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Well, I know you'd like to start with a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
Best book I ever wrote, according to the reviews.
And I thought every morning I'll give you one.
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Well, here's one you've heard before, but it's too important to skip in case there's someone who hasn't heard it before.
How many times have you heard from billionaires that the secret to success is passion?
If you follow your passion, I became a little bit famous for mocking that, but now it's commonly mocked.
Pretty much all the smart people know that the usual frame of following your passion is not going to get you much.
The new frame is that passion is nice, but not required.
As Scott Galloway often says, it's better to do something that's going to make you some money.
And then if you make some money, everything will work out after that.
Worry about your passion later after you make your money.
As I like to say, every single object in your room was made by somebody who wasn't that passionate about it.
I've got a roll of paper towels here.
Somebody started a paper towel company.
Were they excited about paper towels?
Do you think somebody was waking up every morning?
It's like, ah, so lucky to be working on paper towels.
No, no.
Forget about your passion.
Make some money.
Well, here's some science.
According to Massimo on X, good account to follow for the science-y stuff.
Holding hands can change how your brain processes pain and stress.
So if you're holding hands with somebody that you're into, apparently your brain will respond and remove some of your pain, and you will mirror the other person who's not in pain.
but i'm guessing that if you're the one who's not in pain and you hold hands with somebody is in pain wouldn't you feel their pain so my advice is if somebody's in pain one of your loved ones get as far away as you can because it sounds like their pain will just no i'm just kidding Just kidding.
Remember, I told you yesterday there was a study that ketamine was helping people with depression.
Remember that?
Well, it only took one day to see neuroscience news says there's a new, really big, randomized double-blind experiment with ketamine, and it did not work at all for depression.
So now you have a body of science that says that ketamine is like a miracle cure for depression.
But also, simultaneously, really good science that says it doesn't do a damn thing.
So here's my advice.
Since we know ketamine could be dangerous, and the science seems to be a coin flip, I'm not sure I'd recommend it.
So don't do anything I tell you medically.
According to CEO of Google, Sundar Pichet, I hope I say his name right.
They've got a, Google has some big breakthrough in quantum computing.
Now, you've been hearing forever that there's always a breakthrough in quantum computing.
But according to Elon Musk, who was responding to the post on X about it, even Elon is saying, some version of, it looks like maybe a corner has been turned here, and that quantum might actually be useful for something.
But so Google has this chip called the Willow chip for quantum.
And they say they ran an algorithm which they've named quantum echoes.
And that algorithm ran 13,000 times faster than the best regular computer could have done.
13,000 times faster.
And the results are verifiable and reproducible.
So those are kind of all the holy grails of quantum, if you can reproduce it.
That would be the hard part.
But they can reproduce it now.
And it's 13,000 times faster.
So maybe quantum will be something.
In the past, I've told you that quantum computers are not going to replace your regular computer.
They're not really meant for that.
But at the same time, just to make it interesting, Google's not the only one.
Apparently, there are several quantum computing companies that are talking to the current administration and trying to work out a deal where they would get funding from the government to build their startups, their quantum computing startups.
But the government would take an equity stake.
So the Trump administration is doing more of that venture capital stuff.
And they would help the quantum company succeed.
So it's probably a good deal.
So quantum is getting big.
In other news, Dr. Singularity on X is telling us that allegedly, China has this gigantic breakthrough with an AI chip that's an analog chip instead of a digital chip.
Now, do you believe that China developed a chip that's analog and not digital and works a thousand times faster than NVIDIA's best GPU?
Does that sound like something real?
Well, if it is real, it would change a lot.
But their reporting is real.
I'm not sure I believe there's an analog Chinese chip that's a thousand times faster than NVIDIA.
Maybe.
And it would be 100 times better on energy.
But they say, quote, benchmarking shows their analog computing approach could offer a thousand times, blah, blah, blah, say researchers.
I don't know, Peking University, maybe, maybe not.
RFI, whoever they are, did a study on AI assistance to find out if the AI is lying to you or hallucinating.
So it was a major study by the European Broadcast Union on AI.
And I found that AI assistants like ChatGPT, they made errors around half of the time when asked about news or current affairs.
Half.
Now, you tell me, what good is AI if it's wrong about basic and basic knowledge that you and I could just Google?
I mean, you don't have to use AI.
It's not like you and I don't have access to it.
But AI is so hallucinaty.
and so unfixable that the smartest people in the world can't figure out how to make you stop just making shit up.
