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do a Spaces event on X right after the show. So after the show, a few minutes after, you'll be able to find an active Spaces event. That's the audio feature within X where people can talk to each other and you can talk about what we talked about or something different, I suppose, about the news. So that'll be directly after the show. Well, I wonder if there are any scientific studies that didn't…

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uld figure out how to cheat it. So yes, it would appear that 100% of the time that it's possible to have corruption, there's corruption 100% of the time.

According to Nielsen data, YouTube is the most watched video on your big TV. Now you might say, "But it's been most watched for a long time on my portable device, but now it's also the most watched content on your big TV set." And I would say that that makes sense in my life. I probably watch more YouTube than anything else. Maybe not, but it's moving in that direction.

However, I don't know if you've noticed this, YouTube is being completely destroyed by AI. Now it might be just the personal recommendations that come to me, but I used to love listening to all these history YouTubes. You know, it'd be like the ancient Mesopotamians or whatever. And I would love those. But I guess the people who are good at AI figured out they can have AI make that kind of content, some historical thing about something you've heard of. And they are so boring. Oh my god, they're boring. And most of the content that when I open YouTube, most of it is AI. And I don't think there was even one AI content that I got anything out of. They're all just so generic. And so YouTube has a problem. They're going to have to police all the AI.

In horrible news, I don't know the details of this yet, but a vehicle, apparently somebody drove a vehicle into a crowd in Santa Monica Boulevard and 20 people were injured and several killed, I guess, so far. So I don't yet know. Of course it's an emergency. Yeah, the one person who only texts me during my livestream, always an emergency. It's like, "Are you awake? It's an emergency." All right. Well, you have to wait. So we don't know if that's a terrorist or a crazy person or bad driving or what that is, but we'll find out.

The story about Stephen Colbert getting fired from his job at The Tonight Show, The Late Show. What was his show called? The Late Show or I don't know. I never watched it. But now people are suspecting, the Democrats are, that maybe it wasn't about economics. This is such a Democrat point of view. Even though the show was losing $40 million a year, people thought that the reason probably wasn't economics. It was rather trying to make Trump happy so the Trump administration will approve a merger that Paramount wants to do with some other company. And I thought to myself, are Democrats that economically ignorant that they think somebody would want to keep a show on TV that was losing $40 million a year and didn't look like it would ever get better? Probably would only get worse. So it makes me wonder, is this one of those things where the Democrats know it's not really a good attack on Trump, but they don't care because it's something and they don't have anything else. Like, well, why don't we make up some stupid hoax about Stephen Colbert?

However, I have to admit there's a little bit there. Wasn't there a similar rumor that when Tucker Carlson got canned by Fox News that the reason had something to do with a lawsuit and maybe there was a side deal that said, "All right, we'll settle this lawsuit." But then somebody said, "The only way we'll accept it is if you also fire Tucker Carlson." So sometimes there's a little bit of a side deal. I don't know if it was true with Tucker and I certainly don't know if it's true with Stephen Colbert, but the Democrats are, I think they're justified in asking the question, was this part of the deal? But if you're losing $40 million a year and you get cancelled, I feel like there's another reason that's really good. $40 million a year.

However, the good news is that there's already a replacement for Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert's show will run through May and May is also the end of Jerome Powell's stay at the Fed. So Jerome Powell, whose nickname is Too Late, will be hosting a new show called The Too Late Show. How many of you believe that's true? Anybody? No, that's not true. But it's funny that the show will run through May, which coincidentally is when Jerome Powell is going to be out of his job and that his nickname is Too Late. The Too Late Show. Come on. That's funny.

The thing about doing jokes on livestream is that there's a delay before I see the LOLs come through. So I'm like, did that land? Do I need to reword that one? Because I thought it was a winner.

The House of Representatives has approved the $9 billion budget cuts that Trump wanted, and that would include cuts to NPR and PBS. Now, it doesn't put them out of business. It just reduces one of their multiple sources of income. I love how good Trump is at touting his successes. He is really good at it. And remember the criticisms that were always being given to Biden. They'd say, you know, the real problem is that Democrats are not doing a good job of telling people about their successes. And then Trump gets in office. There's never been anybody better in the history of presidents or maybe in the history of everything that's ever happened anywhere in any way who's been better at touting his successes. Trump is really, really good at it. Now, he has a lot of successes to tout. That helps.

But here's another one. You know, the $9 billion isn't going to make a big deal to the deficit. It's not enough to make a dent in it. But doesn't it make you feel good to know that there was finally something that reduced some part of a budget as

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sociated with the country? Now, it's not a big deal, but the way it feels is bigger than how big a deal it is. And that's what Trump gets right every time. He will make you feel that things are moving in the right direction. And what have I taught you about economics? The most important thing you need to know about economics, aside from the fact that economists are only guessing, that maybe that's…

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