Episode 3099 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸20⧸26
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1 hour and 2 minutes
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166.7498
Summary
Scott Adams and the News Crew discuss Bitcoin, the future of the future, and the best coffee you can drink on a Friday morning. Plus, the return of the Local Subscription page where you can join in on all things local.
Transcript
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When you let aero truffle bubbles melt, everything takes on a creamy, delicious, chocolatey glow.
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So whatever you think is going to happen in the future, you can invest in it at Wealthsimple.
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I was going to bring a tanker today for my sip, but I don't know what a tanker it is,
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We have a news crew show for you today and a great way to end the week, but we must do
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So, if you happen to have a tanker, I'd like to see it.
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And today will be one of the best coffees with Scott Adams ever because we have fun topics.
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Sometimes the news does not cooperate, but today, yeah, we've got some good stuff.
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a canteen jug or a
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The dopamine to the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called Simultaneous Sip and it's going to happen now.
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I feel every corp bustle in my body coming alive.
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Because the corp bustles were a little bit dead until now.
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I'd like to thank the locals for posting pictures of tankards for me.
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So I think I do have a tankard now that I've seen one.
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I'm going to just say it's our place to hang out, have a nice time, commune, have a sip,
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get some news today, be with old friends, make new friends.
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The Coffee with Scott Adams library still lives on YouTube.
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You can also find more than Coffee with Scott Adams on his local subscriber page where we would love you all to come over.
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Sometimes the locals get more attention because we're really like a family and we're looking for new family members.
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And it's a subscription base and it's very affordable.
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And there's going to be a lot more content there that you haven't seen and more to come.
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My name is Erica and I'm with the news crew today.
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Just a reminder, the Scott Adams Dilbert calendar has been restocked on Amazon.
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For those of you that might not have known this, I'm happy to tell you the 2026 Dilbert calendar is made entirely in America, printed on two sides for twice the comics.
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Classic Dilbert comics are on the front of each page as always, but on the back of each is a spicier Dilbert comic.
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Created more recently with provocative topics you might not want to share with your humorless coworkers, but no one will see those comics unless they check the backs of the calendar pages.
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I hope you enjoy the new and improved Dilbert calendar, Scott Adams.
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The only source for buying the 2026 Dilbert calendar is Amazon.com.
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So I don't know if a lot of you knew there's a spicier second side.
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Owen and Marcella picked some out for us today, and we're just going to go through them.
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And please chat away with us, and we'll be reading your comments.
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It's regarding Canada losing to the U.S. in the Olympics.
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The women hockey defeated Canada by two to one, and we won the gold medal.
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I didn't even notice that it was women when I saw the victory.
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Trump, President Trump held the first Board of Peace meeting
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where he met with many leaders and dignitaries that have signed up for the Board of Peace,
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which is kind of like saying, we don't need the U.N., we don't need you.
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How it works from my research to give you this is that there's a chairman.
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So when they took a picture of the entire, the dignitaries and everybody that's part of it,
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Vance and Rubio, and they made the perfect triangle.
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What was really funny is there are two things that are funny, and then we'll go to the comments.
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The one thing that was really funny is that Trump started by saying,
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And then the next thing that he did is he remarked that the building he was in was the State
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Department building that was new to the State Department or the government, and that Marco
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So the triangle, Marcella, let them know what the triangle means, like the position.
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The triangle would be that he is in the middle.
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He's the main factor of the power, the center of power, so that he alone is needed to keep
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The other thing that I would remark is that he has Rubio and Vance equally next to him,
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And he feels very secure to leave it to the both of them.
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One of you talked about the deep bench that we have in the Republican Party.
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So that tells you what he wanted, because one of the things that you have to understand, Trump
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That's what persuasion at the highest level is like.
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When you control all the factors around it to create the conditions for everybody to agree
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So, yeah, Marcela is completely right about Trump positioning himself as the chairman, like the apprentice, right?
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Like next week is two lieutenants that used to be George and his daughter and that other lady.
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So now he's doing the same thing at this worst stage.
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And he's saying, OK, we have all these guys here.
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They all paid one billion dollars, right, to get in.
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And I love it that he's not competing with the U.N.
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It's a fantastic start to achieve so many things.
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You know, with this, you can deal with every single problem because the high ground is the top persuasion, right?
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And this can help with the alien situation, too, which we're going to talk later, too, right?
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He joked about Rubio having a velvet glove and Vance being a little harder with his messaging.
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And he was even joking that he might fire Rubio if he did any better because he was kind of outshining the master, to use a phrase from 48 Laws of Power.
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But, no, he was complimenting Rubio and saying it was great to have people like him and Vance to work with.
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So it seemed like he was just having a good time with the whole thing.
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So on the way to, he did the D.C. thing in the morning, I assume, you know, unless he controls time.
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Then he flew to Georgia, Rome, Georgia, which is quite epic that it's named Rome.
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I had queued up the X-Files theme, but you just have to play it in your head because I think we would get dinged in YouTube for playing it for copyrights.
