Episode 2716 CWSA 01⧸10⧸25
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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Summary
Trump and Judge Mershon are back in court, and Trump is facing a sentencing hearing. Meanwhile, Laura Loomer gets a big win in her case against a corrupt judge, and she's getting a Blue Check!
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Well, give me an update in the comments if something happens while I'm talking,
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because I think Trump is supposedly, let's see, he's going to be talking to Judge Mershon today.
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I don't know. I'm not sure yet, but I think he's not going in person.
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And Judge Mershon has already indicated he's going to do some kind of, uh,
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unconditional discharge, meaning that he'll be guilty of a felony, but won't go to jail.
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Uh, and no matter, yeah, and no matter what the sentence is, they plan to appeal.
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So Trump will be officially a felon, maybe, but then it's on appeal.
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So my question to you, dear legal experts, is if your case is approved for appeal,
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Because it's not guaranteed you're a felon if your appeal is going through, right?
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So I feel like you'd say, it's, you're, you're conditionally possibly a felon, just like before.
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So if the legal process has not come to an end, I would say, hmm, seems to me that the legal process
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is still cooking along. Why, why would you say he's a felon? I don't understand what you're saying.
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So the process is still going forward. It could end with him being a felon or not a felon.
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So why are you saying he's a felon? He should be innocent until the appeals process is over.
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Now they don't say that, but I do, right? It'd be one thing if you said,
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I'm going to appeal, but given that we could be reasonably confident the appeal will be accepted
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at least to be processed, how is that guilty? How does that make him a felon? In what world,
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in what world would I consider him a felon if he's in the legal process? And it's likely,
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and here's what makes it interesting. I think the experts say the case was so flawed
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that it's far more likely it will be overturned than upheld. Isn't that true? So can you be called
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a felon if the process is still going and all the smart people think it will end with you not being
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a felon? How do you call that a felon? It's like they don't understand the process.
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We'll see. Meanwhile, New York court is removing the corrupt judge. We call him corrupt. This is
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Laura Loomer's reporting. And remove the corrupt judge, Arthur Angorian, from Trump's other case,
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the civil fraud case. And Laura Loomer reminds you that she exclusively broke the story about
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Judge Angorian's bias and how his wife was posting memes about Trump. And apparently that worked.
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So Laura Loomer gets the big win. She's got a blue check back. I don't know what the current
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situation is with her freedom of speech, but she got a big win and she's got a blue check
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and she's getting the credit today. Good job, Laura Loomer.
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We'll of course talk about the fire, but like I need a little bit of palate cleansing. You know,
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if you live in California, even if you're not in the center of the burn area, you're thinking about
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it all day long and you're probably doing something about it too. So we're pretty exhausted.
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in the state and it's just the beginning of the process. So forgive me if I'm a little obsessed
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by it, but when it hits you locally, it's hard not to be. So Trump says on day one-ish,
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after he's sworn in, he's going to share information about the drones. And he does say that the government
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knows. It sounds like maybe he doesn't know, or maybe it's been whispered that the government
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knows it's their stuff. It's one of those, but I would expect it to be something like the government
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was doing a little testing or something, probably something like that, or maybe just surveilling
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things. Here's what I don't expect. I do not expect that on day two or whatever, Trump will say,
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all right, here's the secret of the drones. We've been allowing Chinese drones to surveil our sensitive
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sites. Do you think he's going to announce that? Even if it's true, even if it's true,
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do you think he would tell you? I hope not. I think he would take care of it and keep it as a military
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secret if there was a way to do that. But I think he's getting a little bit ahead of himself
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that he would necessarily tell us no matter what the answer is. So we'll see. I think he means it.
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I just don't know he'll be able to deliver. Victor Davis Hanson summed up the LA problem as a total
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systems breakdown. Now, a system breakdown. Do you think that LA was operating as a systems being more
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important than goals entity? Or do you think that they seem to have goals without systems that
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supported them? So they had goals for diversity. They had goals for the environment, right? They had
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goals for saving the smelt. They had goals for protecting the water and the oceans. Lots of goals.
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But as I've been teaching you for a long time, systems are what you need because goals can't be
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supported without a system. So it's a system that's the important part. And as Victor Davis Hanson points
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out that the water storage system was bad, the forest management was bad, handling the insurance
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industry was bad. And he mentions the DEI hierarchy of the leadership. And he calls it a DEI Green New
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Deal hydrogen bomb. Like a perfect, a perfect system collapse because every part of the system kind of
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collapsed. Now, do you think it's fair in this case? Now, I've been, I've been railing against the people
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who say, as soon as there's a problem, you know, you look at the people in charge and if you see
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there are a certain demographic, the people on the right say, oh, DEI, DEI. And I try to caution you,
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that's not proof of DEI being a problem. All you can know for sure is that, you know, DEI was a big
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influence over hiring. You can't know that that's the problem. However, if you do a little research into
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the people involved, it might give you some insight. It might. For example, Karen Bass, did you know
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that when she was in the seventies, she used to travel to Cuba with, to work with something called
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the Venceremos Brigade, which was a group that organized annual trips to Cuba for young leftist
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Americans for many years. Do you know why Cuba would host leftists to come do some awesome things
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in Cuba, which was just building stuff, I guess? Why would they do that? It's to brainwash them
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against the United States, but gently, you know, just brainwash them that maybe the socialist way is
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better. And then they'll come back to the United States and destroy it or convert it. So she was
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actually part of a brainwashing operation. And let me be very clear, a brainwashing operation by Cuba.
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You bring young people in and you give them this one experience that's very artificial from, you know,
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the general Cuban experience and everything's great. And look, we'll just show you the things we want.
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Did you know the United States is evil? She is unquestionably a brainwash victim. That's not even
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in debate. If she went there multiple times and was part of a group that was by design a bunch of
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brainwash victims. How did she unbrainwash herself? I don't believe there's a process for that.
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If she was brainwashed, it's still in her. You can't undo that. So do you think that if people were
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well aware of that, that she would have been in charge of the city, the mayor? No, this one does look
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like a DEI hire problem, doesn't it? It looks like nobody in their right mind would have hired her for
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her background and qualifications, but maybe it was a, you know, DEI related, want to have a diversity
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mayor. So I would say you can't say that DEI broke anything, but you could say that that one mayor
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probably only has her job because people either didn't understand or voted dumb.
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You know, maybe it's the public's, it could be the public's fault. The public just picked the wrong
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person, but at least, uh, she's got a, uh, a strong deputy mayor. So you can't say it's not like one
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person, right? That often the, the next level down or doing the real decision-making and stuff.
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So next level down, you get the Los Angeles deputy mayor. So at least he's strong.
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Oh wait, he's under investigation for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to city hall.
