Back to episode — Episode 2982 CWSA 10/08/25
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him. It's really not about him. All right. I finally decided to follow a little bit this story about the eight senators whose phone records were monitored, not their conversations, but the actual who they called and when and how long they talked as part of Jack Smith's so-called Arctic Frost investigation. So I guess when January 6 was still buzzing, Jack Smith was trying to figure out if Trump h…
← Previous segment →e that tool would include both Mark Cuban's company Cost Plus Drugs as well as this Blink RX that Don Jr. is getting involved with. So the tool is called and there are other ones like it. I don't know what they are but GoodRx. So it's all one word GoodRx. So Google that if you're looking for a cheaper place to get your drugs, especially the generics.
So the good news is very capable people are competing on a very important topic. See this is why we need billionaires. Do you ever say to yourself, I wish we could get rid of all those billionaires who are distorting the system. If you didn't have a billionaire, we wouldn't be going to Mars. We wouldn't have an electric car. We wouldn't have a Neuralink. And we wouldn't have a Cost Plus Drugs. And we probably wouldn't have whatever this other one is, right? This is all billionaire stuff. You know, I felt a little bit of this when I got a little bit rich. You know, I'm nowhere near billionaire status, of course, but even just getting a little bit rich, you automatically feel this weight to do something for the world, like payback, right? So that's why I did the Dilberito. I tried to make a food that was more nutritious. It's why I do a lot of things. But imagine being a billionaire. Like imagine the pressure you would feel if you didn't feel like you were doing enough for the world. And I believe that this very much drives some of our best innovations. I know you can have some complaints about Bill Gates. There's something more complicated going on there and I don't know what it is. But if you're looking at who is taking a stab at lowering our pharma costs, it's some rich people. It's rich people.
Anyway, Rand Paul has introduced his own budget reduction plan for the government. He wants to cut six cents from every dollar the government spends. And he says if we did that, we could balance the budget in five years. Now here's what I like about this. First of all, I like Rand Paul in general. I just love that he's part of Congress, and I love that he's a noisy part of Congress. I don't always agree with him. But that's not really the test. The test is not whether I always agree with him. The test is is he additive. H
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e is additive as hell. Even when he doesn't get his way, he always extends the argument. He makes you think about it a little bit more clearly. He always adds some context. And he seems to be always on the side of the public. Seems like it. I mean, I can't read his mind. Maybe everybody has his secret evil thoughts or something, but it doesn't look like it. It looks like he's literally just on our…
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