Episode 3013 CWSA 11/09/25

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Um, some people like it when I do a reframe before every show.

How many of you like to see a reframe before the show?

A reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain, the most important book in the English language.

In all the other ones, too, but it's not in those languages.

It's just the most important.

All right.

All right.

Here's the next one.

This is still in the mental health reframes section of the book.

Um, well, actually, you've heard this one before, so if anybody hasn't heard this one, this was very viral for reasons that kind of surprised me.

So, see if you think this should have gone viral, it did at the time.

Um, so instead of instead of the usual frame that you're a priceless work of art that must be protected, how many of you think that I mean it's an exaggeration of course, but you think that you're important, don't you?

You think I I'm more important than at least to myself.

I'm more important than other people.

The trouble is that's kind of limiting.

It would be better to say you're a potato that is easily replaced.

Here's the background on that.

If I told you to carry a priceless, you know, piece of art across the road to another museum, you'd be pretty worried that something would go wrong, right?

But you're the priceless art.

So, when you're taking care of yourself, you're the priceless art and you're just worried all the time about taking care of it.

Would you like to worry less about what's happening to you and what's going to happen to you and will a bad outcome happen?

and is it going to be the worst case scenario?

Wouldn't you like to worry about all that less?

All you have to do is think of yourself as a potato and think if I were delivering a potato like just an actual potato across the street wouldn't even matter if I dropped it.

It wouldn't matter.

So, as soon as you think of yourself more like the potato, which again is not insulting yourself, has nothing to do with your ego.

just assume that you're not so important that if something bad happened to you, it would be somehow the end of the world.

You're more like a potato than a Mona Lisa.

So, when I came up with that one, I have to admit I didn't think it would be powerful, but it's one of the ones that people have most commented on is Did Greg mention it?

I think other people have mentioned it in other contexts, so I put it out there.

Maybe you like it.

Well, scientists say they figured out how to use an MRI to transcribe your thoughts.

Do you believe that?

Now, now that I've completely ruined for you the act of reading stories about science and then believing them because it's fun to believe them, it's like, whoa, that'd be like a mind readading machine.

To which I say, if you can thwart the mind readading machine just by shaking your head, because obviously the MRI makes you be completely still, that's not much of a mind readading machine.

And uh I don't know what they use it for exactly, unless you're like a locked in syndrome or something.

Um and I also don't believe that they can do it well and I don't believe that they can do it and repeat it and I don't believe anything about the story.

What What was your first reaction to that?

Was your first reaction to the story, "Wow, they figured out how to use an MRI to read your thoughts." Or was your first thought, "That's more bullshit." Just this is just absolutely more I lean toward the on this one.

Don't know.

So, it's not I'm not making an allegation.

I'm just saying how it felt when I read it.

Little more bullshitty than credible.

Well, if you haven't seen it yet, Jimmy Kimmel and his wife are on on a podcast uh recently.

They just did a podcast and uh apparently Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off the air and uh as of this morning when I was preparing there was not yet a reason given.

Has that changed?

Has Kimmel or the network given a reason?

But apparently he missed I don't know a couple nights and they don't know when he's coming back if he's coming back or why he left.

Um somebody said that it was maybe a personal thing something personal but then when they showed on the podcast um well I don't know when the podcast was was uh recorded so that might make a difference but uh we'll we'll find out the mystery.

But I'll tell you what, uh, we learned a little bit about the dynamic there.

You you could tell that Jimmy Kimmel puts a great weight in his wife's opinion.

Do you mind if I say it in the non-judgmental way?

That would be the non-judgmental way to say it.

It's clear when you see them interact that he puts a lot of respect into his wife's opinion.

I'm not saying that's good or bad because, you know, it's their relationship, not mine.

And there's no one right, there's no one way to do anything.

But, you know, respecting your spouse is a really good place to start.

So, so if you're going to judge him because he seems a little a little whipped.

I don't think that's fair.

I don't think that's fair at all.

It's his relationship.

He can be as whipped as he wants or not whipped.

It's none of our business.

So, and I'm wondering, have any of you heard a reason?

Even speculation.

I am curious as heck what's going on here.

Some say if it's a personal problem, then I just send my I'll send my, you know, understanding and uh and empathy if there's just some, you know, might be a family problem or something and that wouldn't be funny.

All right.

Um, but here's the thing I I wonder about.

So, his wife, Jimmy Kimmel's wife, really made me uh curious about her opinions.

And one of the things she said was that I guess she used to be in sort of a Republican world when she was younger, but later she she found out what the other side was saying and liked that side better and became a Democrat, I guess.

So that that part makes sense.

A lot of people have, you know, gone from one thing to the other.

Um, but what she wondered about is uh is is whether she could be deprogrammed.

So these are her own words.

You think this is something a Republican would say about her, but these are her own words.

She said uh uh quote, "I wish there was some way to deprogram myself." Like she said that on the podcast to the world.

I wish there was some way to deprogram myself because just the act of being around other people who are Trump supporters is disturbing.

So it's not that she's saying that she's wrong.

It's that she's having a reaction to the world that she wishes she were not having.

I think that's the right interpretation.

Now again, nothing wrong with that, right?

People have opinions.

That's their opinion.

But the thing with the thing with the Democrat opinion is the things.

Now, see if see if you agree with us.

Hold on.

I'm very very parched today.

The thing I don't understand about liberal opinions is the same thing I sometimes don't understand when it comes from Republican ballots.

There's a thing that people say and do that just seems like if that's where you're at, you shouldn't be talking about politics at all.

You're not ready.

And it goes like this.

All the people who are making mistakes about the data are on the same side.

You know what I mean?

And she basically said that so some version of that that uh she didn't want to be on the side that was wrong.

the side that was wrong.

Well, here's the part that's hard to explain.

If you really really were paying attention to politics and you really genuinely instead of, you know, just saying it because it was fun to say, if you genuinely believed, and I'm just going to pick a name, that Victor Davis Hansen, a well-known conservative, one of the smartest people in the world, he looks like it anyway, knows more than, you know, I think 10 people.

Does she really think he's dumb or that he's poorly informed?

And he's just one person.

You know, if there were only one, you could say, "Oh, maybe one person got bought off or something." But how do you explain, you know, Molly Hemingway?

I'll just pick some names, some people I like.

Basically, Molly Hemingway is super smart.

How can you possibly look at her work or her writing and go, "Oh, not a touch screen." Okay.

How can you possibly look at her her opinions or writing and think that she's not as smart as you or in this specific case way more informed than you are?

Do you not know that?

Is that something you wouldn't know?

Because I I try to be true to this principle.

For example, if I found myself disagreeing on an engineering question with um Elon Musk, what's my best play?

is my best play to say, you know, granted I'm not an engineer and a lot of smart people say that Elon Musk is not just an engineer, but the best engineer in the world and maybe the best that there ever will be.

But I think he got one wrong this time.

Do people really do that?

Is that an actual opinion?

I think he got one wrong this time in his strongest domain, you know.

And of seven billion people, the best engineer.

Really?

Yeah.

If I hear a story about the cost of uh pharma and you know what laws could be passed or what could be done on it and Mark Cuban has an opinion, he's actually in the business.

So if his opinion disagreed with mine, I wouldn't I wouldn't try to talk him out of it.

I would say what wait what should I believe?

And then he'd tell me, oh, you know, this does this, this does this.

And almost certainly it would give me some common sense opinion.

So, how do you how do you look at the world and believe that when you know Ben Shapiro is talking that you listen to listening to a dumb guy?

Come on.

If you wanted to have a uh an IQ off or an SAT off where um let's say the the 10 smartest conservatives were put up against the 10 smartest uh Democrats just to have some trivia or some you know some kind of mental IQ contest.

How do you think how do you think the conservatives would do?

I think they do pretty well.

Don't you you know do do they have a Cernovich?

Yes, they got some smart people too, right?

So, I don't want to fall into my own trap.

Democrats have very smart people.

But if you don't understand that people are can be wrong on both sides, then you should not even be in the conversation.

Would you agree with that?

If it's not your intention to find out which side is right and it's only your intention to make sure that your side looks right, what are you adding to the world?

like what what's your value ad there?

Unless you know unless it's your job to do something like and you get paid for it, that'd be different.

All right.

So, you know, was what was fun about this is that uh Jimmy Kimmel's wife is not really part of politics, but she said some of the most interesting and new things that I had to talk about.

So, I'm sure they're very nice people.

I hear I hear good things about them, actually.

Um, the BBC, if you haven't seen this story, it's so it's just mindboggling.

The BBC apparently is going to apologize, which means that they're admitting it happened for deceptively editing President Trump's Trump's January 6 speech in an effort to make it look like he encouraged violence at the capital.

What?

How is this even real news?

Are we are we so are we so beaten up about how fake the news is that this is sort of a a side story?

Am I wrong that this is just a side story?

That the BBC made up a narrative that just didn't happen and pasted together some clips and made it look like the opposite of what he said.

That that should sort of be the biggest story you've seen, except for all the other ones that are just insanely illegal looking.

Certainly looks illegal.

Anyway, do you think an apology is going to save them because Trump's Trump's going to take the apology?

Of course, he's going to bank the apology, but he's going to use the apology to show that there's no question about fact.

And then he's going to ask for something.

He might sue them, get them to settle because they can't they don't have a possibility of winning.

They couldn't possibly win a lawsuit, I don't think.

I mean, I'm no lawyer.

You You'll have to ask the lawyers.

Um, but yeah, I got some kind of moths Okay.

I believe the moth either survived or is clinging to my hand as a nasty desiccated corpse.

Okay.

Looks good.

Looks good.

All right.

