Erica, Marcella, and Owen celebrate Cinco de Mayo while debunking Shelly's death rumors and debating Nancy Mace's $338,000 sexual harassment payout revelations. They investigate Ohio Medicaid fraud involving a $66 million boarded-up building, analyze Secret Service shootings near the White House, and critique Cole Allen's padded cell confinement versus January 6 defendants. The hosts discuss Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi's threats against Trump, blame the Biden administration for Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, and cover Project Freedom defending shipping lanes from Iranian aggression. Scott Adams concludes by urging listeners to "get out" via sports or Tai Chi to ground themselves in the present, noting that family soccer moments outweigh his 35-year Dilbert career. [Automatically generated summary]
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Staffers, Fraud, and Settlements00:15:15
Here they come.
Good morning.
Is everybody behaving?
Good morning, everyone.
Good.
Oh, Cinco de Mayo.
Oh, shit.
Where's my sombrero?
Where's your tacos?
Oh, I hear myself over here.
All right.
Is everyone ready for Cinco de Mayo?
It is, oh my gosh, and it's Taco Tuesday.
This is a special Cinco de Mayo.
I love that for us.
Welcome in, everybody.
My name is Erica.
I'm with Marcella and Owen.
And you are all at the Scott Adams School.
Just a reminder this is a school that Scott put together for those of us that wanted to stay together as a community and talk about the news and current events and do some lessons that Scott has taught us.
It's just to have a good time and be together, okay?
And I just feel like it's necessary to remind everyone that we know we're not Scott.
We could never be Scott, we would never even try to be Scott.
We are Erica Owen and Marcella.
So, welcome.
We do often have great guests.
That being said, Corey DeAngelis is going to join us again next week.
We have Gad Sad coming up this month in a couple of weeks.
Dr. Drew will be on with us this month.
Yes, Dr. Drew.
And this week, we also have Kyle Becker joining us.
And so, it's just never ending goodness.
Okay.
So, Thank you to everybody for being here.
I want to just do one last word on the situation we discussed yesterday because I would never want anyone to imagine this scenario or for Shelly's family to have to hear this.
But unfortunately, because we tried to keep things so private, people feel the need to speculate.
I don't know why, but I want you to know that Shelly.
Lived a very happy life.
She was surrounded by friends and family.
She loved her life.
She would never end her life.
Okay.
So that speculation can end.
And Shelly was surrounded by her family.
Okay.
So I hope that that actually does make some people feel better if you were very upset or wondering.
And I hope it does make you feel better to know that her family was with her.
Okay.
And that's it.
Yesterday was rough.
Okay, yesterday was rough.
And the people on here that show up for this community and for this school, I just want to say you guys are the most amazing people.
A lot of you saw some people that were coming for me because I am the mouthpiece.
Oh, shocker that I'm the mouthpiece.
But, you know, so I get it.
You know, throw your slings and arrows at me.
Oh, my God, Travis, thank you.
But I just want to let you know that that's okay.
But to all of you who sent me extra love and support and Let this group here know that you love us and that you can't wait to show up and see our faces every day.
It means so much to us because you're the reason this school is here.
You're the reason Scott wanted this to begin with.
And you're all the reason that Shelly said, Yeah, let's make it permanent.
Let's keep it going.
So, we really, honestly, can you hear the energy in my voice?
I was so down before this show started, but you guys are the reason that we all can stay together.
And so, It's my deepest gratitude.
And I know I speak for Marcella and Owen.
We really love you guys.
So thank you for allowing this to continue.
Okay.
So that I just wanted to get out of the way.
One little, I don't have any fun animal news for you, not like cute animal news, but I do want to just show you one photo tagging on from yesterday when we were talking about that poor guy driving all those delicious baked goods and his truck got hit by a United flight coming in to land at Newark.
Look at this photo, you guys.
This is the truck.
That's not AI.
And that's.
The landing gear hitting the top of his truck.
How insane is this?
So, Marcella, that's the answer of where the turnpike is to the airport.
So, too close.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a miracle nobody died and that people were only maybe slightly injured, which was the driver and maybe somebody else, another Jeep, I think, was hit with the light pole.
So, Erica, is it time for the sip?
Holy shit, you guys.
It's time for the sip.
Now that all that's out of the way, thanks, Owen told you I was out of sorts.
Let's go.
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Good morning, San Ramon.
Neighbor, good to see you.
Shout out to San Ramon.
All right, neighbor is in the house.
Thanks for that reminder, you guys.
All right, Owen, give us the news stories we want to hear.
Okay, well, there was certainly a reveal from Nancy Mace on this sexual harassment payout.
Saga that's going on where they're trying to get all that information released.
Apparently, she's naming names.
She's releasing some information about who was, at least, who was the accused that was paying off people.
Obviously, they don't name the victims, but there's one for Rodney Alexander.
There's one from the office of Carolyn McCarthy, which is kind of an interesting way of phrasing that.
Maybe that means one of her staffers was the person.
I'm not sure.
But Eric Massa seems to be the prime offender.
There's three different things that were paid out for Eric Massa.
In 2010.
And then there's a couple for John Conyers and Blake Ferenthold and Patrick Mihan.
