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You know.

I'm used to a higher quality, a higher caliber of listener, quite honestly.

I asked two whole minutes ago for somebody to write some country lyrics based on that commercial I was doing where I mentioned pieces of you and

and I got a bunch of lyrics

but it took two whole minutes

and and they're not sung none of this is sung I mean you can't put it through the you know GPT and

I don't know set it to music you're just gonna send me the lyrics all right, whatever.

Well,

let me just give you the lyrics then.

Your old guitar is still leaning in the hall, strung with pieces of you.

I can't forget it all.

The worn-out pick you left on the bedside stand holds pieces of you like the callus on my hand.

This old porch swings with the weight of your ghost.

Every creaking memory I'm missing the most.

I'm holding on to pieces of you breaking up in my heart, shattered like the rear view on your Chevy in the yard.

That doesn't really work.

Every faded cord, every dream you used to chase carries pictures of you I can't bear to erase.

Yeah, I'm living with pieces of you.

We are going to be fat imbeciles soon.

I mean, we already are.

We're going to be fatter and more imbecilic soon.

Everything is, I mean, it's crazy what AI can do now.

Did you hear the study that they did on essays of like students writing essays?

They had three groups of students and they had them write essays with like brain activity monitors on them.

And one group had to write it just like, you know, old, old school.

One group could use Google and then one group could use ChatGPT for assistance.

And

almost no brain activity at all in the ChatGPT group by like the third series of essays.

They just had totally turned over their entire thinking process to ChatGPT.

And I mean,

the idiocracy thing, they didn't use ChatGPT or anything similar to build that future, but it's a central part of that story, I think, that we missed in the prequel of that movie so amazing so amazing but don't worry it's just right around the corner did you see what the Amazon said Amazon's like yeah

we're gonna be replacing all the people here soon

it's like wait what

not a huge

we need you to move closer to your team so you can all be together so we can then liquidate you when the machines arrive I think it's the same message they sent to Iranian leaders in Israel.

Like, we need you guys to all move closer together.

Did you see that?

It's a trap.

They said

there's another new study out on AI that said that Republicans are using it more.

Now, I don't know what that says about us, that it was just saying there's no brain activity.

So I'm not trying to insult conservatives.

But I thought that was interesting in that I feel like usually conservatives are slower to adopt brand new technologies like that.

And it seems like we are using

GPT more.

We're more entrepreneurial.

Yeah.

And if you use it as a tool, it is remarkable what it can do.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm not actually here.

This is just a large language

program.

In your case, very large.

It's an OLM.

It's an overweight language model.

Oh, man.

All right.

Let me change the subject.

Let me go to former first lady Michelle Obama.

Now,

I just want you to put yourself in Barack's shoes for a minute.

You know, they're the ones right underneath Jennifer Anderson's bed.

Just try those on for a minute.

And

how would you feel if your wife said these words?

Thank you so much.

He said in an interview, thank you so much, Mrs.

Obama.

And she said, Oh, Mrs.

Obama, that's too many syllables.

Now, my logical question there would be,

do you have a rule that you generally go with on the number of syllables in people's names?

Or

what is the

too many syllables in Mrs.

Obama?

Oh,

okay.

She said, you know, I was trying to, I'm just, I'm just Michelle.

I'm not Mrs.

Obama.

You know, and I was trying to do that when I was first lady because I just think I'm not in that position.

I'm just Michelle.

Well,

technically,

in the eyes of God and the state of Illinois, I think you are in that position.

Isn't that what happens when you get married?

I mean, you might want to call yourself, I don't know, whatever your first or your last name was before you got married.

Maybe you could say that, but like, she's saying, I'm not in that position.

I'm not, I don't like to remember that I married.

I mean, wouldn't that be a problem if you were married to Michelle Obama?

You know, or your wife came to you, Stu, and,

you know, people were like,

Mrs.

Stu is here now.

And she said, oh.

I do not want to be called Mrs.

Stu because I am not in that position.

Yeah.

