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There you are. Come on in. I'm checking the stock market, which appears to be up. So far, so good. Not Tesla? Tesla's down a little bit. All right, we'll put that on hold while we do a show that you deserve. Yeah, you deserve it. All right, let's make sure this is all working. It's all working. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee Whiskey, God Atoms. And if you'd like to take this experience that's already the best thing that ever happened to you, up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, well, all you need for that would be a copper, a mug or a glass, a tankard shell to stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine. End of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip. That happens now. Go. So. Very good. Well, here's a little, little tip for you. You might know that my book, Loser Thing was one of the books that got canceled when I got canceled. So if you tried to buy this, you would not be able to, but we are going to reissue it. So there'll be a second edition. It'll be on Amazon, and maybe a month or two, I will let you know. But there's a chapter here. This was written in 2019, and the chapter is called the Golden Age Filter. And in it, I made a bunch of predictions about how the Golden Age would unfold. And you might say to yourself, I wonder if those predictions are anything like what's actually happened now, that the predictions were actually before the pandemic. Right before. So you might want to check that out. I think you'll be amused. See what I got right? See what I got wrong. Well, I would like to get your brains ready for the rest of the show with a little bit of an exercise. All right, those of you who are my regular viewers, I would like you to give me the answer to the question I haven't asked yet. Go. If you're new, boy, are you going to be impressed. Watch this. All right, everybody, the answer to the question, before I ask the question. Go. There it is. That is the correct answer. 25. Well, Rasmussen, the polling company, says that 73% of likely US voters believe that requiring a photo ID to vote is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections. So let's see if 73% think it's a Good idea. And there are a few people who don't know what they're doing, but 21% disagree. 21% think it's not reasonable to check ID, but I will give you full credit for 25% because, you know, margin of error. Well, According to New Atlas, 1, diet soda a day increases type 2 diabetes risk by 38%, according to a new landmark study, 14 year study. So let's see if a diet soda can give you type 2 diabetes or make your risk of it much higher. Let me check. Okay. Yes. Yes. 100% of the things I was told as a kid have turned out to be wrong. All of it. I don't know about you, but I learned you can't eat a sandwich and go swimming for an hour. Totally made up. I don't know about you, but I learned that you have to drink how many glasses of water every day? Totally made up. Totally made up. I learned that the safest thing you could do for your health is put on sunscreen before you go out in the sun. Well, maybe the jury is still out on that. But the smartest people I know are not using sunscreen because apparently it's just a chemical that gets in your body. Then, of course, there was a food pyramid. You all remember that, right? Completely upside down and wrong and probably still is. Let's see, what else? Then there was what we believed about carbohydrates. There was alcohol is good for you in moderation, which turned out not to be true. So, yes, 100% of everything I was taught as a young person was made up. All of it. But my whole first part of my life was just fake. But thank God that you're here and I'm here at this time when finally we have all the correct answers to all the scientific questions. Am I right? Yeah. Just think about how lucky that is that after, I don't know, let's say, the last 1.5 million years of evolution, where we were completely wrong about reality, just totally wrong, didn't have a clue. And then during my childhood, we were still wrong during my life. Still wrong about everything. But thank goodness I'm still alive when we figured out everything and now we're not wrong about anything, Right? Wait. Right? How many of you have fallen for the illusion that we used to be wrong in the past, but now we've got things pretty well figured out? I used to believe that. I used to believe that humans were fundamentally desperately wrong about all the important questions for 1.5 million years in a row. But thank goodness. Thank Goodness, I was born in a time when we finally got everything right. There's almost no chance that the things you believe are true and right are true and right. There's almost no chance. It's never been true. We've never been right about anything important. But it would make you crazy to imagine that we were just wrong about everything. So you tell yourself this weird little story that, well, we were wrong for 1.5 million years in a row, but finally got it right just when you were born. