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irreverence to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes

us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome at. Today is Thursday, September

the 4th. Do you think, Tom, like today's show is there's some points that are shitty. Yeah. But I also think that there's some hope in today's show. I think there might be some, some glimmers, my friends. Some real judicial glimmers. I don't feel like it's all bad news this week. This is an interesting week for that. Unlike most weeks, there's always almost always just wall-to-wall bad news. We're like,

hey, man, that sucks. Right. Yeah. Can I tell you about all the things that suck in the world? This week, I feel like there's a little bit of stuff. But we do have to start with bad news. Bad news. Let's start with bad news. This is from the independent. RFK Jr., who doesn't have a medical degree. I love that that's a lot.

Says he can diagnose children just by looking at them.

I want to read exactly what he said because it's fucking bonkers.

He says, I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like.

This is during a press conference with Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

I'm looking at kids while I walk through the airports today as I walk down the street.

And I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation.

You can tell it from their faces, from their body movement, for their lack of social connection.

You can tell somebody's lack of social connection because you walked through an

airport near them. You know like what their friendships are like because you walked through an

airport. You know how their mitochondrial function is, motherfucker? Do you have to do like a specific

mitochondrial crossfit in order to work? Like what do you have to do like a specific mitochondrial crossfit in order to work there?

Like what do you have to do?

What do I have to do to do?

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