as a marriage potential because you get at least you get the money even if you don't get the guy. Yeah. Anyway, so I guess I don't have much to talk about today because the news is a little uninteresting. By tomorrow it'll be all interesting again.

Are you seeing any difference in Twitter lately? I thought the trolls went away for a while but I think they're back. So I had a troll resurgence recently. Dave, I see a troll resurgence recently. You know it could be an individual thing. I don't know. It could be just what I said. But some people who just clearly look like trolls came after me and I thought for a while I hadn't been seeing any. Now here's the other thing that's happening. My number of likes and retweets is just through the roof recently. Is anybody noticing that? Like an average just pretty good tweet will get a thousand likes and before Musk would be like 500.

So Musk just showed us the slides he showed to the Twitter internal group and Musk is saying that the Twitter use is just way up, way up. So maybe it's just that Twitter use is way up. Just looking at your comments for a moment. Yeah, it does feel like I was being throttled. And to me the most interesting thing that Musk has said so far is that we have no idea how bad it was. Like he's actually dug down to the point where he's telling us some version of this: everything you suspected was true and it might even be worse than you thought. Now that does feel believable, doesn't it? I think it's exactly what it looked like. That people on the left didn't want to give up their narrative and they had a tool that would help them hold on to it and so they used the tool. I think that's the whole story.

I haven't seen anybody address the hoax list. Who was a prominent person? Wouldn't you love to see Trump have a podcast where the guest was any critic of his, a Democrat who believes the hoax, all the hoaxes, and then a second guest was me. And then Trump says all right, you say this is true, you say this is a hoax. Fight it out. Seriously that would be a hundred million views. I'm not joking. If Trump had a podcast where he interviewed me about the hoax list and a Democrat who believed them, a hundred million hits. Well unless it got suppressed by the, I guess it would be suppressed. Yeah. Am I right that would be a hundred million hits? I think it would be. It would actually be maybe the biggest content ever produced. Am I wrong? I mean that's a pretty big, I'm making a big claim. I'm saying it would be the most watched content of all time on the entire internet. It would be number one of all time I think so. Unless it was suppressed. If it got suppressed then nobody sees it and I think it probably would be suppressed. YouTube would suppress it of course. Yeah, I don't think YouTube could allow the list to get much play.

By the way one of the reasons that I avoid cancellation is by keeping my audience intentionally small. Did you ever wonder why I don't do more to grow my audience? Has anybody ever wondered about that? Does it seem suspicious to you that I haven't increased my production values and done marketing and tweeted and appeared on other podcasts to sell this one? It's because I don't want it any bigger. If it gets bigger I'll be a target. And my current size I have crazy influence because it's just the nature of the people who watch this. It's sort of a small, it's like a boutique content. Can I use that word? Does this feel like boutique content? Because there's a certain small group of people who are going to love it but it won't be necessarily even on the awareness of anybody else. And I think that's the way it works best. Because if I had the size audience of let's say Alex Jones or Ben Shapiro, I think that I would have to get canceled.

But here's how this works. If you're a Democrat you would have no idea how much influence I have, would you? Give me a fact check on that. True or false? There's probably no Democrat anywhere who has any idea what kind of influence I have on events in the world. Wouldn't you agree? I don't think they're aware. I bet you literally would not be able to find one. Now is that true of conservatives? Do you think conservatives know how much influence I have on events? They have a much better idea, but nobody knows the full catalog. You know that, right? Just like every famous person, you think you know their story but the real story is always different, right? You think you know everything about Elon Musk. Well you don't. Like there's a version of Elon Musk that only he knows. Only he knows. Nobody else knows it and never will. And that's true of all famous people. The real story nobody will ever know. So I think that Republicans have a sense that things I say sometimes get repeated so that they can see that level of influence. But there's nobody in the world who knows my full catalog of things I've influenced. I'm the only one. I'm literally the only one. And if I told you you wouldn't believe it. So it just stays with me. I'll go to my grave being the only one who ever knew. And that gives me tremendous power. Tremendous power. Because if people knew how much influence I had they'd try to stop it.

The Democrats are completely oblivious. The Republicans think it's a little bit of influence but you know they generally like the way I influence things so they're like okay he's got a little bit of influence just like other people so we like it. The only reason I could operate is because people don't know what I'm doing. And how much do you love the fact that I can say it publicly? I can tell you directly but it's in this category of things which can't be communicated. I can say it but a Democrat can't hear it, right? I can stand in front of my building and say do you have any idea what I'm doing and I could tell them and then they would say a crazy guy in the building and go on with their day. It can't be communicated. It's completely non-transferable knowledge. It's weird.

