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hear you say you don't want to persuade them to take the shot but still you word things the way that feels to them you actually are. How could I avoid that? How could I avoid wording it in a way that you think I'm talking you into it? If the data leads that way should I not lean the same direction as the official data? Would it be antibody dependent enhancement? Antibody dependent enhancement. Mea…

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d the three screens and the organization of it all. That's the stuff I can't, I don't have the time to do. But Dave Rubin, wouldn't you watch Dave Rubin? Now I would make, with all respect to Dave Rubin who by the way, by the way Dave Rubin is one of my examples of the talent stack guy. He's got like a whole bunch of talents that just work together perfectly. I mean his career is, he's a role model in terms of how to make something work. I mean he really does a great job of combining talents to make something special. But part of his talent stack is that he's agreeable and people like him. I don't know. I think you need somebody who's a little bit more of a bastard for the pushback. All right, a little bit more of a bastard. I don't know if he could go full bastard because you're gonna need to shut down both of the experts but at different times and maybe even the fact checker. So you're going to have to have a strong like a dictator's hand to say whoa whoa that didn't make any sense. Right now I worry that Dave is too nice because he usually does interviews in which there's not a lot of conflict. But maybe, maybe. I mean if he wanted to do it he'd be a great platform for it because he's got a big platform. So Dave if you're listening to this and somebody will probably tell you if you're not listening, that's a challenge to you. If you could put this together and be tough on them or ultimately get somebody who would be. So may you know just because you're the host doesn't mean you have to be the moderator. So the three plus one doesn't have to be, the host could just introduce it and say here you go you know it's my program but you know take it away. So that could work. That could work. But I think Dave could do it. I just don't know if he wants to be the one to be that much of a bastard. You need a bastard like I'd be good at it because I'm a bastard. Michael Malice, Cernovich would be good. Cernovich could do it. Maybe Corolla. See the problem is you've got to find somebody who's also well informed. So being a bastard isn't enough. You need to also be well informed. Dvorak, Crowder, Gutfeld, Mark, oh there you go Mark Levin. Okay there's one. So let's just take that as our example. Mark Levin, is he well informed? Yeah, yeah. Is he a good communicator? Yes. Big platform? Yes. Could he be a bastard? Yes. I mean that in a complimentary way. Yeah you could totally be a bastard about it. Somebody said Bill Maher. I accept that. Bill Maher can be a bastard again in the best way. You know you just have to be a bastard sometimes and shut people

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down and challenge them. Too polarizing somebody says. Maybe. I'm probably too polarizing too. You do it from Rubin's studio. I would do that. I would do that if you wanted to. I don't know it needs to be in the studio but you need the resources. All right Sam Harris. Good, good suggestion. Sam Harris actually that's my dream team right there. My dream team would be not even me doing it. My dream…

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