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- speaker-1: Okay, we're back with more of the political matrix news. I'm Scott Miller and this is my, you know, erstwhile partner, Fink. Hello. Thirty years in the trenches and in political ⁓ political campaigns and we have definitely seen a couple of things and we like to bring and we're still seeing it. ⁓ we we we get to bring that perspective to you. speaker-0: Right. Yeah, speaker-1: ⁓ a and and kind of share w ⁓ share where what we think is actually happening instead of the theater that that's know being shoved down your throat. speaker-0: There's a lot of theater out there too. speaker-1: By the way, I was t I I was s we we were talking talking during the break and I was telling you about a ⁓ Joe Biden has resurfaced. sa actually I saw a couple of things on him. I saw one post a s post on X about how it was nice to look ⁓ to to see someone who didn't look like a ⁓ a petrified fossil and they had a picture of Joe with his eyes kind of back like that that big a wide eyed look that he had there at the end and I'm like, You think that looks normal? speaker-0: Well for Joe it might be normal. For crazy Joe Biden, who still in my opinion is probably one of the most useless presidents we ever had. And as far as anything ha good happening to the country and probably the worst president we've ever had as far as stopping everything that could have g been good from happening. speaker-1: I hate that I I I hate that it's almost certainly true and I and while I don't have any direct evidence of it, know, there so much smoke there has to be a fire somewhere. Of of being frankly probably one of the most corrupt or at least incompetently corrupt administrations ever. speaker-0: Exactly. I'm sure it's I'm sure corruption's been around and you and I both know for hundreds of years, but corruption in this of a screw up screwed up way to where it's so easily, you know, Keystone cop driven. I mean, you know, I not saying there's a good way of corruption or a bad way of corruption, but there's a there's aptitude and ⁓ ineptitude of it. And and basically they did it in such a ham handed way, his family and in such a way to where I mean th th they they're they're cheating for a little for like pennies. I mean and and and and the and then they're sending money through NGOs in the billions. and just the the the graft that was there so blatantly endorsed by the the swamp is just huge. speaker-1: Yeah, I've said for a long, long time you know, that they're so used to lying to us these days that they didn't even, you know, put the energy in to make it a credible lie anymore. They just they just say things that you know you know that that are inflammatory and that's about it and then and then we scream about it for a little while and then change the subject over to what they actually want to talk about. speaker-0: Donate five dollars. speaker-1: ten to eight five dollars. For just the cup of price of a cup of coffee. speaker-0: Yes, we just need a few million of you guys to donate five dollars, which adds up pretty quick on the ⁓ dollar amount side. I mean and it's just it's just sad. I mean people keep talking about the corruption or of ⁓ they're saying the Trump family is corrupt and everything else. So I keep saying, Okay, first of all, Donald Trump Junior, Eric Trump, Ivanka the the Trumps have been doing the Trump thing for a long time. They actually had a big tower named after them before they became president. And ⁓ as far as them getting contracts or them doing deals or stuff like that, that that I mean, wrong ways of doing it like the Bidens did, and there's a right way of doing it, like they are doing it. And you know, I I understand the whole class envy thing. I get it. Everybody hates the rich guy, everybody hates success, blah, blah, blah. The reality here is that there's a right way of making money and there's a wrong way of making money and this America is is a of that. a reflection of that every single second of every day. And and ⁓ basically it it's not corrupt to be successful. It's corrupt to do what Biden was doing by making Hunter Biden was doing by making money off things that he had no expertise in whatsoever. Now it's one thing if he's ⁓ if he was actually a developer and developing things or doing something and actually doing things that he was in his skill set to do and getting paid for. That's that's great. But he was getting paid to do things that were not in his skill set, not in his purview, not in his ability whatsoever, and then just videotape himself doing heroin and crack with ho hookers on in in hotel rooms. I mean I mean i it's a i it's a very different approach here, guys. I mean Donald Trump Jr., Eric and Ivanka are not a hunter. speaker-1: no, no. Those ⁓ kids were making money long before him. And that's really I think the the heart of the problem when you think about it, is there's