Episode 3002 CWSA 10/28/25

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Moving a little bit slowly today.

Body's falling apart pretty quickly.

But we got good news today.

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I'll be giving you a reframe to change your life from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

How many of you have already had some kind of a good feeling or success from just the reframes I read before I start the show?

I want to see how many of you have gotten some kind of an immediate benefit.

Watch in the comments.

How many people got an immediate benefit from at least one of these reframes?

All right, I'll pick another.

Um, where did I leave off?

There we go.

Have you ever heard uh people say you should measure twice and cut once?

Carpenters say that.

Look at all the yeses.

Uh, carpenters say you should measure something once and cut twice.

Did you know that if you're talking about things like software, it should be the reverse?

You should just try things because if you're doing software and you just try something, it doesn't really hurt too much.

It's not like cutting a a board and then you need a new board.

So, in the modern world, the reframe is reversed.

It made sense for most of human history.

It made sense to measure twice before you use up your limited resource of one one piece of lumber before you cut it.

But now you should just try a lot of things.

And if it doesn't kill you, try another thing.

And if that doesn't kill you, try another thing.

Even if none of those things work, you'll be building your probably building a talent stack that makes it more likely the next thing will work.

So, if you see it as a cascade of probability, the more things you fail at, the closer you are to success.

And that's your reframe for the day.

I wonder if there's any science that didn't need to be done because they could have just asked Scott.

Oh, here we go.

from the American Psychological Association.

They did a study and found out that self-affirmations, basically just talking to yourself and saying that you're a good person, uh, is good for you.

It increases people's general well-being.

All right.

Now, seriously, was there anybody who didn't know that it it's the entire basis for all self-help everywhere all the time and always has been that if you don't say good things about yourself, you will program yourself not to be that good person.

Your brain is completely malleable.

If you tell your brain you're a good person who can do good things, it will just sort of become that.

Now, there's, you know, obviously everybody has a limit.

We can't all play in the NBA.

We can't We're not all rocket scientists.

But if you want to figure out what your limit is, you probably don't know until you program your brain.

That's what reframe your brain is all about.

It's how to program your b your brain.

And yes, the simplest and yet most important part of reprogramming your brain is self-affirmations.

I can do this.

I can figure it out.

I'll survive.

all win.

I always win.

That That's why I always tell you about my prisoner island story.

So, there's a story in my head.

Most of you have heard this before from me, that uh who I am is a survivor, which is kind of handy to have at the moment.

Uh, and no matter how many times you drop me off on prisoner island, the place where only the prisoners are, so they they're killing each other.

If you come back in 5 years, I'm going to own Prisoner Island.

It'll be tough, but if you come back in 5 years, I'm going to be in charge of Prisoner Island.

So, that's the story I tell myself.

Doesn't need to be true.

Doesn't need to be true.

Speaking of Fresner Island, most of you know that I have a terminal cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer, which has metastasized to all over my body.

So, I'm riddled with tumors at the moment.

What I was hoping for for my possible, but only possible, escape from this particular prisoner island, you know, the death sentence, the death sentence of certain death through cancer.

Uh my hope was that I would someday be approved for this brand new drug.

It's only a few months approved in the US called Plu Victto, but you have to go through a process with your healthcare provider to make sure that you're qualified, you have the right kind of cancer.

They do a test to see that the that the radioactive stuff will stick to your tumors, which they did with me.

And as of last night, I'm approved for PLU Victo.

So, we still have to schedule it.

If it's scheduled too far out, I'll be dead anyway.

But Prisoner Island just turned from an absolute guaranteed death sentence to maybe.

Maybe.

And it's only a maybe in the sense that it's definitely not a cure.

Right?

Just to be clear, this is not meant to be a cure.

They don't sell it as a cure.

The people who make it are not claiming it cures anything.

All it can do is knock back the tumors.

So that your your sense of the the thing would be less.

Now, if it knocks it back enough, and let's say I got lucky and bought a few years, then we would be solidly in a domain of probably dozens of new AI generated potential cures, going from treatments to cures.

So, I feel like my prisoner island escape path is just to stay alive long enough that the almost certain better stuff that's coming down the road gets to me before I got get before I got got.

You know what I mean?

So, that's tying it all together for you folks.

So, we'll see if that becomes good news.

I'm I'm failing pretty fast.

Uh, I won't give you all the details, but my body's really falling apart fast.

So, I don't know if it'll be in time, and I don't know what functions I can recover.

You I can just barely use my left hand now.

May or may not be because of a tumor.

Don't know yet.

Um, Graedia was launched.

I think it was a little bumpy launch.

They may have had to take it down and put it back up a few times.

But uh Graipedia will be Elon Musk's competition to Wikipedia.

Ideally, it will be less biased.

Um I checked out my page.

I didn't have time to read it all, but wow, it's long.

So, uh I would the two things I know for sure is that it also includes a major mistake about my opinions of the pandemic.

Uh because it can't recognize a hoax on its own.

It would have to be told by somebody else when I'm joking and when I'm not.

So you miss that.

But it's not the worst mistake in the world because it simply took a joke as a serious.

Uh and I didn't tell people it was a joke at the time.

So that's a little bit on me.

Um but uh it looked like a giant step forward.

So, even with some tweaks, I'd like to make to it.

So, I was suggesting before the show started, I was talking to my pre-show audience, and uh what I'd like to see on Wikipedia and on Graipedia is a place where the person who's being talked about on the page can do a uh rebuttal.

Just a quick one.

Doesn't have to be long, but I would love to be able to say, "Oh, everything looks right except for this one thing.

They they got that backwards." Wouldn't you appreciate that if you were the reader of the page?

Wouldn't that be useful to you?

Not to know who's right because I could be lying.

But you need to know what my what my defense is.

You know, if somebody blames me for something, don't you need to know my side?

Of course you do.

And you need to know it in my words because if Grock tries to defend me, maybe it does a good job, maybe it doesn't know all the facts.

I'm the only one who can do that.

So, I'd love to see that upgrade little box for the affected person.

If you haven't seen it yet, I did a podcast yesterday with Paul Leslie.

So, just if you're on X, probably on You.

Tube, too, search for the Paul Leslie Hour if you want to see me talking to Paul.

He asked really good questions, so it's not the usual boring stuff.

He uh he made me go pretty deep.

That might be my last podcast as a guest.

Not not as a host.

Um, there might be a lot of things that will be my last coming up, but I don't know that I'll ever do another podcast as a guest.

You'll see plenty of me because I'll still be here every day as long as I can.

Well, also Elon Musk who's like likes to make news.

uh you could take a self-driving Tesla to San Jose airport.

Now, now I didn't see where where the pickup places are.

Probably just right around San Francisco where they've been practicing with the self-driving cars.

And I don't know why you'd necessarily want to go from San Francisco to San Jose instead of flying out of San Francisco, but that probably indicates there's a bigger pickup area that I'm aware of.

Let me tell you, San Jose airport is a good one.

So, number one, you need to know that's a good airport.

People like using that one.

It's convenient.

But if you add a self-driving Tesla to the airport that's already a good airport, that's a pretty good package cuz just getting to the airport is such a pain in the ass.

Uh I think I would trust the self-driving car before I'd trust myself not to take a wrong turn at traffic.

Also more Elon Musk news.

Neuralink um they've got their first patient in the UK, somebody named Paul who according to Doge designers talking about this X, he got a brain implant and then just hours after surgery, this is the impressive part.

Only hours after surgery, he was able to control a computer with his thoughts and he's now using them to play games and regain independence.

Holy So impressive.

That's just so so impressive.

Good luck, Paul.

And uh here's more Elon Musk tech news.

He said uh what I like about this is not only that they fixed this bug, but they he he's saying publicly we have a significant bug in the X for you algorithm.

He said that that bug has resulted in users seeing far fewer posts from people they follow.

Thank you.

I thought I was going crazy.

Didn't you?

If you're on X, didn't you think, is it me?

Like, why am I now seeing the the people I would most want to see?

I'm seeing all these random people.

Um, but it turns out there's a significant bug.

Now, I trust Elon to say that it's a bug and not not some intentional thing that some employee tried to do.

I feel like I feel like if somebody had intentionally done it that he would have said, "Yeah, we already fired that person.

It's going to get fixed because he's pretty transparent about that." But if he doesn't say there's anybody to be fired and does it wasn't intentional, it's just a bug.

That was one of the biggest bugs of all time in the history of bugs.

That's just one of the biggest ones I've ever seen.

And it persisted for a long time.

So, so he said it should be fixed by tomorrow.

He said that yesterday.

And then uh did you see any difference in your X feed for those of you on X?

I did.

I suddenly started getting all kinds of porn.

Did anybody did anybody get porn in their feed as soon as he fixed the bug?

Now, I always make sure that I don't look for porn in X.

Like, even if it's newsworthy or something, I still won't look for it because I I don't want to train the algorithm to feed me porn, you know, that it just thinks I want because I look maybe I looked at some news story about somebody being naughty, but it fed me some straight up x-rated porn.

So, I blocked it and I haven't seen it yet.

So, I think the blocking teaches it not to give you more.

That's what I hope.

Anyway, did you see the uh you probably saw a video of the events where uh New York mayor candidate Mam Donnie was with AOC and with um Sanders and they gave a rousing big uh big rally, very successful.

And then when they were done, all three of them got off stage and gave Nazi salutes.

Did you see that?

All three of them gave Nazi salutes.

What?

Oh.

Oh, you're saying they weren't Nazi salutes?

Oh, really?

I'm looking at the comments and I I'm shocked.

Are you telling me that that adult public figures can raise their arms in the air in recognition of the audience?

That that's not a Nazi salute.

What?

What?

So Ted Cruz commented on one of the photos of them with their arms raised.

Says, "Are those Nazi salutes?" I think he got 33 million views on that.

Are those not Nazi salutes?

And then Elon Musk, of course, had to weigh in.

He goes, "Sure looks like it." Now, obviously Elon is just poking fun cuz it doesn't look like it.

He was just accused of a Nazi salute cuz he raised his arm once in a crowd.

But to watch them do exactly the same thing that we How many news cycles did we have to go through where Democrats were pretending that was a real thing that happened in the real world, pretending that uh that Musk had actually literally done a Nazi sloop of days and days and days and weeks of listening to that And then as soon as these cats get on stage, they're like, "Oh, I'm not even going to raise my arm because I know what happened." According to the Guardian, Nick Robins early.

Are you kidding me?

There's somebody whose name was Robins who must have married somebody whose last name was Early.

Aren't Robins your sign of early things?

cuz the robin comes in the spring and and the actual last name is now hyphenated Robins Early.

Come on, that can't be real.

Anyway, Robins Early says in the Guardian that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with J Chat BT chat GPT.

1 million people every week show suicidal intent.

Now, the real question is, can you really determine intent?

Because I'm pretty sure I would be counted as one of the million and you know, I don't have any immediate plans.

I have, you know, when I thought the cancer was going to get me in June, but I got a little reprieve there.

Um, that actually seems low to me.

I I would actually expect that number to be larger if people thought that they were not being monitored.

Wouldn't they at least sort of wrestle with the concept a little bit with the AI just to see what it said?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't think the chat GPT is causing that.

I think that's just a place people feel safe with ideas.

They wouldn't feel safe talking to people.

All right, let's talk about some other uh Democrats.

see how the Democrats are doing.

We'll check in with this author Stephen King.

How's he doing?

Well, he posted yesterday, the day before, I forget.

He says, uh, Trump says he won't invite either team playing in the World Series to the White House.

He can't rise above this petty political concerns even for the great American game.

If anything, it shows what a louse he is.

That's it.

What a lous he is.

Did he travel back to the 40s to make this post?

You dirty louse.

I got you.

You dirty rat.

You louse.

Anyway, he got community noted because nothing like that happened in the real world.

Trump never said anything about inviting or not inviting any any World Series people.

And community note says, "The claim stems from a fabricated screenshot.

Fact checks on the White House confirms no such Trump post exists.

The image came from a satire account and never appeared on his platform.

Um so it's a completely imaginary problem uh which I have taken the initiative as you know I do.

I like taking initiative.

I took the initiative to refer this matter to the department of imaginary concerns uh which handles all of the Democrat problems because they're all imaginary concerns.

But uh Stephen King to his credit when fact checked he realized that he had spread some and uh he went on and said it was and said there was his mistake.

So he took he took responsibility for it.

Uh I'll give him that.

Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, that's soon going to be MSN Now, Lawrence O'Donnell tried to dunk on Scott Jennings, uh, for being what he said.

CNN eagerly pays a Trump supporter, Scott Jennings, to lie every day and night for Donald Trump.

So MSNBC is now going after CNN as a an enemy because CNN's not as right leaning crazy as they used to be.

They actually have somebody on there that will do a very good job of spreading the Trumpish point of view.

But he claimed and I wondered about this.

Lawrence O'Donnell claimed that his show at the same time slot as where Jennings appears on uh on Phillips.

Uh he says he has triple the audience.

Do you think that's true?

has triple the audience because that that would not be a good look for CNN if if MSNBC has triple the audience for their what I think is their weakest their weakest host Lawrence O'Donnell.

But maybe he brings some people in.

Maybe they like hearing him say bad stuff about Trump.

Um, anyway, it's just amazing that if CNN adds some balance to the reporting that that's a whole that's a whole segment on MSNBC about how they shouldn't be adding any balance to their reporting.

