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Back to episode — Episode 2941 CWSA 08/28/25

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thinking about those damn plastic containers changed reality until something was presented to me on that topic. Maybe. So, that's all part of why affirmations might work. Maybe. Well, here's another one. According to Canadian Affairs, I guess that's the publication, there's a senator in Canada who wants alcohol to have warning labels on it because, as the headline says, alcohol is poison. So, Can…

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ed governors, because she's accused quite credibly, and I don't believe she's denied it, that she did some mortgage fraud when she was a little bit younger. And she claimed two homes as her primary residence to get better rates, I guess, and that's illegal. So, she's fired, but I think she's going to fight it in court.

And I saw a post by Eric Daugherty talking about how the experts were imagining that if he fired one of the Fed governors, it would cause all kinds of chaos in the market and that'd be bad for investors. Well, the stock market went up. Now, it didn't go up because of that. I think it went up because there's a recognition that her job is completely unimportant. Now, I could be totally wrong about that, but like I said yesterday when I was joking about it, what exactly does a Fed governor do? And if suddenly one of them stopped doing it, do you think you'd even notice?

We don't even know what they do. It's hard for me to get worried that there might be one less of them. Oh no, we might have one fewer Fed governor than we had before. Well, that will certainly change what? Anything.

So, I guess the markets were smart. The funniest thing I'm starting to think is to imagine that the public will get really active and worked up about anything. I don't think that's a thing. I think the only thing that anybody gets worked up about is a

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rtificial where there's somebody funding a protest, but if nobody's funding a protest, things like this just don't happen. You know, things like people going, "Oh, no, he's firing a Fed governor. I'll have to remove all my stock investments." It just doesn't happen. In the real world, people just look at the news and shrug. They just go on with their lives. I think only in the social media world…

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