Do you think that's fixable?
Not with any current version of the technology.
If this were fixable, it would be the first thing they fixed.
It would be so, so fixed if it were fixable.
I feel like we've gone long enough now to know that there's something naturally unfixable about this situation, that they would need a whole different approach to get rid of the hallucinations.
Doesn't it seem to you like it would be the easiest thing in the world to pair your AI with a regular program?
Because a regular program, you know, a classic, just regular program, could look into any database and know what's in there.
But AI can't do that.
Are you telling me that AI also can't initiate a regular program?
You know, just regular code that could just look in there and then tell the AI what it found?
Can't do that.
Apparently not.
Apparently not.
Meanwhile, Meta is going to lay off 600 of its AI people.
How many did they have?
You know, I always hear about Elon Musk likes very small technical teams that are very smart.
Well, it looks like Meta went the other direction.
600 people are being laid off because those were the bloat.
That's not even the whole team.
That's just the extra that they didn't need.
They've got 3,000 people working on Meta's super intelligence labs.
Does that sound like they have a good grip on AI?
They hired 3,000 people.
I guess they thought they had to go fast.
How in the world did they think 3,000 people sort of quickly hired was going to get them to AI?
I'd have to guess that most of those people were training it as opposed to programming it, right?
Presumably.
Most of them were training it.
So maybe they think they've trained it as much as they can with people because they're running out of stuff to train it with.
So quantum is rising.
AI might be either the best thing or absolutely nothing and China's going to wipe our butts with it.
Or possibly AI will never work and it was always a bubble and a pipe dream.
But we'll see.
I've told you this before, but I feel like this is developing and you should know about it.
Geothermal energy, there's enough geothermal, which is just heat, in the middle of the earth that if we could access it, we wouldn't need any other kind of energy.
It would be more energy than we would ever use even for AI if we could get to it.
And there are a few different technologies now that have been made big strides.
There's one with microwave, I've talked about before.
But there's also one.
Wall Street Journal got an article by Christopher Mims that does a good job on this if you want to follow up on it.
But there's a Bill Gates-funded startup that apparently is called Furvo Energy.
It's one of these geothermal startups.
And apparently they've got a good grasp on things now.
So they're not quite, not quite where they can guarantee that it would be economical, but they're within striking distance of their technology being workable.
Now, the problem is, if you do geothermal, if you get the hole in the ground right, which is the hard part, you have to have like a hole that's five times the Empire State Building or something.
If you get the hole, then you have free energy basically forever because it's just down there.
You don't have to ship it in.
But if you compare that to any other type of technology that requires shipping, you've automatically got this big advantage.
You don't have to move it like gas.
So at the moment, gas is way more economical than geothermal, but they're looking at that flipping and possibly pretty soon.
Some of it is because of tax benefits.
So that doesn't make us happy, but if it's just kick-starting, it's okay.
Speaking of tax benefits, the national debt just passed $38 trillion.
for the first time.
So everything you hear about the Trump administration cutting costs, et cetera, well, they're not cutting absolute costs enough.
But I'd love to know what the rate of growth is.
So a story like this should not be told without the rate of growth.
It doesn't tell me much that we got to 38.
It would tell me a lot if we got to 38 twice as fast as we got to 37 from 36.
That would tell me a lot.
But just the fact that we got to a number, I need more than that.
Have they slowed down the anticontrol growth of that number?
If they could at least slow the plane of it, I'd feel like something good's happened.
To me, that's still the number one risk in the world, is debt.
The Hill says there's a new poll that 52% of the public who were polled say Trump's using the Department of Justice to target political enemies, political enemies.
Do you notice that the headline for that story, the words political enemies are doing all the work?
Is that what's happening?
Because I don't see that.
I don't see a world where Trump is going after political enemies.
I see a world where he's going after people who clearly broke the law and tried to overthrow the government using a process of lawfare plus hoaxes.
Do you call those people political enemies?
The political enemy part would be a large category, which would include half of the country.
Literally half of the country would be his political enemy.
Do you think he's going after all of them?
Do you think, have you seen him go after anybody who just said bad things about him?
I haven't.
I haven't seen him go after anybody who simply disagreed with him.
Is he trying to jail Bernie Sanders?
No.
Never even came up.
Why would he jail Bernie Sanders?
Bernie Sanders is clearly a political enemy, but there's no risk.
What about AOC?
No, because AOC never did anything to Trump beyond talking.
