ning it away or you know making it look like the real problem was his accuser he just put it in his movie. So he made a movie and he just featured it. Instead of explaining it, apologizing for it, he just featured it. Any other questions? And I feel like that's what allowed his Twitter traffic to grow etc. is that people saw oh okay you just fully accepted that and then he moved on.

Mike made the movie Hoaxed with an ed on the end, Hoaxed, which by the way I've recommended very highly. It's a tremendous movie and I think we need Hoaxed 2 because the number of hoaxes since that movie it's just begging for a Hoaxed 2 which I hope he makes. All right you know the hoax quiz? Yeah similar to the superpower of saying I don't know. You don't want to overdo that one but there is power in admitting you don't know something. That's true. Yeah so now we have 16 hoaxes and you know that's an abbreviated list. And even the people who know that 12 of them are real hoaxes. Foreign that always amazes me.

All right is there any story I missed today? Any big thing happening? I saw Mike Pence teasing that. Yeah the Susan Sarandon surrender tweet. I'm trying to remember. I saw it but I can't remember what that was. All right where can the hoax list be found? Good question. I think if you went to Twitter and just searched for it. It's also on Locals. I published it a few times on Locals. It's not a pinned tweet anymore. I changed my pinned tweet.

There's a book about race hoaxes. Yeah but I think the race hoaxes that's too narrow. Yeah there's an earthquake I guess this morning. I did not feel it. Or yesterday. It's a 5.1.

What jobs would I advise a teenager? That's tough. You know I used to advise teenagers to go into the arts because that would be the last thing that AI would get to but that's all wrong. So now AI does better graphic art and it does better writing already. It won't be long before it does humor better.

The expensive toilet in San Francisco. Yeah that's the—so the stories I typically stay away from are the Air Force was charged two million dollars for a screw. Right I'm talking about a physical screw not prostitution. And they—the media gets that story wrong every time. Every time. The reason that the one little part cost a million dollars is that nobody made that part. They had to like build an assembly line just to make the part and so they charge you what it cost right. It's a retooling cost. And when the media reports that they report it like it's a market price and they just gouged. It's never that. Not once. Not once has that story been true. Every time you saw that story and how many of those have you seen? Everyone was fake. They were all fake. And everybody who had an economics degree knew it. You know we everybody watched it was like no there's a reason it's a million dollars. Now they may have padded the million dollars which is you know or related but a separate point. But the reason it's so expensive is because they had to retool. They may have also padded the retooling price. I wouldn't be surprised. But the big answer is that they had to retool.

Explain the two thousand dollar Air Force heated mugs. Easily there were there was a special requirement. If you look at their two thousand dollar heated mugs I think you would find that they either had to you know work if your airplane is flying upside down or something. There's probably some weird requirement that required them to retool something to make them something like that. Or maybe the demand was low so the only way to make them is uneconomically. But if you looked into it you'd find there was always a reason. Here's what you wouldn't find: well honestly it did only cost us ten dollars to make these mugs honestly but we thought we could get away with charging two thousand dollars. I don't believe that's ever happened. And if it has somebody probably got caught and got fired. Right now the hospital bills are different. All right I'm talking about the military contracting. The hospitals charge whatever they just whatever they want. They just make up numbers whatever they can get away with. Hospital prices is just based on what you can get away with wouldn't you say? Am I right? I mean it's always priced if they can price it over cost of course. So that's the minimum but hospitals only look at what they can get away with. It's purely a—I mean it's closer to a scam than it is an actual business model.

Trump's testimony to be on tape today. That's going to be interesting. So how surprised are you that the January 6th thing followed the following arc? It was the primary thing that the Democrats thought they could use against the Republicans. And as of this week Trump is still telling—do a fact check on this but I think Trump told Blake Masters that he needs to talk more about the election being rigged to win his elections. Do you believe that we went all the way from it's the biggest problem that Trump has ever been in to if you don't accept his view on it you can't even get elected? That might be the biggest switch in persuasion maybe the biggest persuasion movement we've ever seen. Oh I was bastard right. I'm sorry it was Blake Masters who was receiving a phone call from Trump. So it was not Oz but at the same point it doesn't matter who it was. The same point is that Trump can say out loud you'd better talk about election integrity if you want to win. And I don't think he's wrong. I think he's actually right. I mean even the Democrats are talking non-stop about the elections being riggable. Hillary Clinton is agreeing with Trump that the elections are now not secure. And Trump did that. Correct me if I'm wrong but he went all the way from our elections are perfect to not a single person in the country trusts the elections. I believe he did that all himself right. There's no Democrat and no Republican who fully trusts the system now. You if you do a poll you're going to get 25 saying everything's fine but that 25 is brain dead on every question. I mean all the thinking people are worried about election integrity and should be right. Which doesn't mean there's a problem but you should be worried about it. Yeah the Dems have been complaining for years true. Once again Trump has shattered reality. True story.

Now I'm going to throw in two unlikely predictions. Are you ready? Number one most of the smart people say we're headed for a recession in 2023. I'm going to say that 2023 will be better than we expected econo