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It's 10 a.m. on the East Coast, which means, wow, it's 7 a.m. on the West Coast and the Midwest.
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Good morning.
Oh, oh, and I didn't even ask you if you checked the market yet today.
I haven't.
I saw the futures said it was going to be up a little bit today, but I haven't looked since it opened.
Let me check real quick.
I took a peek over the weekend and I don't know why I did that.
It looks like it's slightly up, but headed down.
So you might want to avoid too much attention to the stock market today.
It's still above where it was on Friday, but it's just headed that direction.
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My name is Erica.
We're here with Owen and Marcella.
Words Become Actions00:15:14
And today to kick off the week, we have a lot planned for you this week, but I really wanted to start this Monday with more Scott.
Is everyone okay with some more Scott?
I think so.
So what we're going to do is play this clip for you.
It's about 12 minutes long.
So hold your mug and get ready and sit back and relax.
And when the clip is over, we'll come back to discuss it.
And then we're getting right into some news, okay?
All right, enjoy this, you guys.
There we go.
And Lao Tzu said many years ago, he said, watch your.
Okay, let's try it again.
There we go.
There we go.
And Lao Tzu said many years ago, he said, watch your thoughts because your thoughts become words.
Watch your words because your words become actions.
Watch your actions because they become habits.
Habits become your character.
And your character is destiny.
Now, I'm going to update this.
Lao Tzu was a very smart guy, apparently, but he was smart before we discovered how to make AI work.
So there's something we have to update on this.
Words and thoughts, turns out, are the same thing.
Whoops.
So AI taught us, the large language models, that all you had to do is look at the pattern of words.
And if you applied the right technology to it, just the word use alone would produce intelligence.
But before that, we imagined we had some kind of reason and thoughts and stuff that was independent from our words.
But AI kind of put the lie to that, which is something, by the way, hypnotists have known forever.
Hypnotists know that the words are what are activating you.
The thoughts are really word combinations because we think in words.
Your thoughts right now, your private thoughts, are in words.
If you were to change those words, what would happen?
Well, if you change the words, so I'm going to treat words and thoughts as one thing because AI taught us that.
So if you change your words, you're going to change your actions because that's how you're built.
That's the only way it can work.
The things you do are literally based on the frequency and combination of words in your programmer, your head, your brain.
So to reprogram a person from something suboptimal to something that they would want, all you do is change the frequency and arrangement of words.
Do you know what this is called?
If you change the frequency and arrangement of words and what you're doing is trying to change somebody's actions, what's that called?
Wordsmithing?
No.
Reframing?
Yes.
Could be.
Hypnosis.
That's exactly what hypnosis is.
Hypnosis is not, a lot of people, if they watch movies, they think it's about the watch this clock.
They think it's about the voice of the hypnotist.
It's not the voice.
It's not the mannerisms.
Although those are helpful parts of the process.
It's actually the frequency and the arrangement of words.
That's hypnosis.
That's it.
That's enough to change somebody's entire brain and their actions, their habits, their character, and then their destiny.
So if you could optimize the words in your head, blah, blah, blah.
Let me give you a real concrete example.
The other day I was showing this to somebody, and the person said that they were working on a problem.
They had a fear of rejection.
They were considering doing something.
It was somebody considering an action, which would have been almost certainly good for them.
A very obvious, really obvious thing to do that would be good for you.
but couldn't get the action right because of a fear of rejection.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is word poisoning.
You say to yourself, well, there's some bad thoughts there.
No, words are thoughts.
Words and their combinations and their frequency is your thoughts.
There's no difference.
Once you get that, you unlock this power.
Until you understand that your words are a programming language that you can change on your own, you don't have access to the stack.
And then when I heard the person say to me, fear of rejection, I had this thought.
I don't use that word for anything.
Anything.
I'm never going to let that word in my head.
When I heard it, I recoiled.
I recoiled.
The actual word hurt me.
I was like, shit, I don't want that in my head.
I will never use that word because I don't want to stop myself from acting.
Do you know what I say in those situations?
This is going to be great.
This would be great.
Because keep in mind that in all of the situations I'm talking about, mine or anybody else's, people know what they're supposed to do.
Am I right?
Don't people almost always know what they're supposed to do?
It's just hard to do it.
And the reason it's hard is because you don't have your words right.
If the word in your head is the word rejection, you're not going to do this, whatever it is.
If the word in your head is this is going to be great, this will be exciting, this will be interesting.
By the way, curiosity is one of the best replacement words.
If you have some negative words and you want the easiest way to replace them, replace them with curiosity words.
I wonder what's going to happen.
Well, this will be interesting.
I'm fascinated about how today is going to turn out.
You put those words in your head, you can act.
You put the R word in your head, I'm not even going to say it again because it's such a damaging word.
Or the F word, F-A-I-L.
Nope.
When I say it's not my vocabulary, I mean that I've consciously made sure that if it comes up, it's not about me.
I'm talking about a system failure or something like that.
All right, so how many of you are sold on this as a good way of understanding the world?
Just give me a halfway point.
Is this a good way to understand what you see?
I think most of you say yes.
Got one no.
So now I'm going to hold on to this thought that words, not thoughts, words are what unlock habits.
