On today's episode of the Scott Adams School, we have special guest Kyle Becker on to talk about his birthday, his love of coffee, and what it's like to work for a big company like VaynerMedia.
00:11:08.620That's one thing I love about X and these platforms. It's helping to level things a lot more.
00:11:14.160do you think that it opens it up for misinformation though not from you but from other sources like
00:11:20.320there's there was uh i fell for one where there was a quote alleged by the video but the video
00:11:27.100actually didn't have that quote of this person i won't mention names but um do you think that
00:11:32.560this fast-paced x uh you know media where it like they break the news but their video
00:11:40.320is possibly from two years ago and not right now. And I jump in on that because isn't that what the
00:11:47.140media was doing to us all the time? Think about the Charlottesville hoax. The media is the one
00:11:53.860doing that all the time. I feel like this is just my opinion on it because I can go to X and I can
00:12:02.820just as rapidly go to like 10 different news sources, which are just citizens, people like
00:12:09.480a Kyle and see what he's saying. I can see what they're saying. I can see what Cernovich says,
00:12:13.840whatever, and then make up my own mind. But the news media told us forever that J6 was an
00:12:22.920insurrection and that Charlottesville hoax was about neo-Nazis. And so that to me is more
00:12:30.180dangerous because they're the official voice. And like Kyle was saying, these stories that
00:12:38.000the citizen journalists are breaking have always been out there but nobody gives a shit they just
00:12:42.640want their talking point in their paycheck and if you really really love journalism like go find
00:12:49.820these stories like look at what nick's doing and be like pick a state and go to that state and find
00:12:54.620the corruption there so that's why i trust the citizens more um than i would ever any news
00:13:02.700corporation? And Kyle, now you can answer that too, but that gets me.
00:13:06.780Sure. So what they were trying to do in the mainstream media is create an echo chamber.
00:13:11.580It's a propaganda technique. It goes back to like public public relations strategy.
00:13:16.220You repeat, you repeat, repeat, repeat, reinforce. So they would spread a hoax,
00:13:20.540whether it be Charlottesville or J6 hoaxes that are related to those stories, obviously,
00:13:27.020and they would never they would very rarely, if ever, go back and correct those.
00:13:30.940They would just put it out in the ether. That was it. Then they would, you know, drive by media, as Rush Limbaugh used to say.
00:13:36.580They would just go move on to the next story. Right. So, I mean, and Scott had that great meme that he posted about all of the different hoaxes.
00:13:43.920Like, if you fell for this, you know, like, you know, take a look at what the media and it was a very impressive list of just like, you know, it's just gobsmacking when you look at it right in front of you.
00:13:54.820because I remember fighting every one of those hoaxes like, okay, here's the Paul Harvey rest
00:13:59.620of the story about all of these different hoaxes. And so they're reinforcing that X is very level
00:14:07.960and sort of egalitarian in a sense. And that means that misinformation can catch fire. But
00:14:13.480the difference is that I think you get burned a few times. Everybody gets, you know, people get
00:14:18.320burned occasionally like here and there, whether you're like commenting on something that's kind
00:14:22.840of distorted, you know, like, oh, it's very provocative, right? And so you're just like,
00:14:28.040and you watch the video and you go, oh yeah, it fits. And then you go back and it's like, well,
00:14:31.42020 seconds before he said something different. So it's kind of like out of context or whatever.
00:14:36.940You know, you get, you know, everybody gets burned in a little bit sometimes, but the difference is
00:14:42.600that they, you know, what happens when you get burned, you adjust, you get more rigorous with
00:14:48.380your fact check and get more critical you think oh this video could be ai it could be faked yeah
00:14:54.220context so it's learning so for me if you go back to like ancient greece uh i know it's a
00:15:01.120little bit random but let's go back talk about aristotle and he talks about what is a citizen
00:15:05.860you're participating in society so what is happening is with x it's kind of a civil society
00:15:12.460and that we're participating in journalism we're not being told like you know moses bringing down
00:15:17.140the 10 commandments and you know here's here's the here's the news now that's not happening
00:15:22.180anymore we're participating in the news um together and it's bringing us more into a society
00:15:28.800of of critical thinkers and um the better we do that as a community of just independent jews i i
00:15:37.100that word's used misused sometimes but as a collective let's maybe it's a better word
00:15:41.460independent journalists. It has a good spill down effect. And I think when you look at Gen Z and
00:15:48.940their attitudes, if you look at a polling, they're much more skeptical of everything
00:15:52.640because they're seeing this play out where we're arguing. They're not getting this top down
00:15:57.500authority from the news as much anymore. They're seeing that it's kind of a battlefield of
00:16:02.720narratives or whatever. So what does this mean for Gen Z? I think it means that they're very
00:16:07.240skeptical but i also uh think that um we need to balance that out with more like um a national
00:16:14.740like this is the way i feel more of a national identity where we embrace values again you know
00:16:20.640like um freedom of thought freedom of religion um and that's kind of one of the big stories this
00:16:27.280week obviously played into like freedom yeah yeah we're gonna cover that too um that i think it's
00:16:33.520such a good talk like i appreciate this whole opening uh dialogue because you know i i think
00:16:39.440the what ifs what if elon didn't get twitter you know what if twitter was still under control of
00:16:48.440the fbi and um the left like i mean literally one day i i got suspended so many times on twitter
00:16:58.760for literally, I mean, yes, I can be mouthy, but I never said anything nutty like that. I would
00:17:04.120ever need to be suspended for. I mean, when Mike Pence was running for president or whatever. Yeah.