So, looks like Trump's going to get another payday from the BBC.

According to a ex user called Chaz Miselle um who's been in the past he's been a chief of staff at Trump's DOJ and he looked at some data and found that since 1963 listen to this 75% of all nationwide injunctions have been against President Trump since 1963.

75% of all the ones done in the country for any reason were Trump.

Now again, I didn't fact check this, so you might want to fact check that.

And then he says 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat appointed judges.

So 90% from Democrat judges and all of them just recently basically.

Uh, and yet the administration says Chad.

Uh, so and yet with all of those injunctions, how did the Trump administration do fighting them off?

Well, it won 92% of the time.

92% of the time.

Now, that is as uh that's just about as anti- athoritarian as you can get, right?

If 8% of the time you said, "Okay, you win." and you walked away, but 92% of the time you were just dead ass right, so you just won.

Isn't that like the least authoritarian thing you could think of, right?

If you could walk away from 8% of the things you really wanted to do, but the court said, "You can't do that." And you can walk away and and you can just walk away say, "All right, we really want to do that, but we'll work on something else." Not too authoritarian.

According to a federal audit, and there should be federal audits of all the states all the time, every day in my opinion, like I actually mean that the federal government's main job should be auditing the states because the states are just out of control.

They're they're just taking our money and throwing it in the ocean.

Um 62,000 commercial driver's licenses were handed out to people who were in California illegally.

62,000 illegal driver's licenses.

62,000.

So if if you're wondering, is it a big problem, small problem?

That's a lot.

62,000 seems like enough that it could move a lot of different races.

I mean, I don't know how many races that would that would be able to change if depending on the distribution.

All right.

Um, do you know how many of you know who Michael Sailor is?

S A Y L O R.

Michael Sailor.

He's sort of one of the big names or maybe even the biggest name, I don't know, in crypto.

Uh, he's in the commercial side of things.

So, he owns a company called called Micro Strategy and uh I've only watched a little bit of his content, but it basically goes like this.

buy Bitcoin and then I I'll watch some extra other of his content and that content will go like this.

Buy Bitcoin.

But then something bit like big will happen.

They'll, you know, change the change the nature of everything.

So you can rethink all your strategies and then he'll come out and he'll say buy Bitcoin.

And the annoying thing is he hasn't been wrong yet.

if he could be wrong a few times, it'd be that'd be nice.

But in the short run, such as right now, it actually is.

It's taken quite a haircut.

Bitcoin has.

So, if you're a very casual casual casual follower of crypto and you're sort of wondering, you know, I have a little bit.

Should I sell it?

I don't give advice, by the way.

So, this will this will not be advice.

Um, I don't give financial or health advice.

you wouldn't want to listen to any of my financial or health advice.

Um, but it's way down, way down, I don't know, 50% or something.

So, some amount from the beginning of the year.

Uh, but that's not unusual in the Bitcoin world.

And Bitcoin is not like the other cryptos because it's, you know, got this mathematical uh sort of perpetual value whereas the other ones are literally backed by nothing.

They both sound like nothing, but one of them is, you know, treated as if it's a something.

So there's a difference.

Anyway, um he's probably going to be right again because I would be amazed if he didn't say buy Bitcoin.

the the argument for Bitcoin is that there isn't really any way for it to go down forever.

It just it's just one of those things that if you just waited, you know, the there would be periods where it's down for sure, but the odds of it just sort of going away, a lot of people think it's low.

So, when somebody like me, who's not your financial adviser, says something as bold as, "I don't think that Bitcoin's just going to go away." What happens next?

When people like me say, "That's never going to go away.

You better watch what happens on Monday because it probably go away on Monday because it's just the way the world is is organized.

It's just the way the simulation works.

So, no, you should not listen to me.

But if that helped, uh, if that helped, but let me ask, was that level of detail because I know many of you are way way past that and you understand crypto.

How many of you found it useful just to hear like a little top level what's up with crypto?

Like, I wouldn't go further than that.

Was that useful or no?

I'm just looking at your comments.

Mhm.

All right.

You'll let me know.

All right.

U apparently Chicago's downtown office vacancy rate has now hit a record high of 28%.

Can you even imagine a city that's 28% vacant?

How does it survive that?

I always speculate that there are some magic numbers for things to fall apart.

One of them is 10%, the other is 20%.

That that if anything goes to 10% problem, whatever it is, whatever the problem is, if it gets to 10%, then things could, you know, start getting out of control, but also 20%.

Depending on the thing, you know, so whenever I see a 10 or a 20 coming, I'm like, whoa, 10 or a 20 coming.

But when it's at 28, it feels like it's already broken out into you can't get this toothpaste back in the tube.

Is it just me?

Now, here I'm only talking about how it feels.

This this is again not what's happening.

It's just how it feels like it's out of control.

And I'm also curious because you may have heard that the uh real estate in New York City is actually coming back and prices are holding up and people are moving back to New York City.

So wouldn't it be interesting to know what was so different about New York City that allowed some of it to come back already?

Some of it and and Chicago maybe getting worse.

It doesn't even say if it's just getting better.

So just the news is reporting on this.

I will I'll say for self-improvement purposes.

Uh as a consumer of news when I see a story like this, this is what I want to see contextwise.

Uh I want to see which direction it's moving because 28 I it's probably in the story.

I don't know if it's in the story or not.

I was skimming things today.

So I'm pretty sure that they covered the the numbers that matter.

Justin News does a really good job by the way.

You should always check them out.

Uh, just the news it's called.

All right.

Um, but 28% you'd want to know which direction it's going and you'd want to know what the other cities besides New York were looking at.

And you'd want to know why is New York coming back or why do people speculate it's coming back?

Would they do differently?

Is it crime?

I don't know.

I guess corporate earnings were kind of good this quarter, but people are still worried.

So, they the stock market didn't go up that much.

Uh, well, actually, that's not true.

Everybody's got a different reason for why the stock market didn't move.

I saw one reason was uh that it's already gone up.

So, you know, it already anticipated good news, maybe.

But have you noticed that whenever the stock market goes up or down, whether it goes up or down, somebody's got a reason that you can't check?

You know, that you can't really check.

It's like, well, I think it's the uh animal spirits, Bob.

Uh, you know, people saw Trump jump and grab his ear and suddenly they reach for the wallet.

And you know, everybody's just got some wild ass story that they're pretty sure they can sell, especially if they're selling financial products.

You can never stop Bitcoin.

Well, that's probably what everybody says before something gets stopped, but I know what you mean.

I agree.

All right.

So yesterday I uh lit a match and threw it on some gas and I want to talk this through with you guys.

Okay.

So this is going to start out with sounding like I disagree with you.

But if I do this right, by the time I'm finished with this topic, which is going to be healthcare, uh you will say, "Oh, we're not actually on different pages." You ready for this?

We'll see if I can pull this off.

What I said was that the I guess some of the Democrats were thinking about a one-year extension to the ACA, Obamacare, until they could figure out, you know, a better solution.

Now, the Republicans were offering to open the government and negotiate just over a few, you know, the next several weeks, a much smaller period of time.

So when they offered that, the only change they offered besides just keeping the government open at the same rate so they can feed the people and then work out a real budget.

Um, so they were going to do that, but a lot of the Republicans said to me when I commented that it seemed reasonable.

So I to me that was the first reasonable offer.

Now when I say reasonable, that doesn't mean they should take it, right?

I mean, you've watched me long enough to know a reasonable offer doesn't mean you accept it.

You know, you can do better.

Ask Trump.

If you said, if you said to Trump, they made a reasonable offer.

Should you take it?

Do you think he'd say yes?

No, because he knows how to do this.

You'd say, well, may maybe we'll bump him up a little bit.

Maybe we'll tap that along a little bit.

Maybe get a little extra because he knows how to do this.

So, so now the Democrats have an offer.

there's something to respond to.

And people told me, "Scott, the reason you can't you say yes and see if you agree with this." Okay, this this is the part where I'm going to catch you.

So, put on your smartest thinking cap uh and and see where this is going.

So people told me, Scott, if you let this run for another year and you agree to an extension to essentially the current system, then you will have essentially created yet another system that never goes away.

If you don't get it now, you'll never be able to get it.

Right?

Look at the comments.

If you don't, if you don't turn this off when you can, when you've got an opportunity, you might never get another opportunity to turn it off.

Is that a reasonable point of view?

How many of you think that's a reasonable point of view?

That things the government does never go away.

Any any program you implement will never go away.

How many of you would agree with that statement?

We'll keep it simple.

Would you agree with this with the statement that any major program because you know this is a major program that any major program that's implemented and lasts for a while you can't get rid of it?

Everybody on the same page?

You know you know the trick is coming right?

The prestige.

I don't even know what that is but has something to do with magic.

All right.

Now you now I'm going to turn your world around.

If your point of view is that once something is implemented, it can't be changed, then it's already implemented and it can't be changed.

You you have a you have a point of view that is both forward and backward at the same time.

They can't both be true.

It can't be true that you could stop this thing now after years of being implemented and being a major program if it's also true that you can't get rid of things once they've been put in.

So which is it?

You can't get rid of something and then put in or you can only two possibilities.

But many of you have chosen both.

You see what I'm saying?

Many of you have chosen both.

You can't have both.

It it either can be canceled or it can't.

So what I'm saying is if you accept the notion, and by the way this is iffy.

I'll admit this is iffy.

But if you accept the notion that all things are cancellable if you try hard enough and and Trump would be the ultimate canceller, right?

If if you just said to me, "Nobody could cancel this." And I said, "Trump?

You telling me Trump couldn't cancel it?

Trump could cancel it.

He's like the ultimate canceller.

