u to manage your time. All right? Make sure you've got enough time. Manage your time. I've reframed that to manage your energy. Now, it does matter what kind of job you have. If you're being paid by the hour, you're going to have to manage your time. But the idea here is you want to eventually try to live your life in a way that you can manage your energy. And what I mean by that is at this exact time of the day for me, you know, everybody's different, but for me this is exactly what I want to be doing this time of day. I want to be doing something creative, maybe something a little bit social in its own way. But if I were not in the mood to do this, it wouldn't come out very well. So I match my energy to whatever it is I need to do. So if at the moment I can't work out but if I could work out I do it in the afternoon because my brain energy is low but my body energy is fine. In the morning my brain energy is high but my body energy is a little lower. So I do the creative stuff. Manage your energy. Don't only manage your time.

All right. Apparently there's some big meteor shower tomorrow that we're all getting to see. It's going to be a good one. It's always after midnight, of course. And for a couple hours tomorrow you'll see the Orionids, some kind of dust left behind by Halley's comet. You should see 20 shooting stars per hour. I feel like I'm going to stay up for that. Well, I'll never stay up for it, but I might go to sleep and then wake up for it four hours later. Do you know that stuff? They used to do it in the old days. I saw that in social media. In the olden days it was common for people to go to sleep when it got dark, but then they would wake up around midnight and spend an hour or two doing something else and then they'd go back to sleep. But apparently people would just all wake up at midnight and hang out in the old days.

Well, as you know, yesterday was the so-called No Kings rally around the country, or as some have tagged it, Grandifa. Grandifa because all grandparents. Seven million protesters, they claim. I'm sure that's overstated. In 2,700 locations. So let's see how they did. Any kings? Well, except for my upcoming guest today, King Randall. No extra kings. No extra kings. Surprisingly. Yeah.

And here's my question. If you have a No Kings rally in 2,700 places with 7 million protesters and the so-called fascist government in charge, the only response to it is two insulting memes. That was it. The entire pushback to 7 million people demanding that the Constitution be followed was, "Oh, here's a funny meme." Nothing else. Because you know where you can't have 7 million people running around protesting no kings? Anywhere there's a king. If you had a king, you would not be doing that. That's for sure. You wouldn't be doing any of that.

And then it got funnier because apparently some decision was made, and I don't know by whom or why, to hand out lots of American flags. Now, what do you think when you see a big crowd of people with American flags? Don't you think they're Republicans? So somehow it was 100% peaceful, which I compliment them on. 100% peaceful and they were carrying American flags and they were promoting constitutional rights. Am I wrong that they just held a Republican rally? Flag, peaceful, obey the Constitution? It was a mega event, right? Especially because it was senior citizens. The fact that people got paid for organizing this is hilarious because what exactly did they get paid for? To promote the virtues of the other side?

Have you heard of any Republican who was put out or somehow offended or somehow had a big problem with the No Kings thing? I have not heard of one Republican who had any problem with it at all or even cared if it happened. I looked at it and I thought, "Oh, looks like people are getting together over this whole support the Constitution and wave the American flag thing. Maybe that's a good sign." So I don't know what they thought they would accomplish, but it definitely did not remove Trump from office, if that's what they were hoping for.

The Department of Homeland Security gets the win for the best post. Somebody brought a giant inflatable penis, like a balloon that was shaped like a penis with a package. And the Department of Homeland Security took a picture of that and posted on X and the caption was "Gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot." I love the fact that the Trump administration is just mocking it, but not even mocking it hard. They're just sort of gently mocking it like, there you go. There you go. Tap tap tap on the head. Good boy. Good boy. Go ahead. It's hilarious.

