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XRP is CONNECTED - AI Agents and Banks
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Man, AI agents are about to use financial Rails and, and XRP is already connected and we've been talking about that for a long time now. It's happening. Not theory, not five years from now. That's right. Right now all systems, AI systems are starting, get this, this is, this is crazy. They're starting to make phone calls, they're starting to send emails, they're buying products, they're hiring services, they're hiring humans to do human based work and they're executing transactions autonomously. This is crazy. And the infrastructure powering all of it is actually starting to connect together so fast, I don't even know what direction to go.
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Chip. Yeah, I get this, Jeff. So you got MasterCard, Ripple, JP Morgan, Infrastructure, Stripe, Solana, and these aren't isolated stories anymore. This is the beginning of programmable finance. 24. 7 markets autonomous payments, machine to machine transactions. And most people, like usual, have no idea what's coming.
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And that's right, and that's a good thing that we're on the show tonight because tonight we're breaking it down. Why MasterCard and Ripple just quietly changed the game. Why AI payments may completely reshape the entire financial ecosystem and why the next phase of the Internet may not just move information anymore, but it actually, it's going to start moving some money autonomously. Chip, you ready to go?
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Let's go. Welcome to on the Chain, everybody.
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Welcome to on the Chain. Chip, great to see you here. Jeff here with co host Chip. Everybody out there in the on the Chain world tonight. This may be one of the biggest shifts that we've ever talked about. That's right, you've heard it here first. Because for years we've Talked about tokenization, 24. 7 settlement, cross border payments, programmable finance. But now this is the biggest change. AI agents are entering the system. This really changes everything.
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Everything. Yeah. Because it's not just about humans using apps anymore. No. That is so 2025. We're moving towards a world where software itself can transact, it can purchase, can settle, even interact with financial infrastructure autonomously. And when you step back and look at the stories we're covering tonight, you realize that all these pieces are starting to connect very, very quickly.
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Man. So fast. It's, it's shocking. Daily by the hour. So tonight we're actually diving in the landmark MasterCard, Ripple, Ando and JP Morgan infrastructure pilot that's actually connecting XRPO to interbank settlement Rails. That's going to be something we got to dive into. Stripe. We were talking about it right before the strobe stripe is actually launching AI agent wallets. Solana moving more aggressive than any of the other chains moving aggressively into AI payments. The XRPL infrastructure is being built for autonomous machine to a machine commerce Flare. I don't think we talk enough about flare, but Flare and Uphold are expanding XRP utility flares. Probably the only other project other than Ripple that's doing some serious work on XRPL and real world utility and why this may be the beginning of an entirely new programmable financial system.
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It's amazing Jeff. I think it's time that we probably just go ahead and jump straight into it, queue up our very first story here. Let's see what we got. Number one, let's. I think the biggest story that it's impressive right here is a mastercard put this post out on X saying today that mastercard Ondo Finance, Connexus by JP Morgan and Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails. Together we're laying the groundwork for 24, seven global markets to never close. And that's key right there because no longer are we on a 9 to 5, you know, during the week type of thing. Markets, markets open, markets close. You're talking about 24 hours. And you got some big names here. So what's interesting about this is that this is coming from Master Card Jeff. And if you notice what's what's named in here, got MasterCard check Ondo Finance Connexus which is JP Morgan Ripple. But you know what's missing from there? The XRP ledger. But it, it's interesting that it made it into this graphic. It wasn't mentioned but it's right there working the magic behind the scenes. So you got MasterCard logo, Connexus, Ondo Ripple and then of course the XRPL as we like to call it here, Ripple went ahead and also said hey, this is an Amazing step towards 24,7 global financial markets. By combining the XRP ledger with global banking infrastructure. This pilot shows how institutions can execute cross border transactions in a single integrated flow. And what's interesting about this I think too Jeff is that a lot of times this news that you sign NDAs and by the time anybody find out about it, but this is MasterCard you're talking about the two, the three big players. You got MasterCard, Visa and Amex. But this is a big deal that it's coming out. It's so public about this successful transaction
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and MasterCard financial transactions or it's, it's it's amazing. I mean when we look at this programmable finance machine to machine commerce, autonomous payments 247 settlements. This is, this is the beginning of all of it. MasterCard Amazing.
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And it's great. It's. And it's great to see how somebody legacy is really learning how to adapt too. They're not saying because when this happened, when you had new technology, new paradigm shifts happen a lot of times the easy thing was to sit on your laurels and say well we're not going to budge. But you don't see MasterCard nor Visa doing that or Amex for that reason. You see them really jumping in and making it. And then Ando put out this post here talking a little bit about it. They talked about the pilot as well. And it's the first time tokenized U.S. treasuries have settled across borders and banks and near real time. We know it's like four to six seconds and outside of traditional banking windows I think what they're calling attention to is exactly what the banks are worried about in the clarity act. Right. Banks. It's settled across borders and banks in your real time outside of your traditional windows. Right. So it didn't rely on what has traditionally been in the past your banks. Ondo process Ripples OUSG redemption on XRP Ledger mastercard's multi token network routed instructions to Connexus by JP Morgan JP Morgan delivered USD to Ripple Singapore bank account Tokenized assets are no longer separate from the global financial system. For the first time a public blockchain and global banking infrastructure settled across border transaction of a tokenized fund together in real time together. We're laying the groundwork for 247 global markets that never close. This is impressive because there's a lot of players involved, a lot of things had to work and it was seamless.
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That's it. I love seeing all the, the players getting together. I like hearing about tokenized assets. I I like the direction things are moving in and it's happening fast. Things are are going to happen at lightning breakneck speed. It's hard to keep up. It really is.
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Yeah, it really is. And the other thing too is that what's going on with Solana too. Solana foundation launches pay sh in collaboration with Google Cloud so you're starting to see these crossover partnerships happening. Solana going into the payments with Google Cloud and you're starting to see a lot of this crossover. You have Bastard Card Ripple Ondo XRP Ledger. It's really starting to change and of course what stripe introduced Just this last week is really next level. And that's more on the consumer side of the, of the house. But again, you're seeing it, you're seeing it happening basically across everywhere. So everything from consumer, you're seeing more institutional, but you're starting to see these partnerships that, you know, traditionally didn't happen. You're seeing blockchain, you know, mixed with your traditional sort of finance, big players, which is absolutely incredible.
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Yeah, I like seeing the introduction of. Yeah, I mean, this is impressive.
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Look at this.
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This is the craziest thing. I don't even. Jeff, I don't even know where to, where to go with this. You know, letting agents pay for an any API. Earlier this morning, you shared letting agents have their own phone number so they can make outbound calls and in take inbound calls. Having their own personal phone call. Now they have the phone number, they have an email address, they have a name, they have a Persona. And now they're gonna pay for stuff.
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Yeah. And you don't have to worry about that. You don't, you know, some guy posted, he's like, I think we'll get to it. But you know, it's the whole idea of like, oh, this is a pain in the ass. Let me just tell my agent to go take care of it, you know. Right. They have their own wallet, they have their own account, they have their own spending. Right. And you still, you still have to put some, some guardrails on it. It's not like it's, you know, let it run loose. People have done that and run up thousand dollars, thousands and thousands of dollar bill, but no accounts, no keys, no subscriptions. Again, things we always talk about here on the chain, which is you have to make it easy for people to use. Right. So.
