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hat hurt Trump or help him? It helps him, right? Because Trump is the "the experts have lied to you" guy. That's who he is. He's the "experts are lying to you, let's figure out what to do about it." So in a world in which all of us are becoming convinced that the experts are flawed way more than we understood, the guy who's been saying it for years is looking pretty smart. So if you put that all…
← Previous segment →. I don't know why. It's just a fact. And the only thing I feel about it, here's my only feeling about it: I'm sure glad they're in my country. I'm sure glad they're inventing things for Americans. I'm sure glad they're my doctors, right? If I see my optometrist and it's Asian American I think, okay, you did it the hard way. That's what I want. You studied. I want you.
But isn't it weird that we don't, you know, I'm making a universal statement that's clearly not universal, but white people don't have a problem with that. And you would think that they would. You would think that at least behind closed doors or in private conversations people would say bad things about that. But it just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen. I don't even know if that's important to anything but I've never heard anybody point it out that when white people talk about Asian American success we talk about it with respect. The one word that is universal is just respect. Okay, you did it. You did it the way it's supposed to be done. Boom.
All right. I'm going to show you a whiteboard that's associated with that in a few minutes. But a few other things. I've decided that what would be fun would be, well let me start with some background. Those of you who have been in relationships, let's say you've been married a long time, I think you would agree with this. No matter, we'll get rid of Theron who doesn't know that you get hidden on this channel for all caps. You've been in the experience where you love your spouse and you love spending time with your spouse. But true or not, if your spouse had to do a business trip and be away for a day you'd kind of really enjoy that day alone, wouldn't you? Am I wrong? Even if you love your spouse, love spending time with them, but you know every now and then you get that day alone. It feels great.
Now the only reason it feels great is because you still have a spouse, right? It wouldn't feel great if you were single necessarily because you'd be like, I'm lonely. But as long as you've got that person
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there, even if they're on the trip, you're like, oh, I got the day to do what I want. So I thought, I wonder if you could create an AI girlfriend who is, who you take to be your girlfriend but she's always on a business trip. She's just always on a trip. Oh you're definitely married. But every day she'll call in a couple times on Zoom, say, "Hey, you know, just got out of my meetings. I want to ch…
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