Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3110 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸09⧸26

00:00:00.000 Of course, Lange.

00:00:01.080 Good morning.

00:00:02.980 Okay, Mahalik.

00:00:04.860 Gracie.

00:00:05.680 Good morning.

00:00:07.880 It's a Monday.

00:00:11.360 How was everyone's weekend?

00:00:15.420 Relax.

00:00:16.020 Erika, I think we need to stop this daylight saving times issue, you know?

00:00:21.680 I mean, you know, I found out that China doesn't have it.

00:00:24.260 China doesn't do it. 1.00

00:00:25.400 Russia doesn't do it.

00:00:26.360 Did we save the daylight savings?

00:00:28.420 No, destroy it.

00:00:29.380 We had to, like, stop doing it.

00:00:30.600 Is it safe?

00:00:31.000 Only Canada, America, and Australia do it.

00:00:36.660 I think it's China behind it, you know? 0.96

00:00:38.740 We have YouTube in the house.

00:00:41.020 YouTube.

00:00:41.900 Yay.

00:00:43.640 Good morning.

00:00:44.940 So, oh, Kimberly, I hope you're okay.

00:00:48.060 I see a picture of you.

00:00:49.160 I feel better.

00:00:50.160 Yeah, she was getting Mohs surgery.

00:00:52.480 Good morning, doctor.

00:00:53.820 Welcome in, everybody.

00:00:55.860 Still waiting to see if we get any rumble, viewers.

00:00:58.780 Rumble?

00:00:59.600 Rumble, are you here?

00:01:00.580 Make a comment.

00:01:01.340 Hi, B.

00:01:01.900 There we go.

00:01:02.900 There we go.

00:01:04.680 Right on cue.

00:01:06.800 Okay, so I'm having a Monday, you guys.

00:01:09.340 Woo! 0.99

00:01:10.040 Like, none of my equipment's working.

00:01:11.900 Well, now it sort of is.

00:01:13.400 And why is this in front of me?

00:01:15.360 I don't even need this today.

00:01:17.040 Okay.

00:01:18.520 This is where we're at.

00:01:20.320 So, welcome in, you guys.

00:01:22.760 We are going to get going with a sip in a second.

00:01:25.780 I just see a couple of people parking their cars and running in.

00:01:29.040 Did you guys have a good weekend?

00:01:30.400 It's going to be like 70 here on the Jersey Shore today.

00:01:33.540 I can't believe it.

00:01:35.560 Wow.

00:01:36.660 Beautiful.

00:01:38.600 It is beautiful.

00:01:40.940 Oh, SJV is complimenting my hair today.

00:01:44.280 I see what you're doing.

00:01:47.240 Just her hair, SJV.

00:01:49.140 Just her hair.

00:01:50.440 I mean, my hair is going crazy.

00:01:52.180 All right.

00:01:52.400 No, I care.

00:01:52.840 Sorry.

00:01:53.360 You have good hair, too.

00:01:55.000 I never needed a sip more in my life.

00:01:57.300 So, Shelley, take us away. 0.98

00:02:00.160 But before we begin, I think you'd like to enjoy the simultaneous sip.

00:02:04.660 That's why you're here.

00:02:06.060 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or

00:02:11.040 flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:02:13.460 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:02:15.360 I like coffee.

00:02:16.140 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the simultaneous

00:02:23.820 sip.

00:02:24.960 Go.

00:02:29.560 Ah.

00:02:34.300 I think that's a vintage one.

00:02:36.900 For those that are feeling this Monday, can you take an extra one with me?

00:02:41.200 Thank you.

00:02:41.520 I think that's a vintage one.

00:02:45.780 Before you flushed out the full sip.

00:02:48.960 Wait.

00:02:49.460 The ah is wearing off the bottom of my mug. 0.99

00:02:52.080 The sucker's been used so much. 0.95

00:02:53.940 And that's sort of how I'm feeling. 0.99

00:02:55.060 Like, ah, ah, ah, ah.

00:02:57.280 But anyway.

00:02:59.060 The ah is important.

00:03:00.320 It tells you it's an authentic mug.

00:03:02.920 I know.

00:03:03.560 And I think I'm going to take a Sharpie to it and try to spruce her up.

00:03:06.360 So, you guys, welcome to the Scott Adams School.

00:03:11.460 My name is Erica.

00:03:12.920 And I'm here with the three best news crew co-hosts in the world.

00:03:17.740 We have Owen Gregorian.

00:03:20.040 Owen, you sound very lively for a Monday.

00:03:22.140 Is that true?

00:03:23.140 It is.

00:03:23.740 I'm feeling good.

00:03:24.960 Good morning, everyone.

00:03:26.080 I love that.

00:03:26.800 And Sergio, I see a little punchy stare still there with you.

00:03:32.040 We're still in 2026.

00:03:33.600 I appreciate that.

00:03:36.020 And how are you, Sergio?

00:03:39.080 Well, if we can change this daylight saving times conspiracy that I want to start today,

00:03:45.580 then we're going to be fine.

00:03:46.840 It's a hoax.

00:03:47.440 It's a hoax.

00:03:48.260 How will we save the daylight?

00:03:49.420 Well, no, we have to, oh, yeah, that's going to happen.

00:03:56.140 All right, Sergio's going to work on that, so he's going to workshop it.

00:03:59.400 And, of course, our beautiful Marcella attorney talent back the floor. 1.00

00:04:06.880 Good morning.

00:04:08.420 Good morning.

00:04:09.000 I am.

00:04:09.800 It's a Monday.

00:04:10.940 I'm overcompensating for my Monday mood.

00:04:14.120 Oh, so you guys, I want to just do a really quick reframe.

00:04:17.600 You can grab your book if you want to, but it's so fast you won't need it.

00:04:20.880 It's on page 90 of the paperback.

00:04:23.220 And I just, I felt like this was a little bit appropriate with everything going on because

00:04:27.800 I'll tell you why in a minute.

00:04:29.280 So the title is History is Imaginary.

00:04:34.100 So it says, are you plagued by events from your past?

00:04:37.480 Most of us are to some degree.

00:04:39.900 The ugly memories that lurk in the dark corners of our minds tend to emerge on their own schedule

00:04:45.300 and inject anxiety into our lives.

00:04:48.120 If that describes you, I can help.

00:04:50.960 Histories does not exist in any material way.

00:04:54.660 You can't grab a handful of history.

00:04:57.480 You can't eat it, punch it, kick it, or photograph it.

00:05:01.240 If your past is causing you anxiety, put the past in its place.

00:05:06.220 It doesn't exist.

00:05:07.780 It never will.

00:05:09.300 It can't touch you.

00:05:10.560 The usual frame is history is important and the reframe, history doesn't exist.

00:05:18.080 I use this reframe often and it works instantly for me.

00:05:21.460 It doesn't last, but I can take you out of your negative loop right away.

00:05:26.020 After all, how can I be anxious about something that doesn't exist?

00:05:30.380 And I just want to drive that home because so many people live in their past and, you know,

00:05:36.140 there could be really, really terrible things that happen to you, like a bad event, a bad

00:05:40.240 memory, whatever it is, but it already happened.

00:05:44.500 And it's, and when you're thinking about it, a lot of people are like reliving the emotions

00:05:48.920 of it and they're feeling it again, but it's not actually happening again.

00:05:53.000 It already happened and it's over.

00:05:55.360 So, you know, if something creeps into your head, just tell yourself it doesn't exist.

00:06:00.800 OK, and we are the only species on this planet that actually keeps punishing ourselves and

00:06:08.460 reliving things like animals aren't doing it.

00:06:11.520 We do it.

00:06:12.940 And the same thing is like, think about the relationships you have with people also, because

00:06:17.640 sometimes we go back to history when talking to friends or family or loved ones and we're

00:06:23.560 like repunishing them for things that they did in the past and you have to let it go.

00:06:29.420 It doesn't exist anymore.

00:06:30.540 So I hope if anyone needed to hear that today, that that helps because it already happened.

00:06:36.740 And I'm going to say, even for things that were brutal, it happened once.

00:06:41.820 OK, don't bring it back into your daily life.

00:06:45.300 It does not need to be there.

00:06:46.760 All right.

00:06:47.040 So that being said, yeah.

00:06:49.360 Oh, yeah.

00:06:49.700 I love that one because you mentioned the animals and that's the most important thing.

