Episode 3094 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸13⧸26
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In this episode of The Scoops & Scoops School, the Scoops and Scoops team is back with a new segment called The Scoop! In this segment, we discuss current events, current news, and the latest hoax of the day.
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oh my goodness howdy how oh wait can i see locals on rumble studio is that what's happening
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you guys where's my earphone good morning is there a good morning jwjb rick sjv you guys i'm in full
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scott adams mode today with technology and it is not fun but you know we'll see how it goes do i sound
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all right let's do a quick sound test how do we all sound do we sound like we're in sync okay everybody
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do we sound like we're in sync hello hello are we in sync
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loud okay yeah so it's going to take a minute for them to get there but in the meantime
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i would like to say good morning to all of the platforms um on x i hope x is running well today
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we know that there is a little glitch with it but we're working that out if it's not worked out it
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will be um so welcome to the beloved locals to youtube to rumble um good morning i'm erica
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and this is the scott adams school i'm joined today by our beautiful marcella good morning
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so you guys just as always we want to remind you that coffee with scott adams which was like what
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brought us all here still lives on its own um there's a thousand hours of scott and his wisdom
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his lessons his genius on youtube but there's even more on locals okay so he had his own
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subscription channel which was i think it's scottadams.locals.com but we'll make sure we
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post it and also the locals community you guys is chef's kiss a plus the most amazing people
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we've really formed a family we are kind-hearted and we're all walks of life but we really love to
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bring everybody in and bond with you guys so we encourage you to come over there our guest
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yesterday was brian romelli he's going to be with us doing a long form interview where we can ask a
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ton of questions and we'll have not unlimited time but we'll have a lot more time um on the youtube
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channel some people ask why we you know maybe cut a video to an hour it's because we have to respect
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the time of our guests so if we you know if if we were scott and he had the day ahead of him he
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could go on for three hours he could do that but we're inviting guests to come in and we want them
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to know we respect their time that we have a start time and an end time but if we do want to do longer
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videos without a constraint those will be on scott's locals channel for subscribers so we encourage you
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come on over it's a good time um but anyway today we have the core four here to do some news
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and some current events and owen uh gregorian as always has picked some fun news stories as he does
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every single day and then he does a show on saturday with his co-host sergio and they talk news for hours
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and hours and hours and you can all participate there so thank god it's friday thank god it's a news day
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and we're so happy you're here so owen um we're gonna let you lead with the news stories you want to
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talk about today absolutely not you missed something here s-a-b the simultaneous sip
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i told you it's a day we can't do news without the sip so this it takes a village you guys especially
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today all right you guys are we ready lord i'm gonna even do it from my phone old school like scott
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hey everybody come on in it's a very newsy day there's news all over the place you got your real news
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you got your fake news you got your hoaxes and we have a brand new hoax the hoax of the day
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we don't have a name for it yet let's call it the losers and suckers hoax goes well with the fine
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people hoax the drinking bleach bleach hoax the overfeeding the goldfish hoax and all of the other
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was about but somebody is going to look it up and let us know so i'll drink to that and i'll turn it
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over to owen all right much better now so on the science side to get us started uh there's a story
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about hippocampal neurons shifting our activity backward in time to anticipate rewards i don't
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know that i would necessarily call this time travel i think it's more that when you test it this is of
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course like most things a mouse study and when they tested it with mice they found that the reward
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like the peak reward in the brain started off being when they would receive the reward
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but then it shifted earlier and earlier to the point where they were getting their peak long before
