Episode 3108 - The Scott Adams School 03/05/26

Summary

Real Coffee with Scott Adams: Episode 3108 – The Scott Adams School (03/05/26) Date: March 5, 2026

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Overview

This episode, hosted by the regular crew of the Scott Adams School, delivered its signature blend of current events, persuasion analysis, and community energy. The hosts—Erica, Owen, Marcella, and Sergio—explored the day’s news through the "persuasion filter" inspired by Scott Adams. Topics included international military rumors, techno-warfare, U.S. politics, immigration policies, energy and state-level governance, and cultural reflections, all interspersed with lively banter, humor, and commentary on the art of persuasion.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Opening & Community Acknowledgment

• The show began with the "simultaneous sip," a daily ritual for unity and positive inertia (03:16).
• Hosts greeted loyal listeners and shared updates about their regular mascot, Punch Monkey, creating a warm, interactive community vibe (02:07-03:14).

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Remembering Service Members—Somber Tribute

• Erica took a moment to honor two fallen U.S. service members:
  • Major Jeffrey R. O'Brien and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, emphasizing gratitude and condolences to their families (05:06).

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Rumors of Kurdish Military Actions Against Iran

• Owen summarized NYT-led rumors about Kurdish forces preparing cross-border strikes into Iran, allegedly with CIA support (07:32).
• The panel assessed the credibility of these claims:
  • Marcella: "This is still fog of war...the White House says this is BS, and even some spokesman for the Kurdish forces said this is not true." (10:03)
  • Sergio: Viewed it as likely “psyop” and bad PR for the U.S., referencing historical associations with Iraq (11:00).
• General consensus: treat with skepticism; potential disinformation at play.

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Amazon Data Centers Targeted in Bahrain

• Marcella reported on Iranian strikes against Amazon's Bahrain data center, presumably due to perceived military support roles (11:35).
• Discussion on the blurred line between military and civilian infrastructure and the precedent for avoiding civilian targeting in warfare (13:44).
• Marcella segued into Amazon’s AI-driven acquisition ventures by Jeff Bezos (15:35).

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Rise of Military Laser Weapons

• Owen discussed U.S. deployment of laser systems (e.g., Helios, Odin) in Operation Epic Fury and their role in Iran (16:06).
• Sergio offered personal anecdotes on laser tech development, highlighting how sci-fi is becoming reality:
  • “Yesterday, when I saw it happening, I almost got a tear in my eye… We are actually…living in the future.” (19:07)
• Marcella noted continued reliance on traditional missile defense and economic asymmetry in drone warfare, suggesting lasers will be key for cost-effective defense (20:13).

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Bamboo-Fiber Drones & Tech Innovation

• Marcella: China’s bamboo drone, lighter and cheaper than carbon fiber, achieving 62 mph (22:41).
• Sergio: Advocates for American-made drone tech, emphasizing domestic innovation (23:15).

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U.S. Senator Confrontation with Marine Protester

• Owen recapped the viral altercation between Sen. Tim Sheehy and Marine vet protester Brian McGinnis, noting the protester’s Green Party candidacy and Palestinian advocacy (24:11).
• Marcella & Erica criticized McGinnis for protesting in uniform—"By doing it in uniform, I think he disgraced the uniform...you can't politicize the military uniform that way." (28:35).

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D.C. Restaurant Labor Shortages and Immigration

• Marcella described how more stringent enforcement against illegal work is straining D.C. restaurants, pushing industry toward raising pay and restoring traditional youth jobs (30:01).
• Owen and Erica reminisced on restaurant work as an entry job for American youth and how changing economic expectations shape the workforce (32:44).

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Minnesota ‘Feeding Our Future’ Fraud Hearings

• Owen detailed Congressional hearings exposing possible misconduct by MN officials over large-scale fraud in child nutrition funding, noting political theater and unanswered questions from Governor Tim Walz (33:33).
• Marcella highlighted Rep. Nancy Mace’s use of a whiteboard for visual persuasion, reminiscent of Scott Adams’ style (40:55).
• Erica praised Rep. Brandon Gill for his effective questioning.

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Immigration Law Supreme Court Ruling & ICE Tactics

• Marcella shared two stories:
  1. Supreme Court sides with expedited deportations, reinforcing asylum judge decisions (43:00).
  2. ICE switching to undercover Subaru Outbacks to avoid detection, humorously dubbed “the official vehicle of white leftist lesbians” (45:06).

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Senate Rejects Power Check on Trump’s Military Action

• Owen: Senate backed Trump (53–47) on Iranian operations; Rand Paul opposed, but Fetterman (Democrat) crossed the aisle (45:44).
• Hosts analyzed the legislative-theater dynamic, constitutional arguments, and Fetterman’s evolving role—“the show is a theater…persuasion of it” (50:59).

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Energy Policy & State Incompetence

• Marcella criticized CA Gov. Newsom’s energy policies—Chevron warning of jobs lost due to cap-and-trade, sky-high gas prices, and the unfinished LAX transit project jeopardizing World Cup logistics (53:48).
• Newsom’s own admission of overregulating California on Kimmel cited (55:58).

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U.S.–Venezuela Gold Deal

• Owen: Trump administration’s new gold import deal with Venezuela, coordinated with Secretary Doug Burgum—“enriching the United States, not himself” (57:53).
• Positive optics noted as a model for international cooperation.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Sergio (on military lasers):
  “Yesterday, when I saw it happening, I almost got a tear in my eye, right? To see that happening in real life…living in the future right now.” (19:07)

• Marcella (on protesting in uniform):
  “By doing it in uniform, I think he disgraced the uniform… you can't politicize the military uniform that way. You just can't do it either. Either side.” (28:35)

• Erica (on Scott Adams' philosophy):
  “Because the future is just a whole string of nows… Like every day he woke up to be useful. Like, we are trading a day of our life for whatever it is we're going to do today.” (59:10)

• Sergio (on ICE vehicles):
  “It's the official vehicle of white leftist lesbians. And so it's going to be a lot harder for them to tell when there's an ICE person driving down their streets.” (45:07, via Marcella quoting Nick Sorter)

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Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamps | |--------------------------------------|---------------| | Opening / Simultaneous Sip | 03:14-04:08 | | Service Members Tribute | 05:06-05:35 | | Kurdish Operations Rumor | 07:32-11:27 | | Amazon Data Center Strike | 11:35-15:35 | | Military Laser Weapons | 16:06-21:44 | | Bamboo Drone Innovation | 22:41-24:05 | | Senator vs. Marine Protester | 24:11-29:47 | | D.C. Restaurants / Immigration | 30:01-33:24 | | Minnesota Fraud Hearings | 33:33-42:55 | | Supreme Court / ICE Subarus | 43:00-45:29 | | Senate War Powers Resolution | 45:44-53:10 | | California Energy Policy | 53:48-55:58 | | US–Venezuela Gold Deal | 57:53-58:33 | | Scott Adams Tribute & Lou Holtz Poem | 59:10-62:17 |

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Tone & Style Notes

• The episode balanced analysis, persuasion, satire, and a sense of camaraderie.
• Frequent callbacks to Scott Adams’ own techniques (whiteboards, “persuasion filter,” being useful).
• Humor and banter (“official vehicle of white leftist lesbians”; “term limits, please!”; “the show is a theater”) threaded throughout.
• The group modeled healthy skepticism, urging listeners to: “Wait and see. Fog of war.”