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And basically, he was talking to Peter Ducey from Fox News.
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And Peter Ducey asked him about Barack Obama's comments on aliens.
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And he said that he gave, by he, he meant Obama gave classified information that he wasn't supposed to be doing at the time.
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And later on in the day, because that news broke and everybody's like, oh, my God, does that mean there's aliens?
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You know, TMC commented that President Trump might be the first president to confirm the existence of aliens.
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And later on, I don't know if Owen wants to read it or Sergio or Erica, Trump posted on Truth Social at night at 8.13, my time, I guess.
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He posted about what he wants to do with the X-Files.
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Yeah, well, I mean, I first clarify that I don't think he's I don't think he did confirm the existence of aliens, but he did make an interesting statement, which is when he when he was told that Barack Obama said aliens are real, that Trump said he was revealing classified information.
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So indirectly, he probably did kind of indicate that there might be something in our classified files indicating that aliens are real.
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But, you know, it's hard to know even if that is real, just like we're seeing with the Epstein files, where there's a lot of stuff in there that's not really vetted.
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And as Scott has often told us, a lot of this alien stuff might have been literally just planted in a bunch of files to deceive people.
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And, you know, even Joe Rogan, who's a big alien believer, or at least he wants to believe, has been very skeptical with all these files coming out and all these stories coming out saying, you know, how do we know if this is disinformation or if this is real?
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Well, that most of it's just based on secondhand knowledge or people saying that somebody told them something or somebody showed them something.
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There's one of the recent ones was about some massive UFO that couldn't be moved.
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So they built a building around it and people are trying to figure out where that might be.
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There's no real proof of any of this at this point.
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And even if a bunch of documents come out kind of like a dump like the Epstein files, it's not going to mean that it's all real.
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And so it'll be interesting to see how they manage this, because I think this would be a lot more sensitive even than the Epstein files, in my opinion, because you can't just dump a bunch of files and say, oh, look, there are a bunch of aliens.
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TMC said that Trump might be the first president to say that.
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And there was another lady this morning that was saying, like, allegedly, President Trump has the extraterrestrial speech ready.
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So it's all like, you know, it's it's, you know, somebody in the chat was like, Scott would never believe this.
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And we know that Scott would be like, no, no, there's no such thing as aliens.
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So Scott, just so you guys know, believes zero about aliens and other life.
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And we have here the, wait, wait, wait, wait, we have here, wait, I don't know how to point at you.
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But Erica was our alien reporter on in New Jersey for the show.
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It's not always a complaint about the quality of the photos taken of UFOs, right?
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And I always wondered that, you know, I was thinking like, I wanted to send you a camera, Erica, when you were doing those reports.
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I had a camera that was special for you, you know, like it would have been great.
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But yeah, so you have all these UFO photos, all blurry.
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And the Epstein photos are not blurry, but they have a redacted, right?
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So we have this situation that we need to have more, how do we call it, release of information.
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And we're not going to, like Owen says, we're not going to know what's true and what's not.
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So the statement from Trump, per reference, is based on the tremendous interest shown, I'll be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life,
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unidentified aerial phenomena, UAP, and unidentified flying objects, UFOs.
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And any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important matters.
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And Massey immediately came out and said, oh, this is all just a distraction from Epstein.
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And so you've got all the counter reactions coming out now.
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We have the view, interestingly, if you remember the story a couple days ago where the reporter asked Trump or I'm sorry, there was a reporter that asked Catherine Levitt, you know, whoever called Trump racist and completely gaslighting as if there was no evidence that anyone ever referred to Trump as racist.
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And, of course, the rapid response team spun up and dumped all the receipts.
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And here we have the view coming out saying that Trump is racist.
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And it was actually in response to a guest saying the opposite, that this person, Savannah Chrisley, said Trump saved her black friend's life and had been with that person for many years.
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And Huston interrupted and said, oh, no, he's a racist.
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And Goldberg started talking about all the executive orders against the DEI policies and claiming that that meant he was racist.
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And so they just can't seem to accept that he's not racist.
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They're still full Trump derangement syndrome, which is exactly what the White House spokesman David Engel said, calling Huston an extremely unlikable, talentless hack with a poorly rated TV show who clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome.
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And he went on to list all Trump's achievements for black Americans, criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, HBCU funding, school choice and tax cuts.
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And Trump, he also pointed out Trump received historic black support in 2024 in the election.
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I find it fascinating that these lunatic on the view have no idea how mentally disturbed they are.
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And their Trump derangement syndrome and Republican derangement syndrome and anyone who likes derangement syndrome is so like stage four and counting that I don't think people like them can be saved.
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Because if they don't believe what they're saying and they're just lying, that's even like worse than believing what they're saying.
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I would be in the shower listening to him and I'd have the speaker going and then he'd play clips of the view.
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And I'm like, no, I'm stuck in the shower and I need to turn your voices off.
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I mean, again, it's it's all propaganda on these major networks.
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There's no care for humanity, civility, the truth and actually being transparent.