So that looks like those are spanning from 2007 up to 2017.
The total is something over, like, I think it's $338,000 to settle all of these cases.
So I don't think we have any details about exactly what they did yet, but it does look like we're at least getting some details about the payouts, which is something I honestly didn't think we would ever see.
So, you know, compliments.
And Nancy Mace, that she got to the point where she could actually release some details about this and name some of the accused.
Yeah, Marcella, you were looking into this too.
Did you see basically the same info?
Yeah, I think that the main part of the coverage on this was an article on the New York Times with all three of them.
I don't know what to think of that, but it was disparaging.
Also, the New York Times disparaged them, the Nancy Mace, the Beauvoirs, the Anna Polina Lima, they were like, well, they're really, you know, nobody can really trust them.
So it's not, you know, they've been anti trans and all sorts of things, you know.
So I don't know.
I think this is not a Democrat Republican issue.
I think it's our issue as taxpayers as well, because I do believe that Manshee Mace is correct that we should be able to see the payouts and what they're, in the very least, what.
The amounts and for what congressman, maybe not the accuser, maybe.
I'd like to know the offense.
Yeah, you know, this is all the offense might sway how you vote or not vote for a person.
So if you're going to be like, oh, you know, this guy had an affair, you know, when people are running for president or whatever, well, let us know about them too.
Then if that's the game everybody wants to play, then tell us what the offense is so the constituents can be clear about who they're voting for and the taxpayers know, you know, are we paying for someone who was.
You know, allegedly accused of, I'm going to say the word grape, you guys, because you know, YouTube, grape, or, you know, something like that.
Or was it, I'd like to know like how far the offense goes.
Well, I mean, to me, it's, we're already thinking past the sale.
Why is the government paying for this?
Yeah.
Right.
Why aren't these people paying for it if they want to try and cover something up?
I don't understand why we would pay for that.
And, you know, it seems kind of pointless now.
If we are going to release the information, it's like, well, then what do you, you know, just let it play out in court and be public.
But, you know, I don't understand why taxpayers would be on the hook for that.
It's not the government or it's not the taxpayers that's doing it.
And so I would think the people who are accused of this should be the ones paying for any kind of settlement that they make.
I agree.
Well, I feel like Nancy Mace and the women you just named in particular, Marcella, I don't know why it's the women only I feel like I'm hearing from, but they're dying to blow the whistle.
Oh, I can hear the jokes.
I can see them.
They're dying to blow the whistle.
I know this group.
I'm sorry, Luna.
I am.
Apologize to Anna Paulina.
Anna Paulina Luna.
But I just feel like they're like, they just need to just say something.
Like they're just so sick of keeping all these secrets in.
And I'm just like, let's go.
Like give us the names.
I like it.
All right.
So let's keep an eye on that and see if we get any more names, any more info.
Okay.
And so let's move on to our next story.
Owen's going to leave us early.
So he has a meeting.
So we're going to let Owen kind of give us some of the news that we were talking about.
Okay.
Right.
Well, the Daily Wire is coming out with a big series.
Luke Rosiak apparently has been working on this for months.
And he's starting to come out with this series apparently of Medicaid fraud.
And so he's uncovered a lot of information, I think, with the help of Data Republican, with a lot of the information she analyzed or released.
But apparently, there's Ohio paying a billion dollars a year for home health, which includes like relatives for companionship.
Okay.
So apparently, visiting your relatives, you can get paid for that.
And of course, it's a lot of Somali people that just happen to be doing this.
There's a building, I think, with 94 firms supposedly inside with all the windows boarded up or something that was billing $66 million.
And yeah, so there's all sorts of things he's uncovering in terms of firms that belong to politicians, janitor related things like landlord planes.
I don't know.
There's all sorts of fraud that he's uncovering.
So, Check that out.
Again, it's probably too much detail to go through all at once, but I think he's apparently going to be publishing a whole series on this.
So the fraud continues to be revealed, but this time it's in Ohio.
And it looks like we're uncovering a lot more fraud across the country.
So, you know, add Ohio to the list.
It's the Nick Shirley effect.
Everybody's saying Florida has this problem.
I think that, listen, New Jersey is the new bad guy on the block.
Not that it's new, but really rising.
So I think you're going to see a lot from New Jersey as well.
Good times.
Owen, what else we were talking about earlier?
We wanted to cover.
Let me see.
Oh, wait a minute.
I have a clip.
All right, let's go with it.
All right, I'm not sure which clip this is.
Whichever one it is, is the one we're going with.
Here we go.
Fox News alert Secret Service agents got into a shootout with a man near the White House today.
Senior national correspondent Kevin Cork has the details.
Kevin.
Evening, Jesse.
Plain clothes.
Secret Service agents actually spotted this guy around 3 30 this afternoon near the Washington Monument, just south of the White House complex.
He appeared to have the imprint of a weapon on him.
So when officers approached the guy, he took off and then he started firing on them.
They, of course, returned fire.
The suspect was hit, but then again, so was a child near the scene.
And at this hour, both the child and the gunman remain hospitalized.
They are recovering.
It's believed, by the way, that the bullet that hit the juvenile came from the alleged gunman.
