Episode 2944 CWSA 08/31/25

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Would you be surprised to know that there's a new meta study on coffee and health?

And guess what?

Once again, for the millionth time in a row, coffee is good for you.

It's good for your cardio, your diabetes, your cancer, your respiratory disease, your liver disease, your kidney disease, your cognitive decline, and your Parkinson's.

Yeah, it's all from coffee.

But don't add too much sugar and whatever crap you put in there.

That will take away all your benefits.

Would you be surprised to know that there is yet another study on vitamin D and your health?

How do you think that turned out?

Vitamin D and your health.

Do you think it's good for your health?

Yes.

They could have just asked me.

Apparently, your telomeirs, which are those things which shorten when you're aging quickly, they don't they don't shrink as fast if you're doing your vitamin D.

So, make sure you get your vitamin D, people.

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Um, you remember when we were told that the Great Barrier Reef and all the coral was going to die because of climate change cuz it was just too warm for that coral to keep going.

And then if the coral has a tough time that affects the other stuff in the ocean and well, the next thing you know, we're all dead.

U but it turns out that was a bunch of BS.

According to the CO2 coalition, the Great Barrier Reef, I mean, it's had better times, but instead of going in one direction, it has recovered.

And does anybody know why?

Apparently, it's one of those things that goes up and down and has been doing that for a long time.

So, doesn't look like climate change is affecting the coral reef yet.

Well, Zero Hedge is telling us that half of American schools um they're doing what's called equitable grading instead of the usual kind.

You know, the usual kind, if you didn't turn in your homework, you would be graded down.

But if you have something called equitable grading, then ah homework.

Some people turn it in, some people don't.

So, and then apparently, let's see what else.

Uh, you can also retake tests if you didn't do well.

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All right, but uh what I was going to say is that half of those schools have equitable uh grading.

So, how do you how do you suppose the students in those schools do when they know they don't have to do the homework and they can retake all the tests?

Well, it turns out that they all do terrible.

So, equitable grading is just another way that the probably the teachers union is destroying the country if not the whole world.

Well, there's a problem, as you know, with fake science.

And part of it is that there's fake science, but there's also fake scientific journals.

Did you know that?

Especially useful for other countries where they don't have as much, you know, I guess, infrastructure built out for science.

Um, there are these fake publications that will say, "If you give us a thousand dollars, we will publish your paper and and tell people it was peer-reviewed, even though they don't actually peerreview it." So, a whole bunch of papers, like a lot of them, got published that were not peer-reviewed.

They were just fake fake peer-reviewed.

But bunch of computer scientists figured out how to use AI to look for the sketchy ones.

Now that those would just be the ones who are outright fraud.

What we also know is that the ones that are not trying to be a fraud um about half of them turn out to be not reproducible studies.

So these are two separate problems.

One is that even if everybody's trying to do the right thing, more than half the time they fail.

So that a peerreview paper is is just BS.

On top of that are these uh massive problem with frauds.

It's not just like a little thing that happened a few times.

It's massively integrated with the whole system that uh there's all these all these fake publications.

So, science is halfway to making itself look like guessing.

And uh right now uh honestly, science is worse than guessing because guessing sort of a coin flip, you know, 50/50.

But if you add together all the problems with uh allegedly peer-reviewed papers, probably more than half of them u you know as in more than 50% are fake.

So if you think the science is better than guessing, it's the other way around.

guessing if you flipped the coin, you'd be right about half the time that either the study worked or it didn't work or they proved their case or they didn't.

You can't reach 50%.

With the current scientific process because there too many frauds, it takes the takes the average down below 50%.

It's literally worse than guessing.

Oh well.

Now, I don't think that's literally true.

somebody will argue with my statistical approach to that.

Um, but if you want to hear the good news, if you've done a fake scientific study and you knew it, you knew it was fake and then you uh apply to one of the fake scientific journals.

Um, I think since both of you would be frauds in that case, it would be peer review cuz you're a fraud.

So, who better to analyze and review your paper?

Another fraud.

It's called peer review.

Well, there's an article in the Washington Times by Seth Mc.

Laclin who's talking about well the the title is that feats of strength become the 2025 limus in Trump's era of masculine politics and it's giving a bunch of anecdotes that are not terribly persuasive but um I think they lead in the right direction you know you know uh Pete Hagath and Bobby Kennedy did the did the push-ups and the everything.

So, everybody's uh in the Trump world, the idea here is that people are trying to be more masculine and other politicians are trying to keep up.

So, it's a it's turning into a competition who's more masculine.

And uh that's that's true.

But I would like to point out that the uh the theme of fitness came from the MAGA voters and supporters not from the top.

So Trump is not really the driver of the manly stuff, although you know he goes to MMA fights and does manly things, but I think that uh a lot of his supporters were the pro-ysical fitness people.

And so it I think it I think it trickled up more than it trickled down.

That's my take that I think that started at the bottom and just became a a thing.

I don't think it was a thing before.

There were some just persuasive pro- feminist people on the right.

I tried to do my my best there.

Um, apparently Boston is experiencing more uh freed up rental property than uh in recent times.

So, it's somewhat easy to rent a place in Boston now.

And that would be mostly they believe because of all the uh foreign students who were sent back and maybe other immigration actions.

So uh I wonder if that'll happen in all the major cities and could it be that Trump's immigration practices shipping people back will it be enough that it will lower the price of rents?

uh because that would be huge.

Could you imagine the you know the entire middle class or at least the the renting class um finding out that suddenly things are you know more affordable that'd be a pretty big deal.

We'll see.

You know Boston's a college town so maybe it was just the college effect.

It won't won't necessarily spread to every city.

Well, according to the gateway pundit Joel Gilbert is writing, this is so perfect.

So, you know how Leticia James um she's one of the people who was accused of mortgage fraud for calling her second home uh also a primary home.

So, if you're confusing the stories, um the Lisa Cook, the Fed chief, is also accused of the same thing.

So it's easy to get those two confused but Leticia James allegedly and I think this is not confirmed but it was you know confirmed enough that the Gateway Punda published it and uh the idea is that there's a family member who is uh staying at at her secondary home who uh is wanted by the department of uh is wanted by the authorities for what did she do?

Charge um what was her crime?

She's an absconder, whatever that means, is wanted for violating probationary terms.

Um so that would make her sort of a wanted criminal, if you will, in a way.

And uh but the the interesting thing is if Leticia James knows that she's wanted by the law and she's harboring her in her home, that would be a crime.

So Leticia James, she's she's really going to regret that she went after Trump.

You know, the the thing about uh you know what they always say, if you make a if you try to kill the king, you better make sure it succeeds because if the king finds out you took a run at him, it's going to be pretty bad.

So that's what uh that's what Leticia James is learning that if you decide to lawfare the president, you better get the job done.

If you miss, it's coming for you.

And uh I don't mind at all.

You know, I don't like lawfare in general, but lawfare as revenge for lawfare, I'm all for it.

100% for it.

Well, apparently there's what's being called a gold rush for podcast stars.

So, so you you already know that uh uh left-leaning podcasters are getting paid by some big dark money group that, you know, wants to wants to make sure they have their own Joe Rogan, but they can't get one.

So, they're going to pay a bunch of much lesser Joe Rogan's and see if they can add them all together, I guess.

And then there are some big media companies that apparently are talking to some big podcasters to see if they can kind of bring them under their brand and pay them way too much, millions of dollars.

Apparently Sean Ryan reportedly is talking to some media entity that would pay him millions of dollars.

And uh so apparently being a popular podcaster is a real good way to make millions of dollars unless you've been cancelled for a rant.

I'll tell you again that nobody's ever tried to bribe me.

And I think nobody's even tried.

Now, I wouldn't take a bribe to, you know, change what I do because I I I do it as much because I like it as I do it for the money.

I mean, I can do other things for money, but I I like doing this.

So, nobody's ever tried to bribe me.

It wouldn't work, but you're not even going to take a You're not even going to take a try.

Uh so anyway, and you do wonder about the entities that are trying to take them over cuz you know that they're going to control the content.

Not 100%.

But no matter how independent they're supposed to be, there's going to be some clause in their contract that they can't have, you know, Hitler as a guest or whatever it is.

So there's always going to be a little bit of, you know, independence lost if you have if you're part of a big deal.

But I do not begrudge anybody who takes, let's say, $10 million um when they get offered.

So that would not be a sin.

It's all legal.

Well, Tucker Carlson had some expert on his speaking and podcast um talking about uh anti-depressants and mental health and what uh this expert whose name I did not write down um was saying that if you studied people who are depressed and you you know look at their blood and their their chemistry it all looks normal.

So, they don't actually have less serotonin.

Um, that's just never been the case.

So, apparently the experts don't really know what causes somebody to be depressed.