00:06:53.440 Animals live in the present.

00:06:55.300 They're not living in the past or the future.

00:06:58.120 So I liked another way.

00:07:00.240 That's got phrase this, which was that you imagine you're just spawning in a video game

00:07:04.300 right now with all the skills and things that you have.

00:07:06.620 And, you know, you have a certain set of abilities, you have a certain set of, you know, things,

00:07:12.040 resources, and you're just starting fresh, just like you were spawned in a video game

00:07:16.480 today.

00:07:17.080 And it's a little bit along the lines of the simulation frame.

00:07:19.720 But it's I think it was intended to be a lot like what you just said, that nothing in the

00:07:24.940 past exists anymore.

00:07:25.880 You're just starting today right now with what you have and you want to do the best you can,

00:07:31.360 just like you would in a video game saying you want to play the game as best you can from

00:07:35.020 right here and right now.

00:07:36.740 And that's a really good way of thinking about things, I think.

00:07:39.920 Yeah.

00:07:40.120 So everybody like, let's do a simultaneous side, like just inhale and then let all of 0.99

00:07:47.920 the bullshit out. 0.99

00:07:51.860 Start fresh. 1.00

00:07:53.440 Let's go with the news.

00:07:55.500 I'd like to do the news, but the news is all in the past.

00:07:58.440 So it doesn't exist.

00:07:59.380 I mean, they have the papers and then someone else has papers today, too.

00:08:08.180 Who is that?

00:08:09.000 I'll work on that.

00:08:10.400 Oh, OK.

00:08:11.100 Oh, all right.

00:08:12.540 So let's just one second.

00:08:14.780 Oh, one second.

00:08:16.340 One second.

00:08:18.720 There they are.

00:08:20.040 He like magically got them from me.

00:08:22.480 There you go. 0.97

00:08:25.620 So mother of Satan. 0.97

00:08:29.380 As we start the news today, we start with mother of Satan, a bomb thrown at Gracie Mansion

00:08:36.520 protest foiled by a quick New York NYPD action.

00:08:41.240 Sorry, I shouldn't be laughing.

00:08:42.580 It's not a funny story, but it's just funny that we're starting with it and it's in the

00:08:46.300 past.

00:08:46.860 But anyway, in a shocking incident Saturday afternoon, two alleged self-radicalized teenagers

00:08:53.700 inspired by ISIS hurled homemade explosive devices filled with the highly volatile

00:08:59.000 T-A-T-P explosive nicknamed Mother of Satan at protesters outside the New York City Mayor

00:09:07.140 Mondani's office residence, Gracie Mansion.

00:09:10.900 The targets were participants in a small anti-Muslim demonstration organized by activist

00:09:16.280 Jake Lang.

00:09:16.900 Fortunately, the bombs failed to fully detonate as intended, causing no injuries, sparking

00:09:25.040 panic, smoke and flames erupted, and NYPD officers moved fast to arrest the main suspects, 19-year-old

00:09:32.400 Ibrahim Kayumi and 18-year-old Amir Balot from Pennsylvania.

00:09:39.160 They arrested six people overall.

00:09:41.960 Sources say that the pair had watched ISIS videos and even traveled to terror-linked areas

00:09:47.740 before the attack.

00:09:50.420 That's as far as we know.

00:09:52.040 The FBI has now taken over as full terrorism probe with evidence including bomb-making materials

00:09:58.320 found in a nearby vehicle sent to Quantico.

00:10:01.220 So, that's very worrisome.

00:10:04.340 I would just add that I think the bombs are packed with like nuts and bolts and screws,

00:10:08.980 so it would have been a really bad thing if they had gone off.

00:10:12.400 You know, I don't know too much about these explosives, but I'm assuming they would have,

00:10:16.360 you know, spread those things pretty far and wide and injured or killed a lot of people. 0.65

00:10:20.420 So, thank God for alleged incompetent terrorists. 0.77

00:10:23.820 Yeah, and that's a dirty bomb, yeah, and they found other ones, they found another one in 0.95

00:10:29.220 his car, in one of their cars.

00:10:31.600 So, you know, this is like right at the, right here, it's right here, right now.

00:10:36.400 Sorry, I wanted to add that Mundami did condemn the situation, but he did it in general terms,

00:10:42.940 which means that he talked about the police bravery, but he didn't criticize any of the

00:10:50.340 radical Islamist truth in New York.

00:10:54.880 So, not surprised there.

00:10:56.720 Yeah, everybody just, you know, be careful.

00:10:59.160 Like, we're in like a really wacky time right now.

00:11:01.760 I'm not saying live in fear, but like live with, you know, your head on a swivel right now

00:11:06.860 and just pay attention.

00:11:07.940 And for me, because I am a worrywart, like just try to avoid like, you know, crowded areas

00:11:15.080 a little bit, like just take a little more consideration when you're making

00:11:20.060 decisions about what you're doing day to day, especially if you're in an area like

00:11:24.100 New York City is very volatile.

00:11:26.860 Maybe your little city where you are isn't, so you know where you live, but just pay

00:11:31.940 attention, okay?

00:11:33.480 Erica, is, oh, and maybe, is Jake Lang involved in this too?

00:11:39.100 You said Jake Lang.

00:11:40.100 Is that the same guy?

00:11:41.400 He's an activist that had an anti-Muslim protest there.

00:11:46.060 So, he's the one that has the bacon and the Korans.

00:11:51.320 So, maybe that's a good advice.

00:11:52.580 Don't do that.

00:11:54.020 Don't take bacon and Korans.

00:11:55.680 We have freedom of speech and freedom of protest.

00:12:00.020 I don't want to infringe on anybody's freedom of speech, but I would say that I would not

00:12:04.420 be going to a protest of any kind right now.

00:12:07.120 Yeah.

00:12:08.360 Yeah.

00:12:09.140 Yeah, because people are going to act out the way they want to act out at these protests.

00:12:14.180 They're, they're both, any, all sides are very volatile.

00:12:18.480 So, everybody's trying to get a reaction out of everyone. 0.93

00:12:21.500 So, they brought, you know, a pig and a Koran. 1.00

00:12:25.260 Well, the other people brought dirty bombs. 0.97

00:12:27.100 So, you know, let's not say one person shouldn't do something.

00:12:31.000 I don't think they will.

00:12:32.860 They were, they were mother of Satan, but not dirty.

00:12:36.060 I guess dirty would mean chemicals, I think.

00:12:39.560 Normally, dirty bombs talk about like nuclear, you know, material or stuff like that.

00:12:44.020 But, but it's, it's bad.

00:12:46.320 It's a, it would have been a very bad thing.

00:12:48.400 It would have killed a lot of people.

00:12:50.840 It would have, it would have been a major terrorist attack if it had been successful.

00:12:54.380 And so, I would treat it like an alleged major terrorist attack that just was foiled because

00:13:00.380 the alleged terrorists were incompetent.

00:13:02.920 But, you know, these things might happen again.

00:13:05.660 And I, I just would advise not going to any of these kinds of protests right now.

00:13:10.600 I don't think it's worth it.

00:13:11.880 I don't think you're going to accomplish anything by doing that.

00:13:14.160 And you're putting yourself at a lot of risk.

00:13:15.900 And I gave my son the same advice back in the Summer of Love 2020 riots and things because

00:13:21.280 that was going around and around me.

00:13:22.860 And he, he, he expressed he wanted to go downtown and see everything and just see what it was

00:13:28.160 like.

00:13:28.500 And I'm like, absolutely not.

00:13:29.960 You cannot go anywhere near that.

00:13:31.600 The only things that can happen would be bad.

00:13:33.680 It's not going to help anything.

00:13:35.660 It's not going to improve anything.

00:13:37.280 Just stay away.

00:13:38.160 We have like the smartest audience ever and the funniest.

00:13:42.520 They were like, not dirty.

00:13:44.300 Dirty bombs are radio, radio, radio active.

00:13:48.180 Yeah.

00:13:48.980 I love the audience.

00:13:51.460 I mean, it's, it's an improvised explosive device, an IED.

00:13:54.580 I think that's what the police described it as.

00:13:57.260 No, that's what I meant.

00:13:58.040 IED, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:14:00.680 All right.

00:14:02.040 Owen, do you have something?

00:14:04.020 Well, getting into what's going on in Iran.

