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My first question is actually about Libra from Facebook.

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You tweeted today, a little bit earlier today, that Libra is a grotesque distortion of the

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original intent of cryptocurrency, economic freedom.

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And I was just wondering if you could expand a little more on that thought.

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Okay.

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If you read the white paper, at the very end, the intent of the foundation is not so much

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the cryptocurrency, but that the use of the cryptocurrency on their specific blockchain

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is going to allow the gold, sort of the holy grail of monitoring people.

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That is a universal digital identification.

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That's going to be rolled into the cryptocurrency, meaning that everything that you do with

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that currency can be monitored and traced back to you.

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Now, I'm a firm believer in privacy and even anonymity when it comes to our financial transactions.

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I believe they should be private.

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We each have the right to earn a living and to do what we wish with the money that we

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earn.

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If not, then we are still under the control of the financial system we are trying to escape

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from.

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I mean, that is the purpose of digital currency, to give control of currency back to the people

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rather than to governments and institutions that can control the currency that we use.

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And you need to understand how important currency is.

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To get that freedom, we have to have a decentralized system.

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And we have to have a system that provides a degree of privacy, because without privacy, then we still are controlled.

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The reverse of privacy is a system where everything that you do is known.

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That is, you have a mark on your forehead, your ID, your unique genetic stamp that identifies you so that wherever you go and whatever you do is known.

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No.

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This is what Facebook has produced.

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Please, God, people.

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We cannot.

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We cannot tolerate this.

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Now, they can produce it, but we do not have to use it.

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Please understand that using Facebook is the abdication of everything that we have worked for for almost 10 years.

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So, understand what it is, let them do what they want, but please, God, do not accept it as your standard of currency.

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It will be the end of your freedom and the end of your privacy.

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Can you explain your stance a little bit more about income tax?

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Because it's put you in this clearly unique position of living in different places, living kind of in exile.

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I know you have a boat that you live on.

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And can you talk about, like, why you consider, why you make that statement that you think income tax is illegal in the U.S.?

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I'm talking about America, which is my home country.

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Our Constitution states very clearly Congress shall pass no laws to inhibit, restrict, or in any way hinder an individual's ability to earn a living.

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Now, if you're taking 25% of my money, if you're making me work for you, the government, for one-quarter or one-third of the year, I insist that it's inhibiting my ability to make a living.

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And there are many people in America who believe this.

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The Libertarian Party is based largely on income taxes illegal.

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It's illegal.

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They're doing it.

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They're taking my money.

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I finally said I'm going to stop talking about it and do something.

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Eight years ago, I stopped paying.

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Now, they left me alone because, you know, the government that was poking me is going to create some sort of backlash.

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When I started talking about cryptocurrency and how privacy coins and distributed exchanges could alleviate a person's need to pay taxes because the government can never find out who you are, what money you made, and what you did with it.

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It's not possible.

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When I started speaking on the national and international stage about that, then they came after me because

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I am now a direct threat to the system of government in America.

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Okay.

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So you've already sort of touched on the reasons why you chose to be in Cuba in particular, but

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I just want to come back to that a little bit.

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So you're running for president and sort of the base of your campaign and your personal ideals is economic freedom, as you've been describing.

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Cuba is actually very low on the international list of economic freedom, the index.

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And I'm wondering if you see any contradiction in that.

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Well, not in the least, because let me ask you who creates that index?

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Is Cuba asked about it?

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Do people come to Cuba and actually study what's happening here?

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Let me tell you something.

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This is the most entrepreneurial society I have ever been in.

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Yes, the government does restrict absolutely everything in terms of your making a living.

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However, there is an undercurrent, sort of a, not even a dark part.

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It's just below that is an economic entrepreneurial system, which I have never seen before.

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And it's the same thing in every communist country.

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In Russia, it was the same.

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So, you know, people are making $20 a month and yet they're buying cars that cost $60,000.

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Now, how do you do that?

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Ask simple questions, all right?

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They're doing it by being creative, by adhering to the laws of the government and at the same time managing to make a good living.

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So, Jesus, no, this is the most entrepreneurial place I've ever seen.

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Do not buy America's garbage propaganda.

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Gotcha.

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I want to ask a little bit more about your plan to run for president of the U.S.

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I'm wondering how you see cryptocurrency, in particular, fitting into your role, potential role as president.

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Now, I could not possibly be president, even if I had a platform, even if I wanted to, even if I dressed in a business suit and didn't curse.

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No matter what I did, I can't be president of Jesus God.

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I'm John McAfee.

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However, I can certainly run for president.

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So, let's not talk about what I would do the first day in office.

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Let's talk about what I'm going to do while running, which is to raise awareness, not just in the U.S., but around the world.

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Because, believe me, everybody around the world is interested in U.S. politics.

