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January 30, 2026 / 59:06

This episode of Pivot covers economic boycotts, personal finance tips from Vivian Tu, and the impact of big tech companies on society. Hosts Cara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the ongoing situation with the DOJ and Epstein files, listener responses to economic strikes, and the importance of consumer choices in driving change.

Scott Galloway highlights the need for a sustained economic boycott against major tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta, suggesting that this could lead to significant market impacts. Vivian Tu, a financial educator, provides practical advice on how individuals can participate in economic boycotts, including adjusting tax withholdings and supporting local businesses.

The episode also touches on the recent violence in Minnesota and the responses from various stakeholders, including comments on the political climate and the role of corporate leaders in social issues. Galloway emphasizes the importance of consumer participation in activism and the potential for collective action to drive change.

Additionally, the hosts announce Galloway's new website, "Resist and Unsubscribe," aimed at encouraging people to disengage from companies that support harmful practices. The conversation concludes with a discussion on the implications of big tech earnings and the ongoing legal challenges faced by these companies.

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Scott Galloway and Cara Swisher discuss economic boycotts, personal finance tips, and the impact of big tech on society.

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>> Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York
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Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast
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Network. I'm Cara Swisser
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>> and I'm Scott Galloway.
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>> Before we do anything, I'd like to point
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out that as of this episode drops, it's
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been 42 days since the deadline passed
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for the DOJ to release all the Epstein
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files. Though, we do have an update. DOJ
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officials said in a court filing this
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week that they expect to release the
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files quote in the near term, but they
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did not provide a specific date. Pam
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Bondi, get on it. Scott, after Sunday's
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bonus episode about the violence in
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Minnesota, we've gotten a mountain of
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responses to our discussion of the
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economic strike that you suggested. I
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know you're working on something and
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we'll talk about that in a minute. But
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first, here's what some of our listeners
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had to say. I'm seeing online some
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suggestions of people stop paying their
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income tax by updating their W2.
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>> I and many of my colleagues are watching
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with sadness a lot of anxiety and anger
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at the escalating violence and I keep
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wondering what if anything people
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outside the US like me can do that's
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actually useful. Reportedly, Vanguard,
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Black Rockck, and Fidelity hold half of
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the shares in two companies, GEO Group
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and Core Civic, which run nearly 90% of
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ICE detention facilities. If investors
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divested from these collaborators and
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others, could that put a stop to ISIS's
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worst abuses? And given a lot of you
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have been writing in wondering what you
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can do personally, we asked financial
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educator Vivian Tu, host of Net Worth
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and Chill, uh, to give some tips on how
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to make an impact. Let's hear what she
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had to say. Hey Scott and Cara, heard
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you guys were talking about an economic
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blackout. I've got a couple personal
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finance tips. For our friends with a lot
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of financial discipline, you could
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consider changing your W4 withholding
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for your taxes. You'll pay fewer taxes
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throughout the year and then pay them
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all in one lump sum come tax time.
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You're not going to get to pay fewer
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taxes overall, but why let the
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government hold your money and do stuff
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with it for longer than they need to?
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Make sure you are taking advantage of
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time value of money. Up next, everybody
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talks about shopping local versus
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corporate, but another thing you can do
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is pay in cash. These local businesses
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often times might even give you a small
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discount for doing so because then they
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have to give less up as well. Wink wink.
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And last but not least, for the economic
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blackout, money that you aren't spending
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on buying stuff, make sure you're
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putting towards a really smart strategic
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cause. Things like paying down your debt
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so you aren't so heavily tied to
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financial institutions, but also causes
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that you care about that might support
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things like immigration or human rights.
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The main takeaway is this. Economic
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boycotts do not work if a small
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population stops spending cold turkey
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for one to two days. What we're actually
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going to need is a critical mass of
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people to scale back their consumerism
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over weeks and months. And even if they
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can only do it to 70 or 80% of their
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ability, that is going to have a bigger
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impact.
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>> Scott, you should know Vivian's upcoming
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book is called Wellend Endowed. I
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thought you'd like that. Um, but you
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what? This has taken over.
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>> She did not interview me. She did not
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interview me.
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>> So, tell me you tell me what what we
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talked about this a lot of people were
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talking about it. Go for it. Well, last
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night I was about to make love to my
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sweet, sweet lady and uh she put my
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penis in her hand and then it was dark
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out and she said, "I'm sorry, don't
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smoke."
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>> Um,
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national economic strike.
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>> Okay, great. You stepping on your penis
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there, Scott. Go ahead. uh my bluff has
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been called here and that is uh I think
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that America feels a lot of anxiety
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around its government not providing
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security and prosperity but terror and
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anxiety and I've thought a lot about
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this and if you look at where Trump and
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the administration respond they don't
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respond from citizenry co-equal branches
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of government or even the Supreme Court
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where they do respond really crisply is
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uh from markets and within 24 hours he
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backed off tariffs annex in Greenland,
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um pressure on interest rates, tariffs,
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when one thing has happened, the S&P has
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gone down or the bond market has started
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to get wobbly. So then the question
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becomes if that's the fastest blue line
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path to getting ice out of cities or to
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putting in more protocols or or just
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flexing that we're watching.
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The fastest way to do that, what you
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want is the most impact with the least
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amount of sacrifice from the cit
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citizenry
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>> to make it easy. make it easy and also
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maximum impact. I think not buying
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groceries is not a lot of impact because
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these companies are very low margin. Uh
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they're not companies CEOs that he
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listens to or cares about. So I
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bifurcated into two types of companies.
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What I call ground zero. Big tech
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controls 40% of the S&P. They are growth
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companies that are very very highly
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valued right now. So any any slowdown in
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growth could potentially have a
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disastrous effect on them. So that's
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kind of the soft tissue of the economy
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right now and where our consumer
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economy, which is 70% consumer spending,
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could have the greatest impact with the
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least amount of effort. So I've listed a
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series of big tech companies and um
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launching the site uh probably on
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Sunday.
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>> What's it called?
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>> Uh it's called uh Thank you for asking.
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in doubt.
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>> It's called It's called Resist and
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Unsubscribe. So, if you like what we're
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saying, don't like and subscribe. Resist
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and unsubscribe. I've also got the URL
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>> um uh unsubscribe February because to
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Vivian's point, it can't be one day or a
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week. It has to be sustained and there
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has to be a viral component to it. So,
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the companies in what I call ground zero
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are Amazon and I have instructions on
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how to subscribe from Amazon Prime,
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Audible, Amazon Music, Prime Video,
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Anthropic. You could pick what you want,
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right? You could
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>> Well, hopefully all and not only that, I
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don't want to tell people what to do and
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what not to do. People have different
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means point. Yeah.
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>> People have different means and ideas on
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how they can participate. And I'm not
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going to tell anyone to not buy
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groceries or not show up for work, but
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if you want to have the biggest impact
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possible, I've tried to identify those
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companies. Disney, Google, Microsoft,
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Netflix, Open AI, Uber, and Meta. And
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>> and then you've given the argument why
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why what they've done. So you can decide
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what you think is acceptable or not.
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>> The reason why I I really do think this
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idea is so powerful is you get a couple
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free gifts with purchase. Not only do
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you achieve the quoteunquote economic
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slowdown, but you have an outsized
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impact unsubscribing specifically from
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these companies that are driving the
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market right now.
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>> Two, it just so happens that the
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majority of the CEOs this of these
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companies have been especially
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sickopantic and
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>> played a really large role in enabling
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all this [ __ ] Whether it's Tim Cook
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showing up and prostrating himself with
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a Melania documentary, whether it's
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Amazon greenlighting a $30 million um uh
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documentary that made no [ __ ] sense
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that was just pure grift or bribery,
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>> whether it's uh uh obviously meta,
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whether it's Satcha Nadella sitting
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there and trying to communicate to
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people, I don't like it, but I'm going
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to continue to do it. Just want to
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remind everybody that back in the early
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30s, Hitler's rise was largely enabled
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by corporate CEOs who basically said,
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"If you destroy our trade unions, we
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won't speak up against this democratic
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slide into fascism." And once it got out
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of hand, it was too late for them to do
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anything. So, we have been to this place
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before where people used the excuse of
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shareholder value to enable and and
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basically not provide any friction to
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what is the type of terror. question
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because I think a lot of people want to
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decide like one of the things that's
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good is we're Scott's I've seen some of
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it is going to give you information to
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make your own decisions. For example,
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with me I got rid of arcade. I got rid
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of the one thing I got rid of
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>> not buying an iPhone
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>> not buying an iPhone. So
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>> canceling Apple Music, whatever it might
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be.
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>> Yeah, whatever. But if you want to do
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that and keep Apple Music, like we don't
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we don't judge you. It's just here's
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your the tools, right? Here's the tools.
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Stop doing Prime. If maybe if you don't
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want to cancel Prime completely, you can
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stop buying on it for like people should
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decide.
