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n to me about anything medical, as I like to remind you. Representative Anna Paulina Luna was on Joe Rogan making some news. So she has access to all the good secrets and she's quote very confident that there's things out there, meaning UFO kind of things, that have not been created by mankind. Okay. So she has seen photos that look like they're real. Huh. Let's see. Back to my first story. If y…

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possibilities. One is that Gen Z people can't afford a financial advisor. So it could be just financial. They just can't afford it. The other is the best. I once thought of starting this as a business a long time ago. The financial advice I would like to see the most is I'd like to have access to what other people in my situation are doing, especially if they're doing well at it.

So for example, I would love to know, oh, there's a person a certain age and they have a certain family situation and a certain amount of income and this is what they do with their money. They buy a second house or not. They have index funds or not. So I would love to have visibility into the full financial picture of ordinary people, but I want to know something about the ordinary people. I want to know, do you know what you're doing? Did you really research this before you bought a bunch of rentals? So I like what Gen Z is doing. I would use social media for my advice, but I would like better information about what other people are doing. I would take that over the advice of a financial advisor who by the way are not credible because they get paid often by the people that they recommend.

So if your financial advisor says there's a fund that you should put your money into, they're really good on firm or whatever, that's probably because that fund is compensating the financial advisor to recommend that people get into it. Did you know that? So your financial advisor is the last person you should trust. Social media, even if it's just random people doing what they think makes most sense, would actually be a better standard for deciding what you shou

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ld do. It really would be. If you're not following the saga of Laura Loomer, you're really missing a great show. So I guess Laura Loomer has got this lawsuit against Bill Maher because Bill Maher suggested that she was having an affair with Trump, which she is quite adamant is not a thing. So apparently she was being deposed and for some reason we have access to the deposition and we're being tol…

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