Episode 3007 CWSA 11/03/25

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Dopamine.

Oh, you're so right.

The dopamine high.

No, the dopamine uh the dopamine blast of the day.

I'm super high right now.

Sorry about that.

Medically though, doctor's orders.

Got some painkillers in me.

You may have heard.

I'm dying of metastatic prostate cancer, but uh unless you slept all of yesterday.

Did any of you sleep all of yesterday and miss the trouble I caused?

I caused so much trouble yesterday, but it worked out.

Maybe I'll give you an update.

So, some of you know the story that uh over the summer when the news came out that I was declining, uh, President Trump called me home and, you know, blew my mind.

But one of the things he offered was he said that uh, if you need anything, you know, let me know.

But, of course, you have to be careful about does he really mean that?

Does he really mean if you mean if you need anything, let me know.

He's running the whole country and some would say part of the world.

That doesn't seem like something a president could possibly do.

But, you know, when things when things aren't working out and you you got to try all the doors, uh, I sort of reached the end of one rope, which was I wasn't sure I was getting any healthcare at all.

I might have been.

I still don't know.

But what I don't know is if they'd even started the process to get me that potentially life-saving drug that I've been trying to get.

And so I wrote a message saying that uh on on Sunday I wrote that I would I would be asking the president on Monday.

Now that would be today.

But as you know, President Trump likes to do things ahead of schedule and, you know, better than you expected and be and ahead of schedule.

What what is it?

Blow blow budget, ahead of schedule.

And I don't know who he talked to first, but but I I feel like uh a lot of things went in motion at the same time.

So, I was contacted by Don Jr.

who was literally in Africa.

He's in Africa on a Sunday.

And Don Jr.

is calling me and saying, "Le, I'm I'm on this.

You know, my father my father wants me to, you know, get this done." Then Bobby Kennedy calls me.

Bobby Kennedy calls me.

He's like, "What can I do?

What's the situation?" Dr.

Oz calls me.

Dr.

Oz, what's the situation?

How can I help?

Oh my god.

Uh and then you you may have seen that President Trump, best president ever.

Um he posted uh he posted my message to him that was on actually yesterday.

It was a public message.

Uh and he just said on it on it.

He was so on it.

Oh my god.

Was he on it?

Anyway, uh it turns out that no, it turns out that nobody in senior management at Kaiser, my healthcare, my healthc care company had a good weekend.

They they probably thought, "Oh, it's nice to have a Sunday off for a change." You know, they probably work pretty hard.

I imagine they work pretty hard and suddenly the entire Sunday is absorbed by this.

Oh, I feel I feel bad about it, but good about it because it might have saved my life.

I mean, there's a very good chance.

Seriously.

Must be the That would be the Kremlin.

Oh, I have a phone.

I can't reach.

What if I can reach that phone?

That'd be great.

I can throw a book at it.

I guess it's done.

Same phone number for 10 years.

Nobody's ever called that during the show anyway.

That nobody would know that phone number.

Nobody's calling my They would have called myself if it was anything.

Anyway, so here's the update.

The update is um I don't want to give you too much detail on my uh actual medical treatment yet, but I will.

So, so let me tell you what what I'm going to I'll give you lots of information about the medical path eventually.

I'll just tell you it's under control now.

So, uh, all all wheels are moving in the positive direction.

I have extra help beyond beyond Kaiser.

I have extra help.

Um, and I'll tell you a lot more about that if it works because it will be more than flu victim.

I just I just want to get permission before I talk about it.

I don't have permission to talk about it.

So, if I did, I would.

So, but I'll be doing the probably the very best thing that anybody could ever try, combination of things.

So, that's the good news.

Um, but it'll probably take a few weeks, maybe a week or two, I don't know, before the first thing happens and then we'll see what happens.

So, I thought I'd come on here because I I I definitely I very much didn't think I was going to do a live stream today because I didn't think I could physically do it.

I'm in a lot of still in a lot of pain and I've been taking painkillers since I woke up at midnight.

I've already done one one long uh live stream today drawing.

I did a drawing live stream for the locals people.

So, they're the only ones you can see that one.

So, if you're on locals and you didn't know, there's a another lengthy drawing where I try to fight off my cats and draw Dilbert at the same time.

So, uh oh, there's a reason that there's a reason that the plcto can't be administered the day you ask for it.

Turns out that not only does it have to be administered in a special nuclear med medicine environment, so you can't just do it in a doctor's office, but it also has to be tuned to your situation.

So not everybody gets a different dose or a different formulation, not a not a different dose, they get a different formulation within the same range.

So, it would have to be tuned for me specifically and uh that takes two weeks, but they're going to try to speed it up.

So, maybe one.

We'll see.

Yeah, it's nuclear medicine.

Took the nuclear option.

You're right.

You're right.

So, so here here was my one complaint.

And it could be that it's only a communication thing and it could be only because my doctor was gone for two weeks.

My my oncologist was gone for two weeks.

Now I do believe everybody gets to have a vacation.

So I'm very torn about this.

You know, if if you need a doctor, you want your doctor to never go on vacation.

On the other hand, human beings have to go on vacation.

You know, I can't complain about it.

I I cannot like it, but it's hard to complain about somebody taking a vacation when everybody in the world takes a vacation.

So, it may be that I just didn't know they were working on it.

But I believe that they had to interview me first.

So, this morning when I'm as soon as I'm done with this, I've got a I've got an appointment to talk to their expert.

And I think that's how this I think that's how it starts.

So my issue was didn't know if the process had started.

It wasn't that it wasn't done.

I couldn't confirm it had started, which is way more distressing if you don't know who to get to and you're not sure it even started.

So, but I think and I still don't know if this is true or not.

I think that today it starts.

I think so.

I'm not I'm still not even 100% sure if it's going to start.

If you can imagine that, I'm pretty sure it will today because of all the all the noise I made, but it should.

Anyway, I will be everybody's practice practice animal.

They can see how well it works on me and if it works on me, well, we'll see.

And like I said, it's uh yeah, there there will be more to it than flu victim.

I just need permission to talk about that and then then I'll yak about it so much you'll be sick of it.

What would that be?

Oh, huh.

Looks like my appointment at Kaiser just changed.

or are there two appointments?

Don't know.

I guess I'll find out.

But since you're here, I thought I would uh read you some reframes at least.

No.

You want some reframes from my book?

Reframe your brain.

Man, do I need that.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

Trump was not on vacation.

Damn right.

Damn right he wasn't on vacation.

And Don Jr., I don't know if he was on vacation or he was just in Africa for business or what, but he got back to me from Africa.

From Africa.

Okay, let's see what else we got there.

Oh, here's one of the most important ones in the entire world.

So, the usual frame if you're, let's say, analyzing somebody's performance, let's say you're the boss, or you're in some position, maybe you're a spouse, but you're in some position to have an opinion on somebody else's performance in any domain, whatever the performance is.

The normal way that people approach that is to tell you what you did wrong.

Am I right?

Hey, you know, if you'd done this differently, uh, looks like you did that wrong.

Here's the right way to do that.

What will that do to people?

Well, it will actually make them better in some cases because they'll stop doing the thing that's wrong.

And there's nothing wrong with that, stopping doing the things that are wrong.

But the reframe which is even more powerful is uh you tell people what they did right and the rest takes care of itself.

And this is sort of a magic trick.

You would not believe that if you simply make somebody feel good about what they're doing and you say, "Wow, that was great.

That that part of what you did is really amazing, etc." They will end up fixing the thing you didn't even mention because they'll be so inspired and enjoy it so much.

They'll be like, "Oh, every time I can do something a little better, I get a little praise." So you you wife trick.

Uh so telling people what they did right is like a nuclear weapon.

Telling them what they did wrong might be like a artillery.

really strong and you could probably win a war with artillery, but it's not nuclear.

It's not nuclear.

So, yeah, tell people what they did, right?

That is your lesson for the day.

But you know what?

You've been so nice to me.

How many people are actually watching this?

A thousand on Rumble.

34,000 watching this.

That's pretty big.

Well, then you deserve another reframe.

Oh.

Oh, this one's good.

Okay, you're lucky.

You get We got to the good stuff.

This one could change your whole life.

By the way, if if you're not familiar with the reframe concept, um I'm a trained hypnotist.

So, when I write a reframe, I'm doing it from a position of some skill.

And the beauty of a reframe is that you don't have to you don't have to like keep a diary or go to a therapy or or talk it through.

You don't have to do exercises.

You don't have to eat different.

You literally just have to hear it once.

So my claim is that a reframe will change your life if and this if is the important part.

It's the one you needed.

If it's one you didn't need, it probably won't even you won't even remember it.

But if it's one that you're like, "Oh, that's the one I needed." It will change your whole life.

It will rewire your brain and it will do it instantly and with no effort on your part whatsoever.

That's my claim.

Now, until it until it happens to you, and it probably will if you stick with me and I keep reading these, until it happens to you, you won't believe that's necessarily possible.

But once it happens, you're going to be you're going to be such a you're going to be so sold on reframes that you'll be talking about it to all your friends until they're sick of it.

Are all right.

So, have I built that up?

This might be the strongest reframe you'll ever hear.

The usual frame, the old way of thinking is if things are going wrong, the universe is acting against you.

Have you ever thought that?

Have you ever thought, my god, the universe, the whole universe is acting against me.

Nobody could have this much bad luck, one thing after another.

Right?

Ever have that?

Very, very suboptimal way of seeing your world.

Now I'm going to Now I'm going to reframe it.

The universe owes me.

