Back to episode — Episode 2452 CWSA 04/22/24
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doing. But I'm aware of it. You know that sometimes the best you can do about your own bias is just to do a little audit and say to yourself, all right, if this situation were a little different or if this person telling me were a little different, would I be receiving this differently? And the answer is yes. So basically I'm hearing what I want to hear from Grace Price. And so to me it all looks…
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And apparently the man cave turned into a lot of people who don't have anybody to talk to during the day. It has something like a personal experience because when I do the man caves I'm just interacting with the comments the entire time. So it's like a conversation for shy people. Like if you're not brave enough to go out and make a friend or join a group or be part of some larger organization where you just meet people, you can do it with me. So I've sort of morphed my ambitions for the man cave, which honestly was just for me. I started doing the man cave just because I thought it'd be nice to chat with people and be fun. But I've learned that its importance to several hundred people is that sometimes it's the only human-like experience they have during the entire day. The only human experience. So it feels like a necessity at this point.
So I'd invite any of you who want to subscribe to that. It's pretty much every night at different times, but California time usually between 4:30 and 6:30 I start anyway.
RFK Jr. was at a Michigan rally and he says provocatively, I'm going to put the entire US budget on blockchain so that every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget anytime they want, 24 hours a day. And then you can see if things cost too much or we wasted money. Now I like where that's heading. And I love how RFK Jr. gets earned media. Now whether or not this specific idea is ever implemented, don't you love the fact that he said it in public? This is what I call the bad idea that's a good idea. Meaning that in a sort of Hollywood writer's terms, sometimes you throw on a bad idea to give you something to react to and say, well not that, but it reminds me of something that would actually work.
So I love the fact he's throwing out this idea. If you ask me is blockchain the right way to do it and all that, I don't know. I don't know. My first instinct is blockchain would probably just slow it down. And I don't know exactly what you're buying by having it on the blockchain. So I'd have questions about the specifics. But I love the fact that he's putting it out there and it's provocative and it turns it into a story. So he gets all this free publicity. I'm talking about it in a positive way.
But I would go further. If you want to control the government, build a dashboard. If you want to control the whole government, build a dashboard. One dashboard that shows you the key political things. The budgets, the status, the laws that are coming, who voted for what. But you'd have to design it so well that it's not overwhelming. The way to do it wrong is there'd be a solid page of government boring data and you'd have to look for whatever you wanted and it'd be just so boring and busy yo
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u couldn't use it. But suppose you open it up and it was, let's say, four to six charts that just showed you the direction of things. And let's say one of the charts is crime. So you could click on it and then you could explode it by city. Maybe you could look at it by Democrat versus Republican. That'd be a little more provocative. But I'd love to do that to find out whose policies seem to be wo…
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