And according to this guy, he he says uh that they just sort of give up and say, "We'll just tell people it's a chemical imbalance because we assume it is, but nobody knows what chemical might be imbalanced." If you did, then you could give somebody whatever is the part that's missing in theory and it might fix them.

But nobody nobody can identify any chemical imbalance that you could fix.

Now, I have a hypothesis which I checked with Grock just to make sure it wasn't crazy.

So, Grock did not confirm my hypothesis, but it's one I've had for a long time.

It goes like this.

Depression is a just low energy state.

So that what you feel as depression is just the result of low energy.

Now what causes the low energy?

You know could be a variety of things I suppose but uh have you have you ever been really happy when your energy is really low and you're just wiped out?

Possibly, but usually not.

Right?

If your energy is low, you also feel gh.

And have you ever been depressed, but at the same time your energy was great?

You're like, "Oh man, I got plenty of energy.

I could go for a run." But you're also depressed.

Not really, right?

It's possible, I suppose.

But the correlation between when your energy is good, um, you're you don't feel bad is pretty strong.

So my hypothesis is that uh maybe even um anxiety because anxiety feels like it's just some irrational thing that popped up.

But if you had lots of energy, are you usually feeling confident?

You know, I suppose there's a frightened energy too that you could have, but if you had, you know, nice strong energy, you probably wouldn't feel nearly as anxious or as depressed.

So, what I wonder is, is there anything you can measure?

Probably not, because we know that depression also causes a lack of energy.

But I'll bet it's far more two-way than than medicine acknowledges.

That's my hypothesis.

That if you could fix people's energy, they would have a better mental state.

Now, that's also consistent with the fact that when people exercise, they have better mental health because that's been proven a million times.

What also happens when you exercise?

you get better, cleaner energy, right?

So all the all the indicators are pointing toward uh these mental health problems having some kind of a energy related element to it.

Did you know that only 37% of adults have sex weekly?

Now when I say weekly, uh that's spelled we e k l y.

I don't know the percentage of people who have sex weekly as in we ak but there must be some.

You want to have sex?

All right.

Uh I'm done.

Well, that was pretty weak.

So, some people do it weekly that way.

I don't know how many, but the general social survey said 37% have it uh have it uh once a week.

um only 37%.

And a quarter of people between 18 and 29 have not had sex in the past year.

To which I say, isn't that normal?

I I would have imagined that at any time in my life, u a quarter of the people my age were not having any sex.

That's what I thought.

Anyway, but uh I checked on Grock and porn usage is way up and people are saying, "Aha, it's that porn usage that's causing less sex in the real world." Is it?

How many of you think that that's a a real identifiable cause?

There might be more than one.

I believe there there is.

But how many think that porn is the reason that uh there's less real world sex?

I wonder if it doesn't work the other way around, as in if you've decided to not have real world sex or you're unable to get it, are you just going to go without or are you going to say, "Well, at least I can fall back on this." So, I've got a feeling that a lack of access to sex is one of the things that makes people look at porn.

Um, you know, if if you could have sex three times a day with your favorite partners or partner, how much porn would you even be interested in?

I mean, you might you might like a little just for a change of pace or something, but it's not going to you're not going to be obsessed with it anyway.

Maybe it's the phone usage, too.

There's a whole bunch of reasons people are less healthy, blah blah.

Um, let's see.

So, we know now that the uh dark money, as I mentioned, is going from uh Democrats to a variety of um left-leaning podcasters and data Republican figured out, you know, where the money's coming from and you can see it flowing through and getting to the podcasters.

I don't believe that that exists for Republicans, right?

I believe that Republicans get their influencers the honest way, which is somebody just is good at what they do and they became a good influencer.

Why is it that only one side of politics has legitimate organic talented influencers and the other side doesn't have any unless they're paid and even they're not breaking through.

Is that a coincidence?

I mean, that would be the biggest coincidence in the world, wouldn't it?

That only one side of the political world can have a like a really influential podcaster.

I don't know.

Uh, so I guess David Pacman is allegedly one of the people who's getting paid to be a podcaster.

they say.

Well, speaking of sketchy things, um, apparently there was a ex postal uh employee who was in charge of being a postal investigator.

So, his job was to investigate uh mail fraud.

Um, do you want to take a guess of what what happened with the guy whose job it is to investigate mail fraud?

I'll give you another hint.

part of his job is to figure out when somebody was being scammed with a mail scam.

Uh which ones of those letters coming from the people being scammed would have cash in them because apparently there's a scam where they get old people probably to mail them cash just through the mail.

So the investigator told the the the people to look for certain kinds of mail that would have cash in it because they were victims of a scam.

And then he told them instead of delivering the cash to the fraudster, they should give all the envelopes with the cash to the US postal inspector, the investigator.

So, do you think that the uh US postal investigator upgraded his swimming pool?

Yes, he did.

Apparently, he was just keeping all the he just he was uh essentially he was scamming the scammers out of their own money.

So, the victims still lost their money, but so did the scammer.

And he was just he was just living the good life.

Oh, I'll tell you, if you ever want a good job, be a US postal investigator.

Uh, guys, uh, you're going to have to send all of these highly illegal envelopes full of cash.

Send them to me.

All right.

Um Trump uh you you probably heard uh there was some noise some people saying that there's something wrong with Trump.

Um but he apparently went golfing this weekend and he's doing posts and it looks like he's got an interview.

So he doesn't seem to be deceased in case you thought that.

So that rumor was going around for a little while.

Um but there does seem like there's something going on.

So, I'm definitely in the camp of saying, "Huh, I wonder why he's going to be so quiet this weekend and uh you relative to to Trump." So, you know, that plus the fact that he's got, you know, swollen hands and that's been a little bit unexplained.

I am worried about him.

I'm worried about him.

So, I'm officially concerned.

I it doesn't look like it's, you know, necessarily deadly or anything, but I'm concerned.

Um, but he was asked uh recently by the the Daily Caller, I think, uh Reagan Ree asked Trump uh if he'd be bothered if uh James Comey and John Brennan uh got handcuffed and arrested for their role in Russia Gate and maybe other things.

and Trump said would not bother me at all.

Now, uh and then he went on to say that four years ago or during his first term, um you know, that he sort of shut down the lawfare.

Uh and he explained how, you know, Hillary Clinton obviously could have been, you know, arrested for something and he decided to not let that happen.

But then now now that we know so much about Russia gate and we know what all the bad people did pretty pretty reliably and specifically we know what they did and you can see you know the entire structure of the uh the coup attempt and uh I feel like what Trump's doing is softening up the room.

I feel like you know one of the things you need to do is make sure there are lots of news stories about the things that that his enemies did.

So that's happened.

So we've seen story after story in which they're implicated in the crime.

So that's sort of softening the room because if you just went, you know, hog wild and and had your people arrest all of your critics, there's no way the country would put up with that.

So, first he has to make sure that everybody's at least aware that there are credible reports of all these people doing illegal things.

Credible.

Now, that doesn't mean you necessarily would arrest them all, but I feel like then the next thing would be for him to make you think about it.

So when he says stuff it wouldn't like it wouldn't bother me at all.

You can really now visualize, you know, Brennan and Clapper and maybe even Obama literally in handcuffs, you know, being taken to the car, the perp walk.

Now, that doesn't mean it will turn out that way, but it does mean that if you've seated the stories in in the press, which has happened, and then you also um you also talk about it so that people imagine it like it's already happened.

And knowing that the the wheels of justice are kind of slow.

So, if you imagine those guys getting arrested and you just keep imagining it for months and then one day you turn on the TV and you see the thing you've been imagining for months, yeah, you if you're a Democrat, you're definitely going to pretend to have some feelings about that, but all your feelings will have sort of been dissipated by the fact that you've been thinking about it for months and it hadn't happened.

And by the time it does, you will have heard a million times what they're accused of and you'll know that there are documents to to back it up.

So I feel as though the Trump administration and Trump in particular, they have softened up the environment just right.

Meaning that I believe that they can arrest these people if they have the goods and that the country would complain.

But it's got a lot on its plate.

So, as long as Trump is, you know, ending crime and closing the border and getting some tariff deals done, um, I think that the country is ready to see some of these bad guys arrested.

So, we'll see.

I'm still going to bet against it, by the way.

So, if you want my prediction, uh, there might be indictments.

Uh, I I'll say there will be indictments.

But I don't think any of them are going to go to jail.

I think they might be ruined by the process, but I don't know that they'll go for jail.

Uh, speaking of that, um, MSNBC had John Brennan on and of course he was, you know, defending everything he did and saying Trump was terrible.

But I've never heard John Brennan sound so afraid.

Just his voice.

He he seems completely guilty and scared to death.

