rip the guy's shirt off and give him the give him some kind of a treatment or something. What exactly was he supposed to do? Was he supposed to push Dr. Oz away and say, "I got this because the cameras are rolling." No. He did exactly what I want my president to do. Not only did he hire competent people who immediately acted in exactly the right way, but he knew when to stay out of the way. You can't beat that really.

Um, now some of you might recognize how biased I am on this on this topic. Did you pick that up? Did you pick up any obvious bias from me on this topic? Oh, I have bias. So, here was my real my real situation. So, I you know, I uh was busy most of the day. So, I was catching up with the story, you know, the story about the guy who collapsed in the office. Um, and I'm reading about how Dr. Oz was the first one to step in. Now, Dr. Oz was also uh he he also was one of the people that Trump asked to get involved in my situation when I needed a little little boost with my health care provider. Now I don't know if you know I still don't know the reality of what did or did not happen. So I'm not blaming Kaiser for anything. Uh just that I had a lack of information for a while and it took longer than I thought. Uh, that's all I know. That took longer than I thought and I didn't know why. So, uh, Dr. Oz solved that for me. And as I'm reading the story about how he had also jumped in to fix this guy, I'm thinking to myself, why is it that these Trump related people have learned that they can do more than regular people? How do they get so much done? Like, how do they It's just how do they get so much done? And as I'm reading about Dr. Oz and I'm thinking, you know, fondly about how he had helped me personally, maybe he kept me alive. I don't know. Maybe he made the difference between life and death. Could have been. Uh my phone rings and it's Dr. Oz. I swear to God, this really happened. I'm reading about him for the first time, about this incident for the first time. And Dr. Oz calls me and he asked me how I'm doing and if I'm getting enough help from my medical providers cuz that's what he made sure happened and the answer is yes. Yes, I am. I'm getting great great reaction from my medical care Kaiser Northern California. So I'll give him a shout out. You know the way I judge everything the way I judge everything is not by any mistake. I judge everything by reaction. What did you do when somebody complained? If I judged Kaiser by how happy I was, you know, a month ago, that would be different from how happy I am now because the way they reacted to it was excellent. So, they're they're doing a great job at the moment. Um, so that's my thing. Now, do do you realize how how weird it is to be me that you're reading a story in the news and then the subject of the news calls you as you're reading the story? It's so weird. It's totally weird. But we're a simulation, maybe.

All right. So, I guess after all that, Democrats will claim that uh Trump stole their democracy by not giving CPR to the guy who fell down or some damn thing. Um, moving on. Even John Fetterman heaped praise on Trump, said that Trump was uh did a great job on slashing that weight loss drug price from $1,000 to as low as 149. Um, and he told his story about being a stroke survivor and apparently he used it for his heart health, uh, which I believe is one of the one of the drugs involved. And he said, "I've called to make these drugs more accessible, blah blah blah." All right, here's my take. If you're not tired about me talking about Fetterman too much, I get it. I get it. He's on the other side. You You don't want to give him attention, blah blah blah. But I'm going to talk about his persuasion game so that you can learn that. Okay? So, this is about learning persuasion. It's not about me wanting Fetterman to be my next president or anything like that. Just focus on the persuasion part. You'll be fine.

So, I love the fact that he found his own lane, meaning that as soon as the president does something that you could sort of imagine a reasonable Democrat might be in favor of, and this would be obviously something a reasonable Democrat should be in favor of. Um then the press knows to go to him first. Not only because he's good at the quotes that they can use because he he speaks in abbreviated non word salad way maybe because of the um stroke maybe and maybe he was just always brief. I don't know but he's he's good at being brief and that makes better quotes. So he's carved out this little niche where he will always get attention um from I don't know maybe half of all topics they'll come to him first. That is so good and persuasion wise if if you can camp out as the person they have to talk to first because everybody expects you to then you've accomplished the Trump first and most important play. Remember in 2015 everybody said, "Well, you can't win just by getting the most attention." Can't you? Maybe you can win by getting the most attention. No, that's not enough. You still have to have a lot going for you, but he solves for one of the problems that you got all these other politicians. Maybe a lot of them would like to be president someday, but he's figured out how to make them come to him. That's what Trump does. He makes them come to him just by being more interesting and by doing something that's not the same freaking thing that everybody else is doing. So in in terms of attention grabbing, A+. So learn that lesson. Learn that lesson.

