eason that anybody could come up with is that we poke them, they poke us, and you can't let people poke you without poking back. And I'm thinking we've sort of run out of ideas now. You can always imagine okay Putin's really trying to build this empire and blah blah blah. Everybody's trying to build their empire I mean in the sense that every country is trying to get stronger. Would Putin care as much about controlling his neighboring countries if there were no military threat? I think a lot of what Putin does is because he thinks we're a threat. Why are we a threat? Because we think he's a threat.

Here's my point. I've said before that the Golden Age will be identified by the fact that our physical problems are either solved or on their way to be solved and that our remaining problems is that we're not thinking right about our world. And if you could get the way we think about our world right then we could take advantage of the fact that most of the resources are in place to fix things. This Russia thing makes me crazy because Russia and the United States are not natural enemies. A natural enemy would be somebody who let's say shared territory, border, and had let's say a historical dispute about who owned something or there's some resource that we need for strategic reasons. Those would be reasons to have a natural enemy. Or even if there were an ideological difference that one needed to conquer the other for ideological religious reasons. None of that applies. I can't think of a freaking reason that going forward we should be enemies with Russia. And I have never heard a reason. Now it usually if anybody offered a reason it would be something like well they're messing with us all over the world so of course there are enemies. But there's no reason for them to mess with us except that maybe they think we're messing with them and they can get a little advantage. What would happen if we just stopped messing with each other?

Yeah somebody's mentioning radical Islam. What I'm talking about of course would not work trying to stop terrorism because the terrorists do have a reason. You know in their minds they have a perfectly good reason to fight against the United States. But what the hell reason does Russia have? Now consider also that China is the emerging power that you know can or will rival the United States in a number of different ways. Wouldn't Russia be a little bit happier to be a little bit friendlier with the United States? Isn't Russia safer being good friends with the United States? Don't the United States and Russia have common interest in fighting radical terrorists? I just it's just hard for me to imagine why we're enemies with people when we forgot the reasons. It's time to update our thinking a little bit. There must be some way to get past this. I'm not saying it would be easy.

All right Joe Biden is leading the polls in hypothetical polls. Biden would beat Trump by 51 to 45. Now of course all the fun is ahead where Biden will be ripped to shreds by his own team and whatever is left of his stinking carcass President Trump will finish off over the course of the final six months before the election. But I keep having — and I think Biden just said that we shouldn't worry about China because you know they have internal problems. And I thought to myself well that doesn't sound like a message that's going to sell very well.

But maybe some of you — the connection got lost but now it's back it looks like. All right my impression of Biden is that if you started with President Trump — so imagine that you're building a candidate. You start with President Trump and then you start removing all the good parts. It's like oh he's funny but let's take that off. He's willing to shake up the system but let's remove that. He's gonna be nice to dictators while negotiating extra tough which is exactly what you want. Well Biden won't do that. Take it off. And you just eventually if you removed all of the good parts of President Trump do you know what you would be left with? Joe Biden. Joe Biden is what you are left with if you removed all of the good parts from Trump. He's like the stem cell. It's like well this Biden you know he could become something but he's just sort of a mass of cells right now. He doesn't have any of the good things that Trump has. Now you could argue okay he doesn't have the bad things if you're a critic. But if you put the two of them together one just sort of disappears.

All right let me put on the other headphones and I'm gonna ask the question if anybody's used the fine people hoax funnel challenge. So if you have just hit the icon at the bottom of your screen to be a guest now. I'm only want to talk to people who have tried the test. So if you've tried it with a co-worker or a family member let me know. I only see one person who signed up as a guest. I think I'm gonna wait and see. Well actually there's one guest. I'll take that one guest. Hold on.

All right nerdy headset is on. I'm gonna take one guest. Tom you're probably you were probably here for other reasons but while we're waiting for other people to sign up. Tom are you there? Tom can you hear me? I can hear you. All right did you try the fine people hoax test or are you just — I have tried that a couple of times. How'd it go? Speak up a top so there's a little louder. Oh can you hear me? I've tried it a couple of times and it always turns out pretty much like you predict. You get kind of a glassy stare. The one friend of mine does what I call the Johnson jump. As soon as the topic comes u