So we really have to do something about people like the Hill being able to say that he's getting revenge against political enemies, because that's not really the way to describe that category of people he's going after.
He's literally going after people who tried to overthrow the government and make it look like he was the one who did it.
Make it look like he was coordinating with Russia when they were.
So, yeah, political enemies, that's your propaganda term for today.
It should be.
He's going after the insurrectionists and coup plotters and lawfarers, which I support.
Apparently, energy prices are up today because Trump has introduced some new sanctions on Russia.
Two of their biggest oil companies are getting sanctioned now with major tariffs or sanctions packages, they call it, more than tariffs.
More like sanctions.
Anyway, the two big companies are, let's see, Luck Oil and Rosneft.
They're two biggest ones.
Now, I guess this is just sort of getting ahead of the meeting that we do think will happen, but we don't know when between Putin and Trump.
And Trump says that meeting is still being planned.
They just don't have details for it.
Don't have a date yet.
But they're going to do it, which I believe.
And this would give Trump something to trade off.
So now he's created an asset.
The asset is the sanctions.
And then Putin has something to ask for that he can get, which is the relaxation of the sanctions, but only if he does what he needs to do.
So we'll see where that goes.
I love the fact that Kamala Harris is such a burden on the Democrat Party.
So there's something about that that's funny.
So first of all, she had like, what, a billion and a half dollars that she okay, there's a cat in my garbage can having a real good time.
Anyway, so she burns through her billion or a billion and a half and leaves a big debt.
Not only does she lose, but like Obama did, she leaves a big debt for the Democrats.
Nice.
But so the DNC, which is broke, at least compared to the Republicans, the RNC, they're paying some of Kamala's expenses from her campaign because she still has some debts from that.
So I guess they've already paid 20 million and they just paid off another 1.6 million.
So literally the only thing the DNC can do is be the bank for the failed candidate.
But it gets better.
There's a new poll that I don't believe at all.
I totally don't believe this poll that says that Kamala would beat Newsom if they both ran.
That Kamala would beat Newsom for a governor, I think.
Not that he's going to run for governor.
We'll get to that story in a minute.
But I do enjoy watching Kamala Harris destroy her own party a little bit at a time.
So how entertained are you that the best the Democrats can come up with for an attack on Trump is that upgrading the ballroom at the White House is what a king would do.
That's their strongest and best approach that obviously they've talked about.
Obviously it's coordinated because the top lying Democrats are all saying the same thing.
But can you imagine that that's your best strategy is to act like nobody ever upgraded the White House, which of course past presidents have.
So they have to make sure that their public doesn't know that a president upgrading the White House is kind of normal.
Obama did it, a bunch of other presidents did it, and that he's not spending his own money.
But Hakeem has come up with this new approach, which is that if Trump is leaning on donors to help him pay for it, then those donors would be owed a favor.
So Hakeem says they're going to research this, I guess, whenever Democrats are back in power.
And they're going to find out that all these donors are bad people because what they really wanted was favors from the administration.
And this would be how they get their favors.
So Hakeem says that getting private donations for the ballroom is really just a form of corruption.
Wow.
You have to really dig pretty hard to turn the ballroom into your biggest issue.
Do you remember when their biggest issue was climate change or Gaza or Ukraine or trade wars?
Aren't all of those things way, way bigger?
Is there even one person in the United States who's being impacted by the ballroom?
Anybody?
Are you guys okay?
There's a ballroom being built.
Everybody okay?
And in order to build the ballroom, they're going to do they have to knock down the building that was there.
Are you all okay?
Did anybody get knocked down when they knocked down the building?
You're all okay?
I was told this would be an emergency.
It would be a problem.
All right, I'm glad you're okay.
John Brennan says on MSNBC, I was watching your program, talking to the hosts of MS Now or whatever it is, in terms of, you know, the East Wing of the White House, my goodness, a place that is sacred.
Really?
Is the East Wing of the White House sacred?
If they change the carpets in the oval, did they take out the sacred carpet that Clinton spewed on?
Was it the sacred one?
Sacred.
There's nothing sacred about a building that gets upgraded on the regular.
It's not even the original building, the White House.
He goes, and they're allowing him to do it.
Who's they?
And what do they mean allowing him?
And they're allowing him to do it.
Does he think that Congress gets to decide who upgrades the White House?
Who's they that's allowing him to do it?
And he goes, and here he gets crazy.
And it's just one more symbol of his tearing down all the things that have made this country great for so many years.