But there's more. Um here here's the bigger lesson. Do you remember in uh the first term and really into the second election cycle uh the Democrats were all about Trump's bad personality? It's like, oh, he says bad things about people. Oh, our our allies will not trust us as much because he can't be trusted. Oh, he told four gazillion bazillion 14 gazillion lies. And it was all about his character and his personality. When was the last time you saw the enemy press enemy to Trump? Uh when was the last time they reported the number of lies he's told? Did anybody notice they stopped doing that? They just stopped. What wasn't it the number one thing they reported all the time? Well, he's got five more lies today and three were in this sentence and two were in this and they don't even bother fact checking him. Do you know why they don't fact check him? Because people got used to it. Remember the Virginia Adams rule? People can get used to anything if they do it long enough. Anything. So, I think the world just got used to Trump. He was normalized. And of course it only helps because you know he did a good job as president, you wouldn't want to normalize something that was bad. But he's totally normalized. So now when he says something like he he's dumping on Nancy Pelosi like earlier. Can you imagine any other president doing that? You can't. But in the old days they would have said no other president would do that and therefore it was a mistake for him to do it. Do they do that now? No they don't. Now they just say, "Uh, that's just what he does." So once you've normalized it, you have this superpower. So Trump can simply say and do things that other people can't say and do because he got you used to it. Fetterman's doing the same thing. I don't know how conscious this is, but what Fetterman is doing is making the Democrats get used to the idea that he could agree with the Republicans. The first 20 times he does it, they won't be used to it. Maybe the first 50 times they won't be used to it. But somewhere around the hundredth time, you know, because you can repeat the same things over and over. Somewhere around the hundredth time, they're just going to want to think about something else and they'll just get used to it. And then he'll be the only person who can do this and we'll be used to it. That's when he becomes dangerous. If we get used to this, meaning Democrats specifically, he's gonna have a little superpower there in persuasion. And uh just watch that.

Here's another guy named John Shewchuk. I think he's at Climate Craze. Um, one of the things he does is he looks for um for data recording stations, temperature recording stations that are out of service but have not been reported as out of service. So, so far he found his post on X 196 ghost stations where the NOAA fabricates temperatures. In other words, they just estimate the temperatures because the actual data doesn't exist. Now, how comfortable do you feel if I tell you that 196 temperature stations are not even real? And if you don't have the right data for temperature, then you have trillions of dollars that could be wasted because you had the wrong temperatures. All right, I'm watching the comments to see if you know where I'm going on this. Do you know where I'm going on this? How many times have I told you? You're gonna be mad at yourself if you didn't get this one before I tell you. What's it mean when they tell you the number without the percentage? What's it mean if they tell you the percentage but not the raw number? It means it's Now, I hate the fact that this guy's on my side because I think that the temperature measurements are probably pretty sketchy. So I'm modified in general but if you're looking at it just as persuasion when somebody gives you a raw number without the without the what's the total number of now if I had to ask you how many do you think there are how many how many uh temperature measurements stations are there what do you think 196 were ghosts didn't exist but how many how many do exist in America it's over 10,000 in the world it's over 20,000 and already according to Grok I'm going to assume that's true um so that would be 1.85% of just the US um measurements if 1.85% of the US measurements were interpolated, you know, just took an average of what was around it. Would you get necessarily a terrible answer? I don't know. I don't know. But it makes a big difference if you think 196 is a big number versus less than 2%. And but the bigger problem is really there's 10,000 of these measurements in the US, but only 20,000 in the rest of the whole world. I mean that would be another 10,000. Does that mean that what happens in the US just sort of naturally counts for more and wouldn't that distort things? So I just have a question mark about that.

All right. So uh I don't want to criticize John because I do love his work. Meaning that if he's really finding the number of uh ghost stations that could only be good. I mean there's no downside to that. So that's good work. Appreciate it. But just know that I'm teaching my audience that the raw number without the percentage, that's not good. And vice versa.

I have to drink like like Trump did in that one video where we have to use both hands. I also have to stay hydrated, get all the radiation out of me.

All right. Um, here's something I taught you on persuasion, but I'm going to give you another example which should be helpful. Um, I call it the category problem. Have you heard me talk about this? If you're trying to decide if something is tr