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Chapter 1: What is the simultaneous sip?
Ask a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine today, the thing that makes everything better. I hope. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Tremendous. So good. Well, I'd like to apologize in advance in case I fall asleep sometime during this show.
Chapter 2: What are the key elements for feeling good?
You know, the three things that you need to do to feel good. You need to get your sleep. You need to eat right. You need to exercise. Those are three things I haven't been able to do for about a month. So I'm on my last thread here. So I've got a little brain fog going on. So whatever you think is the best this show could be, dial it back about 40%. You'll be good.
Chapter 3: How does the 'scalpel vs axe' analogy relate to business cuts?
Well, as you know, everybody's talking about Doge and should we be cutting with an axe or cutting with a scalpel? So I've decided that Dilbert's company is going to go through the same thing. So Dilbert's CEO is going to... Wait, what's that? Wow. So... Dilbert's company, the CEO is going to ask the pointy-haired boss to make some deep cuts, but with a scalpel, not an axe.
How do you think that's going to go? Well, let me give you an idea. CEO to pointy-haired boss, I need to make some deep cuts. I've got to cut 20%. And since you're the manager who knows what everybody's doing, you can do it with a scalpel. Otherwise, I'd have to do it with an axe because I don't know what anybody does.
So the point of ear manager goes away and he says, all right, give me a month to study it and I'll come back with some recommendations. A month later, the point of ear boss comes back and says, I studied everything, talked to every person that works for me, and we decided that we need more money, not less. OK, the job was to cut 20 percent. Yeah, I know.
But it turns out that when I took the scalpel as opposed to the axe, everything looked like it was necessary. So nothing to cut. And we really need to expand a few things. So I'll need about 20 percent more. You really need to find a way to cut. All right. I've got an idea. How about this? How about you fire my rival in another department and then fold that department under me?
And then you save some money with that other guy. And then the CEO says, well, that other guy said the same thing about you. How about we fire you and fold your department under him? And then the CEO says, all right, give me a list of all your projects. We'll find something to cut.
And then he looks at the projects and realizes he doesn't know what any of them really are because they're just names of things. And so the CEO says, well, what about this one? And then the pointy-haired boss says, oh, no, you can't cut that one. That one's essential. All right, what about this one? Oh, my goodness. If you cut that, we'll all die by this afternoon.
All right, but what about this one? No, that one's going to have to increase the budget. We're going to need twice as much budget for that one. Do you think it works to do a scalpel? Scalpel might work up to 5 or 10%. But if you're trying to make a deep cut, I don't think it's going to work. Here's some Zuby wisdom. You all know Zuby. How do you even describe Zuby?
He's so many things at the same time. Anyway, Zuby says the biggest reason why Western society is in trouble is is that the culture dictates that telling inconvenient truths is hateful and feelings are more important than the truth. As a result, people are in a constant state of lying and denying of reality and nothing gets fixed. Right.
We are in a continuous state of lying to each other about everything. All the time. So here's some inconvenient truth. I'm just going to say the thing that I haven't seen anybody say. I tend to watch a lot of YouTube about ancient civilizations, and I love it when we dig up some new ancient civilization that used to be quite advanced for its time, but now it's completely gone.
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Chapter 4: What are the consequences of civilization collapse?
I don't think that could work. I think that would be a way to cut 5% of the budget. It would make no difference to our survival. If you want to survive, you might have to remove the leg and take care of it. So I guess that's where the critics and I diverge. If you think there's any way to survive, survive scalpel cuts, I don't think there is.
I see nothing that would suggest we could survive just going slowly and carefully. I don't think that's survivable. The meat axe could be a problem or it might work. But there's only one path that might work. So I'm all in on the path that might work. Anyway, let's talk about some good news for Trump.
The American Bar Association just suspended their DEI requirements, according to the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra McDonald's reporting. So it's suspended law school diversity, equity and inclusion requirements. Now, is that the Trump effect? Because I don't believe Trump ordered that or there's no executive order on that, right? And you wouldn't have any say in it anyway.
So it feels like the American Bar Association is sort of the canary in the coal mine, meaning if they go early, if they throw DEI out early, it's probably because a whole bunch of lawyers think that there's going to be a legal risk if you keep doing it. And there should be. There should be a legal risk to discrimination.
So if the American Bar Association is getting rid of DEI, that's probably a really good sign for what's ahead. Well, you all know the word of the day. The word of the day is Bongino. I've never seen people so happy. You know, I guess Kash Patel made people pretty happy. And of course, I was very happy about RFK Jr. And Tulsi made a lot of people happy when she got appointed.
But Dan Bongino has been tapped. be the new deputy director of the fbi and i don't believe that requires any congressional approval but i did not know how impressive bongino's background is i knew some of it and i i've told you one of the things i like about him is he's a talent stack guy meaning that he just keeps acquiring new talents and adding them to the ones he has.
