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Episode 3045 ChatWSA 12/17/25

Episode #3045 Dec 17, 2025 43:42 31,458 views

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Opening Health & Biohacking

Good morning. Hold on. All right. All right. I've got a few minutes here to say good morning and have a quick simultaneous sip of whatever it is you're sipping. I thought I would try checking the news while you're joining me. Come on in. Join me. Looks like the Locals people are here first, as the…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

joining me. You want to do that? Let's see. We've got a thousand people here. So I'm using my laptop now, which frees up my phone. So I can check some stories on my phone, see if there's something to talk about. Did you know that Trump put a blockade on the Venezuelan oil tankers? And apparently he…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

been trying to ignore the Candace story because it felt a little gossipy and didn't really seem like big news. But the part that caught my attention just sort of in a gossipy way is apparently Candace has a hypothesis that the Egyptian government has two of its official state planes that have someho…

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MainContent Cognitive Reframing

t, you can't unsee it. So here's a question I have. Why did Rob Reiner treat the anti-Trump stuff like it was his job? I don't think he was doing it for money, but he didn't do it like he was just a concerned citizen. Would you agree? The amount of organization and effort, and he was part of a club…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

theatrical thing where you have to say, "Oh my God, even though they disagree with you, it's the worst thing in the world because of the family and all that." To which I say, you wouldn't say that if Ben Laden got shot. He would also be my mortal enemy. I did see James Woods say that he was pro-Rei…

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Closing General Commentary

ee with anything. By the way, one of the more interesting, got company. All right, people. I've got company. Come in. Come in. This should be my breakfast being delivered. So I won't eat in front of you. And I'm going to say bye for now. I will check back in. But everybody, hope you have a great da…

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Good morning. Hold on. All right. All right.

I've got a few minutes here to say good morning and have a quick simultaneous sip of whatever it is you're sipping. I thought I would try checking the news while you're joining me. Come on in. Join me.

Looks like the Locals people are here first, as they should be. Damn it. I didn't check my voice before I started talking. Top 50. Good morning.

No, no brown shoes are identified. That is a weird story, isn't it? So we don't know what's going on there, do we? I usually don't do the stories about individual murders.

No hospital coffee. Well, I will have some beverages in half an hour. When you're in the hospital and you have nothing to do except sleep, I just take naps, you know, hour naps all day. And then I play on my computer or my phone.

So happy to see me. Oh, good. Things aren't going so well here medically. I have to be honest, but you never know. Could be a miracle. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was that nuclear physicist. You're praying for me. Thank you. I've got one more radiation treatment today, but so far it doesn't look like it's making any difference. But I do enjoy the ambulance ride to the radiation center, and after that I'll do some Pluvicto treatments. But it looks like the odds are against me.

So what I thought I would do is catch up on the news while you're coming in and joining me. You want to do that? Let's see. We've got a thousand people here. So I'm using my laptop now, which frees up my phone. So I can check some stories on my phone, see if there's something to talk about.

Did you know that Trump put a blockade on the Venezuelan oil tankers? And apparently he has some kind of justification for that. Did you know that Venezuela nationalized a bunch of U.S. assets back in the past? And so I think that's Trump's rationalization. It's like, you nationalized our assets, we're going to take them back. But I guess Chevron has some kind of special deal where they can still do oil.

So I'm definitely wondering what is the real story about Venezuela. I don't feel like we know. Do you? I mean, it's a little bit about drugs, but not completely. It's a little bit about the Monroe Doctrine. Maybe that's more of it. Maybe it's about just somebody making money, but it might be a combination of all those things.

Hey, Sergio. Good morning. Well, yeah, they obviously would like regime change, but to what end? Because the current regime has already said we'll give you whatever you want basically. It's not like we're negotiating with them. So yeah, they definitely want regime change, but we don't know to what end because probably there's a lot of countries we'd like to regime change.

You think it's a Kraken? That's entirely possible. It's entirely possible that the only way Trump can prove that 2024 was stolen or 2020 was stolen is by getting control of the Venezuelan government. Maybe it's to move China, Russia, and Iran out. Well, that would be the obvious reason. That would be the Monroe Doctrine reason. But it does seem like he could get that through negotiating. What do you think?

Will SpaceX be bigger than Tesla? Yes. The thing with SpaceX is there's no limit to how big that can get.

Says he stole the election. Maybe.

All right. Is anybody following the Candace and Erica story? So I've been trying to ignore the Candace story because it felt a little gossipy and didn't really seem like big news. But the part that caught my attention just sort of in a gossipy way is apparently Candace has a hypothesis that the Egyptian government has two of its official state planes that have somehow intersected with the travels of Erica Kirk like 70 times, and that it would be statistically impossible for that to be an accident.

Now, she doesn't go beyond that to say what it is that Egypt or Erica were up to, but she does say, well, isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? Yeah, we presume it would be about Israel just because the Middle East is involved. But so Ian Carroll has also been covering the plane paths. Well, I saw this morning somebody say that the data was fake and I don't know. There's no way to know.

I'm going to say I don't think there's anything to that one because even if Egypt had some kind of interest in Erica, I don't think that they would use their presidential planes and intersect with her 70 times. Now Megyn Kelly got in the middle of it. Oh, they're registered as Egyptian. That might be different.

Well, I'm going to go on record as saying I doubt there's anything to it. The Egypt planes are a scam. Yeah, I suspect there's nothing there. That's my guess.

So let's catch up with the Rob Reiner story. Are you sick of that yet? That one is kind of deeper than I thought it would be. Tucker said it's true. What part is true? The planes. Kiko the Great has a story about that. Do you really think that this one's worth digging into the airplane story?

We're just super chats. No, they're using her Candace to make us all look crazy. Maybe. Maybe.

So I think I've given you my opinion, but here's some things that I've recently realized. So now we hear that the Reiners were planning to have dinner with the Obamas that very night. Do you believe that? Do you believe that by coincidence the Reiners were going to have dinner with the Obamas that very night, the night they were killed? Well, they do have a lot of famous friends, so that that's possible.

But now that you know that they were that close with the Obamas, did you know that they were, at least Rob Reiner was close with I think five different heads of the CIA? So there was, or at least intelligence people. So he did a piece about the Russia collusion in which he was trying to sell Russia collusion to the public, and he did that with a Brennan and Clapper high-production thing.

Now, do you think that when Rob Reiner did that video with Brennan and Clapper accusing Trump of being a Russian puppet, do you think he knew that wasn't true? Because there's some possibility he didn't know and that he put all that effort and personal capital into it without knowing.

He was also very good friends with Norm Eisen, and if you don't know who Norm Eisen is then you don't know what happened in our country for the last several years. So Norm Eisen is the architect of all the lawfare against Trump. Pretty much all of it, you know, from the Russia collusion. So you got the Obamas, good friends. You got Norm Eisen, good friends. You've got Stephen King, who he worked with for years and made many movies together. Yeah, Larry David. I always wondered why Larry David was so weird about Trump, but maybe that's part of it, that connection. And who else was he? Yeah.

So basically Rob Reiner was connected with the power apparatus in the Democratic Party. So that explains a lot. I don't know about George Clooney. Was there any connection between Clooney and Reiner aside from the fact that they're both famous and they probably knew each other? Yeah.

So I posted this morning a video of Rob Reiner and his wife in some interview talking about Trump. Yeah. Stephen King, they were good friends that worked together. And look at Rob Reiner when he's talking about Trump. When he's saying things that we all know to be true, his eyes are open. But when he goes into fiction, you know, the part where Trump is Hitler and he's working with Putin and all that, he closes his eyes like he's imagining it and then talking about what he's imagining. You have to watch it. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

So here's a question I have. Why did Rob Reiner treat the anti-Trump stuff like it was his job? I don't think he was doing it for money, but he didn't do it like he was just a concerned citizen. Would you agree? The amount of organization and effort, and he was part of a club and they were all after him. It very much looked like something bigger than just his political opinion. And it's hard for me to believe that he believed the stuff he was saying. You think it was his job? Well, he didn't need the money. He was probably worth hundreds of millions.

Well, anyway, I saw the video where his wife Michelle was literally calling MAGA supporters essentially the same as Hitler's supporters. So if somebody has that much political power as the Reiners did, because it wasn't just what they said in public, it was their work behind the scenes and organizing the anti-Trump stuff, if you have that much political power and you demonize a group of people of which I am a part, at what point can I say bad things about my mortal enemy? Because the Reiners would have been very, let's say, not happy with me.

