I didn't know. That of the dollar losses from all the crime, and crime is the reason that they closed down, 85 percent of the dollar losses were from organized gangs. So it wasn't even organic onesies and twosies and some people got together and said, oh, let's hit Target. That happened too. But 85 percent of the dollar losses were organized gangs sending in big groups of people to a particular store. So I wouldn't see retail in San Francisco coming back until they could figure out how to handle the gangs. And I'm not sure how they do that.

According to the New York Post, Andrew Court is writing that most Americans now can't afford even what he calls a minimal quality of life. Minimal quality of life means that you can eat and you've got a shelter but that you could afford a little bit of entertainment, just a little bit. And they define that as a little bit would be able to buy some tickets to a baseball game or something that you wanted to watch. So that's pretty bad.

But here's what I would ask. Does it seem to you that the Amish are unhappy and they don't buy tickets to events and watch blockbuster movies and stuff? So it seems to me that that's not the end of the world. In a perfect world everybody would have enough money to do all the fun things that they want. Of course if you're an NPC you can remind me of that. But doesn't it seem to you that we're just not organized as a society for the things that make us happy? As in big families. Families are getting smaller but big. Have you ever noticed that if you see a family get together, any members of the same family, that the rate of laughter goes through the roof? Do you ever notice that you will laugh more with your family members than anybody else? I don't know if that's not just my experience, right? I'm pretty sure that that would be common for other people too. So if we had bigger families or people had more access to other cool people their age with things they have in common, I don't know that we're worse off because we can't go to a baseball game in person. If you've got your phone you can get entertainment. You can watch. You put it in your earbuds, it sounds better than it does in person. And if you hang out with cool people and people who make you happy and love you, you'll get your dopamine. It would be better to have money, but it doesn't mean that you can't have enjoyment.

Where's all the money going? Well, Lel Cofield, writing for Breitbart News, is reporting that LA lifeguards are making up to $500,000 per year. You probably think that I misspoke and I didn't really mean that LA lifeguards, the people at the beach, are making half a million dollars per year. You thought that wasn't real, right? No, it wasn't real. They don't make up to $500,000 a year. It's actually up to $700,000 a year. There was one lifeguard made $700,000 in one year with overtime. So apparently they're well paid in general and lots of them made over $200,000 being lifeguards, but some of them, mostly from overtime I believe, got $500,000. So you wonder where your money's going. It's going to that muscular guy in the Speedos up in that chair.

Well, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he made his first public appearance since the war. So that means he's back in charge, right? Everybody believe that? Do you believe that the Supreme Leader is still the Supreme Leader? Or is it possible that he's being pushed in front of the camera so that you think he's still in charge but that maybe the military or somebody else is really calling the shots? Because remember, he's 86, so he's not exactly a fireball anymore. Well, I did see one report on social media that suggested that he's not in charge. He's a figurehead at this point, but there was no confirmation of that. It was just somebody on social media. So I'm going to double down on my prediction that someday we will learn that he's not in charge. How many people would buy into that? I feel like he's not in charge anymore, but we'll find out.

Well, apparently Iran shut down the idea of meeting with the US for nuclear talks. There was some rumor that there was going to be a meeting not too long from now in which Iran and the US would talk about what works and what doesn't for their domestic nuclear program. But now they're saying public opinion is so angry no one even dares to talk about diplomacy. That's according to the foreign minister. So it looks like we're not going to have any talks there.

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