Episode 659 Scott Adams: Coffee Time!

Date: 2019-09-11 | Duration: 36:02

Topics

Suppression of my “Fine People” HOAX debunking transcript Was Bolton firing a “security guarantee” for NK? Alyssa Milano and Ted Cruz’s CIVIL gun control meeting Is China “getting flexible”? AOC has a 20K student debt…and wants student debt erased? The alleged spy who had to be extracted to be saved Lee Stranahan’s hypothesis checks all the boxes

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## Transcript

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oh hey everybody come on in here I know I'm late again trying to fix about 25 problems and then get off to the recording studio again so today will be my third day of recording the audio for my upcoming book loser think so I'll probably make you short today say it my voice part of the reason I have to do the recording over three days is because I lose my voice after a few hours so let's talk about some stuff so the most mysterious thing happened with one of my blog posts some of you know the story but let me give you an update oh but before what before that what am i doing what am i doing crazy you think I was gonna now have the simultaneous sip no no here it comes get ready all you need is a cup of Mogra glasses tying the chalice detector thermos flask you can team vessels of any kind filling with your favorite liquid I like coffee join

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your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the sweet smelling sweet tasting coffee and if you're trying to resist me by looking at your cup of tea as it sits there and telling yourself I'm not gonna have a simultaneous sip I'll get you I'll get you alright so some of you know I my smell returned yesterday let me just give you an update on that I'll talk about some other stuff after twelve years of not having a sense of smell I figured out what it was or my doctor did gave me some meds to shrink some things of my sinus eustachian tube area and I could smell for the first time yesterday so I went shopping at the grocery store and oh my god when you lose your smell for 12 years you get D conditioned to how much the smell there is or let me put it this way when you

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is or let me put it this way when you have your sense of smell you you get immune to it after a while in other words you can still smell things fine but it's not overwhelming because your your brain is you know putting a little bit of attention on you're smelling a little bit attention on your vision and stuff so everything's in balance but if you haven't been able to smell for 12 years when it comes back it comes back overwhelming like I can smell frickin everything yesterday I went shopping I'm walking through the aisles of the grocery store and I feel like I could smell I could smell the labels I mean I could smell the people I can smell the shelfs it was overwhelming I had to get out of there because there were so many smells and you know you're you know we're we're evolved from animals who had a lot of a lot of reason to be able to smell so it's a pretty overwhelming sense and and right now for example I'm just full of odor from this room and it's just my coffee and yes

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room and it's just my coffee and yes that I did yesterday morning I I did sniff Kristina for the first time I liked it I liked it you know what else is weird I sniffed my dog for the first time I've never smelled my dog and I gave her a sniff and I thought well I couldn't go on another year without sniffing that no that was not a good smell but so that's all good news but I want to talk about that I want to talk about I've got this link to the fine people hoax blog post there for mysterious reasons was the only link that seemed to stop working now what's special about this one link is that it debunks the widely the widely misunderstood find people hoax and I have for the past year-and-a-half been spending some part of almost every day pasting that link as a response to every place in the internet where the

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every place in the internet where the hoax appears so every time somebody says the president called neo-nazis find people out put that link there so that people could see that that's not true thousands of them literally if you count that if you count the retweets thousands and thousands of this link and it's one of you know I'm one of three primary people that that have been trying to debunk this thing so Steve Cortes and Joel Pollak and I have done a lot a lot of linking and tweeting to try to debunk it but all of my thousands of links that are out there as a protection against the fine people hoax because everywhere it appears soon after you can see the debunking that I put there all of those links became corrupt all because they're all the same link so once it became corrupt now people said hey it's your certificate it's expired and that's all it is and saw problems on your side but

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it is and saw problems on your side but you can go to the pages so all the pages work if you go there directly it's just the link broke now it might be might be because we migrated it to another site but we haven't seen the problem on any other page or link yet unchecking that if it turns out that all of the old links are broken then that would be because the migration to the new site and that might be the case so we'll figure that out but here's what's interesting here's what's interesting so the link is broken went through bitly so I shortened it with Billy I'm no technology expert but I believe that the following is true I believe that my shortened link goes through bittley's servers to be expanded to its real link so then you're redirected to the site I assume that's how it happens what if bitly or anybody who's shortening a link

