o that if there's a problem the new generation will just stop working. They won't melt down because they can't. It won't be the design won't allow that to happen. SMR yeah okay so for liquid sodium I think right.

So but you're giving that's a good example of why I would imagine any politician and Trump in particular we're talking about would not feel comfortable talking about it because the last thing he wants to do is be up there and say yeah I'm all pro-nuclear and then have somebody ask the question what about SMR or whatever you just said and then have them say I don't even know what that is. Because remember then this topic is really complicated and it's really hard to boil it down to the old technology was bad current technology has never had a problem future technology can't have a problem because it will be built so you just couldn't even have a problem and that we're really close to that and that's not even fusion that's just generation four.

So if you add that to the fact that there's no other source of carbon-free clean energy that's even competitive with nuclear and the fact that it's very complementary with wind and solar because it fills in the gaps etcetera it's I believe the president could get to a point where he could simplify nuclear down to build the wall. Now he might have to oversimplify it in the way that build the wall is a gross oversimplification of what immigration requires but it might be what sells it.

So the trick would be how to make President Trump comfortable speaking on the topic in a way that he can shrink the complexity down to you know a visual slogan or something that he can sell and still not get kneecapped or caught off guard that somebody's got a clever question that he can't handle. So it's sort of I can see why he wouldn't want to venture into it because it's gonna scare some people and it comes from him and might sound extra scary etc. But if you imagined if you imagined Bill Gates meeting with Trump talking about and by the way this would save that. Here's a suggestion for saving the world. You ready? Uh-huh.

I don't believe or at least I've never heard of this happening that Bill Gates has ever had a meeting with President Trump while he's president to talk about nuclear power. I don't believe they've ever met to talk about that subject. I'm sure they've met at some point in the past. So if they did that would give Trump all of the let's say intellectual cover he would need to go full-throated pro-nuclear. The moment he does it he wins re-election and I wouldn't say that about any other topic. There's no other button that starts as this one because it takes climate change off the table and it's sort of all they got right? Yeah because their only scary thing is climate change and you can't win without scaring the other team. So if you take the scare away they're disarmed. And the president could do that but he's got to bring in either a Michael Shellenberger or he's got to bring in a Bill Gates. Ideally both of them. And then use that meeting. Publicize the meeting. And then after the meeting do a statement. Bill Gates is standing next to you and you say I just met with Bill Gates. I got to say he's very persuasive. Bill tell us what we talked about. I tell the people. Would then Bill Gates gets up there and goes well you know and says essentially what I said which is nuclear is the only way forward and it's the new stuff that'll bring us there. And then the president says you know Bill Gates Bill Gates says this is the way to go and Bill would you agree with me that you should do this no matter what you think about climate change? And then Bill Gates says absolutely because he would because nuclear is right the solution either way.

At that point the election is over. The election is over. It's over. Because if you take climate change off the table but at least in the sense of having the only legitimate plan. So what happens but it happens by the way that happens to match Yang and Cory Booker's plan and even Biden's plan a little bit. That's it. That's the end of the conversation. The election is over if Trump meets with Bill Gates and they do a joint statement. That's the end of the conversation. You wouldn't even have to wonder at that point.

All right did that answer your question? Yesterday thank you so much.

Thank you. Good one.

All right let's take another one. It's interesting that Bill Gates literally could save the planet if climate change is the risk that people say. Bill Gates could save the planet. Hello caller can you hear me? Hello. Do you have a question for me?

Well I'd like to say thank you so much for doing these Periscopes and I get and I think all most people do get a total charge out of your daily impression and wondering has and I'm not trying to put more work on your plate but I'm wondering have you ever considered doing a political cartoon using Dilbert as the character? Because I know you don't do commentary through Dilbert but it's just so effective amplifying and highlighting how irrational the far left can be. And I think you bring a lot of credibility to the argument because you claim you're even more far left than Bernie.

Yeah well I've thought about political cartooning of course because you know I'm a professional cartoonist and you can't not think about all the ways that you could be a cartoonist. But I find political cartooning sort of too simplistic. You know you work all day to make one point that people were already thinking which is what makes a political cartoon work. You're just amplifying what people are already thinking. If it was something that they weren't thinking and it was outside of what they would like to think or might think it just doesn't work. So political cartooning is as a creative endeavor it's too small. Whereas when I do this you can see that we could just go everywhere. The conversation it's just such a hoot. And the Pope was very good too.

Well thank you very much. They're the recurring characters. I appreciate that. Thank you.

All right let's take another call. Jonathan looks like he's full of vim. I don't know if vim is but Jonathan are you there? I said I said you're full of vim and then I don't even know what vim is. It's like vim and vigor but I think it's a good thing. It looks it looks like you're lively for me. So I have a comment and question. So literally rewatching a YouTube Periscope of yours I was compelled to make coffee to participate in a simultaneous sip with coffee. I didn't even want to make thought about not being persuaded by you the more determined I became to make that pot of coffee.

You're not alone. I'm sorry about that. Now for you know full disclosure I think everybody who watches these know you know that I'm a trained hypnotist