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00:11:55.880I don't know if it went the way they wanted to, per se, but one vote.
00:11:59.660I might be demanding a recount on that one.
00:12:02.960You know, when these projects come up, like the pool or like we had a football, whatever needs to be done, usually comes overpriced.
00:12:15.240And part of the reason, you know, is there's been there's been people prosecuted for this in California that it was just kind of like used to give money.
00:12:27.560It was fraudulent in order to give favors to certain lobbyists or certain companies, you know.
00:12:34.440So I don't know if that's possibly like, like Scott would say some, sometimes the budget being as high as it is, it might be because of all the fraud that's going on. I'm not saying that the pool was a fraud project, but it's, it's Marcella.
00:12:52.060Yeah, I get it. I mean, I do think it was a real project and they probably would have actually done it if it passed. But I will say I've seen several times in my local government where we're going to hire this consultant to do this study and we're going to pay him $100,000 to do just the study. I'm like, what the hell are you doing? Like, it's basically just to tell them what they think the government should do. It's like, you guys are in charge. You guys are the leaders. Why do you need some consultant to tell you?
00:13:20.460yeah they should resign and the consultant should be the ceo then yeah that would be better it would
00:13:26.200just happen all the time and of course they have all the dei and other stuff going on too
00:13:29.860well speaking of that i mean i don't know if you guys have this at the ready at all if you even
00:13:35.100know about this but this reminds me of this butterfly bridge in california so
00:13:41.520technically so the news has go ahead and tell the story because the news has it
00:13:47.880fake it's a little bit fake okay it's about the butterfly okay so there's this they're trying to
00:13:54.160build this bridge over a major freeway and it's because there's this is this is me talking and
00:14:01.260wait where's my son this is my opinion i don't really know the story that well so they're trying
00:14:06.900to build this like overpass that's going to be like really wide and have like vegetation on it
00:14:12.040dirt and whatever. It's not for cars. And then it has like two ramps and an overpass. So I guess
00:14:18.360there's like a problem with the cougar population. Like they can't, they're getting hit by cars when
00:14:23.620they're trying to cross this freeway. I don't know what butterflies have to do with needing
00:14:28.340an overpass to walk over. I think they could fly, but what do I know about butterflies?
00:14:33.480So anyway, they allocated, I don't know, 40 or $50 million, maybe even more of taxpayer money
00:14:41.140to build this butterfly bridge. Of course, they built the overpass part first. They put all the
00:14:48.680vegetation stuff on there, but there's no on and off ramp. So it's just sitting there and they're
00:14:53.260out of money. And now it's like up to $150 million. And now they're asking the good people
00:14:59.900of California to donate money to them so they can maybe get the little ramps on there. So it sounds
00:15:06.520like it's going as well as that high speed train so it's like a bridge to nowhere and a train docked
00:15:12.400at a station am i close well i mean it wasn't meant to be you know the whole issue of using
00:15:20.660the word butterfly i mean a lot of voters in that area voted for it because it's dangerous for
00:15:27.600the freeway to have um bears and mountain lions and coyotes passing through that area
00:15:35.860um so it has become an issue and it can also i don't know i mean i'm not okaying it but at the
00:15:45.520same time there's this issue of the mountain lions coming through the the road and then sometimes it
00:15:51.700could cause death for the drivers because of the the impact obviously the the mountain lion so this
00:16:00.480was a way to avoid that issue but it hasn't it's been years it has yet to be opened and
00:16:09.160imagine if gavin news they just use it for fraud yeah so christopher rufo apparently went after
00:16:15.140this person to expose all this and um apparently the the woman who's running it um responded by
00:16:21.660blaming the weather and unprecedented biodiversity collapse that's her excuse for why it's like 20
00:16:28.660million dollars over budget and still not done. Mary West, I am completely okay with a bridge
00:16:34.960also for this type of thing, but this is out of control, like build a bridge.
00:16:40.580So not to defend the lady, but I am part of, I worked in government in California. So part of
00:16:48.020the issue is the rules that you are governed by. Like for example, I'll give you an example. I was
00:16:54.340waiting in LAX for the flight to take off. And I guess there was some issue with the airplane,
00:17:02.920but because it's, I don't know, this might not even be connected to California.