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bitly or anybody who's shortening a link decides to corrupt the link because I'm and I'm not saying that Billy did this by the way I'm sure that Billy did not do this so let me be clear I'm not I'm not complaining about them they have a good service I use it all the time but it shows you that there could be bottlenecks where an entire an entire history just got erased in one day from the entire internet because that link was essential to debunking one of the biggest most important country shaping hoaxes that have have ever happened it was a very important disbelief or beliefs that had to be debunked and there was one link you just break that link and the entire history just disappeared and by the way I don't think we can get it back whatever the problem is it's likely that 18 months of my work putting that link

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18 months of my work putting that link everywhere just disappeared think about that think about that right all disappeared the entire history of all that work is gone everywhere on the internet because it was all through that one link that's that's so that's a wake-up call so anyway I'll figure out what the problem is there I have a fun little experiment I would like to suggest for someone else to do you've probably seen the campus as a campus reformer campus humor or somebody they do these on the street interviews where they put the microphone in the face of unsuspecting people and say what do you think of this policy and it's and they think it's a trump policy so they hate it but then the reveal at the end is no this was Hillary Clinton's policy or this is Bernie Sanders policy or something like that so the point is that the person on the street has the strong opinion on things only when they know who it comes from but they actually

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who it comes from but they actually don't have opinions on the idea itself because they don't even understand it most cases I would love to see this experiment using the Flyers from the unite the right rally in Charlottesville from 20 whatever 17 Oh love to see somebody take that flyer for a unite the right and to change only the name of unite the right only the title and change it to unite antiphon don't change anything else well you'd have to change the location and date but keep all the imagery the same including the list of speakers because here's what's interesting the tip-off that the flyer was for and about neo-nazis was that the list of speakers were people associated with various various groups if you didn't know the name of the speakers you would have to figure it out from the imagery because the the words

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from the imagery because the the words did not say hey its bunch of neo-nazis come join us it didn't say that you had to kind of figure it out and I would love to see an experiment where you change just the title you you could probably even keep it as charlottesville and nobody would even know the difference they just say it's unite to antiphon keep the imagery the same show it to somebody with all the names of the the racist speakers still on it and say is this something you would attend I'll bet you there's something like 20% or more of the people who were asked that question would say hell yeah I'm going I love anti-shah we've got to do something about all the Nazis so here one of the one of the main complaints people had when I said that there were not all bad people at the event people said how could you possibly not know it's and that's neo-nazi event how could you possibly look at those promotional materials and not know it's clearly a

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materials and not know it's clearly a racist Nazi event and here's my answer have you ever met people you know like humans show a hundred people anything a tweet a statement a quote a mathematical fact a picture show a hundred people anything anything and you will get different opinions about what they saw people will see a completely different image some people will read it backwards and say it's the opposite of what you said if you show a hundred people the unite the right rally for racists i guarante reckon tu 20% of those people won't know it was a Nazi rally guarantee it because that would be true of any experiment with a hundred people why because have you met people people

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because have you met people people that's how we act all right the big story of the day is the Trump fired John Bolton and of course it's hilarious because who would the people on the left of the anti-trump pers who would they hate even more than Trump there's only one person who was in the in the the realm of you know disliked by the left it was John Bolton so how will see an N and the anti-trump errs how will they cover a story that involves Trump doing something that they probably wish you would do how would they cover that story well they're covering it as bad for Trump of course so even though they even when he does something that they wish you would do it gets bad coverage but I'm gonna give you my spin on this are you ready you have not seen this yet in the news in the news North Korea is talking about

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in the news North Korea is talking about meeting again and talking about reaching a deal now that alone is not not that surprising or important at the moment but here's the key thing to that North Korea is demanding as part of what they want from the negotiations a quote security guarantee North Korea wants a security guarantee now you don't know exactly what that means or what that looks like but let me ask you this is there any world in which you can imagine North Korea way for this because it's the first time you're gonna hear it and until you hear from my mouth well just listen to it if you're North Korea could you ever sign a deal that said the United States will give you security guarantees while at the same time Bolton had his job right there is no world in

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had his job right there is no world in which North Korea should accept or should believe that the United States is serious about security guarantees as long as Bolton still works for the administration so why is Bolton leaving now instead of say closer to the negotiations with North Korea I'll tell you why because you don't want those two things to happen at the same time you don't want people to do what I just did and tell you why Bolton has to leave Bolton is leaving in my opinion probably for a variety of reasons it's never just one thing but I would think that the main trigger is that North Korea said look you need to give us something so that we got something out of this the main thing we want is security guarantees and there's nothing you could put on a piece of paper that we would believe while that guys still working with your administration and you know what I would say the same thing if you

