Episode 2985 CWSA 10/11/25

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Well, at the end of today's podcast, I'll probably have a uh reframe to change your life from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

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As tradition dictates, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces event immediately after, well, somewhat immediately after we're done here today.

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So, um, I do not have a source for this next, well, the fir first story, but, uh, I saw somebody say it and I knew it was true, so I'm going to repeat it.

They they did a study to find out what is it that women can say to men that would make the men feel as good as when the men say to the women, "I love you." Does anybody know the answer?

What what two words?

The the answer is thank you.

So apparently if you say thank you and show appreciation to a man, his brain lights up about the same as if you had said I love you to a woman.

How many women knew that?

Now, I've always thought that one of the problems with the relationships is that people feel like it's a power battle and that if you if you show appreciation to somebody, you're giving up your power and it's like you owe them.

If you say thank you to your mate, it's like, oh, now I owe you something.

So, I feel like people don't want to say thank you too much.

Actually, I'm going to skip ahead.

I told you that uh I might read a reframe from my book reframe your brain but I think I'll do it right now.

So this is in the section on social life reframes and it's about uh compliments and uh so here's the usual frame.

Here's what we usually think about giving compliments.

Um, usually giving compliments is awkward, creepy, or it feels manipulative, as in, you know, you're trying to guess something for your compliment or something.

Here's the reframe.

Withholding a compliment is almost immoral.

If you have a compliment in your mind about somebody and they're standing right there or you could easily reach them and you don't give them the compliment even though you're thinking it, it's almost immoral.

It's free and it would be highly valuable to the person who received it.

So if you have something that you could deliver for free and and it would help a person, it would be immoral to not do it.

So, when you think about potential compliments, think of them that way.

It'll make your life a lot better.

People will like you better if you're good at complimenting.

How many times have I started my show by telling you there's a new study on psychedelics that make your mental health better?

Well, here's another one, except this is about your physical health.

Specifically, they're finding that, and they're doing more testing, but they think that uh psilocybin will make your brain feel more relaxed.

And when you relax the brain, it releases less cortisol and inflammatory stuff.

And they believe that they can get more than a temporary more than a temporary decrease in inflammation in your body by using psychedelics to help you get control of your mind.

Because we know that psychedelics can have a temporary control on your mind.

But more lately, we're finding out it could be a semi-permanent change where, you know, one small controlled dose of psilocybin could set your depression away, your anxiety away for, you know, months or years.

And if that happens, in theory, your your full body inflammation will be less, and that would help you with a whole bunch of stuff.

So, is there anything that psychedelics can't do?

Not that I know of.

Sorry, it's going to be a little slow because getting to my notes is more of a challenge this morning.

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Um and uh apparently the uh the mushrooms that would have a advantage over steroids because it wouldn't have a side effect whereas steroids do.

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So here's a little update on UFOs.

Tim Burchett.

Uh, Representative Burchett was on Tucker Carlson.

And I guess Tim has been sort of a point person in Congress for looking into or finding out about UFOs and UAPs and all that.

Now, he seems convinced that they're real because people who talk to him who seem like credible people are whispering in his ear things that sound real.

And uh there are some people who have said things under oath at this point.

He says that would suggest that we have alien bodies or alien crafts.

Now I'm going to I'm going to come down firmly on the side of I don't believe any of it.

I do not believe we have any alien bodies.

I do not believe we've ever had access to an alien craft.

It's just too far for me.

and the fact that you know we never we never talk to the person who is directly involved.

It's always the person who talked to the person really.

So anyway uh so my update is this.

I don't know if that asteroid that's coming into our solar system is really a advanced spacecraft.

I don't know if the pyramids or any of our early stuff were influenced in any way by aliens who invisited the earth.

No idea.

And I I certainly don't know if we have access, you know, if we're holding on to any alien bodies.

But do you enjoy it as much as I do just thinking about it?

I just love thinking about it.

So even though I I wish I could kind of believe it, I can't really get there, but it's very entertaining.

So it's very entertaining belief.

So every time Tim Buret is Buret is on, you know, I'm like ah got to watch all this.

All right, the new the news is uh a little bit slow today.

So might be a little more science than the news today.

Um, according to the University of South Australia, a lot of people who have mental health problems have gut problems and they think that the gut microbes might be shaping your mental health.

Do you know they could have just asked?

That's right, me.

Cuz I always I'm always telling you that your your body is your your brain.

And if you think of them as separate units, then you will be confused.

Because if you want your brain to work better, you put better food into it, better exercise, better sleep.

Your your body is your brain.

So should you be surprised that changing the gut micro might make some people mentally healthier?

No, you should not be surprised.

Well, I guess Trump already went to Walter Reed, got them to say that he's his body is 14 years younger than his chronological age.

He got his flu shot and got his COVID booster.

you know, he's in sort of a tough position because even though his administration is, you know, reducing the recommendations for COVID boosters all the way to well, you know, maybe if you're over 65, maybe if you have some co-orbidities, and you know, maybe if you and your doctor think so, you know, so that so the sort of still allowed recommended range is small, but he's in it.

So given that he would like to be thought of as having made the right decisions during the pandemic, it'd be kind of awkward if he didn't get a booster shot, wouldn't it?

But at the same time, do you really think that that he feels he's safer with a booster shot?

I don't know.

He might be if you told me later that he only pretended to get the booster shot, I wouldn't be super surprised.

But there a lot of witnesses, so probably got the real stuff.

Anyway, so I think he has to get those shots to protect his legacy.

So it still looks like at least maybe the shots for the old people made sense.

He doesn't really have a perfect uh play there.

Um, even Hillary Clinton has commended, she even used that word, I commend uh, President Trump for the what she calls significant progress in the the Gaza situation.

How do you interpret that?

How do you interpret that the you know most dependable critic of the president obviously somebody thwarted uh who has a long history of hating him that even she was not looking for the downside.

How do you interpret that?

Here's how I interpret it.

Yeah.

I think it means that she found out how to make money.

Don't you think?

because what this will lead to this whole Abraham Accord thing if the Abraham Accords expands it looks like it might uh but at the very least it'll be massive money flowing into the area and don't you think that Hillary Clinton may have possibly even cut a deal to say I'll support this as long as we get a taste you as long as one of my one of my friends gets a big contract I'll I'll say, "I'm all on board for this." There's got to be a monetary incentive there.

Cuz if it were just purely political, I think she'd say something like, "What took you so long?" or "It's going to fall apart," or, "You did part of it wrong." Or, "The only way you got it is working with Russia." You know, something like that.

She must have found a way to make some money there.

Well, the biggest news is that China start uh well, I won't say they started a trade war, but they accelerated it.

So, the the details are a little murky.

Still a little fog of war going on, but looks like they're massively tightening up on their rare earth materials, which would be a gigantic problem for the economy of the United States.

And our stock market responded by going in the toilet as did the crypto market all responding to the fact that uh international trade is at great risk uh or some risk.

I don't I don't know if it's great risk because the smart people are saying that what China is doing is creating assets to trade away because there's a big trade talks coming up.

So, I'm always telling you that uh Trump is the champion of creating something out of nothing and then trading the nothing away for something.

And that looks like what China just did.

So, uh they created a something out of nothing by creating massive barriers to getting their rare earth materials.

Now, when they negotiate, they have something to trade away that they made out of nothing.

So, it's a very Trumpian approach and clearly they've studied his approach so they know how to do this stuff.

Um, so it's too early to know if this is a big deal or just a medium big deal.

It's at least a medium big deal.

But what we don't know is is it really just a bargaining chip and it will get bargained away and you know we just have to be uncomfortable for 3 months until we know what's going on with that stuff.

Maybe could also be because it's so illdefined that it won't be bargained away.

It'll be defined away as in well, you know, now that we give you the details, we didn't mean that it would apply to any phones and then that like whole category will be excluded and then we'll be like, oh, I thought it was going to be worse, but doesn't include phones and it won't include laptops.

Oh.

Oh, you know.

So, so it'll end up being defined smaller but also negotiated.

So, who knows?

Uh, but it's a big deal.

It's a big deal.

I would uh if I were giving advice, I would say the odds of us getting some kind of a workable solution eventually is pretty high.

So, I'd be gambling that it does get worked out in, I don't know, several months, maybe if you're patient.

Might even be faster.