Do you think that they had a completely innocent opinion of Trump supporters? No. No. They had a very negative opinion of people like me. Not me personally. He never mentioned me personally. But if somebody goes on TV and they're a prominent person and they accuse you of being essentially no better than a Hitler supporter, how polite are you supposed to be when something bad happens to them?

I feel like this whole theatrical thing where you have to say, "Oh my God, even though they disagree with you, it's the worst thing in the world because of the family and all that." To which I say, you wouldn't say that if Ben Laden got shot. He would also be my mortal enemy.

I did see James Woods say that he was pro-Reiner because he helped him with his career and he was a nice guy. And that's fine. If Reiner had helped me in my career when I needed it the most and he had been my good friend for years, I'd say the same thing that James Woods did.

But here's the thing that I summarize that with. Don't you think everybody has the right to their own opinion about him? Don't you think that if you're James Woods and even though Reiner disagreed with him, they had a very close relationship in person, don't you think it's fine for James Woods to have a positive opinion? Of course. Why would I disagree with that?

But likewise, if Reiner had tried to get you kicked out of the presidency, overthrow the country, and put you in jail, literally put you in jail, which is what he was trying to do with Trump, don't you think Trump has an absolute right to have any opinion he wants about that? And do you and I have any obligation to agree with James Woods' perfectly reasonable opinion or to agree with Trump's perfectly reasonable opinion?

Now, some would say, but it's not his opinion that's the problem. They would say it's the fact that he said it when the situation was fresh. Again, that's up to Trump. It is his personal opinion and he can say it anytime he wants, and I would rather know his actual opinion than some fake opinion that controls the past. Yeah.

So I am completely supportive of anybody who had a pro or negative opinion and whenever they expressed it. I think that Reiner made himself a public figure on this topic. So if the public talks about this topic, that would be fair.

You know what I haven't missed? Yeah. Weirdly, because they give me such good painkillers and stuff that I've not once thought, I wish I had some weed. Isn't that weird? You'd think I would.

So this morning I will be going back to get the last of my five planned radiation treatments. So far there's no positive benefit coming from it and we're not actually expecting any. But I've got two doctors who disagree. So one doctor says if it's gotten worse, which it has, while you're doing the radiation, the radiation won't work. And one says, well, you have to wait a couple weeks. And the scans show that you still had some function before we started the radiation. So there's a 50% chance that there'll be some benefit. Not a complete recovery or anything like that, but 50% chance I might get feeling back in my legs because right now I don't have any feeling below the waist.

So I am completely at their mercy. If possible, put on protective gear. Here's your radioactive. No, but if they were pregnant, I believe they could not be around me. I think that's true. And I might go home maybe tomorrow, but I can't go home unless I have a full set of like hospital gear to move me around and I've got some people to take care of me when I need basically everything. All I really have is my upper body. So I'm like half a person right now. The bottom half has to be managed by other people with all that implies. The pain is not so bad because they're good at managing it.

So this morning I woke up in intense pain in my shoulder area, which is not unusual, but they had the painkiller in me in two minutes and then I was fine.

What reframe am I using? Well, I think I need to work harder on a reframe. Is it affecting me financially? Yes and no. Yes and no. I'm going to see if later today or maybe tomorrow I can start posting comics again. But interestingly, my Locals subscribers have stayed loyal and my streaming revenue is probably, I might even be up. I don't know. So but it will affect me. Yeah. Yeah.

There's a Bill Hader story. How would you like to meet Bill Hader who was apparently a celebrity at Conan O'Brien's party where that Nick Reiner was, and I guess something weird happened between Hader and Nick Reiner and caused, I think Nick was kicked out of the party. But how would you like to be the last person to talk to him before he went crazy? I guess he was crazy.

No rush. They say cancer affects every patient financially. Well, yeah. I mean, if I stayed alive and stayed with cancer that would stop me from working, but I had to spend a million dollars a year just paying somebody to take care of me. That would affect me financially.

But I will say again about the Reiners, as far as I can tell, they did everything you can do as a parent of an addicted, mentally ill kid. So I do not fault them for their parenting. However, if we were to find out that there was something else weird going on there, I would immediately revise my opinion. There are some disturbing hints of what that must have been like to be in the Reiner family, but they're not any kind of confirmed anything. It just sounds like Hollywood stuff.

Like one of the things is that Rob Reiner would kiss his son on the lips. Well, that might be more of a Hollywood thing than it is any other kind of thing. I'm not sure I would judge that. That's not the most unusual thing. It is unusual, but by itself it doesn't prove anything. Yeah, it definitely not something I would have experienced. Yeah.

So Trump has designated fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. I hope I was maybe part of that, but I don't really think he needed to do that. I think it's just part of the overall squeezing of Venezuela.

All right, I'm going to look at some, I'm going to go to X and look at my own feed or maybe at, you know what, I'm going to look at Owen's feed. I've got weird hiccups I get all the time now. All right, if you want to follow along, I'm going to Owen Gregorian's feed. And the reason I do that is every morning before I do my thing, Owen finds some interesting stories that I might be interested in talking about. He does a really good job of finding interesting stories.

So 17 hours ago Owen says that his own retired mother is on a list of people who donated almost every week to politics, I assume to a Democrat, but of course that's not real. So it looks like his own mother is in that fake donation Democrat scam thing. I should invite you over for bocce.

All right. Then Owen says, so this is Owen Gregorian's feed on X. And the reason I'm, if you're just joining, the reason I'm reading his is he intentionally picks stories that he thinks I would like or this audience would like. So it's not random.

Well, apparently there's some data that the payroll rose by 64,000 in November after falling 105,000 in October. But if you have been following the jobs numbers, I would say we don't really know what's happening with jobs. Do you believe any data on jobs? I would say wait on that. I don't believe that. I don't think anybody's lying. I think that we just don't have good data on jobs.

Well, then there's some data on tariff revenue and the CBP says it collected over 200 billion in tariff revenue so far and that would be only a partial, well it was almost end of the year. 200 billion. Do you think that's real? And is that really just another form of taxation? You decide. But it's a big number.

Did you know that the GOP is poised to overtake the Democrats on voter rolls? So it looks like it already happened in the key swing states after years of Democrat dominance. This is according to Alec Schmel and Fox News. Democrats are now a minority in apparently a number of swing states, which would be the whole game unless the election is rigged. How many of you think the election will be rigged? I don't know. I think the Republicans are now wise enough that they know where to check. So they're definitely going to be looking at the voting machines.

In Chicago, there's a Hispanic restaurant owner who is suing because he was told he can't have a restaurant unless he's black. So he couldn't renew his license and they told him it's because he's not black. Do you believe that in Chicago? There might be more to that story. I'd have to hear the other side of that, but it'd be pretty bad if it's true.

Marco Rubio is ruling out a 2028 run if JD Vance decides to run. Oh, I guess he said it directly. If JD Vance runs, he's going to be the nominee. Huh. That's interesting.

I guess troops have been fired over Biden's COVID vaccine. Oh, the ones that were fired over the Biden mandate are going to get an honorable discharge. They must have not gotten honorable discharges before. All right. Well, that's a good move by Hegseth.

Some European geopolitical analysts were sanctioned for claiming Ukraine and NATO triggered the Russian reaction and the war. Well, yeah, I can see why they get in trouble for that. Rubio continues to impress. I would agree. I think Rubio's done a solid job. Yep.

And you talk to Susie while you know I haven't seen what Susie Wiles is accused of saying. I keep seeing stories that like CNN where they say stuff like we can't believe what Susie Wiles said, but I don't know what the story is. Let me see if I can find it. Susie Wiles.

So shares a candid view. All right, let's see. Whoa, there's no way she said that. So according to Grok, Wiles, the first woman in a role as a veteran Trump campaign manager, described President Trump as having quote "an alcoholic's personality, overconfident, and fearless, like her late father, Pat Summerall." What? Susie Wiles' late father was Pat Summerall? I didn't know that.

Although Trump doesn't drink, she labeled Vance a former conspiracy theorist. She called Elon Musk an odd duck who sleeps in a sleeping bag at work and pointed critiques of big policy debates on tariffs, Spartans and Venezuela.

