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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 abou…

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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 bartender might be the only person you talk to all night, you know, for a lot of people. So I don't know how far that will go because that's definitely a job that needs to be a human.

All right, let me ask you a question and see if I'm insane because I probably am. If you follow politics as closely as I do, I think most of you do or you wouldn't be here, does it seem to you that say 10 years ago if you looked at a difference between the Democrats and Republicans you'd say those people have bad priorities or you might say it's all about the team or you might say they're lying. You know, so both sides will say the other team is lying and they're just trying to win. Stuff like that, basic stuff.

But it seems like if you were watching the news for the last several weeks, the Republican conservative leaning news, the frame that they're going to put on stuff more often than not, especially on X,

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is persuasion. And I feel like that's new. And I don't know if that's happening on the other side, if the Democrats are having the same experience, but do you see it too? Did like today for example if Vivek and others, Mike Benz, were posting stuff on X that really was about persuasion in the context of what some candidate is doing or not doing. Am I right that the persuasion frame has overtaken t…

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