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new opinion based on the new data. So I just respect it. Now it probably doesn't hurt that I like common sense and he seems to at least have some empathy for finding the common sense part of the world. So I'm going to just defend him on that. I wouldn't mind seeing more of his opinions on politics at all. So apparently the government already has a sixth generation fighter jet called the F-47. F-4…

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said if you cut the Department of Education it will be bad for disabled students and it will be bad for the nutrition programs. So you monster you might be getting rid of some things that aren't that important but you're also getting rid of the special needs programs that I guess were funded through that entity and the school lunch programs that were also funded federally. And then Trump just signs a deal and he says no those will be handled by Bobby Kennedy's Health and Human Services. And I'm thinking Health and Human Services that kind of makes sense doesn't it for the special needs students? Health and Human Services for nutrition programs. Health and Human Services. So it looks like taking care of the people who needed those specific services looks like that will be fully funded as far as I can tell from now.

So did you know that the complaints about the Department of Education were always the Democrat complaints? I did. I did. Because DOGE has always had, and I'm going to call this part of the DOGE work even though I don't know if DOGE was specifically the main driver of this, but DOGE has always said we're going to cut things but when we find out there are things that shouldn't be cut we'll make sure they don't get cut or they get moved somewhere else or they get funded some other way. And there it is.

Speaking of Robert Kennedy Jr., he's trying to ban cell phones in schools but not exactly for the reason you expected. Banning cell phones in schools probably would be good just because the kids would pay attention and it would take away their dopamine source. But Kennedy is worried about the electromagnetic radiation which he says, and I don't know what studies back this but he says has been shown to do neurological damage to kids when it's around them all day. Now I definitely like to know more about that but I'm going to tell you a story from my phone company days that you've heard before but if you haven't heard it in this context it might have hit you differently, right?

So this is a real story. At the dawn of smartphones before they had a smart screen they were what do they call them micro cell phones or something like that. So all the phone companies were rushed to build out very small cell phones instead of thes

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e big bricks that were the only way you could make a cell phone in the early days. And so I was right in the middle of that literally in a lab which studied that stuff and other phone company stuff. And so one of my co-workers, somebody in my group was a top engineer and he was asked to study the danger from the cell phones to find out if we could really be in this business safely because it was a…

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