00:17:11.140And, um, he was so bad and whatever I said, Oh, stick a fork in them. He's done. They banned me
00:17:18.140for trying to threaten him. Like I was like, do you people understand nuance? I'm not saying stick
00:17:24.220a fork in Mike Pence. It's a saying, stick a fork in him. He's done. Anyway. But that's just how
00:17:32.360censored we were. So thank God for Elon on so many levels and for everybody that had to suffer
00:17:40.120along the way. I mean, a lot of people getting canceled, we will not forget you. Okay. So I am
00:17:47.400going to just very, very lightly go over this story because I can just picture Scott laughing
00:17:56.820at Marco Rubio's new job. So again, stick it on my head. So reports surfaced this week claiming
00:18:06.120that Kristi Noem's husband, Byron Noem, had allegedly been participating in a private online
00:18:13.080fetish community involving cross-dressing and exaggerated bimbo-ification role play.
00:18:21.660So anyway, I'm not going to go on too much more about it. I only bring up this story to show you
00:18:27.540Marco Rubio's new job. And here it is. The man can do anything. So Marco, thank you for being
00:18:36.980a patriot and taking one for the team. You are a gem. And I think, I think he wears it well.
00:18:44.620So, and I could just hear Scott's jokes and like, I know all of you probably have dad jokes and
00:18:50.700everything else that would have been so funny. And, but I, I saw that Marco meme this morning
00:18:56.080and I'm like, I'm in. Okay. So, all right. One story I want to kick off with, because we just
00:19:01.140mentioned jayden so um kyle can you just give me like a like a one sentence thing about what's
00:19:08.620going on i want to play the clip and then we'll come back and discuss what's happening
00:19:12.160so this nba team the chicago bulls they waived a young player named jayden ivy um after uh his
00:19:20.780religious views his pro-christian criticism of pride month surfaced so that's the setup
00:19:27.580Oh, boy. OK, so here's Jaden talking on a live stream.
00:19:57.580teammate to them. Said, good job. Good shot. I said, I said, uh, uh, good job. Good job. Good
00:20:06.300pass. Way to play, bro. Right. I said these things to my teammates was never detrimental to them.
00:20:15.340So why is it that the NBA and the Chicago Bulls say that I'm detrimental to the team?
00:20:19.820How? Because I believe in the truth? Because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life?
00:20:34.540How? How is my conduct detrimental to the team? Because of what I believe. Because of what the truth is.
00:20:43.340so that gives you a good sampling that broke my heart when i watched that there's a few clips like
00:20:50.100that and i feel so bad you know it's like uh like he's right he was a probably a perfect teammate
00:20:58.080but they don't like his values and his personal opinion so is that is that where we're at with
00:21:03.060this yeah it that for the most part that's true i think there's a possibility we see more to the
00:21:09.000story come out. Jaden Ivey, obviously, he's very outspoken Christian, and he had some
00:21:14.580questions about Pride Month. And I mean, we have to think about this. This is an entire month
00:21:19.680donated to celebrating, not just tolerating, but celebrating LGBTQ. So this may feel like
00:21:27.900to some Christians, like you're speaking for me, like you are celebrating this for me. Whereas,
00:21:33.560you know my the the bible that i read has a different you know perspective on all of this
00:21:39.220and i and i go with the bible and not what the league says so this is the problem with these
00:21:44.000sports leagues amplifying woke politics not they are trying to act like all the players agree with
00:21:49.860it and they try to silence uh those players who speak up and and this is a very extreme action to
00:21:56.000waive a player for questioning pride month and i and i try not to overstate this but
00:22:02.440the goal of the left is a type of totalitarianism and and i'm not saying that lightly or to be
00:22:07.760sensationalistic i've studied a lot of this stuff you know and uh i think that a lot of americans
00:22:13.540uh culturally speaking we're like fish who don't even know we're wet when it comes to cultural
00:22:18.740marxism i don't think that people know what it means but it's essentially anti-god and anti-family
00:22:24.680and if you go back to black lives matter and all those rights go back to what the founders
00:22:28.640They like Patrice Galores and all that said about it. They are explicitly anti-family and anti-Christian. And so Jaden Ivey, he's a Christian and he spoke out and they didn't feel comfortable what he said.