not a you that that you know we it's been a long time since we've had a president who was the ⁓ you know who was actually a successful business person or business person of any variety, you know, that had some credible way of making money outside of the government. speaker-0: Yeah, I explained this on a podcast a couple of weeks ago. This is the first president who actually has children who are in the working age. You gotta realize Obama's kids were in high school. Bush's kids were in high school. Biden's kids, one passed away, one's a crackhead who you know, who who who's basically making money on things that because of his daddy. But, you know, the reality here is that, you know, we have had a president in a generation, or probably two, that had children who are of working age, who are able to do something very good, and who are already doing it before they got elected or their father got elected. And they're going to be doing it well after he's elected. And so I mean it's i I mean people want to say they've never seen this before. That's true. They haven't. We haven't had this before to see it before. And so I mean, you you look at Ronald Reagan was the last one who had kids who are not teenagers whenever he was elected. And you got Ronald Reagan Jr. who is, you know, questionable on you know what all he did. But I mean, th the you know, good or bad in the society. I mean he he's not a bad guy. But, you know, he wasn't a businessman like the the Trump kids are were. And the Trump kids have been doing business for a long time in real estate and crypto and other areas that they've been doing. This is not new to them. This is you know this has been their gig before he got elected. And so yeah, it is the first time we've ever seen a president do this before. It's the first time we've seen a president's family make money off the ⁓ ⁓ off of access to ⁓ to elected officials. But you know what? Guess what? There's five hundred and thirty five guys in t in ⁓ DC who all their family members are most likely making money off of knowing somebody. In fact you and I are being in the world of politics, we know that people work on campaigns so they can get close to candidates or who hopefully will one day become elected officials. So maybe they might get a contract or maybe they might get a a gig or maybe they might get, you know, their kid to go to Annapolis or go to the Air Force Academy because they know somebody. That is the way America works. I mean it's been like that for two hundred and fifty years. You know, we're about to hit our anniversary here. And that's actually what you call opportunity. That's what you call freedom. That's what you call and it's not bad. It's not a bad thing. And that and everybody wanna characterize it as a horrible thing of greed and corruption. It's greed and corruption whenever you're breaking the law. It's greed and corruption whenever you're making money doing things just because, you know You're you're related to somebody, you have no way of doing it. That's frauding a system. That's frauding people who are giving you money. You know, that's what not what we have here with Trump. speaker-1: No, no. And and you know, y you wanna talk about the you know how do you know the you know, who's c corrupt? The people that are trying to cover things up, who are who are desperately litigating to keep information from surfacing. I mean, those are the people that you have to look closely at and and that's what Bi hun or b ⁓ Joe Biden why he's surfacing again, is because he's desperately trying to keep recordings of of him being interviewed for his biography by a author who had no clearance. So they don't ⁓ they don't want to want to hear Vice President Biden, who was not the person who has the authority to just arbitrarily declassify wherever the hell he wants to, and listen to him disclosing th classified information because we know for a fact that he did. And you know, and and it it was in the report that that that happened. he was so he's disclosing information and you don't want to hear him actually being ⁓ you you know stumbling through things like trying to remember when his son died. Let me tell you something. I will I will remember till I die the day that people that were close to me died. Especially if of my children died. ⁓ my God. I you know, ⁓ you know, that that would be burned into my head forever. for him to not be able to recall things like that in a casual in casual interview that just happened to be taped. It wasn't it being taped for broadcast, it was being taped for notes. ⁓ Right. him sitting there struggling about struggling trying to r to remember things of that nature, it was well well, that's why that's the things that they don't want. That's the privacy, the presidential privacy speaker-0: Frustrating. speaker-1: that the that they're trying to maintain. That ain't called privacy, that's called a cover up. speaker-0: