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u know, you can be brutal. You can be brutal if you think it doesn't — it's not even close, right? Now let me ask you another question. Except for the part where I would never run for president because, you know, I don't want them looking into my life and tearing me apart. There would be a suicide mission. I could be president because there is a skill set for this sort of stuff that I possess. Ma…

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lawyered up.

All right. I think we're going to see a hashtag that says "Trump would have fixed this by now." That's what I think.

All right. That looks to be what I wanted to talk about today. Why can't more women be truckers? I don't know if there's any issue with that, is there? You know, I mean you can think of all the usual reasons why they might not want to get into the business.

Fake news. Truckers can be trained in two weeks. I think that's true. Somebody said that truckers can be trained in two weeks is fake news. Coming from me. What is the right amount of time? If anybody who's been trained or gone to trucker school, what would be the amount of time to train a trucker? I say two weeks in an emergency. Two weeks in an emergency. Two weeks. Yeah, I'm saying three to four weeks is normal. So how many people would disagree with me? Six months? Three months? Do you actually know what you're talking about or just — I think the most people are saying four weeks and that feels right. I think it's a four-week course that in an emergency you could do in two.

I think they're probably a lot of people who maybe have some experience and it doesn't take them the full four weeks.

Convoy. Convoy. I also wondered — let me just throw something out there. Your housemate trained with UPS a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, slightly different problem.

Let me ask you this. We've got all these products at the ports. I guess they're unloading a lot of the products from the shipping containers and putting them in temporary warehouses until they can get enough trucks. Is there a play where we could discount those goods and just sell them at the port? I don't know. I mean it's probably impractical, but I just wonder. Let's just work through this. Let's say you heard that there were a whole bunch of shipping containers with, I don't know, televisions. A bunch of new 4K TVs. And there's a whole shipping container and they just can't get it on a truck. And let's say that the company who purchased them for whatever retail purpose says, look, can you let us sell it? We'll sell it right out of the container. If you let us sell it out of the container, like we'll just stand there with a credit card reader. You just take one out, take one out of the container. I'll just put your credit card in here. You just put it on your truck and take it home. Give you a 30% discount. 30% discount if you put it on your truck and take it home. It would be a total bottleneck traffic nightmare. Probably. Probably.

All right. Let me open it up again. Is there no way to get those containers to some place where it wouldn't be a bottleneck, such as putting a container on one smaller ship? Yeah, you probably can't do that. I know. I'm just brainstorming. I'm sure people have thought of all these things and rejected them for one reason or another. But I think we've got to get creative, and I'm not sure anything's happening.

So here's my main problem. Everything else is just speculation. The main problem is that the Biden administration has no lead face telling us what's happening every day. And we need somebody to tell us what's happen

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ing every day now and be right about it. Use FedEx and UPS offices. Well, I don't know how that would work. The highways are the bottleneck. No, I don't think they are. Well, maybe just around the ports. That could be true. No trucks in California because no independent contractors in California. Yeah, I've heard that issue. There's something about you have to be an employee to drive a truck in C…

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