Episode 2988 CWSA 10/14/25

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Well, what do you think my new uh habit of reading you a new reframe from my book every morning?

Do we like that?

Do you want another one?

All right.

All right.

All right.

I'll give you one.

Um, here's one I find very helpful.

Um, you'll find this helpful in keeping your mental health stable.

The usual frame if you're debating somebody is that one of you is right and the other one is wrong and you usually think you're right and the other person is wrong, right?

And then you got to fight.

So, what would be a good reframe instead of one person's right, one person's wrong?

And the answer is we're watching two different movies on one screen.

That really helps.

If you say to somebody, I'm right and you're wrong.

Well, now you have a fight.

If you say we're watching two different movies on the same screen, then suddenly they're curious.

What do you mean by that?

Well, I'm looking at different information.

If you and I were looking at the same information, we'd probably have a similar opinion.

And that that calms everybody down because you take it away from the two of you and who's right and who's wrong and you basically blame the uh you blame social media and the news for giving you two different versions of reality.

So that is your reframe for the morning.

By the way, Jay Pleman, who's been doing a great job of clipping my show, does a clip on there this morning from my reframe.

You might remember the one called Get Out where it's a solution to having negative thoughts if you're trying to get rid of your negative thoughts.

That's the whole technique.

Basically, you you can look at the you probably should look at the uh video, but all you do is when those thoughts come in, you just say, "Get out.

Get out." Like you're talking to your own brain, and you just say, "Get out.

Get out.

Get rid of that.

Get out." And you'll be amazed that it works.

Look, look at all the people in the comments who have already tried it.

Yeah, it's if if you ask me why it works, I'm not sure I can tell you, but experientially it works.

Works for me and uh bunch of other people have tried it and they say it works, too.

All right.

I wonder if there's any uh science news that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me and saved some time and money.

Oh, here's one.

Would you believe that the Swinburn University of Technology has discovered that using psychedelics psychedelics to treat depression produces promising findings?

How how many times now have I read a new story about a new study that finds exactly the same thing every time?

Uh every time we use psychedelics for people's mental health, no matter what else we do, it always works.

This is another one of those.

No matter what else you do, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't seem to matter how much they give you.

It doesn't matter if you're adding therapy to it.

It doesn't seem to matter how many times you do it because it works kind of right away.

Uh it just keeps working.

So they kind of just asked me, "Scott, do you think that'll help?" Yes.

Yes.

Well, yesterday I went viral for at least three or four different reasons.

It was a weird day.

Every time I turned on X, I would see I would see myself.

Now, part of that is cuz uh Jay's been clipping me really well.

Uh and also Jason Cohen.

Um he's been clipping me and I think a few other people started clipping me and that's caused a lot of action.

So what so one of the viral clips was my reframe on how to be uh not have social anxiety if you go to a gathering.

Boy, did people like that one.

You should see the numbers on that.

People were crazy for it.

And uh people were touched apparently um by my video in yesterday in which I was talking about how all of us Trump supporters um sacrificed because I think everybody was feeling it and sometimes you just need somebody to put it into words.

That's what I do.

So you were all feeling that yesterday felt like vindication, right?

If you sacrificed everything like many of us did, our friends, our jobs, our reputations, our family, and then it pays off and you realize that even your worst critics are looking at what Trump did and they're all saying some version of this.

No one else could have done it.

That's the magic words.

Because if someone else could have done it, then why are you putting up with all the the the baggage that comes with having a Trump president?

The entire point of Trump from my perspective from day one, day one is that he would be, you've heard me say this, an expensive president.

Meaning that he's going to come with some expense.

He's not free, but you will get with him things that you can't get with any other president.

That he will simply be able to do things that nobody could do.

Just no president, nobody.

Just nobody.

He He has those unique skills.

Part partly because of his current place in the world.

It's not entirely skill stack.

It's also a result of everything he's done to get in this position.

But once you see him doing things that other presidents definitely couldn't do and they're really really important, that's vindication.

That that's what we saw on day one.

The the supporters we saw it early.

Some people saw it because I told you to see it and I helped you see it.

But you remember what I said from the very beginning.

Did I ever say this man has the best character you've ever seen?

Nope.

Never said that.

Did I?

Did I say um he has the most uh government experience you've ever seen?

Nope.

Nope.

I never said that.

What did I say?

What I did say is that I know a little bit about persuasion and I've never seen anybody as persuasive as this person.

And I p and I predicted that his persuasion ability would be the defining characteristic.

How'd I do?

Remember that was a that was a day one prediction which I never I never backed off from.

No, he's the most persuasive person you we've ever seen.

We've never seen this.

You know, you'll see other persuasive people, but you'll never see this again.

This might be oneoff.

So, nailed it.

and that became kind of viral.

And then just by coincidence, every few months somebody sends around my how to be a better writer post blog post from I don't know 20 years ago at this point.

But uh and then people are raving about the uh the advice on how to be a better writer, teaches you how to be a a let's say an economical writer, which works for most things.

So it was a weird day for me.

I was just sort of multiviral on all these different topics.

That was fun.

Um, Kabell Harris was giving a talk yesterday, I guess, and uh, she reminded us that Columbus Day uh, was when the European explorers ushered in a wave of devastation, violence, stealing land, and disease.

that that's what she had to say about one of our most beloved national uh Yeah.

Oh, the cat's going crazy behind me.

One of our most beloved national uh holidays.

Now, I totally get it's not like I don't understand that Columbus by modern standards and maybe even by maybe even by his standards was a bad man.

But here's the thing.

If that's what's activating your description of him, you don't understand what it means to be a president.

If if you're a leader in this country, then you should be talking about our history in maybe not so starkly accurate ways, but rather in ways that make children want to be Americans.

If your goal is to have a strong country, should you say, you know, your heroes are actually, you know, terrible criminal bastards and you shouldn't you shouldn't uh respect them.

What will that buy you?

That's not buying you anything.

It might be true.

I'm not even going to argue whether it was true or false, but it's the wrong move.

Instead, you should say George Washington was a hero.

Christopher Columbus, you know, was a great discoverer, explorer.

And then you you you make those uh those qualities something that children would want and then the children think, oh, if my heroes are acting that way, then I can act that way, too.

So, Kla Harris doesn't understand really the most basic element of her job.

Her job is not to give us all the truth all the time.

That's not her job.

Now, her job, if she were president, her job would be to make the country stronger and safer and more prosperous.

To do that, you might need to, you know, brainwash the children into, you know, some hero worship that's not entirely based on reality because the hero worship never is.

Nobody's heroes.

there's nobody's heroes anywhere who are as good as you know the reputation.

So the fact that Harris doesn't understand that or doesn't care because the main thing is to say bad things about white men which I think is at least part of the problem then she needs to you know never back a white man basically.

Um so there's that.

Anyway, she is so dumb.

Well, according to Joe Wilkins writing for futurism, Open AI has said that it's going to um loosen up and allow more smut, more porn uh on Open AI.

Now, I assume that means things like the the chat voice will say dirty things if you tell it to and you you have to prove you're a certain age.

So, that won't take I guess that won't take effect until they can do more effective age um checking.

So, it's not there yet, but they're going to do it.

And I saw um I saw uh I'm blanking out uh the head of OpenAI, Sam Alman, he was talking about I think it was a different topic, but it it relates to this.

He was talking about how if you know that AI is going to do a thing and there's no stopping it.

Um and in this case, AI is definitely going to be doing porn, right?

Everybody knows that and it's definitely going to be doing porn where it pretends that somebody you know is in the, you know, in the porn scene, maybe even with you.

So, you know, that's going to happen.

And it doesn't mean you're going to use open AI to do it, but there will be a bunch of, as Sam points out, there'll be a bunch of open source free models of AI, you know, that might not be just as good as the the the ones you pay for, but um it'll be good enough that it can create, you know, endless porn that you just want on demand.

And what Sam said is if you know something's coming and there's no way to stop it, and I think this falls into that category pretty well, um that you should you should first restrict it and people will do it anyway.

And then you'll learn something, but you won't have gone too far because you're still restricting it.

But at some point, you have to inoculate the public.

I think he used that word, inoculate.

In other words, the only thing you could do is let it out.

You just don't want to let it out without a little bit of thinking about, you know, how fast you do it.

And so, it's basically about getting people used to it.

If you can get people used to it and bored by it, it might not even be a problem.

I was trying to think, you know, at the moment because I have the prostate cancer, I don't have I don't have normal like sexual thoughts because the first thing they do is give you a drug that takes all that away.

So I'm I'm basically a walking unic.

So when I look at this, I don't have any way to appreciate whether I would have wanted to use it for porn if I had any interest in porn, which I don't.

Um, but but when I think about it, I think, you know, I'd probably, you know, let's say I were a, you know, younger, hornier man, I'd probably try it.

You know, I'd probably say, "Hey, make me a make me a scene with these two people in it." And then I would be mildly amused.

Maybe I'd do it again.

But somewhere around the third or fifth time I I had to tell the porn what to do and then I then it didn't quite do it and I had to tell it again.

It was start feeling like work.

You know what I mean?

I I'm not sure that it it really presents a possibility of enjoying it in the long term.

Shortterm probably I'd give it a try.

You know, a lot of men would.

long term.

I don't feel like it would I feel like it would be the same problem with art that if you know they're not real people, you you can't really get past it.

That's what I think.

So, I think uh yeah, as as weird as this sounds, I think that the AI will have to the AI companies will have to loosen up and let you do whatever you want.

But I do like Sam's idea of rolling it out and inoculating people a little bit before they get the full thing.

Did you see the Time Magazine photo of Trump?

So Time Magazine I believe is owned by Mark Beni off the founder CEO of Salesforce who is a very left um but in in an honest way.

I'm very pro beni off as a both as an entrepreneur and as a uh a good influence on the world.

I don't agree with everything he would do of course but you know that's just that's just a basic thing you say about everybody but he owns I believe he owns Time magazine now and uh it was a very unflattering picture of Trump and they really had to work on it.

So they did a sort of a ground up picture so that you see him from the the chin first and you can't make out much of his face.

It's really unflattering.

It's so unflattering that I don't for a second think it isn't intentional.

You know what I mean?

I always talk about the uh the photo editor because there's usually an editor who does the photos specifically.

The photo editor obviously just doesn't like him.

And and it's surprising that they let that go through because it's so obviously a biased photograph.

Even Even Trump called it out and said, "It's the worst photograph I've ever seen." It is actually literally the worst photograph I've ever seen of a public figure.

It's literally the worst.

It doesn't look accidental at all.

It looks like It looks like they couldn't say anything bad about him because he had such a successful day.

But they they could but they could put a picture there that made you go what's going on there.

Well, the stocks have pulled back as you know.

Uh also based on the US China trade tensions, we don't know what's going on there, but China is certainly not in the mood to be pushed around.

So, uh here's one of the things that Trump has to navigate.

I heard from somebody smart who spent a lot of time in the Middle East that one of the reasons that Trump is succeeding in the Middle East is that he's a strong man and that the Middle East really likes a strong man.

You know, the the Arab cultures etc.

And so the the stronger more I don't know authoritarian let's say that Trump acts in the Middle East, the more people respect him and then that works to his favor.

But I don't think that works in China.

I think China does not want to see uh Trump being the strong man because that that makes them look like they're being bullied and they want to say face and that just seems way more important over there.

So if Trump does the, you know, I'm going to bully you into doing something, you can sort of see why it might work in the Middle East, but you know, is to be determined that it can work with trade policy.

But Trump is smart enough and flexible enough to know that he reads the room like nobody can read the room.

So he obviously knows that that he has to he has to play nice with President Xi, but also be tough.

So he's got this delicate balance where they're an enemy but a customer.

They're an enemy but a supplier.

Uh if you go too hard, they'll, you know, they they'll go too hard.

So we'll see what he does on that.

It's going to be a tough one, but the stocks are pulled back just on uncertainty, I guess.

Beijing didn't like the fact that uh the US is working with some some there's a US subsidiary of a South Korean ship building giant and now Beijing is saying that they won't work with that company.

Uh Scott Basant, Treasury Secretary, he uh told the Financial Times that uh China's in the middle of a recession depression and they want to pull everybody else down with them.

Well, I don't know about the wanting to pull everybody else down with them.

That just sounds more like politics.

But, uh, are they?

I I don't know how we would ever know if China was in a recession or a depression.

Would we?

I saw somebody writing that um that that one child thing looks like the depopulation would be a terrible problem.

And apparently there are a bunch of young people who don't have jobs.

But here's the thing.

Apparently, they don't want them cuz if you're if you're one child and your parents did okay, you know, they they've got a nice job.

Uh the cost of living in China is so reasonable that you can live at home with your parents probably be a benefit to them, you know, because you can do stuff and the parents might actually like it.