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>> People should decide what to do. And
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it's not forever, by the way. It's not I
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shall never use it again, right? Like
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orange juice people still drink after
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the boycott of Anita Bryant. That's 100
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years ago, kids. Um, but that's what
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you're trying to get at is giving people
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tools on does it have links to where you
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where you can do these things or just
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>> name of the company, all the different
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services you can unsubscribe to, a link
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to where you unsubscribe, the
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unsubscribe page, and a brief
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description of why we're doing this. So,
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the the ground zero is big tech
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companies. And also,
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>> the truth has a nice ring to it. I'm
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going from two LLMs to one. I don't need
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Anthropic and Open AI. I'm going and
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this is the one that hurts. I'm going
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from six streaming platforms to one. I'm
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not giving up on all streaming
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platforms, but I'm going to pair it way
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back. And the free gift with purchase
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here, when you start looking at this
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stuff,
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>> I found out, for example, I have three
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HBO Max accounts. I didn't realize I had
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three.
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>> It's not a bad idea to take some time to
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think where am I just spending money
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every month,
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>> unbeknownst to me, where quite frankly,
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I probably could pair back a little bit.
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So there's the ground zero. That's the
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big tech companies who will have an
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outsiz impact on your your absenteeism.
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By the way, the most radical act in a
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capitalist society, hands down, is
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nonparticipation. Yeah.
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>> And then the second group of companies I
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list is called the blast zone. And these
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are companies that are directly working
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with uh ICE. AT&T awarded 90 million to
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provide ICE with IT and network
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projects. Comcast, Charter
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Communications, Dell Technologies,
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Deote, FedEx, Palanteer, UPS. I list how
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you can how you can leverage your
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economic muscle against them and what
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how they are participating. You may
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decide that this is you know not for you
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or it's too big to give up. But I'm
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giving you a ton of options. There's
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ground zero outsiz impact and then
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there's the blast zone that is companies
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directly working with them. And I want
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to be realistic.
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>> I am not going to give up telco but I've
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switched to mobile from AT&T. I'm going
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to go from five streaming media
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platforms
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>> to one. And I think you can have a lot
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of impact here. I'm trying to make it as
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social as possible
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>> and hope that people join in. But I
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think if we're looking the for the
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lowest tax way on citizenry
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>> to get the administration
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>> to um to pay attention. It's about
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markets. It's not about ideology. It's
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about math.
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>> And it's about not participating. And
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it's the easiest thing I could come up
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with to have an outsized impact. We had
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a lot of stuff about people not knowing
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what to do and maybe they don't want to
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go to protest or fly to Minneapolis if
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you don't want to do that or you don't
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want to just sit around and doom scroll
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and activism. This is this is an one of
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the many many many ways. And I think
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it's great that you're doing this,
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Scott. Good for you. What streaming
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service did you keep?
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>> Oh, I can't say.
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>> But I I was I was talking I had we had a
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you know one of those family meetings.
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Yeah.
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>> I don't want to play favorites. Um
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>> um uh because I've already heard from
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some of the CEOs of these companies. is
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already out. And they're, by the way,
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they're not thrilled about this.
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>> No, they're not. I've gotten some
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>> I've got some that was the only that was
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really aha moment. We had a family
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meeting and I said to my kids, we're
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going to cancel it all streaming
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streaming media platforms. And I
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literally got that look like memo to
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self, smother, dad, and sleep.
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>> So I said I said we can keep one and
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it's only for February.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And there's a huge argument because one
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kid's into Premier League football and
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that's Paramount Plus and the other's
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like, Paramount Plus, are you [ __ ]
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high? I mean, and it just caused
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a near riot.
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>> See, that's the I had a discussion with
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one of my children about Apple Music.
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I'm still in the middle of the
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discussion about it. I was like,
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>> "Oh, yeah." So, they're like, "Okay, I'm
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off Apple Music, Amazon Music, but
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they're keeping Spotify." It was
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interesting consumer preference. It came
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down to Netflix or HBO Max was the two
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we distilled down to, and I won't tell
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you which one we picked.
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>> All right. Okay.
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>> But it's interesting to think about how
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you prioritize.
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>> It is. I was surprised by the push back
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from one of my children. They're like,
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"Wait a minute. All my list." I was
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like, "Oh, you know, but anyway, you
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have those discussions. It's actually
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then it ended up being a really
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interesting discussion about economic
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boycotts and what you can do." So, it's
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a great opportunity to talk to your kids
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and your and your spouse or whoever
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about the economic choices you make in
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life in general. Anyway, to be clear,
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the site isn't up today, but uh but
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Scott will let us know over the next
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couple of days. Um, and we will know
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activists around the country are calling
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for no work, no school, and no shopping
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today on Friday, uh, January 30th,
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urging people to stop funding ICE.
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There'll be lots of activities like
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that. But not just Scott Galloway, the
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great economist Scott Galloway, but
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Robert Rice is talking about this idea.
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It's really catching on the idea of it.
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Um, and it's well beyond just a
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temporary thing. It's like show you take
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a minute and look at your life and what
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where you're putting your money and your
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money is important. Anyway, I have an
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announcement now onto me. Yes.
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>> Guess what? We've named my show on CNN
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that is coming in the spring. I can't
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say the exact day. Well, it's called
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Cara Swisser Wants to Live Forever.
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>> What do you think?
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>> Uh, I think the tagline should be, "Oh,
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fuck."
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>> Is it really Cara Swisser Wants to Live
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Forever?
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>> It is. It is. It's called Cara Swisser
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Wants to Live.
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>> What if you have a stroke in the middle
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of the night?
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>> It's brilliant. Don't you think? That's
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what Amanda said. Amanda said that, too.
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like she's like, "Oh, well then it would
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more people would watch it, right?"
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>> I I would I think it should be what if
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we live what if we live forever question
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mark with Cara Swisser. I would I
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wouldn't make it.
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>> Oh, well, it's already done. Done. Done
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done.
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>> Oh, well then I love it. I love it.
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>> I love it. Anyway, well, let me just
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say, let me just very briefly say for
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far too long the longevity space has
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been captive. This is the idea behind it
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of rich tech bros, jack dude
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influencers, nonsense sellers of useless
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supplements, and some lady who sells
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candles that are named after her private
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parts. Uh, sorry, Gren, but you started
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it. Uh, well, after
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>> she's lovely, by the way.
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>> I know. I know you talked to her, but
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I'm taking I'm there's a new sheriff in
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town. After enduring endless
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conversations over the years, how to
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live forever. I can't tell you how many
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dinner parties I've been in with tech
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bros telling me all manner of things,
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none of whom are doctors. I I want in
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except I'm going to show you the way for
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the rest of us. It will be grounded in
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science and facts about the best and
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most affordable ways to stay healthy,
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happy, and smart. Also, I took ketamine
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so you don't have to. And Scott takes a
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nap in it, just so you know. That's
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that's what's coming for you. So,
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>> um, so a couple things. One, I think the
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market was screaming for another person
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without medical training to tell us how
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to live our lives.
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>> Excellent. Uh,
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>> I think that's what the market was
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telling us.
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But I talk to experts unlike some of
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these people.
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>> I talk to experts.
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>> I talk to But this the second thing is
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an honest question. Say you're not
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>> I I'm all over this [ __ ] cuz I have I
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now have too much money and too little
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time.
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>> Never noticed that you like to focus on
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your health. And
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>> I'm way too into this. And uh so the
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question I would have is assume you're
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an average income household. You know,
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80 90 grand.
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>> Yeah. maybe living in a city, maybe
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doing a little bit better than that, and
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you have insurance, but you don't have a
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ton of money to spend on the stuff. What
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are the two or three biggest learnings
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around changes in lifestyle that you
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would recommend to just
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>> the average American?
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>> I'd be happy to. It's just, you know,
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it's only six episodes. Maybe we'll have
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another season because there's so much
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stuff out there and there's so much bad
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stuff, by the way.
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>> I was hoping it was five. I'm sorry.
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>> Car Switcher wants to live. Yeah,
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>> Fisher wants Everyone else wants this
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series to end.
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>> Anyway, um that's okay. You can make fun
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of it. I love I love it. Um uh I say I
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would say well obviously the main thing
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about longevity is don't be poor. Like I
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hate to say that, but that's it. It it
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matters a lot.
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>> Well, that's good advice. That's not
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going to make anyone feel bad.