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Closing & Reflection

The crew closed with a tribute to Scott Adams, celebrating Lou Holtz’s life philosophy about cherishing each day—echoing Adams’ “be useful” mantra. Listeners were encouraged to “go be useful” and to keep engaging with the ongoing news discussion, both for themselves and for the strength of the community.

Erica (61:10):
“Because the future is just a whole string of nows…every day he woke up to be useful…go be useful today.”

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Transcript

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[Erica]

Lang is first.

[Owen Gregorian]

Good morning, everybody.

[Erica]

Desi, you were first on Rumble.

[Marcella]

Hello, Gracie.

[Erica]

Look at you guys filing in. Brian. Ding, ding, ding. The Scott Adams School, our dojo of persuasion. There's room up front. Grab your libation. With its audience of authors ambiglus winners. Let's lambast. Loser thinks simultaneous sippers. All right, nice. Do it again tomorrow. I'll say it better.

[Marcella]

Hello, Hubert, Tom, Patty,

[Erica]

Wanda. Good morning. Good morning. YouTube. YouTube. You guys were so extra cute yesterday. I don't know what it was, but you were. An ex is coming in. So we have a punch update. Can you see what's different? Looking at the screen today. Let's look. Is Punch Monkey representing us somewhere? Let us know.

[Owen Gregorian]

Let us know where. Everybody's like, we just woke up.

[Erica]

It's like the first thing I saw, I was screaming.

[Sergio]

Yeah, Monkey fever.

[Erica]

Yes, I have Punch monkey fever.

[Sergio]

Punch Monkey fever.

[Erica]

Good morning, Ludi.

[Owen Gregorian]

I'm waiting for somebody to find, but we're on delay. Oh, somebody got it.

[Sergio]

Java Gear, daddy.

[Erica]

Okay, look, you guys. Point to it. Sergio, we've got Punch Monkey in the house with a friend. Look, a. So the Punch Monkey update. It's not like I don't have, like, a definite for sure one. There's. There's different news coming out, but he is definitely making friends with other. What's he called? Of what, Owen clan? No, the kind of macaque Makaki. Makaki. He's making friends with other Makakis. So that's the good news. So is everyone in? Is everyone coming in? I see someone running in. In the back. Come on. So he is making friends with other Mackis. So. Oh, Jerry, you can't see punch punches over Sergio's shoulder on the bottom shelf. I was so happy to see little Punchy there. All right, you guys, is everyone in? Grab a seat. It's time for the simultaneous sip bre. Take us away.

[Sergio]

Hey, everybody. Good morning.

[Scott Adams]

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[Owen Gregorian]

Go.

[Scott Adams]

Hello, Northern Colorado. Good to have you in the house.

[Erica]

Delicious.

[Sergio]

These are my enemies.

[Erica]

Enemies, yeah.

[Sergio]

Oh, I love that.

[Owen Gregorian]

Same.

[Erica]

I'll drink to that.

[Marcella]

Excellent sip today, right?

[Erica]

That was excellent. Most excellent. So, you guys, welcome to the Scott Adams School. We are carrying on as Scott Adams has asked us to happily to engage with everyone, commune, sip, chat. And it's so joyful to look over at the street. So when I'm looking this way, I'm looking at your comments, and everyone's just so sweet and beautiful and familiar, which is also really great. So good morning to all you. We're watching you all as the show goes on. Scott Adams has his coffee with Scott Adams videos and streams and lessons. I would say highly Recommend going to scott adams.locals.com because there's much more over there than is available on YouTube. But there's still thousands of hours on YouTube. Aren't we the luckiest? We are today. I want to mention the names of the two other service members who lost their lives. And we, you know, we want to share our sorrow, our thanks, and our condolences with their families and loved ones. They're the fifth and sixth soldiers killed. We have Major Jeffrey R. O', Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa. And I don't know what CWO is. Owen Do.

[Marcella]

Chief Warren, officer.

[Erica]

Thank you, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California. And they paid the ultimate sacrifice, you know, for. For us. And so our condolences go out to their families and loved ones. Okay, so it's like so hard to be like now, but now we're gonna go to the news and we have some fun topics picked out for you. I don't know who's going first.

[Owen Gregorian]

We didn't introduce ourselves.

[Erica]

Oh, hi, I'm Erica. This is like that kind of thing.

[Owen Gregorian]

We already know. We already know what?

[Erica]

You guys, I'm Erica. Good morning. I have half of my mental capacity going right now. And next to me, I actually, I can't really tell for sure, but we have Owen Gregorian. He's at library.

[Owen Gregorian]

He's.

[Erica]

He's taken a part time job in that library. He's in.

[Marcella]

Good morning.

[Sergio]

Everyone.

[Erica]

And then we have our beautiful Marcella today in pink. Oh, oh, Marcel has added a plant I like.

[Owen Gregorian]

No, the plant was there. I just moved it. Oh. Let me know what I did differently, everybody in the chat.

[Erica]

And you hung pictures.

[Owen Gregorian]

Oh, my gosh.

[Erica]

Oh, my gosh. Okay, this is exciting. All right. Amazing. And then Sergio. Look at our Sergio and his beautiful adding punch monkey. I see your flag, Sergio, your American flag. Lest anyone think that you're Ukrainian, you're not. It's just some yellow books.

[Sergio]

That's right. That's right. Yeah. I burned all the other flags except for this one when I came here. And thank you very much, Erica, and good morning to everyone.

[Erica]

Good morning. Okay, now let's get on with the news.

