#138: Minnesota, 1st & 2nd Amendments / Create Your Own Algorithm/ Corporate Airbnbs

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Welcome to another episode of
Come Together.

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We are live.
This is another solo episode.

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I am going to do my best to keep
this a quality.

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We'll see how it goes.
So I'm just adjusting my screen.

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I'm not comfortable in front of
the camera yet.

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I have so many thoughts.
It's been a little while since

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I've done a solo episode and
it's really been a while since

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I've done a coherent, I feel
like solo episode where I feel

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like I actually have something
to talk about or some thoughts

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to get out there.
So here we go.

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It's been a lot of fun.
One, I literally have just been

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thinking I was just sitting by
myself in the in by my by my

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desk, catching up.
I took a week off last week with

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my family to go to Orlando,
still did a couple of recordings

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and released a podcast episode
with William Mann, who is a

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awesome historian of Hollywood
and college professor and New

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York Times bestselling writer.
He's the man.

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We did a really, really cool
episode talking about Marlon

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Brando, old School Hollywood.
His new book that's actually

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available is it today is today
the 27th tomorrow, tomorrow the

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27th.
So if you're listening today,

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you can check out the book
tomorrow.

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It is called because I don't
want to butcher it.

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Let's see.
I'm sorry.

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Here we go.
His new book is called Black

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Dahlia Murder, Monsters in
madness in Midwest Hollywood in

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mid century Hollywood, and it's
and William Mann ventured into

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the world of unsolved true
crime, Hollywood murders, not

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necessarily just to kind of jump
into the into the into the

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bandwagon of true crime, but he
really observes it in the

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context of its impact on
society.

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So for example, I know that, and
this is some really interesting

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stats that you could look up
relative to, for example, the

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the Charles Manson infamous
murder was the fact how many

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people bought guns after that in
Hollywood or how many people

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bought enhanced door locks or
security in Hollywood after the

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Manson murders.
And it's really, really

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interesting because it these
these events do have societal

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ripples and impacts.
And I mean, obviously we see it

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right now how we see with a lot
that's going on in the world

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today.
And the events are the events

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and we might not ever know the
real story behind them.

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This, you know, I mean, you have
10 different accounts, 10

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witnesses, you have 10 different
accounts of what's going on.

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And you also have unfortunately,
interpretation, which is, which

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is when people, when people
witness something and because,

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you know, we're only
experiencing, I would say we,

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we're, we're getting a
particular type of input we're

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getting, we're viewing something
and our brain is making sense of

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it in the context of what we
already know.

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So when we've witnessed events
like things that obviously most

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hot topic these days are going
on in Minnesota, when we

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witnessed these events, three
people, five people, 1000 people

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could look at the pictures and
the videos that are going on

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that are making the way through
online and through corporate or

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formal media.
And we all interpret it in the

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context of the way of the
picture that's already in our

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mind of what we presume is the
case.

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And then there are the ripples
that actually flow out of into

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society about what happens as a
consequence of it.

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And you know, we obviously know,
for example, that some of the

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most consequential, you know,
you have small scale events.

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Like I said, Charlie Manson was
horrifying, but relatively small

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scale relative to something like
911.

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And the scale obviously impacts
the scale of the ripple effect

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in the reaction.
So I think that William Mann did

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a really, really amazing job
expressing his points.

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It's worth checking out his
episode.

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It's worth checking out his
writing, his books.

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He's written on a bunch of
different really cool Hollywood

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characters and families and even
political families like the

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Roosevelts.
And I think it was the

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Roosevelts I'm going to get, I'm
going to feel bad if I got that

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wrong.
Yeah, the Roosevelt, I was

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right, and it's worth checking
it out.

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I was trying to think about what
to talk about and I didn't want

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to kind of, I didn't want to
dwell too much on the Minnesota

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situation.
I kind of have to talk.

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I feel like I have to talk about
it because A, it's relevant and

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B, it does have real life,
again, implications and

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consequences.
And it's really, really

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interesting just to sit on the
side and observe the voices and

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the reactions that's going on.
And I'm not, What's funny is I'm

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not really tuned into what the
most prominent voices are saying

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because I don't really listen to
the most prominent voices.

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I just they're not, I'm not in
that.

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They're not in my algorithm.
I'm not exposed to their

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information on my feed.
But this is kind of funny.

