Episode 3097 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸18⧸26
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Join the beautiful news crew as they discuss the passing of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, a new invention from Scott Adams, and the tragic passing of Jesse Jackson. Join us for the hit of the day as we discuss it all!
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okay comma beat steven today comma you beat steven good morning good morning
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let's get us turned on sergio can you see youtube yet i'm working on it let's see
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good morning rumble good morning locals youtube is going yes good morning youtube
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all right xx i hope you're in the house with us
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okay we hope we hope so all right you guys i think uh is everyone in did you have time to come in
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i think we're good we look good all right so let's get down to business and do what we got to do
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before everything else shall we take it away hey everybody come on in come on in it's time yeah
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it's time for coffee with scott adams best time of the day every single time now i have to warn you
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that i'm going to miss uh one morning i believe it's tomorrow morning no it's uh thursday morning
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and uh hey omar good morning good morning get in here we got lots to talk about but before we do
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what do we do before we talk about all the fun things ah it's a simultaneous sip that's right
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and all you need is let's see all you need is i'm not cheating i'm not looking at my cheat sheet
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i'm not looking to the left all you need is a cup of mug or glass tank of chalice or stein
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a canteen jug or plastic vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join
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me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better
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it's called the simultaneous up and out it's now go
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sergio got an extra large mute button show us sergio what it looks like show us your big button
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i'm afraid to show it because it's so big show it show me to show you my mute button okay here we go
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check it out you guys is that impressive does it turn red hello hello yep red and
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and mute yourself mute yourself i don't think it's working perfect he tested it before the show and
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he was telling us how much he loved it while on mute it was so amazing okay you guys good morning
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welcome everybody my name is erica and i am joined today with the beautiful news crew
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we have sergio with his scott adams beanie always and now a giant mute button our beautiful marcella
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over there in southern cali and the gorgeous voice of owen gregorian good morning everyone
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so i just want to give you guys a couple of quick reminders it's the news crew today we're doing some
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news stories for you um a reminder that the 2026 dilbert calendar is restocked on amazon okay um
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so that you could buy on amazon.com if you want a spare one for a friend you didn't get one the first
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time around back by popular demand um the other thing i wanted to let everybody know is that any
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posting from scott adams official x account is from scott adams estate and family okay like i'm not
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posting from there so anything you see from scott adams account is from scott adams family and estate
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okay i just wanted to let you know that um also um i just wanted to say that jesse jackson
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passed away was he 84 or 83 i think he was 84 i could be wrong i think 84. yeah okay well anyway
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as you guys know but just in case he was a civil rights leader who worked closely with martin luther
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king jr and later founded the rainbow coalition push or was it the rainbow push coalition jackson ran for
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democrat uh president uh president nomination in 1984 and 1988 expanding political engagement among
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minority and progressive voters over decades he remained a visible and sometimes controversial figure
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in american politics his legacy reflects both his role in advancing civil rights and the debates
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that often surrounded his activism um he's been around basically my whole life and um may he rest in
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peace and uh we are sorry and our condolence go to his family um with that being said let's toss it to
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the news crew i think marcella and owen have come up with some great stories for us sergio is going to
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try to help me stay off the ledge with the news and um we'll look at your questions at the same time
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okay take it away news crew i just wanted to remind everybody before i give news
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that the calendar is available for purchase on amazon i believe um i just did that marcella oh did you
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double reminder double reminder for the slow people yeah
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okay who's starting starting i think marcella's going first okay great okay my first story so my theme
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of the day today today is you guys is um build or collapse your choice so it's either you want to
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build or you want to collapse so every single story is connected to that for for my stories as well as owen i'm
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sure um the first thing that i wanted to talk about is jd vance uh made an appearance at fox news with
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martin mccallum and we talk about uh the deep bench i think it was sergio or owen that said that that the
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we talked before about rubio and how wonderful his speech was right and how proud we are to have him in
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the republican party representing us after we have trump the other one in our deep bench is jd vance so he
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made an appearance on martha mccallum he talked about different subjects i can't talk about all the
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subjects because i know you we have a lot of news uh one of the subjects was the midterms which is very
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important for for trump's administration he talked about the issue of building and collapsing he talked
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about whether you want the government that burnt down everything for you and collapsed it or do you want
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to vote for people that want to build and construct so and i'm paraphrasing um so he he did give that
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kind of insight in the leadership he talked about um what he did say is do you want to double down on the
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president's leadership which is trump which has helped to recover from some of the problems caused by joe biden
