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ous. So, so good.

Well, what's happening? Well, Honda, the automaker, has entered the reusable space rocket business. And they actually demonstrated a rocket that went up and came back down and landed with no chopsticks whatsoever. Which makes me wonder, is this better than SpaceX? Because SpaceX needed big chopsticks. But the Honda rocket just went up and came back down and landed the way it was. Could it be that there's yet another advancement in space? Could be. So Honda's pretty serious there.

Meanwhile, as you were expecting, Trump has extended the TikTok ban for another 90 days, meaning they're delaying the ban for 90 days until they can find a buyer, which I think will not happen. I've been predicting the whole time that China will never agree. China is not going to agree to sell TikTok. So either TikTok will go away, which Trump does not want, or he'll just keep extending it the whole time he's in office. That's possible.

Apparently sometime today there will be a Fed interest rate decision. Has that already happened? Does anybody know when that happens? But that'll move the market a little bit. And of course the markets are kind of sensitive to what's happening in Iran because that might affect the Strait of Hormuz and the oil production and all that stuff. But so far the world is not that jittery about oil, which is weird. You would think they would be a little bit more uncertain, but there's a little bit of uncertainty in the oil prices, but not as much as you think.

So yesterday I mentioned that I saw a drug test from Elon Musk, but I wasn't sure it was really his. It really was his. So he has confirmed that was his drug test. It was all negative. And he's challenged his critics at the New York Times to take a drug test of their own, which I think is hilarious because what are the odds that the editors and reporters at the New York Times could all pass a drug test? I don't know. Kind of low. So apparently that was real.

Meanwhile, the feds have nabbed seven thieves who stole $100 million worth of gold, diamonds, and rubies out of an armored car. So imagine being one of those thieves and you got $100 million worth of stuff and then you thought you got away with it, but you didn't spend any of it apparently and got caught eventually. So tough break there. They got caught three years after the heist. I feel like you can't get away with anything.

As if there's... am I allowed to appoint myself head of the Fed? I'll do a much better job than Powell. Oh, Trump wants to appoint himself the head of the Fed like the king that he is.

Anyway, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was taken to the hospital by ambulance yesterday because of an alleged allergic reaction to food, I think. But she's alert and recovering. Does "alert" sound good? If your only problem was an allergic reaction, would they say you're alert or would they say, "Oh, you're fine. You're recovering fine." Why do they have to throw in "alert"? Because that makes me think she was not alert. Like not completely alert or else why would you even mention it? I don't know.

We'll talk about Brad in a minute. Do you remember Senator Alex Padilla? He's the one who, speaking of things that make Kristi Noem sick... Alex Padilla, the senator, he's the one who got taken down by security because he was trying to ask a loud, obnoxious question at a Kristi Noem event. And so he got taken down and handcuffed and he was yelling, "But I'm a senator. I'm a senator." That didn't work. So if the authorities ever start handcuffing you, don't yell "I'm a senator" because that doesn't work. I don't know what you can yell, but don't yell "I'm a senator." Doesn't work.

Anyway, Senator Padilla gave a speech on the Senate floor and he started crying. Now, do you think he would have ever been elected if the voters saw him crying over something like that? Oh my god. Yeah, don't cry on the Senate floor. It's a bad look. But he's one of the dramatists and the Democrats are looking for the best photo op and the most tearful reaction to the news. So if you're a Republican and something bad happens to you, you say something bad happened. I wish that bad thing had not happened. We'll have to do something about that to stop the bad thing from happening. But if you're a dramatist you start crying about, oh god, what

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about this? What about the immigrants? Oh god, whoa. That's called drama. There's a story that seems mostly in the Just the News outlet about China and the fake ballots. Are you following that one? Now, I'm waiting for other news sources to pick it up and validate it because I can't tell how big a deal this is. But the story is that Kash Patel found some documents in the FBI suggesting that the F…

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