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arris is destroying the world. We'll get to all that. But there are major reports of zigzagging UFOs in the Southern California skies. So you know if you were a UFO, you would come to California, wouldn't you? Well, there were lots of people who saw them. There were six flying saucers. They were darting. They were zigzagging. Now, may I offer you my very informed opinion? If you see some kind of…

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ere's a new book by David Stainforth, and it's called "Predicting Our Climate Future." And a big part of the book is him explaining in smart detail why climate models are now — should you spend your money on this book, which I believe is very smart sounding? It would teach you a lot. Or save a few bucks and just ask Scott, because I told you that the climate models are absurd. I told you that you can't predict the future, certainly of the climate. There are two things you can't do: predict the future, and especially know if you have all the variables right to even look at predicting the climate. So the fast version is there is no way to predict the climate. There are too many variables. It's too sensitive to any small assumptions. And it's absurd.

Now if you hear from me, a non-scientist, saying logically this can't be done, you're not going to believe me. But here's somebody who knows what they're talking about, has lots of smart facts. So if you want to learn why you should not trust models that predict the future of the climate, this will tell you.

Tucker had two of the scariest guests I've ever seen on the show. One of them, Dr. Casey Means, who is an MD, was talking about how some combination of our food supply and Big Pharma is making all of us metabolically sick. And it's a massiv

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e — it's maybe the biggest problem, maybe the biggest problem in the world, certainly in the United States. But just look. Here's some of the stats. Autism rates in kids are one in 36 nationally compared to one in 1,500 not so long ago. In California it's worse. Autism rates are one in 22. If you have a kid in California, there's a one in 22 chance that the kid will be autistic. One in 22. What?…

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