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re looking for and they're looking at real orbs, unexplained orbs? And the answer is maybe. Maybe some of it is people just notice what they didn't notice before. Far more likely, far more likely there's priming in the environment. So all of us are thinking UFOs and orbs and then if we see something out of the corner of our mind we go, was that an orb? And then the rest of your brain talks you int…

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aying this is Elon Musk but it's obviously not because this is a rail thin Santa Claus. And then he reposted it and he labeled it "Ozempic Santa" so it is him. And he was joking about he had taken Ozempic. He did not but he took one of the drugs in that class. So one like Ozempic but a different one because I guess Ozempic gave him some digestion problems or something but now on one hand you might say to me Scott why is it a story that one person in the world lost weight? There were probably a billion people who lost weight recently in the world and why did I pick one? Well again because people are influenced by what's in the air. So if you heard that some people in your town took Ozempic and got a good result that might make you think about doing it yourself. But if you watch Elon Musk who all of us know what he looks like and then suddenly you see a picture where fairly effortlessly he became as thin as I imagine he wants to be, that is really influential. It's sort of like a JFK not wearing hats. So as soon as we got a president who didn't wear hats and he was cool nobody wanted to wear a hat anymore. They killed hats.

Well if your neighbor takes those and it works you might be interested in trying it but if Elon Musk takes one of these drugs in that class and it works that changes how you see it. You just need one famous person and then that person's stuck in your head. So attaching this what I think is a health improvement, I hope, to the most famous person in the world at the moment besides Trump probably will make a big difference to the health of Americans. Just think about that. Just think about the fact that he simply just posting a picture of it working. I'll bet that the stock price of all the companies that make whatever he took, I'll bet they're looking good today. That would be my guess.

So in Zero Hedge there was an article that I wish I had written but it's talking about how people are not focusing on the real invention of Elon Musk. So he's, I can't tell stories without him being either an example or important part of it, but apparently one of the things that Musk has brought to American manufacturing is the idea that the factory is the product. That's one way to look at it. In other words instead of having a factory and trying to refine your product, which he also does, he spends as much time or more refining the factory so that the cost of the factory goes down, the efficiency goes up, etc. And he's done that with his various companies and extremely successfully. And if it's a skill that could be transferred, if it can be transferred, then maybe we can bring American manufacturing back without hav

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ing a cost penalty. And if you add robots to the idea that you should start from first principles when you build your factory, don't just build an ordinary factory but really really think what's the efficient way to build the factory for this specific thing. So I think that's true. I think that whatever we learn from factory building that's where the next revolution needs to happen for America to…

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