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Well, the FBI raided his home recently and, uh, he's placed on leave. Okay. He's, he's a black man,
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but that is a coincidence and not, you can't say that that's DEI related. This is one person,
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one person who's acting badly now, but at least, at least in the fire department,
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you know, you don't have so much of a DEI problem, right? Um, well, I mean the head of the fire
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department is a lesbian, but you know, nobody's saying that lesbians can't do fire department
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jobs and, you know, she's got tons of experiences relevant. So if you're, if you're going to say,
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oh, she's only there because she's a lesbian, that would ignore all of her many, many years of
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very relevant experience. And as luck would have it, uh, the, the person just below her,
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I think, uh, would be the assistant chief. Well, no, they're lesbian, two lesbians at the top,
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but I think that you could call that a coincidence. Um, yeah, there are plenty of lesbians. It's not
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like a biggest coincidence in the world that two of them would be the number one and number two.
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Let's look at the third in line. Let's see. I don't know if it's third in line, but the,
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the equity chief, well, lesbian, the lesbian. So you got three lesbians in, uh, executive positions,
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but I, I warn you that, you know, if you're thinking there's a problem with lesbians
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because of these three, no, that doesn't follow. It doesn't follow that there's some other lesbian
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who isn't the best person to be the chief of police or the chief of the fire department.
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So this is sticky stuff. If you're just assuming that somebody who's a DEI hire and therefore
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they're bad, that's not fair. It's also the situation we find ourselves in because DEI is
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pushed so hard that we assume it's creating problems. We just, it's unfair to point to any
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specific individual. And I point out that Gavin Newsom is the least diverse governor you could ever
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imagine. And he's being criticized as much or more than any of the other people I just mentioned.
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So what do we have? We got, uh, we got some, uh, black leaders who seem to be terrible. We've got
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some lesbian leaders who I don't really know if they're being terrible or they, they don't have
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water, which is somebody else's job. So I'm not going to say the fire department's doing a terrible job.
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Does anybody even say that? I'm not even sure that the fire department has been criticized,
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have they? I don't think I've seen any criticism of the fire department. So I would, I would say the
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lesbians are clear, but you have to ask yourself, what a big coincidence. You know, they got a lot of
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lesbian representatives there. And then you look at, uh, Newsom who is not diverse at all and he's a
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total disaster. You can't blame DEI on, you know, for that. Right. So let me say again, I don't see
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the, the fingerprint that DEI caused this. It's just that, you know, the DEI will cause this.
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Whether it caused this one, that's hard to say, but will it cause another one? Of course. Yeah.
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Will it cause the complete destruction of another city? Guaranteed. It's built into the system.
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Remember Victor Davis Hanson says it's a system collapse. DEI guarantees system collapse because
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it guarantees that instead of merit and experience, you can look for, you know, demographics and
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identity. So that little change just by itself is certainly enough to destroy an entire city if you
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let, just let it run forward. But we should not, uh, we should not allow ourselves to assume that any
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individual is a DEI hire, you'd really have to do some deeper dive. And we don't often have that
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level of information from the outside. Tom Ellsworth was on the PBD podcast. He was saying that the reason
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State Farm pulled out, um, from the state and is no longer offering fire insurance is that, uh,
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they pulled out because the county of LA and the city of LA had suspended brush removal in Palisades.
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Really? Really? It is the connection to the incompetence of the city. Is it that clean?
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I thought this was going to be a little messier where you, where you couldn't really tell who was
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responsible for what, but seriously, they, they canceled the brush removal and that caused the
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insurance companies to pull out and they didn't immediately remove the brush and say, Oh, hold on.
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We will remove the brush. Just give us a month. Nothing like that. The, the level of incompetence
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system-wise or individuals, I don't know. It's astounding. Now, of course, remember,
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here's something to remember today. We're still in the fog of war. We're still getting all kinds of
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news that isn't real. So I, you know, I think it's, I think it's real, but no, no. So far,
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the fire has destroyed 29,000 acres. Would you like a estimate of how big that is? That's,
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two Manhattan islands. Manhattan is 14,000 square, 14,000 acres. This fire has already,
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and still burning already destroyed two Manhattans. So if, if you're not getting the scale of this,
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imagine all of Manhattan gone and then another one, all of it gone and it's still going.
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So if you, if you hadn't quite understood the scale of it, that's it. We're talking about $57
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billion in economic damage. If you want to put that in perspective, uh, the, the entire tax revenue
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of California in the recent year was 215 billion. Do you think you can lay that 15, seven bill 57
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billion on top of, I mean, obviously the government's going to be constrained in what it can do to help
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people? I mean, a lot of them are uninsured. Uh, Biden did say that the federal government
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was going to help for 180 days in the recovery, but that's only the cleanup and the salaries of the
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recovery people, you know, and the crews that are working at. Um, and I think removal of the,
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you know, the burned debris. No, those are very important. So we're, we're very happy to have that
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Mel Gibson tragically was on the, he was, while he was doing the Joe Rogan podcast, while he was filming
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it, uh, his own $14.5 million Malibu mansion burned down. Now I know you're not feeling sorry for him
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because his net worth is, I don't know, hundreds of millions or something, but, uh, it's your house.
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It's your house. You know, no, no way you're going to feel good about that. So I feel terrible. One of
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the things that Mel Gibson said when he was on the Joe Rogan is that he had three friends who were cured
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of cancer with ivermectin and fenbendazole. And then the internet is saying, whoa, you know,
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there are other claims and other claims and other claims. And now they're pretty convinced
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that ivermectin and fenbendazole are cures for at least some kinds of cancers.
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Here's what you need to know. Remember when I tell you that, uh, an anonymous
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source, if you have one anonymous source, how much credibility would that be? The answer is zero
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in politics. So that's a different domain in politics. One anonymous source is usually just a
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made up lie. What if you have multiple sources? What if you had three and they basically said something
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that sounded the same? Three anonymous sources. Now, is that credible? No, no. It's completely
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non-credible. Anonymous sources, always non-credible. Suppose you knew the name of the source,
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but you hadn't had any contact with them. So you couldn't ask any questions. You couldn't do a deep
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dive, but you knew the name and somebody else had told you the claim. You didn't even hear it from the
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person. Is that credible? No, no. That's zero credibility. Is there a reason that we do clinical
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trials instead of watching what three people said as reported by another person? No, no. There's a
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reason we do the clinical trials because that has no evidentiary value, none. So I'm going to cause some
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trouble today. So I said, I don't think it's true. I'm going to be attacked all day long by people who
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say, Scott, you fool. Don't you know that big doctor or big pharma is just trying to sell their
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cures and they don't want you to know that ivermectin and fentanylbenazole is literally
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curing. The claims are that people with stage four cancer are cured, not just help them, completely
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cleared. And so I asked this. Let's talk to one of them. Just one. Show me one live human being
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who says something like, I had an incurable cancer and I'm now completely clear. Here's my test results.
