Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3085 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸02⧸26

00:00:00.640 Good morning, everyone.

00:00:03.180 Good morning.

00:00:05.420 Hey, everyone.

00:00:07.280 I see Steven and Rick and Gunnar.

00:00:09.500 Look at you guys.

00:00:14.320 I'm looking for Andy Wang.

00:00:16.740 Shout out to Andy Wang.

00:00:18.040 He makes me laugh so hard.

00:00:20.360 Like everything he says is gold.

00:00:24.020 Look at you guys.

00:00:25.780 Wu-Tang. Andy Wang.

00:00:26.940 Oh, there he is. There's Andy.

00:00:28.980 Shout out Andy.

00:00:31.000 Good morning, YouTube.

00:00:33.560 Good morning, Rumble.

00:00:35.760 Hi, X.

00:00:37.220 You guys, it's a Monday morning.

00:00:39.580 You can see we have a special guest with us,

00:00:41.600 but we can't do anything until we sip.

00:00:45.100 So let's get into it with a sip clip.

00:00:49.480 Ready?

00:00:57.820 Hey, everybody.

00:00:59.680 Come on in.

00:01:00.940 It's time.

00:01:02.140 It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:01:04.440 In a moment, I'm going to be introducing a special guest whose book read November already in the top 10 of a lot of its categories on Amazon.

00:01:13.740 I was noticing, and it's only just out today, I believe.

00:01:17.300 But we'll be talking to Joel Pollack in a little bit should my technology work the way I'd like it to.

00:01:24.720 But before that, yeah, before that, we have to do some very, very important stuff that will change your life a little bit.

00:01:36.200 It's called a simultaneous sip.

00:01:37.720 Makes everything better.

00:01:38.620 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or gels, there's nine, a candy, a drink or a glass, a festival of any kind.

00:01:47.080 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:49.220 I like coffee.

00:01:51.340 Join me now.

00:01:52.260 I feel sorry for all the people who did not take a sip just then.

00:02:14.120 Because their relative happiness is now not even close to the people who said, big difference, big difference.

00:02:24.240 All right.

00:02:25.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:02:27.240 I love that.

00:02:27.920 Joel, see?

00:02:28.760 He knew you were coming on today.

00:02:32.100 You playing that?

00:02:33.420 I mean, right?

00:02:36.360 So you guys, welcome.

00:02:38.780 And we do have a special guest.

00:02:40.040 We're going to get right into it.

00:02:41.100 We have Joel with us for about 20 minutes, okay?

00:02:44.820 So I'm Erica.

00:02:46.620 We have the beautiful Marcella.

00:02:48.960 We have sexy Sergio.

00:02:51.500 More dapper than tapper.

00:02:53.260 We have the voice and image of Owen Gregorian.

00:02:56.320 And our special, special guest today is Scott's biographer, friend, confidant, and an all-around amazing human being, Joel Pollack, is joining us.

00:03:09.620 Good morning.

00:03:11.100 Good morning to you.

00:03:12.040 I hope you can hear me and see me and everything.

00:03:14.300 It's really impressive, by the way, that you guys are keeping this going.

00:03:17.680 And I'm just looking on the Rumble platform.

00:03:20.140 There are over 2,000 people watching live, which is incredible.

00:03:24.040 So congratulations to you.

00:03:26.380 And I think that means this is becoming a regular thing.

00:03:29.100 And I'm really happy about that.

00:03:31.160 So let me dive in.

00:03:33.520 First of all, I am Joel Pollack.

00:03:36.560 I am the new opinion editor of the brand-new California Post, which just started a week ago today.

00:03:44.640 And I'm in Santa Monica, California right now, although my family and I have temporarily relocated to Washington, D.C. since the Palisades Fire.

00:03:52.560 So I go back and forth.

00:03:54.020 So if you see me complaining on Sunday about the ice and snow in D.C. and there's Monday of sunrises on the beach, that's why.

00:04:03.920 I am very happy to be here, and I miss everybody on this Rumble stream.

00:04:10.740 I miss everyone who was at the memorial last weekend for Scott.

00:04:15.340 It was an incredible experience.

00:04:17.020 And I've actually never been part of a memorial like that where every stage really added something special.

00:04:23.960 I've watched it now three times.

00:04:26.320 And go back and watch it.

00:04:28.520 You don't have to feel guilty about watching it at one and a half speed.

00:04:31.120 That's just fine.

00:04:31.920 But go back and watch it.

00:04:33.420 It's incredible.

00:04:35.280 And I'm just amazed at the connection we all made with each other.

00:04:39.540 We hung out afterwards.

00:04:40.900 It was really great.

00:04:42.440 And you see people at these events, and unfortunately, they happen too often.

00:04:46.940 But you see people that you've seen at other memorials or you see at conventions.

00:04:51.160 And there are debates that people have online about various topics.

00:04:55.140 And then you see each other at these big events where you realize a lot of those things don't matter.

00:04:59.180 And it's just great to come back together around what we all share in common.

00:05:03.420 I want to show you a couple things that are special.

00:05:06.700 But first, I'm going to talk a little bit about a reframe that I have felt very helpful.

00:05:11.180 Because as I thought about what I would say today, I thought of so many different things I could say about Scott, about what I'm doing on the biography, about what I'm learning, about Scott's lessons in my own life.

00:05:24.340 But I decided to narrow it down for this episode to one reframe.

00:05:29.280 And maybe if I'm invited back, I could do more reframes or more lessons in the future.

00:05:34.240 But these things are occurring to me all the time.

00:05:37.340 And so I'm going to get into that reframe in a minute.

00:05:40.340 But let me just show you a couple of things that are interesting.

00:05:43.560 So I have a funny way of writing.

00:05:46.780 And I actually wrote a book.

00:05:49.760 It's an e-book on Amazon called How to Write.

00:05:52.780 And I have my own method for writing.

00:05:56.080 I have terrible writer's block.

00:05:57.840 I had an incredibly difficult time when I was at college writing my senior thesis because I would stare at the blank page for days on end and think of all the things I needed to say.

00:06:08.760 But I had no idea how to say them.

00:06:10.320 And I got very little guidance.

00:06:12.540 My thesis advisor said, well, make an outline and then just write point by point to the outline.

00:06:16.500 But that didn't seem right to me.

00:06:18.300 And in the end, I finished.

00:06:19.800 But I wrote a massive amount overnight.

00:06:23.640 And it was an incredibly awful experience.

00:06:26.780 And I just decided I never wanted to repeat that again.

00:06:29.120 So I came up with some writing techniques.

00:06:31.440 And one of them is called the visual block method, which I can explain another time.

00:06:36.180 You'll see a little bit of it here in what I'm about to show you.

00:06:38.780 But one of the other things I started doing was writing longhand.

00:06:42.820 I don't do that for every book I write.

00:06:45.400 But I find that producing a physical product, pen on paper, ink on paper, motivates you to keep writing.

00:06:52.800 And it doesn't matter if what you write is nonsensical, out of order, disorganized.

00:06:59.560 When you write on paper, you know you're going to have to come back and do another draft.

00:07:04.100 So you take the pressure off.

00:07:05.920 And you just write whatever needs to be said.

00:07:09.400 And you discover what needs to be said in the course of writing.

00:07:12.380 So you know you're going to come back and fix it.

00:07:14.660 You just get everything out on the page.

00:07:15.940 And it keeps you going from one page to the next, one day to the next.

00:07:19.580 So this is my longhand so far of Scott's biography.

