eat that all he did was get on the phone and tell two warring countries, I'll give you bad trade deals unless you stop firing. And then they immediately just said, all right, all right. And they backed down.

I feel like that might have been a case of what I call the fake because probably Cambodia and Thailand really really didn't want to be in a war — as in really really didn't want to, like really really really didn't want to be in a war. But they would have national pride and ego and you know you can't just say never mind. Oh never mind. I really don't want to be in a war. You'd look like a loser. So you need some excuse. You need some outside pressure to say, "Well, okay, given that outside pressure, I guess we'll do a ceasefire."

So Trump, because he's got this new little weapon he's created out of nothing, which is the tariff, which by the way is the smartest thing anybody ever did in politics to create a weapon and then use it right in front of people. He just created it. The whole tariff idea, it didn't really exist. I mean, it existed as a thing that people can do, but nobody uses it this way. And it's possible that the tariffs ended a war. It's like Trump wakes up, ends a war and then he golfs. How many wars has he ended while golfing? But he's still got two big ones. He's got Gaza and he's got Ukraine that he is not successful at, but he'll find a way to monetize both of those.

Apparently there's a big FBI sweep in which 205 child predators were arrested. I hate these kinds of stories. I usually stay away from them because they're just too ick. But this looks like a major deal and 55 field offices, FBI field offices were involved. So I often wonder how big this child predator thing is. I mean if you went by what you see on social media, you would think it's half of your neighbors are in on this. But I don't know because I don't have, you know, the good news is I don't have any connection to that world. So I have no independent way to say, yeah, they don't know the half of it, which might be true. Or, oh, they're making a big deal about it, but it's so rare, which I don't know to be true. I have no idea how to size this. Obviously, if it's one person, it's way too much. And or say all the NPC things you have to say. It's the worst thing ever. And even if it happened only once to one person, we should do everything in our power to stop it. We all agree.

Trump says that Harris broke the law by paying for endorsements. That would include Beyoncé, Oprah, and Al Sharpton. I believe all three of them say we didn't get paid for these endorsements. I think they would say oh no all they did is reimburse the production company so that we weren't paying you. And Al Sharpton maybe something got donated to a charity he's involved with something like that. So they would say no. No, technically we did not get paid for endorsements. I don't know which way that would go. I suspect that even if they went to court, I don't think that they would be found guilty, but I don't know. Maybe.

You know how people say that the world fertility rate is going down everywhere and we think it's because of the internet or smartphones. Well, Marc Andreessen points out with a chart that showed that the fertility rate in the world has dropped since 1960 and that was well before internet and phones. So whatever it is that's taking the average number of children from five worldwide — it was five — down to less than two, whatever it is it started well before the internet and smartphones. So what is it?

Well, I saw Chamath Palihapitiya on X comment to that. He said, "What actually happened was that we stopped valuing having a family and instead became hyperfocused on individual goals." Now, he doesn't say that that happened to women, although some of you want to stick that in, right? The myriad books, courses, content, slogans over the past 50 years all reinforce the same incentive: your fulfillment is largely from professional endeavors. So double down and lean in.

Again, he doesn't say that that me