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a few more things, right? What would happen if Trump solved all the problems that could be solved and what was left didn't look like that big a problem or didn't look like something that only Trump could solve? What would happen to his poll numbers then? Well, once you solve all your big problems, you start thinking about things like empathy because it's a luxury. Empathy is a luxury. If everythi…

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to see how I was doing and thanks to Dr. Oz. My health care company Kaiser is definitely stepping up and they're definitely giving me a high quality product. Now I don't know that it's any higher than anybody else's. I know some of you are going to say, "Scott, you're using your fame and connections to get extra health care that the rest of us don't get." I don't think that's happening. I'm not aware of any special things outside of the boundaries of my health care that I'm getting, but I'm definitely getting a good version of it.

Anyway, so there's a Ukraine peace plan that the Trump administration has floated. What do you think about that? Do you think Trump's going to pull that off, a peace plan? I guess today might be the fourth year of the war. You know, there's something about random numbers that motivate humans because we act like random numbers matter. So it's the fourth year, and if I told you a war was in, let's say, its second year, you might say, "Well, that's a long time, but wars are longer than that." If I told you it was in its 10th year, you would definitely say, "Let's wrap this up. It doesn't look like it's going anywhere." Fourth year starts to look like, you know what, we all want to just get out of this. This didn't work out.

So I think maybe just psychologically everybody's a little bit closer to doing whatever it will take to make the hard decisions.

So I went to Grok and I said, because the news is terrible at summarizing, I said, "Can you summarize this 28-point plan?" and Grok could not. It could only explain each of the 28 points in way too detailed for what I wanted. So I said stop, stop and at some point you just have to scream at it stop and then it stopped. I said all right try again except I only want one sentence for each of the bullet points for the 28 things. Just give me one sentence. Do you think it could do that? Well, sort of. But it decided that that one sentence would be about a paragraph long. So I'm like, stop, stop, stop. All right, we're going to try it again. And it's going to be one short sentence. One short sentence for each of the 28 points. Can you do that? Oh, yes. And then I made it number them. But man, did I have to work at it.

So now I have maybe the only list because my guess is that the people who work in the media were way too lazy to do what Grok did and probably way too or let's say not trained well enough to make AI do what I did which wasn't any genius move. I just yelled at it more. So here are the things. It might be the only time you hear these actually summarized in a good way.

The 28 points would be that Ukraine's sovereignty would be confirmed internationally. So everybody would agree that it's a country. Crimea would stay under Russian control permanently. No surprise. And by the way, I'm not saying I like these or don't like them. I'm just listing them. These are not agreed to. These are just what the Trump administration is proposing.

That Donetsk and Luhansk would jus

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t be completely Russian. Parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would go to Russia. Some additional eastern territories including some in Kyiv would transfer to Russia. All right. So you and I don't know too much about any of those regions, but we knew that Russia would demand some keeping forever some part of it. And maybe these make sense. And then there's the Odessa region's coastal areas which wou…

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