Meanwhile, over at the Louvre in France, robbers actually broke into the Louvre and stole the French crown jewels. Now, if you were the Louvre, wouldn't you put a little extra security around the French crown jewels? Nope. Somebody snuck in and stole the crown jewels. Now, I guess the backstory is there was some kind of work being done on the facility. So that gave them an opening to get in. Ordinarily it would be more secure. But they got in, they stole the crown jewels, and then somebody dropped, I guess the crown that's the greatest of the crown jewels, Empress Eugénie's crown, and broke it. Imagine dropping it and breaking it. Like what would that feel like? You're like, "Ah, I just broke into the Louvre. I got the crown jewels. Look at me. I got the... Oh well, we just leave them there." And then they just leave them there.

But I'm also thinking how many people would have the wherewithal to break into the Louvre but also someplace to unload the jewels. What pawn shop takes the French crown jewels? Can you take it to the corner pawn shop and say, "Hey, I found this in my attic." "Did you now? Did you find that in your attic? Because that looks a little familiar. I've been to the Louvre." "No, no, this isn't one of those Louvre crowns. This was in the attic. Can you give me $100 for it?" Anyway, I'm sure they'll be caught pretty soon.

There's a New Jersey drone company that says they were behind the drone sightings over the New Jersey airport. Do you believe that? So they were introducing their product and they said, "Yeah, we had an agreement with the government that did not require us to disclose it." So we didn't. And we've got these big ass 20-foot-long drones that fly kind of funny. And they're trying to tell us that their drones are the ones that were scaring people. I'm going to say probably not. Probably not. I am willing to believe that some of the drones were theirs. Maybe some, maybe one. But do you think that's the whole story? Like the whole drone story is that? I'm going to say probably not, but it was a weird-looking drone. I have to admit.

So speaking of weird-looking drones, now there's a, according to wonderful engineering, there's a new drone, a rocket-launching robot that also has a machine gun. Not machine gun, a shotgun. So you can now get yourself a grenade-launching war-ready robot dog. So it's in the form of a dog. What would be more awesome than a dog that could throw a hand grenade and also had a shotgun? How much do you want the shotgun hand-grenade dog to guard your house? I just want one. Just one shotgun hand-grenade dog and I'll feel good. That's all I want. So wonderful engineering is talking about that.

Can you believe that Walter Cronkite once was on the Epstein flights to his island? Walter Cronkite. Did you even know that those eras overlapped? Did you know that Walter Cronkite was even alive when Epstein was taking people to his island? When did Cronkite die? I thought he died 100 years ago. But apparently he was alive. He was 91. They dragged his wrinkly ass to Epstein's island. There is no suggestion that he did anything untoward or inappropriate. So I think it was just part of Epstein trying to get as many rich people under his wing as possible. At least we think he didn't do anything.

Meanwhile, there's another story in the New York Post about Epstein. I guess he had this kind of a primary billionaire friend besides the Victoria's Secret guy. He had another billionaire who was a big backer, Leon Black. And there's now some emails that have been discovered in which he was threatening Leon Black to continue his payments, which apparently were $40 million a year for Epstein's financial advice, which was unspecified. And Epstein was mad because I think some of his other sources of income had been cleaned up because he'd been accused by then so he didn't have too many other major places to get money, it looks like. So he was leaning on his billionaire friend pretty hard. Leaning on him the way that you wouldn't lean on somebody unless you had some blackmail because the way he talked to him didn't sound exactly like you'd talk to somebody who was a friend or a colleague or just a business interest. Sounded like somebody he had made his. So he's like, "You better give me the $40 million every year." Forty million. That must have been some good advice he got there for that $40 million.

He even called the billionaire's children because they had created a quote "really dangerous mess" by trying to stop the money flow to Epstein. He goes, "To be clear, my terms are as follows. I will only work for the usual $40 million per year." He won't work for a penny less than that. You offer Epstein $39 million per year? No way. He will not do it for less than 40. He's a good negotiator.

