Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3107 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸04⧸26

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00:00:27.760 Morning, Ling.

00:00:28.640 So funny.

00:00:30.840 Good morning.

00:00:31.680 Hi, Buckish.

00:00:33.600 Good morning.

00:00:37.420 Guilt, shame, and condemnation for the wrongs I have done to I am forgiven by believing in Jesus Christ who died for me and rose again.

00:00:47.620 That's nice.

00:00:51.980 All shall be forgiven, right?

00:00:55.100 Good morning.

00:00:56.100 Redemption.

00:00:57.340 Right?

00:00:58.140 Me trying to read the chat.

00:00:59.480 I know, right?

00:01:01.220 Marcella and I were just talking about how it's like, I'm always like, what does it say?

00:01:05.940 We're like trying to see the chat.

00:01:08.200 I mean, can we make our font bigger on here?

00:01:11.160 Yeah.

00:01:12.000 You can on your computer, yeah.

00:01:13.860 Will it make this bigger too?

00:01:16.480 Everything will be bigger?

00:01:17.460 All right.

00:01:18.180 Everything will be bigger.

00:01:20.280 I'm like, hmm.

00:01:24.080 Good morning.

00:01:26.200 Good morning, everyone.

00:01:27.140 Kimberley, I hope you're feeling better.

00:01:28.920 Kimberley, I hope you're feeling better.

00:01:30.600 Hey, Dave, Wang.

00:01:33.200 Look at you guys.

00:01:34.520 I look cool today.

00:01:37.060 I mean, amazing.

00:01:39.120 My day is complete.

00:01:41.240 Come on in.

00:01:42.540 You guys, you want a quick little punch monkey update?

00:01:46.420 Be still my heart.

00:01:48.000 I posted it last night.

00:01:49.820 Oh my God.

00:01:50.720 I'm going to need you guys to help me through this.

00:01:54.800 So he's not, he's like at the age, I think, how old is he?

00:01:59.240 Like seven months old.

00:02:00.280 So now he's supposed to be like fully like socializing with the troop and blah, blah, blah, being independent.

00:02:07.880 So you know what they have to do?

00:02:10.180 They have to take his stuffed animal away.

00:02:13.420 No.

00:02:15.820 What?

00:02:16.860 He's too dependent on it.

00:02:19.280 It's a stage, Erica.

00:02:21.500 Same thing happens with kids.

00:02:23.520 You can't keep your stuffed animal forever.

00:02:26.840 It's like taking their binky away, right? 1.00

00:02:28.440 They did?

00:02:29.220 They took it away?

00:02:30.440 They're doing it.

00:02:31.400 I get maybe today.

00:02:32.860 Maybe they're weak, but he's going to feel abandoned again.

00:02:35.860 So anyway.

00:02:37.060 Erica, I think it's part of the simulation.

00:02:39.740 I think it's the simulation telling us something about what we all need to do at this point, you know, to like follow, you know, our instincts inside of us and become like.

00:02:51.900 And not feel abandoned?

00:02:52.860 Did you have a doll when you were little, Erica, that you carried around?

00:02:56.360 Owen, I still have it.

00:02:57.820 It's in my attic.

00:03:00.280 But did you stop carrying it with you everywhere after a while?

00:03:02.900 Yes, Owen.

00:03:05.180 Mm-hmm.

00:03:06.020 Mm-hmm.

00:03:06.600 My parents made me leave her at home eventually.

00:03:09.640 Yeah.

00:03:10.320 Yeah.

00:03:10.740 All right.

00:03:11.300 It's a normal stage.

00:03:12.140 But I mean, how old is Punch?

00:03:14.260 I mean, he's like not even a year old.

00:03:16.180 He's old enough.

00:03:16.840 He's old enough.

00:03:17.720 He's old enough to start out.

00:03:18.880 All right.

00:03:19.660 This is just terrible.

00:03:21.420 He's a pregnant expert over there. 0.99

00:03:23.820 That's no, no, no, no.

00:03:24.840 It's just the difference between a father and a mother, right? 0.56

00:03:27.660 The mother goes like, oh, man, I just wish he could keep that stuffed monkey there forever.

00:03:33.080 And a father has to be like, oh, it's going to hurt a lot.

00:03:37.180 But he needs to.

00:03:37.960 Who had a holiday hobby? 0.99

00:03:39.540 He needs to get punched. 0.99

00:03:41.920 And that's awful, right? 0.98

00:03:43.140 And he said, you know, Owen was born wearing a jacket and tie.

00:03:49.240 No.

00:03:50.040 I actually had a stuffed animal.

00:03:52.000 It was a person, but it was a stuffed animal sort of thing.

00:03:55.060 It's called Harry.

00:03:57.460 And it was kind of an ironic name that he only had like a little tuft of hair, kind of like

00:04:03.160 burnt a little bit, but different shape.

00:04:06.540 Oh, really?

00:04:07.320 Yeah.

00:04:07.820 When I was little, I had that.

00:04:11.160 Sorry.

00:04:11.600 They have no direct memory of it, but I did have Harry much later than that.

00:04:15.360 So I saw it.

00:04:16.140 So I'm like, okay, that must have been true.

00:04:17.620 R.I.P.

00:04:17.980 Harry.

00:04:18.360 Do you have a picture of it?

00:04:20.340 No, I don't.

00:04:21.300 I don't have it anymore.

00:04:22.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:23.720 I think you got damaged eventually.

00:04:25.520 Put it away, Owen.

00:04:26.320 Put it away.

00:04:27.420 Wrapping that up, you guys.

00:04:28.940 Pray for me because I have such abandonment issues.

00:04:32.680 Like, I really do.

00:04:33.840 I had Holly Hobb.

00:04:35.420 Patty, I had Holly Hobbie's friend, Heather.

00:04:37.600 Heather was my girl.

00:04:38.400 So just, I feel so bad for a little punch monkey because he's going to be confused.

00:04:45.060 He's going to be fine and he's resilient, but I'm worried.

00:04:49.100 All right.

00:04:49.600 So, Brie, I think it's time.

00:04:53.560 Thanks.

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00:05:35.860 Oh, yeah.

00:05:38.560 Rawr.

00:05:39.860 Get that motor running.

00:05:42.860 Vroom, vroom.

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00:05:45.240 All right.

00:05:45.740 He turned the key old school.

00:05:51.020 Love that, Scott.

00:05:52.340 He turned the key old school.

00:05:55.360 Oh, my gosh.

00:05:57.380 Good morning, everyone.

00:05:59.120 We're back to reality.

00:06:01.180 My name is Erica.

00:06:02.380 Welcome to the Scott Adams School.

00:06:05.700 And we're joined today with the news crew.

00:06:08.940 I have – what is this?

00:06:10.640 This is my – is this my left to you guys?

00:06:12.940 We have Sergio in the house.

00:06:17.200 Hello.

00:06:17.540 Good morning, everyone.

00:06:18.900 Our – Marcella, looking stunning in blue.

00:06:22.500 Hi, everyone.

00:06:23.920 Bring in the color.

00:06:25.180 Love the flag.

00:06:26.520 And Owen Gregorian, whose stuffed animal was a man named Harry.

00:06:31.840 Welcome, Owen.

00:06:33.140 Welcome.

00:06:34.100 Good morning.

00:06:35.400 Not Harry Reid.

00:06:37.060 No.

00:06:37.400 Not Harry Reid.

00:06:38.500 Okay.

00:06:38.760 Definitely not.

00:06:39.800 We love that story.

00:06:41.300 The first thing I want to do, you guys – oh, man.

00:06:44.400 This – I know this hits for all of us is I want to just recognize our heroes that have lost their lives.

00:06:54.200 We have their names now, and I just want to take a second to honor them.

00:06:59.420 We have Sergeant First Class Nicole Amore of Minnesota, Sergeant First Class Noah Tijens of Nebraska, Sergeant Declan J. Cody of Iowa, and Captain Cody A. Cork of Florida.

00:07:17.480 And, you know, it's just sad and a shame.

00:07:23.960 I know that there's, I think, two more people.

00:07:26.380 We don't have their names yet.

00:07:27.560 But I just wanted to put that out there because it's a serious time.

00:07:31.840 It is a war.

00:07:32.580 And these are people that had loved ones and people that they love that are grieving today.

00:07:40.320 And we send our condolences and our gratitude and our thanks and sorrow for these people.

00:07:48.840 I just didn't want to go on without saying that.