Now, you have to know that this isn't Vanity Fair. Why in the world would she do an interview for Vanity Fair? You know, Vanity Fair is where you avoid interviews, right? That's not some place you go to give an interview, but apparently there's a big extended thing. So it sounds like they did the embed. I've told you this trick before. If you're ever in a situation where a major publication says, we want a reporter to spend the day with you, you know, spend the whole day and we're going to do a big feature piece, that's always a hit piece. Always a hit piece. They do not spend the day with you to find out all the cool good things you do. That is not the point. They're looking for mistakes. They're looking for you to let your guard down so they can really hit you. Yeah.

I would consider Vanity Fair a trash publication. So I don't know what she did or did not say, but I would say for sure you should not trust it.

So Elon Musk is going to fund GOP candidates for the midterms. That sounds positive. Europe is praising Trump's truly remarkable Ukrainian peace efforts according to the European Conservative. Well, it's not getting anything. So I would agree it's a nice try.

Okay. Let's see. Zelensky plays down hopes of peace by Christmas. Yeah, I think you can play down hopes of peace by Christmas. Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.

All right. Oh my God. Is there a question that Kamala Harris wants to run for president again? Is that real? This is unbelievable. According to what publication is this? The Blaze. So according to The Blaze, Harris wants to run for president again. Maybe. Oh, do some Democrats believe she's taking steps in that direction? That could be just for attention. She was signaling to competitors that she may run again. I'm not buying it yet. Yeah, she might be teasing it to sell her book. We don't know it all.

Boy, is Tim Walz the weirdest, weakest candidate you've ever seen in your life? That guy just seems corrupt from top to bottom. Somebody wrote an article about in the Guardian I spent a month trying to smile like Zelensky and Meloni. That's funny.

I'm going to have to close down pretty soon because the lunch or the breakfast will be coming and then I won't be able to livestream. The mood-enhancing benefits of caffeine are strongest right after waking up. Recent study shows. Doesn't surprise me at all.

And I haven't been following the Tina Peters story, but it does sound like she got locked up for exposing rigging in the election. Is that the story? Did Tina Peters get locked up under sort of trumped-up charges, no pun intended, because she tried to expose the rigging of the election? And now Trump is going hard trying to get her out, I guess. Wants or did he want to transfer to a federal place so he'd have more control? I haven't been following that enough.

Something about mitochondria. Let's see. The MRC. Wikipedia has been converted into one of the left. Yeah. While we know Wikipedia is a left-leaning entity, there's a mindset that's now proven to slow aging. Really, I assume it's positivity. Let me see what that mindset is. The topic has been studied for decades. Lighting the touch paper. Wow, this I hate it when they tease something and then you have to read like 50 pages to get to what it is they're teasing. Someone's beliefs could predict their overall risk of death. But yeah, so yeah, people who have a rosier view of aging live longer. Come on, everybody knew that. Apparently positivity makes you live longer. Not in my case.

Apple News shows only one right-leaning outlet out of 560 articles throughout November. Only one. There was only one right-leaning article on Apple News.

How do women detect deception in dating? Well, that's not hard. What concerned women for America think that Netflix is grooming young kids? Well, I don't know about that, but I always think they don't know intention versus outcome. It might be the outcome, but I doubt they woke up with that intention. Maybe. What do you think? Do you think that executives at Netflix had an intention of grooming children? That's quite a claim. I'm no mind reader.

All right. Minnesota completely corrupt, of course. All right. More criticism of the news. A Chinese billionaire has over a hundred American citizen children. What? There's a Chinese billionaire who has over 100 American citizen children. He fathers over 100 U.S. and they're raised legally. Oh, raising legal and security concerns. What? So there's a billionaire Chinese video game executive, Zubo, who has fathered over a hundred children in the U.S. Huh. Wow. Wow. Really? Several of his kids were raised by nannies. Wow.

You know, I always wondered about that. If you were a billionaire, why would you ever stop having children? You know, as long as they had a good support system. You had 43 kids by 10 women. Your son-in-law's grandfather. Wow. Neuralink trip. Yeah, I might need one any day now.

All right, what else we got going on here? There are fewer online trolls than people think. According to Pew, so Americans overestimate online toxicity, believing 43% of Reddit users when only 3% are the toxic ones. Well, I don't know. I always wondered about that. I don't think that my online experience looks like 43% trolls. Looks more like 3%.

Stem cell treatment in Ukraine. You make trolls block you. Yeah. How do you define toxic? Toxic would be disagrees with me.

The Clintons missed their deposition. So can they be arrested now? Is that how it works? I think the Clintons are just never going to agree with anything. By the way, one of the more interesting, got company.

All right, people. I've got company. Come in. Come in. This should be my breakfast being delivered. So I won't eat in front of you. And I'm going to say bye for now. I will check back in. But everybody, hope you have a great day and it was a pleasure spending time with you again. I think they're here. Yeah.

All right, I'm going to end the stream. Bye for now.

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I got a few minutes here to say good morning and have a quick simultaneous sip of whatever it is you're sipping.

I thought I would uh try checking the news while you're joining me.

Come on in.

Join me.

Looks like the uh locals people are here first and should be.

Damn it.

I didn't check my voice before I started talking.

Top 50.

Good morning.

No, no brown shoes are identified.

That is a weird story, isn't it?

So, we don't know what's going on there, do we?

I usually don't do the uh the stories about individual murders.

No hospital coffee.

Well, I will have some beverages in half an hour.

Well, when you're in the hospital and you have nothing to do except um sleep, I I just take naps, you know, hour naps all day.

And then I play on my computer or my phone.

So happy to see me.

Oh, good.

Things aren't going so well here medically.

I have to be honest, but you never know.

Could be a miracle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it was that nuclear physicist.

Mhm.

You're praying for me.

Thank you.

I've got one more radiation treatment today, but so far it doesn't look like it's making any difference.

So, but I do enjoy the uh the ambulance ride to the radiation center and after that I'll do some radiation rides to the pluicto center.

But looks like the odds are against me.

So, what I thought I would do is uh catch up on the news while you're coming in and joining me.

You want to do that?

Let's see.

We've got uh got a thousand people here.

So, I'm using my laptop now, which frees up my phone.

So, I can uh check some stories on my phone, see if there's something to talk about.

Did you know that Trump uh put a blockade on the Venezuelan oil tankers?

And apparently he has some kind of justification for that.

Did you know that Venezuela um nationalized a bunch of US assets back in the past?

And so I think that's Trump's uh rationalization.

It's like, oh, you took our you nationalized our assets.

We're going to take them back.

But I guess uh Chevron has some kind of special deal where they can still do oil.

So, I'm definitely wondering what is the real story about Venezuela?

I don't feel like we know.

Do you?

I mean, it's a little bit about drugs, but not completely.

It's a little bit about the Monroe Doctrine.

Maybe that's more more of it.

Maybe it's about just somebody making money, but it might be a combination of all those things.

Hey, Sergio.

Good morning.

Well, yeah, they obviously would like regime change, but to what end?

because the current regime has already said we'll give you whatever you want basically.

It's not like we're negotiating with them.

So yeah, they definitely want regime change, but we don't know to what end because probably there's a lot of countries we'd like to regime change.

You think it's a Kraken?

That's entirely possible.

It's entirely possible that the only way Trump can prove that 2024 was stolen or 2020 was stolen is by getting control of the Venezuelan government.

Maybe it's for move China, Russia, and Iran.

Well, that would be the Yeah, that would be the obvious reason.

That would be the Monroe Doctrine reason.

But it does seem like he could get that through negotiating.

What do you think?

Will Tesla Will Space X be bigger than Tesla?

Yes.

The The thing with SpaceX is there's no limit how big that can get.

Says he stole the election.

Maybe.

All right.

Is anybody following the uh Candace and uh Erica and Erica story?

So, I've been trying to ignore the Candace story because it felt Yeah.

a little gossipy and didn't really seem like big news.

But the part that caught my attention just sort of in a gossipy way is apparently uh apparently Candace has a hypothesis uh that the Egyptian government has as two of its official state planes have somehow intersected with the travels of Erica Kirk uh like 70 times and that it would statistically impossible for that to be an accident.

Now, she doesn't go beyond that uh to say what it is that uh what it is that Egypt Egypt or Erica were up to, but she does the Well, isn't that interesting?

Isn't that interesting?