00:22:42.520The way they tried to spin it is very reminiscent to me of what they did in the Soviet Union. Whenever you disagree with the Bolsheviks and like they couldn't get their hands on you, they just said you were crazy.
00:22:52.620And then in some cases, they did institutionalize people in mental asylums for disagreeing with Marxism, okay?
00:23:00.140But there were some players who are Christians who I know who spoke up on his behalf and posted Bible verses and, you know, positive Bible verses and talking about being persecuted for Christ's sake, essentially.
00:23:12.720Travion Henderson, a running back with the Patriots.
00:23:14.920He is not going to get cut by the Patriots for saying a Christian thing, right?
00:23:39.560So the way that these sports leagues have been weaponized as an arm of the left is something that, you know, a lot of people who follow these sports are very sensitive to it.
00:23:51.340We recognize it. You know, the NBA's ratings is down.
00:23:54.300And that has been something that's went on since COVID.
00:23:58.140They started the full on Black Lives Matter thing kneeling.
00:24:01.200A lot of this, whether you agree or not, of course, Black Lives Matter.
00:24:04.960This is an argument against exactly nobody.
00:24:07.020And it's actually an accusation against people who disagree with the left that you don't care about black people. That is not the case. The problem is you are lying. You are lying about homicides like police shootings, for example.
00:24:21.020there was a black harvard economist uh ronald freyer i believe he went to the new york times
00:24:26.380published an exhaustive analysis of this said there's no when you when you adjust for for
00:24:31.340incidents there's no racial bias when it comes to police shootings and of course they couldn't
00:24:37.200handle that so think of all the damage black communities um sending them on fire over lies
00:24:45.300and so they they're lost a lot of americans and punishing someone like jaden ivy just confirms
00:24:50.680once again that these these sports leagues are ideologically captured yeah let me get marcella
00:24:56.660in here marcella do you have a take on this so to me jaden ivy is under contract his contract
00:25:03.020probably indicates that he's not supposed to talk about these things so to me um i know that there's
00:25:09.700this argument of first amendment rights but as you know when you have an employer and you have
00:25:15.100a contract and you're under contract that's different you don't have that freedom of speech
00:25:20.260that you would as a private citizen um where he was arguing it with them um so i i see their side
00:25:30.500as well um if he you know i feel like he's just trying to get um attention you know um i i see
00:25:43.160that some of the people think that jayden ivy is not such a good player um and that he may just be
00:25:49.780trying to get attention. Now, I agree with him. He has a right to say that. And it's great to hear,
00:25:55.960um, you know, Jesus Christ being put up there. Um, but at the same time, I can see the NBA side
00:26:03.920of the story. Um, but there needs to be a change for the NBA and we vote with our, um, with our
00:26:10.740views, you know, so we're not watching the NBA. Um, you know, but I think what Scott would say,
00:26:17.360and he would always bring this up the michael jordan would never talk politics because he
00:26:22.640wanted everybody to buy his shoes um so i don't know why the nba is getting into pride month to
00:26:30.400begin with because it's it's pushing away people from watching so um i'm at the point now where i
00:26:39.200see a pride flag and i walk away because i'm like oh my god i'm so over it like i don't care what
00:26:45.920anyone's doing in their personal life but all right already like shut up so like why are you
00:26:52.320so special excuse me um yeah so listen striking thing for me for me um is that we have pride month
00:27:02.640but we have the fourth of july like one day are they saying pride month is more important than
00:27:09.440memorial day i have a hard time wrapping my mind around all of this if the message was simply you
00:27:15.280you had one day, you're trying to be more inclusive. I'm not against that on its face
00:27:20.880to be more tolerant and to be more caring and considerate and see like your fellow Americans,
00:27:27.200they may have different lifestyle than you. And we live in a free society. So that's okay.
00:27:32.980That would be one thing. But in the entire month, it's a little bit trying to stick your thumb.
00:27:38.520you're right but i also don't need my nba or my nfl or nbl to be celebrating these months i don't
00:27:46.360need that i need the i need to watch the games and that's it you know i'm a great sports fan
00:27:51.480thinking about it without thinking about the politics that's why i go to sports so that i
00:27:56.840and everybody else does so they're not thinking iran they're not thinking pride month you know
00:28:01.560it's like it doesn't make sense do the michael jordan thing that's yes let's be michael jordan
00:28:07.800please be like mike be like mike let's go and and like marcella said you know vote with your views
00:28:15.000don't support it don't buy their gear don't you know or buy the gear of that one guy if you like
00:28:19.880his stance but i i wish all i wish all like public things like that would just stop like just stop
00:28:27.560let us freaking breathe let us enjoy something like if you ask me whether larry bird was a
00:28:34.040christian or not i wouldn't know mike magic johnson wouldn't know because they didn't use
00:28:38.520to talk about these things that's why people were so into it because they didn't we don't you know
00:28:43.960we do care for christian values and all that to be spread but at the same time mba is not there for
00:28:50.920that you know i haven't gone to a movie or watched like any of these like oh you're watching this on
00:28:56.280no because i know everyone's freaking opinion i don't want to know your opinion i just want you
00:29:01.000to be that character for me to entertain me so i cannot think about all this other stuff
00:29:05.620but like do you like oh like i mean punchy de niro is making me so mad because he's in so many
00:29:12.940of my favorite films and i'm like oh you know like you're ruining everything you're ruining
00:29:18.560your own legacy you're ruining your own industry and really they have destroyed hollywood i mean
00:29:23.700Somebody is getting me going. Don't, don't let me mention Steve Kerr. Like he, he doesn't get banned from the NBA, but he's a coach of the Golden State Warriors. And he, at his pressers, always talks badly about Trump, always talks badly, all these political things.
