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Back to episode — Episode 2948 CWSA 09/04/25

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t you could wait until the beginning of next year and see if somebody survives doing it. Then you wouldn't have to wonder. You could watch it if you believe the news. All right. Now, you know what people will be saying? People will be saying, "Oh, s

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o you're telling me it's a total coincidence that the first time that we seem to be able to prove that we went to the moon is exactly when AI can make an image that's fake that looks exactly like it happened." So those two things just coincidentally happened at the same time. Just when you wanted to fake a moon landing, oh look, by coincidence, the exact technology you would need to fake video of a moon landing is available.

Huh. So I guess the conspiracy theorists will have something to play with there.

Well, is there any study that they could have avoided by just asking me? Yes. Cambridge University Press is talking about how there was a new study in the *British Journal of Political Science* and it showed that small business owners are more likely to be right-leaning. Now I would call that conservative or right-leaning.

Do you think that they needed to do a survey to know that if you spend five minutes running your own business, the one thing you're going to want less of is the government? It feels to me that anybody who's had the small business experience, and I have with two restaurants, that you're battling the government and the law.

So it turns out that as a restaurant owner, you know, small business owner, that I thought I was going to be doing fun decisions about the decorations and what's on the menu and stuff, but you spend half of your time at least battling with lawyers and lawsuits and insurance problems and your bank is mad at you and regulations. I mean, we couldn't even put up a sign that was big enough for people to see that we had a new restaurant. Now that's a government problem.

Anyway, the most

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fun story in the news is that President Trump is fed up with Rosie O'Donnell, who as you know moved to Ireland and she's living there right now. And so Trump has said in a Truth Social, he said, not a great American, because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interest of our great country. This is the president of the United States talking about one person, Rosie O'Donnell, who's…

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