Gary flies solo with Shannon still on vacation, she was supposed to be in Puerto Vallarta (catch up on yesterday’s pod for that).

• New doorbell cam footage suggests Nancy Guthrie's abductor cased her home beforehand
• Lt. General Newton on Mexico's cartel civil war & advice for Americans stuck there
• SOTU preview with Kalshi prediction market odds + 37 Dems boycotting
• Why we've forgotten how to talk to strangers
• 10 Year Anniversary Party ticket giveaway — winner called from French Polynesia

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Gary continues week two coverage of the landmark social media addiction trial and dives deep into the El Mencho story, from the raid to his California roots.

• YouTube VP grilled on the goal of 1 billion watch hours/day — their defense: "we're Netflix, not social media"
• Inside the El Mencho capture: how secrecy and intelligence took down a kingpin whose cartel often outguns the military
• El Mencho's California connection — busted for meth in SF in '86
• A 7,000-word hypothetical blog post helped tank the Dow 822 points: what if AI is so good it's actually bad?
• Anthropic study says you're using AI wrong — and most people don't even question the answers they get

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Gary wraps the show with #WhatsHappening, #SwampWatch, a Pentagon bombshell and #TrueCrimeTuesday.

• #WhatsHappening: Guthrie's $1M reward plea, Americans stranded in Mexico flooding the embassy, NBC's best Olympic ratings since 2014, another Northeast storm overnight
• #SwampWatch: Why 37 Dems skipping the SOTU is a bad look — you were elected to represent your district, show up
• Pentagon warns Trump an Iran strike could burn through interceptor supply in two weeks and stretch forces thin
• #TrueCrimeTuesday: Mom left to go Christmas shopping in 2001 and vanished, found alive 5 days ago, says she doesn't want contact with her family

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