Episode 3116 - The Scott Adams School 03/17/26

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1:00Funny. Don't tell anyone we said so. Oh, oh, that's even. Delineable live. Did they hear that? I hope not. That was a secret surprise. Good morning. Top of the morning to you. Yeah, I can finally say that and it's the actual day. You guys, I have the only green thing I could find. Oh, we're gonna pinch Owen. Oh my God, bookish, I'm obsessed. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Patrick's Day. Come on in. Top of the morning to you. Right. I love it. You guys, oh, we should have had a green background. It'll be too much green, too much green. Welcome in, everybody. We're just gonna wait for you to filter in.

2:01And if you guys have your reframe books, we'll get those ready too for after the sip. We're gonna be at page 46 in the paperback. Everybody better be wearing green or I can pinch you. Oh. Yeah. You know, you just happy about a pinch from you, Marcella. I bet no one. All right, guys, do you think we're all in here? It's time. Let's do it. If you want to enjoy the simultaneous sip, you're also gonna need a copper amugra glass that tanker tells us this time, a canteen jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. Got my coffee. And somebody says I interrupted them listening to my book, Loser Think. That's a lot of me. That's too much of me. You gotta choose. All right, get ready.

3:01It's time for the dopamine hit and the day the thing that makes everything better. This simultaneous sip, here it comes. Never too much of Scott, right? Never. Okay. See you still on the screen. Okay, there we go. Okay, you can't get enough of that, man. All right, you guys. Welcome. Happy St. Patrick's Day. You are at the Scott Adam school. My name is Erica. And I'll soon be able to change this little thing, maybe by tomorrow. Okay. So you guys grab your reframe, your brain book. I just figured it's the three of us today we're hanging out. We have an amazing rest of the week also planned for you. But let's get a little more Scott time with one of his amazing brief frames. And I chose the one on luck being St. Patrick's Day. So I'm going to try to read this quick so we can talk about it and then move on to some fun news. Okay.

4:02Page 46 on the paperback. Have you ever experienced a losing streak in life that seemed to be a message from the universe that success and happiness are not for you? If so, I can help. It's easy to get stuck in negative thinking when events in your life keep going wrong. You might come to believe the universe is conspiring against you. It's not that alone is certain to translate into less happiness and success. So what do you do? I recommend the following reframe, which I have used all my adult life. Okay. So this is a reframe Scott uses whole adult life usual frame. The universe is acting against me reframe the universe owes me. We love this one. If you flip a coin and it comes up heads 10 times in a row, the universe owes you some tails. And if everything we know about physics and statistics is true, you will eventually end up with the same number of heads and tails if you keep going. People are not coins, but the general idea is that one person cannot be continuously lucky or unlucky for an extended period.

5:04That isn't a thing. Bad luck can certainly arrive in clusters, but like the coin flips, the odds must revert to something normal over time. And that means the universe might owe you some good luck. The strange thing about feeling lucky or unlucky is that your experience so often matches your expectations. Yesterday, as an experiment, I started repeating to myself and people I encountered that everything is going my way today and sure enough, my day turned out to be spectacular. Did I create my own good luck that day or did I adjust my filter so I noticed all of the good and ignored the bad or was it pure chance? I have no idea. All I know is that acting as if you expect good luck seems to produce more of it, whether you are writing affirmations, praying to a god or simply using the power of positive thinking. If acting as if good luck is coming your way, doesn't it produce any luck for you for weeks in a row? Should you just continue to be positive? No, your loved ones probably noticed the change and liked it as did your co-workers boss

6:06and everyone else you encountered. And it probably helped keep you in better spirits than if you expected doom. In other words, this is a can't lose reframe. Your payoff will either be good or great and it might be either real or imagined. But none of the outcomes are bad. This reframe is extra powerful for those of us who has suboptimal childhoods or a bad adult life so far. The feeling that the universe owes you some luck will be the strongest when you feel the most wronged. I love that. Sorry. Don't make the mistake of sitting on the couch waiting for luck to hunt you down. Luck needs you to do your part and that generally looks like this. Work on your fitness and health, build your talent stack, meet more people. Go where there's more energy, create systems for your success. If you follow that recipe all your life and keep telling yourself the universe owes you some luck, I like your odds. Few things are more important to our happiness and success than pure luck.

7:08Luck is real in this sense that some people win lotteries and others do not and some are born smart and attractive while others are not. But if you think luck is something you cannot control, you are wrong. You can control the heck out of luck. I do it all the time. It involves moving from a place in which luck can't find you to a place where it can. I've written this book while hoping, as authors do, that it performs well in the marketplace. Luck will play a large role because it might only take one major book review or recommendation to light the fuse on it. Or maybe events in the world will line up to make this content more appealing through no effort of my own. But there is one thing I know for sure, not writing a book gives me a smaller chance of luck finding me. And it's so true, you guys, I feel like I just said this to a friend of mine who might be listening right now and I will not say your name, Mindy. But you know that sometimes people are like, oh, I want my daughter to meet someone or whatever.

