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But it happens. Now go. Oh, YouTube's not working. Damn it. No sound on YouTube, huh? Well. Or no video on YouTube either. You know, there was something that looked like it was missing when I signed up, and maybe that was it. See? Whoops. Wait a minute. I don't know what just happened. It looks like we're healed. Yes, we're healed. Life is good. All right, everybody. Now we're going to have a show if you're ready for that. Would you be surprised to know that there's a new meta study on coffee and health? And guess what? Once again, for the millionth time in a row, coffee is good for you. It's good for your cardio, your diabetes, your cancer, your respiratory disease, your liver disease, your kidney disease, your cognitive decline, and your Parkinson's. Yeah, it's all from coffee, but don't add too much sugar. And whatever crap you put in there that will take away all your benefits. Would you be surprised to know that there's yet another study on vitamin D and your health? How do you think that turned out? Vitamin D and your health. Do you think it's good for your health? Yes. They could have just asked me. Apparently, your telomeres, which are those things which shorten when you're aging quickly. They don't. They don't shrink as fast if you're doing your vitamin D. So make sure you get your vitamin D, people. Yep. I like to put my vitamin D in my coffee while I'm exercising. Get it all. You remember when we Were told that the Great Barrier Reef and all the coral was going to die because of climate change because it was just too warm for that coral to keep going. And then if the coral has a tough time, that affects the other stuff in the ocean and, well, the next thing you know, we're all dead. But it turns out that was a bunch of BS. According to the CO2 Coalition, the great Barrier Reef means had better times, but instead of going in one direction, it has recovered. And does anybody know why? Apparently it's one of those things that goes up and down and has been doing that for a long time. So doesn't look like climate change is affecting the coral reef yet. Well, Zero Hedge is telling us that half of American schools, they're doing what's called equitable grading instead of the usual kind. You know, the usual kind, if you didn't turn in your homework, you would be graded down. But if you have something called equitable grading, then homework, some people turn it in, some people don't. So. And then apparently, let's see what else you can also retake tests if you didn't do. Well, Gary the cat has decided to visit. All right, Gary gives him. Oh, hello. Don't knock over the microphone. No, don't knock it over, just purr into it. There you go. That's good. Are you picking up that purr? All right, all right. That's your part of the show, Carrie. Stealing the show, Gary, how am I supposed to follow a pet or a baby? You can't. They steal the show. If you're listening to this, I'm deeply sorry that you're missing the best part. All right. But what I was going to say is that half of those schools have equitable grading. So how do you. How do you suppose the students in those schools do when they know they don't have to do the homework and they can retake all the tests? Well, it turns out that they all do. Terrible. So equitable grading is just another way that the. Probably the teachers union is destroying the country, if not the whole world. Well, there's a problem, as you know, with fake science. And part of it is that there's fake science, but there's also fake scientific journals, did you know that? Especially useful for other countries where they don't have as much, you know, I guess, infrastructure built out for science. There are these fake publications that will say, if you give us $1,000, we will publish your paper and tell people it was peer reviewed, even though they don't actually peer review it. So a whole Bunch of papers like a lot of them got published that were not peer reviewed, they were just fake peer reviewed. But a bunch of computer scientists figured out how to use AI to look for the sketchy ones. Now those would just be the ones who are outright fraud. What we also know is that the ones that are not trying to be a fraud, about half of them turn out to be not reproducible studies. So these are two separate problems. One is that even if everybody's trying to do the right thing, more than half the time they fail. So that a peer review paper is just BS on top of that are these massive problem with frauds. It's not just like a little thing that happened a few times, it's massively integrated with the whole system that there's all these fake publications. So science is halfway to making yourself look like guessing. And right now, honestly, science is worse than guessing. Because guessing sort of a coin flip, you know, 50, 50. But if you add together all the problems with allegedly peer reviewed papers, probably more than half of them, you know, as in more than 50% are fake. So if you think that science is better than guessing, it's the other way around guessing. If you flipped a coin, you'd be right about half the time that either the study worked or it didn't work, or they proved their case or they didn't. You can't reach 50% with the current scientific process because there are too many frauds. It takes the average down below 50% is literally worse than guessing. Oh, well now I don't think that's literally true. Somebody will argue with my statistical approach to that.
