at where my work has penetrated, it's definitely me. I'm absolutely the most influential person in the world right now.

I'm looking at the difference between the comments on YouTube versus Locals. It's very different. The Locals people are giving me a break. They're letting me say that. And then the YouTube people are like your ego, your ego is out of control.

Now how many of you know me well enough to know what I'm really doing here? Because I think the Locals people know me well enough. Do you know what I'm really doing here YouTube? Let's see if you can explain it back to me. What am I doing? Like what am I trying to accomplish by this? Is it just my ego? What do you think? No I'm asking you. This is a serious question. What do you think I'm trying to accomplish? Am I just bragging for no particular benefit?

I'm provoking a response. That's right. I'm provoking. Now why do I do that? Why would I provoke a response when I know the response will be to mock me, right? The only response I'm gonna get is mocked. Do you think I didn't know that? So why am I doing it? Why am I doing something that guarantees I will be mocked probably forever like that? Because you know I said it right here in public.

Because the provocation will make you argue about my influence and then in the process of arguing it you're going to talk yourself into it. So I'm actually provoking you because that's going to make my argument for me. You can go off and have a debate about it and guess what? If you find yourself debating how influential I am that actually is your answer. Because you won't be debating how influential anybody else is while you're doing that.

So yeah it creates engagement but it also benefits my point. Now I'm actually completely serious at this point in time. There's nobody even close. I'm the most influential person in America by far. I'm surprised. I thought there'd be a little bit more pushback on that.

What do you think influences Elon? Somebody said Elon Musk is more influential. Elon Musk literally runs Tesla based on the Dilbert philosophy of don't do something that would end up in a Dilbert comic. He runs his company based on my philosophy basically.

Then some of you influenced me. You're right. Putin? Anyone? Wow I really got away with that more than I thought.

Do you know how many best-selling books right now are crediting some part of their book to me? These aren't the only ones. Have you ever seen that Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans? It's basically you know the good advice from successful people. I'm in that as well. Systems versus goals. When anybody in Silicon Valley is asked about career advice, what are the two most likely things they're going to say? If a Silicon Valley professional, somebody important, I see your questions about Tate but he's irrelevant to me at the moment. What are they likely to say? The most likely things people say is passion probably came from me, systems over goals came from me, and build a talent stack directly from me. The basic advice of business is primarily from me now. So that's true.

All right. So let me ask you this. I'm seeing somebody say that my prediction that Ukraine would win the war was wrong. But I think they won the war as far as I can tell. Now Russia picked up territory but they are forever going to be a pariah. So Russia has a permanent loss that I don't think they can recover, which is their customers are going to find alternative sources. Ukraine is basically destroyed but they're still a country.

For Ukraine to win, you know quote win, it means staying as a country and they did. It looks like they will. For Russia to win I don't think it was enough for them to get control of those strategic areas. So you can definitely say they got something out of it and they got something pretty good. But in the long run I think Russia will be degraded by this and I think Ukraine will still exist.

Now technically nobody really wins in a war, do they? You know we say but not really. Mike Rowe says bring your passion to work which is slightly different from what I say.

All right. The US is losing. Yeah maybe the US is losing but I didn't see a pushback on that. Would you say that if Ukraine, let's say if Ukraine stays the way it looks right now where they've lost those strategic regions but they maintain themselves as a country, would you say they won or they lost? Well would you say if things stayed exactly the way they are you'd say would you say they won or they lost? I'm seeing on Locals lost, lost. Interesting. Lost, lost, lost.

All right so but we're looking at the same facts, right? We're looking at, I would say that given that Ukraine did not want to destroy or occupy Russia, what winning would look like for Ukraine is to stay a country. That's how I would define it. Now they could win more by being more prosperous or losing less territory but I would say that they did the, well let me put it this way. True or false that the military professionals were solidly aligned in saying that Russia could take all of Ukraine? Is that true or false? Do I remember that wrong? Was it true that all of the military experts said Russia can take all of Ukraine? That's true.

Who is the one person that you know who said that they can't, that it won't work? Just me. I believe I'm the only person who said in public no I do not believe Russia can take Ukraine. Now I don't remember if I said they can or cannot take any strategic areas because I don't think that was ever a big question. Of course they had the power to do that. But the question of taking all of Ukraine, I believe I alone said they couldn't do it.

Jimmy Dore also, give me a fact check on that. Was Jimmy Dore saying it when I said it? Because I'd give him credit if he did.

Yeah and for those of you who say it's not halftime that's reasonable but i