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es Bond, prefers going to gay bars. And you probably can't guess why. That's right, Daniel Craig, he prefers going to gay bars and you probably can't guess why. I think I can. I'm going to take that challenge and I think I'm going to guess why he goes to gay bars. Well, I think I'll keep my guess to myself, but I've got a hypothesis why a good-looking actor would go to a gay bar time and time agai…

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the antlers? And I got the best answer to that from Grover Norquist. You all might recognize that name. All of the news junkies know that name, Grover Norquist. So he's most famous for being against extra taxes. Yeah, he's the low-tax guy. So we follow each other on Twitter and Grover saw that story. And in answer to the question why the antlers were removed instead of the tire, Grover tweets, they could not sell the tire for as much as antlers. They could not sell the tire for as much as antlers.

I thought to myself, well that's probably true. They probably didn't throw away the antlers, did they? Because it seems like, do people buy them for, I don't know, I guess they do, right? People buy antlers. Is that a thing?

Now here's the funny part. I don't personally believe that that had anything to do with why they removed it the way they did. But watch how often it predicts. You'll see a situation in which there's no way the money makes any difference. It's like a big psychological decision or it's political or it's health-related, but it's definitely not about the money. But coincidentally the decisions will always be in the same direction as the money, even if it's not much and even if the other decisions or other variables are way bigger. It's just something to watch for. Let's say for fun, I will not assert that it works in some statistically meaningful way. I just know that my observation is it always works. I assume that's confirmation bias. It couldn't always work, right? That can't be true. It can't always work. But it looks like it. I mean it's hard to find any. Maybe you just don't notice the exceptions. That could be the case. Maybe the exceptions are just boring and they don't even make you notice.

All right. Last night I'm told Tucker Carlson had a segment about the Havana syndrome. I think it's a professor who did a study and determined that the Havana syndrome, the so-called secret microwave sonic weapon that was injuring diplomats in our embassies, probably was nothing but mass hysteria. Now how many of you saw that? How many of you watched Tucker's episode about the Havana syndrome possibly not being real? A lot of you saw it.

Here's the funny thing. I record Tucker every night. You know, I just, I have an app that works with my Comcast slash Xfinity and I recorded that show every night as well as, you know, Gutfeld and The Five. So those are three shows that I record every day. The only show that doesn't have audio on my recordings is this one. The ones I r

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ecorded yesterday are all fine. And in fact the show before Tucker's was fine. Like it has a little lead-in. It records like a minute before the show starts and that has audio. As soon as Tucker starts, the audio goes off. And I thought to myself, oh darn, it's my device. So I went to a different device. Same thing. The app is called Stream and it's part of the Xfinity, the cable company where I l…

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