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So, if we, if we, like, say, we, we turn. the straight into American you know, American territory. Can we make like a party cove? I really need another place to boat. You know, like Lake Meads were low and and and then like you know, it I don't know if I want to go down to the keys 'cause you got hurricanes, all it's beautiful there.
But it's like every time I even think about going there, there's a hurricane. I'm not even kidding.
So I kid you not. Every time.
So I'm just like, maybe we could go. You know, it's real, you know, like deserty, it's real, you know, cool. We could take that over and we could turn that into like a party cove, you know. I like a little American flotilla. You start getting American boaters going there, you ain't never getting that straight back.
Energy or not, I don't care. Never gonna go. That's all you need to do. Just get you some good old boys that go up there. They'll come up with their own way to deal with the drone attacks.
I promise. It's like. People don't realize it's like free ski for us, man. I'm saying Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you.
We're at the top of this first hour. Yeah, the la Guys, it's a slow news cycle.
So we got some silliness today. I'm not even going to lie to you. Uh the latest with Iran, Trump's like, it's ours, bees. Mm-hmm.
Well, it's what it's basically what he's saying. He's like, that's straight. You like that straight so much? A pretty little stars now. What are you going to do about it?
What's good? He just, that's all he needs to say. That's all extra he needs to say. And Whether or not we keep it, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of the big thing.
So the latest, you got the Houthis also in Yemen that are, and that's, why do we even say, stop, stop, stop, stop. Why do we even say the Houthis anymore? It's Iran. It's Iran. It's another Iranian Little Island of Misfit toys down there.
that are hell-bent On creating problems.
So they're trying to create more problems for us all.
Now I'm not a fan of that because if my gas prices increase anymore, I'm not going to be pleased. Dana, why do you drive a gas guzzler? Because it's America and I want a big giant car that makes everyone think that I am a big giant man. How about that?
So the latest Iran Beck Houthis could threaten the coast along the Red Sea choke point. The rebels have stepped up a text. I'm tired of these little. Dudes. I'm tired of them.
Almost said something different because sometimes you get real comfortable on camera and you kind of forget sometimes that you're on camera. Like I just did and But I'm tired of these little dudes. They're like, um, who am I thinking of in Star Wars? They they walk in single file so as to disguise their numbers. Who am I thinking of?
The uh it's like a Star Wars No, no, that's oh my go. Porg. Porg they're not the porg. I don't know. I should know this, but I know Star Trek more.
The uh They're like the the the uh Oh, I'm not going to move past this topic. Tuscan Raiders.
Okay. The portion of the paper.
Well, basically, or is it a Jawa? No, Jawas and Tuscan Raiders are different. They're two different native sentient species on Tatooine. But I don't know which one that they said they walk side by side. I don't know why this is a big thing with me, but that's what the Houthis are.
All you need to know. There's basically like little damned Jawas over there running around, you know, trying to send up their trash can drones at us. Tired of it. This is All of these people complaining about America's strength with foreign policy, especially these post-liberal female copulatory organs, these little sissies out there that are complaining about America's strength. Dear God in heaven, and I don't say that blasphemously, I mean it.
You should be on your knees thanking the good Lord above that it's not President Dana Lash, because President Dana Lash would be like, you turn to glass, you turn to glass, you turn to glass, you're cool. Glass. That's Yeah, good night. We're good here. We're done.
And then everybody gets guys get no more taxes anymore. No more taxes. Get any gun you want. If anyone tries to arrest you, I'll arrest them about that. And also anybody that crosses the border, I'm gonna start just, you know.
Where You crossed the border illegally. I'm just going to say open season for everybody down south. No, go ahead. Go to unprotect the border. We're going to make it a citizens, little citizens.
Uh a sovereign brigade down there that's gonna go guard the border. That's all I'm saying. You were literally thinking of porg. From the Yeah. Sequels, sequels.
Little things, and that's the first thing that came to mind. That are in the desert. These porg are actually based off of weird puffins. No, because they're dumb. I pretend they don't.
I pretend that whole thing doesn't exist. With little Miss Mary Sue Ray. And then it's Palpatine's Kid. Come on.
Sorry if I spoiled it for you, but you shouldn't be watching that trash anyway. Everything that Disney touches turns to do-doo, so let's just, you know, move on.