Anyway, in other news, Australia's prime minister heading to the US to the White House. I don't know if that's today. I think tomorrow. I wanted to go talk about rare earth minerals and other stuff. So I did a little research on Grok trying to figure out this rare earth mineral situation. So I guess we've got 17 rare earth minerals that are sort of the problem ones and we've got a whole bunch of allies such as Australia and Canada that do have access to those. But what we don't know is how much access do they have? How fast would it take them to ramp up? And there's some thought that Trump's going to want to buy equity in a bunch of existing rare earth mining enterprises. To which I say, that seems like the smartest idea, doesn't it? Wouldn't the very best way to approach this be to buy an equity stake in as many allied country companies that do rare earth as we can so we get up on the priority list? There seems like that would be the obvious. And then our investments would allow them to expand. And so if that's where we're heading, massive equity investments in existing mining operations and refining operations, I would say smart. That looks like exactly what we should be doing.

The chancellor of Germany got in trouble for saying that the cities over in Germany, the cityscapes are having challenges because of immigration. So what happens to a leader in Germany when they point out the obvious that immigration is having an impact on the quality of life in the cities? Well, he's in terrible trouble for even suggesting that immigrants could be causing any problems in Germany. So now he's been called a racist, fascist, and you name it. Every basically everything MAGA has been called. And all the people in Germany heard is that he's some kind of a horrible immigrant guy, which apparently is nothing like the truth. So good luck, Germany. It looks like the Holocaust destroyed Germany for good. It just took a few decades.

Two-thirds of the German public want fewer migrants and nearly half of them think Europeans are being quote replaced. Can you believe that was ever a debate, the word replaced? Because as soon as you use that word, it's just a fighting word. Why do you need to say replaced? We're all observing what it is. You know, more of one type, less of another type. As soon as you use the word replace, then suddenly you're racist. But we're all looking at the same thing. Nobody's arguing about what's happening. So that's weird.

Wall Street Journal says that Venezuela is what they call coup-proof, meaning that even if the military wanted to do a coup against Maduro, their cartel boss, it'd be hard to do because he's already purged all the anti-Maduro people. A lot of purging going on. I guess the purging and the torturing and the jailing of his enemies was so aggressive that the military is completely cowed. And on top of that, I didn't know about this so much, but apparently Maduro uses Cuba's intelligence people for his own power purposes. So he's got some kind of a tight connection with Cuba's intel people. And I guess they're pretty good, the Cuban intel people. So they're going to keep him in business. So not so coup-proof, but I don't think it's a coup that's going to take him out of business. I think it'll be a bomb. Something tells me that Maduro is going to be exploding pretty soon. I don't know when.

Anyway, let's talk about that Gaza ceasefire. How many of you thought that Gaza and the IDF would declare a ceasefire and then nobody would break the ceasefire? Is there even one person in the world who thought the ceasefire would hold? No. No. But will it make a difference? I think probably not because what matters is how many military assets are there in the first place. So if they've drawn down the military assets 98% on both sides, yeah, there'll be some ceasefires broken by the 2% that they have trouble mopping up. So yes, ceasefires will be broken. Yes, there are people on both sides who want the peace to end. Probably won't. I feel like we're off to a good enough start as long as they keep the major military assets out of there. There just won't be that much to ceasefire over.

All right. Apparently Zelensky asked for Tomahawk missiles and as you know Trump said, "Not so fast. We're not going to give you those Tomahawk missiles right away. We're going to go talk to Russia first because then they've got something to trade away." They can say we're totally going to give these Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if you don't talk peace pretty soon.

Now, I did hear from somebody who seemed to know more than I do about Tomahawk missiles that they might not be all that cracked up to be, meaning that Russia has the ability to shoot them down and also that you would need some kind of ground launchers that would have to be operated by Americans. So if we put Tomahawks in Ukraine, it would basically just be America going to war with Russia because it would take, I guess it would take too long to train the Ukrainians to push the button. How does that work? We'll program it for you. We'll target it for you using our satellites and we'll program it, but make sure you get a Ukrainian over here to push that button. Is that what it looks like? Is Russia going to say, "Oh, that looks like totally a war with Ukraine." Or are they going to say, "That looks a lot like a war with the United States." So I think Trump is playing it exactly correct by holding out that risk. And I don't know, you know, Russia probably thinks that we could put the ground launchers there if we wanted to. So I would imagine he's got something to trade away now. And I would imagine that in the next few days and weeks you're going to see massive more attacks on the energy infrastructure of Russia and vice versa. So we'll see. We'll see if Trump can get this done.

