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who think like you? Well you know that's part of the reason I do these live streams because in my personal life I have almost zero contact with anybody who's even interested in what's happening in politics. Close to zero. So if I did not do this sort of professionally I wouldn't have any

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contact with anybody who cared about any of it. Well I'm talking about people locally. You know Greg's a friend but he lives on the other coast. The people I see in person, none of them are interested in politics. It's just the rarest thing. I think of one but I haven't seen them lately. Yeah maybe two. Two I can think of like two people who would actually want to have a conversation.

I should get chickens. I know somebody who got chickens and ruined your life. Chickens is literally the worst idea anybody ever had because you know what happens when you get chickens? Sooner or later what happens? Sooner or later you get a rooster because you can't tell if it's a rooster or a hen when it's a chick. And if you've got chickens sooner or later somebody's going to give you a chick. Say hey you need another one of those. And if that thing is a rooster do you know what happens in my town? If you kill the rooster you'd go to jail. Seriously. If you keep the rooster you'll lose your house because the rooster will crow and your neighbors will complain and you will have to move or go to jail because you can't have a rooster. So you can't have a rooster and you can't kill a rooster. You can't hurt it and you can't have it. You actually have to move out of town. You got to move for a rooster.

So my restaurant partner had this exact scenario. A chicken that somebody gave her as a pet and she loved it and she was allergic to other kinds of pets. One chicken turned into two. Then there was a rooster and her life was ruined. Now you might say to me Scott you could just sort of down low kill that rooster but the people who have chickens as pets tend to be animal lovers. No you can't give it away. There's nobody who will take a rooster. You cannot give it away. If you give it away you'd be giving it away to somebody to kill it probably so you'd be complicit in the crime I suppose. Shouldn't be any chickens in the suburbs, in the city. That's correct. Yeah the worst thing you could ever do. Don't get a chicken. Never never do that.

Key West has chickens walking all around. Right, say it's illegal to kill them. That makes sense. I feel like in Key West I saw chickens everywhere. They were just wandering around everywhere. From fighting in Kauai just leave the rooster inside the coop and let predators do the work. You harvest it. Oh quietly drop off the rooster where there are other chickens. Yeah I suppose if you got a pet coyote but again I'm talking about animal lovers not people who would be willing to kill a chicken or a rooster.

Do I have a victory garden? No I'm not really a gardener. I've learned. What do I think of Google? Well I agree with Dr. Epstein who says it's controlling the election outcomes. Hey my laptop's on the way. Got to do laptop coming. Looks like they're flipping all Trump lawyers or are they just pleading out and they were overcharged.

So I used to feed chickens at my uncle's farm. Chickens are really scary in groups. So I'd go into the chicken coop you know so it'd be sort of a big indoor area and I'd be bringing the food. And imagine if you wil

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l the floor is just solid chickens. It's just chickens everywhere. But normally if you bring food to animals they go for the food but the chickens go for you. I would like to give my impression of the chickens in the room when you walk into it. All right remember I'm like 10 years old or something right and I walk in I've got this bucket of feed here. Here's what I'd hope to see. Oh food. That's n…

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