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Well, at the end of today's podcast, I'll probably have a uh reframe to change your life from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
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So I do not have a source for this next well, the first story, but uh I saw somebody say it and I knew it was true, so I'm gonna repeat it.
They they did a study to find out what is it that women can say to men that would make the men feel as good as when the men say to the women, I love you.
Does anybody know the answer?
What what two words?
The end the answer is thank you.
So apparently, if you say thank you and show appreciation to a man, his brain lights up about the same as if you had said I love you to a woman.
How many women knew that?
Now I've always thought that one of the problems with the relationships is that people feel like it's a power battle, and that if you if you show appreciation to somebody, you're giving up your power, and it's like you owe them.
If you say thank you to your mate, it's like oh now I owe you something.
So I feel like people don't want to say thank you too much.
Actually, I'm gonna skip ahead.
I told you that uh I might read a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
But I think I'll do it right now.
So this is in the uh section on uh social life reframes.
Uh compliments.
And uh so here's the usual frame.
Here's what we usually think about giving compliments.
Um usually giving compliments is awkward, creepy, or it feels manipulative, as in You know, you're trying to guess something for your compliment or something.
Here's the reframe.
Withholding a compliment is almost immoral.
If you have a compliment in your mind about somebody and they're standing right there, or you could easily reach them, and you don't give them the compliment, even though you're thinking it, it's almost immoral.
It's free.
And it will be highly valuable to the person who received it.
So if you have something that you could deliver for free, and it would help a person, it would be immoral to not do it.
So when you think about potential compliments, think of them that way.
It'll make your life a lot better.
People like you better if you're good at complimenting.
How many times have I started my show by telling you there's a new study on psychedelics that make your mental health better?
Well, here's another one, except this is about your physical health.
Specifically, they're finding that, and they're doing more testing, but they think that uh psilocybin will make your brain feel more relaxed, and when you relax the brain, it releases less cortisol and inflammatory stuff,
and they believe that they can get more than a temporary, more than a temporary decrease in uh inflammation in your body by using psychedelics to help you get control of your mind.
Because we know that psychedelics can have a temporary control on your mind, but more lately we're finding out it could be a semi-permanent change where you know one small controlled dose of psilocybin could set your depression away, your anxiety away for you know months or years.
And if that happens, in theory, your your full body inflammation will be less, and that would help you with a whole bunch of stuff.
So is there anything that psychedelics can't do?
Not that I know of.
Sorry, it's going to be a little slow because getting to my notes is more of a challenge this morning.
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Roman the gut.
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Um apparently the uh the mushrooms that would have an advantage over steroids because it wouldn't have a side effect, whereas steroids do.
All right.
So here's a little update on UFOs.
Uh, Tim Burchett, uh representative Burchow is on uh Tucker Carlson, and I guess Tim has been sort of a point person in Congress for looking into or finding out about UFOs and UAPs and all that.
Now he seems convinced that they're real, because people who talk to him who seem like credible people are whispering in his ear things that sound real.
And uh there are some people who have said things under oath at this point, he says that would suggest that we have alien bodies or alien crafts.
Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna come down firmly on the side of I don't believe any of it.
I do not believe we have any alien bodies, I do not believe we've ever had access to an alien craft.
It's just too far for me.
And the fact that you know, we never we never talk to the person who is directly involved, it's always the person who talked to the person, really.
So anyway, uh so my update is this I don't know if that uh asteroid that's coming into our solar system is really an uh advanced spacecraft.
I don't know if the pyramids or any of our early stuff were influenced in any way by aliens who invested the earth, no idea.
And I I certainly don't know if we have access, you know, if we're holding on to any alien bodies, but do you enjoy it as much as I do just thinking about it?
I just love thinking about it.
So even though I I wish I could kind of believe it, I can't really get there, but it's very entertaining, so it's very entertaining belief.
So every time Tim Burchett is Burchett is on, you know, I'm like, gotta watch all this.
All right.
The new The news is uh a little bit slow today, so might be a little more science in the news today.
Um, according to the University of South Australia, uh a lot of people who have mental health problems have gut problems, and they think that the gut microbes might be shaping your mental health.
