Real Coffe - Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 3133 04/14/26 Home Team News Crew
Aired: 2026-04-17
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=== Welcome Home and Simultaneous Sips (08:39) ===

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[00:00:50]  It's the three of us today, the home team, and we've got some news and current events and a micro lesson from Scott.
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[00:02:05]  Welcome to the Scott Adams School.
[00:02:08]  My name is Erica.
[00:02:09]  And as always, I'm joined by the best co hosts in the world, Marcella and Owen.
[00:02:16]  Good morning.
[00:02:19]  So, listen, y'all, I don't know where the y'all came from.
[00:02:23]  I just, y'all, so for everybody who was wondering why I was so freaked out about the moon mission, Artemis 2, my claustrophobia is next level.
[00:02:35]  So, when we were texting the three of us during the return to Earth, I was just like, oh my God, that freaking capsule.
[00:02:43]  Like, can you imagine?
[00:02:44]  Like, now you're in this capsule and you're bobbing up and down.
[00:02:47]  And I'm just like, oh my God, like, they're Probably seasick.
[00:02:50]  I'd be like, open the door.
[00:02:52]  I need air.
[00:02:53]  So we have a little clip of that capsule.
[00:02:57]  And is that you?
[00:02:59]  Oh, it was.
[00:03:00]  It's not even more.
[00:03:02]  Was that Skype?
[00:03:04]  Teams.
[00:03:05]  Oh, I was like, that's a whack sound from the night.
[00:03:08]  I have a problem.
[00:03:09]  Like, for some reason, it has a phone number, which I don't even know why it has a phone number.
[00:03:13]  And somebody has it, obviously.
[00:03:15]  And I got on some list and I get calls all the time from spam and I don't know how to stop it.
[00:03:19]  I've called the help desk.
[00:03:20]  They can't help me.
[00:03:21]  I don't know what to do.
[00:03:22]  Not the help desk.
[00:03:25]  So, you guys, here's the capsule when it's in the water.
[00:03:28]  And look at, I heard it, water.
[00:03:30]  And look at how it is inside when they open this thing.
[00:03:33]  Ready?
[00:03:33]  Tell me you wouldn't just die.
[00:03:39]  Yes!
[00:03:43]  Enjoy it.
[00:03:43]  Say it.
[00:03:44]  Yes!
[00:03:47]  Let's go!
[00:03:49]  Pin, pin!
[00:03:50]  Get your seal cover, seal cover.
[00:03:52]  Seal cover.
[00:03:55]  We got you.
[00:03:56]  I got you.
[00:03:56]  I got you, laddie.
[00:03:57]  So lean over.
[00:04:02]  Take your time.
[00:04:04]  Seal cover, salon.
[00:04:05]  Alright, get it.
[00:04:18]  Four green!
[00:04:19]  Ike, welcome home.
[00:04:21]  Christina, welcome home.
[00:04:22]  Yes!
[00:04:25]  Jeremy, welcome home, brother.
[00:04:28]  There it is, Reed!
[00:04:29]  What's up, welcome home, brother?
[00:04:31]  Thank you.
[00:04:33]  Alright.
[00:04:34]  Thank you, thank you.
[00:04:35]  I also have something for you.
[00:04:42]  Vlad, you better have something better than a professional.
[00:04:45]  Ugh.
[00:04:47]  I could see you in there.
[00:04:49]  Dead and covered in vomit.
[00:04:51]  No, you'd be like, hey, everyone.
[00:04:56]  Do you have panic attacks, Erica, when you get claustrophobic?
[00:04:59]  I do.
[00:05:01]  I do.
[00:05:02]  It's rough when that happens.
[00:05:03]  Oh, yeah.
[00:05:05]  Does anyone else get panic attacks like that?
[00:05:07]  Like the claustrophobia?
[00:05:08]  I can't get out.
[00:05:10]  I don't.
[00:05:11]  But someone in my family does.
[00:05:12]  And I don't want to go into too much detail, but there was a time and it was like totally unexpected.
[00:05:16]  We were.
[00:05:18]  Underground somewhere, basically, in a like a mine sort of tour.
[00:05:22]  And all of a sudden, it became a huge problem.
[00:05:25]  We had to get out of that mine.
[00:05:26]  Heck yeah.
[00:05:27]  Oh my gosh.
[00:05:28]  Okay.
[00:05:29]  So, people, St. Louis, the arch.
[00:05:31]  Okay.
[00:05:31]  I was on a business meeting and we were with, you know, people that I didn't really, I sort of knew them peripherally.
[00:05:38]  But anyway, so we go to like the arch museum and we watch the arch little movie.
[00:05:43]  And then by the time you watch the movie, you're like, oh, I want to go up in the arch.
[00:05:46]  And I'm like, I don't know if I should.
[00:05:48]  I'm like, no, I'll do it.
[00:05:49]  I'll do it.
[00:05:49]  Has anyone ever been in the arch elevator?
[00:05:54]  Yes.
[00:05:54]  You have.
[00:05:55]  Yeah.
[00:05:56]  Oh my God.
[00:05:56]  You're talking about the St. Louis?
[00:05:57]  Yeah, the St. Louis arch.
[00:05:58]  Yeah, we went to the top.
[00:05:59]  Yep.
[00:06:00]  Okay.
[00:06:00]  Well, so then you know.
[00:06:02]  So we do.
[00:06:03]  It's like a little.
[00:06:05]  It's like a little, like, all right, these doors open and you put five people inside and it's me and four other people.
[00:06:13]  And the seat's like a little horseshoe.
[00:06:15]  So everybody gets in and you sit down and you're kind of hunched a little bit because it's really tight in there and your knees are touching everybody's knees.
[00:06:23]  And I'm like, oh, holy cow, like this is not going to be good.
[00:06:27]  So, as the doors are about to close, I'm sensing my panic, but I've got to keep it together because I'm with business people.
[00:06:34]  Like, I can't freak out.
[00:06:36]  So, all of a sudden, the doors go to close, and I'm like, how long is the ride?
[00:06:40]  And the guy's like, a minute and 45 seconds, whatever he said.
[00:06:44]  And I'm like, okay, okay.
[00:06:45]  And the doors shut, and I'm like, okay, okay.
[00:06:48]  So, now you're like all hunched over in there, and it goes up like a little stepladder type of configuration.
[00:06:54]  So, it will like rock forward, go.
[00:06:57]  Up, rock forward, go up.
[00:06:59]  And I'm like, oh, I'm going to die.
[00:07:00]  I'm going to die.
[00:07:01]  I'm going to embarrass myself.
[00:07:02]  I'm going to throw up.
[00:07:03]  I'm going to pass out.
[00:07:04]  Like, this is going to be so embarrassing.
[00:07:06]  This is what, oh, there's a picture of the arch.
[00:07:08]  Amen.
[00:07:09]  God bless.
[00:07:10]  And there's like a little window next to me, but like out the window is just like beams and steel.
[00:07:16]  So all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, I feel the sweat like on the back of my neck.
[00:07:20]  And the door is like this.
[00:07:22]  So I put my lips up to the door and I start going, oh, I'm trying to suck in the oxygen.
[00:07:33]  I was like, if I could feel any like outside air.
[00:07:37]  Oh my God.
[00:07:37]  It was so ridiculous.
[00:07:40]  I think I was inconspicuous.
[00:07:42]  I don't know if anyone realized I was doing that.
[00:07:44]  Oh my God.
[00:07:45]  See the picture on locals?
[00:07:47]  So that's it.
[00:07:48]  It's insanity.
