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ng what is called the pre-show. And if you didn't know it, I do a pre-show before this show. The pre-show is only for subscribers of the Locals platform. And one of the Locals people asked me how do you learn to change your mind and how do you recognize people who can do it? And I thought that that's a really good question. How do you learn to change your mind? And here's the reframe. I'm reasona…
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My advice is don't take seriously any sightings of UFOs that don't come with video. And secondly, don't take seriously any UFO sightings that have a very unclear video or photos. It's 2025 almost, people. If it's real, somebody's gonna have a good photo of it. Yeah. Well, I don't know if it could be a balloon because it was matching their speed. And even if it were attached to something, it seems like it would be a little fluttery or something. So I don't know what it was. It seems more likely it was an optical illusion of some type. I'm going to say optical illusion, but I don't think it showed up on radar, blah blah.
So this is a small story, but it shows you where things are going.
I guess Waymo has now been approved at least a little bit for driving on LA freeways. Now it had already been used in California on side streets, but allowing it on freeways, this is a pretty big change. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but Waymo is a Google company. Is that true? Waymo is Google, right? And Google is so big and so connected and so powerful that I can't imagine in my wildest dreams that the state of California can block them from being fully autonomous as well as Tesla. I don't think California will be able to hold out for another year. So my guess is that 2026, sometime during the year, will be the year of autonomous self-driving cars that don't require you to pay attention.
So Waymo does not require you to pay attention but is limited to where it can go. Now it's not limited to where it can go, or at least they're testing it on the freeway. This is not approved fully. It's just being tested. And I would say every indication, including everything Elon Musk is doing and saying and then everything that Waymo is doing and saying, would suggest we're almost there. This is definitely the year.
Can you imagine how the world would be different with self-driving cars? You know, for a lot of people, especially people who commute, especially people who are living in LA traffic, this is such a game changer. If you told me, Scott, do you want to live in LA? Probably the first thing I would say is no, I can't handle the traffic. But if you said to me, well, the traffic will be bad but will rapidly become less bad as people start sharing auto cars, etc. And by the way, instead of being nailed to your driver's wheel, you could just do your own thing. In which case the commute would just be productive time.
If you said, Scott, bring your laptop. You have Wi-Fi presumably and you can just sit in that car and treat it like it's an office that happens to be moving. The commute is gone. It would be like the commute didn't exist. It would just be extra work done. So the way society is going to change in the next 12 months is really, really interesting. So most of you will be here for that.
So as I predicted in my mind but did not tell you, the Epstein files have turned into the trickle strategy. The trickle strategy is that they will continue releasing things that make us unhappy. That's not enough. That's not enough. I'm going to sue you. But wait, here are some more files. Oh, all right. I'll wait another day because you said you'd give me some more files. Wait a minute. They're redacted. Well, wait till tomorrow. All right, I can wait one more day. Uh oh, wait. We had to pause because we haven't redacted enough. Well,
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then I'm going to put you in jail. But wait, you'll have them by tomorrow. You don't want to put me in jail if I'm going to produce them tomorrow. Okay, that's reasonable. Then tomorrow comes drip, drip, drip. So how long can the Department of Justice or whoever is behind it trickle us without going to jail? And the answer is forever. There's really no limit to the ability to stall. Now as I sai…
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