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Chapter 1: What happened with Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post?
Go. Terrific. Well, I just saw a headline that Jennifer Rubin quit the Washington Post, or was she asked to leave? I don't know the details, but she had criticized the boss, so maybe she wasn't going to stay there that long. So if you don't know, the Dilbert cartoon that normally is only behind the paywall, either on Axe or at Locals. Dilbert is a Californian. I'm not sure if you all knew that.
Chapter 2: How does Dilbert respond to the California fires?
But Dilbert's a Californian. And for the next this week, he will be figuring out what to do as the fire approaches his house. I'll give you a little bit of a spoiler. He's going to stay. So Dilbert will stay in his house and try to defend it, and you'll find out how that goes on Sunday. But today is the beginning of that series, if anybody's interested.
Chapter 3: What do dopamine and serotonin reveal about emotional word processing?
According to science, Neuroscience News says that dopamine and serotonin drive emotional word processing. In other words, the actual dopamine and serotonin levels can be... can be altered by words. So your words change your chemical structure. I mean, the words that you hear. And that in turn changes how you feel.
Chapter 4: How can words influence our feelings?
Now, you know what they could have done instead of doing this big old study on dopamine and serotonin and words? They could have just asked me because every hypnotist knows this. And I think every writer knows it. I thought everybody knew that certain words carry power and that you can feel the difference.
Now, if you can feel the difference in the words, I always assumed it was something like dopamine and serotonin that made you feel it. One of the advantages that I have in my profession as a writer, and I don't really know how common this is. Maybe it's common. I don't know. But I have an unusual relationship with words that I can feel them, almost like they have texture and not physically.
But it's as if they are almost like a pharmaceutical pill. If I say some words, I can feel. In other words, I go... So when I'm writing, I'm picking the words that make me feel ugh instead of ugh. And that makes the sentences look better. And when you read it, you won't know the technique. You'll just read it and you'll say, oh, I enjoyed reading that.
Chapter 5: What are the financial implications of DEI spending at Ohio State University?
You won't know that I was intentionally tweaking your dopamine and serotonin with my word choice. Anyway, you could have asked any writer. I think they all know that. In another study, according to Comstrator, Grape juice can cure your erectile dysfunction.
And I did eat a bunch of grapes for breakfast before I came on, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to make it all the way through the show, but I don't know. I might have to end soon. We'll see. We'll see if those grapes work. According to Open the Books, Ohio State University is spending tens of millions of dollars on DEI. How much do you think they're spending?
Well, they spent over $13 million on pay for 201 employees that are doing DEI-related stuff. Really? And some of them are making well over $100 million. One of them's got $300 million. They're really well paid, and there are 201 of them doing nothing but making sure that the DEI stuff gets taken care of. So I highly recommend you do not go to Ohio State University.
Chapter 6: How do climate models adjust with new CO2 data?
According to Brighter Side News, Joshua Chabot is writing that there's a major study revealing that plants now absorb 30% more CO2 worldwide than we thought. So I guess when they put this big adjustment into the climate models, you see all the climate models adjust because the new variable, which is a key variable, it's a very important one, right?
Or will this be the 25th time you've heard of something that's a key variable in climate change that was completely revised and and yet the climate models are the same. Let me see if I understand this. The climate models are driven by data and assumptions, and they're very, very well done, so you're getting the right prediction.
If you change the data and the assumptions of the biggest items, it's exactly the same. Does that sound like real science to you? that no matter how many times you find out the data and the assumptions are completely wrong, that you get the same line? Are you starting to suspect something's up? Yeah, that's like the ultimate tell.
Chapter 7: What does Sam Harris say about Trump and deceit?
The ultimate tell is that the assumptions and the data change, but not the prediction. Not the prediction. It's just the same. Okay. Okay. Well, Sam Harris is getting a little more heat for his TDS. And he goes so far as to say he wouldn't care if Biden had corpses of children in his basement. It couldn't be nearly as bad as having Trump as a president.
And he said that it was a conspiracy to lie and get him out of office. And, of course, he would normally be against lying. But now he's totally in favor of it if you're stopping Hitler. So the one time that kind of makes sense, according to Sam, is if you're lying to stop Trump. And he noted that he thought Trump University alone was worse than anything the Biden crime family has done. Let's see.
The Biden crime family is instrumental in getting us into Ukraine war. probably had some impact on policy, but Trump University is the bad thing. Now, I've never defended Trump University. I think everybody gets to look at that and incorporate it in their thinking and decide if you care.
But I will add this context, and the context is not one that I'm confirmed is true, but I suspect is true, very highly suspect. I don't think Trump knew what was happening in Trump University. Because to imagine that he knew, you would have to say, oh, he's got 400 or so Trump-related businesses, mostly licensing. They're not necessarily owned by him.
And I don't know if Trump University was a license deal or a different kind of partnership. But do you really think he was personally editing the materials and he was proofing everything and That seems highly unlikely. Here's what I think. I think somebody pitched to him the idea that they would take all of his wisdom, put it in a class, and he could share some of the money when people went.
And he said, OK, I trust you. Sounds like a good idea. Go ahead and do that. And then when it turned out that it wasn't exactly what people thought they were paying for, I'm sure it was a surprise to him, too. Now, as far as I know, there's no reporting that I'm aware of, but you should fact check me on this.