So anyway, the Houthis are back at it. I know Ron is shaking their Shepherd Saber. I don't know. And Trump is saying, look, the talks have come to an end. The talks came to an end a long time ago.
They came to an end a long time ago. This is the time that the United States needs to tell the rest of the world: put up or shut up. If you're not over there helping with us, you best shut up or you're going to get slapped. Like, you know, what POTUS was saying to Oman. I like that.
You're talking sideways? You're gonna get hit. Right? You talk blank, get hit. That's the saying.
You know why it's the saying? Because it's true. That's why.
So, Trump's signaling the end to talks with Iran. Does he really have to? The memorandum of understanding, which precipitated the beginning of a 60-day ceasefire of military operations, is officially DOA. I love how everyone's pretending that it's dead now and it wasn't dead, like even before its inception, because you have one party that is not serious about this at all. They're just using the pause as a way to rebuild and rearm.
That's it.
Now POTUS says that he has a back channel to the IRGC. The IRGC are saying, well, we don't think that's true, but not everyone is saying that. There was a senior Iranian official that told Reuters on Monday that Tehran shifted from a defensive posture to fully offensive. You gonna send more trash can drones over? I'm sorry, it's goofy because it's a slow news cycle, and I can't stand these people.
So don't expect me. This is as mean as I can get without getting fined, so just indulge me. But they said they're prepared to escalate if diplomacy diplomacy was never begun. You never even intended to have any kind of serious diplomatic effort in the first place.
So, Iranian officials said that Iran would conduct a timely and precise military attack aimed at breaking the blockade of Taq's collapse. Try. Try it. See how well that goes out for you, Wink. See how well that works out for you.
You know, I was reading the other day. And this is true, by the way, what they say about Second Amendment people. We took some friends of ours that were not from the United States to the range yesterday. And they were like, it is a whole culture over here. And they loved it.
Like, they immediately wanted to just simmer in it. They loved, and then they couldn't believe, like, you know, when you go to the range, and we were at an indoor range, I didn't go to my outdoor one because it's hot as all get out. It's like 1110 degrees outside. That's a real thing.
So we're at Texas Gun Experience, which is just the best range in DFW area, but don't go there so much to the point where I can't go get a lane.
So we were at Texas Gun Experience, and they were just, they were so excited. And whenever you go to the range, you always, at least with me, you always run into people you know. And then it ends up being kind of like a class reunion or a family reunion or some kind of reunion, however you want to look at it. And our friends were just like flipping out. They could not, they.
In there, where they come from. Hunting is not a thing, and full auto, people with full auto, is not a thing unless you're enlisted, right?
So Brought out some full auto, brought out a bunch of NFA toys, and they just had, they enjoyed it a lot. They thought it was a lot of fun. And they could not believe the number of people that go in the range and they're like, hey, you want to shoot this? You want to shoot my legion? You want to shoot this?
You want to shoot this rifle? Everybody was so cool. And they had the best time.
So the reason I say this. is because you remember a couple days ago we were talking about The one report where it said that the IRGC was talking about maybe perhaps, you know, triggering like sleeper cells or something like that in the United States. Dear sweet heavens. Do you know how You would be playing into the Christmas fantasy of so many different people in the 2A community. Like, you know, the weekend work, we'd like literally go and like do drills and train for stuff like this.
I mean, I've also gone to Oklahoma in the winter and trained in like 30-something degrees with hail and sleet at 3 in the morning, sleep deprived, just to see what I could do, because that's what we consider fun. But. I digress. You start popping off sleeper cells. You're gonna make every good old boy and good old girl out there, you're gonna make their day.
Because they want nothing more than to have like Warner Brothers open season on some Terrys. It's gonna be like Drax That's Glounce Kane. It's going to be just like that. Only half of you know what that means because I've abused that clip to 16 ways to end.
So This I just don't know what they think that they're going to do here. What else do they have? And the United States, I know that we're amping up. economic pressure. And I know that Scott Besant is Preparing some kind of like economic package or economic, a bunch of penalties, right?
He's just getting a bunch of whips together. Go ahead. And We'll see if that, because it takes time. We talked about that yesterday with Stephen Yates. That takes time.
