Dave Rubin hosts Carol Markowitz and John Cardillo to dissect California wildfires linked to DEI mismanagement and reservoir policies prioritizing smelt fish over safety, alongside critiques of FBI failures in New Orleans. They analyze how figures like Bill Maher now speak safely after cancel culture silence, contrasting this with Trump's rhetorical annexation of Canada and Greenland as a tool for restoring American exceptionalism. Ultimately, the episode argues that current political shifts reveal deep institutional negligence and a desperate need to reclaim national pride through decisive leadership. [Automatically generated summary]
Carol Markowitz working blue out of nowhere because I don't think we have any right to complain about weather in light of what's going on in the country.
But yes, there is some weird thing.
I've been thinking about it all week.
It's been as cold as it's ever been since I've been in Florida in the 40s, having lived in L.A. before this.
Obviously, I fled L.A. where it's just an absolute disaster right now.
Of course, we're going to talk a bit about that.
We're going to talk also a bit about something that seems like it's way in the past already, but it's only about a week ago, which was the New Orleans terrorism.
I do want to start with one clip.
From Stephen A. Smith's podcast.
I had Stephen A. in this week.
We're going to post the interview tomorrow.
But a couple days ago, he had Bill Maher on his show.
And everyone knows I've been talking about this wide tenting forever.
And what do we do with the sane liberals?
And can they put up the fight with the crazies on their side?
And can we now welcome them in on our side of things?
I recently sat down with a guy by the name of Dave Rubin.
I'm sure you are aware of who he is.
Yeah, I know Dave.
I went to a Lakers game with him.
That's right.
He bragged about going to the Lakers game with you.
I told him you and I went to a Lakers game together as well recently.
And he and I just finished talking.
And one of the things that I called him, I said, listen, he's a he's not a lieutenant or general or whatever.
But let's say he is meaning Bill Maher.
Consider me a soldier because I stand directly behind him in support of all the things that he has said, particularly over the last several years about the left and how the left pretty much lost its way.
Getting personal with you for a second.
How difficult, if difficult at all, has it been?
For you to deal with some of the things that have been thrown in your direction just because you were on your show telling the truth about what the left did wrong and how it got in its own way and what it needed to do to fix the party.
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Your thoughts?
You know, you know, Stephen, you can't have everything.
But things that people say to me and how much it means to them that they feel like there's somebody out there who is never pulling a punch and who will just call out anybody, wherever they are in the political spectrum, if he thinks they're saying something goofy, that really means the world to me.
John, putting aside the political differences for a second, you know, for the three of us as New Yorkers, we all grew up in a place.
I grew up in Long Island.
You grew up in Queens, Carol, in Brooklyn.
You know, it's like we grew up around people that were different than us.
It was always that way, ethnically and economically and everything else.
And to me, that's what America is about.
That's why I agree, Carol, on the sort of ideological premise of you have to be careful that they don't come and usurp things or change things too much.
But I'm very open to this idea, and we have to make sure it just doesn't go off the rails because I grew up with that.
And I mean, look, the Babylon Bee hit it the best.
They were like the guy who said there was never censorship on Facebook now says he's going to end censorship on Facebook, right?
I mean, it's laughable and we know this, but the bigger problem we run into is exactly what Carol pointed out.
Whenever somebody is black or Hispanic or gay or trans or whatever it is, and they come out as conservative, we immediately embrace these people without vetting them.
And then we start to shift toward them.
We start to shift left to placate them.
And this leftward shift, and one of the things that has infuriated me by many of the MAGA influencers is, well, no, it's a Big Ten, and we should move left to bring everybody in so we can win elections.
Well, if you're going to go to the left, I'd rather go slow, rip the band-aid off, and die quickly than...
Having a slow, agonizing, torturous death.
We need to bring people back to our side, not constantly placate the leftists hoping they join us.
Yeah, Carol, I want to get your take on that because I totally hear the point, John, and we talk about this all the time.
My feeling is that over time, as I continue to be friends with these guys and we do each other's shows and everything else, I think it's fairly obvious they will keep coming our way.
Like, I believe in my thoughts and beliefs enough that you can prove it to them over time.
Well, as we see everything that's going on in the country right now, I think it will become more and more obvious that we're kind of, I hate the phrase, but we're like on the right side of this thing.
So now let's bring this to the thing that everyone's talking about this week, obviously, which is happening right now.
