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is business not mine. But it changes how you receive the message, doesn't it? And whether you looked at it and thought, well he's simply not acting very testosteroney, that has an effect on you, how you process it. But to me it looked like somebody who knew his political life was over. How many also picked that up? And again this is just so subjective. We're just reading, speculating, reading his…

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last two weeks. Oh, Kissinger. I guess Kissinger beat me to it. So it's not like I invented the idea obviously. But in terms of how much it is on the front of your head I think I was warning you about this at least a year before it became headline news, which is right now. And sure enough this is a big thing to worry about. So got that right.

Here's a random thing that is out of order in my notes so I'll just tell you. So I saw a tweet by Dr. Krushboo Pendia who is, in her bio she says she's India's first social media doctorate, right? So I assume that means she lives and works in India and she's a doctorate. And she tweets this. It's a quote by our own Ed Latimore. Now when I say our own I mean America's Twitter and our own being he's well loved among a lot of people anyway. So Ed apparently said this and he's being quoted in the street: "When your words are capable of cutting through the fog and your signal is free of noise then you're a dangerously effective individual."

Which I have two comments about. Number one, that perfectly captures the Joe Rogan problem, doesn't it? It perfectly captures it. Joe Rogan is dangerous because he's cutting through the fog and he's clear. Now the attacks on him are for misinformation but we wouldn't even be talking about him except that he can do this thing which is cut through the fog and simplify and sort of get to the truth of things. And sure enough Ed Latimore is correct. And I would say that's a feature of what we're watching is the most effective voices being taken out because each side wants to silence the most effective voice on the other side. And they're doing a good job taking pieces off the chessboard.

But here's the part that caught me, that is sort of the story within the story. That there's India's first social media doctorate is quoting Ed Latimore. Do you know why somebody who is prominent on social media in India is quoting Ed Latimore in America? Because it turns out that Ed Latimore is the best example of his own point. He's somebody whose words can cut through the fog and his signal is free of noise. So if you want to know how much purchase you can get in this world by just being a good communicator, look at Ed Latimore. So he gets a lot of boost from people like me because what we see in him is a communication and a message that's first of all great messages and second of all his communication capability is stellar. I mean it's really spectacular. So this is one person who just by being good at communicating is becoming well known in India on the other side of the world. Just think about that. I mean he's becoming famous around the world for just being good at saying stuff. That's a real thing that's happening right now. Anyway I thought that was worth mentioning.

Meanwhile the ex-president of Honduras is being arrested for allegedly being involved in some kind of drug trafficking case and some other electoral fraud and stuff. Electoral fraud. Didn't even know that was a possibility. But did you know that the United States can just tell Honduras to arrest their ex-president and then Honduras will go do it? Because that's happening right now and we're acting like that's just completely normal. Do we just ring up a neighboring country and say we'd like you to arrest this guy and then they just round him up? I don't know. I guess that's, is that healthy? It's kind of weird because the context is we're talking about should Russia have this control over Ukraine, right? Should Russia have control over its neighboring countries? At the same time we can just ring up Honduras and say once you round up your ex-president and put him in jail. Now I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it and I'm not saying that this isn't normal business. I mean because countries do contact other countries to get people arrested. But this went a little smoothly. Is this supposed to go this smoothly

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? Hey we've got some evidence that your ex-president should be arrested. Could you get, oh you're already arresting him? Thank you. Could you turn, he's already on the flight. He's already on the way back. It's like they're a little bit too friendly or something. Anyway, let's talk about, I will talk about the Hillary Clinton stuff in a minute, but let's talk about Ukraine. So the news is reporti…

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