Episode 2984 CWSA 10/10/25

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Well, apparently I owe you some of you an apology.

Oh, maybe two.

Two apologies.

Uh, one was that I had a misdated Dilbert comic for those of you who subscribe.

So, I fixed that.

So, go look at the comic from yesterday and it will be the it'll be the correct one.

Number two, apparently when I uh posted my last uh post for the evening on X, I said I was signing off.

What I meant was going to bed.

But apparently, given the context of my situation, when people people saw me say I was signing off, it it looked like it was a little more extreme than going to bed, if you know what I mean.

No, I was just I I won't be clever about it.

I I promise you here here's my promise.

If it ever comes to the point where I'm doing a final message, you will know it's the final message, right?

There won't be any ambiguity.

So, I promise I won't be cute.

All right?

So, if you thought, "Oh, he's being subtle or cute or something." I would never do that.

No.

If if I'm checking out from the big picture, if you know what I mean, if I decide to check out and I decide to post about it, there won't be any doubt.

Got it.

All right.

So, just so you don't have to worry next time.

But I do have a path to potentially getting better.

We'll see if it works out.

All right.

Um, today I believe we'll be released the podcast of Zubie and uh me talking on Zubie's podcast.

So just I don't know just do a Google search for Zubie's podcast.

It'll pop up somewhere.

Um, one of the things I love about Zubie is he's got this great approach to life where he just sort of figures out what would be the smartest thing to do just in life.

What would be the smartest thing to do?

And then he does that thing.

And it's it's it's fun to watch because he just makes one good common sense smart decision after another and then he implements it and then it works and then he's better off.

So he's living in uh he's living in like the best place in the world because he can, you know, um where is it?

Uh one of those uh Middle East countries that everybody wants to be in.

and uh he's got this business model where he can travel the world.

He likes traveling and he does his podcasts.

He lines them up so that when he travels the the travel and the podcasting and he can bring his, you know, he can bring his family, bring his baby, bring his wife.

So, he's got a portable job that he can schedule anytime he wants.

He can do it in a bunch and then go back and live his life.

Uh it's a pretty good model and his talent stack is amazing.

It's everything from fitness to uh music uh because he raps.

He's got one of the best podcasts, one of the best personalities, one of the best um online personas.

Just so many talents to put it in one person.

So he he's a good interview.

I love Zubie.

All right.

Um, would you believe according to Daily Coffee News, which is completely unbiased, that uh there was yet another sweeping review of existing coffee related scientific studies?

And guess what?

It's still good for you in a variety of different health ways.

It adds more than it subtracts.

Now, how many times have I told you about somebody who did the least scientific thing you could ever do, which is just look at the other scientific studies, which everybody's already looked at a million times.

Is there somebody who didn't know that if you looked at all the coffee health studies that the net would be that yeah, coffee is good for you?

Is there there was still somebody who didn't know that in the world?

Well, at least my audience knows it.

Yes, that is the lamest research you could ever do.

Nobody should ever give you money for that.

Next time, you know, who' ask?

Just ask Scott.

Well, here's another one.

Uh, let's see if I could have done a better job than science on this one.

uh Northeastern University according to Cody Melo Klein did a little study and they found out that uh 78.6% of people they surveyed agree with at least one conspiratorial idea.

So, did they have to do that study to find out that uh almost 79% of people believe at least one conspiracy theory?

Um, well, if they had asked me, they would have gotten a better answer because the answer is not 79%.

Does anybody know what the answer is of what percentage of people believe in conspiracy theories?

It's a hundred.

It's a hundred.

You don't have to study it.

It's a 100.

Do you know why the researchers didn't get the answer 100?

Because researchers don't know what's true.

They only have an opinion of what is a conspiracy.

You know, some of them they might have, you know, a good enough debunk that they know for sure.

But there's no such thing as a researcher like a living human being who knows what all the conspiracies are and which ones are not conspiracies.

That's not a thing.

That's not a thing at all.

It 100% of people of every type in every place believe conspiracy theories.

Just the fact that you don't know which ones they believe has nothing to do with whether they do or do not.

They do.

Every single person.

No exceptions.

So, next time ask Scott.

Well, I saw I saw reference to a story that I didn't actually read details of, but I think I know enough about it.

Is it true that RFK Jr.

has found that there are several existing studies that correlate use of Tylenol during circumcision for kids that get their circumcision extra early?

I think it doesn't apply if maybe you waited a few years or something.

I don't know how long you're supposed to wait, but the since Tylenol is already implicated for autism, um, if it's in the the mother's body, in other words, if the pregnant woman takes Tylenol, there's some thought that increases the chances of, uh, of, uh, autism.

But um wouldn't you imagine that it's fairly routine and has been for a while for uh Tylenol to be given to babies uh to handle the circumcision pain?

Is it possible given that I I believe I saw that there were four separate studies that clearly indicated that Tylenol use during circumcision was correlated with autistic symptoms.

And I don't think this is necessarily the kind of thing where there'd be some other confusing cause.

They probably got a pretty clean data set into that.

So here's the thing.

As as monumental and historic as this week has been already and we'll talk about all that stuff.

Is it possible that RFK Jr.

just solved the autism mystery.

Did that actually happen?

It It's a little too early to know, but there is a nonzero chance and I would say pretty darn good because Tylenol has now been spotted in two completely different domains and with the same outcome.

That's pretty convincing right now.

Remember, half of all the scientific studies that ever get published, even the peerreview ones, turn out to be not reproducible.

But this is four different studies just on circumcision on top of multiple studies about pregnant women.

That's getting a little bit hard to ignore, isn't it?

A little bit hard to ignore.

So, it could be that in a week of uh fantastical successes that we had one of the biggest ones we've ever had.

If this is true and you know, we can get to that next level of confirmation that Tylenol was the uh the bad boy behind autism.

Just think about that.

Did Did RFK Jr.

just almost cure autism in a way that would not have happened if he had not been in that role and pushed exactly the way he pushed and even had the the VP running mate choice he did Nicole Shanahan because you know she's she's the big force behind all the autism stuff I believe and I I I wouldn't even know what to say I mean I if this is true that RFK G Jr.

actually within one year really on the timeline that he said he would.

If he actually pulled this off, this is this is going to make a piece of the Middle East uh look like it was easy.

No, I'm exaggerating.

Peace of the Middle East is still pretty amazing.

But he would probably uh the impact, my god, the size of the impact if he actually got a handle on this.

I don't know.

I I've never been I don't think I've ever been more proud of an American government.

You know, it's just not something I do.

Not really proud of governments, but damn, if he pulled this off on top of what's already happened this week, damn.

I know.

I I'd like to think maybe they did.

Elon Musk says that Grock will soon be able to detect AI generated deep fakes.

How awesome is that?

One of the things we worry about the most is that we won't be able to tell what's real and what's not.

But fortunately, there's this guy Elon Musk who really likes maximum truth seeking AIs.

So, if he's figured out a way that AI can uh detect deep fakes, that would be amazing.

Again, if that was the biggest thing that happened this week, that'd be a big thing.

I mean, I don't know if it works or if it'll work on every case, but if Elon says we'll be able to detect AI deep fakes with Grock, wouldn't that be amazing?

That would be amazing.

All right.

Trump's making some kind of announcement today at 5:00 p.

p.m.

Eastern time from the Oval Office.

I'm going to guess that it's just sort of bragging about the success with Gaza, giving us some details.

You know, the country probably wants that, needs it.

So, that would be my guess what that's about.

But I like to uh speculate that maybe he's going to announce that that uh big comet 31 Atlas that's going to come close to the close to our solar system, we're in it, I think.

Um that it might be an alien spacecraft.

Wouldn't that be fun with with all the news that's happening today?

Imagine if Trump got up there and said, "Oh, uh, you know, we we think we have peace in the Middle East and we think we've solved uh autism." And, you know, he just goes down the line and then then he does a Steve Jobs.

You know how Steve Jobs used to do it.

You would think he was done with the the roll out and then it's like he's walking away and goes, "Oh, one more thing." And then the one more thing is the big announcement.

So, wouldn't it be fun if he went through all the good news happened this week?

He goes, "Oh, one more thing.

That uh that comet, it's an alien spacecraft and we've been in touch with it for a year.

I'm not going to predict that, but wouldn't that be fun?" All right, let's talk about Trump's uh success so far.

I mean, it's looking good.

And uh a little behind the curtain stuff about how we got it done.

Okay.

Um remember I I told you early on that Trump was playing a brilliant game by taking the yes but no response from both Hamas and Israel, which are really no, right?

If you say yes, I agree with this as long as you know I get these other things which are impossible and nobody's ever going to give me and then Israel says yes, I agree as long as we get these things that we're never going to get because the other side said there's no way you'll ever get that.

So when I read it, I read it as a no.

that both sides said yes so they would look reasonable but in the detail they said no because they were very much not agreeing to the details of the of the deal they were just agreeing to the uh uh letting the hostages go.

So the story goes and this is from the uh foreign Israel's foreign minister, right?

I I predicted this.

I alone predicted this and the only person in the world I think who predicted what I'm going to tell you next.

But the Israel foreign minister confirmed it.

So Trump decided to take the no which was in the form of a yes but really no and he decided that he was going to force the people to treat it like a yes.

In other words, he wasn't negotiating, he was changing reality right in front of you.

Because if you could change the reality to you said yes instead of the actual reality which was you know the starting point which is I said yes but no which is really no.

And I guess when he allegedly when he called Netanyahu and Netanyahu was all negative like I don't know you're happy about this doesn't move the ball forward and uh allegedly Trump just chewed him out.

Why are you so negative?

But take it as a yes.

Now, how many people, presidents or non-presidents, would have been smart enough to know to treat that as a yes?

Because once he treated as yes, he could bully people into a yes.

But if he treated it as a no, people would just dig in.

But if he says, "You just said yes." I say yes.

You say yes.

The other side just says yes.

We're working on a yes, people.

We're working on a yes.

Then you've changed reality itself.

You've changed how they see the possibilities.

Nobody else could do that.

Nobody else can do that.

He's the only one.

And I I'm I feel good about the fact that even his critics, you know, his biggest TV news critics, they also say Biden couldn't do that.

They also say that Trump's bullying, and here's the payoff, authoritarian strongman personality might have been just exactly what they needed for the situation.

Has anybody ever said that before?

That maybe this whole authoritarian strongman thing is a lot better than you thought it was.

Could it be, and here's the fun part, could it be that the consistent Democrat messaging that Trump is strong, unpredictable, authoritarian, uh, dictator-like?

Is it possible that that made it more likely he would get a deal because that because Hamas would look at the same stuff and say, "Oh my god, this guy's, you know, nothing can stop him.

He's he's a power- hungry guy.

I feel like the more they talked him up as a powerful leader, the closer he got to being able to bully both sides into a deal, maybe.

Um, so here's the part I predicted.

I predicted that the only way he could make this work is not through negotiating, but changing reality.

And that he's the only person who could do it.

And then he did it.

He did it right in front of us.

You change reality instead of negotiating.

There was also negotiating, but the changing of reality is the the breakout part.

The part the part that brings him from, oh, he's a good dealmaker.

That's not what you're seeing.

You're seeing a legend.

You're you're seeing a once ever personality.

You don't see this again.

You'll never see this again.

So, enjoy it while you got it.

All right.

Um, here here are some of the things I mentioned before.

His credibility up to this point allowed him to do things other people couldn't do because he's done things that other people can't do.

Boy, if you want to be in position of to do something that other people can't do, do something that other people can't do in some other domain until people start thinking, "Oh, I get it.

This is a person who can do things that people can't do.

Elon Musk being the best example of that, right?

Um, so here are some of the things that Trump has done just to be in a position for people to say, "Oh, I think he does impossible things." He won a second term after being lawfared and impeached twice.

He was actually convicted of felonies, booked, headshot, impeached twice.

What do we call that?

What do you call it when you you lose your second term first the first time you got lawfared into literally felony convictions and you got impeached twice.

You know what the name for that is?

Mr.

President.

Yeah, that's what we call that.

We call that Mr.

President.

47 if you like.

So that seemed impossible.

He survived two assassination attempts and one of them didn't even keep him on the ground.

He's jumping up and telling us to fight.

That was amazing.

And also a sign that, you know, God's protecting him.

I'm not even a believer.

And even I think it looked like God protected him.

Um he he's now had enough time that he appears to be completely right about tariffs, using them as a tool sometimes, using them as a way to raise money sometimes.

Maybe he'll use some of that money for um stop gap healthc care stuff.

We'll see.

But he clearly was right about tariffs and that looked impossible, didn't it?

All all the smart people were saying, "Oh, no.

this will never work.

And then it just kept working.

He kept making deals.

And he was he closed the border in no time.

The thing that at least Democrats thought was impossible.

Um and people watching from other countries.

Imagine if you're a European and you're watching your own countries being, you know, continually overrun now and no control.

But you watched Trump come into office and immediately closed the border successfully.

You don't think they're a little bit jealous that he did what looked like maybe it was impossible?

Nope.

Closed it down tighter than a Nat's ass in the winter.

Uh he got the the original Abraham deal done.

Remember that Jared Kushner got the original Abraham deal done.

Did anybody think that was possible during his first term?

No, not at all.

Um, he got se several other peace deals done.

We'll talk about his list of successes.

And he managed to be the commander-in-chief who dropped u several gigantic bombs down ventilator shafts in Iran and essentially brought Iran to his knees.

Now, if you if you've got all of that working in your favor and you make a phone call to somebody, they're going to take the call because they think, "Oh man, this guy's got some kind of magic." Like, he's just doing all these things that on paper they didn't look doable at all.

Even Even people who supported him would have said, "Well, I don't think so, but you know, try.

I I like it that you try, but looks out of reach." and then he does it.

It's quite amazing.

So anyway, he Trump became the only person who could legitimately bully Netanyahu.

Would you agree?

Nobody else could legitimately bully Netanyahu at the same time he was bullying uh Qatar.

We'll talk about that.

uh at the same time he was getting all of the uh leaders in the region to line up behind his vision.

You tell me somebody else could have done that?

I don't know who.

I don't know who.

Um, there's one theory that the the breakout came because when Netanyahu decided to bomb the uh, which was kind of a baller play when he decided to bomb and kill all the negotiators, the Hamas negotiators who had gathered in and Qatar, it not only showed Qatar that Qatar is not the boss of us, uh, well, not the boss of Israel anyway, and that uh there would no longer be a safe haven for Hamas.

