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00:00:30.000 probably when you'll probably pass in the hallway joel when owen gets here

00:00:33.360 all right good morning you guys it's wednesday

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00:00:44.100 good morning so we we've been able to start locals a little early i don't know if it starts

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00:01:45.080 ah good morning san ramon neighbor good to see you okay i guess that's my new thing

00:01:56.740 is doubling the sips double the sips i mean san ramon again yeah yeah good morning joel

00:02:04.500 good morning everybody i'm erica you're at the scott adams school it is may 6 2026 and marcella

00:02:11.640 and I are so happy to be here, and we are always, as you guys know, thrilled when Joel

00:02:16.280 comes on with us and tells us all of the things. So good morning, Joel. How have you been?

00:02:22.700 Good morning to you. I'm in sunny Southern California on a beautiful, mild spring morning,

00:02:28.200 heading back to D.C. this evening. My life is between L.A. and D.C. these days, and I live

00:02:36.880 as fully as i can in each location so just enjoyed a run on the beach here in santa monica and

00:02:44.620 looking forward to the rest of the day including the big mayoral debate this evening oh we had a

00:02:51.700 gubernatorial debate last night we're having another one this evening so this really is

00:02:56.400 crunch time in the california primary so i am yeah it's really now joel i'm so sorry to hear

00:03:02.200 about Spirit Airlines. So now who will you be flying with?

00:03:07.140 Let me talk about Spirit Airlines for just a second. I was a frequent flyer on Spirit for

00:03:13.280 a while in California. And for a long time, they were a very convenient airline if you weren't

00:03:20.120 necessarily in a rush to get anywhere and you didn't have any carry-on bags. One day I got on

00:03:26.920 the number three bus in Santa Monica. And you can take that bus all the way to LAX to the airport

00:03:35.100 takes about an hour, then you have to get another shuttle from the bus stop. I took the bus for a

00:03:39.980 buck 25. I didn't have a plane ticket. I went online. There was a plane ticket on Spirit Airlines

00:03:45.920 from LAX to Oakland, I needed to get to San Francisco. So I flew to Oakland, it cost $25.

00:03:51.360 dollars. So I'm on the bus. This is in the early days of Wi-Fi. I buy a ticket for 25 bucks. I get

00:03:57.460 on Spirit Airlines. We get to Oakland and there's a giant party at the other end in the terminal.

00:04:03.320 I didn't realize it was the inaugural flight from LAX to Oakland. And we got these little Spirit

00:04:08.940 Airlines cookies, which really hooked me on the airline. So I started flying Spirit. And the great

00:04:16.020 thing about Spirit, the one really good thing is that they had these two front rows of seats. They

00:04:20.120 called it the big front seat. And you could pay extra on cross-country flights. It was something

00:04:26.820 like $180, which is really cheap for a first-class equivalent seat if you want to sleep on a red-eye

00:04:34.720 flight. So that was where the value and spirit really was, was in those big comfy seats up front

00:04:39.940 that you could pay a little extra for and enjoy. But the airline just could not fly good routes

00:04:48.280 consistently and the biden administration would not let them merge with jet blue so they collapsed

00:04:54.120 not just because of the high fuel prices but because their business model was basically failing

00:04:58.760 i think their big branding problem was the carry-on bags you have to pay for i mean i think

00:05:04.120 they were charging 40 bucks for a carry-on item wow yeah i think their branding problem joel was

00:05:09.880 instagram facebook and twitter posting their passengers running amok that's what i thought but

00:05:17.160 Yeah. Well, right now I'm a loyal Southwest fan. And the main reason, even though they've changed

00:05:25.720 their seating and people complain about that, but the main reason is just they don't punish you for

00:05:29.380 canceling or changing your plans. It's just so important. If you have a family, if you have a

00:05:34.720 busy schedule that changes, you do not want to sit there messing around with fees and all kinds of

00:05:41.080 other stuff that the other airlines charge you. So Southwest still, this is not a paid endorsement.

00:05:46.020 And I just think they're the best airline still.

00:05:47.760 Nice.

00:05:48.020 All right.

00:05:48.220 Well, that's good to know.

00:05:49.100 Listen, Joel travels and non-stop.

00:05:52.320 So that's good advice.

00:05:53.720 Find someone who travels non-stop.

00:05:55.380 Ask them who to use and they will know.

00:05:58.580 So, all right, Joel.

00:05:59.920 All right.

00:06:00.160 I know, I think you wanted to say something first

00:06:03.940 and we want to get into the biography update too.

00:06:07.520 Well, let me start with the biography update.

00:06:08.940 So you've all seen the longhand version.

00:06:11.620 This is the longhand version of the biography.

00:06:13.520 I've got a piece of paper here marking my spot.

00:06:16.020 But this is basically where I am. I'm on page 44 out of about 136 handwritten pages.

00:06:27.220 Is this the second rendition?

00:06:29.080 I'm now doing a second draft where I'm typing. And what I do is I take the handwritten draft and I go through each page and I type it out. But as I'm typing, I make some changes, some additions, some corrections. I add links when I know I'm going to have to footnote something later.

00:06:45.180 and so it's a process of building the book and I'm very excited about it I do think it's going

00:06:54.060 to be a best-selling book and I think this audience is going to enjoy it I think you're

00:06:59.240 going to enjoy reading it sharing it buying it spreading the word about it there are some new

00:07:03.440 ideas in this book and some new stories that you may not have heard some people may have had little

00:07:10.380 hints of here and there but I do think there's going to be new information in the book

00:07:14.480 and i think it's going to be a very exciting biography we are hoping to have it out

00:07:19.300 in the fall my personal deadline for the second draft is july 4th i like pegging these deadlines

00:07:27.000 to fun occasions so i have something to look forward to the 250th anniversary the big party

00:07:32.120 the fireworks so that'll be the second draft and then there will be a third draft but that one is

00:07:36.720 going to have to go much more quickly and i'm going to be hopefully doing more interviews

00:07:42.600 reaching out to more people i've started already to talk to them about scott and some of the

00:07:48.580 interactions they had with him so i can fill in the book i don't want it to be too long i want it

00:07:54.340 to be compact enough to be very readable portable so people can enjoy it as they travel people can

00:08:01.440 hand it easily to other people i have written one biography before which was very long that was

00:08:05.880 because i wanted to include some of this person's writings in the book but i need to keep this one

00:08:11.620 tighter. I think people will appreciate that, that it is going to be a concise but very powerful

00:08:17.120 biography. I'm very excited about that. It's a project that's keeping me going. I work on it

00:08:21.680 every morning. If I don't finish my daily quota of pages in the morning, I come back to it in the

00:08:26.600 afternoon. You can do anything if you break it up into small pieces. I have a system. That's my

00:08:34.100 process, as Scott would say. That's my system. I will eventually get there. That's amazing.

00:08:38.960 You, you did tell us a little bit about your system before, but I love, like we, we need

00:08:43.480 Joel to give us a lesson at some point on his, I mean, you are busy people, really,

00:08:49.500 really busy people seem to get more done.

00:08:52.200 I mean, I listened to people, like even the fact that you already took a run and you're

00:08:55.400 doing that and I'm like, oh my God.

00:08:57.360 And I'm on the East coast and I didn't take a run, you know, I'm just like, how, but busy

00:09:02.420 people just get more done.

00:09:03.920 So they have good systems in place, obviously.

00:09:07.500 Okay.

