Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 15, 2026


The Scott Adams School - 05⧸15⧸26 Poso, Lisec & Erica. China. Data Centers, Cernovich. Trump

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On this week's episode of Locals Rumble, the crew is joined by special guests Marcella and Owen to discuss China and why it's the most important country in the world. Plus, a special guest joins the show to talk about the F-35 and why you should try to do the simultaneous sip.

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00:00:00 yes okay we're live oh i see oh joshua just ran out of his car he's running in the door here he
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00:03:18 So let's turn it around.
00:03:21 Okay, you guys.
00:03:21 So we have so many fun things in store for you.
00:03:26 The first thing I wanted to do is we're going to talk about China first because we have
00:03:32 expert of all experts here in jack but i so let's look at this wait this is my kindergarten
00:03:40 graduation picture in my right my little yellow dress with my yellow patent leather shoes i'll
00:03:48 have you know and look i'm shaking hands with china we have israel behind me there's france
00:03:54 in between us we were very united nation-y over there at uh kindergarten so yay team
00:04:02 so i thought okay perfect um jack so they're coming back i don't have to do
00:04:08 i don't have to do the simultaneous sip in mandarin you can if you can and i think you can
00:04:16 if you know it i mean he can show off jack does
00:04:24 Uh, wait, I better sip. I feel like that. That was some kind of call to action. Um,
00:04:29 Kaiser would be like, like start to like go now. Oh, okay. I'm going to go now while you talk. So,
00:04:34 all right. So, oh my gosh, we have so many questions, but I'm going to just let you riff
00:04:39 on China up to now. And then, um, I told you the clip I do want to play. Um, so let me know when
00:04:46 to cue that. Okay. Yeah, no. Um, I mean, I think from a high level, I guess, and, and, and Joshua,
00:04:53 i'm sure you have your takes as well i i think this and you know this was persuasion theater
00:04:59 on both sides this was persuasion warfare from the united states from china and you saw two
00:05:07 master persuaders in action and i think that xi jinping gets um a little bit you know a little 0.94
00:05:15 bit underestimated and just the ccp in general at how good and how strong their persuasion skills
00:05:21 are and have always been. And you saw that on full display with the use of the children, 0.99
00:05:30 the use of the fanfare, the military, the pageantry, you know, all of the shaking the
00:05:37 hands going up and down the line. I mean, this is all persuasion. And in fact, the use of young
00:05:44 children in Chinese communist propaganda is something that goes back to the days of Chairman
00:05:50 Mao himself. This is, or by the way, the red guards in China, which, you know, was in the exact
00:05:57 same spot. That's Tiananmen Square. Just so everybody knows, that is Tiananmen Square that
00:06:01 they're standing in. And for all those images that went hyper viral, that this is the spot where
00:06:07 Chairman Mao, after he became the paramount leader of China, that he would go again with
00:06:13 the children. But in this case, it was the use of the children as the, you know, the young pioneers
00:06:18 to go out and assault their parents and teachers and all the rest.
00:06:23 But the point is, with the little red books and all the rest,
00:06:26 and we know the story there, but Joshua and I literally wrote a book about it.
00:06:29 And I just mean to make the point that the use of children
00:06:33 is very, very textbook for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:06:38 There's no question.
00:06:39 And in this case, sure, they were using it to be positive,
00:06:41 but then what did they do immediately after they closed the door
00:06:45 is they played the switch.
00:06:48 And now suddenly it's we need to, you know, the linguistic switch of the Thucydides trap, talking about the rising power and the falling power, talking about how you are the power that is fading.
00:07:03 We are the power that is rising.
00:07:05 And, of course, Trump had to sort of respond to that.
00:07:08 And we saw the truth social going back and forth, which I think a lot of people kind of missed in real time what Xi Jinping was doing when he brought up the Thucydides trap.