8:08And like you've got to create those scenarios, like, you know, someone's not going to like find you sitting at home or, you know, in your office, like you've got to create your luck, you've got to go out and meet people, mingle. And I like the idea that the universe owes you. So if you feel like things are downtrodden for you, the universe does owe you. So try to focus on the good around you and create it. You can totally create it. Like Scott said, he does it all the time. He did it all the time. I mean, look at he said that he hopes this book takes off or whatever, we're still reading it. I've seen a million people referring to Scott's reframes on their podcast, TV shows, radio everywhere. So he created that by putting his thoughts in the right place. And so Marcelo, I'm going to start with you this time. So I think that, you know, you've had trials and tribulations in your life and the universe

9:10owed you. And I never see you as being sad or down, and like, you have moments I'm sure in private. But I genuinely see you as a positive person. And so how did you handle these things in your life? You know, I realized they have to always be positive. Otherwise, you know, I'll crush you. So I just saw the positive and the opportunities that it gave me whenever a situation, you know, turned bad. I saw a positive like being a teacher and not being able to do what I wanted, meaning like teaching what I wanted because the government tells you what you want, then I became an attorney. And now I can do more things and try to change the laws here in California. So everything that you think is negative, you can turn it around and think of it as an opportunity, as Jocke would say, good, you know.

10:14So if you feel like you didn't have, you got fired or you went through a breakup, you know, sometimes things happen for a reason that's always been my thing and you got to turn it around. You also can't just stay home and wait for something to change like Erica said and Scott said, you got to go where their energy is, which is the other reframe after this one. It's luck. You have to go and you have to believe the universe does owe you. It owes me big time. So that's how I think of it. Oh, and tell us about how you handle this kind of a reframe. Yeah, well, I mean, first, I think I would just say the way I would phrase this maybe is expectations create your reality that if you have bad expectations of what's going to happen, you're much less motivated to even get out there and try. And if you think things are going to go well, you're much more likely to take action and put

11:18more irons in the fire, whatever it is that you're trying to do. And that's the only way that things are going to happen. And I've certainly seen this in my life. I've had ups and downs in my career. I've been laid off. I've been fired, but I've also had lots of great jobs and opportunities that most people would probably envy. And when I was first laid off, I was kind of stung by that partly because it had nothing to do with my performance. Like I had the top performance rating I could possibly get for five years in a row, which is really rare actually for a firm like the one I was in. And then I got laid off right after that. And so I certainly felt like, oh, this is unfair. Why did they do this to me? And for a little while, I was just kind of sulking in my office, not really doing much and not taking action. And I was okay financially for a while because they did give me some severance. But eventually, I said, you know what, I just got to take action and do something about this. And it was so much easier than I thought once I did that. I called up some friends that I had worked with before that had moved on to other companies.

12:21I talked to them and they're like, oh, yeah, I'll hire you. I mean, that was pretty much literally what the first response was when I called one of the people I had been working with. He's like, sure. Yeah, come on in. I'll figure out what the process needs to be. And it was like a super easy process, too. It was like, okay, you just have to come in and talk to this one guy and as long as he likes you, you're in that's what happened. And you know, there was another time that I was fired, which I thought was very unfair. And you know, I didn't like my boss and all that, but amazingly. And this is probably pretty rare. It didn't take. I went back to work the next day. You know, I mean, at that time, they were probably only giving me like two weeks. But I was being replaced by somebody else. I met with that person. And in the course of one conversation, I just like laid out, okay, here's all the problems we have. You're going to have to do. And it was a pretty long list. And he just turned to me and said, can I just offer you a job?

13:22I was really confused by that. It's like, what? And he's like, yeah, you know, can you do you want to work for me? And I'm like, well, I can't take a pay cut. He's like, oh, no, you can keep your same salary. I'm like, really? So like, what would I be doing? And he's like, just keep doing what you're doing. Okay. So I actually stated that company like in other couple of years and, you know, it was just like it, and after that, you know, I actually got fired again by the same person at the same company. And I just, by then, I was like immune to it. And I just, you know, started talking to people and got another job pretty quickly. And, but I think, you know, the other thing I would say about this is beyond just what happens. You also create your reality by your expectations just by how you think about things and what you focus on. So apart from what actually happens to you in the future, which that is very true that if you're expecting things to go well, you're more likely to actually get out there and

14:27do it and have it go well. But I think even apart from that, just whatever happens to you in the course of your life, you can focus on the good parts or you can focus on the bad parts. And that's going to make a huge difference to how you think about things and how happy you are. I mean, I could look at that same course in my career and say, ah, I was laid off. It was so unfair. I got fired. You know, like I could focus on all those negative things and I could tell a story like that if I wanted to and say, look at all this bad stuff that happened to me. Right. But I could also totally ignore all that, which I usually do and just focus on all the good things that have happened. And the fact that I have a great job right now and, and, you know, I have lots of opportunities and if I ever needed another job, I have lots of people I could call and it would probably go well. And so, you know, that your enjoyment of your life is another benefit of this reframe that it's beyond just what actually happens. It's also how you feel about what happens. Yes. And like two, so two comments I'm looking at, one from Star Painter.

