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Some follow the noise. Bloomberg follows the money. Because behind every headline is a bottom line. Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings. There's a money side to every story. And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss. Get the money side of the story. Subscribe now@bloomberg.com okay. Okay, you guys. Well, actually, I should say this, you guys, I'm gonna give you a preview. This is a first time ever heard preview, while you guys are filing in, of a new Akira, the dawn song that he gave me to play for you. And we'll talk more about it in a second, but check it out. It's called whoops, my thing is loud over here. It's called we all have problems. But listen to this.
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All right, here's one that's more about just not. This one's very relevant to me.
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This one's very relevant to me.
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The usual old frame is that if you're having some bad luck, you think that you're unusually unlucky because it happened to you. You think of all the things that could happen to anybody, could happen to anybody. And then you think, oh man, why are all these things happening to me? Why? Why do I have all these problems? That's the old way of thinking. Here's the reframe. Reframe is everyone has problems. Everyone has problems.
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Yes, we all have problems. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
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Everyone has problems.
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We all have problems. Yes, we all have problems. Yes, we do.
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Yes, we do Great wonders.
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Everyone has problems. Everyone has problems. Just the fact that you don't know somebody else's problem, that's pretty gussy of you to think that your problem is bigger than theirs. You don't know their problems. You don't know anything about people's problems. The really big ones, they keep to themselves. You know, sometimes you see that if it's a physical thing, like in my case, but generally speaking, generally speaking, people's back battle is inside their head, then that could be quite a fierce battle. You don't know what's going on in there. So the moment you think, why me? Why me? The reframe is everybody's got problems. You don't have the special problems. You have a special problem.
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We all have problems. Yes, we all have problems. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
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Everyone has problems.
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We all have problems. We do. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
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Everyone has problems. Everyone has problems. Everyone has problems. Everyone has problems.
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Everyone has problems. Let's go, Akira. Thank you, Akira, for Letting us play that for everybody. It's not available yet, but you guys got to hear it first. And here's a little teaser. Akira will be back on with us soon. Okay, I have another song right in here. It's definitely my fave. I can't play it yet, but I'm going to tease it out to you. It'll. It'll come along soon. But I'm parched. I need a sip of coffee. I took a baby sip. Someone gave me permission. At some point, I took advantage. Let's go.
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Well, I think it's time we have enough people here. And it's time for the best part of the day, the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or cellos or stein. A canteen jug or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine. End of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens right now? Yup. Before and after. You can almost feel it. Before the simultaneous sip, the day was okay. But after, after, Much, much better.
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Yeah. Improving all the time. All right, so if we look different. You guys. Hi, I'm Erica. I'm with. Wait, I'm with Marcella. Nope, you guys. You know, we're all backwards. I'm with Marcella and Owen. You're at the Scott Adams School. It's June 1st, and it's a Monday, 2026. We are ready to go. Owen, you are being accused of not having rhythm.
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I plead guilty. Although, actually, I've been told that my family does have the music genes, so I've never been much of a musician. I've played around trying to learn guitar, but otherwise, I do have musicians in my family. And my son was a drummer, so he certainly has the rhythm. And I don't know about dancing, but I think we do have some musical capability in my family.
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The rhythm's going to get you so soon. Soon. Owen, we need to see you moving. Gracie, I think you said it. She's like, owen has no rhythm. As we're dancing along. So welcome, you guys. I have a coffee update for you. I am. In my effort of trying to be more like Owen, I have succumbed to Dr. Drew and Owen's suggestion. I've started with with creatine and my coffee or gain. If you want to sponsor this, come on over. So I picked it up from Costco. It's big, and I tried it yesterday. For the first time, I can tell you guys, it's a little scoop of the brightest, whitest powder. I'm a little bit obsessed with how white and bright it is. No taste, no flavor, no weirdness. My coffee tastes exactly the way I want it to, exactly the same. So if anybody wants to try it and you're like, I don't know if I want it. My coffee, Put it in coffee. You'll never know. So, but coincidentally, Owen, you had a creatine news story today, and I said, oh, yes, let's do it. I want to know what I'm in for.
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Let me find it. All right. Yeah. So I think the story's headline is that the scientists have found that, you know, a lot of people take creatine for muscle gains because it's known as a muscle building supplement because it gives more energy to your cells and your muscles to be able to maybe do a better workout. But they found that it actually is raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%. So in their controlled trials, they showed that the Cognitive decline was 30% slower, I suppose. And then it goes into kind of what they think's going on. But essentially, I think it's kind of back to what Scott would say about your brain is your body, your body is your brain, and it's kind of the same. I mean, if you give more energy to your cells and you give more energy to your brain cells, then your brain cells will perform better. So it's a, you know, similar thing. But I think it is a more recent finding that of the mental cognitive benefits, and as I was mentioning with when Dr. Drew was on, they typically say you need to go higher on the dosage with creatine to get those mental benefits. So the typical daily dose, once you've done an initial loading phase for muscle building would be like 5 grams, which I think is the standard. You know, what you see on the package in terms of how much it tells you to take. You'll see the 5 grams somewhere on the. On the top, you know, in the front there. But if you want the mental benefits, I think it's typically recommended you go up to maybe 10 or 15 or 20. And I would caution you there, there can be some digestive adjustment needed for that. Like, don't take 20 grams all at once, especially if you've never taken it before. But, you know, you can build your way up to it and your body kind of adapts to it. So I think, you know, you could either just say, I don't you know, I don't care about speeding the benefits the most possible and just take 5 grams a day or 10 grams a day and just let it build up. But there is a. There is this initial period where your cells kind of get saturated with however much it can hold of the. Of creatine. And so typically it would take two or three weeks to notice, like, the muscle benefits. And I'm guessing probably the same with the brain benefits, but once you get there, you don't have to keep taking mega doses. But it is. It does seem like it has a lot of mental benefits. I know. There was a separate story I think I posted a few weeks ago or longer, that talked about how creatine can also compensate for lack of sleep, that if you don't get enough sleep and you take creatine, it can kind of make you better.
