I Have a Why, and It's Burning

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3:07Advisory services by public advisors LLC, SEC registered advisor. Generated assets is an interactive analysis tool, output is for informational purposes only, and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Disclosures available at public.com slash disclosures. I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you, I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you, I'm no better than you, I'm an idiot, I'm stupid, I'm not fit to man a nice cream stick. If you heard the longer version that Mark Halpern had to drag out of him, it's a fairly

4:13compelling story of learning disability that he was able to overcome and become a successful guy. But if you just sit in front of people and say, Hey, you dumb, I'm dumb too, I can't even read. And if you presented like that, it's not that handy. Yeah, a couple of great articles out in last couple of days, one in the Wall Street journal about, it's hard to find somebody with the strength and the stamina and the smarts to run for president. It's extremely difficult. He's going to speak to that in a few minutes with another part of an interview. Right. And it's by a guy by the name of Kenneth Cajigian and the, he highlights AOC and Gavin. And I wish we had time to get into the AOC thing, I'll just read you a very short bit of it. For starters, AOC's public speaking is agonizingly amateurish. She reads speeches like a seventh grader, her eyes dart up and down in a manner that betray wrote memorization, not scholarship, et cetera, et cetera. And then he gets into Gavin Newsom and the poor circuit on the interview circuit with

5:19the book and the, I'm like you, I'm no better than you. And he gets into how that was just terrible, but we've covered that pretty thoroughly. But then he says, for the 22 years since he became mayor San Francisco, Mr. Newsom hasn't driven the freeways or pumped his own gasoline, said bodyguards protecting him in public, California political media with few exceptions have been friendly or neutral. His governance reflects a generational failure to dive into the substance of policy and study the political and cultural depths of the American people, et cetera. He just does not have stuff. He says, and then in the free press, Newsom looks small in the face of a big war. He's tried to make himself a national figure and a figure who's into foreign policy with the war. And let's see who is this in the free press. Peter Savodnik writes, was unsettling to watch California governor Gavin Newsom on Monday spouting off a rejiggered blood libel this week and not simply because Democrats have mostly succumbed to fashionable Jew hate. Quote, we have to reconcile why our bombs were used or Israeli bombs were used to kill

6:20children, young girls at a school and what the imminent threat was. He said at a press conference, meant to slam Donald Trump's war on Iran, might sound anodine, who could possibly be against saving little girls, but it's not. It's the old trope of the Jew is murder of Gentile children and more to the point, the asymmetrical anger when it comes to all things Jewish apologies Israel, I'm sorry, apologize, Israeli. Never mind. Then he goes into the details of it, but he had no harsh words at all for the mullahs and no harsh words for machine gunning the people of Iran in the streets and then he's the final shot is right now the most important thing is that the front runner for the 28 Democratic Prince of presidential nomination seems congenitally incapable of rising above his tribe and conceiving of the war as anything other than yet another opportunity for politic politicking for taking a few shots and scoring some points, this way too important for that. Yeah, that's interesting because it would have been so easy to come out and say, I'm glad the itola was gone is a terrible regime were better off without it, but we got to do

7:26this smart. We all remember Iraq, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah. What'd it be easy to do? Yeah, he's really steered into the Israel's in apartheid state, blah, blah, blah, we're shouldn't let them force us into war. I mean, the number of politicians that get drug into the Twitter conversation as if Twitter is America, it's practically everybody. Yeah. It's one of the things Trump understands better than a lot of other people that Twitter is not America. I've been saying for a while that Gavvy cannot hit Major League pitching. He's the product of one party very soft media state. He's never faced Major League pitching and he can't hit it, but putting aside the specifics, you've got his record, which is just unbelievably terrible and so easy to hang around his neck. A couple of recent interviews we thought were illustrative. Let's start with clip 60, Michael.

8:26It's Katie Karek who apparently is still podcasting or something with Gavvy Newsome. It's poverty rate tied with Louisiana. The highest unemployment and his Nick Kristoff of the New York Times recently wrote Mississippi schools outperform California schools, especially for poor kids. Now people see that or hear that or read that and they're like, no thanks, California, no thanks, Gavin Newsome. We're good. Yeah. Well, the poverty rate is, you're talking about the supplemental poverty rate, our poverty rate is about average. And we're right there with Florida, Louisiana and others with the supplemental poverty rate, which has been the case for 40 years. And the original sin there is housing, which has been a problem in California since Ronald Reagan left office as governor. And we simply have a supply demand imbalance and we have zoning policies and nimbism that have been legendary and we've finally broken through some of the most progressive housing reforms in US history, our biggest critics like Ezra Klein would even acknowledge that progress and that respect.

