Episode 1321 Scott Adams - Kids in Cubicles at the Border, Musk Robs Poor to Colonize Mars per Bernie

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grocery store nobody asked her to put a mask on she gets up to the the cashier and the cashier is the first person who who notices she's not wearing a mask and says something and the the cash the cashier says oh you're not wearing a mask you'll you'll need to put a mask on and we didn't have an extra wooden with them and i said do you have one i thought they might have spares or something and they didn't so christina of course says oh oh you know i'm sorry i'll i'll go get my mask from the car or i'll go wait in the car because i was just checking out anyway and the the cashier looks at her and he goes ah don't bother have you ever seen that in your entire life he just looks at her and goes ah don't bother but at the same time the the six foot distance thing apparently has been removed from my grocery store it looks like they're going to the the three foot kind of situation which you sort of do automatically because your cart's in the way so that i suppose i was a humble brag and and transparently so but i it was so funny to see that hypothesis tested do you know how long i would have gotten gotten away maskless i i wouldn't have gotten past the the entry i would have walked past the the chips and somebody said hold on you need to you need to cover up a lot of that and not just for a coving either all right elon musk is getting some heat from bernie sanders and others because he tweeted about collecting resources to get humanity to the the stars and people said what about all the people here on earth who need help what about them bernie sanders says shouldn't you be helping the people right here on earth instead of using all these resources to go to mars and so i was prompted to do a little informal survey the non-scientific type on on twitter i asked people where do billionaires get their money do they choice a steal it from the poor because you know if you want money the poor is where you go or did they create it out of nothing well nothing is created down nothing as far as we know but it's closer to that right why is it that bernie uh deserves some of that money that elon musk created out of nothing i don't know what that argument is but i would make the following argument uh colonizing space is the only way that we stay non-chinese because china is going to colonize space if we don't get there first and have a controlling presence in space whoever owns space owns owns earth because if you have the high ground you you militarily basically control earth and i don't know if that's a hundred years from now but why would you let that happen if the united states could keep technical supremacy and make sure that we don't lose space that might be the most important thing that's happening right now i would guess that what elon is doing in terms of the value to humanity you know for the next 10 million years what elon is doing is a million times more important than everything bernie has ever done it's not even close in terms of service to humanity these two are not on the same plane bernie's service to humanity is pretty good actually i would rank him as a productive member of society certainly in terms of moving the arguments and you know changing how we think about things but in terms of doing actual stuff that got done i think musk is the big winner there the other the uh andre's back house tweeted that colonizing mars might be the best way to protect earth in case somebody like bernie sanders ever becomes president and and andres uh cleverly says as long as we get all the keep all the ships the colonization ships on mars that an earth run by people like bernie sanders will never be able to build one so they'll never be able to get to mars and cause any trouble because their technology will never be able to get to mars and the fun the reason that's funny is because it sort of makes sense that if we don't escape to mars uh we will be doomed by anything that happens on earth so it turns out that trump uh at least reportedly is planning to come back in two or three months with his own media platform yay how much fun are we gonna have when trump comes back with his own media platform now i don't know what that will look like but i have to think it's a video based something maybe you can post things maybe you can tweet on it or whatever is the equivalent of tweeting so we'll all be waiting for that that'll be fun kind of makes you wonder who would be part of that platform doesn't it because i don't know if it can happen in two or three months because i haven't heard of anybody who's been approached have you uh if you've been approached by this whatever this new platform is to be part of it unless it's just trump himself which is entirely possible but if anybody's been approached to be part of any kind of a trump media thing let me let me know tweet at me or dm me or something um here is an idea that will sound crazy until you think about it are you ready this will sound like the worst idea and then it's just going to sort of sit there for a while until it sounds good to you you know how in business when you sign a contract it's fairly common snickers quiet over there it's fairly common in business to sign a contract with a clause in it that says if you have a dispute it will be solved by mediation now mediation i got to do something about my dog all right wake up yeah there we go now mediation means that you're going to get a result from a mediator somebody does that for a living that will not make either side happy in all likelihood right it might make one of them happy and the other unhappy but it's probably going to be some some middle ground compromise sort of thing no i didn't throw the kleenex box at her i just wanted her to hear it um so here's my crazy idea we're watching the democrats and republicans be unable to govern because now they have um yeah arbitration so it's called arbitration yes and so the democrats and the republicans can't get anything done because they don't want to vote for the other side and therefore not much can get done what would happen if we had a mediator or an arbitrator somebody who would say all right this is an important issue i'll take one that we haven't dealt with as much let's say transportation some kind of a infrastructure bill all right just to pick something that's maybe upcoming what would happen if the democrats and republicans just couldn't decide they just couldn't decide so what do you do just have no bill that doesn't work because that's where we're not we are now right just nothing happens but what would happen if the democrats and the republicans under some trigger say all right we can't work this out and just give it to the arbitrator and say this is what we think the other side says this is what we think but here's the key the democrats and republicans would have to agree in advance to accept the decision and then suddenly somebody says basically joe manchin that basically he's the arbitrator right joe manchin gets to decide because he's the only one who will cross cross lines now okay here's here's the question i'm anticipating who elects the mediators or the arbitrators because then you'd have a situation where all of our elected representatives would be neutered and an unelected person would make the decision but wait it's not a problem because the elected people would be selecting they would have selected the arbitrator so it's a process by which the elected people decide in advance that this is how they'll make a decision but it would still be the elected people who had created the system that created the the the outcome it would just be a reasonable person making the decision who is neither democrat nor republican in terms of bias watch how that idea sounds bad crazy when you first hear it and it's going to sort of gnaw you over time because as long as the democrats and republicans both agree to let the arbitrator arbitrate it would work and i'm seeing in the comments there's like a real hesitation because somebody says it's not constitutional i disagree you could make it constitutional simply by having the republic the republicans and democrats agree to abide by it because they could simply change their mind and that gives them full control you know so they don't have to they would just agree to it now how is that different than you know stuff getting worked out in committee it's not a lot different right um so watch how that one gets better over time so on my ongoing series of trump will look better every day that he's gone um did you know that the trump administration did allow photojournalists into the juvenile migrant detention centers but biden does not think about that the trump administration with their so-called kids in cages allowed the journalists to come in and take pictures and interview people and stuff and biden's not doing that that's basically the uyghur concentration camp situation right do we have more photos of uyghur concentration camps or of these migrant detention facilities for children yeah i saw the project veritas video and there's some other photographs that came out today and it seems that they're being kept in these clear plastic sided containers but they're not boxes because they have an open top they're kind of cubicles if you look at them they're cubicles with a door and i thought to myself wait a minute if we're keeping kids in cubicles at the same time that remote office work is becoming a big thing aren't there hundreds of thousands of empty cubicles just sitting there in rented space with nobody in them why can't we put those kids in cubicles do you feel me in all seriousness is there any reason we can't use office space that's been abandoned they got bathrooms they've got containers called cubicles and what would be funniest about that is we can all complain about kids in cages justifiably we can all complain about kids in boxes kids in any kind of custody we can all complain about that but what would happen if those kids were put in a modern uh in a modern office building in cubicles right now you don't need a door on every cubicle as long as you're guarding the exterior exits i feel as if you could put kids in cubicles and it would end the problem because we wouldn't be able to complain that living in cubicles was inhumane you could give each kid their own cubicle we probably have plenty of them now i'm just you know i don't think anything like this will happen but putting kids in hotels doesn't seem like the right answer does it because that's what they're doing now they're putting them in hotels but i suppose a hotel has a shower so that's an advantage all right rasmussen poll says two-thirds of the public say we have a border crisis two-thirds of the public now i i don't think i've ever seen a president fail harder than this have you do we have any history of a president coming into office implementing a policy the the immigration policy in this case and failing spectacularly in the first 30 to 60 days has that ever happened what would be the another example of a worst start for a president can you think of one because presidents usually start off pretty well right usually the first honeymoon period somebody says bush but what did bush do in the first 30 to 60 days i don't think anybody's had a worse start this might be the oh 9 11.

