Episode 2987 CWSA 10/13/25

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I don't want to say that that was better than a hostage release, but it's right up there.

All right.

As is my new tradition, I'm going to start with a reframe.

I tried to pick one that was relevant to today's big news, which we'll get to in a moment.

But this is another reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

And it goes like this.

The usual frame, the way people usually think, is that the best world view is the one that's true.

Right?

The best world view is the one that's true.

Here's the reframe.

The best world view is the one that predicts the best.

It predicts the best.

Does that sound relevant?

Well, it is relevant because 2016 when I decided to back Trump, I was predicting and my prediction went like this.

He definitely seems to love America and always has.

So, his heart's in the right place.

He definitely has skills that other people just don't have.

He just has skills they don't have and that those skills could be really important to the country because he could do things that we need to get done that nobody could get done.

So I predicted that his love of country, his love of winning, his uh his extreme toolbox of skills would get us to a good place.

Now was that based on reality and truth or was it just predictive?

Well, other people said, "Hey, I think his personality and character are uh unsuitable to be president.

Therefore, he will steal our democracy and just steal money from the treasury for himself and uh he's only in it to win it for himself." Was that predictive?

It was not.

That was not predictive.

So, it's easier if you release on what's true because then you end up fighting about the details of what's true and focus on what's predictive.

Follow the money, that's predictive.

That if if you thought that Trump was a big old narcissist who just wants everybody to love him and look good, that's why he works so hard.

That's not a negative.

That's why he works so hard.

I I have the same uh the same situation.

Uh I want to be appreciated for what I've done for other people.

That's that's my big payoff in life.

So I will work hard so that somebody will say, "Oh, I'm really glad you did that thing, whatever that thing was." So yeah, the prediction is that people like Trump are going to get a lot of done.

Happy Columbus Day.

Let's talk about those hostages free.

You already know the news.

All 20 living hostages have been released.

Um there's hope that bodies will be returned, but that might be a little more complicated.

2,000 or so Hamas people, I guess, are getting released in return.

We won't talk about them too much because today is more about happiness.

Um Trump flew over to Israel, which turned out to be a brilliant move.

He didn't have to, but he did.

And uh wow, did he get a did he get a hero's welcome like I've never seen before.

Netanyahu praised him like I've never seen anybody praise Trump at all and all deserved.

He said, "No one moved the world so decisively as Trump." He said, "Uh, I believe that the close cooperation between our two nations, combining Israel's military pressure and Trump's unmatched global leadership, achieve this historic moment." Well, here's something that Israel figured out, and Netanyahu certainly figured out.

There's no such thing as praising Trump too much.

I think you've all figured that out, too, right?

it it's not like he says, "Oh, that's enough." Really, you can tune it down a little bit.

Oh, well, thank you.

I I appreciate it, but you don't have to do all that.

The more you do, the better it is.

You You can lay it on as thick as you want, and he'll just think, "Is there any more of that?

Can I get a little more of that?" I do like that about him.

Anyway, he was hailed as a colossus and a giant of Jewish history by the uh Israeli Parliament.

Um so here here are just some things in no particular order.

Um number one, does anybody think that any other president could have gotten this done?

No.

No, you don't.

But poor little Biden and Biden's uh little uh dingleberries that are still hanging around around him, they're they're trying to claim that all Trump did was finalize the deal that Biden got working.

Can you believe the gall the the the fact that uh they they would even try that they would even try to give Biden credit for this.

Oh my goodness.

So meanwhile, while uh the so-called Hitler is finding peace for Israel, the Democrats are still they're still whining about him being an authoritarian uh Hitler while we're all watching the authoritarian Hitler bring peace to the entire world.

The the Democrats could not be losing harder than they are today.

Today is peak peak losing for Democrats.

They just got to shut up at this point.

Just just let it go, right?

Just let it go.

There's nothing you should say right now except thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, some people asked reasonably, why are all 20 of the people released male?

Um, I think it's two factors.

One is the women the all the remaining women are dead.

Uh, that would be a fact unfortunately.

I don't know if they were killed in particular or killed because they didn't want them talking.

That's the thing I worry about the most.

Were they killed because they were abused and they didn't want them to go public?

Maybe.

But it could also be because the earlier rounds of releases focused on women and children and elderly and uh they just leave the the healthy male military age people for last.

So it's probably a combination of bad things happen to women but also that they negotiated the women out earlier.

Probably both.

Anyway, um so Trump gets a, you know, standing ovation, but when he mentioned Biden, uh the people laughed.

They actually laughed at even the mention of Biden.

And then when he mentioned Obama being the the worst or second worst president after Biden, uh they clapped.

They actually clapped the Israeli Knesset.

They clapped for Obama being a terrible president and they laughed.

They literally laughed at a mention of Biden being the president.

And they sto they stood and gave a standing ovation and uh now Netanyahu wants to give um wants to nominate Trump for the highest award in Israel.

So maybe this whole authoritarian thing is working out.

seems to be working out pretty well.

Anyway, um here's what uh Trump said in his speech, which was hilarious, by the way.

So, his speech, he talked about uh he he kind of teased Netanyahu for running on too long because he's trying to get to this other big meeting in Egypt where all the all the big Middle East countries will meet and decide the fate of the Middle East.

So, I guess he's terribly late.

uh for that, but he's late because they're praising him, so it's not the worst thing in the world.

Um, but when he got to speak after he, you know, made fun of BB talking too long and said some fun things, he said, "Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change." Like the USA right now, it will be the golden age of Israel and the golden age of the Middle East.

Well, here we are.

It's the golden age.

And uh and he says everybody's loving Israel again.

You he said things were getting tough the last several months cuz of course Israel was taking brutal criticism for the way they were executing the war.

But now it's looking like it just looks like a victory.

You know, winning winning solves a lot of problems.

winning does.

And uh then Trump started selling the Abraham Accords hard because he's the salesman chief.

If he can get that done, oh my goodness.

So I guess there are four Middle East countries that are part of that Abraham Accords and then there are a bunch that could be but aren't but would like to be maybe.

And this probably opens the door for that.

So Trump's trying to sell it hard.

You know, get in, get in on that Abraham Accords as soon as you can.

And Trump is actually even promising that he thinks he can make a deal with Iran, not part of the Abraham Accords, but separately.

And he thinks Iran's ready to do a deal.

Um, mostly because they've been so weakened by recent events that they would get flexible.

But I don't know about that, but maybe.

All right.

Here here are some of the highlights of his speech as well.

Um the part I like best is you might know that Netanyahu is uh got some legal problems.

He's being accused of I don't know bribery or corruption or something.

and uh that's on hold because the war and so Trump's up there absorbing like the maximum amount of praise and he's praising Netanyahu and then he turns to the president um which is different than the prime minister of course turns to the president of uh Israel who was on the deis and he says that uh he thinks that Netanyahu should get a pardon and that's the guy that decides to pardon and I thought I thought he was going to get the president of Israel to agree to a pardon right in front of us, but he he didn't take the bait.

He might, but um watching watching uh Trump make that play to see if he can get the pardon for Netanyahu was one of the strongest leadership things I've ever seen in my life.

That was so impressive.

even if he doesn't get it.

That was so impressive.

How many times have I told you that one of the magic tricks that Trump does for persuasion is that if you're his enemy, you're really his enemy.

Like he's really he's going to take you down.

You're going to get lawfared.

You know, your country might get attacked.

You might be get a bad nickname.

If you're on his bad side, you're really on his bad side.

But as I often tell you, if you get on his good side, he won't just say you're a good person.

He will change your life.

And this is one one of the things he could have done and maybe he still will do for Netanyahu.

So Netanyahu became flexible.

I'm not sure that he was always flexible in this process, but he did Netanyahu did decide to conform to what Trump wanted him to do, and that worked out.

So now they're best friends.

And what does Trump do?

Does he just say, um, you know, I'll give you some award.

That's what Nanyahu is doing for Trump, right?

Give you an award.

Well, that's great.

I love it.

Awards are good.

But what would be more valuable to Nanyahu than a pardon?

And who would have more influence and who would be more in the moment to read the room and know that this is the moment to insert that idea?

only Trump.

There's not another president in the entire world who would have read that moment, right?

And said, "Wow, this is this is something I could do that's beyond, you know, what Netanyahu would ever expect me to do, and I might be able to pull it off." I I feel I would love to know what was going on in the mind of the Israeli president.

I wonder if he thought to himself, I should just do it.

because obviously he doesn't want to do it or he would have done it already.

But I wonder if he just thought to himself, this would be such a moment.

I mean, the moment would have been extraordinary.

Yeah.

Imagine if the president had just turned and said, "Mr.

President, I have not, you know, fully considered this, but in recognition of the day, in recognition of what you've done for us, I'm going to give you that." That could have happened.

That would have been amazing.

Boy, Trump knows how to create a moment or get close to a moment.

All right, but here's uh here's what I feel and I hope that the rest of you feel it, too.

As I posted on Acts uh cryptically, but I only wanted the people who understood to understand it.

I don't want everybody to understand it.

And my my post on X was just this.

This is why.

That's it.

This is why what I mean, of course, for the few of you who don't know exactly what that means, is that in 2016 when I decided to I didn't know I was doing it at the time, but quickly I figured it out.

when I decided I would throw away my entire social life to back Trump and when I eventually threw away my entire career which even before I was cancelled my licensing business and you know book sales you know went to went to almost nothing because I was supporting Trump.

I sacrificed everything.

I sacrificed my social life.

I sacrificed my career.

I sacrificed my reputation.

I may have sacrificed my health.

And I did that because I believed it was worth it.

Today's the day.

Today's the day.

All right.

And I'm really happy I lived long enough to see it.

It was worth it.

It was worth it.

Not just for this, you know, but it was worth it.

It was It was worth it to be right.

It's worth it to be right.

All right.

So, as you know, Trump doesn't become president without a hundred things going the right way.

You know, I I like to think I might have been one of the hundred things that went the right way so that he could uh get elected and we could get something done, save the country, maybe save the world.

Um, but it wasn't free.

It wasn't cheap.

It wasn't easy.

But every one of you who's watching right now probably shared a little bit in that pain.

Probably every one of you said, "You know what?

You're not going to tell me who to vote for.

You know what?

You're you're not going to manipulate me.

You know what?

I'm going to do what I think is right and I'm going to follow this all the way." You altered that.

all all the all the MAGA supporters, you all took a personal and professional risk for the benefit of the country and you knew that it was going to cost you dearly.

You lost family members, lost your daughter, somebody says, "Yeah, a lot of you lost family members, you lost friends, you lost jobs, cost you money." And you were right in the end.

In the end, you were right.

You bet the right way.

So, you know, even though you could say Scott, you know, this is more about Israel than it is about the United States, and it is, but it seems to be an emotional touch point that seems to touch everything.

It seems to touch the world, including the United States, you know, most heavily.

And what it does is it it just puts Trump in a whole different category where now he can do even more things that were impossible because people are going to look at him and say, "Okay, you did the impossible one time after another.

What else can you do?" And we're probably going to find out.

Maybe it means we get better trade deals with China.

Maybe maybe you can wrap something up with Russia.

That's going to be a tough one.

