alized that way or is it just natural? So when you tell me oh the woman you're trying to protect is standing next to you in the hail of gunfire I'm like no no no no no. You're making my contribution worth less. I'm protecting her. That's my job.

So anyway I'm no expert on military whatsoever but if the people who are experts say that women in combat, remember it's just combat we're talking about, if they say there's a difference and that it matters and it affects our readiness I say the military is the one place you can discriminate all you want because the military is about staying alive. That's not about being woke. So if there's any good evidence that something needs to be a certain way to get a better result we have to chase the better result. That's all that matters. It's the military. Got to get the better result whatever that takes.

And then they're also worried that since Pete Hegseth was accused of something that there were no charges of and didn't sound credible to the local police that the women in the military would be afraid that the military would start raping all the women even more than already which is actually a gigantic problem because Hegseth wouldn't do enough about it. And that's just totally made up. There's nothing about the Hegseth allegations even if they were true which it doesn't look like they were but even if they were true it would have been well true that an encounter happened. But I don't think that's going to have any effect on how he does his business anyway. So that's more fake news coming.

Meanwhile Russia used a hypersonic missile for the first time in Ukraine and I guess I missed the first time I saw that news. I missed the point of it and I just thought huh a new missile. So but apparently the reason for using the supersonic missile is to show that it can't be stopped by any of the anti-missile defenses and indeed it was not stopped by any of the anti-missile defenses. And then they point out you know we could put a nuke on this. Oh. So what Putin was doing was showing his nuclear capability without the nuclear. He said here here's my rocket. Try to stop it. Oh you couldn't stop it. It just blew up your facility in the middle of Ukraine. Well you know I could have put a nuke on that and you wouldn't have stopped that either. So maybe you think twice about bombing things inside of Russia. So I think that's a pretty smart play from Putin.

But I'm going to double down and triple down on we've never been safer and there's never been a less chance of nuclear war because Putin and everybody else in the world knows that Trump the big dog is coming. It's going to be a few weeks. He's going to negotiate a peace. It's going to be you know some land they keep. It's going to look sort of like it looks now. Why would you start a nuclear war if you know that it's going to wind down in a fairly acceptable way almost for sure? Probably it will look like we will commit not to bring NATO into Ukraine. Probably will means that Russia keeps most of what they already have. Something like that. So no you don't start a nuclear war when all of your problems are going to be solved the way you want them to be solved or very close to it in a few weeks. There has never been a safer time in the world's history. Never. We're the safest we've ever been. It just doesn't feel like it sometimes.

All right I wanted to give you my, I've gone way too long so if you want to leave I wouldn't feel bad about it but I wanted to give you my ADHD hacks. So these are the tricks I use to conquer my own ADHD. Sorry now do I have ADHD? Well I've never been diagnosed with it but I do know that there are huge portions of the day when I can't possibly concentrate and focus and work. So I've developed a number of tools and habits and techniques that I will share with you now. So if there are those of you who are maybe in the category I am which is I don't know if I'm technically ADHD but I exhibit those characteristics however I can tame them through habits and tricks and here they are.

Trick number one. I wake up at 4:30 in the morning no matter what. If you tell yourself that sometimes you can sleep in that won't work for you. You have to do it every day and you have to learn to love it. I learned to love it by training myself with coffee and protein bar which when you put them together they're like a really good taste together. So I would get all this immediate physical gratification within minutes of waking up. So 4:30 in the morning I keep all of my lights off and I've got my blackout curtains down so that the only light is in my immediate four foot maybe a four foot diameter. I can't even see or hear anything outside of my four feet. Under those conditions when nobody else is awake you know that would be here in person I have complete focus and I don't think too much about anything on my calendar that day. And I enjoy the hack kind of the comments coming in from the DMs from people I love online and I love the news. So I'm immediately in this dopamine positive situation.

Now how do people who do boring things make it work? Well it's a lot harder if it's boring you know because I do things that I personally like a lot. So I'm excited for several hours because I'm just doing only the things I want to do. But I'm lucky that way. I do like every other job have a whole bunch of boring things I have to do. Paperwork and spreadsheets and insurance and taxes and it just never ends. I can't do those things at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. My body just won't do it. I can't even force myself to sit in the chair. I've got a million things swirling around. By the time my dog wakes up my productivity goes down 25%. Does anybody have that experience? If you work at home the minute your dog wakes up 25% of your productivity gone. If there are kids in the house or people who you work with who start calling you early in the morning another 50% gone. You lose 75% of your concentration just because other people are awake. So get up before they do. That's my hack.

But there are more. I also found out that since my body and my brain are really the same device that if I want to control my brain as in making it focus better I do that by controlling my body. So in the first example I was putting coffee and a protein bar that I really really liked into my body and that was making my brain happy. If it's the afternoon and I've already done that stuff I will exercise. So I'll either go for a nice walk in the sun or do some weights or something. But the exercise makes me not want to move my body around and when I don't want to get out of my chair because I just exercised and I'm relaxing I can focus. So I can control my brain by making my body run or walk or play a game or lift heavy objects for 90 minutes and then I just want to sit in a chair but I'm going to be bored if I'm just sitting in a chair so I might as well look at that spreadsheet, get my taxes done, that sort of thing anyway. So those are some tricks. Use your exercise to put yourself back in that condition.

My other trick is I go to Starbucks. By around 11:00 a.m. you know after I've gotten ready for the day and stuff, walk the dog, I need to dip back into work but my brain's already spinning around things happening in the real world. I can't focus now. So I go to Starbucks. Now this is also a hack because Starbucks is noisy and busy but for reasons that I don't fully understand there's a lot of science to it that a cafe environment allows you to focus really well. I'll tell you what I think it is. For some reason when there are people all around me and literally standing next to my table I often take a table that's right next to the line where people are waiting for their stuff. And so often I'll be working and there'll be somebody's butt like right here and they're having a conversation like right above me and you would say to yourself oh that's the most distracting thing. There's no way you can concentrate.