00:07:24.600 Now, if you can't read any of it, don't worry about that.

00:07:26.800 It's all in my scrawling cursive writing.

00:07:30.220 You can see a little bit of my visual block method because I've got each page divided into

00:07:35.480 paragraphs or four lines each on this particular notebook.

00:07:39.080 Sometimes it's three lines each.

00:07:40.720 But I basically write visually.

00:07:42.160 I write according to blocks that I create on the page.

00:07:46.540 And that's great because it motivates you to fill the block.

00:07:48.860 If you don't know what you're saying, you fill the block.

00:07:51.380 If you have too much to say, you trim it to fill the block.

00:07:53.840 And it just keeps you going from one idea to the next.

00:07:56.320 So this is the early draft of Scott's biography that I'm working on.

00:08:00.760 And I try to go topic by topic.

00:08:03.540 I may rearrange these as I go.

00:08:06.400 But I'm at the point in the draft where I've worked through Scott's early life.

00:08:12.160 And his career in banking in the Bay Area, moving on to Dilbert, and then moving on to

00:08:19.180 other businesses that he started, like his restaurants, which he talks about in some of

00:08:23.020 his books and he spoke about often in his live stream, and other ventures that he did.

00:08:28.260 And now I'm moving into some of Scott's theological views, which I think are very important to some of

00:08:35.420 his other views.

00:08:35.940 So this, of course, is Scott's famous book, God's Debris, which I have with me here.

00:08:41.980 And I'm going to go through what Scott said, why he said it, where these ideas might have

00:08:49.920 come from in his own life, and how he interpreted them later as he developed his own theories

00:08:55.620 of managing the reality and the simulation that we live in.

00:09:00.660 So that's the biography project.

00:09:03.380 It's a little bit every day, I probably devote one hour to it a day, I have an incredible

00:09:08.920 amount of work to do with the California Post, I've got four kids who I love, I've got a beautiful

00:09:14.340 wife, and I'm constantly cleaning up and doing other sorts of household chores. 1.00

00:09:20.480 So there's a lot to balance, the good things and the difficult things.

00:09:24.560 And I think if you can find an hour a day to focus on a creative project, you can really

00:09:29.280 move it along.

00:09:30.020 One of the best lessons I learned about creativity was from a book called The Artist's Way by Julia

00:09:36.460 Cameron, which many of you may have heard of.

00:09:38.620 But when you get into the practice of writing early in the morning, and you get into the

00:09:44.040 mentality of, I just need to do a little bit every day to move it forward.

00:09:48.100 Eventually, you become amazed at what large things you can actually accomplish.

00:09:51.900 I think about Scott often in this context, because he would say, you need to schedule time to

00:09:55.780 exercise every day.

00:09:57.220 And even if all you do is drive to the gym parking lot and sit there and then go home,

00:10:01.740 you still count it.

00:10:02.960 No, you didn't do exercise, but you still went to the gym.

00:10:05.720 And once you get yourself in the habit of doing it, eventually it becomes something bigger,

00:10:10.560 it becomes more rewarding.

00:10:12.000 And that's a lesson you can apply to a lot of other things in life.

00:10:17.040 What I want to talk about in terms of the reframe has a little bit to do with what I mentioned

00:10:26.080 before about the challenges of managing workload and work-life balance and all of that.

00:10:31.440 When I think of Scott's lessons, Scott taught us how to apply different filters to reality.

00:10:37.580 So we all understand reality through a filter.

00:10:40.200 I've got CNN on on my TV here in the hotel room, and their filter is completely different

00:10:45.180 from Fox.

00:10:45.840 The ICE incidents, for example, CNN sees it through a Nazi fascism filter, that this is

00:10:53.320 the American version of fascism.

00:10:56.040 We have the secret police arriving in communities and dragging people away and demanding to see

00:11:00.920 their papers and taking children and all kinds of things.

00:11:05.300 That's the CNN narrative.

00:11:07.020 And they allow a little bit of diversity around that viewpoint.

00:11:10.460 But essentially, you're forced to talk within that narrative.

00:11:15.840 If you go to Fox News, the narrative is very different.

00:11:18.040 This is law enforcement.

00:11:19.520 It is a filter of fulfilling campaign promises, securing the border, making America safe.

00:11:24.960 And there, you can talk about the dramatic drop in crime since the ICE enforcement started,

00:11:30.720 because crime has fallen everywhere.

00:11:32.740 It's not something that one mayor is doing or one governor.

00:11:35.500 It really is about the national policy of rolling out ICE.

00:11:39.620 And we talk about commitment that Trump made.

00:11:42.480 Voters are getting what they voted for.

00:11:44.760 And this is all building up toward the midterm elections.

00:11:47.460 And as Scott often noted, traditionally, the party out of power does better in midterm.

00:11:53.240 So you'd expect Democrats to do well in the midterm elections, unless something big happens

00:11:57.000 and something might happen.

00:11:58.220 But we all have different filters, which is the point of this little digression into the

00:12:02.980 news.

00:12:03.740 And we can choose our filters.

00:12:07.200 This is Scott's point.

00:12:08.560 So if you want to live in the world where we're governed by a Nazi regime, and you have to 0.90

00:12:14.560 be afraid everywhere you go, you can live in that world.

00:12:17.500 However, that world might not correspond to reality.

00:12:20.520 And you might consider a more productive filter, which is the other side's filter, which is the

00:12:25.620 law enforcement filter, that if you obey the law, things will generally go pretty well with you.

00:12:29.940 Or you can take a completely different filter, which is that I don't have any power as an individual

00:12:35.640 citizen to have any impact whatsoever on these things.

00:12:39.420 They don't really affect my life.

00:12:41.480 So I'm going to adapt a completely different filter that focuses on what I can do today.

00:12:47.780 I don't have to get directed into this political conversation.

00:12:51.180 I take an interest in politics.

00:12:52.420 I know what's going on.

00:12:53.420 But I turn the sound down.

00:12:55.080 I scan the headlines.

00:12:56.000 I don't have to read the articles.

00:12:57.160 You take a different filter.

00:12:58.380 But the point is, choose a filter that helps you, helps you achieve something.

00:13:02.880 The best filter isn't necessarily the one that corresponds to the facts.

00:13:07.160 It's the one that helps you get where you're going.

00:13:09.160 And I've really struggled in recent days with the workload that I have.

00:13:15.080 The California Post is an amazing publication.

00:13:17.260 But unlike where I worked for 15 years, Breitbart News, the California Post is not just online.

00:13:23.360 And it's also in print.

00:13:25.200 And print newspapers have deadlines.

00:13:27.660 And the deadlines are non-negotiable.

00:13:29.460 When you work in the online world, you give yourself a little leeway.

00:13:31.940 You can go earlier.

00:13:32.760 You can go later.

00:13:33.420 But in the print world, things have to happen at a certain time.

00:13:37.520 They can't happen before.

00:13:38.720 And they can't happen after.

00:13:40.420 They have to happen at a certain time.

00:13:42.340 And that means that for about five or six hours of the working day, you are stressed out beyond belief.

00:13:49.300 I'm pretty chill right now.

00:13:50.960 But in about 15 minutes, my time is no longer my own.

00:13:55.080 And I am thrust headlong into this storm of news and articles and changes and edits and fixes and meetings and checking back in and social media.

00:14:07.300 And did you remember this?

00:14:08.200 And it's crazy.