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>> But I'm just longevity is now going
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>> make more money. That's the same advice
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I've gotten from every girl I met at the
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Four Seasons Bar. Make more money. So,
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one of the main things, oddly enough,
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you know, sleep is important, obviously,
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diet and and exercise are important. And
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there's lots of things, you know, that
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everybody understands, fermented foods,
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um, uh, stuff like that and eating. Um,
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you know, the protein debate has gotten
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out of hand. There's too much advice to
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eat too much protein, but those are like
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around the edges of saving you minutes
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of your life. I think one of the things
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I took away was one there's amazing
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stuff going on around cancer research
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using AI cancer and also mobility like
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robotic stuff where people are going to
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be outfitted and the the addition of AI
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is going to change drug discovery cancer
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research every it's like astonishing
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that is really gene editing all that
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stuff is really moving fast and that
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will make a big difference in longevity
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or at least health span right that
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you'll live longer and not die of these
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terrible diseases the second one is G
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this is the science part GLP-1s Scott I
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I think you had one of the early people
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to this, but the benefits around uh just
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obesity is what
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>> I think it's a miracle drug.
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>> It's a miracle drug and every doctor we
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talked to talked about this and it now
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has followon advantages and so you know
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in very small amounts too and and that's
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>> talk about micro doing people I know I
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know a bunch of people do micro doing
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GLP-1.
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>> Yeah, I'm gonna I'm going to start doing
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that related to my stroke actually which
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is interesting. So um so anyway, so
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there's there's there's a lot of around
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GLP1's really important and everyone
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vaccines and mRNA vaccines. I I know
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they're controversial, but they're not.
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They're they're they're going to have a
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vaccine for cancer. There's that kind of
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stuff is really amazing. But I have to
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tell you the abs and there's all you
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know all that other nonsense, the red
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lights, none of that works really. Like
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some of the stuff you do doesn't work,
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but fine, whatever.
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>> Can I go through the stuff I do and you
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tell me what you think?
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>> Okay. I didn't do everything so I may
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not have an answer, but go ahead.
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Testosterone therapy
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>> probably good for you.
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>> This is that thing they did with Peter
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Atia. Um, red light. You don't No, you
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No,
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>> there's no scientific
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>> vitamins. A vitamin supplements.
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>> Some of them. Some of them and some not.
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Like a vitamin D, a vitamin K. Uh, some
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of the E super EPA stuff. Yes. Creatine.
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Yes. Some of them ridiculous.
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>> I do creatine every day.
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>> Yeah, creatine is very good. What else?
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>> What about um NAD? Either infusions or
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the pills? Most people just think
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there's no scientific yet yet not not to
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push them out. Not to push them out, but
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you know, peptides is a big moment here,
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but unfortunately a lot of people are
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using them uh ineffectively or
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dangerously.
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>> But is there evidence that peptides
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might have?
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>> We don't know yet. We don't know. Not
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yet. Not yet. That's a like there's a
00:18:35
lot of stuff like we'll see. It's just
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how you use it and how it's deployed.
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Like in the beginning of GLP1s, a lot of
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people were getting shitty compounds and
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getting really sick, right? So don't do
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compounded these things. compounded. So
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it's it's a matter of the one that is
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keep going. Go ahead. What else?
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>> Masturbation. Great.
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>> Uh cold sauna or cold plunges or sauna?
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>> Sauna. Hot sauna. Yes. Cold plunges.
00:19:00
There's a lot new science show may be
00:19:01
really problematic on people. Although I
00:19:04
know all the bros love it. Um but
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there's all these these issues around uh
00:19:08
the shock and and different things. Hot
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sauna is absolutely one of the things.
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Let me tell you the number one thing
00:19:13
both scientifically and and both
00:19:16
causally and uh correlation is friends
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and family
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>> 100.
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>> I want to I want to come back to that.
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So next one getting plowed by six hockey
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players and rethinking everything. Just
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rethinking everything. Cara is that good
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for my health.
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>> It is good for your health. Just be
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careful.
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>> Just rethinking.
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>> But you you mentioned the one thing the
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only thing I would add the the the
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absolute key to longevity. You just you
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just referenced it. Mhm.
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>> key to good health and longevity,
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relationships.
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>> Relationships 100 a million%. And
00:19:47
related to that is the use of social
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media and synthetic relationships. Lack
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of friction wrongly.
00:19:54
Lack of friction for your brain. Brain
00:19:56
plasticity. Play games with people. Do
00:19:59
different things. Talk to people you
00:20:00
don't know. It has real health effects.
00:20:03
Argue. You and I are going to live
00:20:04
forever because of our relationship. You
00:20:06
know, I'm just saying that's it was
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really surprising. The number one thing
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and I'm not trying to be like all be
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have be friends. Talk to people you
00:20:13
don't know. Do things that challenge
00:20:14
you. Um be involved in the community.
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The more you are in the uh online space
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with synthetic relationships, the
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quicker you're going to die.
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>> Anyway, I interviewed Timothy Snyder
00:20:25
yesterday, the guy who's the protest
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expert,
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>> and we were talking about and I
00:20:29
challenged him. I said, "Are protests
00:20:31
the new door knockocking?" And that is
00:20:32
they're losing effectiveness. And he
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pushed back really solidly. He had a
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couple really strong points. He said,
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"One, when people organize, it creates
00:20:40
an infrastructure for other activities."
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He said, "What's happened in
00:20:42
Minneapolis, people organize and then
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they get a database of people, they
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figure out how to communicate with each
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other, and they've been turning out on a
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dime to observe ICE raids. And a lot of
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that is because the infrastructure
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that's been built through protest." And
00:20:58
he also said something very powerful,
00:21:00
very simple. He said, "You feel better
00:21:02
when you do something with other
00:21:03
people." And it was so simple but so
00:21:05
puncturing. You feel better when you do
00:21:08
something with other people.
00:21:10
>> Yep. And it's good for your health as it
00:21:12
turns out. It's very good for your
00:21:13
health and it's great to bring back
00:21:14
community. And again, neuroplasticity.
00:21:17
Anyway, uh moving on. We've got a lot to
00:21:19
any We're very excited. Scott's site.
00:21:21
What's the name of it again?
00:21:22
>> Resist and unsubscribe or unsubscribe
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February. If you like this idea, don't
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like and subscribe. Resist and
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unsubscribe. And also, please post. I'll
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be posting my receipts
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>> ideas.
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receipts. If you've unsubscribed from
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Amazon Prime for the month or whatever
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it might be, please post it to your
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social and try and drive people to the
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>> resist and unsubscribe.
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>> Yes, you can do something. And mine is
00:21:50
Cariser wants to live forever.
00:21:52
>> There you go.
00:21:52
>> Only Megan Kelly thinks that's not a
00:21:54
good thing. Anyway, moving on. We've got
00:21:56
a lot to get to today, including big
00:21:57
tech earnings and major social media
00:21:59
trials going on. So, let's dig in. White
00:22:01
House borders are Tom Hman. He of the
00:22:04
Baggo Money just gave a presser in
00:22:06
Minneapolis a little while ago, noting
00:22:07
he's on the ground to quote regain law
00:22:09
and order. It's Tom Tom says he's made a
00:22:12
lot of progress since he got there like
00:22:14
3 days ago. This follows Trump saying he
00:22:16
would deescalate a little bit earlier in
00:22:18
the week, but the violence hasn't
00:22:20
stopped. Uh Representative Ilan Omar was
00:22:22
attacked with an unknown substance at a
00:22:24
town hall on Tuesday. It's the latest
00:22:26
instance against a member of Congress,
00:22:27
Representative Max, while Frost was
00:22:29
physically assaulted at Sundance last
00:22:31
week, and both are Democrats, just so
00:22:32
you know, and quite uh more on the
00:22:34
liberal end of everything. Meanwhile,
00:22:36
the two federal agents who shot at Alex
00:22:38
Freddy have been put on administrative
00:22:40
leave. Border Patrol Commander Greg
00:22:42
Bovino has left Minnesota, but Homeland
00:22:44
Security uh Secretary Christy Gnome is
00:22:47
hanging on to her job for now. She's now
00:22:48
there's a lot of pictures of her her and
00:22:51
a head of lettuce going on three quart
00:22:53
and that there's a lot of infighting in
00:22:54
them in the between and among all those
00:22:56
people. Threearters of House Democrats
00:22:58
are backing her impeachment and a couple
00:23:00
of Republicans in the Senate are calling
00:23:01
for ouster Tom Telis who's leaving
00:23:03
doesn't give a [ __ ] anymore has finally
00:23:05
found his balls. Uh what do you make of
00:23:07
the changing of tact and also note Amy
00:23:09
Clolobashar has just officially
00:23:11
announced her bid for uh Minnesota uh
00:23:13
governor. Your thoughts?
00:23:15
>> Oh, it's interesting. I didn't know that
00:23:16
that Senator Clolobish is running for
00:23:18
governor. I think that's a great idea.
