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ly the same food as other people that don't gain weight from it. Oh we are so dead. That's all we needed was an excuse for being overweight. Yeah I can't think of a worse thing that science could have done to us than telling us you know some of you have a magic gene that would be very difficult for you to know for sure if you had it because you're probably not going to go test for it. But from now…

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ercise and stuff like that, really it's because I don't like eating that much. If I liked eating as much as some people apparently like eating, you know the foodies and the people who are just having an orgasm with every sip of wine, I don't have that at all. I never have that. You know I mean there's some things that taste better than others but I'm not really driven by an addiction to food. If I were I'd be fatter. So I don't believe in free will. That's what I'm saying.

I saw some more Instagram personal relationship advice. As I've told you all relationship advice that you will see on social media has the following quality. You have to do these things. Also those things couldn't possibly work. So in other words nobody really has any idea how to make a relationship work. Literally there is nobody period who has any advice on relationships that even on paper could work. You just look at it and you go well like do you not understand how people work? That couldn't work in the real world. Let me give you an example. There was a little clip of a young woman who was explaining that she had figured out what men want and it's so easy. She says all men want is basically food, sex, respect and peace. Men would you agree with that? The men who were also in that clip were shaking their heads. Oh yeah she got it. That's all we need. We want some food, sex, respect and peace and we're perfectly happy. So I guess we've unlocked the secret to relationships. So there it is. Women have finally figured out men and once the word gets around then women will start treating men with respect, give them peace, food and sex on demand.

Do you see any problem with that worldview? Have you ever met a woman? Have any of you ever met a woman? Because I feel like a lot of this advice comes from people who couldn't have possibly ever met a woman. You know that if a woman gave you all of these things she would hate your guts. It doesn't go any other way. You might get those things but she would hate you. You get that right? So if a woman feels like she's just doing this for a man she's going to think I'm doing a lot of work for this man and there's this guy at work who doesn't seem to be so demanding. He's so handsome and he's always flirting with me. None of this works. I'm pretty sure nobody's figured it out but the experts on Instagram are continuously hilarious. If simply knowing what you should do worked I think more people would be doing it but women don't want to do these things. That's why it doesn't happen. It's not because they don't understand it. Do you think the problem was knowledge? Have you ever met a woman? Oh it's not knowing. It has nothing to do with knowing what the man wants. They always know what we want. They always know what we want. They just choose not

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to give it for a variety of different reasons I can't explain. NASA canceled a space walk because one of the spacesuits was leaking water. Well I'm no astronaut but I can tell you if I ever put on a spacesuit in space and I was about to go outside my capsule I'm pretty sure my spacesuit would be leaking water too if you know what I mean. Yeah that's all I had for that. So Congress is contemplati…

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