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um which the theme on monday was that do you want to why white trump has been um strong on borders strong
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within the cities is because the crime is out of control the border is that it was out of control
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and here we are again do you want to choose to go on that path to build or do you want to choose to go
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and collapse so he did talk about minnesota he talked about uh martha mccallum was great at interviewing
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him he was like what about the video what do we do there were people killed what's going on he talked
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about that the administration himself did not like it and um that's uh it was unfortunate but the reason
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that they needed to be present was because the city that they were in and the state that they were in
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was not enforcing the law and they needed to defend their own agents from the people so and he talked
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about iran and he talked about negotiations it's not he says that it was um he talks about iran he says
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one thing about the negotiation i will say this morning is the same ways it went well but at the
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same time he talks about how it's not going too well with iran so we'll see but i'll i'll give it to
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erica owen and sergio to give me what they think of what uh jd van said what they think of the deep bench
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of building whether erica wants to build or does she want to collapse build baby build build that wall
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build everything um most of you probably know or don't that you know i am definitely um worried about
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i'm worried yeah i'm worried that if we don't get a grip and get these midterms together
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it's just going to be all the same nonsense that it was before like they're going to try
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to impeach trump for what i don't know it's just going to be everything's just tied up trump
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derangement syndrome goes on and on nothing gets done it's kind of a shame that when a president is
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getting things done that in this country i mean it's a blessing and a curse that you only have four
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years to affect that change um because then again i didn't want a fifth year of biden or many other
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people but you know things are going to click into place i think down the road a little bit like it
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takes a minute to get the momentum but i think that um we have to get serious about the midterms a lot of
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people are disappointed with what is going on within i'll just call it maga um but our bench is really
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good it's really good but if we don't win the midterms and we can't pass laws and and you know
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or like the save act and all the things that are coming up it's not going to matter we're just going
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to be stuck so i think the midterms are more important than ever before i might actually re-register
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myself into a party so i can vote in all of the midterms because right right now i'm not affiliated
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with anybody i'm not even an independent i'm a nothing um but it's so important so maybe we should
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talk to people we know that aren't registered with a party that could be like a way of just saying like
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listen we got to get out there um and i was listening to an episode of scott um i think it was
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this morning every day is blending into each other where he was saying how men love pranks so he was
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saying get with your your guy friends who don't normally vote and be like let's do a prank and
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we're gonna vote for you know the republicans in the midterms like get one non-voting person and make
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it like it's a prank and it's something fun to do with your friends and just say like yeah we're gonna
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go do it we're gonna vote all republicans so however you have to get there because the alternative
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is um more crime in the streets danger losing who we are as a country and a culture and um i'm afraid
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for the children in this world it's already so dangerous and i'm afraid for them just you know
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i i think of like my friends who have grandkids and i just imagine this world oh i i get worried so
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i want to bill baby bill yay owen well i'm glad that i'm glad that trump is starting to focus on
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the midterms and i think it's really important to win the midterms especially the house is the
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hardest one probably i think we'll probably end up keeping the senate but the house is going to be
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an uphill battle and i think we need to do a lot more than what they've started doing i think they
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are starting from a good position financially they have a lot more money than the democrats do at this
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point but you know that could change pretty quickly um now that biden has kind of faded away
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and the stink has gone away from that that you know some of the celebrities are starting to do
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fundraisers like i think one of the i forget if it was jimmy kimmel or jimmy fallon one of those people
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was going to be doing like a 25 000 plate fundraiser for the democrats and so they'll probably come up with
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some money but i think you know we are having a head start at least with that and um i just hope we
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make good use of it you know i think um right now i think on polymarket it's something like 83
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think that we're gonna switch to democrat control of the house that's probably about accurate would
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be my guess in terms of odds and i think we want to change those odds but right now it probably is
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well in their favor they've done a bunch more redistricting than the republicans have so they've
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made it very unfair in terms of you know making it so that republicans aren't getting all their
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votes counted in terms of being able to actually represent themselves in congress and um so they've
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stacked the deck in their favor from that perspective it's also been stacked the deck
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in their favor from all the illegal immigration that was in the last census and so they have a
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lot of things structurally that just benefit them so it's going to take a lot to convince people to
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come out to vote and i think you know scott told us that it's not gonna be enough to talk about
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all your accomplishments that you need to talk about what you're going to do and that to me is
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probably the big challenge you have to speak to the issues that are still there things like
