Episode 436 Scott Adams: Free Speech on Campus, a Patreon Replacement, Trump’s Speech, Healthcare
Date: 2019-03-03 | Duration: 38:24
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President Trump is running on a platform of FREE SPEECH for all Patreon alternative option: WhenHub/Interface app DONATE function CNN Chris Cillizza reports “epically bad week” for President Trump Exculpatory information was especially bad, but not for POTUS Low Cost Healthcare - Whiteboard discussion President Trump’s 2 hour CPAC speech was impressive Half the job of persuasion…is getting attention Nobody has ever been better at it than President Trump Visual and “a little bit wrong” give it the sticky value Imagine Joe Biden compared to President Trump Imagine Bernie on stage with President Trump The dried out dandelion versus the flame of energy, sizzle
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bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody come on in here it's time for coffee with Scott Adams possibly the best part of your day I don't like to ruin the rest of your day but this might be the best part because it involves coffee or your favorite beverage it involves the simultaneous sip it involves all of you what could be better now if you would grab your cup your mug your stein your chalice your thermos if you will I hope it's filled with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous sip oh good stuff so how many of you saw the President's speech at CPAC I did not watch all of it but I saw lots of clips I saw the good parts
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saw lots of clips I saw the good parts and then I saw what people said about it predictably the people who do not like the president said well that's a wild disjointed crazy thing that means nothing and and the people who'd like the President and even the people who were sort of in the middle said to themselves oh I think I just see the future you know what the future looks like the future looks like that guy you saw is CPAC the one hogging the American flag the one doing two hours of impeccable stand-up riffing for two hours on all of his greatest hits you know owning the audience capturing the headlines bringing energy humor vision you know introduces his new idea for limiting funding to colleges based on whether they support free speech can
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on whether they support free speech can you believe this president is going to be running for re-election on a platform of free speech just think about that just just for a moment because the news just sort of mentions it moves on but just think of the enormity of that he's running on a platform of free speech oh my god now who would have thought that was even going to be an opportunity well who would have imagined that running for president on a platform of freedom of speech would even be a thing that it would even be necessary so we don't know yet what the president has in mind for his executive order but just the fact that he's talking about it is politically insanely good you know powerful and also useful it's
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you know powerful and also useful it's what you know people always tell me that these they're afraid of this slippery slope you know the slippery slope if things start going in one direction they're just gonna keep going and I always say the same thing the slippery slope is an illusion because everything in reality goes until there's a reason for it to stop and if there is no reason for it to stop one always presents itself because people don't like things going forever in the same direction if it's setting in a bad direction so you just watched the slippery slope go pump I think the slippery slope just had a brick wall did it not because you were thinking to yourself man this is a slippery slope you know they're banning a conservative okay you know maybe that conservative you can understand because they were they were not just being conservative they were being outrageous in a way that that even you know everybody might be a
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that even you know everybody might be a little offended by and then you say well that was just that one person though and then there's another one you say - oh my god well but it was just - when they were both pretty outrageous then there's another one and then there's another one and suddenly you say to be yourself I think there's a slippery slope it feels like free speech is actually like literally under attack and then something changes the slippery slope is not a real thing it is absolutely an illusion which is an illusion because we're afraid that it's real if we are not afraid that it was real we might not act but you see the president acting so that slippery slope just came to a screeching end not you know it didn't fix all the issues of free speech you know certainly one to one the way we treat each other is still a big problem if you can't wear a
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a big problem if you can't wear a t-shirt in public because as an unpopular slogan on it that's a problem but this college censorship thing was a bigger one even more more central to free speech if you will and it looks like the slippery slope just stopped as it always does there's always a competing force that rises up let me give you another example you you know that there were platforms that have been defunding conservatives and you say to yourself my god if they keep you know not defunding but well also defunding but if they keep deep platforming conservatives the slippery slope it'll get worse and worse then patreon started dropping people for things they had done not even on the platform so is that a slippery slope in which conservatives will all be D platformed and cannot get
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will all be D platformed and cannot get the funding for what they're doing well it would be except forces jump up to stop the slippery slope as luck would have it and this is completely coincidental but my company is app just released a replacement for patreon so patreon decided in order to this dabbe conservatives in the back and it looked like that stabbing was just gonna go on forever but the way the world works is that counter forces rise and so we did a I won't call it a pivot because our original apt still does the same thing which is you can call call an expert on any topic if that expert is online and you can pay for their time based on whatever rate they give you but we've added and I'll just show you an example you can grab go to an expert now these experts don't have to be online these are these are people have signed