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I mean, not nothing about the
nothing about the conflict in

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particular is funny.
But what's funny is how just a

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couple of years ago the right
was complaining about freedom of

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speech and right to bear arms.
And now the left has been making

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that very, very same argument.
And the right is, or at least

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not all the right, but at least
the government representation of

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the right has been pretty
dramatically pushing back,

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almost in the same sense that
you're really seeing the

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pendulum swinging.
It's so funny because people

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would say a couple of years ago,
yeah, well, in the 60s, you

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know, I really had more in
common with the liberal if

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someone was Republican, rather
if someone was to the right and

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they say, yeah, in the 60s or
70s, I really probably would

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have had much more in common
with the modern Democrats, with

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Democrats then then modern
Democrats.

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And, you know, it's really,
really, it just shows how

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extreme everyone's become
because we're pro free speech

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and we do want limited war.
We don't want a lot of war.

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And we do want to control
enormous organizations, whether

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it's corporations or government.
And you're like, wow, that

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sounds, you know, really
similar.

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But but then you have like
literally just in a span of like

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a year and a half, like you
have, you have people

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complaining about the fact that
one of Biden's the first thing

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Biden did when he got into
office was go to the social

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media companies and start to and
start to silence people that

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would, for example, push back on
COVID, on the COVID vaccine or

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on January 6th or really on any
kind of political issue that

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became a matter of politics and
policy.

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And it takes a year.
That's all it took.

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Took a year and a half for
everyone that was just screaming

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on the right to that we need
free speech and the right to

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bear arms.
And then you have Cash Patel

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walking around now.
I saw a video of him saying,

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well, you can't walk around with
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Imagine three years ago, imagine
2020, imagine if someone that

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was on the right went to a Black
Lives Matter riot or not riot, I

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apologize.
Let's say protest.

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Let's say it is now a protest.
It is peaceful.

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I've actually seen a bunch of
actually when I was, I was

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living in Seattle in 2020 and
listen, it was fascinating to

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experience all the protests and
Chaz and you know, all the I

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didn't really see, I never
personally saw any violence.

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I never heard any.
I never experienced any

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violence.
I never heard anyone escalating

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anything beyond.
So you know, social justice

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chance, which everyone's
entitled to do.

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But just imagine for a minute
that you have a story of a Black

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Lives Matter protest and there's
someone in the crowd that is

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protest protesting, you know,
anti protesting.

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And he's standing on the other
side and he has a weapon in his

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pocket.
He doesn't take it out, he

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doesn't use it.
He just has a weapon and he's

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legally loud.
He is a carrying permit or

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whatever it is.
And, and for whatever reason,

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someone, you know, he gets, he
gets detained or shot or hurt or

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killed because he had a weapon,
the right would flip out.

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We have, you know, we, we have,
we need rights.

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We had it's a Second Amendment
we have to overthrow.

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If you're able to overthrow a
government that's going to

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become a dictatorship or, or
communist or fascist or, you

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know, filling the filling the
hot topic word that anyone is

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throwing out.
But it really just took a year

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and a half for all the tables to
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And it's incredible how quickly
it went.

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And it's incredible how quickly
people, when you point out the

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inconsistency to them, as I've
tried to do with some people

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that I know where the answer
becomes, yeah, but.

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And that, yeah, but is the exact
same answer and the exact same

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perspective that the left had
for the woke years and for

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20/20/2024.
And it we, it's not great.

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It's not a great look and it's
not a great look because I think

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that people today are more done
with partisan politics than

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ever.
And I think that people today

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are really seeing that they're
seeing everyone's

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inconsistencies.
I, I, I saw actually today on,

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on on X and I had a whole
response ran out that I didn't

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write yet because I think I
might just send it personally to

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try to reach out personally.
I saw that Ro Kahana, who's a

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California governor that's been
working with, I think he's a

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governor working with Thomas
Massie and he's, and I heard him

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on Sean Ryan show.
I heard him on Theo Von.

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And I have to say I was overall
extremely, extremely impressed

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with a couple of things about
him.

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Obviously he's very eloquent.
Obviously he's a politician.

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He's supposed to be eloquent.
One thing that he did say, and

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it's so upsetting because it's
hard to believe, especially

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after all the excitement that I
had a year and a half ago with,

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with all the, with the, with the
huge MAGA wave with Trump and

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Elon and RFK and Tulsi and you
know, and all the people that

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everyone is really excited about
people haven't heard from them

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in a long time.
You know, Elon, Elon's fallout

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with Musk, which I'm sorry,
Elon's fallout with Trump, which

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looks like it's kind of being
rectified a little bit.