[00:07:50]  Oh my God.
[00:07:51]  So going down, it was much easier because I knew I was going to be able to get out and get off.
[00:07:56]  But yeah.
[00:07:57]  So don't put me in that capsule.
[00:07:58]  I cannot go to space unless they build like a 747.
[00:08:03]  Version were first class or something.
[00:08:08]  That was my art story.
[00:08:09]  Did they notice you getting that way?
[00:08:11]  You're a business people.
[00:08:13]  I mean, how could you not?
[00:08:14]  I guess I didn't say anything.
[00:08:16]  I was trying to play it off, but maybe like the gave it away.
[00:08:21]  Maybe they felt the same way.
[00:08:23]  How could they not see what you were doing?
[00:08:24]  You're so that your knees were touching and you're all facing each other.
[00:08:27]  Like, I don't know how you could do what you were doing without them noticing.
[00:08:30]  It was so bad.
[00:08:32]  So that was like, that was, that's just one example of when the claustrophobia takes over.
[00:08:38]  Uh oh, Mike Burt one up me.

=== SNAP Benefits in New York (10:15) ===

[00:08:39]  I bet.
[00:08:40]  I do think I'd have a problem on a submarine.
[00:08:43]  I don't have claustrophobia, but I just think, you know, being trapped underwater in a small space with a whole bunch of people for months or years at a time.
[00:08:52]  I don't know how long they stay out, but that to me would be rough.
[00:08:57]  I mean, even tunnels are a little.
[00:08:59]  So, like, you know, as the cars got fancier as life went on and you have that like navigation screen.
[00:09:04]  And like I said, I would go to New York all the freaking time.
[00:09:07]  And then, like, one day I have the car with that.
[00:09:10]  Screen and I go in the tunnel, and all of a sudden, you just see like my car with like water surrounding it because now I'm underwater.
[00:09:18]  And I'm just like, Oh my God.
[00:09:19]  And it was like bumper to bumper in the tunnel.
[00:09:21]  I'm like, Go people, go, Like, I'm like, What if it cracks?
[00:09:25]  What if the water comes in?
[00:09:26]  So, yeah, it can, but I'm a little more under control now.
[00:09:29]  The older I get, I'm trying to pull my shit together.
[00:09:31]  So that's the good news.
[00:09:33]  So, enough about that capsule.
[00:09:35]  I don't know why I showed it.
[00:09:36]  It just triggered this.
[00:09:40]  But like, oh, and let's.
[00:09:41]  Let's have you kick us off with something light today.
[00:09:44]  And, oh, an MRI?
[00:09:47]  Yeah, no, I don't know.
[00:09:49]  I don't think I could do it.
[00:09:51]  Well, apparently, there's a new method to reverse cellular aging that is about to be tested on humans.
[00:09:56]  So, there's apparently this partial reprogramming using what they call Yamanaka factors to rejuvenate cells without a full reset.
[00:10:07]  And they've done mice experiments to restore retinal nerve growth.
[00:10:12]  And they're starting out with a human trial for glaucoma and something they call Nyon.
[00:10:16]  I don't know what that is.
[00:10:18]  Using three factors with a virus in one eye.
[00:10:21]  So they're going to give you a virus that reprograms your cells and might rejuvenate your organs.
[00:10:28]  So it looks like we're moving towards that live forever world.
[00:10:33]  So there's some very young, spry mice out there, I'm assuming.
[00:10:39]  Interesting.
[00:10:40]  Maybe they were blind and they're no longer blind.
[00:10:43]  So three blind mice are no longer blind.
[00:10:47]  I'd like to give Stella, I'd like to give this to Stella so she could go backwards.
[00:10:52]  Yeah.
[00:10:52]  I mean, it might be possible.
[00:10:53]  I know the rules on pets are a little more liberal than humans in terms of the type of testing you need to do.
[00:11:00]  So it could come out for pets.
[00:11:02]  I mean, all right.
[00:11:02]  So good.
[00:11:03]  So it's a cellular level, doesn't necessarily mean you're going to live to 200.
[00:11:08]  No, but I think, as I understand it, this technology could potentially be done with many different types of cells.
[00:11:15]  So right now they're doing it for eyes.
[00:11:17]  That obviously is not going to keep you alive unless it just helps you see better, which.
[00:11:21]  Also, it has an impact on things like Alzheimer's and other things.
[00:11:27]  But I think the thought is that we could potentially do this with other organs.
[00:11:33]  We could potentially rejuvenate, you know, liver, kidney, heart, whatever.
[00:11:36]  And so potentially they could extend it to other things that really would extend life.
[00:11:40]  But we'll have to see how this goes.
[00:11:42]  We're certainly in the process and they have to see if it's safe and effective.
[00:11:46]  And they do point out there's a risk that too much of this reprogramming could cause cancer or loss of cell function.
[00:11:52]  So there may be some limitations to it.
[00:11:54]  So we'll have to see how it goes.
[00:11:55]  All right.
[00:11:56]  All right.
[00:11:57]  All right, Marcella.
[00:11:58]  Interesting.
[00:11:59]  What do you have?
[00:12:00]  So we'll live to 900 years old and we'll have free grocery stores.
[00:12:07]  So, your favorite mayor, one of them, Saron Mandani, is planning to open a free grocery store, which will cost taxpayers $30 million.
[00:12:24]  Free is not very free, for sure.
[00:12:27]  Free, but it's costing $30 million.
[00:12:29]  By free, do you mean the food is free to the customers?
[00:12:32]  The food is free to the customer.
[00:12:35]  So, how are they deciding who gets this food?
[00:12:39]  They're usually, it's the programs.
[00:12:42]  It's going to be open in East Harlem, of course.
[00:12:45]  And it's already, there's already a lot that's owned by the city that they're going to put it in.
[00:12:53]  It's going to open in 2027 and it's going to cater to people that already receive.
[00:13:01]  You know, benefits from the government.
[00:13:03]  But if they're already getting SNAP benefits, why don't they already have enough food?
[00:13:08]  Well, the idea would be to have them buy their SNAP benefit food from this grocery store.
[00:13:17]  So then it's not really free.
[00:13:18]  It's just another way to buy your food?
[00:13:22]  Yep.
[00:13:23]  I understand.
[00:13:24]  Yep.
[00:13:25]  Here it is.
[00:13:26]  I don't know the difference of why you're not doing it.
[00:13:29]  It's just virtue signaling, Owen, and a little redistribution of wealth is what they're doing.
[00:13:34]  So you want to give these poor people that voted for Mandami.
[00:13:40]  Food stamps that they can use anywhere, and they can also not use them at the free grocery store because it's free, although it costs $30 million.
[00:13:51]  And it's sort of like a bread line, like a little soup kitchen, like a food bank.
[00:13:59]  So it's a $30 million food bank funded by people that had no say in it unless they voted for him, in which you had a big say in it.
[00:14:07]  And I just, I mean, the obvious impact is if it was actually free, where you could just walk in, take some food, and leave.
[00:14:14]  Then they're just going to be empty shelves on the first day, and everyone's going to be upset because they didn't get all their food.
[00:14:20]  But if it really is just another way to buy your snap food, then I don't understand what you're doing.
[00:14:28]  You're spending $30 million to accomplish nothing.
[00:14:31]  Exactly.
[00:14:32]  Well, I think the issue was that in certain areas like East Harlem, there's not enough supermarkets there.
[00:14:39]  It's like the food desert, is what they call it.
[00:14:42]  And so they're trying to open local stores in areas where it's high snap.
[00:14:48]  You know, benefit.
