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rsity, it's funny that they even tested this. A robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans, meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans as the leader, the other humans will just go along with it. So you can literally have a robot dog choose the human leader in a group, and everybody else will be like, well, seems reasonable to me. If the r…

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u can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive.

So it's all drones. You can have your 3D-printed drone, which is great for terrorists. So if any of you are terrorists, a 3D-printed drone is coming. And there's also going to be all these drone killers now. They've got all these anti-drone systems with missiles and stuff, so you can have drones fighting drones before they even get to us.

Well, according to Variety, they had an idea for making movie theaters more inviting because I guess not enough people are going to movies. And their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie theater. John Nolte at Breitbart is writing about this, and I have the following question. How high would you have to be in order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies?

I've experimented with it at home, and personally I can tell you that there's no level. It's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked. I've experimented with it so you don't have to. Now, there's this, you know, in theory there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep. Snow White doesn't have a window. You can get as high as you want and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep. That's it. There's no window in which that movie is good.

And I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies. So somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie. They think it's something about the movie theater experience. No, it's the movies. The movies are terrible. You can't get people in the theater for terrible stuff.

But I like the thinking of Variety, and I wonder how you can extend that because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it. Like, do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time? If I were not, you know how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids? You know it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and getting to the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids. And then when I stand there, I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be, yeah, I thought it would be big. It's very big. It's made out of rocks, and very big ones. Very big rocks. And it's shaped like a pyramid. And I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person. So I don't know how high I'd have to be to see a pyramid, but I don't think it's possible.

The New York Post, coincidentally, was talking about the same thing, and apparently there's some movie theaters that they're experimenting with pickleball in the lobby. Can you think of a worse idea than having the sound of pickleball in the lobby of your movie theater? You know, I assume there's only like one court that they can fit in there, but pickleball is the most obnoxiously loud-sounding game. That's the last thing you want to hear when you're going into a movie.

Now they're putting a bar in there, and some of them they're experimenting with sing-alongs so that you can get over how bad the movie is because the sing-along would be the thing. And they're looking at live events like boxing matches and stuff like that. That's actually a really good idea. And allowing texting. Allowing texting. Have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman? Don't all women text during movies? You tell me in the comments if you've ever been to a movie with a woman, maybe below a certain age. Don't they all text during the movie? I've never seen an exception. No, just the ones I know. All right, well, I won't make that generalization. Maybe it's just the ones I know.

Apparently the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office. There's a new book that says they planned for what would happen if he died. Now, to me that's not much of a story because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan? I mean, it'

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s like the military. The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them. So yeah, of course they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office. So I think there's no controversy there. That's just them doing a good job, I think. Meanwhile, Secretary Rollins was talking about how she's done a good job. She was on Fox Bus…

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