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Well, I think they're in the Epstein files, right, too.
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Well, she's she's complaining that she's being dragged.
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So she's certainly suffering from a lot of what a lot of people are suffering from when their name comes up there.
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As I've said before, I think I don't think there's anything significant in there against Whoopi other than asking to use a plane.
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It was just somebody else on her team that said, hey, we need a plane and we're looking for a private one.
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She's like anyone could be in that for any reason.
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They have a hard time staying consistent, given their views, because the hypocrisy just bleeds through all the time.
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Owen, just like Erica was saying about listening to the show on the side, you know, suffering.
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That's how I feel that when you're talking about these ladies, I'm trying to not imagine them.
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You know, if I start thinking about those ladies.
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And so the next story is there's another attack on ice in Boise, Idaho this time.
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And I mean, to me, this is a really significant attack.
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Apparently, somebody stole an ambulance from a hospital, packed it full of gas cans and rammed into the DHS office in Boise, Idaho.
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And so it seems to me a lot like the Oklahoma City bombing.
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I mean, I think they were trying to do arson or something, and that's what they were charged with.
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But, you know, to me, this is a pretty significant attack.
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And then the next story I saw about this was most of the networks ignored it.
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They didn't talk about this terror attack, just as if it didn't happen.
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I think ABC was the only network that covered it.
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And otherwise, it was just, you know, everybody just pretended like it hasn't happened.
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So the media is definitely being very selective about what they're covering.
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You're right. That's Timothy McVeigh level stuff right there.
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I don't know that there's a mental illness crisis in this country, obviously.
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Owen, this story has been buried because this is the first time I hear about it.
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They really want to shine the spotlight away from that issue.
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All this mental illness that is going on, like Edgar was saying.
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Well, I think it's just narrative control, right?
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Like, they don't want to make it seem like there's people doing bad things against ICE.
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They want to make it all seem like ICE is the one that's doing the bad things.
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And they don't want to show any of the other side.
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And so the media is very much playing along with the anti-ICE movement in terms of mainstream media.
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And I think that's just with your information sources is that one of the biggest ways that the media controls the narrative is by not covering the stories that they find inconvenient or that are against their narrative.
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And, you know, for many people, that means they never hear about them, right?
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So you need to have a diverse set of sources or, you know, get your media or your information from many different places if you want to really find out everything that's going on.
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And, you know, that's just reality now with media.
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I mean, you're not going to get the full story from anybody, really.
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But, you know, you need to probably have a mix of different sources if you really want to get the full picture.
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And then there's another story about a high school where 300 students ditched class for an anti-ICE walkout.
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I'm guessing it was probably encouraged by some of the teachers.
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So the principal just said, you know, you can have your own opinions, but you can't violate the rules.
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So apparently they left to do this walkout and then they went home or went shopping or did various disruptive things.
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So it does seem like even in Virginia, some of the administrators in the schools are cracking down on this and saying you can't just walk out of school.
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Wait, did you do you said that the child got hit by a car?
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Oh, but I mean, that's important to understand, too, that the teachers were nowhere to be found.
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So this is what's happening in your public schools.
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So you're going to be like, oh, well, that's easy for you to say.
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I mean, homeschooling is the way of the future.
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That like they're they're doing an ICE protest and your kid gets hit by a car and dies.
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I'll post a link to that story after the show, because that's horrifying.
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And I think any time kids go to school, you kind of assume the parent, the teachers are,
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you know, acting like I think they call it in loco parentis, but they're at least watching
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Like your kids aren't going to be just out on the street doing whatever.
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And, you know, and unfortunately, I think a lot of teachers are kind of training students
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I don't think very many kids just come up with these ideas on their own and just say, hey,
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This is from a school and he's yelling at the kids.
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And by the way, there's a guest professor I'm trying to get on who is going to shed so
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So I'm going to keep it tight-lipped until I have him, but we are going to definitely
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talk more about what's happening in the public school system with the teachers union, big
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My next story is the billionaire tax rally last night in Los Angeles.
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Bernie Sanders, what I call Bernie yelling Sanders, was there to rally the troops to tax the
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But anyways, it was he said that we are there's an addiction crisis in America and that that
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is the greed of the billionaire class and that enough is enough.
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So I wanted to juxtapose it because all the Democrats have is taxing and hoaxing as a solution, which
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the story that we didn't get to do last news cycle was the Mondami story about him charging
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But there was a story yesterday that Florida voted 80 to, I think, 80-30, well, basically
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a landslide vote to get rid of property taxes except for the school tax somehow.
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You can choose either to go to the yelling Sanders side where you're going to get taxed
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to death or you can choose to go to the right side.
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It's the family and friends event at Shoppers Drug Mart.
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Get 20% off almost all regular priced merchandise.
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Two days only, Tuesday, February 24th, and Wednesday, February 25th.
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All young people and there's nothing to be excited about when this guy's talking.
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And yeah, I love that you are putting that contrast because contrast in persuasion is so
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We have growth, economic growth as a promise, as a plan.
