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Marcel. Marcel is very excited.
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Good morning, everybody.
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A
Somebody clipped that Woo. She just made.
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B
It's a. It's a Thursday. What is. It is a Thursday. And the U.S. plays today, you guys. I know for the east coast, that's a 10pm tonight, but stay up. They're going to Defeat Turkey, hopefully 10 o' clock tonight, 7pm Our time. Because it's an LA game.
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C
Oh, I asked about that game. I think after they were winning the last one and. And they were like, yeah, it's kind of even odds. I'm like, really? It's even odds. And it was. It explained. It's like the reason for that is because they basically already won. So they're just going to rest all their best players and who knows, you know, they don't really care if they win this one, basically.
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Really?
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Yeah. Because this World cup for, to be inclusive, started off with 48 teams. Usually it's 32 teams, so they're playing more games. So you have to. It's kind of a marathon, so you kind of have to rest your best players.
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C
Do I have any LGBTQ2 spirit teams?
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What happened? Oh, yes, they had.
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They do. They have LGBTQ2 spirit teams that are questioning everything.
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I think they should have some of the women's team just, you know, become trans men and form a team and be in the World Cup.
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A
All right, Owen.
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B
I would totally become a trans men to be there, but anyways,
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A
I can't. I, like, I have so much, like, going on right now and this nonsense is just making me more confused. You look, even my headphones are backwards. Hold on.
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B
Everybody's thirsty, though. Erica.
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Look at them.
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They're holding their cup. They're like.
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I know, I know. Are we ready? Oh, Brandon is coming, you guys. He's coming. He's just running a little late, but time for the sip.
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We can still enjoy the best part of the day. It's called the simultaneous hip. And you don't need much to participate. No, you don't need coronavirus. Completely optional. But if you have it, your coffee is going to taste extra good. All you need is a coffee. Let me try that again. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker. Chalice or stein, A canteen, sugar flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's a simultaneous sip.
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Go.
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D
That's a crisis quality there.
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Okay, I'm Gonna have to ask Jay Plemons, like, speed us through the coronavirus. He does our clips for us, our sip clips. And let's just get out of coronavirus. Okay? Does everyone agree? I don't want to hear about it ever again. I. I hate it. And also, you know, if you ever had Covid, your coffee did not taste good. If you had coronavirus, it tasted like caca. So did Scott ever get Covid? He did. He did.
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C
Did you have Covid?
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I had Covid. Wasn't too bad, but I had it at some point. Kind of like. Like a year or so into it. What about you guys?
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I heard Kobe because of a famous person, but I won't give any details.
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A
Oh, okay. Do you got.
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C
Sounds like we need deets.
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Like, I'll be getting the details.
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B
It's like, the one person, they gave it to me. Yeah, yeah.
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All right.
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C
I had Covid, but It was, like, 20, 23. Like, it was two or three years into it. It was a long time because I was working at home before that even, and so I hardly saw anybody. I would go out to do grocery shopping. That's about it. And so I was just. I was already kind of isolated to begin with. And, you know, at first, I took it pretty seriously. Like, I was like, I don't know what this thing is, and I don't want to die, so I'm just gonna stay home as much as I can. And. And then I started, you know, taking all the stuff. Like, early on, it might have been the hydroxychloroquine. Later, it was ivermectin, all the other things just prophylactically along with, you know, I paid attention to all the studies saying this. If you take this, it looks like it reduces symptoms or it reduces your chance of getting infected or whatever. And so I would just. I collected a whole assortment of things. I had a whole protocol of probably 15 or 20 things I was taking. It was kind of crazy for a while, but it worked, you know, for a long time. And I did eventually get it, but it was like, three years later. I think it was the omicron thing phase. It was kind of, like, not very serious.
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B
Yes, he did.
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A
When did you just change your shirt? During the.
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When I. When I reacted very excitedly at the beginning of.
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Oh, my God. I didn't know what. All of a sudden, someone said in the chat, and I'm like, oh, my God, he did change his shirt. I'm telling you guys, I have so much going on in my head that is so wacky I saw him change it, too. All right, so. Okay.
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C
Yeah, so.
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But I.
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C
It wasn't that serious. I know. I had a blood oxygen monitor because I was ready for it.
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B
Oh, wow. You were very serious about it.
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C
Well, it's. I got one on Amazon. It wasn't that expensive. It was like maybe 20, 30 bucks. Like, it's just one of the battery powered ones that you put on your finger. And I never dropped blood oxygen at all. And I had. I had probably two or three things that were like, okay, I'm not going to take this all the time, but I'm going to take it if I get Covid. And I took those. And it lasted like two or three days. It was kind of just like a bad flu. I had a scratchy throat for a while and then it went away.
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Oh, God bless. All right. Well, we survived it. Never again. I'm not getting it again. I don't care if it's here. I'm done. So. Good morning. My name is Erica. We're here with Marcella and Owen, who survived Covid, thank God. And we'd like to welcome you to the Scott Adams school. It is June 25, 2026. Marcella's very excited because right now a lot of Supreme Court decisions are coming in, so she's, you know, like a kid in the candy shop wanting to read them all. And we do have a guest today. Brandon Darby. He's a journalist slash activist slash informant, but most of all, expert on all things border and migration and the problems that causes for the country. And he said a very colorful and amaz, interesting life. So he's just running a little bit late. In the meantime, Marcella, is there any decision that came in yet that you wanted to talk about? Are you just keeping an eye out?
