Jessica Tarlov

Like maybe he wants to come on the pod, but he just wants more money, which is fine.

And I think Mark Kelly should get a lot of money.

Two things I want to say.

One, I was like a little bit too much of a Debbie Downer about the innovation agenda stuff, at least the new Democrats.

I do think, you know, they have like a lot of funding for STEM training, which is important, even a child tax credit to provide support for families to make sure they can get that STEM training.

They have a startup visa program.

Investments in science, R&D, like all of these things are important.

They just don't feel like they're going to close the loop or help us quickly.

And this feels like a five alarm fire.

The second thing I wanted to say on the social media ban in Australia, so Rahm Emanuel is the only 2028 hopeful who has come out in support of it.

I think that more people should.

I don't know what happens, like if it ends up coming to fruition, but you should be talking that talk.

Like every governor that has banned phones in schools has not only had amazing results, but they have a bunch of constituents that are really happy with them and who feel like they have heard them.

There are concerns about access to phones if there is, God forbid, a school shooting, which, you know.

That could happen on any given day of the week.

But net-net, kids are happier, more focused, better socially adjusted, feel better about themselves because they're not on their phones all the time.

And I would be thrilled if my daughters did not have phones and certainly did not have social media until they were emotionally and mentally equipped to be able to use it responsibly, which 16, 17 years old, that seems like a fine time to me.

Jesus Christ, could that be a more stupid... Well, that whistleblower report, I think, blew a pretty big hole in that that's the main concern going on at Facebook.

Yeah.

It kept me up at night.