[Owen Gregorian]

Now we can get on with the news. So I'll be starting the rumor. There's rumors that Kurt. Iran, there's a Kurdish Iran operation. It's reported by the New York Times. So, you know, that adds to the fakeness. Perhaps pro American Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are arming up and preparing a possible cross border strike into Iran. This could open an explosive new side to the war. Iran. Kurdish leaders and Iraq officials allegedly said these fighters are mobilizing now. They are ready to hit Iran and draw regime troops into the open for devastating the US And Israeli airstrikes. The CIA has already supplied them, allegedly with small arms in a secret pre war program to destabilize Iran. The rumors of this Kurdish ground offensive was denied by the Kurdish themselves and. And the rumors that were brought up by the New York Times were later voiced by the New York Post, Axios, everybody else, but it seems some of the people, some of the journalists that brought it up, not the New York Times, but other journalists have taken down the story because it's weak and contradictory and sourcing. I don't, you know, fog of war. I'm not sure if this is completely true or not, but if somebody wanted to weaken America in a way, you would let out this idea that the Kurdish are arming themselves. The Kurdish are a autonomous people that do not have a nation state, are not very well liked by the Iraqis. The Iranians, they're like their own little thing and nobody likes them, but nobody's given them a state. There was a story that Israel, Bibi Netanyahu had made an agreement with Kurdish leaders that if they were going to attack Iraq and get rid of the leadership that they would be recognized as a nation. I don't know. That hasn't been confirmed by the IDF or by Israel. So there you Are so over to you guys.

[Erica]

Yeah. Or, Owen, I have nothing to add to that because of. I just don't know.

[Marcella]

Well, I would just add that this is still fog of war, too, that I believe. The story I posted about this mentioned that the White House says this is BS and even some spokesman for the Kurdish forces said this is not true. So, you know, this is a rumor. At this point is where I would say. I mean, I'm not going to say it's not true because, you know, it could be that they're just trying to plan this stuff, but they want it to be a surprise, so they're denying it until something happens. But. Or it could be that the CIA is trying to plant these stories to make it happen, which is quite possible that they might say, oh, the Kurds, you know, they're against the idrc and they're going to come in and do this and try and put them in a position where maybe they'd get attacked and then they'd be pulled into it. So lots of possibilities here. But I just, I would just say I'm not sure what's true about this from a.

[Sergio]

From a public relations part of the war. You know, this association with the Kurdish is like, not the best. Right. For America to be associated. Because it smells like Iraq, right? It smells like, yeah, they did this in Iraq. Kurdish. Yeah. So it gives you that bad association. So I think it sounds like a psyop. Like what? I agree with you a little bit, Owen. You didn't say it, but, you know, kind of you did.

[Erica]

And we'll wait and see what happens, right?

[Sergio]

Yeah.

[Erica]

Okay.

[Owen Gregorian]

And when do you have the.

[Marcella]

Well, there's a story that Amazon's Bahrain data center has been targeted by Iran because they're supporting the US Military. I know there was a report about them being hit, or at least some of the Amazon data centers being hit in the area. They were damaged on Sunday. I think they were all offline at that point, but they had some structural damage, some power and water issues, things like that. I think there's some people advising that people migrate all their workloads to other regions. It looks like Bahrain region announced in 2019 that they were going to start hosting government workloads. So they are doing something with the government, but we don't know exactly if they're supporting this military effort. But I would just, you know, put that in to say it's kind of hard to say, like, where is Iran going to draw the line between military and civilian? Because you would certainly think this is Not a military facility. Right. It has nothing to do with the military. It's not. I mean, again, they might be supporting some kind of compute that's supporting some of the things the military are doing. It's hard to know exactly what's happening and where, but the facility itself is not military. It's not, you know, housing any soldiers, things like that.

[Owen Gregorian]

And was it intentional that?

[Marcella]

Yeah, well, the story is. And. And I think so, because I think the. The story is that. That they targeted it on purpose for that reason, and it came from a spokesman for. From Iran. So, yeah, it looks like it was intentional that they were targeting that.

[Erica]

Oh, can someone in the chat check Amazon stock and tell us if it changed since that happened? I'm just. Just curious.

[Sergio]

You know, that reminds me of. It might be strategic, maybe, like you said, Owen, data and analysis and all that. But it sounds like a lot of, like, ranting again, of a. Of a. Of a dying. Desperate, you know, like. Just like other dying people, you know, that they just get desperate and they just start throwing punches out there indiscriminately. And that happened to Tesla, right? To Elon. People started burning Teslas and. And all that. So now it's. Now is Bezos turn, you know.

[Marcella]

Yeah, well, it's. I mean, I think it's, you know, it's just. It's been for many hundreds of years, I guess, tradition not to target civilians in military efforts. Westphalia was the agreement that was made to say, okay, we're gonna have a separate military and a separate civilian, and we're not gonna attack the civilian part. And that's been at least a gentleman's agreement in pretty much every war since then. And it's considered, you know, breaking the rules of war, even though they're, you know, I don't know, you could debate whether there are such a thing, but that you're not supposed to go after civilians. Right. Like, every time there is a hospital or school or somebody that wasn't having any military connection, that's considered wrong in wartime. And so this, I think, is at least on the borderline there. I mean, you could certainly make an argument from their perspective that if they're housing government workloads, then maybe they're doing some sort of military processing that's supporting the effort. But again, it's not a military facility. It's. And it's more of a generalized compute facility that lots of people use. And so I would question whether that kind of crosses the line. But I do have another story on Jeff Bezos. Not related to the war. But apparently they are raising billions of dollars to buy manufacturers that are being disrupted by AI. So he's got something called an AI lab called Project Prometheus. He's going to be transforming manufacturing for jet engines, chips, things like that. He's talking to people like Jamie Dimond and Abu Dhabi to raise funds for it. And it looks like for some of these companies that have had their stock price reduced a lot because people think AI is going to disrupt their business, Jeff Bezos is looking into swoop in and buy them up.

[Erica]

So what do you think about that?

[Marcella]

I don't know. I mean to me it might be a smart move. It's also something I would not applaud if I were saying I don't want these smaller companies to become bigger companies or for Amazon's empire to grow, keep getting bigger. But I mean technically this isn't Amazon, but it is Jeff Bezos. So you know, if he buys a company it's probably kind of the same thing.

[Erica]

And thank you to the chat. Their stock is up. Thanks for looking.

[Owen Gregorian]

There's laser weapons in the operation Epic Fury. Anything like future like I, I love. You know I'm a Star Trek fan. Sorry to, sorry to disappoint you guys but I am New York Post details that deploy deployment of U. S Laser weapons set them to stun including the navy's Helios and Odin systems. I love the names. The U. S Israeli strike on Iran starting in February that neutralized over 200 Iranian ballistic missiles launchers with just six US casualties. There was a study on the lasers and I guess it's unlimited ammo but at the same time it's limited at this point point because it's the atmosphere reduces the range against high speed missiles suggesting that the main thing that you could use lasers for is drones and small threats and retaliation attempts. And the force that is involved in the laser shooting I suppose is space Force which was created back in 2019 under Donald Trump's first administration.

[Erica]

Yeah term.

[Owen Gregorian]

So any, any, any laser thing.