But um you know that I've been all in since 2016.

All in.

I bet it all.

I just spent everything.

I bet everything to get to this point.

The golden age.

So here we are.

Here we are.

So I I don't even know if I want to talk about the news today.

It just feels so good to be on the right side of history.

because you never know.

You never know if you're going to be on the right side of history.

But boy are we on the right side of history right now.

So unless there are aliens in that comet, maybe things are going to look good.

Anyway, um we have some background on why Hamas finally caved.

I guess Egypt and Qatar were going hard at him, saying it was the last chance.

Turkey was going hard at Hamas telling them you better get this done and uh they were getting a lot of pressure at from their own people.

So basically it got to the point where everybody outside of Hamas was telling Hamas, you got to end this.

There was essentially nobody left on their side.

So it got done.

So being in the right place at the right time helps, but it still had to be Trump.

Only Trump could have gotten it done.

Um, and then the last person to agree was Netanyahu, and Trump bullied him into saying yes.

And I'm sure Na was happy about it.

Now, here's what Charlemagne the God said about it.

He said, "Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible." Now, remember, Charlemagne the God's Democrat.

He said, "Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible.

Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it.

And he says it's not about what can't be done.

It's about what who has the political will to do it.

So that seems to be the frame that some Democrats are starting to enter.

The okay, okay, this is true that Trump can do things that other people can't do.

That is the number one thing I wanted to sell the country.

the number one thing he can do things that other people can't do and if you if you ever need those things to get done there's only one person to do it as far as I know.

So Charlemagne sees it too.

He sees oh my goodness who you pick really makes a difference.

It did this time.

Don't you wonder what the uh Democrats are going to have to protest.

So they're they're left to protest the the government closing, which is their fault.

Just think about this.

The biggest complaint that they have now is that Trump is too strong a leader.

He's like a strongman dictator type.

But that's why this got done.

Even the people who don't like him being an authoritarian strongman dictator will completely understand that none of this would happen without him being that person because he pushed everybody.

He scared everybody.

He shook the box.

Nobody else could do that.

Nobody else could do that.

So at the same time that all that goodness is happening, maybe peace breaking down everywhere.

Um you know on Friday that China scared us with this uh threat of restricting the rare earth materials which would destroy uh the entire economy of the world if they did that.

I was not so sure that was real, but I I think I don't think I committed to it one way or the other.

But uh according to Trump, it's probably just a negotiating position and not really that different from what it was.

He goes, "Don't worry, you know, truth." He said yesterday, I guess, "Don't worry about China.

It will be fine.

Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.

He doesn't want depression for his country, and neither do I.

The US wants to uh help China, not hurt it." Do you see how much technique is built into that?

just that little sent that little message on true social.

Don't worry about China.

It'll all be fine.

So that part's probably true because China doesn't want to destroy the economy of the world.

They don't really get an advantage if they do that.

So probably won't do that.

Um but when he says that respected President Xi just had a bad moment, that is really um gets to his face.

that that's kind of putting him it's kind of putting him down a little bit and and showing that he lost face by creating this uh this little bruhaha.

Now what that does is if she doesn't decide to nuke us for insulting him in theory he just got negged.

Do you know what negging is?

Neg.

It means that he he got sort of a complimenty insult.

It's a complimenty insult.

It's it's what you do if you want a woman to uh like you if you're one of those dating guys.

So, President Xi, if it's not so bad that he'll never talk to Trump again, then it probably isn't.

Just the fact that he had a bad moment, he's going to have to recover from his bad moment.

So that's that's the position that Trump has put him in.

He's like, I'm not criticizing you.

I'm just saying you had a bad moment.

Do you think she wants to be known as the guy who had a bad moment and almost destroyed the economy of the United States with a a statement that probably should have been vetted a little bit better?

Oh, I I think Trump's completely right.

He had a bad moment.

He totally had a bad moment.

So now he's got something to to make up for.

And that's the genius of Trump.

This is just perfect persuasion.

Put push she in a little box with just a little bit of discomfort.

And wouldn't he like to get out of that box by not being a person who's trying to hurt the economy of the world?

So setting them up for negotiations.

Scott Besson says uh in all caps uh no he didn't say it in all caps.

The idea is to give China time to meet and talk.

So mostly it's about showing some respect for China and giving them the time to to work things out and then probably things will be fine.

Stock market seems to be happy about it.

I saw a long post by Sahil Patel who wanted to look into the semiconductor um supply chain because as you know if the semiconductor supply chain breaks then all of our technology breaks and then the whole world falls into a coma.

Um, but it turns out that our semiconductor supply chain, not ours, but the world's is really, really brittle.

And I didn't have any idea how brittle it was, but uh that's what Sahil did.

So TSMC, the the Taiwan company that produces 90% of the world's most advanced chips.

So, problem number one, there's only one company that makes 90% of the chips and they happen to be on an island that is likely to turn into a war zone.

So, that's the first thing to worry about.

Secondly, TSMC relies on a Dutch company uh for lithography machines, meaning that there's probably no other place you can get them.

meaning that if something happened to that one company, maybe TSMC couldn't make any new chips just if that one company has a problem.

But uh they depend on a company called Carl Zeiss that does optical stuff.

Uh it's the only firm in the world capable of making the mirrors that are precise enough for the the high-end chips.

Only one company.

If that company had a problem, no more chips.

Uh, there's a light source.

I need a EUV machine that's produced by one company in San Diego.

If something happens to that one company in San Diego, no chips for you.

And it goes on and on like this uh about the other parts that are only available in one place ever.

Now, in theory, somebody else could make them, but I know that the the mirror stuff is so amazingly amazingly hard that probably I mean, there's a good chance that nobody else will ever be able to do it possibly.

Anyway, so it goes on like that.

There's a whole bunch of pieces that you can only get from one place.

So, if that one place went down, no chips if any one of them go down.

So, that's pretty scary.

Meanwhile, over in Ukraine, where the Ukrainian drones are attacking uh Russian energy sources, they attacked a bunch of energy sources on Crimea and uh did quite an attack with the drones.

Um, but the update on Trump is he had been talking about sending our Tomahawk missiles to uh Ukraine because they're they go long distance.

They would go deep into Russia and they would be very accurate and hard to stop.

Uh, I thought he had already agreed to give them to Ukraine with some restrictions on how they use them, but it sounds like he is not.

he still needs to talk to Zilinski.

Um, and what he said was Trump said that he may send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Russia doesn't settle its war.

So, it looks like he might be using the threat of tomahawks to get Putin to say, "I don't want any tomahawks hitting myself." Now, of course, Russia said that if we did give them tomahawks and they got used that they would retaliate in some unspecified way that we wouldn't like.

So, I don't know, would they?

Or or there there's something psychological about the Ukraine war where both Russia and Ukraine decide not to attack the neighboring countries that are helping.

Yeah.

So, so we're, you know, they're not attacking the United States for providing weapons or not attacking Europe for providing the funding.

They're just treating it like it's a war between two countries when clearly there are a lot of countries involved.

So, if Putin continues to do that, to treat it like it's just them against Ukraine, then the Tomahawks wouldn't be that big a deal, except that, you know, they wouldn't like it.

But if Putin decides to change the frame and reframe it and say, "Okay, this is a war against the United States.

You're just you're just laundering it through Ukraine." Well, then all bets are off.

But I would think that Putin would not want to do anything that looked like a direct attack on the United States because there's this guy, you may have heard of him, uh, Donald Trump, who's the president, and, uh, what what his response would be compared to any other president, what his response would be to any attack on the homeland or our military assets.

Putin can't predict that.

That's unpredictable.

and you don't want to get into militarily unpredictable waters.

So, that's another thing that Trump brings, that unpredictability that does keep people away.

Anyway, um so we'll see what happens with those tomahawks.

Seems like a good play.

So, uh, JD Vance was on ABC talking to George Slaponopoulos and, uh, Slopponopoulos was trying to get him to talk about the, uh, the story that may be completely fake about, uh, Homeland Security guy Tom Hman, allegedly before he was in this job, accepting a $50,000 bag of cash on video, allegedly um, for helping some company get a border contract.

Now, I don't think that was illegal because he wasn't working for the government then and he was consulting.

So, I don't even know if there's a crime involved.

But um so JD Vance was asked about that to comment on the bag of cash and Tom Hman because ABC News needed to find something to talk about that was not the tremendous success that that Trump is experiencing at the moment in the Middle East.

So they had to find something.

They got to find something to talk to JD about that'll sound bad for those guys.

Um, and JD had a very interesting response to the accusations about that bag of cash.

He said it's a fake scandal and uh he didn't know anything about that video.

And I said to myself, what do you mean you don't know about the video?

Everybody knows about the video.

It's been a, you know, top headline.

We all know about the video.

And then I thought to myself, wait a minute.

I haven't seen the video.

Have any of you seen a video of him or anybody else accepting a bag of cash?

And then I thought, wait a minute, is this whole thing just made up?

If if you haven't seen the video, I don't know that there's a video.

Do you do you believe there's really a video of him accepting cash?

It's been a while.

You think that you think that bad boy would have leaked, right?

or at the very least somebody would say, "I have the video in my hand.

I just can't show it to you." So, we don't know who has said video and we haven't and nobody that we know has seen it.

I feel like JD had the right answer, which is you treat it like it's not real because they can't prove it's real.

I don't know if it's real.

You know, my guess is if it was real, if it were real and it was real bad that probably more would have happened.

So, my guess is that's not that real.

Just my guess.

So, Reuters has an article today that that looked like came from the past.

The title was climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30.

So, I guess there's some big climate change meetup coming up.

And uh Reuters wants us to know that we're past the tipping points where climate change is going to kill us all.

We're we're already past the tipping points.

Now, isn't there something wrong with this?

But why would that just be a a little bit of an article around other articles that just is keyed off of a meeting coming up?

Wouldn't that be the biggest problem and biggest story in the world that we would cross all the tipping points and now we're definitely dead?

They couldn't possibly believe what they're saying.

They could not possibly believe what they're writing.

That's where we've gotten to, right?

where they couldn't possibly believe it because you wouldn't you wouldn't act matterof fact about it.

It's just like a little article on Reuters.

Yeah, we're past all the tipping points.

Looks like there's nothing we could do.

It's the end of the world.

Uh but they got a big meeting coming up.

Like what?

If I believe that the world was past the tipping point, I'd be recommending that you have sex with a stranger.

No, I wouldn't.

Maybe I would, but you would act completely different.

There's no way you would act matterof fact if you really believed we had crossed the tipping points and the and the climate's going to just disappear.

Now, they had some claims about, oh, we're past the tipping point for coral and it said, you know, all the coral is disappearing and therefore the, you know, the oceans will not be sustainable, etc.

And I thought, what news are you looking at, Reuters?

All the news I've seen in the past 6 months told me that the coral has recovered when people didn't expect it.

Did I imagine that?

Was that fake news?

Or does Reuters not know that the current news is that the coral seems to have come back or it's coming back uh powerfully and probably there's no tempo uh no crossover point at all.

Yeah.

Anyway, so that just seems so out of date.

Meanwhile, several uh this is also Reuters, several pharmaceutical companies, I think there were like maybe 10 of them or so, quite a few of them u are now saying that they'll sell their drugs directly to patients in the US.

