e same. There's 100 percent chance that the ones who are controlling the students' behavior more aggressively are going to get better grades. There's just no way around that.

But it also made me think that homeschooling has a natural cap, meaning that there's no way a parent who can't control their kid at home is going to be a successful homeschooler, is there? Because that bad behavior would make them a terrible candidate for being homeschooled. So maybe those people are like, well, I can't do anything with this kid. I'll just send it to school. At least I can go to my job.

So I've always suspected that one of the reasons homeschoolers tend to have such good outcomes, I think you would agree with that, right? You'd agree that the people who are homeschooled tend to be just better citizens. Part of the reason is that you don't even get to be homeschooled unless you have parents who know they can control you in a proper parental-child way. So I'm not 100 percent sure that what makes those kids do so well later in life, the homeschooled kids, is that homeschooling is better than regular school. It could be a selection bias, that the only people who even give it a try, they know by the time the kid is six if it's a controllable kid or not. Wouldn't you say?

Well, don't you think it's fair to say that you have a pretty good idea by the time the kid is six, am I going to be able to discipline this kid and will they do what a parent tells them or will they just always be that rebel? Now you add to that the number of single-parent households, and there's just no way a single-parent household is going to be able to control a kid at the same level that a two-parent household could. So homeschooling, even if you use AI to do it, should be capped by the total number of people who can be controlled by a parent or two.

Well, I don't know when this is happening. I think maybe tomorrow that Trump is bringing his economic team to Mar-a-Lago to talk specifically about housing and specifically about the cost of housing. And one of his economic advisors thinks that most of us, meaning the important people in the administration, are going to be there and that they will discuss ideas that people have for improving housing costs.

Now this is one of my pet favorite topics. How do you make housing less expensive and also better? And I'm so curious what kind of ideas they'll have. Some of them are probably obvious. I'm sure that reducing regulations will be part of the conversation because it's such a Republican thing to do. It's doable. But what I wonder is will they suggest a federal standard that if you build to that standard, the states have to accept it. So you could take the state completely out of the approval process, which where I live would instantly cause more housing because these state requirements are pretty burdensome.

So one possibility is that you can either build your house to the state standards or you could have a more limited set of choices of how you can build it, but those choices would be pre-approved. So if you build a house with this set of standards, you've met all of the federal requirements, but the state would have to accept it. That would instantly take a whole bunch of costs off the top.

What about some kind of boost to make the robots more active in building the houses? I don't know what that would look like, but if there's any restrictions, and maybe states would be the ones that would have these restrictions, could it be removing restrictions on replacing humans with robot builders is just what we need because the robots could, not yet but maybe very very soon, lower the cost of construction.

Could it be that some of those pre-approved homes that I already mentioned would be allowed to use what I call Lego construction? Because the algorithm on the internet knows what kind of stuff I like. I see a lot of videos of companies that have this product. So already there exist these sort of blocks that fit together which the homeowner themselves could build most of the house because it's just snapped together. So what if the federal government said in addition to what else it does that if you build your house with these Legos it could get approved.

Right now if you tried to build a house in California with some kind of new-age Lego construction, there's not a chance you get approved because they've never seen it before. So it's just automatically off the table. I learned that when I built my house. I had all these great ideas for building my house using the newest technology, but then as soon as you get into it you realize you cannot get the newest technology approved because the city has never approved that technology. So if you give them something they've never seen before, it'll never get approved. You have to show them what they've seen before, and even then it can take a year and a half to get approved. So maybe there's some way around that.

Maybe some of the federal land would be used for building new houses. Maybe something about immigration enforcement, but that's already happening. Maybe, suppose I'm just throwing out some ideas, it seems to me there will be a lot of large houses that are empty-nesters. That it would be better if the person who is, let's say, a senior citizen owns a house that if they take on, I'll call it a roommate for now, a young person as a roommate who's there to help the older person maintain the house. Maybe there's some kind of tax break. So imagine you're in your 20s and you'd like to live in a house but you can't afford one. So suppose the government says, well, if we can match you with a senior citizen who has a house that's too big for them, and you have a contract to help out, you'll get some kind of a tax break. So then the old person has help. They don't have to sell their house if they don't want to. And the young person has an awesome experience because depending on the old person you might actually enjoy it. Could be a relative, doesn't have to be. Right.

So that's a possibility. I don't know. What other ways do you think Republicans can lower the cost of housing? You already have squatters. Well, you know, it's actually becoming common for young people and older people to pair up that way. So it's happening organically. I don't know if it's working, but it's happening organically.

One of the problems with California is that if I were to sell my house after its value has gone up, the new person buying it wouldn't be able to afford the property tax because the property tax i