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Well, maybe two.
Two apologies.
Uh one was that I had a misdated Dilbert comic for those of you who subscribe.
So I fixed that.
So go look at the comic from yesterday and it will be the it'll be the correct one.
Number two.
Apparently, when I uh posted my last uh post for the evening on X, I said I was signing off.
What I meant was going to bed.
But apparently, giving the context of my situation when people people saw me say I was signing off.
It look it looked like it was a little more extreme than going to bed.
If you know what I mean.
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So if you thought, oh, he's being subtle or acute or something, I would never do that.
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So just so you don't have to worry next, but next time.
But I do have a path to potentially getting better.
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Um today, I believe will be released the podcast of Zuby and uh me talking on Zubies podcasts.
So just I don't know, just do a Google search for Zubies podcast.
It'll pop up somewhere.
Um Zuby is he's got this great approach to life, where he just sort of figures out what would be the smartest thing to do just in life.
What would be the smartest thing to do?
And then he does that thing.
And it's we it's it's fun to watch because he just makes one good common sense smart decision after another, and then he implements it, and then it works, and then he's better off.
So he's living in uh he's living in like the uh best place in the world because he can.
You know, um, where is it?
Uh one of those uh Middle East countries that everybody wants to be in.
And uh he's got this business model where he can travel the world.
He likes traveling.
Then he does his podcasts, he lines them up so that when he travels, the the travel and the podcasting, and he can bring his, you know, he can bring his family, bring his baby, bring his wife.
So he's got a portable job that he can schedule anytime he wants.
He can do it in a bunch and then go back and live his life.
Uh it's a pretty good model.
And his talent stack is amazing.
It's everything from fitness to uh music, uh, because he raps, he's got one of the best podcasts, one of the best personalities, one of the best um online personas.
Just so many talents to put it in one person.
So he he's a good interview.
Uh love Zuby.
All right.
Um, would you believe, according to Daily Coffee News, which is completely unbiased, that uh there was yet another sweeping review of existing coffee-related scientific studies?
And guess what?
It's still good for you in a variety of different health ways, it adds more than it subtracts.
Now, how many times have I told you about somebody who did the least scientific thing you could ever do, which is just look at the other scientific studies, which everybody's already looked at a million times?
Is there somebody who didn't know that if you looked at all the coffee health studies, that the net would be that yeah, coffee's good for you?
Is it there was still somebody who didn't know that in the world?
Well, at least my audience knows it.
Yes, that is the lamest research you could ever do.
Nobody should ever give you money for that.
Next time, you know, who'd ask, just ask Scott.
Well, here's another one.
Uh, let's see if I could have done a better job than science on this one.
Uh Northeastern University, according to Cody Mello Klein, did a little study and they found out that uh 78.6% of people they surveyed agree with at least one conspiratorial idea.
So did they have to do that study to find out that uh almost 79% of people believe at least one conspiracy theory?
Um, well, if they'd asked me, they would have gotten a better answer.
Because the answer is not 79%.
Does anybody know what the answer is of what percentage of people believe in conspiracy theories?
It's a hundred.
It's a hundred.
You don't have to study it.
It's a hundred.
Do you know why the researchers didn't get the answer 100?
Because researchers don't know what's true, they only have an opinion of what is a conspiracy.
You know, some of them they might have, you know, a good enough debunk that they know for sure, but there's no such thing as a researcher, like a living human being who knows what all the conspiracies are and which ones are not conspiracies.
That's not a thing.
That's not a thing at all.
100% of people of every type in every place believe conspiracy theories.
Just the fact that you don't know which ones they believe has nothing to do with whether they do or do not.
They do, every single person.
No exceptions.
So next time, ask Scott.
Well, I saw I saw a reference to a story that I didn't actually read details of, but I think I know enough about it.
Is it true that RFK Jr. has uh found that there are several existing studies that correlate use of Tylenol during circumcision for kids that get their circumcision extra early?
I think it doesn't apply if maybe you waited a few years or something.
I don't know how long you're supposed to wait.
But the since Tylenol is already implicated for autism, um, if it's in the mother's body, in other words, if the pregnant woman takes Tylenol, there's some thought that that increases the chances of uh of uh autism.
But um wouldn't you imagine that it's fairly routine and has been for a while for uh uh Tylenol to be given to babies uh to handle the circumcision pain.
Is it possible given that I I believe I saw that there are four separate studies that clearly indicated that Tylenol use during circumcision was correlated with autistic symptoms?
And I don't think this is necessarily the kind of thing where there'd be some other confusing cause.
They probably got a pretty clean data set out of that.
So here's the thing.
As as monumental and historic as this week has been already, and we'll talk about all that stuff.
Is it possible that RFK Jr. just solved the autism mystery?
Did that actually happen?
It's a little too early to know.
But there's a non-zero chance, and I would say pretty darn good, because Tylenol's now been spotted in two completely different domains and with the same outcome.
That's pretty convincing, right?
Now remember, half of all the scientific studies that ever get published, even the peer review ones, turn out to be not reproducible.
But this is four different studies just on circumcision on top of multiple studies about pregnant women.
That's getting a little bit hard to ignore, isn't it?
A little bit hard to ignore.
So it could be that in a week of uh fantastical successes, that we had one of the biggest ones we've ever had.
If this is true, and you know, we can get to that next level of confirmation, that Tylenol was the uh the bad boy behind autism.
Just think about that.
Did RFK Jr. just almost cure autism in a way that would not have happened if he had not been in that role and pushed exactly the way he pushed, and even had the the VP running mate choice that he did, Nicole Shanahan, because you know, she's she's the big force behind all the autism stuff, I believe.
And I I wouldn't even know what to say.
I mean, I if this is true that RFK Jr. actually, within one year, really on the timeline that he said he would, if he actually pulled this off, this is good this is going to make a piece in the Middle East uh look like it was easy.
No, I'm exaggerating.
Peace in the Middle East is still pretty amazing.
But he would probably uh the impact, my God, the size of the impact if he actually got a handle on this.
I don't know.
I mean I've never been, I don't think I've ever been more proud of an American government.
You know, it's just not something I do.
Not really proud of governments, but damn if he pulled this off on top of what's already happened this week, damn.
I know.
Oh, I I'd like to think maybe they did.
Elon Musk says that Grok will soon be able to detect AI-generated deepfakes.
How awesome is that?
One of the things we worry about the most is that we won't be able to tell what's real and what's not.
But fortunately, there's this guy, Elon Musk, who really likes maximum truth-seeking AIs.
So if he's figured out a way that AI can uh detect deep fakes, that would be amazing.
Again, if that was the biggest thing that happened this week, that'd be a big thing.
I mean, I don't know if it works or if it'll work on every case, but if Elon says we'll be able to detect AI deepfakes with Grok, Wouldn't that be amazing?
That would be amazing.
All right.