It's that takes a lot of time. Do we have that kind of time? Does the President d do do Republicans have that kind of time? Is we you know, shorten the runway here. going into midterms, especially with so many tight races happening.
So CENTCOM reinforced POTUS's Tuesday's his statement that was yesterday statement that he had earlier this morning. It said they started showing their Seahawks, their choppers over the flight deck of the USS Mason. as the ship enforces America's steel wall blockade against Iran. I just think that if for every one of our soldiers that they hurt, we should kill 50 of theirs. I feel like that's a good trade.
I feel like that's a good trade, right? That's a good trade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, that's what, that's, that's how, and POTUS is kind of, well, just pretty much verbatim intimated as such. But Scott Besant's Operation Economic Fury, which I love the fact, first off, I like that we have a Treasury Secretary that's actually fully flexing the office of the Treasury, because you know it's an ATSEC issue as well.
And that's how it's all, that's also how it's structured within the government. But also, we can do stuff like this. Brad Essex over at Red State has a real good write-up of Operation Economic Fury, the $1 billion crypto raid. Scott Besson is, he's mean as all get out. I love it.
He's a mean dude. He's gay and lives in a pink house and literally punches people out in the Oval Office. You've heard all those stories, right, Kane? Man literally whoops up people in the White House.
So he, I'm not joking, he's literally gotten into two fist fights. in the White House and people are like he just like he'll just punch you.
So Yeah.
So he has, he's increasing the sustained pressure campaign against Iran because we've seized a billion in crypto. Tied to the regime, and that's what is part, that's just part of Operation Economic Fury. as we move. The folks who help make the program possible, it's Alliance Defending Freedom, a great organization that is the tip of the spear. In the courtroom, in state capitals, fighting for our rights.
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Alright, so first up, what do we got here?
Well, we got a Portland homeowner who returned from rehab to find a bunch of squatters and 50,000 tires on his property. This dude, an immigrant, came to the United States the corrupt way, right? Dude comes home. He's in the hospital. He was preparing it to be rehabilitated.
He's going to get his own rehab stuff done himself, like health-wise. When he comes back, he finds tens of thousands of old tires all over the place. Squatters broke into his house and they graffitied it.
So I got a two word solution for you. Smoke bomb. Right? Bust up in the house. Another two-word solution.
Flash bang. Super easy. Right? Get it cleaned up. I would actually, the guy, I watch the videos, and the guy who goes out and gets these squatters out, and it is one of my favorite.
I wish this, I don't know why he doesn't have a television show, it's just this because TV is stupid. But it is fascinating to watch when these people meet somebody with bigger beans than they do. Man, but yeah, the guy says that the cleanup is going to be over a hundred thousand dollars, and you ought to exp- I mean, they just destroy this house if you've seen some before and after, even though the house is going to get rehabilitated and rehabbed. Uh you know, fixed up. The before and after is insane.
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Perfectly describes this whole post-liberalism nightmare that we're enduring on the right. And I feel like we've already lived through this in 08, 09, 2010, 2011. And now it's back. It's back with a vengeance. But because it's a new generation, you know what we joke about.
Like people who just were born think that history began the day that their feet hit the pavement. Like, oh my gosh, this has never been tried before. It's so great. But we all know that that's not true.
So we've been talking about everything from the reserve currency, world reserve currency, the American dollar, and how that apparently now, according to post-liberals, is a bad thing, along with so many other, like using government now is a great thing instead of being viewed suspiciously as we're supposed to as constitutional conservatives. Joining us on this, I've really enjoyed his perspective and his post. Phil Magnus is a, he's an economist. He's actually, he's a historian, an economic historian, an economist. He understands this and he's been very, very critical.
He works with the Independent Institute and you can follow him on X as well. Phil joins us via video. Phil, it is such a pleasure, and I have so joined, I enjoyed the sanity that you have been sharing, and all of the videos, and the same comments that you've been sharing because it's true. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, right out of the gate. This whole post-liberal Trend that we're seeing surface on the right.
Did we or did we not deal with this back in 2008 and 2009 with too big to fail and all of that other stuff?
Well, that's the great irony of it. It's a recycling of bad old ideas from the past. You know, after the financial crisis, what did the government do? It stepped in and bailed out all these companies. And they were saying, well, we're doing this to save the free market system.
