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Back to episode — Episode 2737 CWSA 02/01/25

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's good for you, the coffee part. Well, it's Black History Month, and despite Trump getting rid of all the DEI in the government, he did do a proclamation recognizing it. And he called out some of the notable, famous black contributors to America. He included Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and then also threw in more modern names like Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas. Well, here's my take…

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, that's as far as I can remember back, but there was this conversation about whether being gay was genetic or just people chose it. And I would always laugh, thinking it's obviously genetic. And the reason I said it's obviously genetic is that you could tell who was gay by looking at them. Could you really tell who's gay by looking at them if it were not just baked into the genetic components? No.

So when I see that Stanford says, you know, they can't do it 100% of course, but they have a high hit rate of knowing if you're gay or straight from your photo, how could it be anything except genetic if you can tell by looking at a photo? The only way it wouldn't be genetic, and by the way I don't know if anybody's found any specific genetic link, I don't know if they've gone that far, but how could lifestyle make your face recognizably gay, assuming you washed it? Don't even think about that. All right, I just cracked myself up and I'm taking this in a completely wrong direction.

But yes, I think they have always wanted us to acknowledge that this is the way you're born and it's nobody's fault, it's nobody's choice, it's just the way you're born. And I think the face test is proof that they were right all along.

Amazon looks like it might be getting ready to advertise on X again, which would be a big deal. And I think Apple is also looking at X, deciding whether to go back on. That's pretty good. Boy, there's nothing like winning, is there? If Elon Musk had not been on the winning team in politics and that gave him a big role, and you know what's happening right now, at least the advisory role, plus DOGE, do you think that the big companies would be so happy to re-embrace

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X? I don't know. I think they would have had other pressure from Democrats, but the Democrat Party just fell apart and DOGE and Musk and Trump are doing great. So it makes perfect sense if you're a big American company to get on the side of the winners. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with saying, you know what, I think we'll adjust our track and try to be more compatible wi…

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