Episode 2947 CWSA 09/03/25

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Well, would you believe that according to Eric Dolan who's writing for a side post that artificial intelligence um is less trusted than humans during a crisis?

So um not in general but during if it's a crisis response.

So that makes sense.

You know I feel as if uh people will be trusting AI for some things depending on the topic but they will trust human beings for other things.

And the reason they'll trust human beings over AI for some things is that the human would have to go to jail if they were lying or if they got caught, they would never get repeat business.

So human beings have consequences.

If they lie to you and get caught, whereas an AI, you know, could be right, could be wrong.

So sometimes, yeah, you're gonna you're going to trust the human over the AI.

But this reminds me of the uh funniest story that I've heard in a while.

I was just laughing about it on the pre-show that most of you didn't see.

Um, apparently it has been discovered that some therapists are using an AI app.

I This was on Reddit or something.

Now, I don't know if it's true, but this is the funniest thought that there's somebody who's a it makes me want to be a therapist.

You know, the reason I would never want to be a therapist is that it would be horrible listening to people's, you know, terrible stories all day long.

Like you it would just, you know, gnaw out at your brain because you just hear so much negativity and they come back next week and they're not really any better, you know?

It would just really weigh you down.

But what if, work with me here, what if you could be paid to be a therapist and you didn't have to listen at all?

You have to only pretend.

So, you just have to sit in a chair with your legs crossed and your your phone on your lap so that your co your client can't see the phone and turn on the app.

turn down the uh the the volume on the phone so that when you know it can listen but if it talks it will be silent and you could just read the text and uh don't listen to what the client is saying and then when it when he stops just look at what your AI would say as the response and just read it and you would never have to actually listen to anybody's terrible story.

You you just wait until there's a a gap in the talking and then you look down and go.

I wonder if your trauma stems from that's my next job.

Fake therapist.

Um, apparently reportedly Gulf News is reporting Jay Hill that uh Elon Musk is successfully poaching a bunch of AI experts from Meta.

And Meta had been offering these ginormous pay packages up to $300 million.

Can you imagine?

Have you ever gotten a job offer that was $300 million for just sort of going to work and doing the thing that you like doing anyway?

Probably.

Yeah, that's a pretty good job.

But apparently people are turning down $300 million packages and you know that that would be at the highest end of course.

Um and apparently uh Musk's uh AI has recruited uh as many as 18 of the best AI engineers for meta.

Interesting.

And the the narrative here is that they're they're moving because less important than all that crazy money is the mission, the speed, the equity upside, and a startup vibe, not just cash.

Do you believe that?

And is that the choice you would have made?

Let's say somebody goes to you and says, "I will guarantee you'll make $300 million over, I don't know, five years, and all you have to do is come to work and, you know, give your best, which you were going to do anyway." And probably it would be working with other really bright people.

And then the alternative is that you get to work with Elon Musk and you know see how that whole situation is like.

Um and you'd probably learn something that you maybe it would be sexier, maybe it'd be more successful, maybe there would be fewer impediments and bureaucratic you know BS.

Maybe there would be a smaller chance that you would be, I don't know, de deeyed or there'd be some kind of woke problem over there.

Less odds of that.

Um, but would you turn down, let's say, a guaranteed $200 million over five years to take the the lesser money because, you know, the equity might be worth something too if everything worked out.

I don't know.

Or it could be that the difference between having $100 million and having $300 million isn't that much, you know, because in either case, if you wanted, I guess you could get your own airplane.

That to me, that's the dividing line between the the really rich and the people who are just doing well.

The really rich have their own airplane.

If you if you don't think you can afford your own like jet, you're not super rich.

Um, and that I'm in that category.

I I I certainly am nowhere near being able to afford my own jet sitting outside the house.

Well, here's a uh some good news for Tesla.

Um, according to Edmunds, that's that car expert kind of a book.

Uh, the Model Y, Tesla is the best car they drove out of 200 vehicles.

That's pretty good.

The best one out of 200 vehicles.

And uh, I heard Joe Rogan was saying it's um, amazing car.

And I heard uh, Jason from the All- In Pod.

You all know Jason.

Um, hi Jason, you're probably watching.

Um, he said it was I think he said the Model Y was the best car he's ever experienced and I think he said, you know, his share of good cars.

So, it's kind of exciting.

So, here here's my ideal.

Um, I don't want anybody to, you know, arrange anything for me.

I I like it to happen organically.

But whenever whenever I can get a Model Y that will drive itself with no human being in it, there has to be no human being in it.

Um from wherever it comes from to my driveway, has to come all the way to the driveway.

Doesn't count if it only goes to the dealership and I have to pick it up.

So, as soon as that's available, I'll probably I think I'll order one online and and then take a little video of it showing up in my driveway because it's really going to be history.

You know, there'll be there'll be one time ever that it was the first time you could order a car online and it would drive itself to your driveway.

So, I want to get that on camera, you know, even on my phone.

Anyway, um let's see.

Isra science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked Scott.

Oh, here's one.

According to the Public Library of Science, they actually did a study to find out if cannabis improves sleep.

Now, their context was where other drugs fail.

Now, I haven't tried any of those other drugs, but uh you really didn't need to test the proposition of whether marijuana can help you get to sleep.

M may I just tell you with complete authority?

Yes.

You know who else you could have asked?

100% of all the people who have ever tried marijuana, every one of them would tell you, "Oh yeah, that'll get you to sleep." Now, I will acknowledge that there might be some people who have bad experiences because, you know, everybody's different, but generally speaking, now I'm not your doctor, so I'm not recommending it.

So, hear me carefully.

Uh, when I talk about these things, it's because it's funny or it's interesting.

It's not a recommendation.

But yeah, you didn't really need to study that.

Does it work better than the other drugs?

I don't know, but I'd be willing to bet it is.

Well, I love this no tax on tips idea cuz today I learned that it will include digital content creators.

Do do you see the opportunity for abuse of the no tax on tips?

You know, I was wondering um you know, are are people gonna pretend that they're being tipped instead of paid in just a whole bunch of regular jobs?

You know, when the plumber comes, I think plumbers are included actually, but suppose the plumber comes and says, "Uh, I worked all day.

Uh, here's my bill.

It's $1, but I would really appreciate a tip of $700." So, you know that's going to happen, right?

You know, there's a 100% chance people are going to try to game the system and claim their regular income is is tips.

But believe it or not, digital content creators like me, which is everything I do.

It's all digital content creation.

Uh are specifically listed as included in the no tax on tips.

I actually receive tips.

Isn't that funny?

I receive tips.

Now, it's not much.

I mean, it would be less than 1% of my income.

Way way less.

But people actually tip on is it You.

Tube?

Somewhere I get tipped.

Um I think in locals you could you could kind of do what they call a tip.

Oh, there.

Yeah, there it is.

Somebody uh Kobe Yard Salad is tipping $1, so I can see that.

Thanks.

That was worth a dollar.

You got my attention.

I appreciate that.

So, um, of course, I'm a high-profile person, so I'm I'm going to make sure I do everything the right way.

I'm not going to I'm not going to test any laws, but it looks like it's not testing if it's legitimately a tip.

Um, it looks like it's exempt.

Won't make much difference to me.

Well, uh, you might not know, or maybe you did, that Google was in court.

Um, the Department of Justice was looking at maybe breaking them up because they were a big old monopoly, said the government.

But uh Google sort of won uh in the sense that they will not get broken up but they had to agree to not enter into exclusive agreements.

So, um an aspect um yeah, an aspect of their uh um uh you could say monopoly, but maybe it doesn't qualify for that technically, but an aspect of it they got to change, but they don't have to break up the company.

So, that's a big deal.

Here's the weirdest part of the story.

It's a story about breaking up Google and the judge's last name is Meta, except there's an H in it.

Mhta.

What are the odds that Meta would rule on Google?

All right.

Apparently, according to Breitbart News, Lucas Nolan's writing about this, that uh there's some European activist who is figuring out how to use AI to do facial recognition on people wearing masks.

He only has to or the AI only has to see 35% of the face and it can identify the person.

Now, apparently, it's being used to identify ICE officers.

you know, they're masked to avoid being, you know, retaliated against.

And uh I'm not sure I believe that.

Do you believe the AI can identify somebody reliably by 35% of their face?

And if you're wearing a a mask, why would 35% of your face be showing?

Because wouldn't you usually have a hat?

Um, I mean it's just your eyes, right?

It's the only thing.

So maybe, you know, maybe it doesn't work every time or maybe it works for some people.

But here's my related question.

Was it not a really big thing uh recently that there were some apps before AI?

So, these were not AI apps that would do facial recognition like Clear View was one and it was a big old scandal and you know where did they get their data and who where they scrape it from blah blah blah and uh I was wondering if that's just one of the first things that will just be driven out of business by AI because AI is probably Don't you think you could put Uh uh I haven't tested this, maybe some of you have.

Could you put a picture of a nonf famousamous person into let's say chat GPT or Grock and have it tell you who it is if they had a social media presence, which almost everybody does.

So, if they had ever had a social media post with their name attached to it or they're part of any local news story, a strange noise outside, it has passed.

Um, so would AI be able to do facial recognition with no real training?

You just put in a picture and say, "What do you think?" It's probably close to that, you know?

I don't I don't know.

the the claim is kind of maybe too spectacular to be true, but it might be true.

So, here's some Trump news that's always funny.

Have you ever noticed that no matter what the story is, no matter what the topic is, if Trump is part of it, there's something that's a little bit funny about it?

Is it just me?

Because I don't think that's true of any other politician ever.

That it's just there's always something, you know, there's just something that's like one degree off of how the world is supposed to work.

And that one degree of difference is what triggers your laugh response.

You're like, "No, that's not supposed to be like that." And Trump just continually does things that you didn't really expect to happen.

You didn't really expect somebody would say that.

It's not the end of the world stuff.

It's just that he does things that nobody expects anybody to do, which is part of his magic.

So, here's what he's done now.

Um, he's moved Space Command headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama.

And here's the funny part.

I don't know how serious this is, but he says that Huntsville, Alabama, because Space Command headquarters will be there.

He said, "Uh, we'll be known as Rocket City." And the first thing I asked myself was, "Does Huntsville, Alabama know that Trump just renamed their city to Rocket City?" Or or did he just make that up, which is just as funny?

Or does he just think that that will be his nickname?

Did he like, you know, Detroit was what was the nickname for Detroit?

Motor City.

So, uh, so maybe he's just trying to make it a thing, but but it would be funnier if he was proposing renaming Huntsville without asking Huntsville about it.

But there's just something funny about that.

He He's great at branding.

So instead of making you think about, you know, the big rockets and everything and the jobs that are created, he he's immediately making you think Rocket City, huh?