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these are these are people have signed up at one time or another so that their profiles are in the system so let's say I wanted to give a donation to carpe dunked um do you all know carpe carpe dunked them the that's the twitter handle for gentleman who does a lot of the memes that you enjoy all right so let's say you wanted to give him a donation the same way you would do on patreon but you don't want to use patreon so you can use the interface by one hub app it's a free app you just sign up you know download it and sign up and then you would just go to the search box it's the first thing that comes up I'll just put it in carpe 2 and he pops up on the list and the search list he's right at the top so here he is you can see it took him probably 60 seconds to upload a picture and then write a couple of sentences about who he is right now if I didn't already know him I wouldn't
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if I didn't already know him I wouldn't know for sure this was really his account so you might want to make sure that you're really donating to a real person so if you've seen it on Twitter that they have this or they mention it on the website they'll be a little safer than just assuming you know the person but you could make a donation or if he were online you could connect with him to talk live all right he's not online right now and if he had a schedule he could put a schedule of when he's available you could book him but he doesn't have that act right now but he does have button here and everybody has that so here you starts at $1 but you can you can click more let's say I'll give him $2 and this is the feature that we just added it's hard to see let me change the see if I can change the lighting on here to make it easier to read it's a little easier right so now I decided for $2 and I'm gonna click either one-time or recurring
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gonna click either one-time or recurring if I click recurring then every month I'll be charged until I turned it off so I can just turn it off in the app as well so I'm going to say recurring monthly so this is just what patreon does it's the same function and I'm going to say gonna say your yeah I'll let me say I'll just put a little note there I'll just say hi for now and put it in my little note get the pay button it asks for my fingerprint so I just put my thumb on there and boom done all right so I just made a donation to the best conservative mean maker in the world right now by the way President Trump retweeted carpi Duncan's meme recently you probably saw that so that's that is the the option now so you see
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that is the the option now so you see that every time there's a slippery slope there are counter forces that usually the free market kicks up or politics kicks up in the case of President Trump to counter it now anybody who wants to be on the app can just sign up takes about 60 seconds put your photo there put your price you don't even have to be available for calls you can just put your profile there then anybody can donate to you we're adding I don't have an update on this I think in the next few days we'll be adding a button that you can add to your webpage or add to your profile so there's somebody sees on for example that you have this you just click the link and it will take you right to the app by the way the app exists as a browser page as well so it works on Apple it works like a Google that works on any kind of browser all right let us go on I saw that CNN is
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right let us go on I saw that CNN is reporting that this week was a what they call it a it was an epically bad week this is Chris Alyssa's article his opinion in on CNN's website that it was an epically bad week for the president and I read the headline and I thought did I miss something is there something epically bad that happened that I missed and so I look at his list of epically bad things number one was the Cohen testimony and I thought to myself was it epically bad that collusion has just been eliminated from the headlines and that all we learned was stuff we knew before it was the most nothing of but I mean for me it just looked big sculpt Ettore to the point where it embarrassed of the media who has been talking about all of these alleged crimes for for two and a half years and whatever so I thought well
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years and whatever so I thought well that's pretty hard to turn that into a negative but they did the other negative in his epically bad week was that he didn't get complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula to which I say wait a minute isn't he demo isn't the president demonstrating right in front of the world how to turn an enemy into a friend me or at least maybe an ally or even an investment partner president Trump eliminated the nuclear risk in North Korea and that's called a bad week what would a good week look like that how hard would he have to work to have a good week come on that was one of the best weeks of any president ever the fact that it didn't get some specific little goal related result shows you again that difference between I speculate this by
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difference between I speculate this by the way this is not a scientific statement but I speculate that one of the differences between the left and the right politically is that the left is goal oriented so they went in thinking he's got to get this specific result he's got to get complete denuclearization in this meeting that's the goal and then it didn't happen so their goal was not met conservatives and especially in the Trump world seemed to be systems oriented meaning that they have a good system in place do you have a Constitution your capitalism is working you've got a rule of law you know systems and so when they watch the president go to this meeting they say oh this is a hundred year plan to make sure that North Korea you know stays on the path from mortal enemy to good buddy with a good economy there's no reason that had to happen Tuesday there's just no reason because the
