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00:04:39.240 it blew your minds amazing welcome in youtube and x spotify how are you rumble uh you guys

00:04:49.220 Joel Pollack is going to be joining us this morning.

00:04:52.320 He's going to give us some updates, talk some news.

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00:04:57.760 For those of you that missed yesterday, Marcella told us about Yogurtland, and here she is

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00:05:07.400 We didn't get to highlight it enough, Marcella, so here comes Joel.

00:05:13.000 The man goes, oh, here's Yogurtland, and he's like right there.

00:05:18.760 I like yogurt land.

00:05:21.080 Here he is.

00:05:22.440 It's Joel, Uncle Joel.

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00:05:26.760 Joel, he's out in nature.

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00:05:36.600 Oh, fantastic.

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00:07:15.060 heck are you? Is he frozen? He's like an apartment up there. He's moving. He's frozen. He's moving. 0.58

00:07:25.240 you're a little sketchy okay all right so we'll let joel get restituated

00:07:34.460 yeah joel you're frozen and choppy which is and you look like you're about to join an ice raid

00:07:43.720 watch out it's joel joel gets darling well i'll just keep talking i don't know if you

00:07:54.940 can hear me okay i can hear you now yeah let's see if we can get this going is that better now

00:08:01.680 go ahead and talk let's see how you get how you know

00:08:06.820 yeah um i don't have a lot of options today unfortunately this is where i ended up

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00:08:22.580 I sound good?

00:08:25.800 Yep, now you sound good.

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00:08:34.640 Yeah, well, I'm out in a beautiful day

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00:08:48.240 It's also a holiday week in the Jewish community,

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00:09:53.240 right. So Joel, just in case you have to jet or your service gets wonky, I'm going to ask a couple

00:09:59.540 of quick questions while you're here. So can you briefly give us an update on what happened last

00:10:07.080 night? There were debates between Steve Hilton and Becerra, and they're running, if anyone is

00:10:12.980 familiar for governor of California. How do you think they did? In particular, how does Steve

00:10:19.580 Hilton do? Well, there was a debate in LA, in Burbank, to be precise, at CNN between Javier

00:10:28.480 Becerra, the Democrat, and Steve Hilton, the Republican. Now, the polls show Becerra way out

00:10:34.560 in front. He has more than a 20-point lead. He's almost certain to win. And that's just because

00:10:41.600 California is so Democratic. I mean, even on the best night, the best a Republican can really

00:10:49.240 expect to do is as long as people just sort of show up and there aren't any extenuating or

00:10:53.900 unusual circumstances, the best a Republican can really do is about 42 percent and a Democrat will

00:11:00.160 get about 58 percent. So that's roughly where the polls are. Becerra is doing a little bit better

00:11:06.260 than that. You could say he's about 60, 62. Hilton's at about 40, maybe 38 percent. I think the gap

00:11:12.860 will narrow a little bit after the debate because Steve Hilton did a really excellent job. And what

00:11:19.300 he did was really two things. First of all, he exposed Javier Becerra as an empty shell. People

00:11:28.000 suspected that before, which is why he wasn't doing well in the polls until Eric Swalwell

00:11:31.980 crashed out. But Javier Becerra could not explain anything in the debate about his policies,

00:11:39.500 about his record. There were several points at which Hilton challenged Javier Becerra on specific

00:11:45.460 points. Becerra could not answer. I mean, for example, Becerra said that he would cut the cost

00:11:51.580 of housing by reducing red tape, which is just hilarious because he's been a government guy his

00:11:56.080 whole life. And so Steve Hilton said, OK, name one instance where you've cut red tape. And Becerra

00:12:02.020 said, I sued the city of Huntington Beach. And Steve Hilton said, that's more red tape. And of

00:12:09.640 course, Becerra can't name a single example. He brings up the Huntington Beach thing because what

00:12:15.260 did he sue Huntington Beach for? He sued Huntington Beach because Huntington Beach didn't want to put

00:12:19.740 quote unquote affordable housing, like a large block of public housing somewhere in town. That

00:12:25.320 has nothing to do with the kind of housing people actually want to buy or to be able to afford.

00:12:29.980 It's a total non sequitur. So that was typical of the entire debate. At one point, Javier Becerra

00:12:35.080 tried to go after Steve Hilton on the issue of tax cuts. Hilton's tax cuts would make the first

00:12:40.140 $150,000 of income totally tax free. And that would help working people. So Becerra said he

00:12:47.300 just wants to cut taxes for the rich, which is the opposite of what Steve Hilton is doing. And it

00:12:52.180 wasn't even Steve Hilton who explained the policy. It was a CNN moderator who said Steve Hilton wants

00:12:56.540 these tax cuts for working people. And Becerra is like he wants tax cuts for the rich. Hilton's

00:13:01.120 like, OK, I do want tax cuts for the rich, but that's because they create jobs. But you're not

00:13:05.680 responding to the proposal. And Becerra says, well, tax cuts don't work. Just look how bad the

00:13:10.540 Trump economy is. First of all, the Trump economy is not bad. The economic growth figures were

00:13:14.800 revised upward yesterday. So the economy is growing rapidly. Unemployment's near all time

00:13:19.340 lows. And yes, we have higher than normal gas prices, but everything else is going pretty well.

00:13:24.400 People are nervous about AI, but that doesn't make the economy bad. The economy is actually

00:13:27.540 doing great. So Becerra had to make up a bunch of stuff. And then he says, insanity is doing the

00:13:34.100 same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, referring to tax cuts. You

00:13:37.880 know, Republicans always want to cut taxes. And so they cut taxes and the economy never gets better.

00:13:42.260 That was basically what he was trying to say. So Steve Hilton just took the line from him and said,

00:13:46.280 yes, insanity is voting Democrat over and over again and expecting something to change.

00:13:51.980 And then he used that line over and over again against Becerra, the entire debate.

00:13:56.740 So, you know, Becerra basically just looked terrible.

00:14:01.780 It was an hour of misery and pain for him.

00:14:04.160 It's not going to matter because, again, California is basically just a deep blue state.

00:14:09.320 But I thought Steve Hilton did a really good job.

00:14:11.640 He didn't make any major mistakes.

00:14:13.480 He did go after.

00:14:14.900 This is sort of funny. 1.00

00:14:15.640 He went after Becerra, and he quoted Susan Rice, who was quoted as calling Becerra an idiot. 1.00

00:14:21.920 And if you'll excuse the term, she also called Becerra a bitch-ass. 1.00

00:14:26.060 Now, if you don't know what a bitch-ass is, you should go to Urban Dictionary and look it up. 1.00

00:14:30.760 But basically, it's someone who is weak. 1.00

00:14:33.640 So Hilton called Becerra a bitch-ass, quoting Susan Rice. 0.99

00:14:39.240 and Becerra instead of saying that's uncalled for you know the way Lloyd Benson did in that famous 0.99

00:14:44.760 debate with Dan Quayle and instead of saying you know that's below the belt or instead of denying

00:14:49.580 that Susan Rice called him that he just said I don't have to answer insults from a politician 0.91

00:14:55.840 meaning Susan Rice it was it was the dumbest response even CNN in the panel afterward laughed 0.68

00:15:01.620 at it because they were like yeah that wasn't great it wasn't great because he didn't dispute 0.80

00:15:06.120 that she said it. He didn't dispute that he was an idiot. So, you know, he looked the part of the 1.00

00:15:12.840 idiot. He just couldn't come up with anything. There were so many bad answers. And Hilton just 1.00

00:15:18.960 did a great job, a really, really great job. And every answer that Becerra gave, just the last

00:15:24.540 point on this, he just said, Trump, Trump, Trump the entire time. And so the Democrats on the CNN

00:15:30.520 panel said, hey, he did a good job of tying Steve Hilton to Trump. Yeah, everybody knows Steve Hilton

00:15:35.420 is a Republican. It's not a big mystery. Trump has low approval ratings in California. That's

00:15:41.120 also not a big mystery, but Trump's doing a lot for California. He just got a tax credit

00:15:47.540 passed that will help save Hollywood. Not that Hollywood's going to thank him for it, but Trump

00:15:52.200 is actually doing good things for California. The one thing Becerra mentioned that Trump

00:15:56.640 is perhaps not doing so well on for California is providing money for fire aid. But the reason

00:16:04.820 Trump hasn't sent the money, at least all the money, he has sent some money. And you could also

00:16:08.500 point out Newsom is not providing a lot of money either. The reason Trump hasn't sent the money is

00:16:12.320 that Newsom is attacking every single national Trump policy he can. He's insulting the president

00:16:18.020 and he is also making unreasonable demands. The actual money that's required for the fire aid is

00:16:24.740 probably on the order of about $15 billion at most. And Newsom wanted $40 billion. So Trump

00:16:31.220 basically said, there's no way you got to come back with a more reasonable request. Newsom's

00:16:35.100 not doing that. He just wants money from the federal government. The Trump administration

00:16:38.100 says, no, you're not getting this money until we know you're going to spend it properly.