Could be a lot faster if both sides feel enough pain fast enough.

Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.

Um, there's talk that Trump might stop by and see his little buddy, Rocket Man, Kim Jong-un, while he's uh um over there for something else.

So, he would be in Soul uh visiting for something else, I guess.

And uh they're thinking that he might uh have a little side visit and meet with his buddy.

Now, remember how I I kept telling you that uh Trump could succeed with this Gaza stuff because he changed reality.

He didn't just negotiate.

He just changed how they saw the whole thing.

He he turned a no into a yes and made them see it as a yes.

And then they started acting like it was a yes.

Well, that's kind of what you do with North Korea.

So the the the North Korea question was, "What are you going to do about them threatening to nuke us?" That was the question.

And and he took that question and instead of negotiating, hey, don't nuke us, we'll we'll give you this if you don't nuke us.

Or if you do nuke us, we'll do this to you.

That'd be more like direct negotiating.

You just change the reality.

So the reality was it looked like we were some kind of enemies and he just reframed it to we're friends.

Oh, we're friends.

You're my buddy.

I'd like to come visit my friend.

And then suddenly it didn't really make sense to me to be threatening each other with nuclear annihilation because he just reframed reality to why enemy.

Who's your enemy?

I'm not your enemy.

I'm your friend.

Let's get together.

So only he can do that.

That is a pure Trump play that's just it's just not available to other people.

They they just wouldn't be able to pull it off.

So we'll see if that happens.

Should happen.

Well, I guess the government and Russ vote is doing the layoffs they promise.

He's the budget director.

So, uh, they're going to use it use the government shutdown as their excuse to fire a bunch of Democrats who are working for the government or not for long, I guess.

So, I don't know if there'll be some kind of court cases to the firing.

I feel like there will, right?

Won't there be a rogue judge who says, "Well, we must block this nationwide." Seems like it.

Seems like it.

Well, there's some thought and Speaker Johnson's kind of worked up about this.

You can see why that uh that the Democrats might want to keep the the government closed to make it a better no kings rally a week from now um on October 18th.

So, so there's another one of those big uh artificial um paid for rallies that that are being planned, the no kings.

And I guess the no kings rally wouldn't have enough to talk about because because the Middle East is all solved.

They wouldn't have enough to talk about unless they uh unless the government was closed.

So, they'd have, you know, a good complaint.

Ah, that mean old Trump closing that government.

So it looks like the Democrats for that reason alone to support their fake paid protest so that it so they can pretend that there's more resistance to Trump than there is.

They might keep the government closed.

Like that would be one of the reasons to keep it closed.

Oh my god, our government is terrible.

At least half of it is.

Anyway, well, I don't know if that's the real reason, but I I was saw one of the organizers of that no kings uh rally, and he was walking this real fine line because he wanted people to feel outraged about what's happening in the country so that they would be incentivized to go to the, you know, go to the protest.

So he wants them to feel unhappy to go to the protest, but he wanted to sell the protest as a good time so that more people would go because he's in the business of organizing protests.

So he tried to tell you how much fun you would have with, you know, meeting new meeting new people and having friends and it'd be a nice day out.

And he was trying to sell them at the same time that, you know, that we're suffering this existential threat to our democracy.

And by the way, it'll be a good time.

Yeah, it's it's like a party.

Oh, did I mention it's an existential threat to the entire country, but but but you'll meet some nice people.

It's more about the nice people you meet along the way.

And he totally can't sell it because you just can't do those same same things at the same time.

and uh watching how artificial and fake it is and then hearing that they might keep the government closed just to get enough people to go to the fake stupid uh completely irrational protests.

Wow, good work, Democrats.

So, you know, one of the questions people had about this Leticia James um indictment for bank fraud, they say, is are these real are these claims going to hold up or is it just a bunch of BS and her lawyers will, you know, get it wiped away pretty soon?

Well, I saw a gentleman on X who goes by the name SMB attorney and he had an explanation about um what probably went on with this bank loan fraud stuff based on his experience as years as a mortgage banker.

Right?

So, he's going to give you inside information about a mortgage banker's knowledge of how this may or may not have happened.

Now, what I'm talking about is um Leticia James, the AG, who's been indicted for bank fraud, allegedly uh let's see what she claimed that uh how she she classified a property intentionally wrong or or accidentally wrong.

So, that's what we're going to determine.

But here's SMB attorney describing what uh what you need to know some context.

All right.

So, first of all, he has lots of experience in that business.

He was a mortgage lender for years, mortgage banker for years.

He goes, "Here's the deal.

How you classify a property as a primary, secondary, or investment home changes everything about the loan.

The down payment, the interest rate, the underwriting, all of it.

Primary or secondary homes can get by with as little as 3 to 15 3 to 10% down.

Investment property usually requires 25% or more.

So, if you're a brand new real estate investor with limited cash, there's a big incentive to call something a second home instead of an investment property.

But that's what u but that's why lenders make you sign a second home rider, a separate document where you specifically promise you'll use it as a second residence and not rent it out.

You also assert like nine times in the application process it will be owner occupied.

This is good.

This is good background stuff.

I was a banker so I'm nerding in on this a little bit more.

Um and then SMB attorney says, "Could this kind of thing ever be an honest mistake?" I doubt it.

The facts, at least as reported, look pretty bad.

You buy a house, say it's a second home, immediately rent it out, tell your insurer it's owner occupied, and then report rental income on your taxes.

He goes, "That's not a misunderstanding.

That's a pattern." Now, remember the documentary effect that I warned you about?

I've just given you one side of an argument with no no attention to any counterargument.

So, it's pretty it's pretty convincing, isn't it?

When you heard that, didn't you say to yourself, "Oh man, she's fried.

There's no way she's going to get out of that." Right?

That's the documentary effect because you only heard one side of an argument.

I don't know if there's another side of the argument, but I think they're pleading innocent.

So, that would suggest that they do have an argument.

The fact that you haven't heard that argument at all should should be at the top of your mind.

You should be saying to yourself, "Yeah, but they do have an argument.

We just haven't heard it yet." Okay, is that fair?

Cuz I knew that that would be super persuasive.

But don't be too persuaded by it.

She uh I still think it's unlikely that she'd have any jail time.

Um, I guess there's the possibility that there could be years and years of jail, but the reality for first offender for something like this time, you know, probably not suspended sentence, you know, and uh but there could be a fine according to Grock up to like half a million dollars.

So, it could be really expensive.

Anyway, um as you know, President Trump did not win a Nobel Prize because the Nobel Prize that they're giving this year is mostly for stuff that happened last year and before.

And most of uh his accomplishments happened this year.

So, it's no, it's not really a slap in the face or anything.

It's just the way the process works, I think.

But the the woman who did win it, Maria Karina Mashada, I guess um she would be a freedom fighter for Venezuela, she was smart enough to call him and actually tell him personally, I'm accepting this in honor of you because you really deserved it.

And then Trump got to tell that story that the person who won it called him and said that he deserved it.

That's pretty good.

Now, it makes you it makes you understand why she won the Nobel Peace Prize because how smart was that?

That was so smart to call him immediately and give him credit and say, you know, you should have won cuz she needs him 100% to get whatever it is she wants, you know, for Venezuela.

And uh talk about talk about the best way you could get him on your side.

So I don't know much about her but I know that if she you know got the attention of the Nobel Prize people there's there's something of substance there and then the one thing we observe is so so on point that you just say okay there's there's some substance there so keep an eye on this one.

So maybe and and then here's the you know the extra fun of this.

It could be that the only way that Trump could succeed with Venezuela to sort of decartellitize it is if he's got somebody as strong as her to be the the backs stop, you know, the person who could actually become the new leader.

So his fate and hers are could be quite tied.

You know, you don't get the uh Nobel Peace Prize if between now and the next time they award it uh you've started a war.

unless you finished it pretty quickly.

So, she could be the key to have some kind of relatively rapid wrap up of of things in Venezuela in a positive way for the Venezuelans.

So, keep an eye on that relationship.

That that might really have some legs.

Meanwhile, Melania Trump continues to be awesome.

I guess she worked on a deal separately with uh Putin to get some Ukrainian children released back to Ukraine and it was successful.

Didn't seem like she got much push back, if any.

And um I'm going to I'm going to give of course Melania full credit because the Trumps are the world champions at getting hostages back, you know, getting getting prisoners back.

