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oney. Well I would say that Bill Maher is going to be more influential on a narrow question such as the prosecutors. Now that doesn't mean he'll stop funding them because I've always thought that the funding was sort of indirect. You know, I don't think he wanted these specific outcomes. He just got them. So I'm gonna say that the son will, here's my prediction, that the son will modify the thing…

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g it was suicide and some are saying I don't know. I'm not interested in the Unabomber. Can I get a vote of agreement here? We don't care about the Unabomber, do we? Nobody cares. You know, but yeah, here's a true story. The Unabomber actually caused me some problems. So the Unabomber and his situation actually overlapped with my personal life. True story. So when stuff was blowing up, and I make sure I got this story right, this I think this was the Unabomber, maybe it was a different bomber, but weren't they saying that the packages had some way to tell that they were maybe a problem because it'd be something in the return address? It sounded like a tree or something. There was some kind of signal that, or no return address or something. Yeah. So there was something we were told that if the package looked sketchy that you should call the police. Well I actually got a sketchy package that had a return address that had one of the sort of keywords in it that tells you it might be a bomb. So I actually called the police and they took a look at it. And I was a public figure so I was potentially somebody on the target list. And it was just a fan. Some fan sent me something unsolicited but it did ruin my day.

All right, let's talk about Ukraine and then the pyramids. So there's very little news out of Ukraine and even the very little news is not reliable. Most of the news is either Russian or Ukrainian source showing a tank that got blown up by the other side or something like that. Basically you can't tell anything from the videos and reports. Just nothing at all. But the reports, the news says that maybe Ukraine took two villages without much resistance. That means about nothing because it's not like every village is equally protected. So I don't know, maybe they weren't strategic. So there's basically no news.

But the thinking of the experts is that the objective of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is to cut off the land bridge to Crimea. Does that sound right? They w

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ant to cut off the land bridge to Crimea. But does that really mean that they plan to take Crimea back? Here's my prediction for the day. Prediction for the day. That Ukraine's objective is to cut off Crimea and then negotiate. Because I don't think they want to take Crimea. That would probably wipe out the whole army in the process. But they want to make it look like they could. They want to make…

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