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ing it in the context of OpenAI. So Elon Musk will have an AI and a brain interface. And now Sam Altman will have an AI and a brain interface. And we are heading for full cyborg future. So cyborg is coming. I love how billionaires fight. I'm mad at you so I'll spend a billion dollars to buy this company to make your company look worse. I saw a clip that at first I thought might be AI, but I thin…

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We had not really heard that from anybody, had we?

And I have to admit, I've had the same transition. I was supportive of Obama when he first got elected because I thought, oh, this is sort of post-racial and maybe we'll just get over this whole racial stuff if you have a black president. And he seems pretty reasonable and he's not making too much trouble. And so I was generally in favor of Obama. Well, when he first got elected, my current opinion of him is he's a terrible person, especially because of the Russiagate stuff that's come out lately. That is a really, really bad person. Like a really bad person. So yeah, when Dershowitz says he's not a nice person, I can only imagine.

You probably already heard that US alcohol consumption is at a record low. But why? And I feel as if there's probably more than one reason. One reason might be the demographics. Is it true that younger people drink more than older people? I mean, after they reach 21 or so. So it could be that we just have an aging population. That might be a little bit of the story. And that people in their 20s are more likely to party and have a drink than retired people basically. Could be that.

Could be the substitution effect. Maybe they're substituting weed and microdosing on mushrooms. Could definitely be that, especially the psychedelic mushrooms. I do hear that there's a lot of soccer moms who are on the mushrooms and maybe then they don't need a drink of wine that night. So it might be that, but I think weed is actually down in young people, right? Isn't weed use down as well?

And it could be because people have realized that there's no such thing as a little bit of alcohol that's good for you. So maybe the news has turned in the last 20 years from a couple of drinks every night is better for you than if you hadn't had any drinks at all. And now we know that that's completely made up. Do you know why? Because the scientists who do studies like that are not credible. Th

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ey're not credible. No one is. There are no experts who are credible. It's just not a thing. It really isn't. But I'm also thinking that maybe one of the big reasons the alcohol use is down is that there are so many influencers now who talk about not being drinkers. Have you noticed that there are a lot of influencers who say they don't drink? You know, Joe Rogan is the latest one. I'm one. So I…

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