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actually feel the change. Some people are wearing out their highlighter. So it's not like a regular book. It's a book you're going to want to highlight, keep around, show to people, refer back to. So the physical book, I actually recommend... normally I'd say get the Kindle because who needs a book on their shelf? But if you want this book, I'd wait for the soft cover. I wouldn't wait for the hard…
← Previous segment →I commented, we're trying to train you to ask one question. How many men said, my God, that's exactly what I'm doing? Come on. How many of you admit it? How many of the men say, okay, you got me. That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm trying to train her to ask one question. Yeah, I've done that. Oh yeah, I've intentionally ignored questions to try to train them.
All right. The exception would be business. If I get a text for business, I don't mind multiple questions because, you know, why not? And then somebody in the... and there was a woman in the comments. This just made me laugh until I cried. She said that she had tried to, you know, she'd heard the same thing that men like one question per text. So she'll send multiple questions in multiple texts at the same time so that each question is in its own text. Was that exactly getting to the heart of the problem? And I loved it. I love that, you know, men and women are so different that even when I say directly I'm trying to train you to ask one question, that the way it was heard was, oh, so I'll just ask 10 questions in individual texts at the same time and we're good, right? No, no, that wasn't exactly the spirit of that.
All right, here we go. Have I ever told you that all news about public figures is fake news? Yes, I have. And the reason I've told you that is because all news about public figures is fake. Now, it always starts with something true. You know, somebody is sick, probably true. Don't know what. Somebody died. Somebody got married. Those are usually true. But all of the why somebody did it, the background, the interpretation, the context, all fake. All fake all the time. Not always intentionally.
Let's see if you can pick this one out on your own. Okay, so there's a story in The Insider, which used to be called The Business Insider, about RFK Jr.'s voice issues. It's a disorder called spasmodic dysphonia. And The Insider reports that it is an incurable disorder. Why did they report that it's an incurable disorder? Do you think I sound like RFK Jr. right now? Does anybody think I talk just the way he does right now? Nope. Do you know that I had that same disorder? It's called spasmodic dysphonia. And that I had surgery and it was cured. That's why when you're listening to me right now, it sounds like a pretty normal voice. And the reason I got the surgery is because I was referred to other people who had the surgery. So I talked to them in person. I mean by phone, but personally I talked to them and they could all speak fine. They could all speak fine. So there was in fact, and there has been for now many years, 10 years, 15 years, a surgery that is a complete cure.
Suppose you were to look it up. I'd like you to do this right now. If anybody has a second browser open, look for treatment or cure of spasmodic dysphonia. Tell me what comes up. Treatment or cure of spasmodic dysphonia. Do it right now. Do it right now. Now remember the cure has been available for about 10 or 15 years, and I've been public about how I did it. Do the existence of it. What do you find? What is recommended as sometimes it's called the gold standard? Well, I think if you look it up, you're going to find that there's no cure, but that Botox injections through the front of the neck into the back of the neck... in other words, they're reaching to the back of the neck but they have to go through the front... into your vocal cords can give you some relief. WebMD says there's no cure. WebMD says there's no cure. I'm literally talking to you cured right now.
So what you're going to find is that most standards will say there's no cure, but people often use Botox to get a better result, you know, better than what they had. Now, what do you think is happening? You know for sure, 100 percent sure, it's curable because you're listening to me live and I have a very long history of talking about it before I was cured, not talking but writing about it. And now you find that if you check the news, not just the news but if you search on Google, it's going to say that there's a pharma product, a big, I don't know, big but a big pharma product that's the only thing you can do about it. Have you put it together yet? Is anybody connecting the dots?
All right. There was an organization that's like the umbrella organization for this situation, spasmodic dysphonia. So a bunch of people had that condition and some people who treated it got together and they've created an organization. If you search for it, it'll probably be one of the first things that comes up. Who do you think gives them funding to support their organization? Oh, I don't know. Can you take a guess? Yeah, it's exactly what you think it is. Put your conspiratorial hat on. There is a cure, but the news won't tell you. And if you search for it, you can't find it. What does it remind you of? Now remember this happened before the pandemic, so this is the same thing. You know, for years it's always been like this. Well, I've... Rebecca, it's exactly what you think it is. It's exactly what you think it is. The news is not even close to real.
Now, can you believe this? This is about a major candidate. Now here's the backstory on RFK Jr. He did get a medical procedure, but it's not the one I got. He did research and he learned about mine because I told him about it a long time ago, and he decided to get something that had an easier recovery, which is a reasonable decision. So his decision actually made sense because he did get some improvement that's quite substantial, enough to get him through maybe the political season. If he had done my surgery, he'd have a year or two of weak voice. It wouldn't have worked for politics at all. So it does take a long recovery period. But can you imagine that the news doesn't even mention... so when you read anything about a political figure, e
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ven something as basic as a medical situation, not real. It's just not real. Once you realize how not real the news is, you can never unsee it. All right. China's population. Another news that the fertility has dropped below Japan's level, which was... you know, Japan had the same problems, are having the same problem. It's even lower now. That's from the official numbers from China. So the offic…
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