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California's Election Shakeup + Microsoft's AI Spy Badge

03 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

1.043 - 3.207 Adam

Adam, what's your point?

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3.227 - 12.803 Humberto Boellert

The future looks bright.

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13.865 - 18.453 Unknown

My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.

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18.473 - 19.375 Patrick Bet-David

You are a one of one?

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19.395 - 22.36 Unknown

My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before.

26.575 - 46.048 Patrick Bet-David

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?

46.068 - 66.895 Patrick Bet-David

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 talk about both. Tom made very, very good comments about the fact that nobody thought Rahman was going to be above 15%. She ended up above 22%. And they didn't think Spencer Pratt was going to be above 30%.

66.935 - 77.608 Patrick Bet-David

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 –

78.55 - 99.478 Patrick Bet-David

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 till we figure that out and then also from forest lawn they got to count all that's right forest lawn there's two forest lawns the one michael jackson's and the one in glendale and then the other one off the 170 freeway you got you got a lot of opportunities karen bass is expected to carry both

Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on California's mayoral and gubernatorial races?

109.192 - 125.955 Patrick Bet-David

And the president came out and kind of put something out there as an executive order to seeking oversight of AI models. A couple people were chirping. A guy named Elon, you may or may not know, and another guy named David Sachs. We don't know if that's a good idea or not. So we'll see. We'll see what happened there. And then Bill Paltry.

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126.003 - 148.602 Patrick Bet-David

Rob, this is not an onion story or Babylon Bee that Bill Palty is now the DNI. We like Bill Palty, but what does it have to do with DNI? I don't know, but we're definitely going to be talking about that. Maybe Tom has some insight for us. And then Jamie Dimon calls the Coinbase CEO. He says he's full of shit. What did he all of a sudden get upset about? We'll talk about that.

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148.682 - 167.049 Patrick Bet-David

Microsoft AI gadget badge. If you haven't seen this, they have these new AI badges that Humberto was sharing with us that they record everything. Like literally they record everything. Good idea, bad idea. Who knows? We'll talk about it. Uber is now capping the number of tokens they're giving to every one of their employees.

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167.089 - 184.645 Patrick Bet-David

I think it's a limit, if I'm not mistaken, of $1,500 a month per employee per month, right, that you can do because the expenditure was going really high. A couple companies had like a half a billion dollar bill. They're like, wait a minute, time out, guys. We're not doing this much of it. Remote work, folks, for the youth. It's worsening.

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184.685 - 204.09 Patrick Bet-David

A lot of people are saying, well, you know, AI is taking jobs away from the youth. Well, maybe it's because they want remote work and they don't want to work at an office. Maybe that's the reason why, Brian, you know, they're not, you know, getting the job. So we'll talk about that. And then there is a drink that came out. We're not endorsing this. This is not a sponsorship, okay?

204.511 - 222.697 Patrick Bet-David

We only have one sponsor. We're not doing an endorsement of this drink. But Vinny came in here doing backflips, and we said, what the hell is wrong with Vinny? And he talks about this drink that's got 186 grams of sugar called Crazy Cousin's 32-ounce dirty soda.

223.158 - 243.037 Patrick Bet-David

Why would they do something like that at a time where diabetes is like... But anyways, apparently they want to sell that to kids, and we'll talk about that. And then Trump abandons the $1.8 billion slush fund. The story Daily Mail says, in a humiliating U-turn, as his own party turns on, and we'll address that later, And he got 60 minutes. Guy that makes 5 to 7 million a year. Good-looking guy.

243.057 - 258.525 Patrick Bet-David

He's been with CBS since 89. Scott Pelley. Goes in there, apparently. This letter was public. I'm sure you read the letter. It was a pretty nasty letter. Like, if you're going to get fired, this is the wrong way of getting fired. Apparently, he went in there bitching and was not very happy about it. And CBS was like, look, if you don't like it...

258.505 - 278.488 Patrick Bet-David

We got to kind of move on, and that's exactly what they did. So we'll talk about that. Maybe we'll get into MLB salary caps. Good story. And then World Cup rule changes. A couple of the rules, I don't know if you saw the rule changes or not. You don't like them? Because you like when people lay down for seven minutes after acting like they got hurt. Only a guy from Chile would say he likes that.

Chapter 3: How is AI impacting workplace monitoring and privacy?

317.399 - 334.996 Patrick Bet-David

Obviously, I live in an interesting community where a lot of soccer players live. We knew when they left to go off to Kansas City. Messi's in Kansas City. This is going to be the most amazing thing. Everyone's like, there were so many interesting stats. The most ever players above 40 years old playing in the World Cup.

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335.016 - 357.787 Patrick Bet-David

The youngest player is a 17-year-old kid from, I think, from Mexico, if I'm not mistaken. There's going to be some interesting stories. But we had these hats that we made representing different countries, okay? And believe it or not, for Iran, we had the old Shahan Shahi, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's flag right here, which is sick. And I think there's a couple of those hats left.

