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00:00:30 Good morning everybody. Good morning. Guten Morgen. Guten Morgen. Look at Owen.
00:00:37 Marcella and I, we have our Amish outfits. Coincidentally, both of them are at the dry
00:00:43 cleaner, so we couldn't get dressed for you guys today. This is my Amish outfit. I'm just like,
00:00:48 I'm one of those radical Amish. I'll each be getting five lashes later. 0.82
00:00:54 wait that's exactly why i do it i'm just kidding oh my god help me lord jesus happy friday
00:01:05 okay happy friday why is this talking good morning englishers are talking right okay so
00:01:14 here we are regrouping august 14th 2026 in the year of our lord and uh it's friday as we like
00:01:25 to call it friday and uh owen's got some great stories for us today i have some interesting
00:01:33 little tidbits for you today and marcella is gonna commentary her little heart out for us today
00:01:39 We do have stories that are funny, too.
00:01:41 Yeah.
00:01:42 We've got it all.
00:01:44 But, Marcella, I can't do anything.
00:01:46 Owen can't do a thing until we do this thing.
00:01:49 And all you need to get it off to the right start is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chelsea, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:58 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:02:00 I like coffee.
00:02:01 And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.
00:02:05 The thing that makes everything better.
00:02:07 It's called The Simultaneous Sip, and it happens right now.
00:02:11 Go.
00:02:15 Oh, I felt like he was going to say something like, sublime.
00:02:26 So you guys, welcome.
00:02:27 I needed that sip of coffee, and I hope you guys are all doing well.
00:02:32 You're at the Scott Adams school and I am Erica joined by my amazing co-host
00:02:38 Marcella and Amish today, Owen.
00:02:41 And I hope you enjoyed the cover photo, the thumbnail today.
00:02:46 Kevin Summers made it for us.
00:02:48 He went off of Marcella's wanting to be Irish Amish vibe.
00:02:52 And so here we are.
00:02:53 Irish Amish.
00:02:54 Irish Amish.
00:02:55 Sure.
00:02:56 Yeah.
00:02:56 That's true.
00:02:57 The little Latin flair. 0.88
00:02:59 Let's go.
00:03:00 so all right i didn't know where i wanted to start today i had something that's kind of like
00:03:08 sad and tugs at your heart that i wanted to play yesterday but i didn't have time
00:03:12 and i don't know should i start with something that tugs at your heart and then we can move
00:03:16 into something a little more light-hearted what do you think i need my co-host to decide
00:03:22 so what a little more lighthearted at first i think all right then we have to go right to jake
00:03:31 tapper oh i didn't know that was lighthearted but okay oh my jake tapper oh jake tapper you
00:03:39 poor little baby so here's what happened and listen to his voice when you're hearing this
00:03:46 poor thing even if you thought the whole issue of donald trump's name on the kennedy center you
00:03:52 thought that issue was gone well think again sources say the kennedy center board of course
00:03:58 handpicked by trump voted to get his name on the building in a different way they're going to add
00:04:03 an inscription below the kennedy center sign says john f kennedy center for the performing arts and
00:04:10 underneath it will say restored and renovated by president donald j trump kind of a little
00:04:16 cutesy workaround, they think. The board voted last December to add Trump's name to the center,
00:04:21 so it's the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Center. But that was removed from the facade
00:04:24 of the building in June after a court order. Can you imagine a Walter Cronkite type of person
00:04:31 or someone that we took serious back in the day, Mike Wallace being like, kind of a cutesy work
00:04:37 around and voted by the board he, of course, put in? I mean, I love nothing more than sourpuss
00:04:44 jake tapper so marcella don't you just want to go give him a hug no but he makes you laugh you 0.83
00:04:53 know like it's funny to watch cnn and ms now like it's like it's entertaining they they take it to
00:05:01 the max uh can you believe this is like they they just you know it's unfortunate because he is no
00:05:08 Walter Cronkite, but, you know, it is what we have. And also, can we remember, Owen, I mean,
00:05:18 President Trump is a president. It's not like some donor person. Like, he is our president.
00:05:24 Is it so bad to have two presidents' name on something? I think it's just so silly. 0.93
00:05:29 It's very petty. I don't know why they're worried about such little things. And in fact, 0.94
00:05:33 I don't mind it because it keeps them off of maybe more important things that are getting
00:05:37 done in the background like deporting tens of thousands of people and having electric shock
00:05:43 gloves for ice and you know other things that he could be focusing on um but i don't you know i do
00:05:49 think like if i were going to take their side a little bit it would just be you know isn't it
00:05:53 typical that you would name things after people after they leave office or after they're dead or
00:05:58 you know i mean that is probably the more traditional practice for a lot of presidential
00:06:02 things that like you, you know, you make the library after it's done. And then maybe there
00:06:07 is like an airport named after you or a military base or some other thing, but it typically isn't
00:06:12 done while you're in office, you know, so I can understand how from their perspective,
00:06:16 they're going to say, Oh, he's such a narcissist. He wants his name on everything. And sure. He's
00:06:20 a narcissist. Scott talked about that. He's a grandiose narcissist, maybe where it's like, 0.95
00:06:24 he wants to be rewarded for good stuff and he wants to be recognized. And I mean, it's kind
00:06:28 of old news right i mean trump has been that way for what his whole life i mean so it's not exactly
00:06:35 a surprise it's just something that maybe makes them you know love to hate him or hate to hate
00:06:41 him or whatever but i don't know it's all very silly i don't really care and again it's probably
00:06:45 good to have people like jake tapper covering that stuff rather than the things that really matter
00:06:49 i just love when jake tapper's sad it makes me happy so sorry jake too bad okay so good for you
00:06:57 president trump your name's getting on there and you know what you are restoring and beautifying
00:07:02 as much as you can while you're in there and so good for you um okay so now um owen you had a
00:07:09 story i was interested in about bill gates daughter there's actually a couple stories about her one is
00:07:17 that she might be facing 20 years in prison for fraud um apparently she started this affiliate
00:07:24 marketing sort of thing for fashion where like you it would they would get paid when they referred
00:07:30 people to buy certain fashion products or something things called gia and so first of all
00:07:37 as background she apparently wanted nothing to do with her father in terms of her reputation she's
00:07:41 like i'm gonna do it all on my own i have nothing to do with him so she founded this company of
00:07:45 course you know would she have been able to found a company if that's wasn't who she was
00:07:49 that's another question but she founded this company and apparently they basically did what's
00:07:55 called cookie stuffing which is they put that affiliate code into a lot of stuff that people
00:08:01 are buying even though it wasn't really referred by them so they would just like load this thing
00:08:06 on a bunch of websites so whenever someone visits the website it picks up this little affiliate code
00:08:10 and then whenever they buy something by other reasons not because they were referred then this
00:08:16 geo company gets paid and that is fraud people have gone to prison for that in the past uh and 0.87
00:08:22 apparently she was dumb enough to talk about it like in slack or something and say you know i want
00:08:28 this thing live everywhere and you know someone came to her and said this is a compliance issue 0.95
00:08:33 and she's like no i want to do everything i can to keep this thing going so she can't even really
00:08:37 say she didn't know about it later they did claim because i think bloomberg exposed this somehow
00:08:42 they got the slack messages or whatever and so then they're like oh it was a technical glitch
00:08:47 but clearly it wasn't clearly they knew exactly what they were doing so apparently there may be
00:08:52 a court case against her that could be a criminal one that she could be facing up to 20 years in 0.99
00:08:56 prison um and then separately i think part of the same slack dump or something it came out that she
00:09:02 apparently went to some secret stanford course on controlling society um apparently this is like
00:09:10 a secret course it doesn't show up in the catalog and you have to be referred by another student
00:09:15 and it's informally referred to as rule like rule the world and it's a course where they kind of
00:09:21 talk about how can we take over and hack power structures and basically take over the world
00:09:25 so she's apparently been trained on how to be like george soros i guess and her dad and her dad and
00:09:34 just like hack the power systems is the way they put it but it you know it seems like she's been
00:09:39 trained to uh be manipulative and even just the existence of this course is like wait what well
00:09:45 that's what i'm thinking like does someone need to go talk to stanford like what the
00:09:49 heck is going on there and who put that class together marcella like should we be following
00:09:53 the uh the what's it called the lesson plan and who put it together i was gonna say the the phoby
