Episode 1739 Scott Adams: Would Putin Be A Democrat Or Republican If He Lived In The United States?
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Propaganda and Ukraine war opinions
Mark Esper fake news about Trump
Job Ghosting, widespread new thing
Finland in NATO...along Russia's border?
If Putin was American, Republican or Democrat?
2000 Mules not on Fox News or NewsMax?
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All right. Rasmussen did a poll and asked American likely voters, who do they think is winning the war, the Russia-Ukraine situation, And I was a little bit surprised at this answer.
15%, 1-5, say that Russia is winning the war.
Only 15% of people polled think Russia is winning the war.
Now, is that because Russia is not winning the war?
Or is that because that's what the news told us?
Because I don't know how you could say they're not winning.
It's really just a question of how much expense they're willing to absorb and how much political and other capital they're willing to put in.
But I don't think you can necessarily tell anybody's winning or losing at this point, can you?
Because like I said, it's going to be a tipping point situation.
One of the two sides will reach some kind of a tipping point.
But you never really know which one is the closest to the tipping point.
Not really. It's too much fog or war.
So 25% of respondees said that Ukraine is winning.
25%. 25%.
25%.
Say Ukraine, which has been completely destroyed, is winning the war.
Interesting. 25%.
42% say it's a stalemate.
Now, I, of course, fall into the maybe 25% this time because I think I'm, like, the only person dumb enough to say in public, what if they win?
For me, it's always been, you know, are you so sure Russia's going to win this thing?
And let me ask you, do you know anybody...
Who's been talking about this publicly, you know, anybody who does this for a living, so to speak.
Did anybody else say that Russia would have as hard a time as they're having?
Because I said it from the start.
In fact, I was predicting that they wouldn't even attack because it seemed so obvious that we would be in the place where we are now.
To me, it looked obvious.
But, you know, what do I know?
Everything looks smart if you get one right.
If you guessed right, then you're pretty sure it's because of your genius, not because you guessed right.
That's sort of what I'm feeling right now.
I think it was my great insight, not my luck.
But I was completely wrong that they wouldn't attack, but I was completely right that Ukraine would surprise with high-tech weaponry, and that the attack would not be easy, and here we are.
But I'm kind of amazed at the effect of the news.
The news has actually convinced people that Russia is losing the war.
And maybe they are, in some sense, or maybe they will.
Then Rasmussen asked likely U.S. voters, should the U.S. be involved if there's a wider war in Europe?
46% said yes.
And 31% said no.
So apparently the U.S. has been properly primed.
Not completely. You need to get that over 50%.
But the U.S. has been primed for a major world war.
And that the population is largely on board with World War III. Do you see the impact of propaganda and fake news in this?
It feels like these opinions are completely assigned, right?
How long have I been saying that people don't come up with their own opinions?
Opinions are assigned.
Democrats have their opinions assigned to them.
Republicans have their opinions assigned to them.
But then we think that we thought it out.
After the fact, we say, I think I thought this through and came to this opinion.
No, you didn't. It's not likely.
If you have the same opinion as your team, it was probably assigned.
If not this time, sometime in the past.
Oh, let me see this.
All right.
Here's some obvious-sounding fake news.
I'm going to say this is fake news.
Because it sounds exactly like other fake news.
So, you know, there's this book by Mark Esper.
He had been Trump's...
What was he?
Defense Secretary? And he says that Trump, when the Black Lives Matter protesters were surrounding the Capitol, I guess, Trump asked, can't you shoot protesters in the leg or something?
And then Esper...
Interpreted that as the president wanting the military to shoot people in the legs.
Now, what do we know about Trump's decision-making process?
Does this sound like real news or fake news?
Because I'm willing to accept that Trump said those words.
But is he interpreting this right?
Actually, I'm willing to accept he actually said those words.
You know why? Because it's the way he treats every topic.
Everything we hear about him behind closed doors is he always tosses out a Republican idea just to see what happens.
So he tosses out an extreme idea that usually comes from some Republican person just to see what the response is.
