Episode 2667 CWSA 11/22/24

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my feed for yesterday I think um and what's interesting about it is he asked better questions than most people ask so when you ask better questions you get better answers and you might like it a lot so it's Paul Leslie if you want to find it on his um feed on X he goes by uh at the Paul lesli so it's just all one word the Paul lesli l s l i e hey there's a new study let's see if uh let's let's see if you can figure this out before I tell you how it went there was a new study according to Science Blog in which they tested to see if People's Mental Health worsened if they looked at negative feedback on their digital devices all right what do you think people if people were forced to look at a diet of negative uh information on their phones for example do you think it would help or hurt their mental health well you'll be surprised to learn that uh the marinating in bad news can actually actually make you sad yes I know it's true the the more exposure you you have to negativity the sadder you get um but weirdly the the worse the news was the more likely somebody was going to click it so we have this bad habit where we pursue things that make us feel bad such as bad news do you know how you could have saved a little money on that study that's right you could have just asked Scott Scott does exposure to negative thoughts make you feel bad huh let me think about this yes yes pretty sure it does so I'm glad we handled that um I've actually taking this to the next level where do you have people in your life who will bring up the most darkest negative story of just some horrible thing happened to somebody or something you like and do you ever just say stop stop and they can't stop like they want to tell you that you know somebody beloved was had a railroad spike stuck through their head it's like your favorite person and you're just like stop stop and they go oh no I was just going to tell you about the no stop stop I know what you're going to do and when you tell me that it will only make me feel bad and there will be no positive outcome from this story so stop stop do not speak again well but just the railroad spike but no stop stop stop don't move your mouth no no more sounds stop and then the railroad spike went through the head for for some reason when somebody wants to tell you bad news you can't stop them I don't know if you've had that experience but it doesn't matter who it is you just can't stop them anyway there's a there's a report that China has developed a surgical cure for Alzheimer's now I don't believe anything about this story now it came from a source I'm not familiar with um so it doesn't come with automatic credibility from any Source but let me tell you what they say they've done and you tell me if you think this is likely to be true so so apparently they've done 42 clinical trials and everyone has been a success and what they're doing is they're doing some uh surgery on your neck lymphatics now of course I understand uh Medical Technology deeply so let me explain to you as it was written down in this report um it's a deep cervical lymphatic Venus anastomosis surgery and uh the way they do that is uh uh what they do is uh they use super microsurgery technology to to sort of shunt the lymphatic circulation in the men just and then that that will accelerate the return of the intracerebral lymph through the jugular foren of the skull base and take away some of the metabolic products in the brain thereby achieving the goal of possibly reversing the brain degenerative lesions and slowing the progress of the disease now I know that you were thinking that's exactly what it is so that was probably just review for a lot of you but um do you really think that China reversed um Alzheimer's in 42 different trials in a row and it's the first you're hearing about it this doesn't even sound a little bit true does it i' love to think it's true so for a recreational belief I'm going to say sure sure why not maybe I don't think so all right there's a here's the the one thing you could guarantee about the age of robots is that people would use robots for things that you don't need robots for this is the dumbest one of all time somebody invented a uh robot that can play the drums now you're going to say to yourself I know but Scott there have been things called drum machines for a long time you know you could just program them and then they make sound and to which I say well but you know this is better they've added AI to it so it can make up its own beats now that's pretty good imagine if if your AI drummer could come up with Beats that you wouldn't even think of that'd be pretty good but you know what they did they put this capability in a robot so the robot has arms and and they're trying to figure out how to make the wrists to be as Snappy as human wrists to which I say you're just producing sound right that's that's the end product of the of the robot drummer if it's just sound can't you just directly produce the sound do you really need a robot arm to hit a hit a drum there's no other way to produce that sound like such as recording a recording a drum I don't know I do like having a robot to play pingpong with me because at least I can you know get some exercise and play pingpong so if you know anybody who's making one of those ping pong playing robots I'm in the market as soon as I can get one well there's another study from the University of Bristol about um if you synchronize the movements of your robots and your humans it builds trust so they call it harmonizing so trust between humans and robots is improved when the movements let's say if you're just walking down the hallway uh if the robot kind of synchronizes with the way you're walking or the way you're moving then your trust will be improved in both directions now I don't know how a robot develops trust but it works in at least one direction now on one hand it looks like an innocent little unimportant story about how robots learn to move the right way however here's the part they don't tell you and that's why I'm here if a robot starts pacing and leading meaning copying a human being but then later it moves on its own and you see if the human copies the movement somewhat automatically without knowing it that is one of the most powerful methods of persuasion the world has ever known at the moment it's something only humans can do so if you're in a meeting with your boss and your your boss does this with his hands do that with your hands if your boss does you this and leans on the table do that and after you've copied your boss for say 20 minutes while the boss is talking and there's a meeting going on then see if you can get the boss to follow you so after you've copied the boss's arm motions you do a new one put one hand up let's say see how long it takes you for your boss to get into that same position you're going to be amazed how easily it is to get people to change their physical position without knowing that you did it to them it's something we practiced in hypnosis class and I didn't believe it I I didn't believe that it would work until the first time I did it and I thought holy cow did I just make somebody change their entire body without them knowing it yes you could reproduce it it's very easy to reproduce but if you teach a robot how to manipulate humans by matching their uh movements and then that the next stage would be matching their language style so that's also a persuasion trick so if somebody likes to talk in military ways do you know anybody who likes to use a lot of military terms like we're going to take that hill and you know I I jumped on that hand grenade and well we'll live to fight again you know the just continuous warlike things if you Pace that and you adopt the same style when you're talking to them they will begin to trust you and you will begin to have a persuasive effect on that person it's pacing and leading we probably don't want to teach the robots to do it it's probably too dangerous nobody's going to believe me about this by the way like if you if you were not you know steeped in Persuasion as a you know a hobby or a job you wouldn't really know how dangerous this is but if these D if these robots stop start cooping the way we talk and the way we move they're going to have full control over our minds let me say that again if a robot can learn to talk like us in other words adopt the same mannerisms that that we have individually and also Move Like Us literally copying the way we move it will almost have full control over your brain now I know you don't believe that but it's coming and there's nothing that can stop it because of course the robots will learn this and be able to do it of course they will and what would stop it yeah you you would almost have to do to legislate against it but since the the field is still young you don't want to you put a bunch of your regulations there that would stop everything so I think it's inevitable robots going to be very persuasive um according to new Atlas Ron has this new technology where instead of the military having fuel lines they would hook up some kind of big uh microwave power device and they could shoot power to the soldiers and the units from a distance without any physical interaction so in other words you you you've got this device somewhere at the back of your Battlefield and all of your ebikes and your robot dogs and your people who've got any kind of GPS or any kind of electronics they they go into the battle but of course they'll run out of energy at some point you know the vehicles need to be recharged the the devices need to be recharged and this thing can do it just by turning on and sending sending the signal out in all ctions so it can actually recharge the military devices while they're being used from a distance holy cow that's pretty cool do you think that's actually going to work I think it's in the early stages of development but they must they must have prototyped it already so that's interesting but I also wonder if uh human soldiers are really going to be the future CU why would you ever set a human Soldier into a battlefield in 10 years 10 years from now why would you send a human at all into the most dangerous thing because the the drones are going to own the sky and the robot dogs are going to own the ground there isn't really a place for a human in war unless they're on the losing side I guess anyway um do you may remember that I did did a uh podcast look well I I'll call it just a conversation with Naval ravikant and I did that on multiple platforms I did it on X and You.

Tube and Rumble and locals now locals is subscription site so that's limited audience but uh Owen Gregorian was looking at the numbers and noticed that on X it has 1.1 million views um I think closer to half a million might have watched the whole video um but on You.

Tube it has 62,000 so on X it was somewhere between half a million and a little over a million at the same time it it was all live and it went to all the platforms at the same time and You.

Tube only had 62,000 now I know what you're going to say you're going to say well you know maybe maybe less visibility or something but but even on Rumble there was 76,000 views so tiny little Rumble had way more views than all of You.

Tube for this content and X had of you know X goes to you know a million of my followers right away so a lot of it is just that I have a lot more followers on X than I have anywhere else so that's always going to be bigger but does that look natural to you does it seem natural to you that I could Garner half a million to a a million views and if you look at the comments you know people are very very up on it I mean they they just loved it does it look does it sound to you as if I'm being suppressed I feel like it's super obvious and that it's always been the case so can't prove it because there is one explanation that would be normal which is I just have maybe I have a more active audience X maybe it's just that but I doubt it if if I had to guess it looks like it's it's uh some kind of suppression here's my favorite story of the day but also the smallest story of the day it involves nine words and here's what's cool about it do you know how we you know we've come to love our billionaires and and also hate them so it's almost like the billionaire CL class has become like a a wrestling show where you got George Soros who plays the heel you know sometimes uh you know Reed Hoffman plays the heel but then you've got your good guys you know your Elon musks and you got your you know anyway I could go on but but you know what I mean the the billionaires the ones with personalities and they like to be public Mark hbin for example um they become a whole entertainment field in themselves like to me they replace celebrities I have absolutely no interest in what beyon has to say I don't like your music no interest at all but if there's a good billionaire fight oh I'm all in I love to watch the billionaires do their thing because for the most part they didn't become billionaires by accident you know there was something going on with these special people but here's the story so Elon Musk heard something at maral Lago and he posted about it now as you're going to hear in a moment uh what he heard was not true right so what he heard was and it's not true uh that he said he was at maralago and that uh he heard from somebody there that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that uh Trump was going to lose the election for sure so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock so that's why somebody told Elon Musk moral Lago so Elon posts it and I appreciate the transparency so that my my first uh thing was oh so this is a thing that's going around uh Elon heard it we didn't hear it and now we posted so we've heard it too so I like the fact that he posted it and then Bezos weighs in and this this is his entire response nope 100% not true one 2 3 four words four words nope 100% not true uh musk responds well then I stay Inc corrected with a la a laughing emoji five words now here's what I love about this what are musk and bezos's collectively most famous for besides being rich there are most efficient billionaires right Amazon works because Bezos is an expert on efficiency I mean he he figured out how to do everything the fastest best lowest cost most effective way so here and then musk of course is the same he's he's like in you know he's Doge he's the guy who took 80% of the the people out of Twitter and it got better right so you have the two most famously efficient people in the world and they had a problem one of them had heard a story that wasn't true and said it in public so how long did it take the two most efficient billionaires to fix this problem nine words nine words and done they'll never talk about it again it's done nine words now here's why this is extra special you could think of a lot of billionaires who if they deny the story you wouldn't believe them right like I don't have to name names but you could think of a lot of people right off the top of your head like if they denied a story you'd say to yourself H yeah but did they yeah of course you're denying it but maybe you did but here's what I love about this story so much that Jeff Bezos somewhat quietly you know if you can call it that compared to other people I guess he he builds this you know massively successful operation and as far as I know I don't think anybody's everever accused him of lying I've never heard it so when I saw that he said nope 100% not true I immediately went to nope 100% not true there was not even not even a micr of I wonder if he's lying wouldn't that be an amazing superpower imagine having a superpower where you can in four words completely change a news story because of your own credibility that's pretty damn rare and I think musk recognized it too and just said well well then I stand corrected we're done here I love this story I I love um when ordinary people make ordinary mistakes so it was a mistake to believe a rumor that wasn't true and then just immediately correct it and move on I I just love everything about that credibility guess some all right there's more talk about this Oprah situation of her taking the 2.5 million we hear at first we heard it was 1 million but 2.5 million the production company took for getting Oprah to do her thing um to promote Harris and uh haris said I took no money but since we know the production company took 2.5 million and it's her production company people quite reasonably say I think Stephen A Smith said this that uh it looks like Oprah might be lying and maybe she took money but it went through the production company so she was basically lying about it now connect this to the last thing I talked about when Jeff Bezos says Nope 100% not true end of story end of story Oprah says 100% not true I didn't take money it's the beginning of the story apparently Oprah is not as credible as Jeff Bezos because when Oprah said it nobody believed it just nobody believed it h now what's the difference has Oprah lied to us now of course when Oprah had her show she had you know she had people on who promoted things that maybe didn't work out but we don't know that Oprah knew that right so it's not like she lied but then we saw her you know doing her political thing and you know backing Harris and we thought huh that doesn't look like you know just calling balls and Strikes that looks like something a little crazy a little I don't know doesn't fit so Jeff basos gets basically not involved in politics and then when they ask him a question and he gives an answer you go oh yeah that's true but Oprah gets involved in a way that was awkward frankly and then when she talks people go I'm not so sure I think you might be lying but I'm going to give you some uh recreational speculation on this story so I don't know anything about the details so this is just speculation and it's just based on how the real world works and it's based on the fact that in the real world people can be kind of sh shitty I don't know if you've noticed but people could be kind of shitty so here's what I think might have happened and I think this strongly enough that if I had to bet on it I would actually place a bet on this it's not 100% because it's just speculation but I'd bet on it and here's the bet that uh Oprah uh of course makes money that flows through her production company which is why people say you did get paid you just did through your production company you liar um but I would further assume that the production company does more than just handle Oprah's appearances because it's a production company they probably do a wider variety of things which means that whoever is in charge of the production company probably have their own Financial incentives in other words they would be judged by how how well they support Oprah but they would also be judged by their other lines of business within the production domain and their salary probably would depend on how well they do outside of outside of pure Oprah um business so now if that's true and I don't know that that's true but it seems like a normal thing you'd expect that the production company has expanded to handle other operations that's why that'd be one good reason for having a production company now if this production company was smart but kind of shitty and they start negotiating with the Harris campaign what's the first thing the production company's going to figure out they're going to figure out they're dealing with amateurs they're not dealing with really good negotiators and they're not dealing with business people they're dealing with youngish often camp people who just so excited that Oprah might consider coming so they say what what's it going to cost to get Oprah here and the production company said well you know it's a big operation we got to you know when Oprah travels it's really expensive but we think we can do this for 2.5 million and then you could imagine the Harris campaign saying all right all right that's worth it because 2.5 million to get Oprah that would be a market price because the the other performers you know were in that low million doll range too so you could imagine that and I'm speaking as the creator of the Dilbert cartoon you could imagine that the production company knew that Oprah wasn't going to take money for it so they got to keep anything that they could negotiate so they would sort of leave the leave the impression that the 2.