So, good job there, Lawrence O'Donnell.

Meanwhile, you all know about Prop 50 in California.

It's a proposition that would, if passed next week, would allow California to do some extra extra extra partisan uh uh redistricting.

And that would give them maybe one more one more representative in Congress if they do it right.

That's the plan anyway.

However, according to people who understand constitutions and laws and stuff like that, which seems relevant to this topic, um there probably it probably won't survive a court challenge, at least Supreme Court, because uh it's explicitly uses race as the dominant factor in deciding where to redraw the redraw the lines.

And I thought to myself, wait a minute.

I'm no constitutional scholar, but if you ask me on a, you know, multiplechoice test, will the Supreme Court be in favor of racial discrimination or opposed to it?

I think I would say they'd be opposed to it, at least by a conservative majority.

So, I don't feel like this is going to make it.

That argument seems like a slam dunk, doesn't it?

As soon as the conservative majority Supreme Court hears, "Uh, wait, how did you draw these new lines?" Well, we drew it so we could get more black representation.

What?

That is exactly what's illegal.

Exactly.

That that that's exactly what's illegal.

So, I don't know.

We'll see.

But not to be outdone, Indiana governor, uh, Republican, according to Newsmax, he wants to do some redistricting, too.

Um, we'll see if that happens.

And, uh, I did a post yesterday that I got so much push back, but it's because you people didn't read my post carefully.

So, let let me do a correction.

It's a correction in the sense that I should have been, you know, extra extra clear about something I was clear about.

I mean, I wrote it very clearly, but sometimes you just have to hit a point more than once because, you know, it's not going to say again.

So, that's on me.

So, yesterday I saw uh what was a PR photo of Mom Donnie and I noted that his eyes and his smile are compatible.

Now, if you know the the science of uh spotting liars, which I spend a lot of time kind of studying because sort of a hobby.

Um not the lying, the studying of the lying.

Lying is not my hobby.

Uh one of the biggest tells is if somebody's smiling, but their eyes are not joining in on the smile.

You you've heard that one before, right?

Is that something you're familiar with?

That's how you tell somebody's a a psycho or a has mental problems or they're lying to you.

It's like so his eyes match his smile.

And so I did a post where I said, you know, I wasn't I wasn't supporting him as a candidate.

I was just saying that it's just a fact that part of his success may may lie directly with the fact that his eyes and his mouth match, which gives you the sense of credibility and honesty.

Now, where did I go wrong there?

Everybody said, "But Scott, don't you know that it's um that it's been photoshopped?" To which I said, "Yeah, but I've seen his videos.

I mean, I've seen him live lots of times and his eyes also match his smile most of the time.

Then people would send me one photo where he wasn't smiling.

Okay, that's not really a debate.

And then people would say, "But Scott, he's uh he's Muslim, so he's doing this, how do you pronounce it?

Takia thing." Every time there's a Muslim in the news, some some Republican will tell me, "But Scott, they have a they have a whole belief system around lying to people who are not Islamic." You know, he has a name.

Taka, is that what it's called?

I think I'm pronouncing it wrong, but it's something in that category.

Um, to which I say, "Okay, where's the part where I said he's telling the truth?" That's where I went wrong.

So, I was trying to carefully say he looks credible, which would be a distinction between looking and being honest and all that.

I don't know if he's honest.

I can't read his mind.

So, I'm not really dealing in the domain of whether he's lying or not lying.

But that's that was my mistake because people thought that's what I was doing.

No, I was saying he looks he's got the look which could propel him through politics.

But then I thought it would be extra helpful to tell you about people who don't have that look.

So they're they're fighting against it.

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Is that is that the that's the right word?

Anyway, think about uh Hakee Jeff.

Hakeim Jeff has a creepy smile and sadly there's nothing he can do about it, but he was just born with creepy eyes.

So that doesn't really work for politics.

Like he can never be president with those eyes unfortunately uh for him.

Uh think about Chuck Schumer.

Think about who's smiling and it seems like he's got a weasel smile that doesn't match his eyes, right?

So you you can but then think of um Scott Basent Treasury Secretary his smile and his eyes match.

So he one of the reasons that he has credibility is you know his great experience he's done a great job so far obviously but he also has a look just his face his smile which he smiles often matches his eyes which are smiley.

How about uh Marco Rubio?

Same.

He when when he's in a jocular mood, which is not always.

I mean, he has a serious job, so lots of times he has to act serious.

But when he's just joking around, do his eyes match his smile?

Yeah, they do.

Yeah.

Yep.

Rubio's face totally works.

How about uh Vance, JD Vance?

He is a little more complicated because he has a little bit more of a theatrical control over his facial muscles, meaning that he can he can change his face to fit whatever situation he's talking about.

So, he's got more of a range.

Um, so he's he's sort of in a different category because he can really manage the whole facial thing better than other people.

But Trump has the ultimate facial game.

Have you noticed that?

I give you as my argument his uh his uh what's the photo when they book you for a crime?

His uh mugsh shot.

You remember his mug shot?

Now the the face he gave on the mugsh shot was obviously intentional and obviously world class.

You've seen him also, you know, smiling at things and you know, you've seen him grimacing at the press.

So Trump actually, I don't know if you know this, but a million years ago when he was a young man, he actually was serious about becoming a thespian, an actor.

And he does have those skills.

He just he just brought them to politics after he was done with TV.

And uh watching him manage his face is a whole other level of persuasion goodness that you can learn by watching him.

This brings me to the following.

Um, we're going to talk about Trump in Japan.

He He had a little face management problem there.

He looks tired to me.

Does he look tired to you?

I mean, he should be.

He's international trip with a million points of energy he needs.

So, he should be tired.

But, uh, I saw him smiling for the camera and he had the the fakest camera smile you've ever seen.

His eyes were not into it.

But I believe it's because he's actually not happy.

The way he's even the way he's walking seems a little bit a little bit slower than normal.

Have you noticed that?

Seems a little bit more bent over.

And there's there's some uh there's some talk that he got an MRI but didn't need one.

When do you get an MRI when you don't need one?

So there might be some minor medical thing he's battling that he's trying to keep from the public, which should be fine.

I mean, if it's minor, if it's minor, it would be on brand, totally on brand, for him to be in continuous pain and still do the full job.

That would be so Republican.

I I try to model that myself as best I can.

Yeah.

All right.

We'll see.

In other uh surprising news, the I guess it's the biggest union in the country, the American Federation of Government Employees Union is demanding that Democrats end the government shut down.

So that's amazing.

So, the fact that it's the biggest union in the country and unions are almost always pro-democrat, uh, this is big news because the Federation of Government Employees, the biggest one, uh, is basically blaming the Democrats for keeping the government closed.

That's uh that would also signal something like the total collapse of the Democrat party, which I've been talking about for a while now.

uh if you lose a I mean and would this be the beginning of any other any other unions flipping and they're not flipping to Republican.

They're they're just flipping on this specific issue.

I don't know.

Might be the beginning of something.

We'll see.

Meanwhile, Speaker Johnson who says that the GOP is working on a Republican health care plan.

So they'll they'll have that health care plan already to propose should the government reopen.

Emily Brooks of the Hill is writing about this.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that there's a credible or even might be a credible Republican plan for healthcare?

Nope.

No, Speaker Johnson, I do not believe anything you said about that.

I do believe it's important to say you're working on it.

And I I do believe they probably had a meeting or two, maybe more than that.

But if you want me to be serious that Republicans are working on a health care plan, that's a Republican plan, there's only one thing I need to say.

Who's on that team?

Because if they're doing a health care plan with the usual bunch of idiots, you know, just your normal elected people who are willing to do it, that's not going to get it done.

We We don't have people in Congress who are smart enough to do that kind of work.

Not even close.

The only way I would believe that there was a quote Republican healthc care plan is if I saw that a team had been appointed by Trump and they were sufficiently MAGA and they were sufficiently outsiders and they were sufficiently and here's the important part brilliant.

Not even just regular smart because healthc care is not a normal problem.

This is not a normal problem.

This is one of the biggest problems anybody's ever had anywhere at any time.

The complexity of it alone is overwhelming.

It's like I don't even know if Doge could have figured it out with all their big balls and geniuses.

This is the big big big problem.

So, if you tell me, "Oh, I got these these three uh senators working on it who you never heard of." No, that's not a plan.

Nope.

You started with the wrong people.

That goes nowhere.

Let me tell you what it would look like if it were real.

It would look like Trump announcing, "All right, I'm going to put together this team and uh we're going to have uh I'm going to throw out some names of smart people.

Not necessarily that they should be on this team, but just to make my point.

So if he came up and said, we've asked, you know, David Saxs, Mark Cuban, who's not Republican, not Republican, but he knows a lot about healthcare and drugs specifically, Mark Cuban and RFK Jr.

to, you know, be the triumvirate and then they can also in turn, you know, get people to work for them, but they'll be the three.

If if if Trump came out and said these three guys, and we could add women, you know, so we're not a sexist.

Yeah, these three guys will be in charge of figuring out how to figure it out.

They don't even have to be the ones to figure it out.

They have to be in charge of figuring out how to figure it out.

Could those three people do that?

Do you think if David Saxs, sorry, Saxs, I'm I'm just throwing your name around because you're smart, not because this is the right thing for you to be doing, but uh if Saxs, Mark Cuban, and RFK Jr.

sat in a room and said, "All right, it's all on us.

It's it's on us, but we have unlimited support from the president and they will take us seriously even if we suggest something that takes some pain." That's what I would call a healthcare plan.

even before the plan.

If you at least have a plan to get your best people to figure out how to figure it out, that's a lot because we've never done that before, right?

Never done that before.

And the reason I throw into the mix a Mark Cuban and an RFK Jr.

specifically is that they're not they're not identified as mega absolutists.

So, the Democrats don't need to disagree with them automatically.

They might, but they don't need to, you know, the way they would need to if it was just standard MAGA people.

So, I throw those names out as um as patriots who are above the bar of smart enough to figure out how to figure out.

Again, not to figure out, but to figure out how to figure out.

That's three people who could do it.

And especially working together if they wanted to.

So, I don't mean to uh put any kind of actual pressure on those three individuals.

They got lots to do and they're doing it well.

Uh but you get the idea, right?

I don't want to hear Speaker Johnson tell me that three turtles are coming up with an idea that we'll never see and will never work.

Just don't even tell me about it.

I don't I don't care.

It's not a real thing.

And the other the problem that the uh Republicans have with the health care plan is it's hard to imagine anything they could come up with that didn't also reduce access to health care because they're not the just adding money to it party.

They're the you know we've got to put some discipline on it party.

So it's almost certainly going to reduce somebody's healthcare.

How do you sell that to the public?

stuff.

Anyway, that's enough on healthcare.

Trump's in Asia winning big, signing deals.

He's got a almost a half a trillion investment deal with Japan.

Um, and uh he's he's just owning it.

And you have to look at his his Asian trip as a China encirclement um play that apparently is working.

And what I mean by encirclement is as he visits all of our allies that sort of ring that rings China and he makes deals with them.

The deals he's making are China's deals.

They're the deals we should have been making with China, but they're they're not getting it done with their trade deals.

They're not giving us what we want.

So So China has to just sit there passively uninvited and watching while Trump takes away their business, one deal at a time.

mostly the rare earth mineral stuff.

So he signed this big rare earth mineral thing with Japan, but it also included a whole bunch of high-tech investments, the ones you're used to.

Uh, so we got that done and it looks like he, you know, he's been treated like a like a star.

But one one of the little vignettes of his trip to Japan just just really hit me at home.

So when I was a young man, I lived for about 15 years.

uh I was in a relationship with a Japanese American woman uh here in America and her extended family uh all the older generation they all came from Japan so it was a very Japanese situation she was born in America so so she was Japanese American so when they would have an event let's say somebody's uh I don't know graduation or marriage or something they they would often have it in the the Japanese temple or church or whatever they call it.

And I would see there would be a table up front where the aunties, the ants, they call them the aunties, would be writing down what gifts people were giving to whoever was the, you know, the the purpose of the event.

And the reason that they would write down the gifts is that most of them were money.

So, if uh let's say your kid was graduating from high school and somebody would give you a gift, the auntie would write down our $50 from this family.

And I asked like like why are they writing down the gifts to to me as you know uh as generic white bread white boy I was like what's going on here?

Why do you need to write it down?

And the answer was so that the the gift giving when it got reversed, people would know, oh, this family gave us $50.

Their kid is graduating $50.

So, it was just for matching.

But, but the larger part of the story is that Japanese gift giving is next level.

They are so good at picking like the right gift.

That's what I observed.

Right.

This is anecdotal so it's not based on a survey or anything but anecdotally living in that world for you know over a decade the the level of the giftgiving so smart so well thought out and then you look at Japan and the new the new uh prime minister yeah Japan's new prime minister a woman uh whose name I didn't write down.

You You can gro it.

Uh she gifted Trump with the prior prime minister's old putter cuz they were golfing buddies.

It was his actual putter, not not a reproduction.

The actual putter.

Now, that's like what one of the best gifts you've ever seen in your life.

The other leaders, they're not matching that.

the the other leaders will like give him a horse or something, you know, like, "Ah, I don't want a horse." But that butter, you could pretty much guarantee that that meant something to him.