Do you know they could have just asked?
That's right, me.
Because I always I'm always telling you that your your body is your your brain, and if you think of them as separate units, then you will be confused.
Because if you want your brain to work better, you put better food into it, better exercise, better sleep.
You're your body is your brain.
So should you be surprised that uh changing the gut micro might make some people mentally healthier?
No, you should not be surprised.
Well, I guess Trump already went to Walter Reed, got them to say that he's his body is 14 years younger than his chronological age.
He got his flu shot and got his COVID booster.
You know, he's in sort of a tough position because even though his administration is you know reducing the recommendations for COVID boosters all the way to, well, you know, maybe if you're over 65, maybe if you have some comorbidities, and you know, maybe if you and your doctor think so, you know, so that so the sort of still allowed recommended range is small, but he's in it.
So given that he would like to be thought of as having made the right decisions during the pandemic, it'd be kind of awkward if he didn't get a booster shot, wouldn't it?
But at the same time, do you really think that he feels he's safer with a booster shot?
I don't know.
He might be if you told me later that he only pretended to get the booster shot, I wouldn't be super surprised.
But there are a lot of witnesses, so probably got the real stuff.
Anyway, so I think he has to get those shots to protect his legacy, so it still looks like at least maybe the shots for the old people made sense.
he doesn't really have a perfect play there There.
Um, even Hillary Clinton has commended, she even used that word.
I commend uh President Trump for the what she calls significant progress in the Gaza situation.
How do you interpret that?
How do you interpret that the you know most dependable critic of the president?
Obviously, somebody thwarted, uh, who has a long history of hating him, that even she was not looking for the downside.
How do you interpret that?
Here's how I interpret it.
Yeah, I think it means that she found out how to make money.
Don't you think?
Because what this will lead to, this whole Abraham Accord thing, if the Abraham Accords expands, it looks like it might.
Uh, but at the very least, it'll be massive money flowing into the area.
And don't you think that Hillary Clinton may have possibly even cut a deal to say I'll support this as long as we get a taste.
You know, as long as one of my one of my friends gets a big contract, I'll say I'm all on board for this.
There's gotta be a monetary incentive there, because if it were just purely political, I think she'd say something like, What took you so long, or it's gonna fall apart, or you did part of it wrong, or the only way you got it is working with Russia, you know, something like that.
She must have found a way to make some money there.
Well, the biggest news is that China started uh well, I always say they started a trade war, but they accelerated it.
So the the details are a little murky, still a little fog of war going on, but it looks like they're massively tightening up on their rare earth uh materials, Which would be a gigantic problem for the economy of the United States and our stock market responded by going in the toilet, as did the crypto market, all responding to the fact that uh international trade is at uh great risk uh or some risk.
I don't know, I don't know if it's great risk, because the smart people are saying that what China's doing is creating assets to trade away because there's a big trade talks coming up.
So I'm always telling you that uh Trump is the uh champion of creating something out of nothing, and then trading the nothing away for a something, and that looks like what China just did.
So uh they created a something out of nothing by creating massive barriers to getting their rare earth materials.
Now, when they negotiate, they have something to trade away that they made out of nothing.
So it's a very Trumpian approach, and clearly they've studied his approach, so they know how to do this stuff.
Um, so it's too early to know if this is a big deal or just a medium big deal.
It's at least a medium big deal.
But what we don't know is is it really just a bargaining chip and it will get bargained away, and you know, we just have to be uncomfortable for three months until we know what's going on with that stuff.
Maybe could also be because it's so ill-defined that it won't be bargained away, it'll be defined away, as in well, you know, now that we give you the details, we didn't mean that it would apply to any phones, and then that like whole category will be excluded, and then we'll be like, Oh, oh, I thought it was gonna be worse, but it doesn't include phones, and it won't include laptops.
Oh, oh, you know, so is it so it'll end up being defined smaller, but also negotiated, so who knows?
Uh, but it's a big deal.
It's a big deal.
I would uh if I were giving advice, I would say the odds of us getting some kind of a workable solution eventually is pretty high.
So I'd be gambling that it does get worked out in I don't know, several months, maybe, if you're patient.
