Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 05⧸22⧸26 The Home Team w⧸ Jeff Callahan. So much news on Fun Friday

00:00:00.000 It kind of was, actually, but it was a happy fall.

00:00:03.960 You guys, welcome.

00:00:05.640 Let's let everybody get in.

00:00:07.380 Owen's just parking the car.

00:00:09.540 And look, this is our friend Jeff Callahan.

00:00:12.700 Woo-hoo.

00:00:13.100 Yay.

00:00:13.420 Hey, how's it going?

00:00:14.220 Oh, I just threw my ring across the room.

00:00:16.280 That's Jeff.

00:00:16.940 That's Erica Willier.

00:00:18.880 If I can.

00:00:21.920 It's Friday, y'all.

00:00:23.020 It's Friday.

00:00:23.660 Good morning.

00:00:24.440 Okay, so Owen's parking.

00:00:26.520 So I think in the meantime, if he doesn't mind and you guys don't mind, let's just get our sip in before he gets here because I am just so anxious for my coffee today.

00:00:36.000 Let's go.

00:00:37.100 And you came to the right place.

00:00:39.240 Chances are you came prepared.

00:00:42.480 You might have everything you need.

00:00:46.260 The rest of you better hurry up and grab what you need.

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00:00:58.860 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:01.300 I like coffee.

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00:01:11.060 It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're about to experience it.

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00:01:15.760 ah and with that sip feel yourself connected to people all over the world who are

00:01:26.100 enjoying this periscope simultaneously

00:01:28.920 all right and with that owen is not joining today i just saw a note in the chat we'll miss him owen

00:01:40.960 have fun today at work okay so you guys i want to introduce you to jeff i posted about um

00:01:48.480 jeff on x the other day and asked you to give him a follow he's at the jeff callahan and jeff was

00:01:58.720 so we met for the first time the other night and you came on a subscribers only stream on scott's

00:02:04.700 channel on locals we had a good time we did a lot of spencer talk and all of that good stuff

00:02:09.380 and you should know that Jeff has his own show he does on X right before this one so he was kind

00:02:17.560 enough to end his show a little bit early today and come on over here so he could join live with

00:02:22.280 us so Jeff I really want everybody to know you know what your connection to Scott is how far

00:02:28.420 back it goes and tell that story yeah like we talked about on the local stream so my my backstory

00:02:35.120 is um i i was a big dilbert fan as a kid as i'm sure a fair amount of you guys are too so uh i

00:02:44.820 remember being like 10 years old getting the the dilbert book where scott wrote his notes underneath

00:02:51.180 the comics and i obsessed over that book like i i loved it it was like my favorite my favorite

00:02:57.980 possession uh mainly because i i'd never seen anything like that where the artist was detailing

00:03:05.060 what they thought about the the comic that they were writing and so i love that and uh and so

00:03:11.780 fast forward you know 2015 uh i started watching scott uh that summer when he started doing

00:03:19.280 periscopes and uh shout out to all to all the the ogs that uh were a periscope people back in the

00:03:25.980 day and uh you know was a simultaneous sipper and still am uh you know it's been going on 11 years

00:03:34.560 now uh and so that's my connection to scott you know and uh is he he he was truly just good good

00:03:44.400 people as they say absolutely you know it's it's kind of crazy like having being a fan of of the

00:03:50.560 art earlier in life and being a fan of scott later in in life and so it's funny how things work out

00:03:55.360 that way and aren't you so glad that both things met your expectations and exceeded them yeah met

00:04:01.840 net and exceeded. You know, like sometimes you see a celebrity and you're like, oh my God,

00:04:05.900 I love this actor so much. And then you meet them and then you're like, oh, okay. And we're done.

00:04:11.920 Happens all the time. Right, Marcella? Most of the time.

00:04:13.800 Yeah. Most of the time. They also look very different in real life.

00:04:18.980 Oh yeah. Like they, they look a lot skinnier in real life than they do on camera.

00:04:23.600 The camera adds 10 pounds. I'm always like, just realize I have seven cameras on me right now.

00:04:28.280 so you guys i didn't even say my name is erica marcella's here and we have jeff owens off today

00:04:36.000 and you are at the scott adams school and you guys did you enjoy yesterday if you were here

00:04:41.900 at gad sad i mean that was so fun i have to say and i hope you guys are you know considering if

00:04:48.800 you haven't purchased his book or any of his books or you haven't maybe you got uh suicidal

00:04:53.920 Empathy and Not the Parasitic Mind. And he has so many books. They're all amazing. So he's a great

00:05:01.060 guy, author. I'm so happy. We got great feedback. So thank you so much. And thank you everyone for

00:05:08.920 being so good in the chat. So first I want to just say, I don't know much about this, but

00:05:16.400 Kyle Busch died. He's the NASCAR driver at 41 years old. And I mean, it was like pretty sudden

00:05:23.120 he got sick i have a clip of him i think his last week here he is yeah kyle bush your 69th victory

00:05:31.040 in this series your fifth right here why do these moments never get old kyle because you never know

00:05:37.120 when the last one is you know so uh i know all too well unfortunately with um the cup stuff but um

00:05:44.320 you know here with the truck stuff right now is um it's awesome just to be a part of spire

00:05:48.800 motorsports thanks to to jeff and dan and mr h for the opportunity henric cars.com i'm sure it

00:05:54.640 looked great out front leading the race and it wasn't just kyle larson doing it so um you know

00:05:59.440 feels like feels good to have another kyle being able to do it and putting ourselves in victory

00:06:03.040 lane so uh love coming to dover always one of my favorite places to race uh that's you know like

00:06:10.800 how many times you hear people say that you know you just don't know when the the last one will be

00:06:16.240 so i think it was complications from pneumonia i believe is what it was yeah so you know we just

00:06:23.980 say rest in peace um you know nascar is fun it's got a huge community huge fans so i'm sure they're

00:06:32.000 feeling that today he has such young kids you know it's so sad to see yeah but um wish wish

00:06:39.060 well to his family condolences yeah um okay so i have a fun update for you look who was playing golf

00:06:47.540 gary gary there's little gary he's such a model oh you want to see oh well here's another little

00:06:58.520 model for you hang on little roman now this is what so roman has like this necklace around him

00:07:08.920 Like, see, like, in the lower collar, he's got, like, a bigger necklace.

00:07:12.260 That's Roman.

00:07:14.620 And Gary said, wait a minute.

00:07:17.560 How about this?

00:07:18.540 And so Gary gave us a little tongue-sticking-out action.

00:07:22.240 And you guys all recognize that indoor putting green.

00:07:25.060 That's at Scott's house.

00:07:27.940 And then Roman, just because, you know, fair is fair.

00:07:31.440 We have to have two of each.

00:07:32.860 Aw. 0.98

00:07:33.660 Look at that.

00:07:35.020 Good little boys over there.

00:07:37.020 Star painter.