00:14:10.020 And yesterday, I work on Sundays because I have to prepare the Monday paper.

00:14:14.840 Yesterday, I was trying to manage all that while at the same time also being a good parent.

00:14:20.840 So I had my son's indoor baseball practice in the middle of absolutely frozen in Washington, D.C.

00:14:28.080 They have at least an indoor facility.

00:14:29.940 So I had to take him there.

00:14:31.800 That was about a 40-minute trip from our house.

00:14:35.840 And then I had my daughter's rock and roll concert.

00:14:39.980 She's in the School of Rock program.

00:14:41.660 So we had to come back from baseball practice in time to see my daughter perform Nirvana. 1.00

00:14:46.920 She's very good.

00:14:47.580 She was excellent.

00:14:48.180 It was also her birthday, so I did not want to miss her concert on her birthday.

00:14:53.160 And in the midst of all that, I'm trying to work.

00:14:56.820 And that would be a challenge even if I lived in L.A.

00:14:59.980 It's not just a D.C. versus L.A. thing.

00:15:01.800 It's not just a remote work thing.

00:15:03.680 If I were in L.A., if we all lived in L.A., and we will again one day soon, hopefully.

00:15:08.660 But if we were all in one place, I'd still be managing that challenge because I have children.

00:15:14.820 And I love my children.

00:15:16.160 I love my family life.

00:15:16.940 It's the reason I do everything I do.

00:15:19.160 So I would have had that really tough balance to strike.

00:15:22.980 And it was exasperating.

00:15:25.000 It was really, really difficult.

00:15:26.780 And it wasn't as if yesterday was extraordinary in any other real way.

00:15:31.600 Because even though my daughter had this concert, it's not like Sunday is a free day.

00:15:35.780 She also has rehearsals on Sunday when she doesn't have a concert.

00:15:38.680 So I've got to run around.

00:15:40.720 We have four children.

00:15:41.660 So my wife and I often split them up.

00:15:43.300 And we do different things with different kids.

00:15:46.160 We don't really have a choice of leaving all the kids with one person or another, except my wife is very indulgent because she lets me do this bi-coastal thing. 0.99

00:15:53.560 So she's got the kids now. 0.68

00:15:55.680 When she's away, I watch all the kids.

00:15:57.440 She was in the Navy Reserve for 11 years.

00:15:59.120 So I often had the children to watch, although we had fewer of them.

00:16:03.140 So maybe it was a little bit easier.

00:16:04.400 But it's a challenge.

00:16:06.580 It's a massive challenge.

00:16:07.660 And you start to have very negative thoughts.

00:16:10.360 And the thoughts you have are things like, this is why Americans don't have kids.

00:16:13.640 It's just so hard.

00:16:15.160 Work is hard.

00:16:16.600 It's incredibly difficult to balance all these things.

00:16:19.400 We can't afford a nanny right now. 1.00

00:16:21.060 So how do we go forward?

00:16:23.080 I mean, we have the situation we have.

00:16:24.860 We'll just manage it.

00:16:25.660 But you can see why people on the outside looking in might think, this is not really something I can afford to do or want to do.

00:16:31.000 And you really just can pull yourself into a complete funk.

00:16:35.340 And it happens every single day because you have child care responsibilities, family responsibilities every day.

00:16:41.420 And if it's not the children, it's the groceries.

00:16:43.600 It's cleaning up the house.

00:16:44.860 It's doing whatever you have to do.

00:16:46.340 Sometimes it's something unexpected, an illness or, God forbid, a car accident.

00:16:50.100 These things happen, and you have to manage them alongside all the other things you have to do.

00:16:55.260 So I remembered an important thought that I had a few years ago, and I think it's a reframe.

00:17:02.660 And Scott didn't use this one, but I think this thought falls into the category of Scott Adams reframe type of ideas.

00:17:12.620 And that is that sometimes managing feels like not managing.

00:17:18.240 That is to say, you can be managing a situation, and you feel like you're not managing it, like everything's out of control.

00:17:26.540 Things are spinning to the side.

00:17:29.340 You feel miserable.

00:17:30.580 You're upset.

00:17:31.220 You don't know how you can go on.

00:17:33.220 But you come to the end of the day, and you look back at the end of the day, and actually, you finished all your work.

00:17:39.320 Your kids all got to their events on time, maybe a minute or two late here and there.

00:17:43.120 But everybody's safe, everybody got dinner, and eventually, everybody's in bed.

00:17:48.800 And wow, I can't believe things are calm right now as I'm heading to bed, turning in for the night.

00:17:55.340 They felt so out of control earlier today.

00:17:58.580 And I think it's just important to remember that sometimes when we feel that way, that's not the reality.

00:18:03.900 That feeling of helplessness, of frustration and stress isn't necessarily a sign that you're failing.

00:18:12.420 It's part of the feeling you're going to have when you're managing many different things.

00:18:19.060 And we don't live in a simple time where we manage only one thing at a time.

00:18:25.520 None of us lives there.

00:18:26.580 In fact, maybe human beings never lived there, even before technology and all the different things that captivate our attention and compete for our time.

00:18:35.600 Even before all that, people had so many things to do, maybe more things to do.

00:18:39.200 When you think about the fact they didn't have labor-saving technology, doing the laundry took all day.

00:18:45.280 So this is something we've had to do for a long time.

00:18:49.280 And I think it's just important to remember.

00:18:52.340 Number one, it is important to take a break once in a while.

00:18:55.240 So I have the Sabbath on Saturday for religious reasons.

00:18:58.860 I take one day where I'm not doing anything.

00:19:00.700 I think that's important.

00:19:01.560 So you manage the other six days.

00:19:03.120 But in addition to that, when you're in the thick of it, don't panic if it doesn't feel right.

00:19:09.880 Because managing sometimes feels like not managing.

00:19:14.300 And when you think about that reframe, it really helps you understand that what you're doing could be objectively right and objectively successful,

00:19:24.480 even if what you're feeling subjectively doesn't feel that way.

00:19:27.540 Now, there are some situations where that feeling of being out of control is something you want to pay attention to.

00:19:33.240 Maybe you are doing too much, or maybe things are too difficult, or maybe you need to change the system you use to run your day,

00:19:39.180 or maybe you need to change jobs, or you need to figure out another arrangement.

00:19:42.440 So don't ignore that signal.

00:19:44.500 But you're going to have that signal even when you're succeeding.

00:19:47.780 And that's especially true of parents with kids.

00:19:51.600 Kids are wonderful, but they also do random things at random times.

00:19:55.720 Random things happen to them.

00:19:56.820 You can't control when a baby gets sick.

00:19:58.900 You can't control when a kid gets hurt, or a teenager comes home in a bad mood, or they get a bad grade at school, or whatever it is.

00:20:07.980 You have to accept that certain things are beyond your control.

00:20:11.360 And so you're going to feel out of control a lot of the time.

00:20:14.260 I'll just close with this.

00:20:15.260 There's a thought that I have now as I'm telling you this.

00:20:18.660 There's this great movie with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton, the late Diane Keaton, Parenthood.

00:20:24.840 A lot of other great actors in the movie as well.

00:20:27.180 But there's a scene where Steve Martin argues about whether the carnival ride that's best is the roller coaster or the merry-go-round.

00:20:38.100 The roller coaster is scary.

00:20:39.360 It goes up and down, but it's thrilling.

00:20:40.980 The merry-go-round just goes in one direction, and you might get a little dizzy.