00:09:07.860 Well, there are limits too. I think that I need to slow down just a little bit and get a little

00:09:13.280 more sleep just for health reasons. So I'm trying not to add new things and trying to complete

00:09:20.300 things. And so I am a little less busy than I was before. I'm also working on another project

00:09:26.480 that I've been doing for almost seven years, which is a daily study of the Talmud, which is

00:09:34.300 the compendium of Jewish law. And I write a paragraph a day on each page. And if you do a

00:09:40.280 page a day, you finish in seven and a half years as part of this global study program. And I was

00:09:46.460 doing a lot of additional work on that. And I wound that down a couple months ago, it was just

00:09:51.520 too much. So I'm just sticking to my daily minimum. But it is true that if you give something

00:09:58.940 to someone who's busy, they tend to be able to do it because the only way to maintain any kind of

00:10:05.760 level of performance, if you have a lot of things to do, is to have a system. And I like to talk

00:10:10.140 about the big five. So my big five are I pray, I write in my journal, I do some work, I do something

00:10:16.680 creative, and I get some exercise. And if I can do those big five things before nine in the morning,

00:10:21.920 my entire day is set. It doesn't matter what else happens the rest of the day. I've had a successful

00:10:26.420 day. Okay. Say the five again. Pray, write in my journal, do something else that's creative,

00:10:34.400 do something for work and exercise. Okay. I have a question. So what,

00:10:40.620 cause we were talking about this the other day. What, like, give us an example of like,

00:10:44.900 what's something else creative? So in this case, it's the Scott biography. So that's my other

00:10:50.540 creative project, but it could be anything. It could be writing a poem. It could be writing a

00:10:56.360 page in a short story. It can really be anything. It can be writing a song, something else to

00:11:03.260 get your creativity on the page or onto a video. There are some days where I've allowed myself

00:11:10.360 just to take photographs as the creative project for the day. I do that anyway, but

00:11:15.340 some days I say, okay, I'm too busy to do all the creative stuff I want to do, but I am going to take

00:11:21.120 a couple of cool pictures this morning. That's one of the motivations also to exercise. When

00:11:26.160 I'm in California I love to run down to the beach because there are always beautiful things to

00:11:29.460 photograph so you can achieve two things at once you do the creative project at the same time you're

00:11:35.560 doing the exercise and you can't devote a huge amount of energy to each of those things you

00:11:42.360 learn that you have to budget your time so sometimes instead of writing three pages in

00:11:47.000 my journal I'll write one page and instead of exercising for half an hour I'll just get 15

00:11:51.680 minutes in and sometimes it's not a proper workout it's just a walk around the block but that counts

00:11:55.640 one of the things scott said was that even if you just drive to the gym and you sit in the parking

00:12:01.300 lot and you don't feel motivated to get out of the car but you've made the time in your schedule to

00:12:05.300 go to the gym you have gone to the gym you have to check that off a fitness trainer will tell you

00:12:11.100 you didn't achieve it but scott points out that you have to think about it as a system and if you

00:12:16.600 integrate it into your life tomorrow you're going to get out of your car you're going to go inside

00:12:21.320 You're going to do something. Make it easy for yourself to achieve little things. I used to hate

00:12:26.440 lifting weights. Actually, I still hate lifting weights, but I found other ways of exercising that

00:12:31.300 are more fun. And now I do weights, but I also don't put pressure on myself to keep up with the

00:12:37.040 other guys in the gym necessarily. I mean, I can do 10 pull-ups, which is much more than I could do

00:12:41.340 a couple of years ago. I think I could do one a couple of years ago. But when you see guys pulling

00:12:46.180 out these very large dumbbells and doing a million reps, you just have to focus on your

00:12:52.680 own workout. And it's easier to do that if you make it easier for yourself and don't feel

00:12:56.480 embarrassed about what you're picking up or how easy something is relative to what other people

00:13:01.800 are doing. Just make it part of your system. Do not feel embarrassed. Scott always told us

00:13:06.220 that. Scott had no embarrassment feeling. Although I think I got him one time and I have it on video.

00:13:13.280 i'll have to dig that up and show you guys um i think i i caught him off guard one day it was

00:13:17.360 pretty funny um but yeah don't be embarrassed and also that's why i kind of um i loved when i took

00:13:24.640 yoga classes and somebody said to me listen the instructor actually just said it's your your mat

00:13:31.360 is your space it's your practice it's about you and i kind of feel that way going through life

00:13:38.160 like it is it's about me and like the space around me i'm not that guy like joel can do you know 10

00:13:44.800 pull-ups i can like maybe just hang there and then cry and let go of the bar you know but it doesn't

00:13:49.920 mean i wouldn't try um so don't be embarrassed and i agree you can budget your time i like that

00:13:55.560 too because it's like i can't do like you know all those things before i start my work day but

00:13:59.800 no one said each thing is an hour it can it's just getting through those things in whatever

00:14:04.080 way you can. I love that. I like the things that you do, Joel. That's nice. Very good.

00:14:09.900 So I've also had some other opportunities out here. And with the news of Shelly's passing,

00:14:18.140 it's been an opportunity to think about Scott and really try to process

00:14:22.560 what Scott's passing means. And of course, it's sudden and very sad news.

00:14:29.800 But one of the amazing things, as I've gotten to know Scott and Shelly and their families over the years, is how much love Shelly created around herself, how many friends she had, and how many people just loved having a good time with her.

00:14:49.100 And there are people with different strengths and different missions in life.

00:14:53.560 And I think Shelly Adams' mission was to help the people around her and make them happy.

00:14:59.180 Scott believed in being useful and he was useful in an incredible way and I think Shelly believed

00:15:07.560 in sharing love which is also useful but is useful in a different way because when you give

00:15:15.780 of yourself the way she gave to Scott and the way she gave to people in her family and her wide

00:15:20.060 circle of friends you just radiate joy and it multiplies it doesn't grow in a linear way it

00:15:26.380 grows in an exponential way. Because when you make the people around you happier, they make

00:15:31.300 the people around them happier. And there's just this critical mass of happiness that explodes in

00:15:38.800 every direction. And I think that's who she was. And that's why, although the news of her passing

00:15:47.080 has been incredibly difficult, it's also amazing to see how many people loved her so deeply. And

00:15:54.940 it's an opportunity to think about what Scott's passing means and I was thinking of something he

00:16:01.580 said a long time ago and I found it on YouTube I think they took it from TikTok which was originally

00:16:08.240 from YouTube or something but there's this clip of Scott talking about the Peter Gabriel song

00:16:14.440 Salisbury Hill and I loved that song as a kid because when I was 15 my parents took us to the

00:16:23.420 UK. We have British family. And we went to Stonehenge. And there's a town near Stonehenge

00:16:29.560 called Salisbury. I thought the two were the same. They're actually not. But Salisbury was so charming

00:16:36.020 and so quiet and peaceful on a great summer day, just had a kind of beauty to it. I remember as a

00:16:42.000 kid, we went somewhere for tea and we had tea, the very British ritual of tea in Salisbury. And I had

00:16:47.400 a very positive memory of that experience. And so I thought Peter Gabriel was singing about that town

00:16:54.340 and that the song in a way was about religion. Scott thought the song was about religion as well.

00:17:00.400 But when you hear him talk about it, and he spoke about it in the wake of his second divorce

00:17:05.460 from Christina, he said that the song moved him in a way he hadn't expected.

00:17:12.460 And the conclusion he arrived at after listening to the song and reading the lyrics was that the

00:17:16.660 song was about how everything fails. Everything ends and everything ends poorly. That sounds

00:17:21.820 pessimistic, but Scott found it incredibly optimistic because if you accept and understand

00:17:27.000 that everything ends badly, even in the best world, right? Even if you have a marriage that

00:17:31.680 lasts, I have family friends who were married for 75 years and the wife passed away before the

00:17:36.260 husband. The husband's 99 years old and still alive and well and playing tennis and traveling

00:17:41.420 around the world. He's an extraordinary man, but it still ends in heartbreak because you've been

00:17:46.180 together forever and one of you has to pass away first. George Orwell says that the inevitable

00:17:51.520 outcome of love is a broken heart. So Scott said, when you understand that, it enables you to savor

00:18:00.420 what you have and to forgive things that are hurtful, forgive yourself for mistakes you've

00:18:07.720 made, forgive other people for doing something wrong. When you understand that everything fails

00:18:12.020 in the end that everything ends poorly, it gives you a kind of freedom to forgive and to enjoy the

00:18:17.860 good things in life, even if there were also painful moments. And I think that insight liberated

00:18:22.800 him from the emotional difficulty of the second divorce. And it just came up for me in thinking

00:18:29.400 about Shelley and thinking about Scott and how they were able to find a friendship even after

00:18:35.520 they got divorced and to work together. And she took care of him in his last days. I know that

00:18:41.000 he would be heartbroken to know that she did not have a second life to live, which she really could

00:18:47.560 have and should have. But I think if you just remember everything ends poorly, you savor the

00:18:54.240 things that you had. And I think that she had an incredible life. So I really thought about that a

00:18:59.480 lot. And then yesterday, I went to a funeral for somebody else, a leader in our community in

00:19:07.220 Pacific Palisades. So, you know, I'm from Pacific Palisades, most of which burnt down in the fire

00:19:11.520 last year. And there was a guy named Larry Vane, who many of us didn't know. He had some connection

00:19:20.100 to the Palisades, but he became very prominent in the aftermath of the fire in helping people.

