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Chapter 1: What story does Scott Adams share about his back problems?
I just realized I started this 10 minutes early. But you're not going to mind, are you? I looked at my clock wrong. But you don't mind at all. No, we're going to start early today. Because I've got a story to tell you while we're waiting for the rest of them. So as some of you know, I've had a little trouble with my back recently, just muscles and sciatica and stuff, any normal stuff.
And so I kept getting recommended to get an inversion table. So there's two parts to this story. One part is if I ever told you that I have this weird history of curing people's medical problems, right? I've told you that before. I cure a lot of people's medical problems, sometimes accidentally. I mean, here's one example. I had a tennis partner I used to play with every week for years.
And one day he said, oh, I have terrible allergies, blah, blah, blah. And I said, well, do you try this over-the-counter stuff, Allegra? And he said, what? I said, yeah, you just try this Allegra stuff. It takes care of your allergies. He said, are you kidding? And he tried, I think he tried the competitor to Allegra, the other one.
And after decades and decades of just complete suffering, he said, that worked. So I cured somebody of one of their most vexing problems of their entire life just by saying, oh, have you tried Allegra? So since that time, and because I write books about how to do things, I hear back from people that they've quit drinking.
Probably hundreds of people have stopped drinking now because of something I said. Maybe hundreds or even thousands of people have lost incredible amounts of weight because they used a system instead of a goal. I've helped cure people of spasmodic dysphonia, the problem I had with my voice, similar to what RFK Jr.
has, because I informed people that there was one doctor, at least, that could cure it with surgery, which is why you can hear me now. and also worked with Shy Bladder and a number of other things. So you've heard most of the stories. So by weird coincidence, I have, in fact, cured people of... Oh, even... OCD, I cured somebody with a reframe. I've cured people of depression with reframes.
Now, none of this is planned. It's not like I started my life and said, you know what? I would like to figure out how to cure a bunch of people in random ways. But part of my story, it's a two-parter, is that I cured somebody, I think, of a back problem. Not just me. Here's how I did it.
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Chapter 2: How did Scott accidentally cure someone's back problem?
I went to Amazon to buy one of those inversion tables, the thing that turns you upside down so it stretches your back. And I hit the buy button and I realized, oh, I've got the wrong address on there. And so I immediately canceled it because it was an address for a family member. And I cancel it and I redo it to my correct address. Well, too late, I discovered that it initiated both sales.
So even though I canceled it, for reasons I don't quite understand, they delivered it anyway to some other address. So I get a call, hey, I've got this thing, came to the wrong address, must be yours. And I thought, well, I could return it, but, you know, it's somewhere in another part of the state. Maybe somebody needs it. So I said, do you know anybody who wants it?
And said person looked around and found that there was somebody in the network who had a back problem and was looking for one. So I said, ah, I could have it for, I don't know, 20 cents on a dollar or something. So I gave them a inverter table. Now, I put together my own because my own came to my house. And sure enough, it really makes your back feel better. So it works.
So I've accidentally, by pushing the wrong button on Amazon, cured a stranger's back problem. Somebody I'll never meet. Because I know it works. And, you know, it's kind of expensive. It's like $500. I don't know if anybody would just sort of try it on their own. But if you get one for $100... And somebody did.
So somebody's got a good back who may be thanking me in Southern California, but here's the funny part. So I get my own inverted table, and I'm getting ready to assemble it. And the first thing I realize is that There are many, many parts to the assembly and it's all going to be this stuff that's awkward to hold and you need three hands.
You know, like you have to hold the thing while you're putting three screws in that don't go quite through the holes the right way. And you know, you need to, you have to have at least six hands. So I said to myself, there's no way I'm going to assemble that without hurting my back. And sure enough, it's really hard on your back to assemble that freaking thing.
So by the time I was done, I was like, ah, ah. I can't believe I have to twist myself in pretzels to put this thing together. But I get it together. Now, the other thing you need to know is that when I assemble anything or do any kind of home improvement... I can usually get it done, meaning that if I apply enough brute force and mental power, I can figure things out. I don't like to.
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Chapter 3: What are the benefits of inversion tables for back pain?
So that's where people get me wrong. It's not that I can't figure out how to do stuff around the house. I just don't want to. And one of the reasons I don't want to is that I have one of these themes in life that when I do any kind of home improvement... Eventually, I'm going to need a tourniquet or something to stop the bleeding. So sure enough...
Part of my arm looks like Beirut now for a large part of the device fell on my arm just the right way to rip the top layer of flesh off and expose me to bleeding that lasted about a day. So when I try to improve my health, I tell you, it's a struggle. I know I'm going to need a tourniquet. I knew I was going to hurt my back. And I had to buy two of them to get one. So that's what it took.