5 million since it was going to Oprah's production company was sort of Oprah's money you know minus the expenses but if the production company didn't say that directly and they just said this is what it's going to cost to get Oprah here we can put it in writing Oprah will be here we'll do the production you'll pay us 2.5 million well it could be that the Harris campaign didn't really care who was getting the money they just knew it would cost 2.5 million to get Oprah so here's what I think I think there was a weasel at the production company who knew that if they thought they were getting uh Oprah who may have said I'll do it for free um they may have just sort of left that impression that they were paying for Oprah when really the production company was just boosting their own bottom line some of which would go to Oprah but maybe it was more about the production company itself and their own their own own objectives so here's what to look for see if Oprah fires the head of her production company it's probably somebody she's worked with forever so you wouldn't fire them even if they did this but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Oprah was not totally filled in on what the production company asked for or what they paid them or what they said maybe because she just wouldn't be interested her part was was do you want to show up do you want to support Harris yes that's all she needed to know and the production company handled the rest so if I'm wrong about all that and by the way what I'm describing would be sort of a normal way the world works it wouldn't be an abnormal way the most normal way it would work is the production company would say oh we've got a live one here I think we can take them for 2.5 million and it'll only cost us a million to do the expenses um otherwise Stephen A Smith is right and Oprah has some explaining to do but I'm I'm still going to give her the benefit of the doubt that there's somebody else in this operation that maybe has some explaining to do meanwhile the New York Times says open AI who they're suing for using using the New York Times uh content to train their Ai and the New York Times says you can't do that that's are intellectual property you can't train your AI on it and then suddenly it has all the all the learnings of the New York Times um so part of the lawsuit required some uh files to be turned over by open AI to the New York Times and uh you'll never guess what happened so the case relies on some files and opena had the had the files uh they were asked for these files through a legal process can you take a wild guess what happened to the files anybody have any of you been alive for the last five years what do you think happened to the files there was a there was a glitch oh damn it we sure meant to give you these files but there's some kind of glitch they got corrupted or deleted or something huh so I guess these files aren't going to be useful but darn we sure wanted to give them to you I mean we tried so hard but we wish we could have but the glitch the glitch got us now here's my question how many times in the last five years has somebody who is a you know some public figure or important entity uh managed to skate through a legal process by claiming that they lost or a file was damaged it turns out that seems to work every time why would anybody ever turn over a digital Source if they thought they could just destroy it yeah um dingdong the glitch is dead that's funny all right well I don't believe anybody who has a glitch and a file disappears but maybe you know since it's it's within the range of things that could happen in a real world however unlikely um it looks like it works as a legal strategy it makes me wonder if there are lawyers whoever suggests the client does that you know like well um as your lawyer um I must I must inform you that you should not destroy any files as your lawyer do not I'm going to put it in writing do not destroy any files but also as your lawyer just as background context everybody who does destroy their files and claims it's an accident seems to get away with it but as your lawyer I advise you not to do it don't do that thing that everybody gets away with no no don't do it so I suppose that conversation's happening a little bit somewhere meanwhile according to slay news the Daniel Penny trial took an interesting turn with a forensic pathologist Dr.

Sati shundre who got in the winess stand and said the chold did not cause the death um he he's a former Miami area medical examiner so he knows what he's talking about and he said uh he did not believe the air choke he calls it an air choke as opposed to some people say this a thing called a blood choke uh which would be more severe U but he called it an air joke and he said uh that the cause of death probably has something to do with h the effects of sickle cell crisis so I guess he had a bad case of sickle cell anemia schizophrenia I don't know how that kills you physically uh the struggle and restraint and the synthetic marijuana so he had he had something that wasn't marijuana there's there's some synthetic thing that's way worse I'd never heard of it actually um and he said someone schizophrenic high on K2 that's the synthetic marijuana thing K2 and involved in struggle can die without a choke hold being involved at all and then he said and I think this is sort of the the the kill shot he said what's also important is unconsciousness always precedes death in a choke hold so in other words when they showed up he was conscious and then he died he was no longer being choked and he was conscious and then he died and I I if I interpret this right I think the uh the uh forensic pathologist is saying that if the guy stopped choking him and he was conscious then whatever killed him wasn't the choke is that true well I'm no forensic pathologist but I'll tell you if I were on the jury and I heard one pathologist say oh I'm pretty sure he killed him with that joke and then another one who's equally qualified said no nobody dies from you know being being conscious after the choke that's not a real thing and he had real other reasons he would have died that would be somewhat ordinary now that is clearly enough uh doubt that there shouldn't be any way he could be convicted because you don't need a lot of reasonable doubt you just need some Reasonable Doubt this is way more than Reasonable Doubt right if you if you're going to say like you know what does a what does a bucket of Reasonable Doubt look like it would look like this one of my favorite Court stories is about the lawyer who was trying to defend his client with reasonable doubt he didn't have a strong case but he wanted to make the jury think that Reasonable Doubt was a little stronger than maybe it is and so here's what the lawyer did you know he he said in his closing statements you know not only is my client completely Innocent but the real killer is walking through that door right now and said he's going to walk through that door right now and he turns he points toward the door everybody in everybody in the jury box turns toward the door all the witnesses turn toward the door the judge looks toward the door and then nothing happens the door does not open and there's this awkward silence and then the then the defense attorney turns back to the jury who are still looking at the door and now they look back at the lawyer little time has passed and the lawyer says that is Reasonable Doubt because they they had enough they had enough belief that there was another explanation for the crime that every one of them looked at the door and waited for the real criminal to walk in now that's a little bit too clever and I don't think that would actually win you a case was it Jerry Spence I was wondering that I wonder if it was Jerry Spence or did he just tell the story he may have told the story but I don't know if it was him could have been could have been Jerry Spence but uh now that's that's trying to sell Reasonable Doubt you know if there's just a trace of it in the real world you need a little bit more than somebody's walking through the door it might have it might have won that trial but you know generally speaking you need more than that but if you've got an expert who says nope I'm quite sure this person could have died of other causes that really needs to be the end of it so here's what I'm worried about what happens if it goes the other way cuz I feel like I think the men in America are kind of done with this and the white men in America are very done with it I don't know what would happen like I'm not predicting violence but if Daniel peny gets convicted after this expert says this we're going to have a lot of questions and I don't think it's going to be business as usual here's what I don't think I don't think the process just you know processes them puts them in jail I assume there'd be some appeal process but I feel like there's a point where the public just has to take over and I think the public has to make it clear that we're watching this thing and ultim Ely the public does have all the power because there are enough of us and if we're mad enough whoever it is we're mad at is going to have a really bad day one way or another you know again I'm not recommending violence so I really think we need to keep an eye on this one we can't let this one get away we we men mostly we got to protect them and I and I feel like a personal responsibility to do that it feels personal to me very personal because Daniel Penny I don't know him of course but he's everybody he he is every guy he's every guy so I don't really feel him as different from me like when I watch Daniel penny I'm not watching some stranger even though I don't know him I've never heard him talk I'm watching me so if you don't think I'm going to have a problem with him being convicted if that's the way it goes well you're wrong and there will be consequences I don't know what they will be but let me just say this to any part of the world that is looking to put this guy away you better be really careful because this one's not free you know what I mean this is not free and you don't know what the price is yet and we're not going to tell you you could have to find out but this one's not free so let's hope for the best golden age is here I think he's going to get free but if he's not it's going to be expensive one way or another it's going to get real expensive well the big story of the day Mt Gates bowed out in his bid to be attorney general and Trump cleverly already filled that uh news that news cycle by putting uh putting up Pam Bondi who was attorney general in in Florida and as a close Confidant and uh super loyal highly qualified um almost everybody says she has a better choice than Matt Gates simply because she doesn't have the baggage but she has even more skill more more experience more direct experience and that kind of job so I'm very happy with this but uh here's the other thing did we just learn that Trump is not a dictator I think we did right can can we stop talking about that then here's what I saw now my take on Trump has always been he's the opposite of a dictator he's actually more tuned into the the opinions of the public and other politicians than anybody I've ever seen so here uh here it didn't look like it was going to work he tried he would have pushed it if uh if Matt Gates had have wanted him to he would have pushed it which I appreciate just from the Loyalty perspective he returned the Loyalty but Matt Gates did a solid um at least that's my interpretation of it and when he talked to all the politicians who had to vote for him he realized he couldn't get it and he probably didn't want to do the recess appointment thing and just caus a bunch of provocation and so he decided to uh back out now so what we get is so so here's the the outcome number one um Gates sucked all of the energy in the news cycle toward him for several days so that the other nominees didn't get nearly as much scrutiny that was probably useful but I don't think it was a plan it would just it worked out that way we found out that Trump can't do anything he wants and he will respond in a reasonable way when he reaches a you know an obstacle that doesn't make sense to try to break it down so that's a huge win for trump it won't be in the news the news will just ignore the fact that we've now proven Beyond shadow of a doubt that Trump does not have dictator powers and it doesn't look like he's trying to it looks like he was trying to respond to the public because even the Republicans were saying you know not your best play you know we we see why you're doing it we do want to attack dog in that job but but maybe maybe not your best play and Trump listens to the people takes Matt Gates's recommendation which was also listening to the people and the politicians and we get what do we get we get a better candidate we get um we get some you know diversity that I think was useful you know woman in the job that's useful um he gets the same amount of loyalty higher level of experience probably will sail through the confirmation and and Matt Gates still has other opportunities now we don't know what he's going to do some say he's going to run for a governor I don't think so some say that uh he might try to get appointed to Senator I don't think so some say that he could just retake the seat he resigned from because he technically resigned from his current seat but he's been elected for a future seat and I heard this on social media I think it's true that he could just pretend like he didn't quit you know do a George castanza and just go to work now he might have to go to work after the second you know the next term so be you'd have a few weeks off for Christmas but it would be hilarious if he just George castanes this situation and he just goes to work after everybody thought he quit I don't know if that's legal but if he got elected and he didn't resign from the upcoming term at least on social media people are saying he can do it I don't think he will because it would put him right back in that um place where the ethics report could come out so I think he's not going to go back into government right away he might later but um here's what I think would be his perfect situation the thing that Trump needs more than he needs you know one more loyal so Soldier doing a thing is another big media entity that supports them because you saw you know um you know all the me all the media entities are under some kind of fire from the left so if Matt Gates decided to take his existing podcast and just beef it up and get more interes in guests and Go full Alex Jones and you know really make it like a sort of a a foundational thing that conservatives listen to he has all of those skills I'm looking at a message going by yeah so Gates has all of those podcasting skills with the you know the behind the curtain knowledge with all the contacts with the ability to invite anybody on the show name recognition It's Kind of Perfect so I've got a feeling he might go into the media that would be where he would have the most impact and make the most money Etc but there's one other possibility I'll just put this out there um he's married to the sister of uh Palmer lucky who's uh the creator of uh anduril is that the name of it it's a defense company it's a new one and they do kind of newer cooler high-tech defense stuff like drones that can do things and uh and other things now suppose that Palmer lucky wanted an executive to put in the company to help it go public well that would be good for his sister because his sister would be married to somebody who would get massive stock options and become a billionaire with in 3 years maybe I mean if if because the company looks like it's ragingly successful and I think it's still private as far as I know so they would presumably be looking at a way to go public and cash out and maybe he could be the some some officer in that company so there there's so many things that he could do that it's hard to to you know I don't think any of us are going to guess what's happening so I'm going to I'm going to say this I don't think we'll ever know what the real story was I don't think I mean it could be as simple as just exactly what he said he wanted it Trump wanted it there were about four or five Senators who said no he knew he couldn't change the mind didn't want to do the recess appointment he just pivoted but the weird thing about this is that everybody wins isn't that weird when is when is the last time you saw a story where everybody wins we we get a better attorney general one that's less controversy Matt Gates will be turned loose to do something that's probably something he's better at Trump still wins because he gets what he wants I don't know just seems like everything worked out there uh but MSNBC is saying that uh Bondi is worse because she's competent so MSNBC went from he's the worst choice in the world to okay she's worse because she's good okay um the uh Republicans who allegedly were not going to support Gates were John Curtis Utah Susan Collins of Maine Lisa marowski Alaska and Mitch Mc.

Connell Kentucky Mitch Mc.

