though the book is about persuasion, it's not about politics per se, do you think it's a coincidence that that's not allowed to be published and that there's no explanation? Remember the hardcover is published on the same platform, so it's not the content. And if it were something technical, it would be great if they told us, but I don't know what it would be. So we have big question marks on that.

All right. I was going to have a guest this morning, but there's a technical level of complexity involved that I couldn't solve in time for the show. So I think I'll do that separately. We'll do a separate feed at some point real soon anyway.

Flood update. Some people are saying that FEMA is failing. You know, I don't think you can ever tell if FEMA is doing a good job or a bad job during the event, because it would be quite normal that if you were one of the people in the actual flood disaster zone, whatever FEMA did wouldn't feel like enough. So I'm not going to defend FEMA. That's not my job. But I would say that we're not going to really know if they performed until the end.

We do know there's a bunch of stuff that's not getting done. We know that there's lots of services that are not completed and people are stranded and there's all kinds of problems. But that doesn't mean that FEMA is failing necessarily or in some comprehensive way.

The things we worry about are allegedly some of the equipment that we could have used to get the electricity working in those places has already been donated to Ukraine to get their electrical grid working. So if that's true, and I can't confirm that's true, that would be a big deal.

We also hear that maybe FEMA is out of money because they gave a lot of money to the migrant processes, which are not really supposed to be their primary duty. If that's true, and I can't confirm it's true, that would be a big deal. But I can't really see the US government running out of money just for one thing when in fact we have no money for anything. How do you run out of money when there's no money in existence in the first place? You can't run out of something you don't have. So what we have is credit. I don't know why we have it. I mean we shouldn't, but we do.

So Brian Kemp said he was outraged. So governor of Georgia, he had to call the White House after only 11 of the 90 counties hit were included in the FEMA disaster declaration. Now if that's true, and of course all these stories you haven't heard the other side. You know, maybe FEMA says something like, well we didn't declare them but we still do all the work so nothing reall