Some More News - Even More News: California Elections, 60 Minutes, Bill Pulte, and Trump's Very Long Pool

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

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Hi, in today's episode, we talk about the California election and rampant right-wing allegations of fraud. Scott Pelley's ousting from 60 Minutes, The Tale of Bill Pulte, and Donald Trump comparing the sizes of pools to buildings. And welcome back to even more news, the first and only news podcast. I'm Katie Stoll. Yeah, you are. Damn it. And that's how you say it. And that's how you've always said it.

Don't let anybody tell you different. Hi, I'm Cody. I'm in focus now. And I might not be really suddenly. So apologies to everybody watching at home. Cody Johnston, who is in focus now, but might not be suddenly apologies to everyone at home. That's what they call me.

That's what they call you. And Jonathan is also. here. Hi. I'm in focus, but gauzy. I'm going to do something a little crazy, a little out of left field, a little wild.

Like and subscribe, folks. I'm saying it up top. Yeah. I say to the end a lot. For those of you that make it to the end, will recognize that I say it, but I'm going to say it up top. I'm going to say it up top. Because if you like the video,

more people see the video. End of story. Those of you, not making it to the end and are about to click away because you don't like it. Still, like and subscribe. Come on, help us out. Just give it a like. This is national like and subscribe to some more news, even more news day.

Like every day. It lists both. That's how you should celebrate it. I'm going to be watching. Thanks, Well, Kat, for including us in your holidays. Okay. Real throwback there. Jonathan, Johnny, what are we?

getting into today. We're going to talk about election rules and how votes are counted and such. I mean, yay. The California primaries were on Tuesday, and now we're in the counting phase where all of the votes are counted. All of the in-person votes have been counted already. And now they're going through the ballots that were left in drop boxes and put in mailboxes because everyone in California gets one of those. That's how I voted.

Yes, and those ballots take a little bit longer because those ballots have to have the signatures matched to the signatures on file, and if those don't match, then the voters get 10 days to cure those ballots, and provisional ballots take longer, and there are extra points of verification, which I am told everyone really wants

because we've got to make sure our elections are secure. We don't want fraud. We don't want them. that. No. So as of right now, it's a tight race in the governor's race with Republican Steve Hilton, still leading with about 27 percent Democrat Javier Becerra, who is the establishment Democratic pick with 26 percent and progressive billionaire Tom Steyer with 20 percent. And it is a similar situation for the L.A. mayor's race where Karen Bass, the current mayor is in the lead. Spencer Pratt is at 30 percent, a few percentage points behind her, and then Nithia Raman, who is the most progressive

person in that top three at 23%. And each vote dump is more blue than the previous vote dump because Democrats were hanging onto their ballots until the last minute to make strategic decisions. And Republicans kind of only had one choice, really. I have some questions. Yes. That you might be able to answer. You might not.

Probably. I don't know folks at home, Jonathan's been answering a lot of questions online. Oh. People who are pretending to not know anything. I'm at my wits end. I hope to not exacerbate that. If you have dropped your ballot off at a drop box, let's say 10 days prior to election day, do those get tallied on the day? Or is that the next batch?

Like, everything that gets quit. No, that has been tallied already. So I dropped off my ballot a couple weeks ago. I got an email two days later. Your ballot has been counted. Oh, you didn't. You can contact the Secretary of State's office. or the county registrar and find that out.

I'm definitely going to do that. If there was an issue, they'll contact you about curing your ballot. But yes, those ballots were counted already. And if you dropped it off, let's say, the day before election day, that might not be counted yet. I think it depends on how many they were getting in because the dropboxes were grabbed every single day. But if it was postmarked the day before election day, it might not have arrived. until the day after election day and then would be counted in a later batch, but would still count.

What all this is adding up to is that the progressives are slowly gaining on the Steve Hilton's and the Spencer Pratt's leading people to believe that there is massive fraud going on in California elections. And as previously, we do this every two years. So we do, but we don't. We, like, this is the process that we go through, and we have been.