was 9 11 in the first two months of bush yeah i don't know all right here's a question that you think we ought to know the answer to but according to social media the the final final word on everything uh we don't so uh i saw these uh tweets going around this morning about israel's outcomes and if you look at the israeli data of vaccinations versus outcomes it seems pretty clear that the vaccinations started and then the the hospitalizations and deaths plunged as soon as they started getting enough people vaccinated so you say to yourself well it obviously works because the vaccinations came the deaths and hospitalizations plunged what else do you need to know well i thought that that sounded pretty good and especially because the the rate of vaccinations within different age groups seems to map perfectly to show that the more vaccinated you are the faster the curb falls just like you'd expect but but it didn't take long for people to say well here's my chart of other countries who have exactly the same curve and they're not vaccinating much at all to which i say damn it damn it again we actually is it true that we can't tell if the vaccinations are working and that we'll never know when i say we'll never know i don't mean that science won't decide that they know but i feel the public has already made a move and said it doesn't matter what data you show us we're just not going to believe those vaccinations made any difference yeah i think i would agree with who the commenter who's saying it's a little too soon i feel as if we should know for sure in two months right but as somebody pointed out the spanish flu went away and they didn't have a vaccine so why did it go away apparently it was not because of herd immunity we don't know why the spanish flu went away and here's the kicker we don't know why any virus goes away which was the most amazing thing i learned early on in the pandemic that we don't know why the seasonal flu goes away it just does now the only thing that makes sense is that some people have some natural immunity for one reason or another i can't think of any other reason that a virus would go away without immunity and without a vaccination but do you believe that we don't have data yet to know the vaccinations work we were able to apparently we can measure the amount of antibodies i mean it certainly looks like we can measure it but a number of people showed me graphs where other countries that are not doing much actually the united states is not doing as well on vaccinations but our curve looks the same so how do you explain that how do you explain that countries not vaccinating are also having a big drop at about the same time the amount of stuff we don't know about this is just stunning um i heard somebody who knew what they were talking about a doctor told me that one of the problems with counting the regular seasonal flu influenza deaths are that we count them as an influence of death if it's sort of the last thing that happened before they died so if somebody gets influenza and then the influenza you know is taken care of but a few days later they die of let's say something related maybe it's pneumonia or something that that would get counted as a influenza death even if they died with no influenza in them the thought is that they were weakened to the point where it's the proximate cause but does that make sense because here's another way to look at it it seems to me that anybody who dies i'll take an average 80 year old person aren't they dying for all the reasons they're dying for all the reasons one of the reasons is they didn't eat well during their entire life didn't have a good diet another reason is they didn't exercise enough another reason is that they were born with a certain genetic you know uh genetic propensity for things and then there were all the decisions they made in life did they smoke cigarettes did they do this or did they do that don't you need every one of those things to happen on top of the influenza in order to kill a person but because the the last thing you saw was the influenza we say that's the thing that killed you but if you would say removed any of the other major parts i mentioned let's say you had always eaten well if you went back in time and changed that variable and now you're you're thin but you're older do you still die would you still die if you wouldn't then it wasn't the influenza that killed you right it was your bad diet over years and years or your lack of exercise or you know you didn't take your vitamin d or whatever right so it seems to me illogical to say that the last thing that happened sort of the final straw is the one that broke the camel's back it's just the one that happened last it's not like a car accident where the car accident definitely killed you right and it's not like cancer necessarily because the cancer kills you i suppose you could argue that your lifestyle might have contributed to that too and then there's a question of whether you can count this stuff i saw a tweet this morning that somebody claiming we already know that half a million extra people died in 2020 but i don't think we know that i feel like we don't know the death count for 2020 but if anybody has that link send it to me i think that's estimated so here's the other factor have you ever noticed that if you're if you can't find your phone or your keys where are they always the thing you can't find where is it always it's always in the last place you look right if you can't find your keys it's in the last place you would look and the last place you do look now of course i'm being silly because if you find your keys that is the last place you look you don't need to look anymore you found your keys and so how many people who are let's say within a year of dying get the influenza and then because just the order of things death comes after do you know it's harder to die first and then get the influenza after you're dead i'm no doctor but i think that's a safe sentence so suppose it's flu season and people are going to get the flu old people some of them get the flu within a few weeks of a death but maybe they were gonna die anyway and the flu maybe pushed it up a few days or a few weeks i don't know but is that really the cause of death if you were only a few weeks away from death because it seems to me that just the the coincidental timing of people getting the flu and then they were going to die anyway i feel like that would get a little over counting going on but i'm not sure so the quality of our data on everything from influenza to mass to distancing to vaccinations we're at a point where we don't believe anything and maybe we don't yeah and i don't think influenza the regular influenza is even based on uh death certificates i think it's some kind of weird estimate all right apparently biden's department homeland department of homeland security secretary insists that the border is closed and it's under control except for lone children so that's the biden administration says that the it's closed except for lone children so the question i ask you is why why does the biden administration not want adults to come in is it because he's racist because it seems pretty racist to close your border and not let one brown person in who's an adult come on are there any white people you're keeping out from crossing the southern border well a few maybe who came from europe and tried to get in that way but mostly biden is keeping the brown people from crossing the border and i don't think we can ignore that of course that's what would be said if it were trump um yeah it's ageism it's ageism exactly that's exactly what it is now how would you how would you regard the joe biden kids and cubicles problem if the press had been able to report on it and if biden had been completely transparent about how bad it was