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C
I see something that just came in.
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Oh, tell us, tell us.
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C
There's the Wolford versus Lopez. Alito is in the majority. Six to three libs were in dissent. Of course, Hawaii's law prohibiting license control, concealed carry, permit holders from carrying handguns on private property. So it looks like that went the way we wanted to. So I think that's one of them. Looks like the other One is Monsanto vs. Durnel. Kavanaugh was in the majority. It was 7 to 2. The dissent was KBJ and Gorish. It held that Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide act expressively preempts state law. Failure to warn claim. So I guess that. I don't. I guess that's against. Or is it for the companies? I don't know, I can't really tell.
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I'm just looking at the chat and I. Sophia, especially because you're in Texas. Yes. Brandon Darby is a Texas native and he writes for Breitbart pretty much about, like, on like the Texas border, the cartels.
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He.
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He's just like, really interesting. What I like about him is that he was a left wing activist first. And what happened was some of the people, I mean, he can correct me if I'm wrong, but some of the people that, you know, he was protesting with admitted to making some Molotov cocktails that they were going to throw. And, you know, he was like, well, you know, you could end up killing people. And they were just like, I don't care. And so he realized, like, you know what, this is going way too far. And the feds asked him to become an informant and he did. He went undercover and was able to thwart some plots that were leading up to the rnc, the Republican National Committee convention. And yes, he was a big Tea Party guy. And just like, really interesting. And Owen and I were talking before the show. There's been multiple documentaries made about him. One called Informant. So he's just really cool in the fact that he's seen things from all different angles and different sides. So I can't wait. Yeah, he was. Scott had him on like maybe like eight or nine years ago, as I think, like just via periscope maybe. And that's where I first met him. And he just gave such an. A different perspective than we kept hearing about illegal immigration coming over here. And, you know, he made me think about it because I wasn't thinking about it so hard. But he was just like, you know, if you import gangs from a third world country, there's still those same gangs here in another country and they still have the same beef with each other that they had there. But now they bring their beef here and they're still going to fight in the streets and they're still going to do all their gang stuff. It's not like they come here and they change. And I was like, oh my God, like, why didn't I ever think of it that way? And then, of course, you know, we absolutely saw the decline of the immigrants that were coming here. It's not like, you know, you would hear, you know, the celebrities making stupid comments about, like, who's going to clean your bathroom? And it's like, you know what? That's not who's coming here or housekeepers, famous people, but it's gang members and cartels and drug dealers and sex trafficking, child trafficking, all of the trafficking. And so now we're like riddled with these people all over our country and all over the world. But I can only speak for America right now, but we're seeing lots of countries falling because of this stuff. So I'm going to press mute because Brandon's calling me and you guys talk about another decision.
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Well, it looks like the, the second one that I talked about, the Wolford versus Lopez, was in in favor of the Second and the 14th Amendments. So it looks like that went the way we'd wanted to, that it was saying that this Hawaii law was violating the Second Amendment and the 14th, apparently. So that was good.
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Talk about, talk about Mullen that just came out.
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Which one is this?
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Mullen? M U L l see.
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I'm just, I'm just surfing X, so I'm just looking. Okay, here it is. So the third opinion is Mullen vs Alado. The court holds that asylum seekers do not arrive in the United States for the purposes of federal immigration law until they physically cross the border. So I guess that would say whatever the issue was, someone was arguing that they have arrived in the United States in terms of having certain rights or asylum claims or whatever, and that this, it looks like they're ruling against that, that they're saying they actually have to physically be here to have whatever that asylum thing would. I'm pulling up the opinion itself.
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I'm reading it. So I'm like, I'm reading some of it.
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It says an alien standing in Mexico does not arrive in the United States by attempting and failing to set foot in this country.
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The one I'm waiting for, you guys is Trump v. Barbara, which is the birthright citizenship case, which should come out today. Well, perhaps there they. So the Supreme Court can decide to have another day for opinions right now. They haven't indicated when that would be besides today. So that one's a very hot topic, as we know. And there is also different ones. Which one was it? There's the removal of Federal Reserve Board members. Trump B Cook. A lot of them are like, Trump be Trump be Slaughter. Whether the FTC statutory protections against presidential removal are constitutional. So those three are very important to see what power Trump has. But the main one is the Trumpy Barbara. But that has not come out right.
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Again, I'm just sort of like, refreshing. The latest. I don't see Trump yet. It looks like the Roundup case was overturned. Yeah, I think it, I think what I took away from the Roundup case was that there was something about having to label it as being causing cancer. And they said they don't have to because one law preempts the other. Let's see.