No, nobody's ever done this better.

I mean, right?

And nobody's even been close.

This this is unbelievable um success in getting people back.

Now, Melania is doing it.

So, she's got her she says now she has an open channel of communication with Putin.

So, here's what I like about um Putin's persuasion game.

Don't misquote me.

I didn't say I like Putin.

I'm just saying that he's got a really strong persuasion game and the fact that he's playing um so nice with Melania.

It's just more of that it is so smart that he's extra nice to Melania and that there's just no friction whatsoever is created in that domain and it looks like he you know it looks like he's saving a cat and you know being the the good guy.

Uh, so he buys he buys a lot a whole bunch of goodwill for nothing.

So both of them did a good job on that.

Melania and Putin if you're just looking at the persuasion game.

Well, I saw a post by Masimo on X.

Um, and apparently there's some kind of breakthrough brain scan technique where they claim that uh Japanese scientists claim they can detect long CO.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that giant Japanese scientists have a new brain scan where they can actually find if you're suffering from long CO by looking at part of your brain?

I'm going to say I'm not even sure long CO is real.

Are are we so sure it's real that if you look at the scan, you can see it?

I don't know.

Do you believe they could see if it were the vaccine injury instead?

Do you think they could see that with their advanced scan?

I don't know.

I don't know.

So, and I whenever I see Japanese breakthroughs, I I kind of give them a little less credibility.

Do you do that too?

I feel like they at least just from an anecdotal perspective, I don't have any data on this, but it seems like the Japanese might be and maybe the maybe the South Koreans might be a little bit of overclaimers when it comes to science.

You know what I mean?

Just a little bit.

Well, uh, podcaster, journalist, I don't know what he would call himself, but let's say podcaster, journalist, independent, independent journalist.

Benny Johnson, uh, has announced that apparently there was somebody been threatening his family and he got Pam Bondi involved and that person got arrested.

So, somebody had threatened to kill his wife and kids and uh, nothing in person, I guess, just sent a letter.

Who would be dumb enough to send a physical letter threatening somebody's life?

How old do you have to be to think that that's the way to go about that?

Like to write a physical letter threatening somebody's life?

Wow.

Well, um, so good on you, Benny Johnson, for fighting back against that, being aggressive, and I'm glad that, uh, Bondi is responding to that.

Well, apparently Trump has now struck a deal with big pharma company Astroenica for what is being reported by just the news as uh offering uh what do they call it the uh most favored nation pricing now.

So, so that's what the news is, but I don't believe the news because here's the problem.

In order for these big pharma companies to do what Trump wants, which is to give the United States the same low pricing as, you know, the best price another country gets, there is such a difference that the only way they can maintain their profitability if they were to lower the US prices since we're the biggest market.

The only way they could do that is to massively increase their prices for third world countries until they wouldn't be able to afford their meds.

Or what is there some third thing I don't know about?

They either have to not do it and keep making their money and hoping they get away with it or if they lower if they actually do this and give the US the same prices as the lowest price.

There isn't any way they could maintain profitability.

So how did they do this?

There's something there's something in the story that's missing, right?

Would you agree?

There's something missing.

It's either limited to just a few drugs because I think that's what uh was it Fizer?

I think Fizer was just limited to a few drugs.

So, it sounded like it was a bigger deal than it was.

I didn't see that this is limited, but it's got to be limited somehow.

There's no way they can just lower their prices.

Well, Gavin Newsome is doing his uh Gavin Newsome jazz hands cursing thing, which he believes is how he will jazz hands curse himself into the presidency.

and uh he he's playing this childlike uh mental game with Joe Rogan to try to get invited on the Joe Rogan podcast because Joe said some negative things about his chances of being president.

And uh so so here's how he responds to that.

Um he boasted that he was quote punching back at that quote son of a Joe Rogan.

He said, "Joe, why won't you have me on the show?" Uh, he was on another podcast when he said this.

He said, "He you he won't have me on the show.

It's a one way and he has guests coming on attacking and bashing, but he won't have me on the show.

Full stop.

He should have me on the show." And uh basically challenged him to do it.

Now, does it does it seem to you that cursing and insulting Joe Rogan is how you get him to invite you on the show?

Now, I will admit that it probably does uh stimulate Joe's competitive instincts and it probably makes him curious about what would happen.

You know, it probably it probably does make him want to invite him.

On the other hand, you can't invite somebody if they do it that way.

He he's sort of eliminating himself by the way he's doing it.

But at the same time, he probably probably I can't read his mind, of course, but if I were Joe, I'd be thinking, "Damn it, I do want to invite you.

But I can't do it now because you're you're so obviously trying to manipulate me in front of the public.

I I can't just like bow to the manipulation.

I can't do it because you swore at me.

It's going to look like it's going to look like I invited you because you cursed at me.

So, uh, I'm going to guess that he doesn't get an invitation, but I could be wrong about that.

I could be wrong.

Again, I can't read anybody's mind.

So, Joe might just say, "All right, this is fun." And that might be the end of it.

This would be fun.

If he thinks it's fun, well, that's the end of the conversation.

It'd be fun.

go ahead and do it.

Um, it would definitely make news.

You know what else?

Uh, Joe Rogan could end Newsome's run for president without even really trying hard because I don't think Newsome's ever been challenged in quite the way that maybe he should be.

And I think that Joe could pull that off probably better than anybody.

probably this what else using the word punching.

I'm punching Joe Rogan.

Oh, and then he goes, he's going to dismiss it.

He's going to laugh it off.

Tough guy and all that, but is he going to have me on?

I don't know.

It It is kind of It's sort of high school funny.

like I can't really turn away because he does make me watch.

So that's one of the things that Nuome does well.

He does make you not be able to turn away.

You just got to watch whatever he's doing.

So he's got that going for him.

Um so apparently the uh the left has decided that their talking point about Antifa is that it really doesn't exist.

Isn't that wild?

and they and they can somewhat get away with it.

Probably 40 to 50% of all the the public will think the Antifa doesn't exist because they're going to hear that repeated over and over.

Well, there's no Antifa.

Well, what are those gigantic crowds of people that call themselves Antifa?

Oh, that's just spontaneously organized people who just have an affinity for it.

No, no, but it's not like they have a leadership.

Well, how are they collecting money if they don't have a leadership?

Well, okay.

Well, they have some ways for money to get around, but not in a leadership way.

Well, how do they decide who gets what money?

Well, so u but one of the people is Jimmy Kimmel.

So, he was mocking Christine Gnome, I guess, and uh and and referring to Antifa as quote an entirely imaginary organization.

Uh, and then some other people, there were some other talking heads that people had captured saying the same thing.

Oh, it's imaginary.

It's imaginary.

And but they were the ones who were saying it's imaginary were saying it's not like the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front.

Because they said those are real real organizations, not like Antifa.

That's just totally imaginary.

So I went to Grock and I said, "How many people are in the Proud Boys?" And the estimate was from 300 to 3,000.

I guess at one point might have been a few thousand more than that, but uh it's it's uh losing a little bit of its esteem.

But what if the Proud Boys is really only 300 people?

And then I asked it about the Patriot Front because that was also mentioned and it said there were 200 to 300 people.

This is in the entire nation.

Don't you think that every single Antifa event had more than 300 people and more than a thousand?

Probably.

There's so many more Antifa people than there are Proud Boys or Patriot Front.

So many more now, but there's no estimate.

Grock doesn't have an estimate for Antifa.

But don't you think if you did some kind of a survey, just asked people if they're Antifa, you you guess something like 1%, which would be a lot of people.

Definitely more than the Proud Boys in the Patriot Front.

So, now we're hearing a little bit more about how this uh the deal with Gaza got done.

uh we're hearing that uh Jared Kushner might have been far more important to the process than has been reported so far.

So that's one thing that that it looks like.

Um and uh it looks like uh Qatar or Qatar as you like to say is maybe one of the big stories behind the curtain.

So Qatar wanted some things, but we wanted some things from Qatar, which is to back a peace deal.

And what Qatar wanted was uh I guess they got some uh dedicated space where they can test their their jets that were selling them, the ones who were selling them.

They can test them and train in the United States within the bounds of some American base.

They'll have their own little uh their own little space, but it'll be controlled by America.

So there they don't have their own base.

