The Scott Adams School - 07⧸03⧸26 July 4th Weekend! The Home Team & A White Board!
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Summary
Join us as we celebrate the 4th of July with special guest Owen and Marcella! We talk about our plans for the weekend, what s going on in the world, and much more. Plus, we have some exciting news about our guest on Monday!
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Steven's back in the pole position yes you see because I didn't start early so
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Steven got in yes reclaim morning bookish here comes Marcella hi you guys
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it's a July 4th weekend are you guys ready Marcella I you got booted out
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somehow zoom connection I don't know some all right wait I feel weird with
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there i have to move you wait wait okay things have to be okay now i feel better
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marcella got deported but we brought her back in yeah oh my gosh all right so
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oh is anyone in the chat mentioning uh owen's ensemble today good morning kimaholic
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they also mentioned your books owen they said that they're they look like new books
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my books oh yeah they i think they've been changed he read them all those are all new ones
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they're more vivid okay you guys so we just we had to banter a little extra because i forgot to
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i have clothes on by the way it i i'm just moving my hair so you know i have a shirt on before i
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was like this like you couldn't see anything i'm like i have on clothes okay just so we know um so
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So anyway, we had to kill extra time because I didn't start the live stream early.
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I need to give you a little bit more of a chance to get in, everybody.
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Ooh, and I have exciting news about our guest on Monday.
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It's a little thing called the simultaneous sip.
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and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stye,
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and a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day,
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the thing that makes everything better, including a pandemic.
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Okay. So I think the pandemic sips will be over next week. Yes. We're going to get healthier and
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stronger. So good morning. I am Erica. You are at the Scott Adams School. I'm joined today with
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Owen and Marcella. I love when the home team's together. We are not Scott Adams. We are the
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We still love you too. So, all right, Owen, you look festive and ready. Marcellus, look,
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I'm in blue too. We're feeling our 4th of July. You guys have big plans for the weekends. What's
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happening? I do. I have to, well, I'm going to fireworks tomorrow and barbecue ribs or
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preparing the ribs but it means it's it's it's gonna be a special one because 250 years
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special type so i'm celebrating the whole weekend and on monday i get to see the u.s play again
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and win oh yes so and there's there's world cup games throughout there's one france is playing
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on fourth of july um so we'll see if they keep on going i'll allow that they helped us in the
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revolutionary word didn't they that's so nice of you owen what are you doing now just hanging out
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with family nothing big that's it that's all be a relaxing weekend yeah we're not big fireworks
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people i mean we've done that a bunch of times with the kids but it's just not something i
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typically like want to stay up late for and go out for and so well you know we'll watch
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the parades on tv and things like that but i feel bad for all the animals that freak out over the
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fireworks. And also for the veterans, which I heard it can be very tough for veterans
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to hear the noises, but not, but, and so, oh my gosh, you guys look at this. I love the
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Washington monument like this. Do you think they'll leave it all the time? Look at this.
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How cool. I think this should just be like a permanent thing.
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i love that don't you hope they keep that all the time i do and it'll be open now so you can
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go up to the top oh really yeah like it was under construction again bj says they finally found a
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use for it i mean i haven't been to dc to like tour anything since i was such a kid and i now
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that it's like safe again i'm thinking maybe of going so that would be nice um oh so speaking of
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the world cup we have what the our game is on monday right marcella the usa plays all right
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so did you guys see the highlights from this other game that happened i'm going to show it to you
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right now okay boys let's run operation epic balls of fury guys please don't suck maybe michael can
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sub in what okay first up we have the goat ah he gets hit in the face unbelievable what a shot
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okay we got sleepy joe up next and eating ice cream
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oh and he whips it he completely misses the ball incredible moves by fat jd here comes the meme
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legend next we have the first gay president what was that you know what
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I'll just do it myself oh looks like pretty boy is mad
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again to the dome his brain is hanging on for dear life
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okay boys let's oh my god i'm obsessed okay you guys that was from x arias underscore x he's a
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a meme master obviously um so that that might not have been real but i liked it i would definitely
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watch that game a hundred percent just that game i love fat jd so much i love fat jd um so all right
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you guys today we have whiteboard lesson for you from scott i must say he's very soft spoken in
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this one so you you know sip a little extra coffee um but it's a it's a good one they're always good
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and i always like to think how do we apply them to like what's happening today in the world and
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then Owen and Marcella have news for us. We're going to get a lot of news today. The whiteboard
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is going to be about 15 minutes. And let's just sit back and relax and soak in some Scott Adams.