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Well, we can talk about other, other cases. We talked yesterday about the D.C. ruling. I think I kind of butchered it. That is the make the Road New York. The Mark Wayne Mullen State Secretary of DHS so it's versus the United States. And that's regarding the Trump. Trump created a rule in 2025 expanding the expedited removal. So part of the, the issue with how many immigrants we have, illegal immigrants we have, is that they all get due process rights. It takes forever to remove them, and forever. It's not their fault. It's just the, you know, if there's many people in line, then there will be a wait to be heard by a judge and all sorts of things. So this January 2025 expansion of the expedited removal rule was something that Trump wanted to administer and do. But of course, you know, there came make the Road New York again and all the other NGOs, and they tried to stop it. And so there was a judge, the district court that, you know, held, held the case, blocked it from moving forward. This new expedited removal, the D.C. court held that it vacated the district's court stay. That just happened. When did that happen? On Monday. And so basically it allows Trump and the DHS to move forward with expedited removal. But so where does expedited removal apply to? It applies to immigrants, illegal immigrants that have been here less than two years. And what you think about is that when President Biden opened the gates and everybody came in, all these people would not really be part of this example DA removal because it's been more than two years they've been here. And, you know, even though this started in 2025, where Trump came in, it doesn't go back to that time. It goes back to June 23, Monday. So basically that's where we are. But most likely what they will ask is front end bank decision that we talked about. But that's one of the cases.
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All right, you guys are catching up on the cases. Just FYI, Brandon, he kept trying to come in and I said, how about tomorrow? Because I want, I really want him on for the whole show because he's so interesting. So he's nice enough to. He's going to join us tomorrow, you guys. Not late at the same time, so we can all come on screen together. There's some weird glitch with Rumble and I Just think of Scott and laugh when these things happen. Because, you know, I could hear, I can hear the voice of our angel Scott cursing in my head right now. So let's see. Oh, Stephen Lang's pretending I was talking to him. So you guys are catching up on all of the court stuff. Can we do me a favor, though? Because I did want to, if we can just like, shift course for a minute. I did want to catch up on what was going on with Iran, which I wanted to do yesterday, but I didn't have time. I don't have any clips today, so I'm just counting on what you guys have seen or read. So do either one of you have the latest of what's going on with what's happening in Iran?
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So, I mean, the more intelligent people in the show here probably understand why. I saw Marco Rubio all over my ex today, but he made a lot of comments regarding Iran. So the main issue with the Iran deal, you guys talked about it last week, I'm sure, but it's a lot of the Iranians come out with their own news and their own propaganda, and it's like, wait, it's like the opposite of the deal, the mou. And so, and so people are like, what's going on? Are you guys talking to each other? Because there's a difference between what Iran says to their people and between what you say and blah, blah, blah. So I was going to say President Rubio in the future Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a comment on that and he pushed back. He says the propaganda lies being put out by Iranian government on negotiations of the United States. They're not interested in their press conferences. He says basically, they don't care what they're saying, Iranian propaganda and all that. They know it's propaganda and what they care about is whether ships are moving in the Strait of Hormuz.
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And then also, you can't collect. No one can collect tolls for it because it's, you know, a waterway you can't collect tolls on. So, or, or
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charge an insurance, which they call that the Iranians wanted to charge insurance because it's not at all. But anyways, go ahead.
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So, so, so what I've been seeing is that, you know, we come out and say one thing and then Iran's like, nope, nope, we're not doing any of that. We didn't agree to that, you know, not happening. So basically it's just like, I feel like I'm just as confused as I always am with this war that the, the Goal posts keep moving, the propaganda keeps flying, and of course, it's propaganda on both sides. So I don't know, Owen, if you've seen anything beside that, I'm assuming Trump's getting pretty frickin fed up, and I don't know what that's going to mean in the long run. I, I really am just, like, counting on you guys to get me up to speed on that.
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Yeah, well, I mean, what I've seen is the Schrodinger's War, where it's like, we don't really know what's happening, we don't know what was agreed to, we don't know what the other side's going to do. I think I certainly trust that Trump is telling the truth about what's in the MoU, but as far as, did they actually agree to it, or, you know, what did they. What are they going to actually do to comply with it? That's all still an open thing, and I think we just have to see how it plays out. I. I don't. I don't know that we can do anything other than just watch what happens. And I think, you know, I'm sure it probably will be kind of like what happened with Gaza, where, you know, Trump says, okay, we're, we're done. Like, that's it, we have, we have an agreement. And, and if you remember, Gaza was. Hamas was like the same thing. Like, we didn't agree to this, we didn't, you know, and so Trump just kind of made it happen. Right. And it's still not fully resolved, probably, because as far as I know, Hamas hasn't been fully disarmed and there still are little uprisings and things that have happened since then that have violated the ceasefire and all that. And. But it's certainly not at the scale that it was before. And I think that's probably what we're going to see with Iran, too, is there'll be little things here and there and we'll just kind of move on and almost like, pretend it didn't happen or, you know, take whatever response we need to, to put a stop to whatever's happening, but otherwise that'll be it. And that would be my prediction, is that we just will try and make this deal happen and make it, you know, the truth, essentially, even if there are violations. And I'm guessing part of it is that they've lost control of their country. You know, they don't really have unified leadership at this point. So what the Gayetola says is not necessarily what Golubov says is not necessarily what the IRGC says, it's not necessarily whatever the propaganda outlets there say. And so it'll probably take him some time to just get coordinated again.