So, Japan knows how to do that.

Stocks are way up.

We're getting new records today.

Bitcoin's up.

All these trade deals are looking good, and they do seem to be uh moving China in the right direction.

It's always too early to say that there's going to be a China deal because they're always, you know, pulling the rug out last minute, but it looks like we're getting close.

A lot of stuff's going right.

Um, in other news, just the news is reporting, I think Wall Street Journal was reporting on this, that, uh, the House Oversight Committee uh is going to refer some of the Biden auto pen orders where the automatic pen signed his name instead of Biden.

uh they're going to refer to the Department of Justice to investigate because after they did their own investigation, which is, you know, a non non courtroom investigation, the House Oversight Committee decided that Biden might not have even been aware of some of the things that he allegedly signed with the autopan and that maybe the Department of Justice should look into this.

I don't think there's any crime involved.

Do you?

It seems to me what they had was a really bad system which needs to be, you know, maybe have better guard rails, but a crime.

I mean, if you have a situation where all you have to do is say to the president, are you okay with this list of things we're going to sign and let's say he doesn't want to look at it and he just says, "Yeah, because we have thousands of pardons.

Do you want to look at them individually?" Nah.

No.

you know, just just do what you think is right.

Let me know.

Under those conditions, would you say that the president approved them?

Because all I care about is did he actually approve the specific things?

And I wouldn't care too much if he approves some things generically without knowing the details.

He's the president.

If the president wants to pardon somebody with a terrible reason, they have that right.

We don't we don't get to check their reason for a pardon.

It's just the president.

So the fact that I don't like that the president might not be aware of something he approved, but maybe he had approved it in some general way like, "Yeah, you take care of that.

I'll be I'll be okay with whatever whatever you want to do.

Just consider it approved." If he did something like that, they might have.

Would that be against the law?

I don't think so.

That would be him just deciding what to sign and what not to sign, but didn't use his own hand.

So, I don't think there's going to be a prosecution for that, but it might be embarrassing for the Democrats.

And maybe that's good enough for the Republicans.

According to Reuters, Amazon's going to lay off 14,000 people real soon, like maybe today, uh, in favor of uh artificial intelligence.

Now, here's a little rule that you can learn the difference between Amazon and uh and Tesla.

Do you remember this is a real thing, by the way?

You you'll think I'm making this up if you haven't heard it before, but this is a real thing.

A number of years ago, um Elon Musk said that one of their operating principles for Tesla, way before he was political and way before I was political, he said that their one of their operating principles was, and it's in writing, it's actually written down, that that the Tesla employees should not do something that is likely to be in a Dilbert comic or something that could easily be put in a Dilbert comic.

Now, is that good advice?

It's really good advice because weirdly, if you're familiar with the Dilbert comic, you kind of know what would be in there, don't you?

Like, you could look at a real world suggestion, and people do this all the time.

They'll be sitting in a meeting and they'll look at each other and like, is this going to be in a Dilbert comic?

Because it sounds exactly like it could be.

And that if you use that as your your guard rail, could it ever be in a Dilbra comic?

that it'll keep you out of doing the stupidest things.

So Elon Musk says, "If it might be in a Dilbert comic, don't do it." Now, let's compare.

What do you think my Dilbert comics have been about this month?

Literally this month, because Dilbert still runs, it's just behind the pay wall now.

Literally this month, my jokes were about big companies implementing AI and then having to reverse it because AI is not nearly where it needs to be to do anything useful.

I'm literally mocking what what Amazon is doing while it's doing it.

I didn't know that they were doing it necessarily.

It was just a big company thing.

While I don't think I've heard Tesla say that they're firing people to reduce staff because of AI.

Has Musk ever said that?

Because if you look at that stark difference, if I had to guess, Amazon is either totally making it up that the reason for the the layoffs is AI.

If they if you spend a trillion dollars on AI, I don't know what Amazon's spending, but it's, you know, it's going to be in the hundreds of billions.

If you spent hundreds of billions on AI and kind of made it like the future of your company, you'd better kind of get on the board of firing some people and at least telling the public, there's that weird voice again.

And at least telling the public that you're doing it because AI is so good and you spent so much on it and it's totally going to work.

So, if I were to compare these two situations, I'm going to have to give the win to Elon Musk.

According to stock market.news, news.

Also on X, uh there's some speculation that there's leaked documents showing that the robotics team actually plans to automate 75% of operations, which would replace potentially 600,000 warehouse workers by 2033 and that they're already allegedly, right?

This is all just alleged.

So I don't I don't know much about the source, anything about the source.

Uh, so don't automatically assume this is true.

This is rumor.

So we're in rumor territory only here.

If it gets debunked tomorrow, don't be surprised.

Um, and that they're Amazon's drafting PR strategies to brace for the backlash.

You know, one of the things that people like the most about Amazon is that although it was causing small businesses to go out of business, they were hiring a lot of people for other jobs.

So you could say to yourself, well, yeah, the small businesses did get squashed, but that's the way capitalism works.

At least people got jobs.

Different people, different jobs.

But if uh they squash all the small companies and it's only run by robots, uh they do have a PR problem they need to they're going to need to manage.

All right, let's see how some other Democrats are fairing.

We got uh Nicole Wallace who is on MSNBC who said uh recently that no one no one calls Trump Hiller.

Now what do you think happened when Nicole Wallace said on TV that no one calls Trump Hiller?

Well, the most predictable thing was that there was immediately a clip compilation put together because the Magna people are so good at this now.

They're so good at the social media game.

It's It's almost laughably good at how well they're hours later.

There's eight examples of people saying it on her show, but there's there is a small nuance that gives her a cover.

What she said specifically was, "No one calls Trump Hiller, but when you listen to all the examples of people calling him Hiller, they don't actually use the word." So, she's sort of kind of technically almost correct, but they say things like, uh, well, it looks like the the early days of Germany in the 30s.

Well, they mean that Trump is Hitler, but they didn't say it.

They say things like, oh, the darkness is gathering and this is the sort of thing you see when authoritarian governments uh get together and the next thing you know there'll be a holocaust.

I'm making this one up, but that's also not really calling Trump Hiller, just saying that he would act exactly like him.

So, here's the pattern I see from the Democrats on all different topics.

Uh, they start by doing a bad thing.

In this case, the bad thing is referring to Trump as Hitler in a 100 different ways.

Uh, then they do that bad thing often and harder.

They just hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it.

Bad thing, bad thing, bad thing.

Then when it becomes a liability because they've gone too far, they deny that any of it ever happened.

Nothing like that happened.

Nobody called him Hitler.

What are you talking about?

What are you crazy?

Are you gaslighting me?

And they'll they'll claim you're gaslighting them because you have a compilation clip of them doing the exact thing that they say they don't do.

a compilation clip.

Uh so then they wait for the inevitable compilation clip and then what do they do when the compilation clip comes out?

Proving that they had been lying grossly all the time.

Uh then they double down and call Trump Hitler twice as often while denying it twice as hard.

They have this whole imaginary situation that's incredible.

Now what does that do that cause any violence?

Well, let's check in with the Postmillennial.

There's a story about a uh Turning Point USA student leader, 19-year-old who was attacked uh near UC Boulder campus for being a leader in that organization.

And he was in fact stalked uh and attacked with a hockey stick by a member of a group that Democrats say doesn't even exist, the Colorado Antifa group.

Huh?

What did I tell you is what Democrats do?

They do something hard and often, Antifa.

And then when you when they go too far and it becomes a liability, they say, "What Antifa?

Antifa isn't even an organization.

It doesn't even exist." And then when the compilation clips come out, or when they will, compilation clips of people claiming that they are Antifa, stories about Antifa attacking people, stories about Antifa organizing stuff.

What will they do after the compilation clip shows that of course there's Antifa and they're doing exactly what the Dem Republicans said they would do.

They will call Trump Hitler and they will double down on Antifa not existing because that's what they do.

Well, importantly, let's check in with Rosie O'Donnell whose opinion is more important than all of ours put together.

Um, and she said, "I feel like we're in a dystopian nightmare and no one is doing anything about it." He talking about Trump says he's a criminal con man.

There's no way you can look at the facts about this man and believe in him.

Okay, here's my suggestion.

It feels to me that one of the things that social media has led us into doing is treating politics and bad mental health as if they are somehow the same thing.

This is not a political opinion, people.

There's there's no politics in that.

That is just mental health.

So to but we we report it and talk about it including me uh in the context of politics.

There's no politics in that.

Not at all.

That is just somebody suffering.

Uh and and when you look at the the things that Democrats have that they can hold over MAGA because Trump's doing quite a good job at the moment in my opinion.

Uh they have to say these generic stuff.

Listen to the generic stuff.

dystopian nightmare.

Uh, I can use some details.

Uh, he's stealing our democracy.

The oligarchy is running things.

He's drifting in an authoritarian direction.

Do you see what all those have in common?

You don't need any details.

There's there's no argument there.

The these are almost all signals of bad mental health by the people who are using these words.

What do people with good mental health say?

They say things like Mike Johnson is not telling you the truth about uh some kind of Republican health care plan.

Now, that's pretty specific, isn't it?

You can tell the difference between somebody who's talking politics.

Yeah.

healthcare plan, you know, who's working on it.

We need to know the names.

Those are really specific details.

So, probably it's not coming from my bad mental health.

But if all I could say was we're losing democracy to the authoritarian oligarchs and it's going to be a dystopian nightmare and it's Germany 1933.

That's mental health.

Know the difference.

All right.

I'm going to claim a victory even if I had nothing to do with this whatsoever.

Remember I started the podcast telling you that positive affirmations are good for your mental health.

I'm going to give myself a positive affirmation.

Not because it's good for you.

It's just good for my health.

Do you mind?

Do you do you mind if I give myself a little good mental health by an affirmation?

Well, I'll tell you the story and then I want you to see if I can twist this into something I may have contributed to.

There's no evidence whatsoever that I contributed to this, but for my mental health, I might sort of accept that maybe I had something to do with it.

Are you ready?

According to ABC News, Bill Gates says climate change is still a serious problem, but wait for it, but says it's time to focus on fighting poverty and preventing disease.

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem, but it won't be the end of civilization.

This is ABC reporting this.

He thinks scientific innovation will curb it and it's instead time for a strategic pivot.

Who's that sound like?

He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, climate change, and it's instead time for a strategic pivot in the global climate fight from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.

He says a doomsday outlook has led the climate community to focus too much on near-term goals blah blah blah reducing commission.

And uh he says the world's primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the poorest countries.

What what is your judgment?

In 2016 or so, you know that I publicly committed myself to uh emphasizing nuclear power as a green technology solution that you would want to do whether there was climate change or not.

You know that for 10 years I've been telling you that climate models couldn't possibly be valid for all the reasons that affect any kind of complex model.

Doesn't even have to do with climate change.

It just has to do with complex models.

they just don't work.

Um, you know that for 10 years I've been advocating very publicly with my full suite of uh persuasion techniques that the emphasis should change from oh no, we're all going to die from uh carbon to let's fix as many problems as we can and uh get our technology as strong as possible and our economy as strong as possible and that will protect us the most.

That's exactly what Bill Gase is saying now.

So, Bill Gates's opinion on this a little bit different from mine.

A little bit, but now 95% compatible.

And and he's also in the business of uh he's invested in Terap Power.

That's that thorium uh new it's a gen 4 nuclear power plant.

If you were the guy who invested quite wisely, I don't know, a decade ago or longer, uh, in in nuclear power and it turns out it's working out.

Yeah, you do a strategic pivot because now you have a real genuine path to just making everybody richer and safer at the same time that you can, you know, monitor climate change, see if you need to do anything there.

I I do think that there's no way that Bill Gates is unaffected by the fact that sea level has not risen.

Are you with me on that?

You you can imagine some characters like Greta um blowing it off if after 20 years of saying the the water will rise if it hasn't risen at all.

You could you could imagine the people were just non-scientific, you know, just protester types saying, "Oh, it'll happen.

It's gonna happen any moment now." But Bill Gates is sort of the ultimate rational guy.

He's closer to being a robot than a human, as some of our best billionaires are.

Uh there's no way he's going to ignore 20 years of things not going the way the models say they will.

Not forever.

At some point, it's just overwhelming.

I think we reached the overwhelming part where you just had to back down and say, "All right, let's fix these gigantic problems that we know how to fix.

Let's get our economy and our technology as sharp as possible." And that's our best bet against climate change if it's a problem.

Uh, I add the if, he doesn't add the if.

So, that's our that's our tiny little difference.

All right.

So you give me do you give me any credit for that?

I doubt that Bill Gates has heard anything I've said on the topic directly.

But the way persuasion works is you know you persuade other people and if you do it well they adopt your language because they like the way you said it.

So the thing I can add to a process such as this is I can help people who want to be an advocate to agree with me to give them the kind of language that would be persuasive to other people.

So I've been trying to do this for 10 years.

All right?

You've watched it.

Many of you have been with me the entire time.

And uh it could be a total coincidence that it that climate change and nuclear power both ended up exactly where I was trying to put them.

Exactly where I was trying to put them.

That might be a coincidence.

Might not be.

No way to know.

Anyway, Charlie Sheen was on Bill Maher's uh show.

What's that one called?