And I'm like, no, you weren't. You're actually manipulating the market system, picking winners and losers. And here we are, you know, 16, 17 years later, we're doing the exact same thing with the post-liberal economic agenda. They throw out the advice of any competent economist. Certainly the free market side.
They hate the free market side. And if anything, they gravitate to figures on the left that want the government to be this manager in the economy. It's just they give it a conservative social philosophy spin with the same tools that the left has advocated for centuries. Yeah, correct. I mean, for the people who are just joining us, we're talking with Phil Magnus.
He's an economic historian and economist. And this stuff with the post-liberal discussion came really, it started with the burrito economy and then it went into the vice president.
So weird. The vice president talking about the dollar is the world's reserve currency and how we should get away with that and that it's a resource trap, which I completely disagree with. And the use of big government, which is a hallmark of really the whole MO of post-liberalism, using government to fix government, which it's like you don't use fire to fight fire. You just get more fire. Talking about the world, I was shocked when I heard that video.
And I watched the full thing because you posted a clip, then you posted the full video. And then if that wasn't enough, you posted all of these other videos. And also an actual post from then senator, now vice president, but the then senator's account, where they were literally celebrating all of the good things that they think post-liberalism offers. The Tea Party defeated this once, and like we just said, it's back. But losing the dollar as the world's reserve currency, I do not view America's strength as a resource trap, and I cannot understand for the life of me, Phil, why they do.
Well, that's the wild part of it. I mean, this is some really fringe economics. And J.D. Vance recognizes this. He says, I'm really heterodox on this subject.
It's saying I'm borrowing outside of the economic mainstream. But what he's really going after here, Vance is an economic isolationist. Most of the post-liberals are. They view high protective tariffs to prevent any imports from coming into the country on one side and tariffs are basically taxes paid for by american consumers as we're seeing right now with all these refunds then the other side of it is they view the dollar's position it's kind of a gimmick explanation for why we have a trade imbalance because they they focus on that but they think that the dollar is too strong that this is burdening our producers our exporters to the benefit of our consumers Why? Because a strong dollar means that we can get cheap consumer goods in the United States.
Benefits almost everybody. We're in a good economic position. It also means that the credit of the United States is very strong because the dollar is a safe reserve asset. Not only government borrowing, but private sector borrowing. You and I, the interest rates we pay on our mortgage, the rates we pay on our credit card are all affected and benefited by the fact that the dollar is the world's reserve currency.
It's seen as something stable. It's something that other countries go into and invest in in times of economic turmoil.
Well, you start chipping away at that. You know, it's a recipe for worldwide economic disaster. It's a recipe for a self-inflicted recession. It is. And I think that's talking with Phil Magnus.
I think that's a great, I mean, we see this. But I'm just amazed at how people who have lived through, especially when we went through the big spending era of the time period we were just talking about, and then we went through the earlier Obama years. I'm just not sure how anyone can think you did something that I. Have talked about so often because you were talking, you were part of discussions about how government's the one ring from Lord of the Rings. Everything can go back to Lord of the Rings.
And it is really true because for some reason, post-liberals on the right believe that if they're the ones that are using government to make the corrections, then it's more virtuous by way of them being identified as Republicans, which doesn't make any sense, Phil. That's exactly it. They always make the same fallacy. You know, there's an assumption: if we control government and we can use it to our supposedly virtuous ends. That assumes that they're always going to be in control.
And in each and every time, a new administration comes in and does this type of thing.
So the George W. Bush administration spent like crazy, bailed out companies in the financial crisis. They ratcheted up all these new powers and then handed them directly to Barack Obama. What did he do? He ratchets it up further, hands it directly to the next administration, the next administration.
So you get this pattern, this cycle of continuously expanding the powers of government under the false belief that you'll always be the one in control. And then as soon as you lose power, the other side comes in and they do it. It's like a spiral down to the bottom of economic intervention and control over our entire society. But they say, Phil, that it's for the common good. But then that poses the question: well, what common and what good?
Yeah, and who gets to define the common good? I've asked leading post-liberals this exact question. They say the common good.
Okay, that sounds great on paper. I liken it to when the left, when you ask them about social justice and say, okay, define what social justice means. And they blather off into basically gibberish and nonsense. None of them can really explain it. But if you oppose social justice, you must favor injustice.
