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money? But it wasn't about the money but your agent countered and asked for more money. And Crowder I think he acknowledged that his agent might have but he didn't. But he didn't. So what do you think Mike Cernovich said about that? That Crowder didn't make an offer but his agent did. It's exactly what you think. Exactly what you think. All right. So let's talk about that border crossing. I saw a…

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n. Do you? Any president. I don't think the president should decide on the mix. That's way outside their strike zone. I think economists and business people should decide on the mix. You know with input from business. How many employees do you need that you can't get? And then also there should be advocates for Americans, right?

So if you've got some kind of a group doing that calculation you need at least somebody in that group who's going to say okay but you've got to consider how that's going to come out of the pockets of the poor directly or indirectly and all that stuff. So I think Trump can take the high ground and say let's take the president out of the decision who comes in. Let's have a tight border but take the politics out of who comes in. How does that not work? I think Trump just walks into the presidency if he says that. I think you just walk right in. Because if he just says you know I'll do the president thing of controlling the border but separately let's take the who gets in out of politics and we'll create a bipartisan group. You tell me he wouldn't get elected on that in a heartbeat. He would. Yeah easily. He would just walk into the office if he said that. Because the border is where people put up the most resistance because they feel the dog whistle. Just take the dog whistle out because it's not something Trump needed, right? He didn't need a dog whistle. So just take it out.

All right. There was a weird story about Demar Hamlin, the football player who collapsed on the field. And I guess he is healthy enough to be walking around and he attended a game yesterday but he wore a mask and sunglasses and a hat and never showed his face. So the videos of him don't show his face. So of course, of course, of course people think it's not really him and he died. Okay I'm pretty sure we would know if he died. Like that would be a hard one to keep a secret. So I don't think he died. I think he might have, you know, more to do with who knows, just didn't want to talk to people or whatever it was. So you may have had some medical or other reasons.

But are you amazed that we've got to today and we don't have a cause for his problem? There's no official cause. May we take the standard that we have been using up to this point today? The standard is maybe it's exactly what it looks like. What if it's exactly what it looks like? Because what it looks like is he may have been vaccinated recently. Am I right? Because if that were not the case I'm sure they would have told us that right up front. If you were, I guess they all had to be vaccinated. But if he had been recently vaccinated, let's say recently boosted, it's got to be that. Am I right?

Now they're not saying it so you can never be 100 percent sure. But if your gut instinct is to say well if it looks exactly like it and they're not even bothering to deny it that should be your starting assumption. Your starting assumption is that he got the vaccination and fell down. They don't want to tell you. Am I right?

Now let me make a distinction. I also was debunking some of those suddenly died athletes because a number of them actually were videoed people who died before the pandemic. And some of them didn't die and they were fine, they just got up. So a lot of the video you've seen of athletes dying, a lot of it was fake for sure. But not all of it. You know like not all of it was debunked but there were just some obvious ones that were wrong. But this is a different situation. This is one specific person who is having a public medical situation and is not telling you the thing you would most want to know. Did you recently get vaccinated? Oh that's all you need to know. Clearly that's the problem here.

Now I'm not saying that the vaccination injured him. I want to be clear about that. But it's pretty clear that they're not telling you he got vaccinated recently. And does anybody disagree that we could conclude that with a pretty high degree of certainty that he was probably boosted recently? And I think probably all of them were, right? Don't all the professional athletes have to get boosted like boosted and boosted and boosted? I think they do. I think it's just required. So yeah you should assume it's exactly what it looks like. That would be a fair assumption.

All right. So there's an update on Russia and Kiev. By the way stay with me if you want to see me admit more about things I got wrong on the pandemic. If anybody likes me to admit I'm wrong, stick

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around, we'll do that last. So there's some people speculating that Russia is going to mass forces in Belarus and then attack Kiev from there and destroy Kiev and declare a victory or something. Does that sound like something that might happen? Do you think that's going to happen? That feels unlikely to me. Yeah I'm not going to rule it out. I think that given the winter pause it changes everythi…

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