Trump's making some kind of announcement today at 5 p.m. Eastern time from the Oval Office.
I'm gonna guess that it's just sort of bragging about the success with uh Gaza, giving us some details.
You know, the country probably wants that, needs it.
So that would be my guess what that's about.
But I like to uh speculate that maybe he's gonna announce that that uh big comet, 31 Alice that's gonna come close to the close to our solar system, or in it, I think, um, then it might be an alien spacecraft.
Wouldn't that be fun with all the news that's happening today?
Imagine if Trump got up there and said, Oh, uh, you know, we we think we have peace in the Middle East, and we think we've solved uh autism, and you know, he just goes down the line, and then he does a Steve Jobs.
You know how Steve Jobs used to do it?
You would think he was done with the the rollout, and then it's like he's walking away and goes, oh, one more thing, and then the one more thing is the big announcement.
So it wouldn't be fun if he went through all the good news that happened this week and he goes, Oh, one more thing.
That uh comet, it's an alien spacecraft, and we've been in touch with it for a year.
I'm not gonna predict that, but wouldn't that be fun?
All right, let's talk about Trump's uh success so far.
I mean, it's looking good, and uh a little behind the curtain stuff about how he got it done, okay.
Um remember I I told you early on that Trump was playing a brilliant game by taking the yes but no response from both Hamas and uh Israel, which are really no, right?
If you say, yes, I agree with this, as long as you know I get these other things which are impossible and nobody's ever going to give me, and then Israel says, yes, I agree, as long as we get these things that we're never gonna get, because the other side said there's no way you'll ever get that.
So when I read it, I read it as a no.
That both sides said yes, so they would look reasonable, but in the detail, they said no, because they were very much not agreeing to the details of the of the deal.
They were just agreeing to the uh uh letting the hostages go.
So the story goes, and this is from the uh foreign Israel's foreign minister, right?
I I predicted this.
I alone predicted this, and the only person in the world, I think, who predicted what I'm gonna tell you next, but the Israel foreign minister confirmed it.
So Trump decided to take the no, which was in the form of a yes, but really no, and he decided that he was gonna force the people to treat it like a yes.
In other words, he wasn't negotiating, he was changing reality right in front of you.
Because if he could change the reality to you said yes, instead of the actual reality, which was you know the starting point, which is I said yes but no, which is really no.
And I guess when he allegedly, when he called Netanyahu and Netanyahu was all negative, Like, I don't know, you're happy about this, doesn't move the ball forward, and uh allegedly Trump just chewed him out.
Why are you so fucking negative?
Take it as a yes.
Now, how many people, presidents or non-presidents, would have been smart enough to know to treat that as a yes.
Because once he treated it as a yes, he could bully people into a yes.
But if he treated it as a no, people would just dig in.
But if he says you just said yes, I say yes, you say yes, the other side just says, We're working on a yes, people.
We're working on a yes.
Then you've changed reality itself.
You've changed how they see the possibilities.
Nobody else could do that.
Nobody else can do that.
He's the only one.
And I I'm I feel good about the fact that even his critics, you know, his biggest TV news critics, they also say Biden couldn't do that.
They also say that Trump's bullying, and here's the payoff, authoritarian strongman personality, might have been just exactly what they needed for the situation.
Has anybody ever said that before?
Then maybe this whole authoritarian strongman thing is a lot better than you thought it was.
Could it be, and here's the fun part.
Could it be that the consistent Democrat messaging that Trump is strong, unpredictable, authoritarian, uh dictator like?
Is it possible that made it more likely he would get a deal because Hamas would look at the same stuff and say, oh my God, this guy's you know, nothing can stop him.
He's he's a power hungry guy.
I feel like the more they talked him up as a powerful leader, the closer he got to being able to bully both sides into a deal.
Maybe um so here's the part I predicted.
I predicted that the only way he could make this work is not through negotiating, but changing reality, and that he's the only person who can do it.
And then he did it.
He did it right in front of us.
He changed reality instead of negotiating.
There was also negotiating, but the changing of reality is the the breakout part.
The part the part that brings him from, oh, he's a good deal maker.
That's not what you're seeing.
You're seeing a legend.
You're you're seeing a once ever personality.
You don't see this again.
You'll never see this again.
So enjoy it while you got it.
All right.
Um here are some of the things I mentioned before.
His credibility up to this point allowed him to do things other people couldn't do because he's done things that other people can't do.
Boy, if you want to be in a position of to do something that other people can't do, do something that other people can't do in some other domain until people start thinking, oh, I get it.
This is a person who can do things that people can't do.
Elon Musk being the best example of that, right?
Um, so here are some of the things that Trump has done just to be in a position for people to say, oh, I think he does impossible things.
He won a second term after being lawfared and impeached twice.
He was actually convicted of felonies, booked, headshot, impeached twice.
What do we call that?
What do you call it when you you lose your second term the first time?
You got law fared into literally cut uh felony convictions, and you got impeached twice.
You know what the name for that is Mr. President.
Yeah, that's what we call that.
We call that Mr. President, 47, if you like.
So that seemed impossible.
He survived two assassination attempts, and one of them didn't even keep him on the ground.
He's jumping up and telling us to fight.
That was amazing, and also a sign that you know, God's protecting him.
I'm not even a believer, and even I think it looked like God protected him.
Um he's now had enough time that he appears to be completely right about tariffs, using them as a tool sometimes, using them as a way to raise money sometimes.
Maybe he'll use some of that money for um stop gap healthcare stuff, we'll see.
But he clearly was right about tariffs, and that looked impossible, didn't it?
All the smart people were saying, oh no, this will never work.
And then it just kept working, and he kept making deals.
And he was he closed the border in no time, the thing that at least Democrats thought was impossible.
Um and people watching from other countries.
Imagine if you're a European and you're watching your own countries being you know continually overrun now and and no control, but you watched Trump come into office and immediately close the border successfully.
You don't think they're a little bit jealous that he did what looked like maybe it was impossible.
Nope.
Close it down tighter than a gnat's ass in the winter.
Uh he got the the original Abraham deal done.
Remember that?
Jared Kushner got the original Abraham deal done.
Did anybody think that was possible during his first term?
No, not at all.
Um he got several other peace deals done.
We'll talk about his list of successes, and he managed to be the commander-in-chief who dropped uh several gigantic bombs down vent ventilator shafts in Iran and essentially brought Iran to his knees.
Now, if you if you've got all of that working in your favor, and you make a phone call to somebody, they're gonna take the call because they think, oh man, this guy's got some kind of magic.
Like he's just doing all these things that on paper they didn't look doable at all.
Even people who supported him would have said, Well, I don't think so, but you know, try.
I like it that you try, but looks out of reach, and then he doesn't.
It's quite amazing.
So anyway, he Trump became the only person who could legitimately bully Netanyahu.
Would you agree?