00:07:17 people are saying what's this you know he's referencing the peloponnesian wars from 2500
00:07:21 years ago what does that have to do with anything but the use of history the use of a western history
00:07:27 reference that's something that actually passed over i think a lot of the talking heads out there
00:07:32 on cable media but it was an understanding that hey i know your history better than you do this
00:07:37 is referencing athens and sparta and a war that they had so many years ago and and and recently
00:07:44 this this book that uh graham allison had written about you know with kissinger had written about
00:07:48 the us and china and you you see all this um you know the use of very aggressive language on taiwan
00:07:55 and of course we can talk about that later and and then on the flip side you see president trump
00:08:00 coming in and he's in full negotiation mode and and this is something that we know scott
00:08:06 would be talking about where he's he's he's buttering him up he's bringing of course the
00:08:11 power play right the power play of bringing elon musk and jensen huang and the ceo of apple and the
00:08:17 ceo of of meta dina powell mccormick so you know the huge power play of bringing all the ceos with
00:08:25 them but notice how she responded to the power play he sent them out of the room because if you
00:08:31 were watching when they were in that great hall of the people the minute they closed the doors
00:08:35 uh and everyone's sort of sitting there going you know what's going to happen is it and they
00:08:38 went long it was supposed to be about an hour it was two hours but 20 minutes in the doors open
00:08:43 and who comes out it's all the ceos being sent out of the room so that's xi jinping saying hey
00:08:49 very nice but the merchants get him out of here this is about power so he responded to the power
00:08:55 play with his own power play this is a one-on-one meeting and those guys are not part of the one-on-one
00:09:02 And so you're seeing this visual persuasion. You're seeing the labels that stick, beautiful, historic.
00:09:10 You know, he referred to to the Biden meetings as low energy.
00:09:15 You know, I really do think that you saw master strokes of persuasion on both sides here.
00:09:20 And how will that shake out geopolitically? You know, I think still kind of remains to be seen.
00:09:25 But, you know, huge stakes here, not just for the U.S. relationship, but Taiwan, straight
00:09:31 to Hormuz, Iran, all these things coming to bear.
00:09:35 And it was just, I mean, we could go through it for hours, the levels of persuasion that
00:09:40 we saw on full display here.
00:09:41 It's such a good point.
00:09:42 I mean, they are both masters of persuasion.
00:09:46 You know, they just, they seem to mirror each other and they both know that.
00:09:52 And so everything that you hear coming out of China, like even, you know, things that President Trump's saying or that the, you know, anyone in that group is saying, you're just like, ah, like, I don't know.
00:10:04 I don't know who that's meant for for real.
00:10:07 And also, I was going to say, do you do you, Joshua, think that do you do you think any part of the negotiations that they're thinking, well, Trump's out of here in two years anyway, so how serious do I need to take this?
00:10:21 something that we want to all keep in mind is that china for a number of decades now has been
00:10:28 officially following effectively a 100 year plan and i i hesitate to call this an advantage 0.58
00:10:35 of a one-party authoritarian totalitarian communist party state joshua you're gonna get in trouble
00:10:41 again in in a in a low intensity conflict between great powers when the ceo of one country
00:10:49 effectively is potentially able to change every 48 years meanwhile there remains the incumbent
00:10:55 party with power you are correct all they have to do is sort of wait out the competition here
00:11:02 of course having a successor like 48 being potentially uh jd vance as very very much
00:11:10 an economic populist uh in the same vein of the nationalist donald trump that's a very good thing
00:11:16 from the american perspective that would be not so much from the from the chinese perspective
00:11:20 so it very well could be that they're unsure if it makes better sense from the chinese perspective
00:11:26 to attempt to create additional deal making opportunities now or kind of prolong it a little
00:11:33 bit there does seem to be telegraphing from president trump that there are going to be
00:11:38 following this summit ongoing conversation between the two countries um specifically because we saw
00:11:44 on Sean Hannity, the first interview that President Trump gave, he made a number of
00:11:49 nods that I think irked a lot of people with regard to allowing Chinese students to come
00:11:55 to the United States and study other universities, starting businesses here, even buying farmland,
00:12:01 which my first thought was, oh, he's not saying that to Sean Hannity. He's not speaking to
00:12:08 the United States. He's talking to China, who's paying attention right now amid these
00:12:14 conversations i have that clip actually i was in china he was still in china while he was making
00:12:19 that statement now i'm gonna play the clip but i'm gonna tell you beforehand that i am taking
00:12:25 the opposite position on this i know like listen instinctively intuitively i know that the thought
00:12:33 is to be like well he's he's talking to chi not to us i get that in negotiations like we know we've
00:12:37 seen this for years, but you know, this was brought up to him so long ago before any of this
00:12:44 was going on here in America. And I mean, he didn't even talk about like a drawback of the
00:12:51 students or anything. So let's, well, let's play the clip so everyone can get caught up to speed.