There's only one of you.

They only got to have one kid.

Maybe they want to spend time with you.

So, it turns out that uh China was way more flexible in trying to figure out how to get past this population problem than we imagined.

And one of the one of the flexes might be that young people living at home might be fine with everybody.

They they might actually just prefer it.

So that would allow them to have uh far fewer people employed and yet everybody still be happy because their parents would just feed them and they don't need anything else.

Here's something you never would have guessed.

I certainly would have.

According to Wall Street Journal, the New York City office market is super hot right now and it's booming more than it has in decades.

Did anybody see that coming?

I I thought the real estate the at least the commercial real estate in uh in New York City was just collapsing and that it might not even come back.

It already came back.

But this is not happening in other cities.

It seems to be unique to New York City.

But the there's big companies are they're leasing they're snapping up property and uh New York City looks like it'll be fine of all things.

How many of you would have guessed that the New York City office market would not just be okay but would be better than it has in decades like right now.

I'll bet not one of you would have guessed that.

Th this is why it seemed absurd to me when I was getting my degree in economics because I thought, you know, I don't think anybody can predict anything.

So what exactly is the point of economics if you can't predict anything ever?

All right, I'm exaggerating a little bit there.

But the u my guess is that the reason that New York City is doing well and the other cities have not matched this kind of comeback is that the biggest companies know they need a New York City um presence.

And so I think the biggest companies are saying, "Oo, cheap real estate.

Let's lock it down now." I think that's what's happening.

I guess the the most powerful rocket ever built was launched today successfully.

Uh but what caught my attention was that uh in succeeding allegedly it lowered the economics of rocket launches by showing that you could do it and reuse all the parts.

It didn't blow up.

Uh the cost of a launch dropped today, just today, from $67 million for a launch to 10 million, under 10 million.

Now, if if that keeps on, you know, cuz the whole idea of a reusable rocket is to get the price way down, that's 85% cheaper uh just because Elon Musk crossed this economic barrier of success.

85%.

I don't know how much farther it can go, but wow, I'm pretty impressed.

Well, Eric Trump is crediting the law of positive thinking for Trump's success in the Middle East.

Um, and you know, he points out how other people were negative, but his father was positive.

You know, I've said before that the power of positive thinking is the book um well actually the author of that famous book was his uh pastor, Trump's pastor.

So on Sundays he would be listening to literally the guy who invented the idea of positive thinking, you know, being a being a positive.

Um, and then he years later he employed it in the Middle East.

He took the yes instead of the no when when everybody was saying yes, we'll do a deal, but you know, no, we haven't agreed.

And he took the yes and said the no.

Positive thinking.

And he changed reality.

As I've said before, he didn't just negotiate.

That's not what happened.

He changed how we looked at reality and then within that reality, he could get what he wanted.

But he had to change the reality first.

And the reality was that they had said no to the deal.

But they'd used the word yes because they said yes, but you know, not this stuff.

And and the and the but was actually the important stuff.

So yeah, he just changed how they saw reality and then they entered his reality and then they made a deal.

But that wasn't negotiating.

And that's what I mean when I say uh nobody else could do that.

Nobody else could do that.

He changed reality.

I will never be less impressed by that.

I'll never be less impressed.

Anyway, uh Biden has tried to take some credit for a Gaza.

Uh he put out a statement that said in part, "My administration worked relentlessly to bring the hostages home." Okay, but they weren't home.

I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

Renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

So, he's trying to make it look like he queued it up and uh all Trump did is, you know, he just he just finished it off.

But nice try, Biden.

All right.

How many of you watched with fascination uh Trump meeting in Egypt with all the the big leaders of the Middle East and a bunch of Europeans as well?

And uh how many of you watched that?

That was so interesting.

So Trump got to do the Trumpiest thing I've ever seen in my life.

He had unlimited time to speak because he was, you know, getting a hero's reception.

And all the leaders were there and they had to they had to sort of stand there just respecting and praising him because they didn't have anything else to do.

And then he goes through his act where he tries to mention all the leaders, but he makes it really clear which ones he likes.

and which ones he doesn't like and and and he's telling you like he loves Erdogan because Erdogan does whatever, you know, he always does a favor if he needs it.

He says he likes strong leaders and and it just got funnier and funnier.

But then he then he starts uh talking about the prime minister of Italy of being an attractive young woman and he's joking.

Yeah, you know, you could lose your job if you call somebody attractive young woman, but I'm going to take a chance.

And she she managed to brush that off.

I mean, I I don't think that was what she wanted to happen, but she managed to to go with the flow.

She does seem to like it.

they they do seem to have a real relationship.

But then he's he's you know pumping hands with people and stuff but the best part is that uh the UK prime minister Starmer was right behind him.

So some of them were on the deis standing behind him and uh it looked like he forgot the name of the leader Starmer.

He turns around and he goes where's the UK?

So so he he calls him by his you know country instead of his name.

uh and then Starmer thinks that he's been summoned over to say something because the uh the head of Pakistan had just done a little statement in which he was recommending Trump to be a Nobel Prize winner.

So, uh, so then Starmer gets sort of recognized and he comes up to the back of the the deis where Trump is because he he was already in that neighborhood and it looked like he was waiting for Trump to ask him to say a few words and Trump just turns his back on him and starts talking again and he has to slink back to standing in line waiting for Trump.

It was the Trumpiest thing of all time.

He just he just put him in his place.

So he makes them all listen to the Pakistan guy uh say that he should have a you know he's the greatest guy in the world and he should have a a Nobel Prize and they all just had to stand there like idiots because none of them were able to get this done but Trump did.

So anyway uh and the funniest thing was as he's going through the countries you know that there are some leaders he hasn't met.

So, you know, like he'll give a big compliment to like MBS and Erdogan and and and others.

And he gets to uh Greece.

He's like, "Where's Greece?" Ah, there you are.

That's all that's all Greece got.

But the funniest one was he goes he's looking at his list of all the people who are attending.

He goes, "Norway?

What the hell happened to Norway?" And he never explained and the news never explained what his problem with Norway was.

He's like, "Well, what the hell happened to Norway?" It was so funny cuz I still don't know what happened to Norway or why he was mad at Norway.

The only thing I know you which I I I tell you all the time is that he makes the biggest distinction between people who are making him happy, Erdogan, and people who are not.

And I guess I guess Norway wasn't making him happy for something Norway.

What the hell's wrong with Norway?

And then then we saw caught on a hot mic the Indonesian president who is a president or something else but anyway the leader of uh Indonesia which is the biggest population of uh of uh Muslims in the world was for some reason we don't know asking Trump if he could get an introduction to Eric Trump and then I think he also said maybe Don Jr.

one or the other.

What do you think that was about?

Why would that be the one thing that the Indonesian leader would want to talk to Trump about?

Can you introduce me to your sons?

It's got to be crypto, right?

Isn't it crypto?

I don't know what else it would be.

Yeah.

Anyway, it's a mystery.

According to Blaze Media, Joseph Mc.

Kinnon is writing that uh the new polls are showing that uh Trump is beating Obama and Bush at the same time in their in their term.

So at the same same month number, Trump is more popular than Obama was.

And Bush um doesn't mention Biden, so maybe he was more Biden might have been more popular anyway.

So he's he's outperforming his predecessors.

And then uh Nate Silver um says that uh Trump is still more popular now than he was 8 years ago.

So Trump's popularity is higher than it was eight years ago and better than his predecessors.

And let's see um but his job approval was under 50%.

It's 45.3 according to one poll.

Real clear politics I think.

Anyway, um uh I'm fascinated by what the Democrats are going to do when Trump is being so successful and they've got nothing going on.

So I sort of made a list of all the things that they can do.

Like what are they going to do?

What are they going to complain about now?

I mean half of their energy was about uh this and just went away in the most satisfying way.

So, um, I'm fascinated that they're, uh, that Hitler did the peacemaking that nobody else could do, and they have to explain why they've been calling him Hitler, whereas the public now clearly sees Trump as the peacemaker chief.

So, their entire authoritarian Hitler thing just turned into, well, okay, we have to admit that Trump being Trump is why this got done.

So, even even being the authoritarian got this done.

You know, I've been saying for a while, authoritarian, that's not bad.

Don't we want an authoritarian as long as they're on our side?

And he's clearly on our side.

Anyway, so here are the Democrat strategies that they have left.

The I guess they're going to have that no kings protest on the weekend.

So the no kings is to say that they don't want anybody who's a authoritarian.

Do you think that has the same spice and energy now as it did a week ago?

Because Trump's, like I said, Trump's strong man authoritarian approach is exactly what got us these these good results.

So, they're going to have a whole demonstration against the thing that we all watched work right in front of our eyes.

We all observed it working.

And they're going to have a whole demonstration against the thing we all observed working, which is Trump bullying people that needed to be bullied.

And uh so I think the whole no kings thing since it doesn't have an objective, you know, they they just put it in the category of see we're fighting Trump.

Can you see?

Look how hard we're fighting him.

Well, what exactly are you doing?

Well, we had some peaceful protests called no kings.

What exactly is that gonna do for anybody?

Is that supposed to change Trump's behavior?

because they had a they had a bunch of people marching.

Are these people who haven't watched the news lately and they don't know that Trump's doing a good job?

What exactly would this accomplish?

So, that's not going to accomplish anything.

It doesn't even have an accomplishment built into it as an objective.

I don't believe there's any objective to it, right?

They don't say, "Well, once this no kings thing is done, he'll he'll resign." They're not saying that.

or once we do this no kings thing that will change some laws.

They're not asking to change any laws.

What exactly do they want there?

It literally this is so obviously just a financial transaction.

Clearly there's a business model.

There are people who make money from from organizing these things.

So the people who make money from organizing them is the reason it's happening.

It's not happening because it might work.

I don't think there's one Democrat who thinks this is going to work for what?

It's going to work for what?

To change what?

So clearly it has no uh the Democrat party is so lost that they're it looks like they're just sort of the the dog getting wagged by the tail.

And the tail in this case is whoever makes money organizing these events or whoever pays for them.

So yeah, they're lost.

Now, of course, they want to go after the character of Trump.

That would be one attack.

Do you think that would work when he's the number one peacemaking president of all time?

Doesn't work so well, does it?

That whole character thing.

Um, they can say we're fighting Trump, but where's the fight?

What?

marching around.

Bunch of senior citizens marching around with signs that somebody gave them.

Is that the fight?

Good luck.

Um, are the Democrats going to try to keep this the government closed and hope that Trump gets blamed more?

Well, that's not working.

Apparently, in terms of history and polls, people are kind of not blaming anybody or blaming both sides or the public who is paying attention knows that the Republicans have for a long time now said, "We'll open the government.

You just signed this.

We've already signed it continuing resolution.

We'll just keep it open.

It's the same same funding and then we'll work it out in a few weeks just like the schedule says we should." So, I don't think the closing the government is going to work for the Democrats, but they don't have anything else.

Um, what about will they complain about Ukraine?

Well, they might complain about Ukraine, but how do you complain when Trump is giving them more weapons potentially than they've had before?

Tomahawks are being discussed and not putting any of our money into it.

What exactly are you going to complain about?

Because that would be fully supporting That would be support for Ukraine.

They like that.

It would be better weapons for Ukraine.

Maybe probably they like that.

And not paying any of our money to buy those weapons, but having Europe pay for them.

How do you How do you not like that?

So, they don't really have much to complain about with Russia.

The Gaza thing went away.

Um the government shutdown probably doesn't make a dent.

The no kings thing is is just empty calories.

Um what else?

How about uh if the Democrats fight hard to not reduce crime in cities, which they're also doing.

So by resisting the the National Guard and so far, to the credit of the National Guard, they have not created any incidents.

So it's not like there's some anecdote of well that one National Guard guy got wild and hurt somebody.

Look, we don't hear that at all.

So, as long as the crime is going down where the National Guard is deployed, and it probably will, um, they don't have anything there either because the public likes less crime.

Every time they do a street interview and they're trying to get somebody to say, "Oh, I don't like all these armed people in my city." They say the opposite.

They say, "Yeah, I feel safer.

It's definitely safer." Um, and apparently according to Rasmus and poll 52% of likely voters are actually supporting using the National Guard at ICE facilities.

So that's a advantage to Trump.

So they don't have that.

And uh Kristen Welker was talking to U VP Vance and uh she was trying to do the thing that where she says crime is down in both Chicago and Portland.

So why do you need the National Guard if things are heading in the right direction?

Do you believe that crime is down in both Chicago and Portland?

Well, JD Vance had a perfect answer to that.

He said crime is down in Chicago and Portland often because they're so overwhelmed at the local level that they're not even keeping the statistics properly.