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I'm sitting next to my doctor. My doctor can confirm that I am completely clear of a cancer
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that was incurable. Now, what happens if you talk to them and they say, well, it wasn't an incurable
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cancer and the other complementary things we were doing have cured it before. But this person was stage
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four and they added these other drugs and then they got cured. So we're saying it's the other drugs
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they added to which I say, but they were on all the treatments that we know are cures.
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So here's what I need. I need an incurable cancer, one that doesn't have any treatment as far as anybody
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knows. And even if they combined it with these drugs, which is the claim that maybe the drugs
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aren't working exactly alone, but there are also claims that they would work alone. And show me the
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doctor, show me the patient and show me that it was incurable except for this intervention.
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Then I'm going to get serious. I'm still going to say I need a clinical trial,
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but at least you went from, you know, anonymous people being talked about by other people
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to, well, these look like real people and their doctor says, and I'm looking at their chart.
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Maybe yes. So I'd say we're, I'll see. New York Judge Mershon discharges Trump without imprisonment,
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fine or probation. In the Stormy Daniels case, wishes him well in his second term.
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Everything's different. All right. That was a little side conversation there. All right.
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Uh, apparently there was a fake alert that went out to everybody's phone in LA County
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saying that, uh, they needed to, um, get ready to evacuate. This turned out to be just a mistake.
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The alert told people to gather loved ones, pets and supplies and get out of town. And, uh, it happened
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when people were the most frightened and thought it could be coming for them. And it was fake,
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meaning it was an accident. So remember that Richard Davis Hanson analysis, that it was a total system
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breakdown. Well, here it is again. They didn't even have a system to make sure that fake emergency
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alerts didn't go out in the middle of an emergency. That's the level of incompetence it would take to
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get there. It was pretty extraordinary, but the incompetence is probably the system. Like I don't
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think it's necessarily that one person may push the wrong button. It could be, but why is that the
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system? Why, why is one person allowed to push that button? You know, it seems like at least a few
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people should be standing around when the button gets pushed to make sure that that's the intention.
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I don't know, get a better system. Elon Musk donated a bunch of Starlinks in LA.
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And, uh, this is cool. Apparently T-Mobile customers were having trouble, um, because
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probably the towers got burned or something. Um, but now Musk very quickly tied T-Mobile into
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Starlink and you can text. So if you're on T-Mobile and you suddenly can text, you can't make a phone
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call, but you can text. That's because of Elon Musk. Without Elon Musk, everybody with T-Mobile would be
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completely cut off during an emergency. I mean, it looks like they have been for some time, but
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this is gigantic. Like the, the level that Elon Musk can contribute to a Ukraine war or a, or an
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emergency now twice, I guess, several times, I think it's extraordinary. So just congratulations on that.
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Meanwhile, the California national guard is moving in. We've seen out-of-state police moving in. So the
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fires have turned into an organized crime and unorganized crime problem. The looters are
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organized. There are lots of them and it gets worse. Now this is fog of war stuff, but it's what's
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being reported. Could be, could be overblown, could be underblown. I don't know that, uh, some of the bad
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guys and they seem to be from a migrant community. Um, and again, that's speculative. Um,
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they seem to be setting fires to increase the number of places that they have to loot.
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Because if they can get you to evacuate while they're there, they can get the good stuff before
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any houses burned down. Now that's just about the most evil crime you can imagine.
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Sending somebody's house on fire so you can rob it. The, the level of evil in that is hard to imagine.
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There was, however, one poor individual, a criminal who had a little, uh, blow torch and he was trying to
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allegedly set something on fire, presumably for that purpose. We don't know what he was thinking, but
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he looked like he was doing it probably as part of that gang burning down homes. And he got spotted
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by some of the locals. The locals sent their men out. I saw the video of it. And yeah, you might be
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surprised that none of the women came to help, which is good. I didn't want them to. But if you want to
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have like a little glimmer, just a little glimmer of hope, you watch the video of the maybe half a
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dozen men who confront this guy who's still got the torch. One of the men is armed, but he doesn't,
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he doesn't point it at him. He just has it ready in case he needs it. Warns him to stand down.
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The other men surround the situation and they take him out. Now, I mean, they, they took him to the
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ground and handcuffed him and waited, waited for the police and watching, watching those men
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not have any back down in them. There was no back down that they were going to take him out
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one way or another. They were going to shoot him. They were going to kill him if they had to,
00:28:11.240
preferably they would capture him and he had them to police so we could know more
00:28:15.080
about whatever he's up to. And that's what they did. But I'm pretty sure if their only choice had been to,
00:28:21.800
you know, do worse, they would have taken the only choice. Because I don't think that
00:28:28.120
guy was going to walk out of that neighborhood. And things are getting really dicey. So when there
00:28:34.200
is something that looks to residents like a complete breakdown of the social order, and by the way,
00:28:39.880
I'll probably get demonetized on YouTube again. I got demonetized yesterday. I got demonetized
00:28:45.960
for, I don't know what, but my best guess is suggesting that, you know, there, there's a
00:28:52.440
danger that's approaching with, uh, with this kind of behavior. So I don't know exactly what it is.
00:28:57.800
I'm probably demonetized again, just for this conversation. Um, Newsom says, uh, there'll be
00:29:04.280
80,000 of these national guards. Um, I saw Joel Pollack who lives in that area whose house seems to have
00:29:12.760
survived. We don't know if it's, um, habitable, but, um, he notes that there are more pro-Second
00:29:20.520
Amendment people in the Pacific Palisades than the bad guys might expect. So if the bad guys are
00:29:27.080
expecting a bunch of, you know, anti-gun people that they can easily handle, uh, they should be warned
00:29:34.840
that there's some serious personal protection in that area. So people have the assets to protect
00:29:43.000
themselves. So I don't know where it's heading, but it does look like a complete breakdown of,
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Uh, so you know that there's still a lot of talk about whether climate change is a small cause or
00:30:19.960
the cause or no cause, or, you know, is that just being political? And I wanted to give you a frame
00:30:27.960
for understanding the climate change issue and one that you haven't seen before. And it can explain a
00:30:34.120
little bit why the, the two sides can't really talk. You know, the, the, yes, I believe climate
00:30:40.600
change is an immediate crisis versus the people, Elon Musk would be on the other side, which is
00:30:46.280
climate change could be real in terms of the climate might be changing, but it's going to be slower than,
00:30:52.920
you know, the, the alarmist believe. Um, so why can't they have a productive conversation
00:30:59.640
and like figure out what's really true? And I'll give you my take on that.
00:31:10.120
So if you can see my whiteboard, let me adjust it a little bit.
00:31:18.120
So I just made this up. I call it the climate awareness chart.
00:31:21.560
So the highest level of awareness is at the top, but we'll get there. We're going to start at the bottom.
00:31:31.480
There we go. At the bottom level of awareness. And this is where I used to be as a young man.
00:31:37.240
Uh, I would hear that 98, 99% of scientists were on the same side and I'd say, well, I'm done.