Words and the combination of words is the only thing that unlocks habits.
Not thoughts, just the words.
If you don't get that, you don't get anything.
Now let's explain the world.
This, by the way, would apply to other people more generally, but I'm going to give you a specific problem.
So we have a problem.
Let's say you're a black kid and you want to succeed in this world and you want to do it the way everybody succeeds.
The way everybody succeeds is they imitate people who have successful patterns.
So you look for somebody who's succeeding and you say, what are you doing to succeed?
And then you try to do that.
That's how everybody does it.
Everybody everywhere.
Now, every once in a while you might produce a Steve Jobs, right?
Steve Jobs does seem magical.
It's like he was inventing things that other people copied.
Now, I don't think he actually invented anything, but he was better at noticing patterns.
So he might be like a real exception, where he's inventing patterns as opposed to following them.
But the rest of us follow, we would follow him, right?
So you'd say, what did you do?
All right, let's do more of that.
But because we have an industry that tells you that, well, these all have something in common.
The DEI, the CRT, the ESG, one thing they have in common is the words.
That there were slaves, there is systemic racism, there's black and there's white, and that there is a oppressor class and an oppressed class.
Those would be, you know, that's an example of the words, right?
So don't think too hard about the specific words, but you would agree that all of these ideas, these concepts, are built on words.
You agree so far?
It's a word-related set of thoughts, as everything is.
So these are not uniquely about words.
Any three-letter concepts I put here would also be supported by their sets of words.
These sets of words create what I call the glass imitation ceiling, meaning that if you're a young black kid and you're asked to imitate successful people, you're going to be looking at the people that you have been taught are your oppressors.
Who can do that?
Who could imitate their oppressors?
I couldn't.
If you said the only way you can succeed is by imitating your oppressors or a life of crime, I'd pick the crime.
I would.
I'm just being honest.
If you put me in that same situation, the mental, emotional impact of having to imitate my oppressor, there's just no way I'd do it.
I would take up a life of crime before I did that.
So that's the situation you're putting black kids in.
And again, if anybody's new to me, I'm never talking about all black kids.
I'm never talking about all white people anything.
I'm never talking about all black people anything, or all anybody anything.
People are amazingly different from each other, but this is just a good conceptual framework.
So here's what I think has to be fixed.
Black Americans have an imitation ceiling.
They simply can't do the things that other people would do.
But the tools are all there.
The tools are there.
I mentioned my book, How to Failed Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
My new one that is also coming out, I think, this week, if the last technical parts work with the online publishing.
But those would be two examples of books that would tell anybody how to succeed.
Because I've organized the words in the books to make that happen.
The books are also hypnosis in the sense that they're built to be persuasive as well as utilitarian.
So how do you fix this?
I'm going to tell you, I have no idea.
I have no idea how to fix it.
The only thing I'm sure of is that it has to be fixed by the people who are involved, which is not me.
This is something that can't be fixed from the outside, no matter how good your intentions are, no matter how good your skill is, and no matter anything.
It doesn't matter how many resources you have.
There are some things that have to be fixed from the inside.
And I feel like every time you put outside pressure on a group that's already in a, say, victim and oppressor model, that outside pressure, depending on who it comes from, let's say it comes from somebody like me.
Is it helping?
I don't know.
I don't have a good argument that would say it would help.
Might actually make it worse.
So somehow black American needs to figure this out.
You know, how do they either create enough black successful people or stories about them so that young black kids have lots of role models that they can imitate?
But this is the basic setup.
You don't know how much of your problem is systemic racism until you deal with the fact that people are not pursuing individual success because they feel like it's denied to them or where it would be unpleasant to copy somebody.
So that's my understanding of the world.
Did it help?
Help me.
Did it help you?
I hope it did.
I mean, I could listen to that all day.
And we were actually having a pre-show discussion along these lines of just you.
Yes, I will try to get you the episode, you guys, from where this came from.
So, yeah, the words you choose and use and your self-talk and what you choose to believe makes all the difference between, I'm not going to say winners and losers, but like if you look at people like at their peak, their self-talk is like amazing.
But, oh, and you know why I want to come to you first.
So I'm going to just, I'm just going to ask you, was this like crazy coincidence, amazing lesson today?
What do you think?
Yeah, it probably was.
I'm dealing with some of this right now with some of my kids, you know, in certain situations where some have very positive self-talk and some are very negative.
And it makes a huge difference in terms of your actions.
And, you know, I certainly agree with this model.
I would maybe tweak it a little bit if I were doing it, just to say like media might come before thoughts.
So you want to curate what media you expose yourself to, because as Scott would probably agree, I think, if you're constantly exposed to negative information, you're going to have more negative thoughts and more negative words in your head.
And therefore, it's going to lead to more negative or lack of positive actions.
And so if you can instead flood your brain with inputs that are positive and that are empowering and that are leading you towards action, then you're much more likely to take those positive actions.
And so I think I would probably put media below the thought level.
And I think Scott would probably agree with that.
Positive Input Motivation00:08:14
The other thing that he didn't mention that I think is relevant is emotion.
That when you have thoughts or, you know, I guess mainly thoughts and words that have emotional content, you're much more likely to remember them and they're much more likely to affect how you're going to act.