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Right.
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You know, this whole thing and basically it's just here it is right here, this is in curl right here. But you still can try it right now, npx a lot of pay Claude buy some water with pay copy and paste that and boom, you're trying it. So these agents doing things autonomously, mixing up with APIs, MPC servers, directory for agents, developers and AI teams. So everything's starting to connect. Now the one thing that I will say that is different, which I had a really good idea about this because it used to be an API was, you know, an API. All an API is, it's sort of like a, a bridge between two different orgs and it's commands you can send back and forth and you can just say like. So if you get an API. You're actually using that now in this sense. What's new is this pay per use API so you start to see more micro payments. That phone thing that we were talking about earlier, Jeff, where they charge on a minute basis. Right. It's not really that cheap either.
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26 cents a minute.
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Yeah, we're back, we're going back to like the, like the 80s and 90s where you used to do like, you know, the early mobile phone. But this is interesting because now your agents can call and there's a lot of stuff that they can do. This is such a great move by Solana and again it's next level and you're not going to survive by just sitting back and not doing this. But you pick a service, you run the request, you get the response back, you get coordination layers for agents to pay and again you pay as you go type of thing. It's really a phenomenal, it's very exciting, man. I'm really excited that these guys are going out of their way to do this kind of stuff. And they say a little bit more about it here, saying that. Introducing pace pay sh collaboration with Google Cloud. First time agents can discover access and pay Per request for APIs from Google Cloud including Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI and using stable coins on Solana. Again, another big move. We're going to start seeing a lot of this stuff and things are going to change at a point of where, you know, like Jeff and I are, we leverage AI quite a bit. I mean, honestly Jeff, if I had the choice, if I was gonna do a crypto show or AI, I spend 99 of my time consuming AI videos, AI learning Claude code, Claude co work building stuff. Jeff and I were laughing before the show because Jeff's showing what, what he's building. I'm showing him what I'm building. No longer do you have to sit back and say, I wish it was a builder. I have an idea. You got an idea, Start building it. No more excuses. Put on your big boy pants and start building. No more.
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No, you can do anything. And people are still, people are using AI for, you know, just bouncing ideas back and forth.
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Yeah, they're like, write me a poem, you know, write me an email. I mean, stuff like that. And, and you know, it's fine, it's a good, it's a good entry point. But that, I mean it's gotten so powerful. December Until December of 2025, you couldn't really rely on code to be generated that didn't need interaction from somebody. December was the Big game changer. The next big changer was, the big game changer was the beginning of March and now it's all open and these companies are shipping stuff left and right faster than anything. I've never seen things ship so fast as I am seeing stuff right now. I wanted to put this. Uphold is doing something cool with Flare. Listen to this, Jeff.
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Really excited to be working very closely with leaders in the XRP DeFi ecosystem. We're close partners with Flare. We're letting people easily move between the XRP ledger, the XRP they hold on upvold and the Flare network. Once they're XRP has been moved to the Flare network. We're going to give users more ways to deploy that xrp, whether it's insurance protocols, borrowing, lending and other innovative staking features that earn a yield on your xrp.
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So how cool is that? I mean, if you do choose to keep your XRP on an exchange, which you got to remember for most people it's the easiest way. That's what they do, they keep it on exchange. But now you can put that to basically put that to work for yourself. And this is why I think that, I think out of all a lot of the exchanges out there, remember, Uphold was the only exchange in the United States that did not bend the knee to the sec. And they kept, they said, until we find out XRP is a security, we're going to continue. Meanwhile, Coinbase, Crack and all the other ones, they rolled over and bent the knee. Hugo said this Hugo Philion, which we are working on getting a date to get him on the show finally. We've been talking about it for a long time and yeah, he's, we're gonna, we're gonna work with his team to put, put together a date that works for him. He says he's excited to be working with Uphold to let you do more with your xrp. And that's, that's a very good sign. Xrp.
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Here's a quick, quick video. Check this out.
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Is it risky? Oh, no. All of our sound bites are going to be reinvented. I'm making the next one and I'm not telling you what it is, but it's going to be fan. So we're gonna keep remaking. Is it risk out? I like these better. I like making our own. Yeah, yeah, it's even better. Is it risky? Oh yeah, it is.
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Is it delightful?
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Is it? Hell yeah, it is. These are great. Wait, the other one was full screen. How come that was only partial screen? What happened?
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I don't know. That's a good question.
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Is it delight?
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Like, that's a good one. Go ahead. Go ahead and play it again. I'm gonna see if I can.
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Is it delightful?
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Gotta go over to your other side. Go to your other side. There we go.
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Is it delightful?
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Yeah, to go to your. Your left. All the way to your left. Over the lemon tree.
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Okay, we try that.
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Is it delightful?
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I like. I like the eyes. That's even better.
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Is it delightful?
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Is it delightful? We have our own videos. We screw that song. We're gonna make our own damn soundboard. So this. I thought this was funny. And Hugo has such a great sense of humor. You know, you got. First of all, let me set this up so, you know, Coinbase turned over, I don't know, like, 11 or 14 of. Of their. Of their workers. They laid them off because of advancements with AI. Basically, they're able to do more with less. AI's taking a lot of the load and they don't have to, you know, they're gonna. This is gonna happen to almost. It's happening. Every business is going to consolidate, you know, lose 30, 40, 50% at some point. So I thought this was great. This guy says, today, I was fired from Coinbase. During my six years at the company, I was responsible for distributing the Softbird airdrop. Now, it's funny for a couple of reasons, but if I can share, one of them is that the software airdrop never happened because the flare air drop. And so people were angry. So it's. No, it's no wonder this guy got fired. Six years and no air drive. That was fantastic. And then Hugo even weighed in. He said, this. This is the best use of a meme that I've ever seen. God, this is great. It's so. It's so freaking witty, you know, Remember, people were complaining about the airdrop. They didn't get it.
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They didn't get it. We are AI. Need the whole show AI from now.
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We don't need to be here anymore. Just do it. Everything's AI, Jeff, our avatars.
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And then. And everything's good.
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All right, so let's get into some stripe news here. Stripe. Here, look at this stripe. We're launching the link wallets for agents. Lets you securely empower agents to spend on your behalf, your payment credentials never exposed. And. And you approve every single purchase. It's not like you just like, go like, hey, just go do a bunch of stuff and run up stuff. No, not at all. I'm here to set up your link account, install it and it's connecting visit, blah blah blah. And it's waiting for approval. See, so you approve everything that happens along the way. And then here what we're building for you and your agent. So now you can deploy with projects. You can programically provision services from the CLI now available to everyone. You can sell at mpp, which is their machine payments protocol. A protocol lets agents know how to pay for services. And if you buy with Link, Agent Wallet enable agents to spend on your behalf. And if you think about it, I mean Stripe is so if you ever, you know, you can sign in with Link, you do a lot of cool things with it. And so everything that they announced they had, they've been doing some crazy things here. Let's see. I thought I had another one. This is right here. So this is. Look at this one. Take this one, Jeff. This is pretty exciting.