00:19:26.740 He had a podcast where he gave people useful information. He showed up at all the community

00:19:31.160 events. And I never knew what to make of him. I was always friendly toward him. I never knew

00:19:37.200 exactly what he was doing and why, because he seemed very close to Mayor Karen Bass, whom a

00:19:45.060 lot of us don't have a lot of time for. That's not to say we'll vote for or against her in the

00:19:50.620 election. It's just a separate issue. But she was out of the country when the fire happened. And a 0.93

00:19:55.060 lot of people are very upset that the city was unprepared for the fire. So he was very close to

00:20:00.440 her and I could never quite figure out why and a year ago today today May 6th 2025 I made my

00:20:08.920 peace with Larry I don't even remember exactly how we did it but we had some kind of conversation

00:20:13.660 in the weeks leading up to May 6th and he held this event at the Santa Monica Pier for Pacific

00:20:21.320 Palisades residents and he gave out all these awards to people who had contributed to the

00:20:27.320 community. And he gave me an award for journalism because in the weeks after the fire, I was the

00:20:32.740 only local journalist up in the fire zone writing about what was happening and connecting people to

00:20:37.200 information about their properties and so forth. And that was a year ago today. It was the last

00:20:43.600 time my kids and I were all together at the Santa Monica Pier. It was one of the last weeks we were

00:20:48.140 all in LA because we moved to DC to join my wife who took a job with the Trump administration.

00:20:55.200 And we're still planning on coming back here. I visited my house this week, which is being repaired. The whole back wall is missing. And it's been an endless fight with insurance companies and so on. But Larry committed suicide. And it shocked everybody when we found out last week, how could this incredibly optimistic person do that?

00:21:15.960 and we don't understand the pain that people are going through we don't see that sometimes

00:21:25.480 public people who are very happy who are giving of themselves are wrestling with private demons

00:21:31.160 and dangers that we can only imagine and we wouldn't imagine we don't spend time thinking

00:21:38.240 about what other people might be going through if we don't see any external signs of that and the

00:21:43.960 whole community came to the funeral and it was very sad and I walked around the cemetery Hollywood

00:21:51.440 Forever which is a famous cemetery in LA my mother-in-law happens to be there her ashes are

00:21:57.820 there and I went and I paid my respects to her and I just cried because of how much I miss her

00:22:04.560 and she died from cancer at a young age and near her there are some very famous graves there's the

00:22:12.400 grave of Joey Ramone from the Ramones, the great punk rocker, which is a really famous grave because

00:22:18.260 it's got a sculpture of him playing guitar on top of the gravesite. And there's also the grave of

00:22:24.160 Helena Hutchins, who was that filmmaker that was shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust,

00:22:31.140 shot and killed. And she's buried right near my mother-in-law. And you just think about how

00:22:37.740 precious life is and you think about the tragic choice to end life that larry chose and you can't

00:22:47.180 judge anybody in that position but when you have things in a proper perspective you see how much

00:22:51.820 there is to live for and you also see as you walk around a cemetery how many people clung to life

00:22:57.540 and wanted to live my mother-in-law wanted to live she wanted to live for her grandchildren and

00:23:02.300 we have to make use of what we have. We have to make use of the time we have. We don't know

00:23:09.740 when the end of life is coming. We just don't know. I look at Scott's old videos and how could

00:23:17.120 he possibly have known that four or five years from recording that Salisbury Hill video that

00:23:23.560 he would be diagnosed with cancer? How could he know that? How could anybody know? You have to

00:23:28.440 live as fully and as well as you possibly can and that's why we come together to mourn people

00:23:36.620 no matter how they pass away we come together to mourn them because we remind ourselves not just

00:23:42.760 about how wonderful the people were that we're mourning but also how important life is and how

00:23:47.860 important the living are to each other and how we have to support one another and I left that

00:23:52.000 cemetery and said I can't explain what Larry's private demons were I don't know I'm not going

00:23:56.860 to speculate. I'm really sad that it came to that. But I am determined to succeed. I'm determined to

00:24:03.640 rebuild our community. I'm determined to repair my house. If I had to add up the dollars and cents,

00:24:08.560 I would never do it because it doesn't make any financial sense. But I think the trick to flying

00:24:16.100 is not to look down. It doesn't mean you do silly things and take silly risks. You have to keep

00:24:22.040 reality in some perspective, but there are some things that are worth doing that just don't make

00:24:27.160 sense and you have to do them anyway. I think love is one of those things. Love is a risk

00:24:31.560 that is actually irrational, but we do it anyway. When I met my wife, she was moving to another

00:24:38.140 country, but I followed her because I knew that this was going to be an incredible relationship

00:24:44.100 and I was willing to give everything up for that. My friend at the time, my best friend told me I

00:24:49.700 was being foolish and I was going to get hurt. And I just decided it was probably likely I was 0.93

00:24:54.760 going to get hurt and I was going to do it anyway. So I think we just have to keep that in mind. And

00:24:59.320 I think Scott and Shelley are incredible examples of people who lived their mission every single

00:25:07.240 day. And Scott knew the end was coming. Shelley didn't. But that's how it is for all of us. And

00:25:15.180 who's to say which is the best way to go. But confronting death is also about learning how

00:25:20.700 to live. And I just think that Shelley would want us to keep this going and to keep life as vibrant

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00:25:57.760 oh man that is just so beautiful joel honestly i have to i have to re-listen to that that's

00:26:09.040 that's just such wisdom from experience and taking chances and everything you've learned

00:26:16.900 listening to people and adapting it. I just think that's so beautiful. And, and Joel,

00:26:23.080 I want to also thank you. I don't want to cry. Okay. So I also want to thank you because you

00:26:30.900 checked on me a lot. And I don't know if you know how much that meant to me, but you know,

00:26:39.180 we're newer friends. Um, and I'm beyond grateful for our friendship, but you know, you're the,

00:26:46.340 you're a very thoughtful person and we're talking about how busy you are all the time. And you made

00:26:50.940 time to check on me and take your time to talk to me. And, you know, I just, um, I took that

00:26:58.320 example. And I, I am implementing that kind of kindness in my life to check on people and make

00:27:05.460 sure that I'm showing up for people. So I just want to, you know, make sure I really let you know

00:27:10.800 that you, you mean the world to me and you show up for people, you show up for us, you show up

00:27:18.840 for Scott, you show up for Shelly. Um, you know, so I think I can speak for everybody here. You

00:27:25.660 know, we, we know how lucky you are when you come on here and you talk to us and your busy schedule,

00:27:30.480 but, you know, just thank you for showing up and caring and taking your time. And, um,

00:27:37.280 I'll never forget like the role that you've played in my life through some of my difficult

00:27:42.840 times. So thank you for that and being here. Ooh. Um, so moving along, should we shift gears

00:27:52.700 while we still have you here into some uh other info joel yeah oh you have to go i know so i have

00:28:00.080 to go in a couple of minutes but i covered the california gubernatorial debate last night which

00:28:05.800 was very interesting and it's interesting to watch the media manufacture an outcome in a way because

00:28:13.140 the problem that democrats faced in the governor's race was there were too many of them

00:28:18.080 so first Eric Swalwell was suddenly exposed for being a creep after so many years it all just

00:28:25.860 happened very suddenly so one candidate gone so now that narrows the field and then we were told

00:28:30.620 by political media that Javier Becerra is the front runner there was no evidence that he was

00:28:37.080 the front runner there was just some democratic consultant who put out a poll saying that he was

00:28:41.440 doing better now that Swalwell is gone and so he became the front runner and everyone talks about

00:28:47.780 him like the frontrunner. And he suddenly starts rising in the polls, even though he has no money

00:28:51.900 and no ads, nothing. He's the frontrunner. Tom Steyer has spent 100 million bucks on the race

00:28:57.160 or something like that. And he's the frontrunner because everybody sees him on TV all the time. So

00:29:01.000 we now have two Democratic frontrunners. They could still split the vote between them, but 0.99

00:29:04.840 it's just interesting to watch. The Republicans, there are two of them. They buried the hatchet

00:29:10.100 at the debate. They realized that neither of them will win if they attack each other. So

00:29:15.240 that was interesting to see. We still don't know what's going to happen in that race.