Might even be faster.
Could be a lot faster if both sides feel enough pain fast enough.
Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.
Um there's talk that uh Trump might stop by and see his little buddy Rocketman, Kim Jong-un, while he's uh um over there for something else.
So he would be in Seoul uh visiting for something else, I guess.
And uh they're thinking that he might uh have a little side visit and meet with his buddy.
Now, remember how I kept telling you that uh Trump could succeed with this Gaza stuff because he changed reality.
He didn't just negotiate, he just changed how they saw the whole thing.
He he turned a no into a yes and made them see it as a yes, and then they started acting like it was a yes.
Well, that's kind of what he did with North Korea.
So the the North Korea question was what are you gonna do about them threatening to nuke us?
That was the question.
And he took that question, and instead of negotiating, hey, don't nuke us, we'll we'll give you this if you don't nuke us, or if you do nuke us, we'll do this to you.
That'd be more like direct negotiating.
He just changed the reality.
So the reality was it looked like we were some kind of enemies, and he just reframed it to we're friends.
Oh, we're friends, you're my buddy.
I'd like to come visit my friend.
And then suddenly it didn't really make sense to be to be threatening each other with nuclear annihilation, because he just reframed reality to why to me.
Who's your enemy?
I'm not your enemy, I'm your friend.
Let's get together.
So only he can do that.
That is a pure Trump play that's just it's just not available to other people.
They they just wouldn't be able to pull it off.
So we'll see if that happens.
Should happen.
Well, I guess the uh government and Russ vote is doing the uh layoffs they promised.
He's the budget director.
So uh they're gonna use it, use the government shutdown as their excuse to fire a bunch of Democrats who are working for the government or not for long, I guess.
So I don't know if there'll be some kind of court cases to the firing.
I feel like there will, right?
Won't there be a rogue judge who says, well, we must block this nationwide.
Seems like seems like it.
Well, there's some thought, and Speaker Johnson's kind of worked up about this.
You can see why, that uh that the Democrats might want to keep the the government closed to make it a better no kings rally a week from now, um, on October 18th.
So there's another one of those big uh artificial um paid for rallies that are being planned.
The no kings.
And I guess the no kings rally wouldn't have enough to talk about because the Middle East is all solved.
They wouldn't have enough to talk about unless they uh unless the government was closed.
So they'd have you know a good complaint.
Ah, well that mean old Trump closing that government.
So it looks like the Democrats, for that reason alone, to support their fake paid protest so that it so they can pretend that there's more resistance to Trump than there is.
They might keep the government closed.
Like that would be one of the reasons to keep it closed.
Oh my god, our government is terrible.
At least half of it is anyway.
Well, I don't know if that's the real reason, but I I was so one of the organizers of that no kings uh rally, and he was walking this real fine line because he wanted people to feel outraged about what's happening in the country, so that they would be incentivized to go to the you know, go to the protest.
So you want them to feel unhappy to go to the protest, but he wanted to sell the protests as a good time so that more people would go because he's he's in the business of organizing protests.
So he tried to tell you how much fun you would have with you know meeting new meeting new people and having friends, and it'd be a nice day out.
And he was trying to sell them at the same time that you know that we're suffering this existential threat to our democracy.
And by the way, it'll be a good time.
Yeah, it's like a party.
Oh, did I mention it's an existential threat to the entire country?
But but but you'll be some nice people.
It's more about the nice people you meet along the way.
And he totally can't sell it because you just can't do those same same things at the same time.
And uh watching how artificial and fake it is, and then hearing that they might keep the government closed just to get enough people to go to the fake, stupid uh completely irrational uh protest.
Wow.
Good work, Democrats.
So, you know, one of the questions people had about this Letitia James um indictment for bank fraud, they say, is are these real, are these claims gonna hold up, or is it just a bunch of BS and her lawyers will you know get it wiped away pretty soon?
Well, I saw a gentleman on X who goes by the name SMB attorney, and he had an explanation about um what probably went on with this bank loan fraud stuff based on his experience as years as a mortgage banker, right?
So he's gonna give you inside information about a mortgage banker's knowledge of how this may or may not have happened.