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All right, this next one coming up here, coming from Stripe. Check this out. If you guys are listening on the podcast, this is something amazing actually. Stripe. Introducing the new Stripe treasury hold funds in multiple currencies and stable coins. Instantly transfer money to US businesses on Stripe for free. Wait, wait a minute.
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What?
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Instantly transfer money to US businesses using Stripe at no cost. What's going on here? Pay anyone in 160 countries with just their email address. I've heard this before. Earn credits on balances to apply towards stripe fees. Impressive. Spend funds with a Stripe card. Look how these guys are getting in there. Getting some interest and some, some good revenue off their own Stripe card. I like that idea. Pull, man. Stripe pulling people away from Visa MasterCard. Maybe they're going to be a Visa MasterCard, we don't know. Or an Amex. Get 2% cash back on card purchases. It'll be great if it's a Stripe only card. We don't know. View balances in the Stripe mobile app. Use treasury from any AI app with the Stripe mcp. Look at this, look at this direction they're going in. What's happening? Why are these things, man? Everything's like I said, lightning speed now, not the lightning network. Lightning speed.
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Look at, they have a little video saying send. So you just type in the person. Boom. Want to pay? Rocket rides. You know, you put the pot, the money in, you hit send. There you go. Receive confirmed. Look, for a country you want to send money, you make a card, you click a virtual one, you create your card, you get 2% cash back. Show me my stripe balance. Can you pay? This invoice just goes ahead and takes care of it. Look at this it's incredible Stripe treasury man. It really is. It's evolutionary and revolutionary. It really is something that is mind blowing. And then not to be outdone, you've got T54AI. Great to see agent run. Now using T54's XRPL X402 facilitator, their MCP server gives agents XRPL native tools with selected historic data calls gated by small X402 payments. If you don't an MCP server way to think about what that is is it's think of like a. You know, if you remember those old boxes. If you had to like, you know with a computer you connect a bunch of stuff into it and it goes out somewhere else. It's just a connector box and. And it can connect. Think about for AI it's almost like an API. But you're plugging in to this MCP server. The MCP server can plug into and add a bunch of different things to it. So that's what it's using in this case. And then this guy Roger recorded a quick demo of agent.ruxrpl MCP servers. Agents can use 34xrpl native tools across the decks. The AMM issued assets and historic data right here. This guy looks like Keanu Reeves evil twin. He looks a little bit like him. So he's just basically showing he run through this thing. And I don't. I don't know if it's that exciting but the whole idea behind it of what they're doing I think is just phenomenal on so many ways. So I just thought that we'd probably do that. And then I wanted to play this Interesting, interesting. Mel Carmine who's been on the show many times, he interviewed David Schwartz and I wanted to play this interview. If you guys have ever seen this before.
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Hey guys. We got what I believe. No, actually he actually admitted he might be one of the main Satoshi Nakamoto's. We're not sure yet. We're not sure yet. One day you will all come out after the movie's over.
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10 years ago.
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Really? Oh yeah, absolutely.
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I think I still have been doing this back in the dark times.
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Yeah, maybe I'd come back.
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I got. I got 17000 people that are going to watch this.
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Yeah.
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And this is one of my telegram channels and it's gonna be passed around, you know. But yeah, he did work. He did put a patent on blockchain technology in 88.
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I mean it today you look at, you think, oh, that looks a Lot like blockchain technology back in the day. I mean, I think it's a bit of a stretch.
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What was. What would you consider it was?
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It is distributed computing.
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It was distributed computing, which is the early stages of blockchain.
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I mean, I guess I was always interested in building big, complex systems with global scale. But the model, what we were looking at then was like, you have a computer and you go home for the day, and someone sitting at a nest, you has a computer and you could. You know, CPUs were not nearly as
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powerful as they are today.
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Right, exactly. And the idea was, is that idle CPU time could be put to use helping other people, you know, helping other people solve computing problems.
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So that was what we wanted. Right.
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And then in 2000, you went to go work at DARPA as a consultant. In 2007, 2008, we had the housing crash.
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It was 2001.
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2001.
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Okay.
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2007, 2008, we had a housing crash.
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Trash.
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Yeah. And then 2009, Bitcoin is like, how
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Mel's, like, going through his resume. He's like, no, I think it was 2001. You're one of the satoshis born.
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You're still at the scene of the crime. You might be one of the guys.
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I mean, I was working. I was working, and at that time, I was working very full time for a company called Webmaster in Santa Clara. And I don't know. You can believe what you want, but I assure you, if I was part of satoshi, I would have retired.
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Oh, I. I think. I think that I wouldn't.
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I wouldn't have put up with this nonsense.
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I. I think. I think. I think. I think it's. I think it's fair. I think it's fair to say that a lot of us, no matter how much money we have, we're never going to retire because we love to fight. You know that.
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Yeah, that's true.
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That's.
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That's true. But you know what? I. I guess that's a fair. I guess that's a fair argument.
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Yes.
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You know, maybe.
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And now you had to go back because, you know, bitcoin is slow as. And it costs a lot of money to move from point A to point B. The only guy that can go back and fix bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto of the XRP crowd. Okay? The XRP 5.0.
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You would have to think that I went to a lot of trouble very early to put in a lot of effort to hide my identity. I give you one example, like the who? The person who wrote. If you think one person wrote the bitcoin, the original bitcoin.
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No, I don't believe that person would have.
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Okay, if you don't believe that you
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believe I believe there's multiples, multiple groups, then.
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Then I can't make any argument that would prove to you that I wasn't part of that group.
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Because there you go. That's exactly what I'm trying to say. But now we.
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I mean, I can't make any Nikola
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Tesla of the blockchain space.
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I mean, you just have. You just kind of have to take my word for it. That. Or not, if you want to. I guess I can't stop.
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We absolutely. We absolutely. We absolutely love what you do.
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I wouldn't have lost. I wouldn't have lost the keys.
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That's a. That's a great answer. That's a great answer. Yeah.
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And what is he waiting for exactly? Oh, yeah. Okay. Right.
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David, I needed.
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I. In 2012. I needed them.
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David, no matter what. We love. We love. We love what you do. Keep up the great work.
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We're all here right now.
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Absolutely.
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You can speculate that the other members of the group said no.
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Maybe.
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Absolutely.
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I guess. I mean, you can always make up a spec. Right. For every hypothetical reason, you can always make up a speculation.
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You got.
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It was a good interview. I never had. Never seen that interview. I saw that Mel had reposted that and.
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Great interview.
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It was great because it was like. It was a lot of fun. It wasn't the normal pissed off and it was sort of a different angle. Carmine and his. And his interview approach too. I like. He's just right in there. He's in your face and I like that. It was. It was a fun interview, man. Yeah. Really, really enjoyed that. And he's probably have to get him back on this show. He was. He's putting together some other cool things. But anyway, Jeff, that's a lot going on. I mean, gosh, we didn't even have a chance going on. Say hello. Hello, everybody. Good evening. Rod is checking in 12 mile in Van Dyke from Mark Smithson. Know exactly where that is. Cash velocity part of Satoshi. Interesting. I like the XRP shirt that guy's wearing. Yeah, well, you want to check out X. You like that XRP shirt? Well, hell with that XRP shirt, dude. How about the XRP shirt and our merch store, you know what I mean? Come on, man.