Connell anyway Bill Riley had some interesting things to say on news Nation with Cuomo about uh msnbc's fate um so it looks like a Comcast who owns both NBC News and C CNBC and MSNBC it looks like they might be looking to spinoff MSNBC and CNBC and that makes sense because msnbc's audience took a big hit he'll probably come back after Trump gets in office because he'll have something to yell about but it doesn't look like it's a good business so they're going to spin it off and what Bill O'Reilly said made a lot of sense to me that MSNBC takes advantage of NBC's news business so that they can add The credibility of the real news to their opinion pieces but if you if you separate them they are no longer connected to any real news collecting entity and it would be massively expensive to create one from nothing the MSNBC doesn't have anything to sell because all they have are these amazingly overpaid um pundits but they wouldn't be a news organization it would just be a bunch of opinions because they'd lose the news now I don't know if that's real but it's the first it's the first take I've heard on that that's you know interesting and uh O'Reilly thinks that ABC will have to dump The View for the same reason now o Al's take is that msnbc's big problem is that it was nothing but hate and that the view has a similar problem that there's spewing hate audiences don't like hate apparently hate doesn't sell as much as you wanted to and I think Bill o're is pretty close on this at least it's an interesting speculation that MSNBC doesn't have any value outside of outside of NBC News apparently Rachel madow has renegotiated her outrageous $30 million a year pay for being on the air only one night a week so obviously you can't go on forever getting 30 million a year if you're only on one one night a week so she had to lower her pay to 25 million a year one day a week um I've got a suggestion I'm not a huge fan of Rachel madow her politics but I will note that you can't take away from her that she's unusually smart right she's you know just if you hook her up to an IQ test she's going to beat me really smart but now we learn she might be the best negotiator you've ever heard of in your life who in the world can negotiate $25 million a year for one show a week that's really good when your network is failing how do you do that so they're trying to sell this network and it's got this big expense that couldn't possibly make sense but she must be one good negotiator there's an MSNBC headline that will remind you why they're full of hate and they're they're losing uh it was an opinion piece but the uh the headline was lakan Riley's killer never stood a chance for all the political controversy surrounding Jose abara the outcome of this trial was never in doubt does it sound a little bit like MSNBC who was glad glad the migrant killed the American citizen like what is wrong with them his killer never stood a chance that the MSNBC is worried about the killer getting a fair trial there was so much evidence of his guilt it wasn't like a close call was it poor MSNBC um I saw NPR says most of the country shifted right in the 2024 election did we did the country shift right I'm not sure that's what happened here's what I think happened I think the right kind of stayed the same you know in other words policies and stuff didn't change much and the left became batshit crazy when batsh crazy clearly stopped working it worked in 2020 but when it stopped working they they started becoming more common sensible is that a word common sensible common sensical pick one but I think all they did was stop being crazy and start being a little bit more normal and and that looked like a moveed to the right uh I heard somebody else say on social media that uh nobody moved to the right they just didn't have a rigged election this time so it looks like it I I don't I don't buy that um you know whether or not there was rigging I don't I don't buy that explanation um I think that I think that the left had enough people in it that understood that the left had just gone crazy it was just bat Bonkers stuff and they just said we've had enough of this we're we're going to give the other side a chance because the other side is at least trying to sell common sense you could disagree with it but Republicans are trying to sell common sense now this connects me to a topic I've mentioned before as you know uh I've been at least listed as a Democrat most of my life and for my early years you know say my 20s or so um I was pretty sure that the Democrats were the Smart Ones and the Republicans were were sort of had a a religious base that wasn't translating into policy so well so that that seemed like a little disconnect to me because I wasn't religious so I didn't I didn't see that religion should be playing so much of a part in this decisions but the Republican party has evolved into more of a common sense you know we love our religion but we'll keep that separate you know for our policy we'll we'll just do what makes sense now obviously Republican policy is still well informed by religion but it's not the leading voice right it seems like what when I was in my 20s they'd start with the religious part and then tell you why they had the policy right and then that would that would turn me off because I'd say hey what if people have a different religion you know don't start with that now look at how Trump handles abortion he doesn't start with the religion he he starts with a process he says well having the states decide is a better process there you go now that's my common sense common sense says put the decision where it's best to make the decision and then it's easier to defend no matter what happens because at least it was made in the right way so watching Trump turn the religious first people into a still religious doesn't change their belief but he's found a way to put process ahead of it and the process does all the work you don't need to appeal to the god the Bible because the process does what you know what it's supposed to do so I think that made it safe for people like me who were uncomfortable with the religion first but like religion I'm very Pro religion for other people if you have one keep it I like it I like you to have one just doesn't work for me which by the way is a fault it if I could if I could get the benefits of religion and I I had way to believe I would do it because it's pretty obvious that the religious people have some advantages anyway um here's some new news uh we keep talking about Mike Rogers as being one of the possibilities for the head of the FBI and all the smart people were saying my God my God no that would be a huge mistake no no Mike Rogers according to people who know more than I do was part of the industrial censorship thing and he he was pushing the Russia collusion hoax and did some other things that Republicans think is not too compatible with the Trump movement but it turns out it was all fake news so Trump just messaged that he's never even considered Mike Rogers even thought about it once and he's definitely not going to be the head of the FBI now remember how I said when Jeff Bezos says four words you just say oh that's true like you never even not for a second do you doubt doubt his veracity but when Trump says it you know Trump has a little bit more of a history of Hyperbole and you know bending the bending the fact check a little bit so when he says I never once you even considered Mike Rogers you have to wonder is that exactly true or maybe his name came up at a dinner and Trump maybe you know didn't respond to it one way or another and then somebody left the dinner saying oh Mike Rogers name is on the table so you you could easily imagine that the rumor would start without Trump starting it just by Trump not maybe not responding to that suggestion or something but he's saying very clearly it's not going to happen now why did Trump say it's not going to be Mike Rogers because normally you only announce who it's going to be isn't that uncommon sort of uncommon right to announce who it's not that did that happen before Trump do other politicians announce who it's not that was weird but here's the other thing do you know why Trump said it's not Mike Rogers because Trump tapped into his base listened to what they were saying heard there was all this you know uh don't pick Mike Rogers uh chatter going on and realized that he needed to tell us that that was off the table now whether it was always off the table or he just saw the chatter and said oh let me take this off the table now I don't really care you know because it gets us to the same place but once again it's another example of trump being absolutely tapped in and responding to reasonable criticisms about the direction that people think he's going I love that I mean there there are so many positive things happening in in the government in the country it's it's it's kind of incredible like the the optimism people are feeling Etc but when I see even these little Corrections you know like the Bezos musk thing that to me that's just a perfect moment in human behavior when I see Trump listen to the public and say oh you're having a problem with this Mike Rogers things so let me fix that that's perfect I I'm not asking for anybody to be right about everything in the first draft not even the second draft but if you if you respond to the situation and you respond in a common sense way and you show respect your base and you're listening to what they're saying and you hear what they're saying that's kind of perfect I'm not I'm not looking for no no mistakes that's not my standard mistakes are ordinary I'm looking for do you have a system that can quickly identify and correct a mistake yes Trump has a system he listens he pays attention and here's the important part he knows which part of his base are credible so if you've got a Glenn Greenwald and you've got a you know um Mike Ben and half a dozen other people I think uh Mike cernovich if if you got those kind of people on the same side and and they're making a big deal about it it's not a small point it's a big point and then the boss says okay I hear you that's exactly what I want like that's the country I want to live in I want to know that Ordinary People can influence um the influencers it happens to me all the time or you know people who are not famous make a good point and I say oh that's a good point and then I say it out loud and some other influencer hears it and repeats it all right um here's the F my favorite thing about the Doge thing where uh Elon Musk and VI ramaswami are going to try to cut the the the fat out of the government and reduce our costs um we're going to we're going to watch two of the the smartest most effective operators that we've ever seen V and Elon and we're going to watch them attack an impossible problem because I literally can't think of any way you could do this I can't think of any way they could succeed because the big things to cut are the the sacred cows so when we watch their strategy as they approach this you're going to see the smartest people in the world do the smartest things against the most impossible task how fun is that like I wouldn't even know how to bet on this thing because on one hand it's definitely an impossible task on the other hand it's V and Elon how do you bet on that I mean seriously how could you place a bet on that they could actually get this done I don't know how but that's the fun part the fun part is I don't know how this is possible but they might now I don't think they have it solved I I think they're still you know walking around the car and kicking the tires and finding out what works they're putting up some test balloons you know some statements a little bit of a you know article in the I don't know Wall Street Journal someplace and then people react to it so one of the things they're doing is they're they're uh going to do a Blog where they're fully transparent now what would make you comfortable with two unelected people and not even nominated they're not elected and they're not nominated but having this massive control over the the country the world and and you how would you feel comfortable with that only one way full transparency so that's what they're giving us they're telling you how they're doing it they're modeling it in in advance they're telling you what they're thinking they're telling you they're early thinking which might change and one of their early thinkings is that uh if they simply make the government go into the office instead of work from home there would be a huge number of people who just resign because they don't want to commute to which they would say good that's part of the job done um then their next play and again this is stuff that smart people come up with that I don't know if I would have um they say that there are a lot of the uh red tape and uh let's say rules and regulations that the government has that were not passed by Congress they're not in executive order it's just these entities are coming up with their own rules and if you simply get rid of all the rules you don't need that are more problem than than they are solution then all the people who work on those rules don't need to be employed because there must be a massive number of people who make sure that the rules are being followed so instead you just say we don't need all these rules get rid of them and then you can get rid of the staff that enforced the rules and made the rules but if you add all those things together um that might be 1% of what they want to get done but they're leading with that why would they lead with that because it's common sense because they're thinking about it they're being transparent and it is something that looks like it would work the most important thing they have to do is make something work early could be small but has to work so if the first thing they did was say all right here's a batch of rules that we think we can get just get rid of them and here's the team of people that's going to leave as soon as those rules leave boom look at us two weeks in and we just got rid of 300 administrators who weren't weren't useful so what you see early you should interpret as the new CEO move meaning that the by far the most important thing um I'm seeing something about Mike Rogers here yeah it's Dan scavino who who said that uh Trump was not considering uh Mike Rogers so it didn't come from Trump directly it went through Dan scavino but you can you can trust scavino on that um if you didn't know Dan scavino is like one of the longest closest Trump um supporters so if scavino says that Trump said something or didn't say something you can take that to the bank you don't have to ask any more questions yeah he he's 100% so anyway the the hard part as you all know is that you can't touch the Medicare and Social Security and it's going to be tough tough to touch the military although interestingly Jen uh weager uh offered to Elon to help him cut the defense budget because he said hey Democrats have wanted to cut the defense budget forever why can't I help then immediately Jen was uh was piled on by democrats saying what the hell are you doing helping these Republicans and Jen quite reasonably said um why can't we do the thing we all agree on what what exactly is the reason I should not be putting my time and energy and reputation into the thing I've most wanted to do for years which is get rid of unnecessary defense spending and elon's reaction was um he's open to suest SS now I don't I don't think that Jen was offering to join the committee exactly or join do Doge but he might have some ideas and mus says sure we like ideas so we'll see if that goes anywhere so here's what I'm most interested in I do think that VI and musk they have to have some idea of what to do about the big Untouchable parts of the budget otherwise they wouldn't even try because if they thought the best they could do is take you know $200 billion do out of the the small part of the budget that doesn't get you anywhere close I mean you got to make you got to take two trillion out of your Six Trillion to get down to balanced budget and two trillion is not even close to what you can get from people quitting on their own because they don't want to commute Plus we got rid of some regulations so we don't need this department not even close and a lot of things that would be eliminated doesn't mean that the funding is eliminated for example if they take the Department of Education and they say let's blow this up and give it to the states the states would probably get most of that money except for the administrative part so I don't really see a path how any of this can work and I would still bet that they can get it done because they're you know both of them operate at a level I can't quite get to and both of them seem to have optimism that they can make something happen so what would they do with health care and well let's just pick one um not not well was it welfare or was it Social Security so Social Security and Healthcare do you think now and keep in mind that uh V you know knows the the medical world better than most people so do you think that they could come up with something that would radically change what those things are so that the cost of them comes down and yet the public is still served I think so I don't know what it would be but like I can sort of smell it before I see it I feel like there's a way to do it for example let's say um let's say they promoted I'm just going to brainstorm for a minute so don't take any of this too seriously suppose they said um AI is so close to being your doctor that if you want lowcost Health Care um we'll make sure that that Health Care AI sector gets really turbocharged so that there's basically a government doctor and everybody has instant access so if you got a smartphone you got a doctor it's free then what about medicines do you think they could figure out a way to bring down the cost of meds well here's the interesting thing that's what Mark Cuban's business is trying to do so Mark Cubans had some success with specific drugs but it looks like that could increase and he has lowered the cost of some Mets now I think that V and musk along with Trump could negotiate with the uh the met the big Pharma to spread some of that cost to other countries because right now the US you know pays a premium for the drugs other poor countries get them for low cost because America's paying for all the overhead and development effectively we're subsidizing so what if they figured out a way to stop subsidizing or just make it illegal make it illegal to sell it for more in the United States than other places and that would move this subsidy to the other places how much would that save a few hundred billion it could be a pretty big deal so so then what would be missing let's say if your drug costs come down through better negotiating and your cost of talking to an expert whether it's a doctor or a specialist drops to zero because that's possible the cost of talk to a doctor could be completely replaced by AI then what you have is the physical manipulation part where if somebody has to put something on you you know like put a bandage on you or set your bone or something um you still need to do that but I'll bet there's a way to make that more competitive as well so so I think it's going to have to be an entire re-engineering and restructuring of what healthc care looks like maybe with AI and then if you're looking at Social Security um I'll bet I'll bet there's a way to make sure that people are doing something useful for their money without being on Social Security suppose you said you could trade away your Social Security but there's this other thing you can get how many people would say oh I don't need my Social Security I did well in life but I like this other thing that you're offering so I'll I'll take this other suppose he said that if you voluntarily give up your Social Security forever because you're rich uh that you'll be first in line for a trip to Mars that's the bad idea so that's that's an example of the bad suggestion that might make you think of a better one like what what could you trade for people to give up their social security it's possible well speaking of Doge China apparently has an even bigger problem with red tape because a ton of the Chinese workers are involved in creating and maintaining red tape and Reporting things so I guess if you're in China business uh a whole bunch of your life is just doing reports on what's happening in your your job so even president XI wants the country to learn how to not be that way because they also have you know huge overhead so um here's what they say that they spend too much energy pretending they're implementing policy this is according to one expert named Lee uh centralization is good for political decisions however for economics you do need a certain kind of chaos so they their uh commercial stuff in China is so over regulated I guess you say that it's like a big wet blanket on it so as I've said before the Doge thing is not just about fixing our debt if we can figure out how to have a more efficient smarter government system one that makes sense in in the current times that is a gigantic gigantic military and economic benefit so watching musk who of course would be expert in the entrepreneurial Arts realized that the biggest obstacle is the government and then he's the one who's you know right in the middle of trying to fix it so it works for um Commerce do you think China can match that let's say they pull it off let's say V and Elon pull it off and they really modernize our government in a way that's still compatible with the constitution in fact maybe more compatible with it um and and still gets everything done but we can do things quickly such as approve a nuclear power plant just to pick one example how much would the United States be different if we had an efficient way to say yes to a nuclear power project well we're getting closer to that the government is working in that direction but if if we could really just kill that you know just slay that opportunity so to speak that'd be huge so I think I think the fate of the United States really depends on Doge and I don't think there's another country that can match us because there is one thing we have that other countries don't have we've got a dictator yeah the dictator Trump has basically decided to voluntarily share power with an unelected person who simply got the best ideas now two of them you know vake as well so remember I always told you that the person with the best ideas always in charge and you probably thought that's a small idea and then oh maybe that works in that one meeting you were in Scott but that's like not generally true oh it's true the person with the best idea is always in charge so Elon comes in with the best idea which is how about you take the smartest most badass entrepreneur working with other smartass smartest badass entrepreneurs and we try to fix our most critical problem in the in the government what's Trump going to say to that no that's a bad idea no it's a great idea it's like the greatest idea I've seen like maybe ever it's such a great idea it's almost you can't even hold it in your mind it's such a great idea and so Trump says yes if he were a dictator he would not be sharing power that's just not how that works now he's of course confident enough Trump is that he's still he's still the president so he gets what he wants but if musk and um ramaswami come up with an idea that's just so good that the public says oh yeah that's just a good idea Trump's gonna say yes because the best idea always wins and they're going to be coming they're going to be coming with ideas all right couple of things how to fix the Democrats the Democrats are trying to figure out how to recover um I have the following comments about that number one uh identity politics is a permanent death I don't think there's a path to recovery where I think the Democrats are thinking okay you know it's it's sort of business as usual we just have to do a little better you know better messaging you know may maybe organize our campaign a little differently it's not that it's the identity stuff the identity stuff is what made everything crazy it's what it's what you know made Democrats walk away if they don't get rid of the identity politics they don't have any way to recover but here's the trick if they do get rid of the identity politics then they're just Republicans and they don't have any reason to exist so you can't keep the identity politics but you also can't get rid of it because it would just destroy them for years the Republicans never entered the identity politics so they have no burden to get rid of it or change anything in that regard they're completely unburdened by it um but there's no way to fix it so the the Democrats painted themselves in a corner that literally doesn't have a way out I don't think there is now let me suggest um one hail marry way that they could get out of it I think that the media runs the Democrats more than the other way around and if the media decided only to tell stories that were true and useful and common sense that it would force Democrats to be it useful and common sense because the media would say here's a great idea and here's a terrible idea what are the Democrats going to say if it's their own media right if CNN says oh this new idea is just a terrible idea and then you're you're Democrat and you turn on the TV you're like oh shoot CNN thinks this is a terrible idea what does MSNBC say oh God they hate it too the media runs the the politics so if the media somehow and I don't see a way this could happen but if the media started to become a legitimate um contributor to the country instead of whatever they are um they could actually change the whole Democrat machine they and and in fact the media could get them out of their identity politics whole just by the way they frame things and just deemphasize it Etc don't do continuous trans stories all day long that's the media right it wasn't it wasn't the Democrat um politicians who kept saying can we talk about trans some more it wasn't them it was the media so if the media fixes itself the media that supports the Democrats then that could cause the Democrats to make the adjustments which might make them more mainstream which would make them competitive but how's the media going to change I don't see how that's going to happen unless MSNBC just goes away and the others say we'd better better shape up um but the the other possibility is that they get a new charismatic Democratic leader and people are voting for the person not the policies totally po you know so if you got another you know once once in a generation kind of leader you know maybe another um another Obama type uh maybe but if they don't get an Obama type and they don't um get their media to fix the media's own problems there is no way to come back they they seem to be in a permanent Exile so the Democrats are coming up with some new fake fears because this is a this is some more evidence of how the media can't fix itself so the media on the left they don't have enough to complain about from Trump so they're making up some new fake ones of course it's what they do so one of them is that they're saying that Pete hegseth who is nominated for secretary of defense um they claim that he said says women are not qualified for military service that of course is not true he did not claim that in fact like the fine people hoax he worried that you might think it so he made sure that you knew he wasn't saying that I mean I I watched him do that he he very clearly says yes I have worked with women in the military who were great at their jobs he's talking about combat now I don't have a an opinion about that because I think the people who in combat are the ones I would listen to so if you've been in combat or you know a lot of people who been in combat and those people say I got to tell you I love women I love them in support roles I've worked with a lot of done great but when the bullets start flying and I heard I heard a special force guy guy say this I forget who it was was on some podcast recently um and this is super sexist so I'm just reporting what somebody else said this is not my own observation he said that when the bullets start flying that the women frees up and that he's seen him multiple times and that the men either through training or selection or whatever it is are more likely to go on offense which might be exactly what you need for the best defense uh but they kind of had to push the women in the direction they needed to go now that's anecdotal and I don't support that interpretation it's just one that has some attention but if the people who have been in that situation um collectively say yeah there's something to it I would listen to that and by the way I have no interest in women being in combat like I don't like it it it offends me on a on a DNA level like it's not even politics just my DNA can't handle it like it's just no how about just just no because you know part of being a man is that you feel like you're protecting women and children I don't know is that built into us or am I socialized that way or is it just natural so when you tell me oh the woman you're trying to protect is standing next to you in the hail of gunfire I'm like no no no no no you're making my contribution worth less I'm protecting her that's my job so anyway I'm no expert on Military whatsoever but if the people who are experts say that uh women in combat remember it's just combat we're talking about uh if they say there's a difference and that it matters and it affects our Readiness I say the military is the one place you can discriminate all you want because the military is about staying alive that's not about being woke so if there's any good evidence that something needs to be a certain way to get a better result we have to chase the better result that's all that matters it's the military got to get the better result whatever that takes and then they're also worried that since Pete Heth was accused of something that there were no charges of and didn't sound credible to the local police that uh the women in the military would be afraid that the military would start raping all the women uh even more than already which is actually a gigantic problem um because heg Seth wouldn't do enough about it and that's just totally made up there there's nothing about the Heth allegations even if they were true which it doesn't look like they were but even if they were true uh it would have been well true that it it's true that an encounter happened um but I don't think that's going to have any effect on how he does his business anyway so that's more fake news coming meanwhile Russia used a Hypersonic missile for the first time in Ukraine and I guess I missed the first time I saw that news I missed the point of it and I just thought huh a new missile so but apparently the reason for using the super saic missile is to show that it can't be stopped by any of the anti-missile defenses and indeed it was not stopped by any of the anti-missile defenses and then they point out you know we could put a nuke on this oh oh so what what Putin was doing was showing his nuclear capability without the nuclear he said here here's my rocket try to stop it oh you couldn't stop it it just blew up your facility in the middle of Ukraine well you know I could have put a nuke on that and you wouldn't have stopped that either so maybe you think twice about bombing things inside of Russia so I think that's a pretty smart play from Putin um but um I'm going to double down and triple down on we've never been safer and there's never been a less chance of nuclear war because Putin and everybody else in the world knows that Trump the big dog is coming it's going to be a few weeks he's going to negotiate a piece it's going to be you know some land they keep it's going to look sort of like it looks now why would you start a nuclear war if you know that it's going to wind down in a fairly acceptable way almost for sure probably it will look like we will commit not to bring NATO into Ukraine probably will means that Russia keeps most of what they already have something like that so no you you don't start a nuclear war when all of your problems are going to be solved the way you want them to be solved or very close to it in a few weeks there has never been a safer time in the world's history never we're the safest we've ever been it just doesn't feel like it sometimes all right I wanted to give you my I'm going to uh I've gone way too long so if you want you want to leave I wouldn't feel bad about it but I wanted to give you my uh ADHD hacks so these are the tricks I use to conquer my own ADHD sorry now do I have ADHD well I've never been diagnosed with it but I do know that there are huge portions of the day when I can't possibly concentrate and focus and work so um I've developed a number of tools and habits and techniques that I will share with you now so if there are those of you who are maybe in the category I am which is I don't know if I'm technically ADHD but I I exhibit those characteristics um however I can tame them through habits and tricks and here they are trick number one I wake up at 4:30 in the morning no matter what if you tell yourself that sometimes you can sleep in that won't work for you you have to do it every day and you have to learn to love it I learned to love it by training myself with coffee and protein bar which when you put them together they're like a really good taste together so I would get all this like immediate uh physical gratification within minutes of waking up so 4:30 in the morning I keep all of my lights off and I've got my blackhound curtains down so that the only light is in my immediate 4 foot maybe a 4 foot um diameter I can't even see or hear anything outside of my four feet under those conditions when nobody else is awake you know that would be here in person I have complete focus and I don't think too much about anything on my calendar that day um and I enjoy the hack kind of the the comments coming in from the DMS from people people I love online and I love the news so I'm immediately in this you know um dopamine positive situation now how do people who do boring things make it work well it's a lot harder if it's boring you know because I do things that I personally like a lot so I'm excited for several hours because I'm just doing only the things I want to do but I'm I'm lucky that way I do like every other job have a whole bunch of boring things I have to do paperwork and spreadsheets and insurance and taxes and it just never ends I can't do those things at 2 o'clock in the afternoon my body just won't do it I I can't even force myself to sit in the chair I've got a million things swirling around by the time my dog wakes up my productivity goes down 25% does anybody have that experience if you work at home the minute your dog wakes up 25% of your productivity gone if there are kids in the house or people who you work with Who start calling you early in the morning another 50% gone you lose 75% of your concentration just because other people are awake so get up before they do that's my hack but there are more I also found out that since my body and my brain are really the same device that if I want to control my brain as in making it focus better I do that by controlling my body so in the first example I was putting coffee and a protein bar that I really really liked into my body and that was making my brain happy if it's the afternoon and I've already done that stuff um I will exercise so I'll either go for a nice walk in the Sun or do some weights or something but the exercise um makes me not want to move my body around and when I don't want to get out of my chair because I just exercised and I'm relaxing I can focus so I can I can control my brain by making my body run or walk or play a game or lift heavy objects for 90 minutes and then I just want to sit in a chair but I'm going to be bored if I'm just sitting in a chair so I might as well look at that spreadsheet get my taxes done that sort of thing anyway so those are some tricks use your exercise to put yourself back in that condition my other trick is I go to Starbucks um when my by around 11:00 a.m.