15:29I love you. You know, it's not that anyone, she said, I don't think anyone owes me anything. It's not that anyone owes you anything, but it's like Scott was saying, like when you're flipping the coin, it's just physics, like eventually, like it, this is only, only really pertains to if you feel like your luck is going the wrong way and things aren't working out. Like it, it just corrects itself at some point, but you have to be open to it and seeing it. And then googly eyes on everything on YouTube said that Scott said the universe rewards action, which was brilliant and simple way of putting it. And it's so true, like, you know, yeah, okay, the universe owes you or like your luck's going to turn, but you got to, you got to move and start with your pinky. If you have to move your pinky first and then go, go after it and get it. And you will be rewarded for it. And Owen, your story is remind me of, you know, Greg Gutfeld, often saying that, like, you know, getting fired really worked out well for him. And it sounds like it did for you too.

16:31So not everything that's disappointing is bad because it could just lead to the next thing. And sometimes you have to have those bumps to get to the next thing. So you guys, it's St. Patrick's Day. And I think we should focus on that luck. And if you're kind of feeling like the universe owes you and you don't know what to do, make sure you're doing your part and take some action. Just just start with one step and let us know how it goes because you guys are all amazing. And I know you'll get everything you want. Okay. We are going to switch to some very important news. These first two stories are amazing that Marcella is going to tell us. So take it away, sister. All right. Before I went, before starting, the news is, I picked a few light news stories for all of us to just laugh about. That's a lot of fun. But I do want to highlight that we were all wishing fast and full recovery to the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles came out yesterday that she was diagnosed with breast

17:33cancer. And she will stay on the job as a true patriot would. And I hope everything goes well and we soon, yeah, here we're recovering. I know I heard that it was caught early, so hopefully she has pretty good odds. Yes. Yes. And what excellent prognosis Trump said in his post. But the same goes for sticks, sticks, hex and hammer. Some of you know him. He posted yesterday that he had a stroke and where you're hoping for his full recovery as well as. And he says he's going to have a stroke YouTube show now. So I don't know what that is. You guys don't know sticks and hammer. He's like an OG poster, like an OG person on X, very controversial for some people. Scott didn't always enjoy it. But you know what?

18:34He's always stay true to himself. And he's just like one of the originators who would come on and like post and do streams and everything. So, you know, we wish him well, he's got quite a journey ahead for himself too. But moving on to the happy news, there's a puff, the magic kitten that deflated and lives to tell another tale, nine lives again. There is a Callico kitten who rolled into the pond springs, animal shelter looking like she swallowed a bicycle pump and someone hit Max inflate. And this wouldn't do justice if you didn't see the picture. So I'll have to show you the picture, puff the magic kitten, yeah. You won't get to see the video, but if I'll post it, this is a little kitten, like it's supposed to be normal size and it like had blew up with air anyways.

19:36So the vet calls it something, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and facima transition, translation to air got trapped under her skin. And then the vet goes on to tell us, how did you ever help the kitty? And he goes just like, you have to see the new story. So just like you deflated a balloon, he like started poking into her. And she started deflating and now she is fully recovered after a week and she, there's a line out the door to a doctor and she's still under the nickname puff kitten. And then the next new story that is happy news is punch has a girlfriend. Okay, wait. Let me just show you guys. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is the charisma of this little, what's he called Owen McCackie, McCackie, monkey?

20:37I think it's McCack maybe, but I could be wrong. I like to add an extra e on a McCackie. You might be right. I don't really know the pronunciation. I'm obsessed with this monkey, you guys, but look at the charisma on him, seriously, ready? Look at this little bugger. Look how he's walking around with his stuffed animal. We were his girlfriend. Oh, oh, hello, look. She's coming. Look at him. America leads the world in medicine development. It matters. We get new medicines first nearly three years faster. Five million Americans go to work because we make medicines here at home and not relying on other countries keeps us safe. But China is racing to overtake us. Will we let them or will we choose to stay ahead? When America leads, America cures. Let's tell Washington to keep us in the lead. And how at America cures dot com paid for by pharma. Maybe he wants to share his monkey with his girlfriend. Okay, ready?

21:37He's got a girlfriend. Oh, and he's the darker one. Well, they don't look. Look at them play some domestic violence there, but maybe playful violence. He'd hardly like leave his little stuffy, but now he's off playing. He's part of a gang now, not a bad gang, a good gang. And he's got a friend. I think her, is that Momo? Is that her name anyway? So we're really happy. Well, there's a name to the girlfriend. It'll be Mrs. Punch soon. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So that was an important story to my heart. So I'm very happy about that in that's, you know, he has a girlfriend, he's moving on. Navidia, just in the next story, Navidia launched AI into space and it's going to change everything. As you know, Scott had been telling us about stories of Elon saying to put data centers in space, basically, because you don't have, you have full power, the sun and everything

22:41else up there. And they would help with the power grid and all that. Well, Navidia yesterday announced their GTC conference, which is an annual conference they have in San Jose, California. The company unveiled Vera Rubin Space 1, the world's first radiation harden AI superchip. Built specifically for space, for orbit, this isn't just another graphic card, it's a complete module designed to run massive AI models directly in space. Called only by radiation with no fans, no liquid, no earth-style tricks, early spec suggests that the orbital units could be used up to 25 times more power efficient than anything we run on the ground right now. This can change the data centers that are already using a lot of huge chunk of electricity. And the biggest tech leaders say, we're years away from enough clean energy to feel the

23:44next leap. And you know, the main person that is to be used by, I guess, Tesla or SpaceX, but there's any other company can try to use it. So they could go try and use the AI as the heating system on the moon when they have their moon base. Maybe, you know, when you wanted to get warmer, you just got to prompt the AI, fire up the systems. I suppose so, you know, it's kind of like space Odyssey a little bit, hopefully it doesn't get rid of us. Tesla unleashes the tariff valve. This is from Nick Cruz-Petain. The last story was also for another person I follow on X, Sawyer Merit. It's really good follow. This Tesla unleashes tariff valve, Tesla has a new tariff valve semiconductor plant, which officially comes online on March 21st.

