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Back to episode — Episode 3027 CWSA 11/23/25

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All right. Well, let's jump into the news. It'll be so good. Did you know, Trump was going to his helicopter, I think he was, and one of the reporters asked him if he would reconcile with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, you know, the same way he did with Elon Musk. What do you think? He said, "Well, sure, why not? I get along with everybody." Is that the perfect answer? "I get along with e…

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have dinner. We'll be best friends." And everybody goes, "Oh, okay. I get it. It's part of the show. It's just part of the show." Once you realize it's part of the show, you can just lean back and enjoy it the way it was meant to be.

So yes. Do we want Trump to dislike Marjorie Taylor Greene? No. We want her to be a productive part of society, a patriot. Would you not want her on your team? Think about it. Now, I get that she disagrees with you on some policy stuff, right? Or maybe she doesn't. But you wouldn't want her on your team? Think about it. If you were picking teams for anything, you wouldn't want her on your team? Yeah, of course you would. So would he. So he plays it just right in the way that only Trump can.

Hurricane season is winding down and Axios is reminding us that there have been how many named hurricanes that have made landfall in the US mainland. Anyway, how many hurricanes this year? Do you know the number? The answer is zero. Now, there usually aren't that many. You know, like a normal year might be two, but we're talking about two major storms that would cost billions of dollars. This year, none.

Do you think that all the news is talking about is how the climate crisis has been avoided and maybe it was never real in the first place? No, that's not going to happen right away. But we're heading in that direction.

I will tell you again how to run the entire country. You ready? If you wanted to take charge of the whole country and you didn't have an elected position, you're not a billionaire, you just want to figure out some clever way where you, and I mean you, like specifically you, could take over the whole country, there is a way to do that. And this hurricane situation reminded me of it. I've talked about this before.

In the corporate world, the way we think of things is that there's a line of executives and somebody reports to somebody who reports to somebody. So if you see one of those executives giving a PowerPoint slideshow to maybe that executive's boss, you think to yourself, well that executive giving the presentation is in charge of that domain and is giving a presentation to someone who's in charge of him, you know, because he's got to get approval or something. So it looks to you like the normal corporate structure is working the way you think.

However, having worked in the corporate world and having put together quite a number of slides for other executives or just for executives, here's something I learned that everyone who's been in that same position probably learned the same way. Whoever comes up with the best slide, or you could replace slide with idea or framework or reframe or way to look at something or relevant data, that person's actually in charge.

Let me plump this out a little bit and you'll see what I'm talking about. If I wanted to run the world and wasn't already, the way I'd do it is I would try to figure out what the top 10 climate variables are that people would agree, all right, if that's changing, there must be a problem with climate and humans behind it. And I would get the top 10 and then I would create an ongoing dashboard. A dashboard is sort of a corporate term. A dashboard would be usually one page on a screen that very quickly tells you some set of information that makes sense together.

So I would say, "All right, let's figure out the 10 things you should look at for climate change." And hurricanes would be one of them. But you'd also have the temperatures. You'd have the water level at certain places. So I don't even know if there are 10. Maybe there are five, but I think there are at least 10. So you would be the one who pulls together this dashboard and then you just put it on X.

What would happen if you did a good job? People would pass it around and they would say, "Whoa, I'm smarter now because I know that these 10 t

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hings are important. I know the order in which they're important because you would also rank them from which one's the most predictive, right? Maybe which one is the most dangerous, but most predictive as well." And then if you did a good job, people would want to bookmark it and they would ask you to update it when there was new information and it would take on a life of its own almost immediatel…

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