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Back to episode — Episode 2949 CWSA 09/05/25

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he argument for it is that if you call yourself the Department of Defense, you can call anything that's happening in the world as somehow related to your own defense or an ally's defense. So I might have had it backwards, that when you call it defense, you can really easily make the argument that you should send some people over there to die. Well, sure, it's happening on the far side of the world…

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good at detecting BS. And so you can grade me on that or judge me yourself, but the other day there was this story that allegedly the head of the European Union was going into Bulgaria and the story said that they believe that Russia jammed the GPS in her plane and so they had to land with maps instead of GPS. And do you remember what I said about that story? I said, "There's something wrong with that story." That doesn't really feel like something Russia would do, you know, if there were a way to pin it on them. I mean, they wouldn't do it if they were going to get caught doing it. And if they allegedly did get caught, then it makes me think it's not the sort of thing they would have done. And today we learned that the Bulgarian government reversed what it had announced and said there was no evidence whatsoever that Russia jammed the GPS. Boom. I will take the W for that.

So ask yourself, did you see anybody else in the news call that story? Probably I was the only one. Was there anybody on CNN or MSNBC who said, you know, maybe we should wait a little bit on that story because, you know, it's not quite tracking, doesn't quite smell right? You can grade me on that yourself, but I believe I'm the only one in the world who said, "Nah, that's not right." So prove me wrong if somebody else said the same thing. They might have.

Dr. Andrew Huberman is yet again dunking on alcohol. He's not against it completely, but he wants you to know the health risks of it. And he points out that drinking can raise your level of cortisol, but not just while you're doing it, but after you're done. So it raises your baseline of cortisol. So cortisol is the thing you don't want because that's what's making you feel stressed and everything. So now this is just one more story about why alcohol is bad for you but it made me think about one of the reframes I did as probably a 12-year-old. So this one was so successful that I'd almost forgotten it was the biggest reframe of my life. Perhaps

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it might have been the biggest reframe of my life. At about 12 years old, I was a stressed kid and anxious and stressed and worried about everything. And so I reframed my job. You know, when you're a kid, do you have a job? I mean, you might have some chores to get some money or something. But I decided to set myself a mission. And this is how I explained it to myself. My full-time job is working…

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