00:20:44.220 It's a little boring, but it's always the same.

00:20:46.960 And he decides that the merry-go-round is better.

00:20:49.980 He's just so stressed out, so many kids, so many challenges.

00:20:53.700 And there's a scene later in the movie where his kid starts destroying the school play on stage.

00:20:58.660 His kid is causing chaos.

00:21:00.340 And the camera starts rolling as if he's on a roller coaster.

00:21:05.020 And eventually, instead of looking around in absolute horror at the destruction his child is causing on stage and terrified of where this roller coaster is taking him, he starts laughing and enjoying the ride.

00:21:18.140 And I think that's the transition that we have to try to make.

00:21:22.600 And I have to try to do it again today.

00:21:24.420 I don't know if I'm going to succeed.

00:21:27.300 But I think that reframe is just one to keep in mind.

00:21:29.820 It has helped me in the past that sometimes when you are managing, it feels like you're not.

00:21:34.520 So that's my reframe.

00:21:35.400 That's amazing.

00:21:37.580 I love that, Joel.

00:21:39.180 And I think a lot of us are feeling that way, too.

00:21:42.040 I don't have kids.

00:21:43.240 And I don't know how anyone does it with kids.

00:21:46.720 I swear I give you guys so much credit because I can't imagine adding another one human life to take care of.

00:21:55.120 So that's crazy good advice, you guys.

00:21:58.580 I know you have a hard out.

00:22:00.360 And we are so grateful that in this crazy schedule, you took time to be here with us today.

00:22:08.040 And, yes, you have an open invitation.

00:22:10.200 We want you to come back anytime, all the time.

00:22:14.860 And I also want to say thank you so much again for your beautiful remarks at Scott's service.

00:22:21.560 If anyone still hasn't seen it, I encourage you.

00:22:25.000 And, Joel, you took us on such a visual journey with your words.

00:22:30.860 You told a story.

00:22:32.420 And you are just an incredible writer and thoughtful person.

00:22:37.100 And, yeah, I sobbed the whole time.

00:22:38.960 But you just took us on this journey with the really good news at the end.

00:22:44.700 And I love you so much for that and for being such a great friend to Scott.

00:22:50.780 But, like, I just I have so much respect and love for you.

00:22:55.180 You guys, do you want to say anything to Joel before we let him go?

00:23:01.040 I just wanted to thank you, Joel, for taking all the time.

00:23:04.320 I mean, it sounds like California Post is great.

00:23:09.060 But it's going to need a lot of your time as a Californian.

00:23:12.600 We need you.

00:23:13.780 We really need a new governor. 0.99

00:23:15.520 I mean, it's like I work in downtown L.A. at times, and it's like worse than a third world country. 1.00

00:23:23.600 And I was born in a third world country.

00:23:26.380 So, you know, if anything, you know, I know that it's a lot of sacrifice for you and your family.

00:23:32.380 But truly know that you're making it different.

00:23:36.800 Thank you so much.

00:23:37.780 I really appreciate it.

00:23:38.660 Thanks, guys, for keeping this going.

00:23:40.760 I have a quick question, Joel.

00:23:41.920 Oh, yeah, quick question, Joel.

00:23:47.040 What is your percentage, your slaughter meter percentage for the midterms?

00:23:51.780 That was one thing that Scott will do for us.

00:23:54.080 And I don't know who's going to slaughter who, but what is your?

00:23:58.860 I would say right now there's a 75 percent chance that Republicans get slaughtered in the midterms.

00:24:05.860 But that doesn't mean it's going to happen that way.

00:24:09.280 And I'm focusing on California.

00:24:12.000 And I think there are going to be some important changes in California.

00:24:14.400 But I think, look, the party that's out of power is always much more motivated to vote.

00:24:18.520 It doesn't really even matter what the issues are.

00:24:20.300 I mean, the issues can be completely made up nonsense.

00:24:23.160 But if people have a sense that they don't control anything in government, they don't control their own lives, and they get frightened and told you have to go to the polls to change that, then they go.

00:24:35.820 But I've just lived through so many of these cycles now that you laugh at the reasons people give for what they're doing.

00:24:42.860 I mean, take the phrase drain the swamp, for example.

00:24:46.000 OK, Donald Trump, drain the swamp. 0.82

00:24:47.340 You know who said drain the swamp first?

00:24:49.060 It was Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in 2006.

00:24:51.420 They swept to power in Congress by promising to drain the swamp.

00:24:55.840 Now, people went to the polls.

00:24:58.100 Democrats went to the polls.

00:24:59.120 2006, we're going to drain the swamp.

00:25:00.620 We're going to drain the swamp.

00:25:01.500 As soon as they got power, the swamp was bigger and badder than ever before.

00:25:06.880 And, you know, people just vote based on things that, as Scott would say, are often a fake because they cite reasons.

00:25:15.580 They'll say ICE or whatever.

00:25:16.880 But if you actually ask someone who's really opposed to ICE, and you don't have to agree with everything ICE is doing.

00:25:20.860 But if you ask someone, well, we have borders, right?

00:25:24.100 You have to have borders.

00:25:25.540 So how do you have a secure border if you can't patrol the border?

00:25:28.780 And also, if you can't enforce immigration laws for people who overstay their visas or aren't here legally, there really is no substitute.

00:25:35.940 You need to have some kind of law enforcement that does it.

00:25:38.600 You might not, again, you might not like the way ICE is doing it.

00:25:40.540 I don't want to get into that debate.

00:25:42.280 But the idea of abolishing ICE, which is motivating so many people right now, is just crazy.

00:25:49.000 It's crazy.

00:25:49.580 And if you point to one Trump accomplishment, I mean, if you don't believe he accomplished anything else, one massive Trump accomplishment is he closed the border.

00:25:58.640 He actually closed the border.

00:25:59.860 So are you now telling voters you're going to open it up again?

00:26:02.160 Do you think people want that?

00:26:03.260 I don't think people want that.

00:26:04.260 I think people want a legal immigration system that works, and they want some humane approaches to people who have been here for a long time, and maybe we can integrate people into our society.

00:26:13.220 People might have different ideas about that.

00:26:15.320 But do you really want to open up the border again to millions of people coming from all over the world?

00:26:19.880 We don't know who or why or what and crime going up and everything.

00:26:22.980 Nobody would logically say that, but they're all marching to this tune.

00:26:27.540 And, again, it's not the only time it's happened.

00:26:29.780 Republicans have had their things as well.

00:26:31.240 I mean, I'll give you one example.

00:26:32.560 In 2014, Republicans took the Senate unexpectedly.

00:26:36.840 What was the big issue in 2014?

00:26:38.480 Well, there were a lot of issues.

00:26:40.100 But the Ebola outbreak, I don't know if you guys remember the Ebola thing.

00:26:44.080 And Obama got frustrated.

00:26:45.700 I wasn't an Obama fan, but I sort of understood why he was frustrated, because the Ebola thing was hyped so far beyond what it actually was.

00:26:53.600 It became a fake because people were going to vote because Obama didn't stop Ebola.

00:26:57.540 But, you know, there were like a handful of cases, and most people survived.

00:27:01.860 But it's just one of those things that, you know, people attach their motivation to something else.

00:27:06.400 I think the party out of power is always much more motivated.

00:27:09.000 People feel like they don't control anything.

00:27:10.720 They want to get control back, and they don't always know what to do when they get it.

00:27:13.740 But that's usually how it goes.

00:27:17.660 All right.