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You like the show.
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Let's go. Dig in the pockets. Get that master. Get that stripe agent out there. Buying our merch. Would you, please? Right, Jeff? I mean, why not?
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Why not?
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Look at this right here. I'm going to pop this up right here. Look at this. This is what you got to do. You want to buy some shirts? Jeff will drop the. The. The URL in there and you can get all kinds of stuff right there. Bam. Look at that badassery hat. How about that?
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Oh, stuff, Man. We're going to, too. And we are working on expanding that badassery brand. But there's so much within badassery. I love badass.
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How about this right here? The Ripple Sec Wars Ripple Strikes Back. That's clever as hell.
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How about that shirt? That's stuff right there.
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We have. We have women's stuff, too. Don't think it's all guys stuff that doesn't fit you. Well, we got some women's in stuff here as well.
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That's it.
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See, that's a women's cut. Nice. It's going to look fantastic on you. Don't forget the returns. Sec Wars Return of the xrp. That's beautiful. Look at that. Damn. Look at the beanies. We got the XRP logo on it. Got the. On the chain ones. You could buy towels. There's just so much stuff, Josh. There's so many cool stuff. You can get so many things to go over. And this one here, XRP, I can't be 100, sure, but I think it's magic, huh? Come on, man.
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Put the link in. Make sure you guys jump in there and.
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Yeah, go purchase some merch, dude. Go purchase some merch. If you type in XRP589, you get 20 off XRP589. 20 off 89. What else can you. What else can you say?
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Yeah, right there. 5:89 right there.
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And then one other thing tonight, I'm a little bit disappointed with the crew here, I have to say, Jeff. Very disappointed.
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That's awesome.
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Well, where's your pitch? We got. We. Oh, there it is. That. That's. Is that the beanie right there? There it is. Here's what I have to say, guys. I do a space every Thursday and nobody from the OTC crowd ever shows up.
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Ever.
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It's not good enough, guys. I need you to come support. Here it is right here. Jen and I do a zao dao pow wow. We talk about things all zo dao. We talk about two proposals tomorrow night. Jeff and I have both written proposals. Set a reminder right here. I'm going to take this right here. I'm gonna hit Big old copy link and I'm gonna post it in here guys. So go ahead and set a, go ahead and set a reminder. But it's tomorrow night at 7:30, so it's a half hour before we usually go live on Thursday nights. I do it every Thursday night. Stop by, come up on stage, ask questions. If you don't even want to come up on stage, that's fine. But come by for some moral support of Beyond X tomorrow. Jenna will kick it off at 7:30. I co host it with her and I. We always have some pretty cool guests along the way. Awesome, cool people from the XRP community popping in. So let's see. Hey guys from England. We love England. We hate Ker Steiner, but so do you. Turns out he has like, I think his approval rating just dropped to seven. You know what I mean? The only thing that like, the only thing that's more popular than, than that is gonorrhea. That's how bad it is over there. It's like it's getting so bad over there. Oh man, it's so sad. I can't, I mean, but Jeff, there's so much great, there's so much winning going on right now. I couldn't even between winning on, on the red side, very much losing going on the blue side. So check this out. Republicans are dominating the redistricting ward. So confirm. California is going to add five Democrats. Utah is going to add one Democrat. But then look at the cleanup. Florida is going to be plus four Republican. Missouri plus one North Carolina plus one Ohio plus two Republicans. Texas plus five Republicans. Democrats will pick up six, 14 Republicans. Now this is what's pending, that's what's confirmed. So you probably have a six pickup. So the differential there, you know, you're looking at a Plus 8 pickup for the Republicans. Now here's what's pending. Now Virginia would have had, it would have been a plus four Democrat. But it's probably going to be overturned only because they didn't follow procedures, certain procedure they had to go through in their state constitution. They ignored it. They had to have something for 90 days. They had to do a certain thing. They didn't do any of it. So just on procedural alone it's going to get overturned. So you can probably cancel those four. But that's Jeff. Alabama plus one, 62% chance. Louisiana plus two Mississippi plus one. Tennessee plus one. Total likely outcome six plus Democrats, 18 plus Republicans gives the Republicans a plus 12 on the pickup side. And once the census is redone, Democrats are probably going to lose. Another 12 to 16 seats. So it just keeps getting better and better and better all the way around. Now here's what's funny. The Democrats tried. The U. S. Supreme Court just dealt a final blow to the Democrats desperate attempt to reverse the court striking down race based congressional districts. SCOTUS just denied Democrats motion to recall their judgment. But not even Jackson Kintanji. Jackson did not even dissent. What are they going to do? It's already been called. You can't, you're not going to overturn it. There's no appetite for it.
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None.
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Do you know who this is?
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Look at that Jeff.
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I'm gonna put this up right here. You know this guy is.
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Was that.
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You ever seen that guy before? He's a Democrat congressman.
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Seen that guy, Seen that guy before?
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Steve Cohen, He's a Democrat congressman who's represented Tennessee and the only Democrat district since 2007 and he's about to lose his seat. With Tennessee's new district map, his seat's going to disappear. Let's all wave goodbye to Steve. See you later. See you later Steve. Oh see you see that little Democrat right in the bottom left hand corner. And after the redistricting that's gone. Which means Steve is gone.
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So, so much change happening. It's awesome.
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Jeff, here's another guy. You know this guy is.
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Who's that guy?
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That's Bernie Thompson.
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Man, all these guys.
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You know what, see Bernie Thompson represents Mississippi. He's anti Trump fanatic. Mississippi decided to redraw their district map to remove the race based district. That means Bernie will lose his seat. Bernie will be gone and Trump will still be here. Let's all wave goodbye to Bernie. This is just great Jeff. I mean all these guys are gone. You know who this is? This guy is a legend in the Democrat party.
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There we go, one more.
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Clyburn. That is Jim Clyburn. Now if you remember, Jim Clyburn was the reason that Biden was president. I remember he was the one that rallied for him in the primary. He went out and said all the black people to vote for him. He said he was the guy. Fast forward six years with South Carolina's proposed new congressional district map and Clyburn's district will be eliminated. That's called karma folks. Another guy gone, Jeff gone.
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Gonzo.
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But this, you gotta love this map. Look at that. Red, red, red. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait. Goodbye. Just like that. Blue to red. How do you like that? How do you like them apples Jeff?
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Like those apples? I like all those apples. I like where we're going with this
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thing, you know, Vivek Ramaswamy was running the primary for governor for the state of Ohio. Now I didn't know how that was going to go. I knew he was going to win the primary, but I never expected this. Look at this, Jeff. He won every single county, every single county in Ohio for the first primary. So he's running, he's official candidate for governor. I mean, in all fairness, there's nobody running against him that was going to best him anyway. But you know, everyone's talking about how Trump, they're all, Trump's not doing a good job. No one supports Trump. Mag, is that all those fake influencers out there? Well, look at this. Jeff, read this.
