#135: Ephraim Herschmann / RIP Bobby Weir / Absurdity of Life and Laughter / Trump’s 1st Year

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Welcome to another episode of
come together.

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What is up everyone?
We're back for another episode.

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I'm feeling clear today and than
I have in a long time and oh

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man, well, I have a bunch of
episodes planned for hopefully

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this week and the coming weeks.
But I had so much my mind and

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particularly last night I found
out that at least last night I

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saw that Bob Weir, Bobby Weir
from the Grateful Dead passed

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away.
And Bobby Weir was the rhythm

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player, one of the founding
members of the band.

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And at 78 when he died, was one
of the he was the younger, he

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was the youngest member of the
band.

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I think he was only 17 when he
joined.

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And he walked into a music shop
and heard Jerry Garcia playing

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banjo and decided to stop in and
see who it was and introduce

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himself.
And from there, arguably, excuse

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me, came some of the greatest
and most impactful cosmic music

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in American history, American
culture.

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I mean, the, the, the radical
dynamic shift that the Grateful

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Hat, Grateful Dead had on
America, on music, on the

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culture, on the zeitgeist.
And what's cool is in a lasting

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way, it lasts generation after
generation after generation.

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Jerry Garcia died over 30 years
ago.

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And they've been playing the
same and the band has been

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playing the same music.
And there's cover bands

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everywhere you go.
Any state, any city, in any

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state around the country,
there's people rolling through

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playing Grateful Dead music and
bands that are jamming.

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And I mean, it's influence.
They've influenced music from

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country to bluegrass to to rock
to jazz.

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And of course they have used to
have their own inspirations.

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But he, you know, Bobby Weir was
a writer and amazing musician

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and always it was the cosmic kid
in the sense that he was, he's

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almost like a cosmic cowboy.
He was always very Spacey,

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allegedly.
And again, I don't know, I would

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have, I'd never had a chance to
know him.

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But from what I've read about
him and from interviews I've

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seen and from even his own
lyrics and his own songs,

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there's there's really something
He was rebellious and

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adventurous.
And I think at a certain point,

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and obviously this probably had
a lot to do with a lot of

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psychedelics at a very early
point in his life.

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I think the barrier between fear
and insecurity or not knowing, I

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think that typically for most
people, that relationship is

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very, very closely tied
together.

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We're generally afraid of things
that we don't know.

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We are generally terrified of
the notion of something that is

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beyond our comfort or something
that we feel that we can

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manipulate or control.
By the way, not even like in a

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like very negative way at all.
I mean, if you're having a

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conversation and you want to
manipulate your way to the end

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of an argument, it's very easy
to do so.

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And if you trust your social
skills enough, then you'll trust

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that even if you get into a
confrontation with someone that

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you can navigate your way out of
it without getting harmed or

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without too hard of a time.
And so at a certain point, you

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know, people with social
anxiety, for example, would

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probably feel that same concern
because they feel like they

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would, they don't have their the
grasp of the situation, they

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don't have control over the
situation.

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And at a certain point, we have
to realize if you're thoughtful

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enough that we don't really have
control over anything and we

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only like to feel that we do.
And obviously the thing that we

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do control, and it's a famous
expression, but it's famous for

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a reason, is you can only
control your real, your reaction

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to things rather than anything
else.

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And if I think that we have this
instinct is very primitive and

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very primal instinct to want to
control.

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And if we can't control, then we
don't want to engage in it.

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And I think that with enough
work, you can break it.

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And I think with enough work,
you can become familiar enough

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with the unknown.
And, and that's why a lot of

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people are so afraid of dying.
And that's why, myself included,

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the reason why we're so afraid
of death is because it's the one

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thing that we, no one can
control or no one knows anything

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about it.
No one really is certain about

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and that makes us inherently
uncomfortable.

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But if you're like Bobby Weir
and you like you trust that the

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path has been great and the path
has been full of cosmic

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serendipity and incredible
fortune and communication of

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souls throughout space and time
and all these esoteric wild

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ideas that he and I can say this
with confidence because I've

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experienced myself experienced
with genuine and authentic

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sincerity.
We really experienced this kind

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of cosmic energy in a tangible
way that you have to know that

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it's true, but without having
the actual means of measuring it

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yet necessarily.
And I think that's what we're

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working towards.
And I think that's actually what

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we're getting towards as a as a
species.

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And, and I think that he is a
prime example of someone that

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just disconnected the fear and
said, you know what fear is

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almost like always ego related,
almost control related to

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control.
I don't have that.

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And so I'm not going to fear
dying.

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And I'm looking forward to it.
It's going to be a trip.

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It's going to be an adventure.
I can't do it.

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You know, it's going to happens
to everyone anyway.

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And what are you going to do?
And it's, you know, and

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obviously, you know, his impact
was enormous.

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And the truth is that it's
probably better off for him

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because he'll be remembered as
the young Bobby Weir probably,

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and not the old Robin Hood that
from the old Disney cartoon

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movie that he looks like
nowadays or that he looked like

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rather, you know, but a very
vibrant, adventurous and curious

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soul.
Really, really, really.

