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Talarico said he stayed home with the flu for nine days, while online rumors claimed he had died or entered a mental hospital. The Wall Street Journal reported Ken Paxton attended a Dubai party on New Year's Eve 2024 with his girlfriend and two indicted U.S. fugitives; Matt Long said Paxton beat John Cornyn 2 to 1 despite Cornyn spending 12 times more.
Michael Douglas said celebrity children face sharper criticism than heirs in ordinary family businesses, though he acknowledged that second-generation careers in entertainment often fail. He also recalled Wall Street audiences treating Gordon Gekko as a hero, despite Douglas playing the villain.
Reports said Kimberly Guilfoyle solicited donor help with a $100,000 Amex bill and sought $250,000 toward a car loan from Greek businessmen, while the Wall Street Journal described gifts and services exchanged for access. Ryan Grim contrasted those allegations with far larger suspicious oil trades under CFTC scrutiny, and the hosts said officials had told the agency to stop investigating; they also noted FTC scrutiny of FanDuel and DraftKings.
Investor Stanley Druckenmiller defended using AI to write a Wall Street Journal column criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after AI detector Pangram rated the text 100% synthetic. Druckenmiller compared AI writing tools to using calculators for math.
Wall Street Journal opinion editor Paul Gigot backed Druckenmiller, arguing that original core arguments matter more than phrasing. Journalists Sharon Goldman and Joe Weisenthal noted that executive columns were routinely ghostwritten by human subordinates for years without public controversy.