00:17:06.640They had to get mechanics that were union employees to come to fix it. And they were about
00:17:14.48040 minutes away. They couldn't use any other type of airline mechanic. They had to be unionized.
00:17:22.240so the rules that that lady might have to deal with she might have not known that there's certain
00:17:29.080things where you have to get a union employee to build this thing and then you have to do an
00:17:34.420environmental study and so whenever you want to build anything in California it takes millions
00:17:39.860and millions of dollars because of the system that it's within the system and and I don't think
00:17:45.260she's able to change that so she might have not known all of that or maybe she should have you
00:17:50.820know okay but wait a second so i'm reading about this and it says that a big part of this is kind
00:17:57.620of a patronage system where they're hiring a bunch of people to work on this bridge and to work after
00:18:03.660the bridge is up um and it said they prioritized hiring indigenous team members to help steward
00:18:09.660the plants that will vegetate the bridge so the plant the bridge you guys already has the
00:18:16.000vegetation on it but there's no way to get on top of the bridge just fyi and and the nursery's
00:18:21.320co-manager the nursery's co-manager who's working on the plants for this thing i guess says she
00:18:26.660makes an offering after collecting seeds sometime including pieces of her hair god bless america
00:18:34.480that costs a lot of millions of dollars i suppose her hair special hair it's indigenous hair
00:18:40.700yeah she sounds very um she's must be mega must be uh yeah they're blaming it on the tariffs and
00:18:50.780this and that but whatever it's california as usual no shade to you yeah but they also have
00:18:56.300an expert that's a fungi expert so he's he's you know you need those right to scrutinize the root
00:19:02.540samples under a microscope shout out to uncle fungus yeah he's a fun guy all right all right
00:19:09.100So that's your corruption update, y'all.
00:24:46.900988 Suicide Crisis Helpline is funded by the government in Canada.
00:24:50.240all right we'll have to watch a chuck norris movie this weekend just to celebrate his life
00:25:00.640condolences to his family work out with his machines
00:25:06.080oh okay thanks for letting us know you guys all right well um i have a story about energy usage
00:25:13.980in homes apparently insulated homes don't use less energy um there was some kind of irish review
00:25:20.940that found very little difference between what they call a rated and g rated homes
00:25:26.380that they regardless of the rating use pretty much the same amount like 10 000 kilowatt hours per year
00:25:33.500if you want to do this deep retrofit to get a rated it can cost like um 43 000 euros plus
00:25:41.660another 24 000 in disruption costs while they're doing it and then they found that the the g-rated
00:25:48.360homes use just 3.7 percent more energy than a-rated um so they basically are saying it's just hardly
00:25:56.360any difference at all and uh you know the it doesn't match the theory at all the the um it
00:26:04.360says the f and g-rated homes use 56 percent less than the theoretical models predicted so there you
00:26:09.660go. We got models that were showing that they would do very well, but in reality, they don't.
00:26:15.600So we're not saving money with all the things that we're trying to do. So that little flyer
00:26:23.700I get, they're like, your neighbors are more efficient than you.