Of course, we'll stay on this story as it develops.
Meantime, equal justice and equal treatment under the law or isolation for its own good.
That's the debate surrounding the lockup status of Cole Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents Association dinner shooter.
He's been in a padded cell 24 hours a day for his own safety, according to prosecutors, since they collected the guy at the Hilton.
But a magistrate judge here in the district thinks that Allen's being treated unfairly.
Judge Zia Faruqi says he's being treated differently than anyone I've ever observed, adding, Whatever you've been through, I apologize for the prior week.
Can you imagine an apology from the bench?
He even suggested, did the judge, that Allen was being treated more harshly than the J 6 defendants.
Obviously, that didn't sit too well for the attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Pirro, who wrote this on X. Welcome to Washington, D.C., where U.S. Magistrate Judge Faruqi believes a defendant armed to the teeth and attempting to assassinate the president is entitled to preferential treatment in his confinement compared to every other defendant.
Hmm.
Prosecutors say Allen, who, by the way, is still undergoing periodic psyche vows, Said he didn't expect to survive the assassination attempt and thus his lockup situation.
But with no court docs to examine, not even a Bible to read, his legal team says he's being treated too harshly.
And so now the judge wants an update by tomorrow on where and how he will be confined moving forward.
A little pity for a guy who wanted to kill a lot of people, apparently.
Jesse.
Yep, we'll have more on that later.
Thank you so much.
So when did everyone else find out that judges rule the world?
Was it right after Trump was elected this time?
Because that's when I. Found out, and I'm so shocked.
Okay, Marcella, you know, wow.
What do you say?
Treating Trump Zones as Threats00:15:42
I'm not surprised.
I'm not shocked.
This magister judge, he's different than Article III judges.
So he's not for life, he's only for eight years, and he's not chosen by the president.
He's chosen by the other judges within the District of Columbia.
And basically, I'm not surprised because before.
This, he had made comments, political comments on President Trump.
One of the things that judges shouldn't do is make any kind of political contribution, any kind of political comments.
And it's starting to be something that is allowed, basically.
Nobody goes after them for this.
I don't think it should be allowed, even if you're a Republican or Democrat judge.
You should be impartial, allegedly, pursuant to your rules.
But I am not surprised he's previously said, and he's previously also signed many warrants for January 6ers, claiming that how dare this poor alleged shooter is treated so unfairly compared to January 6ers.
Like, really?
There's no comparison.
And removal, I would say there's grounds for it, but it's not going to happen because it's based on the judge's.
That would have to decide to remove him.
And, but the public can complain and should for such things.
Wow.
That is unbelievable.
I don't even know.
I mean, I thought judges were never supposed to put their biases in, that they were supposed to put them aside.
So even when I hear Republican judge, Democrat judge, to me, I'm like, wait, is that really a thing?
I mean, I know it is, but all right, Owen, what are your.
Your findings.
Yeah.
I mean, I, you know, I think it is becoming where judges are activists now, and it's becoming more and more obvious that they're acting that way.
I think some of this was probably a reaction to Trump getting elected the first time and now the second time that they feel the need to speak out or to, you know, exercise their activism and steer things one way or another.
And this is a clear case of that, where if he's saying that, you know, he's kind of against the J Sixers, to me, that's a very political statement in itself to say that somehow those people are worse than someone who tried to assassinate the president.
Um, so it's clearly a biased opinion there, and I'm sure at whatever level he's still involved with this case going forward, he's going to continue to show that bias.
And so I think he should be removed from this case at least, but also probably from the bench.
Um, but you know, again, I'm with Marcella, I doubt we'll see it happen, but you know, we can, I guess, people can complain and try and at least make their voice heard that this isn't right and we shouldn't have judges like that.
But, you know, that's what that is.
And then, you know, the other story, of course, was the yet another attempt on the president's life.
Seems like it's happening much more frequently now.
And I don't know if this is a copycat or if it's, you know, related in any way, but it seems like, as I said, I think with the last one, that we need to be treating pretty much everywhere Trump is as a potential threat situation where we almost have to expect that someone's going to be trying something like this.
And, um, You know, again, it's hard to know in this particular case.
I don't think we have a lot of information about motive or exactly what he was doing, especially since he was approached before he really did anything.
So maybe it was only that he was caught with a gun, but clearly.
He shot a juvenile.
Yeah, no, I'm not excusing any of that.
I'm saying, no, no, I know.
The situation's a little different in the sense that, like with this other guy, he clearly was heading for the president with a shotgun and all these other things.
Whereas this guy was just near the White House and the police approached him because they saw something that looked like he had a gun, which apparently he did have.
But, you know, that in itself is a violation, I think, of the laws there.
But I think, you know, it's not as clear as to what he was planning to do about that.
But yes, I think that guy should also face very serious consequences and he should be held responsible for what he did to that juvenile that was shot.
And hopefully this sort of thing will stop.
I mean, it seems like I said right now, it just seems like it's getting worse.
All right.
So I want to just say two things.
One, Smar in the chat, one of our beloveds, said, We need a number of days since a Democrat tried to kill me sign on the White House front lawn, which I think is hilarious.