24:45And this isn't just another factories game changing chip making facility in Texas already running early text test way first for the powerful AI live chip that will run in the new Tesla's coming up. And one of the things that we had issues with is most of the chips, if not all were being done in Taiwan or, you know, and then there was this China thing with Taiwan. And so now Elon is creating his own chip factory in Texas and that can change everything. It could be enormous. Having an easier access faster cheaper for the robot taxis for the optimist robot for the AI XAI supercomputer. So lots going on. Can I just laugh for a second on YouTube Roger Sam said about the other story said that thing is going to go into space.

25:47And while it's in space, humans will have a war and forget about it. And when we rebuild and it comes back to us, we're going to think it's an alien visiting. That would be so funny and probable. I love that. Maybe that's what aliens are for projects. Yeah. Antarctica. And, you know, we didn't even mention Skynet yet. It's all right. Yeah. Well, I mean, the whole, you know, the whole movie about the Terminator was based on Skynet where you put AI in the sky and then it takes over. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I'm interested in this whole Elon chip web thing just because it seems so amazing. And it seems like it came out of nowhere. And I kind of wonder if it did or if they've been planning this for a long time. And it strikes me as another, like, impossible thing that Elon's going to do because, and the article I saw about it was very negative, like, oh, Elon thinks he can do this chip

26:47web thing and he only, you know, announced it just like a week ago. And now he's thinking he can just, or he's saying he can just put it up in a week. And I'm like, well, of course, he's not putting the whole thing up in a week. Like, he's probably been planning this for a long time. And maybe there's this last phase to put up the actual facility in a week or that he just announced it a week before it's going to be open. But I have to imagine he's been thinking about this and working on it for a long time. But I also do think it seems like a really almost impossible thing to do because I think TSMC tried to stand up some chipfabs in Arizona, and maybe they are, but they've been complaining they can't find enough people. They don't have enough engineers. They got to bring everybody in from Taiwan. And it's going to take many years to stand up their facility. And so I don't know how Elon's going to do it. And I'm not going to bet against Elon. But it just seems like another one of these amazing things like, how can he pull this off?

27:51Where is it getting the people? How is he setting up this billion dollar chipfab, which I mean, I'm just imagining it's a billion dollars. Maybe he came up with some cheaper way to do it. But it's always been the storyline that there's this massive amount of capital. It's this really rare skill set. And it's really hard to make chips like that. So I'm interested to see how he pulls it off, but I certainly think he's probably got a good chance. Yeah, if we could just make, I mean, if he could start that off, I know nothing about this stuff. So I'm kind of talking out of my ass. But anyway, if he could make those chips here, can we make all of our chips here? Can we change what the chips need to be made and make everything here? And then another way to eliminate having these wars would be amazing if we could just see it. Yeah. Right. I think that was Trump's intent with a lot of his, you know, reindustrializing and bringing manufacturing back. And I think he would very much encouraged TSMC to try and build plants here, because I

28:54think the reality is I think everybody kind of sees the writing on the wall politically that eventually China's going to take over Taiwan. And eventually we're potentially going to lose that as a source for chips. And so we need to have alternatives. So I think they, you know, they started building facilities here. But I don't think we're nearly doing it fast enough or big enough to be able to move all our chips here. And certainly most of the expertise is still over there. And so, you know, I think it is going to take many years to scale up the facilities, but also to scale up the skill sets of all the engineers and all the people designing these things and even just knowing how to operate the equipment to be able to do that. But I think we're at a good time to do that because we're kind of transitioning into this AI world where the chips are different, like Meta's making their own chips. And it's like, you know, a little bit with like what happened with crypto mining, where

29:56they, they, they came up with what they called an ASIC, which is like an application specific integrated circuit, which just means it's like a different kind of chip that's specifically designed to do some special thing. And I think we're at the same point with AI where they're saying, okay, we need to do all this AI inference and it's a different type of task than we're used to. And so we got to come up with different types of chips that are not just like a CPU, it's, it's like a different thing that's specifically designed to do this really well or really efficiently or really cheaply. And I know Nvidia is working on their version and that is working on their version and now X is working on their version and so everybody's kind of trying to stake, put their stake in the ground and say, I'm going to have my chip that's better than your chip, which is great for competition and innovation. And, you know, I know there are some of these new chips rolling out now that claim they can do things like 100 times faster or 100 times cheaper or 100 times less energy. And so I think we will start seeing some of these major innovations that could also honestly