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I did hear that they have some pretty high tech drones over there now. Did you hear that, that, that you know the art, you know, our American plane that went down like in the first part, the pilots. Now it's been revealed that they said there was like a drone swarm that looked like a giant like squid. So it had like a big formation with like little, I don't know if you want to call them like entrails or tentacles that came down below it. But they said that I believe that that's what took their plane down. So I don't know, I'm, I'm guessing what they're getting those maybe from China?
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Yeah, it could be. I mean, you know, but I guess it's hard to know exactly what that was. Like it sounds like, oh, it's this jellyfish, ufo, you know, thing. But I'm pretty sure it was just drones. And if it was something like the China ones, that doesn't necessarily mean they're military. Like I don't know what kind of capabilities they really had. It might have been just, you know, the types of drones you see in those shows that China puts on where they do these complicated formations. And it's all very advanced from a technological standpoint, but not necessarily from a military capability perspective. So maybe they did it just to like mess with the plane. And it could have been one of the reasons it was taken down. But it, from what I remember for some of that stuff, it was kind of like accidental or, you know, not necessarily like it attacked the plane, maybe the plane hit the formation, I don't know. You know, so it's hard to know exactly what that was. And I, I'm, I'm certainly not ready to panic and say, oh my God, they have, you know, next generation drone technology that's going to take us all down. But I do think that is a threat going forward. And there was a story I posted today about that, how the FBI was saying it's just a matter of time before we start seeing, seeing some of these drone threats in the United States. And you know, that's right back to Scott's prediction of the religion war, right where he was talking about that how you can get to the point where there'd be strong so just can't be stopped and you have to treat it almost like a nuclear threat at that point.
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Yeah, the drones are they're pretty scary. I mean, you could just, you know, I don't want to scare anyone, but, you know, obviously the technology of just being very precise and getting in behind little corners, I mean, they could fly into your window of your house if your window's open. It's pretty, pretty freaky. Marcella, I know you had a bunch of stories lined up for us today, too. Was there something that you think the, the sippers in particular need to know about?
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Yeah, there's many things they need to know about, but in regards to one of the main ones is the Postmaster General.
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The.
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There was an executive order in March signed by President Trump regarding holding back mail in ballots, that of states that did not provide their border rolls. So then the Postmaster General came out and said that he was going to move forward with that. Now there's obviously court cases trying to litigate that issue, whether President Trump, under an executive order can do that. But the good thing, you guys, is that there's no block or stay on the rule. So. So Postmaster General is moving forward with it. So what does that look like exactly? They wouldn't allow these mail in ballots to go to certain specific places. Remember, we're having an election in November, and technically it's federal election, even though they're state act, you know, state elections within that election date. So that's what the Postmaster Journal can do. I love it. You know, it is what it is. I'm sure they're going to try to get some kind of state. They haven't been able to get one yet. So that's good.
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Yeah, that is good. I'm glad. But I just want to get rid of mail in ballots altogether, personally. But it's a step, I guess, in the right direction. There's so many people, I keep hearing, they're like, oh, my God, like, we're getting all these ballots sent to our house or people that used to live here, family members that are dead. I'm like, this is so insane.
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The dead have a right to vote.
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They don't. They did have a right to vote and now they don't. Marcella. No shade. Rest in peace. But
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B
then, yeah, then there is just real quick. The Supreme Court came out indicating that the border agents can deny green card holders. Green card holders, meaning that they are legal immigrants reentry into the United States if they were charged with a crime. So. And that's the Supreme Court, 6 to 3 decision, final decision, no way to appeal it. A lawful permanent resident seeking admission again to the United States when they return from Abroad if they have certain crimes. So between the law, it has to be a crime of moral torpitude usually, but it doesn't indicate there would. I would have to look further into it. This allows officers potentially to deny reentry and subject them to stricter inadmissibility. So they'll have to wait at that country in order to do their case from there. So that's, that's a big win for.
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We do remain in Mexico. Again, not to put anyone on the spot, but remember, Trump did remain in Mexico. Then Biden undid it. Trump reinstated that right. So I feel like, I feel like
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there was a stay on that when he was trying to reinstate it, but I would have to look into it. Give me one. You can. Owen, you can go ahead while I research that.
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C
Well, I was looking at one of the other rulings that came out. It was Mullen vs Doe. Apparently there were two Mullen cases and this one is having to do with the TPS statute. And it looks like they're saying that the TPS statute bars judicial review of non constitutional claims. And so it looks like they're overturning this case. They say reversed and remanded back to court. So looks like they're. I'm not really sure. Again, I'm not really sure what that means because I don't know all the details of this. It had to do with a Haiti TPS thing where they were talking about whether or not it violated someone's constitutional rights.