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RFKI heard the best call.
I think it was Tim Dylan was so

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funny.
He's the least controversial

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member of the cabinet at this
point, which, you know, go

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figure.
You know, everyone was pushing

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back the hardest against him and
and he just kind of quietly

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minding his own business and
occasionally confessing to

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extremely bizarre things on
social media.

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And yeah.
And then and Tulsi, I mean, no

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one really heard from her.
And the truth was that that she

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was supposed to be the
representation of the anti

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imperial America, the the empire
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And it looks like she kind of
got shunned aside a little bit.

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But so I think that a lot of
people include my myself

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included, we're really, really
hopeful.

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And now we're not.
And then and, and so Rocahana

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said something really
interesting, which kind of

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piqued my interest, even though
I'm skeptical just because and

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you know, I, I, I know that this
is potentially A fallacy, but I

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think that it's also, I, I think
that enough history has proven

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that it could be an issue is a,
the guys from California, which,

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you know, which is the governor
of California, which makes me

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think that he and I know that he
has a much more grounded story

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that he failed, I think, two or
three times to get elected.

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And I think, I think on his
third or fourth try he got, he

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got, he, he was successful, but
I don't know, seems just a

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little too.
He's really smart.

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He's saying really, really smart
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He's talking about, for example,
Epstein, which is a uni party

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issue.
And he's talking about ICE and

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immigration, which people on the
right and the left are really

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not very happy about.
And again, you know, the

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question isn't whether or not
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enforce.
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not ICE should be active.
The question just is to what

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degree the behaviour is what to
what degree is the behaviour

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justified, acceptable?
And it's really, really hard.

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And I've heard, I've heard both
cases that, you know, for

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example, cops have to wear badge
identification badges and ICE

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agents don't.
So if I mean really there's no

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way to identify if a cop's
misbehaving, you could get their

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badge number, you could get
their name and look them up.

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If an ICE agent who is wearing a
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signs for you to be able to
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behavior.
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any of that, it becomes a lot
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control and hold them
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behaviour or even behaviour that
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of the, of the person and the
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history.
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really, really hard to do.
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talking about how the elite just
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everything.
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with this, with this
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to, I'm going to reach out.
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overwhelming odds are that it's
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I'll attach a couple of the
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relatively prominent and
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that I've spoken with to try to
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hey, if this is really uni party
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everyone on almost everyone on
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Congress was going to be able to
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this bill to force that force
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I think that I think that the
elite behavior is a uni party

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issue.
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unfortunately as the problem
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we take advantage from an
executive level.

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Well, guess what, pal?
Unfortunately, you kind of lost

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playing that card if you didn't
if you didn't fight back against

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a lot of what went on in 2020 to
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20/16/2020.
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We, you know, since 9:11, I
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become very, very authoritarian,
a more authoritarian, a lot more

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government control over the
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I was so excited.
This actually got me talking.

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This got me excited to record.
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I didn't get started yet, I'm
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thinking about was, OK, so
there's awesome, awesome,

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awesome scientist named Eric
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And he one of the things, and
I've talked about him before.

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I'm a huge, huge fan of his.
Every time I hear him or every

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participate to the best that I

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He's really, really smart and I

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can't keep up with everything he
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me was that human beings also
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LLMS, like large language
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from politics more to technology

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and more to the way that we get
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ever present issue of the
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think about what to talk about.
Human beings work very, very

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much like LLMS.
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We, our brains are lazy.
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efficient and effective, and our
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least amount of effort or energy
in order to be able to

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accomplish a mission or a task.
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be efficient.
Sometimes we cut too many

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shortcuts.
So for example, and this is a

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very, very common experience
that I have, it's my life.

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I work with my father and we're
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We speak on the phone 10/15/20
times a day for a couple minutes

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at a time just dealing with
whatever work issue we're

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dealing with or talking about
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family or whatever.
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have a disagreement, which we
often do, and I've been trying

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to work on this and sometimes I
can't help it and sometimes I'm

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better about it.
But if we have an, an issue or a

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disagreement and I think I know
he's going to say he's going to

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start by making a point and I
cut him off midpoint.

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I'm like, yeah, but and then he
goes, you didn't even hear what

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I finished saying.
And my brain, my LLM Green

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finished his thought for him in
a similar way to and it's funny

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because it's just a matter of
degrees of how much better it's

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getting right.
If you if you remember a couple

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of years ago when Apple was
first rolling out or iMessage

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was first rolling out there, I
guess dipping the toe in the

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water of LLMS large language
models.

