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Back to episode — Episode 2410 CWSA 03/11/24

Because it's a dicey world. Two bars of 5G looking good so far. Hello locals, people piling in. Hello Owen. Lots of good news stories today. Thanks Owen, it's your birthday. Happy birthday.

Well don't mind me. I'm going to adjust my lighting and my shades, print my notes while you guys talk to each other, guys and gals and non-binaries too. Something's wrong. Oh, shades. I'll tell you, if you ever get a chance to have automated shades it's the best. One button and one, two, three, four, shades go down. I'm quite hooked. Of course if you have automated shades throughout your house as I do it also means that some of your windows will not be functioning. There's always some window where the shade is broken. Technology, it's great.

All right, we're going to print our notes and then we're going to go wild. You know I keep expecting these comments. Oh I can pin some. Look at that, I can pin some comments. I'm just looking at my features. I've never checked out the features. Looks like a... let's see what options do I have here. Not a lot of options.

Guinness world record for number of sticks of gum in your mouth set by Chad F. 256 pieces of gum in his mouth at the same time. There must be some Guinness Book of World Records that I've... oh shit, internet's down. Forgot I can't print unless I'm on the same network. That should work.

We're going to be talking about all the cannibals and zero and all the other fun stuff in a minute. Have four minutes to showtime. Have I tried Mastic Gum? I've not.

I tell you, having the internet go up and down is the biggest tease because when it comes up it's screaming. It's just it goes down every 10 minutes. Every five or 10 minutes it drops the signal for a few minutes.

All right, what a show it's going to be. I wish I were you just so I could watch this show. We're going to do the premature thing. Those of you on the non-locals platform probably have never been here early enough to see it. Are you going to talk about that white girl killed by the black girl who slammed her head into the concrete? Sickening. Nope, I'm not going to talk about that. I try to avoid the individual crime stories that people like to then generalize to everybody in the world. Nothing good can come from that. We all know the dangers.

Did I see Vivek's TikTok explanation? No. All right let me check out Vivek's TikTok explanation well before the show starts. All right. Do you think he's going to say something that's going to make me feel okay about it? Oh if only I had internet. So my internet worked just long enough to send the signal to the printer so that's good but it's down right now. Should come up in about 60 seconds.

All right so looks like I won't be checking out what Vivek said. I got no internet. All right let's see if I can do it on my phone without losing the signal. I don't know why I think this would lose the signal but it just seems like it would.

All right let's spell his name correctly. There we go. All right what does he say? So he... all right. Understanding the actual issues. Harder. All right here it is.

Opposing that. I think President Trump just came out against a legislative measure that would require the owner of TikTok to divest. It's currently a Chinese owner, a company called ByteDance, or else that it would be banned in the United States. President Trump just came out opposing that.

Watch him not mention persuasion. Right decision, President Trump, to oppose that legislation because it doesn't make any sense. And I've long said this. Even late in the campaign took a lot of heat from fellow Republicans. But I think we have to ask ourselves the why. And this is the problem with professional politicians. President Trump isn't a professional politician and neither am I. But many people in professional politics, they look at what they're supposed to say and they act like billiard balls on a pool table. They go whatever

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direction they're hit without thinking about the actual... oh he's avoiding the point... even in the Republican party. No analogies. Back and ask about the why of what's going on. What's what you leave concern that people have with TikTok? Well one is it's an addictive problem in kids. No that's not the top problem. Why don't you mention the top problem? And that is an issue we need to tackle but…

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