It's kind of catchy.

Anyway, in other Trump news, uh Ryan Ruth, the the wouldbe assassin of Trump, you know, he's the one who hid in the bushes at the golf course, but they caught him.

So, he's going to trial and he's he's decided to represent himself at a murder at a attempted murder trial.

Is it attempted murder?

I don't know what the charges are.

I assume it's attempted murder.

Um, but but he he's sort of a crazy guy, but he might be smart enough to play extra crazy because it might, you know, affect his sentence or how he gets treated or something.

So, the question I'm asking myself is, is he smart enough to know that if he represents himself because, you know, they they have him obviously, you know, dead to rights.

they've, you know, it's not like there's any chance he was innocent of what he was doing.

So, if he represents himself, he gets a sort of a theater and a stage to prove to the world that he's way crazier than you thought.

And to that point, he just he just uh uh did some kind of official court motion uh to challenge to challenge Trump to a a a round of golf.

And uh he he said quote uh about Trump, he goes, "If if he wins, he can execute me.

I win.

I get his job." Now, if he keeps doing that kind of stuff, in in his defense, I'm going to conclude that he's not as dumb.

He might not be as crazy or as dumb as you imagine he is because it would be a wonderful play.

I mean, it like it's the best he can do is to be, you know, judged and sane.

And it looks like he's really gonna go for it.

But I'll tell you what I thought.

I was hoping Trump would take the deal.

Imagine if Trump took the deal.

Now, I know he can't because, you know, the Department of Justice, he can't he's not a dictator.

He can't he can't just decide to golf with somebody and then execute him.

But what I love about it is that, you know, Trump would win.

Like, it seems unlikely that this guy can golf as well as Trump, you know, who reportedly is a very good golfer.

Um, and it would just take care of the whole situation kind of quickly.

Just 18 holes of golf and then everybody wins.

Everybody gets what they want.

Anything.

All right.

Here's another funny Trumpism.

This is just a quote from a larger statement he was making at the recent press conference.

He goes, "Without the United States, everything in the world would die." Again, nobody would say that.

It's literally nobody nobody in the world would say that, much less the president of the United States.

Without the United States, everything in the world would die.

I don't even know if what to call that.

Do you call that a uh an artful exaggeration?

Is it uh political hyperbole?

Is it sales?

Is it salesmanship?

Like what is that?

The only thing I know is that I love it.

I love He said everything in the world would die.

But it gets better.

he gets better because he was apparently he was asked I don't know where I just saw the quotes he was asked about three uh so-called leaders of the Democratic party and listen listen to how Trump sums them up so quickly all right so he was asked what he thinks about Jasmine Crockett and he said that can't be serious That That is the funniest brief summary of a person's entire persona that you've ever heard.

That can't be serious.

Then he was asked about Maxine Waters.

He says, "She's an insult to intelligence." Was that even you?

you kind of know what it means, but the words that the words are wrong.

How can you be an insult to intelligence?

So, he makes me stop and think about it.

It's like, wait, her intelligence could be an insult to something, man.

How can she be an insult to Okay, I know what you mean.

It's just so funny the way he says it.

But here's the best one.

I saved the best one for last.

He was asked what he thinks of AOC.

He says, "She speaks like a mouse." A little mouse.

Oh my god.

That's all I'll ever hear for the rest of my life.

Every time I hear her talk from now on, I'm going to say, "Huh?" She does speak sort of like a mouse.

A little mouse.

And not even just a mouse, but one of the small ones.

Oh my god.

Oh.

Now, if you still believe that when he says things that are hilarious or impactful or make you pay attention or reframe something, if you think it's it's luck, what's wrong with you?

It's it's so clearly consistent the the consistency with which he he's just the best writer in the world really.

Um I know that I'll be alone in that opinion, but I I'll say it again.

He's the best writer in the world.

Nobody Nobody can do just what he did in one day.

Nobody could do that.

Anyway, I said there's some pictures going around on X and social media and allegedly the story is that Senator Cy Booker has announced that he's engaged to his girlfriend Alexis Lewis.

And there are some photos of them looking very happy in what looks like the scene in which he must have just proposed.

And she's all delighted and smiling.

And he's smiling.

Here's the problem.

She has one extra toe if if you know where I'm going with this.

And I don't think that that's natural cuz she'd probably be wearing shoes if she had an extra toe.

And the the ring that he allegedly gave her uh wasn't a diamond ring.

It was a wedding band.

According to the photo that she's showing off, there's a wedding band.

Now, do you think that a senator would not know enough that a wedding band is not the right answer for proposing and that if for example, let's say the diamond, you know, engagement ring that he should have ordered.

Um, if for example that had been delayed and maybe he had meant to ask her on some special day but it got delayed, the right answer is to wait for the ring.

Am I right, ladies?

Can you back me on this?

The right answer would be whatever you do, don't give her a wedding band as an engagement ring.

Even if it's a placeholder.

No, not even as a placeholder.

That's my advice.

Anyway, it looks to me like AI.

So, I don't know if the base story is correct.

You know, maybe somebody took a true story and added some AI pictures, but it doesn't look real to me.

Now, here's what's interesting about this.

We know that there will be AI things that we believe to be true.

I mean, I already fell for the bear on the trampoline, which by the way, the the the more time that goes by, the the dumber I feel for falling for a bear on a trampoline.

Like, what what were you thinking?

I wanted it to be true, so I just willed it into, you know, feeling true in my mind.

Uh, but no, there was no bear using a trampoline.

But we're gonna have the the opposite situation too.

And this is funny.

There will be some number of real things that people don't believe are real because you'd think no only AI could create that, right?

Have you have you run into that yet?

So sometimes it will be AI pretending to be real, but other times it'll be a real thing and you'll say, "I'm pretty sure that's AI." This is one of those situations.

Maybe I don't know if it's AI trying to fool me or if Corey Booker just looks like an AI generated character because all four pictures they were smiling and laughing like hyenas.

And I don't think either of them in the real world would have allowed all of the pictures to be laughing hyena pictures.

They would have picked at least one where they just were, you know, in love or something.

Not like, oh, so that looked like an AI choice of poses.

We'll find out probably by the end of the day.

Somebody will know if that was real.

Well, the post millennials writing that Trump has ordered the removal of gender ideology from public school curricula, and if they don't do it, their federal funds will be cut.

Um, I'm no expert on, you know, gender or the psychology of it or the medical parts of it.

I've usually tried to stay out of all the the trans stuff and the gender things.

You probably noticed that, right?

You've noticed that I just usually ignore those stories.

Sometimes you can't, but I'm just not super interested in it as a news topic.

It just I don't know, feels like the same story just over and over again with a different person.

However, when we're talking about gender ideology being taught to children, there is one element here in which I would claim some expertise, and it goes like this.

I can tell you with certainty that you could uh confuse a child about their gender or sex um with hypnosis.

And I can further confirm that you don't need to be a hypnotist to do it.

And then further confirm that all it would take is any adult in an authority position to tell them something and say this is true.

That's all it would take.

So if if a uh young child were you know were to be let's say influenced by a teacher who happened to say uh yes it's very common you might be in the wrong body definitely you know um so if you have any inklings in that direction uh I'm sure it's true you should really explore that uh you might your life might be way better if you found out that you were in the wrong body if if you had a teacher who was it wasn't trying to influence you to change but simply that was the way they described it.

So they have no bad intent.

They have no intent at all.

They're just trying to educate you.

But if they described it that way, how many how many children would effectively be hypnotized into thinking that they were the other gender and then a chain of uh you know cause and effect would would begin.

that probably would not work out well.

Now for other people and this is the reason you know me not being an expert I usually stay out of the topic.

There might be people for whom it exactly was the right thing and saves their life.

I don't know.

I mean I wouldn't vouch for it but it it seems within the realm of possibility because people are so different that there might be somebody for whom it was a real lifesaver.

Uh, but I can guarantee you, the only part I have some expertise in, you know, cuz I'm a trained hypnotist as all of you know, um, I can guarantee you that you can convince people that they're the wrong sex if they're young enough.

Guarantee it.

So that would suggest that Trump's idea of removing it so that it doesn't accidentally influence people makes sense from the hypnotist perspective.

Any other perspective as in psych psychologists or biological experts?

Um I'll leave that to them.

Well, Malcolm Gladwell, you might know him.

He's uh one of the most famous authors in the United States.

And apparently there was some point he was at a public forum and he said something about um supportive of trans athletes.

In other words, um people born as men playing in women's sports.

And he was uh I guess he was uh um agreeing that that was a good idea in some public way.

And now he's come out and there's a video in which he says he's ashamed of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women's sports.

And here's the interesting part.

He says he was quote cowed into saying so.

And now he says quote trans athletes have no place in the female category.

He says, now without getting into the uh quality of his argument before or after, I would like to point out the following.

Does it feel to you like the truth is having a comeback or may or maybe you know for the first time ever it's risen?

There seems to be something happening where people are sort of confessing the truth, you know, meaning their actual opinion.

Does it feel like that?

You know, that might be wishful thinking on my part.

I don't know.

But I appreciate um I appreciate anybody who is willing to make that kind of a public correction to something that they're not proud of.

So, good for you.

Good for you, Malcolm Gladwell.

But again, you know, as far as his opinion, that's his opinion, so you don't need me to weigh in on that.

Um, have you wondered why the Trump administration seemed to be doing nothing on housing costs when that's a gigantic problem for people?

I have.

Uh but it looks like uh according to Zero Edge, Scott Basant has been quoted as saying that the government may declare a national housing emergency in the fall.

Now what does that mean?

Well, uh it doesn't mean we know the details, but what it does mean is that the federal government would get, you know, neck deep into the business of affordability of housing.

Now, as you know, Kami Mam Dami, the guy who's probably going to win mayor in New York City, came up with this brilliant affordability thing.

And I I just have to compliment that that that was a nice focus for a politician and fit the times and and he he made it work.

Um, but it's also the sort of thing that you could pick off.

it doesn't preclude anybody else from making something affordable and Trump's, you know, made energy more affordable and eggs more affordable and it was just sort of lacking that there wasn't something happening in any way at all for for housing.

Now, you could argue that the you know um the immigration aggressiveness caused more open places which would cause supply and demand.

there to be more supply so the price would go down.

But I don't think he did it for that reason.

That that was just sort of a you know byproduct that you might enjoy.

But uh some of the things that they're talking about are standardizing local building and zoning codes.

I've always thought that that might have some potential and maybe some tariff exemptions for housing materials.

Um but they don't really know.

So, they're going to declare the emergency, maybe.

Doesn't doesn't sound like it's a dumb decision.