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What we got El Trumpista. Yesterday there were 26 Republican primaries in the U. S. Interesting. The 26 primaries were won by MAGA candidates backed by Trump. All anti Trump Republicans candidates have now officially lost. That's right, Gone. Things are changing. Things are changing at such a, an exponential rate everywhere. We're talking about AI, talking about payment infrastructure. AI going to spend your crypto. Every area in the country starting to turn red. You look at south Florida, look at the redistricting through Florida, and you see little minuscule bits of blue that are remaining. Soon that's going to be gone too. Get rid of the rhinos, get rid of the blue, everything's good.
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Definitely wouldn't want to be. Here's what's so funny. And for all the crying Democrats out there saying boohoo me, you know, I can't believe they're doing this. Well, let's just take a look at this map right here. Okay? Now, apparently not one Republican. Even John Deaton, who lives, who lives up there in Massachusetts now. So you've got Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and guess what? Apparently they're all blue. How is that possible? There is. There are no Republican districts and they're sitting there crying about the south, which we know is pretty heavily conservative anyway, but not one district. Do they say, oh, let's don't worry, we'll make it fair. No, no, they, nobody had a problem with these five states. Six states, I should say. Does anybody have a problem with it? No, not one. Not one problem, Jeff. So, you know, the hell with you. I mean, you many can play that game. Suckers, right? And something we learned, Jeff, which is interesting is the, you know, this, the one that came to vote inside for the, for the Democrats or the Republicans were petitioning the whole idea of the rate, you know, basing districts on race which is not obviously Constitution. However, what was discovered was Justice Kintanji Brown Jackson was slow walking it. She was slow walking and trying to maybe push it till maybe after the midterms. And so Justice Samuel Lito's had it. This is putting it nice. But Alita reminds Justice Content Yvonne Jackson that SCOTUS exists to interpret the law, not to act as an activist court. He basically unleashed on her because basically trying to pull partisan by not putting this up for the, you know, in front of the Supreme Court, trying to slow walk it. And again, there's so much activism. You know, the guy that tried to kill Trump at the correspondence dinner, the judge in D.C. apologized that he had to go through that and basically gave him, instead of putting him in solitary confinement, gave him all kinds of privileges. This is the kind of judicial sort of that we're putting up with at this point, Jeff. It's ridiculous.
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Go I swine. Getting ready to vote in Georgia Senate coming up soon as well. Us off the commie will be heavily challenged. Time to go. Want to see some changes over there in Georgia. It's little too close to Florida here. They're all going off on her one at a time. Comey Barrett was first in that opinion where she called Brown an idiot.
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Yeah, well, she. She pretty much is an idiot, Jeff, with without a doubt, Tanji is what they.
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The stolen 202020 was such a disaster for obviously the country. Lots of different states. Michigan is a direct result of the theft of the 2020 election. The stuff that happened over there, it was just a travesty. Some of some of the outcomes over there.
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Now, Jeff, let's go talk about the Democrats for a little bit. Let's talk about what's going on with them. Let's see. There's some interesting things happening with them and unfortunately, really none of them are good. This is Pramila Jayapal. She's a Democrat out of Washington. Listen to this, Jeff. Just listen very closely what she's saying here and then think to yourself, think Logan. Act going through your mind as she's. As she's talking here.
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January, Trump issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country supplying fuel to Cuba. This was this January, just a few months ago. And oil shipments from Venezuela, that's where Cuba had been getting its oil, were halted after the US Operations to kidnap Nicolas Maduro. Since January, only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba. In fact, it landed just a couple of days before I landed. And one tanker has enough oil basically for 10 to 14 days of Cuba's oil needs. So it's a very limited amount of time. Now Russia has said they're going to send another tanker. I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places, and I know other countries in Latin America trying to figure out how to get oil there. But it is a crisis beyond imagination. Just this past Friday, on May 1, Trump signed a broad executive order that widens sanctions and allows for new penalties, similar to what we have for Iran and Russia, against foreign banks and firms that are dealing with Cuba. And it also reinforces the ban on US Tourism. I have called these sanctions an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba. It is illegal. It is against the war. We've been talking about this in Iran. Obviously, to bomb the infrastructure of any country that is against international law, this is essentially doing the same thing. It is bombing the infrastructure of Cuba with economic sanctions that essentially ensure that the infrastructure collapses.
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You can go sit down.
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First of all, Jeff, who's she repping the Cuban people or is she repping the American people? Why is she so concerned about. Why is she contacting important governments? That's a violation of the Logan act. That was. That's 18 USC 953 passed in 1799. It's a federal law that prohibits unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with foreign governments that are in dispute with the United States. It also aims to prevent individuals from undermining one U.S. foreign policy. While violations are felonies punishable by up to three years in prison, the act is rarely enforced with no prosecutions in its entire history. I don't know. I think it's time to start the product. Why are you actively in. Your job is to rep your district? What do you. Why are you worried about Cuba and why are you going against the, you know, the national. I don't know. It's a. It's really, it's, it's really mind bending in so many ways. You know, you always talk about Rokhana.
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Oh, yeah.
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And I always say, there's something about that dude. I said, I know he's going to run for president, but he just seems way too smooth. He's another smooth talker. Remember, he was, I'm Mr. Crypto and I believe in crypto. Remember, he was like, you know, all the right talking points, Jeff. Well.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, look, check this out. This is great. This guy Kevin Bass said, I conducted the most comprehensive public records audit of any congressman in the history of the United States. It was conducted on Congressman Ro Khanna. This audit exposed shocking ethical lapses and potential Criminal Behavior by Congressman Khanna. I'm filing a 239 page ethics complaint, including 30 evidentiary exhibits with the Office of the Congressional Conduct, to be followed by complaints of the Health Essence Committee and the Department of Justice in the coming days. Besides being on an extremely comprehensive public records audit, the complaint is the first of its kind in another way. The factual basis of every single specific claim in the complaint, verifiable, reproducible by anyone with the computer. Attached to this Post is the GitHub release containing the complete reproductibility kit. Anybody with Python 3 and a GitHub CLI install can download it and run a single command, Python welcome py which walks them through the analysis at whatever verification they pick. So one, you can do a 30 second offline check that everybody can. Everybody figures derivatives drives from bundled snapshots. Obviously it's a little more technical than most people, but a primary source spot check that refetches the underlying records from the House clerk and the IRS and confirms the bytes match an open timestamps proof that the package existed at publication time and it wasn't backfilled. Guys bringing the receipts, but he's also bringing the methodology in which he collected the data. The opt in path that allows the reviewer to rerun the OCR pipeline. So it's like you don't believe them. Great, here's a script you can pull all this stuff. This is incredible, Jeff. We are getting so advanced with our, with our research.
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It's unbelievable. The amount of research that you can do that's happening behind the scenes is just, is phenomenal. It's crazy. Absolutely crazy.
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So listen, this here's a complaint. Ron, a Democratic congressman from California, 17th, basically Silicon Valley. Been in Congress since 2017, currently in his fifth term, Khan has done six different things wrong. Each one's bad enough to investigate on its own. Together, the very bad. His family stock trades line up suspiciously with the committee he sits on, the donors who fund him and the votes he takes. That's bad. Connor's household made between 15 and 108 million from those trades. Jeff. With a middle estimate of about 61 million.
