Episode 3022 CWSA 11/18/25

Hello everybody.

I have no idea what to expect today.

We got every kind of technical problem you can imagine.

The X platform is down.

I hear Locals is down, but I'm not sure because here it looks like it's working.

Looks like Rumble is working and locals is working and You.

Tube is You.

Tube working.

Hard to know.

So, everybody's streaming here and we're going to make something of this day, which is uh not getting off to the best start.

Oh, you know what I have to do?

Got to print my notes.

Hold on a minute.

Be right back.

All right.

Going to print those notes.

Like it or not, today is mostly a rolling disaster.

But you're going to like it.

You might even love it.

I'm back.

So, what we're going to do today is some reframes because the news is all boring and terrible.

Yeah.

Fighting snakes.

What?

All right.

Here's what we're going to do, people.

I'm going to scoot over there and grab my notes because I do have a few.

And then I'll be right back.

Don't do anything while I'm gone.

I swear I'll be right back.

Another few.

Yes.

All right.

All right.

So, I think we got enough people here.

We'll we'll make sure something happens.

Something's going to happen.

I don't know what.

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If you're just signing on this morning, there's some kind of massive cloud problem that's taking down X.

For most of the morning, I thought it was taking down locals.

I tried to do the pre-show, but it glitched me out.

I couldn't get on.

But when I just logged on, it looks like looks like locals might be working.

All right, so here's what I thought I would do.

Something like a 100,000 people are going to sign on here expecting to see my regular show.

Do you think they're going to see it?

I I had no ability to prepare because I use X as my, you know, 80% of all my preparation goes through X directly or indirectly.

So, I decided that what I would do is we'll do some refframes, but I'm also going to demonstrate something just so you can see it live.

And what I'm going to demonstrate is uh what to do when all of your plans have been destroyed and you have to do something in public.

So, I'm now entering the scariest thing that an adult can do.

It it's very much like uh you're going to a test and you you forgot to study or you're going in for the last day of school and you forgot your assignment.

So, you get to watch while you see if I can navigate this situation.

Will it be easy?

No, it will not be easy.

Can I do it?

Well, I don't know.

We'll see.

But I think it I think it's fair to say that most people would have a nightmare showing up unprepared for a test.

That's what I'm doing right now.

I'm going to show you how to survive it.

Easy, really.

So, here's the first trick for surviving when everything goes wrong.

Your audience doesn't know what you were planning to do.

So, they can't tell it went wrong.

They just know maybe it's not what you did yesterday.

So, if you can pull it off, try to sell it as normal.

I I was thinking today uh how talented the uh conservative podcast world is.

And I was I was trying to think how many people who who have podcasts, who have conservative audiences, how many of them could just sign on and do an hour of content without preparation?

And the answer is about a lot of them.

About a lot of them.

Could uh Betty Johnson do that?

Probably.

Could Megan Kelly do that?

Definitely.

Uh could uh all the people who are the main hosts on Fox News do that?

Yeah.

Greg, Jesse, Kennedy, they could all do that if they had to.

Um Victor Davis Hansen.

Sure.

So, it does seem like some people are just born to do this.

Maybe I'm in that category because I feel comfortable doing it.

All right.

Is anybody yet horrified because you're thinking to yourself, I'd hate to be him right now because he's going to do a whole show with no preparation.

Oh, I got a stories.

I got I got plans.

Yeah, it's not completely without preparation.

So, I've told you many times I took the Dale Carnegie course when I was in my 20s, and it teaches you how to navigate this exact situation.

And by exact, I mean you had to do some kind of public presentation, podcast or anything else, and things went wrong.

You're actually trained to do that.

So, I'm doing what I'm trained to do.

So, if it looks easy to me, that's not natural skill training.

I'm just used to it.

I also don't have any normal sense of embarrassment.

So, I'm not worried about things going wrong at all because I don't have any sense of embarrassment.

And most of you would understand.

I mean, if if everything went terribly wrong, you'd all understand, right?

It wouldn't be a big deal.

And uh let's see.

Here's a here's another trick for public presentations.

You may have heard me say this one before, but it applies really well right now.

That in order to be interesting in a public sense, you have to create the well, you don't have to, but it's really handy.

If you can create the illusion that you're in danger or somebody's in danger.

So danger is what gets people's attention because it's a busy world.

You know, we got we have stuff to look at.

Can't look at everything all at the same time.

So what I'm doing is creating a sense of danger.

Uh a small danger.

The danger is that I would embarrass myself or humiliate myself by not being prepared.

Nope.

No problem yet.

Um so yesterday interesting thing happened.

You probably want to know about it.

So Carrie Lake was nice enough to put a very nice message on X uh wishing me well, you know, with my health challenges.

And then Elon Musk and then she said something like, "We love you to me." Uh meaning the audience loves me.

And uh then one of the people in the comments was Elon Musk and he said, "We do what?" So basically I woke up to Elon Musk telling me he loves me.

Now I love him too.

So the feeling is quite is quite mutual.

But uh what you're wondering is does it feel better when the most uh successful and richest man in the world tells you he loves you versus the average person?

And the answer is oh yeah it's way better.

Yeah.

It's just so much better.

Way way better.

>> >> It's funny because I'm joking, but not really.

I mean, if you had a choice of being uh of somebody telling you they love you, uh wouldn't it be cool if they were an awesome person?

Yeah, it'd be a little bit better.

I mean, it would be great no matter who it was, but it's a little bit better.

Anyway, so I enjoyed that today.

Thank you, Elon.

All right.

Um, see what else is going on.

You know, some of you are waking up and saying, "Scott, I have OCD and you're ruining my routine.

Uh, I come here to find out the news." Well, luckily for you, I have prepared the what I call it the evergreen news.

So, this is the news that just never changes.

Uh, in science news, eating makes you gain weight.

Psychedelic mushrooms make you less depressed according to the scientist who came up with the idea of getting themselves psychedelic mushrooms and getting paid for it.

Smartest scientists ever.

Um, also in the news, AI is still not uh able to do advanced general intelligence.

Still can't do it.

Advanced general intelligence and we don't know how to make it do it.

We don't know how to get there.

Uh, in other news, some new group of rich people just pulled together a trillion dollars to invest in AI that is still not able to do advanced general intelligence and we don't know how to make it do that.

Okay, maybe tomorrow.

Uh, meanwhile, American kids, American kids are getting fatter and stupider.

No one has a plan that for healthc care that would work.