They would just have some space for training that they would pay for that would be on an American base because apparently there's their country is so small they don't really have a good place to test jets.

So they'll test them here, they'll buy them here, they'll put billions of dollars into buying more of them here.

So, it turns out it was a good deal for us because we sell some more jets and we'll have a place that they can test them so they feel comfortable getting them.

And um apparently Qar wanted to get in better with the United States and not be seen as half a terrorist supporter and half a supporter of the West.

you know, they want they want to be more of a more on the clean side of things.

So, it's sort of a way for them to reposition themselves with the United States entirely by doing something for us that presumably will get them some uh get them some favors in return.

So, Cutter seems to be a big part of the backstory.

And the fact that we were able to cut her a deal with Cutter, uh, probably has a lot to do with how we got to this point.

And like I said, if Hillary Clinton is saying yes, it must be that there's so much money that's going to be funneled into that area for rebuilding and the Abraham Accords and everything else that probably all the big money people just said ch-ching.

You know, I'm just guessing like did all the bankers just say, "All right, we can make some money on this." Did all the construction people, the betells, did all the military-industrial complex people say, "Oh man, we can make some money on this." I think so, probably.

You know, the the hotel industry, u probably the oil industry.

I don't know.

Maybe not.

But it does seem to me like everybody just said, "Why don't we just make some money and we're done with this terrorism stuff?" Let's see if I can get what's left of my notes here.

Um, so that's happening.

Let's see what else is happening.

One moment, please.

So, according to a Harvard Caps Harris poll, uh, 71% of Americans support Trump's strikes on the smuggling boats, the ones off of Venezuela.

Republicans like it a lot, 89%, independent 67, and even Democrats by a majority, 56%.

So, to me, this is another one of those Trump takes the strong side of the the question and uh even if it doesn't work out, he's still the one who took the strong side of the issue.

So, I'm loving that.

Well, there's a new report Wall Street Journal that the wine industry in California where I am is having a tough time for two reasons.

One, people are just drinking less.

But number two, apparently the weather was unusually good.

So that that global warming stuff uh turned out to be one of the best summers ever.

So there's like a just a crap ton of grapes.

So we have way too many grapes at the same time that there's, you know, lower demand.

So the wine business is falling apart.

Uh it's California, so you know that the Hollywood movie making business has already fallen apart.

And uh if we did not have a boom in AI, uh even the tech business would look like it's winding down.

So, California is sort of looking good, but only because of AI.

I think I don't think there's anything else driving anything else.

And AI is probably going to put quite a load on our energy infrastructure.

So, I know somehow somehow California just keeps floating along, but I feel like we keep getting closer and closer to the edge.

Yeah.

How how many entire industries could you wipe out in California and still have a state?

I guess we're going to find out.

Um, and the crypto market went to hell, as you know.

But, um, I don't know how much you should worry about the crypto market.

isn't the very nature of it that it's it's volatile and that uh if you're just in the weird little cryptos, you know, it was a big risk and if you're in Bitcoin, you're probably going to huddle it, which is hold it.

Um, so you probably don't care.

I don't know.

Does is anybody panicked about crypto or you just sort of watching it?

I think I would just watch it at this point.

You know, I kept telling you that there there are all these uh tests going on for a vaccine to cure cancer or to keep it from happening.

Uh here's another one.

There's another nextgen vaccine to prevent up to 88% of multiple aggressive cancers according to Paul Mccclure in the New Alice.

Um so you don't need to know too much more about this one.

Uh because I went to Grock and I said how many current trials are there where somebody's trying to fix cancer with a vaccine where they made the vaccine out of usually something about your body.

So it's about you specifically the vaccine is and I and I said there were seven of them.

So there were seven ongoing trials that were cancer vaccines.

Now, I don't think any of them will be ready in time, you know, to save me.

But it does look like maybe there's something there, you know, may maybe for the rest of you.

I'll see if I can last long enough to get to the vaccines, but it does look like some of that's going to work.

Works on animals anyway.

So, working on animals is only like a one in 20 chance that it's going to work on humans.

Um the Portland Police Union is welcoming the uh federal uh help, you know, the the federal troops.

Uh whereas the government is saying, "We don't need no federal troops.

We don't have a problem here." And so the Portland uh violence is also being called imaginary.

So now, so now we're being told that Antifa is an imaginary group and that the violence around the ICE facilities and stuff in Portland is also so small that if you imagine it's a it's a big problem, that's just imaginary.

And I don't know what is right.

Is it possible that the news is uh exaggerating the the real danger in Portland?

Because I think it could be a little of both.

It could be that the danger is not that great, but at the same time, the police do want help because the police have been degraded so much that they can't even handle, you know, a modest threat.

So, it could be a combination of not enough police and a little bit of trouble that wouldn't ordinarily be a lot of trouble because you would have a lot of police.

So, I don't know what's through there, but uh once again, as long as Trump takes the strong approach and he's the one who's looking to clamp down on crime and Portland is looking like the ones they don't care as much about crime, Trump wins.

I think he wins just by being the strong one.

MIT says they have a new gene editing tool.

Sounds kind of boring and nerdlike, but it would be 60 times fewer mistakes than before.

Because, you know, gene editing, if you could do gene editing quickly and efficiently and economically, there's a whole bunch of stuff you can fix.

And uh, you know, this is just a movement in the right direction.

But if they could actually make that much of a improvement in the gene editing technology, well, you you might get yourself a new head, you know, that new head you've been wanting.

It's getting closer.

All right, that's all I have for today.

It is a Saturday, so you should be petting your cats and having a good time.

Um, I did promise you that I would read you a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

I started with one, but I think I'm going to randomly pick another one because they're so useful.

If this works out, maybe I'll make it a thing.

So, it's from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

And uh I'll just pick the first one from the social life category.

There's reframes for every domain, but in the social life reframe, the first one is the old the old frame used to be be yourself.

Anybody ever used to give you that advice to be yourself?

Terrible advice.

Here's here's the reframe.

Become a better version of yourself.

If you're satisfied being yourself, people aren't going to want to be around you.

You're not that good.

You need some work and you should admit that you're a work in progress.

People will like you better if you admit you've got some work to do.

Try being better.

You should be working on some kind of a system or a process or uh finding some way to be the improved version of yourself.

You should be getting smarter, healthier.

You should become wiser, kinder.

You should be trying to get your, you know, your depression down and get your mental health better.

You should be trying to get different in every possible way.

People, people ask me when uh I've told you this story before, but uh people asked me if when I hit it big with Dilbert and I went from not having money to well, people asked me if uh being famous and successful changed me.

Did it change me?

And I'd always laugh and say, "Well, I hope so.

That was the whole point.

Why would I go through all that work to be the same person?

The the whole everything that I do has at least a secondary ambition of changing me.

Like I don't go to the gym because it doesn't change me.

I I don't work hard in my career because it won't change me.

I do it so it will.

If I want to feel confident, what am I supposed to do?

just sit in a chair and try to jin up some confidence.

No, I'm going to go do something and then if it works, guess what?

I get more confident.

So, no, I'm every day in every way I'm trying to figure out how to be like a little bit better version of myself.

So, if anybody ever tells you the key to success is be yourself, you're getting some bad advice.

Be better.

Just be better.

All right, that is your reframe of the day.

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Exactly.

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So,

um, I do not have a source for this

next, well, the fir first story, but,

uh, I saw somebody say it and I knew it

was true, so I'm going to repeat it.

They they did a study to find out what

is it that women can say to men that

would make the men feel as good as when

the men say to the women, "I love you."

Does anybody know the answer? What what

two words?

The the answer is thank you. So

apparently if you say thank you and show

appreciation to a man, his brain lights

up about the same as if you had said I

love you to a woman. How many women knew

that?

Now, I've always thought that one of the

problems with the relationships is that

people feel like it's a power battle and

that if you if you show appreciation to

somebody, you're giving up your power

and it's like you owe them. If you say

thank you to your mate, it's like, oh,

now I owe you something. So, I feel like

people don't want to say thank you too

much.

Actually, I'm going to skip ahead. I

told you that uh I might read a reframe

from my book reframe your brain

but I think I'll do it right now. So

this is in the section on social life

reframes

and it's about uh compliments

and uh so here's the usual frame. Here's

what we usually think about giving

compliments. Um, usually giving

compliments is awkward, creepy, or it

feels manipulative, as in, you know,

you're trying to guess something for

your compliment or something. Here's the

reframe. Withholding a compliment is

almost immoral.