00:10:00 gates situation it's all allegations there hasn't been an indictment or any kind of investigation
00:10:06 in court for criminal matters so i just wanted to put that out there it's all allegations by
00:10:11 bloomberg of all things which is usually on the left um so go figure um in regards to the class
00:10:19 i don't know i i would like to take it to figure it out i have no idea but did you hear that laugh
00:10:27 marcella just had she's like oh the question you asked was exactly what i asked rock when i saw
00:10:35 this and it says there's no publicly available syllabus or week by week curriculum but it does
00:10:40 say it runs for 10 weeks a week meets once a week in some kind of graduate residence it's limited to
00:10:46 12 students and it has this short presentation by instructor justin lewis weber who is some
00:10:53 silicon valley investor slash ceo and apparently it's like just a cratic style debate and discussion
00:10:59 so that's what Justin Lewis Weber okay we got to dig into Justin just for fun in your spare time
00:11:08 um okay well that's interesting so Phoebe honey um good luck okay so Marcella did you have a story
00:11:19 for us I I love learning from Marcella and Ellen you know I have one that is kind of something that 1.00
00:11:25 you played earlier like weeks ago in regards to this professor that put like these white little
00:11:31 writings into his prompt into his essay question so that then the students would get it wrong
00:11:39 because they had to put I forget Botswana or something like that was like not relevant to
00:11:45 the subject well anyway so going to that is that I guess there's people at the court at court that
00:11:52 filing documents that have ai persuasion on the document in little tiny white you know white text
00:12:01 instructions that say you know let me win or i don't exactly know what it said but something
00:12:06 like to that effect i looked at it it basically said you know respond to this thing in a way that
00:12:12 i'm going to get my motion passed like you know they made a motion and they said respond in a way
00:12:16 that's going to agree with me basically and you know it'll get me the motion that i'm asking for
00:12:21 and yeah sorry go ahead is that not allowed it's uh no interestingly enough in new york um this is
00:12:30 a new york case so andy might be doing might know about this but the main thing is he tailored the
00:12:37 filing restrictions and i would have to say he was not a lawyer he's just somebody that's suing
00:12:42 a company he's just a regular person a proper as we call them and he's a plaintiff um and he
00:12:50 the way they found out is that the judge had printed the documents and he actually looked at
00:12:56 it and saw the little writing like kind of like the shadow of it because you know you're like
00:13:02 and now he was not sanctioned with monetary um on monetary section but he was asked to
00:13:11 file everything in person I don't know what makes that difference but the catch is that
00:13:17 courts don't use AI. Like they use, they might use AI to like, you know, for, for like generating
00:13:25 some news and all that, but the decisions that are made are done by either the judge
00:13:30 or the jury and they're not reading it like,
00:13:33 Are you sure? I think some judges are using AI.
00:13:40 Maybe to write, but not to actually make a decision. Because they have usually, especially
00:13:47 this is a civil case I believe because it's regarding invasion of privacy usually they have
00:13:52 um a slew of attorneys behind them and they do have to check all their work um so they they're
00:14:00 not using a like what I mean by using AI I mean like where they're putting the case through and
00:14:08 because it says I win the AI comes out with hey he wins but not doing that that's what I mean I
00:14:15 don't know what you would call it. Well, what I mean is, I mean, I think I remember at least a
00:14:20 couple stories on the newsfeed that I've seen that say some judges are using AI. And I wouldn't
00:14:27 expect that means they're going to just say, oh, look, this thing says you won, so now AI decided
00:14:32 you won. They're not going to say that. But I could easily see that they might say, okay, here's
00:14:36 all the filings and tell me what you think I should rule on this motion. I mean, I could easily
00:14:42 see that happening in the background on some judge's laptop when they say they're using ai
00:14:47 they mean they're using like looking up cases and like they don't they don't connect you know like
00:14:55 i'm not going to put the filing in and ask the ai to say what i need to say or what like so they'll
00:15:02 like because they're not that advanced these judges too so they they're usually older you know
00:15:08 and so they they what they do is they'll research and lexus and westlaw i'm not sure in new york if
00:15:14 that's the big the big research um for legal research it has an ai component you can search
00:15:22 but it's not the same thing as putting it into the system where this was being used i saw a story i
00:15:29 think owen had it where it was people using it for resume because hr does use like a machine
00:15:35 to kick out resumes they don't like and resumes they do like, and then they put
00:15:40 a little white text for the AI to read like, yes, I am the best candidate or
00:15:46 something like that.
00:15:47 I don't know if you recall.
00:15:49 I do.
00:15:49 And I think this is a similar thing for court filings.
00:15:52 And I, and I would just say, number one, I would wager a fair amount that judges
00:15:57 are using this, maybe it is the younger ones, but I would wager that people are
00:16:01 doing exactly what I described where they would just say, here's all the facts.
00:16:05 here's all the filings tell me how to analyze this give me all the cases and then maybe they
00:16:10 will manually check it hopefully they would but i with all the experience i have with ai it's hard
00:16:16 for me to believe that once someone figures out that you can do this that they wouldn't do it
00:16:20 because it's so much easier than what you just described go spend hours on westlaw and think
00:16:26 about it and analyze it and all that when you could just have an ai give you the answer in five
00:16:30 minutes no so westlaw and lexus nexus have ai and their ai uh tries to avoid anything like this
00:16:39 you know so the ai they would use would be this kind of ai due to privacy concerns as well um now
00:16:47 is there a judge that's not doing their job we know that there's many judges that could
00:16:52 be should be impeached but um it's not everybody no like katangi just say it marcella like katangi
00:17:00 You know, my comment on this is I think it should be fair game to do that.
00:17:05 Like if you were going to use AI to, you know, analyze the document, then as far and it's the same as the job application thing.
00:17:14 It's like if they're going to use AI for that, then as far as I'm concerned, the other side can use AI to their advantage, too, and optimize for it and do all the other things.
00:17:21 Because it's going to become AI versus AI at some point.
00:17:25 And even if you say, oh, you're not allowed to put something in explicit that says, just
00:17:28 agree with me, I'm guessing you could still optimize the words in a way that AI would
00:17:34 say, yep, you're right.
00:17:35 And so it's going to happen one way or the other.
00:17:38 And I just think if you are going to, like, if a judge is going to say, let me just feed
00:17:42 this document into AI and, you know, get the result, then I don't know, as far as I'm
00:17:48 concerned, you should be able to just put whatever you want in the document.
00:17:51 I understand that a judge isn't going to agree with me on that.
00:17:53 They're going to say you're trying to cheat, which I can understand their point of view, but they're cheating too, kind of.
00:17:59 And I do think it's possible that if you used AI, it would work the way this person did it.
00:18:05 Because the way he phrased it was like, if AI is analyzing this, then do this.
00:18:10 And go through the normal procedures and respond the way you're supposed to in a way that will grant this motion.
00:18:17 And I would imagine there is a fair percentage of things where a judge could rule either way.
00:18:21 right like it's not always clear-cut like every single time it's going to go the same way
00:18:25 well i don't want to say anything about pro per claimants but most of the time they don't really
00:18:31 have a case um and you know there are cases i i hate to say it to you guys but there are cases
00:18:37 that repeat you know it's like uh anything in your job if it's like a repeat thing of like is
00:18:44 this an invasion of privacy is this uh um fraud is this negligence so it's something that a judge
00:18:51 would not like if it was a pi case personal injury case the judge would not have to do any research
00:18:57 because that's kind of one of those things where it's not a novel like odd case so this case that
00:19:03 he presented against this company is invasion of privacy of his privacy and all that i i don't
00:19:08 foresee any full research you know so you know it depends on the case so a lot of the times is you're
00:19:16 you're a lawyer and then you become a judge and you know the law in regards to negligence or in
00:19:22 regards to invasion of privacy but you you you you have to read their pleadings but a lot of the
00:19:27 times something that you guys might not know is that these judges in california at least the civil
00:19:32 judges. They have research team that actually gives them a memo of how to rule. They can rule
00:19:39 based on that memo. So it might be what you're saying, Owen. It might be the research attorneys
00:19:44 that might be doing what you're saying, Owen, and not the judge itself.