you know after I've gotten ready for the day and stuff walk the dog um I need to dip back into work but um my brain's already spinning aund things happening in the real world I can't focus now so I go to Starbucks now this is also a hack because Starbucks is noisy and busy but for reasons that I don't fully understand there's a lot of science to it that a cafe environment allows you to focus really well I'll tell you what I think it is for some reason when there are people all around me and literally standing next to my table I often take a table that's right next to the line where where people are waiting for their their stuff and so often I'll be I'll be working and there'll be somebody's butt like right here and they're having a conversation like right above me and you would say to yourself oh that's the most distracting thing there's no way you can concentrate that I can concentrate so well in that situation because somehow my brain says oh you need to turn out you need to turn all the stuff off and I just turn it off and I go and apparently it's a reproducible thing because Cafe sounds I I I can't do it with just the sounds it doesn't work I have to actually be in the environment so I can get another 90 minutes work just by changing the environment I call this matching my energy to the task so you got to change your energy um to match the task so at 4:30 in the morning the only way I can work is I have no distractions but by 11: in the morning the only way I can work is if I'm in a full busy um Cafe now if you have not experimented to discover those two things about yourself or you might have you know two different things that work for you you got to look for it yeah you got to you got to do a little work got to go look for it anyway experiment on that and that's all got for you I'm going to talk to the locals people for a minute I went too long there's lawnmowers outside all right You.

Tube and x and Rumble thanks for joining I'll see you again tomorrow same time locals I'm coming at you oh no I'm not locals I am not coming at you because the feature for going private um is not working so we won't get we won't be going private um every now and then that happens with the the rumble Studio there's a special button to go private with just the locals people um but it's not working today so I'll see you guys in the uh in the man cave man cave tonight it'll be awesome see you there let's see if it turns off the regular way oh doesn't turn off the rec all right so there isn't a way to end the live stream so both of there's two ways to do it and they both are not working right now uh let's see so I'm going to end the I'm going to get out of the I'm going to dip out and then back in just to see if I could close it if I get back in

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me and I think that explains most of