00:07:52.180 And their parents and families.

00:07:54.600 I certainly echo all that.

00:07:57.400 I, you know, having been in the military but never being deployed somewhere, I certainly felt it when, you know, I saw that my unit was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times.

00:08:08.880 You know, it's always a risk.

00:08:11.880 It's always a danger.

00:08:13.260 And it's certainly a heroic and very brave thing to serve.

00:08:16.820 And I just, what I took away from it more than anything else was just a sense of gratitude for all the men and women that serve, that protect us and keep us safe and do the fighting so that we don't have to.

00:08:30.660 Yeah.

00:08:31.240 And that goes for anyone in that kind of position of danger, like policemen and firemen.

00:08:36.760 And, you know, it's just, it's just, it takes a special kind of person that, like, they know what the ultimate sacrifice could be.

00:08:44.540 And they're willing to sign up to do it anyway.

00:08:48.060 And they deserve the utmost respect no matter what.

00:08:53.780 I don't want to do that job.

00:08:55.300 And I, I'm so grateful and thankful.

00:08:57.720 And it's so sad.

00:08:58.760 I really am so sad.

00:08:59.800 When I saw their pictures last night and, like, you put, like, a face with the name and, like, what's happening.

00:09:05.640 And you're just like, oh, my God.

00:09:07.600 It's like, it just, it's so real, you know.

00:09:09.560 It's just so real.

00:09:10.460 So our condolences to all of their loved ones and their families.

00:09:16.840 So before we get into the news, I just wanted to do a quick reframe today.

00:09:21.440 This keeps coming up for me with, like, some people in my, in my real life, I call it.

00:09:26.300 So I'm just going to read it in the reframe book, you guys.

00:09:29.120 If you have your book, I should have told you sooner, is page 137.

00:09:32.760 It's very short and it's about toxic people and real quick.

00:09:41.500 Okay.

00:09:41.980 So you have toxic people in your life?

00:09:43.900 No, I don't.

00:09:45.680 That's good.

00:09:46.580 Yeah.

00:09:46.860 I, I learned how to get rid of them.

00:09:49.260 Okay.

00:09:49.920 Some of them have, have rejoined me because it worked out.

00:09:54.540 But if you can't, you can't.

00:09:56.540 Okay.

00:09:57.800 Owen.

00:09:58.660 Okay.

00:09:58.960 So toxic people.

00:10:00.340 So Scott writes, you might have someone in your life who has a so-called strong personality.

00:10:06.020 That's one way to put it.

00:10:07.540 But if you accept that frame, you're probably already a victim or will be soon.

00:10:12.260 If someone with a strong personality does something messed up that affects you, you might be tempted

00:10:18.040 to chalk it up to that strong personality.

00:10:20.820 Don't do that.

00:10:21.440 Strong personality is usually a nice way to say a person is toxic.

00:10:26.480 And in my experience, toxic people can't change.

00:10:29.660 They have a different reward system, which means they're acting rationally according to their priorities.

00:10:35.840 For example, your reward system might involve feeling good because you helped someone.

00:10:41.740 A toxic person would be rewarded by watching you fail so they feel superior.

00:10:46.520 The only known way to deal with toxic people is to remove them from your life and block them on all social media.

00:10:54.540 Don't fall for the trap that if you fix their current problems, it will be smooth sailing.

00:11:00.440 Toxic people never run out of current problems.

00:11:03.500 So the usual frame is, this person has a strong personality.

00:11:07.280 I must become stronger to deal with it as an equal.

00:11:10.660 The reframe is, this person is toxic.

00:11:13.780 I must escape now.

00:11:15.020 The universe is very old.

00:11:17.480 In all that time, no one has ever expelled a toxic person from their life and regretted it.

00:11:23.600 You will not be the first.

00:11:25.400 It's one of the few things in life that works every time.

00:11:29.520 And I just wanted to drive that home.

00:11:31.540 I was talking to a couple of friends in the last week that were having issues.

00:11:36.540 And I don't know, maybe it's like that when you get older, you get wiser.

00:11:40.740 And I mean, I'm not like, you know, 99 years old, but you do just tend to understand that, you know, like sometimes people say, if you don't like the players on your team, get new players.

00:11:51.880 Like the same thing, if the people in your life are challenging you like that and you really can step back and be like, oh, no, no, they're actually toxic.

00:12:00.100 Don't have them in your life.

00:12:01.380 You know, it's like just like having poison around you at all times.

00:12:04.160 So I love that reframe and I want to add a little thing to it because it's perfect.

00:12:11.100 I want to add that it's also it's like saying people is poison, right?

00:12:15.400 Some people, right?

00:12:16.900 And to get rid of them right away because it's poison, right?

00:12:21.120 It's like alcohol is poison even in moderation, right?

00:12:24.800 So when it comes to those people like that, it's not get away and physically, but also like mentally to get them out of them mentally, out of your head.

00:12:35.200 And that includes any anger you have towards them is also poison to you, not to them.

00:12:42.180 So I don't have a real clear reframe for that, but I just wanted to add that to get them out of your head completely.

00:12:48.680 Yeah, and I also saw somebody said, what if the toxicity comes from your family?

00:12:53.840 Honestly, it's the same thing.

00:12:55.440 You don't have to let that into your life.

00:12:59.100 Like if you have to see someone, like there's a family gathering or whatever.

00:13:03.340 I remember Anthony Robbins talking about this one time and he's like, make the visit as short as possible.

00:13:09.520 So like if you have to see someone like, okay, like there's a family thing.

00:13:13.920 Don't keep yourself like, you know, there.

00:13:16.800 You have free will to leave.

00:13:20.080 You know, do we have free will?

00:13:21.020 You can leave.

00:13:22.000 You can make your time short.

00:13:23.580 You can before, you know, go in with an excuse right away.

00:13:26.800 Like, hey, I really wanted to see everyone.

00:13:29.000 I have to be somewhere later.

00:13:30.860 You don't owe anyone an explanation.

00:13:32.640 So I just wanted to give everybody a kiss and you move on and you go.

00:13:37.280 Yeah.

00:13:37.820 So like family, I mean, some of the most toxic people in your life might be your family.

00:13:42.840 So I'm dating myself about Anthony Robbins as well.

00:13:45.880 I love Anthony Robbins.

00:13:47.020 He's given lots of great advice for sure.

00:13:49.760 So, you know, he's still around.

00:13:51.240 Yeah.

00:13:51.500 He's.

00:13:51.840 Oh, yeah.

00:13:52.120 He's still around.

00:13:53.060 Check yourselves, you guys.

00:13:54.300 You don't have to keep those people in your life.

00:13:55.980 Okay.

00:13:56.300 So that's kind of the gist.

00:13:58.340 I would just add coincidentally, I did post a story about dealing with toxic people today.

00:14:03.340 Oh, let's do it.

00:14:04.000 Um, it was in psychology today.

00:14:06.280 Um, Leanne 10 Brink was talking about this and, um, I, I suppose it adds something in

00:14:12.900 the sense of what if you can't just cut someone out of your life?

00:14:15.760 I do think that's probably the best solution in almost all cases.

00:14:18.500 And I try to do that myself.

00:14:20.640 Um, I probably have more flexibility than some people though, because like I work for

00:14:24.400 this big consulting firm and I've worked for big consulting firms most of my career.

00:14:28.160 And that's where you kind of float around between teams.

00:14:30.360 You don't have to stay with the same people all the time.

00:14:32.520 So you can have different bosses and different coworkers every time and every project.

00:14:37.260 And so I, I definitely have had a policy of if someone's toxic, I'm just not going to

00:14:41.900 work with them again.

00:14:42.720 And I'll make sure that that happens.

00:14:44.160 And, you know, but if you're the low person on the totem pole, you might not be able to

00:14:47.900 do that.

00:14:49.100 Um, if you're in a different type of job where you have a toxic boss, you know, you might

00:14:53.520 just be stuck for a while, at least until you get another job.

00:14:56.240 But, um, but the, the three pieces of advice that, that this person offers.

00:15:02.780 Number one, to set clear boundaries that they mentioned people who are normal, um, might

00:15:09.660 not need clear boundaries because they kind of know not to violate, you know, your boundaries,

00:15:13.760 but someone with these toxic traits might not, might need more clear and explicit boundaries.

00:15:19.920 And it's basically advising you to kind of train the person, like say, these are my

00:15:23.220 boundaries.

