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aracteristic. They're made up of three words, the name of the organization, and they're three random sounding good words that if you saw any one of the words individually you'd say that's a good word. But if you put the three of them together. So you can take these two, the Climate United Fund and the Power Forward Communities. Both three words, both all good words that don't mean much but you co…

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a pretty good answer.

And there's nobody, almost nobody in the entire world that I think is capable of that. And that's a big compliment. So it's a compliment to showmanship and what I think is public honesty. So I think this could be one of the biggest things we've ever seen in America because you're never going to get these two kinds of personalities sitting down together. It just doesn't happen.

So the thing about Musk is he's not going to lie and he's going to have a reason for everything he does and it's going to be a damn good reason. Now that doesn't mean he's never made a mistake. I can't think of one offhand but humans make mistakes and he doesn't say I don't make mistakes. So Musk like John Stewart, very unique in that if John Stewart said in real time okay but you haven't thought of this or you haven't thought of that and it was a good point I believe you would see Musk say that's a good point yeah let me think about that.

But I think that works both ways. If Musk had a good point I think that Stewart would say okay actually that's a good point let me think about it. So I've never seen even the potential for this much goodness in a podcast. I mean I would clear my schedule to watch this at any length because the uniqueness of the characters and then the double uniqueness of putting them together. So I'm yes yes yes hell yes on this happening. I hope it does. Could be huge for the country.

Ben Shapiro has started a petition to call for the pardon of Derek Chauvin convicted for killing George Floyd. Now I can't say enough about how impressed I am because if you have things working for you like Ben Shapiro does, he's got a good situation where he's a respected commentator. He's got a platform that looks like it's successful to me. And he's in one of those situations where you don't take risks this big. This is a big freaking risk to put your name behind essentially what would be taking George Floyd from being a saint down to a more normal situation and also supporting the white guy who got sent to jail.

So this is a big risk. But so let me say this about Ben Shapiro. This is brave. This is brave. It's perfectly timed. This is exactly the right time to do it and it's well argued. So I've seen his argument. It's well argued and it's absolutely right. It's morally, ethically and in every way that America cares it's right. It's time. I'm all in. I'm all in. Yeah. So I mean I have less to lose. I'm already disgraced so it's not a big risk for me to say I'm all in but it's a bigger risk for Ben Shapiro. So all respect to that. Full respect.

You probably saw on social media changing the topic. There were videos of I guess there were 22 senators eventually who did what sounded like identical little videos where it was just them talking to the camera and they each had this little douchebag microphone that doesn't look right when you're holding it like that. And you just got this little thing in your two little fingers and you're leaning forward in your chair and you're talking passionately. And of course the Democrats are all the theater kids so it all looks like they were acting.

But it took about five seconds for the internet to say wait a minute wait a minute you're not the only person saying something like that. And then there would be a split screen. And if you watch it develop during the day in real time it was hilarious. Somebody noticed wait a minute there are two senators who seem to be doing something similar. And then like an hour later wait a minute it's more than two. I think there are four of them. And then they show the four of them and they'd be talking at the same time at pretty much the same words. And then it just kept increasing until it was like this screen full of people all talking at the same time with the same little message and the same little douchebag microphone.

And so Elon Musk had posted that he would give a free Cybertruck to whoever could positively identify who wrote it because they were trying to find the author who was behind it. But it turns out it was Cory Booker. So Cory Booker organized it and I guess they decided he was the best they had to try to come up with a social media strategy because they weren't happy with their social media strategy. And I guess Chuck Schumer wasn't the greatest social media leader so they're like oh we need somebody young and cool to do our social media. So Cory Booker puts that together which effectively was all the theater kids doing a play like what they do.

And before I knew who was behind it I decided that it was somebody either inexperienced or young. And here's what I picked up. This is sort of a writer trick because for each of them, all 22 of them, they had the same sort of opening tagline that was "that ain't true." That's what you just saw. So it starts with Trump saying he was going to lower prices on day one and then it would switch to one of the senators saying that ain't true. That's what you just saw. I think they may have bleeped the part or not I don't know.

So here's the writer's trick. The writer's trick is

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this and maybe it's a communicator's trick as well. You can swear if you do it once and it's something that's really important and you just want to bring attention to it. Or if you're somebody like Trump who sort of incorporated it into his personality that if he gives a rally speech he might lay an S-bomb on you. He doesn't do F's but maybe a hell, maybe a damn, maybe a you know maybe an S. So if…

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