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es sense. It's the first time I thought of that. That was a good comment and now I have to think about it a little more. Is there any connection there or is that a coincidence? Is it a coincidence that the people who want to create their own humans don't want as many to come from the outside, but the ones who can't or won't think they need some more outside people because they can't make their ow…

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more critical. Doesn't mean it's wrong. Doesn't mean it's wrong.

In fact, you know what I've heard of it sounds like a reasonable approach. And by the way I've looked at the debunk and the debunk looks like, does that make you happy? So I haven't seen the movie but I've seen the debunk and I read the debunk. I was like, that's the best you can do for a debunk? That maybe the cell phone data isn't as accurate as it should be to know that somebody actually put something in a box? That's where you're going to bank your argument on? We've got zillions of videos of people putting multiple things in boxes. Then add the cell phone data that says same people went to multiple boxes lots of times. Are you telling me you know that that... well first of all that doesn't prove that there's a crime but you definitely can't debunk it.

Do you think that could be debunked? I don't think it can be proven or debunked. So if you believe the debunk you're an idiot. Let me say that again. If you believed any debunk of the movie you're an idiot. If you believe the movie because it agrees with what you believed and you think that watching a documentary tells you something, you're an idiot. Sorry. Let me apologize to you before I go on. I don't mean to offend but I am trying to get your blood boiling a little bit right now because I'm honestly concerned. Like genuinely I'm concerned.

If you believe documentaries, if you think you know you learn to not believe the news right? Don't you feel better that you don't believe the news? Don't believe documentaries. And again this has nothing to do with this documentary. Just don't believe documentaries period. You learn not to believe the news. This is your next lesson.

All right. How many of you tried to watch 2000 Mules as I did several times and were thwarted each time by various issues? I did a little poll because I was wondering, am I just having some kind of massive boomer problem here that every time I go to watch this movie I can't figure out how to do it? And 30 percent of the people who responded said they couldn't figure out how to watch the movie.

Let me tell you, so this is a subset of my discussion the other day. Let me apologize to Hugh. I didn't mean to call you stupid, Hugh. So I apologize for that.

What was I talking about? Oh, so I've said before that streaming movies has become impossible to do because you can never remember which platform you wanted to watch and your password's always wrong and your credit card expired and you can't find the thing and it's not out yet. There's every other problem. So I've tried now I think five times to purchase or watch the movie. I failed all five times.

Now I'm still gonna do it because that's actually my normal amount of failing to watch a live stream. So once I click the link to go to Rumble and the page never opened. So one time Rumble just, I don't know, the server didn't work or I don't know the reason. I've clicked on several links that purport to be the movie but aren't. I've clicked on several links that purport to be the movie but are really the trailer. I've clicked on several links to places where it used to be but it's cancelled. I've gone to Locals. Now by the way I'm an investor in Locals. I went to Locals and there was a page I didn't recognize. I couldn't tell if it was telling me to subscribe for a year or it was just buying the movie. So I thought, I don't know. Is there some place I could watch it for free? Because I didn't want to put in my credit card information unless I had to. Just the work. It wasn't the seven bucks or whatever. I didn't care about the money. It was just in order to do the work.

So then I look for it for free and then I go to Rumble and Rumble you know again I got a trailer instead of the movie and then my Wi-Fi broke. And then I got to, I finally went back to Locals and tried to buy it there because I figured out it looks like some kind of special page just for content. And it didn't say, I mean the page was so unclear I didn't know if I was buying a subscription to Locals or buying just the content. I couldn't tell from the page. And then finally I got to the point where I said all right I guess this is how I buy it. So I started putting in my credit card information and I didn't have my credit card on me. It's in another part of the house and where I have it written down I have the old one. And so I thought I have a rule that I won't get up and go get my wallet. I'll just cancel what I'm doing and do something else. So that was the last time I tried.

So the next time I try maybe I'll not try unless I have my credit card near me and everything. So by the way, how many have a similar experience where you went to watch the movie and you just got thwarted time and time again? Am I in the comments? Other people? Yes I'm seeing some yeses.

Now again this has almost nothing to do with a specific movie. So this is not

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about Locals. It's not about Rumble. It's not about 2000 Mules. It's about streaming. Streaming is now so hard you just can't do it. Thirty percent of the time you gotta do it you just don't. You end up doing something else instead. Yeah look at all the yeses to this. Now I know this is a boomer problem right? You don't hear anybody who's 30 years old arguing you know even talking about this stuff…

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