00:14:06.060 They apparently have named their new supreme leader.

00:14:09.900 I saw one story that said they were keeping it secret and another story that said it was

00:14:13.520 the son or I don't know if it was grandson or something of the other Khamenei, Mojtaba.

00:14:20.340 I don't know how to pronounce that.

00:14:21.980 Mojtaba. 1.00

00:14:22.980 Mojtaba. 1.00

00:14:23.660 The J's pronounced like an S. 0.98

00:14:25.720 Okay.

00:14:26.360 So apparently the Mojtaba is the new leader, at least for today.

00:14:32.100 And Trump is warning that any new leader needs his approval and that this one isn't going

00:14:39.220 to probably last very long.

00:14:40.960 In the past, he has said that this particular person is unacceptable and lightweight.

00:14:46.360 And he's been described by others as a regime hardliner and kind of like the power behind

00:14:52.380 the robes and an election meddler.

00:14:54.280 And apparently he's also impotent.

00:14:56.200 So allegedly.

00:14:57.240 Um, so that's coming out about him.

00:15:01.420 Um, but, uh, yeah, I mean, those stories are coming out now though.

00:15:07.160 So anybody who gets the limelight, it's going to have the limelight.

00:15:09.720 There's no fog of war now.

00:15:11.520 Yeah.

00:15:12.180 So that's going on.

00:15:14.000 Um, I imagine he just went to the top of the target list from the Israelis in the U.S. 0.97

00:15:18.280 So we'll see if he survives.

00:15:19.620 I know there was a report that he was wounded in a past bombing recently, but I don't know

00:15:24.400 if that's true or not.

00:15:25.420 And, um, you know, I don't know if anyone knows where he is, but I certainly think they're

00:15:29.720 going to be looking for him.

00:15:31.380 Uh, so that's.

00:15:33.040 On the notes, it said that, uh, he's the chosen, his name means chosen one, Marcela.

00:15:38.360 Yeah.

00:15:38.960 He's means chosen.

00:15:40.880 Mosava means chosen and Farsi.

00:15:43.300 And, and, um, he's got an older brother too.

00:15:46.120 I wonder how he, he was able to send the job to his little brother because his name is

00:15:52.760 also chosen to the older brother too.

00:15:56.840 The same name or a different one?

00:15:58.040 No, no, it's a different, it also means that it has a, it's a different name, but it also

00:16:02.660 means chosen one too.

00:16:04.300 Oh, really?

00:16:05.020 I didn't know.

00:16:05.200 How many words for chosen one do they have?

00:16:07.740 I guess, I guess three or four.

00:16:10.520 I have no idea.

00:16:12.100 I mean, um, it says that, um, well, the, it says that his wife was killed in the U.S.

00:16:19.340 attack as well as his father, we know, obviously, and, uh, his, his mom, I think was killed.

00:16:25.460 And so was his son and maybe his grandson.

00:16:29.640 So this is probably like the villain story, like to begin.

00:16:35.400 And, and Trump had indicated that he wasn't happy with this choice, obviously.

00:16:40.380 Um, so he, he's been known as a hardliner.

00:16:43.720 He was involved in the protests that occurred, uh, before and putting them down, uh, not the

00:16:51.440 recent ones, but the ones before.

00:16:53.260 And he was known as a hardliner working with the IRS IRGC.

00:16:58.740 And he gained a reputation because the Basiche forces were under his influence and cracked

00:17:06.280 down, uh, very severely in the 2009 green movement.

00:17:10.340 So he's been, he's like, uh, the, probably a meaner version of his dad.

00:17:17.560 He doesn't have a good sense of humor.

00:17:19.440 It looks like.

00:17:20.120 Does he?

00:17:21.340 No, he doesn't.

00:17:22.720 I'm guessing he's not long for this world, but that's just my thought.

00:17:27.420 How much time do you guys.

00:17:28.840 Erica had a theory though that I like.

00:17:31.700 Oh, you like that?

00:17:33.320 Erica, you want to mention your theory?

00:17:35.200 Well, I just said, I'm like, why would you keep naming the people that are the next leader?

00:17:43.020 Because they're going to be the next target.

00:17:44.880 I said, or is it like a head fake?

00:17:47.100 Like, this is the next leader.

00:17:48.640 And it's like someone that they just don't like.

00:17:50.500 And they're like, just take this guy out while the real guy runs off in another direction.

00:17:54.760 Because why, why would you name them?

00:17:56.580 Like, it's just seemed strange.

00:17:59.300 I don't know.

00:18:00.140 I, I tend to think if I were that person and they were setting me up, I wouldn't like that.

00:18:05.040 And I wouldn't want to accept the position.

00:18:06.900 But, um, I think I said over the weekend that I, you know, if, if I were trying to be the next leader, um, I think what I would be doing is staying very quiet and very hidden right now.

00:18:17.680 And that's probably the main thing.

00:18:19.220 And then the second thing might be to have whatever back channel communication I could have with the United States to try and convince them that I would be playing ball with them and cooperating.

00:18:28.440 Um, I don't think that's what this Masaba person is doing. 1.00

00:18:32.140 Um, it sounds like the opposite of that.

00:18:34.340 Um, but yeah, I don't know.

00:18:36.520 I, I mean, it, it does seem like they're in whack-a-mole mode with the bombings.

00:18:41.440 So we'll have to see.

00:18:42.320 You have to remember that, that Islam is asking for sacrifice. 1.00

00:18:47.800 And so to sacrifice yourself for Allah is the, the greatest thing you can do. 0.99

00:18:54.660 So when you are saying somebody put themselves out there as supreme leader and they might be killed, this is what they're, what they were taught since they were little to do this.

00:19:04.900 And that's like a hero to them.

00:19:07.920 Mm-hmm.

00:19:08.720 Yeah.

00:19:09.000 Yeah.

00:19:10.280 All right.

00:19:11.020 So along with that.

00:19:13.120 If he's impotent, he's going to make it to the next, with the 70 virgins.

00:19:17.560 What's the point?

00:19:18.780 Might not be, well, I don't know.

00:19:20.120 Maybe he gets restored in heaven.

00:19:22.140 Where did the impotent come from?

00:19:24.080 Like, how do we know?

00:19:25.060 Did we get a spy in there and then it didn't work out?

00:19:28.040 It's some kind of story that was in the news.

00:19:29.760 I'm just reporting the news.

00:19:30.940 I don't know how they know.

00:19:32.140 You're just reporting it.

00:19:33.240 Well, I mean, I, you know, I'm assuming, I don't know.

00:19:36.940 Anyway.

00:19:37.720 All right.

00:19:38.040 Moving on, moving on.

00:19:38.880 Moving on from that.

00:19:40.280 Little bad news.

00:19:41.180 There is a seventh casualty on our side.

00:19:43.040 Someone succumbed to their industry and injuries.

00:19:46.440 He was in Saudi Arabia.

00:19:48.000 So there was some attack on Saudi Arabia.

00:19:49.900 We don't have the person's name yet, but there is a seventh casualty from the United States.

00:19:55.640 Unbelievable.

00:19:56.500 Yeah.

00:19:58.120 Uneven.

00:19:58.600 You guys, does anyone else, like, so just like off on a tangent for a second.

00:20:03.860 I'm so confused with this war.

00:20:07.000 I know.

00:20:07.640 Like, I'm always like, someone make me feel better.

00:20:09.520 Make it make sense.

00:20:10.540 But I'm feeling very, you know, no two things are the same, but I'm feeling very Iraq war vibes right now.

00:20:18.660 Because I'm like, what are we doing?

00:20:20.420 Like, didn't we do enough?

00:20:22.560 Like, how much more do we need to do over there?

00:20:24.680 Like, wouldn't it be amazing if we could be like, okay.

00:20:27.860 You know, that was good.

00:20:28.780 And so I don't understand, like, what do we need to keep doing?

00:20:32.320 Because I don't believe everything I'm seeing.

00:20:35.040 I'm very confused by some of the videos.

00:20:37.040 Some people tell me they're AI.

00:20:38.460 Some people are like, no.

00:20:39.820 I see, you know, valid places, you know, reporting the videos I'm seeing.

00:20:45.600 But like, what are, so someone help me.

00:20:47.760 Well, the way I see it is that Trump is a finisher.

00:20:52.220 You know, like, we've been fighting this war, depending on your point of view, since, what, you know, 47 years?

