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hort. But you'd be surprised how unpleasant things become easy when you think in those terms. That's your reframe for the day. That one you're going to have to try because logic will not tell you that that works. And I've told you before that reframes are special in the sense that they don't have to make sense. I don't know how many things would fall into that category, but it's a unique category…
← Previous segment →, I don't see the body. I don't see the corpse, but there's no way. No way Carl could have gotten away." And then Carl flies by. You're like, "Oh, damn it. Damn it."
So finally, after much work, I killed Carl. I killed Carl. I trapped him in a space. It's a long story, but I got him. And I happily told my caretaker, "I got him. I got Carl finally." How long did it take before the real Carl showed up? And I learned that Carl not only is strong and smart and plucky, but he had a body double. He had a body double. I did not see that coming. I was outsmarted by the fly.
So I did what anyone would do if they were Ukrainian. I immediately asked the United States for some military assistance. And as luck would have it, I got a salt gun that literally shoots grains of salt at flies. And I deputized my caretaker to operate the weapon. And she did a little safari inside my man cave here. There were a few misses, but once she got him down, oh man, it was brutal. She got him on the ground and she just started blasting his little body and even that wouldn't kill him. I swear he had some kind of a flak jacket on or something. I've never seen a fly that tough.
But in the end he did fall to our superior military power. I did have to use a drone with a GPS. Anyway, Carl the Fly, we loved him, but he had to go.
Speaking of horrible little disgusting things. Oh, this could go the wrong direction if I say the next thing I was going to say. Back that up because it's going to sound like I'm talking about the person, not the thing. I'm talking about a thing, not a person.
Palmer Luckey, who's awesome by the way. I like Palmer Luckey. He said in a podcast recently, he said, quote, "I flirt with the idea that smart TVs should be illegal. I hate them so much." What's funny about that is that just yesterday I was talking about throwing away my television because not a single time have I been able to make it work. Why? It's a smart TV.
And my current setup in my house is using Apple TVs individually for each TV, which is a really good system. But if you try to put your Apple TV on your smart TV, you don't know what the heck's going to happen. I mean, just all kinds of things start showing up and advertisements and you don't even know what mode it's in. You can't tell the business model they're using. You're just totally lost.
And every time it happened I would use up all the time I had for watching TV with trying to make the TV work. And my reasoning was very simple. If I can get this to work, that's just once I have to do that. And then after that I'll happily be watching TV. Nope. Not with this smart TV. No, it outsmarted me like Carl the Fly. It would act differently. It would throw me things. It was sometimes working, sometimes not. Sometimes you have to reboot. Sometimes it seemed like there were two different ways or three different ways to get to Apple TV.
And so yesterday I was literally in my living room talking to somebody and said, you know, I just want to throw that away because not once — and this, by the way, this is the TV in my living room. So it's one of the ones you would use if it worked. And now it's been I don't know how many years, maybe five years. It's probably been five years and I've not watched a single show on that TV because I can't.
But you don't want to throw away a TV, right? Like your brain can't really wrap its head around that. Like I'm not going to throw away a TV. Yes, I am. I'm going to throw away the TV. If anybody wants a smart TV, come and get it. No, don't do that. Don't come to my house for my TV because somebody will get here first and then you'll be mad.
Well, you know that Wikipedia has a competitor. Grok. It's called Grokipedia. Turns out that was a temporary name. Elon says that once Grokipedia, his version of Wikipedia, once it becomes what he calls good enough, he's going to rebrand it to Encyclopedia Galactica. I can't even tell you how much I love that.
Isn't — can somebody give me a fact check on this? Isn't Elon Musk supposed to be not good at this? You know, meaning he's on the spectrum. How can he be good at this too? This meaning coming up with clever names for stuff that are catchy. That's a really good name. Am I wrong? Or do you see it as soon as you see the name, do you say, "Oh, whoa, that's a pretty good name." And that's very rare. If you look at all the times that anybody has renamed anything in any domain, usually you're ambivalent or you're like, "I don't like it." But this is just a dead cold winner.
Did he come up with that or was he smart enough to recognize how good it was? You know, it's weird. Every time Elon does something that clearly shows he has a very advanced sense of humor. Isn't that exactly what you're not supposed to have? Like the whole point of being on the spectrum is you get maybe in some cases certain advantages but there's a trade-off and maybe the trade-off is social awareness. I don't think he has any problem with social awareness. I don't think he has a problem with humor and he certainly can read the room and come up with a good name of a product and he obviously — all of his products have one thing in common that he got the user interface and the user interaction right. How do you do that if you're on the spectrum? There's something unexplained about him that I find fascinating. You know, he's now supposed to be good at this too. So I guess he is.
There's a new report from Marijuana Moment. Kyle Jaeger is writing about it. It says that women who use marijuana at a quote high intensity report greater romantic relationship satisfaction, but it doesn't work for men. So if women do a lot of marijuana intensely, they have better romantic relationships. But it doesn't work for men. I mean men are happy with a relationship with a woman, but if the man is the one who's intensely doing it.
How many of you didn't know that? Just try to imagine this for a second. You're in your 20s. I'll just pick a time. And you're in this long-term relationship. And you come home and your wife or your significant other is really really high. What's your first thought, men? I'll just wait on this one. What's your first thought, men? What crosses your mind when you come home and find your woman is really really high?
That's right. I don't have to. Do I have to finish this? If you come home and you find out that your wife is really stoned, you're thinking sex. You're thinking s
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ex. Are you happier? Yeah, probably. Is it more likely that you're going to have some? Oh yeah. Definitely. Definitely. All right. Now let's reverse it. Wife comes home with a girlfriend and she's not high, but she sees that her spouse, the guy, is high as a kite. What's her first thought? Oh, damn it. He's going to be playing video games with his buddies all night. Yeah. What you don't think is…
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