[Sergio]

Sergio I love this story so much. Lasers are, I grew up, I mean I grew up wanting to be around lasers and then I ended up working with lasers for many years. Then my last job was product manager at a company. In my last 2009 I left the company and they were developing this kind of stuff but not exactly okay. It was high voltage directed through a laser and it was, but it was. The idea was the same for defense to destroy the enemy. But let me take you back to the 1980s a little bit. Okay, so Reagan famously show the world what America was potentially able to do, right? Star Wars. And the idea is that, don't worry, we're going to protect you. We have these laser beams right now. We only have the movies of it, Right. I met the guy that created the CGI for that, and they actually created a movie going into show it to Reagan, right, when they were trying to sell the technology. And they had a missile to going into Santa Barbara, where he's from, to make sure that he knew that. Okay. But that's a side story. The thing is that in 1980s, it was just like a fantasy, right? Star wars movies and everything. It was just a fantasy. And then 2000, I started, you know, I was working in a company with a secret clearance that I couldn't say anything, but it was just the marketing guys showing pictures of boats with laser beams.

[Marcella]

Right.

[Sergio]

And to sell the story, yesterday, when I saw it happening, I almost got a tear in my eye, right? To see that happening in real life, that we're living in the future right now. We are actually. It's happening. And when Trump said we have unlimited supply, that's what a lot of this means, because it's just electricity. It's just energy you can destroy. You can be kinetic now. You can take anything you want out. And it's amazing. So that's what you wanted. I'm glad that you brought that story out because it reminds me of my children, my. My childhood.

[Erica]

You know, that's. I mean, like, who would have thought someone here has a laser passion. It's Sergio. And where are my ladies? Hair removal. Like laser for your skin.

[Sergio]

I mean, we used in the company award, too. Another company, we use lasers to grow hair and also to take out hair.

[Erica]

Yes, we do that, too. Yes. All right. That was news.

[Marcella]

And I. Well, I. I think. I still think we have a ways to go with drone defense. And even with lasers, I think we're not as. Not where we need to be in terms of capacity and all that. But I do think it seems to be the way of the future. I think the Iron Beam is the Israeli laser weapon, and that apparently is being used in this effort. So I guess we're finding out how effective it is. And as far as I know, Israel is doing pretty well in terms of getting rid of most of the missiles coming in. And it does seem like it's the most promising method they have. And I know we've been testing some things in Texas around those areas to shoot down drones. So it does seem like we're moving in that direction. But I think, you know, from what I understand, some of this is being done with satellites too, where not, not shooting them down from space, but, you know, just detecting launches and things like that and being able to target things pretty precisely. But I think at this point we're still shooting things down with, you know, Patriot missiles and things like that. So I think we still have a ways to go to get more efficient because I think one of the problems right now is it's so asymmetric. You have maybe a $50,000 shahed drone and we're shooting it down with a million dollar missile. So that doesn't really make sustainable sense over a longer period of time. I still think we're going to come out on top on this one because I think we've pretty much taken out their capability to even launch things. But you know, in terms of longer term where things are headed, I think we need to get better with the lasers and other things to be able to put up some kind of real defense against drones.

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[Erica]

Interesting. I'm like, there's so many interesting comments about, you know, maybe the Maui fire was started by a laser. Yeah.

[Owen Gregorian]

Or paradise fire in California was said to have started that way.

[Sergio]

Yeah. All those blue roofs, you know, if you paint your, your roof blue or

[Owen Gregorian]

if it's a direct energy weapon.

[Marcella]

Yeah. I think we're getting into conspiracy theory territory at this point.

[Owen Gregorian]

All right, Owen, do you have another story?

[Marcella]

Well, we're talking about drones, so let me throw in that there's the world's first bamboo fiber drone that reached 62 miles an hour in its first test flight in China. So they made a, it's one of the fixed wing, you know, like plane style drones. But the wingspan is like 8ft 2 inches. It only weighs 15 pounds. It does vertical takeoff and landing. It can go over 62 miles an hour. It can stay in the air over an hour. And it's like 20% lighter and 20% cheaper than carbon fiber. So I guess my question is, Sergio, are you going to have a bamboo drone pretty soon?

[Sergio]

You know what? Anything that is, if it was American made, I will buy it. I don't care if it's made of weed. I don't care. As long as it's hemp. You can make it out of hemp. But we need American drones. They're all Chinese made. They have the best technology for rescue operations, for everything. And the American is not there yet. So we need like people like Steve Jobs, you know, we need somebody that invents new stuff. You know, I know we have our friend James, you know, maybe he can invent the drones for America, you know, from the spaces. The inventor of the phone. We know him. So we can recruit him into this. So, yeah, I don't know when. What you want me to say on this, man.

[Owen Gregorian]

I have a story.

[Sergio]

You're looking at me like Erica has

[Owen Gregorian]

something to say about bamboo.

[Erica]

No.

[Owen Gregorian]

Okay, I have a good story. It's the US Senator versus a veteran Marine protester. I don't know, most of you probably saw the video on X or on Facebook. Dear Lord. There was a dramatic moment on Capitol Hill when Senator Team Sheehy of Montana, a former Navy sealed, stepped in to assist the U.S. capitol Police to. To forcefully remove a disruptive protester. His name was. His name is. He's still with us. It's Brian C. McInness, Marine Corp veteran from North Carolina. But he is also a Green party candidate for U.S. senate. He got what he wanted. As Scott would say, part of persuasion is getting attention. And McGinnis has now made it where he's been. His videos are being shared, his wife's videos are being shared. So he got maybe what he wanted. So basically he was protesting, saying that, you know, no one wants to fight for Israel. The. Basically our sons and daughters are dying for Israel. And that's what he was yelling at at the subcommittee. And I know that the Capitol Police officer stripped. Three of them were injured. And when she. He. And I sent her shee. He later said that he intervened to deescalate the situation because the Marine was. Marine veteran, was fighting back. And I have.

[Erica]

Want me to show you the little clip here?

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah.

[Marcella]

I heard he broke his hand too.

[Owen Gregorian]

The protester that, that she. He. The senator broke. My goodness. His hand when he grabbed them right there. So she. He is the one with the suit.

[Erica]

Yeah, he just came in. He's a big.

[Owen Gregorian]

Remember, video is not always, you know.

[Erica]

Yeah, he's like. I think he was trying to get on the Door. He's like, let go already. But the guy's got that marine strength and the anger. Stella's here. Just warning you.

[Owen Gregorian]

Oh, yes.

[Marcella]

I think this guy is also a candidate for public office somewhere, like in congress. So, yeah, he's very much a political stunt.

[Owen Gregorian]

He's a candidate for the green party, for the u. S. Senate, for North Carolina.

[Erica]

It was a bummer to see that, though. Like, in his uniform and everything. I was like, you know, there's better.

[Owen Gregorian]

You know, Did a video of. With his. His wife is. I'm not sure if he's Muslim, but his wife is wearing hijab and has made different anti Israeli statement.