00:20:59.960 Like, long time.

00:21:01.200 And, you know, I think Trump's already, mostly, I think, hopefully, put an end to the Israel and Gaza conflict.

00:21:10.980 He put an end to the Afghanistan conflict that's been going on for 20 years.

00:21:16.140 He's working on Ukraine.

00:21:17.820 And I think this might be a piece of that puzzle, because it does have an impact on Ukraine and on Russia.

00:21:25.020 And he's trying to put an end to this problem in the Middle East.

00:21:29.940 And the next one is probably going to be to finish the problem in Cuba and to finish the cartels across our Western Hemisphere.

00:21:37.520 And that seems to be his foreign policy, is he's not willing to just let these problems fester anymore.

00:21:44.040 He's going to put an end to them.

00:21:45.700 What is that?

00:21:46.980 Well, I think regime change in Iran would be the agenda.

00:21:50.980 To take out the leadership.

00:21:52.740 To essentially put leadership in place that is more friendly towards Israel and the United States, and that would not be oppressing their people.

00:22:03.220 How do we, so I just have questions.

00:22:05.620 Okay, so how do we know who that's going to be?

00:22:09.200 When do you know that's achieved?

00:22:11.600 You know, we're blowing up what refineries and whatever, and slowing oil from going to China.

00:22:20.020 So, but.

00:22:20.940 Well, I think, I think timing wise, it's going to be at least a few weeks, because they originally said it was going to be three or four weeks, I think.

00:22:28.140 And I think, if anything, it might be longer than that, because they're bringing a third aircraft carrier in there, and I don't think they're doing that just for show.

00:22:35.220 So it's going to take a couple weeks just for that to get there.

00:22:38.320 And so I would imagine it's either going to be a very strong bombing campaign in the last week, or it's going to go on longer than four weeks.

00:22:44.560 There is some talk now about potentially having ground troops to secure their uranium stockpiles, so there may be some ground operations that go with this to make it more permanent, that they don't have any nuclear weapons capability.

00:22:55.960 And so they're going after any of the scientific equipment, and any of the uranium stockpiles, or the centrifuges, things like that.

00:23:04.300 But I think it's going to take some time.

00:23:06.600 And I don't think, I doubt that Trump would select a leader until they're pretty much done with the ground campaign and the bombing campaign to say, we've achieved all these objectives, we're done, we've completely degraded their missile capability, there's no way they can strike back in any big way.

00:23:23.180 I think they've got to get to that point first, and I don't think that we are there yet.

00:23:26.900 I think we've degraded their ability to launch.

00:23:30.060 The last report I heard, and again, this is all fog of war propaganda, but the last I heard was that we had taken out 75% of their launchers, but that means there's 25% left to go.

00:23:40.540 And they have this underground missile city, which would probably mean you'd have to use either bunker busters or some other kind of really advanced weapons to take that out, at least without some kind of real massive ground operation.

00:23:55.360 So I would tend to think that is still ahead of us, and we're really just ramping up at this point.

00:24:01.500 We're still in the escalation phase of dropping all these gravity bombs and massive things.

00:24:06.140 So I think we're going to see that for another week or two at least, and probably longer than that.

00:24:11.860 And then once the dust has settled and everything's done, and they've taken out all their targets that they're going after, then I think Trump will start looking at, okay, who should take power?

00:24:22.560 All right.

00:24:23.280 And I don't think we're going to know until then.

00:24:26.340 Well, I have one more question, and we don't have to answer it today because I don't even know if there is an answer, but how is this benefiting Americans here?

00:24:36.720 Like, how is this helping us, America?

00:24:39.980 Well, okay, so I can make the argument.

00:24:41.720 I mean, certainly there are viewpoints on both sides of that, but I think if I make the argument about how it benefits America, number one, it stabilizes the oil supply across the world.

00:24:50.740 If you can have security in the Strait of Hormuz, if you can open up the Iranian oil supplies, which have been sanctioned for a long time, if you have peace in the Middle East where you don't have so much instability there, which also causes problems with oil prices and things like that,

00:25:08.580 that it would provide more stability and probably cheaper energy prices across the world, you could potentially start building new pipelines again and having more easily and cheap energy supplies across that whole region.

00:25:21.160 You might be able to get the Abraham Accords signed across the whole region and not have some massive resistance to that.

00:25:30.840 I saw a story, there was Qatar said that they were going to get rid of their Hamas people because they were condemning the Iran war or not cooperating in some way with that.

00:25:41.500 And so even the pockets of other resistance that are in other countries in the Middle East may get eliminated.

00:25:48.700 And so you may have much less terrorism and a lot more peace and stability across that whole region.

00:25:54.800 And then if you extend the lens out broader, you can say this potentially weakens Russia because it might mean that they can no longer get drones from Iran.

00:26:06.320 And that may bring the Russia-Ukraine conflict to a close because it may give more of an incentive to Russia to settle and to end that conflict.

00:26:15.320 It also potentially weakens China because they're getting a lot of their oil supply from Iran, so at least temporarily.

00:26:23.000 I don't know what the ultimate end will look like for that, but it could mean that we have a lot more influence over where that oil goes.

00:26:30.320 And it might mean that they have to pay more for the oil because right now they're paying cheaper prices for it because they're buying the sanctioned oil at cheaper prices because Iran can't sell it to anybody else.

00:26:41.460 And so if you can open up the market globally, it might mean that China will have to pay a lot more for their oil, which will then weaken their economy and put us in a stronger position relative to China.

00:26:51.080 Oh, and I get all of that.

00:26:52.780 Like, I know, I get all of that, okay?

00:26:55.460 Okay.

00:26:55.620 But we have midterms coming up and people here are devastated with the economy and everything else.

00:27:04.140 And so now we're like, so as like, you know, I'm just saying you guys, Wood Elf, you know why I ask and I'm seeing your, your, no, it wasn't a, it wasn't a setup, Wood Elf.

00:27:15.740 I'm just saying that for like the everyday American who is, most people don't follow the news and they aren't following like why we're doing this or whatever.

00:27:24.280 But we have midterms coming up, probably the most consequential.

00:27:28.540 And I know everybody always says that, but seriously, like if we don't win those or hold power, like none of this matters.

00:27:36.960 And I feel like to me, okay, I don't know if anyone else feels this way.

00:27:41.280 I feel like to me, we did enough damage there that they would have to spend enough time trying to sweep everything up and clean up.

00:27:48.680 But it's like, what are we going to do to show Americans that things are going to get better for us?

00:27:53.880 Like I understand, I understand all the things Owen said, but if we, like we already were having a hard time making the case to the American people of why Republicans should stay in power.

00:28:03.880 And now it's so much harder because now we're going to see like copycat things here, you know, like we're seeing things in New York, we're seeing things in Austin that makes me feel like we're less safe.

00:28:17.660 So unless I see people getting kicked out of here in droves that are this group of people, I don't know how to convince people, you know, I know you're going to talk.

00:28:29.520 Maybe we could talk about Enten next because, you know, approval is starting to go toward the Democrats now for fixing the economy.

00:28:38.800 And that is a problem.

00:28:40.760 And I think this war is fueling that.

00:28:44.840 Yeah.

00:28:45.020 Well, I mean, again, there's definitely arguments on both sides of this.

00:28:48.380 And I think a lot of it in my mind depends on how long this thing lasts.

00:28:51.820 If it's done in a month, then I think it might be seen as a great victory because everybody loves a winner.

00:28:58.400 And if you can actually get to the point where you have a new leader in Iran that's much better for that region and it really looks like it's moving towards peace and stability, then that probably also would mean lower oil prices all around the world, including America.

00:29:11.680 It would be cheaper energy prices here, which would directly impact Americans.

00:29:16.380 And it would also mean potentially that we're a lot safer than we were in the past if we eliminate all the terrorism that's coming from that region.

00:29:23.460 And so I think there are some direct benefits to the American people if we resolve it quickly.

00:29:28.800 But I would agree with you that if we're still fighting this war six months from now, that's a disaster for the Republicans.

00:29:35.840 I think, you know, the good story would be we wrap this up in a month.

00:29:40.460 We have a complete victory.

00:29:42.360 We have a, you know, a total surrender from the Iranian regime.

00:29:46.220 We get a new set of leadership that's more peaceful and more friendly towards their neighbors.

