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ause if you live there, you've got all these corrupt influences. You know, that gangster you grew up with and the people you went to school with and your wife's family who wants that contract. You can't let the people who live there control the money. They will always be corrupt. They would just give it to their family members etc. So you need some kind of independent, physically not there entity…
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Ladies and gentlemen, I told you I'd be finishing a little early. There's not much news happening today, which I suppose is good. But I did tell the people on Locals, my beloved subscribers, that I'd be taking some questions at the end about anything you want. So I won't be able to see all of your questions because they zip by pretty quickly. But if you do have any questions on any topic at all, I'd be happy to answer them.
Trump's government added the White House and departments to Blue Sky social network. So I subscribed. Wow, TDS is strong. What are your thoughts including how those supporting should engage? So how should Trump supporters engage with Blue Sky? So Blue Sky is the competitor to X that only Democrats went to basically. But the White House wanted a presence there, which is smart. I just would ignore it. Just ignore it. There's nothing there for you. If it becomes more of a thing then maybe someday you don't have to ignore it but at the moment I just ignore it.
I helped you with your team. Good. Can you reframe marriage for more success? Now the individual relationship ones you'd have to know so much about the individual situation. I can't just reframe marriage because some people ought to be married and some people ought to probably cut it out.
If my rodents returned what I noticed, I feel having two cats will probably eliminate my rodent stuff.
Dogn Barking says, "I missed what you learned from your medical testing Friday." I'll give you that fast. So I've got terminal cancer, metastatic prostate cancer. There's a drug that's newly approved just this spring called Pluvicto, but you don't get that unless you go through a scanning process in which they give you some radioactive juice to see if it lights up the tumors. Because if they can't light up the tumors with the practice juice, then the real thing won't do it either. So it's a way to find out if this limited and expensive process would be applicable to me or not. Now, the test was the most painful thing I've ever done in my life by far because I can't lay on my back without extraordinary pain and you have to lay on your back for 20 minutes. Extraordinary pain. Just extraordinary. But it's over and I got through it and it did light up at least my reading of the tests. I don't, the doctor hasn't read them yet so it might be maybe I'm misinterpreting but the reading of the test is that they lit up well, that they had a high sensitivity which is what we're looking for. So in theory my doctor will look at that today. He'll recommend it to a committee who decides whether or not that's good enough for me to get that drug. If the committee says yes in a week when they meet, then it will be scheduled. But I don't know how long it takes to schedule it. And there would be several applications. So it'd be once a week for I don't know four or six weeks or something like that. And then it doesn't work for everybody, right? Even if you've tested to see if it lights up your tumors, it's not going to work for everybody and it's not going to work as well for everybody. So there's some chance that I will get substantial relief fairly quickly, you know, within a matter of just a few weeks because some people have. But it's far more likely, maybe two out of three chance, that maybe I get a little bit of delay in the whole dying thing but it doesn't change the arc of my life too much. That'd be the most likely. However we're at this weird point in history where there are all kinds of new things coming online every day. Literally every day there's a new prostate cancer thing that looks like it might work if they test it a little bit further. So if I can extend my survival, and I don't know how much I need to, but we're at that period where if you can get that little extra, you might be able to get to the new thing. So that's my game plan. My game plan is to try to get to the new thing without knowing what the new thing is or even that it will exist. But and then there's a nonzero chance. I'm not counting on this, but there's a nonzero chance that the Pluvicto will just knock it out and that it will still be there because it's not marketed as a cure, by the way, but it could knock it back so much that if I don't do chemo and weaken my immune system, I might be able to just sort of keep it at bay without too much future trouble. Possible. Not likely. Most likely is I slow it down and it rages back in a few months. Most likely, but that might be enough.
I feel like I'm not adding value now because I'm just talking about my own situation. How did I prepare myself for the painful medical scan? Excellent question. How did I prepare myself? Well, I knew it would be bad and I had the maximum pain relievers, but I had not practiced being in that position for that long because obviously it's the most painful thing you could ever do in your life. So I didn't know how bad it would be. So that's number one. If you don't know how bad it will be, that helps get you in the room. Once you're in the room, this is where the reframe wanting versus deciding comes in. Do you see how powerful this is? If I had simply wanted it, I could not have held out. No way. But I had decided. I decided, meaning that you could put a hot poker through my forehead and I was going to hold on. There's a thing you hold on to to keep yourself from wiggling. And I told myself, you could do anything to me there. There's no level of pain that's going to make me move. This is my one shot because I don't have a plan B. There's no plan B. This is the only plan I had to survive. So that's a decision. That's not a preference, right? So once you move it from preference to decision, it doesn't make it easier, but it largely guarantees it'll get done. So you're not always trying to make it easier. You're trying to make sure it gets done because once it's done, it's done. That's a full solution. Done is done. And then I also do a thing where I try not to imagine it too much. When I have a dental appointment, I do that as well. If I know it's going to be painful, I tell myself simply, get out. That's another reframe. If it's in my head, I just get out. Get out. Get out. Think of something else. Get out. Get out. And the less you think about it before you go, the happier you're going to be because the thinking about it doesn't help. So you just say, "Get out. Get out every time you need to." So that's two reframes: the wanting versus deciding and then the get out so you're not obsessing about it before it happens. I think that was a good answer to
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your question. That moved you, Tom. It should have. How does gravity manifest at the quantum level? Well, I don't know if I'm ready for that one yet. When you imagine how you're perceived. Now, that's interesting. So when you think about how other people think of you, I have a reframe for that. We'll probably get to it later, but I'll share it with you now. What's the best reframe for worrying a…
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