Kaiser is just lighting up my phone today.

They're just setting up I think they're setting up appointments.

That's what all that beeping is.

So again, since I got interrupted by Kaiser, um the universe is acting against me will make you feel like you're lo you're a loser.

You're you know, it make you feel like quitting.

But if you think that the universe owes you, which is exactly what I think, if you had a bad if you had a bad childhood, the universe owes you.

If you had a bad uh divorce, the universe owes you.

It's your turn.

It is almost impossible for anybody to have bad luck all the time.

So if you have a string of bad luck, it is the shest sign that some good luck is on the way.

Does that make sense?

Because luck always re gets to the average.

People have average luck over time.

In any small period of time, they might have extraordinary luck or bad luck, but over time it's definitely going to go back to something like average.

So, if you're in one of those, man, I can't believe how bad this is this week.

This week, this week, it's the shest sign that the universe owes you and it's going to pay you off.

It's the law of odds.

The universe couldn't change itself if it wanted to.

It is absolutely bound by the odds and it owes you.

All right.

Now, let me let me check in with you.

How many of you were feeling that the universe was just kicking your ass?

And when I told you that the universe owes you, you could feel it actually feel it like some kind of a physical sensation.

I don't know how you would describe it.

May maybe tingles, maybe something in your chest.

You can feel this one, can't you?

You see what I'm doing?

I'm just taking the persuasion.

I'm just pushing it a little extra cuz it's good for you.

You like it.

There you go.

There you go.

Oh, here's a good one.

Damn, these are good.

So, the usual frame.

This is one you've heard before, but no matter how many times you hear it, it's not enough.

And no matter how many times you hear it, it's not enough.

Um the old way of thinking about luck is that it's random and can't be managed.

How many of you think that luck by definition which would be a reasonable thing to you know it would be reasonable that you thought that luck is completely random and therefore it can't be managed.

So you're just you know you're you're a victim of chance.

Well that's the old way of thinking.

Here's a reframe.

You can go where there's more luck.

You can go where there's more luck.

If you wanted to be an entrepreneur and you made the mistake of moving to the desert and you didn't even have neighbors and there was no jobs there, how much luck would you have?

It wouldn't work out.

But if you wanted to be an entrepreneur and you moved to the uh Bay Area and you know you did all the things that network and meet people and take the right jobs and you know go go work for the right company and learn the right skills.

Yeah, you can totally manage your luck.

Are you kidding me?

Luck might be the easiest thing you could ever manage.

You just do all the things.

You just do all the things that bring luck like be around successful people, build your talent stack, have a system instead of a goal.

Absolutely.

You can control luck.

Absolutely.

All right.

All right.

Here's one that's more about uh just not This one's very relevant to me.

So the usual old frame is that uh if you're having some bad luck, you think that you're unusually unlucky because they happen to you.

You think of all the things that could happen to anybody and then you think, "Oh man, why are all these things happening to me?

Why me?

Why do I have all these problems?" That's the old way of thinking.

Here's the reframe.

The reframe is everyone has problems.

Everyone has problems.

Just just the fact that you don't know somebody else's problem, that's pretty gutsy of you to think that your problem's bigger than theirs.

You don't know their problems.

You don't know anything about people's problems.

The the really big ones they keep to themselves.

You know, sometimes you see it if it's a physical thing like in my case, but generally speaking, you know, people's people's battle is inside their head and and that could be quite a fierce battle.

You don't know what's going on in there.

So the moment you think why me?

Why me?

The reframe is everybody's got problems.

You don't have the special problems.

What makes your problem so special?

And weirdly, it makes you feel better because you don't feel targeted.

You still have the same number of problems, but you don't feel targeted by the universe, which is worth that's worth something.

Because if you don't feel targeted by the universe, then it's going to be much easier to use the earlier reframe where you say, uh, I'm just going to make something happen.

All right.

Is anybody enjoying this yet?

I I want to see if I should do more of these or we should uh pivot.

Today's experimental and and if I'm being perfectly transparent, um there are I guess three reasons I'm doing this today despite being uh near death and not feeling good at all.

Don't feel good at all and a lot of pain.

It's a really good distraction for me.

So when I'm distracted, I'm not in pain.

And my favorite distraction, the best distraction you could ever have is that you're doing something that's useful for somebody else, right?

So, I'm I'm trying to do something that's useful for you guys.

Uh cuz that will make me distracted and feel good.

So, it's it's selfish, but it's symbiotic.

Little symbiosis going on here.

All right.

The other reason is that I'm like a tuna.

I am so trained to work at this time of day that I was downstairs 15 minutes before going live, saying to myself, uh, I guess I'll just skip today.

And then something happened like some kind of tuna instinct.

And next thing I know, I'm pushing my little walker.

Yeah, I stayed in it and push it backwards toward the elevator.

Next thing I know, I got a cup of coffee and next thing I know, I'm live.

It's like there's some kind of instinct or habit that's been so deeply, you know, ingrained in me, I couldn't help it.

So, there's that.

And the the third reason, do you know what the third reason is?

One is just a distraction.

Two is that uh is habit.

And three is I love you madly.

That's it.

I just love you badly.

So, spending time with all of you is just just great every single time.

All right, let's do another one.

Oh, here's one from my mom.

So, if my siblings are watching, you'll recognize this one.

Um, do you know how everybody in the world says things should be fair?

Everything should be fair.

Oh, that's not fair.

It's not fair.

Politicians say it, children say it.

I jokingly sometimes say that fairness was invented so that uh idiots and children could have something to talk about.

Have you ever ever heard me say that?

Fairness was invented so idiots and children would have something to talk about.

That's not fair, right?

But so everybody thinks that fairness is a desirable trait.

Correct?

Probably every one of you would agree with the statement.

It's better to be fair than to be unfair.

I think every one of you would agree except my mother, my my dearly departed mother.

What she taught me was that fairness is sort of the enemy of success and that you should strive to get more get more than other people.

And if you're shooting for fairness, you're a sucker.

No, she didn't use those words.

I'm making up all those words, but in essence, uh, in essence, old Virginia Adams, uh, she wanted you to try as hard as you could and do your best your best possible work so you could have the best possible, you know, benefit from your work.

Why Why would you want me to play for a tie?

Why would your mother Why would your mother want you to play for a tie?

No, no.

She wanted me to win.

She didn't want me to play for a tie.

Fairness is the enemy of success.

Anyway, she never used those words.

I I sort of put those in her mouth, but she she certainly was on the concept.

Uh here's another one more relative to the artists.

How many of you are artists?

either either for a hobby or for your job.

Show me your show me the artists.

Got a lot of artists.

We we often have a lot of artists.

The the people who most follow me are uh lawyers, medical people, engineers, and artists more than any other anybody else.

Look at all the artists.

Damn, look at all you.

That's a lot of artists.

There are more on locals than there are on You.

Tube.

A lot of them on locals.

Look at all that.

Wow.

A lot of artists.

It's good to see you artists.

All right.

Here's your reframe for the artists.

Generally speaking, you would, let's say, if you're not a good artist, this would be your frame.

For those who are good artists, you have probably already discovered what I'm about to reframe.

So this might be for the people who are not as accomplished as all of you are.

You would think that here's the old frame.

The old frame would be you want to avoid mistakes, right?

It doesn't matter what you're doing.

Doesn't matter if you're doing art or music or what you want to avoid mistakes.

Duh.

Everybody wants to avoid mistakes.

But that's the old way of thinking.

Here's a reframe.

Invite mistakes into your art and keep the good ones.

Invite mistakes into your art and then keep the good ones.

And the reason that you do it that way is that you can't always anticipate what the art will feel like until you do it.

You have to do it and then feel it.

And then if you feel it and it feels right, but it looks wrong, you keep it.

Did you hear that?

It looks wrong, but it feels right.

It looks wrong, but it feels right, so you keep it.

That's art.

All right.

These are all gems.

I don't know why this is a more popular book.

I'm completely aware of the fact that this is having a big impact on the lives of the people who happen to be here today.

you you kind of got lucky that uh and I I say that with all due humility.

The reframes are doing the work, not me.

I'm just reading them.

Uh but they are powerful and if if you endure, you know, a couple dozen of these, the odds of it changing your life are really good.

Really good.

All right, here's the next one.

Um have you ever been tasked with coming up with a good idea?

You know, you knew you needed a good idea.

Maybe it was your job to come up with a good idea, but you didn't have one.

So the the uh the old frame is that you need to come up with a good idea.

So it's the come up with that's the active part.

You're coming up with it.

You're in you're you're inventing it out of nothing.

But that's an old reframe, an old frame.

Here's a better one.

I need to release all my bad ideas as quickly as possible.

Sounds like the opposite, doesn't it?

So instead of coming up with a good idea, you focus on releasing the bad ideas.

Meaning that if you keep thinking of a bad idea and it's stuck in your head, it's more important to get rid of that bad idea because a new idea will come in automatically.

Ideas come in well, if you're a creative person at all, creative ideas will come in automatically as long as there's a landing space.

So you have to like clear the landing space.

It's less important that you're producing ideas, producing, producing, producing.

It's more important that you're getting rid of them because you're producing so many.

And if the old ones are getting in the way, they'll really slow you down.

So, get rid of the old ones.

Excuse me.

All right.

Here's one.

>> >> Do you ever have that uh what's it called when you feel like an impostor at your job?

That would be imposttor syndrome.

I always confuse that with Dunning Krueger, but Dunning Krueger's different.

It's just imposttor syndrome, right?

