aid she shot her own puppy, and that wasn't really good. And then this is just the best. This is the best terrible news because it doesn't really hurt anybody. It's just weird and embarrassing.

So apparently Kristi Noem has a book about her own life which claims in the book — this is a quote from the book — "I remember when I met with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un. I'm sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants. (I'd been a children's pastor, after all.)" So then she's asked on a news show, did you meet Kim Jong-un? Turns out she didn't. It was written in her book and I guess it got published with a whole fake story about beating Kim Jong-un and staring him down. And she had to go on TV on a book tour and explain why her own book — she hadn't read her own book because she clearly had not read her own book, because she wouldn't have left it in there if you know such a glaring thing that didn't happen. You wouldn't accidentally leave in a story about meeting Kim Jong-un when everybody knows you could fact-check it. Oh my God, how embarrassing. That is embarrassing.

But it gets worse. Did you think I was done? No, Kristi has more. She has more for us now. Apparently she went on a news program and suggested that, or maybe it was the book, they suggested that maybe Commander the dog should be shot too. Now let me give you some context. Give you a little context, okay? Now I worked on a farm for much of my younger days. My uncle had a farm within walking distance, so I'd often spend a lot of time on the farm. And if you've been around farms, especially dairy farms, and I guess other kinds of farms, you see a level of real-world decisions that you don't have to see in other jobs. So ending the life of an animal is not an unusual thing on a farm, even your dog. I've never seen that happen personally, but you know it's well within normal farmer behavior to kill a bad dog. Unfortunately I'm not in favor of it, of course, but not that unusual. So I wouldn't fault her for her decision-making. I don't support it, but you know, people do what they do on the farm and they're tough decisions. But then it's the talking about it that's the problem, I think we can all agree on that, right?

If you're trying to be a national politician, don't ever mention shooting your own dog. Here's what you should not consider. There were good reasons. No, there may have been good reasons to shoot her dog. I think it's a thing. But no, don't mention it. Maybe better not mentioning it. Yeah, that's my advice. And certainly don't mention that you want to shoot the president's dog because that's a bad dog too. So bad news cycle for Kristi.

But the real question I have is, do you think the ghostwriter maybe should be looked into a little bit? How exactly does a ghostwriter make up a story about a North Korea Kim Jong-un meeting? How do you make that up? Did he think he remembered it? Did he look at his notes? He or she, did they look at their notes and say, according to my notes you met with Kim Jong-un, and then just wrote it down and nobody checked? How in the world? I'll tell you what it looks like. What it looks like is that it was an op. It looks like somebody was trying to take her out and they put something in her book knowing she wouldn't read it. It looks exactly like it was intentional. And I have some questions about who was that ghostwriter. Hm, I wonder who that was.

I don't know if you've seen that Joshua Lisec, who is not the ghostwriter for that project but he's using it to advertise his own services, will not let you put in your book "shot a dog." That's his entire commercial: ghostwriting services will not let you say you shot a dog in your book, will prevent you from doing that. No, no, I'm better than the other ghostwriters who would let you say you shot a dog. I would not let you do that. And that's what I call quality right there.

All right. So this will surprise you. Apparently, I think Axios was reporting this, that mental health problems are way up 40 percent nationally from 2019 to 2023. I wonder if anything happened between 2019 and 2023. The pandemic. So apparently old people are having more mental illness and everybody's having more