I love that idea.
And also, So, am I wrong?
Or if you threaten the life of the president or like in sight, is that illegal?
Yes.
Okay.
So, you guys, it's almost as bad as playing a clip of The View, but just indulge me because, again, I want to know why is this okay?
I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
Maybe there will be.
People need to start taking to the streets.
A dictator.
You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
Enemies of the state.
Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless.
When they go low, we kick them.
How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?
Biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right.
I thought he should have punched him in the face.
I said, even if you lost, he insulted your wife.
He came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murdered.
He said, Well, what do you think I should have done?
I said, I think you should have punched him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
You would have been a hero.
I'd like to punch him in the face.
I said, If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
Punch some people in the face?
When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact.
Look as his character is stabbed to death.
Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?
This way.
This way.
That's it.
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
A Missouri state senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.
I will go and take Trump out tonight.
And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.
And you push back on them.
And you tell them they're not welcome.
Anymore, anywhere.
And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
They're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after Election Day.
And that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels.
That this isn't, they're not going to let up, and they should not.
If you think we're rallying now, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Okay.
So, as hard as that is to watch again, never forget who these people are.
And by the way, your girl Kamala Harris is in the lead to be the next president on the Democrat ticket.
I hope it stays that way, frankly.
I do too.
So, you guys, I know that that sucked.
And, you know, that I mean, I'm sure that that could go on for five hours with everything we've seen over the last decade and more.
But, you know, Never forget.
Don't ever let anyone try to turn this around on you.
We know what side this comes from.
And it's really sad.
It's really sad.
This is what I mourn, what I grieve is when this would have been a thing that never would happen, that people would never talk that way because they knew better, they cared more, they had decency and civility.
So when you see these shootings and you see these attempts, remember where it came from.
I don't know.
It just sends me.
So that's why I'm asking.
Aren't you supposed to be in trouble if you're saying things like that?
Not all of them rise to the level, but you know, there were some very clear accusations or calls to action, in my opinion.
Marcella, you're going to disagree?
Yes.
You know, yeah, I'm sorry.
I respectfully disagree.
And I have to say that, whoa, that.
It's freedom of speech.
They have that freedom of speech to speak what they're feeling about their government or whoever is running their government.
However, you know, there are some clips that you showed there that some of those people were investigated and in regards to certain things that they did.
So the threat to a president would actually have to rise to an actual threat.
Of actual violence.
The Constitution allows us to talk badly about a president, but it does not allow us to actually plan or prime.
The issue is this it is legally allowed for you to speak your mind, and that's fine.
And like you said, this hasn't been done to this degree against any president before.
And I think the issue is what Scott was.
Pointing out to that eventually, if we can point to some kind of Rico action, some kind of systematic working together to prime people to do this,
you know, and that's what it's basically coming out to be the hoaxes that they do, the things that they say, connecting those thoughts that's hard, but it's there because you've, you know, all of them talk about the same talking points.
It's like, where did they get them?
Is there some kind of.
Is Nancy meeting with Chuck, like Scott would always tell us?
Are the designated liars meeting on Zoom or something?
It comes to that idea that it's.
And then would that actually be like a crime, you know?
So morally, it's wrong for them to be doing this.
And also, they need to understand that their audience is looking at them.
You know, one of the things one of our guests, Walter Kern, talks about the Luigi effect and that Luigi Mangioni.
Yeah.
Luigi Mangioni.
Sorry, my Italian.
But that's the effect that this has on people is, oh, this is how evil Trump is.
I have to save the world.
And then they go and do the shootings.
And the issue is that it's not just against the president, it's, you know, Charlie Kirk was killed.
And that was shocking to all of us, but it is all the people that speak for the president that are also in danger.
It's not just the president itself, you know.
So, Owen, I know you have to go soon, but I want you to hear what you want to say.
Well, I mean, again, your question was is it illegal to threaten to kill the president or to incite someone to do that?
And I still would say the answer is yes, but I understand Marcelo's clarification that there are a lot of conditions or specific things that need to be met to prove that someone was actually doing that.
And I think there is a gray area where.
If you're generally inciting someone to be violent in general, that's a lot harder to say, oh, that's a crime.
It's more like if you tell someone, go right now to the president, you know, to the White House right now and shoot him or whatever, that would be a clear violation, I think, because it's immediate.
It's, you know, and if someone did that, especially, then you would potentially be liable for inciting that violence.
But if it's not specific, then it's a little harder to prove, you know, was that even connected to what this person did or whatever.
And, um, But I know they do investigate when anyone threatens the president.
And I do feel like if you were an average citizen and said some of the same things that these politicians said, you might end up in jail.
So I think there is a double standard there where people who are politicians feel free to say some of these things that a normal person saying would potentially get arrested for.
They're the one, honestly, like, you know, people that aren't politicians.
I mean, free speech is free speech.
I fully agree.
Hate speech is free speech.
I fully agree.
Say what you want to say.
Fully agree.
I cannot understand how these politicians have extra protections when they absolutely know better.
So, I think for me, and maybe for some of you, when I see someone like Nancy Pelosi and the Whig Waters and other politicians saying, get in their face and do this and do that, you haven't seen anything yet.