The Epstein files probably won't ever be released.

Tomas doesn't want to disarm.

Fentinel still coming in from China.

The federal budget still out of control.

Trump thinks there's too much crime in cities.

And Trump said something or did something authoritarian.

Yeah, you did not see that coming.

And uh other surprises in the news, Adam Schiff is accused of lying.

There's a new photo of a UAP, but we couldn't get a clear photo of it.

So, that catches you up on all the news.

Did I leave anything out?

No.

Well, here's an update on the simulation.

Uh, one of the re one of the ways I know we live in a simulation, or at least I do, I don't know about you, is that I clearly have themes that would make no sense if it were random.

One of the themes is I have continuous water leaks in my life.

Now, those of you who've been following me for a long time are laughing because you know that it's true.

And I even predict them.

I tell you, well, I got this one fixed.

There's going to be another water leak problem.

There always is.

So, yesterday, for example, uh I was in my lazy boy chair and I re reclined the lazy boy.

Uh, which was a bad move cuz it got my catheter bag stuck in the lazy boy and it it yanked a full bag of urine off the off the hose and started just draining it.

Now, the good news is caught it before it got to the chair because the chair had cushions on it cuz don't ask uh because I've got a leg that's oozing.

Uh, so it already had waterproofing on it from my leg in general, but uh, so we cleaned that up.

Got that all cleaned up.

Um, and this is one of those situations where you like being the the disabled guy because I just got to sit there and say, you know, you might have missed some over there.

I think you missed some over there.

So it turns out if you're not the one cleaning it up, not that big a deal.

Not that big a deal.

Then later that night, I fell asleep also in the lazy boy and Gary the cat, I I woke up maybe 2:30 in the morning and Gary the cat had found a nice little nest in my arm and oh, it was so cute.

Gary was just soft and fuzzy and he loved me and he was just right in that crook of the arm.

And then I thought, you know what would be good is I feel a little purged, so I'd like to take a sip of water.

So I reached over carefully so as not to disturb Gary.

Took my water and then very carefully tried to unscrew the cap, but apparently the unscrewing of the cap made some kind of a noise.

Couldn't have been that loud.

Maybe something like this.

And that was just enough to send Gary into a full caddyywampus blizzard of arms and legs and tail.

And I'm like, "Oh god, no.

It's a hurricane of cat parts." And uh when it settled down, uh when it settled down, I had a bottle of water all over me and no cat.

So I don't know how you were doing.

How you doing?

Anyway, um you probably want an update.

Uh I'll read some, uh reframes when we get to it.

So, today will be special.

Change your lives.

Anyway, some of you want my cancer updates.

Um here are some words that you might want to know if you're talking to somebody else about what's what.

at least in cancer treatment in my case.

So Dr.

Pat Sunun Jang is uh he's got these and well he's got something called the uh bio shield technology which I already have in me.

There will be more of it coming.

Uh maybe you'll get some NK and T cells.

Those would be helping my immunity.

But then separately there's there's this thing called blue victto that I have one of the upcoming what will be a total of six um six doses over six weeks.

So that's just in the process.

At the moment I'm weirdly painfree and I don't want to trust that yet because you know the whole goal is to get pain free.

So at the moment no pain I have no pain relievers.

Well, actually I do, but not very strong.

And uh it never made a difference before, so I'm pretty sure that's not making a big difference.

Anyway, uh but I do have some uh terrible wounds on my legs for some cancery reason.

I don't know.

But those are pretty bad.

But those those are being treated no problem at all.

All right.

So, let's go to my book, Reframe Your Brain.

I decided what I would do is I'd read some reframes out of the section on social life.

Does anybody here need a better social life?

You want me to reframe it for you?

So, I've got a whole uh a whole bunch of reframes that will help your social life.

All right, let's do these.

Um, some of these you've heard, but they're all they're all worth hearing more than once because it'll just really pack it in there.

So, the usual frame is people will tell you to be yourself.

You ever hear that?

Do you ever have somebody in your life who will say, "Well, Scott, the secret the secret to success is you should be yourself." to which I say, um, shouldn't I be a better version of myself?

If I'm just myself, I'm not am I not going to be a little bit suboptimal?

Are you telling me that doing whatever I feel like is somehow going to be giving me a good life?

I don't think it works like that at all.

No, you should not try to be yourself.

You should always strive to be some improved better version of whatever you think is the best you can be and you should be shooting for that gives you something to do much better uh much better system to continuously be chasing the better version of you and you never get there.

That's the key.

You never get there.

All right.

Uh You.

Tube is live streaming.

Yes, it is.

All right.

Here's another one.

These are social life reframes from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

Changing lives everywhere.

Um, this one's similar, but you can pick what which one you like.

The usual frame would be you should learn to love yourself as you are.

Should you do that?

Should you really love yourself as you are?

Well, if it's unchangeable, then yes, why not?

You know, something that can't be changed.

Um, but you shouldn't be glad your brain is pestering you to improve.

So, if you have a brain that keeps saying you should be doing more, um, a lot of people complain about that because they think, "Oh, man, I'm always feeling inadequate.

I'm feeling like I'm not doing enough." Well, maybe you're not.

And maybe this is exactly what should be happening.

Maybe maybe your brain should be telling you why don't you do a little more, you know, try a little harder.

That might be the healthiest situation you could be in.

So don't be mad if your brain is pestering you to improve.

You should thank it.

Um you ever see somebody who needs your advice?

It's really hard to give advice, isn't it?

Have you ever noticed that you almost can't give advice?

And the reason is nobody wants to feel like you know more than they do.

Especially a peer, you know, they they never want to say, you know, uh if you just do what I tell you to do, then your life will be good.

That's not really people aren't comfortable with that.

Not at all.

So instead of giving people advice which they will just automatically reject, you give them information or maybe empathy or maybe there's something specific they need help organizing their thoughts.

But don't ever put it in the form of, you know, if I were you, my advice, it's better to just give them information that they don't have.

you know, such as, you know, did you know this website has this information?

That's not really advice.

That's just telling them something.

Telling people something works.

That's good.

All right.

How about this one?

Uh, here's one I learned many years ago when I worked at a a resort.

People would come in and they would complain and we were taught to take on a work order.

um like a physical piece of paper, a work order, and and write down the complaint right in front of them because that would make them feel like they're, you know, doing more.

So, we take off the work the work order, write down what they said, and then we were actually told this by our boss, I'm not making this up, that depending on the complaint, it might not be something you could fix.

