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o in if I can. The first one is a personal thing. I was really intrigued by your description of coffee after you've got your sense of smell back and I've wondered about in particular what it was like to get your head shaved by Christina after you had your sense of smell back or if there was any other incident that was particularly interesting. Yeah so when I got my sense of smell back after a dec…
← Previous segment →ing the limelight and she apparently enjoys the speaking and the writing of the books and the attention and the interviews and stuff. I assume she wouldn't be doing it unless she liked it. There's something in it for her. So it's sort of a perfect situation.
Do you remember in the last election when Mark Cuban sort of publicly flirted with the idea of running for president? Yeah I said at the time that it was a brilliant thing to do because it put him in the conversation as president. So even if he decided not to do anything which he that's what he decided at least that cycle we all started thinking of him as a legitimate political candidate because we'd been talking about it. So I always said it was brilliant to make the country talk about it even with no maybe not to a serious consideration of running that time because it sets him up that if he ever decides to run in the future well the public's already primed. They've already had the conversation about him and he hasn't worn himself out by actually running for office yet. So it's kind of brilliant.
And the way are you trying to say that it's just not ever gonna happen or do you think it's that she would never really try?
Like I think there's no chance she'll try. My take on it is she knows that if she didn't start early and put her best effort into it and line up all of her advisors and everything it wasn't going to happen. And I think she knows the country's a little bit exhausted with her. But it's still very smart for her to make us talk about it because them talking about it is what gets her speaking fees up and what makes you want to buy a book.
All right thank you for that. We're moving on and next caller is I'm gonna pick temperature. Let's see how closely I came to pronouncing that name right. Temperature come at us. Will your technology work? Yeah it's spinning and it's doing nothing. If it doesn't do anything we'll try something else. Okay that one went away. Let's try Sloanite. Sloanite hello. Sloanite can you hear me?
I can hear you. What's your question for me today?
So it's a two-part question Scott. Okay on one hand what do you think is the most efficient way to elect a president and the second part is being that a lot of people don't have sufficient knowledge of politics why should they even be allowed to vote?
Okay the most efficient way to vote I would think would be some system where you could vote with your electronic device, your phone, your laptop or whatever. But here's the key there. While you're voting a video, a live video is taking of you voting. Your face and your fingers touching the things that you wanted to touch and maybe giving you some kind of receipt. And then also maybe giving you some way to electronically check later to see that your vote was recorded the way you did it. So you could have some kind of a password fingerprint system or something so that you as an individual could check after the votes have been counted to make sure the database that has your vote, you know you'd have some kind of a connection to it. You can see it got recorded and recorded correctly.
Now as long as every person who votes has a video of their device of their actual face in there in the motion of voting they can always check themselves to see their video was correct. And anybody who ever wanted to check the validity of a vote could check against their ID for example and against the actual video and they could look at the ID and look at the video and say this isn't the same person. And maybe your device is giving you a location at the time of your vote. So let's say if you're not within the voting polling range that you would have walked to maybe it doesn't count unless you say you're an absentee or something.
So in other words there probably is an electronic system that would be way better than what we're doing. Like way way better. Because right now you saw in Project Veritas I think it was James O'Keefe on the last election he walked into a polling place without his ID and they said sure you can vote but you don't need any ID. Like that actually happened. You could completely eliminate that with an electronic one that anybody could go check.
Now your second part of the question was remind me the second part of that question. It was and make the voting better efficient. I was a good question. Can somebody remind me in the comments? All ri
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ght well maybe if let's see if he came back. If he did I might have to ask him back in. Pompom pompom problem we lost the connection to badges. Darn it that was a good, I remember it was a good question. I was going to do the first one so I could get to the second but let's take another one. Nancy can you hear me coming at you? Nancy you don't sound like it. Nancy hey sure I kind of I'm in my 50s…
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