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And it happens now. All right, that's. That's some good stuff. So I wonder if there's any science that they could have skipped and just asked me. Well, here we go. According to Psy post over in China, they studied some ping pong players and they found that if they kept the ping pong players awake for 36 hours in a row and gave them sleep deprivation, guess what happened? Do you think they were better at ping pong? No. No, it turns out they were worse. Did you really need to study if ping pong players would be better or worse with sleep deprivation? Couldn't you do that with literally everything? I wonder if they got new funding. They got a new grant. All right, now we're going to test tennis. Yes. If you do not. If you do not sleep for 36 hours, you will not be that good at tennis compared to your baseline. So next time, just ask me. Elon Musk announced today that apparently you can make audio and video calls without a phone number across all X platforms. But I can't figure out how to do it. Do any of you have a new button where you can call people on X? Because I looked for the button and found none. So maybe that's getting rolled out a little bit at a time. Now, how many of you saw the new video of Bigfoot? The latest video of Bigfoot is the guy with a shirt, if there's one. I was chat his chat. People were saying, I didn't see anything called chat. Anyway, if there's one Thing I know about Bigfoot, you know, I'm not, I'm not some kind of like Bigfoot expert or anything, but there's one thing I know about Bigfoot, he doesn't wear a shirt. So if you see a Bigfoot with a shirt, probably not the real one. That's just my tip. Well, according to Wonderful Engineering, they've got an aircraft motor that's so quiet you wouldn't even hear it. At the moment. It's for smaller planes, ultra lights. But if you live where I live. How many of you live where there's always plane pollution, noise? I live pretty close to an airport, so there's pretty much airplane noise all the time. And I don't even hear traffic noise because there's not that much traffic. But I hear airplanes all day long. And wouldn't it be good if you didn't have to hear it? Well, maybe. So it's a company called Whisper Arrow and they're testing it out now. Well, Joel Pollock, Breitbart News is calling out CNN and BBC for running a unverified claim that Israel killed Palestinians at aid site. Apparently there is no evidence for that whatsoever. But it didn't stop CNN and BBC from running with it. Running with the fake news. Anyway, sorry, we got a little bit of allergies this morning. So President Trump is rolling out a new task force to look into California's wasting of money for the homeless. So apparently California spent more than $24 billion over five years and I don't think anybody knows where any of that money went. $24 billion, where do you think that even went? Because it's not like they bought tents. I don't know what that's for. But Trump is going to get a little task force according to rsbn and you know, US Attorney Bill S A Lee is going to be in charge of that. This one's kind of fun because don't you assume there's a hundred percent chance that there's going to be massive fraud discovered and then we're going to find out how California actually works. I think California is just a money laundering criminal enterprise. I think all of the mayors and maybe higher than that are corrupt. And I think that they give out contracts to people that are friends of them and I get a kickback. And it feels to me like state government is literally just a rico, you know, just this big criminal enterprise and everybody knows it. So that's what I think. Well, according to Rick Moran and PJ Me, Jake Tapper's book Original Sin is not really selling as well as he hoped. So if you want to compare that, I guess if you compare it to Bob Woodward's book, Fear Trump and the White House, that one sold more than a million copies in the first week. But I think tapper's book sold 50,000. So 50,000 versus a million. That's a pretty big difference. Now, what could account for that difference? Well, they could have asked, Scott, because here's a lesson I learned the hard way when I wrote the book the Dilber Principle, it was a number one bestseller because it said, your boss is stupid, but you, the reader, are smart. That's how you sell a book. So when Bob Woodward wrote Fear Trump in the White House, then all the people who were afraid of Trump, they would read it and they would say, oh, I'm as smart as Bob Woodward. He just knows a few more things that I know. So he's routing out my knowledge. So if somebody sells a book that's trying to tell you what you already know, but they say it better and they add some details, that's going to be a best seller. The book that nobody wants is, you are an idiot, and all the people you trusted were liars. And that's what the Tapper book is because it starts with, you know, if you were a little bit smarter as a Democrat, you would have noticed that Biden was mentally incompetent and maybe you should have done something about it as a voter. So it's basically an insult to voters indirectly, and it's a condemnation of who they believed. So not only do the voters get to feel bad about themselves, it's like, why did I do something about this? But they feel bad about the people whose job it is to tell them what's real, the news and the Democratic Party. So if you had come to me and said, Scott, which of these two books will sell more? Bob Woodward's Fear Trump in the White House or Original Sin, which is all about everybody who's a Democrat being incompetent and not noticing the obvious. Definitely the Woodward book I would have picked. So that's your author persuasion lesson for the day. If you're an author, you want to