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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome to the program.
- 0:03Speaker 2: This whole thing with, let's see, a couple of things
- 0:07Speaker 2: I want to pull up. This was last night, and
- 0:11Speaker 2: this was the Senate advancing the American Affordability and Jobs Bill. Oh,
- 0:18Speaker 2: you mean they did something after the election?
- 0:23Speaker 1: That's great. They did something after the election.
- 0:27Speaker 3: Lovely. Lovely.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Finally, they could have done this beforehand, but they chose
- 0:32Speaker 2: not to. They're going to be dealing with also choosing
- 0:36Speaker 2: their next leader, House Conference Committee. They're all choosing. They're
- 0:40Speaker 2: doing that today. That's one of the items on the
- 0:42Speaker 2: agenda today. Last night, they advanced the American Affordability and
- 0:48Speaker 2: Jobs Bill, 73 to 25. And there's one thing in
- 0:52Speaker 2: here I do not like, which is $ 10 billion a
- 0:54Speaker 2: year to HUD. The other stuff was demanding that data
- 0:57Speaker 2: centers pay the full cost of any new grid that
- 1:00Speaker 2: they need.
- 1:00Speaker 1: They were ending automatic.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Historic preservation reviews for many federally backed housing projects, which,
- 1:07Speaker 2: by the way, if you've never had to go through that,
- 1:09Speaker 2: that is the biggest grift ever. When my husband developed property,
- 1:12Speaker 2: he worked in when he was working in St.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Louis.
- 1:16Speaker 1: They went through that. Can you remember? They went through that.
- 1:19Speaker 1: It was it was such a grift.
- 1:21Speaker 2: And part of it wasn't even about preserving historical accuracy
- 1:25Speaker 2: or materials. A lot of it was just I mean,
- 1:29Speaker 2: it was literally a grift. I know I have no
- 1:31Speaker 2: other way to put it. So I think that that's
- 1:32Speaker 2: very interesting that they're ending that because that's that is
- 1:35Speaker 2: just skyrocketing the cost for a lot of these projects
- 1:38Speaker 2: that they've been doing requires planning for power lines across regions.
- 1:42Speaker 2: That's just like and then it has a federal backstop
- 1:44Speaker 2: of states or localities block them. That's one of the
- 1:47Speaker 2: things that was included in this. A little bit late, though,
- 1:49Speaker 2: for them to decide to do something, correct? Where was
- 1:53Speaker 2: this before the midterm election? Million-dollar question, where was it
- 1:57Speaker 2: before midterm election?
- 1:58Speaker 1: Nobody knows. Nobody knows.
- 2:01Speaker 2: They have no idea, but at least they got that done, right?
- 2:04Speaker 2: At least they got that much done.
- 2:06Speaker 1: That's the thing.
- 2:07Speaker 2: If they would have been in Congress cooking, I think
- 2:09Speaker 2: we also would have seen something a lot different.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't go, well, it's not just ours.
- 2:13Speaker 2: I mean, it was, you know, it wasn't really just
- 2:15Speaker 2: Democrats that were obstructing, although now they're not obstructing anymore.
- 2:19Speaker 2: A lot of this was, you had some of those
- 2:21Speaker 2: rhinos that are in Congress as well. That's why I'm
- 2:23Speaker 2: telling you, we're not going to, it's not going to
- 2:25Speaker 2: be something that you take over the House next election either.
- 2:28Speaker 1: It's just, it's just not going to happen that way.
- 2:31Speaker 2: The, with this bill, there was also, let's see, there
- 2:37Speaker 2: were a couple of other things, including I know that
- 2:40Speaker 2: you guys, there was a lot of, Trump had the
- 2:43Speaker 2: press conference after we got off air yesterday where he
- 2:45Speaker 2: had Dana White come up. I mean, with all due respect,
- 2:49Speaker 2: I just don't care about Dana White getting up there
- 2:51Speaker 2: as press secretary because there was a combative interview, Q
- 2:55Speaker 2: & A.
- 2:56Speaker 1: It was a combative press avail. Holy wow. This was
- 2:59Speaker 1: him introducing him. Cut one, though.
- 3:02Speaker 4: You were here. He was here. And Dana, please say
- 3:04Speaker 4: a few words.
- 3:05Speaker 1: Dana White, thank you.
- 3:10Speaker 5: I've always wanted to do this. Who has the first question?
- 3:14Speaker 5: I have zero political aspirations. I was at a fight
- 3:17Speaker 5: for Zufa Boxing in London when he called me and
- 3:20Speaker 5: told me that he had done this, and the last
- 3:22Speaker 5: 24 hours of my life has been insane. But, yeah.
- 3:27Speaker 5: Good to see you. Yes, ma'am. I have a question.
- 3:30Speaker 6: There was a pound-for-pound UFC cage match between President Trump
- 3:33Speaker 6: and former President Joe Biden. Same age, same weight, and
- 3:38Speaker 6: considering what styles make fights, could you give us an.
- 3:40Speaker 5: Analysis of who- The toughest, most resilient human being that
- 3:43Speaker 5: I've ever met in my entire life. Many times during
- 3:47Speaker 5: the last eight, ten years, whatever it's been, I have
- 3:50Speaker 5: told him, why do you keep doing this? Why are
- 3:53Speaker 5: you doing this? When he was going through everything that
- 3:55Speaker 5: he went through. And I mean, as tough and as
- 3:58Speaker 5: resilient as I thought he was after he got shot, I.
