The Scott Adams School - 3133 04⧸14⧸26 Home Team News Crew
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Summary
The home team is back, and we ve got some news and current events, and a micro lesson from Scott Adams about claustrophobia and the moon mission. Plus, a new segment called "The simultaneous sip" where we talk about the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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erica is hot and we know it's not the climate good morning everybody good morning to the hottest
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chad ever ever birds are here good morning kev steven jo bob sandville oh dr fawn hardy i see the
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dr jackie good morning everyone come on in i'm guessing today's tuesday does that sound right
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it's tuesday april 14th 2026. get your taxes in that's it you guys today tomorrow's your last
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day get them in or you can get an extension but yeah do whatever you have to do it's time good
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morning doctor so come on in it's uh the three of us today the home team and we've got some news and
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current events and a micro lesson from scott it's gonna be a great time uh mindy if you're on here
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good morning my girlfriend love her my friend mindy okay you guys i think i think we're are
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You know, it's time for that excellent part of the day, the best part of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it goes like this.
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes
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everything better the simultaneous sip that's right go ah
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don't you think he was going to say sublime after that sublime
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welcome to the scott adams school my name is erica and as always i'm joined
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by the best co-hosts in the world marcella and owen good morning good morning so listen y'all
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i don't know where the y'all came from um i just went y'all so for everybody who was wondering why
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i was so freaked out about the moon mission um artemis 2 my claustrophobia is next level
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so when we were texting the three of us during the return to earth i was just like oh my god
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that freaking capsule like can you imagine like now you're in this capsule and you're bobbing up
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and down and i'm just like oh my god like they're probably seasick i'd be like open the door i need
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air so we have a little clip of that capsule and um is that you oh it was it's not anymore
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was that skype uh teams i was like that's a whack sound from the i have a problem like for some
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reason it has a phone number which i don't even know why it has a phone number and somebody has
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it obviously and i got on some list and i get calls all the time from spam and i don't know
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how to stop it i've called the help desk they can't help me i don't know what to do not the
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help desk um so you guys here's the capsule when it's in the water and look at i heard it water
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and look at how it is inside when they open this thing.
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what's that welcome home brother thank you all right thank you thank you can i also have something
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i could see you in there dead and covered in vomit oh you'd be like hey everyone
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do you have panic attacks erica when you get claustrophobic i do i do that's rough when that
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happens oh yeah it does anyone else get panic attacks like that like the claustrophobia i can't
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get out i don't but what someone in my family does and i don't want to go into too much detail
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but there was a time and it was like totally unexpected we were um underground somewhere
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basically in like a mine sort of tour and uh all of a sudden it became a huge problem we had to get
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out of that mine heck yeah oh my gosh okay so people st louis the arch okay i was on a at a
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business meeting and we were with you know people that i didn't really i sort of knew them peripherally
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but anyway so we go to like the arch museum and we watch the arch little movie and then by the time
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you watch the movie you're like oh i want to go up in the arch and i'm like i don't know if i should
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It's like a little, like, all right, these doors open, and you put five people inside,
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and it's me and four other people, and the seat's like a little horseshoe, so everybody
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gets in and you sit down and you're kind of hunched a little bit because it's really tight
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in there and your knees are touching everybody's knees. And I'm like, oh, holy cow. This is not
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going to be good. So as the doors are about to close, I'm sensing my panic, but I've got to keep
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it together because I'm with business people. I can't freak out. So all of a sudden the doors go
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to close and I'm like, how long is the ride? And the guy's like, a minute and 45 seconds,
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whatever he said and i'm like okay okay and the door's shut and i'm like okay okay so now you're
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like all hunched over in there and it goes up like a little step ladder type of configuration
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so like rock forward go up rock forward go up and i'm like oh i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm
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gonna embarrass myself i'm gonna throw up i'm gonna pass out like this is gonna be so embarrassing
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this is what oh there's a picture of the arch amen god bless um and there's like a little
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window next to me, but like out the window is just like beams and steel. So all of a sudden I'm
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like, oh, I feel the sweat like on the back of my neck and the door is like this. So I put my lips
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up to the door and I start going, I'm trying to suck in the oxygen. I was like, if I could feel
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any like outside air. Oh my God. It was so ridiculous. I think I was inconspicuous. I
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don't know if anyone realized I was doing that. Oh my God. See the picture on locals. So that's
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it. It's insanity. Oh my God. So going down, it was much easier because I knew I was going to be
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able to get out and get off, but yeah. So don't put me in that capsule. I cannot go to space
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that's just one example of when the claustrophobia takes over.
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I don't have claustrophobia, but I just think, you know,
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being trapped underwater in a small space with a whole bunch of people
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for months or years at a time, I don't know how long they stay out.