So, if you have impostor syndrome where you think, I'm just faking it.

Everybody else seems like they know what they're doing, but I hope they don't find out I'm just faking it.

So almost everybody will have the impostor feeling at one time or another.

So the old re the old frame is I feel like an imposttor at my job.

Here's a reframe for feeling like an imposttor.

You ready for this?

This will completely wipe that away.

If you've ever had imposttor syndrome, I'm going to remove it forever now with one sentence.

Do you think I can do it?

with one sentence.

I will cure forever.

If you have the feeling that you're ever an impostor, here it comes.

Everyone is an impostor.

And we're done.

Everyone's an impostor.

There there's no such thing as the non-impostor.

Everybody is pretending to be a little bit better than they are.

Some are pretending to be a lot better.

Some are pretending to be a little bit better.

But everyone's an impostor.

And they also, if they're if they're smart at all, they know they're an impostor.

They know you're an impostor.

But here's the important part.

They know you know they're an imposttor.

As soon as you think there's such a thing as imposters and non-impostors, well, then you're in trouble because you won't have anybody to certify that you're not the imposttor.

Because we all feel like imposters.

But as soon as you realize that everyone's an imposttor, it's not like it's not like, well, here, let's divide them up.

We got a bunch of impostors over here and a bunch of real ones over here.

No, they're all imposters, just different degrees.

Yeah.

All right.

That that one will change some lives.

All right.

Uh well, here's a useful one.

So this one would be almost the basis of maybe I don't know half of all mental health technique.

So so this one will look familiar but the more you remind yourself of it the more useful it is.

So the old the old frame would be that the way your mood is determined is by your internal thoughts.

If you're in a bad mood probably your your internal thoughts are bad.

If uh you're depressed or anxious or whatever, it's cuz your thoughts uh your internal thoughts are bad, you know, or suboptimal.

But here's the reframe.

You can improve your mood by completing meaningful tasks.

You can improve your mood by completing meaningful tasks.

That's it.

Just get some work done.

Get something done.

Everybody feels feels better when they get some time.

May maybe just cleaning cleaning the house.

But if you do something meaningful, especially if it's meaningful toward your future, such as, you know, signing up for college classes or increasing your talent stack or something like that, it's all going to be good.

All right.

Um so you can improve your mood by completing me but more more generally you can improve your internal feeling by changing what your body is doing because I always tell you your body is your brain.

This is that your body is your brain.

If you take your body and go for a run your brain will feel better.

If you uh well you know if you do anything that's good for your body your body will reward you and your brain will like it.

All right.

Uh, here's one that maybe this one won't uh this won't help you too much, but it made me feel good.

The the old frame is some kind of art is good and some kind of art is bad.

Would you agree that that's basic?

Some art is good, some art is bad.

Everybody would agree with that.

Nope.

That's an old frame.

Sorry, my some reason my nose is running.

Um, so the old frame is some art is good and some is bad.

Um, here's my reframe.

And again, this is this is purely this is self- serving as hell.

If there's a market for the art is good art.

That's my reframe.

My reframe is, is somebody going to buy it?

If somebody's going to buy it, it's good art.

if if they would only be willing to look at it if you bought it.

I'm not so sure that's good art.

So, the the reason I think that this is funny is that uh my art would often be considered substandard, but it is highly purchased.

You know what I mean?

So, Dilbert is not considered a, you know, a Mona Lisa kind of work of art.

Uh, but people buy it.

So, you tell me.

If people are going to put their money on it, isn't that a better sign that there's some art going on?

All right, that one's just for me.

Um, here's one I've I've taught you before, but again, every time you hear this, it it it's more powerful.

The old way of thinking of things is that if you create something, let's say you make a TV show or a song or something and somebody praises it, uh, could be a product, but somebody praises it, you've got something good.

Would you agree?

If you make a thing, whatever the thing is, and then people say good things about it, you've got a you've got a hit, right?

Nope.

Nope.

What people say about your creation is almost unrelated to its potential success.

Instead, the reframe is uh only action predicts a hit, not words.

So, you want to watch for people to extend or modify your creation.

Does that make sense?

I'll give you an example.

When Dilber first launched, uh a lot of people said, "Oh, that I like that." And some people said, "I don't like that." But the words were not really predictive.

Some liked it, some didn't.

Probably more didn't than did.

But at the same time that people were talking about it, the part that's not predictive, there were other people who were making their own Dilbert books by taking my comics and cutting them out, organizing them by theme, and then putting them in a binder, and effectively making their own book.

Now, the first time I heard somebody do that, I go, "Really?

You You literally have been cutting them all out, organizing them, and making your own book." Yes.

And then I heard somebody else do it.

So, completely unrelated, somebody who had nothing to do with the first person.

And I thought, "Really?

There are two people in the world who would make their own book out of and out of the scraps of comics I'm making?" And then it turned into, you know, three people, four people, five people.

If you have multiple people who are taking your product and turning it into some form of a related product like the book, that is 100% predictable that you have a hit.

What people do is really predictive.

What people say, well, we say a lot of stuff, but we don't spend our time on anything that we think is not worth the time.

But we'll talk about things that aren't too abortant.

We'll lie.

But nobody lies by making a Dilbert book, right?

There's nobody who ever woke up and said, "I'm going to fool people by making a Dilbert book when there's not a Dilbert book." This was before there was any there was no Dilbert book.

So, yeah.

So, watch what they do, not what they say.

Here's one for writers.

Anybody have writer's block?

If you have writer's block, next two reframes are for you.

Okay?

Um, if you have writer's block, you often say to yourself while you're sitting there, I have writer's block.

The worst thing you could do is sit there with writer's block and say, I have writer's block.

So, I deny that it exists.

That's part of my technique.

That's not the reframe.

I'm just telling you.

I I deny that it exists.

I have been personally asked, do I get um do I get any kind of writer's block?

It's probably the single most frequent question I've ever been asked.

Do you ever get any writer's block?

Do you know what I always say?

Nope.

Never.

Not once.

It's not even a thing.

As soon as you allow that it's a thing, it kind of becomes a thing.

But let me tell you the reframe.

So it'll never be a thing.

You ready?

I will solve writer's block for you right now.

So instead of saying I have writer's block, the first thing, this is just one of two reframes.

Uh instead of saying you have writer's block, say I'm trying to write at the wrong time of day.

It's the wrong time of day.

Because I can tell you that I can write at, you know, early in the morning.

I I have no writer's block ever.

But by mid-afternoon, I might be tired.

So I might be trying to write at the wrong time of day.

That's not really a writer's block.

That would be a time of day problem.

So you solve the time of day problem, not the writer's block problem.

The the other reframe is I might be in the wrong environment for writing.

I've told you too many times that when I go to Starbucks, as soon as I sit down in Starbucks, all writer's block goes away.

Now, I can't say that works for everybody because it's it's sort of magical the way it works even for me, but there's something about the time and place and the environment and the noise and the sound and the smell, the familiarity.

I don't know what it's all about, but sometimes it's the time of day, sometimes it's where you are.

Uh likewise when I go to Hawaii, which I probably won't do again, but uh when I went to Hawaii, I would get so much good work done cuz if you sit on a balcony looking at the beach in Hawaii, you don't ever want to leave, but you don't have anything to do except work.

So it turns out that the work becomes so fun that you just don't have any writer's block at all.

All right, here's the here's the payoff.

So, the the first few were good writer's block reframes, but they don't get you there.

This is the one that's going to bring you across the uh the finish line.

You ready?

Uh instead of thinking, I can't think of anything good to write, think I can write something bad and fix it.

The reason that you don't write something on the page is not exactly because you can't think of anything.

Everybody can think of something.

It's just that you don't think it would be worth writing down.

So instead of instead of judging it before you write it down, you write it down first.

You look at it.

If you don't like it, you delete it or you edit it or you change a word.

But it's way easier to tweak something that's already on the page than it is to put something on the page.

And the moment you realize that you can write something bad, that's totally allowed.

It's completely allowed to write something that you won't ultimately use.

You can write anything.

Nobody's watching.

And if you write something bad, it's more likely to suggest something to you that's not bad.

You just have to do something.

So the do something is the key part of not having writer's block.

So, if you were to watch me if you were to watch me uh writing like over my shoulder and I didn't know you were there, you would see me write a sentence, delete it, write a sentence, delete it, write a sentence, delete it.

And I'm a professional writer.

You would you would imagine that I could write the sentence I want and then move on.

It doesn't really work that way.

It's way easier to tweak than it is to just know the right thing.

All right.

How we doing?

7:43.

Is everybody still having fun?

Well, I'm changing lives.

Do we really have 84,000 people watching this live?

That's not even counting X.

X is usually 30,000.

So, that would be about 100,000 people watching live.

I guess I should have done this before.

If you're just joining, I did give a health update in the beginning of the stream.

if you wanted to go back and you could catch up on that.

Uh, but since I'm not prepared and not feeling good today, I'm reading out of my book, reframe your brain and I decided I would change some lives while I'm here.

And uh, don't have much of a plan except that I'm going to do that.

All right, we'll do it live.

All right, these are the mental health reframes.

Uh, now we're into good some good stuff.

Did you ever have Well, I've I've done this one before in a number of ways, but the more ways I do it, the better it is.

Um, did you ever think that you are your inner thoughts?

Sometimes I say that.

I I think my Kira the Don uh song says something like that, that you are your inner thoughts.

How many of you think that who you really are, the real you, is what you're secretly thinking that maybe not everybody knows.

Is that who you are?

Are you your secret thoughts?