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there's just no reason because the system is working the system in this case is to have a personal relationship with the leader convince them what the future could look like you know work on all the details have that have an open line of communication set up some teams to talk to them on a regular basis they'll move a little bit at a time with South Korea until until the odds of a nuclear war slowly go down to zero so and then the other things that they mentioned about Trump's epically bad week is that - Felix Sater apparently some sketchy Russian Russian character who was had dealings with both Trump and of course everybody over there who has more than $100 is connected to the Kremlin and so and so Elizabeth says the Trump had an epically bad week in part because Felix aider is going
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because Felix aider is going to testify next week so I didn't say that wrong so so Liz's list of why this week was an epically bad week is because next week somebody is going to testify and probably will have as much to say as Cohen which is you know interesting but not really illegal and not really news so if that's all you got if all you've got for your epically bad week is two things that went great and something that might happen next week anyway yeah I always coffin the mornings I'm full of allergies until I take my allergy meds after I do these periscopes alright so also in the news a tragic story that hit me a little harder than a hit most of you probably you probably saw in the headlines that the founder of
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saw in the headlines that the founder of square one of the co-founders Tristan o Tierney died suddenly at age 35 the reported cause is related to addiction we don't know the details but when in a 35 year old dies from addiction I'm thinking opioids that would be my assumption I don't want to get ahead of the story because you know today's more the day you think about the the family and the the departed but it's it's I I don't think we can ignore you know the immensity of the problem and so this this gets me to another topic which is how do you get and I'll connect these dots in a minute but this this makes me makes me think about the healthcare costs and how close we are to a low-cost
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costs and how close we are to a low-cost health care solution I want to give you a sense of this just by breaking it down this way if you look at the components of health care from your doctors and your nurses your medicines your lab tests your supplies in your MRIs MRIs being just a stand-in for scanning the body in variety of ways all of these have big changes happening right now there should lower the cost if everything went right I talked about my app interface by when hub were adding some doctors on there and they tie into the story about Tristan Tierney is that most of you know I lost my steps on in a few months ago to an opioid overdose and one of the things I learned in that process of you know the I guess I would call it the slow inevitable death of my own steps on is that one of the biggest issues is finding somebody to talk to
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issues is finding somebody to talk to when you have the urge to use and apparently the addicts will tell you that it's it's very it's it's very hard to find somebody at the moment you need them most in other words a sponsor somebody to talk to an expert a therapist when you need them because when you need them it's kind of critical right just when you want to use you want to use right now you don't want to make an appointment for next week and so one of the functions of the interface by window app yes I'll give you an example if you put in an addiction addiction
you'll see a list of people who are experts on addiction among them we'll see if dr. Drew's still on here I noticed that dr. Drew had signed up and
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noticed that dr. Drew had signed up and yeah Pinsky MD now he's not online right now but he has a profile set up and should there be enough customers and enough demand you would be able to actually get a hold of dr. drew himself you know if you were in luck if you were live on the app right now and imagine imagine the benefit of being able to you know reach for your phone and talk to somebody and you know not everybody is gonna be a dr. drew level expense but obviously if you're the founder of square you could you could afford to talk to somebody who really really knows what they're doing here but just talking to somebody who's been through it somebody who's had the same issues and by the way this would work for PTSD as well a lot of people with PTSD just sort of need to talk to somebody you also has been through the same situation so an app of course is not a full replacement for a live therapist a live doctor or a
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for a live therapist a live doctor or a live sponsor but if you need it quickly you need it and so this gives you the promise of lowering the costs of the doctor visits or even not having to have insurance and if you need it you just get your doctor advice when you need it I imagine there will be more apps for nurses because they're probably oh there's probably always an often dirty often duty nurse somewhere in your neighborhood who would come to you if you just you know call them up in your app and say I need something looked at or bandaged or you know something like that I need to get a shot something like that so I don't know if any apps that do that have a nurse come to your house but it makes sense that that that will emerge if it doesn't exist it already will and it probably exists by the way I assume it does exist I just don't know what it is yet you'll see the cost of meds probably gets some downward pressure you see that the Trump administration has an effort now to speed generics now apparently the
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now to speed generics now apparently the the the economic rule that they've discovered is that the price of medicine doesn't go down a lot until the third generic and I can't remember if it's the second generic in addition to the original or if it's the third generic but something like that you have to get an additional generic in the market before they compete in the prices go down so the administration has sped up the approval of generics which should have a an impact on drug prices we also know that Amazon is part of the triumvirate with JP Morgan Chase and the other company is at Apple I can't remember who is the third company but you know what I'm talking about so they'll probably have an impact on negotiating power Oh Berkshire Hathaway right sorry Berkshire Hathaway Amazon JPMorgan Chase they will probably have some impact on on drug prices so that's good