Wouldn't you be a little like concerned?

Wouldn't you pull her aside after,

exactly did you mean by that?

Yeah.

It seemed like a deeper conversation is necessary because it's not even like, oh, that's too formal, right?

Like somebody might say that, right?

Or like you hear people say, Mr.

Beck, and he's like, oh, well, that's actually my father.

I'm Glenn.

You know, that kind of typical thing.

That's not what she's going for when she says, I'm not in that position.

Like,

it's not like, not the first lady.

Right.

It wasn't first lady Obama.

Right.

It was, no, it was Mrs.

Obama.

Okay.

Then in the same interview, she goes on and she says,

The interviewer was like, you know,

you guys should have thrown a

boy in there in your family.

You know,

wish you had a boy.

And she said, oh, I am glad we didn't have a son because he would have turned out exactly like Barack.

Wait,

what?

I don't think these are rumors anymore about their marriage.

That's,

I mean, I would have been, and then the interviewer said, baby Barack, I would have been amazing.

And she said, no, I would have felt for him.

I mean,

I have four children.

Three of them are girls.

And I love the fact that they're so much like their mom.

I mean, I love that.

Now,

we didn't want to have a son because he would have been just like Glenn.

Wait, honey.

I mean, I kind of agree with you, but I'd like

a little more information on what you mean by that.

Yeah, because I could see saying something like that in a self-deprecating way.

Maybe you could say, like, look, I'm concerned of all the media attention or that he'd be held to some standard to follow a former president.

Like, I don't know, maybe did she explain it at all, or did she just kind of leave it at that?

I just don't want to be like him.

I don't want to be like him, and don't you ever say I'm in the position of being married to that bastard.

Oh,

she's Big Mike for a reason.

Do you believe the Jennifer Anison thing?

Is that any part of you that buys that?

I buy that a little,

I mean, just a little more than the Big Mike thing.

But there are days that I go back and forth.

I'm like, I don't know.

I think

she's more Big Mike than

the odds are more in favor that she's Big Mike.

That's a difficult standard we're measuring there.

And maybe, you know, you could literally measure it.

I don't know.

I will say

I am saying, like, do you actually believe that Barack Obama is having an affair with Jennifer Anniston?

Is there like,

I think there's a good chance of that.

What's when you say good chance?

Are you saying 10%?

Are you saying 60%?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm not Las Vegas.

I don't know what the odds are, but I think over 50%, I think that's reasonable.

Over 50%.

Is it just...

The only thing that would stop that from being true, I think, is if she were attracted to him.

Is she attracted to him?

Has she ever said anything about him?

So you think he's in and he's in.

The marriage is hot.

And if you've been married to Big Mike your whole time, it's like, hey, get off me.

You know, you, I, I mean, I would go for

Phoebe

at that point.

I mean, be like, whatever.

I mean, is Mad LeBlanc available?

Wait, so I am, as you know, I do like numbers and stats and odds.

So

give me your

chances, percentage chance, that there are real

relationship problems in the marriage percent.

Okay, you're convinced of that, basically.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

I would say 100%, but I do, you know, I'm not there.

I could just, but I can read the tea leaves

a little bit.

All right.

Okay.

Chances that he is involved with someone else, not

someone from the friends.

Not necessarily Matt LeBlanc.

All right, could be anybody.

Anybody, any other human being?

Is he involved?

I'd say 95%.

Wait, didn't he say?

Wait.

So wait, there's, didn't you say 90% for the relationship problem?

So you think there's a 5% chance he's got a good relationship, but also cheating?

Get off me comes to mind a lot.

Well, I guess it can be an open relationship, too, right?

Like maybe they have a wonderful relationship relationship, and she's just allowing him.

Okay.

She is.

She's like, get off me.

Get onto anything else but me.

Okay.

And then what do you believe the percentage chances are that it is specifically Jennifer Aniston he is having an affair with?

50%.

50%.

And you're basing that just on smoke and fire?

Like it's, we've heard an odd amount of reporting about it.