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The people are realizing that there were things that used to hold us back, that used to
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limit what we could do and what our danger was and what our opportunity was,
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And once we get to a higher plane of sort of understanding
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how reality works and how people actually think
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So let me give you the best example of that recently
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so you can see that there might be a pattern developing.
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All right, so we humans have developed a number of prisons of the mind,
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things that we just imagine to be our limitations or imagine to be true,
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and it limits what we think is possible, and it limits what choices we make.
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It just looks like it because we have this pattern recognition brain.
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So anytime we see anything that reminds us of another thing,
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we say, well, there it is, history repeating again.
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History can't repeat because all the variables are changing all the time.
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So you can't ever have the same starting point you ever had in history.
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If you think it does, you're in a mental prison.
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If you think it doesn't, do you know what happens if you think that history doesn't repeat?
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Then you can become president of the United States without ever being a politician.
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If you believe that history repeats, you don't even try.
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Did he think that North Korea was unsolvable? Nope.
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Did he think he couldn't negotiate trade deals?
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Did he think he couldn't give people nicknames and win an election that way?
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Did he think that nobody could talk about immigration without being labeled a racist
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He consistently shows you that history doesn't repeat.
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The Power of Positive Thinking is very close to this.
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to the belief that you're not in a mental prison.
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if you think that the only solutions are things that are closely related to the problem.
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I'll show you how that works in a real world situation.
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you could say that white people were essentially the problem for slavery, right?
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And it required white people to do something massively different for slavery to go away.
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So in this case, the problem and the solution were very similar.
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again, even though everybody was involved in the civil rights
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and white people were kind of the solution too
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but when you get to what I would call the last mile
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in these earlier situations it was very clear what had to be done
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you have to get rid of slavery, you have to change the laws
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you have to prosecute some people who violate the laws
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so it was fairly clear what to do, what the problem was, etc
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But now you get to this last mile where things are way better, but still lots of things could be far better than they are.
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And I'll give you an example of what I mean by the fog.
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The fog is where people don't even quite agree what the problem is.
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So I saw, I think it was Sean King was tweeting around yesterday, some statistics showing that, I hope I have this right,
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An unarmed black man has something like four times more chance of being shot by police in an inappropriate shooting, whatever name they put on that.
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But an unarmed, remember, nobody has a gun in any of these examples, but an unarmed black man has a four times greater chance of being shot by police.
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Now, I lingered on that a little bit because I know many of you are throwing up in your mouths right now
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So you actually disagree on whether the statistic is correct.
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Now, I don't know if it's correct or not, but I know that a lot of you are saying something like this.
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The people watching this periscope, you're thinking to yourself,
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But wait a minute. Wouldn't it be true that the greatest number of unarmed people in general are going to be shot wherever there's the highest crime?
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So wouldn't you expect that if you're in a high crime neighborhood, unarmed people who are innocent are going to be shot at a far greater rate?
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So wouldn't the poverty rate really be the main variable here?
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And unfortunately, if more black people are in bad neighborhoods,
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of course, more innocent people of all types are going to be harmed for all reasons.
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Now, does that explain a way, Sean King's statistic?
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I've never seen an article where somebody gave that statistic
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well, but have they controlled for this variable?
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So we're coming to a point that I think will define the golden age,
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let's see if you can, does that help you see this better?
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In which we're separating the problem from the solution.
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And what I mean by that is sort of the philosophy you're seeing from Candace Owens,
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and you can Google her if you're not familiar with her.
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She's a conservative African-American woman who's become a very important voice
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because she represents a point of view that you don't see as much as you probably will in the future.
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Now what's interesting is that, and what I mean by separating the problem from the solution,
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is that the conservative view, which Candace holds, is that society has done what it can do.
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Meaning that white people have done what they can do to make the laws as close as possible,
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to enforce the laws, etc., and that the last mile, no matter whose problem it is,
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no matter who causes the problem, this is what's different.
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It doesn't matter if white people are or are not the cause of the last mile problem.
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They can do what they can do, but they're not really the solution.
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So Candace's, I would say, realization is that the problem and the solution are disconnected.
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And if you're still locked in the past, thinking that white people have to do something much different,
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you're going to be missing your opportunities, that you're thinking about it wrong,
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and therefore your solutions will be suboptimal.
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Now, let me say I'm doing the best I can to represent someone else's opinion just so I can tell the full story.
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I apologize in advance for summarizing it and maybe to the point of being slightly inaccurate.