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Oh, I don't sleep at all. So this is good. This is good news. So, yes, I got this one at Costco. The brand is Orgain, and I just happen to like Orgain as a brand. I like their protein powders, too, for shakes. So I'm looking swollen. Oh, no. So that was funny to read. Okay, so I am not going to do any kind of, like, you know, heavy dosing on load. I'll just do the five for a while and take it from there because I'm changing up a few things. So look, a lot of you have the same exact one. Yay. All right, good. We're doing it together.
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Probably a lot of Costco people in the crowd.
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Yeah. Marcel, are you gonna get on the creatine kick?
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No, but what I.
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Sorry.
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What I was gonna say is as a. As your attorney group, you know, each. To each person, they would have to check with their doctor, and it's up to you to take it. So you don't.
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Yes. It's not medical advice. I would just mention that the. The medical science does say that creatine is probably one of the most researched supplements, and it does work for probably almost all people, and it may not work on everyone. So you may say, oh, I tried it. It didn't do anything. But that's probably true with every supplement. So, yeah, sure, talk to your doctor. We're not making medical advice here. But it is. It is known as a pretty safe and effective supplement.
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All right, 100% noted. Marcella, this is just what I'm doing, and I'm just doing it because no one's doing it, so. So all my fault. What? You. If anything goes wrong, you know, I'LL
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just shift the blame over to Dr.
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Trying to break the peer pressure.
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Let's blame Dr. Drew. He's got insurance for this.
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He's the best. I love Dr. Drew.
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Don't we love Dr. Drew? He's so great coming on. He's so busy and to just come on with us. And he'll be back. He'll be back. That I know for sure. All right, so I really want to hang out with the chat today, if you guys don't mind. And can we get my little stories out of the way first? Do you guys care? Owen and Marcella, go for it. All right, good. So this is a very quick clip that I'm going to create a new segment now called Suicidal Empathy. Okay, so this is what suicidal empathy looks like in Paris in the spring. Good times. Good times. So, yeah, just to be clear, I
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think that I believe what I heard about that particular story was because I think there was a rumor that, like, oh, the Eiffel Tower is on fire, but no, it's not. It's made of metal. It doesn't catch fire.
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Oh, yeah, no, it was at the bottom.
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But I think that was after a big soccer match where somebody, you know, and apparently it's, I guess, sort of a tradition in soccer that people riot after these things and they'll set cars on fire and they'll do things. So I think it's kind of part of the soccer culture more than anything else, actually.
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I mean, this is hilarious. It was.
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I mean, this happened in 1998 as well, when France. The World cup was in France. French hooligans. And so there was. It was PSG1, Arsenal. PSG is a French group. They won the European Cup. And I don't want to say this, but. But Arsenal fans, as well as PSG fans are known for this especially.
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You'll watch more clips and I'll post more later on my channel. It wasn't really wasn't the fans what went a month. It was beyond. But it was bad. It was bad. So that was my suicidal empathy clip, actually. Here's another one. Here's another one. So, as you guys know, there's all sorts of nonsense. It's very much out of control here in New Jersey. And so there's a ice detention facility called Delaney hall in Newark. And I don't know, there's people there. They're. They're the very, very well organized paid protesters who don't give an s. All they want to do is make a paycheck, create a riot. They're getting paid by. I don't know who. I can't say for sure. But. So they're upset that the people that are in ICE custody are not allowed to see their families, that they're, you know, they're on a hunger strike because they don't like the food and what. Whatever. I mean, I don't. It doesn't even matter to me at this point. But what matters is that this is, again, organized, paid for. And by the way, this could be a solution for people that might lose their jobs over AI. You could become paid protesters. So there is a big market for that. But it's insane what's been happening there. I don't even know how many weeks it's been. But here's a little. Here's a little update from yesterday.
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So that's just some of what we saw last night, and it's at least maybe two dozen arrests and counting. Authorities use tear gas to clear the crowd, while DHS tells Fox there's zero tolerance for rioters here. And they finally have that extra assistance. They kept calling for the Newark police, the state police. Well, now they finally have some backup. Police took over the security operations there outside of Delaney Hall's ICE facility after more than a week of chaos. Video there shows protesters starting fires in the road. I mean, just look at this. I was looking at it over the weekend on X and thinking, what is going on? They started this big blaze there with all this trash that was in the road. They were shoving the fences back as officers tried to move in and stop the crowd from moving in toward the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility. Because of that violence, family visits to the facility for the migrants inside were paused. That's just some of what we saw last night.
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So that's. It's just been nonstop. And Beverly, I know you're with me. Yes, Kevin, New Jersey is disgusting in that. In that type of instance. But, Beverly, you and I were getting upset because just two nights ago, they were attacking the police horses and police officers and everything else. Luckily, none of the horses were hurt. That's just where I'm at now because I can't even wrap my head around the riots. The people. Why aren't they being locked up, put in jail, drop a bomb, do something? So I don't know who wants to take this story first with me or have an opinion about it, Owen or Marcel. If you've looked into anything since it
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is New Jersey, I blame you because it's your state, so you're supposed to keep these people under.