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I mean, even tunnels are a little, so like, you know,
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the as the cars got fancier as life went on and you have that like navigation screen and like i
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said i would go to new york all the freaking time and then like one day i have the car with that
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screen and i go in the tunnel and all of a sudden you just see like my car with like water surrounding
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it because now i'm underwater and i'm just like oh my god and it was like bumper to bumper in
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the tunnel like go people go go go go go go go like i'm like what if it cracks what if the water
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comes in. So yeah, it can, but I'm a little more under control now. The older I get, I'm trying
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to pull my shit together. So that's the good news. So enough about that capsule. I don't know
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why I showed it. It just triggered this. But like, oh, and let's, let's have you kick us off
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with something light today. And oh, an MRI. Yeah. No, I don't, I don't know. I don't think I can do
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Well, apparently there's a new method to reverse cellular aging that is about to be tested on humans.
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So there's apparently this partial reprogramming using what they call Yamanaka factors to rejuvenate cells without a full reset.
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And they've done mice experiments to restore retinal nerve growth.
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And they're starting out with a human trial for glaucoma and something they call NION.
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i don't know what that is um using three factors with a virus in one eye so they're going to give
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you a virus that reprograms your cells and might rejuvenate your organs so it looks like we're
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moving towards that live forever world so there's some very young spry mice out there i'm assuming
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maybe they were blind and they're no longer blind so three blind mice
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I'd like to give Stella, I'd like to give this to Stella so she could go backwards.
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I know the rules on pets are a little more liberal than humans in terms of the type of
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Doesn't necessarily mean you're going to live to 200.
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No, but I think as I understand it, this technology could potentially be done with
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right now they're doing it for eyes that obviously it's not going to keep you alive unless it just
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helps you see better which also has an impact on things like alzheimer's and other things but um
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but i think the you know the thought is that we could potentially do this with other organs we
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could potentially rejuvenate you know liver kidney heart whatever and so potentially they could
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extend it to other things that really would extend life um but we'll have to see how this goes we're
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are certainly you know in the process and they have to see if it's safe and effective and
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they do point out there's a risk that too much of this reprogramming can cause cancer or loss
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of cell function so there may be some limitations to it so we'll have to see how it goes all right
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all right all right marcella what do you have so we'll we'll live to 900 years old and we'll have
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free grocery stores um so your favorite mayor uh one of them uh sarah mandani um is planning to open
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a free grocery store which will cost taxpayers whooping uh 30 million dollars um free is not
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very free for wait so it's free but it's costing 30 million dollars by free do you mean the food
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is free to the customers the food is free to the customer so um how are they deciding who gets this
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food they're usually it's the programs it's gonna be open in east harlem of course and it's already
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there's already a lot that's owned by the by the city that they're gonna put it in um it's gonna
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open in 2027 and it's going to cater to people that already receive um you know benefits from
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the government like if they're already getting snap benefits why don't they already have enough
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food well it the idea would be to have them buy their snap benefit food from this grocery store
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so then it's not really free it's just another way to buy your food
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yep i don't understand yep here it is i don't know the difference of why
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it's called virtue signaling it's just virtue signaling owing owen and a little redistribution
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of wealth is what they're doing so you want to give these poor people that voted for mandami
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food stamps that they can use anywhere and they can also not use them at the free grocery store
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because it's free although it costs 30 million dollars and it's sort of like like a bread line
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like a little soup kitchen like a food bank so it's a 30 million dollar food bank funded by
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people that had no say in it unless they voted for him in which you had a big say in it and um
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i just i mean the the obvious impact is if it was if it was actually free where you just walk in
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take some food and leave then they're just going to be empty shelves on the first day and and
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everyone's going to be upset because they didn't get all their food but um you know the if it
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really is just another way to buy your snap food then i don't understand what you're doing like
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you're spending 30 million dollars to accomplish nothing exactly well i think the the issue was
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that in certain areas like east harlem there's not enough supermarkets there it's like the food
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desert is what they call it and so they're trying to open local stores in areas where it's
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high snap you know benefits 30 million dollars per year no to build it okay to run it he didn't
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indicate how much he looked into how low margin grocery stores are right to know that they're
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not really making a big profit and yeah he's totally up on this profit is not if he gave
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somebody you know much less than that most likely per year they probably would be very happy to
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open a grocery store there well here it is yeah i mean i agree the good news is is this
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is testing small in one of the most important cities and it will fail miserably and he's on
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the fast track to failure like faster than any other of the loser mayors they've had there so
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So he's going to replace de Blasio, which is incredibly difficult to do, I would think,
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and Eric Adams in no time in the worst mayor ever.