Now, what I'm talking about is um Letitia James, the AG, who's been indicted for bank fraud, allegedly uh let's see, what did she claim that uh how she she classified a property intentionally wrong or accidentally wrong?
So that's what we're gonna determine.
But here's SMB attorney describing what uh what you need to know some context.
All right, so first of all, he has lots of experience in that business.
He was a mortgage lender for years, uh, mortgage banker for years.
He goes, here's the deal.
How you classify a property as a primary, secondary, or investment home changes everything about the loan.
The down payment, the interest rate, the underwriting, all of it.
Primary or secondary homes can get by with as little as three to 15, uh three to 10% down.
Investment property usually requires 25% or more.
So if you're a brand new real estate investor with limited cash, there's a big incentive to call something a second home instead of an investment property.
But that's what um, but that's why lenders make you sign a second home rider, a separate document where you specifically promise you use it as a second residence and not rent it out.
You also assert like nine times in the application process, it will be owner occupied.
This is good, this is good background stuff.
I was a banker, so I'm nerding out on this a little bit more.
Um then SMB uh attorney says, could this kind of thing ever be an honest mistake?
I doubt it.
The facts, at least as reported, look pretty bad.
You buy a house, say it's a second home, immediately rent it out, tell your insurer it's owner occupied, and then report rental income on your taxes.
He goes, that's not a misunderstanding, that's a pattern.
Now remember the documentary effect that I warn you about.
I've just given you one side of an argument with no attention to any counter argument.
So it's pretty it's pretty convincing, isn't it?
When you heard that, didn't you say to yourself, oh man, she's fried.
There's no way she's gonna get out of that, right?
That's the documentary effect, because you only heard one side of an argument.
I don't know if there's another side of the argument, but I think they're pleading innocent.
So that would suggest that they do have an argument.
The fact that you haven't heard that argument at all should be at the top of your mind.
You should be saying to yourself, yeah, but they do have an argument, we just haven't heard it yet.
Okay, is that fair?
Because I knew that that would be super persuasive.
Um, but don't be too persuaded by it.
She uh I still think it's unlikely that she'd have any jail time.
Um, I guess there's the possibility that there could be years and years of jail, but the reality for first offender for something like this, time, you know, probably not a suspended sentence.
You know, and uh, but there could be a fine, according to Grok, up to like half a million dollars.
So it could be really expensive.
Anyway, um, as you know, President Trump did not win the Nobel Prize because the Nobel Prize that they're giving this year is mostly for stuff that happened last year and before, and most of uh his accomplishments happened this year.
So it's no it's not really a slap in the face or anything, it's just the way the process works, I think.
But the the woman who did win it to Maria Karina Machada, I guess um, she would be a freedom fighter for Venezuela, she was smart enough to call him and actually tell him personally, I'm accepting this in honor of you because you really deserved it.
And then uh Trump got to tell that story that the person who won it called him and said that he deserved it.
That's pretty good.
Now it makes you it makes you understand why she won the Nobel Peace Prize, because how smart was that was so smart to call him immediately and give him credit and say, you know, you should have won.
Because she needs him 100% to get whatever it is she wants, you know, for Venezuela, and uh talk about talk about the best way you could get him on your side.
So I don't know much about her, but I know that if she you know got the attention of the Nobel Prize people, there's there's something of substance there, and then the one thing we observe is so so on point that you just say, okay, there's there's some substance there.
So keep an eye on this one.
So maybe and and then here's the you know the extra fun of this it could be that the only way that Trump could succeed with Venezuela to sort of decartellitize it is if he's got somebody as strong as her to be the the backstop you know the person who can actually become the new leader.
So his fate and hers are could be quite tied.
You know you don't get the uh Nobel Peace Prize if between now and the next time they award it uh you've started a war unless you finished it pretty quickly.
So she could be the key to have some kind of relatively rapid wrap up of things in Venezuela in a positive way for the Venezuelans.
So keep an eye on that relationship.
That might really have some legs.
Meanwhile, Melania Trump continues to be awesome.
I guess she worked on a deal separately with Putin to get some Ukrainian children released back to Ukraine.
