o are willing to sell shoes, women's shoes, but also really really enjoy it more than you hope that they would, that they would be mostly the shoe sales people. Because if you were competing against somebody who loved it, it would be hard to compete if you were just doing it because it was a job. So over time, the people who would do it just because it's a job would find other jobs and they would move through that to other things. But if you really really like selling the shoes, like really really liked it, and you got that job, would you ever leave? You wouldn't. You'd be there for the rest of your life. It's like, I got the best job ever.

So the theory is that if there's a type of job where one type of person would like to be there forever for whatever reason, that eventually the job will be mostly those people. So now suppose that you're tasked by your spy masters in China to get high level jobs in the government. Would you ever leave? No. You wouldn't even look for another job because your whatever level it is job within the government would be exactly what your spy master required of you. So you'd be killing it career-wise. So in theory, if you wait long enough, the entire government should be full of spies because they're the ones who don't go looking for better jobs ever. Right? Am I wrong? You tell me. Isn't the normal arc that the government should be full of spies if not today then guaranteed fairly soon you know within say 10 or 15 years and we've certainly had a government for more than 15 years.

So anyway, in funny news, The Post Millennial is reporting that Tim Walz is upset because the president called him the r-word. And he says, "I've never seen this before. People are driving by my house and using the r-word in front of my people." He said, "This is shameful. I have yet to see elected officials, a Republican elected official say, 'You're right. That's shameful. You shouldn't say it.'" So look, Walz says, "I'm worried. We know how these things go." Now, wait for this. You thought that Tim Walz was dumb. Wait for this next sentence. You ready for this? He goes, "I'm worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts. They turn to violence." So deeply concerned, Walz added.

Okay, let me pull it all together. So Tim Walz believes it's entirely appropriate to call Republicans and Trump fascists and sort of Nazi-like. And he's not worried that that would turn into violence, calling somebody literally, not joking, but literally a fascist and a Nazi or words to that effect. But while that's not dangerous, according to Walz, it would be dangerous that people jokingly drive by his house and use the r-word, which they only do because it's funny. It's funny in the sense that it bothers the people they want to bother. Not because it's true, but because it's funny and Trump said it and he got away with it, so it sort of opened the floodgate. But do you believe that Tim Walz really believes what he said? Does he really believe that the r-word, as he says, is the dangerous one that could lead the slippery slope to somebody getting stabbed? It's like, well, it started with the r-word and next thing you know, stabbing. Whereas calling somebody a fascist and not saying you're kidding and everybody knows you're not joking, that you're actually meaning it. You don't think that would lead to a little violence? Really? Really? Is that your actual opinion? I don't know. In order to have an opinion like that, you'd have to be some kind of a... You'd have to be some kind of a... Well, you'd have to be some kind of a fascist. You thought I was going to say didn't you? No, I wouldn't use that word.

Meanwhile, Steve Hilton, you probably know him from his work on Fox News. I don't know if he still has his show or if he's moved on to running for California governor. Well, he has launched a tip line to expose fraud in California. He believes that as bad as the fraud is in Minnesota, billions and billions of dollars of fraud, that California is probably worse because it's a bigger state and it's been a blue state for longer. And those are good reasons. More money, more Democrats, probably more crime. I'm saying so he said this is based on my very strongly held assumption that whatever we're seeing in Minnesota is a thousand times worse in California because of many more years of one party rule by the Democrats. Steve Hilton, you just got my vote. You just won my vote. You know, I don't usually pay too much attention to state politics, but yeah, that's all I want to hear. I want to hear that you've done something that's real because you think it's important to try to stop all the fraud.

I think California's biggest problem is fraud because everything that happens here looks a little suspicious. You know, it doesn't matter what you're looking at. How about that bullet train? Where'd all that money go? How about you rebuilding after the fire? Nothing's been rebuilt. I mean, one house maybe. What's going on? Is there some criminal thing that's stopping it? It couldn't just be incompetence, could it? I don't know. So yes, I believe that rooting out the fraud is essential. I think that having a fraud tip line would only be a small part of what they need. And I'm going to say it again. I believe that zero tax money should ever be allocated for anything that does not have a robust well-defined audit procedure. So if somebody said we need a billion dollars to build this thing, I say all right, let's start with how are you going to audit it on a regular basis so it doesn't get stolen? If the answer is oh well we'll do something about it then no. It doesn't matter if it's a good idea. It's clearly if you don't have an auditing procedure set up that's good.

And you know, I would make a big difference between some waving your hand audit procedure versus a very, you know, let's say a third-party uninterested party who's just paid to audit the hell out of it. If I were a big consulting company, and there are lots of them, I would be pitching this as something that I could do for your state. I would say if you give me $10 million a year, I'll make sure that we audit all this stuff and we don't even live in the state. We're just consultants. So you don't have to worry about us trying to get our own beak wet. We will change out our auditors every year. So if you were a consulting company and you wanted to make sure that you didn't become the problem by getting yourself into this potential money laundering situation where you could launder it yourself. If you're a consulting company, just say, "Well, we have lots of consultants and we'll make sure that the ones that work on your state do one year." They just do one year and then you have much less chance that they get embedded and turn it into a criminal enterprise. Yeah.

Anyway, so according to NPR, the State Department is going to deny visas to fact checkers and others who were involved in any kind of censorship. Now, I don't mind that as a standard. I don't think the fake fact checkers and the fake censors should be allowed into the country but it does make me wonder how many there are that you need a separate standard for that. Are there a lot of fact checkers trying to get into the country who had fact checked us in a way we don't like? I don't know. Just kind of an open question.

Well according to the University of California, Davis, there's a study that suggests that there's a brain nutrient that if you don't have enough of it, it might create anxiety. And they found out that if you eat more eggs, the eggs have this nutrient, what's it called? Choline. C H O L I N E. So if your choline levels are low in your brain, it's correlated with, they haven't proven causation, but it's correlated with anxiety. So I went to Grok and I asked the questions that the article was missing. And the main question was, are people eating more or less eggs than they ever did? And the answer is people are probably eating more egg