These crazy wildfires happening in Los Angeles that have largely destroyed the Pacific Palisades.
Pasadena is going under the Hollywood Hills.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
This video, I wanted to get to it earlier in the week.
It's just incredible.
Our friend Adam Carolla, comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla, He, a couple years ago, testified how seven years before that he had applied, or it was even more years before that, he had applied to be a firefighter in Los Angeles and had to wait seven years and, well, take a look.
When I took the NYPD test back in the early 90s, they told us flat out, you're a white male.
We're going to be taking anywhere between 1.4 and 2 points for each white male.
We're going to be shaving that off of your score and distributing that out proportionally to women, people of color, etc.
And look, when I went through the academy.
We had a woman in the academy who was morbidly obese.
She couldn't run around the gym once.
It was a mile and a half run.
It was 22 or 23 times around the gym.
I'm in my early 20s.
I'm doing that in my sleep.
Well, this girl was about my age, but about 400 pounds at 5'5".
She couldn't get around the gym.
I went back to the academy five years later.
She was still working there in her academy uniform, making the same salary as a New York City cop on the street.
Receiving the same benefits.
This has been a problem in emergency services for years and years, but it's had catastrophic consequences in these LA fires because they promoted up these incompetent people.
You know, fire is the one place where you really need to have done every job at the lowest base firefighter level to be an effective lieutenant captain.
They typically don't have sergeants and fire departments, and normally it's lieutenant captain chief.
It's not like law enforcement where you could skate your way up because there are some people who are competent.
This is you're in direct command of these men and women, and you're sending them into burning bush.
You need to know what you're doing.
This is the most tragic thing I've ever seen.
DEI killed people and cost potentially over $100 billion in losses.
And of course, before the commenters get in there, no one is saying this is all because of DEI and all because of the hiring.
And there are obviously great people at the NYPD now, and there are great people in the LA Fire Department now.
But Carol, is this not like the most, in some ways, the most...
Perfect example as we watch one of the great, once great cities of America literally burn down.
Is this not the most perfect example in some ways that we all, not that you wanted, but like that we could ask for in a metaphorical sense to prove how ridiculous this all is?
And you know, look, the thing is, and this is the whole problem with wokeness and cancel culture and all of that, there are things you're not allowed to say.
And the thing that you're not allowed to say here is that men do better in certain jobs than women do.
And I'm very, like, I'm, you know, as pro-woman as can be, I'm a very good driver, for example, and I always take offense when, you know, men talk smack about women.
But if John's 400-pound friend showed up to save me from my burning house, I would not appreciate that.
And I think we need to be able to say, look, men do some jobs better than women do.
They have better upper body strength than we do.
Of course, there's going to be some small exceptions to that rule.
But in general, we should aim for firefighting forces to be primarily big, strong men who could carry people on their backs out of their burning houses.
I don't think there's anything crazy about saying anything like that.
I don't think it's anti-woman to say anything like that.
And the evidence is here.
Look, is it all DEI?
Of course not.
It's also terrible mismanagement.
It's awful politicians.
It's bad policies.
It's all of that.
But DEI is where we should start this search for what went wrong here.
I want to connect this to a tweet from Bernie Sanders from yesterday because he wrote this, 80,000 people told to evacuate.
Blazes 0% contained.
Eight months since the area has seen rain.
The scale and damage of the loss is unimaginable.
Climate change is real, not a hoax.
Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.
There's so much to unpack there because first off, Donald Trump's not president.
We played a video with Dr. Drew yesterday of Donald Trump literally in a forest six years ago with Gavin Newsom talking about why Gavin needed to clear out the brush and everything else and how Gavin has gotten rid of dams and all of these things.
But Drew made an interesting point that I want you to take on, which is that if—I'd love to hear both of your thoughts on climate change, generally speaking—but if climate change is real, if it is real, well, then why didn't Gavin Newsom and, say, Joe Biden and Karen Bass and the former mayor, Eric Garza—why didn't they do any of the things to stop any of this from happening, putting aside DEI and everything else?
With climate change, it's all about us all believing in this thing.
And even if you believe, like let's say Leonardo DiCaprio does, if you're then getting in your private plane or sailing away on your private yacht, I think that you don't really want to do anything about climate change.
Believing in this concept seems to be enough for these people.
I've always said if Republicans wanted an answer, they could just say, I believe in climate change.