Not his regular show.

his uh club uh club random and Charlie Sheen had what uh Bill Maher considered an amazingly good idea which uh is also amazingly compatible with one of my good ideas and amazingly compat I think you've heard Greg Guffeld say the same thing but if it comes from Charlie Sheen and the way he said it was especially good let me just tell you what it is why why am I why am I giving you this big windup let me just tell you what he said.

So, Bill Maher was pointing out that most of the crime problem is uh committed by only about 600 people per city.

And then she so if you're able to build statistics from that, you clearly know who the f they are, meaning the criminals.

So why not just take those 600 people and build a special place for them?

Call it the 600 building.

And Mar liked that.

He goes, "That's good.

That's very good.

And this is why Republicans get elected because Democrats run cities and they don't do that.

Now, how many of you remember me saying that uh at least the homeless and that would include a lot of people who are repeat criminals as well should be given their own place to live just away from us.

U I talked about in California you could almost build it outdoors.

It wouldn't need a you know a ton of heating and cooling.

you you could if they want to live outdoors and the street people certainly do.

Now, here I'm talking about the so-called homeless more than the so-called repeat criminals.

But you've heard the idea of not treating the people who are in a special situation, repeat criminals or street people.

Their situation is not like anybody else's.

So maybe you need a place that's not like the way we treat everything else.

Maybe jail is where a normal person who made a mistake or two ends up.

But maybe the lifetime repeat criminals don't go to jail.

Maybe they've got this 600 building.

Maybe they've got a campsite, but you just don't come back.

You just don't come back.

That's the important part.

So yes, Charlie Sheen, your idea is excellent.

Um there probably variety of ways to do it.

Uh Byron York is reminding us how John Brennan lied to Congress.

You know, the thing I worry about this is that whole uh Russia gate hoax thing.

As it ages, Democrats will forget it ever happened.

And indeed, I wonder how many of them could tell you that this was a real story.

I feel like it's none.

So, I'm going to read you what Byron New York summarized about John Brennan lying to Congress, and I want you to to decide how many of your Democrat friends would know this.

This is so so important.

If you didn't know this, almost nothing would make sense about what Trump is doing for, you know, to get his enemies or nothing would make sense.

you you and and also your uh let's say the credibility that you put in our election systems would be totally influenced by whether or not people knew that this happened which has nothing to do with the election per se.

You know, it's in that domain.

But if you realize how crooked the people at the top were during the time that elections were being held, it's really hard to imagine that this was the only bad thing they did.

So, uh, here's New York on X.

He goes, "How John Brennan lied to Congress." Um, here's the bottom line.

when Republicans have believed for a long time, which Republicans have believed for a long time in the politically supercharged atmosphere of late 2016 and early 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier, that's the Steel Dossier, was BS.

All right?

So 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS.

That fact may be known to zero Democrats and it's the most one of the most important facts in the history of the United States.

I'll bet they don't know it.

Uh going on.

Uh, so even though they knew the dosia was BS, they knew they had no business including it in their assessment of Russia's 2016 activities, but they included it anyway because it told them what they wanted to hear, that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia.

He did not collude with Russia.

Then under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it.

So, it's bad enough that they did it, but the part that can really land you in jail is the lying about it to Congress.

If you if you gave a a serious survey to Democrats, how many would know that this happened?

How many would know that in 2017 that at the very top, Obama, Brennan, they all knew that the steel dossier was but they knew it could take on a president?

maybe uh and and change the government of the United States.

That's a coup, right?

That's a coup.

But they've been taught that January 6 was a a coup and that Republicans try to take over countries by bringing no weapons and marching around in one building for an afternoon.

And that's how they overthrow a country.

Not that they did what they said they were doing, which was we're trying to make sure this election wasn't rigged.

Can you give us a day?

You know, just give us a little time to make sure this wasn't rigged.

That's what actually happened.

Uh anyway, so I worry that's being forgotten.

I had a little back and forth with Jessica Tarov.

You know her from the five on Fox.

Um and she said about the question of opening up the government on X she said don't Republicans control the House, Senate and White House asking for a friend.

Now you've heard the the Democrats say this, right?

You've heard them say it's the Republicans who run everything.

You know, they've got the House, the Supreme Court, they've got the Senate, they've got the presidency.

So if the government is closed, it clearly clearly must be the people who are in charge.

So uh I replied to Jessica on X and I said, "You're failing the touring test, Jessica.

A human would remember 60 votes are needed." So the Democrats who are underinformed on this topic apparently, not the people at top, Jessica knows exactly the situation.

She understands it perfectly, but she's she's trying to use the Republicans are in charge as sort of, I'll say, a narrative.

So I said, "You're failing the touring test, Jessica Hume would remember that 60 votes are needed." The Republicans have 52, I think.

So they would absolutely need Democrats to reopen the government because all the all the Republicans were saying yes, except one.

So then Jessica replied and she said, "Indeed, exclamation mark, I know full well," which is what I told you.

Of course she knows.

She understands the government.

She's not confused.

She knows the news.

She goes, "I know full well," which is true.

But like when, now listen to this, but like when Democrats are in power, it's on them to compromise to get the votes they need.

Johnson doesn't seem to get that.

You know why Johnson doesn't get that?

Because that's not a thing.

That's not a thing.

Where's Where's the logical connection between Democrats are not in power and therefore the people who are in power should compromise to the people who are not in power?

Where where is that written?

What if the compromise is what if the most reasonable compromise is let's just pay people till we work it out because it's only it's only weeks.

That would be the reasonable thing.

So here's what I think.

I think uh Jessica being unusually smart and wellinformed, she knows that her argument is not like a real argument.

It's more of a narrative, you know, more of a my team kind of thing.

But no, there's no requirement that the Republicans, it's not in the Constitution, it's not my expectations.

Aren't they both just supposed to uh play for the the benefit of the public?

Where's Where's the part where they're going to do what's good for the public?

Yeah, maybe they have an obligation to do that, to do what's good for the public, you know, like paying people.

Um, however, uh, I appreciate, uh, Jessica's back and forth, and I I'll say I'll say again, I think she's the best that the five has had in the Democrat chair.

You know, the five always has one one prominent Democrat and they they they take them around sometimes.

Harold Ford Jr.

Harold Ford Jr.

is great, but I think Jessica brings a little more fire.

she she has a better understanding of the a better understanding of how the um let's say the interplay should work for entertainment purposes.

I think Harold Ford Jr.

is one of the greatest character role models you'll ever see.

Just seems like a great guy.

But he he likes to decrease the tension whereas it's a TV show where you know a little bit of tension a little bit of tension would be fun.

So, uh, I think Jessica has the best understanding of of the TV show as well as the government.

Um, Rick Scott was recently interviewed on 60 minutes and he was asked if we're getting ready to invade Venezuela.

He said he'd be surprised if we invaded Venezuela, which is an interesting political.

I think I use that answer from now on.

Well, I'd be surprised.

Does that really tell you that he knows what's going to happen and it's not going to happen?

It does not.

But he wouldn't know.

I mean, in theory, he shouldn't know.

It would only be that, you know, probably the only person who would know would be Trump and maybe Hegathth if they'd made that determination.

Um, maybe a general, but he'd be surprised if we invaded Venezuela.

I think I would be surprised, too.

if it was some kind of a general military invasion.

I don't think that's going to happen to you.

But the CIA has been approved for covert activities.

And the other thing that Rick Scott said, which makes me think he's talked to the boss before he did it, Trump being the boss, um he said, quote, "If I was Maduro, I'd head to Russia or China right now." Rick Scott said his days are numbered.

So it could be that uh that our government wants Rick Scott and people like him to say, you know, smart move is to leave and then you don't need to do an invasion.

So the smart move is to get him out of the country and stall your preferred puppet who wants Trump to get the the Nobel Peace Prize.

Um, and then Rick Scott pointed out, I think it was him that pointed out that that would also be the end of Cuba because Cuba is being propped up by cheap or subsidized Venezuelan oil.

So, would that give us, the United States, anything we want out of Cuba, or would that be bad for us?

I feel like it might stimulate a uh massive wave of illegal immigration from Cuba, right?

So we might have a we might have a Cuba risk if we go hard on Venezuela.

It looks like we're going to go hard on them.

So I wouldn't be surprised if some regime change chicannery going on in Venezuela right now.

Uh but I do worry about the Cuba effect.

Let's check in with another anti-Trumper.

So remember the premier, the Canadian premier Doug Ford.

He was the one who created that Ronald Reagan anti-tariff um advertisement that uh got Trump so mad that he canled trade trade negotiations with Canada over the over an ad.

Uh but here's what Doug Ford says about his gigantic mistake, which is what I call it.

quote, "My intention was to make sure the American people were informed and have a conversation, and it really started a conversation." Okay, here's a little tip for you.

The biggest red flag for incompetence is saying that what you're shooting for is a conversation.

If anybody ever tells you, "Well, I did this so we could have a conversation about this or that," they don't have a plan.

They they don't have a suggestion.

They don't have anything.

They have nothing.

All they're doing is getting attention and saying, "Well, we ought to have a conversation." Do you think we didn't want to have a conversation about tariffs?

Do you think we weren't having a conversation about tariffs?

Did you think having a conversation about them would solve anything?

So he he replaced a negotiation which would be a path to a solution solution with a conversation.

Conversations don't do anything.

It it literally is a a weak.

It's just a weak word.

Like if the best you can do is put a weak word on it and then run an ad that canceled all trade negotiations.

This guy's the biggest clown in Canada.

Canada is sitting up there bleeding tariffs because this idiot thought that he wanted to create a conversation about Reagan.

Now, I get that you love your Reagan.

Some of you do.

But how is he relevant?

How is he even a little bit relevant?

Not at all.

It's not a conversation we need.

Not a conversation that'll help.

No, you're you're dope.

And that's the bottom line.

All right, I think we've done what we wanted to do today.

If you joined late, I'll give you my personal update that uh I have been as of last night approved for the Plu Victto cancer drug that's new and uh it's not a cure.

Um but for a lot of people it gives them some some degree of relief.

I hope I'm one of them.

I will let you know how that goes.

I've got MRIs coming and radiation coming and treatment coming and I'm falling apart pretty fast.

But we do have a narrow path off of Prisoner Island and I will be I'll be balancing on that narrow path for a few weeks and I'll let you know how it goes.

At the moment, um I've almost lost full control of my left hand.

It's maybe 10% strength.

Uh, which is the hand I've been drawing with for the last several months because my right hand's already burned out.

Uh, so if I lose my ability to draw, which might happen in the next could happen in days actually, uh, because the numbness is increasing.

But we'll try to take a take a bite out of that too.

We'll see how long I last.

At the moment, I can draw better than I've ever drawn because my my fingers that hold the stylus are still good, but they're weak.

And weak fingers are really good for drawing.

They're not good for anything else, but for drawing, it gives you actually extra control.

It's the damnest thing.

So, last night I was doing a uh man cave where I got a new device that can put my phone camera over the art so people can watch my hands as I'm drawing and it works really well.

So, it's I'll probably do it again.

All right, I'm going to talk uh privately just for a minute to the beloved local subscribers.

The rest of you, thanks for coming.

I hope I added some value to you today.

I tried more than just a conversation.

We Oh, no.

Not working.

So, today my update button is nonfunctional.

So, I can't go private like I wanted to.

So, sorry locals.

I'll catch up with you.

What's tonight?

Tuesday.

Yeah, I'll catch up with you in the man cave tonight and we'll we'll talk then.

But for now, I guess I'm done.

So, thanks for joining me everybody.

I might have to close the app and open it and reclose it some.

We'll see.

Yeah, I've got to close the app and reopen it.

Morning.

How are all you doing? Come on in. It's

time.

It's time.

Well, let me adjust this cuz you can

look at a comic behind me.

Sort of look at it.

I just like to have it on the screen.

All right. I know why you're here.

Same reason I'm here. Your stocks are

up. How about that?

Moving a little bit slowly today.

Body's falling apart pretty quickly.

But we got good news today. I'll tell

you in a minute.

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book, Reframe Your Brain.

How many of you have already had some

kind of a good feeling or success from

just the reframes I read before I start

the show?

I want to see how many of you have

gotten some kind of an immediate

benefit.

Watch in the comments. How many people

got an immediate benefit from at least

one of these reframes?

All right, I'll pick another.

Um,

where did I leave off? There we go.

Have you ever heard uh people say you

should measure twice and cut once?

Carpenters say that. Look at all the

yeses. Uh, carpenters say you should

measure something once and cut twice.

Did you know that if you're talking

about things like software, it should be

the reverse? You should just try things

[laughter]

because if you're doing software and you

just try something, it doesn't really

hurt too much. It's not like cutting a a

board and then you need a new board. So,

in the modern world, the reframe is

reversed.

It made sense for most of human history.

It made sense to measure twice

before you use up your limited resource

of one one piece of lumber before you

cut it. But now you should just try a

lot of things. And if it doesn't kill

you, try another thing. And if that

doesn't kill you, try another thing.

Even if none of those things work,

you'll be building your probably

building a talent stack that makes it

more likely the next thing will work.

So, if you see it as a cascade of

probability,

the more things you fail at, the closer

you are to success.