And this isn't going to stop.
And Kamala saying, you haven't seen anything yet.
I feel like.
I feel like I wish those people would have consequences because they hold positions of power.
And God, I hate saying that they hold positions of power because power is such a weird word, but they should be held to a higher standard and not have more protection.
I think they should actually almost have less protection because they should know better.
So it enrages me, you guys.
All right.
I need to drop, but let's keep going and I'll be back with you all soon.
Thanks.
See you tomorrow.
All right.
Thanks, O. There he goes.
Oh, God.
We just got really close.
I need to leave as soon as possible.
Okay.
So we have a few more things for you guys.
Okay.
So, one thing we have to talk about I don't know what this clip is.
And I'm so afraid to play it.
You guys, should I just play it and wing it?
Close your eyes, people.
You'll never know.
Let's just like, I'm spinning the wheel, spinning the clip wheel.
I put it here for a reason.
And for some reason, you can't.
Title What Your Clips Are Back Here, which is always so fun.
Okay, so we're going to spin the wheel.
This is called the Wheel of I Have No Idea What This Is.
What do we get?
What price?
I'm probably embarrassed, but let's go.
Spirit Airlines Privatization Debate00:08:54
It's literally everything.
And on top of that, you've got TikTok doing these videos for childless adults saying how great their weekends are because they don't have any kids.
Now I have two feelings about that.
Okay.
Now I know what that clip was.
Okay.
Next clip.
Ready?
Spirit Airlines, y'all.
Okay.
Now I know what that clip was.
You should see the picture I have.
It makes no sense.
Okay.
Get ready to fly.
Okay, so first, this little clip.
Imagine you're sitting on that plane and you're like, oh, good.
Never flew Spirit Airlines.
Me either.
Me either.
Imagine you're sitting on that airline and you're like, oh, good.
The guy out there has duct tape.
Looks great.
And now, this clip.
And Secretary, let me get your take on what took place in terms of Spirit Airlines because I know that.
The Democrats did not want Spirit to merge with JetBlue a year ago.
And now we see that Spirit Airlines closed operations.
The Treasury was supposed to be doing a deal to save this company.
Can you tell us what happened?
Sure, Maria.
So this is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration.
In September 2022, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter to the Justice Department.
To the transport department saying that they should oppose the merger with Spirit Airlines.
JetBlue wanted to buy them for $3.8 billion.
It would have given them much more resiliency.
And she and the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who's probably the worst transportation secretary in history when he came to the office, were also against the merger.
And if JetBlue had merged with Spirit, we would have.
All these jobs that were lost yesterday, we had 30 airports, 30 regional airports who have lost service.
And I can tell you what happened here.
It wasn't treasury, it was commerce that was trying to put something together.
But the reason we were here was because the merger, the Biden administration opposed the merger.
We shouldn't have been here in the first place.
All right, Marcella.
Yeah, Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2nd.
Effective then, they had.
Been going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the, I believe, either third time or second time.
And they were trying to have someone buy, I'm not sure what they were selling, but some parts, because most of their airplanes were leased.
I know we talked about it at the after party, and some of the after party goers called it the Waffle House Airline.
It was an ultra low cost carrier for 34 years.
So it is.
Unfortunate, 17,000 employees will be unemployed.
There were talks of President Trump possibly giving some kind of buyout to them, but that didn't really get too much.
Well, obviously, it wasn't supported, and possibly Besant was probably not supportive of it.
But yes, they're right.
There was a JetBlue that wanted to buy out.
You know, whatever was being sold, not their employees, they weren't selling their employees.
They were selling some part of the airline.
And then last year it was blocked because of the issue of monopoly and blah, blah, blah.
Frontier also tried, United also tried.
And one of the main issues for Elizabeth Warren was trying to get this deal not going forward.
So it's a rare thing for actually for companies to go, you know, to airlines to shut down in the United States.
Um, so it's very, you know, what is it gonna, what is it gonna, what's gonna happen?
You know, I'll tell you what I hope happens.
What do you think?
That everybody that flew on Spirit just takes a bus from now on because that, what that airline, the videos, oh my God.
Listen, I don't know if anyone survived a Spirit airline flight, like not getting attacked and like having your wig ripped off.
Congratulations, you're one of the few survivors.
Um, and I am all for.
Tripling the cost of airfare just to keep the riffraff off the planes.
So, yeah.
So that's, but my other fear is where are all of these people now going to fly?
They're going to be on other flights.
And so now air travel will get even worse.
Did you expect that analysis from me?
That is my analysis.
So I don't know what's going to happen.
But everything right now, coupled with fuel costs and everything else, air travel, Has just got to get remade.
I don't know.
I think we need to privatize some of it, like the TSA.
I think we need to just start over.
I wish we could do that.
Just say, okay, maybe private companies are better for TSA.
Maybe we need to do higher quality control on air traffic controllers, incentivize people to become them, give them good pay based on merit.
I've never seen more problems with.
Airplanes with flights with mechanical issues with crashes, whether they're minor or huge.
I mean, remember the plane hit the helicopter in DC?
