00:01:52.000I always confuse him with somebody else.
00:01:54.000Did plead guilty to his espionage charges today.
00:01:57.000And we're going to talk about the pride match in FIFA soccer in Seattle, where we've got two teams who, let's just say, they're from nations that aren't really amenable to the issue of pride as a virtue signaling identity factor.
00:02:12.000And yet they are smack in Seattle, where Seattle is having kind of a pride overview.
00:02:20.000I'm out here on the East Coast for basically the next few weeks.
00:02:24.000We're going to be Having all of America's 250th stuff going on in DC, and I'm going to hope to.
00:02:31.000If you know anything about me, I like steam trains, so I'm going to go up to Pennsylvania and see the big boy steam locomotive as it makes its way back to Chicago.
00:02:39.000So I'm out here for a whole bunch of stuff, and one of them turned out to be this.
00:02:44.000So I'm going to let everybody else introduce themselves, and we'll move on from there.
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00:04:43.000So, this out of Fox Business, Mandami celebrates rent freeze for stabilized housing as board member quits blasting the vote process.
00:04:53.000And it says a board member who resigned Thursday asserted this year's RGB order was decided last year on the campaign trail.
00:05:00.000Now, a lot of people are saying that this is really just basically the opening shot on the war against landlords in New York, because what they're going to do is try and freeze all these rents.
00:05:13.000And as expenses for property maintenance go up, landlords are unable to maintain their properties as easily as they're able to.
00:05:22.000And we all know that things break down, especially if you have an older building where the subsystems are going to need to be replaced.
00:05:28.000And when that happens, it's not inexpensive.
00:05:32.000You might have a boiler system, you might have, you've got not just your heating, but all your plumbing and everything like that in these brownstones that needs to be replaced occasionally.
00:06:34.000We see stories about squatters all the time, right?
00:06:38.000So there's a lot of pressure on you as a landlord because your margins aren't always that high.
00:06:45.000And if you, let's say, you're a small landlord, you only have a certain number of units, you can't afford to have.
00:06:51.000People squatting in those units or nobody in them because that's going to affect your profitability.
00:06:56.000And everybody should be able to, if they've got the private property, they own the building, they should be able to reap some of the rewards here.
00:07:03.000And what you're seeing though is New York saying, yes, you own the building, but you can only earn this much off of it.
00:07:10.000And then if they set that floor too low and the costs go up, you could actually lose money on it.
00:07:15.000And that's being decided by New York City.
00:07:18.000And a couple of months ago, weeks ago, I believe it's called the Fix the City Initiative, where he said the city will take over.
00:07:25.000Ownership of severely distressed properties to hold them accountable.
00:07:28.000So, this is the thing if they can't fix the buildings because they're getting no profit, no money on these buildings, then the city's going to take over the buildings and take over ownership of them.
00:07:36.000So, like you're saying, it's a land grab.
00:07:41.000By being like, okay, yeah, it's yours, but not really.
00:07:44.000We're going to tell you what to do with it.
00:07:45.000This is how he's starting to try to bring in that socialism that he always says he wants to bring in free everything and socialized programs.
00:07:52.000And so, the first thing to do is to attack a private business or somebody that owns a house, their private property.
00:07:59.000So, by targeting a landlord, and I have a great landlord, I will just say, like, I know a lot of people have problems with landlords.
00:08:52.000But this is just so rich to me coming that the governor of New York just, what, like less than a year ago was pleading with all the rich people that fled to Florida.
00:09:07.000There's a budget deficit that Mamdani was just pleading that was fighting with the governor of New York over.
00:09:13.000So there's all these proposals and all these policies that he had to make on the campaign trail that he's now fulfilling that's just going to lead to the destruction of New York.
00:09:22.000Because when the big money leaves, that's when the problems come back.
00:10:47.000It's what the landlords need to do to continue to make it, let alone profitability, just covering expenses, right?
00:10:54.000Keeping the lights on, maintenance, hiring a guy to do maintenance, you know, if they've, what do they call it, a super or whatever.
00:11:01.000So this problem is just going to get worse.
00:11:03.000I mean, but I will say this is a, you know, after the primaries last week, this is just kind of a testament to how popular Mom Dhani and the new kind of Democrat socialists are becoming in these super blue areas.
00:11:21.000It seems like the dam is breaking with inflation.
00:11:25.000Since 2008, we bailed out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, spent trillions, then COVID, another $5 trillion, the escalating debt, compound inflation that we're spending a trillion a year, whatever.
00:11:38.000So it's like they're pulling their finger out of one crack to stick it into another crack, and everyone's cheering.
00:11:45.000So instead of now protecting the landlords, they're going to protect the renters for a little while, for two years, and all the renters are cheering.
00:11:51.000Then later, they're going to pull that finger out.
00:11:53.000Let them suffer again and put it back in.
00:11:54.000Like in two years, when this lapses, the rents might go up by 30% across the board.
00:12:52.000Is that anything you're going to want to do?
00:12:54.000No, you're not going to want to do it.
00:12:55.000And what you're saying, you know, not only are they not.
00:12:58.000Thinking about the here and now, they're not even thinking about the semantics, they're not even thinking about the philosophy of what they're doing.
00:13:05.000And, you know, Mandami is, I think, really, he's in the honeymoon phase right now.
00:13:10.000And, you know, there's another city on the other coast called Los Angeles who is trying to have their own female Mandami, Nithya Raman, get elected.
00:13:18.000And, you know, New York is not far enough down the road to failure yet that that's going to prevent her from winning in Los Angeles.
00:13:27.000I mean, people hate Karen, they hate Bass as mayor.
00:13:29.000I mean, if it's between Bass and anyone else, you're going to choose anyone else because Bass was, I mean, the Palisades fire was so devastating.
00:13:36.000And that's so fresh in people's minds.
00:13:47.000I was going to say, like, if you told anybody a year ago that they're going to be basically a socialist mayor in New York City and he's going to be doing these and these are going to be the pro, nobody would believe you.
00:13:59.000But now it's happening for the first time.
00:14:01.000We're really starting to see him actually get some of the stuff.
00:14:03.000He was successful in endorsing a slate of political candidates and they won.
00:14:08.000And so, really, we're in that honeymoon stage where he's got.
00:14:12.000He's calling some shots and making some things happen.
00:14:14.000But I think down the road, as we get a year from now, we're not going to see this success in there.
00:14:19.000And we're going to see people leaving New York.
00:15:00.000Vote for the guy that says you got to work hard for yourself?
00:15:03.000No, I was just getting free stuff from the last guy.
00:15:06.000So it's kind of like this is we talk about this so much over the years on this show about like kind of like the cycle of socialism or communism.
00:15:14.000How it just only creates more communism, more destruction, more dysfunction, and more chaos.