i feel as if i would have taken that completely differently imagine if you will that biden had said exactly the opposite of what he said which is yeah you know because i said we were going to be kind to children it totally causes more children to come here unaccompanied i that's that's all on me but the alternative is worse and i'm going to show you what we're doing we're not prepared i wish we were it's going to get ugly down there but we're going to prepare as fast as we can so we're going to let the photojournalists and the journalists talk to everybody you see how bad it is it's as bad as you think it is take a picture we're working as hard as we can to fix it i feel like that would have that would have felt different to me that would have felt like we've got a bad problem and nobody has a good idea or the the immediate resources for solving it and then i would say okay at least that's honest maybe maybe i wouldn't have played it that way but at least it's honest right i'll take that but it feels like biden has given us a bad situation and then on top of it made it non-transparent oh that's not good that's not good all right um southern states should form a sanctuary coalition somebody's saying to fix this themselves i don't know how they do that somebody says boy you are easy well don't get me wrong um i think that trump's policy on the border was the smart one and it feels like we're going to end up back there eventually so um i i do think well let me say right out loud i'll say out loud what people don't want to say if we don't make it really hard for children too many of them will come and that won't be good for them either so i'll say what most adults don't want to say is we have to probably make it really really bad for kids otherwise the situation gets out of control unfortunately we live in a cruel world and having having uh you know boundaries and borders and rules and laws and stuff like that we don't really have an option for that stuff it's not like you can just accept them or not accept them we need to be able to say out loud and by the way if i were president i would say that out loud i would say just the way i'm saying now i would say look we want to be good to kids but we need to make it hard on them otherwise we'll have a worse situation now one of the things that i wonder about is whether this migrant crisis is going to hurt us or help us um don't you assume that tens of thousands of uh unaccompanied minors crossing the border you kind of assume it's bad don't you for the economy but i don't know i actually don't know it might not be because um and i would need i think i would need a little help on the economics decision here let's say let's say that humans have different economic values if a an 80 year old immigrant coming came across the border i would say that's going to be expensive because the 80 year old is not going to work probably but might have health problems might be a burden but what happens if a if a 14 year old comes across the border a 14 year old probably has a good chance of learning english well enough by the time they're an adult they're probably going to get you know an upgrade in education and the odds of them becoming productive citizens is pretty good you know most countries need an influx of young people no matter how they get them or else your economy stalls out so we don't have a choice of having lots of young people and you can either give birth to them or or bring them in from immigration but young people are like gold as humans go as human beings go mexico sent us their best that i think that's the truth you know trump is famous for saying they're not ascending their best that's the adults right because the adults include cartel members and stuff like that now i disagree with trump that they're not ascending their best i very much disagree with that he's certainly true that their criminal elements are coming across the border but i think actually mexico is sending their best uh in this one sense that the adults who are coming don't count the cartel members and the ms-13 but the adults who are coming to work are the boldest healthiest they're the ones who can make it they're the risk takers the entrepreneurs we might accidentally be siphoning off mexico's most valuable asset which is their best people now not best in terms of educational attainment but that's maybe you know one generation away so i'm just gonna ask the question is there an economist out there who's looked at the questions specifically if you were to take the the children and they were the only migrants would you come out ahead or behind now keep in mind that each of these migrants will go stay with somebody so they're not going to be homeless for the most part they'll they'll be taken care of by some kind of entity and we'll see uh they're from central america not mexico for the most part yeah i should add that i should add that correction there are more from central america than mexico that is correct thank you for that thank you for that upgrade um who pays the schools for them so here's where you need the the economist so certainly the children will create some costs there'll be some extra health care costs there'll be school costs they'll be you know a burden in a number way so the question is not that they present costs it's obvious that they do the question is will they create more benefit than they've added in costs and i would say you should be no different than our own children right we send our own children to school it costs money um i'm paying for your children to go to school right why is it fair that i'm paying for your children to go to school so maybe you might pay for somebody else's children to go to school too and as will i i just don't know if this is economic plus or minus if you think you know the answer this i'll bet you don't i bet you don't remember we don't know if masks work i mean i think they do but you know the the state of our data is just terrible that we're arguing about mass and social distancing and lockdowns in schools we're arguing about vaccines now for of all things we're arguing about everything so do you think that you know that migrant children are economically negative because i will take that bet without seeing what the economists say you know sight unseen i will take the bet that the children are almost always on an average are almost always positive economically i don't know now i do know that it's terrible for the south american or the central american countries because essential american countries i was watching uh was it the leader of i forget one of the central american countries was saying that their their product is exporting people they don't have a they don't have a functioning economy because if you're exporting your people that's your worst situation so their their best brightest healthiest youngest people are all leaving that's bad that's really bad so how could it be true i suppose it could be true but you've got a situation where if it's bad for where they're leaving that they're leaving isn't that because they have an economic value that's the whole point right they have a future economic value that's quite substantial so i think we should make a big distinction between taking the central american kids which might be like free money it might be free money it just doesn't feel like it taking adults well they're going to start taking jobs and such right that's a different situation and some of them are criminals and some of them are older blah blah now i suppose the chain migration is still an issue so i don't know how how you calculate that because the young kids will eventually be able to do some chain migration of their relatives i guess i think that's the way it is all right my dog's snoring too loudly and that's that's uh somebody says legal only yeah so legal would