If you have a compliment in your mind

about somebody and they're standing

right there or you could easily reach

them and you don't give them the

compliment even though you're thinking

it, it's almost immoral. It's free and

it would be highly valuable to the

person who received it. So if you have

something that you could deliver for

free

and and it would help a person, it would

be immoral to not do it. So, when you

think about potential compliments,

think of them that way. It'll make your

life a lot better. People will like you

better if you're good at complimenting.

How many times have I started my show by

telling you there's a new study on

psychedelics that make your mental

health better? Well, here's another one,

except this is about your physical

health. Specifically, they're finding

that, and they're doing more testing,

but they think that uh psilocybin will

make your brain feel more relaxed. And

when you relax the brain, it releases

less cortisol and inflammatory stuff.

And they believe that they can get more

than a temporary more than a temporary

decrease in inflammation in your body

by using psychedelics to help you get

control of your mind. Because we know

that psychedelics can have a temporary

control on your mind.

But more lately, we're finding out it

could be a semi-permanent change where,

you know, one small controlled dose of

psilocybin could set your depression

away, your anxiety away for, you know,

months or years. And if that happens, in

theory, your your full body inflammation

will be less, and that would help you

with a whole bunch of stuff. So, is

there anything that psychedelics can't

do?

Not that I know of.

Sorry, it's going to be a little slow

because getting to my notes is more of a

challenge this morning.

There you go.

Which cat is this? This must be Yeah,

it's Roman. Roman the cat.

All right. Um

and uh apparently the uh the mushrooms

that would have a advantage over

steroids because it wouldn't have a side

effect

whereas steroids do. All right. So

here's a little update on UFOs. Tim

Burchett. Uh, Representative Burchett

was on Tucker Carlson. And I guess Tim

has been sort of a point person in

Congress for looking into or finding out

about UFOs and UAPs and all that. Now,

he seems convinced that they're real

because people who talk to him who seem

like credible people are whispering in

his ear things that sound real. And uh

there are some people who have said

things under oath at this point. He says

that would suggest that we have alien

bodies or alien crafts. Now I'm going to

I'm going to come down firmly on the

side of I don't believe any of it. I do

not believe we have any alien bodies. I

do not believe we've ever had access to

an alien craft. It's just too far for

me. and the fact that you know we never

we never talk to the person who is

directly involved. It's always the

person who talked to the person really.

So anyway uh so my update is this. I

don't know if that asteroid that's

coming into our solar system is really a

advanced spacecraft. I don't know if the

pyramids or any of our early stuff were

influenced in any way by aliens who

invisited the earth. No idea.

And I I certainly don't know if we have

access, you know, if we're holding on to

any alien bodies. But do you enjoy it as

much as I do just thinking about it? I

just love thinking about it. So even

though I I wish I could kind of believe

it, I can't really get there, but it's

very entertaining. So it's very

entertaining belief. So every time Tim

Buret is Buret is on, you know, I'm like

ah got to watch all this.

All right,

the new the news is uh a little bit slow

today. So might be a little more science

than the news today.

Um, according to the University of South

Australia,

a lot of people who have mental health

problems have gut problems and they

think that the gut microbes might be

shaping your mental health. Do you know

they could have just asked? That's

right, me. Cuz I always I'm always

telling you that your your body is your

your brain. And if you think of them as

separate units, then you will be

confused. Because if you want your brain

to work better, you put better food into

it, better exercise, better sleep. Your

your body is your brain. So should you

be surprised

that changing the gut micro might make

some people mentally healthier? No, you

should not be surprised.

Well, I guess Trump already went to

Walter Reed,

got them to say that he's his body is 14

years younger than his chronological

age. He got his flu shot and got his

COVID booster. you know, he's in sort of

a tough position

because even though his administration

is, you know, reducing the

recommendations for COVID boosters all

the way to well, you know, maybe if

you're over 65,

maybe if you have some co-orbidities,

and you know, maybe if you and your

doctor think so, you know, so that so

the sort of still allowed recommended

range is small, but he's in it. So given

that he would like to be thought of as

having made the right decisions during

the pandemic, it'd be kind of awkward if

he didn't get a booster shot, wouldn't

it? But at the same time, do you really

think that that he feels he's safer with

a booster shot? I don't know. He might

be

if you told me later that he only

pretended to get the booster shot, I

wouldn't be super surprised.

But there a lot of witnesses, so

probably got the real stuff. Anyway, so

I think he has to get those shots to

protect his legacy. So it still looks

like at least maybe the shots for the

old people made sense.

He doesn't really have a perfect uh play

there.

Um, even Hillary Clinton has commended,

she even used that word, I commend uh,

President Trump for the what she calls

significant progress in the the Gaza

situation. How do you interpret that?

How do you interpret that the you know

most dependable critic of the president

obviously somebody thwarted uh who has a

long history of hating him that even she

was not looking for the downside.

How do you interpret that? Here's how I

interpret it. Yeah. I think it means

that she found out how to make money.

Don't you think? because what this will

lead to this whole Abraham Accord thing

if the Abraham Accords expands it looks

like it might uh but at the very least

it'll be massive money flowing into the

area and don't you think that Hillary

Clinton may have possibly even cut a

deal to say I'll support this as long as

we get a taste you as long as one of my

one of my friends gets a big contract

I'll I'll say, "I'm all on board for

this." There's got to be a monetary

incentive there. Cuz if it were just

purely political, I think she'd say

something like, "What took you so long?"

or "It's going to fall apart," or, "You

did part of it wrong." Or, "The only way

you got it is working with Russia." You

know, something like that. She must have

found a way to make some money there.

Well, the biggest news is that China

start uh well, I won't say they started

a trade war, but they accelerated it.

So, the the details are a little murky.

Still a little fog of war going on, but

looks like they're massively tightening

up on their rare earth materials, which

would be a gigantic problem for the

economy of the United States. And our

stock market responded by going in the

toilet as did the crypto market all

responding to the fact that uh

international trade is at great risk

uh or some risk. I don't I don't know if

it's great risk because the smart people

are saying that what China is doing is

creating assets to trade away because

there's a big trade talks coming up. So,

I'm always telling you that uh Trump is

the champion of creating something out

of nothing and then trading the nothing

away for something.

And that looks like what China just did.

So, uh they created a something out of

nothing by creating massive barriers to

getting their rare earth materials. Now,

when they negotiate, they have something

to trade away that they made out of

nothing. So, it's a very Trumpian

approach and clearly they've studied his

approach so they know how to do this

stuff. Um, so it's too early to know if

this is a big deal or just a medium big

deal. It's at least a medium big deal.

But what we don't know is is it really

just a bargaining chip and it will get

bargained away and you know we just have

to be uncomfortable for 3 months until

we know what's going on with that stuff.

Maybe could also be because it's so

illdefined that it won't be bargained

away. It'll be defined away as in well,

you know, now that we give you the

details, we didn't mean that it would

apply to any phones and then that like

whole category will be excluded and then

we'll be like, oh, I thought it was

going to be worse, but doesn't include

phones and it won't include laptops.

Oh. Oh, you know. So, so it'll end up

being defined smaller but also

negotiated. So, who knows? Uh, but it's

a big deal. It's a big deal.

I would uh if I were giving advice,

I would say the odds of us getting some

kind of a workable solution eventually

is pretty high. So, I'd be gambling that

it does get worked out in, I don't know,

several months, maybe if you're patient.

Might even be faster. Could be a lot

faster if both sides feel enough pain

fast enough.

Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.

Um, there's talk that Trump might stop

by and see his little buddy, Rocket Man,

Kim Jong-un, while he's uh um over there

for something else. So, he would be in

Soul uh visiting for something else, I

guess. And uh they're thinking that he

might uh have a little side visit and

meet with his buddy. Now, remember how I

I kept telling you that uh Trump could

succeed with this Gaza stuff because he

changed reality. He didn't just

negotiate. He just changed how they saw

the whole thing. He he turned a no into

a yes and made them see it as a yes. And

then they started acting like it was a

yes. Well, that's kind of what you do

with North Korea. So the the the North

Korea question was, "What are you going

to do about them threatening to nuke

us?"