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they got the reward so um you know it was basically going backwards in time over you know while they
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were trained and um so it it you know shifted that that reward cycle i guess and um i think they're
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also tying this to being healthier in your brain they said the favorable group um that had like a bunch
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of well better lifestyle factors um had slower memory decline as well so they're getting into the healthy
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diet stuff and um that it worked more for people with this apoe gene that i think is the one that
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puts you at risk for alzheimer's um so combination of things there but i think it was interesting to me
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to say that you know you as you get trained to get a reward and i think scott taught us that it's often
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better to be intermittent so sometimes you get the reward and sometimes you don't but
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as you get used to that you start anticipating it and um you actually get the reward far before
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or your your brain gets rewarded before you actually get the the physical reward so so the anticipation
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is also a reward yeah and i think this definitely falls in the category of you could have just asked scott
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i think we probably all knew this that um you know it's that whole dopamine cycle that
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once you get into a habit that is rewarding then you start anticipating it and the anticipation
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i could get down with that i feel that way about sneezing sometimes the anticipation of a sneeze is
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so good i love that like especially if you know it's going to come out but if somebody says
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bless you to me before i sneeze it ruins the sneeze and it's upsetting did you try scott's method
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to try and stop yourself from sneezing no i like sneezing it's a reward i like it
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oh my gosh i think i tried it and it didn't really work for me so it worked for me it was for me oh yeah
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every time since he talked about it um i have used it maybe one time it failed but it has worked every
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time and it also works with uh other um other secretions of your body you know it could be like
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your tears you know it can be you can cry in your mind and uh and avoid a cry too but uh it's better
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to cry sometimes you know the sneezing it's good to sneeze too but not in company right so yeah it does
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it does matter what you're sneezing on um but for anyone who isn't familiar um scott's method was that
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he would um in his mind i guess sort of simulate the sneezing like he would visualize himself sneezing
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before he sneezed and that if he visualized himself sneezing before he sneezed then it would stop him
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from sneezing and he seemed to think that was something that everybody could do could try and a lot of
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people could do sounds like sergio was able to pull it off i feel like my head many more many people
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well i i do i'm kind of with you erica that i number one it is kind of a pleasurable experience
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and number two um i also just think it's healthier like you know you're sneezing for a reason so
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i'd rather let it out my body my choice right you can choose to sneeze i suppose so i suppose so
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all right um so there's another one here that says um online banking may be shifting household
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money control to women but it makes women five times likelier to manage their money independently
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of the men they're married to um and that you know this is partly in the uk but i would imagine
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it extends to other places it says they found that 49 of uk couples pool their income jointly
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17 percent manage independently and 83 percent make major decisions jointly um but male-led decisions
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were only in 11 of heterosexual couples and um so it seems like the the shift to online banking is
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somehow giving access to women and um it says for men online banking often increases their involvement
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in day-to-day monies management and reinforces their control over big financial decisions for
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many women it can level the playing field opening the door to shared decision making give them a
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stronger voice in the household who manages the money in your family erica me yeah i'm sure you're
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shocked i am i'm shocked right um me controlling something i think in in my case it is probably
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more me but i and my wife has asserted more control over time um that more recently she's doing a little
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bit more stuff independently like you know in her job she would obviously have her own retirement
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accounts and she's taken it upon herself to learn a lot more about investing so i think it's more of a