If you oppose the common good, you must favor. Good. You must favor something that's opposite of the good. That's the wildness of it.
So it's word terminology games to obscure what's really kind of a crackpot economic agenda hiding behind it. I feel like we've seen, Phil, some of these like post-liberal policies already manifest. I know that there was a discussion at some point of trying to incentivize people having kids in the way that Viktor Orban tried to do in Hungary, but they don't tell you that that completely failed and the birth rate plummeted to below what it was even prior. And then, you know, I was very, I've been very critical, for instance, of the Trump accounts because it takes $1,000 from the Treasury and seeds these accounts and there's no limitations, especially on the status of the parents that are, you know, the immigration status of the parents involved. I mean, we already are seeing this kind of seep in.
And to your point, All of this stuff can be used and just handed off over. I mean, heaven forbid you get somebody like Gavin Newsom in 28, or like we just saw with Bush and Obama.
Well, you know, I warned when the tariffs were first enacted, they claimed emergency powers because we had a trade deficit. Even though that deficit's existed for 50 years plus, it's suddenly an emergency.
Well, imagine a Gavin Newsom or an AOC administration, they come in and say, oh, we can declare an economic emergency around climate change. Therefore, it's now illegal to import the internal combustion engine. It's now illegal to import energy because we want to fix the climate. You can see where this spiral goes off. And I think it was Justice Gorsuch asked some of the attorneys during one of the Supreme Court hearings, this power you want for yourself now to enact emergency tariffs.
What happens when it's in the other side, when it's in their hands? Is there a climate emergency? And the post-liberal side has no answer to that. My favorite thing that I've seen so far that you've batted away is whenever anybody brings up, well, you know, post-Bretton Woods and they bring up all of the, have you read this economist or this economist? I mean, I don't see how that's really like, I mean, we're talking about actual practical policies like implemented that have failed before and that they're trying to bring back.
I mean, ultimately, what is your take whenever you, you, I've seen these people sling that at you in your mentions. Yeah, yeah, they like to call on this economist from the 1950s by the name of Robert Triffin, and he made this observation. It's the Triffin dilemma. Yes. And it's like this term they drop.
Well, have you heard of the Triffin dilemma? They never bother to explain what it is, but it predicted under the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, this is set up after World War II, where everything in the free world is fixed to the dollar.
Well, you could run. basically large current account deficits if you are the reserve currency because the international trading system is fixed to currency pegs where foreign central banks have to hold X and Y amounts of different currencies to maintain the peg. And this dilemma, yes, it does create a problem in that scenario, but we abandoned Bretton Woods in the 1970s. It was officially ended in 1976.
So they're misreading a paper from the 50s about a system that hasn't been in place for over 50 years and pretending as if they've discovered this new dilemma. Wow.
Well, that sounds about, Ken, that sounds about right with some of the stuff with these people when they think it's brand new. It's brand new to them because they're not aware of the history. Let me ask you this. This seems to fall into this multipolarity. sphere where it's all about reducing America's strength worldwide, whether it's going after the petrodollar, whether it's going after our reserve.
I mean, this just all of this stuff sounds like something that our enemies in China or Russia would propose.
Well, and in fact, they have proposed it. You listen to these figures like Alexander Dugan, who's this weird mystic philosopher, a Raspberin-type figure to Putin. And he's always talking, well, we need to destroy the dollar. You have the BRICS group, which has declared its explicit intention of. Unseating the dollar is the world's reserve currency.
Now, the problem here: you know, what are the alternatives that exist? If you go to China, if it tried to establish itself as a reserve currency, It has severe disadvantages to the United States because China's government imposes capital controls. We don't, by and large. This would be wrecking the global economy. But you see, this ulterior agenda, this supposed economic multipolarity, it relates to that economic isolationism.
They don't like trade, they don't like the flow of goods back and forth across borders. They don't like the dollar's position in the world because they think that consumption itself is sinful. It's an aberration from nature. You look at some of these major post-liberal figures like Patrick Deneen, before he got into this type of argument, before he started pushing post-liberal theory, he was a big proponent of peak oil theory and climate alarmism because he said the oil-based economy, the energy we consume, has allowed us to break out of the Malthusian trap and consume beyond nature's bounty. And it's all going to come crashing down because of climate change and this environmental apocalypse.