Like the privacy they gave Trump on making a phone call. They impeached him because he had a phone call that he thought was a wonderful phone call. I mean, you know, and there's some contemporary s ⁓ notes about what he did or might not have said or what he ⁓ you know, and basically there's no fact on what anything was, but it was just a very well driven note taker who had a really good story that he put in his little notebook that he convinced enough politicians here in D C to impeach a a guy over. And so I mean, you know, I mean, guys, the hypocrisy is huge. Get over it and stop it. It's kinda like ⁓ what you're saying before about the guy running for senator in Texas who's saying that there might be a problem with the election system in Texas that he fears that he might not be able to win in a general election because he thinks that the Texas vote count is skewed against liberals. speaker-1: Because Texas is i is a red state, that ⁓ you know that they're going yeah, the the that you know they're not going to treat treat any sort of democrat fairly. What he's really doing is he's telling ⁓ everyone how he would have how his party would have conducted the election had they been in charge. And in fact, ⁓ is how his party conducts elections in California. I'll be surprised, you know, you know, I think that if anyone has a chance of any Republican has a chance of becoming you know, winning an election in California is probably Spencer Pratt, but whether or not the gonna actually get to win, ⁓ it's a different question because, you know, it's still the blue guys call it counting the votes. speaker-0: So basically Telurico is trying to taint the jury he's trying to taint the jury is what he's trying to do. And basically he's he just speaker-1: He's just pre preloading an excuse for when he loads. speaker-0: Exactly. That's what he's doing. speaker-1: I heard conversation I heard a conversation earlier today. They were talking about how how horrible Florida was because they're trying to jam all of their black citizens into one district. and and that's and like, well, number one, that's actually the law that we just got rid of. And number two, Florida has twenty three million people in it, including s ⁓ majority districts that have elected black congressmen. I mean, it's just ridiculous to to suggest that you know that speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: Well, I mean th they don't care what the true reality is. This isn't something that they're they're pursuing this to to pursue justice. They're pursuing it to preserve power, not pursue justice. speaker-0: And that's one thing that people need to wake up and take off their little naivete hat on whenever they look at politics. And all these I mean, and this is one thing and I'm gonna say it callously, about you and I both work behind the scenes, but you know, most candidates are running because they want to get elected and and with election comes power. I mean that's just the way it works. And and and so anybody who's obtuse the fact that these guys are not saying what they need to say to get more votes than their in their group are just you know, ignoring the facts and reality here, that's messaging. That's campaigning. I mean, and you know, as frustrating as it is, as sometimes honest or sometimes as dishonest as it might be, it is how campaigns get more votes than the other guy. I mean, somebody is actually ⁓ talking about qualifications of candidates and qualifications of of elected officials. There's no qualification really except for you got more votes than the other guy. That's the only qualification there is, is that one guy gets a hundred votes and you get a hundred and one. And and so I mean your your your qualification is that you were able to can't you know message yourself and sell yourself to more people than your opponent can. And if the guy in Texas can't do that and over it. speaker-1: Well, you know, it's it i it's like, you know know, some of these jurisdictions, especially the blue studies, th th they place such a high premium on people having these fancy degrees and stuff like that. And I'm not saying that the the people with degrees are you inherently you know bad in any way, you know, you know, unqualified or whatever. if you have a PhD who ha you know have have a long series, the last ten people that you've elected to a position are PhDs and they've all been talking the same thing and then and nothing is working and your city is going downhill, down the hill, down the hill, well maybe ⁓ The guy with y maybe the guy with a high school diploma and I think actually Spencer Pratt probably has a a more advan ⁓ an advanced degree of some sort, but I don't care if he's got a high school diploma, if he's saying the right things and talking about things that actually seem like they would work, ⁓ maybe the high school diploma is the guy you wanna get. You don't have to