Some people, you know, guests at the hotel would complain about things like uh they need a certain different mattress or something and there just basically there's no way to make that happen.

So instead of making it happen, we were taught to write it down as if we were going to make it happen and then throw it away after they leave.

And the and the thinking behind this uh is that what people really wanted was to be heard.

Now, they would also like their little complaint to be fixed, but even bigger than that, they want to make sure they complained, you heard it, and they felt powerful because, you know, some action happened as far as I know.

So, yeah.

So, it was purely a theatrical situation.

All right.

Um, people who complain don't want solutions.

Sometimes they just like complaining.

That's the reframe.

Do you ever meet somebody who had a strong personality?

Do you ever ever hear anybody uh described that way?

Oh.

Uh I'm going to introduce you to Beth.

Beth has a Well, Beth has a how do I say this?

Strong personality.

Run.

Run from Beth.

You do not want to be around people with strong personalities because that's just a way to hide the fact that somebody's hard to deal with.

Somebody might be a little bit toxic, if you know what I mean, strong personality.

Indeed, you're toxic.

I've told you before that if you have a compliment in mind, that's almost immoral to withhold it.

So, that sort of a reframe.

You've heard this one before, but it's it's worth doing again.

Um, giving somebody a compliment just automatically puts them on your side till the end of time.

So, it's good for them if it's a sincere compliment and it's good for you.

So, why wouldn't you do it as much as you could?

Well, you don't want to be like a weirdo over complimenttor, but it's hard to get there to be an over compliment because when somebody is receiving the compliment, they never feel like it's too much.

So, just pour it on.

Just pour on the compliments.

Now, I do that in my my personal life, but the rule is it has to be real.

Like, you actually have to mean it.

It doesn't count if you're just, "Oh, what would be a good compliment?" That doesn't count.

It should be something you're thinking and then you you just say it.

That really counts.

All right.

How about this?

Uh, no one seems to find me attractive or no one wants to date me or nobody wants to marry me.

Um, the reframe of that is you just haven't met enough people.

You could take anyone in the world and just introduce them to people over and over again and eventually they'd find somebody they fell in love with.

It's just sort of a numbers game.

So there's no such thing as not being able to find somebody who likes you.

There's only such a thing as have not yet met enough people because if you meet enough people, the numbers are on your side.

Sooner or later, you're going to meet somebody you like.

and vice versa.

Um, here's one.

I need to, this would be the usual frame.

I need to go find someone to be my romantic partner.

Have you ever had that thought that you need to go out and find yourself a romantic partner?

And you're actually thinking of it that way.

You're not just thinking, "Oh, whatever happens happens." But you're thinking, "I'm going to go find myself a romantic partner.

That's what I need.

Well, that's the old way of thinking of it.

Uh, it would be better to say you need to signal your genetic advantage to attract a romantic partner.

What I mean by that is if you can somehow signal that you're better than most people at some task, some skill, could be mental, could be physical.

You're either the best at a sport, you're the best at chess, you're the best at making money, you're the best at just knowing things.

So, there are million things you could be the best at, or just, you know, one of the best wherever you are.

And instead of trying to turn somebody into your romantic partner, which is weird and creepy, all you do is you just live your life.

But you make sure that other people notice that as you're living your life, you're doing something really well.

Then people will want to meet with you.

You have to look like you have at least one genetic, some kind of oddity or advantage.

Doesn't matter what it is.

Could be mental, could be physical, could be attractiveness.

You got to have at least one thing that people look at and go, "Oh, that's that's kind of special.

And if you do not have even one thing in your life, not even one thing that you do better than other people, nothing.

Well, then you you develop that.

Usually all you need to be to do, you know, all you need to do to be one of the best at anything, know this is an exaggeration, of course, but you get the point, is to do it more than other people.

You can be the best tennis player you know by playing more tennis than the people you know.

You just do it for a long time and then pretty soon you're the best tennis player you know.

So look for something where you can be the impressive one no matter what that is.

All right.

Um here is one.

Sometimes uh your partner or your mate, let's say your romantic partner will uh ask you to share in the decision.

And what are you thinking when that happens?

Oh no, no, my partner wants to blame me when we picked the wrong restaurant or something.

No, I don't want to share in these decisions.

But instead of uh saying that you need a decision, say you need a co-pilot to share the blame.

>> >> I think it's funnier if you just say, "Hey, I need somebody to share the blame.

So, what restaurant you want to go to?" No, I think that would be funny.

Now, this one's just for fun.

All right.

Um, a lot of people used to think that marriage was about finding your soulmate.

How many of you think that?

Well, some of you think you did find your soulmate, and so you would say, "Yes, that's exactly what it is." And if you were as awesome as me, you would have found yours, too.

Um, but I would say that marriage is not about finding a soulmate.

I think marriage is about finding love with someone who values promises.

That's one you have to think about.

You might have you might have to play that one back because there's like a you know a book worth of thinking in that one thought.

So marriage is not about finding your soulmate.

The reframe is marriage is about finding love with someone who values promises.

It's not obvious why that works, is it?

I'm going to leave that one there and that that'll be your homework.

Just think about it.

All right.

Um, some other soulmates once.

Oh, here's one that I heard from a friend.

I'm not sure where it came from.

Oh, I think it came from Dr.

Seuss, but it's a good one.

If you're in a relationship that ends, instead of crying about your relationship ending, wouldn't it be better to smile because it happened?

So don't cry about it ending.

Be happy that it ever happened.

That one I use all the time.

I I think you can convince yourself to be happy that something happened.

Um let's see.

Here's one for dealing with your teen that I've never seen work.

So, so maybe this one's a bad idea, but you could try it at home.

If you try it at home and it doesn't work or it does work, let me know.

But here's the idea.

So, this would be for a teen.

Um, so the usual frame is you tell your teen they can't understand the reason for what you're telling them.

Do you ever tell your kid because I said so?

And that's considered good parenting, right?

Because I said so.

Why do I have to go to bed at midnight?

Because I say so.

Um, that's fine.

But if you've got one of those teens who's ultrarational to the point of being a pain in the ass, and some of you do, and they want to debate you, here's the ultimate teenager debate killshot.

It goes like this.

Um, a parent is able to guide a young brain.

They're not capable of understanding adult reasons.

Now, you'd want to put that in your own words, but the idea is that the teenage brain is incomplete.

So, no adult over the age of 25 should have a debate with somebody who is under 25 because the under 25s don't even have a developed brain.