30:59save the industry because I think right now there's no way for these companies to make a profit with the chips they have now. Right. And so I think they need to have like 100 times better chips just to be able to say, okay, we can actually do this and make a profit. I'm wondering, what are the odds that Elon could just buy Taiwan? Not the amazing. He can buy Taiwan, the Taiwan people, the Hong Kongers can stage and me, lie gets out. We've got chips and I see you, Bob Lawler, you're still going to have to figure out the salsa for the chips. That's a you problem. Oh my gosh. All right. So, in the other news, everything's going wrong for Cuba. They had an earthquake today, a 5.9, but the New York Times is reporting allegedly with four anonymous sources saying that President Trump wants the current president of Cuba to

32:02step down and then he would make a deal with the rest of the administration in Cuba to stay on and to basically make deals with the U.S., Alabama, Venezuela. However, you have to take it, you can't really trust the New York Times based on the fact that there's only four anonymous sources. But the other main story in Cuba is that there's nationwide blackouts. Cuba got plunged into total darkness yesterday and it's basically leaving 11 million people without power. They're at their wits end. We've had blackouts before, like about three of them before in the last year or the year before. But the United States has tightened the oil restrictions because Venezuela used to give them a lot of oil, but now the U.S., and Venezuela are together and they've created sort of a

33:07blockade from Venezuelan supplies to come to them. So they're basically on the edge of giving in to Trump's demands. Trump yesterday at the White House and the Oval Office talked about that he believes he will be the first American president to bring a free Cuba to come to pass. Some people are already saying that's going to be the next thing on April. And so, however, you know, a lot of Cuban Americans aren't very happy with hearing that the communist government's going to stay in kind of like in Venezuela, but it's small steps, you know? Well, Trump tossed out. He could just take it. And I'm like, oh, yeah, there's that. Have you heard anything about humanitarian aid bring brought in because I mean, like the story I'm hearing is they have no electricity. Like the whole grid has collapsed, so they're just totally blacked out.

34:09They have no oil. That's a difference. Yeah. And now they have an earthquake. Like, I don't know, you know, 5.9 isn't the worst in the world, but it's pretty bad. And you know, how do you even recover from that if you don't have oil? Like, you know, if you don't have gasoline, like, I don't know what they're going to do. I'm very suspicious about what's going on in Cuba because it's not a blackout. It was like, you know, I'm, I'm, this is just my opinion. Wait, I have a little sign. Where is it? It's just my opinion. You know, my opinion, um, I think that they're great, yeah, this is my opinion, okay? So I think the grid was more or less attacked. And so then not having oil means like your generators can only run for X amount of time. That's going to be over soon for the few, few places that have it. And then there's an earthquake, come on, what is happening? So I feel like they're just trying to be earthquake was a engineered thing too. They're saying that it was some, some people on X are speculating that it's engineered.

35:15Every hot spot has had earthquakes, but I don't know, I definitely think it's likely there'll be a deal and it's likely to be nonviolent. And I think that's a great thing, but I think that, you know, the reason I think that is just this broader picture, like look what just happened to Venezuela and then look what just happened to Iran, you know, and I think it's, it's this interesting strategy that I think is kind of brilliant on Trump's part to put all these things in motion together. Because, you know, Venezuela kind of was like a set up to Iran to say we're going to cut off your oil first or cut off your trading partner. And that was also broader in the sense of with Russia and China, because I mean, they're both Iran and Venezuela are both oil producers and they both serve China. And you know, they're getting various weapons from Russia or Russia is getting them for

36:15Iran. I mean, I'm probably reversing some of these things, but you know what I'm talking about. So he's disrupting all these things kind of in a, in my opinion, a strategic way. But all of this, you just have to imagine if you're the president of Cuba, like looking at all this and saying, okay, I'm next, because that's very much the message from Trump is you're next, and you know, Cuba's right next door. So it would not be hard once we turn those aircraft carriers around to just resupply and make a strike stop, right? We probably wouldn't even need, I mean, I'm guessing we could do it with whatever ships we didn't bring to Iran. We need to strike Cuba. Well, I mean, I don't think we would, but we might, I would guess if we did do something violent, it would be more like Venezuela where we just go in with a helicopter and take the president, right? And extraction, I doubt, I doubt Cuba could do anything about it, you know, and they have nowhere to go. They're on an island. They are right next door. So it's not that hard to get some aircraft there. And we could probably just have our way with it.

37:18And I think if I were that president, I'd be like, okay, I got to make a deal here. I got to do whatever is necessary and stepping down and at least keeping your life and not being locked up in prison like Maduro would probably be very preferable to, you know, trying to hold on and resist the United States. So imagine Cuba, like literally liberated, like how amazing that would be. My brother used to go there often back when you could go for that window. And he was just like, man, like everything's like held together with like bubblegum and Scotch tape. Like you see all these like old amazing cars, but they don't have the parts to fix it. And he's like, you know, if I could, or this is not my brother. So this guy I know. And he's like, you know, so if I could bring in like some screws or bolts or little things that people needed and just like kind of leave them there for them. And you know, he just said the nicest, nicest people with the most crazy conditions, but they have so much pride, you know, and it's like they should, they, that would be amazing