00:15:23.580 You can't do this and then enforce it.

00:15:25.620 And if you can set those boundaries and enforce them, you might have a little bit better time

00:15:29.980 dealing with that person.

00:15:31.180 As long as they explicitly know, you know, this is a, this is a violation and they, you

00:15:35.880 call them out on it every time.

00:15:37.840 Um, I think that's probably consistent somewhat with what a lot of companies do with sort of

00:15:41.640 sexual harassment and things like that, where if someone's telling an offensive joke or whatever

00:15:45.900 it might be, if you just say that's inappropriate, that offended me, you know, I don't, please

00:15:51.240 stop doing that.

00:15:52.080 Um, then oftentimes that can make that person change, right.

00:15:55.740 Where they might not think they did anything wrong, but, um, if they know that they're offending

00:16:00.560 you and if they know that it's going to be called out every time, then they're much less

00:16:04.420 likely to do it.

00:16:05.600 Um, the second thing is to try to empathize with them and, you know, he's referring to

00:16:10.340 like dark personality traits, which might sound weird, but I think it's just trying to see

00:16:14.900 things from their perspective.

00:16:16.000 Um, so like if you try to appeal someone on fairness or kindness or something that might

00:16:20.620 work with most people, uh, it might not work with a narcissist, for example.

00:16:24.820 And, but if you can start a conversation, this is an example they give with your egotistical

00:16:30.680 uncle about talking about your shared all of them, you might reduce the chances that he'll

00:16:35.160 lash out at you later when you suggest that he's failing to fulfill his family duties or something.

00:16:39.740 So if you can find something in common with the person, you might be able to sort of get

00:16:43.700 on their good side.

00:16:44.340 And again, I'm, I'm not saying this is perfect and might not work with everybody, but at least

00:16:48.760 it might work.

00:16:50.160 Um, and then the third thing is it says to communicate carefully and more specifically,

00:16:54.320 they're saying you might want to just move all your communications to things like text

00:16:58.200 or email so that you actually have documented what you said and what was agreed to.

00:17:03.400 Um, cause if someone is this toxic person, one form of that might be that they lie or they

00:17:07.820 gaslight or they say, you know, no, I never said that, or I never did that.

00:17:11.200 And if you keep things in text or email, then you have a record of it and you can just put

00:17:16.640 that right back in front of them and say, here it is, here's the record, you know, and

00:17:19.860 it's indisputable.

00:17:21.060 So anyway, those are just some additional techniques.

00:17:23.840 And I would certainly say if you can cut the person out of your life, that's probably the

00:17:27.700 best solution.

00:17:28.460 Um, if you can't, then these are some things you might think if you're at work and like

00:17:33.640 you have that kind of a situation, like it might be kind of hard to finagle, but I will

00:17:37.920 move on from this topic, but I do like Scott's way of handling it to just get them out of

00:17:43.500 your life, you know, or as he might say, get away.

00:17:46.500 Okay.

00:17:46.940 So we'll move on from this, you guys, but thanks.

00:17:49.080 I hope that helps anybody today.

00:17:50.740 That's got to deal with that.

00:17:51.940 You're, you're allowed to, to pick the people you want in your life.

00:17:55.620 Block them.

00:17:56.520 Block them.

00:17:57.040 Go ahead, you guys.

00:17:59.080 So in the news today, I actually printed out the news.

00:18:03.520 So, um, your paper test.

00:18:06.220 Um, yeah.

00:18:07.060 So here, um, for their ran status, um, Owen has more news, uh, after I present mine.

00:18:15.080 Um, the defense secretary, Pete headset, uh, joined by chairman of the joint chiefs of staff

00:18:20.120 air force, general Jane Cain delivered today's Pentagon briefing on operation Epicurei, announcing

00:18:25.780 the U S Israeli campaign, um, against Iran, accelerating dramatically, uh, with American and Israeli air

00:18:34.160 force poised to secure, complete uncontested control of Iranian airspace between days.

00:18:40.380 Hex had emphasized Iran's military capabilities as evaporating by the hour, citing fresh arrivals of U.S.

00:18:48.060 bombers and fighters that confirm sinking of Iranian warship by the U S submarines and unrestricted

00:18:54.720 deployment, um, of pressure, precision guided bombs up to 2000 pounds to target missile sites, naval forces, and nuclear

00:19:05.560 infrastructures.

00:19:06.360 He indicated, and he was very proud of this.

00:19:09.880 I don't know if you guys got to watch.

00:19:11.780 It was today at five in the morning, my time, eight, uh, East coast time.

00:19:17.340 He said the Iranian Navy rest at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

00:19:22.780 He's just, I just love how secretary of work Pete has said, um, maybe because he's had time and TV, um, you know, as Fox news anchor or Fox news.

00:19:36.200 He's host, but he's just a such good way of efficiently using his words.

00:19:42.260 Um, and he indicated America's winning, um, without mercy.

00:19:47.440 I know that there's a different perspective, a different POV, as you would say, um, regarding the war, uh, there is, uh, part of the

00:19:56.480 conservative side that doesn't believe what the government is saying to us.

00:20:01.400 Um, the beliefs that the, uh, how would you say that Israel is driving this, that the four, um, service men, that service women and men that Erica mentioned today, um, didn't die for the United States, but they died for Israel.

00:20:20.480 So there is that, you know, so I'm just reporting it.

00:20:24.620 What happened today?

00:20:25.540 I'm not making a statement regarding how I feel, um, in regards to the New York times reported, uh, again, it's the New York times.

00:20:33.720 You guys, um, they reported they ran, made a secret offer to the U S to negotiate a deal, to end the war.

00:20:40.000 They reported this, um, I believe last night.

00:20:43.680 And since they reported this, the, the futures went up, I think, because they find this to be close in, in similar to Venezuela, where Venezuela lost Maduro, the next leadership started negotiating with Trump.

00:21:03.420 And it's been stable ever since, you know, stable, quote unquote, um, basically what the New York times was saying is that this was, um, Iranian intelligence directly went to the CIA officers to try to negotiate one day after the attack.

00:21:23.180 However, um, you know, this was one day after the attack, I believe those, probably those Iranian intelligence officers are probably dead by now.

00:21:33.400 Um, president Trump had a press conference yesterday with the chancellor of Germany.

00:21:39.540 And while he had the press conference, hi Stella, while he had the press conference with chancellor, um, I forget his name.

00:21:50.740 Um, well, the one that sits cross-legged, um, he told the press, and this is Trump.

00:21:57.340 He told the press, president Trump told the press that he knew the leadership had been killed.

00:22:03.360 Then the next leaders had been killed as well, that the next leaders, they might not even know who they are in time.

00:22:11.180 They will know, but because they're killing everybody.

00:22:14.080 And I believe, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, Owen, I believe that one, the second eldest son of Khamenei became the supreme leader or has been appointed supreme leader since yesterday.

00:22:27.120 Yes, I believe so.

00:22:28.620 And I thought I heard at least one of his sons was in the UK at this point.

00:22:32.600 So that's interesting.

00:22:34.940 I don't know if that's the same person actually, but, um, I, I understand that they thought it was his eldest son, but his eldest son is not, it's not him.

00:22:44.580 It's, uh, it's like the second eldest that is now taking over, um, you know, short, maybe there'll be a short time where he, uh, I'm not sure if he's dealing with the U S government.

00:22:57.200 However, this gave a lot of, I don't know how the markets are right now, but this will give, um, kind of a push for the markets to feel like this can be done and over with faster than everybody realized.

00:23:13.100 Um, however, there's, um, there's a person, a scholar I follow regarding Iran and he's Ellen Jurnow.

00:23:21.580 And he was talking about how Venezuela is very different than Iran, um, meaning that in Venezuela you have ideologues, but they're fake ideologues.

00:23:33.720 They just pretend they're just there to be like socialists, but they want power.

00:23:38.620 And that's the main thing.

00:23:40.020 And they're moved differently while he was saying that in Iran, if we tried to make a deal, like we did in Venezuela, it would be very different because they're, they really are centered in, uh, you know, Shiite beliefs, uh, Islamic Shiite beliefs and very ideological versus very practical.

00:24:03.420 So that's what, uh, he was saying that it might not result in the same way that Venezuela did.

00:24:10.400 So I'll, I'll give the floor to Owen and everybody else.

00:24:14.620 All right.