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We're going to, I'm going to,
I'm going to miss knowing that

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that kind of spirit is around
this world.

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The other thing I, I mean, that
comes to mind is also the fact

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that at a certain point you have
to have a sense of humor.

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You know, when you, when you
admit that everything is kind of

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up in the air and life, if you
believe in God, if you believe

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in the universe, if you believe
in fate, if you believe in.

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And these are all kind of
synonymous, I think from a

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philosophical perspective.
And then there's just different

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names or tags that we prescribe
to them.

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But you know, as a concept,
they're pretty, they're pretty

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similar.
I would say it's not completely

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synonymous.
And there's always this

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underlying sense of humor with
the fact that we don't know why

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is what's happening is
happening, but we kind of know

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that it's going to work out.
And we're laughing at how far it

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is from our ridiculously limited
perspectives.

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And again, as human beings,
we're really just confined to

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our perception and our
experiences and our memories and

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associations.
And that's, that's it, you know?

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And so it's really easy to, it's
really easy to get yourself

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worked up and then remind
yourself that there's so much to

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the picture.
There's so much to the grand

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scheme of things that we just
don't know and that we just

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can't even fathom.
And so there's this kind of

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universal laughter at
everything, at the good and the

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bad and the ugly and the sad.
And there's like this, I don't

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even know why this is happening,
but it's going to make sense and

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it doesn't make sense now, you
know, And it's the famous

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Springsteen sentiment.
Someday we'll look back on this

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and it will all seem funny, you
know, and I keep on saying, you

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know, I have to cut that out.
But I think that I think that

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it's important.
I think.

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And this actually goes into
something that been that's been

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quite on my mind, quite heavily
on my mind actually recently,

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because as I've been keeping up
with the news and learning about

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more about the world, I've been
learning a lot, particularly in

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the field of geography,
political economics and the

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relationship.
And how obviously the, you know,

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this free market capitalism and
this never ending corporate

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greed or corporatocracy greed,
the corporations, the banks and

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the governments of the
leadership of the world that

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that they almost like, there's
almost like this insatiable

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search for money and power and
no matter what the cost.

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And it is inherently sociopathic
behaviour because it's not an

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individual that's acting, it's a
collection.

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And collections don't, aren't
subject to human feelings like

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guilt or like wistfulness or
like nostalgia or anything and,

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or even loyalty.
I mean, these are, these are

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human experiences and these are,
and these are human traits.

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And corporations and big
companies and governments don't

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act like that because they're
not humans.

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I mean, you can't even expect
that of them.

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And there's a bit, I've been a
big advocate recently.

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I've been trying to help people
or my friends or family around

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me whenever people are let down,
even my students actually, and I

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try to tell them that when
you're dealing with the world

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around you, a lot of times the
reason why we get upset or

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disappointed about anything in
particular is because we feel

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like it's not fair.
We feel like it doesn't match up

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to what our percept perception
of what reality should be is.

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And that upsets us.
And that really is frustrating.

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And I totally get it because I
get upset too.

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And what really helps a lot is
to be consciously aware of the

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yardstick of the person or thing
that you're dealing with.

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So for example, if I'm talking
to a 5 year old and I'm getting

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upset that they're not
understanding the, the concept

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of, you know, geography having
an impact on as to, you know, a

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country's history and why they,
why they're so particularly

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war-torn or so poor or always
being abused or conquered by

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other people.
And it's, it's really easy to

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get frustrated until you
remember that you're dealing

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with a 5 year old and you got to
be like, hey, man, you're a 5

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year old.
I don't have to.

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I, I, I, I, you know, there's a
lot that you have to understand

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first and a lot you probably
won't even be able to understand

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because your brain isn't
developed enough to that point,

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or you haven't learned to look
at things from that way, or you

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don't even know what geography,
the word geography means.

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So the point being that I think
that so many times we have to

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kind of be willing to, we have
to not necessarily step out of

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the person's shoes, but we have
to understand who we're talking

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to and then what they really are
capable of in the moment that

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we're dealing with things.
And even though, and I kind of

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forgot why I started even
talking about that, but things

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are funny things.
Things just turn out funny and

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we tend to get caught up in
getting frustrated about the,

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you know, how the world isn't
caught up to what we want it to

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be.
When I think that if we just

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kind of look at things as, oh,
that's funny.

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And I wonder what to do with
that now.

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And I guess I'm misunderstanding
what.

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I guess I misunderstood what
reality really was like because

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I didn't take that into
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And so if I didn't take that
into consideration, what else am

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I missing out on?
And I think that if most people

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learn to kind of think like that
with a little bit more humility

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and a little bit more modesty,
it'll be better for the world

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because we try to understand one
another a little bit more.

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But I think it's also more fun
and beneficial to us because it

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allows us to experience or play,
let's say, mind, not mind games,

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but thought experiments and
think about different aspects of

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reality.
And then you can eventually

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like, you know, you might
discover something great, you

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might discover something new.
You might be on top of you might

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really change, change the world
and or learn how to perceive

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reality in a way that you never
ever have.

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I think that's really what we
need.

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I think that a lot of people are
feeling stale.

