Scott Adams (2:44)

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Erica (3:46)

Ah, you guys. So that is going to be a fun show. Scott said if you want to watch that one later, it is from My God. My thing keeps rotating. Sorry, guys. It's episode number 1499 E. Okay. And that's four years ago. So I'd like to welcome you guys. Today we're going to talk about some news. We only have Joel for the first half of the show, so we're going to ask Joel to get right to it. He has just launched the California Post last week. So let's go with the news. Joel, we're going to let you start off.

Joel Pollock (4:28)

Good morning. Well, there's some very interesting news today, and the news is always surprising. I was going to talk about some aspects of Scott's biography that perhaps I'll leave for next time. But if you want to prepare for that discussion, if you haven't read it yet, please read God's Debris by Scott Adams. And if you can, try to get hold of the trilogy and read the two sequels. The third one is rather short, and the second one is the Religion War. Very, very interesting book. And I will tease a future discussion about that by referring to the red and black plaid blanket that you can see over there behind our wonderful host. And it has a very important significance which I don't think many viewers realized or recognized. And it's referenced in God's Debris. So little bits of the Scott Adams code, if you will, peering out from some of his earlier writings. I think it's really worth discussing. But let's talk about the news. And I had a Scott Adams moment, which I'll explain shortly when looking at the news today, the Jeffrey Epstein saga continues and there's a lot of news about Jeffrey Epstein. One of the pieces of news is that Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, Democrat and Republican, were given access to the unredacted Epstein files yesterday. They were allowed to review them, and Ro Khanna was one of Scott's favorite members of Congress, not necessarily because he supported him, but because Ro Khanna is a Bernie Sanders type, left wing Democrat, Democratic socialist who represents Silicon Valley and who's very smart and yet often says really crazy things. So Scott appreciated some of his smart insights and his skills, his talent stack, if you will, while also making fun of, for example, his recent support for the billionaire tax, which Scott thought was crazy. He also liked Thomas Massie without having to agree with everything Thomas Massie said or did, because Thomas Massie understands economics and would often take a rational approach to public policy issues. Thomas is also independent and he doesn't shy away from criticizing President Trump, which sometimes gets on President Trump's nerves. Scott always liked people like that. So the two of them saw the unredacted Epstein files. My comment on that was, okay, so what do we know? And they came out and said, well, we saw the names of six men who were tied to Epstein, but we can't tell you who they are. So Scott's theory on the Epstein files was that you would never know the full truth. And I just thought it was funny that these guys saw the names in the files and, and then came out and said, we can't tell you who they are. The two of the most independent members of Congress still came out and said, we can't tell you. Now why can't they tell you? Well, we don't really know. But the simplest reason is that, as they said, we want the truth to come out on its own and we don't want to impugn people or start dragging people through the mud and that kind of thing. Well, that's the reason, the basic reason most of these files weren't released in the first place. There are a lot of people mentioned in the files who had nothing to do with any of Epstein's crimes, who might have emailed him or asked him for money or whatever. There's one person, my favorite case of mistaken identity in the files is Tony Hawk, the skateboarder, who we did a story about at the Post. He has been married four times and he was mentioned in the Epstein files because a woman who was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein said she remembered his wedding on the island. The problem was he never got married on the island. He did get married on an island. He got married in Fiji, but he did not get married on Epstein's island. The problem, and this is where the mistaken identity comes in, aside from being misidentified by this victim, he had a photographer at one of his weddings named Mark Epstein. And Mark Epstein is also the same name as the brother of Jeffrey Epstein.

Erica (8:53)

Oh, my God.

Joel Pollock (8:54)

