➡ The speaker discusses various topics including the concept of free lunch, the importance of investing wisely, the potential for a harsh winter leading to high electricity bills, and the potential migration from New York to Florida due to political changes. They also mention the significant loss Mark Zuckerberg experienced in a day and criticize California’s proposal to tax billionaires 5% of their net worth, arguing that it’s a bad precedent due to the fluctuating value of assets.

➡ The speaker discusses their experience with a tech company, iRobot, and their product, a Roomba. They express satisfaction with the product’s performance but chose not to use the accompanying app to avoid sharing personal data. They also mention disconnecting from a smart meter at home to maintain control over their environment and privacy. The speaker encourages listeners to be cautious about sharing personal information and to question additional costs tied to internet connectivity.

Hey, it’s Dan. Welcome back to IAllegedly. And I’ve got a good one for you today, because there’s a lot to cover, but we need to take a deep breath and just soak all this in. You know, please hit the like button, subscribe to the channel, and today we have a sponsor, Patriot Gold. But, you know, with this last week, let’s just go through the last week with SNAP benefits. They’re on, they’re off, they’re, you know, on again. You know, it’s crazy, because it’s reminded me of times in my life when I wasn’t doing well financially and the lesson that I learned.

And I’ve told you guys this story, I think I told it two years ago, but I’m going to tell it again. And that was when my kids were young, they went to an affluent public school in Tustin, California, and one thing that really bothered me was that they would have field trips. And it would be like, okay, parents, your, you know, responsibility is $55 for this event. Now, guys, 15, 20 years ago I’m talking about, and for some families, that might as well have been $55. Hey, listen, we need $5500 by, you know, two Fridays from now or you’re screwed.

And it was all the money in the world to some of these people. So one thing that I did when I was doing well was I said, listen, I don’t want one kid to miss out in this field trip. You know, you had parents going through divorces, you had, you know, the dad that took off because he was a musician, the mom that was nothing short of a whore that left her family and left the guy with three kids. You know, a little bit of everything, okay? So things that I learned about that I was bothered by, but I was like, wait, these kids shouldn’t be affected by this because their parents are having a difficult time.

I don’t want the kids to know about this, but I want to pay for this. And I just want it done. And it made me feel real good because nobody had any stigma. Nobody had the stigma, which was, you know, Jennifer, you have to stay at school while all the other kids are at the park and at a field trip. And one of the field trips was really close to where I’m at, at a beach and a, you know, they had the bus and they took them down and fed them lunch and walked through the cove and, you know, looked at all the wildlife and everything.

And nobody missed out on it for that. And, you know, I did that. And I also paid for lunches with kids that didn’t have money for school lunches. You just walked up and you just said, hey, I didn’t bring my money today and I’d like my lunch and I ended up paying for it. And, you know, I was trying to figure out today, I think lunch was $2, then 165, something like that was, it was not, it was not more than $2 at the most. And they would call me and say, hey, listen, you’re at $50, can you come pay us? Sure, sure, sure, sure.

And somehow my son got wind of this and he thought, well, my dad’s buying ice cream for everybody. So I’ll never forget, I did it on, paid on a Friday and I got a phone call on a Monday. And I’m, no, no, no, you don’t understand. I just paid you guys. Oh, no, your son told everybody they could get ice cream. So he’s been giving out the code for ice cream. And I’m like, no, so he and I had to talk about that and got rid of that. But this whole thing has brought up a lot of different conversations.

And that is, I feel for these people that didn’t get the SNAP benefits, but I don’t feel for the people that are taking advantage of the system. The problem with this world is COVID was a bad thing. COVID made it so that why should I work? Why I could sit at home and make $1,000 a week not having a job. You know, for some, a little more than that, too. It was crazy. And, you know, it just, it spurred not having to answer to the man. And again, we all have to answer to people. It’s just the way, the way life works, the way business works.

And, you know, you want to borrow money, you got to answer to the bank. So, you know, Ken Langone is one of the people that started Home Depot. And he wants to let you know that, you know, Zoran Mamdani is going to destroy New York City. And that this is a bad precedent. Talking about free everything is a bad thing. It’s not good, guys. It really is not good just to sit there and go, you’re going to get free healthcare, free buses, free this, free that. Me helping people, because they were down and out, that was a good thing, because I could afford to do it at the time.

Now, one thing that’s funny about this, and I was thinking about this today, there was a woman who, I was at Albertsons, I was with my girlfriend, Lisa, who was going through the throes of cancer treatment and was incredibly bald and swollen from her steroids. And I was just working to help her keep her business going, making next to nothing. And this woman walked up and pulled on my shirt, and she goes, you’re Dan. And she knew my last name. And then I said, yeah, she goes, I want to thank you. Because during my divorce, you paid for my daughter to go on that field trip.

