your head day after day after day after day until you get mad at something or somebody. And what's the first thing you think of? Oh, gun.

So it's not one-to-one. If you watch a movie about guns, you're going to go shoot something. It's not that. But if you have enough people and you just fill them with gun content, yes, absolutely, 100%. No doubt about it. Speaking as a hypnotist, the repetition alone will cause some percentage of people to shoot somebody that they would not have shot otherwise. So that's a real thing.

And by the way, it's not that different from what I'll talk about in a bit, which is the political rhetoric causing people to do things that they wouldn't have done without the rhetoric. Doesn't mean you have to give up free speech. It doesn't mean you have to give up your guns. It does mean you should be aware of the price of these freedoms. It's not all good.

Well, here's something I sort of have been hinting at for a long time. Apparently, according to an article in Futurism, Frank Landymore is writing that AI has not been boosting the productivity or the profitability of companies. So they did a study and looked at what companies are using AI for and found that 95% of companies that gambled on integrating AI into their process saw no meaningful growth in revenue.

Well, you know, you would think that what they're trying to do is reduce their expenses. I wouldn't think it would necessarily be expected to grow revenue. You know, maybe return on investment but not revenue. I don't know. There aren't too many ways to use AI that would increase revenue that I'm aware of. They still can't sell as well as a human and etc.

Well, that's one that you could have just asked me. And apparently a lot of them are looking to hire back people that they got rid of. And so that's pretty much what I warned you would happen. And even the people using AI for writing code, there's some indication it might be slowing them down instead of making them better. But I think that's a mixed bag. I think in some cases it definitely speeds things up.

Well, in California, according to the Daily Mail, there's been a wave of squirrel attacks. So squirrels are attacking humans, jumping right up on their faces and trying to tear them to death. And at least two people have been sent to the emergency room from squirrel attack. And they're happening near me in San Rafael. That's not super near, but driving distance. So these squirrels are becoming dangerous.

My only comment about the squirrels turning dangerous is I didn't even know squirrels could be Democrats. I'll let that sit there for a moment while you savor it. But my advice is, you know what I'm going to say. You already know what I'm going to say. There's a dad joke coming. Guard your nuts.

All right. Well, somebody had to say it. If I hadn't said it, you would have said it, right? It's not like you weren't ready. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say something about watch your nuts. Watch. Nobody will think of this. Ha. I got there first.

Secretary Kennedy is happy that MAHA has another win. Apparently the UTZ brand, I guess that's a big food brand, they're going to fully transition away from synthetic dyes by the end of 2027. So MAHA gets another win, and Kennedy is urging other companies to follow suit. So far I'm liking what I'm seeing because you're seeing a lot of voluntary action, and that's the best. I mean, if you can get them to do things voluntarily.

All right. In other news, the former French president just got sentenced to five years in prison for, I guess back in 2007 or something, it was a while ago. He allegedly, and now he's convicted of, accepting money for his campaign from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. So the New York Times is writing about this. So that was a surprise, that a leader of a major country, one of our allies, was, I hate to say a crook, but what would you call it if somebody takes money from a Libyan dictator to run for president? I don't know. I