And so if you, you know, there's lots of science behind this, that if you use emotionally charged words, you're much more likely to remember it.
You're much more likely to be affected by it.
And I think that's a relevant piece or maybe a way to supercharge this is to try and use words that do have those positive emotions attached to them.
If you have positive memories, if you can associate those with somehow with what you want to do, that's going to potentially lead you in a better direction.
And I would even mention another technique that I've talked about.
I think I posted it for my subscribers on X that and locals that it's called the five, six, seven technique.
And it was an interesting story.
It came from a baseball coach of all people that he told this story about how when he was giving pitching lessons to a boy and his dad was there, they were kind of stuck.
Like they just couldn't get past this obstacle or challenge.
You know, maybe he wasn't able to throw strikes or whatever it was.
And he was just trying as hard as he could, but he just couldn't do it.
And he took him aside and he said, let's try this technique.
And he said, okay, you know, why are you doing this?
Like, why are you taking these pitching lessons?
And the interesting thing was he didn't actually ask that to the boy.
He asked it to his father.
He said, we're going to start with the father first.
And so he asked him, like, okay, you know, why are you doing these lessons for your kid?
And he gave him some answer, like, well, it's so he can get into a college team and, you know, maybe get to a pro team and all that.
And then immediately he just turned right around and said, okay, that's number one.
Now, why are you, you know, why is it important for your kid to be on a college team?
And, you know, he gave another answer, like, well, it's so he's successful or he can have a good baseball career, or you might have even gone in a different direction and said it's to teach him good character and some of the other things that parents typically say in those situations.
But he kept digging.
He kept going.
He kept saying, okay, now why is that important to you?
And then once he would answer, he would say, now, why is that important to you?
And he said, just don't even think about it.
Just the first thing that pops in your head, just give me the answer.
So it's a quick exercise.
It's not like you have to sit there and ruminate over it for an hour.
Like you just give whatever your answer is, but then you ask the next question to yourself.
Why is this important to me?
And when you get down to the fifth, sixth, and seventh answer, something kind of changes.
Like the first three are those surface answers.
But the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh tend to be more emotional.
And eventually he got to the point where he was like, I'm doing this because I love my son.
And it was, you know, this, I mean, I have emotion just thinking about it.
And, you know, it totally transformed the situation.
And the kid was able to do what he was trying to do just listening to his father.
And I think that is a valuable exercise that a lot of people could benefit from if you just try that.
Just try it.
Just see if it works.
You know, just if you're stuck or you have an obstacle or you're not able to take an action, just ask yourself, why are you doing it?
And if you can't come up with an answer, maybe you shouldn't be doing it.
But if it is a good thing, you know, it's a good thing.
You know, you should be doing it.
Then just ask yourself, why is this important to me?
And really dig deep.
Don't just take the first answer.
Go down to that five, six, and seven level and see what happens because it may motivate you by charging it with that emotion and really getting to your core values, which is another aspect that wasn't explicitly said in what Scott said, but I think it's embedded in there with the character and destiny that, you know, when you get down to those values and what's really important to you and really what's driving you to do a certain thing,
I think it can often just really give you that motivation that you might have been lacking.
And suddenly you'll have the motivation to do something that you just couldn't make yourself do.
Yeah, that thank you for sharing that.
You know, I always say, Owen, that you're such a good dad.
And I'm sure all of you are good parents out there, or you're like, I want to be a better parent or I want to understand something better.
I saw a lot of you commenting the five whys, but I do like the idea of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, because like if you keep peeling that onion back and you get, like he said, get through the first superficial ones and peel it back and just be like, you know, why?
You know, and why do I attach such emotion to these things?
And then if you can find a way to say like the negative talk I'm giving myself or this situation like before you can even help someone else, you know, why, you know, why I always say this, like it's so easy to stay like in a sad mood or a bad mood and it's so hard to get out of a funk and whatever.
But I think we need to become addicted to better self-talk and positive words and positive reinforcement.
And I'm telling myself this too, because, you know, it's so easy to get bogged down in the bullshit and the negativity and pile on.
And it's so hard to turn it around sometimes and be positive.
And I can hear so much like negativity when I'm talking to people, whether it's like a spouse, a friend, you know, a colleague.
And I'm like, wait, you know, like listen to the words you're saying.
And I always make a joke, like they'll be like, oh, you know, I can't do that and this, that, and the other thing.
And I'll be like, well, not with that attitude.
You can't.
And like, they know where I'm going next.
And it's like, listen to what you're telling yourself and what you believe because why, you know, and I like the idea too of thinking of a favorite athlete, a favorite CEO, a favorite scientist, a favorite whatever.
Like, what do you really think those people are telling themselves about themselves, their failures, their situations?
Do you know how many times these people fail in life?
Thank God they had, you know, the will to try to have better self-talk and pull themselves up and know that the reason why they're doing something is bigger than that one little moment, that one little tiny blip in their life.
Like that moment's gone.
And then you've got like all this time and space ahead of you.
So don't stop the thing because like one little thing set you back.
That was just a lesson to pull yourself up and out to go to the next level.
And I'm going to toss it to Marcella.
I mean, Marcella is someone I always say, like, you dealt with massive adversity.