9:28Ezra Klein is not your biggest critic. Oh my God, that's hilarious. That's pretty funny. Yeah. That place, his record is abysmal. He is very skilled though at pointing to the problems that decades of Democratic rule have brought California and saying, this isn't a challenge. We're taking on, we're taking it on boldly and innovatively. And I understand why politicians don't bring people along for the ride. What's the supplemental poverty rate? I don't know what that is. Why wouldn't he explain it? Maybe because it hurts his argument, maybe I don't know, I have no idea what it means. And then do you want to set up the clip with Mark Helper? Yeah, this is not, this is definitely not a, um, Bash and Gavin Newsom sort of clip. It's, it's just a, gives you an idea for one thing what it's like to run for president. And does present this as unique to him, but I guarantee it's true for anybody who ever decides to try to run for the biggest office in the world. So what would you say to all the people, including I'll say governor, some of your own advisors

10:29who contact me and say, Mark, you look like an idiot when you say Gavin Newsom might not run or won't run. What should I, what would you say to all those people? Yeah, just that they, they're wrong and they should be cautious about that. That said, look, I, you got to have, I said this a hundred times. It's the neat shit. You got to have a big enough why to endure anyhow. You just described the how, how the hell you endure the slings and arrows. These guy look, I'm not, these, they want to take me out and you don't even know the half of it. You all think you know the half of it. Everybody you're writing. You don't know the half of what these guys are doing, the Trump administration is doing. You know what they're capable of doing. You know, in two of what they're doing, I have a better sense of what they actually are doing. This, this is zero sum for them. They want to flatten me. I get it. So it's not that, but you know what right now? The reason I'm lenient is because I have a why and it's burning and I'm going to stand up and I'm going to draw a line and we drew law and it's literally here with Proposition 50 and I'm going to push back and I'm going to push, I'm going to hit this bully back in the mouth. I don't like what's going on in this country. I don't period full stop.

11:30I'm not counting today. And anyway, I don't like what's going on prime time Fox. I don't. I don't like the races and the anti, I don't like any of this. And so I'm going to call it out. If I feel that way, you sure as hell better know that I will run for president as it relates to the future of this country, but you're right. That has to be backed up with the family first and I will not screw that up. So your answer is yes, they all have a veto. Every single one of those kids have a veto. If you have a burning in your why, you probably need a shot of a penicillin. But yeah, your state mandates that parents not be told that little children are gender transitioning at school. Your state mandates the kids be caught, taught critical queer theory and transgender theory. It's in the law. Nobody wants that to that stuff of you don't know the half. They're trying to take me out. You don't know half that what they're willing to do. And he's acting like it's the Trump people, Rama manuals people.

12:35What's her name or the vice president who just ran Kamala Harris's people, Josh Shapiro's people. They're going to come at him just as hard or already are. So pretending like it's just the Trump crowd that wants to lay him out. I know enough about I've read enough books about people who run for president. You got to get through your own party first and that's where the fights are usually the nastiest, right? So, but that is an interesting one. I don't know if I believe it. I think some people legit don't run for office because of what it would do for their family. I think he's he's wondering what do they have? What do they not have? What do they know? What do they not know? And if it crosses a certain line, if it would be painful enough for him, he might he's not going to run. But I don't think it's each kid gets a veto. And if one kid says, I don't want you to dad. I've got baseball season. I don't think that's I honestly, I'm not willing to be that mean. Okay, that was me. I retracted. I really did. I don't think he's going to let that be the primary decision.

13:37Yeah, I would agree. And you know, the lawlessness will be hung around his neck. California led the way in locking up even $4 product. You just can't buy things at stores because there's so much crime. And that's going to be impossible to get through. But back to your point about the primary process, this sort of thing will come up. And I'll end with this thought. Mr. Newsom's original sponsor and mentor of California's legendary Willie Brown told Politico that Mr. Newsom is formidable because he's, quote, a movie star. Politico then asked, quote, is it clear what Newsom actually believes? Brown answered, quote, I don't know. I've never asked him for fear. He doesn't for fear. He doesn't know. Oh, wow. And then this Mr. Kichigian wrote this article said Mr. Ronald Reagan was an actual movie star. But he knew what he believed. No. Can you run on, you might be able to actually, can you run on only, I oppose Trump, Trump is awful. I can't think he can.