So you wouldn't compare him to anybody else, you know, in the cancelling department." No.

You got really quiet, didn't you?

All right.

Now, I need some confessions.

For some of you, this twisted your brain around 280 degrees.

How many of you had not realized that it was inconsistent to say you need to cancel it now because nothing can be cancelceled now?

How how many had caught that before I mentioned it?

It kind of sort of hiding there, isn't it?

it it's both obvious after I tell you, but if I don't tell you directly that it's there and it's looking right at you, you know, then there's no doubt about it.

I mean, there's not even an opinion.

It's just a description of what's happening.

You're right.

And we can get rid of it.

Yeah.

I'm usually on the there's some way you can get rid of anything.

Apparently, 59% of Americans blame Trump for the increased grocery prices.

Fox News is reporting that.

59%.

Now, you would think the 59% blaming grocery prices as often as you have to look at those.

Those are the really insulting ones.

Um, you'd think that would be enough to keep a Republican from ever winning again.

Well, in 2028, let's say, don't you think that would be enough to just totally kill the Republican chances?

So, the real the real question would be, could that be fixed?

Is there any way at all and I'm wondering if there's some clever um totally out of the box way to approach food costs that gives So here's here's the minimum it would have to do.

The minimum it would have to do is keep the current system intact.

So whatever it is would have to be not the government paying for it and um yeah not the government that's the main thing not the government paying for it and it would have to be just a separate system.

So let me give you an example.

Suppose somebody started a store for the poor and it only had four items.

Um had some I don't know chicken protein uh some you know something reasonably inexpensive that's a protein and uh you know some vegetables that might even come from some place where the vegetables were suboptimal.

So they not sub-optimal, but let's say cut in different shapes.

So maybe it'd make some soup or whatever.

So yeah.

So I think if you tried to build a a grocery store that only had when you were done 20 items that that then nobody would starve because they'd always have 20 items and it wouldn't be the only place they could get food.

you know, they could also just use their social security or some of it to buy regular food.

So, everybody would still have everything they have now, but those people who really really wanted to save money and they really really were on a diet could go get their, you know, chicken thing that's totally healthy.

Uh, and the government just make sure that somebody sells it to you.

No.

All right.

Just running that idea by you.

Did you see the story I talked about that uh investigative reporter Steve Baker um believes that he's uh seen some gate analysis?

That's how people walk.

They're gate.

G AI T.

And that uh the software identified one particular person who I'm going to take the advice of someone I saw online who said don't use the name.

That's sort of where I'm at on this.

I'm sort of at I don't think I want to use a name on this one because uh remember what I said if you don't see a video you have to suspend credibility basically you know it doesn't mean it's false but it doesn't mean it's true so my minimum for the pipe bomb video to be credible to Scott not to you just to me this would be my personal standard I would have to see a video of the alleged person walking in in a way that would be similar enough to what they got in video.

And then I would have to see the the actual video, which I'm not even sure they showed us the actual video.

It might have been some kind of uh clipped or AI video or something.

So, there's something going on.

And do you remember my first take on this?

Because it's important to track people's first take to see how crazy they are.

My first take was that if I don't see the video, it's not a thing.

And that's where I still am.

No video, no thing.

Well, still uh Mark Levin and Candace Owens and uh I guess Tucker, they're they're still trying to entertain us by I don't know creating some right-wing controversy that didn't need to be created whatsoever.

Um, I I I'm really curious what they think about the whole situation because it shouldn't matter to any of you, should it?

That, you know, they all have different opinions.

I said, and I'll say this again.

I've said this 10 times.

If if I were if I were Jewish, then things that wouldn't bother me if I'm not Jewish would probably bother me and I would see them as anti-Semitic.

And so when I see somebody with a Jewish background say that's anti-Semitic, I say to myself, it's not a yes or no.

You just have a filter.

Not just, but you have a filter that would guarantee that if somebody just keeps walking up to that line, you've got a right to ask, why are you always up on that line?

Why are you so interested in this?

Perfectly fair question, but it doesn't mean you're a monster.

So, and I can't read mine, so I don't know.

But I definitely see that if if I were in a group that looked like, you know, at a historical reason to be worried about something that looks exactly like this to them, maybe not to everybody.

Um I I can see it.

I can see why you'd be concerned about that, but I I would be more in the get together and talk it out kind of kind of world.

I'm not sure the I think Mark Leven might be the one who doesn't want to platform anybody.

Doesn't want to platform.

I feel like the only people I don't want to platform are the people who don't want to platform anybody.

That that feels like the only sin, doesn't it?

The only sin is censoring, not platforming.

So, but anyway, use your own judgment.

So, you know how I always tell you that the Democrats have what I call the designated liars?

They have liars that tell the lies that the normal uh normal Democrats just can't do because they're just too big.

The lies are just just so obviously lies and they're so ridiculous that the the regular, you know, ordinary normie um Democrats can't tell that I like, but Jamie Raskin can and Swallwell can and Adam Schiff can.

You know, they're among what I call the designated liars.

So they trot them out when they do them.

So one of them, this one was funny today because there's always a video of Jamie Raskin saying the opposite of what he's saying now almost every time.

And uh not too long ago, not too many years ago, uh he wanted to do away with the filibuster.

Can you guess which party was in charge of the presidency and maybe the house?

Uh when he wanted to get rid of the filibuster, you're right.

Yeah.

When the Democrats were in charge, he wanted to get rid of the filibuster.

What do you think he thinks about the filibuster now?

Because it was a good idea then.

It'd be even a better idea now, right?

Nope.

So, when you see the uh the two videos side by side, by the way, I should be giving I should be giving a a video u credit and I'm not because I didn't write it down.

So, if anybody has a video credit for that that clip find, that was genius.

They should get some attention.

All right.

Uh, one of the other designated liars, Chris Murphy, he's pretty funny.

He's actually talking about I read this in a Jonathan Turley article on The Hill.

So, Chris Murphy is talking about uh keeping the government shut through the midterms.

Now, I'm no political expert.

I just watch it on TV and on the internet, but is that really an advantage to keep it keep the government shut through the midterms?

Doesn't that doesn't that sound bashy crazy to you?

And and then I thought, oh, let's put this in context.

The context for uh the Democrats seem to be that something good happens and then they all try to guess what it was that made the good thing happen.

But they don't know what made the good thing happen.

So for a while they thought that swearing is what made somebody win an election.

Why?

Because they take they can't tell what works.

They had no idea what works.

They're like, "Well, he swears a lot." And they're even talking about it.

The Republicans are actually laughing at it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that makes him look like a fighter.

Yeah, it must be the swearing.

It's the swearing, right?

So, they keep coming up with these absolutely crazy hypotheses about why uh why the Republicans are winning.

Like, one of them is that um all they have to do is get their own Joe Rogan.

That might be the funniest the funniest one they ever did because it just broadcasts such a lack of understanding about how anything in the world works.

No, you can't just make it Joe Rogan.

Nobody can make it Joe Rogan.

His mother had enough trouble doing it.

And it's only been done once.

Only once.

Anyway, when I say his mother, I mean she gave birth to him.

So, uh, yeah.

So Chris Murphy thinks that would be an advantage to keep the government shut.

Maybe, you know, I and the funny thing is I can't really rule it out because it depends as much on how the news handles it.

If the news handled it the way they're handling it now, CNN has been pretty hard on the Democrats.

Does that work for them?

If if CNN is essentially blaming you, which they are, does that work for Democrats?

feels like they're just not reading the room.

You know, we always say Trump's the best at reading the room.

Boy, is he.

He's just the best at reading the room.

Um, and I guess the majority leader, John Thun.

And by the way, John Thun is named after the sound that a blow dart makes in the jungle.

Sorry.

Anyway, he said he told reporters on Saturday that senators will remain in session.

They're going to stay open and uh they don't get to pretend they're working and collecting their paycheck unless we get some government.

Give us some government, you pastors.

All right, that's probably good politics to make it look like the Republicans are there the whole time and they're not going to they're not going to be lazy and if the Democrats agree, they can sign it tomorrow.

So, it's a good look.

I'll say that.

Meanwhile, over in the world of Fanny and Freddy, how many of you have any idea what Fanny May and Freddy Mack are?

Like if if somebody brought that up in a conversation over dinner, would you have any idea what that was?

For me, the most important part about it is that Bill P is in charge of both of them.

He's he's the government um head administrator or I don't know what the actual terms are in this case, but you put Bill PE into any business situation and things start getting better and that's actually what's happening right now.

So, one of the things they're looking at is uh considering legal I guess it would be legalizing it.

This must be illegal right now.

But they're talking about uh 50-year mortgage option.

Now, what you should know is that uh the longer the loan, the more interest you're going to pay, right?

So, everybody understands that just because you make it a 50-year loan, yes, the price per payment can go down quite a bit and allow people into the market.

But when you're done, you might pay triple.

You might pay triple the interest uh because it's 50 years instead of 30.

It's a big difference.

But on any given payment day, it would be cheaper.

So I would say this is if you're talking to your friends about it, here's the one thing you need to know to be the smartest person in the room.

Okay, smartest person in the room.

Here it comes.

It depends on your situation.

So there could be some people who, for example, know they have a kind of job that uh they're doing okay at the moment, but they know that they'll do way better in the future because it's just one of those jobs.

You know, maybe they're becoming a gynecologist or something.

They know that as they build up the practice, they'll they'll have a lot more income in the future.

If you knew that, then you might say, "All right, I'll get the 50-year mortgage because then I can get into a house I like as soon as possible, and then when my income zooms up, and it might be 10 years, but eventually it goes up, uh, then I can just re refi and refinance and bring it down by win." So, so you can have both a long-term mortgage on day one, so it's cheap in your payments, but as soon as you make more money, if you do, you don't have to, but if you did, you you could pay it down so you get everything.