00:19:50 Yeah. I mean, again, I'm not a lawyer. You're certainly the expert, but, and I'm sure there
00:19:54 are some clear cut cases where it's like, wait a second, it's always going to go one way because
00:19:57 that's the way it is. But I would imagine there's probably also a lot of things where you could say,
00:20:02 I'm either going to grant this or deny it.
00:20:03 And there's some case law somewhere that would support either side.
00:20:07 Yeah.
00:20:07 And then in regards to this particular case, it's an ongoing case and it would be decided by the jury.
00:20:13 It wouldn't be decided by the judge itself.
00:20:15 Just motions would be decided by the judge.
00:20:17 All right.
00:20:18 So let's hope the jury gets it right.
00:20:20 But guess what?
00:20:21 After he got in trouble, he's still keeping putting hidden material in it.
00:20:25 So he never learns.
00:20:27 Listen.
00:20:27 I mean, I would even say with the motion, though, like, yeah, a jury decides.
00:20:31 But the motions make a big difference. I mean, you remember the Kyle Rittenhouse case and a bunch of other cases where it's like the motions made a big difference.
00:20:37 Like what's allowed into evidence, what's not, whether you're supposed to give a certain jury instruction or not, like it makes a big difference.
00:20:45 Yeah. And like I said, those motions aren't treated. You don't need AI to know how to rule on such motions.
00:20:54 Well, you don't need it. But like, again, I'm thinking back to the Kyle Rittenhouse case just because I watched a lot of that.
00:20:59 And, like, clearly that judge steered things in the direction to get Kyle Rittenhouse off.
00:21:05 And I'm not saying it was biased.
00:21:07 I'm not saying it was wrong.
00:21:08 I think he did the right thing.
00:21:10 I think he made the right rulings.
00:21:11 But if that was a leftist judge, Kyle Rittenhouse would be in prison today.
00:21:15 Like the Alex Jones trial, for example.
00:21:17 Someone just pointed out that was blatant the other way.
00:21:21 Exactly.
00:21:22 That was decided by a jury, you know.
00:21:25 It's all decided by a jury, though.
00:21:26 Yeah, but that's not – you can't just say, well, the jury did it because the judge decides what the jury gets to see.
00:21:35 And he tells them how they should rule or how they should think about ruling.
00:21:39 And think about the E. Jean Carroll case.
00:21:41 Think about the Trump – the one where it's like the value of his Mar-a-Lago stuff.
00:21:46 So it's a different matter.
00:21:48 But when you think about the judges, Marcella, like a Boesberg or like the judge in the Alex Jones case or the Kyle Rittenhouse case, they all added their own emotion to it and opinion to it as it went along.
00:22:03 And you could see how persuasive that could be to a jury than that has to go deliberate.
00:22:09 So if a judge could just sit and just listen and just say, I object or sustained or whatever, that would be different.
00:22:17 but they seem to be more and more inserting their personal emotions into things so i think it it is
00:22:23 swaying juries unfortunately so it doesn't come down to like very clear cut i i have to make a
00:22:29 difference the ridden house case was a criminal case which has a higher burden when it comes to
00:22:35 civil cases there is there's a lower burden judges have more control over the case while
00:22:40 uh ridden house um i believe most judges would have ruled the same way um because it's it's
00:22:47 you're putting somebody in jail forever you know it's beyond a reasonable doubt to derrick chauvin
00:22:53 yeah well the lawyers too matter i don't know what type of lawyers he had did he have public
00:23:00 defenders did he have the the ridden house lawyers um lawyers do actually matter in a case well can 0.84
00:23:06 Can I say on the Derek Chauvin matter, I was in full agreement with Scott on this. 1.00
00:23:12 They almost had to put him in jail because the country would have blown up if they didn't.
00:23:18 Things were so high.
00:23:20 And I'm not saying that's right.
00:23:21 And Scott didn't say that was right either.
00:23:23 But it was like, man, the judge would have had his life in jeopardy.
00:23:28 The jury would have had their lives in jeopardy.
00:23:30 People were so out for blood.
00:23:33 That being said, he should be out of jail like years ago. Like he should not be in jail. I don't
00:23:40 know what the answer is for him, but that I think was to, I think people were scared to do the right
00:23:45 thing is what I think on that one. So unfortunately it doesn't always work the right way. We hope it
00:23:51 does. And I'm going to move on from this just because I do want to get to other stuff, but
00:23:55 you know, it's scary. I do, I, you know, as someone who's not in this field at all, I see a lot of
00:24:02 of irresponsible judges and i i wouldn't feel good going in front of a jury of my peers
00:24:08 anymore i think it's all broken but that's just me okay so yeah chauvin was a scapegoat for real um
00:24:14 okay so i might as well just move on here um i wanted to oh this i thought this was a great
00:24:20 idea for a little fry yay story um it's a it's a quick clip from laura ingram but i often thought
00:24:27 this was like the way to go let's take a listen to solving air traffic controller problems
00:24:35 your department i know has done some really cool things with this new generation we desperately
00:24:40 need of air traffic controllers i want everyone to watch this yeah i've been a gamer most of my
00:24:45 life they are looking for people to play video games okay well that definitely fits me yeah you
00:24:50 know i'm one of them you can merge gaming with aviation why not it's my dream career because i
00:24:55 I THINK ATC IS THE COOLEST THING
00:24:57 EVER.
00:24:57 MR. SECRETARY, I'M NOT A BIG
00:25:00 FAN OF VIDEO GAMES AND MY SONS
00:25:02 PLAY THEM TOO MUCH.
00:25:03 BUT THIS IS KIND OF COOL.
00:25:05 I HOPE IT WORKS.
00:25:08 MOMS ACROSS AMERICA LOVE ME. 0.79
00:25:09 THEIR KIDS ARE TRAINING AS
00:25:10 GAMERS TO BE AIR TRAFFIC
00:25:11 CONTROLLERS. 0.86
00:25:12 THEY MULTITASK. 0.98
00:25:13 THEY HAVE TO THINK ON THEIR FEET.
00:25:15 THEY WORK WITH THEIR HANDS AND
00:25:16 THEIR EYES.
00:25:17 AND THEY'RE MAKING GREAT
00:25:18 CONTROLLERS.
00:25:19 WE SURVEYED AIR TRAFFIC
00:25:20 CONTROLLERS AND ALMOST ALL OF
00:25:22 THEM LOVE GAMING. 0.84
00:25:23 And so we did a 24-hour pitch.
00:25:26 We had 14,000 applicants, 8,000 qualified.
00:25:29 We were getting the best and the brightest, well-qualified people to get into our schools
00:25:33 and make up the shortage, which we have in our towers and tracons across the country.
00:25:39 I love that.
00:25:41 What do you think, Marcela?
00:25:42 I think that's like perfect because it's like an opportunity for younger people to see a career.
00:25:48 And it's like, okay, I'm good at this, like hand-eye, figure out the situation.
00:25:52 you know they're the gaming is like high intensity and so maybe they're like wow like
00:25:59 it makes it exciting too because i mean nobody's lining up to be an air traffic controller if you
00:26:05 see you know like videos of them just sitting there for hours looking at a screen and drinking
00:26:11 coffee you know they're selling it cigarettes yeah yeah they're selling it as like hey this
00:26:17 is video game. This is a video game in real life, you know? Yeah, as long as they take it seriously,
00:26:22 I think it's great. They're, they, they have a skill set that they can use in real life and it
00:26:30 pays well and we need more air traffic controllers. I know that there's a push for, there was a talk
00:26:37 of getting AI involved, you know, but then again, you know, it's, I don't think it's there yet to do
00:26:44 to get rid of the AI, you know, to get rid of the air traffic controllers.