14:40I think it'd be harder for him to get the nomination than to become president, but I could be wrong. I just think they're good. The other Democrats are just going to kill him. Immanuel is going to subject him to such a beating. They're going to step in and stop the fight. It's going to be like when that transgender fellow started punching the poor women in the Olympics. It's everybody's going to react with the last stop, Rob, stop. The last Jake Paul fight. Be like that. Exactly. Um, I think it's interesting that Mark Halperen's still going with the, I don't even think he's going to run angle. Yeah, it's possible. I mean, for the love of God, it is March of 2026, as we speak these words, um, I think his missteps and, and, and mediocrity will just accumulate and accumulate to the point that no, the donors say, no, thank you. I think it, it'd be a pretty big void, though, if he decides, if he announced, he's not

15:43running. It's all of a sudden really wide open then. Yeah, but as I was pointing out by the data, it, you know, could happen over the course of the next year, year and a half and other, other folks will step to the four people will start announcing here in eight months, nine months, which is a long time. No doubt about that. I think I had one more thing I was going to say about this. I remember what it was, uh, given this, I'm running for prison. Oh, I always remember clear back to 2004, Al Gore came within like out, you know, a couple of votes of being president of the United States that announced in 2004, everybody assumed he was going to run again, that he'd be the walk away nominee and then just announced I'm not running. So you never know what people who've got going on in their lives, and then he and took this. I've got this climate scam going. You can't believe how much money I'm making, right? Which might have been part of it. Okay. We got more on the way. Stay here. Art Strong and Getty. Texting privacy policy in terms of conditions posted at TextingTerms.us. Texting roles you for a current automated text marketing message.

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20:48That was quite the crowd reaction to that news. Well, she has no constituency left. How much of that is I don't like the way immigrants are being treated and how much of that is just a blow against the Trump crowd. Well, it's mostly the latter. Hmm. I disagree. I think the, I think the craziness of Minneapolis turns so many people against, uh, DHS and ICE. I was just looking at that, but she's got no Republican support either. She has just no supporters. I'm trying to, I've been trying to figure out this for a long time. If this is just flat misogynist to comment on her, really, really cares a lot about looking sexy as a government official. That just seems weird to me. Is that wrong? And misogynist, I mean, uh, Pete Hegg's a good looking guy, you know, he makes sure his hair looks cool. And he wears really tight t-shirts a lot to show off the, you know, how, how buffy is

21:50all the time. Is that exactly the same thing? But man, her with their shiny lips and the wear, her hair is in a, at work is just, it's, most people, most women aren't like that at work. Yeah. I don't think it's a misogynist that word you used exactly, but, uh, you got to be careful there. There's a bigger gulf between a woman who looks very good in business like, and somebody who's glammed up, where dudes, it's, there's really not a lot of difference by dress to impress a woman. I look like I'm running for president. True. That's true. Um, but I just saw the ads of her, the $200 million ad buy, the lot of went to friends of hers. Um, maybe rightly, maybe wrongly that she blamed on Trump and that's the real reason I think that she got fired because when she was questioning the other day, did Trump know about this? Oh, absolutely. Trump apparently did not know about that and thought, don't you freaking hang me out on this? No way. That's when that was a, no, you're done. But I saw the ads of her on the horse and the cowboy hat and they're looking like, you

22:52look like you're running from Miss America. I mean, there's just no getting around it. You, you're super tight jeans and shirt. You look like you're running from Miss America or trying to be, uh, an influencer or something. I mean, I guess specifically you are trying to influence people who are your policies about the border. But, uh, I don't know, a weird look for, uh, for somebody that got a very serious job. And she's out now. So that's that, um, Harry Styles has a new album out, which I'm kind of excited about because I'm a Harry Styles fan. The name of it is funny. Kiss all the time disco occasionally. That's a funny name for an album. Kind of like his music, but since I brought up, uh, celebrity stuff, a friend of mine, we were talking yesterday about people who could all wear out of time. Damn it. We're out of time for a guy to the punchline. Hmm, that's painful. We were talking yesterday about people who referred to the news and it's like TMZ or entertainment tonight or whatever like that. That's what they call the news.