I want to keep living the way I'm living, just like you are.
And then nobody does anything.
Just behave the way the left does.
I think the thing is that we have like a walking shrug emoji in Gavin Newsom.
And what else are they going to say?
California is controlled top to bottom by Democrats.
They've failed on every single level.
Every single barometer of good government didn't happen here.
And really, so what can they say other than climate change?
I mean, the guy who created Kwanzaa used to torture women with soldering irons and Saint Gore of Love Story invented climate change with that insufferable documentary 20 some odd years ago.
And the fact that it has here.
Want to talk about climate change?
How do we open this show?
We're all sitting in South Florida complaining because it was in the 40s.
And the fact that it's always their default position, the real problem here, and I think I even put it into our group text.
You know, an LAPD sergeant I was talking to, I think he summed it up the best.
This was yesterday.
He said...
Democrats in California treat first response and first responders like novelties.
They don't take them seriously when they ask for more resources.
They don't take any preparedness seriously.
They don't look at worst-case scenarios, analyze them, and say, okay, let's be ready up to this.
This should be our state of readiness.
No.
Like you said, what did they do?
They knocked down dams.
They didn't fill reservoirs because of salmon and minnows and things that might happen but really wouldn't.
But sounded really, really good to the big dem donors in Hollywood, right?
It's all these causes they could get behind to feel good about their own inadequacy and degeneracy in many cases.
And so I think what happened here, I'm going to take it a step further.
I think when Trump comes in office, one of his first orders of business alongside Pam Bondi when she's confirmed is the entire state of California should be put under a DOJ review for mismanagement of funds and emergency resources.
I don't think we can do anything less at this point.
This is like an extinction level event for certain areas of that state.
And the point, again, I just really want to drive it home because I think everyone should understand.
Even if you 100% believe in climate change, then that's even worse in this case because they still did nothing to stop exactly what happened.
I want to connect this to Elon Musk because he's kind of just the center of the universe these days.
And before I throw into this clip, I should remind everybody, Elon Musk, who lived in California, who had Tesla in California, and who was doing the boring company to literally build tunnels to alleviate...
And I don't mean, there's some good regulations, but there's just so much that we just can't get anything done.
You know, I tweeted this on X or whatever it's called at this point.
But imagine this was happening in Florida.
Imagine our fire hydrants were empty and it was DeSantis walking around the state going like this.
You know, I think that they would be basically like...
Troops on our door waiting to get rid of DeSantis.
It's gotten so insane that they're getting a pass for this mismanagement.
Elon Musk talking about this so long ago and Donald Trump talking about this so long ago, and all of us knew that they needed to cut down these dry, dead trees and make a better situation because they're so prone to fires.
It's scary that they didn't do that because of possibly some fish or some environmental issue that they had a problem with.
I'm afraid for the future in places like this.
I'm actually a lover of California.
I loved LA before it was really destroyed.
I love California, the state.
It's so beautiful.
The fact that they have managed to bring this state to its knees and yet Gavin Newsom is still considered Presidential material.
He's still in the running for 28. I think all of that is crazy.
And I would love to see a, you know, again, going back to these leftists who are opening their eyes, I'd love to see them.
Take this lesson and really apply it moving forward and say we can no longer live by these leftist policies because look what happens.
And next time I talk to Mar, hopefully on camera, I'll bring that up because he wanted Newsom to run for president and was talking about how much he liked him.
So it's like, okay, the rubber's met the road.
You live in the hills.
May not be that thrilled at the moment.
I want to read this tweet from Chamath Palapatiya from the All In podcast, who made a good point about now some of the cascading issues we're going to see.
He wrote, The aftermath of the California wildfires will be important for the entire country.
Number one, private insurance companies have dropped fire protection from many homeowners' policies or made the rates so high as to be unreasonable for most.
They will fight tooth and nail to not pay.
How do we fix the insurance market going forward?
We can't expect 20 million people just to move.
Two, California set up their own program with lower premiums but potentially low coverage limits for many of the homes already destroyed.
Where will this money come from?
The state is running enormous deficits.
Three, government bureaucrats will have to answer for inadequate fire prevention procedures.
What exactly changed after this exact thing happened a few years ago?
Number four, after January 20th, President Trump will have a decision.
Step in and help homeowners may also potentially take Governor Newsom off the hook, stay on the sidelines, and it may accelerate a recall and tip California to swing Republican.
