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But for a while, I think almost everybody I knew thought it was happening. I doubted it from the beginning. Under the theory that if that were happening, these sports teams would not be able to stop talking about it. I mean, they would know, but they weren't. They were acting like nothing was happening. So I thought, hmm, how could all these healthy athletes be dropping dead and yet the people who…

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it. He's a little bit confusing. I can't get a read on the Memphis. But Trump says that he'll maybe declare a national emergency and federalize DC if he has to. And I believe he would. I believe he would actually carry through with that.

All right. And now Trump is threatening on Truth Social. He threatened the governor of New York State who has now endorsed the communist Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. And so Trump says that he doesn't like that she is endorsing the communist as he would say. And then he says no reason we'll be watching the situation closely. No reason to be sending good money after bad. So he's actually threatening that he would withhold federal money from New York State because the governor is backing a communist for mayor. To which I ask, is that legal? Can the federal government withhold federal money that's been approved because he doesn't like the politics of one of the politicians or one or more of them? That doesn't seem like something that would pass through the courts, but I don't know. We'll see if it makes any difference.

So the updates on the Tyler Robinson, the shooter. You all know who that is. Guy who assassinated Charlie Kirk. He has not confessed and he's no

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t cooperating. All right. Well, that's weird. I guess it doesn't matter if he confesses or not. I mean, he might have a slightly nonzero chance of, I don't know, saying he was innocent and maybe somehow getting off. I don't know. It seems unlikely. But anyway, one of the sub-stories that is coming out of this is that the governor of Utah, that's Governor Cox, is becoming very high-profile. It's ge…

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