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joint thing at this point um but i would say earlier in our marriage it was mostly me but i would just
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you know make sure all the bills are paid and make sure we had investments for retirements and all that
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so i didn't necessarily want to do it i don't know what you guys experienced but when we first got
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married 800 years ago and keith would be doing the bills he would get so like upset and you know not
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like at this spending but just like oh like where's this thing and what about this thing and
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whatever and i'm like oh my god like i i can't like he can't get upset every time we do the bills the
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bills are never going to stop and so i'd i'd bring him a sandwich i'd be like hey what are you doing the
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bills and then he'd be like oh yeah okay great but then he'd get upset again and then i was like
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why don't i just take that from you and then this was like 100 years ago and i was like let's just
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avoid it like so you know i'd make him a sandwich if he still wanted one but i'll just do the bills
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and it just has been great for the last 100 years yeah i think that's a good way to to work it out i
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think certain people are a lot more anxious about stuff like that and other ones aren't and it's
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probably better to let the person who's not going to freak out every time um manage that process but
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i think in in modern times you know at this point almost all of our bills are just automatically paid
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like i don't we don't write any checks anymore it's not really even a thought process i mean
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we might review the bills or review the spending every so often and i do track our spending pretty
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closely and quicken but um you know like except for major things like if we're gonna buy a car or a
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house or you know some big furniture or something like that um we usually do those things together but
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otherwise it's kind of like it just flows you know we don't really do anything anymore doesn't this um
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doesn't this go back to billionaires and their wives controlling the money um for leftists uh
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like leftist um charities and all that so like we can certainly talk about that too i to me i put that
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in a whole different category because that's where like you have so much more money than you could ever
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spend and i would imagine there's no talk about any kind of budget at that point although i'm sure
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there are some billionaires that give their wife an allowance or whatever but um yeah i think to me
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it's kind of like when you have that kind of money um it's your money your your finance guy yeah i mean
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i guess to me the the if i try to put myself in the shoes of a billionaire i would say okay at that
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point i'm going to be more defensive like i want to make sure i never go broke you know i i'm not so
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worried about making more money at that point it's just i want to make sure i don't get scammed nobody
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drains the account nobody does something so irresponsible that all of a sudden i am broke
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because that does happen to a lot of rich people especially ones that aren't you know they didn't
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like slowly make their way to being rich um if they don't have experience managing money a lot of
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athletes and lottery winners like most of them i think actually are a high percentage end up broke
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or bankrupt because they just don't know how to manage money and i think probably most billionaires
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are you know experienced by the time they get there with it that they don't have that problem but i think
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um it really does depend on you know what your prior experience was like if you're starting out poor
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and then you suddenly get millions or billions of dollars like it's it's a difficult thing to manage i think
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because you just don't have the experience of saying how do i avoid getting scammed or how do i
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make the right decisions and so i think it is an important skill set to develop over time yeah
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all right yeah skill sets are important all right well here's another one that's uh you could have asked
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scott uh self-esteem may predict who pursues leadership roles people with high self-esteem with
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promotion focus boost leadership pursuit when it's encouraged low self-esteem has more of a prevention
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focus and reinforces reluctance um regulatory focus is pliable and uh you know it's a little bit
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different than fixed traits like personality or gender so i think they're pointing to self-esteem
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as a big big factor there i i don't know why anyone needed to spend money on this study
