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ourse when I was in my 20s, and it teaches you how to navigate this exact situation. And by exact, I mean you had to do some kind of public presentation, podcast or anything else, and things went wrong. You're actually trained to do that. So I'm doing what I'm trained to do. So if it looks easy to me, that's not natural skill. Training. I'm just used to it. I also don't have any normal sense of e…

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somebody's in danger. So danger is what gets people's attention because it's a busy world. We have stuff to look at. Can't look at everything all at the same time. So what I'm doing is creating a sense of danger. A small danger. The danger is that I would embarrass myself or humiliate myself by not being prepared. Nope. No problem yet.

So yesterday an interesting thing happened. You probably want to know about it. So Carrie Lake was nice enough to put a very nice message on X wishing me well, you know, with my health challenges. And then Elon Musk, and then she said something like, "We love you," to me, meaning the audience loves me. And then one of the people in the comments was Elon Musk and he said, "We do." So basically I woke up to Elon Musk telling me he loves me. Now I love him too. So the feeling is quite mutual.

But what you're wondering is does it feel better when the most successful and richest man in the world tells you he loves you versus the average person? And the answer is oh yeah it's way better. Yeah. It's just so much better. Way way better. It's funny because I'm joking, but not really. I mean, if you had a choice of somebody telling you they love you, wouldn't it be cool if they were an awesome person? Yeah, it'd be a little bit better. I mean, it would be great no matter who it was, but it's a little bit better. Anyway, so I enjoyed that today. Thank you, Elon.

All right. See what else is going on. You know, some of you are waking up and saying, "Scott, I have OCD and you're ruining my routine. I come here to find out the news." Well, luckily for you, I have prepared what I call the evergreen news. So this is the news that just never changes.

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science news, eating makes you gain weight. Psychedelic mushrooms make you less depressed according to the scientist who came up with the idea of getting themselves psychedelic mushrooms and getting paid for it. Smartest scientists ever. Also in the news, AI is still not able to do advanced general intelligence. Still can't do it. Advanced general intelligence and we don't know how to make it do…

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