It's just, I don't know, I don't know if it's on the rise, but I feel like we need to start over.
We need to have perhaps, I know it sounded crazy.
You guys are going to kill me because I am so into like your own rights and like and less government.
Believe me, like less government is way better.
I'm also into um industries or private companies.
To be allowed to set their own standards.
I think this is where I'm coming from.
When government interfered with private businesses and started telling us what we have to do, who we can hire, who we can fire, what the terms have to be, it just changed everything.
And I would love to see airlines say, yes, we have a dress code.
Yes, we have a standard of decorum.
Yes, we have rules and this and that.
And let's just give it back to the private companies to be able to do what they want.
At you know, within reason, and let's just.
I'm all for civility.
I am like, if I was running for anything, it would be you know, civility because everything's just turned to shit, everything woke turned to shit.
And now, rest in peace, Spirit Airlines.
I don't know, that's really all I have to say about it.
What I was thinking, you know, the simulation, how Scott would always think of like the words that come out, and the fact that it's Spirit Airlines, and you know, how like when something closes, they always do the Halloween store.
Yeah.
What the name of it is?
Spirit of Halloween.
Yeah.
The spirit of the airlines.
Yes, happy eye doctor.
I know flying is amazing.
I'd like for it to be amazing again and not like I need to clench my seat.
And listen, I took a little short flight from Charlotte, North Carolina to Newark, no, to JFK in a snowstorm just a couple of months ago.
And two people got thrown off my flight.
I remember.
Okay.
So it's not civilized.
And that was Delta.
So, you know, imagine what's going on on Frontier.
I mean, on Spirit.
So, I mean, like, I look at the old videos where people, like, you used to, yes, you used to get a nice meal and you got an actual fork and a knife and you got a cup of coffee and everything was great.
Like, let's do that again.
Let's make it a beautiful experience and not like a, I'm praying for my life, like I'm running through Walmart with my hair on fire.
So that's all I'm saying.
I just am saying that.
So, okay.
So, Marcella, what else did we have on the docket to chat about?
Well, today, this morning, I woke up to Pete.
Oh, Pete Hegseth?
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Yes.
You woke me up, and I was just like, whoa, thank goodness.
The Secretary of War had a presser today.
He was asked whether the ceasefire was over because of the certain, there was an attack yesterday, alleged attack yesterday by Iran to the UAE.
And, you know, part of it is you're not supposed to be attacking during your ceasefire.
That's part of it.
But he said that the ceasefire is not over.
And so that's, you know, we don't know if by the end of today that will change.
But he spoke on the Project Freedom, which I talked about yesterday.
He said this operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury.
Project Freedom, I love the name, by the way.
Project Freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope, and tempering duration with one mission protecting innocent commercial shipping.
From Iranian aggression.
So then he talked about Chairman General Dan Kane, also talked about outlining Project Freedom on the surface, what it would mean, and talking about Iranian forces.
There were Pete, as I call him, or Secretary of War, said that six ships attempted to bypass the US military blockade.
Meaning that didn't work out.
But they are trying to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
They're still blocked.
So the Strait of Hormuz is, they're trying to reopen it, but the blockade is still ongoing against Iranian ships that come from Iran.
Even if they're not Iranian ships themselves, they're ships that are going, they're leaving from Iran or going to Iran.
So they don't want Iranian oil.
Leaving and going anywhere.
So that's the idea of it blocking their oil sales.
Yeah.
Or any products to go to Iran or whatever it is.
So it is what it is.
We don't know if anything, nobody, the UAE basically has been attacked.
They allege it was Iran.
They have to have all their, their, There's kids do remote schooling because they're afraid of what occurred.
A South Korean ship was also damaged.
And yesterday, President Trump talked about the South Korean ship while giving.
He had some kind of small business gathering.
And in there, he talked about the South Korean ship.
And he said, okay, the South Korean ship was attacked.
So, hey, South Korea, why don't you join us to help in the effort to basically make sure that all these ships are able to go?
There's news stories about the ships themselves.
They're aware that the US can allow them a safe passage.
However, some insurance companies are deciding not to go for it.
It's not the captain himself that decides whether they're going to go or not.
So it's kind of complicated.
Basically, it means that we're paying, we might be paying more for gas and crude oil is up like $114.
A barrel.
So, yeah, it's expensive.
I mean, yesterday to fill up our fleet was $1,100.
So, yeah, it's a lot.
All right.
And also, you know, we'll find out more about these kamikaze dolphins.
So, apparently, there was a comment.
Yes.
Well, it's been going on for a couple of days.
So, they said that, you know, we've all heard.
Do you guys remember?
All right.
If you're old enough, do you remember the movie?
The Day of the Dolphin.
Oh my God, my mom's watching this.
She's going to laugh.
But remember the dolphin?
It was like, Fa loves Pa.
My mom and I used to say that all the time.
So she's laughing.
That movie made me want to have a.
I cried.
I begged, can we have a dolphin?
Please, please, please.
I was figuring out, oh my God, you haven't?
No.
Okay.
Your assignment in the next week watch The Day of the Dolphin.
So anyway, they're saying that, you know, this has been long said.