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affordability the economy is going to be pretty much everything and so i think a lot is going to
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depend on how the economy is you know six to nine months from now and um you know just getting people
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out to vote in terms of real persuasion you know some of it might need to be fear-based some of it might
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need to be um just promises like trump made when he ran um trump's obviously not going to be on the
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ballot but i think we probably want to try and treat it like he is because it is going to probably
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mean that if he if the house gets control they're going to immediately impeach him it's not going to
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go anywhere in the senate they may or may not have a trial but you know they're just going to keep
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impeaching him and trying to obstruct everything and they're going to be doing investigations of all the
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trump people and pulling him in front of congress to testify and it's just going to be constant
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political theater and nothing is going to get through congress and i think my biggest fear about
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that isn't so much like on the bench or 2028 because i think in some ways it might even work
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to our benefit to be out of control of congress um when you look at 2028 because there may be more
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motivation to get fans or rubio or somebody into office but i think um for those two years
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it would make a huge difference because all the things trump has done by executive order are going
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to go away if a democrat retakes the white house and the only way to prevent that is to put it into
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law like the save act like the things that we're working on and it's really difficult to get those
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things through you need a majority you need a majority in both houses and you need everybody to be
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unified enough to vote for those things and to get over filibusters and things like that so um if we
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don't have that then none of that's going to happen and we're going to have all these executive orders
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that if god forbid some democrat wins in 2028 he's immediately going to do you know he's just going
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to say i'm rescinding all of that everything everything trump did yeah your executive order would
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just be gone and then it will have been a speed bump as bj said of like trump's whole presidency will
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have been a speed bump until they could get right back to what their agenda was before which wasn't
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good yeah and for the finale sergio will the mute button work it's working fine
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build or collapse build undefeated well that's my that's my favorite uh frame of the day um and you're
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gonna build without frames right so you have to build uh uh the the decision is to build or collapse
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right there's no nothing in the middle i love that um putting that persuasion there because nobody wants
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to collapse everybody wants to build up um and and in positioning like that to people makes the the
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sense to okay i it is in it is imperative now to do it it is not a question of like oh maybe it would
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be nice to uh vote this time like most midterms these 80 chances of losing if somebody asked trump that
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what would he say he will say don't tell me the ads right i mean that's what i want to imagine that he
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will say and he will just try to find any way to cut through um that traditional uh historical uh record
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that always happens but what i love about this is that we are not um aligning ourselves behind a person
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or a party or or even trump we're we are aligning ourselves with um the common sense of building
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instead of destruction right so that's uh that's i like how um jd said it on that interview instead of
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saying like hey vote for us we are so cool we are amazing guys you know no he's saying hey build what
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vote for what is working you've seen what is going on it reminds me a lot of um there's um an episode
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of uh bear grills survival guy and and he he uh one time he separated the women and the men he had the
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men in one island and the women in another island uh by themselves right and so i'm not going to
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talk about the results but those are good things to do it's like one of them look like the last four
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years and the other one look like what is going on right now i'm not going to say what which one
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it is you can check it out but um you just did say Sergio huh what i think you just did say it
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Sergio well he didn't say who did what i didn't say who it's up to our imagination okay exactly yeah
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so so that's an extreme situation right but uh it looks like um right now i'm seeing that i'm seeing
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a team the team a in charge uh in making things happen right now that's what i'm seeing right now
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the team just busting through uh building up cleaning clearing the forest for construction
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right you're clearing the field um you're getting all the pests out and and taking all the weeds out
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so i always say to trump is all you have to do is read the art of the deal to understand his mindset
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he's a developer he thinks in uh as in in a neighborhood what he will do as a hoa um guy you
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know he's the hoa of america he's the hoa chief of america and uh he's doing that all over and he wants
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everybody to to he does not train to destroy our neighbors right he's trying to build them up he
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wants everybody to be strong so that's my take on it i'd also like to say to learn more about the
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way trump thinks you can also read win bigly um that's a book that i believe scott was told by family
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members that they learned a lot more about donald trump by reading that book trying to point to
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the book it's behind me anyways well yeah win bigly is a i think somebody has to write the win bigly
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then too you know i mean not scott but like somebody somebody has to write what and somebody has to write
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win bigly too the number two yeah no yeah so because not not exactly win bigly but what's going
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to happen after trump right it is going to be the next 10 years are huge and uh with ai with everything
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that is going on and um it's going to be interesting what happens because win bigly was a um narrative