00:12:55 And, um, I'm going to cut the clip off at like, uh, let me just see. Cause I, it was a longer
00:13:02 clip, uh, three minutes. Okay. So this is a three minute clip. I just want to give, um, everyone
00:13:07 listening the background. I would assume I'm in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of
00:13:15 their military installations. I don't think President Xi. It's not that I love it. You want
00:13:22 to see farm prices drop. You want to see farmers lose a lot of money. Just take that out of the
00:13:26 market. But they've had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a
00:13:35 lot of it during the Obama administration. He did nothing about it. As far as the students,
00:13:41 it's 500,000 students that come, good students. I could tell them I don't want any students
00:13:51 is a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go out and start
00:13:58 building universities all over China. But if you don't have those students, good students,
00:14:02 by the way. And we do another thing. If they're good and they want to stay in America, we won't
00:14:08 give them a green card and things like that. And not only them, but other countries. But if you
00:14:16 want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. And the ones that
00:14:22 won't be hurt are the top schools. The top schools will do fine. But your lower schools,
00:14:27 your lower, the ones that don't do quite as well, those two, they'll be dying all over the place. 1.00
00:14:34 I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture 1.00
00:14:39 and many of them want to stay here. I think it's good. Not everybody agrees with me.
00:14:45 And it doesn't sound like a very conservative position. And I'm as conservative, I'm a
00:14:50 conservative guy. I'm really a common sense guy, I think, more than a conservative guy. I think
00:14:55 MAGA is common sense. You know, people understand we want strong borders, we want strong military,
00:15:01 we want good education, we want low interest rates, you know, we want, but I think people
00:15:06 would argue they worry about do they have nefarious intentions. Sure, I know, and we worry about that.
00:15:10 And honestly, you know, they do things to us and we do things to them. It's a very, very fine line,
00:15:19 the whole thing with students so they have 500,000 students and our university system does
00:15:29 great you know it does great you want to screw it up take a half a million students out and you're
00:15:37 gonna you're gonna see bankruptcies at the lower end of good colleges but they're not known or
00:15:42 whatever you're gonna have a lot of problems so it's something I'm always looking at but
00:15:47 it's a very insulting thing
00:15:50 to tell a country, we don't want 1.00
00:15:52 your people in our schools. 1.00
00:15:54 I mean, it really is. Now, I'll have
00:15:56 people say, oh, that's a terrible thing, you know.
00:15:58 It is a very
00:16:00 insulting thing.
00:16:02 And
00:16:03 it's very interesting. It's something
00:16:05 that didn't come up today. It came up last time.
00:16:08 It came up last time.
00:16:09 But I will tell you that school systems
00:16:11 don't want that to happen because
00:16:13 you won't have much of a school system.
00:16:15 All right, Mr.
00:16:17 All right. So Jack, I know you have a take on this right away. You're holding your chin,
00:16:23 like just go ahead. Actually, funny enough, I was doing that on purpose. No, so the thing to look
00:16:32 at here is the fact, keep in mind, just put yourself in context to this interview. He's
00:16:39 just spent two hours sitting down face-to-face with Xi Jinping. They've gone through a number
00:16:45 of policy lines. And in fact, the president was just on Air Force One. I haven't had a chance to
00:16:51 get through all of it, but he was making some of the references to things that they talked about.