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And then Hochul's begging them all to come back and pay more money.
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We're going to ask the people from Palm Beach to come back to New York and pay more money.
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So we're testing this very publicly in one very important city.
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It will, I mean, it's going to be the further demise of New York.
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I think they've, I remember when this idea first came out that Momdami was proposing
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this, they said, we tried this, here's what happened.
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it went out of business and it was a huge failure and most of these socialist policies
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are already happening in places like chicago and la and other places and we've seen the results
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so i don't think we need to test small i think we have the results we just need to pay attention to
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them but you know maybe new york needs to learn the lesson that it's a disaster there too
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yeah i i think this will put it really in the forefront though for everybody to see
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It just seems to me like everything he's doing is backfiring.
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Like either he's not allowed to do what he wanted to do or he is just doing the exact opposite of what he said he would do.
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And he's raiding their pension funds or I don't remember, like the rainy day fund or whatever it was.
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And so he's putting the city in a really horrible position.
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And it's going to be hard to recover from this, I think.
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Oh, my God. Do you know I heard today so that who is it? Bon Appetit magazine, you know, has like a very good reputation.
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you know, they're like the food magazine and that they, you know, like first every, all these
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magazines were just like, and newspapers, you know, oh, he shouldn't, you know, he shouldn't
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be in there, you know, the socialism, the communism, whatever. And then once he gets in,
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they're like, oh, he's just look at what he's doing. And then Bon Appetit magazine does an
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interview with him. Cause I guess that's, they have to, like, they feel like that's their thing
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with New York and they're like, oh, he's making a really good case for hand food in New York
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City, like food to eat with your hand. You know how he'll eat with his hands and he has
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other people eating with his hands. And I'm like, come on, people like stop on a petite
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magazine hand food. Now they're like, yeah, that's a great idea. And they don't mean hot
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dogs. I do like Ethiopian food. Have you had that?
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I love Ethiopian food. I mean, that's all with your hands. You have the injera bread
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and scoop up the yes and i go to the ethiopian restaurant in asbury park when i want the ethiopian
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food um but i don't you know i don't think uh everybody in town like your your firemen and
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policemen should be made to eat hand food at a meeting and sit on the floor for your updates
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but whatever that's just me yeah so i guess that the actual grocery store also will have
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inexpensive food there for people that are not on snap which you know and would have um what was it
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um better worker rights to the people that are working there and higher pay
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you know so it's gonna put a lot of the small grocery stores in east harlem out of business
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also you know so but it is competition and there's already not a lot of grocery stores there
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all right so good job all right this is going to be just an amazing circular firing squad going on
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in new york okay good luck good luck all right marcella um no owen who just did that story
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whoever's next i think it's me um so we of course have more fraud um there's a homeless fraud that
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daniel greenfield was talking about there's this woman called gwendolyn westbrook who apparently
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is a prior embezzler and ran a $36 million homeless nonprofit with Tent City stuff. She's
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been indicted for $1.2 million in misappropriation. She bought a Tesla. She was giving luxury cars
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to her family. She was taking trips to Aruba. She was apparently raised by a Willie Brown ally. So
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she's part of that whole group. And that comes back to if you know who's involved, you know the
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news better. Um, and they got millions of dollars for this NGO, uh, despite failing
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audits and complaints. And they were spending $61,000 per tent per year for this homeless
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tent city. Um, they spent $16 million a year, or they're going to spend that much by, I
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Um, uh, I believe this is out in California, California. Oh yeah. Cause that's the whole
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willie brown oh right right right area but yeah so i think everyone probably could have seen this
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coming but apparently it's been overlooked and allowed to happen and it sounds to me like this
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one might be one where you could probably trace it back to saying they wanted to just give this
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person a bunch of money um and we're hoping they wouldn't get caught but yeah it's a pretty
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egregious so she basically just took a whole bunch of money for herself and her family and
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oh my gosh gave it out to people remember when scott invested in tents
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you remember all the homeless things were going on he's like he's like don't take my advice but
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i am i'm gonna invest in a tent company or i invested in a tent company didn't he accidentally
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invest in rvs when he wanted to invest in tents oh i think he did yeah that was like the whole
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covid investment time of like okay what's hot right now yeah love that um yeah that's pretty
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disgusting and i i mean do we get the money back i don't know i mean i'm assuming they would
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probably confiscate the property i think that's typically what happens when you have this type
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of case marcella you could probably say better than yeah i mean they they'll take the person's
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property or whatever it is and and accounts and everything else frees them but you know the
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taxpayer doesn't get get it back like i don't get it reimbursed or it's never used so this the issue
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with this is that there's many organizations like this that there's a lot of millions and billions
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of dollars given to the homeless in california and when you're out there paying you know you see
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them without anybody helping them or anything else so it's kind of like where's the money going um
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what is the solution now i like sir not that we know but what is the solution for the homeless
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encampments for the drug addicts like what is the answer because you know every not every but
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most major cities have this issue and like you know better climated areas and but what is the
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answer because like i know dr drew always says well they don't want to be home like they want
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to be out on the street like they that's their actual lifestyle they're addicts they're not
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homeless so how do how does this get fixed does like anyone i'm like looking in the chat does
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You have to enforce the laws of loitering and everything else.