What would be the point of that?

So, the point of the adult guiding the younger person is the the adult has a mature brain.

So if I disagree with a teen, I don't say, "You're wrong.

I'm right." Because that's just a fight.

You say, "Ah, that's probably what I would have thought before my brain was mature." You see the difference?

Yeah, that's probably what I would have thought before my brain was mature.

Oh, I thought that when I was your age, too.

But my job as the adult is to navigate you through a place where your brain is not yet developed enough to handle the situation.

So whenever you and I disagree about what you should be doing next, the smart play is to listen to me because I've been there before.

The the worst play is to listen to yourself because we don't know about you, but I've done all those things.

You haven't.

So listen to the more mature brain.

Try that more the more mature brain approach.

See how that works.

It won't work.

I'm still waiting for the one person that works with.

Mostly the others other ones will work with everybody, but that one's pretty specific.

All right.

Um, oh, here's one.

What if, uh, what if people treat you poorly?

Um, and you find out there's not much you can do about it.

What do you do about that?

People treat you poorly and you're thinking there's not much you can do about it.

Well, here's the reframe.

The reframe is that you cause people to treat you the way they do.

People don't treat you the way they do for their own reasons.

There's something you project.

Could be your look, could be your mannerism, could be the situation that you appeared in, but um you you largely cause people to treat you the way they treat you.

And this is something you don't notice until you reach a certain age.

Because when you're young, it's really hard to get anybody to treat you well.

because adults just don't care and other teenagers, you know, they have no special respect for you.

You're just another kid.

So, um anyway, just just assume that uh the way you act causes people to see you the way they see you.

And when they see you the way they see you, that's how they decide how to act.

So you can you can basically hypnotize them just by who you are and how you act.

All right.

Um how about this one?

Oh, this one I used the other day.

This is a a brilliant one.

Uh the old reframe is that the boss is in charge.

Obviously, right?

The boss by definition of being a boss is clearly in charge.

But if you think that, it leaves some opportunities on the table.

So I I prefer a reframe instead of the boss is in charge.

It's more true to say the person with the best ideas is always in charge.

Because if the boss doesn't have any good ideas, where are they going to get one?

From somebody else.

If you're the person who has a good idea, people are going to do what you want them to do because you're the only one with a good idea.

So don't think in terms of power all the time.

Sometimes you have to think in terms of having the best idea, having the most useful solution, being the person that they want to invite to be on the projects.

Think in those terms.

Then there's the uh basket case theory.

the theory that uh most people look like they have their act together and you think to yourself, I wish I were like that person.

They have their act together, but they don't know that I don't.

No, that's not what's happened.

I can almost guarantee you that other people do not have their act together.

They might act like they do, but that is just an act.

So the basket case theory is that everyone's a basket case once you get to know them.

The only people who are not basket cases are people you just don't know well enough.

But if you did, you'd know.

Basket case.

All right.

Um here's a really important one that I try to live by.

I try not to judge people by their mistakes.

Have you heard me say that before?

Don't judge people by their mistakes.

And boy, is that hard not to do.

Instead, judge them how by how they respond to their mistake.

Do they correct something?

Do they change something?

Do they apologize?

Do they make make it right?

Because that's the person I want.

If you're looking for people who don't make mistakes, well, good luck.

You're not you're not going to do too well with that.

But what if you find people who do make mistakes like everybody, but they're really good at dealing with a mistake?

Well, that's gold.

That is what you want.

All right, two more.

Um, I'm going to skip that one.

Ooh, here's one.

The usual frame.

You've heard this before.

It's an old saying that uh small acts of kindness can go a long way.

Small acts of kindness.

Um I would reframe this to say that there are no small acts of kindness.

Uh any act of kindness will seem huge to the recipient.

It only seems small to you.

And that ladies and gentlemen is most of but not all the reframes in the social life chapter of reframe your brain.

Now if you're just checking in you may have found that X wasn't working today or maybe something else wasn't working.

I don't know what else is working but a few things are working.

Looks like Rumble's working and I don't know, did Locals disappear?

Locals looks like might be working and You.

Tube is working the best.

4.5,000.

All right.

So, if you're just joining, we're doing an experiment in which I see if I can do a show without any preparation because the internet was broken, so I didn't get to prepare.

Um, and so I learned from my Dale Carnegie course how to always have something ready.

You notice how I always had something ready.

In this case, the reframes were just sort of a natural thing you could do.

But I could have taken questions.

I could have said, "Oh, today we're only going to talk about, you know, all the things in the Epstein file, except that's boring." So, but in general, you should always have a a backup uh presentation.

So, if your regular presentation gets lost, the digital file gets lost, whatever happens, you can just stand up in front of a bunch of people and do a presentation.

So, but you see how easily I can do it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You see how effortless this is.

And it's only because of practice.

It's not effortless because I have some natural skill.

It's effortless because I've done it most of my adult life.

And the more you practice, the easier it is.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's 7:40 and I'm going to assume that longer is not better in this particular case.

So, we're going to wind down.

Uh we'll see you tomorrow.

uh when we figure out who cares about the Epstein files and all those other things.

And uh I hope this was at least a little bit entertaining to you.

I hope you learned that no matter how scary it is, you can figure out how to make it work.

You can always figure out how to make it work.

You don't need to be that prepared.

You can make most things work if you just jump in and make it work.

That's just what I'm doing right here.

So, I'm trying to trying to model it as I do it.

and I will see you all tomorrow.

I don't think I can go private on locals.

Let me see.

I'll try to go private on lo locals, but it might just disappear.

Oh no, that didn't work.

Wow.

Okay.

I I don't know what happened when I clicked that.

So, it doesn't look like I can go private.

So, I guess I'll just see you all tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Hello everybody. I have no idea what to

expect today.

We got every kind of technical problem

you can imagine. The X platform is down.

I hear Locals is down, but I'm not sure

because here it looks like it's working.

Looks like Rumble is working and locals

is working and YouTube

is YouTube working. Hard to know. So,

everybody's streaming here and we're

going to make something of this day,

which is uh not getting off to the best

start.

Oh, you know what I have to do? Got to

print my notes.

Hold on a minute.

Be right back.

All right. Going to print those notes.

Like it or not, today is mostly a

rolling disaster.

But you're going to like it.

You might even love it. I'm back. So,

what we're going to do today

is some reframes

because the news is all boring and

terrible.

Yeah.

Fighting snakes.

What?

All right. Here's what we're going to

do, people.