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of the first trump right administration and now it's like the golden age so what's going to happen
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now is going to be maybe joshua yeah well joshua just has a book out with data republican right now
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i think it's called unelected it's all right it looks really good i think it's on pre-order so
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he'll be on tomorrow yeah so i think trump i called you trump owen um i think owen has story i think
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that's what we're doing yeah well um i i think there's a couple of things going on that i would
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say are wins on the trump side one is he is going to give the state of the union address on time
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so that's coming up on february 24th um i think there was some question about that because of the
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shutdown that the democrats are defunding part of the government but trump's saying nope we're going
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ahead we're going to do it i think in 2019 they delayed it because of the shutdown but they're not
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going to do that this time so i think he's going to be you know doing it either way and um talking
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about things like voter id and um you know the save act and the dh fund dhs funding and kind of
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exposing the democrats for a lot of the things that they're doing um so i'm looking forward to
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that that should be a good time and uh then you know i don't know if we want to do a watch party
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for that it might be fun if we did that um maybe that's in a day for locals anyway don't don't need
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to commit you to anything but just i would love to um and then uh there's the there's actually a drop
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in student loan subsidies which i didn't know about apparently that was part of the big beautiful bill
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that they're cutting subsidized student loan losses um i think they're getting away from the
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income-based repayment and they're going to um some sort of at least a minimum payment that you have
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to do and they're extending the forgiveness period from 20 years to 30 years i wasn't even aware that
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all these subsidies were there but apparently we've been losing tons of money just by essentially
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forgiving student loans and letting people not pay them off completely and so this one is mandating
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i think at least ten dollars a month with the 30-year forgiveness and it also requires higher payments
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if you're making over a hundred thousand dollars so you know a lot of students are complaining that
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it's um you know that they they don't ever pay off their loans but i think that's because they don't
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pay off their loans like they they don't make any payments and so they end up with something that
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might have been a twenty five thousand dollar loan that they pay a hundred thousand dollars on it
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because they just let it grow over 30 years and um you know my son is paying his off pretty quickly
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so i'm glad about that i had the same thing when i graduated from college and and my wife did too
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so we all had student loans and paid them off as quickly as we could um and uh you know i certainly
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would recommend anybody do that that's in that situation but um you know it's it's good to me
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that we're doing less subsidies because i think that has distorted the whole education market and i
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think it's all going in the pockets of the universities and it's not even going to teachers
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it's going to administrators and so i think it'll be great to have less of that happening and make
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you know put more responsibility on the students and the parents and the schools to say if you really
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want that degree you're going to have to pay for it and it's not going to be something you can just
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get out of um like like i always say go to the school if you want to reduce it like stop coming
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to the american taxpayer it's your education your choice wasn't mine okay we have another thing we
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want to follow up with on that or how do you guys feel any certain way about that marissa well yeah like
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if you take out a loan you have to pay for it nobody should pay for for anybody else's loan you know
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it's your responsibility huh hot take marcella very hot extremely i'm burning sergio test your
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let me test it i see it was working good okay i'm winning i'm winning sjv um i'm going to say that uh
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doing this is going to elevate the value of education again i think that it just cheapened
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it so much having all these loans that anybody can just you know get a hundred thousand dollar loan
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to go to college um and uh and and the only ones that made a lot of money here were the finance
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companies right all the ones that are uh allocating all these loans and and all this and the and the kids
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they just they just didn't care and the parents didn't care either oh and we have talked about
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this on the spaces many times about this and i think that this is going to be um it's going to help
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really bring the value up again and get the students uh all um everybody knowing how much really cost
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the same thing with the hospitals right we didn't know how much um were the prices of things now and
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now we know the prices and they're lower now the same thing should be with education too it should
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be just so um it should be more uh it's an aspirant and uh what are the exact cost of all these loans
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and what is going to happen the financial literacy is what is killing all these people right is they
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don't understand they just take those loans and they do that so i don't know it's a great um i think
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we don't know it's a good path to do this so good and my second story unless erica has more things to
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say i'm good i'd love to hear your next story my next story and a lot of you were posting about it
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uh posting what am i saying um typing in the chat the save act that's my next story uh we need the save
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act to pass in the senate and that will lead us to less election it would be election reform basically
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what we're asking for um hot take here is uh for u.s citizens to only be allowed only u.s citizens to
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be allowed to vote whoa um imagine that in some states and in some and in federal elections
