lling other people to do stuff. But we observe that Trump is in the trenches all the time, day and night, sleeps less than anybody you ever know, works harder, takes fewer vacations, golfs a lot, but the golf is often work too. And so he creates this frame where you can't really hold in your head the hard worker part, which we observe and all know to be true, with the king part. That is brilliant. I don't know if I can quite express how smart that is. It's again the sort of thing that only a Trump can do, this specific Trump. Other people can't do this. They would just have some weak "I love my democracy." No, they're the ones who have the, they're the ones who want to be the king. But this is perfect. I work my ass off. It's hard to argue. I work my ass off.

I told you I was going to give you some more reframes, and so I will from my book *Reframe Your Brain*, my highest-rated book, five stars. So it's full of reframes if you didn't know that. Let me give you one. Suppose you want to do something big. Doesn't matter what it is. You want to shop for a house or save up for a house. You want to maybe decide to go back to school. You want to change your job. You want to do something big. So here's a reframe for that. Quite often we don't do it because the effort is so big and daunting that you can't even start. Do you ever have that situation? There's a thing you want to do, but it's just so big, you know, in order to start. Like maybe you want to relocate to another state. That's like a really big job, right? So you don't want to start because it's just so big. Here's the reframe. What's the smallest thing I can do that moves me in the right direction? Think of the smallest thing, not the biggest thing. Just reverse it. What's the smallest thing? Usually the smallest thing is to look for some information. So I'll just use my example of you wanted to move to another state. First thing you do is you look up their tax code. And maybe that's it. Maybe that's all you do that day. You just look at their tax and go, "Okay, they have lower state taxes, so so far I'm good." Maybe the next day you ask again, what is the smallest thing I can do? Well, I could maybe do a little research to find out what town would be the best town to live in that's near wherever I think I want to work, for example, or my family or whatever. So the way you approach it is what's the smallest thing you can do because what you'll find is that there's sort of a compound interest to it. When I wanted to become a cartoonist, I had to assemble all of these tiny little facts like this is the kind of paper you want to use. This is the book that tells you where to send your samples. This is the kind of pen you want to use because other pens have problems for various reasons. This is, you know, it's got to be three panels. You want all capital letters. So you assemble all these tiny, tiny little things that individually get you closer to this big thing. And you realize that life is actually kind of long. Sometimes time flies, but other times life is long.

So how many of you remember when I decided I was going to teach myself to play drums? Was that like seven years ago? Probably seven years ago. And some of you watched me. And you watched, you know, eventually I got a, I watched some YouTube, but I eventually got an instructor who would come once a week and I started assembling very, very slowly the skills to play the drums. Now, I didn't want to play in a band. I just wanted to be able to knock around in my garage, maybe play to my stereo or something. So those of you who are with me on the Locals app, you know that I've accomplished that. It took seven years, but after seven years I finally did a drum solo, you know, playing over with some other music in the background for my audience. Now, was it good? No. But I didn't care. I wasn't trying to be great. I was just trying to do it. Now, the doing it was extraordinarily fun. Extraordinarily fun because I could feel the entire seven-year arc. And it actually started with my stepson. I tried to get him into the drums when he was maybe 14 or something because I thought it'd be good for him. But he wasn't as interested as I was. So to me it's sort of a legacy that connects us across life and death. So that's my point. So the point is that you can in many times do the smallest little thing. I can't tell you how many times I would walk by the drums and say I'm going to try this one thing and I'd put 60 seconds of practice into it. And then the next day maybe two minutes. All right. That's your reframe for the day.

The no-kings event happened and I'm happy to report there are no extra kings. There are no reports of any extra kings. So I think the no-kings march did suppress any extra kings popping up. So far so good. But the Democrats are apparently afraid of the blowback now that the no-kings thing is over. They don't have a reason to keep the government closed. So, Scott, what do you think about becoming a stepfather? Many right-wing men don't like it. I'm going to answer that question even though it's distracting from my topic because we don't have much news today. So I'm going to just jump around. What do I think about stepkids? Here's the one and only way to think about stepkids. You have a separate relationship with them. That's it. You have a relationship with the parent, but your relationship with the kids, that's just separate. So you could like them. You could stay in their life if they want to stay in yours. You know, if you get divorced, if they want to stay in yours. Now, mine do. Mine do wa