Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3078 - The Scott Adams School 01⧸22⧸26

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00:00:30.000 Hello, everyone.

00:00:31.040 I want to make sure everybody has a chance to get on.

00:00:34.800 Let's just make sure all the platforms have loaded.

00:00:39.040 Just want to make sure everybody gets a chance to hear what I have to say today.

00:00:46.580 Again, good morning, everyone.

00:00:48.600 I think we're live, so I'm going to go forward.

00:00:51.420 For those of you that haven't had the chance to meet me,

00:00:54.740 my name is Shelly.

00:00:56.980 And I'd like to begin today by sharing a short clip from an interview Scott did on Real Talk with Zuby.

00:01:05.460 So, we're going to try this, and here we go.

00:01:09.180 What do you want your legacy to be?

00:01:12.700 Oh, that's really interesting.

00:01:14.640 I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't think of it in those terms.

00:01:19.640 I think about sort of what I can do while I'm here.

00:01:21.660 I don't know if I ever said this publicly, but I have a philosophy to live my life to have the biggest funeral.

00:01:36.600 So, I want people to come to my funeral because I did something for them.

00:01:45.240 No other reason.

00:01:46.340 Not because they've heard of Dilbert or something.

00:01:48.860 I want people to say, you know what?

00:01:50.720 I read his book.

00:01:52.300 I tried his diet advice.

00:01:54.880 I did something, just anything.

00:01:56.860 And he made my life better.

00:01:59.040 And I'm going to take that forward, you know, teach my kids and stuff.

00:02:02.080 That would be the, I want the biggest possible funeral.

00:02:06.900 Awesome, man.

00:02:07.700 Well, Scott, your work has definitely made my life better.

00:02:10.640 And I know it's done the same for millions of others.

00:02:12.700 I do believe in the afterlife, and I hope we'll see you up there in a good place.

00:02:16.140 I'll see you there.

00:02:17.840 Let's hope you're right.

00:02:18.900 I'll see you there.

00:02:22.340 It was Scott's wish not to just include his closest friends and family, but to include the community he built.

00:02:30.880 Those he inspired, those he taught, encouraged in his celebration of life.

00:02:37.240 Therefore, a live stream honoring his legacy will take place this Sunday, January 25th, roughly around 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

00:02:49.240 And now I'd like to welcome for today's show, Owen, Erica, Marcella, and Sergio for the Scott Adams School.

00:02:59.260 Thank you, Shelly.

00:03:00.880 Good morning.

00:03:02.300 We also want to introduce a special guest that's joining us today.

00:03:10.660 I think you'll recognize him as soon as his camera turns on.

00:03:15.600 Oh, there he is.

00:03:17.320 I'm just waiting for the cue.

00:03:18.640 I was just waiting to hear Brick Suit, and then I would jump in.

00:03:21.160 There he is, Brick Suit.

00:03:23.080 Our special guest today joining us, and so fashionable.

00:03:26.560 And I feel very underdressed in my pajamas.

00:03:29.300 Sorry.

00:03:33.220 So, you guys, I think we need to sip.

00:03:35.760 Now, Shelly, am I sipping or are you sipping?

00:03:40.620 With the video.

00:03:41.460 We're trying to be fancy today, guys.

00:03:46.080 We think we're going to be able to get this on screen for you.

00:03:51.560 You're muted, Shelly.

00:03:52.660 You're muted.

00:03:55.800 There we go.

00:03:56.440 We need to drop the screen.

00:04:00.020 Oh, we need to drop the screen.

00:04:01.480 Okay.

00:04:01.980 All right.

00:04:02.480 We're going off one more time, guys.

00:04:04.280 We'll be right back after this simultaneous sip.

00:04:06.360 So, get ready.

00:04:07.440 Thanks, guys.

00:04:08.060 Thanks, guys.

00:04:08.120 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to what will surely be the highlight of human civilization.

00:04:18.700 Yeah, you thought it was Twitter or X, but it's not.

00:04:21.520 It's not.

00:04:22.080 It's this show.

00:04:23.080 And if you'd like to take it up to levels that only the weekend can survive, well, all

00:04:28.320 you'd use a cup or a mug or a glass, a tanker, chalice, or stein, a canteen, jug, or flask,

00:04:32.720 a vessel of any kind.

00:04:34.660 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:04:36.500 I like coffee.

00:04:38.120 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that

00:04:42.320 makes everything better.

00:04:44.340 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:04:46.820 It happens now.

00:04:47.620 Go.

00:04:51.560 Ah.

00:04:52.620 That's pretty good.

00:04:54.620 Yeah, pretty, pretty good.

00:04:57.100 So, if you're not a subscriber on Locals or on X, where you can see the Dilbert Reborn comic,

00:05:04.440 but only there, the series is now about the boss sending his employees onto the streets

00:05:13.020 to get things for him when he lives in a city that has become dangerous.

00:05:17.260 So the employees are complaining about the danger of coming to work.

00:05:21.340 And he just sent Tina to get his lunch.

00:05:25.260 And I'll read it to you, but it's basically Tina.

00:05:28.340 She's a little unhappy talking to the boss.

00:05:30.100 And she says, thanks for sending me through the gauntlet of lawlessness to pick up your lunch.

00:05:36.220 I got 20,000 steps just for, I got 20,000 steps just fleeing for my life.

00:05:42.380 And the boss says, you have a Fitbit?

00:05:46.440 And Tina says, I did, but now it's the property of a guy they call the Midnight Crapper.

00:05:53.240 So, you would not have seen that when Dilbert was in newspapers.

00:05:59.400 So, let me say again that my creative revival is really fun.

00:06:05.960 Every time I sit down to make the comic now, I'm enjoying it.

00:06:13.200 Like I'm looking for time.

00:06:14.300 Oh, I'd love to write some comics today.

00:06:18.620 Every single day for 10 years, at least 10 years, prior to being canceled, I hated my job.

00:06:28.320 Now, it was better than a real job because I could just sit there drawing pictures and stuff.

00:06:32.400 But, I didn't like it because, you know, anything you like is great until you have to do too much of it.

00:06:40.460 And if you have to do a comic every single day, every day, you get tired of it after 25 years.

00:06:48.500 So, believe me, getting canceled was like, I swear it was like being reborn.

00:06:54.120 I call it Dilbert reborn, but it was like I was reborn because I actually love my job.

00:06:58.640 So, my thoughts of desperately wanting to retire, which I did prior to being canceled, I desperately wanted to retire.

00:07:07.080 I just needed to find a way to do it.

00:07:09.320 That wasn't the way I did it.

00:07:12.820 But, man, it's good.

00:07:14.620 It's good stuff.

00:07:21.320 Okay, guys, come back.

00:07:26.080 Oh, I love that.

00:07:28.640 We were lucky enough one afternoon, Scott.

00:07:32.380 So, Scott used to live stream from locals sometimes, like in the middle of the day.

00:07:36.860 We'd be so lucky.

00:07:37.640 All of a sudden, Scott, you'd get the notification.

00:07:39.500 We're like, what's he doing?

00:07:40.760 And sometimes he would just be drawing out Dilbert cartoons, even robots read news.

00:07:47.960 And he would, like, workshop it with us.

00:07:50.660 Like, what do you think a funny name would be or whatever?

00:07:52.840 And we'd all be putting it in.

00:07:54.000 And as soon as he saw the one he loved, I mean, the laughter, like the head would go back, like the eyes start watering, the glasses come off, the whole thing.

