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elp those with sleep apnea. So they had people blow into this shell, you know, a conch shell, and those that did did not have nearly as much sleep apnea. Now, they did not report how the conch itself slept, but I feel like it slept pretty well, if you know what I mean. All right, you'll have to think about that one for a little bit. Take your time. Take your time. Now you're good. So I was tellin…

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em tickets or anything like that, but they might be there to assist. And then separately, Trump is reportedly considering sending the National Guard into DC again for policing but probably not doing what police do. Not arresting people, just being a military presence and maybe an assistant to the police, whatever they need. So Trump seems very determined to make Washington DC a livable city again. I feel like this is a 90-10 issue, not even 80-20. What do you think?

Now, I saw Christopher Rufo saying on social media that it's going to be a timing challenge. If Trump can solve Washington DC and just clean it up really quickly, then the bad guys won't have time to organize any kind of a counter message and it'll just be over. It'll just be a safe place and they'll have to ignore it. They'll have to pretend he didn't accomplish that. But if it takes him a while to get his act together, then the bad people might move in and maybe slow it down and turn it into he's being an authoritarian oligarchy guy, or as I call it, an authorarchy. He's sort of an authorarchy guy. But it does seem to me that there'd be very few people who would complain about making the streets safer.

Apparently the big problem, I don't know if you knew this, but in Washington DC, if you're a minor and you get caught stealing a car, you're basically, you don't even get it on your record. I think you just skate. And so a lot of the car thieves are organized groups of underage children who are willing to steal cars. So a lot of it can't be helped by putting them in jail because it's not an option. They don't stay there. So maybe you just need somebody watching. Somebody's got a big gun over their shoulder just watching all the time might be the only thing that works.

So I'm watching or listening to some video of RFK Jr. and have you noticed that just very recently, and I mean maybe only the last week, has his voice improved? Because I heard a video of him talking where he had the raspiness he always has, but he didn't have all that catch in his voice where his voice would fall apart. It feels like he's taken it up to the next level. And I was fairly sure that if he changed his voice production technique that he could smooth that out. And I'm wondering, couple of possibilities. One is that they're using AI on the video, which would be very smart, by the way, because they could clone his voice and then just dub his own voice in over his own voice and have the imperfect voice just replaced with an AI version of a perfect one. I feel like they could do that really easily with AI. So it might be that because none of them were live. They looked like they were pre-recorded. The other possibility is that he's breathing differently and producing the voice differently. Or maybe he just tried something else. Maybe he found something else that works. I don't know. But it was kind of exciting for me just to watch his improvement.

Bill Maher had Drew Barrymore on his show, his Club Random show, and Drew Barrymore said, talking about all the censorship and sensitivities of people and stuff, she said it's just way too dangerous now to speak the truth. But here's the thing. When she said it's too dangerous to speak the truth, Bill Maher acted like they were on the same page. And the problem was the left and all the wokeness. But I feel like she might have been talking about the right. Am I right about that? I didn't see the whole clip, but it felt like she was saying that with all the authorarchy going on that it would be too dangerous for somebody on the left to simply talk the truth. And then Bill Maher, of course, you know, thinking everything's about him, turned it into how the left is always attacking him. I don't feel like they were necessarily on the same topic. Were they? I don't know. But Bill Maher said he had a little thought that he plays when the left gets on him. His quote: "Just get the fuck off of me." Huh. Just get the fuck off of me. I don't know what that's reminding me of, but of something.

The governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, he's going on TV. He is shamelessly going on TV and talking about other states, meaning Texas, gerrymandering and acting like it's this big terrible authorarchy kind of a thing to do. So then he gets challenged with the fact that he was behind the gerrymandering of his own state and it's considered one of the most grotesquely gerrymandered states of all the states. And he has to respond to the fact he's complaining about the exact thing he did. The exact. And not even it's not even like an approximate thing or something that reminds you of something. It's the exact thing. He over-gerrymandered his state to completely remove power from one side and that's why he's complaining about Texas. And so what does he do when he's challenged and he's on camera and he has to answer to doing exactly the thing that he's on camera to complain about the other people doing? What's he do? Word salad. He goes totally word salad and he just starts talking and words come out of his mouth and you're like, what? What is that even related to? Are you going to circle back to that? But are we on the same topic? This is English, right? And it was just hilarious. With no sense of shame whatsoever he just starts saying a bunch of words and when you're done you're like, oh my god. All he did was chew up the time and he's completely shameless and he'll

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probably go on another interview and do the same thing and they let him get away with it because they ran out of time. Bernie Sanders is being a little bit mean to Kamala Harris and apparently he's not expecting her to run for president anytime soon. And apparently what Bernie said to Dana Bash who was talking to him, Bernie said, quote, "One of the reasons in my view that Kamala Harris lost this…

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