And that's your reframe for the day. I

wonder if there's any science that

didn't need to be done because they

could have just asked Scott. Oh, here we

go. from the American Psychological

Association. They did a study and found

out that self-affirmations,

basically just talking to yourself and

saying that you're a good person,

uh, is good for you. [laughter]

It [snorts] increases people's general

well-being. All right. Now, seriously,

was there anybody who didn't know that

it it's the entire basis for all

self-help

everywhere all the time and always has

been that if you don't say good things

about yourself,

you will program yourself not to be that

good person. Your brain is completely

malleable. If you tell your brain you're

a good person who can do good things, it

will just sort of become that. Now,

there's, you know, obviously everybody

has a limit. We can't all play in the

NBA. We can't We're not all rocket

scientists. But if you want to figure

out what your limit is, you probably

don't know until you program your brain.

That's what reframe your brain is all

about. It's how to program your b your

brain.

And yes, the simplest and yet most

important part of reprogramming your

brain is self-affirmations.

I can do this. I can figure it out. I'll

survive. all win. I always win. That

That's why I always tell you about my

prisoner island story. So, there's a

story in my head. Most of you have heard

this before from me, that uh who I am is

a survivor, which is kind of handy to

have at the moment. Uh, and no matter

how many times you drop me off on

prisoner island, the place where only

the prisoners are, so they they're

killing each other. If you come back in

5 years, I'm going to own Prisoner

Island. It'll be tough,

but if you come back in 5 years, I'm

going to be in charge of Prisoner

Island. So, that's the story I tell

myself. Doesn't need to be true.

Doesn't need to be true. Speaking of

Fresner Island, most of you know that I

have a terminal cancer diagnosis,

prostate cancer, which has metastasized

to all over my body. So, I'm riddled

with tumors at the moment. What I was

hoping for for my possible, but only

possible,

escape from this particular prisoner

island, you know, the death sentence,

the death sentence of certain death

through cancer.

Uh my hope was that I would someday be

approved for this brand new drug. It's

only a few months approved in the US

called Plu Victto, but you have to go

through a process with your healthcare

provider to make sure that you're

qualified, you have the right kind of

cancer. They do a test to see that the

that the radioactive stuff will stick to

your tumors, which they did with me. And

as of last night,

I'm approved for PLU Victo.

So, we still have to schedule it. If

it's scheduled too far out, I'll be dead

anyway. But

Prisoner Island just turned from an

absolute guaranteed death sentence to

maybe.

Maybe.

And it's only a maybe in the sense that

it's definitely not a cure. Right? Just

to be clear, this is not meant to be a

cure. They don't sell it as a cure. The

people who make it are not claiming it

cures anything. All it can do is knock

back the tumors. So that your your sense

of the the thing would be less. Now, if

it knocks it back enough,

and let's say I got lucky and bought a

few years, then we would be solidly in a

domain of probably

dozens of new [clears throat] AI

generated potential cures,

going from treatments to cures. So, I

feel like my prisoner island escape path

is just to stay alive long enough that

the almost certain better stuff that's

coming down the road gets to me before I

got get before I got got. You know what

I mean? So, that's tying it all together

for you folks.

So, we'll see if that becomes good news.

I'm I'm failing pretty fast. Uh, I won't

give you all the details, but my body's

really falling apart fast. So, I don't

know if it'll be in time, and I don't

know what functions I can recover. You I

can just barely use my left hand now.

May or may not be because of a tumor.

Don't know yet. Um,

Graedia was launched. I think it was a

little bumpy launch. They may have had

to take it down and put it back up a few

times. But uh Graipedia will be Elon

Musk's competition to Wikipedia.

Ideally, it will be less biased. Um I

checked out my page. I didn't have time

to read it all, but wow, it's long. So,

uh I would the two things I know for

sure is that it also includes a major

mistake about my opinions of the

pandemic.

Uh because it can't recognize a hoax on

its own. It would have to be told by

somebody else when I'm joking and when

I'm not. So you miss that. But it's not

the worst mistake in the world because

it simply took a joke as a serious. Uh

and I didn't tell people it was a joke

at the time. So that's a little bit on

me. Um

but uh it looked like a giant step

forward.

So, even with some tweaks, I'd like to

make to it. So, I was suggesting before

the show started, I was talking to my

pre-show audience, and uh what I'd like

to see on Wikipedia and on Graipedia is

a place where the person who's being

talked about on the page can do a uh

rebuttal. Just a quick one. Doesn't have

to be long, but I would love to be able

to say, "Oh, everything looks right

except for this one thing. They they got

that backwards." Wouldn't you appreciate

that if you were the reader of the page?

Wouldn't that be useful to you? Not to

know who's right because I could be

lying. But you need to know what my what

my defense is. You know, if somebody

blames me for something, don't you need

to know my side? Of course you do. And

you need to know it in my words because

if Grock tries to defend me, maybe it

does a good job, maybe it doesn't know

all the facts. I'm the only one who can

do that. So, I'd love to see that

upgrade little box for the affected

person. If you haven't seen it yet, I

did a podcast yesterday with Paul

Leslie. So, just if you're on X,

probably on YouTube, too, search for the

Paul Leslie Hour if you want to see me

talking to Paul. He asked really good

questions, so it's not the usual boring

stuff. He uh he made me go pretty deep.

That might be my last podcast

as a guest. Not not as a host. Um,

there might be a lot of things that will

be my last coming up, but I don't know

that I'll ever do another podcast as a

guest. You'll see plenty of me because

I'll still be here every day as long as

I can.

Well, also Elon Musk who's like likes to

make news. uh you could take a

self-driving Tesla to San Jose airport.

Now, now I didn't see where where the

pickup places are. Probably just right

around San Francisco where they've been

practicing with the self-driving cars.

And I don't know why you'd necessarily

want to go from San Francisco to San

Jose instead of flying out of San

Francisco, but that probably indicates

there's a bigger pickup area that I'm

aware of.

Let me tell you, San Jose airport is a

good one. So, number one, you need to

know that's a good airport. People like

using that one. It's convenient. But if

you add a self-driving Tesla to the

airport that's already a good airport,

that's a pretty good package cuz just

getting to the airport is such a pain in

the ass. Uh I think I would trust the

self-driving car before I'd trust myself

not to take a wrong turn at traffic.

Also more Elon Musk news. Neuralink

um they've got their first patient in

the UK, somebody named Paul who

according to Doge designers talking

about this X, he got a brain implant and

then just hours after surgery, this is

the impressive part. Only hours after

surgery, he was able to control a

computer with his thoughts and he's now

using them to play games and regain

independence.

Holy

So impressive. [laughter] That's just so

so impressive.

Good luck, Paul.

And uh here's more Elon Musk tech news.

He said uh what I like about this is not

only that they fixed this bug, but they

he he's saying publicly we have a

significant bug in the X for you

algorithm. He said that that bug has

resulted in users seeing far fewer posts

from people they follow. Thank you. I

thought I was going crazy.

Didn't you? If you're on X, didn't you

think, is it me? Like, why am I now

seeing the the people I would most want

to see? I'm seeing all these random

people. Um, but it turns out there's a

significant bug. Now, I trust Elon to

say that it's a bug and not not some

intentional thing that some employee

tried to do. I feel like I feel like if

somebody had intentionally done it that

he would have said, "Yeah, we already

fired that person. It's going to get

fixed because he's pretty transparent

about that." But if he doesn't say

there's anybody to be fired and does it

wasn't intentional, it's just a bug.

That was one of the biggest bugs of all

time [laughter] in the history of bugs.

That's just one of the biggest ones I've

ever seen. And it persisted for a long

time. So, so he said it should be fixed

by tomorrow. He said that yesterday. And

then uh did you see any difference in

your X feed for those of you on X? I

did. I suddenly started getting all

kinds of porn. Did anybody did anybody

get porn in their feed as soon as he

fixed the bug?

Now, I always make sure that I don't

look for porn in X. Like, even if it's

newsworthy or something, I still won't

look for it because I I don't want to

train the algorithm to feed me porn,

you know, that it just thinks I want

because I look maybe I looked at some

news story about somebody being naughty,

but it fed me some straight up x-rated

porn. So, I blocked it and I haven't

seen it yet. So, I think the blocking

teaches it not to give you more. That's

what I hope. Anyway, did you see the uh

you probably saw a video of the events

where uh New York mayor candidate Mam

Donnie was with AOC and with um Sanders

and they gave a rousing big uh big

rally, very successful. And then when

they were done, all three of them got

off stage and gave Nazi salutes. Did you

see that? All three of them gave Nazi

salutes.

What? Oh. Oh, you're saying they weren't

Nazi salutes? Oh, really? I'm looking at

the comments and I I'm shocked. Are you

telling me that that adult public

figures can raise their arms in the air

in recognition of the audience?

That that's not a Nazi salute.

What?

What?

So Ted Cruz commented on one of the

photos of them with their arms raised.

Says, "Are those Nazi salutes?" I think

he got 33 million views on that. Are

those not Nazi salutes? And then Elon

Musk, of course, had to weigh in. He

goes, "Sure looks like it." Now,

obviously Elon is just poking fun cuz it

doesn't look like it. He was just

accused of a Nazi salute cuz he raised

his arm once in a crowd. But to watch

them do exactly the same thing that we

How many news cycles did we have to go

through where Democrats were pretending

that was a real thing that happened in

the real world, pretending that uh that

Musk had actually literally done a Nazi

sloop

of days and days and days and weeks of

listening to that And then as

soon as these cats get on stage, they're

like, "Oh, I'm not even going to raise

my arm because I know what happened."

According to the Guardian,

Nick Robins early. Are you kidding me?

There's somebody whose name was Robins

who must have married somebody whose

last name was Early.

Aren't Robins your sign of early things?

cuz the robin comes in the spring

and and the actual last name is now

hyphenated Robins Early. Come on, that

can't be real. Anyway, Robins Early says

in the Guardian that more than a million

people every week show suicidal intent

when chatting with J Chat BT chat GPT. 1

million people every week

show suicidal intent. Now, the real

question is, can you really determine

intent?

Because I'm pretty sure I would be

counted as one of the million and you

know, I don't have any immediate plans.

I have, you know, when I thought the

cancer was going to get me in June,

but I got a little reprieve there. Um,

that actually seems low to me. I I would

actually expect that number to be larger

if people thought that they were not

being monitored.

Wouldn't they at least

sort of wrestle with the concept a

little bit with the AI just to see what

it said? I don't know. I don't know. I

don't think the chat GPT is causing

that. I think that's just a place people

feel safe with ideas. They wouldn't feel

safe talking to people. All right, let's

talk about some other uh

Democrats. see how the Democrats are

doing. We'll check in with this author

Stephen King. How's he doing?

Well, he posted yesterday, the day

before, I forget. He says, uh, Trump

says he won't invite either team playing

in the World Series to the White House.

He can't rise above this petty political

concerns even for the great American

game. If anything, it shows what a louse

he is. That's it. What a lous he is.

Did he travel back to the 40s to make

this post?

You dirty louse. I got you. You dirty

rat. You louse. Anyway, he got community

noted because nothing like that happened

in the real world. Trump never said

anything about inviting or not inviting

any any World Series people. And

community note says, "The claim stems

from a fabricated screenshot. Fact

checks on the White House confirms no

such Trump post exists. The image came

from a satire account and never appeared

on his platform.

Um so it's a completely imaginary

problem uh which I have taken the

initiative as you know I do. I like

taking initiative. I took the initiative

to refer this matter to the department

of imaginary concerns uh which handles

all of the Democrat problems because

they're all imaginary concerns.

But uh Stephen King to his credit when

fact checked he realized that he had

spread some and uh he went on

and said it was and said there

was his mistake. So he took he took

responsibility for it. [sighs and gasps]

Uh I'll give him that. Meanwhile, over

on MSNBC, that's soon going to be MSN

Now, Lawrence O'Donnell tried to dunk on

Scott Jennings, uh, for being what he

said. CNN eagerly pays a Trump

supporter, Scott Jennings, to lie every

day and night for Donald Trump. So MSNBC

is now going after CNN as a an enemy

because CNN's not as right leaning crazy

as they used to be. They actually have

somebody on there that will do a very

good job of spreading the Trumpish point

of view.

But he claimed and I wondered about

this. Lawrence O'Donnell claimed that

his show at the same time slot as where

Jennings appears on uh on Phillips. Uh

he says he has triple the audience. Do

you think that's true? has triple the

audience because that that would not be

a good look for CNN if if MSNBC has

triple the audience for their what I

think is their weakest their weakest

host Lawrence O'Donnell. But maybe he

brings some people in. Maybe they like

hearing him say bad stuff about Trump.

Um,

anyway, it's just amazing that if CNN

adds some balance to the reporting that

that's a whole that's a whole segment on

MSNBC about how they shouldn't be adding

any balance to their reporting.

So, good job there, Lawrence O'Donnell.

[snorts]

Meanwhile, you all know about Prop 50 in

California. It's a proposition that

would, if passed next week, would allow

California to do some extra extra extra

partisan uh uh redistricting.

And that would give them maybe one more

one more representative in Congress if

they do it right. That's the plan

anyway. However, according to people who

understand constitutions and laws and

stuff like that, which seems relevant to

this topic,

um

there probably it probably won't survive

a court challenge, at least Supreme

Court, because uh it's explicitly uses

race as the dominant factor in deciding

where to redraw the redraw the lines.

And I thought to myself, wait a minute.