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I blame Andy.
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But no, I, but I think, yeah, it does look very organized and well funded. I know there's been a lot of coverage where Nick Sordor went undercover and went through a training course and saw how organized that was and had gotten some VENMO information about how people contribute to it. And they were asking for things to get like military spec goggles and other like, riot gear sort of equipment. And so they were gearing up for a fight to like resist tear gas and do the things that would only be relevant if you were going to be violent. So they were clearly planning to be violent. And obviously it does mean there's a lot of money behind this. There's a lot of organization behind this. I think Nick also identified the person that was behind it and dug into some of the financial records and showed that there was like three different organizations that this person was involved with or leading. And one of them was an NGO where apparently the reports show that they don't pay anybody anything, which is suspicious in itself. It's like, wait a second, what's really going on there? And then there was another NGO or something that she was involved with that does show people getting paid. But it does seem like they're essentially well funded and this is an organized thing. And certainly the government, the governor and all that are seemingly behind the protests. And they, I think they declared some kind of victory recently about getting visitation rights to the migrants. And I think the response was, you created this problem and now you're saying you solved it. Like they had visitation rights before. We only stopped it because of the rioting. And so you're now saying, hey, we won just because, you know, they, they went back to having the same thing they had before. So it's kind of ridiculous. And I think it is all performative. They're just trying to put on a show and they're trying to show resistance against ice. And I think it's just the latest in that sort of vein. You know, they used to be doing it in Chicago area and other places wherever ICE would show up. They're just trying to put on their, their show to show that they're resisting it.
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And now all the politicians are shuffling in to get their moment in front of the facility. You know, we had Timu Obama come in and make his little statement and it's just like, you know, you're not help. None of you are helping. And by the way, I haven't seen Cory Booker talking about this. And Newark is his zone. And yes, we have another horrendous governor Mikey Sherrill. All she cares about is going against Trump and being woke. And I'm like, what is. What are you doing? Like, we gotta get over the. Anything the Republicans do will do the opposite. It's just. Marcella, what do you think about all of this nonsense here? Mom, can you tell me a story? Sure. Once upon a time, a mom needed a new car. Was she brave?
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She was mostly.
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But she went to Carvana.com and found a great car at a great price. No secret treasure map required. Did you have to fight a dragon? Nope. She bought it 100% online from her bed, actually. Was it scary? Honey, it was as unscary as car buying could be.
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Did the car have a sunroof?
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It did, actually.
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Okay, good story. Car buying.
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You'll want to tell stories about. Buy your car today on Carvana. Delivery fees may apply.
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To be honest, I mean they're like theater kids. It's just an actual act they want to put a performance on. I don't even think the writers are real writers. They look like children. They look like. Not that I know what a writer is, but I mean it just seems like they are just playing a part in order to get their side and. And get funding. So some of the. Because I looked into who is behind those groups and they have different groups. The New Jersey alliance for Immigration justice is one of them. Eyes on, Eyes on ice, New Jersey American Friends Service Committee, First Friends of New Jersey and New York. There's a lot of New Jersey immigration NGOs I guess, or nonprofits. Resistancia. Resistance in Action in Spanish. They seem all well funded and well organized. There always have been when I've dealt with them before in the past. Not necessarily these groups, but they've always been very well funded. And you want to know why? What is the purpose of the funding? What do they want? Because when. And sorry to go on a tangent. When Obama and the Democrats control Congress, control the Senate, they never changed the immigration laws to allow these people in. They always wanted to keep them. Kind of like last last week, I think Owen talked about H1B visas. They wanted to keep them in a certain state so that in my opinion that they could not get legal status, but not. But stay here illegally. And so they are cheaper lab. That's how I see it. Because they had the chance. They had the entire. And I think under Biden, am I wrong? They that. That he was in control of Congress as well the Democrats. But anyways they never did anything in regards to immigration laws and now they're Just like theater kids and trying to make, you know, make this a huge deal. And it's not.
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Yeah. And it's not making anybody sympathetic to their fake ploy. It's making us just say, you know, just get everybody out. Just get everybody out. Get the rioters out. Get everybody out. It's. It's creating less tolerance. So I don't really understand the psychology behind it either. And, you know, if we. If Nick Sorter said, like, you know, he knows who's funding some of it, I'm sure the FBI knows, because I think they said they know. What are we doing again? You know, we're gonna sit and wait.
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I do think I understand some of it. I think the objectives that I see is, number one, they're trying to get people upset so that they show up in the. For the midterms. You know, they're. They're trying to show that. Or in their minds, they want it to look chaotic. They want it to look like there's lots of violence, there's lots of disorder, there's lots of, you know, inappropriate or bad things that Trump is doing, and they have to keep that in the headlines to motivate people to be angry so that they'll show up and vote against Trump and against the Republicans. So I think that's clearly one of the objectives. And then I think beyond that, in terms of immigration, yeah, they. They want those people to stay. You know, they want those people to count for electoral representation. And so if we get rid of millions and millions of people out of these blue states, they get less representatives in Congress, and it gets reallocated to other states, or, you know, they, relatively speaking, they lose power. And so I think there are those dual objectives, and I think it's pretty clear that that's what they're about. I think some of them may have at least somewhat admitted it at different times, but they certainly try not to talk about that part of it. But I think that's what's going on. And Besant, I think, is trying to attack this from the standpoint of saying they're changing the rules so that any NGOs have to know who their donors are. And I think that's a first step to hold those donors accountable.