[00:14:49]  Is this $30 million per year?
[00:14:52]  No, to build it.
[00:14:54]  Okay.
[00:14:55]  To run it, he didn't indicate how much it is.
[00:14:58]  And of course, he looked into how low margin grocery stores are, right?
[00:15:02]  To know that they're not really making a big profit.
[00:15:06]  And yeah, he's totally up on this.
[00:15:08]  Profit is not.
[00:15:09]  If he gave somebody, you know, much less than that, most likely per year, they probably would be very happy to open a grocery store there.
[00:15:20]  Well, here it is.
[00:15:21]  Yeah, I mean, I agree.
[00:15:23]  The good news is, this is testing small in one of the most important cities, and it will fail miserably.
[00:15:31]  And he's on the fast track to failure, like faster than any other of the loser mayors they've had there.
[00:15:38]  So he's going to replace de Blasio, which is incredibly difficult to do, I would think, and Eric Adams in no time in the worst mayor ever.
[00:15:50]  And everybody's leaving.
[00:15:51]  And then Hochel's.
[00:15:52]  Begging them all to come back and pay more money.
[00:15:54]  I'm like, do you guys hear yourselves?
[00:15:56]  Like, we're going to ask the people from Palm Beach to come back to New York and pay more money.
[00:16:03]  That's our plan.
[00:16:04]  I'm like, oh, good luck.
[00:16:06]  So let's watch the experiment.
[00:16:08]  You know, Scott always said test small.
[00:16:10]  So we're testing this very publicly in one very important city.
[00:16:15]  It will, I mean, it's going to be the further demise of New York.
[00:16:20]  This has been tested, right?
[00:16:21]  Like, we've already had the failures.
[00:16:23]  Yes.
[00:16:23]  And especially in other countries.
[00:16:24]  Yeah.
[00:16:25]  But even here, I think we've done this.
[00:16:27]  I think they've, I remember when this idea first came out that Mom Dami was proposing this, they said, We tried this, here's what happened.
[00:16:34]  And it was like empty shelves, went out of business, and it was a huge failure.
[00:16:40]  And most of these socialist policies are already happening in places like Chicago and LA and other places.
[00:16:47]  And we've seen the results.
[00:16:49]  So I don't think we need to test small.
[00:16:51]  I think we have the results.
[00:16:53]  We just need to pay attention to them.
[00:16:54]  But, you know, maybe New York needs to learn the lesson that it's a disaster there too.
[00:16:59]  Yeah, I think this will put it really in the forefront, though, for everybody to see.
[00:17:05]  It seems to be like everything he's doing is backfiring.
[00:17:07]  Like, either he's not allowed to do what he wanted to do, or he is just doing the exact opposite of what he said he would do.
[00:17:14]  He's making things less affordable.
[00:17:16]  He's making a disaster of the budget, and he's raiding their pension funds, or I don't remember, like the rainy day fund or whatever it was.
[00:17:25]  And so he's putting the city in a really horrible position, and it's going to be hard to recover from this, I think.
[00:17:32]  Oh my God, do you know I heard today?
[00:17:34]  So that who is it?
[00:17:36]  Bonapetit magazine, you know, has like a very good reputation.
[00:17:41]  You know, they're like the it food magazine.
[00:17:44]  And that they, you know, like first, every, all these magazines were just like, and newspapers, you know, oh, he shouldn't, you know, he shouldn't be in there, you know, the socialism, the communism, whatever.
[00:17:54]  And then once he gets in, they're like, oh, he's just, look at what he's doing.
[00:17:58]  And then Bonapetit magazine does an interview with him.
[00:18:02]  Because I guess that's what they have to like, they feel like that's their thing with New York.
[00:18:06]  And they're like, oh, he's making a really good case for hand food in New York City, like food to eat with your hand.
[00:18:14]  You know how he'll eat with his hands and he has other people eating with his hands.
[00:18:17]  And I'm like, come on, people, like stop Bon Appetit magazine, hand food now.
[00:18:22]  They're like, yeah, that's a great idea.
[00:18:24]  And they don't mean hot dogs.
[00:18:26]  So I do like Ethiopian food.
[00:18:28]  Have you had that?
[00:18:29]  I love Ethiopian food.
[00:18:30]  I mean, that's all with your hands.
[00:18:32]  You have the injera bread and scoop up the.
[00:18:34]  Yes, and I go to the Ethiopian restaurant in Asbury Park when I want the Ethiopian food.
[00:18:41]  But I don't, you know, I don't think everybody in town, like your firemen and policemen, should be made to eat hand food at a meeting and sit on the floor for your updates.
[00:18:53]  But whatever, that's just me.

=== California Homeless Settlements (14:32) ===

[00:18:55]  Yeah.
[00:18:56]  So I guess that the actual grocery store also will have inexpensive food there for people that are not on Snap, which, you know, and would have, what was it?
[00:19:09]  Better worker rights to the people that are working there and higher pay.
[00:19:16]  So it's going to put a lot of the small grocery stores in East Harlem out of business, also.
[00:19:23]  But it is competition.
[00:19:24]  And there's already not a lot of grocery stores there.
[00:19:27]  All right.
[00:19:28]  So good job.
[00:19:28]  All right.
[00:19:29]  This is going to be just an amazing circular firing squad going on in New York.
[00:19:34]  Okay.
[00:19:35]  Good luck.
[00:19:36]  Good luck.
[00:19:38]  All right, Marcella.
[00:19:40]  No, Owen.
[00:19:42]  Who just did that story?
[00:19:43]  Whoever's next.
[00:19:44]  I think it's me.
[00:19:45]  So, we of course have more fraud.
[00:19:48]  There's a homeless fraud that Daniel Greenfield was talking about.
[00:19:53]  There's this woman called Gwendolyn Westbrook, who apparently is a prior embezzler and ran a $36 million homeless nonprofit with Tent City stuff.
[00:20:04]  She's been indicted for $1.2 million in misappropriation.
[00:20:07]  She bought a Tesla, she was giving luxury cars to her family, she was taking trips to Aruba.
[00:20:12]  She was apparently raised by a Willie Brown ally.
[00:20:16]  So she's part of that whole group.
[00:20:17]  And, you know, it comes back to if you know who's involved, you know the news better.
[00:20:22]  And they got millions of dollars for this NGO despite failing audits and complaints.
[00:20:27]  And they were spending $61,000 per tent per year for this homeless tent city.
[00:20:35]  They spent $16 million a year, or they were going to spend that much by, I think it was by 2021, they spent that much.
[00:20:43]  Where was this, Owen?
[00:20:46]  I believe this is out in California.
[00:20:47]  California.
[00:20:48]  Oh, yeah.
[00:20:49]  Because that's the whole Willie Brown area.
[00:20:50]  Oh, right, right, right.
[00:20:53]  But yeah, so I think everyone probably could have seen this coming, but apparently it's been overlooked and allowed to happen.
[00:20:59]  And it sounds to me like this one might be one where you could probably trace it back to saying they wanted to just give this person a bunch of money and were hoping they wouldn't get caught.
[00:21:08]  But yeah, it's pretty egregious.
[00:21:10]  So she basically just took a whole bunch of money for herself and her family and gave it out to people.
[00:21:17]  Remember when Scott invested in tents?
[00:21:21]  Yeah.
[00:21:21]  And when he's, you remember all the homeless things were going on, he's like, he's like, don't take my advice, but I am, I'm going to invest in a tent company or I invested in a tent company.
[00:21:33]  Didn't he accidentally invest in RVs when he wanted to invest in tents?