00:29:52.560 And then everything goes back to complete peace and stability in that region.

00:29:56.180 Oil prices drop precipitously.

00:29:58.300 Everything gets cheaper.

00:29:59.940 And even global shipping becomes cheaper because you don't have to have this expensive insurance.

00:30:04.660 And right now we're doing this wartime insurance and everything's spiking.

00:30:07.720 But Trump is telling us it's worth it in the short term to take that pain to get the better benefit in the long term.

00:30:15.860 And I think he needs to demonstrate that.

00:30:17.940 But I think it needs to be done well ahead of midterms.

00:30:21.160 Let's hope so.

00:30:22.340 And because, and again, when in history, again, all these elements are going to repeat themselves again.

00:30:30.700 You know, everything is aligned in a way that hasn't been aligned like this in the last hundred years for America.

00:30:36.560 So Trump is looking at things, you know, a hundred years from now, too.

00:30:41.100 Not just like what's going to happen in the midterms, too.

00:30:43.760 Because it's super important to fix this, to win that.

00:30:48.020 But we're talking about the biggest landscape that you can see for America here.

00:30:54.940 You know, if we don't do this now, do you think anybody's going to do it right now?

00:30:59.420 So it's going to suck because we might, we're risking the elections, but somebody had to do it.

00:31:04.800 And Trump, I mean, finally had somebody to say, like, you know what?

00:31:08.200 I'm going to do it. 0.97

00:31:08.880 I don't care about the freaking elections. 0.97

00:31:10.380 I'm going to take on this. 0.97

00:31:11.920 So we'll see.

00:31:12.620 And I would say there are things going on domestically to try and make things better for people.

00:31:16.380 I don't know if it'll be enough or not, but I, you know, there, it is being done.

00:31:19.920 And even the elections, Trump just announced that he's not going to sign any legislation until the SAVE Act is passed.

00:31:27.260 And so, you know, he's basically shutting down the executive part of legislation to say, you better get that SAVE Act through or I'm not going to pass anything else.

00:31:37.820 And so he's trying to set an ultimatum from his end to say, we got to fix these elections.

00:31:42.760 And, you know, you can speculate whether that's really going to help us or hurt us or make a difference in the midterms.

00:31:48.760 But to whatever extent there is election rigging going on against the Republicans, then if he can get the SAVE Act passed and if it actually survives and gets enforced in the midterms, then that could make a big difference on its own.

00:31:59.500 And he is, you know, even the big, beautiful bill is still coming through with tax returns that are happening right now, where Besson came on and said something like the average return or refund is something like $3,400.

00:32:13.380 And there's still people filing their returns because April 15th is the deadline.

00:32:17.440 So there's a lot of people that haven't received that yet.

00:32:19.160 But there's potentially a big refund coming to a lot of people who haven't filed their tax returns yet.

00:32:25.120 And that would potentially give at least a short-term boost to the economy and to people's pocketbooks to say, wow, you know, Trump lowered my taxes.

00:32:33.560 And there's something like 100 million people, I think they said, that would be benefiting from that.

00:32:38.080 So that's a lot of voters that would potentially have a check coming to them that they can directly trace back to the big, beautiful bill.

00:32:45.840 And I know there's other things going on with, you know, meat prices and other stuff, and they are working on things like that.

00:32:51.920 But I think he is doing a lot of things domestically at the same time.

00:32:55.460 I'd like to say, so to Marcella, I just want to not pose it to you, but maybe you can also add to this.

00:33:01.700 So you guys, I, for me personally, so I, I can see this big picture.

00:33:07.520 Like when I see that he's like talking about Cuba next, I'm like, yeah, let's go, you know?

00:33:12.040 And so like the cheerleader part of me that wants to see like a great, you know, free world, like, or a world free of dictators and whatever, and communism, I'm like, let's go knock them all out.

00:33:25.100 Like, I get it.

00:33:25.860 Like, I'm like, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:33:27.900 But what stops me is just the, the everyday people that are like struggling.

00:33:33.520 So yes, like I, like, oh my God, imagine if, so you know what I imagine is like these places, like Iran, everywhere, Mexico, I really pray for Mexico, but I don't know how you're going to fix what's going on there.

00:33:46.620 But I'd love to be able to see all these people move back to their countries and live freely and like embrace their heritage and like live the way they want to, because America is not Cuba and whatever.

00:33:56.880 Love the Cubans, nothing to do with that.

00:33:58.540 But, but, so Marcella, I think if that SAVE Act got passed, which I just can't understand this delay, I mean, I do, but I can't understand it.

00:34:09.260 So yeah, I love that part.

00:34:11.380 And I just feel like the midterms, you know, I just, I'm so afraid of a Democrat coming back in and being like, we're going to open the border again and flood the country again.

00:34:22.480 And then this is all for naught.

00:34:24.420 So how do you see it shaking out?

00:34:26.860 So, I mean, regardless of anything, always take what the government says to you with a, with a, you know, be, be very careful what the government tells you.

00:34:37.000 You know, Trump is saying, you know, we'll end in four weeks, whatever, you know, we don't know that, you know, it's not Iraq, it's different, it's not the same president, it's Trump.

00:34:50.640 But, you know, people in America don't like hearing this nation building, like, next is Cuba, next is, you know, we're kind of over that.

00:35:00.600 So he has to be very careful of losing his base.

00:35:05.880 The SAVE Act also has his troubles because it was saying something about transgender change with the parents.

00:35:13.960 But as long as they okay it, then it's okay for a minor to do that.

00:35:19.220 I think there was a change in his, in his truth post, where one was just the SAVE Act is this.

00:35:28.680 And then a second one was, oh, if a parent allows for transgender change in a minor, then it's good to go. 0.81

00:35:37.000 And a lot of people think that maybe that's kind of the poison pill that's put into the SAVE Act, that a lot of people aren't backing it anymore because of what is being alleged to be in the legislation.

00:35:51.140 That's troublesome for a lot of people in the base.

00:35:54.360 So, but yeah, getting, getting, beyond the SAVE Act, getting them, the country to vote with IDs, like every other, most other nation on earth, would be great. 0.79

00:36:09.620 Like Somalia, by the way.

00:36:10.660 Yeah, like Somalia, which is probably the best example of a non-corrupt country, but even they do that. 1.00

00:36:17.940 Well, isn't Trump asking for amendments to the SAVE Act to get rid of that, the trans stuff? 1.00

00:36:25.020 I mean, what I read is.

00:36:26.380 They did it on purpose, I think.

00:36:28.360 There's a true social post that says no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel, no men and women's sports, and no transgender mutilation surgery for children.

00:36:40.400 So I think he is asking for those things to be fixed before.

00:36:43.440 He later changed that post and later put a new post where that last sentence had unless parents allow it.

00:36:53.500 I mean, I thought that was the latest one, was just literally no transgender mutilation for children.

00:37:00.580 I hope so.

00:37:01.720 I mean, he doesn't really pass the legislation anyway.

00:37:04.500 I mean, he doesn't write legislation anyways, you know, but I think it would be very.

00:37:08.720 Yeah.

00:37:08.900 The article I'm reading says an earlier version had that parental consent piece in, and now he's changed it.

00:37:17.100 Yeah.

00:37:17.720 I mean, his post might be one thing.

00:37:19.860 The other thing is the legislation itself, which may be full of things.

00:37:24.520 But going down to the American people, things don't look good.

00:37:29.320 I mean, my next story is the world economic shock.

00:37:33.180 So, but you know what?

00:37:35.020 A lot of people were very negative when Trump on January 3rd took Maduro and like this and brought him back.

00:37:44.520 And our people were very scared of like, oh, we're nation building, we're doing this, we're doing that.

00:37:49.200 And now things are getting better.

00:37:52.200 So, oh, I might be right.

00:37:54.500 And so is Erica.

00:37:56.240 Like eventually it'll correct itself by the time we have the midterms.

00:38:02.800 I hope so.

00:38:03.960 Yeah.

00:38:04.300 Okay.

00:38:04.700 Let me just ask you a question, Erica, or maybe to the group.

00:38:08.180 Like what do you think Trump should be doing domestically to help with midterms that he's not doing?

00:38:13.620 Um, I, the SAVE Act, 100%, like there, if, like, you know, Scott would always say, if you can't trust voting and your elections, you don't have a country. 0.98

00:38:26.480 And so I feel like, um, I mean, didn't we see enough of this shit with the 2020 election? 0.97

00:38:33.220 Yeah. 0.99

00:38:33.440 But, but he's doing that, isn't he?