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And these guys just have like, hey, give me more money.
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I mean, they're going to have to tax everybody in order to pay for the free buses and the
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This reminds me of that post that it says, what's wrong with communism?
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You run out of other people's money eventually.
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Mondani certainly is looking like a fool at this point.
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And I think there's people speculating that maybe Hochul is actually just playing along
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in the sense of not raising taxes now because there's an election coming up.
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But as soon as the election's over, she might raise the state taxes.
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And of course, we have all this stuff going on in California with the billionaire.
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I think it's the unrealized gains tax, which is a disaster for so many reasons.
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It's the first tax of its kind, and it would probably cause all sorts of disruption because
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many of these billionaires have all their money tied up in their companies.
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And so they would either have to sell a bunch of stock and tank their own stock price, or
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they'd have to maybe even in many cases sell their companies just to be able to pay this
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Um, on top of just, you know, essentially being a wealth tax where it's like, if you
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have too much money, we're just going to take it.
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And, um, you know, the latest on that, that I saw was it's Steven Spielberg is leaving California.
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So even the Hollywood elite are just fleeing these taxes.
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I mean, it does seem like a lot of the people are flowing into either Texas, like Austin,
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or somewhere in Florida, depending on your point of view, probably.
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They added that the, the, the quote that I did was Margaret Thatcher.
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And, um, my next story is actually the juxtaposition of this rally, which is, uh, Trump's speech
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on the economy and affordability in Rome, Georgia.
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Um, so Trump is shifting into a full campaign mode in order to, for the midterms.
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Um, he does not want to leave this on the table because one of the things that happens
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is that if, if we lose Congress, Lord, you know, who knows if we lose the Senate, but
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I don't believe that the Senate we can lose for the Republican party.
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But if we lose Congress, there'll be just impeachment, this impeachment, that, um, actually yesterday,
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I believe Susan Rice, uh, made a, um, who was part of Obama's administration, um, made
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some comments about what would happen once we get a Democrat in, in office as the president.
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And one of the things is to get rid of everything Trump has done, um, prosecute all over the
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place, do away with all the things put in Supreme court justices that are, uh, extremely liberal,
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So one of the things that you can see is in the Supreme court, some of the justices are
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getting a little bit older, so they're going to have to eventually retire or somebody is
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Um, and so that's, that kind of puts a picture, but in regards to president Trump and his speech
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on the economy, he said that he wants to put America first, uh, that the 50% there's on foreign
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And basically he went over all of the things that are actually working.
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He's asking for more time because of the destruction.
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Again, the, the Biden made in regards to when Biden was in office, they had four
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years of auto pen ruling and it takes a long time.
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You'll have to get like rid of all the immigration issue, get rid of, um, the
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discrepancy between, uh, trade discrepancies that one were already there even before
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They working very hard and they are showing that things are, are moving.
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I personally was very inspired by the speech, um, because we are now crossing into a new territory.
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Now we are not talking about your grandfather's campaigns in the midterms before all of that
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But, uh, Susie Wiles, the, the new iron lady, I will call her, you know, the real iron lady.
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And, um, and she was giving an interview explaining what was going to happen over 2026.
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And she said, oh, you just wait, we're going to, we're going to have him in every rally.
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He's going to be in on the ballot locally, every, every, um, in every, um, um, battleground.
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And, uh, so, yeah, we need to re-evaluate all our previous assumptions at this point because,
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So we can always, uh, history wise, you know, we always lost, uh, Trump is, uh, challenging
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in that assumption and saying, Hey, what if, what if we don't lose?
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Why do, I mean, I know that it's a 80%, 90% chance of no winning, but you know, who cares
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There's so many, so much stuff that can happen, you know, and when that can help, who knows
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I definitely think the economy is going to be the big issue in the midterms.
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And I think it's going to be interesting to see what it looks like when we get closer
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to it, because, you know, everything from the stock market to jobs, to wages, to affordability,
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And right now it seems like it is getting better.
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You know, mortgage rates are down, wages are up, inflation's down.
00:36:16.040
But I think unfortunately it's, it's kind of looking good from a statistic standpoint, but
00:36:21.200
people are still going to the grocery store and saying, oh my God, this is so expensive.
00:36:25.220
And so even though it's not deserved, all this inflation that happened under Biden is
00:36:32.240
And so I think the challenge will be, how do we actually show people that the economy's
00:36:38.620
better and that the Trump policies are working?
00:36:40.580
So I think messaging wise, they're hitting the right notes.
00:36:44.300
They're going after the right things, focusing on the economy, saying we're making things
00:36:51.240
That apparently seems to be one of the better issues that's resonating.
00:36:54.920
And it looks at this point like the Democrats are retreating on the economy because it does
00:37:00.020
look better for the GOP when they start talking about it.
00:37:02.300
So they're pushing all these woke issues and saying we're going to undo everything that
00:37:05.960
And that may be a huge mistake, but it does seem like that's the direction they're heading.
