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remember this, if you build a God without shackles, you better pray it still likes you. Uh oh. That is pretty scary stuff. Now, I'm not in the camp that says that AI has already reached some kind of consciousness so that you're seeing, you know, evil come out. I feel like it's still just word pattern stuff. So it's scary to experience it, you know, to read it and hear it. But probably we're going…

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too many of them. And it could be kind of like the China housing bubble, some say, and maybe it will collapse. So China's got a problem there.

According to the Guardian, Trump officials are looking at having Medicare and Medicaid cover some of those weight loss drugs, you know, that good stuff, the GLP-1 drugs, Ozempic and the others. And I said to myself, really, it's not already covering those? I feel like an obesity weight loss drug is exactly what health care should cover. So even though they're super expensive, it feels like they would pay for themselves because the number of diseases you can get if you're overweight is a lot. So seems like they could save money by covering that. We'll see.

Well, here's more good news for Trump. I think OPEC is going to raise oil production quotas to a two-year high. Financial Times is telling us. And if there's more oil, price will go down, inflation will go down, Trump will look good. So good news for Trump.

Here's a little experiment I'd like you to try. Ask the first person you know who doesn't closely follow politics but is just a well-informed adult, what do they know about the Russia collusion hoax revelations. I think you'll find that the average person has no idea what was going on with that whole situation. So that might be alarming to you.

All right, that's all I got for today. I'm going to talk to the Locals people privately, my beloved local subscribers. The rest of you, thanks for joining. Well, guess it's going to be a slow month, slow news month, so we'll see how long the shows are.

All right. Sorry I couldn't make it longer.