00:38:35.180 I mean, he's doing everything he can to get that through.

00:38:37.720 Talk to, to tune.

00:38:40.300 What's his name?

00:38:41.540 Oh, John Thune.

00:38:42.360 Oh, make him come to the White House.

00:38:45.100 Well, but that, that seems to be moving in the right direction with Cornyn coming out saying he supports the filibuster idea, which is again, this, you know, little tactical war going on between him and Paxton.

00:38:56.080 But it does seem like there's some motion in the right direction where they may actually do it.

00:39:00.280 I can't guarantee they will.

00:39:01.860 I'm just as skeptical as the rest of you that the Senate is going to do what we want him to do.

00:39:05.920 But, um, it does seem to me like the, the right things are happening to try and get that done.

00:39:11.020 So is there, is there anything he should be focusing on that he's not focusing on?

00:39:15.080 Um, I, I don't know.

00:39:16.800 I, I would like to see more just domestic focus, like on the everyday people.

00:39:22.340 Like I, I don't feel any more safe in the country than I did before.

00:39:27.400 I actually feel, this is how I feel.

00:39:29.720 So if I'm feeling this way, this is like, I feel like a feeling of people, like what I'm seeing and feeling is more fear.

00:39:37.700 Um, I don't, I mean, I'm, uh, real that the borders closed, but everybody's already here.

00:39:45.120 So, you know, we've, uh, allegedly brought in, you know, we have a new DHS head now with Mark Wayne.

00:39:53.140 And in theory, that might mean more deportations.

00:39:57.000 Okay.

00:39:57.600 We've got a new leader within setting a new direction.

00:39:59.680 He's got that.

00:40:00.360 And Scott would talk about like the, you know, initial period where you first take over,

00:40:03.840 where you can make a lot of changes like the CEO move.

00:40:06.340 So we may end up seeing some improvements there too.

00:40:08.800 And I think that to me is a visible sign that Trump is looking for better results there.

00:40:14.480 Okay. 0.99

00:40:14.960 I'd like to, and also I'd like to see some people being held accountable for the bullshit. 0.98

00:40:19.780 And, um, I'd like to, like the fraud, all of the corruption, all of the, uh, Russian stuff, 1.00

00:40:27.940 the prosecutions, the bad judges, like the charges against Republicans and sending, you know,

00:40:34.860 people to jail for political reasons.

00:40:37.780 There is the Republican seems so weak.

00:40:41.440 And I'm like, and again, I'm just like, we don't do anything to correct. 0.98

00:40:46.240 So if I feel like elections and law are nothing but bullshit, I don't even feel like I have rights 0.94

00:40:53.520 as an American that way. 0.98

00:40:55.040 Yes, I'm right.

00:40:56.200 I'm not like a crazy woman, but I'm like, God, if I got in trouble, who knows what the

00:41:00.600 hell kind of judge I'm getting or what law they're going by because they do whatever the hell they

00:41:05.160 want.

00:41:05.660 So I feel like the country needs to feel like America again, and that we should be able to

00:41:11.180 count on our most basic rights, um, equally.

00:41:15.780 And, um, you know, I know like I'm looking at the chat too.

00:41:19.560 Like I, you know, I, some people are like, oh, you're thinking too much or it's emotion.

00:41:23.720 But if I'm feeling this way, I guarantee you a shit ton of people are feeling the exact

00:41:29.320 same way I am.

00:41:30.620 So it doesn't, you don't have to convince me.

00:41:32.740 You have to convince a nation.

00:41:35.020 And I, you know, like most of us aren't diving into politics and what's happening and on X and

00:41:40.220 whatever, like that's a very small group of people in this country.

00:41:43.360 No, I get it.

00:41:44.220 But I think, I mean, to me, the, the, the economy is going to be the main issue.

00:41:47.760 And it's, I, I, I think Trump is doing everything he can to make that go in the right direction.

00:41:53.980 Um, I don't know whether he's going to be successful or not.

00:41:56.420 I don't know where the stock market's going to be in November.

00:41:58.440 I don't know where the job picture is going to be in November.

00:42:01.580 It is taking a dive right now.

00:42:03.200 So there are some negative signs in the short term to say we lost a bunch of jobs.

00:42:07.580 However, I pointed out, I think last time we talked about this, or maybe last time I

00:42:11.100 talked about it, that the native born jobs actually went up and the, it was the immigrant

00:42:18.040 jobs that went down massively.

00:42:20.260 And that's what led it, led to it being a negative number.

00:42:23.160 And so you need to understand that like native born Americans are most likely the voters and

00:42:29.020 the immigrants are less likely to be the voters.

00:42:31.540 And so the job picture might not really be accurate when you just take that headline number

00:42:36.680 that it might actually be improving for native born Americans.

00:42:39.580 And I think that's a general trend since Trump took over is that under Biden, we were losing

00:42:44.220 a bunch of native born American jobs and they were negative all the way back to 2018.

00:42:48.900 And now it's moving in the right direction.

00:42:51.920 And that pretty much was right when Trump took over that, that changed direction.

00:42:55.420 And, and so a lot of immigrants are leaving and we are getting at least some of those as 0.99

00:43:00.860 native born American jobs is the picture that I see.

00:43:04.100 And so I think it is improving.

00:43:05.520 And then just from a political standpoint, the Democrats just announced they're not going to

00:43:09.400 be doing their convention because they don't have enough money.

00:43:11.980 And Trump does have a lot of money.

00:43:14.340 And so they're going to be doing a Republican convention for the midterms, which is a very

00:43:17.780 new thing.

00:43:18.640 They've never done that before.

00:43:20.040 So you're going to see a bunch of convention, you know, a Republican convention ahead of the

00:43:24.440 midterms.

00:43:25.260 You're going to see a lot more spending on ads from the Republican side.

00:43:30.200 Hopefully they'll spend it in the right places.

00:43:31.920 I know a lot of people have been very critical about where we end up spending that money,

00:43:35.060 but hopefully we will direct it to the right places.

00:43:39.180 And I know Trump understands how important midterms are.

00:43:42.140 So I imagine he's going to exert a lot of influence in that.

00:43:45.420 But, you know, in the meantime, I think the big variable is, you know, what are we going

00:43:49.660 to see in terms of jobs?

00:43:50.740 What are we going to see in terms of wages?

00:43:52.620 And what are we going to see in terms of stock market and, you know, overall economic outlook?

00:43:57.600 I think that's the big variable.

00:43:58.760 Learn more at aboutamazon.ca.

00:44:28.760 I mean, I respect Trump a lot.

00:44:38.620 President Trump, I voted for him three times, but I would like to see President Trump focus

00:44:45.100 more on domestic issues on his truth post to I know he was doing rallies to keep doing

00:44:52.600 those rallies around the country and to feel like the people are being heard.

00:44:59.020 I think as a leader, he's been a great leader internationally, but we don't have that same

00:45:06.320 leader domestically.

00:45:07.740 So I think he needs to turn that up.

00:45:09.480 And I think part of the reason he's not as focused on domestic issues is because of Congress.

00:45:14.720 He doesn't really control as much in domestic issues, but I think that he needs to make

00:45:22.300 like a focus of that.

00:45:25.500 I think that will make a difference.

00:45:27.680 Even if it actually doesn't, he doesn't actually do anything, people will feel it.

00:45:34.120 Remember, it's not facts.

00:45:35.880 It's not actual changes that make people vote for you.

00:45:38.420 It's the feeling, oh, he's listening to us and the Democrats are this horrible thing

00:45:43.860 over here, over here.

00:45:46.800 So I want to see that.

00:45:49.860 I want to see that propaganda get out there, you know.

00:45:53.220 I mean, even if he assigned JD, like, hey, you got to make the American people feel better,

00:45:58.820 like tell them whatever you got to tell them that we talk all the time and here's what we're

00:46:02.760 doing.

00:46:03.340 But you got to make us feel better because, you know, I'm very aware of what's happening 0.98

00:46:08.160 and as a very informed person, for me to still feel like, shit, the uninformed people, I 0.96

00:46:15.040 mean, I know a lot of people, like somebody said, live in a bubble and like maybe they 0.99

00:46:18.380 don't know what's going on at all, but they do know what's happening with their bank accounts

00:46:22.740 and their wallets.