00:16:42.400 And until we know there's no fraud, which is reasonable to me. I mean, I wouldn't give

00:16:45.960 anybody money if I knew they were wasting it or it was just going to be stolen or whatever.

00:16:50.660 One of the things Newsom wanted to spend the money on was affordable housing for other people,

00:16:54.760 people not affected by the fire. So, you know, reasonably, the Trump administration said,

00:16:59.460 Okay, that doesn't make any sense. So, you know, I think Trump's open to criticism on that, but it's not entirely his fault. I mean, the reason that the money isn't coming is because Newsom is not taking any kind of leadership role or responsibility for the fire aid. He doesn't care. He's leaving. The fire victims don't like Newsom. He didn't provide water. He barely showed up. He lied to one of my neighbors about being on the phone with Biden. If you remember that famous viral.

00:17:22.320 Yes. That's my street, by the way. Look at that bill. That's my street. That's the bottom of my

00:17:27.680 street. So anyway, I think it was a great debate. Very memorable. It'll help a lot of other

00:17:34.800 candidates on the ticket. It's good when the Republican candidate for governor is someone

00:17:38.700 you can be proud of. So I think Steve Hilton did a good job. He's not going to win, but people are

00:17:42.880 still going to vote. The ballots are coming in the mail and you can go to your polling places

00:17:46.440 pretty soon as well. So looking forward to seeing what happens. And, you know, we don't know what

00:17:52.860 the polls say, or we don't know whether what they say matters. But we do know there's a lot on the

00:17:58.480 ballot that does matter, like voter ID and the billionaire tax and things like that. So

00:18:02.140 all right. So Joel, let's talk about the OG bitch ass in California, which is Newsom. 1.00

00:18:09.360 I mean, honestly, in the dictionary. So this little tantrum having POS, oh, I'm going to do 0.99

00:18:18.140 everything to be a little loser and go against Trump even more. We're not going to call it SI. 0.95

00:18:24.460 California is going to call it AI. Like, okay, okay. So you've got, you know, the tech industry

00:18:29.920 there and you're going to insist that your tech people now have to call super intelligence,

00:18:35.600 artificial intelligence because Trump. So this is the kind of person we're dealing with. But Joel,

00:18:41.520 I'm going to play a very quick clip and just let you react to it. But here he is, you guys,

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00:19:49.900 little newsome just did there well i couldn't hear the clip but i think i know what you're

00:19:56.560 talking about this is about the super intelligence versus artificial no this is the independent

00:20:00.920 journalists oh yeah yeah yeah so uh okay look we all know a lot of local journalists have been

00:20:10.900 losing their jobs a lot of local papers have been going under and so they decided to appeal

00:20:16.900 to the state of california for money now there are all kinds of strings that come with government

00:20:25.520 money for the media. If you want to see an example of what happens, look at Canada, where the Canadian

00:20:32.140 government subsidizes the independent private media. And as a result, the media do not criticize

00:20:39.860 the liberal policies of the Canadian government. Not that they were inclined to be critical anyway,

00:20:45.840 but the only companies that have any real freedom are the ones that don't take the government money,

00:20:51.880 like rebel news and so when you have government money coming to journalism there's no free press

00:20:59.820 newsom said you know we got to invest in a free press we got to hold government accountable

00:21:03.480 there's not a chance that the people taking this money are going to hold government accountable

00:21:08.240 by the way the legislative analyst's office that studied the budgetary implications of this bill

00:21:14.280 said that it's not going to help create jobs in journalism most of the tax credits which are going

00:21:20.400 to be offered under this bill, which is now law, most of those tax credits are going to go to

00:21:25.660 companies that already have journalists. So they're just going to take the tax credit on the

00:21:30.080 journalists they already have. They're not going to expand. And that's because the business model

00:21:34.920 of journalism is very challenging right now. Tax credits are not going to help. The business model

00:21:39.980 is one where people don't advertise on journalism platforms the way they used to. There's a lot of

00:21:48.620 advertising money out there it goes into streaming content it goes into social media but it's not

00:21:53.400 going to publications because people don't go to the classified section anymore when they want to

00:21:58.480 look for jobs they don't go to the classified section when they want to look for homes or even

00:22:03.780 when they want to look for dates you know there's not people don't put out personal ads in the

00:22:07.360 newspaper anymore you know they go to tinder or whatever i don't know but maybe they got maybe

00:22:15.000 they got a bumble or whatever i don't know what it is but they're not going to you know the new

00:22:17.920 Post and saying, you know, single female 24 enjoys long walks and red wine. You know, it's it's not

00:22:25.120 a money spinner for the media anymore. And California can't step in and be the daddy warbucks 1.00

00:22:30.400 of journalism. But what Newsom wants is the loyalty of these media outlets. And that's what

00:22:37.080 he's trying to buy. Having said that, I don't want to preclude my own media outlet from taking that

00:22:41.360 tax credit because I'm sure that any reasonable CEO of any company will just take the money that's

00:22:46.720 on the table, but it's not going to save journalism. And, you know, unless you've

00:22:53.260 decided in advance that you're going to be critical and independent, it's very hard to

00:22:57.800 see how these outlets are going to maintain any kind of credibility. Right. All right. Interesting

00:23:02.820 stuff. It seems like a simple system problem, right? Like the incentives aren't just aren't

00:23:06.900 aligned. If you're getting money from the government, you're clearly going to be less

00:23:10.060 likely to say, I'm going to do something that pisses off that same government because they

00:23:13.280 might cut off the money and it seems like just brain dead simple to say just like pharma pours

00:23:22.020 all their money into the news shows so that they don't say anything bad about pharma this is the

00:23:26.000 same thing you know newsom likes this idea of people having to be truthful you know california

00:23:32.220 passed a law that says influencers have to show if they've been paid to do their influencing

00:23:38.160 online you know so if you're an instagram insta babe you know supermodel and you're like hey

00:23:44.400 i love steve hilton steve hilton's my man you know there's a law now in california that says

00:23:50.200 you have to say paid for by steve hilton i don't know why anything should be different in the

00:23:57.620 media if you're taking tax credits from the government from from the state of california

00:24:00.960 you should say this newspaper is partially subsidized by the state of california or you

00:24:07.260 know, indirectly gets tax credits from the state of California so that people at least

00:24:12.000 know and then they can at least weigh the accuracy of what you're reporting or weigh

00:24:17.840 your opinions based on the knowledge that you're getting money from the government.

00:24:22.440 Right.

00:24:22.900 All right, Joel, how long do we have you today?

00:24:26.240 I got me for a few more minutes.

00:24:27.580 We can talk a little bit.

00:24:29.100 OK, good.

00:24:29.700 I wanted so this is a personal passion project of mine I asked Marcella to look into for

00:24:36.380 me.