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Okay, so you guys, sorry, we're a little unorganized, but the other thing that I was just looking at that I wanted to talk about tomorrow, but because Brandon's going to be on tomorrow and I'm sorry, I don't have clips, but you guys can imagine is the earthquake in Venezuela. I don't know if everyone knows this, but there was a vicious earthquake in Venezuela yesterday. I think there was like two of them and they were like a 7.4 magnitude, but. Oh, my God. It was near Caracas. And the damage, I don't know what the death toll is, but I don't know if either one of you pulled that story. Yes, Dr. Von Hardy. Stella was acting up. She couldn't get out of the room, but she made her way out. In Japan, too, there was one. Oh, my gosh, the one in Japan
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is not as serious. It was a big one. It was like 6.9. But you have to understand that's like every number on that Richter scale is, is an order of magnitude. So like 7.4 is a lot bigger than 6.9. And the. I think the one in Japan was offshore. So as far as I know, there's no deaths or there's no, like, major stuff. There's no tsunami warning or anything that I.
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That I saw there.
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But.
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So it was.
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The one in Venezuela is really.
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Yeah, really, really bad. I mean, like, the buildings are leaning in. I don't know if there's, you know, if they have an idea of how many people died, but it. It was. The videos were so scary. Just one after the other, and you're just so vulnerable. There's nothing you can do. And just chunks of buildings falling and, like, hitting people and a. So, I mean, however you pray or send good thoughts, please. It's so scary what's going on. And then someone said there was one in California. So now I'm just going through news stories that I wanted to talk about. And also, I don't have, like, the details of this either. But also very important is Mike Lindell. So Mike Lindell, who. We love his news channel. He's got the badass news chicks over there. Dominion dropped their case against him, which I want to dig into today. Like, why did they drop it? Seems interesting to me. But he has committed to. He's like, they may have dropped it, but I'm not stopping what I'm doing. Like, I'm going to keep digging in and, you know, proving the fraud. And I am curious. I haven't heard President Trump mention his name or, you know, see him. Has anyone else I like? They used to pal around pretty good. Mike Lindell is the. My pillow guy, and he's probably one of the biggest patriots out there. And I believe he's running for governor of Minnesota. That's where he's based. And Minnesota's got all those Somalia problems. But today, I promise I'm going to dig into what's going on with Mike Lindell, because I just feel like he has put so much of his own money into fighting the good fight for all of us. And I don't feel like he's been getting support lately or, like, notoriety or attention. And we need to. We need to bring him back to the forefront. He's a great guy. Yeah. Dominion, I don't think to the lawsuit,
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there was a settlement between both parties. And the main reason for the drop is because Dominion changed ownership into a Republican, previous Republican, back in 2025. October 2025. Dominion was acquired by Liberty Vote, who was founded by Scott Leyendecker, who was a former Republican election director from San Luis. So the main thing, the main idea is that that, that's one of the reasons why there was all these losses. Probably will be dropped against Michael and all the other.
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Yeah, you guys get your pillows from him and his sheets from Giza. Not Gaza. Like I said that one day I was like, wait, are his sheets from Gaza? That doesn't make sense. No. Giza on the earthquake.
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I'm looking at the stories I have. I don't think they really have a death count at this point there.
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164 was the last death count and 40, 000 people missing. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean the, the estimates I saw said it could be 10,000 or even up to a hundred thousand, 000 people die from this. But that's like based on the size of the quake and what that could mean, you know, so they're kind of just speculating, so we don't know. But it looks like they may need international assistance. I think Trump is already coming out saying they're going to offer assistance. China is also jumping in saying they're ready to help. And so. And I see another estimate saying, again, like, just based on past history, this could be an economic loss of 2 to 20% of their GDP.
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I mean, this, this country has been through so much for so long and, you know, I just like, my heart just really sang for them yesterday. I'm like, God, how much can these people go through? It's terrible. You know, lots of countries are going through stuff. But I was just thinking, you know, it's just been hell. It's just been hell. Let me see. And what else did I want to tell you guys about? I wish I had pulled clips and I will always be prepared moving forward because you never know. I promise.
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In regards to the case that, that Owen was talking about, Mullen B. Do, it's a great win for the Trump administration because what that stands for is under tps. That's temporary status for Haitians and Syrians, or in that case it was Haitian. I believe the Syrians also got that. It basically says that the. But the courts can't really review these things as much. So basically the ruling allows DHS and Trump to continue and the stay is over. They're able to move forward with removing and pushing, terminating the tps. So TPS is usually done by, by the federal government to, for countries like Venezuela or anything. Anybody. Like in Haiti, I believe it was done because of the earthquake there.
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Yeah.
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And it allows people from there to come here on a temporary basis. And basically this says you guys get to control that if you want to undo your TPS and you want to terminate it, you can do that as an executive order.
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Okay. I. I think Trump is getting some wins, which is good. And I especially love the one that we. We attempted to discuss yesterday about, you know, being able to deport easier, faster, all that good stuff. I'm just pulling up a clip from Venezuela right now so I can show you guys. Here we go. Well, let's see. So let's see if this works. Here's. Here's a clip from the earthquake.
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Mariko.
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Mariko.
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Mariko. I mean, you can't even imagine, right? You just can't imagine. Like, what do you do? Where do you go?
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What.
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What do you do?
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I know they'd probably want to be in, like, an open field, something away from all buildings.
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The chaos, It goes on from there. Yeah. It's just so, so sad and scary. And I wanted to. I wanted to quick get a clip in there because it's like, I feel like we need to see sometimes, like, what's happening. You hear about it and you're like, oh, yeah, you know, there was a tornado or whatever, but it's just like, you look around and then, of course, you know me. I saw a couple of clips this morning where they're finding more dogs that are alive under the rubble. And I'm like, get the dogs and the people and the people. But, you know, you know how I get.
