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hem and they're making millions of dollars. And of course you might be surprised and amazed to learn this. I know this will be quite a surprise, but apparently the Nudify AI websites are quite used by male high school students to bully their classmates. Now that's the most predictable thing you could have ever predicted. Scott, we're thinking of making an AI website that will make any picture of a…

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, stuff that's super hard but also super light, stuff that can conduct electricity better than other stuff. The upside potential of just materials sounds like a boring thing, but it's really a lot.

There was a story that I decided not to talk about until just this moment. There's some teenage kid who allegedly invented an electric motor that doesn't require these magnets that are rare earth. And the idea is that you would change the entire situation with making electric motors because if you could get rid of the magnet part you wouldn't need any rare earth minerals for making magnets. Now I saw in the comments that people said, "We've always had that kind of engine. He didn't invent anything." I don't know about that, but that's the size of the opportunity. It could be as big as, "Hey, we found a way that you don't need these rare earth materials." That would be a pretty big deal.

Anyway, Mark Cuban is helping the Democrats decide what to do. I don't know if the Democrats know that or they welcome it, but he was saying on an interview yesterday, I think, that the Democrats' only message is Trump sucks and that's not going to get it done. So how much I feel as if everybody who cares about the Democrats doing well that they don't really have good suggestions for them. It's definitely a good suggestion to stop doing what they're doing. That part is solid. But what should they be doing? I think everybody stops with, you know, you should have a better message. Well, everybody knows that, right? They all know they should have a better message. But who is it who's coming up with a better message? At what point do you say we all know we suck? Do you have any idea how we could do this better?

But of course, it's not just the message, is it? It's also the messenger. So if you don't have the right messenger, doesn't matter if you have the right message. And that's of course the big secret to Zohran Mamdani in New York City. He's literally a socialist. Some would say communist, but because his policy is so clean and well represented, you know, the affordability stuff, a

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nd because he's an appealing messenger, he's actually overcoming being a communist. So if you wondered how much power you can get from having the right message and being the right kind of messenger, well, there's a guy called Trump who had the right message at the right time and he was the right messenger and now he's the most influential person in the world. That's how important it is. And if yo…

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