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357.808 - 415.058 Rob

Rob, if you want to play this clip, go for it. Down, down, up, up, down. Down, down, up, up, down.

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420.843 - 440.489 Patrick Bet-David

All right, you can pause it right there, Rob. Whether it's Argentina, whether it's Brazil, whether it's U.S., which the U.S. hats look ridiculous, or whether it's Iran, any of them, go to vtmerch.com, place your order, get the hat, get it for yourself, get it for your friends, but go to vtmerch.com to place your order and represent your country for this summer.

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440.549 - 458.381 Patrick Bet-David

With that being said, let's get right into the story. Again, go to vtmerch.com to place your order. But let's get into the first story. First story I want to get into is the two big races we had yesterday, Brian. We had the LA mayoral race, and we had the gubernatorial race, right, the primaries. On the mayoral race, everybody was wondering what was going to happen.

458.421 - 481.042 Patrick Bet-David

For me, I think the biggest superstar that made a big name for herself was Katie Porter. Not for the right reasons, but I think she's got a job at The View. I think she can be a rock star. But if you look at, for the governor race, that's where she was at, but for the mayoral race, Spencer Pratt, 30.4%. Okay, this is within 63% of votes. Karen Bass at the lead with 34.8. Nithya Raman, 22.3.

481.062 - 494.177 Patrick Bet-David

Then it's the rest of the camp. So if it goes like this, Karen Bass, for sure, is not getting what she needs, the 51% or something like that. So there won't be anything going on. There is going to be a runoff, and it's going to go until November.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of Bill Pulte's appointment as DNI?

494.197 - 512.616 Patrick Bet-David

And yesterday she tweeted something. She said, I love L.A., and you would think the person that was in the lead would get hundreds of thousands of views and likes. Not really. It was 1,000 likes. People could care less about the announcement. Look, you may love L.A., but we don't love you as much as you think we do. And so it'll be interesting to see what happens then.

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512.676 - 519.786 Patrick Bet-David

Rob, if you have a clip of Spencer Pratt, it was a great picture of him and his wife. Is this him at the end of it one day? Okay, go ahead, Rob.

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521.709 - 534.969 Humberto Boellert

Well, obviously God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor. So it's going to be a fun ride. I hope she's ready. Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this, clearly.

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536.171 - 542.619 Patrick Bet-David

What? I was born for this, clearly. Okay, what do you think, Brian? What do you think are the chances that by the end of it, this guy's got a chance of winning expensive prizes?

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542.639 - 544.562 Tom Ellsworth

By the way, he's got the greatest commercials ever.

544.702 - 545.063 Patrick Bet-David

He does.

545.363 - 565.435 Tom Ellsworth

Yes, he does. And he's been very creative. The best thing is that California has been a one-party state forever and ever. And so now that we have a Republican looking like he's going to be in the final two for governor and president, for mayor, this is fantastic.

565.455 - 576.585 Tom Ellsworth

And that's what I think Republicans really need is a platform to be able to share their views rather than just being shut out in a one-party state.

576.645 - 577.969 Patrick Bet-David

Tom, how do you feel about it?

Chapter 5: What features are included in Microsoft's next-gen badge?

3515.093 - 3536.663 Patrick Bet-David

Our old badges are so flat and small screenless, which is fine, and so outdated, which is why Microsoft's next-gen concept badge has loads of bells and whistles like a touchscreen, a fingerprint sensor, Wi-Fi, 5G connectivity, a microphone for voice inputs and recording, and I'm not joking, a side camera. Facing camera. Okay. So in other words, it's watching everything you do.

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3536.683 - 3555.129 Patrick Bet-David

To demonstrate this last part, a Microsoft technical fellow, Stephen Bacci, gave a brief demo using a prototype on a stage by uttering the phrase, co-pilot. Rob, do you have the video? Can you go pull that up? Yeah, if you want to pull that up for the video. So what do you do? Imagine you're going to the bathroom with your friend. You're like, hey, can you hold my cart?

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3555.149 - 3560.279 Patrick Bet-David

I'm going to go inside, use the bathroom, and I'll be out. Why? I don't know what they're recording when I go to the bathroom. Right?

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Chapter 6: What are the privacy implications of workplace monitoring technology?

3560.319 - 3568.013 Patrick Bet-David

You know what I'm saying? Humberto, you saw the story. What are your thoughts on the story? Do you like it if we used it here at the company? He wouldn't be here anymore.

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3568.293 - 3570.115 Humberto Boellert

That's a good point.

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3570.135 - 3574.5 Patrick Bet-David

We would learn. Yes. What a great person.