00:31:45.320
There's not, there's nothing else I need to know. Right. I love science. Science is the best way to
00:31:51.080
find the truth. It's imperfect. It's imperfect, but you know, it's, it's the best we have.
00:31:57.640
So you tell me 99% of scientists have been looking into it deeply and they're all on the
00:32:02.200
same side. I'm convinced. And I was, I was convinced. Now I would say that level of awareness
00:32:08.280
is roughly equivalent to the people who say, uh, how can they predict the climate when they
00:32:14.920
can't even predict the weather. And I don't believe in climate change because it's cold outside.
00:32:21.800
Right. So one is believing it. One is not believing climate change, but this is, these are both the
00:32:27.560
lowest level of understanding. And I've been at this level. I've been there. If you go up a little
00:32:33.480
higher, let's say you decide, huh, I'm seeing two sides of this. I'm just going to look into it.
00:32:39.240
So you look at, you do a deep dive. Maybe you see Al Gore's documentary. Uh, maybe you read
00:32:47.480
the most official statements from the biggest scientists. And when you're done with that,
00:32:52.600
you're going to say, okay, okay. I can see whether 99% of scientists are saying it because I've done my
00:32:58.480
own research. And yeah, I mean, it's, it's like guaranteed climate change, the crisis, because you
00:33:04.600
did your own research. And then there are also people who do a deep dive on the skeptic side.
00:33:13.120
So maybe they never believed the 99% of scientists or didn't want to believe it. So they did their
00:33:18.800
deep dive on the other side. So they only looked at the skeptics arguments. Both of them would be
00:33:25.920
completely deluded by this process. It doesn't matter which one you're looking at. If you're looking
00:33:30.400
at either the, yes, it's a crisis or no, it's not, they both have the documentary effect,
00:33:36.000
which is if you look at one argument and you see a lot on that one argument, you will be convinced
00:33:42.460
beyond any doubt. You will be a hundred percent convinced. And that has nothing to do with whether
00:33:48.880
the thing you're looking for, looking at is true or not. Completely unrelated to the underlying truth
00:33:55.940
is a guarantee that if you see one argument and it's really well developed and you spend hours on
00:34:02.100
it, you'll believe it every time. And you can see that it's the same, no matter whether you believe
00:34:07.160
the skeptics or you believe the claims still completely believable, still absolutely no
00:34:13.600
evidentiary value, no evidentiary value because documentaries are always convincing even when they're
00:34:22.120
not true. So the only thing you would know when you're done with this process is that you're
00:34:26.680
convinced. That's nothing. You're going to be convinced even if you saw the other side.
00:34:33.900
You'd be convinced and that's nothing too. These are both nothings. Let's go up a level. Let's say
00:34:40.980
you get to the point where you did a deep dive on both sides, which I find relatively rare. I'm not sure
00:34:47.680
I've seen anybody who's done it. I've tried to do it. So I've spent a lot of time. I've looked at the
00:34:53.200
claims. I've looked at the debunk to the claims. And then I've looked at the debunk to the debunk
00:35:00.560
of the claims. If you haven't done all three, you haven't done anything. You've done nothing.
00:35:08.380
Because if you look at the claim, you're going to say, well, that looks pretty true. And then you look
00:35:12.740
at the debunk to the claim. You're like, whoa, I didn't see that. Oh, I didn't know about how they
00:35:16.580
measure that. Whoa. Yeah. The debunk looks totally convincing. If you're done, you're not done
00:35:23.920
because you've got to circle back and see what happens to the people who made the original claim
00:35:29.320
when they were faced with the debunk. And then they come back and say, but the debunk is debunked.
00:35:36.420
And here's why. And you read that, you go, yeah, that's a pretty good argument.
00:35:39.660
So the problem is that if you do a deep dive on both sides, you're going to find they're both
00:35:46.820
convincing and both not convincing. And you won't know.
00:35:55.000
At the highest level are people who understand that all data that matters is fake and that all
00:36:02.560
projection models are fake and that it has nothing to do with climate change. These are universal
00:36:09.380
truths. If I were talking about, let's say, the data for jobs in America, you think that's real?
00:36:18.500
No. How about the history? Do you think our history books are based on what's real or
00:36:24.100
what was allowed to be written? It's not real. Do you think, do you think, do you think there's
00:36:32.880
anything that's important and scale like big and it matters that's real? No, because our systems
00:36:40.240
don't allow that. Whoever's in charge of the data is going to have so much power that somebody is going
00:36:46.980
to distort them with a bribe or, you know, when you get to the point where it really, really matters,
00:36:52.840
it's 100% fake. Or it's 100% sure that you won't tell the difference because, you know, the fakes
00:37:00.780
will be so good that you think they're real. And the reason I know the prediction models are fake
00:37:07.000
is that everybody who's worked in this field, including me, now I didn't work in climate, but I
00:37:12.300
did projection models for a living, financial ones. They all know that the projection model is based on
00:37:18.560
the assumptions you put into it. It's not the data. So if you're way down here at the lowest level,
00:37:25.500
you think that the projection models are reasonable because 99% of the scientists said,
00:37:30.920
yeah, these are real. But you'll never learn that they can make those models anything they want
00:37:36.380
just by changing the assumptions without even changing the data. And then they can say, well,
00:37:41.800
this data is bad. So we're going to put in a, you know, a little adjustment to it. What's that?
00:37:48.520
It's not science. It's just adjusting it. So it comes into the same range that people expect it to
00:37:54.360
come into. So in our current world, 99% of the people being on one side has no evidentiary value.
00:38:05.560
How many of you would agree with that statement? 99% of scientists agree doesn't have any evidentiary
00:38:13.020
value. Now, that's not true. If you're talking about something simple, like, you know, does gravity
00:38:19.740
apply everywhere on earth? Right? 100% of scientists would say yes. Maybe right. So I'm not talking about
00:38:28.180
like one variable things. I'm talking about this big, complicated, hard to understand things where
00:38:34.000
there are people on both sides and the variables are changing. And every day we have a new variable
00:38:38.860
that should have been in models, but wasn't. It's like, oh, we just found out the ocean,
00:38:43.680
you know, can absorb way more than we thought. Well, was that in the model? We just found a new
00:38:50.060
technology that can allow us to produce things without the pollution. Was that in the model? Did you
00:38:56.980
know they were going to invent something? So the models are 100% unreliable. And if you believe that
00:39:05.420
because the scientists told you the reliable they are, you don't understand how money works. If you
00:39:10.900
understand how money works, you'll be with me up here that all the models are fake and the data is
00:39:16.840
either unreliable or fake. And that has to be true because the design of our economic system,
00:39:23.500
our economic system, and you could add the, you know, the fake news and the interest,
00:39:29.440
the interest groups, et cetera, they kind of guarantee that people will say it's true while
00:39:34.920
it isn't true. It's guaranteed that our system will be there. Now, here's a good test for you.
