his would work? I have no idea. I don't even understand the story. It's not like it's the first time that China said, "Oh, yeah, we're totally going to stop these precursors." Now, do you think we can get through the show without me mentioning Charlie Brown and the football? I won't do it. I will not mention Charlie Brown and the football. But this looks exactly like Charlie Brown and the football. Damn it. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't not mention Charlie Brown and the football.

You tell me. Am I missing something? Is there some reason I should believe it this time? Why would they tell the truth this time?

Oh, he's back. I didn't get the fly. Damn it. Or he's brought a friend. He's in full attack mode now. Damn it. I'm going to have to give the fly a name. We're going to call him Carl. It'll be Carl the fly. So that when you hear me kill him, it will be more satisfying because I'll be killing somebody with a name. Carl, ah, you're dead.

Well, anyway, I saw a post on X also wondering if we offered something to China that's not public. For example, is it a coincidence? This is not my original idea, not my original thought, but is it a coincidence that we agreed that China can have 600,000 students in the US and then China gets flexible about fentanyl? Do you think that's what we traded?

Oh god, it just went in my ear. Oh man, I want that fly so dead. Carl, it's you and me now. Carl the fly, you will not live till lunchtime. I swear I'll take you down. You will not ruin my live stream. You're just a fly. You're doing a really good job of ruining it so far, but I'll get you. I'll get you.

Anyway, what do you think? Do you think that there's a secret ingredient, a secret arrangement and that that's why the fentanyl thing looks real this time? Because obviously Kash Patel is aware that they've promised before and not delivered, right? It's not like I know and Kash doesn't know that they've made this promise before. So something's different or he wouldn't act this confident.

I feel so... One of the good things about having a good reputation for being smart like Kash is that I don't automatically start with well you must be an idiot and then reason from there. I start with the assumption that he's well-informed and brilliant and then I reason from there. If you start with him being well-informed and brilliant, and I think that's fair, there must be something that China offered that they've never offered before. So we'll see.

Have you seen any of the new clips with Katie Couric? Remember her when she was on NBC and she was sort of a credible, you know, one of the top hosts? Well, she's sort of transformed into some kind of a Gollum and she's just sort of an anti-Trump troll now. And she even looks like she's turning into a troll. So I'm going to do my Katie Couric impression. So, oh my precious. So, wouldn't you agree that Donald Trump has stolen our democracy? Uh, no. But wouldn't you agree he's an authoritarian? No, not really. But wouldn't you agree he's probably murdered children? Probably. Right. Right.

So it all just looks sort of weird and troll-like. So she made the mistake of inviting John Fetterman on whatever that podcast is that she's doing, whateve