Now, that would be in response to Trump uh trying to get them to lower their prices.

But what's interesting here is, have I ever introduced my idea of the confuseopoly?

The confuseopoly is when you're in a business that's just like somebody else's business and it's sort of a commodity like a cell phone or or some kinds of insurance.

You know, they're exactly the same.

So, you have to pretend that yours is different by making it confusing.

Well, what does this cell phone service cost?

Well, it depends.

uh do you have your relatives on it and did you use the extra minutes and did you roll over the minutes and then you can't really compare it to anything because you don't know how exactly what minutes you would use and what you would roll over and if you rolled it over would anybody use it.

So if they make it confusing then each of the cell companies will sort of get their share.

If they made it not confusing, then everybody would know which one was the good one and all the others would be out of business instantly.

So confusopies are the only thing that um keeps complicated commodity like businesses in business.

It it prevents you from knowing which one is the better one.

And that is clearly something like that's happening with these pharmaceutical companies who have agreed to sell drugs direct to patients because they're all going to do it a different way and they're going to do it with different platforms.

So some of them have their own website, some of them are going to work through somebody else.

Some of them are going to cut some drugs but not others.

They'll probably come up with complicated formulas like, well, under these conditions, we'll cut them for these people, but under these conditions, we won't.

So, I feel like the pharma companies are going to have to make it really complicated so that they can say they're doing things without doing things because I'll tell you what they can't do.

They can't lower their prices and give us the same price that they give to third world countries, which is the ask.

That's what we're asking for.

They can't do that.

That would be their entire profitability.

So, they have to pretend they're playing along because Trump is too powerful right now.

So, they have they have to act like they're playing along.

Well, I don't think they are playing along.

I think they're going to, you know, throw a bone.

You know, maybe maybe some drugs that are almost generic but are not their big profitable drugs.

you know, if they if they throw a few sacrificial drugs uh for lower cost, they can keep their their profitable ones at their current price.

Probably try to get away with that.

So, I'm not ready to speak optimistically about where that's happening.

I think I think that the big pharma has got a they got a lot of game.

They know how to protect themselves.

Well, Trump has suggested publicly that uh who he calls corrupt Senator Adam Schiff could be the the next person who gets lawfired.

Says he's so dishonest.

And of course that causes people to say, "Wait a minute.

You're the president of the United States.

You can't be identifying enemies and then telling the Department of Justice to go laware them.

You can't do that." to which I have mixed feelings.

If if these had been innocent people or just people who were doing their own thing that didn't affect Trump and didn't affect me and didn't affect the government, I might say, "Yeah, don't lawfare them.

That's just going to create more problems." You know, even even though they lawfared you, don't lawfare them.

But because but because these specific people were literally trying to overthrow my government and they were trying to destroy the guy that you know you and I and the other supporters were trying to support to the point where he could get to do things like this, you know, ending wars.

That's what we wanted him to do.

That's why we hired him.

That's why we voted for him.

And we wanted that to get done.

But there was a group of professional liars and uh insurrectionists, I would call them, who worked very hard to stop that.

Now, if you lawfare those guys, I'm totally okay with that because you absolutely need uh mutually assured destruction so that the next time the Democrats decide to lawfare the next president, which they will, they'll at least think twice and they're going to say, "All right, the last time we lawfire a president, we didn't see it coming, but he became the president again and then he got all of us back and all the people who lawfared him are in jail or or paid a lot of money.

You can't let it go.

The the things that they did to Trump and by extension to his supporters, you can't let that go.

So if you have to lawfare it to get them back, lawfare it.

Whatever you have to do, you cannot let that stand.

And to imagine that lawfaring this group of people, lawfaring the lawfarers who were the the insurrectionist lawfares, you can't compare that to anything else.

If if he were just taking down a critic, I'll tell you where I'd draw the line.

If he said, uh, if he said, uh, Stephen King says bad things about me all the time, uh, I'd like you to lawfare him.

Go find a crime.

I'm sure you can find a crime.

Now, that would be completely unacceptable to me and I would fight against that.

How about uh Rob Reiner?

Huge critic of the president.

Huge pain in the ass.

If the president said, "Hey, lawfare that guy because he says bad things about me." No, no, nope.

We don't do that.

You can say bad things about people.

We allow that.

That's free speech.

But if he's going after the people who literally lied about what was in the skiff, ran gigantic hoaxes to try to literally change the government and tried to jail him, if not shoot him, free pass.

Mr.

President, you have a free pass.

Not just to say whatever you want to say.

Okay.

little little cat action going on here.

Not only to say what you want to say, but to encourage the Department of Justice to deal with it.

So, yeah, I'm completely in favor of lawfare against lawfarers, but limited to that and maybe insurrectionists, but that's the same thing in this case.

All right.

Um, there's some new news that there's this uh Washington DC undercover metropolitan police guy, Nicholas Thomasula, who says that he was actually trying to instigate trouble at the January 6th event.

Um, I don't know if he says that he did it for Nancy Pelosi, but apparently there is evidence and he's saying it directly that he was encouraging people to trespass and encourage them to climb up the scaffolding, which was the big weakness in the uh the defense they had there.

And is this real?

Do we actually have a real live person now who says, "Oh yeah, I was there to instigate." Do you think there was only one?

Would they only send one or would one think that, you know, on his own?

Did he decide on his own to do that?

Are are we on the verge of finding out the truth about January 6th?

We might be.

We might be on the verge of actually finding out that, you know, that was more staged than we thought.

So keep an eye on that.

I've been watching with interest Marjgerie Taylor Green buck the uh not just the left but often the right.

So I guess I guess Marjorie Taylor Green who I like by the way.

Uh I I like having her uh as part of government and you know she's just a fun personality as well.

So, I I kind of like her um as a person and as a politician, but she's not on board with uh with all Republicans.

She said uh quote, "As a construction business owner," which she is, I don't think we should be supporting illegal immigrants that work in that industry.

Now, I saw a counterpoint to that, which is if you got rid of all the illegal immigrants, uh you wouldn't need to build as many houses and therefore you wouldn't need them.

And and it's funny when I when I saw that argument because there's no population growth.

We don't have population growth.

So, in theory, we shouldn't have to build too many houses, you know, mostly just replacement houses and upgrades and stuff.

But, uh, so maybe we don't even need a construction business.

Uh, because we're just building houses for the people that we we didn't want to come in.

I don't I'm not buying that that narrative entirely.

There's a little bit to it.

There's a little bit to it, but that that's not that's not a good complete picture.

And that Marjorie Taylor Green also says that prices have not come down and pay has not gone up.

Now slightly true that some prices went down and it's slightly true that some pay went up, but not really in a big way.

So she's uh she's bucking the narratives there a little bit, but I don't mind that at all.

Well, meanwhile, Denmark has committed $4.2 two billion dollars to defending uh Greenland so that they don't have to give it up to the United States.

Uh and uh there now they are legitimately worried about Russia's influence in that part of the world.

So Greenland buying some buying some defensive stuff.

I can't imagine that Denmark plus Greenland if you add them together could defend against Russia without the US.

I mean, not that they would have to because they're a NATO country, but wait, how's that work?

So, if Russia attacked Greenland, and Greenland is owned by Denmark, which is in NATO, but Greenland isn't specifically part of NATO.

Would NATO be uh activated for Greenland?

I do not know.

Maybe somebody can tell me that.

Anyway, I doubt that their 4.2 billion is going to get them enough to defend against Russia.

The Wall Street Journal had an article about uh AI not making as much difference and productivity as anybody hoped.

Um a JP Morgan Chase economist didn't find any strong link between productivity and uh rolling out AI.

Now, who's been telling you for a while that AI will not be the job killer that all the smart people say it will be?

Me.

Um, cuz just if you've tried using it yourself, you immediately see that it is so limited.

And in my opinion, the current version of AI cannot be better because if they can't make the hallucinations go away, and they can't, um, what are you going to use it for?

All you can use it for is chatting basically and a few other things.

So, I've been a uh skeptic of AI replacing all our jobs.

I think maybe it'll be an assistant for a while, etc.

However, I want to be the first one to tell you what's coming.

Um, what's coming is a new form of AI that's not the large language models.

So the problem with the large language models is that all they do is look for a pattern.

That's all they do.

And so if the words that people have used are in a certain pattern that uses that pattern.

So it doesn't mean that it's seeing the truth, it's just detecting patterns which sometimes are not, you know, they're not reality based patterns.

So that can't go too far.

But there's a new type of AI being referred to as generative video AI.

Now, if I understand this correctly, generative video AI starts with real video.

So, let's say if you had the database of all the video taken by all the Tesla car cameras, that would be the real video.

And then you could you could train your AI with real video so that it could see for example you know this is an object that's a phone.

It could see how it could be manipulated in space.

So instead of learning a word pattern and the word pattern for llm might be uh I pick up phone and if a lot of people say I pick up phone then the large language model knows that you can pick up a phone but it doesn't really know it.

It's just a pattern.

Lots of people have picked up phones.

Lots of people have mentioned it.

So now AI knows that you can pick up a phone.

But with the new ones, the the uh video ones, if you had video of somebody picking up a phone, it would know you could pick up a phone.

And it could also conform to the physics of the situation.

And then the fun part is it can generate fake videos of people doing things with the phone.

But the fake video would be based on things that could be done with the phone because it uses physics, etc., like a game would, just like a video game.

So that it can create a whole bunch of knowledge about what a person can do with a phone without observing it.

So it wouldn't have to observe people doing it.

It would just figure out, oh well, now I know it's a physical object.

It's, you know, it's about this size.

Uh, that would be something somebody could pick up.

Now I'm I'm simplifying it but um what I'm trying to say is that that limitation of the hallucinating might be fixable but it will require an entirely new technology.

This this generative video AI which is coming by the way it's not it's not speculative.

It's being rolled out right now.

Yeah.

I I think that's close to what Tesla is doing.

It's either close to or exactly what Tesla's doing.

That's right.

So, if you were going to bet on which company got to the the really smart AI first, I think I would bet on Tesla.

Now, that's not a recommendation.

It's not a recommendation.

Don't buy stock because I say it's something that's a bad idea.

But, uh, it does look like, uh, Elon knows that the LLMs are are capped and that he knows that if he's going to put a trillion dollars into it, which he is, uh, he'd better get the good stuff.

So, keep an eye on that.

Ray Kurszswwell, the uh, futurist who's been around forever.

He's trying to live forever.

Uh, like literally live forever by porting his brain to a computer someday.

I think he says that AGI, that would be the the real smart version of AI, will be around 2029.

Now, he's got a long track record of making incredible predictions.

So, we take him seriously.

Uh 2029.

So, three years.

I think he's right on.

I think he's right on because it will take about that time in my in my best guess for that generative AI to not only work but to be sort of rolled out.

That feels about right.

I think he nailed it again probably about 3 years before we have the the serious AI.

In other fun news, some uh according to the Daily Mail, some tunnels have been uh discovered under Egypt's Giza pyramids.

Now, these are not the the the weird stories that I debunked a while ago, several months ago, there was somebody said, "Oh, we found all these, you know, things under the pyramids." It's not that.