- 4:03Speaker 4: Uh, yeah.
- 4:03Speaker 1: I mean, he got up there and took some questions.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it was a fun thing to
- 4:07Speaker 1: do out there.
- 4:07Speaker 2: I don't dislike Dana White, but I'm like, okay, there's
- 4:11Speaker 2: a million things that we need to jump on. I mean,
- 4:13Speaker 2: I want to hear him talk about Hegseth. I want
- 4:15Speaker 2: to hear him talk about Iran. I want to hear
- 4:17Speaker 2: him talk about tariffs. I want to hear him talk about,
- 4:19Speaker 2: which he's talked quite a bit about, I will say,
- 4:21Speaker 2: not for the most part, but.
- 4:26Speaker 4: I just.
- 4:31Speaker 2: I think he could have been talking about this bill
- 4:33Speaker 2: that was in the Senate that passed, and he could
- 4:35Speaker 2: have been spiking the football on something, but he didn't
- 4:36Speaker 2: spike the football.
- 4:38Speaker 1: I feel like he's distracted right now. He didn't spike
- 4:41Speaker 1: the football.
- 4:41Speaker 2: He could have gotten up there because he knew it
- 4:42Speaker 2: was going to pass in the Senate now that Democrats
- 4:44Speaker 2: have stopped obstructing and people are passing things, and he
- 4:47Speaker 2: could have gotten up there and made that point.
- 4:50Speaker 1: I just, it was a missed opportunity. I think it
- 4:52Speaker 1: was a missed opportunity.
- 4:55Speaker 2: And then, of course, Dana White turned on the press
- 4:56Speaker 2: secretary job. I feel like people would get punched, and
- 4:58Speaker 2: then he would bring out, like, I don't know. Who
- 5:01Speaker 2: are their Muslim fighters that cause problems for everybody else?
- 5:05Speaker 2: But then when you go and you try to enforce it,
- 5:06Speaker 2: you get in trouble as Conor McGregor. Was it at
- 5:09Speaker 2: Magomedov or whatever? He's the guy, him and his crew.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Weren't they the ones that were causing all kinds of.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Problems?
- 5:17Speaker 2: And then when it's turned around on them, then all
- 5:19Speaker 2: of their fighters are fined and cited.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Isn't that what happened with Conor McGregor?
- 5:23Speaker 2: Conor McGregor, they surrounded their team's bus after their team
- 5:28Speaker 2: went and surrounded O'Connor's bus.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Conor McGregor.
- 5:33Speaker 2: I remember seeing that video where they had that McGregor
- 5:38Speaker 2: and some of his people facing off against those guys.
- 5:40Speaker 2: That's because those guys have caused problems and have been
- 5:43Speaker 2: doing this to other fighters for forever.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Anyway, long story long, if I were him.
- 5:49Speaker 2: And I took the press secretary job, I would have
- 5:51Speaker 2: my lower tiered fighters go out and just check these
- 5:55Speaker 2: journos out there.
- 5:57Speaker 1: I'm not even lying. Absolutely would do this. Absolutely would
- 6:00Speaker 1: do this. Absolutely.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Now, also, more information is coming out about that new video. CEO,
- 6:06Speaker 2: I have a piece up right now over at Substack
- 6:08Speaker 2: about that that you can dive into where people are
- 6:12Speaker 2: now questioning, was his advocacy for selling, increasing the, not
- 6:23Speaker 2: just the quantity of chips for sale to China, but
- 6:28Speaker 2: also upgrading them, for the lack of a better way
- 6:31Speaker 2: to put it. Because remember, back under Biden, and this
- 6:35Speaker 2: was something that was actually one of the true bipartisan things.
- 6:37Speaker 2: It's like one of the one bipartisan things that happened
- 6:39Speaker 2: under his term. They had blocked the sale of certain
- 6:46Speaker 2: chips to China. They couldn't sell their flagship. I think
- 6:48Speaker 2: it was like their A100 and H100 chips. graphics, their
- 6:52Speaker 2: processing units, and they would allow for the sale of
- 6:55Speaker 2: the older GPUs that were all not as capable of
- 6:59Speaker 2: training the frontier AI models. They allowed those sales to
- 7:03Speaker 2: go through to China, but they wouldn't allow the flagship
- 7:07Speaker 2: newer GPUs. And so one of the things that Jensen
- 7:12Speaker 2: Huang had advocated for was maybe removing that prohibition on
- 7:19Speaker 2: the sale of that level of chip to China. And
- 7:21Speaker 2: because NVIDIA, they had scaled down two versions of those processors,
- 7:25Speaker 2: and China just gobbled them up. I mean, it was Alibaba,
- 7:27Speaker 2: all the big, Tencent, all the big Chinese companies, they
- 7:30Speaker 2: gobbled them up. And now people are asking, and there's
- 7:34Speaker 2: a whole piece, this is over at Fortune magazine, and
- 7:38Speaker 2: I think there was also, this was mentioned in a
- 7:39Speaker 2: Forbes piece that I have linked on, the piece that
- 7:43Speaker 2: I wrote last night up at Substack. A lot of
- 7:46Speaker 2: people are asking now whether or not Huang's advocacy for
- 7:50Speaker 2: the expanded sales of NVIDIA's most advanced chip, whether it
- 7:53Speaker 2: was organic or planted.
