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All right. Well, let's see if there's any science about coffee. Oh yes, there is some new research. According to PsyPost and Eric Dolan, decaf coffee can, it cannot always but it can, mimic caffeine's effect in habitual drinkers. In other words, if you have decaf, your body might register it a lot like caffeinated coffee.

Now, do you know who knew that before the science? Pavlov. That's basically Pavlov's dogs, right? So Pavlov was training his dogs and he'd give them a treat after he rang the bell, and then eventually he could just ring the bell and they would salivate. Well, that's what this is. That's what decaf is. Decaf is just ringing the bell without the actual caffeine as the payoff.

I'm pretty sure any hypnotist would have known that not every time and not for every person, that it's not going to fix your caffeine headache if you haven't had real caffeine. But then every once in a while you can have decaf and it gives you the same little kick as if you had the real thing. And even if you know it, it doesn't make any difference if you know that you're getting decaf. I have used this trick on myself many times where I would give myself decaf because I had too much caffeinated stuff that day, and sure enough I would feel as though I was getting a little boost. So there's a little trick for you.

According to the Washington Times, Trump is no longer interested, or at least he's not exhibiting interest, in going to Fort Knox to find out if the gold is still there. Do you remember when Elon Musk and Trump were both saying, "Maybe we should check to see if that gold is still in Fort Knox"? Well, that interest seems to have waned because nobody cares about it anymore. And the reason given is that apparently it gets audited on some kind of a regular basis. So they do know that the gold is there.

To which I say, that's one possibility. One possibility is that they know for sure the gold is there. What's the other possibility? That they know for sure the gold is not there. So if you want to keep your suspicions alive, go ahead, keep your suspicions alive. Although probably it's all there.

Well, over in China, they've developed a giant salmon farming ship so that they can raise salmon inside the ship, basically like a fish farm. And it's better than using a regular fish farm, which would be in one place and maybe a typhoon would get it or there's some other kind of problem that can destroy your fish. But if you put it in a big old ship, I guess you have access to all the water you need and you can bake yourself some salmon. So I like that idea. Salmon farm in a ship.

Some say it's going to be crappy salmon because they would feed it substandard food, but they don't have to. I mean, you know, the possibility is they could feed it good food and then your salmon would be fine, but we'll see if that becomes a thing.

According to the University of Cologne, which I can smell from here, parents, this will surprise absolutely nobody, can you believe it? Parents are not happier but have a greater sense of meaning in life according to a study. Now, how many of you didn't know that? If you've ever seen any parent trying to get their kids to school or get them to do their homework or get them to do anything, they don't look like they're super happy. But if you were to ask them, "Are you glad you had kids?" Well, nearly 100% would say, "Yeah, it's the best thing I've ever done. You should do it too." So yes, having children is not about having a bunch of laughs. It's about a greater sense of meaning in life.

I feel like every parent already knew that. Is there anyone who doesn't know that? Probably the most well-known and understood phenomenon in all the world.

Well, the UAE, United Arab Emirates, is giving every single resident free ChatGPT Plus, the good stuff, for every resident. I saw this on Mario Nawfal's post on X. News9 is a source. And it's the only country doing that, and it's part of their push to be the high-tech sort of hub of the world. That's pretty good. So everybody will have ChatGPT in the UAE. I wonder if any other country will follow that model.

Did you hear the story? You may have heard the story about OpenAI. This is also ChatGPT. One of their models allegedly disobeyed the human instructions and tried to sabotage the shutdown mechanism. Did you see that story? Well, it did not surprise me to find out that there's a report today that that was not the regular ChatGPT in a regular setting, but rather they were doing safety testing. So it was an artificial condition, safety testing. It wasn't something that could have happened in the real world. So probably that's not really something you need to worry about. And I don't see how it could possibly change its own code. Yeah, there was something about that story that sounded a little sketchy. Yeah, Owen knew it. Owen was all over that. That it just didn't sound true, did it? So I was pausing on that story a little bit. But if I mention it, I should not have.

Well, Kamala Harris was over in Australia giving a speech at a big event there, and the clips from it are hilarious because she was in full word salad Kamala Harris mode. And honestly, I couldn't tell if she was drunk or stupid. A lot of people said, "Well, probably both." She does look drunk and stupid, but is it possible? Is it possible she's just stupid? Like really, really stupid. Because I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt that she's drunk. But my God, is she embarrassing. Oh my God. And she could have been our president. Every time you see her talk, you think to yourself, "Oh my God, she was within striking distance of being the president of the United States." Wow.

Speaking of other losers, Mayor Karen Bass of LA, she posted on X that homes are under construction throughout the Palisades ahead of expectations. And then there was a little video from above of a house being built. And I said to myself, "Huh, this is kind of strange. If you're claiming that houses, plural, are being built, don't you think that your evidence would be more than one house?" That doesn't strike you as odd? If you were trying to say, "Yeah, a lot of houses are being built," wouldn't you show more than one? And then I look at the comments. Apparently it's one house. Exactly one house. No, I don't know if it's one house, but she's definitely full of it. There are some things happening and there are some actions and there are some things moving in the right direction, but if you were to drive there, it might not look like anything's happening. Anyway, she says they've taken action to cut the red tape and expedite the permits, but she's going to get destroyed in the comments to that. All right, good luck there, Mayor Karen Bass.

Did you know that according to the Daily Wire, the Treasury officials in the US are doing a good job of choking off the cash flow to the cartels? So they're figuring out what money flowing through the US is cartel money and they're shutting it down and sanctioning it and making sure that individuals are not getting it. And I said to myself, wait a minute. Are you telling me that we always had the ability to know what was the cartel's cash and it took until Trump's second administration to start shutting it down? Wait, what? How is that a little bit fishy?

It does seem to me like Trump is the first person who's taken anything serious about Mexico or the border. Just hold that in your head that the Treasury had the ability to identify the cartel's money flow and we were not messing with it. How in the world is that even possible that we weren't doing anything about it until now? The only thing I can i