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hings that grab your attention and they're provocative and yeah, it was funny. But the weirdest thing is that he's reportedly meeting with Michael Cohen, Trump's fallen-from-grace lawyer. What's that all about? What is Kanye talking to Michael Cohen about? Does anybody know? Do you even have a guess? Like what possible business could the two of them have? Oh, divorce? Yeah, but divorce. He's not…
← Previous segment →y hurling a brick off a second floor of a building. Monkey threw that brick, killed that man. ISIS has already claimed responsibility, but CNN is reporting that it was caused by climate change because there's one thing you know about climate change: it will cause monkeys to start hurling bricks. If you think this is a one-off, well, you haven't watched CNN because anything that's a little bit unexpected means climate change. So climate change is making monkeys crazy and they're starting to look for blunt objects to throw at humans, and they've got their first kill. And an idiot. The true part is the monkey part. The fake part is the climate science part. I made that up. If somebody's new here you might actually think that CNN reported it was because of climate change. Remember, parody and reality have merged now. So I actually had to step back and say, oh no, actually CNN is not reporting that climate change is causing monkeys to hurl bricks.
Here's news from the simulation. News from the simulation. It's a low-budget operation. I have to do my own stings. But the news from the simulation: Spokane Police Department is investigating the origin of the explicit video, an X-rated video that showed up on screen on a news show in Spokane. So I think it was the weather person was doing the news and suddenly an X-rated scene showed up on the screen. Here's the simulation part: it was a local news station whose call letters are KREM TV. How do you pronounce that? KREM. Would you pronounce it "creme"? Maybe. Maybe creme. Or is the simulation messing with us again? Is it a coincidence that the one local news station that had some porn on it was Creme TV? Creme TV. I'm not making this up. I'm just telling you the news. Yeah, obviously we live in a simulation. There's no other explanation.
All right, here's another mystery. So you all know there's a supply chain problem and it has to do with trucking shortages. Do you know the reason for the trucking shortage? Anybody? Anybody? Do you know the reason for the trucking shortage? Well, before I tell you the reason for the trucking shortage, let me give you a rule of thumb for knowing a lie from the truth. Now here's what I learned from a friend of mine and I didn't believe it the first time I heard it, but if you follow this rule and just keep it in mind, watch how often it predicts. Not a hundred percent, but it's really predictive. And it goes like this: the truth usually has one good reason to it. Right? There are exceptions, of course. But if something is true there's usually one good reason. And if there's more than one good reason they're usually obvious ones that you can also see. Okay? So when you have more than one good reason offered, the more reasons that are offered the less likely the base story is true. You got that? If there's just one or maybe two, if there are obvious reasons given for an explanation for a thing, probably true or could be true. But if you have seven explanations for a thing and they're all different, there's something going on. It means either nobody knows what's going on or somebody's lying.
Right now let's look at the trucking shortage. What's the one reason for it? There isn't one. There are multiple reasons. There's some. I saw in the comments that truckers don't want to get vaccinated. Maybe there's truckers or too many of them are on meth. They can't pass. Or people want to be truckers or can't pass the drug test. Maybe there's something about California requiring only newer trucks be used for climate and environmental reasons so that there would be a limit of trucks because there aren't enough new ones. There's an issue of the supplies to fix the truck
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s themselves. So the supply chain is broken but included in that broken supply chain is the parts to fix the trucks that broke the supply chain. So that's another explanation given. So the trucks have to be green. We don't have enough green ones. Let's see. Here's some other reasons. Truck driving schools, not enough of them. They're too slow. They're kind of expensive. Pete Buttigieg pointed out…
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