00:26:28.740Oh my God. I get those all the time. Do you get them too? It's like this total guilt trip
00:26:34.320flyer from the energy company and and i i don't believe it i don't even believe it's real i don't
00:26:40.220believe that like i'm using because it looks like i'm using like almost twice as much energy as
00:26:45.040supposed efficient neighbors and i'm like okay who are these efficient neighbors because i don't
00:26:50.360all the houses look just like mine i know my neighbors you know i live in a hundred old year
00:26:55.400old house so yeah it's got lots of leaky whatever and it doesn't have very good insulation and by
00:27:00.380the way the reason it doesn't have good insulation is because it would cost a fortune to do that
00:27:05.400because um like i the cheap way to do it would be to blow in insulation right like you just
00:27:14.060there's a service you can buy where they just come in with this big hose and they
00:27:17.980open up your floors under your attic and they just pump in a bunch of like you know whatever
00:27:24.220pellets and i would be very willing to do that it's not that expensive it would be you know
00:27:29.740great and i would use less energy and my house would probably feel better just based on being
00:27:34.080able to keep it warm and cool easier but the problem is i i have knob and tube wiring you
00:27:40.240won't use less energy you just read the study well that's probably true and so it makes me feel a lot
00:27:45.320better but you're saving money by not spending the money your goofy neighbors spent but so the
00:27:51.600reason i can't do it is because the with knob and tube wiring what that means is you have
00:27:56.580like cloth wrapped wires that in theory degrade over time because they're not the plastic that
00:28:03.240probably lasts forever because they're forever plastics um and but the the reality is it's
00:28:09.620actually totally safe to do this like you you because when you put in knob and tube wiring
00:28:14.680what they do is they staple one of the wires to one side of the joist and the other one to the
00:28:20.140other joist so they're like a foot apart right there's no chance of a fire or a short or anything
00:28:26.160it's just totally it's like a lot safer than normal wiring but in order to do this i would
00:28:31.120have to rip out all that wiring and put in all new circuits and it would cost like tens of
00:28:34.680thousands of dollars just to get to the point where i could put in insulation so i just said
00:28:38.960screw it i'm not doing it all right well you're ahead of the game apparently i have the same kind
00:28:44.600of wiring too we have a very old house too love it all right who's up marcella president trump
00:28:51.940rolled out the red carpet for the japanese prime minister i'm gonna about to butcher her name
00:28:58.100takaishi um hosting her at the white house um the historic visit yeah my japanese is not so good
00:29:05.360i need to practice the historic visit marks the first trip for the first female prime minister
00:29:11.920uh since taking office um she's a great friend and partner trump said praising their close ties
00:29:19.160He, in the, you know, he talked about how he supported her run and how her and him had a, you know, basically, um, they, they, they were, you know, a landslide election for both of them.
00:29:36.360And they were just joking around a lot.
00:29:39.220Um, she doesn't speak too, too much, uh, in English.
00:29:43.700So there was a lot of translation in Japanese, but he did indicate jokingly that she has about her strong English skills.
00:29:52.960That's what you have strong English skills, knowing full well that she can't really speak much English.
00:30:00.920But that was funny. The two leaders had a toast.
00:30:05.720They talked about trade and the cherry blossoms and so on and so forth.
00:30:10.000um takai she was really good at saying that he was the he still believes in him uh in trump and
00:30:17.780he believes he can still bring peace to the world um but the funniest moment came and i think some
00:30:24.400of you must know this already a japanese reporter asked trump why didn't you tell us about the
00:30:30.440the struck the the as before you struck iran he said uh trump said why didn't you tell me about
00:30:37.560pearl pearl harbor that's good yeah so it's like who knows better about surprises than japan
00:30:44.320when when okay so you have to see it when trump said that to the reporter he was looking away
00:30:52.780from the prime minister but then the prime minister was looking towards trump because
00:30:56.900she didn't know what was going to be asked immediately when he said that she was like oh
00:31:01.760you know because she she understood that uh a lot of it was being translated for her but she
00:31:08.200she got that immediately she was like i heard someone go oh
00:31:13.100but they also announced a 40 billion dollar small modular nuclear reactor deal
00:31:20.360and apparently that brings the total investment to 550 billion which sounds like a really big
00:31:26.440member. Japan's also joining the Golden Dome. Now, I think during that meeting, they said they
00:31:35.360were not going to help with the Strait of Hormuz. But I have another story that says they are now.
00:31:40.880And a handful of other countries have changed their tune. And now we're going to have
00:31:45.060several countries that say they pledged to support what Trump wanted for the Strait of Hormuz.
00:31:50.880They were saying that the U.S. obviously has the strongest navy, and then after that is China, from what they're saying. But the next strongest navy is Japan. So having them on board is very important.
00:32:05.440Yeah. So Trump made a truth social post about this, you know, kind of reading in the riot act about how, you know, they protect everybody or we protect everybody, but nobody protects us.