have qualifications other than the only qualifications I think that are relevant are you live ⁓ do you live in the jurisdiction and are you old enough to hold the office? Other than that, you know, well and and are you mentally competent? By that I mean are you not you know ⁓ are are are you not ⁓ ill. Not like liberals call Trump, you know, you know, Trump is crazy or not even like not even like conservatives call liberal crazy. Those two those two political definitions of crazy, I don't care. Right. But if you are actually a person with a mental health a diagnosable mental health thing that would be a burden to you or you know, to you a in in per pro ⁓ executing your office, then you know then then okay, well that that has some relevance to it. speaker-0: Right. Now we you were talk earlier before on our break about the Trump derangement syndrome. and so you we we will go ahead and talk about the ⁓ Trump derangement people. And you said this ⁓ guy has skid about all the different looks of different actors and actresses who have this here hatred or something or ⁓ speaker-1: What well it it was a bit that I heard. I I d as a comedian. I don't re I don't remember the guy's name. I was definitely trying to find it 'cause it's so funny. But what he was talking about is i i is the physical toll that Trump derangement system syndrome places on these people. And what did was he would get he he took he took an example of people who are famously TDS sufferers, like Rosie O'Donnell. You see a picture of Rosie O'Donnell from twenty years ago and she looks like a a relatively well put together person. You see one for her now and she's like, ⁓ my God, horrific. ⁓ my God, what's happened to her? speaker-0: Yeah you look at Robert De Niro. speaker-1: But within the last two or three days, Whoopi Goldberg was on the view talking about how P how just because someone is famous doesn't mean they know what they're talking about, and you have to teach you have to their opinions in context just because they're famous doesn't mean they know a single thing. ⁓ the whole time she's saying that I'm thinking, you are voicing the words in my head. Stop reading my mind because that is exactly who the in ev every member of the view is. ⁓ speaker-0: Or Or she might just say that was a AI saying that ⁓ she never really said it and speaker-1: ⁓ no no no no no. It it was on an e it was on an episode. It was it was she she she ain't walking away from this. speaker-0: And then and that goes back to the the total hypocrisy, continuous hypocrisy ⁓ in in politics and the media and and the public limelight. We just got to untalk with Adam Swart ⁓ about his ⁓ group here, ⁓ Crowds on Demand. And whenever, you know, ⁓ thing he was pointing out was all these other groups are doing all these protests are just basically the hypocrisy built into ⁓ how they're doing and objective of doing them and basically how they're, you know, more or less doing these protests not to make any kind of difference or not to make any kind of change, but more or less just to to do fundraising and and to cause chaos and and then that that's the whole whenever, you know, the whole right to assemble, the freedom of speech, the constitution, everything, that was about making differences and making changes. Not about just causing chaos, destroying property, killing people, hurting people like they did in the summer of love a few years ago with all the riots all across the country and everything. That is not proper protesting. That is not proper free f freedom of speech. That is anarchist. That is anarchist. Antifa and those groups taking it to a whole different level. you know you got this hypocrisy here on there on that level. You got the hypocrisy here with whoopee Goldberg Goldberg and in many different trenches. And I'm not just picking on the left. But my God, you know, mean Quit giving us ammunition to talk about because your hypocrisy is huge. speaker-1: Well you know, I you know, and I'm I'm glad I'm I'm glad Adam Swart brought up the Southern Party Law Center, S PLC. When they when you say that it's Southern Southern Property Law Center. And I'm glad he brought them up because they're not the first ones to invent, you know, you know, paying your opposition to you know to to keep them on life support so that you can continue to to your movement. speaker-0: A C R U? Did they do it? speaker-1: I don't know about the w H C L U, but but but there's plenty of ⁓ out there that that have done the exact same thing. They they didn't invent this. It it it's a fundraising mechanism and I'm glad that Adam was there to to kind of third person validate you know something that we've been saying for a long time. And you know, a central core theme of this show, which is that most of the crazy things that you see are just nothing more than fundraising narratives. speaker-0: Exactly. They're they're all clickbait driven. I mean ⁓ and