So you don't think that there were some Republicans somewhere who were saying, why don't you shoot the protesters in the leg?
Or maybe he was talking about rubber bullets.
Right, that context would be left out.
But even the rubber bullets is pretty extreme.
That's pretty extreme. And so you heard him say that?
Yeah, but it sounds like the sort of thing that he says on every topic.
You know, could we use a nuke?
Should we shoot him in the leg?
Yeah. You know, can we lob a missile into the cartels?
You see the pattern? The pattern is he asks the question about the most extreme response, and then, as Esper's described, that Esper and, I guess, a few of the aides walked him back from the idea of using the military at all, all the way to not using the military.
And then Trump agreed.
What is the problem if Trump throws out an extreme suggestion and then his advisors say, no, the extreme doesn't work, but we'll walk you back to what might work?
Isn't that exactly what you want?
Like, not even a little bit wrong?
Imagine if he had never even floated an idea that's the extreme version.
You have to float the extreme version, don't you?
That feels like good management to me.
You put out the extreme and then you make people argue for the middle ground.
Make them work for it.
He made them work for it.
Did he not? I mean, I don't see how people are oblivious to the fact that he made his advisors work to sell their opinion and then he bought it.
And then he bought it.
If you make your advisors work for it and then you accept their recommendation because you saw the work, okay.
Because apparently the way they talked him back was through a pretty rational cost-benefit analysis.
And then once he heard the cost-benefit analysis, he said, okay, we'll do that.
What the hell is the problem with that?
The problem is people telling other people internal conversations.
The problem is Esper.
This is a story about Esper being a bad person.
Meaning that he's talking about private deliberations, which included brainstorming.
If you're talking about a private brainstorming conversation, in which the point of it is to throw out all the ideas and just see what the reaction is, and that's exactly what he was doing.
Threw out an idea and asked for a reaction.
If that stuff is what you're leaking, you're a fucking asshole.
Really. That is just so low, in my opinion.
Because it's clearly an attempt to make it look like it was more of a serious idea than it was.
That's how you sell a book.
So he's basically throwing the President of the United States under a bus to sell a frickin' book.
Is that a patriot? Doesn't sound like it.
It doesn't sound like a patriot.
And by the way, this has nothing to do with Trump or Republican or Democrat.
I would say exactly the same thing if we were talking about a Democrat.
Exactly the same thing.
If somebody is talking about the brainstorming conversations and trying to sell that out of context, that's just weasel behavior.
That's just horrible behavior.
Such a jerk. Anyway.
Apparently, we have fake news, of course, everywhere, but now there's something called fake job acceptance, where I guess the job market is so hot and it's so hard to get good employees these days that the Wall Street Journal is reporting the incidence of so-called ghosting, of accepting offers and then saying that you'll start and then not showing up is at a record high.
So people are accepting jobs and just not going.
Because they get another job, usually.
Or they change their mind.
They don't even bother calling.
Eh, I might be back on Monday.
But then again, I might not.
So, I don't know what to say about this except everything is fake now.
It's a fake news, fake...
You throw in your own fakes, whatever.
But now even fake job acceptance...
That's a new high. I keep hearing about people with two jobs.
How many people do you know who are working remotely and have two complete jobs and the employers don't know that they're working two jobs?
In the comments, do you know anybody personally?
Somebody says they know many people.
A bunch of yeses going by.
Yes. Yes.
We fired one doing it.
They found somebody doing it and fired him.
I've been thinking about it, giggling, what a great idea.
Yes, yes. Apparently it's widespread.
It's pretty widespread.
So it doesn't matter how many no's we hear, the fact that there are lots of people who say yes tells me it's pretty widespread.
So I don't even know if that's a bad thing, is it?
Because think about a typical full-time employee.
Do you ever get more than 50% productivity out of an employee?
Not really. Because it seems like after you do the important stuff, everything else is a meeting or something less important.
I feel like you could do the important stuff for two different jobs fairly easily if you skipped all the unimportant stuff, like commuting.