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But the basic idea is that the conservative view that Candace seems to be a good voice for is that only the people who have the problem can fix it.
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It's not the people that did cause it or you think caused it.
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Now, there are things that can be done with funding and laws, etc.
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So there are lots of things that can and should be done.
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But the conservative view is that the big gains are how the people think about the problem themselves.
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In other words, Candace is saying that we're in the golden age already and that the biggest problem here is the way we think about the problem, because if we think about it differently, we can get to a better place.
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What was the big news of the week? Kanye West, who is famous for saying things like George Bush doesn't care about black people, for getting on stage with Taylor Swift and making a statement that Beyonce should have won and that probably racism was part of the voting.
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So somebody who has strong credentials for being an advocate for African Americans and against racism.
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So Kanye has good credentials from that point of view.
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He tweeted, I like the way Candace Owens thinks.
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is supposed to be over here, and they're not ever
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supposed to say the other one said something, right?
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repeat. He's not a prisoner of the mind. He knows that the problem is not the
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solution. Whatever you want to say about Kanye's politics,
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and I don't even know what his preferred politics would be. I'm not even sure
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what party he would run for if he ran for president at this point.
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Whatever else you want to say about him, and I don't know enough about
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But he did something that you could rarely see.
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He just made the entire conservative Twittersphere
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Now forget about which of these views you like the best.
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Forget about whether you think Candace has everything right or everything wrong.
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The story is that these two people that shouldn't be in the same conversation,
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And he just freed a lot of people from a mental prison.
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because we're thinking about things differently
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Love him or hate him, he did that for you.
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If North Korea works out, and I think it will,
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because why do we really have a beef with Iran?
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Because we don't need to be problems for each other.
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Oh, I love that little last line there about Iran.
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Because I'm watching some of the chat comments.
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And if you made this about what you think about Candace Owens today or Kanye today,
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you missed the whole entire point of the micro lesson of the whiteboard lesson maybe watch it
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again um but anyway i'm gonna come to you owen first on this one i i think it is just such a
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a smart lesson um i'll just let you take it away yeah well i mean i think it is a great lesson i
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think it's a sort of a mind shift lesson where you're you're trying to make sure you weren't
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caught in this mental prison i noticed scott was using his hypnotist voice and probably a lot of
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hypnotic techniques to try and change people's minds about this so i think it was essentially a
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you know a persuasion attempt but i think um it did all make sense to me i think it's it is often
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that you get stuck in a problem and you don't know how to solve it and a lot of times it's just some
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very different place you have to look for the solution um and if you are stuck in this well
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that's the way it's always been so that's the way it always will be then you're reinforcing it you're
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not getting out of it and um i think it was great to use the example of trump as one of those
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examples where it's like if you know if you just said a history always repeats or rhymes
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then you know if you were trump why would you even try and run for office you'd say well nobody
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ever makes president without first going through a whole bunch of other offices to get there
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and um you know trump has shown us over and over again how he's broken the mold and done things
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that no one ever thought was possible and he just does it and some of it works and some of it doesn't
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but a lot of it works and even recently like people are um amazed that oil prices are not
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like 200 a barrel like they're like what happened everybody said it was going to be 200 a barrel or
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even higher and it isn't and you know like people are saying i was wrong trump was right like
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and um you know the same thing happened with tariffs everyone's like oh it's going to cause
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this massive wave of inflation and it never did and like all the economists were wrong and um
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so i think you know it does make sense to say you might want to separate the solution from the
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problem and look for things in a different place than you've been looking before because that's
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really the only way you're going to get out of the situation that you are in, is to look for
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something new and different. So I loved it. It was great. Yeah, it is really good. Marcella?
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You know, everything's possible in this world. And the fact that, you know, I know he didn't
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talk about this in this particular lesson, but, you know, the idea of the simulation,
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and that you can author your own reality goes with this because if you don't believe that if
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you think that everything has to be a certain way you have to in order to be a great doctor you just
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have to study medicine you know so everything derives everything in scott's philosophy derives
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kind of from this because then he as a cartoonist would have never been a commentator
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politics and anything else because that's not how it works what we're told how it works is
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you have to go to college you have to go and become a political major or some kind of thing
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you have to be some kind of politician or adjacent politician. So it kind of connects
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everything. And I love the ending that he talks about Iran, because that's kind of where we are.
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And he predicted it completely right. But one of the things I do want to comment on is
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that people that feel like they've been wrong, um, or they have their, their victim mentality
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and that something's holding them back, racism or whatever, they are their own solution.
