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nfluential people. So in the specific sense, yes, but not in some big generic sense. So that's the world we live in. How about that? Apparently according to Rasmussen is reporting today that Biden's approval is in a free fall since May 31st, which is not that long ago. Thank you, Kevin, I appreciate that. Apparently independents have turned on Biden. So of course Democrats still love him. Republi…

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ost of you are aware that Logan Paul just had a fight with, what's his name? Remind me the name of the fighter he just fought. One of the best. Why am I blanking on who Logan Paul just boxed? What's the name? What's the name of the boxer? Yeah, Floyd Mayweather. Only one of the greatest boxers of all time whose name I could remember. So if you're not into boxing, let me just tell you the basics. Logan Paul was a YouTuber but he trained very hard and it actually became a credible fighter, changing careers. And Floyd Mayweather is aging but one of the best boxers ever alive. They just had an exhibition match and Logan Paul boxed them to a tie. And I guess in the exhibition match unless there's a knockout you don't get a winner.

So now I'm not sure that Mayweather fought as hard as he could. I don't know. They both had something like a 20 million dollar payday or some big number like that. And here's the interesting part about it. It turns out that Logan Paul is an affirmations guy. And I don't know if he believes that we live in a simulation. I haven't seen anything about that. But he's very clearly talking about affirmations. Here's a tweet from Logan Paul in which he was getting ready for the match, the boxing match, and he said in his tweet, he said, in 2015 I moved to Los Angeles. Every morning and every night I look myself in the mirror and repeat 10 times, quote, I will be the biggest entertainer in the world. I had no idea how or when it would happen but after six years of manifestation it's happening. Life is a wild ride.

Do you believe that? Do you believe that in 2015 he literally every morning and every night looked in the mirror and repeated 10 times, I will be the biggest entertainer in the world? Well, maybe not every single day, but I believe it. I believe it would be sort of a weird lie to tell, right? Did it work? Do you think he accomplished, I will be the biggest entertainer in the world? Did he accomplish it? You did. You did. If only for one day. Check your entertainment news for today. He's the biggest entertainer in the world today. All the stories are about him. Now he's not. He won't be bigger than, you know, Kanye or Michael Jackson, you know, in the long run, right? But today he's the biggest entertainer in the world. He did it. He did it. You know, unbelievable. He did it.

And you could argue whether he's the biggest entertainer in the world. You could argue how long is it supposed to last. But one of the things I've told you about affirmations is don't make them specific, because when you make them specific you might get them exactly the way you've made them. And he did. He got exactly what he asked for. He became the biggest entertainer in the world. But what was missing is "for years." If he had said I'll be the biggest entertainer in the world for years, well first of all that'd be harder and second of all it didn't happen. I doubt he'll be the biggest entertainer in the world for years. But he was today. He actually hit his mark.

And when he talked about it after, he was quite inspirational actually, talking about how you shouldn't believe the odds. Now do you think you should stay in your channel? Did Logan Paul take all the advice from all the losers in the world and say, look, Paul, you're a YouTuber. Yeah, you had some wrestling experience. I know you've worked out. You boxed. I know you've got a little weight and height advantage over Floyd Mayweather. But really? Seriously? Seriously? You know, is this going to work out? And he changed lanes and he made, I think, 20 million dollars minus taxes minus managers and stuff. So wow. I love this story. I also love the sportsmanship. You probably saw Logan Paul and Mayweather going at each other before the fight, after the fight. After the fight Floyd Mayweather said, wow, he was much better than I thought. Gave him full respect. Full respect.

Oh, is it net 10 million? Somebody's saying. Ann Marie, is that net for each of them 10 million or are you just saying after taxes? After taxes would be half that, yes.

All right, well that's enough of that.

I was asked the other day if the simulation has a null hypothesis, which in regular English means is there a way to prove it's false, because if you can't disprove it maybe you can't prove it. So I don't have that. So in other words I don't have a way to prove it or to disprove it. But I want to just put this thoug

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ht out there for your observation. It goes like this. In my opinion my life has been so close to what a video game should be like that I can't ignore it anymore. And one of the things that is very video game like goes like this. I have a theme my whole life starting when I was, I don't know, 10 years old. There's a theme in my life and I'm sorry I'm not going to tell you what it is but it's a them…

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