00:23:20
Um I think you know I've called this
00:23:22
before and I've been wrong. I do think
00:23:23
this is a turning point and the
00:23:26
>> when I was in high school, my mom gave
00:23:28
me a bunch of John Irving books, you
00:23:30
know, the world according to Gar. They
00:23:32
made me just feel a lot better about
00:23:33
myself when I realized everyone else is
00:23:35
[ __ ] up and neurotic and having weird
00:23:37
thoughts
00:23:38
>> and it had a big impact on me. One of
00:23:40
the books that also had a big impact on
00:23:41
me was George Orwell's 1984. I think in
00:23:44
some ways it kind of might be the reason
00:23:45
I kind of went down the progressive
00:23:48
path, but there's a line in there and
00:23:51
I'll get it wrong, but it's basically
00:23:53
and the last act of the government was
00:23:56
to ask us to ignore or deny our our what
00:24:01
we saw and what we heard that basically
00:24:04
all of a sudden the government had gone
00:24:05
to no longer trust your faculties of
00:24:09
observation. Just
00:24:10
>> it was the last and most important.
00:24:12
>> There you go. Thank you. And you always
00:24:14
have to one up me.
00:24:15
>> I'm just saying I
00:24:16
>> Why does Cash want to live forever?
00:24:18
Anyways, so
00:24:19
>> so I can be with you.
00:24:21
>> But down. Yeah, there you go. Now we're
00:24:23
like that stuff your corpse and have it
00:24:25
next to me like I'll just like a like a
00:24:28
>> I'm doing taxiderermy.
00:24:29
>> Yeah, I'm doing taxiderermy. Go ahead.
00:24:31
Go ahead.
00:24:32
>> That moment that literally that quote
00:24:34
just popped into my mind when Christy
00:24:36
Gnome or Secretary Gnome got up. Right.
00:24:40
We generally have these Judeo-Christian
00:24:42
values and I imagine there are also
00:24:44
other other religions. I don't mean to
00:24:45
limit it, but that says when someone
00:24:48
dies, you don't desecrate them.
00:24:50
>> And when she got up and was so
00:24:52
disrespectful of Alex Pratty and then
00:24:55
also claimed he was a domestic
00:24:57
terrorist.
00:24:58
>> Yeah.
00:24:58
>> And that he was there
00:25:00
>> and that he was there to massacre he was
00:25:02
brandishing a weapon and was there to
00:25:03
massacre federal agents.
00:25:06
>> I think that was Steven Miller. That was
00:25:07
a moment where I thought, "Oh my gosh."
00:25:09
I've never seen I've seen people spin
00:25:11
[ __ ] I've seen people exaggerate. I've
00:25:12
seen them lie. But I've never seen the
00:25:15
administration feel confident that it
00:25:16
could just look people in the eyes and
00:25:18
say, you know, ignore your faculties of
00:25:21
observation and trust, just believe what
00:25:24
we say cuz we're saying it. That for me
00:25:27
was that felt very weird and chilling
00:25:30
and like a turning point. And I think if
00:25:32
you look to Americans's credit, the
00:25:34
majority of people and a lot more
00:25:36
Republicans have said, "Okay, this has
00:25:38
just gone too far." And you know how far
00:25:39
it's gone when all of a sudden when all
00:25:41
of a sudden a guy who took $50,000 in a
00:25:43
brown lunch bag feels like the adult in
00:25:45
the room that people are relieved that
00:25:47
he's there.
00:25:48
>> I know because when he said regain law
00:25:49
and order, I actually think he's
00:25:50
probably talking about the cops
00:25:52
themselves or these these border patrol
00:25:54
people with the masks. Um, I had a, let
00:25:56
me just say, I had a very interesting
00:25:57
discussion with my mom, who of course
00:25:58
I've turned her to CNN because she
00:26:00
decided Caitlyn Collins dresses well and
00:26:02
she likes it and thinks she's adorable.
00:26:04
>> I think that's a good reason to watch
00:26:05
these people.
00:26:06
>> So, uh, one of the things that was
00:26:08
interesting is she she did not like
00:26:10
those things, you know, that and one of
00:26:12
the things that bothered her was the
00:26:13
meanness. It was, even though my mother
00:26:15
can be very mean, um, she didn't love
00:26:18
it. Um, and she one of the things I'll
00:26:20
tell you, she zeroed on the masks. Why
00:26:22
are they why are they wearing masks? And
00:26:24
I said, "No, police don't wear masks."
00:26:25
>> That was the first time judges that put
00:26:27
away cartel.
00:26:29
>> Yeah. She was asking a question, you
00:26:31
know, and I was like, "Well, because
00:26:32
they're private police and they want to
00:26:34
hide." And she's like, "Well, they're
00:26:36
worried about people knowing who they
00:26:38
are." I said, "Yes, because of the
00:26:39
things they're doing." And so, uh, it
00:26:42
was an interesting conversation.
00:26:43
>> Think about how ironic it is. We're now
00:26:45
deploying and coordinating unbelievable
00:26:48
firepower and assets in Iran or in the
00:26:51
Gulf claiming that okay, we need to do
00:26:53
something because the government is
00:26:55
executing people in the street.
00:26:57
>> Yeah.
00:26:57
>> Well, our government is executing people
00:26:59
in the street.
00:27:00
>> That's correct.
00:27:01
>> So that irony granted, it's not on the
00:27:03
same scale, but that irony is not lost
00:27:06
on
00:27:06
>> No. No. Let me point something out.
00:27:08
They're headed to Ohio to do this with
00:27:10
Haitians. Let me They're not stopping.
00:27:12
They raided a an election site, try to
00:27:15
pretend that the election was stolen in
00:27:17
Georgia. Very dangerous. Um they're
00:27:20
they're they're going to do this thing
00:27:21
in Ohio. These people aren't going to
00:27:23
stop. I just don't I know we're like ah
00:27:25
finally we've got him. This guy finally
00:27:27
we never get him. Whoever's controlling
00:27:29
him and I think he's not from what I
00:27:32
understand he's doesn't work very much
00:27:33
during the day. Uh someone high up in
00:27:36
the Trump administration told me he
00:27:38
works 5 hours a day. Um, so they're
00:27:40
another 19 hours is someone else. Um,
00:27:43
and so I think that that they're going
00:27:45
to keep going. They're going to go they
00:27:46
have Steven Miller has no shame and they
00:27:49
will go to Ohio. Um, and and JD Vance
00:27:52
has talked about this. When I think
00:27:53
about this on a metal level, I think
00:27:55
about the Trump administration and MAGA,
00:27:57
a key philosophy or cornerstone is that
00:28:00
they believe if we could just turn back
00:28:01
the clock and go back to ' 50s America
00:28:04
where white people and males were
00:28:07
largely in charge of everything that
00:28:09
this would be a better place. And
00:28:10
they're just uncomfortable with the
00:28:12
browning of America. They're
00:28:13
uncomfortable with more progressive
00:28:14
values. They're uncomfortable with
00:28:16
women's rights. And they just want to
00:28:18
take us back. And it's almost sort of
00:28:20
poetic is the wrong word, but ironic.
00:28:22
Renee Good and Alex Pretty. So, okay,
00:28:25
what do we have here? I mean, it's just
00:28:27
so I don't know if you've noticed this.
00:28:29
We have, and I don't want to be
00:28:32
reductive, but I'm going to be really
00:28:34
lovely
00:28:35
gay parents and a male ICU nurse. It's
00:28:40
almost as if they said, "How do we find
00:28:42
what represents the future
00:28:45
and
00:28:47
push back on it in the most heinous way
00:28:48
possible?" I mean, these two people in a
00:28:52
lot of ways and I's ability to sniff out
00:28:55
really good people. There was a story
00:28:56
about Renee Good and her partner
00:28:59
>> the day before circling the school block
00:29:01
two or three times cuz their kid
00:29:03
struggles with social anxiety and waving
00:29:05
at the kid to make the kid feel more
00:29:06
comfortable.
00:29:08
>> The sendoff, the the video you found of
00:29:11
>> of Alex Prey. I mean, this these were
00:29:13
these are really good. They're not only
00:29:15
really good people, but in a weird way,
00:29:18
I look at them and I think that's the
00:29:20
future of America, and that's what MAGA
00:29:22
hates.
00:29:22
>> Well, they will keep going. And let me
00:29:24
just say, they they do in particular,
00:29:26
let's not take the focus, they are they
00:29:27
have been targeting people of color,
00:29:29
like the immigrants who are hardworking.
00:29:31
Uh they're going for the Haitians now.
00:29:34
Um the people they're trying to weed out
00:29:37
are are very hardworking.
00:29:39
>> Well, I think this was accidental or not
00:29:41
strategic. They didn't say go find a
00:29:42
white ICU nurse. Yeah. But doesn't it
00:29:45
find you as is doesn't it strike you as
00:29:47
just very ironic and almost like out of
00:29:49
a play kind of? It
00:29:51
>> it does. The picture that got me the
00:29:52
most was that that kid I think he his
00:29:55
his parents were 5-year-old was just
00:29:58
like his parents are immigrants and
00:30:01
>> uh that got me the most. I have the hat
00:30:03
and then them sitting they're just
00:30:05
they're so um inhuman uh that it's
00:30:08
really the visuals are quite something.