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people can vote without showing identification but to do anything i think uh i think even x in order
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to prove who you are needs your identification your id card your california license well obviously i
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your license but the save act so i give you a background is federal legislation aimed at election
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integrity which was needed which is we won't go into the details of why we need it i think all of
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you know why and basically is to prove u.s citizenship either with your birth certificate if you were
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naturalized with your passport so on and so forth and it started the first original save act it was in
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2025 however that didn't that passed congress but never made it into the senate it made it to the senate but
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it never made it to the floor so right now on february 11th the save act passed in congress and now again
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it's in the senate stuck there right there with 50 senators that are supporting it and as you know the
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tiebreaker vote would be jd vance the vice president and the issue that we face now is the filibuster
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where in order to avoid a filibuster um there'll be a test later on too so make sure you're listening
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okay um in order to pass the filibuster in order not to have a filibuster you have to have a 60 vote
00:28:48.080
threshold they don't have that they're 10 votes away from that so that's gonna happen the filibuster is
00:28:56.080
gonna happen and what senator mike lee is proposing to everybody he was on glenn beck's show and he was
00:29:04.880
proposing there to right now what he what what he explains is that the zombie filibuster is what's on
00:29:14.400
right now basically you don't have to do anything you can just say filibuster yeah that's it no easy
00:29:21.760
right and so he is pushing the talking filibuster where hey you want a filibuster go stand in the
00:29:30.160
senate floor for how many hours you can without leaving and talk and talk and talk in order to
00:29:40.000
filibuster and that's what he's pushing he is indicating he's citing the 1964 civil rights act which
00:29:48.560
um was pretty much agreed by the dems that that is good law so he is citing law that they themselves
00:29:59.600
support in order to do the talking filibuster i know that there was a representative um pauline uh anna
00:30:08.560
paulina uh help me out here luna luna sorry sorry representative luna so she um
00:30:18.320
indicated in a fox news uh show that she is against the filibuster and she wants to end it and i know
00:30:26.240
that scott would talk about uh whether to end it and not and so again the question is save act do you want
00:30:36.880
to build or collapse do you want to make sure that your elections have integrity or do you want to allow
00:30:46.960
just free-flowing elections like an anarchist or whatever you want like whoever wants to vote
00:30:53.680
and so i put it to the floor here unless you're filibustering me today um sergio owen erica
00:31:07.520
well okay owen you want to do i i mean i'm certainly for the save act i want to see it get
00:31:12.240
through congress i want to see it get to trump's desk um so i'm all for mike lee's proposal of saying
00:31:17.920
make him do the talking filibuster and push him until it fails um i really hope they do it and you know
00:31:24.320
i'm probably somewhat skeptical that they will just because that's been the history is that
00:31:29.520
a lot of these leadership republicans don't seem to ever follow through from anything or
00:31:33.040
do anything controversial but um i'd love to see it happen so i think we should pressure
00:31:37.920
the leadership you know thune and all the rest to make it happen so do you have any opinion of the
00:31:49.040
well i mean they're gonna do what they're gonna do i think chuck schumer isn't gonna be able to
00:31:52.800
filibuster for very long so you know let's let's let's try cory booker put on that diety yeah i mean
00:32:00.880
let him but yeah you know i think at some point they're gonna run out of gas i think and and that
00:32:06.480
is what happened with the civil rights act i think and that's what that was referring to is that they
00:32:10.480
tried to filibuster it and it didn't work and uh you know i think i think we'd probably hopefully see
00:32:16.880
that again this time so to me that would be some political theater that i'd get behind and say yeah
00:32:20.880
let's have that filibuster see what they can do see how long they can keep it up and
00:32:25.600
run it to the end and make it happen like what's the point i mean honestly can we just
00:32:33.200
be adults and move on and do what's best for this country already okay it it it's like follow the money
00:32:40.640
it's like um why are you not supporting integrity in voting then it makes you think like oh there's a
00:32:49.040
reason why i mean they cite the jim that it's like jim crow laws if you but that to me as hispanic
00:32:58.000
uh i hate to bring my identity up um is racist like oh marcella oh she can't get a license yeah that
00:33:07.600
was like kamala saying they can't get to a photocopy machine like what and then there's that video you
00:33:14.880
guys of the guy there's like this black guy with a laptop on the floor and he after she said that
00:33:20.480
he's looking at it like what is this and he's touching the computer like i'm a black guy i've
00:33:24.560
never seen a computer before i mean like how disgusting how demeaning and i can imagine if
00:33:31.360
someone was saying this about white people you know i would be equally as offended um you know my god
00:33:38.400
like everything you do and i think it's illegal by the way to not have identification so everything
00:33:44.160
you do in this world you need an id like better yet if trump said it how would they take it they
00:33:49.760
flip out but like let's just stop this nonsense sergio what are you thinking oh erica i think that
00:33:55.760
now they're talking about women they're making videos of women not being able to get an id
00:34:01.040
so they're like you guys don't have the capabilities to get ids now so that's the
00:34:05.760
problem it's not the black people now it's women so all right let's think of uh should women be
00:34:10.240
allowed to vote anymore let's just end it with the women okay women just stop voting okay we're just
00:34:15.840
gonna let the men vote everybody can just zip it i'm all in favor for that that's a whole different
00:34:21.440
issue erica it'll solve some problems yeah but i know i i think the the lie they're telling about
00:34:28.400
that is that they think married women who change their name aren't going to be able to vote and that's
00:34:32.000
not true and so they're hoaxing it on that let me ask you if the philly buster role the philly buster
00:34:38.720
rule is not in the constitution right it's just made up it's yeah it's just a senate rule that they
00:34:43.760
made up got it so um and trump uh solution was to nuke it right he wanted to nuke the rule in order
00:34:52.240
to pass everything right so you know what let's just take advantage right now let's make this happen
00:34:56.480
and let's just do it so i like that this um go forcing them mike lee's uh resolution to force them
00:35:04.080
to actually do the philly buster which was traditionally right speak without stopping right
00:35:10.480
um and that's a maybe in the middle uh we'll see what happens but um i think that i i'm pro nuking the
00:35:17.280
the rule and 100 percent and and just face the consequences and um and go build uh go build ahead
00:35:25.120
and and stop the collapse that is going on because we're still collapsing really if the collapse doesn't
00:35:30.240
stop we see a lot of uh um demolition crews out there trying to destroy us so i'm with you there
00:35:37.120
too on nuke and the filibuster because i i think at this point it's pretty much guaranteed that that's
00:35:42.160
going to happen as soon as democrats get control of the senate i'm against it just a matter of time
00:35:47.200
they're not going to say oh you didn't do it so we're not going to do it because they've worked i
00:35:51.680
mean look at what james carl was saying about packing the supreme court and all this i mean like
00:35:56.320
they're they're ready to just rip the government to shreds to destroy the whole thing they're going