00:29:18.940 I gave a talk yesterday morning to some people who wanted to know what I thought about the

00:29:23.000 political situation in California. And I'll just summarize it by saying, this is a change election,

00:29:28.360 but it's a change election for different reasons to different people. Republicans think it's a

00:29:32.520 change election because of the fires in California and the budget problems and because California is

00:29:37.700 failing. And Democrats think it's a change election in California because of Donald Trump.

00:29:42.460 They just hate Donald Trump. And they blame Donald Trump for every problem in the state, the high gas prices, the ice raids, the everything.

00:29:51.340 So Democrats are running on who can be best at opposing Trump and Republicans are running on who has the better policies.

00:29:58.120 And I think just given the way the state is set up, Democrats are likely to win and it's not going to lead to profound changes in California.

00:30:07.160 I could be wrong. You could see Spencer Pratt break through as mayor. You could see one of the Republican candidates become the governor. Those are both long shots at this stage. But I do think that there are seeds of change and that once the Trump derangement syndrome fades away and once Democrats can't use Trump as an excuse for their own failures.

00:30:26.620 And look, I'm not trying to be partisan here, but California is a one-party state.

00:30:30.040 Everything that is going wrong does have to do with that fact.

00:30:33.560 And once Democrats can't shield that realization by blaming Trump for everything, I do think

00:30:40.520 there's going to be a reckoning.

00:30:41.520 And you can start to see it already in the kinds of debates people are having.

00:30:44.880 So I think the next election will be the real change election.

00:30:48.540 This is laying the groundwork for the next one.

00:30:50.780 It looks like Spencer is pulling ahead now.

00:30:52.800 And I'm like so excited about him because again, it's, you know, someone who's an outsider who

00:30:59.260 can't stand what they're seeing anymore and felt compelled. And I, I like him because like, you

00:31:06.340 know, people that saw him in reality TV, he, you know, they were like, oh, I didn't like him. I'm

00:31:11.520 like, yeah, but he was like the bully who just got what he wanted and got things done. And he's like,

00:31:17.100 I just think the perfect voice to be like, listen, I just want to get, you know, my state, you know,

00:31:21.840 my my la back to where it used to be and you know and i like that i think he has a shot

00:31:28.320 however the unions are backing the mayor and in la the unions elect whoever they want so

00:31:33.900 we'll see what happens but it is going to be interesting well i did like i heard hilton

00:31:39.540 briefly last night say something about you know you blame trump for the gas you blame you know

00:31:46.200 him for this is that for everything but the other states also have president trump as their president

00:31:51.680 and they're not doing as poorly as California. 0.99

00:31:53.960 And I'm like, that's just such a good, obvious, stupid, perfect point. 0.99

00:31:56.840 I love that. 0.99

00:31:57.280 We did a story at the Post about how there's a gas station in California

00:32:01.880 that's on the border with Nevada, and nobody goes there

00:32:04.160 because if you drive across the border to Nevada,

00:32:07.340 you pay $2 a gallon less.

00:32:09.840 And I joked and said, they have the Iran war over there too.

00:32:14.340 It's not like it's only a California thing, the Iran war.

00:32:18.740 So anyway, I have to go.

00:32:21.060 Yes.

00:32:21.680 of meetings and so forth but i'm really grateful for everything you guys are doing to keep scott's

00:32:25.680 legacy alive and stay tuned for more updates on the book yes joel thank you so so much we love

00:32:31.280 you so much thank you for coming on and you know anytime you can please do good luck with everything

00:32:38.080 thank you bye guys i'm not guys bye joel i'll say bye guys oh my gosh oh man i love him you guys i

00:32:49.920 i mean you know what i just love that that he just can just give us like this master class in

00:32:56.880 just off the cuff and uh joel will be back with us again marcella don't you love him well yes but at

00:33:05.200 the same time i want to like we're moving in the right direction we're progressing in the right

00:33:10.000 direction and and i'm not the salisbury hill type of person that things that things will end badly

00:33:15.920 you know that's just my own perspective but in regards to california my gosh um we don't learn

00:33:26.380 we don't learn from our own mistakes but you know it's that tds the hoaxes are working

00:33:32.780 everything's working people believe that trump is making things worse in california and and that

00:33:40.580 goes far you know so it really is spectacular how they can just stay in that derangement

00:33:49.420 i don't know it's like so marcella you have to you said you kind of lie low about your opinions

00:33:56.660 there right so do you do you feel like well you have to too because of your job and everything but

00:34:01.620 yeah oh hold on look who's not someone's knocking on the door but um i don't know marcella so you

00:34:10.080 think is going to stay democrat well i'm hopeful for for the mayor race but um but you know the

00:34:20.360 the unions really have a big big to do a lot of power which is some of the republicans that have

00:34:27.820 won in the past have been uh trying to get the unions to support them and have uh arnold is one

00:34:36.440 of them um he fought them off oh yeah arnold schwarzenegger but he fought them off and then

00:34:42.120 he um yeah then he uh kind of gave in to them um it's hard to not give in to them because they

00:34:51.740 they hold so much power also a voter harvesting i don't know if you have that in new jersey

00:34:57.380 are you are you like i feel like this is our california jersey thing um i'm sure i can raise

00:35:05.640 you some voter harvesting and give you some more hi owen hello yeah yeah no that that's why so

00:35:13.800 okay so hi owen we just had a great time with joel um so speaking of the voter harvesting

00:35:20.540 what does anyone know this is so off the cuff but i'm wondering um what about the save act

00:35:27.460 are we anywhere with that i know that's not not yet that's still um allegedly ballot harvesting

00:35:36.260 yeah being debated out there um in the senate and one of the things that was said is that um

00:35:44.500 as you know i would have to go to my next story to cover this story but basically

00:35:49.700 anybody that goes against trump pays the price um any republican that does and

00:35:57.140 basically what they're saying in texas um is that the texas uh senate race can go

00:36:07.540 the way trump wants it to go but unless he votes for the save act so we'll see what happens in that

00:36:15.060 race um if he's able to sign up so there's republicans that aren't they have not um supported

00:36:22.820 the save act how is soon like who is pulling his like what is it what like what dirt does he have

00:36:31.300 like what is the the promise for this guy it is such a um i don't know owen hi owen do you

00:36:39.460 have anything to add to our stories just running through the hallway and coming in

00:36:45.060 Well, I mean, I do think it would be great if we could get the Save America Act passed, but it doesn't look likely to me.

00:36:51.280 It does seem like we're getting a lot of pushback from Congress.

00:36:54.980 I think I said maybe a few weeks ago about this that my suspicion is that there are a bunch of Senate Republicans that just don't want it for whatever reason.

00:37:03.780 And you can speculate as to why.

00:37:05.760 But, you know, I tend to think that just based on the behavior, it seemed like Thune was saying, oh, we can just put it up for a vote or whatever.

00:37:15.060 but I think he was, he said at one point something like, I don't have, we don't have the votes.