It feels like it, doesn't it?

Well, that would be the normal way of thinking of things.

But, uh, I'm going to give you the Dr.

Laura reframe that blew my mind when I heard it years ago.

Instead of you are what you think, you are what you do.

You are what you do.

Now, this might confuse you because the Akira the Dawn song that features my podcasting voice put to music which recently released um I say what do I say that uh you are what you think about the most.

Now that would be confusing wouldn't it?

I said you are what you do not not your inner thoughts but I also said you are what you think about the most.

The way to reconcile that is that the you are what you think about the most is in the context of you can change what you do which is what you think about.

So thinking is doing.

So if you consciously change the the amount of time you're thinking negative thoughts and you consciously make sure no that was a negative thought let me let me throw in some positive thoughts.

Well, then you can actually change who you are to a happier person, for example, less neurotic.

But generally speaking, you are what you do.

So if you have some bad thoughts about people that you never mention, but you save babies from a burning building, you're still the person who saved the baby from the burning building.

That's way more who you are than the secret thoughts that you didn't tell anybody.

So you are what you do.

If you want to be a better person, do better things.

Do something nice for somebody.

If you want to be popular, do something nice for somebody.

All right.

Um, here's one.

How many of you have ever thought or maybe gagged when you heard somebody else say it that they were trying to find themselves?

I need to find myself.

I need to I need to figure out who I am.

Bad idea.

Here's a reframe.

Instead of being a explorer and trying to figure out who you are, how about authoring yourself to be what you want to be?

You can author your situation.

You don't have to discover who you are.

You can make yourself who you want to be.

That's one of the great things about uh human life is that you don't have to be you don't have to be anything.

You can author yourself into almost any kind of situation.

You know, obviously you can't author yourself a billion dollars just because you want to.

Maybe some people can.

But I love these words.

Instead of finding yourself, author yourself.

That's very that's very powerful if you you know if you take that to heart author yourself because sometimes we forget that we have that power that we can turn ourselves into whatever we need to turn ourselves into.

All right.

Um oh here's a good one.

So if you tend to be judgmental does anybody have that problem?

Is there anybody here who tends to be too judgmental and you know it's hurting you because people don't like it and maybe you don't like it either but you're just too judgmental.

All right.

Yes.

All right.

If you're judgmental, here's a reframe for you.

uh instead of the usual frame for judging people, which is that some people are good and some are not, it would make more sense to say we're all flawed and we're all good at different things.

We're all flawed and we're all good at different things.

Isn't that fair?

It's not like you're the good one and and the person you're judging is the bad one.

You don't you don't think you've got some flaws?

What is that?

I'm getting many phone calls from people I don't know.

All right, so let me finish that one up.

Yeah, people are flawed, but in general, almost everybody that you're judging is going to be better than you at at least one thing.

Almost inevitably, no matter how much you judge somebody, there's probably at least one thing that they're just better you.

So, don't be so judgy.

Um, here's one.

Your critics are evil monsters.

Do you ever think that about your critics?

The people who don't like you, they're evil monsters.

Well, I like to re reframe my critics as my mascots.

You've heard me do that.

If somebody's enough of a critic that they can't leave you alone and they just make it their their life's work to criticize you specifically, just stop calling him a a critic and stop calling him anything else really.

It's funny the phone's not even ringing and it's doing that.

I better see if any of these look like All right.

Uh, okay.

Don't know most of those people.

Something's going on.

All right.

Uh, how about this?

Oh, here here's one on criticism.

If you hate criticism, does anybody hate being criticized?

If I get criticized, it's just a, you know, a Monday.

Doesn't mean anything because I do this for a living.

But if you get criticized, it probably stings.

I'll betcha.

Nobody likes being criticized.

Uh but the old way of thinking of criticism is it feels like a dagger to your heart.

Like, oh, I hate that criticism.

It's like a dagger to my heart.

Here's a reframe.

Criticism is a chemical reaction in the skull of someone who isn't in the room.

Criticism is based on a chemical reaction in the skull of someone who isn't even in the room with you.

Now, it could not be less important.

If it were in the room with you, maybe.

But if they're not in the room with you, all that's happening is there's like this little uh you know, this this little u I don't know recipe that's boiling in their head.

Is something happening in their head?

It it is no more meaningful than if you walked by the the uh the stove and some water was boiling and you'd be like, "Hey, there's some water in that in that bucket.

It's boiling." Well, that's all that's happening with your critic except the inside of the bucket, it's a skull and instead of boiling water, it's just their their brain chemistry is doing whatever.

Has nothing to do with you.

It just doesn't have anything to do with you.

It's just some chemicals boiling around inside a skull that's not in the room.

That's it.

All right.

Um, here's one.

I've been hearing other people talk about this more as well because once you hear it, it's so useful.

You'll you'll end up saying the same thing.

Here here's the one that is most likely that you will use and tell to somebody else that I think the most likely.

So the usual frame and we all fall into this is that everybody's thinking about us.

Um you ever think that you think oh my god they're judging me they're thinking about that mistake I made.

They're watching me.

Nobody's watching you.

Nobody cares.

you know, maybe if you're, I don't know, in seventh grade or something, but if you're an adult, people aren't really paying too much attention to you.

So, as soon as you imagine that other people care, probably not about whatever it is you're worrying about.

I mean, they might care in various ways, but not about whatever you're fattening about.

They're not thinking about you at all.

Once you realize that people don't really think about you, it really makes everything easier.

You won't get embarrassed.

You know, even if you did get embarrassed, you'd be like, "Okay, they will care about that for 10, nine, eight, done." You might care about it for longer, but you don't need to cuz they don't care.

If they don't care, why would you care, you know, even after they've said it.

So, nobody cares.

It's easier.

You your critics, you know, obviously your loved ones care about you, but your critics, they're not really thinking about you too much.

All right.

Um, here's a good one.

Is there anybody here who's a germaphobe?

I actually have a reframe that can cure a germaphobe.

You know, again, not every person every time, but for some people, some of the time it will cure a germaphobe.

And this is one that cured me.

instead of thinking that germs will harm me because of course germs will have the potential to harm you.

Now, when I say germs, I'm talking about really anything that you don't want to get on you, but I'm just using a generic germs.

Instead of saying that germs will harm you, uh I actually say this, this is like a real thing.

I say germs make me stronger.

And you've probably seen some science that if you were a kid and you grew up in a a sterile environment, you would not be ready for the real world because you hadn't been exposed to enough germs and cooties.

So germs is how you tune your body.

And I literally tell myself, "Oh, there's no problem getting some extra germs because I I'll just be tuning my my defenses." And it went from, "Oh my god, I don't want a germ.

Germs to all right, load it up.

Load it up.

Stronger today than I was yesterday." And it's remarkable how easy it is to go from these germs are going to be the end of me to these germs are tuning me up and making me stronger.

You just sort of have to repeat it and it just becomes true.

So that's what's happening.

All right, ladies and gentlemen.

You have been so nice to stick with me through this.

We're approaching the top of the hour.

I know some of you have something to do.

I've got I've got to get ready for my long day of medical everything.

I got problems.

It was wonderful to spend time with you because as I told you, it takes my mind off of my physical pain which is kind of bad.

And uh I get to spend the best time of my day, which is with all of you awesome people.

And I also know that even though you know I haven't met most of you in person, that it actually means something to you when I tell you that you're my beloved and how much I enjoy spending time with you.

It's all true.

It's all true.

I wouldn't say it.

And uh I know that that gives you a little boost.

So that's how you can start your day.

And you certainly give me a boost.

My god, you give me a boost.

I could not be more appreciative of not only my audience here, but um if you if you if you came in later, I could not be more appreciative of President Trump, uh Don Jr., Bobby Kennedy, Dr.

Oz, um and I I'll have some more people to name later, but I want to make sure I have permission.

and uh and they've been amazing.

Dr.

Drew, of course, always always my friend.

Um and a number of other people.

If I if I didn't mention somebody, it doesn't mean doesn't mean anything.

I I got contacted by so many people yesterday and it's all very meaningful to me in ways that you can't even imagine.

So, ladies and gentlemen, this is the uh this is what we have today.

I don't know if I'll be back tomorrow.

Honestly, I don't know how long I can do this.

But for today, that was your show.

And we'll get back to we'll get back to the news maybe sometime soon.

All right, closing down.

Come on in. Let's see what happens

today.

I I can't even imagine.

Almost anything could happen today.

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today.

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Hey, shut up, Scott. That's another

recording of me.

Don't need that. [snorts]

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Oh, you're so right. The dopamine high.

No, the dopamine uh [laughter]

the dopamine blast of the day. I'm super

high right now. Sorry about that.

Medically though, doctor's orders.

Got some painkillers in me. You may have

heard. I'm dying of metastatic prostate

cancer, but uh unless you slept all of

yesterday.

Did any of you sleep all of yesterday

[laughter]

and miss the trouble I caused?

I caused so much trouble yesterday,

but it worked out. Maybe I'll give you

an update.

So, some of you know the story that uh

over the summer when the news came out

that I was declining,

uh, President Trump called me home and,

you know, blew my mind. But one of the

things he offered was he said that uh,

if you need anything, you know, let me

know. But, of course, you have to be

careful about does he really mean that?

Does he really mean if you mean if you

need anything, let me know. He's running

the whole country and some would say

part of the world. That doesn't seem

like something a president could

possibly do.

