He will donate a kidney to his sister. The surgery is set for December, most likely around Christmas week, with one or two days in hospital and about a week unable to drive, so posting will pause. He says that if he eats healthily it will not lower his life expectancy.
His sister's illness and service motivate the donation. Diabetic most of her life, she lost most of her vision at 26 and her kidney first failed soon after; she lost her job and home and stayed with him. He says she still volunteered with disabled children and has been an activist in the disabled community.
He urges viewers to research becoming living donors. He contrasts a time 50 years ago when organ failure meant death, and says donors get strong advocates who make sure they are ready.
Oklahoma's last-place education ranking costs the whole state. Answering a commenter who said a middle-school education worked fine for him, he says his own success without college came at a cost he would not ask of his children. He ties low education to lower productivity, fewer high-paying jobs, and higher poverty, crime, incarceration and welfare, with young talent leaving because industry needs an educated labor pool.
Automation will erase the jobs that need no education. He says Oklahoma has already lost a third of its oil and gas workforce to artificial intelligence, and asks what the state will do when 80% of manual-labor jobs are gone; that figure is his warning, not a sourced forecast.
This short is a travel clip and event plug, not commentary. Standing at the world's largest covered wagon in Lincoln, Illinois — 25 ft tall and 40 ft long, bought by the city for $10,000 — he jokes about it and promotes a 1–3 p.m. "meet in the middle" town-hall appearance with another speaker the next day at the Logan County Fairgrounds.
Right-wing audiences have believed a long list of falsehoods. Addressed to viewers angry about the Epstein list, he runs a sarcastic list: Obama born in Kenya, wind turbines causing cancer, sex changes in schools, post-birth abortions, Pizzagate, cats and dogs being eaten, ivermectin curing COVID, the Sharpie hurricane map, Antifa on January 6 — asking why Trump pardoned them — and the FBI planting evidence at Mar-a-Lago, which he says Trump's own attorneys disclaimed.
The dollar has had its worst half-year in five decades. He reports it lost 11% of its value in the first six months of the Trump administration, the worst performance since 1973.
Dollar weakness is holding oil far above its fundamentals. Oil rose the day after OPEC announced more than 500,000 barrels a day of additional August production, which he calls a red flag; at $67.80 he thinks it should be well below $60. He expects that if the dollar rebounds even a couple of percent, oil could fall drastically given the OPEC increases.
Tariffs and policy uncertainty have shrunk demand for dollars. He argues tariffs cut imports, sending fewer dollars abroad, while investors move out of dollar-denominated stocks and bonds over US uncertainty, the tariff policy, the debt-expanding "big beautiful bill" and a high debt-to-GDP ratio.
A weak dollar argues for raising rates, not cutting them. He says the weak dollar and tariffs keep inflation from falling, so a Powell rate cut now could add inflation and hikes may be needed; he faults the budget bill for adding about $3.5 trillion to the deficit and further weakening the dollar.
Trump's policies are aiding de-dollarization. He says over half the world is working to remove the dollar as reserve currency and US policy is helping, and argues business success does not qualify Trump to run the economy, which he says Trump plainly does not grasp.
Iran's rapid defeat makes its opponent's failure against terror groups suspect. He says Iran's opponent, unnamed, dismantled Iran's military in a 12- or 13-day assault planned since 2007, through spy infiltration, crippled weapons and communications, and decapitation strikes, setting Iran back one or two decades. He finds it hard to believe the same country cannot eliminate terror groups in a small piece of land, given Iran is about 30 times larger.