But, uh, I like it.

Uh, if declaring it an emergency gave them some powers to do something that just, you know, really needs to be done, such as standardizing building codes, I don't know if the federal government even has that power.

But I would be in favor of uh here here's my my ultimate dream.

My ultimate dream is that if somebody designs a set of homes that are essentially the same on the inside, but maybe there's 12 different models just to pick a number.

So if you have kids or you're retired or you're, you know, athletic family or you do or you don't have a dog, you know, the houses would all be different.

But there would be if if there are 12 of them, the odds that one of them is exactly what you want is pretty good.

So you don't have a federal standard that changes every building code everywhere.

You simply say if you build any of these 12 homes and you hit you know these kinds of standards for building the the state won't be able to say anything or the the local government.

So that would be maybe a faster way because you know standardizing all the different states they do have different I mean there's different climates and everything so it get really complicated but it wouldn't be complicated to say if you use this set of materials and you use and you build it to one of these 12 standards you can just start building or or something that would really streamline it.

Then the other thing is there are a number of technologies now where you can build a home with these Legoike blocks that fit together and they've already got I think they already have the installation built into them but one person can just pick one up and slam it together.

So what would happen if uh you had AI assisting you and you did the labor yourself and there was nothing to lift that was any heavier than you know a block kind of a thing.

Um and you didn't have so you didn't have to pay an architect, you didn't have to pay for approvals.

You didn't have to wait for approvals uh at least very long.

and you didn't have to pay much in labor because it would be so simplified that anybody could put one of these houses together, you could probably bring the cost of housing down by 50%.

And everybody would still make a profit.

So, I love I love how much potential there is, but I think it needs more invention than it does government anything.

Yeah.

I I I always felt like some like Apple or Tesla or something would finally say, "All right, all right.

Let us build you some houses or tell you how or make it easy or figure out how to make it awesome." I've also thought that the, you know, depending on where you put it, you might want glass walls, but you'd want automated curtains so you'd still have privacy.

So if they could make glass less expensive so you could use it for a wall like really thick glass and it have to be really insulated and all that.

Anyway, I can talk about that all day.

Too boring.

Sorry.

There is a whole bunch of Epstein news.

I don't know why suddenly there's so much Epstein news.

Let's see if I can summarize it.

But the biggest news about all the Epstein news is there's no Epstein news.

The one thing you can be certain of if there's Epstein news, there's no Epstein news and that the news about Epstein will always be more about how you don't know what Epstein was up to.

So, let's see.

We had the Epstein victims who talked to Congress, but you and I couldn't listen to it.

And we're never going to hear any names, for example, of any famous people who might have been involved.

But um Representative Luna came out and said that you know after listening to the survivors, she says that it's clear this thing could be a lot bigger.

Okay, that's not really new cuz you always knew that it could have been a lot bigger than whatever you knew and that rich and powerful people need to go to prison.

Okay, that's exactly what you're already thinking.

and she said it's possible Epstein was a you know intelligence asset for an adversarial country um or not necessarily adversarial but a foreign country to which I say yeah everybody thought that might have been a thing and uh let's see Nancy Mace who had been a you a victim of sexual abuse herself she's open about talking about that um seemed visibly upset when she left So whatever they heard was pretty bad and it triggered her cuz she had some presumably something PT PTSD like from her own experience.

Um we we got allegedly the missing one minute from the Epstein video outside of the the cell block.

So, you know how the uh allegedly there was a missing minute uh but it was because the system changes over or something at a certain time.

So, it was explained away as uh ordinary that all the videos miss a minute.

Uh but people insisted and I guess what they did was they must displaced the minute that follows onto the you know the naturally occurring piece of video and which makes everybody think I'm not so sure that that I don't know if I should believe what this video says.

So again it didn't show anything.

So since we don't really believe he we saw the missing minute, it doesn't really add anything to the story.

So all the stories add nothing.

There are a whole bunch of Epstein files released, but they're redacted so much that you can't tell.

For example, uh you we know that there were lots of flights that Epstein was on to his island, but we don't know who else was on.

We know that there were five to seven passengers on a lot of them.

Um, and but basically nothing new because there was too many redactions.

And then uh Thomas Massie and Roana getting together to press the Congress to vote for releasing all the Epstein files.

Now I thought that there was already agreement to release them.

is is what's new about this that they would not have any redactions?

Cuz I can't believe that they would be in favor of no redactions.

So, I don't know what it is that would be different if Congress said, uh, release all the files because I thought Trump's in charge and he already said release all the files.

So, I'll need to figure out what that would add to the process if Congress got involved.

So, I guess you have to get a bunch of signatures to force a house vote.

And um Massie is about halfway there.

Well, Washington Mayor Bowser um she issued an executive order telling her law enforcement people to work with the feds indefinitely.

So, once again, there's more support, if you will, for what Trump is doing by surging forces into Washington DC.

And some people are wondering, is this really what Bowser thinks is the right thing to do to cooperate with Trump or is it strictly for political reasons?

To which I say, uh, I don't know.

Maybe it's just smart.

Maybe it's political reasons matched with the fact that it works and she wants to be a mayor who gets some stuff done.

Maybe it's that.

So, good for her.

Um, Greece is apparently getting really hardlined on all the immigrants coming in.

Apparently, they have some massive immigration coming in from North Africa and a lot of them claim uh uh what is it?

Uh asylum.

But apparently if you claim asylum and then it is eventually rejected, you can get up to two years in jail.

So that's pretty hardcore.

Um, and Reuters is reporting on that.

And I guess Athens feels that they would lose their national identity if they let in too many immigrants.

It makes me wonder if the future will be entirely determined by who prevents people from getting in the country.

And I wonder if anybody's noticed that nobody's trying to get into China or Russia or North Korea.

Like nobody's trying to get into those countries and everybody's trying to get into the other countries.

And I do wonder um as others have if there how much of this is organic.

Now I know it's highly organized through NOS's and stuff at least in our country and I think in Europe.

Um, but it makes me wonder if the real power behind the power is our adversaries because one great way to destroy a democracy would would be to prey on their empathy and the fact that they don't have a strong leader who can close their border if the country is divided on the question.

So, it would be a genius way to destroy all of your uh competing countries if you were China, let's say.

Now, I don't I don't accuse them of it, but there's something about everything that's going on that doesn't look organic and it doesn't look like it's just a bunch of people who got together because they felt the same about immigration and thought there should be more of it.

It doesn't feel like anything except intentionally destructive, but I could be wrong.

Well, as you know, Trump has sent uh quite a few uh Navy assets down to be around the Venezuelan coast because the um the head of Venezuela has been declared a cartel head and a terrorist.

And so some of the terrorist entities um are going to be targeted directly by the US military.

And in case they wondered what that included, the military just blew up um a narot terrorist boat full of drugs.

And it didn't look like they tried too hard to stop him and get him to surrender.

It looks like they just said narco boat aim missiles and goodbye.

Now, uh, of course it's well publicized.

You know, they made sure that there were videos of it.

If you were if you were a smuggler and your job was to go through the American Navy after you just saw a video of one shot, they didn't take multiple shots.

One shot, one missile, I assume.

Boom.

The entire thing is gone.

They're all dead immediately.

It would be really hard for me to take that job.

All right, Scott.

Uh, we're going to pay you really well.

Take your boat.

All you have to do is take your unarmed boat and get through the military blockade of the strongest military power in the history of the universe.

as far as we know, except for the younger trias.

All right, so that sent a message.

Some people are wondering if it's a prelude to invasion of Venezuela, and people are preemptively saying, "Oh, Trump better not start a war with Venezuela." to which I say um I suppose anything's possible.

So wouldn't rule it out, but I think it's far more likely since the leader has been declared uh the head of a cartel.

I don't think there would be an invasion, but there might be an Israeli kind of decapitation strike.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if those warships off the coast lob a missile into the presidential palace, you know, if they if they know they've got a clean shot.

So, that might happen.

And then I don't know who would take over if that happened.

Um, but if I had to guess, it won't be I don't think it'll be boots on the ground marine invasion.

Could be.

I mean, anything is possible, but that seems like a long shot to me.

Um, that story is boring.

That was boring.

So, this uh fascinates me.

So Trump is pushing hard to get science and the pharma companies to to know for sure if the uh the warp speed process of developing the what was called the vaccination but turned out just to be a shot um for COVID.

He wants to know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

And I love the fact that he takes full responsibility for being the one who pushed it into existence.

And he would like to be able to claim that it was a wonderful thing, but so many of his uh base are, you know, dead set against the idea that that was ever a good idea and that it was they think it was his biggest downside uh for Trump.

So, I like the fact that he's not just trying to lie to us and say something like, "Oh, no.

Trust me, it was the best thing that ever happened to the country." He's saying out loud that he doesn't know, which is very brave, actually.

And he's saying that he wants to know and that he's putting pressure on Fizer and others.

He says that he's seen documents by the pharma that would suggest it was, you know, a wonderful idea for the shot, but that it's not public, which automatically makes me think that whatever they showed him is not credible because if they released it, maybe other people would look a little more deeply into the data and say, "Wait a minute, this doesn't look credible to me." So yeah, I would like to know if the pharma entities are playing the president and the rest of the country.

And I don't know how we'll ever know.

I guess I'd be skeptical that we could ever get to the bottom of it because there's just so much money involved in maybe, you know, hiding any anything that would be bad news.

But I love Trump's approach to it.

is, you know, I even if it turned out that, well, I won't speculate.

Um, so as you know, the Kennedy Maha movement was supposed to produce a report about what caused autism.

They did rep produce a report, but it was sort of general and not something you could act on very well.

I mean, it was just sort of obvious things like it's the food, it's the environment, you know, um maybe too much medicalization, but they're not sure.

So, it didn't really come to a conclusion you could act on.

But turns out that there's a $50 million budget for uh any number of people that they decide uh maybe 25 grant winners to uh study it and to really really drill down uh and find out what's causing autism.

Now my question is this because also in this story it says that they're going to be looking at existing databases.

Why would it cost $50 million and take an estimated according to the story um this is Reuters um two to three years $50 million 25 grants two to three years for existing data?

How can both of those things be true?

If if Trump signed an executive order that said if if the uh if Kennedy requests your data, you have to give it to him or or you'll go to jail because it's an emergency.

You know, autism rates are so high it's an emergency.

So if we want your data, you you're not going to be able to say it's, you know, that it's private or anything.

We want your data.

So, how well how would that take two to three years to analyze existing data if you solve the problem of making them give it to you?

What am I missing here?

I I feel as though if you've got 25 grants um and $50 million that you've already added two variables that would make any project fail.

Am I right?

If it let's say it wasn't about this topic.