But, like, this happened, like, when it was Bass and Caruso, like, there wasn't this whole, like, oh, my God, she's gaining on him and, like, this is fraud. Like, there wasn't this conversation going on because people understood. And Donald Trump trickle down fraud stuff. Donald Trump trickle down and the amount of bots that are paid for by. campaigns to be participating in the discourse leading up to during and after. And I do believe we're going to be learning more about the extent of that. It seems that more and more candidates keep getting accused of it, but there doesn't seem to be any sort of penalizing or penalties in place for that. It's hard to know what the

actual effect is, but it is about generating sentiment. and the discourse, and that seems to be very, very, very, very, very important these days, whatever people are saying on Twitter. But it's frustrating. It's incredibly frustrating that the way this is playing out is the way it always plays out in California or... Since 2020. Since 2020. And it's frustrating when you can just point to the last several elections and see that this is

what's happened. We can also note that California primary, and I'm not saying that there isn't room for improvement. It does delay the election results. I do believe in having it be accurate. I want the point of California's election rules is to allow people as much time and possible, the possibility of voting. We want to engage voters and to incentivize them to and to show up and vote, to make it as easy as possible. And I fully believe in that. And it does take a while to certify things. It just does.

On a personal level, we didn't mention this. I'm not going to give specifics, but I am very heavily invested in a local race where I live between an incumbent that is MAGA and a new person that's progressive and it is within 40 votes. So that's a real nail biter for me. And we just have to be patient.

Well, we have to go stop the steel, Katie. You have to go. I'm ready to stop the steal. I don't know what that looks like or how they would be stealing. We could, and I can understand it's frustrating because we've become used to the media calling races right away. No one certifies their elections the night of. Everyone does it weeks and weeks later. But if the winner has enough of distance, then the AP can say, well, they're clearly going to be the winner.

Decision Desk can make an educated assessment. but there does seem to be an understanding among people on the internet that those are like official calls. That's like the state or the city saying this is the winner. And the way people are formulating their theories, which we can get into, which don't make a ton of sense. I really tried to like just in good faith ask people. What do you think happened? You think that like the Democratic Party wants to. it to look like the Republican was winning for a while to tease them and then is going to dump

a bunch of votes because if you're cheating, you could just dump them at the beginning. Just do it. Just do it. Just dump them in earlier. That's not even to mention the fact that the Democratic Party would not want to boost the progressives in this race. They want Karen Bass to go up against Spencer Pratt. And they want Javier Bissera to go up against Steve Hilton because those people are Republicans, which means they'll be easier to beat. Like, who's, Who's manipulating things here? Right. Is it the progressives that are doing the cheating?

It's the all powerful Nipia ramen doing it. The progressives are feeling pretty depressed. These people are so incompetent and they're so terrible and they can't do anything right, but they can rig elections really efficiently. Is that the claim to? Only sometimes, though. Only sometimes. We're going to pit if Steyer doesn't come back and overtake Hilton,

if ramen doesn't come back and overtake Pratt, I will ask all the people I've been arguing with. Why'd they stop cheating? And they'll say, well, we were calling them out too hard. And they knew that we were going to get them. So they had to stop cheating after cheating for a week. There's no convincing people. There's no getting people to just understand the basics of how any of this works.

And you can tell I'm just like, being like, I'm almost upset that I've been so keyed up for like 24 hours. I mean, it's frustrating. It's frustrating because. Also, we're processing our own frustrations with the results. I feel very frustrated by the way the Democratic Party operates, especially everywhere. But in California, it's like, woof, we should be leading the way. We should be right there with New York City, especially Los Angeles. We should be, but we're not.

And it is frustrating the way this has played out. It is frustrating to understand how the Democratic. Democratic Party and all the different private interest groups have lobbied behind the Sarah. And I get it. Tom Steyer's a billionaire. Woof. But he's a billionaire calling out billionaires and saying the things that we want a candidate to say. And, you know, you don't want to vote for a billionaire.