00:07:37.620 it seemed like best friends they are and they have we we mentioned before they have two dogs

00:07:44.160 now as siblings two big um i want to say they're goldens they're like white goldens and they're

00:07:51.280 obsessed so that's your gary and roman update they're doing great you guys they're doing great

00:07:58.360 it's so nice that we care we do they're doing great um so you guys so it's friday and we're

00:08:05.360 going to just have like a little hodgepodge of fun. And Marcella, I think there's one story that

00:08:13.360 you wanted to get right into. I'm just going to have you go first. So I'll just zip it for a

00:08:21.160 minute. But tell us one of your fun stories for the day. Well, we'll start with the fun science

00:08:27.340 story in honor of Owen. So you don't want to grow old, don't you? Nobody wants to grow old. So what

00:08:34.960 do you do you drink let me guess what do you think i'm sure it's coffee is it coffee if you

00:08:43.500 insist yes you guys are so oh my gosh you're on the spot if you don't want to grow old you drink

00:08:49.620 coffee but not only that you have fruit that could be the answer to um you looking young

00:08:56.680 if you eat dark fruit and drink one cup of coffee a day uh it can slow the body aging process so

00:09:03.440 there was a study of course um and first post talked about it and the research was for polyphenol

00:09:12.260 rich foods as you know uh dark fruits berries apples and one cup of coffee that's a polyphenol

00:09:19.480 the university of navarra studied over a thousand seven hundred adults and uh what do you think um

00:09:27.040 what do you think scott would have said imagine jeff would know about about this study the study

00:09:35.160 like you could have just asked just ask god or any of us you know we still after what 11 years

00:09:45.760 almost of listening to scott and drinking coffee but then we look just as young don't we we haven't

00:09:51.620 changed a bit we have not aged i think the chat marcella is worried is it just one cup or at least

00:09:58.340 one cup i think you can have one cup of coffee you can have more look at you junk how many gallons

00:10:04.020 can you can you drink before you start aging backwards no limit no i'm just kidding

00:10:10.420 disclosure this is not uh we're not a doctor i'm not a doctor my legal disclosure so we're doing

00:10:18.340 something right, you guys. Just keep drinking the coffee is the answer. And I'm going to be

00:10:24.300 changing my coffee habit soon. You guys are convincing me. I've got to stop with all the

00:10:28.100 sugar in my coffee. I'm going to work on it. Not today or tomorrow, but soon. Okay. So I actually,

00:10:37.240 I feel like this was some fun AI story. And I want to warn you men and women out there,

00:10:43.980 you never know who you're talking to and and also i want to say this again men and women listen

00:10:52.040 you know how you're always trying to like achieve the impossible look oh i don't look like her these

00:10:58.140 people with filters and this and that like stop it okay because this could be the person you're

00:11:03.980 talking to

00:11:04.600 I know you look really surprised, especially for the older generation, but I'm just a prompt that can be changed by the car or in the bathroom, everything is fake.

00:11:15.060 I can't manipulate it as I want and you don't get it.

00:11:18.720 Really no one can divide between AI and reality.

00:11:21.960 So please, share this video, protect your children, protect your family, your friends and protect yourself. 0.95

00:11:28.780 She's hot. She's hot. 0.66

00:11:31.260 They were all hot.

00:11:32.260 is that nuts i mean literally is that really you erica i mean i'm really that guy and i just i go

00:11:40.960 like with this average look just to you know be realistic yeah so i i saw um it was a youtuber

00:11:49.160 that he exposed his scams um he's he's the guy with the scottish accent um i think his name might

00:11:55.240 be john and he was on a call with someone who he was on a video call with a scammer and he kept

00:12:01.900 trying to get the scammer to put two fingers in in front of his face in between him and the webcam

00:12:07.080 because that would alter the ai face model that was um plastered over the scammer's face and

00:12:14.960 it was funny because the scammer kept doing like he would do anything but have the two fingers over

00:12:22.460 his face and uh and the guy's like no i want you to do it over your face and he wouldn't do it yeah

00:12:27.720 You could only tell extremely slightly at the hairline because it didn't quite match up, but it's kind of getting scary.

00:12:37.100 I joke with my friends and family, there's going to come a day in the not-too-distant future where I'm going to go over to someone's house and have coffee with them and hang out and then ask them for $5,000.

00:12:48.540 And it was just a hologram the entire time because that's where scams are going.

00:12:54.880 That's crazy.

00:12:55.600 In the future, I think we're going to be pretty well cooked.

00:12:59.820 Oh, yeah.

00:13:00.440 For those coming in late, this is Jeff Callahan.

00:13:02.900 And you know what, Jeff?

00:13:03.360 We didn't mention your book.

00:13:04.560 He's a big Dilbert and Scott Adams student, and he wrote a book called Confidence Maxing.

00:13:11.460 Why don't you give them a quick...

00:13:13.340 Yeah.

00:13:14.060 So I wrote this book, Confidence Maxing, and I have a gigantic poster in the background

00:13:18.680 just in case you forget what the book looks like.

00:13:21.140 But its main purpose is to make you more socially competent.

00:13:25.920 So I am a communication coach by trade, and I work with clients from tech companies, mainly

00:13:32.660 like think your Microsoft, like Amazon, Facebook, like the Fang and the Mag7 crowd.

00:13:40.540 But I also work with startups and startup founders and that kind of thing.

00:13:44.340 and the book's main main purpose is to make you more competent and confident uh limit um

00:13:51.820 to help you talk to yourself like a friend tell better stories talk about yourself

00:13:56.260 more confidently and uh wrote that and released it in earlier this year and it's already an amazon

00:14:03.240 bestseller so i'm i'm pretty i'm pretty happy with it good for you already they can get it

00:14:08.300 can get it on amazon yeah it it's on amazon it's on audible uh and uh uh if you're an audiobook

00:14:15.180 person i had hired this great guy named lyle blaker who did an even better job reading it than

00:14:20.380 i could and i was incredibly impressed and uh i was just gonna ask i'm an audiobook person personally

00:14:26.140 yeah oh so well you know what we'll link it um after the show when we repost the show yeah for

00:14:31.900 sure all right so check that out you guys um okay so i thought that was crazy but keeping just

00:14:37.660 keeping with this theme for one more second you guys always remind me if i forget to turn the

00:14:42.460 music down but i can't see i don't really want to turn the music down because the sound effects

00:14:47.580 going on are so good so we're gonna we're gonna go up and down but god bless look up and down early

00:14:53.900 oh the robots they're taking over it's the sound of going up the steps watch

00:15:09.840 it's like oh oh if i was a robot and the crowd's so quiet it's just laying there

00:15:21.180 like think it's part of the show maybe now here comes his owner he's like oh uh sir you've had

00:15:29.180 too many drinks it's time to go and we're gonna just pull you out of here

00:15:35.100 oh my god that is amazing i love that it's like so napoleon dynamite i just think that's so funny

00:15:41.580 so i'm not i'm not overly scared yet of the robots um we can build yet if that's at least

00:15:48.940 you have a dancers have a safety net the safe safe for work because you know robots can't

00:15:55.300 compete against real dancers no well for now all right so yeah so dancers you're safe for now

00:16:02.600 yeah i i think i cover i think i mentioned this on a live show i was like we need to only build

