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mental illness and every age is going crazier. And the biggest increase is generalized anxiety disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder, which I do talk to a lot of people who have some kind of generalized anxiety disorder, usually women, but I would imagine men have it too. And I would say that the reasons for it are all pretty obvious. Here's the main reason. Others have said this, but let me just…

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Two whistleblowers, same company, both died fairly suspiciously. But here's the fun part. There's 10 more whistleblowers. Ten more. Now do you think the 10 more whistleblowers are real or are they just being influenced by the news? Like suddenly everybody wants to be a whistleblower, kind of a copycat thing? Or do they really have 10 different stories of things so bad they're willing to risk their lives? Because they would think they're risking their life at this point. So we'll keep an eye on that. I don't know what these whistleblowers have to say, but if you would be a whistleblower in the context of the first two dying suspiciously, you must really have something to say. Is that fair? Like in the current environment you must really feel it's important or you wouldn't be coming forward. We'll see.

If I had to guess there will not be 10 whistleblowers. So if I had to guess I would guess against this being a real story. So if you want to check my BS detector, I do not believe there'll be 10. I wouldn't be surprised if there's another one but not 10. There's something wrong with that story. Doesn't smell right. Yeah, it doesn't smell right.

Tesla is reportedly going to do a round of 10,000 layoffs, and people are thinking there might be lots more rounds coming. But the Tesla layoffs seem perfectly timed for robots, don't they? Is it a coincidence that robots for assembly lines are being introduced in Tesla with their own robots at just about the same time they're massively cutting staff? It could be that that's not unrelated. It could be that Elon Musk knows he needs to get ahead of it and make sure that when the robots are introduced he has the right level of human staffing to support that and not too much human staffing. Or it's just a sign that

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all the car companies are having trouble and Tesla needs to sell more cars or cut costs. That's what I think. I think I need another sip of coffee. Oh, that's good. Yep, that was exactly what I needed right there. All right. So Unusual Whales is reporting on X, I guess there's a movie called The Fall Guy. How many of you had heard there's a movie called The Fall Guy? You've heard of it? I guess I…

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