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ermits have been given regarding the Pacific Palisades and Altadena fires. That only 500 permits have been given out of 16,000 structures lost. Now you've already heard that, but what's interesting is that CBS is reporting it and going after a blue state. So I haven't been following too closely the whole Bari Weiss running CBS News and how that's affecting things. But is this one of those changes?…

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at we wouldn't be able to see, but he does talk that way. He talks like there's a history-based reason for it, but is that it? Is that the only reason?

So until you know what somebody's motivation is, it's really hard to persuade them off it because you don't know what off means. So I think that's the biggest problem now. But I would definitely ask the question if I were Trump, why are we enemies? Because we have lots of allies and none of the allies are unhappy that they're on our team. So is it ego? Is it pride? And I would at least make Putin wrestle with those questions. And I would tell him, "Can you explain why you need this?" And if he goes into these weird history lessons, I can imagine Trump discounting them and maybe making him feel dumb for even having those motivations.

Anyway, it's the eighth night of protests in Iran. Polymarket gives it a 43% chance the Supreme Leader loses power this year. But I think it's the fourth major protest in Iran in not that many years, right? So the other ones didn't bring them down. We'll see.

All right. And they've restricted the internet apparently because that's never a good sign for the regime if they have to restrict the internet because I'm pretty sure the Iranian protesters are finding a way around that. I assume that if it had to happen there might be some Elon Musk satellites so they can see what's happening. That would be pretty dangerous for Musk. So we'll see.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that concludes my prepared remarks. It's amazing how close I can get to one hour, isn't it?

One of my, I'll just say this to the larger crowd today. As much as I appreciate how much you care about me and I appreciate your efforts to suggest things I can do at the moment, it's not helping me to get medical or religious advice. So if you would respect that, that would be my best situation. On the medical stuff, you should assume I've looked into all the options. On the religious stuff, I would like you to say that it's now a private relationship between me and Jesus and I'd like to keep it that way. But I totally appreciate the good intentions. I do love it that you care enough to write me long messages about what I should do medically or religiously, but it doesn't work with my current situation. So I'll just ask you to back off on that, please.

All right, snort the Bible. Good advice.

All right, I'm going to talk privately to the good people on Locals and so we'll be private on that in 30 seconds. For the rest of you, thank you so much for joining.