Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Come on in. Let me make sure my setup is working. Come on in. Good morning. Happy Monday. Let me get my locals comments separate. We're going to have a good show today. Oh, so good. You're going to learn about persuasion and cussing and so much more. So much more. Oh, so good. Oh, what? That shouldn't have happened. Let me try this. We are getting a different. There we go. That's better.
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So I'm going to try over the next month
Chapter 2: What insights are shared about persuasion and cursing?
to up my production of comics from once a day to 1.5 a day. And somewhere around a month I should get back to current. So the dates of the comics will look old. They'll be a week old and five days old and four days old. Because, as you know, I am genetically incapable of being lazy. So I'm completely aware that you would give me a pass for being in the hospital. Am I right?
There's nobody who would say, oh, I'm going to unsubscribe because I missed five days of comics while you were in the hospital. I don't think you will do that. But the reciprocity for that is I'm going to try really hard to make sure that I produce the 100%. It's just going to take a little extra work.
Now I think I can do it because I had already evolved into doing the writing and then just doing some art direction for my actual artist who has worked with me for years and can draw Dilbert better than I can. So you'll see a little bit of difference in the drawing, probably mostly in the backgrounds. So at this point,
uh the characters will look exactly the way they should that should be perfect but there might be different choices made for the background art and i'm also working with my artist to see if i can close that gap a little bit all right so that's enough about that how would you like the simultaneous sip i know why you're here
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All right, let's see what's happening this week. It's a slow Monday, so I thought I'd start out with a reframe. Anybody want to hear a reframe? All right, I was asked this morning during what is called the pre-show, and if you didn't know it, I do a pre-show before this show. The pre-show is only for subscribers of the locals platform.
And one of the locals people asked me, how do you learn to change your mind? And how do you recognize people who can do it? And I thought, that's a really good question. How do you learn to change your mind? And here's the reframe. I'm reasonably sure that part of the reason, it's not 100% the reason, but a big part of the reason people don't want to change their mind
is that it would look like weakness and maybe you would look like, well, you're not so smart, you know, because you were wrong. So the reframe is this, there's something I can guarantee you as an official smart person. First of all, would you accept my, do you accept my starting assumption that I am a smart person? True? Even if you hate me, would you agree?
that I would be classified as a smart person. And so I'm going to talk as an official smart person. Nothing is smarter than being able to change your mind. So instead of thinking of your ability to change your mind as a weakness, you should think of it as a strength, almost a superpower. You've seen me change my mind in front of you how many times?
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Chapter 3: How can one effectively change their mind?
So I would say extend it for not three years. You might get that three years down to a year or something reasonable. But go for the audit. And again, it's not audit versus not audit. You would have to revise how you audit to make it credible. And that's the part that can be improved. Well, here's another persuasion lesson.
I hope you've been as amused as I am that Trump is good at cursing at just the right amount and Democrats are bad at it. So when Trump curses, it guarantees that that will be the big quote the next day. It puts a focus on things and he never overdoes it. You can tell that he very carefully selected where he's going to put that F word. But it turns out that J.D. Vance has the same skill.
And why Democrats can't do this, I don't know. But the context here is that I guess J.D. Vance was giving a speech. I think it was at Turning Point USA. And he was defending his wife. because apparently both Jen Psaki and Nick Fuentes have said bad things about her. I don't know what Jen Psaki said, but Nick Fuentes is, let's say, a white supremacist.
I'm not sure what he is, but he has some negative things to say about her ethnicity. And I, of course, do not approve of that. But J.D. Vance, the first thing he did right is he directly defended his wife. You do that first. And here's what he said. He goes, let me be clear. Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit.
Oh, he said it unheard in an interview. It wasn't during a speech, it was during an interview with UnHerd. And then he went even better. He goes, that's my official policy as Vice President of the United States. My official policy is that Jen Psaki and Nick Fuentes can eat shit. Now, the first thing that's brilliant about this is that he paired Jen Psaki with Nick Fuentes.
which is just brilliant. Because, you know, they don't really have much in common, except maybe they said something about his wife. But putting them together really makes you go, what? What? And it dismisses Fuentes in a way that Republicans wouldn't mind at all, which is, really? You're like a Democrat? He's not like a Democrat, but it's a good approach.
and i think you can confirm that jd vance is not noted as a prolific cursor so when he pulls out the the s word it's in the context of protect you know defending his wife who minds that every one of you say oh okay if you're defending your wife your spouse if you're defending your spouse yeah there's no limit on the words if you're defending your spouse
There's not really any limit on what you can do. We all get that. Let me make an appeal that I think would be compatible with some of you, but not all. There is definitely an anti-Indian American sentiment within the Republican Party. Would you agree? Would you agree that there's a sort of a rolling anti-Indian American sentiment in the Republican Party?
Well, I think that conflates people's complaints about employment, you know, the H1B stuff, and it conflates that with who they are as a people. I have lived in California for all my adult life, and so I'm always surrounded by, and especially now in my current neighborhood, a very large Indian American population. I can tell you, I promise you this is true.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the political talent stack mentioned?