I'm going to scoot over there and grab

my notes because I do have a few. And

then I'll be right back. Don't do

anything while I'm gone.

I swear I'll be right back.

Another few.

Yes.

All right. All right. So, I think we got

enough people here.

We'll we'll make sure something happens.

Something's going to happen. I don't

know what.

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All right. If you're just signing on

this morning, there's some kind of

massive cloud problem that's taking down

X. For most of the morning, I thought it

was taking down locals. I tried to do

the pre-show, but it glitched me out. I

couldn't get on. But when I just logged

on, it looks like looks like locals

might be working. All right, so here's

what I thought I would do. Something

like a 100,000 people are going to sign

on here expecting to see my regular

show.

Do you think they're going to see it?

[laughter]

I I had no ability to prepare because I

use X as my, you know, 80% of all my

preparation goes through X directly or

indirectly.

So, I decided that what I would do is

we'll do some refframes, but I'm also

going to demonstrate something just so

you can see it live. And what I'm going

to demonstrate is uh

what to do when all of your plans have

been destroyed and you have to do

something in public. So, I'm now

entering the scariest thing

that an adult can do. It it's very much

like uh you're going to a test and you

you forgot to study or you're going in

for the last day of school and you

forgot your assignment.

So, you get to watch

while you see if I can navigate this

situation.

Will it be easy? No, it will not be

easy. Can I do it? Well, I don't know.

We'll see. But I think it I think it's

fair to say that most people would have

a nightmare showing up unprepared for a

test. That's what I'm doing right now.

I'm going to show you how to survive it.

Easy, really.

So, here's the first trick for surviving

when everything goes wrong. Your

audience doesn't know what you were

planning to do. So, they can't tell it

went wrong.

They just know maybe it's not what you

did yesterday. So, if you can pull it

off,

try to sell it as normal.

I I was thinking today uh how talented

the uh conservative podcast world is.

And I was I was trying to think how many

people

who who have podcasts, who have

conservative audiences, how many of them

could just sign on and do an hour of

content without preparation?

And the answer is about a lot of them.

About a lot of them. Could uh Betty

Johnson do that? Probably. Could Megan

Kelly do that? Definitely. Uh could uh

all the people who are the main hosts on

Fox News do that? Yeah. Greg, Jesse,

Kennedy, they could all do that if they

had to. Um Victor Davis Hansen. Sure.

So, it does seem like some people are

just born to do this. Maybe I'm in that

category because I feel comfortable

doing it.

All right. Is anybody yet horrified

because you're thinking to yourself, I'd

hate to be him right now

because he's going to do a whole show

with no preparation. Oh, I got a

stories. I got I got plans. Yeah, it's

not completely without preparation. So,

I've told you many times I took the Dale

Carnegie course when I was in my 20s,

and it teaches you how to navigate this

exact situation. And by exact, I mean

you had to do some kind of public

presentation,

podcast or anything else, and things

went wrong.

You're actually trained to do that. So,

I'm doing what I'm trained to do. So, if

it looks easy to me, that's not natural

skill training.

I'm just used to it. I also don't have

any normal sense of embarrassment. So,

I'm not worried about things going wrong

at all [laughter]

because I don't have any sense of

embarrassment. And most of you would

understand. I mean, if if everything

went terribly wrong, you'd all

understand, right? It wouldn't be a big

deal.

And uh let's see. Here's a here's

another trick for public presentations.

You may have heard me say this one

before, but it applies really well right

now. That in order to be interesting in

a public sense,

you have to create the well, you don't

have to, but it's really handy. If you

can create the illusion

that you're in danger or somebody's in

danger. So danger is what gets people's

attention because it's a busy world. You

know, we got we have stuff to look at.

Can't look at everything all at the same

time.

So

what I'm doing is creating a sense of

danger.

Uh a small danger. The danger is that I

would embarrass myself or humiliate

myself by not being prepared. Nope. No

problem yet. Um so yesterday interesting

thing happened. You probably want to

know about it. So Carrie Lake was nice

enough to put a very nice message on X

uh wishing me well, you know, with my

health challenges. And then Elon Musk

and then she said something like, "We

love you to me." Uh meaning the audience

loves me. And uh then one of the people

in the comments was Elon Musk and he

said, "We do

what?" So [clears throat] basically I

woke up to Elon Musk telling me he loves

me. Now I love him too. So the feeling

is quite is quite mutual. But uh what

you're wondering is does it feel better

when the most uh successful and richest

man in the world tells you he loves you

versus the average person?

And the answer is oh yeah it's way

better. Yeah. It's just so much better.

Way way better.

>> [laughter]

[gasps]

>> It's funny because I'm joking, but not

really. I mean, if you had a choice of

being uh of somebody telling you they

love you, uh wouldn't it be cool if they

were an awesome person? Yeah, it'd be a

little bit better. I mean, it would be

great no matter who it was, but it's a

little bit better.

Anyway, so I enjoyed that today. Thank

you, Elon.

All right. Um,

see what else is going on. You know,

some of you are waking up and saying,

"Scott, I have OCD and you're ruining my

routine. Uh, I come here to find out the

news."

Well, luckily for you, I have prepared

the what I call it the evergreen news.

So, this is the news that just never

changes.

Uh, in science news, eating makes you

gain weight. Psychedelic mushrooms make

you less depressed

according to the scientist who came up

with the idea of getting themselves

psychedelic mushrooms and getting paid

for it. Smartest scientists ever.

Um, also in the news, AI is still not uh

able to do advanced general

intelligence. Still can't do it.

Advanced general intelligence and we

don't know how to make it do it. We

don't know how to get there. Uh, in

other news, some new group of rich

people just pulled together a trillion

dollars to invest in AI that is still

not able to do advanced general

intelligence and we don't know how to

make it do that.

Okay, maybe tomorrow. Uh, meanwhile,

American kids, American kids are getting

fatter and stupider. No one has a plan

that for healthc care that would work.

The Epstein files probably won't ever be

released. Tomas doesn't want to disarm.

Fentinel still coming in from China. The

federal budget still out of control.

Trump thinks there's too much crime in

cities.

And Trump said something or did

something authoritarian.

Yeah, you did not see that coming. And

uh other surprises in the news, Adam

Schiff is accused of lying. There's a

new photo of a UAP, but we couldn't get

a clear photo of it.

So, that catches you up on all the news.

Did I leave anything out? No.