Instead, you're going to vote for the guy that's backed by all the billionaires. By all the other billionaires. Like, yeah. That is not an original Katie thought. I've probably retweeted someone else saying it, but it is just blowing my mind. And so this has been a depressing week. I'm trying not to get ahead of myself because we're waiting for these responses, but still, just across the board, I had some amount of hope that people, that it was breaking through.

But at the end of the day, there's a lot of people here in California that are liberal in certain ways, but ultimately. They just hate homeless people. They want to grind up the homeless people and pave the roads with them. Like, that's like, that's reductive, but like there is a lot of that. What do you think Spencer Pratt's going to do? Round up the. They think he's going to let them not see homeless people anymore.

They don't care what happens to them. They just don't want to see them anymore. Unless you're creating a concentration camp of some sort. And he's going to make sure all the fire hydrants are fully stocked. That's what Spencer Pratt's going to do. There's going to be so much water. The fires never would have happened. And but he also, but he also really, he really, he really.

really, really, really cares about these homeless people and he really wants to get them help. But also, they're mindless, disgusting zombies that we need to round up and kick out. But also, we care about them so much. He's just, but like, I've seen a lot of people be like, man, California, L.A., like, what are you doing? Yeah, there are a lot of, like, rich people, like, rich liberals don't like that stuff. Like, there's disconnect there. But it makes sense if you think about, like, their interests and what they, you know, want to see. It's disappointing.

Liberal and certain social ways. Liberal and certain social ways. But at the end of the day, rich want to protect your wealth, your property values. I agree we should address the housing crisis and the horrific reality of our unhoused population and what they're living through. But to pretend that, and I'm preaching to acquire here,

but to pretend that the homelessness epidemic is simply the most visible element where people are struggling with an extreme distress and having extreme mental health crises is just the tip of the iceberg. And unless you address all of the systemic reasons why this is happening, it will continue to be a problem. There will be more people on the street that end up in dire circumstances that maybe turn to drugs, don't have the resources. And you know what? To be honest, Los Angeles, yes, yes. It is an issue. And you know what has been happening in the last few years that has had success? Not saying it's perfect, but the outreach teams. I see them in downtown Los Angeles all the time. People that know the names of the people

that are struggling to be able to say like, hey, Bill, did you take your medication today? Hey, Bill, can I get you anything? Calm you down. Let me give you the resources you need. That's the only way to really address this at this point is to have more money invested. into not dehumanizing but humanizing these people. Okay, I can stop. And housing and because the one thing that like,

you know, I don't want to make this about like Spencer Prater, L.A. too much. But like hearing him talk about like, yeah, we're going to get like, they don't need housing. They don't need this. They just need like treatment. They need to get off the drugs. And his whole thing is like just like I want someone to ask him like, okay, if you are like,

addicted, if you're addicted to drugs and you're homeless and like, okay, we did your treatment for the day, enjoy the night on the street. I wanted to make one more point before we move on from the election stuff, which is that a lot of MAGA people, Republicans in general, think that it's just inherently suspicious that it looks like the Republican is doing well at first and then a blue shift starts to happen late. We already talked about how it wouldn't make sense for Democrats to plan it that way if they were cheating, whatever. But also, blue mirages happen in other states. And then there are red shifts. In Ohio, in 2020, they were counting all of the mail-in ballots first.

They changed the loss because of all the mail-in ballots during the pandemic. We can count all these ballots first. And right at the beginning, it looked like Joe Biden was doing very well in Ohio before Trump started. taking over as one would expect in a red state, Ohio. And no one complained about that. No one said that was fishy. That was completely expected because Ohio's a red state. Of course Donald Trump is going to win it.

And yet in California, they can't believe that no more than 30% of people would vote for the MAGA reality TV star in Los Angeles. This is like a D plus 50 city. Right. Yeah. Like we're like we're there's a lot of disappointment in LA and California and with a lot of the results. But also in like a week it might be like, oh, actually we're, it's okay. We're we're rejecting this. But the idea that just like it's not going your way or you think it's going a certain way and then it changes is evidence of anything is silly.