And it was successful.
Didn't seem like she got much pushback, if any.
And I'm going to give, of course, Melania full credit because the Trumps are the world champions at getting hostages back, you know, getting prisoners back.
Nobody's ever done this better.
I mean, right?
Nobody's even been close.
This is unbelievable success in getting people back.
Now Melania is doing it.
So she's got her, she says now she has an open channel of communication with Putin.
So here's what I like about Putin's persuasion game.
Don't misquote me.
I didn't say I like Putin.
I'm just saying that he's got a really strong persuasion game.
And the fact that he's playing so nice with Melania is just more of that.
It is so smart that he's extra nice to Melania and that there's just no friction whatsoever is created in that domain.
And it looks like he, you know, it looks like he's saving a cat and, you know, being the good guy.
So he buys, he buys a lot, a whole bunch of goodwill for nothing.
So both of them did a good job on that.
Putin if you're just looking at the persuasion game well I saw a post by Masumo on X. Um apparently there's some kind of a breakthrough brain scan technique where they claim that uh the Japanese scientists claim they can detect long COVID do you believe that do you believe that giant Japanese scientists have a new brain scan where they can actually find if you're
suffering from long COVID by looking at part of your brain?
I'm going to say, I'm not even sure long COVID is real.
Are we so sure it's real that if you look at the scan, you can see it?
I don't know.
Do you believe they could see if it were the vaccine injury instead?
Do you think they could see that with their advanced scan?
I don't know.
I don't know.
So, And whenever I see Japanese breakthroughs, I kind of give them a little less credibility.
Do you do that too?
I feel like they, at least just from an anecdotal perspective, I don't have any data on this, but it seems like the Japanese might be, and maybe the South Koreans, might be a little bit of over-claimers when it comes to science.
You know what I mean?
Just a little bit.
Well, podcaster, journalist, I don't know what he would call himself, but let's say podcaster, journalist, independent, independent journalist, Benny Johnson.
uh has announced that apparently there was somebody that'd been threatening his family and he got Pam Bondi involved and that person got arrested.
So somebody had threatened to kill his wife and kids, and uh nothing in person, I guess.
Just send a letter.
Who would be dumb enough to send a physical letter threatening somebody's life?
How old do you have to be to think that that's the way to go about that?
Like to write a physical letter threatening somebody's life.
Wow.
Well, um, so good on you, Benny Johnson, for fighting back against that, being aggressive, and I'm glad that uh Bondi is responding to that.
Well, apparently uh Trump has now struck a deal with big pharma company AstraZeneca for what is being reported by just the news as uh offering uh what do they call it?
The uh most favored nation pricing.
Now, so that's what the news is, but I don't believe the news.
Because here's the problem.
In order for these big pharma companies to do what Trump wants, which is to give the United States the same low pricing as you know the best price another country gets.
There is such a difference that the only way they can maintain their profitability if they were to lower the U.S. prices, uh, since we're the biggest market, the only way they can do that is to massively increase their prices for third world countries until they wouldn't be able to afford their meds.
Or what?
Is there some third thing I don't know about?
They either have to not do it and keep making their money and hoping they get away with it, or if they lower if they actually do this and give the U.S. the same prices as the lowest price.
There isn't any way they could maintain profitability.
So how do they do this?
There's something there's something in the story that's missing, right?
Would you agree?
There's something missing.
It's either limited to just a few drugs, because I think that's what uh was it Pfizer?
I think Pfizer was just limited to a few drugs.
So it sounded like it was a bigger deal than it was.
I didn't see that this is limited, but it's got to be limited somehow.
There's no way they can just lower their prices.
Well, Gavin Newsom is doing his uh Gavin Newsom Jazz Hands cursing thing, which he believes is how he will jazz hands curse himself into the presidency, and uh he he's playing this childlike uh mental game with Joe Rogan to try to get invited on the Joe Rogan podcast because Joe said some negative things about his chances of being president,
and uh so here's how he responds to that.
Um he boasted that he was quote punching back at that quote son of a bitch Joe Rogan.
He said, Joe, why won't you have me on the show?
Uh he was on another podcast when he said this.