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A lot of people are feeling like
their life is uniform and the

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information that we're consuming
is more being fed to us rather

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than being chosen by us.
We're not.

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We don't have a hand in
directing our consciousness and

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our journey and our
understanding of what life is

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like.
And instead, we all kind of have

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the feeling, you know, that
we're stuck in the algorithm,

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that we're stuck, that we're
stuck constantly not being able

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to understand one another.
And I think that it's really,

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really important to be able to
take a step back and just admit

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and laugh like Bob Weir and say,
man, I don't know, man.

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I mean, this is all weird.
This is all strange.

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And I've been here for 78 years,
and I have no idea what's going

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forward to it.
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I said the twice already, but I
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really sad.
That's such a great band and

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that's such a big impact on so
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tribute to them, we have to just
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little bit more open.
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want to talk also because it's
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But I have been, I was, I've
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about this.
I was really, really critical of

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Trump's first year until very
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think that I kind of fell into
my, this own trap that I'm

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talking about where I think that
my perception was being guided

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by other people rather than my
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lot of podcasts and reading a
lot of news articles and posts

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and stuff like that, that would
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what I think about my, about
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as a thought process.
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myself because I, because I do,
I mean, I think we all people

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all have a tendency to do this,
but I definitely have a tendency

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to get caught up in this.
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myself, and I do ask myself,
like, what do you really mean by

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how do you back that up?
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is that is what you're saying
really, really what it is or how

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do you know that?
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answer is, I don't know, then
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I'm definitely far, far, far
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biggest, the biggest frustration
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this newest or the second Trump
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ran on this kind of platform of
of quote UN quote, America first

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and doing things that are good
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executive orders and some things
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some things changed, some things
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tornado.
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that bigger pictures are are
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bunch of months back.
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also keep in mind that we are we
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think way more long term and,
and have a far greater vision

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than what a lot of commentators
or a lot of just creators and

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people that and, and you know,
newscasters.

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I guess I, however you want to
have you want to phrase the

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people that, that disseminate
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country.
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short term, think on a very
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News is so big and moves so
frequently, so quickly, and

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stories just turn over at such
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much effort to keep up with the
sheer size and relevance of so

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many stories that we kind of
forget that it's all part of a

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bigger picture and a bigger
plan.

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Maybe.
And maybe he is.

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Maybe he isn't.
I think that this Marco Rubio

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dude is fucking brilliant.
I think that I don't know if I

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agree with everything he says.
I don't know if I agree with

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everything he does.
I think that guy is a lot

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smarter than.
I mean, no one really ever calls

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him bad.
It's really interesting.

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I mean, his entire, I guess the,
the whole like meme ability

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about him, the everything, the,
the part of it everyone makes

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fun of is the fact that he kind
of wears all these hats.

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But I think that that's more of
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And he's really, that's why he's
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There's a post of the day where
the Dolphins had recently fired

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their head coach.
It's the beginning of January,

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the end of the season, I guess
in 2025, early 2026.

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And Marco Rubio addressed.
I just want to say I don't

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ordinarily address online, you
know, new circulations, but I

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have to just come out and
acknowledge this one that I

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indeed will not be filling in as
the general manager and the head

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coach of the Miami Dolphins.
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linked to a re or tweet posted
tweet quoted rather to the to a

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meme of him, you know, in a
football helmet realizing that

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he's going to be the new
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And so if the worst and you
know, and so and the worst

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criticism that people can really
say of him is that he has a

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history of being a neo con,
which again, due to our extreme

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news and extreme rhetoric and
extreme radicalized policies,

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words like neo con take on a
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But but they have varying
degrees of what they how they

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can manifest in the degrees in
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philosophy.
You know, how strongly people

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believe in it.
And Marco Rubio seems to be

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extremely, extremely practical.
And, you know, I've been

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listening to a good man.
I happen to be a big fan of

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Glenn Greenwald.
I, I mean, it's hard for me to

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listen to how he really is a
critic of Israel and really, it

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really does not like the Zionist
state of Israel and.

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I, you know, once I know that he
really goes after them and it's,

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it's hard for me to listen to
some of his content, even though

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a lot of it hurts because a lot
of it has a lot of truth to it

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as far as criticism go.
And I think that it's important

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that we can, if we dish it, we
got able to take it.

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something that is fairly called

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out, I think that it's important
to at least acknowledge and not

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just shove into the carpet.
But that's another conversation.

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he does, you know, really,

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really well is he is very, very
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But he has his impression, and
again, probably has more than a

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grain of truth to it, that Marco
Rubio is particularly invested

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in the Venezuela conflict
because he's Cuban and there

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he's personally invested in
seeing the government being

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overthrown.
And maybe he's right, but I

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think that also it's really,
really, really important to to

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point out and to be fair, give
credit where credit's due.

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And here's the fact we just came
off of 20 of literally, I mean,

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aside from 25 years of war in
the Middle East, almost 100

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straight years of war that the
United States was involved in.

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And we are currently paying some
of the economic prices.

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We're paying the social prices,
We're paying the prices and

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lives of veteran PTSD veterans,
PTSD, drug abuse.