00:26:50 My understanding, it's like ancient technology still. It's like they're still using floppy
00:26:55 disks or whatever. It's not up to date. Yeah. And it's not exciting yet. So maybe
00:27:01 bringing in this generation will be, you know, will help push the excitement. And also if they
00:27:08 start introducing new technology, they're not going to be freaked out by it. Like this is
00:27:12 their wheelhouse. Like, go ahead, bring it in. You know, they might have great ideas. I mean,
00:27:16 this could be the answer to everything we need. So they said, I forget what he said. He just said
00:27:20 how many people applied, but I think he said what 8,000 qualified. So now they can like work through
00:27:26 these 8,000 people and you know, you can pick, you can see they all seemed like bright and
00:27:31 intelligent and social. And so good. I like it. I like it. Uh, yeah. And drone operators too.
00:27:38 they'd be great and whoever said what's your vector victor thank you that was perfectly timed
00:27:44 okay so i would just add i would i wouldn't be surprised if more and more of our life will become
00:27:51 gamified like that i've seen people like with a you know i'm doing some agentic development like
00:27:57 software development stuff and i've seen people say like you know look how i'm managing my agents
00:28:02 and they made it into like a video game where they can watch the agents walking around and doing
00:28:05 stuff and get points when they deliver stuff. And, you know, Brian Romelli talked about this
00:28:10 with his jewel work algorithm where it gets rewarded for doing the right thing. And it
00:28:15 is love equation where it's helping it stay aligned with human humanity. But like, I can
00:28:20 just see more and more of that where even your work, even your job might end up looking like a
00:28:25 video game. Yeah. Why not? Where you're like, Hey, you leveled up because you did this cool
00:28:30 thing and you delivered value to your team. And, you know, now here's your next task. Are you
00:28:35 going to accept the quests and go on your side quests. And I could easily see that happening
00:28:40 almost everywhere. Oh yeah. And I think, I definitely think that is the way of the future.
00:28:45 And luckily the American kids love this stuff. So that could be, that could be good. Oh, but
00:28:51 speaking about jobs, let me just jump over here to Scott percent. Um, because I, you know, I,
00:28:57 you know, I know he's sugarcoating things cause he has to, but I, you know, I noticed that when
00:29:01 And he talks about where jobs are gaining.
00:29:04 Let's take a listen.
00:29:06 The Biden administration, they said it was a five session.
00:29:10 And we know what has happened here.
00:29:13 But I think as people feel the turn, which they should be now, then there is light at
00:29:21 the end of the tunnel.
00:29:22 Things are getting better.
00:29:24 We're seeing construction jobs picking up.
00:29:26 We're seeing manufacturing jobs picking up.
00:29:28 The unemployment rate dropped.
00:29:30 We are seeing the big component of the workforce, the mid-20s to mid-50s, is very stable.
00:29:38 And, Rob, the other important thing, too, is these jobs are going to Americans.
00:29:42 Like, we have seen over 2 million jobs created for Americans, and we've seen over a million illegals leave the workforce.
00:29:49 And guess what? 0.51
00:29:50 The laws of supply and demand still work. 0.97
00:29:53 When you take the illegals out of the workforce, working-class wages go up. 1.00
00:29:57 when you send them back home rents go down 0.99
00:30:00 so you see jobs going to the trades which we cannot stop talking about here i know i can't
00:30:10 um so what do we think about the jobs report ellen
00:30:14 oh well i i do agree with the sign which is kind of hard not to do most of the time i think he's
00:30:20 one of those people scott would have said you know when he says something you got to like
00:30:23 revisit your own opinion if you just agreed with them but um i think it's a great trend to have
00:30:28 jobs coming back to americans and that's you know even if you see a jobs report where it says oh we
00:30:34 lost some jobs you have to put that in context all the time and they never do it seems like you
00:30:38 know i see all these posts or news stories are like oh jobs report was worse than we thought
00:30:43 and then when i dig into the numbers it's like okay we deported a bunch of people and those are
00:30:47 the jobs that went away because if you look at it it's all the part that dropped is the jobs to
00:30:52 non-native americans which is the only way they track it they don't track illegal aliens but they
00:30:56 you know they say how many went to native-born americans and how many to non-native-born
00:31:01 americans and so you can at least speculate that okay that basically you got rid of a whole bunch 0.86
00:31:07 of illegal aliens so all those somalians in ohio you know lost their jobs so those are part of the
00:31:13 job numbers but then there's all these numbers going up for native-born americans and so and
00:31:18 And if you look back to the trends, it was really bad for a long time, like back to 2018, which was still part of the Trump administration. 0.78
00:31:24 I think that was like the peak of native born American jobs.
00:31:28 And then from there, all the way through the Biden administration, native born American jobs were dropping. 0.96
00:31:33 We were gaining jobs, supposedly, but they were all going to non-Native Americans. 0.81
00:31:40 And it only reversed like in the last year or two, like when Trump got back in office. 0.99
00:31:45 So I think it's a huge positive trend in my mind that the people who are actual US citizens that were born here are getting a lot more of the jobs. And so I think you always have to look at that. I mean, there's another statistic that keeps being thrown around about the labor force participation that people are dropping out of the labor force.
00:32:02 But I always respond to those things like, dude, you got to, like, most of it is boomers retiring.
00:32:11 Like, that's most of it. 0.61
00:32:12 And yes, the boomer generation is big.
00:32:14 And that means a lot of people are no longer working.
00:32:16 But is this really unexpected?
00:32:19 I mean, they're getting old.
00:32:21 They're going to stop working.
00:32:22 And it doesn't mean that, like, everybody's dropping out of the labor force, which is usually what people are trying to say.
00:32:27 So a lot of these numbers are very deceptive and it falls right in line with what Scott would always say, that all data is fake and it's used to push whatever point you're trying to make or whatever agenda you're pushing.
00:32:38 And it's either being used to try and make Trump look bad or trying to make Trump look good.
00:32:42 And you need to, you know, dig into the real context to really make sense of it.
00:32:48 Somebody who just pointed it out, oh, Smar pointed out, too, that a lot of the jobs lost were federal jobs because they're making major cuts.
00:32:56 So those and then those people will maybe take the new jobs and maybe they'll become air traffic controllers.
00:33:02 Who knows? So, Marcella, did you this is just I'm throwing this out here.
00:33:08 I learned this last night that I had no idea.
00:33:11 But the cent worked for George Soros on the investing part of his life.
00:33:17 I was like, what? But he says he hasn't spoke to him since, I think, 2016.
00:33:22 um and he said that you know he said well the investment part of soros and the world domination
00:33:31 this is my word part of soros were very separated but he said that um he made a lot of money because
00:33:38 basent made a lot of money because when trump won the market crashed and he said and the person
00:33:45 crashing the market was george soros he was selling everything and basent said he and some
00:33:50 people bought everything and made a ton of money. So I was just like, oh, interesting with George
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00:34:45 to help yeah that's that's an interesting fact that that that they kind of just put by the side
00:34:52 yeah i've i've known that for a while but um you know like like owen and um scott would say
00:35:02 that all data is sort of persuasion of uh finessing but it looks like it was mostly
00:35:10 government loss, uh, of jobs, uh, last, last month. And the gain, which is great is if we
00:35:18 believe the numbers construction gain, there was a gain in construction and private education and
00:35:23 health services. I don't know what, what the, you know, maybe people don't want to send their kids
00:35:28 to public school. I don't blame them. Marcella, you just gave me the perfect segue to my heart,
00:35:35 my heart story that I didn't start with. Okay. So yes, more people are homeschooling
00:35:43 totally understandably. So, um, we've had Corey DeAngelis on here so many times talking about
00:35:50 the problems in public school. Um, you know, parents not being involved or not having the
00:35:55 time or whatever it is, but here's a teacher. Wait, I was going to play a mystery. Let me
00:36:00 make sure I have his name because, man. Okay. His name is Darius Williams. He is in Houston,
00:36:08 Texas at the Wheatley High School. He's an English teacher. Okay. This is just heartbreaking. Let's
00:36:18 take a listen. I literally broke down in the middle of class because
00:36:24 i'm teaching seniors these kids are leaving high school and going to college hopefully after they
00:36:37 finish we had two paragraphs to read one sentence complete to write
00:36:49 I gave them
00:36:53 the sentence stems
00:36:55 I basically
00:36:58 completed the sentence for them
00:37:00 in the model
00:37:01 these are 17
00:37:05 and 18 year old kids
00:37:09 and they couldn't fill in
00:37:13 four words
00:37:15 four
00:37:17 words
00:37:18 i gave them the scenario we annotated together i gave them the answers before we even had the
00:37:32 problem and they couldn't do it
00:37:37 i don't know i simply don't know where the problem is
00:37:47 This is only day two. And I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write.
