Back to episode — Episode 2698 CWSA 12/23/24
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tually bought that because I'm listening. I'm thinking yeah Iran is ready for negotiation because of what Biden did. China's ready for negotiation. Yeah yep. And Russia's ready for negotiations. It's kind of true. It's kind of true that Biden set it up for a one-two punch. But then he also dropped in that when they took over the military wasn't in good shape but so they've strengthened the militar…
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There's a breakthrough method to revert colon cancer cells to normal cells according to the Korea Bizwire. Some Korean Institute of Science and Technology instead of destroying the cancer cell at least specifically now for colon cancer they found a way to turn the cancer cell into a real cell. What? And it works without destroying them. That's like the most amazing thing I've ever heard. Yeah. This reminds me of Elon Musk's philosophy. So Elon Musk's philosophy is that engineers spend a lot of time trying to improve things but sometimes they should step back. Really everything. They should step back and say do we need the thing? Are we improving something we don't need? And here instead of saying let's find a better way to kill a cancer cell these researchers said do we have to kill them? Why don't we just reprogram them? Like I don't know if anybody ever thought of that before. I never thought of it. I just assumed they were all corrupted. You couldn't possibly save them. But what if you can? This would be one of the most amazing things if that worked. Now that's again just for colon cancer so it doesn't mean it would work for any other kind.
Let me give you another example of that Elon Musk philosophy of improving something versus why do you have it in the first place. My driveway and garage, between the driveway doors I had these potted plants and they look kind of cool but the pot, you know the tall pot that was holding the plants got too weathered and it was falling apart and I needed to replace them. So I spent all kinds of time researching replacements for these big potted plants. Now at the same time I would be pulling out of my garage and there'd be something, you know host Wade's truck is on the other side because he's doing some work and so I have to make a few maneuvers to get out. And I said to myself wow I'm so glad that we pulled out the old pots because now when I turn around they're not in my way. Because if you tried to do an angle turn you know the planters would be in the way. And I'm sitting there in my driveway looking at my garage and thinking why the hell do I have potted plants in the way in my driveway? Why did they exist? And I spent all this time trying to improve them. I should not have spent one minute improving them. And finally when it dawned on me that they didn't add anything to the aesthetic of the house, they were simply expensive and in the way, that's it. And I was spending all my time trying to make them look better. No. Once I realized that they didn't have any purpose and they had definitely a cost, they were in the way, I just said why don't we just take them out of there and leave a blank between the garage doors. And I am so happy every time I pull out of my garage and every time I have to do a maneuver that would have been an extra maneuver and I remind myself yeah even though you think to yourself every smart person knows this that you shouldn't improve something that doesn't need to exist. Right common sense. But you don't think in those terms unless you really remind yourself all the time. So I use that as my way to rem
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ind myself. The driveway potted plants. Like if I'll remember that it might help me the next time I'm trying to fix something or improve something. It's like maybe we don't even need it. Anyway Brighter Side News says there's a revolutionary new mask like a face mask that can measure your breathing and can detect a bunch of respiratory problems. That's kind of cool. Now what's cool about it is it…
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