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I mean, you know, there, there
there is no end to the potential

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consequences of constantly being
at war for 100 years and what

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what that could do to our
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I think there's a lot of people,

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a lot of young people below the
age of 40 or 50, I would say.

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accepted that war in general.
There's there's very little

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appetite for going through, I
mean, you know, through cities

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and killing civilians and going
through, you know, and, and, and

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just occupying the streets of
countries they're going to war

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for.
And the reasons are based on a

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whole bunch of lies.
And, you know, and if they are

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based on truth, and it was, you
know, what's fun about this

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particular Trump scenario is
that Trump said with Venezuela,

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it's about the oils.
We got about the oil.

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Rather we got the oil.
And if you haven't listened to

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my episode with Padre from a
couple of days ago, you should

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go back and listen to it because
he talks out and outlines

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exactly how this can also
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economically relative to China.
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not, we're in competition with
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Whether we like it or not.
There is a war of sorts, not a

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military war, but intelligence
war and economic war, political

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war between America and China
that's been going on for a very

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long time.
And Taiwan, which is the creator

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of so many probably almost the
sole creator of the chips that

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are that the AI is dependent on,
you know, Trump just doesn't

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just can't have China can take
Taiwan.

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And so by cutting off Venezuelan
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which cover, which is about 70%
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cutting that off from China and
taking the oil instead and

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redirecting the flow of oil A is
a great economic decision of oil

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has to get cheaper.
As Tim Dillon pointed out this

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weekend, oil, you can't go ahead
and kidnap presidents if the

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consequence is not that the
thing that you reason why you

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did.
This doesn't happen, right?

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If this is about oil, then oil
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You can't just post massive
market gains for the oil

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companies and then everyone's
still paying the same amount of

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oil and everyone's still pissed
off and grumbling about it,

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which might happen.
You never know.

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I mean, you kind of hope not.
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also wouldn't be surprised if
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But yeah.
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then it's also good as far as
our potential, our own economy

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is concerned, because if if
China takes control of Taiwan

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and all the AI, the chips that
power AI are under China's rule.

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And we're really betting for our
economic future on AI and

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robotics.
Like that's really what what

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America is focusing on
manufacturing cars too with

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Tesla.
But I mean, like, as far as

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legit, you know, things that
we're actually creating software

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and hardware is currently where
we're kind of investing the most

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effort and how we're really
hoping to get ourselves out of

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this economic pit, which I think
I've talked about on a bunch of

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episodes.
So I'm not going to dive too

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deep into that.
But my point is that if we can

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do all this, and yeah, it sucks
that I, yeah, you wouldn't want

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to set this precedent, you won't
want people, you know, other

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countries to start doing what we
did necessarily either.

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Although, you know, you can, you
can make a lot of different

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arguments, like, for example,
the fact that it wasn't really a

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war.
This was more of a battle.

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Trump.
Trump picks battles.

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He doesn't pick wars.
He doesn't go on forever.

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He'll pick a fight with someone,
throw a couple of punches, that

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person backs out and that's the
end of it.

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And we haven't really seen a
case too often, except for maybe

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with Russian Ukraine, which
seems to take a little bit

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longer, a little bit more
thoughtfulness and strategizing.

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But we haven't really seen a
case where Trump hasn't kind of

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thrown out like a 1-2 punch.
And everyone that is on the anti

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war side or has been sick of
wars like, well, well, well,

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well, what are you doing?
What are you doing?

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And like, I totally get that,
Like you do want to respond that

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way because we have had because
our our reaction, rightfully so,

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should be 1 of great caution and
great concern over starting more

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wars.
And on the other hand, all

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these, all the quote, UN quote
wars that Trump has engaged in,

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whether it's striking Iran's,
you know, nuclear, nuclear sites

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or this right now with Venezuela
or even with the Houthis or even

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I mean, I mean, we're right now,
it really looks like they're

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picking swift, quick battles to
display strength without being,

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without the historic bullying
nature of kind of settling

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ourselves in their land and
causing social upheaval, which

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also, you know, results in all
kinds of instability and issues

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for soldiers at home and abroad
and for people, you know, just

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00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:02,320
all around, I mean, for human
life in general.

446
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,200
I mean, we want to be, if we're
really going to be at the point

447
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,440
in in our history where we could
become multi planetary within, I

448
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,960
don't know, call it 100 years,
which is again a blip in the a

449
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,680
blip in the amount of time that
we've been around.

450
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,800
So I mean, 100 years is really
nothing. 100 years ago we

451
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,840
weren't flying airplanes from
Europe to America or from China

452
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,560
to America. 20261926 I probably
not, I don't think so.

453
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,840
But you know, you get the point.
And the point is that in 100

454
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,840
years from now, God knows where
we're going to be, what

455
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,920
dimensions we're going to be and
what we know about science, what

456
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,560
we know about about space travel
and all that.

457
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,240
And we're going to look back at
this and be like, we're just

458
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,480
like killing people in the
Middle East because of like

459
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,320
their religion or we're just
killing people in South America

460
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,800
because, you know, the land that
they live on has a lot of

461
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,280
bananas or oil or whatever it
is.