I mean, imagine the people who are commuting 90 minutes a day.
If you gave me an extra 90 minutes and said, look, You can bank the 90 minutes, so you can use that for your second job.
But also, we'll take, let's say, we'll shave 20% off of your main job, add that there.
Then you have almost enough to sell it to the new employer.
Almost enough time. So you might see more of that.
Meanwhile, in international relations, Finland is getting close to requesting joining NATO, which would put a NATO member on Russia's border with an 800-mile border.
And apparently Finland has been using U.S. equipment for years, so that's an easy transition to NATO. And they have actually an unusually strong military.
Did you know that?
Apparently Finland has a really good military.
I guess you have to if you're on the border of Russia.
So what has Putin decided will be his attack on Finland?
Well, he's decided that the Finns are Nazis.
That's right. So Putin basically has one strategy.
Well, if you don't like me, you're some kind of a Nazi.
And he can always make an argument for it.
So in this case, the argument is that Finland, I think, fought with the Nazis.
So he's going to call Finland a bunch of Nazis.
Sweden is also considering joining Finland at some point, and it seems like they'd have a good shot at it.
Now, this raises the question, if the whole reason we're having a war with Ukraine is because Ukraine was flirting with NATO, why would we do more of it?
Why would we do more of the thing that caused the war?
Is it because we think Putin is so beaten down by this war that we can just push him?
Because pushing Putin is what got us in the war, right?
Didn't we sort of push him into attacking Ukraine?
So are we going to push him into attacking Finland?
Or is he so beat up from Ukraine that he wouldn't have the will to attack anybody else?
I don't know. I like the idea that was floated about, I think Macron said it, and Who was it?
Somebody else said it. That there should be some other kind of organization that's not called NATO. So you could kind of weasel it.
And I think maybe Trump has suggested this.
I haven't heard him say it.
But the idea would be you'd have some kind of protection association, but you wouldn't call it NATO. I don't know.
Does that buy you anything? Um...
What did you say? Google the Finnish prime ministers.
I know exactly what you're saying.
It turns out that the Finnish prime minister is a woman who is attractive.
That's why you told me to Google it, right?
I saw the picture today, and I thought, that really looks like she got kind of a political boost by her appearance.
But yes, they have an attractive prime minister, apparently.
And that alone is reason enough to put them in NATO, I say.
What do you think about this?
Let me ask you. Wisdom of the crowd time.
Do you think it's a good idea or a bad idea for Finland to join NATO? Go.
Good idea or bad idea for Finland to join NATO? All right, I'll read your responses.
They always go by faster on the locals' platform.
I'm seeing a mix.
More bad than good, but definitely a mix.
Looks like... 50-50?
60-40? All right.
A lot of disagreement on this.
It's a good idea because of Ukraine.
Maybe. Yeah, we don't really know, do we?
So if you don't know if it's a good idea or a bad idea, what do you do?
What do you do? What do you do if you don't know, if you legitimately don't know if it's a good idea or a bad idea?
What do you do? Do you do something or nothing?
If you don't know, why would you spend money on it?
So here's a decision-making suggestion.
If you think it might make a big difference, but it's sort of a toss-up, one of them is very expensive and one of them is not.
You would do the one that's less expensive if you really, really didn't know the difference.
If you suspected there was a difference and let's say your own security mattered, then you might make a different decision.
All right. Well...
I don't know. I don't know if it's going to happen.
I feel as if delaying it would make a difference.
Because you don't want to give Putin too much of a loss or else he can't negotiate his way out of it, right?
You don't want it to be too embarrassing for Putin while you also need to negotiate.
So that might make sense to just put the Finland decision off.
Like, just don't put it in the current mix.
Just delay it a little bit.
Something like that. All right, so I provocatively tweeted the following question.
If Putin were president of America, would he be a Democrat or Republican?
As you might not be surprised, it got a lot of attention on Twitter.
So here are the things we know about Putin, and we're going to try to decide if he sounds more like a Democrat or more like a Republican, if he were an American.