And you know, I can't read his mind, but certainly the things that we've seen that are that are public would suggest he's certainly guilty.

And uh he should be very afraid of that because they have the goods on him and they're just making him twist apparently.

I mean, yeah.

Does he have to wonder if there's going to be a grand jury about him, John Brandon?

Yeah, I don't think he has to wonder.

I'm I'm pretty sure there will be a grand jury situation with him.

Doesn't mean Yeah, it doesn't mean he goes to jail or anything.

What do we got here?

Uh yeah.

So yeah, Brennan just looks scared to death.

And I don't know that you look like that if you're innocent.

I mean, I guess some people who are innocent have like uh like Caputo have been destroyed by the process.

Um so I guess you could be afraid even if you were innocent, but I don't think that's what's happening in this case.

Trump also said he's going to issue an executive order requiring voter ID for every vote.

and he's trying to get rid of mail-in ballots the same way.

Now, of course, any any of that kind of stuff is going to go to immediately.

There'll be lawsuits and we don't know how any of that will turn out.

So, he might not be able to have in the end any control over that directly.

But let's say he did or even if he didn't.

Here are the things that determine who gets elected in our fake system.

Number one, if you're a Democrat, apparently the party leaders decide who's gonna get nominated.

So, I think the whole nomination process is a little bit fake, you know, as we saw the way uh Harris got nominated.

So, there's that.

Then you've got these EOS about, you know, voter ID and mail and ballots.

If those things are allowed, it probably gets you a different result than if they're not allowed.

So, is it the voters who are deciding or is it the existence of EOS and whether the court said yes or no to the EO?

What about the gerrymandering?

That will determine a lot.

What about the fake news?

But what about Mark Elias and all of his thousands of lawsuits and and uh rule changes and stuff like that?

That made a big difference.

How about the podcasters and the law the lawfare against, you know, some politicians but not others?

What about the opposition research?

None of those things talk to the capability of the of the um people running for office and none of them are anything like a democratic republic.

It's all just rule attacks.

So whoever gets to have the most influence on the rules of voting somewhat reliably will be in charge.

So, uh, given that, uh, Trump has a majority in the Supreme Court, in theory, he can bend the rules and get away with it with the Supreme Court's approval.

Um, until he's just got a a dominant control position for the Republicans, which would be for them to lose.

So, that's what's happened.

It it's hard for for me to even see anything like a democratic process.

Are are all of you that jaded?

Are you as jaded as I am that our system of government really it's not about citizens expressing their will.

There's nothing like that happening.

the the citizens are assigned opinions by whatever news they watch and then there's all these rule all all the people involved in changing the rules who will determine which of those people win because it's always amazingly really close so that the the rules changes are the determining factors.

So anyway, that's the world you live in.

It's certainly not any kind of democratic republic or anything close to it.

The Wall Street Journal is talking about the middle class squeeze, which means financially.

And of course, people have been talking about that for a number of years now because the middle class keeps getting hollowed out.

But I feel like it may have may be reaching some kind of a breaking point finally because unless rent does go down a lot and food prices do go down a lot and somebody figures out how to do child care.

By the way, why does child care cost so much?

Are there really no retired grandmas who would take, you know, three kids and charge you a fraction of what the professionals are charging?

There's just there's no way to work that out.

I don't know.

So, the middle class is in trouble and I don't know that uh things Trump is doing, while generally good things in my opinion, I don't know if they're going to make enough difference fast enough.

Uh but they're in the right direction.

So, we'll see.

Um, I feel like there's some big response coming and it will be something like I talk about this endlessly.

Uh, some kind of a Lego house that you can build yourself so that the cost of building is really low or some kind of arrangement where people who want to have babies are in a good shape.

Gary, stop it.

I don't know.

We'll fix that.

We'll fix that whole middle class problem.

Um, so one of the people who got ousted from the CDC, I forget if he I forget if he was fired or um he quit in protest, but anyway, he was the CDC vaccine chief, Dimmitri Dascalis, who apparently had a very colorful personal life, which is documented in social media.

And uh you know, I won't get into it cuz I'm I'm not judgy, but uh I have to say he's uh he's an interesting guy.

His social life looks like uh it's more interesting than yours, I will say.

But uh he said that the crux of his concern about the CDC is that the data coming out soon will be showing that quote something is causing autism um and that it will be blamed on vaccines.

Do you think that's coming?

Do you believe that RFK Jr.

is going to basically use fake science because he's not complaining that the data might be accurate.

He's complaining that the data would be inaccurate and the science would not be good and it would connect autism to vaccines.

That might happen.

Anything is possible.

But do you believe that RFK Jr.

would find it to his advantage to give the country fake science and then kill people by taking away their vaccines that hypothetically could be totally safe or safe enough.

I don't know.

I'm very curious what uh is going to come out of this.

To me, one of the biggest stories of the year will be when Kennedy comes out and says, "Well, we may not have every answer, but we have determined and we're positive that this or that or this is causing autism." That is going to be really, really a big deal.

Like a really, really big deal.

Because for one thing, it might open up somebody to lawsuits, right?

if he finds out there's something in the food supply, whoever makes that thing or sells that thing.

They got some You're gonna have to answer some questions.

Anyway, um so back to the story of Lisa Cook, the Fed governor that's uh Trump fired, but she says she's not fired because he can't do that.

So she's either she's like Schroinger's cat of Fed governors.

She's both fired and not fired.

And we won't know until we look in the box later.

But uh what's interesting is that uh uh is it I think is Eli, not Ellie Honig.

He's the uh uh a legal expert.

Whoops.

Don't stop on that.

Gary, he's a legal expert on CNN.

And I've always enjoyed his commentary because he's he does the best job of taking the the politics and the bias out of the legal discussion, which means somewhat frequently he will say something that sounds unambiguously like you heard it on Fox News.

Now, that's a compliment because it means that he's just following the law where the law goes.

And so he's not like, "Oh, we got double cats.

I thought that was Gary, but that was Roman." Um, so what was I talking about?

So, uh, Ellie Honeig, um, is talking about Lisa Cook and does find that her her activities with her mortgage, which again is that, uh, two homes and calling them both the primary resident.

So, he does say that's kind of sketchy.

and he thinks that a judge might agree with Trump uh that her behavior is within the domain of the president to decide if she's gone too far and that's cause for removal.

So he's not saying that Trump is right.

He's saying that the argument is strong enough that he could easily imagine a a judge siding with Trump.

Now that's interesting.

And let's see.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Apparently there are I don't know if I should believe this or not.

It's just something I'm seeing on social media.

So tell me if these stories are fake or maybe they happened not recently.

So I saw one report that there are anti-immigration protesters in Osaka in Japan.

Is Japan having uh any kind of a public revolt against the Japanese immigration process which I think is loosening up.

Is that true?

But also I saw a video of uh many thousands of people doing some kind of anti-immigration protest in the UK and uh apparently that involves you know carrying a lot of flags.

So protesting and the flag is part of it.

Now, is that true or is that just something that happened in one town that one time?

Is there a major uprising in the UK?

Because I don't I don't know that it's major, but it's happening.

I mean, there's definitely some uprising.

I I feel like it's too late for the UK.

U this is something they should have done years ago.

And I'm starting to think that the only democracy that's going to survive is one that has a Trump.

If you don't have a Trump, there's not somebody willing to literally risk their life and their freedom to change things.

And and that's what it takes.

I mean, you literally have to risk your life and your freedom to make a difference in any immigration or that stuff.

But there al also there are reports so maybe this is all related that for the first time in modern history according to the Wall Street Journal uh populist conservative parties are leading the polls in all three of Europe's biggest economies the UK, France and Germany.

So do you think that's a thing?

Do you think the uh Conservatives will win in all three countries and then clamp down on immigration?

I don't know.

Maybe, but I don't know if it might, like I said, it's probably just too late.

Um I I think all those countries are essentially going to be different countries.

I'll just say that.

Anyway, uh Governor Pritsker some say is slimming down.

Maybe he's taking one of those uh uh whatever those fat reduction drugs are, but uh that's good for him if he's getting healthier.

Um that's great.

Some say it's in preparation for running for president.

Maybe.

Do do you think that um Governor Pritsker looks at his own chances and says, "Yeah, yeah, I could be the next president." Cuz I don't see that.

I don't think he has the uh charisma, the kind that you need.

I think he's got Chris Christie charisma, which is really good up to about the state level.

And it just it's like Tim Walls.

Tim Walsh has state level charisma.

It just doesn't have national charisma.

Um Gavin Newsome, I hate to tell you, has national charisma.

Now, he's not my choice, but he's he's not limited by his charisma to a state level.

Like he doesn't have a cap.

He's got the kind of game you could very easily just imagine seeing him in the White House.

Unfortunately, I hate the fact that I can so easily imagine it, but he does have the game to get there under the right conditions.

