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Episode 3046 CoughingWSA 12/18/25

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Opening General Commentary

Good morning. I probably won't be able to stay very long this morning. Got all kinds of problems.

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

Good morning. You ready for the simultaneous nothing? We're going to do the simultaneous cough. You guys do the talking today. I'm going to check to see if there's any interesting stories

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

on X. Let's see. All the stories seem to be about fraud. You notice that? At least on social media it's like fraud, fraud, fraud. All right, let me go look at the stories that I have. There I am. Let's see. We got the Clinton Foundation. And did you know that the Clinton Foundation was set up by…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

cocks. Well, people are mad that I think that Rob Reiner is bad for the world. I'm trying to get something out of my craw. You know, I think it's funny that Trump is getting everybody wound up. Did you see the funny pictures he put on the Hall of Presidents? So he's got this Hall of Presidents an…

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QandA General Commentary

do that. The number of people who rated their mental health as either good or excellent also dropped to a record low, 72%. So not good. 25%. The hypnosis notes that Americans' view on their mental health is at a record low. Sorry, this is so disgusting, but it's all I can do. Next one, please. A…

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NewsReaction Energy & Mood Management

hacked our top nuclear scientist. They're still looking at ivermectin for cancer, huh? Good luck on that. I did not watch Trump's speech. How was it? All right. Turn off my microphone. Tell me how was Trump's speech. Was anybody impressed? I heard good things and bad things. Yeah, nothing burge…

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Closing General Commentary

ught. All right, people. I'm not going to be able to go much longer. Venezuelan Navy is going to escort their tankers. All right, I gotta go. Sorry, I tried. Gotta go.

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Good morning. I probably won't be able to stay very long this morning. Got all kinds of problems.

Good morning. You ready for the simultaneous nothing? We're going to do the simultaneous cough. You guys do the talking today. I'm going to check to see if there's any interesting stories on X.

Let's see. All the stories seem to be about fraud. You notice that? At least on social media it's like fraud, fraud, fraud.

All right, let me go look at the stories that I have. There I am.

Let's see. We got the Clinton Foundation. And did you know that the Clinton Foundation was set up by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell? Did you know that?

So doesn't that pretty much tell you that's everything you thought it was?

Then my other favorite story. You remember when Gaddafi died and Hillary Clinton said we came, I came, I saw, I conquered. And then she laughed. And people say, "Wait a minute."

Oh, I can't believe my laptop was not plugged in all night. All right, we're only going to get five minutes today. Unless I don't think this works on my laptop. Where does it... Oh, wow. My battery works on my laptop.

So I might turn off my microphone a few times to cough it out. I've been coughing for 12 hours straight.

All right. What about California's state auditor published a scathing report about Newsom and billions of dollars missing? Of course, eight agencies in California named high-risk, which means they're stealing stuff.

Yesterday at dinner something went down the wrong pipe and has triggered 12 hours of sneezing so far.

Inflation stepped down. Is it really? I don't believe the inflation numbers.

Let's see. Lee Zeldin talking about Stacy Abrams and the $2 billion that she tried to abscond with.

So I don't know if you notice, if you're on X, almost all the stories are about gigantic Democrat fraud. You got the Minnesota fraud, the California fraud, it looks like the Stacy Abrams NGO fraud.

Then we've got Jonathan Turley, not fraud, but talking about Eric Swalwell, who missed more votes than anybody else except a dead guy.

Democrats are just killing it, aren't they?

So the Rolls-Royce company is going to move out of Britain because the regulations were too much, out of the UK anyway, and coming to America. So we'll get the Rolls-Royce manufacturing, some of it.

Anyway, here's one I don't believe. See if you believe this one. See if you believe this one. Wall Street Apes is writing about this. The Federal Reserve has revealed that there are $14 trillion in losses. $14 trillion.

Now that would answer my question of how in the world did we lose all our money? Looks like we lost $14 trillion just on losses, which as you know are often if not always fraudulent.

Then there's the Jack Smith situation who as far as we know is... Whoa. Nice cat.

Rolls-Royce. Yeah, Rolls-Royce makes nuclear reactors but jet engines too.

It all adds up. $14 trillion. I'm sure they've already spent it on stupid stuff.

Let's see. According to the Heritage Foundation, Tulsi Gabbard is saying that 50% of intelligence analyst time was going to DEI.

Checking on the peacocks.

Well, people are mad that I think that Rob Reiner is bad for the world.

I'm trying to get something out of my craw.

You know, I think it's funny that Trump is getting everybody wound up. Did you see the funny pictures he put on the Hall of Presidents? So he's got this Hall of Presidents and it just insults Obama and Biden. That's pretty funny.