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impact on on drug prices so that's good news there are a number of startups there looking to lower the price of lab tests so you wouldn't need to go through your hospital your normal doctor process there would be an expedited quick low-cost way to do it because technology is allowed to the the price of this to go way down supplies we're probably at the place where you could 3d print a lot of your supplies or you could have Amazon deliver them that what will probably be a lower cost in the future and then there are a number of startups who are working on things like MRIs and scanners things that would you know look at your body find out what's wrong and you could have apparently artificial intelligence is already better at reading scans than humans if you're trying to detect detect cancer for example you'd be better off having the AI and look at your scans than you would having a human being so these are all
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having a human being so these are all the things that are happening right now so they know if you took this collection of stuff and you add it on top of it catastrophic health care insurance so the the expensive stuff when you have to go in and get an operation or its end of life situation that that sort of thing so if the only insurance you needed theoretically was maybe a little insurance for your meds and some catastrophic insurance and then you just pay cash for the rest or you pay a monthly you know direct care doctor situation you can see that there probably is opening up what I would call the poor man's health insurance so the poor man's health insurance basically takes advantage of the the new trends the you know the apps the low-cost stuff the the tests the the startup developed stuff and with that some catastrophic
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stuff and with that some catastrophic insurance which wouldn't be much because it's just the catastrophic part so we probably are on the cusp of having something like a poor person option poor meaning you know they'll say a twenty-something who doesn't make a lot of money yet so in my yeah they don't have to be suffering they just have to not have high income yet so this is all good news and if you would like to help make this happen anything you can do to use or promote the interface by when hub app should make a difference for addicts who need to find a sponsor somebody to talk to should make a difference for health care if this type of thing catches on and we're not we're not the only people in the telehealth market that's a it's a big burgeoning market anyway let's change the topic I'm getting into conversations on Twitter about president
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conversations on Twitter about president Trump's quote and joke about Russia hey Russia if you have Hillary's emails can you release them and people are talking about whether he was really asking them to do it or was it a joke and I of course have been saying you couldn't tell that was a joke and then other people who say oh sure it was a joke but he really was also asking so maybe it was a joke but that doesn't change the fact he actually literally asked Russia to help him win an election to which I say what does it mean to ask for something that everybody wants so in other words if I say to you I want oxygen what's your reaction to that I want oxygen yeah I think everybody should have oxygen you'd say I think Scott you've said absolutely nothing
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Scott you've said absolutely nothing because every person agrees with that everybody wants oxygen you didn't even need to say it it was unnecessary to say you like oxygen because we pretty much knew that we all run the same page with the oxygen so when a candidate says any version of I sure would like it if Mike my opponent were embarrassed by a release of their information have you really said anything is there anybody who wouldn't be happy to see their opponent's embarrassing information be revealed in the context of an election now there's nobody who would doesn't want that to happen the joke is that he said it it's the same in public and in in the ways he said it which is the funny part now now some of my critics said oh sure but what about the next time he said it because he didn't just
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time he said it because he didn't just say at that one time I guess he said in an interview where he was a less joking mood to which I say again is it news if I say I like oxygen it shouldn't be because you probably should have figured that out on your own so is it news that a candidate wants Russia or anybody else wouldn't matter who else would like them to release any embarrassing information on your opponent that they have of course you want that anybody who says they don't want that would just be a a transparent liar it would be like some people like me saying you know I don't like oxygen I don't like it all right so I see some of you still are having some afterglow from the President's speech that you liked so much his supporters liked it his critics
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much his supporters liked it his critics hated it per usual and one of the things you should know is he was talking to a young crowd and you saw how the president adjusted his approach to the audience they were sort of a young edgy crowd and he you know he used he said twice which they loved because it was inappropriate which is why they loved it he hugged the flag you know he he went through all of his best jokes so he he put on quite a show now I don't know if this if this transformation has yet happened but do you remember early on in you know 2015 2016 the big the big complaint about Trump is that he was just a reality star that he was just an entertainer essentially and and people