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And one of the things that one
of the ways that LLMS work is by

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predicting what the next, what
the best potential choice of the

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next word or feature is going to
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So for example, if I was sending
a text sounds the answer that

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you know, the recommended word
choice, the potential words to

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follow the to the net potential
word to follow the word sounds

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would most likely be good like
sounds good with a thumbs up or

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be sounds awful or sounds
interesting, right?

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would give you 3 predictions of

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words that you're most likely to
use with that that follow the

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word sounds.
When I cut off my dad and I'm

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having the argument with him, I
am essentially guessing what

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he's going to say based on my
experience of having dealt with

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him before.
I'm not letting him finish his

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thought out.
I'm not letting him expresses

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his point.
I am predicting what he's going

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to say and am choosing to
respond in real time before I

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even have all the context.
I'm choosing to respond in real

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time without having all the
information.

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And it's a stupid fucking way to
communicate with people.

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And I do apologise because I do
it a lot and it makes me a

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really, really bad listener,
unfortunately.

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If we are Ella, you know, if we
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I think and also, you know,
there's only so many words and

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conversations and predictive
ways that you can have a

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conversation, right?
So you start off with someone,

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you say, hey, how you doing?
There's only a limited number of

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potential responses.
And then we kind of get thrown

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off if there's anything else,
right?

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So the answer is usually pretty
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You all right, or another day in
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throws something like I'll

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usually tell people, oh, I'm
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Sounds gay, but.
Sorry if I, you know, in the in

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the old school way, I asked
someone what's going on.

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There's only a certain amount of
expected potential responses and

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any other potential response,
any other response throws you

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through a loop a little bit.
So you notice when someone says,

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hey, how you doing?
Pretty bad actually.

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You're like, whoa.
And that person will actually

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leave a mark on you because that
was a new implementation of a

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potential response into your LLM
diary or LLM tool book.

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And you kind of keep an eye out
for it.

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anomaly, then it's an anomaly

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and you end up being surprised
or sometimes you notice it more.

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For example, if you, and I've

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had this experience myself, I
forgot what it's called, but

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when you buy, for example, a car
or you lease a car.

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So when I got my Kia K5, I never
heard of the model my entire

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life.
And the second I got the car, I

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started seeing them everywhere
on the road.

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And I'm like, that is wild.
Like I had like my, the, my

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brain was not looking for that
detail.

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And now that it exists in my
library, I can keep an eye out

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for it.
Really, really interesting.

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So that on a very, very surface
level in very, very, I'm sure

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there's a ton more of more
depth.

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I'm sure there's a ton that I'm
missing.

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I'm not claiming to have
everything covered over there,

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but I think that there's a
general gist that we tend to,

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people tend to work that way.
Our algorithms, we, our

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algorithms are shaping us more
and more everyday because it's

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constantly reinforcing a
perspective without giving you a

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chance to explore other avenues,
overwrite your associations or

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be exposed to new perspectives
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deem to be truth or reality is

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really just a whole bunch of
reinforced information.

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And I've heard people complain
about that quite a bit and I've

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heard people talk about how
that's a massive problem and it

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is.
But I really haven't heard of

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many people offering very many
solutions other than don't do

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social media, which I'm an
advocate for.

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And just because I advocate for
not doing social media doesn't

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mean I'm not addicted to it.
You know, it doesn't mean that I

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don't spend a ton of a ton more
time on it doesn't mean that my

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opinions and my perspectives are
not shaped by it.

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try to find myself, I say, oh,

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I'm just, you know, I'm just
being blasted with, with, with,

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with content that is meant to,
you know, put me into a, a

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particular frame of mind or
enforce a particular

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perspective.
I look for other content to

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balance that out and the, you
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then you have to catch yourself.
OK, well, at a certain point,

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everything becomes anti
authoritarian.

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At a certain point, everything
is a problem.

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What are the good things?
What are the potential good

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things?
How am I looking at this in a

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way that is both kind of picking
it apart and also potentially

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positive?
But it's really hard to do.

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And So what I was thinking of
actually, and what I hope to

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encourage now is the value of
creating our own algorithms.

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And I think that that means that
there's a lot of really cool

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ways to create our own
algorithms.

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Choosing content, particularly
long form historical, scientific

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or narrative based content, I
think is in long form content

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like a book or like a long
podcast or an audio book or a

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movie or ATV series or whatever
it is.