we we we see this in the news so much. I mean, there's a headline that has nothing to do with the story and that seems to be a regular occurrence now and different news feeds for Newsbreak and other news media outlets where they're putting out ⁓ narrative that nothing at all, but they just want you to click and instead of an ad control and the social media ad control, the cookies will follow you and the geofencing and the digital ads and so on so forth. I mean, this is our business. We know how this works, okay? This is why we have a different perspective than the lay person who just says, ⁓ this is cool or this is horrible. No, it is strategically done. Okay. I mean, there's honest ways of doing it like we do, and then there's dishonest ways of doing it like almost well, most everybody else is doing it that. And actually got a ⁓ pitch today from some digital person here trying to sell digital services and it was like y can't do the stuff that they're saying you can do and if you can do it, you must work for the CIA, NSA or FBI. Because, you know, the ⁓ the behavioral data that Adam was talking about that the social media companies are getting, you know, some of it probably illegally is is very creepy and very deep. But at the same time for them to sell it to a third party vendor our organization or something like that. And then to the the the amount of power that they have to misuse it is huge. And so that is one thing that definitely needs to be curtailed and looked at on how you use data. Because data is king. I mean we're pollsters, we know that. And and what people say and how they say it, the semantics, the the words, that's very powerful. But what's even more powerful and done the right way is ⁓ measuring it properly. speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. No, I I know exactly what Adam was talking about, where where you just hover over an image because one exactly you know, I mean I I c I could print out I I could print that to ⁓ or I program you know, a script that does the exact same thing. It's just ⁓ it all is a very simple JavaScript that you know, in in the same way when you hover over something how it can make a button change or do something else. Well that same trigger can be used to send a signal back to the server. Right. Because that's that's how JavaScript works. You know, if you've ever seen it seen your page and all the stuff change on your page without the entire page reloading, through a process that used to be called Ajax. But you know that you but now it's it it it's just a simple simple Python script or JavaScript that that that doesn't have to reload it and it just completely brings it into a buffer in your in your browser and then reloads it across the entire browser page, but only the affected data. That's how all that stuff sho shows up. And you absolutely could you could collect behavioral data on that. speaker-0: Yeah, because I mean there's a huge behavioral difference and ⁓ people don't know how much psychology is in polling and research, but there's a huge psychological behavioral difference. And if somebody is hovering over something for one or two seconds 'cause they just are hovering or moving the mouse, or if they're hovering over it and thinking about clicking on it for like ⁓ five or ten seconds or fifteen seconds. I mean there's ⁓ I mean, you know, their ear is thinking, do they want to click that or go that direction or is they're they keep on going back and they changing their minds or it's kinda like when we do I VR polling versus ⁓ live operator polling. And one thing we found is that we had a lot more accuracy on the IVR polling, which is not really allowed too much anymore because the ⁓ IVR doesn't like to call cell phones in the same degree as it did before. But whenever you have an IVR survey, which is when somebody pushes a button to answer, usually that impulse reaction, that impulse answer, is most accurate answer whenever you are using a call center, then sometimes there's conversation between the agent And the ⁓ respondent and sometimes the respondent might change their mind or hem haul or go back and change their answer. And whenever they have a second or third approach to the answer, the accuracy, in my opinion, I think European as well, really sheds a lot on the margin of error. speaker-1: Well, I mean for for me it's a lot of that and it's a lot of just y you know, well you know my favorite ⁓ favorite bias in that regard is social desirability bias because it makes it it you know, i it people will speak to someone, even someone that they don't know and don't have any way to know. That you know, ⁓ whether or they're going to be honest with them can be driven by what they think they're gonna gonna react, how they think they're gonna react to what they're about to say. And you know, th there are things that people believe deeply. the you know that they don't necessarily want