travel thing became too hard to resist. And the reason I waited was, why did I wait so long? There's only one reason I waited, is because I didn't trust institutional data. Why else would I wait? If I trusted it I would have signed up. I would have been first in line because nothing would have stopped me, right?

So I think Barnes is having some kind of a mental breakdown. Terrible meltdown. You should express your empathy because he must be going through something in his personal life that's horrible. I'm probably some kind of, you know, not a marital problem or something. I can only speculate. But he seems to be acting out in a way that suggests a terrible mental breakdown. How many people think I'm serious about that? No, I'm not serious. It's sarcasm. You cannot diagnose somebody's mental state by their tweets. But he's doing it to me, so I was just returning the favor. None of it makes any sense. Do you think I know how he feels when he's not tweeting? Of course not. He could be, good Lord the storm is really loud. I'm gonna have to check outside to see if my landscape blew away.

All right. Sad news. Diamond of Diamond and Silk passed away at age 51. No cause of death, but I did read that she had been sick for a while. So whatever it was was not sudden. And that's quite tragic. And not much else to say about that. Yeah, we'll just show our respect and note that I think that they were, by the way, for some reason I didn't know they were sisters. Did you all know they were sisters? I just thought they were best friends. But they did act like sisters because they were on the same wavelength. Yeah. How could I go so long without knowing that? Because I don't remember them ever being referred to as sisters. They were always just Diamond and Silk. And I thought they did a great job of maximizing their potential and everything. The Diamond and Silk story is a real good one to look for success strategies. And I would say one of their best superpowers, which I talk about all the time, is I don't think that they ever got embarrassed. Am I wrong? Like they could go on and just put on a really good show because they were never embarrassed. They were just, you know, put themselves out there. Now that's something to be respected and also to be imitated. You know, they put themselves out there. They took a risk. The worst thing that could happen to them was they'd have a bad day on social media and then they say, oh I guess this isn't for us, right? It was the exact right kind of risk-reward that I always recommend. If the only risk is you spend an hour on social media and then some people mocked you but not many people saw you and you decided it wasn't for you, that's a perfect risk. Low risk, high potential payoff. And they took that risk and they got a high potential payoff. So good work for them. Good instincts. Good contribution to the whole.

When somebody passes away, we're only going to do the positive parts of their life. You understand that, right? So we're just doing positivity today.

Here's a strategy I think Trump could win the White House on. Here's what I would do if I were Trump. All right, you know he's being closed out by the media. So the mainstream media is going to close him down, including probably Fox. Now that might change if he gets nominated. Might change if he gets nominated. But at least during the nomination phase he's going to have to play it non-traditionally. Here's how I do it. I would say I'm only going to do podcasts because everything he does on a podcast is going to get turned into a clip and become viral. He'd be on every reel and every TikTok and it would be real easy to share it and stuff. But the content of those videos should be partly from interviews he does in podcasts because the podcast format is the best form for him because a podcaster could push him hard.

Right now I do plan that when I leave my media, at the moment I'm on a media diet so I'm not doing any interviews or I'm not appearing on other podcasts for most of this year. But I'm certainly going to offer to interview Trump if he gets into the process deeper. Now do you think he would say yes? Do you think Trump would appear on a podcast or livestream that has only 50,000 viewers on a good day? Yeah, because the 50,000 viewers is irrelevant to the reach. The only thing that matters is if he and I created a viral moment where there's like a 10-second clip or something that's really good. That's all that matters because that's the win. It's not anybody watching the interview.

Then secondly, if Trump does anything interesting on a podcast, it doesn't matter how many viewers the podcast normally gets. It's going to be a Trump number. It's not going to be a podcast number, right? So he can make anything big. So he doesn't have to go on to a big platform. He can go on a little platform and then let it expand.

Next thing I would do is I would create a series of very short, maybe two minutes at most, a minute would be better, but two-minute videos on each policy. Just two minutes so that nobody could ever doubt what his policy was. And then I think you need some work on those policies because if he presents his policies the same way he always did, I don't think it's good enough. I think he needs an upgrade in his persuasion. So if he did that and he made these little one-minute videos, they'd be very powerful.

Then the other thing, and here's the kill shot. The kill shot is he should do a series of very short videos, you know one minute-ish, debunking each of the conspiracy theories, each of the hoaxes against him. Imagine Trump creating a video that shows the tweet that was live at the time and the Wall Street Journal article talking about light as a disinfectant and then pick out the parts of his speech where it was light, light, light. Show how the hoax was created and do it all in one minute. Because each of these points is like a five or ten second point. You could put like six ten-second points together and debunk any hoax. So you do the fine people hoax, you do the drinking bleach hoax, and then he would have to answer the question for example why did you say you were just being sarcastic. Now he's never answered that question. But I think the easy answer is I was just trying to brush it away because it was just a hoax story. I just wanted to make it go away. Which I think anybody would believe, don't you? Because it obviously wasn't sarcasm. Whatever it was it wasn't sarcasm. So you would believe him if he said, you know honestly it was just a stupid story and I didn't want to be the president discussing COVID technology like that's not my role. I was just brainstorming and maybe it was better I don't do that. So I was just trying to make it go away. That would totally satisfy me. Would it satisfy you if he said yeah I mean honestly obviously it wasn't sarcasm. It was based on something I saw but I just didn't want to pursue it. Just wanted to make it go away.

So once he's created a one-minute debunk of each hoax, then the next thing you do is you put them in a compilation clip. So they each would live individually but also they would be short enough that you could put them into a like 20-hoax compilation clip. You put the hoax videos together with the quick policy videos that are really tight and well and better than he usually says them. Put them on podcasts. I think he's unstoppable.

Now I think January 6th has to be one of the hoaxes. I think he has to present it as the reaction to it was political. Now at the same time the only way you can do that credibly is to admit that members of the protest went too far and some of them probably wanted to do the worst possible things. He can't deny that, you know, the parts that are in evidence. But I think going after the Ray Epps thi