This whole tariff thing is a JOKE!

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God, I don't know. Fucking Vin Diesel. Let's

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just fucking family this shit. Shall we? All

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right. So new jerk -offs went into effect against

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China. I'm sorry. I have to repeat that. New

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tariffs went into effect against China Tuesday

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night, setting the stage for a possible trade

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war. Uh, this of course is after Trump put on

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a, um, 25 % tariff on Mexico and Canada, both

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were placed on a, or he tried to do that. Both

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were placed on a 30 day hold. Um, fun facts here,

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based on my research, we get almost two thirds

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of our vegetables from Mexico and half of our

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fruit. From Mexico and 70 % of our lumber and,

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uh, gypsum, which is what we use to make dry

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walls out of, um, comes from Canada and Mexico.

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So like, and there's, there's a long list. God,

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I, I did think like, oh, we could, uh, list out

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everything that this would affect, but it would

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be like. That'd be the whole show. I was like,

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ah. So there's a huge list. And no matter what

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you're doing, the American people, we're going

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to feel this. This is going to hurt if we actually

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pass tariffs with Mexico and Canada. But yeah,

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I don't know. So there's been a lot of talk of

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these here. Trump wanted Mexico to control their

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fucking immigrant issue with their with their

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drugs coming into America. Yeah. And he wanted

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Canada to stop it. No crossing the border. I

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don't even I didn't even know that was a Canada

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thing. It's not. Not really. What the hell? And

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then. Yeah, of course everyone. Everyone saw

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the very iconic booing at the hockey game in

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Canada when they played the national anthem for

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America. So yeah, I don't know. What are your

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thoughts here? I think I've heard a lot of kind

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of theories here that this is just he's playing

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kind of chicken. He's just wanting stuff from

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Canada and Mexico that he's not actually going

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to go through with the tariffs. because like

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another thing that's going to happen is if these

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tariffs actually do pass, most likely gas prices

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are going to go up. And when you raise the price

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of gas, you're going to piss off fucking everyone

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in America. Well, I don't know. So there's a

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few things to cover here. He backed off the Mexico

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and Canada tariffs pretty immediately. And the

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funny thing about this is they declared victory

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over something that the Canadian Parliament voted

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to do in December. Right. Canadian parliament

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passed a $1 .3 billion Canadian dollar border

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security bill back in December, right? When Biden

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was still president. So I don't know, like, and

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I guess Trudeau called him and was just like,

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yeah, here. And he was like, oh, we win. And

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then Canada was like, we'll send 10 ,000 troops

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to the border. But they had sent 15 ,000 there

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when Biden was president. So again, he's he's

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declaring victory over something. And what was

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funny about is he was like 25 % blanket tariffs

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on Canada, except fuel and energy. Not that.

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Not that. Because he knew that the gas price

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thing was going to happen. And then again, he

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immediately backed down on all of them and put

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them on pause. The China one, the bigger issue,

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and this is the one that doesn't just affect

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people, but the one that affects companies, and

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this is where I think he's going to back off.

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is they got rid of what's called the de minimis

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exception, right, which is this. Let's say Jay

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orders a knockoff Xbox controller for his computer

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from Timu. Right. OK, let's say he orders that

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from Timu. Anything worth less than eight hundred

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dollars that's coming from China, right, was

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not. taxed, was not tariffed, was not anything

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at all. So individual packages going to individual

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people never went through a customs tariff, right?

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Nothing. He got rid of that exception, right?

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So now, T -Mu, Shien, Amazon, anybody who's shipping

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direct from China, right? That's going to have

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to, and right now the confusion is how is that

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going to work? Like are you just gonna stop every

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individual package that's coming into the country

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and Customers check it and then who and then

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charge the tariff to the customer if they want

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to get their package Like because you have to

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open it up to verify what's inside Right. Is

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it actually? You know fucking jeggings from Sheehan

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Right, like we don't know So that's one problem

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that he's got The other problem is again, these

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are they're fake pictures again mag is doing

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their their victory lap right now On a bunch

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of things and again, this kind of goes back to

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what we talked about in the last segment So much

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of the information environment right now is these

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guys going see we win and they state things as

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fact and There's just no good way To be like

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is that what actually happened? You know what

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I mean? Yeah, like how much time be did you have

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to spend just on this one topic going? All right,

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what actually happened? It's fucking it's hard.

