Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Oh, feel that oxytocin surging through your veins. I think it's time to do a reframe. What do you think? A reframe from my book? Reframe Your Brain, the best reviewed book I've ever written, and changes lives everywhere.
All right, a reframe is meant to change your life with just a simple sentence that makes you think about something differently. Not all the reframes are for every person, but you might find one that's just for you, all right? Today's reframe is... The old way of looking at things is that confidence is something you're born with.
Did you ever look at somebody who seemed confident and you said to yourself, man, I sure wish I were that confident? Well, instead of thinking that confidence is something you're born with, which I do not observe to be necessarily true, except for a very few people, confidence is something you learn. Confidence is a learned skill. I would say that I'm very much in that category.
So how many of you would define me as confident, at least in the way that I present myself in public? I present myself as confident, right? That's because in public I only do things I'm good at. Why would I do something I'm bad at in public? Confidence is really just about being good at something. That's it. Just become good at something and then watch how confident you are.
And then if you act less confident about something you're legitimately inexperienced at, that's not really a flaw. That's just you being accurate in your assessment of your abilities. So confidence is something you develop. It's not something you're born with. And that will help you get through those unconfident periods because you'll know there's nothing wrong with you.
You're either good at something or you're not. And that would be the proper viewpoint. All right. I was looking at the Dilbert calendar the other day, the brand new Dilbert calendar for 2026, the best thing that ever happened in the world of calendars. And I was thinking to myself, God, this is so well done. How could it possibly be better? I mean, there's really no way it could be better, right?
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Chapter 2: How does Elon Musk's vision impact healthcare?
But I had this irrational fear that I would lose the ability to draw with one hand. So I taught myself to draw left-handed, which I have for now a while. But my right hand got burned out by something called a focal dystonia. It's actually the same problem I had with my voice. It's a spasm in a muscle from overuse. So it has nothing to do with that other thing that people get in their hand.
It has nothing to do with any other thing. It's a focal dystonia is what it's called. So when I got the focal dystonia, I moved to my left hand. But more recently, in the last month or two, my left hand has become paralyzed from presumably, I don't know, I'm guessing a tumor that's laying on some nerve or something. So try to calculate these odds.
What are the odds that I would be, first of all, obsessed with not having a problem with my hands, and that I would have two separate problems at the same time that had nothing to do with each other? What are the odds of that? Because I'll bet not one of you wakes up in the morning worried about your hands. I'm the only one.
The only one worrying about it and both hands got taken out at the same time by completely different situations. But if you know anything about me, I'm not much of a quitter. So I'm going to try to get rid of this cancer if I can. See if anything normalizes. I don't know. I'm not expecting it to, but it might. All right, moving on. Why do I have that on my list? That wasn't interesting.
Oh, I told you some incorrect things about the new law about hemp. Apparently, Congress was looking at making hemp illegal, and I thought, oh, this is some trick they're using just to make marijuana illegal, and that was my take on it. That was all wrong. That was all fake news. There is a change on hemp, but I'm told that from somebody named Ben Grose. Is that a real name?
Who told me on X that the real purpose of it was to close some loopholes. Apparently, people were using the hemp agricultural laws to do some things that were more about THC than hemp. And if you are using the hemp laws to get around some THC regulations, that's not cool. So it looks like that's what they were after. But we'll see. You know what?
Do you ever wonder how the average person understands the world? I feel like most of you are above average. You know, if you can find this podcast and this is the kind of content that you'd want to watch, if you're even listening to this content, you're above average in intelligence. This is not, I mean, honestly, this is not really the podcast for the average people.
We talk about some intellectually interesting things. So most of you are smarter than normal. But even so, the government has turned into a confusopoly, a word that I invented 25 years ago. And a confusopoly means that the consumer doesn't know what's a good deal and what's a bad deal because everything's too complicated. And that's where we're at, where the government has become a confusopoly.
Now, why does that work so well for the politicians? Because the politicians only have to confuse you to stay in power. If they did not confuse you, then you would know exactly what they were promoting and you might even know if it worked or didn't work. That's no good.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the hemp loopholes?
I think they're all high credibility and high value added people. I just don't know if the document is real. It might exist, but it doesn't mean it came from the CIA. I don't know if they would even deny it. Anyway, as you know, there's a whole bunch of Epstein files got released. 20,000 files with 1,500 Trump mentions. 1,500 Trump mentions?
Now, I realize people talk about Trump a lot, but even my emails don't have 1,500 Trump messages. And I talk about him all the time. 1,500. I don't know. And Alan Dershowitz was saying on a podcast that the media is intentionally twisting the facts of the Epstein case to smear Trump. And he gives an example. He said that the newly surfaced emails, there's one detail that the press leaves out.
