d of the day with a little bit of oxytocin mixed in. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go.

Oh, that's good. Yep. That was excellent.

Well, I wonder if there's any new science that would suggest that drinking coffee is good for me. Well, I already told you it's good for your liver, but according to scientific reports, drinking coffee is good for your kidneys and it will reduce substantially the odds of chronic kidney disease. I call it CKD.

So you got that going for you. Your kidneys are thanking you already. Thank you. More coffee. I want my kidneys to feel good.

All right. Well, Bitcoin is surging. Some of you know, some of you don't care. But one of the reasons that Bitcoin might be up is being suggested by Mike Benz. And I don't know exactly how to understand this point, but I'll tell you what it is.

I see you've got some fake news you're showing me in the comments here. I'll talk about that. But Mike Benz believes that the surge in Bitcoin value might be because the CIA needs to replace its USAID funding. So does that track? Do you think the CIA is somehow boosting Bitcoin or maybe buying it and hoping it goes up? I'm not sure how that play works.

But I love the thinking that every time we see something in the world, you can always trace it back to something that the CIA is doing or done. I don't know how often it's true, but if you simply said to yourself, "I'm just going to assume that everything in the news is a CIA plot," don't believe me? What about the war in Ukraine? Probably CIA. What about the Epstein situation? Well, maybe there's a CIA connection. What about Bitcoin?

Well, so it's not completely true that the CIA is driving every news story from the background.

The number of first-time home buyers is at a historical low, I'm seeing in the comments. Yike.

Well, if you didn't know it, the X account of Elmo—you know Elmo from *Sesame Street*—apparently Elmo had an account on social media on X and some hacker got into it and turned it into an anti-Semitic account. I'm not going to tell you what Elmo said, but it makes me wonder, is there some big overlap between people who are hackers and people who are anti-Semitic? Or is the hacker just saying whatever is the worst thing you could possibly say if you're Elmo?

So I'm not sure, but it's funny to me. I don't know how you could not laugh at Elmo turning anti-Semitic.

All right. Well, there's nothing funny about that. There's nothing funny about that.

Well, Tucker Carlson was at Turning Point USA and had something interesting to say about the economy. Tucker believes that the gross domestic product is not a good measure of the health of the country's economy. And when I first saw that in context, I thought, what do you mean? You got a better measure than the gross domestic product? What is it?

And then he told us what it is when I saw the rest of the context, and I have to agree with him. So his preferred measure of the economy's health is to look at the affordability of a private house. And could you afford it if you're 27 or 28 years old and you had an ordinary good job? That is a really good measurement. I don't know if we have that data, but I read the other day that the average age today of somebody buying their first house is 42.

Did you know that? Did you know that the average age for your first house at the moment is 42? Oh my God. I knew things were bad, but that's a little worse than I thought.

So yeah. I'm trying to think when I bought my first real estate. Let's see. I was probably late 20s when just my regular cubicle job allowed me to have a new car—very cheap, you know, small one—but a new car and a condo, two-bedroom condo. So that was in my mid to late 20s, I think. Late 20s. And that's now 42. Wow.

So yeah, he's on to something. I don't know what you can do about that. The only thing you could possibly do is build a bunch of new homes, right? I mean, there's nothing else you can do about that.

I did see that Bill Pulte, who I love watching, got the government to agree that your rent payments could be included in your credit history. So if you've been paying rent for 20 years and never missed a rent payment, well, maybe you'd be a good bet for a home mortgage. So that might help. That might help.

Well, according to *Futurism*, there's a lot of lone