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All right, so violence, it should be
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like NASCAR drivers or like F1 drivers, where they need to have. Who sponsors them on their.
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Yeah. Wear patches and their masks, have to say who their things are. I like that, Marcella. That's good. So I also wonder, why aren't we just funneling these people Right onto a bus and right to jail. And my other question is, did we talk about this before? Isn't. I feel like maybe, Marcella, you said no or somebody said no, but isn't Antifa a terrorist organization?
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I thought, well, none of them are Antifa. None of them are Antifa. They're all immigration. So I read to you all the groups that are part of this, none of them are under the organization of Antifa. There is, there is. Antifa does exist, but none of these groups are Antifa related. They're all immigration related.
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They are. No, I think the groups might be immigration related, but I feel like the, the members are Antifa. The people doing the rioting.
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Well, I'm sure that they get in there and that they want to create because a lot of these groups, some of these groups, and I don't want to say good stuff about them, but some of these groups do mean well. They want to help immigrants and, you know, suicidal empathy kind of stuff. But they're not violent like Antifa. So there may be some Antifa rioters in there trying to push this into violence, like Owen said, to make Trump look authoritarian and the Republicans look like over dictators. We're in a dictatorship kind of thing. So maybe you are onto something, Erica. Maybe they are showing up.
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No, I, I think they're there. Yeah, I, I mean, I'm not really. Yeah, I was. All right, so like, some people are saying, like Sandy said, you know, they, they're probably not going to wear their Antifa insignia on them because why would you announce, like, hey, the terrorists are here, but someone else said Black Block was there. I'm going to look into it more. I've really been trying to avoid it
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because you should go down there.
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I mean, I should. If, like 30 gigantic Navy SEALs want to come with me, I'll go. I mean, I, I am curious, but I don't like to go to Newark on a regular day, so let alone with this nonsense. But if I have to, I'll send Andy. Okay, so listen, I would just throw
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in, yes, Trump did designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. He signed an executive order last year on that. But I think it also, according to Grok at least, doesn't really have a lot of legal force. Like, it doesn't really mean anything. There's no law that says we can have a list of domestic terrorist organizations or do something because they're on the list. I think it's different for foreign terrorist organizations where you can actually, you know, drone them like Obama did. And all sorts of things. So I think it happens has more effect when you have foreign terrorist organizations rather than domestic. But that doesn't mean you can't go after domestic terrorists. I mean, that's. FBI does that all the time. So I don't know that you really need a separate designation to, to do that.
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I'm getting a lot of support for going there. People that will bail me out of jail, people that you know. It's very nice. Yeah, even Andy. So. Okay, and then that brings me to that point. Same thing. Oh, and so if they are domestic terrorists, the. These people now like what they're doing. I mean, you can't attack police and police horses and not go to jail. I mean, I mean, you can obviously, but you can't. What it. So when do we, when do we act like we are following the laws? Is this just up to Governor Sherrill or is this more federal? I don't know. I don't know. I'm very confused.
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I mean, I think the police do report locally to the, you know, local and state people. So I think a lot of those people would be following the orders they were given from their leadership. And I think in this case, because they're liberal democratic progressive type leadership, they're probably telling them stand down, don't arrest people, don't do this, don't lock em up, you know, and so I think that's the problem. I think if you, if they are committing some kind of federal crime, then maybe the ICE agents could arrest them and they probably should. And I'm guessing they would. But I think to the extent that they're facing a line of local police, that may be a different story in terms of the orders they were given. And we saw that all the way back to 2020 when police were kind of just given stand down orders or they were selectively told to arrest the right leaning side that might be counter protesting, but not the left leaning side. And so I think it's largely political in terms of what guidance is given to them. And unfortunately in a lot of these blue cities, they get guidance that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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I just, I feel like your basic, I feel like your basic Americans want to just live in peace and not be afraid to be out on the streets and walk around. And I really feel like that's such an easy thing to fix and if that's the goal of everybody, you know, in office and service and enforcement, but it's clearly not because, I don't know, we're nuts. All right, so I'LL keep my eye on that, too. I really didn't even want to pay attention to it, you guys, because I'm just like, I am disgusted with New Jersey. It's such a beautiful, amazing state, and it has just been run into the ground with trash politicians. So it's, it's, it's sad for me. I've been born and raised here. I've been here my entire life on the Jersey Shore. So I'm not near that. A couple people are like, are you okay? I'm nowhere near that. So I'm okay. Thank you. I promise I am okay. All right, so my other story that I want to talk about is sort of related to this, and we'll see where this goes. But let's just watch this clip and then, Marcela, I'll come to you first on the other side of this. Okay, here we go.
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Massive cheating that's gone on. And so we're going to be signing an executive order. It's, I believe it's foolproof and maybe it'll be tested, maybe it won't. I think it's very obvious what's said. And I'll ask Will Scharf to start off, attorney, a great talent, a very brilliant young man. And if you could discuss it. And then I'm going to ask Howard Lutnick to say a few words and then I'm going to sign it. Know what the take a couple of questions. Okay.
