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attack it's foreign? I think it's foreign, yeah. You could argue that maybe it would help somebody in the election but that's a little murky, isn't it? I don't really see how that's going to help any American, not really. So I feel as though it's got to be foreign. And who would be the most likely culprits? China or Russia? China or Russia? China. You don't think Russia isn't Russia more implicate…
← Previous segment →ll right, here's the news that the president went over to Saudi Arabia and asked them to pump more oil and the Saudis said that they're basically close to capacity so there's not much they can do. Is that the headline you heard? That they're close to capacity so there's not much they can do, right?
And then did you read the numbers? So the headline says they're close to capacity, there's not much they can do. What did the numbers say they could do? Where are they? They're at about 10 million barrels a day. What did they say they could get up to because they're right at their cap? Would they say they could get up to 13? They could go from 10 to a maximum of 13.
Now do the math. That's a 30 percent increase. Are you telling me that if one of the biggest producers in the world increases by 30 percent nobody notices? What, am I wrong that the headline is opposite of the news? Right, the news should have been Saudis potentially could increase 30 percent and they're willing to try. You know it might be hard because they, you know, that last 30 percent is hard to get to because you gotta be operating perfectly. But can you just give me a sanity check? Am I right or wrong that the headline was opposite of the story? The headline says there's not much we can do. The numbers say there's plenty we can do and it would make a big difference. Am I wrong? Seriously, am I wrong? Like what am I missing?
Well I'm a little worried here because I feel like somebody says refining is the issue. Is it? That's the only issue domestically. It takes a lot of engineering work to get the extra. Yeah but you know if the story had been there's nothing we can do because we can't do it then that would be the story. But the story the way it was written was we can go from 10 to 13.
So could our news business be worse?
Okay, I've been challenged to work a drone into this story because I work drones into every story. Challenge accepted. How do I work a drone into the story about Casper? Well you know if he needed to transport it, if he had enough drones... No, just joking, that would never work. I don't think I could work a drone into that story but I tried.
All right, you know they say one person can't make a difference. Do any of you think that one person can't make a difference? I'm hearing somebody say that we're only going from 12 to 13 which would be opposite of the story I just read in Axios so I don't know. Maybe it's just the news doesn't know what the facts are.
All right, well if you think one person can't make a difference I would point you to Greta Thunberg nearly deindustrializing Germany. So that's on her resume. I almost deindustrialized Germany. Close. I mean I don't think she succeeded. Matt, you paid ten dollars to say Garfield is the least funny cartoon in syndication. Matt you may not be aware of this and I'm gonna give you a shocking revelation. Humor is subjective. Humor is subjective. Do you know how much money people pay for Garfield? Not just to run
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it but merchandise and TV shows. People are paying a lot of money for that thing you say is the worst thing. Which in this case there's a whole lot of people like it. Humor is subjective. So thanks, Greta, for destroying Germany I guess. Did a little bit less than Hitler but she's making a dent. I mean I don't think it would be fair, I think you'd agree with this. Can we agree it would be unfair…
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