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mess. Anyway, IQ I predict will be a much, much bigger part of the conversation especially because China is trying to raise super IQ warriors and babies and stuff. So a lot more on that is coming. So there's a story in the news. I saw it on social media. I think it might be true, but it's so fun that I'm going to treat it like it's true, even if it's not. Everybody okay with that? We're all goin…

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family.

Now, I hope it's true that it's all made up because that would be a good summer news story. It seems slightly more likely that there was a Bailey family, but maybe exaggerated a little bit or something, but for now, I'm going to accept that he made it all up because it's just funnier.

All right. Looks like our technology is working on X.

Well, the Make America Healthy Again Commission was supposed to send over their recommendation yesterday to the White House on how to combat childhood chronic diseases. So I believe that they have the report at the White House, but they're still looking over it, and there will be probably some tweaks to it before we see it. But part of it was addressing school lunches. Apparently school lunches are filled with ultra-processed food. And so we're sending kids to school to make them dumber and more mentally ill and sicker with the food that they have to eat.

Now, one thing that if you have any teenagers especially, have you noticed that the teenagers often will skip lunch because they use it for a social time instead of eating? So there's a whole lot of teenagers who don't eat anything during the day or might get a snack or something. That's it. So that's also a problem. But RFK Jr. apparently wants to improve these school lunches, but that's no easy thing because it's cheap to give them frozen, highly processed food, and it would be expensive to give them freshly prepared meals, which would require hiring more people to make them, etc. So I don't know what we're going to do because we don't want to raise the budget of schools all over the country so much. But on the other hand, we don't want to poison our children. So pick one.

Well, in the usual way that every single story becomes two movies on one screen, inflation is either really under control and it's good news or it's high and it's bad news. And both of those stories are active today. But apparently energy prices went down a little

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bit in the past month. Food was flat, didn't go up or down, and shelter was a little bit up, 2%. Now, but the core inflation, that would be the stuff that's not energy, food, or shelter. I think that's what core inflation is. That had a 3.1% inflation, which would be high. So your major categories were good, but some of the other ones were not. So you could find whatever story you want in the infl…

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