That was the question. And and he took

that question and instead of

negotiating, hey, don't nuke us, we'll

we'll give you this if you don't nuke

us. Or if you do nuke us, we'll do this

to you. That'd be more like direct

negotiating. You just change the

reality.

So the reality was it looked like we

were some kind of enemies and he just

reframed it to we're friends. Oh, we're

friends. You're my buddy. I'd like to

come visit my friend. And then suddenly

it didn't really make sense to me to be

threatening each other with nuclear

annihilation because he just reframed

reality to why enemy.

Who's your enemy? I'm not your enemy.

I'm your friend. Let's get together.

So only he can do that. That is a pure

Trump play that's just it's just not

available to other people. They they

just wouldn't be able to pull it off.

So we'll see if that happens. Should

happen. Well, I guess the government and

Russ vote is doing the layoffs they

promise. He's the budget director. So,

uh, they're going to use it use the

government shutdown as their excuse to

fire a bunch of Democrats who are

working for the government or not for

long, I guess. So, I don't know if

there'll be some kind of court cases to

the firing. I feel like there will,

right? Won't there be a rogue judge who

says, "Well,

we must block this nationwide."

Seems like it. Seems like it.

Well, there's some thought and Speaker

Johnson's kind of worked up about this.

You can see why that uh that the

Democrats might want to keep the the

government closed to make it a better no

kings rally a week from now um on

October 18th.

So, so there's another one of those big

uh artificial

um paid for rallies that that are being

planned, the no kings. And I guess the

no kings rally wouldn't have enough to

talk about because because the Middle

East is all solved.

They wouldn't have enough to talk about

unless they uh unless the government was

closed. So, they'd have, you know, a

good complaint. Ah, that mean old Trump

closing that government. So it looks

like the Democrats for that reason alone

to support their fake paid protest so

that it so they can pretend that there's

more resistance to Trump than there is.

They might keep the government closed.

Like that would be one of the reasons to

keep it closed. Oh my god, our

government is terrible. At least half of

it is.

Anyway, well, I don't know if that's the

real reason, but I I was saw one of the

organizers of that no kings uh rally,

and he was walking this real fine line

because he wanted people to feel

outraged about what's happening in the

country so that they would be

incentivized to go to the, you know, go

to the protest. So he wants them to feel

unhappy to go to the protest, but he

wanted to sell the protest as a good

time so that more people would go

because he's in the business of

organizing protests. So he tried to tell

you how much fun you would have with,

you know, meeting new meeting new people

and having friends and it'd be a nice

day out. And he was trying to sell them

at the same time that, you know, that

we're suffering this existential threat

to our democracy. And by the way, it'll

be a good time. Yeah, it's it's like a

party. Oh, did I mention it's an

existential threat to the entire

country, but but but you'll meet some

nice people. It's more about the nice

people you meet along the way. And he

totally can't sell it because you just

can't do those same same things at the

same time. and uh watching how

artificial and fake it is and then

hearing that they might keep the

government closed just to get enough

people to go to the fake stupid uh

completely irrational protests. Wow,

good work, Democrats.

So, you know, one of the questions

people had about this Leticia James um

indictment for bank fraud, they say, is

are these real are these claims going to

hold up or is it just a bunch of BS and

her lawyers will, you know, get it wiped

away pretty soon? Well, I saw a

gentleman on X who goes by the name SMB

attorney and he had an explanation about

um what probably went on with this bank

loan fraud stuff based on his experience

as years as a mortgage banker. Right?

So, he's going to give you inside

information about a mortgage banker's

knowledge of how this may or may not

have happened. Now, what I'm talking

about is um Leticia James, the AG, who's

been indicted for bank fraud, allegedly

uh let's see what she claimed that

uh how she she classified a property

intentionally wrong or or accidentally

wrong. So, that's what we're going to

determine. But here's SMB attorney

describing what uh what you need to know

some context. All right. So, first of

all, he has lots of experience in that

business. He was a mortgage lender for

years, mortgage banker for years. He

goes, "Here's the deal. How you classify

a property as a primary, secondary, or

investment home changes everything about

the loan. The down payment, the interest

rate, the underwriting, all of it.

Primary or secondary homes can get by

with as little as 3 to 15 3 to 10% down.

Investment property usually requires 25%

or more. So, if you're a brand new real

estate investor with limited cash,

there's a big incentive to call

something a second home instead of an

investment property.

But that's what u but that's why lenders

make you sign a second home rider, a

separate document where you specifically

promise you'll use it as a second

residence and not rent it out. You also

assert like nine times in the

application process it will be owner

occupied.

This is good. This is good background

stuff. I was a banker so I'm nerding in

on this a little bit more.

Um and then SMB

attorney says, "Could this kind of thing

ever be an honest mistake?" I doubt it.

The facts, at least as reported, look

pretty bad. You buy a house, say it's a

second home, immediately rent it out,

tell your insurer it's owner occupied,

and then report rental income on your

taxes. He goes, "That's not a

misunderstanding. That's a pattern."

Now, remember the documentary effect

that I warned you about? I've just given

you one side of an argument with no no

attention to any counterargument. So,

it's pretty it's pretty convincing,

isn't it?

When you heard that, didn't you say to

yourself, "Oh man, she's fried. There's

no way she's going to get out of that."

Right? That's the documentary effect

because you only heard one side of an

argument. I don't know if there's

another side of the argument, but I

think they're pleading innocent. So,

that would suggest that they do have an

argument. The fact that you haven't

heard that argument at all

should should be at the top of your

mind. You should be saying to yourself,

"Yeah, but they do have an argument. We

just haven't heard it yet." Okay, is

that fair?

Cuz I knew that that would be super

persuasive.

But don't be too persuaded by it. She uh

I still think it's unlikely that she'd

have any jail time. Um, I guess there's

the possibility that there could be

years and years of jail, but the reality

for first offender for something like

this

time, you know, probably not suspended

sentence,

you know, and uh but there could be a

fine according to Grock up to like half

a million dollars. So, it could be

really expensive.

Anyway, um as you know, President Trump

did not win a Nobel Prize because the

Nobel Prize that they're giving this

year is mostly for stuff that happened

last year and before. And most of uh his

accomplishments happened this year. So,

it's no, it's not really a slap in the

face or anything. It's just the way the

process works, I think. But the the

woman who did win it, Maria Karina

Mashada, I guess um she would be a

freedom fighter for Venezuela, she was

smart enough to call him and actually

tell him personally, I'm accepting this

in honor of you because you really

deserved it.

And then Trump got to tell that story

that the person who won it called him

and said that he deserved it. That's

pretty good. Now, it makes you it makes

you understand why she won the Nobel

Peace Prize because how smart was that?

That was so smart to call him

immediately and give him credit and say,

you know, you should have won cuz she

needs him 100% to get whatever it is she

wants, you know, for Venezuela. And uh

talk about talk about the best way you

could get him on your side.

So I don't know much about her but I

know that if she you know got the

attention of the Nobel Prize people

there's there's something of substance

there and then the one thing we observe

is so so on point that you just say okay

there's there's some substance there so

keep an eye on this one. So maybe and

and then here's the you know the extra

fun of this.

It could be that the only way that Trump

could succeed with Venezuela to sort of

decartellitize it is if he's got

somebody as strong as her to be the the

backs stop, you know, the person who

could actually become the new leader. So

his fate and hers are could be quite

tied. You know, you don't get the uh

Nobel Peace Prize if between now and the

next time they award it uh you've

started a war.

unless you finished it pretty quickly.

So, she could be the key to have some

kind of

relatively rapid wrap up of of things in

Venezuela in a positive way for the

Venezuelans.

So, keep an eye on that relationship.

That that might really have some legs.

Meanwhile, Melania Trump continues to be

awesome. I guess she worked on a deal

separately with uh Putin to get some

Ukrainian children released back to

Ukraine and it was successful. Didn't

seem like she got much push back, if

any. And um I'm going to I'm going to

give of course Melania full credit

because the Trumps are the world

champions at getting hostages back, you

know, getting getting prisoners back.

No, nobody's ever done this better. I

mean, right? And nobody's even been

close. This this is unbelievable

um success in getting people back. Now,

Melania is doing it. So, she's got her

she says now she has an open channel of

communication with Putin. So, here's

what I like about um Putin's persuasion

game. Don't misquote me. I didn't say I

like Putin. I'm just saying that he's

got a really strong persuasion game and

the fact that he's playing um so nice

with Melania.