00:16:08.240 robots that are smaller weaker and more clumsy than us yeah like imagine i'm a sucker for the

00:16:16.620 terminator movies and so i like terminator jokes and terminator movies and so uh imagine the future

00:16:21.440 instead of these like really big scary skeleton robots it's just like kind of a bumbling robot

00:16:26.480 and oversized t-shirt trying to chase you through through the ruins of a city like like oh i think

00:16:32.020 i could do that that sounds fun i love that um all right so marcella give us give us another

00:16:39.240 one of your stories you had a few picked out so we have a 50 50 issue um daylight savings

00:16:46.700 do we change it do we keep how we have our system so president trump announced yesterday

00:16:54.100 legislation to advance to make permanent daylight savings time through the sunshine

00:17:00.320 protection act and demands congress to make a law and basically he talked to he talked about it at

00:17:08.000 the White House and the Oval Office. And he said, you know, some people don't like it. Some people

00:17:12.760 like it. He talked about the cost to hundreds of millions of dollars to change those big clocks,

00:17:19.160 you know, any city, state, local government, we all have to do it. You know, our phones change,

00:17:27.460 but there's sometimes if you have a stove and it's an older one like mine, I sometimes just

00:17:36.360 keep it there like i don't change it but there's times where i get confused about time anyways um

00:17:42.520 so i know so many people that believe their stove clock it's or the one in their car they're like i

00:17:48.680 don't know how to do the one in their car so he he actually noted that it would be a winning issue

00:17:54.920 for a republican party and he said take it it's a win we need to take you know kind of like scott

00:18:00.440 would say it's free money you pick up free money uh we're going with the far more popular alternative

00:18:06.200 save saving daylight uh which gives you a longer brighter day and who can be against that this is

00:18:13.880 an easy one thank you to everybody who supported the bill he says and specifically chairman brett

00:18:19.000 guthrie and burnt buchanan and it passed the committee 48 to 1 right now it's at the house

00:18:26.680 um it might reach the the big boat today might reach the uh the floor eventually but basically

00:18:34.920 you know he's going to make it happen how many how many people have said that they're going to

00:18:40.480 do this and they don't do it roger i like your idea fall back only a half hour then keep it that

00:18:46.040 way it's a compromise what's the difference the half hour becomes i can't the uh you know

00:18:52.220 i'm confused enough i'm confused like just do it just do it like i think it annoys just people

00:18:58.380 more than not and i don't believe it's 50 50 i think it's got to be more i mean who doesn't want

00:19:02.940 a lighter, brighter, longer day. I mean, I keep my Christmas tree up you guys until March because

00:19:10.240 I'm trying to trick myself. I put the little lights on every night and then I, because like

00:19:15.840 if I take it down right after Christmas or the new year, then you're like, okay, now I'm just

00:19:19.840 sitting in the dark, you know, through the winter, but I trick myself and I pretend I'm still in the

00:19:24.840 holiday season and the little twinkle lights are on. And then in March, when I take it down, I'm

00:19:29.780 like oh look at it's so much lighter earlier now so i feel like if they could do do this for me

00:19:36.200 then i can take my tree down like you know mid-january that so it's for me at this point

00:19:40.580 yeah i i always think about how uh when when it's time to fall back

00:19:46.100 you always feel well at least for me it's like oh no like we're gonna fall back and then it's

00:19:52.840 gonna get darker and then by the time it's you know depending on what part of the country you're

00:19:56.820 in you know it's 4 59 and it's already getting dark and you're like oh no like i know it like

00:20:02.740 six o'clock i'm like is it time for bed i'm like what it's six o'clock the animals get confused

00:20:08.520 too they're like we want food i'm like no yeah where are you jeff again what part of the country

00:20:15.200 i'm in arkansas so that's right oh if you're if you're really in far in the north uh like in

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00:21:37.080 Yeah, so...

00:21:38.140 Golden age, golden set.

00:21:39.020 So you're saying the earth is round, Jeff?

00:21:41.420 Is that what you're trying to say?

00:21:42.780 He is and he's huttered.

00:21:45.580 Actually donut-shaped, and there's just a swimming pool.

00:21:48.180 Oh, yeah, that would be amazing.

00:21:50.060 Introduce new conspiracy theories

00:21:51.420 that no one's ever even thought of i like it so the earth is a donut and there's a big giant pool

00:21:56.660 in the middle yeah and that pool is a carnival cruise ship okay that's where all the cruise

00:22:03.220 ships go yes right right right okay um i love that all right so you guys i want to get to a little

00:22:09.320 bit more serious news if you don't mind oh no i don't one more thing one more thing not that i

00:22:15.580 don't but marcella was talking the other day about how dc cleaned up that fountain i was thinking it

00:22:21.980 was a water fountain it's a beautiful like step fountain and i'm so happy this woman videoed

00:22:28.640 because i have not seen dc like this in eight million years but take a look at this yeah i'm

00:22:35.140 gonna dox myself because i'm moving but i've lived near meridian hill park in dc for almost two years

00:22:40.240 now and the water's never been in the pond there this has never happened before i was always too

00:22:49.780 afraid to come here because of the homeless people but they're all gone and it seriously looks like

00:22:54.000 paris i mean i've never seen this many people out here i mean look everyone is enjoying it

00:23:04.020 everybody a year ago trump said he was going to clean up dc and he did it is clean it's calm

00:23:09.660 It's quiet, except for the Chipotle down in Navy Yard, apparently this weekend, but I wasn't there for that.

00:23:14.720 The homeless are out.

00:23:16.860 The birds are chirping.

00:23:18.340 The water is in.

00:23:19.520 The ponds.

00:23:20.660 The fountains are working.

00:23:22.000 Thank you, Mr.

00:23:22.620 This is the benefit of having a construction man as your president.

00:23:29.240 Amen.

00:23:30.260 The birds were chirping.

00:23:31.700 The water's in.

00:23:32.620 People were sunbathing, hanging out, taking selfies.

00:23:35.740 I love that.