She's hot.

Okay, if he's not gay, then it's at least 50% because she's hot.

But like, why do we believe her?

Because there's just been like some like tabloid reports.

I just look at him and I look at her and I'm like,

you know, he was this big mic.

Well, but she comes saundering into the room and like, I don't know, I might be into it.

Barack, he's going for it.

Right, but that's a different.

Like, if I said Scarlett Johansson, you could also say he'd also be interested in it.

But, like, why do you believe it's hard?

Why don't you give me the odds of...

Give me...

What are the odds of Scarlett Johansson?

About 50%.

You think there's

a chance...

Anyone.

No, I'm not saying...

Anyone.

50%.

So you're saying you think there's a 50% chance that Barack Obama is hooking up with every attractive celebrity?

Not every, any.

And you don't have to say attractive.

Okay.

I'm glad you left left it at celebrity, though, because that goes either way.

You know what I mean?

50%.

Okay.

You've laid it out.

That's reasonable.

I'm not sure I understand exactly.

Because I feel like there is this

bizarre under

brush fire

with giving us a little smoke in the forest

that does, it's always her.

And like, I don't know that there's any evidence of this, but like when you see a bunch of stories and people keep writing about the same thing over and over and over and over again in like tabloids and rumors, you start to wonder, is there actually something here?

Did we just wake up one day and they just announce a divorce and he's just hanging out on red carpets with Jennifer Aniston?

I would just like to say this is more time than I have spent thinking about those two for my entire life.

Okay.

And it's it's more time.

We've now spent more time than I care to think about them.

Can we go back to the tape and see who brought up this story twice?

Is there a way to, do we have recordings of this program?

Rudolph.

Who introduced this story to the program twice today?

Two different times.

I didn't bring it up.

I didn't say I wasn't the one bringing it up, but I just want you to know.

It's like, why do you believe?

I don't know.

I haven't thought about this at all.

It's not that important.

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Joe, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Thanks for having me, Glenn.

You bet.

It's great to have you.

I mean, you used to work for the Epoch Times, and you guys just, I think you tear it up over there.

I think really some good reporting over there.

And you also co-wrote and appeared in three January 6th related documentaries

and you told the real story there.

And you also wrote for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Chicago Tribune.

So it's nice to have you on board at the Blaze.

Let me ask you, Joe,

what do you find creepy or suspicious about this?

this guy, this guy that nobody's paying attention to that just

tried to kill a bunch of people and did kill some in, you know, along with the

no kings movement.

Well, the more we learn about him,

the less this entire thing makes sense.

I mean, he has a very unusual backstory.

He's worked a lot in the food industry, companies like Del Monte and Gerber

in production, you know, safety, supervising, you know, the

the plants and keeping everything clean and safe.

And he's probably

moved around the country at least a dozen times in the past 20 years with his jobs.

But he also has a background as a preacher, which we're just finding out a little bit more about that.

I have a story out this morning about that, that he has traveled around the world,

at least in part,

as a preacher, a Christian preacher who

who had studied at an institute there in Dallas.

And he's been to Africa.

He's talked about going to the Middle East

in the West Bank

and Gaza and talked about going there to be basically a missionary to radical Islamists and to tell them, as he put it on one of his websites, that violence isn't the answer.

Now,

that's an

interesting thing for him to say.

I I talked to Robert Spencer from Jihad Watch, and he said uh if he actually did that, he's fortunate to be alive because typically uh if you proselytize, that's uh a death sentence in Islam.

So you know, he he said if he actually did that, um

you know, he would have been killed or taken hostage uh unless they saw him, as he put it, unless they saw him as a fool and they just they just cut cut him a break and left him alone.

But he's also preached in the Democratic Republic of the Congo several times

in an evangelical Christian church there.

And we came across a very interesting video of him talking about his

story of his awakening to Christianity.

But he was so excited about talking about Christ, he put his arms out almost like a bird and was flying around the stage saying, you know, what Jesus has done for me and woo-hoo.

It's not what you'd expect.