I'm no constitutional scholar,

but if you ask me on a, you know,

multiplechoice test, will the Supreme

Court be in favor of racial

discrimination or opposed to it? I think

I would say they'd be opposed to it, at

least by a conservative majority. So, I

don't feel like this is going to make

it. That argument seems

like a slam dunk, doesn't it? As soon as

the conservative majority Supreme Court

hears, "Uh, wait, how did you draw these

new lines?" Well, we drew it so we could

get more black representation.

What? [laughter]

That is exactly what's illegal. Exactly.

That that that's exactly what's illegal.

So, I don't know. We'll see.

But not to be outdone, Indiana governor,

uh, Republican, according to Newsmax,

he wants to do some redistricting, too.

[snorts]

Um, we'll see if that happens.

And, uh, I did a post yesterday that I

got so much push back, but it's because

you people didn't read my post

carefully. So, let let me do a

correction. It's a correction in the

sense that I should have been, you know,

extra extra clear about something I was

clear about. I mean, I wrote it very

clearly, but sometimes you just have to

hit a point more than once because, you

know, it's not going to say again. So,

that's on me. So, yesterday I saw uh

what was a PR photo of Mom Donnie and I

noted that his eyes and his smile are

compatible. Now, if you know the the

science of uh spotting liars, which I

spend a lot of time kind of studying

because sort of a hobby. Um not the

lying, the studying of the lying. Lying

is not my hobby. Uh

one of the biggest tells is if

somebody's smiling, but their eyes are

not joining in on the smile. You you've

heard that one before, right? Is that

something you're familiar with? That's

how you tell somebody's a a psycho or a

has mental problems or they're lying to

you. It's like

so his eyes

match his smile. And so I did a post

where I said, you know, I wasn't I

wasn't supporting him as a candidate. I

was just saying that it's just a fact

that part of his success

may may lie directly with the fact that

his eyes and his mouth match, which

gives you the sense of credibility and

honesty. Now, where did I go wrong

there? Everybody said, "But Scott, don't

you know that it's um

that it's been photoshopped?"

To which I said, "Yeah, but I've seen

his videos. I mean, I've seen him live

lots of times and his eyes also match

his smile most of the time. Then people

would send me one photo where he wasn't

smiling. Okay, that's not really a

debate. And then people would say, "But

Scott, he's uh he's Muslim, so he's

doing this, how do you pronounce it?

Takia thing." Every time there's a

Muslim in the news, some some Republican

will tell me, "But Scott, they have a

they have a whole belief system around

lying to people who are not Islamic."

You know, he has a name. Taka, is that

what it's called? I think I'm

pronouncing it wrong, but it's something

in that category. Um, to which I say,

"Okay, where's the part where I said

he's telling the truth?"

That's where I went wrong.

So, I was trying to carefully say he

looks credible,

which would be a distinction between

looking and being honest and all that. I

don't know if he's honest.

I can't read his mind. So, I'm not

really dealing in the domain of whether

he's lying or not lying. But that's that

was my mistake because people thought

that's what I was doing. No, I was

saying he looks he's got the look which

could propel him through politics. But

then I thought it would be extra helpful

to tell you about people who don't have

that look. So they're they're fighting

against it. Taka t a q i y y y y y y y y

y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y

y y y y y y y y y y y y y a. Is that is

that the that's the right word? Anyway,

think about uh Hakee Jeff.

Hakeim Jeff has a creepy smile and sadly

there's nothing he can do about it, but

he was just born with creepy eyes.

So that doesn't really work for

politics. Like he can never be president

with those eyes unfortunately uh for

him. Uh think about Chuck Schumer.

Think about who's smiling and it seems

like he's got a weasel smile that

doesn't match his eyes, right?

So you you can but then think of um

Scott Basent

Treasury Secretary his smile and his

eyes match.

So he one of the reasons that he has

credibility is you know his great

experience he's done a great job so far

obviously but he also has a look just

his face

his smile which he smiles often matches

his eyes which are smiley. How about uh

Marco Rubio? Same. He when when he's in

a jocular mood, which is not always. I

mean, he has a serious job, so lots of

times he has to act serious. But when

he's just joking around, do his eyes

match his smile? Yeah, they do. Yeah.

Yep. Rubio's face totally works. How

about uh Vance,

JD Vance?

He is a little more complicated because

he has a little bit more of a theatrical

control over his facial muscles, meaning

that he can he can change his face to

fit whatever situation he's talking

about. So, he's got more of a range.

Um, so he's he's sort of in a different

category because he can really manage

the whole facial thing better than other

people. But Trump has the ultimate

facial game.

Have you noticed that? I give you as my

argument his uh his uh what's the photo

when they book you for a crime? His uh

mugsh shot. You remember his mug shot?

Now the the face he gave on the mugsh

shot was obviously intentional and

obviously world class.

You've seen him also, you know, smiling

at things and you know, you've seen him

grimacing at the press. So Trump

actually, I don't know if you know this,

but a million years ago when he was a

young man, he actually was serious about

becoming a thespian, an actor.

And he does have those skills. He just

he just brought them to politics after

he was done with TV. And uh watching him

manage his face

is a whole other level of persuasion

goodness that you can learn by watching

him.

This brings me to the following.

Um, we're going to talk about Trump in

Japan. He He had a little face

management problem there. He looks tired

to me. Does he look tired to you? I

mean, he should be. He's international

trip with a million points of energy he

needs. So, he should be tired. But, uh,

I saw him smiling for the camera and he

had the the fakest camera smile you've

ever seen. His eyes were not into it.

But I believe it's because he's actually

not happy.

The way he's even the way he's walking

seems a little bit a little bit slower

than normal. Have you noticed that?

Seems a little bit more bent over. And

there's there's some uh there's some

talk that he got an MRI

but didn't need one.

When do you get an MRI when you don't

need one?

So there might be some minor medical

thing he's battling that he's trying to

keep from the public, which should be

fine. I mean, if it's minor, if it's

minor,

it would be on brand, totally on brand,

for him to be in continuous pain and

still do the full job. That would be so

Republican. [snorts]

I I try to model that myself as best I

can.

Yeah. All right. We'll see. In other uh

surprising news, the I guess it's the

biggest union in the country, the

American Federation of Government

Employees Union is demanding that

Democrats end the government shut down.

So that's amazing. So, the fact that

it's the biggest union in the country

and unions are almost always

pro-democrat,

uh, this is big news because the

Federation of Government Employees, the

biggest one,

uh, is basically blaming the Democrats

for keeping the government closed.

That's uh

that would also signal something like

the total collapse of the Democrat

party, which I've been talking about for

a while now.

uh if you lose a I mean and would this

be the beginning of any other

any other unions flipping and they're

not flipping to Republican. They're

they're just flipping on this specific

issue. I don't know. Might be the

beginning of something. We'll see.

Meanwhile, Speaker Johnson who says that

the GOP is working on a Republican

health care plan. So they'll they'll

have that health care plan already to

propose should the government reopen.

Emily Brooks of the Hill is writing

about this. Do you believe that? Do you

believe that there's a credible or even

might be a credible Republican plan for

healthcare?

Nope. [laughter]

No, Speaker Johnson, I do not believe

anything you said about that. I do

believe it's important to say you're

working on it. And I I do believe they

probably had a meeting or two, maybe

more than that. But if you want me to be

serious that Republicans are working on

a health care plan, that's a Republican

plan, there's only one thing I need to

say. Who's on that team? Because if

they're doing a health care plan with

the usual bunch of idiots, you know,

just your normal elected people who are

willing to do it, that's not going to

get it done. We We don't have people in

Congress who are smart enough to do that

kind of work. Not even [clears throat]

close. The only way I would believe that

there was a quote Republican healthc

care plan is if I saw that a team had

been appointed by Trump and they were

sufficiently MAGA and they were

sufficiently outsiders

and they were sufficiently and here's

the important part brilliant.

Not even just regular smart because

healthc care is not a normal problem.

This is not a normal problem. This is

one of the biggest problems anybody's

ever had anywhere at any time. The

complexity of it alone is overwhelming.

It's like I don't even know if Doge

could have figured it out with all their

big balls and geniuses. This is the big

big big problem. So, if you tell me,

"Oh, I got these these three uh senators

working on it who you never heard of."

No, that's not a plan. Nope. You started

with the wrong people. That goes

nowhere.

Let me tell you what it would look like

if it were real. It would look like

Trump announcing, "All right, I'm going

to put together this team and uh we're

going to have uh I'm going to throw out

some names of smart people. Not

necessarily that they should be on this

team, but just to make my point. So if

he came up and said, we've asked, you

know, David Saxs, Mark Cuban, who's not

Republican, not Republican, but he knows

a lot about healthcare and drugs

specifically, Mark Cuban and RFK Jr. to,

you know, be the triumvirate and then

they can also in turn, you know, get

people to work for them, but they'll be

the three.

If if if Trump came out and said these

three guys, and we could add women, you

know, so we're not a sexist. Yeah, these

three guys will be in charge of figuring

out how to figure it out. They don't

even have to be the ones to figure it

out. They have to be in charge of

figuring out how to figure it out. Could

those three people do that? Do you think

if David Saxs, sorry, Saxs, I'm I'm just

throwing your name around because you're

smart, not because this is the right

thing for you to be doing, but uh if

Saxs, Mark Cuban, and RFK Jr. sat in a

room and said, "All right, it's all on

us. It's it's on us, but we have

unlimited support from the president and

they will take us seriously even if we

suggest something that takes some pain."

That's what I would call a healthcare

plan.

even before the plan. If you at least

have a plan to get your best people to

figure out how to figure it out, that's

a lot because we've never done that

before, right?

Never done that before. And the reason I

throw into the mix a Mark Cuban and an

RFK Jr. specifically is that they're not

they're not identified as mega

absolutists.

So, the Democrats don't need to disagree

with them automatically. They might, but

they don't need to, you know, the way

they would need to if it was just

standard MAGA people.

So, I throw those names out as

um as patriots

who are above the bar of smart enough to

figure out how to figure out. Again, not

to figure out, but to figure out how to

figure out.

That's three people who could do it. And

especially working together if they

wanted to. So, I don't mean to uh

put any kind of actual pressure on those

three individuals. They got lots to do

and they're doing it well. Uh but you

get the idea, right? I don't want to

hear Speaker Johnson tell me that three

turtles are coming up with an idea that

we'll never see and will never work.

Just don't even [clears throat] tell me

about it. I don't I don't care. It's not

a real thing.

And the other the problem that the uh

Republicans have with the health care

plan is it's hard to imagine anything

they could come up with that didn't also

reduce access to health care

because they're not the just adding

money to it party. They're the you know

we've got to put some discipline on it

party. So it's almost certainly going to

reduce somebody's healthcare.

How do you sell that to the public?

stuff. [snorts]

Anyway, that's enough on healthcare.

Trump's in Asia winning big, signing

deals. He's got a almost a half a

trillion investment deal with Japan. Um,

and uh he's he's just owning it. And you

have to look at his his Asian trip as a

China encirclement

um play that apparently is working. And

what I mean by encirclement is as he

visits all of our allies that sort of

ring that rings China and he makes deals

with them. The deals he's making are

China's deals. They're the deals we

should have been making with China, but

they're they're not getting it done with

their trade deals. They're not giving us

what we want. So So China has to just

sit there passively uninvited and

watching

while Trump takes away their business,

one deal at a time. mostly the rare

earth mineral stuff. So he signed this

big rare earth mineral thing with Japan,

but it also included a whole bunch of

high-tech investments, the ones you're

used to. Uh, so we got that done and it

looks like he, you know, he's been

treated like a like a star. But one one

of the little vignettes of his trip to

Japan just just really hit me at home.

So when I was a young man, I lived for

about 15 years. uh I was in a

relationship with a Japanese American

woman uh here in America and her

extended family uh all the older

generation they all came from Japan so

it was a very Japanese situation she was

born in America so so she was Japanese

American [snorts] so when they would

have an event let's say somebody's uh I

don't know graduation or marriage or

something they they would often have it

in the the Japanese

temple or church or whatever they call

it. And I would see there would be a

table up front where the aunties, the

ants, they call them the aunties, would

be writing down what gifts people were

giving to whoever was the, you know, the

the purpose of the event. And the reason

that they would write down the gifts is

that most of them were money.

So, if uh let's say your kid was

graduating from high school and somebody

would give you a gift, the auntie would

write down our $50 from this family. And

I asked like like why are they writing

down the gifts [laughter]

to to me as you know uh as generic white

bread white boy I was like what's going

on here? Why do you need to write it

down? And the answer was so that the the

gift giving when it got reversed, people

would know, oh, this family gave us $50.

Their kid is graduating $50. So, it was

just for matching.

But, but the larger part of the story is

that Japanese gift giving is next level.

They are so good at picking like the

right gift. That's what I observed.

Right. This is anecdotal so it's not

based on a survey or anything but

anecdotally living in that world for you

know over a decade the the level of the

giftgiving

so smart so well thought out and then

you look at Japan and the new the new uh

prime minister yeah Japan's new prime

minister a woman uh whose name I didn't

write down.

You You can gro it. Uh she gifted Trump

with the prior prime minister's old

putter cuz they were golfing buddies. It

was his actual putter, not not a

reproduction. The actual putter.

Now, that's like what one of the best

gifts you've ever seen in your life. The

other leaders, they're not matching

that. [laughter] the the other leaders

will like give him a horse or something,

you know, like, "Ah, I don't want a

horse." But that butter, you could

pretty much guarantee that that meant

something to him. So, Japan knows how to

do that.