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what I would say the same thing if you were North Korea would you agree to something that said will will maintain your security you know we won't attack while Bolton is still on the staff absolutely not I wouldn't sign it you know Kim jong-un he's not an idiot he's not gonna yeah you wouldn't sign that it'd be crazy so I believe that Trump somebody says you're mind-reading and you're you're exactly correct I'm speculating is what I'm doing so mind-reading would would say that I know this is the case and you know I can read his mind what I'm doing is connecting dots and speculating so speculating is not saying it's true but I have a strong I have a strong hunch that North Korea's negotiating situation is primarily what's behind this now I would assume there are also other forces I heard that Bolton complained about Trump wanting to meet with the Taliban that sort of thing but I don't know if those things would

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but I don't know if those things would have been enough could ask yourself this do you think the Trump just found out this week that Bolton does not agree with him on a lot of stuff right I always thought that Bolton was there for a specific purpose to to represent that you know that strong voice where Trump could be the good cop so I always thought Bolton was there as a bad cop and to represent the strongest the strongest military opinion and then Trump would represent more the voice of reason then it would be sort of a good balance but I think the North Korea situation tipped it that's just my speculation and I think that the bad cop good cop doesn't work anymore because Trump and Kim have a personal relationship you can do the good cop bad cop when you're dealing with a nemesis but as soon as you become friendly or you're on the way to becoming friendly good cop bad cop isn't the model anymore

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good cop bad cop isn't the model anymore so it could be the Bolton just didn't fit with the new model of what Trump wants to do in North Korea anyway that's my guess I one of the best things that happened this week and I mean that seriously like actually one of the best things is that Alyssa Milano and Ted Cruz met to talk about guns now I want to say only positive things about this story because most stories you know there's always something bad you can find out and I you know I could I could dig a little and say oh Alyssa Milano she's not a serious politician and they didn't come up with any solutions and stuff like that I could find something bad to say about it but I don't want to do that today I like to focus on the good so I would like to give complete props to Alyssa Milano didn't see that coming did you I have great respect for Alyssa Milano because she's not like other actors and celebrities who just sort of

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actors and celebrities who just sort of tiptoe through the political stuff she's not a tourist excuse me she she's putting in real work she's putting in real reputation she has real passion and she's really trying to make things better in a variety of ways now I don't know if her political skills are you know where they need to be I don't know what her long-term objectives are but what I see is it looks genuine and passionate and and selfless meaning that it doesn't look like she's doing it for her own purposes it looks like she has external helped the country help the world help people kind of motives I love that I also love that she agreed to meet with Ted Cruz who in her view of the world would be sort of like you know Satan incarnate and amazingly when I just watched a little video clip of her meeting with Ted or actually interview afterwards and she was actually couched

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afterwards and she was actually couched it that way she was saying that she almost didn't expect him to be human now that's my paraphrase but she was she had come to the belief that he was almost a kind of a caricature monster not quite like a regular person you know or else he couldn't hold the views that he has so he makes an offer to meet with her which I thought was brilliant and by the way Ted Cruz I gotta say he wasn't my choice for president but he's killing it as a senator don't you think he's like one of the most effective senators you know out there he's just killing it so a great job for Ted Cruz a lot of different areas also is the probably the second funniest tweeter wouldn't you say Ted Cruz has turned out to be unexpectedly one of the funniest people on the internet so props to Ted Cruz for doing a good job props to mallanna

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doing a good job props to mallanna Alyssa Milano for doing a good job I don't believe that they came to any understanding about what to do but the fact that they talk to each other like human beings was amazing and there's a quote that I picked out of that Alyssa Milano and this was so telling she was talking about how she explained to Ted Cruz about through some I don't 18 month-old baby who was hit by shrapnel and she was saying that she was explaining to Ted Cruz that no baby should ever end up with shrapnel in his chest and then Alyssa Milano said that she believed that Ted Cruz was understanding that and I thought to myself before the meeting did you think that Ted Cruz didn't understand then it would be a bad thing for a baby to get shrapnel in his chest because that's what she said now I'm not mocking her because it's that's not the point the

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because it's that's not the point the point is she represents a you know a body of thought with a lot of people in it who has such a low opinion of Ted Cruz that they could somehow imagined that he was dispassionate about shooting babies literally shooting babies they thought that he would maybe not care about that or not have the normal human empathy than anybody anybody would have in that situation so I would say that meeting was very productive because first of all it showed people could sit in the same room in people light it showed her that he has human compassion and I would never have guessed that was important but apparently this apparently there are people on the Left who literally believed that anybody who takes money from the NRA is a heartless soulless monster who is ignoring the obvious way to reduce violence but I think she learned that maybe he's a human being who's smart and caring and