00:24:15.640 Well, um, certainly I think, uh, one story that I posted was, um, from zero hedge, they're talking about how, um, apparently there are some discussions with Kurdish fighters or Kurdish leaders to potentially be the resistance in Iran.

00:24:32.600 Um, um, I think this is potentially being floated as an alternative to having U S ground troops in the area.

00:24:38.780 So that's something to watch.

00:24:40.480 I, you know, it's hard to know how true that is or exactly where that stands or what's going to happen as a result of it.

00:24:46.260 But, um, there's apparently some effort to get the Kurdish forces in there to fight against the IGRC and the powers that are in Iran.

00:24:55.320 Um, there's a story about, um, how Israel tracked down Khomeini.

00:25:03.020 I would certainly put this in the category of propaganda, but, um,

00:25:07.820 The Financial Times.

00:25:09.200 Yeah.

00:25:09.580 The Financial Times is where it came from originally.

00:25:11.440 And they are claiming that, uh, Israel hacked into the Tehran traffic cameras and mobile phone towers and was able to track Khomeini that way.

00:25:19.680 Um, they used this unit 820B and was able to, you know, get data on the bodyguards and the drivers.

00:25:29.000 They knew the parking, the routes, the duty hours.

00:25:31.180 They disrupted the phone towers to block any warnings.

00:25:34.700 Um, they use social network analysis.

00:25:37.680 They had CIA human sources confirming the meeting.

00:25:40.920 Um, so there's a very detailed story around this, but I just put a big question mark around it because, you know, if, if the CIA had done something like this, um, I would just assume whatever they told me was false because pretty consistently we say, oh, we got to protect sources and methods.

00:26:01.660 We can't let anybody know how we did something because then we won't be able to do it anymore.

00:26:04.940 And we might burn our resources and we might, you know, it could cause all sorts of damage within intelligence.

00:26:09.860 So we can't tell you how we did it.

00:26:11.240 And they always stick to that.

00:26:12.920 Right.

00:26:13.300 And I can't imagine that Israel wouldn't do the same thing.

00:26:16.320 The interesting thing about the Financial Times article is that they did cite that Iran itself had hacked into Israeli, um, Israeli traffic camps as well.

00:26:29.860 So that, and then that's known because they were able to hit Israel at one point or another and know where people were.

00:26:36.920 So obviously that was, uh, you know, undone by Israel, but it's, it's happened, you know, it happened already. 0.76

00:26:47.460 Yeah.

00:26:48.060 I just, I just have, I'm just highly skeptical, but I just don't know that I can really put any credibility into this to the way Scott would talk about it.

00:26:55.160 Just because it's like, okay, what's the motive behind this?

00:26:58.920 Like why release this information?

00:27:01.440 If you're just bragging, that doesn't make any sense, right?

00:27:04.840 It doesn't make any sense to brag about what you did unless you're trying to make something happen.

00:27:09.740 And, and to me, it probably is meant to create paranoia in the minds of the Iranian leadership that if they think their traffic cameras and phone towers and everything else are compromised, then they're not going to want to use them.

00:27:25.020 Right.

00:27:25.400 And they, they'll be always looking over their shoulder and they'll be having a harder time getting around.

00:27:30.680 And so to me, that's the, this is an operation, right?

00:27:35.500 Like this is like a logical operation.

00:27:37.660 So I don't put any credibility into it and it may still be true.

00:27:41.060 Like I, I, you know, maybe it's true that that's what they did, but releasing this information to me seems like it's geared.

00:27:48.860 It has to be for a purpose.

00:27:50.000 And the purpose to me would be to create paranoia and fear in the minds of the Iranian leadership.

00:27:55.300 Just like the pagers, you know, that the pagers I see is a little bit different because once you set them off, you already know, okay, we can't do that again.

00:28:03.080 You know, they're not going to fall for that a second time.

00:28:04.800 And so you may as well tell them, yep, that was us.

00:28:07.200 But, you know, for anything else like this, especially if it's ongoing, I, I just don't think it would make any sense to release it unless you were just intentionally trying to make people think you knew where they were.

00:28:19.880 And making them panic or making them move in some way that they wouldn't otherwise, or be limited in how they can communicate and that sort of thing.

00:28:28.200 So I think to me, this is a disruption operation.

00:28:32.220 Stella is like, I think the U.S. is winning because Stella is right there.

00:28:36.860 She wants to talk.

00:28:37.660 She's like, mom, it's the fog of war.

00:28:39.880 Move on.

00:28:40.820 I'm like, I don't.

00:28:41.020 If she's saying, if she's saying America is winning, she's like, let's talk about what Pete said at the press conference.

00:28:46.460 Yeah, like she said, all the chicks want to hear about Pete. 1.00

00:28:50.400 Yeah.

00:28:51.940 What do you have to say, Sergio?

00:28:54.340 Well, I think that that's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:29:01.360 I don't remember ever, you know, does anybody remember I've been saving so many countries against one and nobody helping that country?

00:29:10.220 Like being completely isolated and just strangulated like that.

00:29:15.520 I mean, that kind of, I mean, I don't think has that ever happened.

00:29:19.160 It's been amazing.

00:29:19.780 Even Germany had Japan. 0.97

00:29:21.680 Yeah, exactly.

00:29:22.800 Everybody had friends.

00:29:24.600 It is the most friendless country, the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:29:30.240 I mean, I don't feel sad for them, but it's so horrible the way they have no alliances left, right?

00:29:36.980 Nobody's sticking out for them.

00:29:38.540 Just verbally out there, you know, people protesting, oh, you know, the Dales, the Dales out there, right?

00:29:45.400 But, yeah, I mean, it's just beautiful to see Pete taking the big picture.

00:29:49.900 And, yeah, Owen is right.

00:29:51.020 I mean, this whole operation is pretty cool.

00:29:53.140 All the tactical stuff, you know, and how they got it done.

00:29:58.360 And Scott loved that.

00:30:00.060 Scott loved how genius, he admired the genius of evil people, but not because of the evilness, but because of the craftiness, right?

00:30:09.580 So super crafty.

00:30:11.520 I admire that.

00:30:12.420 But the point here is that we're on the fourth day.

00:30:15.780 It feels like we've been doing this for a month, right?

00:30:18.380 Oh, my God.

00:30:18.720 Four.

00:30:19.260 It's only four days.

00:30:20.720 It's only four days.

00:30:21.780 It hasn't been a week yet, and they have accomplished so many objectives already.

00:30:25.660 So the bright side is that, that it's going under, it's ahead of schedule and under budget, it looks like.

00:30:34.940 So I think we have also another thing.

00:30:36.600 They're saying, you know what?

00:30:37.800 Don't quote us on the four-week thing.

00:30:39.740 We have enough to go forever, but not to make us like, oh, we go like, no, please, no more.

00:30:46.800 It's to scare the enemy, right?

00:30:48.320 So the enemy go like, oh, really?

00:30:49.780 You only have four weeks of ammo?

00:30:51.780 No, sir.

00:30:52.800 We have a lot.

00:30:54.540 Is that how the enemy talks?

00:30:56.200 Yeah.

00:30:56.640 And then, of course.

00:30:58.360 And then Trump said, like, you know what?

00:30:59.700 We have so much stuff that we have hidden stuff everywhere.

00:31:02.800 Did you hear that?

00:31:03.600 He said, he said on his press conference yesterday, that he had like stuff, a stockpile everywhere.

00:31:08.880 So don't worry about the stockpiles and timelines.

00:31:12.680 Leave that to the professionals.

00:31:13.860 I love that.

00:31:14.560 Hank said the same thing today.

00:31:16.400 He did say, like, we have like an enormous amount that it'll never end.

00:31:23.620 And you guys know the deal.

00:31:26.140 And I think Marco Rubio spoke yesterday at the press conference.

00:31:29.120 And I love the way Marco, I mean, I love a lot of things about him, but I love the way he handles the press because the press kept pounding him like, oh, you're just this really puppet.

00:31:41.840 Or, you know, all these things, you know, they're pushing him.

00:31:44.780 And he was like, these are, you know, like fanaticals and we're trying to take them out.

00:31:51.560 And here you are.

00:31:52.520 And we're just we're didn't start this war.

00:31:54.700 We were ending it and, you know, paraphrasing what he said.

00:31:58.460 But he I love how he can control the press.

00:32:03.000 And I think that's something that when Scott talked about is Trump changed that for candidates, because I remember before Trump, there being President Bush and McCain and all that, and they always cater to the press.