They most of them know it. A lot of them are just sort of getting paid to do it. I can't count the number of quote tweets of a cal sheet or polymarket. just fucking, I don't want to say poll because that's not what it is. With like quote tweets like, oh my God, what's going on? Paid sponsorship, paid partnership, all of, it's just. No one's happier right now. Who is it?

Van Swal. Matt Van Swal is doing that. Ben Swal's doing it. I saw some of the like the conservative political like anonymous accounts I've seen. They're not even contribute. They don't like, do these guys even have, do they even have a podcast? podcast. Like, there's no contribution to the discourse in any way. It's just empty. They're just making money off it. If Jonathan is on X.com replying to people, you know it's bad.

You know it's pain in my head. Like, it's really bad. I just, like, because I feel like it's so obvious and simple, like, logically. So, like, I bet if I just explained it to them simply and coherent. They don't want an answer. They're not there for an answer. They do not care. They could easily look up all of this. But I just wanted to, I appreciate your frustration and your effort. I'm a modern woman on the go. Between work, aerobics class, and fighting the corporation trying to close our community center,

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It's Polly Market saying New Joe Rogan is reportedly being considered as a possible 60 Minutes replacement for Anderson Cooper. Bullshit. People just say stuff. I mean, it was the Austin statesman. It was like a real report. I am sure here's what happened. It was floated in some capacity. I bet Barry Weiss said, what about Joe Rogan?

And then any adult still in the room was like, that's probably not a good idea. and then they moved on. But one person's like, well, I'm leaking this, that the moron who's ruining everything. I didn't believe it's true, but I just could not help mention what I was seeing in front of me. Yeah, it would make complete sense

that they would want him to and very, that's the whole world. It would make sense that they want him to. It wouldn't make sense. It wouldn't make sense that he would agree to. There'd be no, there's no reason he would do that. It's absurd. But that's the kind of journalism that they want.

Oh yeah That's why like Hmm interesting The ask makes sense Yeah Good He hasn't been on a top 10 Broadcast TV show in 20 some years

One did Fear Factor And I mean he's used to Being in there And 16 Minutes is still One of the 10 most popular shows on television As long as primetime football Isn't around I think it shifts a lot

And it becomes all football at a certain point But 60 Minutes is still like number six Or number five number six every week and they're just destroying it for seemingly no reason. Yeah. Like, why are they messing with it? It's very popular. It must be they want to, you know, inject certain ideas.

Either they want to destroy it, so we just make things worse or they want to, yeah, have their own little ideological projects. Now Pelley's out. Maybe people will keep watching 60 minutes. It's not just about 60 minutes, by the way, right? I don't tune in every week, but it is a very iconic brand in broadcast news, obviously indicative of what's happening to media around the country. And we're going to have plenty of independent media.

There's going to be really good reporters doing really good work. But you want a few of the big boys that are still around, the people with the money to do the real big investigations. You'd still want a few of those to be filled with real reporters. Right. It feels better. to know that like really good reporters are still like digging up stuff at the Washington Post

even though they've changed the op-ed section. But it's just like, okay, that's one domino to fall. That 60 minutes is going to be gibberish now. And if you really wanted to give the impression that you're pursuing real journalism and that there's not one viewpoint being shoved down viewers' throats. You wouldn't be firing

the seasoned professionals. You would maybe add in some other voices or whatever, but you wouldn't be doing that. But we know that that's not their goal because they're literally trying to change their journalistic standards by

you know, the things that have been mentioned by him, by people that have already been fired is just you know, they want us, yes, politicians get to pick their interviewers. including counterpoints that are unverified, you know, baseless claims. Like that's not journalism. That's not real reporting.

We all know that they're hoping to fool the general population into thinking we're still a trusted, respectable organization. We just don't fact check things. It's depressing. It's getting to a little more national news. some domestic, some appointees, some shifting around. So Donald Trump, the president, named as his new acting director of national intelligence following the departure of Tulsi Gabbard, Bill Pulte, who is currently his federal housing finance agency chief.