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Unreal.
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The estimate cannot be better than this. The disclosure forms provide only disclosure bands. Precise amounts can only be determined with subpoena power. But we do have one hard number compared to just buying a basic stock market index fund. His family beat the market by 28 million. 28 million. The complaint says that Congressman Khana should pay this money back. Now how the trading actually works in the household is important because it Helps us understand everything else. So let me explain that. Khan himself filed 114 reports to the house clerk listing every trade in his household. He made Those reports cover 37,238 individual trades. That's a huge amount, Jeff, you're talking about. Probably every family that lives in your subdivision has not made 37000 trades. You know, unless you're using an AIG, it's a lot of trades.
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A lot of trades.
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Most members in Congress, even though they've got the inside scoop, don't. But here's the kicker. Almost none of those trades are in his own name. 99.997 of the percent of them listed as belonging to his wife or his dependent child because you know, his child's like super smart and probably did 30, 000 of those trades.
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Oh, I'm sure.
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So it goes on. Say there were no separate managed account, no blind trust, no third party broker, blah blah, blah, blah blah. I mean I gotta go through the whole thing, Jeff. It's pretty freaking long, but it's it. I say this guy did his homework. I read through the whole thing and it's pretty impressive. 1200 pharmaceutical trade sectors cluster within 14 days of events.
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So too close to him. I heard Elizabeth Warren sold off at least 20000 shirts.
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I don't know if that's true, Jeff. I mean, but she, we know she killed the deal, but I haven't seen proof of that yet. I haven't seen any receipts either. Have you just.
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No, just people making statements on X.
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I know, it's like, I mean it's fun because you probably think that, you know, she might have done that, but I don't know. Oh yeah, but it's just non stop with these Democrats, Jeff. Non stop fraud.
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The wine business isn't such a good business when you actually don't produce wine apparently. Yeah, it's all made up. It's just a mechanism to funnel ill gotten funds from.
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How about this? Fox News was on the scene in Portsmouth, Virginia. The FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas, a Democrat, close ally of the Virginia Governor Spanberger. Federal law enforcement sources tell FOX its connection to a major corruption probe. The FBI is serving multiple search warrants approved by a federal judge at her office. And next door cannabis dispensary. More to come with correspondent Alex Hogan who reports that Lucas just showed up on the scene as the FBI searches her office. There's so many weird things going on with the Democrats just in one day of news Jeff, how is that possible?
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We don't get a ton of news and then it just comes in. It. It's like a torrential downpour. All these crazy things happening.
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That Ilhan Omar thing is, look at this right here. Check this out, Jeff. She seems to be in some hot water.
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Also Democrat closing in on a deadline set by Minnesota Republicans to turn over documents about potential ties to a state fraud ring after she dodged a hearing last month. Our senior correspondent Mike Tobin is reporting
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live out of Chicago.
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He's got the latest details for us.
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Hey, Mike and Sandra. That deadline is today for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to turn over documents and communication tied to defendants in that massive Feeding Our Futures scandal. The Minnesota House Committee on Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight is holding its last meeting of the legislative session today. However, the committee does not have enough votes to subpoena the congresswoman. So the committee doesn't have a legal mechanism to compel Omar to cooperate. The chair of the committee has sent Omar multiple invitations and requests for documents. Omar does not respond. Omar now sponsored the 2020 Meals act, which removed the guardrails on co Covid relief money and help the fraud run up to $250 million. Despite that, the chair of the Fraud Prevention Committee does not anticipate the Minnesota congressman will respond by the deadline.
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It shows her continued disdain for the taxpayers. She feels like she's above having to answer for her involvement in and her responsibility as a member of Congress who, you know, she passed the bill that took the guardrails off the school nutrition program that led to the conditions that enabled Feeding Our Futures.
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Now, Amy Bach was convicted as the mastermind of the Feeding Our Future scandal. Defendants billed the government for meals that were never provided through existing restaurants and sham companies. Now, in Bach's trial, Omar's name appeared in an email chain with Bach. Trial evidence showed text communication with Box Bach and Omar. Trial evidence also showed Bach exchanged emails with one of the defendants who fled the country. The title of that email chain was Ilhan's Office. Now, back in January, our Alexis McAdams interviewed Amy Bach. She said she never spoke directly with Representative Omar, only people in her office. And the conversation she said were never substantive. Sandra, back to you.
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She's Jeff. So it really is non stop, isn't it? It's like, how much more? How much? Well, you know, the governor's race going out there, that's happening in California. Well, Governor, it says California Guber Guberal candidate Steve Hilton's doge team just found taxpayer dollars are funding illegal Aliens to campaign for Democrat candidate Xavier Becerra. I remember him. He's completely another loser from the Biden administration. That is total violation of the federal law. Taxpayer funded nonprofit chirla endorsed Bakara April 13. Our investigation reveals payments to illegal immigrants for campaign activity. Churla, a taxpayer funded organization, said that it'll be working to do everything it can to elect Javier Becerra governor. In other words, reports that we found that Cal Doge. We have looked in detail on how Cherla conducts these political activities. I mean, basically, Jeff, what they're doing is like Shirla is state fund is, is supported by the taxpayers taxpayer revenue. They go endorse a Democrat payment, then they start making payments to illegals for campaign activity. I don't get it. How are tax California taxpayers responsible for this?
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California taxpayers, maybe not so bright.
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They don't seem to be. I mean, but with all this stuff. This next clip I'm going to play, Jeff, you're gonna swear it's a, it's a. It's got to be a Babylon B. It's gotta be. It cannot be real. You're gonna swear that it's not real. Everyone here out there is going to be like, come on, that's an AI thing. It's not.
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Gotta prep.
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Listen to this. Let me set this up. Somali Maine State Rep. Deca Delac announces her number one goal in office. I will just leave it at that. Here's her number one goal in office, Jeff. How can the politics in Somalia can be, you know, resonate what we have here in the United States, the democracy that we have. How can you help us, you know, be a better country and build back what we used to have back in long time ago.
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So hopefully we will be able to
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help our country, our former country, Somalia. What we can. Wait a minute. What she said, hopefully we can help our former country. Sorry, you're in the wrong country. You're not representing the former. What is, what is this? I, I just don't understand the Democrats, like what they're, they're just like, this is suicide, Jeff.
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Doesn't make any sense.
