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ut it, but now we're seeing a story that the intelligence people believe that there is evidence that the sources — the unnamed sources, highly, highly dependable unnamed sources — speculated that Putin, who's 69, could have dementia, Parkinson's disease, or quote "roid rage" from potential cancer treatments that involve heavy steroid use.

Do you know, I swear to God yesterday I was taking a walk and I was thinking to myself, huh, I wonder if there are any cancer treatments that would give you like anger issues. It turns out there are. Apparently steroids are indicated for some kinds of cancer treatments, and that could give you roid rage and actually explain his entire behavior. Would also explain his puffy face, his puffy face and his change in decision-making. It's all looking a lot like a chemical change in his personality because people who know him say he's changed.

Yeah, didn't I say that on day one? Steroids. Give me a fact check. Was I — I don't think I was the first, but I was, I think I was among the first to say that looks like roids, that looks like steroids, day one. Right? Yeah. And I did ask about it. Okay, oh good. Now I'm not going to claim that I had like some, you know, the first in the world to say that, but I was there early. I think that's worth it.

Now here's my fake news analysis of this. I thought it was true until I saw it in the news. Do you know what I mean? I thought I was pretty confident in my opinion that there's something chemically different about him. But as soon as I saw it in the news and the news looks exactly like my tweets, I stopped believing it. Now that's a hell of a thing that I believed my own opinion until I saw it being confirmed in the news. As soon as I saw it confirmed in the news, I'm like, oh, I'm wrong. They confirmed it. I must be wrong. Because here's my problem. It looks exactly like what an intelligence agency would want you to think. Like a U.S. intelligence agency, like a Ukrainian intelligence agency. It looks a little like our intelligence agencies and other countries may have said, look, they're gonna believe this anyway because people are chatting about it in social media, so let's just put it out there like it's probably true because they're already primed to believe it. They didn't have to wonder if we would believe it because it had already been tested. You see what I'm saying? It'd already been tested. They knew people would believe it because we already believed it without any evidence whatsoever. So they just gave us some fake evidence of, you know, people who are sources say they think. And then it goes to the media and then you think there's really a source.

And then so here's the thing. Could I have caused this? I'm not saying I did, but I worry about it. Is it possible I caused this? Let me tell you what I know. I do know that intelligence agencies watch me. Do you accept that? Now I'm not going to tell you how I know, but I know because I've been approached by people, etc. So I know they — I know that at least I know of at least three intelligence agencies who do have their eyes on me. Four. I know four. If four intelligence agencies are watching me and I've sort of tested and advanced the idea that Putin looks like he's drugged, do you think that they could have gotten the idea to just amplify it? I'm not saying that this happened. I'm just — I just worry about it. I worry that I'm giving people ideas without knowing it. I have no reason to think I did this. I'm not making that claim, but I worry about it.

All right. CNN has a story. Oh, let's talk more about Putin. So apparently Putin is a known hypochondriac. Do you believe that Putin is a known hypochondriac? And they think that's why he's so afraid of COVID. But somebody else said — and I had never said this out loud, but I believed it for a while — that the reason he's so afraid of COVID is that he has comorbidities. I think he's got comorbidities, which would suggest cancer or something bad, which would suggest the steroid thing is correct. Because if you're the head of a country and you've got some kind of medical problem that's going to slow you down, they might pump you full of meth and steroids to keep you going because you can't take a day off if you're Putin, right? Putin can't take a day off. I don't think Putin takes sick days. Am I right? I don't think he could take a sick day because weakness would be a big risk for him politically. So I've got a feeling that he's pumped up with whatever it takes to make him look like he's still functional while he's rapidly declining in some kind of health-related problem. So that's my current analysis. So I'm going to say comorbidity is why he's afraid of COVID. Comorbidities.

There's a new threat in the United States according to CNN. They've got a story. It's men who are involuntarily celibate. Wait a minute. Are incels involuntarily celibate? I thought people volunteered. I think don't they sort of volunteer because they just gave up on it, you know? I think it's a sort of a gray area whether they volunteered or they didn't have any choice. But apparently now the government is worried that these celibate men who in many cases have bad feelings about women will become mass murderers of women because they are misogynists. And well, yeah, I get it. I get it. The incel means involuntary celibate. But what I've seen in actual popular use, it always seemed like people were voluntarily labeling themselves involuntarily celibate. Does that make sense? It looked like there was some free will involved, however you wanted to define that.

Anyway, do you think that's a big problem for the future, involuntarily celibate men? I think it is. It sounds ridiculous, right? It sounds a little absurd on the surface, but I feel like it is. And I've often speculated, much to my destruction, that a big problem in the Middle East is too many men and not enough women. Because if the high-end rich men in Middle Eastern society have several wives, necessarily there won't be enough left over for the men, the lower-ranked men. So in theory there should be all these extra men who have nothing to do but kill and be killed, because we turn into killers when we're not domesticated basically.

Well, Ethan, why do you need to say that? Ethan has decided to inform me that my wife divorced me. Ethan, you're probably aware that I know about this, right? I'm kind of up to date, Ethan. And Ethan, I wonder when you wake up in the morn

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ing and you start your day, do other people say, I'm sure glad Ethan is awake because there's a guy who brings light and sunshine into our lives? Ethan is a person who's always looking on the bright side. Ethan — some people would say Ethan is a worthless piece of a dingleberry on the ass of life. Some would say that. Because his contribution to a conversation was so mind-bogglingly useless and ne…

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