00:46:24.680 So, you know, and they can look around and see, you know, crazy stuff happening.

00:46:29.800 But yeah, you got to make us feel better.

00:46:31.580 I need to feel like, you know, we aren't forgotten.

00:46:34.720 And I felt very forgotten during the Obama years as a middle income person.

00:46:40.880 And, you know, I don't want to feel forgotten again, especially when things are very, very

00:46:45.920 volatile.

00:46:46.760 And I'm like, okay, we get it.

00:46:48.480 Middle East.

00:46:49.060 And I appreciate it and all that stuff.

00:46:50.860 But hello, like, what are we doing over here?

00:46:55.400 And JD, I'd like to see more of him, actually, because I think he does bring a calm.

00:46:59.440 So I'd like to see that, Sergio.

00:47:01.680 Yeah.

00:47:02.360 On the war itself, I think it's going to be a lot of, well, it's going to be bad for like

00:47:09.700 another month.

00:47:10.740 Really not encouraging.

00:47:13.840 It's going to be a lot of chaos for this month.

00:47:17.580 But at the end of the month, we have this meeting of Trump with Xi, right?

00:47:23.680 With China, right? 0.96

00:47:24.880 In China, right, Marcela?

00:47:26.460 Not here.

00:47:26.940 Yeah, it's in China.

00:47:27.540 So they're going to meet there.

00:47:29.000 And this is going to be a very important meeting because the last time they met, Xi had all

00:47:35.020 the power.

00:47:35.820 You know, he was like on top of everything.

00:47:37.460 You know, he acted like that too.

00:47:40.560 Now, the tables are turned now, right?

00:47:43.220 China has to, you know, doesn't have energy.

00:47:46.660 They don't produce it.

00:47:47.640 We are 100% independent.

00:47:50.400 So starting in April is when things are going to start getting a lot more exciting here.

00:47:56.680 domestically also because we have the 250th anniversary of the nation.

00:48:04.720 We have the Olympics, right?

00:48:07.520 I mean, the World Cup.

00:48:09.120 We have all these events that are going to happen during these months.

00:48:11.920 So don't discount too much what Trump can do in terms of his star power.

00:48:17.960 That's what I'm saying.

00:48:18.480 I think that the star power is going to just shoot up a lot more.

00:48:21.780 And as far as the midterms, yeah, it has never been done before.

00:48:25.720 It's always like a pattern of losing that, right?

00:48:28.280 So it's like, what are we doing, right?

00:48:29.640 I get it.

00:48:30.440 But right now, I think that it's going to be bad until things are closed with China. 0.88

00:48:39.820 That's what I believe.

00:48:40.680 The other thing that I want to bring up to everybody, because there's a lot of people on different sides here that are our audience.

00:48:47.860 They're on the Megyn Kelly, Tucker side.

00:48:50.400 And then there's like the Trump side of things.

00:48:54.540 I want you to know that an enemy always divides and conquers.

00:48:58.980 You have to remember the Democrats, somebody mentioned in the chat, are always one block.

00:49:04.240 They're always very united, no matter how incompetent they are.

00:49:07.480 They unite in word salad, but they unite.

00:49:12.200 And I think we need to keep united because our enemies, which are greater than us, are making inroads with that.

00:49:22.400 If we remain divided within the right, I think it's important to remain one thing.

00:49:32.480 And I know that people are going to be, oh, we can't.

00:49:35.760 We must go this way.

00:49:37.100 We must go that way.

00:49:37.740 Always remember that the information you're taking on and that the divide that's being created is helping China. 0.52

00:49:46.400 It's helping Russia. 0.86

00:49:47.960 It's helping our enemies in the long run.

00:49:51.020 That would be amazing.

00:49:52.420 But I don't even want to say Republicans because I'm not even a Republican, but I'll just say it for lack.

00:49:59.700 But the Republicans, they're mostly free thinkers.

00:50:02.360 And you're not going to pigeonhole people into, like, just going along to get along.

00:50:07.820 It's just impossible.

00:50:08.780 And it's unfortunate in one way because we can't even just fake it till we make it.

00:50:13.340 We're just so dug in.

00:50:15.180 But it would be amazing if we could do that.

00:50:17.960 But, you guys, so listen, we have nine minutes left.

00:50:20.820 Can we lighten it up just a tad?

00:50:24.100 Just a tad.

00:50:25.080 Do you have something good, Marcella?

00:50:26.380 Well, we can talk about the L.A. Marathon.

00:50:29.760 And, well, the L.A. Marathon happened on Sunday, March 8th.

00:50:34.820 And I've run it before.

00:50:36.420 I didn't run it this time, but I should have because they started awarding the Marathon medal at mile 18.

00:50:43.320 So a marathon is usually 26.2.

00:50:46.260 All marathons are created equal.

00:50:48.120 That's how they are, 26 miles, 0.2.

00:50:50.100 But in the L.A. Marathon, you can get your medal at mile 18 or probably later on, I suppose. 0.66

00:50:58.740 Like, what if you decide to go to mile 19 and you're like, damn, I should have gotten my medal at mile 18. 0.92

00:51:05.660 So you get a trophy, which is very pathetic because it's like, why are you running it? 0.92

00:51:11.260 But the reason why I brought it up is because we won the L.A. Marathon. 0.62

00:51:19.360 The United States won the L.A. Marathon and the men's race.

00:51:24.460 Was it the 18 mile or the 26.2?

00:51:26.800 26.2.

00:51:28.300 So we have this picture.

00:51:31.700 The poor Kenyan is on the floor. 1.00

00:51:35.360 He had been number one throughout the entire race.

00:51:40.300 But...

00:51:41.260 I don't want to butcher his name.

00:51:43.380 But Nathan Martin, the American, like all Americans, was waiting in the wings behind him.

00:51:52.740 And he just was able to beat him.

00:51:55.900 So this is him.

00:51:58.040 Wait.

00:52:02.040 Hold on.

00:52:02.720 Let me put it.

00:52:03.400 Let me put it bigger.

00:52:06.260 So basically, the guy, the Kenyan, was in the lead for the whole entire time. 1.00

00:52:11.260 There's the Kenyan, you see.

00:52:13.540 Oh, here.

00:52:14.380 Oh, my God.

00:52:15.080 What a gap he had to close.

00:52:17.520 So the United States is not there yet.

00:52:20.800 He's come.

00:52:21.240 That wasn't him in the back?

00:52:24.020 No.

00:52:24.440 That's him.

00:52:25.000 That's him.

00:52:25.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:52:26.780 Wait, wait, wait. 1.00

00:52:28.180 He's like, move over, loser. 1.00

00:52:30.300 Oh, son. 1.00

00:52:31.260 He won.

00:52:31.800 That's amazing.

00:52:33.080 Wow.

00:52:33.900 He won.

00:52:35.900 When you're finishing that marathon, because I finished the two, obviously not a winner,

00:52:41.220 but a winner inside me.

00:52:42.920 You're a winner.

00:52:43.980 You get so hiked up.

00:52:46.940 Like, you want to destroy, because one, you can't keep running anymore, at least me.

00:52:51.320 So I gave him my all in that.

00:52:53.740 Like, I took my hat.

00:52:55.100 I was, like, taking my shirt off.

00:52:56.920 Like, I literally ran to it.

00:52:58.860 And, like, I pushed this lady out of the way. 1.00

00:53:01.320 And she looked at me, and I was like, I don't care.

00:53:04.040 I'm going to win.

00:53:05.440 And, like, my, in my, so it's great to see America win.

00:53:09.580 Kenyans usually win.

00:53:11.900 We're winners.

00:53:13.340 I just want to say that, that the normal person can do it.

00:53:19.640 Yes.

00:53:20.480 Yeah.

00:53:20.800 And you don't have to quit.

00:53:22.200 You don't have to quit at 18, quitters.

00:53:26.740 I wonder how many people got their medal at 18.

00:53:29.700 I should have done it, and then I would have just run 18 miles.

00:53:33.240 If the medal at 18 miles isn't a giant loser, L, I don't care.

00:53:39.660 Like, if you're going to quit at 18, and I'm saying quit.

00:53:42.540 Oh, the picture?

00:53:43.440 Where's the picture?

00:53:44.380 Do the half marathon.