00:16:54 They did talk about cyber security and cyber attacks. They did talk about spying. They talked
00:17:01 about Jimmy Lai, the publisher of Apple Daily that China has thrown as a political prisoner
00:17:06 thrown in prison. And one of the, obviously they talked about Taiwan. We know that from the Chinese
00:17:11 side. They talked about the straightforward moves. There's no question. They talked about Iran having 0.51
00:17:15 a nuclear weapon. But one thing I thought was interesting was that he's selling, right? He's
00:17:22 selling in that clip. So he's, he's selling, he's using persuasion. He's saying, well, would you
00:17:27 want to see colleges go out of business? Would you want to see this? He's, he's using his persuasion
00:17:32 ability, uh, through the audience back on China, but also to the American people when he's talking
00:17:37 about the importance of keeping these schools open and having american jobs and it strikes me that
00:17:43 the reason he's doing that is because this may be one of the things that xi jinping really pressed
00:17:49 him on and said hey we really need this and if you want to get our help or get our our leverage on um
00:17:59 on iran or a number of these other places one of the things that xi jinping really came in on
00:18:05 impressed him on must have been the chinese students and that strikes me as very interesting
00:18:10 because it almost seems like they get more out of like think about why why would that be such
00:18:18 a priority to them as well as the farmland that china is getting more out of the chinese students
00:18:24 in america and the farmland in america than they are on straight to hormuz that they are on taiwan
00:18:30 that they are on a variety of these other things. And it goes to show what a priority that is for
00:18:38 Xi Jinping to be the point where Trump seems to be wanting to go along with it, wants to show that
00:18:44 he's willing to work with him on his top line items, because he's looking for assistance in
00:18:49 other areas as well. So that struck me as very interesting. And this is something that I know,
00:18:56 I don't talk about it a lot, but I spent some time at the University of Pennsylvania
00:18:59 and worked in one of their China offices
00:19:02 and actually helped, you know,
00:19:06 working on these programs for educational exchange
00:19:08 between U.S. students and Chinese students.
00:19:11 And you would constantly see,
00:19:13 and you're not to get any specifics,
00:19:14 but you would always see that the Chinese students
00:19:17 that came over would be the sons
00:19:19 and just almost to a point,
00:19:21 the sons and daughters of the leadership,
00:19:24 the sons and daughters of CCP elites.
00:19:26 I think Jiang Zemin's grandson had studied it
00:19:29 at wharton at one point uh we know that xi jinping's daughter i believe was studying at harvard
00:19:34 under a false name and she's gone on to be public about that so what when you hear the students you
00:19:41 have to remember that this isn't just just like random chinese students these are the sons and
00:19:46 daughters of the connected political elite in china all right so this is a weird question for
00:19:52 you joshua but personally how do you feel about that i the the word that uh i latched on to that
00:20:01 that president trump used in that interview was he was speaking about how insulting it would be to
00:20:06 say oh we don't want your your students east asian cultures unlike western cultures tend to be more
00:20:13 social shame based whereas western cultures were like individual guilt based and it just just 0.97
00:20:20 contrast the religion, those that venerate ancestors versus those that venerate the saints
00:20:25 and so forth. And so when you are, I think President Trump was specifically acknowledging
00:20:31 the context, and it was a way of indirectly honoring his host, which is key in a negotiation.
00:20:40 One of the comments here that we see on Rumble from a locals individual said something to the
00:20:46 effect of, I always prefer to insult on a national platform that people I'm negotiating with. That
00:20:51 always works out well for me. Something else that I did during the clip as I pulled up, Jack's going
00:20:57 to laugh, I pulled up Stephen Miller's timeline and I just searched China, Chinese, Chinese
00:21:03 businesses. And the guy has been going off for six years about Chinese communists, this, that,
00:21:09 and the other from the universities to business. He's saying straight up, we're, our country's
00:21:15 being infiltrated by hundreds of Chinese communist spies.
00:21:19 President Trump is fully aware of the real situation.
00:21:23 But another criticism that Stephen Miller levied
00:21:28 was specifically during the Biden administration
00:21:30 towards Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken.