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They, uh, there's no one holding you back. You are your own solution. So that I love, you know?
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so i i agree um i i think so i want to i want to ask the chats everywhere so if if you know like
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we were saying like oh scott didn't you know used to really like bill gates and then he didn't and
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we were like yay um so are you all feeling that you're able to change your minds also because
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you know i always say it's a superpower when you get new information and you the facts have changed
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or just like you've been enlightened in a different way,
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do you guys think that you could change your opinions too
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Like if you've been publicly liking Bill Gates,
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and then you're like, oh, maybe not so much now.
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I kind of feel the same way too about not being embarrassed.
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So if you're feeling a certain way at a certain time, it is what it is.
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So a lot of you say, are saying that you can admit when you're wrong.
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I mean, I think that you're way ahead of the curve if you said yes.
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You know, so I think that when you can't, it's like the embarrassment, your ego, things
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I think it is a tough thing because you kind of invest in a certain point of view and at
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and i do think there is a natural part of human nature that once you have an impression formed
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of someone it's very hard to break um i've seen it at work i i've seen where it's worked for me
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in a positive way where when i make a positive first impression on the client they've been like
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totally trusting me and even when i make mistakes they don't even notice and like it it's just a
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totally different experience from the opposite which the you know the thing i remember the time
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i remember about this was it was the same person the same person who really trusted me and said so
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like you know basically said i don't even need to be here you've got this you can just run with it
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i don't you know i'm like you go ahead um and then i brought a new person on the team and they
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started doing things and they made a couple of mistakes early on and and the client was like i
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don't trust this person i don't i don't think they've got this i don't think we can you know
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Like, you know, I understand he didn't, you know, have the facts right a couple times, but he was new.
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And I didn't want to get rid of the person because we brought him on because we needed more help.
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But from that point on, the client was like, oh, look at this email.
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oh look at what he said on this call it was this mistake and it's like every little thing was called
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out right and i i tried but i i basically failed i couldn't save him and i had to remove him from
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the project and replace him even though it hurt the project just because i couldn't make the client
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change their mind about it and so i think it is where you get stuck in this mode it's really hard
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to say once you have a negative or a positive impression of someone to change that um and i'm
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sure i'm subject to it as well like i you know i when i thought about what you were saying it was
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it was like okay i can you know i i can think of times where i would say oh you know i kind of like
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some of the things john fetterman says you know they're common sense things but i'm still skeptical
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of john fetterman like he still votes as a democrat as far as i can tell like i'm not
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going to trust him right exactly yeah and and so you know there's a limit to how much i'm going to
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be like oh i like this you know and but i can at least call out like these things that trump said
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or did i don't like yes or these things that you know john fatterman or somebody else says i like
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and um i think the more you can be flexible and at least try and put yourself in the in the mind
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of someone else i think that's one of the things i try to do is to just say if i can understand
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you know how they might be thinking or why they might be acting the way they are not from my
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point of view but from their point of view so important and it's it's hard for a lot of people
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i think but i've developed that skill set over the course of my 30 plus years working because
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as a consultant you kind of have to and um you know i do think it's very powerful when you can
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say okay i can understand that this person you know has whatever title or position or ambitions
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or interests or goals or preferences and they're very different from mine but if i can kind of
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try that on for a minute. Maybe I can see things from that point of view, or at least closer to
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that point of view. And that would help you predict, how is that person going to respond
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if I tell them this, or if I do that? And it can make great improvements to how you relate to other
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people, I think. And the same might be true in your marriage with your spouse, with your friends,
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your family. You may have serious differences with people, but if you can see things from
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their point of view, you might be able to relate to them better. And I think that's
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really powerful as well that's a great point to drive home i don't think we do that enough you
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know like i immediately thought of hunter biden you know he thinks his dad's a freaking genius
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obviously that's his son i think joe biden's a freaking moron so but if i if i'm like how could
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hunter biden think his dad's a genius well now let me step into his shoes yeah it's his dad so
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i think we need to do that more it's just part of like i think it's maturity to just see where
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someone else is coming from personally. So it might be a good exercise. The next time you have
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a knee jerk reaction to someone's opinion, we'll look at it from their vantage point. And then I
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think, you know, we won't get as upset about things because we're like, well, their vantage
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point is this, I don't know that, you know, they have a different view. What do you think, Marcella?
