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of repetitive and not interesting and there's so much of the AI crap that searching through it to find something that's not AI, there's just too much work. So that's one of the reasons that I just stopped watching YouTube mostly, not completely. And I do videos on X because if you go to X, you go to the side menu on your app, one of the options now is video. And what they do really well is they o…
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Now again, judge shopping is not illegal, right? As far as I know, it's not illegal. It's just not ideal. So we'll keep an eye on that.
So Russell Brand has been charged with new allegations of rape and sexual assault. Right News is reporting. I think I told you that when Russell Brand was originally accused of those things several years ago, I guess that I happened to be booked for his show. So I went on his show while he was right in the middle of all the accusations and he was losing everything as he was being demonetized. And let me tell you, I thought my interview with him was gonna be a lot of fun, but he was not really in the mood. He was not in the mood to have a lot of fun. And I completely understand that, but he's being hit again with new charges.
And I don't have an opinion about who did what or who's guilty of what. I will give you this context that I think is useful every time this kind of a story comes up. And the context goes like this. Pretty much every rich and powerful man is accused falsely of sex crimes. Pretty much all of them. So if you've got somebody of his notoriety, especially if he's known to be a sex addict, especially if he's seemed to be siding with one part of the political aisle, the odds of him having a false accusation were 100%. Now, that does not mean that these allegations are false. It only means that you should not judge it by the fact that they exist because there was a 100% chance that someone like him would be falsely accused even if there were any real things he ever did. So that's the only thing I'm going to add to the story.
And trust me, you could talk to any, if you privately talked to any, let's say, rich CEO. I'll bet you every one of them would say, "Yeah, you know, my secretary or some employee accused me." And often it's people you never met because I've been accused of sexual abuse by someone who lives in Canada I've never met. Right? So they called the people I worked with and one woman, the crazy woman, she called the people I worked with, the people in my restaurant where I owned a restaurant and told them that I was a terrible rapist and that on a regular basis I would travel to Canada and rifle through her possessions and then sexually abuse her. Now I promise you this is nobody I've ever met. This is pure crazy woman. But the people who received the call, how do they know? How would they know if that's real or not?
So that is the world of high-profile people. But this makes me ask the following question. How did we go from an environment of MeToo every single day to it doesn't really get in the news much? Did something change? Is it possible that the CEOs have learned, you know, just don't do anything that would get you in trouble? Is it possible that the Mike Pence rule where you just don't allow yourself to be alone with a woman, are many CEOs doing that?
Because I have to admit when I first heard the Mike Pence rule that he would not go to lunch, for example, even a business lunch, he wouldn't even do a business lunch with a woman by herself unless he brought his wife. And I think we all laughed at that, right? Haha. You know, old Mike Pence, you know, it's Mike Pence don't live in the past. You know, women are part of the workforce. If they want to go to lunch for business it should be exactly like a man. And it didn't take me long to realize he was a smart one. So I don't know what is, maybe it was probably religious and partly being faithful to his wife, but man, that is a good way to protect yourself. You just don't ever allow yourself to be alone with somebody who might accuse you. That's not a bad rul
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e. So could it be that so many people kind of took that to heart that the rate of MeToo went way down? Maybe. Or was it never real and it was always a sort of a news-related thing? Well let me say it a different way. Maybe the rate of MeToo has always been the same, but when it was in the news, the people who were the victims of the MeToo were far more likely to pursue it. But once it falls out o…
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