00:29:42.980But yet this guy, Jaden Ivey, gets hammered for this, but yet all the other players that are on the right side of their views, the woke side, they never get censored.
00:29:56.380By the way, we're a Christian founded country. And, you know, we're we like, you know, we see you. He'll be back. But like we see you. And I just I do wish like anywhere that the public spends their money and time that they would just, you know, have some consideration for how we feel and to stop with the shenanigans.
00:30:17.120okay let's move on to a different story anywho um so if that doesn't enrage you enough i have
00:30:25.060another clip um so kyle oh here he comes okay so here's another clip um this is vodka pelosi as
00:30:35.820some people call her i'm giving you a warning in case you want to plug your ears this is not ai
00:30:40.440this is our beloved Nancy Pelosi and listen to what she is saying about
00:30:45.720elections and voting. Shocking. We always have concerns but with this
00:30:52.120president and these Republicans who have no commitment to the rule of law and
00:30:58.200doing things the appropriate way, we're ready. We have three purposes now. One is
00:31:04.480to win the midterms. Two is to make sure the elections are safe and three to
00:31:10.420tell people what we will do when we win and that is that that is the mission the all there's so
00:31:18.340many things that you can do to protect the election and they are being done whether it's
00:31:25.380litigation or legislation or just mobilization communication all that but in addition to that
00:31:34.020we have to be on guard as to what they may try to do to the technology
00:31:38.740They may try to creep into the technology and create a false count.
00:32:19.720And that's a good sign to me that she's out there.
00:32:23.980Remember, as Scott would call her, the designated liar.
00:32:28.500She's one of the designated liars that goes out there and gives their propaganda going.
00:32:33.880But what what interests me is that she is afraid to lose, you know, and she's already trying to prime us to for the loss and to claim that the loss was because of voter fraud, which is interesting because they always claim Trump, you know, talks about voter fraud and how unconstitutional that is and how horrible that is.
00:33:02.260but now they're using that same tactic. Interesting, right? Yeah. So I want to point
00:33:09.640out, does anyone else notice that she has the same weird mannerisms as her nephew, Gavin Newsom,
00:33:16.980like with the hands that don't make sense with what she's saying? Anyway.
00:33:21.520His hands. His hands. Inarrated. Kyle, what's your take?
00:33:27.540So I would like to sit down with Nancy Pelosi and get a few appletinis in her and convince her that we have to pass the Save America Act to stop Trump from cheating in this upcoming election.
00:33:39.440And I think we need more election integrity.
00:33:43.160Maybe a few deep, you know, I could persuade her to jump on board.
00:33:48.740But I'm old enough to remember when being an election denier got you thrown off of social media.
00:33:55.000I think there were maybe millions of people who had questions about the 2020 election, and a lot of them were silenced and censored.
00:34:04.040But I've never seen a Democrat ever punished for being an election denier, whether it's Stacey Abrams or Hillary Clinton or Pelosi in this case.
00:40:46.060Pardon me if you're interrupting. The U.S. will be gone or done with the war?
00:40:49.600I think we're two or three weeks. We'll leave. There's no reason for us to do this.
00:40:54.700Look, problem with the strait, a guy can take a mine, drop it in the water and say, oh, it's unsafe.
00:41:01.040It's not like you're taking out an army or you're taking out a country or you can drop it.
00:41:05.880Or you can take a machine gun from the shore and shoot a little few bullets on a ship or maybe an over the shoulder missile, small missiles.