00:08:04.860 Oh, it was so good.

00:08:06.860 But hi, everybody.

00:08:07.860 I'm Erica.

00:08:09.020 I'll let everyone introduce themselves, and then we'll get into it.

00:08:13.480 Good morning.

00:08:14.360 I'm Marcella.

00:08:14.960 And I'm Owen Gregorian.

00:08:18.580 We should probably take a sip.

00:08:20.680 Oh.

00:08:21.180 Oh.

00:08:21.680 All right.

00:08:22.200 Did you guys sip?

00:08:22.960 I didn't get to sip with y'all.

00:08:24.260 Okay.

00:08:24.520 Here we go.

00:08:26.320 I sip.

00:08:26.940 I'm good.

00:08:28.060 Okay.

00:08:28.500 Good.

00:08:29.780 And so, and we have Sergio.

00:08:33.180 So, Brick Sue, a lot of us recognize you.

00:08:36.760 I think most of us do.

00:08:38.100 And I think maybe we wanted to ask you a couple of questions, too, because you've had quite a fascinating run over the years with President Trump and his campaign.

00:08:52.060 And I don't know if I forgot this, but the group reminded me today that you were in Butler, Pennsylvania that horrendous day, weren't you?

00:09:03.440 What happened?

00:09:04.740 I was.

00:09:05.320 I was there.

00:09:05.820 I was in the front row, a rally, much like every other rally I'd been to.

00:09:13.800 And the reason I had that time off was because I was actually a delegate for California for the RNC.

00:09:20.660 So I was a Trump delegate planning on going to Milwaukee.

00:09:24.660 And then they added the Butler rally kind of at the last minute.

00:09:29.060 And I had the time off.

00:09:30.580 And I just, you know, I looked at how much it would cost to restructure my ticket to go to Butler.

00:09:35.940 I had a couple of reasons I wanted to go there.

00:09:39.800 First of all, it was a Trump rally.

00:09:41.680 Second of all, I thought there might be a VP pick.

00:09:44.800 And third, there's actually a guy in the Pittsburgh area who bought a suit just like mine and would go to rallies.

00:09:51.920 So I felt the need to defend my turf being that close to Pittsburgh.

00:09:57.580 And, you know, I made the decision to go there.

00:10:00.120 And, you know, we all we all know what happened.

00:10:04.440 That was an incredible day.

00:10:06.900 Oh, my God.

00:10:07.740 I can't even imagine.

00:10:09.260 I mean, just watching it.

00:10:10.720 I can't imagine being there.

00:10:13.020 And, you know, we've seen so many times where President Trump has brought you up on stage at a rally, shouted you out from the podium.

00:10:20.720 I know Scott got a big kick out of you.

00:10:24.260 You know, it's just fun.

00:10:26.500 It's like this character you've created.

00:10:28.600 Right.

00:10:29.120 And how's that worked out for you?

00:10:34.520 Totally unexpected.

00:10:36.520 Totally, totally not something I ever thought would happen.

00:10:40.320 But as I'm looking down at my phone here to get a call to get up, there's a direct link, actually, between Scott and me becoming Brickson.

00:10:49.360 Not many people know this.

00:10:51.320 I just put up in my pinned tweet.

00:10:53.980 The first rally I ever went to was in Las Vegas.

00:10:57.060 And I was very far back.

00:10:59.580 And I thought, you know, after the rally, I went up to the people in the front and said, how early did you get here?

00:11:05.180 When did you get here?

00:11:06.720 And they told me the next rally I went to was in 2018 in Mesa, Arizona, for a senator candidate.

00:11:15.620 I think it was Martha McSally in Arizona.

00:11:17.820 And at that time, I'm on the Donald on Reddit.

00:11:23.160 You know, I'm definitely tuned in to Scott.

00:11:25.860 And he picked up on the slogan from Reddit, jobs, not mobs.

00:11:31.500 So that got into my consciousness.

00:11:35.140 And I ended up making a shirt for that.

00:11:38.340 Went to the rally early in Phoenix.

00:11:41.020 And then President Trump actually got a picture of me on the grounds there wearing my Jobs Not Mobs shirt and tweeted that out.

00:11:52.840 So the very second rally I went to, I pick up a slogan from Scott.

00:11:57.740 I make a shirt.

00:11:59.080 It gets a picture of me tweeted out because it was Twitter back then.

00:12:03.360 It wasn't posted.

00:12:04.020 It was a tweet.

00:12:05.060 Tweeted out by the president.

00:12:06.540 And so later, when I decided to become a human meme, it really drew a lot of inspiration from that experience where taking a slogan out of cyberspace, out of the web, and putting it into real life and becoming a meme in real life.

00:12:24.560 And that's basically why I decided to buy the suit.

00:12:28.960 You guys have questions for BrickSuit?

00:12:30.960 I know you do.

00:12:31.740 It's so interesting.

00:12:34.540 I do.

00:12:35.120 This is an amazing honor to have a living legend meme, you know, with us walking.

00:12:43.360 I've been to a rally, and I might have seen you there.

00:12:48.720 Did you go to Tucson ever on 2020?

00:12:50.800 I don't think I went to Tucson in 2020, but I went there in 2024.

00:12:57.140 There was a rally at the Linda Ronstadt Center that I went to.

00:13:00.880 Okay.

00:13:01.280 There was an imposter taking a...

00:13:05.020 So, no, but the beautiful lesson here that you give us a break to, Mr. BrickSuit, is that you are telling us that with that effort that you did to stand out,

00:13:16.140 you got the attention, which is the number one rule in persuasion, to get attention, right?

00:13:23.260 Scott taught us that.

00:13:24.340 And you got the attention of the president to make you into not just like one-dimensional meme,

00:13:33.660 but a three-dimensional meme that is multiplying, that is taking videos, that is spreading everywhere, like that.

00:13:40.360 And that's what a meme is, you know, we're all memes, basically.

00:13:44.200 Every person is a living meme, in a way.

00:13:47.620 Some are, you know, more proliferous than others.

00:13:51.420 But this is wonderful to have you here and show us what can be done, you know?

00:13:57.020 Well, actually, that's kind of what actually happened is because, you know, basically my motivation at the beginning was get to the rallies early

00:14:04.760 so that I could be up near the front because I wanted to be there.

00:14:08.680 But then when I had the very third, the third rally I ever went to, I bought this because I had two extra days in D.C.

00:14:16.280 I had a trip planned back east.

00:14:18.920 I was flying into D.C. and I wanted something to be able to trigger the leftists.

00:14:23.000 So I bought the whole suit.

00:14:25.360 And the day before I left my home in San Diego, President Trump announced a rally in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.

00:14:31.580 I was able to go to that rally.

00:14:33.340 I got there at midnight.

00:14:34.880 I was third in line.

00:14:36.440 I ended up in the front row.

00:14:38.120 And that's where he first called me up on stage.

00:14:41.520 And so then as I began to go back to rallies, you know, I would get up near the front.

00:14:47.000 And this is 2020.

00:14:49.020 This is, you know, there's a lot of press coverage at that time.

00:14:52.220 And it became apparent to me, like, I will say this.

00:14:56.420 The first time I ever gave an interview, I was terrible at it.

00:14:59.540 It was not a talent that I had.

00:15:01.100 It wasn't something I was able to do well.

00:15:03.340 As I did more of them, I got better.