Yeah, we presume it would be about Israel just because the Middle East is involved.

But so Ian Carol has also been covering the plane paths.

Well, I saw this morning somebody say that the data was fake and I don't know.

There's no way to know.

I'm going to say I don't think there's anything to that one because even if uh even if Egypt had some kind of interest in in Erica, I don't think that they would use their presidential planes and intersect with her 70 times.

Yeah.

Now Megan Kelly got in the middle of it.

Oh, they're registered as Egyptian register.

That might be different.

Well, I'm going to go on record of saying I doubt there's anything to it.

Um, the Egypt planes are a scam.

Yeah, I suspect there's nothing there.

That's my guess.

So, let's catch up with the Rob Reiner story.

Are you sick of that yet?

That one is kind of deeper than I thought it would be.

Takar said it's true.

What part is true?

The planes.

Kico the Great has a story about that.

Do you really think that this one's worth digging into the airplane story?

We're just super chats.

No, they're using her Candace to make us all look crazy.

Maybe.

Maybe.

So, I think I've given you my opinion, but here's some things that I've recently realized.

So, now now we hear that the Riners were planning to have dinner with the Obamas that very night.

Do you believe that?

>> Do you believe that by coincidence the Rhiners were going to have dinner with the Obamas that very night, the night they were killed?

Well, they do have they do have a lot of famous friends where they did so that that's possible.

But now that you know that they were that close with the Obamas, did you know that they were um at least Rob Reiner was close with I think five different heads of the CIA.

So there was or at least intelligence people.

Um, so he did a he did a piece about the Russia collusion in which he was trying to sell Russia collusion to the public and he did that with a Brennan and Clapper, you know, high production thing.

Now, do you think that when Rob Reiner did that video with Brennan and Clapper accusing Trump of being a a Russian puppet, do you think he knew that wasn't true?

because there's there's some possibility he didn't know and that he put all that effort and you know personal capital into it without knowing.

He was also very good friends with Norm Eisen and if you don't know who Norm Eisen is then you don't know what happened in our country for the last several years.

So Norm Eisen is the the architect of all the lawfare against Trump.

Pretty much all of it, you know, from the Russia collusion.

So you got the Obamas, good friends.

You got Norm Eisen, good friends.

You've got uh Stephen King, who we worked with for years and made many movies together.

Yeah, Larry David.

I always wondered why Larry David was so so weird about Trump, but maybe that's part of it, that connection.

Um, and who else was he?

Yeah.

So, basically Rob Reiner was connected with the the power assets in the Democratic party.

So that that explains a lot.

I don't know about George Clooney.

Was there any connection between Clooney and Robin?

Aside from the fact that they're both famous and they probably knew each other.

Yeah.

So, I posted this morning a uh video of Rob Reiner um and his wife in some interview talking about Trump.

Yeah.

Stephen King, they were good friends that work together.

And look at Rob Reiner when he's talking about Trump.

When he's saying things that we all know to be true, his eyes are open.

But when he goes into fiction, you know, the part where Trump is Hitler and he's working with Putin and all that, he closes his eyes like he's imagining it and then talking about what he's imagining.

You have to watch it.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

So, here's a question I have.

Why did Rob Reiner treat the anti-Trump stuff like it was his job?

I don't think he was doing it for money, but he didn't do it like he was just a concerned citizen.

Would you agree?

The the amount of uh organization and effort and you know, he he was part of a club and they were all after him.

It very much it very much looked like something bigger than just his political opinion.

And it's hard for me to believe that he believed the stuff he was saying.

You think it was his job?

Well, he didn't need the money.

He was probably worth hundreds of billions.

Well, anyway, um I saw the the video where his wife Michelle was literally literally calling MAGA supporters essentially the same as Hitler's supporters.

So if somebody has that much uh political power as the Rhiners did because it wasn't just what they said in public, it was their their work behind the scenes and organizing the anti-Trump stuff.

If you have that much political power and you demonize a group of people of which I am a part of, at what point can I say bad things about my mortal enemy because the rhiners were would have been very uh let's say not happy with me.

Do you do you think that do you think that they had a completely uh innocent opinion of uh Trump supporters?

No.

No.

They they had a very negative opinion of people like me.

Not me.

Not me personally.

He never mentioned me personally.

But if somebody goes on TV and they and they're a prominent person and they accuse you of being essentially no better than a Hitler supporter, how polite are you supposed to be when something bad happens to them?

I I feel like this whole theatrical thing where you have to say, "Oh my god, even though they disagree with you, even though they disagree, it's the worst thing in the world because of the family and all that." To which I say, "You wouldn't say that Ben loved and got shot.

He would also be my mortal enemy." I did see uh uh what's his name?

Woods.

Uh, I forget what's the name of the guy, the the actor whose last James Woods.

I did see James Woods say that he was uh pro- Reiner because he helped him with his career and he was a nice guy.

And that's fine.

Yeah.

If if uh if Reiner had helped me in my career when I needed it the most and he had been my good friend for years, I' I'd say the same thing that James Wood did.

But here's the thing that I summarize that with.

Don't you think everybody has the right to their own opinion about him?

Don't you think that if you're James Woods and even though he Reiner disagreed with them, they had a very close relationship in person, don't you think it's fine for James Wood to have a positive opinion?

Of course.

Why would I disagree with that?

But likewise, if if uh Reiner had tried to get you kicked out of the presidency, overthrow the country, and put you in jail, literally put you in jail, which is what he was trying to do with Trump, don't you think Trump has an absolute right to have any opinion he wants about that?

And do we do you and I have any obligation to agree with James Woods?

perfectly reasonable opinion or to agree with Trump perfectly reasonable opinion.

Now, some would say, but it's not his opinion that's the problem.

Trump's they would say it's the fact that he said it, you know, when when the situation was fresh.

Again, that's up to Trump.

It is his personal opinion and he can say it anytime he wants and I would rather know his actual opinion than some fake you know some opinion who controls the past.

Yeah.

So I am uh completely supportive of anybody who had a pro or negative opinion and whenever they expressed it.

I think that uh Reiner made himself a public figure on this topic.

So if the public talks about this topic that would be fair.

You know what I haven't missed?

Yeah.

Weirdly, um, because they give me such good painkillers and stuff that, uh, I've not once thought I wish I had some weed.

Isn't that weird?

You'd think I would.

So, this morning, I am uh I'll be going back to get the last of my five planned radiation treatments.

So far, there's no um no positive benefit coming from it and we're not actually expecting any.

But I've got two doctors who disagree.

So, one doctor says if it's gotten worse, which it has, while you're doing the radiation, the radiation won't work.

And one says, well, you have to wait a couple weeks.

And uh the scans show that you know you still had some function before we started the radiation.

So there's 50% chance that there'll be some benefit.

Not a complete recovery or anything like that, but 50% chance I might get feeling back in my legs because right now I don't have any feeling below the waist.

So I am completely at their mercy.

Yeah.

If possible, put on protective gear.

Here's your radioactive.

No, but if they were pregnant, I believe they could not be around me.

I think that's true.

And I when I I might go home maybe tomorrow, but I can't go home unless I have a full set of like hospital gear to move me around and uh I've got some people to take care of me when when I need basically everything.

All I really have is my upper body.

So I'm like half a person right now.

The bottom half half has to be managed by other people with all that implies the pain is not so bad because they're good at managing it.

So this mo this morning I woke up in int intense pain my shoulder area which is not unusual and uh but they had the painkiller in me in two minutes and then I was fine.

What reframe am I using?

Well, I think I need to work harder on a reframe.

Uh, is it affecting me financially?

Uh, yes and no.

Yes and no.

Um, I'm going to see if later today or maybe tomorrow I can start posting comics again.

But interestingly, my locals local subscribers have stayed loyal and my streaming revenue is probably I might even be up.

I don't know.

So, but it it will affect me.

Uh yeah.

Yeah.

There's a Bill Hater story.

How would you like to meet Bill her who was apparently a celebrity at Conan O'Brien's party where that Nick Reiner was and I guess something weird happened between hater and Nick Reiner and caused I think Nick was kicked out of the party.

But how would you like to be the last person to talk to him before he went crazy?

I guess he was crazy.

No rush.

They say cancer affects every patient financially.

Well, yeah.

I mean, if if I stayed alive and stayed with cancer that would stop me from working, but I had to spend, you know, a million dollars a year just paying somebody to take care of me.