38:19for them to live free and return to like having their country and freedom. And I don't know, I feel like, I don't know what I'm saying, but I feel like Cuba could be like an easy get, you know, like they could like pull that, pull the newspapers out. I don't know. But with their proximity, I would, I would entertain like maybe they could be the 51st state. Yeah. And, you know, or at a minimum and territory, like the Philippines where we're kind of in control there. Or like Puerto Rico. Yeah. Because it would, it would be pretty easy to do that with the proximity, right? It's not like, I mean, the Philippines is all the way across the world and we do it there. But Puerto Rico is probably the better model where it's like they're right near next door. And we can, you know, kind of give them certain rights or certain privileges. And so, I mean, we could totally transform that country probably pretty quickly. New place to vacation, not too far. I like it. The left is claiming that he's a dictator and he's taking over different countries left

39:21and right. Hmm. I mean, that's kind of true. That's just what they're doing. I mean, he did say, I swear to God, I like here talking for two seconds. I think it was Peter Duce. No, I don't know who it was. Someone talking to him. Yeah. And he's like, well, you know, I don't even know what he said. He's like, well, you know, we could, we could have them change their leadership. I could take it. You know, we could take it. And they're like, you could take it. He's like, yeah, we, we could take it. I'm like, oh my God, like, what else are we getting? What else? If we're shopping, we're going to get more. I want the continent. That's really, that's my first goal is to have our whole entire continent, because I'd feel much safer that way, like then we know what our border actually is. Greenland. Okay. Let's take Cuba. I definitely am glad that Mexico is part of the continent if we get the whole thing. I love Mexico. That's my little wish list. Can't, we have to take Canada. That means we have to. They're there.

40:21Do we really have to? We have to, because we have to get the border. I know. But that's, that's my little wish. I certainly do not want them to become part of the United States officially, at least as a state. They can vote. They can vote. They can vote. They can vote. They can vote. No voting rights. No one gets voting rights. Just, just the North American USA, America gets to vote. And then the other ones are our little brothers and sisters. And they get certain privileges, and it's all good. Do you guys like that plan? There's the Don Roe doctrine. Oh, I know. We have to say B.J. Dickstart, yeah, we're going to save Mike Burr and Montreal Galaxy. We're going to save our Canadian people. And then we, not we, why did I say we, Israel, the IDF killed a security chief, the security chief, Larry Johnny, and they also killed a besieged leader that was very prominent.

41:29Israel claimed that they killed the leader, the acting leader, because there's the Mustafa Camini was just sort of, there was this rumor that he was in the hospital or he's just, and then they showed a paper cut, a carbon, a box version of him, and they didn't show him. He hasn't spoken. There's said, this, this rumor, what we talked about that he might be hospital in Russia or something like that right on. And so the, the acting leader was of the, Larry Johnny, and he has allegedly been killed. But just this morning he allegedly posted something on his ex account, which was like a written note about some Marines that were killed. So basically Iran is kind of saying that it's not true, but they're not actually answering or confirming either way. They just posted that on an ex as a, as a proof of life, but it was in really a video.

42:34I'm just wondering what, what the next rumor is going to be, because it seems like they've run out of ideas. You know, he's apparently disfigured. He's lost the leg. He's in a coma. He's dead. He's gay. He's impotent. What's left? I heard a good theory. So the gay atola come any, he could, so they said that they had to send, all right. So his wife couldn't get pregnant. Was that because of the erectile dysfunction to which they sent him to the UK? I think I heard this on the ruthless program. And then in the UK, they're like, yeah, he can't get her pregnant. It's not a erectile dysfunction. He's gay. So how'd they find out he was gay? Who had to do the testing? I'm not sure. How do you test someone for me? Well, somebody had to take a hit. So anyway, I'm like, oh, that's interesting. So I want to see the gay test.

43:36There's a gay test. So you put like a sexy man in front of him versus his wife. And then you see what happens. And then that's how you cure the erectile dysfunction. So you know it works. And then they said that, you know, the first son was supposed to be the chosen one, but we aced him, right? Like, isn't he gone? So that's why this second one, they didn't want him. No, he's alive, I think. Oh, the first one alive. First, first born, you know, I heard they didn't want this one because daddy knew that he was gay and blah, blah, blah. Listen, this is, this is just my opinion. And what I heard. So I'm just like interesting erectile dysfunction, maybe just gay. Just to clarify, Larry Johnny is not the gay, alleged gay leader. He's just the acting leader at the security chief. Oh, they are. We're not talking about the gay atola. No, no, we're talking about a different guy. The Larry Johnny, but the most, uh, most of the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the legit gay,

44:42or leader. He's still alive, allegedly, and he's with the missing leg. No, wife, maybe has issues with ED, but, um, but Larry Johnny was actually the acting leader. The one that actually went to work. And so that's a big deal that they, that the IDF claims, they took them out. usually when they make a claim, it's usually correct, but Iran again has income firm. Annie, I'm on it. I see. Why aren't we hearing anything about his other kids? Because apparently he has two other sons that we'd never hear about. Masood and Mesaam, and he also apparently has two daughters. Also gay. I don't know. I mean, maybe I have no idea. There's a whole rainbow that could be, you know, by trans. Right. You know, they might be protecting them, obviously, you know, from them being the next to die. You know, so I, well, apparently they're all still alive.