you you might enjoy a podcast I did with

Paul Leslie you can find that on my feed

for yesterday I think um and what's

interesting about it is he asked better

questions than most people ask so when

you ask better questions you get better

answers and you might like it a lot so

it's Paul Leslie if you want to find it

on his um feed on X he goes by uh at the

Paul

lesli so it's just all one word the Paul

lesli l s l i

e hey there's a new study let's see if

uh let's let's see if you can figure

this out before I tell you how it

went there was a new study according to

Science Blog in which they tested to see

if People's Mental Health worsened if

they looked at negative feedback on

their digital

devices all right what do you think

people if people were forced to look at

a diet of

negative uh information on their phones

for example do you think it would help

or hurt their mental

health well you'll be surprised to learn

that

uh the marinating in bad news can

actually actually make you sad yes I

know it's true the the more exposure you

you have to negativity the sadder you

get um but weirdly the the worse the

news was the more likely somebody was

going to click it so we have this bad

habit where we pursue things that make

us feel bad such as bad news do you know

how you could have saved a little money

on that study that's right you could

have just asked Scott Scott does

exposure to negative thoughts make you

feel bad huh let me think about

this yes yes pretty sure it

does so I'm glad we handled that um I've

actually taking this to the next level

where do you have people in your life

who will bring up the most darkest

negative story of just some horrible

thing happened to somebody or something

you like

and do you ever just say stop stop and

they can't stop like they want to tell

you that you know somebody beloved was

had a railroad spike stuck through their

head it's like your favorite person and

you're just like stop stop and they go

oh no I was just going to tell you about

the no stop stop I know what you're

going to do and when you tell me that it

will only make me feel bad and there

will be no positive outcome from this

story so stop stop do not speak

again well but just the railroad spike

but no stop stop stop don't move your

mouth no no more sounds

stop and then the railroad spike went

through the

head for for some reason when somebody

wants to tell you bad news you can't

stop

them I don't know if you've had that

experience but it doesn't matter who it

is you just can't stop

them anyway

there's a there's a report that China

has developed a surgical cure for

Alzheimer's

now I don't believe anything about this

story now it came from a source I'm not

familiar with um so it doesn't come with

automatic credibility from any Source

but let me tell you what they say

they've done and you tell me if you

think this is likely to be true so so

apparently they've done 42 clinical

trials and everyone has been a success

and what they're doing is they're doing

some uh surgery on your neck

lymphatics now of course I understand uh

Medical Technology deeply so let me

explain to you as it was written down in

this

report um it's a deep cervical lymphatic

Venus anastomosis surgery and uh the way

they do that is uh uh what they do is uh

they use super microsurgery technology

to to sort of shunt the lymphatic

circulation in the men just and then

that that will accelerate the return of

the intracerebral lymph through the

jugular foren of the skull base and take

away some of the metabolic products in

the brain thereby achieving the goal of

possibly reversing the brain

degenerative lesions and slowing the

progress of the

disease now I know that you were

thinking that's exactly what it is so

that was probably just review for a lot

of you but

um do you really think that China

reversed um

Alzheimer's in 42 different trials in a

row and it's the first you're hearing

about

it this doesn't even sound a little bit

true does it i' love to think it's true

so for a recreational belief I'm going

to say sure sure why not

maybe I don't think so all right there's

a

here's the the one thing you could

guarantee about the age of robots is

that people would use robots for things

that you don't need robots for this is

the dumbest one of all time somebody

invented a uh robot that can play the

drums now you're going to say to

yourself I know but Scott there have

been things called drum machines for a

long time you know you could just

program them and then they make sound

and to which I say well but you know

this is better they've added AI to it so

it can make up its own beats now that's

pretty good imagine if if your AI

drummer could come up with Beats that

you wouldn't even think of that'd be

pretty good but you know what they did

they put this capability in a robot so

the robot has arms and and they're

trying to figure out how to make the

wrists to be as Snappy as human wrists

to which I

say you're just producing sound

right that's that's the end product of

the of the robot

drummer if it's just

sound can't you just directly produce

the sound do you really need a robot arm

to hit a hit a

drum there's no other way to produce

that sound like such as recording a

recording a drum

I don't know I do like having a robot to

play pingpong with me because at least I

can you know get some exercise and play

pingpong so if you know anybody who's

making one of those ping pong playing

robots I'm in the market as soon as I

can get

one well there's another study from the

University of Bristol about um if you

synchronize the movements of your robots

and your humans it builds

trust so they call it harmonizing so

trust between humans and robots is

improved when the movements let's say if

you're just walking down the

hallway uh if the robot kind of

synchronizes with the way you're walking

or the way you're

moving then your trust will be improved

in both directions now I don't know how

a robot develops trust but it works in

at least one direction now on one hand

it looks like an innocent little

unimportant story about how robots learn

to move the right

way however here's the part they don't

tell you and that's why I'm

here if a robot starts pacing and

leading meaning copying a human being

but then later it moves on its own and

you see if the human copies the movement

somewhat automatically without knowing

it that is one of the most powerful

methods of persuasion the world has ever

known at the moment it's something only

humans can do so if you're in a meeting

with your boss and your your boss does

this with his hands do that with your

hands if your boss does you this and

leans on the table do that and after

you've copied your boss for say 20

minutes while the boss is talking and

there's a meeting going on then see if

you can get the boss to follow you so

after you've copied the boss's arm

motions you do a new one put one hand up

let's say see how long it takes you for

your boss to get into that same position

you're going to be amazed how easily it

is to get people to change their

physical position without knowing that

you did it to them it's something we

practiced in hypnosis class and I didn't

believe it I I didn't believe that it

would work until the first time I did it

and I thought holy cow did I just make

somebody change their entire body

without them knowing it yes you could

reproduce it it's very easy to

reproduce but if you teach a robot how

to manipulate humans by matching their

uh movements and then that the next

stage would be matching their language

style so that's also a persuasion trick

so if somebody likes to talk in military

ways do you know anybody who likes to

use a lot of military terms like we're

going to take that hill and you know I I

jumped on that hand grenade and well

we'll live to fight again you know the

just continuous warlike things if you

Pace that and you adopt the same style

when you're talking to them they will

begin to trust you and you will begin to

have a persuasive effect on that person

it's pacing and

leading we probably don't want to teach

the robots to do it it's probably too

dangerous nobody's going to believe me

about this by the way like if you if you

were not you know steeped in Persuasion

as a you know a hobby or a job you

wouldn't really know how dangerous this

is but if these D if these robots stop

start cooping the way we talk and the

way we move they're going to have full

control over our

minds let me say that

again if a robot can learn to talk like

us in other words adopt the same

mannerisms that that we have

individually and also Move Like Us

literally copying the way we move it

will almost have full control over your

brain now I know you don't believe

that but it's coming and there's nothing

that can stop it because of course the

robots will learn this and be able to do

it of course they will and what would

stop it yeah you you would almost have

to do to legislate against it but since

the the field is still young you don't

want to you put a bunch of your

regulations there that would stop

everything so I think it's inevitable

robots going to be very

persuasive um according to new Atlas Ron

has this new technology where instead of

the military having fuel lines they

would hook up some kind of big uh

microwave power device and they could

shoot power to the soldiers and the

units from a distance without any

physical

interaction so in other words you you

you've got this device somewhere at the

back of your

Battlefield and all of your ebikes and

your robot dogs and your people who've

got any kind of GPS or any kind of

electronics they they go into the

battle but of course they'll run out of

energy at some point you know the

vehicles need to be recharged the the

devices need to be recharged and this

thing can do it just by turning on and

sending sending the signal out in all

ctions so it can actually

recharge the military

devices while they're being used from a

distance holy

cow that's pretty cool do you think

that's actually going to work I think

it's in the early stages of development

but they must they must have prototyped

it

already so that's interesting but I also

wonder if uh human soldiers are really

going to be the future CU why would you

ever set a human Soldier into a

battlefield in 10 years 10 years from

now why would you send a human at all

into the most dangerous thing because

the the drones are going to own the sky

and the robot dogs are going to own the

ground there isn't really a place for a

human in war unless they're on the

losing side I

guess anyway um do you may remember that

I did did a uh podcast look well I I'll

call it just a conversation with Naval

ravikant and I did that on multiple

platforms I did it on X and YouTube and

Rumble and locals now locals is

subscription site so that's limited

audience but uh Owen Gregorian was

looking at the numbers and noticed that

on X it has 1.1 million

views um I think closer to half a

million might have watched the whole

video um but on YouTube it has

62,000 so on X it was somewhere between

half a million and a little over a

million at the same time it it was all

live and it went to all the platforms at

the same time and YouTube only had

62,000 now I know what you're going to

say you're going to say well you know

maybe maybe less visibility or something

but but even on Rumble there was 76,000

views so tiny little

Rumble had way more views than all of

YouTube for this content and X had of

you know X goes to you know a million of

my followers right away so a lot of it

is just that I have a lot more followers

on X than I have anywhere else so that's

always going to be bigger but does that

look natural to you does it seem natural

to you that I could

Garner half a million to a a million

views and if you look at the

comments you know people are very very

up on it I mean they they just loved

it does it look does it sound to you as

if I'm being

suppressed I feel like it's super

obvious and that it's always been the

case so can't prove it because there is

one explanation that would be normal

which is I just have maybe I have a more

active audience X maybe it's just

that but I doubt it if if I had to guess

it looks like it's it's uh some kind of

suppression here's my favorite story of

the day but also the smallest story of

the day it involves nine

words and here's what's cool about it do

you know how we you know we've come to

love our billionaires and and also hate

them so it's almost like the billionaire

CL class has become like a a wrestling

show where you got George Soros who

plays the heel you know sometimes uh you

know Reed Hoffman plays the heel but

then you've got your good guys you know

your Elon musks and you got your you

know anyway I could go on but but you

know what I mean the the

billionaires the ones with personalities

and they like to be public Mark hbin for

example um they become a whole

entertainment field in themselves like

to me they replace celebrities I have

absolutely no interest in what beyon has

to say I don't like your music no

interest at all but if there's a good

billionaire fight oh I'm all in I love

to watch the billionaires do their

thing because for the most part they

didn't become billionaires by accident

you know there was something going on

with these special people but here's the

story so Elon Musk heard something at

maral Lago and he posted about it now as

you're going to hear in a moment uh what

he heard was not true right so what he

heard was and it's not true uh that he

said he was at maralago and that uh he

heard from somebody there that Jeff

Bezos was telling everyone that uh Trump

was going to lose the election for sure

so they should sell all their Tesla and

SpaceX stock

so that's why somebody told Elon Musk

moral

Lago

so Elon posts it and I appreciate the

transparency so that my my first uh

thing was oh so this is a thing that's

going around uh Elon heard it we didn't

hear it and now we posted so we've heard

it too so I like the fact that he posted

it and then Bezos weighs in and this

this is his entire response nope 100%

not

true one 2 3 four words four words nope

100% not

true uh musk

responds well then I stay Inc

corrected with a la a laughing emoji

five words now here's what I love about

this what are musk and bezos's

collectively most famous for besides

being

rich there are most efficient

billionaires right Amazon works because

Bezos is an expert on

efficiency I mean he he figured out how

to do everything the fastest best lowest

cost most effective

way so here and then musk of course is

the same he's he's like in you know he's

Doge he's the guy who took 80% of the

the people out of Twitter and it got

better right so you have the two most

famously efficient people in the world

and they had a problem one of them had

heard a story that wasn't true and said

it in public so how long did it take the

two most efficient billionaires to fix

this

problem nine

words nine words and done they'll never

talk about it

again it's done nine words now here's

why this is extra

special you could think of a lot of

billionaires who if they deny the story

you wouldn't believe them right like I

don't have to name names but you could

think of a lot of people right off the

top of your head like if they denied a

story you'd say to yourself H yeah but

did

they yeah of course you're denying it

but maybe you did but here's what I love

about this story so much that Jeff

Bezos somewhat quietly you know if you

can call it that compared to other

people I guess he he builds this you

know massively successful

operation and as far as I know I don't

think anybody's everever accused him of

lying I've never heard it so when I saw

that he said nope 100% not true I

immediately went to nope 100% not true

there was not even not even a micr of I

wonder if he's

lying wouldn't that be an amazing

superpower imagine having a superpower

where you can in four words completely

change a news story because of your own

credibility that's pretty damn rare and

I think musk recognized it too and just

said well well then I stand corrected

we're done here I love this story I I

love um when ordinary people make

ordinary mistakes so it was a mistake to

believe a rumor that wasn't true and

then just immediately correct it and

move on I I just love everything about

that credibility guess some all right

there's

more talk about this Oprah situation of

her taking the 2.5 million we hear at

first we heard it was 1 million but 2.5

million the production company took for

getting Oprah to do her thing um to

promote

Harris and uh haris said I took no

money but since we know the production

company took 2.5 million and it's her

production company people quite

reasonably say I think Stephen A Smith

said this that uh it looks like Oprah

might be

lying and maybe she took money but it

went through the production company so

she was basically lying about it

now connect this to the last thing I

talked about when Jeff Bezos says Nope

100% not true end of story end of

story

Oprah says 100% not true I didn't take

money it's the beginning of the

story apparently Oprah is not as

credible as Jeff Bezos because when

Oprah said it nobody believed it just

nobody believed

it h now what's the difference has Oprah

lied to

us now of course when Oprah had her show

she had you know she had people on who

promoted things that maybe didn't work

out but we don't know that Oprah knew

that right so it's not like she

lied but then we saw her you know doing

her political thing and you know backing

Harris and we thought huh that doesn't

look like you know just calling balls

and Strikes that looks like something a

little crazy a little I don't know

doesn't fit so Jeff basos gets basically

not involved in politics and then when

they ask him a question and he gives an

answer you go oh yeah that's true but

Oprah gets involved in a way that was

awkward

frankly and then when she talks people

go I'm not so sure I think you might be

lying but I'm going to give you some uh

recreational speculation on this

story so I don't know anything about the

details so this is just speculation and

it's just based on how the real world

works and it's based on the fact that in

the real world people can be kind of sh

shitty I don't know if you've

noticed but people could be kind of

shitty so here's what I think might have

happened and I think this strongly

enough that if I had to bet on it I

would actually place a bet on this it's

not 100% because it's just speculation

but I'd bet on it and here's the bet

that uh Oprah uh of course makes money

that flows through her production

company which is why people say you did

get paid you just did through your

production company you liar um but I

would further assume that the production

company does more than just handle

Oprah's

appearances because it's a production

company they probably do a wider variety

of things which means that whoever is in

charge of the production company

probably have their own Financial

incentives in other words they would be

judged by how how well they support

Oprah but they would also be judged by

their other lines of business within the

production domain and their salary

probably would depend on how well they

do outside of outside of pure Oprah um

business so now if that's true and I