So if you were looking to kind of reinforce your idea that Tony Hawk, the skateboarding pioneer, had hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, well, that was your proof. And you could find it all over the news wires because Mark Epstein had uploaded his photographs to Getty Images. But as Tony Hawk pointed out, it's not the same Mark Epstein. Scott used to call this code reuse. You know, you kind of use the same names over and over again, almost as a wink from the simulation that we're living in. A simulation. So one of the reasons these files have been protected for so long or kept under wraps is to protect people who might be completely innocent. And it's not the only case of mistaken identity. There was another famous one, which is not really worth going into right now. But there are some people who are guilty and who are having to deal with some very poor judgment decisions made with their association with Epstein. But there are some people who are not. Anyway, I just thought it was funny that these two members of Congress, who you would think would come out and blow the whole story wide open, came out and said, we can't tell you everything we saw. So, anyway, that's not even the biggest story about the Epstein files today. The biggest story is that one of the files has a 302 from the FBI. 302 is the form that they use for interviews of people who've come to them with information or interviews of potential witnesses or even targets. And there's a 302 from 2019, six years ago, which is, I believe, when Epstein was taken back into custody, where someone the FBI was interviewing said that they got a call from Donald Trump. He called the police. So this was a police officer. They received a call a decade and a half before, in 2006, Trump called the police as soon as he heard that Epstein was under investigation. And he said that Jeffrey Epstein was a bad guy, that he had been seen around younger women, that Trump had left as soon as he got wind of it, that he had kicked him out of the Mar A Lago club. And he said the FBI should focus on Epstein's assessment associate Maxwell, whom he described as evil. So this has gone super viral, this story, because it does seem to prove not only did Donald Trump not participate in Epstein's crimes, but he led the way in hoping to have Epstein investigated and telling the FBI and the police that Epstein needed to be investigated. So I had a couple of comments on that earlier today. My initial comment was probably like that of many of people watching this show, which was to say, well, that ends the Democrats interest in the Epstein. Because the whole point of turning this scandal from a scandal about the Clintons into a supposed scandal about Trump was to simply flip it on its head and project and say, oh, well, there must be something bad about Trump in there, because we know they were friends 20 years ago. So Trump might have been. I mean, I get this all the time in my responses from trolls on social media. Trump's a pedophile. Trump's been. You know, none of that is true. But they're trying to associate him with Jeffrey Epstein, and it's an association that is very rhetorically effective. As Scott would say, it's a good persuasion technique, even if there's no truth to it at all. And you can argue maybe the Trump Department of Justice mishandled it by saying they were releasing Epstein files when they called a bunch of conservative social media influencers and they said, come on over, we're going to give you the full files. And the influencers came and they held up big binders. And of course, the full files were still behind closed doors and locked filing cabinets. But anyway, I thought, okay, well, this kind of ends it. I mean, you won't hear much from the Democrats anymore about the Epstein files because now they exonerate Trump. Well, then I thought about it a little bit more. So I read our article in the Post. I think it was the California Post or the New York Post, one or the other. And it talked about the original source for this report. So news organizations often do this. We will write news stories based on a story that was first reported elsewhere. We report it in our own way and with our own platform. And they linked back to the original source for this story about what was in the Epstein files about Trump from the Miami Herald. So I went to the Miami Herald. The Miami Herald told the story, and they included all the same facts that Trump had called the police and they had heard that Epstein was a bad guy and so forth. But the main idea of the story was very different. The main idea of the story was that the fact that Trump called the police and said that he had known about Jeffrey Epstein and his proclivity for young teenage girls that proved, according to the Miami Herald, that Trump had lied to reporters in 2019 when he said that he didn't know about anything Jeffrey Epstein did. So reporters asked, were you aware of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes? And Trump said, no, I never heard about it. I don't know anything about it. You can imagine Trump knowing about it at one point and then forgetting about it or knowing about it but not wanting to tell reporters about it. But either way, we now have what Scott used to call two movies on one screen. So we have this fact. It's a document, basically. It's the FBI interview with Donald Trump, where Donald or with someone who talked to Donald Trump, and that person reports that Donald Trump had told them about Jeffrey Epstein and tried to get the police involved in 2006. So that's that nobody can dispute. By the way, there's also still no evidence of any wrongdoing involving Trump at all. In fact, this new piece of evidence suggests the opposite, that, if anything, Trump was trying to do the right thing. But it's two movies on one screen. For conservatives, it means that Trump is a hero of the Jeffrey Epstein story. And for liberals, it means that Trump lied about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein. Therefore, you have to keep digging. So if you thought this was gonna be over, which I did for a brief moment, I think you're mistaken, because we have two movies on one screen. And again, the facts don't matter. What are the facts? The facts are that Donald Trump was never associated with anything bad about Epstein, that he kicked Epstein out of his club when Epstein was misbehaving. And now we know that he also reported Epstein to the police. Now, you can argue if you're on the left. Well, Trump only did that because maybe he was afraid of things that would come out about him or that he knew about what Epstein was doing and he didn't do anything about it earlier. Okay, but Scott's one of the only people who picked up a phone and called the police at a very early stage. So Trump.

Erica (15:54)

Trump.

Joel Pollock (15:54)

Sorry. Yes, Trump. I heard myself say that as well. So it's two movies in one screen. And it's one of the things that makes it very frustrating when you're trying to talk to people on the other side or even just watching a supposedly neutral news outlet like cnn, which is that they seem unaware that there's another movie happening. And I think conservatives are a little bit more aware because people on the left are more vocal about their views. They feel less afraid to share their views.

Scott Adams (16:30)

And.

Joel Pollock (16:31)

And our media tend to reflect their views, so you can't really escape their views. And so I think we're a little bit more familiar with what goes on. But it's not like conservatives don't have our own bubbles. And let me just close, and we'll open it to questions by talking about the Super Bowl. Okay, so the super bowl was a pretty boring game. I watched all of it and, you know, interesting from a football perspective. In some ways, the Seahawks played incredibly well. New England, they did all right, but their quarterback just couldn't crack the Seahawks defense. And that's how it is sometimes. And, you know, they'll be back. But the halftime show, Bad Bunny. I really was not that interested in his halftime show because of his political views, his open opposition to the President. Again, I don't know why entertainers think that we care, and I don't know why the NFL brings people on who consistently dislike the president. You find very few examples of the opposite, but. Okay, Bad Bunny. So was it a good halftime show? Again, two movies in one screen. Was it a good show? Yes, it was a good show. I would have watched that show. I like salsa dancing. I like beautiful.

Marcella (17:45)

I disagree. Bad money.

Joel Pollock (17:48)

Let me just make the point.

Marcella (17:49)

Yeah, okay, I disagree.