Um, so that would be one example, but how many people can know for sure that they're going to make a lot more money later compared to how much they're making now?

That's a little iffy.

So everybody's got to manage their own risk profile.

But this is why you need a bill ple because this is the sort of thing that's psychological as much as financial because people would have to think I understand what this is.

I understand when I would use it and I understand what the government is doing to make this easier for me.

And that's the sort of thing that a pie can do that an average an average person who's not good at persuasion couldn't do.

But P is amazing.

All right.

Um, Trump apparently has made some threats to Nigeria based on some coverage from Fox News.

Apparently, at least that's the reporting.

And there's an article in the Wall Street Journal by u some good work by Annie Linsky and Drew Henshaw and Joe Parkinson.

And uh apparently the the leader of Nigeria um doesn't think it's such a big problem.

And the problem that Trump is complaining about is he would call it a genocide of Christians.

And he thinks that the uh I guess they would be the Islamic goat herders have some very long-term historical beef beef.

They got a beef with the other uh with the other cattle cattle hurting people I guess.

So there's two entities that are fighting.

One of them is Christian.

The Christians seem to be outnumbered, but we're not really getting the best information about how many people are involved.

This is another one of those.

How many people are involved?

Is it is it a lot?

Which direction is it going?

Is it getting worse?

Um, so I do like the fact that Trump jumped in before he knew all the details.

Let me say this.

If you found out later, and I'm not sure that you will, but if you found out later that the problem wasn't as big as you thought, but it was real, would you be okay with how he handled it?

I would, because he got something going.

Suppose he made some claims like, "Oh, I heard on the news that 20,000 people got murdered and they were all Christians and their churches got burned down." And then you found out that it wasn't 20,000, it was a thousand, would that make you think worse of him?

Not for me.

No.

No.

He might be just genuinely, you know, wrong.

But I always tell you has he has a bias for action.

And whatever the option set is, he always picks the strongest option.

But watch how many times I tell you that.

And every time I do, you go, "Oh, I should have caught it that time.

Shouldn't have caught it.

You should have caught it this time." Yeah.

The by far the strongest thing you could do is not ask for uh not ask for details on who's actually going to hurt over there.

There's nothing stronger than I might send my military over there as as like your first reaction.

That's pretty strong.

Doesn't mean he's going to do it.

It means instead of him having to prove there's a problem, it kind of flips the responsibility onto Nigeria.

Now, Nigeria, if they're smart, are going to have to offer Trump some kind of assurance that somebody credible, I don't know, the UN maybe, is going to watch this situation and make sure that there's not, you know, some kind of genocide that's forming.

You know, there might be a bubble forming even before it happens.

So, I I think he's playing it exactly right.

and that if he takes the strongest position every time, you're just gonna see the best president who's ever been, and I think you are already.

All right, that ladies and gentlemen, was the uh the last thing I wanted to tell you before this one thing.

There was one thing.

Did you know that the Dilbert 2026 calendar is out?

And if you go to amazon.com and just uh do a search for Google calendar 2026 and my name, get the one that looks like this.

Don't get the one that's any different color.

They might be counterfeits.

There's lots of counterfeits.

And get the ones that have my name and Dilbert's name spelled correctly.

That That's how they do it.

They they just slightly misspell the name.

Uh but people are buying this like crazy and it will run out.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to check on it today.

I'll give you an update, but I wouldn't wait.

I definitely wouldn't wait until December to buy it, but the choice is yours.

All right, people.

People, if you like singing.

All right, I'm going to make a per a confession.

Uh, locals, you ready for this?

confession coming and I've got to open something before I make the confession.

That makes you stay, doesn't it?

I'll bet not a single person left when I said I have to make a confession.

This is a real confession, by the way.

It's a real one.

Um, okay.

Come on, phone.

Work faster.

I want to see your comments right away.

So, I'm putting it on this this device.

My other one went dark for some reason.

There we go.

All right.

So, um, you know, I give you health updates because, you know, I've gotten cancer, etc.

Uh, today it was a little it was rugged.

So, this morning was really painful, you know, mostly in my back area.

Really painful.

And, uh, but there were other there are other signals that might be actually very positive.

I don't know yet.

So, I'll look into it.

But here's what I want to confess.

The confession has nothing to do with the pain.

The confession has to do with the fact that I solved the pain right before we went live.

Um, as you know, uh, I am a medical user of some things that in California are completely legal and, uh, doctors are completely fine with it.

Uh, but I won't say it out loud because, you know, it's a family show.

I do not recommend this for anybody under 18.

All right?

So, if I can say this as clearly as possible so you see that you hear this first first not recommending this.

You got to make your own decisions.

And if you're under 18, you don't even get to make those and probably somebody else is making your own decisions.

But don't look to me for anything in that domain.

So, a few minutes before went live, I realized I didn't know if we could get through the show and I didn't want to go short.

Typically what I do right after the show is what I did right before the show.

So I had um yeah, we don't need to go private.

I I wanted this I wanted this to not be private actually um because I think it's important.

It's important that everybody sees you know just what is and what isn't and what works and what doesn't and that everybody's different and that this is just for utility.

This is not for entertainment.

This is for utility.

So question number one, I did four gigantic 2025 quality let's say loads loads.

Uh, and the only reason that I'm not hanging from the ceiling from the chandelier is that if you do it every day, and I'm not recommending it, just saying if you did, like me, it wouldn't affect it the same way.

So, but what it did do is it distracted andor removed my maybe half of the pain.

probably removed half of the pain almost instantly.

But the real question is how was the show?

All right.

Now, now I've confessed you you have to tell me did you enjoy the show or if some of the people on locals knew what was going on because they they see extra stuff.

But the people who did not know that I wasn't just taking some medicine, but I was taking some medicine.

All right.

How many of you thought that the show was good and was not harmed by the choice of paths I took?

I'm very I'm very curious about this.

Loads.

Yeah, don't be an NPC.

I thought it went well, but you know, I wouldn't be objective about it.

I thought it went well.

Send send me a message if you can.

Oh, locals people liked it.

I think you like it also that I'm transparent.

Isn't that true?

That the fact that I'm transparent about it, that just makes it a different situation, doesn't it?

Uh, thank you.

Not as disoriented as I have been.

You know, you're right.

I actually felt less disoriented than I normally would.

And the reason is that the medicine that I took is of the sativa variety versus the the kind that makes you tired.

So I use the wake up smarter well not wake up but keeps you alert.

So I was doing you know four doses of keep you alert which doesn't last that long.

So if you wait long enough they end up having the same effect.

You know, you want to take a nap eventually, but it might be hours versus minutes.

Went well.

Did anybody like my jokes?

I I can't remember what I said, but I remember ad liibbing one joke that I was kind of proud of, but then I forgot the joke.

So, I can't I can't enjoy it by thinking about it anymore cuz I forgot the joke.

All right.

Oh, Sergio, you're the best.

I love getting to know my uh my regulars.

All right.

Approval.

Approval is good.

Oh, Thon.

It was a Thun joke.

All right.

How many of you laughed out loud by the third time I did a thoon dart gun sound?

I'll bet some of you laughed out loud by the third one.

It's hard not to laugh at that.

Not quite as loopy.

Yeah, I see you.

Yeah.

You know, there's maybe there's a better word for referring to me being loopy in the morning.

It's not it's not anti-escriptive, but if you could come up with any other word besides loopy.

And again, not because it's not accurate.

I'm just saying there might be some other word that sounds like loopy, but it's a little more a little more respectful.

Not that I care about it really.

Don't really care.

You actually did.

All right.

All right, everybody.

I'm going to try to shut down all the systems and I won't I won't be talking to locals today.

I'm just I I got to get I got to get to sleep or something.

I got to get less pain is what I need.

And uh is You.

Tube live?

Yeah, everything's live right now.

So, at the moment, all the all the sites are live at the same time.

All right.

I have to get one hand 6 in high.

Don't ask.

I know you're going to think.

Got it.

Trackpad.

I got to use my one fingernail.

Damn it.

Can't find my cursor.

Can't find my cursor.

Ah, I used my brother's trick and it worked.

All right, everybody.

Bye for now.

You're in for it today. The show of

shows. It's going to be so good. I can

barely even contain myself.

But I'm

What's that

random?

>> Get rid of that.

Now, let me find your comments so that I

can give you the full time a day.

It's going to be good. It's going to be

a short show today.

See if you can tell why.

All right.

Really?

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Well, looks like everything's working.

Yay. Yay. Everything's working.

Um, some people

like it when I do a reframe before every

show. How many of you like to see a

reframe before the show? A reframe from

my book, Reframe Your Brain, the most

important book in the English language.

In all the other ones, too, but it's not

in those languages.

It's just the most important. All right.

All right. Here's the next one. This is

still in the mental health reframes

section of the book.

Um,

well, actually, you've heard this one

before, so if anybody hasn't heard this

one, this was very viral for reasons

that kind of surprised me. So, see if

you think this should have gone viral,

it did at the time. Um, so instead of

instead of the usual frame that you're a

priceless work of art that must be

protected, how many of you think that I

mean it's an exaggeration of course, but

you think that you're important, don't

you? You think I I'm more important than

at least to myself. I'm more important

than other people. The trouble is that's

kind of limiting. It would be better to

say you're a potato that is easily

replaced.

[clears throat] Here's the background on

that.

If I told you to carry a priceless, you

know, piece of art across the road to

another museum, you'd be pretty worried

that something would go wrong, right?