If you were Hamas leadership, you probably thought to yourself, well, worst case scenario, I can, you know, live in Qatar safely and rebuild what I had.

And and uh taking out the negotiators sent a very strong message.

We're not negotiating anymore.

We don't need these negotiators.

So, we'll get rid of them.

And at the same time, we'll prove that uh Qatar is not a safe space for anybody.

And so, of course, Qatar was super mad and there's some weird relationship with Qatar where sometimes there are good friends and they they I think we have bass there, but sometimes they might be helping all the worst people in the world work against us.

So, Qar is sometimes a good good guy, sometimes a bad guy, and it's like extreme in both cases.

It's like extremely bad but sometimes extremely good and their money is clanking around and so Qar had a little issue but also Qar had power over the United States because we would sort of have to keep them happy in order for them to do what we needed to do.

But but apparently Qatar got so freaked by Israel bombing it that when they said they needed uh military protection.

So what does Trump do?

He offers to protect them militarily from our own ally Israel.

Now did you see that coming?

Would you have made that play?

Would you have even known to offer?

How about we'll be your military protector, but you're our from now on.

Now, he didn't have to say the part to Qatar that says, "We will protect you militarily.

I I can influence Netanyahu.

We've seen it.

But, um, you're going to have to be our bitch." So, it could be that what we're getting out of this, the stuff we don't know was communicated with guitar and whatever they're going to do.

It could be that that's one of the biggest benefits we get from it is that Qatar decides to be smarter and a little bit more our friend than something else.

All right.

Oh, you're such a There's some people in the comments who are just Oh, you.

I hate you so much right now.

All right, I won't even get into it.

Anyway, um the other thing that I thought was super interesting, uh besides the fact that Trump became good cop to Netanyahu's bad cop.

Um, and that worked.

I I like the fact that Jared was sent at the end as a closer.

And I'll give you I'll give you a little behind the curtain uh fund for that.

You might remember that in 2018 I got invited to the White House to you know just meet Trump and he was I think he was just consolidating support with his supporters and I was just one of those people.

And uh Ivanka told me that the reason I was on their radar, she she introduced me to the president, took me around, showed me to the Oval Office.

um is that she had read my book Win Bigley which taught uh Trump's persuasion techniques and she told me and I couldn't even believe this.

She said that when she read the book Win Bigley uh that I wrote, it was the first time she understood her father, meaning that she didn't understand him as a persuader the way I described him.

And that once she did, like a lot of things clicked into place for her.

Um, you would not believe who I just got a text from.

I can't tell you though.

Uh, So anyway, so she read it and then uh apparently Jared also read it.

So Jared read my book here.

It's this book.

The uh the new version is out if you want to get the audio.

I didn't do the audio book.

It's a audio artist.

But when Biggley, it's a version two.

Uh this is the only one you want to buy.

It's only on Amazon.

It's nowhere else.

And uh so prior to negotiating the Abraham Accords, um Jared read my book about how to be a negotiator and persuader like Trump.

And then armed with th those skills in his talent stack, he went out and did the impossible, the Abraham course.

Now, of course, there's lots more I don't know about that.

The only thing I know for sure is that Jared is super smart and he's adding talents.

Now, it doesn't mean that he couldn't have done it without reading the book, but he did consciously read a book about how to negotiate like his boss, his father-in-law.

And uh I've heard lots of other stories from people who read the book and got promotions, doubled their pay, just did all kinds of amazing things.

So then then this situation comes along.

You know, Jared is no longer actively in the administration, but he was asked to to be brought in toward the end here as kind of a closer.

Now, we don't know what he really did.

It could be that Wickoff and Trump and everybody else had already got the deal pretty well done.

But even if his direct role was not consequential, although I think it probably was, my my guess is that he had um personal contacts in the area that were super important.

So he probably just called in some personal contacts.

Um so I I do believe he probably made a big difference.

But even if he didn't, do you see how genius it is for Trump to send him in?

Because Jared is uh like a he's like a signal that something impossible is going to happen.

As soon as Jared enters the room, you say he's done one impossible thing so far, the the Abraham Accords, just seeing him, just seeing him and knowing he's part of it would make everybody in the region go, "Oh, this thing's actually going to happen.

So again, this is this is Trump managing reality, not negotiating because introducing Jared into the the larger picture changes how you feel about the reality.

And then suddenly the negotiating part becomes the trivial part because you've just reframed the entire reality by introducing the, you know, magical dealmaking Abraham Accord guy.

That's amazing.

like yeah, I don't think that history will ever quite record the the total number of small genius things that were done to make this to get to this point.

That was one of them.

Sending Jared.

Anyway, um another news, Leticia James has been indicted, as you know, for mortgage fraud.

I like the I like the fact that the name of the alleged crime sounds pretty bad.

More banking fraud or mortgage fraud.

Anyway, I don't think she'll be convicted.

I think I think they've probably got some clever uh some clever kind of defense.

Uh, one of the defenses as somebody suggested that sounded pretty good to me is that maybe if you get a loan and you say this is my intention when I get the loan, but then something comes up.

Let's say you intended to rent it or you intended to use the second house as your second house, vacation house, but then let's say something came up.

Let's say a family member got evicted and needed a place to stay.

So he said, "All right.

Well, I wasn't intending to do that when I got the loan, but you know, you're my cousin, so I'll rent it to you." Now, I'm not saying that's what happened.

What I'm saying is, how do you handle the fact if somebody gets a loan and then they change their mind, maybe temporarily, not even permanently, and say, "All right, it was going to be my second home, but why don't you rent it for a year until you get back in your feet?" So, if she's got a story like that, um, even if she technically broke the law, even if she should have notified the bank, it's going to make the crime look so small that, you know, maybe that maybe the jury will just say, "Ah, get out of here." Who knows?

So, I'm guessing that uh she will not go to jail over any of it or won't be convicted anyway, but it will be a punishment.

And you know, I'm hearing people on TV say, "But but but it's looking like it's just revenge." No, it's not looking like it's revenge.

It's revenge.

Am I in favor of the government using its power for revenge?

Yes.

Yes, because it's revenge against the lawfarer.

If if he was doing it against somebody who just was a critic, then I would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, authoritarian.

No, you don't go after somebody who just disagrees with you.

You don't send the Department of Justice against somebody who said, you know, said a bad word about you.

No way.

But if you're going after the people who created hoaxes to try to remove you from government, call me.

If you're taking out somebody who said, "I'm going to take this person down.

I don't even know what the crime is yet." Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

You You have to revenge the hell out of that.

And I feel safer when that happens.

I feel safer that the January 6 people got um their their sentences commuted or whatever the right word is.

That makes me feel safer because I I don't want to be locked up for and rot in jail.

But at least, you know, at least they didn't stay there forever.

And when I see uh Trump just publicly and unapologetically going after people who were lawfare creeps, then I say, "Oh, yeah, absolutely.

You you can you can revenge the hell out of that because I will feel safer if I know that anybody who goes after a a Republican with a lawfare agenda that somebody's going to take him out.

Take him out with lawfare, not not violence, of course.

So yeah, I feel better.

Makes me feel safer.

Makes me feel better as an American.

makes me feel that like something like justice is happening.

Even if even if there's no, you know, jail time, just the the annoyance of it and having it on your record would be bad enough.

Well, the Nobel Prize winner was selected really at the beginning of the week, so Trump didn't have a chance.

And I guess it's the opposition leader, uh, a woman who was known as Venezuela's iron lady.

And some would say that she's she's the the real legitimate leader of Venezuela and not Maduro.

And I guess she's been in hiding for a while, which makes sense.

Yeah, you you'd want to be in hiding.

Um, and the nominations, I think the nominations were in January or something.

Now, some people said, "Scott, don't you know that Trump wasn't nominated in January, so there was no way that he could have been selected?" Well, he probably was nominated.

He probably was.

You don't know who was nominated.

That that's not public information, but uh he probably was nominated.

Trump probably was from some of his other work.

Uh, but it it would have taken the Gaza thing to put him over the line and that was just too late.

So, uh, what I think what I think is happening is that this is an only Trump thing, too.

If you were maybe up for a Nobel Peace Prize and you didn't make it and you were not Trump, what would be the summary of that situation?

The summary would be, well, you know, I guess you didn't do enough to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

That's the end of that.

But when it's Trump, don't you think that the credibility of the Peace Prize is what took the hit, not Trump?

like the fake news.

It used to be if the if the fake news said something about Trump, you would say, "Oh, that's bad.

That's bad for Trump.

That's that's really bad." But once you realize that the fake news is fake news, then you blame the fake news when they blame Trump.

That's happening here, too.

That even though there's I would argue that there's, you know, good reason because of the timing of things why he wasn't eligible for this one.

But it'll be harder for them to to deny him next year.

It'll be hard to deny if things work out.

You know, we'll know by then if things are working out.

But I think he's destroying the credibility of the prize.

He's already destroyed the credibility of the Pulitzer by showing that the Russia hoaxers were the ones getting Pulitzer prizes.

So, so to me, that just makes the Pulitzer just a garbage.

I mean, I already thought it was a garbage prize, but I mean, the rest of the world knows now it's a garbage prize.

I think when uh Obama was picked as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, you know, maybe that that was a big hit for their credibility.

But by not choosing Trump, even though they've got a good reason because of timing, people aren't going to take it that way.

people are going to say, you know, you could have changed it at the last minute.

I mean, it's your own organization.

You know, you make the rules.

You could just change them and say, "Well, this is extraordinary, but we had somebody picked, but we're going to change it at the last minute." They could have they could have done that, decided not to.

So, I think that destroys the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize, uh, as opposed to being bad for Trump, although he still wants it, of course.

All right, let's talk about how many wars and/or conflicts Trump has solved because he he likes to mention that.

He'll probably mention it again today from the Oval Office.

Uh he said, quote, "Nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of 9 months." So that's his claim, eight in a period of nine months.

So I went to Grock and I said, "Can you tell me how many wars andor conflicts uh Trump was instrumental in helping solve?" It came up with six, not counting Gaza.

So, uh, the typical Trump thing is to add two to whatever he's doing.

Like, if he saves you a trillion dollars, he's going to say three, right?

So, he has always adds a little.

So, I knew that the real number would not be, you know, eight.

Um, but, uh, Gro says six plus, I guess they would add Gaza.

Here are the ones.

Just so you remember, they're claiming, and by the way, these are not claims that other people would necessarily say that Trump made a difference.

These are just Trump claims that he made a difference.

The Israel Iran war, um he he definitely made a difference there.

Uh I don't know if we'll call that peace.

I guess even Iran at the moment is saying they like the Gaza deal.

Did you see that coming?

that Iran has officially said they like the Gaza peace deal.

Weird.

I was not expecting that.

Then there was the uh Republic of Congo Rwanda conflict but some say violence continues.

There was the India.

Pakistan Kashmir conflict.

Um the US tried to mediate but India you know India acts like India was more the the cause of that.

um Thailand Cambodia border uh pushed for a ceasefire and uh I I think he actually gets credit for that one.

They they actually say, "Yeah, you made it the difference." There's the Armenia Asane and Gordo Kurabak conflict that he resolved.

Um and but the stability is uncertain but that that would be true of all peace deals.

There was a Egypt Ethiopia Nile dam dispute.

Uh the claim is that he settled it to avert war, but there's no official agreement.

But it looks like they averted war, at least for now.

Serbia, Kosovo, ethnic tensions um resolve via economic normalization.

Um some some say there's more progress than there is settlement, per se, but he gives credit for that one, too.

and you add the the Gaza deal.

So, here's what I love about uh Trump claiming that he did uh he solved eight wars in nine months.

First of all, he's going to make his critics argue about whether those were wars because some of them were just conflicts.

Secondly, he's going to have people trying to score his report card to take his grade down.

But how much how down are they going to be able to take it?

Suppose somebody says, "All right, you did not you did not solve eight wars in nine months.

You you solved five conflicts in nine months." He's making them think past the sale.

The sale is, did you solve a whole bunch of conflicts around the world?

Yes or no?

If he can make you argue about which ones he solved and which ones he didn't is the number six or seven or eight, he wins.

He wins hard.

So he just has to make you think, is that the right number?

Let's talk about that.

Let's talk about all these all these examples that you never would have heard except that I'm talking about what the right number is.

Right?

If if everybody had agreed on the number and everybody said, "Yeah, it's five." He got five.

I wouldn't even look them up.

But because there's dispute, then suddenly it's interesting and fun for all of us to know what the names of those disputes are.

And then you say, "Oh, well, okay.

I can see why his critics might say that one's not.

I can see why uh his critics would say he doesn't get credit for that specific one.

But in the process of debunking any one of them, you're going to be reminded that he got several wars or conflicts ended through his involvement.

So, it's perfect persuasion.

All right.

I love I love that he does that.

All right.

Um, and Trump said that Iran wants to work on peace.

Now, they've informed us and they've acknowledged that they're totally in favor of this deal.

Do you think it's possible that this would actually lead to a lasting Iran kind of a deal?

Because I think even Russia was in favor of the of the uh Gaza deal.

So, that would be just about everybody.

All right.

Um and then P Exathth gets the win because apparently the uh the military has met its fullear um quota.

Uh let's say what it met year-long goal in the Marine Corps in two weeks.

So apparently uh people joining the military is way up and there's no way that that has anything to do with anything except leadership.

Would you agree?

It's not because the economy is so bad, although it's hard for young people to get jobs.

So, that is part of it.

Uh, but it's Hegathth and Trump.

They simply made it cool for young men.

You know, I'm sure young women are still joining, but young men, uh, they made it cool to be in the military.

And now they know that if you're in the military, uh, maybe nobody's going to call you fat.

So because you won't be because you get you don't get to stay.

So good job Pete Hagsth and Trump on getting on getting the military so respected that they just smashed through the recruitment goals.

The opposite of what was happening under Biden.

Um the press is having a weird weird week in trying to be at least a little bit honest about how happy they are that this you know peace deal might be happening.

Um, here are the things that even the Trump, let's say, I'll call them Trump uh critics, just just the people who are not pro Trump, but they do agree that Biden could not have gotten this done, which is amazing that people are saying that out loud.

You know, Federman said that if he also gets the Ukraine deal solved, I don't think that's imminent, but maybe um that that Federman himself would lead the the push to get him the Nobel Peace Prize because he would deserve it.

