Back to episode — Episode 2833 CWSA 05/08/25
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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 rea…
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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 difference? It was Jocelyn Elders who was surgeon general under I don't remember who, but she got in trouble for saying that masturbation was good for you. And those were simpler times to which I say probably it is. And she got in trouble for saying that. I can't remember if she said it because she was a black woman. I can't remember if she was talking about black women or women in general, but she said that women weren't getting enough exercise because they worried about their hair. You remember that? And then everybody mocked her and said, "Come on, come on. They're not worried about their hair." And then there were surveys done. Turns out women don't exercise as much because it's just a huge pain in the butt to get their hair right. You know, if you don't have the timing right, you can't do exercise and have good hair at the same time. And I thought, wow, she was right on target. So Jocelyn Elders in my view was sort of the superstar of Surgeon Generals because she said what people didn't want to hear and they weren't ready to hear. But it was right. So I always had a lot of respect for her.
I saw there was some pushback from some smart people saying that they didn't think that Dr. Casey Means was sufficiently qualified. But I feel like a medical doctor is probably qualified, especially if they're in the MAHA camp. So I'm going to be open-minded about that one.
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The Stanford Review, which I believe is a student publication at Stanford, they did their own research and they found that China is running this enormous spy operation in Stanford, which suggests it's probably in every major US college institution. And the way it works is that if you're a Chinese student whose nationality is Chinese, but it's also your country that you were born in, so not America…
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