Chapter 1: What shutdown drama is discussed in this episode?
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And all the other ones too, but it's not in those languages. It's just the most important. All right. All right, here's the next one. This is still in the mental health reframes section of the book.
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Chapter 2: How does the concept of 'Potato Reframe' apply to self-worth?
Well, actually, you've heard this one before. So if anybody hasn't heard this one, this was very viral for reasons that kind of surprised me. So see if you think this should have gone viral. It did at the time. So instead of the usual frame that you're a priceless work of art that must be protected, How many of you think that?
I mean, it's an exaggeration, of course, but you think that you're important, don't you? You think I'm more important than, at least to myself, I'm more important than other people. The trouble is that's kind of limiting. It would be better to say you're a potato that is easily replaced. Here's the background on that.
If I told you to carry a priceless piece of art across the road to another museum, you'd be pretty worried that something would go wrong, right? But you're their priceless art. So when you're taking care of yourself, you're the priceless art. and you're just worried all the time about taking care of it.
Would you like to worry less about what's happening to you and what's gonna happen to you and will a bad outcome happen and is it gonna be the worst case scenario? Wouldn't you like to worry about all that less? All you have to do is think of yourself as a potato. And think, if I were delivering a potato, like just an actual potato, across the street, wouldn't it even matter if I dropped it?
It wouldn't matter. So as soon as you think of yourself more like the potato, which again is not insulting yourself, has nothing to do with your ego, just assume that you're not so important that if something bad happened to you, it would be somehow the end of the world. You're more like a potato than a Mona Lisa.
So when I came up with that one, I have to admit, I didn't think it would be powerful. But it's one of the ones that people have most commented on. Did Greg mention it? I think other people have mentioned it in other contexts. So I put it out there. Maybe you like it. Well, scientists say they figured out how to use an MRI to transcribe your thoughts. Do you believe that?
Now that I've completely ruined for you the act of reading stories about science and then believing them, because it's fun to believe them. It's like, whoa, that'd be like a mind reading machine. To which I say, if you can thwart the mind reading machine just by shaking your head, because obviously the MRI makes you be completely still, that's not much of a mind reading machine.
And I don't know what they use it for exactly, unless you're like a locked-in syndrome or something. And I also don't believe that they can do it well, and I don't believe that they can do it and repeat it, and I don't believe anything about the story. What was your first reaction to that? Was your first reaction to the story, wow, they figured out how to use an MRI to read your thoughts?
Or was your first thought, that's more bullshit. This is just absolutely more bullshit.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Jimmy Kimmel's wife's podcast reveal?
I lean toward the bullshit on this one. Don't know. So I'm not making an allegation. I'm just saying how I felt when I read it. A little more bullshitty than credible. Well, if you haven't seen it yet, Jimmy Kimmel and his wife are on a podcast recently. They just did a podcast. And apparently Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off the air. And as of this morning when I was
preparing there was not yet a reason given has that changed as Kimmel or the network given a reason but apparently missed a couple nights and they don't know when he's coming back if he's coming back or why he left somebody said that it was maybe a personal thing something personal but then when they showed on the podcast
Well, I don't know when the podcast was recorded, so that might make a difference. But we'll find out in the mystery. But I'll tell you what, we learned a little bit about the dynamic there. You could tell that Jimmy Kimmel puts a great weight in his wife's opinion. Do you mind if I say it in the nonjudgmental way? That would be the nonjudgmental way to say it.
It's clear when you see them interact that that he puts a lot of respect into his wife's opinion. I'm not saying that's good or bad, because it's their relationship, not mine, and there's no one way to do anything. But respecting your spouse is a really good place to start. So if you're going to judge him because he seems a little whipped, I don't think that's fair.
I don't think that's fair at all. It's his relationship. You can be as whipped as you want or not whipped. It's none of our business. And I'm wondering, have any of you heard a reason, even speculation? I'm curious as heck what's going on here. So if it's a personal problem, then I just send my, I'll send my, you know, understanding and, uh, and empathy.
If there's just some, you know, might be a family problem or something and that wouldn't be funny. All right. Um, but here's the thing I wonder about. So his wife, uh, Jimmy Kimmel's wife really made me, uh,
curious about her opinions and one of the things she said was that i guess she used to be in sort of a republican world when she was younger but later she she found out what the other side was saying and liked that side better and became a democrat i guess so that that part makes sense a lot of people have you know gone from one thing to the other um but what she wondered about
is whether she could be deprogrammed. So these are her own words. You think this is something a Republican would say about her, but these are her own words. She said, quote, I wish there was some way to deprogram myself. Like she said that on the podcast, To the World, I wish there was some way to deprogram myself.
Because just the act of being around other people who are Trump supporters is disturbing. So it's not that she's saying that she's wrong, it's that she's having a reaction to the world that she wishes she were not having.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the BBC's apology regarding Trump?
I think that's the right interpretation. Now again, nothing wrong with that, right? People have opinions, that's their opinion. But the thing with the Democrat opinions of things, now see if you agree with this. Hold on, I'm very parched today. The thing I don't understand about liberal opinions is the same thing I sometimes don't understand when it comes from Republican mouths.