00:37:20.620 And so I wasn't really sure exactly what he was trying to do there. He might've just been

00:37:24.360 kind of saying, well, we'll put it up for a vote, but it's going to fail. And then we'll just say

00:37:28.240 we voted on it and people voted against it. But you know, my hope is they could get to the 50

00:37:34.280 and that would potentially at least expose. And by 50, I mean, you know, not having to do the

00:37:40.500 the filibuster or at least going through the talking filibuster yeah let's see let's see who

00:37:44.820 these people are before midterms and then you know that would hopefully get everybody on record to

00:37:49.540 say are you going to pass this or not and then we would at least find out do we have the votes or

00:37:54.900 not and if we don't which ones are resisting election integrity essentially interesting and

00:38:02.900 i i would imagine it might be that that's what's the the hold up is that they don't want to put

00:38:08.900 everybody on record in terms of whether or not they're going to vote for this thing wow all right

00:38:13.540 well you know like our our um country lies in the balance with this and it's shocking to me that

00:38:21.380 like and nothing else should be getting done except for this and if they take one more freaking

00:38:26.260 vacation and you know whatever it's just it's a joke it's a joke okay let me not get crazy

00:38:32.580 they're on vacation now i believe they're always on vacation imagine if you had that much vacation

00:38:38.100 vacation like they should have no vacation make it really unpleasant so you take a term limit

00:38:44.720 because i don't know what it takes to get people out of this job people like look forward to

00:38:49.300 retiring their entire life unless you work in the swamp which is supposed to be so terrible

00:38:53.720 it's so terrible that you stay till you're 99 and you're dead so it's really bizarre to me but well

00:39:00.260 i think part of it might be what scott has said in the past about how some people might be staying

00:39:04.260 in just to protect themselves yeah you know they might be worried that they get thrown under the

00:39:08.740 bus as soon as they leave or they get investigated or they'd end up in prison or whatever and so by

00:39:13.800 staying in office they have more power and they have staff and they have the ability to negotiate

00:39:17.800 with people and as we've seen people kind of scratch each other's backs and protect each other

00:39:22.940 because they don't want themselves to be exposed but once you're out of congress you don't have

00:39:26.560 that power anymore so you are all of a sudden much more vulnerable and i think that may be a big part

00:39:31.480 of it. The other part, of course, is probably all the insider trading and other stuff that goes on

00:39:34.760 there where you would lose access to all that information that you're making millions of dollars

00:39:38.920 on like some people are. And I think that was one person, I forget the name, but I think I posted a

00:39:43.340 story about it, about somebody who's being investigated now. Somebody, an ex, I think,

00:39:48.520 posted a bunch of information about this person. And it was one of the worst instances of insider

00:39:54.360 trading where there was a bunch of trades happening right after committee meetings that

00:39:58.680 this person was part of where he knew that palantir might be getting a contract that day so

00:40:04.560 the day before he puts in a big trade and he's claiming he has a blind trust but he doesn't

00:40:08.960 according to the records and like so it's pretty blatant that he's even breaking the law as it's

00:40:14.620 written because they did pass a law about insider trading that i don't think they really prohibited

00:40:20.000 it completely but they did say okay you got to report it within a certain time and this person

00:40:23.820 isn't doing that so he broke that part of it but also you're not supposed to do insider trading on

00:40:29.960 things that you're part of a committee for like where you do have direct insider information

00:40:34.200 and he's blatantly flaunting it so you're not supposed to do insider trading period well i mean

00:40:41.280 yeah i think there's unfortunately relaxed rules for that within congress and um so certain things

00:40:49.540 But again, certain things were passed. I think it might have been 10 or 15 years ago about this to say you have to follow these rules and he's not following those rules. So he should be able to be brought up on charges as far as I'm concerned. But, you know, regardless, we know it's happening and we know people are making millions of dollars from this.

00:41:07.140 I think it has to go back to, so I would like to see, so if they're going to stay there for X amount of time, first of all, term limits for sure. Let, let, you know, new ideas come in other people. There's too much time to like make these clicks and deals that they stay there forever. But also you get the exact same benefits, rules and laws that you are passing for everybody else.

00:41:32.140 you do not get better health care you like nothing you have to live by the laws you pass

00:41:37.440 and i don't know i this is just like my fairness factor not that life is fair but it's just like 0.99

00:41:44.980 you can't pass laws for us that you don't live by it's just such bullshit um i'm really sick of it

00:41:51.120 i'm really in terms of the save america act i am looking at an article from byron fisher and the 0.94

00:41:56.340 federalist that says there is an alternative way this could happen where i mean i don't think

00:42:00.560 anyone's doing anything about this but he's proposing a way where there's something called

00:42:03.800 the election assistance commission that was established back in 2002 and they apparently

00:42:08.860 have the authority statutory authority to change the voter registration form without any congressional

00:42:13.940 approval so that may be an alternate way they could explore to say if if trump appointed new

00:42:20.340 people that were you know people that would require documentary proof of citizenship for

00:42:26.440 voter registration, then he could potentially push through a lot of those same protections

00:42:31.080 without Congress. So that may be something to look into is, I think it was the Help America

00:42:38.200 Vote Act of 2002 that established it. And that lets Trump or the president appoint people

00:42:45.660 with Senate confirmation. But as long as he can get people through, I think he would have to

00:42:51.400 appoint Republicans and Democrats because there's a split there required, I think. But if he could

00:42:56.220 find people on both sides that are willing to vote to require that proof of citizenship,

00:43:00.680 then he could potentially put some of these protections in place in a different way.

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00:44:05.440 So can I have a sip of coffee?

00:44:07.740 Anyone that came late that wants to sip with me?

00:44:09.840 And I was going to see if Marcella, could you give us an update on,

00:44:13.280 I know a lot of people voted yesterday and I know you have an update for us

00:44:18.420 and everyone else who needs to sip.

00:44:20.060 Let's go.

00:44:20.520 will listen to Marcella. Oh my gosh. So I am so excited. Everything's progressing in the right

00:44:28.900 direction. The idea was to defeat President Trump yesterday and he wasn't defeated. He still holds

00:44:39.700 a lot of power over the Republicans, obviously not the Democrats. The Democrats always run

00:44:44.580 with no ideas and just and this is clear what the California gubernatorial race they just run

00:44:51.920 against Trump but it is what it is I wish they had their own ideas but basically Indiana

00:44:58.320 they were about seven primaries to different local state senate primaries and the reason

00:45:09.320 they were primaried is because they rejected trump's idea of redistricting um texas did it

00:45:17.560 even california did it but for their own purpose to get democrats to vote um to have more people

00:45:24.840 in congress to have more democrats in congress so the idea from president trump was to have

00:45:30.680 more republicans in congress um the senate so anyways so that's just the there's more

00:45:38.120 to it obviously but five out of the seven um lost five out of the seven incumbents now um that was

00:45:48.920 huge because everybody thought indiana they will go the way you know the way that their incumbents

00:45:56.840 go because to defeat an incumbent is always very difficult um because they have the name

00:46:04.040 recognition they have the power now there is a lot of money that was poured in to indiana to have

00:46:13.080 these incumbents primaried out so i would have to say they did have to fight against a lot of money

00:46:18.760 but regardless you know people showed up for the primaries and they were able to win um and there

00:46:25.720 There was one, uh, was a held, held on the other race.

00:46:31.940 So that's six, five against one, the last race, which is the seventh race was too close

00:46:38.700 to call.

00:46:39.260 That one's really spicy because, um, he, uh, the incumbent claimed victory, but the

00:46:48.980 challenger has disputed this.

00:46:51.560 Um, who's the, the incumbents, a Democrat.

00:46:53.960 The, the incumbent, they're all Republican and Spencer Deere.

00:46:57.740 Okay.

00:46:58.740 Yeah.

00:46:59.740 So it's rhinos versus America first or MAGA, MAGA candidates.

00:47:06.200 So they are all Republican and basically the way that they position themselves is they

00:47:13.300 were against Trump and these Republicans are against Trump.

00:47:18.000 Remember Indiana?

00:47:19.000 Mm-hmm.

00:47:20.000 What's Indiana?

00:47:21.000 Indiana has, who was the vice president in the first term?

00:47:25.140 So he holds a lot of power in Indiana.

00:47:30.280 So you're talking about Mike Pence?

00:47:32.400 Mike Pence. 0.96

00:47:33.160 Who is a total rhino. 0.69

00:47:34.780 I was never alone with him in the elevator, Mike Pence.

00:47:38.800 No, his wife was with him. 0.94

00:47:42.220 So he's a total rhino. 0.96

00:47:43.680 Everybody's going to think of a wife in the elevator. 0.77

00:47:46.020 um so basically he there was the rhino candidates that didn't want to go the way that trump wanted

00:47:52.780 now in ohio the republican uh candidate that trump backed and i as you know scott liked uh

00:48:03.920 bibig ramaswamy uh won the his primary for governatorial uh for the governorship um however

00:48:13.160 you know the polls right now have the democrat winning um but we'll see we'll see he's a smart

00:48:22.140 man as a lot of the the the people that are used to scott they know we know a lot about vivek some

00:48:29.960 people do oppose vivek uh but now he's the the republican gubernatorial um candidate for the gop

00:48:39.840 and um you know he was able to do great things um let me see uh democrat doctor

00:48:49.440 amy acton is still winning um you know wait the chat is so funny i know a lot of people don't

00:48:58.260 like the vague a lot you know he is smart he did run a good campaign he does you know often

00:49:04.540 stick his foot in it, but, um, you know, we'll see. I, I don't know. Let, let's be a little

00:49:11.500 bit nicer. I mean, I, I do think, um, you know, Scott liked him. I don't know. I don't dislike

00:49:18.040 him. Well, it's like, do you prefer Vivek Ramaswamy or do you prefer Dr. Amy Acton?