00:36:00.800
to pack the supreme court they're going to do all their redistricting they're going to i mean it's just
00:36:06.320
everything they can possibly do they're going to rage against the machine and do whatever
00:36:11.920
they have to to try and regain power and so i think once they do have control of the senate i
00:36:17.200
think it's pretty much guaranteed that they're going to nuke the filibuster so as far as i'm concerned
00:36:21.440
we should just take advantage of it now and and have it while we have control of congress
00:36:26.000
or while i'll control the senate and just get things passed yeah time's ticking yeah i'm for the
00:36:35.040
filibuster um it's been used in order by republicans in order to stop democrats from doing crazy
00:36:45.600
legislation so i i see your point um but i think what mike lee is trying to find is like a medium and
00:36:54.720
and also i don't believe they have the numbers in order to nuke it but i could be wrong owen sergio
00:37:03.280
there's no numbers for anything anywhere everything i think i think thun can just change the rules
00:37:08.240
whenever he wants oh it's hoon oh yeah he's not cooperating anyway he he actually said he he doesn't
00:37:18.000
want to put um the save act on the floor because he's worried about the timing he has other bills that
00:37:26.000
are more important because other bills are more important than having uh no fraud in elections yeah
00:37:33.520
fair elections not a big deal yeah no he looks so weak yeah he does tune tune uh senator tune the whole
00:37:42.560
in persuasion wise every time you see them they seem just no action they don't seem like part of the a
00:37:48.560
team uh like uh trump's team uh so that's my take on that all right let's go to another story okay
00:37:58.960
well um steve moore is an economist and he told trump that the data shows that his policies have worked on
00:38:05.360
the economy um despite 22 nobel winning economist warnings so median income is up about 2400 last year
00:38:14.720
um tax cuts are giving the average family about 1400 of relief inflation's only at 2.4 percent um
00:38:24.000
there were 130 000 jobs added in january which i think was much higher than expected so
00:38:29.280
he essentially made a statement saying he's done something no one else has done he's proven 22 nobel
00:38:33.920
prize scientists wrong on the economy um you know i think uh it it is interesting to me that like all
00:38:42.640
these nobel prize winning economists just happen to be left-leaning people and they were all
00:38:47.440
forecasting doom with the tariffs and everything else and they've been completely proven wrong
00:38:52.240
i think you know for a long time we were like well let's wait a couple more months it's gonna hit
00:38:56.640
you know prices are gonna go up and it never happened and i mean it our inflation has remained low
00:39:01.920
it's been what like a year i mean it's plenty of time that i think for a little while it was reasonable
00:39:08.160
to say well people kind of accelerated their shipments and got everything in before the
00:39:13.280
tariffs hit so now once they've run out of inventory they're gonna have to raise prices but
00:39:19.120
they didn't i mean that inventory is all gone now and they're still shipping things here and
00:39:24.960
i think we're doing fine in terms of inflation um at least in terms of the rate of inflation
00:39:30.000
there certainly are still affordability issues food is really expensive so i'm not minimizing
00:39:35.360
that a lot of things housing health care are way too expensive for the average family but um you
00:39:42.000
know it isn't getting worse like it was under biden and it is getting better you know the real wages
00:39:47.760
are growing up and and prices aren't going up as high so i think we're gaining ground moving things in
00:39:52.960
the right direction but here's i think that was just contrary to all these supposed nobel prize
00:39:57.440
winning economists that clearly don't know what they're talking about i can hear sergio's brain brain
00:40:02.240
right now saying trust in trump um but i i think that we're gonna have a big messaging problem
00:40:08.960
because okay maybe us here and like you said um you know a lot of people are hurting so how do you
00:40:15.840
convince people who are in despair that things are actually getting better although it could be too late
00:40:23.040
for them they might have lost their home their job you never know they can't afford food they're now
00:40:27.920
going to food banks um so how do we convince those people listen don't abandon the plan that trump is
00:40:35.520
putting forward things are getting better it's just going to take a minute to catch up when they hear
00:40:41.520
huh like uh mayor moron mandami saying like free stuff free groceries free rent free buses
00:40:49.760
so i you know i think that could sound like a a life raft for these people and i i would love to
00:40:56.640
really come up with a way to message to people that are really hurting to try to hang in there
00:41:03.840
and if anyone has good ideas about that i think we need um a framing for that because times are tough
00:41:13.520
if anyone wants to give that a shot i'll take it i think that maricela's um what you said
00:41:19.280
at the beginning with jd presenting the the the option to america what do you want to do now
00:41:26.640
where do we go from here right so it's going to be hard it's uh this is transition year we are going
00:41:33.760
through it and it's going to be hard so we can i think that all of most of the immigrants that i know
00:41:41.280
i'm an immigrant too i moved here in 93 and and i fell in love with this country i picked it it's like
00:41:47.280
i want this country and i'm here now and i fell in love in the 80s with this country right so i want this
00:41:53.280
country back to be that glory that we had back back then and and it's um in as long as people start
00:42:00.960
slowly seeing that this there's a light at the end of the tunnel i think that we can make it that's
00:42:07.440
all we need we need hope and there's hope now and um and i don't know what is the exact frame for it
00:42:13.840
like that's a good question erica but we need that and we need to work on that but it's going to be
00:42:19.280
um a sunny day and in america i think there's more sun coming up maybe pointing out i mean it's hard to
00:42:26.560
say like you know all right so i think most of us here know that we're really avoiding a massive crash
00:42:34.800
with our economy and this country with the things that are happening now so there is an improvement but
00:42:40.640
i keep using like the ship and the iceberg because you know it takes a long time to turn a ship right
00:42:48.000
so it's turning but it still looks like we're going to hit the iceberg even though it is turning
00:42:54.480
so i mean do we reframe it by letting people know what could have happened and what was about to happen
00:43:01.600
and what we avoided maybe that's the way to look at it because um i don't know like i'm thinking about
00:43:09.280
about people i know and how desperate they feel and you know they're looking at the democrats you
00:43:15.680
know as radical as they are like well they'll they'll save us somehow like they'll just give us
00:43:19.920
stuff not thinking about the consequences of the rest of the country and the economy and everything
00:43:24.800
collapsing so i think um maybe coming up with a good frame for them of picturing what we avoided
00:43:32.640
happening that although it does look bad it was almost over you know those videos are they
00:43:38.800
are they living but are they living sorry sergio are the people you're mentioning erica are they
00:43:44.320
living in new jersey or in a maybe you don't have to give away like their location but are they living
00:43:50.640
in a democrat-run state you're on mute you did the sergio i thought i clicked it um these are people
00:44:00.000
from all over the country so it's just it just depends i mean luckily you know i won't get too
00:44:07.680
into it but anyway you know there's just people that are hurting and they're just like you know
00:44:12.160
my kid can't buy a house and my kid can't find a job and you know now my kid had to move out of state
00:44:18.400
because they can't live in the state they grew up in like they've been priced out of it um and then a
00:44:24.160
lot of people are not having families because they can't afford it so they're trying to find jobs so
00:44:28.720
like everything's getting put off but i i do see that things are turning like personally i do see
00:44:35.120
it but i mean i see it because i'm aware of what we avoided and i don't think most people are so it
00:44:42.000
depends like where you're getting your news i guess um so i think we need to get the messaging straight
00:44:47.840