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It's a very fucking hard Especially with like

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literally every single day. The shit is changing

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Like I'm not sure if you noticed but I put the

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topic in on Monday and flagged it red and it

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was like waiting for I'm future development.

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Yeah, it's still it's still says that in our

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rundown. So we can see. So wait for further developments

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because it changes every stinkin day. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's and that's the thing. That's the thing that

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I would say is like the worst part is that it's

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so quick. It's hard to stay up on it. So like

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Monday, I had time. I could like look into stuff.

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But then like by Wednesday, most of it was outdated

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and you're like, shit. OK, like, what the fuck

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did he do yesterday? Like, what did he actually

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do? OK, so we're no longer going to put tariffs

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on Mexico and Canada. OK. But the tariff on China

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did go through. And did you notice that the Chinese

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tariff was less? It was only 10 percent. Yeah.

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And that doesn't make fucking sense to me either.

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Like, why? Why? Elon. Well, why are you trying

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to piss off fucking Canada, the fucking one ally

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that's been with us? And I mean, OK, you're a

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military guy. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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They've been with us for every fucking war. Right,

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Alex? Yep. The hell they lost China. I mean,

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I'm sorry. I try. It's Canada. It's Canada. Every

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fucking person loves Canada. They fucking apologize

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when they accidentally bump into you. I mean,

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come on. Why? I. There is, to my mind, no reason

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behind it beyond just ginning up the base and

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saying, look what I did, right? Even though what

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you did wasn't substantive, right? It's kind

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of like the old Doge thing, right? You're going

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after USAID, which is 0 .02 % of the of the budget,

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go after the Department of Defense, for fuck's

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sake, right? Again, they're trying to do stuff

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that, again, I don't think makes them do anything

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substantive, but they're doing it. They're doing

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stuff, right? And I think part of this is exactly

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what you said. It's flooding the zone. We're

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going to do shit so fast that somebody's mainstream

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media acting like it's normal. A, I don't think

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they're acting like it's normal. I don't think

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they can keep up. Even with a 24 -hour news network,

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you can't keep up. You would just have a chiron

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of shit, and most people aren't reading that,

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of everything that's happening day in and day

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out for everything that's going on. It's an absolute

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clusterfuck. This actually kind of reminds me

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of a little news thing that popped up have you

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seen the the video of The girl that supposedly

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made eight 18 million dollars in one day and

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it's kind of like she just showing products but

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it's like a split second and then she throws

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the box and she gets another box and she shows

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like a product and throws it and I think I want

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to say it's like from China, but like I've been

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seeing this video pop up everywhere. It's kind

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of it kind of went viral. This like girl, she's

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it's kind of like the the old. What is it like

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the channel that used to try to convince you

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to buy like, oh, like buy this necklace. QVC.

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Yeah, but it's like split second. Well, I mean,

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that's huge on TikTok, like TikTok shop and their

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integrations with like being able to do live

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videos and be like, look, buy this thing, go

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straight to the TikTok shop. Right. Was it linking?

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That's a big thing So it doesn't surprise me

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Yeah, I I don't even know where to start Honestly,

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I think the tariff thing is pretty I think he's

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done I think he he did his thing He he threatened

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the 25 % He says he's gonna suspend him for a

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month and then I think he's just gonna expect

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everybody to just move on Right I think he's

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going to expect that everybody's just going to

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forget about it in two weeks, especially again

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with everything else going on. Right. I. I don't

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even know. I. It's it's absolutely ridiculous.

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I said, I don't even. I don't even need to go.

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Um, stupid people love to throw their money because

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it's pretty tech talk. Hey, look, I'm going to

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hate on her hustle. Right. If she can do that

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and get people going on it. Good for you. I wish

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I could do that out of the time or the patience.

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And I'm not cute enough. Right. I've made the

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joke many times. If I was a cute girl, I would

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have an only fans. I'm not cute enough. Sorry

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Yeah, don't don't ever put yourself down like

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that Alex you you can do it Yeah, that's that's

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my future they want to see the 41 year old guy

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on only fans All right, Alex. How much are you

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selling feet picks for the further for the fans

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for the fans? I don't know man. I don't know

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People to let me know if they want feet picks.

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It's fine. My feet are fucking gross, dude I

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spent too many years in boots marching around

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there They're nasty. Just nasty. All right. Let

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us know what you think. I mean, is this just

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a situation of them flooding the zone? Were the

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terrorists just a joke to begin with? How do

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we even keep up with all the nonsense going on?

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Let us know down in the comments below.