Stocks are way up. We're getting new

records today. Bitcoin's up. All these

trade deals are looking good, and they

do seem to be uh moving China in the

right direction.

It's always too early to say that

there's going to be a China deal because

they're always, you know, pulling the

rug out last minute, but it looks like

we're getting close. A lot of stuff's

going right.

Um, in other news, just the news is

reporting, I think Wall Street Journal

was reporting on this, that, uh, the

House Oversight Committee

uh is going to refer some of the Biden

auto pen orders where the automatic pen

signed his name instead of Biden. uh

they're going to refer to the Department

of Justice to investigate

because after they did their own

investigation, which is, you know, a non

non courtroom investigation, the House

Oversight Committee decided that Biden

might not have even been aware of some

of the things that he allegedly signed

with the autopan

and that maybe the Department of Justice

should look into this.

I don't think there's any crime

involved.

Do you?

It seems to me what they had was a

really bad system which needs to be, you

know, maybe have better guard rails, but

a crime. I mean, if you have a situation

where all you have to do is say to the

president, are you okay with this list

of things we're going to sign and let's

say he doesn't want to look at it and he

just says, "Yeah, because we have

thousands of pardons. Do you want to

look at them individually?" Nah. No. you

know, just just do what you think is

right. Let me know. Under those

conditions, would you say that the

president approved them? Because all I

care about is did he actually approve

the specific things? And I wouldn't care

too much if he approves some things

generically without knowing the details.

He's the president. If the president

wants to pardon somebody with a terrible

reason,

they have that right. We don't we don't

get to check their reason for a pardon.

It's just the president. So the fact

that I don't like that the president

might not be aware of something he

approved, but maybe he had approved it

in some general way like, "Yeah, you

take care of that. I'll be I'll be okay

with whatever whatever you want to do.

Just consider it approved." If he did

something like that, they might have.

Would that be against the law?

I don't think so. That would be him just

deciding what to sign and what not to

sign, but didn't use his own hand.

So, I don't think there's going to be a

prosecution for that, but it might be

embarrassing for the Democrats. And

maybe that's good enough for the

Republicans.

According to Reuters, Amazon's going to

lay off 14,000 people real soon, like

maybe today, uh, in favor of uh

artificial intelligence.

Now,

here's a little rule that you can learn

the difference between Amazon and uh and

Tesla.

Do you remember this is a real thing, by

the way? You you'll think I'm making

this up if you haven't heard it before,

but this is a real thing. A number of

years ago, um Elon Musk said that one of

their operating principles for Tesla,

way before he was political and way

before I was political, he said that

their one of their operating principles

was, and it's in writing, it's actually

written down, that that the Tesla

employees should not do something that

is likely to be in a Dilbert comic

or something that could easily be put in

a Dilbert comic. Now, is that good

advice? It's really good advice because

weirdly, if you're familiar with the

Dilbert comic, you kind of know what

would be in there, don't you? Like, you

could look at a real world suggestion,

and people do this all the time. They'll

be sitting in a meeting and they'll look

at each other and like, is this going to

be in a Dilbert comic? Because it sounds

exactly like it could be. And that if

you use that as your your guard rail,

could it ever be in a Dilbra comic? that

it'll keep you out of doing the

stupidest things. So Elon Musk says, "If

it might be in a Dilbert comic, don't do

it."

Now, let's compare.

What do you think my Dilbert comics have

been about this month?

Literally this month, because Dilbert

still runs, it's just behind the pay

wall now. Literally this month, my jokes

were about big companies implementing AI

and then having to reverse it because AI

is not nearly where it needs to be to do

anything useful.

I'm literally mocking what what Amazon

is doing while it's doing it. I didn't

know that they were doing it

necessarily. It was just a big company

thing. While I don't think I've heard

Tesla

say that they're firing people to reduce

staff because of AI. Has Musk ever said

that?

Because if you look at that stark

difference, if I had to guess, Amazon is

either totally making it up that the

reason for the the layoffs is AI. If

they if you spend a trillion dollars on

AI, I don't know what Amazon's spending,

but it's, you know, it's going to be in

the hundreds of billions. If you spent

hundreds of billions on AI and kind of

made it like the future of your company,

you'd better kind of get on the board of

firing some people and at least telling

the public,

there's that weird voice again. And at

least telling the public that you're

doing it because AI is so good and you

spent so much on it and it's totally

going to work.

So,

if I were to compare these two

situations, I'm going to have to give

the win to Elon Musk.

According to stock market.news, news.

Also on X, uh there's some speculation

that there's leaked documents showing

that the robotics team actually plans to

automate 75% of operations, which would

replace potentially 600,000 warehouse

workers by 2033

and [snorts] that they're already

allegedly, right? This is all just

alleged. So I don't I don't know much

about the source, anything about the

source. Uh, so don't automatically

assume this is true. This is rumor. So

we're in rumor territory only here. If

it gets debunked tomorrow, don't be

surprised. Um, and that they're Amazon's

drafting PR strategies to brace for the

backlash. You know, one of the things

that people like the most about Amazon

is that although it was causing small

businesses to go out of business, they

were hiring a lot of people for other

jobs. So you could say to yourself,

well, yeah, the small businesses did get

squashed, but that's the way capitalism

works. At least people got jobs.

Different people, different jobs. But if

uh they squash all the small companies

and it's only run by robots,

uh they do have a PR problem they need

to they're going to need to manage.

All right, let's see how some other

Democrats are fairing.

We got uh Nicole Wallace who is on MSNBC

who said uh recently that no one no one

calls Trump Hiller. Now what do you

think happened when Nicole Wallace said

on TV that no one calls Trump Hiller?

Well, the most predictable thing was

that there was immediately a clip

compilation put together [laughter]

because the Magna people are so good at

this now. They're so good at the social

media game. It's It's almost laughably

good at how well they're hours later.

There's eight examples of people saying

it on her show, [laughter]

but there's there is a small nuance that

gives her a cover. What she said

specifically was, "No one calls Trump

Hiller,

but when you listen to all the examples

of people calling him Hiller, they don't

actually use the word." [laughter] So,

she's sort of kind of technically almost

correct, but they say things like, uh,

well, it looks like the the early days

of Germany in the 30s. Well, they mean

that Trump is Hitler, but they didn't

say it. They say things like, oh, the

darkness is gathering and this is the

sort of thing you see when authoritarian

governments uh get together and the next

thing you know there'll be a holocaust.

I'm making this one up, but that's also

not really calling Trump Hiller, just

saying that he would act exactly like

him. So,

here's the pattern I see from the

Democrats on all different topics.

Uh, they start by doing a bad thing. In

this case, the bad thing is referring to

Trump as Hitler in a 100 different ways.

Uh, then they do that bad thing often

and harder.

They just hit it, hit it, hit it, hit

it. Bad thing, bad thing, bad thing.

[snorts] Then when it becomes a

liability because they've gone too far,

they deny that any of it ever happened.

Nothing like that happened. Nobody

called him Hitler. What are you talking

about? What are you crazy? Are you

gaslighting me? And they'll they'll

claim you're gaslighting them because

you have a compilation clip of them

doing the exact thing that they say they

don't do. a compilation clip.

Uh so then they wait for the inevitable

compilation clip and then what do they

do when the compilation clip comes out?

Proving that they had been lying grossly

all the time. Uh then they double down

and call Trump Hitler twice as often

while denying it twice as hard. They

have this whole imaginary

situation that's incredible. Now what

does that do that cause any violence?

Well, let's check in with the

Postmillennial. There's a story about a

uh Turning Point USA student leader,

19-year-old who was attacked uh near UC

Boulder campus for being a leader in

that organization. And he was in fact

stalked uh and attacked with a hockey

stick by a member of a group that

Democrats say doesn't even exist, the

Colorado Antifa group. Huh?

What did I tell you is what Democrats

do? They do something hard and often,

Antifa.

And then when you when they go too far

and it becomes a liability, they say,

"What Antifa? Antifa isn't even an

organization. It doesn't even exist."

And then when the compilation clips come

out, or when they will, [laughter]

compilation clips of people claiming

that they are Antifa, stories about

Antifa attacking people, stories about

Antifa organizing stuff. What will they

do after the compilation clip shows that

of course there's Antifa and they're

doing exactly what the Dem Republicans

said they would do. They will call Trump

Hitler

and they will double down on Antifa not

existing [laughter]

because that's what they do.

Well, importantly, let's check in with

Rosie O'Donnell whose opinion is more

important than all of ours put together.

Um, and she said, "I feel like we're in

a dystopian nightmare and no one is

doing anything about it." He talking

about Trump says he's a criminal con

man. There's no way you can look at the

facts about this man and believe in him.

Okay, here's my suggestion.

It feels to me that one of the things

that social media has led us into doing

is treating politics and bad mental

health as if they are somehow the same

thing.

This is not a political opinion, people.

There's there's no politics in that.

That is just mental health.

So to but we we report it and talk about

it including me uh in the context of

politics. There's no politics in that.

Not at all. That is just somebody

suffering. Uh and and when you look at

the the things that Democrats have that

they can hold over MAGA because Trump's

doing quite a good job at the moment in

my opinion. Uh they have to say these

generic stuff. Listen to the generic

stuff. dystopian nightmare.

Uh, I can use some details. Uh, he's

stealing our democracy.

The oligarchy is running things. He's

drifting in an authoritarian direction.

Do you see what all those have in

common?

You don't need any details. There's

there's no argument there. The these are

almost all signals of bad mental health

by the people who are using these words.

What do people with good mental health

say?

They say things like Mike Johnson is not

telling you the truth about uh some kind

of Republican health care plan. Now,

that's pretty specific, isn't it? You

can tell the difference between somebody

who's talking politics. Yeah. healthcare

plan, you know, who's working on it. We

need to know the names. Those are really

specific details.

So, probably it's not coming from my bad

mental health. But if all I could say

was we're losing democracy to the

authoritarian oligarchs and it's going

to be a dystopian nightmare and it's

Germany 1933.

That's mental health. Know the

difference. All right. I'm going to

claim a victory even if I had nothing to

do with this whatsoever.

Remember I started the podcast telling

you that positive affirmations are good

for your mental health. I'm going to

give myself a positive affirmation.

[laughter]

Not because it's good for you. It's just

good for my health. Do you mind? Do you

do you mind if I give myself a little

good mental health by an affirmation?

Well, I'll tell you the story and then I

want you to see if I can twist this into

something I may have contributed to.

There's no evidence whatsoever that I

contributed to this, but for my mental

health, I might sort of accept that

maybe I had something to do with it. Are

you ready? According to ABC News, Bill

Gates says climate change is still a

serious problem,

but wait for it, but says it's time to

focus on fighting poverty and preventing

disease.

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a

serious problem, but it won't be the end

of civilization.

This is ABC reporting this. He thinks

scientific innovation will curb it

and it's instead time for a strategic

pivot.

Who's that sound like? He thinks

scientific innovation will curb it,

climate change, and it's instead time

for a strategic pivot in the global

climate fight from focusing on limiting

rising temperatures to fighting poverty

and preventing disease.

He says a doomsday outlook has led the

climate community to focus too much on

near-term goals blah blah blah reducing

commission. And uh he says the world's

primary goal should instead be to

prevent suffering particularly for those

in the toughest conditions in the

poorest countries.

What what is your judgment?

In 2016 or so, you know that I publicly

committed myself to uh emphasizing

nuclear power as a green technology

solution that you would want to do

whether there was climate change or not.

You know that for 10 years I've been

telling you that climate models couldn't

possibly be valid for all the reasons

that affect any kind of complex model.

Doesn't even have to do with climate

change. It just has to do with complex

models. they just don't work.

Um, you know that for 10 years I've been

advocating very publicly

with my full suite of uh persuasion

techniques that the emphasis should

change from oh no, we're all going to

die from uh carbon to let's fix as many

problems as we can and uh get our

technology as strong as possible and our

economy as strong as possible and that

will protect us the most. That's exactly

what Bill Gase is saying now. So, Bill

Gates's opinion on this a little bit

different from mine. A little bit, but

now 95% compatible.

And and he's also in the business of uh

he's invested in Terap Power. That's

that thorium uh new it's a gen 4 nuclear

power plant. If you were the guy who

invested quite wisely, I don't know, a

decade ago or longer, uh, in in nuclear

power and it turns out it's working out.

Yeah, you do a strategic pivot because

now you have a real genuine path to just

making everybody richer and safer at the

same time that you can, you know,

monitor climate change, see if you need

to do anything there. I I do think that

there's no way that Bill Gates is

unaffected by the fact that sea level

has not risen.

Are you with me on that? You you can

imagine some characters like Greta um

blowing it off if after 20 years of

saying the the water will rise if it

hasn't risen at all. You could you could

imagine the people were just

non-scientific,

you know, just protester types saying,

"Oh, it'll happen. It's gonna happen any

moment now." But Bill Gates is sort of

the ultimate rational guy. He's closer

to being a robot than a human, as some

of our best billionaires are. Uh there's

no way he's going to ignore 20 years of

things not going the way the models say

they will. Not forever. [laughter]

At some point, it's just overwhelming. I

think we reached the overwhelming part

where you just had to back down and say,

"All right, let's fix these gigantic

problems that we know how to fix. Let's

get our economy and our technology

as sharp as possible." And that's our

best bet against climate change if it's

a problem. Uh, I add the if, he doesn't

add the if. So, that's our that's our

tiny little difference.