If Rob Reiner had only made movies and just had an opinion, I would certainly respect that. But he was a very bad guy. I thought I did a good post on that.

A cat on belly. You have an insulted Bush. You've coughed for a month.

Did you see the post I did where Reiner was closing his eyes to do fiction when he talked about Trump, when he was just making up Russia collusion stuff? He would go like this and then he would be the best friend of Putin, and then when he was just talking he would open his eyes.

I believe that's him accessing his fiction part of his brain. That's what I think. He knew he was lying.

So that organization that he is a director of, what was that organization? It had pretty much every one of the current and past CIA heads.

Well, let's talk about Reiner some more. Should we dump on Reiner some more?

Here's what I think. And I posted this. If you look at the net benefit that Rob Reiner provided the world, you'd have to say, well, in terms of movies, really good. In terms of having friends that people liked him, really good. And I will even say that he did not do a bad job raising his children, probably. We don't know because we weren't there.

Megyn Kelly thinks that the defense might be that his father abused him. There is no evidence of that, but if we hear it, I will revise my opinions.

Well, I'll tell you, having had a stepson who was an addict since he was probably 12 and he passed away because of fentanyl. But I can tell you that there's no professional or other intervention that makes a difference. At least in California, there's no such thing as a tough love rehab thing that fixes anybody. In fact, the rehab places are really there to get you to come back. Even if they could cure you, they probably wouldn't.

So I do not fault him for his parenting, even though it turned out as tragic as it could be.

However, when you see what he did with the intel people, I won't be able to stay long. Don't know if I'll be able to eat today. Be nice if I could.

But if you look at the net benefit and the net cost, how much division do you think somebody like Rob Reiner brought into the country? A lot, right?

If you were to look at the net of how much division he brought into the country, you know, you can still give him full credit for his movies. His movies were brilliant, but...

Upside down in your bed.

Yeah. I thought that Reiner subtracted from the country way more than he added.

Good job and a bad child. Blue X.

Well, we don't know why the son did what he did. Probably never will.

He uses dad's money to buy up the rights to hot scripts.

Yeah, you're right about that, Victor.

David Hansen video being AI. There's another one I almost fell for too. I have now fallen for several AI fakes.

I've been coughing for 12 hours straight because there's something caught in my throat.

All right, let's see what Owen is up to. Owen, I saw you there.

Oh, hypnotist to connect across politics. Try saying what you oppose. I'd do that.

The number of people who rated their mental health as either good or excellent also dropped to a record low, 72%. So not good. 25%.

The hypnosis notes that Americans' view on their mental health is at a record low.

Sorry, this is so disgusting, but it's all I can do. Next one, please.

All right, let's see what else. Washington and Moscow teams meeting this weekend. That will be another waste of time.

Do you think there's anything to that world-renowned MIT researcher who got whacked? Was it Iran?

Hold on. Had to turn off the microphone.

Could be. That would make sense if Iran whacked our top nuclear scientist.

They're still looking at ivermectin for cancer, huh? Good luck on that.

I did not watch Trump's speech. How was it?

All right. Turn off my microphone. Tell me how was Trump's speech. Was anybody impressed?

I heard good things and bad things.

Yeah, nothing burger. That's what I thought.

All right, people. I'm not going to be able to go much longer.

Venezuelan Navy is going to escort their tankers.

All right, I gotta go. Sorry, I tried. Gotta go.

Good morning.

I probably won't be able to stay very long this morning.

Got all kinds of problems.

Good morning.

You ready for the simultaneous nothing?

We going to do the simultaneous cough.

You guys do the talking today.

I'm going to check to see if there's any interesting stories on X.

Let's see.

All the stories seem to be about fraud.

You notice that at least on social media like fraud fraud.

All right, let me go look at stories that I have.

There I am.

Let's see.

We got the Clinton Foundation.

And did you know that the Clinton Foundation was set up by Jeffrey Epstein and Galain Maxwell?

Did you know that?

So, doesn't that pretty much tell you that's everything you thought it was?

Then my other favorite story, Joe Manico here.

You remember when uh Gaddafi died and Hillary Clinton said uh we came, I came, I saw, I conquered.

And then she laughed.

And people say, "Wait a minute.

Oh I can't believe my laptop was not plugged in all night." All right, we're only going to get five minutes today.

Unless I don't think this works on my laptop.

Where does it Oh, wow.

My battery works on my laptop.

>> >> So, I might turn off my microphone a few times to cough it out.

I've been coughing for 12 hours straight.

All right.

