about all the stories about China ramping up in the South China Sea and Iran building nukes and everything? Well, the entire military-industrial complex makes money from that. What about climate change? Well, you've got all the green businesses would make money on that.

Now here's something you need to know about the news business. As the profits for the news business shrink, they go from being investigative units because they can afford it — they've got a lot of money, they can send out long-term investigative units and stuff — as their profits shrink, they have fewer and fewer investigative stories. Those are expensive. And more and more, let's just say, writing down what somebody told you. Sort of a scribe for somebody else.

And in this kind of a world where profits are low and the writers need to produce a story to get paid, they will take a story from anywhere. In other words, if the PR people for any one of these industries comes up with a little package story, they can bring it to a member of the press who is lazy like all people — right, not especially lazy, but they're lazy like all people. If somebody hands them a story — look, here's your source, here's the angle, here's what turns it into something interesting, here you go, and here are six people who we already know will talk to you about the story — that story gets published, right? Because it's easy. It's just packaged up for you.

And once you realize that what makes it into the news is what has been packaged by industry people and presented to the news, then you understand there are no coincidences. Of course our major news stories coincidentally will make somebody rich. Where do you think the story came from? Same people. It's the people who get rich. They're the ones who create the news, they package it, and they hand it to a reporter. And the reporter says, well, I could work really hard or I could do this one. That's your system.

Now I'm not going to say that every one of these things is because of money, but when you see the pattern that there's always somebody making money and that's how the news business works — it takes packaged stories and turns them into what you think are their stories — you gotta wonder.

So there's the weirdest war happening in the Middle East right now between Iran and Israel. And I would say that they're at war, but it's a weird little war. And I'll call it the "not me" war. And it goes like this. Iran will fire a missile or their proxies will fire a missile, and some Israeli asset or American asset will be destroyed. And we'll say, "Iran, damn you for funding them or making that happen." And Iran will say, "What? Not me. What are you talking about? That wasn't me. Not me."

And then today we hear a story that at the Natanz, I guess it's the Iranian nuclear facility, the biggest one, that something blew up that turned off the power to the entire facility. That could set them back nine months. Or Natanz, as I pronounce it. And when anybody asked Israel, "Hey Israel, were you behind this? Were you behind blowing up this power plant?" Israel says, "What? Not me. Not me."

So it's like the "not me" war, where they're just — it's an active hot war, but they just both say it's not happening. "Mommy, something blew up." "Oh, so sad." I saw a tweet by Tom Cotton, you know, just saying it was so sad that something blew up in Iran there. And I think everybody's just winking at it, and Iran knows it was an operation. So but it's weird that we just pretend it's not happening.

So I would like to offer you a vaccination to keep you healthy at traffic stops. Now it's very offensive, isn't it? I think we'd all agree it's offensive to be talking about how you could keep yourself safe at a traffic stop the same day that a young Black man was killed by police at a traffic stop. Probably shouldn't pair these together because it accidentally makes you think that I'm saying, well, it's his fault. The person who stopped — I'm not saying that. We don't know the details of that situation, so I'm not going to suggest that if the person who had stopped had acted differently it would be a different outcome. So we won't be talking about those specifics.

I'm going to give you a sentence which in my belief is that this sentence would vaccinate you from death if you got stopped. It's the first thing you say to the police officers when they approach you in the car. Now I know what you're going to say. You know, "Hey, whitey, you don't know what it's really like on the streets and it's really racism and all that." But I would propose the following experiment, which will never happen. I believe that nobody who uses this sentence will ever be killed by the police. All right, so that's my challenge. Nobody who uses this sentence in the way that I'm going to explain will ever be killed by the police. Nobody's ever going to use it except you know maybe three of you someday, but nobody will ever be killed by the police after this vaccinating sentence which you would say to the police officer first upon being stopped.

Are you ready? This is the sentence. "Officer, how can I keep you safe today and me too," while showing your hands. So your hands have to be visible. You say, "Officer, how can I keep you safe today and me too." If that person gets killed, I'll be amaz