[Marcella]

His wife, Linda Sarsour.

[Owen Gregorian]

No, they said that she looked like

[Marcella]

her, but they were post that said that.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah. Then some people were like, that's not really her. So it's. It's to be determined, I suppose. But he himself has made videos which Laura Loomer shared today on x, where he's wearing a keffiyeh. A keffiya is a black and white scarf that means Palestinian resistance. And he was saying in this video that Laura Torah got that he is Palestinian.

[Erica]

So. All right, well, let's not give him any more attention until he wants to act.

[Marcella]

The only thing I would add to it is just. I don't think it's right that he would do that kind of protest in his military uniform.

[Owen Gregorian]

Oh, yeah, that's the other thing.

[Sergio]

Well, yeah, I mean, from a. Okay, so just from a visual persuasion point of view, it is amazing, you know, with a. With a uniform specifically. Using uniform specifically. Because it creates that division in people's minds. Right. Like, oh, that's dishonor. But the other side is like, wow, Tom Cruise, 4th of July, you know, the hero out there, you know, saying, seriously, that's programming already sort of in people's heads. So this is the thing. Like, it used to be that politicians, when they wanted to campaign, they had to go on the radio, give interviews and write a book and all this stuff. Right now they go like, what is the nearest place where I can get arrested? You know, trying to protest, Make a big deal, get your broken arm. And we are.

[Erica]

It's a shame.

[Marcella]

I just think he could have made this. I just think he could have made the same spectacle without the uniform.

[Erica]

Yeah.

[Marcella]

You know, he could have done the same exact thing with the same resistance, everything else, and he probably would have gotten just as much publicity. But by. By doing it in uniform, I think he disgraced the uniform. He disgraced himself and. And other marines because you can't, like, you can't have. You can't politicize the military uniform that way. You just can't do it either. Either side. You just can't say, you know, bad things about the government when you're in uniform that's trained from the very beginning. He knows that. Everybody knows that. And anybody who's familiar with the military will know that. You're not supposed to make any kind of political statements when you're in uniform.

[Sergio]

And it's like burning a flag. Right. If you burn a flag, you get a lot of hate. Right. Like right now. Right. You know, we're gonna feel like, oh, man, these guys do respect in the uniform, the energy. That's what they want.

[Owen Gregorian]

Well, a little different, because I believe. I don't know, I think it's illegal to use the uniform for political reasons. You make an oath while a flag, like, you're not making an oath. And that's been known to be allowed under freedom of speech, while I believe wearing a uniform and making any kind of political statement on either side is not allowed.

[Erica]

All right, let's move on. I can't stand this guy for doing that, and he's a disgrace, and he should be ashamed of himself, but he clearly has no shame. I don't want to hear about him ever again. Okay.

[Owen Gregorian]

All right.

[Marcella]

Well, apparently the D.C. restaurants are facing an existential threat because Trump is getting rid of all the illegal immigrants. They apparently have lost a bunch of workers due to letters that are checking all their legal status. They have 10 days to respond, or they face $5,724 fines per person. Some have lost dozens of cooks and servers and managers, and they're worried that the whole industry is going to collapse. So that's happening. I do think, personally, I applaud being consistent and actually going after the work permit part of this, because I think, overall, I've said for a very long time, I think the way to stop illegal immigration is to take away all the financial incentives and, you know, starting with things like welfare and medical care and free education and all the different handouts and cash that we're giving these people. But I think their. Their ability to work is another piece of it. I'm sure there are a lot of people that are working under the table, and it's hard to stop that. But wherever you can, I think you need to say, you know, we. We should not only go after the people who are working illegally, but the companies that are employing them. And so I think that it's, to me, It's a good thing that they're starting to do this. And I do think it may be an issue in terms of how we staff these restaurants, but I think, you know, hopefully that would mean they would raise wages to the points where Americans would want to work there, and it might mean prices have to go up. But, you know, to me, it shouldn't be that you would subsidize things by having illegal immigrants do the jobs.

[Owen Gregorian]

Well, you know, there was this idea that Gen C or teenagers, I don't know, Gen Alpha, I suppose they weren't able to get jobs. Now, that could be a thing where, like, young people can actually work at restaurants like they did in the past, and there are other people looking for a job now. I know that that type of job wouldn't garner much wages. And D.C. is very expensive. Virginia, also, the Metro area there is very expensive to live. So, you know, it could be somebody. Young people can work there, I suppose.

[Erica]

Yeah. The only thing is, is young people don't want to do these jobs anymore for some reason. I mean, maybe if the wages were slightly higher. But, you know, it's weird how, like, these jobs, like. Can I just use McDonald's as an example? Because that's what we always use. When I was a kid, you know, you'd say, like, you'd get a job at McDonald's, like, after high school, like, while you're. It's a stepping stone, right? So, like, McDonald's, something like that was. Or like working in a restaurant, like a busboy, a waitress, like a diner or something. It was supposed to be a stepping stone.

[Owen Gregorian]

While you're my first job, McDonald's.

[Erica]

There you go. Right? So, like, it's a stepping stone to your next thing, to your career. And, like, you just keep advancing and advancing, advancing. But the problem is, is now it's become a thing where people are like, well, I can't pay my mortgage working at McDonald's. And it's like, but you were never supposed to pay your mortgage working at McDonald's. But it's like, you know, so we're. So it's like, okay, so if we raise the wages, are more people going to get stuck at McDonald's thinking they can buy a house? Or are young people going to step up and be like, okay, we'll fulfill those jobs, like the way it kind of was supposed to be? I don't know. I don't know if it's going to matter.

[Sergio]

That's Trump's slogan. Lower prices, higher wages. It's always doing that. So we'll see how we get those through.

[Erica]

Yeah.