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But if you want to hear the good news, if you've done a fake scientific study and you knew it, you knew it was fake and then you apply to one of the fake scientific journals. I think since both of you would be frauds, in that case it would be peer review because you're a fraud. So who better to analyze and review your paper? Another fraud. It's called peer review. Well, there's an article in the Washington times by Seth McLaughlin who's talking about, well, the title is that Feats of strength become the 2025 limits in Trump's era of masculine politics. And it's giving a bunch of anecdotes that are not terribly persuasive, but I think they lead in the right direction. You know, you know, P. Hegseth and Bobby Kennedy did the, did the push ups and everything, so, so everybody's in the Trump world. The idea here is that people are trying to be more masculine than other politicians are trying to keep up. So it's a, it's turning into a competition who's more masculine. And that's, that's true. But I would like to point out that the, the theme of fitness, it came from the MAGA voters and supporters, not from the top. So Trump is not really the driver of the manly stuff, although he goes to MMA fights and does manly things. But I think that a lot of his supporters were the pro physical feminist people. And so I think it trickled up. More than a trickle down. That's my take, that I think that started at the bottom and just became a thing. I don't think it was a thing before. There were some just persuasive pro feminist people on the right. I tried to do my, my best there. Apparently, Boston is experiencing more freed up rental property than in recent times. So it's somewhat easy to rent a place in Boston now. And that would be mostly, they believe, because of all the foreign students who were sent back and maybe other immigration actions. So I wonder if that'll happen in all the major cities. And could it be that Trump's immigration practices, Trump shipping people back, will it be enough that it will lower the price of rents? Because that would be huge. Could you imagine the, you know, the entire middle class, or at least the renting class finding out that suddenly things are, you know, more affordable? That'd be a pretty big deal. We'll see. You know, Boston's a college town, so maybe it was just the college effect. It won't, won't necessarily sp to every city. Well, according to the Gateway pundit, Joel Gilbert is writing, this is so perfect. So you know how Letitia James, she's one of the people who was accused of mortgage fraud for calling her second home, also a primary home. So if you're confused in the stories, the Lisa Cook, the Fed chief, is also accused of the same thing. So it's easy to get those two confused. But Letitia James allegedly, and I think this is not confirmed, but it was, you know, confirmed enough that the Gateway pundit published it. And the idea is that there's a family member who is staying at her secondary home, who is wanted by the department of. Is wanted by the authorities for what did she do charge? What was her crime? She's an absconder, whatever that means. Is wanted for violating probationary terms. So that would make her sort of a wanted criminal, if you will, in a way. But the interesting thing is if Letitia James knows that she's wanted by the law and she's harboring her in her home, that that would be a crime. So Letitia James, she's really going to regret that she went after Trump. Yeah, that. The thing about, you know what they always say, if you make, if you try to kill the king, you better make sure it succeeds because if the king finds out you took a run at him, it's going to be pretty bad. So that's what, that's what Letitia James is learning, that if you decide to law fair the president, you better get the job done. If you miss, it's coming for you. And I don't mind at all. You know, I don't like lawfare in general, but lawfare as revenge for lawfare, I'm all for it, 100% for it. Well, apparently there's what's being called a gold rush for podcast stars, so. So you already know that left leaning podcasters are getting paid by some big dark money group that, you know, wants to, wants to make sure they have their own Joe Rogan, but they can't get one. So they're going to pay a bunch of much lesser Joe Rogans and see if they could add them all together, I guess. And then there are some big media companies that apparently are talking to some big podcasters to see if they can kind of bring them under their brand and pay them way too much, millions of dollars. Apparently Sean Ryan reportedly is talking to some media entity that would pay him millions of dollars. And so apparently being a popular podcaster is a real good way to make millions of dollars. Unless you've been canceled for a rant. I'll tell you again that nobody's ever tried to bribe me. And I think nobody's even tried. Now, I wouldn't take a bribe to, you know, change what I do because I do it as much because I