That sounds a lot like something Al Gore was predicting 20 years ago. I was just thinking, that sounds very goreish. That sounds very.
Sounds very much like that. Last question for you, Phil, and I appreciate your time. We're talking with Phil Magnus for those just joining. Because all of this kicked off with the burrito economy. And obviously, I just saw, you know, I saw the headline from the Wall Street Journal: deficits, you know, record high.
Our spending is super high, which is true. We do, and Republicans legitimately have a spending problem. I get it. We need to cut government spending. Democrats are going to use it as a way to jack up taxes if they, you know, heaven forbid, gain power in DC.
And there's this generation of up-and-comers, and every generation, including my own Gen X, we all believe that, you know, we were the worst, that we all suffer more than anyone else. And then with age and experience brings wisdom.
So we see that every generation has its own issues. But I think it's like maybe younger millennials and Gen Z, everyone's, I get it, housing affordability, affordability of goods right now, it's an issue. I feel like Republicans aren't addressing it, and their failure to address it is going to give rise to this post-liberal nonsense where they think, well, we do need government to come in. You know, what we talked about for the common good. Good.
How does the GOP temper this?
Well, I think there are two things. First, stop doing things that are making prices more expensive at the checkout line and the gas pump. Tariffs. Have spread onto the US economy. No matter what reason you're looking at them, we can talk about and have that discussion, but the burden of tariffs, especially haphazard tariffs on every other country on earth, including our allies, our reliable trading partners, have driven up costs at the checkout line.
The other thing is make the correct diagnoses. The reason why there's a housing affordability crisis is not because of like some weird manipulation of the international currency system. That's a gimmick solution. The reality here is we over-regulate building. We have NIMBYs that say you cannot build new houses in large urban areas where there's huge housing demand because it'll ruin the environment or because there's some endangered slug or something on the property.
It's those types of regulations that are driving things up. And that's how you fix housing affordability. There you go. Phil Magnus, I so appreciate your perspective on all of this and your tireless efforts to educate people who apparently have no idea about history. They just got out of Econ 101.
And of course, you know, they know everything. I so appreciate it. You can find Phil on X at Phil W. Magnus as well. And he's a best-selling author.
So go and find his books, The 1619 Project Myth. Always appreciate it. Thank you. Good to talk with you. We'd love to have you back.
Thanks. Absolutely. Uh the impact of myasthenia gravis symptoms can pile up. plans getting rescheduled. Hobbies being left behind.
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It's said everything happens for a reason, but maybe everything happens for reasons. Take noise-canceling headphones. Do they block hearing to heighten taste? Mmm. That sound seems to show everything happens for Reese's.
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida man.
Alright, so A Florida man is accused of hitting another man in the face with a rock. Because he was waiting for his turn to get into the shower, ladies and gentlemen. This was a Florida man in Monroe County. He was arrested over the weekend because he hit a man square in the face. He was pup set because he had to wait for his turn in the shower, and he did not want to wait for his turn in the shower.
Kenneth Andrews, 29 from Marathon, was arrested on Saturday. Deputy said he hit the dude in the face with a rock. When they arrived, They uh Saw that the victim had suffered cuts to the face, so they arrested one, charged him with aggravated assault and battery. I mean, Cain and Abel, man, still happening right now. Same.
Wow.
Okay, so a Florida man is in legal trouble after police found almost three, oh wow, almost $260,000 worth of stolen copper wire. That's a lot. Yeah, it is. That is crazy.
So they got this guy, Gerald. Gerald Jarrell. That sounds right. I don't know. Lamont.
And He uh Yeah, $250,000 worth of stolen copper wire. And then, of course, he resisted arrest, so he had extra charges. But it is. It was basically a whole trailer full of packed copper wire that he had just been pilfering.
So he got me got, they had a, they tracked down the trailer to a truck stop and they got him. That's crazy. That he's so he's got a lot of charges on the way. Let's see this. Ooh, a Florida man told ChatGPT that he'd murder his ex, an open AI alerted the FBI.
They flagged a Florida man's chat GPT messages because he plotted to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend. And he was telling AI all about it.