00:15:05.440 And from, I guess, a very selfish perspective, I realized that I had done so many of these interviews that I was actually better at articulating whatever it was the administration was trying to convey at that point in time. 0.94

00:15:18.780 So I felt like if I get there early and I wear this suit, the media will come to me because they're going to assume that I'm just some fool dressed up like a clown.

00:15:28.880 And then I can give them sound bites that the Trump team is actually putting out there and trying to emphasize in that given time frame. 0.59

00:15:36.440 And so I was kind of like, you know, I was under the radar to the media at that point.

00:15:41.020 They had no idea who I was.

00:15:42.300 I would show up.

00:15:42.940 They didn't really know who I was, except he's a guy that had been on stage twice.

00:15:47.480 And I was able to get the message out.

00:15:50.340 Very useful.

00:15:51.540 You became a useful person, not just an entertainment.

00:15:55.120 What made you want to do this?

00:15:56.360 You know, what made me want to do this is a really good question.

00:16:01.780 It stems back.

00:16:03.040 I first of all, I voted for Reagan in 84.

00:16:06.720 And then that was the last election I ever voted in until 2020.

00:16:10.960 OK, so I was completely divorced from the political realm.

00:16:15.220 Wasn't even registered in 2016.

00:16:17.500 Did not even think that President Trump would be a value, you know, a viable presidential choice.

00:16:23.420 Hated Hillary. 1.00

00:16:24.460 Didn't want her to win.

00:16:25.440 So certainly on board with President Trump in that way.

00:16:28.520 But then he gets in office and he really starts doing what he says he's going to do.

00:16:32.520 And as I said earlier, I'm really tied up in the Donald discord at this time.

00:16:37.060 And then in 2018, we saw the purge from social media of a lot of voices.

00:16:44.340 We saw, you know, Alex Jones is gone.

00:16:46.520 I mean, YouTube pages were canceled.

00:16:49.760 Facebook profiles gone.

00:16:52.480 Twitter pages gone.

00:16:53.720 And just a lot of names went off the radar then.

00:16:57.560 And I figured at that point in time, if you can't have free speech on the Internet, I'm going to bring it back to real life.

00:17:05.920 And I ordered my first Make America Great Again hat and I started going out in San Diego to farmers markets and baseball games and golf tournaments, wearing a Trump hat in 2018 at a time when it was not very popular.

00:17:20.420 And it was really doing that was really just driven by my experience at that first rally and how effective it can be to take something out of the realm where it's normally seen and then take it into real life.

00:17:36.660 And that was kind of how I got the inspiration to make the suit because I'd already been doing that with just a very simple hat.

00:17:44.080 So I'd keep my car and put on when I went about my daily business in San Diego.

00:17:47.780 And how did you find the suit?

00:17:51.180 Did you have to have it custom tailored or was there someone actually selling the suit?

00:17:54.580 The suit is actually made.

00:17:56.540 It's an off the rack suit.

00:17:58.260 It's called a stag suit.

00:18:00.060 It's from England.

00:18:01.700 And apparently, unlike an American bachelor party, when they have these in England, all the lads will order similar clothing so they can be identified in the group.

00:18:12.760 So they behave much like an American bachelorette party would in terms of their apparel.

00:18:17.140 Now, couple that with the best clubs in London having a dress code that the men have to wear suits, there became this cottage industry for semi-disposable, cheap polyester suits and very loud patterns for this type of bachelor party.

00:18:32.820 And so they have like rocket ships and skies and thunder and lightning bolts.

00:18:37.740 And one of the ones they just had was a brick wall.

00:18:39.920 And when I did my initial suit for something to trip, my initial search for something to trigger leftists when I went to D.C., I'm thinking, what do I do?

00:18:49.640 Like taxes?

00:18:50.960 No.

00:18:52.460 How do I get a border shirt?

00:18:55.180 What about a wall suit?

00:18:57.660 And I searched for wall suit.

00:18:59.620 This came up.

00:19:01.560 I ordered it and it's the best 80 bucks I ever spent.

00:19:05.400 Nice.

00:19:06.540 I love that.

00:19:07.400 It's kind of like when I was saying with Sergio T.

00:19:09.620 So Sergio has taught this group how to easily make memes using ChatGPT.

00:19:17.520 And so now we have all these meme warriors.

00:19:19.840 And I think it's kind of like what you're doing, saying you're a living meme because you're not saying anything.

00:19:24.940 You're just putting a visual out there for interpretation.

00:19:30.120 So I see it and I laugh and maybe my neighbor would cry.

00:19:34.960 So you didn't say anything.

00:19:36.560 It's like it's your reaction.

00:19:38.600 I love that.

00:19:39.620 Marcel or Owen, sorry, I cut you off.

00:19:42.960 Hi, Brick Suit.

00:19:44.060 I'm also a fellow Californian.

00:19:46.340 So I wanted to ask you two questions.

00:19:50.700 One is, how is it, living in California?

00:19:56.420 It's very hard.

00:19:57.880 I personally know being a Trump supporter since 2015, how hard it is to be a supporter.

00:20:05.300 Have you had any issues with either the government or people?

00:20:09.080 Oh, well, I had some gentlemen from the FBI come and visit me, you know, at my workplace in early 2021.

00:20:19.580 So I had that issue.

00:20:20.480 But I think the main question you might be asking is about, have I had any blowback from my public support of the president?

00:20:27.620 And I can I can tell you this.

00:20:31.580 When you're an undercover Trump supporter and nobody knows it and then you go to a rally and the president calls you up on stage and two days later you're on Fox and Friends and then you come back to work.

00:20:44.760 But the secret is kind of out, you know, when you get doxed by the president in that way, you know, you have to make a decision.

00:20:51.720 And then I decided to roll with it.

00:20:53.060 Now, my former employer cannot say enough good things about them.

00:20:58.800 No issues from from management.

00:21:01.980 I worked in a facility where there were approximately 300 employees.

00:21:05.900 So as you can imagine, there were some in there who just despised me.

00:21:10.200 Some who just were just really thought it was cool.

00:21:13.180 A lot of low key acknowledgement.

00:21:16.060 And then there were people who were just like, you know, I don't really like the president, but it's cool what happened.

00:21:22.780 So, you know, there were people there was all sorts of range there.

00:21:26.000 So absolutely, yes, I did get blowback.

00:21:29.820 But it's certainly because of the company I worked for, you know, it was not as bad as it could have been.

00:21:35.400 And it was never at risk of losing my job.

00:21:37.580 It was just made clear, you know, don't do politics at work and we're golden.

00:21:41.500 And so I abided by that role.

00:21:44.220 The other question came from someone on Locals, Andy Wang.

00:21:49.140 He wanted to know if you were in D.C. on January 6th.

00:21:53.660 And if not, can you can you elaborate on that?

00:21:57.800 Yeah, I was in D.C. on January 6th.

00:22:00.600 At that time, I was working as a contractor for RSBN.

00:22:04.480 RSBN actually hired me in the latter half of the campaign in 2020 to cover some rallies because they did not have enough internal staff to cover three rallies a day schedule.

00:22:18.280 And they basically put the call out there.

00:22:21.060 And, you know, there are some other alumni from those guest host days, names that people recognize, such as Scott Pressler was one of those guest hosts.

00:22:29.600 Brian Glenn, now at RAV, was one of those guest hosts.

00:22:33.040 And, you know, I did probably about seven.