Now, we have lots of data to say that's true, that they don't keep the they just lie about the data.

So it looks like the crime's going down.

Um so so they so if the Democrats can't use Gaza, they can't really use Ukraine, they can't really use, you know, the danger of the cities.

Um the tariffs look like they might be working out.

What's left?

I think all they have left is healthcare.

So, I thought it'd be fun to um talk about a few things that Trump could do on healthcare, maybe.

So, this is just for fun and speculation.

Okay.

Apparently, Speaker Johnson says that the Republicans do have some ideas for replacing uh Obamacare or at least replacing the extension to, you know, paying the extra Obamacare stuff.

But he doesn't say what that is.

So I wanted to give a few ideas.

What if now remember this is just brainstorming.

So I'm don't worry if anything I say now sounds impractical.

This is brainstorming.

But what if Trump said, "I'm going to use the uh tariff revenue specifically to um make healthc care stable." What would they do then?

because they can't complain about the tariffs because the tariffs would then be going directly toward the thing they care about the most which is getting healthcare for everybody.

So I'm not going to suggest um I'm not I'm not going to suggest that'll happen.

But isn't it a fundamental experiment?

If if Trump said I'm going to use all the tariffs, he he won't do this.

But if he said, "I'm going to use the tariffs for healthcare to, you know, plug the hole.

Maybe only until we get to a negotiated better better situation." But what would they say?

It feels like it's a perfect plan because they couldn't really they couldn't really debate it because they shouldn't complain about where the money comes from, you know.

And if they did, the public wouldn't be able to follow the argument because they don't really understand tariffs either.

Here's another one.

What if Trump did an executive order on price transparency?

I don't know what that would look like, but it is my belief that consumers don't have the option to shop intelligently for health care because they can't tell what anything costs.

Could the government say, "All right, we're going to make the free market work better because you're going to really have to say what your actual costs are and then people will be able to shop." Maybe it would sound like it would make a difference, you know, before you tried it.

How about uh how about he could make a bigger deal about um how taking illegal people off of the healthcare will be better for for the people who are on healthcare.

That's a pretty strong argument.

Um, I don't know if you've noticed this, but I you you all know that I'm in the middle of a sort of a major health care situation.

And it seems to me that my own health care provider is not nearly as capable as they were even one year ago.

I feel like one year ago, if I needed a procedure, I could get it in two days and now it's like two weeks.

Is that because of uh all the people who don't have health care who have healthcare?

Is that why?

I mean it it feels like if I'm waiting there there was some new bunch of people who got in front of me that wasn't just normal population growth.

So I don't know if you is anybody having that experience where it's taking you way longer to get a a medical appointment.

I might be imagining it by the way.

So, I don't know that it's true, but it feels like maybe maybe it's because it's life and death.

So, it seems like a bigger deal to me, but yeah, it could take a week or two to get a scan.

So, I I had to actually go to the emergency room so that I didn't have to wait so long to get a valuable MRI scan.

So, if I go to the emergency room, who am I competing with?

all the people who don't have health care because they would go to the emergency room because the emergency room still has to take them.

So, I'm I'm sitting there with I don't know maybe half of the people didn't have health insurance and I had to wait my turn.

Not ideal.

Here's another idea.

How about uh about tasking the big AI companies with creating a free version of healthcare?

Now, not free in terms of drugs.

That would be a separate thing and not free in terms of hospital care.

But what if what if Trump said, "All right, here's my executive order.

AI will be super disruptive to the country, but we want to make sure that AI since that's where all the profits are going to go to these AI companies that they would be in charge basically of creating a free permanent healthcare portal that's AI.

So it doesn't have to be any people.

could be just a portal, but but have one, you know, one of them that really is fact checked for, you know, no hallucinating, etc.

Now, would that work?

I don't know, but it would sound like a Republican plan, and that would be better than having no plan.

And then there's the uh RFK Jr.

play, which is to to uh act like your health care costs will go down if you've solved some of the healthy eating and um autism problems.

And you know, I'm optimistic that RFK Jr.

did in fact find out the main cause of autism.

It might be circumcision and uh and Tylenol.

It might be.

And uh if he did, then we could reasonably claim that, you know, all all those costs for autism might go down a little bit, not right away, but over time.

And so there might be some argument that says we're going to lower health care by getting rid of these chronic health problems.

We're going to make it so that everybody has at least a free AI doctor, which we're very we're right at the crossover point where the AI doctor will be better than a regular doctor.

not not quite there yet.

We're not there.

Regular doctor is still better than an AI doctor, but we're very close.

So, the executive order could just say, you know, get there fast.

Um, he he could make a case that uh getting rid of the illegal people will lower your costs.

He could do a price transparency thing and he could offer to use some, but not all of the tariff revenue to plug the gap.

Now, do any of those sound like they would at least sound good?

Because remember, the Republicans have two problems to solve.

One is healthcare, but the other is how to get anybody on the other side to agree to whatever it is you're proposing.

So, you might have to take a suboptimal um you know, suboptimal plan, but you got to get one that you can get through.

So, would any of these things be hard to get through?

Who's against price transparency?

I'm seeing some things in the comments.

Uh, wow.

According to leading report, uh, Oregon Democratic officials are reportedly set to allocate more than twice as much funding for health care for illegal immigrants as for the state police, per Fox News.

So that's how dire it is.

Anyway, let's talk about phase two of Gaza.

Do you think Trump will be successful there?

I think nobody wants to be the police in Gaza.

It's too dangerous.

So, good luck getting even another Arab country to to step up to that.

And I don't think Hamas has agreed to disarm.

So, I don't know how phase two is going to go.

But phase one looked impossible and Trump got it done.

Phase two doesn't look nearly as impossible, but really hard.

So, we'll see if he gets this done.

Uh, I always talk about uh a user on X called Maze, Maze Z, always has wonderful clips of things.

I don't know how he finds things, but he finds just the most onpoint old clips.

And when I say old, I don't mean old old, but just, you know, ones that have been before.

Um, and he found clips of uh CNN's John King and Dana Bash talking about Trump.

And John King said that Trump only cares about building hotels in Gaza.

What do you call that?

That's called mind readading.

If I if I've taught you one thing, it's that when people are doing mind readading, they're not serious people because you can't read minds.

How would you how would John King know that Trump only cares about building hotels in Gaza?

Do you think that there's any adult human being who only cares about one thing when there's so many variables in play?

You don't think that Trump wanted a Nobel Prize?

You don't think that just on humanitarian reasons he wanted the killing to stop?

You don't think he wanted to be a good president?

You don't think he wanted to be a good partner with Israel?

What what the hell would you be thinking to imagine that Trump is the only person in the world who has one concern and it's about building a hotel in Gaza, which by the way would be the very worst place you could ever put a freaking hotel.

May May I give you some real estate advice?

If you're thinking of investing in a resort or hotel in Gaza, don't do it.

That would be that would be freaking crazy.

Now, it might not be crazy if you're a Arab country, uh, a Muslim country and you want to build a hotel there.

It might not be a target, but would you ever build a Trump hotel and put it on the beach?

No.

No.

That would last about 5 minutes.

That would be the number one terror uh terror target in the world.

So for John King to imagine that Trump only cares about building hotels in Gaza, where does that come from?

That's that's just weird mind readading, right?

And then Dana Bash said talking to him at the same time.

She says people actually believe Trump would end the war, meaning Gaza.

Uh and then she said Trump doesn't understand the conflict.

What's that?

That's mind readading.

How do you know what he doesn't understand?

How do you know you're the one who doesn't understand it?

And now that he's essentially solved it, would it be fair to say he understood everything he needed to understand?

And there was something that you did not understand, Danabash.

There's something you didn't understand.

You didn't understand his skill set.

You didn't understand that he's not like other people.

You didn't understand that he can sometimes do the thing that nobody else can do.

But you're you're locked in your little mind readading weird world where you think you can read his mind and because Democrats said there's something wrong in there that there's just you know bunch of rats running around in his head.

Not so much.

Turns out he's really really smart.

Surprise.

He's really really smart at this especially.

Anyway, here's something I may have been part of the cause.

Do you remember there was a photo that showed the Texas National Guard uh unit deploying uh where was it?

In Chicago.

And uh people noted that the the service people, the National Guard troops looked a little bit obese, like all of them, not just a few of them, but all the ones in the picture looked pretty poorly.

And a lot of people pointed it out, but I also pointed it out and uh I reposted the picture on X with the following comment.

Paging P Hegathth.

Now I assumed that the the Secretary of War is not following me on X, right?

Fair fair assumption that the guy who's in, you know, in charge of our military probably doesn't follow me on X.

So, so it's not like he's going to see my post where I'm calling the National Guard guys fat.

And then this morning, I thought maybe he follows me.

So, I took a look.

Turns out P Hanksath does follow me in his personal account, not not his government account, but he would have actually seen me and other people mentioned that those guys are not those particular uh we appreciate their service of course, but their uh their physical fitness was not up to P Hexath's level.

And apparently he acted on it.

He actually he actually pulled some of those guys out and I I don't know what happens.

I don't think they're out of the service.

I think they'll just have to lose some weight.

But uh I I feel a little bit guilty just because I have a large account.

So when the large accounts, you know, make a some kind of a statement, people do notice, right?

So, I'm kind of hoping that I'm not the reason that those service people are getting I hope I'm not the it wasn't just me.

It was a lot of other people who mentioned it, too.

But I'm just worried because my account is bigger than theirs.

Anyway, um I saw a lot of people jabbering about uh whether uh Israel is the the tail wagon the dog or or whether Trump has gotten control of that situation and he's in control and you know who who's in more control?

Is Netanyahu controlling Trump or is Trump controlling Netanyahu?

Well, at the moment it looks like Trump has full control of the situation.

But we also wonder about the uh the intel services MSAD versus the CIA.

So somebody asked John Kuryaku, who you've probably seen on social media.

He's great.

He's an exCIA officer, but he's off the reservation.

So he's talking honestly about what it was like being a CI and he was a real type.

Like he was deployed like he was doing the dirty stuff.

So he really knows, you know, he wasn't wasn't a desk jockey.

he was doing the real stuff, so he knows.

And uh his statement uh he goes uh to tell you the truth, he was on some podcast, I don't remember which one, he said, to tell you the truth, and please forgive my language in advance, but I think historically the CIA has been Mossad's That's really what it comes down to.

He said, quote, "Where over the course of my career and certainly subsequently from that we've seen either leaked to the media or released to the media, we get nothing out of that leazison relationship and the Israelis get everything out of that." Now, what's the first thing you need to know about the context of this story?

Number one, it's being told to you by one guy whose job was to be a professional liar.

I'm not saying he's lying about this, but if you were an ex CIA officer, is it not true that you were trained to lie whenever it made sense to lie?

So, uh, he could John Kiryaku comes off as completely honest to me.

If I'm going to be a judge of character, which is always, you know, sketchy.

None of us are that good.

But my judge of character is that he's telling the truth and that that's his actual assessment.

But remember, when you're only hearing something from one source, I'd want to hear it from somebody else.

Yeah.

I' I'd want at least a few other people say, "Oh, yeah, that was that was our experience." So, I don't know.

I don't know how much difference it makes either.

All right.

Um, so I saw a story yesterday that I could not for the life of me tell if it was a new story.

It looks like just the old story that maybe something got added to.

So, according to Jesse Waters and and others, um there's some new documents that got found about Obama's involvement in the steel dossier and the Russia collusion hoax.

And that these new documents confirm for sure that Obama was the one behind uh the weaponization of the intelligence and the effort to remove uh Trump even after he got elected.

After he got elected.

So, but I didn't I don't know what was new in the story cuz I thought we already knew that Obama's the one who ordered the the intel about uh Trump and Russia to be redone to make it look like it was worse than it was.

Didn't we already know that?

But I guess there's some new document that that really confirms that now.

Yeah.

So, um, we know that Brennan lied about the use of the steel dossier as one of the predicates, if that's the right word, for, uh, for going after Trump.

So, we know that was fake.

We do know that the professionals working on the assessment didn't think there was evidence of, uh, either that Putin wanted Trump or that he was doing anything to make it happen.

So, um, but do we have something new?

And then and then I saw a reference to something that I didn't see in the news.

I only saw in social media and it said that the uh was it the ex head of the FBA, Ry?

Give me a fact check on this.

I'm I'm very uncertain about this, but did he refer to uh Biden as a vegetable and said that they needed something to support the vegetable?

Did that happen or was that just a social media BS thing?

All right.

So, give me a fact check on that, will you?

All right.

Uh, so if that's true, it got completely lost by the bigger news from the Middle East.

But do we now have everything that we need to know that Obama tried to overthrow the fairly elected president of the United States and that all of their all of their projection on Trump was very intentional projection to blame him for what they were doing to him at that very moment which apparently is a good trick that they use a lot.