Now, when I tell you what the press leaves out, you're gonna shake your head, and some of you are lost in the confusopoly of this story, so you may have missed this little point. Here's just a minor point. One of the most damning and provocative things so far is the claim that Virginia Joffrey, she was one of the known victims of Epstein, that there's a claim that Trump spent hours with her.
It's also true that Virginia Joffrey has said publicly that she never met Trump. So her claim, before she passed away tragically recently, her claim is that she never met him. But apparently there's something in some document that says they spent hours together. What do you believe? I feel like I believe her. Or at least it adds enough doubt into the story that you should put that in there.
But can you believe that the media doesn't mention that she's denied ever meeting him, much less spending hours with him? So, I mean, it's not like you would forget if you'd met Trump and spent several hours with him. You wouldn't forget. So I agree with Dershowitz. That sounds like an intentional smearing of Trump.
I saw PJ Media saying this says it all, that the Democrats blocked the release of the Epstein files. Matt Margolis is writing about this. What do you think that's telling you? The fact that the Democrats didn't want it released. Is it telling you that there's nothing damning about Trump? Because if they release it, you can see there's nothing damning? Or... or what?
Like, why would they not release it? They would be better off with the uncertainty that there's something in there if they knew for sure there was nothing in there. And as many have pointed out, and I think Matt does too, that if there was anything in there that was bad for Trump, you think the Democrats wouldn't have already found it and released it?
So there's a strong suggestion that there's nothing about Trump that's bad. So why would Trump want it not to be released? Well, Dershowitz gives you the perfect reason. According to Dershowitz, if you release real information, the illegitimate press will just change it and act like it's something it's not. That's what they did with the Virginia Joffrey thing. They took a real thing and they just
Changed it to a fake thing. And nobody's going to research it. So they're just going to turn on the news. They're going to hear MSNBC's version of it. They're going to turn it off and think that's the reality. But not. So, yeah, so why would the Democrats block it unless they were up to no good? They wouldn't block it to protect Trump.
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Chapter 4: How does the concept of 'confusopoly' affect consumers?
It might be his way to tell these three or four people, on this particular issue, we're sort of on the same page. And if you don't want to be the one who's investigated, you might want to join me in saying these should not be released. But what did Reid Hoffman do? Cleverly, Reid Hoffman said today, Trump should release all the Epstein files, every person and every document.
And he sort of suggested that Trump was using these rich Democrats as sort of a stalling technique. So he was just stalling. Maybe. Maybe. So I think Reid Hoffman played it right because he might know that they're not going to be released, which would be playing it right. Because then he looks innocent because he's calling for full transparency. Whoever it is who calls for full transparency...
you just assume they must be innocent. So if he knows that no matter what he says or does, they're not going to be released anyway, and he might know that, then the best play you could ever make is to say, release those files. They should all be released. That would be a good play.
But again, I say there's no evidence whatsoever that any of the people named, including Reid Hoffman, did anything inappropriate or illegal on the island. All right. apparently some prison staffers at wherever Jelaine Maxwell is being held at the moment, they hacked into her emails. I guess that would be prison emails. And then gave copies of her emails to Representative Raskin.
Have you noticed that wherever Raskin is, there's something sketchy happening? Every time you see his name. You're like, oh, God, this is going to be sketchy. And sure enough, he claimed to be a whistleblower. I don't know if that's a legitimate claim, but under that umbrella, he got these emails. What did it say? And I guess the staffers who did this were fired, the ones who leaked it.
And it said something that was interesting. The release is... Was there nothing in the emails? Maybe the emails were so uninteresting that I didn't care. Oh, I guess the emails sort of suggested, according to Raskin, that she was angling for a pardon or tabula sensens commuted, to which I say, how is that a story? If you were in jail for, you know, lots of years,
and lots of years to go, aren't you always angling for a commutation or a pardon? Wouldn't it be more of a story if she were not? Now, I'm gonna use my George Carlin example again, where he says, you don't have to actually say the words to somebody you're colluding with if they know what you need. Obviously, the Trump administration knows she would like a pardon or a commutation. Right?
Obviously. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it. Would they have to say it? Would it be necessary that she said it directly? Not really. We all know that she wants one. Why wouldn't she? There's no argument in the other direction. So, yeah, of course she wants one. So that's a nothing story except for the Raskin part being a weasel.
Germany is buying $150 million of weapons to give to Ukraine. Ukraine. um it makes me wonder if the cost of warfare is coming down over time um because we're in a weird phase of history where we're shifting from you know tanks and artillery to more drones are the drones cheaper are we getting as much war done ukraine i guess are they getting as much war done
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