That would affect me financially.

But I will say again about uh the Riners, as far as I can tell, they did everything you can do uh as a parent of an addicted, mentally ill kid.

So I don't I do not fault them for their parenting.

However, if we were to find out that there was something else weird going on there, I would immediately revise my opinion.

There are some um there are some disturbing hints of what that must have been like to be in the Reiner family, but they're not any kind of confirmed anything.

It just sounds like Hollywood stuff.

like like one of the things is that uh Rob Reiner would kiss his son on the lips.

Well, that might be more of a Hollywood thing than it is any other kind of thing.

I'm not sure I would judge that.

That's that's not the it's not the most unusual thing.

It is unusual, but it's not, you know, by itself it doesn't prove anything.

Yeah, it uh definitely not something I would have experienced.

Yeah.

So, Trump has designated fentinel a weapon of mass destruction.

Uh I hope I was maybe part of that, but I don't really think he needed to do that.

Um, I think it's just part of the overall squeezing of Venezuela.

All right, I'm going to look at some I'm going to go to X and look at my own feed or maybe at You know what?

I'm going look at Owen's feed.

I've got weird hiccups I get all the time now.

All right, if you want to follow along, I'm going to Owen Gregorian's feed.

And the reason I do that is every morning before before I do my thing, uh Owen finds some uh interesting stories that I might be interested in talking about.

He does a really good job of finding interesting stories.

So 17 hours ago, uh Owen says that his uh his own retired mother uh is on a list of people who donated almost every week to to politics, I assume, to a Democrat, but of course that's not real.

So, it looks like his own mother is in that fake donation Democrat scam thing.

Uh, I should invite you over for botchi.

All right.

Then Owen says, so this is Owen Gregorian's feed on X.

And the re the reason I'm if you're just joining the reason I'm reading his is he uh intentionally picks stories that he thinks I would like or or this audience would like.

So it's not random.

Well, apparently there's some data that the payroll rose by 64,000 in November after falling 105,000 in October.

But if you have been following the jobs numbers, I would say we don't really know what's happening with jobs.

Do you believe any data on jobs?

I I would say wait on that.

I don't believe that.

I don't think anybody's lying.

I think that we just don't have good data on jobs.

Well, then there's some data on tariff revenue and the CBP says it collected over 200 billion in tariff revenue so far and that would be only a partial well it was almost end of the year.

200 billion.

Do you think that's real?

And is that really just another form of taxation?

You decide.

But it's a big number.

Uh did you know that the GOP is poised to overtake the Democrats on voter roles?

So there will it looks like uh it already happened the key swing states after years of Democrat dominance.

This is according to Alec Shamel and Fox News.

Democrats are now a minority in apparently a number of swing states, which would be the whole game unless unless the uh election is rigged.

How many of you think the election will be rigged?

I don't know.

I I think the Republicans are now wise enough that they know where to check.

So, they're definitely going to be looking at the voting machines.

In Chicago, there's an Hispanic restaurant owner who is suing because he was told he can't have a restaurant unless he's black.

So, he couldn't renew his license and they told him it's because he's not black.

Do you believe that in Chicago?

There might be more to that story.

I'd have to hear the other side of that, but it'd be pretty bad if it's true.

Um, Marco Rubio is ruling out a 2028 run if JD Vance decides to run.

Oh, I guess he said it directly.

If JD Vance runs, he's he's going to be the nominee.

Huh.

That's interesting.

Um, I guess shoops have been fired over Biden's COVID vacate.

Oh, the ones that were fired over the Biden mandate are going to get an honorable discharge.

They must have not gotten honorable discharges before.

All right.

Well, that's a good move by Hex Seth.

Some European geopolitical analysts were sanctioned for claiming Ukraine and NATO triggered the Russian reaction and the war.

Well, yeah, I can see why they get in trouble for that.

Rubio continues to impress.

I would agree.

I think Rubio's done a solid job.

Yep.

And you talk to Susie while you know I haven't seen what Susie Wilds is accused of saying.

I keep seeing stories that um like CNN where they say stuff like we can't believe what Susie Wild said, but I don't know what the story is.

Let me see if I can find it.

Susie Wilds.

So, um um shares a candid view.

All right, let's see.

Whoa, there's no way she said that.

So, according to Grock, uh, Wilds, the first woman in a role as a veteran Trump campaign manager, described President Trump as having quote, "An alcoholics's personality, overconfident, and fearless, like her late father, Pat Summerall." What?

Susie Wild's late father was Pat Summerall?

I didn't know that.

Uh although Trump doesn't drink, uh she labeled Vance a former conspiracy theorist.

She called Elon Musk an odd duck who sleeps in a sleeping bag at work and pointed critiques of big policy debates on Terra Spartans and Venezuela.

Now, you have to know that this isn't Vanity Fair.

Why in the world would she do an interview for Vanity Fair?

You know, Vanity Fair is where you avoid interviews, right?

That's not some place you go to give an interview, but apparently there's a big extended thing.

So, it sounds like they did the embed the uh I've told you this trick before.

If you're ever in a situation where a major publication says, "Uh, we want to we want a reporter to spend the day with you, you know, spend the whole day and we're going to do a big feature piece." That's always a hit piece.

Always a hit piece.

They do not spend the day with you to find out all the cool good things you do.

That is not the point.

They're looking for mistakes.

They're looking for you to let your guard down so they can really hit you.

Yeah.

I would consider Vanity Fairy a trash publication.

So, I don't know what she did or did not say, but I would say for sure you should not trust it.

So, Elon Musk is going to fund uh GOP candidates for the midterms.

That sounds positive.

Um, Europe is praising Trump's truly remarkable Ukrainian peace efforts according to the European Conservative.

Well, it's not getting anything.

So, I would agree it's a nice try.

Um, okay.

Let's see.

Zalinski plays down hopes of peace by Christmas.

Yeah, I think you can play down hopes of peace by Christmas.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.

All right.

Uh oh my god.

Is there a question that Kla Harris wants to run for president again?

Is that real?

She This is unbelievable.

Uh, according to what publication is this?

The Blaze.

So, according to The Blaze, Harris wants to run for president again.

Maybe.

Oh, does some Democrats believe she's taking steps in that direction?

That could be just for attention.

She was signaling to competitors that she may run again.

I'm not buying it yet.

Yeah, she might be teasing it to sell her book.

We don't know it all.

Boy, is Tim Walsh the weirdest, weakest candidate you've ever seen in your life?

I That guy just seems corrupt from top to bottom.

Uh, somebody wrote an article about in the Guardian I spent a month trying to smile like Zora and Mom Donnie.

That's funny.

>> >> Uh, I'm going to have to close down pretty soon because the the lunch or the breakfast will be coming and uh then I won't be able to I won't be able to uh live stream.

The mood enhancing benefits of caffeine are strongest right after waking up.

Recent study shows doesn't surprise me at all.

And I haven't been following the Teen Peters story, but it does sound like she got locked up for exposing rigging in the election.

Is that the story?

Did Ted Peters get locked up under sort of trumped up charges, no pun intended, because she she uh tried to expose the rigging of the election?

And now Trump is going hard trying to uh trying to get her own, I guess.

wants or did he want to transfer to a federal place so he'd have more control?

I haven't been following that enough.

Uh something about mitochondria.

Let's see the MC.

The MRC uh Wikipedia has been converted into one of the left.

Yeah.

While we know Wikipedia is a left-leaning entity, there's a mindset that's now proven to slow aging.

Really, I assume it's positivity.

Let me see what that mindset is.

Uh the topic has been studied for decades.

lighting the touch paper.

Wow, this I hate it when they tease something and then you have to read like 50 pages to get to what it is they're teasing.

Someone's beliefs could predict their overall risk of death.

But yeah, so yeah, people have a rosier view of aging live longer.

Come on, everybody knew that.

Apparently, positivity makes you live longer.

Not in my case.

Uh, Apple News shows only one rightle leading outlet out of 560 articles throughout November.

Only one.

There was only one rightle leading article on Apple News.

How do women detect um deception and dating?

Well, that's not hard.

What uh concerned women for America think that Netflix is grooming young kids?

Well, I don't know about that, but I I always I always think they don't know intention versus outcome.

It might be the outcome, but I doubt they woke up with that intention.

Maybe.

What do you think?