Joel Pollock (17:51)

It was a good show. Was it a good halftime show? No, it was not a good halftime show. And all you have to know about the halftime show is go back. I actually did this on Saturday night. Go back and watch the best halftime shows and see what made a really good super bowl halftime show. Super bowl halftime shows, they don't have to be rock and roll. There was a really good one in LA a few years ago that was wrapped. But basically, a Super bowl halftime show is an arena performance. The worst one I think we had seen before. Bad Bunny was with the Weeknd when he walked through that funhouse of mirrors. You know, when they. Whenever they make it really small, it's bad. And that was the mistake they made with Bad Bunny. It was entertaining, but it wasn't right for the Super Bowl. It was basically a small performance with a camera following him through all this grass and kind of recreating a sugar cane field. In Puerto Rico. It's not clear what the Puerto Rican connection is to football at all. Do they play football in Puerto Rico? I mean, Puerto Rico is a baseball place. Do they play football? We don't know. Maybe there's some good Puerto Ric. Okay, but nobody in the NFL really knew this guy's music. I mean, there were these funny videos beforehand asking players what their favorite Bad Bunny song was. They couldn't name any. So this was a good show. It was not a good super bowl halftime show. And maybe if you like the content of the show. I understand some people don't like the. The scantily clad dancers and sexual content. You know, I'm here for the fun, but basically, I didn't Think it was a good halftime show. I also watched the Charlie Kirk Talking Point USA talk about two movies and one screen, although really there was two movies, two screens. So I watched the Charlie Kirk one tpusa, and that one looked like a halftime show. It looked more like a traditional show with performers and bands and everything like that. I think that, first of all, they did a good job to stage it. I mean, you got to give them credit for doing that. But I didn't really enjoy it. And the reason I didn't enjoy it was even though I like country music, I don't know that much about it. So it was like showing me Bad Bunny, who I also didn't know very much about, or I actually tried listening to some of Bad Bunny's songs beforehand, and I couldn't get into any of them. I like country music. I have been to country music shows, but I don't know enough to listen and say, hey, I love this. This is great. This is familiar. And I think what a Super bowl halftime show does is it gives you something familiar. All of the artists who've had great halftime shows have been familiar. They've played their hits. I mean, the greatest ever was, by consensus, was the Prince halftime show in 2007, and some of the other runners up that they often list. Michael Jackson, 1993. I remember watching that one on TV. And my personal number two would be the Bruno Mars show in 2014 where, you know, his music is great, and that wasn't sort of a throwback. But he brought on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and even though there was a big scandal the next day because it turned out that Flea, the bass player, had basically faked his bass playing. You know, had a track going instead of the actual bass, I think, because it was cold outside, or there was some excuse why he didn't actually play the bass. But it didn't matter, because if you watch a show with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it, it's always going to be fun. So I thought both shows kind of lacked the nostalgia and grandiosity of a great super bowl halftime show. But again, two movies in one screen. So people who didn't like the Talking Point or Turning Point USA said, oh, it's just, you know, it's garbage. We prefer Bad Bunny. And people who do like it and like the political message say, hey, great job. Awesome show. I loved it. So we're all watching it, and both sides, in a sense, can claim victory, because the real achievement in both cases was they put on the show at all. I mean, for people who like Bad Bunny, it was like, oh, we're diverse. We do it in Spanish. It's great. And, you know, we love it for that reason. And TP usa, the attitude was, hey, we did this alternative. They got huge numbers. I mean, millions and millions of people, which means they can do an even better job next year. So everybody should be happy because everybody won something, but it feels like everybody's unhappy because the other side had their show, so.

Erica (22:04)

Well, then there's. Where's the middle? Where's the middle again? The libra in me comes out like, there's something in the middle. Where.

Joel Pollock (22:12)

All right, last comment then.

Erica (22:13)

I like country and I don't like Bad Bunny, but what's the middle?

Joel Pollock (22:16)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the middle. Here's the middle. And then I'll. And then I'll be quiet for a few minutes. The middle is rock and roll. I mean, part of me is like, whatever happened to rock and roll? I mean, I love country. I like rap. Sometimes I like some Spanish music. Okay. I have eclectic tastes, but, you know, I was. I was on the way back here with my cup of coffee from the coffee shop down the street, and I just felt, for whatever reason, like listening to the Black Crows. Have they ever done a Super bowl halftime show? I don't know. I saw them do a show last year in a big arena and they were incredible. Whatever happened to some good old rock and roll, you know? And I know that that makes me kind of old. I didn't think rock and roll would be, like, old, but it's American. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that. That's. If you had to name one thing that was missing from both shows, it was just good old fashioned rock and roll. Although I did like the Jimi Hendrix style Star Spangled Banner at the start of the TPUSA show. But anyway, okay, I've said enough. Let me hear some feedback and we can have some back and forth.

Marcella (23:12)

You know, my feedback to the Bad Bunny thing is being that I speak Spanish, I find it terrible that there are so many great artists in Latin America. And here we have Bad Bunny performing. Like, it just. I felt like it. It pushed this agenda that, like, that's who we are. We are just like this, rotating, like dancing, humping other men kind of dance. And that. That's not what I liked at all. Because I know there's so many other artists that could have. If you wanted to have Latin America represented there, you could have chosen so many. You could have chosen rock. Spanish rock is huge. You could have chosen Other bands. But I mean, to be honest, it was, it was a really Bad Bunny show as well. I, I know his music. And even for Bad Bunny, he was bad. I know his Instagram. He deleted all of his Instagram. I don't know what that was about. Ricky Martin. I even found Ricky Martin better than Bad Bunny in that show. And he had somebody get married.