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But I think there has to be in California a change in conservatorships, LPS conservatorships, which is where your family can conserve you if you are at a state where you're a danger, not just your family, but someone else.
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Because a lot of these people that are out there, and I think Donald Trump, President Trump put a truth post about, and I'm just going off, I don't know if this guy was homeless, but that's kind of what happens here is that this guy killed a grocery or gas attendant with a hammer because they end up living on the street, doing drugs.
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they grab anything i had to run away from people with hammers you know so it's kind of like um
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they become very violent it's not just that they're doing harm to themselves they can do harm
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to others of course so changing the law of how you can conserve someone that is no longer um there
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you know so that's one step go ahead i think the first step it kind of in in agreement with what
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marcel is saying is you have to recognize not a homeless problem it's a mental illness and a drug
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problem and so you have to think of it from that perspective if you're looking for solutions you
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can't just be like saying oh if we give this person an apartment or a condo everything's solved
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which is what california tried to do spending massive amounts of money and not getting any
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results and um you know the i think there is a place in texas i can't remember the name where
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there is some person who set up like a community out in the middle of the rural area for these
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homeless people and would bring people out to those places and that seemed to be really effective
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like it would they would be in a totally different environment it might even be you know mostly
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outdoors if they wanted to be outdoors but they're away from all the drugs they're away from all the
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you know whatever is causing maybe the mental illness too and um i you know i don't know there
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probably are a lot of their other elements to it but i know it's been a big success story
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And let's not forget disease and everything else. And then what happens to people's real estate values and their personal things that are, you know, their cars are getting broken into over and over and over and over again. And if you wanted to move out of these neighborhoods, you could never sell your property. And you've got to live out there with people peeing and pooping all over your property and in your plants and just, you know, lunatics. And it's just like, oh my God, that is so, I hate, I hate saying this word.
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It's so not fair to the people that live there, that pay taxes, that go to work there.
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And the other thing, you know, just about enforcing or creating policies, like the first
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thing you could do is stop this ridiculous thing where you could steal up to $950 worth
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of things from a store and nothing happens to you.
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I mean, all the stores are going out of business there.
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I mean, it's going to be, it's just going to be like a ghost town in these areas.
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nobody wants to do business there everybody's leaving everybody's leaving california in and
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out burgers leaving they're going to texas lots of big california companies and i'm not saying
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it's just a california thing but like universally something has to happen i've been for 20 years
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saying like bring back insane asylums like call them whatever you want if you want to give it a
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fluffy name but and make them privatized and i would gladly be a venture capitalist person to
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raise money for these things because these people are mentally ill they're addicted they're sick
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they have nowhere to be nowhere to go and we have to fix it because no one should be living this way
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either them even them and the people that are around them it's just it's crazy i i just think
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we have done the sort of test small to call back to what we were saying earlier and you know texas
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I just saw an article that between 2012 and 2022, if you compare California to Texas, Texas homeless population went down by 10,000 and California's went up by 51,000.
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There are systems that make a dent in it at least.
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And so I think we just need to make that spread.
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And I think the problem in California is mostly that the incentives are wrong.
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You know, you're, you're pumping a bunch of money into this thing and all the people are benefiting from having that money flow through and they get paid kind of like per homeless person. And so that means the more people they have, the more money they get. And, um, you know, there's lots of this corruption and fraud happening in the middle of all that. So people are keeping a lot of this money to themselves and, you know, the builders are benefiting because they're just building a bunch of homes that they pay.
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you know they they charge full price for even though they're given out either for free or for
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hardly anything to the people who live there but you know they're still getting paid so like all
00:29:14.460
these people are benefiting it's kind of like the the immigration system where you had all these
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people benefiting because they were getting paid to bring people into the country and so you're
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going to have more people coming in the country because they get a certain paycheck every time
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they do that and so you need to cut off the funding when it's um leading to a bad outcome
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it's it's it's a bad system as scott would say yeah it really is well i mean we're not going to
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solve it today and maybe when dr drew comes on we'll talk to him about this too because he will
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be coming on i don't have the date but it'll be very um okay so i just question marcella yeah
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did i hear correctly about kamala harris i'm just saying because california is california
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She's the answer to all of our problems, don't you know?