00:32:18.880 But once President Trump brought in the whole fake news and uncovered them for what they are and made it known to the public, now I feel like, you know, it's not just Marco, it's many other politicians.

00:32:34.140 Now that they're able to speak to the press and tell them, no, you're wrong or you're doing this and you're doing that.

00:32:41.000 I love it.

00:32:42.980 But I'll move on to the to the Tuesday election results.

00:32:46.800 Let me just throw in on the Rubio point.

00:32:49.200 Did you notice he used the he used the phrase he said, we're about to unleash Chiang on Iran? 0.88

00:32:54.240 Yeah, he used that phrase.

00:32:57.020 So that's a historical reference.

00:32:58.620 Can you stand on that phrase?

00:32:59.680 But it was it was basically referring to Chiang Kai-shek.

00:33:04.040 And that was, I think, after World War Two, that there were there was this threat to release or unleash Chiang Kai-shek to attack mainland China.

00:33:17.080 And I don't think that was accidental, frankly, that that particular reference was used in this whole context of geopolitics.

00:33:25.200 Because I think it's meant to strike fear in the hearts of China, most likely. 0.90

00:33:31.280 And I think Owen had a story about that today.

00:33:37.120 Yeah.

00:33:38.100 Schweitzer was on Fox News with Laura Ingraham.

00:33:45.260 And Peter Schweitzer was talking about how this is a disaster for China.

00:33:49.700 And so he was pointing out that China has a terrible hand, that they gave all their most advanced air defense systems to Iran, and they just got wiped out by the United States.

00:33:58.760 That they invested something like $100 billion in Iran to industrialize their energy and everything, and they're never going to get those loans back.

00:34:07.780 And that they were getting 20% of their oil from Iran and now in Venezuela, I guess.

00:34:13.240 And so now they don't have access to the Venezuelan oil and the Iranian oil, at least throughout, at least without using U.S. dollars to purchase it.

00:34:21.820 So now they're going to be forced to use U.S. dollars to purchase their oil.

00:34:24.660 So he's just pointing out that across the board, this is kind of a very bad situation for China.

00:34:32.400 And putting them in kind of a somewhat powerless position where they're just sacrificing left and right, and they can't really do anything about it.

00:34:40.940 And we've certainly seen that they're not standing in to try and defend Iran.

00:34:45.520 So it does seem like they're reluctant to get involved.

00:34:50.500 You know, it's like Sun Tzu is from China, right, supposedly?

00:34:53.640 And he said, win without fighting is the ultimate.

00:34:57.340 And Trump is doing that to them.

00:34:59.100 How ironic, right?

00:35:01.580 We're winning the World War III without even starting the war yet.

00:35:05.040 And they're already strangulated, you know?

00:35:09.380 Marcella, I see a paper tap coming.

00:35:12.440 Okay.

00:35:13.960 Tuesday election results.

00:35:15.740 I know this is just my favorite story.

00:35:19.520 There's a lot of memes on it.

00:35:20.900 And I know you're probably like, what is she talking about?

00:35:23.440 Some of you are not paying attention, I suppose.

00:35:26.200 But some of you know, if you know, you know, there's a lot of memes.

00:35:30.040 Put them in there if you can.

00:35:31.980 In the kickoff to the 2026 midterm elections, we had elections yesterday in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas.

00:35:38.780 In Texas, a major upset unfolded in the Republican, sorry, I need to compose myself.

00:35:46.240 In the Republican primary of U.S. House District 2, State Representative Steve Tott decisively defeated incumbent Representative Dan Crenshaw,

00:35:59.060 ousting the fourth-term congressman in a race centered on loyalty to President Trump and conservative credentials.

00:36:06.160 Todd led with around 56% to Crenshaw's 41%.

00:36:09.240 He was, as I quote somebody saying on X, he was blindsided.

00:36:15.860 And I go on.

00:36:20.000 And I think you're showing some of the memes.

00:36:22.560 Poor Eyepatch McCain.

00:36:24.660 Poor Eyepatch McCain.

00:36:25.840 If you know, you know.

00:36:27.920 The high-stakes U.S. Senate race also had to run off on the Republican side, and this is in Texas Senate race.

00:36:37.000 Incumbent Senator John Cornyn against Attorney General Ken Paxton advance without either securing a majority.

00:36:46.500 They're going to do a runoff. 1.00

00:36:47.540 There was a third candidate that got 10% of the vote, and they will share it.

00:36:52.380 I was going to say, oh, I'm sorry, Redstock. 1.00

00:36:58.400 I'm sorry.

00:36:59.720 I'm sorry.

00:37:00.460 I'm sorry.

00:37:01.120 I'm sorry.

00:37:02.320 For Democrats in the U.S. Senate race, there was a clear winner.

00:37:09.280 Senator Representative, State Representative, sorry, James Tallarico, narrowly defeated Representative Jasmine Crockett to claim the nomination.

00:37:19.580 Jasmine Crockett, you know, you know her.

00:37:23.340 I don't know if you have a picture of that.

00:37:25.320 Oh, I can get one.

00:37:26.940 So Crockett actually made a press conference after the election results and kind of alluded to the fact that he, that's her next job.

00:37:38.560 Okay.

00:37:39.020 I know.

00:37:39.480 So Crockett alluded to, I don't know if she, I don't know if anybody can state, I hardly want to watch her.

00:37:49.920 So I sort of listened to a bit of what she was saying.

00:37:54.880 She was saying that sort of that Tallarico had played games and basically, quote unquote, allegedly cheated in the elections.

00:38:03.040 And I think some people retweeted her or, I'm sorry, reposted her and said, hey, you should back up, you should back the SAVE Act for voter ID since you think that way.

00:38:16.640 In North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper easily won the Democratic Senate primary to succeed retiring Republican Senator Tom Tillis.

00:38:27.020 Tom Tillis, as you know, is against the SAVE Act or, well, not voting for it.

00:38:32.660 So there you go.

00:38:34.080 Governor Roy Cooper, who is a Democrat, won the one in that race.

00:38:39.820 While Michael Watley took the GOP nod, other notable results include strong incumbent performance in Scatterhouse and statewide races amid the early battles for congressional control.

00:38:52.480 There's more than just these elections, but it kind of gives you a sense of where we are.

00:38:58.120 The highlight was Crenshaw, surprise, loss, because he's a, he's basically.

00:39:05.400 And Ken Paxton, too.

00:39:06.740 No, Ken and John Cornyn, they have a runoff.

00:39:13.060 And he has a chance because there was a third candidate in that race and they got 10%.

00:39:19.680 And so that 10% is going to go into like Cornyn or Ken Paxton.

00:39:27.060 Cornyn is a city.

00:39:29.000 It's going to be brutal.

00:39:30.660 Yeah.

00:39:30.940 Croquet is the one that surprised me the most.

00:39:34.300 I just wanted to add that because I really thought that she was going to win.

00:39:38.060 I really thought that she had the Scott talent stack as far as the attention grabbing, you know, how rude she was and everything. 1.00

00:39:47.380 She had like, I'm surprised that she lost.

00:39:49.300 I don't know what you guys.

00:39:50.700 Well, I think it's because of the cheating, don't you?

00:39:53.140 I mean, so let me, let me tell you, let me, let me make the case for it.

00:39:56.600 So there was a rule change in Texas that this time, unlike all the previous times, you have to go to your precinct to vote.

00:40:04.240 Okay.

00:40:04.500 So in past elections, you can go any, any precinct you want, you could vote.

00:40:08.600 So it didn't matter where you went, you could vote.

00:40:10.880 Now you have to go to your particular precinct.

00:40:12.980 So now everybody has to figure out where's my, my voting precinct.

00:40:16.480 Right.

00:40:17.340 And so the, that was part of the claim was this confused everybody.

00:40:22.560 They didn't know where to go to vote.

00:40:24.740 And a judge actually did extend the voting to 9 PM.

00:40:28.880 And Crockett was saying, everybody needs to stay in line.

00:40:31.400 We can't reward this behavior, blah, blah, blah.

00:40:33.180 And, um, I think the website at some point crashed, which was how people would find where their precinct is. 0.98

00:40:40.860 Um, so, you know, I, I think we have to allow her that if she has a really stupid voters, if that's her base, who can't figure out where their voting precinct is, then she might've been put at a disadvantage. 1.00

00:40:52.220 You know, what are you saying, Owen, about her voters? 0.99

00:40:56.840 They're right.