Let's say it had nothing to do with autism.

It was just a project and I told you there will be 25 grant winners trying to figure out from existing data what the problem is.

Would you imagine that that would work there?

There's something wrong with you know from even 30,000 ft in the air.

I mean which is all we know about it.

We don't know the details.

But even from there, this doesn't look like a process that will bear fruit.

There's something wrong here.

Here's what I would find credible.

Uh we've asked Elon Musk uh to get his Doge geniuses to spend one month looking at all the data and we got an EO signed where everybody has to give it to us and we'll go to do it in one month and it's the smartest data people in the world will be looking at it so we won't miss anything.

Now I would believe that.

To me that sounds like a process that could work.

But you tell me there's 25 grants in two to three years and $50 million.

No way that works.

That's designed for failure if you ask me.

They they'll just keep kicking the can down the road and say, "Oh, is it uh has it been three years yet?" You know, if you gave me another $5 million, I'm so close so close to having an answer, but just five million more.

Give me that grant money.

Anyway, I hope we'll find out.

But just to make things complicated, according to New Atlas, Brunwin Thompson is writing that nine and 10 autistic adults over the age of 40 are undiagnosed.

To which I say, how would we know that?

All right, but let's say we do.

Um, one of the things that people speculate about the zooming uh increase in autism is that the only thing that's improved is our ability to catch it early.

Do you think that's any part of the answer?

I feel like it's not the answer.

Um, but is it a big part?

Because if we know that nine out of 10 older people were undiagnosed, doesn't that mean that if they had been young when we were good at diagnosing it, the number of autistic people would have been much higher than we imagined it was and therefore the rate increase from then till now would be much smaller than what we are alarmingly looking at.

I don't know.

It feels like it's part of the answer, but I don't know if it's 10% or more than that.

Well, Russia is attacking uh Ukraine's energy facilities a little more aggressively and also their transportation hubs and and and Ukraine is doing the same thing to Russia.

So, they're going after energy, infrastructure, and transportation in some ways.

And it makes me wonder if um that's signaling anything that the real war since the the war is about sending electrically charged things into the air to go kill your people if they kill the electricity production in the other country then they can't even charge their drones.

I mean I I wonder if it could go that deep.

Do you think they could ever destroy enough infrastructure that even if you had a million drones, you just couldn't charge them?

You're sitting there in the dark, maybe.

So, I' I'd watch this uh energy attacks strategy that they both seem to have.

All right.

I saw a story in the South China Morning Post, Richard Havis, that uh it asks a question, can you train your mind to be happy?

And it says, yes, expert says, um, would you like to know how?

Would you like me to train you with my hypnosis experience and my reframing experience into into how to be happier?

Somebody says, "No." All right.

Well, I won't hypnotize you.

I'll just tell you how to do it.

All right.

Number one, um, whatever you think about the most is who you are.

And you can change what you think about the most.

It's easy.

Watch.

Think about your favorite animal.

Could you do it?

Of course you could.

You all had a different favorite animal, but when I said think about your favorite animal, you could do it.

So that was when your brain was focusing on a a cool thing that you liked, your favorite animal.

Probably made you a little bit happy.

I mean, just a little bit.

But during that time, you were thinking about your favorite animal.

You weren't thinking about some bad thing that could potentially put you in a bad mood or uh you affect your energy or make you anxious or anything.

So, I just proved to you that if you just remember as a habit to change your thinking from whatever negative stuff to positive stuff, and it's really that easy.

Just think about stuff you like.

Everybody likes something.

Think about a person you like, experience you had, um a walk on the beach, if that's your thing.

Just think about it.

and reduce the shelf time that you give to the bad thoughts because how much you think about something is what creates the structure in your brain that becomes semi-permanent.

You can usually change it but some it becomes a little semi-permanent.

So the more you think about positive things, the happier you're going to be.

I would also say that although the science says that your happiness is not that affected by your environment, um that's not true.

Your happiness is totally affected by your environment.

If your environment is a loving family, you don't think you'd be a little bit happier than if you were sitting all alone in your little apartment like some of you are.

I I think it's absurd to imagine that changing your situation won't make you happier.

You don't think that going from poor where you're you're panicked about eating uh to well off.

You don't think that that would make you happier because you didn't have to worry about starving?

Of course it would.

I guarantee it would make you happier.

So yeah, fix fix your physical um exposure, meaning go outside, you know, make sure that you're around some beauty and that you're not looking at depressing gray things.

Um I would even change my commute if it took a few minutes to go through a more attractive place.

If you're going to look at it every day, it's better to expose yourself to the attractive route than the, you know, fast industrial route.

The other thing is, um, I don't know if you've ever experienced this, but unless you've got pretty serious mental problems, I'll bet you're happy whenever your body feels good.

Am I right?

You know, if you're a certain age, you always got some aches and pains and you're too tired and whatever.

But every now and then, you'll have this experience where you got enough sleep and you don't have any special pain and you're just sitting in a chair feeling good.

Do you think that makes you happy?

Totally.

Totally.

So, what you do with your body to make you feel good more often will absolutely affect your happiness.

It will absolutely affect your uh anxiety.

It will help all of that.

And we know how to do that.

You eat right, which you can learn.

You exercise right, which you can learn.

You know, I always advise people to do it.

Take it slow and just make it a continuous learning process.

You know, continuously learning what to eat, continuously learning what exercises work best for your particular body.

So, it's more of a learning continuous learning thing.

That's a good frame to put in.

Anyway, um if you can make your body happy because you exercise and it just feels good, it'll make your brain happier.

If you can look in the mirror because you exercise and ate right, and you say to yourself, "Huh, I look pretty darn good for my age, whatever your age is." Um, yes, absolutely do that.

It'll make you feel better.

So, and then I'm going to leave you with one um positive story here that I find very impressive.

Uh there's a gentleman that I follow on social media named King Randall.

Now, his first name is King.

Don't judge him by that, but he is a uh younish I don't know I don't know how young, but he's a younger man.

And uh he runs a program where he teaches kids um how to do practical things that especially if you're in a economically disadvantaged place, you wouldn't know how to do and maybe you don't have a father.

So he's black.

Um almost all or maybe all of the kids that he trains um I think are black.

But here's what I love about him.

Um, he teaches reframes.

I don't know if he thinks of it that way, but here's one uh that he talked about on social media.

Part of what he teaches the kids is manners and etiquette.

So, there's a little video of uh some young black kids learning, you know, how to have a nice meal and, you know, handle the etiquette of that.

And I guess he got some push back from people saying that he was training them to act white or something.

And his response was that manners are not about acting white.

Manners are power.

Manners are power.

That's why you do it.

Now I have I have taught a few young people in in my circle exactly that lesson.

That's exactly what I tell people.

If if you suggest I'm thinking of my ex stepson he was departed but when he was around if he wasn't doing things that good etiquette or manners suggested the way I would explain it to him I would say hold on you don't do manners because of how it makes you feel you don't do it because somebody told you to do it you know and I go through all the reasons that that's not why you do it the reason you do It is power.

Everybody wants to spend time with polite people.

We want to hire them.

We want to work with them.

We want them to be our friends.

We want to marry them.

We want them to marry our family.

It's power.

And so when I see uh King Randall um do that reframe on his kids, if he's telling them that's how they succeed in life, he is not focusing on race whatsoever.

In fact, I don't know if I've even heard him mention it.

I he doesn't he doesn't really mention race.

I'm sure he does sometimes, but it's not really a focus.

Here's what he focuses on instead.

personal strategies for success because manners are a personal strategy for success.

It's not about your race.

It would be exactly the same strategy for everybody.

It just happens to be that you he's working with a particular demographic, but it would be the same for everybody.

I would love that to be universal.

So then if if this were not was awesome enough, he also teaches them things like how to change a tire, uh how to how to change the oil in a car, and it's a long list of things, you know, that he teaches them.

And oh my god, it's a it's a strategy for life.

Instead, I used to go to Boy Scouts or Cub Scouts, I guess.

Cub Scouts.

and Cub Scouts, they say to earn this badge, uh, learn how to carve a leather um, coffee coaster or something.

Completely useless skills just to get a badge.

That's not a strategy for life.

It was just a waste of time really.

But if you're learning real things that you will need to do in your real life, that's a strategy.

And uh so he's teaching these kids strategy for success.

But then just to make it w even wilder how smart he is, King Randall.

He started organizing him a very early morning run um in his city.

And he got like a I don't know 100 people to show up or 50 to show up the first time.

And then they all had a good time because they were outdoors and they did a thing where they were were with other people who were like-minded and were looking to, you know, get some exercise and they just all had a good time.

They told their friends and pretty soon there were a hundred people.

So 100 people would meet just to go for this mass run really early in the morning.

He just topped out at 300 people.

Maybe because it was a holiday or something.

He just got 300 people to not just once, but it looks like they want to be part of this regular running group.

300 people.

And uh it also turned diverse.

You know, I saw the earlier photos.

It looked like it was almost 100% black.

Now it looks like maybe it's closer to 20% diverse.

Again, perfect because it has nothing to do with race.

It's a strategy for success.

If you can get off your ass and get off in the morning, you'll meet some people.

You'll feel like you accomplished something.

You'll be healthier.

The healthier will allow you to do everything better.

Find a mate, get a job, everything.

So, um, keep an eye on King Randall because his ability to pick out what matters, the strategy of life, and then to get people to buy into it is pretty remarkable.

So, keep an eye on him.

Follow him on X if you can.

All right, that is all I have for you.

I want to talk now privately to the people that are my beloved followers.

I guess I'll call him community, beloved community on locals.

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I promise it'll be fascinating. Let me

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Well, would you believe

that according to Eric Dolan who's

writing for a side post that artificial

intelligence

um is less trusted than humans

during a crisis? So um not in general

but during if it's a crisis response.

So

that makes sense. You know I feel as if

uh people will be trusting AI for some

things depending on the topic but they

will trust human beings for other

things. And the reason they'll trust

human beings over AI for some things is

that the human would have to go to jail

if they were lying or if they got

caught, they would never get repeat

business. So human beings have

consequences. If they lie to you and get

caught, whereas an AI,

you know, could be right, could be

wrong. So sometimes, yeah, you're gonna

you're going to trust the human over the

AI. But this reminds me of the uh

funniest story that I've heard in a

while. I was just laughing about it on

the pre-show that most of you didn't

see. Um, apparently it has been

discovered that some therapists are

using an AI app.

I This was on Reddit or something. Now,

I don't know if it's true, but this is

the funniest thought that there's

somebody who's a

it makes me want to be a therapist. You

know, the reason I would never want to

be a therapist is that it would be

horrible listening to people's, you

know, terrible stories all day long.