I mean,

we have the Del Monte guy going around and then preaching around the world and preaching the opposite things.

He seemed to have.

Did he become mentally ill?

And then before we get to that question, when did he become involved in politics with Tim Walls and everything else?

Well, he was appointed to a governor's workforce development council

first by Governor Mark Dayton, who was a Democrat, and then Tim Walls.

Of course, we all know Tim Walls.

He appointed him to a similar group, and he spent about nine years on these boards.

These are advisory councils that basically...

Was this when he was a preacher or when he was with Del Monte?

Well, you know, actually, some of this stuff overlapped and it was all going on at the same time.

And he's got other ventures that were going on.

This guy

is really a puzzle, but he did get appointed to these two commissions by Democratic governors.

And, you know, so we've looked around to try to find out if there is, aside from that, if there are any indicators that this was a political man, we know he was pro-life.

He was opposed to abortion.

He spoke about that.

But

we did not find any indication of political donations, either federally, state, or local, that he gave donations to any political party or candidate.

The newspaper in Oklahoma City claims that he was a registered Republican when he lived in Muldrow, Oklahoma, but

the voting system folks out there say they don't keep records back that far anymore.

So

in the article did not state where they got the information.

They didn't link to any proof of it.

So that seems fairly soft.

So

we just don't have a lot to go on.

Outside of this wild backstory with all these different jobs,

you know, he ostensibly ran a security company called Praetorian Guard Security Services.

And he had several vehicles that were that were kitted out as squad cars, basically.

You'd see these in different cities, you know, Pinkertons and other security companies.

So he had several of those and

undoubtedly where he got his equipment that he was wearing the night that he committed these shootings, and he was dressed up as a police officer.

Creepy mask.

Okay, so hang on.

I mean, I'm just...

So we don't know if this guy had a political agenda one way or another on the I mean

he seemed to attack the Democrat that was the one that was bucking the extreme you know left

of her party

is there is there any rhyme or reason of of

or pattern on the people that were on his kill list?

Well, you know, that's that's one of the only tells that we have, is that he kept both in the vehicle that he was driving that night and in in a room that he rented uh

for his job,

they found notebooks, handwritten notebooks, and in his car there was a what what the FBI concluded was a hit list.

And there were more than fifty names on it.

And as far as I can tell I haven't finished checking every single one of them but that these were all Democrats

not just Minnesota politicians but also in Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin and he had lists of Planned Parenthood locations and officials in Minnesota on this list

and of course the list did include Alyssa Hortman the former House Speaker who was assassinated along with her husband and the family dog.

So, you know, that list was very lopsided.

And we know that.

Do we know if any of those Democrats have anything in common?

Are they hard left?

Are they maybe

mealy-mouthed, you know, people that are...

I don't know.

I mean, she seemed to be somebody who was bucking the system that the Democrats would want.

So it's not like this was a hardcore lefty.

This seems like somebody who actually had a conscience, was trying to do something that they really believed in.

So why was she on the list?

Or can you tell, have you looked at the politicians' names to be able to see any pattern on voting patterns or anything?

Well, in her case, and this got almost no attention in the corporate press,

within the

past two weeks before her death, there was a key vote in the legislature in Minnesota that would strip the subsidized

health care for adult illegal aliens.

And that was a very close vote, and it turns out she was the deciding vote and the only one to cross party lines to put that legislation over the top.

And so that, you know, that certainly didn't endear her

to the left, because that's a that's a kind of a sacred cow.

And so come

uh January 1st next year, adult illegal aliens will no longer have access to the subsidized or free health care.

So that that was a big vote and that's something you certainly have to put into the equation here and see if if that provides any sort of

any sort of motive but

he didn't he really didn't have any

visible interest in state politics that that we can see.

So, you know,

there's lots of intrigue, but

you know, he hasn't made statements to people that,

you know, so-and-so,

I just can't stand this person or

or on the on the other side, you know, whether he was his

childhood friend claimed that he was a a Trump voter.

