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Chapter 1: What is the significance of coffee for cognitive performance?
Thank you, Paul. I never feel totally comfortable until I see you tell me that the audio and video are working. All right. Would you be surprised to know that there's a new study that says coffee is good for you? I know. It's not like I don't have one every single day, but this one is...
Coffee consumption correlates with better cognitive performance and less inflammation if you've had a stroke, according to the American Heart Association. So if you have a stroke and you wake up in the hospital, ask for coffee. Also, if you didn't have a stroke, and you wake up in the hospital, ask for coffee. Also, if you didn't go to the hospital and you feel perfectly healthy, ask for coffee.
Chapter 2: How does vitamin D relate to inflammation?
All right. I think you get the picture. Did you know that low levels of vitamin D is a big cause of chronic inflammation? So if you put your vitamin D right into your coffee, your inflammation doesn't have a chance. You know what I wonder is, do we really know how much vitamin D is the right amount? Do you ever wonder, does every single human need the same amount? What's going on with that?
So anyway, it'll cause your inflammation to go down. And it might, if you have inflammation, it can lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders. So make sure you've got lots of vitamin D. Here's the good news, that obesity dipped in the U.S. for adults for the first time in more than a decade. Let me see.
Let me check to see if the simulation, did the simulation write this or was it a legitimate news entity? Let's see. What's the name of the reporter who's talking about people losing weight? Denise Chow, C-H-O-W. Okay, really? The reporter who is writing about eating too much? Her last name is Chow? Come on. That's too on the nose for the simulation. But yeah, this is mostly because of the Ozempic.
How many of you have noticed Ozempic people? Have you noticed you can kind of spot them? There may be people in your life who for the entire time you've known them have had some struggle keeping the weight off and now they just look great. And you're just like, hmm, I think that's a little Ozempic right there. So I'll tell you one thing.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Ozempic trend?
I definitely do not doubt that the Ozempic helps people lose weight. No doubt about it. In fact, it might be one of the most successful drugs in terms of the efficacy that i've ever seen i mean it's amazing i do worry about any side effects but i suppose we'll find out now how many of you uh are on x and saw that i posted a a shirtless selfie of myself at the beach uh that looked a little too good
Did anybody notice that? I put at the top, haters will say this is AI. And of course it was AI. I hate to break it to you. But I didn't think anybody would believe it. But based on the comments, probably a good 25% of the people who saw it thought that I'd been really working out well. And the photo, I'm not going to show it to you because some people will just puke when they see it.
The photo was basically somebody who really, really worked out a lot. And I'm pretty fit for my age. But no, that wasn't me. So in case you're wondering. But here's the reason for bringing it up at all. Oh, there it is. It's in the comments. If you're on locals, you can see it in the comments. What's interesting is that people ran it through A.I.,
to get AI to tell them if it was a real photo or AI. And I think people ran it through Grok for Grok to determine if it was AI. And Grok said, no, probably not. 70% chance it's real. I think it was made by Grok. I think Grok made an image that was so good that Grok couldn't tell that Grok made it. I think that's what happened. I didn't make the image myself, but I think it was Grok.
Anyway, there was a tornado in California in a place called Scott's Valley. Now, if you think to yourself, Scott, I didn't even know you had your own valley. Well, I do, but that's not what this is. There is a place called Scotts Valley that has nothing to do with me, which seems wrong. It should have something to do with me. But there was an actual tornado.
Some people say there was one touchdown here in California in 2005 or something, but didn't make a lot of news, I guess. So I still don't know if that freight train sound that I heard yesterday was a tornado trying to touchdown where I live. but I've never heard anything like it, and some of the neighbors think that's what it might have been. I don't know. Don't know.
It could have been just thunder that didn't sound like regular thunder for some reason. Meanwhile, in Japan, they've developed a drug that can regrow human teeth, like in your body. So you take a shot... and your adult teeth grow back in, if they're not there, I guess. But what if you already have adult teeth? Does the new stuff push the old teeth out? Hmm, I have questions.
How can your body know when to grow a tooth and when not to? Wouldn't it grow teeth everywhere and then just push your old ones out, like baby teeth get pushed out? Well, I don't know that. But apparently it's a real thing. It's already developed and it's already tested.
And they showed a reporter, a reporter who was looking at her own teeth and was like, oh my God, there's two new teeth just started growing. I don't know. I'm not, I'm not sure I totally believe that. Now the purpose is for people who have lost teeth. The purpose is not for somebody who has already a full, a full mouth of good teeth. Anyway.
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Chapter 4: What happened with the ABC News and Trump lawsuit?
We now have on record that the prosecutor that was the boyfriend of Fannie Willis, so she chose her boyfriend, and the boyfriend started colluding with the White House, and he had to admit that to the House Judiciary Committee, that he met with White House staff several times. and that he had to brush up on RICO law. So is that as damning as it looks to me?