that people need to know what we avoided and that we are steering in the right direction but just saying
00:44:53.760
like oh here's the numbers here's the stats here the here's the percentages does nothing to put
00:44:58.080
money in their bank and food on their table so that's what i'm worried about for midterms is
00:45:02.480
that people are desperate and we're asking them to just trust in trump or trust the process when
00:45:08.880
they're like well i can't eat you know so that's that's the messaging i'm worried about you lose
00:45:14.000
weight i'm sorry do you sorry um yeah you you're absolutely right uh what nobody cares about those
00:45:23.440
numbers when if trump comes out and says like hey we are making all this uh and uh much more money
00:45:30.400
they don't care right we want we care about how much we can get at the supermarket so the only the
00:45:36.240
only way is going to be when people start making more money and there's more jobs um and more
00:45:42.880
opportunities in in the left even the left start seeing that the everything is going to start changing
00:45:49.520
faster so it's not it's not about trusting in trump anymore really it's entrusting in the in the plan
00:45:55.760
in the building plan that we have it's a build plan um you have to do all this uh preparation work you
00:46:02.400
know demolition we talk about and and all these things and and it's going to be very uh intrusive
00:46:09.680
construction is intrusive right you're building a ballroom you have to move people around it's a mess
00:46:15.760
it's it's a owen we have talked about this a lot about this crash that is supposed to have happened
00:46:22.320
already we're supposed to be in a crash already we're supposed to be in a war already uh and we're
00:46:27.680
not in any of those things so whoever is navigating the chip is doing a good job balancing things so it's
00:46:35.040
not um a complete crash so trying to um reduce prices of houses right or increase affordability of
00:46:43.840
houses without crashing the real estate market is a very difficult thing to do and um who do you trust
00:46:51.120
to do that right now who is the most qualified person to do that right so yeah like marcella was
00:46:57.200
saying right the contrast so that's as far as persuasion contrast is what works the best so going
00:47:03.280
back to that island thing showing the islands side by side it was like super easy to see the the
00:47:11.600
difference between those things so maybe somebody can make that right create those contrasts of uh
00:47:16.880
the four years of biden what was happening and then what is happening right now which is um messy too
00:47:24.160
there's a lot of uh um you know you need to evict people right you need to evict people from houses
00:47:30.400
and you need to send them out you know and then reconstruct the house and build it for a nice family
00:47:37.040
that is waiting to to take it you know or a kid so the one thing i would add to that though is like
00:47:41.760
i actually would be for trump sending out a check to people you know he's been proposing doing like
00:47:46.640
a tariff rebate check and that would that would make inflation happen again yeah i i i mean economically
00:47:54.240
speaking i'm against it but if it means that we keep control of the house the optics i just think
00:48:02.000
it might move the needle on a lot of people if they get an actual check from president trump
00:48:06.560
saying here's a couple thousand dollars um to put in your pocket and pay for groceries um it might
00:48:13.360
convince a lot of people that would not be convinced just by messaging or rallies or other things on tv
00:48:19.120
because the media is never going to put it out there for us so you're not going to get to any democrats
00:48:23.360
you're not going to get to probably very many independents you know the people unless they're the
00:48:27.760
hyper aware ones that are reading x and things like that but in order to really reach them i think
00:48:33.920
the message has to come in a tangible way you need to see the dollars you need to see that things are
00:48:40.080
getting more affordable i mean we have seen several things gas prices are way down um certain aspects of
00:48:48.080
food like eggs are way down you know they're like 80 or 80 or 85 percent lower than they were before but
00:48:53.600
you know beef is still at record high prices and i think even chicken is somewhat expensive and
00:48:58.880
you know that may be recovering too i know trump's trying to go after that but i'm not sure if he'll
00:49:02.800
be able to do it in time and um i just think some tangible thing like that that said hey you know
00:49:09.600
you know those tariffs i did that everyone was saying were so terrible well here's your share of it
00:49:13.360
here's your your payment and um i understand that it would be another stimulus and it probably would
00:49:19.200
create some inflation but it might be worth it in the short term to do a little bit of that and you
00:49:25.120
know i mean i'm saying this even knowing i'm not going to get one of those checks like i've never
00:49:28.800
gotten any of those checks in the past when they've done those stimulus things and i'm not going to get
00:49:32.960
them in the future so it's not about me wanting a check it's just i do think it might make a difference
00:49:37.520
for the midterms if they did it and i just want to point out that chunks over there on locals he blames
00:49:43.440
the chickens for the high chicken prices i like that chunks i like that rationale it's a good take
00:49:49.440
it's a good take right the damn chickens and our next story bum bum bum it's building collapse with
00:49:56.480
nick shirley he is out in california how amazing he needs to go to every state um he was in california
00:50:07.280
you know he did the minnesota um he's 23 years old he had some of you might not know who he is so
00:50:15.200
he's nick shirley he has a youtube channel he's on x uh on youtube he did the leering uh what was
00:50:24.400
it called leering or daycare or something daycare in minnesota the leering center right the excellence
00:50:33.280
leering center of excellence is it put it in the chat if you know it um i know my people
00:50:40.720
independent journalist independent journalist amazing man um and basically he discovered that
00:50:50.560
in california he in minnesota it was about the daycare um the the health care fraud that was going on
00:51:00.000
allegedly because nobody's been convicted um and right now in california what he's focusing on i'm
00:51:07.040
sure he'll focus on different there's so much fraud to pick from it's like going to a store and looking
00:51:13.040
up and going i want this fraud oh i want that fraud that's how it is here but anyways so he went and
00:51:20.640
focused on the election fraud the voting fraud in california he went to go to the look at the voting
00:51:32.480
rolls and he discovered that dogs can vote a dog voted a 125 year old woman voted um he actually went
00:51:45.760
through the voting rolls you really have to watch the video because i don't make any justice for it nick
00:51:50.960
i'm sorry but i have to summarize it for you and basically he went to different places where the
00:51:58.080
person was supposed to be registered to vote and in california we don't we don't require an id all you
00:52:07.040
require is an address and your signature to match the signature they have on record when you first
00:52:13.120
registered to vote and basically what he did is he went through the voting rolls looked at the actual
00:52:20.560
address of where these people voted like oh public storage there's a storage place there is a hundred
00:52:27.600
people that voted here let's go to it and see where these people are living in the storage facility
00:52:33.520
and he went there and he was very good he came in and he's like where's anna where's deanna where's
00:52:41.840
this where's that he was he's amazing and the person was like what are you talking about what
00:52:46.960
are you saying and so they they obviously you know there was nobody living at the storage facility
00:52:52.960
because you're not allowed to live in a storage facility and very important to the story in
00:52:57.840
california law in order to register to vote you have to register your domicile address that means where
00:53:05.280
you reside where you actually live so having the storage facility as your voting uh place is illegal
00:53:16.880
anyways so he went to ups store he was looking for laurie or linda he was like linda are you here
00:53:25.600
and then he he was they didn't let him in so he was outside and he was asking have you seen linda or
00:53:32.320
gloria i'm sorry i think it was gloria have you seen gloria before she's lived here for 10 years
00:53:38.080
inside a box and then people are like don't use me you mega supporter or something like that and he
00:53:45.280
