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t a joke. And it'll happen in just a few minutes. In the next five minutes some of you are going to have the biggest problem of your life solved. Not all of you, but some of you. It'll be kind of exciting. Wait for that.

Well, Peter Zeihan tells us that American companies can now petition the government to apply for U.S. protective tariffs if China says they have to transfer their technology. So you know, when American companies or foreign companies work with China, China often, or maybe always, says that they have to transfer their technology to them. And now if they demand that, apparently U.S. companies have an option. They can apply to the government to put a tariff on China. That's actually a pretty good idea. I mean, I don't see it in the news. I only see Peter Zeihan saying it, but he's probably right. I doubt he'd make it up. So I'm going to say that that's a very Trumpian... that feels like a Trump-like policy. Trump never had that policy as far as I know. If he had, I would have said it was good. So I'm going to say it's good even though it's not Trump.

There is a study that suggests that driving, if you're texting and driving, you're probably a psychopath.

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Now, did you really need a study to know that? That if somebody is operating a dangerous motor vehicle at 80 miles an hour and they're looking at their phone, do you need to do a scientific study to find out if there's something wrong with that person's priorities? Maybe their empathy? Well, I think it's a little more complicated than being psychopaths. I think some people just have a different re…

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