Coming to you solo from Prague—my favorite city in the world. I went to Berlin last weekend and recorded an episode there with my buddy Jürgen. In this episode, I discuss “the best movie ever,” raid of John Bolton’s home, and Trump’s recollection of the raid on his home.
Remember when American propagandists told us Trump would start World War III? Now that he’s signed six peace deals in six months, and had 70,000 Cambodian monks call for him to get a Nobel Peace Prize after helping to end fighting between Cambodia and Thailand, it makes you wonder how long we’ve been told the exact opposite of reality.
I also discuss investments, jobs most at risk from AI, a thoughts on marijuana legalization.
Topics discussed:
- Quick trip to Berlin
- Mac Miller’s death at 26 & the “27 Club”
- My first CDs
- Mix of musical genres
- My first trip to Thailand & full moon party experience
- Meeting a Thai DJ wearing a YMCMB hat
- Cash Money concert in 2000
- Seeing Britney Spears live
- Britney Spears’ public image of virginity
- Justin Jackson episode
- Paying to use the restroom at Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- FBI raiding John Bolton’s home
- Peripheral focus in basketball vs hyper-focus in baseball
- Childhood basketball memory of passing to a teammate who wasn’t ready
- How positive words from a leader can build confidence & improve performance
- Giving people genuine compliments
- Experience eating at a restaurant in Prague
- Observing people in Prague
- How mimetic people are
- Consensus-seeking vs truth-seeking
- Vulnerability & openness in relationships
- Women choosing among thousands of online dating matches
- Propaganda as inversion of truth
- Cambodian monks recommending Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
- Violence lingering in Cambodia (Pol Pot, killing fields, torture prisons)
- Human capacity for violence
- Prosecutions of Trump & his family
- Trump commanding respect from world leaders
- DEI as discrimination, exclusion, intolerance (Harmeet Dhillon)
- Actual antisemitism on the political left / at universities
- Solzhenitsyn on communism criminalizing political opposition
- Chaos created by Russia hoax, COVID, and J6
- Threats to democracy
- Jobs most at risk from AI (Microsoft)
- Would war in Ukraine have happened if Trump won 2020 election?
- Trump treating Putin with respect in negotiations
- Ice cream for relationship-building
- Deploying 4,000 Marines to Latin America to counter fentanyl trade
- Investment performance over the past decade (stocks, real estate, Bitcoin, gold, S&P 500 gains)
- Facebook IPO miss
- Marijuana legalization
- Laura Loomer’s hilarious deposition
- Gurwinder’s The Overview Effect
- Gurwinder’s The Rumsfeld Matrix
- Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
Books mentioned:
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
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