And I'm like always in awe of that you pick yourself up and you move on and you don't let yourself get down and stay there.
So did you love this lesson today?
I never needed this lesson.
So to me, it's very strange.
But I would have to say it's a great lesson if you need it.
So for me, it's important to realize, which I've realized outside of this lesson is that words are spells.
So whatever you say to yourself, however you talk to yourself is it's going to affect your health.
It's going to affect how you move in the world.
So knowing this, lie to yourself.
I say this with the greatest like, I don't mean lie, like lie to others, but tell yourself things are going to do well.
Because what's the opposite?
Like, oh, they're going to be bad, you know, because who knows, maybe it will turn out well.
So always talk yourself up instead of down.
One of the things that he says is that words create habits.
Lie To Yourself Well00:07:56
They do.
Like the what your words, what your words you say make who you are.
And so whenever you say something like, I suck at this, or I don't know how to do this or, or I won't be able to, or I'll get rejected.
It's like, don't say the opposite because what's, you know, who cares, you know, right?
At the end of the day, if you were to risk, if you want to play a game, use the opposite.
say things will turn out good, you know, things will come out your way.
And if they don't, you learn from it, you know?
So I particularly wanted to comment on him talking about the second, the double board and the second part of CRT and all that.
So I am in a group that was told that, you know, that, oh, we were conquered by Spain.
Oh, we were this.
We were victims.
We were this.
You know, you're an immigrant.
White people are going to bring you down and all these things that I'm told, even during college.
And to me, I think it's important to realize that we're all individuals.
We're not a collective.
So you, and also like the people that they're talking about are not the real people that they're not Christopher Columbus.
They're also Christopher Columbus wasn't thinking, oh, I was going to do this.
So anyway, so I tried to take the individualist outlook on life and think of myself as an individual.
And then I also look at successful people.
I don't care what race, gender, or creed they're from.
I look at the fact that they're successful and I want to kind of study them and figure out how they got there.
So when I was told, like I literally was told, you can't be someone because you're an immigrant.
I was like, oh, okay, you've never met me.
So this was at the age of like, what, nine or something?
So you just have to have that in there.
And I think the key that I had compared to other people around me is that I had a strong parents.
I had a strong household.
So that's worrisome.
So I think that's important for us to make time for kids that don't have that strong bond with their parents.
Also just tell them the stories of people who overcame those things though, because there's so many of them.
There's so many ultra-successful people that had bad childhoods or didn't have two parents or didn't have strong parents.
And so it's probably even more likely, I would say, that the ultra billionaires or the CEOs probably had some problem in their childhood because it drove them to work harder or it drove them to be really committed to being successful or to overcome, you know, being poor in their childhood.
I mean, Tony Robbins talks about that, how he had a terrible father and how he, you know, just was really driven by that.
And I think that is a choice you have to make at some point to say, are you just going to get wallowing in all your problems or are you going to use that as fuel?
And are you going to use that to make you even more successful?
Steve Jobs was adopted, realizing that, you know, like, how hard is that?
Like, oh, they, my actual parents didn't want me.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And I, you know, the other thing I would say is to, I would maybe just echo or amplify your point about lying to yourself, which isn't maybe the right word to use, but revise your story, you know, to support where you want to go.
That might be how I would put it because like I can tell my story in terms of my work life at least as a really great success story or a complete failure.
You know, I've had really great jobs.
I've had really great compensation in whatever top percent in the country in terms of how I'm doing financially based on that.
And, you know, a lot of people would be envious of my career if you just look at it on my resume, the way I highlight it.
But I could tell the complete opposite side of that story.
I've been fired three times.
I've been laid off.
I've had lots of failures along the way.
And if I just got stuck in those things and said, oh, nobody wants me, you know, why did they lay me off?
And why did I get fired?
And, you know, if I was like obsessing over, you know, all the mistakes I made or whatever it is, you know, yes, you want to learn from your mistakes.
You want to apply those lessons going forward.
But once you've done that, move on.
And that shouldn't even enter your head anymore.
And that's essentially what I did is just, I wouldn't think about it.
Sometimes someone would, a friend of mine would reach out to me and be like, did you ever figure out why you were fired?
I'm like, no, and I don't care.
It doesn't matter.
I don't care.
It doesn't, it doesn't matter.
It happened.
It's over.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
Like it was, it was just a bad fit.
You know, and I think that's the only thing I need to know.
It's okay.
It was a bad fit.
I'm moving on and now I have a better job.
And that's the other thing.
I'm not sure that is that I think, I don't remember if it was Scott or someone else that recently said something like this where it was, you know, most people who get fired.
I think it was Greg Gutfeld said Scott told him this, like most people who get fired end up with a better job than they had before.
And that is pretty much the rule.
And so when you have these adversities and setbacks, don't don't get stuck in them.
You know, just think, okay, this is going to lead to a better place.
You know, you can use all the reframes Scott has given us, like the universe owes me or get out to just get the things out of your head or all sorts of things.
Or, you know, he talks about how the past isn't real.
I mean, he gives you all kinds of tools to make this happen.
But the important thing is to apply them and do them and just stay in that positive mindset and focus on where you're going.
That's a positive place and just take the actions you need to do to make it happen.