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Leave the people behind.
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We just. Owen and I were just having a conversation before we started the show about you guys. Did you see my mug today? A lot of, you know, I love me some squirrels. Well, particular squirrels. And, you know, so then Owen's like, I don't mind the squirrels, but the rabbits. And I'm like, what? And he almost told me a story about the rabbits that I don't want to hear because it doesn't end well for the rabbits. So that's why I'm the person who's like, save the dogs in the earthquake.
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In my defense, I will just say the rabbit started it.
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He said.
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He actually said the rabbit started. Started it. I'm like, owen, come on now. So silly. But yeah, all over X. Oh, my God. I'm looking right now. There's just so much crazy footage. It's so scary. So we do pray for. For everybody, anywhere that's going through something, it's just crazy when you see it. The other.
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Some people are blaming Trump for the earthquake. Did you know that?
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No.
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Yeah.
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They're like, oh, interesting, because there was There was a 7.2 and a 7.5 all at once. Like, they were two different earthquakes at first. Either it was 7.1 or 7.5, but there were two of them one after the other. And they were like, interesting moment where it happens when they need Venezuela to be. So maybe there'll be an Iranian earthquake. I don't know if that's something he can do.
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I mean, Trump, yeah, trust in Trump. He can do anything. I'm just kind of like looking at different headlines. Also overnight in Cabo San Lucas, Baja, California, sir, a driver ran over 17 people during a World cup celebrations. The motorists accelerated into the crowd following Mexico's victory. So I, you know, I'm just never going to understand, like, yay, we won. Let's celebrate. And run people over and destroy a city is just beyond me. And I don't know how you fix these problems. I don't know. I just don't know. So that was, that's my World cup news as I look at headlines. Yeah, terrible, right? And then, so we have started the 250 year America birthday celebrations. And I know there was some festivities going on last night, but I don't feel like I'm really informed about, like, what's happening with the celebrations. I'm like, wait, are we celebrating now? Like, this is actually happening? What are we doing? What's next? But so it looks like the celebrations continue, except for the Democrats, who are very upset about America's birthday.
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They just heard about that is just we're starting that America State Fair. So there's some kind of like National State Fair sort of thing going on.
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Is this the thing where people were supposed to be singing last night?
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I believe there was singing involved or there will be.
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No, there was.
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There will be singing, like, backed out that thing performing.
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I don't know exactly what she was going to do.
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So. So there's 2. There's 2.
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2.
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There's Freedom 250 and then there's America 250. That had been planned for a long time. And that's the diversity, inclusion, folk in that one. And that one's the big name stars. And I don't know too much about that one as I'm not part of that crowd. But yeah, they have planned things for that.
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So.
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So the Democrats do have plans for America 250 as well.
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Okay. All right, good.
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There was a story I wanted to bring up and wanted to see your perspective on this because it comes from a very favorite person of our show, someone that we really like in Congress and. But the idea is not. Well, let me just tell you the news, and then you can tell me your. Your thoughts on it. Owen and Erica. So there's a representative Anna Paulina Luna is trying to. With. With Moskowitz. Jared Moskowitz, I believe, from Florida. They're both from Florida. Congressman. Congresswoman and congressman or Congressperson, I guess. They're doing a student loan debt. They're trying to cap federal student loans. Interest rate at 2%. Sounds good till now, right?
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Yeah.
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And then they're gonna do it also retroactively to any other loans that are out there that are federal student loans at 2%. Very popular. She's saying that it's not a bailout, that this is making sure Americans are trying to build a better future that aren't exploited for their debts and all that. We talked about the left and yesterday in New York City and how lots of them are students and university radicals and all sorts of things. And, and one of the things. One of my. It's my opinion, but I think the debt that they hold or they have kind of pushes them to fake, to not get into politics. But they feel like there's the rich and then there's them that has this huge debt. They can never own a home, blah, blah, blah. So I don't know your thoughts on it.
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So, you know, my thoughts don't have anything to do with, like, what they're proposing. My thoughts have always been the same, that the universities are gouging the shit out of people. And that's where. That's where you have to go after are the universities, the students. Listen, you signed up to go to a school. You knew the price, you threw it on your student loan credit card, and now you got to pay it back. But I think that the schools should be pressured to change their tuition. It is ludicrous to change how much these professors are making. It's absolutely absurd. And give them a. Like, why don't you do this? Why don't you cap what a professor can make? Cap what a professor can make. And then they have to be doing it for the right reason. Not to. Not to gouge, not to, you know, whatever. How, like, every position at every school should be capped at a certain amount. That's like maybe. Maybe a little bit nicer than the living wage. But you can't get rich off of it like a politician. And I think a lot of the incentives and the BS will go away if you can't get rich off doing it. You're doing it because you love it and you want to teach. I think that would, that would solve all the problems. Owen.
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Owen?
