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College of John Dvorak and pick his brain about COVID and about therapies used on the analysis that you're unwilling to do. All right, John Dvorak if you're watching that now I don't know if you know but I've known John Dvorak for a hundred years and every once in a while we'll chat and get together or whatever. But that would be the same thing as if I talk to one expert. So I will grant you that John has probably researched it more than I have but it would have no value, right? That me talking to him because it would be exactly the same as if I talk to the expert. So why do you believe X John? And then John says well I researched it and I found such and such a study. And then what do I say? That's it, right? What do I say? You found a study. Do I say sometimes studies aren't reliable? I think he knows that. Do I say if it's only one randomized controlled study I'd like to see two? I think John knows that. All right what could I possibly say to John Dvorak that he doesn't already know about this topic? How in the world could that conversation help you? It couldn't. It couldn't.

How does inflation ever stop? Well it has stopped everywhere that it's happened where the country hasn't gone under, right? There are plenty of countries. Is Israel one? Give me a history lesson those of you who are smarter than I am about history which would be most of you. Didn't Israel at one point have just horrible inflation and now they don't? Do me a fact check on that. And I think there are a number of other places that have had horrible inflation and survived. So somehow they got past it. Yeah and then there would be other places where they didn't. Is that correct? So if there are places that had massive inflation and then got past it then there is a way to get past it but I'm not sure if anybody understands it now.

It could be you have to have massive productivity gains right? Or no maybe not. Stop spending. Stop printing money. Well we can't do that with our current government situation. But do you think the current real estate market will correct? Of course. Yeah, easiest question in the world. I'm being asked do I think the real estate market will correct? Yeah, yeah of course it will. I don't know when and I don't know how much but I will also confidently predict that it will recover in time. Eventually it will recover.

All right Wesley says is it possible to ever stop seeing it? Oh when people start seeing the fake news can they learn to unsee it? Yeah I think so. Ask yourself was there a time when you were more believing in the news and now you're not? I would say that's certainly the case for me. I would say that in my youth I would generally have thought the news was right I don't know ninety-nine percent of the time. Today if it's political news I assume it's wrong. I just assume it's wrong. And that's a pretty big change from almost certainly right to I just assume that's not true, right? And I think a lot of us went through that same journey. So yes I believe that people can understand that they're being bamboozled.

Prediction on the Brandon thing lasting past 2022. I don't know that that has legs but maybe. You know I didn't think MAGA was the greatest. The greatest thing. I like Make America Great Again. I don't like the abbreviation MAGA because it's too obviously like a maggot you know. And of course all the critics picked up on that in about a half a second. So you should always run your slogans past a cartoonist. This is good advice. You come up with a good acronym or a good slogan, run it past a cartoonist because you know what we're good at? Mocking things with words. If I can mock it better think. When Wells Fargo — yours was actually Crocker back before Wells Fargo bought them but when I worked for a bank years ago they came up with a slogan "Good enough isn't." And the idea was that you'd never be satisfied with the quality. Good enough isn't.

Now that was a slogan they should have run past me before they implemented it. What did the employees do instantly with their own slogan "Good enough isn't"? Pretty much every time they slapped something together they looked at it, they looked at whoever's standing next to them, they laughed and said ah good enough is. It just immediately became the opposite. I would have told you that. I could have told you that before you did that slogan. I could have told you that right off the bat. You know people are gonna say good enough is and that's gonna be — you're gonna he