00:23:36.900 and um and what was going on at the chipotle at the navy yard it was a teen takeover

00:23:43.440 yeah so on the fountain thing i i watched that video and i think it's it's really important

00:23:52.320 like my soapbox is and this is why i've gravitated towards covering spencer pratt a lot on my on my

00:23:59.260 live show is that people need to feel safe outdoors yeah like this is this is an incredibly

00:24:05.200 basic thing that you can't have um on a lower on a lower maslow's hierarchy of needs level like

00:24:12.680 you got to be safe like you got to be safe and then maybe higher up you fix the fountain and

00:24:16.480 the fountain looks nice and people like to go and enjoy the area around the fountain so that they can

00:24:21.420 talk to each other and have a better experience living in a city uh and so for for president

00:24:28.020 trump to to actually go around and start fixing things up and and taking care of some of the

00:24:32.860 homeless problem in DC you know I know I know he deployed the National Guard and things like that

00:24:36.340 it it is a net positive for society and I think this is why you you also see stuff like Spencer 0.92

00:24:43.800 Pratt and his campaign uh catching fire well probably that's not the right way that's not

00:24:48.800 the right way to say it that's the wrong way to say it uh be getting a groundswell of attention

00:24:53.440 because he's saying uh I I am going to fix the homeless and the drug problem like he just had

00:24:59.800 a nine-minute video that dropped yesterday about it um it is extremely hard to counter the argument

00:25:05.800 of like hey i'm going to fix up your home and make you feel safe there's no legitimate counter

00:25:11.400 argument to that it's yet the democrats seem to make one which is trump it's like i just don't go 0.55

00:25:17.640 out there don't yeah yeah then don't go use it don't go sit by the fat now marcella don't you

00:25:22.120 think that with like the way dc looks now um you know like jeff saying people want to feel safe

00:25:29.160 outside and you know what else makes you safer longer periods of daylight yeah right perfect

00:25:37.000 connection so i have an idea i i want you guys to tell me what you think okay i have an idea

00:25:43.400 that could solve some jobs issues and help with crime issues so in new jersey we do not pump our

00:25:52.840 own gas. Okay. That's like the only flex I have for you. That's it. We don't pump our own gas.

00:25:58.440 So I'm thinking let's put out there that from now on, you don't pump your own. You can have

00:26:05.000 the option, like maybe one pump is for self-service, but let's hire people. So people

00:26:10.400 need jobs. Let's hire people to pump gas at gas stations, um, that there should always be at 0.66

00:26:16.260 least two people there. So I see so many crimes happening at these gas stations and like wilding

00:26:22.320 and you're talking about fuel, like, you know, fuel. And then I always say to my friends that

00:26:27.320 don't live in New Jersey, I'm like, aren't you scared when you go get gas? Even, you know,

00:26:31.980 plugging in your car muscle, it can be scary. Um, in my house, right. But you know, like you

00:26:38.400 go to get gas. So, uh, I just asked my friend about this the other day. I'm like, so now what

00:26:42.700 do you do? Do you like lock your car door when you get out to pump it? Like, aren't you afraid

00:26:47.700 someone's going to jump in your car or take your bag out of your car, or, you know, people try to

00:26:52.920 steal your car, your kids in the car, but seriously, like it's really, really dangerous. So my thought

00:26:58.700 was let's stop with the pump your own gas, hire people at gas stations. It creates jobs. It'll 0.99

00:27:06.140 create safety. And I think that, and also it'll be like a really nice feature, especially for

00:27:12.940 people who are more vulnerable, older women, handicapped, whatever it is. I mean, I think

00:27:18.760 it would just be a really good thing. Is anyone in on this with me? And can we make one of those

00:27:23.500 little petitions that we send to the White House? I'll draft it. I'll post it. And will you guys

00:27:28.600 sign it? That's my question. Yeah, I'll sign it. You know, it's funny. There's an understanding

00:27:33.160 in my house. Like, I'm, I'm the one that pumps gas for everything. You know, I don't know if

00:27:41.420 is a controversial statement or not but like it's just a note like we we live in a good area and

00:27:45.740 and we're outside outside of the city so uh the our gas station is is not exactly you know uh

00:27:52.780 assessable but the like the thought process is is like i don't like my wife is in agreement with me

00:27:59.500 on this i don't let her go and pump gas because i'm happy to do that for her right um and she

00:28:04.700 she's fine with it too like she enjoys it uh but my thought is and you're exactly right erica when

00:28:10.140 there's just a disproportionate amount of of uh probably shenanigans we'll call them that that

00:28:16.540 take place at gas stations at all hours and right uh and so if you can like if you can do something

00:28:23.020 to mitigate that and have it staffed uh just more eyes and having people observed changes behavior

00:28:30.140 and so i i'm all for that because i think it it would make those situations most likely uh safer

00:28:36.940 it's funny i'm i'm guessing so there's a lot of people that hate this and i'm so a i personally

00:28:43.020 don't like it because i don't like government being involved in what a gas station well i

00:28:47.340 shouldn't say government but i mean listen you guys i think a lot of it's a great idea for gas

00:28:52.700 stations and they're doing it in california there there is they're hiring security officers

00:28:58.300 to patrol some gas stations in very um high-end places like bevory hills well there's so there's

00:29:05.500 teen takeovers i mean it's it's the same old bs but a lot of you guys may not have a gas station

00:29:12.620 near you that's not you know safe but there's a lot of people that live in cities and areas

00:29:18.140 that aren't safe i mean if you lived you know let's say in a a wild neighborhood but it's like

00:29:25.660 that's your gas station and you're maybe a single mom or just a mom or a young girl who just got

00:29:31.900 a license i think you'd feel differently um for those people and i'm not saying it has to be

00:29:37.020 mandatory you can still pump your own gas but it would be nice to have that full service thing so

00:29:43.580 it's so funny everyone's like no i'll do my own gas i'm like god have you ever had anyone pump

00:29:47.660 your gas it's delightful um i saw one comment that said uh don't pump gas on the ends and like i only

00:29:55.340 ever pump gas on the end so i guess i'm a target oh really oh i didn't know i don't know if that's

00:30:01.500 if that's a real thing because i feel like you're gonna like when i pump gas my protocol and people

00:30:07.340 can can steal this is don't look at your phone like it sounds really basic like don't look at

00:30:12.460 your phone i put my back against the you know the vehicle and then i just look like i look around

00:30:18.140 constantly okay this is crazy and and this should be it should be fairly common sense stuff but

00:30:24.860 we're as i talk about a little bit in in the introduction of my book the algorithmic vampires

00:30:29.900 that control our phones our phones are addicting for a reason there's billions of dollars of

00:30:35.500 of tech infused into them so you have to break that to just be aware of your surroundings

00:30:41.660 uh and it could literally save your life mm-hmm um so every you know a lot of people are like no

00:30:47.580 gas prices will go up and this and that listen our gas in new jersey is not that high when like

00:30:54.700 you look at other places with higher gas they don't have gas attendance so i don't know i i

00:31:00.380 personally like to pull up in my car maybe it's like a crappy day and i just crack my window a

00:31:05.020 little bit i'm like hey could you fill it with regular and i slide my credit card to the guy and

00:31:10.060 he hands it back to me it's a delight i'm still on my phone i'm doing my thing maybe i'm filing

00:31:15.500 my nails i'm kidding but yeah jersey gas is less expensive than pa than pennsylvania so i i i like

00:31:23.340 it for safety and for the economy but i understand and i agree it shouldn't be like mandated but

00:31:28.620 it's a really good idea maybe you know state by state governors could think about that

00:31:33.340 um but even jeff you know jeff's a man he's like well i make sure i stand with my back to the car

00:31:37.820 and i keep looking around like that's crazy you know and all my girlfriends don't go at night

00:31:44.220 and i've never been actually at least to my knowledge i've never been targeted uh but who

00:31:49.340 Who knows that that was just because I'm not going to I'm not going to go after the guy that's constantly looking around.

00:31:55.200 I'm going to find someone easier. And so, you know, that might be part of it.