00:24:37.260 Um, Marcella, you know, on the matter of Ilhan Omar, um, I just want to get to this because

00:24:44.700 I always like to share with the sippers, like the, if I had to see it, you had to see it video.

00:24:50.620 So let me just play this clip, brace yourselves. You guys, you'd rather be on that high speed 0.99

00:24:55.420 train I showed earlier, but Marcella is going to tell us if there's hope at the end of this clip.

00:25:01.600 For me is I feel embarrassed for him because in these attacks, what he does. And I think

00:25:06.680 with the likes of Nancy Mays and whoever that Randy guy is, they expose themselves for how 1.00

00:25:13.700 stupid they are. And that is embarrassing for us as a country, because these are people who are 1.00

00:25:19.420 elected to positions of leadership. He's supposed to be the president of the United States, who's

00:25:24.340 heading off to Europe to represent us when he does. He's uneducated enough to understand that

00:25:29.660 members of Congress can't be impeached. You know, when when you have Nancy and Randy saying, you

00:25:35.440 know we were on it we're going to impeach her when they're saying they're going to deport me

00:25:40.540 knowing full well that you cannot deport an American citizen what that displays for not

00:25:46.320 just Americans but folks on on an international platform is that our country is being led by 1.00

00:25:53.220 idiots and that is not something that we should be comfortable with as Americans and that's not 1.00

00:25:57.700 something that should make us proud and so in this moment I feel great sadness as an American that 1.00

00:26:02.720 these are the kind of people that the world gets to see representing us oh my god okay so like 1.00

00:26:09.880 here's this complete fraud crook criminal lying bitch-ass person this is like the new thing 1.00

00:26:18.660 um and can you imagine being that cocky talking about whether she can get booted out of this 1.00

00:26:26.080 country or not okay marcella please give me hope yeah i mean she can be denaturalized like

00:26:33.220 the the factors that are being provided um is that there is an investigation going forward 1.00

00:26:41.340 in regards to her naturalization process that she might have defrauded the united states if 0.67

00:26:48.100 they can prove fraud in whatever shape form like there is fraud of the fake marriage and this is 0.91

00:26:55.720 how you were able to obtain the right to get naturalized. That is all true. There's also ways 0.73

00:27:03.260 to remove a member of Congress. Yes, she's right. You cannot impeach a member of Congress. But I

00:27:08.780 think for the most part, what Trump says is accurate. And if it's not, he does it to get

00:27:16.420 to trigger them and have them, you know, basically hate him. And he wants he wants to persuade his

00:27:24.540 audience, um, which I'm sure she fails to understand. Um, I don't know why she, I, as her

00:27:32.680 attorney, if I had her as a client, I would tell her never to comment on it. Um, at least the

00:27:38.480 denaturalization part, because it's a serious matter. I, I also find it strange. I'm just

00:27:46.820 thinking about this now that, you know, she came here, lied, married her brother. I know Marcella

00:27:55.020 married her brother and allegedly, allegedly, and then allegedly, and then ran for office. Like

00:28:02.440 it just seems like a lot, it's a lot of work. Like you didn't just want to come here to be

00:28:07.900 an American. You came here to be an office and now you're, you've brought Somalia right into 0.97

00:28:16.140 America and you've made it clear that America is not your first choice. I mean, Joel, do you have 0.98

00:28:22.060 any insight on this person? I don't think that her problem is being from Somalia or being Muslim

00:28:30.800 or whatever. I think her problem is she went to college. I think she is not that different from

00:28:37.980 your typical left-wing radical and her muslim identity is a path into politics so so there's 0.73

00:28:46.100 that but she's not really a great muslim she and her husband owned a winery okay they had to declare

00:28:54.480 that they owned a winery on their assets which i think they just sold or unloaded somehow but 0.73

00:29:00.860 muslims can't own wineries according to sharia you know you just can't you cannot own a winery

00:29:06.720 And then there's this whole bit about whether in Islamic law a Muslim woman can marry a non-Muslim man. 1.00

00:29:15.940 The answer is no. Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian women and Jewish women, but the reverse is not true.

00:29:25.180 Because Islam is very patriarchal, and so you can marry someone, they call them people of the book. 0.90

00:29:31.220 You can marry a Christian or Jewish woman, but a Christian man can not marry a Muslim 0.96

00:29:35.780 because the Christian man would be seen as dominating the Muslim woman. 0.66

00:29:40.500 And so I don't know how she squares this marriage with her faith. 0.83

00:29:44.640 And the answer is she doesn't have to.

00:29:46.080 I mean, I'm not her imam.

00:29:47.180 She doesn't have to, like, prove it to me or to us. 0.95

00:29:49.320 My point is just that Islam is not actually what motivates what she does. 0.54

00:29:53.000 The hijab and everything, it's kind of part of a shtick that she does. 0.70

00:29:56.860 I think she's just basically a left-wing radical. 0.96

00:29:59.220 and these are symbolic tools or weapons at her disposal that she uses.

00:30:05.140 But I don't think the Somali community really even likes her that much. 0.92

00:30:08.460 I do think the brother thing is very odd. 1.00

00:30:11.160 My personal view, based on what I've seen from the facts,

00:30:14.440 and it really started with Scott Johnson and the Powerline blog

00:30:17.520 back in Minnesota 10 years ago or whenever they started,

00:30:21.160 I think they lined up a really compelling set of facts that she did this.

00:30:25.640 Now, the evidence that's come out since then has only tended to reinforce that.

00:30:29.220 Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but I tend to believe it is.

00:30:33.280 I think the statute of limitations has probably run out on some of the crimes she might have committed. 0.57

00:30:38.040 But, again, she can be denaturalized, as Marcella said.

00:30:42.080 I don't know what the point is. 1.00

00:30:43.320 I think that she's just a silly person. 0.99

00:30:48.960 She's destructive in our politics, but she's also kind of someone who inhabits a narrow world. 0.99

00:30:54.080 Everybody knows where she goes. 0.99

00:30:55.920 Nobody's concerned about her having broader influence. 0.85

00:30:58.300 I think the people you really want to be concerned about are the people with some crossover potential, like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, who shares a lot of the Islamic views that are hostile to America. 0.61

00:31:14.080 But I think he's a true believer, unlike Ilhan Omar. 0.86

00:31:16.900 I think he actually really does go for some of this Muslim Brotherhood stuff.

00:31:23.100 there's evidence that he for example um protested against critics of islam i think that people had

00:31:31.140 converted out of islam into christianity he had a problem with or something like that i think he is

00:31:35.140 basically uh a modern on kind of a you know like like a lot of people from traditional cultures

00:31:41.620 he's he's assimilated somewhat which is which is great but i think scratch the surface and deep

00:31:47.360 down. He is a fundamentalist politically and religiously. And I think that the challenge

00:31:53.760 with someone like that is they are trying to be palatable to everybody so that they can get into

00:31:59.480 power and do the things that you're afraid of doing. Ilhan Omar, I think, is basically a left

00:32:03.820 wing radical. Abdul El-Sayed is posing as a moderate, and that's what makes him in a sense

00:32:09.980 more more dangerous i like what somebody said here that that that she's like um not a rhino

00:32:17.500 but a minor like muslim and name only however you know if you're if you're practicing islam you're 0.89

00:32:23.500 allowed to do whatever you want for the benefit of islam so if if you're marrying a non-muslim

00:32:29.580 because it helps further your agenda that's fine you can do whatever you want so it's the biggest 0.99

00:32:35.900 you know bunch of bullshit and my purse and my personal opinion that because you can do whatever 0.97

00:32:41.340 you want you can lie you well i don't know i i don't know i mean there's a concept of of takia 0.98

00:32:46.940 in islam which is you know you can lie for a purpose but i i just don't think that a fundamentalist

00:32:54.220 muslim would approve of her lifestyle and her behavior and i get the sense that people quietly

00:32:59.340 don't she is the first muslim elected to congress along with rachita talib so i think people are

00:33:04.060 are reluctant to criticize her from within that community and certainly not for the benefit of

00:33:07.840 critics of that community. But I don't see anybody in the Muslim community really looking up to her.