Um, I believe that his critics are all on the same page that no matter what you don't like about Trump, the one thing you have to admit is that he's a peacemaker and he really, really doesn't like war.

That's amazing that they do not argue that even though they would say he lies about everything, he has convinced even his most serious critics that not only is he the biggest badass if he has to go militarily, but he's also the biggest force for peace at the same time.

And that that's real, that that comes from his heart, not from some policy decision.

Even his critics say he's the strongest man of peace who's also strong.

That's amazing.

His critics.

Um they give him credit for being willing to enable to bully Netanyahu.

Um that's real.

Uh because that whole thing about Israel is the tail wagging the dog.

Well, I I think Trump kind of reinforced the the model that I've been trying to uh promote, which is it's not that that Israel runs the United States.

It's more like a sibling situation where they want things and they try to they try to influence us.

We want things so we try to influence them.

But I don't know that we've ever been as good at it as we are now with Trump.

Pro probably not.

This is probably the the most influence we've ever had and and Netanyahu is smart enough to know that he needs to stick with a winner.

So, if Netanyahu had any doubts or wanted to push back against Trump before, he probably has figured out that that would be a bad idea at the moment.

You know, he should just go with Trump because that's the winning horse right now.

And I love the fact that the his critics are going to have to uh struggle with the fact that Trump's authoritarian side is probably what got this done.

So the their their number one complaint about Trump is that he's authoritarian.

And remember just the other day I was talking about how the best form of government would be an authoritarian who has your best interest in mind.

They have his critics have decided that he has our best interest in mind when it comes to end ending war and that he needed to be authoritarian to get it done.

Yeah.

How do you win harder than that?

It's the number one complaint about him and he just used that number one personality uh they would call it a defect, but he uses that that personality strength to get one of the most remarkable wins of any president.

And he did it right in front of them.

Well, we all watched we watched the authoritarian thing turn from, "Oh, I'm scared of this." to once you realize that he's pro-America and he's a benevolent authoritarian.

Now, people got mad at me for for acknowledging his authoritarianism.

But authoritarian just means that you you're big on following the law and the constitution because that is the authority.

It it doesn't mean that he wants to be the law.

It means that he's going to, you know, push all the doors and test all the envelopes and stuff like that, but he's still going to follow the law.

So, uh, I think the thing that people aren't talking about is this re this sort of organic reframing of authoritarian into a positive, at least this week.

Bet you didn't see that coming.

All right.

And I think the Democrats made Trump's success more likely by promoting him as bad cop.

So his critics created a uh let's say an image of him as the ultimate strong man who could not be persuaded and of his views.

None of that's true, but I'll bet it helps him negotiate.

So, you know, his critics get the win.

Uh they they get the assist, not the win.

Jake Tapper is uh I'm kind of enjoying what he's doing right now.

So CNN, as you know, has been trying to find the middle and not just be the anti-Trump network.

And I got to give him credit.

You know, they they're giving plenty of time to Scott Jennings.

And they do seem serious about trying to find a reasonable middle ground.

That's real news.

Here's an example of it.

So Jake Tapper is challenging some of the Democrat leaders by saying that in the past when the news talked about uh government shutdown and they talked about the um continuing resolution option which allows you to keep it open until you agree on a final budget.

So he points out to the Democrats that the Republicans have offered to sign a continuing re resolution which means everybody gets paid, military gets paid, all the the Medicare medical stuff gets covered until it's the time to negotiate for real, which is not too many weeks away.

Now, Jake Tapper correctly says, "In the past, we would call this the Democrats shutting the government because the Republicans have directly said, "No, we'll we'll open it whenever you want.

We'll open it today.

Every one of us will vote to open it and the only thing you have to do is put off the negotiating until a few weeks." So yes, that is very clearly and unambiguously the Democrats closing the government.

So uh so good on you, Jake Tapper.

I didn't see anybody else doing that and that was actually a really salient point.

Uh meanwhile, I saw a video of uh Chuck Schumer who is the worst communicator in the history of communicators.

I mean, he's so bad.

and uh he was talking about the shutdown.

He actually said the following in public.

Uh he said that uh every day of government shutdown gets better for Democrats.

Now, do I have to tell you how bad a mistake that sentence is.

So, people are wondering how to pay their bills.

People are wondering if they'll have healthcare.

I mean, really panicky stuff.

And what does he talk about?

Oh, uh, what's better for Democrats, which he means Democrat leaders, and those are the who are getting paid.

So, he wants to make sure that, you know, that the people who are getting paid, who are making sure that you're not getting paid, as Jake Tapper says, is the Democrats, they're making sure you're not getting paid if you're, you know, one of the government people not getting paid.

But oh, he's really happy that every day without you getting paid is better for Democrats.

Can you believe that their leader is so dumb that he thinks saying that what's good for the the leadership is the thing he should focus on.

That is so lost.

So lost.

Now, I get that there's a political element to this, but you got to start with, you know, this shutdown is terrible for the people.

We want it to end as soon as possible, but I don't think the Republicans have made the right bet on this.

That would be fine.

That would be fine because at least he's showing that his thoughts are with the people not getting paid, but now his thoughts are with himself and his career.

Terrible.

Just so bad.

Um, there's so much interesting news today.

Apparently, Dominion, the the uh voting machine company, has sold to a uh they call him an ex Republican kind of guy who was a entrepreneur.

So, he bought it.

We don't know what price, but um I saw Rasmusen, the polling people had some comments about this.

They've been talking about uh Rasmmanson always talks about uh the past election integrity and Rasmmanson said in a post, you bet your bippy that we're reading between the lines here, which is what we're all doing.

I'm going to read between the lines, too.

But with what is surfacing almost daily, it's practically the only reason it makes sense.

And that would be that Dominion sold it for scrap because indictments are expected.

Now, indictments in this context, in Rasperson's context, would be uh for rigging the election or lying about rigging the election or something.

Now, I don't have any evidence that anybody rigged an election through Dominion.

I do know there are a lot of accusations, a lot of allegations and I think you know people have you know done legally binding sign things saying that they they believe stuff happened.

Um but part of this deal is they had to settle the ongoing cases with let's see who else was it?

Um Lindell.

I think they were still in a lawsuit with Lindell and some other people.

So, they had to they had to stop suing the Republicans to get this deal done.

And uh let's see, Liberty Vote, that's who bought it.

And it's a former Republican election official, Scott Lindcker.

Now, uh I'll give you my own reading between the lines.

We don't know how much they sold it for, but I'll bet it wasn't as much as it used to be worth because Trump is talking about removing all electronic voting machines from the United States.

If you were the electronic voting machine company, now they they service the world, not just the United States, but the United States has to be one of the big customers.

And so if you don't know if you're going to lose your biggest customer, and by the way, if the United States removed them because they weren't safe, what would the other countries do?

Do you think the other countries could keep them after the United States had hypothetically said, "No, these are too unsafe.

We don't even want them in our election." It probably would take down the whole the whole company.

Now, what would be the one and only way that that Dominion could survive, let's say reliably survive under the Trump regime, which is just trying to get rid of electronic machines?

Well, I would say the one and only way to do it is if you could find an ex Republican who's just really Republican who would uh allow you and your people and whoever needs to to really look at those machines.

and number one, for the first time, find out what's going on.

And number two, get rid of any rigging or if there is rigging, make sure it's in favor of Republicans.

Now, under those conditions, you can see why uh a sale would go through because the Republicans would have a a massive incentive to have full access to the code and find out what was real and, you know, maybe make sure it doesn't any rigging doesn't happen again, if it ever happened.

Uh so, you can see why a Republican might buy this company.

If you ask me as just let's say an entrepreneur, I would never buy that company.

You know, gi given the turmoil and the suspicions and the allegations and the lawsuits that are going on, that would be the worst company you could ever own.

So, if somebody bought it, I'm going to guess that it was for reasons more than profitability.

In other words, it had to be a larger purpose for the sale to even go through because nobody in their right mind would buy a company that had that many threats that you can't know how they're going to turn out.

It it was an unbiasable company that got bought.

So, there's something happening in the background there that probably has to do with figuring out what really happened.

Anyway, uh judicial watch, you know them, right?

They've uh they did a foyer request and I guess they didn't get what they wanted, so they must be suing for it now.

Uh they want to quote any records about statements made by Director Gabbard.

This is about also the voting machines.

uh made by Gabbert during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in which she stated, quote, "We have evidence of how these electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast." Now, that's different from saying that they've discovered rigging.

She she's not saying that.

She's saying they discovered a mechanism by which rigging would be somewhat trivial.

Now, do you think there's any chance that if voting machines are are rigable by let's say a standard hacker, is there any chance that they didn't try?

No.

No.

Is there any chance that they didn't succeed?

Well, we don't know, but it looks like there might have been more than one way they could have.

So, if you have enough time and you have enough at stake and you have enough hackers, what are the odds that it would be rigged?

The answer is 100%.

The only thing you can't know is when.

Has it happened yet?

Well, that I don't know.

Uh if if things had kept going the way they were, would it happen for sure within the next 10 years?

don't know but probably so the the situation is such that um you know I often describe this as fraud is guaranteed if you've got lots of people involved very high stakes uh there's lots of complication that's where you hide things and complexity the code is complicated the elections are complicated and then you wait a long time under those circumstances it's always rigged always 100% of the time.

The only thing you don't know is how long it takes.

So, we don't know if it happened yet or it was guaranteed that it would happen.

I've never heard anybody except me make that argument.

By the way, it's the best argument.

You can borrow it.

So, yes, I think the sale of Dominion is probably going to open up a very very big uh chest of surprises.

Uh, so also Cydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and ON were all part of these uh defamation lawsuits.

So I guess those all got dropped as part of the sale.

Well, good.

Well, Princeton has announced that it will begin requiring standardized test scores for admission for 2027 and beyond.

Um, so now Colombia is the only Ivy League that doesn't require looking at your test scores before they accept you for for the college.

Do you know why they uh do you know why Princeton is going back to requiring test scores?

Because when they didn't, they got really bad students who didn't do so well.

So So it turns out that measuring stuff works.

Um, how many times have I told you that if you're not measuring, you're not managing.

You You can't manage anything if you don't know if the changes you make are making things better or worse.

You've got to be measuring.

So, at least they measured and they found out it didn't work.

But the fact that they ever stopped at measuring dumb.

Um, I posed this on X.

I borrowed an old saying and reworked it.

I said, "The best trick the devil ever played was convincing the world Democrats were the pro-science side." Do you know how much that cost society?

That somehow we all got convinced?

Even if you're Republican, you might have been convinced that the Democrats were the science aside and they couldn't tell if men were women.

They thought IQ was not predictive.

They thought climate models are real.

They thought that fighting crime by allowing more of it to go unpunished would work.

And they thought that overpopulation was a problem instead of underpopulation.

And that's just a sample.

We we thought that the the Democrats had the right science.

Just think how expensive that was.

All all of those things.

I mean, these are literally end of the world kind of problems because if they still think that overpopulation is the problem and and they don't want to have kids because they think the climate models are real and they're all going to die, the these are existential risks to civilization.

And I don't believe that Republicans ever had any uh improper scientific ideas that would have killed us all.

Am am I wrong about that?

You maybe I just couldn't think of an example of it.

But was there anything that Republicans sort of reliably got wrong in science that because it was wrong could kill us all.

I'm not aware of anything like that, but there's several examples of Democrats who could literally end civilization with their bad ideas about science.

Well, Thomas Massie has uh put in some uh legislation that he hopes to get signed, but I doubt it will to repeal the 2013 Smith Montization Act.

You might remember that uh that's when I think Obama pushed that through and that allowed our intelligence agencies, the CIA in particular, to use propaganda against Americans in America.

Whereas they well the government I guess in general.

So I guess it used to be illegal for the government to try to propagandize and brainwash you.

But then I think it was Obama who made it legal again.

And that was about the time that the Russia collusion uh hoaxes started and and basically the government started massively lying to you uh with hoaxes probably more than any time in history.

But it was legal.

It was it was specifically legal that the government could lie to the citizens um over and over again.

So that's the Smith Modernization Act allowed them to do that lying.

Thomas Massie wants to withdraw it.

Now, do I have to tell you again?

Uh although Thomas Massie often votes against the the MAGA agenda, as long as there aren't too many Thomas Massie, he's the most valuable person in Congress because he's the only one who does a whole bunch of things that just look like common sense to me.

But for political reasons, you know, maybe they won't get signed, reasons we don't always know.

But I love the fact that he's trying.

Like he went to work and he did something today.

I don't know that the rest of them did.

What What did they do?

Went to a meeting, talked on TV.

He actually did something.

Might not work out, but every time I see a Thomas Massie is doing something, I say to myself, well, at least you at least you extended the argument.

You know, at least you showed that there's a priority that's been that's missing.

Maybe he'll get this one done.

It's doable.

This is doable.

I I just I feel like it would have been done sooner if it were easy.

So, there must be something that keeps us from being done.

We'll see.

Good luck.

Good luck, Thomas Messi, on that.

I like that there's one person operating on principle.

Yeah, we need at least one.

Rand Paul does as well.

Uh so, Trump signed a proclamation to make Columbus Day Columbus Day again.

Uh because it used to be I guess they changed it to what Native American day or something else.

I don't know what it was.

But now it's back to Columbus Day.

Now Columbus himself uh if you judge him by modern modern standards, he was a really bad dude.

Like really really bad.

that the way he treated the native population uh was sort of just historically unbelievably cruel.

I don't want to say however because then it will sound like I'm defending it and it will sound like I'm defending the the the white guy, you know, mistreating the brown people and I'm not doing that.

Uh but if you put it in historical context, unfortunately, anybody who had weapons in power were abusing people who didn't have weapons in power.

So that's not an excuse, but there is a good argument for looking at uh things in context.

Now, um, jumping off from the prior topic that the government sometimes tries to brainwash the public, I would say that the legal and ethical way to brainwash children, because you do have to brainwash them.

You can't just let them make all their own decisions.

They're children.

You have to brainwash them what's right and wrong.

And then, you know, someday you hope that they will understand why things are right and wrong.

But in the beginning, you just have to tell them you do this.

And one of the ways that you tell people what's what and how to be is by what heroes you promote.

So we promote our uh presidents.

You know, make sure everybody knows who the important presidents are because we're we're promoting that u our democratic republic is the best system.

Now, is that good to brainwash children to think that they're in the best system?

