f all these tech leaders that's how he's building his dictatorship to steal your democracy. But they left out that crazy part and just told the story. And the story was yeah he's doing really well converting people to his side. That's the story. And so they're just telling it.

But MSNBC, I love their plucky loser approach. I don't think there's a single smart person who works at that network in management or anywhere else. But they're going to bring back Rachel Maddow for 100 days. Let me make a long list of all the things you shouldn't do if you're trying to stay in business. Don't bring the person with the most obvious mental health problems on to be the only person who still thinks that the Democrats are heroes and Trump is going to steal your democracy. The ridiculousness of even planning to do this is so beyond any reasonable thing that a reasonable person would do. It's just purely stupid. But they're going to do it.

And I kind of like the fact that they think that Rachel Maddow, who I think has been honest, I think she's been honest about a lifetime of mental health depression issues maybe some other stuff. So I'd never like to be the person who criticizes somebody for mental illness because nobody picks mental illness. Right? That's just something that's there. So I tend I prefer to be non-judgmental. But I don't know that the management has a mental illness. Shouldn't management be the one to decide? Maybe they shouldn't bring back the person with obvious mental health problems and some kind of a weird kicker to her mental health because of Trump derangement syndrome. How in the world does management think this is a good idea? In what world? Anyway I'm sure they think that behind closed doors like Joe Biden she's perfectly fine. Perfectly fine.

The Trump bump which all the media is hoping for because you know in his first administration the news got more audience so they've all been drained of their followers for a while now. But there's some thought that maybe the traffic will go up. But other people say yeah there will be a Trump bump but it might go mostly to the independents and fully starve the networks. Well I don't know what's true. I can tell you it seems like the ratings for the major networks are all down and I can tell you that my own traffic is up about 50% since Trump was looking like he would win. Up about 50%. Yeah now I would guess that that's the same for any political oriented podcasts. I'll bet you they're all up 50%. So yes I'm the canary in the coal mine. So yeah the corporate media doesn't seem to be what anybody trusts at this point. Just old people I guess. You I'm old and I don't even trust it.

Well as you know Trump launched a crypto coin and it went to the moon and it's worth millions of dollars and some say Trump's going to sell it and make five billion dollars and others say it's a crap coin and it's a scam and you know people should not be buying crypto unless it's Bitcoin and everybody's got their opinion. Let me say that my opinion on this is completely timing related. If Trump had done this even just a few years ago I would have said oh that's a little too scammy. Now we did do the what is it when you buy the art? It's got a word for it in the crypto world. If you buy some digital crypto art that somehow they can tell you is exclusive. He did that and I didn't mind that because it was just a fundraiser and I think people saw it as a fundraiser which had the extra element that well maybe you can make some money but probably not. Just a fundraiser. NFTs. Thank you. NFTs. So he's got some history and he's pro-crypto.

Now if this had been when we knew less about crypto and he launched this thing I would have said okay don't do that. That looks too scammy because people don't understand that they could lose money on crypto. It's not like other things that could go to zero tomorrow. Bitcoin probably can't or at least not as easily. But a new issue it can go to the moon and then go to ze