Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3094 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸13⧸26

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00:00:59.340 oh my goodness howdy how oh wait can i see locals on rumble studio is that what's happening

00:01:05.800 you guys where's my earphone good morning is there a good morning jwjb rick sjv you guys i'm in full

00:01:17.260 scott adams mode today with technology and it is not fun but you know we'll see how it goes do i sound

00:01:25.720 all right let's do a quick sound test how do we all sound do we sound like we're in sync okay everybody

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00:01:32.180 do we sound like we're in sync hello hello are we in sync

00:01:37.160 you're loud sir joe

00:01:39.380 loud okay yeah so it's going to take a minute for them to get there but in the meantime

00:01:45.320 i would like to say good morning to all of the platforms um on x i hope x is running well today

00:01:52.880 we know that there is a little glitch with it but we're working that out if it's not worked out it

00:01:58.320 will be um so welcome to the beloved locals to youtube to rumble um good morning i'm erica

00:02:07.120 and this is the scott adams school i'm joined today by our beautiful marcella good morning

00:02:14.000 gregorian and our sergio in tucson

00:02:19.380 so you guys just as always we want to remind you that coffee with scott adams which was like what

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00:03:08.720 yesterday was brian romelli he's going to be with us doing a long form interview where we can ask a

00:03:14.980 ton of questions and we'll have not unlimited time but we'll have a lot more time um on the youtube

00:03:21.020 channel some people ask why we you know maybe cut a video to an hour it's because we have to respect

00:03:27.780 the time of our guests so if we you know if if we were scott and he had the day ahead of him he

00:03:34.000 could go on for three hours he could do that but we're inviting guests to come in and we want them

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00:03:51.840 come on over it's a good time um but anyway today we have the core four here to do some news

00:03:58.860 and some current events and owen uh gregorian as always has picked some fun news stories as he does

00:04:06.600 every single day and then he does a show on saturday with his co-host sergio and they talk news for hours

00:04:14.940 and hours and hours and you can all participate there so thank god it's friday thank god it's a news day

00:04:22.400 and we're so happy you're here so owen um we're gonna let you lead with the news stories you want to

00:04:28.340 talk about today absolutely not you missed something here s-a-b the simultaneous sip

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00:04:54.900 hey everybody come on in it's a very newsy day there's news all over the place you got your real news

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00:06:18.420 i feel the soul of michael forrest reanol going to hell that's good coffee makes everything better 0.77

00:06:38.500 and of course who's like who's michael forrest reanol i don't remember who it is and what that

00:06:45.520 was about but somebody is going to look it up and let us know so i'll drink to that and i'll turn it

00:06:51.780 over to owen all right much better now so on the science side to get us started uh there's a story

00:07:00.220 about hippocampal neurons shifting our activity backward in time to anticipate rewards i don't

00:07:07.520 know that i would necessarily call this time travel i think it's more that when you test it this is of

00:07:13.060 course like most things a mouse study and when they tested it with mice they found that the reward

00:07:19.400 like the peak reward in the brain started off being when they would receive the reward

00:07:25.300 but then it shifted earlier and earlier to the point where they were getting their peak long before

00:07:31.960 they got the reward so um you know it was basically going backwards in time over you know while they

00:07:39.960 were trained and um so it it you know shifted that that reward cycle i guess and um i think they're

00:07:50.500 also tying this to being healthier in your brain they said the favorable group um that had like a bunch

00:07:58.700 of well better lifestyle factors um had slower memory decline as well so they're getting into the healthy

00:08:05.520 diet stuff and um that it worked more for people with this apoe gene that i think is the one that

00:08:13.180 puts you at risk for alzheimer's um so combination of things there but i think it was interesting to me

00:08:19.740 to say that you know you as you get trained to get a reward and i think scott taught us that it's often

00:08:28.180 better to be intermittent so sometimes you get the reward and sometimes you don't but

00:08:31.780 as you get used to that you start anticipating it and um you actually get the reward far before

00:08:38.720 or your your brain gets rewarded before you actually get the the physical reward so so the anticipation

00:08:44.980 is also a reward yeah and i think this definitely falls in the category of you could have just asked scott

00:08:51.880 i think we probably all knew this that um you know it's that whole dopamine cycle that

00:08:58.920 once you get into a habit that is rewarding then you start anticipating it and the anticipation