However, here's the good news. I think it worked. Between not sleeping on my bed anymore, I had to get rid of my bed. I mean, in terms of sleeping on it. So I spent four days sleeping on a massage table because it's firm. So I just had a temporary massage table set up. And between that and the inversion table, And this little back warmer I got on now, I have never felt better.
After 30 years of back problems, solved. So this is a good news story. The golden age has begun with my back feeling better than it's felt in probably 25 years. So there's that. I would like to read you the wake-up quote of the day. This is from Zuby. You should all be following Zuby on X. I think you all, many of you know Zuby. Listen to this one sentence and see if this doesn't wake you up.
All right? It can't be mere accident that schools and universities don't teach kids about nutrition and money. Ouch. Oh, my God. Does that hit hard today? It can't be an accident that schools and universities don't teach kids about nutrition and money. Holy shit. Because that's how they feed us garbage, and it's how they steal your money.
If you understood money and nutrition, nothing would look the way it looks. Your health would be different. Your finances would be different. I don't know. This hit me like a ton of bricks that there might be a reason that they don't teach this. Now, I don't think that they had a meeting and decided don't teach this.
I think that just the incentive system was subtly against informing people how things work because there's trillions of dollars to be made as long as the public doesn't understand how anything happens. Wow. Zuby with a win. As an ex-account called Infographics notes that the researchers lately are really crushing it.
For example, CNN is reporting that there's a new study that the more active you are, it'll extend your life expectancy. Did anybody know that exercise is good for your health? Apparently it is. Exercise is good for your health and your longevity. And the, not to be undone, the BMJ group
I did a study and said that the people over 40 would live five extra years if they were as active as the top 20%. Huh. So not only is exercise good for you, but the people who do more of it get more benefit. Well, I don't know how they would have known that without studying it. Or, or. You could have just asked Scott. Would have saved you a lot of money. Yes, exercise. Still good for you.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Scott share about nutrition and money education?
Because nuclear is always going to be dangerous with its own, well, it'll always feel dangerous and take a long time and be expensive. Elon Musk says that solar will be the main source of energy in the future. I say that's true if we get our battery storage right and our grid right. All you'd have to do is put solar on every roof and you have energy everywhere.
You just need to be able to use it locally. Right now, we don't have the grid to do that, but it's getting there. Well, speaking of Musk, on CNBC, Ron Barron, who's a famous investor kind of guy, was talking about Tesla stock. And he says that the stock price now of Tesla is about the same as it was three years ago. And he says he thinks it's going to be worth $5 trillion in 10 years.
Five trillion dollars. We do have a few trillion dollar companies, like one trillion just recently, but five trillion in 10 years. And then that's just the first part. I'm not done yet. That's what the investor thinks. He says, Elon believes that even longer term, it could be 30 trillion. He thinks the Optimus robot is going to be his biggest business ever. And then Ron Barron ends with,
No way I'm selling Tesla. Now, I own Tesla stock. So that's my full disclosure. So don't buy any stocks or do any investments because of something you heard on this show, right?
might sound like a good idea but i assure you i'm not that good at investing that you should follow my lead i'll tell you what i'm doing because it's part of disclosure and it's also part of how you think about it so if i tell you something it's because it's more about teaching you some concept of of investing for example
I have the smaller part of my portfolio has some Bitcoin and some Nvidia and some Tesla stock because those are three things that could go through the solar system. I mean, they could go so high, it'd be crazy. But I wouldn't put 90% of my money in those things. So there's your finance lesson.
You want most of your money to be in things that you think are diversified and are going to be fine, like the index of the Fortune 500, for example. But you might want a good solid 10% to 20% in a little basket of things that if any one of them went big, it would go so big you couldn't even believe it. That's what Nvidia and Tesla and Bitcoin all have in common.
If they go big, and they're already pretty big, there's almost no limit. It's just almost an uncapped potential. You don't see that. That's not something you're going to see if you invest in Coca-Cola or even Apple computer. So, yeah, these are really, really special kinds of things. I also have an investment in a, I think it's NLR. It's an index of nuclear power technologies and companies.
That one, I don't know how fast it'll grow, but I like the idea of it. Anyway, again, I don't recommend these stocks. These are not recommendations. These are lessons. Let's see. Apparently major companies are returning to advertise on X. So IBM, Disney, Comcast, Warner Brothers, Discovery. And Elon has thanked them all.
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Chapter 5: How does exercise relate to longevity according to recent studies?
And if Putin is as smart as I think he is, and he's definitely as smart as I think he is, strategically, he can play some chess. You know what I mean? I've never heard a story of whether Vladimir Putin, or yeah, whether he plays chess or not. But I assume he does. And I just have a feeling he'd be good at it.