Like you it would just, you know, gnaw

out at your brain because you just hear

so much negativity and they come back

next week and they're not really any

better, you know? It would just really

weigh you down. But what if,

work with me here, what if you could be

paid to be a therapist and you didn't

have to listen at all? You have to only

pretend. So, you just have to sit in a

chair with your legs crossed and your

your phone on your lap so that your co

your client can't see the phone and turn

on the app. turn down the uh the the

volume on the phone so that when you

know it can listen but if it talks it

will be silent and you could just read

the text and uh don't listen to what the

client is saying and then when it when

he stops just look at what your AI would

say as the response and just read it

and you would never have to actually

listen to anybody's terrible story. You

you just wait until there's a a gap in

the talking and then you look down and

go. I wonder if your trauma stems from

that's my next job.

Fake therapist. Um, apparently

reportedly Gulf News is reporting Jay

Hill that uh Elon Musk is successfully

poaching a bunch of AI experts from

Meta.

And Meta had been offering these

ginormous pay packages up to $300

million.

Can you imagine? Have you ever gotten a

job offer that was $300 million

for just sort of going to work and doing

the thing that you like doing anyway?

Probably. Yeah, that's a pretty good

job. But apparently people are turning

down $300 million packages and you know

that that would be at the highest end of

course. Um and

apparently uh Musk's uh AI has recruited

uh as many as 18 of the best AI

engineers for meta. Interesting. And the

the narrative here is that they're

they're moving because less important

than all that crazy money is the

mission, the speed, the equity upside,

and a startup vibe,

not just cash.

Do you believe that?

And is that the choice you would have

made? Let's say somebody goes to you and

says, "I will guarantee you'll make $300

million over, I don't know, five years,

and all you have to do is come to work

and, you know, give your best, which you

were going to do anyway."

And probably it would be working with

other really bright people.

And then the alternative is that you get

to work with Elon Musk and you know see

how that whole situation is like. Um and

you'd probably learn something that you

maybe it would be sexier, maybe it'd be

more successful, maybe there would be

fewer impediments and bureaucratic you

know BS. Maybe there would be a smaller

chance that you would be, I don't know,

de deeyed or there'd be some kind of

woke problem over there. Less odds of

that. Um,

but would you turn down, let's say, a

guaranteed

$200 million

over five years to take the the lesser

money because, you know, the equity

might be worth something too if

everything worked out.

I don't know.

Or it could be that the difference

between having $100 million and having

$300 million isn't that much,

you know, because in either case, if you

wanted, I guess you could get your own

airplane. That to me, that's the

dividing line between the the really

rich and the people who are just doing

well. The really rich have their own

airplane.

If you if you don't think you can afford

your own like jet,

you're not super rich.

Um, and that I'm in that category. I I I

certainly am nowhere near being able to

afford my own jet sitting outside the

house.

Well, here's a uh some good news for

Tesla. Um, according to Edmunds, that's

that car expert kind of a book. Uh, the

Model Y, Tesla is the best car they

drove out of 200 vehicles.

That's pretty good. The best one out of

200 vehicles. And uh, I heard Joe Rogan

was saying it's um, amazing car. And I

heard uh, Jason from the All- In Pod.

You all know Jason. Um, hi Jason, you're

probably watching. Um, he said it was I

think he said the Model Y was the best

car he's ever experienced and I think he

said, you know, his share of good cars.

So,

it's kind of exciting. So, here here's

my ideal. Um, I don't want anybody to,

you know, arrange anything for me. I I

like it to happen organically. But

whenever whenever I can get a Model Y

that will drive itself with no human

being in it, there has to be no human

being in it. Um from wherever it comes

from to my driveway, has to come all the

way to the driveway. Doesn't count if it

only goes to the dealership and I have

to pick it up. So, as soon as that's

available, I'll probably I think I'll

order one online and and then take a

little video of it showing up in my

driveway because it's really going to be

history. You know, there'll be there'll

be one time ever that it was the first

time you could order a car online and it

would drive itself to your driveway. So,

I want to get that on camera, you know,

even on my phone. Anyway,

um let's see. Isra science that they

didn't need to do because they could

have just asked Scott. Oh, here's one.

According to the Public Library of

Science, they actually did a study to

find out if cannabis improves sleep.

Now, their context was where other drugs

fail.

Now, I haven't tried any of those other

drugs, but uh you really didn't need to

test the proposition of whether

marijuana can help you get to sleep.

M may I just tell you with complete

authority?

Yes.

You know who else you could have asked?

100% of all the people who have ever

tried marijuana, every one of them would

tell you, "Oh yeah, that'll get you to

sleep." Now, I will acknowledge that

there might be some people who have bad

experiences because, you know,

everybody's different, but generally

speaking, now I'm not your doctor, so

I'm not recommending it. So, hear me

carefully. Uh, when I talk about these

things, it's because it's funny or it's

interesting. It's not a recommendation.

But yeah, you didn't really need to

study that. Does it work better than the

other drugs? I don't know, but I'd be

willing to bet it is.

Well, I love this no tax on tips idea

cuz today I learned that it will include

digital content creators.

Do do you see the opportunity for abuse

of the no tax on tips? You know, I was

wondering um you know, are are people

gonna pretend that they're being tipped

instead of paid in just a whole bunch of

regular jobs? You know, when the plumber

comes, I think plumbers are included

actually, but suppose the plumber comes

and says, "Uh, I worked all day. Uh,

here's my bill. It's $1, but I would

really appreciate a tip of $700."

So, you know that's going to happen,

right? You know, there's a 100% chance

people are going to try to game the

system and claim their regular income is

is tips. But believe it or not, digital

content creators like me, which is

everything I do. It's all digital

content creation. Uh are specifically

listed as included

in the no tax on tips. I actually

receive tips.

Isn't that funny? I receive tips.

Now, it's not much. I mean, it would be

less than 1% of my income. Way way less.

But people actually tip on is it

YouTube?

Somewhere I get tipped. Um I think in

locals you could you could kind of do

what they call a tip. Oh, there. Yeah,

there it is.

Somebody uh Kobe Yard Salad is tipping

$1, so I can see that. Thanks. That was

worth a dollar. You got my attention. I

appreciate that. So,

um, of course, I'm a high-profile

person, so I'm I'm going to make sure I

do everything the right way. I'm not

going to I'm not going to test any laws,

but it looks like it's not testing if

it's legitimately a tip. Um,

it looks like it's exempt. Won't make

much difference to me.

Well, uh, you might not know, or maybe

you did, that Google was in court. Um,

the Department of Justice was looking at

maybe breaking them up because they were

a big old monopoly, said the government.

But uh Google sort of won uh in the

sense that they will not get broken up

but they had to agree to not enter into

exclusive agreements.

So, um an aspect

um yeah, an aspect of their uh

um uh you could say monopoly, but maybe

it doesn't qualify for that technically,

but an aspect of it they got to change,

but they don't have to break up the

company. So, that's a big deal. Here's

the weirdest part of the story. It's a

story about breaking up Google and the

judge's last name is Meta,

except there's an H in it. Mhta.

What are the odds that Meta would rule

on Google?

All right. Apparently, according to

Breitbart News, Lucas Nolan's writing

about this, that uh there's some

European activist who is figuring out

how to use AI to do facial recognition

on people wearing masks. He only has to

or the AI only has to see 35% of the

face and it can identify the person.

Now, apparently, it's being used to

identify ICE officers. you know, they're

masked to avoid being, you know,

retaliated against. And uh I'm not sure

I believe that. Do you believe the AI

can identify somebody reliably by 35% of

their face?

And if you're wearing a a mask, why

would 35% of your face be showing?

Because wouldn't you usually have a hat?

Um,

I mean it's just your eyes, right? It's

the only thing. So maybe, you know,

maybe it doesn't work every time or

maybe it works for some people. But

here's my related question.

Was it not a really big thing uh

recently that there were some apps

before AI? So, these were not AI apps

that would do facial recognition like

Clear View was one and it was a big old

scandal and you know where did they get

their data and who where they scrape it

from blah blah blah and uh I was

wondering if that's just one of the

first things that will just be driven

out of business by AI

because AI is probably

Don't you think you could put Uh

uh I haven't tested this, maybe some of

you have. Could you put a picture of a

nonf famousamous person into let's say

chat GPT or Grock and have it tell you

who it is if they had a social media

presence, which almost everybody does.

So, if they had ever had a social media

post with their name attached to it or

they're part of

any local news story,

a strange noise outside,

it has passed. Um, so would AI be able

to do facial recognition with no real

training? You just put in a picture and

say, "What do you think?" It's probably

close to that, you know? I don't I don't

know.

the the claim is kind of maybe too

spectacular to be true, but it might be

true.

So,

here's some Trump news that's always

funny. Have you ever noticed that no

matter what the story is, no matter what

the topic is, if Trump is part of it,

there's something that's a little bit

funny about it? Is it just me? Because I

don't think that's true of any other

politician ever. That it's just there's

always something, you know, there's just

something that's like one degree off of

how the world is supposed to work. And

that one degree of difference is what

triggers your laugh response. You're

like, "No, that's not supposed to be

like that." And Trump just continually

does things that you didn't really

expect to happen. You didn't really

expect somebody would say that. It's not

the end of the world stuff. It's just

that he does things that nobody expects

anybody to do, which is part of his

magic. So, here's what he's done now.

Um, he's moved Space Command

headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama. And

here's the funny part. I don't know how

serious this is, but he says that

Huntsville, Alabama, because Space

Command headquarters will be there. He

said, "Uh, we'll be known as Rocket

City."

And the first thing I asked myself was,

"Does Huntsville, Alabama know that

Trump just renamed their city to Rocket

City?"

Or or did he just make that up, which is

just as funny? Or does he just think

that that will be his nickname? Did he

like, you know, Detroit was

what was the nickname for Detroit? Motor

City. So, uh, so maybe he's just trying

to make it a thing, but but it would be

funnier if he was proposing renaming

Huntsville without asking Huntsville

about it. But there's just something

funny about that. He He's great at

branding.

So instead of making you think about,

you know, the big rockets and everything

and the jobs that are created, he he's

immediately making you think Rocket

City, huh?

It's kind of catchy.

Anyway, in other Trump news, uh Ryan

Ruth, the the wouldbe assassin of Trump,

you know, he's the one who hid in the

bushes at the golf course, but they

caught him. So, he's going to trial and

he's

he's decided to represent himself at a

murder at a attempted murder trial.

Is it attempted murder? I don't know

what the charges are. I assume it's

attempted murder.