00:39:41.280
If you're talking to somebody and you're having some debates down here in the documentary effect level
00:39:47.220
where you've, you've both seen some stuff, but you saw different stuff and you were convinced
00:39:50.940
asked the person who thinks that there's, that the climate models are real to list three reasons
00:39:58.740
that the terrestrial thermometers might be imperfect. And if they can do it, then you'd have
00:40:07.640
a reasonable good idea that maybe they've at least seen both sides. If they don't know what you're
00:40:13.560
talking about and they insult you and call you a cretin and change the topic, it means they've never
00:40:19.860
looked into it. So here's what, if, if you can make a good argument that the climate change stuff is
00:40:28.380
real, here's what you should know. You should know what the heat island effect is. That's because the
00:40:36.820
thermometer stations were once away from the cities, but the cities grew and the heat from the city
00:40:41.860
is not really what the planet heat is. It would artificially change the thermometers. Would you know
00:40:47.840
that? Did you know that the little enclosures for the thermometers are in buildings that are painted,
00:40:54.940
usually painted white, and that when the paint fades, as it does, it can change the temperature
00:41:01.080
of the thermometer having nothing to do with the planet and everything to do with just the paint
00:41:06.200
faded. Did you know that? Did you know that if a thermometer breaks or is missing, sometimes they'll
00:41:14.060
just plug in a number of what they think it would have been. Did you know that? All right. So if you
00:41:20.520
can't list at least three reasons that you should doubt the terrestrial thermometers, oh, here's another
00:41:27.140
one. How much of the world are they measuring? And when you talk about the ocean, which would be a
00:41:32.800
different measurement technique, how much of the ocean is being measured? And isn't it true that the ocean
00:41:39.120
can store heat in different places that are unpredictable and in amounts that we don't
00:41:45.220
exactly know? So that if the temperature somewhere went up, maybe it went down somewhere, but that
00:41:50.460
down is in the ocean and nobody's looking at it. If you can't answer the questions, at least at that
00:41:56.200
level, that you know that these are issues, even if you don't know what the answer to the issue is,
00:42:00.900
you haven't looked into it. And if you believe that 99% of scientists being on one side has any
00:42:08.240
any credibility, I can't have a conversation with you. So here's my problem. I keep running into
00:42:15.780
people online who are operating at the lowest level of awareness, and they're pretty sure I'm the
00:42:21.900
biggest freaking idiot they've ever seen in their life. It's like, God, 99% of scientists, are you a
00:42:30.580
troglodyte? 99, Scott? Do you understand that 99 is almost 100? Do you understand? And I'm up here
00:42:40.400
saying, do you really think the news is real? You think the news is real? I can't have a conversation
00:42:48.840
with you if you think news is real. I can't have a conversation with you if you think the people
00:42:53.740
getting paid to say it's real are saying it's real and that means it's real. How do I have a
00:42:58.800
conversation with you? I can't. So I end up like sort of giving up because before you could have a
00:43:05.300
conversation on climate change, you'd have to start with how the entire system works, what the
00:43:10.680
economics are, how people lie, how every other system like this is clearly and demonstrably rigged.
00:43:16.940
And once I understood that everything of this type is rigged, everything, there's nothing where you
00:43:24.460
can't exactly tell and there are billions of dollars involved that isn't rigged. They're all
00:43:31.180
rigged. If somebody could make a lot of money from it and it's big and complicated and you'll never know
00:43:37.020
exactly what the truth is, that's all rigged. And there's probably never going to be an exception to
00:43:41.580
that. If you don't understand that, I can't have a conversation with you about climate change because
00:43:48.140
you're so lost. And again, I say I spent most of my early life at the bottom level of awareness
00:43:54.760
because I hadn't looked into it. And I thought 99% of scientists, they must be right.
00:44:01.600
When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
00:44:07.320
is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
00:44:12.860
Are those from Winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that
00:44:18.760
leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those
00:44:23.820
shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find
00:44:30.640
fabulous for less. How many physicists do you believe told us that string theory was the future
00:44:41.280
of physics? I don't know the answer to that, but I'll bet most. I'll bet most said, yeah,
00:44:47.880
string theory, you know, it's not all worked out yet, but pretty sure this is going to give us
00:44:52.660
something like, you know, what civilization looks like or reality looks like. Did it? No, it didn't.
00:44:59.600
I would say that all the physicists probably just parroted the same thing, string theory,
00:45:05.620
string theory, and a lot of them were getting money. So they really were in favor of string
00:45:11.220
theory because they could get funded that way. So no, you should not believe anything that most of
00:45:17.020
the scientists believe is true, but it's hard to know. If it's hard to know, ah, scam.
00:45:24.900
In other news, the Supreme Court did a ruling on Title IX, and they're not going to say that trans
00:45:34.180
women are women in sports. So the court has made the distinction between your sex versus
00:45:41.980
your gender identity. You can call yourself anything you want. That's not an issue. It's just that the
00:45:47.320
state doesn't have to recognize it. So they don't have to recognize it as your sex. They may choose
00:45:53.760
to recognize that you have a gender preference, but they don't have to say, yes, you're a woman because
00:46:00.060
you say so. So a lot of people are happy about that. I'm sure people are unhappy about it, but
00:46:06.620
more people I think are happy. Fetterman, Senator Fetterman is going to Mar-a-Lago. I think he's the
00:46:15.040
first, well, it's kind of unusual. Now Fetterman, I know you're getting tired of me saying Fetterman's
00:46:22.040
kind of awesome, but he keeps doing smart things. And when I talk about Fetterman, it's not because I
00:46:27.120
love his Democrat preferences. It's because I like to evaluate the persuasion techniques
00:46:33.920
separate from whether I like what they're persuading. So Fetterman just keeps, he's hitting
00:46:42.100
line drives after line drive. I don't know if he's hitting home runs, but he's hitting line drive
00:46:47.520
after line drive in the persuasion communication realm. Very impressive. And here's what I love
00:46:53.800
about this. So Joe Manchin is retiring and Joe Manchin, I always, I always respected because he
00:47:00.640
did such a smart thing of being somebody who would be willing sometimes to vote on the other side from
00:47:05.880
his team. And when things are so close that that one vote makes all the difference, Joe Manchin was
00:47:12.540
the only one smart enough to say, wait a minute, all I have to do is, are you serious? I can run the
00:47:19.280
whole country if I'm just willing to consider voting either way, like you pay me to do. So if
00:47:26.000
I just do what you pay me to do, which is look at the topic and then decide which way I think it goes
00:47:31.620
independent of where the politics are, you will allow me to run the whole country. And all I have
00:47:37.420
to do is do the thing that you paid me to do, as opposed to all my coworkers who are doing the
00:47:41.880
opposite of what you're paying me to do. Huh? Am I missing something? But seriously, I have to ask
00:47:49.580
again. All I have to do to be in charge of the whole country is simply do what you're paying me to
00:47:55.740
do. Evaluate things on their merit, independent of politics. That's it. And that is it. And apparently
00:48:06.020
he's the only one who's smart enough to figure it out, who's not named Joe Manchin. So, I mean,
00:48:12.560
you could say Kyrsten Sinema was sort of in that same game, but she's, she's out of it too now,
00:48:18.620
right? So at the moment, the Senate is not swinging on, you know, one vote, but it could,
00:48:26.120
that could happen really quickly. You know, a couple of years from now, straight up tie,
00:48:32.520
Fetterman's in charge of the country. Virtually, right? Because he controlled Congress.