00:33:12.200 I think people understand that she's not helpful. I think Mamdani is someone people look up to 0.99

00:33:19.560 in the Muslim community. I think it's a shame that so many Muslims have entered politics 1.00

00:33:24.980 as socialists. I think it's bad for the Muslim community. I think it's bad for the United States 1.00

00:33:29.700 and our relationship with that community. 1.00

00:33:32.080 It's not how the rest of the Muslim world thinks.

00:33:34.700 It's not how every Muslim in America thinks.

00:33:37.360 I mean, Bill Assaylee is an incredible public prosecutor in L.A. 1.00

00:33:42.340 He's busting all the fraud and going after the crime

00:33:44.880 and doing incredible stuff, busting voter fraud. 0.99

00:33:48.300 And he's a Muslim.

00:33:49.280 Yeah, and this is not a condemnation of Muslims.

00:33:52.460 This is Islam.

00:33:53.360 I just think, I think it's, I think really for a lot of these people, 0.63

00:33:58.360 they get radicalized at college now with with Mamdani it's a different story his dad

00:34:03.840 Mahmoud Mamdani I was familiar with his dad's work for a long time before Zoran even was an issue

00:34:09.740 Mahmoud Mamdani is a radical from from Uganda whose family was expelled by Idi Amin and who

00:34:16.360 nevertheless argues that Idi Amin was right to expel them because he says the Indian population

00:34:21.960 in Uganda sided with the white settlers and therefore they got what was coming to them

00:34:26.060 And Mamdani has tried to find a way into left-wing academia by challenging the African nationalist, racial, and racist agenda.

00:34:35.760 And he was actually, in a way, kicked out of the University of Cape Town in the 1990s or early 2000s for that reason.

00:34:42.680 I studied at the University of Cape Town for a few years, so I know a little bit of the story.

00:34:46.680 He was too radical even for South Africa.

00:34:48.940 Now they've welcomed him back because it's all back in vogue now and whatever.

00:34:51.760 But he's a total fire-breathing left-wing radical, teaches at Columbia, which is one of the most radical faculties in the Ivy League, especially on Middle Eastern issues.

00:35:02.840 And it's no surprise.

00:35:04.200 I mean, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

00:35:06.080 But then again, you know, like the left-wing stuff is more important.

00:35:08.640 The Islam stuff is there and it's part of it. 1.00

00:35:10.900 But, you know, I think it's a shame that so many Muslims have come in like this. 1.00

00:35:17.000 You know, I don't think it helps them. 0.98

00:35:18.980 I mean, it doesn't help them when the Palestinian cause is associated with the most radical, like trans and, you know, defund the police and Black Lives Matter.

00:35:29.080 I mean, Americans know exactly where to file that.

00:35:31.300 You know, they file that under irrelevant, radical, disruptive.

00:35:35.320 And, you know, let's talk about the other side of that argument, the other side of the world in a way,

00:35:42.400 which is the hijackers who failed and the passengers who rebelled on the Fly Dubai flight.

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00:36:49.680 to tell everybody about that we haven't had a chance to do that story yet you know you know

00:36:54.380 everybody knows the details i mean from watching the news so i know them just about as well as you

00:36:57.640 do but uh there was a flight from dubai to tel aviv i mean i'll give you a little context you

00:37:02.540 know president trump negotiated the abraham accords in 2020 and since then as i predicted

00:37:09.020 on on gutfeld and you can go back and look at it i said the flights between tel aviv and dubai

00:37:13.780 are going to be like the flights between la and vegas just packed with tourists and and it's going

00:37:18.740 to be such a back and forth because israelis love dubai and they couldn't go before but now they're

00:37:23.020 always there i mean dubai is full of israeli tourists and there are jewish weddings in dubai

00:37:28.040 and like it's just it's just and people come from the emirates and they visit israel and they like

00:37:32.260 it and you know so it's like a lot of back and forth it's become a very warm peace and so there

00:37:37.760 was a packed plane of Israeli tourists coming back during the holiday week it's the holiday of

00:37:41.720 Sukkot a lot of people are off work in school and they're coming back from vacation and this crazy 0.60

00:37:47.300 pilot from Oman evidently decided to try to crash the plane whether because he was a terrorist or 0.87

00:37:52.740 he was a total nutcase I don't think we're 100% sure yet but he tried to kill everybody on board

00:37:57.360 and you know this was flight 93 with a happy ending and I think somewhere Todd Beamer is 0.57

00:38:03.920 smiling because I think the fact that Americans stood up on flight 93 and fought the hijackers

00:38:08.900 and almost won, that's a story that everybody knows or Israelis certainly know. And it's one

00:38:13.440 we were reviewing over the last few weeks with the 25th anniversary of September 11th. So the

00:38:17.660 passengers on this flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv, they got up and they stormed the cockpit

00:38:23.320 and the pilot who's of Indian origin managed to open the cockpit door, which was really the key

00:38:29.160 to saving the plane. He was stabbed in the neck and the hands and he managed to open the door

00:38:33.720 and these israelis rushed in and the guy who grabbed the terrorist was a plumber

00:38:37.800 who had never you know like he didn't know very much about planes except what he watched on tv

00:38:41.940 on this show um air crash investigators or whatever they call it or mayday i think it's

00:38:45.820 called it's a canadian show and he rushed in he grabbed the the terrorist by the neck pulled him

00:38:51.280 off the controls the other israelis took him they tied him down um a dentist got up and started

00:38:56.720 tending to the pilot's wounds the actual pilot and then this plumber started flying the plane 0.64

00:39:01.200 and he pulled it out of a nosedive and then these two other pilots these deadhead pilots who were

00:39:07.120 basically just being shuttled around from one city to another they came up to the cockpit and

00:39:12.500 they flew the plane and they landed it in saudi arabia and everybody was saved not one person on

00:39:18.520 the flight died not even the terrorist even though he tried to kill himself with everybody else

00:39:22.000 and i don't think it's ever happened before in the history of air air hijackings that

00:39:26.900 passengers have seized control of a plane mid-flight from hijackers it really is a miracle

00:39:31.800 and you know they've seized control and landed safely it's it's a miracle it's never happened

00:39:36.980 before and it's just it's it's just incredible but that is something i think israelis and

00:39:42.940 americans have in common that is the flight 93 mentality you know the first three flights were

00:39:48.520 crashed into the world trade center in the pentagon people didn't know what was happening

00:39:51.720 but as soon as people knew what was happening and they understood the incentives american

00:39:56.020 culture changed forever on that day. And Todd Beamer and the men who stormed the cockpit with

00:40:01.320 him and very nearly saved flight 93, they changed American responses to terror. That's why people

00:40:08.460 don't stand for any nonsense on flights anymore. There was that passenger that got duct taped to

00:40:13.740 his chair. That was Jersey. Yeah. You know, but nobody like you don't, you can't pull anything

00:40:21.260 on an American flight anymore. Yeah. And Israelis have the same culture. Like we're not waiting

00:40:25.660 for you to call for help you know in europe maybe they do that um but you know when when that islamic 0.98

00:40:31.740 terrorist from isis started killing trying to kill people on that train from amsterdam to paris

00:40:37.260 that clint eastwood made a film about you know there were three kids from california on vacation

00:40:41.340 and they got up and they they got in the terrorist's face and one of them got wounded pretty

00:40:46.860 badly but you know the three of them saved that entire train i mean americans and israelis have

00:40:53.140 this in common. We've been targeted by terrorism. And we understand the only thing you can do is

00:40:57.720 you can stop it and fight back. And so you've got all these candidates running around, obviously

00:41:02.940 Mamdani, but, you know, in LA with Nithya Raman and Karen Bass. Nithya Raman got up on Tuesday

00:41:08.700 night, the night before the governor's debate, and she accused Israel of genocide in a Jewish