00:49:26.780 which one do you prefer and somehow erica prefers levy

00:49:33.260 i don't know something went wrong well anyways uh so weird she's like no i'm leaving i was like

00:49:44.900 i don't want to talk about vivek no i never prefer the republican let me be clear and i

00:49:51.380 never prefer a rhino so i prefer yeah i prefer you know someone that's america first you know

00:50:00.320 and if it has to be generally speaking then generally speaking yeah i mean i i to be honest

00:50:06.700 i i don't know anything about uh dr amy acton so i i don't know maybe she's great maybe she has

00:50:13.460 ideas that are really great i i i doubt it though so right there it is it's all going in the right

00:50:20.860 direction and iran which owen might want to talk about were close to allegedly

00:50:26.700 so allegedly we're close to having a peace deal all right so owen let's let's know more about iran

00:50:36.320 what are you what are you hearing out in the streets um i don't think i've heard that we're

00:50:40.860 close to a peace deal maybe that's true um it might just sort of be breaking news if that's

00:50:45.440 the case um but i think the you know the understanding i have of what's going on there

00:50:51.420 is there is this um blockade of course in place on the strait of hormuz and that's still in place

00:50:59.680 but there was this operation freedom thing going on where they were going to start escorting

00:51:04.320 commercial shipping vessels through the strait of hormuz but trump recently said we're going to put

00:51:10.040 that on pause because it looks like you know maybe we can get a deal going and i don't know why that's

00:51:14.900 related but maybe they maybe he was worried that if we started sending destroyers through there to

00:51:20.540 escort commercial shipping vessels that they might get attacked or something and so he might have

00:51:24.120 just been saying okay we were going to basically open up the strait for commercial shipping which

00:51:28.520 might be separate from oil shipping but um that you know he might be just putting on pause so that

00:51:34.620 may be part of what you're talking about in terms of saying you know we're gonna see if we can make

00:51:39.280 a deal here before we start this operation freedom operation to escort vessels through the straight

00:51:44.740 or moves um another story was that apparently uae has been attacked again so that that was seen to

00:51:51.600 be kind of like a violation of the ceasefire um anyway was kind of reserving the right to respond

00:51:57.420 and so there is some potential blow-ups that could come out as well here i i don't i don't

00:52:03.380 know much about this so i rely on you too okay so what is this like you know so who struck the uae

00:52:11.780 Iran did yeah okay and allegedly they they deny it Iran denies it okay um I was just gonna say

00:52:25.340 it's just it's just so complicated so does anyone in the chat yes or no does do you guys feel like

00:52:32.480 the war is over I'm just I'm sincerely asking this yes or no do you feel like the war is over

00:52:41.780 And as that comes in, I just feel like it's more confusing for every day it goes on.

00:52:49.940 I just feel like we keep, no, no, or I'm getting no's, no, nope, nope.

00:52:58.080 It will never be over, over a while ago is your two cents.

00:53:02.040 No, no, no, no.

00:53:02.920 Yes, yes, yes.

00:53:05.300 Okay.

00:53:05.860 You know, because I just, it's so confusing to me.

00:53:10.540 Yeah.

00:53:10.980 And I think it's confusing to all of us because you see Mario New Falls, like, the war is over, okay?

00:53:18.300 And I'm like, what are you looking at?

00:53:19.720 He's in Dubai, so, you know, different perspective.

00:53:23.720 I think, you know, it depends on your perspective of, you know, how you define war to one thing,

00:53:28.960 but also, you know, because, like, we're not dropping bombs on them right now,

00:53:32.440 and they're not firing at us, meaning the U.S. forces, and so at least we're in sort of a ceasefire mode.

00:53:39.180 but i don't think you can say the war is over until there is an actual deal that both sides

00:53:43.540 agree to and now does um israel have to agree to the same things for like if we're like okay the

00:53:52.480 this is what i don't like about being in a joint war is like you know we'll say okay there's a

00:53:58.360 ceasefire and then you know let's just i'm hypothetically guys then israel will launch

00:54:03.160 a missile into something and you're like whoa whoa whoa like that's not going to help us any

00:54:08.120 but I feel like we're tied together. So I don't know what the war, like you said, Owen being over

00:54:13.680 looks like and how many people, you know, if I were Iran, I'd be like, all of you need to stop, 0.99

00:54:20.120 you know, it can't just be one. So I think it's, it's going to be a problem ending this war 0.99

00:54:25.520 personally and based on my limited knowledge. Well, I think a lot of it comes back to the

00:54:31.620 nuclear question. Like, are they going to let us get the enriched uranium? Are they going to make

00:54:36.260 some kind of promise that we would at least temporarily trust that they're not going to

00:54:39.440 restart their nuclear weapons program. And, you know, I don't know what happens with the regime

00:54:45.200 in terms of like, who's going to be in power. I guess that is another thing to work out in terms

00:54:48.940 of how that moves forward. But I think the, to me, it seems like the main sticking point is the

00:54:53.720 nuclear piece that if they can get agreement that we're able to go in and extract the enriched

00:54:58.720 uranium, and if we're able to, you know, essentially set them back a very long way,

00:55:03.580 at least on developing nuclear weapons, then I think Trump will be able to call that a victory

00:55:07.940 and he probably would be happy to go home at that point. Interesting. All right. I just,

00:55:13.220 I don't, I don't know. I'm going to zip my lip. Okay. We have five minutes, you guys. So

00:55:19.900 Marcella, you had a list of very interesting stories. I did. I have a list of a lot of

00:55:26.920 stories, but I just wanted to talk about Ted Turner. So he, he, the news just came out that

00:55:34.580 he passed away. Despite how you feel about CNN, it was the first 24 hour news channel that ever

00:55:43.300 existed. And, you know, as a news, you know, lover, I would have to say he was one of the

00:55:52.180 key people that created that type of um system regardless of what it turned out to be oh yeah

00:56:00.740 we can't play in and not news yeah but remember the old days you guys when cnn gave actual facts

00:56:06.900 and you know it wasn't just opinions and um and different people sitting around a table

00:56:14.180 giving you know whatever they thought i i yeah so rest in peace uh turner so yeah i had a lot

00:56:23.440 of interesting stories one of them was a robot that uh became a buddhist monk so what happened

00:56:31.640 first did he become a monk or a robot first you're like it's a robot then became a robot

00:56:39.300 Well, in South Korea, the first humanoid, I love how they put the humanoid robot monk, like what is it making?

00:56:48.780 I guess just the shape that he looks like a human made its debut at the Jogi temple in Seoul ahead of the Buddha's birthday.

00:57:00.400 so buddha's birthday is celebrated every year and uh it's gonna be the changes i guess there's

00:57:07.120 no set date but the lunar whatever it's gonna be at the end of may this time around and this

00:57:14.460 very tall robot um now wear a traditional gray and brown buddha's robe and he was able to perform

00:57:23.480 um prayer gestures with psalms together and he was able to put his palms and he was able to pray

00:57:32.840 and he carried uh the bead rosary the buddhist use and basically he was so so what i don't

00:57:42.640 what it kind of fear that i always had is with robots and ai is that people are going to start

00:57:48.040 worshiping it so that kind of felt a little close to it so they like to the jokey order which is

00:57:57.680 this order of buddhists try to integrate robotics with their traditional religious practices

00:58:03.640 so that's not a problem maybe we'll see um robot pastors look you know what though there is a flip

00:58:13.540 side you guys so if it's a robot reading sermons etc i don't know oh this is gonna be in such bad

00:58:23.780 taste i'm not gonna say it um i'm full of like starting a sentence today and an idea and then

00:58:29.700 stopping myself because it's gonna be inappropriate so that's just it's just where i'm at bring the

00:58:35.540 an appropriateness. I can't, not with religion and ideology. I got to zip it. They're like,

00:58:42.680 say it. I was just going to say it might be good for the altar boys if there's just robots there

00:58:49.120 instead. Definitely. I just, I don't know. I do think that religion and robots are kind of

00:58:57.200 incompatible in my mind because it's a spiritual thing, right? And so a robot obviously doesn't

00:59:01.140 have a spirit and doesn't have that element. So to me, there's something missing there.

