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ter than mine. If I seem a little down, I'm not having the best week, to say the least. But I'm going to try to raise my spirits for you. So there's a story that there's a filter that's made for astronaut urine that could soon be providing drinking water to Earth. That was the headline in CNN. So it's some kind of amazing filter that you can put urine into. Astronauts have been using it and it ju…

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seen a lot of colds in your house since the coronavirus started? I believe I haven't seen any. I've seen some allergies.

Yeah, somebody says you got it from sniffing hair. In the big news, you may have heard that Pornhub is deleting all of its unverified content. I think the idea there is that they're cracking down on sex trafficking and underage stuff, so there's probably a good basis for that. But there was a tweet on this topic from Steve Hassan, PhD, and he's an expert on cults. He writes books on cults. And he said this about Pornhub. He says, I hope they are deleting all hypnosis videos. What I watched, two videos, says Steve Hassan, to convince people they were another gender. What I saw was highly sophisticated mind control. De-transitioners pointed me to them.

So according to Steve, there are videos on Pornhub — or unless they've been taken down — that would convince people they were another gender. Now the first thing you have to ask is Steve Hassan is an expert. He's written books. He's a PhD, written books on cults and cult indoctrination and getting out of cults. But is he a hypnotist? I don't know. I don't believe he's a trained hypnotist. But I am. So if I were wondering about this question, I would ask me, is that possible? Can you change somebody's gender with hypnosis? And if you could, could you put it in a video and put it online and it just changes people's genders?

The answer to that is nope. No, you can't change people's gender, or in other words you can't change people's mind about what their gender is. That's not a thing. What you can do is if somebody was interested in doing that, those videos would probably make a difference. But you have to start out wanting to do it. Nobody wanders into the site and says, hey I wonder what this is. Let me click on this and just sample a few minutes. I'm just curious. I certainly don't want to change my — I am now a woman. Okay, that's not happening.

But it is true that people who might want to fantasize about that or make it happen anyway, those videos might make a difference. But no, you will not be accidentally hypnotized to be another gender. Let me say that with complete certainty. That's not a thing. Now you can change people's preferences. So if they wanted to indulge in this content they could change their preference and then anything's possible. But the nuance of knowing that it can't change you unless you wanted that change is pretty important.

All right. I saw online that the New York Times has not covered the story of Representative Swalwell and the alleged Chinese spy that he allegedly had a close relationship with. And I'm thinking to myself, how in the world does the New York Times just not cover it? Maybe that's it. Could be not true. So somebody might fact-check that and say oh they covered it. So I guess I shouldn't assume that's true just because I saw it on Twitter.

Here's something you don't see in the news. What is the thing that's most holding up the coronavirus relief kind of packages in Congress? And th

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e answer is it's over the biggest issue seems to be the question of whether businesses would receive some protection from being sued should they not do things right with coronavirus. The Democrats want to change nothing and allow people to be sued. The Republicans say you can't ask people to open up business in a pandemic at the same time they can be sued if anybody gets a virus. So here's what's…

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