00:41:13.560that's not for us that'll be for france that'll be for whoever's using this trade but i think
00:41:21.920when we leave probably that's all cleared up today i heard tremendous numbers of ships were
00:41:26.300sailing through we're negotiating with them right now they've been again we have had regime change
00:41:32.860now regime change was not one of the things i had as a goal i had one goal they will have no nuclear
00:41:38.840weapon and that goal has been attained they will not have nuclear weapons but we're finishing the
00:41:45.200job and i think within maybe two weeks maybe a couple of days longer to do the job but we want
00:41:52.360to knock out every single thing they have now it's possible that we'll make a deal before that
00:41:57.540because we'll hit bridges and we've hit some we'll hit some bridges we've got a couple of
00:42:01.800nice bridges in mind but if they come to the table that'll be good but it doesn't matter
00:42:08.400whether they're coming out. We've set them back. It'll take 15 to 20 years for them to rebuild
00:42:13.820what we've done to them. They have no Navy. They have no military. They have no Air Force. They
00:42:19.580have no telecommunications. They have no anti-aircraft systems. They have no leaders.
00:42:24.620You know, their leaders are all gone. That's why we have regime change. We have nice new leaders.
00:42:29.940All right. Nice new leaders. So Marcella or Owen, whoever wants to touch on that first,
00:42:37.720I mean, that was quite the rundown he gave there about what he's taken out, and I hope things are going well, and I hope that we could leave and that France and Europe will pick up where we left off handling with those little missiles off your shoulders.
00:42:57.760So what do you think about what he was saying there?
00:42:59.820So the motivation behind what he's saying, I think, is to reassure the stock market, to reassure people about the economy, to keep oil prices from spiking too high.
00:43:09.720Because if he said anything else, like, oh, we're going to be there until September, you know, everybody would panic and the stock market would drop and the oil prices would shoot through the roof and, you know, everybody would be screaming about it.
00:43:21.760So I think a lot of his statements about this is saying there is an end date.
00:43:25.680It's not far away, but we're not there yet.
00:43:27.260Mm hmm. And, you know, saying we're two or three weeks away might be a little bit like what Scott used to say about how future technologies. Oh, it's always 10 years out. Yeah. But I do think it's likely that it probably would end in that time frame because I think, you know, the same motivation he has. It's not just a temporary thing like he is trying to talk the market up and talk oil down.
00:43:49.100but i think he knows that if he stayed in iran and kept bombing and did ground invasions and
00:43:54.640had a big you know if it turned into like another iraq or afghanistan that that would ruin our
00:44:00.400economy it would ruin the oil prices it would ruin everything and midterms and everything else so i
00:44:05.540think um to me i think it is sincere i think he is probably planning to wrap it up in the next
00:44:12.000couple weeks and um you know i don't know what will be left at that point i mean i do i do believe
00:44:18.940that we've knocked out most of their capabilities for nuclear and that we've knocked out most of
00:44:24.780their missile so it's getting the uranium now right so that's what that's the goal but then
00:44:31.880so if he says then we leave do the ground troops leave like does everybody leave yeah i mean well
00:44:39.000i mean that's what he said i'm not sure if that's true um you know maybe that they just sort of sit
00:44:44.280there and watch for a while to make sure that nothing big happens and i i do have questions
00:44:48.660about that whole iranium operation because you know what we heard after that first strike midnight
00:44:53.900hammer was okay they they're never going to be able to get down to that stuff it's buried it's
00:45:00.000you know inaccessible but if they're saying we can go in and go grab it like in a matter of weeks
00:46:16.880You know, I'm not trying to like I'm like an international relations guy by trading.
00:46:21.380I was like in a doctoral school for international relations compared to politics.
00:46:25.200Middle East was not my forte. But just I'm a lot more dispassionate about all of this than I think a lot of people are. And I totally let people just, you know, disagree. Like, please be, you know, if you want to be doomer about this or whatever, I'm totally fine. I totally get it because I have buddies who went to war. I mean, my son went to war in Afghanistan. I have buddies who went to war in Iraq. They are very negative about all this.
00:46:49.140And I am against foreign interventionism in the main. I just do not see the dynamics of this Iranian war being similar to Iraq or Afghanistan that much. I think it's much different because of they have a diaspora, like in other words, millions of Iranians live abroad that are against the regime.
00:47:09.120you didn't have that with iraq or afghanistan a lot of iranian intellectuals there's like shadow
00:47:13.940government uh i saw thousands of them at cpac here near grapevine like out in force um and in 19
00:47:22.040before like the revolution in 1979 they had a you know not perfect but they had pro-western shaw
00:47:27.680much different society and a lot of people still remember that like they remember that you had
00:47:33.540none of that on Iraq or Afghanistan. They never had anything like that. Um, so when, if Trump goes
00:47:41.300in, you know, scorched earth, decapitates the regime to a large extent, destroys their military
00:47:47.580capacity, wipes out their nuclear, uh, nuclear, uh, enrichment operations. And, uh, we can return
00:47:56.320the Strait of Hormuz. You know, this is very tricky diplomatically. And I give Marco Rubio
00:48:00.380a lot of credit uh if we can get that running again it's a net win for the world i'm also an
00:48:06.760idealist so let me preface that i just think they're a very evil regime and and i and i
00:48:12.020particularly their export of terrorism has killed americans um there are feud with iran predates
00:48:19.940any of this talk about israel and aipac so like there's a disconnect for me with a lot of people
00:48:25.100who try to bring up the Israel lobby aspect of this.