So here are some things we know about Putin.
He calls his opponents Nazis.
Is that Republican or Democrat?
He censors speech.
Democrat or Republican.
He favors universal health care.
He creates lots of fake news.
He favors abortion, apparently, because Russia has one of the highest rates of abortion of any country.
Now, he is trying to get the abortion rate down, but in terms of making it legal, it's about as legal as you can get.
He puts protesters in jail.
And he favors, in Russia, they have very strict background checks for gun buyers.
You can buy a gun, just like the United States, but they're very strict on your mental health background and background checks.
So you can't buy a gun in Russia unless there's a full background check.
So does that sound more Democrat or more Republican?
What do you think? All right, obviously I left out some things.
I'm just trying to get people riled up because it's fun.
So here would be some arguments that he's a Republican.
Putin likes a strong military.
But he didn't fund one, did he?
He wants a strong military but looks like he underspent.
Who says they want a strong military but they don't spend money to get one?
Sounds like a Democrat, doesn't it?
If he wanted a strong military, and we saw evidence that he had funded a well-maintained, strong military, then I would say, oh, that sounds more Republican.
But it is a high percentage of GDP, so that sounds a little more Republican that way.
All right, how about Russia just a few years ago passed an anti-gay marriage bill.
So marriage in Russia is between a, quote, man and a woman.
Got to put that in quotes these days.
That sounds more neither, right?
That's basically neither.
Because these days... I was trying to think, when is the last time you heard a Republican complaining about gay marriage?
Let me ask you this. I know you've heard it, of course.
But when was the last time?
The last time I heard any Republican online...
On Twitter, personally, complaining about gay marriage.
I haven't heard it in years.
Have you? It's just a total don't care.
Now, the concern about gay marriage is that it would have some impact on your life, yours, let's say, hypothetically, if you were a heterosexual married couple.
So somehow you thought it would affect you, right?
I mean, that was the whole reason anybody would be...
Opposed to it, it would have some effect on you.
But did it? Did it?
Is there any Republican who says, ah, everything was good for me and my family until the gays could get married?
You can always understand why anybody would be afraid of anything new, no matter what it is, right?
We have a reflex to be afraid of something new.
So that makes sense.
But once you've done it, and there are over half a million people Gay couples who are married.
Does gay cover lesbian?
I don't know if that's... Is that true anymore, or do you have to throw in gay and lesbian?
But anyway, we have over half a million people in the United States who are married to the same sex.
Did it bother anybody?
Is there anybody who...
Did your life get worse in some way?
No! No.
So it's very Republican, and this is a compliment...
This is a compliment. It's very Republican to be concerned about change.
That's just a normal human reflex.
But once the change has happened and you see it's no big deal, if it doesn't affect you and you're a Republican, what do you think of it?
If it doesn't affect you and somebody's just living their life...
Right? It's just not your problem.
So even the LGBTQ thing doesn't really define Republicans in the way it might have before.
It's very moving. Yeah. And Putin also rigs elections.
I don't know. Who's that like?
Allegedly. I don't know.
It's a tough one. I can't figure it out.
All right. That tweet that I just talked about, in which I asked if Putin is a Republican or a Democrat, I saw some weird things happening with it.
So there was a tweet showing a little video of what happens when you try to look at the tweet, and apparently the tweet shows up and then immediately disappears with a message that there's something limiting the comments.
Did you see that? I don't know what that's about.
Do you? Because I saw the video, and you can see that the tweet will show up and then disappear.
It says, because you block the user.
But that doesn't explain why it shows up before it disappears.
So, anyway, it looked like it was, it's because you block those that QT it.
But blocking them should not make them show up before they disappear.
They would just be gone.
By the way, I'm not talking about my experience.
I'm talking about other people's experience from their own account.
Does that make a difference to your answer?
People are saying it's because I blocked some users, but I'm talking about somebody who did not block those users looking at my account and they can't see it.
It's a bug. Somebody says, you get that when I retweet Cernovich, that you get that.
It flashed the tweet and then disappeared.