And he'll be keeping that job? Yeah, he still has that job. Yes, he's going to keep that job. Which is like managing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and. All he's done in that position so far is dig up, like, fake mortgage fraud concerns about, interestingly enough, only Trump's political enemies, Adam Schiff, Letitia James, and Lisa Cook, recommending them for mortgage fraud investigations at the Justice Department that obviously go nowhere. Oh, they went nowhere? And so, yeah, he's an interesting guy. His grandfather started the Pulte Group, one of the biggest real estate development companies in the United States.

his father, Mark Pulte, builds luxury mansions in Florida and was in the bidding for a huge estate in 2004 against Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Lost that one to Trump. This is, yeah, this is the one. So funny. This is the thing that broke Epstein and Trump. Not the, yeah, not the lies that they say were the reason. So he's been a long time cohort of the president. Well, he was the kid of this guy.

Florida guy, just a bunch of Florida guys. He's one of these guys that is much younger than you think he is. I mean, Google, he just had a birthday and look at how old he is. 38 years old. He is also a huge meme stock guy and was part of like pumping GameStop and Bed Bath and Beyond. Even after Bed Bath and Beyond went bankrupt, his company got involved in like riling up these people to keep buying like B.

B, B, B, BYQ or something, like some other connected stock to probably take advantage of them and steal their money. And there is video of him that we can show from two years ago where he was at a dildo-slapping event where he receives a trophy. Should we watch the clip? Yeah, because I'm going to need a lot more information. Yeah, I feel like I should have just not even said the setup because it doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyway, we're going to watch... A dildo slapping event. Well, I don't know if the event was there specific.

It was for bedbath and beyond. I don't know if it was specifically for dildo slapping. Do they sell dildos? No, that just happened here. So the first half of this clip is you're going to see a guy with a microphone and another guy do some slapping. And then they'll give Bill Pulte a trophy that has an interesting inscription on it. Here's the first ever, man. Live fucking dildo slaps. on the PeeP live. Pulte, look at this fucking thing. All right. Come on.

Harder, Daddy. All right, fine. There you fucking have it. The first dildo slap in history live. So Bill, this says Bill Pulte fucks. All right? And then if you notice on, it's got a tramp stamp with a butterfly. I like only the young.

One ass cheek. Yes, it does say, it does say only the young on the back here. Only a young December 14 That looked pretty badass We have a mushroom stamp on the head of it And bed bath on one cheek And GME

Oh fuck GME on the other I got too excited there What is this event It was for all the bed bath and beyond meme stock people Are these Why are you

There's there's Dildos There's wait Only for the young That we know of What? Are these guys Pathetic losers

Yeah but he was the king Did you notice the guy's microphone Had Pulte written on it I don't understand this It's just these kinds of guys And the meme Mime guys doing their little like

Yeah bro isn't this like oh my god It's just I don't know 20 year old Reddit humor And again I don't think that was the first ever Dildo Slap Live Not true The trophy That's not true The trophy's concerning

Yeah Why would you develop The fact that he said it also. He's like, I want to make sure everyone he knows what this says. He, yeah. I thought he was saying that's pretty bad, but he said that's pretty bad ass. Pretty badass. Fuck some, fuck some like him young.

Only. Only young. Maybe he's got a birthday card from the president as well with a nice little drawing and a poem. It's just all these guys. I want to pull back. So like, okay, this, they memes a guy. This is, Ben, Van the On Fannie Mae. I, I got to say, okay, so step back.

And he's being appointed as what? The director of national intelligence. So he is overseeing the CIA, the NSA. It's the FBI count in there? Okay. So I don't know that they gave Tulsi much actual work to do during this administration. I don't know. But what?

This is just so wild. Makes perfect sense. I mean, it makes perfect sense for this administration. but it does underscore that loyalty to Donald Trump is far more important than experience, intelligence, um, basic decency, uh, basic decency, like knowledge of the, like, uh, again, he does love to just pile up the job titles on one person, you're like, hey, you can do five different jobs. But only for 210 days, right?