00:59:05.540 where, you know, it doesn't have true empathy. It doesn't have true understanding. It's just

00:59:11.320 mimicking things. So if you're looking for something that can quote scripture, whatever

00:59:15.220 religion you're talking about, it might be good at that. And yes, it's not going to be hopefully

00:59:20.180 abusing ultra boys. But I think, you know, it's, to me, it's just kind of incompatible. But I will 0.91

00:59:26.780 also just add that I think I've heard predictions that seem compelling to me or credible to me that

00:59:32.940 there may become some kind of ai religion and that there may be some kind of split between people who

00:59:40.240 are you know against ai and for ai and um if we do get to this agi or asi level i think it'll become

00:59:47.900 a bigger issue where people might just say okay this is essentially like our new god and i would

00:59:53.600 think a lot of other religious people might say that's a false god and you gotta get rid of that

00:59:57.680 and you can't have that and it could become a really big issue so hopefully not but it's something

01:00:03.040 to watch out for praying to the altar of grok and sam altman um so all right you guys oh andy wang

01:00:09.780 listen shout out for you today because joel gave an alec baldwin reference so i was like jumping

01:00:17.320 up and down for andy in the chat today um we are done with our hour it went so fast yet so confused

01:00:26.800 for my little brain. How much do we love Joel so much? Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry about

01:00:33.700 my joke and thank you for getting it. Okay. So tomorrow we'll be back. You guys remember Kyle

01:00:40.380 Becker. We love Kyle. He's going to be on with us tomorrow. It's going to be like a whole entire

01:00:45.000 news show and I'll have clips and it's going to be like amazing. So we appreciate you guys being

01:00:51.980 here today um what did i want to tell you anything else i think that was kind of it oh and thanks

01:00:59.200 for coming in when you could we we miss you if you're not here glad to do it yeah marcella thank

01:01:05.800 you so much everyone loves this blue on you today marcella they said do they know yes that you know

01:01:11.400 your color wheel and what works for you my color wheel okay all right guys so we will see you

01:01:19.120 Tomorrow, as always, we thank Shelly and Scott for allowing this show to go on.

01:01:24.620 And I'm going to be useful, and I'm going to add in some of the things Joel was teaching us today about his systems.

01:01:30.580 And let's all try that, okay?

01:01:32.540 All right, you guys.

01:01:33.480 Let's have a closing sip to our Scott, and we will see you in the morning.

01:01:38.200 Say your goodbyes to Scott.

01:01:41.060 To Scott.

01:01:41.560 should i stay on for a minute you should let's see

01:01:53.200 bye bye marcella said bye

01:02:00.360 how do i okay youtube x i just i just can't boot out rumble not that i want to but you know that's

01:02:14.700 what scott would do so look we're saying hi for a minute you guys i literally only have a minute i

01:02:19.880 have an appointment and good lord so was that oh stelt stelt horn was that your first time meeting

01:02:26.620 Joel. Should I stay or should I go now? Let's see. I'll have to catch up on what Joel taught us.

01:02:38.600 He was so great. Oh, Kevin, you love that. Putting that. I think New Jersey's disgusting.

01:02:47.320 I should have wrote the politics of New Jersey. Well, no, you know, no, I'm just kidding. The 0.88

01:02:53.680 politics the politics kimberly what's going on you're in the private portion when's the next

01:03:01.820 erica cave i don't know crusher you guys i'm boiling hot it's so gorgeous today owen are you

01:03:10.540 running to work today and what's happening over there i work from home so i'm here i just yes

01:03:16.860 Switch to a different PC and I'm at work.

01:03:21.400 Lyric, stay on.

01:03:23.460 Will you post things Joel said were part of his system?

01:03:27.200 Yeah, you know what?

01:03:28.060 I'll re-listen to the beginning and do that.

01:03:31.180 That's why I asked him to repeat it.

01:03:33.020 I was like, that way I can find it easier when I go back.

01:03:36.520 Always enlightening.

01:03:38.040 You guys are sweetest.

01:03:40.760 Oh, Denise, it was glitching for you.

01:03:43.420 Good lordy.

01:03:44.200 car storage in oregon oh my you guys so the netflix update because netflix is moving to my

01:03:54.920 actual town um you should see the sound stages how big they are that they're building holy cow

01:04:01.720 you could store a million cars in each one of them love it more erica caves needed to lower

01:04:08.120 attrition when renewals okay okay chuck that's a good one so what day is today when oh i might be

01:04:15.560 able to do one tonight i might be able to do one tonight should i do an should i do a chillin chat

01:04:20.760 with erica or should i come on to scott's stream they're totally different environments are they

01:04:27.480 yeah because like on mine i can just be me and talk about things that are a little bit more

01:04:35.880 you know that i wouldn't i wouldn't put out on scott's feed you know like things that are like

01:04:41.480 my pet peeves or whatever um and on scott's i you know i try to like focus on us as a whole

01:04:51.800 and everything so oh julie said chill and chat hump day with erica you're always you well quantum

01:05:02.120 now it's here you know what angela the thing is with locals it's like so funny but

01:05:08.520 it's a subscriber um platform so you have to subscribe um why do i censor myself well i don't

01:05:18.760 necessarily oh you love that that maybe i'll go online tonight i haven't shown it any love in a

01:05:23.400 while and and i'll do scott's um on friday or saturday um i don't necessarily think i sent

01:05:33.560 i do censor myself a little bit because you guys i can be really unhinged so i try to like

01:05:41.640 you know be appropriate in some way the i don't know sean you get in there uh-huh jk

01:05:50.200 he said the paywall keeps the trolls out i'm just kidding you're embracing your inner owen

01:05:57.720 yikes ej seeing my great girl look like i mean i don't know that we want to know

01:06:05.820 um a ted turner story where are you giving that kimberly because i don't want a ted 0.99

01:06:15.140 Turner story. See, I didn't censor myself. I'm just kidding. Free bird. Ass, grass, or gas. Yeah,

01:06:24.280 gas. Yesterday, I was telling you guys to fill up our fleet. It was $1,100 yesterday. That sucked.

01:06:34.520 Let me see. Sip and Rips. They're funny stories. Oh. 0.99

01:06:45.700 good smart owen teaches you to be chill i gotcha i gotcha you guys i'll tell you a crazy story

01:06:52.500 tonight i don't want to say it on here um just if i can get on which i really think i can i'm

01:06:58.820 going to go on mine tonight don't feel like you guys have to be there um maybe i can repeat this

01:07:04.820 story in the man cave too but just remind me to tell you about what happened in ecuador no alien

01:07:11.540 baby i wish it was a boat fleet it's our truck fleet it's our truck fleet but like there we have

01:07:16.740 a lot of machinery and trucks i love when owen laughs too i just like when owen's like more

01:07:25.060 animated and laughy because he is funny and a lot of people don't know

01:07:31.540 you're very reserved owen but they don't know what we know i appreciate that

01:07:34.660 mm-hmm Andy do you like these glasses so these are like my glasses that like tint when I go

01:07:41.780 outside I feel like they're very Jersey mafia and I think about Andy for some reason when I wear them

01:07:50.740 all right I'm gonna have to get going to get to work I'll talk to y'all later bye oh bye

01:07:57.060 um let me see dry sense of humor yeah a little bit he's dry but he's

01:08:03.220 you know you guys i've known him a long time he's he's a funny one lang yeah he does move a lot

01:08:12.340 oh my gosh

01:08:17.060 you love the glasses i got them on like one of these okay so wait i have to straighten them a

01:08:21.700 little bit more so i went on youtube yesterday because they're they they're crooked like they

01:08:27.140 they go down on the side. Um, and I kept trying to adjust the little nose pads and I swear to God

01:08:33.260 there is, Oh, I hate to say that. Sorry. I swear there is a tutorial for everything. So I put in

01:08:40.080 YouTube how to adjust. I didn't say crook cause first I said crooked, but I said like, uh,

01:08:48.300 I forget how I worded the word crooked, but like metal frame glasses. And sure enough,

01:08:53.080 there was a guy. So I had been like adjusting the nose pads, trying to straighten them out.