00:48:41.740
Anyway, Trump was saying at an outing that all the, he's getting everybody to come. He's got the
00:48:48.000
heads of the social media companies, the big banks are all coming to visit him. Fetterman's coming to
00:48:52.700
visit him. And he had some kind of quote, like, you know, maybe we're all changing. And he says that
00:48:59.480
the people are, who are coming to visit him from all walks are quite productive and positive,
00:49:06.220
meaning that they're there to get something done and they're not there to fight. And, and it's not,
00:49:13.000
you know, it's a bit, not about Trump's personality. They just think, can you do these things? Cause we
00:49:18.660
need to do these things. So that's all looking positive. A little golden agey.
00:49:24.260
Um, meanwhile, CNN has this, uh, I'm going to say a racist panelist. There's a black woman,
00:49:32.660
Jasmine Crockett, who's on their panel a lot. And she pointed out the other day, she was a little
00:49:38.680
debate with Scott Jennings, who's their conservative Republican kind of voice on the panel. And Jasmine
00:49:45.600
Crockett claimed that, uh, the most educated demographic in the country is black women.
00:49:51.000
Um, and, um, the conversation didn't go much further after that. So that, that claim just
00:49:58.560
sort of stayed there. Do you think it's true that the most educated demographic is black women?
00:50:07.800
It's almost true. It's actually almost true. It's not true. If you look at the entire population
00:50:14.380
of black women compared to the entire population of other demographic groups. So that, that felt like
00:50:20.660
that was the claim. And that's definitely not true. Is it my imagination or could you hear
00:50:27.500
a leaf blower right outside my window? You can hear that, right?
00:50:37.020
Anyway, um, that tells me what time it is. I think, um, here's what I believe is true,
00:50:42.960
but I'll take a fact check on it. Um, I've told you before that black women are killing it
00:50:47.620
in terms of careers and success. So I'm going to agree with Jasmine Crockett
00:50:53.660
sort of directionally, but she got the fact wrong. I think directionally, I believe it's true
00:51:00.260
that more black women are getting, uh, college degrees than white men and more than black men too.
00:51:07.640
Is that true? Uh, which would be impressive. Now it also presumably be, there would, there'd be a DEI
00:51:15.860
element to that. Meaning some people are getting recruited and some people are getting, you know,
00:51:21.240
maybe tuition paid and stuff like that. So that's a factor. I don't know how much of that is,
00:51:25.380
but you know, you don't want to, you don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water.
00:51:30.480
So on one hand, I think it's a completely racist and inaccurate claim that, uh, black women are the
00:51:36.660
most educated group in the country. I think that's just plain false, but I think what she was getting
00:51:41.700
at is true, which is a black women as a class at the moment, you know, the young ones who are getting
00:51:49.320
out of college and getting their first jobs and stuff, they are killing it. They are killing it.
00:51:54.020
So I like to give like full congratulations to any group that works hard and gets what they want.
00:52:01.000
So congratulations. I say the same thing about the LGBTQ, LGBTQ group. Um, I think they've really
00:52:11.700
killed it in terms of improving their overall situation. I I'm so impressed about how they've
00:52:18.500
changed their situation in a few decades. Very impressive. And black women, same thing. They are in
00:52:24.220
fact killing it, but they haven't overtaken the other groups yet because there's a lot to overtake.
00:52:28.700
A lot of work to do, but it's certainly racist to imagine that, uh, her group is the most educated.
00:52:35.380
Um, so if it's just a factual, factual thing, I don't think you'd, you know, I don't think a white
00:52:43.160
person could have said that. What if Scott Jennings said, you know, the white people are the most
00:52:49.040
educated in the country. Ouch. I don't know if that's true by the way, but he wouldn't be able to
00:52:55.620
say it, but she could say it and nobody challenged it, even though it wasn't true. So to me, that's
00:53:02.620
more racist than not, even though I support the general idea that black women are doing great
00:53:08.860
lately. All right. Uh, Elon says it's going to take years to rebuild LA. Um, when they try to get
00:53:17.940
permits, it's going to be a problem. And I put out the following statements about rebuilding that you
00:53:23.840
should know that, uh, I'm asking for a fact check. So I don't know which ones of these are true,
00:53:27.800
but this is my, this is my starting point. The starting point is that it can take years to get
00:53:35.280
anything approved in normal times. In normal times, it would take years to get things approved
00:53:40.960
in California. I know that from personal experience. So what would it take when everybody
00:53:47.780
like a hundred thousand people are trying to apply for things at the same time or whatever the number
00:53:53.080
is, how are they going to handle that? They don't have enough resources. So if it used to take more
00:54:00.700
than a year in normal times, how long is it going to take in abnormal times where everybody's trying
00:54:07.260
to do it and all the resources are constrained and nobody knows what they're talking about. And the
00:54:11.520
environmentalists are saying, no, you can't do that. And you can't even rebuild the environmentalists
00:54:17.560
will say, you can't even rebuild. You're too close to the ocean or there's a fish we didn't know about
00:54:22.320
before, but now we do, or there's a bird or something. So I think it could take five to 10 years
00:54:30.580
to rebuild a house five to 10 years. Now what happens to, uh, what, what do you think it would cost
00:54:40.740
to rebuild those homes? So if you had a home that was worth $5 million, what do you think it would
00:54:48.480
cost to rebuild it? And let's say it was, let's say it was, uh, insured for $5 million or it wasn't
00:54:56.260
insured at all. $5 million home. What would it cost to rebuild it? The answer is about 10 million.
00:55:03.980
If you're building a, let's say a community, like a big developer is doing a whole community,
00:55:09.460
then they can bring the cost of each unit down because they're, they're working in bulk and
00:55:14.700
they're, they're mass designed and there aren't that many different designs and stuff. So they can
00:55:19.660
build the house for, uh, cheaper than they sell it. That's how they make money. But if you're building
00:55:27.280
one house and you've, you know, you want the rooms that you want and it's on the hill and it's, you know,
00:55:32.780
first you have to do a big cleanup and all that stuff, it's going to cost closer to $10 million
00:55:40.180
to build a $5 million house. What happens to your property tax if you spend 10 million to build a
00:55:46.880
$5 million house? Well, I think that they would either, um, I I've heard that there's a rule
00:55:53.180
that if you're building back on the same footprint, so it's the same size as the one that was destroyed,
00:55:58.820
then you get to keep the old tax basis, the old lower tax basis. But if you wanted to make your
00:56:06.080
house while you're doing it, you're like, well, you know, this would be a good time to add that
00:56:11.720
spare room. As soon as you do that, your property tax will quadruple. You won't be able to afford to
00:56:19.980
live there. So they've created a situation where all these people get at least the good news,
00:56:24.900
if they can afford it. The good news was, Hey, those changes you wanted to make your house,
00:56:29.480
you can make them now because the house is gone. So, you know, design it the way you want,
00:56:33.920
but it will have to be the same footprint or their taxes will double or quadruple.
