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Chapter 1: What are the key takeaways from Mark Cuban's political involvement?
So it looks like he's got some kind of a company called Labdor, Labdor, that will test your supplements to find out if they're real, which weirdly I was just wanting to do. It was actually in my mind, because I'm taking some just general supplements, and I thought, I don't even know if these are real. So he's got a company that you can send your supplement in and find out if it's real.
called Labdoor. Looks like a startup. And I think even some of the best-selling brands might be worth a check. That's what they say. So anyway, this is reciprocity. Mark Cuban played fair. He gets some reciprocity. But I think it sounds like a good idea anyway. So if you were looking for that kind of a service. There you go. It's called Labdor.
There was a study that showed that Americans like to look for news that agrees with them and just makes them feel good because it agrees with them. Whereas Japan and Hong Kong readers like to explore diverse perspectives. What does that tell you about the Asian consumers versus the American consumers. So the Americans go for the news that agrees with them.
Chapter 2: How do Americans and Asians differ in news consumption?
And at least these two Asian groups are looking for news that's diverse, like in sales heights. Well, the first thing you need to know is that if you were in Japan or Hong Kong, the news would not be that diverse. So when you don't have diversity, you go looking for it. So that's what they're doing. But in our country, we have the most diverse news you could possibly have.
And so I think here we just go for the dopamine hit. I mean, our news is not real for the most part. The news is mostly to make you feel a certain way. And if it makes you feel good, it's a dopamine hit. If it makes you feel bad, it's bad. So you avoid the bad stuff. So you go for the stuff that agrees with you. Here's a scientific fact you didn't see coming, according to The Byte.
microplastics are somehow getting into the air and getting into clouds. And then you say to yourself, uh-oh, that sounds bad. You got plastic in your clouds. But it turns out that the plastic in the clouds might seed the clouds and make it rain more, which would then put more plastic in the ground. So maybe the plastic part's bad. But I ask you this question for the millionth time.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of microplastics in the environment?
Did our climate models... include a variable for microplastics increasing the cloud cover and rainfall? Just wondering. I'm just wondering. Did they leave that out? Because if it's completely irrelevant, why is there a big story about it? And if it's completely irrelevant, it seems like there is something very big left out of the models. But if you're worried about the microplastics, fear no more.
Because there's a plastic eating insect discovered in Kenya. It's the first of its kind in Africa, according to the conversation. That's the name of the publication. So apparently there's this little mealworm larvae that can consume polystyrene. So there's a small group of insects that are capable of breaking plastic down. Now, I'm pretty sure there's a way this could go off the rails.
We could have like an immense number of mealworm larvae. I don't really want to live in a world that's polluted with microplastics, but I'm not really that much crazier about replacing my microplastics with gigantic floating armies of mealworm larvae. So anyway, maybe there's a way to keep them in a cage and still eat the microplastics.
Here's some good news because it's the golden age and it's only good news from now on. But is it good enough? According to the Financial Post, the U.S. has plans to triple its nuclear power by 2050. Triple its nuclear power. Now you might say, Scott, I've been listening to you for years and you've been saying for years nuclear is green. and you need to ramp up that nuclear.
And so should I be happy that the U.S. is going to triple its nuclear power by 2050? Well, I don't know. You know, between Bitcoin and AI and all the power that's going to need, and who knows, maybe self-driving taxis are going to need some electricity too. I don't think tripling by 2050 is even close. Tripling your nuclear power by 2050 seems like 5% to 10% of what we need.
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Chapter 4: Is tripling US nuclear power by 2050 sufficient?
I worry that we're not even in the zip code of enough, the AI people would tell us. But it does show that even the Biden administration is very pro-nuclear power. I think Trump administration will be equally, if not more, So that's all good news. At least it's a green light for nuclear power. And, you know, you watched me advocate for years to get the green light for nuclear power. And we have it.
Did you know that Ozempic, the claim is, it's the drug that's being used for weight loss. And apparently there are, at least anecdotally, people are thinking that it might be helping with diabetes. And you say to yourself, well, obviously, if people lose weight, that's going to help them with their diabetes. But there is some suggestion, strong suggestion, that it helps independent of weight loss.
But it also helps with skin issues. It's an anti-inflammatory. It might help with arthritis. Looks like it can help with drug and alcohol addiction. Might help for Alzheimer's patients. Might reduce your heart attacks and strokes. What does that sound like to you?
Is there any drug that you've heard of before that was made for one purpose and then later, miraculously, turns out all these other things it might help with? Do you know what it reminds me of? Statins. Doesn't that sound familiar? Statins. I remember when statins were for cholesterol, right? And then I remember my doctor told me one day, this is a real conversation, my doctor told me,
that the research was showing that statins were so good for you in so many different ways beyond just cholesterol that he was on the verge of just prescribing it for all of his patients. He didn't do that, but he said, gosh, it's just so good for so many things. I'm going to prescribe it for everybody. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but statins are now sort of on the ounce.
