Back to episode — Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25
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ear with gene therapy. Now obviously this is not going to work on every person, and I think they mostly use it on young people. But how amazing is that? Imagine if that became common and a baby is born and it's deaf and they just say, ah, no problem, just give us this gene therapy, and then two weeks later the baby can hear normally. We are definitely entering a golden age if we allow ourselves t…
← Previous segment →then over in Paris, this will be a good test of your willingness to do dangerous things. So the river that goes through Paris, the Seine, has been too polluted to allow people to swim in it. So I guess for about a hundred years it was just too polluted. I don't know if it was illegal or just unwise. But because the Olympics are coming to Paris sometime soon, Paris put on a big effort to clean up the Seine. Until now it is normally clean enough to swim in. So they're allowing people to swim in it, but if it rains, apparently the runoff kind of pollutes it again for a while.
So would you go swimming in the Seine if you knew that it had been too polluted to swim in for a hundred years? But they say it's clean now. They say unless it has rained recently. Would you swim in that? I don't know. I feel like I would be thinking too much. You know, the Tootsie Roll was going to float into my mouth if I were swimming in that thing, if you know what I mean. Hell no. No, we would not swim in the Seine.
Trump, true to his word, the New York Post is reporting that he's already started to put together the letters that he's sending out to the other countries telling them what kind of reciprocal tariffs they're going to pay. So some of them will be pretty high. And I'm wondering, did Trump find a brilliant workaround for the fact that there were too many deals to actually negotiate that quickly?
You know, in a perfect world there would have been a whole bunch of done deals where dozens if not hundreds of countries would have negotiated terms and we would agree to them and we'd have signe
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d deals. But nothing happens as quickly as you want it to in the real world. So did Trump find a workaround for that where he's just going to negotiate with a few big countries like China and Vietnam, but for the rest of them he's just going to send them a letter and tell them what their payment will be to have access to our markets? And then if they want to negotiate, he can say, nah, yeah, I kno…
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