pletely aware that the schools are set up to destroy your family? I mean it looks like must be the intention. Yeah but the top students like if you've got an athletic kid that stuff's great if they're really good at athletics. It's just not the average.

Over in Finland they've got a big project. They're going to make a big battery on a sand. So they're going to store a whole bunch of heat in a special kind of sand that just stores the heat well and then they can reuse it later. What if that works? It's not ordinary sand. There's some kind of special sand but not that rare. So what if that works? I love the idea of using dirt for a battery. Special sand.

But Finland also has a project, make a gravity battery. So the first kind just stores heat which can then be converted to energy but the second kind uses an abandoned mine and a big weight that goes down the mine downhill to create energy because anything moving can be used to harness energy. And then during the day when the energy is cheap they pull it or when I guess at night when the energy is cheap. No it must be during the day because they're using solar. They'll pull the weight up the mine and then when they need the energy they'll let it go back down.

So two different technologies in Finland. Kind of promising.

All right York University, we'll get to the political news. I just, there's fun science today. They said the best case scenario for the highest life satisfaction. So they looked at different demographics and lifestyles and they found out that the happiest people are this. You're married, happy. This is for women I think specifically for women. You're married. You're happy with your personal appearance because the thing they found is that your appearance has more to do with your overall happiness than almost anything. And if you've got excellent health and consider yourself upper class you're most likely to be happy.

Huh. Well now that's completely surprising. People who are in a good marriage, good health, good looking and good social life and also lots of money, either upper or a class. Now somehow quite surprisingly they're happier than other people. Now who saw that coming? Who saw that coming? Huh. I don't know. Well let's add this to you could have asked Scott. I think I could have told you this and saving a bunch of money.

Yeah well there's new robot restaurants. A vegan restaurant. One of the founders of Chipotle I guess or the founder he's experimenting with it and it's got a big robot arm and it only has three staff members because the robot does a lot of the work. And it kind of makes sense to make a vegan restaurant with robots because if you're a vegan you don't like to be around a lot of meat and the employees are made of meat almost entirely. A little bit of bones but mostly meat. And so you can get rid of a lot of the meat including the food as well as the employees with that robot.

Now here's something that's been my biggest pet peeve so much so I even tried to start a startup at one point to fix it. The amount of work to buy food, bring it home, prepare it, store it, put it in my mouth and clean up is crazy. It's crazy. And the expense of it all. How many times a potato has to change hands before it gets in my stomach. Do you know how much work a potato has to do to get into my body? A lot of work.

So I would like to see robots take the whole concept of getting food into my body and make it a lot easier. So this might be a working step in the right direction. How many of you have largely given up on cooking an actual meal every night rather just grab a sandwich or something? Have any of you just said this is just crazy I'm not going to make a meal every night? I just wonder is it common because it's been a long time since I was in any kind of family situation where there was like a family meal. You know part of it is a school thing because nobody's available at the same time. You can't have a family meal if the kids are always doing an activity. Yeah yeah I think the whole idea of the family dinner has sort of disappeared for maybe half of the country or more.

Well the military is going to go hard in drones. They're going to make a thousand drones for the Air Force and I guess one of the big uses of the drones would be to escort our human planes like the B-21 and the F-35. I guess you all saw that coming but the big story is it's happening fast and as soon as they put AI in there we're all dead. I think we all know that because we saw the movie.

All right Elon Musk has a good quote today that I think sums up everything. He said trying to help people, well it's not his own quote he just posted it, trying to help people understand what's going on right now is like going back into a burning building to pull someone out only to have them keep punching you in the face and demand evidence that the building is on fire even after they admit they can see the flames.

Doesn't that feel like what it is? It literally feels like the world is burning and when you talk to people say hey the world is burning you know can we help you out they'll say I'm fine and they'll say can you see the flames? Yeah yeah what's going on here? Why do you not want to get away from the flames? What's going on? And I would say that the shorter version of this is cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when you have created a let's say a decision around who you believe you are. You're a nice person so you must back nice things for example. Then you find out the nice thing isn't so nice and you don't want to change your mind because you like to be consistent.

So I do think a big part of the problem is people are not seeing the obvious because it's hard.

Well Bitcoin is zooming up again. Is it still up this morning? It was zooming. What does it tell us that Bitcoin is zooming? Number one it's probably something about non-trusting governments because if I thought that the dollar was going to stay useful forever I would own a lot less Bitcoin. So I think Bitcoin is a vote against the government being effective in the long run.

But you also have the ETFs that are getting approved. I guess Great Britain's looking at it too. So a lot of people who would not have touched Bitcoin are now seeing it as an essential part of their portfolio. So as people just add it for diversification it'll become valuable.

Now how many of you remember for the past two years I've been telling you that Bitcoin makes sense for diversification because at some point the ETFs are likely to add it you know unless something surprising happened and here we are. So the ETFs meaning the funds are adding it and if the funds have to add it they're going to be gigantic purchases which drives up the price and that's what you're seeing among other animal spirits. It's a lot of psychology in it.

Well my theme for the rest of the show is the enemy is inside the house. The enemy is us. That's the theme. See if I can tie this together.

Story number one according to Fox News the January 6 committee allegedly suppressed testimony showing Trump administration tried to get National Guard presence on January 6. Now Liz Cheney who was part of that January 6 committee says that's flatly false but Liz Cheney is the least credible person in the world. I think if I knew nothing other than Fox News says it's true and Liz Cheney says it's not true who would you believe if the only thing you knew is Fox News versus Liz Cheney? Which side do you take?

Well the news is not the most reliable thing in the world but Liz Cheney is the least reliable thing in the world. Now I think this will be one where there's going to be some question about whether or not it was really suppressed o