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← Previous segment →end times"? You all heard that part that she definitely said that.
Now here's the part you missed because it's taken out of context. Then the context switched and it switched to climate change. And then when she talked about climate change she sort of wondered out loud if earthquakes and cicadas could be — maybe there's a climate change effect. So really big. She's a big old dummy, right? Because who would really think that earthquakes are caused by climate change? Like that's just sort of stupid, right? Or who would think that maybe the insect world could be greatly affected by climate change? Just kind of dumb, right?
Is it dumb? Google it. If you Google "does climate change affect earthquakes," the answer is yes, according to Google. The answer is yes. It's very plausible. I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying that Google says it's true that it's plausible, just plausible, that climate change could affect earthquakes. They also say that climate change absolutely could have a gigantic effect on insects.
Now it might be a negative effect, whereas the cicadas would be, you know, there's a lot of cicadas. That's sort of the opposite. Now I ask you this: is it crazy to wonder out loud if you believe in climate change? Now you could argue that that's crazy too, but I don't think believing in climate change is crazy. That's not crazy. It might be wrong. It might be alarmist. But if it agrees with most of the scientists, even if I think they're wrong, it's not crazy, right? I don't think people are suffering mental illness because they believe the scientists. I just think scientists are probably a little hyperbolic and they're making money and stuff, but they're not crazy. It's just something they believe that may or may not be true.
But here's the key. When she talked about climate change, that was a change from the end times thing. And she did not mention in that context the eclipse. If she had said, "Huh, I wonder if the eclipse is caused by climate change," I would say, oh my God, that's a dumb person. That's a dumb person. But if she said maybe the earthquakes and the cicadas have something to do with climate change, she knew more than you did. She knew more than you. Those are real actual conversations.
Now there is no connection between the cicadas and climate change that I know of. But if you were not a cicada expert — and it became very clear that she didn't know the whole cicada situation, just that they were coming — she didn't, I don't think she knew that it was on the 17-year schedule and there were two different kinds and by coincidence their different schedules were going to line up so it'd be worse this year. Now if you didn't know that, and why would you expect — she's clicking on the bug stories, right? Yeah, it's easy to imagine that you see a headline about a lot of bugs are coming and you don't want to click on it. It's like, okay, bugs are coming, got it, don't need to know the details.
So I would say that she was right on point for not only her joke about the sign of the end times — perfectly good joking that earthquakes and eclipses and cicadas happening at the same time is just kind of a funny coincidence — and then when she talked about climate change she accurately picked two items, earthquakes and bugs, that real serious scientists say could be greatly affected by climate change.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you that Sunny Hostin was a little bit smarter than you and a little bit more clever than you and a little bit more funny than you and does not deserve any mocking for this particular comment. However, may I join you and link hands by saying she says some really bad and dumb things about Trump. But at least that's done under the cover of pure Democrat propaganda. So when The View is talking about, oh, Trump is a devil, we all kind of know where that's coming from. That it's political. You don't take it too seriously. But when she's talking about this, I think her opinion was not only funny and entertaining, which is her job, but she was pretty close to the scientific consensus. Whether that's true or not.
All right. How did you take that? Everybody okay? So here's what you should be feeling if you thought that story was true. You should be feeling some discomfort. And some of you are just going to reject it and say, no, I heard it, Scott. I heard it. And then other people said to me, because I brought this up in my man cave, other people said to me, but Scott, Joy Behar and Whoopi also heard the same thing you heard because they tried to correct her to explain, like an idiot would explain, the eclipse is just sort of something we knew was coming for a hundred years. It's not related to climate change.
So because Whoopi thought that Sunny Hostin was talking about the eclipse, should you believe that Sunny Hostin was talking about the eclipse? No. Because what happened was Whoopi and Joy Behar heard what you heard. They misheard and they didn't notice she had changed context from talking about the funny end times thing to climate change, which was more of a factual conversation. So they also were fooled. Don't use Whoopi or Joy Behar as your source for why you're right. That's not good thinking. They're a terrible source for what is a good interpretation of what anybody said. In fact they're among the worst all day long. They misinterpret Trump for a job. Misinterpreting things is primarily what they do. It's almost their entire business model.
All right. The McKinsey consulting company said it was going to pay some of its employees to not work for nine months and look for another job. They're going to pay them to not work. What's that called? Is that sort of like they're fired? Don't we usually call that you're fired? But it's nice that they gave them nine months to find another job. But still, just fired.
And here's the embarrassing thing. If you're McKinsey and you're a consulting firm, why didn't you see this coming? Their job is to tell businesses how to be healthy businesses and how to have a strategy that works. It's a little bit embarrassing if they start firing their own employees. A little bit embarrassing because it means they grew too fast or they didn't read the room right or their model wasn't working or something because they outgrew their business.
So would you hire somebody to tell you how to run your business if you knew they changed? We're firing people because we have too many. Well, it's more like we're paying them to look for other jobs. Don't say we're firing them. That looked like a mistake. No, no, no. We're so progressive we're going to pay them to look for better jobs. McKinsey Consulting.
Here's my favorite story of the day, terrible as it is. You've heard of Kraft Lunchables. It's a little package of lunch-like food with some meat and cheese and stuff in there, and it's a popular kids snack. Now turns out that Consumer Reports looked into them. The store-bought versions, because they have store-bought and they have school versions. The store-bought versions, which are made by Kraft, found relatively high levels of lead and cadmium.
Now there's no level of lead that's anything except bad for children. So what do you think of the psychologist who didn't mention food? Does that feel a little more relevant at the moment that you know that one of the most popular foods for kids has lead in it? And we're pretty sure that lead is not good for your brain. Am I out on a limb there or is that true? I didn't research it recently, but aren't we sure that lead is bad for your mental state? I thought we knew that fairly reliably, that lead is just the worst thing you want to put in a kid's body.
So that's happening. Then cadmium, some of you know, is a component for batteries, and it's in some of the Lunchables. Now there's sort of a good news, bad news, because if you put the lead and cadmium in the Lunchables and then the child eats it, they can actually charge their smartphone just with their own body. Because the kids, if they eat the Lunchables, they're basically half battery and half child. And so you don't even need to plug in your phone. You can just sort of hold it in your hand and the cadmium and lead plus the static electricity will charge your phone. No, I made that up. That's all made up. But cadmium does come from batteries, so I don't want too much of it in my body.
Now let me tell you why. And it has tons of sodium. Now here's my first encounter with Kraft Lunchables many years ago. I decided that I'd made enough money in the Dilbert world that I wanted to see if I could give something back, like literally solve some big problem. And I thought I was very interested in nutrition at the time, and I knew that I was so busy that I wasn't getting good nutrition. So I created a company to make a nutritious, convenient food that you could always have something that was perfectly nutritious. It was just convenient.
So the form that we chose was a burrito that would be packed with all the nutrients you needed for the day. So if you were in a big hurry and you don't want to spend much money and you just wanted to eat something you knew would taste good because burritos almost always taste good, it'd be like — I imagined it to be like the blue jeans of food. You know how blu
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e jeans sort of they work in every situation except formal. You know, like they're easy to wash and take care of and they don't cost too much and they feel good, they make you look — they basically do everything. So I thought, well, maybe I can make a food that does that, just sort of does everything. Now the company didn't work out for other reasons, partly because the formula in the burrito mad…
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