00:27:18.300 Thanks, Joel.

00:27:18.940 I don't want to keep you any longer.

00:27:20.520 But a lot of what you said resonates with me.

00:27:23.120 I went through a lot of the same experiences with my kids.

00:27:25.020 So I'm in agreement on all of it.

00:27:28.320 Thanks, everyone.

00:27:29.300 The audience.

00:27:29.920 Thanks, Joel.

00:27:33.660 Oh, you guys.

00:27:34.640 I love Joel.

00:27:36.040 So listen, we're going to talk more news in a minute.

00:27:40.020 And I'm going to just play something for you quick.

00:27:43.240 Let me just turn this light off because it's bright.

00:27:45.680 And I'll post it after the show so you guys can all have it.

00:27:49.900 But thank you to anyone who did send some clips.

00:27:54.600 And Jay Plemons, thank you for making this for us.

00:27:57.820 But you guys, I think you're going to love this.

00:28:00.420 And I will post it after, okay?

00:28:02.900 Ready?

00:28:04.820 I've actually been crying.

00:28:06.120 I've been laughing so hard.

00:28:07.260 I've been laughing for 10 minutes straight since I saw this.

00:28:10.700 George, Melissa, a newscaster.

00:28:12.920 Would binge on several facts.

00:28:15.200 One, source of information.

00:28:16.760 Three, viewers might be more inclined to trust his statements.

00:28:30.380 Conversely, if he has been wrong before or shown bias, viewers might question his claims.

00:28:35.960 Three, context of the information.

00:28:37.960 Three, context of the information.

00:29:07.940 This frequency would make his assertion seem less credible.

00:29:12.980 Or might suggest that he is part of a broader misinformation.

00:29:16.600 The truth, the truth, the truth, the truth, the truth, the truth, the truth, the truth, and the truth.

00:29:20.500 From a storytelling perspective, whether George is portrayed as a credible newscaster or as someone engaged in gaslighting.

00:29:27.180 Oh, I've watched this thing probably 15 times.

00:29:53.500 and i i literally cry every time i watch it like tears just shoot out of my eyes against my glasses

00:30:01.140 oh my god do you guys love that

00:30:07.660 nothing better it was good that was awesome i think jay is the bomb you guys if you're not

00:30:17.940 following jay plemons please do and if you guys are hearing this could you drop jay's name in the

00:30:25.040 chat for everybody to follow he's at jay plemons and he's just so good to us and um i needed that

00:30:33.120 laugh that could we could probably have one that's like 25 minutes long with all of the laughing but

00:30:37.500 that was amazing oh all right so i'm gonna just um say let's go with the news owen and um i know

00:30:47.240 you dug up a bunch of great stories all right we'll dive in um at sergio's request i think i'm

00:30:54.220 going to start out with the grammys uh trump posted a truth social about that so i'm just going to read

00:30:59.280 it to you um here's donald trump's post the grammy awards are the worst virtually unwatchable cbs is

00:31:08.020 lucky not to have this garbage litter their airways any longer the host trevor noah whoever he may be

00:31:13.800 is almost as bad as jimmy kimmel at the low ratings academy awards noah said incorrectly about me that 0.92

00:31:21.960 donald trump and bill clinton spent time on epstein island wrong i can't speak for bill but i have never

00:31:27.880 been to epstein island nor anywhere close and until tonight's false and defamatory statement have never 0.96

00:31:32.820 been accused of being there not even by the fake news media noah a total loser better get his facts 0.99

00:31:39.320 straight and get them straight fast it looks like i'll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor pathetic 0.99

00:31:44.940 talentless dope of an emcee and suing him for plenty of dollars ask little george slopodopoulos 0.91

00:31:51.900 and others how that all worked out also ask cbs get ready noah i'm gonna have some fun with you

00:31:59.360 president djt there you go sergio that was amazing thank you so much i appreciate it no one writes

00:32:09.100 like that man i think scott would have had a big laugh about that um oh yeah yeah so i i didn't watch

00:32:17.600 the grammys i don't know about you but i had no interest at all i like um i like when he writes um

00:32:23.940 the the capitalizes wars but then what really made me laugh is he says noah said incorrectly about me

00:32:33.080 that donald trump and bill clinton spent time on epstein island and then he writes wrong

00:32:38.740 because he is so visual you know and uh so expressive what what did scott say his language was i forget

00:32:50.000 he had a word for it um you mean like a linguistic kill shot no he called the the the language that

00:33:01.340 the the trump used um visual visual but he had a word for it i i forget anyone in the chat let us know

00:33:11.820 if you remember i'm looking at now i can see all the comments now erica really well i can see youtube now

00:33:18.740 uh oh good everything yes i can see i have a big screen i see uh sofia john durham big morrow

00:33:27.200 voici voici that's oh voici he's he's he god would say that that trump wrote voici like you could

00:33:37.660 feel it and hear it when you're reading it for sure that's a good point because even if um

00:33:43.780 we were talking about if uh owen should do you know the trump voice or just say it he doesn't need

00:33:50.520 to do the accent because the the the writing itself is voici that's true yes we could so i'm glad you

00:33:58.740 did your own owen oh we would want owen to do a little bit of a trump maybe i'll work on it i'm not

00:34:06.180 very good at it right now but i i can practice um all right so go into a little bit of science um

00:34:12.480 there's a story about used concrete lasting up to 100 years in new buildings so apparently you're

00:34:17.320 going to start seeing used concrete blocks um it says that old concrete slabs and new buildings can

00:34:23.520 be used for 50 to 100 more years it'll cut emissions and waste and construction

00:34:27.080 um apparently they analyze buildings in sweden and finland with computer simulations with simulated

00:34:34.840 threats um and it says their lifespan was 50 to 100 years um i think this is based on having some

00:34:43.860 kind of silicone-based coating to cut corrosion up to 70 percent so it sounds like they're trying to

00:34:49.400 reuse their their cement and their concrete um not sure if i'd really want to get used concrete in my

00:34:55.160 building but i guess it's a good thing um so there's there's some science for you um

00:35:03.640 apparently on the ai front or the data center front um meta is spending six million dollars on tv ads

00:35:12.840 that is claiming that data centers bring jobs and they use an example of altoona iowa amazon's running

00:35:19.160 similar ads in virginia saying data centers connect us to the world apparently it's this big blitz of

00:35:24.120 lobbying and um advertising to try and convince everyone that data centers are good for you

00:35:30.280 so um there's a quote one executive said if we're going to spend tens of billion dollars

00:35:35.240 this year on capital projects we probably should spend tens of millions of dollars on messaging

00:35:40.760 and this is also probably in response to the fact that over two dozen projects have been

00:35:44.680 blocked or delayed this month um they're also targeting lawmakers with their messaging

00:35:50.680 trump had come out already and said that big tech needs to pay their own way um and then someone

00:35:57.560 named diane poppins said warned uh what i very much worry about with this ad campaign is localities

00:36:02.680 committing to this industry and then saying in 10 years what have we done to ourselves so

00:36:08.120 uh if you didn't notice the psyop it's coming soon to a an outlet near you that big tech is going to try

00:36:13.560 and convince you you should have more data centers in your backyard so look out for that so owen what

00:36:19.080 does that mean a data center what like what is it it well it's a it's basically a big building with

00:36:24.920 a bunch of racks of computers in them but what it means is that it would be using a ton of power

00:36:31.720 right and um you know i've been in these data centers i mean it's really just like an empty office