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I want to educate people about how fiat currencies are their prism and the means that governments use to make a society of slaves.

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And this is what I want to educate people about.

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How do we get out of that prison?

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We take control first of our economy, of our currency, of our ability to survive, to buy food, clothes, and shelter.

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Without the currency, you cannot do that.

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I want to talk a little bit more about your relationship with the U.S. government.

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So, you last month tweeted about having terabytes of incriminating data on corruption in governments, plural.

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Yes.

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Could you go into a little more detail about what kind of data we're talking about?

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How did you get the data?

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Can you share some of it or reveal some of it?

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Let me give an example of the kind of data.

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Now, in order to give a shot across the bell, I was in the Bahamas.

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The U.S. government had manufactured these charges against me to get me extradited from the Bahamas so they could try me for IRS crimes.

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The people who cooperated illegally with the U.S. government in the Bahamas was the head of the police force and the head of the armed forces in the Bahamas.

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So, I outed those people.

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They both had secret bank accounts.

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I published the name of the bank, the account numbers of the secret accounts, the deposits that came in to these accounts, the dates, the amount, and from whom.

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And the withdrawals in cash totaling many times their annual salary.

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And believe me, I could bring down the U.S. government.

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So, if you have been harassed by the CIA, for example, the CIA is interacting with a local government.

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But have you been, like, personally harassed?

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Do you have stories of getting kind of, like, calls or emails or contact or something from the U.S. government?

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I mean, I'm watched everywhere I go.

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I'm followed, and I have been for 15 years.

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Everywhere I go, someone's following me.

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My security sees them all the time.

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They alert me to them.

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This car is firing us.

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I said, well, get the license number.

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I'll have it checked out.

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And it's always owned by some obscure element of the U.S. government.

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I haven't released anything.

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However, if anything happens to me, absolutely, I've got dead man switches everywhere.

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Within a day of my disappearance or untimely death, there will be every newspaper in the world pouring through more documents that they could have 100 people pour through in 100 years.

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So, no, it will be chaos.

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But right now, I just want to be able to live happily, try to make a better world for my children and grandchildren, and fish from time to time.

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You've openly spoken about promoting projects, and often on your Twitter you'll do a video about a particular company.

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And I'm wondering, can you talk a little bit about your vetting process for these companies and projects?

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Specifically because, as you know, our industry is kind of infamous for having a high rate of scams, or at least having companies that don't exactly deliver what they've promised.

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So, in that environment, given that environment, what's the process you go through?

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I would say 90% of what's happening in crypto is a scam.

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The problem with that is, since it is, trolls and others can point to anything and say that's a scam, and people will believe it.

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It's a very complex and subtle interchange of energies.

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But the first thing I do is, are you real?

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Are you people real?

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And have the people checked out?

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It's a very trivial thing.

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Have you ever been in jail?

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Have you ever run out on another company and left people hanging and said so on and so forth?

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But before I even do that, it has to be a project which appeals to me.

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And sometimes my job is promotion, so of course I charge people for promotion.

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But sometimes I don't.

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Sometimes there are projects that really appeal to my heart.

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What needs to happen for people to use cryptocurrency on a mass scale, in your opinion?

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We have to have more friendly user interfaces.

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You're not going to get the average plumber and give him a mycelium wallet or any wallet and say this 150 digit number is an address that means something.

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You must copy it somehow or take a picture of this.

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No, please, God, that scares people.

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Okay.

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We need something that has a name.

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Frank Smith.

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Okay.

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I want to send Frank Smith 50 Bitcoins or five or a fifth or whatever.

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And something that provides a common interface rather than having to go to Binance.

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There's one interface and KuCoin.

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There's another interface.

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And suddenly, because no one exchange carries all the coins.

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So you have to jump around.

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And we need the same thing in Wallace.

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We need the same thing in every aspect of crypto.

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Can you give a timeline prediction for how many years you think that's going to take for when we'll see a little bit more of what you're describing?

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In five years, I think the majority of the people in the world will be using crypto for the majority of their purchases.

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I think in two years time, we're going to see a quadrupling of both the number of businesses that accept crypto and the number of people who are using it not to trade, but to actually buy and sell things.

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So as pointed out by crypto market analyst Matty Greenspan, there's currently about an 86% chance that Bitcoin will be worth less than 50,000 by 2020.

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Are you at all concerned about fulfilling your promise?

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The growth of Bitcoin, take the growth of Bitcoin, the number of users, the fact that it's going to be three times as large by the end of 2020.

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If it's not worth a million dollars, then something's wrong with math.

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I can't lose this bet.

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Not possible mathematically.

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The market, understand, the market is an artificial thing right now.

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As Bitcoin gets more and more utility, it will be less artificial and more real.

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And it's getting that way right now.

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So those that go, no, that's impossible.

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Please go back to school.

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