Well, here's an update on the

simulation. Uh, one of the re one of the

ways I know we live in a simulation, or

at least I do, I don't know about you,

is that I clearly have themes

that would make no sense if it were

random. One of the themes is I have

continuous water leaks in my life.

Now, those of you who've been following

me for a long time are laughing because

you know that it's true. And I even

predict them. I tell you, well, I got

this one fixed. There's going to be

another water leak problem. There always

is. So, yesterday, for example, uh

[laughter]

[gasps]

I was in my lazy boy chair

and I re reclined the lazy boy. Uh,

which was a bad move cuz it got my

[laughter]

catheter bag stuck in the lazy boy

and it [clears throat] it yanked a full

bag of urine off the off the hose

and started just draining it. [laughter]

Now, the good news is caught it before

it got to the chair because the chair

had cushions on it cuz don't ask uh

[clears throat] because I've got a leg

that's oozing.

Uh, so it already had waterproofing on

it from my leg in general, but uh, so we

cleaned that up. Got that all cleaned

up. Um, and this is one of those

situations where you like being the the

disabled guy because I just got to sit

there and say, you know, you might have

missed some over there. [laughter]

I think you missed some over there. So

it turns out if you're not the one

cleaning it up, not that big a deal. Not

that big a deal. Then later that night,

I fell asleep also in the lazy boy and

Gary the cat, I I woke up maybe 2:30 in

the morning and Gary the cat had found a

nice little nest in my arm and oh, it

was so cute. Gary was just soft and

fuzzy and he loved me and he was just

right in that crook of the arm.

And then I thought, you know what would

be good is I feel a little purged, so

I'd like to take a sip of water. So I

reached over carefully so as not to

disturb Gary. Took my water and then

very carefully tried to unscrew the cap,

but apparently the unscrewing of the cap

made some kind of a noise. Couldn't have

been that loud. Maybe something like

this.

And that was just enough to send Gary

into a full caddyywampus

blizzard [snorts] of arms and legs and

tail.

And I'm like, "Oh god, no. It's a

hurricane of cat parts." And uh when it

settled down,

uh [laughter] when it settled down, I

had a bottle of water all over me and no

cat.

[clears throat] So I don't know how you

were doing. How you doing?

Anyway,

um you probably want an update.

Uh I'll read some, uh reframes when we

get to it. So, today will be special.

Change your lives. Anyway, some of you

want my cancer updates. Um here are some

words that you might want to know if

you're talking to somebody else about

what's what. at least in cancer

treatment in my case. So Dr. Pat Sunun

Jang is uh he's got these and well he's

got something called the uh bio shield

technology which I already have in me.

There will be more of it coming. Uh

maybe you'll get some NK and T cells.

Those would be helping my immunity. But

then separately there's there's this

thing called blue victto that I have one

of the upcoming what will be a total of

six um six doses over six weeks. So

that's just in the process. At the

moment I'm weirdly painfree

and I don't want to trust that yet

because you know the whole goal is to

get pain free.

So at the moment no pain I have no pain

relievers. Well, actually I do, but not

very strong. And uh it never made a

difference before, so I'm pretty sure

that's not making a big difference.

Anyway,

uh but I do have some uh terrible wounds

on my legs

for some cancery reason. I don't know.

But those are pretty bad. But those

those are being treated no problem at

all. All right. So, let's go to my book,

Reframe Your Brain. I decided what I

would do is I'd read some reframes out

of

the section on social life. Does anybody

here need a better social life? You want

me to reframe it for you? So, I've got a

whole uh a whole bunch of reframes that

will help your social life. All right,

let's do these. Um, some of these you've

heard, but they're all they're all worth

hearing more than once because it'll

just really pack it in there. So, the

usual frame is people will tell you to

be yourself. You ever hear that? Do you

ever have somebody in your life who will

say, "Well, Scott, the secret the secret

to success is you should be yourself."

to which I say,

um, shouldn't I be a better version of

myself?

If I'm just myself,

I'm not am I not going to be a little

bit suboptimal?

Are you telling me that doing whatever I

feel like is somehow going to be giving

me a good life? I don't think it works

like that at all. No, you should not try

to be yourself. You should always strive

to be some improved better version of

whatever you think is the best you can

be and you should be shooting for that

gives you something to do much better uh

much better system to continuously be

chasing the better version of you and

you never get there. That's the key. You

never get there.

All right.

Uh YouTube is live streaming. Yes, it

is.

All right. Here's another one. These are

social life reframes from my book,

Reframe Your Brain. Changing lives

everywhere. Um, this one's similar, but

you can pick what which one you like.

The usual frame would be you should

learn to love yourself as you are.

Should you do that? Should you really

love yourself as you are? Well, if it's

unchangeable, then yes, why not? You

know, something that can't be changed.

Um, but you shouldn't be glad your brain

is pestering you to improve. So, if you

have a brain that keeps saying you

should be doing more,

um, a lot of people complain about that

because they think, "Oh, man, I'm always

feeling inadequate.

I'm feeling like I'm not doing enough."

Well, maybe you're not. [laughter]

And maybe this is exactly what should be

happening. Maybe maybe your brain should

be telling you why don't you do a little

more,

you know, try a little harder. That

might be the healthiest situation you

could be in. So don't be mad if your

brain is pestering you to improve. You

should thank it.

Um you ever see somebody who needs your

advice?

It's really hard to give advice, isn't

it? Have you ever noticed that you

almost can't give advice? And the reason

is nobody wants to feel like you know

more than they do. Especially a peer,

you know, they they never want to say,

you know, uh if you just do what I tell

you to do, then your life will be good.

That's not really people aren't

comfortable with that. Not at all. So

instead of giving people advice which

they will just automatically reject,

you give them information

or maybe empathy or maybe there's

something specific they need help

organizing their thoughts. But don't

ever put it in the form of, you know, if

I were you, my advice, it's better to

just give them information that they

don't have. you know, such as, you know,

did you know this website has this

information? That's not really advice.

That's just telling them something.

Telling people something works. That's

good.

All right. How about this one?

Uh, here's one I learned many years ago

when I worked at a a resort. People

would come in and they would complain

and we were taught to take on a work

order.

um like a physical piece of paper, a

work order, and and write down the

complaint right in front of them because

that would make them feel like they're,

you know, doing more. So, we take off

the work [laughter]

the [clears throat] work order, write

down what they said, [cough]

and then we were actually told this by

our boss, I'm not making this up,

[clears throat]

that depending on the complaint, it

might not be something you could fix.