like it as I do it for the money. I mean, I can do other things for money, but I like doing this. So nobody's ever tried to bribe me. It wouldn't work. But you're not even going to take a, you're not even going to take a try so anyway, and you do wonder about the entities that are trying to take them over, because you know that they're going to control the content, not 100%, but no matter how independent they're supposed to be, there's got to be some clause in their contract that they can't have, you know, Hitler as a guest or whatever it is. So there's always going to be a little bit of, you know, independence lost if you have, if you're part of a big deal. But I do not begrudge anybody who takes, let's say, $10 million when they get offered. So that would not be a sin. It's all legal. Well, Tucker Carlson had some expert on his speaking podcast talking about antidepressants and mental health. And what this expert, whose name I did not write down, was saying that if you studied people who are depressed and you, you know, look at their blood and their. Their chemistry, it all looks normal. So they don't actually have less serotonin. That's just never been the case. So apparently the experts don't really know what causes somebody to be depressed. And according to this guy, he says that they just sort of give up and say, we'll just tell people it's a chemical imbalance because we assume it is. But nobody knows what chemical might be imbalanced. If you did, then you could give somebody whatever support is missing in theory, and it might affect them, but nobody, nobody can identify any chemical imbalance that you could fix. Now, I have a hypothesis which I checked with Grok just to make sure it wasn't crazy. So Grok did not confirm my hypothesis, but it's one I've had for a long time. It goes like this. Depression is a just low energy state, so that what you feel as depression is just the result of low energy. Now, what causes low energy, you know, could be a variety of things, I suppose, but have you, have you ever been really happy when your energy is really low and you just wiped out? Possibly, but usually not. Right. If your energy is low, you also feel ugh. And have you ever been depressed but at the same time your energy was great? You're like, oh, man, I got plenty of energy. I could go for a run. But you're also depressed. Not really, right? It's possible, I suppose, but the correlation between when your energy is good, you don't feel bad is pretty strong. So my hypothesis is that maybe even anxiety, because anxiety feels like it's just some irrational thing that popped up. But if you had lots of energy, are you usually feeling confident. You know, I suppose there's a frightened energy too that you could have, but if you had, you know, nice strong energy, you probably wouldn't feel nearly as anxious or as depressed. So what I wonder is, is there anything you can measure? Probably not, because we know that depression also causes a lack of energy. But I'll bet it's far more two way than medicine acknowledges. That's my hypothesis that if you could fix people's energy, they would have a better mental state. Now that's also consistent with the fact that when people exercise, they have better mental health, because that's been proven a million times what also happens when you exercise, you get better, cleaner energy, right? So all the indicators are pointing toward these mental health problems having some kind of a energy related element to it.
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See mintmobile.com did you know that only 37% of adults have sex weekly? Now when I say weekly, that's spelled W E E K L Y. I don't know the percentage of people who have sex weekly as in W E a K. But there must be some you want to have sex. All right, I'm done. Well, that was pretty weak. So some people do it weekly that way. I don't know how many, but the General social survey said 37% of it have it once a week. Only 37% and a quarter of people between 18 and 29 have not had sex in the past year. To which I say, isn't that normal? I. I would have imagined that at any time in my life a quarter of the people my age were not having any sex. That's what I thought anyway. But I checked on Grok and porn usage is way up and people are saying, aha, it's that porn usage that's causing less sex in the real world, is it? How many of you think that that's a real identifiable cause? There might be more than one. I believe there is. But how many think that porn is the reason that there's less real world sex. I wonder if it doesn't work the other way around. As in, if you've decided to not have real world sex or you're unable to get it, are you just going to go without or are you going to say, well, at least I can fall back on this. So I've got a feeling that a lack of access to sex is one of the things that makes people look at porn. You know, if you could have sex three times a day with your favorite partners or partner, how much porn would he even be interested in? I mean, you might, you might like a little just for a change of pace or something, but it's not gonna, you're not gonna be obsessed with it anyway. Maybe it's the phone usage too. There's a whole bunch of reasons people are less healthy. Blah, blah. Let's