00:49:51.640They just want to see a successful resolution to all of this.
00:49:54.440I don't think Trump is willing to do it by himself.
00:49:57.640I just don't see that in his political DNA.
00:50:02.080I don't there's nothing suggested to me that Trump wants to like go there
00:50:06.440and nation build or control the regime.
00:50:10.320He said in that clip that he wanted to destroy the nuclear
00:50:13.800enrichment operations, the nuclear to get rid of the nuclear weapons
00:50:18.240possibility. I don't think he's bluffing. I think that is the ultimate objective. And it's not to
00:50:24.100babysit a country in the Middle East at the expense of his domestic agenda. It would be
00:50:29.920immensely unpopular. It would cost the Republicans the midterms for sure. And it would be a blot on
00:50:36.960his legacy. Trump really cares about his brand. He cares about how he's perceived. And I think
00:50:42.220this is a real pressure point. In addition to the fact he's criticized the Iraq war in the past and
00:50:48.020got a lot of support for that so i think cares about his legacy yeah if trump does pull out in
00:50:54.100two or three weeks and then israel decides you know we're not done um because they've said that
00:51:01.280they might continue um i know it's gone back and forth a little bit in those statements because
00:51:05.780i think they made a statement that it's more than halfway over or something
00:51:08.480um but netanyahu you know reportedly at least allegedly has a lot of reasons to keep war going
00:51:14.000um but now that the the other middle eastern regions countries are are saying you know we're
00:51:20.680ready to join and support this do you think you could have an alliance between israel and
00:51:26.120the middle east to go after irana after trump is gone after the americans pull out yeah i mean in
00:51:31.600international relations you see that that all the time that countries that otherwise have nothing
00:51:36.180in common they have a joint uh mission in uh a war or a military conflict and they they band
00:51:44.040together um but ultimately that it gets into a trick a situation where there's uh bandwagoning
00:51:51.360and free riding and like like we say the thing with france where they're trying to free ride all
00:51:56.940we've been uh dealing with this problem of free riders for a long time in the united states because
00:52:03.280who are the strongest. And so all of these countries, this tried it. Well, let the Americans
00:52:06.920pay the sacrifice. I think that Trump is in, you know, pivoting to where he's trying to get these
00:52:12.980other countries in the region to realize it's in your country's best interest in terms of long
00:52:17.960term security that you enter this war. And like I said, the Iranians lobbing missiles at their
00:52:23.440neighbors, maybe one of the worst things they could have done, because at that point, it's not
00:52:28.940just the United States and Israel versus Iran. Iran is threatening the entire region. And they're
00:52:33.720kind of proving the point about why they should never have nuclear weapons. Look how reckless that
00:52:37.460is. There's always been kind of perceptive about Iran. It's like maybe they're a litmus test of
00:52:43.900the madman theory. That's where you don't have mutually assured destruction doesn't apply to
00:52:50.580these ideological fanatics who are apocalyptic. And they would rather nuke their neighbors than
00:52:57.600lose power. And so that is kind of, if you see the uprising and the way that they cracked down
00:53:04.620on it earlier this year, they killed 30, 35,000 people. It's kind of suggested that they're very
00:53:10.340desperate to hang onto this old regime. I'm talking about an Islamic based regime. They're
00:53:16.760very desperate to hold onto this. And that combination with a nuclear weapon of any kind,
00:53:24.280even a dirty bomb i think people get a little bit too imaginative about this and thinking about like
00:53:29.160you know three or four stage icb no we're not i'm not even talking about that but even just
00:53:33.960like dirty bombs it's very dangerous and uh he trump doesn't want to be responsible for hundreds
00:53:42.040of thousands if not millions of people winding up being killed because the iranians don't want to
00:53:46.280lose power so kyle we only have you know a few minutes left and i i think a lot of people are
00:53:51.880also concerned about what's happening here on our soil with sleeper cells and things like that like
00:53:59.320what what's your take on that as a an effect well we saw here in texas um you know uh you know a guy
00:54:07.320who was loyal to the iranian regime went into a nightclub uh killed over a dozen or i shot over a
00:54:11.800dozen people and killed uh a couple of them i think one of them went to icu i think it was
00:54:17.000three people ultimately. But the idea of them using sleeper cell agents is something to be
00:54:26.560concerned about. But I think that there's, I really think objectively they're on the ropes
00:54:30.900over there. And we've only had a few of those incidents in the United States.