My guess would be they'll have one more conversation, Putin and Trump, and maybe not much will come from it, and then things will have to get much worse again. Because I don't think we're at the place where it's worse enough. Do you? Ukraine seems perfectly willing to stick in there and keep fighting and I don't see Russia cracking. So you would need at least one of the sides to sort of be on the edge of maybe this is a bad idea. But we don't really see that. We see both sides saying, "Oh, it's a good idea for now. It's a good idea." So can Trump change that reality? You know, I told you with Gaza that what Trump did is not negotiate. Negotiating isn't what made that work. What worked was he changed reality. He just changed how he thought about reality and then it all came together. He'll have to do the same thing with Ukraine. I don't know how he would change reality, but he's saying stuff like he is making them think past the sale. So that's his usual trick.

His usual trick is he's telling them, you know, you can just walk away. Both sides, you know, you could just walk away. Russia, you can just literally turn around and walk away and the war's over, you know, as long as Ukraine does too. So that's actually pretty powerful because you've got people dying and it's costing money and it's this gigantic problem. Imagine if somebody came to you and they've got this gigantic, complicated, deadly life-and-death problem and your solution is you could just walk away. That's it. You could just stop and then it would all be over. You could almost certainly keep the stuff that you've already captured. You're not going to capture any more anyway. You could just stop. That is actually a super powerful message because you're taking a rational person, Putin, you know, even if you hate him, he's a monster, blah blah blah. He's a monster. He's the devil. Okay, but he's rational. So he's not going to just keep beating his head against the wall if there's nothing on the other side of the wall.

So you just say, "Here's your choices. You can keep doing this forever and we're in. We'll keep it because remember Trump has put the United States in the perfect position. So you want us to sell more weapons and test more weapons and get smarter about how well our weapons work in war. All right, take your time. Nothing's changing on the battlefield except, you know, people dying. And apparently neither side cares too much about that. So go ahead. But anytime you want to, anytime in 10 minutes, you can make the whole thing stop. All you have to do is give the order. Just say stop. If you say stop, I'll tell Ukraine to stop and then we're stopped. It's over."

So I don't know. Is that a negotiation or is that changing reality? The reality is you're not fighting for anything anymore. There it is. There it is. There it is. Did you feel that when I said it? The reality is neither side is fighting for anything anymore. Mostly Russia. They're not fighting for anything because there's nothing to win. They're not going to go any further. Telling them they're fighting for nothing. I don't think Putin wants to look irrational, does he? I feel like that would be a strong approach. You realize you're fighting for nothing, right? If we go another six months, what do you think you're going to get? What do you think you'll get if you fight for another six months? Nothing. More dead people, less energy security, you know, worse relations with the rest of the world. What do you think you're going to get in six months? It's only going to be worse. So I think Trump does have an argument that he can press.

Anyway, so this of course is coming. According to interesting engineering also, the US is developing missiles that don't need GPS to find you. They don't need GPS. So in other words, it will just look at the ground the way a person would and say, "Huh, looks like I'm about a mile away from that place" and then it will just sort of go to where it needs to go. I guess it can get within 16 feet of whatever they want and they can make these little flying robots that weigh less than five pounds each. I'm calling it a flying robot, but it's a missile. It would be a 5-pound missile that can fly over 60 miles an hour and can hit a target within 16 feet without any GPS. If you were Russia and you found out that we had already on the drawing board and were ready to mass-produce these missiles that weigh 5 pounds, fly 60 mph, and can hit something without being jammed, wouldn't you kind of hurry up a little bit on the peace deal? Because you don't want that stuff coming down on you, do you? No, you don't.