00:31:59.160 But to your point, Erica, like growing up as a kid, we had full service gas stations here.

00:32:03.680 In fact, most of the most of the gas stations were full service and self-serve didn't really become much of a thing until the mid 90s, maybe.

00:32:12.500 And, you know, I remember writing with my mom and like she do the same thing.

00:32:15.360 she cracked the window talked to the attendant because it was usually the same guy and he would

00:32:19.440 pump the gas and we would stay stay in our car uh and it kind of felt like a luxury and so this this

00:32:26.000 was i don't know how many states were only full service for a long time um but this is something

00:32:31.280 that's you know 25 30 years old at least where i am um yeah and so you guys you know for me with

00:32:39.280 the business that i own we fill up uh like six massive trucks at the gas station also so for

00:32:48.240 that you know we go to like a bigger gas station and the guys pump the like the the stations like

00:32:53.040 go ahead and just you know do it yourselves um but you know so they'll go pump the gas but

00:32:58.000 you know so there's obviously some people can just go do it but it's just i just think it's nice i

00:33:03.280 thought it solved two problems safety and jobs so it's just my my little experiment i love how um

00:33:10.960 chitty chatty it got though that was kind of fun all right marcella you you grab us a story

00:33:17.600 so we we talked about i don't know if you have the video but we talked about um

00:33:21.840 minnesota and nick shirley a while back ago regarding uh fraud so this is great you guys

00:33:30.160 The vice president came out regarding this fraud. 0.95

00:33:34.280 Okay, let's listen to our vice president, and then Marcella is going to take it at the end.

00:33:39.140 Just like all of you, I was shocked last December when I watched Nick Shirley's bombshell investigation of migrant fraud in Minnesota,

00:33:46.900 which called attention to the now infamous Quality Leering Center, instead of Learning, and other schemes across that state.

00:33:54.040 This morning, the ringleader of the $250 million feeding our future fraud scheme in Minnesota was sentenced in federal court to over 40 years in prison, bringing justice to the countless school children and families she had scammed.

00:34:11.680 And on top of that, today, federal law enforcement launched a massive raid in Minneapolis.

00:34:18.920 Across the city, agents have arrested 15 people for suspected fraud that amounted to $90 million.

00:34:26.560 This includes two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota history,

00:34:31.220 as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the U.S. federal government.

00:34:38.060 With this action, we're bringing justice to some of America's most vulnerable citizens

00:34:42.400 and justice to the American taxpayer.

00:34:45.360 In 2018, Minnesota tried to provide housing services for the homeless.

00:34:50.280 They estimated that the cost of the program would be $2.5 million a year.

00:34:55.360 By 2024, the program had exploded to $104 million annually,

00:35:02.900 and almost all of that, almost all of it was because of fraud. As a result, the state had

00:35:10.020 to shut down the program and can no longer provide those services to Americans in need.

00:35:15.460 So we've got homeless veterans sleeping on the streets because fraudsters got rich.

00:35:21.720 But it's not just the homeless who are the victims of these fraudsters. The victims in

00:35:26.440 the cases announced by DOJ today also include disabled Americans who rely on community support

00:35:32.560 to live full, independent lives, and citizens for whom defrauding such programs is literally

00:35:39.480 a matter of life and death. In one of the most horrifying cases charged today, a recipient who

00:35:45.980 needed 24-hour care was supposed to be receiving exactly that through a Minnesota Medicaid benefit

00:35:52.340 program. But he received nothing. No care, no services, nothing for months on end. And then

00:36:01.940 he went quiet. For two days, a neighbor tried to check on him, knocking on his apartment door.

00:36:08.180 Nothing. Shortly after, he was found dead. One day before this man died, the fraudster in question

00:36:16.240 had tried to bill for the non-existent services, the services that if they had been provide,

00:36:22.380 this man might actually be with us today. To get rich off taxpayers, even at the cost of others'

00:36:28.760 lives, just as that fraudster had for many months before. This kind of behavior is sickening. It's 0.96

00:36:36.900 disgusting. It's an affront to all of us as Americans. And today we're saying clearly no more.

00:36:45.040 Our message is simple. If you are committing fraud, our task force will find you. We'll come

00:36:51.880 after you, and we will not rest until justice is served. Don't defraud the American taxpayer.

00:37:00.500 Don't get rich by trying to steal from them, or we are going to come after you until justice is

00:37:07.080 served. That's our promise, and we're going to stick to it. It's the Family and Friends event

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00:37:29.340 Love it.

00:37:30.520 Wow.

00:37:31.580 That was not AI, you guys.

00:37:33.280 It was just a blurred background with like a 5K camera.

00:37:36.480 That's all.

00:37:36.880 Oh, man.

00:37:37.360 Can we talk about the video quality?

00:37:40.620 That was crazy good.

00:37:42.560 Yeah, that was amazing.

00:37:43.980 All right.

00:37:44.220 So, Marcella, he's on fire.

00:37:45.860 I love it.

00:37:46.500 You know, he's reporting great news. We're winning the war against this fraudsters, but it's also a message to all of the rest of the world or the especially in America that are causing this fraud.

00:38:01.740 tampon tim um so it's it's basically a message to them um and to say you know if you're gonna

00:38:12.040 do fraud we're gonna go after you we're not going to stay by the wayside and talk about it

00:38:18.360 um so i like that because a lot of us are like where's the action where the you know where are

00:38:24.320 the convictions where are the indictments for all these things because a lot of the times we talk

00:38:30.480 about the Russian collusion.

00:38:31.840 We talk about this other collusion and this and that and the other.

00:38:35.340 And a lot of people, I think Erica recently was asking me, why hasn't

00:38:40.440 there been any indictments in regards to certain things with Comey?

00:38:45.360 Um, and sometimes that takes time, uh, especially if it's a big fish like that.

00:38:52.040 But I love the fact that things got done.

00:38:55.860 And the other thing that can show us is that you can make a difference

00:38:59.880 Nick Shirley with his camera and his crew, um, uncovered this and made a difference.

00:39:05.800 Um, and a lot of us feel like we can't, we're just one person, but one person can do the

00:39:13.620 difference.

00:39:14.740 That's right.

00:39:15.200 My leering, uh, school sweatshirt should be here today.

00:39:19.060 According to, we learned a lot from watching that video with, uh, with JD Vance.

00:39:27.000 And what I'll say is that he, I don't, I'm not sure if you guys caught it, but like, like he frames it as the American people are all victims of this, uh, which I think is a really good frame because few things will encourage anger faster than, Hey, I took your money and I didn't do anything with it.

00:39:51.620 And, in fact, I let people die because I was supposed to be doing a service that I was not doing. And, like, few things are going to cause more anger than that.

00:40:02.800 And I think, I think it's fascinating that, um, this is another one of those issues that

00:40:08.240 there's no coherent argument against it because why, why wouldn't we, why wouldn't someone be in

00:40:15.120 favor of the federal government looking and checking if things are being done appropriately?

