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th it. So I just want to say his name so you've heard it. People say he's angling for higher office somewhere. If he is, good for him, because you did something useful. All right, let's say his name again. Attorney General Austin Knudsen. So if you hear this voice, if you hear that name in the future, just remember he did one good thing. I don't know what else he did, but he did this one good thi…

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bigger news or something, but I only saw it in one outlet. So this would be, if it's true, and that's a real big if in this story, I would say that it's another example that you have to become Trump to run against them. You have to become Trump to run against them. That's a problem. You basically have to adopt his policies after saying they were bad policies forever because once you're in the national stage you just look ridiculous. You know, it's just more obvious that Trump was right about some stuff. The immigration, for example.

Alex Jones says he has some source from in TSA that says masks are coming back as a requirement. Now next story. If you argue about this you're in the wrong fight. It's just no. Now we're done. We're moving to the next story. It's just no. No, not no, maybe. Not no for a little while. Not a little bit. Yes. Just no. No.

All right, did I mention that my book *Reframe Your Brain* is number one in the happiness category on Amazon? So number one book to give you happiness. And it probably is number one book in hypnosis even though it's reframes. I present them in the context of as a professional hypnotist telling you what works about them. So it's not teaching you hypnosis per se except in the specific form of putting reframes into your own brain and other people's. And it's number one in personal transformation, in other words personal growth or success. So it's number one in all three categories that are the ones that matter.

Now don't get too excited. Being number one in your category doesn't mean you're number one in the world. But it's also not even available except in Kindle. So this is the kind of book where I would expect a lot of people are going to wait for the soft cover, which could drop any minute. But it's because you're going to want it as a reference. It's sort of a book that you're going to read it and then go back to it a bunch of times. Like, oh what was that reframe I remember? So lives are already being changed. The reviews are crazy. They're just so good. People are finding their entire lives just reprogrammed with a few reframes.

So I know that these claims seem wildly unlikely, but you have to read the reviews yourself. It was written to have that impact and people are saying it has that impact.

All right, RFK Jr. had some pretty provocative things to say about Remdesivir and about Tony Fauci. So this is RFK Jr. says Tony Fauci knew that Remdesivir would kill you. Now what do I say about people knew? There's a little bit of mind reading, right? A little bit of mind reading. But if he can back it up with say a document or some other evidence, then I'm going to listen to it. So I don't know if he has other evidence, but I'm always uncomfortable, and you should be too, whenever you hear somebody say somebody else knew something. Often is true, but it gets into that mind reading category that you need to ask more questions when somebody says that. So I'm not comfortable just knowing that RFK Jr. says Tony Fauci knew something.

Now he may be right, and I would say he has a high likelihood of being right, but I need a little more than that. I'm not going to go just with somebody thinks somebody knew something. That's a little weak. But RFK Jr. I find quite credible in doing his homework and research, and he certainly knows this topic inside out. So maybe he does know. Maybe RFK Jr. does know what Tony Fauci knows about this specific thing. I wouldn't rule it out. But it just makes me uncomfortable when I see the mind reading-ish stuff.

And the ideas that Remdesivir has some side effect

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s that would affect things like kidneys and heart, etc., and that people having kidney problems, it would be a weird virus that killed you with your kidneys. But Remdesivir according to RFK Jr. might have a side effect that would be sort of right on the nose for that side effect. So how bad is it? Now isn't there also a rumor — maybe it's confirmed, you'll have to fact check this — was Anthony Fa…

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