01:08:57.460 It wasn't that, you know what he said? It's the arm. It's not the nose pads. So,

01:09:03.500 and he said, remember it this way. So if anyone has crooked frames, okay. And you can't get them

01:09:09.080 straight. He said, whatever arm or whatever side is lower. So my, my left was lower. He's like,

01:09:17.240 you lower, the lower side is where you lower the arm. So it was the arm and I had to just kind of

01:09:26.020 bend it down a little bit. And then that straightened them out. They're so much straighter

01:09:30.860 now. Actually, they're not bad. They're so much straighter. And I was like, oh my God, the whole

01:09:34.400 time I'm doing the nose pads, they're like, nope, it's the arm. And that's the thing. You might have

01:09:38.840 crooked ears. So you guys, so however they look on you, whichever side is lower, lower that arm.

01:09:47.240 It's amazing. Netflix and chill. I know they'll do it for free. I am too lazy to like stop into

01:09:54.660 a store. So, aye, aye, aye. Bye, happy eye doc. That was your little glasses micro lesson.

01:10:06.760 Spring tension. You know what? It's like, it kind of bends like where the hinge is.

01:10:12.520 And I bought these online, you guys. I bought these a while ago from one of the like

01:10:17.240 online eyeglass places. I think it's called, I think these are from Zenni, Z-E-N-N-I. And as 0.85

01:10:26.760 long as you have your prescription, you just put in your prescription. Um, and then I just said,

01:10:32.120 like, I want, these are progressives. Okay. So I have the, the two thing going and I wanted

01:10:37.140 transitional. So when I like go to my car or whatever I'm doing, like they just tint as you

01:10:41.940 go. And, um, that was pretty good. So when they came, I mean, they're great, but they were just

01:10:48.520 slightly crooked. And now, now they're better. Now they're better. Let's see. Zenny's screaming

01:10:57.460 deal. Um, oh yes, we have an eye doctor right here. We have Tracy, our happy eye doc. I can't

01:11:05.480 wear contacts. I forget why, but my eye doctor is Zenni, Z-E-N-I or Z-E-N-N-I. So go to your eye

01:11:15.960 doctor. I wish this was sponsored by Zenni. So you guys, what did I say, Tracy? That's so funny.

01:11:24.840 My sister-in-law's Tracy. Sorry, Stacey. So go to your eye doctor, get a really good thorough exam

01:11:31.560 and then ask for your prescription and they should give it to you. And then you can do one

01:11:38.460 of the online ones. Mike Burt. Oh, hi. Yes. Don't break them nice and easy. They said just little

01:11:50.020 tiny motions when you're adjusting them. Little time, little bit at a time. Yeah. Angela, I think

01:11:57.240 that's what it is for me too is like um my eyes tend to get dry and then i think i have a

01:12:02.940 stigmatism in one eye i don't know and he said no how much a little bit at a time

01:12:12.500 let's see

01:12:15.400 i'm reading your chat i'm reading your comments

01:12:23.160 i know stacy i said tracy because of my sister-in-law this is and you know what you guys

01:12:30.780 this is also why i tend to just stick with people's usernames because i'm on a lot of

01:12:36.680 different platforms for different things and it's like some people i know on other platforms too

01:12:45.200 don't want their real name used even if i know it so i'm like you know what i just tend to go

01:12:51.300 the username and i sometimes make up my own variation of it i can't help it oh oh you can

01:13:01.140 i should ask my doctor again because i sometimes it's like i live in earphones i've got glasses on

01:13:08.500 sometimes i want like a baseball hat on i'm like i've just too much stuff on my head so

01:13:12.980 you oh i want i want them too happy eye doc

01:13:23.220 you guys my dad had like the first contact iteration that came out those were the hard

01:13:28.660 contacts they were like little pieces of glass it was crazy and he had like this little plastic

01:13:34.900 plunger and he would like stick it on his eye and it stuck out so thick oh my god

01:13:40.260 so I had a whole eye thing happen to me one time and I'm like pretty good now

01:13:46.300 with people poking around my eyes because I just had to be but ah so bear

01:13:53.080 they're pretty small now no the hearing aids oh look there's there's the happy

01:14:00.020 eye doc gave you your her dry eye handout you guys screenshot it I'm gonna save

01:14:05.740 right now saved look at that yeah oh you had those yeah cataract surgery lots of people i know have

01:14:22.620 been having cataract surgery great results easy procedure easy for me to say but let me tell you

01:14:29.260 i've had i basically had some crazy eye surgeries so it's fine you have dry eyes and astigmatism

01:14:38.380 you have contacts you can only wear during the day got it

01:14:44.300 they did they improved you go crank that's amazing

01:14:52.220 thing. Look at us. We're like, let's, yes, yes, yes.

01:15:08.300 Oh, flavor. Yeah. You know, oh, we heard Patty Ted Turner died. We, um, sometimes,

01:15:16.860 you know, like, you feel like you want to do something. And I was like, let's put those

01:15:19.980 links out because you know it's like just something and she loved animals so i relate

01:15:27.660 oh and i think one of them also is for um organ donation you don't have to donate an organ i

01:15:36.700 think it's just uh money for that organization oh my god i thought you were gonna say multi-color

01:15:43.660 contacts uh oh sjv were you not in the show yes ted turner died

01:15:55.500 yep yeah i don't blame anything that cnn's doing on ted turner jane fonda that's another story

01:16:05.340 oh lyric is it your eyes or do you think it's like

01:16:09.020 let's do that you guys tonight all right so what's a good time all right so i'm east coast you guys

01:16:16.220 i want to i want to try to narrow down a good time to come on for all time zones ah annoy jane

01:16:30.540 bvvt

01:16:35.980 pj party

01:16:39.020 oh you guys yeah you can you can dm happy eye doc with your eye doctor questions look how nice that

01:16:49.080 is oh okay kevin what time are the sixers on

01:16:54.800 i cannot um eight on my time is a good time

01:17:01.800 eight central nine eastern is it nine late for people on the east coast that have school tomorrow

01:17:11.920 oh go sixers

01:17:17.520 Alaska we've got our Alaska people Lucinda

01:17:26.640 oh my god that is so weird that Greg is on at seven for you guys that is so crazy

01:17:36.160 that is so sweet

01:17:42.080 i'm too i know i know the west coast goes to bed so early i get it and then um

01:17:52.080 scott used to do before supper i know scott will come on so early i'm like what kind of man cave is

01:17:58.600 this. All right. So I'm, I'm going to come on earlier. You guys, you absolutely do not have

01:18:08.140 to be in my little chill and chat cave. You go to bed at nine 30. I wish you get up at five.

01:18:18.220 I wish, I wish all of that. I mean, I get up early, but I go to bed late.

01:18:22.420 oh my god you guys are so cute i go to bed between 12 and 1 and then i try to get up before

01:18:37.080 seven crusher you love the cave i know it's early for you guys and it's like late for me

01:18:46.680 right so by the time the show's over it's already 11 in the morning so it's kind of like

01:18:50.640 but that's okay. You know what flavor? I have the worst sleep in the world. I don't know. I just,

01:18:59.960 I have no choice. Let's see. Oh yeah. Greg's show does repeat later. You guys.

01:19:10.540 All right. Let me go. Let me go get all my stuff done. What time is it? 1118 here on the East

01:19:15.320 Coast. I'll be on East Coast time. I'll be on maybe around seven, my time. We'll see how it

01:19:28.200 goes. I'll be on though. Okay. And I'll be on my locals channel and we'll do Scott's on

01:19:37.080 today's Wednesday, maybe on Friday or Friday or Saturday, either one. Okay. All right. So I'll

01:19:44.060 see you guys later on if I'm cutting you off in any way. I'm so sorry, but I will be back

01:19:48.420 on later. You guys are the best. Thanks, Goldie.

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