Nobody else could legitimately bully Netanyahu at the same time he was bullying uh Qatar.
We'll talk about that.
Uh at the same time he was getting all of the uh leaders in the region to line up uh behind his vision.
You tell me somebody else could have done that.
I don't know who.
I don't know who.
Um there's one theory that the the breakout came because when Netanyahu decided to bomb the uh, which was kind of a baller play, when he decided to uh bomb and kill all of the negotiators,
the Hamas negotiators who had gathered in Qatar, it not only showed Qatar that Qatar is not the boss of us, uh, well, not the boss of Israel anyway, and that uh they would no longer be a safe haven for Hamas.
If you were Hamas leadership, you probably thought to yourself, well, worst case scenario, I can you know live in Qatar safely and rebuild what I had, and uh taking out the negotiators send a very strong message.
We're not negotiating anymore.
We don't need these negotiators, so we'll get rid of them, and at the same time we'll prove that uh Qatar is not a safe space for anybody.
And so, of course, Qatar was super mad, and there's some weird relationship with Qatar where sometimes there are good friends and they they I don't know, I think we have base there, but sometimes they might be helping all the worst people in the world work against us.
So Qatar is sometimes a good good guy, sometimes a bad guy, and it's like extreme in both cases.
It's like extremely bad, but sometimes extremely good, and their money is clanking around, and so Qatar had uh a little issue, but also Qatar had power over the United States because we would sort of have to keep them happy in order for them to do what we needed to do.
But apparently Qatar got so freaked by uh Israel bombing it that when they said they needed uh military protection.
So what does Trump do?
He offers to protect them militarily from our own ally, Israel.
Now, did you see that coming?
Would you have made that play?
Would you have even known to offer?
How about we'll be your military protector, but you're our bitch from now on.
Now he didn't have to say the part to Qatar that says, we will protect you militarily.
I I can influence Netanyahu, we've seen it.
But um, you're gonna have to be our bitch.
So it could be that what we're getting out of this, the stuff we don't know was communicated with Qatar and whatever they're gonna do.
It could be that that's one of the biggest benefits we get from it, is that Qatar decides to be smarter and a little bit more our friend than something else.
All right.
Oh, you're such a fucking asshole.
There's some people in the comments who are just fucking assholes.
Oh, fuck you.
I hate you so much right now.
All right, I won't even get into it.
Anyway, um the other thing that I thought was super interesting, uh, besides the fact that Trump became good cop to Netanyahu's bad cop, um, and that worked.
I I like the fact that Jared was sent at the end as a closer, and I'll give you a I'll give you a little behind the curtain uh fun for that.
You might remember that in 2018 I got invited to the White House to you know, just meet Trump and he was I think he was just consolidating support with his supporters, and I was just one of those people.
And uh Ivanka told me that the reason I was on their radar, she she introduced me to the president and took me around, showed me the Oval Office.
Um is that she had read my book Win Bigley, which taught uh Trump's persuasion techniques, and she told me, and I couldn't even believe this, she said that when she read the book Win Bigley that I wrote, it was the first time she understood her father,
meaning that she didn't understand him as a persuader the way I described him, and that once she did, like a lot of things clicked into place for her.
Um you would not believe who I just got a text from.
I can't tell you though.
Uh so anyway, so uh she read it, and then uh apparently Jared also read it.
So Jared read my book.
Here it's this book.
The uh the new version is out.
If you want to get the audio, I didn't do the audio book, it's uh uh audio artist, but wouldn't bigly it's uh version two.
Uh, this is the only one you want to buy, and it's only on Amazon, it's nowhere else.
And uh so prior to negotiating the Abraham Accords, um, Jared read my book about how to be a negotiator and persuader like Trump, and then armed with the those skills in his talent stack, he went out and did the impossible, the Abraham Accords.
Now, of course, there's lots more I don't know about that.
The only thing I know for sure is that Jared is super smart, and uh he's adding talents.
Now it doesn't mean that he couldn't have done it without reading the book, but he did consciously read a book about how to negotiate like his boss, his father-in-law, and uh I've heard lots of other stories from people who read the book and got promotions, doubled their pay, just did all kinds of amazing things.
So then this situation comes along.
You know, Jared is no longer actively in the administration, but he was asked to be brought in toward the end here as kind of a closer.
Now we don't know what he really did.
It could be that Wickhoff and Trump and everybody else had already got the deal pretty well done.
But even if his direct role was not consequential, although I think it probably was.
My my guess is that he had um personal contacts in the area that were super important, so he probably just called in some personal contacts.
Um, so I do believe he Probably made a big difference.
But even if he didn't, do you see how genius it is for Trump to send him in?
Because Jared is uh like uh he's like a signal that something impossible is gonna happen.
As soon as Jared enters the room, you say, he's done one impossible thing so far, the the Abraham Accords.
Just seeing him, just seeing him and knowing he's part of it, would make everybody in the region go, oh, this thing's actually gonna happen.
So again, this is this is Trump managing reality, not negotiating.
Because introducing Jared into the the larger picture changes how you feel about the reality.
And then suddenly the negotiating part becomes the trivial part, because you've just reframed the entire reality by introducing the you know magical deal making Abraham Accord guy.
That's amazing.
Like, yeah, I don't think that history will ever quite record the the total number of small genius things that were done to make this to get to this point.
That was one of them, sending Jared.
Anyway, um other news, Letitia James has been indicted, as you know, for mortgage fraud.
I like the I like the fact that the name of the alleged crime sounds pretty bad.
More banking fraud or mortgage fraud.
Anyway, I don't think she'll be convicted.
I think she I think they've probably got some clever uh some clever kind of defense.
Uh one of the defenses that somebody suggested that sounded pretty good to me, is that maybe if you get a loan and you say this is my intention when I get the loan, but then something comes up.
Let's say you intended to rent it, or you intended to use the second house as your second house, vacation house, but then let's say something came up.
Let's say a family member got evicted and needed a place to stay.
So you said, all right, well, I wasn't intending to do that when I got the loan, but you know, you're my cousin, so I'll rent it to you.
Now I'm not saying that's what happened.
What I'm saying is, how do you handle the fact if somebody gets a loan and then they change their mind, maybe temporarily, not even permanently, and say, all right, it was going to be my second home, but why don't you rent it for a year until you get back in your feet?
So if she's got a story like that, um, even if she technically broke the law, even if she should have notified the bank, it's gonna make the crime look so small that you know, maybe that maybe the jury will just say, ah, get out of here.
Who knows?
So I'm guessing that uh she will not go to jail over any of it, or won't be convicted anyway, but it will be a punishment.
And you know, I'm hearing people on TV say, but but but it's looking like it's just revenge.
No, it's not looking like it's revenge, it's revenge.
Am I in favor of the government using its power for revenge?
Yes, yes, because it's revenge against the lawfarer.
If he was doing it against somebody who just was a critic, then I would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, authoritarian.