- 7:56Speaker 1: And that makes a lot of sense. We're going to
- 7:57Speaker 1: talk more about that as well.
- 7:59Speaker 2: We have headlines on the way as we move. Our
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- 9:43Speaker 1: It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
- 9:46Speaker 2: So apparently now, they say no. They say that this
- 9:50Speaker 2: is not true. New York Post was stating that the
- 9:52Speaker 2: press secretary lady, Katie Zachariah, is auditioning again for press secretary.
- 10:00Speaker 1: And she said that that's not true. That's good. I
- 10:06Speaker 1: don't know why she would. It's good that it's not true. Yeah, okay. Well,
- 10:09Speaker 1: I'm just saying. She said it's not true. The FDA— oh,
- 10:12Speaker 1: this is insane.
- 10:13Speaker 2: The FDA issues a new warning for the Ozempic shot,
- 10:16Speaker 2: saying that it can cause blindness with an eyestroke effect.
- 10:19Speaker 4: What?
- 10:21Speaker 1: Oh, that's kind of crazy.
- 10:24Speaker 2: They said that it could increase the risk, let me
- 10:27Speaker 2: read this, of a rare eye stroke. They said that
- 10:31Speaker 2: it's requiring the manufacturers to add the warning to the labels.
- 10:34Speaker 2: It's a non-arteritic anterior something neuropathy. It happens when the
- 10:40Speaker 2: blood flow to the optic nerve, which carries images from
- 10:43Speaker 2: the eye to the brain, is disrupted. And it says
- 10:46Speaker 2: it starves the nerve of oxygen, causing sudden painless vision loss,
- 10:51Speaker 2: usually on one eye. And sadly, the damage is often permanent.
- 10:56Speaker 2: That's kind of terrifying. That is terrifying.
- 10:59Speaker 1: So they have to put a damn warning label on
- 11:01Speaker 1: it and not like pull it from the market. That's
- 11:04Speaker 1: the solution is the warning label. You sound like big government.
- 11:07Speaker 4: Good God.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Just saying.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Well, I mean, why aren't we seeing more blind people then?
- 11:14Speaker 2: There's a lot of people on that shot. How are
- 11:16Speaker 2: you not seeing more blind people then?
- 11:17Speaker 4: I don't like the fact that you won't be able
- 11:19Speaker 4: to see your.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Own weight loss results. Yeah, then it's like, what's the
- 11:21Speaker 1: point of that?
- 11:22Speaker 2: You know, you can't just say middle aged adults twice
- 11:26Speaker 2: as likely as Gen Z to use cannabis daily. So
- 11:30Speaker 2: are these millennials or Gen X? Is this what's the
- 11:32Speaker 2: age range here? They say they what?
- 11:35Speaker 1: Really? Maybe it's because Gen X is tired of everybody's nonsense.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it is.
- 11:41Speaker 2: They said an estimated 1.2 million people use it daily,
- 11:45Speaker 2: according to data from National Online Surveys completed. These are
- 11:48Speaker 2: British people, but only one in 14 adults can report
- 11:51Speaker 2: using the class B drug in the past year. That's
- 11:53Speaker 2: what researchers discovered. And it was from King's College London
- 11:57Speaker 2: and the University of Bath, an action on smoking and health.
- 12:00Speaker 2: And they found that while young people were more likely
- 12:01Speaker 2: to use cannabis use in the past year, middle-aged adults
- 12:04Speaker 2: were likely to use it daily.
- 12:06Speaker 1: So that sort of upends the whole stereotype.
- 12:10Speaker 4: Right.
- 12:11Speaker 2: About pot smokers, I think, right? Because you think that
- 12:16Speaker 2: they're all young, sort of like Jay and Silent Bob types. Right.
- 12:19Speaker 1: For the most part.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Now it's like, no, the Jay and Silent Bob types
- 12:21Speaker 2: are Gen X, basically. That is fascinating. Oh, the McCrones
- 12:26Speaker 2: are suing Gail Sharpton personally in Tennessee again. She was
- 12:30Speaker 2: saying that all the lawsuits were done and she was, no,
- 12:32Speaker 2: they're still suing. She's still fighting lawsuits because she's an idiot.
- 12:36Speaker 2: She's going to spend all her gay husband's money.
- 12:38Speaker 1: That's so sad. She's going to spend all his money.
- 12:40Speaker 1: What is he going to do?
- 12:41Speaker 2: He's going to have to, he's going to have to
- 12:42Speaker 2: go turn tricks on the corner, which is not much
- 12:45Speaker 2: different from like the video version of what she considers content. Anyway, uh,
- 12:50Speaker 2: Lauren Boebert in, do I care? Lauren Boebert is out.
- 12:55Speaker 2: She has lost her reelection in Colorado. This was even
- 12:59Speaker 2: after she had switched to a different seat. If you
- 13:02Speaker 2: guys remember, she had switched to a different seat. Now she's,
- 13:05Speaker 2: she's out the, uh, It was a razor-tight race, and
- 13:10Speaker 2: she has now been unelected, I guess you could say.
- 13:15Speaker 1: The news broke.