[Owen Gregorian]

Tim Waltz testified before Congress in regards to the Minnesota fraud. He was before the House Oversight Committee yesterday and answering questions. So was the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, who's a blast. So basically it was just again, a kabuki theater. Like they're just acting. The Democrats on one side, all they wanted to ask or defend Tim Waltz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. All they did was to leave was there. All she did was like, oh, have you seen the fraud Trump has created? Like, how dare he. The other congresswoman was reading like, how many children were left orphaned by ICE killing their parents? Yet nobody mentions that. The reason I had to do anything with their parents is because they did some illegal action which is come to this country illegally. But anyways, and not listening to them while giving them orders. But basically the Democrats on one side did not want to talk about the fraud and just reacted in this fashion because. But Jim Jordan, Representative Jordan accused Minnesota Governor of misleading the public. He questioned him, Tim Walsh, Tim Wallace was shaking his, I guess his shoes, his boots, I don't know, he doesn't use boots. But he was like, oh my God. Oh my God. He looked really nervous and he didn't know how to answer certain questions. Basically, he was asked about a Feeding Our Future Children nutrition fraud scandal that came up in 2021. So in 2021, the Feeding Our Future NGO, or however you're going to say it was, found there was fraud concerns in March of 2021, in April of 20. So in March of 2021, the Minnesota government stopped funding it because they were giving it $250 million. I mean, not $2, not $3, $250. And they stopped it once they found out there was fraud in April. One month later, they allowed the funding to go forward. And Jim Jordan went after Tim Walls and wanted to know why the funding continued after knowing there was possible fraud. And then Tim Wallace came back and said, oh, there was an order by a judge saying that we needed to do that. Jim Jordan, of course, did his homework. There was no order by any kind of judge. The presiding judge never did such an order and caught him red handed. Tim Wallace did not know how to answer that. Tim Walls also were asked regarding whether reporting fraud was racist. And he was like, oh, no, I've never done that. A lot of the, a lot of the people that have come out and actually the, they have actually reported the fraud have been Democrats themselves and they've been told that they're racist because a Lot of the fraud is being, that's being alleged or has been prosecuted is by Somali Americans or Somalis themselves. So the administration of Tim Wallace has always pushed back on these people that have come out with, with, you know, whistleblowers that have come out against it and have been ostracized allegedly pursuant to these, these whistleblowers. And they. He was questioned and he was like, oh no, I don't know anything about that. So a lot of I don't knows when it came down to it and then to leave was questioning Keith Ellison. He, she said, well, oh, Attorney General Keith Ellison, what would you be doing right now? Like instead of being here, what would you be doing? Because obviously you'd be inventing gravity or something, you know, not that she said that, but that's the feeling like, oh, how wasteful are is your time that you have to be here to talk about fraud that you've possibly done on the people of Minnesota. And then Attorney General Ellison said, oh, oh my gosh, yeah, that's a good question. I would be doing, actually I was supposed to work on a fraud regulation legislation in regards to fraud because I'm a, I'm a anti fraud person and that's, that's what you get. So there you are.

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[Erica]

I have nothing to add to that, but I. But except for I freaking love branding. Gil. Do you guys know Brandon Gill?

[Owen Gregorian]

Oh, he went after Tim Waltz too.

[Erica]

So good. So he's married to Dinesh d' Souza's daughter, Brandon Gill. And he, he has like, the most monotone, dry way of speaking. And he's just like, what is he, Walls? He's a senator. No, a governor.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah.

[Erica]

Governor Walls, do you believe it's racist to talk about fraud?

[Owen Gregorian]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Erica]

It was like, no, it's not racist. And he's like, do you believe it? You know, like, whatever he says. And so he gets Walls to, like, agree, like, well, none of those things would be racist. He's like, and why is it, sir, that. And he, like, just keeps going on and on. But Brandon Gill, you guys, he is one to watch. He just won reelection. Thank God.

[Owen Gregorian]

I think he looks like Superman.

[Sergio]

He's just, oh, that's a guy.

[Erica]

He's comedy gold. He is comedy gold. And he's so effective. And what I like is, you know, he's like a younger generation. He just shows me once again, like, term limits. Please let these younger people come in who are more cunning and you know how to use persuasion better. I love him. So, Brandon Gill, make sure you guys follow him.

[Owen Gregorian]

Just for ladies should follow him for sure.

[Marcella]

I enjoyed the whiteboard lesson that Nancy Mace put on during this display when she brought out the whiteboard and she was trying to lead through the migration math, immigration math or something like that, where she was like, okay, in 2017, Tim, you know, how much was your state spending on autism? And of course, Tim's like, I don't know, I don't have that number. And he kept saying that sort of response to everything that she was saying. And she, and she eventually was like, did you prepare for this at all? Like, did you prepare for this, this, you know, briefing? Because, like, you don't seem to know basic facts, like even how many kids you have in your state. And he's like, well, I, I don't know. And he didn't really have an answer for that. He's like, of course I prepared for this. And it's like, well, you don't seem to know very bas about things.

[Owen Gregorian]

I mean, an attorney in me would say if a client was coming to me and they were going to be deposed or they would testify in front of government. The, the main thing is, I don't recall. I don't know. Unless you want to pigeon point yourself into it.

[Marcella]

So, yeah, I get that.

[Owen Gregorian]

But he's also a governor of a huge state of Minnesota, so he's representing his people.

[Marcella]

Like, I, I, I, I get that from a legal defense standpoint. And that he has to be careful about what he says. But this. The questions being asked were just basic things, like, how much did you spend in this year on this thing? Or how many. Like, what's the total population of your state? How many of them are kids?

[Owen Gregorian]

What is your name?

[Erica]

What's your state?

[Marcella]

You know, so it definitely embarrassed him, I think, to say he didn't even really know how many kids.

[Owen Gregorian]

He was very nervous.

[Marcella]

And so, you know, she was basically making the point just if you didn't watch it, that, you know, they spent, like, something like $1 million on autism in 2017 and some, like, massively bigger number a few years later. And it didn't make any sense.

[Erica]

Yeah, like 46 million. Yeah, it was crazy.

[Marcella]

And so I. I don't know, I just. I enjoyed the whiteboard lesson. It made me think a little bit of Scott where.

[Erica]

Yeah.

[Marcella]

Brings out his whiteboard, but she's funny.

[Erica]

Mace.

[Marcella]

Yeah. All right, well, I'm gonna go back to immigration. I have a couple stories, actually. One is that we had a big win in Supreme Court. They ruled that Trump. Well, that. That. That immigration judges basically have the say over whether someone's deported. And. And you can't just go to a regular judge and have them overrule what the asylum judge said. So, interestingly, it was unanimous. The. The opinion was written by Ketanji Brown Jackson. And so, you know, it was interesting to me that just across the board, including who you would expect to be against, it is basically ruling that says you can't. You can't just go to a court and cry and say, the asylum judge didn't give me the right decision, and any judge could just overrule it. That basically it has to be a much higher standard. They said it's conclusive in the asylum judge hearing, unless a reasonable adjudicator could be. Would be compelled to conclude the contrary. And they defined a substantial evidence standard. So if there is substantial evidence, basically that means that decision is final. So it means a lot more people could probably get deported a lot more quickly. It's going to be a lot harder to fight these things. And so we had a unanimous decision for Trump. And then in Colorado, like a lot of places, ICE has been having this problem with people tracking their vehicles. And, you know, so they have a new undercover vehicle, a new model car that they're using. Can you guess what it is?

[Owen Gregorian]

Is it a Tesla? I don't know.

[Marcella]

No, that would be a bad choice. Think opposite.

[Owen Gregorian]

A Toyota.

[Erica]

A Cadillac.

[Owen Gregorian]

Cadillac.

