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You know the vehicles need to be recharged, the devices need to be recharged, and this thing can do it just by turning on and sending the signal out in all directions. So it can actually recharge the military devices while they're being used from a distance. Holy cow, that's pretty cool. Do you think that's actually going to work? I think it's in the early stages of development but they must have…

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ll. But if there's a good billionaire fight, oh I'm all in. I love to watch the billionaires do their thing because for the most part they didn't become billionaires by accident. You know there was something going on with these special people.

But here's the story. So Elon Musk heard something at Mar-a-Lago and he posted about it. Now as you're going to hear in a moment, what he heard was not true, right? So what he heard was, and it's not true, that he said he was at Mar-a-Lago and that he heard from somebody there that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that Trump was going to lose the election for sure so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock. So that's why somebody told Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago. So Elon posts it and I appreciate the transparency. So my first thing was oh so this is a thing that's going around. Elon heard it, we didn't hear it, and now we posted so we've heard it too. So I like the fact that he posted it.

And then Bezos weighs in and this is his entire response: "Nope. 100% not true." One, two, three, four words. Four words. "Nope. 100% not true." Musk responds, "Well then I stand corrected" with a laughing emoji. Five words. Now here's what I love about this. What are Musk and Bezos collectively most famous for besides being rich? They're the most efficient billionaires, right? Amazon works because Bezos is an expert on efficiency. I mean he figured out how to do everything the fastest, best, lowest cost, most effective way. And then Musk of course is the same. He's like in Doge. He's the guy who took 80% of the people out of Twitter and it got better, right?

So you have the two most famously efficient people in the world and they had a problem. One of them had heard a story that wasn't true and said it in public. So how long did it take the two most efficient billionaires to fix this problem? Nine words. Nine words and done. They'll never talk about it again. It's done.

Now here's why this is extra special. You could think of a lot of billionaires who if they deny the story you wouldn't believe them, right? Like I don't have to name names but you could think of a lot of people right off the top of your head. Like if they denied a story you'd say to yourself, hmm yeah but did they? Yeah of course you're denying it but maybe you did. But here's what I love about this story so much. That Jeff Bezos, somewhat quietly you know if you can call it that compared to other people I guess, he builds this massively successful operation and as far as I know I don't think anybody's ever accused him of lying. I've never heard it. So when I saw that he said "Nope. 100% not true" I immediately went to "Nope. 100% not true." There was not even a microbe of "I wonder if he's lying." Wouldn't that be an amazing superpower? Imagine having a superpower where you can in four words completely change a news story because of your own credibility. That's pretty damn rare. And I think Musk recognized it too and just said well then I stand corrected. We're done here.

I love this story. I love when ordinary people make ordinary mistakes. So it was a mistake to believe a rumor that wasn't true and then just immediately correct it and move on. I just love everything about that. Credibility. Guess some.

All right, there's more talk about this Oprah situation of her taking the 2.5 million. We hear at first we heard it was 1 million but 2.5 million the production company took for getting Oprah to do her thing to promote Harris. And Harris said I took no money. But since we know the production company took 2.5 million and it's her production company, people quite reasonably say, I think Stephen A. Smith said this, that it looks like

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Oprah might be lying and maybe she took money but it went through the production company so she was basically lying about it. Now connect this to the last thing I talked about. When Jeff Bezos says "Nope. 100% not true," end of story. End of story. Oprah says 100% not true, I didn't take money. It's the beginning of the story apparently. Oprah is not as credible as Jeff Bezos because when Oprah s…

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