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heap. Okay, well, Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving car technology. But what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad patent, which means that other self-driving cars seem like they would likely violate the patent. So here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is. I won't read it all, but it's basically a system with processors that look at objects an…

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right kind of patent for negotiating, versus maybe you want to keep it as a moat. It's very interesting just knowing that this exists and that the patent was granted.

Well, you're all excited about Epstein Island reveal day, right? Has it happened yet? Do we have a timing yet for when the Epstein files—a small portion of them, just a tiny little sliver of them—will be released? Has that been announced yet? Here's what I expect. The first release will be underwhelming and it will not indicate any crimes by anybody. That's what I think. Oh, noon. So noon East Coast. Okay, that'll be fun.

So here's my prediction. So this is based on the real world, right? So in the real world, I don't think you're going to see the good stuff ever. I don't think it'll ever come out. I do think that since the administration has made such a big deal about transparency, they had to release something. They couldn't release nothing. So I think they're going to release the things that are kind of similar to what we already knew, but maybe it gives you a little detail about who flew on the flights. And if you only knew who flew on the flights, would you know who committed any terrible crimes? No. Because I don't believe that 100% of the people who went to the island, or 100% of the people who got in his plane, or 100% of the people who visited him in one of his homes—I don't think 100% of them committed crimes. I don't even know what percentage. I would think, yeah, I don't know if it's 10% or 90%, but you cannot assume if somebody took a flight that they committed a crime. You could assume that almost all of them were targets and Epstein was trying to get them in a bad situation, but that doesn't mean they all accepted that. You know, there were a lot of sophisticated people who probably could see through the whole

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thing and just thought, okay, you know, I'll take some of the offers, but I won't do this one. You know, I'm not going to be in a room alone with somebody underage, for example. So I expect nothing. So my prediction is nothing. We'll see. Meanwhile, Rubio cut over $60 billion in waste from the State Department and USAID, according to the Daily Wire. But the first question you have to ask is, is t…

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