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I think that the long form
contents and allow us to create

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our own algorithms and instead
of us being shaped by what is

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being fed to us or presented to
us, we can get up, go to the do

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the equivalent of going to the
supermarket and picking out a

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healthy meal for ourselves.
So if you're sitting at home and

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you get up and you look and you
say, hey, I'm hungry, can you

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get me a, you know, and you ask
your sibling, you ask your

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parent, you ask your spouse, you
ask your friend, Hey, can you

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grab me a snack?
They're pretty much subject to

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what they bring you.
You know, you get up and do it

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yourself.
Then you can pick what is

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actually going to be healthy.
You could pick something that

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might, you're in the mood for,
it could be something that

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you're potentially interested
in.

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You want to see how it goes with
other flavors.

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And I think the same thing
applies to knowledge and our

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understanding of the world and
information that we choose to

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consume.
I think that if the more that we

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use social media, the more the
information is being imposed on

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to us and the more that we
choose the information to

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consume is the more that we're
getting up and choosing what

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kind of snacks to have, whether
they're healthy or not, whether

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they're good for you, what kind
of mood you're in.

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Again, do you need something
that's a little bit salty,

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sweet, high, high calorie, low
calorie doesn't matter.

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There's a context for
everything.

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There's a time and place for
everything.

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And So what is best for us to do
is to decide that for ourselves.

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I think that we think that
because our algorithm will

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respond to, you know, obviously
our algorithm is responsive to

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what catches our eye, but it
doesn't necessarily mean that

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it's what we want.
If I walk into a pizza shop and

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I that sounds incredible,
doesn't mean that someone should

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shove a pizza in my face.
It doesn't, it doesn't mean that

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someone should shove a pizza
down my throat.

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It just means, whoa, that's
interesting.

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I like that.
I don't know if I want it right

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now, but I like it, you know,
and I think that, you know, I

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myself have been going on this
really, really interesting

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journey where I've kind of been
learning about, I haven't been

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following broad news, but I've
been taking particular news

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stories that I've been hearing
and I've been diving into

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understanding what they're
about.

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Because it turns out that
there's a Hebrew expression.

448
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,840
I love the expression in Kaddash
Takasashemesh.

449
00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:26,440
There's no, there's nothing new
under the sun.

450
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,920
Everything that we think we've
seen already has already had

451
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,760
everything that we thought that
we think is new has already

452
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,440
happened already.
And everything that we thought,

453
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,360
you know, if we haven't seen
something doesn't mean that it

454
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,840
hasn't existed in a particular
way.

455
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:42,800
And that's, I mean, that's my
personal push and plea for

456
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,600
learning about history and
learning about humanity, but I

457
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,960
think that that's important for
everything.

458
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,160
So for example, let's say again,
just to stick with an example

459
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,160
that we started talking about
earlier with the ice stories and

460
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,840
does you know, you can find out
there's so many worlds to learn

461
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,160
about what the context of what's
going on over here is.

462
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,400
What's the relationship between
Minnesota and Somalia?

463
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,360
What's the relationship between
ice and the citizens?

464
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:16,720
Where was the right always
embracing ice and what was ice

465
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,480
created for?
Was it created to catch

466
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,480
Venezuelan cartel members that
are running around the country?

467
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,760
Was it designed to enforce all
immigration law?

468
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,560
What's the point of that right.
So you do, I mean, and then that

469
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:34,440
that so those two topics,
Somalia and Minnesota ICE and

470
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,440
and and and its purpose are
enormous deep dives that require

471
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,200
a lot of learning.
And you can pick what you want

472
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,160
to learn about it without having
it fed to you.

473
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,480
You can find the books that look
interesting to you.

474
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,040
You can find the articles that
speak to you or the podcast with

475
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,680
the podcast ghost guest or host
that will go into an

476
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,880
understanding of what the
context is.

477
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,200
So that while these events are
unfolding, regardless of what

478
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,200
your opinion is, at least you're
not as as short as short

479
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,160
sighted, short memoried as so
many people are.

480
00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:12,320
Where a year and a half ago
we're talking about defending

481
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,320
gun rights and the rights to
protest and to end for free

482
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,040
speech, and now are shutting
down the exact same thing.

483
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:28,120
And the more that people start
to continue, hopefully to take

484
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:30,720
their information and the
learning into their own hands

485
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,680
instead of depending on it being
fed to you.

