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vail? As of today, looking at your comments, I'm seeing more yeses than no's, but less no's. And I think a no is a reasonable — you're still reasonable if you're saying no. I disagree with no, but you are not unreasonable with that opinion. Yes, without the east maybe. Define prevail. Prevail means that they're effectively still Ukraine, but they may have lost some border territory or not. So whet…
← Previous segment →gh because it's not like every other country has a shortage. Sort of an American shortage because of our companies that make it. So FDA regulations. Yeah, it's a labeling law. Boy, you know how long would it take Trump to sign an executive order to make that go away? Ten seconds. Now the trouble is, well actually if you made that go away you'd probably end up killing a bunch of babies. Yeah, this is a tough one actually because it's not that the FDA does nothing, but I feel like you'd be safe if they just tested it. You know, tested a couple of the bigger brands and said okay, don't send everything, but it's okay, these specific brands, we took a weekend to look at them. I feel like they could do that, right? They can't do a study in the weekend, but they could look to see if there's anything in it that looks like a contaminant. I think they could do that. Preferably shipped from the EU and not China. Yeah, except the EU probably got it from China.
All right. Reporter finds that critical race theory ideas in 39 of the top 50 medical schools. Okay. There's a fentanyl awareness group — I'm looking at the Fox News website in case you're wondering where this has come from — there's a fentanyl awareness group is asking Biden to track overdose deaths, which is weird because I thought we already do that because I always talk about that number. Do we make that up? We don't track it. So they won't count in the same way.
All right, I'm totally in favor of this. Let me give my full-throated support. Literally yesterday I was writing my book that I'm here trying to write, and one of the things I was writing is that if you're not tracking it, you're not managing it. Is that right? If you're not measuring it, you're not managing it. Because you wouldn't know if you did X or if you did Y if you change the thing you're trying to change because you're not measuring it. If you didn't know why anything was changing, you wouldn't know if the thing you're doing is making a difference. So a good general rule is if you can't measure it or you're not measuring it, you're not managing it.
So if this group is asking for fentanyl to be reported and measured the same way, that's a smart idea. Because what is it that is so frustrating about the fentanyl question other than the obvious? What's frustrating is it doesn't look like the government's doing something, does it? I didn't, by the way, I said the same thing about Trump. Trump talked about it and he asked China to do something, but nothing happened. Literally nothing. So you know, we're not securing the border. We're not making China do anything differently. Nothing. There's literally nothing being done. So that's an unmanaged problem.
Are you surprised that something is not being managed when it's not being measured and reported in the way that important things are? Now was the pandemic unmanaged? No, it was not, because we reported the piss out of it, didn't we? And the more you reported it, the more the government had to only work on that because that's what was getting reported. So in many ways the media has to take some responsibility here because if the media had treated fentanyl the way it treats COVID, we'd probably be measuring it and managing it by now. But you know, the press treats it as another thing that's like all the other things. It's like, well, more people died from this this week. It's no real story. It's just more people dying. And more isn't the story. The story is usually something different happening, not just more of the same.
It feels like I'm on a boat. Yeah, I'm right by the ocean. So yes. Let me say without knowing anything about this story that if we're not reporting fentanyl deaths on the front page of Fox News and CNN, we're probably not managing it.
Oh, this is the coolest thing. Somebody asked me what's on my wrist. So it's been a while since I vacationed at least in America, and this is the greatest innovation for being at a hotel. So this opens my door and it
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's waterproof so I can swim with it. Now do you know how much pain in the ass I've had trying to keep my little door opening card? It's the worst thing. I'm always losing it. I probably demagnetize one of those door opening hotel cards one out of three times that I travel. I probably put it in the wrong pocket with my phone and demagnetize it probably one out of three times. And then you get to yo…
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