There's a thing that people say and do that just seems like if that's where you're at, you shouldn't be talking about politics at all. You're not ready. And it goes like this. All the people who are making mistakes about the data are on the same side. You know what I mean? And she basically said that, some version of that, that she didn't want to be on the side that was wrong.
The side that was wrong. Well, here's the part that's hard to explain. If you really, really were paying attention to politics, and you really genuinely, instead of just saying it because it was fun to say, if you genuinely believed, and I'm just going to pick a name, that Victor Davis Hanson a well-known conservative, one of the smartest people in the world. He looks like it anyway.
Knows more than, you know, I think 10 people. Does she really think he's dumb or that he's poorly informed? And he's just one person. You know, if there were only one, you could say, oh, maybe one person got bought off or something. But how do you explain Molly Hemingway. I'll just pick some names, some people I like, basically. Molly Hemingway is super smart.
How can you possibly look at her work or her writing and go, oh, that did not touch me. Okay. How can you possibly look at her opinions or her writing and think that she's not as smart as you, or in this specific case, way more informed than you are? Do you not know that? Is that something you wouldn't know? Because I try to be true to this principle.
For example, if I found myself disagreeing on an engineering question with Elon Musk, what's my best play? Is my best play to say, you know, granted, I'm not an engineer and A lot of smart people say that Elon Musk is not just an engineer, but the best engineer in the world, and maybe the best that there ever will be. But I think he got one wrong this time. Do people really do that?
Is that an actual opinion? I think he got one wrong this time. In his strongest domain, out of 7 billion people, the best engineer. Really?
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Chapter 5: How do recent grocery price increases relate to political narratives?
If I hear a story about the cost of pharma and what laws can be passed or what can be done, and Mark Cuban has an opinion, he's actually in the business. So if his opinion disagreed with mine, I wouldn't try to talk him out of it. I would say, wait, what should I believe? And then he'd tell me, oh, this does this, this does this. And almost certainly it would give me some common sense opinion.
So how do you look at the world and believe that when Ben Shapiro is talking that you're listening to a dumb guy? Come on. If you wanted to have an IQ off or an SAT off where, let's say, the 10 smartest conservatives were put up against the 10 smartest Democrats just to have some trivia or some kind of mental IQ contest, how do you think the conservatives would do? I think they'd do pretty well.
Don't you? You know, do they have a Cernovich? They got smart people too, right? So I don't want to fall into my own trap. Democrats are very smart people. But if you don't understand that people can be wrong on both sides, then you should not even be in the conversation. Would you agree with that?
If it's not your intention to find out which side is right, and it's only your intention to make sure that your side looks right, What are you adding to the world? What's your value add there? Unless it's your job to do something like you get paid for it, that'd be different.
All right, so what was fun about this is that Jimmy Kimmel's wife is not really part of politics, but she said some of the most interesting and new things that I had to talk about. So I'm sure they're very nice people. I hear good things about them, actually. The BBC, if you haven't seen this story, it's just mind-boggling.
The BBC apparently is going to apologize, which means that they're admitting it happened, for deceptively editing President Trump's January 6th speech in an effort to make it look like he encouraged violence at the Capitol. What? How is this even real news? Are we so... Are we so beaten up about how fake the news is that this is sort of a side story? Am I wrong that this is just a side story?
That the BBC made up a narrative that just didn't happen and pasted together some clips and made it look like the opposite of what he said? That should sort of be the biggest story you've seen, except for all the other ones that are just insanely illegal looking. Certainly looks illegal. Anyway, do you think an apology is going to save them? Because Trump's going to take the apology, of course.
He's going to bank the apology. But he's going to use the apology to show that there's no question about fact. And then he's going to ask for something. He might sue them. get them to settle because they don't have a possibility of winning.
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Chapter 6: What does Michael Saylor say about Bitcoin's future?
They couldn't possibly win a lawsuit, I don't think. I mean, I'm no lawyer. You'll have to ask the lawyers. But, yeah. I've got some kind of mothers. OK, I believe the moth either survived or is clinging to my hand as a nasty, desiccated corpse. Looks good. Looks good. All right. So it looks like Trump's going to get another payday from the BBC.
According to an ex-user called Chaz Mazzell, who has been in the past, he's been chief of staff at Trump's DOJ. And he looked at some data and found that since 1963, listen to this, 75% of all nationwide injunctions have been against President Trump. Since 1963, 75%. of all the ones done in the country for any reason, over Trump.
Now, again, I didn't fact check this, so you might want to fact check that. And then he says that 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat-appointed judges. So 90% from Democrat judges, and all of them just recently, basically. And yet the administration, says Chad, And yet, with all of those injunctions, how did the Trump administration do fighting them off? Well, it won 92% of the time.
92% of the time. Now, that is just about as anti-authoritarian as you can get, right? If 8% of the time you said, okay, you win, and you walked away, but 92% of the time you were just dead-ass right, so you just won. Isn't that like the least authoritarian thing you could think of, right? If you could walk away from 8% of the things you really wanted to do, but the court said, you can't do that.