00:15:19.000It hardly makes sense to me, though, that like we just, I thought we had like made some strides in the right direction, but I guess the left has doubled down.
00:15:28.000Well, it's like a rubber band or a balancing act because if you go hyper capitalist, you end up with corporatocracy where the corporations control and govern the world.
00:15:36.000But if you go hyper communist, then, you know, small groups control everything and people are serfs basically.
00:15:42.000So, like, the government bought 10% of Intel.
00:16:46.000New York, the Independent Rent Guidelines Board just froze the rent.
00:16:50.000That means if you're one of the more than 2 million New Yorkers who lives in a rent stabilized apartment, your rent's going to be frozen next year.
00:16:56.000He's just got to slow down because he sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.
00:18:15.000I mean, nobody really has a lot of sympathy for landlords typically, but if you think about what you're talking about, they're all going to be leaving for somewhere else.
00:18:23.000They're getting fair market value of their investments stolen because you're not going to be able to sell your apartment building in New York City at anywhere near what the price that you could get for it last year because who's going to buy into that knowing that these rents are stabilized and not even being sure what's going to happen down the road?
00:18:40.000Two years from now, three years from now.
00:18:42.000Because owning an apartment building is kind of like an investment where you've got cash flow coming to you each month and the value of your building is also increasing.
00:18:53.000So you're making money on that end as well.
00:18:56.000But you do that only as long as you can foresee what the market conditions will be.
00:19:01.000And Mandami and the socialists in New York are making that type of prognostication much more difficult.
00:19:08.000It's a lot harder now, I think, in New York City to look ahead and say, This is a great investment because over five years, this is where I'll be.
00:19:15.000Because you got no idea what they're going to do.
00:19:17.000You have no idea what they're going to foist.
00:19:19.000Well, I mean, look at the Knicks parade and all the celebrations and watch parties you were having, right?
00:19:25.000If you're like all these policies aside, New York is now the place where your sports team wins and they're going to destroy.
00:21:34.000The one thing I wanted to hit back on what you're saying is if you raise rent every year by 2%, well, that's a cost that sucks, but most people can find a way to pay that, right?
00:21:44.000All right, we need to stop going out to dinner as much.
00:21:47.000Maybe we don't take as many road trips.
00:21:49.000You can find somewhere in your budget to make up for that 2%.
00:21:52.000If in two years it drops 15%, 20%, 30%, where does that money come from if you're already strapped for cash?
00:21:58.000If you're someone who is middle class working.
00:22:01.000Yeah, you're going to create a massive homeless problem.
00:22:04.000It's sort of why I'm not fully against rent freezing and rent control and rent stabilization because giving a landlord full control over raising the rent by 30% every year is insane.
00:22:17.000Yeah, but in New York City, there's a market economy on that.
00:22:21.000You can't just decide, as a unilateral action, as a one apartment owner, I'm going to raise my rents 30%.
00:22:28.000Well, maybe you can if you're right against Central Park and the market will bear that type of cost increase.
00:22:35.000In New York City, though, It's a little bit different because people have other options to rent.
00:22:40.000So I agree with you that in a situation where the public is being victimized by landlords, rent control and rent stabilization may have made sense originally.
00:23:02.000And there's a reason that those TikToks of the super tiny apartments that are the size of a closet are $1,500 a month and people are still renting them.
00:23:10.000Right, the market that's the market rate, and people are willing to pay to move to New York for the next two years.
00:23:16.000I lived in a New York closet for two years.
00:23:32.000But it was New York, it was New York, and it was the energy of the city at that time, and anything was possible with work, and you had almost unlimited possibilities.
00:23:41.000It was still the city that never sleeps.
00:24:04.000It's all right, but I'm just saying, I think that 20, 30 years ago, people living in New York, moving to New York, looked at it as an opportunity to hustle.
00:24:16.000To outwork everybody else, to raise your level on the corporate ladder, or maybe you were in one of the industries that are centered in New York City.
00:24:24.000You were in fashion, you were in modeling, you were in photography, you were in art.
00:24:28.000I mean, all of that was in New York City.
00:24:30.000And I don't know the extent that New York actually has that.
00:24:34.000They still have all that, but is it as large as it used to be?
00:25:22.000Like a day or two after that video went viral of her stealing it, the Nick's like came out with the city and was like, oh, you can actually buy your own themed trash can.
00:25:36.000But, you know, New York, though, this is like more of like the Mamdani voting base because there was a report and it's like 33, 35% of people are still living at home.
00:25:45.000That means 33, 35% of people, young Gen Z, have not taken that step of independence to really do what you're talking about.
00:25:53.000Like, get out there and, you know, the world is what you make it.
00:27:50.000I'm sure this is what I'm afraid of now because I've been very critical of Candace Owens for not being able to pronounce common words like debacle and saying debacle.
00:27:59.000I want everybody to know architecture.
00:28:03.000Yeah, there's so many things that she just butchers.
00:28:06.000And you hear, I cannot pronounce this name, and people are going to assail me like, see?
00:28:37.000I'm going to be the latest one who's a conservative or ostensibly a conservative.
00:28:42.000To cash in by stabbing President Trump in the back, metaphorically, of course.
00:28:48.000And I believe that's what he was doing.
00:28:50.000I mean, to take a plea, you know, everyone, whenever these cases have been coming up recently, everyone's like, it's politically motivated.
00:30:05.000They're trying to get Biden on it for having paper in his garage.
00:30:08.000We talked last week about what a joke classification can be where people email each other about getting lunch in the government, but it'll be literally classified like, dude, Biden is Aladdin from the government.
00:30:20.000So I find disgust in the bureaucratic persecution of Trump, of Bolton.
00:30:27.000Of uh, Comey, of Biden, it's just like grotesque because it could happen to any one of us for the most reason of sending an email that had some data in it that wasn't supposed to be there, and you accidentally forwarded it to four people, and you could charge four felonies for one thing.
00:31:16.000During the case, the jury, or he pleaded before he didn't win?
00:31:19.000A lot of people, when Biden was accused of classified docs, would be like, they're not, yes, they're classified, but they're not actually dangerous.
00:31:51.000And so, if you don't penalize us, if you don't actually go after these people, you incentivize other people to use their access to get rich off of it.
00:32:03.00030,000 emails that she sent to her chief of staff and all these different Sidney Blumenthal's and like the names and the names of the people doing it.
00:32:16.000I mean, she had an email server in her bathroom at her house.
00:32:20.000I mean, there was a total Hillary Clinton's case was just an entirely different thing.
00:32:26.000Bolton was using his, you know, his, from his facilities at work, he was sending emails to people.
00:32:34.000And including files that were, and there was another case where I think somebody was doing this and changing the titles to like recipes or something like that.
00:32:41.000There's, I can't remember who that was.
00:32:43.000I don't think it was Bolton because I doubt that he cooks.