[00:21:36]  Oh, I think he did.
[00:21:37]  Yeah.
[00:21:39]  That was like the whole COVID investment time of like, okay, what's hot right now?
[00:21:44]  Love that.
[00:21:45]  Yeah.
[00:21:46]  That's pretty disgusting.
[00:21:47]  And I mean, do we get the money back?
[00:21:53]  I don't know.
[00:21:53]  I mean, I'm assuming they would probably confiscate the property.
[00:21:56]  I think that's typically what happens when you have this type of case.
[00:21:59]  Marcella, you could probably say better than me.
[00:22:01]  Yeah, I mean, they'll take the person's property or whatever it is and accounts and everything else, freeze them.
[00:22:09]  But, you know, the taxpayer doesn't get it back.
[00:22:12]  Like, I don't get it reimbursed or it's never used.
[00:22:15]  So, the issue with this is that there are many organizations like this that.
[00:22:25]  There's a lot of millions and billions of dollars given to the homeless in California.
[00:22:31]  And when you're out there paying, you know, you see them without anybody helping them or anything else.
[00:22:39]  So it's kind of like, where's the money going?
[00:22:44]  What is the solution though?
[00:22:46]  Not that we know, but what is the solution for the homeless encampments, for the drug addicts?
[00:22:54]  What is the answer?
[00:22:55]  Because, you know, every, not every, but most major cities have this issue and, like, you know, better climate areas.
[00:23:04]  But what is the answer?
[00:23:05]  Because, like, I know Dr. Drew always says, well, they don't want to be home.
[00:23:08]  Like, they want to be out on the street.
[00:23:10]  Like, that's their actual lifestyle.
[00:23:12]  They're addicts, they're not homeless.
[00:23:15]  So, how does this get Fixed is like anyone.
[00:23:18]  I'm like looking in the chat.
[00:23:19]  Does anyone have a great idea?
[00:23:20]  I think it go ahead, Marcel.
[00:23:22]  You have to enforce the laws of like loitering and everything else.
[00:23:26]  But I think there has to be in California a change in conservatorships, uh, LPS conservatorships, which is um, where your family can uh, conserve you if you are at a state where you're a danger, not just your family, but someone else.
[00:23:44]  Because a lot of these people that are out there, and I think Donald Trump, uh, President Trump put a Truth post about, and I'm just going off.
[00:23:55]  I don't know if this guy was homeless, but that's kind of what happens here is that this guy killed a grocery or gas attendant with a hammer because they end up living on the street doing drugs.
[00:24:11]  They grab anything.
[00:24:13]  I had to run away from people with hammers, you know?
[00:24:16]  So it's kind of like they become very violent.
[00:24:20]  It's not just that they're.
[00:24:22]  Doing harm to themselves, they can do harm to others.
[00:24:25]  Of course.
[00:24:25]  So, changing the law of how you can conserve someone that is no longer there, you know?
[00:24:33]  So, that's one step.
[00:24:35]  Go ahead.
[00:24:35]  I think the first step, it kind of in agreement with what Marcella is saying, is you have to recognize it's not a homeless problem, it's a mental illness and a drug problem.
[00:24:45]  And so you have to think of it from that perspective if you're looking for solutions.
[00:24:48]  You can't just be like saying, oh, if we give this person an apartment or a condo, everything's solved, which is what California tried to do, spending massive amounts of money and not getting any results.
[00:24:58]  And, you know, I think there is a place in Texas, I can't remember the name, where there is some person who set up like a community out in the middle of the rural area for these homeless people and would bring people out to those places.
[00:25:12]  And that seemed to be really effective.
[00:25:14]  Like it would, they would be in a totally different environment.
[00:25:17]  It might even be, you know, mostly outdoors if they wanted to be outdoors, but they're away from all the drugs.
[00:25:22]  They're away from all the, you know, whatever's causing maybe the mental illness, too.
[00:25:27]  And, you know, I don't know.
[00:25:29]  There probably are a lot of other elements to it, but I know it's been a big success story.
[00:25:33]  And let's not forget disease and everything else.
[00:25:36]  And then what happens to people's real estate values and their personal things that are, you know, their cars are getting broken into over and over and over and over again.
[00:25:45]  And if you wanted to move out of these neighborhoods, you could never sell your property.
[00:25:49]  And you've got to live out there with people.
[00:25:52]  Peeing and pooping all over your property and in your plants, and just you know, lunatics.
[00:25:58]  And it's just like, oh my god, that is so.
[00:26:01]  I hate saying this word, but I'm just saying it quickly.
[00:26:03]  It's so not fair to the people that live there, that pay taxes, that go to work there.
[00:26:10]  And the other thing, you know, just about enforcing or creating policies like the first thing you could do is stop this ridiculous thing where you could steal up to $950 worth of things from a store.
[00:26:23]  And nothing happens to you.
[00:26:24]  I mean, all the stores are going out of business there.
[00:26:27]  I mean, it's going to be, it's just going to be like a ghost town in these areas.
[00:26:31]  Nobody wants to do business there.
[00:26:33]  Everybody's leaving.
[00:26:34]  Everybody's leaving California.
[00:26:35]  In and Out Burgers leaving.
[00:26:37]  They're going to Texas.
[00:26:39]  Lots of big California companies.
[00:26:40]  And I'm not saying it's just a California thing, but like universally, something has to happen.
[00:26:47]  I've been for 20 years saying, like, bring back insane asylums, like, call them whatever you want if you want to give it a fluffy name.
[00:26:54]  But And make them privatized.
[00:26:57]  And I would gladly be a venture capitalist person to raise money for these things because these people are mentally ill.
[00:27:05]  They're addicted.
[00:27:07]  They're sick.
[00:27:08]  They have nowhere to be, nowhere to go.
[00:27:10]  And we have to fix it because no one should be living this way, either them, even them, and the people that are around them.
[00:27:18]  It's just, it's crazy.
[00:27:19]  I just think we have done the sort of test small to call back to what we were saying earlier.
[00:27:23]  And, you know, Texas, I just saw an article that.
[00:27:27]  Between 2012 and 2022, if you compare California to Texas, Texas homeless population went down by 10,000 and California's went up by 51,000.
[00:27:39]  So, they do have systems that work.
[00:27:43]  There are systems that make a dent in it, at least.
[00:27:46]  And so, I think we just need to make that spread.
[00:27:49]  And I think the problem in California is mostly that the incentives are wrong.
[00:27:53]  You know, you're pumping a bunch of money into this thing, and all the people are benefiting from having that money flow through, and they get paid kind of like per homeless person.
[00:28:02]  And so, that means the more people they have, the more money they get.
[00:28:06]  And, you know, there's lots of this corruption and fraud happening in the middle of all that.
[00:28:11]  So, people are keeping a lot of this money to themselves.
[00:28:15]  And, you know, the builders are benefiting because they're just building a bunch of homes that they pay, you know, they charge full price for, even though they're given out either for free or for hardly anything to the people who live there.
[00:28:26]  But, you know, they're still getting paid.
[00:28:28]  So, like all these people are benefiting.
[00:28:30]  It's kind of like the immigration system where you had all these people benefiting because they were getting paid to bring people into the country.
[00:28:36]  And so you're going to have more people coming in the country because they get a certain paycheck every time they do that.
[00:28:41]  And so you need to cut off the funding.
[00:28:44]  When it's leading to a bad outcome, it's a bad system, as Scott would say.
[00:28:50]  Yeah, it really is.
[00:28:52]  Well, I mean, we're not going to solve it today.