to express because they don't want to catch a bunch of crap about it. So they'll just say what they think people want to hear and they don't have to worry about it. and and and that's why I always liked the little push button polls was because you could you you couldn't really ⁓ you know you're you're not you don't give a crap what the computer's gonna gonna think. The com computer thinks what it thinks. But let blow your mind real quick about about just how this behavioral data works. the captures Most people look at the captures and they'll think that the goal of the capture, the the primary portion of the captchas, is them to you know, f I I'm talking about the ones with images. And actually there's lot of the the other ones work kinda this way too. But when you're given little matching things like, you know, sh you know, pick all the images that have feature a bus or or a stairway or something like that. ⁓ And sometimes you miss miss like you click it and you miss you say, ⁓ I w you click the okay and you think, ⁓ I wonder if they're gonna take it because I forgot to click that one. It has n little to do with you matching the pictures. And it has everything to do with the way that the mouse pointer approaches the ⁓ approaches the image to click on it. It's behavioral because there's a way that computers do it, which is basically go straight to the to this area and send send a ⁓ click pulse versus when you move the mouse you know, you're you have little micro movements left and right because of, you know, vibrations in the mouse or way or your imprecise way of your hand operating and things like that. It's that behavioral data that they that they drive that drives their verification. So so so when s when we say that they're tracking verification you know behavioral data, it's down to things that precise. How do you they can tell they can In some cases they could tell who you are literally by the way that you move the mouse. speaker-0: Exactly. And back and back to real quick to our social desirability ⁓ bias. do remember the election cycle in two thousand twenty when we were doing a lot of Trump polling and basically on the polls and sixteen as well, two thousand sixteen also, and ⁓ whenever did a live operator poll, nobody wanted to say they're gonna vote for Trump. And like Trump was behind in certain polls and a few of them. Everybody's like, ⁓ he's gonna lose, he's gonna lose. But when you do an I V R poll Little bit different there. And same thing we had in two thousand twenty. And same thing we had during the cycle during the COVID issue about your opinion of Trump in positive or negative. If we do the live operator poll, it would be a little bit more harsh on him. If it'd be IVR poll, it would be gl you know, overwhelmingly glaringly supportive of him. And so I mean th th that's the thing is that people are just intimidated by screener or the color in that behavioral data. is prevalent in polling data that you see. And it's also in like you just said, in like your capture data, everything else whenever you're trying to move on to to do something and far as the next step of like a login or a process or a computer operation. And so I mean, people don't realize all this data that we're talking about, whether it be polling, whether it be internet, whether it be social media, whatever it be that, it's all being controlled by algorithms that people need to really start looking at. ⁓ how they're really controlling all of our narratives and they're controlling what we see and they're actually literally controlling the messaging at these protests that Adam was talking about and and the messaging that we're seeing you know throughout you know why why Whoopi Goldberg would be saying something so hypocritical. Well ⁓ she's been given an algorithm or some sort of messaging thing that this is what the ⁓ audience needs to hear. And since all the messaging is driven this way, people need to really start paying attention to what they're putting into ⁓ their behavior and how they're responding on the internet because believe me, they're chucking all of us. They're chucking everything you do. speaker-1: Everything. speaker-0: Yeah, I mean, yesterday we looked at the the primary election. I think we're gonna wrap it up here real quick on the primary election here in Texas. A hundred million dollars spent by Corny, and he lost. He got his butt handed to him by Kim Paxton. And I mean, and Paxton was just endorsed by Trump at the very end. So it wasn't like he was endorsed by Trump during all the early voting. He wasn't endorsed by Trump by the absentee voting. He was endorsed by Trump just like the last week or so. So people came on saying it's the Trump endorsement that's sealing the deal. And granted, Trump is his endorsement is sealing the deal in all the Republican primaries. And we'll see if it seals the deal for the general election. I'm pretty sure it probably