Number five, inadequate emergency resource personnel was on display as everyone from government officials to private homeowners took to X asking for help.
Hopefully, this personnel inadequacy didn't come from hiring quotas.
How will we find out?
When calamities like this happen, they tend to make bare everything that led to it.
This needs to be documented and then fixed.
John, that gets to your earlier point.
I mean, it's a little bit of everything, right?
It's a little bit of DEI. It's a little bit of general incompetence.
It's a little bit of now, say, private insurance and corporate collusion.
It's all of these things.
And maybe this finally is like a rock bottom moment where people will reassess things.
Yeah, look, and it's a whole lot of Democrat arrogance and obstinance, right?
I mean, just think about what Elon was saying with the smelt.
For like three and a half billion years, fish have found the right salinity in brackish water to live.
But 50 years ago, a bunch of Democrats thought they knew better.
The things they do just defy logic.
And for the party of science, remember during COVID, they were the party of science and we were anti-science.
For the party of science, they really do ignore all the science and do things that everybody, like a seven-year-old with common sense knows, are going to have disastrous consequences.
But I think that post was really on point, especially the last paragraph.
Did hiring quotas lead to this?
Partially.
What really led to this?
you know you're a firefighter i put up a post earlier on x saying imagine being that fire paraphrase imagine being that firefighter you're standing in what you literally think hell looks like you screw that hose onto the hydrant you turn the wrench and no water comes out i mean what are you feeling at that moment and And that, that problem rests squarely on the shoulders of Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and those DEI chiefs, because those DEI chiefs should be on the phone with the mayor and the governor once a month demanding.
That their preparedness is at the highest level, but of course they won't do that, right?
They got appointed by these people and they're going to shut their mouths and play ball.
And so I think you really do have to put DEI in the spotlight here.
Did it start the fire?
No.
Did it lead to the losses we're going to see and the eventual loss of life when those tallies come in?
So, you know, all of us having lived in New York, when every time we talk about this all the time, when we go back, it's like each time it's incrementally worse.
And now people literally, when they're going to the subway, all stand against the wall.
Or you don't go down that certain block because you know they're selling drugs on it or whatever it might be.
Callie is dealing with a version of that which is like, oh, yeah, 10 years ago, oh, I did used to walk down Melrose in West Hollywood, but now we'll just walk on that other side street.
because it doesn't just magically happen overnight until literally fire destroys a neighborhood like that.
It really does move very slowly and then very, very quickly.
And that's how collapse of societies happen.
That's how different governments fail.
This is literally what happens.
I know it's kind of crass to blame Californians for this because they're surviving this right now and they're living through this.
And I have all the sympathy for them.
But it's been a long time of bad policies in that state.
And they had so many opportunities to vote themselves out of it.
I know that the Larry Elder loss in the recall was one of the reasons you moved to Florida.
I think that they had a long time of being able to look at these politicians and say, These policies are not functioning.
And you know, the thing is, I also do feel sorry for them in a way because I've never lived anywhere where things functioned before.
Lard is my first example of living somewhere normal.
I lived in New York.
I went to college in Boston.
I lived in Europe.
Nothing ever works in any of those places.
But in Florida, when something is wrong, someone is there to fix it.
And that's so unusual, and you don't know what that's like until you're living in it.
So my message to Californians is vote differently next time, but also know that there is a world where your governor is not walking around shrugging his shoulders.
You don't have to wonder whether there's water in the fire hydrants.
You know things are going to get done.
And really try to move in that direction as you move forward as a state.
You know, I think I told you guys this story, but the night of the DeSantis re-election, I was there and we were broadcasting.
And during one of the breaks, some random guy came up to me and he said, hey, Dave, how you doing?
And he was like, he's like, you'll love this story.
He was an engineer.
In Southwest Florida, in Fort Myers, and he said, he was an electrical engineer, and he said, you know, three days after the hurricane, when the Sanibel Bridge was completely destroyed, the causeway, he said, DeSantis got like 50 of us together.
He brought us out there on the edge of the water and basically said, what do you need?
And they built that bridge basically in a matter of weeks when it would have taken the federal government months.
And it's like, yeah, that's basically why we're all here.
We're going to do a complete topic shift and talk a little bit.
A little bit about terrorism.
That's hilarious.
