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biggest legal risk at the moment — correct me if I'm wrong because it might be what I'm missing — is a civil case against Trump the company, not even against Trump himself. So not criminal and not even against Trump. Am I right? That's his biggest risk right now. And what is the power of the case? Let me summarize it. The Trump company handled their accounting the way all normal companies do. That…

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ce would be compared to Biden. Now of course Democrats look at Biden and say yeah he's killing it, he's doing great. And Republicans say the opposite. Although they have the lady who claimed that he raped her in a dressing room in a store, E. Jean Carroll. So I guess she's doing her lawsuit again, but nobody thinks that's going anywhere, right? Isn't that just a he-said-she-said situation? That's the end of it.

On Twitter today Musk said he would discuss buying into Rumble. Oh, did that really happen? Did that really happen? Holy — what's the price of Rumble right now? Can somebody check the stock price? So Rumble was 12 yesterday or this morning. Oh, he was asked to and he declined. Oh come on. All right, he was asked about it and he declined. What? Don't get me all excited about that.

Now you know the reason I'm excited is because I'm an investor. So I invested in the Locals platform which got combined with Rumble. So I ended up accidentally with some Rumble stock, which turned out to be the best accidental investment I ever made. Yeah, Rumble's worth a shot. Nicely done, Rumble. Worth a shot. Okay, well done.

All right. Question: how many of you think that Elon Musk is secretly bankrolling The Babylon Bee? Because if you notice that The Babylon Bee's budget seems to be way better than it used to be, the quality of their content and also the volume of it is suspiciously very good. Now it's not suspicious that they're good because you know they're good. But you saw Elon Musk met with them. Obviously they got along. They have some kind of connection, the founders of The Babylon Bee. Now wouldn't that be the number one most likely thing you would ever expect? You'd expect him to secretly bankroll it just because it's funny. If I had his money, nothing would have kept me from giving some of it to The Babylon Bee. Am I right? Assuming that money is no object, which is a fair assumption. Money is no object. And you know he liked them and you know he likes poking the bear. If they didn't get money from him I would be amazed. I'll be amazed because their quality of the operation just went a long way up.

All right. You would like to have a reframe for how to get women. Do you think I can give this gentleman a reframe that will help him in his dating success? Yes I can. Yes I can. Here's your reframe. You're trying to find a woman. You're trying to find the right woman, right? And you're not finding the right connection. Stop looking for the right woman. Look for lots of people. You want to increase the number of people you're exposed to, not just looking for dates, just the total number of people who you are exposed to. And that's how you increase your odds. Because while I don't think it's necessarily true there's somebody for everybody — it probably isn't — but if your entire universe of people you're looking to get laid is three people, your odds are low. If suddenly you increase to 10 people you have 10 times better odds. But if you're not top 20, still low. If you know 100 people, well now you're talking. Now you're talking. There's somebody who's going to be looking at you too.

So the reframe is it's about numbers. It's not about necessarily just your quality. But I'm going to make a prediction. Whoever it is who just said you know you're having trouble getting women, I'm going to make a prediction that when you take your clothes off and you look in the full-length mirror, you're not delighted. Now I don't mean that as an insult, just a purely practical statement of cause and effect. If you go into the gym and you have a job, you're going to have some interest from the other sex. I know it's not fair. It's not a fair world. But get your body in shape.

All right. So here's — I might lose my power on the Locals feed because I'm getting a low battery message. So I can make that stop if I plug in instead of using the microphone, I guess. Oh yeah, I don't have the power for that. Never mind. Oh I do. Hold on. All right, Locals, you can lose the microphone but you're going to gain power. All right, so that's gaining power while you're here. Yeah, yeah, it helps to be tall. Yeah, but I don't know how many more times I can give this advice. Have you walked down the street lately and looked at your competition? I mean seriously, just go to the mall, go to any public place and just look around. See what you're competing with. What would it take to be in the top 10 percent of fitness for just the people you see around? Just look around. What would it take to be in the top 10 percent? Not much. Not much. Top 10 percent of fitness is the most achievable goal in the United States. I can't even imagine anything easier than that. Maybe falling off a bicycle. Maybe jumping in a mud puddle. That would be easier than being in the top 10 percent of fitness. It just means you tried. I don't even know if you could fail if you tried. You know what I mean? If you started at 400 pounds it's going to take you a while to get there. But unless you've let things go too far, it's not hard to get back into the top 10 percent. And why wouldn't you do that? It's the most controllable thing you can do. So control the hell out of what you can control. Just control everything you can control. So if you control your career stuff by training, making sure you're trained enough you can have a reasonable job, and you can control your fitness and your diet. Same thing. You're going to be in the top 10 percent.

You missed the part about blowing up pipes. You're late.

All right, so that's my statement. Am I obsessed with fitness? That's kind of body shaming too. Well I guess you could put a negative spin on everything, but I wouldn't say I'm obsessed by it. Oh yeah, I guess I am. Yeah, I'll actually accept it. Usually I don't like that "obsessed by" because it had a little judgment in it, but I think in this case I am obsessed by it and I should be. So I would like you to be obsessed by it as well. It's probably the best obsession I have.

Here's another hypothesis and reframe for you. You ready? You don't have an option of not being addicted. Let it go. Let it go. You do not have an option of not being addicted to something, I don't think. Now of course people are different. There's going to be somebody who's the exception to everything, so I'll give you that. But for the average person, you're going to be addicted to something. It's going to be sex, it's going to be food, it's going to be exercise, it's going to be the outdoors, it's going to be your animals, it's going to be your friends. Something. You're going to be addicted to something. So instead of saying I'll try to avoid all addictive things, you should go aggressively at trying to make yourself as addicted as possible to things that will be good for you.

So I'm addicted to exercise intentionally. I've done everything I could do to make myself addicted. I've given myself treats. I make sure I do things I like. I don't push myself too hard. I don't hurt myself too badly. I do everything you could do to make it a rewarding, literally rewarding. I do it at a time of day that it's going to be the best. It recharges me. I track how I feel on days I exercise versus I don't. It's a big difference. That helps me do it. I have a trick for going to the gym when I don't want to go to the gym. I've taught you this before. Put on your gym clothes, especially your footwear, and just having the right clothes on and walking around. I'm like, ah, well I might as well at least go for a short run. You know, I got my clothes on, right? So I do everything I can do to addict myself to a positive thing. So obsession actually is close enough to the right word. Desire and seeking is a human trait.

Okay, can I do some push-ups for you? Women look at men's shoes. Now there's a good tip.

Whoa, David Eagles just paid $50 to tell me that Narcan vending machines are being installed in cities. Hello. Here's what I'd like you to do. We're going to go save some lives. You ready? Now I said this last night in my man cave livestream but I'll do it again for you today. One of the things that this experience does, meaning this livestream that many of you come to every day, is that it's more than just some content I'm spraying out. We have formed an entity accidentally, sort of like an a

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ccidental organization in which we have a collaborative intelligence that can actually solve some problems. And one of the problems with fentanyl overdoses is bad information. So if you had better information you would know for example that Narcan is something you could get at your drugstore. And if you had it nearby and somebody was going into an overdose situation and you got there quickly — I d…

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