What about uh California's state auditor published a scalding report about Newsome and billions of dollars missing?

Of course, eight agencies in California named high- risk, which means they're stealing stuff.

Um, yesterday at dinner, something went down the wrong pipe.

and has triggered 12 hours of sneezing so far.

Inflation step down.

Is it really?

I don't believe the inflation numbers.

Let's see Lee Zelden talking about Stacy Abrams and the $2 billion that she tried to she tried to abscond with.

So, I don't know if you notice if you're on X and uh almost all the stories about uh gigantic about gigantic Democrat fraud.

You got the Minnesota fraud, the California fraud, it looks like the Stacy Abrams NGO fraud.

Then we've got Jonathan Turley, not fraud, but talking about Eric Swallwell, who um missed more votes than anybody else except a dead guy.

Democrats are just killing it, aren't they?

So, the the Rolls-Royce company The Rolls-Royce company is going to move out of uh Britain because uh the regulations were too out of the UK anyway and coming to America.

So, we'll get the Rolls-Royce manufacturing some of it.

Anyway, here's one I don't believe.

See if you believe this one.

See if you believe this one.

Wall Street Apes is writing about this.

The Federal Reserve has revealed that um there are $14 trillion in NOS's $14 trillion.

Now, that would answer my question of how in the world did we lose all our money?

Looks like we lost 14 trillion dollars just on NOS's which as you know are often if not always fraudulent.

Then there's the Jack Smith situation who as far as we know is Whoa.

Nice cat.

>> >> Royce Royce.

Yeah, Rolls-Royce makes nuclear reactors, but jet engines, too.

It all back.

14 trillion.

I'm sure they've already spent it on stupid Um let's see according to the heritage foundation uh Tulsa Gabbert is saying that 50% of intelligence analyst time was going to DEI the 50% 14 trillion in assets That's Yeah.

Let's see.

Checking on the peacocks.

Well, people are mad that I think that Rob Reiner is uh bad for the world.

50, not 50.

I'm trying to get something out of my craw language.

Yeah.

You know, I think it's funny that uh Trump is getting everybody wound up.

Did you see the uh the funny uh the pictures he put on the what what do you call it?

The Hall of Presidents.

So, he's got this Hall of Presidents and it just insults Obama and Biden.

That's pretty funny.

Yeah.

Reiner.

If Robiner had only made movies and just had an opinion, I would certainly respect his family, but he was a very bad guy.

I I thought I did a good uh post on that because you've been coffee all morning, too.

A cat on belly.

You have an insulted bush.

You caught for a month.

Did you see the post I did where Reiner was uh closing his eyes to do fiction when he talked about Trump when he was just making up Russia collusion stuff.

He would go like this and then he would be the best friend of Putin and then when he was just talking he would open his eyes.

I believe that's him accessing his his fiction part of his brain.

That's what I think.

He knew he was lying.

So that organization that he is a director of What was that organization?

It had I guess they had every pretty much every one of the uh current and past CIA heads.

Funny Willis.

Well, let's talk about Riner some more.

Should we Should we dump on Reiner some more?

I Here's what I think.

and and I I posted this, but if you look at the the net benefit that Rob Reiner provided the world, you'd have to say, well, in terms of movies, really good in terms of having friends that people people liked him, really good.

Um, and I will even say that he did not do a bad job raising his children probably.

We don't know cuz we weren't there.

Yeah.

Megan Kelly thinks that the the defense might be that his father abused him.

There is no evidence of that, but if we hear it, I will revise my opinions.

Well, I'll tell you, having had a stepson who was an addict since he was probably 12 and he passed away because of fentinol.

But I can tell you that there's no professional or other intervention that makes a difference.

At least in California, there's no such thing as a, you know, tough love rehab thing that fixes anybody.

In fact, the rehab places are really there to um get you to come back.

Even if they could cure you, they probably wouldn't.

So, I do not fault him for his parenting, even though it turned out as tragic as it could be.

However, however, um when you see what he did with the the intel people, I won't be able to stay long.

Don't know if I'll be able to eat today.

be nice if I could.

But if you look at the net the net benefit and the net cost, how much how much division do you think somebody like Rob Reiner brought into the country?

A lot, right?

If you were to look at the net of how much division he brought into the country, you know, you can still give him full credit for his movies.

His movies were brilliant, but Sorry.

Upside down in your bed.

Yeah.

I thought that Reiner subtracted from the country way more than he added.

Yeah.

Good job and a bad child.

Blue X.

Well, we don't know why he why the sun did what he did.

Probably never will.

He uses dad's money to buy up the rights to hot scripts.