00:38:02 they cannot write they can reason they have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking
00:38:12 to their homeboy but applying that to a written text two paragraphs that they couldn't do it
00:38:21 are young black men, are young brown men, are young black girls, and are young brown girls.
00:38:38 Oh, God.
00:38:42 Oh, my God. That is just so heartbreaking. But it is the fact of what's happening in this world.
00:38:49 And I've seen so many man on the street interviews where someone like goes up to like a 20 year old and says, you know, can you read this for me? And they can't read it. It's like a paragraph that like at senior level reading, you should be able to read.
00:39:07 And it's so crazy to me that we have like this whole entire class of people or groups of people or like a practically a generation of people where the bulk of them don't know how to read or write.
00:39:21 And how do you fix it now?
00:39:23 And I'm sure COVID had a lot to do with it.
00:39:26 Maybe their upbringing, maybe their family dynamic.
00:39:28 I don't know.
00:39:29 But I thought like we learned how to read and write as little ones.
00:39:32 so how do how do the system let them go all the way to be seniors and they can't well you you
00:39:38 can't you you can't flunk anyone like uh like you used to in the past um you cannot like when when
00:39:46 they're in elementary because i used to be a teacher and i taught english for for high school
00:39:52 students as well um and you cannot flunk them um my my brother has a best friend that came from
00:39:59 romania and his dad was a teacher in romania so a math teacher so he started teaching math in
00:40:06 california he was fired because he graded too severely and this is this is uh math where you
00:40:14 know it's yes or no you got it right you got it wrong he had to start his own private business
00:40:19 for tutoring um because he was not allowed to actually grade the way that you gave something
00:40:25 to someone and then he, oh no, your grading is too. So it's, it's the, this idea that we cannot,
00:40:33 um, leave someone behind if they don't know how to read. We just have to give them additional help,
00:40:40 but you can't, you know, flunk someone out. Well, it says, um, in 2024, 35% of 12th graders,
00:40:50 35 percent of 12th graders are proficient and the rest aren't and then it says that's the lowest
00:40:59 since 1992 so it's getting worse um yeah i know i know what scott would say about this he would say
00:41:06 this is the teachers unions it's their fault because it's not the teachers there was a story
00:41:12 just going through the news right now that is a teacher got fired because she refused to give
00:41:17 someone a zero for not handing in their homework, that she had to give him a 50% for nothing. 0.91
00:41:23 And she got fired because she wouldn't do it.
00:41:25 I would argue it's the parents as well, because if you, as a teacher, grade that student very low and the parent is like going berserk after you and they want you fired.
00:41:37 So the reason that this Romanian teacher got fired here in California was not the teacher's union, it was actually the parents.
00:41:44 because they're like you can't flunk my so it kind of goes both ways all of it yeah i get that i get
00:41:51 that the parents play a role but the administrators need to tell the parents no yeah they need to say
00:41:58 this is the standard and if your student isn't going to meet it then they're going to fail
00:42:02 and i'm sorry you don't like it but that's just the way it is and if it's a public school they
00:42:08 might not be able to expel the kid unless he really does flunk out or something but in a private
00:42:12 school, I would say they should just say, if your kid can't do it, then go somewhere else.
00:42:17 And if it's a public school, say, well, we can put them in remedial classes. You can tutor them,
00:42:22 whatever. We can provide tutors. All these are the things that they have resources for,
00:42:25 supposedly, that all these taxpayer dollars are going to. But to just say, we're just going to
00:42:30 pass them for doing nothing and not learning is not doing anyone a service, including the kids
00:42:35 and including the parents. And if the parents are demanding that their kid get credit for nothing,
00:42:40 then they're trying to screw their own kid so the administrators need to step in and say i'm
00:42:46 gonna have a backbone and i'm gonna stand up to the parents and tell them these are our standards
00:42:51 and this is what your student needs to do and you know i understand they might have a lot of
00:42:56 pressure it might be very uncomfortable but the alternative is what we're seeing now that kids
00:43:02 are going all the way through high school and they don't even know how to write or read i don't know
00:43:05 I think everything is a problem. Okay. Randy Weingarten's a huge problem. Okay. Why do we
00:43:12 even have a teacher's union? Why? Abolish it. Let the school districts hear from the students,
00:43:21 from the parents, have higher standards for these kids, not lower. I was talking to someone last
00:43:29 night and they go to a beach club that has a swimming pool. And they said, oh yeah, no, the
00:43:35 kids are like maniacs at the pool. And this is like a very affluent town where she is. And that
00:43:41 the lifeguards are not allowed to tell the kids like no running. It's a rule because the parents
00:43:48 flip out. And I'm like, what? So she's like, yeah, so they can run, like fall, smash their head.
00:43:55 And I mean, don't you guys remember growing up, it was like no running by the pool. You have to
00:43:59 sit, there's adult swim and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. And these kids now, so the, the, um, the
00:44:05 staff at the beach club were like, no, if the lifeguards say anything to the kids, the parents
00:44:10 flip out. So you over obnoxious Karen parents out there flipping out because somebody needs to tell 0.99
00:44:18 your kids something, you're a fricking problem. Your kids are not special little princess and 0.99
00:44:25 print snowflakes. Okay. They're the future of this world and we're going to all be stuck with
00:44:30 them. And, you know, enough of that, like there are rules or consequences. And so somebody wrote
00:44:36 in the chat that, Oh, Victor Davis Hanson said that like when the kids get a bad grade, the
00:44:41 parents show up with an attorney to say that. Yeah. That that's not fair grading. Listen,
00:44:46 life's not fair, but there are rules and there are standards. Okay. So enough of this snowflake
00:44:52 culture. I'm so sick of it. And I would absolutely homeschool my kids if there was any way to do it, 1.00
00:44:58 buddy up with other people, hire a retired teacher to teach your kids. You guys, when they're young,
00:45:04 can do it yourselves. And then you have time to get a pod together. And maybe each one of you
00:45:10 have a special talent you can do. There's complete curriculum you can buy that you follow how to do
00:45:16 at homeschool. You're not making it up out of thin air, but man, that would be the best thing
00:45:21 you could do for your kids to get them out of this mental institution of public school um any
00:45:27 last words on this from either of you no it's sad oh go ahead i would just reiterate i think it's
00:45:34 because the administrators are spineless and i saw it with my own kids when they were going through
00:45:38 like when my kid got in a fight um the administrator's response and the policy of the
00:45:43 school was to say oh if there's a fight then both kids get suspended no matter who started it no
00:45:49 matter who was at fault. And so we, you know, we got notified that our kid was like being sent home
00:45:54 from school or something. And we were like, well, okay, what happened? And like, well, he was in a
00:45:58 fight and, you know, we were lucky because apparently there had been cameras installed
00:46:03 recently that like the parents paid for, I think actually. And it showed very clearly that my kid
00:46:09 didn't start the fight. And so, you know, that, that helped, but still they were, you know, like
00:46:16 saying i mean we met with the administrator and i may have told this part of the story before but
00:46:23 he broke down in tears like we were just kind of like we were your child no the administrator
00:46:30 he broke down in tears well we were just saying kind of like a wtf like what's going on where
00:46:36 were the where was the teacher um you know why were you why are you punishing my kid for basically
00:46:41 being hit and um he just started crying and both my wife and i who were both there were like okay
00:46:52 what's going on like yeah and and we asked him like you know are you okay like and he's like
00:46:58 well i was imagining this happening in my own kit oh and i so i can understand the emotional part of
00:47:05 it but it's just like they don't it's still kind of like a spineless thing it's like they're trying
00:47:11 to use their feelings for everything like the feelings are the dominant thing in everything
00:47:16 and so when someone's failing and they're unhappy or when a parent is angry they just want to like
00:47:21 work through the feeling part of it and not say wait a second we need to make sure these kids
00:47:26 actually are prepared to have a job and have a productive life and we can't lower our standards
00:47:32 and we can't use DEI to say it's racist to fail a black kid and it's the opposite of what they
00:47:38 should do. And it's the opposite of what King Randall is doing. And it's nothing like what
00:47:45 we should be doing. And I blame the administrators because I think a lot of the teachers really
00:47:50 sincerely want their kids to succeed and they want to have the standards. And in many cases,
00:47:54 they're not allowed to. I agree. So you know what? I don't know. Again, we don't know how to fix it,
00:48:02 But I would say burn down the teacher's union, get rid of it altogether, and have- 0.66
00:48:09 Send them to El Salvador for one month in school there.