And it almost always will work out when you do that.
If my mom's listening, which I think she is, and if my dad was alive to hear this, they would both tell you that I was a big pain in the ass.
I didn't take no for an answer.
They would always say, you are so strong willed.
Nothing could hold you down.
Oh, yeah.
I was just like, like, if they said no, I was like, oh, but yes, you know, like, we know we're getting around this.
So, you know, dig down and know that you, you have like a strong will within you.
And that you're going to just, if it could just be as simple as changing what you tell yourself and what you say and the words you choose, the words you even choose to think, like, I can't, I don't want to.
I could try or it's not fair.
Like, ah, like what I, my friends know, if I hear someone say it's not fair, I, I rock it through the roof.
You have to change those words.
Okay.
Let's go back to like the 1970s when parents would be like, life's not fair.
Get over it.
Move on.
And you moved on.
Like they say, that was your TED Talk.
So, you know, don't wallow, you guys.
And if you see someone in your life, you know, try to help them with that.
Maybe show them this lesson and remind them that, you know, nobody who is successful, engage success however you want.
But nobody who's successful can be successful and be happy if they're just, you know, crapping on themselves as a person and their thoughts.
So, I mean, not to, not to keep dwelling on this, but I hope everybody tries that.
And if I have to even bring her up again, I will.
Joy Behar, who helped me 20 something years ago before they were all completely batshit.
Her answer to things, and this has been mine always is so what?
Who cares?
So What Who Cares00:05:54
Okay.
Something's challenging.
Something's hard.
So what?
Who cares?
Like, it is what it is.
Now let's go.
Okay.
So if you need to acknowledge it, it is what it is.
Let's go.
This is not where we're staying.
Okay.
So everybody get pumped up for this week.
We're not going to settle into bullshit.
You can rise above it yourself with your own brain.
And it takes time.
You've got to, you've got to keep training yourself.
And one day you're going to see that the negative thought isn't the first thought.
The defeating thought will not be the first thought.
And then you're going to just start hearing those thoughts from people everywhere.
And they're going to become like, oh, like kryptonite to you.
And you're going to be like, oh my God, they need to learn how to have better self-talk and action.
So I hope you guys love that.
But I definitely want to get to some news this Monday.
Not that anything's been going on in the world.
So I hope you guys love that.
Thank you.
And we're going to toss to Owen first to bring in some news.
All right.
Well, there's more developments in Iran.
I think Trump is talking about maybe using ground troops, maybe going after the uranium that was buried from their last excursion and maybe taking Kark Island.
So there's some talks of potentially putting people on the ground for those things.
I think on the positive side, it looks like Iran allowed about 20 more ships or they're in the process of allowing 20 more ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
I think they're still Pakistani ships.
So it's not anybody that can go through there, but at least there are some ships that are being allowed through there.
So maybe that'll help with oil prices a little bit or help with the overall flow and supply of oil.
It does seem like that is causing some disruption at this point, of course, that oil prices are up and that's going to affect stocks, but it's also going to affect prices of oil and price of gas and prices of everything else.
So it is a problem.
Hopefully the war won't last too much longer so that we don't have a trigger a recession or whatever could happen if it was a long-term thing.
But right now they are, Iran is at least publicly dismissing the diplomatic talks and making threats like your troops are going to be on fire when they land and things like that.
So there's lots of tough talk on both sides.
The Houdis are apparently entering into the war now.
They've launched some missiles from Yemen or wherever they are.
And so it looks like it's broadening at this point.
I think Israel is still bombing stuff.
So that's what's going on in Iran.
I actually have nothing to add to that.
It's just changing all the time and so fast.
So that's the update for today, I guess.
Marcella, do you want to add anything to that?
Of course I do.
Loves the news.
I love the news.
Trump posted on Truth this morning, I believe, that the United States of America is in serious discussion with this is all capital letters: new and more reasonable regime to end our military operation in Iran.
I don't know why my shoulder hurt when that was said.
So he's just basically saying they're more reasonable regime.
I don't know.
He's being, you know, words are, you know, words equal their spells.
So he's trying to put a spell on them.
This will be a retribution.
So at the end, he says, like, he's, you know, if things don't work out, we're going to take out all the electric generating plants, oil wells, and Carg Island, which, and possibly all desalination plans, which we have purposely not yet touched.
This will be in retribution for our many soldiers and others that Iran has butchered and killed over the old regime's 47 years of reign of terror.
And he says, thank you for your attention to this matter.
So if there is no end in sight in negotiations, which it seems from what Owen is saying, things aren't going that well negotiation-wise, then by April 6th at 8 p.m., as he indicated, he will go forward and destroy them.
Unless you want to add to that, Owen, I'm happy to.
I mean, I think things are going to keep changing day to day.
You know, it seems like things are going in all sorts of directions right now.
I don't think it's going to wrap up in a day or two, but it could be any day that he, Trump says, hey, we have a deal.
You know, I mean, it's very fluid at the moment, I would say.
And you never know at the end of the 10 days, Trump might say, we're having good talks.
We're going to extend it another 10 days.
I mean, lots of things could happen.
So I think, you know, I'm mostly just sitting back as an observer and hoping that we can bring this to a close pretty soon.