Interesting.
So I don't know what that is.
I tagged Elon Musk on the video that shows some weird things happening, just to ask if it was normal.
Anyway, keep an eye on that.
So you know how we all started using the word Karen?
And you would call somebody a Karen if they asked to speak to the manager?
Well, there's no male version of that, right?
But I'm going to suggest a male version of that.
And it's based on this tweet.
And I noticed a bunch of people just, when I tweeted the thing about Putin, a lot of people did the this guy tweet.
Do you know what I mean? Instead of dealing with the content of the tweet, a lot of people did the, this guy, showing you he doesn't know anything about Russia.
Or, this guy said some things and then they talk about some fake news about what they think I said about something in the past.
Everybody who starts with this guy, or a comment about the tweeter with no comment about the content...
I said in my tweet, when you see people attack the sender of a tweet instead of the content, it tells you two things about the attacker.
Number one, they have no counterargument.
And number two, they are Keith Olbermann.
Usually. Usually.
And so I would suggest, and I've started doing this already, I did it once, that when somebody attacks the messenger instead of the message, you just say, okay, Keith.
That should be your comment.
Okay, Keith. Keith Olbermann.
You know Keith Olbermann, right?
He's the one who always attacks the messenger.
He attacks me all the time.
Well, that's an exaggeration.
So Keith Olbermann likes to troll my account and attack me personally.
He almost never, I think never, has attacked anything I've said in terms of content.
He only attacks me.
So he's a Keith.
So every time you see somebody attack the tweeter and not the message, that's a Keith.
Okay, Keith. I saw a Ukrainian tweet, so this is obviously war propaganda.
This comes from a Ukraine source.
And the Ukraine source said, oil and gas are the only things Moscow exports, apart from the war.
When Europe switches to another supplier, it will not return to it, regardless of whether the war ends.
For the world, Russia is an unpredictable country, with no possibility to build long-term projects.
What do you think of that? Is Ukraine right that once people wean themselves off of Russia oil, that Russia will have nothing to export, and therefore they do export some other stuff, steel, etc.
But for the most part, it's an energy economy.
What's going to happen then?
Well, remember, this is a Ukraine source, so it's propaganda by definition.
And then Andres Backhaus commented, and he said that China and India will not want dependence on their oil.
So if Russia can't sell to Europe, and although they could sell to India and China, China and India are not going to want to be too dependent.
So they don't want to be big buyers.
And, oh, Peter Zan says there's no way Russia will be able to reproduce the same amount of oil in the future because Western companies have left.
I don't know. I mean, maybe there may be a problem getting parts and supplies, but I don't know if it's just because the Western oil companies left, because I feel like they could just take over those fields.
So I don't know about that.
I feel as if oil is too fungible, meaning it all looks the same and you can sell it anywhere.
Actually, I don't know if Russian oil...
Russian oil is good stuff, right?
Is Russian oil dirty or good?
I can't remember. Is Russian oil as clean as other oil?
It's good, right? Mid-grade to good?
Saudi oil is the best, somebody says.
Because there is a difference in the quality of the oil.
I don't know the answer to that question.
But here's my take.
I don't think this is true. I think anybody who produces a commodity that the world needs can just find a way to get it there.
How hard would it be for...
North Korea to say...
No, that's the wrong one.
How hard it would be for some, I don't know, African country that has no sanctions against it to buy all the oil and use some of it and sell the excess.
I don't know. It feels like they could just find some middleman, carve out kind of thing.
It doesn't...
Yeah, Nigeria or something. It doesn't seem like it would be hard for Russia to find new markets.
It would just take a while to work it out.
All right. And that, ladies and gentlemen, seems to be the end of the content.
Have you noticed it's a slow news day?
Somebody said on Locals earlier that there's a strange energy in the world.
Anybody else feel that?
Do you feel a strange energy in the world?
The news is a little slow, isn't it?
It's a little bit slow.
So, doesn't it feel like something's about to drop?
Isn't this what happens when there's something big happening?