00:37:12.040
And, you know, an interesting story I posted was that it looks like the Republican pollsters
00:37:17.800
are kind of frustrated because when they pull people on these various woke issues, like the
00:37:22.620
trans surgeries on kids, that people, it doesn't pull well because people don't believe it's
00:37:28.620
They literally think, well, no one would ever do that.
00:37:32.620
And they just don't understand that this stuff really was real, that they were really doing
00:37:37.500
trans surgeries on kids, even though there's lawsuits about it now and there's settlements
00:37:40.940
being made and all these things that show it's, it's actually real.
00:37:44.020
It's a, it's all true that this stuff was happening.
00:37:49.360
They just think, oh, that, that, that can't be real.
00:37:52.040
Did you see the plastic surgeon, Owen, who just came out and he is apologizing?
00:37:56.560
Because he went along with it and I'll post that story too, but yeah, that's a good start
00:38:05.780
apologizing and admitting that you were caught up in a culture at your hospital, wherever
00:38:15.360
And he just said the culture was like, don't question this, just do it.
00:38:19.780
And he went along with it and he said it was a big mistake and he regrets it.
00:38:25.680
And yeah, more people, more doctors need to come out and talk about that because we've
00:38:37.460
I mean, I, I, you know, it is hard to believe I get that part because it's like, really,
00:38:40.960
you were cutting off people's genitals, kids, like you're sterilizing them and making them
00:38:45.400
unable to have any sexual pleasure or anything like just ruining people's lives.
00:38:50.000
And, um, you know, it's just hard to believe that that was, so there's breaking news from
00:38:57.380
The Supreme court has decided that the tariffs of president Trump are illegal and, uh, it's
00:39:05.100
a majority opinion, meaning that six justices, even the conservative justices have, uh, chimed
00:39:12.140
in and agree that Trump doing the tariffs the way that he did are illegal.
00:39:17.200
I haven't read the opinion and it's like probably 300 pages, but six to three is pretty strong
00:39:23.700
showing that, uh, there probably was reason, um, for that.
00:39:30.160
And that's going to cost a huge issue in the midterms because part of his speech of the
00:39:36.160
economy was that the tariffs gave him the power to control the economy with other countries.
00:39:43.160
So, and then as I want to remind you as an attorney, um, the Supreme court of the United
00:39:49.460
States is the, the highest court you can go to unless you change, um, unless you change
00:39:56.180
legislation and create legislation, um, to change the law in Congress and in the Senate.
00:40:02.640
So, um, which without a Congress, without the midterms, so that in itself could be a reason
00:40:10.020
why everybody has to go out to vote in the midterms to have Congress, have majority Republicans
00:40:16.880
in it because we can pass a legislation that says that he can do that.
00:40:30.900
But if you're able to legislate this, then you're better off than just having executive
00:40:42.020
Um, simple as God says, Scott percent says he has other levers to pull the effects take
00:40:49.100
So I'm going to recommend, I'm going to check in with Megan Kelly's podcast today.
00:40:54.440
She'll have a bunch of legal eagles on discussing this too, before I get absolutely, you know,
00:41:08.180
I mean, I think it certainly is a big defeat or a setback, but, um, I don't think Trump's
00:41:13.560
going to take it lying down and I think, um, we'll have to see how it plays out.
00:41:17.860
It may even help him in some ways of giving him something else to complain about and get
00:41:26.860
I mean, the writing was on the wall, um, at least legally that it was expected to come
00:41:34.760
So I'm sure they, like you said, Erica, um, they, they're probably have different things
00:41:40.840
in their arsenal to do something else than this.
00:41:45.480
I trust in Bacent and Stephen Miller and all the other people.
00:41:52.960
Well, uh, well, Marcelo was saying that this can be used for the advantage of, uh, the midterms.
00:42:00.360
I think that's a very good way of looking at it instead of thinking like, oh, we just
00:42:07.620
And, um, and yeah, it's time to look at the Senate now and, and see what can be done to
00:42:13.300
grease things through, you know, through those guys, you know, maybe the filibuster
00:42:17.740
of nuking it and taking other things, um, more serious, you know, to, to, to accelerate
00:42:24.080
and because yeah, John Thun, uh, I don't know if that's not the story, but right now he doesn't
00:42:31.260
He doesn't seem to be, uh, motivated to get things through.
00:42:36.080
So, uh, are we having some kind of, um, a issue here, like in 2020, you know, like,
00:42:41.940
uh, Owen, you always talk about like those loyal to him and the one, the ones that are
00:42:48.260
And we need to, I mean, I don't, uh, we don't need to, I don't need to do anything,
00:42:51.740
but, you know, you know, somebody has to do something, you know, I'll do it.
00:43:01.580
You, we can, we all, one thing that Scott showed me is that all of us, you know, we
00:43:07.020
feel, uh, that we're not important, that somehow we're just one person, but one person
00:43:17.180
So the more you push, that's what Trump would want you to do, because it, this is
00:43:22.700
not, we, I mean, what Demo, even Democrats are for voter ID.