But you're the priceless art.

So, when you're taking care of yourself,

you're the priceless art and you're just

worried all the time about taking care

of it. Would you like to worry less

about what's happening to you and what's

going to happen to you and will a bad

outcome happen? and is it going to be

the worst case scenario? Wouldn't you

like to worry about all that less?

All you have to do is think of yourself

as a potato and think if I were

delivering a potato like just an actual

potato across the street wouldn't even

matter if I dropped it. [laughter]

It wouldn't matter. So, as soon as you

think of yourself more like the potato,

which again is not insulting yourself,

has nothing to do with your ego. just

assume that you're not so important that

if something bad happened to you, it

would be somehow the end of the world.

You're more like a potato than a Mona

Lisa. So, when I came up with that one,

I have to admit I didn't think it would

be powerful, but it's one of the ones

that people have most commented on is

Did Greg mention it? I think other

people have mentioned it in other

contexts, so I put it out there. Maybe

you like it. Well, scientists say they

figured out how to use an MRI

to transcribe your thoughts. Do you

believe that?

Now, now that I've completely ruined for

you the act of reading stories about

science and then believing them because

it's fun to believe them, it's like,

whoa, that'd be like a mind readading

machine. To which I say, if you can

thwart the mind readading machine just

by shaking your head, because obviously

the MRI makes you be completely still,

that's not much of a mind readading

machine. And uh I don't know what they

use it for exactly, unless you're like a

locked in syndrome or something. Um and

I also don't believe that they can do it

well and I don't believe that they can

do it and repeat it and I don't believe

anything about the story. What What was

your first reaction to that? Was your

first reaction to the story, "Wow, they

figured out how to use an MRI to read

your thoughts." Or was your first

thought, "That's more bullshit." Just

this is just absolutely more

I lean toward the on this one.

Don't know. So, it's not I'm not making

an allegation. I'm just saying how it

felt when I read it. Little more

bullshitty than credible. Well, if you

haven't seen it yet, Jimmy Kimmel and

his wife are on on a podcast

uh recently. They just did a podcast

[snorts] and uh apparently Jimmy Kimmel

has been pulled off the air and uh as of

this morning when I was preparing there

was not yet a reason given. Has that

changed?

Has Kimmel or the network given a

reason? But apparently he missed I don't

know a couple nights and they don't know

when he's coming back if he's coming

back or why he left. Um somebody said

that it was maybe a personal thing

something personal but then when they

showed on the podcast um well I don't

know when the podcast was was uh

recorded so that might make a difference

but uh we'll we'll find out the mystery.

But I'll tell you what, uh, we learned a

little bit about the dynamic there.

[laughter]

You you could tell that Jimmy Kimmel

puts a great weight in his wife's

opinion. Do you mind if I say it in the

non-judgmental way? That would be the

non-judgmental way to say it. It's clear

when you see them interact that he puts

a lot of respect into his wife's

opinion. I'm not saying that's good or

bad because, you know, it's their

relationship, not mine. And there's no

one right, there's no one way to do

anything. But, you know, respecting your

spouse is a really good place to start.

So, so if you're going to judge him

because he seems a little a little

whipped. [laughter]

I don't think that's fair. I don't think

that's fair at all. It's his

relationship. He can be as whipped as he

wants or not whipped. It's none of our

business. So,

and I'm wondering, have any of you heard

a reason? Even speculation.

I am curious as heck what's going on

here. Some say if it's a personal

problem, then I just send my I'll send

my, you know, understanding and

uh and empathy if there's just some, you

know, might be a family problem or

something and that wouldn't be funny.

All right. Um,

but here's the thing I I wonder about.

So, his wife, Jimmy Kimmel's wife,

really made me uh curious about her

opinions.

And one of the things she said was that

I guess she used to be in sort of a

Republican world when she was younger,

but later she she found out what the

other side was saying and liked that

side better and became a Democrat, I

guess. So that that part makes sense. A

lot of people have, you know, gone from

one thing to the other. Um,

but what she wondered about

is uh

is is whether she could be deprogrammed.

So these are her own words. You think

this is something a Republican would say

about her, but these are her own words.

She said uh uh quote, "I wish there was

some way to deprogram myself." Like she

said that on the podcast to the world. I

wish there was some way to deprogram

myself because just the act of being

around other people who are Trump

supporters is disturbing.

So it's not that she's saying that she's

wrong. It's that she's having a reaction

to the world that she wishes she were

not having. I think that's the right

interpretation. Now again, nothing wrong

with that, right? People have opinions.

That's their opinion. But the thing with

the thing with the Democrat opinion is

the things. Now, see if see if you agree

with us. Hold on. I'm very very parched

today.

The thing I don't understand about

liberal opinions is the same thing I

sometimes don't understand when it comes

from Republican ballots. There's a thing

that people say and do that just seems

like if that's where you're at, you

shouldn't be talking about politics at

all. You're not ready.

And it goes like this.

All the people who are making mistakes

about the data are on the same side.

You know what I mean? And she basically

said that so some version of that that

uh she didn't want to be on the side

that was wrong. the side that was wrong.

Well, here's the part that's hard to

explain. If you really really were

paying attention to politics and you

really genuinely instead of, you know,

just saying it because it was fun to

say, if you genuinely believed, and I'm

just going to pick a name, that Victor

Davis Hansen,

a well-known conservative, one of the

smartest people in the world, he looks

like it anyway, knows more than, you

know, I think 10 people. Does she really

think he's dumb or that he's poorly

informed? And he's just one person. You

know, if there were only one, you could

say, "Oh, maybe one person got bought

off or something." But how do you

explain,

you know, Molly Hemingway? I'll just

pick some names, some people I like.

Basically, Molly Hemingway is super

smart. How can you possibly look at her

work or her writing and go, "Oh,

not a touch screen." Okay. How can you

possibly look at her her opinions or

writing and think that she's not as

smart as you or in this specific case

way more informed than you are?

[laughter]

Do you not know that? Is that something

you wouldn't know? Because I I try to be

true to this principle.

For example, if I found myself

disagreeing

on an engineering question with um Elon

Musk, what's my best play?

is my best play to say, you know,

granted I'm not an engineer and a lot of

smart people say that Elon Musk is not

just an engineer, but the best engineer

in the world and maybe the best that

there ever will be. But I think he got

one wrong this time.

Do people really do that? [laughter]

Is that an [clears throat] actual

opinion? I think he got one wrong this

time in his strongest domain, you know.

And of seven billion people, the best

engineer. Really? Yeah. If I hear a

story about the cost of uh pharma and

you know what laws could be passed or

what could be done on it and Mark Cuban

has an opinion, he's actually in the

business. So if his opinion disagreed

with mine, I wouldn't I wouldn't try to

talk him out of it. I would say what

wait what should I believe? And then

he'd tell me, oh, you know, this does

this, this does this. And almost

certainly it would give me some common

sense opinion. So, how do you how do you

look at the world

and believe that when you know Ben

Shapiro is talking that you listen to

listening to a dumb guy?

Come on.

[clears throat]

If you wanted to have a uh an IQ off or

an SAT off where um let's say the the 10

smartest conservatives were put up

against the 10 smartest uh Democrats

just to have some trivia or some you

know some kind of mental IQ contest. How

do you think how do you think the

conservatives would do? I think they do

pretty well. Don't you

you know do do they have a Cernovich?

Yes, they got some smart people too,

right? So, I don't want to fall into my

own trap. Democrats have very smart

people. But if you don't understand that

people are can be wrong on both sides,

then you should not even be in the

conversation. Would you agree with that?

If it's not your intention to find out

which side is right and it's only your

intention to make sure that your side

looks right, what are you adding to the

world? like what what's your value ad

there? Unless you know unless it's your

job to do something like and you get

paid for it, that'd be different.

[snorts] All right. So, you know, was

what was fun about this is that uh Jimmy

Kimmel's wife is not really part of

politics, but she said some of the most

interesting and new things that I had to

talk about. So,

I'm sure they're very nice people. I

hear I hear good things about them,

actually.

Um,

the BBC, if you haven't seen this story,

it's so it's just mindboggling.

The BBC apparently is going to

apologize, which means that they're

admitting it happened for deceptively

editing President Trump's Trump's

January 6 speech in an effort to make it

look like he encouraged violence at the

capital.

What? [laughter]

How is this even real news?

Are we are we so

are we so beaten up about how fake the

news is that this is sort of a a side

story? Am I wrong that this is just a

side story? That the BBC made up

a narrative that just didn't happen and

pasted together some clips and made it

look like the opposite of what he said.

That that should sort of be the biggest

story

you've seen, except for all the other

ones that are just insanely

illegal looking. Certainly looks

illegal. [snorts] Anyway, do you think

an apology is going to save them

because Trump's Trump's going to take

the apology? Of course, he's going to

bank the apology, but he's going to use

the apology to show that there's no

question about fact.

And then he's going to ask for

something. He might

[laughter and clears throat] sue them,

get them to settle because they can't

they don't have a possibility of

winning. They couldn't possibly win a

lawsuit, I don't think. I mean, I'm no

lawyer. You You'll have to ask the

lawyers.

Um, but yeah,

I got some kind of moths

Okay. I believe the moth either survived

or is clinging to my hand as a nasty

desiccated corpse.

Okay. Looks good. Looks good. All right.

So, looks like Trump's going to get

another payday from the BBC.

According to a ex user called Chaz

Miselle

um who's been in the past he's been a

chief of staff at Trump's DOJ and he

looked at some data and found that since

1963

listen to this 75% of all nationwide

injunctions have been against President

Trump

since 1963.