Yeah.

because it makes the system stronger.

Um, but when you push any kind of hero, you're telling a story.

So, if you do a a war hero, you're saying that we we honor military service, right?

That's the sort of the secret message you get.

It's like, why is this guy in a statue?

Well, he was a general.

So, you know, people who win wars and in in some cases even the ones who lose wars, if they were generals, we're going to give them respect.

So, that's one way to train young people to respect the military.

Columbus is in that vein to me.

What makes Columbus interesting is that he was an explorer and he was willing to risk everything to try to get a bigger thing and and that kind of worked out.

So if if you're if you're lionizing and making a hero out of an explorer, do I want do I want American children to see explorers as heroes?

Yes.

Yes.

That's some good brainwashing.

I want them to think that they can be entrepreneurs.

I want them to think that nothing will stop them.

I want them to think that yes, there's an ocean between you and whatever you're looking for, but you can figure that out.

So, yes, I I'm very much in favor of overlooking his historical evils, which definitely were evil, um, and focusing on his explorer, bravery, uh, shake the box, think outside the box.

Love all that stuff.

It's a good message for the kids.

All right, I got a question for you.

So, you know that they caught that uh the arsonist who set the fire for the uh Palisades fire.

And we learn now that he was a lefty who was also very concerned about climate change, which makes me wonder if you add his, you know, probably mental illness and if you added that to his lefty belief that the climate is going to kill us all.

Is it possible that he set the fire as any kind of a response to what he thought was the world not doing enough about climate?

Do do we have enough information to say that um a guy who is really radical about climate and climate risk, that's not the one who sets a fire, right?

Because he'd be worried about the climate.

The only reason you would do it is if you're trying to make a climate statement by saying, "Well, you know, tried to warn you, but here's the you see what happened.

You didn't do enough on climate, so I guess you're a city burndown." Now, if it it feels like maybe that's what happened.

We don't have confirmation of that.

But what would be alarming is that it could be that the climate models have destroyed more than the climate, right?

The climate models are what causes underpopulation.

Is that a big problem?

Yeah.

It's like the end of the world problem.

And it would be because in large part because people believe that the cl the climate is going to destroy the planet.

So you don't want to put your kids here to get destroyed.

So now it may be behind underpopulation.

It may the climate models might be behind massive mental health problems.

We know that people have all this anxiety uh if they believe in climate crisis and it might have caused the Palisades fire because it inspired somebody to do something a little bit crazy, a lot crazy.

So is it possible that literally no no exaggeration that the models have destroyed more of the country and the world than the climate at least change in climate.

The change in climate is making things greener and warmer and the gardening better.

The climate models are causing us not to reproduce and in one case maybe burning down the city.

The models are more dangerous than the climate.

Now there's a reframe.

Um yeah, Benny Johnson had some uh some um breaking news on that about the uh about the fire guy being a radical left-wing eotterrorist guy.

Well, Steven Crowder, you all know Steven Crowder, podcaster, um he uh went into a black barberh shop and filmed it and had a uh what looked like a productive conversation with a number of black men who were at the barber shop.

Uh they talked about reparations.

Um I don't think let let me give Crowder a compliment and then a suggestion.

My compliment is that he's another one of those um full stack people.

He looks like he knows fitness, which is really good if you're going to be on camera.

You know, your arm should be good.

He knows podcasting.

He clearly can run a business.

Um he knows politics.

So, he has a really deep talent stack and it's not a surprise at all that he's doing super well in the podcasting space.

He has exactly the right set of talents which he my observation is that he has um he's built over time knowing that these would be exactly the talents that he would need for his future life and here he is.

So I love the fact that he's doing well because he just did all the right things.

Um, I will say that his persuasion game is not up to where it could be and probably will be because he's, like I said, he's a he's a talent adder.

So, it's not like he's done.

He's a young guy.

So, I feel like he should read Win Bigly if he hasn't because um I listen to a little bit of his arguments and there's another level like he's solid.

He is a good solid debater, but he's more of a debater than he is a persuader.

Uh, that's what I wanted to say.

Yeah, he's a good debater because he's always got a response and he's good at talking in public.

But that's debate.

Debate is a very limited thing.

If you're putting on a debate show or debate contest, you know, that could be the right thing.

But what you really want to do in this domain, if you walk into a black barberh shop, I want to persuade them.

If if you do it as a debate, you already know how it ends.

Both sides claim victory, right?

That's what a debate always ends in.

Both sides claim victory.

Every time there's a political debate on TV, at the end, who do we say won?

Democrats say the Democrat won.

Republican says Debates don't have winners.

they just have both sides claim claim winner persuasion can actually move the move the rock.

Um if if for example Crowder had laid down a sticky reframe then that would even go beyond the the content.

So maybe the reframe had a little bit effect of of the people in the room, maybe it didn't, but it would have a bigger effect on the people watching.

They're like, "Oh, wow.

That's that was a good way to put that.

That was a good way to put that." And then they'll use it.

So, I would say to Stephen Crowder, uh, you have an amazing talent stack and your success is very impressive, you know, much better than mine.

And just that one thing I I would just tune up a little bit on reframing.

My other book, Reframe Your Brain, might might get you there faster, but Win Bigley will teach you persuasion.

Uh, reframe your brain will teach you reframing.

And if he adds those two things to his talent stack, unstoppable.

You he would be just unstoppable.

Well, George Clooney has said that raising his children in rural France uh has been a much better life than they would have had in Los Angeles.

Well, that's one way to put it.

Do you know that if you word that wrong, you get cancelled?

Yeah.

George Clooney, what were you escaping to go to raise your children in rural France?

Well, I don't want to say it because I already got cancelled, but no, you're getting away from crime.

You're getting away from Well, I don't have to say it.

You know, he he went to where the demographics were friendly to his family.

Let's just put it that way.

Was that a good idea?

Yeah, probably if you could afford it.

So, yes, George Clooney, if you had worded that differently, you'd be as canceled as I am.

Speaking of cancelled, let's talk about cancer.

According to Masimo, good follow on X, by the way.

Masimo, uh, scientists at the University of Florida, they have a, believe it or not, an mRNA cancer vaccine that erased deadly brain tumors in some early people who had uh, brain tumors.

And uh apparently the vaccine reprogrammed their immune systems within 48 hours and then their own immune system took out the tumors and it worked in like four out of four people I think.

Four out of four.

It got rid of the tumor, a brain tumor.

Four out of four people.

Now I guess what they do is they they take something from your tumor first and then they deliver it via lipid nano particles or something.

So, it's based on your own specific cancer and body and then they can turn that into a shot on the mRNA platform and then they give it to you and uh I guess it's already worked on mice and dogs and now on a handful of people and they're moving into uh phase one pediatric trials.

Oh, I didn't say.

So, this is I think uh for children's brain cancer specifically.

Now, the way things move slowly, even if this is the magic bullet, it probably, you know, won't be available in time to save my life.

But this is one of now several different cancer treatments that have something in common, which is they take something from your body and then they build up a special kind of a shot that's just for you.

And I think I've read about half a dozen of these completely different tech, but in each case they're they're customizing a vaccine just for a person and all kinds of claims of success.

So you know what I say?

Can you do that a little bit faster and you know like a lot faster?

That would be really good if you don't mind.

Anyway, the robot energy wars are going on.

I guess 450 Russian drones attacked Ukraine's energy sites.

They're trying to shut them down before the winter so that Ukraine will have no warmth in the winter.

And that would be pretty ugly.

And I guess they're being pretty successful.

450 Russian drones in one night.

I wonder what the the top number for that's going to get to like the total number of drones for one attack.

You think it'll reach a million?

Because it might, you know, 450 is going to be a thousand pretty soon.

And if they're just cranking up their drone factories, thousand becomes a 100,000.

So, who whoever could get to a million drones uh at a time probably wins.

And uh apparently the Russian strikes have already taken out 60% of Ukraine's natural gas.

Now, if Ukraine had enough money from other helpers, they can replace the natural gas.

But it's an energy war.

So, it's now robots versus energy.

As I told you, I guess the US is going to buy a bunch of Argentino uh currency, the pesos, and they're doing it to help prop up the country's economy and help their good friend MLE, the new leader, newish leader of Argentina.

Uh what I like about this is that it's not a gift.

It is an investment.

And uh the person behind it is Scott Bessant, head of the Treasury, who is one of the most famously successful currency traders in the world.

So we're sending like, you know, one of the best guys in America to make this investment and Besson thinks it's a good one.

I kind of love this because it it's part of the Monroe doctrine that, you know, this this part of the world is ours.

you know, keep your military out of it and, you know, we'll try to keep things stable and do what makes sense.

This makes sense.

And having the best guy in the world in charge of it, that makes sense.

And I would bet that the US will make a tidy little profit and Argentina will be directly benefited in a big way.

And I like everything about it.

Well, according to a University of California, Los Angeles study, uh there were more hate acts in California than usual.

And uh allegedly in 2024, 3.1 million Californians who were 12 years up and older experienced a hate act.

Now, that could be verbal or physical, but a hate act in the previous year.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that 3.1 million Californians over the age of 12 in one year that there were 3.1 million of them that experienced a hate act?

Well, here again they should have just come to me and said, "Scott, how many Californians do you think experienced a hate act last year?" And I would have said, "How many of them are on social media?" And we're done.

How in the world can you be on social media and not observe a hate acts every day?

Do you know do you know how many hate acts are are implemented against just me alone?

I mean just one Californian.

Every single day I get hate.

Very obvious hate.

So no, it's not 3.1 million saw some hate.

It was every single person on social media.

It's called social media.

Uh let's see.

So, Zero Edges reporting.

You know how uh we found out that US taxpayers were paying maybe up to hund00 million that we didn't know was going to these NOS's and then the NOS's were doing things like uh funding Antifa and riots on demand and stuff.

Well, according to Elon Musk, that number is way more than a hundred million.

We don't know what it is, but far more.

So, he he couldn't let that go.

That number is way too low.

Do you ever wonder if the entire problem with our our debt is the part that Democrats were stealing to give to their give to bad guys and back to themselves?

Like could it be that there's $2 trillion dollars a year that's just being siphoned off and and it goes into this, you know, this darkness of NOS's that you can't track?

I don't know if it's two trillion a year, but I'll bet it's one trillion.

I'll bet you New York City is suing the big social media companies for allegedly addicting children.

Reuters is saying, "What happens if they succeed?" If they succeed, will it will destroy the entire social media u platform?

Well, I think it might.

If you took if you took all miners off of social media, they wouldn't be hooked as they got older.

I could crash the whole thing.

Um, but I suspect that social media is in for a reckoning from AI anyway.

So, I don't know if social media will ever look the way it looks now.

It might be even more addictive because of AI, but we'll see.

It's a weird time to have that lawsuit because maybe it won't matter at all.

Maybe all the social media will just morph so much.

Um, according to American Psychological Association, short inspirational videos are as effective as meditation at reducing stress.

All right.

Um, I'm going to say they could have just asked me, but let me check in with you.

If a researcher said to you, "Hey, I just have a question.

I was going to do this big research thing, but maybe I can save some time just by asking a stranger." Hey, stranger, do you think that inspirational videos make people feel good?

Yes.

Yes.

Who didn't know that?

Did you not know that inspirational videos make people feel inspirational?

And that if you're feeling inspirational, you're probably not feeling as bad as you could feel, you know, like depressed and anxious because inspirational is kind of close to the opposite of that.

So yes, every single person in the world who's ever watched a video knows that inspirational videos could be as good as meditating to reduce your stress.

There's nobody who doesn't know that.

Everybody knows that.

Anyway, next time just ask me.

and uh my audio books and books.

Uh look at me doing all this selling.

Uh so the books you see behind me, so the non-dilra books that I've written, the last four or five, those all had the the entire purpose of them is to make you feel better.

I write books to make you feel a certain way while you're learning something.

So, I always make sure you're learning something, but I'm not writing it for knowledge.

I'm writing it to make you feel a certain way.

So, of course, if you want to feel better, just uh listen to my audio books.

Um, and by the way, I should tell you I do not record the audiobooks for the late all the second editions.

I couldn't do the audiobook.

My dyslexia is just I couldn't read.

I I can't read more than a sentence or two without mixing words.

So, I I tried to do it in the studio, but I couldn't get it done.

Um, so I hired a really good uh voice talent.

Apparently, Andrew Tate has been banned on You.

Tube one hour after getting unbanned.

Boy, do I want to see that now.

So, if anybody finds the banned Andrew Tate video, I got to see what they banned him for.

Uh, that wasn't in the story.

All right, that's all I got.

Uh, I'm going to say hi to the uh to the beloved subscribers on Locals and the rest of you.

Sorry I went long, but the news is so interesting today.

I'll see the rest of you tomorrow and I will see locals.

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You know, early is on time, on time's

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Remember that.

Oh my goodness. I gave somebody some

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Too late. If I had gotten there one one

day earlier, I could have made somebody

a lot of money. Well, the stocks look

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Not bad. We'll get your comments going

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Oh, so good. Well, apparently I owe you

some of you an apology.

Oh, maybe two. Two apologies. Uh, one

was that I had a misdated Dilbert comic

for those of you who subscribe. So, I

fixed that. So, go look at the comic

from yesterday and it will be the it'll

be the correct one. Number two,

apparently when I uh posted my last uh

post for the evening on X, I said I was

signing off. What I meant was going to

bed.

But apparently, given the context of my

situation, when people people saw me say

I was signing off, it it looked like it

was a little more extreme than going to

bed, if you know what I mean. No, I was

just

I I won't be clever about it. I I

promise you here here's my promise. If

it ever comes to the point where I'm

doing a final message, you will know

it's the final message, right? There

won't be any ambiguity. So, I promise I

won't be cute. All right? So, if you

thought, "Oh, he's being subtle or cute

or something." I would never do that.

No. If if I'm checking out from the big

picture, if you know what I mean, if I

decide to check out and I decide to post

about it, there won't be any doubt. Got

it. All right. So, just so you don't

have to worry next

time.

But I do have a path to potentially

getting better. We'll see if it works

out. All right. Um, today I believe

we'll be released the podcast of Zubie

and uh me talking on Zubie's podcast. So

just I don't know just do a Google

search for Zubie's podcast. It'll pop up

somewhere. Um, one of the things I love

about Zubie is he's got this great

approach to life where he just sort of

figures out what would be the smartest

thing to do just in life. What would be

the smartest thing to do? And then he

does that thing.