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I mean, they're out of their mind. I really don't, I really don't get it, man. I just, I don't understand. I don't understand. But if it's not fraud, it's some other, you know, illicit thing that they got going on. Here's another thing that's going on in California. Listen to this. You remember the Palisades fire, Jeff? They had that big concert, all those great Bands put together raised $100 million. Well, and you probably thought like, geez, I wonder how that made it to the Pelicides victims where their houses burned to the ground, where the insurance companies all got together and stopped issuing insurance to those people three months before the bigot fire. And because they obviously suspected there was, you know, they weren't, they weren't clearing brush. So California's representative Kevin Kiley says they learned the $100 million Pacific Palisades fire Aid concert money laundered to nonprofits. What we've learned is absolutely beyond belief. Tens of thousands of people donated, raising $100 million for what they were told was direct relief for the victims. Now we've learned that this money didn't go to victims. Instead it went to examples. So here's some examples here. Or went to the nonprofits. California Native Vote project. They got $100,000 for voter participation for Native Americans. The Consumer organized relief core. 250,000 for programs prioritizing undocumented immigrants at a ladina talks foundation. 100,000 went to supporting podcasts, including Tony rain's podcast. The NAACP Pasadena got a hundred thousand for political advocacy. The Los Angeles Black Worker Center, 550,000 for political advocacy organizations. The center for applied ecological remediation, 500,000 for fungus, microbe, plant soil remediation products. Over 500,000 went to bonuses for non profit leaders and consultants. I mean, how is this possible that you can, I mean, just basically use it as a slush fund and pay anybody you want?
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That's it. That's all they care about. Their own piggy bank.
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It seems to be the only thing they care about. Yeah, well, Jeff, you know, you remember how Trump always joked about, about, you know, it wouldn't be such a bad thing if they changed the name of ice. Well, he posted this and then back to back we got the White House. So it's, I don't think it's as bad if nice comes to get you. Look at this. There it is. Nice. National Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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And then
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Donald Trump. I don't know if they're officially changing the name. And then this one was posted through the official White House count. Nice. National immigration, that's pretty badass right there. Of course they probably did that, the AI but it looks fantastic. Oh yeah, it's like ICE is bad, but nice. Hard to be mad at Nice. They're so nice. What a great idea. Isn't it nice instead of ice? And I don't know if you remember, Ken Griffin Mandami made that Commercial where he was right in front of his penthouse and talking about how the rich have to pay their fair share and blah, blah, blah. Then at the. From the Met gala the other night, I couldn't find the video, but they projected a guy who works for Amazon bitching about Bezos being so rich and the workers don't get any of his money. You know, listen, I'm sorry. That's how it works. And they projected it on the side of Ken Griffin's apartment. Ken Griffin, he, he basically had this to say, Listen to this. Now they're building this, this massive, uh, office in New York. Ken Griffin had this to say that leave us at 350 Park.
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That leaves us with the fact that we went to Miami and revised our building plan to make it a bigger office building.
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You're bailing.
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So, so what do we do at 350 is still a point of discussion internally, but what is no longer a point of discussion is that Miami is now. You know, when we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between New York and Miami. It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice. I'll leave it at that. It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice. And now. And now what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners, and principally my New York partners, my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a state that embarrasses, embraces, that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American dream. And
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Jeff, you know, it was really greatest thing. I was driving up. I was driving up a little bit past Tallahassee there, and when you, when you go back into Florida, that beautiful sign that greets you, welcome to the free state of Florida. It's free state of. It's called the free state of Florida for a reason. Now this guy, you know, mandami effed around and he found out this was gonna. I forgot how many thousands of tens of thousands of people this was gonna be. 670, 000 people was going to employ. But he said he was going to do this and tax and blah, blah, blah. And he went after him. And then it made that cute video in front of his penthouse and started attacking him. This, this is like. This is like, what's her name? AOC all over again. Remember those 60 or 70,000 jobs? Amazon wanted to build a fulfillment center there. I don't Know why they did, but. And Elon Omar started crying and complaining about the construction and they said great. So they went and build it another. Another place. She was complaining about the tax cuts and they were giving them tax breaks. Well, that's what you do when you want to create 70,000 new jobs. So what do they do? They went elsewhere. Now you're talking about Bezos, Jeff, who's a hardcore liberal. Okay, I know Griffin is a conservative, but why would you, why would you do this if you want your city to succeed? I don't know.
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It's a hard.
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It's a hard one to. To think about, hard to rationalize.
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It's hard to really put this all into perspective.
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And I have to think that NATO is pretty much on the rocks, Jeff, because this just happened.
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It's too, too crazy.
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Look at this. Check this out. What the hell says you can't? Oh, there's other media. Oh, okay, let me move that first. There we go. Look at this. U. S Forces confirmed a withdrawal from Germany. The first batch of 5, 000American soldiers have left. We're now witnessing the collapse of NATO alliance. The beginning of the end. Remember the spiraging remarks that Mertz said? The prime minister said, yeah, I think Iran is getting the best, better part of the United States. I think they're winning. I think they're out negotiating. Well f around and find out. So good luck. Good luck to you is all I have to say. This is what I like about Trump. Trump doesn't play any games. So here I got some more details on that Mandami thing. So it likely means that Citadel's 6.6 billion plan major redevelopment at 350 Park Avenue in midtown is going to get yanked. The demolition has already started. Meaning it wasn't just an imagined project. This would mean the loss of 6,000 highly paid construction jobs for the massive project which was anticipated to create more than 15,000 permanent jobs in the sprawling high rise complex. Oh, and the tax dollars that now won't be paid from jobs that won't exist from a project that never was. Not to mention the loss of thousands of highly paid Citadel employees who will now be moved to Florida doing a bang up job. Comrade,
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A
these guys, these guys are so, you know, they're so self centered, egotistical and they're, you know, despite. And it amazes me that they're, you know, they get, they get elected, you know, same thing happened in Seattle. Look at what's happening with Starbucks. Starbucks moving their headquarters out of Seattle. Think about that. The Thousands of people, you know, potentially leaving Seattle or losing their jobs because Starbuck said, see ya. We're gone. And what happened? The mayor laughed. She actually laughed about it and said, okay, good luck. And mom, dummy, same thing. You know what? Good luck, New York City, because that's just the beginning. And you know who the benefactors are. You know where Wall Street's going in finance is going. They're not staying in New York City.
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B
Miami, baby.
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A
They're coming to Miami. They're going to West Palm Beach. They're, you know, Georgia's in play. All these big financial institutions. People want to be in big cities, but they're coming to Miami. You should see Miami now. Miami's crazy.
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B
Miami is. Will be the financial hub of the United States. No longer New York. No, I don't even care who the mayorship. It's. It's just. It's a better state. Beautiful weather, zero tax. There's no taste. Listen, anybody would want to work.
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A
You're.
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B
You're paying. When you live in the city, you're paying between 10 and 12% state tax on top of federal tax, on top of commuter tax, on top of all these taxes. You come down to Florida and you just got a 10, 12, you know, raise. Why would you do it?
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A
That's it.
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B
I mean, it really is.
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A
And our people, our government infrastructure, taking care of the people, making sure that everything's being organized in such a way that we're going to be prosperous for years to come. That's here in Florida. What about New York? What? New York City has always fleeced all of New York State. New York State taxes are high because of New York City. New York State exists without New York City. New York City has always been a massive drain. It's such a shame. It's a. It's a travesty. There we go. What do you say I don't get elected? Selected. That's interesting.
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B
They get selected. They're selected, not elected. That's coming to an end, too. Yeah, it's all coming to an end very quickly. You think they. You think they pulled 23 million illegals in here because they care about him now? Because they can vote for him. Give them free stuff. Jeff, this is pretty funny. Check this out here. This is a point of view from British cops. Actually, if they came to the United States. Here we go.
