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o be tough to recruit. But wouldn't it be interesting if he recruited young? You know let's say he looked on Twitter and found the people who were just killing it on Twitter but don't have their own platform yet. That'd be fun. Yeah that'd be really fun. So we'll keep an eye on that. Zero Hedge tweeted that the use of Threads, the competitor to Twitter, is down 20% from Saturday and user time spe…

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moving my Instagram followers to Threads did not give me the Algonquin Round Table effect I was hoping to achieve. Now I'd like to look to the five percent of you who understood that joke for a reaction. Anybody understand that joke? Algonquin Round Table. All right some of you got it. Good. The rest of you will just have to Google it. The Algonquin Round Table. Add that to your snooty vocabulary. There's some things that if you know them it sort of signifies you know that you're sort of a well-informed person. It's like the use of the word zeitgeist or eponymous. Eponymous. I couldn't even say it. If you ever use the word eponymous or a zeitgeist or Algonquin Round Table or schadenfreude. Schadenfreude. Thank you excellent one. If you use any of those words in normal conversation you're kind of a douchebag. You know talking about myself because I do use them. Kind of a douchebag because there's a very high likelihood that the person you're talking to doesn't know what those words mean. You know in a normal American circle five percent would know what all those words mean maximum. When you say five percent would know all of those terms no more than that. So if you learn them, oh yeah and solipsistic. If you learn those little terms you can spoof as though you're highly educated even if you're not. It works every time.

All right what else is going on? Disney's business is slumping. Of course you're going to say is it because of the fight with DeSantis and is it because of politics and their wokeness? Is that why they're having low traffic in their theme parks and their movies from Pixar are not doing well? Is that why? What do you think? Do you think Disney is suffering because of wokeness? I'm gonna say no. You're gonna say no. I'm just going to make a hypothesis. What could it be? What could it be? What would cause Disney to slump? I got it I got it I got it. They made movies. They made movies suck. All of them. They pretty much all suck. And they have a theme park that if you were to put the entire experience of the entire day at the theme park it would be about equal to five minutes of strolling on a smartphone. Scrolling not strolling. Yeah who goes to a Disney theme park? Masochists. If you went to a Disney theme park isn't it mostly standing in the sweltering heat waiting for something that wasn't that good in the first place and then when you're done you go wait in the sweltering heat for yet another thing that you didn't want to do in the first place because you have children? Who in the world does that voluntarily? You know the news should not be that their business is slumping. The news should be that somehow they built a business on this. Now I get in the old days this was pretty interesting stuff. Ooh It's a Small World After All. Are you kidding? I didn't know that it's a small world after all and they're singing. Look look they're animatronic and they're boats and they're singing. They're singing. Oh my God oh my God. Oh it's not really the thrill it used to be. So I would think that Disney's biggest problem is they make movies nobody wants. Am I wrong about that? Your kids enjoy it? Do you know what kids enjoy? Kids enjoy anything that's got bright lights and junk food. Hey kids I'm going to take you to a place that's got a lot of bright lights and colors and junk food. Can we eat good healthy food there too? Nope don't even have any. Actually they probably do but kids don't want it. Yeah kids are delighted to go anywhere that they can run around have a little freedom and eat some junk food. So yeah the kids love it. They don't love it as much as playing on their iPad but they love it naturally. They do probably love it more than their iPad but I think the direction of Disney is clear. Unless they do something pretty radical I don't imagine I can't imagine their business model working in the long run unless they change it quite a bit.

All right so a little clip of a congresswoman Summer Lee. Representative Sum

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mer Lee. I would like to first compliment Summer Lee, Congresswoman Summer Lee, for having one of the best names of people who've ever been named. You know Summer is a pretty good name but Lee is an excellent last name to go with Summer. Summer Lee. Am I wrong? That's like one of the best names I've ever heard. Like I always wonder if that actually affects your life to have a name that people real…

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