see. So we know now that the dark money, as I mentioned, is going from Democrats to a variety of left leaning podcasters and data. Republican figured out, you know, where the money's coming from and you can see it flowing through and getting to the podcasters. I don't believe that that exists for Republicans. Right. I believe that Republicans get their influencers the honest way, which is somebody just is good at what they do and they became a good influencer. Why is it that only one side of politics has legitimate, organic, talented influencers and the other side doesn't have any unless they're paid and even they're not breaking through? Is that a coincidence? I mean, that would be the biggest coincidence in the world, wouldn't it? That only one side of the political world can have a, like a really influential podcaster. I don't know. So I guess David Pakman is allegedly one of the people who's getting paid to be a podcast, they say. Well, speaking of sketchy things, apparently there was a ex postal employee who was in charge of being a postal investigator. So his job was to investigate mail fraud. Do you want to take a guess of what, what happened with the guy whose job it is to investigate mail fraud? I'll give you another hint. Part of his job is to figure out when somebody was being scammed with a mail scam. Which ones are those letters coming from? The people being scammed would have cash in them because apparently there's a scam where they get old people probably to mail them cash just through the mail. So the investigator told the people to look for certain kinds of mail that would have cash in it because they were victims of a scam. And then he told them Instead of delivering the cash to the fraudster, they should give all the envelopes with the cash to the US Postal inspector, the investigator. So do you think that the U.S. postal investigator upgraded his swimming pool? Yes, he did. Apparently, he was just keeping all the. He just. He was essentially, he was scamming the scammers out of their own money. So the victims still lost their money, but so did the scammer, and he was just. He was just living the good life. Oh, I'll tell you, if you ever want a good job, be a US Postal investigator. Guys, you're gonna have to send all of these highly illegal envelopes full of cash. Send them to me. All right, Trump, you probably heard there's some noise, some people saying that there's something wrong with Trump, but he apparently went golfing this weekend, and he's doing posts, and it looks like he's got an interview. So he doesn't seem to be deceased, in case you thought that. So that rumor was going around for a little while, but there does seem like there's something going on. So I'm definitely in the camp of saying, I wonder why he's going to be so quiet this weekend. And relative to Trump. So, you know, that plus the fact he's got, you know, swollen hands, and that's been a little bit unexplained. I am worried about him. I'm worried about him. So I'm officially concerned. It doesn't look like it's necessarily deadly or anything, but I'm concerned. But he was asked recently by the Daily Caller, I think Reagan Reese asked Trump if he'd be bothered if James Comey and John Brennan got handcuffed and arrested for their role in Russiagate and maybe other things. And Trump said, would not bother me at all now. And then he went on to say that four years ago or during his first term, you know, that he sort of shut down the lawfare, and he explained how, you know, Hillary Clinton obviously could have been, you know, arrested for something, and he decided to not let that happen. But then, now, now that we know so much about Russiagate and we know what all the bad people did pretty, pretty reliably, and specifically, we know what they did. And you can see, you know, the entire structure of the. The coup attempt. And I feel like what Trump's doing is softening up the room. I feel like, you know, one of the things you need to do is make sure there are lots of news stories about the things that. That his enemies did. So that's happened. So we've seen story after story in which they're implicated in the crime. So that's sort of softening the room, because if you just went, you know, hog wild and, and had your people arrest all of your critics, there's no way the country would put up with that. So first he has to make sure that everybody's at least aware that there are credible reports of all these people doing illegal things. Credible. Now, that doesn't mean you necessarily would arrest them all, but I feel like then the next thing would be for him to make you think about it. So when he says stuff like, it wouldn't bother me at all. You can really now visualize Brennan and Clapper and maybe even Obama literally in handcuffs being taken to the car, the perp walk. Now, that doesn't mean it will turn out that way, but it does mean that if you've seeded the stories in the press, which has happened, and then you also talk about it so that people imagine it like it's already happened and knowing that the wheels of justice are kind of slow. So if you imagine those guys getting arrested and you just keep imagining it for months, and then one day you turn on the TV and you see the thing you'd been imagining for