Now, we had some big news.
I mean, Ukraine's big news, and the stock market's big news.
Let me talk about the stock market.
If you're checking your stocks every day during a downturn like this, don't do that.
When the market is up, I check my stocks every day.
Because it makes me feel good.
When the market is down, I never look at my stocks.
So the first thing I do is look at the market, and then if the market is down, I don't look at my stocks.
I do not open it. So, you know, my net worth may have gone down 20% or something.
I don't know. Because I assume it'll come back, right?
So if you buy stocks, you don't want to be thinking of it in same-year terms.
You want to be thinking of it in five-year kind of thing.
So... You grit your teeth and buy.
I do think it's a good buying opportunity.
I mean, I don't give financial advice, so don't take that as financial advice.
But if you had to place a big bet on whether this would be a good time to buy stocks, it'd be a pretty safe bet, I think.
Relatively speaking, right?
Now, the safety is depending on how long you want to wait.
If you want to wait 10 years, it's a very safe bet.
If you want to wait two years, anything could happen in two years.
Tesla's down 32% since January.
I think the entire market needed to come down.
So one of the things that people who don't study economics get wrong is that the market was way more dangerous before.
Do you understand that? The market was in a more dangerous situation before it went down.
Does everybody get that?
We went from a dangerous situation to a less dangerous situation.
But the news reports it the opposite.
Yeah, it's a correction.
It's called a correction.
Why is it called a correction?
It's called a correction because it was in the wrong place.
And it went from the wrong place to the right place.
That's what a correction is. So when you see a correction, that's not bad news.
That is not bad news unless you were planning to sell your stock that year.
Then it's really bad news. But if you're buying and holding, a correction means the market is staying strong and it's acting the way a market should act.
So the people who have economics backgrounds see a correction and they say, oh, buying opportunity.
That's it. That's why you keep cash.
If you're an investor, it pays to keep some cash for this reason.
You know, I did a bunch of buying during the bottom of the pandemic.
Best investments I ever made.
Right? Whoever buys now is likely to be happy.
Maybe not in a year.
But in 10 years, they're probably going to be pretty happy that they bought stocks today.
All bad. All right.
Pfizer documents. Is there any media coverage?
No, because that was fake news.
Do you all know that the Pfizer documents with the negative information in it, you all know that was fake news, right?
The reason it's not being talked about.
Now, here's a question.
Why have you not seen anything about 2,000 mules, Dinesh D'Souza's film about alleged improprieties in the 2020 election?
Why have you not seen it on, I guess it's been banned by Newsmax, so Newsmax isn't going to cover it, and you haven't seen it on Fox News?
Why not? Why do you think it's being suppressed?
If, in fact, that's being suppressed, I don't want to lead the witness, why do you think you're not seeing it?
Tucker interviewed them.
Is Tucker the only one who talked to him?
Because I don't think it really gets covered by most of the opinion people.
Well, here would be my best take on that.
I think it's just too dangerous.
Because if it turns out...
That it doesn't hold up.
I don't know if it will or not.
But if it turns out that the premise doesn't hold up, I don't think any major news platform wants to be on that side.
And I think that, unfortunately, D'Souza has enough of a history that even people who would be inclined to be on his side are saying, well, he's a little dangerous.
Even if you like the topic.
So it might be a little bit too much about the maker of the film and a little less about the content.
Maybe. So I can't read minds, so I do not know.
But what is the rule that I told you about identifying fake news that applies to this?
What is the news that applies to this?
So in my book, Loser Think, that you see behind me, I give you some techniques for identifying fake news.
One of the techniques is this.
If both the news on the left and the right say the same thing, it's probably true.
Right? So if Fox News says something's true and CNN says something's true, it's probably true.
Not guaranteed, but probably true.
And if they both say it's not true, it's probably not true.
Not guaranteed, but probably.
But in this case, this is sort of a hybrid.
Because Fox News is just silent on it.
So nobody's saying it's true or not true.
It's just whether it's too hot a potato to even deal with.