Um, apparently Indonesia is having major protests in the streets over I guess the economic disparity, the difference between the elites and the average people.

and the average people are trying to rise up.

But apparently there was, as part of one of the demonstrations, there was a moment when a armored vehicle accidentally ran over one of the protesters who was also, you know, middle class worker kind of guy, a ride hailing driver.

And if you're already having street protests about the elites, you know, not caring enough about the middle class, you really don't want to have a money truck running over one of the protesters.

That's like the worst look you could ever have a money truck run.

You know, the money of course belonging mostly to the the elites, one assumes.

So, it's just a bad look.

But what I don't know, and now I'm curious because I'm so jaded.

Do you think that if it's true that Indonesia is having these big street protests, do you think they're organic or do you think that there's a country doing a color revolution um on Indonesia?

And it doesn't mean it's us.

It could be China using the same, you know, the same color revolution tricks.

Now that the color revolutions uh largely involve they involve a number of things you know controlling the media and ow kept oh kept biting my toes.

Ow.

Um but definitely they always they always have to include street protests so that the other citizens believe oh protests are you know ordinary people like me are rising up against the leaders.

So you you don't get that look unless you've got people in the street.

So I always assume that people in the street is always uh fake.

Okay, I'm really getting eaten alive here.

Which cat is doing that?

Is that you?

Which cat?

I don't know.

I think that's Roman.

Roman's the toe biter.

All right.

Um, separately, the New York Post is reporting that uh, at least some people believe based on a UKbased report that by the Harry Jackson Society, you know, the Harry Jackson Society.

Uh, no, it's a Henry Jackson.

Harry Jackson is actually a sexual reference.

Um, so what did you guys do last night?

Oh, man.

Had a couple of drinks and next thing you know, we're doing the Harry Jackson.

All right.

But that has nothing to do with the story when it's really the Henry Jackson Society.

Um, has determined that Iran's Islamic Republic is getting close to collapse and civil war.

Do you believe that?

Do do you believe that Iran's government is close to collapse?

I don't know.

That feels like the thing that you say when you want to make them collapse.

I I just I just don't think that that Iran has that energy to uh overthrow their current government.

Maybe, but I'm going to say probably not.

Trump uh also told Daily Colors or Reagan Ree that uh he thinks a trilateral meeting with Ukraine is likely.

In other words, uh Putin and Zilinski and Trump, the three of them.

But he thinks that a bilateral is less likely, the kind where Zilinski and Putin meet.

Now, I've told you this before.

I I haven't really seen anybody else say it, so you can tell me.

Is this just really obvious?

Is is everybody saying it because it's so obvious?

Um, here's what I think.

I think that Zalinski and Putin, because they've probably almost certainly tried to kill each other, like I'll bet you both of them have green lit plans to kill the other.

How do you put them in a room?

Like even even you know even if you say but I'm an analogy thinker and it reminds me of an analogy of other leaders who once got together uh like FDR met with uh Stalin to which I say did Stalin try to kill FTR?

Did FDR ever try to kill Stalin or were they just you know they were bad guys but we had to work with them to win a war.

There's not really an analogy for that.

Can you think of any situation in which the two leaders who genuinely tried to kill each other and essentially did great damage to each other's countries?

Can you put them in a room without anybody else?

I don't think you can.

I I think that their their hatred and distrust of each other would go so deep that there's just nothing that good that could come from it.

But if you throw Trump in the room, then he has that way of making everything about him and then suddenly it's two people concentrating on Trump, which might work.

It might work.

I'm not really optimistic about it, but it would work better than the B bilateral.

So, I don't think there's any chance of a bilateral meeting.

I think everybody knows it'd be a waste of time.

Might make things worse.

Well, did you know that more than 60% according also New York Post is writing about this, more than 60% of Gen Z's, the American Gen Z's support Hamas over Israel.

60% of Gen Z supports Hamas, not just the Palestinians, but Hamas.

What?

What?

Um, if I were the leader of the ADL, I would uh declare that I had failed completely in trying to improve the reputation of Israel.

All right, I got multiple cat situation going on here.

Um, but that's uh it's pretty amazing.

60%.

And then at the same time that they Oh, come on.

Off the keyboard.

um separately but related.

The Israeli government is reportedly according to people who have knowledge of the inside conversations.

The Israeli government is reportedly debating annexing part of the occupied West Bank and it might be a big part like six 60% of it or something to which I say um it's as I always remind you uh I don't have advice for Israel.

It's not my country.

And I also don't believe that my sense of ethics or morality or what's good for my country should have anything to do with what they do.

I mean, it's it's entirely their business.

So, we're observers.

Cats.

We're observers on this.

We're not participants.

You know, even if you wanted to be a participant, you're not.

You don't get a vote.

Nobody cares if you're mad about it.

you're just not a participant.

We're just watching.

Um, so here's what I observe.

Whether or not uh annexing the West Bank and making sure that there's never a two-state solution.

And if it is, that the second state is just a little bit of a nothing.

So no matter whether you think that's a good idea or a bad idea, I'll tell you what is true.

There's never been a better time to do it.

It might be a bad idea.

Like, it might just cause, you know, so much trouble that you wish you had never done it.

It might be a bad idea, but there's definitely not going to be a better time to do that bad idea.

So, if they feel lucky, and I don't know if they do, um, they might make a run at it.

If I had to predict, um, I'll predict that they don't.

I'll predict that they debate it but decide the risk is too high because they they need to wrap up Gaza and they can't probably don't want to open up a whole, you know, extra can of worms right now.

So, um, at the same time, it's no better time for them to do it.

And the reason I say that is that their reputation is so bad already.

if the Gen Z's are 60% in favor of Hamas that it's not going to get much worse and uh there's so much happening there that it's a good sort of confusing environment where there's too much to talk about, then you can sneak in the the stuff that people don't like because there's just so much to talk about that people don't like that there's just one more thing.

So, I'm not recommending it.

That's not that's not advice.

I'm just saying as an observer, probably there'll never be a better time.

And it could be a disaster, by the way.

There's there's a real strong chance it would be just disastrous, but never a better time.

So, I'd uh I'd hate to be trying to make that decision.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, look at me.

I stretched that out until it was almost exactly 1 hour.

I got quite the game.

Um, if you were a subscriber to Owen Gregorian's uh X account, he's got a spaces just for you, just for the sub people subscribe to him, people who follow him, followers, not subscribers, the people who follow him on X.

Um, so that'll happen after the show and uh I'm going to talk privately to the beloved members of locals and we're going to play with my cats a little bit who are starting to fight.

Now, one cat is starting to fight and the other one is trying to ignore him.

Guess which one is instigating the fight.

That's right.

It's Gary.

Yep.

Gary's trying to instigate a fight on my notes.

All right, I'll I'll let you all watch that for a minute.

This will be your moment of Sunday's end.

Cats wrestling.

I I watch this so much during the day.

Oh, don't fall off.

You going to fight back?

You're just going to let your brother bite you?

There you go.

I love the paw on the head.

I unite you, Sir Kittton.

All right.

Now, don't you think uh some media company should be offering me $10 million for my podcast for this content?

You've never seen better.

Can David Pacman do this?

No.

Can Tucker Carlson do this on his podcast?

No.

No.

I'm the only one.

Cat fights.

All right, that's enough of that.

Locals, I'm going to come at you privately.

The rest of you, thanks for joining.

I'll see you again tomorrow.

Same time, same place.

Got some surprises for you.

Hey, there you are. Come on in. Grab a

seat. Good to see you on a Sunday. I'm

glad we could have this time together.

It's going to be amazing, like it always

is.

I bet you can feel your loneliness

slipping away.

Your ignorance is melting like an ice

cube on a summer sidewalk.

Everything's getting better.

Yep. You're a little bit sexier than it

used to be.

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to have a show if you're ready for that.

Would you be surprised to know that

there's a new meta study on coffee and

health? And guess what?

Once again, for the millionth time in a

row, coffee is good for you. It's good

for your cardio, your diabetes, your

cancer, your respiratory disease, your

liver disease, your kidney disease, your

cognitive decline,

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Yeah, it's all from coffee. But don't

add too much sugar and whatever crap you

put in there. That will take away all

your benefits.

Would you be surprised to know that

there is yet another study on vitamin D

and your health? How do you think that

turned out?

Vitamin D and your health. Do you think

it's good for your health? Yes. They

could have just asked me. Apparently,

your telomeirs, which are those things

which shorten when you're aging quickly,

they don't they don't shrink as fast if

you're doing your vitamin D. So, make

sure you get your vitamin D, people.

Yep. I like to put my vitamin D in my

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while I'm exercising. Get it all.