don't know that that's true but it seems

like a normal thing you'd expect that

the production company has expanded to

handle other operations that's why

that'd be one good reason for having a

production company now if this

production company

was smart but kind of shitty and they

start negotiating with the Harris

campaign what's the first thing the

production company's going to figure out

they're going to figure out they're

dealing with

amateurs they're not dealing with really

good negotiators and they're not dealing

with business people they're dealing

with youngish often camp people who just

so excited that Oprah might consider

coming so they say what what's it going

to cost to get Oprah here and the

production company said well you know

it's a big operation we got to you know

when Oprah travels it's really expensive

but we think we can do this for 2.5

million and then you could imagine the

Harris campaign saying all right all

right that's worth it because 2.5

million to get Oprah

that would be a market price because the

the other performers you know were in

that low million doll range too so you

could

imagine that and I'm speaking as the

creator of the Dilbert cartoon you could

imagine that the production company knew

that Oprah wasn't going to take money

for it so they got to keep anything that

they could negotiate so they would sort

of leave the leave the

impression that the 2. 5 million since

it was going to Oprah's production

company was sort of Oprah's money you

know minus the

expenses but if the production company

didn't say that directly and they just

said this is what it's going to cost to

get Oprah here we can put it in writing

Oprah will be here we'll do the

production you'll pay us 2.5 million

well it could be that the Harris

campaign didn't really care who was

getting the money they just knew it

would cost 2.5 million to get Oprah so

here's what I think I think there was a

weasel at the production company who

knew that if they thought they were

getting uh Oprah who may have said I'll

do it for

free um they may have just sort of left

that impression that they were paying

for Oprah when really the production

company was just boosting their own

bottom line some of which would go to

Oprah but maybe it was more about the

production company itself and their own

their own own objectives so here's what

to look for see if Oprah fires the head

of her production

company it's probably somebody she's

worked with forever so you wouldn't fire

them even if they did this

but I wouldn't be

surprised to learn that Oprah was not

totally filled in on what the production

company asked for or what they paid them

or what they

said maybe because she just wouldn't be

interested her part was was do you want

to show up do you want to support Harris

yes that's all she needed to know and

the production company handled the rest

so if I'm wrong about all that and by

the way what I'm describing would be

sort of a normal way the world works it

wouldn't be an abnormal way the most

normal way it would work is the

production company would say oh we've

got a live one here I think we can take

them for 2.5 million and it'll only cost

us a million to do the expenses

um otherwise Stephen A Smith is right

and Oprah has some explaining to do but

I'm I'm still going to give her the

benefit of the doubt that there's

somebody else in this operation that

maybe has some explaining to do

meanwhile the New York Times says open

AI who they're suing for using using the

New York Times uh content to train their

Ai and the New York Times says you can't

do that that's are intellectual property

you can't train your AI on it and then

suddenly it has all the all the

learnings of the New York

Times um so part of the lawsuit required

some uh files to be turned over by open

AI to the New York Times and uh you'll

never guess what

happened so the case relies on some

files and opena had the had the

files uh they were asked for these files

through a legal process can you take a

wild guess what happened to the files

anybody have any of you been alive for

the last five years what do you think

happened to the

files there was a there was a glitch oh

damn it we sure meant to give you these

files but there's some kind of

glitch they got corrupted or deleted or

something huh so I guess these files

aren't going to be useful but darn we

sure wanted to give them to you I mean

we tried so hard but we wish we could

have but the glitch the glitch got

us now here's my question how many times

in the last five years has somebody who

is a you know some public figure or

important

entity uh managed to skate through a

legal process by claiming that they lost

or a file was

damaged it turns out that seems to work

every time why would anybody ever turn

over a digital Source if they thought

they could just destroy

it

yeah um dingdong the glitch is dead

that's funny all right well I don't

believe anybody who has a glitch and a

file disappears but maybe you know since

it's

it's within the range of things that

could happen in a real world however

unlikely um it looks like it works as a

legal strategy it makes me wonder if

there are lawyers whoever suggests the

client does that you know like well um

as your lawyer um I must I must inform

you that you should not destroy any

files as your lawyer do not I'm going to

put it in writing do not destroy any

files but also as your

lawyer just as background context

everybody who does destroy their files

and claims it's an accident seems to get

away with it but as your lawyer I advise

you not to do it don't do that thing

that everybody gets away with no no

don't do it so I suppose that

conversation's happening a little bit

somewhere

meanwhile according to slay news the

Daniel Penny trial took an interesting

turn with a forensic pathologist Dr Sati

shundre who got in the winess stand and

said the chold did not cause the

death um he he's a former Miami area

medical examiner so he knows what he's

talking about and he said uh he did not

believe the air choke he calls it an air

choke as opposed to some people say this

a thing called a blood

choke uh which would be more severe U

but he called it an air joke and he said

uh that the cause of death probably has

something to do with h the effects of

sickle cell crisis so I guess he had a

bad case of sickle cell anemia

schizophrenia I don't know how that

kills you physically uh the struggle and

restraint and the synthetic marijuana so

he had he had something that wasn't

marijuana there's there's some synthetic

thing that's way worse I'd never heard

of it actually um and he said someone

schizophrenic high on K2 that's the

synthetic marijuana thing K2 and

involved in struggle can die without a

choke hold being involved at

all and then he said and I think this is

sort of the the the kill shot he said

what's also important is unconsciousness

always precedes death in a choke

hold so in other words when they showed

up he was

conscious and then he

died he was no longer being choked and

he was

conscious and then he

died and I I if I interpret this right I

think the uh the uh forensic pathologist

is saying that if the guy stopped

choking him and he was conscious then

whatever killed him wasn't the

choke is that true well I'm no forensic

pathologist but I'll tell you if I were

on the

jury and I heard one pathologist say oh

I'm pretty sure he killed him with that

joke and then another one who's equally

qualified said no nobody dies from you

know being being conscious after the

choke that's not a real thing and he had

real other reasons he would have died

that would be somewhat ordinary now that

is clearly enough uh

doubt that there shouldn't be any way he

could be convicted because you don't

need a lot of reasonable doubt you just

need some Reasonable Doubt this is way

more than Reasonable Doubt right if you

if you're going to say like you know

what does a what does a bucket of

Reasonable Doubt look like it would look

like this one of my favorite Court

stories is about the lawyer who was

trying to defend his client with

reasonable doubt he didn't have a strong

case

but he wanted to make the jury think

that Reasonable Doubt was a little

stronger than maybe it is and so here's

what the lawyer did you know he he said

in his closing statements you know not

only is my client completely Innocent

but the real killer is walking through

that door right now and said he's going

to walk through that door right now and

he turns he points toward the door

everybody in everybody in the jury box

turns toward the door all the witnesses

turn toward the door the judge looks

toward the

door and then nothing

happens the door does not open and

there's this awkward

silence and then the then the defense

attorney turns back to the jury who are

still looking at the

door and now they look back at the

lawyer little time has passed and the

lawyer says that is Reasonable Doubt

because they they had enough they had

enough belief that there was another

explanation for the crime that every one

of them looked at the door and waited

for the real criminal to walk

in now that's a little bit too clever

and I don't think that would actually

win you a case was it Jerry

Spence I was wondering that I wonder if

it was Jerry Spence or did he just tell

the

story he may have told the story but I

don't know if it was him could have been

could have been Jerry

Spence but uh now that's that's trying

to sell Reasonable Doubt you know if

there's just a trace of it in the real

world you need a little bit more than

somebody's walking through the door it

might have it might have won that trial

but you know generally speaking you need

more than that but if you've got an

expert who says nope I'm quite sure this

person could have died of other causes

that really needs to be the end of it so

here's what I'm worried about what

happens if it goes the other

way cuz I feel

like I think the men in America are kind

of done with this and the white men in

America are very done with it I don't

know what would happen like I'm not

predicting

violence but if Daniel peny gets

convicted after this expert says

this we're going to have a lot of

questions

and I don't think it's going to be

business as usual here's what I don't

think I don't think the process just you

know processes them puts them in jail I

assume there'd be some appeal process

but I feel like there's a point where

the public just has to take

over and I think the public has to make

it clear that we're watching this

thing and ultim Ely the public does have

all the power because there are enough

of us and if we're mad enough whoever it

is we're mad at is going to have a

really bad day one way or another you

know again I'm not recommending violence

so I really think we need to keep an eye

on this one we can't let this one get

away we

we men mostly we got to protect

them and I and I feel like a personal

responsibility to do that it feels

personal to me very personal because

Daniel Penny I don't know him of course

but he's

everybody he he is every guy he's every

guy so I don't really feel him as

different from me like when I watch

Daniel penny I'm not watching some

stranger even though I don't know him

I've never heard him talk I'm watching

me so if you don't think I'm going to

have a problem with him being convicted

if that's the way it goes well you're

wrong and there will be

consequences I don't know what they will

be but let me just say

this to any part of the world that is

looking to put this guy

away you better be really

careful because this one's not free

you know what I mean this is not free

and you don't know what the price is yet

and we're not going to tell you you

could have to find out but this

one's not free so let's hope for the

best golden age is here I think he's

going to get free but if he's not it's

going to be

expensive one way or another it's going

to get real

expensive well the big story of the day

Mt Gates bowed out in his bid to be

attorney general and Trump cleverly

already filled that uh news that news

cycle by putting uh putting up Pam Bondi

who was attorney general in in Florida

and as a close Confidant and uh super

loyal highly

qualified um almost everybody says she

has a better choice than Matt Gates

simply because she doesn't have the

baggage but she has even more skill more

more experience more direct experience

and that kind of job so I'm very happy

with this but uh here's the other thing

did we just learn that Trump is not a

dictator I think we did

right can can we stop talking about that

then here's what I saw now my take on

Trump has always been he's the opposite

of a dictator he's actually more tuned

into the the opinions of the public and

other politicians than anybody I've ever

seen so here uh here it didn't look like

it was going to work he tried he would

have pushed it if uh if Matt Gates had

have wanted him to he would have pushed

it which I appreciate just from the

Loyalty perspective he returned the

Loyalty but Matt Gates did a solid um at

least that's my interpretation of it and

when he talked to all the politicians

who had to vote for him he realized he

couldn't get it and he probably didn't

want to do the recess appointment thing

and just caus a bunch of provocation and

so he decided to uh back

out

now so what we get

is so so here's the the outcome number

one um Gates sucked all of the energy in

the news cycle toward him for several

days so that the other nominees didn't

get nearly as much scrutiny

that was probably useful but I don't

think it was a plan it would just it

worked out that

way we found out that Trump can't do

anything he wants and he will respond in

a reasonable way when he reaches a you

know an obstacle that doesn't make sense

to try to break it down

so that's a huge win for trump it won't

be in the news the news will just ignore

the fact that we've now proven Beyond

shadow of a doubt that Trump does not

have dictator powers and it doesn't look

like he's trying to it looks like he was

trying to respond to the public because

even the Republicans were saying you

know not your best play you know we we

see why you're doing it we do want to

attack dog in that job but but maybe

maybe not your best

play and Trump listens to the people

takes Matt Gates's recommendation which

was also listening to the people and the

politicians and we get what do we get we

get a better

candidate we get um we get some you know

diversity that I think was useful you

know woman in the job that's

useful um he gets the same amount of

loyalty higher level of experience

probably will sail through the

confirmation

and and Matt Gates still has other

opportunities now we don't know what

he's going to do some say he's going to

run for a governor I don't think so some

say that uh he might try to get

appointed to Senator I don't think so

some say that he could just retake the

seat he resigned from because he

technically resigned from his current

seat but he's been elected for a future

seat and I heard this on social media I

think it's true that he could just

pretend like he didn't quit you know do

a George castanza and just go to

work now he might have to go to work

after the second you know the next term

so be you'd have a few weeks off for

Christmas but it would be hilarious if

he just George castanes this situation

and he just goes to work after everybody

thought he

quit I don't know if that's

legal but if he got elected and he

didn't resign from the upcoming

term at least on social media people are

saying he can do it I don't think he

will because it would put him right back

in that um place where the ethics report

could come

out

so I think he's not going to go back

into government right away he might

later but um here's what I think would

be his perfect situation

the thing that Trump needs more than he

needs you know one more loyal so Soldier

doing a thing is another big media

entity that supports them because you

saw you know um you know all the me all

the media entities are under some kind

of fire from the left so if Matt Gates

decided to take his existing podcast and

just beef it up and get more interes in

guests and Go full Alex Jones and you

know really make it like a

sort of a a foundational thing that

conservatives listen

to he has all of those

skills I'm looking at a message going

by yeah so Gates has all of those

podcasting skills with the you know the

behind the curtain knowledge with all

the contacts with the ability to invite

anybody on the show name recognition

It's Kind of

Perfect so I've got a feeling he might

go into the media that would be where he

would have the most impact and make the

most money Etc but there's one other

possibility I'll just put this out there

um he's married to the sister of uh

Palmer lucky who's uh the creator of

uh

anduril is that the name of it it's a

defense company it's a new one and they

do kind of newer cooler high-tech

defense stuff like drones that can do

things and uh and other things now

suppose that Palmer lucky wanted an

executive to put in the company to help

it go

public well that would be good for his

sister because his sister would be

married to somebody who would get

massive stock options and become a

billionaire with in 3

years maybe I mean if if because the

company looks like it's ragingly

successful and I think it's still

private as far as I know so they would

presumably be looking at a way to go

public and cash out

and maybe he could be the some some

officer in that

company so there there's so many things

that he could do that it's hard to to

you know I don't think any of us are

going to guess what's happening so I'm

going to I'm going to say this I don't

think we'll ever know what the real

story was I don't think I mean it could

be as simple as just exactly what he

said he wanted it Trump wanted it there

were about four or five Senators who

said no he knew he couldn't change the

mind didn't want to do the recess

appointment he just

pivoted but the weird thing about this

is that everybody

wins isn't that weird when is when is

the last time you saw a story where

everybody wins we we get a better

attorney general one that's less

controversy Matt Gates will be turned

loose to do something that's probably

something he's better

at Trump still wins because he gets what

he wants I don't know just seems like

everything worked out

there uh but MSNBC is saying that uh

Bondi is worse because she's competent

so MSNBC went from he's the worst choice

in the world to okay she's worse because

she's

good

okay

um the uh Republicans who allegedly were

not going to support Gates were John

Curtis Utah Susan Collins of Maine Lisa

marowski Alaska and Mitch McConnell

Kentucky Mitch

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McConnell

anyway Bill Riley had some interesting

things to say on news Nation with Cuomo

about uh msnbc's fate um so it looks

like a Comcast who owns both NBC News

and C CNBC and MSNBC it looks like they

might be looking to spinoff MSNBC and

CNBC and that makes sense because

msnbc's audience took a big hit he'll

probably come back after Trump gets in

office because he'll have something to

yell about

but it doesn't look like it's a good

business so they're going to spin it off

and what Bill O'Reilly said made a lot

