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would help, you're really wrong. I mean, you're as wrong as the wrongest thing could ever be wrong. There is nothing less useful than one expert talking to somebody who doesn't know how to check them. And I wouldn't know what's true and what's not. So all you would know is that some expert jabbered for a while, and you wouldn't know anything. So I could get you one expert who says there are defin…

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s if you do anything for a charity, everybody who sees you do it is involved with some other charity too because people involved with charities tend to be involved with more than one. And next thing you know, you're spending all of your time dealing with charities saying, well, why can't you just draw us a picture? It would only take you five minutes. Really, it's just five minutes. Just draw a picture. And that's all I would be doing is turning down hordes of requests for me to draw a picture for a charity. That's all I would be doing. And I know this because I made that mistake early in my career. I did some charity things because I thought, oh, things are going well for me, I should do some charity things and let people know. Terrible mistake. The moment you let people know you're open to charity, you just get descended on and they just pick you to death. And I finally had to just say I don't do charity. Don't do charity. But obviously I still do it. I just do it privately.

Audio could be fixed in post with a fraction of effort. Now that's a good point, but fixing it in post would delay the reposting of it to other places. So I've made a decision to focus on just getting it out there and getting it quickly and no focus on fixing my background and my audio, etc. And it might depend what device you're listening to because I listen to it myself in playback, and it's fine to me. So I don't know what device you're using, but all my devices play it fine. It is softer than other YouTube videos. Yeah, look at all the people who say the audio is fine. So probably that's not what I'm going to work on.

I'm seeing a lot of calls for Dale to come back. I think Dale made more sense during the Trump administration because there was more crazy Dale-like behavior then.

Hey Scott, how do you identify a good charity? I'm not in that business, let me tell you. But there are, I will actually have an answer to the question. There are entities that grade charities. So just search for something like charity evaluation review, something like that, and you'll find one or two entities that tell you which charities spend the least on administration and stuff like that. Somebody says Charity Navigator. That might be the site, but I'm not sure.

MIT articles saying anti-vaxxers are more scientific. I think it says that conservatives are more scientific and they're more anti-vaxxers in that category.

What music am I listening to? None, as usual.

Any update on the WHEN tokens? No, the only update was that there was one project that might use those tokens, but I think that's on pause. So the WHEN is kind of stranded at the moment. And the only place it's traded is on hotbit.io. So it's still there. So people can still buy it and sell it, and it's available if anybody wanted to create an app that uses it. We could work with you.

What makes my background look unlevel? It's probably, that's a good question. I don't know why does it look unlevel. It's optical illusion.

Printer execution date. Well, I just got some new ink for my printer, so I might not execute it today.

How do you hack the simulation? I feel as if affirmations might be the way if we're in a simulation.

Wow, you got a lot of comments today. I've never seen so many comments. Would I switch to cannabis beverages? No, I don't like any kind of cannabis edibles or beverages. It's just hard to control, and you don't get the same effect.

All right. What is the secret I know but won't tell you? I can't

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tell you. That's the whole point of it. I can't tell you the thing that I knew that you don't know. I will just tell you that a story disappeared because apparently the news can make a story disappear, and it did. How often do you smoke weed? Well, it's every day. It's at least half of the day usually. Is the UFO news setting us up for something? Okay, now I've seen some people speculate that al…

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