st. I always do the Eric Dolan PsyPost stuff. According to a new study, higher income may boost the odds of finding a romantic partner. Huh. Having a higher income improves your chance of getting laid. Yeah, you could have asked me. Next time, skip the study and just say, "Scott, do you think money would help you in dating?" I think it would. Yes, I do.

I wonder if there's any other studies that they could have skipped. Oh, here's one. Also in PsyPost by Vladimir Hedra, they found out that social anxiety, so if you have social anxiety, it predicts future loneliness. Huh. So you're telling me that people who are super uncomfortable being around other people might have a little extra problem with loneliness. Huh. Well, you could have saved some money on that study. Just ask me next time.

And I wonder if science has determined that exercise is good for you. Huh? I wonder if exercise is good for me. Oh yeah. Here's a study in GMA Science that now they think that exercise and muscles reduce the odds of getting cancer and make your tumors grow more slowly. So yeah, exercise is good for you in a variety of ways. That's just one of them.

And there's a new dating app. Have you heard of this one? The dating app is called Tea Dating Advice. T is spelled T E A like the tea you drink. Dating Advice. Apparently it's the number one app or something. And instead of setting you up with people that you have things in common with, like a normal dating app, the dating app is entirely based on women reporting what's wrong with men. So real actual men, individuals, would be rated on the app by other women so that you knew all the problems that you would have if you got with them.

That is truly the end of civilization right there. As a number of people said, could you imagine if men had an app that was dedicated to men saying bad things about women so you could check to make sure you didn't get one of those bad women? How long would that stay in the app store? About a minute. About a minute before somebody says you can't do that. But when the subject is men and how bad men are, no problem. Very popular app.

So I've always thought that dating requires you to dupe somebody long enough that they begin to like you before they find out who you really are. Let me say that again because it sounds like a joke, but I don't mean it as a joke at all. So we all know that our feelings and our urges can overrule our good common sense, right? Everybody's had that experience that if your emotions get too high, it'll just cancel your common sense.

So now they've got an app that will allow your common sense to go first. So your common sense looks at this app and says, "Oh, this guy or this woman have been reported to be bad." So my common sense says I'm not even going to talk to them. But in order to get anybody to like you, you have to make sure that they only see your good stuff for a while and then they can start to like you and then slowly you can start feathering in all of your bad habits. Oh, so it turns out you snore. That would be me. It turns out you work on the weekends when I want to be doing something else.

So yeah, there would be no reproduction and no marriage and no romance if we didn't have our emotions overruling our common sense. Now that's been reversed.

Well, Sunny Hostin of The View, she was talking about the Colbert cancellation and says if comedians are being attacked then that means our Constitution is being dismantled. So when Democrats complained that Trump was going to steal your democracy, what they meant is that CBS was going to cancel Colbert for losing $40 million a year to them. So how do you feel? How do you feel now that you supported Trump but you found out that he took your democracy because a company that's not Trump fired somebody who was losing a tremendous amount of money for them?

Well, I didn't see that coming and it could be. I'm not ruling out the possibility that there was a political element to it, but I do think they might have been happy if they had a political element to it so they could cancel something that costs $40 million a year. You know, maybe they wouldn't have done it except for Trump. Maybe they wouldn't have done it, but I'm pretty sure they're happy they did it.

Well, Tulsi Gabbard is telling us about discovering that the Voice of America, and she's the president's senior adviser for the US Agency for Global Media. So that would be her domain. Apparently the Voice of America, which by its design is intended to be America's propaganda element for other countries. So Voice of America by its nature is supposed to tell other countries stuff that we want them to hear basically. So it's not meant to be unbiased. It's meant to be biased in favor of America.

And apparently now we know that some of the Voice of America managers met multiple times with Chinese officials because China wanted them to say nicer things about China and give them more favorable coverage. Wait a minute. Voice of America is our propaganda machine. You're not supposed to be meeting with our adversaries to find out how they would like you to talk about them. Now, I don't know, maybe they were just learning what they could learn and had no impact on their coverage, but it doesn't feel right. So we just learned that those meetings were happening. So it's not ideal. Just the news is talking about that.