All right. So I did terrible planning today because I ended a little too soon. So what I'm going to try to do is I'm going to text King Randall, see if he wants to go early. Can you go early? He has to show up on my studio setup before I can invite him in. He might be watching. I hope he is. All right. So I'll keep an eye out for him to be joining. He will be joining right there if he joins. Participants right now. I'm the only participant.

But while we're waiting for that, I know what you want. I know what you want. You want some more reframes, don't you? So more reframes from my book will change your life while we're waiting for King Randall to slide in. All right. Oh, here's one that has really helped me a lot. The regular frame is that when you take a job, your job is whatever your boss tells you your job is, right? So you go to work, they say, "What's my job description?" Here's your job description. If you take the job description as your job, you will not go far. Right? How many of you already knew that? That if you do the job that you're given exactly as it's described, exactly the job description, you will not do well in life. You're going to have to figure out what it should be, not what it is. So you want to make sure that what you're doing is better for the company and better for your boss than whatever they told you to do. Now, that's not easy if you're not smart. Won't be easy to do. But instead of your job is what your boss tells you it is, here's a reframe. Your job is to get a better job. How do you get a better job? Usually by doing more than you were asked to do. That's what flags you for promotion. It's like, oh, Scott did everything we asked him to do, but he created this other project on his own and that worked out. You're first in line for the promotion. So never do what your job is. You should do whatever it is that will get you a better job. Now, that might include learning on your current job how to go to a different company and get a better job, but it's always about you. It's not about the job. Make sure it's about you.

All right, here's another one. These are a lot of my favorites that really changed my life completely. Have you ever just said to yourself, you're bored with life? Do you ever just wake up and you're like, "God, I am so bored with life." Oh, it's just going to be another day like yesterday. Go to work, eat my stupid sandwich, come home, commute. So if you're bored with life, here's my reframe. The problem is not boredom. The problem is that you're not embarrassing yourself enough. You're not embarrassing yourself enough. You need to put yourself in some shaky, iffy situations. Now, not dangerous. Doesn't have to be dangerous. It doesn't have to be life-threatening. But for example, if you have never taken a class on public speaking, most of you would be horrified by it, right? Public speaking is scary. If you're bored, do that. Do something scary. It'll totally take you out of your boredom. If you're bored, go ask somebody out that you know will say no. Hey, worth a shot. But it's not boring. So if you're bored, increase your risk of being embarrassed and you'll find it just opens up your whole life. Suddenly you can talk to anybody. You can talk to a stranger. You can ask somebody out. You could ask for that job you think you'll be turned down for. Just do something that will be embarrassing. It'll solve your problem immediately and you'll be happy probably.

All right, let's see if I can get King in here. This will be a test of my abilities. And now in theory.

Hey, there you are. Can you hear me, King?

Hey, how are you?

Let's hear you.

Can you hear me?

I can hear you.

Awesome.

Perfect. So nice to meet you in person. We've messaged back and forth and tried to get together a few times, but I had some issues and I apologize for those, but so glad you could join. So let me give you the big picture and then I'll let you talk to the people.

Okay.

So big picture is you started and run a school for boys in Georgia.

Where in Georgia?

Albany, Georgia. We're about two and a half hours south of Atlanta.

How many kids in the school?

We have 25 right now.

25. Now, I've been watching your social media for several years and I always see all Black kids, but I know that you invited a white kid in recently. And how'd that go? Did he make it?

Yeah, of course. So the thing is here in Albany we have a 77% African-American population. So usually you're just going to see mostly Black children, but we've had Hispanic children. We've had white children before. But I also tell people I can't make anyone sign up their children. So you know, Eli, his mom signed him up and he was welcome in with open arms. The biggest thing for us is just letting people know just about the demographic in Albany. We don't have a whole lot of white people in Albany. So it's tough trying to expand the races there.

Right. Well, one of the thing