But,

you know, we don't have any

Minnesota's an open primary state, so there's no records that we could check on that.

It's just a lot of soft information, and

I have a feeling that when this is all said and done, his story and the explanation is going to go a lot deeper.

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I still feel like I'm going to bring down the mood we have going here.

No, we have a little T1 of brass.

Is that right, Sarah?

Right?

Yeah.

Oh, there we go.

Can't bring you out in a room on a Friday while talking about Iran with this behind you.

So go ahead.

That's just perfect.

Up to three aircraft strike groups are on their way to the Middle East right now.

Wait, wait, wait.

Three more?

Because we have two there now, right?

Two there, one's coming, so we'll have a total of three.

Usually when we have three or four, something's about to go down.

Three there.

That's a lot in that area.

That's a lot of ordinance.

But to make it even better on this cheery morning,

up to 20 Global Master and C5M Galaxy Strategic Heavy Lift Transports are also on their way over to the Middle East.

So the Galaxy, there's C5s.

C5M, yeah, Galaxy.

And those are those huge, huge planes, right?

Ginormous is the actual military term.

Ginormous.

For that, okay, well, thank you very much for that.

I'm glad we're at the technical terms on that.

And if you're wondering what those aircraft usually take, it's personnel, munitions, anti-air support vehicles can fit onto these things.

Lots of great 4th of July fun can be on these

craft.

We might lose the finger.

Don't hold on to those munitions while you launch them.

So this usually, I mean, I haven't seen that happen outside of preparing for war, have you?

No,

let's put a caveat on that because

you reported the news yesterday that the president had

chosen a plan.

So the military commanders came and said, these are different options.

You pick one.

President has picked one, according to sources.

So this is probably just getting ready if they ever have to say, okay, go.

So So they're getting everything, all the assets in place if they need them.

Well, we've also heard that the president wants at least up to a couple more weeks to figure out, you know, if we're going to do this diplomatic thing or not.

So we're not saying

they are meeting with us now.

Yeah.

So they're meeting and still having trying to negotiate.

But Donald Trump is doing what he did last time and saying, we'll give you 60 days.

This time he said 14 days.

I'm going to give you two weeks

to negotiate, which which is shockingly about the right amount of time needed to get all the munitions and the aircraft carriers and anything else that we would need over in that region.

Now, this is starting to mess with fuel prices, in particularly

diesel.

Yep.

So global gas prices are already, oil prices are already up 10%.

But diesel, and I hadn't even really been looking at that until you even mentioned that earlier this morning.

Hello.

Diesel is actually up 15% globally.

But if you look at specific areas like Europe, diesel is up 30.

30%.

So the reason why diesel would be up is because that is that that fuels our

aircraft carriers.

It fuels our tanks.

It fuels our trucks.

It fuels our trains.

Everything that we need to move large amounts of anything around is all in diesel.

And gas will eventually go up, but everybody is starting to stockpile diesel just just in case because there was, wasn't there a crash?

Another one of these mysterious, oh, our GPS went out

on the deck of the bridge there, and we got two, I think, two large tankers, right?

Yes, so right off the coast of Oman.

We started seeing this on Tuesday, and it was actually crazy.

And you talked yesterday about overreaction, and everyone was immediately saying, because they were looking at satellite imagery and seeing these two giant fires that were right there, right next to the Straits of Hormuz.

And they were thinking that, oh, now maybe Iran pivoted and now they're shutting down the Straits.

Right.

Well, what we're seeing now is that that was a crash between two oil tankers.

And this is kind of interesting.

Listen to this quote I'm reading out of the New York Times.

This is a quote from one of the experts in the region in ship tracking.

Said, the latitude and longitudes these ships are receiving are completely false.

So they're getting different information.

The ships think they're in one area, but they're actually in another.

This is clear spoofing.

Now,

that seems like a

happier word to say.

Sabotage.

Electronic warfare is another extremely happy thing to say.

But these are the things that we need to start looking at, especially if you and your family are thinking about supporting maybe strikes over there.