- 13:15Speaker 2: So this was one where it was kind of going
- 13:17Speaker 2: on a little bit. It officially broke yesterday. We were
- 13:20Speaker 2: about 4 o'clock yesterday, central time. So her reelection campaign
- 13:23Speaker 2: released a statement saying that they're investigating unusual voting patterns.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Is the unusual voting patterns everybody mad? Because that seems,
- 13:31Speaker 2: you know, well, this is what we've determined. We've determined
- 13:34Speaker 2: that the unusual voting pattern is everybody mad.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Wolf, everybody mad. That's the pattern.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Her attorney said that a significant number of votes remain outstanding.
- 13:43Speaker 2: She lost by something like 500 some odd votes.
- 13:46Speaker 1: So I get it.
- 13:47Speaker 2: But they said her current lead right now is well
- 13:50Speaker 2: outside the automatic, the Democrats lead. So apparently the Democrat,
- 13:55Speaker 2: when they at first they were saying when she was
- 13:58Speaker 2: claiming victory was like, She was down by 500. Now
- 14:01Speaker 2: the lady's up by almost 3,000. So I think that's.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Why does it take them so long to count votes?
- 14:05Speaker 1: Are they all high out there? Is that what they're doing?
- 14:07Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain high? We have a lot more on the way.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Stick with us.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Our partners that help bring you the program because we're capitalists.
- 14:14Speaker 2: It's our friends that are at Berna. Now they call
- 14:18Speaker 2: it a Berna gun, but it's kind of a misnomer.
- 14:20Speaker 2: So what does Berna do? First off, it's an item
- 14:24Speaker 2: that shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from
- 14:27Speaker 2: up to 60 feet away. Now, I think you can
- 14:31Speaker 2: call it a launcher. In fact, one of the models
- 14:33Speaker 2: they have is called the CL. That stands for compact launcher.
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- 14:44Speaker 1: Why would I need that? That's great. Two reasons why.
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- 14:48Speaker 2: This has a 15-round shot capacity per cartridge, specifically the
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- 14:56Speaker 1: I carry and I have no problem using lead.
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- 15:02Speaker 2: it to defend myself and my loved ones. I'll go
- 15:03Speaker 2: to sleep at night like a baby who's just been
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- 15:06Speaker 1: Don't care.
- 15:07Speaker 2: That said, I realize sometimes you have municipal restrictions, private
- 15:11Speaker 2: property restrictions.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Maybe you're a 20-year-old college kid that lives off campus.
- 15:14Speaker 2: And now that it's getting darker earlier, thanks to daylight
- 15:16Speaker 2: savings time, you have to walk home in the dark
- 15:18Speaker 2: and you don't want to be a statistic.
- 15:19Speaker 1: What do you do? Here's where Berna comes in. It
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- 15:26Speaker 2: It's really how everything should be. You buy it online,
- 15:28Speaker 2: it sends right to your door. Again, not a replacement.
- 15:31Speaker 2: It is an option when your options are limited. You
- 15:34Speaker 2: can diversify your self-defense options today. It's the Burna CL,
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- 15:47Speaker 2: competitive energy market. You have over 100 retail providers competing
- 15:52Speaker 2: for consumers under deregulation law.
- 15:54Speaker 1: So, yeah, this is.
- 15:57Speaker 2: So now you're going to have people that are not
- 15:58Speaker 2: going to be able to provide power. Are we going
- 16:01Speaker 2: to have daily blackouts? I mean, who does that?
- 16:06Speaker 1: You know what, guys? I just got elected, but let's
- 16:09Speaker 1: go ahead and make things suck real fast. Okay. Yay.
- 16:13Speaker 1: That's where we're going. She's going to lock down those.
- 16:17Speaker 5: I mean.
- 16:19Speaker 2: No one asked for price controls, but that's exactly what
- 16:21Speaker 2: she's going to try to deliver.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Oh, my word. She did this. She reiterated this.
- 16:25Speaker 2: This is the second time that she's talked about doing
- 16:27Speaker 2: this since the election. She was talking to a local
- 16:30Speaker 2: energy data group right after and then just yesterday in
- 16:34Speaker 2: an interview with the Texas Tribune. She said, quote, within
- 16:37Speaker 2: an hour of taking the oath of office, I will
- 16:38Speaker 2: declare a high cost emergency in the state of Texas
- 16:40Speaker 2: and issue an emergency executive order to freeze electricity rates.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Goodbye free market choice. Hello energy shortages. Because suppliers won't
- 16:52Speaker 2: be able to adjust their price. They won't be able
- 16:56Speaker 2: to adjust their price. I have to tell you I'm
- 16:58Speaker 2: so mad. Very upset over this. Because there were a
- 17:03Speaker 2: lot of Republican primary candidates that made icons out of
- 17:08Speaker 2: their bitterness of losing primaries that were really working hard
- 17:13Speaker 2: to usher this in. Now here's something else that's interesting.
- 17:17Speaker 2: So this came, I saw this. I can't, I'm trying
- 17:21Speaker 2: to think what I had this poor one. I'm not even,
- 17:23Speaker 2: he's like, why even make a rundown? Because I'm all
- 17:26Speaker 2: over the place today. So I have this somewhere on
- 17:28Speaker 2: the rundown sheet, but I can't remember what it's under.
- 17:30Speaker 2: So in Maryland, they blocked a $ 5 billion AI data
- 17:36Speaker 2: center that was going to go on the ugly site
- 17:41Speaker 2: of an abandoned shopping mall that has been vacant for
- 17:44Speaker 2: 24 years. And it was going to go. It's been,
- 17:47Speaker 2: nothing's been there for 24 years. It's been fenced off
- 17:49Speaker 2: and it's an eyesore for 24 years, 24 years, two, four.