Joel Pollock (24:36)

Yeah. From California. It's the big news in California that somebody from California actually got married in the middle of the show.

Marcella (24:43)

Were they illegal here or something? So I heard some rumors that, I don't know, the wife was illegally here.

Joel Pollock (24:52)

Let me look that up while we're here. I'm gonna look it up.

Marcella (24:55)

But I mean, I, I don't get me wrong, I like some of Bad Bunny songs. I'm sorry, I apologize to everybody, but the show itself, like, having this grass and having this agenda of like, let me look like I'm a worker, I'm a communist agenda. Sort of like, it just, I couldn't handle it because it one, it doesn't show how great Latin American artists are. But I do agree with you. Prince was probably one of the best halftime shows ever. But, you know, very few people are like him. The other thing I wanted to say in regards to the TP USA halftime.

Joel Pollock (25:42)

Show.

Marcella (25:45)

I mean, it was for Charlie. And to me, it, it made, you know, I'm not so into country, but I love the fact that, that they brought on a different sense. They brought out America. They brought on flags. Very patriotic. Love. Love the show. Kid Rock praising Jesus. Like, nobody ever praises Jesus ever. Just having the guts to put it on and doing it. That was great. I think 25 million social media views, 10 million views live, something like that was the, the, Obviously the ratings for Nielsen for the super bowl itself was much higher, but I found it. I, I, I. Yeah, rock is needed. So, so I agree.

Joel Pollock (26:40)

Just quickly, just with a couple of notes. So you reminded me of something, which is that this was supposed to be a groundbreaking performance for a Latin American artist and that kind of thing. Gloria Estefan has played the super bowl twice. Twice. You know, it's like.

Marcella (26:58)

But she's anti communist. Don't you know?

Joel Pollock (27:00)

Oh, yeah. So, you know, it does. Doesn't count. Right, Right. By the way, she's incredible. I mean, I'm amazing.

Marcella (27:06)

How about Shakira and jlo?

Joel Pollock (27:08)

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know.

Erica (27:11)

Rihanna, Barbados.

Joel Pollock (27:14)

Exactly. And Rihanna's show is also considered one of the greatest ever. But again, it's because you give people a show. It's not, you Know someone. My favorite Instagram post about the super bowl was someone put a video up that they had shot from inside the stadium where you couldn't actually see the show because of all the grass.

Erica (27:30)

Horrible, horrible. Yes.

Marcella (27:33)

The grass was the craziest thing thing. Like really you're going to put on this show with all this grass? Like you couldn't even. Cuz I saw that shot and they had the grass going up and the person was trying to see. They paid like thousands of dollars to be there and like they were trying to see it. And you couldn't see the dancers because.

Erica (27:54)

The green was Sergio. I want to know what Sergio thinks.

Marcella (27:57)

Yeah, Sergio, give us your take. You're on mute. But like on the thing.

Erica (28:08)

Bad Bunny, Sergio's nemesis is the mute button.

Sergio (28:12)

It is insane. Okay, thank you, Joe. I agree with you that well, I don't like, I didn't watch any of them either because Scott Adams told me taught us that music is drugs. Okay. So I stopped listening to all music that is just out of my control, you know, so it's like going to a party like, hey, take this, you know? No, I want to buy my own control, my drugs and the music is like that too. It has to be under control. And all sports come with a lot of music if you notice. Right? Every sports, if you're watching it comes with all this music and that's why I don't watch it. So. But I did tried to watch a little bit about Bunny and I didn't know who he was or anything. No, seriously, I mean I prove it to you. You said something about it, you tried to make a joke about it and I was like, I don't know who Novia is. I was.

Erica (29:09)

Why is Jay Z in control of this? I don't understand.

Marcella (29:14)

Yeah, J.C. picks the axe.

Sergio (29:16)

But the thing is that with Bad Bunny, what? All you're doing is just making everything look worse, right? It's just not. It didn't help the cause of anybody. But I did like somebody made an English version of it. I don't know, you saw it of the song and that was hilarious. He taped it in his car, you know, inside his vehicle and that was amazing. I thought like, oh, I like those lyrics now. But I mean I don't like the lyrics but I like the beat a lot. So I think that the rock is the best of Prince and Michael Jackson. My number one and two. I don't know. Michael Jackson 93. I think that was those two minutes that it was silence where he was putting his glasses like this, you know.

Joel Pollock (30:00)

You know, they miss a lot of opportunities at these shows. I'll give two examples. First of all, I think they missed a huge opportunity. This was the President's comment, it's the 250th anniversary of America. Why not have an American show? So I think that's where the TPUSA show was very helpful. And then again, I'm not saying Bed Bunny isn't American. Obviously he's American. Puerto Rico is part of America. But that wasn't the theme. And at the end he said, God bless America. And I thought, oh, that's great. But what he meant was every other country plus the United States and Canada.

Erica (30:33)

Yeah, like, can't we have a moment? Football is so American.