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Well, I agree with most of what you said and I would say I'm not for capping an interest rate because I think what that means under the covers is the taxpayers end up footing the bill. I don't think it is that, you know, you're taking away from the banks or the lenders. I'm pretty sure what that means is they agreed to their 6% or whatever it was, and they're going to get their 6% and they're going to get their principal back because it's also guaranteed by the government that they're going to get repaid even if those student bower borrower doesn't repay it. And they also don't let people bankrupt it. So they come after you for the rest of your life to get that money and they garnish your wages if necessary. So like, yeah, there may be an argument for lowering the interest rate just because it's like, hey, this is guaranteed money. You should treat it that way and not charge 6 or 7 or 8%. When it's, you know, like a mortgage, you can bankrupt it, right? Like they can lose money on that. But this is guaranteed return. So maybe there's an argument to lower the interest rate, but I'm pretty sure that's not what they're doing here. They're not saying we're just going to only allow you to get 2% because that would probably mean a lot of the lenders would just say, well, why bother? I'm not going to do that. And then they wouldn't have loans.
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So I see, I mean, obviously I see the pushback. And I'm not like a lot of doctor doctors. I'm thinking of Dr. Von Hardy. A lot of teachers and professors don't get paid a lot, but there's some that get paid a stupid amount of money. And the, and I am absolutely talking about the administrators too. Their salaries are insane. Insane. So I think every, and I'm not saying like socialism, you guys, but just take it down a freaking notch and then pass that on to the students.
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I was going to get to the administrators too, because that is a big part of it. I think a lot of it has been increasing federal regulation where you got to do DEI reporting, you got to do this reporting, reporting. And so they create all these administrator positions to comply with all these regulations. And it just, it's like a jobs program for colleges to just keep adding more administrators. And so more and more of the money. And if you look at the trends, it's, it's like they didn't really increase the number of professors per student or anything. It was more like they just added all these administrators. And so that's where most of the money has gone, is just let's make more jobs for people and give professors a career path to go into administration. And it's not benefiting the students, it's making, if anything, things worse. And, but I think what I, what I would come back to on the student loans is that I think it was just a mistake to guarantee these student loans to begin with. I don't think we should be guaranteeing loans. I think we should be putting the lenders or the universities at risk and having them say, okay, if I'm going to teach somebody something, I want to do it in a way that's going to get them a job that will actually, actually pay off so they can pay me back for this loan. And if they say, well, I don't want to take the risk, well, then they shouldn't and you shouldn't offer the loans. And not as many people should go to college. And that's the way the free market should work is to say where it makes sense, you do it. Where it doesn't make sense, you don't do it. And the government is artificially creating this everybody should go to college thing and saying we're going to make sure everybody can get loans and, you know, basically be in debt cells, slavery for the rest of their life. In many cases, having a major that's never going to get them a good paying job, never going to pay back the loans, and they just do it anyway. So it's a very distorted market. And I think it all comes and we're going to guarantee these loans so you can hand them out like candy and not tell the students what they're signing up for and then, you know, it's too late by the time they realize that they were screwed.
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Well, let me get this. I pulled this other clip. Just speaking of gouging, it's a perfect segue, but let's listen to this clip. This is President Trump in the Oval yesterday with the NATO leader. But it's about oil prices. Let's check this out.
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The Department of Justice to do an
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investigation for oil companies that you said gas prices were not coming down quick enough. That's right. You are concerned that there is price gouging and taking advantage of the crisis, sir. Can you elaborate on that? So it's Exxon Mobil It's Chevron, it's Shell, it's bp, it's a lot of them. The gasoline or the oil prices have come down so much and we are not seeing anything at the pump by comparison the way it should be. We should be in my opinion at $2.25 right now at the pump and we're higher than that and we are doing a big investigation on it. You know, they're not reducing the prices commensurate with what, what's happening. Look, we are sending out, think of it, 19 million barrels came out yesterday. That is a flood. That's like a gusher, that's an oil gusher. And they should be much lower. The gasoline prices, which really is what people see more than anything else. But you know, for their car. But the gasoline prices should be much lower at the pump. And the oil companies are possibly gouging, I hope they're not, otherwise they're going to be in big trouble. They're going to be in big trouble. We're not going to play games.
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They're going to be in really big trouble. So Kimberly, I saw your question and I wanted to give you some details. But about, you know, I said that the administrators are, and some other people and the universities are getting insane salaries. So a university president, president of like a Major State University, 700,000 to $2 million. Chancellor of a large university system, 500,000 to 1.5. A dean like in law, business or medicine makes 300 to 900 plus thousand. A dean for the arts, the arts is always a little lower. Like maybe 450,000 athletic directors, 500,000 to 2 million. Football coach for the major programs, 3 to 3, 13 plus million. Basketball, 2 to 10 plus million. And then professors, there's like distinguished professors make seven, up to 700,000 plus medical school professors, 500,000 to a million. You know, so that's just some examples. So I don't know if that seems like insane to you for a teacher's salary. I think it is. I mean, you know, when you look at the expenses of everything that goes into a school, I mean those, those salaries are pretty frickin high considering that they are always, you know, trying to get grant money from people and endowments and this and that. And it's just like why don't we just regroup, like let's get some realistic salaries. You're not pumping out the best. Let's just tell you there's a lot of indoctrinating going on at these very well paid institutions. And this is just My opinion, but I think everything's gotten so inflated and over the top that it's just going to keep going. At some point, you've got to, like, reset and regroup and be like, what are we freaking doing here? And I'll tell you what, I'm sure there's a lot of amazing teachers that would do it for less if these people's ego can't get out of their way and they're like, no, I want the, you know, $13 million. I mean, you're a freaking teacher or an administrator or whatever. Like, calm down. So that's. That's my take on it. And then you look at the student debt, which, again, I don't feel sorry for these students because they're signing up for it. Like, you're signing up for it. You have to pay it back. I had to pay my stuff back. You have to pay your stuff back. But if everything just kind of reset, I think it would benefit everybody across the board instead of paying these stupid salaries that. Sorry, teachers, sorry. I'm not saying all of you. I'm talking about the extreme high end. So. And then. All right, so, Owen, quickly, what do you think about what Trump's saying about the oil companies? That it's not, you know, it's not matching, you know, the numbers aren't coming down at the pump?