Um, but but he he's sort of a crazy guy,

but he might be smart enough to play

extra crazy because it might, you know,

affect his sentence or how he gets

treated or something. So, the question

I'm asking myself is, is he smart enough

to know that if he represents himself

because, you know, they they have him

obviously, you know, dead to rights.

they've, you know, it's not like there's

any chance he was innocent of what he

was doing. So, if he represents himself,

he gets a sort of a theater and a stage

to prove to the world that he's way

crazier than you thought. And to that

point, he just

he just uh uh did some kind of official

court motion uh to challenge to

challenge Trump to a a a round of golf.

And uh he he said quote uh about Trump,

he goes, "If if he wins, he can execute

me. I win. I get his job."

Now, if he keeps doing that kind of

stuff, in in his defense,

I'm going to conclude that he's not as

dumb. He might not be as crazy or as

dumb as you imagine he is

because it would be a wonderful play. I

mean, it like it's the best he can do is

to be, you know, judged and sane. And it

looks like he's really gonna go for it.

But I'll tell you what I thought. I was

hoping Trump would take the deal.

Imagine if Trump took the deal. Now, I

know he can't because, you know, the

Department of Justice, he can't he's not

a dictator. He can't he can't just

decide to golf with somebody and then

execute him. But what I love about it is

that, you know, Trump would win. Like,

it seems unlikely that this guy can golf

as well as Trump, you know, who

reportedly is a very good golfer. Um,

and it would just take care of the whole

situation kind of quickly.

Just 18 holes of golf and then

everybody wins. Everybody gets what they

want.

Anything. All right. Here's another

funny Trumpism.

This is just a quote from a larger

statement he was making at the recent

press conference. He goes, "Without the

United States, everything in the world

would die."

Again,

nobody would say that. It's literally

nobody nobody in the world would say

that, much less the president of the

United States. Without the United

States, everything in the world would

die.

I don't even know if what to call that.

Do you call that a uh an artful

exaggeration?

Is it uh political hyperbole?

Is it sales? Is it salesmanship?

Like what is that? The only thing I know

is that I love it.

I love

He said everything in the world would

die.

But it gets better.

he gets better because he was apparently

he was asked I don't know where I just

saw the quotes he was asked about three

uh so-called leaders of the Democratic

party

and listen listen to how Trump sums them

up so quickly

all right so he was asked what he thinks

about Jasmine Crockett and he said that

can't be serious

That That is the funniest brief summary

of a person's entire persona that you've

ever heard. That can't be serious.

Then he was asked about Maxine Waters.

He says, "She's an insult to

intelligence."

Was that even you? you kind of know what

it means, but the words that the words

are wrong. How can you be an insult to

intelligence?

So, he makes me stop and think about it.

It's like, wait,

her intelligence could be an insult to

something, man.

How can she be an insult to Okay, I know

what you mean. It's just so funny the

way he says it.

But here's the best one. I saved the

best one for last. He was asked what he

thinks of AOC. He says, "She speaks like

a mouse." A little mouse.

Oh my god. That's all I'll ever hear for

the rest of my life. Every time I hear

her talk from now on, I'm going to say,

"Huh?" She does speak sort of like a

mouse. A little mouse.

And not even just a mouse, but one of

the small ones.

Oh my god. Oh. Now,

if you still believe that when he says

things that are hilarious or impactful

or make you pay attention or reframe

something, if you think it's it's luck,

what's wrong with you? It's it's so

clearly consistent the the consistency

with which he

he's just the best writer in the world

really. Um

I know that I'll be alone in that

opinion, but I I'll say it again. He's

the best writer in the world. Nobody

Nobody can do just what he did in one

day. Nobody could do that.

Anyway,

I said there's some pictures going

around on X and social media and

allegedly the story is that Senator Cy

Booker has announced that he's engaged

to his girlfriend Alexis Lewis. And

there are some photos of them looking

very happy in what looks like the scene

in which he must have just proposed. And

she's all delighted and smiling. And

he's smiling. Here's the problem.

She has one extra toe

if if you know where I'm going with

this. And I don't think that that's

natural cuz she'd probably be wearing

shoes if she had an extra toe.

And the the ring that he allegedly gave

her uh wasn't a diamond ring. It was a

wedding band. According to the photo

that she's showing off, there's a

wedding band.

Now,

do you think that

a senator

would not know enough that a wedding

band is not the right answer for

proposing and that if for example, let's

say the diamond, you know, engagement

ring that he should have ordered. Um, if

for example that had been delayed and

maybe he had meant to ask her on some

special day but it got delayed, the

right answer is to wait for the ring. Am

I right, ladies? Can you back me on

this? The right answer would be whatever

you do, don't give her a wedding band as

an engagement ring. Even if it's a

placeholder.

No, not even as a placeholder.

That's my advice.

Anyway, it looks to me like AI.

So, I don't know if the base story is

correct. You know, maybe somebody took a

true story and added some AI pictures,

but it doesn't look real to me. Now,

here's what's interesting about this.

We know that there will be AI things

that we believe to be true. I mean, I

already fell for the bear on the

trampoline,

which by the way, the the the more time

that goes by, the the dumber I feel for

falling for a bear on a trampoline.

Like, what

what were you thinking? I wanted it to

be true, so I just willed it into, you

know, feeling true in my mind. Uh, but

no, there was no bear using a

trampoline.

But we're gonna have the the opposite

situation too. And this is funny. There

will be some number of real things

that people don't believe are real

because you'd think no only AI could

create that, right?

Have you have you run into that yet? So

sometimes it will be AI pretending to be

real, but other times it'll be a real

thing and you'll say, "I'm pretty sure

that's AI." This is one of those

situations. Maybe I don't know if it's

AI trying to fool me or if Corey Booker

just looks like an AI generated

character because all four pictures they

were smiling and laughing like hyenas.

And I don't think either of them in the

real world would have allowed all of the

pictures to be laughing hyena pictures.

They would have picked at least one

where they just were, you know, in love

or something. Not like, oh, so that

looked like an AI choice of poses.

We'll find out probably by the end of

the day. Somebody will know if that was

real.

Well, the post millennials writing that

Trump has ordered the removal of gender

ideology from public school curricula,

and if they don't do it, their federal

funds will be cut.

Um,

I'm no expert on, you know, gender or

the psychology of it or the medical

parts of it. I've usually tried to stay

out of all the the trans stuff and the

gender things. You probably noticed

that, right? You've noticed that I just

usually ignore those stories. Sometimes

you can't, but I'm just not super

interested in it as a news topic. It

just I don't know, feels like the same

story just over and over again with a

different person.

However, when we're talking about gender

ideology being taught to children, there

is one element here in which I would

claim some expertise, and it goes like

this. I can tell you with certainty that

you could uh confuse a child about their

gender or sex

um with hypnosis.

And I can further confirm that you don't

need to be a hypnotist to do it.

And then further confirm

that all it would take is any adult in

an authority position to tell them

something and say this is true. That's

all it would take. So if if a uh young

child were you know were to be let's say

influenced by a teacher who happened to

say uh yes it's very common you might be

in the wrong body definitely you know um

so if you have any inklings in that

direction uh I'm sure it's true you

should really explore that uh you might

your life might be way better if you

found out that you were in the wrong

body if if you had a teacher who was it

wasn't trying to influence you to change

but simply that was the way they

described it. So they have no bad

intent. They have no intent at all.

They're just trying to educate you. But

if they described it that way, how many

how many children would effectively be

hypnotized into thinking that they were

the other gender and then a chain of uh

you know cause and effect would would

begin. that probably would not work out

well. Now for other people and this is

the reason you know me not being an

expert I usually stay out of the topic.

There might be people for whom it

exactly was the right thing and saves

their life. I don't know. I mean I

wouldn't vouch for it but it it seems

within the realm of possibility because

people are so different that there might

be somebody for whom it was a real

lifesaver.

Uh, but I can guarantee you, the only

part I have some expertise in, you know,

cuz I'm a trained hypnotist as all of

you know, um, I can guarantee you that

you can convince people that they're the

wrong sex if they're young enough.

Guarantee it.

So that would suggest that Trump's idea

of removing it

so that it doesn't accidentally

influence people

makes sense from the hypnotist

perspective. Any other perspective as in

psych psychologists or biological

experts? Um

I'll leave that to them.

Well, Malcolm Gladwell, you might know

him. He's uh one of the most famous

authors in the United States. And

apparently there was some point he was

at a public forum and he said something

about um supportive of trans athletes.

In other words, um people born as men

playing in women's sports. And he was uh

I guess he was uh

um agreeing that that was a good idea in

some public way.

And now he's come out and there's a

video in which he says he's ashamed of

having said in a previous panel

discussion that trans women have a place

in women's sports. And here's the

interesting part. He says he was quote

cowed into saying so. And now he says

quote trans athletes have no place in

the female category. He says, now

without getting into the uh quality of

his argument before or after, I would

like to point out the following. Does it

feel to you

like the truth is having a comeback or

may or maybe you know for the first time

ever it's risen? There seems to be

something happening

where people are sort of confessing the

truth, you know, meaning their actual

opinion. Does it feel like that? You

know, that might be wishful thinking on

my part. I don't know. But I appreciate

um I appreciate anybody who is willing

to make that kind of a public correction

to something that they're not proud of.

So, good for you. Good for you, Malcolm

Gladwell.

But again, you know, as far as his

opinion, that's his opinion, so you

don't need me to weigh in on that.

Um,

have you wondered why the Trump

administration seemed to be doing

nothing on housing costs when that's a

gigantic problem for people? I have. Uh

but it looks like uh according to Zero

Edge, Scott Basant has been quoted as

saying that the government may declare a

national housing emergency in the fall.

Now what does that mean? Well, uh it

doesn't mean we know the details, but

what it does mean is that the federal

government would get, you know, neck

deep into the business of affordability

of housing. Now, as you know, Kami Mam

Dami, the guy who's probably going to

win mayor in New York City, came up with

this brilliant affordability thing. And

I I just have to compliment that that

that was a nice focus for a politician

and fit the times and and he he made it

work. Um, but it's also the sort of

thing that you could pick off. it

doesn't preclude anybody else from

making something affordable and Trump's,

you know, made energy more affordable

and eggs more affordable and it was just

sort of lacking

that there wasn't something happening in

any way at all for for housing. Now, you

could argue that the you know um the

immigration aggressiveness caused more

open places which would cause supply and

demand. there to be more supply so the

price would go down. But I don't think

he did it for that reason. That that was

just sort of a you know byproduct that

you might enjoy.

But uh some of the things that they're

talking about are standardizing local

building and zoning codes. I've always

thought that that might have some

potential and maybe some tariff

exemptions for housing materials.