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um i guess we could just say like scott has said before that you know being overconfident is a good
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thing and it will help you get ahead and i would i would probably counsel to to focus on confidence
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rather than self-esteem um because i think those are different things i think self-esteem is like your
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personal opinion of yourself and confidence is more of how you present yourself right and they don't need
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to be the same you know you can have the imposter syndrome going on inside as long as you're confident
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externally and you can be very successful i think but um you know it could be that they're
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not able to really tell the difference between the two when they're doing a study
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right all right let's see we can get into some of the
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political stuff so we have um story about mexican cartels employing drones to smuggle drugs and fight
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enemies i know sergio perked up at the story um looks like mexican cartels are using drugs or drones
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daily for drugs surveillance migrant operations and attacks apparently there's been over 27 000 detected
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near the u.s border in late 2024 um and they're shifting from planes to drones for fentanyl
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looks like the drones can have up to 100 kilograms of capacity and they've had explosive drones since
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2021 um now that's widespread and mexico's trying to fight back so seems like it's a bigger and bigger
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problem there was a related story a few days ago where he was in texas i forget the city exactly but it
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was um one of the airports was shut down for 10 days and um it looks like what happened was
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we were testing lasers to shoot drones down and there was apparently some disconnect between the
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faa and the defense department i guess and so the defense department started firing off these lasers
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and the faa said whoa whoa you can't do that we got planes all over the place here and the department
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of defense just said we're gonna keep doing it and so the faa said fine then we're shutting down the
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airport um and i think they were just shooting at balloons or something but there was some i don't
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want i don't know if i'd call it misinformation but um you know there were some statements made about
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maybe they were shooting down mexican drones um but i think that turned out not to be the case that
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they were just shooting at balloons and stuff and they didn't really shoot any mexican drones down
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during this operation but um it looks like we are certainly working on our our anti-drone capabilities
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and probably planning to use it at the mexican border i still stand with that the drones over new jersey
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were very sus and we will never have the real answer on it and uh i remember getting into debates
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with scott about it and you know people be like they look like airplanes and it's like no there's
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something really sketchy going on we know what the airplanes look like over our skies these were not
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them and i remember when scott was doing the story about the drones that have machine guns on them i mean
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you know like drones are scary i mean the the good thing is is you know you you don't have to have
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boots on the ground when you have drones in the sky so technically it should save the lives of
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especially our troops um which is always a good thing but i mean how do you regulate the drones
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especially when there's so many commercial not even commercial i mean uh private drones like sergio
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flies a drone and he does that for a part of his job is using a drone and i can see clearly i i could
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think of a thousand scenarios of how bad this could go for people and i'm sure you guys could too
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and i would never say one publicly to put an idea out there for some psychopath but i don't know i think
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drones are really our future fear like should be and and how do you regulate this it's very concerning
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yeah i mean it's definitely concerning to me i think um especially since you have people like
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cartels using this i'm kind of surprised we haven't seen more attacks even in the u.s um from the
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cartels because it seems like they've got the equipment they've got the money they've got the
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technology they know how to do it and um it does look like they are using it a lot in mexico maybe
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they're just you know essentially not wanting to provoke the u.s into invading which is probably what
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would happen so um but it'll be interesting to see with all this laser technology because that
