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didn't need to do if they had just asked Scott. Uh, oh, here's something from Aarhus University. The myth is busted. They say that men do not sleep through a baby crying more than a woman. Did any of you believe that men and women have different ability to hear a crying baby? Well, I didn't doubt it, but I did imagine that men are better at pretending to be asleep and not hearing a baby. It turns…

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e doesn't want to wake you up. So, shh, don't say anything. We're all in this together, guys.

Well, the Wall Street Journal was doing a hit piece on Tesla and Musk. I no longer see the news as purely the news. It all has this overt and obvious political element to it depending on the story. But anything about Tesla and Elon Musk that comes out around now is definitely going to have a political bend to it.

But listen to this headline. This is the Wall Street Journal and this is their opinion piece here. It says Tesla is in disarray. Is it? Do you think Tesla is in disarray? What evidence would you have that Tesla's in disarray? All right. And that Musk has already moved beyond caring about cars. And so the idea is that he's shifted his focus to robots and robo taxis and he's letting the Tesla car company disintegrate in disarray.

Now, how would they know any of that? Are they in the meetings? Do they have some kind of source that's sleeping in a tent with them at the AI headquarters? Because he's spending a lot of time there lately. I don't think there's any real evidence that he has suddenly lost the ability to run a

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ll of his companies when obviously he was doing it before. Did he suddenly lose his ability to deal with multiple problems at the same time? I doubt it. But apparently if you're the Wall Street Journal, you can just sort of declare that you know what he's thinking and how he feels and what his inner thoughts are. Anyway, there but it is true that their sales were down but we're talking about the…

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