will, especially with all the the everything house drawn. But that being said, Trump's toward the of these campaigns was that's seems to be what he's doing. He's not endorsing at the front end, he's endorsing at the back end. But by that time, absentees, early voting, all this already occurred. And so Get over it, guys. speaker-1: Yeah, y y y you just can't can't win with these guys. You know, they're it's they're not you know, th they they they think that they understand the you know, ⁓ the of the election. But the reality is is i is that you know ⁓ that first off, you know, I do believe that Trump Trump has, you know, long enough coattails to br to drag these guys in. speaker-0: I think so, yeah. speaker-1: A lot of it has to do think a lot of the these election results we're gonna see are the result of a lot of changes that we've had since last time ⁓ the election last time. Number one, get you know, getting rid of these div dominion voting machines, making sure that you know me that that people are are that these ballots are being handled, you know, correctly and stuff like that. I think that this is gonna be a very different election. ⁓ And I think that'll probably wind up being one of the most honest election cycles we've had in a l very long time. speaker-0: Right. I would like to curtail that with I you and I I think both agree that we don't really think anybody should be getting endorsed by anybody on primaries. But that being said, it is what it is. I mean, you know, like I said, this is a new president, he does it his way. We've said that numerous times on the show. Trump's gonna do it Trump way, and so whether we like it or not, we've always been against a party endorsing anybody during a primary. And so we'll we'll stand, you know, with that. But at the same time You can't fight a to you cannot fight a tidal wave. I mean, it's just it is what it is. I mean, and that seems to be the new way of ⁓ politics nowadays, is that the party is gonna endorse somebody in the primary, which, you know, is not all that easy for all the challengers. I mean, a lot of times you have like ten or twelve guys running and one guy gets endorsed and there are guys are like, ⁓ what about me? But you know, it is what it is. speaker-1: Yeah, y you know, honestly, I don't I don't know that these guys yeah, yeah I think it i y you put forward a pretty credible argument that it wasn't even as much Trump's endorsement, although I think that it was significant. Trump's endorsement was significant. I think it was the way these guys conducted themselves in office. And you know, and and jumping ⁓ opposition, you know, on the side of the opposition for what what ⁓ You can only ⁓ the only you you can't even justify it internally. The only justification you know, that that you're trying to do something that that is not in line with with the party values. And if you that's what you do, and I'm I'm not saying they don't have the right to do it, but those that that behavior has consequences and I think that those chickens are coming home to roost for these guys even more Donald Trump's ⁓ than Donald Trump's endorsement. speaker-0: And a and at the same time when everybody always says, Well, that's my freedom of speech, I can do that, I'm like, Yes. Everybody has a freedom of speech and then on the flip side of that everybody has a freedom of reaction, which is also a part of speech. And so I mean i it kinda goes both ways though. speaker-1: Yeah, freedom of speech does not mean consequence free. speaker-0: Exactly. ⁓ ele and like we continually say, elections have consequences, elections have winners, and elections have losers. And only one winner and usually a lot of losers. And so that's the way it is. I mean i you know, it it's frustrating to I mean you and I have both have been behind the scenes on this. We see the frustration a lot. We see somebody put their heart and soul into something, just have it snagged away by somebody who's not qualified, who's endorsed by somebody else, but you know. Unfortunately, you know, if our guide doesn't get endorsed, then ⁓ it's gonna be ⁓ consequential. you got anything else you wanna talk about today? speaker-1: I think that wraps it up. It's been kind of a slow to move this week a little bit. I mean there have been some significant things happening, but not that much. speaker-0: Yeah, ⁓ we still are at war. think. speaker-1: don't know. It's hard to say. ⁓ and and a of that I think has to do with the fact that the oil producing nations are are pipelines other ⁓ alternative transportation methods that keep them out of the Strait of Hormuz. And the more of those things that keep brought that that are brought online speaker-0: Well yeah. speaker-1: more abundant the oil supply is on the l on land or out in the rest of the world anyway. And they and and it brings the the lower trajectory. That's why there's ⁓ and less of a reaction, I