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human being who's smart and caring and actually has a different opinion of how to get to a safer world in his case maybe you know more more guns in some situations maybe something else I've got a question about the Chinese economy
about how China is doing economically because nautically because of the tariffs where somebody will say well China's really don't they're you know they're going to hell economy is sinking but you can't tell because they're propping it up temporarily so it's they're hiding it but it's really in bad shape and then others will say you know it's not so bad smell so bad they just scrambled my sound all right looks like the audio is gone here can you hear it a dollar it's just garbled alright some people are

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just garbled alright some people are saying it's good if you're having one of your problems just sign off and sign back on because if it's good for anybody it means that you need to sign off and sign back on so I have a question about the Chinese economy is do they need us do they not are they getting serious I believe that every report you see that China is getting flexible about negotiating with us is is fake meaning that China is not getting flexible and that there is no there is no immediate chance of a deal and when I say no immediate chance I mean not now not next year something would have to change fundamentally they're not going to have a deal unless we have something about intellectual property unless we have something about ending fentanyl as long as you have that the top dealer of fentanyl is still alive and we know his name and China knows where he lives and he's still just going to work and make him fentanyl and sending it to the United States and killing 50,000 people

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United States and killing 50,000 people a year here through his fentanyl as long as that guy's still alive there's no deal there is no deal that guy needs to be literally dead or don't even talk about a deal and I don't think they're gonna kill him or that would have done it already so no deal with China not soon maybe not ever and we should just couple and and of our move our manufacturing elsewhere over time I saw a little bit that says AOC has a twenty thousand dollar student debt now here's a question if you have a lot of student debt and twenty thousand is a pretty serious student debt if you have a lot of student debt should you be allowed to vote on the question of forgiving student debt now in some sense you know all politicians are voting on

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you know all politicians are voting on tax rates and you know taxes affect us all so Congress is always voting on stuff that influences themselves so you can't really get away with that but it does feel a little wrong that somebody who has a big student debt would be in Congress of voting to expunge her own student debt you know I I just think that's gonna be a question in the future
if somebody's saying Trump won't show his taxes aren't we past that well let me ask you this
is there anything that could be in those taxes that would make any difference I mean I can't imagine what would be in there that would make any difference oh let's talk about the story of the spy so the story of the spy the u.s. spy who allegedly was in the Kremlin and had to be had to be extracted because allegedly

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be had to be extracted because allegedly they were afraid that Trump would give him away and you'd be captured and tortured and killed so that's the story that came to us through I believe CNN was at New York Times and maybe NBC I think those were the sources I may have one of the sources wrong but at least CNN and least Pastrana Hannah Strahan Stranahan who sort of an independent investigative journalist kind of a guy he had an interesting theory about what's really going on there and I not to say the theory is true doctor says false I will just say that the theory fits all the observable evidence the best so that doesn't mean it's true but there are a lot of things that can fit the evidence the best and then later you find out there was other evidence that if you had known about it would have changed your mind but here's his theory on his theory is as somehow this

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theory on his theory is as somehow this spy who apparently was a real person who used to be there but now it's not used to be near the Kremlin but now it's not that he was somehow involved in an alleged Brennan clapper scheme to to brand the President of the United States as a traitor so in other words there's speculation that this spy thing has something to do with the original Russia allegations Russia Kalusha allegations and that this spy by getting him out of there somehow it helps Brennan and clapper get rid of some kind of evidence I don't know what what that would be and I thought to myself well that's not impossible and by the way Lee I hope I'm I'm accurately summarizing the point that Brennan clapper and possibly this alleged spy who was who was extracted were somehow in on building the Russia

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were somehow in on building the Russia collusion hoax so I'll just say that it would explain just about everything it would explain for example why Pompeo says the story is fake that the facts are wrong it would explain why maybe they had to get him out of the country to get him someplace that you know they could control him better and make sure that he didn't talk and it would certainly explain you know well it kind of explained everything so it's a good speculation I don't know how likely it is to be true but I like it and speculatively all right
Scott's dumbest arguments about gun control blog what about it are you asking me to talk about that are you saying that the link is broken
does my sense of smell make me sleep better somebody else I don't know