00:22:35.900 So in January, I had just come from the rally in Dalton two days prior, which I attended myself, then flew into D.C. where I was slated to cover the segment of the rally.

00:22:52.300 Basically, basically, a secondary speaker rally was going to take place near the Capitol steps after the main rally of President Trump by the White House.

00:23:03.020 So I was I was in D.C. on January 6th.

00:23:06.300 Did you did you have any issues afterwards by the FBI or any other thing regarding January 6th?

00:23:14.780 I did. I did because.

00:23:17.160 An image of me actually appeared on a wanted poster from the Metropolitan Police Department for felony assault of an officer.

00:23:28.520 So they put that out there, like wanted in conjunction, felony assault.

00:23:32.740 I knew I had done nothing.

00:23:33.960 But what they really wanted was the camera that they saw me holding.

00:23:37.620 They wanted the footage.

00:23:38.980 So that was kind of their way of getting in touch with me or finding out who I was.

00:23:43.240 Did they get it?

00:23:45.260 Oh, I gave them the footage.

00:23:46.660 Yeah. Yeah.

00:23:47.300 Yeah. I gave them the footage.

00:23:51.340 Because I had footage of the policeman, the Capitol policeman being tased in the neck.

00:23:58.200 So I had footage of that and I didn't even know I captured it at the time.

00:24:02.720 I captured it incidentally just because I was holding a camera up.

00:24:06.020 I wasn't looking at that when it happened.

00:24:07.760 But, you know, when I heard about it later and I reviewed my footage, I said, yeah, I just, you know, for everything that went on that day, I still think assaulting an officer with a taser to the neck is not acceptable.

00:24:24.240 Of course.

00:24:25.240 And so I did give them the footage.

00:24:27.560 Yeah.

00:24:27.720 So, you know, when I came back to work after that, after that January, you know, shortly thereafter, I did get a visit from the FBI and it was, they were just following up in every lead.

00:24:41.920 I didn't get the impression that they were after me for anything that I'd done.

00:24:45.880 It's just that they were, you know, checking names off the list, had a brief conversation with them, a little chit chat.

00:24:52.060 They're playing like the good agent, bad agent.

00:24:53.740 You know, it's like the one guy starts off the interview and says, like, before we start, I got to ask you, where did you get that suit?

00:25:01.180 And so I tell them the story, much like I told you about how I got the suit.

00:25:04.860 And then the very next question is, so on January 6th, were you in Washington, D.C.?

00:25:13.060 And did you see anything violent at the time?

00:25:15.600 Which, having learned from General Flynn, I immediately positively invoked my Fifth Amendment rights and they politely, you know, ended the interview at that point.

00:25:26.840 And I never heard from them again.

00:25:29.460 So smart.

00:25:31.420 I know, right?

00:25:32.480 Know your rights, you guys.

00:25:34.300 Before we switch to talking about the news, which Marcella and Owen will lead us on, I see Socially Sherry on Locals asked, 0.94

00:25:44.740 does Brick plan to rebrand when J.D. Vance runs for president?

00:25:51.960 No, I don't plan to rebrand.

00:25:53.740 It's a really good question.

00:25:55.440 You know, when I initially, first of all, when I first got pulled up on stage, I had no social media accounts.

00:26:01.880 And so I had to think very hard about how to brand.

00:26:05.140 First of all, I had to think about, do I want to do this?

00:26:07.160 This is a time when people were getting attacked in public for wearing a hat.

00:26:10.380 You know, I had to think about, do I really want to make a target of myself in this climate in 2018?

00:26:17.200 And so I purposely tried to pick a name that I felt was, you know, to use a term, evergreen.

00:26:26.140 Brick suit.

00:26:27.520 Emblematic of how most people remember first seeing me.

00:26:30.040 It's not tied to any one specific issue, although it is a metaphor for a border wall.

00:26:36.620 It is not just that.

00:26:38.100 And so, no, I will not be rebranding.

00:26:40.520 I will continue an America first coverage perspective.

00:26:45.100 And strong border controls is an evergreen issue.

00:26:50.860 It is never going away.

00:26:52.060 If there's ever another period of time where we lose control of our borders, as we did under Joe Biden, we will be, again, at existential risk as a country of losing everything we've built over 250 years.

00:27:05.600 So, no, I will not be rebranding.

00:27:07.700 If that happens, we will all buy a brick suit and join you.

00:27:13.800 Thank you so much.

00:27:14.800 That's so interesting to talk to someone who's been on the ground like that.

00:27:18.200 And your persuasion, Scott is definitely smiling about that because he's a believer in it and you do it so well.

00:27:29.280 Can I toss this over to Owen and Marcella to talk about some news stories?

00:27:35.840 Take a sip, you guys, in between while they're setting up.

00:27:38.460 We'll grab a sip, okay?

00:27:40.340 Let's go.

00:27:41.660 Owen, you have to help me today.

00:27:44.120 Right.

00:27:44.800 I'm happy to do it.

00:27:46.060 I think we've got some good stories today.

00:27:47.820 But I do want to ask you a couple more questions.

00:27:50.020 So, have you been involved with the actual border issue actively in making a lot of these things happen?

00:27:56.400 Because it seems like we've made tremendous progress in Trump's second term.

00:28:00.560 Have I been involved?

00:28:01.780 To the extent of my involvement really so far, remember, I was holding a full-time job at the time.

00:28:06.380 So, I would go to rallies and I viewed myself as, you know, I'm calling attention to the issue.

00:28:11.420 I'm getting out press bites, sound bites beforehand.

00:28:14.260 During the rally, you know, I'm close enough.

00:28:18.000 The president would usually see me when he comes out.

00:28:20.020 And then, you know, if he wanted to use me as a prop during the rally, I was there.

00:28:25.360 It wasn't about, you know, it wasn't about so much about me wanting to be recognized at every rally.

00:28:31.100 It's just that, you know, low-key, if he wanted to be calling attention to that, I was kind of there as something he'd point to.

00:28:39.280 And not just as a prop, but also as a, really, this is important.

00:28:42.740 It's really as a proxy for all of his supporters.

00:28:47.640 You know, there's another group of people who go to all the rallies, the Front Row Joes, which I'm sure many people are familiar with. 0.99

00:28:54.420 And so, you know, I believe that the president did like to recognize all of us on occasion because it reminds everybody out there of his supporters.

00:29:06.680 And, you know, have I been to the border directly?

00:29:10.420 No.

00:29:11.000 Have I covered those stories directly?

00:29:12.660 No.

00:29:13.340 That probably will change, though, in the coming years.

00:29:15.940 I am now fully retired and looking to do some more stuff.

00:29:19.400 I wasn't able to make it to Minneapolis, but I'm hoping to go to some other cities where similar operations occur in the future.

00:29:29.640 Yeah.

00:29:29.980 And I mean, there may be more rallies coming up, too.

00:29:32.820 I know there's been some talk about doing that.

00:29:34.760 There's one on Tuesday in Iowa, and I am trying to get there.

00:29:39.540 I would like to add one thing.

00:29:41.640 On Butler, that chart that saved the president, that chart became the most famous chart ever.

00:29:47.980 I was the PowerPoint guy back in corporate, and when that chart came up and the president looked at it, has anybody tried to make a suit of that chart?

00:30:02.880 No.

00:30:03.440 There are people who are selling brick suits on Etsy right now.