And then he's got this super powerful package of talents. But I didn't know he has two advanced degrees. I think he has, now this might be wrong because I think it came from an AI, but I think he has a master's degree and then he's got an MBA. He's worked in the police department. He did a secret service agent job. And now he's got all of the public communication skills too.
So he knows media, he knows everything about law enforcement, and he's highly educated. And I think character is probably even a bigger thing. He's not exactly the kind of guy who's going to back off, if you know what I mean. Bongino strikes me as the kind who would chew through a brick wall if there was a reason to do it. You just need a reason.
He does not look like the kind of guy who's going to shrink from a task because it's difficult. So I think all of us are inspired by that because he's such a fighter and he has just a ridiculous amount of skills at this point. Just ridiculous. I have so much respect for that. Anyway, so congratulations to Dan Bongino and, uh,
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the ABA suspending DEI?
It's just that it's everything you would expect if there were a crime. It looks exactly like the setup for a crime. But the allegation here is that only 2% of the $4.4 billion that was allotted for Haitian relief actually got used in Haiti. So where did the rest of the money go? Well, allegedly, the New York Post says that 56% of that money for Haiti went to firms located in or near the U.S.
capital, and apparently the money stayed there. So here's how it goes. There's a disaster in Haiti. The US government allocates 4.4 billion, goes into that USAID bucket. And then from there, it goes to a whole bunch of NGOs and consultants and contractors. And then only 2% of it got spent on Haiti. I feel like I'd have to hear the other side of that story because that's a little hard to believe.
You know, it's a little too on the nose, 2%. Come on. But on the other hand, maybe. I mean, one thing we can all tell is that Haiti doesn't seem to be a bit better, if anything. So what if that's true? What if it's true? You know, there's no investigation opened up as far as I know. So I think I'm not going to treat it as a fact until I hear there's an investigation opened.
And even then, I shouldn't treat it as a fact. But if there's no investigation, it just feels like talk at this point. I do think it's possible that these numbers are right on and that there's a ton of money just missing. But I wouldn't say for sure yet. There's some more good news for Trump, according to pollster Frank Luntz.
That 33 days into Trump's term, he has a higher approval rating than at any point during his first term. Are you having the same weird situation that I am? I'll turn on the news and it'll be some, you know, Democrat oriented news. They'll say, oh, Trump's approval has plunged. It's plunged. And sure enough, it looks like it went from unusually high to lower fairly quickly.
Now, the first thing you need to know is that if you're comparing what Trump was to himself, and it used to be at an all-time high, but now it's lower, there's always a honeymoon when you first get in and then there's always a pullback. So one month after you get into office, I would expect every president's approval to be lower because you have all these, you know, lofty ambitions.
When you get that new person, it's like, oh, they're going to do so much. Then a month later, the news has completely destroyed them, you know, by picking at them here and there. And then you're like, well,
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Chapter 6: Who is Dan Bongino and what is his significance?
But I do think Frank Luntz has the right metric, which is if it's still the best that Trump has ever done, even though he's, I guess, how can it be the best he's ever done if he used to be higher? Well, I guess there's some discrepancy in the polling. Do you believe that the polling is rigged? I do.
62%.
So that's helping. It is really impressive. I mean, everybody says it too much, but It's very impressive that Trump and Homan did, in fact, get control of the border so quickly. It certainly validated everything they said about Biden. Remember all those years when Biden and Harris would say, oh, there's nothing we could do. Nothing we could do. I don't know. What could we do?
And then they would lie about how illegal crossings went down.
the way they would lie is that they made illegal crossings illegal they just hired more people so they could claim asylum and if you're claiming asylum you're legal until proven otherwise so all they did was legalize illegality and then they claimed as a victory i think the the extent of the biden administration evil i don't know if we'll ever see the bottom of it in my view
They were totally corrupt and totally evil, but because he was such a smiley good guy, he just sort of got away with it like Hunter. Pollster Mark Penn, who worked for the Clintons, and anyway, just so you know, he's worked for Democrats. He said on the Laura Ingraham show, he said, I've got some new polling coming out on Monday, that would be today, that I've just looked at.
Frankly, the Democratic Party is falling off a cliff. The ratings were in the high 40s, and they're going to be like 35%. And the basic question on who's doing a better job as president, Biden or Trump, Trump is winning that with 57%. So Trump's looking really strong right now. And if you're reading the critics, you would come to the opposite conclusion.
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Chapter 7: What is the status of UnitedHealth's investigation?
So you probably saw that... What's his name? Carville. James Carville is predicting that the administration will collapse in 30 days. Yes. I don't see any indication of that whatsoever. So that's sort of a wishful thinking thing. If he's right, it'll look like he's psychic. And if he's not, we won't remember he said it. So it's a smart prediction.