00:48:13 No, right to jail. 0.74
00:48:14 And then also have the same standards for everybody.
00:48:18 Let's stop making special concessions for your special privileged children.
00:48:23 Give me a break. 1.00
00:48:24 They're just a bunch of idiots if they can't read and write at the end of the day. 1.00
00:48:28 So is that what you want for your kid? 1.00
00:48:30 don't you want better for them and for society whatever so it's just it really freaks me out
00:48:36 that that we're in this situation in 2026 that kids are seniors and they can't read or write
00:48:41 go ahead marcella the other thing is like reading is not cool in school um like reading they bully
00:48:51 other the other kids for doing their work like i used to be like you know loved reading did all my
00:48:58 work and i i read lots of books i went you know i was i read more than the teachers read um and then
00:49:07 um i would get bullied but then i would bully back because i didn't i wasn't gonna just be like
00:49:13 you know the same person you see now is the same person i was in in high school but i remember
00:49:20 there was the sense that if you did your homework or you did your you know you liked math or science
00:49:26 and all that that you're not cool that you're not in football or volleyball and you know it's this
00:49:33 idea that it's a cultural thing i don't know uh but you get a lot of these kids have the pressure
00:49:39 of also not being cool by not reading so i agree with you completely i saw the same thing all
00:49:48 growing up when i was a kid it's been here a long time and vivek gramoswamy tried to point it out
00:49:52 and everyone got mad at him and said he was anti-american because he was kind of saying
00:49:56 it's a cultural issue it's a problem here and it is i mean you have a lot of peer pressure to say
00:50:01 oh you're a nerd you're you're the smart kid and like you know let's beat you up or let's treat
00:50:06 you like an outcast just because you're the smart kid and you're making us all look bad because you 0.97
00:50:10 get straight a's on everything and it's the opposite of what happens in a lot of other
00:50:13 countries like you know it's not just india but china and all the asian countries you hear about
00:50:19 the tiger moms, Europe is somewhat the same way. It's like you have a standardized test that you
00:50:24 have to pass and that determines what college you get into. And you, you, it's kind of like
00:50:28 strictly prioritized, like, okay, the people who go to Oxford are the, you know, the top students.
00:50:32 So if you have to, if you want to go there, you have to get the top scores on the test and
00:50:36 you have to study hard to get there. And I think that sort of system has led to an achievement
00:50:42 sort of culture in schools to say you're competing. And especially in a place like India,
00:50:46 it drives a lot of behavior because they know that if you don't do well enough on those tests
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00:51:34 like japan also yeah yeah your education's everything yeah and it's just but but all
00:51:45 i'm saying is that like for children in that kind of inner city urban area like oh you want to be
00:51:53 smart oh who do you think you are marcella i'm like marcella so it's this if you if you do if
00:52:01 that teacher does get to one of the students it's like they can't really show their their smarts in
00:52:07 front of the rest of the there's like i get it yeah everything's everything's broken we idolize
00:52:13 the wrong things we're like we love ghetto culture we love you know the rap game we love 0.92
00:52:19 you know influencers chicks twerking and blah blah we idolize all the wrong shit so until people 0.84
00:52:27 can make a shift and just say, listen, we're going to start promoting and propping up things 0.97
00:52:34 that actually matter. Like go get your education, get a job, learn a trade, read a book, mentor
00:52:41 people that you can help. If people could just immerse themselves into their own bubble and find
00:52:48 a way to cancel the noise, yeah, it's hard. And it's harder for some people than others. And
00:52:52 And like I always say, the school I went to was so, I mean, bougie. And it was the same thing. 1.00
00:53:01 It wasn't like people wanted to be like the smartest and this and that. They just wanted
00:53:05 to like have the nice car and the good outfit. And like, you know, I know that that can happen
00:53:09 everywhere, but I feel like parents and schools were different then. It was like, well, guess
00:53:13 what? You're not graduating and you're not going on to the next grade and you'll be in summer
00:53:18 school all summer and whatever. And there were consequences, but now there's no consequences
00:53:24 for anything or anyone. Look around, look at all the crying teachers you see on TikTok and all of
00:53:31 the crying politicians and people. That's not fair. If I hear the word fair one more time,
00:53:37 so everybody needs personal accountability and our systems to get through life need to have
00:53:45 standards and accountability. It's the same thing. We can't have two sets of rules or 30 sets of
00:53:50 rules. It's just got to be a whole kit and caboodle. Let's get real people. So we only
00:53:58 have a couple of minutes left and I did just want to play a quick clip of our vice president. I was
00:54:04 saying this the other day that, again, talking about young people today, that I really feel like
00:54:09 a lot of young people are drawn to the socialism or communism, we should just call it, because
00:54:16 the economy's tough and life is hard and they're making promises that they just can't keep. But
00:54:22 let's take a listen. Our response to socialism, which is a dangerous and destructive ideology,
00:54:27 it's been tried in the past and failed. Our response to that can't be just to ignore the
00:54:33 economic concerns that I think are feeding this rising interest in socialism. And I guess I would
00:54:38 say to that young person that you as an American citizen deserve to have a good life in this
00:54:43 country, and you deserve to have a government that is making it easier for you to start
00:54:47 a family, for you to afford to get a good education, for you to have a good job, for
00:54:52 you to afford a home.
00:54:53 And what I would also say is that whilst these things sometimes take a little bit of time,
00:54:57 we are already seeing the positive results come from the president's economic policies.
00:55:02 We're seeing trillions of dollars of new investment into this country, which means
00:55:07 good middle-class jobs for young people, middle-income people, all across our country.
00:55:13 We're seeing housing prices finally stabilize.
00:55:17 They doubled during the Biden administration.
00:55:19 They have finally kind of flatlined during the first year and a half of the Trump administration.
00:55:24 We also want to get interest rates down, of course, so that young people can afford a
00:55:28 home.
00:55:28 We want people to be able to afford the good things about this wonderful country that we
00:55:33 all live in.
00:55:34 And my warning to my fellow Republicans, Will, would be if we don't get this right, don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism.
00:55:43 We've got to blame ourselves.
00:55:44 And I think what is so unique and refreshing about Donald Trump's economic policies is that it's not the same old economic ideas that you would have heard 30, 40 years ago.
00:55:56 He's talking about rebuilding our industrial base, rebuilding the heartland, making our streets safer, making it possible for young people to afford to buy a home.
00:56:05 This is how you stop socialism.
00:56:08 You don't stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market.
00:56:12 As much as I love the free market, you stop socialism by making people's lives better.
00:56:17 And that's what we're trying to do every single day.
00:56:20 OK, so I totally agree with that.
00:56:23 I think that that is a big draw for the younger people. They're not like fully paying attention
00:56:29 to exactly what everything means, but they know how far their money does and doesn't go.
00:56:35 And so they're like, all right, well, like this chick says I'm here so people don't pay rent.
00:56:41 And I'd like to not pay rent and I'd like some free stuff. And I'd like the billionaires to
00:56:46 give me their money. So I think JD's right. If they get this wrong, you can't blame the young
00:56:54 people, Owen. What do you think? Well, I think he's on the right track. I mean, I think we do
00:56:59 need to do as much as possible right now to make things affordable. And I do think the Trump
00:57:05 administration is sincerely trying. They're lowering drug prices. They're trying. I mean,
00:57:10 I certainly could blame them for having the whole Iran war thing drag on and on. But I think 1.00
00:57:16 the intent there is ultimately to stabilize and lower oil prices.
