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Back to episode — Episode 3053 CWSA 12/25/25

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ul gift. Who gave you that? Uh, no wonder. Yep. That's a good gift giver. And why don't you give back? I'm sorry. I'll shut up. Hey, what time do we eat? Does anybody know what time we eat? Oh god. Oh no. I was hoping that relative wouldn't come. Oh, who invited that one? Oh my goodness. Oh, everything looked good until that one relative started coming up the driveway. But we'll just pretend that…

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rats got more seats in the House because the census said there are more people than there were.

Now here's why I brought it up. The reason that we know this is because the Census Bureau did an audit of their own process. So it's not an accusation. It's what the audit people say themselves. They say that it changed the representative sample, not a sample, but it changed who's representing who and that it went in one direction on average.

But what I caught here is the word audit. You know, I posted the other day that audit would be the word of 2025. And boy, is it. If you start noticing how often the word audit is going to pop up in all the stories because there's so many stories about fraud and the only way you're going to catch them is with an audit. Well, it's not the only way, but it'll be the main way you do it.

So I predict that the public is going to learn the importance of audits in a way that they had not before quite appreciated. And if the public starts asking for audits and demanding them, then the politicians will have to fold to that. So probably the single most important thing we could do for our fiscal health is to make sure there's always an audit in place, like a real one, for everything that has a lot of money involved.

Could it be that the attention that we're putting in that word, and by the way if it wasn't obvious, you know when I turned on my persuasion skills which I don't always do, it's because there's some big gain. I don't do it just to see if I can do it. I use my persuasion when I think there's some gigantic thing we could get out of it. And one of the things I'm going to persuade more for over the next year is the importance of audits. I know, boring, right? But if we don't get that right, everything falls apart.

So did you watch any of the Joe Rogan interview recently with Brett Weinstein? And they were talking about aliens and UAPs and ancient civilizations. Well, it sounded like Joe Rogan is on the similar path that I've been on

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, which is there was one time in my past I thought, you know, maybe there's some UFOs, maybe there's some aliens that are visiting. But more recently I had ruled that out in favor of the hypothesis that if anything is happening at all, in other words if these sightings are at all real, that the source of them would be our own past. So it might be ancient aliens who live beneath the ocean. It might…

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