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check the science news. You'll never guess this one. PsyPost has an article that says that people with children report lower romantic love, intimacy, and passion. Did they really need to do a study to find out that people with children have lower romantic love, intimacy, and passion? They could have just asked me or anyone who's ever been around any child ever. I'm pretty sure we all knew that, ri…

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? Because it was a pipe bomb.

Would you ever make a bet? Let's say I came to you and said, "Hey, yeah, I want you to place a bet. There was a person who planted a bomb, and it was a pipe bomb. Probably had to make it themselves. Was it a man or a woman?" How much money would you bet that it was a man who planted the pipe bomb? Well, I think I would have bet a pretty large amount. In fact, the least likely possibility was that a pipe bomber is a woman.

So you can ask yourself this. If you were ever thinking that that story was true, that a woman planted a pipe bomb, you should probably stop saying things in public for the rest of your life. The odds of a woman planting a pipe bomb still very close to zero. I mean, it's possible. She could have been paid to do it or something like that. But women and bombs, no. No, don't see it. Not in this country.

But I do wonder if this is the beginning of what we will call the lone wolf narrative. When they say they caught the person, does that suggest that they're going to say it was just one person with some idea that was just their own? Do you believe that the pipe bomber, be it male or female, do you believe that the pipe bomber could have possibly been acting alone? Does that seem likely? It's possible. You know, if it's a guy, especially. Yeah.

If it was a woman, there's not a slightest chance that the woman was working alone. There definitely was a man involved, even if it was only to make the bomb and hand it to her and say, "Go put this over there." But it feels like we're going to be told it's a lone wolf. Are you going to believe that? Now, maybe the FBI believes that, but I don't know. This doesn't really have the lone wolf vibe to it, does it? It feels like it's a little bit bigger conspiracy wise, but it's a brand new story. Fog of war. We don't even know if they got the right person, but I guess we'll find out more today.

Well, Megyn Kelly is reporting that the FDA is preparing to add what they call a black box warning to the COVID vaccines for children. And the idea here is that I guess Alex Berenson's been doing the best reporting on this and he says he's been reliably informed that there will be an FDA black box warning. Now the black box warning is sort of the most dangerous thing that they could say about a product. It would still be on the market but the black box warning would be watch out. It could kill you.

Now, how many of you think this is new news? Because it's presented as new. Didn't we know since the middle of the pandemic, didn't we always know that it was dangerous for young people, especially men, boys? I guess boys. Haven't we known that? So the only thing I can imagine that was added was maybe some new statistics about how dangerous it is, but we've always known, at least I have. Did you not know?

And I'm not talking about what we suspected. I thought we knew for sure that it was more danger than benefit for young boys especially. Am

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I wrong about that? Like why does this feel like just Groundhog Day? Are we really just finding this out or is the news that the FDA is agreeing with it for the first time? Is that the only thing that's new? I mean, it just feels like we've been on this road for years and we all knew it for years. Anyway, now we'll find out more about that, I guess. In related news, RFK Jr. was saying that Pfizer…

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