Well, William Wallace was the character. Let's go with that. William Wallace was the character. And before he attacks, He's going down, Mel Gibson, thank you, Mel Gibson is the actor. And Mel Gibson is on his horse and he's going, hold, hold. I always loved that. That was one of my favorite movie bits. But it feels like the smartest people in the Republican Party
By now, they must have figured out that Newsom is the weakest candidate they could possibly run. I mean, maybe even worse than Kamala Harris. So I feel like the Republicans are saying, hold. Wait until he gets nominated. We'll take him out. Well, apparently Yale has no Republican professors across 27 of their departments.
So as you know, the liberal elite colleges are all cesspools of one-sided thinking and that conservatives are basically shut out from higher education. I mean, in terms of being the professors. And I'm wondering if that will quickly be resolved by AI. So what we need is a Grok college. I don't think Grok is where it could do that yet, but it's very close.
So don't you think that maybe in a year or two, you're going to have a choice of going to Yale or Harvard or Grok? And if you go to Grok, it will take out the bias? And you can get a degree that your employer will say, oh, you mean you learned all the useful stuff.
And then somebody from Harvard comes in to apply for the job and the employer will say, oh, you learned to be a pain in the ass and care about all the wrong stuff. So clearly at this point in history, it would be way better to have an Ivy League degree than some kind of made-up AI grok degree. But I feel like that could be completely reversed in maybe two years, two years.
So I think the free market, given the new tools of AI and stuff that will be available, I think the free market is going to fix this. And it won't be because the government did it, and it won't be because the higher education decided that they needed to be less biased. I don't believe it's self-correcting, but it doesn't need to be if alternatives pop up in, I think, maybe two years.
Well, there's a story in the news I think is no story at all, which is Barry Weiss, who's now the CBS news editor in chief. She killed a story that was a 60-minute segment about Venezuelan migrants being deported to that notorious El Salvadorian prison. Now, the knock against her is that the segment had already been blessed by their lawyers,
And they'd done all the work and they're ready to go on Sunday. And that mean old Barry Weiss told them that they should wait until they at least had some comments from the administration. Because apparently it was a story about what the administration did that did not include any quotes from anybody useful from the administration.
And so the way the reporters at 60 Minutes and others, I guess, are complaining about it is they're saying, hey, you're censoring us or you're just agreeing with the administration. I don't think that's what's happening. If you've been involved in any kind of news or editing environment, as I have for most of my career, this is the most normal stuff in the world. If you had an option,
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Waymo's approval for LA freeways?
No. So if you could get the local leaders, by bribery or incentive, or I will make you rich, which wouldn't cost us much. I mean, it would be the cheapest color revolution of all time because it's a small population. We absolutely, 100%, could co-opt their government, the influentials, into agreeing that Greenland should be independent.
We would not be able to get them to say they should join America. But if you became independent and you no longer had the support of Denmark, could you survive unless you had really productive, some kind of association with the United States and probably Canada too? And the answer is not really. I mean, you would have to make deals with the United States.
For example, you can share in our development of our national resources if you provide... physical security against Russia and China, which they're going to need. They're going to need it.
So it feels to me like they have a 100% functional long-term plan to get some kind of at least Monroe Doctrine control over Greenland's physical security, which would be paired with some kind of sharing of resources. And I would say that if you wait long enough,
we almost 100 are going to get that done i don't know if it could get done under the trump administration it might be a 10-year thing but if you give me 10 years i say there's a hundred percent chance that this plan would work 10 years i don't know if the government would be consistent for 10 years so the the big if is what happens if trump leaves office
Or what happens if a Democrat becomes president and everything will change? Well, that story is boring. So I saw on X that Elon Musk stated that Tim Walz is guilty of hiding vast fraud. Now, who would know more than that? Then Elon Musk, because he was doging things. And you also remember that Tim Walz was the strongest voice accusing Elon Musk of being the corrupt one.
What is it we've learned about Democrat strategy? Well, we've learned that they literally, this is not a joke, they literally accuse you of whatever they're doing. So the fact that Tim Walz made such a big deal of accusing Elon Musk of being the corrupt one That does strongly suggest that he was the corrupt one, meaning Tim Walz was.
And it's hard for me to believe that Tim Walz was not in on at least some of the corruption, because he's also being accused by credible people of moving against whistleblowers. So at the same time that he was accusing Elon Musk of being corrupt, he was frying whistleblowers in his own state who were the ones who would have outed him and others for being the corrupt ones.
So just hold in your mind for a moment that Newsom and Tim Walz are two of the most prominent Democrats. And I would say almost certainly they have a lot to answer for. A lot to answer for. Anyway, I don't know if I even care about this next story, but Israel approved 19 new settlements. Obviously, they're trying to make it impossible to have a two-state settlement, but that's no surprise.
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Chapter 6: What strategies are discussed regarding the Epstein files?
Yeah. So somebody is reminding the locals people that I've given one person permission to be inappropriate. So on the locals platform, one individual was consistently over the line, you know, just unacceptable kind of public opinions. And instead of banning him, with his agreement, he is now defined as our jester. So the jester says things that are absolutely inappropriate, just 100%.
But he's the only one who's allowed to do it, right? Only one person. So that's worked really well. Because there's a little bit of outlet for that behavior. But we reframe it as the gesture so that it doesn't have too much of a sticky quality to it. All right. We're just testing that. All right, everybody. Time to go. It's been tremendous spending time with you. I hate to leave.
But nothing lasts forever. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye for now.