All right. So you give me do you give me

any credit for that? I doubt that Bill

Gates has heard anything I've said on

the topic directly.

But the way persuasion works is you know

you persuade other people and if you do

it well they adopt your language because

they like the way you said it. So the

thing I can add to a process such as

this is I can help people who want to be

an advocate to agree with me to give

them the kind of language that would be

persuasive to other people. So I've been

trying to do this for 10 years.

All right? You've watched it. [snorts]

Many of you have been with me the entire

time. And uh it could be a total

coincidence that it that climate change

and nuclear power both ended up exactly

where I was trying to put them. Exactly

where I was trying to put them. That

might be a coincidence.

Might not be. No way to know.

Anyway, Charlie Sheen was on Bill

Maher's uh show. What's that one called?

Not his regular show. his uh club uh

club random

and Charlie Sheen had what uh Bill Maher

considered an amazingly good idea which

uh is also amazingly

compatible with one of my good ideas and

amazingly compat I think you've heard

Greg Guffeld say the same thing but if

it comes from Charlie Sheen and the way

he said it was especially good let me

just tell you what it is why why am I

why am I giving you this big windup let

me just tell you what he said. So, Bill

Maher was pointing out that most of the

crime problem is uh committed by only

about 600 people per city. And then she

so if you're able to build statistics

from that, you clearly know who the f

they are, meaning the criminals. So why

not just take those 600 people and build

a special place for them? Call it the

600 building.

And Mar liked that. He goes, "That's

good. That's very good. And this is why

Republicans get elected because

Democrats run cities and they don't do

that. Now, how many of you remember me

saying that uh at least the homeless and

that would include a lot of people who

are repeat criminals as well should be

given their own place to live just away

from us. U I talked about in California

you could almost build it outdoors. It

wouldn't need a you know a ton of

heating and cooling. you you could if

they want to live outdoors and the

street people certainly do. Now, here

I'm talking about the so-called homeless

more than the so-called repeat

criminals. But you've heard the idea of

not treating the people who are in a

special situation, repeat criminals or

street people. Their situation is not

like anybody else's. So maybe you need a

place that's not like the way we treat

everything else. Maybe jail is where a

normal person who made a mistake or two

ends up. But maybe the lifetime repeat

criminals don't go to jail. Maybe

they've got this 600 building. Maybe

they've got a campsite, but you just

don't come back. You just don't come

back. That's the important part.

[snorts]

So yes, Charlie Sheen, your idea is

excellent. Um there probably variety of

ways to do it.

Uh Byron York is reminding us how John

Brennan lied to Congress. You know, the

thing I worry about this is that whole

uh Russia gate hoax thing. As it ages,

Democrats will forget it ever happened.

And indeed, I wonder how many of them

could tell you that this was a real

story.

I feel like it's none.

So, I'm going to read you what Byron New

York summarized about John Brennan lying

to Congress, and I want you to to decide

how many of your Democrat friends would

know this. This is so so important. If

you didn't know this,

almost nothing would make sense about

what Trump is doing for, you know, to

get his enemies or nothing would make

sense. you you and and also your uh

let's say the credibility that you put

in our election systems would be totally

influenced by whether or not people knew

that this happened which has nothing to

do with the election per se. You know,

it's in that domain. But if you realize

how crooked

the people at the top were during the

time that elections were being held,

it's really hard to imagine that

this was the only bad thing they did.

So, uh, here's New York on X. He goes,

"How John Brennan lied to Congress." Um,

here's the bottom line. when Republicans

have believed for a long time, which

Republicans have believed for a long

time in the politically supercharged

atmosphere of late 2016 and early 2017,

the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier,

that's the Steel Dossier, was BS. All

right? So 2017, the FBI and CIA both

knew the dossier was BS. That fact may

be known to zero Democrats

and it's the most one of the most

important facts in the history of the

United States. I'll bet they don't know

it. Uh going on. Uh, so even though they

knew the dosia was BS, they knew they

had no business including it in their

assessment of Russia's 2016 activities,

but they included it anyway because it

told them what they wanted to hear, that

Donald Trump had colluded with Russia.

He did not collude with Russia. Then

under oath before Congress, John Brennan

lied about it.

So, it's bad enough that they did it,

but the part that can really land you in

jail is the lying about it to Congress.

If you if you gave a a serious survey to

Democrats, how many would know that this

happened? How many would know that in

2017 that at the very top, Obama,

Brennan, they all knew that the steel

dossier was but they knew it

could take on a president? maybe uh and

and change the government of the United

States. That's a coup,

right? [laughter]

That's a coup. But they've been taught

that January 6 was a a coup and that

Republicans try to take over countries

by bringing no weapons and marching

around in one building for an afternoon.

And that's how they overthrow a country.

Not that they did what they said they

were doing, which was we're trying to

make sure this election wasn't rigged.

Can you give us a day? You know, just

give us a little time to make sure this

wasn't rigged. That's what actually

happened.

Uh

anyway,

so I worry that's being forgotten.

I had a little back and forth with

Jessica Tarov. You know her from the

five on Fox. Um and she said about the

question of opening up the government on

X she said don't Republicans control the

House, Senate and White House asking for

a friend.

Now you've heard the the Democrats say

this, right? You've heard them say it's

the Republicans who run everything. You

know, they've got the House, the Supreme

Court, they've got the Senate, they've

got the presidency. So if the government

is closed, it clearly

clearly must be the people who are in

charge.

So uh I replied to Jessica on X and I

said, "You're failing the touring test,

Jessica. A human would remember 60 votes

are needed." So the Democrats who are

underinformed on this topic apparently,

not the people at top, Jessica knows

exactly the situation. She understands

it perfectly, but she's she's trying to

use the Republicans are in charge as

sort of, I'll say, a narrative.

So I said, "You're failing the touring

test, Jessica Hume would remember that

60 votes are needed." The Republicans

have 52, I think. So they would

absolutely need Democrats to reopen the

government because all the all the

Republicans were saying yes, except one.

So

then Jessica replied and she said,

"Indeed, exclamation mark, I know full

well," which is what I told you. Of

course she knows. She understands the

government. She's not confused. She

knows the news. She goes, "I know full

well," which is true. But like when, now

listen to this, but like when Democrats

are in power, it's on them to compromise

to get the votes they need. Johnson

doesn't seem to get that.

You know why Johnson doesn't get that?

Because that's not a thing. That's not a

thing.

Where's Where's the logical connection

between Democrats are not in power and

therefore the people who are in power

should compromise to the people who are

not in power? Where where is that

written?

What if the compromise is what if the

most reasonable compromise is let's just

pay people till we work it out because

it's only it's only weeks.

That would be the reasonable thing. So

here's what I think. I think uh Jessica

being unusually smart and wellinformed,

she knows that her argument is not like

a real argument. It's more of a

narrative, you know, more of a my team

kind of thing.

But no, there's no requirement that the

Republicans, it's not in the

Constitution,

it's not my expectations.

Aren't they both just supposed to uh

play for the the benefit of the public?

Where's Where's the part where they're

going to do what's good for the public?

Yeah, maybe they have an obligation to

do that, to do what's good for the

public, you know, like paying people.

Um, however, uh, I appreciate, uh,

Jessica's back and forth, and I I'll say

I'll say again, I think she's the best

that the five has had in the Democrat

chair. You know, the five always has one

one prominent Democrat and they they

they take them around sometimes. Harold

Ford Jr. Harold Ford Jr. is great, but I

think Jessica brings a little more fire.

she she [clears throat] has a better

understanding of the a better

understanding of how the um let's say

the interplay

should work for entertainment purposes.

I think Harold Ford Jr. is one of the

greatest character role models you'll

ever see. Just seems like a great guy.

But he he likes to decrease the tension

whereas it's a TV show where you know a

little bit of tension a little bit of

tension would be fun. So, uh, I think

Jessica has the best understanding of of

the TV show

as well as the government.

Um, Rick Scott was recently

interviewed on 60 minutes and he was

asked if we're getting ready to invade

Venezuela. He said he'd be surprised if

we invaded Venezuela, which is an

interesting political. I think I use

that answer from now on. Well, I'd be

surprised.

Does that really tell you that he knows

what's going to happen and it's not

going to happen? It does not. But he

wouldn't know. I mean, in theory, he

shouldn't know. It would only be that,

you know, probably the only person who

would know would be Trump and maybe

Hegathth if they'd made that

determination.

Um, maybe a general,

but he'd be surprised if we invaded

Venezuela. I think I would be surprised,

too.

if it was some kind of a general

military invasion. I don't think that's

going to happen to you. But the CIA has

been approved for covert activities. And

the other thing that Rick Scott said,

which makes me think he's talked to the

boss before he did it, Trump being the

boss, um he said, quote, "If I was

Maduro, I'd head to Russia or China

right now." Rick Scott said his days are

numbered. So it could be

that uh that our government wants Rick

Scott and people like him to say, you

know, smart move is to leave and then

you don't need to do an invasion.

So the smart move is to get him out of

the country and stall your preferred

puppet who wants Trump to get the the

Nobel Peace Prize. Um,

and then Rick Scott pointed out, I think

it was him that pointed out that that

would also be the end of Cuba because

Cuba is being propped up by cheap or

subsidized Venezuelan oil.

So, would that give us, the United

States, anything we want out of Cuba, or

would that be bad for us? I feel like it

might stimulate a uh massive wave of

illegal immigration from Cuba, right?

So we might have a we might have a Cuba

risk if we go hard on Venezuela. It

looks like we're going to go hard on

them. So I wouldn't be surprised if some

regime change chicannery going on in

Venezuela right now. Uh but I do worry

about the Cuba effect.

Let's check in with another

anti-Trumper.

So remember the premier, the Canadian

premier Doug Ford. He was the one who

created that Ronald Reagan anti-tariff

um advertisement that uh got Trump so

mad that he canled trade trade

negotiations with Canada over the over

an ad. Uh but here's what Doug Ford says

about his gigantic mistake,

which is what I call it. quote, "My

intention was to make sure the American

people were informed and have a

conversation, and it really started a

conversation."

Okay, here's a little tip for you. The

biggest red flag for incompetence

is saying that what you're shooting for

is a conversation.

If anybody ever tells you, "Well, I did

this so we could have a conversation

about this or that," they don't have a

plan. They they don't have a suggestion.

They don't have anything. They have

nothing. All they're doing is getting

attention and saying, "Well,

[clears throat] we ought to have a

conversation." Do you think we didn't

want to have a conversation about

tariffs?

Do you think we weren't having a

conversation about tariffs? Did you

think having a conversation about them

would solve anything?

So he he replaced a negotiation which

would be a path to a solution solution

with a conversation.

[laughter]

Conversations don't do anything. It it

literally is a a weak.

It's just a weak word. Like if the best

you can do is put a weak word on it and

then run an ad that canceled all trade

negotiations. This guy's the biggest

clown in Canada. Canada is sitting up

there bleeding tariffs because this

idiot thought that he wanted to create a

conversation about Reagan.

Now, I get that you love your Reagan.

Some of you do.

But how is he relevant? How is he even a

little bit relevant? Not at all. It's

not a conversation we need. Not a

conversation that'll help. No, you're

you're dope.

And that's the bottom line.

All right, I think we've done what we

wanted to do today. If you joined late,

I'll give you my personal update that uh

I have been as of last night approved

for the Plu Victto cancer drug that's

new and uh it's not a cure. Um but for a

lot of people it gives them some some

degree of relief. I hope I'm one of

them. I will let you know how that goes.

I've got MRIs coming and radiation

coming and treatment coming and I'm

falling apart pretty fast. But we do

have a narrow path off of Prisoner

Island

and I will be I'll be balancing on that

narrow path for a few weeks and I'll let

you know how it goes. At the moment, um

I've almost lost full control of my left

hand. It's maybe 10% strength. Uh, which

is the hand I've been drawing with for

the last several months because my right

hand's already burned out. Uh, so if I

lose my ability to draw,

which might happen in the next could

happen in days actually, uh, because the

numbness is increasing. But we'll try to

take a take a bite out of that too.

We'll see how long I last. At the

moment, I can draw better than I've ever

drawn because my my fingers that hold

the stylus are still good, but they're

weak. And weak fingers are really good

for drawing. They're not good for

anything else, but for drawing, it gives

you actually extra control. It's the

damnest thing. So, last night I was

doing a uh man cave where I got a new

device that can put my phone camera over

the art so people can watch my hands as

I'm drawing and it works really well.

So, it's I'll probably do it again.

All right, I'm going to talk uh

privately just for a minute to the

beloved local subscribers. The rest of

you, thanks for coming. I hope I added

some value to you today. I tried more

than just a conversation.

We Oh, no. Not working. So, today my

update button is nonfunctional. So, I

can't go private like I wanted to. So,

sorry locals. I'll catch up with you.

What's tonight? Tuesday. Yeah, I'll

catch up with you in the man cave

tonight and we'll we'll talk then. But

for now, I guess I'm done. So, thanks

for joining me everybody. I might have

to close the app and open it and reclose

it some. We'll see.

Yeah, I've got to close the app and

reopen it.