Joel Pollock (30:37)

Right. And then the other thing was, is not like. I mean, I think Jay Z is doing a poor job, but it's not like they haven't messed up before. Ten years ago when they also had the super bowl in San Francisco. It was the 50th Super bowl, and people thought it was going to be a big deal for the Super Bowl. And instead of doing a show with a local band, like, there are so many great San Francisco Bay Area bands. I mean, I can name five offhand from the 60s to today that are just so good, would have done an amazing job. You know, I mean, Grateful Dead, maybe Jefferson Airplane or Starship or whatever. They became Soundgarden, the Green Day. I mean, you could just name Political or not. You just name a bunch of San Francisco bands. And instead they went for Coldplay. I like Coldplay. I thought they actually did a great job in the show. And I still remember their performance, which is more than I can say for a lot of the shows. But it was just odd. I mean, why choose a British band for this American sport? And I think we have to remember that so much of this is just about the marketing strategy of the NFL. They realize the growth opportunity is in the Spanish speaking audience. They realize that it's overseas. This wasn't really aimed at the core audience. They're aiming at people who never watch football and only tune in for the Super Bowl. And so they're trying to choose artists who are better known outside of the Bay Area, outside of the United States. They want to try to expand the audience. And that's what this was about. It was basically a marketing decision. It was about money. And we're all sitting here and arguing about it. And I think all of the views are important to express, but we also have to look behind the curtain a little Bit. That's what this.

Sergio (32:23)

I think that they're trying to expand the audience to more women. The Super Bowl. I think that it appeals a lot to that, to. To. For the family. I think maybe in their mind, Goodell, Roger Goodell thinks that by doing that he's inviting more women into it.

Joel Pollock (32:38)

I don't know.

Sergio (32:39)

I think it's more. It's more designed for that kind of.

Joel Pollock (32:42)

A. I can't speak for my wife, but I think what she likes about the super bowl are the men.

Marcella (32:48)

That's what I like about it.

Sergio (32:50)

I told you so. Yeah.

Marcella (32:52)

Tight pants.

Joel Pollock (32:54)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't have to go into it, but that's. I think that's.

Marcella (33:00)

We totally could, but I mean, they wanted to cater to a foreign audience. They could have brought like somebody like better looking. I don't know. I, I don't find bad. Funny. Good looking or anything or his music. But there's, there's other acts they could have brought in. But maybe JC wanted because he's. He's popular right now. That's why he wanted to bring him in. I understand.

Sergio (33:29)

La Vida Loca. I mean, what a missed opportunity for Ricky Martin to sing La Vida Loca. Everybody would have sang along with that one. So. Yeah, it has to be songs that people, even Erica, So you can sing along, right? Not the ones that you don't know.

Joel Pollock (33:44)

You know, I have to run. I've got a work meeting and I'll take my coffee with me and I'll think of you guys. But thank you again for the opportunity.

Erica (33:51)

Thanks, Joel.

Joel Pollock (33:52)

Hope to see you soon.

Erica (33:52)

We'll see you soon.

Marcella (33:53)

Thank you. Thank you.

Erica (33:56)

Okay, I am totally done with the bunny. That rabbit can just hop on out of here. I don't want to even hear about him. I'm like so jaded from this, from the NFL. So my, my final word on it is the NFL has shown me to be anti American. They don't care what America thinks or feels. And I wouldn't spend my money or time on any of it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Okay, so I know there's more news out there. I mean, I think there's things happening in Iran and all that crazy stuff.

Marcella (34:31)

So we have.

Erica (34:32)

What do you want to talk about?

Marcella (34:33)

Yeah, we have. I'm sorry, Joel left because Mark. We were going to talk about Mark Zuckerberg fleeing California. And it's not completely certain that he is leaving California for certain. But an article in the. Washington. Sorry, the. The Washington Street Journal. Wall Street Journal. Sorry. I was thinking Washington Post and all the layoffs. Anyways, my brain. The Wall Street Journal talked about Mark Zuber Kerber buying a home in South Florida. And what's interesting is that there is this possibility of, I don't know if you guys are aware, I live here. It's a big deal of there being a billionaires tax being passed here. Still hasn't passed. They're wanting to put it for elections. And basically Cerno commented on Zuckerberg leaving perhaps California. He said, and this is, this is from Cerno, so bear with me. Scum who funded the 2020 stolen election and spent billions of dollars on the far left wing causes is now fleeing California to avoid a wealth tax. There are truly the lowest life forms.

Erica (35:59)

Well, they are. Yeah, they are. And you'd be stupid to be a billionaire and stay in California. I mean, you're not a billionaire because you're stupid. So you know, they're all happy and Joe slappy but when it's like working in their favor. They were paying high taxes, but now it's like the absurdity of it all. I mean, you know, Elon left and then I think the more liberal companies were like, no, we're going to hold tight, we're going to stay here. And you know, their egos were Picassos and not potatoes like they should have been. And now they're like, oh shit, like we're going to be crushed. We can't possibly do business here. So yeah, they're going to go to the free state of Florida and they're going to make a shit ton more money and they're going to just benefit from that. So California is a very big sinking ship and unfortunately they have a governor who's probably going to be their candidate for president. And people better wake up because if Scott always said test small, I mean California is big, but you're testing small in California for what he could do for this country. You know, it, it'll, it'll go fast. You see how fast travels.