Um, you remember when we were told that

the Great Barrier Reef and all the coral

was going to die because of climate

change cuz it was just too warm for that

coral to keep going. And then if the

coral has a tough time that affects the

other stuff in the ocean and well, the

next thing you know, we're all dead.

U but it turns out that was a bunch of

BS. According to the CO2 coalition, the

Great Barrier Reef, I mean, it's had

better times, but instead of going in

one direction, it has recovered.

And does anybody know why?

[Laughter]

Apparently, it's one of those things

that goes up and down and has been doing

that for a long time. So,

doesn't look like climate change is

affecting the coral reef yet.

Well, Zero Hedge is telling us that half

of American schools

um they're doing what's called equitable

grading

instead of the usual kind. You know, the

usual kind, if you didn't turn in your

homework, you would be graded down. But

if you have something called equitable

grading,

then ah homework.

Some people turn it in, some people

don't.

So,

and then apparently, let's see what

else. Uh, you can also retake tests if

you didn't do well.

Gary the cat has decided to visit.

All right, Gary.

Give some Oh, hello. Don't knock over

the microphone. No, don't knock it over.

Just purr into it.

There you go. That's good.

Are you picking up that purr?

All right.

All right. That's your part of the show,

Gary. You're stealing the show.

Gary, how am I supposed to follow a pet

or a a baby?

You can't. They steal the show. If

you're listening to this, I'm deeply

sorry that you're missing the best part.

All right, but uh what I was going to

say is that half of those schools have

equitable uh grading. So, how do you how

do you suppose the students in those

schools do when they know they don't

have to do the homework

and they can retake all the tests? Well,

it turns out that they all do terrible.

So, equitable grading is just another

way that the probably the teachers union

is destroying the country if not the

whole world.

Well, there's a problem, as you know,

with fake science.

And part of it is that there's fake

science, but there's also fake

scientific journals. Did you know that?

Especially useful for other countries

where they don't have as much, you know,

I guess, infrastructure built out for

science. Um, there are these fake

publications that will say, "If you give

us a thousand dollars, we will publish

your paper and and tell people it was

peer-reviewed, even though they don't

actually peerreview it." So, a whole

bunch of papers, like a lot of them, got

published that were not peer-reviewed.

They were just fake fake peer-reviewed.

But bunch of computer scientists figured

out how to use AI to look for the

sketchy ones. Now that those would just

be the ones who are outright fraud. What

we also know is that the ones that are

not trying to be a fraud um about half

of them turn out to be not reproducible

studies. So these are two separate

problems. One is that even if

everybody's trying to do the right

thing, more than half the time they

fail. So that a peerreview paper is is

just BS. On top of that are these uh

massive problem with frauds. It's not

just like a little thing that happened a

few times. It's massively integrated

with the whole system that uh there's

all these all these fake publications.

So,

science is halfway to making itself look

like guessing.

And uh right now uh honestly, science is

worse than guessing because guessing

sort of a coin flip, you know, 50/50.

But if you add together all the problems

with uh allegedly peer-reviewed papers,

probably more than half of them

u you know as in more than 50%

are fake.

So if you think the science is better

than guessing,

it's the other way around. guessing if

you flipped the coin, you'd be right

about half the time that either the

study worked or it didn't work or they

proved their case or they didn't. You

can't reach 50%.

With the current scientific process

because there too many frauds, it takes

the takes the average down below 50%.

It's literally worse than guessing.

Oh well. Now, I don't think that's

literally true. somebody will argue with

my statistical approach to that.

Um, but if you want to hear the good

news, if you've done a fake scientific

study and you knew it, you knew it was

fake and then you uh apply to one of the

fake scientific journals.

Um, I think since both of you would be

frauds in that case, it would be peer

review cuz you're a fraud. So, who

better to analyze and review your paper?

Another fraud. It's called peer review.

Well, there's an article in the

Washington Times by Seth McLaclin who's

talking about well the the title is that

feats of strength become the 2025 limus

in Trump's era of masculine politics and

it's giving a bunch of anecdotes that

are not terribly persuasive but um I

think they lead in the right direction

you know you know uh Pete Hagath and

Bobby Kennedy did the did the push-ups

and the everything. So, everybody's uh

in the Trump world, the idea here is

that people are trying to be more

masculine and other politicians are

trying to keep up. So, it's a it's

turning into a competition who's more

masculine. And uh that's that's true.

But I would like to point out that the

uh the theme of fitness

came from the MAGA voters and supporters

not from the top. So Trump is not really

the driver of the manly stuff, although

you know he goes to MMA fights and does

manly things,

but I think that uh a lot of his

supporters were the pro-ysical fitness

people. And so it I think it I think it

trickled up more than it trickled down.

That's my take that I think that started

at the bottom and just became a a thing.

I don't think it was a thing before.

There were some just persuasive

pro- feminist people on the right.

I tried to do my my best there.

Um, apparently Boston is experiencing

more uh freed up rental property than uh

in recent times. So, it's somewhat easy

to rent a place in Boston now. And that

would be mostly they believe because of

all the uh foreign students who were

sent back and maybe other immigration

actions. So uh I wonder if that'll

happen in all the major cities and could

it be that Trump's immigration practices

shipping people back will it be enough

that it will lower the price of rents?

uh because that would be huge. Could you

imagine the you know the entire middle

class or at least the the renting class

um finding out that suddenly things are

you know more affordable that'd be a

pretty big deal.

We'll see. You know Boston's a college

town so maybe it was just the college

effect. It won't won't necessarily

spread to every city.

Well, according to the gateway pundit

Joel Gilbert is writing,

this is so perfect. So, you know how

Leticia James um she's one of the people

who was accused of mortgage fraud for

calling her second home uh also a

primary home. So, if you're confusing

the stories,

um the Lisa Cook, the Fed chief, is also

accused of the same thing. So it's easy

to get those two confused but Leticia

James allegedly and I think this is not

confirmed but it was you know confirmed

enough that the Gateway Punda published

it and uh the idea is that there's a

family member who is uh staying at at

her secondary home who uh is wanted by

the department of uh is wanted by the

authorities for what did she do? Charge

um

what was her crime? She's an absconder,

whatever that means, is wanted for

violating probationary terms.

Um so that would make her sort of a

wanted criminal, if you will, in a way.

And uh but the the interesting thing is

if Leticia James knows that she's wanted

by the law and she's harboring her in

her home,

that would be a crime.

So Leticia James,

she's she's really going to regret that

she went after Trump.

You know, the the thing about uh you

know what they always say, if you make a

if you try to kill the king, you better

make sure it succeeds because if the

king finds out you took a run at him,

it's going to be pretty bad.

So that's what uh that's what Leticia

James is learning that if you decide to

lawfare the president, you better get

the job done.

If you miss,

it's coming for you. And uh I don't mind

at all. You know, I don't like lawfare

in general, but lawfare as revenge for

lawfare, I'm all for it. 100% for it.

Well, apparently there's what's being

called a gold rush for podcast stars.

So, so you you already know that uh uh

left-leaning podcasters are getting paid

by some big dark money group that, you

know, wants to wants to make sure they

have their own Joe Rogan, but they can't

get one. So, they're going to pay a

bunch of much lesser Joe Rogan's and see

if they can add them all together, I

guess. And then there are some big media

companies that apparently are talking to

some big podcasters to see if they can

kind of bring them under their brand and

pay them way too much, millions of

dollars. Apparently Sean Ryan reportedly

is talking to some media entity that

would pay him millions of dollars. And

uh

so apparently being a popular podcaster

is a real good way to make millions of

dollars

unless you've been cancelled for a rant.

I'll tell you again that nobody's ever

tried to bribe me.

And I think nobody's even tried. Now, I

wouldn't take a bribe to, you know,

change what I do because I I I do it as

much because I like it as I do it for

the money. I mean, I can do other things

for money, but I I like doing this. So,

nobody's ever tried to bribe me. It

wouldn't work, but you're not even going

to take a You're not even going to take

a try.

Uh

so anyway, and you do wonder about the

entities that are trying to take them

over cuz you know that they're going to

control the content. Not 100%.

But no matter how independent they're

supposed to be, there's going to be some

clause in their contract that they can't

have, you know, Hitler as a guest or

whatever it is. So there's always going

to be a little bit of, you know,

independence lost if you have if you're

part of a big deal. But I do not

begrudge anybody who takes, let's say,

$10 million

um when they get offered. So that would

not be a sin. It's all legal.

Well, Tucker Carlson had some expert on

his speaking and podcast um talking

about uh

anti-depressants

and mental health and what uh this

expert whose name I did not write down

um was saying that if you studied people

who are depressed and you you know look

at their blood and their their chemistry

it all looks normal.

So, they don't actually have less

serotonin.

Um, that's just never been the case. So,

apparently the experts don't really know

what causes somebody to be depressed.