No, you don't go after somebody who just disagrees with you, you don't send the Department of Justice against somebody who said, you know, said a bad word about you, no way.
But if you're going after the people who created hoaxes to try to remove you from government, go me.
If you're taking out somebody who said, I'm gonna take this person down, I don't even know what the crime is yet.
Oh yeah, yeah.
You you have to revenge the hell out of that.
And I feel safer when that happens.
I feel safer that the January 6th people got um their sentences were commuted or whatever the right word is.
That makes me feel safer, because I I don't want to be locked up for bullshit and rotten jail.
But at least, you know, at least they didn't stay there forever.
And when I see uh Trump just publicly and unapologetically going after people who were lawfare creeps, then I say, Oh, yeah, absolutely.
You you can you can revenge the hell out of that.
Because I will feel safer if I know that anybody who goes after a Republican with a lawfare agenda, somebody's gonna take them out.
Take them out with lawfare, not not violence, of course.
So yeah, I feel better.
Makes me feel safer, makes me feel better as an American, makes me feel that like something like justice is happening, even if even if there's no you know, jail time, just the the annoyance of it and having it on your record would be bad enough.
Well, the Nobel Prize winner was selected really at the beginning of the week, so uh Trump didn't have a chance.
And I guess it's the opposition leader, uh, a woman who it was known as Venezuela's Iron Lady, and some would say that she's she's the real legitimate leader of Venezuela and not Maduro, and I guess she's been in hiding for a while, which makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, you you'd want to be in hiding.
Um, and the nominations, I think the nominations were in January or something.
Now, some people said, Scott, don't you know that Trump wasn't nominated in January, so there was no way that he could have been selected.
Well, he probably was nominated.
He probably was.
You don't know who was nominated.
That's not public information.
But uh he probably was nominated.
Trump probably was from some of his other work.
Uh but it would have taken the Gaza thing to put him over the line, and that was just too late.
So uh what I think what I think is happening is that this is an only Trump thing, too.
If you were maybe up for a Nobel Peace Prize and you didn't make it, and you were not Trump, what would be the summary of that situation?
The summary would be, well, you know, I guess you didn't do enough to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
That's the end of that.
But when it's Trump, don't you think that the credibility of the Peace Prize is what took the hit, not Trump?
Like the fake news.
It used to be if the if the fake news said something about Trump, you would say, Oh, that's bad.
That's bad for Trump.
That's that's really bad.
But once you realize that the fake news is fake news, then you blame the fake news when they blame Trump.
That's happening here, too.
Even though there's, I would argue that there's you know a good reason because of the timing of things, uh, why he wasn't eligible for this one, but it'll be harder for them to deny him next year.
That'll be hard to deny if things work out.
You know, we'll know by then if things are working out.
But I think he's destroying the credibility of the prize.
He's already destroyed the credibility of the Pulitzer by showing that the uh Russia hoaxers were the ones getting Pulitzer prizes.
So to me, that just makes the Pulitzer uh just a garbage.
I mean, I already thought it was a garbage prize, but I mean the rest of the world knows now it's a garbage prize.
I think when uh Obama was picked as uh Nobel Peace Prize winner, you know, maybe that was a big hit for their credibility.
But by not choosing Trump, even though they've got a good reason because of timing, people aren't going to take it that way.
People are gonna say, you know, you could have changed it at the last minute.
I mean, it's your own organization.
You know, you make the rules, you could just change them and say, Well, this is extraordinary, but we had somebody picked, but we're gonna change it at the last minute.
They could have.
They could have done that.
Decided not to.
So I think that destroys the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize, uh, as opposed to being bad for Trump.
Although he still wants it, of course.
All right, let's talk about how many wars and/or conflicts Trump has solved, because he he likes to mention that.
He'll probably mention it again today from the Oval Office.
Uh he said, quote, nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months.
So that's his claim.
Eight in the period of nine months.
So I went to Grok and I said, can you tell me how many wars and or conflicts uh Trump was instrumental in helping solve?
It came up with six, not counting Gaza.
So uh the typical Trump thing is to add two to whatever he's doing.
Like if he saves you a trillion dollars, he's gonna say three, right?
So he has always adds a little.
So I knew that the real number would not be, you know, eight.
Um, but uh Grok says six, plus I guess they would add Gaza.
Here are the ones, just so you remember, they're claiming, and by the way, these are not claims that other people would necessarily say that Trump made a difference.
These are just Trump claims that he made a difference.
The Israel-Iran war, um he definitely made a difference there.
Uh I don't know if we'll call that peace.
I guess even Iran at the moment is saying they like the Gaza deal.
Did you see that coming?
That Iran is officially said they like the Gaza peace deal.
Weird.
I was not expecting that.
Then there was the uh Republic of Congo-Rwanda conflict, but some say violence continues.
There was the India-Pakistan Kashmir conflict.
Um the US tried to mediate, but India, you know, India acts like India was more the the cause of that.
Um Thailand Cambodia border, uh, pushed for a ceasefire, and uh I think he actually gets credit for that one.
They they actually say, yeah, you made it the difference.
There's the Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Gordo-Karabak conflict that he resolved.
Um, and uh, but the stability is uncertain, but that that would be true of all peace deals.
There's the Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dam dispute.
Uh the claim is that he settled it to avert war, but there's no official agreement.
But it looks like they averted war, at least for now.
Serbia Kosovo, ethnic tensions, um, resolve via economic normalization.
Um some say there's more progress than there is settlement per se, but he gets credit for that one too.
Then you add the the Gaza deal.
So here's what I love about uh Trump claiming that he did uh he solved eight wars in nine months.
First of all, he's gonna make his critics argue about whether those were wars, because some of them were just conflicts.
Secondly, he's gonna have people trying to score his report card to take his grade down, but how much how down are they gonna be able to take it?
Suppose somebody says, all right, you did not, you did not solve eight wars in nine months.
You you solved five conflicts in nine months.
He's making them think past the sale.
The sale is did you solve a whole bunch of conflicts around the world?
Yes or no.
If he can make you argue about which ones he solved and which ones he didn't, is the number six or seven or eight, he wins.
He wins hard.
So he just has to make you think, is that the right number?
Let's talk about that.
Let's talk about all these all these examples that you never would have heard, except that I'm talking about what the right number is, right?
If if everybody had agreed on the number, and everybody said, Yeah, it's five, he got five.
I wouldn't even look them up.
But because there's dispute, then suddenly it's interesting and fun for all of us to know what the names of those disputes are.
And then you say, oh, well, okay, I can see why his critics might say that one's not.
I can see why his critics would say he doesn't get credit for that specific one.
But in the process of debunking any one of them, you're going to be reminded that he got several wars or conflicts ended through his involvement.
So it's perfect persuasion.
All right.
I love that he does that.
All right.
And Trump said that Iran wants to work on peace now.