Um, in more sign of the time news, you already know that MSNBC is doing a shakeup and they, they got rid of Joy Reed. Um, But they just had a legal analyst on who said that Trump's not really losing the legal battles. But if you were to read the news, you would think Trump is losing all over the place. It's like, oh, the court put a stay on this. And the court said this is not specific enough.
And the court said this. And I actually thought that. I actually thought, you know, wow. Seems like Trump is really getting beaten back in a lot of these legal cases. But MSNBC's own legal analyst said, quote, these are not major setbacks and that Trump's going to fight at every turn and that means appealing everything because it doesn't cost him anything to appeal.
I don't know how that's true, but that's what he said. So in many cases, the thing that the court halted, they didn't halt it permanently. They just said, oh, put a pause on that, a stay, and give us some time to look at it, and then we'll figure out if it's legal or not. So in many of those cases, time will go by, they'll look at it and go, oh, okay, carry on.
We took some time to look at it, but it looks fine. And plus, he's going to win some on appeal. So the lawfare against Trump, once again, not working. Not working. More good news for Trump and the country. Apple announced it's going to bring $500 billion in investments to expand manufacturing in the US and create thousands of jobs. Now, that's a pretty big deal. It's a very big deal.
It's over four years, but still $500 billion. In May, I hope, because now there have been several announcements from big entities about bringing money to the United States, The only way that the U.S. is going to survive is massively bringing back manufacturing. And it's beginning. And here's what's interesting. If Apple is doing it, it's going to be a strong argument for anybody to do it.
And if you're in a company that is not planning to do it, while Apple is definitely planning to do it, You're going to have to explain why you can't do it. So it's not just big in terms of dollars. It's big in terms of how we think about it. Because if Apple can commit to this, and you would expect Apple to really be caring about margins and stuff like that.
But if Apple thinks they can make this work, and I think some of it is acknowledgement that manufacturing in China, for example, is not as safe as it used to be, if it ever was. So that's good news. You probably all know that Elon Musk and Doge and Trump have ordered government workers who work remotely to get back to work.
So starting this week, according to Elon Musk, starting this week, people who fail to return to the office to work will be placed on administrative leave. administrative leave. But what about that email that all the government workers got that said, you should tell us, this is from Doge, that you need to tell us what you accomplished.
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Chapter 8: What does recent polling say about Trump’s approval ratings?
But, you know, most jobs are not accomplishment oriented. They're just process. So if your job is to just I don't know, process all requests that come into your office. That should be enough. I processed all the requests that came into my office. That should keep your job. So it shouldn't be hard, but we'll keep an eye on that.
Wall Street Journal was trying to calculate how big the impact might be on the economy. for all these massive government firings. So if you add these 75,000 resignations, maybe 200,000 probationary employees already fired and maybe 200,000 in attrition. And so they're thinking that maybe in total 475,000 jobs, but which is a lot.
But it's worse because there will also be vendors who are selling things that can't sell it and all that. But to put it in perspective, 475,000 jobs over a few years, we could absorb that. What about all the secondary effects about all of the vendors and stuff, the contractors? Well, that's pretty big. And So even the 475,000 jobs would only be 0.3% of the US's non-farm jobs.
So they're not big percentages, but in certain places like Washington DC, it's going to be a big impact and there will be bankruptcies and there will be dislocations and there will be unemployment and it's going to be big. Now, A lot of it is spread over different communities. It's not all in Washington, D.C. Just a lot of it is. So, yeah, it's going to be ugly.
But I'm going to go back to my first comment. If that's the only way you can save the country is by doing something that's ugly and has an axe, you have to do that. You have to do that. So I have complete empathy for the people losing their jobs, and those are real problems. I'm not going to slight that at all. But the alternative, to me, it looks like we all lose everything.
So that's not too different than private companies doing layoffs. A number of private companies are doing layoffs right now because the people who get laid off and their families definitely suffer, no doubt about it. But if we didn't have layoffs, then the entire economy would just be so unproductive that nothing would work. We'd all be dead.
So yeah, in the real world, going back to Zuby's comment where you can't say what's true, here's what I think is true about Doge. It will be really painful. And that pain will extend beyond the people who get fired, and it will extend beyond the people who are contractors and vendors. It will hurt. There's just not another choice. Unless you believe you can scalp rule your way, which I don't.
Yeah. So I'm a little tired of people saying the easy and obvious thing and then pretending that Elon Musk doesn't know. So I'm going to add to my list of dumb things that people say about Doge. Scott, government is different than private industry. to which I say, who do you think didn't know that?
Do you think that Elon Musk is going to wake up and read your post and say, whoa, hold on, hold everything. You're telling me that the government is different from private industry? What? And people talk like that's actually a thing. Like that Elon Musk is the only person in the world, because we all know it, that government is different than industry in lots of different ways.
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