Uh apparently connecting pyramids as opposed to being, you know, directly under them.

and they found a few of these uh alleged uh longforgotten underground pathways that had been rumored in history, but nobody found them.

So, I guess Heroditus had described a labyrinth in Egypt with 3,000 chambers, many hidden below ground, but nobody had ever found any of it.

So, they thought Heroditus might be might be an exaggerator, I guess, but maybe there is something down there.

So, we will soon find out who built those pyramids when we get down there.

Maybe uh University of South Wales found out that you could use um intensive oneweek online therapy to reduce symptoms of social anxiety.

So, apparently they've had they did a study and they found you could reduce your social anxiety disorder um with online help.

Now, in my book, Reframe Your Brain, I also have a reframe for uh that.

You want me to just I think I'll just tell you, I've told you this reframe before, but it's one of the very best.

This could be life-changing.

Do any of you have that problem where if you go to a party, first of all, you didn't want to go, but then you're sitting outside and you say to yourself, you know what?

I can't even walk in that room.

I I don't want to be in a room with all those those fakes and those people, right?

How many of you have that social anxiety where you gh I I just I can't talk to these strangers?

A lot of you, right?

I'm going to give you a reframe now that will fix it.

You ready for this?

This will change your life.

It really will.

I've heard from people who say it changed their life.

They just heard it once.

Changed their life.

It goes like this.

First of all, everybody has social anxiety.

Now, maybe not everybody, but 90%.

So, the first thing you need to know is that everybody else is pretending.

As soon as you think you're the only one pretending to be, you know, comfortable and that everybody else has figured out how to do this, that's not the case.

They're all uncomfortable.

10% are kind of crazy narcissists who like the excitement.

10%.

90% are exactly what you're feeling.

Oh, who am I going to talk to?

What do I do with my hands?

Did I make a fool of myself?

Can I just make an excuse to leave?

Why should I pretend to get another drink?

All right, here's what you need to know.

If you had studied the Dale Carnegie approach for making conversation, you would know the technique for walking up to any stranger and just starting a pleasant conversation that the other person would when you're done say, "I like that guy." Or, "I like that person." And it's easy.

I've taught you this many times.

All you do is you ask questions about the other person and you listen with.

That's it.

If you walk up to somebody and try to make a joke to a stranger, which is what I used to do before I learned how to do this, I I would think, well, if I'm funny, like I I'll bond right away.

Never really worked.

You can get lucky and hit somebody who has your exact sense of humor and you then something can happen.

But it's not a good general approach.

Most people are not going to laugh and it's just not going to lead to anything.

But if you walk up and say your name, hi, I'm Scott.

That's always first.

Hi, I'm blah blah blah.

If they don't say who they are, you say, "What's your name?" And then you ask them just basic questions about them.

It would depend on, you know, what was the point of the the thing.

So, you might say, "Hey, you know, where are you from?" or "Who do you know?" Or, uh, you could even ask, you know, what do you do for a living?

If it if the conversation goes, do you have kids?

You planning a vacation?

What school do your kids go to?

If you ask just those basic questions, the other person will feel comfortable because they know the answers to the questions.

They know their name.

They know where they work.

They know where the kids go to school, unless it's the father.

And uh and then that's comfortable because all they're doing is answering easy questions and it looks like you're interested in them.

solves every problem.

All right, so I just solved how to talk to a stranger.

If you don't think that works, try it once.

It works.

It works every time.

Show interest.

Ask questions and don't do a big monologue about you.

If they want to know about you, they'll ask.

You don't even have to say anything about you.

But usually, if just a few questions, you can find something you have in common.

So you might say, "So what do you do for a living?" And the person tells you their job and you go, "I I'm so interested in that." Like, you know, how does that work?

How'd you get into that?

So, you know, and if it's something about kids, if you have kids about the same age, you got lots to talk about.

So, you're looking for that thing you can talk about, the jumping off point, and and the questions are just to get you to that.

All right.

Now, so now you have a skill that I just taught you that the other 90% of the people who have bad social anxiety don't have.

So what are they going to do?

They're going to go there and think, I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

But I solved it for you.

Just walk up to somebody who's looks uncomfortable.

Introduce yourself.

Ask some questions.

And then the next thing you need to know is how to leave.

you know how to how to stop talking to somebody because you don't want to get trapped and you think, "Oh, I found one person to talk to.

I'll just stay here all night until they hate me." No, you have to leave.

You you want to give them just enough of you that they they got enough but not too much.

So, here are some ways to leave people without being rude.

If you've talked to them enough and you've asked some questions and you've showed some interest, they're done.

you know, they don't need you to stay there all night.

So, here's what you say.

It was really great meeting you.

Um, I want to do a little mingling and I'll catch up with you later.

Everybody is there to do mingling.

So, if you say, "It was great talking to you.

I got to go do some mingling." They get it because they probably have to do the same thing.

So, that's not awkward.

Or you could say, "U, can I get you a can I refill your drink?" If they don't want to spend more time with you, they're gonna say, "Oh, no.

I'm fine." And then you you go away to refill your own drink and don't come back.

Or you say, "I got to use the restroom." Or you say, "You see somebody.

Here's another good one." You say, "Oh, I have to talk to Bob.

Excuse me.

It was great talking to you." And then you you go directly over to Bob.

If you know Bob, the other thing is if you don't know a single person there, not if you don't know anybody, I always recommend looking for the alpha female.

Most most events have at least one alpha female and you you can pick them out.

You know, they're the ones flitting from one place to the other and everybody's giving them attention.

Maybe they're the organizer, maybe it's the person who invited you.

But if you attach to them, the alpha female, men will do it too, but the alpha females are a little little bit better.

They will introduce you to whoever they're standing next to.

So, you just walk up to them.

Hi, Benny.

Thanks for inviting me.

They go, "Oh, glad you made it.

Have you met so and so?" And here's so and so.

And now you know three people that you could say hi to anytime during the party.

All right.

So, now you know the technique, but now we're going to get to the good part.

Okay, here's the payoff.

You're sitting in your car outside the party and you've got that anxiety about going in.

Reframe it.

Here's the reframe.

You're going to rescue all those other people who have social anxiety.

You're not the person with social anxiety.

You're the solution.

So, you walk in there and you find somebody who looks uncomfortable and you walk right up to them and you solve their problem by being the person who knows how to start a conversation, which you are now.

And when you're done with that person, you say, "Great meet you.

I've got to do a little more mingling." You find another person and you save them, too.

You can spend your whole night saving people.

And boy, will they appreciate it.

Yeah.

it.

There's nothing that the other people want more than a friendly person to come up to them and start a conversation.

They all want that.

You are their hero.

If you can do that for them, your hero.

So, you're not going there as this weak little person who's in the 10% who can't figure out how to start a conversation with a human being.

That's not who you are.

You are already because I just trained you and it was that easy.

It really is that easy.

I just taught you how to be the most effective person in the party, and you will be.

You simply have to do what I just said.

Just learn how to ask questions, learn how to introduce yourself with eye contact and a handshake, and learn how to leave.

If you learn those very simple things, which you just did, basically, you just learned them, you are no longer a victim of social anxiety.

It'll take you a few practice runs, but once you've done it like twice, you'll never have anxiety again.

You you'll say, "Oh, I did it twice in a row, and it was super easy, and everybody seemed to be happy about it, and I got all these phone numbers and made some friends." So, that's a that's a reframe in my book, Reframe Your Brain.

Now, when I tell you that this is the kind of book that changes people's lives, that's what I mean, right?

So, so some of you didn't need that.

That had no value to you whatsoever.

But 100% of you know somebody who needs it, don't you?

100% of you know somebody that you're already thinking, "Oh, man.

I want to get a clip of that and show my friend that will really help them." I hope this gets clipped.

uh probably will be.

All right.

So, there are other reframes that might be more more relevant to you specifically.

Um let's see.

Uh Venezuela is collapsing, but so is Cuba.

Did uh I saw an article by Daniel a lot.

He's an opinion contributor in the Hill and he tells us that over the last four years roughly 2 million Cubans which would be 20% of all Cubans on the island have left the island and the ones leaving are the professionals because you know they can they can make a life somewhere.

So I guess their their biggest source of oil was Venezuelan oil which they can no longer depend on.

It's not reliable anymore.

the professionals are leaving and their infrastructure is in complete um disrepair.

It's just collapsing.

So Cuba might fail before Venezuela, but I guess they're sort of joined at the hip.

So Trump might have a Cuba play that historically we've never had.

Meaning that Cuba is going to be pretty desperate.

Uh far more than it is.

It's already pretty desperate.

But uh if they become even more desperate, they might get flexible and and maybe maybe the US is the only thing that can save them and maybe they want to, you know, be a little bit uh friendlier with the US going forward and vice versa.

We'll see.

Well, you heard the story about the Dominion um company, the election voting machines.

that company got sold to a alleged Republican who uh is apparently involved in decommissioning a number of the uh machines.

Now, I don't have details about why some of them are being decommissioned, but not all of them.

Why do you think do you think that he's that he's decommissioning voting machines because they're old and unreliable?

old and unreliable or because they had um security vulnerabilities that we don't know about just generally unreliable or unreliable for security reasons.

Don't you feel you need to know the answer to that question?

I feel like that's really important.

Are they decommissioning machines because they know that they're not secure?

H I've got questions.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is what I have for today's show.

I want to thank you all again from the bottom of my heart.

If you were supporting this president and you took the the risks that I took, you took the hits, you lost family members, you may have lost money, you may have lost prestige, you may have lost everything, you may have lost everything, but damn it, you were right.

You were right and this is the time to enjoy it.

You know, maybe tomorrow will be different, but today you can bask in the fact that you did a great thing.

You were part of something amazing.

In this case, it probably helped another country more than it helped us, but it's the same process.

The the same stuff is going to, you know, be helping America.

So, um, just enjoy being right.

It feels really good.

And that's all I have for you today.

I'm going to say a few words privately to my beloved local subscribers and the rest of you.

I hope to see you tomorrow for more good news.

Maybe.

You never know.

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up there.

All right.

As is my new tradition, I'm going to

start with a reframe.

I tried to pick one that was relevant to

today's big news, which we'll get to in

a moment. But this is another reframe

from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

And it goes like this.

The usual frame, the way people usually

think, is that the best world view is

the one that's true.

Right? The best world view is the one

that's true. Here's the reframe. The

best world view is the one that predicts

the best. It predicts the best. Does

that sound relevant?

Well, it is relevant because

2016 when I decided to back Trump,

I was predicting

and my prediction went like this.

He definitely seems to love America and

always has. So, his heart's in the right

place. He definitely has skills that

other people just don't have. He just

has skills they don't have and that

those skills could be really important

to the country because he could do

things that we need to get done that

nobody could get done.

So I predicted that his love of country,

his love of winning, his uh his extreme

toolbox of skills would get us to a good

place. Now was that based on reality and

truth or was it just predictive?

Well, other people said, "Hey, I think

his personality and character are uh

unsuitable to be president. Therefore,

he will steal our democracy and just

steal money from the treasury for

himself and uh he's only in it to win it

for himself."

Was that predictive?

