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and I write about persuasion right and it's no surprise nobody should be surprised that the simultaneous sip is overtly, I'm not trying to hide anything. It's meant to have an influence on you and to develop a habit which you would find pleasurable. Now part of the problem is that your brain is saying I don't want to do this but the other part of your brain is saying if I do I might enjoy it more…

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ey I did my sip and you'll feel the little rush of that the beverage gives you even if you're drinking another beverage you like. So it should over time have exactly the effect that you described for something like you know a third of the people. You know they're always going to be other people who are just dipping in and out. People who have never had the first sip of coffee etc. But for about a third I would predict would have a pretty strong attraction to having the simultaneous sip. So thanks for coming.

Oh well and to be fair I only participate about 50% of the sips. That's that. I do have a question. So Mark Cuban did mogul support at Wired and answered questions over the Internet and his last comment was responding to Yang running asking him to run for president. So Cuban Yang 2024. What's your take?

Well I don't see Cuban getting into it this time because 2024 Yang Cuban probably would be impossible to beat. I would agree. They've already got my vote. Yeah and here's the thing it's not entirely clear to me that they would even be obviously Democrat or obviously Republican. I feel as if they're carving out a new category of pragmatism. You know nobody's tried that as weird as that sounds. No nobody's tried pragmatism meaning if there's a science to it follow the science. If there's no science to it see if you can find the science and if you can't do the science maybe you can test it in a small way. Test it.

So if you put a Yang and a Cuban together and by the way do we assume that Cuban would be president in this arrangement or you assuming Yang? Okay all right good. Okay we're on the same page. Cuban would be far far more likely to be the president candidate of those two. I for one would be really really interested in a pragmatic set of candidates and I wouldn't really even care which party they ran in as long as they were let's say intellectually and otherwise committed to following the facts and testing and educating the public and you know maybe testing something small. You know they're just a rational set of ways to move forward. That would look really really appealing to me. I gotta say that would be really appealing because we don't have anythin

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g like that. And it's because we don't really have the personnel in place that could pull that off. Could Mark Cuban and Yang pull off the first rational administration? I think they could. I think they could. They're both special personalities. You know you don't get a Mark Cuban every day right? You don't get a Trump every day. You don't get an Andrew Yang every day. They are special characters…

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