months. Yeah, you, if you're a Democrat, you're definitely gonna pretend to have some feelings about that, but all your feelings will have sort of been dissipated by the fact that you've been thinking about it for months and it hadn't happened. And by the time it does, you have heard a million times what they're accused of, and you'll know that there are documents to back it up. So I feel as though the Trump administration, and Trump in particular, they have softened up the environment just right. Meaning that I believe that they can arrest these people if they have the goods and that the country would complain, but it's got a lot of down its plate. So as long as Trump is ending crime and closing the border and getting some tariff deals done, I think that the country is ready to see some of these bad guys arrested. So we'll see. I'm still going to bet against it, by the way. So if you want my prediction, there might be indictments. I'll say there will be indictments, but I don't think any of them are going to go to jail. I think they might be ruined by the process, but I don't know that they'll go for jail. Speaking of that, MSNBC had John Brennan on, and of course he was defending everything he did and saying Trump was terrible But I've never heard John Brennan sound so afraid. Just his voice. He seems completely guilty of and scared to death. And, you know, I can't read his mind. But certainly the things that we've seen that are, that are public would suggest he's certainly guilty and he should be very afraid of that because they have the goods on them and they're just making him twist, apparently. I mean, does he have to wonder if there's going to be a grand jury about him? JOHN BRENNAN yeah, I don't think he has to wonder. I'm, I'm pretty sure there will be a grand jury situation with him. Doesn't mean, yeah, it doesn't mean he goes to jail or anything. What do we got here?
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Yeah, so, yeah, Brendan just looks scared to death. And I don't know that you look like that if you're innocent. I mean, I guess some people who are innocent of like, like Caputo have been destroyed by the process. So I guess you could be afraid even if you were innocent. But I don't think that's what's happening in this case. Trump also said he's going to issue an executive order requiring voter ID for every vote and he's trying to get rid of mail in ballots the same way. Now, of course, any, any of that kind of stuff is going to go to immediately. There'll be lawsuits and we don't know how any of that will turn out. So he might not be able to have in the end any control over that directly, but let's say he did, or even if he didn't, here are the things that determine who gets elected in our fake system. Number one, if you're a Democrat, apparently the party leaders decide who's going to get nominated. So I think the whole nomination process is a little bit fake, as we saw the way Harris got nominated. So there's that. Then You've got these EOs about voter ID and mail in ballots. If those things are allowed, it probably gets you a different result than if they're not allowed. So is it the voters who are deciding or is it the existence of eos and whether the court said yes or no to the eo? What about the gerrymandering that will determine a lot. What about the fake news? But what about Mark Elias and all of his thousands of lawsuits and rule changes and stuff like that? That made a big difference. How about the podcasters and the law, the lawfare against, you know, some politicians, but not others? What about the opposition research? None of those things talk to the capability of the, of the people running for office, and none of them are anything like a democratic republic. It's all just rule attacks. So whoever gets to have the most influence on the rules of voting, somewhat reliably, will be in charge. So given that Trump has a majority in the Supreme Court, in theory, he can bend the rules and get away with it with the Supreme Court's approval until he's just got a dominant control position for the Republicans, which would be for the to lose. So that's what's happened. It. It's hard for, for me to even see anything like a democratic process. Are, are all of you that jaded? Are you as jaded as I am that our system of government really, it's not about citizens expressing their will? There's nothing like that happening. The, the citizens are assigned opinions by whatever news they watch. And then there's all these rule, all the people involved in changing the rules, who will determine which of those people win, because it's always amazingly, really close so that the, the rules changes are the determinant factors. So anyway, that's the world you live in. It's certainly not any kind of democratic republic or anything close to it. The Wall Street Journal is talking about the middle class squeeze, which means financially. And of course, people have been talking about that for a number of years now, because the middle class keeps getting hollowed out. But I feel like it may have maybe reaching some kind of a breaking point finally, because unless rent does go down a lot and food prices do go down a lot, and somebody figures out how to do child care, by the way, why does child