You know, like strategically, even if you think he's an evil monster, he's pretty good strategically. Here's why I think he's throwing this in the mix. I don't think it's just a tit for tat that we do a little trade restriction. So he does a little trade restriction. I think it's smarter than that. I think.
that both Trump and Putin are the two smart negotiators who can figure out the following thing. If you make it just about the Ukraine-Russia war, you're idiots. You're idiots. All right? Let me say that again. If Putin and Trump negotiate the end of the, of course, Zelensky, negotiate the end of the Ukraine war, And they limit the discussion to the end of the Ukraine war. They're idiots.
Now, you know what they're not? Not idiots. Here's the good news. The good news is they're both really good at negotiating. So you know what they're going to do? They're going to throw in all this other stuff. And they should. That's how you get the deal. The deal is you throw the extra stuff in there. Because you're like, oh, I don't know.
We're not getting enough out of this Ukraine stopping fighting thing. But...
wouldn't you guys like to have a better source of uranium because you're going to need it for all the ai and the nuclear power plants and we say you know we would actually we would like that then russia would say you know what we'd like a little less tightening on some of this other trade over here and we'd say you know what We'll give you that.
So if Trump and Putin figure out how to throw more stuff in it, I think there could be a nuclear weapons testing treaty. There could be something about China. I think that would be a long shot. But I've noticed that Russia is playing the Joe Manchin strategy. So Joe Manchin, he was one of those few senators who could go either way. And, uh, so because he could go either way, he had all the power.
It seemed like, cause he can vote as a Democrat or he could vote with the Republicans and everything was so close. That it would end up being well, it looks like it's down to Joe Manchin again. So what Putin has done, which I think again is clever is he's put himself right between the United States and China.
So Russia as a military or economic power is tiny compared to either the United States or China. But if you Joe Manchin it and you go right in the middle, you have all this weird power. So that's what he's done. He became the Joe Manchin of countries. It's like, well, I could agree with China on this. What do you have to offer? Oh, I could agree with you too. So it's
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Chapter 6: What is Scott's take on Tesla's stock valuation?
McDonald's, garbage truck, everything. So it's no surprise that Trump could attract a pirate ship full of people. But then I saw one of the actors from the Avengers say that he was assembling the Avengers. And I said, oh, that's pretty good, too. I can feel that. a whole bunch of completely different people with superpowers.
Elon's got his superpower, and Vivek's got his superpower, and JD Vance, and basically a bunch of Avengers. But I also like the refounding idea that Vivek is talking about here, that weirdly, these characters map so well to the founders that it's just hard to ignore. It just is the same energy.
And it makes you wonder if there isn't some kind of natural balancing thing in our DNA or in our culture or in the world or in our simulation or in physics or something where we get to this point where the entire civilization looks like it's coming off the rails and then suddenly there's this feeling that's like a feeling. that's like, do we have a pirate ship that just formed?
Did the Avengers just assemble? Did the founders just come back alive through reincarnation or something? But whatever this is, I can feel the hell out of it. And I'm hearing a lot of other people say the same. You can feel this. Whatever this is, it's the right people at the right time doing the right stuff in a big, big way. And
wow it's incredible and now senator bernie sanders announced that he'd work with trump he would work with trump on the credit card interest rate cap at 10 now i don't know for sure if capping it at 10 is the right answer some of you are going to say but but scott if you cap the interest rate
then there will be much less interest offered to the public because some credit card companies won't be able to make it, so they'll close down, et cetera. To which I say, and? Yeah, but fewer people would be able to get a credit card, Scott. And? And? Where's the problem there? If the only people who are not getting credit cards are the ones with bad credit, are we worse off?
Would this not create some discipline among the credit card companies themselves to either get in the business or figure out how to operate where 10% is enough because 10% is enough everywhere else. Everywhere else, 10% is enough.
Now, they might have to be much tougher about who they give credit to, but isn't that good that there's not a bunch of, why am I paying for all those people with bad credit? Like, why is that for me to pay? Because somebody else has bad credit. That's how it works, right? They've got to overcharge the people with good credit to pay for the bad people with bad credit.
So if you can put Bernie Sanders and Trump on the same pirate ship, something's going right. Now, let me say clearly, I haven't looked into the price cap argument on both sides yet. So there might be an argument against it. I just haven't heard it. Meanwhile, the New York Post says that the World Bank is fearing budget cuts from Trump.
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Chapter 7: What criticisms does Bill Maher make about the Democratic Party?
It was simpler than you'd think. He didn't shit in the woods. No. He used indoor plumbing. And then he's like, well, no, bears shit in the woods. You're not a bear. So that's how you tell. So thank you to Jonathan Turley for that important story. Ladies and gentlemen, today is Saturday. And it's time for us to have a great weekend. The holidays are coming.
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