I'm trying really hard not to do a full late stage Lenny Bruce for this episode.

If you're not familiar with Lenny Bruce, basically the reason we have comedy today, uncensored, truly free speech comedy, is because of Lenny Bruce.

He was arrested many times for expressing his mind in the 50s and the 60s especially, and

it kind of drove him mad.

There's a 1974 film where Dustin Hoffman stars as Lenny Bruce highly recommend it.

You'll get a glimpse into his life. Personally, I would recommend reading how to talk dirty and

influence people, which was his 1965 autobiography. I think I read it over 30 years ago at this point. I have a feeling it holds up. He was a

tremendous man. But at the end of his career, he was so bogged down by all the shit in his life

that he would just go on stage and read his court cases, the transcripts or the reasons that he was being arrested

to dwindling audiences. Only a few people would show up and he would just talk for hours.

People would leave because it wasn't funny anymore. But it was such an overwhelming amount of shit coming at him that he didn't know how else to process it,

which is kind of how I feel trying to keep track of Maha and HHS and all of its tentacles right now.

I know that flooding the zone is the tactic that this

administration uses. So it makes sense that Bobby Kennedy coming into it with his Maha initiative

would apply the same tactic. He's been using it before. He is a master of Gish Gallup. He is a master of

deflection. He will always go to where he wants to go and swerve the conversation that way.

I've never actually seen a full interview where he was held to as account for his beliefs and

ideas because people just get exhausted by him. But honestly, it's no time for

exhaustion because our health depends on it. Depends on staying up to date with everything he's doing

because you need to arm yourself with this sort of knowledge because pretty soon a lot of the health infrastructure is going to collapse around us.

And I'm not being hyperbolic. That is the stated goal is to get rid of what so far 20,000 employees at HHS.

If you listened on Saturday, Julian and I covered Jay Batacharya, who's now the director of the NIH,

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