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e should be. It shouldn't be so great here in America." And he goes on to explain that because America is doing so well and other places are not doing as well, that it's not fair that we keep all our good stuff, that we should let them in to have our stuff. Do I need to spend even 10 seconds describing why that's the dumbest opinion in the history of all opinions in the world since the beginning…
← Previous segment →ould find any bad stuff on Elon Musk to shut him down. So let me see if I get this right. So Congress wants to promote TikTok, for which some members are getting paid, you know, indirectly, but it wants to kill Twitter, probably because it's the last place you have free speech in the United States in any practical way. Everything else is just narrative. And now he's being investigated for, the allegation doesn't even make sense to me. So I'll tell you the allegation but I'll tell you also I'm positive this doesn't make sense.
The allegation is that Musk was going to use Tesla as like a private piggy bank to pay for what would be an elaborate home he was going to build, some kind of a glass home. Now I don't know if that ever happened. I think maybe there was some movement on it. Maybe it's not happening now. I don't know. But do you believe, is there any part of you that believes that Elon Musk, who's running a public company, right, has shareholders, that he was going to take some untold millions of dollars just out of the shareholders' money and he was just going to buy a house with it? Because that's what's been reported, that he was just sort of expensing it off of Tesla. Does that sound even slightly true? No, it doesn't. There's not even like 0.001 width of that possibly being true.
But do you think that the public is aware that there's basically no way that could happen in a public company? There is no way that can happen in a public company. It just couldn't happen. But that's the news. The news is saying that maybe it happened. It's crazy. All right, well if there's more to this than I know, I'll update it.
There's a new study. They did some brain imaging and they found that people who were likely to be obese have a heightened neural sensitivity to reward. So people who overeat get more benefit from overeating. It just feels better. Have you heard that opinion from anyone who was, let's say, not a research scientist, somebody who wasn't an expert? Yeah, me. As I've told you a number of times, and I love telling this story because it's when I learned probably the best lesson I ever had in my life. I was taking a hypnosis class and the instructor was overweight himself. And I don't know if you call him obese but he was in that neighborhood. And he explained why even though he's a hypnotist he couldn't be hypnotized to quit eating. And here was his entire explanation of everything you need to know about diets and dieting: I like to eat. That was it. I like to eat. And he said if he didn't like it
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so much he wouldn't do it. And the extension from that is that people who don't like to eat as much are going to be able to control their weight. Now I'm a perfect example. I am currently actually, I overshot my mark. I'm actually below the weight I would like to be at the moment. I could probably add two pounds. But I got there effortlessly by just not eating bread for a while. That's it. I just…
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