Back to episode — Episode 2893 CWSA 07/10/25
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if they were able-bodied, they would have to work to get their health care, to get their Medicaid. Now at the same time, Republicans are doing a mass deportation, which is taking workers away from employers. At the same time that the Medicaid rule should, if everything goes right incentive-wise, make people who were sleeping on the couch say, "All right, all right. I guess I'll take these jobs tha…
← Previous segment →show that you're watching, my regular live stream for my subscribers on Locals, I do about a half an hour of a pre-show. Now I used to have a little bit of a resistance to doing the pre-show because people weren't listening to me. All I'm doing is preparing for the show and getting my coffee and I go down to my little putting room downstairs and I shoot three putts to see how the day will go. But if I look at the comments, 90% of them are people talking to other people in the comments and they've made friends with each other. So they don't know each other except in the comments, although some of them have actually gotten together. But they feel this community of people who are just there because they're lonely. And it's really not about what content that I give them during the pre-show. It's really about just creating this little forum that people who would otherwise be sitting there lonely, they get to interact with the other people.
And it took me a long time to figure out why when I first fire up the pre-show, which is also a live stream, it took me a long time to figure out why everybody just said hi to each other. So for the first 10 minutes, it's nothing but good morning, how you doing? Good morning. And not just to me, but they're saying good morning to the other chatters as they see them coming online. It's like, "Hey,
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Magician. Hey, this or that." Magician is one of the common users. Common as in every day. So here's what I'm going to add to it. Loneliness is definitely dangerous and I've accidentally created a model where people can feel a little less lonely every day. So if you were not taking it in that vein, well maybe you could because I'll be here every day as long as I can. And you might be some people…
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