But, you know, when things when things

aren't working out and you you got to

try all the doors,

uh, I sort of reached the end of one

rope, which was I wasn't sure I was

getting any healthcare at all. I might

have been. I still don't know. But what

I don't know is if they'd even started

the process to get me that potentially

life-saving drug that I've been trying

to get. And so I wrote a message saying

that uh on on Sunday I wrote that I

would I would be asking the president on

Monday. Now that would be today. But as

you know, President Trump likes to do

things ahead of schedule and, you know,

better than you expected and be and

ahead of schedule. What what is it? Blow

blow budget, ahead of schedule. And I

don't know who he talked to first, but

[laughter]

but [clears throat and snorts]

I I feel like uh

a lot of things went in motion at the

same time.

So, I was contacted by Don Jr. who was

literally in Africa. He's in Africa on a

Sunday. And Don Jr. is calling me and

saying, "Le, I'm I'm on this. You know,

my father my father wants me to, you

know, get this done." Then Bobby Kennedy

calls me. Bobby Kennedy calls me. He's

like, "What can I do? What's the

situation?" Dr. Oz calls me. Dr. Oz,

what's the situation? How can I help?

Oh my god. Uh and then you you may have

seen that President Trump, best

president ever. Um he posted uh he

posted my message to him that was on

actually yesterday. It was a public

message. Uh and he just said on it on

it. He was so on it. Oh my god. Was he

on it? Anyway,

uh it turns out that no, [laughter]

it turns out that nobody in senior

management at Kaiser, my healthcare, my

healthc care company had a good weekend.

[laughter]

They they probably thought, "Oh,

it's nice to have a Sunday off for a

change." You know, they probably work

pretty hard. I imagine they work pretty

hard and suddenly the entire Sunday is

absorbed by this. [laughter]

Oh, I feel I feel bad about it, but good

about it because it might have saved my

life. I mean, there's a very good

chance.

Seriously.

Must be the That would be the Kremlin.

Oh, I have a phone.

I can't reach.

What if I can reach that phone? That'd

be great.

I can throw a book at it.

I guess it's done.

Same phone number for 10 years. Nobody's

ever called that during the show [gasps]

anyway. That nobody would know that

phone number.

Nobody's calling my They would have

called myself if it was anything.

Anyway,

so here's the update. The update is um I

don't want to give you too much detail

on my

uh actual medical treatment

yet, but I will. So, so let me tell you

what what I'm going to I'll give you

lots of information about the medical

path

eventually. I'll just tell you it's

under control now. So, uh, all all

wheels are moving in the positive

direction. I have extra help beyond

beyond Kaiser. I have extra help. Um,

and I'll tell you a lot more about that

if it works

because it will be more than flu victim.

I just I just want to get permission

before I talk about it. I don't have

permission to talk about it. So, if I

did, I would.

So, but I'll be doing the probably the

very best thing that anybody could ever

try, combination of things.

So, that's the good news. Um, but it'll

probably take a few weeks, maybe a week

or two, I don't know, before the first

thing happens

and then we'll see what happens. So, I

thought I'd come on here because I I I

definitely

I very much didn't think I was going to

do a live stream today because I didn't

think I could physically do it. I'm in a

lot of still in a lot of pain and I've

been taking painkillers since I woke up

at midnight. [laughter]

I've already done one one long uh live

stream today drawing. I did a drawing

live stream for the locals people. So,

they're the only ones you can see that

one. So, if you're on locals and you

didn't know, there's a another lengthy

drawing where I try to fight off my cats

and draw Dilbert at the same time. So,

uh oh, there's a reason that there's a

reason that the plcto can't be

administered the day you ask for it.

Turns out that not only does it have to

be administered in a special nuclear med

medicine environment, so you can't just

do it in a doctor's office, but it also

has to be tuned to your situation.

So not everybody gets a different dose

or a different formulation, not a not a

different dose, they get a different

formulation within the same range. So,

it would have to be tuned for me

specifically

and uh that takes two weeks, but they're

going to try to speed it up. So, maybe

one. We'll see. Yeah, it's nuclear

medicine.

Took the nuclear option. You're right.

You're right. So,

so here here was my one complaint. And

it could be that it's only a

communication thing and it could be only

because my doctor was gone for two

weeks. My my oncologist was gone for two

weeks. Now I do believe everybody gets

to have a vacation. So I'm very torn

about this. You know, if if you need a

doctor, you want your doctor to never go

on vacation. On the other hand, human

beings have to go on vacation.

You know, I can't complain about it. I I

cannot like it, but it's hard to

complain about somebody taking a

vacation when everybody in the world

takes a vacation. So,

it may be that I just didn't know they

were working on it. But I believe that

they had to interview me first. So, this

morning when I'm as soon as I'm done

with this, I've got a I've got an

appointment to talk to their expert. And

I think that's how this I think that's

how it starts. So my issue was didn't

know if the process had started. It

wasn't that it wasn't done. I couldn't

confirm it had started, which is way

more distressing if you don't know who

to get to and you're not sure it even

started.

So, but I think and I still don't know

if this is true or not. I think that

today it starts.

I think so. I'm not I'm still not even

100% sure if it's going to start. If you

can imagine that, [laughter]

I'm pretty sure it will today because of

all the all the noise I made, but it

should.

[sighs and gasps]

Anyway, I will be everybody's practice

practice animal. They can see how well

it works on me and if it works on me,

well, we'll see. And like I said, it's

uh yeah, there there will be more to it

than flu victim. I just need permission

to talk about that and then then I'll

yak about it so much you'll be sick of

it.

What would that be?

Oh,

huh. Looks like my appointment at Kaiser

just changed. or

are there two appointments?

Don't know. I guess I'll find out. But

since you're here,

I thought I would uh read you some

reframes at least.

[snorts]

No.

You want some reframes from my book?

Reframe your brain.

Man, do I need that.

Yeah. Yeah, right. Trump was not on

vacation. Damn right. Damn right he

wasn't on vacation. And Don Jr., I don't

know if he was on vacation or he was

just in Africa for business or what, but

he got back to me from Africa.

[laughter]

From Africa.

Okay,

let's see what else we got there.

Oh, here's one of the most important

ones in the entire world.

So, the usual frame if you're, let's

say, analyzing somebody's performance,

let's say you're the boss, or you're in

some position, maybe you're a spouse,

but you're in some position to have an

opinion on somebody else's performance

in any domain, whatever the performance

is. The normal way that people approach

that is to tell you what you did wrong.

Am I right? [laughter]

Hey, you know, if you'd done this

differently, uh, looks like you did that

wrong. Here's the right way to do that.

What will that do to people? Well, it

will actually make them better in some

cases because they'll stop doing the

thing that's wrong. And there's nothing

wrong with that, stopping doing the

things that are wrong. But the reframe

which is even more powerful is uh you

tell people what they did right and the

rest takes care of itself. And this is

sort of a magic trick. You would not

believe that if you simply make somebody

feel good about what they're doing and

you say, "Wow, that was great. That that

part of what you did is really amazing,

etc."

They will end up fixing the thing you

didn't even mention because they'll be

so inspired and enjoy it so much.

They'll be like, "Oh, every time I can

do something a little better, I get a

little praise."

So you you wife trick. Uh so telling

people what they did right is like a

nuclear weapon. Telling them what they

did wrong

might be like a artillery.

really strong and you could probably win

a war with artillery, but it's not

nuclear. It's not nuclear.

So, yeah, tell people what they did,

right? That is your lesson for the day.

But you know what? You've been so nice

to me.

How many people are actually watching

this?

A thousand on Rumble.

34,000

watching this. That's pretty big. Well,

then you deserve another reframe.

Oh. Oh, this one's good.

Okay, you're lucky. You get We got to

the good stuff.

This one could change your whole life.

By the way, if if you're not familiar

with the reframe concept, um I'm a

trained hypnotist. So, when I write a

reframe, [clears throat] I'm doing it

from [cough] a position of some skill.

And the beauty of a reframe is that you

don't have to you don't have to like

keep a diary or go to a therapy or or

talk it through. You don't have to do

exercises. You don't have to eat

different. You literally just have to

hear it once.

So my claim is that a reframe will

change your life if and this if is the

important part. It's the one you needed.

If it's one you didn't need, it probably

won't even you won't even remember it.

But if it's one that you're like, "Oh,

that's the one I needed." It will change

your whole life. It will rewire your

brain and it will do it instantly and

with no effort on your part whatsoever.

That's my claim. Now, until it until it

happens to you, and it probably will if

you stick with me and I keep reading

these, until it happens to you, you

won't believe that's necessarily

possible. But once it happens, you're

going to be you're going to be such a

you're going to be so sold on reframes

that you'll be talking about it to all

your friends until they're sick of it.

Are all right. So, have I built that up?

This [clears throat] might be the

strongest reframe you'll ever hear. The

usual frame, the old way of thinking is

if things are going wrong, the universe

is acting against you. Have you ever

thought that? Have you ever thought, my

god, the universe, the whole universe is

acting against me. Nobody could have

this much bad luck, one thing after

another. Right? Ever have that?

Very, very suboptimal way of seeing your

world.

Now I'm going to Now I'm going to

reframe it.

The universe owes me.

Kaiser is just lighting up my phone

today. They're just setting up I think

they're setting up appointments. That's

what all that beeping is.

So again, since [clears throat] I got

interrupted by Kaiser, um the universe

is acting against me will make you feel

like you're lo you're a loser. You're

you know, it make you feel like

quitting. But if you think that the

universe owes you, which is exactly what

I think, if you had a bad if you had a

bad childhood, the universe owes you. If

you had a bad uh divorce,

the universe owes you. It's your turn.