And it's it's it's fun to watch because

he just makes one good common sense

smart decision after another and then he

implements it and then it works and then

he's better off. So he's living in uh

he's living in like the best place in

the world because he can, you know, um

where is it? Uh

one of those uh Middle East countries

that everybody wants to be in. and uh

he's got this business model where he

can travel the world. He likes traveling

and he does his podcasts. He lines them

up so that when he travels the the

travel and the podcasting and he can

bring his, you know, he can bring his

family, bring his baby, bring his wife.

So, he's got a portable job that he can

schedule anytime he wants. He can do it

in a bunch and then go back and live his

life. Uh it's a pretty good model

and his talent stack is amazing. It's

everything from fitness to uh music uh

because he raps. He's got one of the

best podcasts, one of the best

personalities, one of the best um online

personas.

Just so many talents to put it in one

person. So he he's a good interview.

I love Zubie. All right. Um, would you

believe according to Daily Coffee News,

which is completely unbiased, that uh

there was yet another sweeping review of

existing coffee related scientific

studies? And guess what? It's still good

for you in a variety of different health

ways. It adds more than it subtracts.

Now, how many times have I told you

about somebody who did the least

scientific thing you could ever do,

which is just look at the other

scientific studies, which everybody's

already looked at a million times.

Is there somebody who didn't know that

if you looked at all the coffee health

studies that the net would be that yeah,

coffee is good for you? Is there there

was still somebody who didn't know that

in the world?

Well, at least my audience knows it.

Yes, that is the lamest research you

could ever do. Nobody should ever give

you money for that. Next time, you know,

who' ask? Just ask Scott.

Well, here's another one. Uh, let's see

if I could have done a better job than

science on this one. uh Northeastern

University according to Cody Melo Klein

did a little study and they found out

that uh 78.6%

of people they surveyed agree with at

least one conspiratorial idea.

So, did they have to do that study to

find out that uh almost 79% of people

believe at least one conspiracy theory?

Um, well, if they had asked me, they

would have gotten a better answer

because the answer is not 79%.

Does anybody know what the answer is of

what percentage of people believe in

conspiracy theories?

It's a hundred.

It's a hundred. You don't have to study

it. It's a 100. Do you know why the

researchers didn't get the answer 100?

Because researchers don't know what's

true.

They only have an opinion of what is a

conspiracy. You know, some of them they

might have, you know, a good enough

debunk that they know for sure. But

there's no such thing as a researcher

like a living human being who knows what

all the conspiracies are and which ones

are not conspiracies. That's not a

thing.

That's not a thing at all. It 100% of

people of every type in every place

believe conspiracy theories.

Just the fact that you don't know which

ones they believe has nothing to do with

whether they do or do not. They do.

Every single person. No exceptions. So,

next time ask Scott. Well, I saw I saw

reference to a story that I didn't

actually read details of, but I think I

know enough about it. Is it true that

RFK Jr. has found that there are several

existing studies that correlate use of

Tylenol during circumcision

for kids that get their circumcision

extra early? I think it doesn't apply if

maybe you waited a few years or

something. I don't know how long you're

supposed to wait, but the since Tylenol

is already implicated

for autism, um, if it's in the the

mother's body, in other words, if the

pregnant woman takes Tylenol, there's

some thought that increases the chances

of, uh, of, uh, autism. But um wouldn't

you imagine that it's fairly routine and

has been for a while for uh Tylenol to

be given to babies

uh to handle the circumcision pain?

Is it possible given that I I believe I

saw that there were four separate

studies that clearly indicated that

Tylenol use during circumcision was

correlated with autistic symptoms.

And I don't think

this is necessarily the kind of thing

where there'd be some other

confusing

cause.

They probably got a pretty clean data

set into that. So here's the thing. As

as monumental and historic as this week

has been already and we'll talk about

all that stuff. Is it possible

that RFK Jr. just solved the autism

mystery. Did that actually happen?

It It's a little too early to know, but

there is a nonzero chance and I would

say pretty darn good because Tylenol has

now been spotted in two completely

different domains and with the same

outcome. That's pretty convincing right

now. Remember, half of all the

scientific studies that ever get

published, even the peerreview ones,

turn out to be not reproducible.

But this is four different studies just

on circumcision on top of multiple

studies about pregnant women.

That's getting a little bit hard to

ignore, isn't it? A little bit hard to

ignore. So, it could be that in a week

of uh fantastical successes

that we had one of the biggest ones

we've ever had.

If this is true and you know, we can get

to that next level of confirmation that

Tylenol was the uh the bad boy behind

autism.

Just think about that.

Did Did RFK Jr. just almost cure autism

in a way that would not have happened if

he had not been in that role and pushed

exactly the way he pushed and even had

the the VP running mate choice he did

Nicole Shanahan because you know she's

she's the big force behind all the

autism stuff I believe and

I I I wouldn't even know what to say I

mean I if this is true

that RFK G Jr. actually within one year

really on the timeline that he said he

would. If he actually pulled this off,

this is this is going to make a piece of

the Middle East uh look like it was

easy. No, I'm exaggerating. Peace of the

Middle East is still pretty amazing. But

he would probably uh the impact, my god,

the size of the impact if he actually

got a handle on this. I don't know. I

I've never been I don't think I've ever

been more proud of an American

government. You know, it's just not

something I do. Not really proud of

governments, but damn,

if he pulled this off on top of what's

already happened this week, damn. I

know. I I'd like to think maybe they

did.

Elon Musk says that Grock will soon be

able to detect AI generated deep fakes.

How awesome is that? One of the things

we worry about the most is that we won't

be able to tell what's real and what's

not. But fortunately, there's this guy

Elon Musk who really likes maximum truth

seeking AIs.

So, if he's figured out a way that AI

can uh detect deep fakes, that would be

amazing. Again, if that was the biggest

thing that happened this week, that'd be

a big thing. I mean, I don't know if it

works or if it'll work on every case,

but if Elon says we'll be able to detect

AI deep fakes with Grock,

wouldn't that be amazing? That would be

amazing.

All right. Trump's making some kind of

announcement today at 5:00 p. p.m.

Eastern time from the Oval Office. I'm

going to guess that it's just sort of

bragging about the success with Gaza,

giving us some details. You know, the

country probably wants that, needs it.

So, that would be my guess what that's

about. But I like to uh speculate that

maybe he's going to announce that that

uh big comet 31 Atlas that's going to

come close to the close to our solar

system, we're in it, I think. Um that it

might be an alien spacecraft.

Wouldn't that be fun with with all the

news that's happening today? Imagine if

Trump got up there and said, "Oh, uh,

you know, we we think we have peace in

the Middle East and we think we've

solved uh autism." And, you know, he

just goes down the line and then then he

does a Steve Jobs. You know how Steve

Jobs used to do it. You would think he

was done with the the roll out and then

it's like he's walking away and goes,

"Oh, one more thing." And then the one

more thing is the big announcement. So,

wouldn't it be fun if he went through

all the good news happened this week? He

goes, "Oh, one more thing. That uh that

comet, it's an alien spacecraft and

we've been in touch with it for a year.

I'm not going to predict that, but

wouldn't that be fun?"

All right, let's talk about Trump's uh

success so far. I mean, it's looking

good. And uh a little behind the curtain

stuff about how we got it done. Okay.

Um remember I I told you early on that

Trump was playing a brilliant game by

taking the yes but no response from both

Hamas and Israel, which are really no,

right? If you say yes, I agree with this

as long as you know I get these other

things which are impossible and nobody's

ever going to give me and then Israel

says yes, I agree as long as we get

these things that we're never going to

get because the other side said there's

no way you'll ever get that. So when I

read it, I read it as a no.

that both sides said yes so they would

look reasonable but in the detail

they said no because they were very much

not agreeing to the details of the of

the deal they were just agreeing to the

uh uh letting the hostages go. So the

story goes and this is from the uh

foreign Israel's foreign minister,

right? I I predicted this. I alone

predicted this and the only person in

the world I think who predicted what I'm

going to tell you next. But the Israel

foreign minister confirmed it. So Trump

decided to take the no which was in the

form of a yes but really no and he

decided that he was going to force the

people to treat it like a yes.

In other words, he wasn't negotiating,

he was changing reality right in front

of you. Because if you could change the

reality to you said yes instead of the

actual reality which was you know the

starting point which is I said yes but

no which is really no.

And I guess when he allegedly when he

called Netanyahu and Netanyahu was all

negative like I don't know you're happy

about this doesn't move the ball forward

and uh allegedly Trump just chewed him

out. Why are you so negative?

But take it as a yes.

Now, how many people,

presidents or non-presidents, would have

been smart enough to know to treat that

as a yes?

Because once he treated as yes, he could

bully people into a yes. But if he

treated it as a no, people would just

dig in.

But if he says, "You just said yes." I

say yes. You say yes. The other side

just says yes. We're working on a yes,

people. We're working on a yes. Then

you've changed reality itself. You've

changed how they see the possibilities.

Nobody else could do that.

Nobody else can do that. He's the only

one. And I I'm I feel good about the

fact that even his critics, you know,

his biggest TV news critics, they also

say Biden couldn't do that.

They also say that Trump's bullying, and

here's the payoff, authoritarian

strongman personality

might have been just exactly what they

needed for the situation.

Has anybody ever said that before? That

maybe this whole authoritarian strongman

thing is a lot better than you thought

it was.

Could it be, and here's the fun part,

could it be that the consistent Democrat

messaging that Trump is strong,

unpredictable, authoritarian,

uh, dictator-like?

Is it possible that that made it more

likely he would get a deal because that

because Hamas would look at the same

stuff and say, "Oh my god, this guy's,

you know, nothing can stop him. He's

he's a power- hungry guy.

I feel like the more they talked him up

as a powerful leader, the closer he got

to being able to bully both sides into a

deal,

maybe.

Um,

so here's the part I predicted. I

predicted that the only way he could

make this work is not through

negotiating, but changing reality. And

that he's the only person who could do

it. And then he did it. He did it right

in front of us. You change reality

instead of negotiating.

There was also negotiating, but the

changing of reality is the the breakout

part. The part the part that brings him

from, oh, he's a good dealmaker.

That's not what you're seeing. You're

seeing a legend. You're you're seeing a

once ever personality. You don't see

this again. You'll never see this again.

So, enjoy it while you got it.

All right. Um, here here are some of the

things I mentioned before. His

credibility up to this point allowed him

to do things other people couldn't do

because he's done things that other

people can't do. Boy, if you want to be

in position of to do something that

other people can't do, do something that

other people can't do in some other

domain until people start thinking, "Oh,

I get it. This is a person who can do

things that people can't do. Elon Musk

being the best example of that, right?

Um, so here are some of the things that

Trump has done just to

be in a position for people to say, "Oh,

I think he does impossible things." He

won a second term after being lawfared

and impeached twice.

He was actually convicted of felonies,

booked, headshot, impeached twice.

What do we call that? What do you call

it when you you lose your second term

first the first time you got lawfared

into literally felony convictions and

you got impeached twice. You know what

the name for that is?

Mr. President.

Yeah, that's what we call that. We call

that Mr. President. 47 if you like. So

that seemed impossible. He survived two

assassination attempts and one of them

didn't even keep him on the ground. He's

jumping up and telling us to fight. That

was amazing. And also a sign that, you

know, God's protecting him. I'm not even

a believer. And even I think it looked

like God protected him. Um he he's now

had enough time that he appears to be

completely right about tariffs, using

them as a tool sometimes, using them as

a way to raise money sometimes. Maybe

he'll use some of that money for um stop

gap healthc care stuff. We'll see. But

he clearly was right about tariffs and

that looked impossible, didn't it? All

all the smart people were saying, "Oh,

no. this will never work. And then it

just kept working. He kept making deals.

And he was he closed the border in no

time. The thing that at least Democrats

thought was impossible. Um and people

watching from other countries. Imagine

if you're a European and you're watching

your own countries being, you know,

continually overrun now and no control.

But you watched Trump come into office

and immediately closed the border

successfully.

You don't think they're a little bit

jealous that he did what looked like

maybe it was impossible? Nope. Closed it

down tighter than a Nat's ass in the

winter. Uh he got the the original

Abraham deal done. Remember that Jared

Kushner got the original Abraham deal

done. Did anybody think that was

possible during his first term? No, not

at all. Um, he got se several other

peace deals done. We'll talk about his

list of successes. And he managed to be

the commander-in-chief who dropped u

several gigantic bombs down ventilator

shafts in Iran and essentially brought

Iran to his knees.

Now,

if you if you've got all of that working

in your favor and you make a phone call

to somebody, they're going to take the

call because they think, "Oh man, this

guy's got some kind of magic." Like,

he's just doing all these things that on

paper they didn't look doable at all.

Even Even people who supported him would

have said, "Well, I don't think so, but

you know, try. I I like it that you try,

but looks out of reach." and then he

does it. It's quite amazing.

So anyway, he Trump became the only

person who could legitimately bully

Netanyahu.

Would you agree? Nobody else could

legitimately

bully Netanyahu at the same time he was

bullying

uh Qatar. We'll talk about that. uh at

the same time he was getting all of the

uh leaders in the region to line up

behind his vision. You tell me somebody

else could have done that?

I don't know who. I don't know who. Um,

there's one theory that the the breakout

came because

when Netanyahu decided to bomb the uh,

which was kind of a baller play when he

decided to bomb and kill all the

negotiators, the Hamas negotiators who

had gathered in and Qatar, it not only

showed Qatar that Qatar is not the boss

of us, uh, well, not the boss of Israel

anyway, and that uh there would no

longer be a safe haven for Hamas.

If you were Hamas leadership, you

probably thought to yourself, well,

worst case scenario, I can, you know,

live in Qatar safely and rebuild what I

had. And and uh taking out the

negotiators sent a very strong message.

We're not negotiating anymore. We don't

need these negotiators. So, we'll get

rid of them. And at the same time, we'll

prove that uh Qatar is not a safe space

for anybody. And so, of course, Qatar

was super mad and there's some weird

relationship with Qatar where sometimes

there are good friends and they they I

think we have bass there, but sometimes

they might be helping all the worst

people in the world work against us. So,

Qar is sometimes a good good guy,

sometimes a bad guy, and it's like

extreme in both cases. It's like

extremely bad but sometimes extremely

good and their money is clanking around

and so

Qar had a little issue but also Qar had

power over the United States

because we would sort of have to keep

them happy in order for them to do what

we needed to do. But

but apparently Qatar got so freaked by

Israel bombing it that when they said

they needed uh military protection. So

what does Trump do? He offers to protect

them militarily from our own ally

Israel.