Some people, you know, guests at the

hotel would complain about things like

uh they need a certain different

mattress or something and there just

basically there's no way to make that

happen. So instead of making it happen,

we were taught to write it down as if we

were going to make it happen and then

throw it away after they leave.

And the and the thinking behind this uh

is that what people really wanted was to

be heard.

Now, they would also like their little

complaint to be fixed, but even bigger

than that, they want to make sure they

complained,

you heard it, and they felt powerful

because, you know, some action happened

as far as I know. So, yeah. So, it was

purely a theatrical

situation.

All right. Um, people who complain don't

want solutions. Sometimes they just like

complaining. That's the reframe.

Do you ever meet somebody who had a

strong personality?

Do you ever ever hear anybody uh

described that way? Oh. Uh I'm going to

introduce you to Beth. Beth has a Well,

Beth has a how do I say this? Strong

personality.

Run. Run from Beth. You do not want to

be around people with strong

personalities because that's just a way

to hide the fact that somebody's hard to

deal with. Somebody might be a little

bit toxic, if you know what I mean,

strong personality. Indeed,

you're toxic.

I've told you before that if you have a

compliment in mind, that's almost

immoral to withhold it. So, that sort of

a reframe. You've heard this one before,

but it's it's worth doing again.

Um,

giving somebody a compliment just

automatically puts them on your side

till the end of time. So, it's good for

them if it's a sincere compliment and

it's good for you. So, why wouldn't you

do it as much as you could? Well, you

don't want to be like a weirdo over

complimenttor,

but it's hard to get there to be an over

compliment because when somebody is

receiving the compliment, they never

feel like it's too much. [laughter]

So, just pour it on. Just pour on the

compliments. Now, I do that in my my

personal life, but the rule is it has to

be real. Like, you actually have to mean

it. It doesn't count if you're just,

"Oh, what would be a good compliment?"

That doesn't count. It should be

something you're thinking and then you

you just say it. That really counts.

All right. How about this?

Uh, no one seems to find me attractive

or no one wants to date me or nobody

wants to marry me. Um, the reframe of

that is you just haven't met enough

people. You could take anyone in the

world and just introduce them to people

over and over again and eventually

they'd find somebody they fell in love

with. It's just sort of a numbers game.

So there's no such thing as not being

able to find somebody who likes you.

There's only such a thing as have not

yet met enough people because if you

meet enough people,

the numbers are on your side. Sooner or

later, you're going to meet somebody you

like. and vice versa.

Um,

here's one. I need to, this would be the

usual frame. I need to go find someone

to be my romantic partner. Have you ever

had that thought that you need to go out

and find yourself a romantic partner?

And you're actually thinking of it that

way. You're not just thinking, "Oh,

whatever happens happens." But you're

thinking, "I'm going to go find myself a

romantic partner. That's what I need.

Well, that's the old way of thinking of

it. Uh, it would be better to say you

need to signal your genetic advantage to

attract a romantic partner.

What I mean by that is if you can

somehow signal that you're better than

most people at some task, some skill,

could be mental, could be physical.

You're either the best at a sport,

you're the best at chess, you're the

best at making money, you're the best at

just knowing things. So, there are

million things you could be the best at,

or just, you know, one of the best

wherever you are. And

instead of trying to turn somebody into

your romantic partner, which is weird

and creepy, all you do is you just live

your life. But you make sure that other

people notice that as you're living your

life, you're doing something really

well. Then people will want to meet with

you. You have to look like you have at

least one

genetic, some kind of oddity or

advantage. Doesn't matter what it is.

Could be mental, could be physical,

could be attractiveness. You got to have

at least one thing that people look at

and go, "Oh, that's that's kind of

special.

And if you do not have even one thing in

your life, not even one thing that you

do better than other people, nothing.

Well, then you you develop that. Usually

all you need to be to do, you know, all

you need to do to be one of the best at

anything,

know this is an exaggeration, of course,

but you get the point, is to do it more

than other people. You can be the best

tennis player you know by playing more

tennis than the people you know. You

just do it for a long time and then

pretty soon you're the best tennis

player you know. So look for something

where you can be the impressive one

no matter what that is.

All right. Um

here is one.

Sometimes

uh your partner or your mate, let's say

your romantic partner will uh ask you to

share in the decision.

And what are you thinking when that

happens? Oh no, no, my partner wants to

blame me when we picked the wrong

restaurant or something. No, I don't

want to share in these decisions.

But instead of uh saying that you need a

decision, say you need a co-pilot to

share the blame.

>> [laughter]

>> I think [clears throat] it's funnier if

you just say, "Hey, I need somebody to

share the blame. So, what restaurant you

want to go to?"

No, I think that would be funny. Now,

this one's just for fun. All right.

Um,

a lot of people used to think that

marriage was about finding your

soulmate. How many of you think that?

Well, some of you think you did find

your soulmate, and so you would say,

"Yes, that's exactly what it is." And if

you were as awesome as me, you would

have found yours, too. Um, but I would

say that marriage is not about finding a

soulmate. I think marriage is about

finding love with someone who values

promises.

That's one you have to think about. You

might have you might have to play that

one back

because there's like a you know a book

worth of thinking in that one thought.

So marriage is not about finding your

soulmate.

The reframe is marriage is about finding

love with someone who values promises.

It's not obvious why that works, is it?

I'm going to leave that one there and

that that'll be your homework. Just

think about it.

All right. Um,

some other soulmates once.

Oh, here's one that I heard from a

friend. I'm not sure where it came from.

Oh, I think it came from Dr. Seuss,

[laughter] but it's a good one. If

you're in a relationship that ends,

instead of crying about your

relationship ending,

wouldn't it be better to smile because

it happened?

So don't cry about it ending. Be happy

that it ever happened. That one I use

all the time. I I think you can convince

yourself to be happy that something

happened.

Um

let's see.

Here's one for dealing with your teen

that I've never seen work. [laughter]

So, [clears throat] so maybe this one's

a bad idea, but you could try it at

home. If you try it at home and it

doesn't work or it does work, let me

know. But here's the idea. So, this

would be for a teen. Um,

so the usual frame is you tell your teen

they can't understand the reason for

what you're telling them. Do you ever

tell your kid because I said so?

And that's considered good parenting,

right? Because I said so. Why do I have

to go to bed at midnight? Because I say

so.

