The proportion of energy people spend on politics, the proportion of energy that the news and media spends on talking about politics is not helping you.

Welcome everyone. It's been a second since I've shot or recorded a podcast. I've actually spent the last few months on a couple of ranches that I bought.

I've got about 12 horses. You might have seen it on my social media, but I thought I would talk about something because I've got a few people in the car with me.

We're driving down from LA to San Diego to visit my 100-year-old grandma. She's actually a hundred and a half right now.

And I thought, Cristiani asked me a question about, because she works in DC, what I think about politics, why I'm not that involved in it.

And what was the question you asked, Cristiani?

What your ideal government would look like?

Oh, no, but before then. Okay, I remember. You asked me, well, this is what I said.

I said, Presidents don't matter that much. Politics doesn't matter that much. Now I know a lot of people will go up in arms and argue against me.

And my answer is, you're going up in arms against me because you don't know the difference between causation and correlation.

So there's a lot of correlated factors with presidents, but they're not causative.

Very few things are causative. And what that means, I'll give an example in layman's terms.

Rudy Giuliani and Bill Clinton presided over a time in American history where crime had been high and then it dropped during their time in office.

So Giuliani was running New York City, Clinton running the United States.

And they said, see, we implemented so-and-so policy and all of a sudden crime dropped.

But some scientists, and you'll be familiar with this if you've read the book, Freakonomics,

Economic Professors from Chicago, University of Chicago, one of the most esteemed universities.

They say, no, it had nothing to do with these presidents or these mayors.

It was what happened in the 1970s, the change in laws around abortion, the change in laws,

and how it affected poorer people, more high-risk mothers that give birth to people more likely to commit crimes because they're born into poverty.

So what they're saying is the actual causation of the drop in crime at the time that Giuliani and Clinton were in office had nothing to do with it could have been anybody in office doing any basic policy.

But what mattered was demographics, if a certain section of the population doesn't produce as much, crime might drop.

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