So, pet the kitty.

Yeah.

All right.

So, Michael Cohen, the ex uh fixer lawyer guy for Trump who even went to jail and uh is no no friend of Trump's.

He says uh he says to the MSNBC panel, he said this a few times, but he said it again, uh that Leticia James and James Comey will be held accountable, meaning that he thinks they'll be convicted.

Do you believe that?

Do you think that Leticia James and James Comey will be held accountable or just tried and, you know, slapping the wrist or, you know, suspended sentence or nothing?

I don't think they'll be held accountable.

I don't think they'll be held accountable at all.

But Cohen's argument is that the documents will speak for themselves.

Now, that's not true.

What kind of lawyer is he?

In in what world documents ever speak for themselves?

That's not even a thing.

Documents don't speak for themselves.

If if the only thing that we had to go on was the documents, yeah, yeah, Leticia James looks guilty as hell, but that's not what a court case is about.

A court case adds all the context.

Suppose the context showed she didn't know she did it.

I'm not saying that's the case.

Suppose the concept the context showed that her um let's say she had a business manager or an accountant who just told her to do it and she didn't really look at it.

That's sort of a defense.

If your professional did it and and you trusted the professional, that's actually a defense.

But that context all matters.

So I don't for I don't for a minute believe that the documents make the case.

I just don't think that works in general much less in this case.

And I don't think that that does that even apply to Comey.

Are there documents that would put Comey in or you need more than that for Comey?

Right.

So, I don't know how good a lawyer Michael Cohen is, but I'm going to I'm going to put my total non- lawyer experience up against his and say I'm not so sure.

I I guess I guess just the process will, you know, be bad enough for the people going through it.

All right.

Um, here are some interesting things from around the the world.

So, the former Intel CEO uh says we're in an AI bubble, which we all knew, right?

You we all know we're in a bubble.

Our economy wouldn't even be look good except for AI.

If you only took AI out of the economy, we'd already be in a recession.

So, that's how important it is.

But he says, and this would match things I've been saying, that the there's a risk, but the new tech is coming.

and he says it promises a hundred times better power efficiency for the same AI performance.

What have I been telling you about this massive need for power for AI?

I've been telling you that they're they're going to work work on that from two different directions.

One is building enormous citysized um you know processing centers that need power and uh the other would be figuring out how to not need so much power.

And I was predicting that because the economic benefit of not using that much power is trillions of dollars that that would get solved fairly quickly.

And it looks like uh CEO, the former CEO of Intel is aware of some technology that would take that uh power cost down by a factor of 10.

Uh JP Morgan Chase says they're going to invest $1.5 trillion spread across 27 critical industries in America.

So they're not talking about just making loans, you know, the banking job.

They're talking about taking equity in 27 critical industries to to boost them.

You know, they're trying to boost those industries.

Now, why are they doing that?

I've never heard of a bank do anything like that.

Now, part of it is the bank is making ton of money that the earnings are coming out.

So, they're actually making really good earnings at a time when other people might be struggling.

So, it could be that JP Morgan is looking ahead you because they're smart, right?

Jamie Diamond's super smart.

They might be looking ahead several years and knowing that, you know, as people lose their jobs and maybe AI disrupts things that they need to be on the side of the angels.

So if they can make sure that, you know, they're vital because they're not just a bank, but they own equity in vital industries and they're they're helping those vital industries that it might be that they just need to reframe themselves as a company completely differently.

One of the problems, if I were a bank, the thing I'd be worried about is that banks themselves could be completely replaced with AI.

Somebody's going to make an AI bank.

You can't do it now because of the hallucinating.

But if they solve the hallucinations and you can just say, "All right, you're a bank now and go get the paperwork filled out.

I'll sign it." I don't know.

They they could think that banking just won't be a business and so they need to have equity in real business.

So I don't know what they're up to, but it's probably more than one objective.

Um, so Katie Porter or Katie Potato as you know is the Democrat who is leading in the potential governor race in uh in California, but you probably saw the many videos of her acting uh very badly on video.

And I guess uh um Harry Anton on CNN points out that her uh her odds of becoming governor plunged from 40% down to 16%.

And uh Fox News completely did that.

Fox News just kept running those those clips on a loop until everybody saw them.

you know, eventually the CNN and MSNBC, they they would all have to do it because Fox just made that a story.

So, so it looks like her odds have gone way down, but she's still definitely in the mix and maybe still number one.

But I didn't realize that Steve Hilton actually has a shot.

So Steve Hilton, you all know him.

He's running as a Republican in the bluest state you could imagine.

Everybody assumes that no Republican can get any purchase.

There's no way they can get close because it's such a blue state.

But it looks like the competition is destroying itself and Steve is just sort of, you know, just being Steve Hilton and, you know, people know him from Fox News.

So, he's got a built-in he's got a built-in base for people who have watched his shows on Fox.

I don't think he's still there.

Does he still have his show on Fox?

I don't know.

But he seems like a solid, smart um I think his intentions are in the right place.

He's Republican enough.

He's pro.

Trump enough.

So, he meets he definitely meets all of the Republican requirements, which doesn't mean anything, right?

Because you you know, you're going to have to win off of other people.

Um, so I asked Grock, does he have any chance?

And it turns out he does.

And part of that is because of the way elections work in California.

They have what's it called?

A, uh, jungle off or something has some name to it.

But basically, uh, the first vote is for anybody who's running.

So it's not like a regular primary where you pick one person to run.

The first vote is just for whoever.

And then they limit the real election to whoever got the top two votes.

Jungle.

It's a jungle.

That's the word.

It's a jungle election or jungle.

Jungle primary.

Is that what it's called?

Yeah, I think jungle is in there.

Anyway, because there's only one strong Republican running, uh, if he gets more than 25% of the vote, which is entirely possible, he could be in the top two.

Now, getting in the top two definitely doesn't help you win because like I said, it's a it's a blue state.

But what if he gets in the top two against somebody who's just totally destroyed by clips or for for whatever other reason?

So I think if Steve can make that 25% which is not guaranteed and and it's a stretch but I feel like he might be able to do it especially because Trump is doing so well and that will have a little bit of a code tail at least for a while but if if you can imagine Steve Hilton getting into the position in the final two then it becomes a question of whether Fox News can take out the other competive before CNN takes out Steve.

I I don't know what if he has any baggage or anything.

I haven't heard of any.

Uh but I'm sure whoever he runs against is going to have a little baggage and Fox News will be all over that.

Uh allegedly, here's the scariest thing you'll ever hear from Alex Barnicote says this.

I don't know if it's true, but China's developing a nuclear tsunami bomb that could sink the entire UK.

I guess the idea is they're working on a nuclear bomb specifically for triggering a tsunami so you can destroy an entire island such as the UK.

Is that scary?

Yeah, that's scary.

I don't know if it's true.

Might not be true, but it's scary.

Well, Ford CEO was over in China recently.

Did some tours of their auto plants and stuff and came back.

I think this was in the Telegraph and the Ford CEO basically said we can't compete with China that they're already so far ahead of us in making cars that we just haven't figured it out yet but that Ford is not competitive and that we don't have a way to be competitive.

Are you hearing that?

This is CEO of Ford who walked through Chinese factories.

A lot of them are dark factories meaning they don't need lights because there's no human there.

It's all robots.

And when he watched what China can do to build a car and he watched that China actually has more more high-tech features in their car, he didn't know how far China had come.

And he looked at it and said, "We basically we can't catch up.

That they've already lapped us and our auto industry might just disappear except for Elon." So, who knows if that's uh real.

And that according to Matt Margolus, PJ Media, uh some of the big Democrat states are already reducing uh health care costs for illegal immigrants because they found out that they can't afford it.

So, they have to do it quietly since they're so pro healthcare for everybody.

But apparently, California and let's see, uh Minnesota, Tim Walls, and uh Pritskar and Illinois have all rolled back or frozen Medicaid programs for illegal immigrants.

So they are quite aware that that there's a spending problem with that category.

So apparently California alone spends 8.5 billion annually for medical for illegal residents.

8.5 billion per year.

Wow.

In other news, Chris Wright, energy secretary, is going to announce um maybe this week, I guess, uh the Trump administration fusion roadmap.

Oh, today he's going to announce it at a gathering of fusion.

So, the fusion people as opposed to regular nuclear, which is fision, fusion would be the no waste, infinite energy, you know, the thing we've been waiting for for 40 years.

But uh apparently we're under spending on fusion some say compared to what we do on regular fision and they're looking to change that and have a road map to get us to fusion.

That's very good.

It's good that that's happening.

Um do you know about the system in Ukraine for drones?

You know, as I've told you too many times, the Ukraine war is now a drone versus energy infrastructure war.

It's, you know, they're also killing people, but the people killing doesn't feel like it's the big thing.

They got to get the energy stuff that before winter.

Looks like that's the big play.

But did you know that Ukraine came up with a uh a bonus point program where if you're if you're on the front lines fighting with a drone and you use a drone to get a good kill, you can submit that and you will be first in line for new drone stuff.

So parts and replacement parts and bombs that go on drones and everything.

So in other words, they have a organized um program where the people who are running the drones can get more drones and more resources by being more successful with the ones they have.

Now, does that seem like a good idea?

It really does.

It seems like an amazing idea because as I told you the other day, they're competing with Russia that has a top-down system where the entrepreneurs don't really get any benefit if they do something good.

So, not only do they not make money, but I don't think that they would get extra drones just because they did a good job with the ones they had, but Ukraine seems to understand human motivation better.

And I would totally try harder if I knew that if I got my kills and proved it, I could get a better drone.

And then I get a better kill, then I get a better drone.

So, it would definitely motivate me and I would guess it motivates the uh Ukrainians.

So, if you were looking for, you know, a long-term prediction of who's going to win in the drone on drone, it does feel like Ukraine has an advantage.

They don't have a manpower advantage.

Uh they don't have a missile advantage there.

They have a lot of disadvantages.

But in this one area of uh you know innovating with Jones, I feel like they got the edge and maybe that's enough.

I don't know.

So they attacked a Russian power hub again.

Uh the Kiev Post is reporting put it on fire.

I I feel like they're just nitpicking at this point.

I wonder if there's a a really big attack that's being planned or if they don't have enough drones for that yet.

But I've got a question.

Why is the Russian energy grid still sort of working?

Is it my imagination or have you not also heard that the the American um electric grid you could take out the entire grid in an afternoon if if you wanted to?

Am I wrong about that?

I I feel like I've seen so many news stories that say, "Oh, our grid is so vulnerable." And then they they I'm not going to say why because I don't need to put that out there.

But there are specific vulnerabilities which if you knew how to attack them, you could kind of take out the entire United States without a lot of work.

Why doesn't that work in Russia?

Does Russia have some magically better technology?

Or or are we really not in that much risk?

Maybe it's not as big a risk as I thought.

But didn't it seem to you that any major country could take out the entire um electrical grid of any other country really anytime they wanted?

Doesn't it seem to you that that's like a thing that anybody could do?

But they haven't.

They're just picking these individual sites off and the lights are still on in Moscow.

So I guess I don't understand what's what's preventing Ukraine from doing better there.

All right, ladies and gentlemen.

And that's all I got for today.

I hope that was satisfying.

It was for me.

And uh 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.

Come back.

It's fun every day.

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Well, what do you think my new uh habit

of reading you a new reframe from my

book every morning? Do we like that? Do

you want another one?

All right.

All right. All right. I'll give you one.

Um,

here's one I find very helpful. Um,

you'll find this helpful in keeping your

mental health stable. The usual frame if

you're debating somebody is that one of

you is right and the other one is wrong

and you usually think you're right and

the other person is wrong, right? And

then you got to fight. So, what would be

a good reframe instead of one person's

right, one person's wrong? And the

answer is we're watching two different

movies on one screen.

That really helps. If you say to

somebody, I'm right and you're wrong.

Well, now you have a fight. If you say

we're watching two different movies on

the same screen, then suddenly they're

curious. What do you mean by that? Well,

I'm looking at different information. If

you and I were looking at the same

information, we'd probably have a

similar opinion. And that that calms

everybody down because you take it away

from the two of you and who's right and

who's wrong and you basically blame the

uh you blame social media and the news

for giving you two different versions of

reality.

So that is your reframe for the morning.

By the way, Jay Pleman, who's been doing

a great job of clipping my show,

does a clip on there this morning from

my reframe. You might remember the one

called Get Out where it's a solution to

having negative thoughts if you're

trying to get rid of your negative

thoughts.