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So, yeah, there was a massive, horrific jihadist terrorist attack less than 10 days ago, and it seems like it's long in the past.
Let's just recap it for you real quick from The Daily Wire.
The FBI said at a press conference Thursday that there are no additional suspects in the Islamic terrorist attack on the New Orleans French Quarter following reports that indicated that there were at least four others.
FBI Deputy Assistant Director...
Christopher Rhea said at the press conference that 42-year-old Shamsuddin Jabbar, a U.S. citizen who had converted to Islam, pledged allegiance to ISIS before the summer, according to videos obtained by law enforcement.
Jabbar killed at least 14 people during the attack and wounded dozens more when he mowed down his victims with a truck that he rented.
He then got out and opened fire with a rifle before being shot and killed by the public.
Of course, the other thing that happened was the Cybertruck attack outside Trump International in Vegas.
Guys, the reason I wanted to cover this, it almost seems like it's just like long history and why even talk about it, but that's exactly why I wanted to bring it up, that we had a major jihadist terrorist attack that killed 14 people.
I mean, it seems like we should all know their names.
Why didn't Joe Biden say any of their names?
By the way, one of them happened to be a Palestinian.
So let's look at this from a law enforcement lens, through a law enforcement lens, and a law enforcement public information lens.
First of all, they started disseminating information in the FBI with the ASAC, the assistant special agent in charge of the office, the woman Althea Duncan.
Well, she completely botched it by saying it wasn't terrorism, and so we got a glimpse of her boss, a guy named Lionel Murthal, who's the SAC, the special agent in charge, over in New Orleans, in the New Orleans field office.
Well, this is real interesting, right?
Because now it gets kicked up to headquarters, which is the swampiest part of the swamp.
You've got what they call an A-Dick, an assistant director in charge now.
And notice the way he worded this and the way he phrased this.
He didn't say there were not operational cells active in the United States.
He said in that particular attack, there are no further suspects, right?
And to me, that's very telling because all of the intel, I have a lot of sources in the special operations and intelligence community.
And in law enforcement, obviously, to a person, to a man and woman, they've told me there are active cells operational in the United States, and a lot of them.
I am sickened by how the FBI went overboard and worked overtime to cover this up.
The American people have a right to know, so I'm at a point where I don't trust anything the FBI says, and I read between every line when I see these statements.
Carol, let me take a different angle on this with you, which is, so we got about 10 or so days till we get Trump.
Obviously, there's going to be major changes at the top and across the institutions, but are you hopeful that Trump will be able to deal with this stuff properly and deal with the border properly and really...
To John's point, deal with the, say, cells, and we don't know how many people on top of the, just forget terrorists and jihadists, gang members and everything else that are here?
So I am somewhat optimistic about changes that he can make.
I think that they're going to be a lot harder than people imagine.
I actually broke the name and the story of the New Orleans, you know.
Car rammer.
And the only reason that I mentioned that is because there were a lot of people on the right who were convinced it was going to be an illegal immigrant or whatever.
There's a lot of different problems that we have right now.
And if we focus all of our attention on say the border, we're going to miss the fact that there are homegrown terrorists like this guy.
So, um, I feel like the.
Look, I was in Montevideo a few weeks ago and I wanted to go see an old synagogue in the city.
And we got to the block and right away I knew which building was the synagogue.
How did I know?
It had concrete blocks outside of it.
Americans need to understand that we have a new way of living, and we should have had this new way of living basically since 9-11.
You can't have, for example, New Year's Eve events like this and not have concrete blocks.
And Americans will say, oh, I don't want to live that way.
Well, I'm sorry, that way has come to us.
We didn't want to live this way, but that life has come to us in so many different ways.
We've allowed, you know...
Bad ideologies to fester, for example.
And so if we're not going to stop that, then we need to be proactive in having defensive measures in place.
We need to have a completely different way of kind of surviving in our everyday lives and protecting ourselves.
Group events, for example, need to have more protection.
I think the New Orleans New Year's Eve party was extremely unprotected.
It was a dangerous target the whole time.
We need to really learn lessons from this.
It can't just be the border.
Of course, I want Donald Trump to do a lot on the border.
I want him to have mass deportations of criminals and people who have entered illegally.
I want all of that.
But we need to see that that's not the only problem here.
And there's going to be a lot of other issues we need to fix.
And we should make the small changes that we can make, like cement blocks, like locking school doors, that kind of thing.