He said, He won't have me on the show.
It's a one-way, and he has guests coming on attacking and bashing, uh, but he won't have me on the show.
Full stop.
He should have me on the show.
And uh basically challenged him to do it.
Now, does it does it seem to you that cursing and insulting Joe Rogan is how you get him to invite you on the show?
Now, I will admit that it probably does uh stimulate Joe's competitive instincts, and it probably makes him curious about what would happen.
You know, it probably it probably does make him want to invite him.
On the other hand, you can't invite somebody if they do it that way.
He's sort of eliminating himself by the way he's doing it.
But at the same time, you probably probably I can't read his mind, of course.
But if I were Joe, I'd be thinking, damn it, I do want to invite you, but I can't do it now because you're you're so obviously trying to manipulate me in front of the public.
I I can't just like bow to the Manipulation.
I can't do it because you swore at me.
It's gonna look like it's gonna look like I invited you because you cursed at me.
So uh I'm gonna guess that he doesn't get an invitation, but I can be wrong about that.
I could be wrong.
Again, I can't read anybody's mind.
So Joe might just say, all right, this is fun.
And that might be the end of it.
This would be fun.
If he thinks it's fun, well, that's the end of the conversation.
It'd be fun.
Go ahead and do it.
Um it would definitely make news.
You know what else?
Uh Joe Rogan could end Newsom's run for president without even really trying hard.
Because I don't think Newsom's ever been challenged in quite the way that maybe he should be.
Probably better than anybody.
Probably.
What else?
Using the word punching.
I'm punching Joe Rogan.
Oh, and then he goes, he's gonna dismiss it.
He's gonna laugh it off.
Tough guy and all that.
But is he gonna have me on?
I don't know.
It is kind of it's sort of high school funny.
Like I can't really turn away because he does make me watch.
So that's one of the things that Newsom does well.
He does make you not be able to turn away.
You just gotta watch whatever he's doing.
So he's got that going for him.
Um, so apparently the uh the left has decided that their talking point about Antifa is that it really doesn't exist.
Isn't that wild?
And they and they can somewhat get away with it.
Uh, probably 40 to 50 percent of all the the public will think that Antifa doesn't exist because they're gonna hear that repeated over and over.
Well, there's no Antifa.
Well, what are those gigantic crowds of people that call themselves Antifa?
Oh, that's just spontaneously organized, people who just have an affinity for it.
No, no, but it's not like they have a leadership.
Well, how are they collecting money if they don't have a leadership?
Well, okay, well, they have some ways for money to get around, but not in a leadershipy way.
Well, how do they decide who gets what money?
Well, so um, but one of the people is Jimmy Kimmel.
So he was mocking Christy Gnome, I guess, and uh and and referring to Antifa as quote, an entirely imaginary organization.
Uh, and then some other people, there were some other talking heads that people had captured saying the same thing.
Oh, it's imaginary, it's imaginary.
And but they were the ones who were saying it's imaginary were saying it's not like the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front, because they said those are real, real organizations, not like Antifa, that's just totally imaginary.
So I went to Grok and I said, How many people are in the Proud Boys?
And the estimate was from 300 to 3,000.
I guess at one point it might have been a few thousand more than that, but uh it's it's uh losing a little bit of its uh steam.
But what if the Proud Boys is really only 300 people?
And then I asked it about the Patriot Front, because that was also mentioned, and it said there were uh 200 to 300 people.
This is in the entire nation.
Don't you think that every single Antifa event had more than 300 people?
More than a thousand, probably.
There's so many more Antifa people than there are Proud Boys or Patriot Front.
So many more.
Now, but there's no estimate.
Groc doesn't have an estimate for Antifa, but don't you think if you did some kind of a survey, just asked people if they're Antifa, you you'd get something like one percent, which would be a lot of people.
I don't know.
Definitely more than the Proud Boys and the Patriot Front.
So now we're hearing a little bit more about uh this uh the deal with Gaza got done.
Uh, we're hearing That uh Jared Kushner might have been far more important to the process than has been reported so far.
So that's one thing that that it looks like.