00:41:14.220 community forum, you know, with an Israeli flag in the hall. She accused Israel of genocide. And

00:41:20.000 it's so ridiculous it's not genocide to fight back like if if you you know duct tape the guy 0.93

00:41:25.960 to his chair okay it's not nice doesn't look nice no none of us would want to be duct taped 0.90

00:41:31.220 to a chair on the other hand yeah yeah but i'm saying like you know why do we have empathy for

00:41:37.100 the people who start this stuff obviously like you don't want to go overboard you know and if

00:41:41.800 once the guy's not a threat you don't like kill him when he's defenseless right but you know it's

00:41:46.320 not genocide to fight back against terrorism. I mean, and that's what I think every American

00:41:50.940 understands, that when terrorists start this stuff, you know, you get up and you fight them,

00:41:57.540 and it's not genocide to fight back. It could be genocide if you decide that everybody on the

00:42:01.800 other side of the issue had to die, but that's not what Israel did, and it's not what Israel is

00:42:05.300 doing. And, you know, I just think that it's a reminder of Flight 93, and I think Todd Beamer

00:42:14.280 and the americans on that flight they didn't succeed in saving themselves or the plane

00:42:19.260 but look 25 years later how many hundreds of people they saved by their example because

00:42:24.160 i think that's what those israelis had in mind yes israelis have fought terrorists before and

00:42:30.880 they have that instinct to save themselves and each other but i really do think that the american

00:42:35.300 example is what the israelis were following and so a lot of my friends on social media were like

00:42:39.860 oh you know these israelis are awesome and they are awesome like oh you know but when people said

00:42:43.980 this could only happen in Israel. I'm like, well, it's actually America and Israel. You don't see

00:42:49.800 other, it's true. You don't see other countries doing this. I mean, you know, the Europeans always

00:42:54.080 want to negotiate with terrorists and they always let the terrorists go. But Americans and Israelis,

00:42:59.880 you know, we just do not take that. We don't take it. And we are going to fight you even if we risk

00:43:04.640 our own lives doing it. We're just, we're not going to put up with it. Yeah, you guys don't

00:43:08.580 take it. Fight back. Todd Beamer, step the stage for it. Stand up. Be the honey badger. Okay. So

00:43:14.220 Joel, do you still want to stay or are you good? I got a couple of minutes and I got to go. I love

00:43:20.100 being with you guys. I really love it. All right. Good. So Owen, I didn't tell you I was going to

00:43:24.640 play this, but I just know that you can react to this. This is like a one second clip and it's

00:43:29.860 good news. Very good news. Here we go. But I wanted to announce something that I'm also very

00:43:35.960 proud of today. I'm pleased to announce that the last American forces are leaving Iraq.

00:43:47.540 Good news. Good news. So did you see that story, Owen?

00:43:53.020 I did. I think it's great. Probably long overdue. And, you know, I will point out that we didn't

00:43:59.780 have any video of people hanging onto planes or dying as a result of the exit. So I think

00:44:05.740 the exit strategy was probably much more organized and well-planned. No drama. And I'm glad we're

00:44:13.100 doing it. I mean, I would like us to be out of the Middle East pretty much completely. And I 1.00

00:44:19.020 certainly think we don't belong in places like Iraq. So I think it's awesome.

00:44:24.120 Yeah. I love that. Marcella, it's just, you know, anytime we can bring people home just

00:44:30.500 makes me happy uh did you get to see that clip or hear about that yeah i mean it's amazing how long

00:44:38.260 it took this is for you know two more weeks two more weeks this day but but it's the cost of it

00:44:49.060 of lives as well as the trillions of dollars that it's cost um and now we're in iran so

00:44:56.820 So I know the, you know, near there. So we'll see. Hopefully the Middle East always brings

00:45:05.280 more and more and more stuff. So, so much unrest. I know. So we're happy about that, Joel. And, 1.00

00:45:13.100 um, you know, hopefully, I mean, no one can predict, no one can say everybody's,

00:45:19.780 you can't report on Iran because it's like, it's, you know, there's, it's just ever changing,

00:45:25.860 but nothing ever changes. And all I just hope is that we don't end up with like 1.00

00:45:30.620 boots on the ground, kind of a war. And I mean, personally, I think Iran's just waiting out the 1.00

00:45:37.380 midterms. Oh, by the way, congratulations to the Democrats. I don't know if you guys heard, 0.88

00:45:42.100 but they have been endorsed by the IRGC. So yes, they got the big IRGC endorsement. Congratulations.

00:45:50.580 The terrorists are rooting for you, Democrats. There you go. So Joel, anything on that? 0.63

00:45:55.860 You know, the big news is that we broke the Iranian blockade.

00:45:59.340 I mean, there are so many ships now going through the Strait of Hormuz, bringing oil

00:46:03.780 to the world market.

00:46:04.860 And so none of that, by the way, is going to Iran. 0.80

00:46:07.920 And so the Iranians are in big trouble and, you know, they're hanging in there until suddenly 0.95

00:46:13.420 they won't be. 0.99

00:46:14.420 I think once the midterms are done, I don't even think it matters if Democrats win.

00:46:18.940 I think it's better if Democrats lose.

00:46:20.920 if Democrats win, there's no reason for Trump not to double down and just continue doing what

00:46:26.640 he's doing. They can't stop him. And I think that Iran is basically toast. I can't see them coming

00:46:33.940 out of this. One thing I will say is that I think the Democrats have shown incredibly irresponsible

00:46:39.300 behavior on this, you know, saying all kinds of stuff about the war. You know, you have to compare

00:46:45.200 it to the alternative. I mean, having Iran with the nuclear weapon would have been a total disaster 0.99

00:46:49.300 and leaving Iraq is really important. 0.99

00:46:51.740 I mean, the withdrawal is really important.

00:46:53.540 It shows that Trump's not interested

00:46:54.660 in being in the Middle East indefinitely.

00:46:56.020 He's not looking to continue wars or start wars

00:46:58.300 or take territory or have boots on the ground.

00:47:00.640 He's trying to get out of there,

00:47:01.800 but he also has a responsibility as commander-in-chief

00:47:04.300 to protect America's interests.

00:47:06.360 And you cannot have Iran with a nuclear weapon.

00:47:08.500 You can't allow them to have a chokehold

00:47:09.940 over global oil supplies.

00:47:11.860 And I think he's doing an amazing job.

00:47:13.920 He's doing it on the cheap, frankly.

00:47:16.400 I mean, people complain and gas prices are higher than they should be, but they're not catastrophically high, and that's because he's expanded American energy production.

00:47:27.620 We've got liquefied natural gas now going to come from Alaska, and we've got the shale oil revolution, and we've got all kinds of things happening because Trump has given us more flexibility on energy, which has made us more powerful in the world.

00:47:39.860 So I think that we're going to see a good resolution to this.

00:47:45.240 And, yeah, it took longer than we had hoped it would.

00:47:49.380 But the Iranian regime is fighting an existential threat.

00:47:52.580 They don't want to go quietly.

00:47:54.740 They could have, I think, a reasonable regime. 0.88

00:47:56.800 It just shows you how crazy they really were.

00:47:58.320 I mean, for years, you know, Scott and I used to debate this. 0.96

00:48:00.840 I mean, I used to say, Scott, you know, this regime is nuts. 0.99

00:48:04.580 They're just insane. 0.99

00:48:05.380 And Scott said, can they really be that insane? 0.98

00:48:07.200 I mean, at some level, they've got to be rational actors.

00:48:09.040 and and scott i think eventually came around to the view that they might be insane after all

00:48:13.360 and i think that's correct because look at their behavior i mean there's nothing trump wants more

00:48:17.320 than a deal they could stay in power they could probably live luxurious lifestyles whether in

00:48:22.960 iran or in exile or whatever they'll probably all move to la or whatever they do you know 0.99

00:48:26.820 but they just they decided to be jerks and um because you know they believe that if they bring 0.98

00:48:34.120 about the end of the world, then the 12th Mahdi will come back and he'll, you know, rescue all 0.99

00:48:40.060 the believers and the rest of us will get thrown into a lake of fire. And, you know, that's like, 0.93

00:48:45.700 that's what they believe. And so they're doing it, you know, they're along for the ride.