It was not. That was not predictive. So,

it's easier if you release on what's

true because then you end up fighting

about the details of what's true and

focus on what's predictive.

Follow the money, that's predictive.

That if if you thought that Trump was a

big old narcissist who just wants

everybody to love him and look good,

that's why he works so hard.

That's not a negative. That's why he

works so hard. I I have the same uh the

same situation. Uh I want to be

appreciated for what I've done for other

people. That's that's my big payoff in

life. So I will work hard

so that somebody will say, "Oh, I'm

really glad you did that thing, whatever

that thing was." So yeah, the prediction

is that people like Trump are going to

get a lot of done. Happy Columbus

Day. Let's talk about those hostages

free. You already know the news. All 20

living hostages have been released. Um

there's hope that bodies will be

returned, but that might be a little

more complicated. 2,000 or so Hamas

people, I guess, are getting released in

return. We won't talk about them too

much because today is more about

happiness.

Um Trump flew over to Israel, which

turned out to be a brilliant move. He

didn't have to, but he did. And uh wow,

did he get a did he get a hero's welcome

like I've never seen before. Netanyahu

praised him like I've never seen anybody

praise Trump at all and all deserved. He

said, "No one moved the world so

decisively as Trump." He said, "Uh, I

believe that the close cooperation

between our two nations, combining

Israel's military pressure and Trump's

unmatched global leadership, achieve

this historic moment." Well, here's

something that Israel figured out, and

Netanyahu certainly figured out. There's

no such thing as praising Trump too

much.

I think you've all figured that out,

too, right? it it's not like he says,

"Oh, that's enough." Really, you can

tune it down a little bit. Oh, well,

thank you. I I appreciate it, but you

don't have to do all that. The more you

do, the better it is. You You can lay it

on as thick as you want, and he'll just

think, "Is there any more of that? Can I

get a little more of that?"

I do like that about him. Anyway, he was

hailed as a colossus and a giant of

Jewish history by the uh Israeli

Parliament.

Um so here here are just some things in

no particular order. Um number one, does

anybody think that any other president

could have gotten this done? No. No, you

don't. But poor little Biden and Biden's

uh little uh dingleberries that are

still hanging around around him, they're

they're trying to claim that all Trump

did was finalize the deal that Biden got

working.

Can you believe the gall

the the the fact that uh they they would

even try that they would even try to

give Biden credit for this. Oh my

goodness.

So meanwhile, while uh the so-called

Hitler is finding peace for Israel,

the Democrats are still they're still

whining about him being an authoritarian

uh Hitler

while we're all watching the

authoritarian Hitler bring peace to the

entire world.

The the Democrats could not be losing

harder than they are today. Today is

peak peak losing for Democrats. They

just got to shut up at this point. Just

just let it go, right? Just let it go.

There's nothing you should say right now

except thank you, Mr. President.

Um,

some people asked reasonably, why are

all 20 of the people released male? Um,

I think it's two factors. One is the

women the all the remaining women are

dead. Uh, that would be a fact

unfortunately. I don't know if they were

killed

in particular or killed because they

didn't want them talking. That's the

thing I worry about the most. Were they

killed because they were abused and they

didn't want them to go public?

Maybe. But it could also be because the

earlier rounds of releases focused on

women and children and elderly and uh

they just leave the the healthy male

military age people for last. So it's

probably a combination of bad things

happen to women but also that they

negotiated the women out earlier.

Probably both.

Anyway, um so Trump gets a, you know,

standing ovation, but when he mentioned

Biden, uh the people laughed. They

actually laughed at even the mention of

Biden. And then when he mentioned Obama

being the the worst or second worst

president after Biden, uh they clapped.

They actually clapped

the Israeli Knesset. They clapped for

Obama being a terrible president and

they laughed. They literally laughed at

a mention of Biden being the president.

And they sto they stood and gave a

standing ovation and uh now Netanyahu

wants to give um wants to nominate Trump

for the highest award in Israel.

So

maybe this whole authoritarian thing is

working out.

seems to be working out pretty well.

Anyway, um here's what uh Trump said in

his speech, which was hilarious, by the

way. So, his speech, he talked about uh

he he kind of teased Netanyahu for

running on too long because he's trying

to get to this other big meeting in

Egypt where all the all the big Middle

East countries will meet and decide the

fate of the Middle East. So, I guess

he's terribly late.

uh for that, but he's late because

they're praising him, so it's not the

worst thing in the world. Um, but when

he got to speak after he, you know, made

fun of BB talking too long and said some

fun things, he said, "Generations from

now, this will be remembered as the

moment that everything began to change."

Like the USA right now, it will be the

golden age of Israel and the golden age

of the Middle East.

Well, here we are. It's the golden age.

And uh

and he says everybody's loving Israel

again. You he said things were getting

tough the last several months cuz of

course Israel was taking brutal

criticism for the way they were

executing the war. But now it's looking

like it just looks like a victory. You

know, winning winning solves a lot of

problems.

winning does.

And uh then Trump started selling the

Abraham Accords hard because he's the

salesman chief. If he can get that done,

oh my goodness. So I guess there are

four Middle East countries that are part

of that Abraham Accords and then there

are a bunch that could be but aren't but

would like to be maybe. And this

probably opens the door for that. So

Trump's trying to sell it hard. You

know, get in, get in on that Abraham

Accords as soon as you can.

And Trump is actually even promising

that he thinks he can make a deal with

Iran, not part of the Abraham Accords,

but separately. And he thinks Iran's

ready to do a deal. Um, mostly because

they've been so weakened by recent

events that they would get flexible. But

I don't know about that, but maybe.

All right. Here here are some of the

highlights of his speech as well.

Um

the part I like best is you might know

that Netanyahu is uh got some legal

problems. He's being accused of I don't

know bribery or corruption or something.

and uh that's on hold because the war

and so Trump's up there absorbing like

the maximum amount of praise and he's

praising Netanyahu and then he turns to

the president

um which is different than the prime

minister of course turns to the

president of uh Israel who was on the

deis and he says that uh he thinks that

Netanyahu should get a pardon and that's

the guy that decides to pardon and I

thought

I thought he was going to get the

president of Israel to agree to a pardon

right in front of us, but he he didn't

take the bait. He might, but um watching

watching uh Trump make that play to see

if he can get the pardon for Netanyahu

was one of the strongest leadership

things I've ever seen in my life. That

was so impressive. even if he doesn't

get it. That was so impressive. How many

times have I told you

that one of the magic tricks that Trump

does for persuasion is that if you're

his enemy, you're really his enemy. Like

he's really he's going to take you down.

You're going to get lawfared. You know,

your country might get attacked.

You might be get a bad nickname. If

you're on his bad side, you're really on

his bad side. But as I often tell you,

if you get on his good side, he won't

just say you're a good person. He will

change your life. And this is one one of

the things he could have done and maybe

he still will do for Netanyahu. So

Netanyahu

became flexible. I'm not sure that he

was always flexible in this process, but

he did Netanyahu did decide to conform

to what Trump wanted him to do, and that

worked out. So now they're best friends.

And what does Trump do? Does he just

say, um, you know, I'll give you some

award.

That's what Nanyahu is doing for Trump,

right? Give you an award. Well, that's

great. I love it. Awards are good. But

what would be more valuable to Nanyahu

than a pardon? And who would have more

influence and who would be more in the

moment to read the room and know that

this is the moment to insert that idea?

only Trump. There's not another

president in the entire world who would

have read that moment, right? And said,

"Wow, this is this is something I could

do that's beyond, you know, what

Netanyahu would ever expect me to do,

and I might be able to pull it off."

I I feel I would love to know what was

going on in the mind of the Israeli

president. I wonder if he thought to

himself,

I should just do it. because obviously

he doesn't want to do it or he would

have done it already. But I wonder if he

just thought to himself, this would be

such a moment. I mean, the moment

would have been extraordinary. Yeah.

Imagine if the president had just turned

and said, "Mr. President, I have not,

you know, fully considered this, but in

recognition of the day, in recognition

of what you've done for us, I'm going to

give you that."

That could have happened. That would

have been amazing. Boy, Trump knows how

to create a moment or get close to a

moment.

All right, but here's uh here's what I

feel and I hope that the rest of you

feel it, too. As I posted on Acts

uh cryptically, but I only wanted the

people who understood to understand it.

I don't want everybody to understand it.

And my my post on X was just this.

This is why.

That's it. This is why

what I mean, of course, for the few of

you who don't know exactly what that

means, is that in 2016 when I decided to

I didn't know I was doing it at the

time, but quickly I figured it out. when

I decided I would throw away my entire

social life to back Trump

and when I eventually threw away my

entire career which even before I was

cancelled my licensing business and you

know book sales you know went to went to

almost nothing because I was supporting

Trump.

I sacrificed everything. I sacrificed my

social life. I sacrificed my career. I

sacrificed my reputation.

I may have sacrificed my health.

And I did that because I believed it was

worth it.

Today's the day.

Today's the day.

All

right.

And

I'm really happy I lived long enough to

see it. It was worth it.

It was worth it. Not just for this, you

know, but it was worth it.

It was It was worth it to be right.

It's worth it to be right.

All right. So,

as you know, Trump doesn't become

president without a hundred things going

the right way.

You know, I I like to think I might have

been one of the hundred things that went

the right way so that he could uh get

elected and we could get something done,

save the country, maybe save the world.

Um, but it wasn't free. It wasn't cheap.

It wasn't easy. But every one of you

who's watching right now probably shared

a little bit in that pain. Probably

every one of you said, "You know what?

You're not going to tell me who to vote

for. You know what? You're you're not

going to manipulate me.

You know what? I'm going to do what I

think is right and I'm going to follow

this all the way."

You altered that. all all the all the

MAGA supporters, you all took a personal

and professional risk for the benefit of

the country and you knew that it was

going to cost you dearly. You lost

family members,

lost your daughter, somebody says,

"Yeah, a lot of you lost family members,

you lost friends, you lost jobs,

cost you money."

And you were right in the end.

In the end, you were right. You bet the

right way.

So, you know, even though you could say

Scott, you know, this is more about

Israel than it is about the United

States, and it is,

but it seems to be an emotional touch

point that seems to touch everything. It

seems to touch the world, including the

United States, you know, most heavily.

And what it does is it it just puts

Trump in a whole different category

where now he can do even more things

that were impossible because people are

going to look at him and say, "Okay, you

did the impossible one time after

another.

What else can you do?" And we're

probably going to find out. Maybe it

means we get better trade deals with

China. Maybe maybe you can wrap

something up with Russia. That's going

to be a tough one.

But

um you know that I've been all in since

2016.

All in. I bet it all. I just spent

everything. I bet everything to get to

this point. The golden age.

So here we are.

Here we are. So I I don't even know if I

want to talk about the news today. It

just feels so good to be on the right

side of history.

because you never know. You never know

if you're going to be on the right side

of history. But boy are we on the right

side of history right now.

So unless there are aliens in that

comet, maybe things are going to look

good.

Anyway, um we have some background on

why Hamas finally caved. I guess Egypt

and Qatar were going hard at him, saying

it was the last chance. Turkey was going

hard at Hamas telling them you better

get this done and uh they were getting a

lot of pressure at from their own

people. So basically it got to the point

where everybody outside of Hamas was

telling Hamas, you got to end this.