be the first choice right but in effect the biden administration has legalized on unattended migrant children so in effect it's legal it's just not technically legal um somebody's saying that saucy says trump people don't like educated people i think that's kind of true that's kind of true i do think that trump supporters don't trust experts and academics and elites and harvard graduates etc you know it's not a it's not a universal thing but i think i think there's something to that um okay i saw the i saw an insensitive joke that i can't decide if it's racist so i'm gonna i'm gonna recount it and then this will be your test case is the following joke funny and actually supports the the migrants or is it making fun of the migrants and therefore is racist and here's the joke and i won't tell you who said it because in case you think it's racist he doesn't need any more trouble right so somebody you know from social media said that the the kids in cages because they they all have this foil aluminum foil looking blankets and he said that it was making all the kids look like uh gas station burritos i just don't know how to respond to that one because i laughed as soon as i realized oh yeah a burrito is wrapped in that you know that tin foil thing and there's pictures of all these kids wrapped in tin foil and they're from south america or they're from central america so you think to yourself burrito but is that racist tell me is it racist or is it just offensive like where's that line between offensive and racist because i will tell you that i'm pretty sure the person who said it was not in favor of any children of any kind suffering in any way so certainly you know nobody had any bad feelings about the children and i don't think anybody had any racial animosity but it's right on the line there isn't it it's sort of right on the line of you hear it you go i don't know if i would have said that in public the only reason i can say it in public is that i'm talking about it if i just said it as a joke i think i'd have to pay for that probably um somebody says gas stations sell burritos i i think the ones with um yeah i think they do actually depends on your gas station um all right well at least people are laughing at it you know you don't want to laugh at any group who are suffering so but i don't know if the children are all that suffering one of the questions that's never asked is are the the migrant children who are in these containers um let's say it even lasts for a week however long it lasts it's only supposed to be 72 hours but let's say it lasts a week what was their life like before they got in that cage how many of them are actually happier in the cage i mean nobody wants to stay in the cage forever but how many of them are actually physically better fed warmer safer from crime than they were every day of their life until they got in the cage again i'm not pro cage right i'm just saying that if you're using your um your elite uh let's say you're using your elite american filter to say my god if i went if i left my current life and had to be wrapped in tin foil and laying on a mattress in a container next to the border that would be the worst day ever for me but that's not them i think they're going from a horrible situation which is why they came here to a situation which looks horrible by our standards but might not be that bad compared to where they were a week ago right so i'm not saying that the the cages are humane or that they're good i think we should all just have a general feeling that you don't want to pick put kids in containers and you don't want you don't want to put kids in jail of any kind right if you could avoid it but maybe you can't avoid it if you can't avoid it you can't avoid it somebody says the conditions for those kids might be better than boot camp might be i say definitely don't you think that a typical of volunteer military person who goes through boot camp has a worse time in boot camp in terms of physical comfort than any of the migrants who are kept in cages for three days again don't want anybody in a cage it's just we got to put it in perspective so the perfect situation would be that we treated everybody humanely but somehow everybody believed we didn't so the ideal situation is to let reality and uh and persuasion decouple treat the kids humanely but tell everybody it's a living hell and they better not come all right somebody's making a bad pun instead of quesadillas kids ideas all right let's not be offensive um somebody's calling them aoc burritos you're you're right on the edge of being you know racist by modern standards you know so far you're just being offensive and and by the way um i always i make this uh i try to make this distinction rarely do you see a comment that's actually racist even the ones that people are getting canceled et cetera we've we've come to believe that offensive something that bothers somebody is also racist but i would argue they're rarely the same i would say that most times most of the things that people say that they get canceled for are meant to be offensive slash funny they're not meant to change the law to racism it's not meant to discriminate it's not it's even not meant to it's not meant to make anybody's life worse it's just defensive like a lot of humor is all right somebody said what happened to the dill burrito so the dill burrito uh was a a burrito i made years ago and tried to mark it because i had all the vitamins and minerals you needed for the day but there were a few problems number one the food industry is crooked and so when we would go on a shelf there was a certain company who shall remain nameless who would send their people in to put their products in front of it so we would actually sell zero zero units because nobody would even know it was in the store so we got into you know big so we got into 7-eleven and costco and walmart and we got into all the big stores but nobody ever saw it and uh yeah you you're making a good guess in the uh in the comments and the other problem is that the the product uh didn't have the repeat customers that we hoped because the product itself made you repeat oh did it make you repeat you know this is sort of a classic thing of course we we tested them all and i think everybody who who tested their prototypes said oh these are tasty and then we would go off and have you know intestinal distress but you kind of think it's just you right like you don't think it's the product you think oh maybe my body doesn't respond to the spicy food or something but the feedback from the customers was is the feedback from the customers that apparently this product made you far more than more than any product of all time somehow this product got all the way through the testing you know we we all ate it and tested it we and we all had the same experience like privately and individually we all had like the worst heart attack you've ever had in your life but i think i think all of us individually didn't talk about it and we just figured well this is my body like you know it's it's just you know one of those things didn't really think didn't really think it was the quality of the product so much just thought of something about me and then you find it they put it out there basically you could eat that thing once destroy all your furniture that's what that's one of my best failures of all my failures i think i like that one the best because it's so ridiculous oh god obviously that's all that's all i've got uh we could probably just feed those dill burritos to uh to pigs to make methane i think we could fuel a major city with you know two with two two deal burritos and a couple of pigs so you'd have all the methane you ever need all right that's all for now i'll talk to you later ah all right i'm a mess that's all for now i'll talk to you tomorrow

