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Back to episode — Episode 2875 CWSA 06/21/25

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ke it better. Mr. Trump, would you like a sip? We are going to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Go. There he is, draining the swamp. All right, so there's some fun science coming up. Oh, by the way, although today is Saturday, there will not be a spaces event after the show. That will be tomorrow. So tomorrow on Sunday, Owen Gregorian will have his spaces event after the show. Well, accordin…

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and Bariatric Surgery, the people who have the weight loss surgery, I guess that's the one where they tie off your stomach, they have a self-esteem improvement of 131%. So is there any way they could have saved some money in that study? Hm. I wonder. Suppose they ask me, Scott, do you think that being in shape and eating right and going to the gym, will that help your mental and physical health and your happiness and your chances of success? Yes. Yes. There's never an exception. Eating right and exercising absolutely will make you happier and healthier and more successful. Guarantee it. So next time just ask me. I'm here. Just ask.

Apparently President Trump is going back and forth on his ideas about deporting farm workers because he's quite aware that if he deports all the noncitizen farm workers, we will starve to death because it might take a while to replace them with American workers, if we even can. But here's my favorite part about this story. Remember how I always tell you that Trump finds it impossible to be boring? Everything he says has that little bit of edge to it that makes you read it twice. And he did it again with the farm worker deportation.

So here's a Trump quote. Quote, "I never want to hurt our farmers. Our farmers are great people. They keep us happy, healthy, and fat." Trump is the only person, well the only president, who would throw fat into the end of that sentence. They keep us happy and healthy and fat. I can't tell you how many times I reread the sentence. And that's what Trump does to you. He just makes you reread the sentence five times and laugh eve

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ry time. Why would you even do that? He's the only person who can make that sentence interesting. Well, speaking of Trump, as you know the Trump family has announced that they plan to go into the mobile phone business. And they actually plan to make the smartphone in the United States. Now, the people who know how to make smartphones are very insistent that that's not possible. That it would take…

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