00:30:08.480 I mean, there's a couple people.

00:30:09.940 I get messages about that.

00:30:11.800 Really not something I can control.

00:30:13.700 There are other people who have kind of cashed in on it, but I have not.

00:30:16.980 No, okay.

00:30:18.500 Go ahead.

00:30:18.940 Okay.

00:30:19.260 Thank you.

00:30:20.760 I thank you, Brick Suud, because I know you've stayed in California, and to be honest, you're a symbol for all of us that are silent, basically.

00:30:34.860 Obviously not anymore for me, but there's so much support for Trump and for J.D. Vance and such policies, but there's lots of Californians that have to be very quiet because they'll lose their job.

00:30:51.020 They'll do anything to them, and there's also the social thing of, like, oh, you like a Nazi. 0.66

00:30:59.080 You like this.

00:30:59.940 You like that.

00:31:00.520 You like that, and I really, you are a brave man.

00:31:04.660 You are absolutely a brave man, and Scott appreciated you and loved you, and I'm glad you're here with us, and thank you for being the symbol.

00:31:15.640 Well, it's been my pleasure.

00:31:21.020 I'm glad to be here this morning, and it's very early for me to be in the full suit, but, you know, like, maybe next time just the hat if I ever come back.

00:31:29.420 So, you know, but probably the suit.

00:31:31.700 I think it's appropriate.

00:31:32.520 It's your choice for sure.

00:31:36.200 I'm reading all the feedback.

00:31:38.300 Everybody's so enjoying you and what you're saying and finding you interesting.

00:31:42.260 They're thanking you for your service, and there's even been a few AI upgrades on your suit with different wall patterns.

00:31:51.620 So, the options are endless.

00:31:56.600 I'll let Owen and Marcella take it away.

00:31:58.900 Oh, Shelly, yeah.

00:31:59.480 Yeah, just, I was going to say thank you for coming on.

00:32:02.500 Scott would have loved it.

00:32:04.000 Thank you.

00:32:06.560 Okay, so stay with us, BrickSuit.

00:32:08.940 We're going to talk some news, and we'd love for you to chime in, okay?

00:32:13.200 Thanks.

00:32:13.620 Well, starting off with a little science, Eric Dolan, one of Scott's favorites from SciPost, is saying that maladaptive personality traits are linked to poor sleep quality in a new twin study.

00:32:24.760 So, apparently, not getting enough sleep makes you a bad person.

00:32:30.320 It says all these traits were linked to worse sleep, including negative effectivity, detachment, disinhibition, and psychoticism, which I guess is probably psychosis.

00:32:43.280 I think this clearly falls in the category of you could have just asked Scott.

00:32:50.300 Any one of us probably would have known.

00:32:52.640 If you don't get enough sleep, it probably makes you grumpy and does bad things.

00:32:57.560 So, that's what I would expect Scott would have said on that one.

00:33:01.300 Marcella, what do you think?

00:33:02.160 Well, that's interesting.

00:33:06.160 He probably would have said maybe backward signs as well, but I think it's funny because Scott, I know, personally, got like four hours, maybe three hours of sleep a day.

00:33:19.500 And he obviously didn't have any issues, so it depends on how you're built.

00:33:25.560 But I think, I don't know what others would think of that.

00:33:32.160 I just laughed that Scott would be like, oh, like, I hate sleeping.

00:33:35.940 It's such a waste of time.

00:33:37.100 Like, I could be doing things and whatever.

00:33:39.060 And I'm like, oh, my God.

00:33:40.660 I mean, it's so funny because I wish I'm the world's worst sleeper ever.

00:33:45.520 And I always laugh thinking how Scott was saying it was a waste of time.

00:33:50.100 And it's just so him to just be like, I got things to do.

00:33:53.740 I have ideas.

00:33:54.760 And God bless.

00:33:55.960 The other thing I was thinking about, so sorry, just real quick, is that whenever Scott talked about twins, he went on a tangent about how it could be like the perfect crime if you have like a, what is it called, like an identical twin.

00:34:14.000 And it just made me laugh.

00:34:18.080 Go ahead, Sergio.

00:34:19.080 All right.

00:34:20.260 Owen, on that study, so they say that people that don't sleep enough, they're becoming psychos or what?

00:34:28.060 Yeah, it's, let me just get back up to it.

00:34:32.020 It was, they said the personality was measured with the DSM-5, which is the thing that is, you know, basically seeing if you're mentally ill or not.

00:34:41.840 And it said they focused on negative affectivity, detachment, disinhibition, and psychoticism.

00:34:49.180 And it said all traits were linked to worse sleep.

00:34:53.700 Negative affectivity and detachment showed the strongest ties.

00:34:56.760 So, I guess that means it probably just makes you much more negative and detached if you don't get enough sleep.

00:35:05.520 Yeah, Joseph Scott.

00:35:07.240 Quick question on that.

00:35:08.920 Is there, is this a correlation causation on the study?

00:35:13.020 Like, is the sleep causing the issues or are the issues causing the lack of sleep?

00:35:20.500 Good question.

00:35:21.180 That's exactly the backward science that I think Marcela was getting at. 0.98

00:35:24.140 Is that Scott would often say, these studies are backwards.

00:35:27.600 They're, they're measuring the, you know, the wrong thing.

00:35:30.300 And, you know, like there's often studies he would talk about, about like how people that, you know, go do things outside are better, you know, better off.

00:35:43.340 And then he would say, well, you know, if you, if you're not healthy, you're not going to be able to go outside.

00:35:47.720 Like, it's got to be a little backwards.

00:35:50.840 So, yeah, I think this definitely could qualify for that, that maybe someone who's a psycho or is very negative might have trouble sleeping.

00:36:00.520 So, yeah, you could be right.

00:36:02.660 And that's the best part of those questions like that.

00:36:04.520 That's the best part of this section of the show where Scott does it because it teaches us all to, you know, look at the news from a different angle like that instead of just taking it from the, whatever they tell us.

00:36:15.760 So, this is, right, this is the lesson.

00:36:19.240 Yeah.

00:36:20.060 So, getting into the politics, there's certainly a lot more controversy coming with the Minnesota protests and the church storming.

00:36:28.240 Apparently, there's some news that one of the people that led that storming of the church took home over a million dollars from an anti-poverty nonprofit that she led.

00:36:38.440 So, clearly, there's some vested interest there.

00:36:41.220 It looks like the nonprofit gave $700,000 in grants over six years.

00:36:46.700 She got, like, $936,000 in salary plus $200,000 in benefits.

00:36:53.620 So, she took more home than they gave out in grants, which seems like a pattern for a lot of these NGOs that they end up just keeping most of the money.

00:37:03.900 And I think the next story had to do with that as well, where Noam is saying that there are arrests coming.

00:37:14.600 I think they may have already happened now because when the story came out, it said it's going to happen within hours.

00:37:21.040 But Kristi Noam is saying they're going to be arresting these people for disrupting the church.

00:37:26.200 Yeah, there has been one arrest so far.

00:37:29.540 A.G. Bondi has put it out, and Harmeet Dillon has also reposted it.

00:37:33.540 So, one of the – maybe the same person you were talking about, I don't know, but one of the ringleaders, a woman who was instrumental in that,

00:37:42.560 I think the one who was interviewed by Don Lemon outside, has been arrested.

00:37:47.520 Fingers crossed that the Lemon himself will be arrested if he's guilty.