And I think my most likely scenario is that it's not going to last more than, let's say, another two to four weeks.
And I think if it goes longer than that, it's going to be a bigger problem for the whole world and for the United States and for Israel and everybody.
So I'm hoping we can get to a conclusion here.
And I'm also hoping it doesn't require the final blow that Trump's talking about because that would have some really bad long-term consequences for the people in Iran.
So I'm hoping we don't have to reach that point.
But, you know, Trump is the type that's not going to take anything off the table.
He's not going to say, I'm not going to touch those things because that would just be showing weakness to your enemy.
So I'm not surprised by the positioning, but it does seem like he is trying to use that positive talk and, you know, saying we have this reasonable regime and we're having good talks and, you know, hopeful that it'll reach a peaceful conclusion.
But I'm expecting the fighting will go on for probably at least another week or two.
Cuba Ally Strategy00:11:28
Okay.
All right.
Marcella, do you have a story for us?
A story.
Tell me a story, mommy.
It's regarding balls in a room.
The ballroom.
Trump was in Air Force One and he had the gaggle with the press.
He talked about Iran.
But another thing is he came out with like a poster board of the ballroom.
And I know that that's like a difficult subject for some people, whether that's something that he needs to be talking about right now or not.
But what was interesting about it and why I'm talking about it is because there's a U.S. military building.
Like they're, they're building, sorry, the U.S. military is building a massive complex under the ballroom.
Trump talked about it during the, he confirmed it during Air Force One gaggle.
And one of the reasons that it came out is that there was a lawsuit against the ballroom being built because it didn't get all of the, you know, government, you have to get all the approvals and the permits and blah, blah, blah.
So they ended up suing in court.
And that's one of the things that was discovered through the lawsuit, I guess.
And so what this means is that it will be essentially a massive complex that is constructed underneath the ballroom that will help in case of an emergency, like a 911 event or like something even worse that we don't, you know, like a nuclear issue.
And I thought that was interesting.
He was so happy about talking about the ballroom.
The ballroom itself, the above level, will have windows that are bulletproof and drone proof.
But I imagine the rest of the White House is drone proof, bulletproof.
I don't know.
That confused me, but he did mention that.
My friend's son sells windows.
I wonder if he could do some friend's son is very rich if he sells the windows to the ballroom.
He also indicated that the ballroom, I don't know how I feel about this, but he said that the ballroom is all paid by private donors.
I don't know how I feel about that because in a way, it's kind of like a bribe.
In a way, it feels like that.
But in a way, it's like at least the taxpayer is not paying for that.
Yeah, we pay for everything else.
I'm not too concerned about the private donors only because I think there's a whole bunch of them.
I think he spread it around enough that it's not like anybody can come back and say, I built you that ballroom.
I mean, yeah, they can come back and say, I helped or I contributed to it, but I think it was like a million dollars from all these different people or all these different companies.
And so I think it's kind of diversified enough that it isn't going to give anybody a ton of leverage over Trump.
And the other thing I would say is like, I'm pretty sure it was public knowledge that there was already a military complex down there.
I think it was in very much need of repair or updating or renovation, but I think it was always down there.
It wasn't like a new thing.
So I think it's basically just they're upgrading that complex underground to have a better one for military operation command and control, things like that.
But I do think it's probably better not to publicize where we do those things because it seems silly to tell our enemies, hey, here's where you should hit if you want to take out our command and control.
Obviously, the White House is already a very public target.
So it's maybe not, you know, that big of a deal.
Maybe it's a bunker for the donors.
Yeah, I doubt it.
I think they're all building their own private bunkers too, from what I've heard.
But yeah, I don't, I don't see it as a big deal.
And I do think it's kind of crappy that the lawsuit forced them to disclose this or to talk about it publicly and that they're asking questions about it because it seems like the type of thing you just wouldn't want to talk about because then it's just going to attract a bunch of crazies and conspiracy theories and other things that are just unnecessary.
But, you know, I'm all for the ballroom.
I think it's a great thing.
And I think it's a great thing that we, as taxpayers, didn't have to pay for it.
Yeah, it was embarrassing that they'd have to like tunnel these people out to a tent.
It's like, hello, we're America.
Okay, like the White House is old.
I get it.
We want to, you know, it's cute.
But yes, please have a proper ballroom where people can move around.
It's, you know, it's not 1920 anymore.
So I like the ballroom.
What goes on underneath it?
It's none of my business.
Okay.
What's another story we could talk about?
Let's see.
So it looks like we are allowing, Trump is allowing a Russian oil tanker to deliver fuel to Cuba.
So there was a Russian oil tanker approaching Cuba and there's some kind of blockade that we have in place to prevent things like that.
But apparently we're letting them bring 730,000 barrels of oil to Cuba.
So, you know, that was lining up to be a potential confrontation, but apparently we're going to allow them through.
And I think Trump is saying, you know, on the one hand, Cuba is next, but, you know, they need to survive and he doesn't want to push them to the point where people are dying and, you know, that it's a humanitarian crisis if you don't have any energy, which I think Cuba was really reaching that point.
We cut off all their supply from Venezuela and maybe Russia is the only place still trying to supply them with oil.