It's just more of that

it is so smart that he's extra nice to

Melania and that there's just no

friction whatsoever is created in that

domain and it looks like he you know it

looks like he's saving a cat and you

know being the the good guy. Uh, so he

buys he buys a lot a whole bunch of

goodwill for nothing.

So both of them did a good job on that.

Melania and Putin if you're just looking

at the persuasion game.

Well, I saw a post by Masimo on X. Um,

and apparently there's some kind of

breakthrough brain scan technique where

they claim that uh Japanese scientists

claim they can detect long CO.

Do you believe that? Do you believe that

giant Japanese scientists have a new

brain scan where they can actually find

if you're suffering from long CO by

looking at part of your brain?

I'm going to say I'm not even sure long

CO is real.

Are are we so sure it's real that if you

look at the scan, you can see it? I

don't know. Do you believe they could

see if it were the vaccine injury

instead? Do you think they could see

that with their advanced scan? I don't

know. I don't know.

So,

and I whenever I see Japanese

breakthroughs,

I I kind of give them a little less

credibility. Do you do that too? I feel

like they at least just from an

anecdotal perspective, I don't have any

data on this, but it seems like the

Japanese might be and maybe the maybe

the South Koreans might be a little bit

of overclaimers

when it comes to science. You know what

I mean?

Just a little bit. Well, uh, podcaster,

journalist, I don't know what he would

call himself, but let's say podcaster,

journalist, independent, independent

journalist. Benny Johnson, uh, has

announced that apparently there was

somebody been threatening his family and

he got Pam Bondi involved and that

person got arrested. So, somebody had

threatened to kill his wife and kids and

uh, nothing in person, I guess, just

sent a letter.

Who would be dumb enough to send a

physical letter threatening somebody's

life? How old do you have to be to think

that that's the way to go about that?

Like to write a physical letter

threatening somebody's life?

Wow.

Well, um, so good on you, Benny Johnson,

for fighting back against that, being

aggressive, and I'm glad that, uh, Bondi

is responding to that.

Well, apparently Trump has now struck a

deal with big pharma company Astroenica

for what is being reported by just the

news as uh offering uh what do they call

it the uh most favored nation pricing

now. So, so that's what the news is, but

I don't believe the news because here's

the problem. In order for these big

pharma companies to do what Trump wants,

which is to give the United States the

same low pricing as, you know, the best

price another country gets, there is

such a difference that the only way they

can maintain their profitability if they

were to lower the US prices since we're

the biggest market. The only way they

could do that is to massively increase

their prices for third world countries

until they wouldn't be able to afford

their meds.

Or what is there some third thing I

don't know about? They either have to

not do it and keep making their money

and hoping they get away with it or if

they lower if they actually do this and

give the US the same prices as the

lowest price.

There isn't any way they could maintain

profitability. So how did they do this?

There's something there's something in

the story that's missing, right? Would

you agree? There's something missing.

It's either limited to just a few drugs

because I think that's what uh was it

Fizer? I think Fizer was just limited to

a few drugs. So, it sounded like it was

a bigger deal than it was. I didn't see

that this is limited, but it's got to be

limited somehow. There's no way they can

just lower their prices.

Well, Gavin Newsome is doing his uh

Gavin Newsome jazz hands cursing thing,

which he believes is how he will jazz

hands curse himself into the presidency.

and uh he he's playing this

childlike uh mental game with Joe Rogan

to try to get invited on the Joe Rogan

podcast because Joe said some negative

things about his chances of being

president. And uh so so here's how he

responds to that. Um he boasted that he

was quote punching back at that quote

son of a Joe Rogan.

He said, "Joe, why won't you have me on

the show?" Uh, he was on another podcast

when he said this. He said, "He you he

won't have me on the show. It's a one

way and he has guests coming on

attacking and bashing, but he won't have

me on the show. Full stop. He should

have me on the show."

And uh basically challenged him to do

it. Now, does it does it seem to you

that cursing and insulting Joe Rogan is

how you get him to invite you on the

show?

Now, I will admit

that it probably does uh stimulate Joe's

competitive

instincts and it probably makes him

curious about what would happen. You

know, it probably it probably does make

him want to invite him. On the other

hand, you can't invite somebody if they

do it that way. He he's sort of

eliminating himself by the way he's

doing it. But at the same time, he

probably probably I can't read his mind,

of course, but if I were Joe, I'd be

thinking, "Damn it, I do want to invite

you. But I can't do it now because

you're you're so obviously trying to

manipulate me in front of the public. I

I can't just like bow to the

manipulation. I can't do it because you

swore at me. It's going to look like

it's going to look like I invited you

because you cursed at me. So, uh, I'm

going to guess that he doesn't get an

invitation, but I could be wrong about

that. I could be wrong. Again, I can't

read anybody's mind. So, Joe might just

say, "All right, this is fun." And that

might be the end of it. This would be

fun. If he thinks it's fun, well, that's

the end of the conversation. It'd be

fun. go ahead and do it.

Um, it would definitely make news.

You know what else? Uh, Joe Rogan could

end Newsome's run for president

without even really trying hard

because I don't think

Newsome's ever been challenged in quite

the way that

maybe he should be. And I think that Joe

could pull that off probably better than

anybody.

probably

this what else using the word punching.

I'm punching Joe Rogan.

Oh, and then he goes, he's going to

dismiss it. He's going to laugh it off.

Tough guy and all that, but is he going

to have me on? I don't know.

It It is kind of

It's sort of high school funny. like I

can't really turn away because he does

make me watch. So that's one of the

things that Nuome does well. He does

make you not be able to turn away. You

just got to watch whatever he's doing.

So he's got that going for him.

Um so apparently the uh the left has

decided that their talking point about

Antifa is that it really doesn't exist.

Isn't that wild? and they and they can

somewhat get away with it. Probably 40

to 50% of all the the public will think

the Antifa doesn't exist because they're

going to hear that repeated over and

over. Well, there's no Antifa. Well,

what are those gigantic crowds of people

that call themselves Antifa? Oh, that's

just spontaneously organized people who

just have an affinity for it. No, no,

but it's not like they have a

leadership. Well, how are they

collecting money if they don't have a

leadership? Well, okay. Well, they have

some ways for money to get around, but

not in a leadership way. Well, how do

they decide who gets what money? Well,

so u but one of the people is Jimmy

Kimmel. So, he was mocking Christine

Gnome, I guess, and uh and and referring

to Antifa as quote an entirely imaginary

organization.

Uh, and then some other people, there

were some other talking heads that

people had captured saying the same

thing. Oh, it's imaginary. It's

imaginary. And but they were the ones

who were saying it's imaginary were

saying it's not like the Proud Boys or

the Patriot Front. Because they said

those are real real organizations, not

like Antifa. That's just totally

imaginary. So I went to Grock and I

said, "How many people are in the Proud

Boys?" And the estimate was from 300 to

3,000. I guess at one point might have

been a few thousand more than that, but

uh it's it's uh losing a little bit of

its esteem. But what if the Proud Boys

is really only 300 people?

And then I asked it about the Patriot

Front because that was also mentioned

and it said there were 200 to 300

people. This is in the entire nation.

Don't you think that every single Antifa

event had more than 300 people and more

than a thousand? Probably.

There's so many more Antifa people than

there are Proud Boys or Patriot Front.

So many more now, but there's no

estimate. Grock doesn't have an estimate

for Antifa. But don't you think if you

did some kind of a survey, just asked

people if they're Antifa, you you guess

something like 1%, which would be a lot

of people.

Definitely more than the Proud Boys in

the Patriot Front.

So, now we're hearing a little bit more

about how this uh the deal with Gaza got

done. uh we're hearing that uh Jared

Kushner might have been far more

important to the process than has been

reported so far. So that's one thing

that that it looks like. Um

and uh it looks like uh Qatar or Qatar

as you like to say is maybe one of the

big stories behind the curtain. So Qatar

wanted some things, but we wanted some

things from Qatar, which is to back a

peace deal. And what Qatar wanted was uh

I guess they got some uh dedicated space

where they can test their their jets

that were selling them, the ones who

were selling them. They can test them

and train in the United States within

the bounds of some American base.

