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d to the back a little bit. For the nose, I don't know, the nose is going to be hard. From the eyes I might want to try to keep them closed or something. But you want to get as far away as you can from this mouthful area and the eyebrows are leading the pack. All right. So and that is my show for the day unless I can think of something right now. Princeton? You are you kidding me? Princeton Unive…

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What's happening this weekend? Somebody asked. All right, I'm going to turn off Periscope and I will talk to you later. All right, YouTubers, because you're special at the moment. You're asking why. Somebody asked what years my career was scuttled. Yeah, that was '80s, correct. '80s and early '90s. Late '80s, early '90s actually.

Bigfoots are real. Somebody says start hanging out with Bill Maher. I don't think Bill Maher wants to hang out with me. You know I was on his show and let's just say we didn't have chemistry. I'll just say that. But he was in a hurry. He had to get somewhere after the show so he just came into the show and ran. We didn't really chat.

Oh yeah, you know I somewhat missed the details. There's some kind of story about Hunter Biden. What was it? His girlfriend threw away his handgun in a trash can by a school and then there was maybe a form that he filled out when he got it that he lied on. And maybe he should go to jail. You know I don't know what to say about that story. It isn't big enough to matter. It's just one guy with a problem.

Would like to see another conversation with you and Sam Harris. Wouldn't that be interesting? Wouldn't that be interesting? Yeah. I'm not doing any media right now so I wouldn't do it right away. But at some point when I started doing media again that would be an interesting conversation. I'd love to catch up with him because the fun thing about Sam Harris is that he's super smart and well informed. So if you disagree with somebody who's super smart and well informed that's just always fun. You know maybe you'll learn something watching that.

All right. Oh there's a bigger story about the Secret Service etc. with the Hunter story. Okay, got it. And yes as people said if that had been Don Jr. instead of Hunter it would be a whole different story. Yeah we all agree with that. But there's also the difference is if you're pro-gun or not. So it wouldn't be exactly a good analogy. Yeah, lying on a gun purchase is a felony. It probably should be a pretty big one, don't you think, as felonies go.

But wouldn't it be interesting if his defense was that the Constitution allows. Imagine if he said yes I admit I did lie on this form because that's probably going to be easy to prove. But I lied on this form because I have a Second Amendment right to own a gun and your form can't stop me from my Second Amendment right. Wow. Would that work? That would be interesting.

Somebody says it's automatic jail. I don't know. I'd like to know how they go. Oh I didn't do the Clubhouse event. I postponed that again. I'm just having a little bit of a scheduling problem with me and my guests being available at the same time. The one thing I like about Clubhouse is you just jump on and do it. You don't have to schedule.

So here's a little thing that just happened in my neighborhood and this tells you how weird the world is right now because there's a bunch of people who got rich during the pandemic at the same time a whole bunch of people lost everything. So it was this weird situation where some people were doing great while other people were just getting hit hard. But one of the things that happened is where I live, I'm outside of San Francisco and I'm outside of all the bad parts of San Francisco. Like everything that's bad about San Francisco the city, I'm just outside that because I'm in the suburbs outside. And so as people left the city they came here. There is a 2,300-square-foot home around the corner that just sold for half a million dollars over the asking price. One before that just sold for $400,000 over the asking price. And it's because there are almost no homes that are even available to buy here. And the reason is that all the city and the valley people, once they could work remotely, as soon as you could work remotely they came to my town because this is the perfect place to work remotely. And there are people who sold homes that were worth whatever millions in the city or in the valley and they had ton

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s of money because they sold their homes and then they came here and raised all of our prices. But have you ever heard of that? Have you heard of multiple homes selling for half a million dollars over the asking price? Now we're only talking about a home that was selling, I think it was listed for 2.2 million. We're not talking about a 50-million-dollar home that sold for half a million over the…

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