He's only got the, because it's like interim. It's like a temporary position because otherwise he would have to get him confirmed by the Senate. He would not get confirmed. Many Senate Republicans think this is a joke. He's completely unqualified for the job, even if he's just like a super loyal Trump guy who's trying to go after the enemies. So he gets, but interim you get like 210 days before you need. Senate confirmation. I'm sorry, that is too long. That's way too long for an interim position. Trump is going to appoint Todd Blanche to be full-time attorney general. He's only been in that job

interim for two months. But he must just think he's doing such a bang-up job with the like yelling at people on TV or whatever it is. That's all he wants. I would like to bring up one more thing about Bill Pulte, if I may. Please. You have permission. This went under the radar last November, but Reuters reported that he hired a Detroit restaurateur named Mark Zarkin to act as a consultant for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,

despite not having any experience in the housing sector. And that guy, Zarkin, was a registered sex offender until his felony conviction was mysteriously vacated at some point in the past. Reuters doesn't know. How do they not know? It's completely unclear what this guy did for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He denied to Reuters having ever been employed by them. This guy's also been accused of trying to bribe Trump to pardon someone he knew in New York.

The restaurateur? The restaurateur. So Pulte is not just trying to go after Trump's political enemies. He is doing the same garden variety corruption, just trying to funnel money to his buddy. as Christy Noam was doing and all these other folks. As all of them do. Just a pure criminal. The method.

That's the thing that they do. How fun for all of us. This is so stupid. But you know what? Stupider. So much. I can't even guess. So much.

But specifically some of the things the president said recently. Yes. Okay. If we'd like to have a little fun. A little bit. I just like, I can't. A little bit. The list of things that this guy has been.

involved in and where he comes from and how many jobs he already has and him being appointed this position is just too, I don't want to talk about real news anymore. Here's Trump on a podcast. We have 325 to 350 million people and you would think that we would have some great ones. We do have great ones, but they don't seem to be chosen by the Democrats. Of course, the Republicans shows one of the finest intellects in the history of our country. You know, see cream to the top. Okay.

So, so he's dying soon then, right? Oh, shit. I didn't realize it was that bad. He's not doing so great. He doesn't sound very good. He doesn't sound good. No, he doesn't. I mean, he came back because he was gone almost a week because of whatever treatment he gets.

Well, no, because he likes taking the tests. Dr. Oz said he takes all the tests because he likes getting the results, but you're good. When you're a president, he got tons of time. So you're like, hey, give me the cognitive test they used to see if people have dementia, I'd like to take it again. These days, that's the only place he can go to relax, just like put his feed up for a minute. Did he just remember the number that comes at the end of the 99, multiply by 12, subtract 30? Did he remember that and just give that answer in subsequent?

Oh, so he just knows. I mean, he's like, writes it on his hand. I got it. Yeah, he's going in there. It's an elephant. Oh, that's why his hand looks like that. It's just ink. It's just ink to spilled over his hand so much.

He's smudging the drawing of the llamas. That he's like, there's three llamas. It's got two humps. No one knows exactly. There's a lot of speculation about what's wrong with him. I guess his, he used to take propitia for hair loss. And that was like lowering his levels of some prostate hormone. I don't know the details on this.

So I'm sorry. and now those levels are elevated. And so everyone's like, is he not taking propitia anymore, or is he still taking it and he has prostate cancer? Which wouldn't be odd. Most men, if they live long enough, get prostate cancer.

So it wouldn't be something to be ashamed of, certainly. He's getting some treatment done once a month. It's making a real mess up. Oh, boy. But he is, I mean, as he said, he is one of the most outstanding intellectuals in U.S. history. Do we have a little bit of recent evidence for that that we can watch? We talked about that clip for several minutes,

and I forgot that he had said that because I was just so focused. On how he said it, yeah. All right, let's see this one. All right, this was not the pre-tap. This was not the Pod Force One. This is him in the Oval Office at his, like, I'm Alive Press Cover. His regular, semi-regular, I'm alive. still meeting.