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Did you guys hear what she said maybe might happen?
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So there's a possibility that, one, she might run for president in 2028,
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Or she will run for California governor based on a write-in candidate position
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position where people can write her name in um she does have to provide 65 signatures
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in order by may 19 in order to be a write-in candidate where do i sign
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all the all the people here in california can um that reside here can do that um unless
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right here um so there's a possibility our future you know and to be honest she was better when she
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was attorney general here but there was a change in her ways well let's let's just can we take a
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little trip down memory lane because this is what we could look forward to and by the way you guys
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the start of this clip is what marcella's wardrobe is going to be uh moving forward when you see the
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red dress we've already discussed let me know if you want me to wear that yeah and then and let's
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let's revisit the memories of kamala and what we could maybe look forward to in the near future
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to play my little favorite to play my little favorite highlights real
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i grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community
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you need to get to go i need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home
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We did it. We did it, Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States.
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I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
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You exist in the context. I do believe that we should have rightly believed,
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but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled.
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clearly we're not no that's right and that's why i do believe that we are living sadly in um real
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unsettled times it is and um talking about the significance of the passage of time right the
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significance of the passage of time so when you think about it there is great significance to
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the passage of time and so you're now no longer are you necessarily keeping those private files
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in some file cabinet that's locked in the basement of the house.
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It's on your laptop, and it's then therefore up here in this cloud that exists above us, right?
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You can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been.
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We have dreams. We can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been.
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I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
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Would someone please create an AI debate between J.D. Vance and Kamala Harris?
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oh my god i want to see that i want to see kamala and katie porter
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wait you guys so what you don't know is while that's going on well owen never changes his
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expression he's super stoic but at the bottom back here we can see the three of us while that's
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playing and marcella and i are doing kamala impersonations and i'm going the hands and then
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the there's the hands and i'm going what has been and what could be so she's just so mockable i mean
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mock her to the ends of the earth that woman is maybe she's shy you know maybe she's just bad
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at talking i don't know that's great that's just definitely what you want in a leader
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oh my gosh so run cammy run i love the the part that you played where she was talking to i don't
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know if it was 60 minutes or whoever it was and they were like oh yeah and she was like yeah this
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is all settled already and then he goes back to her and says well it's not settled that's why i'm
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asking yeah she goes some things are just settled it's settled he goes well it's not and she goes
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right so and i'm like oh my god you are so crazy oh so you know hopefully we'll get to hear from
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her again um i did want to jump to one other thing um so yesterday at the end of the show
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marcella so greatly wrapped up in five minutes what was going on this is a little more of a
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serious subject with the whole ukraine impeachment perfect phone call all of that stuff so um i'm
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just going to play a little clip and then on the other end marcella and owen will just kind of like
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re just you know just kind of tighten that up and then we can move on to eric swalwell okay here's
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a clip from just the news with john solomon tonight we're going to expand on a bombshell story we
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dropped late last evening new memos declassified by the director of national intelligence tulsi
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gabbard at the request of just the news we fought six years to get this evidence they show that the
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intelligence community inspector general had gathered derogatory evidence about the cia
00:36:47.240
analysts who prompted the 2019 Ukraine-focused impeachment against Donald Trump.
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Remember, that was an impeachment that accused Donald Trump of wrongly asking Ukraine to
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Well, now we know the man who made that accusation, the chief accuser that touched off that entire
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episode in American history, had submitted false statements in his whistleblower complaint,
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had offered hearsay to support his allegations, and was flagged by the inspector general for
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the intelligence community, the chief watchdog of the intelligence community, for potential
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bias, including the bias of working for Joe Biden, being a registered Democrat, and disliking
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In fact, he so disliked Donald Trump, he insisted that his complaint not be shared with allies
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of President Trump in Congress, even though they were entitled to see it.
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All day today, people have been reacting, and former impeachment managers saying, we
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should have known this, lawyers saying this raises very serious concerns about the fairness
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of the impeachment and Senate trial that occurred six years ago.
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And the intelligence establishment, including the CIA director and DNI Gabbard, both reacting
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strongly, saying that the former intelligence community's inspector general, that chief
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watchdog who buried this derogatory information, that he let the American people down, that
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he weaponized the whistleblower system, and that he abused his position.
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are signs that maybe that is going to come under investigation, uh, over the course of the next
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few days now. Okay. So in the chat, yes or no, will anyone be prosecuted for this? Just, just
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curious. Yes or no. Will they be prosecuted? No, nothing will happen. I mean, that's pretty
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stunning and amazing. And the, the breathless reporting on this as if like the worst thing in
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the world had happened and all of it's just BS is just beyond. So Owen, I'll come to you first
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on this subject. What do you think? Oh, and everybody's saying no, by the way, in the chat.
