And they better stay away because there's nothing more scary than somebody who's crazy. And I will go to crazy right away. If somebody big tried to hurt me, I would go to crazy and I would just stay there. I would never leave crazy because that's what it takes. If that's what it takes to win prisoner island, I'm going to do it.

So the moral of prisoner island is I'm going to do what it takes.

Now, another version of this is the millionaire's advice, which I repeat a lot. It's the best advice I've ever heard. I wish I knew who it came from. It came from an actual millionaire whose name I don't remember. And what he said was, if you want to succeed, figure out the price of success and then pay it. That's it. That's the whole deal. If you want to be successful, figure out the price to be successful and then pay it. If you do that, you will be successful. In my case, it was working seven days a week for ten years. That's what it took. It took me working seven days a week for ten years. And you know there were other challenges there. For example, losing the ability to draw halfway through.

By the way, do any of you know that I can't draw with my right hand right now? I've lost the ability to use my drawing hand. So if you were a professional artist and you lost your ability to draw, like I actually can't use my hand anymore just from overuse. It's not carpal tunnel. It's a focal dystonia. It's a whole different thing. It's from overuse. And it's not carpal tunnel. It's a focal dystonia. It's a different thing. But on prisoner island, if you've never been to prisoner island and you're a cartoonist and you lose the ability to draw, you stop drawing, you quit. But if you've been to prisoner island, you learn to draw left-handed. Is that easy? Nope, nope. Drawing left-handed is not easy. Now I'm mildly ambidextrous, so I probably have a little leg up on that. But boy am I unwilling to compromise on some things. And so now I draw left-handed. It takes a little longer. I'm getting better at it. And I have an art assistant who does the finished work so I can get away with some imperfections.

But anyway, that's what I wanted to tell you. Somehow that affirmation that was maybe the least likely affirmation I could have ever come up with actually came through. I don't know what this means about the world really because the number of times I've had affirmations for things that just seemed impossible, just impossible, and they happened, it's really crazy. It makes you wonder about the whole nature of reality really. I will tell you some other examples, but you can read them in my book.

All right, here's the funniest story of the day. Bernie Sanders tweets this 20 hours ago: "We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period." Why do people say "period" at the end of a statement? Do you know why? Why do people say "period"? It's because they don't have an argument. That's the only reason. You wouldn't say "period" if you had any kind of an argument. You would just give the argument. But his argument is fairness, which is a concept, as I often say, a concept that was created so that children and stupid people could have something to talk about. Because do you know what's fair? Nothing. Nothing. There are things that you imagine are fair. There are things you say are fair. But there's nothing like fairness in the universe. You can't get yourself a handful of fairness. You can't even get two people to agree what's fair.

What is fair when it comes to taxes? Can you define fair? What's fair? I already pay the highest percentage of anybody in the United States as a ratio. I also work two jobs when I don't need to, right? So this entire profession, if you want to call it that, the live streaming and stuff, it's a huge portion of my effort and I don't need to do that. I don't need to do that. But I do it because it's good for the world, good for the country, etc. Should I pay the same taxes as someone who's doing something selfish? Why is that fair? Why is it fair that a selfish person is just doing work just for their own benefit pays the same taxes as I do when I'm doing this really primarily for other people's benefit? Is that fair?

There's nothing that's fair. Fair is purely subjective. And the moment you say it's got to be fair, period, you are signaling with extreme clarity that you have no reason for what you want. You just want what you want. There's no reason for it.

Elon Musk replied to Sanders saying, "We must demand the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period." And Elon Musk replied with this, and I quote, "I keep forgetting that you're still alive." Now, I don't know if Elon Musk is the funniest tweeter now that Trump is gone, but he's pretty close. If he's not the funniest tweeter now, some of it is because of his situation. You know, if you're the richest person in the world, everything you say sounds a little more interesting and a little funnier because everything's amped up by that fact. But that's a really good tweet. "I keep forgetting you're still alive."

This is why Tesla doesn't need to spend money on marketing. Musk is the marketing. You can't look away. Try to go a day without talking about Tesla. Try it. Try going a full day without mentioning Tesla or Elon Musk. It's actually hard to do. I don't think I've gone a full day without mentioning one of them. I don't know how long now. Part of it is because I'm in California and there are Teslas everywhere. So you're just surrounded with Elon Musk reminders all day long. And people telling me I should get one. Like I probably have that conversation about three times a week. Somebody telling me, why don't you have a Tesla? I don't understand. Obviously, why wouldn't you have one? And I have to explain all that, blah, blah. Well, maybe I will have one someday.

All right, here's a question for you. Let's look back. Let's go back in the wayback machine. And do you remember when China reopened the wet markets? How many remember that? You know, we thought the virus might have come from the wet markets. And then China fairly quickly, according to what everything we knew about everything, they reopened the wet markets. And do you remember how appalled you were and how reckless that seemed? Now think about how reckless that seemed and then compare it to all the other things that China did about the pandemic.

One thing looks terribly reckless: opening up the wet markets, which didn't seem necessary because I don't think those wet markets have that much impact on the national economy, do they? I doubt it. Yeah. And they're not even phasing them out. It'd be one thing if they said, well, we have to reopen them because people need to eat. If that's what's going on, but you know, we'll phase them out as quickly as we can. Now that's not what happened. They just reopened them. That would seem terribly reckless, wouldn't it?

But then you look at the other things that China did. They nailed people in their apartments. Yeah, I think they're jailing people and tracking people. And they're insanely conservative about managing the virus in every other realm. Insanely conservative. But yet in this one little realm of reopening the wet markets, they're the opposite of every other way they've acted with the pandemic. How would you explain that? There's only one explanation. Do you know what the one explanation is? China knew early on the wet markets were not the source. There is no other explanation.

There have been books written about whether or not this virus was man-made or came from the wet markets. You don't need any books. They never would have reopened the wet markets if they thought, if they didn't know it came from the lab or somewhere else. You know I'm right. You know I'm right. And who else has mentioned this? Have you heard anybody else say what I just said? That there is no other explanation for the wet markets except that China knew that that's not the source. There's no other explanation. It is a hundred percent inconsistent with every other way that they act. It's the only way it can be explained.

Yeah. And why did you have to hear that from me? Because did I introduce any new facts? No, no. I introduced no new facts. I just looked at the facts that every one of you know and I just reframed it. Why did the news not do that for you? There's a lot of people in the news. Why'd you have to wait for me? I mean, think about it. Yeah. I mean, this is another sign of how easily we're manipulated by the news. The fact that we never even thought about this and I didn't think about it till yesterday. Literally yesterday is the first time that occurred to me. Think about that. It's one of the most important questions in the country and it's largely answered. It's like one of the big mysteries completely answered and we didn't even realize it. It was all right there. You didn't even have to look for anything.

So all right, here's another one. When news of the virus first came out in the beginning of the pandemic, do you remember that all the experts, I believe all of them, correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't