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ad. But on top of that I don't even think of movies as something that people watch anymore. There are very few movies that you're going to want to spend two hours on. Very rarely. So when I think of things I would want to spend time on I just don't even think of a movie anymore because I know I'm not going to like it. And my attention span like yours is so shortened now that I can go through a tho…

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on. I like it. And if the only thing it does is make you think deeper about other possibilities that are possible. So suppose the answer was no that's crazy we're not going to use a nuke to stop a hurricane but what if then the person you asked said but I do have an idea. Suppose you did this. Here's an idea that would actually work to reduce hurricanes. You would greenify Northern Africa which can't be done. So basically you just let your animals — essentially the way you green a desert area is you have animals in the part that's still got enough green that they can eat and then the cows or whatever livestock they eat what's there and then sometimes they wander to the edge of the area and poop and then that creates collectively some place where more things are going to grow. And then just the cows wandering around and eating and pooping will make your greenery just extend into the desert.

So suppose that Trump asked the question that's completely impractical, nuking a hurricane, but the person asks you know I've heard this other idea and then you have the conversation well is that practical? Is there any way we could in a cost-effective way reduce hurricanes just by emphasizing the greening? Because the greening here's why that works. Northern Africa is where it gets super hot and then that heat is what drives the hurricanes. You have the heat differential basically. So if you reduce the differential heat by making just the desert less hot it should take some steam off the hurricanes and that's maybe doable. So I'm always in favor of asking the bad question should we nuke a hurricane because then that opens up everybody to all the other possibilities and maybe there's one you hadn't thought about yet. That's good technique. I like it in Biden and I like it in Trump. So that's two A pluses.

And I think that's everyth

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ing I wanted to say today. So I remind you that Owen Gregorian's going to do a Spaces after we're done. So he's been doing that on Saturdays after the show. People seem to like it. It was well attended. So look for that probably just a few minutes after we're done. It's on Spaces on X. And you watched three movies in three days? You had nothing better to do than that? Did you also exercise? Becau…

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