So OpenAI notified the police. 25-year-old. He had planned to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend. And he was, Darren Zoo is his name. He told his chat bot, it was all preserved in court records.
He's like, if I can't have her, nobody can. He was only with her for six months. And he was super jealous. And when she dumped him, he was stalking her and doing all this stuff. And apparently, so the chat recognized that his messages weren't, quote, vague emotional outbursts.
but it showed a clear and distinct pattern of planning and rehearsal. Wow, I don't know if I've ever, they performed a welfare check on the girlfriend, too, to make sure she was okay. In the next Rare Well Done, the Thrive Team helps two people with CIDP tackle the tricky issue of friendship. They say the quiet part out loud. In the event my CIDP worsens, my friends might decide it's too much.
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Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for Orees. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. You know, I've been living in Ireland for the past two years because of Mango Mussolini. I read that Project 2025 and said, gotta get myself out of here, you know.
And I decided to go to Ireland, a place where people are driven to drink regardless of who's running their country. I decided to move, and I took my little then 11-year-old kid. with me and I just said, whatever you do, don't tell anyone because we don't want a lot of press and a lot of paparazzi, so please don't tell anyone. And they're a pretty smart kid. You know, they got it.
They said, don't worry, I won't. And then went to school and proceeded to tell their entire class. Yeah. Why would Jimmy Kimmel? And I'm in fine with him doing this because I'm sure that it was even worse in ratings.
But you have to remember, why would Jimmy Kimmel first off? Why would he have her host a show? When she was on in the afternoons, remember when she had her afternoon show? Was it on what was that on? ABC?
Was it on ABC? Before, not the view. I'm not talking about the view. I'm talking about like in the afternoon. Like it was in the late 90s.
I want to say it was like CW11 or something.
Something like that. But it ended up being canceled because nobody watched it. She just got like a bitter and She was not, I never really thought she was funny. She is not. Like at least Ellen DeGeneres was kind of funny.
Rosie O'Donnell I've never found funny. There are some women that I'm just, no matter what they say, it doesn't hit. It just does not hit. I do not find her to be funny in any way. And She that's one of the reasons why her show ended up being canceled.
Because nobody wanted to watch it. I can't stand all those afternoon talk shows. I just don't get it. I really don't get it. Does that format still happen?
I don't understand it. It's so-and-so's, you know, we're going to sit down and talk with a D-list soap star. Here it is. I think anyone even watches that anymore.
So Long story short. That I can't ugh. A whole half hour. A whole half hour. For viewers, it's a lateral move.
and it'll also be that for the view. No one's gonna have any improvement. No one's gonna enjoy more entertainment. It's not gonna be better. It's just gonna stay the same.
Yeah, I'm there's well. I didn't watch it, but she's like, she always has to tell everyone, I've been living in Ireland. She posted videos on social media about her living in Ireland, so I don't know what she's complaining about. She was the one who had to go tell the world because nobody cared. Nobody was going, where's Rosie?
Nobody cared. Nobody cared. the impact of myasthenia gravis symptoms can pile up. plans getting rescheduled. hobbies being left behind.
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They say everything happens for a reason, but I suspect everything happens for a Reese's. Like this commercial break. Did you need 15 seconds away from music or 15 seconds to eat a Reese's? Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for a Reese.
And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.
So what they call a bizarre jellyfish on Mars, which sounds like a David Bowie album, it's apparently resurfaced in NASA photos. It's, I don't know. They was taken by the Curiosity in August of 23. And it's a black and white panorama, and it shows. one of the craters and then this weird black spindly looking object.
That's on the slopes. What do you think it is? They can't figure out. They can't figure out what it is. It's weird.
I'm just saying it's aliens and I really hope it is, but if those are the ones that take us out, I'm gonna be really disappointed because that looks that looks like a what's that what's the game that you played on the Old Atari. Space Invaders? No, Qbert. Oh, Qbert? Isn't that Qbert?
Oh, maybe. Hang on. I'm gonna make sure that's right because I will hear it from the video people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Qbert.
That's basically Qbert. That's it.
It looks like Qbert. The blurry version, maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's him right there, jumping on stuff on Mars, just FYI. Oh my gosh, did I really short sell us that last segment by that much? Whether it's help with hormone therapy, weight management, or sexual health.
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