So that rule doesn't work in this case.
Because the reason they're not talking about it is not because they say it's not true.
It seems like there's not an opinion on it.
Vaccine deaths is fake news as far as I know.
I think the problem with the vaccine deaths is not that they happen or don't happen because every vaccine kills people.
The question is it's not being compared to the deaths or the myocarditis from people who get COVID. So typically the reason that people get concerned about the numbers of vaccine deaths is because they think it's compared to zero.
Like, the choice is deaths or no deaths, so you would choose no deaths.
But the choice was deaths one way versus deaths another way.
That was the choice. So that's why you can be fooled by the vaccination death scare.
It's out of context. And then there's some demographic issues there, of course.
Those are real. Could Fox and CNN be merging?
No. We're waiting for 50 intelligence officials to denounce 2000 mules so you'll know it's true.
All right. What if Fox is controlled opposition?
You know...
I don't know. I think I've spent enough time interacting with Fox News people that I would know if they thought they were working for a controlled opposition.
Maybe I'm not defining the term right, but there's certainly no intention to be that.
If you're saying it's accidentally happening, that's a different argument.
Can somebody ask me a question?
There's no requirement to get the booster shots for normal citizens, right?
Am I right about that?
If you're an average citizen, you don't need to get the third and fourth booster?
It's only the military and maybe some medical people or something?
I don't know. All right, so we're done with that, right?
Except in Canada?
Medical workers? And somebody pointed out that it seems like all the people who say they're getting COVID are vaccinated and boosted.
But I think that would be more about what you notice.
Because when people do a tweet, oh, I got COVID, but I'm vaccinated and boosted, so thank goodness.
I think you see those, but you don't see the person who got COVID and had no symptoms and didn't say anything about it.
So I wouldn't say there's any correlation with the vaccination.
Yeah, it's all anecdotal. They're not on a ventilator, yeah.
Age-related result.
More vaxed people are also older.
That's correct. All right.
Yeah, and apparently the experts are now looking at people who never got COVID to see if they have something in common besides not being exposed.
So there might be some genetic propensity.
But here's what I suspect.
I suspect the genetic propensity is related to your vitamin D level.
So if you checked your vitamin D, you'd probably know everything you needed.
Yeah, I got, just so you know, I did the original two shots, which were essentially considered one shot.
In effect, it was like one shot.
And I did not get a third or fourth booster.
Have I watched the 2,000 Mules movie?
No, but I finally have a link to it, so I have a link.
I'll be watching that. So I will be doing a little traveling this coming week.
So I want to give you a little heads up.
There might be one day, and it might be tomorrow, I haven't decided, in which I might be a half hour early.
Or I might end a little shorter.
So I'm going to do a little traveling, but I do expect, I think I'll be able to do it every day.
Maybe not on the way home, I'm not sure.
I'm traveling alone.
So it's actually a business trip.
A business in the sense that I'm just going to go somewhere and write because I've got a book deal and I need to be serious about it.
So I'm just going to take a week of just being completely outside my environment and it's just a writer's retreat.
It's just someplace easy.
Don't worry about it. I don't know if I'll tell you where I'm going because that's not the important part.
Somebody says, I love traveling alone.
Most of my traveling has been alone because most of it has been for business.
So traveling alone is very comfortable for me.
But I don't know if I can last a week without human contact.
It's going to be kind of hard.
That's why I wanted to be somewhere where there would be other humans in the natural environment.
Because I need to be around people.
I just don't necessarily need to talk to them.
Traveling with kids is not really your vacation, is it?
How do you think of it?
When you do a vacation with children...
That's the children's vacation.
The parents are just working, right?
Because there's so much work to put on the vacation and they don't get to enjoy themselves in the usual way.
Now, I think there could be an exception.
If families travel together, then the kids can get busy with each other and the adults can do their thing.
But if it's just you and your family traveling, that's basically the kid's vacation.
It's not your vacation.
Come to Miami and I'll buy you a Coke.
Thank you.
Is that with a capital C? I travel with other parents.