[laughter]

75%

of all the ones done in the country for

any reason were Trump. Now again, I

didn't fact check this, so you might

want to fact check that. And then he

says 90% of those injunctions came from

Democrat appointed judges.

So 90% from Democrat judges

and all of them just recently basically.

Uh, and yet the administration

says Chad. Uh, so and yet with all of

those injunctions, how did the Trump

administration do fighting them off?

Well, it won 92% of the time. 92% of the

time.

Now, that is as uh that's just about as

anti- athoritarian as you can get,

right? If 8% of the time you said,

"Okay, you win." and you walked away,

but 92% of the time you were just dead

ass right, so you just won. Isn't that

like the least authoritarian thing you

could think of, right?

[clears throat] If you could walk away

from 8% of the things you really wanted

to do, but the court said, "You can't do

that." And you can walk away and and you

can just walk away say, "All right, we

really want to do that, but we'll work

on something else."

Not too authoritarian. According

to a federal audit, and there should be

federal audits of all the states all the

time, every day in my opinion, like I

actually mean that the federal

government's main job should be auditing

the states because the states are just

out of control. They're they're just

taking our money and throwing it in the

ocean. Um 62,000 commercial driver's

licenses were handed out to people who

were in California illegally.

62,000

illegal driver's licenses.

62,000.

So [clears throat] if if you're

wondering, is it a big problem, small

problem? That's a lot. 62,000 seems like

enough that it could move a lot of

different races. I mean, I don't know

how many races that would that would be

able to change if depending on the

distribution.

All right.

Um, do you know how many of you know who

Michael Sailor is? S A Y L O R. Michael

Sailor. He's sort of one of the big

names or maybe even the biggest name, I

don't know, in crypto. Uh, he's in the

commercial side of things. So, he owns a

company called

called Micro Strategy and uh I've only

watched a little bit of his content, but

it basically goes like this. buy Bitcoin

and then I I'll watch some extra other

of his content and that content will go

like this. Buy Bitcoin. But then

something bit like big will happen.

They'll, you know, change the change the

nature of everything. So you can rethink

all your strategies and then he'll come

out and he'll say buy Bitcoin.

And the annoying thing is he hasn't been

wrong yet. [laughter]

if he could be wrong a few times, it'd

be that'd be nice. But in the short run,

such as right now, it actually is. It's

taken quite a haircut. Bitcoin has. So,

if you're a very casual casual casual

follower of crypto and you're sort of

wondering, you know, I have a little

bit. Should I sell it? I don't give

advice, by the way. So, this will this

will not be advice. Um, I don't give

financial or health advice. you wouldn't

want to listen to any of my financial or

health advice.

Um, but it's way down, way down, I don't

know, 50% or something. So, some amount

from the beginning of the year. Uh, but

that's not unusual in the Bitcoin world.

And Bitcoin is not like the other

cryptos because it's, you know, got this

mathematical

uh sort of perpetual value whereas the

other ones are literally backed by

nothing.

They both [clears throat] sound like

nothing, but one of them is, you know,

treated as if it's a something. So

there's a difference. Anyway, um he's

probably going to be right again because

I would be amazed if he didn't say buy

Bitcoin. the the argument for Bitcoin is

that there isn't really any way for it

to go down forever. It just it's just

one of those things that if you just

waited, you know, the there would be

periods where it's down for sure, but

the odds of it just sort of going away,

a lot of people think it's low. So,

when somebody like me, who's not your

financial adviser, says something as

bold as, "I don't think that Bitcoin's

just going to go away." What happens

next?

[laughter] When people like me say,

"That's never going to go away. You

better watch what happens on Monday

because it probably go away on Monday

because it's just the way the world is

is organized.

It's just the way the simulation works.

So, no, you should not listen to me.

But if that helped, uh, if that helped,

but let me ask, was that level of detail

because I know many of you are way way

past that and you understand crypto. How

many of you found it useful just to hear

like a little top level what's up with

crypto?

Like, I wouldn't go further than that.

Was that useful or no? I'm just looking

at your comments.

Mhm.

All right. You'll let me know.

All right. U apparently Chicago's

downtown office vacancy rate has now hit

a record high of 28%.

Can you even imagine a city that's 28%

vacant? How does it survive that?

I always speculate that there are some

magic numbers for things to fall apart.

One of them is 10%, the other is 20%.

That that if anything goes to 10%

problem, whatever it is, whatever the

problem is, if it gets to 10%, then

things could, you know, start getting

out of control, but also 20%. Depending

on the thing, you know, so whenever I

see a 10 or a 20 coming, I'm like, whoa,

10 or a 20 coming. But when it's at 28,

it feels like it's already broken out

into you can't get this toothpaste back

in the tube. Is it just me? Now, here

I'm only talking about how it feels.

This this is again not what's happening.

It's just how it feels like it's out of

control. And I'm also curious because

you may have heard that the uh real

estate in New York City is actually

coming back and prices are holding up

and people are moving back to New York

City. So wouldn't it be interesting to

know what was so different about New

York City that allowed some of it to

come back already? Some of it and

and Chicago maybe getting worse. It

doesn't even say if it's just getting

better. So just the news is reporting on

this. I will I'll say for

self-improvement purposes. Uh as a

consumer of news when I see a story like

this, this is what I want to see

contextwise.

Uh I want to see which direction it's

moving because 28 I it's probably in the

story. I don't know if it's in the story

or not. I was skimming things today. So

I'm pretty sure that they covered the

the numbers that matter. Justin News

does a really good job by the way. You

should always check them out. Uh, just

the news it's called. All right. Um,

but 28% you'd want to know which

direction it's going and you'd want to

know what the other cities besides New

York were looking at. And you'd want to

know why is New York coming back or why

do people speculate it's coming back?

Would they do differently? Is it crime?

I don't know.

I guess corporate earnings were kind of

good this quarter, but people are still

worried. So, they the stock market

didn't go up that much. Uh, well,

actually, that's not true. Everybody's

got a different reason for why the stock

market didn't move. I saw one reason was

uh that it's already gone up. So, you

know, it already anticipated good news,

maybe. But have you noticed that

whenever the stock market goes up or

down,

whether it goes up or down, somebody's

got a reason that you can't check? You

know, that you can't really check. It's

like, well, I think it's the uh animal

spirits, Bob. Uh, you know, people saw

Trump jump and grab his ear and suddenly

they reach for the wallet. And you know,

everybody's just got some wild ass story

that they're pretty sure they can sell,

especially if they're selling financial

products.

You can never stop Bitcoin.

Well, that's probably what everybody

says before something gets stopped,

[laughter]

but I know what you mean. I agree. All

right. So yesterday I uh lit a match and

threw it on some gas and I want to talk

this through with you guys. Okay. So

this is going to start out with sounding

like I disagree with you.

But if I do this right, by the time I'm

finished with this topic, which is going

to be healthcare,

uh you will say, "Oh, we're not actually

on different pages."

You ready for this? We'll see if I can

pull this off. What I said was that the

I guess some of the Democrats were

thinking about a one-year extension to

the ACA, Obamacare, until they could

figure out, you know, a better solution.

Now, the Republicans were offering to

open the government and negotiate just

over a few, you know, the next several

weeks, a much smaller period of time.

So when they offered that, the only

change they offered besides just keeping

the government open at the same rate so

they can feed the people and then work

out a real budget.

Um, so they were going to do that,

but a lot of the Republicans said to me

when I commented that it seemed

reasonable. So I to me that was the

first reasonable offer. Now when I say

reasonable, that doesn't mean they

should take it, right? I mean, you've

watched me long enough to know a

reasonable offer doesn't mean you accept

it. You know, you can do better. Ask

Trump. If you said, if you said to

Trump, they made a reasonable offer.

Should you take it? Do you think he'd

say yes? No, because he knows how to do

this. You'd say, well, may maybe we'll

bump him up a little bit. Maybe we'll

tap that along a little bit. Maybe get a

little extra because he knows how to do

this. So,

so now the Democrats have an offer.

there's something to respond to.

And people told me, "Scott, the reason

you can't you say yes and see if you

agree with this." Okay, this this is the

part where I'm going to catch you. So,

put on your smartest thinking cap

uh and and see where this is going.

So people told me, Scott, if you let

this run for another year and you agree

to an extension to essentially the

current system,

then you will have essentially created

yet another system that never goes away.

If you don't get it now, you'll never be

able to get it. Right?

Look at the comments. If you don't, if

you don't turn this off when you can,

when you've got an opportunity, you

might never get another opportunity to

turn it off. Is that a reasonable point

of view? How many of you think that's a

reasonable point of view? That things

the government does never go away.

Any any program you implement will never

go away. How many of you would agree

with that statement?

We'll keep it simple. Would you agree

with this with the statement

that any major program because you know

this is a major program that any major

program that's implemented and lasts for

a while

you can't get rid of it? Everybody on

the same page?

You know you know the trick is coming

right? The prestige. I don't even know

what that is but has something to do

with magic.

All right. Now you now I'm going to turn

your world around.

If your point of view is that once

something is implemented, it can't be

changed,

then it's already implemented and it

can't be changed.

You you have a you [clears throat] have

a point of view that is both forward and

backward at the same time. They can't

both be true. It can't be true that you

could stop this thing now after years of

being implemented and being a major

program if it's also true that you can't

get rid of things once they've been put

in. So which is it? You can't get rid of

something and then put in

or you can

only two possibilities. But many of you

have chosen both.

You see what I'm saying? Many of you

have chosen both. You can't have both.

[laughter] It it either can be canceled

or it can't. So what I'm saying is if

you accept the notion, and by the way

this is iffy. I'll admit this is iffy.