Yeah, you're right about that, Victor.

David Hansen video being AI.

There's another one I almost fell for, too.

I have now fallen for several AI fakes.

I've been coughing for 12 hours straight because there's something caught in my throat.

All right, let's see what Owen is up to.

Owen, I saw you there.

Oh, I hypnotist to connect across politics.

Try try saying what you oppose.

I'd do that.

Uh, the number of people who rated the mental health as either good or excellent also dropped to a record low 72.

So, not good.

25%.

Dr.

for hypnosis notes that so Americans view on their mental health is at a record low.

Sorry, this is so disgusting, but it's all I can do.

Next one, please.

All right, let's see what else.

Washington and Moscow teams meeting this weekend.

That will be another waste of time.

Do you think there's anything to that worldrenowned MIT researcher who got whacked?

Was it Iran?

Hold on.

had to turn off the microphone.

Could be that would make sense if Iran whacked our top nuclear scientists.

Uh oh.

They're still looking at Ivormectin for cancer, huh?

Good luck on that.

I did not watch Trump's uh speech.

How was it?

All right.

Turn off my microphone.

Tell me how was Trump's speech.

Was anybody impressed?

I heard good things and bad things.

Yeah, nothing burger.

That's what I thought.

All right, people.

I'm not going to be able to go much longer.

Venezuelan Navy is going to escort their tankers.

All right, I gotta go.

Sorry, I tried.

Gotta go.

[laughter]

Good morning.

I probably won't be able to stay very

long this morning.

Got all kinds of problems.

Good morning.

You ready for the simultaneous nothing?

We going to do the simultaneous cough.

You guys do the talking today.

I'm going to check to see if there's any

interesting stories on X.

Let's see.

All the stories seem to be about

fraud.

You notice that

at least on social media like fraud

fraud.

All right,

let me go look at stories that I have.

There I am.

Let's see. We got the Clinton

Foundation.

And

did you know that the Clinton Foundation

was set up by Jeffrey Epstein

and Galain Maxwell?

Did you know that?

So, doesn't that pretty much tell you

that's everything you thought it was?

Then my other favorite story, Joe Manico

here.

You remember when uh Gaddafi died

and Hillary Clinton said

uh we came, I came, I saw, I conquered.

And then she laughed.

And people say,

"Wait a minute.

Oh

I can't believe my laptop was not

plugged in all night."

[clears throat]

All right, we're only going to get five

minutes today.

Unless

I don't think this works on my laptop.

Where does it

Oh, wow.

My battery works on my laptop.

>> [gasps]

>> So,

I might turn off my microphone a few

times to cough it out.

I've been coughing for 12 hours

straight.

All right. What about uh California's

state auditor published a scalding

report

about Newsome and billions of dollars

missing? Of course,

eight agencies in California named high-

risk,

which means they're stealing stuff.

Um, yesterday

at dinner, something went down the wrong

pipe.

and has triggered 12 hours of sneezing

so far.

Inflation step down. Is it really?

[clears throat]

I don't believe the inflation numbers.

Let's

see Lee Zelden

talking about Stacy Abrams and the $2

billion that

she tried to she tried to abscond with.

So, I don't know if you notice if you're

on X

and uh almost all the stories about uh

gigantic

about gigantic Democrat fraud.

You got the Minnesota fraud, the

California fraud,

[clears throat]

it looks like the Stacy Abrams NGO

fraud.

Then we've got

Jonathan Turley,

not fraud, but talking about Eric

Swallwell, who

um missed more votes than anybody else

except a dead guy.

Democrats are just killing it, aren't

they?

So, the the Rolls-Royce company

The Rolls-Royce company is going to move

out of

uh Britain

because uh

the regulations were too out of the UK

anyway

and coming to America.

So, we'll get the Rolls-Royce

manufacturing

some of it. Anyway,

here's one I don't believe. See if you

believe this one.

See if you believe this one. Wall Street

Apes is writing about this.

The Federal Reserve has revealed that um

there are

$14 trillion in NOS's

$14 trillion.

Now, that would answer my question

of how in the world did we lose all our

money?

Looks like we lost 14 trillion dollars

just on NOS's

which as you know

are often if not always

fraudulent.

Then there's the Jack Smith situation

who as far as we know is

Whoa. Nice cat.

>> [clears throat]

>> Royce Royce. Yeah, Rolls-Royce makes

nuclear reactors, but jet engines, too.

It all back. 14 trillion. I'm sure

they've already spent it on

stupid

Um let's see according to the heritage

foundation

uh Tulsa Gabbert is saying that 50% of

intelligence analyst time

was going to DEI

the 50%

[clears throat]

14 trillion in assets That's

Yeah.