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Thank you, Mr. President. As you said, you have in front of you an executive order that deals with a number of issues relating to election integrity, as you've consistently identified. Two of the biggest problems we have with election integrity in this country are one, inaccurate voter rolls that allow ineligible people to vote in various federal and state elections all over the country. Then secondarily, you've consistently identified that vote by mail in this country has become rife with fraud. People returning ballots who aren't eligible to return ballots. Ballots being sent to people who aren't confirmed to be eligible voters. So what this executive order is going to do is one, we're going to take federal data, we're going to ensure that each state's election officials are provided with a comprehensive view of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are, allowing them to process properly verify that everybody voting in their elections is legally able to vote. And then it orders the Postmaster General, the U.S. postal Service, to take bold new measures to verify that ballots both being sent to people are being sent to people who are eligible to vote, and then that ballots being returned are being properly returned by eligible voters only. And we believe that combined the measures in this executive order will have help secure elections in the future and ensure that the many abuses of our election system in the past aren't repeated in future elections.
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Right,
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okay. So, yes, the ball guy. Hilarious. Has no idea. His whole head was just in here. I love these two. I love that Trump has these read out so everybody can hear it. I think it's such a good move. All right, so is this going to help Marcela? Will this thing be real? Can we. We hope that we're not going to have as much fraud.
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I mean, it's, it's a good start. I don't know too much about it, but from what I gathered, there's citizenship verification, directs the Department of DHS to coordinate with SSA to compile and share a list of confirmed U.S. citizens. So a lot of the things we learned from. Sorry to go back to 9, 11, is that some of these agencies, even though they work, you know, in federal government, they don't talk to each other. So the good thing about this executive order is that they're going to talk to each other. The DHS and SSA mail in absentee ballot reforms with the United States Postal Service. That's great. I mean, it's a very intelligent executive order as much as we can. I wish the SAVE act would pass. You know, it's like, let's try to do. Let's try to not do law, but do law. You know, that's basically what President Trump is always trying to do with executive orders, because there's no strength in the Congress, I guess.
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So it would be nice, you know, I mean, if we could just pass bills like the SAVE act, you know, just one line item at a time like Trump initially wanted it to be. Do you have much stuff we'd have accomplished? I don't know why we cannot break these things apart. We want to vote for this. We want to vote for this.
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They probably wouldn't pass the cookie law or some kind of like, they don't pass anything. Like, what do they do?
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I know. Pass the.
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Maybe we should pay them pursuant to how many laws they have enacted, right?
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Yes, yes. Their pay actually should be merit based pay and because we could probably solve the deficit. All right, so Owen, thoughts on this?
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Clearly, this is Trump's attempt, at least partially or as much as he can, to make his own Save America act rather than the one that Congress seems to refuse to pass. So I think he's trying to essentially help confirm who's A citizen who's not. I think he's trying to. It looks like the key provisions is partly this state citizenship list where they're sending into the states. I'm not sure how much different that's going to make because I'm sure it'll maybe have a difference in red states, but it might not have a difference in blue states because if you have all progressive liberal people that don't want to have election integrity, then they're not going to do anything with it. They'll say thanks for the list and they'll drop it in the trash. And so I don't know if it'll make a difference. Maybe it will in some of the swing states, just depending on who's in control. But it at least should give them better information as to who they know as a citizen and who they don't. And then it looks like they're also prioritizing prosecutions for election things and specifically like state, local officials, people or entities that issue or distribute federal ballots to people who are not eligible to vote. So non citizens. So it basically just says, we're coming after you if you do that. I'm not sure how enforceable that will be, but we'll have to see what, what, what comes out of that. And then there is some revision in terms of. Apparently he's ordering the United States Postal Service to make a rule about what the envelopes need to look like for mail in ballots and, you know, basically make it harder to forge, I think, is that they have, you know, certain requirements for those things to make sure that that envelopes are complying to what they think they need to for that. And then some other things are just like coordination between, you know, DHS and the Social Security Administration and the Postal Service to have better compliance with the existing federal laws. So I don't know that this is going to go nearly as far as the Save America Act. It certainly isn't going to force blue states to change probably anything I don't think significant, but it may be a step in the right direction at least.
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Evie, Is that your name? I don't know if it's Evie or Evie, but you're right. No, we can't pay them based on passing legislation. You're totally right. But what I did, like somebody had said, I want to credit them, but I don't know who it is. So they should get paid depending on how they handle their state. So if they, you know, have, if they take away the debt of their state and they fix X, Y and Z problems Depending how well they do is how they would get paid. And I like that better because nobody's thinking about their state. These people in DC are so full of it. As I always say, they don't care about you. They don't care about what's happening to you in your state. Very few do. Very few care. And it's just a group up there and they just are pretending that they care about you. Like, so you're voting for someone who's pretending they care about you, but they don't. I just think it's very important to remember that the government's not your mommy, your daddy, your parent. They're not your fairy godmother. They are not looking out for you. Okay? So you always have to look out for yourself first. And it's just very important to remember that. I think a lot of you see that, and I think a lot of Democrats don't get that, like, they want the government to solve their problems and that's just like the last person that's going to solve a problem is the government. So, yeah, Owen, that was a good analysis there. Any more on this, you guys? Oh, I know Spencer Pratt was having a problem too, right? They found. I, I don't have this story. I didn't even tell you guys about this, but if anyone knew, like, again, the cheating at time, the, the. They were finding like burned ballots at the ballot boxes or something. So there's already tons of happening in la. Who. Wait, can we have.
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We can talk about the elections tomorrow on Tuesday. Yeah, you're having elections as well. So California, Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey and South Dakota.
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Take a sip with me first. I need to reset. Everyone. Everyone just do it with me. I need a group sip.
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I was like, what's wrong?