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well i had a hypothesis

uh not too long ago that a very

attractive woman

could go in public without a mask

and would not be asked to put one on

just because it's an attractive woman

and christine and i went to safeway

to buy some groceries last night

and didn't notice until we got to the

cashier

that i had worn my mask the entire time

but she had never worn her mask

the entire time she was in the grocery

store

nobody asked her to put a mask on

she gets up to the the cashier and the

cashier is the first person

who who notices she's not wearing a mask

and says something

and the the cash the cashier says

oh you're not wearing a mask you'll

you'll need to put a mask on and we

didn't have an extra wooden with them

and

i said do you have one i thought they

might have spares or something

and they didn't so christina of course

says oh oh you know i'm sorry i'll

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and the the cashier looks at her

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bother

but at the same time the the six foot

distance thing

apparently has been removed from my

grocery store

it looks like they're going to the the

three foot kind of situation which

you sort of do automatically because

your cart's in the way

so that i suppose i was a humble brag

and and transparently so but i it was so

funny to see that hypothesis tested

do you know how long i would have gotten

gotten away maskless

i i wouldn't have gotten past the the

entry i would have walked past the

the chips and somebody said hold on you

need to

you need to cover up a lot of that and

not just for a coving either all right

elon musk is

getting some heat from bernie sanders

and others because

he tweeted about collecting resources

to get humanity to the the stars

and people said

what about all the people here on earth

who need help

what about them bernie sanders says

shouldn't you be helping the people

right here on earth instead of

using all these resources to go to mars

and so i was prompted to do a little

informal survey

the non-scientific type on on twitter

i asked people where do billionaires get

their money

do they choice a steal it from the poor

because you know if you want money the

poor is where you go

or did they create it

out of nothing well

nothing is created down nothing as far

as we know but

it's closer to that right why is it that

bernie

uh deserves some of that money that elon

musk

created out of nothing

i don't know what that argument is but i

would make the following argument

uh colonizing space

is the only way that we stay non-chinese

because china is going to colonize space

if we don't

get there first and have a controlling

presence in space

whoever owns space owns owns earth

because if you have the high ground you

you militarily basically control earth

and

i don't know if that's a hundred years

from now but why would you

let that happen if the united states

could keep technical

supremacy and make sure that we don't

lose space

that might be the most important thing

that's happening right now

i would guess that what elon is doing

in terms of the value to humanity you

know for the next

10 million years what elon is doing

is a million times more important than

everything bernie has ever done it's not

even close

in terms of service to humanity

these two are not on the same plane

bernie's service to humanity is pretty

good actually

i would rank him as a productive member

of society

certainly in terms of moving the

arguments and you know changing how we

think about things

but in terms of doing actual stuff

that got done i think musk is the big

winner there

the other the uh andre's back house

tweeted that colonizing mars

might be the best way to protect earth

in case somebody like bernie sanders

ever becomes president

and and andres uh cleverly says as long

as we get all the

keep all the ships the colonization

ships on mars

that an earth run by people like bernie

sanders will never be able to build one

so they'll never be able to get to mars

and cause any trouble

because their technology will never be

able to get to mars

and the fun the reason that's funny

is because it sort of makes sense that

if we don't escape to mars

uh we will be doomed by anything that

happens on earth

so it turns out that trump uh at least

reportedly

is planning to come back in two or three

months with his own media platform

yay how much fun are we gonna have when

trump comes back with his own media

platform

now i don't know what that will look

like but i have to think it's a video

based

something maybe you can post things

maybe you can

tweet on it or whatever is the

equivalent of tweeting

so we'll all be waiting for that that'll

be fun

kind of makes you wonder who would be

part of that platform

doesn't it because i don't know if it

can happen in two or three months

because i haven't heard of anybody who's

been approached have you

uh if you've been approached by this

whatever this new platform is to be part

of it

unless it's just trump himself which is

entirely possible

but if anybody's been approached to be

part of any kind of a trump media thing

let me let me know tweet at me or dm me

or something

um here is an idea

that will sound crazy

until you think about it are you ready

this will sound like the worst idea

and then it's just going to sort of sit

there for a while until it sounds good

to you

you know how in business when you sign a

contract

it's fairly common snickers quiet over

there

it's fairly common in business to sign a

contract with a clause in it

that says if you have a dispute it will

be solved by mediation

now mediation

i got to do something about my dog

all right wake up yeah there we go now

mediation

means that you're going to get a result

from a mediator somebody does that for a

living

that will not make either side happy in

all likelihood right

it might make one of them happy and the

other unhappy but it's probably going to

be some

some middle ground compromise sort of

thing

no i didn't throw the kleenex box at her

i just wanted her to hear it

um so

here's my crazy idea

we're watching the democrats and

republicans be unable to govern

because now they have um yeah

arbitration so it's called arbitration

yes

and so the democrats and the republicans

can't get anything done because they

don't want to vote for the other side

and therefore not much can get done what

would happen if

we had a mediator or an arbitrator

somebody who would say all right this is

an important issue i'll take one that we

haven't dealt with as much

let's say transportation

some kind of a infrastructure bill

all right just to pick something that's

maybe upcoming

what would happen if the democrats and

republicans just couldn't decide

they just couldn't decide so what do you

do just have

no bill that doesn't work because that's

where we're not we are now right

just nothing happens but what would

happen if the democrats and the

republicans

under some trigger say all right we

can't work this out

and just give it to the arbitrator and

say this is what we think

the other side says this is what we

think but here's the key

the democrats and republicans would have

to agree in advance

to accept the decision and then suddenly

somebody says basically joe manchin that

basically he's the arbitrator right

joe manchin gets to decide because he's

the only one who will cross

cross lines

now okay here's here's the question i'm

anticipating who elects

the mediators or the arbitrators because

then you'd have a situation where all of

our elected representatives

would be neutered and an unelected

person would make the decision

but wait it's not a problem

because the elected people would be

selecting they would have selected

the arbitrator so it's a process

by which the elected people decide in

advance

that this is how they'll make a decision

but it would still be the elected people

who had created the system that created

the the the outcome

it would just be a reasonable person

making the decision

who is neither democrat nor republican

in terms of bias

watch how that idea sounds

bad crazy when you first hear it

and it's going to sort of gnaw you over

time

because as long as the democrats and

republicans both agree

to let the arbitrator arbitrate

it would work and i'm seeing in the

comments there's like a real hesitation

because somebody says it's not

constitutional i disagree

you could make it constitutional simply

by having the republic the republicans

and democrats

agree to abide by it because they could

simply change their mind and that gives

them full control

you know so they don't have to they

would just agree to it

now how is that different than you know

stuff getting worked out in committee

it's not a lot different right um

so watch how that one gets better over

time

so on my ongoing series of trump will

look

better every day that he's gone

um did you know that the trump

administration

did allow photojournalists into the

juvenile migrant detention centers but

biden does not

think about that the trump

administration

with their so-called kids in cages

allowed

the journalists to come in and take

pictures

and interview people and stuff and

biden's not doing that

that's basically the uyghur

concentration camp

situation right do we have more photos

of uyghur concentration camps

or of these migrant detention facilities

for children

yeah i saw the project veritas video and

there's some other photographs

that came out today and it seems that

they're being kept in

these clear plastic sided

containers but they're not boxes because

they have an open top

they're kind of cubicles if you look at

them

they're cubicles with a door and i

thought to myself

wait a minute if we're keeping kids in

cubicles

at the same time that remote office work

is becoming a big thing

aren't there hundreds of thousands of

empty cubicles just sitting there in

rented space with nobody in them

why can't we put those kids in cubicles

do you feel me in all seriousness

is there any reason we can't use office

space that's been abandoned

they got bathrooms they've got

containers called cubicles

and what would be funniest about that is

we can all complain about kids in cages

justifiably

we can all complain about kids in boxes

kids in any kind of custody

we can all complain about that but what

would happen

if those kids were put in a modern

uh in a modern office building

in cubicles

right now you don't need a door on every

cubicle

as long as you're guarding the exterior

exits

i feel as if you could put kids in

cubicles and it would end the problem

because we wouldn't be able to complain

that living in cubicles was inhumane

you could give each kid their own

cubicle we probably have plenty of them

now i'm just you know i don't think

anything like this will happen but

putting kids in hotels

doesn't seem like the right answer does

it because that's what they're doing now

they're putting them in hotels but i

suppose a hotel has a shower so that's

an advantage

all right rasmussen poll says two-thirds

of the public say we have a border

crisis

two-thirds of the public now

i i don't think i've ever seen a

president fail harder than this have you

do we have any history of a president

coming into office

implementing a policy the the

immigration policy in this case

and failing spectacularly in the first

30 to 60 days has that ever happened

what would be the another example of a

worst

start for a president can you think of

one

because presidents usually start off

pretty well right

usually the first honeymoon period

somebody says bush

but what did bush do in the first 30 to

60 days

i don't think anybody's had a worse

start this might be the

oh 9 11.