00:32:45.000They're saying he would send sensitive and often highly classified information to two family members via texts or AOL email.
00:32:54.000There's also, he was reportedly hacked.
00:32:56.000Like, this email was hacked by a suspected Iranian actor.
00:33:00.000So it's like, this is what happens when you engage in those behaviors.
00:33:03.000Like, even if it was, let's take your example.
00:33:06.000Let's say it was just a lunch order, right?
00:33:10.000Foreign actors, if they know where the president's getting his lunch from every day, that's a problem.
00:33:14.000It's a problem that he's using AOL email.
00:33:19.000And going back to Hillary Clinton, I mean, after her emails were compromised, there was a tremendous, how should we say this, a tremendous reduction in the amount of human intelligence sources that we had in China.
00:33:35.000Basically, our agents working for us in China started disappearing.
00:33:40.000Now, is there a correlation between that that's been publicly made?
00:34:42.000That's exactly what they do is they use the emotional argument.
00:34:44.000But he's been such a bad person forever, starting all these wars and getting us involved overseas in all these wars for years and years and decades.
00:34:50.000So, And yeah, and wanting to get us in the war.
00:34:53.000And the argument you can make too, because like he deserves it.
00:34:57.000One, I'm Gen Z, so like the John Bolton outrage doesn't really hit as home for me as it does others because Trump won was my first election I could vote in.
00:35:05.000So, like this John Bolton drama, I was still so young.
00:35:09.000But with Biden mishandling classified docs and Trump, well, they're the president.
00:35:13.000Like they control what gets classified.
00:35:15.000And really, it's up to them at the end of the day.
00:35:17.000John Bolton's not the president, you know?
00:35:20.000And so that's where I'm like, it is different than the other cases and statute of limitations for.
00:35:25.000Something like this is about five years.
00:35:59.000You know, Bolton's not been one of my favorite actors either.
00:36:02.000I mean, he was, if you remember back to we had a reconnaissance drone that was shot down in the Gulf War in President Trump's first term, approximately, let's not, you know, let's be honest here.
00:36:17.000So when I say drone, it's more likely to be categorized as an unmanned aerial platform, approximately $300 million, if memory serves me correctly, maybe a little bit more.
00:36:28.000And Bolton wanted to go to war over it.
00:36:33.000That's why you have them to, that's why you develop those remotely controlled platforms to gather intelligence so you don't have to send a pilot in harm's way.
00:36:42.000Because when a pilot gets shot down, it creates a whole other thing.
00:36:46.000And we saw that, unfortunately, recently with the pilots that were shot down in Iran and the subsequent, you know.
00:36:53.000I mean, all the money it spent to just rescue them.
00:37:26.000So he was explaining how, really, this plan for Iran, I mean, they were trying to kick this off.
00:37:32.000For a while, we always say that, you know, with the moves that with Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria that were kind of circling the drain that is Iran.
00:37:40.000Um, but he was saying, like, it's this plan was years delayed, so Bolton might have been beating the war drum because that was the plan, you know.
00:37:49.000And Trump was in there and was like, we're not going to war with Iran, you know, things are different now, but we got to think back to 2019 when all of this was happening, you know.
00:37:58.000Yeah, there was the nine plans, nine countries in 12 years.
00:38:02.000I'm getting the numbers wrong, but they're like, we're going to go into Cuba, Iran.
00:39:24.000Let's be honest, though, in terms of the conservatives like that who want to say something along those lines, there's another aspect of it, and that's money from the defense industry.
00:41:01.000So it's basically to clear the decks for new purchases.
00:41:04.000So, in the case of a lot of things that were going to the Ukraine war, even under the Trump administration, which stopped that going in, we did allow NATO to, some NATO nations, to make donations to Ukraine on the basis that NATO was going to buy new stuff from us.
00:41:22.000So, NATO was giving the hand me downs to Ukraine and then buying new munitions from the United States.
00:41:27.000But it's not a case of, when you say use it or lose it to a normal Person, I think they think of it in terms of like something that's in their refrigerator, like a used by date, it's going to be bad.
00:41:38.000You know, a 500 pound bomb is going to be good for a while.
00:41:41.000It's not going to go bad if you don't drop it on somebody.
00:41:45.000Maybe in the long, long term, a century, who knows?
00:41:48.000But not, but I think it's really, it's not like let's have a war, let's use all this stuff because otherwise what we spent in the past is going to be bad.
00:41:58.000It's like let's get rid of this inventory so we can spend on new stuff.
00:42:04.000I mean, as we're seeing in the Ukraine war, the emergence of not the drone warfare that you're talking about with Bolton originally, but these tiny little tiny drones, the size of like a Prius at largest, you know.
00:42:17.000And so it's a whole different, like, these defense manufacturers had to completely change what they were making.
00:42:21.000You know, it's not these big missiles anymore that you need an F 15 to drop.
00:42:27.000Some of the boats they would bring out were like 20 year old World War I battleships that just got obliterated in combat by new weapons.
00:42:36.000So, you might see them like, because I think it was Stephen, Al Adin, again, Al Badi, his name's Stephen.
00:42:43.000For the third time, I'll bring him up, but I think it was him that mentioned that a grand percentage of the stuff we sent to Ukraine failed.
00:42:50.000The weapons and munitions just failed.
00:42:52.000Yeah, I think he said it was like a controlled failure, like almost like a scheme.
00:42:57.000They were sending them bad weapons on purpose.
00:42:59.000Yeah, and then when he brought it up, then they were like, oh, you can't talk about that or something like that.
00:43:06.000Kind of like a lot of artillery shells.
00:43:07.000And that's what I was alluding to is just the use or lose it.
00:43:10.000Like, hey, we can sit on stuff that we know is bunk or has a high chance of failure, or we can give it to Ukraine.
00:43:16.000Then we get new money, replace that stockpile.
00:43:20.000And yeah, I just, you know, I'm increasingly, the more I see of emerging small unmanned aircraft, small drone warfare, it's scary.
00:43:31.000And especially the ones that people are just now becoming aware of in the public are the fiber optically guided ones that you can't.
00:43:38.000You can't jam them because they're not controlled by electronic transmission.
00:43:42.000They literally are trailing out a wire of fiber optic cable, and the operator is controlling it via light, passed down that cable to the drone.
00:43:51.000And the drone is a camera and is passing the image back the other way.
00:43:55.000And it's just, it's a very scary technology.
00:44:01.000We just had the threat of drone attacks at UFC, for instance.
00:44:06.000So people are talking about using drone attacks in a domestic terror operation.
00:44:12.000Once that fiber optic guided technology becomes ubiquitous, that's going to be really hard to defend against.
00:44:20.000And I think the only thing we have going for us is that there are a number of American contractors in that industry space who are hurriedly trying to deploy countermeasure drones that will bridge that gap.
