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me a cartoonist, there might be 10,000 a year who try to become professional cartoonists and fail because it's hard. But the number of those 10,000 who actually could draw a comic and write a joke? A dozen. So I was really only competing with maybe a dozen people in the entire country. All the rest wanted to be cartoonists, but even you could look at their work and sa
← Previous segment →y, "No, no, this is not close." So here I thought I was competing with 10,000 people in an almost impossible task. Probably it was 12.
So here's the reframe: sometimes a task is impossible. Sometimes you're bad at estimating how possible it is and you have to get those clear. So that's your reframe for the morning. Might have another one for you when we're done.
After our podcast today, Owen Gregorian will be doing his spaces after party. So just look for Owen's space after we're done here.
Tomorrow, Sunday, toward the end of my podcast, I'm going to have a guest, King Randall. I tried to have King Randall on before, but I had a little medical emergency when I was going to. So anyway, but I think it'll work tomorrow if I do it as part of the end of the show. So it won't be its own broadcast. It'll just be tacked on the end. So probably quarter to the hour or so at the end.
Let's look at the news. Let's see if there's any science that they didn't need to do.
Did you know that people's views on immigration are shaped by whether they think the immigrants will vote the same way they do? Are you surprised by that? Is there anybody who didn't know that that would be true? So apparently if you think the immigrants are going to vote the same way your political party votes, suddenly you don't mind those immigrants nearly as much. So do you think that is something that they needed to study? No. You didn't need to do a study to find out that people like it when people agree with them. People like it when people agree with them. All things being equal.
And guess what? Eric Dolan of PsyPost is writing yet again about psychedelic experiences. And apparently a brief experience with psychedelics can reduce your lifetime use of cannabis. So apparently one of the benefits if you're looking to cut down on your marijuana use is that psychedelics might do that for you. Even with a limited exposure to them, you might have a lifetime decrease in marijuana use. Do you think that's a
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surprise? Not really. Because if you've had experience with both of those things, you would totally understand why the one would make the other less desirable. Well, apparently the X platform is going to have a whole new recommendation system in a few weeks, Elon Musk is telling us. So at the moment I have no idea why X shows me what it shows me. I just can't figure it out. It doesn't show me any…
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