[snorts]

It is almost impossible for anybody to

have bad luck all the time. So if you

have a string of bad luck, it is the

shest sign that some good luck is on the

way. Does that make sense? Because luck

always re gets to the average. People

have average luck over time. In any

small period of time, they might have

extraordinary luck or bad luck, but over

time it's definitely going to go back to

something like average. So, if you're in

one of those, man, I can't believe how

bad this is this week. This week, this

week, it's the shest sign that the

universe owes you and it's going to pay

you off. It's the law of odds. The

universe couldn't change itself if it

wanted to. It is absolutely bound by the

odds and it owes you.

All right. Now, let me let me check in

with you. How many of you were feeling

that the universe was just kicking your

ass? And when I told you that the

universe owes you, you could feel it

actually feel it like some kind of a

physical sensation. I don't know how you

would describe it. May maybe tingles,

maybe something in your chest. You can

feel this one, can't you? You see what

I'm doing?

I'm just taking the persuasion. I'm just

pushing it a little extra cuz it's good

for you. You like it. There you go.

There you go. [clears throat]

Oh, here's a good one. Damn, these are

good.

So, the usual frame. This is one you've

heard before, but no matter how many

times you hear it, it's not enough.

And no matter how many times you hear

it, it's not enough. Um

the old way of thinking about luck is

that it's random [clears throat] and

can't be managed.

How many of you think that luck by

definition

[clears throat] which would be a

reasonable thing to you know it would be

reasonable that you thought that luck is

completely random and therefore it can't

be managed. So you're just you know

you're you're a victim of chance. Well

that's the old way of thinking. Here's a

reframe.

You can go where there's more luck.

You can go where there's more luck.

If you wanted to be an entrepreneur and

you made the mistake of moving to the

desert and you didn't even have

neighbors and there was no jobs there,

how much luck would you have?

It wouldn't work out. But if you wanted

to be an entrepreneur and you moved to

the uh Bay Area and you know you did all

the things that network and meet people

and take the right jobs and you know go

go work for the right company and learn

the right skills. Yeah, you can totally

manage your luck. Are you kidding me?

Luck might be the easiest thing you

could ever manage. You just do all the

things.

You just do all the things that bring

luck like be around successful people,

build your talent stack, have a system

instead of a goal.

Absolutely. You can control luck.

Absolutely.

All right.

All right. Here's one that's more about

uh just not This one's very relevant to

me. So the usual old frame is that uh if

you're having some bad luck, you think

that you're unusually unlucky because

they happen to you.

You think of all the things that could

happen to anybody

and then you think, "Oh man, why are all

these things happening to me? Why me?

Why do I have all these problems?"

That's the old way of thinking. Here's

the reframe.

The reframe is everyone has problems.

Everyone has problems. Just just the

fact that you don't know somebody else's

problem,

that's pretty gutsy of you to think that

your problem's bigger than theirs. You

don't know their problems. You don't

know anything about people's problems.

The the really big ones they keep to

themselves. You know, sometimes you see

it if it's a physical thing like in my

case, but generally speaking, you know,

people's people's battle is inside their

head and and that could be quite a

fierce battle. You don't know what's

going on in there. So the moment you

think why me? Why me? The reframe is

everybody's got problems.

You don't have the special problems.

What makes your problem so special? And

weirdly, it makes you feel better

because you don't feel targeted. You

still have the same number of problems,

but [clears throat] you don't feel

targeted by the universe, which is worth

that's worth something. Because if you

don't feel targeted by the universe,

then it's going to be much easier to use

the earlier reframe where you say, uh,

I'm just going to make something happen.

All right. Is anybody enjoying this yet?

I I want to see if I should do more of

these or we should uh pivot. Today's

experimental

and and if I'm being perfectly

transparent,

um there are I guess three reasons I'm

doing this today despite being uh near

death and not feeling good at all. Don't

feel good at all and a lot of pain.

[clears throat] It's a really good

distraction for me. So when I'm

distracted, I'm not in pain. And my

favorite distraction, the best

distraction you could ever have is that

you're doing something that's useful for

somebody else, right? So, I'm I'm trying

to do something that's useful for you

guys.

Uh cuz that will make me distracted and

feel good. So, it's it's selfish, but

it's symbiotic. Little symbiosis going

on here. All right. The [clears throat]

other reason is that I'm like a tuna. I

am so trained to work at this time of

day that I was downstairs 15 minutes

before going live, saying to myself, uh,

I guess I'll just skip today. And then

something happened like some kind of

tuna instinct. And next thing I know,

I'm pushing my little walker. Yeah, I

stayed in it and push it backwards

toward the elevator. Next thing I know,

I got a cup of coffee and next thing I

know, I'm live. It's like there's some

kind of instinct or habit that's been so

deeply, you know, ingrained in me, I

couldn't help it. So, there's that. And

the the third reason, do you know what

the third reason is?

One is just a distraction. Two is that

uh is habit. And three is I love you

madly.

That's it. I just love you badly. So,

spending time with all of you is just

just great every single time. All right,

let's do another one.

Oh, [clears throat] here's one from my

mom.

So, if my siblings are watching, you'll

recognize this one. Um,

do you know how everybody in the world

says things should be fair?

Everything should be fair. Oh, that's

not fair. It's not fair. Politicians say

it, children say it. I jokingly

sometimes say that fairness was invented

so that uh idiots and children could

have something to talk about.

Have you ever ever heard me say that?

Fairness was invented so idiots and

children would have something to talk

about. [laughter]

That's not [clears throat] fair, right?

But so everybody thinks that fairness is

a desirable trait. Correct?

Probably every one of you would agree

with the statement. It's better to be

fair than to be unfair. I think every

one of you would agree except my mother,

my my dearly departed mother. What she

taught me was

that fairness is sort of the enemy of

success [laughter]

and [clears throat] that you should

strive to get more get more than other

people. [laughter]

[clears throat] And if you're shooting

for fairness, you're a sucker. No, she

didn't use those words. I'm making up

all those words, but in essence,

uh, in essence, old Virginia Adams, uh,

she wanted you to try as hard as you

could and do your best your best

possible work so you could have the best

possible, you know, benefit from your

work.

Why Why would you want me to play for a

tie?

Why would your mother Why would your

mother want you to play for a tie?

No, no. She wanted me to win. She didn't

want me to play for a tie.

[laughter]

Fairness is the enemy of success.

Anyway, she never used those words. I I

sort of put those in her mouth,

but she she certainly was on the

concept. Uh

here's another one more relative to the

artists. How many of you are artists?

either either for a hobby or for your

job.

Show me your show me the artists. Got a

lot of artists. We we often have a lot

of artists. The the people who most

follow me are uh lawyers, medical

people, engineers, and artists

more than any other anybody else. Look

at all the artists. Damn, look at all

you. That's a lot of artists. There are

more on locals than there are on

[snorts] YouTube. A lot of them on

locals. Look at all that. Wow. A lot of

artists.

It's good to see you artists. All right.

Here's your reframe for the artists.

Generally speaking, you would, let's

say, if you're not a good artist, this

would be your frame. For those who are

good artists, you have probably already

discovered what I'm about to reframe.

So this might be for the people who are

not as accomplished as all of you are.

You would think that here's the old

frame. The old frame would be you want

to avoid mistakes,

right? It doesn't matter what you're

doing. Doesn't matter if you're doing

art or music or what you want to avoid

mistakes. Duh. Everybody wants to avoid

mistakes.

But that's the old way of thinking.

Here's a reframe.

Invite mistakes into your art and keep

the good ones.

Invite mistakes into your art and then

keep the good ones.

And the reason that you do it that way

is that you can't always anticipate what

the art will feel like until you do it.

You have to do it and then feel it. And

then if you feel it and it feels right,

but it looks wrong, you keep it.

[snorts] Did you hear that? It looks

wrong, but it feels right. It looks

wrong, but it feels right, so you keep

it. That's art.

[snorts]

All right.

These are all gems. I don't know why

this is a more popular book. [laughter]

I'm completely aware of the fact that

this is having a big impact on the lives

of the people who happen to be here

today. you you kind of got lucky that uh

and I I say that with all due humility.

The reframes are doing the work, not me.

I'm just reading them. Uh but they are

powerful and if if you endure, you know,

a couple dozen of these, the odds of it

changing your life are really good.

Really good.

All right, here's the next one. Um have

you ever been tasked with coming up with

a good idea? You know, you knew you

needed a good idea. Maybe it was your

job to come up with a good idea, but you

didn't have one. So the the uh

the old frame is that you need to come

up with a good idea. So it's the come up

with that's the active part. You're

coming up with it. You're in you're

you're inventing it out of nothing.

[snorts] But that's an old reframe, an

old frame. Here's a better one. I need

to release all my bad ideas as quickly

as possible. Sounds like the opposite,

doesn't it? So instead of coming up with

a good idea, you focus on releasing the

bad ideas. Meaning that if you keep

thinking of a bad idea and it's stuck in

your head, it's more important to get

rid of that bad idea because a new idea

will come in automatically.

Ideas come in well, if you're a creative

person at all, creative ideas will come

in automatically as long as there's a

landing space. So you have to like clear

the landing space. It's less important

that you're producing ideas, producing,

producing, producing. It's more

important that you're getting rid of

them because you're producing so many.

And if the old ones are getting in the

way, they'll really slow you down. So,

get rid of the old ones.

[snorts]

Excuse me.

All right. Here's one.

>> [snorts]

>> Do you ever have that uh what's it

called when you feel like an impostor at

your job?