00:36:37.960 building kind of thing like a big warehouse looking type of building but some of these are getting

00:36:42.280 really big like many football field size buildings and if you can just imagine a building that size

00:36:50.040 with computers stacked floor to ceiling every inch they could fit in there um you know it's using a

00:36:56.040 ton of power a ton of heating and cooling really cooling and um it just it's a huge resource drain and

00:37:03.000 and yes it does require some jobs for people to run the data center but not that many jobs frankly

00:37:09.480 because most of the time the computers don't break and they just run 24 hours a day and it doesn't

00:37:14.840 really take a lot of um jobs i mean there'd be some jobs to build them and i think a lot of electricians

00:37:21.880 and plumbers especially are making bank right now building out data centers but once they're built

00:37:27.240 they pretty much just run for years and they don't really require a lot of people but data centers i've

00:37:31.320 been in were mostly empty they add cubicles and areas for people to work but those days are long

00:37:37.000 gone um for the most part you might have a few people for security and maybe a few people to just

00:37:43.160 you know take out a component when it breaks and swap in another component to replace it

00:37:47.160 but other than that it really doesn't require a lot of people so they're trying to convince you

00:37:51.320 it's going to create a bunch of jobs and it will create some jobs but probably not very many

00:37:55.320 and probably not even enough to account for all the energy usage that they're going to have so if

00:37:59.320 your electricity bill goes up to double or triple which i think is happening in some places

00:38:05.000 um it's it's not going to make your life better to say oh you know a couple people got a job

00:38:09.880 right so that's that's what's going on oh and so they're reframing the data centers as useful

00:38:16.920 as um maybe a source of a heat or something like that like your home i don't even think they're

00:38:23.000 reframing the heat is good thing i think they're just saying it's going to give more jobs to the area

00:38:27.160 and it's going to connect you to the world so you're going to get all the benefits from it but

00:38:31.480 i i don't know that i buy most of that i mean i think most of these things are built out for ai now

00:38:37.160 and um you know to me it's questionable what benefit the local citizens are going to get out of that you

00:38:45.000 know it's usually going to be people all over the world and there are there is a free market around

00:38:49.800 this too i mean like india apparently i think i posted a story about this as well they're saying

00:38:55.640 they're not going to charge any taxes to data centers that are built out in india um so if you

00:39:01.560 build an ai data center in india you're going to get free tax you know like tax-free operations for

00:39:06.840 some number of years um so there are other countries that are trying to get this and i'm sure from trump's

00:39:12.040 perspective he'd rather have it all happening here but um you know again i just i think the the equation

00:39:18.440 looks very different when you're talking about your local area yeah so but it looks like the psyop is

00:39:26.040 on to convince you that these are a good thing um all right now there's uh on the science uh studies

00:39:33.400 fronts there's a new tool that apparently reveals that 10 of cancer papers are potentially fraudulent from

00:39:41.480 paper mills um they apparently had a machine learning tool that flagged 10 of 2.6 million

00:39:48.360 cancer papers um and they were looking for specific textual patterns in retracted papers to try and

00:39:54.920 recognize similar papers and they said they have 91 accuracy in identifying these suspicious papers

00:40:01.160 and this is a big rise that the suspicious papers were like one percent in the early 2000s and now

00:40:07.720 they're 16.4 so on top of the fact that maybe half of all studies can't be replicated

00:40:13.880 um it looks to me that now like they're saying there's probably 16.4 percent that are just straight

00:40:19.480 up fraudulent um and you know it includes things about gastric cancer liver cancer bone cancer lung

00:40:26.040 cancer uh and the risk here is that it's skewing trials and it's skewing patient care that these

00:40:31.960 things might convince doctors to act differently um and it might not be accurate so um that's fun

00:40:39.240 but it does look like they're at least finding them so that's a good thing that they're coming up

00:40:45.880 with learning tools well i think scott would probably start with all data is fake and all

00:40:52.440 data that matters is fake and i think he'd probably you know say you can't really trust any of this stuff

00:40:59.080 and um i don't know he wouldn't i don't think he'd be surprised by it at all he probably would

00:41:04.920 have also said just ask scott what do you think i think he'd say who who ran the study follow the

00:41:13.400 money you know what was the motive that kind of a thing yeah i mean it'd be interesting to know the

00:41:20.680 business model behind a lot of this stuff i think part of it is just people beefing up their own

00:41:24.920 credentials because i think you know you do have this publisher parish thing that you have to to keep

00:41:30.600 your job as a researcher you have to put out studies and so i think the more studies you put

00:41:34.840 out and the more of those are cited by other studies the more status you get in the scientific

00:41:40.120 community and so you might get promoted or you might get more grants or you might get more funding

00:41:45.480 and so i think that's the business model behind it is that every study says hey we need to also study

00:41:50.920 this other thing that's related to this and so it's basically setting you up to ask for another grant

00:41:55.880 and so i think that it's really you know probably using ai in many cases but these paper mills are

00:42:03.800 just churning out papers and i think they're even selling them to scientists that don't want to write

00:42:07.720 them themselves for some reason and it's a bunch of fraud but um i think that's is that going to change

00:42:16.200 so you think it's going to change or there's no momentum towards any revolution on that because i

00:42:22.360 haven't seen anybody doing anything about it just you know i know we've been talking about it for a

00:42:26.840 while but is there anything being done about it just like a doge for university i don't know i mean

00:42:34.360 you know the the article does say they're going to pilot the tool as a pre-peer review tool so they're

00:42:40.680 going to maybe have a filter that doesn't accept papers that look really suspicious so that may improve

00:42:46.200 things but um i don't expect the trend to stop because i think it is very attractive to a lot

00:42:52.920 of scientists to say if i can get you know twice as many papers published then i might get twice as

00:42:58.360 much money and there's a whole lot of money behind all this stuff so follow the money would tell you

00:43:02.840 that this is going to continue and i think ai is very capable of generating paper it probably can be

00:43:11.960 done ethically where you actually do the study and you get the data set and then you just tell ai

00:43:16.440 write a study based on this or write write the text that goes with this um or at least create

00:43:21.640 a first draft and then i'm going to review it make sure it's all right i'm going to make edits and stuff

00:43:26.040 and i i could buy the argument that that might raise your productivity and not necessarily sacrifice

00:43:32.040 the science but i also think in many cases the ai could get it wrong and it is risky thing to do and

00:43:36.840 it's probably also very easily for a scientist to just be lazy and say looks good to me and not

00:43:42.360 really check it very closely and i think the whole process is flawed in the peer review process too and

00:43:47.880 there's been articles about that that i posted in the past where they you know they don't even get

00:43:53.400 access to the data set most of the time so you don't even have the data itself to scrutinize you're just

00:43:59.720 scrutinizing that person's analysis of the data which is the stuff you read when you read the study and

00:44:05.320 so that really limits what a peer review process can do because if the data looks wrong you know if

00:44:11.240 it looks fake they're not even going to be able to tell that they're only going to be able to tell

00:44:15.240 you know does your analysis of it look right or does it look like you made it up or something it's

00:44:20.840 a lot harder to do that but i think this machine learning tool might be a step in the right direction

00:44:26.280 but i think um you know to me there probably needs to be a more rigorous overhaul of the whole process

00:44:32.600 and i think more transparency rules that you probably shouldn't have to disclose your data

00:44:37.960 when you're doing peer review at least but probably in my mind you should probably also disclose it