I mean, that movie, I forget when that movie came out, is old, like 70.
75 ish.
Um, anyway, so they would strap bombs to a dolphin, train the dolphin to swim to like an enemy ship, and then stick the bomb under the ship and then swim away.
So, um, but now I think there's accusations that maybe that's happening in the strait with these uh mines.
So I'll get more information on that for you guys.
I'll get you some footage of these dolphins.
No, I'm just kidding, but I I wonder if that's true.
So now we might have kamikaze dolphins and ocean aliens and UFOs, and it's getting really fun.
Fa loves, oh, bee.
Oh, look at Flipper and Mr. Limpet.
I'm looking at your comments.
I mean, that little fa voice.
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Oh, okay.
So we'll give you more on the dolphins later.
I just wanted to be able to say kamikaze dolphins.
That's really the only reason I brought it up.
So, listen, you guys, we have 15 minutes left.
We're probably going to end a little bit early, but I do want to play a clip for you that I just think is appropriate.
Marcel, unless there was like a certain story you wanted to get out there first.
I have so much news that I could go on for hours, but everybody knows that.
Give us one more story and then we're going to.
So, in regards to the kamikaze dolphin, I know Joel Pollock posted, and I actually didn't hear this in the presser, but.
It must have been in the question.
Secretary of War said, I can't confirm or deny that we have Kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm that they, meaning Iran, don't.
So that was interesting.
I was like, I thought of you immediately upon reading that.
So I was like, I got to get this together.
Well, we have Golden Tempo.
I know that that's kind of an old story, wins the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
That was an epic win.
Basically, I wish I could have bet on that horse because I would not be here.
I would be somewhere flying somewhere first class because it was the odds were 23 and 1 for that horse to win.
Sherry DeVoe?
Was the trainer.
She was of the female persuasion.
And she won the Kentucky Derby with Jose Ortiz, Puerto Rican jockey.
And it was basically, you know, the golden tempo horse for the golden age.
That's why I wanted to do it.
So, golden tempo was like pretty much dead last.
Had to outpace so many, I think, 17 horses in front of him.
Won by like 15 lengths.
And he was the number one.
And also, the jockey riding the horse that came in second place was the brother of the jockey that came in first place.
So, brother jockeys, first and second place.
And Golden Tempo has lineage going back to Secretariat.
There's Secretariat's record will never be beat.
That horse won by like what 20 something lengths.
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Incredible, incredible.
I'm so glad Secretariat holds that because what a story.
Yes, so congratulations to Sherry, to Golden Temple, the jockey.
They won and everybody did a great job.
Okay, so I used to live near jockeys.
I used to live in the Arcadia area and boy, do they party.
But oh, yeah, fun fact I could walk in five minutes and I'm at a racetrack.
Oh, wow.
We have it.
All where I live, we have it all.
We actually have a racetrack.
Okay, so I'm gonna play a clip, you guys.
I just want to get this out to us because I think this is a good time for this.
Let's have a lesson from Scott and we'll talk about it on the other side and enjoy this.
Here's a micro lesson on how to get rid of those rubination, pesky thoughts that you can't get out of your head that maybe are making you sad or anxious or depressed.
We've all had that situation.
You're just thinking about bad things that happened or bad things that might happen.
But the thing is, those are imaginary.
So I'm going to give you a reframe for quickly getting away from them.
Just remember that you have two worlds there's the world of your imagination, the one that happens only in your head, and that's the past and the future.
Now, those will have been real and might be real, but when you're thinking about them, they're definitely not.
However, there is a real world of real experiences.
You could climb a tree, you could hug a dog.
You can do some chores.
You can get some work done.
You could learn something.
And all you have to do, believe it or not, this reframe will work.
It's been tested on hundreds of people so far with amazing success.
Just tell yourself, get out.
Use those exact words get out, get out.
Just get out of my head.
And go outside, immediately stand up, touch something, smell something, eat something, get something done.
But make sure that your mood is all oriented toward the real world and your perceptions and your feelings and your thoughts.
If you can't get outside or do something meaningful, let's say you're in a hospital bed and there's not much going on, then instead of thinking about the past or the future, if you're going to live in an imaginary world, I recommend doing what I do.
I think about ideas.
Oh, would that work?
How about that?
Concepts.
Huh, that's a new way to think of that.
Or fantasies.
I don't mean just naughty fantasies, it could be fantasies that.
Something amazing happened to you.
But don't live in the past.
Don't live in the future.
That's the imaginary bad world.
Everything negative about your emotions comes from that world.
Just yell, get out, either out loud or in your head, and stand up immediately and join the real world.
Now, dozens and dozens of people have told me just in the last few days that this has completely changed their experience.
Try it.
If it works for you, you might like some of the other reframes.
In my new book, Reframe Your Brain, available on Amazon.
Mother's Day is coming, you guys, and I recommend Reframe Your Brain.
My mom has purchased it.
She loves it and she's gifted it.
So I love that.
I think we all needed to hear that today.
You know, I know I did.
I thought it was the perfect clip for today.
And I agree get out, get off the phone, get off of X, get off of all of it.
Take a breath, look around, let your eyes adjust to reality and your brain.