And you can walk away and you can just walk away and say, all right, we really want to do that, but we'll work on something else. Not too authoritarian. According to a federal audit, And there should be federal audits of all the states all the time, every day, in my opinion. Like, I actually mean that.
The federal government's main job should be auditing the states because the states are just out of control. They're just taking their money and throwing it in the ocean. 62,000 commercial driverless licenses were handed down to people who were in California illegally. 62,000. Illegal driver's licenses. 62,000. So if you're wondering, is it a big problem? Small problem? That's a lot.
62,000 seems like enough that it could move a lot of different races.
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Chapter 7: How is Chicago's office vacancy rate impacting the economy?
I mean, I don't know how many races that would be able to change depending on the distribution. All right. Do you know, how many of you know who Michael Saylor is? S-A-Y-L-O-R. Michael Saylor. He's sort of one of the big names or maybe even the biggest name, I don't know, in crypto. He's in the commercial side of things. So he owns a company called MicroStrategy.
And I've only watched a little bit of his content, but it basically goes like this. Buy Bitcoin. And then I'll watch some extra other of his content. And that content will go like this. Buy Bitcoin. But then something like big will happen. They'll change the nature of everything. So you can rethink all your strategies. And then he'll come out and he'll say, buy Bitcoin.
and the annoying thing is he hasn't been wrong yet if he could be wrong a few times it'd be that'd be nice but in the short run such as right now it actually is it's taken quite a haircut bitcoin has so if you're a very casual casual casual follower of crypto and you're sort of wondering you know i have a little bit should i sell it i don't give advice by the way so this one this would not be advice
I don't give financial or health advice. You wouldn't want to listen to any of my financial or health advice. But it's way down, way down, I don't know, 50% or something. Some amount from the beginning there. But that's not unusual in the Bitcoin world. And Bitcoin is not like
the other cryptos because it's got this mathematical sort of perpetual value, whereas the other ones are literally backed by nothing. They both sound like nothing, but one of them is treated as if it's a something. So there's a difference. Anyway, he's probably going to be right again because I would be amazed if he didn't say buy Bitcoin.
The argument for Bitcoin is that there isn't really any way for it to go down forever. It's just one of those things that if you just waited, there would be periods where it's down for sure, but the odds of it just sort of going away, a lot of people think is low. So when somebody like me,
who's not your financial advisor, says something as bold as, I don't think that Bitcoin's just going to go away. What happens next? When people like me say, yeah, that's never going to go away. You better watch what happens on Monday because it'll probably go away on Monday because it's just the way the world is organized. It's just the way the simulation works.
So no, you should not listen to me. But if that helped, well, let me ask. Was that level of detail, because I know many of you are way, way past that and you understand crypto. How many of you found it useful just to hear like a little top level what's up with crypto?
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of a 50-year mortgage option?
Like I wouldn't go further than that. Was that useful or no? I'm just looking at your comments. All right. You let me know. All right. Apparently, Chicago's downtown office vacancy rate has now hit a record high of 28%. Can you even imagine a city that's 28% vacant? How does it survive that? I always speculate that there are some magic numbers for things to fall apart.
One of them is 10% and the other is 20%. If anything goes to 10% problem, whatever it is, whatever the problem is, if it gets to 10%, then things could start getting out of control. But also 20%, depending on the thing. So whenever I see a 10 or a 20 coming, I'm like, whoa, 10 or a 20 coming.
But when it's at 28, it feels like it's already broken out into, you can't get this toothpaste back in the tube. Is it just me? Now, here I'm only talking about how it feels. This is, again, not what's happening. This is how it feels like it's out of control. And I'm also curious, because you may have heard that the real estate in New York City is actually coming back.
and prices are holding up and people are moving back to New York City. So wouldn't it be interesting to know what was so different about New York City that allowed some of it to come back already? Some of it. And Chicago may be getting worse. It doesn't even say if it's getting better. So just the news is reporting on this. I will say for self-improvement purposes,
As a consumer of news, when I see a story like this, this is what I want to see, context-wise. I want to see which direction it's moving, because it's probably in the story. I don't know if it's in the story or not. I was skimming things today. So I'm pretty sure that they covered the numbers that matter. Just the News does a really good job, by the way. You should always check them out.
Just the News, it's called. All right. But 28%, you'd want to know which direction it's going. You'd want to know what the other cities besides New York were looking at. And you'd want to know why is New York coming back or why do people speculate it's coming back? Would they do differently? Is it crime? I don't know.
I guess corporate earnings were kind of good this quarter, but people are still worried, so the stock market didn't go up that much. Well, actually, that's not true. Everybody's got a different reason for why the stock market didn't move. I saw one reason was that it's already gone up. So it already anticipated good news. Maybe.
But have you noticed that whenever the stock market goes up or down, whether it goes up or down, somebody's got a reason that you can't check, you know, that you can't really check. It's like, well, I think it's the animal spirits, Bob.
You know, people saw Trump jump up and grab his ear and suddenly they reach for the wallet and everybody's got some wild ass story that they're pretty sure they can sell, especially if they're selling financial products. You can never stop Bitcoin. Well, that's probably what everybody says before something gets stopped. But I know what you mean. I agree. All right.
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