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Well, I mean, I think. I don't know how true that is. I know there's been a lot of talk about that for a long time where as soon as oil prices go up, the gas prices immediately spike, and then it takes a while for them to come down. So I certainly think there's room for what he's saying to say, hey, wait a second, are you not adjusting? You know, if anything, I think it might be that maybe that front end is the problem, because I would imagine that, you know, there's a supply chain, right? Like, it takes a while before you get a barrel of oil through the refinery to the gas station and into the pump. Like, I would expect there to be some lag time, but I would expect it to be on both sides. Like, if you. If your last shipment was cheaper, then you should keep the gas cheaper. And if, you know, if it takes a while for it to come down, I could understand, But I would think that, you know, it seems to me like that that's where they might be taking advantage of the process is to say, oh, look, oil prices spike. Let's just up the gas prices tomorrow. And I do think it makes sense to say, if you're going to do that on the front end. You should also do that on the back end. Like you should, you should, you shouldn't take advantage of the process and say, well, we have to take a month before we reduce prices. If on the other side, you're, you're jacking up the price right away,
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right. Marcel after it.
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And I, and I think he's doing the right thing for the economy to say he wants to basically cheerlead prices down at the gas pump, because that helps everybody.
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Yeah, for sure. And, and midterms. Marcelo, your thoughts on that?
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Well, I get a sense, and I would be mind reading him, I get a sense that he thinks that this, gas companies, the oil companies are kind of doing it on purpose to affect his midterms. The midterms for the Republicans. I don't know. Because we don't know what he knows, what President Trump knows beyond, you know, because some of them, he might have further information than we do. But again, I agree with Owen, it takes time also to change the prices. And again, we have to agree with Erica and Owen. We're talking about how Iran and the war, like, it's, it's short against war. We don't know what's happening, is it have. Is it going forward, are we in peace, blah, blah, blah. So that affects the economy anyway. So, so imagine if you're an owner of, I want to imagine that. Of an oil company, then, you know, you're going to lower your prices. But what if you have to up them again because next week they're in war again, you know, so it's kind of like it's not. The market likes consistency and no big changes and no surprises. So I think that's one of the reasons that it has taken time for it to lower the prices at the pump. And it also takes time, you know, just like Owen explained. So we'll see.
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All right, so, you guys, thank you for bearing with us today because, you know, things change and now we know. But Brandon Darby will be here tomorrow with us at the start of the show. There's something about the guests coming in later that does something to rum. It's Rumble. It's just Rumble. I'm not gonna lie. I sold my Rumble stock finally. I tried to hold on, you guys, I tried. And I'm like, I'm taking the loss. Get me out of here. So don't follow my advice. It's just what I did. So, anyway, thank you, Owen and Marcella, and we will be back tomorrow with Brandon. I am gonna do an Akira song at the end of the show because I need to just, like, wind down a little bit. So if anyone wants to stay for that, stay. And if not, not. But let's have a thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to go on. And as always, a special closing sip to our beloved Scott Adams, who we miss so much. To Scott.
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To Scott.
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Thanks, you guys. I'm picking. We might have heard this one already, but who care? Oh, you know what I want to do today? Let's do we all have problems. Okay, I need that again today. And go.
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All right, here's one that's more about just not. This one's very relevant to me. 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, and then you think, oh, man, why are all these things happening to me? Why me? Why do I have all these problems? That's the old way of things. Here's the reframe. Reframe is everyone has problems. Everyone has problems.
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We all have problems. 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 problems. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
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Everyone has problems. Just the fact that you don't know somebody else's problem, that's pretty gutsy 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 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. Yes, we all have problems. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
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Everyone has problems. Everyone has problems. Everyone has problems.
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Everyone has problems. And today I had mine. You guys, thank you. Thank you so much. I love you guys. Marcella and Owen, you guys are the best. We'll see everybody tomorrow and say your goodbyes so we don't cut you off. Ah, I know. Montreal. Yeah. Yeah.
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Meow.
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Jim Courtney in Alaska. What's up, Goldie look at nj. Thanks, Fletch. See you, Uncle Fungus. Ah, yeah.
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You guys.
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All right, see you later.
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Bye.
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Bye. Bye.