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y good. It's supposed to be good in low light, but we will see. You will be the judge of that. All right. After the podcast today, as tradition dictates, Owen Shroyer will have a Spaces event. So navigate over on the X platform to Owen Shroyer. Just do a search on him, you'll find it. Or if you followed me on X, I reposted it right before I got on so you can find the link. All right. Here's the…

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e? The Democrats taking the Tylenol just to show that Trump was wrong. That one from the very start. I should have said, "Oh, hold on. Hold on. Do you see the quality of that story? It's just too on the nose. It's just too perfect. Can't be true."

Now again, I'm not going to say that there's not anything true-ish about those stories, but they're not actually true.

According to The Hill, there's a new analysis that says one in five adults are getting their news from TikTok. And it's worse for, well, worse if you think it's bad, worse for adults under 30. Forty-three percent of adults under 30 get their news from TikTok.

Do you think it's a big deal that TikTok will now be under not just American control but American control of some rich people like Larry Ellison or his son or both? I forget. But there's going to be a little right-leaning Republican influence on that. Do you think that'll make a difference? Do you think that the new American ownership will put their thumb on the TikTok algorithm so that it's a little more friendly to the Trump world? I don't know. But they might remove anything that was the opposite of that. And so it might look like that. I don't know.

But TikTok, I'm not sure I want it to go away now. You know, I've been advocating for a long time that we can't let China run it. So by the way, how many of you remember before anybody brought up the idea of TikTok being banned? Was I the first one to say it should be banned or was I responding to a story that somebody else said it should have been banned? I don't really remember. But when I think back, it seemed to be impossible that TikTok could be banned. Now it seemed impossible that it could be sold to an American company, but maybe that deal will get done.

All right, just to make things interesting, did you even know that there are classified Amelia Earhart files that the government has? Can you believe that? That the Amelia Earhart story, like every other story, has secret classified documents. So apparently there are things about that story we don't know and Trump has promised to declassify and release it. So does that feel like a compromise? Mr. Trump, what we really need is to see those Epstein files. I mean really we really need to see the Epstein files. Would you settle for the Amelia Earhart files? Would you? Well, no, but we'll find out.

So I told you yesterday that Kamala Harris was her drunkest self at some podcast. She's out selling her book. Well, I don't know if it was the same day, which would make it maybe less bad than if it was day after day, but she went to the Howard University bookstore and the video indicates she was drunk as hell. So was she just drunk all day long or was she drunk two d

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ays in a row? I don't know which one of those is worse, but how in the world is that not the biggest story? I mean, really, do Democrats look at those videos and think, "Oh, that looks normal." It's so not normal. If you watch a video of her when she's not drunk, do you know what she looks like when she's not drunk? I mean, it's very easy to tell when she's not drunk. And by the way, I don't know…

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