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ort of guarantees that if you're going to stream anywhere for free you just get extra money by including the other platforms and just push the button and they're live like I just did. So right now I am live on the Rumble Studio on YouTube and Rumble and X so you can see how it works. It turns out that there's a new graph. Paul Graham posted this on X. The women, young women, are getting more lib…

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this is weird, there's a robot named Adam who can make 65 to 70 drinks an hour and doesn't need bathroom breaks, blah blah blah. And I guess they're being rolled out in various places now.

What's weird is I used to own a restaurant and a bar and our most popular bartender was named Adam. Isn't that weird? Because I was going to tell you a story about a bartender named Adam as part of talking about this story and then for the first time I noticed, oh the robot is named Adam.

So what I was going to say is there's no way that they're ever going to make a robot bartender that's as good as Adam. I swear to God that's what I was going to say. That was literally what I was going to say until I noticed the robot's name is Adam.

So here's what I mean. When we owned, when I owned the restaurant, I was a co-owner, we hired, I think it was a server first and he became a bartender. Now according to the women who worked at the restaurant, the other employees, the only way to describe Adam the bartender was something with drooling and words that don't make sense. Something like, what do you think of Adam the bartender? And they would just go into some kind of shock because he was, I guess he was really good-looking according to them.

Now he was married so you know he was sort of, he wasn't available. But just the fact that they liked looking at him. The day he stopped working as a bartender the traffic dropped off I don't know 20 or 30 percent. Literally the entire profit margin for the bar was Adam.

Now eventually he was replaced with a female bartender who also understood the show. In other words she understood that they weren't there just for the drinks. It was a lot of lonely guys and they were there to get some kind of contact with somebody who, good. And she knew exactly what her mission was. We didn't, we didn't say, you know of course as an employer we're not going to say flirt with the customers. That's not something you say. But she was perfectly fine to get big ti

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ps by doing that. So here's the thing. How in the world can a robot replace a bartender? Because I feel like it's not understanding the point of a bartender. It's about the human connection. The only thing that's better than having a robot bartender is staying home and not going out. If I'm going to go out to talk to it, to get a drink from a robot, I don't really need to go out at all. The barte…

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