I'm not sure there's any reporting that suggests he was aware, Trump, aware of what anything was happening. It's not like he was going into the Trump University office and holding meetings. It was just one of the things that he put his name on, and there were hundreds. So that context is important, but there might be a fact check that says he knew more than we know. I don't know.
So more generally, I've been asked many times how to reprogram a TDS sufferer. I'm going to give you kind of a quick take on the general way to do it. Now, I'm not convinced this will work yet because I haven't done this exact thing with anybody yet, but I feel like it's the only path that could work. It goes like this. The first thing you need to do is change the frame.
So you've got to reframe it. The frame that most people are in, and it makes sense that they would be in it, is that they're trying to decide is Trump good or is he evil? Is Trump good or evil? And then if you have TDS, you say Trump is evil. And then if you try to argue it against it, what happens? Oh, but what about the other thing? then you debunk it. But what about the other thing?
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Chapter 8: What did Jamie Dimon say about Trump tariffs?
I would also talk about Gell-Mann theory, that if you're an expert in a field, you can tell that your field is fake, but you think the other stuff might be real because you don't know.
So if you can get somebody to understand that the CIA has always controlled the news, and always should, and always needs to, and it can never change, and you might not even want it to, because I don't think a country can survive if the news is completely uncontrolled. I hate to say it, I prefer that it be uncontrolled, but I don't know that we can survive it. And
You also need to keep away from getting into the Trump detail as you're doing this and just say, it really doesn't help to debate with somebody who doesn't have the background and understanding that the news is not just sometimes wrong. It's necessarily, by design, it has to be wrong.
And it's easy to demonstrate because every expert in every domain will tell you that the stuff in their domain is wrong. And anybody who is a public figure will tell you that the reporting on them is all wrong. Spend five minutes with me on the internet and I'll show you that everything I'm criticized for wasn't true.
It's not that I have a reason for what I did, it's that the criticisms are 100% not true. Everything that people accuse me of today, not true, didn't happen. Now every public figure will have that same story. that most of the things about them are in a context or something missing, not true.
So if you can get people to believe that all celebrities know their news is not true, all experts know that their news is not true, and then here's the kill shot. Everybody in the intelligence community knows the news isn't true. So those are the three I'd ask. Right? Then... So you're working on sort of a common sense argument that there's no way the news could be real.
And if some of it was real, you wouldn't know the difference because it would be mixed in with so much that isn't, you couldn't tell. And then if you can establish that news and whether the news is real is the big question, and if you can even get them to accept that that's the important question.
Because what I think is that Trump supporters, the TDS people, believe that the Trump people are evil and that they're fully aware of all the evil that Trump does according to them, right? But if you can get them to just accept the frame that what you should be talking about is whether news in general is real, and by the way, don't make the mistake, don't make the mistake of saying,
It's a good thing I get the real news on Fox News. That's the end of the conversation. Don't do that. Do not say there's some real news and you watch it. Don't say that. You lose, lose, lose as soon as you say, well, the news I watch is real. You should watch some real stuff. Oh, you have no chance. And by the way, if you say that even once... You'll never, ever persuade anybody on this topic.
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Chapter 9: What claims did Mel Gibson make about cancer cures?
So she gets Jamie Dimon on there and she wants to use him because he would be considered, I think in the United States, you'd call him the top banker in the United States because he's in charge of the biggest bank. But you would also say that in finance and economics in general, if you're going to ask somebody their opinion, he'd be about the best you could do, right?
So now 60 Minutes, as the most credible banker finance guy, And now they can really give it to Trump because they're going to find out all the things that Trump's doing that nobody smart could ever, ever agree to. And she goes in for the kill shot. This is good.
She goes, all right, Jamie Diamond, you're thinking smartest finance guy in the world, knows everything about business, banking, the world. Those, I'm paraphrasing, but those Trump tariffs, what do you think of that? the Trump tariffs. Now, this is going to be really a kill shot.
Leslie Stahl has it so set up perfectly, the most credible, wisest, smartest finance banking guy, and now he's going to answer the question of how dumb that stupid Trump guy is, how stupid, stupid he is with his tariffs, and tariffs never work, and nobody smart would ever do it, and don't you understand it's just a tax on Americans? Except that's not what happened.
Jamie Dimon said, well, art of the deal. Tariffs are used for negotiating. Every country does it. It's really important. It's a good tool. Trump's doing everything right with tariffs. And go to hell, Leslie Stahl. Go to hell. Go straight to hell. Don't stop. Don't pack a bag. Don't bring a snack. Just go right to hell. Because did you actually think you were going to get a different answer?
Just think how badly confused the press is. I don't think she understood tariffs and she thought she was going to get what all the stupid pundits say, which is, oh, can't do tariffs. Tariffs never work. It's a tax. Instead of what all the smart people say. 100% of the smart people are on the same side, by the way. I want to be clear about this.
There is no disagreement on tariffs among smart people. None. At least smart people who understand the world and business and economics and negotiating. So that specific kind of smart people, the Jamie Dimon smart people, the Elon Musk smart people, they all know that you use this for negotiating and that it's necessary. So that was just wonderful.
So Jamie Dimon had nothing bad to say about Trump and even said that he tried calling Trump. I guess he got to the staff because Trump wasn't available and offered his help. Imagine having Jamie Dimon on for the express purpose of trashing on Trump and it goes away with the best recommendation you've ever heard because he's really credible. I mean, he's not even a Republican.
Wow.
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