45:48You know, if you, at least if you think this, you know, second son is still alive, then the reports are they're all still alive. This episode is brought to you by Total Wine and More. College basketball's biggest tournament is coming up. And if you're hosting the watch party this year, you're going to need to head to Total Wine and More. You can grab a few crowd pleasers, something everyone will drink, plus a couple of options for cocktails. Total Wine has an amazing selection, plus you know, you're getting the lowest prices when you're planning for game day, shop, Total Wine and More, in store or online for everything you need for the big tournament. Spirits are not sold in Virginia and North Carolina. Drink responsibly. Be 21. Yeah, I don't know about the first son. Why he didn't get to be a supreme leader, maybe because they want it to keep him alive. I have no idea. I really think Eric went on to something that it's a roof that they made this mustava community, the supreme leader. And they actually are actually being led by someone that's alive or I mean the Joe Biden of Iran. He's the Joe Biden,

46:51the auto pen leader. They didn't want to throw him off their roof in an obvious way. So they're like, we'll make you the leader and then we'll just take care of him. It would be a good strategy, especially if he's dead. I mean, if he's dead, it would be perfect, right? Because there's no way that you can kill him. And you can't necessarily verify that he's dead. So you know, just he's the auto pen, auto pen president per ever in. It's sort of a backward science segment unintentionally, you know, like you throw in my opinions and then some facts and God only knows what's going to happen. No, your opinion might be right. That's what I would do. All right. What else do we have going on? Well, JD Vance yesterday became the fraud star. Officially, the Trump administration or president Trump met with JD Vance in the oboe office, signed an executive order for fraud. And it was interesting. They tried to set a little divide the press. Imagine that tried to divide JD Vance,

47:54vice president JD Vance and president Trump by claiming that JD Vance was against the RAN war. And he quickly said, you know, you're trying to divide us. Don't divide me. And then they moved on. You will not divide us. You will not divide us. We are one. So President Trump just signed an executive order again creating the national task force to wipe out fraud and federal programs, leading the charge would will be the vice president as the fraud star, who will head up this aggressive effort to stop billions in taxpayer dollars, being stolen through ways to view scam, all sorts of things. The system, the design of the system is basically too big. So you're always going to have that type of fraud come into it. Nobody's really checking everything that's going in and out and all sorts of things. So

48:54it will be interesting to see they're going to put more of their more of their DOJ, their their investigation into Minnesota, New York, California. But there's so many other states to do it through the federal government. They find it to be easy because you know, as we found out through doge that there are certain payments that are being made by the Treasury without a reason. Like you just have to tell the Treasury the US Treasury, pay us X amount and they'll send it out without having a real knowledge, no memo, no way, just meet three million dollars and they're like, here you go. I'm sure Nick certainly will help him out with that because I mean, Nick's taken on California. I mean, that's huge. Literally. The latest was pretty sad video that he posted where he found a daycare center where the kids were alone. It was like this one bedroom apartment that's

49:59supposedly is somehow certified to have eight kids. And the video only showed a couple kids, but they were like just there by themselves. They were like toddlers and there was no adults there at all. So sad. Yeah. You know, four, four, you know, I don't recall, but Scott didn't want there to be a fraud. Sorry, I forget why. I don't know if anybody remembers in the chat, but I guess he didn't want one person to be over it. But now there is. So it'll be interesting to see what JD Vance does, what vice president does. But as you said, naturally a date viewed a video yesterday, 40 minute video on X. Everybody should watch it. It was regarding California. There was a shocking 100, what he counted as he went on, he counted the millions in scamming, 177 million hospice scam exposed in California. So there's the daycares in Minnesota and there's

51:01takers here in California. But there's also hospice care in California, which he found there to be different through the CMS, through the Medicare, you can find where the providers are. So he went to the providers with their addresses. He looked at the amount that they each make. He looked at what they do. He went to visit each of them, each of these places. And all of them were, you know, nobody wanted to answer. There was no actual business run through them. They had no answers for him. All he found was lots of luxury cars in the places where there were supposed to be run businesses. Like he went to one of the buildings, one of the office buildings. And there's allegedly like three or four things that are having to happen there, like adult care, hospice care, all sorts of

52:03things. They kept asking, who are you? Who are you? And they're like, he's like, Nick Shirley, who are you? And they're like, I'm not telling you. And so he, he was like, somebody wanted to call 911 when he was there. I don't know. There was one building where it was just like kind of like aic average office building. And you know, sort of a long hallway door, door, door, door, door, door, door. And like every one of them was hospice care. All of them were locked. They all had the same sign saying like, we're on a break, we'll be back in two hours, like not knowing when that sign was put there, kind of all the similar sign. Every single one was locked all on the same floor in one building. And it's like, what the hell is happening? It's it's pretty amazing. I mean, just the fraud alone, our countries, our country will come back to being in the being in the black. You know, it's just all the fraud is killing us.