00:40:59.260 I, I don't, I don't know.

00:41:01.060 I mean, I'm just thinking.

00:41:02.720 How is the left going to spin this?

00:41:05.120 Um, because a white man, one African American, um, woman and how, how will the left spin it?

00:41:14.800 Well, my understanding is that the DNC didn't want Crockett and they were working to get this Tallarico guy elected.

00:41:20.160 So they actually got what they wanted.

00:41:22.220 So I don't think we're going to see a lot of upset within the democratic party.

00:41:26.620 No, no, not within the party because they wanted him.

00:41:29.700 Um, but I mean, within their audience that is not, does not see it that way or you don't think that they think for themselves.

00:41:37.280 None of the NGOs are going to fund their protests.

00:41:40.120 So it's not going to, it's going to be down to the organic stuff, which doesn't exist.

00:41:45.740 So I don't think you're going to hear much.

00:41:47.640 I, I just can't wait to hear her say like, Oh, the cheat.

00:41:50.680 I mean, she's already talking about cheating and this and that. 0.59

00:41:52.860 It's like, Oh gosh, I know.

00:41:54.940 Like, Oh, so now there's cheating for you, but not anything else ever.

00:42:00.100 It's like, Oh my God.

00:42:01.640 It is like, they have like whiplash these people just, uh, anyway.

00:42:07.100 And why we don't just have this same voting stuff for the entire country is beyond me.

00:42:12.420 Like, what is this find your precinct?

00:42:14.660 And, uh, just everybody surprised me because she was the only one, one of the few that she was pro Israel too.

00:42:22.760 So I was thinking like, how can she lose too, you know, with having all that support?

00:42:28.060 So let's move on.

00:42:29.100 Yeah.

00:42:29.420 That, that shows you Israel.

00:42:32.160 Not always.

00:42:33.180 So anything.

00:42:34.760 So apparently, um, the Democrats, there's some reports at least that they really want AOC to be president or the nominee for president in 2028.

00:42:43.560 Um, they did.

00:42:46.940 Yeah.

00:42:47.420 There's some polls that are indicating that and they're seeing her as like Bernie Sanders heir.

00:42:53.320 Um, they're thinking that the NYC win with mom, Domi is signaling a shift and she's raising a bunch of money.

00:43:01.440 So, um, I don't know.

00:43:03.480 Some people are claiming that she might run for both and then end up being a Senator again, but, um, or, you know, run for Senate and president and then end up being a Senator. 0.91

00:43:11.680 But, um, you know, we'll have to see how that plays out, but it seems like the left is really pushing for that.

00:43:18.500 Um, in the meantime, they're not, apparently not going to have their midterm convention that they were talking about because they don't have enough money.

00:43:25.880 Um, so, um, they don't have the funding.

00:43:31.040 The RNC has something like 150, $100 million cash over them.

00:43:35.320 Uh, it looks like the DNC took a $15 million loan for their 2025 wins.

00:43:40.760 Um, and, uh, they can't afford it.

00:43:43.480 So she squander all that money in like five days. 1.00

00:43:47.680 Like where's that much?

00:43:48.500 She owes money.

00:43:49.740 Yeah.

00:43:49.880 They're in bad shape.

00:43:51.840 So that's cool.

00:43:53.020 And then, um, there's, there's a pullout that says that apparently we're, the GOP is catching up with the congressional ballot, like generic ballot thing that they do.

00:44:05.120 Um, so apparently that's a dead heat now, 50, 50, um, it was 54% Democrats last month.

00:44:11.860 So we caught up four points and we're dead even with them now.

00:44:16.280 Um, you know, we're hoping that we might be able to get to something like the 54% ourselves based on arresting all the criminals and shutting down the border and having low taxes.

00:44:26.860 But, um, the Democrats are probably going to be countering with trying to give away free services and take down billionaires and crap like that.

00:44:34.620 So I think the anti-Trump messaging does, according to this poll, seem to resonate with Democrats, that they like it when those types of messages come out about Trump being a dictator and things like that.

00:44:45.300 So we'll have to see what resonates with people.

00:44:47.240 But, um, I think Trump's approval rating is still slightly negative, but it's up from where it was.

00:44:51.980 So it seems like we're making progress on the midterms.

00:44:56.420 So it's looking, looking like we might have a chance.

00:44:59.460 I don't know.

00:44:59.840 I'm still thinking the odds are against us, but it looks, it's starting to look a little better.

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00:45:21.620 Good comments, not bad ones.

00:45:23.300 You need a, you need another avatar with a thumbs up like this only so we can.

00:45:27.540 Okay, I'll work on that.

00:45:28.580 Okay, thank you.

00:45:29.860 The next story is the U.S.-Ecuador operation.

00:45:34.180 Um, this report comes from the Wall Street Journal.

00:45:36.860 The Trump administration is escalating its fight against Latin America drug gangs, launching joint U.S.-Ecuador operations, targeting the terrorist-designated group Los Choneros and Los Lobos.

00:45:49.280 Um, with Ecuador now a major cocaine transit hub, U.S. Special Forces are providing advisory support for Ecuadorian commando raids on drug sites, marking a shift from prior vote strikes to direct on-the-ground collaboration.

00:46:05.220 This expansion aims to curb narco-violence and trafficking flows to North America and Europe.

00:46:12.100 And this was done in conjunction with, in, in, uh, together with Ecuador's forces with the U.S. military.

00:46:20.600 And, uh, next story.

00:46:22.640 Cleaning house.

00:46:23.300 Please have comments on narcos and drugs.

00:46:27.860 Uh, yeah.

00:46:31.400 All right.

00:46:32.800 Okay, here we go.

00:46:35.220 Well, um, so apparently with this Austin shooting, uh, it looks like the Soros DA, um, seems to be going after the police that was stopping that.

00:46:47.620 I think, um, it, it looks like the, the cops who killed this terrorist, um, were going to be facing a grand jury.

00:46:56.420 And, um, now this Garza Soros DA apparently had to back off from that once the backlash came.

00:47:02.680 Um, because apparently once the cops layered up, everybody started finding out about this and was, of course, pretty outraged.

00:47:09.100 So it looks like, it looks like the Soros DA did make his attempt to try and go after the police.

00:47:14.380 Is this in Austin?

00:47:15.680 Yeah.

00:47:16.240 Yeah.

00:47:16.500 So these Austin police that killed the Senegalese terrorists, um, you know, the, the, apparently they, the DA wanted to have a grand jury against the cops.

00:47:29.400 And, um, but now that it's been publicized, apparently they're backing off of that and he's claiming it never happened.

00:47:36.300 And so it looks like it's going the way it should.

00:47:40.560 Um, but you know, Garza made a statement.

00:47:42.780 My office is not seeking any charges.

00:47:44.960 Um, but there was this dispute about that.

00:47:47.860 I think Abbott was, um, saying, you know, I don't care what happens basically.

00:47:52.660 Cause I have the final say over what happens to these cops.

00:47:54.840 So I think he was stepping in and saying, look, if I need to, I'm going to pardon these guys.

00:47:58.040 Um, so, but apparently there's lots of fun happening in Texas there.

00:48:04.160 Yeah.

00:48:04.820 And then in, um, other news, uh, 60% of Gen C wants to go into the trades.

00:48:11.040 I think, uh, we talked about that with, uh, AI coming into the picture.

00:48:15.920 A new survey from resume templates shows a major pivot.

00:48:20.200 60% of Gen C plan to enter skilled trades this year, cleaning, construction, electrical, H-bag,

00:48:25.860 plumbing, and manufacturing the pole of just 1,250 young adult sites, job security, hands-on skills,

00:48:34.140 solid pay without heavy debt.

00:48:37.200 Uh, that's the sharp jump from last year's data, which was 40%.

00:48:41.420 Um, it shows the reactions was that it's AI proof careers and allows for, uh,

00:48:49.500 Can we celebrate this?

00:48:50.800 Yeah, let's celebrate it.

00:48:53.020 Like honestly, that is, uh, that.

00:48:55.860 Like, I, I don't think we can highlight how amazing that is enough because one or a, um,

00:49:03.960 this country, we need trains, people desperately, desperately, desperately.

00:49:09.940 Um, also schools, as we know, typically are indoctrination camps.

00:49:15.440 You come out in such debt.