Is this a case where there's more chance that the prosecutor will go to jail than the accused? I think at this point there's more chance that the prosecution will go to jail than Trump. And I think we all knew this. Yeah. Trump has so far the best third act. The only thing we need is proof that any one of our elections were recently rigged.
If he gets that, which he doesn't have, but if he gets that, there's your third act. Meanwhile, Daniel Penny was invited to the Army-Navy game, and I guess Trump was there and Elon was there and Some other top ranking Republicans were there. And here's what I love about this. Here's what I love about it. I don't think this is good for Trump's anything. It was just the right thing to do.
That's what I love about it. I don't think Trump... Because Trump, remember, he doesn't have to run again. I think this is just something that you will be disliked a little bit more by the people who already dislike him. But it's just simply the right thing to do. And I really love that. I love seeing the right thing get done. I love seeing justice. I love seeing...
Daniel Penny come out not just even, but ahead. I hope it comes out ahead. And everything about this is good. Just great. Meanwhile, pollster Ann Seltzer, you remember her. She was the pollster who said that Kamala Harris was like way ahead in Iowa. And it was such an outlying number that people wondered if she intentionally was lying and faking her own poll.
Well, she's here to tell you that she did not do anything untoward or unethical. But I'd like to read you her actual words. So remember, she's being accused, this is Ann Seltzer, a pollster who recently retired, but she was accused of kind of intentionally faking the poll. And she goes on a show, a local Iowa show, to make sure that you know that she would never do anything like that.
But listen to the exact words she uses when she denies it, okay? And what I want you to look for is where she denies it. So I'm going to read you her denial and then see if you can find a denial in the denial. You ready? So listen carefully. Try to find the denial. And she said, and the allegations I take very seriously, those would be the allegations that she somehow rigged her own poll.
They're saying that this was an election interference, which is a crime. So the idea that I intentionally set up to deliver this response, when I've never done that before, I've had plenty of opportunities to do it. It's not my ethic. But to suggest without a single shred of evidence that I was in cahoots with somebody, that I was being paid by somebody.
It's all just kind of, it's hard to pay too much attention to it, except that they're accusing me of a crime. What's missing? The denial. There's no denial. She's just saying that the situation is such that she shouldn't have been questioned. That's not a denial. She's saying that if she did that, it would be opposite of her ethic. which is not a denial.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding Ann Selzer's polling?
There's not this vaccine that's been tested adequately. He does say that, right? So, of course, it is also fair to say that he doesn't know that any of them are safe and effective. He doesn't know because they haven't been tested to his level of satisfaction or mine either.
And there's a thought out there that the polio vaccine may not have been eradicating polio, but it just sort of happened at exactly the same time that there were some changes in the world about hygiene and cleaner water, washing your hands or some damn thing. Now, I suspect if this were studied, you would find that the polio vaccine works.
But have they all been studied to the level that you would be satisfied with? Well, here's what Chris Hayes says. He says, quote, Kennedy was like, they should be studied. I was like, I think we've got the studies. Like, I think we've studied it pretty damn well. Do you see how I added the theatrical part? See, I'm going to say it again, but I'm going to act like Kennedy's really dumb.
Kennedy's like, they should be studied. I'm like, we've got the studies. Like, we've studied it pretty damn well. We've studied it pretty damn well. Do you know what the truth is? None of them are a double bind study, which is the only gold standard study.
So then Chris A. says, quote, the other thing is that we do randomized controlled trials and double-blind randomized controlled trials in the process of approving all the time. That is how we get them. That is how we know they're safe and effective. None of that's true.
That's Kennedy's whole point, is that people think, and I thought this, I always believed that they did some kind of randomized double-blind trial. Nope. Nope. They do not do a randomized double-blind trial, not typically, and not even often. The reason you can't do a double-blind trial probably is because you can't leave some people untreated or something like that.
Anyway, so MSNBC is telling its audience that the vaccines are not only safe, they've been studied pretty damn well, and they are the subject of randomized controlled trials and double-blind randomized trials. Almost none of this is accurate, according to RFK Jr., as best I understand his claims. So do you think that MSNBC depends on any drug companies for their funding? I don't know.
Or maybe it's just automatically you have to disagree with anything that's good for Trump. I don't know. So my personal opinion on vaccines is, Almost certainly some of them are good for you. Almost certainly not every one of them is good for you. That's all I know. But we'll find out.
Mark Andreessen has been talking about the collapse of a preference cascade, or maybe it's just without the collapse part, a preference cascade. And this is a kind of an interesting concept that I've not heard before, but immediately embraced.
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Chapter 6: How does the concept of a preference cascade work?