00:56:42.060
That's going to be a big problem. I think, um, then what happens when the fire risk returns,
00:56:51.220
because everything's going to regrow. And then the insurance companies either haven't come back or,
00:56:56.020
or they leave because, you know, nothing's going to burn while it's all rubble. But as soon as you
00:57:02.780
build and replant and all the, you know, the trees are behind you, do you think you could ever get
00:57:09.600
insurance? Would you rebuild if you didn't think you could ever get insurance? I wouldn't.
00:57:15.260
Why would you rebuild if you thought you could never get insurance? If, if you had kids and you
00:57:21.840
say to yourself, this is the best place in the world to raise kids, the kids are going to be out
00:57:28.640
of the house in five to 10 years, you know, depending on the age. If the kids are going to be out of the
00:57:33.580
house in five to 10, um, years, they're going to be living in a burned out rubble.
00:57:38.680
Most of that time that's the place you go because the lifestyle is amazing. The one thing I learned
00:57:46.560
about it, I didn't know anything about the place. The one thing I learned about it is apparently the
00:57:50.580
lifestyle there wasn't just good. Did you know that it wasn't just good? It was sort of like heaven.
00:57:59.240
When I hear people talk about it, it's like, Oh my God, it was just the best people, the best place,
00:58:05.280
the downtown, the businesses, everything was close. It was on the beach. It was just the best. It was
00:58:11.700
the temperature. So you didn't have the extreme hot because you're on the beach. Like, I don't know
00:58:17.720
if any of those reasons are going to apply because it's going to take so long to clean up. So I don't
00:58:23.040
know what that does. Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match
00:58:28.340
all week. She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her
00:58:33.640
backhand side. Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto
00:58:39.480
service centers in the country. Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her
00:58:43.900
way in a rental car in no time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round. But you
00:58:49.700
got there on time. Intact Insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply.
00:58:55.960
What happens when you go to get a builder and 50,000 people are ahead of you for the few builders?
00:59:01.400
How in the world are you going to get a qualified builder? Maybe they come from Man of State.
00:59:07.340
If you get a builder from Man of State, they're not going to know how to build in California.
00:59:11.460
And they would be crazy to come to California to start because the rules are too hard.
00:59:17.160
If you were a builder and somebody said, hey, come to California, you're going to say,
00:59:22.420
is that the only place I could be a builder? No, you could stay where you are and build things
00:59:27.540
more easily. But if I come to California, it's just going to be a hot mess every single thing I do.
00:59:33.480
And I won't even make a dollar because I can't even start. And when I do start, they're going to
00:59:37.900
stop me because there's going to be some fish there. Next thing I know, I can't possibly make
00:59:41.740
money. And then I have to learn this whole state weird stuff. The approvals are different than any other
00:59:46.180
place. I don't know where they're going to get the builders. So that has to add some years to the
00:59:53.140
rebuilding. And then you've got unchecked crime. Let me give you the worst case scenario. It could
01:00:00.540
be that the people who live there have enough, you know, male energy to stop this from happening.
01:00:06.820
We'll see. But what happens when, you know, things settle down? Most of the properties will be
01:00:13.240
abandoned, right? Because most are burned to the ground and they're going to be working on approvals.
01:00:17.900
And, you know, even the cleanup is going to take a long time. What happens then? Let me tell you.
01:00:23.860
I think the homeless are going to move in. They're going to put up a tent on what used to be your home.
01:00:29.980
They won't care so much about all the debris. They'll like the view and the temperature. And when
01:00:36.500
you go to kick them out, they'll say, well, sorry, I'm a squatter. I got squatter rights. And you're
01:00:43.340
going to say, you can have squatter rights on a tent on my own property. And then they say,
01:00:47.520
this is California. You can't move me. What happens then? And what happens when it's not
01:00:53.820
one, but the entire hillside is full of people who heard that they'll never be kicked out
01:00:58.520
and they could be living on the best property in the world, as long as they don't mind living
01:01:02.320
among the debris, which couldn't be any worse than what they were doing on the streets.
01:01:07.000
The thing I'd worry most about is the homeless coming in and putting on tents because California
01:01:13.380
doesn't remove homeless people in tents. I mean, rarely.
01:01:19.860
And then where are people going to live? And also people might worry that it becomes,
01:01:25.180
you know, a crime, you know, horrible crime place that they don't want to live in the first place.
01:01:30.320
I hope not. And where do people live while the rebuilding is happening?
01:01:35.120
How in the world are all of those, you know, a hundred thousand plus going to be able to live
01:01:41.560
close enough to LA that they have some kind of continuity in their life? You know, maybe even
01:01:47.260
close enough to the school, almost nobody, almost nobody will be close enough to the school they
01:01:52.760
were at. And I think some of them burned. So you're going to end up in a different school in a
01:01:57.620
different place. And now your kids go to that other school and they get used to it and they got
01:02:03.080
friends in the new school and five to 10 years are going by and they're 17 now. Do they want to move
01:02:10.760
back? I don't know. I feel like the fact that you can't stay local while it's being built and there's
01:02:17.900
nothing local that you used to like, it's all burned up. You're going to move further than it
01:02:23.600
would be comfortable to be the owner of something being rebuilt because you really need to visit the
01:02:28.920
site a lot. You know, if you've ever built a home, you kind of need to go there a lot.
01:02:34.380
I think people are going to assume they'll rebuild, but when they get settled somewhere else,
01:02:40.340
that won't be that close. Maybe the new life looks better than trying to go back.
01:02:47.400
So I think it's highly unpredictable. If you want the positive news on that,
01:02:52.460
it would be that the, it is like the best place on earth. You know, it's just one of the best places.
01:02:59.240
So if it's land, land, land, if that's the real estate rule, then it will be rebuilt.
01:03:05.100
And maybe we'll be surprised that California bends some rules, makes it easier to do.
01:03:11.840
Here's one thing they could do. They could say, you could put an ADU on your property right away
01:03:17.240
if it meets, you know, these minimum requirements. So these are the, the ADU stands for
01:03:23.520
additional dwelling unit. Is it additional dwelling unit? So that'd be like a little,
01:03:30.980
it'd be the size of a mobile home, but they're more like a regular home. And you could plop it on
01:03:36.900
the property if you have a backyard. And if you wanted to, you could live there, but even that's
01:03:44.120
going to take a long time. So there might be some fast approval of ADUs just so people want to be
01:03:49.500
close, can have some continuity and live near their friends. But I don't know how many people
01:03:53.820
would take that option. Meanwhile, the Pope is now the latest victim of what I call the Trump effect.