00:44:34.000So we're entering a time and space of rapid proliferation and adaptation of drones in ways that we haven't seen before.
00:44:44.000And it's not going to be just like the type of armament battles we've had with other countries in the past, where it's like we build a battleship and you build a battleship that has.
00:44:54.000Guns that are two inches bigger, and so now we go to a 16 inch battleship in the Iowa class, and you come out with the 18 inch battleship guns of the Amado class in Japan.
00:45:03.000It's not that over decades, it's a matter of years and capability.
00:45:09.000Have you seen the stuff the Andoril is Palmer Lockheed's coming out with?
00:45:14.000So cool, he's got like basically Call of Duty vision.
00:45:16.000You can see through walls because you've got a drone connected to your smart glass, it's sick, and I think that you we do need to invest in that because if we don't, and like I'm not for intervention, but.
00:45:25.000If we don't invest in those and build our stockpile, well, China will.
00:47:22.000They're doing it because their drones that were controlled by radio transmissions were getting jammed effectively by Russian forces and vice versa.
00:47:31.000So by going to a drone that's controlled via fiber optics, it's impervious to the current countermeasures that the enemy side has.
00:47:38.000So, you can fly your drone, and on the other side, the Russians say, Hey, there's a drone coming.
00:47:43.000Let's do electronic countermeasures against it.
00:47:45.000There's nothing to jam, there's no signal.
00:47:47.000And when the drone blows up, you get a three mile length in like this dental floss.
00:47:51.000I mean, it's a little bit bigger than that.
00:47:54.000That just drops wherever in trees, on top of camps, in fields, you know, and just miles and miles and miles of this syroptic cable.
00:48:02.000Ideally, you'd create a cable that biodegrades with the rain or something like that.
00:48:08.000The thing is, if you're flying drones over enemy territory, you kind of want to pollute.
00:48:11.000The territory when you're done, even though it would be considered a human rights violation, like a chemical attack.
00:48:16.000I don't think so because Russia wants to take the territory for Russians.
00:48:19.000Ukraine wants to keep the territory for the Ukrainians.
00:48:22.000These people don't want to return to nothing.
00:48:26.000You know, they have the intention of returning to this land.
00:48:28.000But in the meantime, like if you're fighting, if the war is real enough, you don't care about preserving the territory until you get it.
00:48:49.000If you have to kill everyone and blow everything up to take it, you'll do that to take it and then rebuild it from scratch.
00:48:54.000But the degree of contamination from fiber optic cables is nothing compared to, say, the problems that you have with widespread use of landmines or anti personnel mines or chemical attacks.
00:49:07.000And of course, I'm not even going to mention nuclear attacks because obviously that's kind of a last use case scenario that would make it unusable for decades, if not longer.
00:49:16.000So you're right, they're not going to care.
00:49:21.000The effect that fiber optics are really impacting the environment, I think, is probably a problem.
00:49:27.000It's greater than zero, but it's not like an overarching concern about the poisoning of Ukraine due to this stuff.
00:49:32.000Yeah, I think you made a good point that they won't last, is what you said.
00:49:38.000But pointing out, like, in the current iteration and amping up of scaling, like, it's really dirty.
00:49:44.000Like, it's producing a lot of pollution, albeit it's fiber optic cable.
00:49:47.000Like you said, it's not nuclear waste, but it's just the beginning.
00:49:51.000Like, if you imagine 100 million times more drones than what we're using, With fiber optics, you could completely desecrate a landscape with fiber optics.
00:50:07.000I'm going to put my leftist cap on for a second, but if you care about the environment, think about the environmental impact of mining all the materials that goes into just miles and miles of the fiber optic cable and the drones themselves and all the components it takes to build the drones.
00:50:54.000If this were in Canada, this would be all that alphabet soup.
00:50:57.000With the 2S and the ABCDEFG attached as well.
00:51:01.000So, what's happening here is Iran and Egypt have a game being played in Seattle, which is a pride match.
00:51:10.000Seattle has designated it as a pride match.
00:51:13.000This is slated for June 26th, and it's coming during Seattle's Pride weekend, and it's being referred to as a pride match.
00:51:21.000And I don't know if you could come up with, you might be able to, but I don't know if you could come up with two teams who are currently in the World Cup.
00:51:29.000Who would be more diametrically opposed to appearing in a, you know, theologically everything in opposition to a pride match, and yet they are playing it in Seattle.
00:51:41.000Are they playing against each other, Iran and Egypt?
00:51:44.000So, okay, this isn't going to happen, but loser has to dress up as a woman.
00:51:50.000Like if you're like, look, whatever team loses, we're going to parade you around.
00:51:54.000He's going to join the pride celebration.
00:51:56.000So FIFA has a rule this year that I don't know if you guys have been watching the World Cup, you'll know the rule that I'm referencing where you can't cover your.
00:52:33.000So now, what do you have when you've got two very Muslim countries that reject pride, reject being gay, and you put them against each other?
00:53:08.000And I don't know, I'm not blanketing everybody across MAGA, and this isn't quite answering your question, but like, First thing I thought was like, damn, are they trying to get on people's good sides in the U.S. or do they truly just not want Pride?
00:53:19.000I had, you have to have, I don't know.
00:53:22.000I have a feeling they put a bunch of money into the Pride match, not knowing who the teams were going to be at the time.
00:54:25.000Now, we looked at the standings before recording, and this is a kind of a must win for both teams, so I think they will show up.
00:54:31.000But it's so Americans, when they one, they're not gonna go to a soccer game, and if they do, these are not two teams that really come to mind.
00:54:39.000People want to go see Messi, they'll go see Argentina, they want to see Ronaldo, they'll go see Portugal, right?
00:54:43.000Maybe they want to see England, it's the biggest sport in England.
00:54:46.000They're not gonna go into an Iran and Iraq or Iran and Egypt game, so who's gonna be in those stands?
00:56:48.000I just think that, you know, I said in the, I don't know, 30 minutes ago how Democrats think their worldview is superior and they can put it on you because you don't know better.
00:56:56.000This is a perfect example of it where the Seattle activists and the progressives say there's a quote that they think this is a good moment for inclusivity between these two countries.
00:57:10.000Rainbow flags and other flags representing sexual orientation and gender identity are permitted under the FIFA World Cup Stadium Code of Conduct.
00:57:17.000Now, their cultures, Iranian culture and Egyptian culture, be damned because the Seattle residents and the people organizing this, they know better.
00:57:25.000There's a balance to exposure, exposing someone to your culture and getting them to accept your culture.
00:57:31.000There's a balance because, like, showing someone a butthole doesn't mean they're going to be okay with gayness all of a sudden.
00:58:35.000This would be a great match for a pitch invader, you know, with a nice little rainbow flag, maybe festooned, maybe, you know, maybe just with.