There was essentially nobody left on

their side. So it got done.

So being in the right place at the right

time helps, but it still had to be

Trump. Only Trump could have gotten it

done.

Um,

and then the last person to agree was

Netanyahu,

and Trump

bullied him into saying yes. And I'm

sure Na was happy about it. Now, here's

what Charlemagne the God said about it.

He said, "Donald Trump shows me what's

politically possible." Now, remember,

Charlemagne the God's Democrat. He said,

"Donald Trump shows me what's

politically possible. Trump shows me

what presidents can do if they want to

do it.

And he says it's not about what can't be

done. It's about what who has the

political will to do it. So that seems

to be the frame that some Democrats are

starting to enter. The okay, okay, this

is true that Trump can do things that

other people can't do. That is the

number one thing I wanted to sell the

country. the number one thing he can do

things that other people can't do and if

you if you ever need those things to get

done there's only one person to do it as

far as I know. So Charlemagne sees it

too. He sees oh my goodness who you pick

really makes a difference. It did this

time.

Don't you wonder what the uh Democrats

are going to have to protest. So they're

they're left to protest the the

government closing, which is their

fault.

Just think about this. The biggest

complaint that they have now is that

Trump is too strong a leader. He's like

a strongman dictator type.

But that's why this got done. Even the

people who don't like him being an

authoritarian strongman dictator will

completely understand that none of this

would happen without him being that

person because he pushed everybody. He

scared everybody. He shook the box.

Nobody else could do that. Nobody else

could do that.

So at the same time

that all that goodness is happening,

maybe peace breaking down everywhere. Um

you know on Friday that China scared us

with this uh threat of restricting the

rare earth materials which would destroy

uh the entire economy of the world if

they did that. I was not so sure that

was real, but I I think I don't think I

committed to it one way or the other.

But uh according to Trump, it's probably

just a negotiating position and not

really that different from what it was.

He goes, "Don't worry, you know, truth."

He said yesterday, I guess, "Don't worry

about China. It will be fine. Highly

respected President Xi just had a bad

moment. He doesn't want depression for

his country, and neither do I. The US

wants to uh help China, not hurt it."

Do you see how much technique is built

into that? just that little sent that

little message on true social. Don't

worry about China. It'll all be fine. So

that part's probably true because China

doesn't want to destroy the economy of

the world.

They don't really get an advantage if

they do that. So probably won't do that.

Um but when he says that respected

President Xi just had a bad moment, that

is really

um gets to his face.

that that's kind of putting him it's

kind of putting him down a little bit

and and showing that he lost face by

creating this uh this little bruhaha.

Now what that does is if she doesn't

decide to nuke us for insulting him in

theory he just got negged. Do you know

what negging is? Neg.

It means that he he got sort of a

complimenty insult.

It's a complimenty insult. It's it's

what you do if you want a woman to uh

like you if you're one of those dating

guys.

So, President Xi, if it's not so bad

that he'll never talk to Trump again,

then it probably isn't. Just the fact

that he had a bad moment, he's going to

have to recover from his bad moment. So

that's that's the position that Trump

has put him in. He's like, I'm not

criticizing you. I'm just saying you had

a bad moment. Do you think she wants to

be known as the guy who had a bad moment

and almost destroyed the economy of the

United States with a a statement that

probably should have been vetted a

little bit better? Oh, I I think Trump's

completely right. He had a bad moment.

He totally had a bad moment. So now he's

got something to to make up for. And

that's the genius of Trump. This is

just perfect persuasion. Put push she in

a little box with just a little bit of

discomfort.

And wouldn't he like to get out of that

box by not being a person who's trying

to hurt the economy of the world? So

setting them up for negotiations.

Scott Besson says uh in all caps uh no

he didn't say it in all caps. The idea

is to give China time to meet and talk.

So mostly it's about showing some

respect for China and giving them the

time to to work things out and then

probably things will be fine. Stock

market seems to be happy about it.

I saw a long post by Sahil Patel who

wanted to look into the semiconductor

um supply chain because as you know if

the semiconductor supply chain breaks

then all of our technology breaks and

then the whole world falls into a coma.

Um, but it turns out that our

semiconductor supply chain, not ours,

but the world's is really, really

brittle. And I didn't have any idea how

brittle it was, but uh that's what Sahil

did. So TSMC, the the Taiwan company

that produces 90% of the world's most

advanced chips. So, problem number one,

there's only one company that makes 90%

of the chips and they happen to be on an

island that is likely to turn into a war

zone.

So, that's the first thing to worry

about. Secondly,

TSMC relies on a Dutch company uh for

lithography machines, meaning that

there's probably no other place you can

get them. meaning that if something

happened to that one company,

maybe TSMC couldn't make any new chips

just if that one company has a problem.

But uh they depend on a company called

Carl Zeiss that does optical stuff. Uh

it's the only firm in the world capable

of making the mirrors that are precise

enough for the the high-end chips. Only

one company. If that company had a

problem, no more chips.

Uh, there's a light source. I need a EUV

machine that's produced by one company

in San Diego. If something happens to

that one company in San Diego, no chips

for you.

And it goes on and on like this uh about

the other parts that are only available

in one place ever.

Now, in theory, somebody else could make

them, but I know that the the mirror

stuff is so amazingly amazingly hard

that probably I mean, there's a good

chance that nobody else will ever be

able to do it possibly. Anyway, so it

goes on like that. There's a whole bunch

of pieces that you can only get from one

place. So, if that one place went down,

no chips if any one of them go down. So,

that's pretty scary.

Meanwhile, over in Ukraine, where the

Ukrainian drones are attacking

uh Russian energy sources, they attacked

a bunch of energy sources on Crimea and

uh did quite an attack with the drones.

Um,

but the update on Trump is he had been

talking about sending our Tomahawk

missiles to uh Ukraine because they're

they go long distance. They would go

deep into Russia

and they would be very accurate and hard

to stop. Uh, I thought he had already

agreed to give them to Ukraine with some

restrictions on how they use them, but

it sounds like he is not. he still needs

to talk to Zilinski. Um, and what he

said was Trump said that he may send

Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Russia

doesn't settle its war. So, it looks

like he might be using the threat of

tomahawks

to get Putin to say, "I don't want any

tomahawks hitting myself." Now, of

course, Russia said that if we did give

them tomahawks and they got used

that they would retaliate in some

unspecified way that we wouldn't like.

So, I don't know, would they?

Or or there there's something

psychological about the Ukraine war

where both Russia and Ukraine decide not

to attack the neighboring countries that

are helping.

Yeah. So, so we're, you know, they're

not attacking the United States for

providing weapons or not attacking

Europe for providing the funding.

They're just treating it like it's a war

between two countries when clearly there

are a lot of countries involved. So, if

Putin continues to do that, to treat it

like it's just them against Ukraine,

then the Tomahawks wouldn't be that big

a deal, except that, you know, they

wouldn't like it. But if Putin decides

to change the frame and reframe it and

say, "Okay, this is a war against the

United States. You're just you're just

laundering it through Ukraine." Well,

then all bets are off. But I would think

that Putin would not want to do anything

that looked like a direct attack on the

United States because there's this guy,

you may have heard of him, uh, Donald

Trump, who's the president, and, uh,

what what his response would be compared

to any other president, what his

response would be to any attack on the

homeland or our military assets.

Putin can't predict that. That's

unpredictable. and you don't want to get

into militarily unpredictable waters.

So, that's another thing that Trump

brings, that unpredictability that does

keep people away.

Anyway, um so we'll see what happens

with those tomahawks. Seems like a good

play. So,

uh, JD Vance was on ABC talking to

George Slaponopoulos and, uh,

Slopponopoulos was trying to get him to

talk about the, uh, the story that may

be completely fake about, uh, Homeland

Security guy Tom Hman, allegedly before

he was in this job, accepting a $50,000

bag of cash on video, allegedly

um, for helping some company get a

border contract. Now, I don't think that

was illegal because he wasn't working

for the government then and he was

consulting. So, I don't even know if

there's a crime involved. But um so JD

Vance was asked about that to comment on

the bag of cash and Tom Hman because ABC

News needed to find something to talk

about that was not the tremendous

success that that Trump is experiencing

at the moment in the Middle East. So

they had to find something. They got to

find something to talk to JD about

that'll sound bad for those guys. Um,

and JD had a very interesting response

to the accusations about that bag of

cash.

He said it's a fake scandal and uh he

didn't know anything about that video.

And I said to myself, what do you mean

you don't know about the video?

Everybody knows about the video. It's

been a, you know, top headline. We all

know about the video. And then I thought

to myself, wait a minute. I haven't seen

the video.

Have any of you seen a video of him or

anybody else accepting a bag of cash?

And then I thought, wait a minute, is

this whole thing just made up? If if you

haven't seen the video,

I don't know that there's a video. Do

you do you believe there's really a

video of him accepting cash?

It's been a while. You think that you

think that bad boy would have leaked,

right? or at the very least somebody

would say, "I have the video in my hand.

I just can't show it to you."

So, we don't know who has said video and

we haven't and nobody that we know has

seen it.

I feel like JD had the right answer,

which is you treat it like it's not real

because they can't prove it's real. I

don't know if it's real.

You know, my guess is if it was real, if

it were real and it was real bad that

probably more would have happened. So,

my guess is that's not that real. Just

my guess.

So, Reuters has an article today that

that looked like came from the past. The

title was climate tipping points are

being crossed, scientists warn ahead of

COP30. So, I guess there's some big

climate change meetup coming up. And uh

Reuters wants us to know that we're past

the tipping points where climate change

is going to kill us all. We're we're

already past the tipping points. Now,

isn't there something wrong with this?

But why would that just be a a little

bit of an article

around other articles that just is keyed

off of a meeting coming up? Wouldn't

that be the biggest problem and biggest

story in the world that we would cross

all the tipping points and now we're

definitely dead?

They couldn't possibly believe what

they're saying. They could not possibly

believe what they're writing. That's

where we've gotten to, right? where they

couldn't possibly believe it because you

wouldn't you wouldn't act matterof fact

about it. It's just like a little

article on Reuters. Yeah, we're past all

the tipping points. Looks like there's

nothing we could do. It's the end of the

world. Uh but they got a big meeting

coming up. Like what?

If I believe that the world was past the

tipping point, I'd be recommending that

you have sex with a stranger.

No, I wouldn't. Maybe I would, but you

would act completely different.

There's no way you would act matterof

fact if you really believed we had

crossed the tipping points and the and

the climate's going to just disappear.

Now, they had some claims about, oh,

we're past the tipping point for coral

and it said, you know, all the coral is

disappearing and therefore the, you

know, the oceans will not be

sustainable, etc. And I thought, what

news are you looking at, Reuters? All

the news I've seen in the past 6 months

told me that the coral has recovered

when people didn't expect it. Did I

imagine that? Was that fake news? Or

does Reuters not know that the current

news is that the coral seems to have

come back or it's coming back uh

powerfully and probably there's no tempo

uh no crossover point at all.

Yeah. Anyway, so that just seems so out

of date.