I just had this done. You're getting a first glimpse, but that's your size compared. So those are compared to, those are among the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Sears Tower, Chicago. So if you lay it on its side, you'd take two or three of them to fill it in, because the width is very, almost two. 200 feet wide. I can't. This is...

Okay. Okay. Okay. This is staggering. This is staggering. And not for what people think. So people on the... I mean...

Getting passed around and a lot of the responses are like, you guys are idiots. He obviously knows that it's a pool, not a building. Why is it on a chart? This is like somebody made it for their fifth grade presentation in social studies. kind of situation, just big old font. It is so laughable. There should be some clown music playing underneath it.

I thought it was AI when I first saw it. I thought it was fake. I know. It seems fake. It is shocking. It could be in a comedy TV show except that things are beyond parody. But I'm sorry, I know you don't think that this is standing straight up, but what is the point of this

chart to find out at the pool that you didn't build or design? Compare it to runways. Just like put like roads. We've got we've got highways that go so far. What's the metric by which we compare the length of a hole dug in the ground to a skyscraper? Also, I looked it up.

The Empire State Building there includes the antenna up top but the Sears Tower doesn't. So there's a lack of consistency in this graph and the Sears Tower should be ahead of the Empire State Building. He just had it done. He just had it done, John. And let's like not be, you know. Who did they pay to make it? How much? What was their salary?

I'm sure Stephen Chung was, like, told, I need a poster board. Go down to Staples. Make me a thing that says our pool is bigger than skyscrapers, which I said sounds like a modest mouse song. And we're going to show it. We're going to show it to everyone. Is that a blue sky tweet? On TV.

Yeah, it's one of my, that's why I say them again to you. The pool is bigger skyscrapers. Not standing on day now. Yeah, awesome. Everything I say on this show is just something I've tweeted on Blue Sky that I am now saying to you. It's funny. It's so stupid. I don't, like, again, what's the point?

We all know it's stupid. The pool is more than 100 fucking years old. It was built more than 100 years ago. What is your point, sir? Our pool is bigger than skyscrapers. Okay. Like, right. Like, there's more acreage.

in the Rose Garden, then there are jelly beans in the jar. Like, okay? The White House has a greater square footage than those buildings have... Oh, topwise. High, topwise, yeah, just the one.

So think about that. The White House greater square footage than these buildings have topwise. Topwise, all that building goes, she's tower around all that, Empire State. We don't have to watch a clip, but he's just been full of bangers this week. Yeah, he's really going forward.

Also floating the idea of maybe leaving the cage match set up indefinitely. I do think he was joking. I know, and we have to assume he's joking, but also we can't. But like the way he said it wasn't the way he says some of his jokes. Like, he said it in a very, like, thinking about it kind of way. I've seen him joke about those kinds of things, and this didn't seem like that, but also it just seems like a metaphor for him.

He's just moving in. He's moving in and he's never leaving. And that is what he's communicating by all of this stuff. Look, our pool is so long. Look at how tall it could be if we moved it that way and then the water fell out.

It's just so, I, uh, someone should ask him, but if it was a skyscraper, wouldn't all the water fall out? Just to see what he says. Like I don't, oh yeah, I never thought about that. That's a really good point, actually.

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which is making me so angry. We'll see if that stands. It's a wild because obviously that's the real gift for them moving forward. That's what they really want. But also, Todd Blanche says that the slush fund is officially over, but apparently won't commit that to riding in any capacity. And so now the Senate is moving forward to try to do something, to prevent him from reopening that or trying that again, I guess.

Yeah, they blocked it earlier today because it also include, well, they want to stop it because a bunch of Senate Republicans do too, but it included the ICE funding in that same package. So they're trying to, you know, all that stuff. So at least they're on it and I trust them to be on it. The House voted 215 to 208 to take away Trump's war powers in Iran. Um, very good. Um, even if it's symbolic and it won't work. Um, it's going to have to go to the Senate and back and forth.