And she was so happy, because she was so worried that she wasn’t going to get to go with her friends. And she never got wind of it. And this was like, like, what, eight years after that? Whatever it was. So, again, I was financially broke at the time when she thanked me. And it was one of the nicest things that somebody could have ever done. So, God, you guys, this whole thing is a mess. Politically, the government being shut down, risking flying. I have a business trip this week, and I’m not going to fly. Nah, my nephew is in air traffic control in the area that I’m working in.

Now, he, I trust that guy with my life. You know, completely. But I’m not flying right now. Would you fly? Why would you do that? This thing is a mess. The government needs to be reopened, and we need to get back to working. But can land go from Home Depot? Look at this house on Bayside. Somebody ripped down this house, ripped down two houses, and built a big one. Look at that thing. Anyways. It’s a bad precedent. The head of the MTA that runs the buses, that’s, you know, this Zorhan Moldani, Mamdani, is talking about free buses for everybody.

The head of the MTA says, how do you pay for that? How is this going to work? Because the problem with this, this guy’s going to win on a Tuesday. And on Wednesday, people are going to go, I’m not paying for the bus. It’s free. Guy won. Guy won last night. That’s what’s going to happen. You know what’s going to happen. And there’s going to be fights, and there’s going to be chaos, and mayhem, and people infuriating. This is a beautiful home. Look at this. But it’s on Bayside, Drive, where I’m walking. It’s kind of a busy street, okay? Millions of dollars.

Millions and millions of dollars. Huge house, man. That’s got to be 5,000 or 6,000 square feet. But, you know, you get to live in the busy street. Now you got a little off the street. But you got Dan walking in front of your house, you know? Got these houses on the hill. If I went over the hill, we’re at Corona Del Mar State Beach, okay? So, anyways, guys, there’s more to cover on this. Now I have an announcement to make, and something I am very proud of. We have upgraded one of the sites that I own, and it is fantastic.

It is called newvideos.com, and it is a video sharing platform. And to say that I’m pleased on a scale of 1 to 10 would be an understatement. I would say it’s a 50, because this is a site that you can share videos on. You will see me go live on eventually. I think I’m going to start doing a live newscast at noon every day, Eastern, which would be 9 o’clock Pacific. But if you go to newvideos.com, you’ll be able to see that. So check it out. It will be free to use. Get your name on there.

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It’s insane, guys. And the idea of the socialist view, and everybody needs to sit there and go out and get free lunch and free food, it doesn’t work. Someone has to pay for this. Someone has to pay for this. I just did a video that I want you guys to watch, if you haven’t seen it yet, about this woman that was just bragging on TikTok and other social media places about how much money she was getting for free. And with that, it was ridiculous because you’re stupid. You have a PhD in debt, and I make almost $15,000 a month doing nothing, having kids.

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Now, one thing that has really surprised me this week is getting all this knowledge about the number of people that are on these programs. Blew me away. It really did. You know, Louisiana, you’ve got 750,000 people in the state that are on those programs. County of Los Angeles here in California, 1.5 million people. Then you’ve got, you know, cities in San Bernardino County where you have a huge majority of people that are on benefit programs like Barstow, California. And they’re just concerned that, you know, they’ve got to protect the stores and the police have to work overtime.

That’s nuts, guys. It’s just nuts. But we have bigger problems right now. You know, California has a pension program for the public workers. And think about what I’m about to tell you. They put $486 million into green energy funding through the program, through their retirement program. And the value of it, of the investment, went down 71%. Guys, that is staggering. It is a whopping $345 million loss. They have a $191 million shortfall. They didn’t invest this money into the green energy shenanigans. They would be positive right now for the public utilities and public employees’ pension.

Isn’t that wild to think about? So I think the drinking game today is going to be wild. So if I say wild, you know what to do. I was shocked. I was shocked at that. But here’s the most wild part. Is that they’re saying, we don’t know how we lost it. We don’t know where we lost it. Could you imagine if you were married to someone and the spouse, your spouse, said to you, oh, gosh, I lost $30,000, $40,000. You’d lose your mind. Lose your mind. Now, it is anticipated that 40% of all relationships and marriages have major secrets that they keep from people.

40%. I’m telling you guys, I’m just someone who’s been divorced. The last thing to do is not tell something to somebody. I have friends of mine that got divorced in the early 90s. And my buddy was on a construction site, having a difficult time, and was working with cement and the pump blew. And it blew cement all over him and all over his clothes that he had. The only choice back then, in 1992, was to go home and change. So he goes home and sees the mailman, and he’s just drenched in cement.

So he grabs the mail and goes upstairs and sees a letter from the bank. I believe it was Wells Fargo who showed it to me. And it was in his ex-wife’s maiden name. And he says, well, this is odd. We’ve been married for three years now. So he opens it. Now, think about this. This was just beginning of 1993, and there was $28,000 in this account with her name on it. And he lost his mind. He’s like, what is this? By the way, working two jobs to cover the bills right now, and she’s got a secret account with 28 grand in it.

