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That's good stuff. All right, ladies and gentlemen, have you seen any news today? Well, there's news all over the place. It's like news happening like you can't even believe it. But let's go through it. So the Wall Street Journal is saying that the economy grew by 2.4 percent. We'll talk about Hunter and UFOs and stuff, but it'll take a minute for all the Locals people to give up and come over here. Sorry. But what I thought was interesting about this is it's good news that the economy is doing well, but the headline was U.S. economic growth defies slowdown expectations. Whose expectations? Whose expectations? Because this was my prediction. So I would like to add to my most accurate political predictions and most accurate pandemic predictions and most accurate Ukraine predictions the most accurate economic prediction, because I actually said we would not go into a recession. Ther

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e we go. Remember I told you I was all excited preliminarily yesterday about this story that researchers had made a room temperature superconductor? Do you remember that story? Took about 10 minutes for people to crap all over it and say, well, let's wait to see if anybody can reproduce this, and there's something sketchy going on. And so I would say that all of my optimism about superconductivit…

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