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Well, CJ Pearson has a opinion piece in Fox News. CJ's talking about the war on hot women. I could tell you what month it is by telling you what stories are the top stories. It's summertime, people. It's summertime. So the big story is the war on hot women. And somehow the. The pundits have managed to turn it into an actual story by. By pretending that Sydney Sweeney, who did the advertisement, the sexy advertisement for American Eagle, which apparently worked really well, and they sold out of their jeans. They sold out. If you wanted to buy some of those jeans, couldn't do it. It was so successful. And finally we're allowed to be commonsensical again, even if it hurts people's feelings. So apparently the ugliest people are very unhappy that the Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle would be talking about genes. Even though it was a joke and even though we can clearly see that that young woman has good genes, we're not allowed to say that anybody has good genes. You're not allowed to say it because if you did, it would sort of change all of society. Because then you might say, well, you know, maybe things are the way they ought to be because the people had the good genes, did the best. Uh, oh, can't say that. Can I say that? You know how I always tease that billionaires, when billionaires are asked, what's the secret of their success, do you know what they never say? Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm just smarter than the people who didn't do as well, because that plus hard work will explain a lot. Mark Zuckerberg, was he successful just because he tried hard? No. Although he did try hard. He is really smart. Elon Musk. Is it because he worked hard? Well, he did work hard. Still does. But he's smarter than the average person. And that could go down the line and you would find that all these super successful people are unusually smart. And we're supposed to ignore that, Right, and act like none of that mattered. All right, all right, fine. But the Sydney Sweeney thing does show that apparently there's a little bit of common sense that's coming back. But if you were one of those people who is, let's say, jealous and angry that Sydney Sweeney is getting attention for being attractive and being born that way mostly, I would give you this following consolation. There has never been an easier time to be in the top 10% of attractive adults. Still hard to do it if you're young, because that's just what you're born with. But if you wanted to be in the top 10% of attractive adults, all you have to do is eat right and go to the gym. That's it. You know, maybe put a little of attention, a little bit of attention in what you do with your haircut and, you know, maybe learn a little bit about how to dress. But, oh, my God, it's never been easier to be in the top 10%. So if you're not in the top 10%, maybe you put a little bit of work into it and you could get there. Elon Musk. Speaking of, Elon is bragging that X is now the number one news app in the usa. Do you remember all the smart, dumb people, you know, the people with high IQs who told you that X had no chance of success and that it was a terrible move by Musk? He's only good at building cars and rockets. There's no reason to think he would be good at running a social media company. And then he fired 80% of his staff. And then all the smart, dumb people said, well, told you. Look, he had to fire everybody. And then the advertisers started joining together to boycott it. And then he said, well, there you go. There's no way that's ever going to work. Well, it turns out that Elon Musk had one thing that other people didn't have. He is way smarter than you are. He's smarter than I am. And apparently he knew how to make it work. And he has. It's now the number one news app in the usa. Well, Kamala Harris has announced she will not be running for California governor. Now, I would like to announce that I will also not be running to be governor of California. Now, my reason is that I wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning. I wonder what her reason would be. Could it be that she doesn't have a chance in hell of winning and it would end all of her prospects forever if she ran for that and lost, which she probably would, the smart people say. However, I would like to suggest there Might be one other reason. I mean, maybe she's planning to run for president again. Maybe she hasn't ruled it out. I don't know. But she may have some personal reasons for doing it. We don't know. Well, Jerome Powell and the Fed did not cut interest rates. Yesterday at their meeting where they told us their decisions, they did not cut interest rates. Now, of course, Trump is not too happy about that. He said that Jerome Powell is too late, too angry, too stupid, and too political. Total loser. Now, you know how I always compliment Trump for being able to read the room and being persuasive, and especially one on one, like with individuals. But it's hard for me to imagine that Jerome Powell could ever give Trump what he wants, knowing that Jerome Powell's contract is up in May. If my contract were up in May and my political enemy had been absolutely savaging me for months, I wouldn't give them what they wanted, even if it were really important to the country. I would be just so mad that I would just say, oh, I guess I won't be cutting your interest rates, because people are humans. So I think that there was probably no chance that the government could browbeat Jerome Powell into doing that. And he didn't. We'll talk about that some more. Apparently in 2024, which would be, if you're keeping track of your calendar, last year, last year, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren was on TV saying that Jerome Powell needs to cut interest rates. What does she say now that Trump is president? Now she says 2025, Trump needs to stop calling for Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. Yes. Elizabeth Warren is one of the designated liars. There are, there's a handful of people, Democrats, who, I always