00:54:37.120I think that's probably less than maybe some analysts might've expected, might've seen more
00:54:43.360of it so far. I think if it would have been a big problem, it would have manifested itself
00:54:49.640before now. They would have activated them. You think? You don't think they're still
00:54:53.460sleeping and they're going to sleep? There could be a few of them out there for sure,
00:54:57.160but I believe that the pressure, the leverage that they might have gotten from that is
00:55:02.940dissipating. They're getting diminishing returns very quickly at this point. I'm not expert at
00:55:11.080these types of operations but i think like the leverage point would have been before now like
00:55:18.040they would have because it's a series of terrorism is like a series of escalating events like this
00:55:23.920event that happened in texas and uh would have been compounded like maybe every weekend it would
00:55:30.260have happened like you know i don't want to get into details here yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't
00:55:35.000want to give ideas or details. Yes, I know. I agree. Sometimes I wish the news would just zip
00:55:41.240it because I'm thinking, oh, this would trigger an idea. Then the very mentally unstable people
00:55:47.020are like, hey. So with just a few minutes left, Kyle, I want to give you your due here. And
00:55:56.520can you tell us about the book you wrote also? I didn't know that you wrote a book until I
00:56:01.200saw it on your um page right so um essentially you see a lot of debate uh right now about the
00:56:08.380revisionism of tolkien uh you see about what they're doing with harry potter and uh you know
00:56:14.560a lot of people just want their fantasy to be a fantasy story and they don't want a lot of the
00:56:19.600uh woke politics in it just to use a you know catchphrase about it but uh essentially you know
00:56:27.300I wrote this book in more of a classic style, um, kind of a Tolkien meets C.S. Lewis. And I'm not
00:56:34.960saying like, uh, you know, I, I'm just saying the spirit of it. Right. And I think that, uh,
00:56:39.700ultimately, you know, as, as somebody who's worked in the news for a long time, it was very,
00:56:44.080um, frustrating to see the negativity and they think people are being demoralized.
00:56:49.740And so this book is essentially, it was inspired during COVID. It took me four or five years to
00:56:54.520get this published. But it's about the effect of nihilism on society. And there's a very existential
00:57:00.980sort of crisis in the world where history is undone. And they have to band together to face
00:57:13.120this existential force that's going to undo the world. And so there's a series of books. There's
00:57:20.720of four of them that are planned out. I'm on my second book. So the first in the series very,
00:57:24.840just sets the table, introduces the characters, the stakes, um, the forces behind it, the world
00:57:31.400that they're in. The second book is, is a lot more, you know, character driven forward and
00:57:36.840really just takes off, you know, but the first one is a very strong introduction to this world
00:57:43.680of Hypernia. And, uh, there's a lot of different political kingdoms. So like for political junkies,
00:57:48.720There's a lot of political philosophy. You know, there's a there's a monarchy, there's a republic, there's a anarchy, there's a kleptocracy.
00:57:58.180We're not the pirates, obviously. And so, like, why do all of these kingdoms crumble and decay?
00:58:05.400And what does that feel like for characters who are in the in those societies?
00:58:10.280And ultimately, there's a resolution to this by the end of the series that explains what is to be done.
00:58:16.620you know sort of the famous political question um but it is an answer for the reader it is um
00:58:22.480sort of uh revealed to them and they can take away whatever they want so it's not preachy at
00:58:27.760all it's not it's just this is an adult book not it is and and i think that you know anybody who
00:58:33.800who like the chronicles of narnia for example and sort of the outlook on that the the the method of
00:58:40.220writing, but I modernize it. I use a more of a modern pacing. Nice. I like that. I don't like
00:58:47.560things like period. I read very quick chapters. Love, love. I love that. Did you have fun today
00:58:54.560with us, Kyle? This is amazing. You guys are cool. You guys are cool peeps. You're cool too.
00:58:59.640Thank you. You're cool too. And you joined us on your birthday. I mean, how special for us.
00:59:04.260I hope you all enjoyed Kyle. We did. He will definitely be back again. Owen, you're amazing
00:59:10.780for running through the door like Kramer to join us on the show. Marcella, you know, I love you so
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00:59:35.240the home team tomorrow or we may have a guest either way we will be here as always let's have
00:59:41.140a closing sip you guys and remember to be useful be all the things we were ever taught and let's
00:59:47.440have a closing sip to scott and to shelly and we will see you guys in the morning love you guys
01:22:39.260somebody said that we are starting to sound like coast to coast
01:22:45.460what does that mean like it's all conspiracy and ufos oh i was like whoa is that what it means
01:22:54.800no we're not i know but i mean i was like i took it as a compliment i'm like i used to
01:23:00.940listen to costa goes at night i don't know because art bell
01:23:04.900pupusa no you know what that means in in i'll have other rights even
01:23:14.500what i i say woman's kitty oh a kitty a woman's kitty you say
01:23:25.060welcome to the morning show at dawn after welcome to hello the morning show after coffee
01:23:37.780oh he's missing my shoulder i know it's very exciting you're really i like your skin
01:23:45.700oh bless your soul this is so i'll do that this has been my thing what i told you that before
01:23:56.320that i like your skin oh thank you yes we are so silly okay let's see you've taken me away
01:24:07.100from my crossword oh i'm sorry it can wait the crossword can wait you guys look really nice today
01:24:15.480by the way i some of you are not wearing pants but that's allowed as long as you know
01:24:21.500greg will be coming on you guys yes he will michael schellenberg schellenberger i mean like
01:24:28.340i have a little bit of a relationship with him i don't know per se maybe every everybody's a maybe
01:24:35.620no matter what. EJ, you're sweating. I am too. I have to get a little fan right here. You know
01:24:44.360what? It's just getting like warm and muggy today. It's getting very hot. And it'll be like 30
01:24:49.760tomorrow. Right, Marge? So JWJB lives near me. Who lives near you? JWJB, Marge.
