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tes and take an aspirin to reduce your Parkinson's. Well, there's a big bust in Oregon. So Oregon had a big crime wave, and apparently 4,000 Lego sets were stolen, and they were valued at over $200,000 in Lego sets. Now it took the police a three-month investigation. Do you know why it took them three months to solve the Lego situation? It's becau

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se it took them a while to piece it all together. Ah, you're welcome. You're welcome.

Well, there's a lawsuit against Northwestern, the school, for anti-white, anti-male hiring. So it's another DEI story. So do you need to know the details? No. There's a professor. He's white. He's male. Can't get a job. I didn't even read it, but I can tell you that's the story. Yep. If these lawsuits succeed, do you think you'll see more of them? Yes, you will. One of the things about following the money is it's like seeing the future. Let's see. If somebody succeeds in a lawsuit, will there be more of them? Yes, there will. The likelihood of succeeding in this lawsuit? Probably 100%, because the thing with these DEI cases is you never have to look for the evidence. The evidence is what they told you and what they wrote down. The witnesses all over the place. 100% of the people would agree, and everybody in the same situation had the same outcome. It's the easiest case you can ever prove, because nobody's hiding it. Not only are they not hiding it, it's often written down as a policy. So how do you lose that? Yeah, imagine if there were entities that wrote policy documents that said we're going to steal money from people when they're not looking, and we're just going to keep it. And you'd say to yourself, I think I could find the conviction here.

All right. Tony Robbins has reportedly, according to Wall Street Journal, bet $200 million of his own money on a new technology that allegedly can turn coal into hydrogen so it can burn clean. So some kind of sciency process to make coal, which would be sort of a dirty fuel, into hydrogen, which would be super clean. Now, how does Tony Robbin

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s have $200 million? I had to check on his net worth, and of course net worth numbers are usually ridiculous, made up. But it says his net worth was 600 million, and he put 200 million into one bet. That's a hell of a bet. And this entrepreneur has some credentials, but some scientists are skeptical. Well, I'm going to join these skeptical scientists, but I do love how Tony Robbins is putting his…

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