And this was the beginning of the end of their marriage, because I am, you know, I think about 30 years ago, 30-plus years ago, I am tired. I am exhausted. I cannot work like this. And you’ve got $28,000 in an account. You’re going to put that in our joint account. Come on. No, I’m not. I saved that money. So that was the end of their marriage. I am telling you this right now. When you have municipalities that do investments and they don’t tell you about it, that’s the end. It’s the end. We had a guy here in Orange County that was running the investment for the county of Orange, and he was using Zodiac, and he was using card readers and different people through, you know, different methods of investing that were crazy.

You know, oh, my gosh, I’m going to follow the stars, and that will tell me how to invest the county’s money. And what did he do to lose it? And we went bankrupt. I think it was about the same time, about 1993 and 94, is when I think that bankruptcy happened, about the same time as their marriage falling apart. So I’m telling you guys, don’t keep secrets like that. You know, they want to automate Wall Street through chat GPT. What do you think of that? I have used this before, chat GPT, and my brother has said, hey, have you ever had it shut you down where it won’t let you finish because you’ve gone too far, and he has this happen all the time, and I finally had it happen, and he infuriated me halfway through a project.

So I’m like, you know what? I’m never going to do this. The other way up is the other side of that house that we saw. Isn’t that crazy? Millions of dollars, guys. I’m on base side in the IRS if you want to look the house up. But anyways, guys, chat GPT doing the stock market picking. I love AI picking for your Bitcoin and your different mean coins and things like that, not your cryptocurrency, or you could do it yourself. Next story is we’re going to see this be the most expensive winter when it comes to your electricity bill.

Isn’t that terrible? You have that to look forward to. Call this talk about benefit programs and you’re going to be freezing soon. So not everybody gets to live where I live and where it’s, you know, 70 plus degrees out and the wind starts to blow and I put on a scarf like I’m, you know, cold. It’s crazy what people go through, okay? And it’s so cold at different places that you haven’t seen anything yet. But this is going to be the worst, the worst winter as far as the expense of paying for everything.

So get ready, you know? City of New York is another area that declared an emergency over the SNAP benefits. You haven’t seen anything until Tuesday. Once that election happens, all hell is going to break loose. I am telling you, you’re going to see a run from New York to Florida. Florida’s going to be the hot spot that everybody’s going to run to to get out of there, especially businesses and things like that because they just don’t want this, you know, they don’t want their tax dollars going to the shenanigans like this.

Mark Zuckerberg, he lost $29 billion in a day and his net worth went down to $235 billion. So he went on the top ten list from number three to number five. Here’s the best part. You and I probably couldn’t name number one through four. So we don’t care and most of us think that Mark Zuckerberg is a complete tool. So speaking of California taxes, one thing they want to do with California is they want to tax billionaires five percent of your net worth. Here is why this is a bad precedent. What is your gold worth today? Oh, what if we have another week like we had a week and a half ago where it drops, you know, eight percent in a week.

Uh-oh, you pay five percent of your net worth on that one day. Isn’t that terrible? I’m telling you, California doesn’t know how to govern. They know how to tax people. That’s what they know how to do. And I just, I don’t know, this stuff drives me, this stuff really drives me crazy. But I’m going to finish this video with this last story, and that is, they’re talking about a tech company that has 50 million products that they sold, 50 million. And people may be in serious trouble because they won’t be able to get service on them.

And it’s iRobot. Now, I want you to understand, I was given some great advice. I like the little Roomba thing going through my house and cleaning my floors and stuff and cleaning up after Rosie. It’s fantastic. But one thing that I did very early on was I was like, hey, this app is a headache. I don’t want to do it. And one of the tech people online said, we don’t have to use the app, sir. Really? I said, yeah, after three times of using the robot, it’s going to plot your house out and it’s going to know how to get back to the base.

And, of course, the first two times it did it, I found the robot dead under a bed and over here on a rug, doing that stuff. And then ever since then, I press it, turn it on, and it goes out, does its thing, and then goes back to the base and cleans up the entire house. And you know what? I’m not online. And it’s not tracking my house. It’s not tracking my whereabouts. It doesn’t have my data. It doesn’t have Dan’s info on it. But that company, iRobot, could go bank them with 50 million people’s data in there.

But not yet. Oh, I’m sorry. 49,999,999, because there’s one guy that’s not on it. Me. And here’s the other thing. I have one of those smart meters in my home, and I disconnected it, reconnected it, and I’m not connected to the power company at all. You know who gets to control the temperature? Me. If I want it to be, if we’re going to have a beach party and you’re going to show up at my house in your bikini and it’s going to be cold outside, I can control that. Whoa, your house is too warm for this time of the year.

No, it’s not. It’s too cold for this time of the year to pass. It’s whatever hell I want it to be inside my house. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. And guess what? I’m not tied to the internet. Well, you know what? If you don’t get tied to the internet, you’re going to pay $15 more a month. No, I’m not. What brand do I have? Well, we’re not aware. You have to register first. So, guys, don’t fall for this stuff. Okay? Just say no. Okay? I got to get this.

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