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And by the way, Jeff Callahan will be on with us tomorrow, who's been talking about Spencer and writing about Spencer. He'll join us tomorrow to see if predictions are coming true. Marcella, give it to us, sister.
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So there's selections, like I said, in California, Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey and South Dakota say that faster. All candidates in California are on one ballot to the top two advanced for the November elections. The key race is the governor race. There is new polling showing Becerra being up front the Democrat and as well as Tom Steyer. But Steve Hilton is the Republican that's kind of closing in on them. Hopefully he will win. And in regards to the LA Mayor mayoral race, there's been. The clerk of the Recorder's office has given a letter talking about the issues with the ballot boxes, the mail ballot boxes. There was some, some mail in. Ballots were found burned. There was other issues with another ballot box somewhere. El Even Spencer Pratt showed a picture or was it a video of a ballot box being next to this homeless, like, like just this homeless living on top of the ballot box, which, I mean, how. That's, that's great in a way, because it's like it gives him a huge. Anybody voting and putting in the ballot the, you know, would make them want to do that, would make them want to vote for Spencer Pratt. And yeah, I'm hopeful for him. He's. California post had a poll and they had him being the front runner. But as I know how government works around here, there, there is always cheating involved. I could just tell you that there's always someone, something, some lawsuits, something else is going to go down. Hopefully not. And we all are very hopeful. Poor Spencer. And I'm more nervous than Spencer Pratt, probably for him. Yeah, I'm really nervous about it. Iowa is also doing their elections. U. S. Senate. Johnny. Johnny Ernst. She's not doing, she's not being. Not seeking reelection. So there's a competitive Republican primary. Ashley Hinson is most likely the front runner. She is, I believe Trump endorsed her and she's the favorite to win in that. And then there's a governor raised in Iowa as well because there's another governor Kim Reynolds, retiring. The Democrats, Republicans are going one after the other. Um, we have New Jersey, though.
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Oh, not New Jersey again.
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Yeah, we have New Jersey. And in the US Senate primaries, Cory Booker is on a pose on the Democratic side.
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Cory Booker literally thinks he's going to become the president of the United States of America.
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I hope he runs.
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I freaking hope so.
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There is several Republicans running. I don't know if you know any of them. Alex Zan, Richard Tabor, Robert Levobix, Justin Murphy is the only one I can pronounce. They're running for U. S. Senate on the Republican side. Hopefully one of them can beat out Corey. I mean, that shouldn't be that difficult, should it?
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He's been in there forever and nothing's changed. Look at Newark right now. It's on fire. Literally nothing's changed in Newark, really. And he's been there forever. He's just another crybaby, you know, theater kid just putting on performances, trying to get clicks and clips and, you know, people to be like, oh, he's so passionate and masculine now. And I'm like, oh, so he's masculine and he's crying masculine. Well, he's trying to be masculine. Like he's trying to use, like he's using swear words now and he's like trying to posture himself. Well, I know, I know.
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Toxic mail, they're all like, oh, if
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we can throw in a word here and there, then we're masking.
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Is he, is he drinking creatine? Is he taking creatine?
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I don't, I don't think so.
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So the Montana race, not to ignore Montana because we have Walter Kern lives out there. It's a U. S. Senate race. Another senator that's not running for reelection. And so there is a toss up, but Kurt Almi is Trump endorsed and it's most likely the favorite. And there's U.S. house seats and South Dakota is governor as well. And it looks like toady Toby. Oh my gosh, these names. Lord duden is leading.
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Yeah, I mean, thanks, Marcel. That was a lot. So vote if you're voting. Vote, vote, vote. Owen, you were gonna say.
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Well, there's another story that shows that apparently there are some mail in ballots in Los Angeles that were found burned. So apparently the, the meddling is already starting. I'm not sure if that would have come from the left or the right because I suppose you could make a case for both of it, but apparently there was some mail in ballot box outside the department of public social services in LA near the civic center arena or in that arena area. And looks like they found a bunch of ballots that were damaged by fire. So they're trying to assess what, you know, what to do about that. I don't know that they know exactly how the fire started or what. And it sounds like they're going to try and notify the voters that were affected by it to see what their options are. But here we go, I guess in terms of election integrity issues with mail in ballots because you never know what would happen, you know, and how many of these things might be happening outside of what you catch. I think we've saw plenty of that in the 2020 and 2022 elections where people found ballots that were in the trash or, you know, just not where they should have been or showing up from some mysterious place.
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And can't we get it together? I mean, come on, you guys, listen, listen, listen. Why are we so messed up? Honestly? Like, why, why do we even take these stories so seriously and talk about them like every freaking election cycle? Honestly? I mean, Scott, Scott had like that mission. He's like, if you're voting cannot be. If you can't feel like your vote counted it mattered. It wasn't stolen, cheated, nothing. Then we don't have a country. So what are we doing? I mean, every freaking time there's an election, we're like, well, you know, we're trying to stop the fraud and this and that. Honestly, like, give us a way to vote. People like, what did we used to do? We went up and we had like that little thing and you like punch a hole in something. Like, what is it? Whatever the thing is, just stop all the other stuff. Stop the mail in, stop the early voting. I don't. You guys, guys, I vote the same day of an election. Early voting or mail in voting. It's just more time for corruption. Like, we all understand this, don't we? And by the way, for my friends, like holy. Who live in places where they can basically only do mail in voting, that has to stop too. So everybody needs to be able to show up somewhere, make this stupid day a federal holiday, a national holiday. It's election day. It's a holiday. You don't have to work. You can plan all year around getting to that one place, make it a family vacation, whatever you have to do, Go that day and vote, okay? Because this is so dumb that we're America. We're like, oh, we're going to go live on Mars thanks to Elon. And you know, we're going to do all this stuff, but we can't get our voting right. It's such bs. I, I, I just can't understand. It's embarrassing. It's literally put the paint on my finger. I don't care. The ink, whatever it is, I'll do it. I just want it to be fair. I want people to actually be represented by the people they choose that they feel like is best for them. In the time we're living in, the only thing we ever talk about after elections is, well, do you think it there was fraud? Like, how much fraud do you think? How many votes do you think were stolen? What did Georgia do? Well, they stopped counting ballots. Like, this is what we talk about with elections. Like, no one ever feels good about it. But yeah, I don't know. I'll move on from it. But watch tomorrow. This is what the conversations will be all around is about the potential fraud. So, Owen, I think you had another story for us and I'll switch gears ranting on a Monday.