00:44:43.560 when you publish the study so that other people who are replicated can also see the data i don't really

00:44:48.200 see why you would hide it unless you have something to hide right all right so there's always something

00:44:56.200 to hide more fraud and you know scott might also just say whenever there's a lot of money and

00:45:00.680 there's a lot of people involved there's going to be fraud hey owen are you getting away from your

00:45:05.480 microphone because there was uh some comments that maybe the the volume was coming down uh i've got a

00:45:11.240 headset on so no i don't think that's good now perfect now i'll try and stay still um so then we also

00:45:18.680 have a one-way heat diode that's been invented that will help batteries survive extreme operating conditions

00:45:23.720 so it looks like it's a way where this diode will let heat go one direction but not the other

00:45:28.760 direction and it seems there's claiming this is something no one's ever done before so i'm not

00:45:33.080 sure exactly what this diode is or how it works but maybe if there's someone who understands electronics

00:45:37.960 better than me i think i understand what a diode is in concept that it's like one of those little

00:45:42.840 electronic components that you make circuit boards out of but um you know i think it is something that

00:45:49.720 apparently will transfer the heat in one direction but block it going the other way

00:45:54.760 and i think that's meant to be you know it might let your iphone operate when it's hot outside or

00:46:00.840 um obviously it also has potential applications to evs or satellites or ai data centers so that that

00:46:08.920 seems kind of cool to me i mean yeah but is this is this another thing that's going to have to be mined

00:46:14.200 by you know or like i'm wondering what the diode is made of like what it actually is maybe somebody

00:46:20.520 knows yeah i don't have the details on that i can look it up maybe real quick but it's a a diode is a

00:46:26.520 one-way valve a one-wave uh one-way electronic valve basically so it only allows um current one polarity to

00:46:34.680 go one direction yeah like uh but if if it's about heat it's about keeping that heat you know retained i guess

00:46:44.760 yeah and i'm dying andy andy says hello uyghurs yes i know that's what i'm wondering like are

00:46:50.680 people gonna have to mine like you know what's gonna happen i just i like the idea of making

00:46:55.000 batteries last longer and be more efficient since that's such a crazy process itself but it's possible

00:47:00.520 i mean the other thing i'll point out and this of course is buried at the end of the article is that

00:47:04.360 this has only been demonstrated theoretically so they haven't actually done the experiments to see if it

00:47:09.240 works and um so it's at the very early stages so i don't know if this is going to be real just like

00:47:14.920 a lot of these studies where it's kind of an early thing that has been simulated essentially but um

00:47:21.240 we'll have to see if it really works and whether it actually does what they say it is doing and it

00:47:26.040 doesn't cover exactly what materials it's using so i don't know if it's going to have a mining impact

00:47:30.760 or not but um you know i think what scott might say about this is like you know maybe this thing

00:47:36.040 will be nothing maybe it'll be something but you know we're seeing battery technology innovations

00:47:41.560 all the time and so i think we are going to see this golden age of batteries that scott has been

00:47:45.960 predicting so you know stay tuned for that and we'll see how this works i mean cooling is one of the

00:47:52.280 the problems that you have to solve with batteries and you know evs sometimes catch fire and ai data

00:48:00.520 centers as i we just talked about have big heat issues so you know if this can help with that then

00:48:05.880 it might actually be a really cool thing so okay we shall see um all right getting into uh bio labs

00:48:15.480 apparently there's been raids in las vegas in california relating to bio labs um this latest story is

00:48:21.800 about las vegas where the fbi and the metro police raided a suspected illegal bio lab in las vegas

00:48:27.800 on saturday um it looks like it might be linked to another one that's in california that had hiv and

00:48:33.800 covid and ebola to call back to ebola um it looks like it the fresno lab was found in 2022 and had

00:48:42.760 cova tests pregnancy tests and 35 freezers with bodily fluids and genetically engineered mice

00:48:47.560 um they it doesn't look like they know exactly what was in the las vegas one yet but they just

00:48:52.680 raided it and it looks like the llc that's tied to this is part of a federal case against chinese

00:48:58.440 citizens for misbranded devices so that's fun yeah what could be wrong with an illegal bio lab 0.65

00:49:07.800 yeah i mean i don't know what's going on with that and i don't know why they're doing it here

00:49:10.680 that's the weirdest thing to me like you know we had all these bio labs that we heard about in ukraine and

00:49:15.000 other places in china and um i i don't really understand why someone would come to the united

00:49:20.200 states and try and do this stuff but it is scary to me because you know again these things need to

00:49:24.440 be very carefully controlled there if you have these dangerous things you got to have all these

00:49:28.680 safeguards in place to prevent it from getting out and i think these illegal ones clearly would not

00:49:33.800 have all those safeguards so well and you know there's 10 more we don't know about yeah yeah so

00:49:40.040 there's your nightmare for today um and we've got all the uh anti-ice activism going on people are

00:49:50.200 clashing with law enforcement um the the gop candidate apparently that's running to replace

00:49:57.880 waltz um his name is patrick knight he was slamming the sanctuary policies and saying the law is not a

00:50:04.120 buffet table where you just pick and choose which laws you're going to enforce today and which laws you're

00:50:07.720 going to ignore that the rule of law matters knight is a marine vet and an ex-ceo um he's running to

00:50:15.240 succeed waltz amid all this fraud scandal and you know billions of dollars that have been flowing to

00:50:20.360 these fraudulent places um and knight is calling for an investigation um the violence with ice he says

00:50:30.760 the loss of any life is tragic and there should be a full and transparent investigation with both the

00:50:34.600 state and federal government participating and let the facts drive the accountability and so he seems

00:50:39.240 like a reasonable guy he seems like he's saying the right things his plan is focused around the

00:50:43.320 economy affordability education rule of law and efficient government i i'm not sure that he really

00:50:48.840 has a chance in minnesota but it does seem like he's got the right platform so yeah well um so minnesota

00:50:56.760 needs a knight right they need like a knight in shining armor so let's say i hope people um like him and i

00:51:04.520 hope there's no dodgy stuff i mean how much more dodgy can you get with politicians there but hopefully um

00:51:12.440 hopefully minnesotans just want to have some law and order and have their hard-earned money put back in

00:51:18.600 their bank yeah and we've got more and you know anti-ice activism going on apparently there's 34 000

00:51:26.520 minnesotans that volunteered as ice watchers since the renee good shooting um they're using signal to

00:51:32.920 track them tom hellman is saying his operations are going to continue and justice is coming for the

00:51:37.960 agitators um there was an incident where some of these agitators attacked an la journalist and told

00:51:45.320 live streamers to look the other way where they turned their cameras away while they were attacking

00:51:49.560 this guy um and the lapd did intervene in this riot essentially where they this is the same one i posted

00:51:59.080 a story yesterday about someone who used a slingshot to try and fire some kind of metal at the ice

00:52:04.600 officers um and they set a dumpster on fire which is a nice metaphor um and they had anti-ice graffiti um

00:52:13.480 um so yeah there's more of that going on i think we'll probably see a lot more of that

00:52:19.160 um and then on the funding side um there's a story that apparently these anti-ice activists got 3.3

00:52:26.200 million dollars from a soros-backed charity uh the headwaters foundations for justice gave 3.3 million to

00:52:33.160 them since 2014 to 16 different anti-ice groups um and they list a bunch of the groups um you know

00:52:42.120 the the headwaters group quote is what we are seeing in the streets of minneapolis and across