Do you think Do you think that executives at Netflix had an intention of grooming children?

That's quite a claim.

I'm no mind readader.

All right.

Minnesota completely corrupt, of course.

Uh, all right.

More criticism of the news.

A Chinese billionaire has over a hundred American citizen children.

What?

There's a Chinese billionaire who has over a 100 American citizen children.

He fathers over 100 US and they're raised legally.

Oh, raising legal and security concerns.

What?

So, there's a billionaire Chinese video game executive, Zubo, who has fathered over a hundred children in the US.

Huh.

Wow.

Wow.

Really?

Several of his kids were raised by nannies.

Wow.

You know, I always wondered about that.

If you were a billionaire, why would you ever stop having children?

You know, as long as they had uh a good support system.

You had 43 kids by 10 women.

Your son-in-law's grandfather.

Wow.

Neuralink trip.

Yeah, I might need one any day now.

All right, what else we got going on here?

There are fewer online trolls than people think.

According to Penas Nexus, so Americans overestimate online toxicity, believing 43% of Reddit users when only 3% are the toxic ones.

Well, I don't know.

I always wondered about that.

I I don't think that that my online experience um looks like 43% trolls.

Looks more like 3%.

Stem cell treatment in Ukraine.

You make trolls block you.

Yeah.

How do you define toxic?

Toxic would be disagrees with me.

The Clintons missed their deposition.

So, can they be arrested now?

Is that how it works?

I think the Clintons are just never going to agree with anything.

By the way, by the way, one of the more interesting got company.

All right, people.

I've got company.

Come in.

Come in.

This uh this should be my breakfast being delivered.

So, I won't eat in front of you.

And I'm going to say bye for now.

I will uh check back in.

But everybody, hope you have a great day and uh it was a pleasure spending time with you again.

I think they're here.

Yeah.

All right, I'm going to end the stream.

Bye for now.

test.

I'll try talking. Let's see if that

works.

Good morning.

Hold on.

All right.

All right. I got a few minutes here to

say good morning and have a quick

simultaneous sip of whatever it is

you're sipping.

I thought I would uh try checking the

news

while you're joining me.

Come on in. Join me.

Looks like the uh locals people are here

first and should be.

Damn it.

I didn't check my voice before I started

talking.

Top 50.

Good morning.

No, no brown shoes are identified.

That is a weird story, isn't it?

So, we don't know what's going on there,

do we?

I usually don't do the uh the stories

about individual murders.

No hospital coffee. Well, I will have

some beverages in half an hour.

Well, when you're in the hospital and

you have nothing to do except

um sleep,

I I just take naps, you know, hour naps

all day.

And then I play on my computer or my

phone.

So happy to see me. Oh, good.

Things aren't going so well here

medically.

I have to be honest,

but you never know. Could be a miracle.

Yeah. Yeah. And it was that nuclear

physicist.

Mhm. You're praying for me. Thank you.

I've got one more radiation treatment

today, but so far it doesn't look like

it's making any difference.

So,

but I do enjoy the uh the ambulance ride

to the radiation center

and after that I'll do some radiation

rides to the pluicto center.

But

looks like the odds are against me.

So, what I thought I would do

is uh catch up on the news while you're

coming in and joining me. You want to do

that?

Let's see. We've got uh

got a thousand people here.

So, I'm using my laptop now,

which frees up my phone.

So, I can uh check some stories on my

phone, see if there's something to talk

about.

Did you know

that Trump uh put a blockade on the

Venezuelan oil tankers?

And apparently he has some kind of

justification for that. Did you know

that Venezuela

um nationalized a bunch of US assets

back in the past? And so I think that's

Trump's uh rationalization.

It's like, oh, you took our you

nationalized our assets. We're going to

take them back. But I guess uh Chevron

has some kind of special deal where they

can still do oil.

So, I'm definitely wondering what is the

real story about Venezuela?

I don't feel like we know. Do you? I

mean, it's a little bit about drugs,

but not completely.

It's a little bit about the Monroe

Doctrine.

Maybe that's more more of it. Maybe it's

about just somebody making money,

but it might be a combination of all

those things. Hey, Sergio.

Good morning.

Well, yeah, they obviously would like

regime change, but to what end?

because the current regime has already

said

we'll give you whatever you want

basically. It's not like we're

negotiating with them.

So

yeah, they definitely want regime

change, but we don't know to what end

because probably there's a lot of

countries we'd like to regime change.

You think it's a Kraken?

That's entirely possible. It's entirely

possible that the only way Trump can

prove that 2024 was stolen or 2020 was

stolen

is by getting control of the Venezuelan

government.

Maybe it's for move China, Russia, and

Iran. Well, that would be the

Yeah, that would be the obvious reason.

That would be the Monroe Doctrine

reason.

But it does seem like he could get that

through negotiating.

What do you think?

Will Tesla Will Space X be bigger than

Tesla?

Yes.

The The thing with SpaceX is there's no

limit how big that can get.

Says he stole the election. Maybe.

All right. Is anybody following the uh

Candace

and uh Erica

and Erica story?

So, I've been trying to ignore the

Candace story because it felt Yeah. a

little gossipy and didn't really seem

like big news.

But the part that caught my attention

just sort of in a gossipy

[clears throat] way is apparently uh

apparently Candace has a hypothesis

uh that the Egyptian government

has as two of its official state planes

have somehow intersected with the

travels of Erica Kirk uh like 70 times

and that it would

statistically impossible for that to be

an accident.

Now, she doesn't go beyond that

uh to say what it is that uh what it is

that Egypt Egypt or Erica were up to,

but she does the Well, isn't that

interesting?

Isn't that interesting?

Yeah, we presume it would be about

Israel

just because the Middle East is

involved. But

so Ian Carol has also been covering the

plane paths. Well, I saw this morning

somebody say that the data was fake

and I don't know. There's no way to

know. I'm going to say I don't think

there's anything to that one because

even if

uh even if Egypt had some kind of

interest in in Erica, I don't think that

they would use their presidential planes

and intersect with her 70 times.

Yeah. Now Megan Kelly got in the middle

of it.

Oh, they're registered as Egyptian

register. That might be different.

Well, I'm going to go on record of

saying I doubt there's anything to it.

Um,

the Egypt planes are a scam.

Yeah, I suspect there's nothing there.

That's my guess.

So, let's catch up with

the Rob Reiner story.

Are you sick of that yet?

That one is kind of deeper than I

thought it would be.

Takar said it's true. What part is true?

The planes.

Kico the Great has a story about that.

Do you really think that this one's

worth digging into

the airplane story?

We're just super chats. [laughter]

No,

they're using her Candace to make us all

look crazy.

Maybe.

Maybe. So, I think I've given you my

opinion, but here's some things that

I've recently realized. So, now now we

hear that the Riners were planning to

have dinner with the Obamas that very

night.

Do you believe that?

>> Do you believe that by coincidence the

Rhiners were going to have dinner with

the Obamas that very night, the night

they were killed?

Well, they do have they do have a lot of

famous friends where they did

so that that's possible. But now that

you know that they were that close with

the Obamas,

did you know that they were um at least

Rob Reiner was close with I think five

different heads of the CIA.

So there was or at least intelligence

people. Um,

so he did a he did a piece about the

Russia collusion in which he was trying

to sell Russia collusion to the public

and he did that with a Brennan and

Clapper, you know, high production

thing. Now, do you think that when Rob

Reiner did that video with Brennan and

Clapper accusing Trump of being a a

Russian puppet, do you think he knew

that wasn't true?

because there's there's some possibility

he didn't know and that he put all that

effort and you know personal capital

into it without knowing.

He was also

very good friends with Norm Eisen

and if you don't know who Norm Eisen is

then you don't know what happened in our

country for the last several years. So

Norm Eisen is the the architect of all

the lawfare against Trump. Pretty much

all of it, you know, from the Russia

collusion. So you got the Obamas,

good friends. You got Norm Eisen, good

friends. You've got uh Stephen King, who

we worked with for years and made many

movies together. Yeah, Larry David. I

always wondered why Larry David was so

so weird about Trump, but maybe that's

part of it, that connection.

Um, and who else was he? Yeah. So,

basically

Rob Reiner was connected with the the

power assets in the Democratic party.

So

that that explains a lot. I don't know

about George Clooney.

Was there any connection between Clooney

and Robin?

Aside from the fact that they're both

famous and they probably knew each

other.