That's the whole technique. Basically,

you you can look at the you probably

should look at the uh video, but all you

do is when those thoughts come in, you

just say, "Get out. Get out." Like

you're talking to your own brain, and

you just say, "Get out. Get out. Get rid

of that. Get out." And you'll be amazed

that it works. Look, look at all the

people in the comments who have already

tried it. Yeah, it's if if you ask me

why it works, I'm not sure I can tell

you,

but experientially

it works. Works for me and uh bunch of

other people have tried it and they say

it works, too.

All right. I wonder if there's any uh

science news that they didn't need to do

because they could have just asked me

and saved some time and money. Oh,

here's one. Would you believe that the

Swinburn University of Technology has

discovered that using psychedelics

psychedelics to treat depression

produces promising findings?

How how many times now have I read a new

story about a new study that finds

exactly the same thing every time? Uh

every time we use psychedelics for

people's mental health, no matter what

else we do, it always works.

This is another one of those. No matter

what else you do, it doesn't matter. It

doesn't seem to matter how much they

give you. It doesn't matter if you're

adding therapy to it. It doesn't seem to

matter how many times you do it because

it works kind of right away. Uh it just

keeps working. So they kind of just

asked me, "Scott, do you think that'll

help?" Yes. Yes.

Well, yesterday I went viral for at

least three or four different reasons.

It was a weird day. Every time I turned

on X, I would see I would see myself.

Now, part of that is cuz uh Jay's been

clipping me really well. Uh and also

Jason Cohen. Um he's been clipping me

and I think a few other people started

clipping me and that's caused a lot of

action. So what so one of the viral

clips was my reframe on how to be uh not

have social anxiety if you go to a

gathering. Boy, did people like that

one.

You should see the numbers on that.

People were crazy for it. And uh people

were touched apparently um by my video

in yesterday in which I was talking

about how all of us Trump supporters

um

sacrificed because I think everybody was

feeling it and sometimes you just need

somebody to put it into words. That's

what I do. So you were all feeling that

yesterday felt like vindication, right?

If you sacrificed everything like many

of us did, our friends, our jobs, our

reputations, our family, and then it

pays off and you realize that even your

worst critics are looking at what Trump

did and they're all saying some version

of this. No one else could have done it.

That's the magic words. Because if

someone else could have done it, then

why are you putting up with all the the

the baggage that comes with having a

Trump president? The entire point of

Trump from my perspective from day one,

day one is that he would be, you've

heard me say this, an expensive

president. Meaning that he's going to

come with some expense.

He's not free, but you will get with him

things that you can't get with any other

president. That he will simply be able

to do things that nobody could do. Just

no president, nobody. Just nobody. He He

has those unique skills. Part partly

because of his current place in the

world. It's not entirely skill stack.

It's also a result of everything he's

done to get in this position.

But once you see him doing things that

other presidents definitely couldn't do

and they're really really important,

that's vindication.

That that's what we saw on day one.

The the supporters we saw it early. Some

people saw it because I told you to see

it and I helped you see it. But you

remember what I said from the very

beginning. Did I ever say this man has

the best character you've ever seen?

Nope. Never said that. Did I? Did I say

um he has the most uh government

experience you've ever seen? Nope. Nope.

I never said that. What did I say? What

I did say is that I know a little bit

about persuasion and I've never seen

anybody as persuasive

as this person.

And I p and I predicted that his

persuasion ability would be the defining

characteristic.

How'd I do?

Remember that was a that was a day one

prediction which I never I never backed

off from. No, he's the most persuasive

person you we've ever seen. We've never

seen this. You know, you'll see other

persuasive people, but you'll never see

this again. This might be oneoff.

So, nailed it. and that became kind of

viral. And then just by coincidence,

every few months somebody sends around

my how to be a better writer post blog

post from I don't know 20 years ago at

this point. But uh and then people are

raving about the uh the advice on how to

be a better writer, teaches you how to

be a a let's say an economical writer,

which works for most things. So it was a

weird day for me. I was just sort of

multiviral on all these different

topics. That was fun.

Um, Kabell Harris was giving a talk

yesterday, I guess, and uh, she reminded

us that Columbus Day uh, was when the

European explorers ushered in a wave of

devastation, violence, stealing land,

and disease.

that that's what she had to say about

one of our most beloved national uh

Yeah. Oh, the cat's going crazy behind

me. One of our most beloved national uh

holidays. Now, I totally get it's not

like I don't understand that Columbus by

modern standards and maybe even by maybe

even by his standards was a bad man.

But here's the thing. If that's what's

activating your description of him, you

don't understand what it means to be a

president.

If if you're a leader in this country,

then you should be talking about our

history in maybe not so starkly accurate

ways, but rather in ways that make

children want to be Americans. If your

goal is to have a strong country, should

you say, you know, your heroes are

actually, you know, terrible criminal

bastards and you shouldn't you shouldn't

uh respect them. What will that buy you?

That's not buying you anything. It might

be true. I'm not even going to argue

whether it was true or false, but it's

the wrong move. Instead, you should say

George Washington was a hero.

Christopher Columbus, you know, was a

great discoverer, explorer. And then you

you you make those uh those qualities

something that children would want and

then the children think, oh, if my

heroes are acting that way, then I can

act that way, too. So, Kla Harris

doesn't understand really the most basic

element of her job. Her job is not to

give us all the truth all the time.

That's not her job. Now, her job, if she

were president, her job would be to make

the country stronger and safer and more

prosperous.

To do that, you might need to, you know,

brainwash the children into, you know,

some hero worship that's not entirely

based on reality because the hero

worship never is. Nobody's heroes.

there's nobody's heroes anywhere who are

as good as you know the reputation. So

the fact that Harris doesn't understand

that or doesn't care because the main

thing is to say bad things about white

men which I think is at least part of

the problem then she needs to you know

never back a white man basically. Um so

there's that. Anyway, she is so dumb.

Well, according to Joe Wilkins writing

for futurism, Open AI has said that it's

going to um loosen up and allow more

smut, more porn uh on Open AI. Now, I

assume that means things like the the

chat voice will say dirty things if you

tell it to and you you have to prove

you're a certain age. So, that won't

take I guess that won't take effect

until they can do more effective age um

checking. So, it's not there yet, but

they're going to do it. And I saw

um I saw uh I'm blanking out uh the head

of OpenAI, Sam Alman, he was talking

about I think it was a different topic,

but it it relates to this. He was

talking about how if you know that AI is

going to do a thing and there's no

stopping it. Um and in this case, AI is

definitely going to be doing porn,

right? Everybody knows that and it's

definitely going to be doing porn where

it pretends that somebody you know is in

the, you know, in the porn scene, maybe

even with you. So, you know, that's

going to happen. And it doesn't mean

you're going to use open AI to do it,

but there will be a bunch of, as Sam

points out, there'll be a bunch of open

source free models of AI, you know, that

might not be just as good as the the the

ones you pay for, but um it'll be good

enough that it can create, you know,

endless porn that you just want on

demand. And what Sam said is if you know

something's coming and there's no way to

stop it, and I think this falls into

that category pretty well, um that you

should

you should first restrict it and people

will do it anyway. And then you'll learn

something, but you won't have gone too

far because you're still restricting it.

But at some point, you have to inoculate

the public. I think he used that word,

inoculate. In other words, the only

thing you could do is let it out. You

just don't want to let it out without a

little bit of thinking about, you know,

how fast you do it. And so, it's

basically about getting people used to

it. If you can get people used to it and

bored by it,

it might not even be a problem. I was

trying to think, you know, at the moment

because I have the prostate cancer, I

don't have I don't have normal like

sexual thoughts because the first thing

they do is give you a drug that takes

all that away. So I'm I'm basically a

walking unic. So when I look at this, I

don't have any way to appreciate whether

I would have wanted to use it for porn

if I had any interest in porn,

which I don't.

Um, but but when I think about it, I

think, you know, I'd probably, you know,

let's say I were a, you know, younger,

hornier man, I'd probably try it. You

know, I'd probably say, "Hey, make me a

make me a scene with these two people in

it." And then I would be mildly amused.

Maybe I'd do it again. But somewhere

around the third or fifth time I I had

to tell the porn what to do and then I

then it didn't quite do it and I had to

tell it again. It was start feeling like

work. You know what I mean? I I'm not

sure that it it really presents

a possibility of enjoying it in the long

term. Shortterm

probably I'd give it a try. You know, a

lot of men would. long term. I don't

feel like it would I feel like it would

be the same problem with art that if you

know they're not real people,

you you can't really get past it. That's

what I think. So, I think uh yeah, as as

weird as this sounds, I think that the

AI will have to the AI companies will

have to loosen up and let you do

whatever you want. But I do like Sam's

idea of rolling it out and inoculating

people a little bit before they get the

full thing.

Did you see the Time Magazine photo of

Trump?

So Time Magazine I believe is owned by

Mark Beni off the founder CEO of

Salesforce who is a very left um but in

in an honest way. I'm very pro beni off

as a both as an entrepreneur and as a uh

a good influence on the world. I don't

agree with everything he would do of

course but you know that's just that's

just a basic thing you say about

everybody but he owns I believe he owns

Time magazine now and uh it was a very

unflattering picture of Trump and they

really had to work on it. So they did a

sort of a ground up picture so that you

see him from the the chin first and you

can't make out much of his face. It's

really unflattering.

It's so unflattering

that I don't for a second think it isn't

intentional. You know what I mean? I

always talk about the uh the photo

editor because there's usually an editor

who does the photos specifically. The

photo editor obviously just doesn't like

him.

And and it's surprising that they let

that go through because it's so

obviously a biased photograph. Even Even

Trump called it out and said, "It's the

worst photograph I've ever seen." It is

actually literally the worst photograph

I've ever seen of a public figure.

It's literally the worst. It doesn't

look accidental at all. It looks like It

looks like they couldn't say anything

bad about him because he had such a

successful day. But they they could but

they could put a picture there that made

you go

what's going on there.

Well, the stocks have pulled back as you

know. Uh also based on the US China

trade tensions, we don't know what's

going on there, but China is certainly

not in the mood to be pushed around.

So,

uh here's one of the things that Trump

has to navigate. I heard from somebody

smart who spent a lot of time in the

Middle East that one of the reasons that

Trump is succeeding in the Middle East

is that he's a strong man and that the

Middle East really likes a strong man.

You know, the the Arab cultures etc. And

so the the stronger more I don't know

authoritarian let's say that Trump acts

in the Middle East, the more people

respect him and then that works to his

favor. But I don't think that works in

China. I think China does not want to

see uh Trump being the strong man

because that that makes them look like

they're being bullied and they want to

say face and that just seems way more

important over there. So if Trump does

the, you know, I'm going to bully you

into doing something,

you can sort of see why it might work in

the Middle East, but you know, is to be

determined that it can work with trade

policy.

But Trump is smart enough and flexible

enough to know that he reads the room

like nobody can read the room. So he

obviously knows that that he has to he

has to play nice with President Xi, but

also be tough. So he's got this delicate

balance where they're an enemy but a

customer. They're an enemy but a

supplier. Uh if you go too hard,

they'll, you know, they they'll go too

hard. So we'll see what he does on that.

It's going to be a tough one, but the

stocks are pulled back just on

uncertainty, I guess.

Beijing

didn't like the fact that uh the US is

working with some some there's a US

subsidiary of a South Korean ship

building giant and now Beijing is saying

that they won't work with that company.

Uh Scott Basant, Treasury Secretary, he

uh told the Financial Times that uh

China's in the middle of a recession

depression and they want to pull

everybody else down with them. Well, I

don't know about the wanting to pull

everybody else down with them. That just

sounds more like politics. But, uh, are

they? I I don't know how we would ever

know if China was in a recession or a

depression. Would we? I saw somebody

writing that um that that one child

thing looks like the depopulation would

be a terrible problem. And apparently

there are a bunch of young people who

don't have jobs. But here's the thing.

Apparently, they don't want them cuz if

you're if you're one child and your

parents did okay, you know, they they've

got a nice job. Uh the cost of living in

China is so reasonable that you can live

at home with your parents probably be a

benefit to them, you know, because you

can do stuff and the parents might

actually like it. There's only one of

you. They only got to have one kid.

Maybe they want to spend time with you.

So, it turns out that uh China was way

more flexible in trying to figure out

how to get past this population problem

than we imagined. And one of the one of

the flexes might be that young people

living at home might be fine with

everybody. They they might actually just

prefer it. So that would allow them to

have uh far fewer people employed and

yet everybody still be happy because

their parents would just feed them and

they don't need anything else.

Here's something you never would have

guessed. I certainly would have.

According to Wall Street Journal, the

New York City office market is super hot

right now and it's booming more than it

has in decades. Did anybody see that

coming? I I thought the real estate the

at least the commercial real estate in

uh in New York City was just collapsing

and that it might not even come back. It

already came back.