462
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,200
Like that's so crazy.
Like, can we just find a way?

463
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:59,240
And like, if we're going to be
so developed as a nation, as a

464
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,680
world, as a species, rather not
as a nation, as a world and as a

465
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,160
species, we got to act
accordingly, you know, and, and

466
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,320
again, and, and this actually
goes back to the yardstick point

467
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,120
that I was making earlier, that
when you're dealing with a 5

468
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,880
year old, obviously there's only
something that a 5 year old can

469
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,160
understand.
And, you know, a 5 year old is

470
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:20,360
only Privy to a particular train
of thought that is on the level

471
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,160
of five year old.
And then as the five year old

472
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,720
gets older and as he starts to
adjust, it's no longer

473
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,080
acceptable for him to throw a
tantrum on the floor in the

474
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,160
supermarket when he's 25.
And as a species, I think that

475
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,440
we're getting to the point where
it's not really acceptable to be

476
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,680
physical the way that we are, to
be blowing people up the way

477
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,920
that we are to not have due
process.

478
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,560
And again, and you know, and,
and, and this is also a never

479
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,640
ending circle of a problem.
You know, you got, if you don't

480
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,880
have any regulation, then you
have corruption and then you add

481
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,040
regulation to prevent the
corruption and this corrupted

482
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,480
regulation.
And then you have to, and then

483
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,680
you want to peel back the
regulation or reform it or find

484
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,600
another way to do it.
And like all of history and all

485
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,960
of time and all of human
interaction, all of conscious

486
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,800
human interaction or even
unconscious human interaction is

487
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,120
based on this, on this, on this
back and forth.

488
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:12,320
And, and it gets to, it gets to
less and less primitive degrees

489
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,600
and more and more nuanced
conscious degrees.

490
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,840
You know, so it's not like, hey,
man, you hit me.

491
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,040
So I kill you.
Now it's hey, man, you hit me.

492
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,000
Well, a why'd you hit me?
Now we're going to have to take

493
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,080
you a court.
Now we're going to have to

494
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,240
figure out whether you hit me
because you intended on hitting

495
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,280
me, whether you really had the
sense of I want to get this guy.

496
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,200
Or maybe I just wasn't looking
at I was looking down on my

497
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,160
phone.
I bumped into you.

498
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,880
So I really wasn't intending on
harming you.

499
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,160
And does that make a difference?
And why shouldn't it make a

500
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,240
difference?
Because you're a conscious

501
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,640
thinking human being.
Well, if you're a conscious

502
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,160
thinking human being, then the
way that you hold yourself has

503
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,160
to be fundamentally different.
And so, you know, like, and then

504
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,120
as you go through time, you say,
OK, well, now as a as a world,

505
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,920
as a society, we have all this,
we have all this remark, this

506
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,440
remarkable economy.
We have this level of global

507
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:01,400
interplay that just goes so deep
and is so intricate that people

508
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,600
actually think that it's a
conspiracy.

509
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,200
And obviously there are degrees
of made-up conspiracy theories,

510
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,720
but there are also a lot of
degrees that we really live in a

511
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:15,000
very, very globally connected
world where leaders from all

512
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:21,320
around the world make decisions
that literally impact the entire

513
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,680
planet on a regular basis.
And that's not a bad thing.

514
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,640
That's a really, really cool
thing.

515
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,480
And we can start to learn to
look at ourselves and everything

516
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,480
is all a matter of zooming out.
And as you can explore outwards,

517
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:39,520
your perception and your
perspective should step back as

518
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,240
well.
And you should have a great, you

519
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,920
should have greater perspective
in general, right?

520
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,520
So, for example, when the only
thing that you could think about

521
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,520
and you can't travel outside of
your town, your town is the only

522
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,720
thing in the world and your,
your entire existence.

523
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,720
And then you find out, Oh, I can
take a boat and I can go to

524
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,480
somewhere else and you're like,
wow, that's really cool.

525
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,720
So now I could cross the lake
and I can get to another part of

526
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,000
town.
And then you find out about

527
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,280
states, then you find out about
countries, then you find out

528
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,840
about planets, then you find out
about galaxies and Milky Ways.

529
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:12,440
And you know, Earth doesn't
become Cuba, America, Venezuela,

530
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:19,840
China, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq,
Iran, Africa, in Canada.

531
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,720
It becomes Earth.
And all the people on Earth are,

532
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,320
in the scheme of what we're
capable of perceiving, are now a

533
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,160
species in the entire order of
life and the magnitude of the

534
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,800
universe.
And it's like, yeah, well, then

535
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,920
in that case, we should be
treating ourselves a lot better.

536
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,200
And so I think that we're like,
kind of getting there.

537
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:44,840
And I think that as technology
and as time speeds up, we'll bet

538
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:50,000
there.
But to wrap up that point I am

539
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,720
impressed with, I have to like
looking back on this, it seems

540
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,920
that the Trump administration
has done an excellent job for

541
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,240
the first time in a very, very
long time at presenting American

542
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:07,760
authority in a swift way that is
not needless for them.

