e the terms that we heard refer to it now. This is just random people on social media, random people writing articles. A lot of them used the phrase "shake the box." Where's that come from? I mean, I didn't invent the term "shake the box," but to apply it to Trump's persuasion, that's kind of all me. What about 4D chess? That's all me. 2015, I described it as 3D chess, I think, but it turned into 4D, 10D. That was all me. How about creating new options out of nothing? Everybody recognized that's what he was doing. That's all me.

Now, when I say it's all me, I just mean I kind of introduced that way of thinking about it, you know, persuasion filter versus a policy filter. And that apparently has been effective enough that people have adopted it as their primary point of view. And I'm really happy about that. I don't think Trump could be president the second time, maybe not even the first time, without that understanding. That's the understanding everybody needed. And it turns out the whole right-leaning part of the world, almost everybody got that. That was very impressive.

Speaking of Gaza, you know that since the '60s there's been a plan to build a canal that would connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. And it would be a kind of a competitor to the Suez Canal because Egypt controls access to the Suez Canal. And there have been times when they've closed access for various geopolitical reasons. And so it would be a big money maker but also a geopolitical advantage to have a second canal. And one of the thoughts, going all the way back to Ben-Gurion, one of the founders, you might even say the founder of Israel, he wanted to build that canal and he wanted to go sort of through Gaza. So some people are saying, wait a minute, the real plan is to build the second canal and they need Gaza out of the way to make that work. Well, I don't think that has anything to do with what happened. And I also don't think that canal is ever going to get built. If you look at what it takes to build a canal, I don't think the modern world has that anymore. We used to have it. But to me it feels like pyramids. You know, you imagine that you live in a world where we could build another canal. But we couldn't. If there were no Panama Canal, do you think we could build that today? No. Too many people died. Yeah, it wouldn't get approved. It's on somebody else's land. You know, can't just take their land. There'd be all kinds of reasons we couldn't do it. We might actually lose the ability to know how to build a canal, just like somehow we don't know how those big rocks moved on the pyramids. We're getting dumber.

But here's what I'd like to see. Also, there's some news about the Panama Canal. There's some fake news today. The fake news was from the Wall Street Journal, and it said that Panama had agreed to not charge American ships going through the canal. Panama said that's not true. We've made no such agreement. So if you saw the news and you celebrated, yay, Trump won, our American ships get to go through for free, that sounds like just something that's maybe still being talked about, but it's not an agreement. Maybe it won't be. We'll see.

But this brings me to my bigger question. Do you know how many problems around the world could be solved if we could build canals like really easily build them? You know, it's the hardest thing in the world. But if we could do it easily, it would be worth trillions of dollars. And I would like to extend the thinking that we've been using recently. You know, the thinking that says if there's something that would be good to happen but it's also basically impossible, then you ask Elon Musk to do it and he has it done by lunchtime. So it's like, ah, too bad there's no way to make an affordable, economically successful electric car. Well, how about if you do it? Oh, okay, thank you, Tesla. There's no way to reuse a rocket and be able to affordably go to Mars. Oh, okay, it looks like you can do that, Elon. Thank you. So I guess we have a path to Mars now. If only there was some way to connect remote people to the internet, but even though it's funded, nobody got, oh, Starlink. Thank you. Thank you for that problem. Too bad the government debt is going to kill us and there's nothing we can do. Oh, thank you, DOGE. Apparently DOGE is going to save us from certain doom. And it was impossible. All of these things were impossible. So every time there's something impossible, we've developed a habit of going to the same guy.

So now we find out that the computer systems used by the government are like decades old and falling apart and just a disaster. So I mean, it would be impossible to fix all of that in any time, you know, any kind of quick timeline. So apparently Elon Musk has taken the task as part of DOGE to fix the government computer systems that are falling apart. So another impossible job. He gets another impossible job. He's like, sure, yeah, no problem. Let me do that impossible thing. I'll have it done by lunch.

So I'd like to extend this concept of it. If it would be valuable and also impossible, we should ask Elon to do it. So what we need is, you know, he has that Boring Company where they bore tunnels and they engineered a special machine that makes it really inexpensive to dig a tunnel. I wonder if you could make a canal-building version of that. Like it would be all different technology, but what if you built this enormous, maybe it's a swarm, you know, maybe it's not one device but a swarm of also very large devices that just crush through the land. I don't know what this is. Hold on a problem. Apparently I have to be signed on to turn it off. All right, I'm getting ready to throw my computer out the window. Oh God, make that go away. Oh no, come on, please. Oh my God. If I had to listen to that one more second. Anyway, so we need a big canal-building machine. That's what we need.

So I listened to the whole Kamala Harris CBS interview with 60 Minutes. That's the one that Trump is suing 60 Minutes for allegedly improving Kamala Harris's answers. And in the context of an election, that would look like election interference. Because instead of looking like just regular editing, it looked like election interference because it was in the context of an election. But Frog on Mars gave one example. I don't know how many examples there are. Like nobody did a really good job of