California's Election Shakeup + Microsoft's AI Spy Badge
6/3/20261 hr 52 min
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Brandon Aceto, and Humberto Boellert are joined by economist Brian Wesbury as they cover the Los Angeles mayoral election results, California’s governor race, Bill Pulte’s appointment to lead the FHFA, Scott Pelley’s departure from CBS, President Trump’s decision to scrap a $1 billion weaponization fund, Microsoft’s new AI workplace monitoring technology, and the growing debate over remote work’s impact on young professionals.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:01
[singing] Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm so- [singing] like a sweet victory. Whoa. I know this life meant for me Adam, what's your point?
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:11
The future looks bright.
Speaker 30:13
[singing] My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:16
You are a 101?
Tom Ellsworth· Host0:19
My sun drive there.
Speaker 30:20
I don't think I've ever said this before.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:22
[laughs] [laughs] All right, I think it's fair to say there's some stories to cover today, especially California. California, you got some hope. California, you got some hope, baby. There's some good stuff that's coming around California. Let's see if you guys will be able to finish it off. And can you imagine if both the mayor and the governor of California, Spencer Pratt, is right now second place. We'll talk about the numbers, the percentages that just came out from New York Times. And then you have for the governor race, Hilton's at the top ahead of Becerra. So we'll, we'll talk about both. Uh, Tom made very, very good, uh, comments about, uh, the fact that nobody thought Raman was gonna be above 15%. She ended up above 22. And they didn't think Spencer Pratt was gonna be above 30. He ended up above 30, which means what? It means people do not like Karen Bass, which is very good if this ends-- Now, keep in mind, there's still some, um, things going on with California because you have to make sure they count the ballots, and to count the ballots could take them seven years. So hang tight- [clears throat] ... till we figure it out, Paul. So be patient.
Tom Ellsworth· Host1:26
They have all the mail-in ballots, and then also from, uh, Forest Lawn. They gotta count