And according to this guy, he he says uh

that they just sort of give up and say,

"We'll just tell people it's a chemical

imbalance because we assume it is, but

nobody knows what chemical might be

imbalanced." If you did, then you could

give somebody whatever is the part

that's missing in theory and it might

fix them. But nobody nobody can identify

any chemical imbalance that you could

fix. Now,

I have a hypothesis which I checked with

Grock just to make sure it wasn't crazy.

So, Grock did not confirm my hypothesis,

but it's one I've had for a long time.

It goes like this. Depression is a just

low energy state. So that what you feel

as depression is just the result of low

energy.

Now what causes the low energy? You know

could be a variety of things I suppose

but uh have you have you ever been

really happy when your energy is really

low and you're just wiped out? Possibly,

but usually not. Right? If your energy

is low, you also feel gh. And have you

ever been depressed,

but at the same time your energy was

great? You're like, "Oh man, I got

plenty of energy. I could go for a run."

But you're also depressed.

Not really, right? It's possible, I

suppose. But the correlation between

when your energy is good, um, you're you

don't feel bad

is pretty strong. So my hypothesis is

that uh maybe even um anxiety

because anxiety feels like it's just

some irrational thing that popped up.

But if you had lots of energy,

are you usually feeling confident? You

know, I suppose there's a frightened

energy too that you could have, but if

you had, you know, nice strong energy,

you probably wouldn't feel nearly as

anxious or as depressed. So, what I

wonder is, is there anything you can

measure?

Probably not, because we know that

depression also causes a lack of energy.

But I'll bet it's far more two-way

than than medicine acknowledges. That's

my hypothesis.

That if you could fix people's energy,

they would have a better mental state.

Now, that's also consistent with the

fact that when people exercise, they

have better mental health because that's

been proven a million times. What also

happens when you exercise?

you get better, cleaner energy, right?

So all the all the indicators are

pointing toward uh these mental health

problems having some kind of a energy

related element to it.

Did you know that only 37% of adults

have sex weekly?

Now when I say weekly,

uh that's spelled we e k l y. I don't

know the percentage of people who have

sex weekly as in we ak but there must be

some. You want to have sex? All right.

Uh

I'm done. Well, that was pretty weak.

So, some people do it weekly that way. I

don't know how many, but the general

social survey said 37% have it uh have

it uh once a week.

um only 37%.

And a quarter of people between 18 and

29 have not had sex in the past year. To

which I say, isn't that normal?

I I would have imagined that at any time

in my life, u a quarter of the people my

age were not having any sex.

That's what I thought. Anyway, but uh I

checked on Grock and porn usage is way

up and people are saying, "Aha, it's

that porn usage that's causing less sex

in the real world."

Is it? How many of you think that that's

a a real identifiable cause? There might

be more than one. I believe there there

is. But how many think that porn is the

reason that uh there's less real world

sex?

I wonder if it doesn't work the other

way around, as in if you've decided to

not have real world sex or you're unable

to get it, are you just going to go

without

or are you going to say, "Well, at least

I can fall back on this." So, I've got a

feeling that a lack of access to sex is

one of the things that makes people look

at porn.

Um, you know, if if you could have sex

three times a day with your favorite

partners or partner, how much porn would

you even be interested in? I mean, you

might you might like a little just for a

change of pace or something, but it's

not going to you're not going to be

obsessed with it

anyway. Maybe it's the phone usage, too.

There's a whole bunch of reasons people

are less healthy, blah blah. Um,

let's see.

So, we know now that the uh dark money,

as I mentioned, is going from uh

Democrats to a variety of um

left-leaning podcasters

and data Republican figured out, you

know, where the money's coming from and

you can see it flowing through and

getting to the podcasters. I don't

believe that that exists for

Republicans, right? I believe that

Republicans get their influencers the

honest way, which is somebody just is

good at what they do and they became a

good influencer.

Why is it that only one side of politics

has legitimate organic

talented influencers

and the other side doesn't have any

unless they're paid and even they're not

breaking through. Is that a coincidence?

I mean, that would be the biggest

coincidence in the world, wouldn't it?

That only one side of the political

world can have a like a really

influential podcaster.

I don't know.

Uh, so I guess David Pacman is allegedly

one of the people who's getting paid to

be a podcaster.

they say. Well, speaking of sketchy

things, um, apparently there was a ex

postal uh employee who was in charge of

being a postal investigator. So, his job

was to investigate uh mail fraud. Um, do

you want to take a guess of what what

happened with the guy whose job it is to

investigate mail fraud?

I'll give you another hint. part of his

job is to figure out when somebody was

being scammed with a mail scam. Uh which

ones of those letters coming from the

people being scammed would have cash in

them because apparently there's a scam

where they get old people probably to

mail them cash just through the mail. So

the investigator told the the the people

to look for certain kinds of mail that

would have cash in it because they were

victims of a scam. And then he told them

instead of delivering the cash to the

fraudster, they should give all the

envelopes with the cash to the US postal

inspector,

the investigator.

So,

do you think that the uh US postal

investigator upgraded his swimming pool?

Yes, he did.

Apparently, he was just keeping all the

he just he was uh essentially he was

scamming the scammers out of their own

money.

So, the victims still lost their money,

but so did the scammer. And he was just

he was just living the good life.

Oh, I'll tell you, if you ever want a

good job, be a US postal investigator.

Uh, guys, uh, you're going to have to

send all of these highly illegal

envelopes full of cash. Send them to me.

All right.

Um

Trump uh you you probably heard uh there

was some noise some people saying that

there's something wrong with Trump. Um

but he apparently went golfing this

weekend and he's doing posts and it

looks like he's got an interview. So he

doesn't seem to be deceased in case you

thought that. So that rumor was going

around for a little while. Um but there

does seem like there's something going

on.

So, I'm definitely in the camp of

saying, "Huh, I wonder why he's going to

be so quiet this weekend and uh you

relative to to Trump." So, you know,

that plus the fact that he's got, you

know, swollen hands and that's been a

little bit unexplained. I am worried

about him. I'm worried about him. So,

I'm officially

concerned. I it doesn't look like it's,

you know, necessarily deadly or

anything, but I'm concerned.

Um, but he was asked uh recently by the

the Daily Caller, I think, uh Reagan Ree

asked Trump uh if he'd be bothered if uh

James Comey and John Brennan

uh got handcuffed and arrested for their

role in Russia Gate and maybe other

things. and Trump said would not bother

me at all. Now, uh and then he went on

to say that four years ago or during his

first term, um you know, that he sort of

shut down the lawfare.

Uh and he explained how, you know,

Hillary Clinton obviously could have

been, you know, arrested for something

and he decided to not let that happen.

But then now now that we know so much

about Russia gate and we know what all

the bad people did pretty pretty

reliably and specifically we know what

they did and you can see you know the

entire structure of the uh the coup

attempt

and uh I feel like what Trump's doing is

softening up the room. I feel like you

know one of the things you need to do is

make sure there are lots of news stories

about the things that that his enemies

did. So that's happened. So we've seen

story after story in which they're

implicated in the crime. So that's sort

of softening the room because if you

just went, you know, hog wild and and

had your people arrest all of your

critics, there's no way the country

would put up with that. So, first he has

to make sure that everybody's at least

aware that there are credible reports of

all these people doing illegal things.

Credible. Now, that doesn't mean you

necessarily would arrest them all, but I

feel like then the next thing would be

for him to make you think about it. So

when he says stuff it wouldn't like it

wouldn't bother me at all. You can

really now visualize, you know, Brennan

and Clapper and maybe even Obama

literally in handcuffs,

you know, being taken to the car, the

perp walk. Now, that doesn't mean it

will turn out that way, but it does mean

that if you've seated the stories in in

the press, which has happened, and then

you also

um

you also talk about it so that people

imagine it like it's already happened.

And knowing that the the wheels of

justice are kind of slow. So, if you

imagine those guys getting arrested

and you just keep imagining it for

months and then one day you turn on the

TV and you see the thing you've been

imagining for months,

yeah, you if you're a Democrat, you're

definitely going to pretend to have some

feelings about that, but all your

feelings will have sort of been

dissipated by the fact that you've been

thinking about it for months and it

hadn't happened. And by the time it

does, you will have heard a million

times what they're accused of and you'll

know that there are documents to to back

it up. So I feel as though the Trump

administration and Trump in particular,

they have softened up the environment

just right.

Meaning that I believe that they can

arrest these people if they have the

goods and that the country would

complain. But it's got a lot on its

plate. So, as long as Trump is, you

know, ending crime and closing the

border and getting some tariff deals

done, um, I think that the country is

ready to see some of these bad guys

arrested.

So, we'll see.

