Back to episode — Episode 2608 CWSA 09/25/24
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nt and he points out it's unusual that they would be on the same side of things. Although it isn't unusual because Elon Musk is big about the environment, Bernie's big on the environment, so they do actually agree on some pretty big stuff. But here's what Sanders says. He said Elon Musk, who is not one of my usual allies, recently tweeted that solving obesity reduces the risk of diseases like diab…
← Previous segment →not as good as you hope. But you know, everything's a mixed bag. But yeah, I would think that it'd be good for people to have this option. However, I would have been way happier if Sanders had said something along the lines of, you know, RFK Jr.'s on the right path. We've got to fix our food supply. And if you fix the food supply and you learn to exercise, you're not going to need any Ozempic.
May I make my case by pointing to myself? I'm exactly the way I wanted to be as an adult, like exactly right on, right to the pound. And I don't do Ozempic. All I do is watch my diet, don't eat crap, and I exercise on a regular basis. It really is that simple. Now I get that there's not free will so people can't as easily do it as I can. I've got money and I've got a flexible schedule and I don't have kids telling me to drive them places when I could be exercising. So it's easier for me. But I would like to make the following suggestion which I've now made several times but eventually you're going to see it as genius. It goes like this. I want a president who encourages people to get off the couch. And I'd love to start a habit, an American habit, because you can do that. You can actually start a national habit. You just need somebody to get the ball rolling.
Now if RFK Jr. gets the influence that I want and Trump gets the influence that I want, let's say he gets elected, I would love for Trump and RFK Jr. and anybody who's smart and influential to join in to say you should all take a walk in your own neighborhood if it's safe after dinner. Now after dinner can be whatever you want it to be so you don't have to do the same after dinner as anybody else. But wouldn't you like that if you're done with dinner, and by the way the scientists say that taking a walk right after you eat is the very best thing you can do, it just changes your whole digestive situation. So let's say you're done at 7:00 p.m. and you walk outside and you see your neighbors who are also going for a walk because they were done about the same time. But if you had gone at 6:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. there would be a different set of neighbors who would also finish at that time and they're going for a walk. And then if you're brave or if there are at least some friendly people out there they say, hey neighbor, join up. And next thing you know every time you leave your house between 6:00 and 8:30 at night there's a group of neighbors who are going for a walk and they'd love it if you just jump in. And you could meet them, you could feel safer because you're in a group. Now you're outdoors, it might be a little dark depending what time it is, and you don't have to go the whole way. You don't have to walk as far as they do. Just do what you want to do.
So it would be really easy to make that a habit and you'd be able to meet your neighbors and you would be far less caring if you're just taking a walk whether they're voting for one person and you're voting for somebody else. If you're just doing a thing, an activity, you're all fine. And let me say it again that the only way you can bring anybody together, whether it's making a friend personally or bringing the country together, it's over a shared activity. If you've got a World War the country is going to come together. If aliens from space attack the country or the world we're going to come together, right? So it's a shared activity that brings people together and nothing else. The intellectual stuff, not really. The intellectual stuff just makes you feel like you might be on somebody's team but the doing things together, that makes a difference. So that's my suggestion. Get the government to say at least take a walk after dinner and be with your neighbors and get some exercise.
Speaking of positive thoughts, I saw a Huberman video. If you're not watching all the Huberman videos you should be. And he had a guest on talking about how you can just force yourself to think more positive thoughts and it can have a whole bunch of health and mental health and other benefits. And I'm going to amplify that but I'm going to give you a different model for it, which is humans
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don't have the option of not thinking if we're awake. Well, even if you're asleep your brain is still active so you don't have an option of thinking nothing. And if your problem is that there are too many negative thoughts, that is something you can control. So you can't control whether you have thoughts but you can definitely control, 100%, you can control the percentage of them that are negative…
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