think, every time, you know, Iran you know says, We're not doing this. And then, know, Trump does something for a couple of days and they say, Okay, well we are doing it. And then the I think we probably have at least although they they to be very close now, but I think there's probably at least two or three more of these cycles of You know, Iran trying to pretend that like they have muscles with which muscles left to flex. speaker-0: The muscle man speaker-1: And and ⁓ i getting there because they have absolutely no cards to play. speaker-0: And also I also have to keep reminding myself because I'm a guy who does a lot of driving around town and everything, so I look at the gas prices a lot. But I keep reminding myself that we are only two and a half, three months in. I mean, granted, it seems like it's been four dollar gas for like year or two. But it's only been four dollar gas for like seventy five, eighty days. And in grand scheme of things, with them having to get the new pipelines and the new oil reserves and the new areas here ⁓ the ⁓ on the par here at a international level. It's gonna take a while, Ty. It's gonna take I mean, i it's not lickety split. You can't just take it all from Iran and shut it down and just go pump it out somewhere else really quick. I mean, it's a process and and w and we're I mean we got Venezuela now just opening up and we have the South and the Gulf in of America and the all the other energy exploration throughout America and the other nations throughout the world who are friendly to us. And also, I mean You know, i it's a process. It's not gonna be a overnight thing. And anybody who thinks it is, like I wish it were. It's just not reality. Real quick though, before we go, let's talk about Cuba real fast. I hope we take out Raul. Okay, I think we need to do it to Cuba what we did what we did to Venezuela. Yeah, I think we can do it without bloodshed too. I got a lot of Cuban friends who cannot wait for their families to be free over there in Cuba. speaker-1: Well, I I I I'm gonna say again that I believe what what Trump's strategy is on this one. I know if he if he has a direct goal to specifically arrest Raul. I think what he's doing is sending a message to Raul that that you know, that you could be in the same place sitting right next to ⁓ to Sean Maduro not Sean as Maduro if you want. But you know, the real I I was listening to Rubio today and I think this is a a conversation he'd had, you know, a few weeks ago, but but it was a great point that he ⁓ you know that that there is no oil embargo in Cuba. There is not a oil embargo. The Cuba's main source of oil was oil that that Venezuela was donating to them for free, and Venezuela no longer does that. The re that is specifically the reason that Cuba is running out of fuel. Because there's no one donating it to ⁓ anymore. speaker-0: But that's not the narrative. speaker-1: So it is just a matter of time before b before this failed cap communist state that you know the the you know is is really just no more. We're we're we're we're well on the way. ⁓ you we'll be we'll we'll be flying an American flag in Cuba pretty soon, I think. speaker-0: I hope so. I mean but so my question to you, 'cause this might be me ignorant here and uninformed on this issue, so what's this whole talk about this illegal Cuban embargo that we're embarking on with America? I mean, what are we embargoing illegally to Cuba? What are we what are we doing? speaker-1: I mean th they're saying that that we're not giving ⁓ any ⁓ you know, that that we have ships blockading the ports and we're not letting ⁓ in. Ex exactly the same we were doing with Iran. But the reality is is that you know, that carrier group is is in Iran now. You know, the the the the ones that that we had there for for the very short time we had them there. Cuba's problems are strictly because they don't have fuel and because they don't have f and they don't have money to buy with which to buy fuel. What does Cuba produce? Nothing. All they've produced for the last fifty years is ideology and now they don't have a patron for that anymore. speaker-0: Exactly. And so I mean, you know, hopefully this will come to a end very soon. I think it'll probably probably bu by the end of the summertime I think ⁓ we might have an American flag in Cuba. I mean it I at the very least what I speaker-1: Very at least we'll have a consulate there. speaker-0: ⁓ definitely. Well, thanks a lot for joining me here tonight, Scott. It's been a great, awesome conversation here. speaker-1: All right, but it was g it's yeah, ⁓ good day for a good episode. We ⁓ we we'll look forward to seeing you guys again later. Yeah. speaker-0: Follow us on every platform out there 'cause we're on all of Yeah. ⁓ speaker-1: We're on all of them. speaker-0: we will answer them on the website. speaker-1: We will listen on the last time. All right, good night. speaker-0: Cool.