I'm still going to bet against it, by

the way. So, if you want my prediction,

uh, there might be indictments.

Uh, I I'll say there will be

indictments.

But I don't think any of them are going

to go to jail. I think they might be

ruined by the process, but I don't know

that they'll go for jail. Uh, speaking

of that, um, MSNBC had John Brennan on

and of course he was, you know,

defending everything he did and saying

Trump was terrible. But I've never heard

John Brennan sound so afraid.

Just his voice. He he seems completely

guilty and scared to death.

And you know, I can't read his mind, but

certainly the things that we've seen

that are that are public would suggest

he's certainly guilty. And uh he should

be very afraid of that because they have

the goods on him and they're just making

him twist apparently. I mean, yeah. Does

he have to wonder if there's going to be

a grand jury about him, John Brandon?

Yeah, I don't think he has to wonder.

I'm I'm pretty sure there will be a

grand jury situation with him. Doesn't

mean Yeah, it doesn't mean he goes to

jail or anything. What do we got here?

Uh

yeah. So yeah, Brennan just looks scared

to death. And I don't know that you look

like that if you're innocent. I mean, I

guess some people who are innocent have

like uh like Caputo have been destroyed

by the process. Um so I guess you could

be afraid even if you were innocent, but

I don't think that's what's happening in

this case. Trump also said he's going to

issue an executive order requiring voter

ID for every vote. and he's trying to

get rid of mail-in ballots the same way.

Now, of course, any any of that kind of

stuff is going to go to immediately.

There'll be lawsuits and we don't know

how any of that will turn out. So, he

might not be able to have in the end any

control over that directly.

But let's say he did or even if he

didn't. Here are the things that

determine who gets elected in our fake

system. Number one, if you're a

Democrat, apparently the party leaders

decide who's gonna get nominated. So, I

think the whole nomination process is a

little bit fake, you know, as we saw the

way uh Harris got nominated. So, there's

that. Then you've got these EOS about,

you know, voter ID and mail and ballots.

If those things are allowed, it probably

gets you a different result than if

they're not allowed. So, is it the

voters who are deciding or is it the

existence of EOS and whether the court

said yes or no to the EO? What about the

gerrymandering?

That will determine a lot. What about

the fake news? But what about Mark Elias

and all of his thousands of lawsuits and

and uh rule changes and stuff like that?

That made a big difference. How about

the podcasters and the law the lawfare

against, you know, some politicians but

not others? What about the opposition

research? None of those things

talk to the capability of the of the um

people running for office and none of

them are anything like a democratic

republic.

It's all just rule attacks. So whoever

gets to have the most influence on the

rules of voting somewhat reliably will

be in charge.

So, uh, given that, uh, Trump has a

majority in the Supreme Court, in

theory, he can bend the rules and get

away with it

with the Supreme Court's approval. Um,

until he's just got a a dominant control

position for the Republicans, which

would be for them to lose.

So, that's what's happened. It it's hard

for for me to even see anything like a

democratic process. Are are all of you

that jaded? Are you as jaded as I am

that our system of government really

it's not about citizens expressing their

will.

There's nothing like that happening. the

the citizens are assigned opinions by

whatever news they watch and then

there's all these rule all all the

people involved in changing the rules

who will determine which of those people

win

because it's always amazingly really

close so that the the rules changes are

the determining factors. So

anyway, that's the world you live in.

It's certainly not any kind of

democratic republic or anything close to

it.

The Wall Street Journal is talking about

the middle class squeeze, which means

financially. And of course, people have

been talking about that for a number of

years now because the middle class keeps

getting hollowed out. But I feel like it

may have may be reaching some kind of a

breaking point finally

because unless rent does go down a lot

and food prices do go down a lot and

somebody figures out how to do child

care. By the way, why does child care

cost so much? Are there really no

retired grandmas who would take, you

know, three kids and charge you a

fraction of what the professionals are

charging? There's just there's no way to

work that out. I don't know. So, the

middle class is in trouble and I don't

know that uh things Trump is doing,

while generally good things in my

opinion, I don't know if they're going

to make enough difference fast enough.

Uh but they're in the right direction.

So, we'll see.

Um, I feel like there's some big

response coming and it will be something

like I talk about this endlessly. Uh,

some kind of a Lego house that you can

build yourself so that the cost of

building is really low

or

some kind of arrangement where people

who want to have babies are in a good

shape.

Gary, stop it.

I don't know. We'll fix that. We'll fix

that whole middle class problem.

Um,

so one of the people who got ousted from

the CDC, I forget if he I forget if he

was fired or

um he quit in protest, but anyway, he

was the CDC vaccine chief, Dimmitri

Dascalis, who apparently had a very

colorful personal life, which is

documented in social media. And uh you

know, I won't get into it cuz I'm I'm

not judgy, but uh I have to say he's uh

he's an interesting guy. His social life

looks like uh it's more interesting than

yours,

I will say. But uh he said that the crux

of his concern about the CDC is that the

data coming out soon will be showing

that quote something is causing autism

um and that it will be blamed on

vaccines.

Do you think that's coming? Do you

believe that RFK Jr.

is going to basically use fake science

because he's not complaining that the

data might be accurate.

He's complaining that the data would be

inaccurate and the science would not be

good and it would connect autism to

vaccines. That might happen. Anything is

possible. But do you believe that RFK

Jr.

would find it to his advantage to give

the country fake science and then kill

people by taking away their vaccines

that hypothetically could be totally

safe or safe enough. I don't know. I'm

very curious what uh is going to come

out of this. To me, one of the biggest

stories of the year will be when Kennedy

comes out and says, "Well, we may not

have every answer, but we have

determined and we're positive that this

or that or this is causing autism."

That is going to be really, really a big

deal. Like a really, really big deal.

Because for one thing, it might open up

somebody to lawsuits,

right? if he finds out there's something

in the food supply, whoever makes that

thing or sells that thing. They got some

You're gonna have to answer some

questions.

Anyway, um so back to the story of Lisa

Cook, the Fed governor that's uh Trump

fired, but she says she's not fired

because he can't do that. So she's

either she's like Schroinger's cat of

Fed governors. She's both fired and not

fired. And we won't know until we look

in the box later.

But uh what's interesting is that uh uh

is it I think is Eli, not Ellie Honig.

He's the uh uh a legal expert. Whoops.

Don't stop on that. Gary, he's a legal

expert on CNN. And I've always enjoyed

his commentary because he's he does the

best job of taking the the politics and

the bias out of the legal discussion,

which means

somewhat frequently he will say

something that sounds unambiguously like

you heard it on Fox News. Now, that's a

compliment

because it means that he's just

following the law where the law goes.

And so he's not like, "Oh, we got double

cats. I thought that was Gary, but that

was Roman." Um,

so what was I talking about?

So, uh, Ellie Honeig,

um, is talking about Lisa Cook and does

find that her her activities with her

mortgage, which again is that, uh, two

homes and calling them both the primary

resident. So, he does say that's kind of

sketchy. and he thinks that a judge

might agree with Trump uh that her

behavior is within the domain of the

president to decide if she's gone too

far and that's cause for removal. So

he's not saying that Trump is right.

He's saying that the argument is strong

enough that he could easily imagine a a

judge siding with Trump.

Now that's interesting.

And let's see. Yeah. Yeah.

Apparently there are I don't know if I

should believe this or not. It's just

something I'm seeing on social media. So

tell me if these stories are fake or

maybe they happened not recently. So I

saw one report that there are

anti-immigration

protesters in Osaka in Japan. Is Japan

having uh any kind of a public revolt

against the Japanese immigration process

which I think is loosening up. Is that

true? But also I saw a video of uh many

thousands of people doing some kind of

anti-immigration protest in the UK and

uh apparently that involves you know

carrying a lot of flags. So protesting

and the flag is part of it. Now, is that

true or is that just something that

happened in one town that one time?

Is there a major uprising in the UK?

Because I don't I don't know that it's

major, but it's happening. I mean,

there's definitely some uprising. I I

feel like it's too late for the UK. U

this is something they should have done

years ago. And I'm starting to think

that the only democracy that's going to

survive

is one that has a Trump. If you don't

have a Trump, there's not somebody

willing to literally risk their life and

their freedom to change things. And and

that's what it takes. I mean, you

literally have to risk your life and

your freedom

to make a difference in any immigration

or that stuff. But there al also there

are reports so maybe this is all related

that for the first time in modern

history according to the Wall Street

Journal uh populist conservative parties

are leading the polls in all three of

Europe's biggest economies the UK,

France and Germany.

So do you think that's a thing? Do you

think the uh Conservatives will win in

all three countries and then clamp down

on immigration?

I don't know. Maybe, but I don't know if

it might, like I said, it's probably

just too late. Um I I think all those

countries are essentially going to be

different countries. I'll just say that.