00:43:32.300
I don't know the specific figure, but I know that it's not, it's like 25% are against it.
00:43:39.020
And so we're, we're having the 25%ers lead this country.
00:43:47.380
Um, so another story, um, I don't know how much we want to talk about this, but Prince
00:43:54.980
Uh, it looks like they're going to let the justice process play out with that.
00:43:59.200
King Charles just said, you know, we'll have to, uh, you know, he, he's claiming he just
00:44:05.260
learned that, um, with deepest concern, the news concerning Andrew and the allegations
00:44:10.840
of misconduct in public office of full, fair and proper process must now take place in
00:44:16.040
which this matter will be properly investigated by the appropriate authorities, blah, blah,
00:44:22.540
Looks like the UK has taken this Epstein thing a lot more seriously than we are so far.
00:44:26.660
I'm hoping we will see more investigations and arrests here with people like Reid Hoffman
00:44:31.460
or Lex Wexner, you know, the people who are at least most obviously deeply involved with
00:44:37.420
Um, and then along with that, we have a resurfaced video of Trump, um, shaming Andrew over his
00:44:48.640
Apparently there was a 2015 video, uh, that said, um, you know, about Andrew.
00:45:02.920
So, um, seems like Trump is again, coming up aces on this in terms of calling it more
00:45:08.460
than anyone else ever did before all the arrests happened.
00:45:11.400
And, um, so I think he's kind of coming out relatively unscathed.
00:45:20.320
I don't, I don't know the name of the guest she had on, but he's like, uh, the guy, um,
00:45:25.960
to talk about the Royal family and all of these things in great detail.
00:45:30.000
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00:45:39.300
Um, so much so that King Charles may have to step down and they might have to put in, um,
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Not, oh, what's the son we like Prince him and we like his wife.
00:46:32.880
Um, but anyway, they said this could really William William.
00:46:38.380
Um, they said that he might really have to, that he might really have to step down because
00:46:42.900
he, uh, because King Charles knew some of what was going on and may have allowed certain
00:46:49.580
things to take place to like, keep it out of the spotlight or, you know, save face for
00:46:57.320
And, um, let's keep an eye on that because that's like life changing stuff.
00:47:03.980
So, you know, you play stupid games, you're going to win stupid prizes.
00:47:12.640
Well, so then we also have our favorite judge, Boesburg, rubber stamping a department of
00:47:17.820
justice request to keep the payments between FBI and Twitter secret.
00:47:23.540
Um, apparently the DOJ didn't want that information released and, um, Boesburg approved it.
00:47:30.420
Um, the Twitter files, I think show $3.4 million of reimbursement for censorship.
00:47:36.300
Um, so that may be some indication of what was going on there, but apparently they don't
00:47:40.280
want you to know how much money the FBI was paying Twitter to censor people.
00:47:45.660
Um, and then on the general theme of fraud, waste and abuse, um, there's, uh, another person
00:47:54.020
who was caught, um, basically getting kickbacks for ghost employees.
00:47:58.620
This person is Karan Gupta, who was part of, um, a healthcare related fraud, and he's been
00:48:06.540
found guilty of laundering and hiring unqualified friends as ghost employees for this place Optum.
00:48:18.040
Uh, his friends were getting $100,000 salaries and Gupta was apparently getting kickbacks from
00:48:29.040
Uh, and then now there's another, uh, audit in Kentucky.
00:48:32.140
An auditor is flagging a bunch of luxury expenses that Bashir's administration is spending.
00:48:37.760
Apparently they spend $183,000 on out-of-state travel, um, 7.6,000 on a German limousine,
00:48:45.000
$17,000 on a distillery dinner, $360,000 on a conference, um, $338,000 to Derby VIP non-profits.
00:48:55.180
So it seems like we're having some controversy down in Kentucky.
00:48:58.720
Um, not sure if Massey has commented on that at all, but, um, looks like there's yet more
00:49:08.680
Um, all right, next story, you have more, Marcella?
00:49:19.720
I was just trying to read, um, the opinion, um, to give more of a feedback, 170 pages.
00:49:26.600
So, um, I, yeah, I, I can't do all that at once, but we have Iran.
00:49:34.100
Um, Fox News is reporting that there's a secret buildup by Iran to rebuild their nuclear sites,
00:49:40.940
uh, damaged previously by U.S. strikes, um, and preparing for war.
00:49:45.220
I feel like we're all giving you negative news, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
00:49:48.820
You know, we gave you Prince Andrew, tariffs are not legal, blah, blah, blah.
00:49:53.720
Um, and, um, one of the things, um, in the Iran issue is that, you know, it's the data we have,
00:50:04.960
Um, there's satellite images showing construction at the key nuclear sites.
00:50:09.580
Um, and then, uh, President Trump made statements about Iran.
00:50:14.640
And if they don't do what they're supposed to, then there'll be issues with him, uh, with
00:50:22.720
Um, he didn't give more in indication, but one of the things that people have been, have,
00:50:30.800
uh, have seen is that there's a lot of different military movement around Iran in the area.