was 9 11 in the first two months of bush

yeah i don't know all right

here's a question that you think we

ought to know the answer to but

according to social media

the the final final word on everything

uh

we don't so

uh i saw these uh tweets going around

this morning about israel's

outcomes and if you look at the israeli

data

of vaccinations versus outcomes it seems

pretty clear that the vaccinations

started and then the the

hospitalizations and deaths

plunged as soon as they started getting

enough people vaccinated

so you say to yourself well it obviously

works

because the vaccinations came the deaths

and hospitalizations plunged

what else do you need to know well i

thought that that sounded pretty good

and especially because the the rate of

vaccinations within different age groups

seems to map perfectly to show that the

more vaccinated you are

the faster the curb falls just like

you'd expect

but but

it didn't take long for people to say

well here's my chart of

other countries who have exactly the

same curve and they're not vaccinating

much at all

to which i say damn it

damn it again

we actually is it true that we can't

tell if the vaccinations are working

and that we'll never know when i say

we'll never know i don't mean that

science won't decide

that they know but i feel the public has

already made

a move and said it doesn't matter what

data you show us

we're just not going to believe those

vaccinations made any difference

yeah i think i would agree with who the

commenter who's saying it's a little too

soon

i feel as if we should know for sure in

two months right

but as somebody pointed out the spanish

flu went away and they didn't have a

vaccine

so why did it go away apparently it was

not because of herd

immunity we don't know why the spanish

flu went away and here's the kicker

we don't know why any virus goes away

which was the most amazing thing i

learned early on in the pandemic

that we don't know why the seasonal flu

goes away

it just does now the only thing that

makes sense is that some people have

some natural immunity for one reason or

another i can't think of any other

reason

that a virus would go away without

immunity and without a vaccination

but

do you believe that we don't have data

yet to know the vaccinations work

we were able to apparently we can

measure the amount of antibodies

i mean it certainly looks like we can

measure it

but a number of people showed me graphs

where other countries that are not doing

much actually the united states is not

doing as well

on vaccinations but our curve looks the

same

so how do you explain that how do you

explain that countries not vaccinating

are also having a big drop at about the

same time

the amount of stuff we don't know about

this is just stunning

um i heard somebody who knew what they

were talking about

a doctor told me that one of the

problems with counting the regular

seasonal flu

influenza deaths are that we count them

as an influence of death

if it's sort of the last thing that

happened before they died

so if somebody gets influenza and then

the influenza

you know is taken care of but a few days

later they die

of let's say something related maybe

it's pneumonia or something

that that would get counted as a

influenza death

even if they died with no influenza in

them

the thought is that they were weakened

to the point where

it's the proximate cause but

does that make sense because here's

another way to look at it

it seems to me that anybody who dies

i'll take an average 80 year old person

aren't they dying for all the reasons

they're dying for all the reasons one of

the reasons is

they didn't eat well during their entire

life didn't have a good diet

another reason is they didn't exercise

enough

another reason is that they were born

with a certain genetic

you know uh genetic propensity for

things

and then there were all the decisions

they made in life did they smoke

cigarettes

did they do this or did they do that

don't you need every one of those things

to happen

on top of the influenza in order to kill

a person

but because the the last thing you saw

was the influenza

we say that's the thing that killed you

but if you would say removed

any of the other major parts i mentioned

let's say you had always eaten well

if you went back in time and changed

that variable and now you're

you're thin but you're older

do you still die would you still die

if you wouldn't then it wasn't the

influenza that killed you

right it was your bad diet over years

and years

or your lack of exercise or you know you

didn't take your vitamin d

or whatever right so it seems to me

illogical to say that the last thing

that happened sort of the final straw

is the one that broke the camel's back

it's just the one that happened last

it's not like a car accident where the

car accident definitely killed you

right and it's not like cancer

necessarily

because the cancer kills you i suppose

you could argue that your lifestyle

might have

contributed to that too

and then there's a question of whether

you can count this stuff i saw a tweet

this morning that somebody claiming we

already know that

half a million extra people died in 2020

but i don't think we know that

i feel like we don't know the death

count for 2020

but if anybody has that link send it to

me i think that's estimated

so here's the other factor have you ever

noticed that

if you're if you can't find your phone

or your keys

where are they always the thing you

can't find

where is it always it's always in the

last place you look

right if you can't find your keys it's

in the last place you would look

and the last place you do look now

of course i'm being silly because if you

find your keys

that is the last place you look you

don't need to look anymore you found

your keys

and so how many people

who are let's say within a year of dying

get the influenza and then

because just the order of things

death comes after do you know it's

harder to die

first and then get the influenza after

you're dead

i'm no doctor but i think that's a safe

sentence

so suppose it's flu season

and people are going to get the flu

old people some of them get the flu

within a few weeks of

a death but maybe they were gonna die

anyway

and the flu maybe pushed it up a few

days or a few weeks i don't know

but is that really the cause of death if

you were only a few weeks away from

death

because it seems to me that just the the

coincidental timing

of people getting the flu and then they

were going to die anyway

i feel like that would get a little over

counting going on

but i'm not sure so

the quality of our data on everything

from influenza

to mass to distancing to vaccinations

we're at a point where we don't believe

anything and maybe we don't

yeah and i don't think influenza the

regular influenza is even

based on uh death certificates i think

it's some kind of weird estimate

all right apparently biden's department

homeland

department of homeland security

secretary insists that the border is

closed

and it's under control except

for lone children so

that's the biden administration says

that the it's closed except for lone

children

so the question i ask you is why

why does the biden administration not

want adults to come in

is it because he's racist

because it seems pretty racist to close

your border and not let

one brown person in who's an adult come

on

are there any white people you're

keeping out

from crossing the southern border well a

few maybe who

came from europe and tried to get in

that way but mostly

biden is keeping the brown people from

crossing the border and i don't think we

can ignore that

of course that's what would be said if

it were trump um

yeah it's ageism it's ageism

exactly that's exactly what it is

now how would you

how would you regard the joe biden

kids and cubicles problem if the press

had been able to

report on it and if biden had been

completely transparent

about how bad it was i feel as if i