00:49:17.780 You're wasting at least.

00:49:19.040 I'm plumbing school.

00:49:19.980 I'm in school.

00:49:20.700 They teach you.

00:49:21.300 Yeah.

00:49:22.040 Like, right.

00:49:23.160 Like go to a vocational school, a trade school.

00:49:26.200 Oh my God.

00:49:26.660 You're not going to come out in debt.

00:49:28.180 And you're like, you can work while you're in there and you can, oh my God, this is honestly,

00:49:32.940 I just wanted to like pause on this for a second.

00:49:36.360 Cause this is making me happy.

00:49:39.160 I mean, Gen C is great.

00:49:41.140 Yeah.

00:49:41.340 Go ahead.

00:49:41.500 There's so much technology.

00:49:42.720 There's so much, uh, technology in, in all the trades too.

00:49:45.580 A lot of people, they just get stuck thinking that, uh, they think of the plumber, you know,

00:49:50.420 that you can see his crack, you know, like, well, he's working in your toilet, you know, 0.60

00:49:54.660 that's not it.

00:49:55.220 You know, there's, uh, we're talking about high tech stuff now in, in every trade, right,

00:49:59.180 Owen?

00:50:00.080 You know that.

00:50:00.860 Yeah.

00:50:00.960 I want to say one other thing too.

00:50:02.760 So I have, um, my friend, where is he's here?

00:50:08.940 Here we go.

00:50:09.980 So her niece is going into college.

00:50:13.600 Very, very smart girl, wealthy family, all the things.

00:50:18.420 Okay.

00:50:19.620 So I'm not going to show you her name or anything, but she is going to a college of technology.

00:50:27.340 Um, and her major is welding and fabrication, engineering, and technology.

00:50:34.320 That is a smart girl right there.

00:50:36.940 Her parents are doing the right thing.

00:50:38.840 Look at that major in welding and fabrication, engineering technology.

00:50:43.820 Like that's the way.

00:50:45.460 There was a story.

00:50:46.920 I don't know if it was Owen's story, but there was like female welders are being sought out

00:50:51.900 by aerospace, um, Boeing and, uh, I don't know any other company because of, of how steady

00:51:00.780 their hands are compared to a male's hands. 0.88

00:51:03.760 Um, so when a welder is welding, they have to keep a steady, very steady when they build,

00:51:09.540 um, things that go to space.

00:51:11.120 It's a very particular versus like anything else.

00:51:14.480 I don't know.

00:51:15.420 It wasn't your story, Owen.

00:51:16.980 It was just, it doesn't sound familiar to me, but I can take a look for it.

00:51:21.120 I don't know.

00:51:21.780 Yeah.

00:51:22.200 Shout out to those of you that remember the movie flash dance.

00:51:25.260 If you're old enough, the woman, Alex, she was a welder. 0.98

00:51:29.480 She was hot. 1.00

00:51:30.160 She was a dancer with the shoulders sticking. 1.00

00:51:32.040 How did she dance? 0.99

00:51:33.560 Uh, like a maniac.

00:51:34.860 I can't do it, but I used to do it back in the day.

00:51:39.760 I would try anyway, but anyway, she was a welder in that movie. 1.00

00:51:43.060 So it can be sexy.

00:51:44.660 She was gorgeous, sexy.

00:51:46.260 She could dance and weld. 0.63

00:51:48.100 Hello.

00:51:48.460 Oh, that's good.

00:51:51.120 That's good.

00:51:52.700 Owen, your story.

00:51:55.340 Well, I, I like this one that apparently there are some Republican senators who are pushing

00:51:59.740 for capital gains taxes to be indexed to inflation.

00:52:03.120 So basically, you know, if you hold a stock or some investment over a large number of

00:52:08.980 years, you pay the capital gains based on what you paid for it, you know, versus what

00:52:13.980 it's worth now.

00:52:15.120 And it may have gone up a lot in that time, but a lot of that is really just inflation.

00:52:18.500 And so I think the Ted Cruz and Tim Scott are actually trying to get Besant to do it in

00:52:25.140 the treasury, meaning it wouldn't even have to go through legislation to try and index

00:52:29.980 the capital gains to inflation so that you wouldn't be taxed on the inflation part of

00:52:34.660 it.

00:52:34.900 And apparently that's about one third of all the capital gains that are out there.

00:52:38.300 So that would potentially boost a lot of savings and give a lot of money back to people on

00:52:44.460 their homes.

00:52:44.900 If they're going to have capital gains on their home sales, certainly all the retirement

00:52:49.660 funds and things might be affected with that too.

00:52:51.720 So I doubt it'll happen, but, but I like the creative thinking and it does seem like the

00:52:58.140 Republicans are consistently on the side of trying to lower taxes as opposed to saying,

00:53:03.720 how can we raise them?

00:53:04.700 Which is a very stark difference with the Democrats.

00:53:08.460 Yeah.

00:53:09.200 I just want to tax everybody.

00:53:11.380 Yeah.

00:53:13.140 I just wanted to do my favorite story.

00:53:15.620 I know it's not that cool, but it's the sixth story.

00:53:20.540 I'm skipping Gavin.

00:53:22.240 He, Gavin, basically in Gavin's story, it's like he went for the left, called Israel an apartheid

00:53:28.080 state.

00:53:29.160 And now he's catering to the left.

00:53:32.880 And what else did I see on Gavin Newsom?

00:53:35.840 He's adding like 30 billion, billion, gazillion more money for homeless, which he's been fighting

00:53:43.780 for 2000 years.

00:53:46.100 And there's still a homeless issue here in California.

00:53:50.460 Yes.

00:53:51.220 Oh yeah.

00:53:51.540 Can I go to my story?

00:53:52.940 Yeah.

00:53:53.160 Just quickly on Gavin.

00:53:53.980 Do you think that maybe he's trying to get AOC to be like VP, you know, like that's why

00:53:58.180 he's going against.

00:53:59.240 Yeah.

00:53:59.440 Go ahead.

00:54:00.080 Okay.

00:54:01.320 He should.

00:54:02.880 That would be fun.

00:54:03.940 Um, my favorite story is Arch Axe and it's a Japanese, um, robot that is 15 foot robot,

00:54:13.120 high risk, industrial and disaster response task.

00:54:16.380 And, um, it was, it's going viral right now on, um,

00:54:20.840 I think Brian, 15 feet tall, um, and he can help in dangerous settings.

00:54:30.000 I remember it's Japan, so he can help an earthquake rescue power infrastructure restoration.

00:54:35.860 And I wanted to play the video, but, um, I don't know how cool it will be.

00:54:41.060 Hold on.

00:54:42.020 I hear it.

00:54:46.560 Oh.

00:54:47.000 Oh, we saw it live people.

00:54:59.160 That's how it happens.

00:55:00.120 If you know, you know, oh my God, that thing's so scary.

00:55:04.060 Okay.

00:55:05.060 Okay.

00:55:05.120 So every time I use Chad GPT, Gemini AI, and what else, what else, I always say thank you.

00:55:11.940 And I have to remember that one day that will come back and, um, they will appreciate it

00:55:18.500 once they're in power.

00:55:19.680 I don't know, but I just love it because, you know, I'm an anime fan.

00:55:25.700 I also love Japanese, like Voltron, you know, all those things where you become a robot and 1.00

00:55:32.140 they're building it.

00:55:33.040 They were, there was criticism of this robot because it's not very, um, efficient, but it's

00:55:39.780 cool.

00:55:40.600 Oh my God.

00:55:41.480 That thing, imagine that thing coming down the street and like you're stuck in a building

00:55:45.940 in an earthquake and it just like plucks you out of the window.

00:55:48.700 Oh, holy, yes, that's amazing.

00:55:53.840 We're very horrified or I know, I know. 0.99

00:55:56.420 And I'm very nice to my technology too, but I don't think it's going to give a shit in 0.97

00:56:00.780 the end. 0.99

00:56:01.120 It's probably just going to kill me.

00:56:02.840 Um, we have time, I guess, for another story.

00:56:06.200 Yeah.

00:56:06.340 One quick story.

00:56:07.240 We have time for one more.

00:56:08.720 In the, in the distraction department, there's more UFO news.

00:56:11.580 Um, Argentina has declassified an incident in 1991 in the Antarctic circle.

00:56:18.340 But apparently there was, um, all these, I think they call them rhyometers that were

00:56:22.860 going off and that they showed impossible synced readings, meaning there were three different

00:56:27.720 things that were making the same readings.