Yeah. So, I posted this morning

a uh video of Rob Reiner um and his wife

in some interview talking about Trump.

Yeah. Stephen King, they were good

friends that work together.

And look at Rob Reiner when he's talking

about Trump. When he's saying things

that we all know to be true, his eyes

are open. But when he goes into fiction,

you know, the part where Trump is Hitler

and he's working with Putin and all

that, he closes his eyes

like he's imagining it and then talking

about what he's imagining.

You have to watch it. Once you see it,

you can't unsee it.

So, here's a question I have.

Why did Rob Reiner treat the anti-Trump

stuff like it was his job? I don't think

he was doing it for money, but he didn't

do it like he was just a concerned

citizen. Would you agree? The the amount

of uh organization and effort and you

know, he he was part of a club and they

were all after him. It very much

it very much looked like something

bigger than just his political opinion.

And it's hard for me to believe that he

believed the stuff he was saying.

You think it was his job? Well, he

didn't need the money.

He was probably worth hundreds of

billions.

Well, anyway,

um I saw the the video where his wife

Michelle was literally literally

calling MAGA supporters essentially the

same as Hitler's supporters.

So if somebody has that much uh

political power as the Rhiners did

because it wasn't just what they said in

public, it was their their work behind

the scenes and organizing the anti-Trump

stuff. If you have that much political

power

and you demonize a group of people

of which I am a part of,

at what point can I say bad things about

my mortal enemy

because

the rhiners were would have been very uh

let's say not happy with me. Do you do

you think that

do you think that they had a completely

uh innocent opinion of uh Trump

supporters? No.

No. They they had a very negative

opinion of people like me. Not me. Not

me personally. He never mentioned me

personally. But

if somebody goes on TV

and they and they're a prominent person

and they accuse you of being essentially

no better than a Hitler supporter,

how polite are you supposed to be when

something bad happens to them?

I I feel like this whole theatrical

thing where you have to say, "Oh my god,

even though they disagree with you, even

though they disagree,

it's the worst thing in the world

because of the family and all that." To

which I say, "You wouldn't say that Ben

loved and got shot. He would also be my

mortal enemy."

I did see uh uh what's his name? Woods.

Uh,

I forget what's the name of the guy, the

the actor whose last James Woods.

I did see James Woods

say that he was uh pro- Reiner because

he helped him with his career and he was

a nice guy. And that's fine.

Yeah. If if uh if Reiner had helped me

in my career when I needed it the most

and he had been my good friend for

years, I' I'd say the same thing that

James Wood did. But here's the thing

that I summarize that with. Don't you

think everybody has the right to their

own opinion about him?

Don't you think that if you're James

Woods and even though he Reiner

disagreed with them, they had a very

close relationship in person, don't you

think it's fine for James Wood to have a

positive opinion? Of course. Why would I

disagree with that? But likewise,

if if uh Reiner had tried to get you

kicked out of the presidency, overthrow

the country, and put you in jail,

literally put you in jail, which is what

he was trying to do with Trump, don't

you think Trump has an absolute right to

have any opinion he wants about that?

And do we do you and I have any

obligation to agree with James Woods?

perfectly reasonable opinion or to agree

with Trump perfectly reasonable opinion.

Now, some would say, but it's not his

opinion that's the problem. Trump's they

would say it's the fact that he said it,

you know, when when the situation was

fresh.

Again, that's up to Trump. It is his

personal opinion and he can say it

anytime he wants and I would rather know

his actual opinion than some fake

you know

some opinion

who controls the past.

Yeah. So

I am uh completely supportive of anybody

who had a pro or negative opinion and

whenever they expressed it. I think that

uh Reiner made himself a public figure

on this topic. So if the public talks

about this topic that would be fair.

You know what I haven't missed?

Yeah. Weirdly,

um, because they give me such good

painkillers and stuff

that, uh, I've not once thought I wish I

had some weed. Isn't that weird?

You'd think I would.

So, this morning, I am uh I'll be going

back to get the last of my five planned

radiation treatments. So far, there's no

um no positive benefit coming from it

and we're not actually expecting any.

But I've got two doctors who disagree.

So, one doctor says

if it's gotten worse, which it has,

while you're doing the radiation,

the radiation won't work.

And one says, well, you have to wait a

couple weeks. And uh the scans show that

you know you still had some function

before we started the radiation. So

there's 50% chance that there'll be some

benefit. Not a complete recovery or

anything like that, but 50% chance I

might get feeling back in my legs

because right now I don't have any

feeling below the waist.

So I am completely at their mercy.

Yeah. If possible, put on protective

gear. Here's your radioactive.

No, but if they were pregnant, I believe

they could not be around me. I think

that's true.

And I when I I might go home

maybe tomorrow,

but I can't go home unless I have a full

set of like hospital gear to move me

around and uh I've got some people to

take care of me when

when I need basically everything.

All I really have is my upper body. So

I'm like half a person right now. The

bottom half half has to be managed by

other people with all that implies

the pain is not so bad because they're

good at managing it. So this mo this

morning I woke up in int intense pain my

shoulder area which is not unusual and

uh but they had the painkiller in me in

two minutes

and then I was fine.

What reframe am I using? Well,

I think I need to work harder on a

reframe.

Uh, is it affecting me financially? Uh,

yes and no.

Yes and no. Um, I'm going to see if

later today or maybe tomorrow I can

start posting comics again. But

interestingly, my locals

local subscribers have stayed loyal

and my streaming revenue is probably I

might even be up. I don't know.

So, but it it will affect me. Uh

yeah. Yeah. There's a Bill Hater story.

How would you like to meet Bill her who

was apparently a celebrity at Conan

O'Brien's party

where that Nick Reiner was and I guess

something weird happened between hater

and Nick Reiner and caused I think Nick

was kicked out of the party. But how

would you like to be the last person to

talk to him before he went crazy?

I guess he was crazy.

No rush.

They say cancer affects every patient

financially. Well, yeah. I mean, if if I

stayed alive and stayed with cancer that

would stop me from working, but I had to

spend, you know, a million dollars a

year just paying somebody to take care

of me. That would affect me financially.

But I will say again about uh the

Riners,

as far as I can tell, they did

everything you can do uh as a parent of

an addicted, mentally ill kid.

So I don't I do not fault them for their

parenting. However,

if we were to find out that there was

something else weird going on there, I

would immediately revise my opinion.

There are some um there are some

disturbing

hints of what that must have been like

to be in the Reiner family, but they're

not any kind of confirmed anything.

It just sounds like Hollywood stuff.

like like one of the things is that uh

Rob Reiner would kiss his son on the

lips.

Well, that might be more of a Hollywood

thing than it is any other kind of

thing. I'm not sure I would judge that.

That's that's not the it's not the most

unusual thing. It is unusual,

but it's not, you know, by itself it

doesn't prove anything.

Yeah,

it uh definitely not something I would

have experienced.

Yeah. So, Trump has designated fentinel

a weapon of mass destruction.

Uh I hope I was maybe part of that, but

I don't really think he needed to do

that.

Um, I think it's just part of the

overall squeezing of Venezuela.

All right, I'm going to look at some I'm

going to go to X and look at my own feed

or maybe at You know what? I'm going

look at Owen's feed.

I've got weird hiccups I get all the

time now.

All right, if you want to follow along,

I'm going to Owen Gregorian's feed. And

the reason I do that is every morning

before

before I do my thing,

uh Owen finds some uh interesting

stories that I might be interested in

talking about. He does a really good job

of finding interesting stories.

So

17 hours ago,

uh Owen says that his uh his own retired

mother

uh is on a list of people who donated

almost every week to to politics, I

assume, to a Democrat, but of course

that's not real. So, it looks like his

own mother is in that fake donation

Democrat scam thing.

Uh, I should invite you over for botchi.

All right.

Then Owen says, so this is Owen

Gregorian's feed on X. And the re the

reason I'm if you're just joining the

reason I'm reading his is he uh

intentionally picks stories that he

thinks I would like or or this audience

would like. So it's not random.

Well, apparently there's some data that

the payroll rose by 64,000 in November

after falling 105,000 in October.

But if you have been following the jobs

numbers, I would say we don't really

know what's happening with jobs.

Do you believe any data on jobs?

I I would say wait on that. I don't

believe that. I don't think anybody's

lying. I think that we just don't have

good data on jobs.

