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ut this is cheating. One of my viewers sent me some free money to make my affirmations come true. Thank you. Now the rest of you, don't send me any money. You don't need to be sending me money, right? But thank you. It was kind of funny, and you definitely got my attention. So thanks for doing that. But maybe you can change the past, is all I'm saying. And how would you like to enjoy the simulta…

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or tankard, chalice, stein, a canteen, cherry flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like, that's right, coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. I'm going to mix in a little serotonin, just a dash of oxytocin. This is going to be the good one. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now all over the world. Go.

You know, if Tony Robbins had come up with this idea, maybe he could have made something of himself.

Well, let's talk about all the things. Looks like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are major investors in a nuclear energy. I think it's a fourth generation nuclear reactor. Now if you don't know what a fourth generation nuclear reactor is, the definition is a little squishy, but basically it means a safer, more economical form of nuclear energy.

You might not be aware — I think this is true — that there's never been a major problem with the newest type of nuclear power. Do be a fact check, fact check on that. But I think it's true that generation three, which is what you would build today, not counting this Bill Gates thing I'll talk about, but up until today any new plant would have been the so-called third generation. I believe there's never been an accident in one of those that killed anybody. But check that out. I think only second generation or prior have ever had an accident, because we know how to do it now. Third generation, I don't think there's ever been one. But fact check me on that. I think I'm right anyway.

But even way safer than the third generation, which probably has never killed anybody, I think the new stuff is even better. And so Wyoming has decided to partner with the Gates and Warren Buffett funded entity. I think it's TerraPower. But this is going to be the Natrium power plant, and it's expected to be more fuel efficient, cost effective, and safer. I don't know if it actually eats the waste from traditional plants, but some of the generation four will do that. I don't know if this one does.

Here's my take on this. We quite rightly do a lot of complaining about the income gap and the wealth gap in the world. It doesn't seem fair that people are starving at the same time somebody has a hundred billion dollars. Your sense of fairness, it just is hard to process that. But it is nonetheless true that our mega billionaires can do some things that the government can't.

Why does the government do anything for you? Like why do you have a government? The point of a government is that the government has a god-awful amount of money and power, so they can just do stuff that requires a god-awful amount of money and power. But fast forward to 2021. Our billionaire class, our billionaire class has a god-awful amount of money that they can focus on particular projects. You know, they don't have the government kind of money, so they can't focus everywhere, which wouldn't make sense. But a Bill Gates and a Warren Buffett could just say, all right, here's a problem the government isn't fixing, and then they just go fix it.

Now what are the odds that this power plant will work out the way they hope? I don't know. You know, it's the first of its kind. It's the first of its kind. So maybe there'll be little stops and starts. But whether it's perfect on the first try or they tweak it later, this is amazing news. Do you understand how big a news this is if you've been following the whole climate change and even especially the nuclear energy field?

Let me put a value on this in te

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rms of what this could mean for the planet. It's a 10 and a 10. Did you know that this news is a 10 out of 10 for the health of the planet? I mean this is so big it's almost incalculable if it works. Right now even if it doesn't work, like I said, it probably moves us closer to the one that does. You know, they might have to tweak it or whatever. But this is amazing news. Is it the top headline?…

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