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seems to be the primary counter that's coming out ukraine had a similar story where they developed
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some kind of laser that was anti-drone um and it seems like that's the counter technology so
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it could be that we'll be seeing a lot more lasers going off
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i just wanted to clarify owen when you say mexican drones you mean mexican cartel drones or
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mech or the or the country yeah i'm talking about the cartels using drones yeah i mean i would i would
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assume maybe the mexican government has some drone capability but i think the problem we're talking
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about is the cartels um there's been stories about this over the past chinese drones mostly
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chinese drones um you know like some some people in mexico have complained that they've had drone
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attacks from the cartels like you know any if you get on the bad list and they want to get rid of
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you or get get you off your land or something oh no way like send drones in and for attacking yeah
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yeah so i think you know the stuff that's happening in ukraine is spilling over into mexico
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essentially and they're copying all the same technologies so it is a scary time i mean you
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know certainly i would never want to be chased by a malicious drone but yeah hopefully sergio will
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never come after me that way what do you think about this sergio investing is all about the future
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well uh the the the part about drones being used by the cartels in mexico i've known about that for
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a long time because um you know i fly drones right i do real estate media that's a photography of houses
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for people you know videos and and the the main uh maker of drones is dji is a chinese company
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that uh now they have uh pulled out of um offering their drones officially in in the u.s but in mexico
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there's stores everywhere in all the main cities you have all these stores for um agricultural drones
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okay those are the big ones you know they carry a lot so so the cartels have been using those uh you know for
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war basically against each other and against uh um the military so but it has been all always inside
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um mexico like in sinaloa michoacan and all those places where it's heavily controlled by cartels
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and um now that is crossing into el paso for anybody in texas um i will be like thinking about it more
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right i will be really aware about it and ask uh to make sure that like erica was saying like in new
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jersey they were saying all these things that this is happening that's happening you know just don't
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believe anything until you check and um and and and it's gonna be uh three years ago i can i can
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disclose this because i didn't sign an mda for this part but we did some tests uh we were hired by a
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company i'm gonna say the name to test um a drone detection radar and uh i thought like well it's gonna
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be great you know we're gonna get paid really well we have all these drone pilots there and we did this
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test about for about two and a half weeks and um and and the system was i'm not gonna say it was not
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good i mean it was not as good as it should be and i was like i hope they do something so now that i
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see that all this is happening i'm kind of like happy and that is happening but also i'm afraid that
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my drones are gonna get shut down sometimes if get mistaken for a cartel drone but uh but i think
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it's a good thing owen and uh and uh marcella yeah these all these drones are chinese made um
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mexico doesn't have any drone technology at all i think they have uh use the buying technology just
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to buy the buy them and uh like ukraine they have actually i have reports maybe all when you should
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you know about this they have a ukraine ukrainian pilots in mexico training cartels so it might be a
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rumor i don't know yeah i hadn't heard about that but i i don't doubt it i mean i think ukraine is
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certainly trying to leverage their drone technology and export it um so you know i wouldn't be surprised
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if some of them got hired by the cartel i would hope that we might be able to get them to stop doing
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that if they are um but you know at the end of the day it's probably you know kind of a losing battle
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like you're gonna have people flying drones and it's not something you can really prevent from
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happening i think um the technology is too pervasive at this point but you know it is interesting that we
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did kind of ban the dgi dgi drones from america um i know you know you like them a lot and and i'm not