00:09:06.300 becomes better than the actual realization

00:09:08.360 i could get down with that i feel that way about sneezing sometimes the anticipation of a sneeze is

00:09:15.940 so good i love that like especially if you know it's going to come out but if somebody says

00:09:20.420 bless you to me before i sneeze it ruins the sneeze and it's upsetting did you try scott's method

00:09:25.960 to try and stop yourself from sneezing no i like sneezing it's a reward i like it

00:09:31.300 oh my gosh i think i tried it and it didn't really work for me so it worked for me it was for me oh yeah

00:09:39.820 every time since he talked about it um i have used it maybe one time it failed but it has worked every

00:09:46.960 time and it also works with uh other um other secretions of your body you know it could be like

00:09:54.040 your tears you know it can be you can cry in your mind and uh and avoid a cry too but uh it's better

00:10:00.820 to cry sometimes you know the sneezing it's good to sneeze too but not in company right so yeah it does

00:10:07.580 it does matter what you're sneezing on um but for anyone who isn't familiar um scott's method was that

00:10:14.000 he would um in his mind i guess sort of simulate the sneezing like he would visualize himself sneezing

00:10:24.140 before he sneezed and that if he visualized himself sneezing before he sneezed then it would stop him

00:10:30.240 from sneezing and he seemed to think that was something that everybody could do could try and a lot of

00:10:35.740 people could do sounds like sergio was able to pull it off i feel like my head many more many people

00:10:42.860 well i i do i'm kind of with you erica that i number one it is kind of a pleasurable experience

00:10:49.620 and number two um i also just think it's healthier like you know you're sneezing for a reason so

00:10:55.120 i'd rather let it out my body my choice right you can choose to sneeze i suppose so i suppose so

00:11:03.480 all right um so there's another one here that says um online banking may be shifting household

00:11:12.280 money control to women but it makes women five times likelier to manage their money independently 1.00

00:11:17.380 of the men they're married to um and that you know this is partly in the uk but i would imagine

00:11:26.020 it extends to other places it says they found that 49 of uk couples pool their income jointly

00:11:32.340 17 percent manage independently and 83 percent make major decisions jointly um but male-led decisions

00:11:40.140 were only in 11 of heterosexual couples and um so it seems like the the shift to online banking is

00:11:49.060 somehow giving access to women and um it says for men online banking often increases their involvement

00:11:58.780 in day-to-day monies management and reinforces their control over big financial decisions for

00:12:02.640 many women it can level the playing field opening the door to shared decision making give them a 1.00

00:12:06.720 stronger voice in the household who manages the money in your family erica me yeah i'm sure you're

00:12:15.580 shocked i am i'm shocked right um me controlling something i think in in my case it is probably

00:12:24.500 more me but i and my wife has asserted more control over time um that more recently she's doing a little

00:12:33.440 bit more stuff independently like you know in her job she would obviously have her own retirement 1.00

00:12:37.580 accounts and she's taken it upon herself to learn a lot more about investing so i think it's more of a

00:12:43.380 joint thing at this point um but i would say earlier in our marriage it was mostly me but i would just

00:12:49.640 you know make sure all the bills are paid and make sure we had investments for retirements and all that

00:12:56.520 so i didn't necessarily want to do it i don't know what you guys experienced but when we first got

00:13:02.240 married 800 years ago and keith would be doing the bills he would get so like upset and you know not

00:13:10.560 like at this spending but just like oh like where's this thing and what about this thing and

00:13:14.880 whatever and i'm like oh my god like i i can't like he can't get upset every time we do the bills the

00:13:19.380 bills are never going to stop and so i'd i'd bring him a sandwich i'd be like hey what are you doing the

00:13:28.400 bills and then he'd be like oh yeah okay great but then he'd get upset again and then i was like

00:13:33.320 why don't i just take that from you and then this was like 100 years ago and i was like let's just

00:13:38.860 avoid it like so you know i'd make him a sandwich if he still wanted one but i'll just do the bills

00:13:44.140 and it just has been great for the last 100 years yeah i think that's a good way to to work it out i

00:13:50.300 think certain people are a lot more anxious about stuff like that and other ones aren't and it's

00:13:54.280 probably better to let the person who's not going to freak out every time um manage that process but

00:13:59.920 i think in in modern times you know at this point almost all of our bills are just automatically paid

00:14:04.800 like i don't we don't write any checks anymore it's not really even a thought process i mean