[00:28:54]  And maybe when Dr. Drew comes on, we'll talk to him about this too, because he will be coming on.
[00:28:58]  I don't have the date, but it'll be very.
[00:29:02]  Okay, so I just have a question, Marcella.
[00:29:05]  Yeah.
[00:29:06]  Did I hear correctly about Kamala Harris?
[00:29:12]  I'm just saying, because California is California.
[00:29:14]  Well, she's the answer to all of our problems, don't you know?
[00:29:18]  Did you guys hear what she said maybe might happen?
[00:29:22]  Tell us, Marcella.
[00:29:24]  So, there's a possibility that one, she might run for president in 2028, and everybody out there cheering, and or she will run for California governor based on a write in candidate position where people can write her name in.
[00:29:45]  She does have to provide 65 signatures.
[00:29:49]  In order by May 19, in order to be a write in candidate.
[00:29:53]  Where do I sign?
[00:29:57]  All the people here in California that reside here can do that.
[00:30:06]  So there's a possibility our future, you know.
[00:30:10]  And to be honest, she was better when she was Attorney General here, but there was a change in her ways.
[00:30:18]  Well, let's just, can we take a little trip down memory lane?
[00:30:23]  Because this is what we could look forward to.
[00:30:25]  And by the way, you guys, the start of this clip is what Marcella's wardrobe is going to be moving forward when you see the red dress.
[00:30:33]  We've already decided.
[00:30:34]  Let me know if you want me to wear that.
[00:30:35]  Yeah.
[00:30:36]  And then let's revisit the memories of Kamala and what we could maybe look forward to in the near future.
[00:30:43]  To play my little favorite.
[00:30:45]  To play my little favorite.
[00:30:47]  Highlights real.
[00:30:48]  Sorry.
[00:30:49]  I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community.
[00:30:55]  I need to get to go.
[00:30:56]  And need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home.
[00:31:00]  We did it, we did it, Joe.
[00:31:03]  You're gonna be the next president of the United States.
[00:31:08]  I don't know what's wrong with you, young people.
[00:31:10]  You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
[00:31:15]  You exist in the context.
[00:31:18]  I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled.
[00:31:27]  Certain issues are just settled.
[00:31:28]  Clearly, we're not.
[00:31:29]  No, that's right.
[00:31:30]  And that's why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.
[00:31:36]  It is.
[00:31:37]  And talking about the significance of the passage of time, right?
[00:31:41]  The significance of the passage of time.
[00:31:44]  So when you think about it, There is great significance to the passage of time.
[00:31:49]  So, no longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that's locked in the basement of the house.
[00:31:58]  It's on your laptop, and it's then therefore up here in this cloud that exists above us, right?
[00:32:07]  We can see what is possible unburdened by what has been.
[00:32:12]  We have dreams.
[00:32:14]  We can see what is possible unburdened by what has been.
[00:32:18]  I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
[00:32:22]  You know?
[00:32:22]  That's my language!
[00:32:39]  What the hell is so funny?
[00:32:43]  Would someone please create an AI debate between JD Vance and Kamala Harris?
[00:32:48]  Oh, I want to see that.
[00:32:50]  I want to see Kamala and Katie Porter.
[00:32:57]  Wait, you guys.
[00:32:58]  So, what you don't know is while that's going on, well, Owen never changes his expression.
[00:33:02]  He's super stoic.
[00:33:03]  But at the bottom back here, we can see the three of us while that's playing.
[00:33:08]  And Marcella and I are doing Kamala impersonations, and I'm going.
[00:33:12]  And then the.
[00:33:13]  There's the hands.
[00:33:15]  And I'm going, what is it?
[00:33:16]  And what could be?
[00:33:18]  So she's just so mockable.
[00:33:20]  I mean, mock her to the ends of the earth.
[00:33:23]  That woman is.
[00:33:24]  Maybe she's shy, you know?
[00:33:26]  Maybe she's just bad at talking.

=== Congress Resignation and Impeachment Probe (15:41) ===

[00:33:28]  I don't know.
[00:33:28]  That's great.
[00:33:29]  That's definitely what you want in a leader.
[00:33:33]  Oh my gosh.
[00:33:34]  So run, Cammie, run.
[00:33:37]  I love the part that you played where she was talking to, I don't know if it was 60 minutes or whoever it was, and they were like, Oh, yeah.
[00:33:45]  And she was like, Yeah, this is all settled already.
[00:33:48]  And then he goes back to her and says, Well, it's not settled.
[00:33:52]  That's why I'm asking.
[00:33:53]  Yeah, she goes, Some things are just settled.
[00:33:55]  It's settled.
[00:33:56]  He goes, Well, it's not.
[00:33:57]  And she goes, Right.
[00:33:59]  So, and I'm like, Oh my God, you are so crazy.
[00:34:03]  Oh, so, you know, hopefully we'll get to hear from her again.
[00:34:09]  I did want to jump to one other thing.
[00:34:12]  So, yesterday at the end of the show, Marcella, so Greatly wrapped up in five minutes what was going on.
[00:34:20]  This is a little more of a serious subject with the whole Ukraine impeachment, perfect phone call, all of that stuff.
[00:34:28]  So, I'm just going to play a little clip and then on the other end, Marcella and Owen will just kind of like re just, you know, just kind of tighten that up and then we can move on to Eric Swalwell.
[00:34:39]  Okay, here's a clip from Just the News with John Solomon.
[00:34:44]  Tonight, we're going to expand on a bombshell story we dropped late last evening.
[00:34:48]  New memos declassified by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, at the request of Justin News.
[00:34:54]  We fought six years to get this evidence.
[00:34:56]  They show that the intelligence community inspector general had gathered derogatory evidence about the CIA analysts who prompted the 2019 Ukraine focused impeachment against Donald Trump.
[00:35:07]  Remember, that was an impeachment that accused Donald Trump of wrongly asking Ukraine to investigate the Biden's grift there.
[00:35:13]  We now know the grift existed.
[00:35:14]  Well, now we know the man who made that accusation, the chief accuser that touched off that entire Episode in American history had submitted false statements in his whistleblower complaint, had offered hearsay to support his allegations, and was flagged by the inspector general for the intelligence community, the chief watchdog of the intelligence community, for potential bias, including the bias of working for Joe Biden, being a registered Democrat, and disliking Donald Trump and the people around him.
[00:35:40]  In fact, he so disliked Donald Trump, he insisted that his complaint not be shared with allies of President Trump in Congress, even though they were entitled to see it.
[00:35:50]  All day today, people have been reacting.
[00:35:52]  Former impeachment managers saying, We should have known this.
[00:35:56]  Lawyers saying this raises very serious concerns about the fairness of the impeachment and Senate trial that occurred six years ago.
[00:36:04]  And the intelligence establishment, including the CIA director and DNI Gabbard, both reacting strongly, saying that the former intelligence community's inspector general, that chief watchdog, who buried this derogatory information, let the American people down, that he weaponized the whistleblower system, and that he abused his position.
[00:36:27]  There are signs that maybe that is going to come under investigation over the course of the next few days.
[00:36:33]  Okay, so in the chat, yes or no, will anyone be prosecuted for this?
[00:36:39]  Just curious, yes or no, will they be prosecuted?
[00:36:42]  No, nothing will happen.
[00:36:44]  I mean, that's pretty stunning and amazing.
[00:36:47]  And the breathless reporting on this, as if like the worst thing in the world had happened and all of it's just BS, is just beyond.
[00:36:56]  So, Owen, I'll come to you first on this subject.