So they're actually trying to make the argument that tearing down a building to build a better, more functional building for the benefit of all future presidents of every party is really him tearing down all the things that have made this country great.
You know, when people ask me, what do you like about being an American?
Do I say I like the Constitution?
No, no.
Do I say I like the freedom, the free markets?
No, no.
No, what I like about this country is that they've got this sacred East Wing building that could be a better ballroom, but now it's destroyed.
Yeah, that's what matters to me.
That's the important part.
So Trump says he might attend a Supreme Court argument coming up next month about his tariffs.
So I guess the Supreme Court will just be talking about the concept of whether he can apply tariffs or whether, I guess, whether Congress has to approve them.
And he says he might go there for those arguments.
I feel like that would be a mistake to go there.
If you were a Supreme Court justice, would you not feel pressured if the president came and attended?
I don't know how they feel.
So I don't really have any insight how a Supreme Court justice would feel about anything.
But how would it help?
It wouldn't help, would it?
Do you think his presence would make it's not like they're going to ask him questions?
It's not like he's part of the argument.
Yeah.
I feel like maybe going would be a mistake, but I would listen to a counter-argument on that.
There's probably some reason.
I mean, he doesn't do things randomly.
So he must have a set of beliefs about why that would work.
I don't know what they are.
Anyway, so where's the beef?
Last couple of days, I ate some steak, which I haven't done.
Somebody asked me why suddenly I would get off of 30 years of not eating meat, except for fish more lately.
Why I would suddenly be eating beef.
And the answer is I don't know.
It could be because I'm closer to the end of my life and I just want to experience it or something.
But I'll tell you what it feels like.
It feels like the reason I'm doing it is because beef is now rare and expensive.
So it feels more special.
I hope that's not why I'm doing it.
But you know, as I often teach you, we don't know why we do things.
We rationalize after the fact.
And I'm very aware that whatever is happening as to why I suddenly ate steak two nights in a row, I don't know why.
I literally don't know why.
But I know that I have rationalizations forming in my mind.
But I recognize them as rationalizations, not reasons per se.
I didn't really have a reason.
But I feel like I'm just being influenced by the fact there's a lot of news about beef.
That's what it feels like.
I'm just being influenced.
Anyway, it was delicious.
And speaking of beef, so Trump wants to help Argentina.
And one way would be to buy their beef because they're having some financial struggles down there.
And we want to keep Millay in power.
Trump does because he's such a good ally.
But if they ship in Argentina beef to the U.S., then that would be competition with the U.S. beef makers, and they were already struggling until recently Trump claims.
This is Trump's claim.
I haven't heard anybody else say it.
But he put tariffs on beef coming from other places, which allowed our domestic beef makers to jack up their prices and still be able to sell it.
So I guess they're doing okay, the American ranchers at the moment, but they're worried that that would change pretty quickly if we start bringing in this Argentina beef.
So Trump is going to have to figure out how to target beef because he said that beef's like the remaining expensive thing.
That's not exactly true.
You know, other things are going up in price too.
But beef's the one we're talking about.
So if he can get gas prices down, he did.
Egg prices down, he did.
If there's any way he can get lucky and beef prices could go down, that's going to be a three for three.
And it would be three things that people think about and care about and feel about.
As opposed to, you know, I bought a shirt and it was 10% more expensive.
They care about their eggs and their beef in their car, that's for sure.
So what Trump is doing is kind of brilliant because he's focusing on the things that people are focusing on.
So he's focused in the same place.
I like that.
We'll see if he can do anything on beef.
I don't know what he would do, but I didn't know what he'd do on eggs either.
According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Audrey Strebb is writing that the corporate media and the Democrats in particular are finally giving up shoving climate messaging down America's throats.
So big article about how, do you remember it was only, I don't know, a year ago that climate change was our biggest problem in the whole world and now doesn't really get mentioned.
Was it ever real?
Did the Democrats and the corporate meeting and everything, did they ever think that the climate crisis was real?
Because if they thought it was real before, it would still be real, wouldn't it?
It wouldn't just go away.
And they treat it like, well, it was a problem, but now we're going to talk about other things.
Like what?
So I guess the emphasis has moved from climate to the cost of energy.
So now they can talk about, oh, the energy just is too expensive.
We need affordable energy.
Okay.
But isn't that just a sort of a separate but connected problem to climate change?
Did the climate change problem really just go away when the money for it went away?