Well, then there's some data on tariff

revenue and the CBP says it collected

over 200 billion in tariff revenue so

far and that would be only a partial

well it was almost end of the year. 200

billion.

Do you think that's real?

And is that really just another form of

taxation? You decide. But it's a big

number.

Uh did you know that the GOP is poised

to overtake the Democrats

on voter roles? So there will it looks

like uh

it already happened the key swing states

after years of Democrat dominance. This

is according to Alec Shamel and Fox

News. Democrats are now a minority in

apparently a number of swing states,

which would be the whole game unless

unless

the uh election is rigged.

How many of you think the election will

be rigged?

I don't know. I I think the Republicans

are now wise enough that they know where

to check.

So, they're definitely going to be

looking at the voting machines.

In Chicago, there's an Hispanic

restaurant owner who is suing because he

was told he can't have a restaurant

unless he's black.

So, he couldn't renew his license

and they told him it's because he's not

black. Do you believe that

in Chicago? There might be more to that

story. I'd have to hear the other side

of that, but it'd be pretty bad if it's

true.

Um,

Marco Rubio is ruling out a 2028 run if

JD Vance decides to run. Oh,

I guess he said it directly. If JD Vance

runs, he's he's going to be the nominee.

Huh.

That's interesting.

Um, I guess shoops have been fired over

Biden's COVID vacate.

Oh, the ones that were fired over the

Biden mandate are going to get an

honorable discharge.

They must have not gotten honorable

discharges before. All right. Well,

that's a good move by Hex Seth.

Some European geopolitical analysts were

sanctioned for claiming Ukraine and NATO

triggered the Russian

reaction and the war. Well,

yeah, I can see why they get in trouble

for that.

Rubio continues to impress. I would

agree. I think Rubio's done a solid job.

Yep. And you talk to Susie while you

know I haven't seen what Susie Wilds is

accused of saying. I keep seeing stories

that um like CNN

where they say stuff like we can't

believe what Susie Wild said,

but I don't know what the story is. Let

me see if I can find it.

Susie

Wilds.

So, um um shares a candid view.

All right, let's see.

Whoa, there's no way she said that. So,

according to Grock, [clears throat]

uh, Wilds, the first woman in a role as

a veteran Trump campaign manager,

described President Trump as having

quote, "An alcoholics's personality,

overconfident, and fearless,

like her late father, Pat Summerall."

What? Susie Wild's late father was Pat

Summerall? I didn't know that.

Uh although Trump doesn't drink,

uh she labeled Vance a former conspiracy

theorist. She called Elon Musk an odd

duck who sleeps in a sleeping bag at

work

and pointed critiques of big policy

debates on Terra Spartans and Venezuela.

Now, you have to know that this isn't

Vanity Fair.

Why in the world would she do an

interview for Vanity Fair?

You know, Vanity Fair is where you avoid

interviews, right? That's not some place

you go to give an interview,

but apparently there's a big extended

thing. So, it sounds like they did the

embed the uh I've told you this trick

before.

If you're ever in a situation where a

major publication says, "Uh, we want to

we want a reporter to spend the day with

you, you know, spend the whole day and

we're going to do a big feature piece."

That's always a hit piece.

Always a hit piece. They do not spend

the day with you to find out all the

cool good things you do. That is not the

point. [gasps] They're looking for

mistakes. They're looking for you to let

your guard down so they can really hit

you.

Yeah. I would consider Vanity Fairy a

trash publication. So, I don't know what

she did or did not say, but I would say

for sure you should not trust it.

So, Elon Musk is going to fund

uh GOP candidates for the midterms.

That sounds positive.

Um, Europe is praising Trump's truly

remarkable Ukrainian peace efforts

according to the European Conservative.

Well, it's not getting anything.

So, I would agree it's a nice try.

Um,

[sighs]

okay.

Let's see. Zalinski plays down hopes of

peace by Christmas. Yeah, I think you

can play down hopes of peace by

Christmas.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to

happen.

All right. Uh oh my god. Is there a

question that Kla Harris wants to run

for president again?

Is that real? She This is unbelievable.

Uh, according to

what publication is this? The Blaze.

So, according to The Blaze, Harris wants

to run for president again. Maybe.

Oh, does some Democrats believe she's

taking steps in that direction?

That could be just for attention.

She was signaling to competitors that

she may run again.

I'm not buying it yet.

Yeah, she might be teasing it to sell

her book.

We don't know it all.

Boy, is Tim Walsh the weirdest, weakest

candidate you've ever seen in your life?

I That guy just seems corrupt from top

to bottom.

Uh, somebody wrote an article about in

the Guardian I spent a month trying to

smile like Zora and Mom Donnie.

That's funny.

>> [snorts]

>> Uh, I'm going to have to close down

pretty soon because the the lunch or the

breakfast will be coming and uh then I

won't be able to I won't be able to

uh live stream.

The mood enhancing benefits of caffeine

are strongest right after waking up.

Recent study shows doesn't surprise me

at all.

And I haven't been following the Teen

Peters story, but it does sound like she

got locked up for exposing rigging in

the election. Is that the story? Did Ted

Peters get locked up under sort of

trumped up charges, no pun intended,

because she she uh tried to expose the

rigging of the election? And now Trump

is going hard trying to uh trying to get

her own, I guess.

wants or

did he want to transfer to a federal

place so he'd have more control? I

haven't been following that enough.

Uh something about mitochondria.

Let's see the MC. The MRC

uh Wikipedia has been converted into one

of the left. Yeah. While we know

Wikipedia is a left-leaning entity,

there's a mindset that's now proven to

slow aging.

Really,

I assume it's positivity.

Let me see what that mindset is.

Uh

the topic has been studied for decades.

lighting the touch paper. Wow, this I

hate it when they tease something and

then you have to read like 50 pages to

get to what it is they're teasing.

Someone's beliefs could predict their

overall risk of death. But yeah,

so yeah, people have a rosier view of

aging live longer.

Come on, everybody knew that.

Apparently, positivity makes you live

longer.

Not in my case.

Uh, Apple News shows only one rightle

leading outlet out of 560 articles

throughout November. Only one. There was

only one rightle leading article on

Apple News.

How do women detect

um deception and dating? Well, that's

not hard.

What

uh concerned women for America think

that

Netflix is grooming young kids?

Well, I don't know about that, but I I

always I always think they don't know

intention versus outcome. It might be

the outcome,

but I doubt they woke up with that

intention.

Maybe.

What do you think? Do you think Do you

think that executives at Netflix had an

intention of grooming children? That's

quite a claim. I'm no mind readader.

All right. Minnesota completely corrupt,

of course.

Uh,

all right. More criticism of the news.

A Chinese billionaire has over a hundred

American citizen children. What?

There's a Chinese billionaire who has

over a 100 American citizen children.

He fathers over 100 US and they're

raised legally.

Oh, raising legal and security concerns.

What?

So, there's a billionaire Chinese video

game executive, Zubo, who has fathered

over a hundred

children in the US.

Huh.

Wow.

Wow.

Really?

Several of his kids were raised by

nannies.

Wow.

You know, I always wondered about that.

If you were a billionaire, why would you

ever stop having children?

You know, as long as they had uh a good

support system.

You had 43 kids by 10 women. Your

son-in-law's grandfather. Wow.

Neuralink trip. Yeah, I might need one

any day now.

All right, what else we got going on

here?

There are fewer online trolls than

people think.

According to Penas Nexus,

so Americans overestimate online

toxicity,

believing 43% of Reddit users

when only 3% are the toxic ones. Well, I

don't know. I always wondered about

that. I I don't think that that my

online experience

um looks like 43% trolls. Looks more

like 3%.

Stem cell treatment in Ukraine.

You make trolls block you.

Yeah. How do you define toxic? Toxic

would be disagrees with me.

The Clintons missed their deposition.

So, can they be arrested now?

Is that how it works?

I think the Clintons are just never

going to

agree with anything. By the way, by the

way, one of the more interesting

got company. All right, people. I've got

company. Come in.

Come in.

This uh this should be my breakfast

being delivered.

So, I won't eat in front of you.

And I'm going to say bye for now. I will

uh check back in.

But everybody, hope you have a great day

and uh it was a pleasure spending time

with you again.

I think they're here.

Yeah. All right, I'm going to end the

stream. Bye for now.