would have taken that completely

differently

imagine if you will that biden had said

exactly the opposite of what he said

which is

yeah you know because i said we were

going to be kind to children

it totally causes more children to come

here unaccompanied

i that's that's all on me but

the alternative is worse and i'm going

to show you what we're doing

we're not prepared i wish we were

it's going to get ugly down there but

we're going to prepare as fast as we can

so we're going to let the

photojournalists and the journalists

talk to everybody you see how bad it is

it's as bad as you think it is take a

picture

we're working as hard as we can to fix

it

i feel like that would have that would

have felt different to me

that would have felt like we've got a

bad problem

and nobody has a good idea or the the

immediate resources for solving it

and then i would say okay at least

that's honest maybe maybe i wouldn't

have played it that way

but at least it's honest right i'll take

that

but it feels like biden has given us a

bad situation

and then on top of it made it

non-transparent

oh that's not good that's not good

all right

um southern states should form a

sanctuary coalition somebody's saying

to fix this themselves i don't know how

they do that

somebody says boy you are easy

well don't get me wrong um i think that

trump's policy on the border was the

smart one

and it feels like we're going to end up

back there eventually

so um i i do think

well let me say right out loud i'll say

out loud what people don't want to say

if we don't make it really hard for

children

too many of them will come and that

won't be good for them either

so i'll say what most adults don't want

to say is we have to

probably make it really really bad for

kids otherwise the situation gets out of

control

unfortunately we live in a cruel world

and having

having uh you know boundaries and

borders and

rules and laws and stuff like that we

don't really have an option for that

stuff

it's not like you can just accept them

or not accept them

we need to be able to say out loud and

by the way if i were president i would

say that out loud

i would say just the way i'm saying now

i would say

look we want to be good to kids but

we need to make it hard on them

otherwise

we'll have a worse situation now one of

the things that i wonder about is

whether this migrant crisis is going to

hurt us or help us

um don't you assume that

tens of thousands of uh unaccompanied

minors crossing the border you kind of

assume it's bad don't you

for the economy but i don't know

i actually don't know it might not be

because um

and i would need i think i would need a

little help on the economics decision

here

let's say let's say that humans

have different economic values

if a an 80 year old immigrant coming

came across the border

i would say that's going to be expensive

because the 80 year old is not going to

work probably but might have health

problems might be a burden

but what happens if a if a 14 year old

comes across the border

a 14 year old probably has a good chance

of learning

english well enough by the time they're

an adult they're probably going to get

you know an upgrade in education

and the odds of them becoming productive

citizens is pretty good

you know most countries need an influx

of young people

no matter how they get them or else your

economy

stalls out so we don't have a choice of

having lots of young people

and you can either give birth to them or

or bring them in from immigration

but young people are like gold as humans

go

as human beings go

mexico sent us their best

that i think that's the truth you know

trump is famous for saying they're not

ascending their best

that's the adults right because the

adults include

cartel members and stuff like that now i

disagree with trump

that they're not ascending their best i

very much disagree with that

he's certainly true that their criminal

elements are coming across the border

but i think actually mexico is sending

their best

uh in this one sense that the adults who

are coming

don't count the cartel members and the

ms-13

but the adults who are coming to work

are the boldest

healthiest they're the ones who can make

it

they're the risk takers the

entrepreneurs

we might accidentally be siphoning off

mexico's most valuable asset

which is their best people now not best

in terms of

educational attainment but that's maybe

you know one generation away

so i'm just gonna ask the question is

there an economist out there who's

looked at the questions specifically

if you were to take the the children

and they were the only migrants would

you come out ahead

or behind now keep in mind that each of

these migrants will go

stay with somebody so they're not going

to be homeless

for the most part they'll they'll be

taken care of by some kind of entity

and we'll see

uh they're from central america not

mexico for the most part

yeah i should add that i should add that

correction

there are more from central america than

mexico that is correct thank you for

that

thank you for that upgrade

um who pays the schools for them so

here's where you need the

the economist so certainly

the children will create some costs

there'll be some extra health care costs

there'll be school costs

they'll be you know a burden in a number

way so the question is not that they

present costs it's obvious that they do

the question is will they

create more benefit than they've added

in costs

and i would say you should be no

different than our own children

right we send our own children to school

it costs money

um i'm paying for your children to go to

school

right why is it fair that i'm paying for

your children to go to school

so maybe you might pay for somebody

else's children to go to school too

and as will i i just don't know if this

is economic plus or minus

if you think you know the answer this

i'll bet you don't

i bet you don't remember we don't know

if masks work

i mean i think they do but you know the

the state of our data is just terrible

that we're arguing about mass and social

distancing and lockdowns in schools

we're arguing about vaccines now for of

all things

we're arguing about everything so

do you think that you know

that migrant children are economically

negative

because i will take that bet without

seeing what the economists say

you know sight unseen i will take the

bet

that the children are almost always

on an average are almost always positive

economically

i don't know now i do know that it's

terrible for the south american

or the central american countries

because essential american countries

i was watching uh was it the

leader of i forget one of the central

american countries

was saying that their their product is

exporting people

they don't have a they don't have a

functioning economy

because if you're exporting your people

that's your worst situation

so their their best brightest healthiest

youngest people are all leaving

that's bad that's really bad

so how could it be true

i suppose it could be true but you've

got a situation where if it's bad for

where they're leaving that they're

leaving

isn't that because they have an economic

value that's the whole point right

they have a future economic value that's

quite substantial

so i think we should make a big

distinction between

taking the central american kids

which might be like free money

it might be free money it just doesn't

feel like it

taking adults well they're going to

start taking jobs and such

right that's a different situation and

some of them are criminals and some of

them are older

blah blah now i suppose the chain

migration is still an issue so i don't

know how

how you calculate that because the young

kids will eventually be able to

do some chain migration of their

relatives i guess

i think that's the way it is

all right my dog's snoring too loudly

and that's

that's uh somebody says legal only

yeah so legal would be the first choice