[Erica]

No, don't let us guess. It'll be give us a clue, Wiener mobile. What is it?

[Marcella]

What. What would be a kind that you would not expect ICE to be driving or that would potentially be the. The people that would be protesting ICE might be driving.

[Erica]

Oh, a Subaru.

[Marcella]

You got it. It's a Subaru Outback. They're starting to use Subaru Outbacks now as their undercover vehicles.

[Erica]

Oh, my God.

[Marcella]

Nick Sorter was posting about this, and he said, you know, it's a brilliant tactic. It's the official vehicle of white leftist lesbians. And so it's going to be a lot harder for them to tell when there's an ICE person driving down their streets.

[Owen Gregorian]

Everybody was guessing in the chat. They were like, guessing, and you got

[Erica]

to put, like, stupid stickers all over the back of it.

[Marcella]

Well, there was someone who replied, said they should put a coexist bumper sticker on it.

[Erica]

You know, so something about the environment.

[Marcella]

They're wondering whether people are going to start going after the white leftist lesbians and their super Outbacks now that they know this.

[Erica]

I'm with her. Yeah, I love that. All righty.

[Owen Gregorian]

The U.S. senate rejects war powers. Check on Trump. Just the news reporting that the US Senator delivered a major blow to efforts to limit President Trump's military campaign in Iran. The decisive vote was 47 to 53, largely along party lines. Interestingly enough, Republican Senator Rand Paul voted against Trump having this war power. And another interesting but not surprising, Democratic Senator John Fetterman voted with the Republicans to allow for Trump to keep going in Operation Epic Fury. And that was that worried some people whether the Senate could, like, actually get a vote and pass something. Yeah, and a lot of personalities online. I think Jack POS online was reposting it and said, now do the same act. I think it was him. Some of the people were like, okay, so now you did this. So we know you can actually vote and actually do something. So the SAVE act was regarding to the voting for voting ID for federal elections that has not been put to the floor in the Senate and has been stuck basically in limbo. But it's good. I mean, it. It shows that the US Senate supports Trump in this. In this operation. They've been given intelligence regarding it by now. So if there's sufficient evidence for them to support it and. But party lines, except for round.

[Erica]

Poor man's. Wait, what was his name? The guy that used to be there? The poor man's. Joe Manchin.

[Sergio]

Fetterman is, you know, even the name says. Right. He has men on the name. Right. He is the best, strongest man in the. In their party. Right. And now he's siding in the common sense side with Trump. That's an amazing shift that I'm seeing. Right. To see the. There, you know, he's. He went. He had a brain damage, right? He went through brain damage, you know, repair. And he's, you know, thinking so great now. I mean, I love it. You know how even he was watching the.

[Marcella]

What are you saying about Republican Sergio?

[Sergio]

What do you mean? Like the, you know, I mean, the Republicans that are pro Trump, they are pro America, so that's great.

[Marcella]

I'm saying was a Democrat, then he was brain damaged, and now he's thinking like a Republican. Is that what you're saying?

[Sergio]

Well, he just like.

[Erica]

So he stopped thinking like a Democrat.

[Owen Gregorian]

Erica is good at bringing up Mansion because what would Scott say about Fetterman? Fetterman now has a lot of power because he can. His boat can be the society. Yeah.

[Sergio]

Well, found the money. Ferman is the guy that found the money. Right. Scott used to say that he will not leave the money, that he would pick up the money. He picked it up. So last night he was watching the news and he was saying, wow, look at that torpedo attack.

[Owen Gregorian]

He watches it.

[Sergio]

Boom. Yeah, he was watching it, and he's excited about it because it is a worthy fight that we're fighting, and it's going to be painful sacrifice, but it's being done for the future generations, for our kids, basically.

[Erica]

I do love watching Fetterman when he was. When they were talking about, you know, the press was talking to him, like you're saying about the ships being sunk or whatever. He's like, it was actually pretty cool. I was just like, yeah, you're just being honest. Like, you're just using common sense. It's okay. You don't have to be a puppet. Right. You're allowed to say what people are actually thinking without, you know, putting a filter on, like, will my friends be mad at me? So I appreciate that.

[Marcella]

And there are these exceptions, but I would also say if you looked at Fetterman's record, he pretty much votes Democrat most of the time. So, you know, don't be fooled that some Republican in disguise.

[Sergio]

He's not famous mansion, but it's giving the role model a chance, you know, giving people a chance on the left to say, you know what? I can do that, too. I can also stand up and be like Fetterman maybe.

[Marcella]

Yeah. I mean, I just. I just want to be, you know, clear that I don't really think Fetterman is On our side, I don't think he's there. I do think he's smarter than a lot of the other ones in terms of how he talks. But I think, you know, probably would be a better strategy if more Democrats were like him and were more reasonable and would speak more common sense rather than just embracing this radical agenda and saying crazy things all the time. But you know, to me that's the extent of it. Like he still votes with the Democrats most of the time. And I find this whole thing kind of just a bunch of theater because correct me if I'm wrong, but if they had passed this resolution, wouldn't it have just been veto?

[Sergio]

I mean, theater is the show. The show is a theater. Right. Theater is everything is the persuasion of it. Right. There's no separation between the theater part and the government part. Basically, it's all together now.

[Scott Adams]

Right?

[Marcella]

Well, I mean, to an extent. But my point is that like my understanding is any legislation relating to this would have to be signed by the President and he can veto it. Right.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah. And there is also the issue of besides the veto, there's also the issue where the War Powers act is even constitutional, which is what Marco Ruby was alleging, was saying that they've done the 48 hour notice to Congress and they've talked to the, the. Yeah, what is it? The eighth Gang of eight. The Gang of eight. And basically he was saying that the War Powers act in their determination is not constitutional and does not allow Congress to tell the executive branch what to do in regards to war. As it's the Commander in Chief that does that. So you can see that he could have beat it. And also. Yeah.

[Marcella]

There's so much precedent behind this. I mean, everything from Iraq to, you know, all the different things we've done in Afghanistan, everywhere else.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah.

[Marcella]

That it all follows that same procedure.

[Owen Gregorian]

What does that tell you, Owen? That they support it. So like the optics is the persuasion is that they are supportive of the President. Right. So that. That's help that's helpful.

[Marcella]

Yeah. Well, I mean, certainly it does help to just say, okay, there's more Republicans that support him or most of the Republicans support him. And that seems to match the polls too that, you know, almost all MAGA Republicans support what the President is doing. It seems very divided in terms of that. I think there is this minority that's very vocal on the right that you know, says, hey, we don't like what he's doing or you know, Tucker Carlson and other people have been coming out against it. But I think to me that's this fringe that the vast majority of people are behind what Trump is doing. Yeah.

[Owen Gregorian]

Okay.