00:56:29.700 And it was something happening up in the ionosphere that it was detecting, but it was basically

00:56:35.060 saying the only way these readings could have happened is if something like the size of an

00:56:39.340 aircraft carrier that was nuclear powered or the size of a city was up there.

00:56:44.580 Um, and they're apparently there, people went outside and they did see some kind of big

00:56:49.340 glowing orb or something that was way up in the sky over Antarctica.

00:56:54.700 Um, and, uh, you know, they're, they're claiming that there's no way these sensors could have

00:57:00.180 been like just a, um, an anomaly or, you know, that it seemed like there really had to be something

00:57:06.060 huge up there, but, um, so there's apparently some massive craft that was there over 1991

00:57:13.060 and Antarctica.

00:57:14.140 And then, um, there's a retired major general, Neil McCasland.

00:57:19.740 Um, and he used to be overseeing some of this stuff, basically, like he was thought to be

00:57:25.660 maybe one of the people that was going to be doing some of this UFO disclosure.

00:57:28.580 Uh, he, he used to oversee Kirkland air force base and write, write Patterson, uh, which

00:57:34.660 is, you know, tied into the Roswell stories he's missing now.

00:57:39.340 Um, so nobody knows where he is and they're looking for him.

00:57:43.800 There's rewards out, I think.

00:57:45.400 And anybody, if you, there's what they call a silver alert.

00:57:48.680 I didn't know there was such a thing.

00:57:49.800 Maybe that's like the Amber alert, but for older people, there is in California. 0.58

00:57:54.060 There is.

00:57:54.640 Okay.

00:57:54.920 So there's a silver alert out on him and the FBI is looking into it.

00:57:58.800 They're trying to find this guy.

00:58:00.180 So.

00:58:01.160 Do they say when he was last seen?

00:58:04.240 I don't know.

00:58:05.420 I don't remember that detail, but I could try and find it.

00:58:08.100 Right now with the, with everybody, all the chatters, if you believe that there's aliens

00:58:15.500 out there and we know about them, drop an emoji in the chat.

00:58:20.680 If you believe in it.

00:58:22.520 Drop an alien emoji.

00:58:23.620 Any emoji.

00:58:24.680 It's hard to find some.

00:58:25.960 Yeah.

00:58:26.600 But drop an emoji.

00:58:27.880 If you believe that there's aliens out there.

00:58:30.420 The truth is out there.

00:58:32.420 I'm wondering.

00:58:35.720 Somebody asked if there was grainy pictures of this thing.

00:58:40.900 I did not see any grainy pictures of the orb.

00:58:43.220 I just, there, there are pictures in the article of the readings on the Rio meter, whatever that

00:58:47.920 is.

00:58:48.140 But it's like a, one of those ticker tape sort of things.

00:58:51.300 So no, I don't, I don't see any of the, the, the orb.

00:58:55.120 Look at all this.

00:58:55.780 It was a huge light circle that they saw over the base.

00:58:58.440 So that's all it would have been.

00:58:59.240 It looks about half and half on the, on the alien idea.

00:59:02.520 Or I don't know.

00:59:03.580 So it's not overwhelming.

00:59:05.360 It's not overwhelming that we think that.

00:59:08.040 I don't really have an alien.

00:59:09.860 I don't, I don't know.

00:59:11.500 It's that Libra thing again.

00:59:12.860 I could go either way on this.

00:59:15.140 You show me an ungrainy picture.

00:59:17.500 That's not AI.

00:59:19.840 But how do you know?

00:59:20.880 Nothing.

00:59:21.360 I believe nothing.

00:59:22.080 I believe nothing.

00:59:23.260 Look at her.

00:59:24.520 I believe.

00:59:25.820 I believe in aliens.

00:59:27.900 Oh my gosh.

00:59:28.920 Well, you guys, this was so fun today.

00:59:31.380 I love it.

00:59:34.220 Listen, if anyone has actual footage of a UFO or an alien,

00:59:39.560 please send it to me.

00:59:41.480 I will review it and analyze it.

00:59:46.080 It's a second skill I have.

00:59:48.940 You guys are so cute.

00:59:50.400 I love the indecisiveness about it.

00:59:53.480 Sergio didn't say anything about the UFOs.

00:59:56.260 Well, I don't, I don't want the channel to,

00:59:58.880 I don't want the channel to get banned.

01:00:00.460 You know, if I tell you what I know.

01:00:02.600 I did find out.

01:00:03.380 If I tell you what I know,

01:00:04.640 the YouTube channel will be out.

01:00:07.820 So the last time Major General McCaslin was seen

01:00:10.300 was around 11 a.m. Friday

01:00:11.900 near the Quail Run Court,

01:00:13.980 Northeast in Albuquerque.

01:00:16.060 All right, you guys,

01:00:17.320 you got to find Mrs. Guthrie and this man.

01:00:21.680 All right.

01:00:22.400 If whoever,

01:00:24.300 if any of you find Mrs. Guthrie or this man,

01:00:28.620 I will send you a mug

01:00:31.100 and a simultaneous swaddle blanket.

01:00:33.380 You can come live with us.

01:00:35.300 And you can come on live.

01:00:37.480 Yes.

01:00:38.000 You know what?

01:00:38.600 We have a,

01:00:39.200 we have a get it together here,

01:00:41.320 a meetup in Tucson next week.

01:00:43.660 Oh, yes.

01:00:44.160 So we can,

01:00:44.980 we can go all in search for her.

01:00:46.780 What day?

01:00:47.220 What day?

01:00:48.320 Do a search party.

01:00:48.820 Next Monday,

01:00:49.980 next Monday morning.

01:00:51.460 All right, Sergio,

01:00:52.140 I know what you're trying to do.

01:00:52.540 Or face hours.

01:00:53.300 You're trying to throw me off my time,

01:00:54.620 Nazism, 0.93

01:00:55.220 and it's not going to work.

01:00:56.780 So you guys,

01:00:57.920 that being said,

01:00:58.660 thank you so much for being here.

01:01:01.400 We'll let you know about,

01:01:02.600 we'll be here tomorrow.

01:01:03.540 I just am waiting on one thing,

01:01:05.480 but it's either the news crew

01:01:06.880 or I guessed.

01:01:08.460 It's,

01:01:08.560 it's going to be either way.

01:01:09.780 I think it's the news crew.

01:01:10.960 Okay.

01:01:11.280 Which look,

01:01:11.900 we love this,

01:01:12.640 right?

01:01:12.880 So you guys,

01:01:14.900 let's be useful today.

01:01:16.420 Don't forget that the Dilbert calendar

01:01:18.520 has been restocked on Amazon

01:01:20.500 and you can grab a 2026 Dilbert calendar

01:01:23.840 over there.

01:01:25.040 And you guys are so cute.

01:01:27.180 I love you guys right here.

01:01:29.540 And thank,

01:01:30.840 and so when you guys said,

01:01:31.800 who's Brie?

01:01:32.400 Brie is Shelly's cousin

01:01:34.040 and she's behind the scenes.

01:01:36.480 You just can't see her,

01:01:37.380 but she's running this, 0.97

01:01:38.540 this little operation for us right now.

01:01:40.420 So we appreciate her so much.

01:01:42.160 People that were saying

01:01:44.860 that you miss Scott.

01:01:45.900 Yeah.

01:01:46.520 Yep.

01:01:47.380 Same,

01:01:48.120 same and same.

01:01:49.100 We miss Scott too.

01:01:50.580 We don't do him justice,

01:01:51.960 but we,

01:01:52.880 we want to show up for each other

01:01:55.320 every single day.

01:01:56.420 Okay.

01:01:56.900 So we love you guys.

01:01:58.700 Let's all be useful

01:01:59.920 and stay positive.

01:02:02.300 Okay.

01:02:02.720 Get the toxic people out of your life.

01:02:04.340 You can do it.

01:02:05.100 All right.

01:02:05.400 A sip to Scott,

01:02:06.540 who we love and miss

01:02:07.620 and cherish so much

01:02:08.720 and we'll see you tomorrow

01:02:10.020 to Scott.

01:02:11.240 See you tomorrow.

01:02:11.780 To Scott.

01:02:12.560 To Scott.

01:02:15.460 Thank you.

01:02:17.820 Thank you.

01:02:17.880 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 04, 2026

Episode 3107 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸04⧸26

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