We should make those changes up front and work on the rest later.
And of course, we can connect this just like we could connect the fire, not fully blame the fire on DEI, but we can connect this terrorist attack also to DEI. Check out this tweet from Robbie Starbuck.
Six months ago, the New Orleans FBI office was doing DEI hiring events.
Maybe they should have been more focused on hiring the best people who are good at catching terrorists instead.
Hiring solely to increase diversity is a threat to national security for everyone.
DEI must end.
And then here's the statement from the FBI. I mean, John, you already illustrated the point with the NYPD, but it's everywhere.
It is everywhere, and I guess, again, maybe we're finally getting to the final boss with all of it.
I mean, you know, one thing I will say, you can't place all the blame on the FBI here because one of the things that keeps me up at night, having studied terrorism and cells in the U.S. and homegrown actors, are these low-tech asymmetrical attacks.
What that guy did on Bourbon Street didn't require planning, didn't require chatter.
In fact, he could have radicalized at his mosque at home, not really interfaced with anybody, and still pulled that off.
But here's where we have to go back to identity politics.
I spoke to a captain in the Louisiana Troopers.
So Bourbon Street, to Carroll's Point, has those hydraulic steel barriers, right?
Like they have outside the White House.
Well, they were down for repair, and the city promised New Orleans PD and Louisiana State Police they would be fixed by the Sugar Bowl slash New Year's Eve and definitely would be fixed by the Super Bowl.
Well, they just abandoned it.
They made these promises.
They felt then they forgot about it.
The cops, both agencies were screaming and yelling to get these things fixed before New Year's Eve.
And and the mayor, the administration and the city of New Orleans and the parish completely dropped the ball.
And so where, yeah, I don't know if the FBI could have interdicted this because of how low profile and and how little planning it took.
I think the blame for this one falls more on the city of New Orleans and the parish for not fixing those barriers, because had they that guy would have never been able to make the turn.
If you see the video, there was a New Orleans car.
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All right, so yeah.
Canada, Panama, Canal, Greenland, they all might be ours.
Listen, putting aside whether you think we should take over Canada or we should grab the Panama Canal back or be defending Greenland or any of this stuff, just like all of these idiotic questions when they ask him things.
Are you going to attack Iran?
You think I'm going to tell you that, you MF-er?
Like, there's something at least refreshing about that regardless of the policy.
I don't think Donald Trump actually wants to make Canada part of the United States.
I think it's just sort of his bravado of just like, hey, Canada, you better start playing ball with us so that John Cardillo's little thing of maple syrup isn't so expensive and the trade better be a little more equitable, etc., etc.
I thought this video was just kind of funny.
Don Jr. saw this whole thing about Greenland.
So he hopped on a plane and he went there and he arrived and the people were quite happy with him.
It's just from a random account, but I thought it summed up the part of this story that I like.
I'm not talking about annexing Canada literally, but check this out.
It's from an account called Lucerne Balvin.
The king's firstborn surveys a feudal holding prior to its annexation.
We're seeing things that haven't been done in over a century.
And for those of you that are listening on the audio podcast, it's a picture of Don Jr. at that Greenland airport.
But the point being that...
Trump just sort of imagines things.
He just puts things out there, and then it actually does change reality.
Like, we've had four years of a guy whose mind has been muddled, and there's been no dreaming in America, so I'm not saying we should take these things or not.
Let's just put that aside for a second.
But the idea that we can kind of dream again, and you know what, since we're showing things, our friend Ben Shapiro wrote this, elections have consequences, and it's got the 51st state is Canada over there, Trumpland, which is Greenland, the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, the anti-European moat, which that would, of course, be the Atlantic Ocean.
It's all being kind of silly, but there is some underlying truth to it, right, John?
That America maybe is going to reestablish its dominance as a world power doesn't mean take over every nation, but like, oh, we're going to affect the world again, potentially in a positive way.
Well, it's actually gonna be high of 78 on Saturday, so we're gonna live again.
We're going to go to the beach because that's what we do when it's a high of 78. Yeah, you know, I have 26 kids, so I'm going to be shuffling them around to their various activities, robotics, history competitions, and, you know, all kinds of sports.
So that'll be my weekend.
I will be very warmly bundled up, but I won't be as warmly bundled up as a lot of the Floridian women I see in, like, puffer coats and Ugg boots.