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3574.52 - 3596.046 Humberto Boellert

I like it. I like it. Oh, no, I will be sent to the Hague. But anyhow, look, it's good and bad if you're a business owner. Like, for example, sometimes we have meetings. We obviously, because Florida is a two, like a recording, you need to have two party consent here. But we'll say, hey, we're going to be recording this so we can have a transcript and

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3596.026 - 3611.554 Humberto Boellert

and then we put the transcript through AI, and then we get action items, we get all the notes, and we get everything. So having a constant transcript of everything, I'm going to get hated for this, of everything that is going on is very useful if you're thinking about productivity. And then you have the privacy concerns.

3611.534 - 3633.346 Humberto Boellert

Like you have this illusion of privacy everywhere, but there's cameras everywhere. Your phone is listening to you everywhere. You post things on Facebook. So I'm a little bit split. And then the other thing, big corporations, they want to get more data on how and what their employees are doing to train models to probably replace them down the line. So there's three roads, three concerns.

3633.366 - 3635.569 Humberto Boellert

I'm very split on this one.

3636.41 - 3646.478 Patrick Bet-David

Tom, where are you at? Is this something we should do as a company or not? No, I think, well, I think what you have to conquer is... You can wink if you want. Give me a wink or something.

3649.224 - 3669.823 Tom Ellsworth

No, I think, look, at a time where everybody's complaining, you know, employees are complaining, oh, AI is going to take part of my job. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. And companies are complaining, I hated 2022 where everybody walked across the street, got a job offer at lunch, and held me hostage for a raise.

Chapter 7: How does remote work impact youth unemployment?

3708.759 - 3727.519 Tom Ellsworth

Why doesn't my company trust me to work from home? I happen to think that if you're working from home, it's hard to build mentor people you're supposed to be mentoring. That's my opinion. So I don't really believe in work from home. Rob, I found the video I'm sending it to you. Except for rare contracts. And this, I think it doesn't add to trust.

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3727.84 - 3747.403 Tom Ellsworth

If you want trust with your employees, then this validation takes it to the point, Pat, where it's like, well, the company doesn't trust me. Everything's got to be proven. And if you want to build a culture around trust and mutual collaboration, this just makes people, I think, more mercenary.

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3747.763 - 3761.498 Patrick Bet-David

I want to show this video, and then, Brian, I'm going to come to you. Watch this clip. Go to 30 seconds, Rob. Go to 30 seconds, go to the bottom. Press play and just move it up to 30 seconds. Can you do that or no? And I agree with you. Is it allowing you? It's not letting you do it. Okay.

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3763.88 - 3774.25 Brandon Aceto

He's about to take it out and you'll see how it works.

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3775.652 - 3781.656 Unknown

I have here an early prototype of the badge. And so, thanks.

3782.337 - 3791.976 Brandon Aceto

And using my fingerprint, I tapped on lock the device, and I've accessed now to all my agents in a secured manner. And would you look at that, I already have a task.

3792.437 - 3798.207 Patrick Bet-David

And it says, gather content for your social media post for today. Why not just do it right now, right?

3798.227 - 3807.658 Unknown

So I'm going to hit record, and then now the device camera is recording, and I'm going to pan across, and if you don't mind, I'm going to take your shot.

3807.678 - 3815.427 Brandon Aceto

Yes, thank you. Co-pilot, find some good shots from this, clean them up, and then send them to me, so for me and my team to review.

Chapter 8: What are the health risks associated with high sugar consumption?

3816.008 - 3817.55 Patrick Bet-David

All right.

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3817.57 - 3818.691 Brandon Aceto

And then there you have it.

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3818.931 - 3824.518 Patrick Bet-David

Now my agent is off, ready for multiple tasks to actually clean this up and send them to me and the team. That's pretty cool.

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3829.019 - 3832.985 Patrick Bet-David

It'll be interesting. Did you see what it did? It's pretty crazy. Brian, what do you think about it?

3833.326 - 3857.53 Tom Ellsworth

I mean, to the extent that it can improve productivity and build teams and have them work together, I think that's fine. You know, Meta, I think it's Meta, right, came out with glasses. And I remember talking to somebody one day. I had no idea they had Meta glasses on. And our whole conversation was recorded. Now, it was a friend, and they said, look at what I just did. And you don't know.

3857.55 - 3880.812 Tom Ellsworth

And I think what it's going to do is make people not trust other people even more. and you'll just have people zipping their mouth and not having conversations. I worked in D.C., as I said, and the line that they told me the first day is, don't say anything that you don't want on the front page of the Washington Post, ever.

3881.733 - 3891.628 Tom Ellsworth

And now that means even more because not only can you record it on your phone, but you can record it on this badge, and you can record it on these glasses, and nobody knows you got it.

3892.267 - 3907.746 Brandon Aceto

Yeah, I mean, it's incredibly valuable for the company. I mean, imagine how you could hold people accountable and call people out. Like, oh, yeah, were you doing this project from this time to this time? Yeah, I was. And then you just look at their badge and see exactly what they were doing the entire day. And then remember the term data is the new oil.

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