They've informed us and they've acknowledged that they're totally in favor of this deal.
Do you think it's possible that this would actually lead to a lasting Iran kind of a deal?
Because I think even Russia was in favor of the uh Gaza deal.
So that would be just about everybody.
All right.
Um and then Pete Hagseth gets the win, because apparently the uh the military has met its full year um quota.
Uh see what it met its year-long goal in the Marine Corps in two weeks.
So apparently uh people joining the military is way up, and there's no way that that has anything to do with anything except leadership.
Would you agree?
It's not because the economy is so bad, although it's hard for young people to get jobs, so that is part of it.
Uh, but it's Hag Seth and Trump.
They simply made it cool for young men.
You know, I'm sure young women are still joining, but young men, uh, they made it cool to be in the military.
And now they know that if you're in the military, uh maybe nobody's gonna call you fat.
So you won't be, because you get it, you don't get to stay.
So good job, Pete Hag Seth and Trump on getting on getting the military so respected that they just smashed through the recruitment goals.
The opposite of what was happening under Biden.
Um, the press is having a weird, weird week in trying to be at least a little bit honest about how happy they are that this you know peace deal might be happening.
Um here are the things that even the Trump, let's say I'll call them Trump uh critics, just the people who are not pro-Trump.
But they do agree that Biden could not have gotten this done, which is amazing that people are saying that out loud.
Uh, you know, Fetterman said that if he also gets the Ukraine deal solved, I don't think that's imminent, but maybe.
Um that that Fetterman himself would lead the the push to get him the Nobel Peace Prize because he would deserve it.
Um I believe that his critics are all on the same page, then no matter what you don't like about Trump, the one thing you have to admit is that he's a peacemaker, and he really doesn't like war.
That's amazing that they do not argue that even though they would say he lies about everything, he has convinced even his most serious critics that not only is he the biggest badass if he has to go militarily, but he's also the biggest force for peace at the same time, and that that's real, that that comes from his heart, not from some policy decision.
Even his critics say he's the strongest man of peace who's also strong.
That's amazing.
His credits.
Um, they give him credit for being willing to and able to bully uh Netanyahu.
Um that's real.
Uh, because that whole thing about Israel's the tail wagging the dog.
Well, I I think Trump kind of reinforced the model that I've been trying to uh promote, which is it's not that that Israel runs the United States.
It's more like a sibling situation where they want things and they try to they try to influence us.
We want things, so we try to influence them.
But I don't know that we've ever been as good at it as we are now with Trump.
Probably not.
This is probably the most influence we've ever had.
And uh and Netanyahu is smart enough to know that he needs to stick with the winner.
So if Netanyahu had any doubts or wanted to push back against Trump before, he probably has figured out that that would be a bad idea at the moment.
You know, you should just go with Trump because that's the winning horse right now.
And I love the fact that the his critics are gonna have to uh struggle with the fact that Trump's authoritarian side is probably what got this done.
So the their number one complaint about Trump is that he's authoritarian.
And remember just the other day I was talking about how the best form of government would be an authoritarian who has your best interest in mind.
They have his critics have decided that he has our best interest in mind when it comes to ending war, and that he needed to be authoritarian to get it done.
Yeah, how do you win harder than that?
It's the number one complaint about him, and he just used that number one personality uh uh they would call it a defect, but he uses that that personality strength to get one of the most remarkable wins of any president, and he did it right in front of them while we all watched.
We watched the authoritarian thing, turn from, oh, I'm scared of this, to once you realize that he's pro-America and he's a benevolent authoritarian.
Now, people got mad at me for for acknowledging his authoritarianism.
But authoritarian just means that you you're big on following the law and the constitution, because that is the authority.
It doesn't mean that he wants to be the law.
It means that he's gonna you know push all the doors and test all the envelopes and stuff like that, but he's still gonna follow the law.
So uh I think the thing that people aren't talking about is this re this sort of organic reframing of authoritarian into a positive, at least this week.
But you didn't see that coming.
All right.
And I think the Democrats made Trump's success more uh likely by promoting him as bad cop.
So his critics created a uh let's say an image of him as the ultimate strong man who could not be persuaded and of his views.
None of that's true, but I'll bet it helps him negotiate.
So I you know, his critics get the win.
Uh they they get the assist, not the win.
Jake Tapper is uh I I'm kind of enjoying what he's doing right now.
So CNN, as you know, has been trying to find the middle and not just be the anti-Trump network.
And I gotta give him credit.
You know, they're giving plenty of time to Scott Jennings, and they do seem serious about trying to find a reasonable middle ground that's real news.
Here's an example of it.
So Jake Tapper is challenging some of the Democrat leaders by saying that in the past, when the news talked about uh government shutdown, and they talked about the um continuing resolution option, which allows you to keep it open until you agree on a final budget.
So he points out to the Democrats that the Republicans have offered to sign a continuing re resolution, which means everybody gets paid, military gets paid, all the the Medicare medical stuff gets covered until it's the time to negotiate for real, which is not too many weeks away.
Now, Jake Tapper correctly says in the past, we would call this the Democrats shutting the government because the Republicans have directly said, no, we'll we'll open it whenever you want.
We'll open it today.
Every one of us will vote to open it.
The only thing you have to do is put off the negotiating until a few weeks.
So, yes, that is very clearly and unambiguously the Democrats closing the government.
So uh so good on you, Jake Tapper.
I didn't see anybody else doing that, and that was actually a really salient point.
Uh meanwhile, I saw a video of uh Chuck Schumer, who is the worst uh communicator in the history of communicators.
I mean, he's so bad, and uh he was talking about the shutdown.
He actually said the following in public.
Uh he said that uh every day of government shutdown gets better for Democrats.
Now, do I have to tell you how bad a mistake that sentence is so people are wondering how to pay their bills?
People are wondering if they'll have health care.
I mean, really panicky stuff, and what is he talking about?
Oh, uh, what's better for Democrats, which he means Democrat leaders, and those are the fuckers who are getting paid.
So he wants to make sure that you know that the people who are getting paid who are making sure that you're not getting paid, as Jake Tapper says, it's the Democrats.
They're making sure you're not getting paid if you're you know one of the government people not getting paid.
But oh, he's really happy that every day without you getting paid is better for fucking Democrats.
Can you believe that their leader is so dumb that he thinks saying that what's good for the the leadership is the thing he should focus on.
That is so lost, so lost.
Now, I get that there's a political element to this, but you got to start with you know, this shutdown is terrible for the people, we want it to end as soon as possible, but I don't think the Republicans have made the right bet on this.
That would be fine.
That would be fine because at least he's showing that his thoughts are with the people not getting paid, but no, his thoughts are with himself and his career.
Terrible, just so bad.
Um, there's so much interesting news today.
Apparently, Dominion, the the uh voting machine company has sold to a uh they call him an ex-republican kind of guy who's an entrepreneur, so he bought it.