00:30:10
Now, there have been visuals before,
00:30:11
whether it was the attacks during the
00:30:13
civil rights era, if you remember the
00:30:16
dogs and the and the hoses on on people
00:30:19
of color um down in the south or and
00:30:21
then there was, you know, the the
00:30:23
Vietnam photo of the girl running.
00:30:26
>> I was just thinking of that corpse
00:30:28
moment, the one the one the the child
00:30:31
dead on the beach. There's a lot of very
00:30:34
strong. Yeah, there's a lot the this is
00:30:37
coming at you so hard. That's what I was
00:30:39
talking about this week is that um but
00:30:41
speaking of photos and impact, Tim Cook
00:30:44
is finally speaking out in Minnesota
00:30:46
calling for deescalation. Thanks, Tim.
00:30:48
Um it's like as as bland as the quinoa
00:30:50
you enjoy. Um after facing a backlash
00:30:53
for attending the White House, Melania
00:30:54
premiere uh the same day as Alex Prey
00:30:57
the shooting. Um Cook noted in an
00:30:59
internal memo that he had a good
00:31:00
conversation with the president where he
00:31:01
shared his views. Sam Alman also weighed
00:31:03
in telling Open AI that ICE had go was
00:31:05
going too far. I think though he said
00:31:07
President Trump is a very strong leader
00:31:09
and I hope he'll rise to the moment and
00:31:10
unite the country. Both of them had to
00:31:12
compliment Trump and spent very little
00:31:14
time talking about the victims. In fact,
00:31:16
not at all. Um so very uh very I think
00:31:21
weak sauce responses uh from uh and then
00:31:24
and Almanaged to get a slap in at
00:31:26
Zuckerberg at some point in one of his
00:31:28
statements. um talk a little bit about
00:31:32
this because it's I'll tell you
00:31:34
internally at Apple it's crazy. People
00:31:36
are really furious. I can tell you that.
00:31:38
Um from talking to lots of Apple
00:31:41
employees and all levels of this company
00:31:43
and you know I think of all the
00:31:45
companies it's really interesting. Apple
00:31:47
feels the most betrayal if you if you
00:31:49
look online at least and I know that
00:31:51
doesn't represent everything but it
00:31:53
certainly is not a good look for him to
00:31:54
be standing next to Brett Ratner who has
00:31:56
his own issues. Um, and uh, and in a
00:32:00
tuxedo with the white it just the whole
00:32:03
thing. By the way, no one's ever going
00:32:04
to see this. Melania, one of the more
00:32:06
enjoyable things is people showing
00:32:08
pictures of theaters that sold zero
00:32:10
tickets. Um, because Amazon, why aren't
00:32:12
they more mad at Amazon who paid $40
00:32:15
million, spent $35 million marketing
00:32:17
this, and there were two there was
00:32:18
several Amazon executives at the event.
00:32:21
But what do you think about this? I
00:32:22
think we love Apple. That's why, right?
00:32:24
I guess. I don't know.
00:32:25
>> I think Tim Cook is the new Bob Iger.
00:32:27
and that is he's going to take an
00:32:29
incredible career and put a giant, you
00:32:33
know, [ __ ] stick at the end of it. I
00:32:37
there is an unfortunate but necessary
00:32:40
lesson in life around the intersection
00:32:43
between your participation in time and
00:32:45
other people. And that is the last five
00:32:46
minutes are the most important five
00:32:48
minutes. When you're at a party and
00:32:50
you're leaving, do your best to be as
00:32:52
[ __ ] charming as possible and go
00:32:53
around and say hi. And there's that
00:32:56
famous study where they're giving dudes
00:32:58
colonoscopies and one is just 45 minutes
00:33:00
and the other's 50 minutes but the last
00:33:02
five minutes they don't move it around
00:33:03
so it's not as uncomfortable and the men
00:33:06
who had the device inside of them for 50
00:33:08
minutes it was much more pleasant
00:33:10
because all they remember is the last 5
00:33:11
minutes which was not that unpleasant.
00:33:13
When you leave an organization when you
00:33:15
quit or you've been fired you swallow
00:33:18
everything and you could not be more
00:33:20
[ __ ] charming because that is how
00:33:21
they will remember you. Shockingly,
00:33:23
that's how I lead places. But go ahead.
00:33:25
You think I How dare you?
00:33:27
>> Or just on a more serious level, if
00:33:31
you're getting divorced
00:33:32
>> Mhm.
00:33:33
>> do everything you can to be as gracious
00:33:35
and generous as possible on the way out.
00:33:38
Even if it means taking some lumps,
00:33:40
being treated unfairly.
00:33:42
This this is if you've been married 5,
00:33:45
10, 40 years, everyone, your partner,
00:33:49
their parents, your friends, your kids
00:33:50
will remember who was the bigger person.
00:33:54
And Tim Cook, unfortunately, he's been
00:33:58
an amazing CEO. And I also agree
00:34:01
>> from everyone I know that from everyone
00:34:03
I know that knows him, including you, I
00:34:05
don't know them, they say he's a good
00:34:06
man. But here's the thing. This will be
00:34:10
this this small period towards the end
00:34:11
of his tenure where he shows up to the
00:34:14
White House for a ridiculous premiere
00:34:16
where he says he can't wait to spend
00:34:17
time with Melania when he shows up with
00:34:19
a with a a handwritten disc drive and
00:34:23
literally just is a sickopant to the
00:34:25
president and
00:34:26
>> in the statement adding adding the the
00:34:28
president.
00:34:29
>> That's how he's going to be.
00:34:30
Unfortunately,
00:34:31
>> you didn't put that in. Not this time.
00:34:33
That to me I was like, "Oh, come on.
00:34:35
Leave that out that one sentence. I just
00:34:38
talk what was what did you call our
00:34:39
relationship with Apple in that book
00:34:41
when I met you?
00:34:42
>> Uh Google is God. You know you pray to
00:34:44
it ask it for an answer comes back with
00:34:46
something. Amazon is your gut. Never
00:34:49
consumption you know more for less. Uh
00:34:52
Apple is your genitals. When you the
00:34:55
billion people have iOS are the most
00:34:56
attractive potential mates in the world.
00:34:58
It's the most subtle way of saying you
00:35:01
should have sex with me.
00:35:02
>> Well, I would I would argue more so. You
00:35:04
love I love people love Apple like
00:35:06
>> incredible product.
00:35:07
>> No, but they have a relationship with
00:35:09
it. The whole think different they have
00:35:11
marketed to you in a values way, right?
00:35:14
Privacy.
00:35:15
>> He's added more shareholder value than
00:35:16
any individual in history with the
00:35:18
exception of Jensen Hong. And
00:35:19
unfortunately,
00:35:20
>> but I'm just saying people have that's
00:35:22
what people are like why why do you
00:35:23
attack Apple when Meta is I was like
00:35:25
because we don't like him. We like
00:35:27
Apple.
00:35:28
>> Well, this feels like more of a
00:35:29
betrayal. We thought if there was one
00:35:31
person who was going to stand up and say
00:35:33
uh I have been a huge beneficiary of
00:35:35
rule of law and the progress of rights
00:35:38
in America and Apple's been an enormous
00:35:40
beneficiary of competition and rule of
00:35:43
law and what's going on here is directly
00:35:45
contrary to everything that's given me
00:35:46
incredible opportunities and created $4
00:35:49
trillion in shareholder value. We are
00:35:50
not down with this. But instead, he's
00:35:52
like, well, I'd love to hang out with
00:35:53
Melania. Just make sure that we're
00:35:54
exempt from those those China those
00:35:56
pesky China tariffs
00:35:57
>> and deescalate the word. This this
00:35:59
statement was such weak sauce. It was
00:36:01
deescalate. Like I also thought and as
00:36:03
Stephanie Rule actually correctly
00:36:05
pointed out, it was bland. And the one
00:36:07
from the Minneapolis Commerce was like,
00:36:09
let's de let's all get along. I'm like
00:36:12
there's there is a side here and it's
00:36:14
not with the police at this moment or
00:36:16
not the police. The police are doing
00:36:18
great in Minneapolis. It's the um it's
00:36:20
these thugs from from and they have
00:36:24
given Tim Cook and the rest of tech a
00:36:27
very easy way to say how dare you talk
00:36:30
about people like that which you were
00:36:31
just talking about Christine Gnome. They
00:36:33
have gone to a ghoulish place and one
00:36:36
person who did speak out let me just say
00:36:38
Venode Kosla went distel Keith Ra boy
00:36:43
was saying about the shooting who
00:36:45
because Keith was wrong as always. Um,
00:36:47
and he also got into a beef with Elon
00:36:49
Musk, very public about racism, which
00:36:52
was I I'm not surprised Venode is like
00:36:54
that. But like it didn't cost Venode
00:36:57
anything to do that. And Venote and I
00:36:58
don't agree on lots of stuff, right?