00:37:51.980 I don't want him arrested if he's not guilty, but if the evidence shows that he colluded, then that's on him.

00:37:59.680 I saw him in the church talking to the pastor.

00:38:02.540 I don't know how you could say he wasn't disrupting the service.

00:38:05.960 And he talked about it before even going in.

00:38:08.540 Like, he brought coffee and donuts to these people, I think, and said, we're going somewhere.

00:38:13.580 I think he spit it out and said it was – I think he said it was a church, but he said, I can't tell you where we're going,

00:38:20.500 but it's going to happen, and you're going to see it live.

00:38:23.220 So, he was fully aware. 0.98

00:38:26.020 Yeah, but he's black and gay, so he must be immune, according to him at least. 1.00

00:38:31.540 So, there's that. 0.90

00:38:32.860 I hate to leave that there are bad news, but the jury, even if it's a federal case, which I don't – it would be a federal case if no one is involved, would be a Minnesota jury.

00:38:48.460 That's correct.

00:38:49.320 It would be a Minnesota jury, but importantly, it would not be from – necessarily from Minneapolis.

00:38:55.000 True.

00:38:55.320 It would be pulled from all corners of the states, and, you know, Minnesota outside of the – look, we don't want a stacked jury for our side in much the same way we don't want a stacked jury against us.

00:39:10.480 We want a fair jury.

00:39:12.060 So, I think that you will see that, that they will be – you know, they will make sure that it's not just a jury just from Minneapolis property.

00:39:21.920 Very true.

00:39:22.480 They probably would ask for the venue to change because of the prejudice in Minneapolis.

00:39:31.300 Yeah, it could be.

00:39:32.360 I mean, it's questionable whether or not they'd allow that.

00:39:36.380 I know there was the same kind of request with the George Floyd case, which was probably the most clear case of bias where it should have been changed to a different venue, and they didn't.

00:39:45.780 But that was, in my opinion, just a lynching.

00:39:48.280 So, you know, it was horrible.

00:39:50.560 But we'll have to see.

00:39:53.100 Go ahead, Sergio.

00:39:54.840 I'll ask you, because it's on the same subject.

00:39:57.440 If Don Lemon proves that he did not know that it was a church, like, will that get him off?

00:40:05.320 Because, Marcela, you're a lawyer, you know, no?

00:40:08.100 So, if he knew –

00:40:09.540 As a lawyer would say, it depends on a lot of things.

00:40:12.560 So, I mean, even if he knew it was a church, he could have said he didn't intentionally threaten anyone because I think you have to have the threat.

00:40:22.220 I'm not familiar with the FACE Act and the KKK Act, but I think there has to be more than just interrupting something.

00:40:32.380 So, it would have to be – there would have to be subpoenaed different – collected different documents, like his phone and his information in the computer and what they were planning and who was behind it.

00:40:47.240 So, it could lead to different type of charges once you investigate.

00:40:52.480 But there is probable cause for arrest and for possibly more issues coming.

00:40:59.900 I'm laughing because V8G360 on Locals said, if Don Lemon is arrested, he will believe he is MLK Jr.

00:41:10.000 Yes, he will.

00:41:12.380 And also, I heard once they were asked to leave and they didn't, then that also turned into trespassing.

00:41:17.820 So, I'm not a lawyer.

00:41:21.500 Yeah.

00:41:22.680 All right.

00:41:23.380 Well, there is another victory on this front as well.

00:41:26.880 The appeals court apparently handed Trump, the Trump administration, a victory in terms of the force restrictions.

00:41:32.900 So, there was a lawsuit saying that they were trying to stop ICE from being able to use force against protesters.

00:41:39.120 And there was an injunction against that and this was overturned.

00:41:42.280 So, the appeals court overturned that.

00:41:45.600 And, you know, so the liberal judge that tried to handcuff ICE has now been struck down.

00:41:52.120 This is just a temporary victory.

00:41:53.300 I think they're still, you know, moving forward with the case.

00:41:56.100 But, at this point, they're allowed to use force and they can continue doing what they're doing.

00:42:03.580 All right.

00:42:04.440 So, I mean, I think to me the theme today, though, should be just Trump winning.

00:42:10.200 Because he seems to be winning so hard.

00:42:13.620 I want to turn our attention to what's going on in Davos.

00:42:16.680 And he has this framework that he agreed to for Greenland.

00:42:23.060 Apparently, it's not even just Greenland.

00:42:24.660 It's like the whole Arctic cap or that whole region of the world.

00:42:29.200 And so, you know, he went in there with a pretty strong card to play that he said he was going to ramp up the tariffs.

00:42:36.440 And it looks like Europe and NATO back down.

00:42:40.320 I don't know that it necessarily means he's going to literally acquire Greenland.

00:42:43.940 But it does seem like he's going to get some kind of national defense thing going there to protect that region against Russia and against China.

00:42:53.180 And so, Rubio and Wittakov and Vance, who are the usual people to lead most of the most important negotiations, have been leading the talks there.

00:43:01.920 So, I think that's still ongoing.

00:43:03.660 But it looks like they have agreed to a framework.

00:43:05.880 And they at least got far enough with it that Trump said, I'm not going to go forward with the tariffs.

00:43:09.900 He did mention that he's not going to use force to take Greenland, which seemed like a big sigh of relief for everybody.

00:43:16.340 I don't know that anyone, well, I certainly never thought he was going to go invade Greenland with military force.

00:43:22.860 But apparently, he is saying that he's not going to do that.

00:43:28.320 But at the same time, there's a quote from him saying, you know,

00:43:31.080 we probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, but I won't do that.

00:43:36.060 So, he certainly is acknowledging that he could easily do that, but apparently, he's taken that off the table.

00:43:42.540 But that's a huge win, that he'd be able to get, you know, better protection over Greenland and that area of the world.

00:43:51.640 Because as most of you are probably aware by now, it is a vulnerable spot in terms of both missiles and other attacks that might be coming from Russia or from China.

00:44:00.420 But especially when the region is a little more navigable, you know, submarines can come through there and there isn't much else protecting us against that.

00:44:11.340 So, that's like the most direct route from there to the United States.

00:44:15.500 And so, you know, any kind of increased national security there, I think, will be a huge win.

00:44:20.400 I love when he kept saying Iceland, sorry.

00:44:23.880 And then somebody said, do you think Iceland's like, oh, my God, what did we do?

00:44:27.600 And he accidentally said Iceland.

00:44:30.360 Please, please, each Iceland part of America.

00:44:33.860 I think one of the most important things, though, to look at that, the impending framework coming out of Greenland and the reports about it,

00:44:40.880 are the very significant clause that's in there, is that sovereignty will be granted to the United States in small pockets of Greenland.

00:44:50.520 And that means it's not just the right for us to have a base.

00:44:53.720 It means that that piece of land will actually be America.

00:44:57.880 And that's important because if any of those pieces are on a coastline, we will have territorial rights to the ocean extending outwards to whatever the limit is from that point.

00:45:13.020 And that enables us to have more control over the navigation and shipping lanes that may be going by that land at the time.

00:45:21.480 So, it's not just like an agreement to get bases done.

00:45:24.600 You know, these are going to be real outposts of America on the top of the world that we are going to employ for our safety.

00:45:33.180 And, you know, looking at Trump's negotiation strategy, it's pure Trump.

00:45:37.480 It's classic Trump.

00:45:39.040 Ask for much more than you need.