write what people already think, but you want to write it better than they're thinking it. That's a trick. This Father's Day helped dad be all he can be with a gift from the Home Depot. Because he's not just dad, he's the handyman of the house, the plumber in a pinch and the emergency mechanic upgrade his gear. This father's Day with the Husky mechanic's 270 piece tool set from the Home Depot. Now on Special buy for $119. A $695 value for every kind of dad. Find the perfect gift this Father's Day at the Home Depot. Anyway, according to Psy Post, playing the game Fortnite is linked to stronger peer relationships and boys. So apparently, if you play that specific game, you actually strengthen your social skills and your peer relationships. But that's not true of every video game. So some games, like, well, Clash of Clans was also good. So Fortnite and Clash of Clans, I. I've never played either of them. But if you played Mortal Kombat, you would just get more aggressive. I guess I would have known that if you're playing a game where basically you just ripping somebody apart without any friends, it seems like you would just get more aggressive anyway. So I'm not surprised by that, that boys actually strengthen their peer relationships through video games. I've noticed it, haven't you? Have you seen people who play games a lot? And you see that they seem to have a sort of a strong social network? It's usually online, but. And often I used to watch my stepson come home and he would get on, you know, get on the Xbox and he'd be playing with all of his friends from school. So I always thought that was kind of social. Well, Bill Maher and David Mamet were in Bill Maher's, what's it called, Club Random. And Bill Maher still has this. This hoax. He has to lose. He still believes January 6th was an attempted insurrection and that the problem was Trump for not saying, I concede, but David Mamet was not having any of that. So when Bill Maher was saying. Not saying, talking about Trump, not saying, I concede, caused half the country to riot. And David Mamer says, you're full of shit. Because it's ridiculous to imagine that just because Trump didn't say, I concede that that caused half of the country to do an insurrection. Now, as you know, the January 6th narrative is a hoax. You all know that, right? How many of you know January 6th is just another one of the big hoaxes? It's like Biden's brain is good. It's like the Fine People hoax. It's one of the famous ones, one of the most famous ones. Now, what would it take to debunk the January 6th hoax? It would be pretty easy. All you would have to do is bring in a panel of half a dozen people, maybe a dozen, and put them in in the studio. And you'd say, all right, you were there on that day, and you protested and you entered the building. Now, don't talk to the violent ones. You know, the violent ones are. That's a separate category. But the ones who just showed up and you asked them what was your intention? How many of them would say, we know we lost the election, but we were trying to overturn it? None. And nobody would say that. And yet that's the narrative. The narrative is they all knew they lost and they tried to overthrow the result. Nothing like that happened. What did happen is that the result was so out of. Let's say, out of pattern. The number of votes that Biden got were so strange compared to historical patterns. It looked obviously rigged. Now, I don't know that it was rigged, but I can say for sure that if you looked at just the numbers and you looked at the bellwether states, I think it's bellwether counties. If you look at the bellwether counties and then you looked at the total number of votes that Biden got, that's not enough for me to say, I know it was rigged, but it's enough for me to say, oh, that looked totally rigged. And so the people who were protesting were trying to make sure that they had not presided over a rigged election. So they just wanted a little time to take another look at that so they could be sure that it wasn't rigged. And the Nancy Pelosi play, she just turned it into. Turns it into this, you know, one of the greatest hoaxes of the last 10 years. But it will fall apart. The January hoax will. January 6th hoax will fall apart. All right. Did you know that in the Bay Area, where I live, that there are licensed psychologists who help you with things like ayahuasca and psilocybin and other hallucinogens? And they can. It's called integration therapy. And so if you wanted to try hallucinogen because you thought it'd be good for your mental health, you can get a coaching session with an expert, a licensed psychologist who can help you integrate it. Now, I don't know what it means to integrate it, because there are stories of people who did ayahuasca and then their life was better and they lost all their inhibitions and all the things that bothered them. But there are also stories of people who were engineers who did ayahuasca once or psilocybin, and then decided they didn't want to be engineers anymore, and they just quit. And I don't know what they do start a little forum in the country or something. So maybe they're happier. So I'm not saying it doesn't work, but are you surprised that ayahuasca and psilocybin are helping people with their mental health? You should not be. And the Bay Area is the. I guess it's the place where there's no stigma. According to this article I'm reading. I think it was in the Wall Street Journal. So for the techies, if you lived where I lived, it seems like everybody's on some kind of hallucinogen. How many of you can say that? Is it true that where you live there are lots of people on hallucinogens? Because here it's, it's so common, you don't even talk about it. No major life decisions for two weeks after a powerful dose. That's probably a good idea. You just kept passing out from dmt. All right. Well, there's another brutal CNN poll about Democrats. Just 16% of Americans believe the DNC has strong leaders. 