23:53I'll get to that a little bit later. Jack wants to talk about Harry Styles. I want to talk about assisted suicide in Canada. Something for everyone coming up. Oh, you can stay to home. Oh my God. Yeah. If you miss us like we get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty. Texting privacy policy in terms of conditions posted at TextingTurbs.us. Texting rules you for occurring on a media text marketing message. You're supposed to get a resume apply or play. Stopped out. Is it ISSA online for details? Tired of the nine to five grind. Looking for something different that's flexible, fulfilling and pays well? How do you like to get paid to work out? Now you can, with ISSA, the global leader in personal fitness certification. There's a huge demand for certified personal trainers right now. And once you get ISSA certified, they guarantee you'll get a job. Trainers can make as much as $100 an hour. Yes, I said $100 an hour. And with ISSA, you can be certified in as little as six weeks. You do everything at your own pace and 100% online. Pursue your passion in specializations like yoga, nutrition or strength training. Get certified and live your life on your terms.

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27:58And here they break it down a little bit. Says the ones that are backing socialism, moving more towards socialism. The very liberal voters at 66% Democrats under the age of 45, 66% and voters under the age of 30, 53%. The biggest supporter graph of capitalism, Republican men, 87%. Yeah, and if you go deeper into it, the number of men over 45, 75% say socialism is a bad thing. So middle aged men in America are going to save the country. You're welcome for that. So worth noting that and it's not that I'm not worried that way too many people favor socialism. Two thirds of Democrats under 45 for first socialism or leaning socialism, but it is true that so many people now call themselves independent that if you use the number for Republicans or Democrats, both sides can use it to paint the other side as extreme.

29:02Because all the, a lot of the normal people in both parties have now called themselves independence because hardly anybody wants to be attached to either party at this point. So you can, you can use a poll about Republicans or Democrats and say, look at how crazy they are, but you're really only talking about a small, a lot of the Republicans don't call themselves Republicans anymore, same with Democrats. Interesting. I'm not sure this is a great example of that on the Republican side, just because to me anybody who's against free markets is a lunatic. But I see your point. It's worth keeping in mind. Yeah, I don't doubt that two thirds of Democrats under 45 favor socialism. I just think there's an awful lot of Democrats under 45 that don't call themselves Democrats anymore. Probably Democrat a lot, but they don't call themselves Democrats because they don't want to be attached to all the trans lunacy or Kamala Harris or a whole bunch of other stuff or the racism. Yeah. Do you have, have you seen rough numbers lately who identifies as Republican independent Democrats? Well, it's a, I remember we had the number, wasn't long ago, the smallest number of people

30:06calling themselves Democrats ever was on that. Yeah. So it's, it's like a third of the whole country is, it's, and most people aren't. You're either a Republican Democrat. You just don't want to be attached to that party. Right. Definitely lean one direction or the other in the way you vote. Yeah. The enduring con job that is pushing socialism, the fact that that can't be killed. It says, it's like a cockroach is, is amazing to me. This is the most successful scam ever designed. Well, it doesn't take much explanation to educate somebody to why it doesn't work, but they ain't doing that in school. They're doing it in my son's private school, but they aren't doing it in regular school. Nobody's taking the time to say, here's why socialism has failed everywhere. It's ever worked. Do the whole grade thing. That would be popular in class. How about if I did this? How about if I took all the A's and spread them out? And we all got B minuses. Those of you who get A's, do you be happy with that? The people who get great grades would stop working hard.

31:08The people who get poor grades would definitely never work hard. Right. What does that do to the economy of grades? Yeah. I mean, isn't it less than done conversion completed? Right. Right. And it would take you roughly 10 minutes. If that long, that's with a break for going to get a drink or peeing in your folder's coffee can. Or whatever it is you do. If you don't know that story. Oh boy. You should Google it. It's troubling. Oh, you know, I'm really not in the mood on a Friday to talk about the assisted suicide in Canada. I will tell you, though, it reminds me, at least somewhat of the socialism argument, in that the unintended consequences of what sounds like a reasonable idea, just they just cascade and they grow and the, it sounds great in theory. But if you know anything about how rotten human beings can be, it just quickly becomes far, far uglier than you thought it could.

32:10And again, the fact that you have to re- argue that in terms of socialism is probably just because it's being taught as a wonderful thing in our schools by a bunch of neo-Marxist teachers and teachers unions, and I despise them to my bones. So it did come up a couple of times this week, people who call entertainment tonight the news, right, or TMZ the news, which I think fits in a little with the Iran war in that most people, as a listener of podcasts the other day, and a whole bunch of pundits are on there and they're saying the number one question they got from people about the Iran war was, why did this happen? Because nobody was paying any attention to the fact that we were building up all this military might in warning them about the nuclear subdom, nobody's paying attention to that. I don't know if they're watching entertainment news or sports or whatever, but very few people were paying attention and the president certainly did not go out of his way to alert us. Anywho got this text from a friend of mine, Joe was telling a story about his, some of

