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, so good.

I saw a reference to the men who live alone die younger, and the joke was, no, it just seems like it. Or no, I don't know what the joke was, but that's one of those backwards correlation ones. Who do you think people marry? People who look like they're going to die pretty soon, or people who look healthy? I got a feeling that nobody marries somebody who looks like they're going to die soon. So probably married people do live longer. Yep.

So there's a big old festival called Burning Man, and things went wrong. I don't know. Can you believe it that there's a big festival that famous people went to and something went wrong? Hello? Whoever heard of a thing like that? But there was a flood that turned their dirt into mud. And now, oh God, the experts were right. You can't actually talk about Burning Man for more than 30 seconds without falling asleep. Let's try it again. Well, there's a festival. It's called Burning Man. And there's mud. Nobody cares about Burning Man unless you're there. How many of you are at Burning Man? No, nobody.

Can we all agree? Can we stipulate that we don't care what happens? I mean, I hope everybody's safe, but we don't care if they're muddy, and we don't really care if you don't care at all, basically.

So on social media I saw a report of that study that says ivermectin really worked well. So does that sound credible? There's a study that has something to do with something about the pandemic. Is the study credible? Oh, let me look at the details, Scott. No, you don't get to look at the details. Well, how will I know if it's a randomized controlled trial or not? Now answer the question without knowing that. But what if it's done by really credible people? No, answer the question.

The answer is no. There's no credible data that has ever come out of the pandemic. Nothing. Not nothing that agrees with you, nothing that disagrees with you. No freaking idea. We will forever go to the end of our days not really knowing what happened. But that allows everybody to assume they're the ones who got it right. So I guess that's good.

How many of you heard an audio which I'm suspecting is not real, but I don't know in what way it would have been faked, that alleges that James Clapper is on there being allegedly interviewed about something that sounds like a legal context. And if any of it were true, it would be shocking to the point of unbelievable. And what do I say when you see news stories that are unbelievable? They're almost always not true.

Now, the online defense is that it wasn't really James Clapper. Do you believe that? Do you know who would start an argument that it was really another guy? Oh, and the other guy that people say this, it's really sad but tragically he died recently. Yeah, yeah. The person who they say it was died in May. So coincidentally the person who sounds exactly like Clapper, who really wasn't, he sounds exactly like him and also coincidentally died. Let's say that's two really big coincidences for the same person. Died recently just when we'd want to talk to him, and also sounds exactly like somebody that nobody else in the world sounds like. I'll bet you, you could take seven, eight billion people, you wouldn't find one that sounded like Clapper. But we found one. Recently died. Recently died. Yeah.

Now, why should you believe about this story? Nothing. There's not a single credible part of this story. I would tell you what he said. It's, you kno

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w, real conspiratorial stuff. The essence of it is that some prominent deep state member whose name I won't mention because it's not credible enough is behind a bunch of blackmail schemes of notable people you've heard of. The only thing it has in its favor is it's bipartisan. So it doesn't seem to be just pro-Democrat or pro-Republican. Sounds like something that would involve both parties. So th…

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