Now did you see that coming?

Would you have made that play? Would you

have even known to offer? How about

we'll be your military protector,

but you're our from now on. Now,

he didn't have to say the part to Qatar

that says, "We will protect you

militarily. I I can influence Netanyahu.

We've seen it. But, um, you're going to

have to be our bitch." So, it could be

that what we're getting out of this, the

stuff we don't know was communicated

with guitar and whatever they're going

to do. It could be that that's one of

the biggest benefits we get from it is

that Qatar decides to be smarter and a

little bit more our friend than

something else.

All right. Oh, you're such a

There's some people in the comments who

are just

Oh, you. I hate you so much right

now.

All right, I won't even get into it.

Anyway, um

the other thing that I thought was super

interesting, uh besides the fact that

Trump became good cop to Netanyahu's bad

cop. Um, and that worked. I I like the

fact that Jared was sent at the end as a

closer.

And I'll give you I'll give you a little

behind the curtain uh fund for that.

You might remember that in 2018 I got

invited to the White House to you know

just meet Trump and he was I think he

was just consolidating support with his

supporters and I was just one of those

people. And uh Ivanka told me that the

reason I was on their radar, she she

introduced me to the president, took me

around, showed me to the Oval Office. um

is that she had read my book Win Bigley

which taught uh Trump's persuasion

techniques and she told me and I

couldn't even believe this. She said

that when she read the book Win Bigley

uh that I wrote, it was the first time

she understood her father,

meaning that she didn't understand him

as a persuader

the way I described him. And that once

she did, like a lot of things clicked

into place for her.

Um,

you would not believe who I just got a

text from. I can't tell you though. Uh,

So anyway, so she read it and then uh

apparently Jared also read it. So Jared

read my book here. It's this book. The

uh the new version is out if you want to

get the audio. I didn't do the audio

book. It's a audio artist. But when

Biggley, it's a version two. Uh this is

the only one you want to buy. It's only

on Amazon. It's nowhere else. And uh

so prior to negotiating the Abraham

Accords, um Jared read my book about how

to be a negotiator

and persuader like Trump. And then armed

with th those skills in his talent

stack, he went out and did the

impossible, the Abraham course. Now, of

course, there's lots more I don't know

about that. The only thing I know for

sure is that Jared is super smart and

he's adding talents. Now, it doesn't

mean that he couldn't have done it

without reading the book, but he did

consciously read a book about how to

negotiate like his boss, his

father-in-law.

And uh I've heard lots of other stories

from people who read the book and got

promotions, doubled their pay, just did

all kinds of amazing things.

So

then then this situation comes along.

You know, Jared is no longer actively in

the administration, but he was asked to

to be brought in toward the end here as

kind of a closer. Now, we don't know

what he really did. It could be that

Wickoff and Trump and everybody else had

already got the deal pretty well done.

But even if his direct role was not

consequential, although I think it

probably was, my my guess is that he had

um personal contacts in the area that

were super important. So he probably

just called in some personal contacts.

Um so I I do believe he probably made a

big difference. But even if he didn't,

do you see how genius it is for Trump to

send him in?

Because Jared is uh like a he's like a

signal that something impossible is

going to happen. As soon as Jared enters

the room, you say he's done one

impossible thing so far, the the Abraham

Accords,

just seeing him, just seeing him and

knowing he's part of it would make

everybody in the region go, "Oh, this

thing's actually going to happen.

So again, this is this is Trump managing

reality, not negotiating because

introducing Jared into the the larger

picture changes how you feel about the

reality.

And then suddenly the negotiating part

becomes the trivial part because you've

just reframed the entire reality by

introducing the, you know, magical

dealmaking Abraham Accord guy.

That's amazing.

like yeah, I don't think that history

will ever quite record

the the total number of small genius

things that were done to make this to

get to this point. That was one of them.

Sending Jared. Anyway, um another news,

Leticia James has been indicted, as you

know, for mortgage fraud.

I like the I like the fact that the name

of the alleged crime sounds pretty bad.

More banking fraud or mortgage fraud.

Anyway, I don't think she'll be

convicted. I think I think they've

probably got some clever uh some clever

kind of defense. Uh, one of the defenses

as somebody suggested that sounded

pretty good to me is that maybe if you

get a loan and you say this is my

intention when I get the loan, but then

something comes up. Let's say you

intended to rent it or you intended to

use the second house as your second

house, vacation house, but then let's

say something came up. Let's say a

family member got evicted and needed a

place to stay. So he said, "All right.

Well, I wasn't intending to do that when

I got the loan, but you know, you're my

cousin, so I'll rent it to you." Now,

I'm not saying that's what happened.

What I'm saying is, how do you handle

the fact if somebody gets a loan and

then they change their mind, maybe

temporarily, not even permanently, and

say, "All right, it was going to be my

second home, but why don't you rent it

for a year until you get back in your

feet?"

So, if she's got a story like that,

um, even if she technically broke the

law, even if she should have notified

the bank, it's going to make the crime

look so small

that, you know, maybe that maybe the

jury will just say, "Ah, get out of

here." Who knows? So, I'm guessing

that uh she will not go to jail over any

of it or won't be convicted anyway, but

it will be a punishment. And you know,

I'm hearing people on TV say, "But but

but it's looking like it's just

revenge." No, it's not looking like it's

revenge. It's revenge.

Am I in favor of the government using

its power for revenge? Yes.

Yes, because it's revenge against the

lawfarer.

If if he was doing it against somebody

who just was a critic,

then I would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa,

authoritarian. No, you don't go after

somebody who just disagrees with you.

You don't send the Department of Justice

against somebody who said, you know,

said a bad word about you. No way. But

if you're going after the people who

created hoaxes to try to remove you from

government, call me. If you're taking

out somebody who said, "I'm going to

take this person down. I don't even know

what the crime is yet." Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You You have to revenge the hell out of

that. And I feel safer

when that happens. I feel safer that the

January 6 people got um their their

sentences commuted or whatever the right

word is. That makes me feel safer

because I I don't want to be locked up

for and rot in jail. But at

least, you know, at least they didn't

stay there forever. And when I see uh

Trump just publicly and unapologetically

going after people who were lawfare

creeps,

then I say, "Oh, yeah, absolutely. You

you can you can revenge the hell out of

that because I will feel safer if I know

that anybody who goes after a a

Republican with a lawfare agenda that

somebody's going to take him out. Take

him out with lawfare, not not violence,

of course. So yeah, I feel better. Makes

me feel safer. Makes me feel better as

an American. makes me feel that like

something like justice is happening.

Even if even if there's no, you know,

jail time, just the the annoyance of it

and having it on your record would be

bad enough.

Well, the Nobel Prize winner was

selected really at the beginning of the

week, so Trump didn't have a chance. And

I guess it's the opposition leader, uh,

a woman who

was known as Venezuela's iron lady. And

some would say that she's she's the the

real legitimate leader of Venezuela and

not Maduro. And I guess she's been in

hiding for a while, which makes sense.

Yeah, you you'd want to be in hiding.

Um, and the nominations,

I think the nominations were in January

or something. Now, some people said,

"Scott, don't you know that Trump wasn't

nominated in January, so there was no

way that he could have been selected?"

Well, he probably was nominated. He

probably was. You don't know who was

nominated. That that's not public

information, but uh he probably was

nominated. Trump probably was from some

of his other work. Uh, but

it it would have taken the Gaza thing to

put him over the line and that was just

too late.

So, uh, what I think what I think is

happening is that this is an only Trump

thing, too.

If you were maybe up for a Nobel Peace

Prize and you didn't make it and you

were not Trump, what would be the

summary of that situation? The summary

would be, well, you know, I guess you

didn't do enough to win a Nobel Peace

Prize. That's the end of that. But when

it's Trump, don't you think that the

credibility of the Peace Prize is what

took the hit, not Trump?

like the fake news. It used to be if the

if the fake news said something about

Trump, you would say, "Oh, that's bad.

That's bad for Trump. That's that's

really bad." But once you realize that

the fake news is fake news,

then you blame the fake news when they

blame Trump.

That's happening here, too. That even

though there's I would argue that

there's, you know, good reason because

of the timing of things why he wasn't

eligible for this one.

But it'll be harder for them to to deny

him next year.

It'll be hard to deny if things work

out. You know, we'll know by then if

things are working out. But I think he's

destroying the credibility of the prize.

He's already destroyed the credibility

of the Pulitzer by showing that the

Russia hoaxers were the ones getting

Pulitzer prizes. So, so to me, that just

makes the Pulitzer just a garbage. I

mean, I already thought it was a garbage

prize, but I mean, the rest of the world

knows now it's a garbage prize.

I think when uh Obama was picked as a

Nobel Peace Prize winner, you know,

maybe that that was a big hit for their

credibility. But by not choosing Trump,

even though they've got a good reason

because of timing,

people aren't going to take it that way.

people are going to say, you know, you

could have changed it at the last

minute. I mean, it's your own

organization. You know, you make the

rules. You could just change them and

say, "Well, this is extraordinary, but

we had somebody picked, but we're going

to change it at the last minute." They

could have they could have done that,

decided not to. So, I think that

destroys the credibility of the Nobel

Peace Prize, uh, as opposed to being bad

for Trump, although he still wants it,

of course. All right, let's talk about

how many wars and/or conflicts Trump has

solved because he he likes to mention

that. He'll probably mention it again

today from the Oval Office. Uh he said,

quote, "Nobody in history has solved

eight wars in a period of 9 months." So

that's his claim, eight in a period of

nine months. So I went to Grock and I

said, "Can you tell me how many wars

andor conflicts uh Trump was

instrumental in helping solve?" It came

up with six,

not counting Gaza.

So, uh, the typical Trump thing is to

add two to whatever he's doing. Like, if

he saves you a trillion dollars, he's

going to say three, right? So, he has

always adds a little. So, I knew that

the real number would not be, you know,

eight. Um, but, uh, Gro says six plus, I

guess they would add Gaza. Here are the

ones. Just so you remember, they're

claiming, and by the way, these are not

claims that other people would

necessarily say that Trump made a

difference. These are just Trump claims

that he made a difference. The Israel

Iran war, um

he he definitely made a difference

there. Uh I don't know if we'll call

that peace. I guess even Iran at the

moment is saying they like the Gaza

deal. Did you see that coming? that Iran

has officially said they like the Gaza

peace deal.

Weird. I was not expecting that. Then

there was the uh Republic of Congo

Rwanda conflict but some say violence

continues. There was the IndiaPakistan

Kashmir conflict. Um the US tried to

mediate but India you know India acts

like India was more the the cause of

that. um Thailand Cambodia border uh

pushed for a ceasefire and uh

I I think he actually gets credit for

that one. They they actually say, "Yeah,

you made it the difference." There's the

Armenia Asane and Gordo Kurabak conflict

that he resolved.

Um and but the stability is uncertain

but that that would be true of all peace

deals. There was a Egypt Ethiopia Nile

dam dispute. Uh the claim is that he

settled it to avert war, but there's no

official agreement. But it looks like

they averted war, at least for now.

Serbia, Kosovo, ethnic tensions

um resolve via economic normalization.

Um some some say there's more progress

than there is settlement, per se, but he

gives credit for that one, too. and you

add the the Gaza deal. So, here's what I

love about uh Trump claiming that he did

uh he solved eight wars in nine months.

First of all, he's going to make his

critics argue about whether those were

wars because some of them were just

conflicts.

Secondly, he's going to have people

trying to score his report card to take

his grade down. But how much how down

are they going to be able to take it?

Suppose somebody says, "All right, you

did not you did not solve eight wars in

nine months. You you solved

five conflicts

in nine months." He's making them think

past the sale. The sale is, did you

solve a whole bunch of conflicts around

the world? Yes or no? If he can make you

argue about which ones he solved and

which ones he didn't is the number six

or seven or eight, he wins.

He wins hard. So he just has to make you

think, is that the right number? Let's

talk about that. Let's talk about all

these all these examples that you never

would have heard except

that I'm talking about what the right

number is. Right? If if everybody had

agreed on the number and everybody said,

"Yeah, it's five." He got five. I

wouldn't even look them up. But because

there's dispute,

then suddenly it's interesting and fun

for all of us to know what the names of

those disputes are. And then you say,

"Oh, well, okay. I can see why his

critics might say that one's not.

I can see why uh his critics would say

he doesn't get credit for that specific

one. But in the process of debunking any

one of them, you're going to be reminded

that he got several wars or conflicts

ended through his involvement. So, it's

perfect persuasion.

All right.

I love I love that he does that.

All right. Um,

and Trump said that Iran wants to work

on peace. Now, they've informed us and

they've acknowledged that they're

totally in favor of this deal.

Do you think it's possible that this

would actually lead to a lasting Iran

kind of a deal? Because I think even

Russia was in favor of the of the uh

Gaza deal. So, that would be just about

everybody.

All right. Um and then P Exathth gets

the win because apparently the uh the

military has met its fullear um quota.

Uh let's say what it met

year-long goal in the Marine Corps

in two weeks.

So apparently uh people joining the

military is way up and there's no way

that that has anything to do with

anything except leadership. Would you

agree? It's not because the economy is

so bad, although it's hard for young

people to get jobs. So, that is part of

it. Uh, but it's Hegathth and Trump.

They simply made it cool for young men.

You know, I'm sure young women are still

joining, but young men, uh, they made it

cool to be in the military. And now they

know that if you're in the military, uh,

maybe nobody's going to call you fat.

So because you won't be because you get

you don't get to stay.

So good job Pete Hagsth and Trump on

getting on getting the military so

respected that they just smashed through

the recruitment goals. The opposite of

what was happening under Biden.

Um the press is having a weird weird

week in trying to be at least a little

bit honest about how happy they are that

this you know peace deal might be

happening. Um, here are the things that

even the Trump, let's say, I'll call

them Trump uh critics, just just the

people who are not pro Trump, but they

do agree that Biden could not have

gotten this done,

which is amazing that people are saying

that out loud. You know, Federman said

that if he also gets the Ukraine deal

solved, I don't think that's imminent,

but maybe um that that Federman himself

would lead the the push to get him the

Nobel Peace Prize because he would

deserve it. Um,

I believe that his critics are all on

the same page that no matter what you

don't like about Trump, the one thing

you have to admit is that he's a

peacemaker and he really, really doesn't

like war.