Um and uh it looks like uh cutter or Qatar, as you like to say, is maybe one of the big stories behind the curtain.
So Qatar wanted some things, but we wanted some things from Qatar, which is to back the peace deal.
And what Qatar wanted was uh, I guess they got some uh dedicated space where they can test their their jets that were selling them, the ones we're selling them.
They can test them and uh train in the United States within the bounds of some American base, they'll have their own little uh their own little space, but it'll be controlled by America.
So they're they don't have their own base, they would just have some space for training that they would pay for that would be on an American base because apparently there's their country is so small they don't really have a good place to test jets.
So they'll test them here, they'll buy them here, they'll put billions of dollars into buying more of them here.
So it turns out it's a good deal for us, because we sell some more jets, and we'll have a place that they can test them so they feel comfortable getting them.
And um apparently uh Qatar wanted to get in better with the United States and not be seen as half a uh terrorist supporter and half a supporter of the West.
You know, they want they want it to be more of a more on the clean side of things, so it's sort of a way for them to reposition themselves with the United States entirely by doing something for us that presumably will get them some uh get them some favors in return.
So cutter seems to be a big part of the backstory, and uh the fact that we were able to cut or a deal with cutter, uh probably has a lot to do with how we got to this point.
And like I said, if Hillary Clinton is saying yes, it must be that there's so much money that's going to be funneled into that area for rebuilding and the Abraham Accords and everything else, that probably all the big money people just said chiching.
You know, I'm just guessing.
Like, did all the bankers just say, all right, we can make some money on this?
Did all the construction people, the Bechtels, did all the military industrial complex people say, oh man, we can make some money on this?
I think so.
Probably, you know, the the hotel industry, um, probably the oil industry, I don't know, maybe not.
But it does seem to me like everybody just said, why don't we just make some money?
And we're done with this terrorism stuff.
Let's see if I can get to what's left of my notes here.
Um so that's happening.
Let's see what else is happening.
One moment, please.
So, according to a uh Harvard Caps Harris poll, uh, 71% of Americans support Trump's strikes on the uh smuggling boats, the ones off of Venezuela.
Uh Republicans like it a lot, 89%, independent 67, and even Democrats by a majority 56%.
So to me, this is another one of those Trump takes the strong side of the question.
And uh even if it doesn't work out, he's still the one who took the strong side of the issue.
So I'm loving that.
Well, there's a new report from Wall Street Journal that the wine industry in California, where I am, is having a tough time for two reasons.
One, people are just drinking less, but number two, apparently the weather was unusually good.
So that that global warming stuff uh turned out to be one of the best summers ever.
So there's like a just a crap ton of grapes.
So we have way too many grapes at the same time that there's you know lower demand.
So the wine business is falling apart.
Uh it's California, so you know that the Hollywood movie making business has already fallen apart.
And uh if we did not have a boom in AI, uh even the tech business would look like it's winding down.
So California is sort of looking good, but only because of AI, I think.
I don't think there's anything else driving anything else.
And AI is probably gonna put quite a load on our energy infrastructure.
So I don't know, somehow, somehow California just keeps floating along.
But I feel like we keep getting closer and closer to the edge.
Yeah, how many entire industries could you wipe out in California and still have a state?
I guess we're gonna find out.
Um, and the crypto market went to hell, as you know.
But um I don't know how much you should worry about the crypto market.
Isn't the very nature of it that it's volatile, and that uh if you're just in the weird little cryptos, you know it was a big risk.
And if you're in Bitcoin, you're probably gonna hodl it, which is hold it.
Um, so you probably don't care.
I don't know.
Does anybody panicked about crypto, or are you just sort of watching it?
I think I would just watch it at this point.
You know, I kept telling you that there are all these uh tests going on for a vaccine to cure cancer or to keep it from happening.
Uh, here's another one.
There's another next gen vaccine to prevent up to 88% of multiple aggressive cancers, according to Paul McClure and the new Ellis.
Um, so you don't need to know too much more about this one.
Uh, because I went to Groc and I said, how many current trials are there where somebody's trying to fix cancer with a vaccine where they made the vaccine and of usually something about your body, so it's about you specifically the vaccine is and I and it's under seven of them.