We don't know what price, but um, I saw Rasmussen, the polling people had uh some comments about this.
They've been talking about uh Rasmussen always talks about uh the past election integrity.
And Rasmussen said in a post, you bet you're bippy that we're reading between the lines here, which is what we're all doing.
I'm gonna read between the lines too.
But with what is surfacing almost daily, it's practically the only reason that makes sense, and that would be that Dominion sold it for scrap because indictments are expected.
Now, indictments in this context, in Rasmussen's context, would be uh for rigging the election or lying about rigging the election or something.
Now, I don't have any evidence that anybody rigged an election through Dominion.
I do know there are a lot of accusations, a lot of allegations.
Uh, and I think uh people have you know done uh legally binding sign things saying that they they believe stuff happened.
Um but part of this deal is they had to settle the ongoing cases with, let's see, who else was it?
Um Lyndell.
I think they were still in a lawsuit with Lyndell and some other people.
So they had to they had to stop suing the Republicans to get this deal done.
And uh let's see, uh Liberty Vote.
That's who bought it.
And it's a former Republican election official, Scott Leindecker.
Now I'll give you my own reading between the lines.
We don't know how much they sold it for, but I'll bet it wasn't as much as it used to be worth because Trump is talking about removing all electronic voting machines from the United States.
If you were the electronic voting machine company, now they they service the world not just the United States, but the United States has to be one of the big customers.
And so if you don't know if you're going to lose your biggest customer and by the way if the United States removed them because they weren't safe, what would the other countries do?
Do you think the other countries could keep them after the United States had hypothetically said no these are too unsafe.
We don't even want them in our election it probably would take down the whole the whole company.
Now what would be the one and only that that Dominion could survive let's say reliably survive under the Trump regime which is just trying to get rid of electronic machines.
Well I would say the one and only way to do it is if you could find an ex-republican who's just really Republican who would uh allow you and your people and whoever needs to really look at those machines and number one for the first time find out what's going on and number two get rid of any rigging or if there is rigging make sure it's in favor of Republicans.
Now, under those conditions, you can see why a sale would go through.
Because the Republicans would have a massive incentive to have full access to the code and find out what was real and maybe make sure any rigging doesn't happen again if it never happened.
So you can see why a Republican might buy this company.
If you ask me, as just, let's say, an entrepreneur, I would never buy that company.
you know give it given the turmoil and the suspicions and the allegations and the lawsuits that are going on that would be the worst company you could ever own so if somebody bought it I'm going to guess that it was for reasons more than profitability.
In other words, it had to be a larger purpose for the sale to even go through because nobody in their right mind would buy a company that had that many threats that you can't know how they're going to turn out.
It was an unbuyable company that got bought.
So there's something happening in the background there that probably has to do with figuring out what really happened.
Anyway, Judicial Watch, you know them, right?
They did a FOIA request, and I guess they didn't get what they wanted, so they must be suing for it now.
They wanted, quote, any records about statements made by Director Gabbard.
This is about also the voting machines.
Made by Gabbard during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in which he stated, quote, We have evidence of how these electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast.
Now, that's different from saying that they've discovered rigging.
She's not saying that.
She's saying they discovered a mechanism by which rigging would be somewhat trivial.
Now, do you think there's any chance that if voting machines are are rigable by, let's say, a standard hacker, is there any chance that they didn't try?
No.
there any chance that they didn't succeed well we don't know but it looks like there might have been more than one way they could have so if you have enough time and you have enough at stake And you have enough hackers, what are the odds that it would be rigged?
The answer is 100%.
The only thing you can't know is when.
Has it happened yet?
Well, that I don't know.
If if things had kept going the way they were, would it happen for sure within the next 10 years?
Don't know.
But probably.
So the situation is such that I often describe this as fraud is guaranteed.
If you've got lots of people involved, very high stakes, there's lots of complication.
That's where you hide things in complexity.
The code is complicated.
The elections are complicated.
And then you wait a long time.
Under those circumstances, it's always rigged.
Always, 100% of the time.
The only thing you don't know is how long it takes.
So we don't know if it happened yet, or it was guaranteed that it would happen.
I've never heard anybody except me make that argument, by the way.
It's the best argument.
You can borrow it.
So yes, I think the sale of Dominion is probably going to open up a very uh very big uh chest of surprises.
Uh so also Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and OAN, OANN, we're all part of these uh defamation lawsuits.
So I guess those all got dropped as part of the sale.
Well good.
Well, Princeton has announced that it would begin requiring standardized test scores for admission for 2027 and beyond.
Um so now Columbia is the only Ivy League that doesn't require looking at your test scores before they accept you for for the college.
Do you know why they uh do you know why Princeton is going back to requiring test scores?
Because when they didn't, they got really bad students who didn't do so well.
So it turns out that measuring stuff works.
Um how many times have I told you that if you're not measuring, you're not managing you you can't manage anything if you don't know if the changes you make are making things better or worse.
You've got to be measuring.
So at least they measured and they found out it didn't work.
But the fact that they ever stopped to measure, dumb.
Um I posted this on X. I borrowed uh an old saying and reworked it.
I said the best trick the devil ever played was convincing the world Democrats were the pro-science side.
Do you know how much that costs society?
That somehow we all got convinced, even if you're a Republican, you might have been convinced, that the Democrats were the science aside.
And they couldn't tell if men were women, they thought IQ is not predictive, they thought climate models are real.
They thought that fighting crime by allowing more of it to go unpunished would work, and they thought that overpopulation was a problem instead of underpopulation.
And that's just a sample.
We thought that the the Democrats had the right science.
Just think how expensive that was.
All of those things.
I mean, these are literally end of the world kind of problems.
Because if they still think that overpopulation is the problem, and and they don't want to have kids because they think the climate models are real and they're all gonna die.
These are existential risks to civilization.
And I don't believe that Republicans ever had any uh improper scientific ideas that would have killed us all.
Am I wrong about that?
Yeah, maybe I just couldn't think of an example of it.
But was there anything that Republicans sort of reliably got wrong in science that because it was wrong could kill us all?
I'm not aware of anything like that, but there's several examples of Democrats who could literally end civilization with their bad ideas about science.
Well, Thomas Massey has uh put in some uh legislation that he hopes gets signed, but I doubt it will, to repeal the 2013 Smith Munt Modernization Act.
You might remember that uh that's when I think Obama pushed that through, and that allowed our intelligence agencies, the CIA in particular, to use propaganda against Americans in America.
Whereas the government, I guess, in general.
So I guess it used to be illegal for the government to try to propagandize and brainwash you.
But then I think it was Obama who made it legal again.
And that was about the time that the Russia collusion uh hoaxes started, and then basically the government started massively lying to you uh with hoaxes, probably more than any time in history.
But it was legal.