tell you, if you see them go on tv, that means that they've decided they have to go with a lie. It's not just an ordinary lie. It's a big one, one that you could easily debunk with a few minutes of effort. But there are several people, from Swalwell to Raskin to Elizabeth Warren, who you could pretty much depend on, will say whatever lie needs to be said at the time. So, Elizabeth War. So Senator Josh Hawley has introduced legislation to ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks. The problem is that they have inside information. So if they were to trade stocks, they would be tempted to cheat, or we'd expect that they might cheat. So it's an ugly situation. It's. And of course, people blame Nancy Pelosi for insider trading, which she denies, even though it would be totally Legal Congress is the one entity that has legal right to do insider trading. And President Trump was asked about that. And apparently even Republicans don't like the idea that Hawley is putting forward the idea of banning Congress members from, from owning stock. But Trump was asked about it and he said, well, I like it conceptually. He said, I don't know about it, but I like it conceptually. I'm going to surprise you probably by saying I'm opposed to Hawley's legislation because people in Congress are not exactly overpaid. If anything, they're probably underpaid. And I understand that they have advantages, but I would handle it with transparency. Now, there are already, I think there's already a website or a startup or something that reports whenever Congress makes a trade so that you could match it. Now, there might be a timing problem that Congress can get in a few days before you know about the trade or something like that. But you basically know what the trade is. And if you wanted, you could match your own investments to be the same as the politicians. And then if they make money, you make money. I don't like taking a basic right away from politicians who are trying to serve the country. That's best case scenario. Do you think we should deny them the right to do the most basic financial thing that anybody does? It's pretty basic if the legislation says that they can own stocks, but only if they're in funds. So it's not about individual companies, it's about funds like the whole stock market. I definitely wouldn't have any problem with that because then they would, they would have some skin into the game of America. But no, I don't like this. I would rather have transparency. And if they have some insider information, you would have it too, because you'd say, oh, that one always uses insider information, which is legal, and that if you see the move, you just copy the move if it bothers you. Nancy Pelosi agreed to go on cnn. She thought she was going to be asked questions about the 60th anniversary of Medicaid. And that would give her, I guess, an excuse to say bad things about Republicans and Trump. So she goes on and Jake Tapper asked her about the idea of insider trading. And she had a bit of a meltdown over that. And she said, why do you have to read that? That's not what I agreed to come and talk about. So she got mad at the question. Don't you think that getting mad at that question is sort of a tell? Because if you put me in that position, I would say something like, well, I leave all my investing to my husband. We don't talk about work, which I'm sure is not true, but it'd be an easy way to defend yourself. And then you could say something like, well, you know, it's all public, it's all transparent. You can see exactly what stocks I buy and when. And if you wanted to copy it, you could. So I would say that her reaction that she wasn't being treated special by the news tells you something, doesn't it? She agrees to go on CNN and believe that she had successfully told them what they could and could not ask on a news program. And then, to his credit, Jake Tapper asked her. Anyway, she got mad. So Brown University is going to settle with the White House for $50 million that they're going to give to some workforce development organizations. So it's a settlement, but, you know, the money doesn't go into the. Into the government's coffers. It goes into some things that the government wanted them to put it into, which is good. Newsmax is reporting on this. And so that is how many. How many colleges now have decided to fund something that Trump wanted him to fund? So he's got law firms giving him money or giving his campaign money or doing some kind of pro bono stuff. He's got universities lining up to give him millions of dollars or at least put it into things that the Trump administration wants. So that's working. Newsmax is also saying that Elon Musk's America Party, that he threatened he would launch a third party political party, appears stalled. Now, I don't think we can conclude that because there's no super hurry to form it. So he might. He might still be, you know, asking around and doing some research. Maybe. We don't know. We don't know what he's thinking. But at least some people believe that he may have been threatening it to blow off his team and that he's now just fully committed to working on his companies and probably has no particular interest driving him to do that. Third party. I don't know. I feel like that could go either way. But if I were to predict, which I will, I predict he will not form the third party. I think he would prefer having it out there as maybe a risk in case people go after him, but probably he'll hold back. That's just my guess. Don't really know. Julie. Julie, don't be a piece of shit. Julie. Too late.