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different animal because he was always political even when he was an actor. But I don't know. I just don't know about actors becoming governors. Just doesn't feel like a good trend for the long term. You know, arguably even Arnold Schwarzenegger was kind of political before he ran for office. All right, how many of you saw the 60 Minutes on the UFOs? So there are more videos of alleged UFOs which…

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ld be really unusual that four people would see a UFO right up close and they'd be military people and they'd have the same story. What are the odds that that didn't really happen? Really high. Really high. Like close to 100 high.

It's the most common thing in your experience is that people see things that aren't there. Now how common is it in all of our experience to see a confirmed alien spaceship? Well so far none in the history of civilization. So far none confirmed. But we certainly have lots of stories about them.

Now if you have one situation which is the most common situation in reality, people saying things that don't exist even when multiple people see it, very common, versus something that's never happened and would be extraordinary and violate physics if it did, kind of equal odds? Would you say no, not even close. If I could bet my entire net wealth and have a certain answer, you know hypothetically if you could know for sure, I would bet my entire net wealth that is not an alien spaceship. Now I don't even know if it's a spaceship. Could be anything. But we'll maybe someday we'll know.

Here's another news that I'd say I'm a little skeptical of. Apparel, there's a story in USA Today that a woman who is a Black homeowner had her home appraised twice and worried that she was getting a low appraisal because she was Black. So she decided to do an experiment in which she got a white family to pretend it was their house and then the third appraisal of the house was double what the first two were. So clear racism, right? What else could it be? I mean it's in the news so it must be true. I can't imagine that the news would report something that's totally untrue.

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But do you believe that one woman's house was appraised by two people for I guess 110, 125 and then the third one was double? It was like 249,000 or something like that. Do you think that sounds plausible? Because USA Today reported it like it's true. No, it's not plausible. It's not even slightly plausible. And you should see the comments on the tweet from people who do appraisals for a living. T…

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