level that I just go what? That really happened? I lived through that because I was an anti-mask activist. Is it possible that I was added to the no-fly list and I didn't know it? I mean I did fly. Oh but when I flew I was not yet being vocal about masks. That came after that. I haven't flown. Yeah I haven't flown since then but for other reasons. So I might actually be on some kind of no-fly terrorist list just because I made a big deal about we got to get rid of these masks now that we know for sure that they don't make any difference.

All right. According to Medscape, Jeff Craven's writing that there's a sharp rise in what they call cognitive disabilities in young adults. Now we're not even talking about autism and ADHD. They're talking about concentration, memory, and decision-making. They're saying that's way down. I don't know what the cause of that is. I mean you could speculate all the usual causes from food to lack of sleep to I don't know. You could imagine a lot of possible answers but I have one possibility that I think people would miss, which is that the world itself is getting increasingly complicated.

If you take somebody with a brain that's perfectly suited for the 1800s, as in hey this is cousin Bob, he's not too bright but all he has to do is milk the cows. Could cousin Bob milk the cows and not have any problems with concentration, memory, or decision-making? Yeah, no decision, not much concentration. So if all you're doing is milking a cow, yeah you're perfectly fine. But what if you have to navigate your smartphone and school and try to figure out how to get into college and just getting from one place to another is a nightmare. Everything is so much more complicated mostly with online stuff that it could be that the people haven't changed but the challenge of just surviving life in 2025 causes some people to just not be able to hold all the memories, not be able to handle the decision-making etc.

So it could be that the people didn't change, the environment did. So I'll just throw that out there. I wouldn't bet my life that that's the answer but maybe.

Well allegedly President Xi, according to the Telegraph, had asked Trump to oppose Taiwan independence in return for a trade deal. Does that sound like something we should do? To oppose Taiwan independence so you could get a trade deal? Well here's the fun part. You know how I always tell you that Trump is incredible at creating a fake asset so he has something to negotiate away?

Apparently the Biden administration had something on the website saying it did not support Taiwan's independence. It wanted to just sort of keep things the way they are because then China doesn't get mad at you etc. And then Trump removed it. So what I think China wants is that in return for a trade deal which we want they would want us to put back on the website that we do not support Taiwan's independence. We only support the status quo or something like that. And so that would suggest again that Trump created an asset by taking that off the website which didn't cost us anything. And now in order to put it back on the website and probably also say it out loud they would give us a trade deal. Now I'm assuming that that would be a better deal than if we don't do that. So he somehow again created an asset out of nothing. I don't know how that will work but that was interesting.

And then related to that apparently there's a plan, due to US plan, well it's I think it's already in motion. They're gonna pressure Taiwan to move 50% of their chip production to the US or lose our military protection. Ars Technica is reporting on that. So even the Trump officials say that that's impossible. I think Jensen Huang of Nvidia just two years ago had estimated that moving that production, the pipeline basically, moving the entire pipeline to the US might take 10 to 20 years, might take two decades. But we're pushing Taiwan to get that done or to lose our military support I guess.

So I think it's the right direction and asking companies and the government to do things that look impossible is not really the worst idea because lots of times you can figure out how to do things that looked impossible. But if you say here's the deal, we're going to leave you to China's military unless you can do this in two years, probably they get it done in two years because they're not going to wait around for China's military to be running their island. So I'd say remain skeptical of that but it probably makes a lot of sense to put that out there as an objective.

Well Scott Presler and Nicole Shanahan are two people who are going to work on getting a petition in California for voter ID and get it on the ballot. It would still have to win on the ballot which I think it could actually. So they would just have to get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. They're trying to get a million. And that would end a particular kind of cheating because you'd have to have an ID to vote. And I'll bet you they can get a million signatures on that. I'll bet you they can.

So according to the New York Post, JP Morgan Chase now has more employees in Texas than in New York. And I guess it's part of a trend where people are, especially money people, moving stuff out of New York because it's just too darn expensive and complicated to do business there. So Texas is winning and New York is losing.

Here's a study that maybe you could have known the answer. San Diego State University did this and discovered that the temperature of your food and beverages will influence your digestive health. And as you know your stomach is part of your brain. So it affects how you feel, your mood, and everything else. Now did you already know that apparently cold drinks can increase your anxiety and disturb your sleep? So just the temperature, not even the nature of the food, just the temperature of it. And on the other hand warm food can make you feel more relaxed and less anxious and less depressed.

And so I don't know it's science so who knows if it's true but have you ever noticed, have you ever had this experience where you're not super hungry but you have to eat something warm? Have any of you had that experience? You're not super hungry but man you need something warm. And it's not because you're cold. So it's not about the temperature of the outside world. You just need a warm thing that you can chew on, right? It's not just me, right?

So what would drive that? Because you don't have that feeling all the time. It's just every now and then you'll be like oh my god I so need something warm. You know if I'm doing DoorDash looking at the menus I'll find a food item that's delicious. It's one of my favorite foods but it's not warm. And I say I gotta have warm tonight. Not every day but right now I gotta have warm. So I think I would have guessed that warm food makes you feel better. I think I would have guessed.

All right ladies and gentlemen that's all I got for you today. I will remind you that these books up on my bookshelf that you can see over there, the ones on the top shelf, the four of them are the ones that would change your life t