of sense to me that MSNBC takes

advantage of NBC's news business so that

they can add The credibility of the real

news to their opinion pieces but if you

if you separate them they are no longer

connected to any real news collecting

entity and it would be massively

expensive to create one from nothing the

MSNBC doesn't have anything to

sell because all they have are these

amazingly overpaid um pundits but they

wouldn't be a news organization it would

just be a bunch of opinions because

they'd lose the news now I don't know if

that's real but it's the first it's the

first take I've heard on that that's you

know interesting and

uh O'Reilly thinks that ABC will have to

dump The View for the same reason now o

Al's take is that msnbc's big problem is

that it was nothing but hate and that

the view has a similar problem that

there's spewing

hate audiences don't like hate

apparently hate doesn't sell as much as

you wanted to and I think Bill o're is

pretty close on this at least it's an

interesting speculation that MSNBC

doesn't have any value outside of

outside of NBC News

apparently Rachel madow has renegotiated

her

outrageous $30 million a year pay for

being on the air only one night a week

so obviously you can't go on forever

getting 30 million a year if you're only

on one one night a week so she had to

lower her

pay to 25 million a

year one day a

week um I've got a

suggestion I'm not a huge fan of Rachel

madow her politics but I will note that

you can't take away from her that she's

unusually

smart right she's you know just if you

hook her up to an IQ test she's going to

beat me really

smart but now we learn she might be the

best negotiator you've ever heard of in

your life who in the world can negotiate

$25 million a year for one show a

week that's really good when your

network is

failing how do you do that so they're

trying to sell this network and it's got

this big expense that couldn't possibly

make

sense but she must be one good

negotiator there's an MSNBC headline

that will remind you

why they're full of hate and they're

they're losing uh it was an opinion

piece but the uh the headline was lakan

Riley's killer never stood a

chance for all the political controversy

surrounding Jose abara the outcome of

this trial was never in

doubt does it sound a little bit like

MSNBC who was glad glad the migrant

killed the American citizen like what is

wrong with

them his killer never stood a chance

that the MSNBC is worried about the

killer getting a fair trial there was so

much evidence of his

guilt it wasn't like a close call was

it poor

MSNBC um I saw NPR says most of the

country shifted right in the 2024

election did we did the country shift

right I'm not sure that's what happened

here's what I think happened I think the

right kind of stayed the same you know

in other words policies and stuff didn't

change much and the left became batshit

crazy when batsh crazy clearly stopped

working it worked in 2020 but when it

stopped

working they they started becoming more

common

sensible is that a word common sensible

common sensical pick one but I think all

they did was stop being crazy and start

being a little bit more normal and and

that looked like a moveed to the right

uh I heard somebody else say on social

media that uh nobody moved to the right

they just didn't have a rigged election

this time so it looks like

it I I don't I don't buy that um you

know whether or not there was rigging I

don't I don't buy that explanation um I

think

that I think that the left

had enough people in it that understood

that the left had just gone crazy it was

just bat Bonkers stuff and they

just said we've had enough of this we're

we're going to give the other side a

chance because the other side is at

least trying to sell common sense you

could disagree with

it but Republicans are trying to sell

common sense

now this connects me to a topic I've

mentioned before as you know uh I've

been at least listed as a Democrat most

of my life and for my early years you

know say my 20s or so um I was pretty

sure that the Democrats were the Smart

Ones and the Republicans were were sort

of had a a

religious base that wasn't translating

into policy so well so that that seemed

like a little disconnect to me because I

wasn't religious so I didn't I didn't

see that religion should be playing so

much of a part in this decisions but the

Republican party has evolved into more

of a common sense you know we love our

religion but we'll keep that separate

you know for our policy we'll we'll just

do what makes

sense now obviously Republican policy is

still well informed by religion but it's

not the leading voice right it seems

like what when I was in my

20s they'd start with the religious

part and then tell you why they had the

policy

right and then that would that would

turn me off because I'd say hey what if

people have a different religion you

know don't start with

that now look at how Trump handles

abortion he doesn't start with the

religion he he starts with a process he

says well having the states decide is a

better

process there you go now that's my

common sense common sense says put the

decision where it's best to make the

decision and then it's easier to defend

no matter what happens because at least

it was made in the right way so watching

Trump turn the religious first people

into a still religious doesn't change

their belief but he's found a way to put

process ahead of it and the process does

all the work you don't need to appeal to

the god the Bible because the process

does what you know what it's supposed to

do so I think that made it safe for

people like me who were uncomfortable

with the religion first but like

religion I'm very Pro religion for other

people if you have one keep it I like it

I like you to have

one just doesn't work for me which by

the way is a fault it if I could if I

could get the benefits of religion and I

I had way to believe I would do it

because it's pretty obvious that the

religious people have some

advantages anyway um here's some new

news uh we keep talking about Mike

Rogers as being one of the possibilities

for the head of the

FBI and all the smart people were saying

my God my God no that would be a huge

mistake no no Mike Rogers according to

people who know more than I do was part

of the industrial censorship thing and

he he was pushing the Russia collusion

hoax and did some other things that

Republicans think is not too compatible

with the Trump

movement but it turns out it was all

fake

news so Trump just messaged that he's

never even considered Mike Rogers even

thought about it

once and he's definitely not going to be

the head of the

FBI now remember how I said when Jeff

Bezos says four words you just say oh

that's true like you never even not for

a second do you doubt doubt his veracity

but when Trump says it you know Trump

has a little bit more of a history of

Hyperbole and you know bending the

bending the fact check a little bit so

when he says I never once you even

considered Mike

Rogers you have to

wonder is that exactly true

or maybe his name came up at a

dinner and Trump maybe you know didn't

respond to it one way or another and

then somebody left the dinner saying oh

Mike Rogers name is on the table so you

you could easily imagine that the rumor

would start without Trump starting it

just by Trump not maybe not responding

to that suggestion or something but he's

saying very clearly it's not going to

happen now why did Trump say it's not

going to be Mike Rogers because normally

you only announce who it's going to be

isn't that uncommon sort of uncommon

right to announce who it's

not that did that happen before Trump do

other politicians announce who it's

not that was weird but here's the other

thing do you know why Trump said it's

not Mike Rogers because Trump tapped

into his base

listened to what they were saying heard

there was all this you know uh don't

pick Mike

Rogers uh chatter going on and realized

that he needed to tell us that that was

off the table now whether it was always

off the table or he just saw the chatter

and said oh let me take this off the

table now I don't really care you know

because it gets us to the same place but

once again it's another example of trump

being absolutely tapped in and

responding to reasonable criticisms

about the direction that people think

he's going I love that I mean there

there are so many positive things

happening in in the government in the

country it's it's it's kind of

incredible like the the optimism people

are feeling Etc but when I see even

these little Corrections you know like

the Bezos musk thing that to me that's

just a perfect moment in human behavior

when I see Trump listen to the public

and say oh you're having a problem with

this Mike Rogers things so let me fix

that that's

perfect I I'm not asking for anybody to

be right about everything in the first

draft not even the second draft but if

you if you respond to the situation and

you respond in a common sense way and

you show respect your base and you're

listening to what they're saying and you

hear what they're saying that's kind of

perfect

I'm not I'm not looking for no no

mistakes that's not my standard mistakes

are ordinary I'm looking for do you have

a system that can quickly identify and

correct a mistake yes Trump has a system

he listens he pays attention and here's

the important part he knows which part

of his base are

credible so if you've got a Glenn

Greenwald and you've got a you know um

Mike Ben and half a dozen other people I

think uh Mike cernovich if if you got

those kind of people on the same side

and and they're making a big deal about

it it's not a small point it's a big

point and then the boss says okay I hear

you that's exactly what I want like

that's the country I want to live in I

want to know that Ordinary People can

influence um the influencers it happens

to me all the time or you know people

who are not famous make a good point and

I say oh that's a good point and then I

say it out loud and some other

influencer hears it and repeats

it all right um here's the F my favorite

thing about the Doge thing where uh Elon

Musk and VI ramaswami are going to try

to cut the the the fat out of the

government and reduce our costs um we're

going to we're going to watch two of the

the smartest most effective operators

that we've ever seen V and Elon and

we're going to watch them

attack an impossible

problem because I literally can't think

of any way you could do this I can't

think of any way they could succeed

because the big things to cut are the

the sacred

cows so when we watch their strategy as

they approach this you're going to see

the smartest people in the world do the

smartest things against the most

impossible task how fun is

that like I wouldn't even know how to

bet on this thing because on one hand

it's definitely an impossible task on

the other hand it's V and

Elon how do you bet on

that I mean seriously how could you

place a bet on that they could actually

get this

done I don't know how but that's the fun

part the fun part is I don't know how

this is possible but they might now I

don't think they have it

solved I I think they're still you know

walking around the car and kicking the

tires and finding out what works they're

putting up some test balloons you know

some statements a little bit of a you

know article in the I don't know Wall

Street Journal someplace and then people

react to it so one of the things they're

doing is they're they're uh going to do

a Blog where they're fully

transparent now what would make you

comfortable with two unelected people

and not even nominated they're not

elected and they're not nominated but

having this massive control over the the

country the world and and

you how would you feel comfortable with

that only one way full

transparency so that's what they're

giving us

they're telling you how they're doing it

they're modeling it in in advance

they're telling you what they're

thinking they're telling you they're

early thinking which might

change and one of their early thinkings

is that uh if they simply make the

government go into the office instead of

work from home there would be a huge

number of people who just resign because

they don't want to commute to which they

would say good that's part of the job

done um then their next play and again

this is stuff that smart people come up

with that I don't know if I would have

um they say that there are a lot of the

uh red tape and uh let's say rules and

regulations that the government has that

were not passed by Congress they're not

in executive order it's just these

entities are coming up with their own

rules and if you simply get rid of all

the rules you don't need that are more

problem than than they are solution then

all the people who work on those rules

don't need to be employed because there

must be a massive number of people who

make sure that the rules are being

followed so instead you just say we

don't need all these

rules get rid of them and then you can

get rid of the staff that enforced the

rules and made the

rules but if you add all those things

together um that might be 1% of what

they want to get

done but they're leading with that why

would they lead with

that because it's common sense because

they're thinking about it they're being

transparent and it is something that

looks like it would work the most

important thing they have to do is make

something work early could be small but

has to work so if the first thing they

did was say all right here's a batch of

rules that we think we can get just get

rid of them and here's the team of

people that's going to leave as soon as

those rules leave

boom look at us two weeks in and we just

got rid of 300 administrators who

weren't weren't

useful so what you see early you should

interpret as the new CEO move meaning

that the by far the most important

thing um I'm seeing something about Mike

Rogers

here yeah it's Dan scavino who who said

that uh Trump was not considering uh

Mike Rogers so it didn't come from Trump

directly it went through Dan scavino but

you can you can trust scavino on

that

um if you didn't

know Dan scavino is like one of the

longest

closest Trump um supporters so if

scavino says that Trump said something

or didn't say something you can take

that to the bank you don't have to ask

any more questions yeah he he's

100% so anyway the the hard part as you

all know is that you can't touch the

Medicare and Social Security and it's

going to be tough tough to touch the

military although interestingly Jen uh

weager uh offered to Elon to help him

cut the defense budget because he said

hey Democrats have wanted to cut the

defense budget forever why can't I help

then immediately Jen was uh was piled on

by democrats saying what the hell are

you doing helping these Republicans and

Jen quite reasonably said um why can't

we do the thing we all agree

on what what exactly is the reason I

should not be putting my time and energy

and reputation into the thing I've most

wanted to do for years which is get rid

of unnecessary defense

spending and elon's reaction was um he's

open to suest

SS now I don't I don't think that Jen

was offering to join the committee

exactly or join do Doge but he might

have some

ideas and mus says

sure we like

ideas so we'll see if that goes

anywhere so here's what I'm most

interested in I do think that VI and

musk they have to have some idea of what

to do about the big Untouchable parts of

the

budget otherwise they wouldn't even try

because if they thought the best they

could do is take you know $200 billion

do out of the the small part of the

budget that doesn't get you anywhere

close I mean you got to make you got to

take two trillion out of your Six

Trillion to get down to balanced budget

and two trillion is not even close to

what you can get from people quitting on

their own because they don't want to

commute Plus we got rid of some

regulations so we don't need this

department not even close and a lot of

things that would be

eliminated doesn't mean that the funding

is

eliminated for example if they take the

Department of Education and they say

let's blow this up and give it to the

states the states would probably get

most of that money except for the

administrative

part so I don't really see a path how

any of this can

work and I would still bet that they can

get it

done because they're you know both of

them operate at a level I can't quite

get to and both of them seem to have

optimism that they can make something

happen so what would they do with health

care and well let's just pick one um not

not well was it welfare or was it Social

Security so Social Security and

Healthcare do you think now and keep in

mind that uh V you know knows the the

medical world better than most people so

do you think that they could come up

with something that would radically

change what those things are so that the

cost of them comes down and yet the

public is still

served I think

so I don't know what it would be but

like I can sort of smell it before I see

it I feel like there's a way to do it

for example

let's say um let's say they promoted I'm

just going to brainstorm for a minute so

don't take any of this too seriously

suppose they said um AI is so close to

being your doctor that if you want

lowcost Health Care um we'll make sure

that that Health Care AI sector gets

really

turbocharged so that there's basically a

government doctor and everybody has

instant access so if you got a

smartphone you got a doctor it's free

then what about medicines do you think

they could figure out a way to bring

down the cost of meds well here's the

interesting thing that's what Mark

Cuban's business is trying to do so Mark

Cubans had some success with specific

drugs but it looks like that could

increase and he has lowered the cost of

some Mets now I think that V and musk

along with Trump could negotiate with

the uh the met the big Pharma to spread

some of that cost to other countries

because right now the US you know pays a

premium for the drugs other poor

countries get them for low cost because

America's paying for all the overhead

and development effectively we're

subsidizing so what if they figured out

a way to stop subsidizing or just make

it illegal make it illegal to sell it

for more in the United States than other

places and that would move this subsidy

to the other places

how much would that

save a few hundred

billion it could be a pretty big deal so

so then what would be missing let's say

if your drug costs come down through

better negotiating and your cost of

talking to an expert whether it's a

doctor or a specialist drops to zero

because that's possible the cost of talk

to a doctor could be completely replaced

by AI

then what you have is the physical

manipulation part where if somebody has

to put something on you you know like

put a bandage on you or set your bone or

something um you still need to do

that but I'll bet there's a way to make

that more competitive as well so so I

think it's going to have to be an entire

re-engineering and restructuring of what

healthc care looks like maybe with AI

and then if you're looking at Social

Security

um I'll bet I'll bet there's a way to

make sure that people are doing

