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aneous sip. Well, now you know the pleasure. Oh yeah, that's good. All right. So yesterday I was telling you that I saw a clip where Conor McGregor — he's one of the top MMA fighters the world has ever produced — his coach mentioned me and the idea of systems over goals as part of the training process for Conor McGregor. And I was sort of bragging about it a little bit on Periscope yesterday that…

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e knocked out, who was a top-level fighter — it's not like he was beating up people who were just starting. This was a top competitor. And the outcome was certainly in question. Conor McGregor beat him in 40 seconds and the other guy didn't land a punch.

So I guess you want to read my book, "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big," where I talk about systems are better than goals. If you can't remember the name of the book, just go to Amazon and Google my name and it'll pop up.

Let's talk about my most ridiculous prediction. I suppose I've made some predictions that are pretty ridiculous, but none more ridiculous than the one I made about who will be the nominee for the Democrats. Now a year and a half ago I said, well, it's gonna be Harris because she's got all the tools. But it turns out she's a terrible, just a terrible campaigner. Like a really, really bad campaigner. So she's suspended her run.

But here's what I think's gonna happen. Would you agree that Joe Biden is sort of the, I guess you'd say he's the establishment Democrats' choice? But I think we'd all agree they're not terribly comfortable with him because of his age. They kind of like where he is policy-wise and his connections to things, but maybe not a full confidence in his current abilities.

It looks like the plan is this. Now, by the way, did you know that Harris had one of the most endorsements from established people? That's important. Did you know that Harris also, I believe, had the most Hillary Clinton-associated people working on her campaign? Did you know that? That's important because it does seem that Harris was who the, let's say the Clinton holdovers who you imagine have deep state kind of influence, it looks like they wanted her. But she wasn't getting any traction and she was doing a terrible job of campaigning.

But she's almost a perfect complement to Joe Biden because he's older, she's young. So that gives you a little confidence that if something happened to him you'd say, well, at least there's a young person with Senate experience. You know, it's not going to be the end of the world if Joe had to exit the job a little early. So that's a good complement. Secondly, she's a person of color. Now so is Cory Booker. Cory Booker, very solid, capable public servant, Senator Cory Booker would be great, right? Except Cory Booker's a man.

If you have a choice of having your running mate — let's say you're Joe Biden — a choice of having someone who is only a person of color but unfortunately a man versus someone who is a person of color but, hey, a woman, which is better? Which is a better complement? No question about it. There's no question about it. The best complement to the ticket is Harris.

Now I have a second theory that part of the reason that Harris has disappeared is that it was a way to close down the campaign and get rid of her sister as her main advisor. Because if you're the part of the, let's say, Clinton shadow government, deep state Democrat establishment people, you kind of needed to get rid of Harris's sister in order to make Harris useful. I'm gonna say that she may be undergoing some kind of coaching, mentoring, practice situation. And I think that if she were to be nominated for vice president or picked as a running mate by B

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iden, that the next time you see her she's going to come back stronger, meaning more charisma, a better presentation, a little more crisp message, you know, on point. And so that's what I would look for because I believe she's very coachable. Harris is unique in that she doesn't seem to have any problems that I would consider unsolvable natural problems. It all seems like technique. Now some have…

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