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Yeah, well, I think, you know, certainly I would hope there would be some accountability for this.
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I don't know that there will be. I'm probably with most of the people in the chat that I doubt
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anything real is going to come out of this in terms of people going to prison or, you know,
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getting any consequences for breaking the law. But, you know, it does seem like a huge scandal.
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And at least we're getting some transparency around it.
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I'm sure none of the mainstream media is going to cover it.
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You know, they'll just ignore it like it never happened.
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And so most Democrats will never even hear about this or know that it came out.
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But, you know, at least we do have some evidence of it.
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I think this is another situation where we all knew this is what happened, right?
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Like it isn't news from the standpoint of learning something happened that you didn't know happened.
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it's just confirmation that yes it was exactly what you thought it was and six years to get
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that information is just disgusting um what what do you want to say about that marcella
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i think john solomon later on um in another interview i think with hannity um maybe i don't
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remember he said that alan dershowitz had made statements um attorney famous attorney alan
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Dershowitz had made statements that saying that President Trump can try to get his impeachment
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expunged, meaning taken off his record. You know, but the issue is that it seems like there is no
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accountability. There is anybody can whistleblow anything and can be partisan and can be based on
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hearsay. So if, again, the midterms are important, because it will lead to possibly the Democrats
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having control of Congress. And again, we'll see another impeachment attempt based on,
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you know, nothing. So yeah, yeah, apparently it's so I mean, and then when the Republicans got in
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after trump's first term i was like oh okay so they're gonna just try to impeach everybody and
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throw the hammer down and none of that's happened so it's just stunning to me and this is why people
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get fed up with the republicans it's like okay you're in power now like what are we doing and
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you want to see some kind of accountability something and uh nothing it's it's nothing
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ever. So, um, I really wish that the Republicans would get a backbone and be pissed. And I don't
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know how to make that happen. I don't know who needs to be put in what position for these things
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to happen, but it's, I don't know. I feel like everybody's, I feel like everybody's just blackmailed
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and they just don't do it because they have dirt on them. I don't know how you burn the whole thing
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down but it's pretty frustrating as you know taxpayers and citizens and people who would you
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know we would all of us watching this would be in trouble for the most stupid things and you'd
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probably be put in jail for something that's a nothing and then you see the most egregious
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crimes that like literally a full january 6 january 6 you know you go in but the summer of love
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no problem no they were like yeah let them get their aggression out oh okay so it's it's pretty
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tough pill to swallow i don't know any other words on this before we move on to
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it's it's good you mentioned swallow um representative eric swalwell um resigned
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from congress yesterday not only from his his running for governor he also resigned from
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congress so he knows he's cooked yeah so and i think it's early because he's he's potentially
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under criminal investigation now and what i read in one of the stories was that he
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was worried that if he if it went through a congressional inquiry or this ethics probe that
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that might expose some information that would hurt him in his criminal trial well let's let's run this
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clip and then we'll talk about the uh criminal problems what i will say is that many people on
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in the next 24 hours, and then also potentially the individual that recorded that video in that
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hotel room, Jessie, was a female, and she was underage.
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Oh, just so the audience is aware, there's a video that's circulating.
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It appears to show Swalwell on a bed, maybe another guy making out with a girl.
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But if what you're saying is true, and we don't know, but if that's true, that is very,
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that would come out and say that this is wrong and that you need to resign from office, right?
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So it was clearly a pattern. And as you're seeing with some of the text messages coming out,
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and I think, again, with this criminal investigation, there's a lot there with him.
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So, yes, he resigned, I think, to maybe save his family going through this.
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But ultimately, at the end of the day, when he did what he decided to do,
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just based on the grounds of him having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer,
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but now we're looking at the criminal activity. And I stand by what I said,
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because I saw, again, the forensics report of that video.
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And if that is true, I would suggest that the Manhattan DA look into that.
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So all sorts of people are distancing themselves from him, Democrats, big time.
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And, you know, we all know that Pelosi gives cover to all these guys.