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Well, I don't think you're going back to what we were talking about earlier. I don't think your
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your intelligence uh is measured by who you liked or didn't like i liked donald ronsvelt before
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i did too i voted for bush um so um you could you could be wrong or at the moment in time that
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could have been a great thing and then the person also changes because as you're changing they're
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changing too so then the the you're liking them also changes yeah so everything's happening all
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at once um and i just think uh you just have to believe in yourself and and don't don't be a
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prisoner you know don't be a prisoner of of or an mpc because some of these comments hit that i've
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seen in the chat a little bit mpc like yeah so think think think differently think for yourself
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so and that's another really good point so your opinions change as you hopefully evolve and grow
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the other person who you're thinking about they changed like i mean there's people i couldn't
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stand and i'm like oh my god now i love this person like they're so different and i'm different
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and i get where they're coming from and you know whatever and then maybe they make a left turn i'm
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like wah, wah. But it doesn't mean I have to hate everything about them either. I think there's a
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lot of nuance. And that's why I asked, do you guys think that you have the ability to change your
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opinion? Because I don't know if it's as easy as some of you may think it is. And I think if you
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were challenged with information that really went against something you were dug into, you might
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find it a little more difficult, which is fine. You're only human. But I think it's a little
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harder than people think it is. And I think if we, this is just a suggestion for anyone over on
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YouTube who's going to say, stop telling me what to think. I see your comments. Oh my Lord, like
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relax people, but it might be a good MK ultra. It might be a good practice to say, do I really
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hate everything about this? Or is it like this thing that I hate? You know, does this make
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somebody stupid? Or is it just that I disagree with the topic? And I think when we parse out
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the nuance, we'll be happier. I just think we'll be happier. We won't get so dug in.
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Any more on this subject, you guys? Otherwise, we'll go to the news.
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Owen, are you ready? All right. Let's do an interstitial sip and just let's hear about
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this guy for america we're watching that if you don't do the sip oh no we can see you you guys
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know that right we can see you owen set it up for us okay so have a sip while we listen to this guy
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talk about america hey you know the europeans are coming over here for the world cup soccer games
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and they never come over here but they're here now and they're finding out that texas has the
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best barbecue on the face of the planet and then they're going home and they're posting all over
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social media about america being the greatest country there is yep you know what they're right
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and you know what else is so great about america bald eagles donald trump huge death 35 american
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football college football beef so much beef bearing an f-255 feet in mud just because you can
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watermelons every type of hunting and fishing you could ever dream of stone cold steve austin
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smith and wesson the 1990s chicago bulls yingling beer a guy named jack daniels u.s airborne
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paratroopers the second amendment we put a man on the moon you know and we did it without using
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the metric system air conditioning that'll freeze you out in the middle of august drive through
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everything costco two-day shipping coca-cola waffle house at three in the morning red solo
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cups monster trucks bottomless chips and salsa fireworks that are technically illegal but
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nobody's really going to say nothing about it cheeseburgers the size of a newborn john deere
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green 35 again we don't use the metric system and we turned out fine brisket so good and make a
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frenchman cry the bald eagle could actually eat you if he wanted to he just don't care to so yeah
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y'all come on over and enjoy enjoy it all live it up baby live it up because that's what we do
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every day last thing america's always been great have a good wednesday usa baby
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i love it i love him i think my favorite one was john deere green i don't know why but
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yes i love this man i still need to try the waffle house i went in the morning
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or at any time because i've never been to one go midday you've never been to a waffle house
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no there isn't one near here you have to go to florida
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yeah i would have to travel is there one in florida is there one in florida is that what
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you said yeah there's like 800 million in florida it's like the home of waffle house i don't know
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where waffle house started but there's like one in every wacky neighborhood in florida yes see
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the chat's like waffle house let's go a thousand yes a thousand okay so you mentioned bucky's i
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think you might have missed that one he didn't say bucky's but i haven't been to a bucky's
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there's not one near us i mean or anywhere near me i think uh maybe five states away okay so
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let's go america um owen you want to kick us off with the news story
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oh i could probably do that apparently giraffes can do math did you know that better than me i
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bet they did some kind of experiment where they uh like added carrots together to like put them
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behind where they couldn't see but with different like they would show how many they had and put
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them together and they would see if they could do the math to see the addition would make what
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one side bigger than the other and apparently they could they could figure out the addition
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to figure out which one they should go after apparently they struggled with subtraction for
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some reason so they couldn't do it the other way if you take carrots away but i don't know
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they probably just upset the giraffes by taking the carrots away so oh yeah i can understand
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but apparently giraffes are smarter than we thought no i don't think they can do math they
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just see an amount of food that they want well so look it was university of barcelona i don't know
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how they got funding for this um they they took so what they did is they showed giraffes two
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containers holding different number of carrots and then they closed them and then they showed
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them a third container with extra carrots which were added to one of the closed boxes and so I
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think they then asked the giraffes to choose and you know which one was the larger total basically
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and it seemed like they were able to do that math where they could say okay if you know if you had a
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smaller amount and a larger amount and you add a third amount they could do the math to say which
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one's bigger marcella what would scott say about this study um i don't know you say who funded it
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right like a big giraffe probably funded it or big carrot i'm wondering all of the money i guess
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like what's the purpose of this i mean we need to show that that animals are smarter than we
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thought they were i think they were saying they could potentially do you know statistical
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reasoning similar to primates oh we already know this is going to help us moving forward in life
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this reminds me of the the news there was recently wasn't there recently a giraffe that
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like escaped some kind of zoo in texas and they couldn't find their giraffe for like the longest
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time which is like how do you not find a giraffe and then they found it they don't know how to get
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it back to where they had to get it back to they need like a special trailer they're like you can't
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You can't just like put it in the back of your car and take it home.