00:14:11.000 we might review the bills or review the spending every so often and i do track our spending pretty

00:14:16.500 closely and quicken but um you know like except for major things like if we're gonna buy a car or a

00:14:23.220 house or you know some big furniture or something like that um we usually do those things together but

00:14:28.640 otherwise it's kind of like it just flows you know we don't really do anything anymore doesn't this um

00:14:35.660 doesn't this go back to billionaires and their wives controlling the money um for leftists uh

00:14:43.540 like leftist um charities and all that so like we can certainly talk about that too i to me i put that

00:14:53.720 in a whole different category because that's where like you have so much more money than you could ever

00:14:57.200 spend and i would imagine there's no talk about any kind of budget at that point although i'm sure

00:15:02.540 there are some billionaires that give their wife an allowance or whatever but um yeah i think to me

00:15:08.300 it's kind of like when you have that kind of money um it's your money your your finance guy yeah i mean

00:15:15.300 i guess to me the the if i try to put myself in the shoes of a billionaire i would say okay at that

00:15:20.940 point i'm going to be more defensive like i want to make sure i never go broke you know i i'm not so

00:15:26.200 worried about making more money at that point it's just i want to make sure i don't get scammed nobody

00:15:30.900 drains the account nobody does something so irresponsible that all of a sudden i am broke

00:15:35.700 because that does happen to a lot of rich people especially ones that aren't you know they didn't

00:15:40.460 like slowly make their way to being rich um if they don't have experience managing money a lot of

00:15:47.000 athletes and lottery winners like most of them i think actually are a high percentage end up broke

00:15:52.420 or bankrupt because they just don't know how to manage money and i think probably most billionaires

00:15:57.780 are you know experienced by the time they get there with it that they don't have that problem but i think

00:16:02.420 um it really does depend on you know what your prior experience was like if you're starting out poor

00:16:08.980 and then you suddenly get millions or billions of dollars like it's it's a difficult thing to manage i think

00:16:16.280 because you just don't have the experience of saying how do i avoid getting scammed or how do i

00:16:21.780 make the right decisions and so i think it is an important skill set to develop over time yeah

00:16:26.980 all right yeah skill sets are important all right well here's another one that's uh you could have asked

00:16:35.680 scott uh self-esteem may predict who pursues leadership roles people with high self-esteem with

00:16:42.220 promotion focus boost leadership pursuit when it's encouraged low self-esteem has more of a prevention

00:16:47.600 focus and reinforces reluctance um regulatory focus is pliable and uh you know it's a little bit

00:16:57.640 different than fixed traits like personality or gender so i think they're pointing to self-esteem

00:17:02.260 as a big big factor there i i don't know why anyone needed to spend money on this study

00:17:06.740 um i guess we could just say like scott has said before that you know being overconfident is a good

00:17:15.420 thing and it will help you get ahead and i would i would probably counsel to to focus on confidence

00:17:24.080 rather than self-esteem um because i think those are different things i think self-esteem is like your

00:17:29.880 personal opinion of yourself and confidence is more of how you present yourself right and they don't need

00:17:37.240 to be the same you know you can have the imposter syndrome going on inside as long as you're confident

00:17:41.660 externally and you can be very successful i think but um you know it could be that they're

00:17:46.760 not able to really tell the difference between the two when they're doing a study

00:17:50.420 right all right let's see we can get into some of the

00:17:57.160 political stuff so we have um story about mexican cartels employing drones to smuggle drugs and fight

00:18:05.180 enemies i know sergio perked up at the story um looks like mexican cartels are using drugs or drones

00:18:12.160 daily for drugs surveillance migrant operations and attacks apparently there's been over 27 000 detected

00:18:19.480 near the u.s border in late 2024 um and they're shifting from planes to drones for fentanyl

00:18:27.420 looks like the drones can have up to 100 kilograms of capacity and they've had explosive drones since

00:18:33.800 2021 um now that's widespread and mexico's trying to fight back so seems like it's a bigger and bigger

00:18:40.900 problem there was a related story a few days ago where he was in texas i forget the city exactly but it

00:18:48.260 was um one of the airports was shut down for 10 days and um it looks like what happened was

00:18:56.140 we were testing lasers to shoot drones down and there was apparently some disconnect between the

00:19:04.760 faa and the defense department i guess and so the defense department started firing off these lasers