00:53:46.660 This is the problem with this world.

00:53:48.460 Eighth place trophy.

00:53:49.840 They have the poor guy.

00:53:52.320 The poor Kenyan is, like, not getting up. 1.00

00:53:55.040 I feel bad for him.

00:53:56.760 But you know what?

00:53:58.280 I feel good for America. 0.84

00:54:00.240 Hell yeah.

00:54:00.740 So that was my story, my positive story.

00:54:06.520 Do you have any positive stories?

00:54:08.500 It was so fun.

00:54:09.620 A couple of things I didn't mention that are happening here.

00:54:13.500 The National Guard apparently is reporting they've helped Memphis arrest 1,800 criminals.

00:54:19.040 Of course, the Democrats are suing to try and stop that National Guard deployment.

00:54:22.460 But they've hyped, you know, how many people have been arrested.

00:54:27.460 I think it's 6,801 criminals, 703 gang members.

00:54:31.120 They rescued 148 kids.

00:54:33.300 They removed over 800 illegals.

00:54:35.980 So, you know, Memphis had the third highest murder rate in 2024.

00:54:40.900 They had the highest level of violent and property crime.

00:54:43.840 So they're making real progress with safety in Memphis.

00:54:47.780 And that shows you what you can do when the local government cooperates with the National Guard to see what can happen.

00:54:53.940 I love that.

00:54:54.800 So we're making Memphis safe again.

00:54:57.140 And there's also an update on Doge that as of now we've shrunk the government by 12%.

00:55:02.440 As of, I think it's between September 24 to January 2026.

00:55:08.600 It went down from 2.3 million employees to 2 million.

00:55:12.520 And that's saving billions of dollars.

00:55:14.960 Mostly are voluntary exits.

00:55:17.480 And it's getting more efficient.

00:55:19.380 So, you know, I know a lot of people think, oh, it's not enough.

00:55:22.660 It's not going to make any difference.

00:55:24.120 But to me, that's huge just because it's the first time in my lifetime, as far as I know, that we've actually made the government smaller.

00:55:29.440 So I want to count the wins along the way.

00:55:32.360 And I think, you know, if we can shift more of those people over to private jobs, it's going to make us a lot more productive as a country.

00:55:38.740 I love that.

00:55:40.280 I also want to encourage everybody, don't forget to follow.

00:55:43.700 If whatever platforms you're on, the link is on X is at Scott Adams Meet, M-E-E-T.

00:55:52.400 That's for the Scott Adams Meetups.

00:55:54.960 And they just celebrated their 100th meetup.

00:55:58.720 100 Scott Adams Meetups.

00:56:01.620 Isn't that crazy awesome?

00:56:03.920 And they're all over the world, you guys.

00:56:06.240 It's worldwide.

00:56:07.300 So please go.

00:56:07.920 I'm having one today here in Tucson.

00:56:10.440 Oh, Stephen.

00:56:11.340 I have one today.

00:56:13.540 He has name tags.

00:56:15.720 Name tags for everybody, especially the women.

00:56:18.740 Because he forgets his name.

00:56:19.520 Yeah, you guys drop that username for Jimmy is the person who put them together.

00:56:26.420 And he's going to come on Locals with me this week, I believe.

00:56:30.720 And he gave me like a tour through his new website.

00:56:33.760 That's amazing.

00:56:34.960 You guys are going to love what he has and how easy the functionality of it is.

00:56:40.220 And everybody's going to want to do a meetup.

00:56:42.040 So you guys, they happen at the local coffee shops.

00:56:45.020 And it could be two people.

00:56:46.820 And bars.

00:56:47.560 Five people.

00:56:48.700 You could do it at a bar, but that's on you.

00:56:51.980 But I encourage you to do that.

00:56:53.920 It's so fun to meet other people that love Scott and everything he taught.

00:56:59.140 And you're all like-minded and you're all better people instantly because of Scott.

00:57:05.180 So you're going to meet some great people.

00:57:07.820 And the other thing, too, that nothing to do with anything.

00:57:11.740 But if you guys go to, if someone could drop this, too, it's MAGA.

00:57:17.560 Wait.

00:57:18.480 MAGA.

00:57:18.800 MAGA.

00:57:19.800 MAGA.

00:57:19.820 MAGA.

00:57:19.920 MAGA.

00:57:21.220 MAGA.

00:57:21.340 MAGA.

00:57:21.740 MAGA.

00:57:21.940 MAGA.

00:57:22.340 MAGA.

00:57:22.540 MAGA.

00:57:23.340 MAGA.

00:57:24.340 MAGA.

00:57:25.340 MAGA.

00:57:26.340 MAGA.

00:57:27.340 MAGA.

00:57:28.340 MAGA.

00:57:28.540 MAGA.

00:57:28.740 MAGA.

00:57:28.940 MAGA.

00:57:29.100 MAGA.

00:57:29.140 And you're like, let's just get some of the BS out of the way.

00:57:32.300 Like, we're at least like-minded on, it doesn't have to be fully MAGA, but you're not, you

00:57:37.160 know, like off the, on the left.

00:57:40.020 Drop your email in there.

00:57:42.200 And as that gets developed, Kevin, our very own Kev, will get information out to you so

00:57:48.600 we can, like, potentially find a love connection.

00:57:51.320 Because I am dying for our first, like, Scott Adams wedding to happen.

00:57:56.980 So let's make my dream come true.

00:57:59.120 Yeah.

00:58:00.120 Yeah.

00:58:01.120 Yeah.

00:58:02.120 So we have two minutes left.

00:58:03.280 Anyone else want to do any, uh, little announcements or anything?

00:58:07.140 I don't, we do have a couple of guests this week, we'll let you know as we go.

00:58:11.280 They're saying that the Kansas City, uh, meet up lasted about four hours, um, this weekend.

00:58:19.840 Uh, Livermore had one, they had a small showing, but they were there, you know, um, go out there

00:58:26.620 and, and meet, meet each other and maybe also join MAGA mates.

00:58:30.440 If you're, if you're single, if you're not, maybe don't do that.

00:58:35.000 This isn't, um, what's that called?

00:58:37.460 Ashley Madison.

00:58:38.960 Yeah.

00:58:39.240 This is MAGA mates.

00:58:40.600 Yeah.

00:58:42.440 That's a different thing.

00:58:43.680 You're not going to find Erica's profile on MAGA mates.

00:58:46.460 You're not.

00:58:47.540 Oh, okay.

00:58:48.280 Um, oh, Andy Wang is suggesting EJ and Marcella.

00:58:54.400 I'm just saying.

00:58:56.560 EJ, shout out. 0.74

00:58:58.620 Where's EJ at?

00:58:59.840 I'm just kidding.

00:59:00.900 EJ.

00:59:01.600 All right, you guys, this was so fun today after getting through the serious stuff, you

00:59:06.400 know, which has to happen.

00:59:07.940 Um, but the comments were so awesome today on all the platforms watching you guys.

00:59:14.320 Um, and we will be back tomorrow.

00:59:16.880 And listen, don't forget, um, the Dilbert calendar is still on Amazon and, oh, we're going

00:59:24.160 to also put the link to the official Coffee with Scott Adams merch in the bio of everything

00:59:30.480 we're doing.

00:59:31.320 So like YouTube, you'll find it in there.

00:59:33.680 Yeah, we'll get it there in a couple of days.

00:59:35.300 Okay.

00:59:35.820 So thank you, Shelly, for hosting us today.

00:59:39.120 And you guys, a closing sip to our beloved Scott.

00:59:42.700 Guys, I cried a lot over the weekend.

00:59:44.620 It's just like the waves are wacky, but, um, we miss him.

00:59:48.220 We miss him.

00:59:48.780 We miss him.

00:59:49.300 We miss him.

00:59:50.520 Um, and we honor him.

00:59:51.940 So let's have a closing sip to Scott.

00:59:54.220 And don't forget, we have to be useful and leave your past in the past.

00:59:58.800 Okay.

00:59:59.600 All right.

01:00:00.260 To Scott, you guys.

01:00:02.260 To Scott.

01:00:02.700 Love to Scott.

01:00:03.500 See you tomorrow.

01:00:06.620 Bye.

01:00:06.940 Bye.

01:00:07.000 Bye.

01:00:07.060 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 10, 2026

Episode 3110 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸09⧸26

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