00:37:00
Sometimes he says, I'm like, are you
00:37:02
kidding me? But like he was a person,
00:37:05
right? He and this these statements by
00:37:07
Cook and uh and Sam Alman and the rest
00:37:10
of them, they're not you're not people.
00:37:12
Stop acting like you're not people. And
00:37:14
that's like having to throw in President
00:37:16
Trump as a very strong leader or I had a
00:37:18
discussion with President Trump.
00:37:21
How rich do you have to be that you
00:37:23
point of having all this money?
00:37:24
>> What is the point of being this powerful
00:37:26
and having to to be such a just a weak
00:37:31
person and a weak moral person that to
00:37:34
me I just don't understand. People keep
00:37:36
people ask me like what job is safe from
00:37:38
AI and I say I personally think if I
00:37:40
were to bet on one job that's only going
00:37:42
to increase in importance. It's things
00:37:44
around communication, strategic
00:37:46
communications, investor relations, PR.
00:37:48
And the two biggest communications
00:37:50
mistakes of the last probably quarter
00:37:52
happened in the last week. On a
00:37:54
corporate level, whoever the [ __ ] didn't
00:37:56
literally bodyb block Tim Cook from not
00:37:59
only going to that dinner, but but
00:38:02
getting a picture with Brett Ratner. And
00:38:04
I'm not I'm not going to make a judgment
00:38:06
on Brett Ratner's past,
00:38:08
>> but please don't read about it.
00:38:10
>> But that's just not a that's just not a
00:38:12
good look to be at the Melania premiere
00:38:14
taking I mean it's like the any PR
00:38:17
person who has any intelligence in Apple
00:38:19
thought, okay, I'm about to get fired
00:38:21
and I deserve to be fired. And then the
00:38:23
second biggest communications mistake, a
00:38:25
rookie move was for the administration
00:38:27
to create a talking point that, oh, you
00:38:30
show up with a gun, you're looking for
00:38:31
trouble at a protest. And also the NRA
00:38:34
came out and said, "Look," and there's
00:38:36
some data here.
00:38:38
>> If you have the training that uh Alex
00:38:40
Prey had and you have a license to carry
00:38:43
and conceal and you've never committed
00:38:45
so much as a misdemeanor, you're seven
00:38:48
to 10 times less likely to commit a
00:38:50
crime. There is something to the notion
00:38:52
of safe, well-trained, registered, you
00:38:55
know, carry laws. And
00:39:01
the protest is looking to get denying
00:39:04
people's right to
00:39:07
oh
00:39:08
>> he first amendment and now you decide in
00:39:11
one fell swoop to talk about violating
00:39:12
the second amendment claiming that
00:39:14
people that have guns are looking for
00:39:16
trouble and more deserving. The entire
00:39:18
second amendment is meant to prevent
00:39:21
this. we need to arm as a citizenry in
00:39:24
case tyranny takes over from the
00:39:26
government.
00:39:27
>> But that's not what he was even doing.
00:39:28
He wasn't even brandishing the word
00:39:30
brandish. He was brand that I think
00:39:32
gnome said that he was brandishing a
00:39:34
gun. He didn't brandish anything. He
00:39:35
never touched his gun. Brandish
00:39:38
Christie.
00:39:39
>> But that was just such a huge error on
00:39:42
their part cuz quite frankly when the
00:39:43
NRA weighs in and says this is [ __ ]
00:39:46
it becomes a very bipartisan issue.
00:39:48
>> Well, in any case, Tim Cook, bad show.
00:39:51
Bad show all around. I think you should
00:39:53
do an interview with Cara Swisser and
00:39:54
then see if you can make it through
00:39:55
that. Anyway, uh let's go on a quick
00:39:58
break. When we come back, Big Tech goes
00:40:00
to court over addictive products.
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00:41:03
Scott, we're back with more news. This
00:41:05
is a really interesting big tech trial
00:41:07
taking place that we haven't really paid
00:41:08
attention to. kicked off in LA this week
00:41:10
where a plaintiff is suing Meta, Tik
00:41:12
Tok, Snap, and YouTube claiming personal
00:41:14
injury through addictive products. This
00:41:16
claims uh features like infinite
00:41:18
scrolling and algorithm recommendations
00:41:20
lead to compulsive use resulting in
00:41:21
problems like depression and anxiety. Um
00:41:24
executives including Mark Zuckerberg are
00:41:26
expected to testify with nine cases
00:41:28
likely to be heard. Tik Tok and Snap
00:41:30
settled with the with the first plaint.
00:41:33
It's kind of a little bit of a big
00:41:34
tobacco moment. I and I know these
00:41:36
trials you never know where they're
00:41:37
going to go, but really people are have
00:41:40
not been paying attention to this trial
00:41:42
and it's in an area you and I talk about
00:41:44
a lot and there's plenty of plenty of
00:41:47
texts back and forth about obsession and
00:41:49
addiction and and there's a lot of
00:41:52
discovery here um that should be really
00:41:54
interest of these executives talking
00:41:56
about what they're doing very similar to
00:41:58
big tobacco. Yeah, we know when they
00:42:00
smoke it they love it. Like we know
00:42:02
they're addicted, that kind of stuff.
00:42:03
And so I think it should be a really re
00:42:05
I mean we know they know this and
00:42:08
someone like Tristan Harris has been
00:42:10
talking about it for years. I've been
00:42:11
talking about it. You've been talking
00:42:12
about it. Um you know and now it's got
00:42:15
to the dangers of suicide with young
00:42:16
people too. So any thoughts?
00:42:18
>> We're going to look back on this era and
00:42:21
decide that letting a 16-year-old on
00:42:22
Snap or on Instagram or on TikTok is
00:42:25
probably more harmful than if we'd let
00:42:27
16-year-olds smoke cigarettes or drink
00:42:29
alcohol. 6% of teens um qualify as being
00:42:33
addicted to drugs or alcohol. 24%
00:42:36
qualify as addicts to social media. And
00:42:38
the heaviest users are twice as likely
00:42:41
to have suicidal intent. They're also
00:42:44
the group in the highest usage are more
00:42:46
likely to express poor body image more
00:42:49
than the lowest use group. The bottom
00:42:51
line this is
00:42:53
to say this is like kids smoking is
00:42:56
unfair to tobacco when I I I mean this
00:43:00
is going to sound I said this and I got
00:43:02
a ton of [ __ ] for it a few years ago and
00:43:03
it was the first time I was featured on
00:43:04
late night TV. Not in a good way. Let's
00:43:07
do it again. Let's say it again.
00:43:08
>> Well, I said I'd rather give my
00:43:10
16-year-old a bottle of Jack and some
00:43:12
weed than
00:43:14
a Tik Tok.
00:43:16
>> Oh, no. I agree with you, but go ahead.
00:43:17
and and they played that and said that
00:43:19
was so ridiculous when I I didn't I hung
00:43:21
out with a Mormon kid all through in a
00:43:23
in a and a a great athlete in high
00:43:26
school and neither of them drank. I
00:43:27
actually think I could have benefited
00:43:29
from easing into alcohol anyways. this
00:43:32
social media that I've said this that
00:43:35
the the thing we're going to regret most
00:43:36
we're going to look back and think how
00:43:37
did we let this happen to our kids and
00:43:39
and even outside of hardcore addiction
00:43:43
I'm not exaggerating 60%
00:43:46
maybe 70% of the family anxiety
00:43:50
my family registers
00:43:52
arguments between me and the kids
00:43:54
arguments between the kids and their
00:43:55
mother arguments between me and their
00:43:57
mother revolve around the [ __ ] ing phone
00:44:02
and social media.
00:44:03
>> I feel you. I feel you, Scott.
00:44:05
>> And when we leave our kid alone and we
00:44:07
go on vacation and we're checking
00:44:10
custodio and he calls us and he's not at
00:44:12
school and we find out he was on social
00:44:15
media all night and and people say,
00:44:18
"Well, that's bad parenting. You're in
00:44:19
control." Yeah. That means you don't
00:44:21
have kids.
00:44:22
>> Exactly.
00:44:23
>> It's not a collective movement. If you
00:44:25
take your kid off a snap, he is then
00:44:28
further depressed because he's
00:44:30
ostracized because this is how these
00:44:31
kids communicate with each other.
00:44:34
>> It needs to be a collective action.
00:44:36
There should be no synthetic
00:44:37
relationship.