Because didn't the Trump administration put the brakes on funding for a lot of climate change stuff?
So I guess if you came up with a great idea for the climate, but the only way it would work is if energy prices went up, you wouldn't have much of a plan in the land of AI.
So here's what I think.
The only way it makes sense that climate change used to be an emergency, but now it's not, is if you believe that getting enough energy for AI would be so important that the AI would eventually solve our climate change problems by creating new batteries and new forms of energy and stuff, maybe that might actually work.
It might be that the focus on lowering energy costs would be exactly the same stuff you would need for climate change.
So you just talk about energy costs and you get your climate change for free.
I feel like that might be what's happening.
Anyway, the FBI released new surveillance video.
Remember that stranger who placed the pipe bomb in front of the DNC office back in 2021, January.
And we never figured out who it was.
Well, now they have new video.
I think the video I saw was from the back, but you can see his clothing really well.
He had some distinctive footwear.
He's definitely identifiable.
Somebody knows who that guy is.
Somebody who watches the news is looking at that and saying, oh, that's my brother Bob.
Somebody knows who that is.
I doubt that that person bought unusual footwear just for that one event.
Somebody knows.
But why are we seeing new video of that event for the first time?
How many years has it been?
And today, for the first time, we see that they have clear video of it.
Really?
Where was that?
Well, the city of Portland is now known, according to FBI data, as one of the nation's highest property crime rates.
So Portland needs some help.
But Memphis, way worse.
So Portland is one of the nation's highest property crime rates, but I think Memphis is the highest.
Post-millennials writing about this.
So let's see, look at the numbers.
So Portland, I guess in 2024, for every 100,000 people, they had 5,500 property crimes.
So 5.5% of the time, you would be a victim of a property crime.
Seems a lot.
When I lived in San Francisco years ago, I was a victim of multiple property crimes.
If you lived in the city, you would get robbed all the time.
You come home, your apartment door is open.
That happened to me.
You go out to your car, the window's broken.
That happened to me five, six times.
I worked in a bank.
I got robbed as a bank teller twice.
So I've been the victim of all kinds of property crime.
I've been mugged on the street in the city.
So when I see that only 5% of Portland people are victims of property crime, I think to myself, hmm.
But if you live there for 20 years, I know stats don't work this way, but if you live there for 20 years, what are your odds of being a victim of a property crime?
Close to 100%.
It's pretty close to 100%, some kind of property crime.
So Trump is working on that.
I'm skeptical that anything the federal government does temporarily would have any long-term effect on crime in the cities.
It feels like this might be more of a political play that's popular with the public, but we'll see.
I'll be open-minded about it and say maybe, maybe the cities can find a way to make the changes permanent.
According to News Nation, there's an article by Rich McHugh and Tommy Christaldi that Antifa has infiltrated Seattle's homeless services.
So where they provide government services for the homeless, apparently some Antifa people have gotten in there so that they can make sure that their ways are promoted.
And speaking of Antifa, Cash Patel says that the FBI is on the verge of unmasking the command structure and financing of the violent anarchist group Antifa.
Now, here's my question.
Does it really take that long?
I read social media and I see graphs and charts that looks like we already know who funds them, don't we?
Don't we know it's that Arabella group and it's the Soros group and a few others.
So I don't know what the FBI has that's different from what social media is reporting, but they're on the verge of unmasking the command structure.
Now, I believe that the way they're doing it is for the purpose of making it a RICO situation.
If they can find that bad people are funding it and then bad people are managing it and it's an ongoing operation, I think it has to be ongoing to be RICO and that they've got bad intentions, that might be enough.
So we'll see.
We'll see if Cash Patel has the goods.
It's been a, you know, he points out that they've only been working on it for seven months, but I live in, you know, pretty close to Silicon Valley.
Seven months doesn't seem fast to me.
Does seven months seem fast to you?
In seven months, Elon Musk can spin up an entirely new $10 billion company.
And they can't research where some money went.
I don't know.
It feels like seven months is a little too long.
Could have done it in a month.
Oh, here we go.
Speaking of Gavin Newsom.
So I think I was confused in the story about Newsome versus Kamala.
So Breitbart is writing about this.
Warner Todd Houston's writing that Gavin Newsom was rocked by a poll showing him losing the Democratic nomination to Kamala Harris if they both ran for president.
Now, does that surprise you that Kamala Harris would be ahead of him in the polls?
It's only one poll, a Noble Predictive Insights poll, which I've never heard of.