- 17:53Speaker 2: She gathered 25,000 signatures and.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Did this.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Now someone said, I bet she never did this to
- 18:02Speaker 2: block a Wendy's, but you know, Taylor McCollum, she lives
- 18:09Speaker 2: a mile away from the site. It's a 90 acre
- 18:13Speaker 2: campus that was slated. for this Landover Mall property. It
- 18:17Speaker 2: closed in 2002. And it's been leveled. So it's an empty,
- 18:22Speaker 2: muddy lot. And they decided to do that. They decided
- 18:31Speaker 2: to tank it. It was going to be a modest
- 18:33Speaker 2: data center. And maybe, I don't know, what are they
- 18:37Speaker 2: going to put there? Like maybe a mega casino?
- 18:39Speaker 1: What are they going to put there instead? I don't know.
- 18:41Speaker 1: I'm sure that'll be great. The data center.
- 18:45Speaker 2: developer offered to build, and apparently, according to some of
- 18:51Speaker 2: the local reporting, because NPR did a lot of reporting
- 18:55Speaker 2: on it, where they literally were comparing it to Martin
- 18:57Speaker 2: Luther King and the struggle for equality.
- 18:59Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding you.
- 19:00Speaker 2: The NPR, literally, they go, her father, Lacey McCollum Jr.,
- 19:05Speaker 2: sees the data center fight rooted in civil rights.
- 19:12Speaker 4: What?
- 19:12Speaker 2: What? Someone goes, She should run for office, but she
- 19:16Speaker 2: says she wants to pay off her debt and traffic
- 19:19Speaker 2: tickets first. Sounds like a winner-winner chicken dinner. This is insane.
- 19:26Speaker 2: I mean, you can downsize a data center. You can
- 19:29Speaker 2: require a closed-loop water system. That's actually what most of
- 19:32Speaker 2: them are doing anyway. A lot of people have these
- 19:35Speaker 2: old antiquated ideas as to how they operate. They don't
- 19:37Speaker 2: operate like that. By the way, I'm in favor of
- 19:40Speaker 2: smart implementation. I am against allowing China to beat us
- 19:44Speaker 2: on this issue because that's not America first. It's not
- 19:47Speaker 2: America first to be like, let's just go ahead and
- 19:49Speaker 2: allow China to have all the data, just like they
- 19:52Speaker 2: have all the rare earth elements. Go ahead and let
- 19:54Speaker 2: them control absolutely everything. Because you know why I don't
- 19:58Speaker 2: support that? It's not America first. That's like screwing for chastity.
- 20:01Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense. So You could build a
- 20:08Speaker 2: trade school that's adjacent to the data center. You could
- 20:11Speaker 2: offer free engineering and construction to community residents and have
- 20:15Speaker 2: a partnership where you are training up the next gen.
- 20:18Speaker 1: No, no, no. They just have to stop it now.
- 20:20Speaker 1: We like being poor, damn it. We want to stay poor.
- 20:25Speaker 1: This is so stupid. Everything is stupid.
- 20:30Speaker 2: It's a very depressed area. It's basically filled with One
- 20:36Speaker 2: story I was looking at, let me pull this up.
- 20:39Speaker 2: This is, Selena Zito was writing about this area, by
- 20:43Speaker 2: the way. She's really great. She was talking about Rust
- 20:47Speaker 2: Belt powerhouses and data hubs and things like this. And
- 20:49Speaker 2: she spent an inordinate amount of time in this area
- 20:53Speaker 2: covering all of this. And it's basically some construction workers
- 20:58Speaker 2: laid off federal employees and a lot of single and
- 21:02Speaker 2: maybe underemployed or unemployed moms and They have an immigrant
- 21:08Speaker 2: population twice.
- 21:09Speaker 1: That of the national average.
- 21:11Speaker 2: It's a struggling area that has a lot of hallmarks
- 21:14Speaker 2: that a lot of other struggling areas do. I'm just
- 21:16Speaker 2: like taking off the stuff that's in this article that
- 21:19Speaker 2: I just cited. And it's in Prince George's County, which
- 21:22Speaker 2: is not, according to Zito's reporting, hasn't been doing quite
- 21:26Speaker 2: well anyway.
- 21:27Speaker 1: It's declining.
- 21:29Speaker 2: They need a shot in the arm. tax money and
- 21:33Speaker 2: new industries for revival. When you have depletion of industries,
- 21:36Speaker 2: I mean, good grief, we saw that. One of the
- 21:38Speaker 2: best examples of that, I think, is East St. Louis,
- 21:41Speaker 2: which still is kind of a rail hub, but it
- 21:44Speaker 2: used to be a major hub back in the day.
- 21:46Speaker 2: East St. Louis, North St. Louis, when you have manufacturing
- 21:51Speaker 2: that leaves, you end up having these depressed areas that
- 21:54Speaker 2: decline precipitously. They need something here. And they were going
- 22:00Speaker 2: to get a data center that was going to go
- 22:02Speaker 2: right there. And they had all of these, apparently they
- 22:06Speaker 2: were doing the closed loop water. They were doing all
- 22:07Speaker 2: of this stuff, but the, the narrative against it was overwhelming.