00:58:45.000I don't want to say where they would have the flagpole inserted as they're running across, but I'm thinking of, I think we can all visually think about a flag just trailing behind them.
00:58:55.000Or they could take a page out of the WNBA and throw multicolored dildos onto the pitch.
00:59:00.000Just to add some additional context here.
00:59:29.000Back when I was a kid, I watched MLS, there were 12 teams.
00:59:31.000And in the last 15 years, they've just exploded.
00:59:33.000So the popularity is growing across the country.
00:59:37.000But again, when you're thinking of who are the international stars, who are the international teams that you want to go see, these unfortunately are not two of them.
00:59:44.000So I don't think you're going to get those.
00:59:54.000You might get some people from Seattle like, I'm going to go, I'm going to shove it in their face.
01:00:00.000Metaphorically, I'm going to bring my pride flag and I'm going to go because it's just 90 minutes and whatever, $100, but this is like a protest for them.
01:00:49.000I mean, it's, you know, England is famous.
01:00:52.000I mean, there's a lot of soccer hooliganism, and I'm not going to say I'm a fan of hooliganism, but soccer culture in Europe, or I should say football culture in Europe, if I'm going to be sensitive to their needs, but I'm not.
01:01:03.000So, I'm going to call it soccer culture in Europe, such that it is.
01:01:08.000The supporters of each team will go out and tie one on.
01:01:12.000They'll get really uniformly drunk before the game and during the game, and that's a big part of being a fan.
01:01:17.000Visitors were prohibited from bringing alcohol, any porn, any public indecency, including same sex relationships or any illegal drugs.
01:01:27.000All of that was restricted, and no one batted an eye because that was Qatar's culture, that's the way they do things.
01:02:11.000Yeah, he wanted Aryans and nothing else.
01:02:14.000And so to really smack it to him, be like, look, other cultures can be better than yours.
01:02:18.000Other races can be better than yours at certain things.
01:02:20.000I think it's a lack of respect is like the biggest thing, it's just disrespectful to people.
01:02:24.000Like, yes, they're coming to our country and they have to realize we have different customs, but these are the same people that cry about not respecting somebody else's culture and, oh, you're a cultural appropriator.
01:02:34.000And then the second they're faced with somebody else's culture not accepting them, They don't know how to act.
01:02:40.000The funny thing is about it all, and it's not like funny, ha ha, it's more funny, strange, a little ha ha, is that it's kind of an aberrant culture.
01:02:46.000And like, trans agenda isn't really a huge, you know, it's not the majority of the United States by far.
01:02:53.000It's probably like 1% to 2% of the population is really firm about that culture.
01:03:01.000Well, America is, we're a largely libertarian culture, whether we admit it or not.
01:03:06.000Like, if we're in West Virginia, we're in the panhandle, and they, You'll see a pride little like on the corner, a little pride demonstration.
01:03:28.000So, what happens though, like when you get Iranians and Egyptians who are not as tolerant and they think that waving a pride flag is going to get the same result out of Ian Crossland as it is some of these fans?
01:03:39.000And I think that's the scary part of this whole situation.
01:04:52.000I sure hope the native Seattle people who were in support of the Pride movement were outside their hotel clanging on pots and pans like they.
01:05:03.000I mean, that would be a perfect time for them to just be, you know, blasting Donna Summer and all those great hits from the 70s, from the Studio 54 days outside their hotel nonstop.
01:05:18.000That would be, I would have paid money to see that, maybe.
01:05:23.000It's not that the queer agenda is free Palestine, it's a correlation.
01:05:30.000A lot of times you'll see people in the LGBTQ about like, You know, acceptance and tolerance are like, hey, also the Israelis are obliterating the Palestinians.
01:07:16.000Yeah, because the last two games, they're allowed to fly in and basically fly out immediately after the game, and they had to train and stay in Mexico, and they're only allowed stateside for their game.
01:08:21.000So speaking of the soccer tournament extending, let's talk about.
01:08:25.000The success, we've talked about Seattle in particular.
01:08:29.000Let's talk about the success that FIFA is having and the World Cup is having in the United States.
01:08:34.000This from NBC News 3.6 million soccer fans have attended this year's World Cup matches, setting a record.
01:08:42.000With weeks left to go in the tournament, that record most likely won't last long.
01:08:47.000So basically, every new round of games is creating a new record here.
01:08:54.000And I think that there's a couple things for it.
01:08:56.000Couple things that are happening here is that there are more teams in this year's World Cup.
01:09:02.000But I think a huge part of it is that we just have better stadiums than the rest of the world.
01:09:08.000And we didn't have to have Indian slave labor building these over a period of years in the middle of a desert with 100 degree humidity.
01:09:18.000We've just got better sports facilities overall, which are readily adaptable to World Cup soccer.
01:09:24.000And I did see one thing about Seattle in particular is that the, I think it was Paul Allen.
01:09:31.000When they made, when they designed the stadium, he specifically wanted it to have dimensions that could accommodate a World Cup soccer match.
01:09:40.000So they even, because the added space you need on the sidelines was built into that stadium in Seattle.
01:09:46.000When they made that stadium, they wanted it to be able to support a World Cup soccer game.
01:09:51.000You could not put one in a modern football stadium like you see it, like Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, where the stands are just like right down on the field.
01:10:02.000You can't make that into a World Cup field.
01:10:04.000A lot of what these cities are doing nowadays.
01:10:06.000So, like, a lot of times when a new stadium is built, it's a partnership between the private team, the private business that owns the team, and the city.
01:10:14.000And a lot of times nowadays, you're seeing if you want a new stadium, you need to make it big enough and it needs to accommodate concerts, it needs to accommodate soccer, it needs to accommodate football.
01:10:25.000If they want to do the NHL Classic, the Winter Classic, you need to be able to put an ice rink in there, right?
01:10:30.000So, these are now all modern stadiums.
01:10:33.000Are now being built to accommodate all this stuff.
01:10:35.000We're, as an American, we are just like, we have a sports culture, no matter what anyone says.
01:10:51.000So we are a sports culture, and it's time the world recognizes that, like, yeah, if you want to do a big global sporting event, the United States is the place to be.
01:10:59.000This is, we know, a month ago, we were talking about Chicago Bears are leaving Chicago to go an hour south for a new stadium where they don't have to pay taxes for.
01:11:08.00040 years, and it's because of stuff like this.
01:11:42.000But when you just look at the people living there and just the actual, from a bird's eye view, it completely changed that neighborhood.
01:11:51.000And all it started with was a stadium.
01:11:53.000That happened in Detroit too when they built the new Little Caesars Arena.
01:11:57.000It was kind of like, yeah, there was like Ford Field, Comerica Park, but then they put in the new arena and it like overnight, it felt like it changed so much stuff.
