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at allows you to use your private car as a sort of a self-driving Uber is the number one download on Apple. Now, I don't think there's any place that it's approved for that yet, but they must be really close. So the totally self-driving car is right around the corner. And it turns out that the Trump administration, in related news, is getting ready to ease a bunch of self-driving car rules. Boy, d…

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d of time, and aim for a market cap for the company. So this would just be the value of Tesla. They want him to hit a market cap of 8.5 trillion. That'd be pretty good. And they want to commit to up to 10 years in the CEO role. I'm guessing he'd be okay with that. I don't know. And he gets 12% of the company stock. I guess somebody estimated that he could make a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars.

You know, if there's one thing I could teach you about money and you could take this to the bank, you know, a lot of times people will give you financial advice and you'll say, "Oh, I don't know." You know, maybe you're being paid to say that or something. But here is some honest and useful financial advice and I don't think anybody will ever contradict it. It goes like this. Making the first trillion, that's the hard part. Yeah. Hey, you're

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welcome. All right. I love this too. President Trump says he's going to make some big announcement at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time today. Now, does anybody else have the same impression I do that he's turned the government into a really good reality show? And when he does this big announcement, you might not think it's a big announcement when it happens. Like it might not be a world-changing announceme…

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