33:12you cut your hair, that referred to, that all she talked about was celebrity stories. Oh, she was a physical therapist. Physical therapist, that's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. That was her only passion. And she had a really good butt. She was a very fit young woman, yes, Michael, but her passion was celebrity news, yes. Which I started watching don't look up with my 14 year old, the movie. And one of the features of that is the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio. He's a scientist who just discovered a comment is going to hit earth and destroy all life. And he can't get anybody care of pay attention in the modern world. And he's getting ready to go on like the today show. And they end up interviewing a young pop star played by Ariana Grande, which made it kind of funny. Who all they want to talk about is her celebrity breakup. We saw on Twitter that you and a different pop star broke up and the crowd on and talk about the breakup of the celebrities. And he's like, why is nobody interested in the account that is going to destroy her?

34:19But that is pretty accurate is to where we are. And we got this text. Joe's story made me laugh. I worked with a nurse who was gorgeous. And she would routinely come in and say the craziest stuff. Did you watch the news last night? Always referring to entertainment tonight. She always complained that buying groceries for her kids was such a waste. They just ate it and it was gone. But if she bought designer jeans or the latest makeup, it really lasted. To give you an idea of the intelligence of the sort of person that follows celebrity news versus real news. Wow. That's a good one. Buying food for the kids is such a waste. They just eat it and it's gone. But if I buy these jeans, I haven't for a long time. It's a good point. She and her husband picked all their kids names from soap operas. Wow. Wow. Wow. Oh my God, I feel like I'm at the human zoo watching a display on. Look how they live, honey. So that's a poll I would like to know. What percentage of people of the news is Britney Spears DUI is opposed to we've

35:20sent another aircraft carrier to the Middle East. So you couldn't, you know, force this by lock is the first amendment. But I wish the polling organizations would somehow like grade everybody on level of awareness and there's no need to be demeaning. You know, wouldn't I want to be remaining morons? All right. Let's call the bottom group morons. I was that was that was an easy sell. And then the dimly aware, the paying attention, the acutely aware, and then maybe the expert class and you'd eliminate the expert class probably in the morons from your polling. Or I don't know, but the idea of polling a bunch of people who say, why are we attacking Iran? About attacking Iran is the definition of uselessness, except I guess in terms of retail politics, because ignoramuses can vote to practice.

36:24I will stamp out when I am emperor. Yeah, I heard this number the other day and I'd never heard of you before. I've been meaning to verify it. It came from a very credible source that only 29% of people follow politics, real news, and only 14% to roughly half of them follow it closely. So following closely enough to really understand what's going on is 14%. That sounds about right to me. I mean, since in most elections prior to Trump, only about a half of people voted it, even in a presidential election, that other half is just that. I have, in recent months, met more people that have decided that either maybe they've always been checked out or said, yeah, I just gave up. I checked out. I just, I don't even pay attention anymore. Yeah, part of it is, as our old producer Sean used to say, every story comes as a homework assignment, everything you hear, you have to, okay, I guess I better try to figure out if this is completely true, completely false or, you know, some portion of that.

37:27Right, everything you hear, and it's tiring. It's exhausting at some point. I could see how you decide that I just will pay attention. Plus the fever pitch, plus the incredible size and complexity of the government at this point. It's, it's too much to ask. And that was another, we need an informed citizenry. Oh, that would take four lifetimes. I've heard different versions of this too. One person that recently decided a couple of different business things, divorce things, whatever to happen. And they just thought the injustice of the way it turned out was so awful that there's no consequences for anything. So I'm just not paying attention anymore. Nobody gets any consequences. People, you can rob people blind, you can commit crimes and get out over and over again. I just give up. So there's that crowd. And then I know a guy many, many years ago, he was a little older, but he had been in Vietnam. And he felt he had been so lied to by his government that he just completely checked out for the rest of his life on all politics seemed pretty happy. I can't fault him for that. He seemed pretty damned happy with that decision.

38:30Now, obviously you can't run a democracy with people with everybody doing that. No, no, it's a problem. It's a serious problem. You know, I'm somewhat reminded of some Van Jones clips we have talking about the Iran conflict and the way people are behaving politically and he looks at both sides. It's pretty compelling. We'll squeeze that in if we can. Oh, quick question because I just looked up the TV and saw it. The Paralympics are underway. The Paralympics. That's people who are handicapable. It's also in Italy, though the winter Paralympics China is dominating the winter Paralympics. Do you have any idea why that would be a guess? I don't. The cold warrior in me wants to take a shot at China, but just to share population, I'm guessing. Just playing on people. But they have more people for the regular Olympics too and they didn't dominate. Maybe because they've crippled so many dissidents by beating them and torturing them, then they put them on skis out of there. I couldn't help myself. They could not. Then they'll put them on skis. Is what he said. Okay, more on the way, stay here.