right

but in effect the biden administration

has legalized

on unattended migrant children

so in effect it's legal it's just not

technically legal

um somebody's saying that saucy says

trump people don't like educated people

i think that's kind of true that's kind

of true

i do think that trump supporters

don't trust experts and academics and

elites and

harvard graduates etc you know it's not

a it's not a universal thing but

i think i think there's something to

that um

okay i saw the i saw an insensitive joke

that i can't decide if it's racist

so i'm gonna i'm gonna recount it and

then this will be your test case is the

following

joke funny

and actually supports the the migrants

or is it making fun of the migrants and

therefore is racist

and here's the joke and i won't tell you

who said it because in case you think

it's racist

he doesn't need any more trouble right

so somebody you know

from social media said that the

the kids in cages because they they all

have this foil

aluminum foil looking blankets

and he said that it was making all the

kids look like uh

gas station burritos

i just don't know how to respond to that

one

because i laughed as soon as i realized

oh yeah

a burrito is wrapped in that you know

that tin foil thing

and there's pictures of all these kids

wrapped in tin foil

and they're from south america

or they're from central america so you

think to yourself

burrito but is that racist

tell me is it racist or is it just

offensive

like where's that line between offensive

and racist because i will tell you that

i'm pretty sure the person who said it

was not in favor of any children of any

kind suffering in any way

so certainly you know nobody had any bad

feelings about the children

and i don't think anybody had any racial

animosity

but it's right on the line there isn't

it it's sort of right on the line of

you hear it you go i don't know if i

would have said that in public

the only reason i can say it in public

is that i'm talking about it

if i just said it as a joke i think i'd

have to pay for that probably um

somebody says gas stations sell burritos

i i think the ones with um yeah

i think they do actually depends on your

gas station

um

all right well at least people are

laughing at it

you know you don't want to laugh at any

group

who are suffering so

but i don't know if the children are all

that suffering

one of the questions that's never asked

is

are the the migrant children who are in

these

containers um

let's say it even lasts for a week

however long it lasts it's only supposed

to be 72 hours but let's say it lasts a

week

what was their life like before they got

in that cage

how many of them are actually happier in

the cage

i mean nobody wants to stay in the cage

forever but how many of them are

actually

physically better fed warmer

safer from crime than they were

every day of their life until they got

in the cage again

i'm not pro cage right i'm just saying

that if you're using your um your

elite uh let's say you're using your

elite american filter

to say my god if i went if i left my

current life

and had to be wrapped in tin foil and

laying on a

mattress in a container next to the

border

that would be the worst day ever for me

but that's not them i think they're

going from a

horrible situation which is why they

came here

to a situation which looks horrible by

our standards but might not be that bad

compared to where they were a week ago

right so i'm not saying that the

the cages are humane or that they're

good

i think we should all just have a

general feeling that you don't want to

pick

put kids in containers and you don't

want you don't want to put kids in jail

of any kind right

if you could avoid it but maybe you

can't avoid it if you can't avoid it you

can't avoid it

somebody says the conditions for those

kids might be better than boot camp

might be i say definitely

don't you think that a typical of

volunteer

military person who goes through boot

camp

has a worse time in boot camp in terms

of physical

comfort than any of the migrants who are

kept in cages for three days

again don't want anybody in a cage

it's just we got to put it in

perspective

so the perfect situation would be that

we treated everybody humanely but

somehow everybody believed we didn't

so the ideal situation is to

let reality and uh and persuasion

decouple treat the kids humanely

but tell everybody it's a living hell

and they better not come

all right

somebody's making a bad pun instead of

quesadillas

kids ideas all right let's not be

offensive

um somebody's calling them

aoc burritos

you're you're right on the edge of being

you know racist by modern standards you

know so far you're just being offensive

and and by the way um

i always i make this uh

i try to make this distinction

rarely do you see a comment that's

actually racist even the ones that

people are getting canceled et cetera

we've we've come to believe that

offensive

something that bothers somebody is also

racist

but i would argue they're rarely the

same i would say that most times

most of the things that people say that

they get canceled for

are meant to be offensive slash funny

they're not meant to change the law to

racism

it's not meant to discriminate it's not

it's even not meant to

it's not meant to make anybody's life

worse

it's just defensive like a lot of humor

is

all right somebody said what happened to

the dill burrito

so the dill burrito uh was a

a burrito i made years ago and tried to

mark it

because i had all the vitamins and

minerals you needed for the day

but there were a few problems number one

the food industry

is crooked and so when we would go on a

shelf

there was a certain company who shall

remain nameless who would send their

people in to put their products in front

of it

so we would actually sell zero zero

units

because nobody would even know it was in

the store so

we got into you know big so we got into

7-eleven

and costco and walmart and we got into

all the big stores

but nobody ever saw it and uh

yeah you you're making a good guess

in the uh in the comments and

the other problem is that the the

product uh didn't have the repeat

customers

that we hoped because the product itself

made you repeat

oh did it make you repeat

[Laughter]

you know this is sort of a classic thing

of course we we tested them all and i

think everybody who who tested their

prototypes said oh these are tasty

and then we would go off and have you

know intestinal distress

but you kind of think it's just you

right like

you don't think it's the product you

think oh maybe my body doesn't respond

to the

spicy food or something but the

feedback from the customers was

[Laughter]

is the feedback from the customers

that apparently this product made you

far more than

more than any product of all time

somehow this product got all the way

through the testing you know we

we all ate it and tested it we and we

all had the same experience

like privately and individually we all

had like

the worst heart attack you've ever had

in your life but i think

i think all of us individually didn't

talk about it and we just figured well

this is my body

like you know it's it's just you know

one of those things

didn't really think didn't really think

it was the quality of the product so

much just thought of something about me

and then you find it

they put it out there basically you

could eat that thing once

destroy all your furniture

that's what that's one of my best

failures

of all my failures i think i like that

one the best

because it's so ridiculous oh god

obviously that's all that's all i've got

uh we could probably just feed those

dill burritos to uh

to pigs to make methane

i think we could fuel a major city with

you know two

with two two deal burritos and a couple

of pigs so you'd have all the methane

you ever need

all right that's all for now i'll talk

to you later

ah all right i'm a mess

that's all for now i'll talk to you

tomorrow