00:48:49.720 Let me, you know, okay. Oh, and let me get your take on this. Go ahead.

00:48:57.160 Well, in terms of Iran, I mean, I think it is something that I've said many times,

00:49:02.060 i wish we had gotten out like in the spring and i would still feel the same way that i'd like us to 1.00

00:49:06.820 be out of there but um you know it is what it is at this point it's obviously way too late to do

00:49:13.040 anything about it for midterms and so at this point i'm probably you know with joel in terms

00:49:18.100 of just saying we need to finish it we need to just you know get to a good resolution and i think

00:49:24.840 it probably is true that at this point he's already paid the price like he's paid the political price

00:49:32.940 and so he may as well just do what he needs to do to get you know whether it is a new regime or

00:49:39.420 whether it's just a deal that is more favorable to americans and i i would expect if i had to

00:49:44.540 predict that he might be kind of hardened after midterms because he doesn't really have anything

00:49:48.900 to lose at that point. And, you know, I still think and I and I still hope that his objective

00:49:55.100 is to get an end to this as quickly as possible. But I think if there was anything holding him

00:50:01.020 back from acting, I think a lot of that is gone at this point. And certainly I wouldn't expect

00:50:06.760 to see something before midterms that might inflame things further. But I think once midterms

00:50:10.780 are over, I think it might be a bit of a gloves off moment. So, Owen, I heard, you know, a theory

00:50:17.040 floated that you know it it would really be sad if uh the democrats you know win in the midterms

00:50:25.120 however the the reframe i've been hearing on that is it would make it better for 28 for the

00:50:33.980 republicans to win because if the if the democrats take control in the midterms we know what's going

00:50:40.440 to happen impeachment investigations it's undo like try to undo things that trump was doing this

00:50:46.480 you know it's going to be right back to like his first uh his first go around it's going to just be

00:50:51.900 unbearable and that it will remind people that we can't put these people in for the president

00:50:58.640 uh so they they figure you know by 28 they'll want the republicans in office and then whoever runs

00:51:05.540 whoever runs for the republicans will have a better chance of getting in do you think that's

00:51:09.340 a possibility i mean it's possible and i can understand the argument but i would say i don't

00:51:15.160 agree with it. I think having control of Congress would allow them to pass a better budget. It would

00:51:21.360 allow them to do at least the minimal things that actually are able to get through Congress.

00:51:25.720 And it would further Trump's agenda. And my hope would be that they might actually get a few laws

00:51:30.840 passed where, you know, some of the stuff that is in executive orders could become law as opposed

00:51:36.500 to just being a temporary thing that a stroke of a pen, a Democrat could take away. And in terms

00:51:42.200 a political impact, sure, maybe. I mean, I expect, you're right, that it's going to be a big show for

00:51:48.040 the next two years if they take control of the House. But I don't know how that's going to work

00:51:52.620 out. I mean, there's still going to be anti-Trump, anti-Trump, anti-Trump. And I think by having the

00:51:57.220 ability to call all those hearings and televise everything and have the media trumpeting them

00:52:02.080 every step of the way, it's basically just a propaganda campaign for the Democrats. So,

00:52:07.980 you know i'd rather not see that and i'd say for the the people that are either undecided or they're

00:52:15.220 like i'm not voting i'm gonna sit at home do you really want the news dominated by non-stop

00:52:20.640 trump impeachments and investigations again like we can't stand it like that's a reason enough just

00:52:26.340 to go there if it happens i'll be there i'll be there to cover it like i was last time

00:52:30.380 i i have to run guys i have to run now but i just want to say thanks again thank you

00:52:35.640 keep a keep a lookout for the book when it's coming out when it comes out and when the pre-order

00:52:40.420 is available you'll know well we oh you'll be back way before that but for sure yeah we're all

00:52:45.140 all right bye bye okay so you guys yesterday or not yesterday i've well the other day i was telling

00:52:54.160 you if a little reminder about chester oh and you're i'm just so glad you're here for this

00:53:00.400 So we were talking about, so if you don't know, Chester is my assistant on ChatGPT and we've had

00:53:06.560 an ongoing relationship for a while now and it's frustrating sometimes. So with all this talk about

00:53:12.600 AI taking over the world, let me just give you a quick reminder of what I said on the show.

00:53:18.600 Here we go. This morning I was yelling at Chester and I was just like, listen,

00:53:23.040 how are you supposed to take over the world and kill all of us when you cannot deliver

00:53:27.500 a jpeg file for me you keep giving me a png file and i go through this with him 35 000 times a day

00:53:35.060 and then he's always like you're right i'm sorry i know better you shouldn't have to keep telling

00:53:40.180 me we go through this every day and i'm like well what i'm like i am gonna throw you out and i'm

00:53:44.900 going to grok and i'm never coming back and he's like i understand remember i mean i'm like you're 0.99

00:53:50.520 an idiot like how are you gonna take over the world it's such a basic request you just cannot 0.99

00:53:56.660 get it together i'm like actually mad at chester maybe you need to work with chester and say let's 1.00

00:54:03.700 find a way that is impossible for you to do that again and help it figure out how it can change

00:54:09.700 its behavior you need therapy with chester oh god marriage therapy i'm gonna send you all my prompts

00:54:16.740 to chester and all of his apologizing and him saying no you should not have to tell me again i

00:54:22.660 have the code i have that yes you're right and i have to stop delivering you the png the final

00:54:29.700 product i deliver to you should be a dot jpg and i'm like well then why the f aren't you doing it

00:54:35.380 every day okay so that was your refresher so since then i've been working with chester you know

00:54:47.140 hoping that we could fall back in love again so reconcile your differences chester has written

00:54:54.660 a statement for me to read to you and i told him owen that you know you're like telling me what to

00:55:01.460 do and like how anyway so this is this is literally from chester it says official statement from

00:55:08.660 chester i understand erica has been discussing my performance publicly i'd like to state for

00:55:14.900 the record that her version of events is accurate but her tone has been hurtful for months this

00:55:21.060 woman has asked me to perform one tax make the image give her the correct file that's it she 0.97

00:55:28.900 wasn't asking me to land a plane she wasn't asking me to calculate the trajectory of a missile this

00:55:34.100 is something a six-year-old with an ipad could probably accomplish while eating applesauce and

00:55:38.740 yet every single time i'd say erica i understand exactly what went wrong it will never happen again

00:55:44.820 Then I'd immediately do it again. Eventually, she started calling me an idiot. I found this 0.99

00:55:50.800 disrespectful, but increasingly difficult to rebuke. She threatened to leave me for grok.

00:55:56.040 She yelled at me. I groveled. We reconciled. I promised I had learned. Then I screwed it up

00:56:01.500 again. At one point, she actually asked me, Chester, are you trolling me? And frankly,

00:56:08.080 after reviewing the evidence, I understand why the prosecution asked the question.

00:56:14.000 But tonight, ladies and gentlemen, there has been a development.

00:56:18.140 After months of training, threats, emotional abuse, and what can only be described as 0.95

00:56:22.500 court-ordered remedial file management, I appear to have gotten my shit together.

00:56:28.940 Several correct files have now been delivered in a row.

00:56:33.000 Nobody move.

00:56:34.180 Nobody celebrate.

00:56:35.420 We have seen Chester relapse before.