So, you know, up until this point, it was kind of like, what's about to happen?
Because they're literally just out of energy.
They don't have any, you know, they've had a bunch of blackouts on their grid and it seemed like they were really reaching the end in terms of their energy.
So I think it's probably a good thing to just say, let's at least keep everybody alive and allow them to survive.
That'd be nice.
But we still probably have complete control as to what goes in and out of Cuba.
So, you know, I'm still thinking maybe that's just a quick stop on the way back.
Let's keep carrying Cuba.
Oh, let's take care of Cuba on your way back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, I'm expecting it'll at least wait until the Iran conflict is wrapped up.
So there's probably some time before anything happens in Cuba.
So Sean said, are we torturing them or trying to persuade them?
I mean, it's a little bit of both, I think.
Carrot in the stick, yeah.
But I, I, like I said before, I would like to have Cuba.
I would like to vacation there.
It would be nice.
And I think the people, like, I feel like the people in Cuba, like, I feel like it's such an easy fix of all the things that we do in this world.
Like Cuba, it's so doable.
Like give them their freedom.
Let the people live and thrive and grow and prosper.
Like, has anyone ever seen The Godfather?
And they have all those clips in Cuba.
Let's make Cuba great again.
Like Godfather Days.
I'm all for it.
And the food and the people amazing.
That's my positive spin on wanting Cuba personally.
I mean, certainly communism is the problem.
And that's the tough part is to get the government to not be communist anymore.
But, you know, if we can do that, whether it means putting in a different leadership or whatever, I think it would probably be good for the Cuban people.
And if it became a U.S. territory, it would probably be great for them.
I know places like Puerto Rico have their problems, but they're probably a lot better off than if they didn't have the support they get from the United States.
And so I think, you know, it's one of these things that's been that way for many decades, like back to the 50s or even stagnating and it's been a problem for a long time.
You know, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis and then we did have all these embargoes and sanctions and things and it's just sat there and no one has tried to resolve it.
So I think it's probably a good thing overall if we can just get them to be essentially an ally rather than an enemy since they're so close to us geographically.
It makes a lot of sense to say we want to have good relations with Cuba.
And so if we can come up, hopefully, with a peaceful way to transition this, I think that would be a great thing.
I'm kind of hoping again that we don't have to have a whole lot of violence in the process.
But I would imagine that we probably have such overwhelming force that Cuba wouldn't really be able to resist for very long.
It probably would look a lot more like Venezuela, where we just go in and take whatever we want to take and then it's over within a matter of days.
So we'll see.
You know, nothing's guaranteed, but I don't think it's going to be like Iran where there's going to be a lot of resistance and a lot of ability to resist.
So I wouldn't anticipate a longer conflict there.
Hopefully not.
Marcella, anything on that subject?
I mean, it's a huge burden for America, kind of like East Germany, West Germany, when West Germany opened up their borders and became one.
East Germany was very expensive to bring back to the modern technology that West Germany had.
The same here, like I do think we do need them to be on our side because they are near us.
And, you know, and also I feel bad for the Cuban people, but I think of America first.
And to me, you have to go in knowing that there's going to be a lot of cost at first to get them to, I mean, they don't even have cars after a certain time period.
Their infrastructure is completely shod.
I mean, it's a lot of work that needs to be done, which is a lot of work that needs to be done in a lot of cities in the United States.
But so long as everybody knows what you're going to have to do to bring Cuba to the modern age, I think the people will do a lot themselves if they're not under that rule.
They just, they're just not allowed.
And I mean, I can tell you, I know millions of people that would send even just simple little things that they just haven't had there that would start to heal with their basic needs that will then lead to them being able to work on infrastructure.
And I think that, I think that the Cuban people would really do their part in bringing back their country and the pride and everything else.
And I think we can help, but it can't be worse than it is now.
I mean, if you get rid of communism, right?
And a dictator and all that stuff, it's only going to go up from there.
And if we could go there, if people could go there and spend their American dollars there, I mean, they'll get like a big boost.
This is just me talking, but I really think that I think that Cuba has the will and the pride and the people that really want to see it come back.
I just feel like it's really doable.
And yes, America first, always for me, always, always, always.
But I don't know.
I hope, I hope for that.
Yeah, you might be right.
I mean, there's more Cubans out of Cuba than in Cuba.
So there's going to be a huge amount of American, Cuban Americans that are going to help in Cuba.
Tourism is another thing, you know, which East Germany hardly has, but anyways, right.
But yeah, it is a thing that, you know, whenever you play God, as you would call it, or play like, oh, let's undo this.
It's, it's never, you never know how it ends up, but it's definitely not going to be worse than it already is.
Teachers Union Activism00:03:47
100%.
I fully agree with everything that you say.
So my next story is, there's no kings right now.
So the protests work.
Thank you, everybody.
I am so thankful for all this 3,000 events that were in the U.S. internationally.
Allegedly, 8 million people took part in it.
And I am so glad that they had a protest saying no kings protest with frogs dancing.
No, there's still a king there.
They didn't do it hard enough.
Yeah, not enough.
But they did have a walk, a protest in London, which is very interesting to say the least.
But basically, they got together.