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Speaking of fraud, I don't know if we talked about this before, but There was a CIA employee that was caught with 300kg of gold and millions in foreign currency. And anyone like me, who's kind of metric handicapped. I think that's over 600 pounds of gold bars. But the latest is that they also talked about how his resume appears to be fake, that he made up a lot of stuff on his resume and he'd been working there for 15 years. So apparently you have to steal 600 pounds of gold before they start checking your resume to see if you're actually who you say you are in the CIA. And so I think it just reduces the credibility and trust of anything out of the CIA. I think the story behind it is that it is typical that they do request whatever it is, currency, diamonds, gold, to give to their informants because they obviously just can't pay them, like, with something that could be easily traced. And so, you know, that's essentially what I think happened, is that he kept requesting things, but just kept keeping them and saying it was business expense of whatever sort, where he probably was saying, oh, I need to pay my informant to get information, but he was just creating a stockpile, and I think he tried to escape with all the money and got caught. But it's just kind of ridiculous and shows how little control the CIA really has over this and how few checks are really there.
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There.
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Mark said 2.2 pounds per kilogram, and I believe Mark. Yeah. So, by the way, let's open Fort Knox. I'm just curious. That's amazing. So talk about learning on the job, right? For 15 years, the resume was fake. Gotta love this guy.
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Yeah, he. He falsely claimed to have degrees from Clemson and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and claimed to be a Navy pilot. I don't know how you don't. Don't verify any of that. Like, how do you. How do you not catch that in the interview process? Wouldn't they at least check his military records?
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Wow.
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I'm just looking at some comments here, Marcela, anything on this story, or you just like, what the heck?
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No, I mean, I guess you just have to ask for the gold bars, and if you're an agent, you. You receive them. Like, that's great. So he was also found with $2 million. Maybe you said this on $2 million in cash as well. And dozens of Rolex watches, his original home. Wow.
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And he didn't even have to pay for Clemson. That's amazing. He's way ahead of the game. While he was. Leon Panetta was head of CIA at the time. Interesting. All right, so what do we have? We have 10 minutes. All right, so what other stories did you guys want to get to? And I wa I did watch Bill Maher this morning for you guys. Yes, Spencer Pratt was. And it was funny because you know Bill, he's, like, always, like, a little, like, cranky, whiny.
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He's.
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Listen, he's older. Spencer's younger. But it was cute because Spencer is very, very true to himself. So when Bill was like, you got to stop with this, and he's like, no, like, this is. This is why I'm running. And, you know, he's like, well, how. You know, how are you gonna fix my permitting for solar panels? He's like, solar panels? He's like, do you know how much stuff we have to get to before anyone can worry about your solar panels? He's like, you know, this. This city is so messed up. And so he just kept ranting and ranting, and Bill's face kind of changed, and he's like, yeah, this guy's right. Like, we got so much more to do before I can worry about solar panel taxing and this and that. So I think that he became a fan, for lack of a better word, and rather supportive. He's told him not to change. He was doing the right thing because he did try to change his strategy a little. And then by the end, he's like, don't change anything you're doing. And I know a lot of us can't stand Bill Maher. I like him. I. I like Bill Maher. I've liked him forever since whatever his show used to be called. What was it called?
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Politically Incorrect. Politically Incorrect back in the day.
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Yeah. Yeah. I liked him since then because he
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was the first to talk about Islam and. And against it, and that's why he got canceled.
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Right. So, yeah, after 9, 11, like I said to Gad. Sad. You know, we all became like, you know, oh, no, don't you. Um. So, yeah, I like him. I think he's a pain in the ass about a lot of stuff, but generally, if he gets new information and can be convinced in a. In a way that he can understand, he'll change his opinion. He'll soften on things. So I like that. And even after Trump, like, re. Attacked him again, he's not even railing against Trump anymore. He's just like, I don't care, you know? So I. I like that. All right, so Owen or Marcella, did you want to hit us?
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I just wanted to bring up the. Colombia had their elections last this Sunday. The last Sunday, and they had. They had a runoff because Nobody had the 50 threshold. They're gonna have the runoff on June 21, but basically Al Alardo de la 1. He's a right wing candidate, sort of like naive Bukele and Yvonne Sepeda, the leftist candidate, lost and advanced. Paytas Beta is already saying that there's, like, fraud in the election because he didn't win. So there's going to be a runoff on June 21. I would say go vote, but that would be weird because then, you know, unless you're Colombian.