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and pelosi is just you know so pelosi claims that nobody knew about any of this this is all a huge
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surprise yeah and she's gone in eight months you guys so they're not going to have grandmother to
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watch after them anymore and it's going to be really interesting to see what's you know what's
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going to come out and when they don't have her protection what's going to happen and i think
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we're going to see people dropping off like flies is just my prediction what do you think morsela
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you're nodding yes well i mean everybody that was alive breathing knew swalwell had a woman issue i
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mean thank i personally knew that but um the the issue with that is that most of the accusers had
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not come out you know with sexual abuse and anything like that it's hard for those abuse
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to actually come out and say it and accuse somebody in power um however the congress
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um from what we're told by nancy mace and um and anna polina luna is that there is this kind of
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issue and we talked about it earlier in another news story that there's this issue with congress
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in the senate and um that there's like allegations made against all of them and that you know there
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was a um a bill or some some ruled in order to make it public for the public to know about it
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but it was voted down so that it's all private this is this goes on in washington quite a lot
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you know so it's like everybody knows um this happens and and but the interesting part now
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is that tmc who is usually running like hollywood scandal or you know show business scandal is now
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in has a borough or has a office now in dc and that will change quite a lot because they will
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report on these kind of things so yeah they want to they want to go where the action's at now
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hollywood's dead and dc is the gossip center i just want to say i am shocked that he did these
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things i mean he's always been such an upstanding guy high integrity you know i i can't believe that
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this went on and i know you know how did he hide it so well same with bill clinton and monica you
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know you go back that far and you're like wow you know i didn't see that coming but but he actually
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isn't the only one tony gonzalez also resigned so he had his own affair problem he's a republican
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and uh he resigned after having an affair with one of his staffers and she killed herself
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unfortunately uh very tragic but um so that was also being you know put under an ethics probe and
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he's out of Congress now mm-hmm yeah that's what I mean this is gonna be
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interesting let's see if anyone else is like oh the probe the probes getting
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deeper with with the representative Tony Gonzales he wasn't going to go for
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office again but he basically he didn't really resign he filed for retirement
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So it's very different, meaning that he will just end, he'll retire instead of resigning.
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It might make a difference with how you collect your benefits through your retirement.
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But his staffer that he allegedly had relations with, because he's denied it, or he's tried to deny it, died in a very shocking way.
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uh she allegedly she um in the backyard of her house in uvalde texas had um put um
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basically caught on fire and uh that's how she killed her yowza good god what is that called
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i forget what it's called emulation i don't know but it's bad it's sad um so you know maybe think
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twice about uh having your kids uh being assistants over there or a staffer over there in dc i'm just
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kidding i'm sure most people are fine but i mean it's it's we are we all know this is how dc is
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the only thing i don't like is that emulation the only thing i don't like is that it's all a secret
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like let us know who these people are maybe you don't want to re-elect swalwell when you hear
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about all this stuff right you know and if it's been going on for a long time let us know it's
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not it's not right to keep who these people truly are um but everybody's basically a liar in dc so
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you know i will just clarify i saw in the chat someone was saying he did resign i think that
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this might just be like breaking news where it hasn't actually come out you know publicly yet
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but there is sort of reports that he's resigning so yeah that's that's what i heard too it could
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be newer and newer. We'll, we'll all find out after, or if somebody wants to grab that, let us
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know. But, um, it was on Megyn Kelly this morning. Okay. All right. So he, yeah, I thought I read
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somewhere that he resigned to, and I just, um, I feel bad for these wives or the spouses or the
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people that were taken advantage of. And, you know, I remember I was younger when the whole
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Monica thing went down. Oh, I heard it. I heard it. So anyway, but I was like, I don't blame
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Monica Lewinsky. She was so young and the president of the United States is giving you
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this kind of attention. And so I felt bad because she took the most crap for it. It really was on
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him oh god everything i say um but anyway i so i felt bad for her and i just i feel like these
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younger staffers are so vulnerable to these people in power that are giving them attention and i could
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just see like if i was younger and there was like some man who was like you know my boss or you know
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whatever and you're like oh no so i don't know i i just hope that um i hope the right people
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get the majority of the crap thrown at them. And I feel bad for the wives and Swalwell's wife. I'm
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just like, oh my God, everything she's going to hear now, it's just brutal. Yeah, you're young
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and dumb, right? So do we want to keep talking about him? Not necessarily, but
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if there's nothing else, let's move to a different story.