16% 1 6. That's pretty bad. But Republicans, 40% say that Republicans have strong leaders. Now how, if you're a Republican, how in the world do you say that Trump is not a strong leader? Like, isn't that a weird result? Now, I can understand why people would say that the Democrats don't have a strong leader, but how could you possibly have voted for Trump and not think he's a strong leader? How could you possibly have only 40%? That doesn't make sense to me. Anyway. Only 19% think the DNC can get things done, but 36% think the Republicans can. So these are pretty brutal numbers. And when Hakeem Jeffries was presented with these numbers on cnn, his answer was we don't have the presidency. So if you don't have the presidency, you can't get anything done. And nobody thinks you have a strong leader. But they were kind of talking about him, weren't they? Shouldn't he be the strong leader? That's pretty bad. Put us in a box. Go ahead. That just gives us something to break out of the because the next generation 2025 GMC terrain elevation is raising the standard of what comes standard as far as expectations go, why meet them when you can shatter them? What we choose to challenge, we challenge completely. We are professional grade. Visit gmc.com to learn more. Have you seen, have you all seen the weird tall hair guy on msnbc? If I described him, would you know who he is? So I don't know what he is ethnically Maybe Indian, but he's got this sort of a gray streaked hair that he's teased up. So it's like a foot above his head and just creates this like a. It looks like a flame, but without the red. It's kind of interesting. I have to say. If you see him once, you're definitely going to remember him. So it works from that perspective. Anyway, he was on MSNBC and he's buying into the idea. I think there was one professor in Boston who came up with this, that the cuts to USAID have already resulted in 300,000 deaths. Now, can you even imagine believing that? That already, just already 300,000 deaths? I don't think so. I don't think so. I think he's probably up to the idea that USAID is literally like age for people who want food and stuff. There's a little bit of that. Oh, Bono. Bono said it all right. No, not, not the dandelion guy. The dandelion guys. He's different. But I can't even imagine believing that number. Well, the Tinder app has made a change. Apparently you can set it for not showing you any men who are under 6ft tall. Now, isn't that exactly what everybody does with it anyway? Don't they look at the height and eliminate everybody under six feet tall? So now you can just not even ever see anybody who's under 6ft tall. Now, shouldn't that destroy the app? Because it's just going to be a bunch of women who want tall guys. And I think the number of tall guys were also single and handsome is like 7% of the population. So that 7% are going to have their own little app. Everybody else is just going to be invisible on the app anyway. I can't believe Tinder will last as a business. I think AI will replace all the dating apps because once your AI gets to know you, you can send it out to find somebody to be compatible with, like an agent. So it'd be like a dating consultant or something. So once your AI knew everything about you, from your picture to your height to your job to your. Your preferences, couldn't you send that out and have it Talk to other AIs and set up a date for you? So I think that's going to happen. Yeah. Anyway, remember I always tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything. But if you know who the people are, well, then you might know. So George Stephanopoulos on abc. So that's the first person. How many of you know that George Stepanopoulos Might be the most biased person in all news. Biased toward Democrats, which would be no surprise because he was, you know, he worked for Clinton, etc. But he was talking about an article in the Atlantic. Do you all know what the Atlantic is? It's not really a genuine magazine. It's more like a thing that somebody rich keeps in business so they could write hit pieces against Republicans, basically. And an article was written by David Frum. F R U M Now again, does that name ring the bell? How many of you would recognize the name David Frum? He would not be an unbiased person. Right. So do you remember what the wrap up smear is? Nancy Pelosi explained it. So you give the story to somebody in another publication like the Atlantic, and then that gives all the other networks a reason to talk about it. All right. Did you see this article in the Atlantic? David Frum has this article in the Atlantic. Can you respond to it? So this is the sort of thing that should be looked at as, as sketchy business. But interestingly, the topic is Trump's sketchy financial business. And I guess they're trying to collect together all of the various things that they think he's doing that don't sound quite right. There's like a crypto thing and there's a something about a pardon and then there's the Qatari jet and then there's, you know, something about donors. And I'm thinking to myself, you can't complicate things because they're trying to do this hit piece. But if they just throw in all these different things. Well, this one person went to a fundraiser. We don't know if they gave anything. There's just going to be a whole bunch of, you know, unrelated stories about how somebody did. Anyway, so my question about all of the alleged Trump selfish bad behavior, where he's trying to make money for himself, is, is anybody losing money? Is Trump making money on the, on the backs of somebody else or is it just business as usual? I don't know. If