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Bukele's here, right? What's he doing? Is he going to help us make America great again?
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Again?
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Does anyone know why he's here?
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I hope so. Me too.
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Yeah, but this, this Espirilla. Espirilla seems to be described as a pro Trump nationalist. And so I would say it is a sign that maybe some countries are waking up to the fact that they might do better if they're friendly to Trump, you know, as opposed to what happened in Venezuela and what might be about to happen in Cuba. Cuba, I'm guessing Colombia might be seeing that it might be to their benefit to have someone who can get along with and negotiate with Trump rather than having us come in and just do, you know, have our way with them.
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So he, he was quoted saying something like, naive. Under my government, any bandit who resists will be eliminated as appropriate. And if he submits, we will imprison him in a mega prison so he can pay his debt to justice, as they should, eye for an eye. Just. No, he didn't say that. But basically, enforce just law enforcement is a big deal in Latin America now because of how much crime there is there, as. As it should be in Los Angeles.
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Okay. Oh, and any last story for us?
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Well, Trump reposted, I think, some kind of video about how there's a claim that the FBI refused to release 11,000 hours of January 6th footage. I think it was, you know, based on some testimony from a former agent named George Hill. And he's claiming that the Washington field office refused to release all this video, and they claimed it was to protect the identities of undercover agents and confidential human sources. Now, just think about that for a second. Let's assume for the moment that that's true. I don't think it is, but let's assume it is. That means there's 11,000 hours of footage that show confidential human sources and agents. That's a lot of agents and confidential human sources. So I don't think that cover story works, because if there really were 11,000 hours that they have to redact just to protect those identities, that means there was a Lot of people there that were government connected. And I think the more obvious answer is they just wanted to control the narrative and they wanted to not show anything that would go against that narrative. I think there have been plenty of stories of people who were gone after where they very selectively cherry picked or even just completely fabricated kind of like a Rupar sort of thing where I read about one person story. I can't remember his name, but it was where they. They showed still photos of this person and he was like a former law enforcement person himself and he was there. But like they showed this picture that made it look like he was pushing down a barrier or pushing a barrier down towards the lines. And he. There was a picture that made it seem like he was angry and putting his finger up towards the. The police or whatever. But then apparently he was able to get a defense lawyer. And they combed through all the YouTube footage and some of his friends helped with it, and they found that it was completely rupart. It was like exactly the opposite of what those still photos showed. It was like he was helping the police. They showed him. They showed him holding some kind of black object that made it seem like it was some bad thing. But what he was doing was he. He noticed that the cops had dropped certain items and that cops get in a lot of trouble when they. They lose things. Like one of them was a cap. And he. He picked out. He picked up the item and gave it back to the policeman. And he was, you know, saying things like hold the line to the policeman to like, you know, be on their side. And so he was doing the exact opposite of what they were claiming he was doing. And I think his felony. His felony charges got dropped as a result because I think he did a good job with his defense. But he still got convicted of misdemeanors for like trespassing and whatever else was in there. And the prosecution still tried to give him like 11 months, which is probably the maximum can get for a misdemeanor. And so it was just totally out of control. I mean, such tremendous abuse in this whole process. And so I think this 11,000 hours just goes to support that same thing that they're clearly. They clearly were hiding the truth and they were trying to twist it as much as they possibly could to make it into something that was the opposite of what it was.
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I have that clip and I also want to tell you guys that I'm trying to put together like a couple of days where we talk about just J6 with some special people, but here's that quick clip if you guys want to hear this.
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No, we're not uploading. We're not starting cases on these people. To which they said, well, we're going to call your sac. And the SSA said, go right ahead, because when you're pushing back, you know, you want to make sure that you have your, your six covered. So the SAC and the ASAC were intimately aware of these kinds of exchanges that were going on. And again, to his credit, Joe Bonneville onto said, no, we're not opening up cases on people who went to a rally. And I forgot a key part. The SSA for CT2 said, Happy to do it. Show us where they were inside the Capitol and we'll look into it. To which WFO said, we can't show you those videos unless you can tell us the exact time and place those individuals were inside the Capitol. To which the SSA responded back. And I was privy to these conversations firsthand. Why can't you show us? Why can't you just send us, give us access to the 11,000 hours of video that's available? Because there may be maybe UC's undercover officers or CHS's confidential uniform, confidential human sources on those videos whose identity we need to protect.
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So we have one minute left. So that was the clip. But you guys, I, I, if any of you remember, like, when J6 happened, I know a lot of us felt so enraged because you could see that this was an op for sure, and, and Ray Epps, like just Ray Epps alone, is just all you really need to remember. So we're going to talk more about it. So I'm, I don't want to announce who the guests could be to talk about this with us, but I'm working on it for all of us. Okay? So, that being said, I'm sorry to end so abruptly, but it's just time now. We will be back tomorrow, so we're going to see how LA is doing. Marcella. So I invited Jeff to come on with us to talk. We'll do a wrap up on those things and we have some more fun things planned for tomorrow and for this week. Oh, I got a special surprise for you guys on Thursday. I'll tell you tomorrow. So. All right, Owen, Marcella, any closing goodbyes for the fam?
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Just go vote, Owen.
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Go vote and be useful.
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Go vote and be useful. Go vote and go home. Okay, you guys, thank you so much for being here. And we'll be back tomorrow morning. And we'd like to thank Scott and Shelley for allowing this podcast to continue. The Scott Adams School and everybody, a closing sip. To Scott and go. Be useful. To Scott.
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To Scott.
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It.