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Yes, drink from the cup of knowledge. My cup of knowledge is a little low, but it wouldn't be the first time I had to half-ass it, you know what I mean?
Well, I mentioned the other day the Daily Wire has this movie that's only available on the Daily Wire Plus service, I guess. And it is a comedy that makes fun of trans athletes, specifically the ones born with male stuff and transitioning to female stuff. But I just wanted — I didn't know the name of the movie the first time I mentioned it, and I'm going to say that I've never seen a movie that could recommend itself so hard with the title. It's called Lady Ballers. It might be the funniest title of a movie of all time, because generally the title doesn't make you laugh. You like Dumb and Dumber, it's a classic, but it doesn't make you laugh. Or you know, Steve Martin's The Jerk, you know it's interesting but it doesn't make you laugh. But every time I see Lady Ballers I laugh. So I think it's worth the price of admission just to pay them back for the good movie title.
So anyway, it's a very irreverent and non-woke. Well, Charlie Munger, partner of Warren Buffett, died at 99, approximately one month before his 100th birthday, which is sort of a double tragedy. Imagine how angry you would be if you knew you were dying a month before you were 100. Well, I'd be dying and pissed off at the same time. What do you mean I'm dying a month before I'm 100? Come on, come on.
Well, have I ever told you that you should not take my investment advice? Have I ever mentioned that? Probably three times a week I mention it. Well, I'd like to give you one of my great investment successes. Twenty years ago, after holding Berkshire Hathaway stock for I don't know, maybe 15 years at that point, I said to myself — because I'm so smart — I said, you know, Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett are so old that the company will probably have a plunge in stock price if either one of them dies. So I said I'm going to be smart. I'm going to get out because I don't like how those two are looking. Well, that was 20 years ago. That's right. I missed 20 years of Berkshire Hathaway gains because they looked too old to me. That sort of makes Biden look a little bit better anyway.
So that's why I say do not take my financial advice. Really, don't take it. Except for diversified.
Well, the Washington Post got 120 employees to accept buyout packages, but they need more. So if they don't get another 120, they'll start laying off people, you know, without that being voluntary. At the same time we hear that the Washington Post has decided it will not advertise on the X platform, which raises the question, do they have enough money to advertise? I mean, and how much benefit were they getting by advertising on the X platform? Because at least 75% of the X platform is people talking about how the Washington Post is fake news. Why would you advertise on the primary place that people learn that you don't have a real product? It's like the main place you go to learn that the Washington Post is an illegitimate source of news. I don't think I would advertise there.
But as you know, the Washington Post was the flagship newspaper that canceled me, causing a wave of cancellations that took me out completely. But here's the question I ask you. If you had to bet, knowing that Charlie Munger lived to 99 and he, I think, worked the entire time, who do you think will last longer, the Washington Post or me? It's a serious question. Which one do you think will still be in business in 10 years? Maybe me. I mean, you know, age is a factor, but I don't know if the Washington Post is going to last 10 years. That feels like quite a stretch, doesn't it? So I think Prisoner Island it is, mine.
All right. Actress Cynthia Nixon is going out on a hunger strike until there's a ceasefire in Gaza. Now I've decided — I don't know what her politics is — but I've decided to join her on her hunger strike. And you know, I'm not as committed, not as committed. So I'm going to see how it goes until lunchtime. But if at lunchtime there's no ceasefire, I reserve the right to tweak my strategy. And honestly I'm pretty hungry right now, so I don't know how this is going to work o
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ut. But I'm going to take it till lunchtime. So I'm on board for world peace. If we don't get it by lunchtime, well then I might have to eat something. But the rest of you, what are you doing? Nothing. The rest of you are doing nothing for world peace. Is that what I'm hearing? Nothing. Great, great. It's up to me and Cynthia Nixon to get this done. Watch me not eat. I'm doing it right now. I'm m…
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