That's amazing

that they do not argue that even though

they would say he lies about everything,

he has convinced even his most serious

critics that not only is he the biggest

badass if he has to go militarily, but

he's also the biggest force for peace at

the same time. And that that's real,

that that comes from his heart, not from

some policy decision. Even his critics

say he's

the strongest man of peace who's also

strong.

That's amazing. His critics.

Um they give him credit for being

willing to enable to bully Netanyahu.

Um that's real.

Uh because that whole thing about Israel

is the tail wagging the dog. Well,

I I think Trump kind of reinforced the

the model that I've been trying to uh

promote, which is it's not that that

Israel runs the United States. It's more

like a sibling situation where they want

things and they try to they try to

influence us. We want things so we try

to influence them. But I don't know that

we've ever been as good at it as we are

now with Trump. Pro probably not. This

is probably the the most influence we've

ever had and and Netanyahu is smart

enough to know that he needs to stick

with a winner. So, if Netanyahu had any

doubts

or wanted to push back against Trump

before, he probably has figured out that

that would be a bad idea at the moment.

You know, he should just go with Trump

because that's the winning horse right

now.

And I love the fact that the his critics

are going to have to uh struggle with

the fact that Trump's authoritarian side

is probably what got this done.

So the their their number one complaint

about Trump is that he's authoritarian.

And remember just the other day I was

talking about how the best form of

government would be an authoritarian who

has your best interest in mind.

They have his critics have decided that

he has our best interest in mind when it

comes to end ending war

and that he needed to be authoritarian

to get it done.

Yeah. How do you win harder than that?

It's the number one complaint about him

and he just used that number one

personality

uh

they would call it a defect, but he uses

that that personality strength

to get one of the most remarkable wins

of any president. And he did it right in

front of them. Well, we all watched we

watched the authoritarian thing turn

from, "Oh, I'm scared of this." to once

you realize that he's pro-America and

he's a benevolent

authoritarian. Now, people got mad at me

for for acknowledging his

authoritarianism.

But authoritarian just means that you

you're big on following the law and the

constitution because that is the

authority. It it doesn't mean that he

wants to be the law. It means that he's

going to, you know, push all the doors

and test all the envelopes and stuff

like that, but he's still going to

follow the law.

So, uh, I think the thing that people

aren't talking about is this re this

sort of

organic reframing of authoritarian into

a positive, at least this week. Bet you

didn't see that coming.

All right.

And I think the Democrats made Trump's

success more likely by promoting him as

bad cop.

So his critics created a

uh let's say an image of him as the

ultimate strong man who could not be

persuaded and of his views. None of

that's true, but I'll bet it helps him

negotiate.

So, you know, his critics get the win.

Uh they they get the assist, not the

win.

Jake Tapper is uh I'm kind of enjoying

what he's doing right now. So CNN, as

you know, has been trying to find the

middle and not just be the anti-Trump

network. And I got to give him credit.

You know, they they're giving plenty of

time to Scott Jennings. And they do seem

serious about trying to find a

reasonable middle ground. That's real

news. Here's an example of it. So Jake

Tapper is challenging some of the

Democrat leaders by saying that in the

past when the news talked about uh

government shutdown and they talked

about the um continuing resolution

option which allows you to keep it open

until you agree on a final budget. So he

points out to the Democrats that the

Republicans have offered to sign a

continuing re resolution which means

everybody gets paid, military gets paid,

all the the Medicare medical stuff gets

covered until it's the time to negotiate

for real, which is not too many weeks

away. Now, Jake Tapper correctly says,

"In the past, we would call this the

Democrats shutting the government

because the Republicans have directly

said, "No, we'll we'll open it whenever

you want. We'll open it today. Every one

of us will vote to open it and the only

thing you have to do is put off the

negotiating until a few weeks."

So yes, that is very clearly and

unambiguously the Democrats closing the

government.

So uh so good on you, Jake Tapper. I

didn't see anybody else doing that and

that was actually a really salient

point.

Uh meanwhile, I saw a video of uh Chuck

Schumer who is the worst communicator in

the history of communicators. I mean,

he's so bad. and uh he was talking about

the shutdown. He actually said the

following in public.

Uh he said that uh every day of

government shutdown gets better for

Democrats.

Now, do I have to tell you how bad a

mistake that sentence is.

So, people are wondering how to pay

their bills.

People are wondering if they'll have

healthcare. I mean, really panicky

stuff. And what does he talk about? Oh,

uh, what's better for Democrats, which

he means Democrat leaders,

and those are the who are

getting paid.

So, he wants to make sure that, you

know, that the people who are getting

paid, who are making sure that you're

not getting paid, as Jake Tapper says,

is the Democrats, they're making sure

you're not getting paid if you're, you

know, one of the government people not

getting paid. But oh, he's really happy

that every day without you getting paid

is better for Democrats.

Can you believe that their leader is so

dumb that he thinks saying that what's

good for the the leadership

is the thing he should focus on. That is

so lost.

So lost. Now, I get that there's a

political element to this, but you got

to start with, you know, this shutdown

is terrible for the people. We want it

to end as soon as possible, but I don't

think the Republicans have made the

right bet on this. That would be fine.

That would be fine because at least he's

showing that his thoughts are with the

people not getting paid, but now his

thoughts are with himself and his

career. Terrible. Just so bad.

Um, there's so much interesting news

today. Apparently, Dominion, the the uh

voting machine company, has sold to a uh

they call him an ex Republican kind of

guy who was a entrepreneur.

So, he bought it. We don't know what

price, but um I saw Rasmusen, the

polling people had some comments about

this. They've been talking about uh

Rasmmanson always talks about uh the

past election integrity

and Rasmmanson said in a post, you bet

your bippy that we're reading between

the lines here, which is what we're all

doing. I'm going to read between the

lines, too. But with what is surfacing

almost daily, it's practically the only

reason it makes sense. And that would be

that Dominion sold it for scrap because

indictments are expected. Now,

indictments

in this context, in Rasperson's context,

would be uh for

rigging the election or lying about

rigging the election or something. Now,

I don't have any evidence that anybody

rigged an election through Dominion. I

do know there are a lot of accusations,

a lot of allegations

and I think you know people have you

know done legally binding sign things

saying that they they believe stuff

happened. Um but part of this deal is

they had to settle the ongoing cases

with let's see who else was it? Um

Lindell. I think they were still in a

lawsuit with Lindell and some other

people. So, they had to they had to stop

suing the Republicans to get this deal

done. And uh

let's see, Liberty Vote, that's who

bought it. And it's a former Republican

election official, Scott Lindcker.

Now,

uh I'll give you my own reading between

the lines. We don't know how much they

sold it for, but I'll bet it wasn't as

much as it used to be worth because

Trump is talking about removing all

electronic voting machines from the

United States. If you were the

electronic voting machine company, now

they they service the world, not just

the United States, but the United States

has to be one of the big customers.

And so if you don't know if you're going

to lose your biggest customer, and by

the way, if the United States removed

them because they weren't safe, what

would the other countries do? Do you

think the other countries could keep

them after the United States had

hypothetically said, "No, these are too

unsafe. We don't even want them in our

election." It probably would take down

the whole the whole company.

Now, what would be the one and only way

that that Dominion could survive, let's

say reliably survive under the Trump

regime, which is just trying to get rid

of electronic machines? Well, I would

say the one and only way to do it is if

you could find an ex Republican who's

just really Republican who would uh

allow you and your people and whoever

needs to to really look at those

machines. and number one, for the first

time, find out what's going on.

And number two,

get rid of any rigging or if there is

rigging, make sure it's in favor of

Republicans.

Now, under those conditions, you can see

why uh a sale would go through because

the Republicans would have a a massive

incentive to have full access to the

code and find out what was real and, you

know, maybe make sure it doesn't any

rigging doesn't happen again, if it ever

happened. Uh so, you can see why a

Republican might buy this company.

If you ask me as just let's say an

entrepreneur, I would never buy that

company. You know, gi given the turmoil

and the suspicions and the allegations

and the lawsuits that are going on, that

would be the worst company you could

ever own.

So, if somebody bought it, I'm going to

guess that it was for reasons more than

profitability.

In other words, it had to be

a larger purpose for the sale to even go

through because nobody in their right

mind would buy a company that had that

many threats that you can't know how

they're going to turn out. It it was an

unbiasable company that got bought. So,

there's something happening in the

background there that probably has to do

with figuring out what really happened.

Anyway,

uh judicial watch, you know them, right?

They've uh they did a foyer request and

I guess they didn't get what they

wanted, so they must be suing for it

now. Uh they want to quote any records

about statements made by Director

Gabbard. This is about also the voting

machines. uh made by Gabbert during a

cabinet meeting with President Trump in

which she stated, quote, "We have

evidence of how these electronic voting

machines have been vulnerable to hackers

for a very long time and vulnerable to

exploitation to manipulate the results

of the votes being cast." Now, that's

different from saying that they've

discovered rigging. She she's not saying

that. She's saying they discovered a

mechanism by which rigging would be

somewhat trivial.

Now, do you think there's any chance

that if voting machines are are rigable

by let's say a standard hacker, is there

any chance that they didn't try? No. No.

Is there any chance that they didn't

succeed? Well, we don't know,

but it looks like there might have been

more than one way they could have. So,

if you have enough time and you have

enough at stake and you have enough

hackers, what are the odds that it would

be rigged? The answer is 100%. The only

thing you can't know is when. Has it

happened yet? Well, that I don't know.

Uh if if things had kept going the way

they were, would it happen for sure

within the next 10 years? don't know but

probably

so the the situation is such that um you

know I often describe this as fraud is

guaranteed

if you've got lots of people involved

very high stakes uh there's lots of

complication that's where you hide

things and complexity the code is

complicated the elections are

complicated and then you wait a long

time

under those circumstances it's always

rigged always 100% of the time. The only

thing you don't know is how long it

takes. So, we don't know if it happened

yet or it was guaranteed that it would

happen. I've never heard anybody except

me make that argument. By the way, it's

the best argument.

You can borrow it.

So, yes, I think the sale of Dominion is

probably going to open up a very very

big uh chest of surprises. Uh, so also

Cydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and ON

were all part of these uh defamation

lawsuits. So I guess those all got

dropped as part of the sale.

Well, good. Well, Princeton has

announced

that it will begin requiring

standardized test scores for admission

for 2027 and beyond. Um, so now Colombia

is the only Ivy League that doesn't

require looking at your test scores

before they accept you for for the

college. Do you know why they uh do you

know why Princeton is going back to

requiring test scores?

Because when they didn't, they got

really bad students who didn't do so

well. So

So it turns out that measuring stuff

works.

Um, how many times have I told you that

if you're not measuring, you're not

managing.

You You can't manage anything if you

don't know if the changes you make are

making things better or worse. You've

got to be measuring. So, at least they

measured and they found out it didn't

work. But the fact that they ever

stopped at measuring

dumb.

Um, I posed this on X. I borrowed an old

saying and reworked it. I said, "The

best trick the devil ever played was

convincing the world Democrats were the

pro-science side." Do you know how much

that cost society?

That somehow we all got convinced? Even

if you're Republican, you might have

been convinced that the Democrats were

the science aside

and they couldn't tell if men were

women. They thought IQ was not

predictive. They thought climate models

are real. They thought that fighting

crime by allowing more of it to go

unpunished would work. And they thought

that overpopulation was a problem

instead of underpopulation.

And that's just a sample.

We we thought that the the Democrats had

the right science.

Just think how expensive that was. All

all of those things. I mean, these are

literally end of the world kind of

problems because if they still think

that overpopulation is the problem and

and they don't want to have kids because

they think the climate models are real

and they're all going to die, the these

are existential risks to

civilization.

And I don't believe that Republicans

ever had any uh improper scientific

ideas that would have killed us all. Am

am I wrong about that? You maybe I just

couldn't think of an example of it. But

was there anything that Republicans sort

of reliably got wrong in science that

because it was wrong could kill us all.

I'm not aware of anything like that, but

there's several examples of Democrats

who could literally end civilization

with their bad ideas about science.

Well, Thomas Massie has uh put in some

uh legislation that he hopes to get

signed, but I doubt it will to repeal

the 2013 Smith Montization Act. You

might remember that uh that's when I

think Obama pushed that through and that

allowed our intelligence agencies, the

CIA in particular, to use propaganda

against Americans in America.

Whereas they well the government I guess

in general. So I guess it used to be

illegal for the government to try to

propagandize and brainwash you. But then

I think it was Obama who made it legal

again. And that was about the time that

the Russia collusion

uh hoaxes started and and basically the

government started massively lying to

you uh with hoaxes probably more than

any time in history. But it was legal.

It was it was specifically legal that

the government could lie to the citizens

um over and over again. So that's the

Smith Modernization Act allowed them to

do that lying. Thomas Massie wants to

withdraw it. Now, do I have to tell you

again? Uh although Thomas Massie often

votes against the the MAGA agenda, as

long as there aren't too many Thomas

Massie,

he's the most valuable person in

Congress because he's the only one who

does a whole bunch of things that just

look like common sense to me. But for

political reasons, you know, maybe they

won't get signed, reasons we don't

always know. But I love the fact that

he's trying. Like he went to work and he

did something today. I don't know that

the rest of them did. What What did they

do? Went to a meeting,

talked on TV. He actually did something.

Might not work out, but every time I see

a Thomas Massie is doing something,

I say to myself, well, at least you at

least you extended the argument. You

know, at least you showed that there's a

priority that's been that's missing.

Maybe he'll get this one done. It's

doable. This is doable. I I just I feel

like it would have been done sooner if

it were easy. So, there must be

something that keeps us from being done.

We'll see. Good luck. Good luck, Thomas

Messi, on that.

I like that there's one person operating

on principle.

Yeah, we need at least one. Rand Paul

does as well. Uh so, Trump signed a

proclamation to make Columbus Day

Columbus Day again. Uh because it used

to be I guess they changed it to what

Native American day or something else. I

don't know what it was. But now it's

back to Columbus Day. Now Columbus

himself

uh if you judge him by modern

modern standards, he was a really bad

dude. Like really really bad. that the

way he treated the native population

uh was sort of just historically

unbelievably cruel.