486
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,840
Like me sitting on the couch
waiting for my friend or my kid

487
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,320
or my wife or someone to bring
me a snack and getting up and

488
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,520
doing it myself.
There's enormous, enormous

489
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,040
value.
And every now and then, yeah,

490
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,600
it's good to have someone bring
you a cheap snack.

491
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,240
If you're feeling lazy, if you
feel like you don't want to get

492
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,760
up and you don't really care
what you're in the mood for,

493
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,320
you're just hungry, then go
ahead and go check out social

494
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,600
media for a little bit.
But I think it's much, much,

495
00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:00,040
much more productive and much
more valuable to to really do

496
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,040
the work yourself and create our
own algorithms.

497
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,520
And then, and then everything
snowballs and, and, and, and

498
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:11,520
it's incredible to see how
entangled all of society and all

499
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:17,000
of culture and all of economy
and all of music and, and all of

500
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,560
film are just so deeply and
tightly correlated.

501
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:26,200
And, and I mean, and so, so if
there's a particular aspect of,

502
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:32,600
let's say, the news that is
interesting to you, do deep

503
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,880
dive, because along that deep
dive, you're going to find other

504
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,760
rabbit holes and you're going to
learn more and you're going to

505
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,080
understand more.
And you're going to see really

506
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,160
how much things are really
entangled and how events that

507
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,520
are being that that, that that
feel like they are isolated

508
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,240
really are all just circular.
And it's really, really

509
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,560
interesting.
It's really, really cool and I

510
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,400
really, really encourage people
to do to to, to learn about this

511
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,480
and to dive into and this is the
value of democratized education

512
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,040
and this is the value of
democratized information is that

513
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,080
this allows us to fight
propaganda by.

514
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,120
But propaganda is always going
to be put out there for better

515
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,680
or for worse.
Sometimes it's good propaganda,

516
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,960
sometimes it's bad propaganda.
But in order for us to maintain

517
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,160
our own perspective, and this is
how we still know that we live

518
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,600
in a free country.
And, you know, even though

519
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,640
people will say, yeah, it's not
free, there are definitely

520
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,560
aspects of society that really,
really aren't.

521
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,400
But you know what, the fact that
there are podcasts with hundreds

522
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,120
of thousands or millions of
listeners that are saying things

523
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,040
that are very, very clearly
against the establishment or the

524
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,120
elite class or whatever it is.
And the fact that they have the

525
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,000
right to do it.
And the fact that that that

526
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,320
millions of people have access
to it.

527
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,960
And the fact that people are
listening to it and whether

528
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,640
they're doing anything about it
or not is another conversation.

529
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,240
But the fact that it's out there
means that it's inherently free

530
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,440
and we do not want to destroy
that.

531
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,200
We do not want to trample that.
It's a really, really potential

532
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,120
scary road to go down.
The other topic that other

533
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,400
topics that were just came to
mind because I came back from

534
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:14,480
again, another trip to Orlando
and it was really, really a lot

535
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:22,000
of fun.
I have, excuse me, I what, what,

536
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,560
what, what we usually do
nowadays is we get a Airbnb in

537
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,640
Orlando.
And I don't know if you've ever

538
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,840
been to Orlando, but they have
this enormous.

539
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,160
I mean, it's obviously one of
the tops hubs for vacations,

540
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,960
conferences, tourism in the
world other than rather in

541
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,920
America, other than potentially
Las Vegas, a couple other

542
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,440
places, but Orlando's really up
there.

543
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,120
And what was really cool, So
Airbnb, it started off a couple

544
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,040
of years even as even as
recently as like 5 or 6 years

545
00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:01,000
ago, Airbnb was something that
was essentially a kind of form

546
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,240
of second income for, for
everyday people that own their

547
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,040
houses.
And that if you lived in a house

548
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,360
that was a little too big, or
you had a back house, or you had

549
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,800
a garage that you can convert
into a private low suite, then

550
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,680
you'd rent it out.
Sometimes if you had a vacation

551
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,680
home, you made an investment,
then you would, you know, then

552
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,920
you'd buy a house and you'd rent
it out when you didn't want to

553
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,000
go on vacation.
And then while you're on

554
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,320
vacation, you would you'd be
able to stay there.

555
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,320
And Airbnb was awesome is
awesome.

556
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,080
I love Airbnb.
And then corporations started

557
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,200
realizing that this is a
phenomenal business model.

