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Back to episode — Episode 2629 CWSA 10/15/24

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l women if they work in some kind of secure military or intelligence job. Turns out that there will be a very nice Chinese woman who would be very happy to be your girlfriend, and maybe you could have long conversations about what you do at work. So here's how you know you're dating a spy: your spy is twice as good-looking as you. Now it gets complicated if you're also rich, because then you can't…

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ow how the movie would end and you couldn't come up with a good ending, there could be no better ending than having nobody in the entire country of Canada willing to take the job. There's no, you can't get better than that. I'm sorry, there's nothing. If he had like won his appeals and had it overturned, ah, boring. If he'd taken a class and somebody gave it to him, icky, boring. But having nobody in the country capable of giving him a lesson, you can't beat that. You can't beat that. That's as good as it gets.

So maybe our luck is changing. What do you think?

But here's some more good news. I got a whole bunch of good news today. You're going to have so much good news today you're going to be tired of it. You'll be exhausted with the good news.

Here's some more. Saw a video of a young woman who was deaf, and she was trying out some new glasses that allow captions to appear on the glasses just for the wearer so that when she's out and listening to things she can get closed captions on personal conversations as well as movies and anything else. And you know they're kind of dorky looking, so you'd know that they were not normal glasses, but they look like they could be any design you want eventually. The first ones look a little dorky, but way better than not being able to hear in public. I saw us watching her tearfully put them on and being able to see sound in the sense of a caption was just one of the most touching things.

Now just imagine this is a real product. I don't kn

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ow what company made it. I didn't see that in the video. But just think about that. What would a golden age look like? Well, one way it would look like is that the deaf would be able to see sound. I mean, if you were going to say what's the golden age look like, I'd put that in there. I would also love to see wokeness destroyed under its own weight, you know, sort of like the Dr. Jordan Peterson…

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