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sitive, but I think I could. Nobody else has. Well, remember I told you yesterday, I think it was yesterday, that sometimes I cheer for the wrong people. You know, you've seen movies, TV shows where the bad guy is actually the charismatic one. You remember the TV show Dallas and J.R. Ewing was the bad guy but he was the most interesting person in the show. So you ended up cheering for the bad guy…

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lly a Russian flagship or if they changed it to a Russian flagship, but if he gets away with this, if that tanker captain actually pulls it off and gets away, that is going to be the coolest criminal thing I've seen this year. So I'm trying not to root for the other team, but he's a ballsy captain.

All right. Well, good luck, Captain.

So here's some good news. Lee Zeldin is reporting that the Trump EPA just completed a risk evaluation of, and I think I'll be pronouncing this right, it's spelled P-H-T-H-A-L-A-T-E-S. So obviously that would be pronounced phthalates. I think I nailed that right. So apparently the chemicals are going to be banned because they're bad for you. Lee Zeldin says the MA activists were right and the Trump EPA strongly agrees that exposures in certain settings exceed safe levels and could cause endocrine disruptions. So if I could give you any advice, it would go like this: stay away from the phthalates.

All right. Now I try to be useful. So here I am teaching you how to pronounce this difficult-to-pronounce word one more time. It's pronounced flatties. Yeah, that's a word. But good job, Trump administration. I like the fact that RFK Jr. is leading the do-science-better push. So this is one of many things in which the gold standard of science will be appl

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ied and apparently has never been applied before, which is the weird part. How long ago was it that you learned that science was mostly fake or at least the science that we cared about? You know, we never really had safety tests for a lot of medicines, but we thought we did. I mean, I think I thought the same thing you did for years, which is the most tested would be pharmaceutical stuff. Turns ou…

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