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Back to episode — Episode 2940 CWSA 08/27/25

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thing like don't overdo it, which is just reasonably good advice. But the fact that the New York Times would have anything to say about exercise that's not you need more of it. How deep did they have to dig to find out something bad to say about exercise? Well, there was that one guy several years ago who tried to exercise and dropped dead on the treadmill. So you better consider that. All right,…

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wages for blue collar workers are now rising at the fastest rate in 60 years. Well, maybe. But here's my caution. If you're not willing to believe the data when it's not good data that your team has done something good, if you don't believe the bad data you shouldn't believe the good data is what I'm saying. So I don't know that we have good enough data that we can tell that there's been a 2% increase in wages. Do you believe that we can measure that? You know, I famously laugh at the fact that scientists say they can measure the temperature of the Earth. No, you can't. No, you can't. I've lived in the world long enough to know. No, you can try really hard and you can all agree that you did it, but no, you can't measure the temperature of the Earth accurately. I mean, you could get a number, but no. And the same thing with the blue collar workers. Is there really a database that can tell you that wages went up 2% over five months? Maybe. I'd love for it to be true. And I do think the president is doing all the right stuff that should lead to that. So whether or not it's an accurate number, I still think they get the A+ for doing all the things that would lead you to the point whether it's happened yet or not is a little less important.

So here's another thing that Trump did just sort of off the top of his head that's going to have this lasting major impact. Listen to this. So you all know how when Governor Newsom talks, he gets a lot of crap for his jazz hands. And we don't know what that's about. Like his hands are a little too active. It doesn't look like he always did that. It's like a new thing with the jazz hands. So Trump says, he's talking about Newsom. He goes, "You have an incompetent governor, Gavin. He's a nice guy. Looks good. Hi everybody. How you doing?" And then he says, "Got some strange hand action going on. I don't know what the hell his problem is. It's a little weird to be honest. Something's shaky going on there." All right. Here's why that's genius. It's the same thing he did with Marco Rubio when they were debating against each other for the primary and he said that Marco sweats too much. If you tell somebody who has a sweating problem that they sweat too much, you've completely ruined their game in public because that's all they're going to be thinking about. He is so good at trash talk and getting into people's heads.

Now, those of us on X have chatted and joked about Newsom having funny jazz hands and what's up with that, but we're not the president of the United States. So when Trump says it, you know, it's a headline and now there's no way that Newsom is not going to think about while he's talking what he's doing with his hands at the same time. Now, he might not change, but he's definitely going to have to think about it at the same time he's doing it. So it's just a way to throw an athlete off their best game. It's so effective and so easy. And Trump just does it like he's just shrugging and suddenly Newsom looks like a crazy man with his hands. And that's all you'll ever see when you watch him now is his hands. I literally can't wait to see the next video of Newsom talking because I just want to see if he does anything different with his hands now. Now it's a thing. Trump is so good at that.

Trump on windmi

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lls. He goes, "They're ruining our country." Now, I'm not a fan of windmills. I think his argument is pretty strong. It's not great for the environment and we can do better and blah blah blah. It's ugly to look at, but I'm not sure they're ruining our country, but I do like his hyperbole. However, do you believe that he's on the side of the majority in his hatred of windmills? Well, no. So this is

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