dn't have to wait again.

So again, completely good-natured. You know, I've inconvenienced the hell out of him, but he's just playing it like it's a regular day. He comes up, I cash his check, he goes on his way, and I think to myself, sorry that was inconvenient, but we got it done.

A few minutes later, my supervisor, who had been doing all the running, comes over and she says to me, "Do you know whose check you just refused to cash?" And I said, "No, I didn't really pay attention to the name." And she goes, "That's David Packard, the co-founder of Hewlett Packard. He was one of the richest people in the country at the time."

So anyway, just keep that story in mind and just put it to the side. All right? Because the story I'm going to tell you has nothing to do with him, but you might enjoy knowing that it exists.

So yesterday I'm home and I've been getting lots of people reaching out because of my recent health related news. But I can't talk to everybody. It's just continual messages coming in and I have to kind of pace myself. So I see a phone number coming in. Somebody's calling me from some number I don't recognize, something in Florida. And I sent it to voicemail.

And a little bit later, I thought I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with. And the first sentence in the transcription, because you know the phone gives you the text version of the voicemail as well, the first sentence is "This is your favorite president." And I thought to myself, no. Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?

And it turns out that it was Trump and he was just calling to check in. Now he left a semi-lengthy little voicemail just saying he was checking on me. He heard about my health situation. And then he says you can call me back on this number.

Now, obviously, I don't call him back, right? Because that would just be ridiculous. It was just a nice thing for him to say because he called me. You could call me back on this number. So I didn't call him back on that number because I thought, you know what? It's not like he's sitting at the Resolute Desk waiting for my call. Whatever it is he's doing has got to be more important than randomly taking a call from me. So I don't call him back.

Hours go by. It's the afternoon, same day. It's the afternoon. And all of a sudden another call comes through also from Florida. And I thought to myself, no way. There's no way he's calling me again. And I answer it and it's Trump.

And apparently he'd heard about my situation and he had lots of questions. I won't get into the details of our conversation because that would be inappropriate, but he was just checking on me and he wanted to make sure that I was getting everything I needed. And that was it, you know.

But at the end, the strangest thing happened at the end. At the end of the call, when he found out the situation was kind of dire and I was still checking out some things that might help, he said, "If you need anything, I'll make it happen." And he meant it. He was completely aware of our parallel journeys from 2015. He mentioned it and it was just the most incredible, weird, hard to understand situation, but boy was that fun.

So anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Speaking of my health situation, I have decided to look into as many potential cures as I can, but they all have what I call the one guy problem. So the one guy problem is that if somebody says, "I've heard of this cure for your exact situation," and I'll say, "Has anybody ever been cured by whatever it is you're suggesting?" And they'll say, "Yes, yes, there's this one guy." And then I'll look into it and the one guy's already dead or he didn't really get cured. But there's never two guys. So I dismiss it if it's only one guy.

So I think I have four different one guy problems. Half of the people are saying you should try Ivermectin and Fenbendazole, which of course were the first thing I tried like a year ago. And they all have the same argument. I've heard of a guy. There's this one guy and it's always the same one guy which I don't even think is real. But anyway so I'm using all of my BS detection to look at these infinite number of suggestions that are medical and I couldn't possibly understand because I'm not a doctor but I can tell BS when I see it better than most people. I've been demonstrating that for years here on the podcast.

And there's one left. Maybe two, could be two left, but as of this morning I thought, oh my goodness, I think there might be more than one for this one situation. But then I checked AI. I checked Grok and Grok seemed to think it might be one guy and that one guy didn't get a cure. Maybe just extended his life expectancy a few months or something. So we'll see. But just so you know, I'm still looking, still looking at Hail Mary possibilities.

In bad news, terrible news, two Israeli embassy staff members were gunned down in cold blood by a suspect, a 30-year-old guy who was yelling "Free Palestine" and "I did it for Gaza." And I don't have much to say about this other than it feels important and so has to be noted that if we've gotten to the point where Americans are being gunned down in the street because of something that's happening in another part of the world, maybe we need to just rethink something. I don't know what.

So obviously this is completely just about the shooter. It's not about the two young people who were a couple as it turns out and they were about to get engaged. So it's got every element of tragedy to it and I wish the best for their families, but that's going to be a tough time.

Let's do a little update on Biden's brain. Joe Scarborough on his show is now saying that he was quote obviously wrong when he described the ex-president as sharp as ever. So now that we've seen Jake Tapper admit that when he was talking to Laura Trump, he was just 100% wrong and she was 100% right when she was saying that he's obviously degraded. So Tapper has now admitted he was wrong and Joe Scarborough now says that he was wrong. Although I think both of them say that they didn't see personal specific problems with him, but they didn't have that much contact with him. I guess Scarborough did actually have a little more contact with him, but there's some thought that maybe Biden always waited until he was in better shape to contact them. Maybe.

And then another update. Jake Tapper told Sam Harris, he was on Sam Harris's podcast I guess, that one of the reasons that Biden's aides were sort of blinded to the fact that Biden was doing so poorly is because he always seemed cognitively weak. Imagine this being your reason that you couldn't tell your boss was cognitively impaired. Because he was always cognitively weak.

And this is what Jake said. He said that they weren't sure what was going on because he was always kind of prone to some of this behavior even when he was in fighting form. You know, long-winded pointless stories and forgetting names and such, gaffes, lies, all those things.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong. Did we not just go through years of being told that Trump was the one who lies? And now after the fact, Jake is just sort of matter-of-factly stating that his aides probably couldn't tell when Biden was having a bad day because he always lied. And you and I are saying the same thing, right? Which is some version of we knew that. We knew