something useful for their money without

being on Social

Security suppose you

said you could trade away your Social

Security but there's this other thing

you can get how many people would say oh

I don't need my Social Security I did

well in life but I like this other thing

that you're offering so I'll I'll take

this other

suppose he said that if you voluntarily

give up your Social Security forever

because you're rich uh that you'll be

first in line for a trip to

Mars that's the bad idea so that's

that's an example of the bad suggestion

that might make you think of a better

one like what what could you trade for

people to give up their social security

it's

possible well speaking of Doge China

apparently has an even bigger problem

with red tape because a ton of the

Chinese workers are involved in creating

and maintaining red tape and Reporting

things so I guess if you're in China

business uh a whole bunch of your life

is just doing reports on what's

happening in your your job so even

president XI wants the country to learn

how to not be that way

because they also have you know huge

overhead so um here's what they say that

they spend too much energy pretending

they're implementing policy this is

according to one expert named Lee uh

centralization is good for political

decisions however for economics you do

need a certain kind of

chaos so

they their uh commercial stuff in China

is so over regulated I guess you say

that it's like a big wet blanket on it

so as I've said before the Doge thing is

not just about fixing our debt if we can

figure out how to have a more efficient

smarter government system one that makes

sense in in the current times that is a

gigantic gigantic military and economic

benefit so watching musk who of course

would be expert in the entrepreneurial

Arts realized that the biggest obstacle

is the government and then he's the one

who's you know right in the middle of

trying to fix it so it works for um

Commerce do you think China can match

that let's say they pull it off let's

say V and Elon pull it off and they

really modernize our government in a way

that's still compatible with the

constitution in fact maybe more

compatible with it um and and still gets

everything done but we can do things

quickly such as approve a nuclear power

plant just to pick one

example how much would the United States

be different if we had an efficient way

to say yes to a nuclear power

project well we're getting closer to

that the government is working in that

direction but if if we could really just

kill that you know just slay that

opportunity so to speak that'd be huge

so I think I think the fate of the

United States really depends on Doge and

I don't think there's another country

that can match us because there is one

thing we

have that other countries don't

have we've got a

dictator yeah the dictator

Trump has basically decided to

voluntarily share power with an

unelected person who simply got the best

ideas now two of them you know vake as

well so remember I always told you that

the person with the best ideas always in

charge and you probably thought that's a

small idea and then oh maybe that works

in that one meeting you were in Scott

but that's like not generally true oh

it's true the person with the best idea

is always in charge so Elon comes in

with the best idea which is how about

you take the smartest most badass

entrepreneur working with other smartass

smartest badass entrepreneurs and we try

to fix our most critical problem in the

in the

government what's Trump going to say to

that no that's a bad idea no it's a

great idea it's like the greatest idea

I've seen like maybe ever it's such a

great idea it's almost you can't even

hold it in your mind it's such a great

idea and so Trump says

yes if he were a dictator he would not

be sharing power

that's just not how that works now he's

of course confident enough Trump is that

he's still he's still the president so

he gets what he wants but if musk and um

ramaswami come up with an idea that's

just so good that the public says oh

yeah that's just a good idea Trump's

gonna say yes because the best idea

always wins and they're going to be

coming they're going to be coming with

ideas

all right couple of things how to fix

the Democrats the Democrats are trying

to figure out how to recover um I have

the following comments about that number

one uh identity politics is a permanent

death I don't think there's a path to

recovery where I think the Democrats are

thinking okay you know it's it's sort of

business as usual we just have to do a

little better you know better messaging

you know may maybe organize our campaign

a little

differently it's not that it's the

identity stuff the identity stuff is

what made everything crazy it's what

it's what you know made Democrats walk

away if they don't get rid of the

identity politics they don't have any

way to recover but here's the trick if

they do get rid of the identity politics

then they're just

Republicans and they don't have any

reason to exist so you can't keep the

identity politics

but you also can't get rid of it because

it would just destroy them for years the

Republicans never entered the identity

politics so they have no burden to get

rid of it or change anything in that

regard they're completely unburdened by

it um but there's no way to fix it so

the the Democrats painted themselves in

a corner that literally doesn't have a

way out I don't think there is

now let me suggest um

one hail marry way that they could get

out of

it I think that the media runs the

Democrats more than the other way

around and if the media decided only to

tell stories that were true and useful

and common

sense that it would force Democrats to

be it useful and common sense because

the media would say here's a great idea

and here's a terrible idea what are the

Democrats going to say if it's their own

media right if CNN says oh this new idea

is just a terrible idea and then you're

you're Democrat and you turn on the TV

you're like oh shoot CNN thinks this is

a terrible idea what does MSNBC say oh

God they hate it

too the media runs the the politics so

if the media somehow and I don't see a

way this could happen but if the media

started to become a

legitimate um contributor to the country

instead of whatever they are um they

could actually change the whole Democrat

machine they and and in fact the media

could get them out of their identity

politics whole just by the way they

frame things and just deemphasize it Etc

don't do continuous trans stories all

day long that's the media right it

wasn't it wasn't the Democrat um

politicians who kept saying can we talk

about trans some more

it wasn't them it was the media so if

the media fixes itself the media that

supports the

Democrats then that could cause the

Democrats to make the adjustments which

might make them more mainstream which

would make them competitive but how's

the media going to

change I don't see how that's going to

happen unless MSNBC just goes away and

the others say we'd better better shape

up um but the the other possibility is

that they get a new charismatic

Democratic leader and people are voting

for the person not the policies totally

po you know so if you got another you

know once once in a generation kind of

leader you know maybe

another um another Obama

type uh maybe but if they don't get an

Obama type and they don't um get their

media to fix the media's own problems

there is no way to come back they they

seem to be in a permanent

Exile so the Democrats are coming up

with some new fake fears because this is

a this is some more evidence of how the

media can't fix itself so the media on

the left they don't have enough to

complain about from Trump so they're

making up some new fake ones of course

it's what they do so one of them is that

they're saying that Pete hegseth who is

nominated for secretary of defense um

they claim that he said says women are

not qualified for military service that

of course is not true he did not claim

that in fact like the fine people hoax

he worried that you might think it so he

made sure that you knew he wasn't saying

that I mean I I watched him do that he

he very clearly says yes I have worked

with women in the military who were

great at their

jobs he's talking about

combat now I don't have a an opinion

about that because I think the people

who in combat are the ones I would

listen to so if you've been in combat or

you know a lot of people who been in

combat and those people say I got to

tell you I love women I love them in

support roles I've worked with a lot of

done great but when the bullets start

flying and I heard I heard a special

force guy guy say this I forget who it

was was on some podcast recently um and

this is super sexist so I'm just

reporting what somebody else said this

is not my own observation he said that

when the bullets start flying that the

women frees

up and that he's seen him multiple times

and that the men either through training

or selection or whatever it is are more

likely to go on offense which might be

exactly what you need for the best

defense uh but they kind of had to push

the women in the direction they needed

to go now that's anecdotal and I don't

support that interpretation it's just

one that has some attention but if the

people who have been in that

situation um collectively say yeah

there's something to it I would listen

to that and by the way I have no

interest in women being in combat like I

don't like it it it offends

me on a on a DNA level like it's not

even politics just my DNA can't handle

it

like it's just no how about just just no

because you know part of being a man is

that you feel like you're protecting

women and

children I don't know is that built into

us or am I socialized that way or is it

just natural so when you tell me oh the

woman you're trying to protect is

standing next to you in the hail of

gunfire I'm like no no no no no you're

making my contribution worth less

I'm protecting her that's my

job so anyway I'm no expert on Military

whatsoever but if the people who are

experts say that uh women in combat

remember it's just combat we're talking

about uh if they say there's a

difference and that it matters and it

affects our Readiness I say the military

is the one place you can discriminate

all you

want because the military is about

staying alive that's not about being

woke so if there's any good

evidence that something needs to be a

certain way to get a better result we

have to chase the better result that's

all that matters it's the military got

to get the better result whatever that

takes and then they're also worried that

since Pete Heth was accused of something

that there were no charges of and didn't

sound credible to the local police that

uh the women in the military would be

afraid that the military would start

raping all the women uh even more than

already which is actually a gigantic

problem um because heg Seth wouldn't do

enough about it and that's just totally

made

up there there's nothing about the Heth

allegations even if they were true which

it doesn't look like they were but even

if they were

true uh it would have been well true

that it it's true that an encounter

happened um but I don't think that's

going to have any effect on how he does

his

business anyway so that's more fake news

coming meanwhile Russia used a

Hypersonic missile for the first time in

Ukraine and I guess I missed the first

time I saw that news I missed the point

of it and I just thought huh a new

missile so but apparently the reason for

using the super saic missile is to show

that it can't be stopped by any of the

anti-missile defenses and indeed it was

not stopped by any of the anti-missile

defenses and then they point out you

know we could put a nuke on this oh oh

so what what Putin was doing was

showing his nuclear capability without

the nuclear he said here here's my

rocket try to stop it oh you couldn't

stop it it just blew up your facility in

the middle of Ukraine well you know I

could have put a nuke on that and you

wouldn't have stopped that either so

maybe you think twice about bombing

things inside of

Russia so I think that's a pretty smart

play from Putin

um but um I'm going to double down and

triple down on we've never been safer

and there's never been a less chance of

nuclear war because Putin and everybody

else in the world knows that Trump the

big dog is coming it's going to be a few

weeks he's going to negotiate a piece

it's going to be you know some land they

keep it's going to look sort of like it

looks now why would you start a nuclear

war if you know that it's going to wind

down in a fairly acceptable way almost

for sure probably it will look like we

will commit not to bring NATO into

Ukraine probably

will means that Russia keeps most of

what they already have something like

that so no you you don't start a nuclear

war when all of your problems are going

to be solved the way you want them to be

solved or very close to it in a few

weeks there has never been a safer time

in the world's history never we're the

safest we've ever been it just doesn't

feel like it

sometimes all right I wanted to give you

my I'm going to

uh I've gone way too long so if you want

you want to leave I wouldn't feel bad

about it but I wanted to give you my uh

ADHD hacks so these are the tricks I use

to conquer my own

ADHD sorry now do I have

ADHD well I've never been diagnosed with

it but I do know that there are huge

portions of the day when I can't

possibly concentrate and focus and work

so um I've developed a number of tools

and habits and techniques that I will

share with you now so if there are those

of you who are maybe in the category I

am which is I don't know if I'm

technically

ADHD but I I exhibit those

characteristics um however I can tame

them through habits and tricks and here

they are trick number one I wake up at

4:30 in the morning

no matter what if you tell yourself that

sometimes you can sleep in that won't

work for you you have to do it every day

and you have to learn to love it I

learned to love it by training myself

with coffee and protein bar which when

you put them together they're like a

really good taste together so I would

get all this like

immediate uh physical

gratification within minutes of waking

up so 4:30 in the morning

I keep all of my lights off and I've got

my blackhound curtains down so that the

only light is in my immediate 4 foot

maybe a 4 foot um diameter I can't even

see or hear anything outside of my four

feet under those conditions when nobody

else is awake you know that would be

here in

person I have complete

focus and I don't think too much about

anything on my calendar that day

um and I enjoy the hack kind of the the

comments coming in from the DMS from

people people I love online and I love

the news so I'm immediately in this you

know um dopamine positive situation

now how do people who do boring things

make it work well it's a lot harder if

it's boring you know because I do things

that I personally like a lot so I'm

excited for several hours because I'm

just doing only the things I want to do

but I'm I'm lucky that way I do like

every other job have a whole bunch of

boring things I have to do paperwork and

spreadsheets and insurance and taxes and

it just never ends I can't do those

things at 2 o'clock in the afternoon my

body just won't do it I I can't even

force myself to sit in the chair I've

got a million things swirling around by

the time my dog wakes up my productivity

goes down 25% does anybody have that

experience if you work at home the

minute your dog wakes up 25% of your

productivity gone if there are kids in

the house or people who you work with

Who start calling you early in the

morning another 50% gone you lose 75% of

your concentration just because other

people are awake so get up before they

do that's my hack but there are

more I also found out that since my body

and my brain are really the same device

that if I want to control my brain as in

making it focus better I do that by

controlling my

body so in the first example I was

putting coffee and a protein bar that I

really really liked into my body and

that was making my brain happy if it's

the afternoon and I've already done that

stuff um I will

exercise so I'll either go for a nice

walk in the Sun or do some weights or

something but the

exercise um makes me not want to move my

body around and when I don't want to get

out of my chair because I just exercised

and I'm relaxing I can

focus so I can I can control my brain by

making my body run or walk or play a

game or lift heavy objects for 90

minutes and then I just want to sit in a

chair but I'm going to be bored if I'm

just sitting in a chair so I might as

well look at that spreadsheet get my

taxes done that sort of

thing anyway so those are some tricks

use your exercise to put yourself back

in that condition my other trick is I go

to Starbucks um when my by around 11:00

a.m. you know after I've gotten ready

for the day and stuff walk the dog um I

need to dip back into work but um my

brain's already spinning aund things

happening in the real world I can't

focus now so I go to

Starbucks now this is also a hack

because Starbucks is noisy and busy but

for reasons that I don't fully

understand there's a lot of science to

it that a cafe environment allows you to

focus really well I'll tell you what I

think it is for some reason when there

are people all around me and literally

standing next to my table I often take a

table that's right next to the line

where where people are waiting for their

their stuff and so often I'll be I'll be

working and there'll be somebody's butt

like right

here and they're having a conversation

like right above me and you would say to

yourself oh that's the most distracting

thing there's no way you can concentrate

that I can concentrate so well in that

situation because somehow my brain says

oh you need to turn out you need to turn

all the stuff off and I just turn it off

and I

go and apparently it's a reproducible

thing because Cafe sounds I I I can't do

it with just the sounds it doesn't work

I have to actually be in the environment

so I can get another 90 minutes work

just by changing the

environment I call this matching my

energy to the task so you got to change

your

energy um to match the task so at 4:30

in the morning the only way I can work

is I have no distractions but by 11: in

the morning the only way I can work is

if I'm in a full busy um Cafe now if you

have not experimented to discover those

two things about yourself or you might

have you know two different things that

work for you you got to look for it yeah

you got to you got to do a little work

got to go look for it anyway experiment

on that and that's all got for you I'm

going to talk to the locals people for a

minute I went too long there's

lawnmowers outside all

right YouTube and x and Rumble thanks

for joining I'll see you again tomorrow

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there's a special button to go private

with just the locals people um but it's

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live

stream so both of there's two ways to do

it and they both are not working right

now

uh let's

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get back in