But this is not happening in other

cities. It seems to be unique to New

York City. But the there's big companies

are they're leasing they're snapping up

property and uh New York City looks like

it'll be fine

of all things. How many of you would

have guessed that the New York City

office market would not just be okay but

would be better than it has in decades

like right now. I'll bet not one of you

would have guessed that. Th this is why

it seemed absurd to me when I was

getting my degree in economics because I

thought, you know, I don't think anybody

can predict anything. So what exactly is

the point of economics if you can't

predict anything ever?

All right, I'm exaggerating a little bit

there.

But the u my guess is that the reason

that New York City is doing well and the

other cities have not matched this kind

of comeback is that the biggest

companies know they need a New York City

um presence. And so I think the biggest

companies are saying, "Oo, cheap real

estate. Let's lock it down now." I think

that's what's happening. I guess the the

most powerful rocket ever built was

launched today successfully. Uh but what

caught my attention was that uh in

succeeding

allegedly it lowered the economics of

rocket launches by showing that you

could do it and reuse all the parts. It

didn't blow up. Uh the cost of a launch

dropped today, just today, from $67

million for a launch to 10 million,

under 10 million.

Now, if if that keeps on, you know, cuz

the whole idea of a reusable rocket is

to get the price way down, that's 85%

cheaper uh just because Elon Musk

crossed this economic barrier of

success. 85%.

I don't know how much farther it can go,

but wow, I'm pretty impressed.

Well, Eric Trump is crediting the law of

positive thinking for Trump's success in

the Middle East. Um, and you know, he

points out how other people were

negative, but his father was positive.

You know, I've said before that the

power of positive thinking is the book

um well actually the author of that

famous book was his uh pastor, Trump's

pastor. So on Sundays he would be

listening to literally the guy who

invented the idea of positive thinking,

you know, being a being a positive. Um,

and then he years later he employed it

in the Middle East. He took the yes

instead of the no when when everybody

was saying yes, we'll do a deal, but you

know, no, we haven't agreed. And he took

the yes and said the no. Positive

thinking. And he changed reality. As

I've said before, he didn't just

negotiate.

That's not what happened. He changed how

we looked at reality and then within

that reality, he could get what he

wanted. But he had to change the reality

first. And the reality was that they had

said no to the deal. But they'd used the

word yes because they said yes, but you

know, not this stuff. And and the and

the but was actually the important

stuff.

So yeah, he just changed how they saw

reality and then they entered his

reality and then they made a deal. But

that wasn't negotiating. And that's what

I mean when I say uh nobody else could

do that. Nobody else could do that. He

changed reality.

I will never be less impressed by that.

I'll never be less impressed.

Anyway, uh Biden has tried to take some

credit for a Gaza. Uh he put out a

statement that said in part, "My

administration worked relentlessly to

bring the hostages home." Okay, but they

weren't home. I commend President Trump

and his team for their work to get a

renewed ceasefire deal over the finish

line. Renewed ceasefire deal over the

finish line. So, he's trying to make it

look like he queued it up and uh all

Trump did is, you know, he just he just

finished it off.

But nice try, Biden.

All right. How many of you watched with

fascination uh Trump meeting in Egypt

with all the the big leaders of the

Middle East and a bunch of Europeans as

well? And uh how many of you watched

that? That was so interesting.

So Trump got to do the Trumpiest thing

I've ever seen in my life. He had

unlimited time to speak because he was,

you know, getting a hero's reception.

And all the leaders were there and they

had to they had to sort of stand there

just respecting and praising him because

they didn't have anything else to do.

And then he goes through his act where

he tries to mention all the leaders, but

he makes it really clear which ones he

likes.

and which ones he doesn't like and and

and he's telling you like he loves

Erdogan because Erdogan does whatever,

you know, he always does a favor if he

needs it. He says he likes strong

leaders and and it just got funnier and

funnier. But then he then he starts uh

talking about the prime minister of

Italy of being an attractive young woman

and he's joking. Yeah, you know, you

could lose your job if you call somebody

attractive young woman, but I'm going to

take a chance. And she she managed to

brush that off. I mean, I I don't think

that was what she wanted to happen, but

she managed to to go with the flow. She

does seem to like it. they they do seem

to have a real relationship. But then

he's he's you know pumping hands with

people and stuff but the best part is

that uh the UK prime minister Starmer

was right behind him. So some of them

were on the deis standing behind him and

uh

it looked like he forgot the name of the

leader Starmer. He turns around and he

goes where's the UK? So so he he calls

him by his you know country instead of

his name. uh and then Starmer thinks

that he's been summoned over to say

something because the uh the head of

Pakistan had just done a little

statement in which he was recommending

Trump to be a Nobel Prize winner. So,

uh, so then Starmer gets sort of

recognized and he comes up to the back

of the the deis where Trump is because

he he was already in that neighborhood

and it looked like he was waiting for

Trump to ask him to say a few words and

Trump just turns his back on him and

starts talking again and he has to slink

back to standing in line waiting for

Trump.

It was the Trumpiest thing of all time.

He just he just put him in his place.

So he makes them all listen to the

Pakistan guy uh say that he should have

a you know he's the greatest guy in the

world and he should have a a Nobel Prize

and they all just had to stand there

like idiots because none of them

were able to get this done but Trump

did. So anyway uh and the funniest thing

was as he's going through the countries

you know that there are some leaders he

hasn't met. So, you know, like he'll

give a big compliment to like MBS and

Erdogan and and and others. And he gets

to uh Greece. He's like, "Where's

Greece?"

Ah, there you are. That's all that's all

Greece got. But the funniest one was he

goes he's looking at his list of all the

people who are attending. He goes,

"Norway? What the hell happened to

Norway?"

And he never explained and the news

never explained what his problem with

Norway was. He's like, "Well, what the

hell happened to Norway?"

It was so funny

cuz I still don't know what happened to

Norway or why he was mad at Norway. The

only thing I know you which I I I tell

you all the time is that he makes the

biggest distinction between people who

are making him happy, Erdogan, and

people who are not. And I guess I guess

Norway wasn't making him happy for

something

Norway. What the hell's wrong with

Norway? And then then we saw caught on a

hot mic the Indonesian president who is

a president or something else but anyway

the leader of uh Indonesia which is the

biggest population of uh of uh Muslims

in the world was for some reason we

don't know asking Trump if he could get

an introduction to Eric Trump and then I

think he also said maybe Don Jr. one or

the other. What do you think that was

about?

Why would that be the one thing that the

Indonesian leader would want to talk to

Trump about? Can you introduce me to

your sons?

It's got to be crypto, right? Isn't it

crypto? I don't know what else it would

be.

Yeah. Anyway, it's a mystery.

According to Blaze Media, Joseph

McKinnon is writing that uh the new

polls are showing that uh Trump is

beating Obama and Bush at the same time

in their in their term. So at the same

same month number, Trump is more popular

than Obama was. And Bush

um doesn't mention Biden, so maybe he

was more Biden might have been more

popular anyway. So he's he's

outperforming his predecessors. And then

uh Nate Silver um

says that uh Trump is still more popular

now than he was 8 years ago. So Trump's

popularity

is higher than it was eight years ago

and better than his predecessors.

And let's see um but his job approval

was under 50%. It's 45.3

according to one poll. Real clear

politics I think.

Anyway, um uh I'm fascinated by what the

Democrats are going to do when Trump is

being so successful and they've got

nothing going on. So I sort of made a

list of all the things that they can do.

Like what are they going to do? What are

they going to complain about now? I mean

half of their energy was about uh this

and just went away in the most

satisfying way. So, um, I'm fascinated

that they're, uh, that Hitler did the

peacemaking that nobody else could do,

and they have to explain why they've

been calling him Hitler, whereas the

public now clearly sees Trump as the

peacemaker chief. So, their entire

authoritarian

Hitler thing just turned into, well,

okay, we have to admit that Trump being

Trump is why this got done.

So, even even being the authoritarian

got this done. You know, I've been

saying for a while, authoritarian,

that's not bad. Don't we want an

authoritarian as long as they're on our

side? And he's clearly on our side.

Anyway, so here are the Democrat

strategies that they have left. The I

guess they're going to have that no

kings protest on the weekend. So the no

kings is to say that they don't want

anybody who's a authoritarian. Do you

think that has the same spice and energy

now as it did a week ago?

Because Trump's, like I said, Trump's

strong man authoritarian approach is

exactly what got us these these good

results. So, they're going to have a

whole demonstration against the thing

that we all watched work right in front

of our eyes. We all observed it working.

And they're going to have a whole

demonstration against the thing we all

observed working, which is Trump

bullying people that needed to be

bullied. And uh

so I think the whole no kings thing

since it doesn't have an objective, you

know, they they just put it in the

category of see we're fighting Trump.

Can you see? Look how hard we're

fighting him. Well, what exactly are you

doing? Well, we had some peaceful

protests called no kings. What exactly

is that gonna do for anybody?

Is that supposed to change Trump's

behavior? because they had a they had a

bunch of people marching. Are these

people who haven't watched the news

lately and they don't know that Trump's

doing a good job? What exactly would

this accomplish? So, that's not going to

accomplish anything. It doesn't even

have an accomplishment

built into it as an objective. I don't

believe there's any objective to it,

right? They don't say, "Well, once this

no kings thing is done, he'll he'll

resign." They're not saying that. or

once we do this no kings thing that will

change some laws. They're not asking to

change any laws. What exactly do they

want there? It literally this is so

obviously just a financial transaction.

Clearly there's a business model. There

are people who make money from from

organizing these things. So the people

who make money from organizing them is

the reason it's happening.

It's not happening because it might

work.

I don't think there's one Democrat who

thinks this is going to work for what?

It's going to work for what?

To change what?

So clearly it has no uh the Democrat

party is so lost that they're it looks

like they're just sort of the the dog

getting wagged by the tail. And the tail

in this case is whoever makes money

organizing these events or whoever pays

for them. So yeah, they're lost. Now, of

course, they want to go after the

character of Trump. That would be one

attack. Do you think that would work

when he's the number one peacemaking

president of all time? Doesn't work so

well, does it? That whole character

thing.

Um, they can say we're fighting Trump,

but where's the fight? What? marching

around. Bunch of senior citizens

marching around with signs that somebody

gave them. Is that the fight?

Good luck. Um, are the Democrats going

to try to keep this the government

closed and hope that Trump gets blamed

more? Well, that's not working.

Apparently, in terms of history and

polls, people are kind of not blaming

anybody or blaming both sides or the

public who is paying attention knows

that the Republicans have for a long

time now said, "We'll open the

government. You just signed this. We've

already signed it continuing resolution.

We'll just keep it open. It's the same

same funding and then we'll work it out

in a few weeks just like the schedule

says we should." So, I don't think the

closing the government is going to work

for the Democrats, but they don't have

anything else. Um, what about will they

complain about Ukraine? Well, they might

complain about Ukraine, but how do you

complain when Trump is giving them more

weapons potentially than they've had

before? Tomahawks are being discussed

and not putting any of our money into

it. What exactly are you going to

complain about? Because that would be

fully supporting

That would be support for Ukraine. They

like that. It would be better weapons

for Ukraine. Maybe probably they like

that. And not paying any of our money to

buy those weapons, but having Europe pay

for them. How do you How do you not like

that? So, they don't really have much to

complain about with Russia. The Gaza

thing went away. Um the government

shutdown probably doesn't make a dent.

The no kings thing is is just empty

calories. Um what else? How about uh if

the Democrats fight hard to not reduce

crime in cities, which they're also

doing. So by resisting the the National

Guard and so far, to the credit of the

National Guard, they have not created

any incidents.

So it's not like there's some anecdote

of well that one National Guard guy got

wild and hurt somebody. Look, we don't

hear that at all. So, as long as the

crime is going down where the National

Guard is deployed, and it probably will,

um, they don't have anything there

either because the public likes less

crime. Every time they do a street

interview and they're trying to get

somebody to say, "Oh, I don't like all

these armed people in my city." They say

the opposite. They say, "Yeah, I feel

safer. It's definitely safer."

Um, and apparently according to Rasmus

and poll 52% of likely voters are

actually supporting using the National

Guard at ICE facilities. So that's a

advantage to Trump. So they don't have

that.

And uh Kristen Welker was talking to U

VP Vance and uh she was trying to do the

thing that where she says crime is down

in both Chicago and Portland. So why do

you need the National Guard if things

are heading in the right direction? Do

you believe that crime is down in both

Chicago and Portland? Well, JD Vance had

a perfect answer to that. He said crime

is down in Chicago and Portland often

because they're so overwhelmed at the

local level that they're not even

keeping the statistics properly. Now, we

have lots of data to say that's true,

that they don't keep the they just lie

about the data. So it looks like the

crime's going down. Um so so they so if

the Democrats can't use Gaza, they can't

really use Ukraine, they can't really

use, you know, the danger of the cities.