But if you accept the notion

that all things are cancellable if you

try hard enough and and Trump would be

the ultimate canceller, right? If if you

just said to me, "Nobody could cancel

this." And I said, "Trump? You telling

me Trump couldn't cancel it? Trump could

cancel it. He's like the ultimate

canceller. So you wouldn't compare him

to anybody else, you know, in the

cancelling department." No. You got

really quiet, didn't you?

All right. Now, I need some confessions.

For some of you, this twisted your brain

around 280 degrees. How many of you had

not realized that it was inconsistent to

say you need to cancel it now because

nothing can be cancelceled now? How how

many had caught that before I mentioned

it?

It kind of sort of hiding there, isn't

it? it it's both obvious after I tell

you,

but if I don't tell you directly that

it's there and it's looking right at

you, you know, then there's no doubt

about it. I mean, there's not even an

opinion. It's just a description of

what's happening.

You're right. And we can get rid of it.

Yeah. I'm usually on the there's some

way you can get rid of anything.

Apparently, 59% of Americans blame Trump

for the increased grocery prices. Fox

News is reporting that. 59%. Now, you

would think the 59% blaming grocery

prices as often as you have to look at

those. Those are the really insulting

ones. Um, you'd think that would be

enough to keep a Republican from ever

winning again. Well, in 2028, let's say,

don't you think that would be enough to

just totally kill the Republican

chances? So, the real the real question

would be, could that be fixed?

Is there any way at all and I'm

wondering if there's some clever

um totally out of the box way to

approach food costs

that gives So here's here's the minimum

it would have to do. The minimum it

would have to do is keep the current

system intact.

So whatever it is would have to be not

the government paying for it

and um yeah not the government that's

the main thing not the government paying

for it and it would have to be just a

separate system. So let me give you an

example.

Suppose somebody started a store for the

poor and it only had four items.

Um had some I don't know

chicken protein

uh some you know something reasonably

inexpensive that's a protein and uh you

know some vegetables that might even

come from some place where the

vegetables were suboptimal. So they not

sub-optimal, but let's say cut in

different shapes. So maybe it'd make

some soup or whatever. So yeah. So I

think if you tried to build a

a grocery store that only had when you

were done 20 items

that that then nobody would starve

because they'd always have 20 items and

it wouldn't be the only place they could

get food. you know, they could also just

use their social security or some of it

to buy regular food. So, everybody would

still have everything they have now, but

those people who really really wanted to

save money and they really really were

on a diet could go get their, you know,

chicken thing that's totally healthy.

Uh, and the government just make sure

that somebody sells it to you.

No. All right. Just running that idea by

you.

Did you see the story I talked about

that uh investigative reporter Steve

Baker

um believes that he's uh seen some gate

analysis? That's how people walk.

They're gate. G AI T. And that uh the

software identified one particular

person who I'm going to take the advice

of someone I saw online who said don't

use the name. That's sort of where I'm

at on this. [laughter]

I'm sort of at I don't think I want to

use a name on this one because uh

remember what I said if you don't see a

video

you have to suspend credibility

basically you know it doesn't mean it's

false but it doesn't mean it's true so

my minimum for the pipe bomb video to be

credible to Scott not to you just to me

this would be my personal standard I

would have to see a video of the alleged

person walking

in in a way that would be similar enough

to what they got in video. And then I

would have to see the the actual video,

which I'm not even sure they showed us

the actual video. It might have been

some kind of uh clipped or AI video or

something. So, there's something going

on. And do you remember my first take on

this? Because it's important to track

people's first take to see how crazy

they are. My first take was that if I

don't see the video, it's not a thing.

And that's where I still am. No video,

no thing.

Well, still uh Mark Levin and Candace

Owens and

uh I guess Tucker, they're they're still

trying to entertain us by I don't know

[laughter]

creating some right-wing controversy

that didn't need to be created

whatsoever. Um, I I I'm really curious

what they think about the whole

situation because it shouldn't matter to

any of you, should it? That, you know,

they all have different opinions. I

said, and I'll say this again. I've said

this 10 times. If if I were if I were

Jewish,

then things that wouldn't bother me if

I'm not Jewish would probably bother me

and I would see them as anti-Semitic.

And so when I see somebody with a Jewish

background say that's anti-Semitic, I

say to myself, it's not a yes or no. You

just have a filter. Not just, but you

have a filter that would guarantee that

if somebody just keeps walking up to

that line, you've got a right to ask,

why are you always up on that line? Why

are you so interested in this? Perfectly

fair question, but it doesn't mean

you're a monster. So, and I can't read

mine, so I don't know.

But I definitely see that if if I were

in a group that looked like, you know,

at a historical reason to be worried

about something that looks exactly like

this to them, maybe not to everybody. Um

I I can see it. I can see why you'd be

concerned about that,

but I I would be more in the get

together and talk it out kind of kind of

world. I'm not sure the I think Mark

Leven might be the one who doesn't want

to platform anybody. Doesn't want to

platform.

I feel like the only people I don't want

to platform are the people who don't

want to platform anybody. That that

feels like the only sin, doesn't it? The

only sin is censoring, not platforming.

So, but anyway, use your own judgment.

So, you know how I always tell you that

the Democrats have what I call the

designated liars? They have liars that

tell the lies that the normal uh normal

Democrats just can't do because they're

just too big. The lies are just just so

obviously lies and they're so ridiculous

that the the regular, you know, ordinary

normie um Democrats can't tell that I

like, but Jamie Raskin can and Swallwell

can and Adam Schiff can. You know,

they're among what I call the designated

liars. So they trot them out when they

do them. So one of them, this one was

funny today because there's always a

video of Jamie Raskin saying the

opposite of what he's saying now almost

every time. And [clears throat] uh not

too long ago, not too many years ago, uh

he wanted to do away with the

filibuster. Can you guess which party

was in charge

of the presidency and maybe the house?

Uh when he wanted to get rid of the

filibuster, you're right. Yeah. When the

Democrats were in charge, he wanted to

get rid of the filibuster. What do you

think he thinks about the filibuster

now? Because it was a good idea then.

It'd be even a better idea now, right?

Nope. [laughter]

So, when you see the uh the two videos

side by side, by the way, I should be

giving I should be giving a a video u

credit

and I'm not because I didn't write it

down. So, if anybody has a video credit

for that that clip find, that was

genius. They should get some attention.

All right. Uh, one of the other

designated liars, Chris Murphy, he's

pretty funny.

He's actually talking about I read this

in a Jonathan Turley article on The

Hill. So, Chris Murphy is talking about

uh keeping the government shut through

the midterms.

Now, I'm no political expert. I just

watch it on TV and on the internet, but

is that really an advantage to keep it

keep the government shut through the

midterms? Doesn't that doesn't that

sound bashy crazy to you? And and then I

thought, oh, let's put this in context.

The context

for uh the Democrats seem to be that

something good happens and then they all

try to guess what it was that made the

good thing happen. But they don't know

what made the good thing happen. So for

a while they thought that swearing is

what made somebody win an election. Why?

Because they take they can't tell what

works. They had no idea what works.

They're like, "Well, he swears a lot."

And they're even talking about it. The

Republicans are actually laughing at it.

Yeah. Yeah. And that makes him look like

a fighter. Yeah, it must be the

swearing. It's the swearing,

right?

So, they [clears throat] keep coming up

with these absolutely crazy hypotheses

about why uh why the Republicans are

winning. Like, one of them is that um

all they have to do is get their own Joe

Rogan.

That might be the funniest the funniest

one they ever did because it just

broadcasts such a lack of understanding

about how anything in the world works.

No, you can't just make it Joe Rogan.

Nobody can make it Joe Rogan. His mother

had enough trouble doing it. And it's

only been done once. Only once.

Anyway, when I say his mother, I mean

she gave birth to him.

So, uh, yeah. So Chris Murphy thinks

that would be an advantage to keep the

government shut. Maybe,

you know, I and the funny thing is I

can't really rule it out because it

depends as much on how the news handles

it. If the news handled it the way

they're handling it now, CNN has been

pretty hard on the Democrats.

Does that work for them? If if CNN is

essentially blaming you, which they are,

does that work for Democrats?

feels like they're just not reading the

room. You know, we always say Trump's

the best at reading the room. Boy, is

he. He's just the best at reading the

room.

Um, and I guess the majority leader,

John Thun.

And by the way, John Thun is named after

the sound that a blow dart makes in the

jungle.

Sorry.

Anyway, he said he told reporters on

Saturday that senators will remain in

session. They're going to stay open and

uh they don't get to pretend they're

working and collecting their paycheck

unless we get some government. Give us

some government, you pastors. All

right, that's probably good politics to

make it look like the Republicans are

there the whole time and they're not

going to they're not going to be lazy

and if the Democrats agree, they can

sign it tomorrow. So, it's a good look.

I'll say that. Meanwhile, over in the

world of Fanny and Freddy,

how many of you have any idea what Fanny

May and Freddy Mack are?

Like if if somebody brought that up in a

conversation over dinner, would you have

any idea what that was?

For me, the most important part about it

is that Bill P is in charge of both of

them. He's he's the government um head

administrator or I don't know what the

actual terms are in this case, but you

put Bill PE into any business situation

and things start getting better and

that's actually what's happening right

now. So, one of the things they're

looking at is uh considering legal I

guess it would be legalizing it. This

must be illegal right now. But they're

talking about uh 50-year mortgage

option. Now, what you should know is

that uh the longer the loan, the more

interest you're going to pay, right? So,

everybody understands that just because

you make it a 50-year loan, yes, the

price per payment can go down quite a

bit and allow people into the market.