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No, I think that's it. I've seen rumors and things on X where they say they think more is coming,
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but like more people um but we'll have to wait and see what else comes out yes beverly your brain
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isn't i just want to say beverly you're right your brain is not fully developed till the age
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of 25 and these people are pretty young in there not that that's a full-on excuse but let's be real
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okay go ahead no i was just going to say i think it's a step in the right direction i think it's
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great to have more transparency around these things and you know i wish it was more universally
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applied and i'm not necessarily hopeful that everybody who should be is going to face these
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consequences um but i am glad that we're at least taking steps in the right direction
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okay so owen do you want to give us another story we have about nine minutes left
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uh let's see so there apparently we are giving 40 million dollars a week to the taliban did you
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know that um burchette was talking about this and um apparently it's 40 million dollars a week
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five billion dollars total so far i think and apparently to the taliban wait we're giving
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40 million dollars to the taliban per week yeah it's going through a bunch of ngos in the u.n
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and things but it's all ending up with the taliban okay in afghanistan all right good night
00:53:40.380
everybody have a great day there is speculation at least that maybe some of it's you know there
00:53:46.200
maybe some kickbacks back to politicians happening i'm not sure but the democrats apparently are
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really wanting this to continue i'm sure they will can you make that make sense i don't understand
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at all like what's happening i don't think i can but i think if i were to try and steel man the
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argument i think the the twisted logic behind it is that they think by giving them money that they
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can help stabilize the region, that they're going to basically be more amenable to staying
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on good terms with us, and that if you didn't support them, that it might collapse and become
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much worse or more terrorism and other things. So that's my guess is how they would justify it,
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but I don't buy it at all. So they're negotiating with terrorists?
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Exactly. Yeah, they're paying them off. All right. Well, that's amazing. That's
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fantastic marcella what's your lighthearted story no i'm just kidding well no i was gonna say you
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know this is why people are so fed up on either side republican or democrat because when we drive
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around when we go through to our cities in in the united states we see all these issues
00:54:58.580
infrastructure issues and yet all this money is being given to foreign governments but where
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are where is that money going into america you know so that that bothers me because it shouldn't
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be like that we need more burshette we need him we need him like every day just he needs a podcast
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i love him he's a good dude um so um in my lighthearted story pickleball injuries have risen
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oh pickleball yes and so pickle i i should not laugh because it's actually very serious injuries
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to the eyes ocular issues that have happened and um there's a journal named i yes e-y-e
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and then analyze the data from 2014 through 2023 and it it tied uh about 3 000
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And part of the reason is that people don't wear
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and they might not know how, and then they end up injured.
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You have to watch out for your pickleballs.
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she is the pickleball princess and now yeah does she wear eye gear in order to not have these
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injuries darla let's do a locals only interview one night this week and let's talk about the
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pickleball saga and also i know that there's a lot of um achilles tendon injuries and ankle injuries
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Yeah. The hospitals, you know, listen, a lot of older women, when I say older, I don't even mean
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old. I just mean like older women are playing pickleball. And, you know, a lot of us aren't
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built the way we used to be. And so you're stopping short and running and this and that.
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And like, you know, your knees aren't as happy, your ankles, all of your tendons, make sure you
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guys warm up, you stretch, you take proper precautions. I'm going to say wear the sports
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goggles now nobody needs to take a shot to the eye it's not fun um but yeah there are tons of
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injuries reported at the hospitals and we have friends that work at hospitals and they're just
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like oh you should see all the pickleball madness coming in the in the er so you know so be careful
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i don't know that's a good question i was like interesting i think ping pong might be a little
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bit safer i read i read a book about brain health and he the the doctor i think it was maybe dr
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amen i can't remember who wrote it but um he was pointing out how pretty much almost every sport
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has like collision industries of some sort that and his point was that like all of them do injure
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your brain like every concussion injures your brain and he can scan your brain and see where
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you've had impacts and he recommended ping pong as the only safe sport because there was no contact
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involved and didn't didn't are i'm making this up too but isn't in china wait did they invent ping
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pong allegedly i don't know what they say let's ask let's ask chester forrest gump where's chester
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i'm gonna ask chester right now um one other story i can add is uh apparently they're going
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to be calling pablo escobar's cocaine hippos so what he brought over four hippos to colombia
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and apparently they went wild and got out and now there were there were like 170 of them
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in 2022 and they've been threatening villagers and manatees and they tried neutering them that
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didn't work so they're going to be euthanizing 80 hippos in colombia oh no owen that's not good
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can they just put them in a zoo or something well they were brought over to be in a zoo and then i
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think apparently they somehow got out and they're running wild now oh no save the hippos i will say
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hippos are pretty nasty they're from what i understand they're one of the more dangerous
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creatures you can encounter out in the jungle or wherever they live it's not their fault that
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they're running around yeah i mean you know i could certainly argue that it would be more humane
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and better to just relocate them back to where they came from i'm not sure how you transport 80
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hippos or even capture them but apparently there will be less cocaine hippos in columbia
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yeah i mean god all right so ping pong comes from the brits it comes from the brits someone named
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david foster who patented a table version of tennis in 1890 the name ping pong itself came
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later and was trademarked by the british company jay jacques and son in 1901 so let's go england
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but the yes of course the chinese dominate at that sport i don't know why i said of course but
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that sounded kind of racist i didn't mean it that way um okay you guys so here we go um tomorrow
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