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e simultaneous sip. And damn, it happens right now. Mmm, so good. Special thanks to Jack Babic for your kind words on X. I appreciate that. I'm glad you're glad you watch every day. How about the news, huh? There's a lot of news today. Let's see if we can pound through it. We'll get to the serious stuff in a minute, but people are streaming in. According to the AP, in

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Los Angeles, 30 officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility have been charged for holding what they call gladiator fights with the minors. So it's not even an adult facility. It's a juvenile detention center. I'm not supposed to laugh at this. It's a juvenile detention center. But apparently the officers were organizing the gladiator fights where they would all meet in a certain place at a certain time and fight it out.

Now, I know somebody who has had a more interesting life than I have and claims that this is completely normal for adult detention facilities, that the guards do in fact organize fights among the inmates for the adults. I didn't know it was happening in juvenile facilities. That just makes it extra bad. But if you think this just happened in one place and there were 30 officers who were all in on it, I got to wake you up. This is closer to standard procedure. The guards, if they hate the inmates, any particular ones, they organize a fight and they just put the ones they hate in the fight and they just stand back and watch it. That's a real thing.

According to Attorney General Pam Bondi, there's an alleged truckload of Epstein files that were released by, guess what, the Southern District of New York. I guess that's where they were all being stored. And not unrelated, the head of that office, the Southern District of New York, was asked to resign, partly because he told people to dig in and that was taken as resisting the Trump administration. But also he wasn't really too keen on releasing all the Epstein files. So he's gone and the Epstein files are in a truck and Pam Bondi says that they're going to be delivered, or they've already been delivered, and now they have to go through them and then they'll figure out just what they can and cannot show.

Do you believe that? I don't believe any of it. Do you think that they fought so hard to not show it that they wouldn't also destroy the good stuff? The truckload doesn't mean there's any good stuff. So I'm going to guess that when they get in there they're going to say, huh, according to the evidence records and the document page numbers, it feels like all the good stuff has been removed. Or the FBI itself will, again, even if it's Kash Patel or somebody else, will just block out the things that we're not supposed to see. And maybe that's all the stuff that we really wanted to see. So I'm going to say just for fun I don't believe it's real. I do believe there's a truck. I do believe it's got a lot of Epstein files in it. I do not believe this means we're going to find out the good stuff. I think it's just going to be more repeats of things we've seen but with a lot more detail. So I don't trust this at all. But it does look like Pam Bondi is dead serious and it looks like Kash Patel is dead serious about trying. So I'm going to give them an A+ for trying, but I feel like the deep state may have already removed any possibility of finding the good stuff. We'll see. That's just speculation.

Rachel Maddow trying to sell the idea that Trump is working with Putin, a Russian puppet. You know, the usual thing. It wouldn't matter what Trump did. Trump woke up today. Oh, he woke up like a Russian puppet. Trump took a walk on the golf course. Oh, that's exactly what Putin would want him to do. So she writes up this super academic list of all the ways that Trump is already helping Putin. And it's such an academic and boring and complicated list. But you know, this could be connected in some way. This stretching the idea of the connection. Let me give you some examples.

So here's one of the ways that Trump is allegedly helping Putin. He weakened, this is from Rachel Maddow, he weakened the nuclear security by firing personnel. Okay, we're reducing personnel in basically everything that DOGE touches. So basically everything that DOGE touches ends up in people being fired. And every time, no matter what department it is, somebody says, but those are the best people. Those are the best. You got rid of all the best people. What are we going to do now? The nuclear security is probably exactly the same. So no, that's probably had nothing to do with Putin. P

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robably just was cost cutting. And then she said that Trump has disbanded key U.S. counterintelligence units, eliminated the FBI's foreign influence task force which investigated secret foreign lobbying by adversaries such as Russia. Okay, so it's something that affects all of our other adversaries and also our allies because they always try to influence us too. So it was a general rule. But Rach…

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