01:04:00.340
Well, other people call it that too. The Pope is railing on a January 9th speech. He's railing
01:04:05.420
against fake news, the continuous creation and spread of fake news. He said, distorts facts,
01:04:13.340
but also perceptions. So the Pope is going full MAGA, full MAGA, and he's against fake news.
01:04:26.880
Well, all I got to say is thank God all the religions agree with each other because I'd hate
01:04:32.900
for one of them to be spreading any fake news. But the Pope assures us he's got it under control.
01:04:38.580
Meanwhile, in interesting engineering, there's an article by Amman Tripathi. Apparently, there's a
01:04:47.660
U.S. firm in the nuclear business that wants to build a one-mile underground tunnel or hole. I'm
01:04:56.280
not sure if it's a tunnel or a hole to power data centers. So the reason they want to put the nuke in
01:05:03.320
the hole one mile down is if there's a problem, it's easier to contain. But if there's a problem,
01:05:10.400
it contains itself because it can't explode because it would be held up by the entire earth
01:05:17.840
would be the surround for it. So I don't know if that really works, but these aren't the biggest
01:05:23.860
reactors. They would be, I think, micro reactors, smaller reactors. And they would stick them in the
01:05:34.260
ground and then that would make a big difference. Some of the benefits are, let's see, robust
01:05:41.200
containment just because of the earth around it and continuous pressure. So that way you don't have
01:05:46.940
massive concrete structures. Oh, so it's much cheaper. So you don't have to build the whole structure
01:05:52.000
if you could make a good mile deep hole. And it minimizes the environmental impact.
01:06:02.100
And, you know, I've told you a number of times that holes are the future of energy and maybe of
01:06:07.400
other things. And I've said, if we can improve our technology for cheaply building holes and tunnels,
01:06:15.200
we're going to be able to have everything from geothermal to, you know, better mining to now nuclear
01:06:21.820
water. Of course, you could use it. What's the other thing? Geothermal is where you're looking
01:06:28.040
for the hot water under the earth to create power. But what's the one where you're just using the
01:06:34.140
temperature difference underground to either moderate the hotness or the coldness of your house above
01:06:41.180
ground? What's that called? But that's another reason to have, you know, good hole building
01:06:45.440
technology. Holes are the future. There's a hobbyist who built an AI assisted rifle robot
01:06:55.100
using chat GPT. And there's a video that went viral on TikTok, I guess. And it shows the inventor
01:07:04.340
with the robot. Now it's a tabletop robot. Wouldn't be too hard to attach it to a robot dog or something,
01:07:10.960
I guess. But it's just a rifle that can, you know, point anywhere in a moment. And he just talks to
01:07:16.900
it. He says, there's a threat, you know, on the left. And it just goes. So the one he's using doesn't
01:07:27.160
use real rounds. It's shooting something fake. But how far away are we from telling your robot
01:07:34.620
rifle dog to go attack the German front line? All right. Rifle dog. There's a bunch of Russian
01:07:43.000
soldiers two miles away in a trench. I want you to go there. And in the order, if you see anybody who
01:07:52.080
looks like an officer, shoot them first, you know, or something like that. And then that is sent it to
01:07:57.700
attack. But AI robot rifle dogs, they're coming. The CES show is highlighting all the big technical
01:08:08.260
breakthroughs. And so we're seeing news. At least two companies have built human robots that look
01:08:14.480
like real women. But one of them will build a real woman with the face of your choice. So I guess you
01:08:24.220
just give them a photograph of who you want it to look like, and they'll put an artificial skin face
01:08:29.600
on it that looks like the person you want. Now, at the moment, these robots are not impressive
01:08:35.620
because they just look like mannequins who happen to be able to talk. So it's not like you're going to
01:08:42.720
want to take that robot home, if you know what I mean. It's more of a suggestion of what's to come.
01:08:49.680
It's not there yet. But I have a prediction about what one year from now looks like,
01:08:55.140
because the robots will develop quickly. Here's a conversation between a married couple
01:09:00.460
one year from now. Human wife says to her husband, I want a divorce. Human husband says,
01:09:08.580
okay, can you pose for a photo first? Mic drop. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have
01:09:20.520
to say. It's 8.07. Well, where I am. And did I miss anything? Any big stories that are happening?
01:09:30.400
All right. Let me get a good picture of you before you go. I'm going to upgrade. All right. All right,
01:09:42.940
ladies and gentlemen. I have some stories I think I'm going to save for later, but I got some good
01:09:55.200
ones. The Carter funeral. Yeah, I didn't talk about the Jimmy Carter funeral. So here's the
01:10:02.540
fascinating thing about the Jimmy Carter funeral. So of course, the ex-presidents are all invited.
01:10:08.620
So you had the Clintons. You had only Barack Obama. Michelle did not come. We're not sure why.
01:10:15.260
Um, and then, uh, you had the Harris's. So Kamala and her husband, and then I'm forgetting who else was
01:10:27.520
there. Um, but I was looking at all the people sitting up front and it turned to be, it was Trump
01:10:33.360
and all the people he's destroyed. It was Trump and all the people he's destroyed sitting to the
01:10:41.780
other chatting. Oh, Biden. Biden was the other one. So, so Biden, he destroyed, uh, the Clintons,
01:10:48.720
he destroyed, you know, via destroying Hillary. Um, Barack Obama destroyed. Michelle Obama couldn't
01:10:57.020
even come. So, and then the funny part is, um, he ends up sitting right next to Barack Obama,
01:11:04.820
Obama who just warned the world that Trump was Heller and that he, he, he called a neo-Nazis
01:11:12.120
fine people. And you see Obama and Trump chatting and joking with each other.
01:11:20.560
Nothing's real. Nothing's real. Oh, Pence, right. Mike Pence was there and Mike Pence was destroyed
01:11:27.340
by Trump as well. Uh, was there a Bush there? I don't know. I mean, the Bush, uh, the Bush
01:11:34.880
dynasty got destroyed, you know, not George Bush, but so yeah, it was quite amazing. It was,
01:11:42.780
it was Trump and all the people he'd destroyed. It was kind of amazing.
01:11:48.080
Um, all right. Uh, you know, I think Trump has a superpower in forgetting what people said about
01:12:01.900
him, not forgetting, he never forgets, but willingness to just work with you. If it makes
01:12:09.340
sense. I just love that. Uh, yeah. Trump owned the room. All right. All right. Uh, I'm going to
01:12:24.500
talk for a moment privately with the, uh, locals subscribers, the rest of you. I will see you
01:12:30.380
tomorrow for more fun and games. See you tomorrow.