My mother was severely emotionally abusive with me. I did not have a tight connection between my

spontaneous feeling states. I could experience anger, rage, and anxiety. And my codependency, which is a

focus on other people, became kind of a superpower. You get so focused on the other person,

because that person isn't there attuning to you and giving you what you need to develop the

connections you need, you got to manage them because what comes out of them is dangerous. You get

very, very, very focused on managing other people. And you also get very good at attuning to their

emotions because if something's coming, you've got to be ready for it. I mean, the brain

fundamentally has two systems. It has a liking system and a wanting

system. Prediction is a disorder of the wanting system. Want to do something again and again and again,

even when it doesn't work. Crack is the greatest example of the activation of that wanting system.

They say, well, I get some crack and I'm with some friends. Can I go, what do you,

what do you think know about the first hit? Well, the first hit is amazing. What do you know about

the second hit? I don't about you, but I can't wait to everybody. I know so many people now in the

government that at the, you know, cabinet level officials, I can't wait to go out there and see what they see, like talk to them once they're installed, right?

I can't believe how many I've learned, like, come to know in a very short amount of time,

like Cash Patel, like Tulsi, like, do you do a lot of like political contribution stuff for networks?

I'm sighing when I say that.

So there's a long answer to that, okay?

I'd love to hear it.

That's what a podcast is for.

I was on H. I had a nightly show on HLN for like eight years.

I was on CNN almost every night for 10 years.

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