01:24:58.720okay yep you love the after show i mean this was spontaneous right marcella i mean i have
01:25:07.560857 000 i have a job to go to yeah i have to draft a motion oh a motion to substitute
01:25:16.440will you be oh tomorrow's thursday yeah i might not be here on friday you guys because i have to
01:25:24.780be at a hearing yeah depends erica christy gnome do it what do you want me to do um it's 36 degrees
01:25:39.660crank lordy nefarious johnson i mean maybe maybe do you want to maybe they want to see the christy
01:25:49.580no meme again i don't know oh the it was just marco rubio just as her i i can't get enough of
01:25:56.700that let's see you guys i did not know it was easter really just until like yesterday maybe
01:26:08.180on sunday and it's passover so thursday and friday kick off the week of the holidays the
01:26:16.800weekend holidays so mary k i'm gonna be um up north for the hearing it's it's not uh it's not
01:26:24.960in los angeles so i won't even be home to be able to do the show i know sophia he had like um
01:26:35.360he had notes and like topics that he went through scott in the morning
01:26:40.000yeah i mean we could do the same we don't give our takes like you know yeah and just
01:26:47.080let's see your kids are off from school on good friday good last week of lent
01:26:54.940i sell free people well i have not had time i'm not gonna lie in a long time but where do you
01:27:03.540sell it i sell it on online shopping platforms like a poshmark and there's a couple other ones
01:27:10.900um but it's almost like qvc like you go live and i have like a store that's listed with my inventory
01:27:17.300and you can talk to the chat and people can like i can run them as an auction and then people
01:27:22.980swipe at the price they want to pay for it how do we find it you don't i'm just never going to share
01:27:28.500it oh i cannot be on there she hasn't shared that with me i have and i'm like i want to buy
01:27:35.320some of that stuff i mean i can give you the closet link i will never give you guys the live
01:27:41.360show link i cannot be in there and then like bob lawler comes in and andy's in there like hey alec
01:27:47.640baldwin um but yeah is it mainly women's clothing or is it men i have some men's stuff but you guys
01:27:56.020I have, I have to sell out of everything. I just don't have time for it anymore. So, um, I do need
01:28:02.420to devote some time like in the next month or two to just like phase out of it. But I sell women's
01:28:09.860contemporary women's luxury. Like I have a lot of, most of my luxury is a pre-loved you shall know
01:28:17.020like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, things like that. Tons of like amazing shoes and I've got gorgeous
01:28:24.260jewelry, mostly fashion jewelry, or I have like Gucci jewelry, Louis jewelry, things like that.
01:28:31.700Most of my luxury is pre-loved. I do have some fragrances and beauty and makeup.
01:28:37.440I've got tons of free people, anthropology, all sorts of nonsense, some street wear. Isn't this
01:28:46.400very exciting? So I have to sell it out. I've got to, I've got to get through it.
01:28:50.660What voice do you use? Because I do go on TikTok and they have a lot of sales for clothing or jewelry. And I noticed that the ladies that do that, mostly I've seen ladies do it. They have like this intense voice. And I'm like, yes, I'll buy whatever you tell me. I'm like, yes, yes, yes. You know what I mean?
01:29:14.780I have some friends that, so I have like a network of friends over there, but I have some friends
01:29:19.980that come on who do what they call like a random pull. Like they don't have anything listed. They're
01:29:26.200just like pulling from a pallet and it's like, I'm just going to show you this thing. I'm going
01:29:31.000to tell you the size. I'm going to start the auction. The auction is going to go for like 10
01:29:35.860seconds. Whoever the last person to swipe on it is like gets the item. So like, they're like really
01:29:43.240intense. They'll be like, okay. They'll pick up the idea. I'm like, size, medium, go, size,
01:29:48.540medium, free people, go, go, go, go, go. And then you're like, okay, sold. Okay. Large ladies,
01:29:54.960size large. And you're like, holy shit. And I'm more like me. I'm like, hey, what's going on?
01:30:00.260I'm just running in order. So I have a rack set up behind me and I might run in order of the way
01:30:07.040I listed it in my show. I like to chat with people and be calm and make relationships.