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hat makes everything better is cold. That's right. Simultaneous sip. Go. That was so good it makes me think the price of coffee should be higher. Oh wait, the first story is that the price of coffee is higher than it has been in 47 years. Well, you know Trump calls oil liquid gold. I think it's coffee. Yeah, I think coffee is the liquid gold. Let me put it this way. If you said to me, "Scott, I c…

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ase. Now I would love to know how Starbase was designed because didn't Elon Musk have a lot to do with designing the whole city? It wasn't a nothing until he decided it was a city. So I'd love to know what technique he used to design it to make it livable, because I would imagine some of that is transferable to other places. We'll see.

Meanwhile, the Vigilant Fox is reporting over on X that Neil deGrasse Tyson, he was on CNN, he was warning about the lack of trust in experts. So see how out of time this sounds to you. Imagine that this happened yesterday. I think so. This is a yesterday opinion. And ask me this: Does it feel like this is a 10-year-old opinion, like it doesn't apply anymore? But I'll read it to you.

All right. So this is Neil deGrasse Tyson. He goes, "Doing your own research could have ultimately lethal consequences if you're making decisions that affect your health and well-being." Does that sound like a 2024 or 2025 opinion? It feels sort of out of time, doesn't it? But he goes on, "This is a problem going forward. It's the loss of people's trust in experts." I need to clarify that a little bit. I don't believe that the problem is the public's loss of trust in experts. It's not the trust that's the problem. It's the experts. That would be like saying in World War II the real problem was people lost trust in H. No, no, no. The problem wasn't they lost trust in him. The problem was Hitler. He was the problem. And the problem with me is not that I've lost trust in experts. It's the experts. It's the experts. So it doesn't even sound like this came from our time. It feels so off.

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Anyway, by the way, there's no right answer because he's completely right that if you ignore the experts you're probably going to die. But if you follow the experts you're probably going to die. So you've got two ways you're probably going to die: following the experts and ignoring all the experts. Somewhere in the middle where you call your shots and say, "Well, I feel like it's safe enough to fo…

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