PRACTICE SPEECH

“You should start pitches and presentations like an action movie. There's something there right away. A lot of people have long preamples. You need to get yourself into the audience's perspective. This is a fundamental tenet.”

“The challenge that Americans have right now is that it's not possible to solve this problem by voting it away. The most effective thing you can do is take back financial sovereignty and actually as an individual, be your own bank. Bitcoin self-custody is the most powerful political act available today.”

“I think that the brain pathways that control speech evolved out of the brain pathways that control body movement. And that's when you talk about Italian, French, English, and so forth, each one of those languages come with a learned set of gestures that you can communicate with. The brain regions I mentioned are directly adjacent to each other.”

“Deep belly breathing really can help. It slows down your autonomic nervous system, it slows down your breath rate, it lowers your breathing so that your voice sounds more normal. So breath work seems to be really important. And what's key is the exhalation. It's not the inhale, it's the exhale.”

“If the speech pathways are next to the movement pathways, what I discover is by dancing, it is helping me think. It is helping keep my brain fresh. I argue, if you want to stay cognitively intact into your old age, you better be moving. And you better be doing it consistently, whether it's dancing, walking, running, and also practicing speech.”

“When it was damaged in a speech-like pathway in these birds, what we found is that they started to stutter as the brain region recovered. It's now known, they call this neurogenic stuttering in humans, where damage to the basal ganglia or some type of disruption to the basal ganglia at a young age also causes stuttering in humans.”

“There's something about the relationship between bank and state that isn't good for the people. Banks, they were in a position to issue credit. Who's, you know, the biggest customer for bank credit? Governments. And what do they use bank credit for? Largely to wage war, which in turn, the banks profit off of. And so what we've seen over the last few hundred years is this kind of social ratchet effect.”

“First of all, just the insistence at the individual level that I don't need to have a device. I don't need to be on a network. I don't need to do these things that have become taken for granted as just kind of part of the infrastructure of everyday life. But there's nothing in our Constitution that requires identification, that requires being visible at all times. And so just remembering that privacy is your sacred prerogative and living from that.”

“Neuroscience has taught us emotion gets into our brains differently than information. It gets in faster, stays longer, motivates behavior. So, do I want people excited or concerned? Do I want them to have FOMO, fear of missing out or be validated or just be confident? Think about that emotion.”

“I don't think there is any good evidence for a separate language module. Instead, there is a speech production pathway that's controlling our larynx, controlling our jaw muscles, that has built within it all the complex algorithms for spoken language. And there is the auditory pathway that has built within it all the complex algorithms for understanding speech, not separate from a language module.”

“Pam Bondi just got fired yesterday. Reports of Tulsi may be next. Todd Blanche was on Fox yesterday talking about, was there, the reason for it is because of how maybe Pam Bondi and Swalwell back in the days, was something tipped off, and he said, no, I think Jesse asked the question. Elon's got some thoughts on that.”

“Some of these genes, actually a number of them, that control neuroconnectivity were turned off in the speech circuit. We started to realize the function of these genes are to repel connections from forming—repulsive molecules. And so when you turn them off, they allow certain connections to form that normally would have not formed. So by turning it off, you got to gain a function for speech.”

“The most important thing anyone can do is exercise their individual rights. It is through the exercise of rights that they become entrenched and presupposed. What we want is a state where people don't have to think about their rights because they're just exercising them all the time. The right to transact—these are all enshrined in our Constitution in ways that are historically unique and unprecedented.”

“If the speech pathways are next to the movement pathways, what I discover is by dancing, it is helping me think. It is helping keep my brain fresh. I argue, if you want to stay cognitively intact into your old age, you better be moving. And you better be doing it consistently, whether it's dancing, walking, running, and also practicing speech.”

“Canada, we have to talk about the story today that Canada believes, talking about the Bible where maybe some of the stories in there that are against LGBTQ Bible may be considered hate speech, and they're at the final stages of what's gonna be happening with that.”

“That has led a number of people to hypothesize that the evolution of spoken language, of speech, evolved first for singing, for this more emotional kind of mate attraction, like the Jennifer Lopez, the Ricky Martin kind of songs and so forth. And then later on, it became used for abstract communication like we're doing now.”

“So anxiety around communication looms large. We have some evidence that suggests up to 85% of people feel anxiety. And quite frankly, I think the other 15% are lying. Those of us who study it have found it in every culture we've studied. We find it develops around the same time, around when early kids, when kids become early teenagers, is when it really becomes more prominent and stays that way.”

“When it was damaged in a speech-like pathway in these birds, what we found is that they started to stutter as the brain region recovered. It's now known, they call this neurogenic stuttering in humans, where damage to the basal ganglia or some type of disruption to the basal ganglia at a young age also causes stuttering in humans.”