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better somebody else I don't know because the thing that the meds I'm taking this prednisone well let me talk about this so I'm taking this drug called prednisone and it's having some delightful and interesting effects on me as a person so the first thing I want to say is that I don't believe there's any such thing as you know who you are and at a core level like I don't think there's such a thing as who you are all there is is what you are at the moment so if your chemicals state changes here's that person so you're the angry person when you have the right chemicals to be angry and you're a happy person when your chemicals are in the happy range so what's interesting is that for the two weeks or so that I'm taking this drug which is what allowed me to get my sense of smell back is shrinking some shrinking some harmless polyps in my nasal whatever and yeah somebody's

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nasal whatever and yeah somebody's saying it's addictive and it's dangerous I I know all the warnings that's what I'll get to that so I'm on this drug and I have to tell you it literally turns you into a different person and the warnings tell you that's going to happen they tell you it could affect your mood they tell you could it could affect your thoughts it could attack it could affect your sex drive it can affect your energy your sleep or just a whole range of things that can influence and I got to tell you I'm feeling all of that so so here's what it did to me first of all it acts like speed so somebody says your mood seems great yeah because I'm on speed now I don't know if it affects everybody the same way but for me I don't need much sleep and I'm wide awake and productive and doing ton of stuff everyday so it's really really good that way hasn't affected my libido at all hasn't but it but it is

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libido at all hasn't but it but it is giving me some strange thoughts so yesterday I so thoughts intruded in my hand and I said to myself ha haven't had those before so I hope they're temporary and somebody says my skin looks bright I believe that makes me oh and here's the funniest thing so yesterday I got my hair cut by Cristina so it's obvious that it doesn't take much work to cut my hair so Cristina cuts my hair at home was just you know the Clippers and stuff and she's cutting my hair and she says you're growing back your hair and I said what she goes yeah all the places that were you know totally bald they all have new hair growth you're growing back your hair and I said well that can't be true she goes yeah up here where it used to be like a big bald spot and she would know she goes it's like half the size it was a week ago and I said that's can't be true and I reach up

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said that's can't be true and I reach up and like what the hell is going on here I got all this hair that I literally didn't have a week ago and so I'm literally regrowing my hair now before you go out and get prednisone let me warn you that hair growth is one of the known side effects but I assume it's temporary so I'm pretty sure it's temporary right it's totally growing my hair I could feel it the there's no doubt about it it's substantially different and it's literally filling in the bald spot but a week from now it'll reverse and that's not real but it was kind of fun that I would get my sense of smell back and regrow my hair in the same week the other thing it does is it makes you strong as hell I have I'm trying not to push that but I went to the gym and I can't even get tired I doubled my working at the gym I doubled it I literally

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at the gym I doubled it I literally doubled my workout and and I only I only stopped because I ran in a time that's it I ran at a time so I wouldn't push that because it doesn't seem like it's healthy to push my body just because I have some drug in it that lets me do that at the moment so I'm gonna pull her back but my god it makes you strong do I have better taste and I would smell yes substantially now I thought that I had a sense of taste before even when I lost my sense of smell but I believe that could have been a placebo because I I've learned that what you can detect even if you lose your sense of smell you can still sell you could still detect sweet sour salty you know the basics but now on top of that I can detect the specific flavors and here's something I wasn't expecting in the past I know five years or so or less I started eating sushi so my entire life I

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started eating sushi so my entire life I was disgusted by it and could never eat that or sashimi mostly sushi and and I and Cristina turned me on to it and then I started loving it so yesterday I thought to myself ah I've never tasted this food before I lost my sense of taste so it's the food I've been eating for three years that I have no memory of because I'd never eaten it before those three years so there was no mental thing that could be influencing me so I so I thought to myself huh I wonder what it'll taste like now that I can smell it and I throw these little little crab cake sushi in my mouth it tasted like turpentine oh my god it was the worst fricking thing yes all fifty and turpentine Ian ah now I did it without the wasabi because I wanted to see you know the native taste I didn't want to overwhelm it so it turns out and this is not a joke

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not a joke I don't enjoy the flavor of my favorite food because it was literally my favorite food and I guess the only thing I was picking up was the salt and wasabi or something I was getting the sting the texture and then the the salt of the soy sauce it was great because I love this thing I loved the texture and I loved the salt so it was like this is my favorite food now it's got protein in it it looks pretty healthy I love this but it turns out that when you can smell it not so good all right I hope that reverses we'll see that's all I got to say for today I'm going to save my voice a little bit and get ready for the recording studio and I will talk to you later yes the prednisone is short term for those of you who just asked