00:44:38
>> Collective actions. Can Can I add I have
00:44:40
to say one of the greatest moments my
00:44:42
parenting is when my son without
00:44:44
unbeknownst to me used Amazon to order a
00:44:46
box to put his phone in. Alex did it um
00:44:49
and lock it away to do his homework cuz
00:44:51
it was distracting him. You know what I
00:44:53
mean? like he this when he was in high
00:44:55
school I was really proud of him like he
00:44:57
understood the issue easily and one of
00:45:00
the things that's really hard um is
00:45:03
including for adults I was at one work
00:45:06
meeting and I made everyone put the
00:45:07
phone in the middle of the table it was
00:45:09
very uncomfortable
00:45:10
>> I'm addicted let me be clear I was like
00:45:12
put them in the middle don't touch them
00:45:13
don't touch them like oh I have to my
00:45:15
kid I'm like it'll be fine nobody's
00:45:17
nobody's going to get in an emergency
00:45:19
and if it is I'm sorry in advance but it
00:45:22
probably isn't
00:45:23
Um, it's really hard. And I think what's
00:45:24
going to be interesting here, we have to
00:45:26
move on from this, but let's pay we're
00:45:27
going to pay attention to this trial
00:45:28
because it's really important. But we're
00:45:30
going to read out some of the texts and
00:45:32
emails that these people know exactly
00:45:35
what they're doing and they they they
00:45:37
relish it. They relish the hold they
00:45:40
have on people. They relish the hold
00:45:42
they have on teens and they are very
00:45:44
aware just like big tobacco of what
00:45:47
they're up to here and no matter what
00:45:49
they say in public. And so that will be
00:45:52
stuff. We'll be doing dramatic readings
00:45:53
of that. All right, Scott, let's go to
00:45:56
on a quick break. When we come back,
00:45:57
we'll talk big tech earnings.
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00:47:11
Scott, we're back with more news. The
00:47:12
S&P 500 crossed the 7,000 mark for the
00:47:15
first time ever on Wednesday ahead of
00:47:16
major tech earnings. Tech, of course,
00:47:18
fueled it. Let's walk quickly through
00:47:20
the results. Meta posted a strong
00:47:22
quarter uh with fourth quarter sales up
00:47:23
24% year-over-year. That's really
00:47:25
impressive. His AI spending spree
00:47:27
continues with a projected capex of up
00:47:29
to 135 billion in 2026. Probably a lot
00:47:32
of that will be dedicated hopefully to
00:47:34
advertising for them because that's
00:47:35
where they'll get the most bang for
00:47:37
their buck. Uh Microsoft also shows no
00:47:39
sign of pulling back on AI, spending $
00:47:41
37.5 billion on capex in the latest
00:47:44
quarter. Uh 66% increase from last year.
00:47:47
The picture was less rosy for Tesla,
00:47:49
which reported uh a 61% drop in net
00:47:52
income for the quarter, down 46% for the
00:47:54
year. The stock is still soaring
00:47:55
inexplicably. Tesla is also scrapping
00:47:57
the Model S and X cars using the factory
00:48:00
space to build robots. He's going all in
00:48:01
on robots. I one thing I say about him,
00:48:04
he's when he goes for it, he goes for
00:48:05
it. and I've heard is some of his
00:48:06
robotic stuff is very impressive, but
00:48:08
nonetheless, he's betting the farm on
00:48:10
it. Again, it's investing about $2
00:48:11
billion in XAI. The combination of
00:48:14
robotics and XI and X, excuse me, um AI
00:48:17
to me is really important. I've talked
00:48:19
about this before. Um also, there's
00:48:21
layoffs at Amazon and related to AI and
00:48:24
Pinterest, very large layoffs. Uh
00:48:27
they're all sort of using AI to to to
00:48:30
cut labor costs. Um what jumps out at
00:48:33
you the most? Well, I think AI is going
00:48:35
to add a lot of shareholder value, but
00:48:36
not where we think it's going to add the
00:48:38
most value. I think the AI native
00:48:39
companies are overvalued right now. I
00:48:41
think the invi Nvidia, the open AI, the
00:48:45
anthropics of the world are probably
00:48:47
overvalued. Where I do think you'll see
00:48:49
an increase in shareholder value is the
00:48:51
application of it, specifically
00:48:52
autonomous. I think Whimo is going to be
00:48:54
a trillion dollar company on its own. um
00:48:57
targeting of ads and and making the
00:49:01
consumer experience better and creating
00:49:03
a better advertising stack. I gotta be
00:49:05
honest, I think I think um I think
00:49:07
Instagram and threads get better every
00:49:10
day. I think they're fantastic. I think
00:49:12
the consumer experience and also
00:49:14
>> so does Gemini on Google, by the way.
00:49:16
I've done a little poking around around
00:49:18
how an advert I just don't see why I I I
00:49:21
can't imagine what it's like to be
00:49:22
selling ads for MSNBC right now when the
00:49:25
person the person from Meta or Google
00:49:28
show up and show and show you what they
00:49:29
can do. Oh, you're targeting kids who
00:49:32
just got their driver's licenses in
00:49:34
Montlair, New Jersey. No problem. We can
00:49:36
reach them one at a time at scale
00:49:38
>> with perfect ads that are help
00:49:40
>> at the right moment. it ends up people
00:49:42
want to buy life insurance uh and you
00:49:45
know at 700 p.m. right after I mean they
00:49:47
just anyways um uh so Meta's earnings
00:49:52
incredible revenue up 24% yearonear
00:49:56
>> it's a big company
00:49:57
>> and not only that their employee base
00:49:58
wasn't up 24% I don't have the number
00:50:00
but I think it was barely up
00:50:03
>> and then
00:50:04
>> Microsoft
00:50:05
>> um
00:50:07
the one that was down six or 7% they
00:50:09
were up 7% the one that was down was
00:50:11
Microsoft because uh Azure didn't let up
00:50:13
its cloud company didn't um uh it had
00:50:17
growth of 39% which still topped analyst
00:50:20
expectations but unfortunately the new
00:50:22
expectations is that you blow away
00:50:24
expectations
00:50:26
um u but still Azure cloud computing the
00:50:30
demand is so great that Microsoft's
00:50:32
backlog of commercial bookings were up
00:50:34
110% to 625 billion there's some
00:50:37
concerns about over reliance on open AI
00:50:40
where as a whopping 45% of this backlog
00:50:43
is attributed to their core of a
00:50:45
trillion dollar agreement they made in
00:50:46
October. And also its gross margins
00:50:49
because of the increase in capex is the
00:50:51
lowest it's been in 3 years coming in
00:50:53
around 68% which spooks some people.
00:50:56
Tesla I can't even I can't even begin to
00:50:59
understand what the [ __ ] is going on
00:51:01
there. I think this this stock should be
00:51:02
down 90%. It's become a meme stock. It's
00:51:05
that's all I have heard I I suspect he's
00:51:08
just decided cars aren't the way to do
00:51:10
it and that he has some advantages in
00:51:12
robotics and several people have who
00:51:14
have called me recently and said
00:51:16
actually he's doing a lot of really
00:51:17
innovative stuff around robotics. It's
00:51:19
just he's bedding the farm on that
00:51:21
everyone wants to have an Optimus robot
00:51:23
in their house, I guess. But who knows?
00:51:26
>> But it's a I'm sorry. Go ahead, T.
00:51:28
>> He's done it before. Like that's the
00:51:29
only thing I would say, but he hasn't
00:51:31
shown. The other thing he's done before
00:51:32
is say we're going to land on Mars.
00:51:34
We're going to He makes promises he
00:51:36
never his mouth makes promises he can't
00:51:38
keep in in reality. So the question is
00:51:42
like getting rid the Model S and X cars
00:51:45
were made by Rivian and Lucid and and
00:51:47
and the Chinese, right? He's gotten out
00:51:50
of this business. He's not in the car
00:51:51
business anymore, it seems like. And so
00:51:54
the question is, can this robotics
00:51:56
business meet the challenge? We'll see.
00:51:58
>> Well, to be fair, they did beat
00:52:00
expectations, but let's talk about what
00:52:02
those expectations were.
00:52:04
>> The revenues are down of all the
00:52:06
companies we talk about. No one no one
00:52:08
is down. my you know what Met is up 23%.
00:52:11
Um and then overall a horrific quarter
00:52:15
their operating margins and that is the
00:52:18
amount of money you get to hold on to
00:52:20
was 7.2%
00:52:22
in last year in the same quarter this
00:52:24
year was down to 46%. That's like a
00:52:26
that's a meltdown. Their free cash flow
00:52:28
decreased 30%. Their gap net income
00:52:32
decreased 61%. They realized
00:52:35
>> they got a half a billion dollars in
00:52:36
automotive regulatory credits that are
00:52:38
going to be running out thanks to the
00:52:39
big beautiful bill.
00:52:41
>> People still believe in him. They're
00:52:42
giving him money for X. I think he's
00:52:43
going to merge it into XA. Like I keep
00:52:45
saying,
00:52:46
>> he's now using Tesla as kind of
00:52:47
nutrition for XAI. They disclosed that
00:52:50
Tesla invested 2 billion in Musk's
00:52:52
company XAI.
00:52:54
So this is, you know, and he's needs a
00:52:57
new vision, a new distraction, and as
00:52:58
you said, he's gone all in on Optimus,
00:53:00
which I think is going to compete with
00:53:03
the Cybert truck and the Segway and the
00:53:05
Palm is the biggest flops in history. Or
00:53:07
maybe the mixed reality headset.
