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It's called the simultaneous sip. And nothing's ever been better. Go. I would like to start with a checklist for the golden age. You ready? I think I might put this on paper. I was thinking about all the things which have somewhat subtly turned positive while we're in this environment of everything going to hell. And you can lose sight of anything that's maybe getting better because our focus is…

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ed to what they need or what's good for them or they even know how it's going to turn out. They've got short-term wants that are in conflict with their long-term needs. So I feel as if focusing on anybody's wants is going to give you some problems sometimes.

The difference is mind-reading maybe.

Apparently there's a class-action suit against the candy Skittles because there's some ingredient in there, titanium dioxide, that I think in Europe it's already banned. And there's some indication that it might not be good for you. But when I saw this I thought, you know, I don't have too much of a thought about Skittles because I have a rule. I don't eat things which don't seem to have any food in them. So that's just my rule. If you're putting something in your mouth and digesting it and it doesn't have any food-related quality that you can determine, well I feel like you're really asking for trouble there. Probably just food and medicine is the only thing you should put in your mouth.

You've got a dirty mind. Go ahead, make your dirty jokes. Okay, we're done. But otherwise the only thing you should put in your mouth is food, medicine, and dirty stuff and naughty stuff.

But this brings me to my macro point. Our food supply, not just maybe it's more the United States or the industrialized countries, but let me tell you something that's really, really obvious in America. I want to see if there's anybody who'll disagree with the following statement. Our food supply is poison.

You just look around. People just look around. Just go to the mall and just look around and you tell me our food supply is not poisoned. It's obvious. It's obvious. And somehow the food industry got away with blaming us. Think about that. The food business is getting away with blaming us for being unhealthy because we ate the wrong food. I don't think so.

If you're selling crack to children I don't think it's the children's fault if they get addicted, is it? If you sell crack to children it's your fault. It's not the children's fault. And in this analogy we adults are the children. We don't know any better. You give me a french fry, I'm gonna put it in my mouth. Do I know that eating french fries is not my optimal health-related thing? Oh I do. I do. But if you put a basket of fries in front of me, do you know what I'm going to say in about a second and a half? Well one basket of fries doesn't hurt me. I'm gonna rationalize it in a heartbeat because they're really delicious.

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ve a chance. This food is engineered to overwhelm our whatever you think is your willpower, which is an illusion. So you're really operating against something that's scientifically designed to beat you. If you're fighting every day against an enemy who is scientifically designed to beat you every time, well don't be surprised if you lose because it was scientifically designed to beat you every tim…

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