00:32:18.440um and so you know he he kind of put the you know almost mocked them with the with his truth
00:32:27.660social posts but apparently now japan britain france germany italy and the netherlands have
00:32:33.580pledged support after initially refusing to help oh they did that's the story i have it's being
00:32:41.580reported by uh let's see this is 100 fed up so i don't know exactly what that is but
00:32:47.340um yeah i've seen a couple stories about this so it looks like it is true that several countries
00:32:53.900are now saying they're gonna pledge at least pledge their support to the straight hormones
00:32:58.260i guess we'll see if they follow through with it we need to wrap this up this excursion needs to be
00:33:02.980like let's go oh all right so let's go on to the next um iran's i'm sorry i'm not gonna have a lot
00:33:14.500of iran stories but the next one is iran's regime secret u.s campus network exposed so it
00:33:22.980shockingly um the u.s higher education had a has hired or had hired a few children of the iranian
00:33:35.680leaders so an explosive new york post investigation reveals that several close relatives of the iran's
00:33:42.320top regime had been professors at prestigious american universities you know when you ask like
00:33:49.080oh why are our why are our children so left of center you know why are they thinking this way
00:33:57.840but some because they're being taught by these type of people among them are leila katami daughter
00:34:04.420of former president muhammad katami who teaches mathematics at union college in upstate new york
00:34:11.160uh fatima uh ardashir larijani daughter of ali larijani who was killed recently he was uh the
00:34:21.560leader in the irgc um or who was an assassin who was an assistant professor she was an assistant
00:34:30.540professor in oncology and hematology in emory university there was uh she was let go and fired
00:34:38.520in January. So I don't know how people feel about this situation. There's another, there's several
00:34:44.900other professors that were children of these Iranian leaders. I mean, part of it, as Scott
00:34:57.160would say, is like, that's your parents, that's not you. But it'd be interesting to see why
00:35:04.440lara johnny's daughter was fired in january before this was even before the iranian war
00:35:11.540or operation epic fury started i mean i how i feel about it is send them all home i mean i think
00:35:19.760you know i feel the same way about all the children of the ccp officials that come here
00:35:26.260like they're clearly not our friends they're not our allies and even apart from that fact
00:35:33.820um we should be educating our own people first america first in our universities and so i i
00:35:42.680don't see why we would reserve all these slots and almost prefer these foreign students um they're
00:35:50.080not students they're the professors well even that i mean i would say you know i'd rather give
00:35:55.560the job to an american um than someone from another country and you know let's promote
00:36:03.060our own people let's educate our own people let's have our own professors um and you know a lot of
00:36:12.360these are taxpayer funded institutions so we should be making sure that that's going to the
00:36:16.800benefit of americans not foreigners yeah i agree especially with our colleges becoming indoctrination
00:36:24.420camps like god only knows what's going on in there of course i don't agree but that's always the case
00:36:32.040Well, I think this way, if you are like the daughter of a leader in Iran and maybe you
00:36:41.420don't agree with them and that's why you left and you came here and tried to like do your
00:41:34.120So apparently Iran is heating up. Trump approved over $200 billion in war supplementals bypassing Congress. I think this is separate from the $200 billion they're asking from Congress to do emergency arms to the Gulf allies.
00:41:50.920So the UAE got like $8 billion. I think it's $4.5 million for the THAAD missile system, $2.1 billion for counter drone systems. There's the AMRAAMs, which I think is another missile system for $1.2 billion, and a bunch of munitions for F-16s. Kuwait got $8 billion in radars. Jordan got $70.5 million in support.
00:42:12.380So things are ramping up in the region. It looks like we may end up having some of Iran's neighbors joining in the effort. So it's looking like it's ramping up to me. And Iran got hit by a missile strike in Tel Aviv. So there's more going on there.
00:42:31.440there was some video I posted about that
00:43:29.100The United Arab Emirates, like before it was open to tourists and people to move there and it was a haven of peace.
00:43:41.520But now since Iran has hit them, it's become they become more active and more supportive of the United States because it's it's really hurt.
00:43:52.960It's it's really going to hurt their tourism.