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43:46that the US would end. It's about me campaign. Anyway, a bunch of headlines about those prediction markets. We mentioned very briefly the other day that somebody had made a bet related to the death of the Iatola. And calcium is refusing to pay out winnings on a $54 million trade. Many bettors had assumed they won big wagers that he would be out as supreme leader by Saturday. But calcium American prediction market that allows users to bet on politics, sports, foreign affairs and pop culture and all sorts of stuff. Onouts that would not be paying out any winnings on those wagers since his guidelines prohibit markets, quote, directly tied to death. Their users are outraged by this. You know, I got to get into this, but I haven't. Because I mean, I obviously follow the news like a maniac. And that puts you at a real advantage. Yeah. As a first against the idea of she can't bet on anything. We're deaths involved, but I can see you don't want. I mean, if you got pictures out there, throw on the pitch straight into the ground

44:48to make sure they win a bet. You don't want anybody amping up death to win a bet. Sure. Is there somebody who would murder somebody else for a million dollars? Yes. Yeah, it's probably two people out of every 10. You have a dark view of humanity. Oh, I don't get me started. So, but I really ought to get into it. It's probably laziness. Well, I'm busy. This job is time consuming. And maybe I just, I'm not desperate for money. I don't know. But it's clearly something I ought to be doing. I spend an hour a week on it, right? I know we're about this then, you know, well, who's going to win a football game? Sure. I had to cap in candidates and issues and bills and whatever. Anyway, moving along, there's a big article in the Wall Street Journal today about these markets and it's, let's see, what does this start with? Yeah, okay. The mentions market tries to predict the unpredictable. Trump's next words. So, you can even predict whether Trump will use the word, for instance,

45:50for instance, hottest in his address to the nation. Hunkered down in a dark room, Max Carrosa watched, riveted as President Trump gave a speech on the U.S. economy, hottest, hottest. Come on, he pleaded to his screen. Then it came where the hottest country in the world the President declared, yes, let's go. Carrosa whooped, pumping his fist, the 20 year old big box store manager in Westchester, Pennsylvania, had just made $64 by correctly betting that Trump would say hottest. I think I would have made that bet. Yeah, but so that's how mundane it can be. That's practically like, how long the national anthem is for the Super Bowl in terms of mundane. Right, but here's another interesting angle to it. And this especially applies to government officials. There are various people who made a crap load of money on when the U.S. bombing campaign would start, even though it was secret. How'd it have been wrong in that one? Well, yeah, but quite a few people were very, very right to the point that it's like,

46:56you're familiar with Pentagon planning. You're close to the President. Well, it's the same way they caught these sports stars. You see a whole bunch of, you see that they placed bets or had a bunch of activity betting various sites at the same time that they all of a sudden pulled up lame in the second quarter. Right. So this other article in the journal from like today, I think, is about a couple of things, including the fact that these markets are marketing themselves like crazy on college campuses. They are spending zillions of dollars to market themselves to college kids who think they're smart and have a little disposable income and all. And they they mentioned that this fraternity at the University of Miami that attracts the children of the very wealthy, including the stepson of Jeff Bezos. They were making predictions as to what celebrities would show up at the Super Bowl. And the odds of Bezos attending were high. A potential jackpot for anyone who actually knew his weekend plans, which did not involve a trip

48:00to Levi's stadium. And some fraternity brothers began placing bets that Bezos would not attend two people who bets at the original source of the information was the steps on himself, although neither heard it directly blah, blah, blah. So it's about a, um, these, these companies are like paying enormous amounts of money for a fraternity to have a giant blowout party in return for if you sign up 50 of your members as new calcium or polymarket members. But then they go into the suspected insiders who made $1.2 million wagering that the US would strike Iran last month. So this whole deal is getting murky and mobbed up. Man, I got to jump on these sites and see if there's any categories that I feel like I'm particularly knowledgeable about. Well, it's still lasts. I mean, I should have like, uh, sold Gavin Newsom short a couple of weeks ago before his embarrassing book tour. Well, you know, it was coming. You were big on Joe Biden would not be the nominee for a very long

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