[00:36:58]  What do you think?
[00:36:59]  Oh, and everybody's saying no, by the way, in the chat.
[00:37:02]  Yeah, well, I think, um, You know, certainly I would hope there would be some accountability for this.
[00:37:07]  I don't know that there will be.
[00:37:08]  I'm probably with most of the people in the chat that I doubt anything real is going to come out of this in terms of people going to prison or, you know, getting any consequences for breaking the law.
[00:37:18]  But, you know, it does seem like a huge scandal and at least we're getting some transparency around it.
[00:37:25]  I'm sure none of the mainstream media is going to cover it.
[00:37:27]  You know, they'll just ignore it like it never happened.
[00:37:30]  And so most Democrats will never even hear about this or know that it came out.
[00:37:35]  But, you know, at least we do have some evidence of it.
[00:37:38]  I think this is another situation, though, where we all knew this is what happened, right?
[00:37:42]  Like, it isn't news from the standpoint of learning something happened that you didn't know happened.
[00:37:47]  It's just confirmation that, yes, it was exactly what you thought it was.
[00:37:52]  And six years to get that information is just disgusting.
[00:37:59]  What do you want to say about that, Marcella?
[00:38:02]  I think John Solomon later on, in another interview, I think with Hannity, Maybe I don't remember.
[00:38:10]  He said that Alan Darshowitz had made statements.
[00:38:13]  Um, attorney, famous attorney Alan Darshowitz, had made statements that saying that uh, President Trump can try to get his impeachment expunged meaning taken off his record.
[00:38:26]  Um, you know, but the issue is that it seems like there is no accountability, there is anybody can whistleblow anything, um, and Can be partisan and can be based on hearsay.
[00:38:43]  So, if again, the midterms are important because it will lead to possibly the Democrats having control of Congress.
[00:38:53]  And again, we'll see another impeachment attempt based on, you know, nothing.
[00:39:00]  So, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:01]  And apparently it's so.
[00:39:03]  I mean, and then when the Republicans got in after Trump's first term, I was like, oh, okay, so they're going to just try to impeach everybody and.
[00:39:13]  Throw the hammer down, and none of that's happened.
[00:39:16]  So it's just stunning to me.
[00:39:17]  And this is why people get fed up with the Republicans.
[00:39:19]  It's like, okay, you're in power now.
[00:39:22]  Like, what are we doing?
[00:39:23]  And you want to see some kind of accountability, something, and nothing.
[00:39:30]  It's nothing ever.
[00:39:32]  So I really wish that the Republicans would get a backbone and be pissed.
[00:39:38]  And I don't know how to make that happen.
[00:39:41]  I don't know who needs to be put in what position for these things to happen, but it's.
[00:39:46]  I don't know.
[00:39:48]  I feel like everybody's just blackmailed and they just don't do it because they have dirt on them.
[00:39:53]  I don't know how you burn the whole thing down, but it's pretty frustrating as taxpayers and citizens and people who would, you know, we would, all of us watching this would be in trouble for the most stupid things.
[00:40:05]  And you'd probably be put in jail for something that's a nothing.
[00:40:09]  And then you see the most egregious crimes that, like, literally affect.
[00:40:14]  January 6th.
[00:40:15]  January 6th.
[00:40:16]  You know, you go in.
[00:40:18]  But the summer of love, no problem.
[00:40:21]  No.
[00:40:22]  They were like, yeah, let them get their aggression out.
[00:40:24]  Oh, okay.
[00:40:26]  So it's a pretty tough pill to swallow.
[00:40:30]  I don't know.
[00:40:31]  Any other words on this before we move on to?
[00:40:34]  It's good you mentioned Swallow.
[00:40:36]  Representative Eric Swallow resigned from Congress yesterday.
[00:40:43]  Not only from his running for governor, he also resigned from Congress.
[00:40:48]  So he knows he's cooked.
[00:40:52]  Yeah.
[00:40:52]  And I think it's early because he's potentially under criminal investigation now.
[00:40:56]  And what I read in one of the stories was that he was worried that if he went through a congressional inquiry or this ethics probe, that that might.
[00:41:05]  Expose some information that would hurt him in his criminal trial.
[00:41:07]  Well, let's run this clip and then we'll talk about the criminal problems.
[00:41:14]  What I will say is that many people on the Hill knew about this.
[00:41:17]  Many reporters have come forward, even in talking to me, saying that they had heard stories about this.
[00:41:21]  But I do think that he has serious criminal problems on his hand.
[00:41:25]  And I do think that he might end up in jail, Jesse.
[00:41:27]  And if I could just share with you for a moment, not only did I receive forensic reporting showing that, you know, that infamous video of him in the hotel room was indeed him, it was not AI generated.
[00:41:37]  But I'm also being told that, A, more stuff is going to be dropping in the next 24 hours.
[00:41:41]  And then also, potentially, the individual that recorded that video in that hotel room, Jesse, was a female and she was underage.
[00:41:49]  Oh, just so the audience is aware, there's a video that's circulating.
[00:41:53]  Fox hasn't confirmed it yet.
[00:41:54]  It appears to show Swahwa on a bed, maybe another guy making out with a girl.
[00:42:01]  That's it.
[00:42:01]  That's all we know.
[00:42:02]  But if what you're saying is true, and we don't know, but if that's true, that is very, very, very bad news.
[00:42:09]  But back up.
[00:42:10]  You're saying reporters on the Hill knew Swallow was a shade ball, but didn't investigate?
[00:42:16]  Because why?
[00:42:17]  Because he was a Democrat?
[00:42:20]  I don't know why they didn't push this further.
[00:42:22]  I think that there's a lot of kind of back scratching taking place on the Hill in general because it's happening within our own party as well.
[00:42:30]  But yes, they knew about it.
[00:42:31]  They did not report on it.
[00:42:33]  And you're seeing now that, I mean, I don't know about you, Jesse, but I don't have 50 staffers, let alone 50 staffers, that would come out and say that this is wrong and that you need to resign from office, right?
[00:42:43]  So it was clearly a pattern.
[00:42:44]  And as you're seeing with some of the text messages coming out, and I think, again, with this criminal investigation, there's a lot there with him.
[00:42:51]  So yes, he resigned, I think, to maybe save his family going through this.
[00:42:55]  But ultimately, at the end of the day, when he did what he decided to do, just based on the grounds of him having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, but now we're looking at the criminal activity.
[00:43:04]  And I stand by what I said because I saw, again, the forensics report of that video.
[00:43:09]  And if that is true, I would suggest that the Manhattan DA look into that.
[00:43:17]  Wow.
[00:43:18]  So, all sorts of people are distancing themselves from him, Democrats, big time.
[00:43:24]  And, you know, we all know that Pelosi gives cover to all these guys.
[00:43:28]  They're all of her designated liars.
[00:43:32]  You could name all of them.
[00:43:34]  We all know who they are.
[00:43:35]  And Pelosi is just, you know, so Pelosi claims nobody knew about any of this.
[00:43:41]  This is all a huge surprise.
[00:43:43]  Yeah.
[00:43:43]  And she's gone in eight months, you guys.
[00:43:45]  So, they're not going to have.
[00:43:46]  Grandmother to watch after them anymore.
[00:43:49]  And it's going to be really interesting to see what's going to come out.
[00:43:53]  And when they don't have her protection, what's going to happen?
[00:43:56]  And I think we're going to see people dropping off like flies, is just my prediction.
[00:44:01]  What do you think, Marcella?
[00:44:02]  You're nodding, yes.