543
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,520
I you know, and you can argue to
the extent of any needless it

544
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,960
is, but it hasn't started drawn
out long wars yet and it hasn't

545
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,760
hasn't really resulted in any
American deaths yet between

546
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,440
Iran, between Iran and
Venezuela, I don't believe there

547
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,760
are any American deaths yet and
minimal other deaths relative to

548
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,680
a war that was broken out.
Meaning if you expect, if you

549
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,440
even, I mean, American, you
know, a Houthi bombing or Libyan

550
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,000
bombing, you know, from the
early 2000s had more deaths in

551
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,640
just a couple of those bombing
sessions or drone bomb sessions

552
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,000
than what happened in, you know,
this last year.

553
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,440
So everyone that's being really
critical, I understand them.

554
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,080
But I think that we all, and I
think that it's good that you're

555
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,320
being really critical because it
puts a lot of pressure to be

556
00:32:54,320 --> 00:33:01,760
minimally aggressive.
But to understand that that we

557
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,080
live in a world with a lot of
complicated relationships.

558
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,440
And sometimes we have to be
aggressive because we because if

559
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,920
we keep on being passive, we do
end up being hurt also and being

560
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,960
passive and being too passive.
Unfortunately, human nature is

561
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,880
still human nature.
And unfortunately, we haven't

562
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:23,600
resolved that, that, that that
gene to need to dominate other

563
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840
people.
And we don't, we can't for some

564
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,600
reason process that we can get
along and that we can work

565
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,720
together as a planet and to look
at each other as people on the

566
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,040
planet.
And until we do, then we're

567
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,400
going to have to keep on keeping
up with staying on top of the

568
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,000
game, but being minimally
aggressive as far as what we

569
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,760
need, you know.
And I think that we've learned

570
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:52,040
so much from these wars, from
these past 25 years of war.

571
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,160
And I think that the youth
really has learned so much.

572
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,280
Even if even if the old guard
had not learned it to the same

573
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,320
extent, the youth has learned
it.

574
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,960
And that makes a huge difference
because the decisions that are

575
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,760
being made today and the
decisions that are being made

576
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,719
tomorrow are going to look
infinitely better than they have

577
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,280
until now.
You know, And so I just saw the

578
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,679
other day that and I, and again,
big is would hypothetically be a

579
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:16,920
big win.
And I don't know where these go

580
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,320
there.
So two things that give me a lot

581
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,159
of positive hope #1 actually
three things.

582
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,040
Trump stopping private equity
from buying in individual real

583
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,000
estate, which I hope happens.
Trump limiting the credit card

584
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:35,840
companies ability to charge
literally what was considered

585
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,360
extortion and illegal to
American citizens.

586
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,719
So 2030% interest on credit
cards on just standard is

587
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,120
considered bonkers and awful.
And if anyone were to tell me,

588
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,120
if you were to come up to me and
say, hey, man, can I borrow 500

589
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,400
bucks?
Like, yeah, but if you don't

590
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,920
give it back to me by the end of
the month, then you'll be 20% of

591
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,960
that or 30% of 500 bucks.
Like fuck you, dude.

592
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,080
Excuse my language, but fuck
you.

593
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,240
You know, I'm not taking, I'm
not borrowing that money.

594
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,040
But if that's the only, but
that's really the only way that

595
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,440
so many people can actually get
money and access money.

596
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,200
And if you want to talk about
why that's a deeper problem and

597
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,280
why that problem exists, you
know for sure.

598
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,080
And if you want to talk about
ways to kind of deal with the

599
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,960
problem from the root for sure.
Right now, at the moment, people

600
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,040
are defaulting on car loans.
People are defaulting on on on

601
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,840
their mortgages.
People are defaulting on credit

602
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,960
card loans, on buy now, pay
later loans, on student debt, on

603
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,440
medical bills.
So, you know, what, if we have

604
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,800
to just like lower the cap of
like one of these things, one of

605
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,080
these enormous economic issues
and just plug up 1 hole a little

606
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,080
bit, as far as I'm concerned,
it's one step closer to solving

607
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,560
a problem and the potential.
And I understand that there's

608
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:50,160
another argument to be made for
having such high interest rate.

609
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,120
And partially that is to
discourage people from making,

610
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,160
you know, that, or at least in
part, the argument would be to

611
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,640
discourage people from making
such enormous charges and

612
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,480
purchases that they can't
possibly afford to ever pay

613
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:07,120
back.
Yeah, but then don't accept them

614
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,200
and don't accept them for that
line of credit.

615
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,720
And I do know that, I mean, from
my personal experience as well,

616
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,480
no credit card, no credit card
companies ever look into or

617
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,640
confirm how much money you
really make.

618
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,920
Because I've said that I've made
all sorts, all sorts of

619
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,000
different amounts of money when
I was applying to different

620
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,480
credit cards and they did no
check and they just approved me.

621
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,760
And so if I told them that I was
making $250,000 on a $75,000

622
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:38,480
salary and I have a $25,000
credit limit, I mean, it is, it

623
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,120
should be at least part of the
bank's due diligence to say,

624
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,880
hey, man, this guy never made
anywhere near $250,000.

625
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,800
And all it takes is 1 Google,
all it takes is 1.