Marcella (37:15)

I wanted to add the chamath, your favorite, everybody's favorite from all in pot. Actually billionaire himself from California. He actually commented on the same thing as Sterno did, but he added that, you know, California was okay. They were paying all these billion billionaires they had, they're paying taxes but the loss of the tax revenue was totally available, but it's now gone forever. Like Jason, as we know from the all in moved to Austin and maybe you didn't know that I shouldn't say that where he lives, all because of, you know, the way the situation, as Erica points out. But one of the things that CH points out is that all because Gavin Newsom stood motionless against this bill, that it comes only from a small union, a very socialist union, not something that is 8020. He could have potential. Not even the Democrats are backing it. And yet they're going to lose like so much revenue from those income taxes that they could have taken and the taxes from the companies. Because if you think that Zuckerbergs have moved to Florida and keep Meta in Menlo Park, California, most likely that will go next. And that is also a high tax. All the people that work there are taxed. Everything is taxed. So again, Gavin Newsom made that choice. He decided.

Sergio (39:05)

So I think that, you know, the overall result here is that California is not safe for business. Right? I mean, that's what's happening. California is being seen and not as not safe to do business. Just like Scat called China a long time ago, right when he started going after China and it became everybody started fleeing China. Nobody's building anything in China, right. So the same thing's happening in, I call it China Fornia. You know, I call, it feels like, yeah, it feels like a state of China in, in many ways. And you know, well, when I flew there, you know, for Scott's funeral, the Uber driver only spoke Mandarin Mandarin and, and it was, you know, on the way back too. So I, I, it was great to travel to another country like that, you know, China for you. So I think that until like Scott said it, the dollars are going to, are going to call it, right? All the dollars leaving. That's what's going to make things. But I think, Erica, I agree with you. I think it's going to get just worse and worse and worse in California.

Erica (40:13)

It has to. I mean, you're taking all the money out. You're taking jobs, you're taking money, you're taking, taking the people that pay the highest taxes are leaving. So. Well, we'll see how that shakes up. I, you know, what, what else is there to say but follow the money and it's all leaving California?

Marcella (40:30)

Andy brought up a good point. He always, he said that Scott would always say that Democrats don't understand motivation and incentives. Human motivation is true. They don't. And you know, it's crazy that, that Zuckerberg and some other, you know, billionaires, for some reason, I hear an echo.

Erica (41:01)

Ignore it.

Marcella (41:03)

I don't know if Sergio's playing me, but anyways, so the, the, but the main thing is that these like, I Didn't like, lobby or support these politicians. Zuckerberg did. And now he's moving to Florida, finding a new home. And it's like, really? And this is why Cerno is saying what he's saying. But anyways, let's go forward with Iran. And I think Sergio had news that. The U.S. iran nuclear diplomacy intensifies as Tehran's security chief arrives in Oman or Oman, sorry, A top Iranian security. A top Iranian security official has traveled to Oman for talks with US Mediators on the nuclear deal. Amid continued back and forth between Washington and Tehran, this diplomatic push is sparking debate online about whether a breakthrough or escalation could be imminent. So the last I've heard from Iran is their foreign dignitary or minister or evil person said that they're going to keep doing nuclear testing and nuclear is going to stay in Iran. And so that's a problem. So I don't know if you have any thoughts on that, Sergio.

Sergio (42:31)

Erica, I think it's a great opportunity for, for Trump to show what happens when people misbehave and don't understand that they had already been obliterated. And I think that's what he's doing right now. He's proven, okay, you think that you're still there, we're going to fix this. And Owen has a prediction that there will be an attack. Right? There's always, you know, and he predicted Gulf War one, Right. So in college. And I think that that's going to happen. But what I don't think is going to happen is not going to be a long war. I don't think it's going to be a long war, extended war thing. It's going to be just precision attack. Just the way you have to handle weeds growing in the back of your yard. You just have to destroy them and keep going with your life. So I think that's what's going on right now. He's deploying all the herbicide everywhere to make sure there is a nice lawn everywhere, nice property. And he's a person that cares about community. And the whole war is the community now. So he's going to make it clean.

Marcella (43:50)

Well, I saw someone, I won't name names, said Iran needs to keep its nukes. So I don't, you know, the locals people, some of them are local. And the other thing that you were going to say is that Owen had said that there'd be attack. Well, perhaps America agrees because they've warned to have everybody leave Iran. Any Americans that are there should leave it. But this Often happens anyways, just because there's protests, there's instability. Not necessarily there's going to be precision attack, but, you know. Oh, and might be correct. I don't know. I don't know what will transpire. But definitely having Iran have nuclear weapons is not.

Sergio (44:47)

It's not acceptable.

Marcella (44:48)

It's not acceptable. It's suboptimal.

Erica (44:52)

All right.

Marcella (44:53)

And then the other stories is the men Mandani. Why can't I pronounce his name today?

Erica (45:01)

I don't know. But you're like my best friend Mindy. She gets the words almost right. It's so endearing. I love it. Mandami.

Marcella (45:09)

No, I think it's misspelled here or something. Mandami is turning New York into a corpse wasteland of trash and corpses. He talked about the warmth of communism. Wasn't it? Or something.