Let's see. Checking on the peacocks.

Well, people are mad that I think that

Rob Reiner is uh bad for the world.

50, not 50.

I'm trying to get something out of my

craw

language.

Yeah.

You know, I think it's funny that uh

Trump is getting everybody wound up. Did

you see the uh the funny uh the pictures

he put on the what what do you call it?

The Hall of Presidents.

So, he's got this Hall of Presidents and

it just insults Obama and Biden.

That's pretty funny.

Yeah. Reiner.

If Robiner had only made movies and just

had an opinion,

I would certainly respect his family,

but he was a very bad guy. I I thought I

did a good uh post on that

because

you've been coffee all morning, too.

A cat on belly.

You have an insulted bush.

You caught for a month.

Did you see the post I did where Reiner

was

uh closing his eyes to do fiction

when he talked about Trump when he was

just making up Russia collusion stuff.

He would go like this and then he would

be the best friend of Putin

and then when he was just talking he

would open his eyes.

I believe that's him accessing his his

fiction part of his brain.

That's what I think.

He knew he was lying. So that

organization that he is a director of

What was that organization? It had I

guess they had every

pretty much every one of the uh current

and past CIA heads.

Funny Willis. Well, let's talk about

Riner some more.

Should we Should we dump on Reiner some

more? I Here's what I think. and and I I

posted this,

but if you look at the the net benefit

that Rob Reiner provided the world,

you'd have to say, well, in terms of

movies, really good

in terms of having friends that people

people liked him,

really good.

Um, and I will even say that he did not

do a bad job

raising his children probably.

We don't know cuz we weren't there.

Yeah. Megan Kelly thinks that the the

defense might be that his father abused

him. There is no evidence of that, but

if we hear it, I will revise my

opinions.

Well, I'll tell you, having had a

stepson who was an addict since he was

probably 12

and he passed away because of fentinol.

But I can tell you that there's no

professional or other intervention that

makes a difference.

At least in California, there's no such

thing as a, you know, tough love

rehab thing that fixes anybody. In fact,

the rehab places are really there to um

get you to come back.

Even if they could cure you, they

probably wouldn't.

So, I do not fault him for

his parenting, even though it turned out

as tragic as it could be.

However,

however,

um when you see what he did with the the

intel people,

[clears throat]

[clears throat]

I won't be able to stay long.

Don't know if I'll be able to eat today.

be nice if I could.

But if you look at the net

the net benefit and the net cost,

how much how much division

do you think somebody like Rob Reiner

brought into the country?

A lot, right?

If you were to look at the net

of how much division he brought into the

country,

you know, you can still give him full

credit for his movies. His movies were

brilliant,

[snorts]

but

Sorry.

Upside down in your bed.

Yeah. I thought that Reiner subtracted

from the country

way more than he added.

Yeah.

Good job and a bad child.

Blue X.

Well, we don't know why he why the sun

did what he did.

Probably never will.

He uses dad's money to buy up the rights

to hot scripts.

Yeah, you're right about that, Victor.

David Hansen video being AI.

There's another one I almost fell for,

too. I have now fallen for

several AI fakes.

I've been coughing for 12 hours straight

because there's something caught in my

throat.

All right, let's see what Owen is up to.

Owen, I saw you there.

Oh,

[clears throat]

I hypnotist

to connect across politics. Try try

saying what you oppose.

I'd do that.

Uh,

the number of people who rated the

mental health as either good or

excellent also dropped to a record low

72.

So, not good. 25%.

Dr. for hypnosis

notes that

so Americans view on their mental health

is at a record low.

[clears throat]

Sorry, this is so disgusting, but it's

all I can do.

Next one, please.

All right, let's see what else.

Washington and Moscow teams meeting this

weekend.

That will be another waste of time.

Do you think there's anything to that

worldrenowned MIT

researcher who got whacked?

[clears throat] Was it Iran?

Hold on.

had to turn off the microphone.

Could be

that would make sense

if Iran whacked our top nuclear

scientists.

Uh oh. They're still looking at

Ivormectin for cancer, huh?

[gasps]

Good luck on that.

I did not watch Trump's uh speech.

How was it?

[clears throat]

All right. Turn off my microphone. Tell

me how was Trump's speech. Was anybody

impressed? I heard good things and bad

things.

Yeah, nothing burger.

That's what I thought.

All right, people. I'm not going to be

able to go much longer.

Venezuelan Navy is going to escort their

tankers.

All right, [snorts] I gotta go. Sorry,

I tried.

Gotta go.