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Welcome back to the Corbett Report, friends. I'm James Corbett of Corbett.com coming

to you as always from the sunny climes of Western Japan here on the 13th day of June 2015.

Welcome to episode 306 of the Corporate Report Podcast.

Solutions laughing at tyrants.

Now I'm sure we are all familiar with that old adage

about laughter being the best medicine and some of you

out there may even be familiar with the voluminous and growing amount of material in the medical

literature that proves that this is not just the saying this is literally true

with laughter improving circulation and boosting the immune system reducing pain

and relieving stress and easing indigestion and balancing blood pressure and a whole host of other medical bodily

benefits as well as psychological benefits including improving alertness, including

mental functioning and memory and boosting creativity, but all of that aside,

all of those other benefits of laughter and comedy aside, what about the idea that laughter

is also one of the best ways to slay tyrants?

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule, I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Nothing.

Zero.

And I gotta tell you folks, I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them, I consider them to be

symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded. You know he armed Iraq, I wondered about that too you know during the Persian Gulf War those intelligence reports would come out

Iraq incredible weapons incredible weapons.

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