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He could have told them how to get it back.
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I thought we'd start out with something light like that.
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So as we know, tomorrow will be 250 years of the nation.
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And so there'll be celebrations even today and tomorrow.
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But the funniest part about the whole situation is the way that CNN and the left is taking it.
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They usually show the 4th of July fireworks and everything else in D.C.
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But they have moved it to Williamsburg, Virginia, because one thing they said that the D.C. wasn't there in 1776 and that also Trump is ruining the celebrations.
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So they moved everything over there. And the CNN is making it to be Trump took over D.C. and that he's making it all about himself and he's making it into a Trump rally.
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So even even the even the easiest things that we can all connect with, they try to figure out a way to make it political.
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So today he'll be, President Trump will be tonight at Mount Rushmore to honor and look at Freedom 250.
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I think there's going to be some kind of statue he's doing.
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But I remember seeing that he was talking to Teddy Roosevelt because I guess there was a museum that was open.
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um it was teddy roosevelt's presidential library yes finally it was opened in it wasn't in new york
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so it was opened in near mount rushmore um because he came president roosevelt came from
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the new york area so they were attempting to open it there but there was this huge issue with like
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they didn't agree with it so then they ended up opening it there but i digress so they'll be the
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biggest fireworks will be amount the the largest fireworks the greatest fireworks in history
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will be tomorrow uh for the national mall so if anybody's going you got to take video for us
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and if you are in the left i guess you go to williamsburg um oh yeah yeah so the left goes
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to bloomsburg um and is that where span burger is in virginia yeah yeah okay so oh yeah did you
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guys see the rough riders escorting uh president trump yes that's that was and i can tell you san
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diego over there in cali i heard that they were having their firework show and the first i think
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it i think the festivities started at like 5 45 let's say or they're starting at 5 45 p.m
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and from 5 45 till like eight o'clock it's all like land acknowledgements um talking about
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different people like what do the asians you know want to talk about what are the this and it's like
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oh my god like again you're missing the opportunity we're all americans let's just go after it so
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very interesting options for the 250. let's just have the whole celebration in williamsburg be
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like that just all land acknowledgements we'll hand out free floggings to people yeah you know
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tell people that you know all the things that they want to hear be fun to flog guess who's behind
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this whole williamsburg thing i was very surprised carly fiorina was the honorary chair of this
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virginia 250 that doesn't surprise me colonial williamsburg foundation she thinks it's fair to
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say the Trump rally is not appealing to all Americans.
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to give complainy speeches and wine for an hour?
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Do you want to do the Scott Adams post or do you want to wait for that?
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Greg Gutfeld and a few other people had retweeted a post from Scott.
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This is from 2024, February, and so I'll just read it to you.
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He says, I finally figured out what's wrong with, quote, everything.
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The introduction of Trump into the systems broke almost everything and in multiple ways.
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The fake news created the white supremacist hysteria, which led to the fine people hoax
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and the George Floyd hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence
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The corrective mechanism, free speech, has been removed.