Meanwhile, several uh this is also

Reuters, several pharmaceutical

companies, I think there were like maybe

10 of them or so, quite a few of them u

are now saying that they'll sell their

drugs directly to patients in the US.

Now, that would be in response to Trump

uh trying to get them to lower their

prices. But what's interesting here is,

have I ever introduced my idea of the

confuseopoly?

The confuseopoly is when you're in a

business that's just like somebody

else's business and it's sort of a

commodity like a cell phone or or some

kinds of insurance. You know, they're

exactly the same. So, you have to

pretend that yours is different by

making it confusing. Well, what does

this cell phone service cost? Well, it

depends. uh do you have your relatives

on it and did you use the extra minutes

and did you roll over the minutes and

then you can't really compare it to

anything because you don't know how

exactly what minutes you would use and

what you would roll over and if you

rolled it over would anybody use it. So

if they make it confusing

then each of the cell companies will

sort of get their share.

If they made it not confusing, then

everybody would know which one was the

good one and all the others would be out

of business instantly.

So confusopies are the only thing that

um keeps complicated commodity like

businesses in business. It it prevents

you from knowing which one is the better

one.

And that is clearly something like

that's happening with these

pharmaceutical companies who have agreed

to sell drugs direct to patients because

they're all going to do it a different

way and they're going to do it with

different platforms. So some of them

have their own website, some of them are

going to work through somebody else.

Some of them are going to cut some drugs

but not others. They'll probably come up

with complicated formulas like, well,

under these conditions, we'll cut them

for these people, but under these

conditions, we won't. So, I feel like

the pharma companies are going to have

to make it really complicated so that

they can say they're doing things

without doing things because I'll tell

you what they can't do. They can't lower

their prices and give us the same price

that they give to third world countries,

which is the ask. That's what we're

asking for. They can't do that. That

would be their entire profitability. So,

they have to pretend they're playing

along because Trump is too powerful

right now. So, they have they have to

act like they're playing along. Well, I

don't think they are playing along. I

think they're going to, you know, throw

a bone. You know, maybe maybe some drugs

that are almost generic but are not

their big profitable drugs. you know, if

they if they throw a few sacrificial

drugs uh for lower cost, they can keep

their their profitable ones at their

current price. Probably try to get away

with that. So, I'm not ready to speak

optimistically about where that's

happening. I think I think that the big

pharma has got a they got a lot of game.

They know how to protect themselves.

Well, Trump has suggested publicly that

uh who he calls corrupt Senator Adam

Schiff could be the the next person who

gets lawfired. Says he's so dishonest.

And of course that causes people to say,

"Wait a minute. You're the president of

the United States. You can't be

identifying enemies and then telling the

Department of Justice to go laware them.

You can't do that." to which I have

mixed feelings.

If if these had been innocent people or

just people who were doing their own

thing that didn't affect Trump and

didn't affect me and didn't affect the

government, I might say, "Yeah, don't

lawfare them. That's just going to

create more problems." You know, even

even though they lawfared you, don't

lawfare them. But because but because

these specific people were literally

trying to overthrow my government and

they were trying to destroy the guy that

you know you and I and the other

supporters were trying to support to the

point where he could get to do things

like this, you know, ending wars. That's

what we wanted him to do. That's why we

hired him. That's why we voted for him.

And we wanted that to get done. But

there was a group of professional liars

and uh insurrectionists, I would call

them, who worked very hard to stop that.

Now, if you lawfare those guys,

I'm totally okay with that because you

absolutely need uh mutually assured

destruction so that the next time the

Democrats decide to lawfare the next

president, which they will, they'll at

least think twice and they're going to

say, "All right, the last time we

lawfire a president, we didn't see it

coming, but he became the president

again

and then he got all of us back and all

the people who lawfared him are in jail

or or paid a lot of money.

You can't let it go. The the things that

they did to Trump and by extension to

his supporters, you can't let that go.

So if you have to lawfare it to get them

back, lawfare it.

Whatever you have to do, you cannot let

that stand. And to imagine that

lawfaring this group of people,

lawfaring the lawfarers who were the the

insurrectionist lawfares, you can't

compare that to anything else. If if he

were just taking down a critic, I'll

tell you where I'd draw the line. If he

said, uh, if he said, uh, Stephen King

says bad things about me all the time,

uh, I'd like you to lawfare him. Go find

a crime. I'm sure you can find a crime.

Now, that would be completely

unacceptable to me and I would fight

against that. How about uh Rob Reiner?

Huge critic of the president. Huge pain

in the ass. If the president said, "Hey,

lawfare that guy because he says bad

things about me." No, no, nope. We don't

do that. You can say bad things about

people. We allow that. That's free

speech. But if he's going after the

people who literally lied about what was

in the skiff, ran gigantic hoaxes to try

to literally change the government and

tried to jail him, if not shoot him,

free pass.

Mr. President, you have a free pass. Not

just to say whatever you want to say.

Okay. little little cat action going on

here. Not only to say what you want to

say, but to encourage the Department of

Justice to deal with it.

So, yeah, I'm completely in favor of

lawfare against lawfarers,

but limited to that and maybe

insurrectionists, but that's the same

thing in this case.

All right.

Um, there's some new news that there's

this uh Washington DC undercover

metropolitan police guy, Nicholas

Thomasula,

who says that he was actually trying to

instigate trouble at the January 6th

event.

Um, I don't know if he says that he did

it for Nancy Pelosi, but apparently

there is evidence and he's saying it

directly that he was encouraging people

to trespass and encourage them to climb

up the scaffolding, which was the big

weakness in the uh the defense they had

there. And is this real? Do we actually

have a real live person now who says,

"Oh yeah, I was there to instigate."

Do you think there was only one?

Would they only send one or would one

think that, you know, on his own? Did he

decide on his own to do that? Are are we

on the verge of finding out the truth

about January 6th?

We might be. We might be on the verge of

actually finding out that, you know,

that was more staged than we thought.

So keep an eye on that. I've been

watching with interest Marjgerie Taylor

Green buck the uh not just the left but

often the right. So I guess I guess

Marjorie Taylor Green who I like by the

way. Uh I I like having her uh as part

of government and you know she's just a

fun personality as well. So, I I kind of

like her um as a person and as a

politician, but she's not on board with

uh with all Republicans. She said uh

quote, "As a construction business

owner," which she is, I don't think we

should be supporting illegal immigrants

that work in that industry.

Now, I saw a counterpoint to that, which

is if you got rid of all the illegal

immigrants, uh you wouldn't need to

build as many houses and therefore you

wouldn't need them.

And and it's funny when I when I saw

that argument because there's no

population growth.

We don't have population growth. So, in

theory, we shouldn't have to build too

many houses, you know, mostly just

replacement houses and upgrades and

stuff. But, uh, so maybe we don't even

need a construction business. Uh,

because we're just building houses for

the people that we we didn't want to

come in.

I don't I'm not buying that that

narrative entirely. There's a little bit

to it. There's a little bit to it, but

that that's not that's not a good

complete picture. And that Marjorie

Taylor Green also says that prices have

not come down and pay has not gone up.

Now slightly true that some prices went

down and it's slightly true that some

pay went up, but not really in a big

way. So she's uh she's bucking the

narratives there a little bit, but I

don't mind that at all.

Well, meanwhile, Denmark has committed

$4.2 two billion dollars to defending

uh Greenland so that they don't have to

give it up to the United States. Uh and

uh there now they are legitimately

worried about Russia's influence in that

part of the world. So Greenland buying

some buying some defensive stuff. I

can't imagine that Denmark plus

Greenland if you add them together could

defend against Russia without the US.

I mean, not that they would have to

because they're a NATO country, but

wait, how's that work?

So, if Russia attacked Greenland,

and Greenland is owned by Denmark, which

is in NATO, but Greenland isn't

specifically part of NATO.

Would NATO be uh activated for

Greenland?

I do not know. Maybe somebody can tell

me that.

Anyway, I doubt that their 4.2 billion

is going to get them enough to defend

against Russia.

The Wall Street Journal had an article

about uh AI not making as much

difference and productivity as anybody

hoped. Um a JP Morgan Chase economist

didn't find any strong link between

productivity and uh rolling out AI.

Now, who's been telling you for a while

that AI will not be the job killer that

all the smart people say it will be? Me.

Um, cuz just if you've tried using it

yourself, you immediately see that it is

so limited. And in my opinion, the

current version of AI cannot be better

because if they can't make the

hallucinations go away, and they can't,

um, what are you going to use it for?

All you can use it for is chatting

basically and a few other things. So,

I've been a uh skeptic of AI replacing

all our jobs. I think maybe it'll be an

assistant for a while, etc. However, I

want to be the first one to tell you

what's coming.

Um, what's coming is a new form of AI

that's not the large language models. So

the problem with the large language

models is that all they do is look for a

pattern. That's all they do. And so if

the words that people have used are in a

certain pattern that uses that pattern.

So it doesn't mean that it's seeing the

truth,

it's just detecting patterns which

sometimes are not, you know, they're not

reality based patterns. So that can't go

too far. But there's a new type of AI

being referred to as generative video

AI.

Now, if I understand this correctly,

generative video AI starts with real

video. So, let's say if you had the

database of all the video taken by all

the Tesla car cameras, that would be the

real video. And then you could you could

train your AI with real video so that it

could see for example you know this is

an object that's a phone. It could see

how it could be manipulated in space. So

instead of learning a word pattern and

the word pattern for llm might be uh I

pick up phone and if a lot of people say

I pick up phone then the large language

model knows that you can pick up a phone

but it doesn't really know it. It's just

a pattern. Lots of people have picked up

phones. Lots of people have mentioned

it. So now AI knows that you can pick up

a phone. But with the new ones, the the

uh video ones, if you had video of

somebody picking up a phone, it would

know you could pick up a phone. And it

could also conform to the physics of the

situation. And then the fun part is it

can generate fake videos of people doing

things with the phone. But the fake

video would be based on things that

could be done with the phone because it

uses physics, etc., like a game would,

just like a video game. So that it can

create a whole bunch of knowledge about

what a person can do with a phone

without observing it.

So it wouldn't have to observe people

doing it. It would just figure out, oh

well, now I know it's a physical object.

It's, you know, it's about this size.

Uh, that would be something somebody

could pick up.

Now I'm I'm simplifying it but um what

I'm trying to say is that that

limitation of the hallucinating

might be fixable but it will require an

entirely new technology. This this

generative video AI which is coming by

the way it's not it's not speculative.

It's being rolled out right now.

Yeah. I I think that's close to what

Tesla is doing. It's either close to or

exactly what Tesla's doing. That's

right. So, if you were going to bet on

which company got to the the really

smart AI first, I think I would bet on

Tesla. Now, that's not a recommendation.

It's not a recommendation. Don't buy

stock because I say it's something

that's a bad idea. But, uh, it does look

like, uh, Elon knows that the LLMs are

are capped and that he knows that if

he's going to put a trillion dollars

into it, which he is, uh, he'd better

get the good stuff. So, keep an eye on

that. Ray Kurszswwell, the uh, futurist

who's been around forever. He's trying

to live forever. Uh, like literally live

forever by porting his brain to a

computer someday. I think he says that

AGI, that would be the the real smart

version of AI, will be around 2029.