It was it was specifically legal that the government could lie to the citizens over and over again.
So that's the Smith Munt Modernization Act allowed them to do that lying.
Thomas Massey wants to withdraw it.
Now, do I have to tell you again?
Uh, although Thomas Massey often votes against the the MAGA agenda, as long as there aren't too many Thomas Masseys, he's the most valuable person in Congress, because he's the only one who does a whole bunch of things that just look like common sense to me, but for political reasons, you know, maybe they won't get signed reasons we don't know if you always know.
But I love the fact that he's trying.
Like he went to work and he did something today.
I don't know that the rest of them did.
What they do, went to a meeting, uh, talked on TV.
He actually did something.
Might not work out, but every time I see a Thomas Massey is doing something, I say to myself, well, at least you at least you extended the argument.
You know, at least you showed that there's a priority that's been that's missing.
Maybe he'll get this one done.
It's doable.
This is doable.
I just I feel like it would have been done sooner if it were easy.
So there must be something that keeps us from being done.
We'll see.
Good luck.
Good luck, Thomas Massey on that.
I like that there's one person operating on principle.
We need at least one.
Rand Paul does as well.
Uh so Trump signed a proclamation to make Columbus Day Columbus Day again.
Uh, because it used to be, I guess they changed it to what Native American Day or something else.
I don't know what it was.
But now it's back to Columbus Day.
Now, Columbus himself, uh, if you judge him by modern standards, he was a really bad dude, like really, really bad.
The way he treated the native population uh was sort of just historically unbelievably cruel.
I don't want to say however, because then it will sound like I'm defending it.
You know, it will sound like I'm defending the the white guy, you know, mistreating the brown people.
Uh and I'm not doing that.
Um, but if you put it in historical context, unfortunately, anybody who had weapons in power were abusing people who didn't have weapons and power.
So that's not an excuse.
But there is a good argument for looking at uh things in context.
Now jumping off from the prior topic that the government uh sometimes tries to brainwash the public.
I would say that the legal and ethical way to brainwash children, because you do have to brainwash them.
You can't just let them make all their own decisions, they're children.
You have to brainwash them what's right and wrong, and then you know, someday you hope that they will understand why things are right and wrong.
But in the beginning, you just have to tell them you do this.
And one of the ways that you tell people what's what and how to be is by what heroes you promote.
So we promote our uh presidents, you know, make sure everybody knows who the important presidents are, because we're we're promoting that uh Our democratic republic is the best system.
Now, is that good to brainwash children to think that they're in the best system?
Yeah, because it makes the system stronger.
Um, but when you push any kind of hero, you're telling a story.
So if you do a war hero, you're saying that we we honor military service, right?
That's the seat sort of the secret message you get.
It's like, what why is this guy in the statue?
Well, he was a general.
So, you know, people win wars, and in some cases, even the ones who lose wars, if they were generals, we're gonna give them respect.
So that's one way to train young people to respect the military.
Columbus is in that vein to me.
What makes Columbus interesting is that he was an explorer, and he was willing to risk everything to try to get a bigger thing, and and that kind of worked out.
So if you're if you're lionizing and uh making a hero out of an explorer, do I want do I want American children to see explorers as heroes?
Yes, yes, that's some good brainwashing.
I want them to think that they can be entrepreneurs.
I want them to think that nothing will stop them.
I want them to think that yes, there's an ocean between you and whatever you're looking for, but you can figure that out.
So, yes, I I'm very much in favor of overlooking his historical evils, which definitely were evil, um, and focusing on his explorer bravery, uh, shake the box, think outside the box, love all that stuff.
It's a good message for the kids.
All right, I got a question for you.
You know that they caught that uh the arsonist who set the fire for the uh Palisades fire, and we learn now that he was a lefty who was also very concerned about climate change,
which makes me wonder if you add his, you know, probably mental illness, and if you added that to his lefty belief that the climate is going to kill us all, is it possible that he set the fire as any kind of a response to what he thought was the world not doing enough about climate?
Do we have enough information to say that um a guy who is really radical about climate and climate risk?
That's not the one who sets a fire, right?
Because he'd be worried about the climate.
The only reason you would do it is if you're trying to make a climate statement by saying, well, you know, tried to warn you, but here's the here you see what happened.
You didn't do enough on climate, so I guess you're a city burned down.
Now if it feels like maybe that's what happened.
We don't have confirmation of that.
But what would be alarming is that it could be that the climate models have destroyed more than the climate, right?
The climate models are what causes underpopulation.
Is that a big problem?
Yeah, it's like the end of the world problem.
And it would be because, in large part, because people believe that the cloud the climate's going to destroy the planet, so you don't want to put your kids here to get destroyed.
So now it may be behind underpopulation.
It may the climate models might be behind massive mental health problems.
We know that people have all this anxiety, uh, if they believe in climate crisis, and it might have caused the Palisades fire because it inspired somebody to do something a little bit crazy, a lot crazy.
So is it possible that literally, no, no exaggeration, that the models have destroyed more of the country and the world than the climate, at least change in climate.
The change in climate is making things greener and warmer and the gardening better.
The climate models are causing us not to reproduce, and in one case, maybe burning down the city.
The models are more dangerous than the climate.
Now there's a reframe.
Um Yeah, Benny Johnson had some uh some um breaking news on that about the uh about the fire guy being a radical uh left-wing eco-terrorist guy.
Well, Stephen Crowder, you all know Stephen Crowder, podcaster.
Um he uh went into a black barbershop and filmed it and had a uh what looked like a productive conversation with a number of black men who were at the barbershop.
Uh they talked about reparations.
Um I don't think uh let me give Crowder a compliment and then a suggestion.
My compliment is that he's another one of those um full stack people.
He looks like he knows fitness, which is really good if you're gonna be on camera.
You know, your arm should be good.
He knows podcasting, he clearly can run a business.
Um, he knows politics, so he has a really deep talent stack, and it's not a surprise at all that he's doing super well in the podcasting space.
He has exactly the right set of talents, which he my observation is that he is um he's built over time, knowing that these would be exactly the talents that he would need for his future life, and here he is.
So I love the fact that he's doing well, because he just did all the right things.
Um I will say that his persuasion game is not up to where it could be, and probably will be because he's like I said, he's a he's a talent adder, so it's not like he's done.
He's a young guy.
So I feel like he should read Win Bigley if he hasn't.
Because I listened to a little bit of his arguments, and uh there's another level.
Like he's solid, he's a good solid debater, but he's more of a debater than he is a persuader.
Uh, that's what I wanted to say.
Yeah, he's a good debater, because he's always got a response, and he's good at talking in public.
But that's debate.
Debate is a very limited thing if you're putting on a debate show or debate contest.
You know, that could be the right thing.
But what you really want to do in this domain, if you walk into a black barbershop, I want to persuade them.
If you do it as a debate, you already know how it ends.