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entertainer essentially and and people dismissed him before being a reality TV star you don't hear that as much do you because when you watch this speech at CPAC you've probably said to yourself something like I said to myself which is this is a man who understands this medium like crazy he understands that better than it has ever been understood by a candidate now I would say that Reagan was also you know a genius in terms of the the communication element of it but he was in a different time right Reagan didn't have the Internet he was sort of a TV personality trump is all of that plus a lot more because he's got this social media understanding he's the best social media user of all time I would say I think that that's just clearly true in my opinion and we watch how he uses entertainment as a political tool
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uses entertainment as a political tool now if all you thought was well this is a political realm and he's an entertainer so those are not the same thing so he's a round peg in a square hole well that wasn't stupid you know it wasn't ridiculous to say he's not bringing the right kind of skill that we accept that we expect to be useful and you may remember that from the very beginning I was saying I think I think they're seeing this wrong because if you're trying to persuade at least half of the job of persuading is getting attention if you can if you can't get attention there's nothing else that matters so he gets attention better than anybody ever has I would say and then he puts his messages and simple repeatable memorable provocative frames that become a permanent part of your head so the two parts of persuasion getting your
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parts of persuasion getting your attention the best there's ever event nobody has ever been better and I feel confident in saying that certainly in the political realm no one's ever been better than getting attention then he does than he is so that's half of persuasion the other half is are you visual are you provocative so that people remember it it has to be a little bit wrong for people to remember it he does a little bit wrong so consistently well then it's crazy this is crazy how consistently he gives you a thought that's just a little little attenuated from what you thought was normal just a little extra every time you know it's never it's never just here's your cake it's always cake with here's the ice cream on top there's always a little extra and so you know he's the best news ever been at that now when you watch his CPAC speech and Nick
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when you watch his CPAC speech and Nick Gillespie wrote a great article I tweeted on this for a reason reason being the publication that when you see him do I would say the mature president version of himself because before he was the non president trying to become a president that's a that's a whole different feel but net but you saw his confidence did you see how much confidence he had at that CPAC speech it was crazy he was so relaxed and confident that you just feel that you feel the confidence and it feels good so if you imagine the best Democrat in the race whoever you think that's going to be just do this do this funny mental exercise you know imagine it's the future it's 2020 and we're having some debates and we're down to the final two so you've got Trump he's one of them
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two so you've got Trump he's one of them and the other is you can and you can cycle through whichever the faces of the Democrats you think is your best choice and it's Joe Biden oh my god Joe Biden just disappears doesn't he the contrast between them but let me put it this way if you took if you started with Donald Trump and then you said okay here here all the qualities of Trump and now we're one by one like like a Jenga game we're gonna remove Trump's best qualities it's like okay we'll take out you know this this is persuasion and is you know he's charisma we'll take out his sense of humor and everything once you've removed all of that what would you have left Joe Biden if you took everything goes good away from what would be left would be Joe Biden there's no way that that matchup could
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there's no way that that matchup could possibly be a winner for the Democrats if you put Trump next to Bernie in here here's another here's another mental exercise for you
imagine that Trump and Bernie on stage and now do ways sort of that an imagination exercise where you say what do you think of when you think of Trump that's not a person right an object or an event or a you know a thing you what is the thing or other thing you think of when you see Trump and then what's the thing you think of when you see Bernie when I see Trump I think of a flame don't you because it's its energy and it's orange and it's and it's red-hot and its flaming when you see Trump you almost see a flame it was like a fireplace ball
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fireplace ball all right that's that's Trump now move over on the stage and imagine burning when I see Bernie I always imagined a dandelion in its final days you know when a dandelion turns into one of those I don't know what they're called when they just have wisps of white stuff that you can blow away like that don't you see it now you see a flame energy heat you know life and then you see this little this is this tired little worn out Dan line and you can go right down the line Elizabeth Warren disappears now Kamala Harris she is probably the best they have but she only looks good compared to the other Democrats as soon as you imagine her on stage isn't she just held Hillary Clinton she's just
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just held Hillary Clinton she's just sort of Hillary Clinton isn't she and it's just gonna look like you've seen this before so I believe she'll probably be do a good job debating she's probably good at that but he just has that that extra sizzle that nobody is going to come close to draw us a cartoon somebody says in all caps all right all right I think that's all I have to say today I'm gonna be next week and you'll be trying out the periscope upgrade that allows you to add add guests which I've used before but the upgrade allows you to send out the Twitter notification also before those two features didn't work at the same time and I think that the new version this coming week will allow me to do that so we'll have some guests on next week anyway I hope you
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guests on next week anyway I hope you try out to interface by when hub and I will talk to you later