626
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,200
You know, I mean, they, they
have access to my, I gave them

627
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,360
my social.
I mean, they, they, they're

628
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,680
going to run my credit.
And when they cut my credit,

629
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,040
they're going to see that I
don't make $250,000.

630
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,800
So it just shows that they
really don't care.

631
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,040
And yeah, I shouldn't be lying
about that.

632
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,800
I really shouldn't.
If you are going to be the

633
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,640
gatekeeper and you were going to
be the authority and you're

634
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,280
going to decide who gets it and
who doesn't, it's really,

635
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,200
really, really easy to not loan
money to people that shouldn't

636
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,280
be getting loans.
That's it.

637
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,640
And on the other hand, they also
make it really hard to get other

638
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:22,960
loans, but that's another
conversation.

639
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,160
I don't even want to get into
that right now, partially

640
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,880
because I don't care to actually
entirely because I don't care to

641
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,600
right now.
But so I want to just say that I

642
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,120
think that so the house story
was a good thing because

643
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,400
obviously private equity buying
houses is a massive issue or

644
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,520
individual real estate rather.
The credit card thing was a big

645
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,520
win.
And then the last big win that I

646
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,080
wanted to talk about hopefully
was that I forgot who is,

647
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:53,360
there's a motion of the floor, I
believe to that to prevent the

648
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,640
executive branch from making any
conducting any more war strikes

649
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,040
in Venezuela without
congressional approval.

650
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,760
And the reason why I think this
is really important is because

651
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,520
this is more of a long term
plan, play and plan.

652
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:11,960
And long term, we absolutely
freaking want to set the

653
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,960
precedent that presidents cannot
any longer decide to go ahead.

654
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,280
Whether you're Obama, whether
you're Trump, whether you're

655
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,720
Biden, whether you're Bush, it
does not matter.

656
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:25,360
Stop acting.
It's in the Constitution.

657
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,400
The president cannot start a war
without congressional approval.

658
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,720
Stop at committing acts of war
around the country, around the

659
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,320
world.
Sorry, another country around

660
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,800
the world without without
without talking to Congress.

661
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,400
And I think it's very simple and
I think that the the system of

662
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,600
checks and balances exists for a
reason.

663
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,880
And everyone that's going to
anyone that's going to be upset

664
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,760
at me for saying this right now,
you better have been upset about

665
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,120
then you can't have been upset
about it when Obama or Biden did

666
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,360
it.
I mean, at the end of the day,

667
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,720
you don't want to set the
president that a president can

668
00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:01,160
do something without the will of
the people and especially

669
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,920
without the world representation
of the people.

670
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,360
And it just goes ahead and
acting.

671
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,640
And again, because all we have
to do is just say, what if it

672
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,480
was me?
What if it was my family?

673
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,280
If we just kept on thinking that
if every time before we did

674
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,280
anything we just said before, I
have my opinion, how would I

675
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,760
feel if I was on the receiving
end of that opinion, right.

676
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,000
Oh, well, you know, they
deserved it.

677
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,080
They, they, they were friends of
the terrorist, you know, like

678
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:30,720
what, dude, what I have so many
friends that have so many things

679
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:33,320
that go on in their lives that I
have nothing to do with that I

680
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,760
don't know anything about.
And so if I'm going to a party

681
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,640
or I'm going to a synagogue
event or I'm going to, if I'm

682
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,840
going to hang out with a couple
of buddies of mine and watch

683
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,840
AUFC fight or watch a basketball
game and drink a beer and I get

684
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,240
blown up because there's
something they do in their

685
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:50,080
private lives, like, Oh, well,
you know, you shouldn't have

686
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,040
been friends with them.
Like, no, that's not that.

687
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,560
How would you feel if that was
you?

688
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,800
How would you feel if that was
your family or your kids?

689
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,480
And, and then, and then it's
much better to say to have the

690
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:05,520
at least in my opinion, it's
much better to say, how would I

691
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,320
feel if I were on the receiving
end of that?

692
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,920
And whether or not I like or
agree with that person, whether

693
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,720
I think that person is a good
person or bad person who

694
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,200
deserves to die or doesn't
deserve to die, I think.

695
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,720
That doing that without any kind
of due process, because again,

696
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:24,000
that's where we are as a
civilization, doing that without

697
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,200
any kind of due process, without
any kind of, you know, innocent

698
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,400
until proven until proven
guilty.

699
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,880
If that doesn't exist, then
we're then we're all in really

700
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,680
big trouble.
You really, really are.

701
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:39,880
And at the moment there's a good
amount of that going around.

702
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,120
It's a lot less than it's been
in many, many years.

703
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,080
And every time that happens,
there really is a very strong

704
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,600
vehement reaction to it.
And so hopefully that's a really

705
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,240
good thing.
But I do want to conclude with

706
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:59,440
the idea that with the notion
that it's very easy to get

707
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,680
caught up in all the problems in
the world.

708
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,080
And that's why we got to keep up
with.