told them i'm not mega i'm just trying to correct the fraud that there is in voting and so he went all
00:53:53.680
over the place but you know going back to scott's takes is the sign is destiny the the system here in
00:54:00.400
california is the sign to have this occur and this is also in federal elections that people are voting
00:54:08.400
for the dog part that was interesting i'm sure some of you can talk about it but um woof woof my dog
00:54:16.240
wants to vote and she wants to vote republican so how do you find a a dog's house to you know if you're
00:54:25.360
looking for that dog to ask him if he really voted for what he voted for did anybody do that and can
00:54:32.560
cats do it too that'd be great if i can get my cat because uh she doesn't agree with me yet but i can
00:54:38.400
get her to agree to vote for trump too um uh i think that this is the i heard of the dog no barking
00:54:44.960
and this is like the dog voting or no voting so okay that's it that's it i uh i really respect nick
00:54:55.680
shirley i hope you guys take a look at his account and consider even making a small donation to him
00:55:03.200
he is in his 20s and he's fearless and he's fighting for this country and its integrity which is shot right
00:55:12.000
now um i'm sure his life is in danger he gets threats all the time people know who he is but
00:55:18.960
please please take a look at him i'm gonna see if he'll come on the show we'll see but you know
00:55:24.240
he's interesting and i think um anyone out there who feels ambitious or angry or excited and you want
00:55:33.840
to do what he's doing do it like if you have a suspicion about an area where you live it's so easy
00:55:40.320
to just like start digging through things especially for like the younger generation you're so crafty
00:55:46.000
with computers and and tech and knowing how to you know navigate your way i suggest doing it and expose
00:55:53.840
it all because it's your future it's your money if you're you know working and contributing it's your
00:56:01.600
tax dollars and um the younger people you have the most skin in the game and you will be so madly
00:56:09.280
respected like become famous for exposing fraud and not for like you know a tick tock dance you know
00:56:16.240
be useful and um you know that's a that's a way to contribute and um and make a living and make a
00:56:24.080
living so i would encourage people to do that so nick is not going to stop and i'm sure people are
00:56:29.920
helping with his funding now and um it goes back to the reason why we need to save act yes in the first
00:56:37.440
place right and he's exposing all the fraud so we know i mean come on everything has fraud
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except for our elections that just doesn't even make sense so i you know i want to be hopeful for
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the country i saw someone say oh erica looks like the type of person who like wakes up and is mad right
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away i am passionate it's like i'm not mad i i'm the one that like i'm like the i always say i'm like
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an italian grandmother i worry i'm worried and i feel like you know times are serious right now
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um so that's you know maybe it comes off as like some kind of anger and i'll try to work on that for
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you guys but i am a lot of fun and um i'm just worried so when i'm talking about newsy things in
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the future i have to like take a deep breath that's why i try to have everybody talk me off the ledge
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okay owen do you have a take on this well i have a lot of respect for what nick's doing i think he's
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taking a lot of personal risk and i think he's made a huge difference in terms of totally embarrassing
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minnesota and now i think he's taken a good crack at california so um i i applaud everything he's
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doing i support it um i do think i would be careful if you're thinking of doing it just because you
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might end up with death threats and depending on where you are it might be a pretty dangerous thing but
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um you know wherever possible if you can't expose the fraud people like data republican and nick
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shirley and others all the doge people um have made a big difference and they've they've uncovered
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some incredible things um i think there was some other story i saw about how there was some van
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that was making medicaid claims and it was like millions of dollars of claims in a year and it was
00:58:17.040
all supposedly out of some medical van like that they were claiming they had just you know done many
00:58:22.320
many many visits or something every day and that was a direct result of people pouring over that doge
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data that came out about medicaid um that was kind of open sourced and now people can find the fraud
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and um so i think the more transparency the better and let's get this all out on the open and and expose
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it all so it can go away because i think that's the only way is to embarrass people and hopefully prosecute
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people for all this fraud like they are in minnesota okay sergeant well i think i already uh talk on
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this one but um yeah i agree 100 that uh the better we can do about amplifying nick's message uh you
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can hear me right so i'm checking my button oh no we can hear you you scared me there you scared me
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i'll just tell you if i can hear you i want to uh emphasize what marcella said to to get people
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to understand that that's a path then instead of just whining and complaining you can just go out
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there and get information if you don't want to go out there and knock on people's doors you can do it
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online just go online and find out as much as you can um a beautiful example of that is um uh the
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lady data republican right data republican is somebody that has made such a huge impact just
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from her office right she was working on it bring her up because tomorrow might be a special day
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for joshua who co-wrote the i want to that would be great because we want to learn i want to learn
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more about that and i want to buy that book i want to learn more that's it erica thanks you guys all
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right well this was a fun time i'll work on my smile tomorrow i promise um you guys bring your
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books tomorrow bring your reframe your brain book um marcella is going to do a reframe for us we're
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going to discuss it we'll see which one she picks in the morning um joshua lysac will be here for the
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hour with us um he wants to teach us a new lesson too that he took from what he's learned from scott so
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that'll be fun from us and um i say let's go out there and be useful you guys honestly thank you so
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much for showing up here especially without scott being here we just want to keep us together and keep
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scott's wishes intact and um you guys are so cute i'm not offended i promise i everyone's like stay you be
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you it's all good you guys i i really truly love everybody here okay so we're going to go be
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useful you guys go be useful we will see you in the morning with joshua lysac bring your reframe books
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and we'll see you and a sip to scott and to shelly go be useful to scott