care cost so much? Are there really no retired grandmas who would take, you know, three kids and charge you a fraction of what the professionals are charging? There's just, there's no way to work that out. I don't know. So the middle class is in trouble, and I don't know that things Trump is doing, while generally good things, in my opinion, I don't know if they're going to make enough difference fast enough, but they're in the right direction, so we'll see. I feel like there's some big response coming, and it will be something like, I talk about this Endlessly. Some kind of a Lego house that you can build yourself so that the cost of building is really low, or some kind of arrangement where people want to have babies are in a good shape. Gary, stop it. I don't know. We'll fix that. We'll fix that whole middle class problem. So one of the people who got ousted from the cdc, I forget if he. I forget if he was fired or he quit in protest. But anyway, he was the CDC vaccine chief, Dimitri Daskalakis, who apparently had a very colorful personal life, which is documented in social media. And, you know, I won't get into it because I'm not judgy, but I have to say, he's. He's an interesting guy. His social life looks like it's more interesting than yours, I will say. But he said that the crux of his concern about the CDC is that the data coming out soon will be showing that, quote, something is causing autism and that it will be blamed on vaccines. Do you think that's coming? Do you believe that RFK Jr. Is going to basically use fake science? Because he's not complaining that the data might be accurate. He's complaining that the data would be inaccurate and the science would not be good and it would connect autism to vaccines. That might happen. Anything is possible. But do you believe that RFK Jr would find it to his advantage to give the country fake science and then kill people by taking away their vaccines that hypothetically could be totally safe or safe enough? I don't know. I'm very curious. What is going to come out of this? To me, one of the biggest stories of the year will be when Kennedy comes out and says, well, we may not have every answer, but we have determined and we're positive that this or that or this is causing autism. That is going to be really, really a big deal. Like, a really, really big deal. Because for one thing, it might open up somebody to lawsuits. Right. If he finds out there's something in the food supply, whoever makes that thing or sells that thing, they got some. You're gonna have to answer some questions Anyway, so back to the story of Lisa Cook, the Fed governor. That's Trump fired. But she says she's not fired because he can't do that. So she said there, she's like Schrodinger's cat of Fed governors. She's both fired and not fired. And we won't know until we look in the box later. But what's interesting is that. Is it. I think it's Eli, not Ellie Honig. You See a legal expert. Whoops, don't step on that. Gary. He's a legal expert on cnn and I've always enjoyed his commentary because he's, he does the best job of taking the, the politics and the bias out of the legal discussion, which means somewhat frequently he will say something that sounds unambiguously like you heard it on Fox News. Now that's a compliment because it means that he's just following the law, where the law goes. And so he's not like, oh, we got double cats. I thought that was Gary, but that was Roman. So what was I talking about? So Ellie Honig is talking about Lisa Cook and does find that her, her activities with her mortgage, which again, is that two homes and calling them both the primary resident. So he does say that's kind of sketchy. And he thinks that a judge might agree with Trump that her behavior is within the domain of the President to decide if she's gone too far and that's cause for removal. So he's not saying that Trump is right. He's saying that the argument is strong enough that he can easily imagine a judge siding with Trump. Now that's interesting. And let's see. Yeah, yeah, apparently there are. I don't know if I should believe this or not. It's just something I'm seeing on social media. So tell me if these stories are fake or maybe they happened not recently. So I saw one report that there are anti immigration protesters in Osaka in Japan. Is Japan having any kind of a public revolt against the Japanese immigration process, which I think is loosening up? Is that true? But also I saw a video of many thousands of people doing some kind of anti immigration protests in the uk and apparently that involves, you know, carrying a lot of flags. So protesting and the flag is part of it. Now, is that true or is that just something that happened in one town that one time? Is there a major uprising in the uk? Because I don't, I don't know that it's major, but it's happening. I mean, there's definitely some uprising. I, I feel like it's too late for the uk. This is something they should have done years ago. And I'm starting to think that the only democracy that's going to survive is one that has a Trump. If you don't have a Trump, there's not somebody willing to literally risk their life and their freedom to change things. And that's what it takes. I mean, you literally have to risk your life and your freedom to make a difference in any of the immigration or that stuff. But there are also, there are reports, so maybe this is all related, that for the first time in modern history, according to the Wall Street Journal, populist conservative parties are leading the polls in all three of Europe's biggest economies, the uk, France and Germany. So do you think that's the thing? Do you think the Conservatives will win in all three countries and then clamp down on immigration? I don't know. Maybe. But I don't know if it might be. Like I said, it's probably just too late. I think all those countries are essentially going to be different countries. I'll just say that.