And who knows how that'll go or if they'll even pass it on. Uh, he'll, he'll veto it. It'll be a whole thing. But, uh, good that they're at least performing the idea of their fucking job, um, and doing this. Um, so, you know, thanks to those, what, for, I think four Republican congresspeople. Um, yeah, four Republicans. But you know what the American people do want and are waiting for? The Kushner Ivanka Island.

So I've got a question for you guys. Is it the same island? Epstein Island, yes. Is that the island? I don't know. So now there's three islands. Okay. There is first this island that Ivanka and Jared are going to build out or what have you.

But then there was this other story that I wasn't sure if it was the same or not. The Albanian coastline where he wants to develop. the resort. Are these separate or same? The AP says the venture spans an abandoned island, which I think is that and a nearby stretch of seafront on Albania's southern coast. So it is all one big thing, but there's two different two different pieces of land, basically. I'm working on an incredible project with my husband in the Mediterranean. It's massive in scale. I think that's an understatement. Can you explain? Yes, it is. There's no power on this island. You're building.

You're building everything from scratch. Correct. It's an unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectar private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. We were on a friend's boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that's how we found it. We swam to the islands. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top,

and we were just captivated. And it stayed with us ever since. And over the course of many years, we developed the opportunity to help realize its potential and transform it. There's so much to be said about this. Apparently, this is an abandoned Russian satellite, Cold War, insulation. There's tons of underground tunnels, like 3,600 individual bunkers, like an underground

movie theater, hospital, all this stuff. But it has been uninhabited because it's also part of a conservation, an environmental conservation. So the Albanians are protesting because all of a sudden the Kushners are involved and all sorts of regulations to get thrown out. It's just wild. It was a protected space that now it's not for these people to come and develop into a luxury resort. It's absurd. It's so stupid.

And I mean, I feel like three weeks ago there's this puff piece sort of like publicity tour of her talking. about like mindfulness and like like spiritual awakening and like really focusing on like family and like and like mindfulness and presentness and and and the sort of thing and her her like her like her version of mindfulness and like like stripping down you know yourself is a billion dollar private island for her and her family like what are you talking about what else are they going to do with that money Cody oh I never know that you're right I couldn't think of another thing no you're right you're right you're right single thing But it doesn't mean she's not spiritual.

She did explore that island barefoot. That's true. That doesn't get much more spiritual than that. Yeah. That's right. They discovered it themselves. They discovered it with their bare feet. Like the family discovering the lost world in the Lost World Jurassic Park.

Or the beach that makes you old. Or the beach. Oh, my goodness. If only they discovered the beach. Oh, I wish they found the beach that makes you old. If they were just to go. live in those underground bunkers, I'd be like I don't know. I feel like in the last week and a half, Trump

found that beach. He was on it for a while. Came back. Now he's like, well, I think of a... Everyone picks stupid people to be president, except for you. He's gonna... He might die in an Aaron Rupar clip.

Like, he fell asleep today again at one of their things. Like, he might die during his Freedom 250 speech. We'll all be watching. You know what? I got a new thought. I don't think we're respecting the president's

sleep schedule here. We need to start having press conferences and doing interviews at like 2 a.m. when he's fired up and tweeting and let the man rest at 11 a.m. That's true. He needs to sleep sometime and you guys keep pestering him

with your little piggy questions during nap time. With your 9 to 5, you guys are all buttoned up, you automaton's, walking through the world. Clickety clack. Cosmopolitan lib commies with your normal schedules. Schedule some 2 AMers for him, and maybe we'd get some different flavor. Get them off of the internet.

I want him to be wearing like a night gans. A little cap. With his little candle. It's the guy he thought he was going to end up as in COVID who visits him. What's that guy's name? Chara. Chara. Oh, Stan Chara.

Yeah. Instead of Jacob Marley, it's Stan Chara. Oh, Stan Chara, no! Yeah. I thought about bringing up the screw worms in the United States. We'll talk about the screw worms in the future. We're going to talk about another time. I can't.

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