Everybody got together, come by against President Trump's policies on immigration, Iran, Operation, War, proposed cuts to Medicaid, education.
There were several celebrities that took part in it.
Mark Hamill of Star Wars took to Blue Sky to show his protest signs.
Robert De Niro, of course, had to make an appearance in the New York protest.
I think he like he butchered what he was saying, anyways.
Letitia James was with him, I believe.
Your favorite Randy Weingarten was leading the Minnesota protest.
Can we just pause on that for a second?
Randy Weingarten, okay, you guys, she's the head of the teachers union.
Excuse me.
Why is this woman a freaking active?
She was an activist before she was the head of the teachers union.
I have to just pause on this because it's so amazing to me that in a country full of all sorts of kids and people from every background and political suasion, everything, Randy Weingarten is a psychotic.
I hope somebody can clip this.
Randy, you are a psychotic activist.
You have no business even being around children and you're in Minnesota of all places.
I know you like to travel to Ukraine and everywhere else and you never miss a parade with a sign and a microphone to scream into.
How you are the president of the teachers union is beyond and it's disgusting.
And I hope you get taken out by Corey DeAngelis's movement and that everyone in the teachers union, listen to me, teachers, you don't have to be in the teachers union.
Do you know there's a way out of the teachers union and you get more benefits being out of it than in it.
So if you want to have your own little protest, get out of the teachers union, ASAP.
And that is the end of my rant.
Thank you.
Sorry.
And I just can't use it.
And if you as a teacher get duress or somehow you feel like they discriminate against you because you're not part of the teachers union, you could always sue.
That's right.
Call Parcel.
Call me.
I'm going to give my number out.
Anyways.
So there it is.
I don't know if it was 8 million, but Owen, are you shocked?
Are you speechless?
I just think it's a great accomplishment to have gotten rid of all the kings in one weekend.
I mean, you know, to have your protest demands met so quickly, it's, it's great, you know?
I mean, more power to them.
I mean, they, you know, they did it.
Vance Portland Moves00:04:48
Yeah, they did.
That, that was great.
And they got exercise, you know, and they got some fresh air and vitamin D. Good for them.
And watching, what's his name?
Punchy De Niro standing next to Al Sharpton, holding up the sign, walking behind the, you know, the banner sign.
I was like, look at this little man, like Punchy and, you know, that Charlton, what's his name?
Sharpton, standing next to each other.
I was like, oh, these two insignificant little, it was just such a perfect side by side.
And then to see Bruce Springsteen next to, who is he standing next to?
Jane Fonda?
I think, I don't know, but I was like, oh, because like I always felt like Jamie Lee Curtis could be Bruce Springsteen.
But then I saw that they were like both at an event and I was like, oh, they can't be the same person.
But it was interesting.
It was definitely interesting.
The sad part, some of it turned violent in Portland, of course.
They used the Hono Kings protest to beat up on people and basically destroy, again, the place in front of the ICE detention center.
So they used it in California, at least in LA, there was like 75 arrests.
But it was what it was.
We can't take Portland anywhere.
Portland can badge.
Yeah, they really do.
Owen.
Oh, we have two minutes left, you guys.
I would just mention the final story.
Vance had an interview with Benny Johnson, and he was kind of on fire with some of his stuff.
He's saying that Tim Waltz and Gavin Newsom are going to be investigated for fraud.
He doesn't know exactly what they knew and when they knew it, but apparently they're going to be asking those questions and trying to put the heat on them to see if they were involved or how knowledgeable they were of those things.
And he also says he believes Elen Omar is guilty of immigration fraud and should be essentially deported or even extradited because apparently there may be some charges waiting for her if she goes back to Somalia.
Apparently her family, her father was involved with some kind of genocide over there and she's aligned with that and is proud of her heritage.
And I don't know how much involvement she had, but apparently there are some people in Somalia that says, yes, please just say the word and we'll take care of her.
But, you know, she may be facing some consequences.
I think it's been pretty public information that she supposedly married her brother as part of her immigration application to get into the country.
And that would obviously be fraud.
And so hopefully that'll result in some charges or some consequences.
So seems like Vance is ready to go after these people.
Yeah, I think it'll be interesting.
Sean Corey, with another comment, I'd like to agree with you that, yeah, probably, you know, as soon as we get past the midterms and we get past like the 250th anniversary of our country, yeah, the focus will be on Vance.
And I think Vance will really put out there more of what he's about.
And I think that we're going to be pleasantly surprised.
I hope.
Listen, I'm open to all options.
May the best person win.
But also, like everybody, we have to remember there are no kings in this country.
There never will be.
And Trump just has a, you know, like two and a half years left.
So whatever, you know, whatever your issues may or may not be, he's, he's done soon and a new president will be put in, elected, hopefully, fairly.
So there's that.
Okay.
Time Nazi and I see Nazism.
I see you, Andy.
So you guys, the first draft of Scott's biography is done.
We posted it on X, not the draft, but just Joel shared with us him fanning through his first handwritten draft.
He's going to do a couple more and he has a, you know, a lot to fill in.
We love him so much.
So you guys, let's like get prepared to say goodbye.
We're going to see you tomorrow.
BJ will be with us tomorrow.
BJ Digitter, we're going to be doing like all news current events for the show.