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ecause she needs him 100% to get whatever it is she wants, you know, for Venezuela. And talk about the best way you could get him on your side. So I don't know much about her but I know that if she got the attention of the Nobel Prize people there's something of substance there and then the one thing we observe is so on point that you just say okay there's some substance there so keep an eye on th…

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o here's what I like about Putin's persuasion game. Don't misquote me. I didn't say I like Putin. I'm just saying that he's got a really strong persuasion game and the fact that he's playing so nice with Melania. It's just more of that it is so smart that he's extra nice to Melania and that there's just no friction whatsoever is created in that domain and it looks like he you know it looks like he's saving a cat and you know being the good guy. So he buys a whole bunch of goodwill for nothing. So both of them did a good job on that. Melania and Putin if you're just looking at the persuasion game.

Well, I saw a post by Masimo on X. And apparently there's some kind of breakthrough brain scan technique where they claim that Japanese scientists claim they can detect long COVID. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Japanese scientists have a new brain scan where they can actually find if you're suffering from long COVID by looking at part of your brain? I'm going to say I'm not even sure long COVID is real. Are we so sure it's real that if you look at the scan, you can see it? I don't know. Do you believe they could see if it were the vaccine injury instead? Do you think they could see that with their advanced scan? I don't know. I don't know. So and whenever I see Japanese break

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throughs, I kind of give them a little less credibility. Do you do that too? I feel like they at least just from an anecdotal perspective, I don't have any data on this, but it seems like the Japanese might be and maybe the South Koreans might be a little bit of overclaimers when it comes to science. You know what I mean? Just a little bit. Well, podcaster, journalist—I don't know what he would c…

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