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sustainable long-term number. If it is, amazing. I mean it would be beyond my highest expectations but it won't be. Don't expect that. But it's better than not being 3.8 that's for sure. There's a new European startup. Okay. Did you know that Europe had startups? If you heard that there's a European startup that was getting ready to solve some big problem, what would be your first thought? My fir…

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hasn't started yet because the big ones are going to run through trillions of dollars. But what happens if the ones that are fast followers just don't need that much energy? Suddenly you're a peer competitor to ChatGPT at one millionth of the cost. So I think that's what's going to happen.

Well, you may have heard of this in the news. Apparently there are reports that seem credible that there's now a major spike in women being admitted to the ERs because they took too much Tylenol while pregnant to show that Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. And at least one woman is essentially brain dead from doing that and has a baby inside her. So her husband has some tough choices about whether to try to deliver the baby or what. I assume that they'll try to deliver the baby because why wouldn't you?

All right. So that's terrible. You know that's the sort of thing we joked about. Remember how we would always joke? It was an ongoing joke that if you wanted to kill all Democrats, all you'd have to do is say, you know, Trump really loves breathing oxygen, and Trump says you should all breathe oxygen. And they would all hold their breath until they passed out and died. Now that was the joke. But literally, people are taking the Tylenol and dying. It's not funny, but if you wonder how strong is brainwashing, there you go.

You know when I talk about brainwashing and persuasion and hypnosis and stuff, there's a tendency for people not to really understand how strong it is. Now it's not strong with every person in every situation. So that's why it's confusing. But for some people it is a complete takeover of their mind. And I would say that these Tylenol victims probably they're victims of not only TikTok or some social media because they tend to do it publicly. But yeah, they've got TDS plus they've got social media poisoning.

Well, according to Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who apparently is in a position to see all the good secrets before we do, she says that NBC is withholding a never-before-seen video of Lee Harvey Oswald near President Kennedy's limo at the moment of the assassination, which would mean that he was not involved in any way in shooting the president if that's true. Now, question number one, why would NBC be holding it as opposed to let's say our government and some entity? Why would NBC have the most important video that could ever be and they're just sitting on it and now they just decided to release it? Really? Really?

I wonder if it'll be a grainy image. I haven't seen it yet, but you want to make a bet. I'm going to make a bet that it looks approximately like this. Oh look. Oh look. That's totally Lee Harvey Oswald. Do you see him? Do you see him? Yeah. Something tells me it's going to look like that. Do you believe that when you see the picture you're going to say, "Oh my god, that is Lee Harvey Oswald." Or could it be like those pictures of the 50s? You know, the old videos you see of people walking in the city and they all look the same in 1963, right? That's what happened. In 1963 every guy approximately that age was the same size. None of them were fat. They all looked exactly like Lee Harvey Oswald. They had the same haircut. They were white guys. They dressed the same. They had the same body. All skinny. Everybody looked like him. I looked like him if I had been around then. Yeah. A picture of me would look just like him. At least at some point in my life.

All right. So I'm going to say I don't believe anything about that. What do you think? I don't believe any of that.

But it gets better. According to Representative Anna Paulina Luna, another story, she says she's getting horrifying reports that in Haiti organ traffickers are killing people who were found dead on the street with missing organs. So do you believe that? Do you believe that people are being found with missing organs dead on the street because they're selling the organs? Again, I'm going to go with no because that's like one of the most famous fake stories of all time. And the people were found in the bathtub with a note and their kidneys were missing. Okay. No, I don't believe that anybody has been found. I mean there might have been somebody found they had some damage to their body and then somebody else said it looks like they took his kidney and then everybody believes it. No, I do not believe that the Haitians are taking organs. I don't believe you could just carve it out with a butcher knife and sell it on the open market. I think it's a little harder than that.

Well, you all want to talk about James Comey's indictment. So the indictments have come down. There are two of them. Let's say one of them is that he lied to Congress about having a third person leak to the media when indeed Andy McCabe has already said, "Oh yeah, he authorized me to leak." So we've got his number two from the FBI who interestingly is also sort of on Trump's enemies list, if you will, virtual enemies list, not an actual one, but McCabe probably will be the witness because he's already said this. Probably the witness that takes down Comey. Now I kind of like that it'll be McCabe who takes him down.

But then the second indictment is that he lied to Congress about, have you ever author? No.

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The other one was lying about something. One is obstructing justice and the other is lying. But I think that they're both based on the same set of acts maybe. Anyway, so the background is, you know, that the prosecutor who was in charge got canned for not doing enough. He seemed like he wasn't sort of on board. Might have been more of a Democrat lover than what Trump needed at the point. The statu…

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