00:53:09
>> Yeah.
00:53:09
>> The other thing that struck me was the
00:53:11
layoffs in Amazon.
00:53:12
>> Yeah.
00:53:12
>> And that is they by the way
00:53:14
>> 16. Yeah. But it's for different
00:53:16
reasons. Pinterest is doing it because
00:53:17
Pinterest is [ __ ] in subscale. I like
00:53:20
Pinterest. I like the people there. It's
00:53:21
subscale. it's going to have a very
00:53:23
difficult time. Um, Amazon laid off
00:53:26
16,000 people in their corporate
00:53:27
workforce, which doesn't sound like a
00:53:28
lot because they employ 1.6 million
00:53:30
people, but the majority of those people
00:53:31
are in their factories. This is probably
00:53:33
close to 10% of their corporate staff.
00:53:36
And this really is I've said for a long
00:53:38
time that AI is corporate ompic. All
00:53:42
these guys are going, you know, I mean,
00:53:44
Amazon has said they're going to double
00:53:47
their topline retail revenue in the next
00:53:50
five to seven years without a single
00:53:53
increase in the number of headcount.
00:53:56
That's AI. And then also I think the
00:53:58
place and Amazon's my big tech stock
00:54:00
pick for 26
00:54:02
the the collision and you've referenced
00:54:04
this of AI industrialized robots of
00:54:06
which Amazon has a million
00:54:08
industrialized robots and the total
00:54:10
number of industrial robots in America
00:54:12
outside of Amazon is 400,000.
00:54:15
So they have gone just as Musk is going
00:54:19
allin on robots no [ __ ] sense.
00:54:22
Amazon, Jaffy and Bezos are going all in
00:54:25
on AI driven industrialized robots.
00:54:28
>> They were there before. They bought a
00:54:29
company called KA many years ago. But
00:54:31
just so you know, recent Amazon layoffs
00:54:33
plus October layoffs is 10% of the
00:54:35
company. It's it's a pre they had one.
00:54:37
>> Oh, is it? Thank you. Yeah.
00:54:38
>> But UPS cut 30,000 jobs. I mean, these
00:54:42
guys
00:54:43
>> are
00:54:43
>> industrial robotics. That's AI. I
00:54:46
interviewed David Solomon from Goldman
00:54:47
Sachs on Prog and he said uh I mean I
00:54:51
they're planning to grow their revenue
00:54:53
substantially in the next two or three
00:54:54
years. Goldman's in a great spot right
00:54:55
now. Great leadership. They're doing
00:54:57
well. Uh but he admitted employment will
00:55:00
begin to flatten. You know, no CEO is
00:55:04
going to come out and say I'm going to
00:55:05
reduce 10 or 20% of my workforce, right?
00:55:07
No, they can't say that because then
00:55:09
everyone the best people start leaving.
00:55:11
But what he did say is it's going to
00:55:12
flatten. So what we're looking at here,
00:55:15
>> black is the new up,
00:55:17
>> right? But what this takes their
00:55:19
earnings and absolutely makes them go
00:55:22
crazy. And then when these companies do
00:55:24
well, everyone, you know, the S&P does
00:55:26
well because the S&P is now kind of the
00:55:28
SM, you know, the it's not the S&P 500,
00:55:30
it's the S&P 10. Anyways, these
00:55:32
companies on the whole continue to just
00:55:34
be extraordinary. And that is until this
00:55:38
movement called resist and unsubscribe
00:55:40
came along. Testicles meet Foot. One
00:55:42
more quick break. This is absolutely
00:55:44
true. O corporate ompic, take it away.
00:55:47
All right, Scott. One more quick break.
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We'll be back for predictions.
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00:56:54
shall I? No, you're gonna go. You're
00:56:56
gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm going to
00:56:58
make one quick prediction, okay? If you
00:56:59
don't mind. The Super Bowl is just a few
00:57:01
weeks away. Um, and go uh Seahawks. Um,
00:57:04
but I've already uh have a prediction
00:57:06
for the best ad. Lady Gaga, did you see
00:57:08
that? Singing Mr. Rogers Beautiful Day
00:57:11
in Your Neighborhood in an ad for Red
00:57:13
Fin and Rocket Mortgage. I don't really
00:57:14
care about the ad, but they they
00:57:16
released a teaser clip and she sounds
00:57:18
amazing.
00:57:19
>> She's got an incredible voice.
00:57:20
>> Oh, it's going to be the best ad. I'm
00:57:22
going to We'll talk about the ads later
00:57:23
cuz that's
00:57:24
>> That was not the prediction I was
00:57:25
expecting.
00:57:25
>> Okay.
00:57:26
>> It's very similar to mine in that is
00:57:27
we're about to uh engage in military
00:57:29
strikes against Iran. So, very similar
00:57:32
predictions.
00:57:32
>> Yeah. Okay. Lady Gaga. Okay.
00:57:35
>> It's just so strange that the Epstein
00:57:36
files are now a distraction for me. It's
00:57:38
like the behavior keeps getting more and
00:57:39
more depraved that we have to
00:57:40
>> say they're the safest thing in America
00:57:42
is are the Epstein files, but go ahead.
00:57:44
>> No, I I I've made this prediction before
00:57:46
and I'm just making it again. It feels
00:57:48
like I follow this I love this guy the
00:57:50
Gioar on Tik Tok and there's I mean I'm
00:57:54
f I'm sold I'm just fascinated with
00:57:56
military equipment and it just it
00:57:58
appears that all our assets are being
00:58:00
coordinated in the Gulf for a pretty
00:58:02
obvious reason and I don't know if Trump
00:58:03
is doing it for the right or the wrong
00:58:05
reasons maybe as a distraction but I
00:58:07
think he absolutely loves the Tarzan
00:58:09
flex of of leveraging the best
00:58:12
organization in history and that's the
00:58:13
military and it appears to me that they
00:58:15
are absolutely even the planes that
00:58:17
deploying to the area are like giant gas
00:58:19
stations in the sky.
00:58:21
>> Um I think Israel's on board because I
00:58:23
think they think it would be good for
00:58:24
their brand. So I think you're going to
00:58:25
see a coordinated some sort of
00:58:26
coordinated strike in Iran in the next 7
00:58:29
to 14 days. And that's
00:58:30
>> I think you're going to see a
00:58:30
coordinated strike against Ohio or
00:58:33
wherever they're going to attack the
00:58:34
Haitians who are not eating the cats and
00:58:37
dogs. That's where I think you're going
00:58:38
to see the next strike.
00:58:40
>> Do you think so? You you don't think
00:58:41
they're going to pull back at all?
00:58:42
>> No.
00:58:43
>> Yeah, you're probably right.
00:58:45
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  • Economic Impact Strategies
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    “Economic boycotts do not work if a small population stops spending cold turkey.”
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    “It's called Cara Swisser Wants to Live Forever.”
    @ 12m 58s
    January 30, 2026
  • The Future of Medicine
    AI and gene editing are revolutionizing cancer research and drug discovery.
    “It's astonishing how fast this stuff is moving.”
    @ 16m 37s
    January 30, 2026
  • GLP-1s: The Miracle Drug
    GLP-1s are showing incredible benefits for obesity and health.
    “Every doctor we talked to talked about this.”
    @ 16m 59s
    January 30, 2026
  • Protests and Community Action
    Organizing protests creates infrastructure for community action and support.
    “You feel better when you do something with other people.”
    @ 21m 02s
    January 30, 2026
  • The Importance of Last Minutes
    The last moments of an experience can shape lasting memories. "It's not as uncomfortable..."
    “"All they remember is the last 5 minutes which was not that unpleasant."”
    @ 33m 10s
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  • Big Tech Goes to Court
    A trial in LA sees Meta, TikTok, and others facing claims of personal injury due to addictive features.
    “"This is kind of a little bit of a big tobacco moment."”
    @ 41m 34s
    January 30, 2026
  • Social Media's Impact on Teens
    A discussion on the alarming addiction rates among teens and their mental health.
    “"24% qualify as addicts to social media."”
    @ 42m 36s
    January 30, 2026
  • Microsoft's Azure Growth
    Despite some concerns, Microsoft's Azure cloud computing saw a 39% growth, exceeding expectations.
    “Microsoft's backlog of commercial bookings were up 110% to 625 billion.”
    @ 50m 32s
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  • Tesla's Stock Performance
    Tesla's stock has become a meme stock, with some predicting a 90% drop.
    “It's become a meme stock. That's all I have heard.”
    @ 51m 02s
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  • Amazon's Layoffs
    Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate employees, marking a significant reduction in workforce.
    “This is probably close to 10% of their corporate staff.”
    @ 53m 36s
    January 30, 2026
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    AI is reshaping corporate structures, with companies like Amazon planning to double revenue without increasing headcount.
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