They'll have their own little uh their

own little space, but it'll be

controlled by America. So there they

don't have their own base. They would

just have some space for training that

they would pay for that would be on an

American base because apparently there's

their country is so small they don't

really have a good place to test jets.

So they'll test them here, they'll buy

them here, they'll put billions of

dollars into buying more of them here.

So, it turns out it was a good deal for

us because we sell some more jets and

we'll have a place that they can test

them so they feel comfortable getting

them.

And

um

apparently Qar wanted to get in better

with the United States and not be seen

as half a terrorist supporter and half a

supporter of the West. you know, they

want they want to be more of a more on

the clean side of things. So, it's sort

of a way for them to reposition

themselves with the United States

entirely by doing something for us that

presumably will get them some uh get

them some favors in return. So,

Cutter seems to be a big part of the

backstory. And the fact that we were

able to cut her a deal with Cutter,

uh, probably has a lot to do with how we

got to this point. And like I said, if

Hillary Clinton is saying yes, it must

be that there's so much money that's

going to be funneled into that area for

rebuilding and the Abraham Accords and

everything else that probably all the

big money people just said ch-ching. You

know, I'm just guessing like did all the

bankers just say, "All right, we can

make some money on this." Did all the

construction people, the betells, did

all the military-industrial complex

people say, "Oh man, we can make some

money on this." I think so,

probably. You know, the the hotel

industry,

u probably the oil industry. I don't

know. Maybe not. But it does seem to me

like everybody just said, "Why don't we

just make some money and we're done with

this terrorism stuff?" Let's see if I

can get what's left of my notes here.

Um,

so that's happening.

Let's see what else is happening.

One moment, please.

So, according to a Harvard Caps Harris

poll, uh, 71% of Americans support

Trump's strikes on the smuggling boats,

the ones off of Venezuela.

Republicans like it a lot, 89%,

independent 67, and even Democrats by a

majority, 56%.

So,

to me, this is another one of those

Trump takes the strong side of the the

question and uh even if it doesn't work

out, he's still the one who took the

strong side of the issue. So, I'm loving

that. Well, there's a new report Wall

Street Journal that the wine industry in

California where I am is having a tough

time for two reasons. One, people are

just drinking less. But number two,

apparently the weather was unusually

good. So that that global warming stuff

uh turned out to be one of the best

summers ever. So there's like a just a

crap ton of grapes. So we have way too

many grapes at the same time that

there's, you know, lower demand. So the

wine business is falling apart. Uh it's

California, so you know that the

Hollywood movie making business has

already fallen apart. And uh if we did

not have a boom in AI,

uh even the tech business would look

like it's winding down. So, California

is

sort of looking good, but only because

of AI. I think I don't think there's

anything else driving anything else. And

AI is probably going to put quite a load

on our energy infrastructure. So, I know

somehow somehow California just keeps

floating along, but I feel like we keep

getting closer and closer to the edge.

Yeah. How how many entire industries

could you wipe out in California and

still have a state? I guess we're going

to find out.

Um, and the crypto market went to hell,

as you know. But, um, I don't know how

much you should worry about the crypto

market. isn't the very nature of it that

it's

it's volatile and that uh if you're just

in the weird little cryptos, you know,

it was a big risk and if you're in

Bitcoin, you're probably going to huddle

it, which is hold it. Um, so you

probably don't care. I don't know. Does

is anybody panicked about crypto or you

just sort of watching it? I think I

would just watch it at this point.

You know, I kept telling you that there

there are all these uh tests going on

for a vaccine to cure cancer or to keep

it from happening. Uh here's another

one. There's another nextgen vaccine to

prevent up to 88% of multiple aggressive

cancers according to Paul Mccclure in

the New Alice. Um so you don't need to

know too much more about this one. Uh

because I went to Grock and I said how

many current trials are there where

somebody's trying to fix cancer with a

vaccine where they made the vaccine out

of usually something about your body. So

it's about you specifically the vaccine

is and I and I said there were seven of

them. So there were seven ongoing trials

that were cancer vaccines. Now, I don't

think any of them will be ready in time,

you know, to save me. But it does look

like maybe there's something there, you

know, may maybe for the rest of you.

I'll see if I can last long enough to

get to the vaccines, but it does look

like some of that's going to work.

Works on animals anyway. So, working on

animals is only like a one in 20 chance

that it's going to work on humans.

Um

the Portland Police Union is welcoming

the uh federal uh help, you know, the

the federal troops. Uh whereas the

government is saying, "We don't need no

federal troops. We don't have a problem

here." And so the Portland uh violence

is also being called imaginary. So now,

so now we're being told that Antifa is

an imaginary group and that the violence

around the ICE facilities and stuff in

Portland is also so small that if you

imagine it's a it's a big problem,

that's just imaginary.

And

I don't know what is right.

Is it possible that the news is uh

exaggerating the the real danger in

Portland? Because I think it could be a

little of both. It could be that the

danger is not that great, but at the

same time, the police do want help

because the police have been degraded so

much that they can't even handle, you

know, a modest threat. So, it could be a

combination of not enough police and a

little bit of trouble that wouldn't

ordinarily be a lot of trouble because

you would have a lot of police. So, I

don't know what's through there, but uh

once again, as long as Trump takes the

strong approach and he's the one who's

looking to clamp down on crime and

Portland is looking like the ones they

don't care as much about crime, Trump

wins. I think he wins just by being the

strong one. MIT says they have a new

gene editing tool. Sounds kind of boring

and nerdlike, but it would be 60 times

fewer mistakes than before. Because, you

know, gene editing, if you could do gene

editing quickly and efficiently and

economically, there's a whole bunch of

stuff you can fix. And uh, you know,

this is just a movement in the right

direction. But if they could actually

make that much of a improvement in the

gene editing technology,

well, you you might get yourself a new

head, you know, that new head you've

been wanting. It's getting closer. All

right, that's all I have for today. It

is a Saturday, so you should be petting

your cats and having a good time. Um, I

did promise you that I would read you a

reframe from my book, Reframe Your

Brain. I started with one, but I think

I'm going to randomly pick another one

because they're so useful.

If this works out, maybe I'll make it a

thing. So, it's from my book, Reframe

Your Brain. And uh I'll just pick the

first one from the social life category.

There's reframes for every domain, but

in the social life reframe, the first

one is the old the old frame used to be

be yourself.

Anybody ever used to give you that

advice to be yourself?

Terrible advice.

Here's here's the reframe. Become a

better version of yourself.

If you're satisfied being yourself,

people aren't going to want to be around

you. You're not that good. You need some

work and you should admit that you're a

work in progress. People will like you

better if you admit you've got some work

to do. Try being better. You should be

working on some kind of a system or a

process or uh finding some way to be the

improved version of yourself. You should

be getting smarter, healthier. You

should become wiser, kinder. You should

be trying to get your, you know, your

depression down and get your mental

health better. You should be trying to

get different in every possible way.

People, people ask me when uh I've told

you this story before, but uh people

asked me if when I hit it big with

Dilbert and I went from not having money

to well, people asked me if uh being

famous and successful changed me. Did it

change me? And I'd always laugh and say,

"Well, I hope so.

That was the whole point. Why would I go

through all that work to be the same

person?

The the whole everything that I do

has at least a secondary ambition of

changing me. Like I don't go to the gym

because it doesn't change me. I I don't

work hard in my career because it won't

change me. I do it so it will. If I want

to feel confident, what am I supposed to

do? just sit in a chair and try to jin

up some confidence. No, I'm going to go

do something and then if it works, guess

what? I get more confident. So, no, I'm

every day in every way I'm trying to

figure out how to be like a little bit

better version of myself. So, if anybody

ever tells you the key to success is be

yourself, you're getting some bad

advice.

Be better. Just be better.

All right, that is your reframe of the

day. Owen Gregorian will be hosting a

spaces right after this. Give him a few

minutes to uh

uh

you can't become a millionaire without

becoming the kind of person who becomes

a millionaire. Exactly. Exactly. All

right. So, Owen Gregorian, just uh go to

go to X and uh you can search for his

name and it'll pop up the spaces. And uh

I'm going to say a few words to the

locals people, my beloved beloved locals

people and the rest of you. I'll see you

tomorrow. Thanks for coming.

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