A new study says that coffee is good for your liver, and a new study that says eating too much sugar is bad for your brain. Also, Amazon won't allow the softcover version of my new book, "Win Bigly" to be published in two forms: hardcover and softcover.
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00:00:34.340Well, is there anything coffee can't do? There's a new study that says it's good for your liver.
00:00:40.580That's right. You may have noticed. Wow. Look at that podcaster, Scott.
00:00:46.480His liver looks excellent, and it is. It is.
00:00:49.720Now, a lot of people will just drink the coffee, but I like to take my liver out and just sometimes soak it.
00:00:55.220Just soak it right in the coffee, put it back in, go about my business.
00:01:00.280Well, here's a little update. I told you that Amazon was being difficult with my book, Win Bigly, which is all available now.
00:01:11.440The problem was that they were okay with publishing the hard copy, but said that they would not publish the softcover or the Kindle version.
00:01:42.440If you're working with an entity and you can't call them and they won't answer email with anything but a canned response, what do you do?
00:01:49.600So, what I did was I posted to my 1.1 million followers on X that Amazon was thwarting me for what could be a technical problem or it could be political, meaning that they just don't want that content because it's very pro-Trump.
00:02:11.120It's called Win Bigly, the second edition.
00:02:12.980By the way, if you look for it, it is now available completely in all of its forms, except audiobook.
00:02:21.260But you can get it on Kindle and then Amazon KDP, which is a subset of Amazon.
00:02:28.860That's the Amazon KDP allows you to publish as an independent publisher.
00:02:36.120They said that they reviewed my request, and there was nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
00:02:42.360So, the other two forms were approved.
00:02:45.220Now, does that tell you that they knew in the first place that there was nothing wrong with them?
00:02:51.200Because I didn't have to change anything.
00:02:54.400All I had to do is complain in front of a million fucking people and tell them that it looks political to me, and all of a sudden there was no problem with it at all.
00:03:16.640Suggests they need a little work on their user interface there.
00:03:20.420But also, did you know, and this is not on Amazon, only at the Dilbert.com, where you can find the sales link, you can get the 2025 Dilbert calendar.
00:03:30.820It's the page a day one that goes on your desk.
00:03:32.520But this time, it's got comics on both sides of the page, twice as many comics.
00:05:13.540Because it would be considered medically unsafe to not vaccinate a child if you're a doctor.
00:05:21.100You probably think, oh, it's unsafe to do that.
00:05:23.380So, you can't really put together an ethical gold standard, you know, trial with a control group.
00:05:31.280Because it would be sort of unethical, according to current modern medical standards.
00:05:38.040It would be unethical to say, all right, you group, we're going to pretend to vaccinate you, but they're not real vaccinations.
00:05:44.760So, you can't do that kind of experimenting with humans, especially children.
00:05:48.800So, how would you ever know if you're getting a better result with the vaccination versus not the vaccination, if there's no ethical way to test it?
00:05:58.660Well, what happens if a record number of kindergartners decide not to get vaccinated?
00:06:07.780You've created a natural control group.
00:06:09.980So, how long will it take before we know for sure, because we just study the unvaccinated, compare them to the vaccinated, control for demographics, because that's the hard part.
00:06:22.160You know, it might be that the rich people are doing the anti-vaccine stuff.
00:06:26.740So, you'd have to make sure that you can control for demographics and socioeconomic everything.
00:06:31.920But we should very soon have all the data we need to know if the vaccinations are causing autism or anything else.
00:07:40.760I would not be necessarily the designer because, you know, I don't have those skills.
00:07:46.360But what I would do is I'd put together a team of people to help me design a city.
00:07:51.440And the first person I'd add to the team would be an AI expert, somebody who could build a chatbot out of AI that would be the organizer for the project so that if anybody had an idea about any subset of how to build the city.
00:08:08.100For example, let's say you had an idea for a new type of sewer system or a cheaper form of providing internet to the city, whatever it is.
00:08:18.740So, you'd go to the page and you'd say, hey, chatbot, I got this idea.
00:09:48.820Imagine that you build 100 homes and then you introduce the idea, and of course, everybody would have to know this in advance before they moved in, that the rest of the homes would be created by effectively barn raising.
00:10:03.480So the city would get together some night, everybody would pitch in, maybe the homes are made by Lego type snap together things, and they just build a home.
00:10:17.680So people really bond when they have a common activity, and they're doing a project.
00:10:23.160So you basically create a project that isn't too much work, because everybody just does a small part of the work, and you build a house, and in the process, the person whose home you're building maybe is serving sandwiches and making sure that you've got beverages.
00:10:40.740Imagine how much you would bond with somebody if you helped build their house and they fed you.
00:10:45.440So that's like the ultimate bonding experience.
00:10:49.800And so you would get to know all your neighbors.
00:15:57.580So he's innocent unless something changes in the court.
00:16:02.920But the story is that he was traveling and took somebody that worked for him
00:16:10.220and said he wouldn't get him a separate hotel room.
00:16:13.340And then at one point, he just appeared naked and started, you know, pressing himself upon her.
00:16:20.520Now, how many times have you heard a story about some rich celebrity person who convinced some adult woman to go to a hotel room?
00:16:32.120And then the first part of the story, you're already like, wait, what?
00:16:36.620How did you get somebody to go to your hotel room when obviously 100 percent of everybody in the world knows that's trouble?
00:16:43.000And you still got somebody to go to your hotel room alone.
00:16:47.420Sure enough, turns out if you're a celebrity, you can get an adult woman to go to your hotel room and be inside the hotel room for extended periods,
00:16:57.480knowing, knowing that nothing good could come from that.
00:17:00.840And there's there's there's not the slightest chance that something appropriate is being planned.
