of like two countries. One is poor America where things are terrible and one is rich America where things are better. And they don't have the same gun violence rates. Not at all.

So again there's something much larger than having a gun or not having a gun that's causing people to die or not die. Also interesting that gun deaths were correlated with more suicides which is largely a white person problem versus murder which is largely on a per capita basis more of a black person problem.

But then I always think it's weird to lump together — how many of you have the same feeling? I think this is common — that when we statistically lump together suicide and murder that's just an apple and an orange, isn't it? Because here's the problem philosophically. If you get murdered you got something you didn't want. If you commit suicide successfully you got something you want. And we add together the thing you want.

Now I get it. I'm not promoting any suicide so see a professional if you have those thoughts. Trying to be responsible here. But it is nonetheless by definition something you want versus something you don't want. Now maybe you shouldn't want it. That's a good conversation to have. Maybe you could be talked out of it. Maybe it's never a good idea until you've seen every health professional you could possibly consult. But the fact is if we just lump them together we're just blinding ourselves to whatever the hell is going on. We're just using data to shield ourselves from knowledge if you add those two things together.

So we should forever separate them. And we should probably separate rich and poor. Because suppose we find out that it's terrible for poor people to own guns but it's actually a pretty good idea for rich people to own guns. What if we find out that's true? What if the data says that? Well then we have something to work with. You could say if you're in a poor zip code maybe you don't get a gun. But if you do well, or maybe it's by income. Maybe it's literally by income. If you're above a certain income you could have a gun.

Now that would be the least constitutional thing anybody could ever do but the data would lead you there. But however the Democrats could not be led there by the data because they can't say rich people can have guns and poor people can't. But the data might say so. Do you think I'd be wrong? Do you think if you studied rich people gun ownership versus poor people gun ownership do you think that they would look similar? I don't think so. I don't think so.

So if you're following the data just make gun ownership based on your income. Again it's the most unconstitutional idea so you know you can't really do that. But the data takes you in strange places.

So there's new Hunter Biden audio where he's bragging to somebody that he can get his dad to agree to anything as long as it's sort of compatible with what Joe Biden might want to do. So it's more about changing his priorities than changing his mind to do something you wouldn't want to do. Important distinction.

But I don't know that this is new news, is it? Because Joe Biden has said publicly a number of times that Hunter is the smartest person he knows in person. So it does kind of follow that he would listen to his advice. So it's sort of a story non-story because it does of course suggest that he's selling his influence and everything else. But the way he's selling it, the way he describes it in the audio, does say that he can influence the priority, not necessarily something that Biden wouldn't want to do, but the priority of how he spends his time. That's pretty frightening. But we also kind of knew that, didn't we? Did you not think that Hunter could influence his father's priorities? I feel like I knew that but hearing it directly is something.

So there's a congressman, Jamal Bowman from New York. He's a Democrat and he tweeted that Elon Musk is a supporter of white supremacy due to his announcement that he last night voted for Mayra Flores. Now if you know this story it's immediately funny because they're calling Elon Musk a white supremacist for voting for a Mexican-born congressional candidate. And Glenn Greenwald called him out on that as he should.

And yeah I've told you that the world is really small. Every time I'm listening to a story or watching a story it's shocking how often I have some connection to it that I didn't know. And so I went to look at the Twitter account for Mayra Flores and she was already following me. So I followed her back and congratulated her for a good victory and she thanked me. So the world is so tiny you can't appreciate how completely mind-bending it is to read stories and then say oh she follows me on Twitter. I congratulate her and she actually had the time to thank me. It's like it made this whole world just shrink down to two people sending a message to each other. It's just the damnedest thing.

All right. If I were a Republican running and I saw stuff like this, like t