00:45:41.940 You know, apply some screws of public pressure and then get back to what you really actually wanted,

00:45:50.120 which was the ability to make bases up there, have some mineral rights, control some of the sea lanes, and just take it back from there.

00:45:59.000 And if eventually, you know, a couple decades from now, it leads to the Greenlanders embracing us and voting to join America.

00:46:07.620 I mean, where are all these people, all these leftists in America who want to decolonize?

00:46:12.180 They're always talking about decolonization, and yet here they are still ostensibly supporters of European colonialism in North America.

00:46:20.260 They should want Greenlanders to be able to choose where they would like to make their affiliation, and that could still happen somewhere in the future.

00:46:28.540 One thing that's kind of saying is how Trump created assets out of the air, right?

00:46:37.180 He didn't come with a basket of money, right?

00:46:40.560 He came with an idea that there could be guns around, right?

00:46:47.020 He also came up with the idea that, hey, Thaddeus might come down.

00:46:51.700 That's the offer.

00:46:52.900 There's nothing.

00:46:53.680 He's not giving anything.

00:46:54.820 It costed us zero dollars to get this deal.

00:46:58.940 So that's the best part.

00:47:01.020 And when I saw him talking yesterday, he's saying I'm president of the planet now.

00:47:07.260 He's not, that's it.

00:47:08.620 That's what happened.

00:47:10.580 Everybody just sit down.

00:47:12.620 I am in charge now.

00:47:14.380 It's a mess what you guys have been doing for the last five years here.

00:47:18.420 I'm going to fix it now.

00:47:20.020 So I think that's what it looks like to me.

00:47:21.460 From a persuasion point, that's it.

00:47:24.820 The message I get.

00:47:26.420 What do you think, Owen?

00:47:28.260 Yeah, I agree.

00:47:29.320 I mean, I think everything I'm hearing is that he's following what Scott has said Trump does, which is to always take the strongest position on every issue.

00:47:36.740 And he's been very direct, telling Europe that they need to follow America's example.

00:47:43.140 And, you know, he talked a lot about the migration problem in Europe, which is worse than it is here, frankly, and how it's kind of ruining the country and they really need to turn that around. 0.95

00:47:55.440 And it really seems like a lot of European leaders are, you know, really looking up to Trump at this point.

00:48:02.760 There are some that have come out to defend his point of view, and nobody really is opposing him very strongly.

00:48:08.500 And it's really bothering Gavin Newsom to the point where he was having a meltdown and saying, you know, he thought he should bring knee pads for the world leaders because they're, you know, sucking up to Trump so much.

00:48:21.560 And so it really seems like a huge victory in terms of just how Trump is being perceived by all the world leaders, that he's clearly, you know, the big man on that stage.

00:48:35.780 And, you know, everyone's looking up to what he's doing, and I think they're acknowledging all of his victories.

00:48:40.740 So it seems like he's just winning left and right.

00:48:43.420 And the other issue I would add to this at this point is the Board of Peace that he's putting together.

00:48:49.040 It's focused on Gaza, but it seems like he's trying to turn it into something even bigger than that, where I think he mentioned it might even replace NATO, this Board of Peace.

00:49:00.300 And, you know, that may just be another provocative statement on his part.

00:49:03.480 But the persuasion around that, I think, is just incredible.

00:49:07.820 He invited Putin to join this Board of Peace, and apparently Putin accepted.

00:49:13.540 And he's even talking about paying the billion-dollar fee that Trump is asking for to be a permanent member of it.

00:49:21.020 And he's saying maybe he'll use some of those frozen funds that he can't use for anything else anyway, so he may get that billion dollars from Putin.

00:49:27.080 And then Trump also invited the Pope to join, and the Vatican said they're considering it.

00:49:34.700 And I just find that incredible.

00:49:37.400 Like, how could you say no to joining the Board of Peace as the Pope?

00:49:41.300 And, you know, we all know that the Pope is not very politically aligned with Trump, but how could he not say, I'm going to be part of this Board of Peace?

00:49:48.960 That's genius.

00:49:49.960 That's genius.

00:49:50.960 I didn't know about the Pope.

00:49:52.020 He got the medal already.

00:49:56.340 He's got a Nobel Prize, a Peace Prize already, so he can call himself a medalist, you know?

00:50:03.800 Someone on Locals named Rushdie has a few points to make, but he indicates that the Board of Peace itself is a kill shot, linguistically, because it drives you, if you go against it, it's like an 80-20 subject where if you're going to not join, then that automatically puts you against peace.

00:50:31.180 So, it's a high ground maneuver, as he said, and as Scott would say.

00:50:37.360 So, it's very interesting that he named it Board of Peace, and it's also very catchy and repetitive.

00:50:45.060 So, it drives them insane over in Europe.

00:50:49.260 I love it.

00:50:49.860 And I don't know, I was telling Owen, and I think Erica and Sergio, that the European leaders just look like children compared to Trump.

00:51:02.900 They don't know what to do and how to even deal with the weapon-grade persuasion that he's using on them.

00:51:14.040 That's right.

00:51:17.120 Nikki, on Locals, thanks, Nikki.

00:51:19.640 She said that he launched the Board of Peace, and 20 countries have signed on, including Egypt and Israel.

00:51:28.280 He's describing it as the most prestigious board ever formed and emphasizing a potential for Gaza reconstruction.

00:51:37.500 Okay.

00:51:39.480 Owen?

00:51:39.920 Yeah, no, that, I mean, I just think it's incredible that, you know, he's shaking the box again, and he's, I mean, again, to me, like, the most surprising thing is he actually invited Putin to join, and he accepted, because that, to me, extends this well beyond Gaza, right?

00:51:57.980 Like, that has to be tied to what's going on in Ukraine.

00:52:01.300 I mean, someone just put that France rejected Trump's offer of the Board of Peace from unusual whales.

00:52:12.120 Yeah, well, I mean, it's not surprising to me that some of the more less friendly European leaders might bow out, but, you know, they may end up changing their mind because they might realize they're being left out now.

00:52:25.260 And if the Board of Peace becomes something that's maybe as significant as the UN or NATO, they're going to want to be part of it.

00:52:31.440 And, you know, it's one of these things where once you get enough countries on board, everybody else wants a seat at the table.

00:52:38.280 And thanks for reminding us, Gunner the Cat also reminds us that Scott often said Russia and the U.S. are natural allies, and it's so true. 1.00

00:52:48.980 And I have no issue, what do I know again, but I have no issue with bringing Russia on board. 0.98

00:52:55.040 I'd rather work together.

00:52:57.160 You know, there were two countries that love our country and want to protect our countries and, you know, not join, like, a global initiative.

00:53:08.480 So I'm down with that.

00:53:10.520 I like it.

00:53:12.620 Yeah.

00:53:13.340 BrickSuit, what do you think?

00:53:17.160 Am I surprised that France has surrendered yet again?

00:53:20.460 No.

00:53:21.860 You know, certainly they were our greatest allies.

00:53:24.520 We are celebrating our 250th anniversary, and you can make the argument, and you'd probably be correct, that we would not be a country without the intervention and the assistance of France in the American Revolution.

00:53:37.040 So it has not always been the case that they've been this spineless, but I think certainly we can look at the present leadership and their most recent leadership, you know, at the top level, not Marine Le Pen,

00:53:51.180 because I think she's a great example of a populist nationalist leader that we're seeing in a lot of countries. 0.55

00:53:57.440 But Macron is not, you know, why is he wearing glasses?