[00:44:03]  Well, I mean, everybody that was alive, breathing, knew Swalwell had a woman issue.
[00:44:10]  I mean, thank you.
[00:44:12]  I personally knew that.
[00:44:15]  But the issue with that is that most of the accusers had not come out.
[00:44:19]  You know, with sexual abuse and anything like that, it's hard for those abused to actually come out and say it and accuse somebody in power.
[00:44:32]  However, the Congress, from what we're told by Nancy Mace and Anna Polina Luna, is that there is this kind of issue.
[00:44:46]  And we talked about it earlier in another news story that there's this issue with Congress and the Senate and that.
[00:44:55]  There's like allegations made against all of them, and that you know, there was a bill or somewhere some ruled in order to make it public for the public to know about it, but it was voted down so that it's all private.
[00:45:13]  This is this goes on in Washington quite a lot, you know, so it's like everybody knows this happens.
[00:45:20]  And and but the interesting part now is that TMC, who is usually running like Hollywood scandal or show business scandal is now in, has a borough or has an office now in DC.
[00:45:39]  And that will change quite a lot because they will report on these kinds of things.
[00:45:45]  So, yeah, they want to go where the action's at now.
[00:45:48]  Hollywood's dead and DC is the gossip center.
[00:45:52]  I just want to say I am shocked that he did these things.
[00:45:56]  I mean, he's always been such an upstanding guy, high integrity.
[00:46:00]  You know, I can't believe that this went on.
[00:46:03]  And, you know, how did he hide it so well?
[00:46:06]  Same with Bill Clinton and Monica.
[00:46:08]  You know, you go back that far and you're like, wow, you know, I didn't see that coming.
[00:46:14]  But he actually isn't the only one.
[00:46:15]  Tony Gonzalez also resigned.
[00:46:18]  So he had his own affair problem.
[00:46:21]  He's a Republican.
[00:46:24]  And he resigned after having an affair with one of his staffers.
[00:46:28]  She killed herself, unfortunately.
[00:46:31]  Very tragic.
[00:46:31]  But so that was also being put under an ethics probe, and he's out of Congress now.
[00:46:38]  Yeah, that's what I mean.
[00:46:39]  It's going to be interesting.
[00:46:40]  Let's see if anyone else is like, uh oh, the probe's getting deeper.
[00:46:46]  With Representative Tony Gonzalez, he wasn't going to go for office again, but he.
[00:46:55]  Basically, he didn't really resign.
[00:46:57]  He filed for retirement.
[00:47:00]  Oh, I thought he resigned.
[00:47:02]  No.
[00:47:03]  So he's very different, meaning that he will just end, he'll retire instead of resigning.
[00:47:13]  I don't know.
[00:47:14]  It might make a difference with how you collect your benefits through your retirement.
[00:47:19]  I have no idea.
[00:47:20]  But his staffer that he allegedly had relations with, because he's denied it, Or he's tried to deny it, died in a very shocking way.
[00:47:37]  Allegedly, she, in the backyard of her house in Uvalde, Texas, had put basically caught on fire.
[00:47:49]  And that's how she killed her.
[00:47:51]  Yowza, good God.
[00:47:52]  What is that called?
[00:47:53]  I forget what it's called.
[00:47:55]  Emulation.
[00:47:56]  I don't know, but it's bad.
[00:47:57]  It's sad.
[00:47:59]  So, you know, maybe think twice about having your kids being assistants over there.
[00:48:07]  Or a staffer over there in DC.
[00:48:09]  I'm just kidding.
[00:48:10]  I'm sure most people are fine, but I mean, it's, it's, we are, we all know this is how DC is.
[00:48:17]  The only thing I don't like is that immolation.
[00:48:20]  The only thing I don't like is that it's all a secret.
[00:48:23]  Like, let us know who these people are.
[00:48:25]  Maybe you don't want to re elect Swalwell when you hear about all this stuff, right?
[00:48:28]  You know, and if it's been going on for a long time, let us know.
[00:48:32]  It's not, it's not right to keep who these people truly are.
[00:48:36]  Um, but everybody's basically a liar in DC.
[00:48:40]  So, you know, I will just clarify.
[00:48:43]  I saw in the chat someone was saying he did resign.
[00:48:45]  I think that this might just be like breaking news where it hasn't actually come out, you know, publicly yet, but there is sort of reports that he's resigning.
[00:48:52]  So we'll have to see.
[00:48:53]  Yeah, that's what I heard too.
[00:48:56]  It could be newer, a newer one.
[00:48:58]  We'll all find out after.
[00:48:59]  Or if somebody wants to grab that, let us know.
[00:49:01]  But it was on Megyn Kelly this morning.
[00:49:05]  Okay.
[00:49:06]  All right.
[00:49:06]  So he, yeah, I thought I read somewhere that he resigned too.

=== Beverly Hills Kickback Speculation (03:47) ===

[00:49:09]  And I just, I feel bad for these.
[00:49:13]  Wives, or the spouses, or the people that were taken advantage of.
[00:49:16]  And, you know, I remember I was younger when the whole Monica thing went down.
[00:49:21]  Oh, I heard it.
[00:49:22]  I heard it.
[00:49:24]  So, anyway, but I was like, you know, I don't blame Monica Lewinsky.
[00:49:30]  Like, she was so young.
[00:49:31]  And, you know, the president of the United States is giving you this kind of attention.
[00:49:38]  And so I felt bad because she took the most crap for it.
[00:49:44]  It really was on him.
[00:49:46]  Oh God, everything I say.
[00:49:49]  But anyway, I so I felt bad for her.
[00:49:50]  And I just, I feel like these younger staffers are so vulnerable to these people in power that are giving them attention.
[00:49:59]  And I could just see like if I was younger and there was like some man who was like, you know, my boss or, you know, whatever.
[00:50:06]  And you're like, oh no.
[00:50:07]  So I don't know.
[00:50:09]  I just hope that I hope the right people get the majority of the crap thrown at them.
[00:50:16]  And I feel bad for the wives.
[00:50:18]  Um, Swallow's wife, I'm just like, oh my god, everything she's gonna hear now, it's just brutal.
[00:50:24]  Yeah, you're young and dumb, right?
[00:50:26]  So, do we want to keep talking about him?
[00:50:29]  I'm not necessarily, but if there's nothing else, let's move to a different story.
[00:50:35]  No, I think that's it.
[00:50:36]  I've seen rumors and things on X where they say they think more is coming, but like more people.
[00:50:42]  Um, but we'll have to wait and see what else comes out.
[00:50:44]  Yes, Beverly, your brain isn't.
[00:50:46]  I just want to say, Beverly, you're right, your brain is not fully developed till the age of 25, and these people are pretty young in there.
[00:50:53]  Not that that's a full on excuse, but let's be real.
[00:50:55]  Okay, go ahead, O.
[00:50:56]  No, I was just going to say, I think it's a step in the right direction.
[00:50:59]  I think it's great to have more transparency around these things.
[00:51:01]  And, you know, I wish it was more universally applied.
[00:51:05]  And I'm not necessarily hopeful that everybody who should be is going to face these consequences.
[00:51:11]  But I am glad that we're at least taking steps in the right direction.
[00:51:15]  Okay.
[00:51:15]  So, Owen, do you want to give us another story?
[00:51:18]  We have about nine minutes left.
[00:51:22]  Let's see.
[00:51:23]  So apparently, we are giving $40 million a week to the Taliban.
[00:51:26]  Did you know that?
[00:51:29]  Burchett was talking about this, and apparently, it's $40 million a week, $5 billion total so far, I think.