01:12:08.000Yeah, in the case of the Navy Yard too, though, I mean, even though I should mention that I had this observation myself walking through D.C. after the kickoff event.
01:12:19.000And so I walked back to my car and I was parked on.
01:13:29.000LA, and they're going to the suburbs, they're going to places like Montana and Idaho and Utah.
01:13:34.000Land is cheaper, it's safer, it's nicer.
01:13:36.000But these cities, I think, slowly are starting to recognize hey, if we actually just clean up our downtown areas, we make sure there's some flowers planted, there's fountains flowing, there's no homeless around.
01:14:17.000It gets right into your bloodstream, especially the brake dust through the alveoli in your lungs, poisoning, toxic, raising blood pressure, confusion.
01:14:26.000Like, until that's solved, it's going to be with the internet.
01:14:29.000As long as the internet stays prominent and you're able to work online and communicate and get everything you need on Amazon.com, like, I, I, yeah, my personal take is cities are just gross.
01:14:41.000Like, this is, you know, what happens when it's late at night and you get off work and you want to go grab a bite or grab a drink with a friend?
01:15:02.000And I think the one thing that's happening in this World Cup is that the world has like a concept of what America is like.
01:15:09.000And when they're not here, that concept is driven to them via media, via movies, via TV shows, not via direct experiences of people who are in the United States.
01:15:21.000And what we've got is an influx of international fans who are discovering America in ways that many Americans don't really even experience their own country.
01:15:31.000I'm wearing my Bucky's cap right now because there are several people on social media, I think the most prominent of which is named Freddie.
01:15:39.000And we don't know who Freddie is, but Freddie is a German guy.
01:15:45.000And he has been embraced by the internet in such a way that I'm literally the guy could make a post on social media about being out of toilet paper and he would just be showered by like airdrop Kimberly Clark triple ply.
01:17:31.000I'd like to stay, but I don't think I can afford a house.
01:17:35.000Within hours, he would have a rocket mortgage, and every other lender would be giving him offers to pay his down payment, do all of his paperwork.
01:17:43.000And by the way, here's the rest of the money to pay off your mortgage just right now, so you don't even have to worry about it for the next 30 years.
01:18:51.000I love, I've been watching, I follow Freddie.
01:18:53.000I love, Watching him as he goes through the US, he complained about how cold it is inside of our arena or stadiums.
01:19:00.000But it's just, it's been such a white pill because you have right now what's kind of birthed from the World Cup rhetoric is the heat wave in Europe.
01:19:08.000And now there's a big debate how the Europeans refuse to admit that air conditioning might be a good idea.
01:19:15.000But all the Europeans that are here for the World Cup are going around and be like, oh, it's a blessing.
01:19:19.000It's 100 degrees down in the heart of Texas, but I walk into a CVS and it's like 65.
01:21:53.000The Republican, of course, probably the best.
01:21:55.000Best government on the planet, even though it's not a big deal.
01:21:57.000Let me throw a pitch to you here, okay?
01:21:59.000Let's say you're considering going to someplace on vacation.
01:22:02.000What if I told you there was a place you could go that you've never been before?
01:22:05.000You don't need a visa, you don't need a passport, they speak your language, your money works there, and basically everything makes you able to travel there easily, but it's completely different.
01:22:58.000For that amount of money, you could put a rooftop tent on your SUV and you could go to Yellowstone or some, not just national parks, but you could go to BLM Lands or you could go to any number of places where you can just boondock and camp and have a great time and not be given the dang mouse months' worth of your salary because you've got to go and be at Disney and get that corporate type of vacation programmed into you.
01:23:27.000The open road is there for you in America.
01:23:43.000Like half the country would be like doing so.
01:23:45.000The thing about California, too, is it gets so much criticism politically, as it should, but geographically, you're in Southern California, it is so epic.
01:23:54.000You go to the beach, you surf, then you drive two hours, you're up in the mountains, and you can ski.
01:24:00.000Then you drive another two hours, and you're in the desert with like the wildest rock formations and hot ass desert.
01:24:08.000And I always, so we've got, Down here in Harper's Ferry, we've got Maryland Heights.
01:26:22.000Orthotectic architecture, whereas the Romans would have very functional architecture where you want as many houses as you can packed into a nice, convenient environment.
01:26:30.000The Greeks, it was all about what you saw as you arrived, how it looked as you got there.
01:28:36.000When you spend hours each day watching influencers get rich without much effort.
01:28:41.000You forget what it takes to succeed in this world.
01:28:45.000And so, I don't know if I can really speak to what Gen Z is thinking.
01:28:50.000It's hard for me to put myself in that mindset.
01:28:53.000I like to think that there's something that I can do because when you're involved in politics, that's something even peripherally, and even if you're not involved in politics, most people have a sense of empathy.
01:29:04.000I mean, we're not psychopaths and sociopaths.
01:29:07.000So, most people have a sense of empathy where they can put themselves in the shoes of somebody else.
01:29:13.000But I recognize that it's much more difficult for Gen Z than it was for myself at that age.
01:29:20.000And certain things like social media have come about, and there are different examples now.
01:29:27.000I didn't have social media success stories to look at, to emulate.
01:29:33.000From my perspective, that really just started where probably Paris Hilton and seeing her as what she was, the amount of attention and success and financial stuff she was getting for just being Paris Hilton.
01:29:46.000Yeah, the Big Brother, those reality TV shows in the early 2000s.
01:31:27.000Being treated like, and eventually you get to a point where you're doing what you love if you keep at it long enough and you might be able to not work.
01:32:29.000So, after Daniel Hagen, a 23 year old from Los Angeles, graduated from Claremont McKenna in 2023, he started looking for a job, interviewing with a fashion startup, a real estate company, a few tech firms, and marketing agencies.
01:32:44.000He made it to the final round of 10 different job applications.
01:32:47.000Quote I had five or six interviews with each company.
01:32:52.000It was a 12 week process, and some of the recruiters would ghost me for weeks.
01:32:57.000And in the end, none of the companies came through.
01:32:59.000The night before his final interview for one position, He said he was told they were postponing the role for at least six months because the economy is S H I T.
01:33:08.000So, you know, your situation where you're saying you would work jobs you would hate, the only thing I see about him right here is is he really preparing himself in college for the job market that exists there?
01:33:20.000That's the lie that was sold to Gen Z. Just go to college, get the degree, you'll be fine.
01:33:46.000So now you've got the conservatives saying, well, yeah, these jobs that I'm supposed to be working, you're undercutting what I should be earning, what I need to earn to live, and you're giving it to an illegal.
01:34:17.000Well, I do think a big part of it, too, is the rise of like a TikTok where it's like easy to get, I mean, not easy, but like overnight people were getting millions of followers, brand deals, all these things.
