oking at or whether it's been edited, whether it's AI. You can't tell.

But my best guess is that there's a little bit to it, but the rest might be a mass hysteria. Because then people say, but my cat's missing for two hours. They got my cat. And then they complain about the cat and you hear about it, but they don't tell you later the cat came home in two hours. I think it might be that. But again, I'm speculating. So unlike the news, I can't tell you what is a fact without investigating.

All right. In Aurora, the town of Aurora, ten members of that Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been arrested. Fox News says they're associated with that alleged building takeover. So the question of whether a building has been taken over or not is still a little bit contentious. I think Aurora is saying no, but there are gang members, and they put out a statement saying that the gangs are not taking over Aurora and they've got things under control. Well, maybe.

According to the Express, there's a big breakthrough in prosthetic hands. So a mechanical hand for somebody who's lost a hand, they figured out how to make it controlled by the brain. So they actually showed a video of somebody with a mechanical hand whose brain was controlling the fingers and the grip. And Daniel, a thirty-four-year-old from Italy, he tested it because he'd lost a hand. And he said, quote, "It feels like I'm moving my own hand." Oh my God. Really? Really? Could that be true? Because the hard part would be the part where you feel like it's your own hand. I don't know how they did that. I mean, I suppose it could be just a psychological phenomenon as much as a physical one. I don't know.

But what if this is true? And by the way, this is a little too good to be true. It falls into the category of maybe the demo worked, but you know, maybe it's not so easy to just slap these on people and say there you go, you got a new hand. But it does raise some questions. If you can get a prosthetic hand that feels just like you're moving your own hand, makes me wonder what other options are available. I'm going to sip a coffee while you fill in the joke. Not even saying the obvious. I'm just letting you fill in your own joke at home. See, it's a prosthetic hand that feels just like your own. But if I were at home and I were writing this joke, I'd say something like this: I wonder if I can get a female hand that doesn't sound like it feels like it's my own. All right, I had to say it.

All right, what else do we got going on? Fentanyl is killing two hundred people a day in the United States and costing 1.5 trillion per year, according to the Times of India. And their headline is "How China is destroying US families with deadly drug fentanyl." Well, yes, it's true that China seems to be the source of the precursors, and they do seem to pretend that they're going to do something about it while clearly not doing anything about it or anything that matters. And then they send that to the cartels in Mexico, and the cartels process it and ship it across the border and kill two hundred people a day in the United States. That would be about one every eight minutes. One every eight minutes.

So we've been on for thirty-three minutes or let's say I've been on for three deaths. So we could change the way we keep time in the United States by having eight-minute increments. That's one fentanyl overdose death. So we're three fentanyl ODs into the show. Oh, hold on, hold on. Four. Somebody else just died. Every eight minutes. Every eight minutes somebody's dropping dead from fentanyl. In another eight minutes I might remind you there's another one.

Now here's my current working hypothesis on this. There's no way this could have persisted this long the way it is unless some dark part of the United States government is in on the plot. And we do have at least the suggestion that the countries that are south of our border, our country wants to control their governments in any way that we can because that would have a legitimate value to the country. Making sure it doesn't become an enemy-controlled country, making sure we have access to resources, all that stuff. So we probably can't control a country that's owned by the cartels unless we're working with the cartels. So it seems to me that cartels probably control most of the governments. And therefore if we work with the cartels and let them earn, they will let us have our little geopolitical control. Because the last thing the cartels want is foreign control. The last thing the cartels want is China or Russia, for example, to get real active in their country.

So to me it seems obvious that the US government, at least some portion of it, the security state part of it, probably gives the talk to only Republican leaders, not everybody, because it'd be too sensitive. But I'm sure if you're the Speaker of the House, for example, there's somebody in that dark part of the government who says, look, here's the deal. If we stop the cartels from earning, we're not going to be able to work with them, and we're going to lose control of entire Central and South America, and the entire country could be in trouble. So I know it's terrible, terrible, terrible that two hundred people a