00:19:08.860Do we only hear the stories where where somebody complained?
00:19:12.860Is it so common that the celebrity just drips and says, all right, let's, you know, let's get going.
00:19:20.480Is it so common that there's just the one time you heard about it that somebody didn't like the outcome, but all the other times it worked out and everybody was like, oh, that was pretty good time.
00:19:31.200It makes me very curious about the whole situation.
00:20:11.100I saw reports that there may be way more dead people than we know because communication is bad and the mudslides are going to be really hard to clear to figure out who's at the bottom of them.
00:20:23.180But on top of that, apparently we have 370 substations for the power grid that were underwater or out of service.
00:20:36.980But thank goodness we keep a reserve of extra parts for the substations.
00:20:43.920So, you know, in case there's an emergency and you had like a big problem with a lot of your electrical grid, you would just take the stuff that you hold in reserve in case of emergencies and you'd move it into the grid.
00:20:56.920So, we'll be going to Ukraine and taking it out of their system because apparently our excess transformers and such have been shipped to Ukraine.
00:21:10.100Ukraine had an emergency with their network because of the war and we wanted to back them up so we gave them our emergency reserve.
00:21:18.200And then a hurricane hit and now we're not going to have electricity.
00:21:24.180So, as much as I am always wowed and impressed by American ingenuity, I'm going to tell you something that just feels right based on having lived in the world and seeing how things work and don't work.
00:21:39.060And I've been part of big companies with big projects, you know, installing networks and things like this.
00:21:44.600If you tell me that there are 370 substations that are knocked down by water, water especially, and you tell me that we don't have spare parts and it could take years to build a spare part, just like one, I don't think they're getting electricity back.
00:22:04.700If your impression of what's going on is, wow, this is going to take longer than normal to get electricity back, I don't think that's what's going on.
00:22:16.420I think that the residents are going to have to leave.
00:22:20.060I don't think they're going to get electricity because everything's covered with mud and 370 substations are gone.
00:22:43.520Like, I'd love to hear, oh, we just found another source for them or we use a different vendor or we pay it a little extra and they'll make them faster.
00:22:52.420Maybe, maybe, but if you told me 370 substations were knocked down and we don't have spare parts, my first thought is you better move.
00:23:03.620Like, if you can get to any kind of transportation, because that's not, the lights aren't coming back on, I don't think.
00:23:10.900Now, I would love to see, ideally today, somebody in the news business talking to somebody who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about, somebody who's working on the grid, and ask them, 370 substations around, is the power ever coming back?
00:23:29.460And, you know, of course, eventually it will, but we could be talking years.
00:23:33.280We could easily be talking two to three years, I'm just guessing, before they have electricity.
00:23:41.800And it might have been four months if they had parts.
00:24:09.240There was a great thread by Owen Gregorian, you can see it on my feed, or Owen's, on the number of times that we've transferred electric transformers and that kind of equipment to Ukraine.
00:24:22.280So, if you're wondering if I'm speculating about that equipment going to Ukraine, it's pretty well documented.
00:24:28.620You can see all the instances in the thread.
00:25:08.580As much as we like to talk about public figures and their opinions on politics so that we can mock them or say that they're right or wrong or say that they have TDS or say that they're coming around,
00:25:23.100I don't know that any of that applies to Mark Cuban.
00:25:25.340Because, honestly, when I see him talking about politics, it doesn't look like he's trying to be useful and honest.
00:26:23.860It doesn't even look a little bit useful to even understand what his opinion is or why he has it.
00:26:29.680So, recreationally, he is certainly fun to watch.
00:26:35.360So, I recommend him recreationally, but I wouldn't even get into the, I wouldn't even get into the weeds of why he's responding the way he is.
00:26:45.200I mean, it just looks like trolling to me.
00:26:47.740And it may be trolling with a purpose, but it doesn't look like he's trying to get into a logical and useful conversation about politics to help us all sort out what is true and what is not.
00:27:01.400It doesn't look like anything like that.
00:32:19.260My most fun story of this October is Candace Owens trying to determine if Kamala Harris has any black relatives.
00:32:27.660Now, I want to be clear, I'm not embracing this as true.
00:32:35.260So, Candace apparently contacted one of Kamala Harris's uncles and gave him the name of the person who was supposedly Kamala Harris's grandmother.
00:32:48.300And the uncle said he'd never heard of that name, doesn't even know who that is.
00:32:54.120Now, if that grandmother was supposedly on the same side of the family as the uncle, then that would certainly indicate there's something strange going on.
00:33:03.940Maybe some lies about heritage or something.
00:33:06.620But since the part that I read didn't specify if this uncle was on the same side of the family as the grandmother, because if it's a different side of the family, you could easily not recognize the name.
00:33:20.840So, I don't know if Candace has the goods.
00:54:03.740I'm paraphrasing, but apparently there's documentation that says he said to somebody close to him, family member or staffer, that he didn't know.
00:54:17.500He didn't know for sure that the election was rigged, but that you should always fight like hell.
00:54:22.460And they said, okay, there he knows that the election was fair.
00:54:29.940And I say, wait a minute, your explanation of what he said doesn't match what he just said.
00:54:38.160If he said, I don't know if it was fair or not, but you should always fight like hell.
00:55:34.740So I predicted that the Jack Smith thing would make his case based on the fact that you can brainwash Democrats to believe that ordinary language is being used in a different way than it's ever been used in the history of people talking.
00:55:52.380And that only Trump uses words opposite of what he says, so that when he says, go protest peacefully, he really means fighting.
00:56:02.540When he says, find the votes, he means manufacture them as opposed to it's obvious that something got miscounted.
00:56:09.340And now they're going to do that if you don't know if the election was rigged, you should fight like hell as proof that he knows that they were fair.