Apparently the Biden administration set up a hotline so that unaccompanied minors coming across the border could call that hotline if they had trouble with whatever strangers they came with. So in other words, if you came across the border with someone who was not your family member or parent and you wanted to complain about them, so you know, let's say you were being trafficked or abused or something, you had a phone number to call. Isn't that great? That's pretty great, isn't it? Gave them a phone number to call in case they had problems.

Well, today we found out that 65,000 of those calls from children who were having a problem with the non-relative who brought them across the border, 65,000 of those calls went unanswered. They just sent it to voicemail. That's not funny. That's not funny. It's kind of funny because it's so incompetent and evil and bad, but it's not funny because there are 65,000 children who didn't get a response when they complained about the non-family member who was in charge of them. So there's that.

And now according to Fox News, you know the Democrat fundraising organization called ActBlue, and they're getting some heat because instead of doing what they said they were doing which is collecting small contributions from lots of different citizens, they are accused and now they've been subpoenaed by three powerful committees in Congress with maybe taking foreign sources of money and finding a clever way to make it appear as though it was being donated by individuals in small amounts from Americans. So they've got some answering to do now.

What would happen if ActBlue got in enough trouble that they could no longer do what they were doing? Would it make a big difference to Republican fundraising and enough of a difference that it would influence either the next presidential election or the midterms coming up? And I feel as if ActBlue might be a large enough entity that if its fundraising got shut down, it would actually influence votes, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'd have to see it in context.

This is the type of story that I usually use Grok to get the context because without knowing how much, maybe you could put this in the comments. If I had more time this morning, I would have looked it up, but how much money did ActBlue donate to Republicans or handle the donations for? Was it a lot? Like does anybody have a dollar amount for that? Because a news story like this is only meaningful if you know how much money they were providing and if that really made a difference. I suspect it did.

Well, in other news, the Trump administration is going to slash 25% of the IRS workforce, mostly with buyouts as opposed to just regular firings. The Washington Times is reporting on this. So they're going to get rid of nearly 26,000 people, reversing Biden's buildup in that same area.

Now, do you believe that the IRS will not be able to do their job because they would lose 25% of the workforce? Well, that's what they'll tell you. You know, if you cut anybody's budget by 25%, they're definitely going to tell you that that's the end of the world. But will it be? Probably not. Probably not. We'll find out.

And good news for the president. Japan has agreed to a trade deal and the stock market seems to like it so far. And the US will levy a 15% tariff on Japanese goods and at the same level on the country's critical auto industry. And on top of that, Japan committed to invest $550 billion in America.

Now, remember I told you that the Democrats didn't see this coming, that if this whole trade negotiation thing starts working out for Trump, which it is, that it would give him this almost unlimited stream of victories, and that once a week there would be some important country that said, "Yeah, we just made a deal." Hold on, my light went out. There we go.

So here's another one. Japan has fallen in line. We'll see if that makes a difference.

And then the 60 Minutes lawsuit that Trump was pressing against CBS. And you heard that CBS has agreed to pay $16 million, but on top of that we're learning now that there will be an extra $20 million from the new owners. So whoever buys CBS will pitch in another $20 million in services basically. So it would be stuff like for advertising or PSAs or similar programming. So it would be $36 million in total, but $20 million of that would be in services.

And here's how Trump announced it on Truth Social. This is another in a long line of victories over the fake news media who we are holding to account for their widespread fraud and deceit. The Wall Street Journal, the failing New York Times, the Washington Post, MSDNC, CNN, and all other mainstream media liars are on notice that the days of them being allowed to deceive the American people are over. Make America great again.