That would be

imposttor syndrome. [laughter] I always

confuse that with Dunning Krueger, but

Dunning Krueger's different. It's just

imposttor syndrome, right? So, if you

have impostor syndrome where you think,

I'm just faking it. Everybody else seems

like they know what they're doing, but I

hope they don't find out I'm just faking

it.

So almost everybody will have the

impostor feeling at one time or another.

So the old re the old frame is I feel

like an imposttor at my job. Here's a

reframe for feeling like an imposttor.

You ready for this? This will completely

wipe that away. If you've ever had

imposttor syndrome, I'm going to remove

it forever now with one sentence. Do you

think I can do it? with one sentence. I

will cure forever. If you have the

feeling that you're ever an impostor,

here it comes.

Everyone is an impostor.

And we're done. [laughter]

Everyone's an impostor. There there's no

such thing as the non-impostor.

Everybody is pretending to be a little

bit better than they are. Some are

pretending to be a lot better. Some are

pretending to be a little bit better.

But everyone's an impostor.

And they also, if they're if they're

smart at all, they know they're an

impostor. They know you're an impostor.

But here's the important part. They know

you know they're an imposttor.

[laughter]

As soon as you think there's such a

thing as imposters and non-impostors,

well, then you're in trouble because you

won't have anybody to certify that

you're not the imposttor. Because we all

feel like imposters. But as soon as you

realize that everyone's an imposttor,

it's not like it's not like, well, here,

let's divide them up. We got a bunch of

impostors over here and a bunch of real

ones over here. No, they're all

imposters, just different degrees.

Yeah. All right. That that one will

change some lives.

All right. Uh

well, here's a useful one. So this one

would be almost the basis of maybe I

don't know half of all mental health

technique.

So so this one will look familiar but

the more you remind yourself of it the

more useful it is. So the old the old

frame would be that the way your mood is

determined is by your internal thoughts.

If you're in a bad mood

probably your your internal thoughts are

bad. If uh you're depressed or anxious

or whatever, it's cuz your thoughts

uh your internal thoughts are bad, you

know, or suboptimal.

But here's the reframe. You can improve

your mood by completing meaningful

tasks.

You can improve your mood

by completing meaningful tasks. That's

it. Just get some work done. Get

something done. Everybody feels feels

better when they get some time. May

maybe just cleaning cleaning the house.

[snorts]

But if you do something meaningful,

especially if it's meaningful toward

your future, such as, you know, signing

up for college classes or increasing

your talent stack or something like

that, it's all going to be good.

All right. Um so you can improve your

mood by completing me but more more

generally you can improve your internal

feeling by changing what your body is

doing because I always tell you your

body is your brain. [snorts]

This is that your body is your brain. If

you take your body and go for a run your

brain will feel better.

If you uh well you know if you do

anything that's good for your body your

body will reward you and your brain will

like it.

All right. Uh,

here's one that maybe this one won't uh

this won't help you too much, but it

made me feel good.

The the old frame is some kind of art is

good [snorts] and some kind of art is

bad.

Would you agree that that's basic? Some

art is good, some art is bad. Everybody

would agree with that. Nope.

That's an old frame. Sorry, my

some reason my nose is running. Um, so

the old frame is some art is good and

some [clears throat] is bad. Um, here's

my reframe. And again, this is this is

purely this is self- serving as hell. If

there's a market for the art is good

art. That's my reframe. My reframe is,

is somebody going to buy it?

If somebody's going to buy it,

it's good art.

if if they would only be willing to look

at it if you bought it.

[laughter]

I'm not so sure that's good art.

[clears throat]

So, the the reason I think that this is

funny is that uh

my art would often be considered

substandard,

but it is highly purchased.

[laughter]

You know what I mean? So, Dilbert is not

considered a, you know, a Mona Lisa kind

of work of art.

Uh,

but people buy it. So, you tell me. If

people are going to put their money on

it, isn't that a better sign that

there's some art going on?

[laughter]

All right, that one's just for me.

Um, here's one I've I've taught you

before, but again, every time you hear

this, it it it's more powerful.

The old way of thinking of things is

that if you create something, let's say

you make a TV show or a song or

something and somebody praises it,

uh, could be a product, but somebody

praises it, [snorts] you've got

something good. Would you agree? If you

make a thing, whatever the thing is, and

then people [clears throat] say good

things about it, you've got a you've got

a hit,

right? Nope.

Nope. What people say about your

creation is almost unrelated to its

potential success. Instead, the reframe

is uh

only action predicts a hit, not words.

So, you want to watch for people to

extend or modify your creation.

Does that make sense? I'll give you an

example. When Dilber first launched,

uh a lot of people said, "Oh, that I

like that." And some people said, "I

don't like that." But the words were not

really predictive.

Some liked it, some didn't. Probably

more didn't than did. But at the same

time that people were talking about it,

the part that's not predictive, there

were other people who were making their

own Dilbert books by taking my comics

and cutting them out, organizing them by

theme, and then putting them in a

binder, and effectively making their own

book. Now, the first time I heard

somebody do that, I go, "Really? You You

literally have been cutting them all

out, organizing them, and making your

own book." Yes.

And then I heard somebody else do it.

So, completely unrelated, somebody who

had nothing to do with the first person.

And I thought, "Really? There are two

people in the world who would make their

own book [laughter]

out of and out of the scraps of comics

I'm making?" And then it turned into,

you know, three people, four people,

five people. If you have multiple people

who are taking your product and turning

it into some form of a related product

like the book, that is 100% predictable

that you have a hit. What people do is

really predictive. What people say,

well, we say a lot of stuff, but we

don't spend our time on anything that we

think is not worth the time. But we'll

talk about things that aren't too

abortant. We'll lie. But nobody lies

by making a Dilbert book, right? There's

nobody who ever woke up and said, "I'm

going to fool people by making a Dilbert

book when there's not a Dilbert book."

This was before there was any there was

no Dilbert book. So, yeah. So, watch

what they do, not what they say.

Here's one for writers. Anybody have

writer's block?

If you have writer's block, next two

reframes are for you. Okay?

Um, if you have writer's block, you

often say to yourself while you're

sitting there, I have writer's block.

The worst thing you could do is sit

there with writer's block and say, I

have writer's block. So, I deny that it

exists. That's part of my technique.

That's not the reframe. I'm just telling

you. I I deny that it exists. I have

been personally asked, do I get um do I

get any kind of writer's block?

It's [clears throat] probably the single

most frequent question I've ever been

asked.

Do you ever get any writer's block? Do

you know what I always say? Nope. Never.

Not once. It's not even a thing.

As soon as you allow that it's a thing,

it kind of becomes a thing. But let me

tell you the reframe. So it'll never be

a thing. You ready?

I will solve writer's block for you

right now.

So instead of saying I have writer's

block, the first thing, this is just one

of two reframes. Uh instead of saying

you have writer's block, say I'm trying

to write at the wrong time of day.

It's the wrong time of day.

Because I can tell you that I can write

at, you know, early in the morning.

I I have no writer's block ever. But by

mid-afternoon, I might be tired. So I

might be trying to write at the wrong

time of day. That's not really a

writer's block. That would be a time of

day problem. So you solve the time of

day problem, not the writer's block

problem. The the other reframe is I

might be in the wrong environment for

writing.

I've told you too many times that when I

go to Starbucks, as soon as I sit down

in Starbucks,

all writer's block goes away. Now, I

can't say that works for everybody

because it's it's sort of magical the

way it works even for me, but there's

something about the time and place and

the environment and the noise and the

sound and the smell, the familiarity.

I don't know what it's all about, but

sometimes it's the time of day,

sometimes it's where you are. Uh

likewise when I go to Hawaii, which I

probably won't do again, but uh when I

went to Hawaii, I would get so much good

work done cuz if you sit on a balcony

looking at the beach in Hawaii, you

don't ever want to leave, but you don't

have anything to do except work. So it

turns out that the work becomes so fun

that you just don't have any writer's

block at all. All right, here's the

here's the payoff. So, the the first few

were

good writer's block reframes, but they

don't get you there. This is the one

that's going to bring you across the uh

the finish line. You ready?

Uh instead of thinking, I can't think of

anything good to write, think I can

write something bad and fix it.

The reason that you don't write

something on the page is not exactly

because you can't think of anything.

Everybody can think of something.

It's just that you don't think it would

be worth writing down. So instead of

instead of judging it before you write

it down, you write it down first.

You look at it. If you don't like it,

you delete it or you edit it or you

change a word. But it's way easier to

tweak something that's already on the

page than it is to put something on the

page. And the moment you realize that

you can write something bad, that's

totally allowed. It's completely allowed

to write something that you won't

ultimately use. You can write anything.

Nobody's watching. And if you write

something bad, it's more likely to

suggest something to you that's not bad.

You just have to do something. So the do

something is the key part of not having

writer's block. So, if you were to watch

me if you were to watch me uh writing

like over my shoulder and I didn't know

you were there, you would see me write a

sentence, delete it, write a sentence,

delete it, write a sentence, delete it.

And I'm a professional writer. You would

you would imagine that I could write the

sentence I want and then move on. It

doesn't really work that way. It's way

easier to tweak than it is to just know

the right thing.

All right.

How we doing?

[snorts] 7:43.

Is everybody still having fun? Well, I'm

changing lives. Do we really have 84,000

people watching this live?