709
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,960
That's why we have to, you know,
end up with the Bob Weir, the

710
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:14,280
Bobby Weir mentality, which is
it's very easy to get stuck in a

711
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,040
finding the problem with
everything as opposed to

712
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,560
pointing out that's funny and
that's weird.

713
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,040
And I don't really get anything.
And there's a really, really big

714
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,240
difference between the two
because one of them is laying

715
00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:36,320
the ground to learning and
understanding and, and expanding

716
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,960
your consciousness.
And the other one is just a path

717
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,600
to more tribalism.
The other one is just a path to

718
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:48,240
more creating them's and US's.
And you know what?

719
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,920
You like someone, you don't like
someone, they're people.

720
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,640
You know, if you like something
like there's a, there's a whole

721
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,360
life, there's a whole history.
There's friends and there's

722
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,640
family and there's charities and
there's communities and there's

723
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:07,240
worlds and there's that that
that this other person has that

724
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,400
you're so that that none of us
are aware of.

725
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:13,040
And we should be curious about
that.

726
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,920
And as humans, we should want to
understand that because then we

727
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,520
can understand more about
ourselves or what we could be or

728
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:24,760
what we could become.
And so learning about the world

729
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,200
is going to lead you to learning
about problems that exist in the

730
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,240
world.
At least that's what I've found.

731
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,560
And that's kind of what I've
been struggling with is that the

732
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,040
more I learn about different
industries, the more I'm seeing

733
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,400
issues and corruption and, you
know, and real, real problems

734
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,480
within them.
And it feels like everywhere you

735
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,640
look, there's an issue, but
everywhere you look, there's

736
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,640
always hope.
There's always people fighting

737
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,080
it.
There's always, even the fact

738
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,760
that these conversations could
even happen is, is a hope to me,

739
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,760
is a, is a win to me.
Even the fact that, you know, I

740
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,080
mean, and, and the fact that we
can talk about these things and

741
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,600
we can criticize these things.
And I could sit here at my house

742
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,080
on a Sunday afternoon and just
talk about this and ramble for,

743
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,760
you know, 40 minutes or 45
minutes or whatever it is and,

744
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,280
and express and point out the
holes in the problem and, and,

745
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,800
you know, in, in, in, in, in,
in, you know, the holes in some

746
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,960
good, some, some aspects of life
for better, for worse.

747
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,560
The fact that we could do it and
try to get better is the, is all

748
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,560
the hope that we need.
And it reminds me of the, one of

749
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,360
my favorite concepts of Judaism
is, you know, it's a very famous

750
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,280
idea that the beginning is the
first passage or the 1st chapter

751
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,800
of parish it or Genesis, when
God's created in the world.

752
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,600
And it says that there was like
this primordial chaos, Tovahu in

753
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,640
Hebrew.
It was chaos and it was

754
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,800
craziness or it was, we don't
really understand, but it just

755
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:57,760
really means this dark confusion
and chaos in the world where

756
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,120
nothing really is
understandable.

757
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,880
And one of the commentaries
mentions that humanity and

758
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,000
consciousness is a response to
that chaos.

759
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,480
It's it's our job to find the
order in it and it's our job to

760
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,240
find the solutions to the
problems that we that we come

761
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:17,160
across.
We are responsible, we are

762
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,920
acting, we manipulate and
respond to our environment.

763
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,720
We participate in it and we
grow.

764
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:31,880
And if we continue doing this,
then I think that we can really,

765
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,760
really accomplish wonderful
things in the future.

766
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,040
Even though we have a lot of
problems.

767
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,960
The future is always brighter
because we're always able to

768
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,040
point them out.
We're always able we're able to

769
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,800
identify it and learn about it
and respond to it.

770
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,320
And then as the challenges
become greater, so do the winds.

771
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,080
And I think that this to that,
you know, I think that we have

772
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,440
to start looking at things like
winds.

773
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,960
And again, you don't like the
wars that we had this first, you

774
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,720
know, year in Trump's
presidency.

775
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,600
I get it.
How many American deaths were

776
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:57,960
there?
Very few.

777
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,720
How many American assets
damaged?

778
00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:01,280
How many million?
How many millions of dollars or

779
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,680
trillions of dollars of
equipment were lost?

780
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,640
Zero, as far as I know, you
know, and maybe I'm wrong and

781
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,240
let me know Fact Check me, but I
haven't heard anything.

782
00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:13,360
And believe me, if that was the
case, we'd hear an awful lot

783
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,960
about it.
So I think we'll leave off with

784
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,960
that.
And a bunch of great episodes

785
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,840
coming at you this week.
If you missed last week, had a

786
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:26,880
couple of awesome episodes with
a jazz musician, check it out.

787
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,160
If you like jazz, you like
music, like learning about music

788
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:34,800
theory with a oh man, I have to
publish this week.

789
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,600
I have a couple of a couple
episodes coming out that I

790
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:40,640
recorded previously who listed I
record with this week.

791
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,800
I can't believe I'm so sorry.
I'm forgetting in advance.

792
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,920
Pacey Newman, of course, and
Podrick, which I already talked

793
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,960
about earlier, of course.
Anyway, thank you all very much

794
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,960
and talk to you soon.
See you in a couple of days from

795
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:56,120
now.