00:19:12.080 and the faa said whoa whoa you can't do that we got planes all over the place here and the department

00:19:18.520 of defense just said we're gonna keep doing it and so the faa said fine then we're shutting down the

00:19:23.060 airport um and i think they were just shooting at balloons or something but there was some i don't

00:19:29.780 want i don't know if i'd call it misinformation but um you know there were some statements made about

00:19:34.900 maybe they were shooting down mexican drones um but i think that turned out not to be the case that

00:19:40.380 they were just shooting at balloons and stuff and they didn't really shoot any mexican drones down

00:19:45.180 during this operation but um it looks like we are certainly working on our our anti-drone capabilities

00:19:52.480 and probably planning to use it at the mexican border i still stand with that the drones over new jersey

00:19:58.760 were very sus and we will never have the real answer on it and uh i remember getting into debates

00:20:05.340 with scott about it and you know people be like they look like airplanes and it's like no there's

00:20:10.000 something really sketchy going on we know what the airplanes look like over our skies these were not

00:20:15.860 them and i remember when scott was doing the story about the drones that have machine guns on them i mean

00:20:22.500 you know like drones are scary i mean the the good thing is is you know you you don't have to have

00:20:29.280 boots on the ground when you have drones in the sky so technically it should save the lives of

00:20:35.600 especially our troops um which is always a good thing but i mean how do you regulate the drones 0.65

00:20:42.400 especially when there's so many commercial not even commercial i mean uh private drones like sergio

00:20:48.500 flies a drone and he does that for a part of his job is using a drone and i can see clearly i i could

00:20:56.980 think of a thousand scenarios of how bad this could go for people and i'm sure you guys could too

00:21:03.860 and i would never say one publicly to put an idea out there for some psychopath but i don't know i think

00:21:10.540 drones are really our future fear like should be and and how do you regulate this it's very concerning

00:21:17.800 yeah i mean it's definitely concerning to me i think um especially since you have people like

00:21:23.160 cartels using this i'm kind of surprised we haven't seen more attacks even in the u.s um from the

00:21:29.080 cartels because it seems like they've got the equipment they've got the money they've got the

00:21:32.640 technology they know how to do it and um it does look like they are using it a lot in mexico maybe

00:21:38.320 they're just you know essentially not wanting to provoke the u.s into invading which is probably what

00:21:44.740 would happen so um but it'll be interesting to see with all this laser technology because that

00:21:49.740 seems to be the primary counter that's coming out ukraine had a similar story where they developed

00:21:54.040 some kind of laser that was anti-drone um and it seems like that's the counter technology so

00:21:59.900 it could be that we'll be seeing a lot more lasers going off

00:22:02.440 i just wanted to clarify owen when you say mexican drones you mean mexican cartel drones or

00:22:11.240 mech or the or the country yeah i'm talking about the cartels using drones yeah i mean i would i would

00:22:18.020 assume maybe the mexican government has some drone capability but i think the problem we're talking

00:22:22.960 about is the cartels um there's been stories about this over the past chinese drones mostly

00:22:29.000 chinese drones um you know like some some people in mexico have complained that they've had drone

00:22:35.160 attacks from the cartels like you know any if you get on the bad list and they want to get rid of

00:22:41.120 you or get get you off your land or something oh no way like send drones in and for attacking yeah

00:22:48.200 yeah so i think you know the stuff that's happening in ukraine is spilling over into mexico

00:22:53.300 essentially and they're copying all the same technologies so it is a scary time i mean you

00:23:01.220 know certainly i would never want to be chased by a malicious drone but yeah hopefully sergio will

00:23:08.760 never come after me that way what do you think about this sergio investing is all about the future

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00:23:42.560 well uh the the the part about drones being used by the cartels in mexico i've known about that for

00:23:51.020 a long time because um you know i fly drones right i do real estate media that's a photography of houses

00:23:58.280 for people you know videos and and the the main uh maker of drones is dji is a chinese company

00:24:05.860 that uh now they have uh pulled out of um offering their drones officially in in the u.s but in mexico

00:24:14.860 there's stores everywhere in all the main cities you have all these stores for um agricultural drones

00:24:21.900 okay those are the big ones you know they carry a lot so so the cartels have been using those uh you know for

00:24:29.960 war basically against each other and against uh um the military so but it has been all always inside