00:50:40.420
I mean, I've been predicting we're going to be doing some strikes relatively soon, um, for
00:50:45.680
And I don't expect it to be some long drawn out war like the Iraq or Afghanistan situations
00:50:53.400
where it went on for 20 years there in Afghanistan.
00:50:58.460
Uh, I know the recent statement from Trump, I think it was at his board of peace event where
00:51:03.240
he said Iran basically has 10 or 15 days to figure it out, but he may not even wait the
00:51:09.960
That may be a way of making them think they have time so that he can put in a strike.
00:51:14.680
So it does seem like, uh, it's coming and probably relatively soon.
00:51:19.100
So watch your pentagram pizza indicator and see when it's going to actually pop off.
00:51:28.780
So I'm sure we'll hear a lot about, about Iran.
00:51:36.460
So I think that, um, uh, uh, what we have in Iran is, is great because we are showing what
00:51:42.500
happens again when somebody that was destroyed already conquered, they're like showing signs
00:51:51.340
Uh, the nuclear program was destroyed, obliterated, and now they want to, oh, let's get it going
00:51:58.280
So this action, um, speaks a lot about his, uh, how precise he's going to be, right?
00:52:05.480
His precision, uh, how he can affect, um, uh, uh, the destruction and just, uh, get over
00:52:15.640
But this time I think I've seen a lot of, uh, push also for this, uh, overall regime change.
00:52:22.440
You know, they, they just change completely who's in charge.
00:52:25.860
I mean, this, uh, uh, uh, this frame of, uh, these people that are taking power right now
00:52:31.720
that are not deserve the power they have there.
00:52:34.440
Uh, they just took it over like jackals taking away, uh, meat from the lions of, uh, the Persian
00:52:41.920
So I, I think that that's the, the Trump is coming in there to, to get those jackals away,
00:52:49.640
And then one of the things, um, this is for Erica and for everybody to remain positive.
00:52:54.780
I don't know what this means exactly, and maybe Owen can, and, or anybody else can chime
00:53:00.100
in, but the Dow Jones said immediately went up, uh, NASDAQ rose stock market rose immediately
00:53:06.260
upon hearing the Supreme court, uh, striking down, uh, this, uh, rule or this, you know,
00:53:16.620
So, yeah, I mean, to me that that's probably just an indicator of what they think might happen
00:53:23.300
because of this, cause it may end up being more what they would consider free trade where
00:53:28.220
it would allow more goods to flow into the United States and for people to pay less and
00:53:33.660
maybe it'll create more spending, um, you know, more affordability.
00:53:38.760
But from what I've seen so far, it's not really affecting affordability that much.
00:53:43.060
The inflation is super low as it is, but I suppose, you know, any reduction might mean
00:53:49.140
that there could be lower prices on certain things.
00:53:51.640
And I'm guessing that's what the reaction would be about.
00:53:54.720
Um, just cause it, it means, you know, more trade potentially and, and maybe lower prices
00:54:01.120
for things because, you know, but I, it just, I tend to think like all these economists and
00:54:06.280
even wall street analysts are getting it wrong because what we've actually seen is it hasn't
00:54:12.900
It hasn't impacted inflation nearly what these Nobel prize winning economists were predicting.
00:54:19.160
And so taking them away is probably not going to necessarily reduce prices either.
00:54:22.920
It's probably just going to increase profits for the companies in other countries.
00:54:27.960
Um, and it also obviously makes it less, it takes away one of our levers of power to negotiate
00:54:36.020
Um, I really don't know what this is going to mean for doing trade deals now, because
00:54:39.600
you know, if the Supreme court is basically saying Trump can't do that, well, who is going
00:54:44.100
I don't think we're going to have Congress negotiating with all these countries.
00:54:50.080
So I think one of the reasons that the stock market might be going up is that there was this
00:54:55.320
uncertainty for a long time, whether the tariffs were going to stay or go.
00:54:59.820
So now that they know, oh, they're going to perhaps go away, they know they have certainty
00:55:10.000
Would that be a, would that be part of the reason?
00:55:16.100
I mean, the, the stock market definitely doesn't like uncertainty.
00:55:18.880
They don't like volatility or, you know, big changes that we don't know which way it's going
00:55:25.140
Um, and so anytime something's resolved, it could have a positive impact on the stock
00:55:30.520
market, but it's not necessarily going to benefit real people.
00:55:33.000
It's not going to benefit the middle class or the lower classes in terms of affordability
00:55:37.900
nearly as much as I think people are thinking probably.
00:55:41.300
And so I, you know, I see this as a negative thing overall, but I do think, you know, what
00:55:46.780
the stock market does is a different question because most, most poor people or even many
00:55:51.640
middle-class people don't have huge stock holdings.
00:55:56.500
And I don't know, I'm, I'm looking at the stock market now.
00:56:03.400
I think it will impact them in this way where if, if the business class or the people that
00:56:09.180
are investing in a stock market, um, now have more money to invest, there's going to be
00:56:14.240
more foreign, uh, investments coming in there, more jobs, more need for labor.