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Anyway, Governor Pritzker, some say, is slimming down. Maybe he's taking one of those, whatever those fat reduction drugs are, but that's good for him. If he's getting healthier, that's great. Some say it's in preparation for running for president. Maybe. Do, do you think that Governor Pritzker looks at his own chances and says, yeah, yeah, I could be the next president? Because I don't see that. I don't think he has the charisma the kind that you need. I think he's got Chris Christie charisma, which is really good up to about the state level. And it just, yeah, it's like Tim Walsh, Tim Walsh has state level charisma. It just doesn't have national charisma. Gavin Newsom, I hate to tell you, has national charisma. Now, he's not my choice, but he's, he's not limited by his charisma to a state level. Like, he doesn't have a cap. He's got the kind of game you could very easily just imagine seeing him in the White House. Unfortunately. I hate the fact that I can so easily imagine it, but he does have the game to get there under the right conditions. Apparently Indonesia's having major protests in the streets over, I guess, the economic disparity, the difference between the elites and the average people. And the average people are trying to rise up. But apparently there was, as part of one of the demonstrations, there was a moment when a armored vehicle accidentally ran over One of the protesters who was also, you know, a middle class worker kind of guy, a ride hailing driver. And if you're already having street protests about the elites, you know, not caring enough about the middle class, you really don't want to have a money truck running over one of the protesters. That's like the worst look you could ever have a money truck run. You know, the money, of course, belonging mostly to the. The elites, one assumes. So it's just a bad look. But what? I don't know. And now I'm curious because I'm so jaded. Do you think that if it's true that Indonesia is having these big street protests, do you think they're organic or do you think that there's a country doing a color revolution on Indonesia and it doesn't mean it's us. It could be China using the same, you know, the same color revolution tricks. Now that the color revolutions largely involve, they involve a number of things, you know, controlling the media and. Ow, Cap. Oh, cap. Biting my toes. Ow. But definitely they always have to include street protests so that the other citizens believe. Oh, protests are, you know, ordinary people like me are rising up against the leaders. So you don't get that look unless you've got people in the street. So I always assume that people in the street is always fake. Okay, I'm really getting eaten alive here. Which cat is doing that? Is that you? Which cat? I don't know. I think that's Roman. Roman's the toe biter. All right. Separately, New York Post is reporting that at least some people believe, based on a UK based report, that by the Harry Jackson Society. You know the Harry Jackson Society? No, it's a Henry Jackson. Harry Jackson is actually a sexual reference. So what'd you guys do last night? Oh, man. Had a couple of drinks and next thing you know, we're doing the Harry Jackson. All right, but that has nothing to do with the story. It's really the Henry Jackson Society as determined that Iran's Islamic Republic is getting close to collapse and civil war. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Iran's government is close to collapse? I don't know. It feels like the thing that you say when you want to make them collapse. I just don't think that Iran has that energy to overthrow their current government. Maybe, but I'm going to say probably not. Trump also told Daily Callers Reagan Reese that he thinks a trilateral meeting with Ukraine is likely. In other words, Putin and Zelensky and Trump, the three of them. But he thinks that a bilateral is less likely, the kind where Zelensky and Putin meet. Now, I've told you this before, I haven't really seen anybody else say it. So you can tell me, is this just really obvious? Is everybody saying it? Because it's so obvious. Here's what I think. I think that Zelensky and Putin, because they've probably almost certainly tried to kill each other, I'll bet you both of them have green lit plans to kill the other. How do you put them in a room? Like even, even, you know, even if you say, But I'm an analogy thinker. And it reminds me of an analogy of other leaders who once got together, like FDR met with Stalin, to which I say, did Stalin try to