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ercise and stuff like that, really it's because I don't like eating that much. If I liked eating as much as some people apparently like eating, you know the foodies and the people who are just having an orgasm with every sip of wine, I don't have that at all. I never have that. You know I mean there's some things that taste better than others but I'm not really driven by an addiction to food. If I…

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to give it for a variety of different reasons I can't explain.

NASA canceled a space walk because one of the spacesuits was leaking water. Well I'm no astronaut but I can tell you if I ever put on a spacesuit in space and I was about to go outside my capsule I'm pretty sure my spacesuit would be leaking water too if you know what I mean. Yeah that's all I had for that.

So Congress is contemplating for the first time ever separating alcohol from their food diet recommendations. Well if you can't trust the government with your food recommendations who can you trust? Speaking of which Jordan Peterson recently said on an interview I have never recovered from finding out that the food pyramid is a scam. Is there a worse medical crime in history? I agree with that. The food pyramid lies that we were all told might be the biggest crime in American history. You know you could say COVID is up there now. You could say all of our bad things happening in our politics up there but I don't know that anything had more direct impact than lying about what food is healthy. That's about as bad as anybody's ever been in the history of humankind. So I agree with Jordan Peterson and it definitely I could say that that one thing changed me forever. Now so when Jordan said I've never recovered from it, oh I feel that. I have never recovered from the fact that the government lied to me that much. I mean that's a big one. We're going to lie to you to tell you to do something that will kill you slowly and we know it. I mean I assume some of them knew it.

But apparently the discussion is that it used to be that people thought well a couple drinks a week isn't going to hurt you but now they're thinking maybe a couple of drinks per week might hurt you or at least you're not going to be worse off if you don't have them. I was listening to Andrew Huberman asked the same question. Are you really going to have to go to zero drinking? And he didn't want to be the moralist who told you what you should or should not do with your life so he was clear that he wasn't recommending but he didn't think that two drinks a week was going to kill you but you'd probably not be any healthier because of it. Which is a good way to say it. I think he chose his words carefully there. There's no evidence that moderate drinking makes you healthier. Remember they used to say it did. So that's a big step because people believe Huberman and he's saying as clearly as possible no, drinking a little bit isn't going to make you healthier even if they used to tell you that all the time. It's like the food pyramid. It was an obvious lie that's gone on for decades. It was just obviously a lie. I've been telling you forever it was obviously a lie. Now I doubt that. So the smart thing that they've done is they've treated alcohol like it's not food. What are they treating it like? Poison. What did Andrew Huberman in his new video on this, what did he frame alcohol as? Poison. He actually said alcohol is a for

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m of poison. There you go. Alcohol is poison. So I guess the Supreme Court is delaying into July some of its big decisions. Cowards. You cowards. I don't know why they're delaying it. Maybe it's just more work than usual but some of the big stuff we'll still have to wait for. Meanwhile the big story today is Julian Assange is free. You can understand why the CIA wanted to kill him and Mike Pence…

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