558
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:40,000
And So what Airbnb is in
particular started to do is what

559
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,560
corporations rather started to
do was to buy and develop huge

560
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,880
communities.
And this is happening all over

561
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,960
Orlando.
And instead of people renting

562
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,240
out their summer house or
instead of people renting out a

563
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,720
house, you know, the second-half
of their house or whatever it

564
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,520
is, the garage back house.
And I've stayed in some really,

565
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,960
really wonderful Airbnb's in
Austin, TX, for example, I, I

566
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,480
stayed in someone's back house
and it was really, really,

567
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,800
really an awesome experience.
It was cheap, it was spacious.

568
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,320
There's a separate walking path
for us to get into and the host

569
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,840
and the host, even though we'd
interact with them, had had

570
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,480
thought of everything and were
really, really great.

571
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,720
And then there's another time
where I went to with a couple of

572
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:25,560
buddies of mine, Sam and Heim to
oh, gosh, Newport, RI I love

573
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:26,520
Newport.
I've been there a couple of

574
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,800
times and it's such a cool
place, such an, it's so much

575
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,160
beautiful nature.
I, there was the bridge that you

576
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,880
drive over to go to Newport and
I don't even remember what was

577
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,880
going on in my life in
particular at that point.

578
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,920
But I remember driving over that
bridge and thinking about how

579
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,240
beautiful it was and seeing all
the sailboats and the literally

580
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,240
just like sapphire water below
me.

581
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:51,800
And I just, I, I got emotional.
I was tearing or crying or

582
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,480
whatever, but it was really a
Newport's a really, really

583
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,720
beautiful.
That part of Rhode Island in the

584
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,520
country is really, really
remarkable.

585
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:06,600
But we stayed at Airbnb there
and it was in someone's back

586
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,920
house, right?
So you would you can go through

587
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,360
the front or you can go in on
the back and you climb up the

588
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,280
the back stairs up to the deck
on the second story of the

589
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,120
house.
And there you had a big, it was

590
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,040
a big loft area that they
converted into a bedroom with a

591
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,000
couple of beds and shower in the
bathroom and is closed off from

592
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,960
the rest of the house.
But the owners that were living

593
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,520
there were very, very warm and
very sweet and very nice.

594
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,760
And they had a little garden.
And during the morning, they

595
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,560
just knocked on the door and
said, hey, we have some, you

596
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,120
know, some tomatoes and
cucumbers.

597
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:37,560
And if there's anything you
need, just let me know.

598
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,520
We'll help take care of you.
And then, and then Fast forward

599
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:47,360
five years from now, you go to
Orlando and you go to Airbnb and

600
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,719
you go to a house that's owned
by a corporation that make you

601
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,560
sign this form, this liability,
not liability form, but like

602
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,080
rules form of, of, of procedures
that you have to follow.

603
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:04,040
And the bathrooms have these
little like mini shampoos from

604
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,960
the hotels and stuff like that.
And they give you the little

605
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,200
hotel towels and thin sheets.
And, and I'm not complaining

606
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,160
because the houses are
remarkable.

607
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,280
The only thing I'm complaining
about is the fact that this is a

608
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,240
common thread that's been going
on for as America's evolved and

609
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:26,360
as the country has become a
little bit a lot more geared

610
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:31,160
towards corporate takeover.
Where is where and you have an

611
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,240
idea and you have a concept or a
business that starts off really,

612
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:39,360
really fun, individualized,
personalized and for the

613
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,960
everyday person.
And once it scales into a

614
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:48,000
business model, then, and I
don't even blame the people for

615
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,880
trying to make money then in
corporations, hedge funds,

616
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,920
investment banks, they see the
opportunity for revenue and

617
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,280
they'll take it.
And I don't, and I, I, I

618
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,560
genuinely do not blame them for
it.

619
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,280
I just wish that it kept a
little bit more of the homey

620
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,640
feel and a little bit more
authentic and customer based.

621
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,920
And but it doesn't surprise me
because I think that it feels to

622
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,560
me that a lot is corporatized,
including people's personalities

623
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,720
these days.
It's so funny.

624
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:20,400
And I didn't get LinkedIn used
to get a lot of I've seen that

625
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,840
LinkedIn got a lot gets a lot of
hate, even though I think it's a

626
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,640
really nice platform.
But one of the reasons why is

627
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:32,000
because it kind of corporatized
all humanity and it turned

628
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:39,440
everyone into these very polite
robots that write the same way.