00:40:23.440 Like, like there's no, there's no counter to that. Um, the, uh, I think if you ask just your

00:40:30.580 average ordinary american like when they start viewing the totality of the scope of a lot of

00:40:36.580 this fraud that that's you know this this last one was 90 million and and certainly this is going to

00:40:43.080 go in into the billions upon billions like it is it is just the most um egregious form of theft in

00:40:52.260 american history like it in my opinion the fraud scandal and i think they're only going to find

00:40:56.500 more and more it is it is the biggest scandal in american history oh it's brutal and i mean i'm

00:41:03.000 sure every single one of you listening to jd speaking at some point you're like you know we

00:41:09.300 all know somebody who is waiting for medicaid to help with something you know i i personally know

00:41:18.060 two people right now one in particular has been trying to find out if her 90 now 96 year old

00:41:25.760 father can qualify for medicaid they've been trying for years to get an answer and i'm like

00:41:31.600 oh so you're just waiting for this poor man to die before you be like yes i mean so you go through all

00:41:37.760 these channels and then to find out that you know all millions and millions and millions and

00:41:43.520 millions of dollars are just flying out of here and funding fraudsters i felt i kept feeling like

00:41:50.480 fraudsters is like not a good enough word like i know that's actually the word but while he

00:41:55.280 was saying fraudsters. I'm like, no, it's like effing fraudsters. I'm like, it's gotta be more

00:41:59.880 than that. Like, I was like, it's just pissing me off so bad. Um, so, and then I was also thinking

00:42:05.640 while he was speaking, you know, I asked this the other day, you know, do we only know about this

00:42:10.540 because of what Nick Shirley did? He's kind of alluding to the fact, yes. Um, and so then you're

00:42:16.440 thinking, well, this, like how long has this actually been going on? And it clearly would

00:42:22.180 have never stopped. And, you know, look at, look around, look around our country, look at what

00:42:28.200 everything's turning into. It's turning into shit. So, you know, I'm like embarrassed sometimes. I'll 1.00

00:42:34.340 just be like driving somewhere and I'm like, why does everything look like garbage? Why are there

00:42:38.880 holes in the streets? Why, like, why doesn't this place take care? Like every, it's like that whole

00:42:43.920 broken window thing. I just feel like everything is just, you know, so the fraud is so big and bad

00:42:50.380 and everybody's on the take this is just my opinion but you know we've had it you know

00:42:55.260 americans have had it but we don't want this anymore you know i want everything focused on

00:43:00.780 our country making it better for the people our cities our money you know the whole thing

00:43:07.820 veterans and every and our elderly because the thing is the fraudsters make this uh make out

00:43:14.700 with millions but uh at the same time they're they're targeting the most vulnerable the the

00:43:19.900 the people with disabilities the veterans yeah the elderly i do conservatorship law as well i i do

00:43:29.100 i'm a lawyer anyways most of you know that and there was uh you know the fbi when i worked in

00:43:35.820 government had to come in and um raid the court where i was working at because there was a huge

00:43:43.100 um fraud scheme of uh certain people trustees um saying that somebody was at some place

00:43:54.460 being taken care of 24 hours and they were not being taken care of no and it's terrible

00:44:00.780 it's really sad you know it could be your parent it could be your neighbor it could be anybody and

00:44:05.740 it could be you it could be you and you know i just have this thing like people that are vulnerable

00:44:11.180 like the elderly or disabled people handicapped people nothing upsets me more uh than taking

00:44:19.000 advantage of these people it just makes me crazy so um ilhan omar what somebody said in the

00:44:25.260 comments that her response was like you know bring it on oh man oh we're so in regards to that when

00:44:34.320 she said oh come and investigate me i think she said bring it on well the doj as i told you

00:44:40.600 Just two days ago, they are investigating her for her potential fraud in marriage. 0.81

00:44:48.760 Yeah.

00:44:49.920 And many other things, I'm sure.

00:44:51.240 Let's bring it on.

00:44:52.860 So the other day, I'm going to switch to a different topic because yesterday we had GAD on,

00:44:58.380 so we didn't get to talk about the interview Jeff Bezos did.

00:45:01.620 He did a long-form interview.

00:45:03.420 It was really interesting.

00:45:04.340 I rarely hear him talk.

00:45:06.340 I don't know about you guys, but I rarely hear him talk.

00:45:08.600 Didn't he look different to you?

00:45:10.600 He looks better. He's probably, you know, testosterone-ing it up, you know, whatever.

00:45:16.220 Not like, you know, you mean like he had work done?

00:45:20.500 No, like he might not be him anymore.

00:45:23.340 Oh, Marcella.

00:45:23.860 That was your brainer.

00:45:25.200 You're just segwaying to the mask stuff, aren't you?

00:45:27.120 No, we're not doing the mask story. I don't have time today for the mask story.

00:45:30.780 Marcella really wants to do the mask story, but I don't have time for the mask story today.

00:45:34.620 I just want to get through these.

00:45:36.820 So I do want to play this one clip.

00:45:40.060 This is from Jesse Waters show.

00:45:42.140 And it's great.

00:45:42.720 It covered this cover so much stuff.

00:45:44.240 This is a three minute clip.

00:45:46.600 Very interesting.

00:45:47.700 Here we go.

00:45:48.740 Bezos is torching the left.

00:45:51.000 He says Democrats can't deliver a pizza, let alone run a city.

00:45:56.200 If we ran Amazon, the way New York City runs their school system, right, your packages

00:46:01.320 would take six weeks to arrive.

00:46:03.340 We'd have to charge you a hundred dollar delivery fee.

00:46:05.760 And then when the package did finally arrive, it'd have the wrong item in it anyway.

00:46:10.540 Need proof? Just take a stroll through the City of Angels.

00:46:14.420 Karen Bass promised zero homelessness by 2026. Zero.

00:46:19.440 And she's right on track for zero. Results.

00:46:23.380 When you talked to Jake Tapper in 2023, you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in L.A. by 2026.

00:46:30.900 It's now 2026.

00:46:32.580 And we haven't ended it.

00:46:33.620 We have not ended it, and we're not close to ending it.

00:46:36.460 How are you so off?

00:46:38.020 Well, basically, when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term.

00:46:43.200 I didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience,

00:46:48.580 but I am prepared to take those on now.

00:46:51.840 Not hard, Karen.

00:46:53.200 If you really want to end homelessness, stop paying the people who profit off it.

00:46:58.580 Each bed in this facility, this specific one, this is cheap, there's ones that more.

00:47:03.380 The eighth bed is $400,000 a year.

00:47:05.980 One homeless person, $400,000 a year.

00:47:07.840 Why?

00:47:08.220 Guess what the best part?

00:47:09.260 They have no legal requirement to put a homeless person in a bed.

00:47:13.000 They still get the money.

00:47:13.880 So this whole building can still build the city.

00:47:17.200 Taxes are paying for this building, paying for the upkeep of this building,

00:47:20.000 and paying the profits of the building, and the building's not really operating.

00:47:24.340 Spencer's buckled in, and the Pratt factor's taking off.

00:47:27.760 It just hit the oval.

00:47:29.080 Watch.

00:47:29.440 You see yourself in him at all, a former reality TV star?