Um but they don't really know. So,

they're going to declare the emergency,

maybe. Doesn't doesn't sound like it's a

dumb decision. But, uh, I like it. Uh,

if declaring it an emergency gave them

some powers to do something that just,

you know, really needs to be done, such

as standardizing building codes, I don't

know if the federal government even has

that power. But I would be in favor of

uh here here's my my ultimate dream. My

ultimate dream is that if somebody

designs a set of homes that are

essentially the same on the inside, but

maybe there's 12 different models just

to pick a number. So if you have kids or

you're retired or you're, you know,

athletic family or you do or you don't

have a dog, you know, the houses would

all be different. But there would be if

if there are 12 of them, the odds that

one of them is exactly what you want is

pretty good. So you don't have a federal

standard that changes every building

code everywhere. You simply say if you

build any of these 12 homes and you hit

you know these kinds of standards for

building the the state won't be able to

say anything or the the local

government. So that would be maybe a

faster way because you know

standardizing all the different states

they do have different I mean there's

different climates and everything so it

get really complicated but it wouldn't

be complicated to say if you use this

set of materials

and you use and you build it to one of

these 12 standards

you can just start building or or

something that would really streamline

it. Then the other thing is there are a

number of technologies now where you can

build a home with these Legoike blocks

that fit together and they've already

got I think they already have the

installation built into them but one

person can just pick one up and slam it

together. So what would happen if uh you

had AI assisting you and you did the

labor yourself and there was nothing to

lift that was any heavier than you know

a block kind of a thing. Um and you

didn't have so you didn't have to pay an

architect, you didn't have to pay for

approvals. You didn't have to wait for

approvals uh at least very long. and you

didn't have to pay much in labor because

it would be so simplified that anybody

could put one of these houses together,

you could probably bring the cost of

housing down by 50%.

And everybody would still make a profit.

So,

I love I love how much potential there

is, but I think it needs more invention

than it does government anything. Yeah.

I I I always felt like some like Apple

or Tesla or something would finally say,

"All right, all right. Let us build you

some houses or tell you how or make it

easy or figure out how to make it

awesome."

I've also thought that the,

you know, depending on where you put it,

you might want glass walls,

but you'd want automated curtains so

you'd still have privacy.

So if they could make glass less

expensive so you could use it for a wall

like really thick glass and it have to

be really insulated and all that.

Anyway, I can talk about that all day.

Too boring. Sorry. There is a whole

bunch of Epstein news.

I don't know why suddenly there's so

much Epstein news. Let's see if I can

summarize it. But the biggest news about

all the Epstein news is there's no

Epstein news.

The one thing you can be certain of if

there's Epstein news, there's no Epstein

news and that the news about Epstein

will always be more about how you don't

know what Epstein was up to.

So, let's see. We had the Epstein

victims who talked to Congress, but you

and I couldn't listen to it. And we're

never going to hear any names, for

example, of any famous people who might

have been involved. But um

Representative Luna came out and said

that you know after listening to the

survivors, she says that it's clear this

thing could be a lot bigger. Okay,

that's not really new cuz you always

knew that it could have been a lot

bigger than whatever you knew and that

rich and powerful people need to go to

prison. Okay, that's exactly what you're

already thinking. and she said it's

possible Epstein was a you know

intelligence asset for an adversarial

country um or not necessarily

adversarial but a foreign country to

which I say yeah everybody thought that

might have been a thing

and uh let's see Nancy Mace who had been

a you a victim of sexual abuse herself

she's open about talking about that um

seemed visibly upset when she left So

whatever they heard was pretty bad and

it triggered her cuz she had some

presumably something PT PTSD like from

her own experience.

Um

we

we got allegedly the missing one minute

from the Epstein video outside of the

the cell block. So, you know how the uh

allegedly there was a missing minute uh

but it was because the system changes

over or something at a certain time. So,

it was explained away as uh ordinary

that all the videos miss a minute. Uh

but people insisted and I guess what

they did was they must displaced the

minute that follows onto the you know

the naturally occurring piece of video

and which makes everybody think I'm not

so sure that that I don't know if I

should believe what this video says.

So again it didn't show anything.

So since we don't really believe he we

saw the missing minute, it doesn't

really add anything to the story. So all

the stories add nothing.

There are a whole bunch of Epstein files

released, but they're redacted so much

that you can't tell. For example, uh you

we know that there were lots of flights

that Epstein was on to his island, but

we don't know who else was on. We know

that there were five to seven passengers

on a lot of them. Um,

and but basically nothing new because

there was too many redactions. And then

uh Thomas Massie and Roana getting

together to press the Congress to vote

for releasing all the Epstein files. Now

I thought that there was already

agreement to release them. is is what's

new about this that they would not have

any redactions? Cuz I can't believe that

they would be in favor of no redactions.

So, I don't know what it is that would

be different if Congress said, uh,

release all the files because I thought

Trump's in charge and he already said

release all the files. So, I'll need to

figure out what that would add to the

process if Congress got involved. So, I

guess you have to get a bunch of

signatures to force a house vote. And um

Massie is about halfway there.

Well, Washington Mayor Bowser um she

issued an executive order telling her

law enforcement people to work with the

feds indefinitely.

So, once again, there's more support, if

you will, for what Trump is doing by

surging forces into Washington DC. And

some people are wondering, is this

really what Bowser thinks is the right

thing to do to cooperate with Trump or

is it strictly for political reasons? To

which I say, uh, I don't know. Maybe

it's just smart.

Maybe it's political reasons matched

with the fact that it works and she

wants to be a mayor who gets some stuff

done. Maybe it's that. So, good for her.

Um,

Greece is apparently getting really

hardlined on all the immigrants coming

in. Apparently, they have some massive

immigration coming in from North Africa

and a lot of them claim uh uh what is

it? Uh asylum.

But apparently if you claim asylum and

then it is eventually rejected, you can

get up to two years in jail.

So that's pretty hardcore.

Um, and Reuters is reporting on that.

And I guess Athens feels that they would

lose their national

identity if they let in too many

immigrants. It makes me wonder if the

future will be entirely determined by

who prevents people from getting in the

country. And I wonder if anybody's

noticed that nobody's trying to get into

China or Russia or North Korea. Like

nobody's trying to get into those

countries and everybody's trying to get

into the other countries. And I do

wonder

um as others have if there

how much of this is organic.

Now I know it's highly organized through

NOS's and stuff at least in our country

and I think in Europe. Um, but it makes

me wonder if the real power behind the

power is our adversaries because one

great way to destroy a democracy

would would be to prey on their empathy

and the fact that they don't have a

strong leader who can close their border

if the country is divided on the

question. So, it would be a genius way

to destroy all of your uh competing

countries if you were China, let's say.

Now, I don't I don't accuse them of it,

but there's something about everything

that's going on that doesn't look

organic and it doesn't look like it's

just a bunch of people who got together

because they felt the same about

immigration and thought there should be

more of it. It doesn't feel like

anything except intentionally

destructive,

but I could be wrong.

Well, as you know, Trump has sent uh

quite a few uh Navy assets down to be

around the Venezuelan coast because the

um the head of Venezuela has been

declared a cartel head and a terrorist.

And so some of the terrorist entities

um are going to be targeted directly by

the US military. And in case they

wondered what that included, the

military just blew up um a narot

terrorist boat full of drugs. And it

didn't look like they tried too hard to

stop him and get him to surrender. It

looks like they just said narco boat aim

missiles and goodbye.

Now, uh, of course it's well publicized.

You know, they made sure that there were

videos of it. If you were if you were a

smuggler and your job was to go through

the American Navy after you just saw a

video of one shot, they didn't take

multiple shots.

One shot, one missile, I assume. Boom.

The entire thing is gone. They're all

dead immediately. It would be really

hard for me to take that job. All right,

Scott. Uh, we're going to pay you really

well. Take your boat. All you have to do

is take your unarmed boat and get

through the military blockade of the

strongest military power in the history

of the universe. as far as we know,

except for the younger trias.

All right,

so that sent a message. Some people are

wondering if it's a prelude to invasion

of Venezuela, and people are

preemptively saying, "Oh, Trump better

not start a war with Venezuela." to

which I say um I suppose anything's

possible.

So wouldn't rule it out, but I think

it's far more likely since the leader

has been declared uh the head of a

cartel.

I don't think there would be an

invasion, but there might be an Israeli

kind of decapitation strike. So, I

wouldn't be surprised if those warships

off the coast lob a missile into the

presidential palace, you know, if they

if they know they've got a clean shot.

So, that might happen. And then I don't

know who would take over if that

happened. Um, but if I had to guess,

it won't be I don't think it'll be boots

on the ground marine invasion. Could be.

I mean, anything is possible, but that

seems like a long shot to me.

Um,

that story is boring. That was boring.

So, this uh fascinates me. So Trump is

pushing hard to get science and the

pharma companies to to know for sure if

the uh the warp speed process of

developing the what was called the

vaccination but turned out just to be a

shot um for COVID. He wants to know if

that was a good thing or a bad thing.

And I love the fact that he takes full

responsibility for being the one who

pushed it into existence. And he would

like to be able to claim that it was a

wonderful thing, but so many of his uh

base are, you know, dead set against the

idea that that was ever a good idea and

that it was they think it was his

biggest downside

uh for Trump. So, I like the fact that

he's not just trying to lie to us and

say something like, "Oh, no. Trust me,

it was the best thing that ever happened

to the country." He's saying out loud

that he doesn't know,

which is very brave, actually. And he's

saying that he wants to know and that

he's putting pressure on Fizer and

others. He says that he's seen documents

by the pharma that would suggest it was,

you know, a wonderful idea for the shot,

but that it's not public,

which automatically makes me think that

whatever they showed him is not credible

because if they released it, maybe other

people would look a little more deeply

into the data and say, "Wait a minute,

this doesn't look credible to me." So

yeah, I would like to know if the pharma

entities are playing the president and

the rest of the country. And I don't

know how we'll ever know. I guess I'd be

skeptical that we could ever get to the

bottom of it because there's just so

much money involved in maybe, you know,

hiding any anything that would be bad

news.

But I love Trump's approach to it. is,

you know, I even if it turned out that,

well, I won't speculate.

Um, so as you know, the Kennedy Maha

movement was supposed to produce a

report about what caused autism. They

did rep produce a report, but it was

sort of general and not something you

could act on very well. I mean, it was

just sort of obvious things like it's

the food, it's the environment,

you know, um maybe too much

medicalization, but they're not sure.

So, it didn't really come to a

conclusion you could act on. But turns

out that there's a $50 million budget

for uh any number of people that they

decide uh maybe 25 grant winners to uh

study it and to really really drill down

uh and find out what's causing autism.

Now my question is this because also in

this story it says that they're going to

be looking at existing databases.