Now, how many of you are impressed, as I am, that Trump has effectively destroyed the entire fake news media structure in the United States? I mean, they still limp along. They're still doing their thing, but you know, between the podcasters eating their lunch and Trump hammering on them non-stop, tough times in the mainstream media world.

Well, according to the Washington Times, an appeals court has sided with ICE in blocking New Jersey's sanctuary law banning migrant detentions. So apparently without getting into details, New Jersey was trying to do something that would thwart ICE and the appeals court said you can't do that because the federal government has authority over this domain, the immigration, and you New Jersey are not allowed to stop them from doing what they are legally allowed to do. So that's another win for the Trump administration.

Well, AstraZeneca, which you know, you've heard of that company, big company out of the UK, they have agreed to build the largest US plant in Virginia as part of a $50 billion investment in the US. So Trump gets another multi-billion dollar win.

Is it working? Well, in similar news, General Motors says it's going to invest billions in the US to build more cars here and fewer of them in Mexico, according to the National Pulse. So do you believe that Trump's approach is working in the sense that it's causing big companies to permanently move their facilities to the United States?

Well, again, context matters. If you were to add up all of the billions of dollars, and of course these billions will be over 10 years or whatever, and you compare it to the gross domestic product of the country, it might not be that big. But if every day or two you see another national story about another big company that's bringing billions to the United States, that should cause almost every other big company to say, "Oh, damn it. We're going to have to match that." If we don't say we're bringing stuff to the United States, it's going to bite us in the ass later.

So every time there's another story of somebody bringing their investments to the US, we get close to the point where they just will all have to do it. We're not there yet, but don't you think that two of the things that the Trump administration has accomplished, one is that people are bragging about saving money for the first time. Well, at least maybe since the Clinton era. But now that government entities when they want to brag and get attention, they say we're cutting some expenses. We're getting rid of this. That is really good for the country that people are bragging about money saving as opposed to all the other stuff that they could brag about.

And then companies bragging about bringing investment into the US. What they brag about is what you're going to get more of. So trend is looking good.

All right. Well, you probably see behind me in the corner there the whiteboard. Yes, there will be a whiteboard. I've been trying to understand the whole Russia collusion hoax story and what we know about Brennan and Clapper and Obama and what they did or did not do and was there a crime there and it's all really complicated. Are any of you having the same problem that you want to understand that story but you don't want to make it your full-time job? It's just a lot of details. A lot of these stories have that element to them.

So apparently today Tulsi Gabbard released some additional Trump-Russia collusion documents and President Trump is characterizing it this way in quotes. He said quote, "Tulsi is the hottest one in the room right now." Now, when I finish the context, you'll realize he's talking about her work, her work product. So when he says she's the hottest one in the room, you immediately go to, wait, is he meowing her in front of the entire world? Well, sounds like it, but no, he's referring to her work product that he's impressed with.

And he says she found out Barack Hussein Obama led a group of people and they cheated in the election. And he says that Tulsi told me quote, "You've seen nothing yet." And he says that the bombshell claims that the Obama administration manufactured the Russian collusion hoax which he calls the biggest scandal in the history of our country. And he says that Obama is guilty of treason for being the head of that conspiracy. He said he's guilty. It's not a question. This was treason.

So that's where he stands. Now, Obama has responded to the complaint, saying he was part of this major Russia collusion hoax play that was really an attempt to change the government of the United States. And he said talking about the documents that came out recently Obama said there's nothing in the document that undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that now let's see if what follows is actually a widely accepted conclusion. Right? So he says there's nothing new that undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that quote Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.

Now, that's usually the part where if you don't follow the news too closely, you start getting confused because you're saying, "Wait a minute. Why is Trump saying that we have all this fresh evidence that Obama should go to jail when Obama is saying nothing that happened has changed what we already knew and none of that would be illegal?" So how could it be true that it's the biggest bombshell of all time at the same time nothing new happened? Just nothing.

Well, then NBC News, who you should know, how many of you are aware that NBC News is accused by people who know more than I do of being the mouthpiece for the CIA? How man