there's somebody who's a victim, then maybe I care about it. If there are no victims and everything's kind of transparent, I don't care about it too much. All right. Apparently the UK is now on war footing. So Starmer out of the uk he says the UK should get ready for war fighting. He's going to put a billion dollars into AI and cybersecurity. He's going to build six new munition factories, 12 nuclear attack submarines, and a bunch of missile defense systems. Air and Missile defense. So does the UK know something that we don't know? Is Lindsey Graham over there trying to get everybody all worked up? Is there a bigger war coming? Because I keep hearing that Putin won't be happy until he conquers all of Europe. Do you think that's true? Do you think that Putin wants to conquer all of Europe, you think yes, I think yes, if it were free and easy. But it wouldn't be free and it wouldn't be easy and there would be, you know, there'd be resistance forever. And. Yeah, I don't think you really conquer those countries too easily. Yeah, no, I don't believe it. I do think Putin wants to conquer the countries that are sort of adjacent to Russia, especially ones that the Soviet Union has conquered before, because it's going to feel like there's some, some kind of history there anyway. So I worry that the UK knows something we don't know. Learning through play starts with Lego Duplo. With Lego Duplo, toddlers can develop real life skills while having fun with colorful bricks made just for them. Large, easy to grip and stick, safe to explore. 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You just have to have a law degree and five years of experience. So good luck in Mexico. It doesn't look like that's going to work. Fareed Zakaria on CNN was talking about that. Well, according to a gentleman on X who says he's dedicated to revealing government spending and fraud, his name is Aladdin. He seems to have found some hotel bills for Senator Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal for a lavish, lavish Kiev hotel. And if you want to know how much they allegedly spent. Now, I don't know if this is true, by the way, so I can't. I can't guarantee that this story will hold up. But according to Aladdin, on June 1st, two big transactions happened, one for over $400,000. That's a hotel bill, by the way. And another for over 400,000. So there were two hotel bills. They were both over $400,000. Now, I was trying to think, is there any legitimate reason that it could be that much? Because maybe they have to book the entire floor for security reasons. Is there something going on that requires that much? It doesn't sound right to me. So we might find out that Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are getting a little extra from Ukraine. But I would say that's not. That's not confirmed. I would look for additional sources. Before you believe that one, you probably heard that Ukraine staged a very successful drone attack very deep into Russia at their airports and destroyed a bunch of their bombers. Now, they still have plenty of bombers left. So it's not like, you know, it's not like that's the end of their bombing runs. But if it's true, this is how they did it. Now, I'm not positive that this makes sense, but when I first heard that they were, like, thousands of miles into Moscow, I wondered, can you really send a drone thousands of miles into Moscow? Not Moscow, into Russia? Thousands of miles. And the answer is, maybe they didn't. So the alleged way they did it was they had a whole bunch of drones, and they packed them in a big truck, and they hired Russians to drive the trucks because they didn't know what the cargo was. So they hired Russians to drive these big trucks near the airports where they wanted to attack. And then the truck would open up automatically. I think they had the roof of it. And all the drone swarms would take off, and then they would attack the. They would attack the bombers that were sitting on the tarmacs, and then the truck itself would blow up. Would blow up. So it would get rid of the evidence. Do you believe that? Do you believe that they were so clever that they planned for a year and a half to get Russian truck drivers to drive their swarm of drones into. Deep into Russia. And then the truck would open up the top and the drones would come out. I don't know. It feels a little too. A little too clever. I don't know how they could have done it. So I don't have a alternate theory, but I'm going to say that's not the most believable story. Anyway. Doesn't it feel like at this point we should just count up the number of drones and declare a winner in the war? Because whoever has the most drones, I think Naval said this, whoever has the most and best drones is going to win every war, at least for a while. So don't we know by now who has the best and most drones? I've got a feeling that the United States is probably making some drones that look like they came out of Ukraine. So I suspect that Ukraine is the biggest drone making country around, except maybe China. But I'll bet they get a lot of drones from other countries too, under the table. Anyway, so that's all I got for you today. It's kind of a, kind of a short day. China is the largest drone producer. Yeah. By far. By far they're the largest. But, but we don't know how much the United States is producing. Right. Because what if the US Is also producing tons of drones but we don't advertise it because I know there's a whole bunch of new drone factories that have popped up. I think California has a bunch. There's probably a bunch in other places too. So. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say a few words privately to the people on locals and the rest of you, thanks for joining, thanks for catching up. We, we have to wait for Trump to get more bus.