What about Bill Maher? Cake recipes? What? People I know of you but truly don't know how much. Yeah. And one of the things that protects me is that I'm famous as a cartoonist. What do you think Democrats think when they hear you know I said something in public about politics? The first thing they think is the way you think of Stephen King. I assume they go well we don't have to listen to Stephen King. He's a writer. And when they hear from me they're like ah cartoonist. Yeah, cartoon boy. So that works in my favor because I'm not taken seriously. And that's exactly where I like to hide. One of the things that I can't fully teach you is how to use psychology to make things invisible. But I do it all the time and the news does it all the time, usually redirection. But I basically made myself invisible and I could just hide here forever. Like I'm in public and invisible at the same time, right? I mean you're watching it in real time. I'm in public but also invisible. I do it because the psychology allowed it to happen. So I just inserted myself where I could hide. So as long as I'm famous for cartooning and Democrats are living mostly in their bubble and they just get a little bit of a taste of what's happening in the other bubbles but that's it. As long as they only get a taste and that's not going to change. There's nothing that's going to change that. They're always going to see me as the Garfield guy when they joke that they forget what cartoon I do and I'll never be taken seriously. That's exactly where I want to be.

Ah, desert fairy check. You would be right except that I don't have bad intentions. If I were trying to enrich myself in this process it would be obvious, wouldn't it? It would be pretty obvious. Do you know how I could make more money? I do. Just agree with one side all the time, right? It could not be more obvious. If I wanted to make money I would just agree with the Republicans whatever they said and then I would have the same audience as your biggest people who talk about this stuff. But I don't want that. But I also prefer a more honest approach. So well that's enough about me. Then you would not be worth as much. Yeah, there's something about overexposure that diminishes you. So I'm trying to stay below that.

Now I've also said that I'm not going to appear on any other podcasts or media at least for the next year or so. Do you know why I'm doing that other than time management? Do you know why I'm not appearing on other podcasts? It's because if I appear on other podcasts the Democrats will see me. I'd rather just they don't. Yeah, my it doesn't benefit me to get more attention. That would actually make me worse off. I now have just the right attention because I have almost a hundred thousand Twitter followers. I told you if I get to a million, which looks like it'll happen before 2024, if I get to a million followers, if I ever given you my equation for power. The equation is your persuasion skill times your reach. So if you're the most persuasive person in the world but you only have one friend you're not going to have much influence except on one person. But if you have a big platform then your influence gets to all those people. So the two things that matter is how good you are at persuading and how many people are paying attention.

So Trump had top grades in both. Trump had the best power of persuasion and then he also had a big platform. Yeah, Andrew Tate, same thing. Power of persuasion, big platform. That's what you want. I have nearly a million followers and as good as Tate is, he's very good at persuasion. As good as Trump is, very good at persuasion. I'm better than both of them. So if I get to a million probably can run everything. Now of course that's an exaggeration but it's a directionally correct exaggeration meaning that I would have influence over some big topics just by number of followers.

Yeah, you haven't heard many positive things about ESG lately, have you? How many of you thought I could kill the ESG by the end of the year when I told you that I was going to do it? How many thought that would happen? Would you agree it happened? Would you agree that that was an accomplished goal? Even I don't know because you don't know what would have happened if I hadn't been here. What would have happened? Here's what I think. I think that when Dilbert mocks it, it becomes nearly impossible to be in public and not know that everybody knows what you talk about is, and it makes it really uncomfortable to be on the side that Dilbert says is. You thought I would need more cartoons to do it. Somebody says the Groypers love me. I don't know if that's true. ESG was not financially feasible, right? But a lot of things that live forever are not financially beneficial. So that wasn't enough to kill it by itself. It only mattered that somebody was making money on it, right? As long as BlackRock or somebody was making money there'd be more of it. So I think what's happening is not just that people realize it's not a good investment strategy but it's just mocked into ridiculous territory.

Groypers are the followers of Nick Fuentes. Somebody asked me what's a Groyper. Know more about Colorado. No I don't do the mass shooters and I think everybody's okay with that, right? You're okay with me not doing the mass shooters. Now by the way here's another example. The mass shooters are of interest to people and if I wanted to make more money I would talk about them. I just don't think it's good for the world. It's good that you know that it happened and that's it. I want to be aware of it. I want to be able to give as much support to the survivors and families and stuff. But the less we talk about it the better. And I feel like I have to model that, right? So to me making money on the back of that would put me in Alex Jones territory. You know what I mean? If I try to monetize that knowing that I'd be monetizing it, knowing I would be contributing to making more of it by makin