So I wouldn't assume that the poll is credible.
That's where you start.
Start by assuming that political polls are often to give you an opinion, not to find out what your opinion is.
So we don't know that that's the case with this poll, but since we don't know much about this poll, I would, if I were you, I'd put it in the category of things you can't necessarily trust just because you read about it.
Doesn't mean it's true, just because you read about it.
Anyway, so Newsom may be surprised that he's not the assumed frontrunner, but I don't know that he has to worry about her running again, does he?
Is that really a risk that Kamala Harris would run for president again?
I feel like that's a zero, that there's actually no chance whatsoever she would rerun for president.
I don't see it.
So I don't think he should be too shocked by it.
It might insult him, just that there's somebody out there, but she's still a person of color and she's still a woman, and he's still a white guy.
So he shouldn't be too surprised.
Anyway, Trump's getting ready for his upcoming meeting with President Xi of China.
They don't have a date for that yet.
But he's talking optimistically again, as he likes to do.
He says, we'll make a deal on, I think, everything.
I think we're going to make a deal on maybe even nuclear.
He talked about soybeans and everything else.
So apparently what Trump wants to do is a very big, beautiful trade deal with China that could go from their relationship to Russia to the nuclear arsenals of all three countries to farming to everything.
Now, to me, that seems undoable.
The more complicated you make it and the more things you throw in there, the less likely you'll have agreement.
But I always teach you if you can't get a deal with the variables you have, you should add variables.
So, for example, if they can't make a trade deal because they just can't agree, if you add the nuclear thing, suddenly, oh, okay, I do want that nuclear thing where they put more control on everybody's nuclear arsenals.
So you could imagine, for example, that if he threw the nuclear thing in there, he could get a trade deal that was a little bit better than he could have gotten if he had not included it.
So he's sort of the expert about when to include something and when to keep it out because it will complicate things.
So I would trust him to make that decision correctly.
Trump says it's fake news in the Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal, I think yesterday, was reporting that he had given some kind of permission to Ukraine to do longer range missile attacks into Russia.
And Trump wants you to know that is 100% fake.
He did not do that.
And there's no change, no change in any of that.
Do you believe that?
It's probably there's some version of that that's true and some version of it you could argue the Wall Street Journal might have been onto something because it wouldn't surprise me if Trump said something like, I do not approve of this, but I know you're going to do it anyway.
What would that be?
Would that be permission to do it?
Or would that be not permission to do it?
So you can imagine how they would interpret the same situation differently.
So I do believe that Trump never said explicitly, go ahead and use those missiles longer range into Russia.
So when he says that's fake news, it probably was.
But did he say anything or did his staff say anything that would make Zelensky think I could totally get away with this?
Like something changed.
You know, I'll just do it.
And then Trump will say, I told you not to do that.
And then I'll say, whoops.
So there might be some story that's not either version.
It's not true that he did, and it's not true that he didn't.
There's probably something more complicated happening there.
Just guessing.
Just guessing.
But it would be a mistake for Trump to ratchet up the missile attacks before he talks to Putin.
Because then Putin would just have to respond and he'd have to cancel the meeting.
And he just wouldn't go anywhere.
So I can see why he's trying to tamp that down.
Ukraine says it now has an AI-driven drone.
It's not totally AI because I think there's some human naval operators.
But they're boats that can attack other boats.
So these drones are not the flying kind.
They're the boating kind.
And apparently now they can strike ships anywhere in the Black Sea.
So they've increased their range and deadliness of their sea-bearing drones to the point where I believe it would be largely impossible for Russia's Navy to even operate in the Black Sea.
Now, I'm getting ahead of myself.
Remember, I'm not a military expert, but I don't know how many of these they can make or how quickly they can make them.
But you wouldn't have to have a lot of them before it would just be totally unsafe for Russia to have a boat in the water, right?
So you don't have to sink everything.
You just have to sink enough that they say, did we just lose whatever their battleships are?
Yeah, we did.
But only one this week.
You would only have to take out one big boat a week.
And they would, you know, four weeks later, all the big boats would be gone because they couldn't take that risk.
So that might change things.
We'll see.
I guess U.S. forces, military, have now taken out a ninth alleged narco-terrorist boat around Venezuela.
So they got the ninth one.
Now, of course, we, and if you look at the photos, you know, they always show the photo before they show the boat that's been blown up.
And it has all these big blue barrels on it.