- 22:11Speaker 1: And so they defeated it.
- 22:14Speaker 2: They were literally going to do everything that people were
- 22:16Speaker 2: as I did. I dug into this. No one was
- 22:20Speaker 2: going to be paying for their use of extra power.
- 22:23Speaker 2: There was no threat to water systems. No, just somebody
- 22:26Speaker 2: was like, what about the diesel emissions? So all these
- 22:28Speaker 2: like insane claims that actually didn't even match up. What
- 22:32Speaker 2: I'm hearing said about AI, about data, is what the
- 22:35Speaker 2: left has said about oil and gas for years. The
- 22:39Speaker 2: left has attacked oil and gas and extraction with all
- 22:43Speaker 2: of this, like, fairytale nonsense for years.
- 22:45Speaker 1: And a lot of this stuff, I'm going to be honest.
- 22:47Speaker 2: Now, granted, look, I know y'all can give me some
- 22:50Speaker 2: good examples where it hasn't worked, and I believe you
- 22:51Speaker 2: because I've talked about them.
- 22:53Speaker 1: There absolutely are.
- 22:55Speaker 2: But by and large, if you work with the city,
- 22:58Speaker 2: because we're doing that here right now, so I know
- 23:00Speaker 2: it can be done. You're working with the city and
- 23:02Speaker 2: you're really pressing on. You can actually get a lot
- 23:05Speaker 2: for your area. These developers, you can bend them. With
- 23:10Speaker 2: the carrot on the stick, you can make it happen.
- 23:13Speaker 2: And they really needed to make this happen here. So
- 23:16Speaker 2: everything that they wanted a data center to do in
- 23:18Speaker 2: order to improve the area and not further deplete the area,
- 23:23Speaker 2: It was defeated, so now it's not going to happen.
- 23:26Speaker 2: I mean, this was a great line that someone had said.
- 23:30Speaker 1: I wish it was mine. It's not.
- 23:31Speaker 2: The people who are fighting data center expansions are addicted
- 23:34Speaker 2: to the products that can only come from data centers.
- 23:40Speaker 1: That's it. That's exactly it.
- 23:42Speaker 2: So this woman, she works at a waxing, she's a waxer,
- 23:46Speaker 2: a waxing salon. She was evicted from her apartment. She
- 23:51Speaker 2: has tons of debt. She has nothing else to do.
- 23:53Speaker 2: So of course she wants to run for politics in
- 23:55Speaker 2: the future as a Democrat because Democrats treat the political
- 23:59Speaker 2: pipeline like a welfare program. And so she does not
- 24:03Speaker 2: even own a home, by the way. She doesn't pay
- 24:07Speaker 2: property tax. She has no skin in the game that way.
- 24:09Speaker 2: She's the one who literally spearheaded this whole thing to
- 24:12Speaker 2: defeat that for that area. So to recap, a woman
- 24:17Speaker 2: who doesn't own a home, she has insurmountable debt. She
- 24:20Speaker 2: can't manage her finances. She was evicted. She doesn't understand
- 24:26Speaker 2: math or the economy. And she decided that she led...
- 24:29Speaker 2: That's it.
- 24:30Speaker 1: That's the lot.
- 24:32Speaker 2: You're seeing it on the simulcast. That is the lot
- 24:34Speaker 2: that Juan is showing you. Why could you not have
- 24:38Speaker 2: a data center there? It's out of the way. Closed-loop
- 24:41Speaker 2: water system.
- 24:43Speaker 1: No emissions. Pays for its own self. Adds tons of
- 24:48Speaker 1: revenue to the area.
- 24:50Speaker 2: And this lady... In front of the fence, she was evicted.
- 24:53Speaker 2: She owns no property. She pays no property tax. She
- 24:56Speaker 2: doesn't pay tax really, probably. And she's the one who
- 25:00Speaker 2: killed it for the whole area.
- 25:04Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
- 25:07Speaker 2: I mean, the choice to decline is a real one.
- 25:14Speaker 2: So she stopped a $ 5 billion investment because she bought
- 25:20Speaker 2: in all of the And to the psyop that.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know what? It's going to drink
- 25:26Speaker 1: up all your water. And it's going to, you're going
- 25:29Speaker 1: to be covered. It's going to be like fallout. You're
- 25:31Speaker 1: going to be covered in toxic waste.
- 25:32Speaker 2: And you're going to have to be fighting weird creatures
- 25:35Speaker 2: with a half burnt mane out in the desert.
- 25:36Speaker 1: It's going to be wild. No, you know what she wants?
- 25:41Speaker 1: So this, let me pull this up.
- 25:43Speaker 2: This is from NPR. NPR has the story. You know
- 25:49Speaker 2: what she wants to go there instead? You're going to
- 25:51Speaker 2: love this.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Okay.
- 25:54Speaker 2: She wants there to be like a sports complex. She
- 25:59Speaker 2: wants a sport complex built with magic because the county
- 26:04Speaker 2: doesn't have any money and the county's been running a
- 26:07Speaker 2: $ 200 million.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Deficit year after year.
- 26:11Speaker 2: The county doesn't have any money, but this genius that
- 26:14Speaker 2: decided to tank the data center there, she wants a
- 26:17Speaker 2: sports complex built Who pays for the sports complex?
- 26:24Speaker 3: Ms.
