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Back to episode — Episode 2780 CWSA 03/16/25

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ompassion. I'm all in for compassion on that. Here's another study. According to the Daily Mail, Luke Schaefer is writing about this: doctors reveal the alarming reason why you should never, in capital letters, never go for long periods without sex. Did you know, and this is going to shock you, that people who go for long periods without sex, they're not as happy as people who have a lot of sex?…

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No, didn't see that coming. I don't know how anybody could have ever predicted that not doing the one thing that you're biologically maximized to do, how could that make you unhappy? I don't know. So next time, just ask me. Just ask me. I could have saved you so much time.

Well, JD Vance is confident. He says that there'll be a deal for TikTok so that it can stay but we have a non-Chinese ownership. New York Post is reporting this, and he thinks there'll be some, quote, "high-level purchase of TikTok," and it could happen before April 5th. But you know, these big deals, they do take some time. So maybe he must know something we don't know. But he's, you know, JD Vance would understand this part of the world, so he's not like Mike Pence.

Think about JD Vance and analyzing the odds of TikTok being purchased by a bunch of investors. Think

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about his qualifications to talk about that topic, which are very high because he's been in that business, versus Mike Pence. What would Mike Pence have to say about this that we would care about? JD Vance is way more capable and, I think, ultimately powerful than we might be understanding right now. So he is really well poised for what comes next. In other good news, it's so far a half good news…

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