01:34:24.000And so they think, well, I can just sit at home and work on my phone and I don't have to go out and get a real job and learn these actual lessons of life.
01:34:31.000And I've worked jobs that I hated, and we're about the same age, Kellen and I are.
01:34:35.000And we've both probably worked jobs we didn't like, but we're also both.
01:34:38.000More right wing, where we wouldn't sit there and be like, Oh, I just want all this stuff for free.
01:34:43.000And I just want to sit on my phone all day and make TikToks.
01:34:45.000I think they're afraid of hard work in a lot of ways.
01:34:58.000And the other thing is, Gen Z is definitely more like they want the instant gratification more than other generations because we grew up with social media, right?
01:35:05.000Our brains are desired for the here and now, right?
01:35:08.000If I'm working overtime, Oh, I want to see that money that day.
01:35:12.000I think that's how the Gen Z brain works.
01:35:13.000So it's one, yeah, you're getting a little bit of like the economy stagnating.
01:35:17.000It's harder to move up in the workforce, right?
01:35:19.000The job market, obviously, you're applying five or six times.
01:35:23.000You get five or six interviews for a job that's not even that good, right?
01:35:27.000So you're seeing all these factors on top of we're just, you know, mentally, we just demand more now.
01:35:32.000How much of a push, if any, did you get for, say, going into trades as opposed to college?
01:35:39.000I think it depends where you grow up, but I grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland, very, very left wing.
01:36:48.000They own a yard service to come and cut your grass.
01:36:51.000And they have these massive 5,000 square foot houses.
01:36:55.000We were just talking about building a farmhouse and having one sort of garage is like, For as a mechanic shop, like electrical and, and you know, welding and stuff.
01:37:04.000Then the other side is like for car mechanics.
01:37:12.000You either have to hire someone to come do it or do it.
01:37:14.000Well, have you seen the videos of, and this is primarily Gen Z women, but have you seen the videos of these girls who are like first day at my first big girl job and then they, it's like they get home and they start crying at 7 30.
01:37:25.000And they're like, I can't, can't even make my food or go to the gym and this is stupid and I want to quit and life sucks.
01:37:48.000And then there's the adult, like, you know, adult daycares, basically, where you've got the same Gen Z women saying, this is what it's like for a day in the life at working at Twitter before Elon.
01:37:56.000And it's like, 9 a.m., they're at the wine bar.
01:38:05.000You think people, Like these people that are complaining, or the where the companies do you think they need to just suck it up, work shitty jobs?
01:38:14.000I've applied for so many more jobs than this one, dude.
01:38:18.000And I've done all this same stuff, dude.
01:38:20.000After COVID, I probably applied for like easily 150 jobs.
01:38:26.000And like, I've been you know, I was towed across the line, given all the same shit, but I've also been working other stuff since I was 15 or 14.
01:38:35.000Like, I've done everything from like Walking around a graveyard shift to make sure there was no fire starting in a data center to like Cinemark movie concession stand guy, I mean, lifeguarding and everything else.
01:38:48.000But like, I never stopped working those jobs that you're talking about.
01:38:51.000I think the big thing is they're not keeping up with inflation, they're not keeping up with the modern cost to live.
01:38:55.000So now, like, I'm supposed to be able to make a living off of those jobs, but I how you used to be able to not barely well in the 90s.
01:39:02.000You could, I tempt that was my thing, is it was you used to be able to go to work city, yeah, sign up with temp agencies.
01:39:07.000I had like four or five of those every morning.
01:39:10.000I'd call and be like, Hey, is there a job for me today?
01:39:12.000Yeah, it pays $16 an hour on 32nd Street, be there by 9 30.
01:39:15.000I'd go in, I'd sit at a desk for eight hours.
01:39:44.000I think Gen Z is a little bit emotionally stunted and they're, uh, them chasing, like, applying for 150 jobs, being able to live paycheck to paycheck.
01:39:53.000I think they're a little emotionally stunted there.
01:39:55.000But also, look at everything in their world.
01:39:59.000Taking all the jobs that might be there, DEI.
01:40:02.000So, even if you are a qualified person, you're getting passed up for someone that's not going to do anything all day.
01:40:07.000And they're just getting hired based on the color of their skin.
01:40:09.000So, you have all these other factors that are actually actively working against the Gen Z population of America.
01:40:15.000On top of them also just being this weird kind of new generation that wants everything here and now, you know, is more concerned with the way their life looks than actually how it is and stuff.
01:40:28.000So, it's this weird kind of mix of a bunch of different things that.
01:40:32.000I think they are causing this phenomenon where Gen Z's just throwing their hands up and they're like, you know what?
01:43:32.000And then you went to steam locomotives and stationary steam engines.
01:43:36.000And then they developed ways to power all of the machinery using overhead belts and things like that.
01:43:43.000And so the type, the pace of industrial change.
01:43:48.000During the industrial revolution, it's much slower than we're seeing now, much slower.
01:43:53.000So, I think the societies were better able to absorb it over an extended period of time frame, whereas now it's just it's all collapsed.
01:44:01.000There's also entry level jobs going first, and that's what you're telling Gen Z to like put their head down at work.
01:44:06.000Those are the jobs that need to get to put their head down at work, and the jobs are disappearing.
01:44:11.000There's also less people in the or there were less people in the workplace during the industrial revolution.
01:44:15.000Now you have men and women working, you don't have women homemaking at home.
01:44:18.000So, wasn't there a lot of children working in the industrial revolution?
01:44:21.000Oh, yeah, they were creating other jobs like that.
01:44:23.000They didn't have enough labor, so you would have kids doing stuff.
01:44:26.000Even in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, you had kids working the coal mines, and their job, they were called breaker boys.
01:44:36.000And they would stand in the coal breaker, and their job was as the processed coal was sliding down in front of them, they would literally reach down into it and pick out the pieces of slate that was not coal and throw it aside.
01:45:32.000It's a big thing, like, it depends on which side of the aisle you are, but Gen Z, but a lot of them are just like, yeah, of course it makes sense.
01:45:37.000Tax these AI companies and use that money to just give everyone a stipend.
01:45:42.000If it worked perfectly the way its proponents say, yes.
01:45:47.000But there's a devil in the details there, and I don't know if it'll work perfectly.
01:45:52.000And even universal basic income will not work for everybody because some people just really want to work.
01:45:59.000And it's also if I'm selling a car and I know you're getting a thousand bucks a month, it's just going to raise the cost of these costs.
01:46:35.000We owe more than we can accrue as a people, as a government, borrowing from the Federal Reserve.
01:46:43.000And the whole job economy thing is sort of a fallacy created by the Federal Reserve system to make you think that the only way to survive is if you get a job and work doing a thing.
01:46:57.000It used to be like, hey, is the room clean?
01:47:13.000The whole idea of like, I'll pay you to dig a hole and then I'll pay you to fill it back up.
