and in between, nobody has the bit of interest in who packed the boxes and nothing else matters.

Let me, this is the strongest statement I can make. Nothing else matters but who packed the boxes. I'm not wrong. And as soon as you hear it how pissed off are you if you hadn't already realized that you were being gaslit by both sides? This is one of those times when both sides are equally guilty. If Fox News wanted to find out about the topic they'd be saying can we talk to whoever packed the boxes? You think they can't find them?

Let me give you another example. Is this the first time that the most important question has not even been asked by either the left or the right? There's another time this happened. Can you think of it? When was the time? A really big story and there was one question that was easy, easy to answer. It was easy to answer and nobody asked it. The find people march. Yeah Charlottesville. What was the most important question? The most important question for which all of the news depended is were there any attendees who were not racist and not actually marching with the racists? You know physically they weren't with them but they were there for their own reasons. It's the only thing that mattered because the president made a statement that they existed. The media said no they don't. And they went from that assumption. How do they know? Do you know who talked to the people in Charlottesville who attended? Just me as far as I know. I'm the only person out of seven billion who said well why don't we just ask them?

So I just tweeted, I think I tweeted it, is there anybody there who wants to talk to me and is not a racist? And then a number of people contacted me and I talked to them individually and they convinced me with the totality of their story of how they got there etc. that they were in fact not racists and they disavowed the racists in direct language. We're not standing with them, marching with them, associating with them. We're just in a different place. They were at the event but they weren't anywhere near the marchers.

So why is it that Fox News has never reported that? It's because they don't care about the topic. They don't care because the topic is easy to discern. You could do it today. You know you can still just say all right did you go? If you went do you consider yourself a non-racist? Defend yourself. And then they would. And they would do it well.

So this is another example where the news has, I would say it looks intentional. It looks like neither the left nor the right have any interest in what's in those documents in the real world sense. They only care about it as a story and as a political thing. Because would the story just disappear if you knew who packed the boxes? It might. The entire story would disappear. Suppose you talked to the people who packed the boxes and just suppose they said something like this. Well Trump did tell us what to put in the boxes but he just sort of went in the room and said some general things and we did the best we could because we were in a hurry and we couldn't really ask him every single question so we did the best we could. We just threw things in the boxes. And then you find out did Trump ever know what was in the boxes? Did his lawyers ever know what was in the boxes? Did anybody ever do a full inventory later to find out from Trump's perspective whether there was anything bad in those boxes? Probably not.

So would the whole story go away if you knew that the people who packed the boxes were making their own decisions while the people who received them never really fully knew what was in them? The whole thing would go away wouldn't it the moment you realized that people who packed the boxes were operating a little bit independently? It's sort of the end of the question because nobody thinks that Trump was down there with a clipboard doing an inventory of the boxes and I doubt he ordered anybody to do it. Have you ever seen any reporting to say well you know Trump ordered somebody to look through all of the boxes and really double check to see if there was any classified stuff in there? I know that would be an obvious story if we'd ever heard of it, right?

So Scott the sophist. All right we're gonna stop right there. So one of the ways to know an NPC is if they listen to your point and then they call you a sophist because there are like a dozen things that you can say that don't have any, you don't have to show your argument. So Acme Trader is the name of this account here on YouTube says "Scott the sophist at it again." That's an NPC. I'll bet if you ask the Acme Trader to tell me a story about your childhood he'd say I'd love to but I'm busy. That's a person who has actually no soul in all likelihood and is a walking NPC.

Anymore let's stop saying pack the boxes. It sounds so nasty. It does sound a little dirty. Do you know most of the news sounds dirty if you read it that way? Let's try that. Who packed the boxes? They packed those boxes hard. Yeah it does. It works a little bit.

So you know there's a story that was a big national story or a global story really and I totally ignored it until there was something that was funny about it and then it caught my interest. But how many of you know what happened in Sri Lanka? Like I saw a lot of headlines about Sri Lanka and I ignored all of them because I couldn't figure out what Sri Lanka had to do with me. So I didn't know what was going on. So I knew there was some big meltdown and Sri Lanka was falling apart and the government was not popular. Something something. But that's all I knew.

So here's the actual story. They elected a new president who was anti-fertilizer. He thought that fertilizers, he didn't have any scientific backing for this but he thought that some kinds of fertilizers were causing kidney diseases. And so then he banned fertilizers in 2021 which caused the yield of crops to go way down which you know when you combine it with the pandemic related stuff caused a full meltdown.

And so here is the actual story and I'm not making this up. I'm just going to give you the headline the way I see it right. Here's the headline the way I see it. Sri Lanka ran out of fertilizer because the president was full of shit. Well now you have my attention. They ran out of fertilizer because their president was full of shit. That really happened. Now I understand it because until you can put it in the form of a joke to me it's just noise. I need the joke. So now that you have the joke we can understand this.

The bigger issue here is that this fertilizer question apparently is a pretty big one. So I didn't even know there was an anti-fertilizer group of people but there are. And this anti-fertilizer thing would be one of the scariest things in the world I think. We'll figure it out. I think we'll figure it out. But this is one of the biggest problems in the world. The lack of fertilizer. And one of the least discussed. And I've known about this for 15 years. Like this is one of those that you can see coming for a long time. First time I heard about it was about 15 years ago and it's just gotten worse since then.

So at the same time that that's happening apparently Europe is having a drought like they've never had. And I swear to God every time there's a national story it's really about me. Like this is one of those things that makes me think none of you are real and I'm just creating this out of my own mind. Because I'm not big on travel. I don't know if I've ever mentioned that. I've done a little bit of big trips but it's usually because somebody else wants to do it. You know a spouse wants to do it. I'm not really I got to go to Europe I got to go to Asia. I'm not that guy. I just don't. I built a world in which I don't need to leave. You know in case there's a pandemic or something. Worked out pretty well didn't it? Yeah I would like to take a moment to pat myself on the back. I literally built my house to be something I could live in if I couldn't leave the house. That was actually a design element. If I ever have to not leave the house. I was thinking of house arrest actually. I was assuming there's always a good chance if you're at a certain income level there's a good chance you're gonna have house arrest at some point. It doesn't even matter if you commit a crime. Somebody will accuse you of something.

But there was one exception. Every time I saw the advertisements for the so-called river cruises in Europe where they have the smaller cruise ships that they could go down the rivers they stop at these great castles and have amazing scenery the whole way. You know I clicked on a few of those one day and then I get unlimited repeated ads. And every time I see one of these things they look beautiful and I just think you know yeah the Viking cruises in particular and I looked at them and I think God of all the things I could do that really looks like the most appealing one for my specific sensibilities. And today I learned that the rivers are drying up in E