00:47:32.360 No, I'd like to see him do well. He's a character. I don't know. I don't know him. I assume he probably supports me. Does he support me?

00:47:39.880 I think so.

00:47:40.600 I think so, yeah. I heard he does. I heard he's a big MacGap person. He's doing well.

00:47:46.280 He's doing well, all right. Too well for City Hall. So Bass conjured up a Brentwood boogeyman.

00:47:52.620 And when your messages are so hateful or when you demonize people, then you do provoke people who are unstable.

00:47:59.980 and you can jeopardize people's safety.

00:48:03.300 You mean like the throwing of the tomatoes?

00:48:05.160 Well, the throwing of the tomatoes, which look like blood,

00:48:07.900 or drowning me and the governor in a reservoir.

00:48:12.000 But there's also other violent scenes.

00:48:15.180 And so I've noticed that it's taking on a violent trend.

00:48:20.080 And that I find to be very scary.

00:48:22.600 Hey, you want scary, Karen?

00:48:23.900 Try getting jumped on your own block in broad daylight.

00:48:26.360 I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW,

00:48:28.360 I DON'T KNOW.

00:48:29.360 I DON'T KNOW.

00:48:30.360 I DON'T KNOW.

00:48:31.360 I DON'T KNOW.

00:48:32.360 I DON'T KNOW.

00:48:33.360 I DON'T KNOW.

00:48:34.360 WATCHING YOUR HOME GO UP IN

00:48:36.360 FLAMES WHILE THE MAYOR IS IN

00:48:38.360 AFRICA.

00:48:39.360 THE ONLY NIGHTMARE IS KAREN BASS 0.75

00:48:41.360 IS L.A. AND SHE'S LAUGHING WHILE

00:48:43.360 IT BURNS.

00:48:44.360 WHAT DO YOU THINK SPENCER

00:48:46.360 PRATT WOULD BE LIKE AS MAYOR?

00:48:49.360 I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.

00:48:51.360 I DON'T THINK I UNDERSTAND.

00:48:53.360 HE HAS A DEGREE IN POLITICAL

00:48:55.360 how our government works. Yeah, neither do you. We've seen the movie before. Hillary laughed at

00:49:00.740 Trump, too. And we all know how that one turned out. In terms of the state of the race, you know,

00:49:08.440 Hillary Clinton wanted to run against Donald Trump. Is there a chance that maybe Spencer 0.76

00:49:13.420 Pratt is being underestimated? Absolutely. And maybe he's not the best person to run against?

00:49:17.960 No, absolutely. I mean, I take nothing for granted. Nitya Raman said you'd rather run

00:49:22.400 against spencer pratt is that true uh nithya raman i i uh you know i don't think she can

00:49:28.500 determine who i would rather run against yeah uh i guess neither can you right

00:49:33.220 oh my god that is amazing sorry guys that was a different clip than i thought it was

00:49:40.520 um oh my god you know i i think that's what qualifies him is that he does know what's

00:49:49.040 happening and he's done his homework and he's like, yeah, we're done. We're done here. And I

00:49:54.520 do have to say we, okay. So this is like, it's not that we were laughing, but as Scott's Memorial,

00:50:01.440 Marcel, I remember when Trump came on and he was like, you know, Scott was with me from the

00:50:08.300 beginning. And, you know, it's always about Trump and like our little area. We all giggled a little

00:50:13.700 bit because we're like, how does Trump always bring it back to him? Like that is, it's just

00:50:17.380 so funny yeah so i had to giggle when i see him do that um so i'm actually going to toss this to

00:50:25.260 jeff first because you've been doing a deep deep dive on your show with spencer so tell us all the

00:50:31.200 things yeah so i we talked about this a little bit on the on the local stream but in my opinion

00:50:38.300 spencer pratt by june 1st it's going to feel like he is running unopposed and what i mean by that is

00:50:47.000 he has got the persuasion talent stack i've only seen it one other time in the last 11 years and

00:50:53.620 who i'm talking about right uh so his skill stack and what he's what he's doing is so rare

00:51:00.720 that you you basically never see it and and he i've written a couple of articles on x one about

00:51:08.620 just the overview of his persuasion skill stack and i wrote a recent one about contrast i'm writing

00:51:14.460 a third one about the high ground maneuver that he consistently weaves into nearly everything

00:51:19.920 that he does um i want you to notice something with spencer pratt he weaves in very visual language

00:51:26.560 yeah he uh he's he takes the high ground in nearly every single instance uh it's it's actually a

00:51:36.560 thing of beauty to watch because there's there's no arguing with his his positions uh if you do

00:51:44.060 argue and try to counter it you look very small and very petty uh and so it's been it's been a

00:51:50.240 fantastic thing to uh watch and i think something that people are kind of sleeping on because he

00:51:55.040 actually he talks about a son but he doesn't really hammer it that hard is he's going after

00:52:00.180 the fraud like he's going after the homeless ngo complex uh he doesn't he he started to feature a

00:52:07.180 little bit more but he's a little quieter on the fraud stuff than maybe i would like to see him be

00:52:11.720 Um, but that's coming down the pipe too. And, um, I would be very interested to see if he just wins

00:52:18.440 outright with the 51% on June, June 2nd. What, what I think the big unknown is, I don't know a

00:52:24.700 whole lot about LA machine politics. Um, but the groundswell of attention that he's able to garner

00:52:31.080 is, it's unlike almost anything that we've seen in recent memory. I think also, um, you guys can

00:52:38.980 both marcella lives in la so you guys can tell me what you think but uh so like you jeff as soon as

00:52:45.220 spencer came out and made it official i said the exact same thing he is trump 2015. it's that same

00:52:52.260 energy the same vibes i was also like scott i predicted trump would win from day one i also

00:52:59.780 wrote in my journal in 1997 that i wish trump would run for president because he'd win based

00:53:06.260 on common sense and being a business person so i think um the advantage for spencer is that

00:53:14.820 uh because he's a celebrity um that allows other celebrities to feel a little bit more comfortable

00:53:21.380 endorsing him and you know going for him and also you know if he wins that can positively obviously

00:53:28.900 affect their livelihood. I mean, LA's celebrity industry is in the tank. So I think that's an

00:53:38.880 easy way for people to back him. But the one thing I'm wondering, I said this the other day,

00:53:43.600 Marcella, I don't know who it is going to be, but he has mentioned, and he said this openly

00:53:49.560 a hundred times, I have a great team of people that are going to help me, that are going to

00:53:53.580 guide me, that are willing to do it. I'm going to surround myself with the right people, which is

00:53:57.480 like 90% of the job. So does anyone know who it is? Because Harvey Levin called one of the people

00:54:04.820 to ask if it was true. The man said, yes, it's true. And I'm going to be helping him. And Harvey's

00:54:12.540 like, wow, like this person is the real deal. And like, everybody should be really happy about it.