That's not even counting X. X is usually

30,000. So, that would be about 100,000

people watching live. I guess I should

have done this before. If [snorts]

you're just joining, I did give a health

update in the beginning of the stream.

if you wanted to go back and you could

catch up on that. Uh, but since I'm not

prepared and not feeling good today, I'm

reading out of my book,

reframe your brain and I decided I would

change some lives while I'm here. And

uh, don't have much of a plan except

that I'm going to do that. All right,

we'll do it live.

All right, these are the mental health

reframes.

Uh, now we're into good some good stuff.

Did you ever have Well, I've I've done

this one before in a number of ways, but

the more ways I do it, the better it is.

Um,

did you ever think that you are your

inner thoughts? Sometimes I say that. I

I think my Kira the Don uh song says

something like that, that you are your

inner thoughts. How many of you think

that who you really are, the real you,

is what you're secretly thinking that

maybe not everybody knows. Is that who

you are? Are you your secret thoughts?

It feels like it, doesn't it? Well, that

would be the normal way of thinking of

things. But, uh, I'm going to give you

the Dr. Laura reframe that blew my mind

when I heard it years ago. Instead of

you are what you think, you are what you

do.

You are what you do. Now, this might

confuse you because the Akira the Dawn

song that features my podcasting voice

put to music which recently released um

I say what do I say that uh you are what

you think about the most. Now that would

be confusing wouldn't it? I said you are

what you do not not your inner thoughts

but I also said you are what you think

about the most. The way to reconcile

that is that the you are what you think

about the most is in the context of you

can change what you do which is what you

think about. [laughter]

So thinking is doing. So if you

consciously change the the amount of

time you're thinking negative thoughts

and you consciously make sure no that

was a negative thought let me let me

throw in some positive thoughts.

Well, then you can actually change who

you are to a happier person, for

example, less neurotic.

But generally speaking, you are what you

do. So if you have some bad thoughts

about people that you never mention, but

you save babies from a burning building,

you're still the person who saved the

baby from the burning building. That's

way more who you are than the secret

thoughts that you didn't tell anybody.

So you are what you do. If you want to

be a better person, do better things. Do

something nice for somebody. If you want

to be popular,

do something nice for somebody.

All right. Um, here's one. How many of

you have ever thought or maybe gagged

when you heard somebody else say it that

they were trying to find themselves? I

need to find myself.

I need to I need to figure out who I am.

Bad idea. Here's a reframe. Instead of

being a explorer and trying to figure

out who you are, how about authoring

yourself to be what you want to be? You

can author your situation.

You don't have to discover who you are.

You can make yourself who you want to

be. That's one of the great things about

uh human life is that you don't have to

be you don't have to be anything. You

can author yourself into almost any kind

of situation. You know, obviously you

can't author yourself a billion dollars

just because you want to. Maybe some

people can.

But I love these words. Instead of

finding yourself, author yourself.

That's very that's very powerful if you

you know if you take that to heart

author yourself because sometimes we

forget that we have that power that we

can turn ourselves into whatever we need

to turn ourselves into.

All right.

Um

oh here's a good one. So

if you tend to be judgmental

does anybody have that problem?

Is there anybody here who tends to be

too judgmental and you know it's hurting

you because people don't like it and

maybe you don't like it either but

you're just too judgmental.

All right.

Yes.

All right. If you're judgmental, here's

a reframe for you. uh instead of the

usual frame for judging people, which is

that some people are good and some are

not,

it would make more sense to say we're

all flawed

and we're all good at different things.

We're all flawed

and we're all good at different things.

Isn't that fair? It's not like you're

the good one and and the person you're

judging is the bad one. You don't you

don't think you've got some flaws?

What is that?

I'm getting many phone calls from people

I don't know.

[snorts]

All right, so let me finish that one up.

Yeah, people are flawed, but in general,

almost everybody that you're judging is

going to be better than you at at least

one thing.

Almost inevitably, no matter how much

you judge somebody, there's probably at

least one thing that they're just better

you. So, don't be so judgy.

Um,

here's one. Your critics are evil

monsters. Do you ever think that about

your critics? The people who don't like

you, they're evil monsters.

Well, I like to re reframe my critics as

my mascots. You've heard me do that. If

somebody's enough of a critic that they

can't leave you alone and they just make

it their their life's work to criticize

you specifically,

just stop calling him a a critic and

stop calling him anything else

really.

It's funny the phone's not even ringing

and it's doing that.

I better see if any of these look like

All right. Uh,

okay. Don't know most of those people.

Something's going on.

All right. Uh, how about this?

Oh, here here's one on criticism. If you

hate criticism, does anybody hate being

criticized?

If I get criticized, it's just a, you

know, a Monday. Doesn't mean anything

because I do this for a living. But if

you get criticized, it probably stings.

I'll betcha. Nobody likes being

criticized. Uh but

the old way of thinking of criticism is

it feels like a dagger to your heart.

Like, oh, I hate that criticism. It's

like a dagger to my heart. Here's a

reframe. Criticism is a chemical

reaction in the skull of someone who

isn't in the room.

Criticism

is based on a chemical reaction in the

skull of someone who isn't even in the

room with you. Now,

it could not be less important. If it

were in the room with you, maybe. But if

they're not in the room with you, all

that's happening is there's like this

little uh you know, this this little u I

don't know recipe that's boiling in

their head. Is something happening in

their head?

It it is no more meaningful than if

[clears throat] you walked by the the uh

the stove and some water was boiling and

you'd be like, "Hey, there's some water

in that in that bucket. It's boiling."

Well, that's all that's happening with

your critic except the inside of the

bucket, it's a skull and instead of

boiling water, it's just their their

brain chemistry is doing whatever. Has

nothing to do with you. It just doesn't

have anything to do with you. It's just

some chemicals boiling around inside a

skull that's not in the room. That's it.

All right.

Um,

here's one. I've been hearing other

people talk about this more as well

because once you hear it, it's so

useful. You'll you'll end up saying the

same thing. Here here's the one that is

most likely

that you will use and tell to somebody

else that I think the most likely. So

the usual frame and we all fall into

this is that everybody's thinking about

us.

Um you ever think that you think oh my

god they're judging me they're thinking

about that mistake I made. They're

watching me. Nobody's watching you.

Nobody cares. you know, maybe if you're,

I don't know, in seventh grade or

something, but if you're an adult,

people aren't really paying too much

attention to you. So, as soon as you

imagine that other people care,

probably not about whatever it is you're

worrying about. I mean, they might care

in various ways, but not about whatever

you're fattening about. They're not

thinking about you at all.

Once you realize that people don't

really think about you, it really makes

everything easier. You won't get

embarrassed. You know, even if you did

get embarrassed, you'd be like, "Okay,

they will care about that for 10, nine,

eight, done." You might care about it

for longer, but you don't need to cuz

they don't care. If they don't care, why

would you care, you know, even after

they've said it. So, nobody cares. It's

easier. You your critics, you know,

obviously your loved ones care about

you, but your critics, they're not

really thinking about you too much.

All right. Um,

here's a good one.

Is there anybody here who's a

germaphobe?

I actually have a reframe that can cure

a germaphobe.

You know, again, not every person every

time,

but for some people, some of the time it

will cure a germaphobe.

And this is one that cured me. instead

of thinking that germs will harm me

because of course germs will have the

potential to harm you. Now, when I say

germs, I'm talking about really anything

that you don't want to get on you, but

I'm just using a generic germs. Instead

of saying that germs will harm you, uh I

actually say this, this is like a real

thing. I say germs make me stronger.

And you've probably seen some science

that if you were a kid and you grew up

in a a sterile environment, you would

not be ready for the real world because

you hadn't been exposed to enough germs

and cooties. So germs is how you tune

your body.

And I literally tell myself, "Oh,

there's no problem getting some extra

germs because I I'll just be tuning my

my defenses."

And it went from, "Oh my god, I don't

want a germ. Germs to all right, load it

up. Load it up. Stronger today than I

was yesterday." And it's remarkable how

easy it is to go from these germs are

going to be the end of me to these germs

are tuning me up and making me stronger.

You just sort of have to repeat it and

it just becomes true.

So that's what's happening. All right,

ladies and gentlemen.

You have been so nice to stick with me

through this. We're approaching the top

of the hour. I know some of you have

something to do. I've got I've got to

get ready for my long day of medical

everything. [laughter]

I got problems. It was wonderful to

spend time with you because as I told

you, it takes my mind off of my physical

pain which is kind of bad. And uh I get

to spend the best time of my day, which

is with all of you awesome people.

And I also know

that even though you know I haven't met

most of you in person, that it actually

means something to you when I tell you

that you're my beloved and how much I

enjoy spending time with you. It's all

true. It's all true. I wouldn't say it.

And uh I know that that gives you a

little boost. So that's how you can

start your day. And you certainly give

me a boost. My god, you give me a boost.

I could not be more appreciative of not

only my audience here, but um if you if

you if you came in later, I could not be

more appreciative of President Trump, uh

Don Jr., Bobby Kennedy, Dr. Oz,

um and I I'll have some more people to

name later, but I want to make sure I

have permission. and uh

and they've been amazing. Dr. Drew, of

course, always always my friend.

Um and a number of other people. If I if

I didn't mention somebody, it doesn't

mean doesn't mean anything. I I got

contacted by so many people yesterday

and it's all very meaningful to me in

ways that you can't even imagine.

So, ladies and gentlemen, this is the uh

this is what we have today. I don't know

if I'll be back tomorrow. Honestly, I

don't know how long I can do this. But

for today, that was your show. And we'll

get back to we'll get back to the news

maybe sometime soon.

All right, closing down.