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on top of that the trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt
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they probably always were but as long as we didn't notice things things limped along okay
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now we notice now we don't accept quote the science we know is corrupt we don't accept the
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omnibus bills we know are corrupt we don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy we don't accept
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elections we can't fully audit we don't trust the news for good reason we don't trust our intel
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services to not be agents of one party and we see the justice departments weaponized while all of
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that happened soros found a way to take control of all american systems via funding of non-government
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entities and integrating them into the american systems but at the head of the snake is the fake
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news and fake science there is no correcting mechanism the x platform is the only counterforce
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and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out and musk at the same time
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so good yes it did age very well um and i was saying to owen before that was like an unusually
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long post for scott so you know he really felt a certain way about getting that message out there
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i love it i mean what else is there to say about it i think it's pretty accurate and it seems like
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it's played out exactly the way he was describing it um and you know i think a lot of it is that
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just a lot of the machinery has been exposed to the point where you can't really trust anything
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that's going on you can't overstate how important of a miracle it was that elon ended up with
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twitter because i mean you know you have to remember one time he tried to back out of it
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and then they're like no we're not going to let you well they almost like everybody blew it they
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They almost had the chance to have him not get it.
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So we owe Elon a debt of gratitude, no matter what you feel about him.
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But he's always advancing us for the good of humanity.
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So I grabbed the clip because, yep, here it is.
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Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with TDS?
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Fortunately, I'm Dr. Trump, and I have a treatment plan.
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Let's hear what some of my patients have to say.
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I have been suffering for over a decade, and after listening to Dr. Trump, I can see some results.
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I really didn't believe that was help out there.
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This was going to affect me for the rest of my life.
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But after using the treatment plan, I can see a difference.
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I really wasn't sure I could help some of these people.
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I had no idea how much this was affecting my life.
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I feel like I've aged 20 years in the last two years.
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I was really starting to worry about my future.
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Say your prayers, and if you ever feel anxious, just have a Diet Coke like me,
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and you're going to see a remarkable difference in your life.
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Dr. Drew is going to freak out if people start recommending Diet Cokes for people,
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I miss being able to have the left and the right be able to make fun of each other,
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you know it used to be that you could make jokes and yeah they're gonna take it
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oh how dare he may how dare he post this video this ai video of us and all sorts of things
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and you know sometimes you just have to laugh you know about somebody making fun of you or
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and then you can make fun of them did eddie murphy was it eddie murphy that said
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have a diet coke and i'll say a smile or something like that anyway yeah we need like a a maga diet
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coke commercial like everyone handing one to like a crying lefty here you go have a coke and a smile
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um so there was dr trump owen in the flesh right there perfect okay so so well dressed i know
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and so well spoken and thoughtful very nice um you think eddie murphy is a conservative secretly
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maybe come out of the closet eddie trump should put on the doctor coat and the stethoscope for
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the next pandemic no there's no next pandemic god owen owen owen is playing the market as there's
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going to be one all right oh and give us the next story well in the wake of the disastrous
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birthright citizenship ruling um ice has arrested 10 000 illegal aliens in the last five days
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um so apparently it's a big surge and it's helped helped by funding from the big beautiful bill
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so we're getting a bunch of people out and um there's also a
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a law being proposed to curb the birth tourism industry so it seems like people are trying to
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take action at least to mitigate the problem I don't think it's a full solution but it might
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might help maybe it ties into what Scott was saying is that you know you might have to look
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somewhere else for the solution but there's an oversight project that's arguing that the
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ruling allows for the creation of these anchor babies and it looks like they're trying to you
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know put measures in place I think some laws are being proposed to try and make it illegal for
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people to come here to have their babies basically because I think some of this is very organized
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I know we've seen stories recently about some Chinese places that are bringing you know women
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here and having lots and lots of babies to just bring back to China and you know so they're raised
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in other countries. They're indoctrinated by the other countries, but they are brought here when
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they're babies just so they're American citizens. And it does seem like a ticking time bomb until
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potentially you'd have someone like the CCP being able to say, I'm going to just send all these
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people to, you know, Ohio or Pennsylvania or some swing state and just decide what the election's
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going to be. And so I think we do need to put a stop to a lot of this. So I'm glad people are
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trying to take action. I don't know how much of it's going to work, but. You know, right when you
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said that so all right so 10 000 in the last five days all right you guys i just ran and grabbed
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this clip that i had saved also look at this we only have a couple minutes but wait look at this
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and think about what owen's saying i know it's not my baby the child growing inside audra anderson
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will be going to parents in china who are the future parents of of this child you're carrying
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right now? A Chinese gay couple. And they are the most wonderful people that I know.
