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that you don't know well, would you spend most of your time looking into her eyes? Let's say there wasn't some romantic connection there. Or would you sort of just naturally know that as a male it's intimidating to do too much eye contact? I look at the mouth and the reason I look at the mouth is because it's usually moving. So it's something to look at. And I do make some judgments about the mout…

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here they're allowed to look.

You probably heard that Governor Newsom of California wants to work with Trump to make film great again in California. So Newsom has floated the idea of a 7.5 billion federal tax credit for filmmakers. To which I asked the following question. Why would filmmakers need an enormous tax credit in order to make films in California? I can only think of one reason. The reason would be that California has high taxes and high problems that they've sort of artificially created. Everything's more expensive and this state is just slamming you in every possible way and you've got to watch out for harming the endangered frogs and you've got to make sure you've got DEI covered. Why would the federal government want to cover the mistakes of the state? And then beyond that, if you have to pay for the industry to exist, maybe that industry shouldn't exist. Maybe that industry should figure out how to make movies more inexpensively.

Now I do know that there are other countries that give you big tax breaks and I guess they think they make their money back because there's a lot of activity that goes on. But I don't automatically think that subsidizing the movie industry to go back to the place that they ran from, even though it's my state and it'd be good for me. I don't know. And then I see that the people in favor of it are Governor Newsom and Adam Schiff. If Adam Schiff is in favor of it, it just automatically feels like a bad idea. So I don't know. Good luck with that.

The White House has picked a new surgeon general whose name is Dr. Casey Means. And I guess there was somebody else who had been nominated who has been withdrawn. But Trump said that this Dr. Casey Means has impeccable MAHA credentials and she'll work well with RFK Jr. You kno

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w, if RFK Jr. thinks she's the right choice and Trump's happy with her, that's probably good enough. When was the last time the surgeon general made a big difference in the world? There was a time when the surgeon general said cigarette smoking is bad and then that got on the cigarette pack. So that was pretty important. But when was the last time you remember the surgeon general made a differenc…

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