Just to equip you with all the knowledge, Iran won't just...

attack or counter-attack on military bases, things like that.

We have to look asymmetrically.

Shutting down the Straits of Hermuz, either electronic warfare or kinetic warfare, is something they would do.

And these diesel prices we're seeing now, a 30% global increase, it's just the start.

Can you go back in the files, even if you have it in your head?

Did we ever do anything on the ability for Iran to be able to strike at our internal infrastructure here?

So we've looked at certain claims.

You're talking about electronic warfare and malware.

They definitely...

They've been able to shut down our power grids or whatever.

So

they've already shown capability to do that against Saudi Arabia, shutting down some of their oil capability.

They definitely have the capability.

I'm not sure how prepared we are for that, but they definitely do have the capability.

But we also have to look at other asymmetrical ways which they could respond if we get involved in this.

And I remember right when this happened, I said, I bet Cash Patel and Dan Bongino will have no sleep until this is over because we don't know how many Iranian assets, Hezbollah, IRGC, that we actually have in the country.

But news came out today that said the Trump administration is boosting monitoring of possible Iran-backed cells in the U.S.

So they are actively looking for this.

They're concerned about this.

And we should be concerned about that too, because if this does kick off, we get involved.

These are possibilities that we have to consider.

Okay.

Hang on just a sec.

I want to go to.

Stu is at the Supreme Court.

Oh, wow.

Wow, that's weird.

Stu, are there?

Hey, go ahead.

Did you just run to the Supreme Court?

Yeah.

Yeah, wow.

As you know, they do not allow phones inside the Supreme Court.

So

I'm just getting out.

I'm sorry to be here.

I know you're talking about whatever you're talking about, but

they are releasing the Supreme Court decisions, and that always happens in this hour of the program.

And I wanted to make sure that

we got this to you as soon as possible.

Yeah, so you've done this before when you broke in about, you know, reversing Roe versus Wade and some of these other things.

So we want to break in.

You have something really important?

Yeah, yeah, because usually that's what happened with Roe versus Wade.

Usually it's right at the end of the term, as you know.

And we get these as the last decisions in the Supreme Court term.

The big ones, they usually save till the end, but not the case today.

We have the big one.

This is the big one we all expected to come down uh from this particular term uh mclaughlin uh chiropractic associates versus mckessincorp and uh you know we've been talking about this for a very long time

as we all know glenn the telephone consumer protection act protects businesses and consumers from intrusive telemarketing by prohibiting unsolicited fax advertisements to telephone facsimile machines now of course is it absent the opt-out notice informing recipients that they can choose to not receive future faxes?

The act, of course, as we all know, provides a private right of action with a statutory minimum damages of $500 per violation.

Wait, wait, wait.

Did I slip through a time tunnel?

Are we in 1995 all of a sudden?

This is a current Supreme Court.

This just

came down.

As we know,

McKesson Corporation sent unsolicited fax advertisements through a subsidiary in 2009 and 2010.

And this was, of course, to McLaughlin chiropractic associates.

And that issue here, Glenn, was the determination whether does

an unsolicited fax

advertisement coming in,

can you block those just from analog fax machines or does it also apply to digital facsimile services?

And we now have a ruling on this, not whether that would be appropriate or not, but what agency would oversee if that was appropriate or not.

And we now know.

I'm sorry,

do you have a specific question you wanted to address here?

Yeah, I do.

I don't think I've seen a fax machine since like 2001.

So I didn't realize this was as urgent for the Supreme Court.

I didn't know.

Has this been

a backlog?

Is this a backlog case that was filed in like 1993 and they're just getting to it?

I when I was running for the Supreme Court, it did appear that I went through a wormhole where fax machines were relevant.

And I don't know

if that's affecting my reporting here today, friend.

Right.

But this is an actual Supreme Court ruling that just came out today

in 2025.

Well, it's good that you're reporting it on a landline.

That's true.

I am.

By the way, Glad, just to let you know, if you're looking to send any unsolicited fax advertisements, you're still okay to do that for the moment.

