a really bad night. Now, some people can do it, but I think they're unusual people.

So yes, of course marijuana reduces alcohol consumption.

Well, OpenAI's Sam Altman apparently has put out a memo to his staff, sort of a red alert. It's being called Code Red. Code Red. And it was a company-wide memo among the OpenAI staff telling them that they're kind of falling behind the competition, the Wall Street Journal reporting this. The competition in this case would be Google.

So if you're not paying attention to the AI race — and I didn't know this actually, and I do pay attention, but I didn't know this — the latest Gemini AI, that's Google's version of AI. Apparently it just trashed OpenAI in benchmark tests. So imagine being OpenAI and you've sucked up all the training material in the known universe and you're behind your competition. What do you do then? Panic. You send out a company-wide memo and you say, "We better figure out how to do something better." Because you don't want to get behind Google.

I just have a presumption. I don't have any data for this, but my presumption is that whenever Google gets ahead of a competitor, it stays that way. Don't you think? How would you like to be a competitor to Google and find that Google just pulled ahead of your product? How many people are going to make up that gap and then go back into a leadership position over Google? I mean, Google probably will always have the most access to new training material, I'm guessing, but they're not going to run out of money. So that's pretty interesting.

Well, the competition is heating up.

Did you know, if you're following the story about Minnesota — and Minnesota apparently lost, I don't know, a billion dollars in money they thought was going to go to charity and good use but it got stolen by Somali refugees mostly — and the accusation is that the governor Tim Walz had been informed about all these potential corrupt things but decided to punish the whistleblowers instead of going after the corrupt people.

And now we have a very direct accusation from the Minnesota state government employees that some of them had been trying to warn the DNC and warn Kamala Harris when she was picking Walz for vice presidential running mate.

Now, first of all, do you believe that's true? Do you believe that the Kamala Harris campaign and the DNC had received multiple — not one, but multiple — letters saying, "Don't do it. Don't do it. Tim Walz is a big old corrupt, incompetent, untrustworthy guy. The state is full of corruption. We've told him. He's not doing anything about it. In fact, he's punishing us for bringing it up."

Now, do you think that happened, that the Kamala Harris campaign was in fact warned multiple times? Well, just because it's in the news doesn't mean it happened. So that's the first thing we should all understand, and I think most of my audience understands that doesn't mean it really happened. But it is a claim made by not one person but a bunch of people. So the fact that a bunch of people are saying it happened, I would say that increases the odds that it might have actually happened.

So how would you explain the complete non-response and non-action from the Kamala Harris campaign and from the DNC? How do you explain it? Well, I don't know, but there are several possibilities. One is that they got so many emails and so many letters that nobody could really look at them all. So it could be that they were in fact contacted many times, but it was within an avalanche of other communications. They didn't know how to know which ones were the important ones. Maybe it was just too much data and got lost in the mix. That's possible.

The other possibility is that there's some corrupt reason that we don't know about that Tim Walz was going to be the choice no matter what. And the "no matter what" might have included he's a big old crook. There might have been some compelling reason that had nothing to do with his talent as a politician because he didn't have a lot of talent as a politician.

And it makes you wonder if the big reason why they picked him is that he was knowingly corrupt. Is it possible that corruption was a feature and not a flaw? Because, you know, I can't prove it. That's just sort of a conspiracy theory kind of thinking. But there seems to be a pattern developing. The pattern is that wherever there's any big organization, be it the DNC or be it Minnesota or anything big, all the NOS's, that wherever you find Democrats and a big pile of money, somebody's stealing it.

And it's hard to pretend we don't see the pattern because the pattern is everywhere. Everywhere you find a whole bunch of Democrats and a whole bunch of money, one of those Democrats, maybe more, has their beak in it and they're just sucking it like it's the last ham sandwich in the world. You don't really suck on a ham sandwich, but it was all I could do. It was the best I could do.

So I'm just going to say, you know how people always say it's not just avoiding corruption but you should avoid the appearance of corruption. This is one of those times where they need to avoid the appearance of corruption too. And I'm not so sure they did it in this case because this is sketchy as hell.

Well, let's change topic to Kyrsten Sinema, who as you know had retired from her government service and I guess she's working for some law firm now. But on top of her work for a law firm, she's apparently looking to be an advocate for psychedelics, specifically she likes something called ibogaine. It's an African shrub. And I wonder if that's legal. Do you think you could grow an African shrub in your backyard and not get arrested? Could you grow your own ibogaine? I know it's just a shrub. If it's a shrub, I imagine it's pretty easy to raise.

Anyway, apparently she went down to Mexico and tried it for herself, so she knows what she's talking about. And she and other advocates want to get it state funded for clinical trials and eventually hope to get FDA approval to make a drug. And she thinks that she's got a chance of getting that done with the Trump administration, which means RFK Jr.

And by the way, I'm not familiar with RFK Jr.'s opinion on psychedelics, but I feel like I know what it is without knowing what it is. Do you think that would be fair to say? I'll tell you what I think it is without any real data or information or story or anything. If RFK Jr. is consistent — and he does seem to be consistent — then he would say we don't know if it's good or bad but if we tried it and it worked we could maybe get it approved. So I think he would be pro let's test it and he wouldn't be pro let's make it legal without knowing the downside.

So probably as long as there's some data to back it, she might be able to get this through and that would be a good bipartisan thing to do. One of the better things that could come out of current government.

There's a GOP senator, I think he's a state senator, Senator Marino, and he's introducing some legislation to end dual citizenship for Americans. In other words, there are people who are citizens of America and at least one other place, often Israel, but it could include other places as well. And he would like to make it such that if you're a dual citizen and after a certain warning and a little time to get it done, if you do not renounce your other nation's citizenship, you would automatically lose your American citizenship.

What do you think of that? I'm going to say that's too far. I feel like that's too far. But here's what I would prefer instead. I would prefer that if you're a dual citizen, you cannot run for office. And there might be some other public service kind of job that's not an elected job, but maybe something you wouldn't want a