00:24:38.060 um mexico like in sinaloa michoacan and all those places where it's heavily controlled by cartels

00:24:46.180 and um now that is crossing into el paso for anybody in texas um i will be like thinking about it more

00:24:55.580 right i will be really aware about it and ask uh to make sure that like erica was saying like in new

00:25:01.620 jersey they were saying all these things that this is happening that's happening you know just don't

00:25:06.860 believe anything until you check and um and and and it's gonna be uh three years ago i can i can

00:25:15.360 disclose this because i didn't sign an mda for this part but we did some tests uh we were hired by a

00:25:21.540 company i'm gonna say the name to test um a drone detection radar and uh i thought like well it's gonna

00:25:30.080 be great you know we're gonna get paid really well we have all these drone pilots there and we did this

00:25:35.200 test about for about two and a half weeks and um and and the system was i'm not gonna say it was not

00:25:41.900 good i mean it was not as good as it should be and i was like i hope they do something so now that i

00:25:48.360 see that all this is happening i'm kind of like happy and that is happening but also i'm afraid that

00:25:54.480 my drones are gonna get shut down sometimes if get mistaken for a cartel drone but uh but i think

00:25:59.780 it's a good thing owen and uh and uh marcella yeah these all these drones are chinese made um 0.98

00:26:05.760 mexico doesn't have any drone technology at all i think they have uh use the buying technology just

00:26:11.400 to buy the buy them and uh like ukraine they have actually i have reports maybe all when you should

00:26:16.840 you know about this they have a ukraine ukrainian pilots in mexico training cartels so it might be a

00:26:24.400 rumor i don't know yeah i hadn't heard about that but i i don't doubt it i mean i think ukraine is

00:26:29.900 certainly trying to leverage their drone technology and export it um so you know i wouldn't be surprised

00:26:36.620 if some of them got hired by the cartel i would hope that we might be able to get them to stop doing

00:26:41.660 that if they are um but you know at the end of the day it's probably you know kind of a losing battle

00:26:48.980 like you're gonna have people flying drones and it's not something you can really prevent from

00:26:54.840 happening i think um the technology is too pervasive at this point but you know it is interesting that we

00:27:00.140 did kind of ban the dgi dgi drones from america um i know you know you like them a lot and and i'm not

00:27:08.320 telling you to stop using them but um it does look like we're trying to move that industry here

00:27:14.160 or at least out of china um due to all the national security concerns which i think are real i mean i

00:27:19.500 think to me if if china is making all the drone hardware and the drone software um even if it's the

00:27:26.900 best stuff out there it might also mean that they're watching everything you do with it and that

00:27:31.080 they might even have some level of control over it or a kill switch or who knows what and so i do think

00:27:36.080 it's a legitimate concern and i would love to see more domestic drone capabilities where we could

00:27:41.560 get american-made drones and have it be competitive so i'm hoping that's underway i know we are doing

00:27:45.840 that with anduril and things military-wise but i haven't really seen anything on the consumer side

00:27:50.740 yeah that's the issue because uh it's been years since we've known about that uh this happening we

00:27:57.260 it was not a surprise in the drone community that everybody knew that this was going to happen

00:28:02.540 and they were not the companies would not incentivize i guess it was the biden administration

00:28:07.000 that was doing it uh so you know there's no surprise on that so maybe now i'm thinking that

00:28:12.580 there will be a renewal um um encouragement to to get going so sorry erica i interrupted you

00:28:20.000 no no that's okay i just i want to make sure we get to other news too

00:28:23.640 yeah well so the next story is um you may have seen this viral video of uh the border patrol people

00:28:32.220 being turned away from a 7-eleven i think it was a speedway but they are owned by 7-eleven

00:28:36.240 and um you know the quote from that is like i don't support ice and nobody here does from the manager of

00:28:41.700 that speedway um so now the trump administration is threatening to sever the partnership that they

00:28:47.780 apparently have with 7-eleven um because apparently there is some kind of agreement where they can use

00:28:52.500 their gsa fleet cards to gas up all the vehicles and you know buy snacks or whatever and it looks

00:28:59.240 like um trump is saying you know you need to start answering for this and stop this from happening

00:29:04.540 otherwise they might just stop doing that and i think that could be a big monetary problem for 7-eleven

00:29:09.800 so hopefully they have some leverage there but right now apparently this gsa fleet card is mandatory