We don't have a ruling from a lower court that is going to say whether digital fax machines are included in this and whether we

send it back to a lower court,

so they deferred making a decision on this one.

Yeah, to be clear, Glenn, we still don't know if you will be able to send digital faxes to people when they are unsolicited.

That we don't know.

That's in the future, Glenn.

In 2037, we expect to have another ruling that will

teach us as to whether we can send fax machine messages digitally.

We just don't know at this time.

Somebody is sitting down at their kitchen table tonight with their family and like, I won that fax machine thing today.

That argument that I put in front of the Supreme Court, I won it.

I mean, I just took him out.

I sent it to a lower court.

They couldn't even decide.

They were like, I don't know.

He had such a good case on fax machines.

I had to send it to a lower court.

Do we know where John Roberts came down on this?

Yes, Glenn, this was a, I believe a 7-2 decision.

Kagan with the dissent.

I know, if you want, I can read the entire thing.

Let me start.

No.

No, I think we're good.

I don't think we needed to hear either side on that one.

Actually, 6-3, Glenn.

I'm sorry.

Kagan, Sodomayor, and Justice Taji Brown Jackson, who probably was born after fax machines were extinct.

On that side of the ruler.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Stu.

I appreciate it.

Glad we got that in.

Forget about that Iranian thing.

We still don't really know digital advertising on fax machines, but we'll keep following this story no matter how long it takes to get to the bottom of it.

I am, I can't tell you, I have to apologize and correct a horrible, horrible, horrible reporting job.

I have to expose Stu

for when he was giving us that the facts with a CTS

about the facts with an X, he left out the actual facts with a CTS.

And

I'm sorry, Stu, but this is unacceptable.

You apparently were just, you didn't,

you failed to mention how important fax machines are.

I mean, and that is actually true.

They're very widely used, apparently, still in in our medical field and the government, but it was an unnecessary detail.

You failed to mention that it's actually more secure than email.

I did fail to mention that.

Because nobody else uses the mat.

I did fail to mention that intentionally.

Yes.

And why did you do that, Stu?

Why did you feel it was necessary to leave out those

CTS facts?

felt like it might ruin the bit if I just went into the actual facts of the so comedy was more important to you than the actual ruling and the import of this ruling.

Wow.

Wow.

Can I tell you something?

I apologize for Stu to this audience, and I'm going to show you, and I don't ever usually do this, but I'm going to show you how deeply this bothers me when somebody does something like this.

Stu, you're suspended for the next two days.

You finish out today's show and then get your stuff and you're not back in that building for two days.

Okay.

I'll see you here on Sunday.

I am positive.

Are you sure you don't suspend three or four days?

No, two days.

It's a very hard, fast rule with me.

It's a two-day suspension.

Two Fridays.

Well, as long as

first of all, I will say this audience knows more about that actual facts case than anyone else in America that was not involved in it.

So right there, we've already advanced, I believe, the reporting in a positive direction.

And I am fine with your suspension, assuming you will at least acknowledge I was calling in from the Supreme Court.

As long as you will acknowledge that fact.

Oh my gosh, you weren't even doing that, but you were on a landline, which is very hard to find right now.

Yes.

So I am on the last landline connected to the last analog fax machine.

That all happened.

I don't want to see you here Saturday or Sunday.

I'll tell you that right now.

You step on that property and I'm going to have you escorted.

Well, I won't be here either.

But I'm not suspended.

I'm the suspender.

You're the suspendee.

And you're suspended.

By the way, an hour or so, maybe a couple hours to get out of that building.

If I could just throw in that it actually is a really positive ruling and that it's no more deferrence to federal agencies, so it actually is a good ruling after all of that.

It's a positive thing, gosh, I feel like I've been lied to.

No, it's true, I feel like I'm in a lifetime movie about facts.

I'm rocking back and forth in a shower and I can't get clean.

What else?

What else are you going to do to violate me?

My gosh, see you Monday.

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