Um, that's fine. But if you've got one

of those teens who's ultrarational to

the point of being a pain in the ass,

and some of you do, and they want to

debate you, here's the ultimate teenager

debate killshot. It goes like this. Um,

a parent is able to guide a young brain.

They're not capable of understanding

adult reasons. Now, you'd want to put

that in your own words, but the idea is

that the teenage brain is incomplete.

So, no [clears throat] adult over the

age of 25

should have a debate with somebody who

is under 25 because the under 25s don't

even have a developed brain. What would

be the point of that? So, the point of

the adult guiding the younger person is

the the adult has a mature brain. So if

I disagree with a teen,

I don't say, "You're wrong. I'm right."

Because that's just a fight. You say,

"Ah, that's probably what I would have

thought before my brain was mature."

You see the difference? Yeah, that's

probably what I would have thought

before my brain was mature. Oh, I

thought that when I was your age, too.

But my job as the adult is to navigate

you through a place where your brain is

not yet developed enough to handle the

situation.

So whenever you and I disagree about

what you should be doing next, the smart

play is to listen to me because I've

been there before.

The the worst play is to listen to

yourself because we don't know about

you, but I've done all those things. You

haven't. So listen to the more mature

brain. Try that more the more mature

brain approach. See how that works. It

won't work. [laughter]

I'm still waiting for the one person

that works with. Mostly the others other

ones will work with everybody, but that

one's pretty specific.

All right. Um,

oh, here's one. [clears throat] What if,

uh, what if people treat you poorly?

Um, and you find out there's not much

you can do about it. What do you do

about that? People treat you poorly and

you're thinking there's not much you can

do about it. Well, here's the reframe.

The reframe is that you cause people to

treat you the way they do. People don't

treat you the way they do for their own

reasons.

There's something you project. Could be

your look, could be your mannerism,

could be the situation that you appeared

in, but um you you largely cause people

to treat you the way they treat you.

And this is something you don't notice

until you reach a certain age. Because

when you're young, it's really hard to

get anybody to treat you well. because

adults just don't care

and other teenagers, you know, they have

no special respect for you. You're just

another kid. So,

um

anyway, just just assume that uh the way

you act causes people to see you the way

they see you. And when they see you the

way they see you, that's how they decide

how to act.

So you can you can basically hypnotize

them just by who you are and how you

act.

All right.

Um how about this one? Oh, this one I

used the other day. This is a a

brilliant one. Uh the old reframe is

that the boss is in charge.

Obviously, right? The boss by definition

of being a boss is clearly in charge.

But if you think that, it leaves some

opportunities on the table. So I I

prefer a reframe instead of the boss is

in charge. It's more true to say the

person with the best ideas is always in

charge. Because if the boss

doesn't have any good ideas, where are

they going to get one? From somebody

else.

If you're the person who has a good

idea,

people are going to do what you want

them to do because you're the only one

with a good idea. So don't think in

terms of power all the time. Sometimes

you have to think in terms of having the

best idea, having the most useful

solution, being the person that they

want to invite to be on the projects.

Think in those terms.

Then there's the uh basket case theory.

the theory that uh most people look like

they have their act together and you

think to yourself,

I wish I were like that person. They

have their act together, but they don't

know that I don't. No, that's not what's

happened.

I can almost guarantee you that other

people do not have their act together.

They might act like they do, but that is

just an act. So the basket case theory

is that everyone's a basket case once

you get to know them.

The only people who are not basket cases

are people you just don't know well

enough. But if you did, you'd know.

Basket case.

All right. Um here's a really important

one that I try to live by. I try not to

judge people by their mistakes.

Have you heard me say that before? Don't

judge people by their mistakes. And boy,

is that hard not to do.

Instead, judge them how by how they

respond to their mistake. Do they

correct something? Do they change

something? Do they apologize? Do they

make make it right? Because that's the

person I want. If you're looking for

people who don't make mistakes, well,

good luck. You're not you're not going

to do too well with that. But what if

you find people who do make mistakes

like everybody, but they're really good

at dealing with a mistake? Well, that's

gold. That is what you want.

All right, two more.

Um,

I'm going to skip that one. Ooh, here's

one. The usual frame. You've heard this

before. It's an old saying that uh small

acts of kindness

can go a long way. Small acts of

kindness.

Um I would reframe this to say that

there are no small acts of kindness. Uh

any act of kindness will seem huge to

the recipient. It only seems small to

you. And that ladies and gentlemen

is most of but not all the reframes in

the social life chapter

of reframe your brain.

Now if you're just checking in you may

have found that X wasn't working today

or maybe something else wasn't working.

I don't know what else is working but a

few things are working. Looks like

Rumble's working and I don't know, did

Locals disappear? Locals looks like

might be working

and YouTube is working the best.

4.5,000.

All right. So, if you're just joining,

we're doing an experiment in which I see

if I can do a show without any

preparation because the internet was

broken, so I didn't get to prepare.

Um, and so I learned from my Dale

Carnegie course

how to always have something ready.

You notice how I always had something

ready. In this case, the reframes were

just sort of a natural thing you could

do. But I could have taken questions.

I could have said, "Oh, today we're only

going to talk about, you know, all the

things in the Epstein file, except

that's boring." So, but in general, you

should always have a a backup uh

presentation. So, if your regular

presentation gets lost, the digital file

gets lost, whatever happens,

you can just stand up in front of a

bunch of people and do a presentation.

So, but you see how easily I can do it.

Yeah.

Yeah. You see how effortless this is.

And it's only because of practice. It's

not effortless because I have some

natural skill. It's effortless because

I've done it most of my adult life.

[laughter] And the more you practice,

the easier it is.

All right, ladies and gentlemen,

it's 7:40

and I'm going to assume that longer is

not better in this particular case.

So, we're going to wind down. Uh we'll

see you tomorrow.

uh when we figure out who cares about

the Epstein files and all those other

things. And uh I hope this was at least

a little bit entertaining to you. I hope

you learned that no matter how scary it

is, you can figure out how to make it

work. You can always figure out how to

make it work.

You [clears throat] don't need to be

that prepared. You can make most things

work if you just jump in and make it

work. That's just what I'm doing right

here. So, I'm trying to trying to model

it as I do it.

and I will see you all tomorrow. I don't

think I can go private on locals.

Let me see. I'll try to go private on lo

locals, but it might just disappear.

Oh no, that didn't work.

Wow.

Okay. I I don't know what happened when

I clicked that. So, it doesn't look like

I can go private. So, I guess I'll just

see you all tomorrow.

Tomorrow.