If they knew, they really knew that there was some nuclear weapon of mass destruction, that a terrorist had moved onto the mainland of the United States, if they knew it, they'd be looking longer than 11 p.m. 11 p.m. seems like when you quit because nobody wants to work too long and work overtime. That feels like more of a business-as-usual situation. It doesn't sound like an emergency situation.
And then there's also the question of what they can detect. So apparently the drones can detect radiation. But it's far less likely they could detect, let's say, a nuclear warhead that was shielded properly. So if it's something shielded properly, there's no way they're going to detect it. But if it was some external radiation problem, but also chemical and biological weapons.
So apparently some of the drones can detect chemical warfare. Now, would they really need to do that, though? because people would be dropping like flies if they had already been deployed. Or is it possible that if anybody had shipped any of those things into the country, that it's never completely secure, so maybe they could sniff it out?
Because it's not like the biological stuff would necessarily be perfectly sealed by the bad guys. So here's the bottom line. Can we rule out business as usual, ordinary testing on the military? I'm going to rule that out. And by the way, that was my first choice. But it's gone on too long, and the public is way too panicked for them not to say, oh, it's almost over. Don't worry.
We did a little testing. We can't tell you why we had to do it over a residential area. But trust us, if we hadn't done it over a residential area, we'd be a little bit weaker as a military, and the testing gave us a lot of good information.
We can't tell you more than that, but we do have drones that can operate in deserts and overseas, and now we know that they can operate in our most dense populated areas. We didn't want to tell you what we were doing because then the adversaries would check it out, something like that. I'm not going to buy that. It doesn't completely fit.
So what about the one where they're trying to detect some kind of problem? To me, that seems pretty likely that they're trying to detect. But I don't really see them operating in a way that looks like they're detecting in a organized grid-like pattern. The flights seem a little bit more random than that, although they do seem to go from ocean to land.
They don't appear to be doing anything, any kind of a grid. I mean, we would notice that if they were doing some kind of an extended grid-like pattern, which is the only thing you do if you're looking for something. So it doesn't seem like they're looking for something in the way that you would expect them to act if they were looking for something.
Now, somebody smart said that if they were looking for radiation, that's why they would do it at night. Because at night, the sun is on the other side of the Earth, and apparently the sun gives a little background radiation that makes it harder to detect the stuff you're looking for. But just being at night doesn't seem enough to go for the radiation. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What theories exist about the recent drone sightings?
if the military did it, or the military simply was doing some training exercises that had the terrible, terrible effect of making it impossible to know what the real threat was versus all the drones in the air. So if this is what it looks like, and of course it probably isn't because we're just guessing, if it really is some kind of way to complicate things
or make a mass event, casualty event possible. We really have a problem with their military, if that's the case. But I don't think, I'm not ready to embrace that theory yet. But we do know, let's see, Senator Chris Smith of New Jersey, say massive invasion, and he says some are circling military bases and shadowing Coast Guard boats. I don't know if any of those kinds of stories are real.
The types of stories I don't believe are that an orb transmogrified into a fixed wing plane, because I watched one on video that did that, and all it is is when the big light that's shining in your eyes gets close enough, you can see the rest of the vehicle. It's not transforming, it's just you can see it better when it's close. So I think the transmogrifications are fake.
I think that when people say they saw it come out of the ocean, it didn't literally come from underwater, I doubt. I think it was on a ship parked off the coast, which is the ordinary way it happens. So it would be ordinary if there was a military ship with some drones on it that could do this that was parked off the coast of New Jersey. That would be just ordinary. Let's see, what else?
What about the drones following the Coast Guard? Well, it's possible that it's one of those. It's possible that they weren't following it. They just happened to be going in the same direction for a little while. It's possible that that was part of the training, just to see if they could follow something. It's possible that they were testing some sensors.
to see if they could send something on the Coast Guard boat, and it was just a test. That seems unlikely. Seems like they would have told the Coast Guard. So I would say anything that's off, everything that's off the basic things we know for sure, you should not trust. The things we know for sure, I think, it's military, it's fixed wing, probably there are VTOL kinds that can hover in one place.
Probably it's something new. And probably our top military knows what it is. That's all we know. All the weird stuff, you know, the glowing orbs and the things that, it's probably just bad photography and old video and some combination of other stuff. And then State Senator John Bramnick on NewsNation
He said, quote, there must be something going on that they can't tell us because they're so fearful of what the public's going to do when they hear what the drones are doing. Or the real test is what happens to the public if they don't know what's going on up there. So it could be a psychological operation to just find out how we react. Maybe. I don't know. So
And then we hear that the government might be lying about these drones never being in restricted airspace. Because according to Michael Schellenberger, they have been. They have been in restricted airspace regularly. Like routinely they're in restricted airspace. So does that make sense if they're just doing a test?
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