Both sides claim victory, right?
That's what a debate always ends in.
Both sides claim victory.
Every time there's a political debate on TV at the end, who do we say won?
Democrats say the Democrat won, Republicans.
Debates don't have winners, they just have both sides claim claim winner.
Persuasion can actually move the move the rock.
Um if, for example, Crowder had laid down a sticky reframe, then that would even go beyond the the content.
So maybe the reframe had a little bit of effect of the people in the room, maybe it didn't, but it would have a bigger effect on the people watching.
They're like, oh wow, that's that was a good way to put that.
That was a good way to put that.
And then they'll use it.
So I would say to Steven Crowder, uh, you have an amazing talent stack, and your success is very impressive, you know, much better than mine.
And just that one thing.
Uh I would just tune up a little bit on reframing.
My other book, Reframe Your Brain might get you there faster.
But Wynn Bigley will teach you persuasion.
Uh, reframe your brain will teach you reframing.
And if he adds those two things to his talent stack, unstoppable.
He would be just unstoppable.
Well, George Clooney has said that raising his children in rural France uh has been a much better life than they would have had in Los Angeles.
Well, that's one way to put it.
Do you know that if you word that wrong, you get canceled?
Yeah, George Clooney.
What were you escaping to go to raise your children in rural France?
Well, I don't want to say it because I already got canceled.
But no, you're getting away from crime, you're getting away from well, I don't have to say it.
You know, he he went to where the demographics were friendly to his family.
Let's just put it that way.
Was that a good idea?
Yeah, probably, if you could afford it.
So, yes, George Clooney.
If you had worded that differently, you'd be as canceled as I am.
Speaking of canceled, let's talk about cancer, according to uh Massimo, good follow on X, by the way, Mastimo.
Uh, scientists of the University of Florida, they have a believe it or not, an MRNA cancer vaccine that erased deadly brain tumors in some early people who had uh brain tumors, and uh apparently the vaccine reprogrammed their immune systems within 48 hours, and then their own immune system took out the tumors, and it worked in like four out of four people, I think.
Four out of four.
It got rid of the tumor, a brain tumor, four out of four people.
Now, I guess what they do is they they take something from your tumor first, and then they deliver it via lipid nanoparticles or something, so it's based on your own specific cancer and body, and then they can turn that into a shot on the mRNA platform, and then they give it to you.
And uh, I guess it's already worked on mice and dogs, and now on a handful of people, and they're moving into uh phase one pediatric trials.
Oh, I didn't say, so this is I think uh for children's brain cancers specifically.
Now, the way things move slowly, even if this is the magic bullet, it probably you know won't be available in time to save my life.
But this is one of now several different cancer treatments that have something in common, which is they take something from your body, and then they build up a special kind of a shot that's just for you.
And I think I've read about half a dozen of these, completely different tech, but in each case, they're they're customizing a vaccine just for a person and all kinds of claims to success.
So you know what I say.
Can you do that a little bit faster?
And you know, like a lot faster.
That would be really good, if you don't mind.
Anyway, the robot energy wars are going on.
I guess 450 Russian drones attacked uh Ukraine's energy sites.
They're trying to shut them down before the winter so that Ukraine will have no warmth in the winter, and that would be pretty ugly.
And I guess they're being pretty successful.
450 Russian drones in one night.
I wonder what the the top number for that's gonna get to, like the total number of drones for one attack.
You think it'll reach a million?
Because it might.
You know, 450 is going to be a thousand pretty soon.
And if they're just cranking up their drone factories, a thousand becomes a hundred thousand.
So whoever could get to uh a million drones uh at a time, probably wins.
And uh apparently the Russian strikes have already taken out 60% of Ukraine's natural gas.
Now, if Ukraine had enough money from other helpers, they could replace the natural gas, but it's an energy war.
So it's now robots versus energy, as I told you.
I guess the U.S. is going to buy a bunch of Argentino uh currency, the pesos, and they're doing it to help prop up the country's economy and help their good friend Miley, the new leader, newish leader of Argentina.
Uh, what I like about this is that it's not a gift, it is an investment.
And uh the person behind It is Scott Bessant, head of the treasury, who is one of the most famously successful currency traders in the world.
So we're sending like, you know, one of the best guys in America to make this investment, and Besson thinks it's a good one.
I kind of love this.
Because it's part of the Monroe doctrine that you know, this this part of the world is ours, you know, keep your military out of it, and you know, we'll try to keep things stable and do what makes sense.
This makes sense, and having the best guy in the world in charge of it, that makes sense.
And I would bet that the U.S. will make a tidy little profit and Argentina will be directly benefited in a big way.
And I like everything about it.
Well, according to a University of California Los Angeles study, uh there were uh more hate acts in California than usual.
And uh allegedly in 2024, 3.1 million Californians who are 12 years up and older experienced a hate act.
Now that could be verbal or physical, but a hate act in the previous year.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe that 3.1 million uh Californians over the age of 12 in one year?
That there were 3.1 million of them that experienced a hate act?
Well, here again, they should have just come to me and said, Scott, how many Californians do you think experienced a hate act last year?
And I would have said, How many of them are on social media?
And we're done.
How in the world can you be on social media and not observe a hate acts every day?
Do you know that do you know how many hate acts are implemented against just me alone?
I mean, just one Californian.
Every single day I get hate.
Very obvious hate.
So no, it's not 3.1 million saw some hate.
It was every single person on social media.
It's called social media.
Uh let's see.
So Zero Edges reporting, you know how uh we found out that uh U.S. taxpayers were paying maybe up to 100 million dollars that we didn't know was going to these NGOs, and then the NGOs were doing things like uh funding Antifa and riots on demand and stuff.
Well, according to Elon Musk, that number is way more than 100 million.
We don't know what it is, but far more.
So he couldn't let that go.
That number is way too low.
Do you ever wonder if the entire problem with our debt is the part that Democrats were stealing to give to their gift to bad guys and back to themselves?
Like, could it be that there's two trillion dollars a year that's just being siphoned off and it goes into this you know, this darkness of NGOs that you can't track?
I don't know if it's two trillion a year, but I'll bet it's one trillion.
I'll betcha.
New York City is suing the big social media companies for allegedly addicting children, Reuters is saying.
What happens if they succeed?
If they succeed, will it will destroy the entire social media um platform?
Well, I think it might.
If you took if you took all miners off of social media, they wouldn't be hooked as they got older, they make a crash the whole thing.
Um, but I suspect the social media is in for a reckoning from AI anyway.
So I don't know if social media will ever look the way it looks now.
It might be even more addictive because of AI, but we'll see.
It's a weird time to have that lawsuit because maybe it won't matter at all.
Maybe all the social media will just morph so much.
Um, according to American Psychological Association, short inspirational videos are as effective as meditation at reducing stress.
All right, um, I'm gonna say they could have just asked me, but let me check in with you.