- 26:24Speaker 1: McCollum? I mean, I don't know.
- 26:26Speaker 4: Magic?
- 26:27Speaker 1: Taxpayers, Pat. That's what it is. It's from taxpayers.
- 26:31Speaker 2: This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.
- 26:33Speaker 2: I can't believe I've never seen such a cell phone
- 26:36Speaker 2: before ever.
- 26:38Speaker 5: Ever.
- 26:39Speaker 1: So a woman who can't even, she can't pay her,
- 26:42Speaker 1: she doesn't pay bills. She's evicted. She doesn't own property.
- 26:46Speaker 2: She just further cemented the decline of of a community
- 26:50Speaker 2: because she bought into all of the aggrieved PSYOP, foreign
- 26:55Speaker 2: PSYOP slop about it. This is an economic suicide that
- 27:01Speaker 2: China is encouraging that they are hoping you buy into. Again,
- 27:05Speaker 2: it's the same stuff as when people were screaming about
- 27:07Speaker 2: oil and gas, the left, when they were talking about fracking,
- 27:10Speaker 2: it's the same formula, just a different variable. I mean,
- 27:14Speaker 2: there were people on the left that were.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Like, fracking's going to crack the world apart. Our water's
- 27:19Speaker 1: on fire.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Remember when Ann McElhinney did the whole, her and her husband,
- 27:26Speaker 2: they did a whole documentary on that. It's the same thing,
- 27:30Speaker 2: but they're trying to get the right to do it
- 27:31Speaker 2: against data centers. Now, again, there are going to be
- 27:35Speaker 2: people out there who go, oh, I guess you just
- 27:38Speaker 2: want data centers everywhere. You want them centers, C-E-N-N-E-R-S. You
- 27:43Speaker 2: want them data centers everywhere. And that's not what anybody
- 27:46Speaker 2: is literally saying. There's a smart way to do it
- 27:48Speaker 2: is what we're saying. But you don't commit economic suicide
- 27:51Speaker 2: because you don't understand how it works. And this woman
- 27:55Speaker 2: does not understand how it works. I just, and I
- 28:01Speaker 2: don't know. No to economic growth, I guess. So I
- 28:04Speaker 2: don't know what that area is going to do. I mean,
- 28:07Speaker 2: they're not solvent. I don't know what that area is
- 28:09Speaker 2: going to do at this point. We have more on
- 28:11Speaker 2: the way. I've got Florida Man coming up. Our partners,
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- 30:08Speaker 2: It's his life mission to make bad decisions.
- 30:18Speaker 1: It's time for Florida Man. I need to really take
- 30:22Speaker 1: a minute just to get with this headline. All right.
- 30:24Speaker 1: I need everyone to just open mind about this headline. Okay.
- 30:28Speaker 2: Because this sounds like Mad Libs. A fight over roaming
- 30:34Speaker 2: pet snakes leads to woman socking man in the head
- 30:38Speaker 2: with a brick after he welcomed her to his house
- 30:43Speaker 2: following her marital issues.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Let's unpack this, shall we?
- 30:50Speaker 2: A Florida woman allegedly clocked a man in the head
- 30:52Speaker 2: with a brick over his loose pet snake's after he
- 30:57Speaker 2: welcomed her to his home when she fell on hard times.
- 31:01Speaker 3: Maria Luisa del Rosario stands, I said that very Italian, Rosario,
- 31:08Speaker 3: stands accused of aggravated battery and criminal mischief.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Now, so what happened?
- 31:14Speaker 2: She went to this dude's house and she was mad
- 31:18Speaker 2: that his pet snakes were roaming around the house. That
- 31:21Speaker 2: sounds disgusting also because they have a musk. I don't
- 31:27Speaker 2: hate animals like this. They're just not the cute ones.
- 31:30Speaker 2: And also they're stinky. He tried to create distance between
- 31:33Speaker 2: him and Del Rosario, but she kept coming at him
- 31:35Speaker 2: and then hit him with a brick. And apparently there's
- 31:39Speaker 2: surveillance footage that shows her walking up to the victim,
- 31:42Speaker 2: calling him all kinds of names I can't repeat on air.
- 31:45Speaker 1: And that's how that went.
- 31:46Speaker 2: So they took her into custody and she lied about
- 31:49Speaker 2: what she did. They showed her video and then she
- 31:52Speaker 2: just said, just put me in the car. She's in,
- 31:53Speaker 2: she's not, she's in jail. She has an $ 8, 000 bond
- 31:56Speaker 2: that she hasn't made. So she's going to be in
- 31:57Speaker 2: jail to her next court date. That's December 1st. I'm
- 32:00Speaker 2: trying to get around the loose pet snakes though, because
- 32:02Speaker 2: nast with a capital E nasty.
- 32:06Speaker 5: She had marital issues. She's just hitting people with the bricks.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Maybe, maybe look, I all would love to resolve all my,
- 32:14Speaker 2: disputes with bricks. But we don't live in that world, girl.
- 32:18Speaker 2: You can't be doing that. Oh, let's see. A used
- 32:25Speaker 2: car shopping used car shopping in Florida took a wild turn.
- 32:28Speaker 2: A man test drove an $ 8, 000 Mercedes and it did
- 32:31Speaker 2: not go well. So he went shopping for cheap used cars.