And, you know, sometimes I just take a minute to look around the world around me and I'm like, okay, like, hopefully for you, you're like, all right, everything's calm.
No one's running down the street screaming.
No one's beating anyone up in front of me.
No one's calling me a Nazi right now.
Like, this is really good.
So, your real world is out there.
And the way to find it is to get out, you know, get out of it.
So, Marcella, don't you agree?
I mean, I just, I love the get out reframe.
Yeah, especially if you're thinking of the past or you have an anxiety for future things that are coming up.
Just, you know, when you're outside and you're doing, you're active and you're doing something, you're not really, well, technically, you shouldn't be thinking about other things, but what you're doing, activities really help sports, running, walking, swimming, anything, even just being, touching grass and, or being one of the people said having their cat walk on top of them.
Just anything that gets you away from your old patterns of thinking and makes you feel better.
I also like trying something new because you have to really concentrate.
So, what are you trying?
Well, it's not exactly new for me, but I was mentioning the other day I wanted to maybe take up some golf and I've played it before, but not like a serious player.
But I thought I had a really good swing, I did pretty well.
And then Some of the beloveds recommended to me to go to like a golf simulator or, you know, to the driving range.
And I think I'm going to do that because you really do have to concentrate when you're playing golf.
So you're not thinking about something else.
The other thing I know I mentioned before was there's a private shooting range I go to with my instructor.
And it's so zen.
I know that sounds so weird, but I cannot think about anything else except what I am doing in that moment.
And it's like, I come away, like I drive home, and I'm like, oh, like that just felt so good.
And it's not like a, I went shooting and I'm aggressive.
Good.
It was like, I didn't have any distractions.
Like, I was so in the moment.
I wasn't thinking about anything else except this lesson and what I'm doing.
So, even if you, you know, put on like a YouTube video and you're like, let me try something new, maybe it's like a stretching, like a beginner stretching class.
Like, we never stretch enough, right?
So, maybe find like a 15 minute beginner stretching class and don't judge yourself.
Just, you could even bring your, Phone outside and put it outside and like do like a light stretching or Tai Chi or something like that.
You know, or try to create a craft you never did.
I mean, like it sounds so simple and stupid.
And it's like, well, who has time for that?
But it's like this space it'll create in your brain and the ability to let go of the past and the future.
Someone close to me always says, too, you know, if you put one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you piss all over today, was the statement.
And I was like, that's true.
Like, sometimes it's really good to just ground yourself in the day and clear your head.
So, I think it would be great if we could, you know, maybe practice that as our homework.
And I am going to do that today.
And maybe let us know what you did, you know, or what you want to do.
Or you guys, you know, maybe share with each other some ideas of things that people can do based on your like ability or if you have limitations, like, let's help, you know, help each other.
But I think it's great.
So, if you guys don't mind, I'm going to just play us out.
We're going to say our goodbyes now.
We're going to just end a little bit early.
I have to say, it is gorgeous out here today on the Jersey Shore.
I am going to get out of my house.
I have a ton of work to do, you guys.
A ton.
When I say a ton, it's sad, but it's beautiful today.
And I'm going to get out.
Okay.
So, I'm going to get out and touch grass, even get my hair cut.
How about that?
So, I'm going to.
Say goodbye to everybody now.
Marcella, I love you.
And the three of us will be back tomorrow with Joel Pollock.
We can ask him about the dolphins tomorrow, Marcella.
So that'll be good.
All right, guys.
So here we go.
Love you guys.
So you guys chat for the closing of this show, and we will see you tomorrow.
Oh, my God.
My God.
You guys, my brain.
See, my brain, my brain.
A closing sip to Scott, to Shelly, to all of you.
I'm gonna fix this brain.
I'll be back tomorrow.
I'll be better than ever.
It's literally everything.
And on top of that, you've got TikTok doing these videos for childless adults saying how great their weekends are because they don't have any kids.
Now, I have two feelings about that.
Number one, they're totally right about how great their weekend is when they have kids.
However, I'll just speak for myself.
There's almost nothing I ever did. as a single person that was as fun as getting up on a Saturday morning and watching my stepdaughter at the time play soccer.
There's nothing I did that was more fun than that.
And was it easy?
Nope.
There was driving and waking up and getting food and making sure everybody's taken care of and you gotta bring chairs down and cancel everything else.
It's a lot of work.
There's nothing I did that was more watching my stepdaughter play soccer.
Watching my stepdaughter play soccer.
That's it.
Watching my stepdaughter play soccer.
That's it.
Couldn't tell that.
Watching my stepdaughter play soccer.
Watching my stepdaughter play soccer.
The second thing, like the best moments ever.
Do you ever think about what you would remember if your life flashed in front of you like you're dying?
I don't know if that really happens.
But do you ever think, like what do you call your life?
Because I find that there are moments that I call my life.
Like, I don't think, if my life were flashing before my eyes, I don't think I would think about my Dilbert career.
You know, 35 years of doing it every day.
I don't think I would think about it.
I'll tell you what I would think about, if I can.
I would think about watching Disney movies with my stepkids.
That's it.
That's what I would think about.
There's nothing I did that was more more fun than that.