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090 - The Nuclear Option

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Nodumbquestionssciencehistorydestinmattsmartereverydaysmartereeryday, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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0:00.0

So I was speaking to the president of the United States.

0:03.1

Wow.

0:04.0

It's very interesting.

0:05.2

And as he turned to leave the room,

0:08.6

it was me and a couple of other people there.

0:10.7

He turns around, he says,

0:12.5

Hey, what you're doing is important.

0:16.4

And by what you're doing,

0:18.3

he of course was referring to like encouraging people to vote,

0:21.9

things of this nature.

0:23.6

He said, because whoever gets my job after me

0:28.1

is going to have the nuclear codes.

0:30.8

I remember the look in his eyes when he said that.

0:34.0

It was very interesting.

0:35.3

But you know what I mean by nuclear codes, right?

0:38.2

Yeah, absolutely.

0:39.2

I mean, it's not just the kind of thing that you punch up

0:42.1

and then nuclear weapons happen.

0:43.6

There's like a double verification and movies.

0:46.0

You see some kind of switch, something like this.

0:47.9

I mean, it's not easy to fire off a nuke.

0:50.4

And that's on purpose.

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