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They are loving and caring. And if I didn't think that, I wouldn't have given them two
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wonderful children. Anderson's surrogate pregnancy is not unusual. A growing number of women in the
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U.S. are becoming surrogates for wealthy Chinese couples. Agencies like West Coast Surrogacy in
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Irvine, California, are seeing a large influx of customers from overseas. In fact, 40 percent of
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their clients are from China. For one, their child will be a U.S. citizen. I'm sure that has some
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some draw to it. There are other American companies trying to get in on this growing
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surrogacy industry. Unlike international adoption, there are very few rules governing international
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surrogacy here in a small desert town in southern california audra anderson says she's already
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considering carrying a third surrogate child she can earn from 35 to 45 000 for each baby
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okay listen i don't have any children but it would take like at least 500 000 for me to do that okay
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just letting you know 30 000 please anyway um what are we doing so that was from 2015 but apparently
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this is like a still growing i guess we'll call it big china baby industry um because they're
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they're giving birth to american citizens and then giving them to people in china
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do you remember the time where like people who uh that couldn't have children were adopting chinese
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children in america and then they had their so i mean i guess we can always adopt chinese children
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yes we can just become one country then uh can we
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all right well that prisons i mean listen ice i you know i wish them luck all right so we have
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two minutes andy wang is telling me thank you andy by the way thank you for every day for telling
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me um marcella do you want to give us a quick little something something i don't have anything
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quick i um just a neural link came up with the new way to do brain surgery um so that was amazing
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their their neural link is an elon musk company and with brain um they had a brain surgery where
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now they don't have to cut into your brain the dura of the top of your brain uh they can
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you know be able to see what's in there before so they can operate in a very surgical effective
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manner and it's gonna change uh brain surgery and how operations are done so it's like amazing
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and the operation they had was successful and the person they operated on they added um it was
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extremely precise and the operation was done in toronto western hospital university health network
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and the person was able to control a computer cursor with their thoughts within about an hour
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after the surgery amazing remarkable it's changing people that have als people that have
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all sorts of other uh brain paralysis paralysis issues yes dr von hardy first of all thank you
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for our thumbnail today the mount rushmore thumbnail and did you actually say why the
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strict one hour because we all have jobs silly goose um you guys were at the hour but guess
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what guess who's coming on on monday are you ready one of your favorites walter kern
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woohoo he'll be with us monday yes he will yes he will and we might talk some mk ultra with him
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he's another person that's into it um so i hope you guys are excited about that um listen i will
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play an akira song right after our closing sips and owen will have his after party tomorrow owen
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you want to tell them when it's at the same time as the show so that would be uh 7 a.m pacific 10
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am eastern or wherever you are you can do the math and they can find if you're a giraffe
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the giraffe will find the giraffes will be there early it'll be super patriotic right
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of course it always is but lots of singing we'll have the sip and we'll talk about the news
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and i think owen's singing the um national anthem tomorrow so don't miss that don't miss
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that that'll be on x at owen gregorian at owen gregorian okay you're gonna get up early for
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walter yes you are let's go all right you guys so listen have a safe and um amazing super patriotic
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fourth of july weekend and if you're not an american celebrate anyway because america loves
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you too okay all right so let's thank scott and shelly for allowing this show to continue we thank
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every one of you for being here today and we'll see you back here monday and let's have a closing
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sip to our beloved scott adams to scott to scott all right guys let's see we are going to do
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the payoff by akira the dawn you guys please support akira the dawn at meaning wave.com
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laziness by simply developing a habit of thinking more about let's say the delicious food that you
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like to enjoy instead of how long it would take you to get up and go get it. But the real question
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is if you were to test this at home and try to see if you can think more about the good outcome
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and less about the work, would you get it done? What if laziness is a habit of thinking about
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The cost of things, or the effort, instead of thinking about the payoff.
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Why is it that people have a second child?
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Why does a woman who goes through this awful, awful childbirth
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If I remembered how bad this was, I wouldn't do it again.
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So the not thinking about the effort is vital to actually the survival of humanity.
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If we focused on how hard it was to have a baby, you just wouldn't do it.
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But if you focus on how awesome it would be to have a family, well, there you go.
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you're gonna go through the pain because you've already you've already committed
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you're gonna go through the pain because you've already you've already committed
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what if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort
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Am I ambitious or do I simply have a thinking habit which produces dopamine because I'm thinking about the positive outcome?
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And is the dopamine the thing that gets me up and moving?
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And when you're observing me, you say, how the hell do you get so much done?
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I think it's just this. I think it's just this.
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When I think of all the things I do, I think about them in terms of their benefits.
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What if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort
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love it yes a toast to our forefathers you guys all right we'll see you monday happy fourth
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oh my god look who's all chatty caddy bye guys bye