kill fdr? Did FDR ever try to kill Stalin? Or were they just, you know, they were bad guys but we had to work with them to win a war. There's not really an analogy for that. Can you think of any situation in which the two leaders who genuinely tried to kill each other and essentially did great damage to each other's countries, can you put them in a room without anybody else? I don't think he can. I think that their hatred and distrust of each other would go so deep that there's just nothing that good that could come from it. But if you throw Trump in the room, then he has that way of making everything about him and then suddenly it's two people concentrating on Trump. Which might work. It might work. I'm not really optimistic about it, but it would work better than the bilateral. So I don't think there's any chance of a bilateral meeting. I think everybody knows it'd be a waste of time. Might make things worse. Well, did you know that more than 60% according. Also new York Post is writing about this. More than 60% of Gen Zs, the American Gen Zs, support hamas over Israel. 60% of Gen Z supports Hamas, not just the Palestinians. Bahamas. What? What? If I were the leader of the adl, I would declare that I had failed completely in trying to improve the reputation of Israel. All right, I got multiple cat situation going on here, but that's, that's pretty amazing. 60%. And then at the same time that they. Oh, come on. Off the keyboard. Separately, but related. The Israeli government is reportedly, according to people who have knowledge of the inside conversations, the Israeli government is reportedly debating annexing part of the occupied West Bank. And it might be a big part, like 60% of it or something. To which I say, as I always remind you, I don't have advice for Israel. It's not my country. And I also don't believe that my sense of ethics or morality or what's good for my country should have anything to do with what they do. I mean, it's entirely their business. So we're observers, cats, we're observers on this. We're not participants. Even if you wanted to be a participant, you're not. You don't get a vote. Nobody cares if you're mad about it. You're just not a participant. We're just watching. So here's what I observe. Whether or not annexing the west bank and making sure that there's never a two state solution and if it is, that the second state is just a little bit of a nothing. So no matter whether you think that's a good idea or a bad idea, I'll tell you what is true. There's never been a better time to do might be a bad idea. Like it might just cause, you know, so much trouble that you wish you'd never done it. It might be a bad idea, but there's definitely not going to be a better time to do that bad idea. So if they feel lucky, and I don't know if they do, they might make a run at it. If I had to predict, I'll predict that they don't. I'll predict that they debate it but decide the risk is too high because they need to wrap up Gaza and they can't. Probably don't want to open up a whole extra can of worms right now. So at the same time it's no better time for them to do it. And the reason I say that is that their reputation is so bad already if the gen Zs are 60% in favor of Hamas, that it's not going to get much worse. And there's so much happening there that it's a good sort of confusing environment where there's too much to talk about. Then you can sneak in the, the stuff that people don't like because there's just so much to talk about that people don't like that there's just one more thing. So I'm not recommending it. That's not, that's not advice. I'm just saying as an observer, probably there'll never be a better time and it could be a disaster by the way. There's, there's a real strong chance it would be just disastrous, but never a better time. So I'd, I'd hate to be trying to make that decision. All right, ladies and gentlemen look at me. I stretched that out until it was almost exactly one hour. I got quite the game. If you are a subscriber to Owen Gregorian's X account, he's got a spaces just for you, just for the people subscribe to him. People follow him. Followers, not subscribers. The people who follow him on X. So that'll happen after the show, and I'm going to talk privately to the beloved members of Locals, and we're gonna play with my cats a little bit. We're starting to fight now. One cat is starting to fight, and the other one is trying to ignore him. Guess which one is instigating the fight. That's right. It's Gary. Yep. Gary's trying to instigate a fight on my note. All right, I'll let you all watch that for a minute. This will be your moment of Sunday's end. Cats wrestling. I watch this so much during the day. Oh, don't fall off. You gonna fight back? You're just gonna let your brother bitch? There you go. I love the paw on the head. I knight you, Sir Kenton. All right, now, don't you think some media company should be offering me $10 million for my podcast for this content? You've never seen better. Can David Pakman do this? No. Can Tucker Carlson do this on his podcast? No. No. I'm the only one. Cat fights. All right, that's enough of that. Locals, I'm going to come at you privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. Got some surprises for you, Sam.