Um the tariffs look like they might be

working out.

What's left? I think all they have left

is healthcare. So, I thought it'd be fun

to um talk about a few things that Trump

could do on healthcare, maybe. So, this

is just for fun and speculation. Okay.

Apparently, Speaker Johnson says that

the Republicans do have some ideas for

replacing uh Obamacare or at least

replacing the extension to, you know,

paying the extra Obamacare stuff.

But he doesn't say what that is. So I

wanted to give a few ideas.

What if now remember this is just

brainstorming. So I'm don't worry if

anything I say now sounds impractical.

This is brainstorming. But what if Trump

said, "I'm going to use the uh tariff

revenue specifically to um make healthc

care stable."

What would they do then?

because they can't complain about the

tariffs because the tariffs would then

be going directly toward the thing they

care about the most which is getting

healthcare for everybody.

So

I'm not going to suggest

um I'm not I'm not going to suggest

that'll happen. But isn't it a

fundamental experiment? If if Trump said

I'm going to use all the tariffs, he he

won't do this. But if he said, "I'm

going to use the tariffs for healthcare

to, you know, plug the hole. Maybe only

until we get to a negotiated better

better situation."

But what would they say?

It feels like it's a perfect plan

because they couldn't really they

couldn't really debate it because they

shouldn't complain about where the money

comes from,

you know. And if they did, the public

wouldn't be able to follow the argument

because they don't really understand

tariffs either.

Here's another one. What if Trump did an

executive order on price transparency?

I don't know what that would look like,

but it is my belief that consumers don't

have the option to shop intelligently

for health care because they can't tell

what anything costs.

Could the government say, "All right,

we're going to make the free market work

better because you're going to really

have to say what your actual costs are

and then people will be able to shop."

Maybe it would sound like it would make

a difference, you know, before you tried

it.

How about uh how about he could make a

bigger deal about um how taking illegal

people off of the healthcare will be

better for for the people who are on

healthcare. That's a pretty strong

argument. Um, I don't know if you've

noticed this, but I you you all know

that I'm in the middle of a sort of a

major health care situation.

And it seems to me that my own health

care provider is not nearly as capable

as they were even one year ago. I feel

like one year ago, if I needed a

procedure, I could get it in two days

and now it's like two weeks. Is that

because

of uh all the people who don't have

health care who have healthcare?

Is that why? I mean it it feels like if

I'm waiting there there was some new

bunch of people who got in front of me

that wasn't just normal population

growth. So I don't know if you is

anybody having that experience where

it's taking you way longer to get a a

medical appointment.

I might be imagining it by the way. So,

I don't know that it's true, but it

feels like maybe maybe it's because it's

life and death. So, it seems like a

bigger deal to me, but yeah, it could

take a week or two to get a scan.

So, I I had to actually go to the

emergency room so that I didn't have to

wait so long to get a valuable MRI scan.

So, if I go to the emergency room, who

am I competing with? all the people who

don't have health care because they

would go to the emergency room because

the emergency room still has to take

them. So, I'm I'm sitting there with I

don't know maybe half of the people

didn't have health insurance and I had

to wait my turn. Not ideal.

Here's another idea. How about uh about

tasking the big AI companies with

creating a free version of healthcare?

Now, not free in terms of drugs. That

would be a separate thing and not free

in terms of hospital care. But what if

what if Trump said, "All right, here's

my executive order. AI will be super

disruptive to the country, but we want

to make sure that AI since that's where

all the profits are going to go to these

AI companies that they would be in

charge basically of creating a free

permanent

healthcare portal that's AI. So it

doesn't have to be any people. could be

just a portal, but but have one, you

know, one of them that really is fact

checked for, you know, no hallucinating,

etc.

Now, would that work? I don't know, but

it would sound like a Republican plan,

and that would be better than having no

plan.

And then there's the uh RFK Jr. play,

which is to to uh act like your health

care costs will go down if you've solved

some of the healthy eating and um autism

problems. And you know, I'm optimistic

that RFK Jr. did in fact find out the

main cause of autism. It might be

circumcision and uh and Tylenol. It

might be. And uh if he did, then we

could reasonably claim that, you know,

all all those costs for autism might go

down a little bit, not right away, but

over time. And so there might be some

argument that says we're going to lower

health care by getting rid of these

chronic health problems. We're going to

make it so that everybody has at least a

free AI doctor, which we're very we're

right at the crossover point where the

AI doctor will be better than a regular

doctor. not not quite there yet. We're

not there. Regular doctor is still

better than an AI doctor, but we're very

close. So, the executive order could

just say, you know, get there fast. Um,

he he could make a case that uh getting

rid of the illegal people will lower

your costs. He could do a price

transparency thing and he could offer to

use some, but not all of the tariff

revenue to plug the gap. Now, do any of

those sound like they would at least

sound good? Because remember, the

Republicans have two problems to solve.

One is healthcare, but the other is how

to get anybody on the other side to

agree to whatever it is you're

proposing. So, you might have to take a

suboptimal

um you know, suboptimal plan, but you

got to get one that you can get through.

So, would any of these things be hard to

get through? Who's against price

transparency?

I'm seeing some things in the comments.

Uh,

wow. According to leading report, uh,

Oregon Democratic officials are

reportedly set to allocate more than

twice as much funding for health care

for illegal immigrants as for the state

police,

per Fox News. So that's how dire it is.

Anyway, let's talk about phase two of

Gaza. Do you think Trump will be

successful there? I think nobody wants

to be the police in Gaza. It's too

dangerous. So, good luck getting even

another Arab country to to step up to

that. And I don't think Hamas has agreed

to disarm.

So,

I don't know how phase two is going to

go. But phase one looked impossible and

Trump got it done. Phase two doesn't

look nearly as impossible, but really

hard. So, we'll see if he gets this

done.

Uh, I always talk about uh a user on X

called Maze, Maze Z, always has

wonderful clips of things. I don't know

how he finds things, but he finds just

the most onpoint old clips. And when I

say old, I don't mean old old, but just,

you know, ones that have been before.

Um, and he found clips of uh CNN's John

King and Dana Bash talking about Trump.

And John King said that Trump only cares

about building hotels in Gaza.

What do you call that? That's called

mind readading.

If I if I've taught you one thing, it's

that when people are doing mind

readading, they're not serious people

because you can't read minds. How would

you how would John King know that Trump

only cares about building hotels in

Gaza? Do you think that there's any

adult human being who only cares about

one thing when there's so many variables

in play? You don't think that Trump

wanted a Nobel Prize? You don't think

that just on humanitarian reasons he

wanted the killing to stop? You don't

think he wanted to be a good president?

You don't think he wanted to be a good

partner with Israel?

What what the hell would you be thinking

to imagine that Trump is the only person

in the world who has one concern and

it's about building a hotel in Gaza,

which by the way would be the very worst

place you could ever put a freaking

hotel. May May I give you some real

estate advice? If you're thinking of

investing in a resort or hotel in Gaza,

don't do it.

That would be that would be freaking

crazy. Now, it might not be crazy if

you're a Arab country, uh, a Muslim

country and you want to build a hotel

there. It might not be a target, but

would you ever build a Trump hotel and

put it on the beach? No. No. That would

last about 5 minutes. That would be the

number one terror uh terror target in

the world. So for John King to imagine

that Trump only cares about building

hotels in Gaza,

where does that come from? That's that's

just weird mind readading, right? And

then Dana Bash said talking to him at

the same time. She says people actually

believe Trump would end the war, meaning

Gaza. Uh and then she said Trump doesn't

understand the conflict.

What's that? That's mind readading. How

do you know what he doesn't understand?

How do you know you're the one who

doesn't understand it? And now that he's

essentially solved it, would it be fair

to say he understood everything he

needed to understand? And there was

something that you did not understand,

Danabash. There's something you didn't

understand. You didn't understand his

skill set. You didn't understand that

he's not like other people. You didn't

understand that he can sometimes do the

thing that nobody else can do. But

you're you're locked in your little mind

readading weird world where you think

you can read his mind and because

Democrats said there's something wrong

in there that there's just you know

bunch of rats running around in his

head. Not so much. Turns out he's really

really smart.

Surprise. He's really really smart at

this especially.

Anyway, here's something I may have been

part of the cause. Do you remember there

was a photo that showed the Texas

National Guard uh unit deploying uh

where was it? In Chicago. And uh people

noted that the the service people, the

National Guard troops looked a little

bit obese,

like all of them, not just a few of

them, but all the ones in the picture

looked pretty poorly. And a lot of

people pointed it out, but I also

pointed it out and uh I reposted the

picture on X with the following comment.

Paging P Hegathth.

Now I assumed

that the the Secretary of War is not

following me on X, right? Fair fair

assumption that the guy who's in, you

know, in charge of our military probably

doesn't follow me on X. So, so it's not

like he's going to see my post where I'm

calling the National Guard guys fat.

And then this morning, I thought maybe

he follows me. So, I took a look. Turns

out P Hanksath does follow me

in his personal account, not not his

government account, but he would have

actually seen me and other people

mentioned that those guys are not those

particular uh we appreciate their

service of course, but their uh their

physical fitness

was not up to P Hexath's level. And

apparently he acted on it. He actually

he actually pulled some of those guys

out and I I don't know what happens. I

don't think they're out of the service.

I think they'll just have to lose some

weight. But uh I I feel a little bit

guilty

just because I have a large account. So

when the large accounts, you know, make

a some kind of a statement, people do

notice, right? So, I'm kind of hoping

that I'm not the reason that those

service people are getting

I hope I'm not the it wasn't just me. It

was a lot of other people who mentioned

it, too. But I'm just worried because my

account is bigger than theirs.

Anyway,

um I saw a lot of people jabbering about

uh whether uh Israel is the the tail

wagon the dog or or whether Trump has

gotten control of that situation and

he's in control and you know who who's

in more control? Is Netanyahu

controlling Trump or is Trump

controlling Netanyahu? Well, at the

moment it looks like Trump has full

control of the situation.

But we also wonder about the uh the

intel services MSAD versus the CIA. So

somebody asked John Kuryaku, who you've

probably seen on social media. He's

great. He's an exCIA officer, but he's

off the reservation. So he's talking

honestly about what it was like being a

CI and he was a real type. Like he was

deployed like he was doing the dirty

stuff. So he really knows, you know, he

wasn't wasn't a desk jockey. he was

doing the real stuff, so he knows. And

uh his statement uh he goes uh

to tell you the truth, he was on some

podcast, I don't remember which one, he

said, to tell you the truth, and please

forgive my language in advance, but I

think historically the CIA has been

Mossad's That's really what it

comes down to. He said, quote, "Where

over the course of my career and

certainly subsequently from that we've

seen either leaked to the media or

released to the media, we get nothing

out of that leazison relationship and

the Israelis get everything out of

that." Now, what's the first thing you

need to know about the context of this

story? Number one, it's being told to

you by one guy whose job was to be a

professional liar.

I'm not saying he's lying about this,

but if you were an ex CIA officer,

is it not true that you were trained to

lie whenever it made sense to lie? So,

uh, he could John Kiryaku comes off as

completely honest to me. If I'm going to

be a judge of character, which is

always, you know, sketchy. None of us

are that good. But my judge of character

is that he's telling the truth and that

that's his actual assessment. But

remember, when you're only hearing

something from one source,

I'd want to hear it from somebody else.

Yeah. I' I'd want at least a few other

people say, "Oh, yeah, that was that was

our experience." So, I don't know. I

don't know how much difference it makes

either.

All right. Um, so I saw a story

yesterday that I could not for the life

of me tell if it was a new story.

It looks like just the old story that

maybe something got added to. So,

according to Jesse Waters and and

others, um there's some new documents

that got found about Obama's involvement

in the steel dossier and the Russia

collusion hoax. And that these new

documents confirm for sure that Obama

was the one behind uh the weaponization

of the intelligence and the effort to

remove uh Trump even after he got

elected. After he got elected. So,

but I didn't I don't know what was new

in the story cuz I thought we already

knew that Obama's the one who ordered

the the intel about uh Trump and Russia

to be redone

to make it look like it was worse than

it was.

Didn't we already know that? But I guess

there's some new document that that

really confirms that now.

Yeah. So, um, we know that Brennan lied

about the use of the steel dossier as

one of the predicates, if that's the

right word, for, uh, for going after

Trump. So, we know that was fake. We do

know that the professionals working on

the assessment didn't think there was

evidence of, uh, either that Putin

wanted Trump or that he was doing

anything to make it happen.

So, um, but do we have something new?

And then and then I saw a reference to

something that I didn't see in the news.

I only saw in social media and it said

that the uh was it the ex head of the

FBA, Ry? Give me a fact check on this.