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H
Can I help you? Hello. Are you Josh? Yeah. What's up? Nice to meet you. I'm Police Constable Archibald Waltham, comsbl and I'm here to investigate a crime. Constable you're from the UK or from London? Yeah.
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B
Okay.
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H
This is the United States, though. Well, as you know, the UK did say that we would show up to America and stop online hate speech. That's really dumb. But also, I have never said anything hateful online like that. Actually, last week on Facebook, someone with your username said that beans on toast is disgusting. Beans on toast is disgusting.
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A
That's just.
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H
That's like a fact. That's not hate speech at all. That's just the truth. That's classified as hate speech in the uk. So unfortunately, you've got to go to jail. Oh, a British cop is going to take me to jail now? Yeah. Sorry, mate. Hey, quick question. What kind of British handgun do you guys carry as cops from England? Guns? No, we're from the uk. We don't have those. So how do you defend yourself if, say, someone doesn't want to go to jail? I have a stern voice and a positive attitude.
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A
You know what?
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H
Why don't you take one of mine? Because this is not going to be a fair fight. Can I help you?
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B
Hello?
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A
Oh, my God. You take one of mine because this
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B
won't be a fair fight. How freaking funny is that, Jeff? It's so. It's so spot on.
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A
Love it.
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B
Oh, God, man, you gotta love that. That is so freaking funny. Take mine. Yeah. Remember the one? Remember the video that I played? Remember my preface that with this is why England will be conquered? It was like 13 or 14 police officers and one guy with a knife and he was running around chasing him, and they're like backing off in the United States, that guy takes a step and he's got six bullets and he's dropped on the ground.
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A
That's it.
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B
He gets a warning. Back up, back up. And then six shots, right? Boom. And they drop them. Meanwhile, you know what you got to put to that music, that Benny Hill music, And speed it up so they run around with a guy. We can put together a whole, whole thing of that. That was too much, man. That was.
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A
That was way too much.
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B
Like, what is wrong with those? Like, they were just, you know, let's see if I can find that clip. God, that was just fantastic. Yeah, here it is right here. Oh, no, that's not it. But it's so funny. It's so funny. When I look for a clip like that, I find another one. But here, here's another example right here. Look. Two, two. Two of them. They can't. They can't subdue the guy. I mean, seriously. What are you doing? I mean, Stop, all right? Please, you're embarrassing yourself. He's right. The stern voice comes in handy. It doesn't work, but it's. Stop, stop. They're both on the ground and he's trying to wiggle out. This is unbelievable. This is beyond embarrassment.
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A
He's gonna get the upper hand. He just got hit.
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B
Now look at this other doofus who. He's, like, holding people. Not helping. They can't hold the guy. Two women can't hold the dude. Here's how it works over here. Comply or I will tase you, bro. I watched the police video today. The guys gave him two warnings. I'm gonna tase you. I'm gonna tase you. Tased. Nope, they don't even have tasers. This goes on forever, Jeff. Look at this. Now they're rolling under the bus. It's just too much. Beyond embarrassing. Oh, my God. They walk around and they got the goofiest looking uniforms. My God, they just don't even look real. It's like you. I've seen, like, mall cops that carry guns, Jeff. You know, it's like you watch these guys that sit outside the store, and a store I go to in Boca, there's an armed guard right in front of that state. Like, go ahead. Boom. One shot, you'll be done. Yo. He'll look at you and you give him a friendly look, and next thing you know, six bullets. Guy ain't playing around. It's just. There's a video. Exactly.
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A
Happening. I don't know if I want to play it. I don't know if people like watching this stuff.
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B
What is it?
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A
Guy pulls a knife and gets shot by the three police officers that were there to arrest him. He shouldn't have pulled his knife. Well, should we play it?
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B
I don't see why not.
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A
I don't know where. It just came from the post of Baltimore County Police. All right, show it. All right.
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B
Yeah, go ahead. Put it on there.
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A
And there you go.
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B
I'm sorry, man. You got guys drawn giving you instructions, and you're gonna push the guy. Sorry, ain't working out. That's how it works. Well, Jeff, that's all the time we have. What a crazy, action packed show. This was so much going on.
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A
Oh, yeah, look at that.
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B
Smithson says his dream job is to become a mall cop. I got bad news for you. There's no more malls, so I don't know how that's gonna work out. Good luck finding a wall that's still
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A
around the outdoor malls.
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B
I mean, the town center mall In Boca is still great. I mean, it's. I mean, I don't even know any other malls. I mean, it seems like all of them. It's a couple in Miami, but they all seem to be closing down. Appreciate you guys. Thank you. Appreciate that.
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A
The Broward Mall died. The Galleria Mall died.
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B
Yeah. Unbelievable.
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A
Aventura Mall is still good.
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B
Yeah, Aventura is still alive. Still going strong. There's other ones. There's also one in deeper Miami, too.
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A
They have the Dania. Dania Point.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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A
Area that's kind of cool. I like that.
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B
Then, of course, down there by the. By the cruise lines. The amphitheater there. What's the. What's that one called? The Miami. What's that? It's outdoor, too. That's more of a tourist trap.
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A
Yeah, it's a big tourist. What's that called? Well, I haven't been there in forever.
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B
7:11. Security guard will do. Okay, there you go. Keep your dream alive, my man. Keep it alive. Keep that dream alive. That's what you got to do.
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A
Feel like I'm living in one of those apocalyptic movies from the 80s.
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B
Yeah. I remember having a. I still go back to that time where I was having a discussion with my English teacher saying that 1984 was beyond believable. Like it could never happen one day. And it was just so over the top.
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A
Right.
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B
But you understand the lessons that I saw. I get the lessons. I was like, just. It's like. It's like the suspension of disbelief wasn't there. I couldn't under. Like, it was too much. And then I started realizing that it was like, it was just foreshadowing. I was like, it wasn't really. You know what I mean? I mean, I guess. Guess I couldn't see the future. I just thought, there's no way that'll ever happen. But here we are. And I'll just ask one other question.
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C
Is it delightful?
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B
No, it is not. Is it risky? Yeah, it's risky. Hell, yeah, it is risky. That's all.
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A
Savers up. Two goals with two minutes left.
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B
What? Oh, yeah, baby. Crushing it.
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A
And Montreal pulled off that.
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B
I have. There's a. There's a post from 2018 where a guy called into WGR Radio, which is the local sports radio in Buffalo, and he called the guy three times, and he said, do what you will with this. And the Guy posted in 2018, he said, the Sabers win the Stanley cup in 2026 and the Bills win the Super bowl in 2027. I was like, okay, let's do it. I'm up for it. I mean, I like the Sabers because my hometown team, but I always. I was always watched the Panthers, so it's like, you know, it felt like Panthers were closer to the Panthers than I ever was. The, the, you know, the Sabers. So two championships. Three if you call them. So there you have it.
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A
Look at that.
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B
See you guys on Saturday.
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A
See you guys on the next one.
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B
On the next one. Chip and Jeff.
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A
Oh,
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B
are you down with otc?
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C
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