“Intra-elite conflict manifests as counter elites knocking established elites off of their throne and taking control. And the way they typically do this is they can't do it alone. So they have to enlist people who aren't elites, the broader population, to support their cause.”

“I think that the brain pathways that control speech evolved out of the brain pathways that control body movement. And that's when you talk about Italian, French, English, and so forth, each one of those languages come with a learned set of gestures that you can communicate with. The brain regions I mentioned are directly adjacent to each other.”

“There's nothing in our Constitution that requires identification, that requires being visible at all times. And so just remembering that privacy is your sacred prerogative and living from that. I think that's a huge thing.”

“Banks, they were in a position to issue credit. Who's, you know, the biggest customer for bank credit? Governments. And what do they use bank credit for? Largely to wage war, which in turn, the banks profit off of. And so what we've seen over the last few hundred years is this kind of social ratchet effect.”

“I like to say there are only three ways to get good at communication: repetition, reflection and feedback. You got to do it a couple of times. So you got to, nobody ever got good at speaking by thinking about it. You have to do it. That's where Toastmasters taking classes, those things really help.”

“And then oil prices, if you look at it right now, it went all the way up to 112, 113, 114 yesterday. And then got back down to 101. It is back up to 112 again today. I know Tom's got some thoughts to say about that.”

“I think freedom of speech is probably at the top of my radar right now. I think we've gone from a climate where maybe there was cancel culture in the culture itself to one in which that cancel culture has now moved to the state. And we're seeing increasing calls for censorship and for government sanctions against individuals who are exercising that right.”

“And the challenge that Americans have right now is that it's not possible to solve this problem by voting it away. The most effective thing you can do is take back financial sovereignty and actually as an individual, be your own bank.”

“There's been a financialization of everything, and an erosion of local communities and local power that together have created this precarious dystopia. In this push to automation, in this frenzy around AI and other automation technologies, there has been almost a total collapse of care and it's care that knits a society together.”

“When we start to question the integrity of elections as such, what that suggests to me is that the social trust of the social fabric is falling apart. And that's an issue that can't be solved from the top down. It can only be solved from the bottom up.”

“I don't think there is any good evidence for a separate language module. Instead, there is a speech production pathway that's controlling our larynx, controlling our jaw muscles, that has built within it all the complex algorithms for spoken language. And there is the auditory pathway that has built within it all the complex algorithms for understanding speech, not separate from a language module.”

“I think we're living through a collective national identity crisis. Who are we? First of all, who have we become as a country? Second of all, where are we going to go from here? I think we have a lot of questions now about the efficacy of democratic institutions, even something as simple as elections to meaningfully change the direction in which the country is going.”

“That has led a number of people to hypothesize that the evolution of spoken language, of speech, evolved first for singing, for this more emotional kind of mate attraction, like the Jennifer Lopez, the Ricky Martin kind of songs and so forth. And then later on, it became used for abstract communication like we're doing now.”

“And then a bridge in Iran on its way to Karaj got hit. And I know this bridge because my dad and I would drive on this bridge to the place he worked at, at a factory in Karaj, in his Gion car that he had, which we'll play the clip and we'll talk about that. That eight people were killed and many, many injured. I think the number is 95 wounded.”

“Some of these genes, actually a number of them, that control neuroconnectivity were turned off in the speech circuit. We started to realize the function of these genes are to repel connections from forming—repulsive molecules. And so when you turn them off, they allow certain connections to form that normally would have not formed. So by turning it off, you got to gain a function for speech.”

“When we look at the genetic data from these ancestral hominids where we can look at genes that are involved in learned vocal communication, they have the same sequence as we humans do for genes that function in speech circuits. So I think Neanderthals had spoken language. I'm not going to say it's as advanced as what it is in humans, but I think it's been there for at least between 500,000 to a million years.”

“When we look at the genetic data from these ancestral hominids where we can look at genes that are involved in learned vocal communication, they have the same sequence as we humans do for genes that function in speech circuits. So I think Neanderthals had spoken language. I'm not going to say it's as advanced as what it is in humans, but I think it's been there for at least between 500,000 to a million years.”

“I think we're living through a collective national identity crisis. Who are we? First of all, who have we become as a country? Second of all, where are we going to go from here? I think we have a lot of questions now about the efficacy of democratic institutions, even something as simple as elections to meaningfully change the direction in which the country is going.”

“The only reason we get upset at the boat is why? The person that's in the boat to say, It's your fault. Why did you do this? But sometimes we have to just kind of be like, we don't know the story of whatever this individual has gone through in their life. We don't have a clue what this person's doing. Sometimes a lot of commentary will come in.”