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t, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Well, like I said when you were first joining, there's no news today. Do you ever wake up and there's no news? There's just no news. I'll talk about the news, and some of it's about science and stuff, but boy, they closed the government and all the fun stuff. So first I'll tell you about my…

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t and then it'll take a few years for the big ones to be built. But I feel like we're at Gen 4. I think we got there, people, if you were waiting for it.

Well, I guess last night while I was sleeping, the internet broke, except for X. So I guess the problem was with Amazon's AWS cloud service that affects a lot of the big services. So a whole bunch of apps, they use Amazon's backroom processing, and it all broke. So they had one failure point at Amazon and it broke the entire internet except for X because I guess Musk has his own secured internet. So everything went down except X, which is scary but at the same time isn't it nice to know that X didn't go down because you can do almost everything there. You can message. Pretty soon you'll be able to send money. Can't send money yet on X, but you will. I mean, he's already applied for it. That's going to happen. So yet again, another service that Elon Musk provides to the world. The list of things that one man is doing for the world to make it safer is just out of control now. I mean, it's crazy. It's crazy how much he's done for the world and how much he probably will do because he's still young.

Anyway, here's a study that was designed to do nothing but make you mad. You ready for this? On one level, it's a study about a thing, but the thing won't even matter to you. As soon as you hear it, you're just going to get mad. You ready? The study that has no purpose other than to make you mad. University of Florida says they've got a study now that said that people who got the COVID vaccine lived much longer if they also had cancer. In other words, the study says that the COVID vaccine was one of the greatest cancer treatments of all time. How do you feel now? Do you believe it? Do you believe that this would be reproducible, that they could do another study and find out that the people who got the shot, because this is opposite of everything you've heard, right? This is the direct opposite of everything you've ever heard because the only thing you ever heard is that maybe people were more vulnerable, and maybe they were. So do you think I know the answer? Of course not. I don't know the answer. I don't know if these shots made you more vulnerable or saved your life. No idea. But I'll tell you what I know for sure. Science doesn't know. That's what I know for sure. That the scientists don't know. So do I believe this? No. Do I rule it out as completely impossible? No. But I don't think I'm going to believe this one. I'm going to put a pin in that one. I'd love to know who funded it, don't you?

I'm going to give you some reframes this morning, but I thought I'd start with Trump's because Trump had a reframe that was very impressive. Very impressive. So the no-kings thing happened and Trump was responding to it and he said this quote: "I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That's all it is. I'm not a king at all." Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a

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reframe. Because the normal way that you would respond to an accusation that you were trying to become a dictator would be what? You would say, "I'm not trying to become a dictator." Would that move anybody? No. You might say, "I love the Constitution." And then people would say, "Yeah, everybody says that." It wouldn't mean anything. I love our democratic republic. That's what I'm committed to. C…

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