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Back to episode — Episode 3055 CWSA 12/27/25

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't remind you that the Dilbert calendar is still slightly for sale, meaning that we're getting close to selling out, which is both true and a mechanism of persuasion to tell you that there are shortages, but it's actually true. There is a risk that if you wait a week or two we might have sold out. So get your Dilbert calendar while they still exist. All right. I like to start my show talking abou…

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n today's world, if they're building cities that could make people happier, or maybe they're helping to treat problems that the government is not treating. Maybe they're making health care affordable. Maybe they're making transportation affordable.

So the billionaires need to step up and the alternative would be being taxed out of their money and then the money goes where it would not be well employed.

So apparently Palmer Luckey is trying to convince some of his other billionaire friends to spend less time on their yachts and more time trying to deploy capital in what makes sense. So if you see Elon Musk and Chamath and Palmer Luckey all on the same side of a topic, it's probably something you should pay attention to. Yeah, they're the smartest people.

Speaking of smart people, I saw Brett Weinstein give an opinion on childhood vaccines that I thought was very close to my own opinion, but he does such a good job of communicating. I thought I'd tell you how he explains it.

So Brett

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said, quote, "I believe the adverse events from regular old vaccines" — so we're not talking about COVID, just the vaccines that kids get — "are far more common than we imagined, including things like allergies." So he thinks his weed allergy might be because of something called adjuvants that were in his early childhood vaccinations. He said one of his sons has seasonal allergies that are pretty…

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