00:29:15.540 for non-tactical vehicles and it's accepted for 95 of stations um so looks like there's some conflict

00:29:23.220 going on with 7-eleven um it looks like we've had similar denials from hampton inn and mcdonald's so

00:29:29.740 seems like we're having a lot of corporate friction with our ice and border patrol there has to be rules

00:29:36.700 with the franchising of these places i'm guessing that these people will have their franchise license

00:29:42.880 take take not the not 7-eleven as a whole thing but the individual franchise partner like i'm i can't

00:29:50.060 imagine they'd be allowed to continue yeah i think there might have been at least one of those already

00:29:54.540 i think i remember a story like that where the the individual store was going to lose their license

00:29:59.700 and they'd have to become some other you know brand um and not keep the brand i don't know if

00:30:05.480 it was 7-eleven or something similar but i think this is not the first time this has come up

00:30:09.100 so you might be right jump on this opportunity now to distance themselves from that and just say that

00:30:15.500 they're taking their franchise license away because you see how it goes here you know when when the

00:30:21.540 majority gets upset you know they'll be boycotted and they will probably get run out of business so

00:30:28.480 yeah it's a bad i mean it's bad all around i mean you see what's happening in target there's even now

00:30:33.820 people are doing some kind of boycott on open ai um there's some kind of organized boycott trying to

00:30:40.400 get people to stop subscribing to chat gpt because of their involvement with the government and um i i

00:30:47.920 think it's just bad for business and it's bad for our economy it's bad for everybody um and i don't

00:30:52.260 think it works out well for the businesses either way i mean i i would certainly counsel any business to

00:30:56.660 just stay away from politics and you know maybe have a policy that just says you can't discriminate

00:31:02.080 and you can't make any political statements because it's just bad for business it's like you know you're

00:31:07.740 cutting off half your customer base yeah and then worse than that when you when you see what happened

00:31:14.380 with target with all the lgbtq clothing they were selling um you know they got boycotted by the right

00:31:20.460 when they were selling it and then when they pulled it off the shelves now they're boycotted by the left

00:31:24.440 and like they're just getting whiplash to the point where everybody's boycotting them

00:31:29.100 and that seems to be the natural path for these things like if if 7-11 comes and says okay we're

00:31:36.160 not going to turn away ice now they're going to get boycotted by the left it's just a it's a vicious

00:31:40.980 cycle so this is why we can't have nice things people yeah all right well good news um the appeals

00:31:48.160 court has ruled that trump can terminate deportation protections for migrants from nepal honduras and

00:31:53.500 nicaragua the ninth circuit overturned a block on ending the tps for 90 000 migrants so i'll be

00:32:00.600 uh asylum people from the post-hurricane mitch in 1998 and the nepal quake in 2015

00:32:07.060 um we can send them all home so christy known saying that's a win for the rule of law

00:32:13.540 tps which i think the t stands for temporary was never designed to be permanent so certainly makes

00:32:19.060 sense to me um that especially for things like natural disasters um you know it shouldn't be

00:32:24.620 permanent and um so looks like some good news on the legal front but um and this seems to be a trend

00:32:31.500 that a lot of the district judges are these activist judges that'll block stuff and then it gets the

00:32:36.600 appeal court level and then it gets overturned so it seems like things are moving in the right

00:32:41.200 direction at least it's so nice to see the law working right well the interesting part about

00:32:48.880 this story is that it's the ninth circuit uh which is the most liberal circuit in the entire country so

00:32:55.260 that tells you a lot yeah yeah and i think in some cases it might have to go to the supreme court

00:33:01.680 but um yeah it is interesting i mean they might appeal this decision so then it would uh then go to

00:33:08.660 the supreme court and they might uh reject it and there's a teoria uh but you know what i mean so

00:33:15.220 it it it's still appealable yeah yeah because ninth circuit is not yet the up to the higher level

00:33:24.500 yeah okay as scott would often say it's often too complicated to follow these things i'm sure you can

00:33:29.860 maybe understand it marcelo given that you're a lawyer but you know it's like you get all these stories

00:33:34.980 and sometimes when they say like this one where it says we overturned a block it's like well that

00:33:38.900 might just be a temporary ruling like that might not actually be even the case they might still have

00:33:44.020 to hear the case and then decide but they're making some preliminary ruling just to say okay we're going