Have you seen the videos of the cartels when they're putting together their drugs?
They often are in big blue barrels.
And these big blue barrels are literally the thing that they're transporting on these boats.
They're not full of fish.
Those blue barrels.
That's only one thing.
Somebody else pointed out that that kind of boat might be used for fishing sometimes, or it might be used for something else, but never with four engines on it.
So somebody smart who knows about that area in that domain said, if you've got four engines, outboard engines on the back of that boat, that's only for one thing.
There's not two reasons.
Nobody has two reasons to have four engines on the back of one of those.
If you were fishing, you'd have one or two, I'm told.
So apparently all of our yapping about how do you know it's a drug boat, apparently that's easy.
It's actually easy to know if it's a drug boat.
You can look down and you can see the barrels full of drugs because there'd be no point in having a boat that big unless you were going to fill it with lots of barrels, right?
So they can literally look down and see the barrels of the drugs.
They know where it came from, which would tell them it's part of that network.
And they know that it has four engines on the back and that when they're told to stop, they're definitely not going to stop.
Now, I don't know if they've ever told them to stop and they didn't stop, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't.
It also makes me wonder what the conversation is like before the boss sends out another boat.
Juan, come over here.
What?
Well, we lost a few of our narco boats.
So we'd like you to be the captain and take this other narco boat and deliver our drugs.
How many of the recent narco drug captains have survived?
Well, we don't know.
I mean, they got a few, but they only got nine.
So what are my odds of living if I were to go out in this boat with my four engines?
Oh, probably a solid 60% chance you'll survive.
Who takes that job?
Like, how does that conversation go?
Well, this is almost certainly a suicide mission.
But Juan, you've not shown your talents and the other cartel skills.
Your murdering is a little bad.
I find your trafficking of humans could be better.
So we're going to reassign you to be basically the Uber driver for these narco boats.
Your life expectancy is now 45 minutes.
So that's how I think that conversation goes.
Anyway, Apparently, Democrats are planning to launch what they call a master ICE tracker on their website.
So you can always know where the ICE professionals are so that you can plan accordingly.
Now, that's one of the most dangerous things I've ever seen in my life for those ICE people.
It's just amazingly dangerous.
It's hard to imagine this is really happening, that the Democrats are doing that.
The Democrats are literally attacking Americans while the Republicans are literally trying to protect Americans from non-Americans.
It's incredible.
I mean, I don't know how the Democrat Party can even be a party.
How can it even be a party, Chandler Bing?
I mean, seriously, how do you wake up every day and attack Americans and then expect that you'll be like a leading political party?
You need to attack someone else, not Americans, not us deplorables.
Leave the deplorables alone.
All right.
Now, just before I started today, I saw a story that I told myself, I don't have time to write that one down, but damn it, I'm definitely not going to forget it.
What was that?
Locals people, when I was talking to you before this podcast, what was it I was going to talk about?
There was some new news that happened right just before I went live.
Remind me what that was, will you?
I tried so hard to remember it while I was thinking about all the other things.
All right, there's a little time lag here on the comments.
You forgot too?
Cantus is accusing Trump of murder.
I didn't know about that.
Gambling, the ballroom.
No, I talked about the ballroom.
Yeah, Carolyn Levitt torching Obama.
So it's kind of funny that Levitt and some of the other people there are saying you're mama when the media asks some stupid questions.
They just go, you're mama.
Robbie Starbuck, we talked about him, but I'll, yeah, he, I think he's in for a big payday because there's no way he could lose, right?
If the AI has written grotesque accusations, the accusations against Robbie Starbuck that AI made that are false.
They're all false.
That's what you need to know.
None of them are real.
Are just the worst things you've ever seen.
They're not even just normal, bad, you know, normal, bad accusations.
They're really bad.
And they're all made up, just completely made up.
Now, if he wins, do you think that would allow somebody like me to do the same thing?
Because AI has some really bad opinions about me.
They're not nearly as bad as the ones against Robbie, but they're pretty bad.
I haven't worried about them because I don't know.
I got other things to worry about.
How about the illegal alien truck driver who killed three people this week?
No, and don't be a sucker and fall for anecdotal stories like that.
I feel like that's the sucker story.
So yes, there was this one immigrant who did a thing that we really wish they hadn't done and very bad things happen.
I don't do those stories.
I don't do the one immigrant murder somebody or the one immigrant had a traffic accident and didn't have a license.
Those stories tell you nothing.
Actually, that's just propaganda.