Erica (45:27)

So warm.

Marcella (45:28)

The warmth of having dead bodies everywhere. So about this is about 1816 homeless people have died in the streets of New York City because he does not want to bring them in. He doesn't want to force certain people that are. How would you say? Homeless. Well, unhoused people.

Erica (45:56)

Homeless.

Marcella (45:57)

They would. I just tried to bring in the democratic words, which is unhoused or whatever. They don't want to bring them in. There's a $12 billion budget for immigrants, but I don't know what happened to the American unhoused budget. But basically there's a huge uproar. I don't know if you've been looking at X where people are filming. There's trash pickup. It hasn't come in. There's a bunch of.

Erica (46:33)

Well, I would like to just say, as your. Your New York neighbor, to the New York where I used to live, work, play. I used to be in the city all the time, you guys, all the time. Once de Blasio got in there and we got a sampling of what you would call communism. When I tell you within six weeks, the city started going to hell in a handbasket. It was visually obvious. Now, I think what we have to be careful about is it's not like we're wrapping Islamism up in communism. So I just want you to remember that, you know, we keep saying communism with Mandami, but it's Islamism. So we're. We have. And I'm only saying that because I'm going to say radical also because it's coming. So I think that the word communism is using to distract us. You know, people keep pushing communism, Communism, but keep your eye on it and watch, you know, watch and Be careful, because it's going to turn into something bigger. I'm not even, like, pushing, predicting. I just know, like, I see what's been happening in New York for the last 15 years, 20 years, and the way it's changing. And people are also fleeing New York. People who. I'm going to put it this way, Americans are fleeing New York and a lot of radical countries are buying New York and they're occupying New York. And there's a lot of foreign money behind this movement. And there's nothing more pleasing to radicals than to tear down our most prominent American city, which is like. It's like capturing the prize is, you know, basically this quiet overthrow of New York. So keep your eye on that. There's no reason that city should be looking the way it is or anything. Giuliani, when he was mayor. I'm so sad for people that will never understand what New York was. I saw it in the 70s when it was horrendous. I mean, people were getting necklaces ripped off their neck just on the street. It was bad. Okay. By the time Giuliani came in, I had never felt so safe in that city in my entire life, walking around doing anything. It was beautiful. It was immaculate. There was no gum on the sidewalks. There were no broken windows. Famously. Um, Stella's meowing her face off if you hear that. Yeah, sorry. So anyway, so I'm just worried because de Blasio was, like, the first step in this transition, and there's deeper forces at play here, if you can imagine, more than communism. So just pay attention. Don't fall for it. Okay, you guys, you know, if you're doing business or living in New York right now, you have to get out. You have to get out, but don't come to New Jersey with the same radical ideas.

Sergio (49:44)

Marcela. So people is dying already, right? You're saying that six people died?

Marcella (49:48)

No, no, like 18.

Sergio (49:50)

18. So that means that. Yeah, socialism is delivering already on what they always do. Right. So these are the first 18 death of the Mundani socialism regime. Right. That is going to happen. Oh, what a beautiful cat.

Joel Pollock (50:08)

Thank you.

Marcella (50:09)

Stella's anti Islamist.

Erica (50:13)

So, I mean, I was just looking, like, at Andy and people in the chat, YouTube and locals. Like, if you live in New York, been there, been through it. I mean, let the chat know it. It's a. It's not even recognizable anymore. It's so sad. Andy said, oh, the dementia cat. This is her. This is Stella. She could rip my face off at any minute. No, she's sassy. Okay. So that's New York. Be careful.

Marcella (50:41)

Trump is threatening to block opening the U. S. Canada Bridge. Oh, no. So BJ And Mike Bird can't walk through that bridge anymore. Trump might block from opening it until Canada compensates the US Once half ownership of the bridge. And what he was quoted saying is, I will now, I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them. Funded by Canada, owned by both, allegedly. So he cites dairy tariffs in Canada, China deal as the reason why he is unwilling to have the U.S. canada Bridge come. But somebody says Mike river will get a special pass. He'll just like jump over the water or something. So I don't know. It's funny the. Then Trump is also causing a little bit of climate hoax. Hoax or climate. Climate lovers a little bit running scared because he wants to repeal the landmark climate Act. He wants to reverse legal determination that greenhouses threaten public health. Trump would be repealing the 2009 endangerment finding and basis of vehicle emission rules. And EPA's Lee Selden has indicated that this amount to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States. So it doesn't hit power plans yet, but the final rule is this week. And basically he's repealing all of the constraints on industry. And I'm, I'm for it. I don't know what people in the chat think or what.

Erica (52:55)

Sergio, I love it. Let us just let us go.

Marcella (52:58)

You're not a climate lover.

