rent that there might be somebody for whom it was a real lifesaver. But I can guarantee you, the only part I have some expertise in because I'm a trained hypnotist as all of you know, I can guarantee you that you can convince people that they're the wrong sex if they're young enough. Guarantee it. So that would suggest that Trump's idea of removing it so that it doesn't accidentally influence people makes sense from the hypnotist perspective. Any other perspective as in psychologists or biological experts I'll leave that to them.

Well Malcolm Gladwell, you might know him. He's one of the most famous authors in the United States. And apparently there was some point he was at a public forum and he said something supportive of trans athletes. In other words people born as men playing in women's sports. And he was agreeing that that was a good idea in some public way. And now he's come out and there's a video in which he says he's ashamed of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women's sports. And here's the interesting part. He says he was quote cowed into saying so. And now he says quote trans athletes have no place in the female category. He says now without getting into the quality of his argument before or after I would like to point out the following. Does it feel to you like the truth is having a comeback or maybe for the first time ever it's risen? There seems to be something happening where people are sort of confessing the truth meaning their actual opinion. Does it feel like that? You know that might be wishful thinking on my part. I don't know. But I appreciate anybody who is willing to make that kind of a public correction to something that they're not proud of. So good for you. Good for you Malcolm Gladwell. But again as far as his opinion that's his opinion so you don't need me to weigh in on that.

Have you wondered why the Trump administration seemed to be doing nothing on housing costs when that's a gigantic problem for people? I have. But it looks like according to Zero Hedge Scott Bessent has been quoted as saying that the government may declare a national housing emergency in the fall. Now what does that mean? Well it doesn't mean we know the details but what it does mean is that the federal government would get neck deep into the business of affordability of housing.

Now as you know Zohran Mamdani the guy who's probably going to win mayor in New York City came up with this brilliant affordability thing. And I just have to compliment that that was a nice focus for a politician and fit the times and he made it work. But it's also the sort of thing that you could pick off. It doesn't preclude anybody else from making something affordable and Trump's made energy more affordable and eggs more affordable and it was just sort of lacking that there wasn't something happening in any way at all for housing. Now you could argue that the immigration aggressiveness caused more open places which would cause supply and demand there to be more supply so the price would go down. But I don't think he did it for that reason. That was just sort of a byproduct that you might enjoy.

But some of the things that they're talking about are standardizing local building and zoning codes. I've always thought that that might have some potential and maybe some tariff exemptions for housing materials. But they don't really know. So they're going to declare the emergency maybe. Doesn't sound like it's a dumb decision. But I like it. If declaring it an emergency gave them some powers to do something that just really needs to be done such as standardizing building codes, I don't know if the federal government even has that power. But I would be in favor of here's my ultimate dream. My ultimate dream is that if somebody designs a set of homes that are essentially the same on the inside but maybe there's 12 different models just to pick a number. So if you have kids or you're retired or you're an athletic family or you do or you don't have a dog the houses would all be different. But if there are 12 of them the odds that one of them is exactly what you want is pretty good. So you don't have a federal standard that changes every building code everywhere. You simply say if you build any of these 12 homes and you hit these kinds of standards for building the state won't be able to say anything or the local government. So that would be maybe a faster way because standardizing all the different states they do have different climates and everything so it gets really complicated but it wouldn't be complicated to say if you use this set of materials and you build it to one of these 12 standards you can just start building or something that would really streamline it.

Then the other thing is there are a number of technologies now where you can build a home with these Lego-like blocks that fit together and they've already got I think they already have the insulation built into them but one person can just pick one up and slam it together. So what would happen if you had AI assisting you and you did the labor yourself and there was nothing to lift that was any heavier than a block kind of a thing. And you didn't have to pay an architect, you didn't have to pay for approvals. You didn't have to wait for approvals at least very long. And you didn't have to pay much in labor because it would be so simplified that anybody could put one of these houses together. You could probably bring the cost of housing do