So there's seven ongoing trials that were cancer vaccines.
Now I don't think any of them will be ready in time, you know, to save me.
But it does look like maybe there's something there, you know, maybe for the rest of you.
I'll see if I can last long enough to get to the vaccines, but it does look like some of that's gonna work.
Works on animals anyway.
So working on animals is only like a one in 20 chance that's gonna work on humans.
Um the Portland police union is welcoming the uh federal uh help, you know, the federal troops, uh, whereas the government is saying we don't need no federal troops, we don't have a problem here.
And so the Portland uh violence is also being called imaginary.
So now we're being told that Antifa is an imaginary group, and that the violence around the ice facilities and stuff in Portland is also so small that if you imagine it's uh it's a big problem, that's just imaginary.
And I don't know what is right.
Is it possible that the news is uh exaggerating the the real danger in Portland?
Because I think it could be a little of both.
It could be that the danger is not that great, but at the same time the police do want help because the police have been degraded so much that they can't even handle you know a modest threat.
So it could be a combination of not enough police and a little bit of trouble that wouldn't ordinarily be a lot of trouble because you would have a lot of police.
So I don't know what's true there.
But uh once again, as long as Trump takes the strong approach, and he's the one who's looking to clamp down on crime, and Portland is looking like the ones they don't care as much about crime, Trump wins.
I think he wins just by being the strong one.
MIT says they have a new uh gene editing tool.
Sounds kind of boring and nerd-like, but it would be sixty times fewer mistakes than before.
Because, you know, gene editing.
If you could do gene editing quickly and efficiently and economically, there's a whole bunch of stuff you can fix.
And uh, you know, this is just a movement in the right direction.
But if they could actually make that much of a improvement in the gene editing technology, well, you might get yourself a new head.
You know, that new head you've been wanting.
It's getting closer.
All right, that's all I have for today.
Uh it is a Saturday Cat day, so you should be petting your cat and having a good time.
Um, I did promise you that I would read you a reframe from uh my book, Reframe Your Brain.
I started with one, but I think I'm gonna randomly pick another one.
Uh uh if this works out, maybe I'll make it a thing.
So it's from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
And uh I'll just pick the first one from the social life category.
There's reframes for every domain.
But in the social life reframe, the first one is the old the old frame used to be be yourself.
Anybody ever used to give you that advice of be yourself?
Terrible advice.
Here's here's the reframe.
Become a better version of yourself.
If you're satisfied being yourself, people aren't gonna want to be around you.
You're not that good.
You need some work.
And you should admit that you're a work in progress.
People will like you better if you admit you've got some work to do.
Try being better.
You should be working on some kind of a system or process or uh finding some way to be the improved version of yourself.
You should be getting smarter, healthier, you should become wiser, kinder, you should be trying to get your you know, your depression down and get your mental health better.
You should be trying to get different in every possible way.
People people ask me when uh I've told you this story before, but uh people asked me if when I hit it big with Dilbert and I went from not having money to be well.
People asked me if uh being famous and successful changed me.
Did it change me?
And I'd always laugh and say, well, I hope so.
That was the whole point.
Why would I go through all that work to be the same person?
The whole the whole everything that I do has at least a secondary ambition of changing me.
Like I don't go to the gym because it doesn't change me.
I I don't work hard in my career because it won't change me.
I do it so it will.
If I want to feel confident, what am I supposed to do?
Just sit in a chair and try to gin up some confidence.
No, I'm gonna go do something.
And then if it works, guess what?
I get more confident.
So no, I'm every day in every way.
I'm trying to figure out how to be like a little bit better version of myself.
So if anybody ever tells you the key to success is be yourself, you're getting some bad advice.
Be better.
You just be better.
All right.
That is your reframe of the day.
Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces right after this.
Give him a few minutes to uh uh you can't become a millionaire without becoming the kind of person who becomes a millionaire.
Exactly.
Exactly.
All right, so Owen uh Gregorian, just uh go to his go do X and uh you can search for his name and it'll pop up the spaces.
And uh I'm gonna say a few words to the locals people, my beloved, beloved locals people.