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Chapter 5: What are the health benefits of Ozempic beyond weight loss?
People are saying maybe they weren't so safe after all, or not so useful. I'm not fully up on that story, but it reminds me of that. And so I say to myself, is it likely that Ozempic is useful in all these completely unrelated things, or is it more likely that the people who make Ozempic are putting out some studies and trying to
convince people that it has many more uses so that the Ozempic people can make many more dollars. So I'm going to say I'm a skeptic on this. I'm not against Ozempic because I don't know enough one way or the other, but I'm a skeptic that it has all these benefits without much in the way of risk. That would be amazing. It would be amazing if it's true.
But I'm going to stay skeptical on this for a while. I saw a presentation online that said that you need a full eight seconds of a hug for the oxytocin to kick in. So you don't get like a full oxytocin hit from your friends where you just give them like the three second hug. You got to embrace them and hold them. Don't let them get away. Especially your coworkers.
If you're in the office where sometimes your coworkers will hug you, don't let them go. You got to hold them for the full 80 seconds. And that's just the beginning. It only begins in 80 seconds. And apparently, there's research that says the oxytocin doesn't just feel good. It's good for your brain. Apparently, it's good for your brain health. And I have other benefits like muscle regeneration.
And it reduces age-related loss of muscle mass.
Hmm.
So apparently, if you can get somebody who is dumb enough to hug you, the best thing you can do for your health is to trap them and make sure that they don't get out for like, I don't know, two or three minutes. Really get a good dose of that oxytocin. Okay, that's the worst advice I've ever been given. Don't hug people more than they want to be hugged. Unless you want to steal their oxytocin.
And then, yeah, don't let them go. So that's my bad advice for the day. The Oprah story for the day is that Oprah has claimed that she did not receive payment of $1 million or any payment from the Harris campaign for her interview that she did with Harris and then endorsed her. However, now this news comes from Oprah herself. So somebody tracked her down in Hawaii, I think, and
She said, I was not paid for that. Now, there are two documents that show that her production company was paid two payments of a half a million each, which means that she was paid a million dollars. So what is true? Was Oprah paid a million dollars? Because there are there are actually records of it. Or when she looked at the camera and said, I was not paid a penny. Was that true?
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Chapter 6: What is the controversy surrounding Oprah's payment from the Harris campaign?
They just tried to figure out what number was big enough that they would say yes, but not so big that it was ridiculous. So probably the production company negotiated to cover their own expenses, which were extravagant, because probably when Oprah travels, it's like the queen traveling. And probably they overcharged the campaign by a lot. But probably it did not go directly into Oprah's wallet.
It went into the production company. and then got mixed in with the production company's costs and revenues and may or may not have made her money. So is it possible that Oprah came out ahead? Yes. Yes, it is. Is she lying when she said she wasn't paid a penny? Probably not. She probably told the truth when she said she wasn't paid.
If they had asked the further question, was the production company that you own and you benefit from their success, were they paid? Probably yes. And then she would say to cover expenses. Probably. So anyway, that's just my speculation.
According to the Gateway Pundit, there were four counties in Michigan that had uncounted votes, and at least one of them ended up flipping the seat that they thought was already decided. So does that give you any pause? Now, it turns out that the seat that was flipped was for a Republican. So they found a bunch of votes. Found. Found the votes. Huh. Who would ever use language like that?
Find votes. But it turns out in Michigan, there was a Republican who looked like they lost, but in the end they won. Do you know why? Because they found votes. Now, apparently it's not a Republican area. So nobody thinks that found means that they cheated and created votes that don't exist. They actually literally didn't know the votes existed and they found them. They found votes.
Finding votes is real, people. Apparently, our elections are so disorganized that the idea that there could be votes uncounted, even after you've decided who won, it's apparently a real thing. It's happening right here in Michigan in real time.
Now, that doesn't mean that Georgia in 2020 had some unfound votes, but it does mean that if you're using that language, you just need to find this many votes, that that is completely compatible with our modern election system producing surprises after the outcome. But what about this? So the red wave is apparently continuing, if you want to call it a red wave.
So at the moment, the Republicans have 218 seats. The Democrats have 209 in the House. That would give Republicans control. There are a few races still outstanding, but not enough for Democrats to catch up. Now, how close does this need to be to a tie before the House is useless? It's not like if they have a one-vote advantage that the Republicans can go hog wild, right?
Because that one vote will never be enough. But is eight votes, nine votes? If they had eight or nine votes, could the Republicans be pretty confident they'd get everything they wanted? I'm not sure where that number is. But we're right on, I think we're on the cusp of you could get anything you wanted. I'm not sure. Other conversations about who's taking what job.
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Chapter 7: How does identity politics affect the Democratic Party?