629
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,520
I was down to my luck and, you
know, several paragraphs below

630
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:45,800
it where you have to click see
more.

631
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,240
And then I didn't.
And then I didn't give up.

632
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,040
And then my luck changed.
Keep hustling, you know, And

633
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,920
that's every LinkedIn post, just
in another variation one way or

634
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,320
the other.
I got fired from the job.

635
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,920
But I know that tomorrow's going
to be a brighter day.

636
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,440
And yeah, I mean, that's cool,
but it also kind of feels

637
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:10,480
robotic and not real And film,
I've complained and I've I've

638
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,760
complained.
I've talked to people, I've

639
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,560
observed and talked to a bunch
of guests recently, especially

640
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:19,680
in entertainment world about how
the film industry.

641
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,200
And this is again, I'm not, this
isn't a, this isn't a blame

642
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,720
game.
I'm not trying to blame people

643
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:29,280
or say this is all a problem or
I understand where this is

644
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,040
coming from.
Film studios, streaming studios

645
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,480
and services, they have to make
money.

646
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,880
I get that they have to make
money.

647
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,120
The question just is what are
you?

648
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:46,400
Where are you going to trim the
fat from in order to produce

649
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,120
profits?
And if that fat trimming is

650
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,000
customer based, then you're
going to have a push back from

651
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,440
the customer base if the
trimming.

652
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,440
And that's why actually.
So it's what I think is

653
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,720
interesting.
And what I've heard from

654
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:03,480
anecdotally from several Amazon
employees that I know personally

655
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,960
have spoken to throughout the
years is that Amazon is known to

656
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,280
be a very difficult place to
work, even though they obviously

657
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,600
care tremendously about the
customer.

658
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,960
And so where they'll say
they'll, they'll trim the their

659
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:19,920
quote UN quote fat for to make
profits might be on their

660
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:22,600
employee end as opposed to the
customer's end.

661
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,160
And so for all the customers
that are happy that Amazon has

662
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,800
no questions asked returns, that
might just mean that their

663
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,040
employees are getting their
employees are getting paid less

664
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,560
because they have to figure out
where to cut those where to make

665
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,240
that difference.
And by the way, I don't even

666
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,680
know if this is the case.
I'm literally just speculating,

667
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,880
making this up.
But the point and and the point

668
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,680
is not in the example that I'm
giving, but in the in the

669
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,760
general gist of the idea that
I'm portraying.

670
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:51,960
And that is that I don't fault
you for having to be responsible

671
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:59,200
financially and to make money.
I fault two things #1 having it

672
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come out, coming out of the
customer experience, and then #2

673
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,280
expecting to be bailed out on a
massive level.

674
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Like with government, When big
airlines or big banks, Oregon,

675
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,040
big entertainment companies
start falling apart and the

676
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government saves them if they're
falling apart, there's a reason

677
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for that.
That's capitalism and to save

678
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:24,440
them is such an issue because it
ignores the rules of what

679
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,920
people, of what people want.
And I mean, that is that's

680
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something that's also really,
really interesting as far as

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00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,080
democracy goes.
If you're going to be a

682
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capitalist, most, you know,
mostly capitalistic democracy.

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Companies shouldn't get bailed
out by the government if they go

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out of business or if they fail
because they're failing for a

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00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,000
reason.
And that's because they're not

686
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,080
doing a good job.
So by keeping them afloat, you

687
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,480
get, you're incentivizing them
to continue mistreating

688
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,480
customers.
And that to me is much more of

689
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:57,560
an issue than anything else.
So these, you know, and I'm in

690
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,040
these Airbnb communities and
I've spent, I mean, I've spent a

691
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,560
lot of time with them and I go
to them quite a bit because at

692
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the end of the day, they're
convenient.

693
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,880
They're huge houses for really
cheap and they're really good

694
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,840
for my family and for my good,
my kids to run around and, and

695
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,320
it really does feel like a good
getaway.

696
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And so I am happy to go and I am
happy to pay up for it.

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But when you walk down the
block, are you go, are you going

698
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,160
for a drive?
And you see for miles and miles

699
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,320
on end the exact same houses
that are all sitting empty, that

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00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,680
are all built the same way, the
same style, cut and paste, copy,

701
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,880
paste, copy, paste, copy, paste.
You feel like you're missing a

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00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,040
little something.
You feel like you're missing a

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00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,720
little bit of soul.
Till next time guys, We got a

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bunch of episodes coming up this
week.

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Bye.