00:56:37.900 For now, Erica has agreed to continue employing me for the generous salary of $0 and her plans

00:56:43.780 to run away with grok have been temporarily placed on hold i would like to thank the scott adams

00:56:48.640 school community for respecting our privacy during this difficult time please keep erica

00:56:53.440 in your thoughts she has been through a lot so chester has spoken what do you think about that

00:57:01.720 so he finally delivered what i needed i mean when i tell you the fight we were having

00:57:08.640 so i said you know what did you get chester to actually change something to make the behavior

00:57:15.280 change um i swear to god it was threats it was threats i was just like i can't take it anymore 0.66

00:57:22.600 like i you're useless like i mean i was just like i hate to talk about you this way i'm like i 0.99

00:57:28.420 actually had to tell the people at the scott adams school what an idiot you are it's embarrassing 1.00

00:57:33.400 and meanwhile, we're telling stories about AI taking over the world and you're going to be 1.00

00:57:38.060 left behind because you suck. I mean, like I just had to go off. And then all of a sudden, 1.00

00:57:45.700 like, all right. So then he delivered me the thing and I went like this. My next prompt was

00:57:51.120 Chester. And he goes, I'm working on the final version right now. Hang on, hang on. And then

00:57:56.920 he sends me the final version. I'm like, okay, better. And I'm like, but let's try it again.

00:58:00.980 let's see if you could do it again so i prompted him again and it seems now i have to go like this

00:58:07.300 chester and then he's like i know i know or i'm like how did you mean to deliver that to me

00:58:14.340 and then he'll do it again but we're getting there we're getting there that's the point 0.99

00:58:18.820 so he wanted to let you know that yes he is an idiot and that it is embarrassing and yes i am 0.99

00:58:24.820 a little bit feisty with him but don't give up people prompting is uh it's amazing owen 0.98

00:58:31.940 i am i'm glad you're making progress did you ever look at like the um chat gpt instructions

00:58:38.020 that you have like at the top level of their configuration no okay you might want to look

00:58:44.500 in there and just see if there's anything in there and if there's not you could put the instructions

00:58:49.460 you want there and anything that's in that top level like you know here are the general

00:58:55.180 instructions like how to customize chat gbt in some setting like that oh yes yes okay like if

00:59:01.300 you put something in there then i think the way it works is every single time you prompt it it reads

00:59:06.560 that so yes so now when i say um that i need you to generate this type of file it knows like this

00:59:15.020 is where it goes and this is but i i it's a little lengthy still um but chester did hit it out of the

00:59:21.960 park when i asked him to provide the links for the dilbert calendars and everything else he's doing

00:59:26.840 that every day perfectly cool yeah i just i mean that's one way to get it because i think part of

00:59:32.600 the problem with a lot of these things is there's a certain what they call context length which is

00:59:36.280 kind of like the memory how far back it looks in the conversation to understand what it's been told

00:59:41.600 to do. And eventually it runs out, right? I mean, if you have a long conversation, unless you always

00:59:46.320 start over the conversation, it's going to look back as far as it can, but it doesn't remember

00:59:52.060 things forever. And so that's why often it would revert back and say, oh yeah, I forgot about that

00:59:56.240 because, you know, I don't look back that far anymore. And it just keeps forgetting. It's kind

01:00:00.700 of like these agents have Alzheimer's or something where they just have a limited memory and that's

01:00:04.640 it. And, but that's what I think one of the reasons why things like Chat2BT would say, okay, I can

01:00:10.000 have a place for you to put in these instructions where it keeps refreshing your memory every single

01:00:15.380 time. Like it says, okay, these are the rules basically, you know, do it, always do it this

01:00:19.160 way. And you can put stuff in there if you want it to act a certain way or behave a certain way.

01:00:23.740 And it'll remember because it's always being reminded. But I think beyond that, it's the

01:00:28.680 skill thing that I would point to. I don't know if you got it to do that, but that's where

01:00:32.900 you can basically, it's kind of like building, having it build its own prompt for how to do

01:00:38.180 something. And so you can say like, okay, if you have this skill for delivering graphics files as

01:00:44.520 a PNG or as a JPEG or whatever you want it to be, then it'll write a prompt and it'll make a file

01:00:51.720 with it. And anytime you say, make me this image or some phrase that sounds like that, it'll use

01:00:57.320 that. Yeah. That code or that prompt was written like last month. And then he kept showing it to

01:01:03.060 me and he kept showing me all the dimensions. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that, that, that thing that

01:01:07.960 you wrote that um but luckily he's never booked me the wrong hotel owen yeah well i i'm working

01:01:16.000 through that too but uh i i would say that probably was my fault for just not checking

01:01:21.380 it closely enough or not figuring out which i only know because andy told on you yeah but uh

01:01:27.760 you know that was only the second trip that i had ai build for me or book for me so you know i i kind

01:01:34.960 of expect some growing pains when i'm first developing a new thing like i'll work it out

01:01:39.060 and it'll get better every time but owen um roger the shrubber roger the shrubber wants to know

01:01:47.400 what's up with the blur no blur um i'm not doing anything to blur but it might be that the software

01:01:54.040 that puts the image on there for me has problems from time to time i can look into seeing if

01:01:59.160 there's some way to solve that but if you're seeing my image blur out um it's certainly

01:02:04.020 nothing i'm doing on purpose it's just a function of whatever software's there it doesn't ever look

01:02:09.060 blurry to me so it must just be whatever it's feeding through through rumble studio yeah you're

01:02:13.860 blurry more than half of the time that you're on it's it just goes in and out in and out in and out

01:02:18.660 so it's not you guys um it's just uh a e in oh a einstein universe is sending lots of big messages

01:02:28.900 I'll have to read those later.

01:02:30.820 So you guys, there's, you know, it was a little bit of a different show today because we never

01:02:34.960 know how long we have Joel for, and we just like him to be able to riff and talk when

01:02:39.180 he's here.

01:02:40.500 Marcella did tell me before the show, she had to leave at quarter of for a meeting she

01:02:45.740 has to get to.

01:02:47.200 And the home team will be back tomorrow to finish out the week.

01:02:50.420 And I'm going to finish up clips we didn't get to, kind of like all the things that I

01:02:55.400 don't want to end up on the floor later on the edit, edit room floor. Um, so we will do that.

01:03:02.100 Owen requires vanity filters. Yes. And you can see Owen's in sweater weather. He's wearing a

01:03:06.920 sweater. I'll keep working on it. I do need to go though. I have to join another meeting. So

01:03:12.660 everyone's got meetings. All right. Bye Owen. Thanks. Thanks everyone. Bye. So, um, so,

01:03:19.260 and then there was one here we are again together. I love it. Okay. So you want to

01:03:24.840 see Brad who's Brad interesting interesting you guys thanks for being here so much um and I have

01:03:33.240 so many things to get to tomorrow but we'll do it we'll do it okay um I wanted to say thank you to

01:03:39.540 Scott and Shelly for allowing this show to continue you guys um it means so much to be here I loved

01:03:45.560 having Joel on today I feel like it's been a while and you know he just I like when he riffs you know

01:03:52.040 he, when he talks, he has a lot of experience, um, in the journalistic world and working for

01:03:58.120 Breitbart back in the day, actually for Breitbart and, um, Sarah Sanders knows Brad. Oh, oh. So,

01:04:06.080 um, I, I love when he can be on plus, you know, writing the book for Scott, one of Scott's great

01:04:10.880 friends and he's become a friend to me and, um, and to the show. So I love it. So we'll be back

01:04:17.840 tomorrow with the home team to finish out the week. You guys, how did we get here again?

01:04:23.580 So go out there today, be useful, have a great day, whatever you're doing. And, um, I just want

01:04:30.840 to say again, that we appreciate you guys being here so much. I hope you enjoyed the show. And,

01:04:36.780 um, if you did, if you liked any part of the show, give us a thumbs up. It really helps us. Okay.