Why would it cost $50 million and take

an estimated according to the story um

this is Reuters um two to three years

$50 million 25 grants two to three years

for existing data?

How can both of those things be true? If

if Trump signed an executive order that

said if if the uh if Kennedy requests

your data, you have to give it to him or

or you'll go to jail because it's an

emergency. You know, autism rates are so

high it's an emergency. So if we want

your data, you you're not going to be

able to say it's, you know, that it's

private or anything. We want your data.

So, how well how would that take two to

three years to analyze existing data if

you solve the problem of making them

give it to you?

What am I missing here? I I feel as

though if you've got 25 grants

um and $50 million that you've already

added two variables that would make any

project fail.

Am I right? If it let's say it wasn't

about this topic. Let's say it had

nothing to do with autism. It was just a

project and I told you there will be 25

grant winners trying to figure out from

existing data what the problem is. Would

you imagine that that would work

there? There's something wrong with you

know from even 30,000 ft in the air. I

mean which is all we know about it. We

don't know the details. But even from

there, this doesn't look like a process

that will bear fruit. There's something

wrong here. Here's what I would find

credible. Uh we've asked Elon Musk

uh to get his Doge geniuses to spend one

month looking at all the data and we got

an EO signed where everybody has to give

it to us and we'll go to do it in one

month and it's the smartest data people

in the world will be looking at it so we

won't miss anything. Now I would believe

that. To me that sounds like a process

that could work. But you tell me there's

25 grants in two to three years and $50

million.

No way that works.

That's designed for failure if you ask

me. They they'll just keep kicking the

can down the road and say, "Oh, is it uh

has it been three years yet?" You know,

if you gave me another $5 million, I'm

so close so close to having an answer,

but just five million more. Give me that

grant money.

Anyway, I hope we'll find out.

But just to make things complicated,

according to New Atlas, Brunwin Thompson

is writing that nine and 10 autistic

adults over the age of 40 are

undiagnosed.

To which I say, how would we know that?

All right, but let's say we do.

Um, one of the things that people

speculate about the zooming uh increase

in autism is that the only thing that's

improved is our ability to catch it

early. Do you think that's any part of

the answer? I feel like it's not the

answer. Um, but is it a big part?

Because if we know that nine out of 10

older people were undiagnosed,

doesn't that mean that if they had been

young when we were good at diagnosing

it, the number of autistic people would

have been much higher than we imagined

it was and therefore the rate increase

from then till now would be much smaller

than what we are alarmingly looking at.

I don't know. It feels like it's part of

the answer, but I don't know if it's 10%

or more than that.

Well, Russia is attacking uh Ukraine's

energy facilities a little more

aggressively and also their

transportation hubs and and and Ukraine

is doing the same thing to Russia. So,

they're going after energy,

infrastructure, and transportation in

some ways. And it makes me wonder if um

that's signaling anything

that the real war since the the war is

about sending electrically charged

things into the air to go kill your

people if they kill the electricity

production in the other country

then they can't even charge their

drones. I mean I I wonder if it could go

that deep. Do you think they could ever

destroy enough infrastructure

that even if you had a million drones,

you just couldn't charge them? You're

sitting there in the dark, maybe. So, I'

I'd watch this uh energy attacks

strategy that they both seem to have.

All right. I saw a story in the South

China Morning Post, Richard Havis, that

uh it asks a question, can you train

your mind to be happy? And it says, yes,

expert says, um, would you like to know

how? Would you like me to train you with

my hypnosis experience and my reframing

experience into into how to be happier?

Somebody says, "No." All right. Well, I

won't hypnotize you. I'll just tell you

how to do it. All right. Number one, um,

whatever you think about the most is who

you are. And you can change what you

think about the most. It's easy. Watch.

Think about your favorite animal. Could

you do it? Of course you could.

You all had a different favorite animal,

but when I said think about your

favorite animal, you could do it. So

that was when your brain was focusing on

a a cool thing that you liked, your

favorite animal. Probably made you a

little bit happy. I mean, just a little

bit. But during that time, you were

thinking about your favorite animal. You

weren't thinking about some bad thing

that could potentially put you in a bad

mood or uh you affect your energy or

make you anxious or anything. So, I just

proved to you that if you just remember

as a habit to change your thinking from

whatever negative stuff to positive

stuff, and it's really that easy. Just

think about stuff you like. Everybody

likes something. Think about a person

you like, experience you had, um a walk

on the beach, if that's your thing. Just

think about it. and reduce the shelf

time that you give to the bad thoughts

because how much you think about

something is what creates the structure

in your brain that becomes

semi-permanent. You can usually change

it but some it becomes a little

semi-permanent.

So the more you think about positive

things, the happier you're going to be.

I would also say that although the

science says that your happiness is not

that affected by your environment,

um that's not true.

Your happiness is totally affected by

your environment. If your environment is

a loving family, you don't think you'd

be a little bit happier than if you were

sitting all alone in your little

apartment like some of you are.

I I think it's absurd to imagine that

changing your situation won't make you

happier. You don't think that going from

poor where you're you're panicked about

eating

uh to well off. You don't think that

that would make you happier because you

didn't have to worry about starving?

Of course it would. I guarantee it would

make you happier.

So yeah, fix fix your physical um

exposure, meaning go outside, you know,

make sure that you're around some beauty

and that you're not looking at

depressing gray things. Um I would even

change my commute

if it took a few minutes to go through a

more attractive place. If you're going

to look at it every day, it's better to

expose yourself to the attractive route

than the, you know, fast industrial

route.

The other thing is, um, I don't know if

you've ever experienced this, but unless

you've got pretty serious mental

problems, I'll bet you're happy whenever

your body feels good. Am I right?

You know, if you're a certain age, you

always got some aches and pains and

you're too tired and whatever. But every

now and then, you'll have this

experience where you got enough sleep

and you don't have any special pain and

you're just sitting in a chair feeling

good. Do you think that makes you happy?

Totally.

Totally. So, what you do with your body

to make you feel good more often will

absolutely affect your happiness. It

will absolutely affect your uh anxiety.

It will help all of that. And we know

how to do that. You eat right, which you

can learn. You exercise right, which you

can learn. You know, I always advise

people to do it. Take it slow and just

make it a continuous learning process.

You know, continuously learning what to

eat, continuously learning what

exercises work best for your particular

body. So, it's more of a learning

continuous learning thing. That's a good

frame to put in. Anyway, um if you can

make your body happy because you

exercise and it just feels good, it'll

make your brain happier. If you can look

in the mirror because you exercise and

ate right, and you say to yourself,

"Huh, I look pretty darn good for my

age, whatever your age is." Um, yes,

absolutely do that. It'll make you feel

better.

So, and then I'm going to leave you with

one um positive story here that I find

very impressive. Uh there's a gentleman

that I follow on social media named King

Randall. Now, his first name is King.

Don't judge him by that, but he is a uh

younish I don't know I don't know how

young, but he's a younger man. And uh he

runs a program where he teaches kids

um how to do practical things that

especially if you're in a economically

disadvantaged place, you wouldn't know

how to do and maybe you don't have a

father. So he's black. Um almost all or

maybe all of the kids that he trains um

I think are black. But here's what I

love about him. Um, he teaches reframes.

I don't know if he thinks of it that

way, but here's one uh that he talked

about on social media. Part of what he

teaches the kids is manners and

etiquette.

So, there's a little video of uh some

young black kids learning, you know, how

to have a nice meal and, you know,

handle the etiquette of that. And I

guess he got some push back from people

saying that he was training them to act

white or something.

And his response was that manners are

not about acting white. Manners are

power.

Manners are power.

That's why you do it.

Now I have I have taught a few young

people in in my circle exactly that

lesson. That's exactly what I tell

people. If if you suggest I'm thinking

of my ex stepson he was departed but

when he was around if he wasn't doing

things that good etiquette or manners

suggested the way I would explain it to

him I would say hold on you don't do

manners because of how it makes you feel

you don't do it because somebody told

you to do it you know and I go through

all the reasons that that's not why you

do it the reason you do It is power.

Everybody wants to spend time with

polite people. We want to hire them. We

want to work with them. We want them to

be our friends. We want to marry them.

We want them to marry our family. It's

power.

And so when I see uh King Randall um do

that reframe on his kids, if he's

telling them that's how they succeed in

life, he is not focusing on race

whatsoever. In fact, I don't know if

I've even heard him mention it. I he

doesn't he doesn't really mention race.

I'm sure he does sometimes, but it's not

really a focus. Here's what he focuses

on instead.

personal strategies for success

because manners are a personal strategy

for success. It's not about your race.

It would be exactly the same strategy

for everybody.

It just happens to be that you he's

working with a particular demographic,

but it would be the same for everybody.

I would love that to be universal. So

then if if this were not was awesome

enough, he also teaches them things like

how to change a tire, uh how to how to

change the oil in a car, and it's a long

list of things, you know, that he

teaches them. And oh my god, it's a it's

a strategy for life. Instead, I used to

go to Boy Scouts or Cub Scouts, I guess.

Cub Scouts. and Cub Scouts, they say to

earn this badge, uh, learn how to carve

a leather um, coffee coaster or

something. Completely useless skills

just to get a badge.

That's not a strategy for life. It was

just a waste of time really. But if

you're learning real things that you

will need to do in your real life,

that's a strategy. And uh so he's

teaching these kids strategy for

success. But then just to make it w even

wilder how smart he is, King Randall. He

started organizing him a very early

morning run um in his city. And he got

like a I don't know 100 people to show

up or 50 to show up the first time. And

then they all had a good time because

they were outdoors and they did a thing

where they were were with other people

who were like-minded and were looking

to, you know, get some exercise and they

just all had a good time. They told

their friends and pretty soon there were

a hundred people. So 100 people would

meet just to go for this mass run really

early in the morning.

He just topped out at 300 people.

Maybe because it was a holiday or

something. He just got 300 people to not

just once, but it looks like they want

to be part of this regular running

group.

300 people. And uh it also turned

diverse. You know, I saw the earlier

photos. It looked like it was almost

100% black. Now it looks like maybe it's

closer to 20% diverse.

Again, perfect because it has nothing to

do with race. It's a strategy for

success. If you can get off your ass and

get off in the morning, you'll meet some

people. You'll feel like you

accomplished something. You'll be

healthier. The healthier will allow you

to do everything better. Find a mate,

get a job, everything. So, um, keep an

eye on King Randall

because his ability to pick out what

matters, the strategy of life, and then

to get people to buy into it is pretty

remarkable. So, keep an eye on him.

Follow him on X if you can. All right,

that is all I have for you. I want to

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are my beloved followers.

I guess I'll call him community, beloved

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