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form of lying is trying not to get caught, whereas the Middle East form of lying, and again this is just an observation so I'm not making any claim that anything I'm going to say here would hold up to any kind of scientific scrutiny, it's just an observation that I'd be interested if it held up to scrutiny but I'm not predicting that. You can't predict that based on anecdotal evidence. But anecdot…

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st it and it has some reasonable chance that it could work then the answer is you test it absolutely. And when the size of the problem is this big you test every frickin' thing you can think of. You don't leave any rock unturned. The problem is this big. You test. You test.

So when you're looking at any big government program, there's some exceptions like for example probably something like tax policy is the sort of thing that you either have to do it or not do it, but most things can be tested small. There's almost, I would say, 80% of everything can be tested small and that's the smart way to go every time. You think, and I know how some of you are receiving this. Those of you who have experience in business are probably thinking some version of duh. All experienced business people are saying this, right? Duh, of course you would try small if there was a way to do that. You would of course try it as a trial before you went big. But most people don't work for a big company. Most people don't have this kind of experience. The average American doesn't think in terms of is there a way to do a small trial. As a result our government does not think in terms of can we do a small trial. It's kind of rare to see that, isn't it? It's kind of rare to see the government say we don't know if this is going to work so we're just doing a small trial so we'll find out. That's how the government needs to evolve. I think it can and will under a Trump administration. If you hear somebody in the Trump administration say we don't know if this is a good idea that's why we're trying it or that's why we're suggesting somebody tries it, then you know that you've evolved.

Let's talk about something that's fun and interesting for a change. Oh and by the way I'd ask for an expert on my app, the Periscope by WinHub app, my company's app. I'd ask for an expert on Suboxone. It's a chemical used to get people off of opioids and apparently it makes you sick if you take an actual opioid when you're on Suboxone. I think you get ill so it keeps you from doing it. But the question is can you use Suboxone and then wean yourself off of Suboxone or are you on Suboxone forever because it's the only way to protect you from the opioids? So that was my question and I'm looking for an expert on the Periscope by WinHub app to answer that.

At the same time I had done a sort of a public call and so the Suboxone is something that falls into the category of something that you could test. So the hypothesis is that you could wean yourself off of Suboxone even if that's not the medical recommended treatment. Under doctor's supervision it would be easy to test that as a small-scale test. So I'm wondering if it's been done. So a number of people have started getting on the Periscope by WinHub app to volunteer as sponsors. So we're getting very close and I think there are already some sponsors on there. Let me check. I'll just look right now while I'm talking. So the idea is that sponsors could charge at zero for their time because the app lets you set your price and you could charge zero if you want. So I'm just going to look up at addiction and see if anybody's out there. All right so we have addiction and sponsor. It looks like there's one, two, three, four, now three people who are on right now. That doesn't mean they'll necessarily answer but they're there online as sponsors so somebody can get somebody immediately.

Now do I know that that will work? I do not. I don't know if having more sponsors on an app will save lives but can it be tested in a small way? Yes. And therefore you don't have to ask if it will work or won't

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work. You just test it. That's the smart thing to do given that the stakes are so high. Now while we're talking about the ability to test things small let me talk about something that's really, really exciting that's happening right before your eyes. And it goes like this. It was not long ago that if you were a citizen and you had a great idea for the government that idea would just be stranded i…

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