[00:51:37]  And apparently, they want to keep this going.
[00:51:39]  Wait, wait, wait, wait.
[00:51:40]  To the Taliban?
[00:51:41]  Wait, we're giving $40 million to the Taliban?
[00:51:47]  Per week, yeah.
[00:51:48]  It's going through a bunch of NGOs and the UN and things, but it's all ending up with the Taliban.
[00:51:53]  Okay.
[00:51:53]  In Afghanistan.
[00:51:54]  All right.
[00:51:55]  Good night, everybody.
[00:51:56]  Have a great day.
[00:51:58]  There is speculation, at least, that maybe some of it's, you know, there may be some kickbacks back to politicians happening.
[00:52:03]  I'm not sure, but the Democrats apparently are really wanting this to continue.
[00:52:09]  Okay.
[00:52:10]  I'm sure they will.
[00:52:11]  Can you make that make sense?
[00:52:12]  I don't understand at all, like what's happening.
[00:52:16]  I don't think I can, but I think if I were to try and steel man the argument, I think the twisted logic behind it is that.
[00:52:25]  They think by giving them money that they can like help stabilize the region, you know, that they're going to basically be more amenable to staying on good terms with us.
[00:52:36]  And that if you didn't support them, that it might collapse and become much worse or, you know, more terrorism, other things.
[00:52:44]  So that's my guess is how they would justify it, but I don't buy it at all.
[00:52:47]  So they're negotiating with terrorists?
[00:52:50]  Exactly.
[00:52:50]  Yeah.
[00:52:51]  They're paying them off.
[00:52:52]  All right.
[00:52:53]  Well, that's amazing.
[00:52:55]  That's fantastic.

=== Pickleball Injuries and Cocaine Hippos (05:46) ===

[00:52:56]  Marcella, what's your lighthearted story?
[00:52:58]  No, I'm just kidding.
[00:53:00]  Well, no, I was going to say, you know, this is why people are so fed up on either side, Republican or Democrat, because when we drive around, when we go to our cities in the United States, we see all these issues, infrastructure issues, and yet all this money is being given to foreign governments.
[00:53:18]  But where is that money going into America?
[00:53:23]  You know?
[00:53:24]  So that bothers me because it shouldn't be like that.
[00:53:29]  We need more Burchette.
[00:53:30]  We need him.
[00:53:32]  We need him like every day.
[00:53:33]  Just he needs a podcast.
[00:53:35]  I love him.
[00:53:37]  He's a good dude.
[00:53:39]  So, in my lighthearted story, pickleball injuries have risen.
[00:53:45]  Oh, pickleball.
[00:53:47]  Yes.
[00:53:48]  And so, pickle, I should not laugh because it's actually very serious injuries to the eyes, ocular issues that have happened.
[00:53:58]  And there's a journal named EYE, and then analyzed the data from 2014 through 2023.
[00:54:07]  And it, It tied about 3,000 injuries to the sport, ocular injuries.
[00:54:17]  And part of the reason is that people don't wear any protective eye gear in order to avoid it.
[00:54:25]  And they end up playing with basically people that know how and they might not know how.
[00:54:34]  And then they end up injured.
[00:54:36]  So there you go.
[00:54:38]  You have to watch out for your pickleballs.
[00:54:40]  Darla is our resident pickleball queen.
[00:54:42]  She is the pickleball princess.
[00:54:46]  And now, does she wear eye gear in order to not have these injuries?
[00:54:53]  Darla, let's do a locals only interview one night this week and let's talk about the pickleball saga.
[00:55:00]  And also, I know that there are a lot of Achilles tendon injuries and ankle injuries.
[00:55:07]  Yeah, the hospitals, you know, listen, a lot of older women, when I say older, I'm I don't even mean old.
[00:55:13]  I just mean like older women are playing pickleball.
[00:55:17]  And, you know, a lot of us aren't built the way we used to be.
[00:55:21]  And so you're stopping short and running and this and that.
[00:55:24]  And like, you know, your knees aren't as happy, your ankles, all of your tendons.
[00:55:28]  Make sure you guys warm up, you stretch, you take proper precautions.
[00:55:32]  I'm going to say wear the sports goggles now.
[00:55:35]  Nobody needs to take a shot to the eye.
[00:55:37]  It's not fun.
[00:55:39]  But yeah, there are tons of injuries reported at the hospitals.
[00:55:43]  We have friends that work at hospitals and they're just like, oh, you should see all the pickleball madness coming in the ER.
[00:55:49]  So, you know, so be careful.
[00:55:53]  You know, I wonder, was it introduced by China?
[00:55:57]  I don't know.
[00:55:59]  That's a good question.
[00:56:00]  I was like, hmm, interesting.
[00:56:03]  I think ping pong might be a little bit safer.
[00:56:06]  I read a book about brain health and he, the doctor, I think it was maybe Dr. Eamon, I can't remember who wrote it, but he was pointing out how pretty much almost every sport has like, Collision industries of some sort that, and his point was that like all of them do injure your brain, like every concussion injures your brain, and he can scan your brain and see where you've had impacts.
[00:56:30]  He recommended ping pong as the only safe sport because there was no contact involved.
[00:56:35]  And didn't, didn't, are I making this up too, but isn't China wait, did they invent ping pong?
[00:56:42]  Allegedly.
[00:56:44]  I don't know.
[00:56:46]  That's what they say.
[00:56:47]  Let's ask Chester.
[00:56:49]  Forrest Gump.
[00:56:51]  Where's Chester?
[00:56:52]  I'm going to ask Chester right now.
[00:56:55]  One other story I can add is apparently they're going to be calling Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos.
[00:57:01]  So he brought over four hippos to Colombia, and apparently they went wild and got out, and now there were like 170 of them.
[00:57:12]  In 2022, and they've been threatening villagers and manatees, and they tried neutering them, and that didn't work.
[00:57:18]  So, they're going to be euthanizing 80 hippos in Colombia.
[00:57:21]  Oh, no!
[00:57:22]  Oh, no, Owen, that's not good.
[00:57:26]  Can they just put them in a zoo or something?
[00:57:29]  Well, they were brought over to be in a zoo, and then I think apparently they somehow got out and they're running wild now.
[00:57:35]  Oh, no, save the hippos.
[00:57:38]  I will say, hippos are pretty nasty.
[00:57:40]  They're, from what I understand, they're one of the more dangerous creatures you can encounter out in the jungle or wherever they live, the savannah.
[00:57:47]  That they're running around.
[00:57:48]  Yeah.
[00:57:49]  I mean, you know, I could certainly argue that it would be more humane and better to just relocate them back to where they came from.
[00:57:56]  Not sure how you transport 80 hippos or even capture them, but apparently there will be less cocaine hippos in Colombia.
[00:58:05]  Oh, RIP.
[00:58:08]  Yeah.
[00:58:08]  I mean, God.
[00:58:10]  All right.
[00:58:10]  So ping pong comes from the Brits.
[00:58:14]  It comes from the Brits.
[00:58:15]  Someone named David Foster.
[00:58:17]  Who patented a table version of tennis in 1890?
[00:58:22]  The name ping pong itself came later and was trademarked by the British company Jay Jacques and Son in 1901.
[00:58:31]  So let's go, England.
[00:58:33]  But the, yes, of course, the Chinese dominate at that sport.
[00:58:37]  I don't know why I said, of course, but that sounded kind of racist.
[00:58:40]  I didn't mean it that way.

=== Scott Scott Joins Us Tomorrow (01:02) ===

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