it happened. This poll says it worked. This poll says that the news successfully convinced a big part of the public to switch over into worrying.

What was it that made them switch? What persuasion got them to switch? Was it the data? Did people switch sides because of the data? Was it the argument, the facts? Was it the facts and argument and the logic and the science? Was it Greta? Nope. Nope. It was the anecdotes. It was all the stories in the news about there's this place with a drought, there's this place with a record this or record that. And they convinced you with anecdotes. What do anecdotes prove about climate change? Like, what does a specific storm or a specific hurricane or a specific drought—what does that tell you about climate change? Nothing. Nothing.

So you got persuaded when they stopped using facts and they stopped using science. Then you got persuaded. Not you, but the public. So what is this that I've been saying for a while? Maybe some of you can confirm this. Have I not been saying that whoever is doing the persuasion on climate change isn't doing a good job? They just started doing a good job. Do you know how they moved from doing a bad job to a good job? Trump. They took Trump's technique. They took the anecdote and sold it to the public, because the public buys anecdotes. That's why they're selling you the anecdotal guy didn't get the vaccination and he died. Because the news has finally learned that facts and reason don't move the public, and they're in the job of manipulating the public. They're not in the job of informing. And so they made that adjustment. And so you're going to see more and more anecdote, because that persuades. Science and facts, even if it's right, it doesn't persuade.

So watching this happen in real time—because remember the old story of Babe Ruth, baseball player who famously pointed to the fence he was going to hit the home run over and then hit a home run over that fence. You know, famous kind of thing. Larry Bird—if you watched sports, Larry Bird is one of the greatest basketball players, and there's a famous story I was just watching on YouTube where he would tell people what he was gonna do before he did it. Like crazy stuff. At one point he told people that he was going to do a fadeaway three-pointer and land in the opposite team's trainer's lap. Let me say this again. During a game, during the game, Larry Bird called and told the opponents where he was going to stand, how he was going to take the shot, and there was going to be a fadeaway shot where after he shoots, his body goes backwards, and then he was going to land in the lap of the trainer of the other team. He took the ball, went to that spot, drained a three-pointer, and fell into the trainer's lap. That actually happened. And by the way, it wasn't even a unique moment in Larry Bird's life. You have to watch the highlights of all the Larry Bird greatest moments. It is unbelievable. It's amazing.

He would call the most crazy things. True story: one day he told—he was winning some series, and he said he was going to play at least three quarters of the next game left-handed. Left-handed. He was a right-handed player. He scored 27 points left-handed. He called it. He told the other team he was going to play left-handed. They only had to guard one hand. He made their guarding twice as easy by telling them I'm not even going to use this hand for three quarters. He scored 27 points. Now if you don't follow sports, that's like a lot of points left-handed.

All right, so the news just did the same thing. They said we're going to change people's opinions on climate change, and we're going to do it this year. They just did it. They just did it.

I'm seeing some comments about Scott says investment isn't about right and wrong. Is Apple and Tesla too big to fail? What do you mean by is Apple and Tesla too big to fail? Nothing's too big to fail. I don't know what the question means. If you mean in an economic sense, no, there's nothing that's too big to fail. You just have to look at the likelihood. The likelihood is that they won't fail. No, no time soon anyway. All right. Yeah, Sears failed. Nothing lasts forever until it does, I guess.

The climate change polls you are citing are false. That could be. That could be. I will take that comment in the spirit in which it's offered. Yeah, any poll you see—except for Rasmussen, who tends to be pretty darn good. I quote them a lot. But yeah, just a generic poll from some entity that you're not familiar with, yeah, you have to be skeptical.

All right, I believe we have reached the end of our productive morning. Does anybody feel better now? I told you things were going to start looking up.

Have I followed the recent stories about Havana syndrome? I don't know how recent you mean, but Jen Psaki brought up the bleach thing last week and no one corrected her. Just amazing. Amazing. No, I'm not following if there's something new about the Havana syndrome, but I assume that it's more not finding it.

Oh, I've seen some links to the Larry Bird stuff on YouTube. You sip after I leave. My god, your golden age delusion is it. Let me make a quick argument for the golden age. Number one, nuclear war among superpowers I think is over, because it's unwinnable and everybody knows it. So I think world wars are probably over in the shooting sense. We'll have lots of cyber stuff, but we'll get that under control. The mRNA platform shows promise for curing all kinds of stuff, including cancer, right?

So because of the pandemic, here are the things that will change. And maybe would not have changed without the pandemic. Commuting and working in the office, right? It's one of the worst things in a lot of people's life, was having to commute and working in a terrible office. That's gone forever, in the sense that you at least have options. You know, I mean, you could work for a company that doesn't require it or a company that does, but you have an option now way more than you ever had. So I think commuting changes.

If you're following the electric bicycle market, it's way bigger than you think, meaning the impact on society. So the quality of batteries and the price and the power of batteries got to the point where having a battery assist on your bicycle allows you to go 100 miles on a bicycle pretty easily. I mean, it still takes some time, but it's pretty easy. And it's going to change everything. You don't know it yet, because we haven't org