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't it? And it's somewhere about, at least the latest best information, which is not very current, suggests that maybe, you know, 40, 50 percent of the Palestinians do support Hamas and their approach. So I'd say at least half of the Palestinian people are at least supporting terrorist actions as defined. So I'm not so sure that the idea is wrong, but I think the headline was out of whack with the…

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lucky, huh? Pretty lucky for you. 15 billion years, and you just happened to be alive at just the time we learned there are aliens floating around the planet. Somebody says 4.5 billion. I think it's 15 billion. 15 billion for the universe. 4.5 might be for the planet or something. But for the universe, I think it's 15 billion.

So I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I would bet a million dollars it's not. If there were some way to know for sure, if there was some kind of betting service, I would actually literally put a million dollar bet that there are no aliens. One million dollars, actually literally, if I could make that bet. And I would be confident that we could know for sure in some reasonable amount of time. Like, let's say, you know, will we know for sure in three years or something like that? I would bet one million dollars that we will not find that evidence or proof anyway. But I've been wrong before, so who knows?

Vernon Jones, who I think he's running for governor of Georgia or has or will, he says that he's announced that he's going to make an announcement, a huge announcement about the Georgia audit, I think, or getting an audit, forensic audit. Now, I wouldn't get too excited about the huge announcement because that could be whatever Vernon Jones thinks is huge, not necessarily what you think is huge. So I don't expect any smoking guns to come out of this. It might be just some kind of an announcement that some auditing will happen, something like that.

Do you remember the gun-toting couple, the McCloskeys in St. Louis, when there were the protests, riots, whatever you want to call them? And Mark McCloskey stood with his weapon on the front of his house. Apparently he's running for Senate in Missouri. What do you think of that? Have you seen enough of Mark McCloskey to give you an idea whether he could get elected senator? I feel like he could. It depends who he's running against, right? But I don't think there are any Republicans who don't

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like this guy. And he's definitely smart enough. He definitely is a good persuader. I've seen him giving interviews. He's really good in public. So I feel like he's got a really good shot. I wouldn't bet against him at all. All right. Remember I was telling you that I think people who are overweight may be the super spreaders? Well, there are now, we do know that obese subjects with influenza, no…

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