for sure but I got a real, it was a wake-up call when I saw how tight my writing was from 15 years ago.

If I write a book today which I'm doing which hopefully will be a gigantic bestseller but I got my questions. Yeah I got my questions whether I'm just as sharp. Here's what I think is happening. I think I'm less sharp but I have more skills in my stack. I think I come out ahead but I think you would notice the difference. That's what I think. I definitely have more skills in my overall skill stack so that might come through in my writing and give me an advantage but definitely the quickness is diminished. Yeah definitely.

All right and Dems that passed a new protocol to make it easier to remove a president. Tesla investors what bet on recovery and fantasy. Yeah Tesla definitely has some fantasy elements but let me give you the counter argument for Tesla. I heard this from Adam Townsend who's a great follow on Twitter by the way. Adam Townsend you should follow him. And this is why I actually bought stock in Tesla which is unusual for me. I wouldn't normally buy an individual company. I normally diversify but it's because Tesla is a power company. It's not a car company. If you bought it as a car company you look at all the other electric cars and you say lots of competition there and that doesn't look good. But if you see it as an energy company because the world is going to need a whole bunch of batteries it's a whole different deal. If you see it as an energy company you have a whole different feeling about it and that completely reframed my opinion of it. The cars might be irrelevant in the long run. I mean you remember was it eBay? eBay started out selling Pez dispensers. I think the Tesla automobile might be the Pez dispenser for Tesla. It's just a total fake out of where the company is going. I think cars are the temporary product. The big product is energy and maybe AI. AI and energy probably logistics that sort of thing probably. Yeah Amazon started out with books, right? Exactly perfect example. I think Tesla is just starting with cars. I don't think it's a car company in the long run.

The Pez dispenser was a made-up PR story. Yeah okay you got me. The Pez dispenser story about eBay is a sort of origin story but it was close enough to my point but you're right. I take that fact check. I accept your fact check but it doesn't change the basic point.

You don't care for the looks of the new truck. Well a lot of people ordered it.

All right that's all for now. Is there anything I missed? Is there any topic that you wish you had my opinion on? I don't know why. Delta Airlines started as a crop dusting service.

All right I believe the golden age is with us. No I'm not a gamer. Somebody asked if I'm a gamer and I'm not and it's only because it's too addictive. I'll tell you my gamer story just so you've heard it once in case you haven't. At the dawn of video gaming when I think Sony had the best console for a while, I may have the name right I think it was Sony and I was a young man. Computers were just taking off and I said I've got to have one of those video games where I can shoot aliens out of space. And so I bought this thing. It was really hard to get. I forget which one it was and maybe a Sega I don't know I can't remember but I got this system and I brought it home I forget which one it was and I played it for about eight hours straight and when I was done I felt terrible. Terrible. Like I lost eight hours of my life and all I could think of was getting back to do it again and nothing had been better. I wasn't smarter stronger more successful. I had just lost eight hours that's it. And I felt all nervous. Not only did I lose eight hours it wasn't fun. It was like anxious making because I had to shoot more aliens. Gotta shoot more aliens. Aliens aliens. And so after months of trying to get this thing because it was hard to get for some reason there was some kind of shortage I finally got one. I packed that thing up took it back to the store for a full refund and said I never want to be close to one of these again. And I haven't. So I've avoided gaming in all its forms because it was too dangerous.

And remember by that time I was already a trained hypnotist. As a trained hypnotist you sample that you run away and this would be an interesting experiment. I'll give you a hypothesis. My hypothesis is that trained hypnotists don't play video games. Test that. Okay go do a test on that. Just a claim. Trained hypnotist and I'll go further somebody who has a PhD in psychology they don't play video games. I'll bet you. I'll bet you people with a PhD in psychology do not play video games. I'll bet you medical doctors even let's say young ones even going through medical school and stuff probably do some of them but I'll bet not nearly as much as the average person. Not nearly as much, right? And there's a reason. If you have any exposure to that world you know the world of psychology and mental health if you have any exposure to it at all as soon as you spend a little time playing video games you know this shit's dangerous and you just run away.

It's good for surgery skills somebody says maybe some. Yeah so that was my take. It was too addictive.

Now how do I explain not running away from Twitter? Does anybody know my rationalization for that? How do I rationalize spending so much time on Twitter because I know it's addictive? Yeah I rationalize it as a business tool, right? But at the same time I'm rationalizing I'm so aware that it's a rationalization. So aware. Now it's also true like it's true it is a business tool. It is sort of essential for what I'm doing here. It would be tough to do without it but also it's because I love it, right? I don't have a time scheduled for the Russell Brand conversation. I see some people asking over here. I believe he's filming which by the way I wish someday I could say that Russell Brand's producer said they'll get back to me with scheduling because Russell is off filming. I want to use that as my excuse someday. Oh I'd love to do that but I'll be filming that week. Doesn't that sound better than anything you're doing because you're working? No he's not off working he's off filming. He's filming. Way better than working.

How much time do you spend each day on Twitter? Pretty much all of the in-between time. So I try not to like sit down and do Twitter but you're always waiting for something aren't you? You know like you're walking back and forth or you're in between stuff. So it's my in-between thing but in between is most of my day, right? I probably spend more time between things than I do on any one thing. So if you were to mass all the actual minutes, good question I'll give you an estimate as best I can subjectively. If I imagine my day and how many times I check, one hour. One hour best guess. It might be off. That feels like about right but because it's in 30 second increments so there's probably 120 half minute increments during the day. Yeah it is a time suck and it is an addiction but like I said I got a rationalization.

Max says are you dating? Max I don't think you're my type but thanks for asking.

Check your iPhone for time spent on Twitter. Oh yeah let's do that. It's in the settings screen time. That's just screen time right? I don't know app. I don't want to do tech support while you're live streaming here but I thought it'd be easier to find it. I thought it'd be under screen time. That's where I'd put it. Where would you put it on your phone? See all activity. All activity where's that? All right well thank you Apple for making it once again impossible to find anything. Yeah I can't find it. Yeah as usual there are three ways to get to it. There's always five ways to do I think on your phone and four of them don't work.

Do I like ethnic or spicy food? I thought everybody did. Of course I do.

A friend over on YouTube somebody's mad at Max for getting noticed in the comments and wasting his question on it. All right battery use. Oh it's a battery use thing. If I look at my battery use that will tell me what I'm using. Now there we go battery use and where would I see that? All right well I'll figure that out later. I'm just looking at your I know it's in the settings. Scott would you date a trans to avoid persecution? I'm not sure I understand the question. Would I