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Good evening. And we have a lot to discuss, including a new potential assassination attempt on President Trump's life. We have a new monkeypox outbreak over in LA county, as well as the FDA issuing a massive recall for a popular statin medication. And so please smash those like and subscribe buttons. And let's begin with the FBI. On Sunday, October 19, you had FBI Director Kash Patel come out and say that a hunting stand was discovered near the Palm beach airport in Florida, which had a direct line of sight to the Air Force exit that President Trump would have been using. The hunting stand. It was discovered shortly before President Trump was actually set to arrive at that particular airport. And here is exactly what Cash Patel said when speaking to Fox News, quote. Prior to the President's return to West Palm Beach, U.S. secret Service discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of of the Air Force One landing zone. No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities. Now, in terms of what this perch looked like, visually up on your screen right now is a photo that came to us from the US Secret Service showing what appears to be an elevated hunting platform located on the branch of a tree, not unlike something you might use for hunting elk. But of course, there are no elk in West Palm Beach. There are no hunting animals at all, aside from maybe a few seagulls that fly around. So you combine that fact with this hunting stand having a clear line of sight of where the president was supposed to exit his plane, and that's pretty bad, to say the least. Now, upon the discovery, the stand itself was dismantled and it was sent over to the FBI lab for examination to see whether any DNA or fingerprint type evidence can be derived from it. Here. Here was what the FBI Deputy Director, Mr. Dan Bongino, said in a statement on that point, this hunting stand was appropriately dismantled. It's being flown to our lab. I believe it's there right now. And all the forensic tools we have, from digital tools to biometric tools, are all going to be applied to try to find out who put this up there and why. He further went on to say in a statement that since this incident, the Secret Service, they made some changes to the security around the Palm Beach International Airport. And but understandably, Dan Bongino did not elaborate much further in regards to the details of those changes. Regardless, though, at this very moment, no suspects have been publicly identified and as Kash Patel mentioned, no individuals were found at the scene where the hunting stand was located. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. While both the Secret Service and the FBI run analysis on the biometrics that they were able to collect on the stand itself, as well as the cell phone ping data in the area. If they actually are able to find anything worth noting, I will report it back to you in a future episode. However, also perhaps worth mentioning is the fact that this hunting purge was discovered only about a month after Mr. Ryan Ruth was convicted by a jury of his own peers for trying to assassinate Trump at his golf course in September of last year. And frankly, rereading the details of that earlier assassination attempt, I reread them prior to filming this episode and it really does put into starker contrast and starker focus the danger that that hunting perch represented near the airport. Let me read to you the details of that earlier assassination attempt. Assassination attempt number two. Quote A jury found that Ryan Ruth, 59 years old, sought to kill Trump as he pointed a rifle through a fence while the then Republican candidate for president was playing golf. A Secret Service agent discovered Ruth and the rifle and and opened fire at him, prompting him to flee the scene before he was arrested hours later. Ruth lay in wait for nearly 10 hours on September 15, 2024, the day of the incident, concealing himself in thick bushes overlooking the sixth hole green. Investigators of the scene found an SKS style rifle, two bags containing metal plates like those used in body armor, and a small video camera pointed toward the course. And it's perhaps also worth mentioning that that that assassination attempt that we just read came just two months after Trump was shot in the ear while delivering a speech over at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. And so that's where we're currently at, both as a country as well as in this case. If you'd like to read the statements from both the Secret Service as well as the FBI, I'll throw the links to both. You can find them down in the description box below, right below those like and subscribe buttons, both of which I hope you took a moment to smash already. Now, moving along, over in Los Angeles, it appears that a new rare strain of monkeypox, otherwise known as mpox, is starting to spread. Quote, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a statement that it is investigating the possibility of a local spread of Clade 1 MPOX cases after confirming its second case in an adult with no recent travel to regions where this virus is typically found, adding that the person was hospitalized and is now at home and Recovering. Now, of course, seeing just two cases might not seem like a lot, but for one, if you're seeing officially two cases, well, there are likely many more cases that just are not being reported. Maybe the people are at home sick and not going to the hospital. But secondly, monkeypox spreads relatively quickly, especially among the gay subculture community. In fact, you might remember how amidst the COVID pandemic back in the year 2022, you had a simultaneous outbreak of monkeypox. Specifically, a version of that virus, called clade 2. Mpox is a rare disease caused by infection with a virus that is in the same family as the one that causes smallpox. It is endemic in parts of Africa. One version of the virus, called Klade 2, was the source of an international health crisis in 2022 as infections escalated in dozens of countries, mostly among males who have sex with other males. At one point, the United States was averaging close to 500 cases per day. And if you remember, it was not just a danger to humans, since there was at least one reported case of a dog catching monkeypox from one of its owners. Now, symptoms of the virus, they include relatively mild things like fever, chills and body aches. However, in more severe cases, the ones that got a lot of media attention, people were developing these severe lesions on their face, their hands, their chest and their genitals. They look pretty bad, something akin to leprosy. And so that was all the version of the virus that was called Clade 2 back in the year 2022. However, now the version of the virus that's spreading in Los Angeles is called Clade 1, which you would assume is maybe less dangerous, but according to local officials, it's actually more dangerous than the old variant. However, have no fear, because the local officials also mentioned that there is a way to do something about it, which is of course to get the vaccine. Quote, the disease may be spreading in the state and is primarily impacting communities of gay and bisexual men. Clade 1 and pox cases can be severe. Risk of severe disease and hospitalization are highest for people with weakened immune systems. So it's critical to protect yourself by getting both doses of the MPOX vaccine if you or your sex partners may be at risk for ampox. So there you have it. Please take care of yourselves out there in the great state of California. I'll throw the link to this local LA county health notice. You'll be able to find it down in the description box along. Moving along though the FDA at the national level, the they recently put out an urgent notice warning Americans about A major recall to a very common medication that's taken by literally tens of millions of Americans. Quote, the FDA recently said that it issued a notice to a recall of at least 140,000 bottles of the generic version of Atorvastatin, a commonly used drug prescribed to treat cholesterol and heart issues. These are calcium tablets that people take to treat cholesterol and as the statement mentioned, heart related issues. And the brand name of this drug, the brand name version is called Lipitor, but Lipitor is not subject to the recall. Instead, the India produced generic version of the drug is subject to the recall. Quote the FDA said that several versions of generic Atorvastatin calcium tablets are under recall because of failed dissolution specifications indicating the drug did not dissolve at the expected rate. Under FDA guidelines, this means that a patient may not be able to absorb the medication properly. The generic 10mg atorvastatin tablets under recall were sold in 90 count, 500 count and 1000 count bottles. They were made by Alkem Laboratories Limited based in India and distributed by New Jersey based Ascend Laboratories llc. Now this FZA notice did not list out whether there were any reported injuries or any reported adverse reactions related to this recall. They only explained that the drug, as they mentioned, was not dissolving according to their specific specifications. Meaning in a practical sense it might not be doing what it's supposed to be doing in the body, which is again to lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Also, it is perhaps worth mentioning that this most recent recall is not the first citation that the FDA has issued to that particular India based Alcom Laboratories. Quote the FDA last year issued a citation to Alcom Laboratories after inspections revealed broken equipment, unsanitary conditions, incomplete records and other problems. So there you have it for your reference. Atorvastatin is one of, if not perhaps the most prescribed drug in the United States right Now with around 29 million patients having a prescription for it, either brand name or off label, which is close to 10% of the country. And so if you're watching this and you take it, or perhaps if your parents or grandparents take it, I'm going to throw the FDA's notice on the recall. It'll be down in the description box below. 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