Now, he's got a long track record of

making incredible predictions. So, we

take him seriously. Uh 2029. So, three

years.

I think he's right on. I think he's

right on because it will take about that

time in my in my best guess for that

generative AI to not only work but to be

sort of rolled out. That feels about

right. I think he nailed it again

probably about 3 years before we have

the the serious AI.

In other fun news, some uh according to

the Daily Mail,

some tunnels have been uh discovered

under Egypt's Giza pyramids. Now, these

are not the the the weird stories that I

debunked a while ago, several months

ago, there was somebody said, "Oh, we

found all these, you know, things under

the pyramids." It's not that. Uh

apparently connecting pyramids as

opposed to being, you know, directly

under them. and they found a few of

these uh alleged uh longforgotten

underground pathways that had been

rumored in history, but nobody found

them. So, I guess Heroditus had

described a labyrinth in Egypt with

3,000 chambers, many hidden below

ground, but nobody had ever found any of

it. So, they thought Heroditus might be

might be an exaggerator, I guess, but

maybe there is something down there. So,

we will soon find out who built those

pyramids when we get down there. Maybe

uh University of South Wales found out

that you could use

um

intensive oneweek online therapy to

reduce symptoms of social anxiety.

So, apparently they've had they did a

study and they found you could reduce

your social anxiety disorder um with

online help.

Now, in my book, Reframe Your Brain, I

also have a reframe for uh that.

You want me to just I think I'll just

tell you, I've told you this reframe

before, but it's one of the very best.

This could be life-changing. Do any of

you have that problem where if you go to

a party, first of all, you didn't want

to go, but then you're sitting outside

and you say to yourself, you know what?

I can't even walk in that room. I I

don't want to be in a room with all

those those fakes and those people,

right? How many of you have that social

anxiety where you gh I I just I can't

talk to these strangers? A lot of you,

right? I'm going to give you a reframe

now that will fix it. You ready for

this?

This will change your life. It really

will. I've heard from people who say it

changed their life. They just heard it

once. Changed their life. It goes like

this.

First of all, everybody has social

anxiety.

Now, maybe not everybody, but 90%.

So, the first thing you need to know is

that everybody else is pretending.

As soon as you think you're the only one

pretending to be, you know, comfortable

and that everybody else has figured out

how to do this, that's not the case.

They're all uncomfortable.

10% are kind of crazy narcissists who

like the excitement. 10%. 90% are

exactly what you're feeling. Oh, who am

I going to talk to? What do I do with my

hands? Did I make a fool of myself? Can

I just make an excuse to leave? Why

should I pretend to get another drink?

All right, here's what you need to know.

If you had studied the Dale Carnegie

approach for making conversation, you

would know the technique for walking up

to any stranger and just starting a

pleasant conversation that the other

person would when you're done say, "I

like that guy." Or, "I like that

person."

And it's easy. I've taught you this many

times. All you do is you ask questions

about the other person and you listen

with. That's it.

If you walk up to somebody and try to

make a joke to a stranger, which is what

I used to do before I learned how to do

this, I I would think, well, if I'm

funny, like I I'll bond right away.

Never really worked.

You can get lucky and hit somebody who

has your exact sense of humor and you

then something can happen. But it's not

a good general approach. Most people are

not going to laugh and it's just not

going to lead to anything. But if you

walk up and say your name, hi, I'm

Scott. That's always first. Hi, I'm blah

blah blah. If they don't say who they

are, you say, "What's your name?" And

then you ask them just basic questions

about them. It would depend on, you

know, what was the point of the the

thing. So, you might say, "Hey, you

know, where are you from?" or "Who do

you know?" Or, uh, you could even ask,

you know, what do you do for a living?

If it if the conversation goes, do you

have kids? You planning a vacation? What

school do your kids go to? If you ask

just those basic questions, the other

person will feel comfortable because

they know the answers to the questions.

They know their name. They know where

they work. They know where the kids go

to school, unless it's the father.

And uh and then that's comfortable

because all they're doing is answering

easy questions and it looks like you're

interested in them. solves every

problem. All right, so I just solved how

to talk to a stranger. If you don't

think that works, try it once. It works.

It works every time. Show interest. Ask

questions and don't do a big monologue

about you. If they want to know about

you, they'll ask. You don't even have to

say anything about you. But usually, if

just a few questions, you can find

something you have in common.

So you might say, "So what do you do for

a living?" And the person tells you

their job and you go, "I

I'm so interested in that." Like, you

know, how does that work? How'd you get

into that? So, you know, and if it's

something about kids, if you have kids

about the same age, you got lots to talk

about. So, you're looking for that thing

you can talk about, the jumping off

point, and and the questions are just to

get you to that. All right. Now, so now

you have a skill that I just taught you

that the other 90% of the people who

have bad social anxiety don't have. So

what are they going to do? They're going

to go there and think, I don't know what

to do. I don't know what to do. But I

solved it for you. Just walk up to

somebody who's looks uncomfortable.

Introduce yourself. Ask some questions.

And then the next thing you need to know

is how to leave.

you know how to how to stop talking to

somebody because you don't want to get

trapped and you think, "Oh, I found one

person to talk to. I'll just stay here

all night until they hate me." No, you

have to leave. You you want to give them

just enough of you that they they got

enough but not too much. So, here are

some ways to leave people without being

rude. If you've talked to them enough

and you've asked some questions and

you've showed some interest, they're

done. you know, they don't need you to

stay there all night. So, here's what

you say. It was really great meeting

you. Um, I want to do a little mingling

and I'll catch up with you later.

Everybody is there to do mingling. So,

if you say, "It was great talking to

you. I got to go do some mingling." They

get it because they probably have to do

the same thing. So, that's not awkward.

Or you could say, "U, can I get you a

can I refill your drink?" If they don't

want to spend more time with you,

they're gonna say, "Oh, no. I'm fine."

And then you you go away to refill your

own drink and don't come back. Or you

say, "I got to use the restroom." Or you

say, "You see somebody. Here's another

good one." You say, "Oh, I have to talk

to Bob. Excuse me. It was great talking

to you." And then you you go directly

over to Bob. If you know Bob, the other

thing is if you don't know a single

person there, not if you don't know

anybody, I always recommend looking for

the alpha female.

Most most events have at least one alpha

female and you you can pick them out.

You know, they're the ones flitting from

one place to the other and everybody's

giving them attention. Maybe they're the

organizer, maybe it's the person who

invited you. But if you attach to them,

the alpha female, men will do it too,

but the alpha females are a little

little bit better. They will introduce

you to whoever they're standing next to.

So, you just walk up to them. Hi, Benny.

Thanks for inviting me. They go, "Oh,

glad you made it. Have you met so and

so?" And here's so and so. And now you

know three people that you could say hi

to anytime during the party. All right.

So, now you know the technique, but now

we're going to get to the good part.

Okay, here's the payoff.

You're sitting in your car outside the

party and you've got that anxiety about

going in. Reframe it. Here's the

reframe.

You're going to rescue all those other

people who have social anxiety.

You're not the person with social

anxiety. You're the solution. So, you

walk in there and you find somebody who

looks uncomfortable and you walk right

up to them and you solve their problem

by being the person who knows how to

start a conversation, which you are now.

And when you're done with that person,

you say, "Great meet you. I've got to do

a little more mingling." You find

another person and you save them, too.

You can spend your whole night saving

people. And boy, will they appreciate

it. Yeah. it. There's nothing that the

other people want more than a friendly

person to come up to them and start a

conversation. They all want that. You

are their hero. If you can do that for

them, your hero. So, you're not going

there as this weak little person who's

in the 10% who can't figure out how to

start a conversation with a human being.

That's not who you are. You are already

because I just trained you and it was

that easy. It really is that easy. I

just taught you how to be the most

effective person in the party, and you

will be. You simply have to do what I

just said. Just learn how to ask

questions, learn how to introduce

yourself with eye contact and a

handshake,

and learn how to leave. If you learn

those very simple things, which you just

did, basically, you just learned them,

you are no longer a victim of social

anxiety.

It'll take you a few practice runs,

but once you've done it like twice,

you'll never have anxiety again. You

you'll say, "Oh, I did it twice in a

row, and it was super easy, and

everybody seemed to be happy about it,

and I got all these phone numbers and

made some friends."

So, that's a that's a reframe in my

book,

Reframe Your Brain.

Now, when I tell you that this is the

kind of book that changes people's

lives, that's what I mean, right? So, so

some of you didn't need that. That had

no value to you whatsoever. But 100% of

you know somebody who needs it, don't

you? 100% of you know somebody that

you're already thinking, "Oh, man. I

want to get a clip of that and show my

friend that will really help them." I

hope this gets clipped. uh probably will

be. All right. So, there are other

reframes that might be more more

relevant to you specifically.

Um let's see.

Uh Venezuela is collapsing, but so is

Cuba. Did uh I saw an article by Daniel

a lot. He's an opinion contributor in

the Hill and he tells us that over the

last four years roughly 2 million Cubans

which would be 20% of all Cubans on the

island have left the island

and the ones leaving are the

professionals because you know they can

they can make a life somewhere. So I

guess their their biggest source of oil

was Venezuelan oil which they can no

longer depend on. It's not reliable

anymore. the professionals are leaving

and their infrastructure is in complete

um disrepair. It's just collapsing. So

Cuba might fail before Venezuela, but I

guess they're sort of joined at the hip.

So Trump might have a Cuba play

that historically we've never had.

Meaning that Cuba is going to be pretty

desperate. Uh far more than it is. It's

already pretty desperate. But uh if they

become even more desperate, they might

get flexible and and maybe maybe the US

is the only thing that can save them and

maybe they want to, you know, be a

little bit uh friendlier with the US

going forward and vice versa. We'll see.

Well, you heard the story about the

Dominion um company, the election voting

machines. that company got sold to a

alleged Republican

who uh is apparently involved in

decommissioning a number of the uh

machines.

Now, I don't have details about why some

of them are being decommissioned, but

not all of them. Why do you think do you

think that he's that he's

decommissioning voting machines because

they're old and unreliable?

old and unreliable

or because they had um security

vulnerabilities that we don't know about

just generally unreliable or unreliable

for security reasons.

Don't you feel you need to know the

answer to that question?

I feel like that's really important. Are

they decommissioning machines because

they know that they're not secure?

H I've got questions. All

right, ladies and gentlemen, that is

what I have for today's show. I want to

thank you all again from the bottom of

my heart. If you were supporting this

president and you took the the risks

that I took, you took the hits, you lost

family members, you may have lost money,

you may have lost prestige, you may have

lost everything, you may have lost

everything, but damn it, you were right.

You were right and this is the time to

enjoy it. You know, maybe tomorrow will

be different, but today you can bask in

the fact that you did a great thing. You

were part of something amazing. In this

case, it probably helped another country

more than it helped us, but it's the

same process. The the same stuff is

going to, you know, be helping America.

So,

um, just enjoy being right.

It feels really good.

And that's all I have for you today. I'm

going to say a few words privately to my

beloved local subscribers and the rest

of you. I hope to see you tomorrow for

more good news. Maybe. You never know.

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