times worse. Which seems like the stupidest standard in the world. If you make a gain of function that's 10 times worse, I don't want that. I don't want that at all.

And then the allegation is that what they made even after changing the definition was something that would still be gain of function under any definition. That it was way more spread. And let's see. So the bottom line is that the Republicans were trying to make hay out of insulting in public and blaming him for it all. And then I guess there were some things that he represented as settled science that were far from settled. Anyway so everything about that is exactly what you thought it would be. It's Fauci claiming he wasn't so bad and Republicans saying you're twice as bad as anybody knows.

Marjorie Taylor Greene kept that interesting. I continue to enjoy the show she puts on. There's a National Institute of Health, this American entity that I don't understand this so maybe somebody can help me. Apparently the National Institute of Health somehow has a deal where they can get royalties from drugs and drug companies that they have some influence on. And the story sort of skips the important part so I don't know the important part of the story. I'll tell you what I know. Apparently there were seven — somebody figured out there are $710 million in royalties during the pandemic that went, I don't know all or some, to American officials in the National Institute of Health. Here's the part I don't know. Why did they get royalties? Wait what? Can anybody explain how that came about? What was the path by which people who were part of some American institution that has some influence over what we do in health, that they're getting paid by the drug companies, paid indirectly through the royalties? How in the world did that ever come about in the first place? Like we're arguing that this shouldn't happen but shouldn't we be arguing how did it happen in the first place? Like what mechanism even allowed that to even be a possibility? It's the craziest story. There's something about it I don't know and it's not in the news so the most important part seems to be missing. How'd that happen in the first place? I don't know.

Well ladies and gentlemen that concludes my comments for today. I think the biggest story of the day is that you're going to see more people who don't have bosses say that they're going to go Trump. And I think the impetus is that with great power comes great responsibility. What I mean by that is if you're a Bill Ackman or you're head of one of these big companies, David Sacks, Chamath, the people who have that much influence both because they have money but they're in positions where people listen to their opinions, they have great power and they're sitting on the sidelines or had been sitting on the sidelines just saying oh let me do my business thing and make my money and take care of my family and you guys handle the politics. But now you see what happens if the adults leave the politicians to politics. It doesn't turn into an adult game anymore. It turns into this weird criminal looking — I don't know what it is.

So you're seeing the adults re-enter the room. They're the people who have the power but until now had chosen to use it for capitalism and family reasons. And now they realize that with that great power comes great responsibility. Do you think that David Sacks wants to be in politics like wants to be doing this every day? I don't know because I'm not a mind reader but probably not. Probably would rather be doing almost anything else. But with great power comes great responsibility. And by the way that's exactly what drives me. I don't know if you knew that but the thing that drives me is the Spider-Man problem. I'm well aware that I have the ability to get attention that other people don't have. It's just a power now. It's because of my job and something about learning how to deal in the public realm but it is what it is. And so if I've got this power I feel the pull. I feel that I have to do something personally even if it's hard, even if it's dangerous, because I have the power.

Let me give you an example. You're a man and a woman, you're married, and a crazy guy comes running at you with a knife or a club or something. What do you do instantly? Well if you're like most people instantly the woman backs up and the man stands between the assailant and the woman and does whatever he needs to do. It might not work out well but he's going to do it anyway. Why does that — why do both the woman and the man automatically know without any conversation that she needs to back up and he needs to go forward? It's because with great power comes responsibility. If the woman could beat that assailant, well you do it the other way. But she can't. Her odds are low. And you know we also want to protect female entities that can create babies and be mothers and stuff like that. So there's a natural impulse to protect women if you're a man. But I think that we're wired for power will stay dormant until it's called. So there's gigantic power pockets in the United States that are dormant because they're just doing their own business. Yo