I'm I'm very uncertain about this, but

did he refer to uh Biden as a vegetable

and said that they needed something to

support the vegetable?

Did that happen or was that just a

social media BS thing? All right. So,

give me a fact check on that, will you?

All right. Uh, so if that's true, it got

completely lost by the bigger news from

the Middle East. But do we now have

everything that we need to know that

Obama tried to overthrow the fairly

elected president of the United States

and that all of their all of their

projection on Trump was very intentional

projection to blame him for what they

were doing to him at that very moment

which apparently is a good trick that

they use a lot.

So,

pet the kitty.

Yeah.

All right. So, Michael Cohen, the ex uh

fixer lawyer guy for Trump who even went

to jail and uh is no no friend of

Trump's. He says uh he says to the MSNBC

panel, he said this a few times, but he

said it again, uh that Leticia James and

James Comey will be held accountable,

meaning that he thinks they'll be

convicted. Do you believe that? Do you

think that Leticia James and James Comey

will be held accountable or just tried

and, you know, slapping the wrist or,

you know, suspended sentence or nothing?

I don't think they'll be held

accountable. I don't think they'll be

held accountable at all. But Cohen's

argument is that the documents will

speak for themselves.

Now, that's not true. What kind of

lawyer is he? In in what world documents

ever speak for themselves? That's not

even a thing. Documents don't speak for

themselves.

If if the only thing that we had to go

on was the documents, yeah, yeah,

Leticia James looks guilty as hell, but

that's not what a court case is about. A

court case adds all the context.

Suppose the context showed she didn't

know she did it. I'm not saying that's

the case. Suppose the concept the

context showed that her um let's say she

had a business manager or an accountant

who just told her to do it and she

didn't really look at it. That's sort of

a defense. If your professional did it

and and you trusted the professional,

that's actually a defense.

But that context all matters. So I don't

for I don't for a minute believe that

the documents make the case. I just

don't think that works in general much

less in this case. And I don't think

that that does that even apply to Comey.

Are there documents that would put Comey

in or you need more than that for Comey?

Right. So, I don't know how good a

lawyer Michael Cohen is, but I'm going

to I'm going to put my total non- lawyer

experience up against his and say I'm

not so sure. I I guess I guess just the

process will, you know, be bad enough

for the people going through it.

All right. Um, here are some interesting

things from around the the world. So,

the former Intel CEO

uh says we're in an AI bubble, which we

all knew, right? You we all know we're

in a bubble. Our economy wouldn't even

be look good except for AI. If you only

took AI out of the economy, we'd already

be in a recession.

So, that's how important it is. But he

says, and this would match things I've

been saying, that the there's a risk,

but the new tech is coming. and he says

it promises a hundred times better power

efficiency for the same AI performance.

What have I been telling you about this

massive need for power for AI? I've been

telling you that they're they're going

to work work on that from two different

directions. One is building enormous

citysized

um you know processing centers that need

power and uh the other would be figuring

out how to not need so much power. And I

was predicting that because the economic

benefit of not using that much power is

trillions of dollars that that would get

solved fairly quickly. And it looks like

uh CEO, the former CEO of Intel is aware

of some technology that would take that

uh power cost down by a factor of 10.

Uh JP Morgan Chase says they're going to

invest $1.5 trillion

spread across 27 critical industries in

America. So they're not talking about

just making loans, you know, the banking

job. They're talking about taking equity

in 27 critical industries to to boost

them. You know, they're trying to boost

those industries. Now, why are they

doing that? I've never heard of a bank

do anything like that. Now, part of it

is the bank is making ton of money

that the earnings are coming out. So,

they're actually making really good

earnings at a time when other people

might be struggling. So, it could be

that JP Morgan is looking ahead you

because they're smart, right? Jamie

Diamond's super smart. They might be

looking ahead several years and knowing

that, you know, as people lose their

jobs and maybe AI disrupts things that

they need to be on the side of the

angels. So if they can make sure that,

you know, they're vital because they're

not just a bank, but they own equity in

vital industries and they're they're

helping those vital industries that it

might be that they just need to reframe

themselves as a company completely

differently. One of the problems, if I

were a bank, the thing I'd be worried

about is that banks themselves could be

completely replaced with AI. Somebody's

going to make an AI bank. You can't do

it now because of the hallucinating. But

if they solve the hallucinations

and you can just say, "All right, you're

a bank now and go get the paperwork

filled out. I'll sign it." I don't know.

They they could think that banking just

won't be a business and so they need to

have equity in real business. So I don't

know what they're up to, but it's

probably more than one objective.

Um, so Katie Porter or Katie Potato as

you know is the Democrat who is leading

in the potential governor race in uh in

California, but you probably saw the

many videos of her acting uh very badly

on video. And I guess uh um Harry Anton

on CNN points out that her uh her odds

of becoming governor plunged from 40%

down to 16%.

And uh Fox News completely did that. Fox

News just kept running those those clips

on a loop until everybody saw them. you

know, eventually the CNN and MSNBC, they

they would all have to do it because Fox

just made that a story. So,

so it looks like her odds have gone way

down, but she's still definitely in the

mix and maybe still number one. But I

didn't realize that Steve Hilton

actually has a shot. So Steve Hilton,

you all know him. He's running as a

Republican in the bluest state you could

imagine. Everybody assumes that no

Republican can get any purchase. There's

no way they can get close because it's

such a blue state. But it looks like the

competition is destroying itself and

Steve is just sort of,

you know, just being Steve Hilton and,

you know, people know him from Fox News.

So, he's got a built-in he's got a

built-in base for people who have

watched his shows on Fox. I don't think

he's still there. Does he still have his

show on Fox? I don't know.

But he seems like a solid, smart

um

I think his intentions are in the right

place. He's Republican enough. He's

proTrump enough. So, he meets he

definitely meets all of the Republican

requirements, which doesn't mean

anything, right? Because you you know,

you're going to have to win off of other

people. Um,

so I asked Grock, does he have any

chance? And it turns out he does. And

part of that is because of the way

elections work in California. They have

what's it called? A, uh, jungle off or

something has some name to it. But

basically, uh, the first vote is for

anybody who's running. So it's not like

a regular primary where you pick one

person to run. The first vote is just

for whoever. And then they limit the

real election to whoever got the top two

votes. Jungle. It's a jungle. That's the

word. It's a jungle election or jungle.

Jungle primary.

Is that what it's called? Yeah, I think

jungle is in there. Anyway,

because there's only one strong

Republican running, uh, if he gets more

than 25% of the vote, which is entirely

possible, he could be in the top two.

Now, getting in the top two definitely

doesn't help you win because like I

said, it's a it's a blue state. But what

if he gets in the top two against

somebody who's just totally destroyed by

clips or for for whatever other reason?

So

I think if Steve can make that 25%

which is not guaranteed and and it's a

stretch but I feel like he might be able

to do it especially because Trump is

doing so well and that will have a

little bit of a code tail at least for a

while

but if if you can imagine

Steve Hilton getting into the position

in the final two then it becomes a

question of whether Fox News can take

out the other competive

before CNN takes out Steve. I I don't

know what if he has any baggage or

anything. I haven't heard of any. Uh but

I'm sure whoever he runs against is

going to have a little baggage and Fox

News will be all over that.

Uh allegedly, here's the scariest thing

you'll ever hear from Alex Barnicote

says this. I don't know if it's true,

but China's developing a nuclear tsunami

bomb that could sink the entire UK. I

guess the idea is they're working on a

nuclear bomb specifically for triggering

a tsunami so you can destroy an entire

island such as the UK.

Is that scary? Yeah, that's scary. I

don't know if it's true. Might not be

true, but it's scary.

Well, Ford CEO was over in China

recently. Did some tours of their auto

plants and stuff and came back. I think

this was in the Telegraph and the Ford

CEO basically said we can't compete with

China that they're already so far ahead

of us in making cars that we just

haven't figured it out yet but that Ford

is not competitive and that we don't

have a way to be competitive.

Are you hearing that?

This is CEO of Ford who walked through

Chinese factories. A lot of them are

dark factories meaning they don't need

lights because there's no human there.

It's all robots. And when he watched

what China can do to build a car and he

watched that China actually has more

more high-tech features in their car, he

didn't know how far China had come. And

he looked at it and said, "We basically

we can't catch up. That they've already

lapped us and our auto industry might

just disappear except for Elon."

So, who knows if that's uh real.

And that according to Matt Margolus, PJ

Media, uh some of the big Democrat

states are already reducing uh health

care costs for illegal immigrants

because they found out that they can't

afford it. So, they have to do it

quietly since they're so pro healthcare

for everybody. But apparently,

California and let's see, uh Minnesota,

Tim Walls, and uh Pritskar and Illinois

have all rolled back or frozen Medicaid

programs for illegal immigrants.

So they are quite aware that that

there's a spending problem with that

category.

So apparently California alone spends

8.5 billion annually for medical for

illegal residents.

8.5 billion per year. Wow.

In other news, Chris Wright, energy

secretary, is going to announce um maybe

this week, I guess, uh the Trump

administration fusion roadmap. Oh, today

he's going to announce it at a gathering

of fusion. So, the fusion people as

opposed to regular nuclear, which is

fision, fusion would be the no waste,

infinite energy, you know, the thing

we've been waiting for for 40 years. But

uh apparently we're under spending on

fusion some say compared to what we do

on regular fision and they're looking to

change that and have a road map to get

us to fusion. That's very good. It's

good that that's happening.

Um do you know about the system in

Ukraine for drones? You know, as I've

told you too many times, the Ukraine war

is now a drone versus energy

infrastructure war. It's, you know,

they're also killing people, but the

people killing doesn't feel like it's

the big thing. They got to get the

energy stuff that before winter. Looks

like that's the big play. But did you

know that Ukraine came up with a uh a

bonus point program where if you're if

you're on the front lines fighting with

a drone and you use a drone to get a

good kill, you can submit that and you

will be first in line for new drone

stuff. So parts and replacement parts

and bombs that go on drones and

everything. So in other words, they have

a organized

um program where the people who are

running the drones can get more drones

and more resources by being more

successful with the ones they have. Now,

does that seem like a good idea?

It really does. It seems like an amazing

idea because as I told you the other

day, they're competing with Russia that

has a top-down system where the

entrepreneurs don't really get any

benefit if they do something good. So,

not only do they not make money, but I

don't think that they would get extra

drones just because they did a good job

with the ones they had, but Ukraine

seems to understand human motivation

better. And I would totally try harder

if I knew that if I got my kills and

proved it, I could get a better drone.

And then I get a better kill, then I get

a better drone. So, it would definitely

motivate me and I would guess it

motivates the uh Ukrainians.

So, if you were looking for, you know, a

long-term prediction of who's going to

win in the drone on drone, it does feel

like Ukraine has an advantage.

They don't have a manpower advantage. Uh

they don't have a missile advantage

there. They have a lot of disadvantages.

But in this one area of uh you know

innovating with Jones, I feel like they

got the edge and maybe that's enough. I

don't know. So they attacked a Russian

power hub again. Uh the Kiev Post is

reporting put it on fire. I I feel like

they're just nitpicking at this point. I

wonder if there's a a really big attack

that's being planned or if they don't

have enough drones for that yet.

But I've got a question. Why is the

Russian energy grid still sort of

working?

Is it my imagination or have you not

also heard that the the American um

electric grid you could take out the

entire grid in an afternoon if if you

wanted to? Am I wrong about that? I I

feel like I've seen so many news stories

that say, "Oh, our grid is so

vulnerable." And then they they I'm not

going to say why because I don't need to

put that out there. But there are

specific vulnerabilities

which if you knew how to attack them,

you could kind of take out the entire

United States without a lot of work. Why

doesn't that work in Russia?

Does Russia have some magically better

technology?

Or or are we really not in that much

risk? Maybe it's not as big a risk as I

thought. But didn't it seem to you that

any major country could take out the

entire um electrical grid of any other

country really anytime they wanted?

Doesn't it seem to you that that's like

a thing that anybody could do? But they

haven't. They're just picking these

individual sites off and the lights are

still on in Moscow. So I guess I don't

understand what's what's preventing

Ukraine from doing better there. All

right, ladies and gentlemen. And that's

all I got for today. I hope that was

satisfying. It was for me. And uh 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. Come

back. It's fun every day. All right, 30

seconds will be private with locals.

No, we won't. That button is not

working.

So, locals the uh go private button

isn't working. I don't know why

sometimes it works and sometimes it

doesn't.

So, I think we're I think we're done for

today. I hope you got enough in the

pre-show. And everybody, we'll see you

tomorrow.

Oh, I can't even end it. I'm going to

have to get out of the get out of the

app and get back in to end it.