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t is not a good idea. Well since you used all caps you're going to have to disappear. Goodbye. All right. Well I think they're good ideas and at the very least what do I always say about good ideas? You never know if they're a good idea. There could be some hidden problem. But could you test it? How hard would it be to test a camp where you treat people? It seems like the most testable thing you c…

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knows everything you need to know. It's him. Everybody else knows part of what they know. They might know what they did but they don't know the scope of the coup plot. Only one person. And there's no way that Putin is going to let that one person who knows everything that Putin needs to know, which is who my traitors are, there's no way that they let him go. He's being tortured beyond any recognition. He's definitely going to talk one way or another. He's definitely going to talk and you're never going to see him again because he's not going to survive this process. So that's my prediction. That he's under Putin's control and you'll never see him again.

So watching the news slowly wake up to the obvious. The obvious being there's no way in hell they let him just go to live his life in Belarus. Are we serious? That's going to look so stupid in retrospect, won't it? Like in the moment people were willing to accept it because that's what people were reporting. But don't you think we're only maybe a month away from laughing about how stupid that was, right? He's just going to let him get on the plane and leave the country? Of course that's exactly what you do when somebody plans to kill you and take over your country and slay your family probably. Yeah, that's what you do. You allow them to fly to Belarus. Have a nice life. It's just going to seem so silly in retrospect and the entire news business reported it like it happened. Were you shocked by that? I think both the left and the right media all reported he went to Belarus like that was actually possible. I mean I guess it's physically possible but it's not possible in the real world that we know and understand. That was never possible. Why did they believe that?

Now can I say this as clearly as you need it to be said? If Prigozhin shows up alive tomorrow in Belarus, well aren't I the, we could all agree on that right? If he shows up alive and he was confirmed he's really alive. Okay we all agree I'm a total, everybody will, everybody take that? Yeah I will not even block you if that happens. I won't even block you. You should just get out of here. The news was right. You were wrong. Blah blah blah. Well he's definitely alive. Well I won't say definitely. He's most likely alive because Putin needs him alive at the moment. All right. So if I'm wrong on this you'll let me know. You have my blessing to do that.

That is the conclusion of the greatest live stream in the history of Fourth of July live streams. All right everybody tell me the predicted high temperature where you are today. Just give me the high temperature wherever you are today. 102, 70s, 100, 90s, 100, 105, 108. Wow that's the winner. 108 is the winner. 108. Is that Arizona? Who's got the 108? Arizona. 192.

Well where I live we're coming out of the best month of weather I've ever seen in my life. Never ever had a month like the last month in California. Every day it was room temperature with not much wind. It was unsettling. It felt like I had died and weather didn't work anymore. Like every, it was just the same inside and outside. There was no difference. It was the weirdest month. Last year was fires. This year not so much. So apparently California is doing a better job of managing the forest fires. I'm going to say that with a question at the end. The forest fires. Because there's no smoke and last year I think it was a little better as well. So maybe they've got a little handle on things. Maybe it's just luck. I don't know. Everything burned already. Well there's that. Yeah okay. Well it's a cool 87 in Florida. How about that.

Sarah that's too many capitals. Sarah I'm going to hide you on this channel. There's one thing you can be sure of. If somebody sends a long message in all caps what's the one thing you can be sure of? They're going to send exactly the same message multiple times. The one thing you can know for sure is if you see lots of caps. Oh that one's coming back. There it is again. And there it is again. And there it is again. Because if you're going to write in all caps you're not going to give up. You're not a quitter. I like it. You're not a quitter Sarah. No. Clear.

All right. Does anybody have a question? I'm just vamping until we're at the top of the hour. There's a reason for that. I'll tell you later.

All right. RFK can reframe affirmative action by saying well now that would work for Republicans. So the idea was RFK could say the courts have decided on affirmative action so let's not look backwards. Let's fix K-12. Actually that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Because that would be, that's the same advice I give Trump and the other Republicans on abortion. If you're running for president the best answer on abortion is it's no longer a president's question. It's been sent to the states. We've driven the decision down closer to the individual. You do have a fight in the states but I'm the president and we've now allocated the decision making to where it belongs and I'd like the states to do a good job on that. So I think you could weasel your way out of the abortion thing but maybe you could do the same by saying that K-12 is where the trouble is. RFK Jr. is pro union, right? I don't know if that's tru

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e but is he pro teachers union? If he's pro teachers union there's no place to go with that. You know a Republican could say all right now that the Supreme Court has ruled let's fix K-12. That's a strong, it's stronger from a Republican who wants to get rid of a union. That would be a stronger message because then you have an actual plan. If you say let's fix schools. Cheryl you're using like a du…

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