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and Bariatric Surgery, the people who have the weight loss surgery, I guess that's the one where they tie off your stomach, they have a self-esteem improvement of 131%. So is there any way they could have saved some money in that study? Hm. I wonder. Suppose they ask me, Scott, do you think that being in shape and eating right and going to the gym, will that help your mental and physical health an…

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ry time. Why would you even do that? He's the only person who can make that sentence interesting.

Well, speaking of Trump, as you know the Trump family has announced that they plan to go into the mobile phone business. And they actually plan to make the smartphone in the United States. Now, the people who know how to make smartphones are very insistent that that's not possible. That it would take years and years to figure out how to train Americans to make phones and how to get all the infrastructure and technology here and factories. But so far Don Jr. has said that he plans to make it in the United States. So do they know something that we don't know? Is there a secret plan where they can take a Taiwanese or Chinese company and just move it over here and make those phones in America? Or as some are suggesting this is not a real business, that it might be more for PR or something. I don't know. But it doesn't seem to me that Don Jr. would be involved in a totally make-believe business. He must have some kind of plan to make these phones in the United States, but we don't know what that is. So maybe we'll be surprised.

Well, our David Sacks is very pro AI, as you might imagine, and he says that AI will be bigger than the iPhone, bigger than the internet, and it's going to fuel the growth of the American economy for years to come and would be one of the most important parts of Trump's legacy.

Now Sacks also said separately on a post on X that AI might be adding jobs and not subtracting. Now of course that would be a controversial opinion because for sure there are jobs th

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at will go away, but also for sure there will be jobs that will be created. For example over on TikTok there are a whole bunch of people using AI to get rich making viral videos that are actually quite entertaining. I like the ones of the cute little kittens who work at McDonald's. If you haven't seen that one, it's pretty awesome. Or the cats doing Olympic diving off a diving board. So the AI is…

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