he was working on Trump's security.
00:44:46.600
Do you know how they found out he had a weapon?
00:44:52.900
Somebody noticed he dropped a clip of bullets on the ground.
00:45:01.840
Now, as far as we can tell, he was just a cop who wanted to get into the show.
00:45:13.240
And he thought, oh, this would be a clever way to get up close.
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But the question is, if it was that easy to get in with a loaded gun or a gun,
00:45:52.180
So this is the kind of story that tells me that if the dictator took over one day
00:45:57.500
and the citizens, you know, by a majority wanted to take out that dictator,
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You know, the security just would do a lesser job.
00:46:13.040
Well, the Super Bowl has now their halftime entertainment,
00:46:23.640
Now, Bad Bunny, I think, does most of his music in Spanish.
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So that's the first American provocation going on right there.
00:46:36.000
I don't know if he's non-binary or what he is, but he likes wearing dresses.
00:46:39.620
And some thinking is that, is it, I don't know if this part's true,
00:46:44.840
but is Jay-Z and his production company, are they in charge of the Super Bowl,
00:46:52.500
Because some thought that Jay-Z was just sort of messing with, you know,
00:46:59.520
messing with America by doing the, what he might think is the worst, you know,
00:47:06.240
the worst choice for the Republican part of the world.
00:47:08.920
So, but, and then the reason that Bad Bunny had, was not doing any shows in America,
00:47:17.580
he's going to make this one exception for the Super Bowl,
00:47:20.020
but he wasn't doing that because he was worried that ICE would attend his shows
00:47:26.000
because there would be a large Hispanic population going to his shows.
00:47:30.480
And he's worried that ICE would sort of stand down aside
00:47:42.500
So what do you think the U.S. is going to do about that?
00:47:46.040
Well, Corey Lewandowski, who is part of Homeland Security,
00:47:53.280
he says that, yeah, ICE will definitely be at the game.
00:47:56.140
He said, there's no place that is a safe haven for people in this country illegally,
00:48:08.620
We will put you in a detention facility and we'll deport you.
00:48:11.800
So know that there's a very real situation in this administration,
00:48:15.460
which is completely contrary to how it used to be.
00:48:19.280
Now, when you first heard that Bad Bunny was concerned
00:48:23.420
and, you know, good Democrats were also concerned
00:48:26.820
that ICE might be at the Super Bowl getting Bad Bunny's fans and deported them,
00:48:37.960
oh, well, you don't want to ruin the Super Bowl,
00:48:45.060
it just seems like the wrong domain for that kind of action.
00:48:48.640
But once again, the Trump administration breaks through a wall
00:48:54.660
and basically says, oh, yeah, we're going to be at the Super Bowl all day long.
00:48:59.620
We're going to deport anybody we can get our hands on
00:49:05.100
And I got to say, every time Trump does something
00:49:08.880
that's more baller than you thought he would do,
00:49:19.980
So acting strong, I've said this before, but I'll say it again,
00:49:28.000
because there's always somebody who's, you know,
00:49:32.960
and it's going to, this is the beginning of the end,
00:49:36.120
you know, they always think that everything strong
00:49:39.320
But in the long term, and there's a new poll out
00:49:45.460
showing that Trump's popularity is going pretty far down.
00:49:52.200
I would argue that that is the mark of a change leader.
00:49:59.940
you probably have high polling numbers to get elected.
00:50:06.460
On day one, everybody is, you know, optimistic.
00:50:15.120
because it always hurts to do that much change,
00:50:18.260
the more change you introduce and the faster you introduce it,
00:50:22.080
and nobody's introduced more change than Trump is,
00:50:26.420
your popularity should drop quite a bit in the short run.
00:50:44.740
If closing the border looks cruel in the short run,
00:50:54.020
you're going to forget about all the anecdotal little stories
00:51:02.120
All you remember is that there was one president
00:51:04.800
who closed the border when the others could or didn't or wouldn't.
00:51:11.120
if you had the best president you could ever imagine,
00:51:22.400
you're going to do all these things we want you to do,
00:51:34.500
oh, I like nine out of ten things you're doing,
00:51:46.740
because people are thinking about that one thing
00:52:00.880
he would be the highest rated president of all time.
00:52:10.820
before it would be even an indication of bad news.