Erica (53:01)

I love, I love the environment and I love the planet I'm living on. But, you know, I'm also seeing, you know, flying to San Francisco. Oh. Like when we got over toward California, I took pictures from the window of these freaking wind turbines. These beautiful rolling hills, green, lush, gorgeous. And then I see all these little death mills everywhere. Somebody just posted something. I forget where it was, but. Oh, where was it in Texas? I mean, acres and acres and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of solar panels just in a big. And I'm like, where are you disposing of the solar panels? Like, you know, you're going to get a big hailstorm, they're going to break. Now what? You've got acreage of these things. What are you doing with them? One turbine, you guys, if you've never seen a wind turbine up close, like the ones are putting off the Jersey Shore, they are so, so freaking massive. I can't even explain to you because they're so far away. But if you got in a boat and you got up near one, they're so massive. Like the one turbine is like, it's like a whole entire. I don't even know what it is. Like, I want to say it's a quarter mile. I mean, it might be stretched out. It might be. And they're breaking and they, they're taking up more, you know, they're making more, more pollution. They're not putting out energy. So, yes, to answer your question, I love the environment, but let our green flags fly.

Sergio (54:35)

They've been killing whales, right? The whales have been crazy because of it and they're killing a lot of eagles and birds and it's not helping at all. So the best thing is to be just use our coal and clean, beautiful coal, right? And nuclear. And that's going to give us Gen.

Erica (54:56)

4, Gen 4, nuclear, clean coal. Listen, these are the things that have been working. And the countries that we're buying all this crap from are using coal. They're not using what they're selling us. You know, we're only buying it because we were a fed, a hoax, which we now know. And now Bill Gates suddenly is like, you know, oh, no, no, no, we can, it's not a problem. Or it's about the money, like the Paris Accords, which was so sickening that we were paying 300 times more than anyone. And China, like one of the most giant polluters, wasn't even paying anything. We in the chat, yes, we have.

Sergio (55:43)

Been the most unfavored nation, right? We have been unfavored nation for a long time. And now all that has been reversed and we're taking that place that we deserve, that America deserves. You know, when I came here in 1983 as a little kid and I fell in love with this place, this is what is becoming again. I feel that vibe. I feel the strength. So it's coming.

Erica (56:05)

I also want to say that the wind turbines being put in our ocean, it's a different country doing it. We leased our ocean to another country. So make it make sense. It doesn't. We are so backwards. We were not America first. A lot of this happened behind everybody's backs. Nobody realizes it's happening. And yes, Michael Shellenberg, I can name a whole bunch of people who are really huge. And the platform of bringing awareness to these turbines and what's happening with the whales. So, you know, I, I'm on that bandwagon, Scott. Has amplified, you know, things that I wrote about it, documentaries about it. But, you know, I, I living, I've lived on the Jersey Shore My whole life, I never saw a dead whale wash up on the beach. I mean, you'd hear about it once in a while, but we've had over 100 in the last few years, and they're. Because of the turbines being mapped out and installed. It's pretty sad. So who cares about the environment? I do. The environmentalists? Not so much.

Marcella (57:15)

So much the. The windmills in Palm Springs near me, and they're killing all these birds. Like, some are eagles and, you know, hawks and all that.

Erica (57:30)

Yeah.

Marcella (57:30)

But I don't know if I want to end on this story. But, um, it's called downward. I don't know.

Erica (57:39)

Sounds perfect.

Marcella (57:40)

It's Irate Yoga wokes the man. Complicit instructors condemn Eyes. So they. There was a video of them. So I don't know if some of you have watched the video of the Yoga Karens. That's what I call them. And so there's like. I don't know. Yoga works or work. Yo. Oh, Core Power.

Sergio (58:01)

Core Power.

Erica (58:02)

Cor.

Marcella (58:03)

Who? Yeah, okay. Core Power. I don't go to it, so I don't know. So they are standing in front of, like, the front desk of Core Power, and they're with their yoga mats all, you know, by their chest, and they're going like this. And then they're like, you're complicit with eyes because allegedly, somebody in Core Power took down a poster that was condemning ice, and because they serve everybody, they. They had to take it down. But the Karens were irate and yelling at the other women that were on the front desk about how they were being silent and they needed to be loud and proud and all sorts of stuff, so.

Erica (58:58)

Oh, my gosh. Well, there's nothing much more to say about that because we're at the top of the hour, but Irate Yoga sounds like something we would do in New Jersey, happily. Just add in some goats and a sub, and we're ready to go. You guys. Thank you so much. Listen, Owen Gregorian has posted all of his stories on his account, so definitely check those out. Okay? They're great. Great. And different news stories. And tomorrow, guess who's coming on. It's Akira the Don. So Akira will be here tomorrow with us. Make sure. You know what? Maybe Shelly can post a post on locals and on X and let us know what you want us to ask. Akira. We have him for the hour.

Marcella (59:50)

She did. She did on Monday.

Sergio (59:53)

I had that yesterday. So I had a local meetup yesterday, and it was great. We're going to have another one in it was fantastic. It was great feedback. And they. Some of them didn't know who Akira was. So I'm going to ask everybody to, like, maybe post their favorite Akira song.

Erica (60:12)

All right. Let's hype them up.

Sergio (60:14)

Yeah. And post the videos, and that way everybody gets, you know, excited for tomorrow.

Erica (60:20)

We'll have an Akira dance party tomorrow morning, you guys. So we'll see, then. Let's have a closing sip and listen. Be useful today, you guys. You're amazing. We miss Scott so much. I'm listening to his videos all the time. I encourage you to do the same. Shelley is our queen, doing this for us every day. And we'll see you tomorrow with a cure of the dawn. Hey, guys, be useful to Scott.

Marcella (60:48)

Scott.