01:47:16.000And then you guys pay me back the money at interest.
01:47:18.000So I'm a little richer and nothing really got done.
01:47:21.000We've seen a complete resurgence in homesteading over the last 10 years.
01:47:24.000So I mean, there's more and more people are interested in that instead of like, instead of saying, Hey, I'm going to go work for a company that may fire me in 10 years and whatever, they're going to invest in land and build a household over time on that land, live off that land as much as they can, and use barter, as you're saying, for the things that they don't have and, you know, trade what they do have with another person nearby who's got.
01:47:47.000A tractor, hey, can you dig me this ditch?
01:47:49.000I need to put in a new septic system and I'll, you know, I'll give you goat milk for a year or whatever.
01:47:54.000I mean, there's all sorts of ways you can do that.
01:47:58.000But I think that checking out of the modern rat race is difficult, especially when you're looking at this for four or five hours a day.
01:48:54.000Retirement fund, it would go to like a 401k or some guy would invest, you know, 10% of his income.
01:48:59.000But once I started actually investing, it's, I guess it's risky.
01:49:03.000I, my, my money just started skyrocketing relative to what I could.
01:49:07.000And I, at first, I was aiming at residuals because I thought that's the way you want to, you want to, you want your money to be coming in in the background while you're doing what you love to do.
01:49:15.000So build things that sell while you're not around, do projects that people will pay for when you're not around.
01:49:21.000And that could be, that could be why you're seeing 35% of Gen Z still living at home with their.
01:49:26.000Parents, yeah, they're not paying rent and they're using that capital that they would have been spending on housing to invest, would so, or maybe to save and buy land.
01:49:35.000Because, like, the Great Depression came along at the end of the 20s, and all those people that had been investing with run on the banks, they were investing with money they didn't have, they were borrowing money, they're taking out what's called margins on their own investments to invest more, correct?
01:49:48.000To try and, um, I guess, snowball their investments, and then when they leverage, yeah, when the stocks drop in value, they have to pay that money back, which they don't have, so they.
01:49:58.000Are the stock taken from them and they lose all their stock and they still owe money on top of it?
01:50:03.000That's where the depression came from people investing on margins.
01:50:06.000So I've done that once in my life, it was very risky and I immediately paid it out and paid it back.
01:50:48.000The question for the panel How are you saying AI is still going to replace everyone when its biggest cheerleader said he was wrong and dipped out of the country?
01:50:58.000Meanwhile, companies are dropping AI because of API costs tripling, quadrupling, and it still isn't profitable.
01:51:04.000All right, so I'll say one thing about that we're still in the infancy of the AI industry.
01:51:11.000And as more AI capability is rolled out, I think we can legitimately expect the cost of it to go down.
01:51:41.000And so I would argue that AI costs are going to go down, and effectiveness of AI is going to go up, and companies will learn how to use it better and where it can best be deployed.
01:51:53.000And look at all these companies like Micron, or SanDisk, that have just skyrocketed in value since this AI boom.
01:52:02.000Right, what are they doing with that money?
01:52:03.000Well, they're going to put it into increasing their capacity to manufacture more chips, um, and more components for the AI infrastructure.
01:52:11.000And I mean, you see, XAI is buying like large data centers and uh, I think power plants across the country.
01:52:19.000So, as this infrastructure really starts to get established and it starts to get fleshed out, the costs are absolutely going to go down.
01:52:25.000We're going to figure out as a society, and the market's going to decide what's really necessary is Claude coding really necessary for the average person versus Chat GBT image generation?
01:56:20.000Well, what is, I guess this is kind of to this question, but what do you guys think about him kind of holding it over Democrats right now saying sign the Save Act or this?
01:57:11.000If you don't belong here, it's time to go.
01:57:14.000You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
01:57:18.000So we've got tens of millions of illegal occupants of our country inside the United States, and they're renting homes and they're owning homes, and that is driving up the cost of housing.
01:57:31.000So, to the viewer's question of how do you lower the cost of housing, one of the ways you do that is by lowering the demand for it, and you do that.
01:57:40.000By making it as impossible as we can for illegal aliens to continue to reside in the United States and have it be financially viable for them, make themselves deported.
01:57:59.000So, to piggyback off our question before this, if you were, and this is from E, if you were 17 or 18 years old now, what would you be learning and trying to get into that career field because of AI job displacement?
01:58:13.000I have two daughters, 15 and 17, and I'm not too sure what is a safe bet for kids their age.
01:58:23.000Electrician is a physical trade that is not so much how much can you lift, how much can you, you know, are you not doing like physical labor so much in terms of, you know, expense.
01:59:08.000And we were talking a few weeks ago, Ian, about just like investments in general.
01:59:11.000And I was like, well, when there's an emerging technology, a lot of things that kind of gets ignored is all the other stuff that supports that emerging technology.
01:59:19.000So, like electricians is one of those things.
01:59:21.000You have all these data centers going up.
01:59:23.000Well, how does a data center get built?
01:59:24.000You need a lot of electricians, right?
01:59:27.000Welders is another good one, you know?
01:59:29.000So, you know, try to look at the emerging industry and technologies and find ways that can kind of support that.
01:59:36.000And if it's not the trades, I would recommend there's always a need for nurses.
01:59:47.000It does require some schooling, but there is upward mobility in that job as well.
01:59:51.000So, and there's a lot of different specialties you can go into.
01:59:54.000You can be, you know, like ICU, you could do ER, you can do NICU.
01:59:58.000You could just do any kind of like OBGYN stuff, so many different fields.
02:00:02.000So, if they're not like weirded out or you know, don't like gore, then that's the one the first thing that came to my mind was probably nursing.
02:00:09.000And one of the great things about nursing, too, is just like the other trades, is it gives you something that you can do that's portable, you're not learning a skill that's specifically tied to your geographic area.
02:00:18.000So, if you need to move to the northwest, you can do it, and if you need to move to the east coast, you can do it because we're travel nursing, you make so much money being a travel nurse.
02:00:27.000Oh my god, having someone in the house that knows how to stitch a Wounds is that's also good.
02:00:31.000That's also good for the mom to be able to break fix a broken bone or stop a kid from bleeding out.
02:00:38.000My dad was a paramedic, so I just kind of took it for granted that somebody in the house could set a bone if someone broke.
02:00:43.000All right, so I think we're approaching the end here.
02:00:46.000So, why don't we, as typical Tim would at the end of the night, invite each of you to say a little outro and say where you can be found on social media or wherever it is that you feel is your best contact point?
02:00:58.000Sure, you guys go to timcast.comslash discord, join our members only server.
02:03:17.000And if you're walking around the National Mall in the next week or so, You might see me there, but just look for the glasses and the mustache because 100% polyester doesn't work in Washington, D.C. heat and humidity.