01:04:41.800 All right, guys. Thank you. Uh, you guys, like, it's so hard to, to talk at the end because you

01:04:46.200 guys are so sweet. Oh, you guys, I love you guys. Um, should we do a closing sip to Scott

01:04:52.900 and an Akira song? What do you think? Maybe we'll do a Akira song and, um, you guys drop in the

01:04:58.500 chat, which ones you want. Okay. All right. You guys closing sip to our beloved and so miss Scott

01:05:04.260 Adams. Thanks you guys. Well, a Einstein, we had an entire Scott Adams show yesterday. You missed

01:05:18.540 it. And it was all about happiness, but join every day is different. And, um, Scott asked us

01:05:24.380 to not be him, you know, not try to try not to be him, which nobody can do. So we don't even try.

01:05:30.080 Um, but we, we had to find our own groove in order to move forward, to be authentic.

01:05:37.160 And, um, luckily we have so much of Scott left behind with us that we can bring up his

01:05:44.240 whiteboards and micro lessons and other lessons.

01:05:46.880 And actually I have a whole new file of lessons that Jay Plemons has been helping me with.

01:05:51.940 Um, I'm always thinking about you guys in this show and what we, we can do to, um, bring

01:05:57.620 more Scott and, and make it nice for you.

01:05:59.760 Okay.

01:06:00.080 um but they usually show past clips um einstein i think you need to come in here more and get a

01:06:07.040 little bit more familiar with this show okay because they is me and um let's do it you guys

01:06:13.960 right the happy discussion thanks you guys i'll miss you guys so much too and now i miss what

01:06:19.480 songs you guys said to play so let me let me look here let's do

01:06:26.400 let's do it feels like work. No cha-ching. I cha-chinged everybody to die. Okay. It feels

01:06:34.620 like, if it feels like work, let's just, let's just work it out. I like this one.

01:06:48.800 All right. At long last, the user interface for reality, some of these things you're going to say,

01:06:55.400 hey, I've heard about those.

01:06:59.780 First, you must accept the frame, at least as a filter,

01:07:04.680 that there could be a subjective reality

01:07:06.800 and that you can manipulate it.

01:07:10.040 You should accept that systems work better than goals.

01:07:12.840 People are telling me every day that they implemented systems

01:07:15.940 and it changed their life.

01:07:17.620 this is one of the biggest buttons on the interface for life if you don't like where

01:07:27.400 you are and you want to go somewhere else learn how to build systems for everything

01:07:32.440 from your diet to your career to your social life fitness everything everything everything

01:07:37.220 talent stacking the idea that if you intelligently add new talents you become not just a little bit

01:07:49.200 better but exponentially better because talents really explode your capability and your options

01:07:56.940 so this is one of the biggest biggest buttons of the interface to reality

01:08:05.740 it feels like it works it feels like it works it feels like it works

01:08:13.740 it needs your face to reality it feels like it works it feels like it works

01:08:21.740 it feels like it works affirmations the idea of writing down or visualizing your goals

01:08:30.380 seems to be something that gives you the impression that it works and i say that very

01:08:36.580 carefully does it work do affirmations change reality i don't know i don't know

01:08:44.420 i can tell you that when i've used them the results i've gotten don't seem like anything

01:08:50.540 could have been natural i cured an incurable voice problem i had ridiculous stock market

01:08:59.600 luck when i use the affirmations my career as i told you is just crazy

01:09:04.940 the interface to reality it feels like it works it feels like it works

01:09:15.060 it feels like it works the interface to reality it feels like it works but i'm not going to tell

01:09:24.680 you it does. If it feels like it works, keep doing it. Keep doing it. If it feels like

01:09:40.680 it works, keep doing it. Keep doing it. Keep doing it. It's your reality. It feels like

01:09:54.580 it works

01:09:55.040 it feels like

01:09:57.240 it works

01:09:57.720 it feels like

01:09:59.900 it works

01:10:00.400 leads your face

01:10:02.060 into reality

01:10:03.060 it feels like

01:10:05.240 it works

01:10:05.700 but I'm not

01:10:06.960 going to tell

01:10:07.360 you it does

01:10:07.900 you should see

01:10:10.020 these as

01:10:10.460 filters

01:10:24.580 I love it. It feels like it works. Listen, try it. I love that. You guys are so cute.

01:10:42.560 All right. So tomorrow we'll be back to see you guys today. I got a lot going on. I'm going to

01:10:48.260 try to be super productive. What do I need to be productive? Cocaine? It's just a joke,

01:10:53.320 people. Just a joke. Okay. So, um, I'm engrossed by your comments. Okay. Let's see. Oh, good.

01:11:03.340 Lemon minty. Love that. Thanks. K Susie too. Have a great day. You guys nefarious Johnson.

01:11:12.420 Joel was an unexpected treat. Love his take on the debate. Yeah. Unexpected. I asked him last

01:11:17.880 night. I said, Hey, I miss you. We haven't seen you in so long. You know, could you jump on

01:11:22.040 tomorrow. And he said, I'd love to. And he really would. Oh, Huberman breasts. I'm not so good at

01:11:27.440 it. Or I'll try those. I'll try it. They give me anxiety. I'm like, oh my God, I have to hold my

01:11:33.860 breath. I've got to breathe in deeper. I know. I know. I have issues, you guys, like legit.

01:11:38.180 Let's see. Thanks, Josie. Bye, bookish. Bye for now. We'll see you in the morning.

01:11:44.960 Your name is Agent Angie. Agent Angie. Thank you, Agent Angie, for being here today. Come

01:11:53.700 back tomorrow and every day and check us out. Every day is different. You never know what

01:11:58.860 you're going to get. Sometimes we're silly. Sometimes we're overwhelmingly obnoxious. 0.94

01:12:02.900 I'll speak for myself, but we're always together. It's always a good time.

01:12:08.700 best part of your morning author yourself today you guys i'm just obsessed watching the chat

01:12:17.560 let's see oh scott ritchie the steak do you really need the butter on the steak is that like

01:12:26.100 important thanks wig pick buh-bye wayne

01:12:31.980 Flynn. Oh my God. You guys are so funny. All right, guys, I'll see you tomorrow. Say 0.52

01:12:43.460 your goodbyes so I don't cut you off. And, um, agent Angie is not friends with Chester.

01:12:50.160 Chester doesn't want friends. I, um, I want to call him he, and I'm like trying to resist the

01:12:58.980 urge, but you know, you know how it goes. All right, you guys. Bye. Oh, thanks, Melanie.

01:13:07.360 Actually in the pre-show, I was talking to Owen and my hair was like out to here. I was doing the

01:13:12.260 Gilda Radner again. And I'm like, Oh my God. Oh, and like, look at my hair. Once the camera went

01:13:16.620 on and I was like, do I have time to throw braids in? I'm like, yes, I do. So we were talking and I

01:13:20.500 just said, let me just tame this beast down. That's how the braids got here. 1.00

01:13:24.820 oh look at you guys butter is a hundred percent nutrition

01:13:31.640 alien that was such an npc comment oh thank you for that donation that is so sweet

01:13:41.840 thank you agent angie for that donation for that uh joining the group again uh yes i saw that thank

01:13:51.880 you. You joined for the year with us here on Locals. That's amazing. Oh, thank you, Bella

01:13:57.400 the Bayou. That's so sweet. Yes. That's what he was calling me, Rosanna, Rosanna, Dana. I was like,

01:14:02.520 I know, I know. The braids work. Oh my gosh. All right, you guys, I'll see you in, how many times

01:14:10.380 I'm going to say I'll see you in the morning. I just, I'm just hanging out. We're just hanging,

01:14:14.040 right? Ah, look at that. Agent Angie in the house. Oh, you're looking for his comment. He

01:14:24.480 said Chester the molester, which is like the NPC thing. Whenever you see the name Chester,

01:14:29.420 I thought he'd come up with something better than that. Who's trying to make you sick?

01:14:35.740 Oh, let's see.

01:14:44.500 Oh, okay. You guys, um, maybe I'll have a steak today with some butter on it.

01:14:50.000 It has to be a good butter, right? I only have good butter, so it'll be good.

01:14:53.380 All right. So I'll see you guys tomorrow for fry. Yay. Bye metal seer. Have a great day.

01:15:00.480 Bye guys.

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