[Erica]

All right. I'm laughing at some of these comments. You guys are so freaking funny. All right, this is the time where I'm going to say, could you guys please give us a thumbs up? Make comments on X, ring the bell, you know, give us a, like, it would really mean a lot to us. There's one person on YouTube, you go ahead and give your thumbs down. You are committed to it. No, no, he really. No, he really should. You really should. He really should. Can I just. All right, wait. Okay, we're good. We're good. Okay, so thanks. Okay, next story. And I want to just. If you could just save me two minutes at the end, I would appreciate it.

[Marcella]

Well, I just want to bash on gas Gavin Newsom for a while.

[Erica]

So let's go, let's go.

[Marcella]

One is that Chevron sent a letter warning that this cap and trade policy that Newsom is passing or wanting to pass is going to cripple the industry in California. That says the proposed regulation would cripple the survivability of the state's remaining refineries, which result in California losing the entire industry to this misguided program. It will increase transportation and aviation fuel prices for consumers. It will risk significant job losses, including many high paying union jobs, while reducing funding for essential public services. There's 530,000 jobs and 664 billion in taxes that come from this. And they're claiming it would add, you know, $0.24 a gallon to the gas prices. And even right now the gas prices are, I think, $4.73 in California versus the national average of $3.19. So it's going to make it worse. At the same time, we have there's this LAX train that they were building between the airport and the downtown area and that was supposed to help with the World cup transportation. It was supposed to be done in 2023 and it's not done. And it's not going to be done. Apparently it's 95% complete and there were some kind of disputes and they never finished it or never resolved them. So it's not going to be ready in time for a World cup and it's going to be a disaster when everybody descends on la. So more incompetence from LA leadership or

[Erica]

is Trump gonna swoop in and save the day somehow with this?

[Marcella]

I think I, I don't know if there's time. I mean, I don't know if there's time. To finish it at this point. I think it was supposed to be done, you know, a long time ago, like and it was 95 complete in 2024. But I don't know if there's enough time to finish it. I suppose Trump with his building expertise could propose something but I'm not sure how he would make it happen.

[Sergio]

Yeah, Gavin is trying to become. Oh, and sorry. Gavin is starting to become, become the worst candidate ever, right to run for office. I think like he wants to beat Biden at this.

[Erica]

Looks like he's doing well.

[Marcella]

And apparently he went on Jimmy Kimmel recently and he agreed that California is over regulated and that it's his fault. So he, he made a statement like that it's we need a liberalism that builds and we have to own that. And I'm very much a, of part, part of this sort of new nomenclature we call this abundance agenda. And we got to reconcile that. We've got to be more focused on time to delivery, not just rhetoric, not just what we're for. We've got to actually deliver and manifest it. And you know, he's certainly been part of this. He's signed 784 new laws last year. The homeless crisis is, you know, the worst in the United States, regulations all over the place. So I'm sure to some extent he's probably behind the problems that are happening in LA and everywhere else in the, in the, in the state. So yeah, Gavin is a terrible candidate and I think he has a record to match.

[Erica]

Yeah, he's, he's, he's amazingly, he's like number one at being the worst for sure.

[Owen Gregorian]

So. And then on a positive note, the Trump administration has brokered a multi million dollar gold agreement for the Golden Age according to Axios between the US and Venezuela. The Manor Bin Company, the mining company, will sell between 650-1,000kg of high purity gold door bars valued at more than $150 million to the global commodities trader Trafigura. Say that fast. The gold which reaches 98% purity after refining will be shipped directly to the refineries in, in the United States. So Interior Secretary Doug Burgum helped finalize the deal recently in his recent visit to Caracas. And you know, the golden age needs gold.

[Erica]

That's right.

[Owen Gregorian]

You know, bringing in the, you know, and a lot of people would be like, oh, the only reason Trump is there is to enrich himself, you know, in, you know, he's not, he's enriching the United States. So this is very big difference. But of Course, there's always two movies on one screen. And the other side will always say the opposite.

[Erica]

That's right. No matter what.

[Sergio]

The optics are beautiful with the lady, the president of Venezuela next to Bergam and everybody. So is that unity that shows what can be done for the future of other countries if they work with us, too.

[Erica]

I love that.

[Sergio]

Erica, can I say one thing just to quickly? I'm going to give you the two minutes. By the way. So before, when I said about the guy in the uniform, I don't promote that.

[Erica]

Oh, I know.

[Sergio]

It's a good idea. Okay. To make sure that. Because I saw a couple of comments there, so. It's horrible. It's like burning the flag. That's what they're doing, basically. They're using that as a way to get attention. It's horrible. But, you know, that's what they're doing.

[Erica]

Even negative attentions. Attention. Right. So, yeah, it is attention seeking. And he got his attention. And we're never talking about him again.

[Owen Gregorian]

We're talking about him again.

[Erica]

I didn't. Never again.

[Owen Gregorian]

Persuasive.

[Erica]

So I just also wanted to mention that Lou Holtz has died. Okay. And he died at the age of 89. And he's a legendary football coach for Notre Dame. Right. So there's something that Lou. Lou. Because we're, you know, we're buddies like that. So Lou had all of his players memorize this, and I love this, and I think it's so important. So he'd have his players memorize this poem. It's called what Will Today Bring? And I just think it's so appropriate. It says, this is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, not loss, good, not evil, success, not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for it. Because the future is just a whole string of nows. And I love that, you guys. And it's just like how Scott would say, like, be useful. Like every day he woke up to be useful. And, you know, we are. We're trading a day of our life for whatever it is we're going to do today. And. And the days that I'm, like, not being productive or I'm cranky or whatever, I'm like, oh, what a waste Like, I get mad at myself. I got a waste of this day and, you know, shake it off. And so I just thought it was right in line with Scott's philosophy. And you what? What we, all of us, everybody that watches this show, you're all useful people like you can't be here and be, you know, in love with Scott Adams and everything he taught us without in your heart being more useful, I feel like, than the next person. So shout out to all of you guys. You know, it's just been a newsy week, so the news crew is coming back tomorrow. We're going to finish the week up strong. And in the meantime, you guys, thank you so much for showing up for us each day. Thank you for hitting the like button, the subscribe button, all that stuff. It really helps us and we love reading your chat. So that being said, let's have a closing sip to Scott. I love you guys. I love, I love you for us four together. So sweet. And I love all you guys in the chat. Scott, we miss you so much. And I know everybody won the super. When the simultaneous sip starts in the morning and we see his face on the screen, it's like a thousand times, like, stronger and beaming. And we all feel it too, I promise. So anyway, I don't know, just to say that we miss you, Scott. So closing sip to Scott and to all of you, let's go be useful today.

[Sergio]

To Scott, it'd be useful.

[Erica]

Thanks, Bray.