- 32:34Speaker 2: He wanted to find out how low in budget he
- 32:36Speaker 2: could go. And he was sitting in an $ 8, 000 Mercedes
- 32:39Speaker 2: Benz with wet floors, a leaking roof and a door
- 32:42Speaker 2: handle that was missing. They how does that even pass inspection?
- 32:49Speaker 2: So anyway, I guess he, I'm bored already. The story's boring.
- 32:53Speaker 1: He did. I guess he did a video series on it.
- 32:55Speaker 2: There was a Florida man who had four beers before
- 32:57Speaker 2: a crash that killed a cyclist near Tampa, but he
- 32:59Speaker 2: told troopers that the writer was in the middle of
- 33:00Speaker 2: the road. He now faces DUI manslaughter. He, he remains
- 33:05Speaker 2: in jail, no bond. And, uh, yeah, he's in Florida
- 33:10Speaker 2: treats a fatality caused by an impaired driver as a
- 33:13Speaker 2: felony and, So the crash happened 3.30 in the morning,
- 33:17Speaker 2: and he had a cyclist traveling on the west shoulder
- 33:19Speaker 2: of the highway. The victim did not make it. He
- 33:23Speaker 2: said the cyclist was in the middle of the road.
- 33:24Speaker 2: The troopers dispute that. The victim was on the— why are
- 33:27Speaker 2: you biking at 3.30 in the morning?
- 33:28Speaker 1: That's a good point.
- 33:30Speaker 5: Also, BS on the four beers.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Yeah, four beers. No way. I'm sorry. This guy did
- 33:34Speaker 1: not have four beers. There's a lot of errors that
- 33:36Speaker 1: were made here.
- 33:39Speaker 3: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of
- 33:43Speaker 3: the United States.
- 33:45Speaker 4: Eat that, Doug. Appreciate you calling in. And it looks
- 33:49Speaker 4: like we've got a call from the White House.
- 33:53Speaker 1: She is shocked.
- 33:53Speaker 4: Mr. President, welcome to Washington Journal Primetime. Thank you, Mimi,
- 33:59Speaker 4: and good luck with the show. I've watched you numerous
- 34:01Speaker 4: times and you do a great job, but good luck
- 34:03Speaker 4: with the show. Thank you. We appreciate you calling in. Mr. President,
- 34:09Speaker 4: we heard that you like to watch C-SPAN.
- 34:13Speaker 1: What do you like to watch?
- 34:15Speaker 4: Well, I like to watch the call-ins because it gives
- 34:18Speaker 4: me a little bit of an indication of where we are.
- 34:20Speaker 3: I do okay there.
- 34:22Speaker 1: We have some great Republicans calling in, and I'm not.
- 34:25Speaker 4: So sure the Democrats are thrilled, but the Republicans seem
- 34:28Speaker 4: to be. And we have all kinds of people calling in, sir.
- 34:31Speaker 2: That's absolutely hysterical. I mean, it's funny because what he
- 34:35Speaker 2: does is he just, you know, he's just sitting there
- 34:38Speaker 2: reading over stuff, getting ready for the next day. He's like,
- 34:41Speaker 2: I'm just going to call in to C-SPAN.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Going to call in.
- 34:44Speaker 2: I think his comms team gave up like five years ago.
- 34:47Speaker 2: I think all his comms people are like, we just can't.
- 34:49Speaker 2: We can't handle it. We just can't.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I can't. You can't control it.
- 34:55Speaker 2: I will never forget the conversation that I had with someone.
- 35:00Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell everything, but in the very beginning,
- 35:02Speaker 2: back in 2016, when he was because I introduced him
- 35:05Speaker 2: at CPAC in 2015 and they were wanting me to
- 35:09Speaker 2: do the press for their campaign. be the spokesperson for
- 35:13Speaker 2: their campaign. It's a big pay cut, by the way.
- 35:17Speaker 2: But my first thought was, you're getting two of the
- 35:21Speaker 2: rowdiest people to do comms, to do messaging. That's a disaster.
- 35:25Speaker 2: And I just spit it out without even thinking. I
- 35:28Speaker 2: was like, oh, my gosh, that's a disaster. And we
- 35:31Speaker 2: were on the phone. I was talking to POTUS. He
- 35:33Speaker 2: was in POTUS at the time.
- 35:34Speaker 1: And I explained. I said, you have to have good cop,
- 35:37Speaker 1: bad cop. We are here. We are both bad cops.
- 35:40Speaker 1: We cannot. No, I've never. I can't. I'm physically incapable
- 35:44Speaker 1: of being a good cop.
- 35:45Speaker 3: And now all of the news you would probably miss.
- 35:48Speaker 1: It's time for Dana's quick five.
- 35:50Speaker 2: So I was reading this pub, this article from The Telegraph,
- 35:53Speaker 2: which I normally don't read with any sort of enthusiasm.
- 35:56Speaker 2: Bill Skarsgård, you remember him from it? He was he
- 35:58Speaker 2: was also in Nosferatu. But even more importantly, he was
- 36:00Speaker 2: in John Wick. He was the bad guy in one
- 36:02Speaker 2: of the last John Wicks. He says that he wants to.
- 36:06Speaker 2: be one of the next Bond villains. And I think
- 36:08Speaker 2: actually that would be perfect because Bill Skarsgård, he's also
- 36:11Speaker 2: did a series with Fonka Janssen that was really, really good.
- 36:15Speaker 1: He would be a great baddie.