I don't want to say however because then

it will sound like I'm defending it and

it will sound like I'm defending the the

the white guy, you know, mistreating the

brown people and I'm not doing that. Uh

but if you put it in historical context,

unfortunately,

anybody who had weapons in power were

abusing people who didn't have weapons

in power. So that's not an excuse,

but there is a good argument for looking

at uh things in context. Now, um,

jumping off from the prior topic that

the government sometimes tries to

brainwash the public,

I would say that the legal and ethical

way to brainwash children, because you

do have to brainwash them. You can't

just let them make all their own

decisions. They're children. You have to

brainwash them what's right and wrong.

And then, you know, someday you hope

that they will understand why things are

right and wrong. But in the beginning,

you just have to tell them you do this.

And one of the ways that you tell people

what's what and how to be is by what

heroes you promote.

So we promote our uh presidents. You

know, make sure everybody knows who the

important presidents are because we're

we're promoting that u our democratic

republic is the best system. Now, is

that good to brainwash children to think

that they're in the best system? Yeah.

because it makes the system stronger.

Um, but when you push any kind of hero,

you're telling a story. So, if you do a

a war hero, you're saying that we we

honor military service,

right? That's the sort of the secret

message you get. It's like, why is this

guy in a statue? Well, he was a general.

So, you know, people who win wars and in

in some cases even the ones who lose

wars, if they were generals, we're going

to give them respect. So, that's one way

to train young people to respect the

military. Columbus is in that vein to

me. What makes Columbus interesting is

that he was an explorer and he was

willing to

risk everything to try to get a bigger

thing and and that kind of worked out.

So if if you're if you're lionizing and

making a hero out of an explorer, do I

want do I want American children to see

explorers as heroes? Yes. Yes. That's

some good brainwashing. I want them to

think that they can be entrepreneurs. I

want them to think that nothing will

stop them. I want them to think that

yes, there's an ocean between you and

whatever you're looking for, but you can

figure that out. So, yes, I I'm very

much in favor of overlooking his

historical evils, which definitely were

evil, um, and focusing on his explorer,

bravery,

uh, shake the box, think outside the

box.

Love all that stuff. It's a good message

for the kids. All right, I got a

question for you. So, you know that they

caught that uh the arsonist who set the

fire for the uh Palisades fire. And we

learn now that he was a lefty who was

also very concerned about climate

change, which makes me wonder if you add

his, you know, probably mental illness

and if you added that to his lefty

belief that the climate is going to kill

us all.

Is it possible that he set the fire as

any kind of a response to what he

thought was the world not doing enough

about climate?

Do do we have enough information to say

that um a guy who is really radical

about climate and climate risk, that's

not the one who sets a fire, right?

Because he'd be worried about the

climate. The only reason you would do it

is if you're trying to make a climate

statement by saying, "Well, you know,

tried to warn you, but here's the you

see what happened. You didn't do enough

on climate, so I guess you're a city

burndown." Now,

if it it feels like maybe that's what

happened. We don't have confirmation of

that. But what would be alarming is that

it could be that the climate models have

destroyed more than the climate,

right? The climate models are what

causes underpopulation.

Is that a big problem? Yeah. It's like

the end of the world problem. And it

would be because in large part because

people believe that the cl the climate

is going to destroy the planet. So you

don't want to put your kids here to get

destroyed.

So now it may be behind underpopulation.

It may the climate models might be

behind massive mental health problems.

We know that people have all this

anxiety

uh if they believe in climate crisis and

it might have caused the Palisades fire

because it inspired somebody to do

something a little bit crazy, a lot

crazy. So is it possible

that literally no no exaggeration

that the models

have destroyed more of the country and

the world than the climate at least

change in climate. The change in climate

is making things greener and warmer and

the gardening better. The climate models

are causing us not to reproduce and in

one case maybe burning down the city.

The models are more dangerous than the

climate.

Now there's a reframe.

Um

yeah, Benny Johnson had some uh some um

breaking news on that about the uh about

the fire guy being a radical left-wing

eotterrorist guy. Well, Steven Crowder,

you all know Steven Crowder, podcaster,

um he uh went into a black barberh shop

and filmed it and had a uh what looked

like a productive conversation with a

number of black men who were at the

barber shop. Uh they talked about

reparations.

Um I don't think

let let me give Crowder a compliment and

then a suggestion.

My compliment is that he's another one

of those um full stack people. He looks

like he knows fitness, which is really

good if you're going to be on camera.

You know, your arm should be good. He

knows podcasting. He clearly can run a

business. Um he knows politics. So, he

has a really deep talent stack and it's

not a surprise at all that he's doing

super well in the podcasting space. He

has exactly the right set of talents

which he my observation is that he has

um he's built over time knowing that

these would be exactly the talents that

he would need for his future life and

here he is. So I love the fact that he's

doing well because he just did all the

right things. Um, I will say that his

persuasion game is not up to where it

could be and probably will be because

he's, like I said, he's a he's a talent

adder. So, it's not like he's done. He's

a young guy. So, I feel like he should

read Win Bigly if he hasn't because um I

listen to a little bit of his arguments

and there's another level

like he's solid. He is a good solid

debater,

but he's more of a debater than he is a

persuader. Uh, that's what I wanted to

say. Yeah, he's a good debater

because he's always got a response and

he's good at talking in public. But

that's debate.

Debate is a very limited thing. If

you're putting on a debate show or

debate contest, you know, that could be

the right thing. But what you really

want to do in this domain, if you walk

into a black barberh shop, I want to

persuade them.

If if you do it as a debate, you already

know how it ends. Both sides claim

victory, right? That's what a debate

always ends in. Both sides claim

victory. Every time there's a political

debate on TV, at the end, who do we say

won? Democrats say the Democrat won.

Republican says Debates don't have

winners. they just have both sides claim

claim winner persuasion

can actually move the move the rock. Um

if if for example Crowder had laid down

a sticky reframe

then that would even go beyond the the

content. So maybe the reframe had a

little bit effect of of the people in

the room, maybe it didn't, but it would

have a bigger effect on the people

watching. They're like, "Oh, wow. That's

that was a good way to put that. That

was a good way to put that." And then

they'll use it. So, I would say to

Stephen Crowder, uh, you have an amazing

talent stack and your success is very

impressive, you know, much better than

mine. And just that one thing I I would

just tune up a little bit on reframing.

My other book, Reframe Your Brain, might

might get you there faster, but Win

Bigley will teach you persuasion.

Uh, reframe your brain will teach you

reframing. And if he adds those two

things to his talent stack,

unstoppable.

You he would be just unstoppable.

Well, George Clooney has said that

raising his children in rural France

uh has been a much better life than they

would have had in Los Angeles.

Well, that's one way to put it.

Do you know that if you word that wrong,

you get cancelled?

Yeah. George Clooney, what were you

escaping

to go to raise your children in rural

France?

Well, I don't want to say it because I

already got cancelled, but no, you're

getting away from crime. You're getting

away from Well, I don't have to say it.

You know, he he went to where the

demographics were friendly to his

family. Let's just put it that way. Was

that a good idea? Yeah, probably if you

could afford it. So, yes, George

Clooney,

if you had worded that differently,

you'd be as canceled as I am.

Speaking of cancelled, let's talk about

cancer. According to Masimo, good follow

on X, by the way. Masimo, uh, scientists

at the University of Florida, they have

a, believe it or not, an mRNA cancer

vaccine

that erased deadly brain tumors in

some early people who had uh, brain

tumors. And uh apparently the vaccine

reprogrammed their immune systems within

48 hours and then their own immune

system took out the tumors and it worked

in like four out of four people I think.

Four out of four. It got rid of the

tumor, a brain tumor. Four out of four

people. Now I guess what they do is they

they take something from your tumor

first and then they deliver it via lipid

nano particles or something. So, it's

based on your own specific cancer and

body and then they can turn that into a

shot on the mRNA platform and then they

give it to you and uh I guess it's

already worked on mice and dogs and now

on a handful of people and they're

moving into uh phase one pediatric

trials. Oh, I didn't say. So, this is I

think uh for children's brain cancer

specifically.

Now, the way things move slowly, even if

this is the magic bullet, it probably,

you know, won't be available in time to

save my life. But this is one of now

several different cancer treatments that

have something in common, which is they

take something from your body and then

they build up a special kind of a shot

that's just for you. And I think I've

read about half a dozen of these

completely different tech, but in each

case they're they're customizing a

vaccine just for a person and all kinds

of claims of success. So you know what I

say?

Can you do that a little bit faster and

you know like a lot faster? That would

be really good if you don't mind.

Anyway, the robot energy wars are going

on. I guess 450 Russian drones attacked

Ukraine's energy sites. They're trying

to shut them down before the winter so

that Ukraine will have no warmth in the

winter. And that would be pretty ugly.

And I guess they're being pretty

successful. 450 Russian drones in one

night.

I wonder what the the top number for

that's going to get to like the total

number of drones for one attack. You

think it'll reach a million?

Because it might, you know, 450 is going

to be a thousand pretty soon. And if

they're just cranking up their drone

factories, thousand becomes a 100,000.

So, who whoever could get to a million

drones

uh at a time probably wins.

And uh

apparently the Russian strikes have

already taken out 60% of Ukraine's

natural gas. Now, if Ukraine had enough

money from other helpers, they can

replace the natural gas.

But

it's an energy war. So, it's now robots

versus energy. As I told you, I guess

the US is going to buy a bunch of

Argentino

uh currency, the pesos, and they're

doing it to help prop up the country's

economy and help their good friend MLE,

the new leader, newish leader of

Argentina. Uh what I like about this is

that it's not a gift. It is an

investment. And uh the person behind it

is Scott Bessant, head of the Treasury,

who is one of the most famously

successful currency traders in the

world. So we're sending like, you know,

one of the best guys in America to make

this investment and Besson thinks it's a

good one. I kind of love this because it

it's part of the Monroe doctrine that,

you know, this this part of the world is

ours. you know, keep your military out

of it and, you know, we'll try to keep

things stable and do what makes sense.

This makes sense. And having the best

guy in the world in charge of it, that

makes sense. And I would bet that the US

will make a tidy little profit and

Argentina will be directly benefited in

a big way. And I like everything about

it.

Well, according to a University of

California, Los Angeles study,

uh there were more hate acts in

California than usual. And uh allegedly

in 2024,

3.1 million Californians who were 12

years up and older experienced a hate

act. Now, that could be verbal or

physical, but a hate act in the previous

year. Do you believe that? Do you

believe that 3.1

million Californians over the age of 12

in one year that there were 3.1 million

of them that experienced a hate act?

Well, here again they should have just

come to me and said, "Scott, how many

Californians do you think experienced a

hate act last year?" And I would have

said, "How many of them are on social

media?"

And we're done.

How in the world can you be on social

media and not observe a hate acts every

day? Do you know do you know how many

hate acts are

are implemented against just me alone? I

mean just one Californian. Every single

day I get hate. Very obvious hate. So

no, it's not 3.1 million saw some hate.

It was every single person on social

media.

It's called social media.

Uh let's see. So, Zero Edges reporting.

You know how uh we found out that US

taxpayers were paying maybe up to hund00

million that we didn't know was going to

these NOS's and then the NOS's were

doing things like uh funding Antifa and

riots on demand and stuff. Well,

according to Elon Musk, that number is

way more than a hundred million. We

don't know what it is, but far more. So,

he he couldn't let that go. That number

is way too low. Do you ever wonder if

the entire problem with our our debt is

the part that Democrats were stealing to

give to their

give to bad guys and back to themselves?

Like could it be that there's $2

trillion dollars a year that's just

being siphoned off and and it goes into

this, you know, this darkness of NOS's

that you can't track?

I don't know if it's two trillion a

year, but I'll bet it's one trillion.

I'll bet you

New York City is suing the big social

media companies for allegedly addicting

children. Reuters is saying, "What

happens if they succeed?"

If they succeed, will it will destroy

the entire social media

u platform? Well, I think it might. If

you took if you took all miners off of

social media, they wouldn't be hooked as

they got older. I could crash the whole

thing. Um, but I suspect that social

media is in for a reckoning from AI

anyway. So, I don't know if social media

will ever look the way it looks now. It

might be even more addictive because of

AI, but we'll see. It's a weird time to

have that lawsuit because maybe it won't

matter at all. Maybe all the social

media will just morph so much. Um,

according to American Psychological

Association, short inspirational videos

are as effective as meditation at

reducing stress. All right. Um, I'm

going to say they could have just asked

me, but let me check in with you.

If a researcher said to you, "Hey, I

just have a question. I was going to do

this big research thing, but maybe I can

save some time just by asking a

stranger." Hey, stranger, do you think

that inspirational videos make people

feel good?

Yes.

Yes. Who didn't know that? Did you not

know that inspirational videos make

people feel inspirational? And that if

you're feeling inspirational, you're

probably not feeling as bad as you could

feel, you know, like depressed and

anxious because inspirational is kind of

close to the opposite of that. So yes,

every single person in the world who's

ever watched a video knows that

inspirational videos could be as good as

meditating to reduce your stress.

There's nobody who doesn't know that.

Everybody knows that.

Anyway, next time just ask me. and uh my

audio books and books.

Uh look at me doing all this selling. Uh

so the books you see behind me, so the

non-dilra books that I've written, the

last four or five, those all had the the

entire purpose of them is to make you

feel better. I write books to make you

feel a certain way while you're learning

something. So, I always make sure you're

learning something, but I'm not writing

it for knowledge. I'm writing it to make

you feel a certain way. So, of course,

if you want to feel better, just

uh listen to my audio books. Um, and by

the way, I should tell you I do not

record the audiobooks for the late all

the second editions. I couldn't do the

audiobook. My dyslexia is just I

couldn't read. I I can't read more than

a sentence or two without mixing words.

So, I I tried to do it in the studio,

but I couldn't get it done. Um, so I

hired a really good uh voice talent.

Apparently, Andrew Tate has been banned

on YouTube one hour after getting

unbanned. Boy, do I want to see that

now.

So, if anybody finds the banned Andrew

Tate video, I got to see what they

banned him for. Uh, that wasn't in the

story. All right, that's all I got. Uh,

I'm going to say hi to the uh

to the beloved subscribers on Locals and

the rest of you. Sorry I went long, but

the news is so interesting today. I'll

see the rest of you tomorrow and I will

see locals. I'm going to be private with

you in 30 seconds.