Anyway, uh Governor Pritsker

some say is slimming down. Maybe he's

taking one of those uh uh whatever those

fat reduction drugs are, but uh that's

good for him if he's getting healthier.

Um that's great. Some say it's in

preparation for running for president.

Maybe. Do do you think that um Governor

Pritsker looks at his own chances and

says, "Yeah, yeah, I could be the next

president."

Cuz I don't see that.

I don't think he has the uh charisma,

the kind that you need. I think he's got

Chris Christie charisma,

which is really good up to about the

state level. And it just it's like Tim

Walls. Tim Walsh has state level

charisma. It just doesn't have national

charisma. Um Gavin Newsome,

I hate to tell you, has national

charisma.

Now, he's not my choice,

but he's he's not limited by his

charisma to a state level. Like he

doesn't have a cap. He's got the kind of

game you could very easily just imagine

seeing him in the White House.

Unfortunately,

I hate the fact that I can so easily

imagine it,

but he does have the game to get there

under the right conditions.

Um,

apparently Indonesia is having major

protests in the streets over I guess the

economic disparity, the difference

between the elites and the average

people. and the average people are

trying to rise up. But apparently there

was, as part of one of the

demonstrations, there was a moment when

a armored vehicle accidentally ran over

one of the protesters

who was also, you know, middle class

worker kind of guy, a ride hailing

driver. And

if you're already having street protests

about the elites, you know, not caring

enough about the middle class, you

really don't want to have a money truck

running over one of the protesters.

That's like the worst look you could

ever have a money truck run. You know,

the money of course belonging mostly to

the the elites, one assumes. So, it's

just a bad look.

But what I don't know, and now I'm

curious because I'm so jaded. Do you

think that if it's true that Indonesia

is having these big street protests, do

you think they're organic or do you

think that there's a country doing a

color revolution

um on Indonesia?

And it doesn't mean it's us. It could be

China using the same, you know, the same

color revolution tricks. Now that the

color revolutions

uh largely involve they involve a number

of things you know controlling the media

and ow kept oh kept biting my toes. Ow.

Um

but definitely they always they always

have to include street protests so that

the other citizens believe oh protests

are you know ordinary people like me are

rising up against the leaders. So you

you don't get that look unless you've

got people in the street. So I always

assume that people in the street is

always

uh fake.

Okay, I'm really getting eaten alive

here. Which cat is doing that?

Is that you? Which cat?

I don't know. I think that's Roman.

Roman's the toe biter. All right. Um,

separately,

the New York Post is reporting that uh,

at least some people believe based on a

UKbased report that by the Harry Jackson

Society, you know, the Harry Jackson

Society. Uh, no, it's a Henry Jackson.

Harry Jackson is actually a sexual

reference. Um,

so what did you guys do last night? Oh,

man. Had a couple of drinks and next

thing you know, we're doing the Harry

Jackson.

All right. But that has nothing to do

with the story when it's really the

Henry Jackson Society. Um, has

determined that Iran's Islamic Republic

is getting close to collapse and civil

war. Do you believe that?

Do do you believe that Iran's government

is close to collapse? I don't know. That

feels like the thing that you say when

you want to make them collapse.

I I just I just don't think that that

Iran has that energy to uh overthrow

their current government. Maybe, but I'm

going to say probably not.

Trump uh also told Daily Colors or

Reagan Ree that uh he thinks a

trilateral meeting with Ukraine is

likely. In other words, uh Putin and

Zilinski and Trump, the three of them.

But he thinks that a bilateral is less

likely, the kind where Zilinski and

Putin meet. Now, I've told you this

before. I I haven't really seen anybody

else say it, so you can tell me. Is this

just really obvious? Is is everybody

saying it because it's so obvious? Um,

here's what I think. I think that

Zalinski and Putin, because they've

probably almost certainly tried to kill

each other, like I'll bet you both of

them have green lit plans to kill the

other. How do you put them in a room?

Like even even you know even if you say

but I'm an analogy thinker and it

reminds me of an analogy of other

leaders who once got together uh like

FDR met with uh Stalin

to which I say did Stalin try to kill

FTR? Did FDR ever try to kill Stalin or

were they just you know they were bad

guys but we had to work with them to win

a war. There's not really an analogy for

that.

Can you think of any situation in which

the two leaders who genuinely tried to

kill each other and essentially did

great damage to each other's countries?

Can you put them in a room without

anybody else?

I don't think you can. I I think that

their their hatred and distrust of each

other would go so deep that there's just

nothing that good that could come from

it. But if you throw Trump in the room,

then he has that way of making

everything about him and then suddenly

it's two people concentrating on Trump,

which might work. It might work. I'm not

really optimistic about it, but it would

work better than the B bilateral. So, I

don't think there's any chance of a

bilateral meeting. I think everybody

knows it'd be a waste of time. Might

make things worse.

Well, did you know that more than 60%

according also New York Post is writing

about this, more than 60% of Gen Z's,

the American Gen Z's support Hamas over

Israel.

60%

of Gen Z supports Hamas, not just the

Palestinians,

but Hamas.

What? What?

Um, if I were the leader of the ADL, I

would uh declare that I had failed

completely in trying to improve the

reputation of Israel.

All right, I got multiple cat situation

going on here.

Um,

but that's uh it's pretty amazing. 60%.

And then at the same time that they Oh,

come on. Off the keyboard.

um separately but related. The Israeli

government is reportedly according to

people who have knowledge of the inside

conversations. The Israeli government is

reportedly debating annexing part of the

occupied West Bank and it might be a big

part like six 60% of it or something to

which I say um it's as I always remind

you uh I don't have advice for Israel.

It's not my country. And I also don't

believe that my sense of ethics or

morality or what's good for my country

should have anything to do with what

they do. I mean, it's it's entirely

their business. So, we're observers.

Cats. We're observers on this. We're not

participants.

You know, even if you wanted to be a

participant, you're not. You don't get a

vote. Nobody cares if you're mad about

it.

you're just not a participant. We're

just watching. Um, so here's what I

observe.

Whether or not uh annexing the West Bank

and making sure that there's never a

two-state solution. And if it is, that

the second state is just a little bit of

a nothing. So no matter whether you

think that's a good idea or a bad idea,

I'll tell you what is true. There's

never been a better time to do it. It

might be a bad idea. Like, it might just

cause, you know, so much trouble that

you wish you had never done it. It might

be a bad idea, but there's definitely

not going to be a better time to do that

bad idea. So, if they feel lucky, and I

don't know if they do, um, they might

make a run at it. If I had to predict,

um, I'll predict that they don't. I'll

predict that they debate it but decide

the risk is too high because they they

need to wrap up Gaza and they can't

probably don't want to open up a whole,

you know, extra can of worms right now.

So, um, at the same time, it's no better

time for them to do it. And the reason I

say that is that their reputation is so

bad already. if the Gen Z's are 60% in

favor of Hamas that it's not going to

get much worse

and uh there's so much happening there

that it's a good sort of confusing

environment where there's too much to

talk about, then you can sneak in the

the stuff that people don't like because

there's just so much to talk about that

people don't like that there's just one

more thing. So, I'm not recommending it.

That's not that's not advice.

I'm just saying as an observer,

probably there'll never be a better

time. And it could be a disaster, by the

way. There's there's a real strong

chance it would be just disastrous, but

never a better time.

So, I'd uh

I'd hate to be trying to make that

decision.

All right, ladies and gentlemen,

look at me. I stretched that out until

it was almost exactly 1 hour. I got

quite the game. Um, if you were a

subscriber to Owen Gregorian's uh X

account, he's got a spaces just for you,

just for the sub people subscribe to

him, people who follow him, followers,

not subscribers, the people who follow

him on X. Um, so that'll happen after

the show and uh I'm going to talk

privately to the beloved members of

locals and

we're going to play with my cats a

little bit who are starting to fight.

Now, one cat is starting to fight and

the other one is trying to ignore him.

Guess which one is instigating the

fight. That's right. It's Gary.

Yep. Gary's trying to instigate a fight

on my notes.

All right, I'll I'll let you all watch

that for a minute. This will be your

moment of Sunday's end.

Cats wrestling.

I I watch this so much during the day.

Oh, don't fall off.

You going to fight back? You're just

going to let your brother bite you?

There you go.

I love the paw on the head.

I unite you, Sir Kittton.

All right. Now, don't you think uh some

media company should be offering me $10

million for my podcast for this content?

You've never seen better.

Can David Pacman do this? No.

Can Tucker Carlson do this on his

podcast? No. No. I'm the only one. Cat

fights.

All right, that's enough of that.

Locals,

I'm going to come at you privately. The

rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll

see you again tomorrow. Same time, same

place.

Got some surprises for you.