00:54:19.060 And I also think he's not mentioning the fraud so much right now, because if he gets those people

00:54:24.300 up in arms, he just becomes a bigger target. So I think it's kind of smart to lie low on that for

00:54:30.140 now. But Marcella, is anything changing on the ground in LA with people? I definitely see more

00:54:36.820 people open to talking about him. So, you know, I wish him well, but it's even Trump has not won

00:54:46.020 LA. So even with his persuasion, you know, what I what I guess is going to happen is what happens

00:54:53.360 all the time, you know, um, the machine is going to go out there and, uh, the democratic machine

00:55:01.140 and it's going to make it happen for Karen Bass. Um, now he has a great chance of making her run 0.67

00:55:09.260 to June 2nd and not winning, um, you know, uh, being able to make her, uh, do the runoff. Um,

00:55:19.060 But, you know, I'm not pessimistic.

00:55:23.380 I am realistic.

00:55:24.780 You know, I've been living in the state for a million years and I've seen it all.

00:55:29.900 And Los Angeles, the last mayor of Los Angeles that was Republican was 1997 when he was elected, Riordan.

00:55:40.240 And so, you know, I hope for him that there is we talked about it when there was Trump, but there was this silent.

00:55:49.060 majority that didn't you know said oh i'm voting for karen bass but secretly they were the secret

00:55:55.140 trump voter so i'm hoping there's the secret spencer voter you know i i'm gonna make a prediction that

00:56:02.060 he's gonna win and i feel like yeah yeah i feel i really i've just i feel it like in my soul that

00:56:09.880 he's going to win because i don't know how you don't watch the palisades and all those other

00:56:16.900 towns burned down. You have a celebrity whose house burnt down, who understands the industry

00:56:24.320 and is a lifelong California boy, like an LA guy. He's been there forever with his family.

00:56:30.180 And he is so good. When they told him that Trump was like, oh, what do you think about Trump? He's

00:56:35.980 so good at walking the line. He doesn't want to offend Trump. He doesn't want to be attached to

00:56:40.740 MAGA. He's like, just leave me alone. Let me just, okay, great, whatever. But the only thing I care

00:56:45.740 about are the moms i want the moms to vote for me and that's just the right message i feel like at

00:56:51.060 the right time and and that one debate they did was so telling um so i don't know my my prediction

00:56:58.480 is he's definitely going to win and i'm going to make um a statement and say like he's going to get

00:57:05.160 like 53 percent of the vote yeah so that's a that's a big statement i'm gonna i'm gonna go

00:57:11.480 with 51 uh but uh i'm gonna go with karen bass is gonna do it but that's just i live here so

00:57:18.320 you know we can't we can't predict the future but we can two things that i think are very

00:57:25.480 interesting one is the climate in which he he's running he's running where i've called him the

00:57:31.680 just look around candidate like all all you have to do is walk out of your house now i'm sure

00:57:38.300 someone who lives now i can attest to this more but look around like look around how are things

00:57:43.840 going that's a that's a unique situation the second unique situation is uh he's creating so

00:57:50.900 many on-ramps for traditionally um democrat vote uh people who vote for for bass or i don't think

00:57:57.720 there's much overlap between him and ramen you know i i don't think ramen's peeling any votes

00:58:01.840 from uh pratt whatsoever i think ramen's probably peeling votes from bass yeah like he's creating

00:58:07.220 so many on ramps for people um through not only his fantastic campaign videos but the fan-made

00:58:14.360 um ai videos that are surfacing as well and so i think he's created an environment where it's

00:58:21.100 extremely permissible uh to vote for him uh and even if you'll notice eric you probably saw this

00:58:28.900 uh where he said this is pre the pre soft trump endorsement he said something like i've got the

00:58:35.340 only endorsement i need moms and animal lovers and it's just like what like where has this guy

00:58:43.380 been right because that's he his skill of off the cuff i know what to say and i know how to say it

00:58:51.960 my hunch is that being on the hills for years and being a reality tv star and being hated as the

00:58:58.920 manufactured villain on a reality tv show that has inoculated him from all forms of criticism

00:59:04.500 And you layer on top of it the reluctant hero arc of my home burned down.

00:59:10.000 I am going to fight for the city that I love.

00:59:12.240 I'm going to protect your home as well.

00:59:14.500 And I can relate with this somewhat because my apartment caught fire in 2013.

00:59:21.020 It was an arson.

00:59:22.020 We lost everything that we owned and we were actually homeless, like effectively homeless.

00:59:25.900 We moved in with some friends down the street, luckily.

00:59:29.540 But I can relate to the fear and anger that people experience.

00:59:34.500 after losing everything in a fire uh i'm like you after that you don't feel like you have anything

00:59:41.060 left to lose and so you will go for broke and my hunch is that's what spencer pratt is is going to

00:59:47.060 do people feel that conviction where when you look at videos of ramen or bass like empty suit politics

00:59:53.940 as scott would say ramen looks like a weaker copy of karen bass yes yeah you could see it in the

01:00:00.420 debate and so sure machine politics may come into play but i think he's he's got the magic

01:00:06.260 that we all talk about and it's going to be really fascinating to watch so we'll keep our eye on it

01:00:12.460 we are out of time you guys so you know we'll see marcella we are rooting for you to have him win so

01:00:18.480 we'll try to like will it so you know jeff you need to work with spencer you do such a good job

01:00:24.840 about speaking about him we need to have first of all we need to connect jeff with spencer but

01:00:31.060 they're already connected well spencer does follow me and uh he i don't know how much of my content

01:00:36.660 he he consumes but i know that he he does watch me and he does watch the live show i think okay

01:00:42.220 i mean he's a busy guy like he needs to come on the show i've said it tell me how he's gonna win

01:00:47.180 yeah yeah so maybe in the in the chat like tag spits tag spencer pratt and have him come on

01:00:53.180 i'll dm him i'll dm him he's following me i'll dm him so yeah we'll see and we'll see i want i want

01:00:59.960 a major american city like los angeles to thrive because it's good for america it's good for

01:01:03.680 america to see that yes things can get better and that we don't have to decline and that's a winning

01:01:09.100 statement with that said you guys i'm gonna run um owen is doing the after party tomorrow on spaces

01:01:15.100 you know the time the place on x and jeff thank you so much for coming on this was so fun i'm

01:01:21.380 sure you'll be back with us again everybody enjoyed you a lot of people said that that you

01:01:25.660 remind them of scott how sweet um okay guys see look it's it's jeff on the mug um so you guys

01:01:34.800 if i put a little hat on him okay so um we want to thank uh scott and shelly for allowing this

01:01:41.080 show to continue we miss them we love them um you guys thank you so much for being here this week

01:01:48.420 it's memorial weekend um oh by the way we'll let you know about monday i know i'll be on even if

01:01:55.300 it's abbreviated for monday so we'll keep you posted i'll post it on x so you guys um remember

01:02:01.540 what memorial day is about okay so um with that a closing sip to our beloved scott who we miss

01:02:08.180 so much and we will see you Monday to Scott. To Scott. Bye y'all. Thanks Jeff. I'm going to kick

01:02:24.780 you out. Ready? I'm ready. See ya. And just like that. Okay guys, thank you so much. See you later. 0.74

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