00:52:47.800 minnesota right now is a fight for collective liberation in real time so a nice communist

00:52:52.760 message we got going there um so yeah we've got a lot of funding coming from soros and other people

00:52:59.880 to these groups and it's all organized as i think we've all seen um erica can you invite soros as a

00:53:08.520 guest can you invite oh yeah totally no problem and then to round this out um there's an a long

00:53:15.640 beach california mayoral candidate who just called on 55 local gangs to unite and fight ice this guy's

00:53:24.440 name rogelio martinez and he called on these 55 gangs to come to city hall um his quote is i'm calling

00:53:34.600 all 55 gangs in my beautiful city i'm calling the latino gangs i'm calling the cambodian gangs i'm 0.96

00:53:40.120 calling the filipino gangs i'm calling the black gangs i'm calling the pacific islander gangs i'm 0.98

00:53:44.840 calling all gang leaders to meet me right here long beach city hall this coming monday

00:53:49.640 ice needs to get out of long beach and this is the only way i know how to get them out peacefully but

00:53:53.560 with strong force and uh robbie starbucks summed it up by saying democrats are basically doing organized

00:53:59.880 crime crime so they're they're basically um creating the perfect storm uh democrats aren't 0.95

00:54:08.680 stupid they're doing something that um scott always told us they're creating fear and they're creating 0.86

00:54:15.080 visuals um and they're using this like ms now i did watch it this morning morning joe the thing was 0.99

00:54:23.080 parliament uh they're like talking about it as if we are being invaded by ice we americans are being

00:54:30.600 arrested everything is like super ultra you know extreme but it's basically the ice hoax that you

00:54:43.320 as an american are also targeted they brought up the texas uh senate uh district nine win last

00:54:52.680 week um there was a win by a rep a a democrat in a republican district that's worth more um i don't know

00:55:04.840 what that sound is that's me sorry um so they basically they are using this in order to win um in the

00:55:16.520 elections but we must counteract it um it is not like what it means and and i have to remind everybody

00:55:24.920 yes i did did have altercations with and killed um two different people those are going to be dealt

00:55:34.120 with in the courts and so on and so forth but there are so many women and men probably that have been

00:55:41.320 killed in this country by illegal immigrants i'm an immigrant i understand that yes we don't like 1.00

00:55:49.400 violence uh we don't like being arrested we don't like uh having a force go in but at the same time

00:55:57.960 that's not being talked about is all of the lake and riley's of this nation and so i do want to say

00:56:06.520 like this is being used completely i'm sure owen knows this is like the hoax that's why they're

00:56:12.600 funding soros is funding it so well it's it's serving them in the right direction and how do you

00:56:20.520 combat such a coax you know if anybody has any ideas but basically one of the ideas would be to show

00:56:27.960 um somebody says nobody turn marcella in no i'm legally here uh so it shows that um that there

00:56:40.840 is another side you know the the people that they go in arrest there's a warrant for them there's

00:56:47.160 there's more they don't just go in and take anybody by force um so i don't know if you have

00:56:54.760 more to say on that yeah no i think you summed it up um i i think the courts need to deal with it and

00:57:00.600 i think everyone else should just stay out of it and you know i don't know how to solve all this

00:57:05.880 frenzy that we've been seeing people whip people into from the democrat side but i think the best

00:57:12.200 we can do is try and use our persuasion skills and our information warfare skills to try and counter

00:57:17.400 the narrative i mean that's the best i can think of is just to say you know you shouldn't be defending

00:57:22.680 criminals you shouldn't be defending illegal immigrants you should be um letting law enforcement 1.00

00:57:27.480 do their job and not getting in their way and i think tom homan in my opinion is doing the right 0.97

00:57:32.680 thing saying he's going to continue doing what he's doing and he's not going to back down and he's going

00:57:36.360 to bring justice to the people who are interfering with with law enforcement so i you know if you're

00:57:42.760 smart you're going to stay away from this stuff and so i think you're going to find that a lot of these 0.99

00:57:47.240 people are the useful idiots that are just being whipped into an emotional frenzy um and a lot 0.96

00:57:53.160 of them are going to regret it and i'm going to say that not all mayors are doing that like my local 1.00

00:58:01.160 mayor for example um is uh exhorting everybody to be peaceful uh to protest so i'm not going to say

00:58:07.720 not all mayors are like so extreme like on the left you know but uh yeah we have to be careful because

00:58:14.440 uh it can happen anytime so everybody be careful out there carry maize with you all right so we'll

00:58:21.400 end with the latest conspiracy theory apparently epstein is a kgb honey trap um the according to

00:58:28.920 some of the documents now that i would put this definitely in the conspiracy theory category but

00:58:33.880 apparently there's um 1056 times that putin was mentioned in the latest epstein drop and moscow was

00:58:41.960 mentioned 9629 times epstein met with putin after the his 2008 conviction and he had an appointment in

00:58:51.000 2011 with putin according to an email he was planning another meeting in 2014 that was canceled um in 2010

00:59:00.040 he offered andrew andrew i think that's the the english guy the prince um a 26 year old russian

00:59:08.280 so there's some quotes saying she's 26 russian clever beautiful trustworthy and yes she has your

00:59:13.400 email um and apparently the bill gates stuff about the stds um was after apparently bill gates said he

00:59:24.120 had sex with some russian girls so there's at least some evidence pointing to the kgb in russia being behind

00:59:30.120 epstein um i will caveat this very much by saying that the article again buried in the article

00:59:36.280 um it says there is no documentary evidence that epstein was involved with or that russia was

00:59:42.360 involved with any of the epstein stuff so this is all speculative it's all just documents that

00:59:48.040 happen to mention these people there's no real hard evidence that proves that all this stuff happened

00:59:53.240 but that's the latest conspiracy theory is that the kgb and putin are behind epstein oh it's so fun it's

00:59:58.840 like the best soap opera ever um we'll see we'll see i do like the the dripping out of these files

01:00:07.000 yahoo and massad must be loving this yeah oh yeah they're like woohoo so you you all have been amazing

01:00:15.560 this is such a fun show today i want to remind you guys that uh you know we don't have to be completely

01:00:22.280 spun up and this is coming from me over the news it's okay to also do what's best for you um and

01:00:29.560 maybe what's best for you is not feeling like raging and panicking over the news is going to solve

01:00:36.200 something so mate let's make sure today we take a beat to look at our own personal lives and the

01:00:41.240 things that we need to do that will benefit ourselves and our family and our friends and um and then how to

01:00:47.320 manage our time too i like how joel said you know maybe try to find an hour a day to do something

01:00:52.680 creative or something that you know just sparks some happiness within you and always be useful

01:00:59.480 tomorrow you guys we have a great guest we have steve cortez he's going to come on with us which is so

01:01:06.760 fun so we'll have steve cortez here tomorrow and we're going to talk news and he has some projects

01:01:13.960 he's working on that he wants to share with us so um i love you guys we love you guys let's have

01:01:20.520 a closing sip in honor of our beloved scott thank you for hanging out with us and um we appreciate it

01:01:28.440 i i love you guys do you guys hear what joel said he misses us and i was messaging you guys i was having

01:01:34.840 a bad day on sunday and i was like i miss you guys oh all right you guys look at oh and he's sipping

01:01:41.320 okay love you guys to the to our beloved scott to scott to scott to scott we love you shelley

01:01:54.520 love you shelley

01:01:59.960 okay

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 02, 2026

Episode 3085 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸02⧸26

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