Whatever the explanation is, it's probably some grab bag of normal cognitive things and liars and CIA and some other stuff. But there's one thing I'm very curious about. If we have underwater UFOs, is it possible, and maybe this is too much to ask for, do we have underwater Bigfoots? Because I'm very, I'm always looking for a Bigfoot, but I never see one above ground.
Could it be that like UFOs, we assume that Bigfoots like to be on land or above the water, but maybe they're just good swimmers. Okay, hold their breath for a long time. So maybe underwater Bigfoots are coming too. But in the meantime, we'll only have underwater UFOs to live with. That's okay too.
Alex Jones says that InfoWars, his company, is going to shut down this Wednesday ahead of the court-ordered auction. Now, it doesn't mean he's shut down. It means that it has to be auctioned off, which could include a friendly buyer buying it and just hiring back to work, I guess. Possible. So the question I have is, how does Alex Jones ever make money again?
if he's on the hook to pay for some ungodly judgment from the court, even if you bought the company for him, like just to do him a favor, and then hired him back at his original pay, would he just have to give 80% of it away, like forever? I don't know how that works. Or can you do something where, I don't know, you pay his wife instead of him, and then he can enjoy it the same way?
I don't know.
So I got lots of questions about the Infowars, but my big question is, will it continue? I'm sure that Alex Jones is not done, so it will continue one way or the other. Well, here's the thing that everybody should have been able to predict. We're going to talk about Trump, how he won so handily this election, but identity politics... was guaranteed to destroy the Democrats.
Does everybody know that? The natural progression on paper is that it destroys itself. It's a self-destroying philosophy because on day one, you say, all right, I'm a woman and you're black and we're both Democrats. How about we work together? And then you say, all right, what do you want? Well, I want abortion stuff. Can you back that? I think I can. What do you want?
I want reparations and maybe some DEI stuff. Can you back that? Yes, I can. I can back that. So you got two different groups, let's say black Americans and women. And if there's only two of them, they could probably figure out how to get something. But then you find, well, but they're also black people who are women. And so you got the intersectionality.
And then you got your LGBTQs and you got your everything else. And the next thing you know, you're fighting with each other because if you're fighting for, let's say, what the Hispanic population is getting as they come into this country, then the black Americans say, wait a minute, this Democrat Party is where people like me are supposed to get more stuff. Why are you giving it to somebody else?
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Chapter 8: What role do underwater UFOs play in national security?
She sees a, quote, golden age. She uses the phrase golden age for active investing under Trump. Now, she thinks it's going to benefit AI, digital assets and health care. I don't know about health care, but maybe. Pretty much everybody that I trust for predicting the future of the economy says that Trump's going to be good for it. The stock market is speaking, obviously. Stock market's up.
Crypto's up. I don't think like... I don't know if I've ever felt this much optimism in my life. I can't remember it. It seems like we went through a really bad period for several years, you know, the pandemic and everything else, and that somehow everything seems to be lined up positively. You know, even we have a chance of reducing our debt with the Elon Musk attack on the oversized government.
So according to Siki Chen, I don't know if I'm pronouncing his name right. S-I-Q-I. Would you call that Siki? Anyway, he talks about AI and technology stuff on X. And he's saying next year feels like it will be the best year in history to be in tech as a founder, employee, investor, or anything. the best year in history to be in tech. Now, when have you ever heard stuff like that?
When have you ever heard a serious investor say we might be entering a golden age, and then a serious technology commenter saying it might be the best year in history to be in tech? In history? The best year in history? And you know what's weird? I think he's right. I think it might be the best year in history. It might be amazing. Trump's got a video.
I don't know when he did it, but he's pushing flying cars. And specifically, he says that China and other countries are developing personal flying cars, and he wants our industry to lead that. And I agree. The flying cars depend entirely upon the battery capacity. Everything else is solved. And the battery capacity is, I think, solved now.
I think you can get a decent ride out of an electric tiny airplane now. So Trump wants to make sure that the R&D for that is a write-off. That feels like a good idea. A whole new industry that could drive things. Of course, we've got the robots, we've got the AI, we've got the crypto. Is there any reason your robot can't spend crypto on your behalf?
I haven't seen this for sure, but I understand there's a debit or a credit card, maybe both, in which if you have crypto, but somebody wants to be paid in cash, you can use your crypto and it goes through your debit card thing and it turns into cash so that the recipient just gets cash, but you pay it in crypto and it translated through the card. Now, if you have that,
Don't you just need to give your robot your wallet credentials? And then the robot can go out and shop for you. Right? The robot could go to the grocery store in a self-driving car. It could stand in line with its groceries and it could put in this little debit card. And well, I suppose it could have used your credit card too. So if nobody's checking it. But yeah, robots can pay in crypto.
um chris wallace is quitting cnn to become a podcaster now this is interesting in a few ways it's interesting because he used to work at fox and it's interesting because a lot of you like to criticize him and it's interesting because his you know dad was famous as well but here's what's interesting to me he's 77 years old
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