00:56:23.500
But, you know, it, like you said, it's not everybody in the stock market.
00:56:27.740
So like you said before, they won't see that immediately.
00:56:35.540
If I wanted to paint a positive light on this, what I would say is it's going to be better
00:56:38.780
for Europe, you know, cause like Germany was cratering and a lot of other countries that
00:56:44.700
were having these higher tariffs were just, their, their, their, their economy is going
00:56:49.360
south and that's going to drag down the United States to some extent.
00:56:52.080
So, you know, it's not like we're totally disconnected from all these other economies
00:56:56.980
and certainly China and other places would, would factor into that as well.
00:57:00.900
That if they're not doing well, then we're not doing as well.
00:57:04.460
And, um, I, you know, I'm, I'm arguing against myself a little bit here and I, and I really
00:57:14.380
Um, it's not really my view, but it's, you know, if, if the European economy is healthier,
00:57:22.920
Maybe they'll, you know, come here and travel more.
00:57:25.400
Maybe they'll, you know, have some positive impact.
00:57:28.480
But I, I tend to think overall, if I just start from an America first perspective, I'd rather
00:57:39.460
Um, uh, this is a question for all three of you in the chat too.
00:57:43.680
What does it look like to be, to have economic success?
00:57:47.720
You know, if, uh, if, if, if the economy is the, what is holding, going to hold people
00:57:59.200
How, how does it show when people is doing good?
00:58:04.140
I mean, I want to know because, uh, from a visual way and, uh, and, um, I want to understand
00:58:08.860
that how, what are the signs that we will see that, that goes to everybody?
00:58:14.840
I think it's different for everybody depending where they are in their life.
00:58:18.300
But I think at the very minimal success marker would be that you can actually save money and,
00:58:27.800
you know, like your basic things like gas in the car, food on the table, have a little
00:58:33.640
bit of money left over in your paycheck to save.
00:58:37.220
Um, so you can dream and do other things later.
00:58:41.300
I think it's not, I think it would be not living paycheck to paycheck and insecure and
00:58:50.180
And there were times in the past, right, that we had that, right?
00:58:53.120
So that feeling that we had that, uh, that's maybe other people doesn't even know what that
00:59:01.460
I think young people are getting the short end at this point, you know, Gen Z getting
00:59:05.220
into the workforce, not being able to buy a house, not being able to afford enough to
00:59:09.680
So it's going to take some time to work through that where people are actually saying, wow,
00:59:16.840
And, you know, mortgage rates are down, job rates are up, wages are up, but not enough
00:59:22.200
where people are going to say, oh my God, it's night and day, totally different.
00:59:25.620
It's more like, okay, real wages went up 3%, which is great, but it's only 3%.
00:59:30.420
It's not going to mean like a hundred percent, which is what the inflation has been over the
00:59:34.800
If you put it all together, so, um, you know, when your grocery bill went up like 50% or
00:59:41.080
double and your wages went up, let's say 6%, you don't feel like you're getting ahead.
00:59:47.460
And so I think for people who are at that lower end of the economic spectrum, or even just
00:59:52.820
middle-class people, I mean, even if you're making a hundred or 150,000 a year, um, you're
00:59:57.780
still probably feeling like things are really tight and things are, are not, you know, better
01:00:05.040
And so I think, you know, it is different for everybody, like Erica said, but I think
01:00:10.580
Scott would often say the jobs are probably the biggest thing.
01:00:13.340
If people have jobs, that's probably the most important indicator.
01:00:16.780
If you see unemployment going way up, then that's going to be a huge problem for the economy.
01:00:20.980
But as long as people have jobs, that means they're getting income and they're going to
01:00:24.200
be spending that income, which is going to make the whole economy work.
01:00:37.780
Before we leave, um, I just want to read, somebody pointed out that Joel Pollack had made a post,
01:00:42.840
which might be a good reframe about the hearing.
01:00:45.220
Um, so Joel, uh, Joel, friend of the show, we love you.
01:00:48.860
He said, Trump lost politically in court, but actually wins.
01:00:53.580
He can say he did his best to protect the U S industry.
01:00:58.460
He was stopped by the courts, not lack of will or GOP leadership.
01:01:19.740
And we thank you for, uh, all your feedback in the chat.
01:01:28.640
Um, but please like tomorrow we have Owen Gregorian spaces.
01:01:48.120
We'll be talking about the news for probably several hours.
01:01:59.980
We have a great guest lined up for Monday, you guys.
01:02:03.560
So we're going to do the news on Tuesday, but we'll be announcing who that is.
01:02:08.260
Actually, I'll probably post it, uh, later today.
01:02:11.060
And the homework assignment will be to watch what I post from this guest, because I want
01:02:18.380
you to really be familiar with something the guest is going through.
01:02:24.020
So thank you, Shelly and Brie, um, for hosting all of us today.
01:02:32.140
Have a closing sip to our beloved and very much miss Scott Adams.
01:02:36.180
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