I think we're leaving out the fact that it's everything. If we concentrate on the one thing, we're going to lose everything else.

I think the thing making kids, young people, depressed and anxious is the food supply is bad. There may be environmental pollutants that have an effect. It's the phones of course. It's bad adult advice on everything. How about the homework? Does anybody have a teenager who does four hours of homework a night? How do you be happy if you have four hours of homework every school night and at least one night on the weekend? That's actually normal in my town. That's normal. Four hours, six nights a week. And that might be on top of a sport or something. So they're getting to bed at midnight. So they're getting no sleep.

And then when they go to bed at midnight they pick up their phone because they need an hour of phone before they go to sleep. So homework, if you took out the food pollution and you took out the phones and the only thing you did was make kids do four hours of homework a night, they would all be anxious, depressed, and unhappy. That's all. Now that's just one thing.

The food is definitely killing them, making them fat and unhealthy and feeling unsexy and dropping their testosterone and everything else. The homework, the bullies, the social media. And then there's the mass hysteria in the news. When I was a kid I distinctly remember getting a mental health problem from being told that we were going to get nuked by the Soviet Union maybe any minute now. Like I actually had a bomb shelter in my basement which my father thought could be done with cinder blocks that'll stop that radiation. So and we the Duck and Cover things for a nuclear attack. All that crazy stuff.

So I actually know what it feels like to be part of a mass hysteria. Now in that case it might have been a real risk so I'm not sure if the false part is true, but the hysteria was certainly true. Now we have the same thing with climate change. If you were a kid today you're being told that climate change will destroy your world in your lifetime, in your lifetime, and there's no way back. What would you do if all the parents, all of them, every TV show because they're not watching Fox News, right? So every time they turn it on it says your world will be destroyed. It doesn't look like the adults can stop it. You're going to grow into a hellscape. We're spending all your money by the way. There's no way you can pay back the debt. And probably the terrorists will kill you all.

So the news is certainly making young people anxious.

All right. As you know, Oregon's looking to back out from their decriminalization of drugs because it made things much worse. So the ODs went way up when they decriminalized. But there's a little pushback because in Portugal there's a claim that their decriminalization worked. And the claim is that they did a more comprehensive job. In other words in Portugal it could be decriminalized if you were doing drugs but they would try to force you into treatment. Apparently in Oregon they passed some money for treatment and then they never implemented the treatment part for whatever reason. So they had decriminalization without any treatment or extra treatment.

So I say again I think it's terrific that there was a trial. You know, that's what the states are for. Hey, test this, see if it works. But that test, I don't think you can call that a good test.

Now I will say, just to put a counterpoint on this, I've heard other people say that the Portugal success is all fake. Have you heard that? That the so-called Portugal decriminalizing drugs, we heard it was a big success but it's all a lie. I don't know what's true by the way. I don't know if it's a big success or a big lie. But I know they did it differently. So if they got different outcomes that would be useful.

All right, here's a brain flipper for you. We'll get to some more politics in a minute. But AI is going to flip the creativity-implementation model that has always been driving our society. What I mean by that is forever, at least in my lifetime, a good idea had no value at all because we all have good ideas. It's all about the implementation. Implementing anything is just so hard, getting through all the laws and just even hiring a lawyer to set up your corporation and hiring people and payroll and you know and then you get sued. And so starting a business is insanely hard. But coming up with an idea for a business has always been cheap and free and easy.

That just reversed. Because with AI you'll be able to start a company just by telling your AI to do it. We're not there but maybe by next year you'll be able to say, "Hey, startup AI, I got an idea. I need you to make an app and the app should do this and that. And then I want you to form a corporation around it. So contact the lawyer or act as the lawyer, fill out the forms. You know, I'll just sign things. I'll answer questions and sign things but you're going to do all the work. You're going to set up my corporation. You're going to set up the payroll. You're going to hire if you need anybody but you probably won't need anybody because buddy it's just me and you." So it's just me and the AI. But the AI will do everything. All the legal stuff, the lawyers, the accounting, everything. It'll make sure you don't violate any state laws. It'll pay your taxes. They'll do all of it.

And what I would do is come up with the idea. So it's shifting the power from great implementers — and I would say Elon Musk is a great implementer — to great ideas. Did Elon Musk come up with the idea of the electric car? No, no he did not. But he's the greatest implementer we've ever seen. Did he come up with the idea of, "Hey, reusable rockets would be good for a variety of reasons"? No, he did not invent that. But he implemented better than anybody ever has. You know, Neuralink implementation, Starlink implementation, buying X and fixing everything, firing 80% of the staff,