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should be using it as a story. So I wanted to tell you. Yes you can do it but you have to make it the quick version because okay yes absolutely. Mine always involves a plane crash. I'm always in it whether I'm actually on a plane or just thinking about it walking around. And I'm always, I always survive no matter the scenario. Whether I go into the side of a mountain or into the water. Even when…

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story that I keep. Because you could beat me up for a week or two or a month but when I'm done, if I ever get a little bit of traction, if you ever turn your back, if I get the slightest advantage I'm going to run your damn island and I'm going to kill every one of you and you can bet on it. So that's the software I keep in my head that I apply to every situation. Because you come into situations and day one is often not so good and day two is often not so good too and three weeks in it's not so good. But I'm gonna run the island so it doesn't matter what the actual situation is. I tell myself yeah getting beat up the first week that's just part of the job. I'm gonna run this island.

So it doesn't have to be true. It just has to be a story you run in your head that you let influence your general demeanor. So it's how you program your personalities with stories because we're story creatures.

All right so that's why you missed. Never doubt the power of coconut and coconut pies. Well I don't know what that means but I've never doubted I guess that's the island. May we know your island to take over a plan roughly speaking? Yes yes I'll tell you. I would be able to influence people one at a time to think that working with me was better than not. So I would convince people one at a time that being on my side was their best play until I had enough of th

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em and then I'd run the island. But it'd be one on one thing. You'd have to convince them individually. All right that is all. Ben says in the comments I'm Scott's prison lover in my dream. Well you need to upgrade your movie story. That's the worst possible one. That was pretty funny though. All right that's all I got for now. I'll talk to you tonight. You know where.

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