But when you're done, you might pay

triple. [laughter]

You might pay triple the interest uh

because it's 50 years instead of 30.

It's a big difference. But on any given

payment day, it would be cheaper. So I

would say this is if you're talking to

your friends about it, here's the one

thing you need to know to be the

smartest person in the room. Okay,

smartest person in the room. Here it

comes.

It depends on your situation.

So there could be some people who, for

example, know they have a kind of job

that uh they're doing okay at the

moment, but they know that they'll do

way better in the future because it's

just one of those jobs. You know, maybe

they're becoming a gynecologist or

something. They know that as they build

up the practice, they'll they'll have a

lot more income in the future. If you

knew that, then you might say, "All

right, I'll get the 50-year mortgage

because then I can get into a house I

like as soon as possible, and then when

my income zooms up, and it might be 10

years, but eventually it goes up, uh,

then I can just re refi and refinance

and bring it down by win." So, so you

can have both a long-term

mortgage on day one, so it's cheap in

your payments, but as soon as you make

more money, if you do, you don't have

to, but if you did, you you could pay it

down so you get everything. Um, so that

would be one example,

but how many people can know for sure

that they're going to make a lot more

money later compared to how much they're

making now? That's a little iffy. So

everybody's got to manage their own risk

profile. But this is why you need a bill

ple because this is the sort of thing

that's psychological as much as

financial because people would have to

think I understand what this is. I

understand when I would use it and I

understand what the government is doing

to make this easier for me. And that's

the sort of thing that a pie can do that

an average an average person who's not

good at persuasion couldn't do. But P is

amazing.

All right. Um,

Trump apparently has made some threats

to Nigeria based on some coverage from

Fox News. Apparently, at least that's

the reporting. And there's an article in

the Wall Street Journal by u some good

work by Annie Linsky and Drew Henshaw

and Joe Parkinson.

And uh apparently the the leader of

Nigeria

um doesn't think it's such a big

problem. And the problem that Trump is

complaining about is he would call it a

genocide of Christians. And he thinks

that the uh I guess they would be the

Islamic goat herders have some very

long-term historical beef beef. They got

a beef with the other uh with the other

cattle

cattle hurting people I guess. So

there's two entities that are fighting.

One of them is Christian. The Christians

seem to be outnumbered, but we're not

really getting the best information

about how many people are involved. This

is another one of those. How many people

are involved? Is it is it a lot? Which

direction is it going? Is it getting

worse?

Um, so I do like the fact that Trump

jumped in before he knew all the

details.

Let me say this. If you found out later,

and I'm not sure that you will, but if

you found out later that the problem

wasn't as big as you thought, but it was

real,

would you be okay with how he handled

it? I would,

because he got something going. Suppose

he made some claims like, "Oh, I heard

on the news that 20,000 people got

murdered and they were all Christians

and their churches got burned down." And

then you found out that it wasn't

20,000,

it was a thousand,

would that make you think worse of him?

Not for me. No. No. He might be just

genuinely, you know, wrong. But I always

tell you has he has a bias for action.

And whatever the option set is, he

always picks the strongest option.

But watch how many times I tell you

that. And every time I do, you go, "Oh,

I should have caught it that time.

Shouldn't have caught it. You should

have caught it this time." Yeah. The by

far the strongest thing you could do is

not ask for uh not ask for details on

who's actually going to hurt over there.

There's nothing stronger than I might

send my military over there as as like

[clears throat] your first reaction.

That's pretty strong. Doesn't mean he's

going to do it. It means instead of him

having to prove there's a problem, it

kind of flips the responsibility onto

Nigeria. Now, Nigeria, if they're smart,

are going to have to offer Trump some

kind of assurance that somebody

credible, I don't know, the UN maybe, is

going to watch this situation and make

sure that there's not, you know, some

kind of genocide that's forming. You

know, there might be a bubble forming

even before it happens. So,

I I think he's playing it exactly right.

and that if he takes the strongest

position every time, you're just gonna

see the best president who's ever been,

and I think you are already.

All right,

that ladies and gentlemen,

was the uh the last thing I wanted to

tell you before this one thing. There

was one thing. Did you know that the

Dilbert 2026 calendar is out? And if you

go to amazon.com and just uh do a search

for Google calendar 2026 and my name,

get the one that looks like this.

Don't get the one that's any different

color. They might be counterfeits.

There's lots of counterfeits. And get

the ones that have my name and Dilbert's

name spelled correctly. [laughter] That

That's how they do it. They they just

slightly misspell the name. Uh but

people are buying this like crazy and it

will run out. I'm pretty sure I'm going

to check on it today. I'll give you an

update, but I wouldn't wait. I

definitely wouldn't wait until December

to buy it, but the choice is yours.

All right, people.

People,

if you like singing. All right, I'm

going to make a per a confession.

Uh, locals, you ready for this?

confession coming

and I've got to open something before I

make the confession.

That makes you stay, doesn't it? I'll

bet not a single person left when I said

I have to make a confession. This is a

real confession, by the way. It's a real

one.

Um,

okay. Come on, phone. Work faster. I

want to see your comments right away.

So, I'm putting it on this this device.

My other one went dark for some reason.

There we go. All right. So, um, you

know, I give you health updates because,

you know, I've gotten cancer, etc. Uh,

today it was a little it was rugged. So,

this morning was really painful, you

know, mostly in my back area. Really

painful. And, uh, but there were other

there are other signals that might be

actually very positive. I don't know

yet. So, I'll look into it. But here's

what I want to confess. The confession

has nothing to do with the pain. The

confession has to do with the fact that

I solved the pain right before we went

live. Um, as you know, uh, I am a

medical user of some things that in

California are completely legal and, uh,

doctors are completely fine with it. Uh,

but I won't say it out loud because, you

know, it's a family show. I do not

recommend this for anybody under 18. All

right? So, if I can say this as clearly

as possible so you see that you hear

this first first not recommending this.

[laughter]

[clears throat] You got to make your own

decisions. And if you're under 18, you

don't even get to make those and

probably somebody else is making your

own decisions. But don't look to me for

anything in that domain. So, a few

minutes before went live, I realized I

didn't know if we could get through the

show and I didn't want to go short.

Typically what I do right after the show

is what I did right before the show. So

I had um yeah, we don't need to go

private. I I wanted this I wanted

[clears throat] this to not be private

actually

um because I think it's important. It's

important that everybody sees you know

just what is and what isn't and what

works and what doesn't and that

everybody's different and that this is

just for utility. This is not for

entertainment. This is for utility.

So question number one, I did four

gigantic

2025 quality

let's say

loads [laughter]

loads. Uh, and

the only reason that I'm not hanging

from the ceiling from the chandelier is

that if you do it every day, and I'm not

recommending it, just saying if you did,

like me, it wouldn't affect it the same

way. So, but what it did do is it

distracted andor removed my maybe

half of the pain. probably removed half

of the pain almost instantly.

But the real question is how was the

show?

All right. Now, now I've confessed

you you have to tell me did you enjoy

the show or if some of the people on

locals knew what was going on because

they they see extra stuff. But the

people who did not know that I wasn't

just

taking some medicine, but I was taking

some medicine.

All right. How many of you

thought that the show was good and was

not harmed by the choice of paths I

took? I'm very I'm very curious about

this.

Loads. Yeah, don't be an NPC.

I thought it went well, but you know, I

wouldn't be objective about it. I

thought it went well. Send send me a

message if you can.

Oh, locals people liked it. I think you

like it also that I'm transparent.

Isn't that true? That the fact that I'm

transparent about it, that just makes it

a different situation, doesn't it?

Uh, thank you.

Not as disoriented as I have been. You

know, you're right. I actually felt less

disoriented

than I normally would. And the reason is

that

the medicine that I took is of the

sativa variety versus the the kind that

makes you tired.

So I use the wake up smarter well not

wake up but keeps you alert.

So I was doing you know four doses of

keep you alert which doesn't last that

long. So if you wait long enough they

end up having the same effect. You know,

you want to take a nap eventually, but

it might be hours versus minutes.

Went well.

Did anybody like my jokes?

[clears throat]

I I can't remember what I said, but I

remember ad liibbing one joke that I was

kind of proud of, but then I forgot the

joke. So, I can't I can't enjoy it by

thinking about it anymore cuz I forgot

the joke.

All right.

Oh, Sergio, you're the best. I love

getting to know my uh my regulars.

All right.

Approval. Approval is good. Oh, Thon. It

was a Thun joke.

All right. How many of you laughed out

loud

by the third time I did a thoon dart gun

sound?

I'll bet some of you laughed out loud by

the third one.

It's hard not to laugh at that.

[laughter]

Not quite as loopy. Yeah, I see you.

Yeah. You know, there's maybe there's a

better word for referring to me being

loopy in the morning. It's not it's not

anti-escriptive,

[laughter]

but if you could come up with any other

word besides loopy. And again, not

because it's not accurate.

I'm just saying there might be some

other word that sounds like loopy, but

it's a little more a little more

respectful.

Not that I care about it really. Don't

really care.

You actually did. All right. All right,

everybody. I'm [clears throat] going to

try to

shut down all the systems and I won't I

won't be talking to locals today. I'm

just I I got to get I got to get to

sleep or something. I got to get less

pain is what I need.

And

uh is YouTube live? [clears throat]

Yeah, everything's live right now. So,

at the moment, all the all the sites are

live at the same time. All right. I have

to get one hand

6 in high. Don't ask. I know you're

going to think.

Got it. Trackpad.

I got to use my one fingernail.

Damn it. Can't find my cursor.

Can't find my cursor. Ah, I used my

brother's trick and it worked.

All right, everybody. Bye for now.