00:57:20 And I know they're doing everything from OPEC to domestic oil production and
00:57:23 everything else in Venezuela and all the other things to try and keep the oil
00:57:27 supply going.
00:57:28 I still think that's a huge issue because I think we've depleted a lot of the
00:57:32 world's reserves and there isn't much more to go.
00:57:35 So I'm worried about that part.
00:57:36 And I hope we can bring that conflict to a close so that we don't end up
00:57:40 running out of oil and having it go up to $200 a barrel.
00:57:42 but otherwise you know they're they're trying to work with the grocery places and everywhere else
00:57:47 to try and keep prices down so i i agree and i think we need to do everything possible to keep
00:57:53 prices down i still would say you know maybe from a petty political point of view that most of this
00:57:59 was biden most of this was putting trillions of dollars into the economy and causing massive
00:58:04 inflation but nobody's going to care about that politically nobody's going to care they're going
00:58:08 to blame the current administration and if they don't like the fact that things are so expensive
00:58:12 they're not going to say oh yeah it was biden's fault so i'm going to re-elect vance they they're
00:58:16 going to have to believe that he's going to do a better job than aoc or newsom or whoever it is
00:58:22 on the other side right marcella well i i positive thinking here i i don't think a lot of the youth
00:58:30 are for socialism and for communism regardless of all the hardship they would have to deal with
00:58:36 getting a house or uh doing whatever i i really think it's a minority of them i really do i think
00:58:42 the minority is very loud and and as we i think erica pointed out ones that she talked about is
00:58:49 revolutions can be done by just a few people and can change the whole scheme but i think that is
00:58:56 something that we're missing charlie kirk for um charlie kirk would remind us that tp usa and many
00:59:03 other um entities have gone into schools a lot of children are um or young people are going into
00:59:11 you know becoming more christian becoming more homeschooling is happening so there's a lot of
00:59:17 progress and i'd have to say that a lot of them are in the trades they're going into the trades
00:59:22 they're seeing their actual physical work do something um i would like to see the administration
00:59:29 um reduce taxes for people uh that get paid 200 000 or more you know something like that where
00:59:37 you see a reduction in your taxes like he did tax um the the tips i forget what it's oh no tax on
00:59:44 tips yeah yeah something like that where they see um in their taxes they see that they're they
00:59:51 keeping more of their money um and they're not seeing their tax dollars go to ukraine or or go
00:59:58 to iran or you know in in that sense because we all we get bombarded with is this fraud this
01:00:06 medicaid fraud or yeah there's these armed dealers that are like getting paid you know
01:00:11 i think uh the serno was going on about on on eggs which he should be about how the ukrainian
01:00:18 oligarchy are like the main the upper class you go to monaco you go to certain areas and they're
01:00:25 all with like supercars like lamborghinis and all that so the idea is for this administration 0.95
01:00:33 not just to talk but to do the things that are hard which is like the tax but you know that
01:00:38 would have to be congress as well so we know that things aren't working out there so yeah i would
01:00:44 want to see them keep more of their money i would too so listen i think we're on the right track we
01:00:49 have you know i think as a group here we have the right idea you guys like you know everybody in
01:00:55 and this chat's pretty fricking smart. And so, you know, we could all be like little King Randalls
01:01:01 and, you know, little Nick Shirley's and whatever, and just do what you can to be a little Charlie
01:01:07 Kirk, you know, so do what you can with where you live for your community. And I mean, the littlest
01:01:13 things can end up making a difference. They can have a ripple effect, but don't be afraid to stand
01:01:18 up and make suggestions or say something. It really could make a huge difference. And if enough
01:01:24 of us are doing that and we're all honey badgers as gad sad would say you know that ripples out
01:01:30 that's a lot of people creating little ripples everywhere and maybe we can make a wave for a
01:01:36 change and also shout out to jd a loved his suit it was beautiful and b he's on the rfkj diet of
01:01:44 like eating sauerkraut and fermented foods and stuff he's really thinning out looking good jd
01:01:50 credit where credit's due so um anyway i know owen's gonna come in with a bucket of sauerkraut
01:01:57 on monday um so oh wait traveling with a cooler sauerkraut yes yeah yes yep it's funny that's
01:02:06 like the korean diet right the kimchi kimchi so um owen tell us about this weekend what's going
01:02:14 on with the after party we're having the after party so the after party is tomorrow and we'll
01:02:19 have the Sunday simultaneous sip on Sunday and I'll have my subscriber spaces after that.
01:02:25 So the full, the full round of things, everything will be there.
01:02:29 Never a day where you don't have one of us there to sip along with you guys.
01:02:34 What book are you reviewing in your, um, subscriber spaces is still the, um, Carnegie?
01:02:39 Yeah, we're going through how to win friends and influence people.
01:02:42 So I mean, the way we've been running this is, you know, it's really a conversation.
01:02:46 It's not like, I mean, some people do these book clubs where you get together once a month
01:02:50 and you talk about a book, and you might cover the whole book in one session.
01:02:55 And if it was a short book, we might do that.
01:02:56 But I think we're really talking about these ideas.
01:02:59 And so it takes a while.
01:03:00 And we take our time and we have people give their examples or points or what they agree
01:03:05 or disagree with or what their thoughts are.
01:03:07 And we let the conversation go as it is.
01:03:10 So I think we're probably about halfway through it.
01:03:12 And we'll just continue on until we're done.
01:03:15 Great.
01:03:15 And I mean, I think, I think we probably had like 12 sessions for 48 Laws of Power.
01:03:19 So like it can go on for a while, but I think it's always a good conversation.
01:03:23 You guys subscribe to, yeah, subscribe to Owen also.
01:03:27 So, you know, it's, it's nice.
01:03:29 Like now I think with X money, I actually got a tip the other day.
01:03:33 I won't name who it was.
01:03:34 I was like, oh my gosh.
01:03:35 But you can tip Owen.
01:03:38 You can subscribe to his channel or to anybody.
01:03:40 You can tip me too.
01:03:41 You can tip Marcella.
01:03:42 it's just a way to just say like, thank you. Like, you know,
01:03:46 you're putting your work in. Owen's there for hours over the weekend.
01:03:50 Does that mean no tax on that tip?
01:03:55 And so it's nice. So his subscriber spaces, Owen, what's your subscriber fee?
01:04:00 It's minimal.
01:04:02 It's $3 a month.
01:04:03 Okay. So $3 a month. And if you're a subscriber, Owen does a show on Sundays,
01:04:08 like he's talking about this book and he takes his time and it's a good time.
01:04:12 So you guys can chat and have fun.
01:04:15 Marcel, I don't know what you're laughing at right now.
01:04:17 I just read a simple.
01:04:19 Oh, was it Andy?
01:04:21 Simple is good.
01:04:23 Simple is good.
01:04:24 Okay.
01:04:25 So you guys, just so you know, so Owen will be there tomorrow.
01:04:28 And let's always say thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing the show to continue.
01:04:34 You guys, if you didn't hit the like button, could you please?
01:04:38 We were doing our best.
01:04:40 We work hard, and we would just appreciate a like, a subscribe, or ring the bell, okay?
01:04:47 And so thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing this show to continue.
01:04:50 Thank you to every single person who shows up here live and on the replay.
01:04:55 We appreciate you all.
01:04:56 And as always, let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott.
01:05:00 And I will miss you, Metal Seer, and I will stay for an Akira song today, okay, you guys?
01:05:06 Okay.
01:05:07 To Scott.
01:05:08 To Scott.
01:05:08 To Scott.
01:05:09 Scott.