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telling you to stop using them but um it does look like we're trying to move that industry here
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or at least out of china um due to all the national security concerns which i think are real i mean i
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think to me if if china is making all the drone hardware and the drone software um even if it's the
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best stuff out there it might also mean that they're watching everything you do with it and that
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they might even have some level of control over it or a kill switch or who knows what and so i do think
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it's a legitimate concern and i would love to see more domestic drone capabilities where we could
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get american-made drones and have it be competitive so i'm hoping that's underway i know we are doing
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that with anduril and things military-wise but i haven't really seen anything on the consumer side
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yeah that's the issue because uh it's been years since we've known about that uh this happening we
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it was not a surprise in the drone community that everybody knew that this was going to happen
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and they were not the companies would not incentivize i guess it was the biden administration
00:28:07.000
that was doing it uh so you know there's no surprise on that so maybe now i'm thinking that
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there will be a renewal um um encouragement to to get going so sorry erica i interrupted you
00:28:20.000
no no that's okay i just i want to make sure we get to other news too
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yeah well so the next story is um you may have seen this viral video of uh the border patrol people
00:28:32.220
being turned away from a 7-eleven i think it was a speedway but they are owned by 7-eleven
00:28:36.240
and um you know the quote from that is like i don't support ice and nobody here does from the manager of
00:28:41.700
that speedway um so now the trump administration is threatening to sever the partnership that they
00:28:47.780
apparently have with 7-eleven um because apparently there is some kind of agreement where they can use
00:28:52.500
their gsa fleet cards to gas up all the vehicles and you know buy snacks or whatever and it looks
00:28:59.240
like um trump is saying you know you need to start answering for this and stop this from happening
00:29:04.540
otherwise they might just stop doing that and i think that could be a big monetary problem for 7-eleven
00:29:09.800
so hopefully they have some leverage there but right now apparently this gsa fleet card is mandatory
00:29:15.540
for non-tactical vehicles and it's accepted for 95 of stations um so looks like there's some conflict
00:29:23.220
going on with 7-eleven um it looks like we've had similar denials from hampton inn and mcdonald's so
00:29:29.740
seems like we're having a lot of corporate friction with our ice and border patrol there has to be rules
00:29:36.700
with the franchising of these places i'm guessing that these people will have their franchise license
00:29:42.880
take take not the not 7-eleven as a whole thing but the individual franchise partner like i'm i can't
00:29:50.060
imagine they'd be allowed to continue yeah i think there might have been at least one of those already
00:29:54.540
i think i remember a story like that where the the individual store was going to lose their license
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and they'd have to become some other you know brand um and not keep the brand i don't know if
00:30:05.480
it was 7-eleven or something similar but i think this is not the first time this has come up
00:30:09.100
so you might be right jump on this opportunity now to distance themselves from that and just say that
00:30:15.500
they're taking their franchise license away because you see how it goes here you know when when the
00:30:21.540
majority gets upset you know they'll be boycotted and they will probably get run out of business so
00:30:28.480
yeah it's a bad i mean it's bad all around i mean you see what's happening in target there's even now
00:30:33.820
people are doing some kind of boycott on open ai um there's some kind of organized boycott trying to
00:30:40.400
get people to stop subscribing to chat gpt because of their involvement with the government and um i i
00:30:47.920
think it's just bad for business and it's bad for our economy it's bad for everybody um and i don't
00:30:52.260
think it works out well for the businesses either way i mean i i would certainly counsel any business to
00:30:56.660
just stay away from politics and you know maybe have a policy that just says you can't discriminate
00:31:02.080
and you can't make any political statements because it's just bad for business it's like you know you're
00:31:07.740
cutting off half your customer base yeah and then worse than that when you when you see what happened
00:31:14.380
with target with all the lgbtq clothing they were selling um you know they got boycotted by the right
00:31:20.460
when they were selling it and then when they pulled it off the shelves now they're boycotted by the left
00:31:24.440
and like they're just getting whiplash to the point where everybody's boycotting them
00:31:29.100
and that seems to be the natural path for these things like if if 7-11 comes and says okay we're
00:31:36.160
not going to turn away ice now they're going to get boycotted by the left it's just a it's a vicious
00:31:40.980
cycle so this is why we can't have nice things people yeah all right well good news um the appeals
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court has ruled that trump can terminate deportation protections for migrants from nepal honduras and
00:31:53.500
nicaragua the ninth circuit overturned a block on ending the tps for 90 000 migrants so i'll be
00:32:00.600
uh asylum people from the post-hurricane mitch in 1998 and the nepal quake in 2015
00:32:07.060
um we can send them all home so christy known saying that's a win for the rule of law
00:32:13.540
tps which i think the t stands for temporary was never designed to be permanent so certainly makes
00:32:19.060
sense to me um that especially for things like natural disasters um you know it shouldn't be
00:32:24.620