The individual anecdotal stories are just propaganda.
Now, I happen to agree with the direction of that propaganda, meaning that I think our truck drivers should speak English and have valid driver's license and be Americans if we can make that work.
So it's not that I'm disagreeing with the direction of that propaganda, but don't ask me to do propaganda.
I feel like you asked me to do propaganda.
If I ever talk about one person's crime and then try to sell it as some kind of representation of the entire group, you don't want that.
You don't want me to do that.
How does that help you?
I would literally be lying to you to make you feel good.
Like acting like an anecdote was important enough that I needed to delve into the details.
So, so don't get me wrong.
I'm not supporting the individual who allegedly drove into people and killed them.
I'm not on his side.
But don't ask me to go full propaganda by making that seem like it's an important story.
It's definitely important to the people who got hurt, but it's not important to anybody else.
If there's a statistic that that sort of thing is happening, you know, at some rate that we can measure, well, that's a story.
So if it becomes a statistic that is compelling, then I definitely talk about it because that's not propaganda.
Once it becomes a statistic, you're just talking about the reality.
How did he get a driver's license?
I don't know.
It's not hard to get a driver's license if you're not a citizen.
People have been doing it forever.
Tesla earnings.
I guess Tesla is down because everything's down.
So some are saying that the real story is how we got a California driver's license.
No, it isn't.
That's not the real story because it's still about one person.
If the story is that they found out that thousands of people have California driver licenses that shouldn't, then that's a story.
But it's not a story about that one guy.
That's just propaganda.
All right.
I'm going to read you another reframe because I think you need it.
Who wants a reframe?
What time is it?
All right.
We're right at right on the top of the hour.
I'm doing great today.
All right.
Here's one.
Have you ever heard that it takes money to make money?
It takes money to make money.
So that would be a common frame.
People think, I can't make money unless I already have money.
So here's the reframe for the thing that would limit you, making you think you can't make money unless you already have money.
The reframe is I can turn energy into money.
Energy, your own energy, or any other kind of energy that anybody would use, is it's mixable with money.
So if you need money and you're a human being and you have energy, you can employ your energy to work and then make money.
So there's no such thing as not having money if you do have energy.
So if you see energy and money as just substitutes, suddenly everything looks more obvious.
It's like, oh, I don't have money, but if I worked two jobs and I chose them carefully, I might have money eventually.
I just have to use my energy to get there.
When I was doing my MBA classes at night, I was working full-time, but then at night I had to go to school to try to get my MBA.
What I was thinking while I was spending money and not making money, because it costs money to go to school.
So I was using money, not making it, but I was also using my energy to develop a set of credentials that would make me money.
So I was very conscious that although I was exhausted, the exhaustion was showing that I was on the right track because I was using my energy to make money.
And sure enough, once the MBA came through, you know, I'm pretty sure I got a raise after that in my day job.
All right.
Monetize that energy.
Nope.
The story is not about how many people are dying because of the immigrants.
It's a story about one immigrant.
You have to understand that the story about one immigrant is not a story about all the immigrants.
That would be propaganda.
There is a story about all the immigrants, but it wasn't this.
That reframe made you a success.
Good.
That's good to hear.
There's been a lot of them.
Again, you really want to debate me on this.
People really want the story of the one guy to stand as a proxy for all the other people.
It doesn't.
I'm not going to do it.
But if you have a statistic about how many people are dying because of this, totally I'm interested in that.
Not going to do the one guy.
It's about a crooked DMV.
Still, it's about one guy.
If you can give me a story about more than one guy, I'll be all in.
Oil reserves, China's building oil reserves.
I guess they're getting serious.
Why bring it up?
You brought it up, not me.
People asked me to bring it up.
No, everything you say about what the story is about is wrong.
It's a story about one guy who may have a lot in common with other people, but you'd have to demonstrate that.
All right, that's all I got for you.
I'm going to talk to the locals people for a minute privately.
My beloved, beloved.
By the way, if you were a local subscriber, you would know that lately, I can't promise I'll keep doing this, but lately I've been drawing the Dilbert Comic live evenings.
Probably we'll do it again tonight.
We'll see how today goes.
But now that I've got that little holder for my phone that goes around my neck, I could have the phone just looking at my hands.
So you just watch the drawing form as I draw it.
Some people like it.
Apparently, it's very relaxing just to have me go all Bob Ross on you.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining.
Locals, I'm going to come at you privately in 30 seconds.