00:33:50.820 to overturn the injunction and the injunction itself was not necessarily an actual ruling on the case it was

00:33:56.420 just we're gonna block this right it's temporary and most of the most injunctions are temporary unless

00:34:03.220 they're permanent um the word permanent isn't it yeah yeah okay so getting through the ninth circuit

00:34:10.500 is a good step like it's leaving them now it for the ninth for the ninth circuit to agree with the trump

00:34:19.060 administration is like winning the lottery it's not often so the so what this means is the law is very

00:34:26.100 clear on this because it's tps temporary um it's a temporary protection yeah so we got a win there and

00:34:36.980 then more good news just overall there's a record high number of detained illegal aliens that are

00:34:41.940 voluntary leaving the country so what this gets into is that um as of um 2025 28 of the detainee removal

00:34:53.220 cases ended up in a voluntary departure meaning the person agreed to leave um and that's a record high

00:34:59.620 and it went actually higher near the end of the year so i think it's up to something like 38 now um

00:35:06.420 so ice detention hit 73 000 by mid-january um the bond grants fell to 30 percent asylum fell to 29

00:35:16.020 so trump is saying over 3 million people have left in trump's first year and of that 3 million 675 were

00:35:23.860 actual formal deportations but 2.2 million were self-deportations and they still have that cbp home 1.00

00:35:30.020 app where you can get a thousand dollars in free flights home so it seems to be working and we've had

00:35:35.380 three million people leave apparently wow all right so progress and we still have a ways to go the next

00:35:44.180 story was actually that we in some congressional testimony uh they said there's 1.5 million illegal

00:35:50.740 aliens with final deportation orders that are still in the country um and of those i think 800 000 are

00:35:58.100 have criminal convictions um so there's still a large number of people we're trying to get rid of so we

00:36:03.860 we haven't reached the end but that does mean that if they follow through with that it means we might

00:36:07.460 have another 1.5 million leaving so it could get up to four and a half million i suppose um

00:36:13.860 you know it's so amazing how slow the process has to be though considering how many flooded over

00:36:20.340 during uh biden's term yeah yeah so the next story i don't know if it's good or bad news um

00:36:28.820 homin announced they're ending their operation in minnesota um homin is calling it a victory like 0.81

00:36:35.220 basically saying we've done our job you know mission accomplished sort of thing other people are saying

00:36:39.860 you back down homin's response is saying to those people you know we're prioritizing public safety 0.95

00:36:45.140 threats and we're focusing on national security and other things doesn't mean we're forgetting about

00:36:49.380 everybody else um but it looks like they are pulling out of minnesota so hopefully that will at least

00:36:54.340 mean that we'll have less of the organized resistance that we've seen in minnesota um but

00:37:00.580 i'm sure ice will be going somewhere else so we'll have to see what pops up elsewhere i think california

00:37:04.900 has certainly been mentioned um and that may be another hot spot but um you know i think it seems

00:37:11.700 like the overall trend is they might be going to friendlier places where they're not going to have

00:37:15.220 as much resistance and um hopefully just you know still be getting rid of good numbers of people

00:37:20.580 wouldn't that be two movies on one screen thinking that um them pulling out is a victory for them

00:37:30.020 but the administration thinking it's a victory also for them um so it could be it's always that way

00:37:38.020 isn't it yeah absolutely i mean i i think this definitely is a case of that two movies on one

00:37:42.820 screen where both sides are going to claim victory um and you know i think it really is a matter of

00:37:49.380 perspective i think i can certainly see tom holman's point of view that they got rid of a lot of people

00:37:54.820 and they you know also got some concessions from waltz and the rest of the government to cooperate more

00:38:02.500 and to you know work with them but certainly pulling out you know means they're not going to have those

00:38:09.380 agents there and so um you know i could see the other side too but i think um it is going to be one of

00:38:17.780 those things where the left thinks they won and the right thinks they won and they said that the

00:38:22.740 people that are leaving the agents that are leaving were protecting the people the the agents that were

00:38:29.060 trying to do their jobs so they were actually they were actually protection for ice that was trying to

00:38:35.540 do their job so if they don't cooperate and things act up again they'll just bring them back but i

00:38:41.940 also feel like they're going to follow nick shirley wherever he goes and he's in california now so

00:38:46.420 we'll see what fraud he uncovers and then they'll need a distraction

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 13, 2026

Episode 3094 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸13⧸26

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