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ight need to limit it to people who voted because they're going to try a little harder to be informed. But let's say the people who voted came up with a number of people to come in. The good part about that is that the wisdom of crowds would pick up how people feel about it and how people feel about it is actually part of the question. Because if you have a really bad attitude about it you might v…

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because we're so political animals at this point. But I know I would have a fun conversation and I think we'd both learn something. It actually could be useful. Might be good for the country. You never know.

All right, so I'm still planning to do interviews but probably once the real political season gets cranked up because then I'll have an unlimited number of people who want to talk to me for politics. So I think I'll do them not live because the tech isn't quite ready for live. It would fail too often. So I think I'll do that not live and make some recorded videos. The people I want to talk to are Trump and I think Trump will do a lot of podcasts because that's really a strong play. He'll do that. Obviously I don't know if he would do mine but he'll do most of the big podcasts he gets invited to. And do you think I could get Newsom? I mean I live in California and I would give... and here's the thing. I would let all of them show their best face, right? It would not be my job to embarrass somebody who was nice enough to do the interview. I would certainly be forceful in my counterpoints but I'm not going to get excited about it.

Steve Cortez. Steve, you're recommending him as a guest. I love Steve Cortez. Everything he does I like. I don't think I would ask the same questions as other people do. I think that my questions would be completely different than anybody else's so that would be fun. I'm guessing that Scott would push fentanyl. Well I would certainly mention fentanyl. Carrie Lake. Matt Gaetz. I'd love to talk to Matt Gaetz.

See here's what I think you need to do a good interview. The person you're talking to has to believe that you're not there to take them

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down and I wouldn't do that because it would be unfair. So I think I can convince people that I'm there to let them show their best side. Andrew Tate. Tate's not a political figure I don't think. Nick Fuentes is not a political figure at this point. Set up the chairs like Shatner did where the chairs... all right I'm just saying goodbye to YouTube. I'll talk to you tomorrow. You're all awesome. It…

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