53:04I think it's a great idea to have bands have this portfolio. I don't remember what Scott said about why he didn't want a person to be in charge, but maybe it was that he didn't want that person to be a target, kind of like Elon. But I think, you know, to me, it's the type of system kind of like Trump with his trade deals where there's going to be a new headline every day, right? Like, there's going to be another fraud. Here's more fraud. Here's more fraud. Here's more fraud. And here's some in California. Here's some in Maine. Here's some in Illinois. Here's some in New York. And like, it's just going to be hit after hit after hit of success for for Vance. And so I think it's the type of system where it's like, that's perfect because it's going to show that Vance can get stuff done. And it's just going to be positive story after positive story of, you know, look how much money I saved, look how much I cleaned up corruption, look how much fraud waste and abuse I got rid of. And I think if positions Vance really well for 2028. Yeah, it's like the auditions for

54:1028 between Rubio and Vance at this point. And I would like to see Vance have more spotlight, you know, because as Secretary of State, Rubio is obviously so in the spotlight with the wars and the conflicts and this and that. So we see a lot of him. And I feel like JD, I'm like, come on JD, like, come on, I don't even know why I'm saying come on JD. I don't really have a horse in this fight. But I'm like, come on JD, show us what you got, you know, so one him to have a chance. And when I put those two things together, it seems like this really benefits Vance to in terms of being the candidate because Rubio is going to have to answer for all the wars. You know, people are going to say, well, if we elect you president, where are you going to attack next? And he's going to get those kinds of attacks. But how do you attack someone and clean up fraud? Like you can't really fault them for that. You can't say, you know, you were mean about it. I mean, what are you going to say? Right, right. So I think it sets up Vance perfectly for 2028, probably raises the odds that he'll be the candidate rather than Rubio. I wonder if anyone else

55:14will go up against those two. What do you think? Oh, I definitely think there will be people running. I don't know. Kennedy said he was going to run. Oh, no. I don't know if that would be as a Republican or as an independent at this point. But think Crenshaw will run. Stop it. Yeah. Oh, my God. Maybe crews will come back again. You know, there's all the usual suspects, right? But we'll have a primary. But I think Vance is going to grab what do you guys think of the chat? Who else is going to try to run DeSantis? Duffy? Hmm. I don't know. But I think I think they'll probably be a big crowd. And I think Vance is going to dominate that. I mean, just imagine the debates with Vance. Nikki Haley. I don't think so. Who said that? SJV? I don't think so. He said whoever Trump endorses wins. Not anymore. Not anymore. Well, I know that Rubio said if Vance runs, he's not going to run. He did say that. And, you know, it'll be a question. I'm sure Trump will probably put some

56:16pressure on assuming that he and does endorse Vance, which he probably will. You know, he may try and pressure other people not to run against him, just like he did with DeSantis, right? But, you know, I don't know if they'll listen to him because he's going to not going to be present on again. So. All right. Sean Duffy. That's the first I've heard of that. I think, forget it. Forget Sean Duffy. Thun. I think Rand Paul would be interesting because he might be one that would really talk about the debt and bouncing the budget, right? Like, and I think, you know, Vance isn't necessarily going to do that. And I'm sure they all could talk a good game. And especially Vance, if he has lots of fraud that he cleaned up, he could say, look, what I already did. I'm going to do more of this. But, you know, I don't know if the fraud would be enough to balance the budget and certainly not to pay off the 38 or maybe 39 trillion by now of national debt. And, you know, Rand Paul may be able to come up with a better story about,

57:22I'm going to actually make these cuts. I'm going to actually fix all these things and get to the point where we don't have this overwhelming debt. But the other issue that nobody wants to talk about, you know, because there's really no solution for it. And because I think realistically, it's like, yeah, it would be great to clean up all the fraud waste and abuse. And it would help a lot. And so it would tariffs and so with all these other things. And, you know, some people say, oh, we got to have more economic growth. That's the only way out. But I don't think any of these things, even if you put them all together are enough. And so I think the only way to do it, which I don't think is politically viable, is to cut Medicaid, cut Medicare, cut Social Security. And those are all going to be like political suicide to even talk about doing. Yeah. Everybody, including Trump and, you know, everybody really just says, we're going to protect Social Security. We're going to protect Medicare. We're not going to cut it. And, you know, I think the only one that's helping along those lines is Kennedy because he's trying to reduce Medicare spending and

58:24Medicaid spending just by making people healthier. And maybe that's a good line. But I would want to see actual results over the next several years. And I don't think I've seen much yet. No, I don't know. I don't think he's a great candidate. What do you think, Maricella? What were you saying? It's funny. He's good. Yeah. You know, a lot of the times they run to get attention on a certain subject, not really to win. So I think heavy and Rand Paul and even Kennedy run forces the actual candidates that will go for office like JD Vance or Rubio or whoever it is that becomes a lead to answer those questions and to push a certain legislation or a certain topic or opinion to the front front. But I really think that it's interesting that JD Vance is going to do fraud. I still think that there's two movies on one screen. The other side will see it as oh,

59:26you're putting just like they saw doge and Elon, oh, you're cutting back on these poor people that are needing all this help. And so they're going to create their own hoax that he is cutting them back. And you know, to be honest, a lot of the Medicare costs that we have, the majority might be fraud. I mean, I hate to say it, but it looks like it. The things that came out of the naturally situation is that if you're a senior and you have your Medicare number, if someone calls you up or sends you an email or some kind of item or something and they get your Medicare number, that's all they need in order to sign you up without you knowing to get money on your behalf. That is so scary. Is that Beverly? Does she just say you're sick of everyone from Kentucky? I love that. All right, you guys. I know. I know. I see you, Andy. I see you. Okay, so just a couple

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