00:54:01.640 Why is he wearing sunglasses again?

00:54:03.320 Did it, you know, did Brigitte give him one of those getting off the plane slaps one more time, like put the hand up in his face?

00:54:10.460 Did he get the stiff arm one last time?

00:54:12.880 I don't know.

00:54:13.700 He's just not a strong leader.

00:54:15.620 He doesn't protect that.

00:54:16.660 It doesn't surprise me that he doesn't have a vision of President Trump.

00:54:22.020 And he's on his way out, right?

00:54:24.400 Trump doesn't want to invite him anywhere because he has no future right now.

00:54:29.560 Yeah, well, I know the polls are terrible for Macron.

00:54:34.600 Like, it's just one of the lowest ever in history for a world leader.

00:54:39.460 I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but I know we've covered that in the past where the polls are just incredibly low.

00:54:45.740 It's like less than even the 25% that Scott talks about.

00:54:48.780 Like, it's really bad.

00:54:50.460 So I don't think Macron has much of a future in his own country.

00:54:54.400 I think his wife might win more than him, you know?

00:54:56.860 If she's not still stuck in all the lawsuits against Candace Owens and everyone else. 0.93

00:55:04.240 All right.

00:55:04.900 Well, maybe we can end with a story that's on border control.

00:55:08.760 So there's a record surge in DHS self-deportation app usage.

00:55:13.940 DHS is saying that the website traffic has surged 68% as thousands of people are using the app for voluntary departure.

00:55:21.680 Fox News is reporting on this.

00:55:23.060 And they're saying there's 102 million views, 67 million visitors versus 40 million prior.

00:55:29.860 And so, you know, this is part of the app offers a thousand dollar stipend and travel aid for people who want to self-deport.

00:55:39.220 And so far, we've had nearly 3 million illegals that have left the country.

00:55:44.160 2.2 million of those are self-deport.

00:55:46.880 And 675,000 have been deported.

00:55:49.820 So we've had the lowest U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions ever.

00:55:53.640 Fentanyl is down 50%.

00:55:55.140 And I think they're saying this has basically saved us probably $13.2 billion.

00:56:00.120 So huge, huge, huge victory.

00:56:06.920 A lot of lives, you know, with the fentanyl drops, right?

00:56:10.700 Yeah.

00:56:12.840 Yeah.

00:56:13.360 And that was a very important issue for Scott.

00:56:14.880 And I'll just start down.

00:56:16.300 You know, I think what you're talking about on the self-deportation, let's recognize this fact.

00:56:21.660 When Biden opened the borders, so many benefits were being extended to illegal aliens that, for economic reasons, they decided to come to the United States.

00:56:32.060 It made sense.

00:56:33.200 There were a lot of carrots out for them to do that. 0.70

00:56:35.200 And, you know, I don't like that they came here, but I understand their reasoning.

00:56:39.280 But now it's a totally different inverted scenario.

00:56:42.780 The benefits are going away.

00:56:44.260 And now they are economic actors.

00:56:48.520 I think that they will begin to leave because not only do they get the assistance when they leave, which may have been ramped up recently.

00:56:55.860 I know it was at 2000.

00:56:57.340 I saw a story that may be even higher now.

00:57:00.460 But if they stay, you know, they risk everything.

00:57:04.720 They're not going to be able to sell off their possessions that they have here in the United States before they leave the country.

00:57:11.160 If they leave the country voluntarily, they have a chance of being able to come back in the future. 1.00

00:57:16.560 If they get caught, that chance is gone.

00:57:19.380 And so, you know, there's a very strong economic incentives for these people to leave.

00:57:24.280 And, you know, I think people have been doubting.

00:57:27.700 People have been doubting that these deportations would be successful overall.

00:57:31.700 People have been doubting a lot of things.

00:57:33.600 And I'll just kind of a segue here.

00:57:35.960 I've seen, you know, with regards to people being arrested in Minnesota, I saw a lot of black pillars, a lot of people saying that nothing would ever happen. 0.96

00:57:45.180 I don't think it's any.

00:57:47.580 For this audience, I think we all know the difference here.

00:57:51.100 If you stake out a position that nothing is going to happen, you're locked into that ideological.

00:57:56.160 So instead of saying nothing's going to happen, just, you know, move a little bit over and say something could happen.

00:58:04.120 You don't know what the chances are that something could happen.

00:58:07.220 But something good could happen in terms of what you want, the eventual outcome, your best case scenario.

00:58:12.680 Don't lock yourself in here at the end of where nothing can happen.

00:58:16.260 Move yourself closer this way to say something could happen.

00:58:19.580 And then adjust your feelings later about the eventuality of that when certain events happen.

00:58:27.300 Like today, there actually are arrests for that church invasion that happened just last weekend.

00:58:34.040 So did it happen the next day like we all, like many people wanted from, you know, one of these crime dramas on TV?

00:58:42.020 And a lot of people saying nothing's ever going to happen.

00:58:44.860 Well, something already happened.

00:58:47.240 So adjust.

00:58:48.520 And again, this is not necessarily for the audience, but maybe a way that you can explain it to people who you know, who are in that black bill camp of nothing will ever happen. 0.88

00:58:58.880 Help nudge them over to something could happen.

00:59:01.420 And that's what we would call a great reframe, BrickSuit.

00:59:05.380 Thank you.

00:59:06.920 You guys, I'm going to wrap it up.

00:59:09.240 Shelly's going to say something.

00:59:11.280 The only things I wanted to let you know, first of all, BrickSuit, amazing.

00:59:16.480 Thank you so much.

00:59:17.720 Everybody wants you to come back.

00:59:19.500 So we hope you will join us again.

00:59:21.600 It was such a treat having you here.

00:59:24.680 Owen, Marcella, and Sergio, I love you guys.

00:59:27.480 You're the bomb.

00:59:28.700 Sergio wants to say something.

00:59:32.120 I can't hear you.

00:59:33.060 Oh, wait.

00:59:33.280 Go ahead.

00:59:33.540 Can you guys hear Sergio?

00:59:41.880 I can't.

00:59:42.680 No.

00:59:43.100 No.

00:59:44.440 Okay.

00:59:45.360 Okay.

00:59:45.920 So tomorrow is going to be a little bit of a shorter show, but we're going to be here.

00:59:50.360 All right.

00:59:50.820 And we have some guests lined up for next week also.

00:59:54.680 And we're reading your comments on YouTube and locals and trying to check you guys out.

00:59:59.700 And thank you for the amazing feedback.

01:00:01.780 So we're going to turn it over to Shelly.

01:00:04.260 And we'll see you guys in the morning.

01:00:08.960 Yes.

01:00:09.600 Thank you, everybody.

01:00:11.600 Thank you, BrickSuit.

01:00:12.720 Um, I just want to remind everybody that, um, there will be a live stream honoring Scott's

01:00:20.080 legacy.

01:00:20.900 It'll take place Sunday, this, this Sunday, January 25th, roughly around 11 a.m. Pacific

01:00:28.200 Standard Time.

01:00:29.140 So I hope that you can all join in as that's what Scott's wishes were.

01:00:36.200 So thank you.

01:00:38.680 And we will see you tomorrow.

01:00:42.720 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 22, 2026

Episode 3078 - The Scott Adams School 01⧸22⧸26

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