permanent and um so looks like some good news on the legal front but um and this seems to be a trend
00:32:31.500
that a lot of the district judges are these activist judges that'll block stuff and then it gets the
00:32:36.600
appeal court level and then it gets overturned so it seems like things are moving in the right
00:32:41.200
direction at least it's so nice to see the law working right well the interesting part about
00:32:48.880
this story is that it's the ninth circuit uh which is the most liberal circuit in the entire country so
00:32:55.260
that tells you a lot yeah yeah and i think in some cases it might have to go to the supreme court
00:33:01.680
but um yeah it is interesting i mean they might appeal this decision so then it would uh then go to
00:33:08.660
the supreme court and they might uh reject it and there's a teoria uh but you know what i mean so
00:33:15.220
it it it's still appealable yeah yeah because ninth circuit is not yet the up to the higher level
00:33:24.500
yeah okay as scott would often say it's often too complicated to follow these things i'm sure you can
00:33:29.860
maybe understand it marcelo given that you're a lawyer but you know it's like you get all these stories
00:33:34.980
and sometimes when they say like this one where it says we overturned a block it's like well that
00:33:38.900
might just be a temporary ruling like that might not actually be even the case they might still have
00:33:44.020
to hear the case and then decide but they're making some preliminary ruling just to say okay we're going
00:33:50.820
to overturn the injunction and the injunction itself was not necessarily an actual ruling on the case it was
00:33:56.420
just we're gonna block this right it's temporary and most of the most injunctions are temporary unless
00:34:03.220
they're permanent um the word permanent isn't it yeah yeah okay so getting through the ninth circuit
00:34:10.500
is a good step like it's leaving them now it for the ninth for the ninth circuit to agree with the trump
00:34:19.060
administration is like winning the lottery it's not often so the so what this means is the law is very
00:34:26.100
clear on this because it's tps temporary um it's a temporary protection yeah so we got a win there and
00:34:36.980
then more good news just overall there's a record high number of detained illegal aliens that are
00:34:41.940
voluntary leaving the country so what this gets into is that um as of um 2025 28 of the detainee removal
00:34:53.220
cases ended up in a voluntary departure meaning the person agreed to leave um and that's a record high
00:34:59.620
and it went actually higher near the end of the year so i think it's up to something like 38 now um
00:35:06.420
so ice detention hit 73 000 by mid-january um the bond grants fell to 30 percent asylum fell to 29
00:35:16.020
so trump is saying over 3 million people have left in trump's first year and of that 3 million 675 were
00:35:23.860
actual formal deportations but 2.2 million were self-deportations and they still have that cbp home
00:35:30.020
app where you can get a thousand dollars in free flights home so it seems to be working and we've had
00:35:35.380
three million people leave apparently wow all right so progress and we still have a ways to go the next
00:35:44.180
story was actually that we in some congressional testimony uh they said there's 1.5 million illegal
00:35:50.740
aliens with final deportation orders that are still in the country um and of those i think 800 000 are
00:35:58.100
have criminal convictions um so there's still a large number of people we're trying to get rid of so we
00:36:03.860
we haven't reached the end but that does mean that if they follow through with that it means we might
00:36:07.460
have another 1.5 million leaving so it could get up to four and a half million i suppose um
00:36:13.860
you know it's so amazing how slow the process has to be though considering how many flooded over
00:36:20.340
during uh biden's term yeah yeah so the next story i don't know if it's good or bad news um
00:36:28.820
homin announced they're ending their operation in minnesota um homin is calling it a victory like
00:36:35.220
basically saying we've done our job you know mission accomplished sort of thing other people are saying
00:36:39.860
you back down homin's response is saying to those people you know we're prioritizing public safety
00:36:45.140
threats and we're focusing on national security and other things doesn't mean we're forgetting about
00:36:49.380
everybody else um but it looks like they are pulling out of minnesota so hopefully that will at least
00:36:54.340
mean that we'll have less of the organized resistance that we've seen in minnesota um but
00:37:00.580
i'm sure ice will be going somewhere else so we'll have to see what pops up elsewhere i think california
00:37:04.900
has certainly been mentioned um and that may be another hot spot but um you know i think it seems
00:37:11.700
like the overall trend is they might be going to friendlier places where they're not going to have
00:37:15.220
as much resistance and um hopefully just you know still be getting rid of good numbers of people
00:37:20.580
wouldn't that be two movies on one screen thinking that um them pulling out is a victory for them
00:37:30.020
but the administration thinking it's a victory also for them um so it could be it's always that way
00:37:38.020
isn't it yeah absolutely i mean i i think this definitely is a case of that two movies on one
00:37:42.820
screen where both sides are going to claim victory um and you know i think it really is a matter of
00:37:49.380
perspective i think i can certainly see tom holman's point of view that they got rid of a lot of people
00:37:54.820
and they you know also got some concessions from waltz and the rest of the government to cooperate more
00:38:02.500
and to you know work with them but certainly pulling out you know means they're not going to have those
00:38:09.380
agents there and so um you know i could see the other side too but i think um it is going to be one of
00:38:17.780
those things where the left thinks they won and the right thinks they won and they said that the
00:38:22.740
people that are leaving the agents that are leaving were protecting the people the the agents that were
00:38:29.060
trying to do their jobs so they were actually they were actually protection for ice that was trying to
00:38:35.540
do their job so if they don't cooperate and things act up again they'll just bring them back but i
00:38:41.940
also feel like they're going to follow nick shirley wherever he goes and he's in california now so
00:38:46.420
we'll see what fraud he uncovers and then they'll need a distraction