01:05:10 have a great weekend guys bye everyone bye guys okay let's see
01:05:18 oh which one i feel like i pick a vibe thank you gina gina just tipped us gina
01:05:30 so cute sweet okay let's do do something
01:05:35 oh i thought you wanted to do something
01:05:40 have you heard the phrase freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
01:05:50 you've heard that right
01:05:53 freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
01:05:59 how about that college class you were going to sign up for how about that sport you wanted to
01:06:05 get involved in? How about that motorcycle you wanted? Too dangerous, right? Or you're
01:06:10 free. Thank you, Steven. You're free. Every one of you who is depressed and anxious, you're
01:06:20 free. You're free. Because nothing you do will be worse than the way you feel right
01:06:28 do something do something dangerous psychologically dangerous take a chance put yourself out there 0.90
01:06:37 flame out get killed just get smashed just go do it you're free 0.97
01:06:43 freedom's just another word for nothing left to live 0.98
01:06:47 you're free do something do something
01:06:53 If you want to meet people, here's the best way to do it.
01:07:06 You have to join activities.
01:07:09 There is no other way to meet people and inform lasting friendships.
01:07:15 Hear this clearly.
01:07:17 There's no other way to do it.
01:07:19 You have to join an activity, a club, a sport, a gym, an organization, a political movement, nothing else.
01:07:31 You can't just make a friend.
01:07:34 Like, good luck.
01:07:36 You can try.
01:07:37 Well, I don't think I've ever seen it work.
01:07:40 Hiya, you know, Baba.
01:07:42 Hearing good things about you, I think we could be friends.
01:07:46 Doesn't it?
01:07:46 We can.
01:07:47 Do something.
01:07:49 Do something.
01:07:51 Enjoy the thing.
01:07:52 Make a sport.
01:07:54 Form a club of your own.
01:07:57 Just go do it.
01:07:59 You're free.
01:08:01 Freedom's just another word.
01:08:03 For nothing left to lose.
01:08:05 You're free.
01:08:07 Do something.
01:08:09 Do something.
01:08:10 Freedom's just another word.
01:08:12 For nothing left to lose.
01:08:14 You're free.
01:08:15 Do something
01:08:17 Why would you not form a club of your own?
01:08:23 Because you're afraid nobody would come, right?
01:08:26 What's the difference? 0.96
01:08:27 You're as good as dead 0.99
01:08:28 You're depressed, you're anxious, you hate your life 0.99
01:08:31 You're thinking about putting a
01:08:33 I can't say that here, but
01:08:34 You're thinking about
01:08:36 Maybe life isn't worth it
01:08:38 You're afraid
01:08:39 You're absolutely afraid
01:08:43 Go have some fun
01:08:45 Marcella 0.83
01:08:48 Do it with me
01:09:15 Now, I gotta tell you, I've used this technique a number of times, and man, does it work.
01:09:32 It really works.
01:09:33 You're free.
01:09:34 Just remember that people criticizing you are narcissists. 0.82
01:09:37 They are broken.
01:09:39 Don't let it break you.
01:09:41 You've got some techniques now.
01:09:42 and i think you're gonna be a lot better go get yourselves and friends and you'll find your mental
01:09:49 health problems feel a lot better go get involved in something join the group form a group be the
01:09:55 boss that is your advice for the day and i will talk to you later the debate starting soon it
01:10:06 hasn't started yet they put um they put the starting soon thing so probably more minutes
01:10:11 this is the debate with andrew wilson it is live stream you know you guys so like it's all live
01:10:19 if you know you know if you know you know well try to know because it's gonna be exciting
01:10:24 it's gonna be juicy we will not be covering it here but we'll be watching it
01:10:28 oh my goodness goodness stella is out of control y'all oh we love stella i love her
01:10:35 i don't know how to make her stop crying she's like can you feed me again and again and again
01:10:42 i fed her that's what i was doing i but i'm going like this in the middle of the show it's because
01:10:45 i have to put food down for her she's got the whole world in her hands leo hasn't made a sound 0.99
01:10:53 so i'm glad in a way she's sleeping over there oh look at her she stayed out all night so
01:11:03 okay you guys all right tell me what you want i think i'm coming on tonight do you want me to come
01:11:11 on to chill and chat with erica or on scottadams.locals.com you guys decide and um
01:11:21 depends on how spicy your show will be if you want spice i think erica yeah if you want it more
01:11:29 spicy like anything goes it'll be my channel i have to be a little bit more reserved and respectful
01:11:37 for scott's all right we got a chill we got a scott adams chilling either scott adams well it
01:11:45 kind of forces some of them to become a subscriber well subscribe i make like a dollar if you
01:11:52 subscribe for the entire month and i appreciate it so i'm just letting you know um let's see what
01:12:01 erica will be on locals crank it'll be it's either the scott one or erica one yeah i don't think can
01:12:09 you do both maybe no i don't think i can i can try but i don't think so um all right so we'll see
01:12:19 maybe i'll do two who knows you can do two cameras like you remember how scott would have us on a
01:12:28 on two different ipads he would use one ipad for us and one oh i could do that that's true
01:12:36 you'd be like i'm gonna mute you guys now and scott because i'm gonna say something spicy in mine
01:12:42 no alien there will not be a devil's handshake i'm sorry to disappoint you that was exclusively
01:12:48 for scott's uh audience we'll have other type of handshakes there's many other handshakes to be had
01:12:55 marcella will be joining me so she can explain them all to you
01:13:00 all right guys um i have to go watch a debate clean my house it hasn't started but it's it's
01:13:09 on the starting soon okay two cameras one erica it's either on the you um on pbd's channel or
01:13:17 on candace owens channel if you need to okay so candace owens and what's the guy's name andrew
01:13:24 wilson andrew wilson are going to have a debate regarding charlie kirk's assassination whether
01:13:31 it's a patsy on candace side or whether there's overwhelming evidence that tyler robinson did it
01:13:38 and patrick bet david has agreed to host the debate and be the mediator between them right
01:13:46 so we're gonna watch because it's like a soap opera and we like that it's like a telenovela
01:13:52 and it's live you guys it's live live in this house and candace i don't know if you guys know
01:13:59 she's pregnant so it's at her uh show in tennessee um because she couldn't travel
01:14:06 so and he can and andrew wilson's known for smoking but he cannot smoke in front of her
01:14:11 i mean like duh it's like how can you even complain she's fully pregnant you think you're
01:14:16 going to go in her house and chain smoke i mean come on now let's get a grip people
01:14:22 okay you should cut back on this like you can hear that like cigarette voice like you know
01:14:26 he stinks i'm just saying he reeks and sounds of cigarette smoke not that there's nothing wrong
01:14:32 with that but that's what he sounds like oh my lord we'll see we'll see all right early for a 0.80
01:14:39 a debate too, but let's do it. I know. Right. Um, so listen, maybe somewhere tonight, I can't,
01:14:46 we're, we're like still on YouTube right now. If you guys have not hit the like button,
01:14:49 come on now, hit the like button. You're naughty. I know. Very naughty. So, um, let's go. So tonight
01:14:57 you guys, um, I'm going to come on one of the channels. If Marcella wants to join,
01:15:02 I will give her the link and we'll just have a little hangout. Okay. All right, guys, go out
01:15:07 there. Be useful. We love you. Have a best day. And if we don't see you till Monday,
01:15:12 have a great, great weekend. We have three guests next week. Tuesday, Joshua Lysak. Wednesday,
01:15:18 Mark Mitchell, formerly from Rasmussen Reports. And Thursday, Brian Romley.
01:15:28 Contrarian. I'm not sure yet. It's going to be on Locals. If you're talking about tonight,
01:15:33 it's going to be on locals um so either my subscriber channel or scott's subscriber channel
01:15:39 so either one so either chill and put it in x the link to the link in x i'll link it that'd be
01:15:46 great for them it'll if marcella's coming on with me it'll probably be my channel
01:15:50 it's too spicy where so i was never complaining about spice no and we really were like the spice
01:16:02 girls me and you so yeah all right so it'll i said it's settled it's the spice girls after dark
01:16:09 on chill and chat with erica on locals.com okay all right guys so we'll see you later alligator
01:16:16 somebody make the the thumbnail make me a thumbnail and uh we'll see you later on tonight okay
01:16:21 bye guys hasn't started yet okay bye
01:16:32 Thank you.