00:21:33 And this is what I appreciate
00:21:36 about the Trump and Vance administration,
00:21:38 is that these are professional negotiators
00:21:41 that contain competent American nationalist populist,
00:21:44 meaning they have our people's best interest in mind, lawyers and entrepreneurs, both of whom
00:21:51 are professional negotiators who understand how to play the game. The trouble with the left-wing
00:21:57 worldview is they tend to lack the talent stack of negotiation. And if anyone has ever tried to
00:22:06 argue with the liberal on anything or try to create any kind of compromise, they sort of have 0.55
00:22:10 one of two states of negotiation, if they feel any kind of white guilt with their negotiation
00:22:19 partner, it's how many concessions can I grant you? And that was, according to Stephen Miller,
00:22:27 the stance of the Biden administration, Secretary Blinken specifically, it's how much can we grant
00:22:32 you or give away to you or make easy for you to do, and not just the Biden administration with
00:22:38 the Democratic Party writ large is a perpetual concession-seeking from us surrendering
00:22:45 opportunities, land, status, and so forth to communist China. And I do think there is,
00:22:52 unfortunately, a white guilt basis to this. If anyone has ever negotiated with any type of
00:22:58 a liberal, and you've seen that dynamic before, of an interracial negotiation,
00:23:03 you will see that 100% of the time. That's also, in my opinion, why we just had the breaking story
00:23:09 from Maine about millions of dollars of fraud. Vice President Vance talked about that. All the
00:23:15 antics in Ohio and Columbus, my capital city. Of course, Minneapolis, also Los Angeles, Los
00:23:21 Angeles County, and so far part of California. There are these immense fraud rings that have
00:23:28 been allowed to persist. And I believe one of the reasons why they've not been investigated by the
00:23:34 Democratic Party, let's say, that rules those areas that otherwise could is because of the 0.54
00:23:40 white guilt aspect of it, because the perpetrators are not white. The other part of the other sort 0.62
00:23:47 of strategy of negotiation with liberals that you might have observed is something like if they're
00:23:53 dealing with a conservative or person they see as like an equal in some way, then they will
00:23:59 effectively say, I should get everything I want. You should get nothing you want. And that's fair.
00:24:05 So in both situations, they have, I get everything or I get nothing to appease my Western American
00:24:13 guilt complex because America is terrible. The real founding was 1619, you know, and just go
00:24:18 off on that direction. And we have to still make reparations for Christopher Columbus and all that
00:24:22 stuff. Excuse me, Indigenous Peoples Day. They've got to work that in there right along with their
00:24:26 pronouns. Joshua, but should we really refer to it as Indigenous Peoples, or is there perhaps
00:24:32 another term that would be more apropos? Columbus Day? No, yes. So when you study
00:24:39 where the so-called native and indigenous people of the Americas are from, look at their
00:24:44 haplogroup. Look at their area of origin. They're actually Siberians. So the better
00:24:50 understanding of them is to refer to the so-called native indigenous americans the accurate term is
00:24:56 siberian americans as they are directly descended from those bearing land street let's let's not
00:25:01 let's not have ancestral erasure guys calling them indigenous is is an erasure of their ancestry
00:25:07 just because beringia is underneath the arctic ocean doesn't mean that it was not a real place
00:25:17 well okay it's too much for me this is a running like kind of a running clearly um yeah and and
00:25:26 also i just want to remind you guys suicidal empathy gad sad will be here next thursday so
00:25:31 we'll talk about white guilt um and how useless it really is and the trouble it can get you into
00:25:38 So, Joshua, all that being said, in 30 seconds, how do you personally, emotionally feel about it?
00:25:48 Like, the issue of having 500,000 Chinese students taking the places of potentially American students?
00:25:59 Another thought that I have with that is there is this – there's a separate project I'm working on right now which has to do with the symbology of numbers.
00:26:08 and particularly in the Old Testament in the Bible,
00:26:11 is that what it pertains to,
00:26:12 and in these Near Eastern, Mid Eastern,
00:26:15 and Far Eastern cultures,
00:26:16 the purpose of numbers is not to be literal.
00:26:20 It is to be abstract, symbolic, and communicative,
00:26:23 or as Scott might have said,
00:26:25 directionally accurate, truthful hyperbole.
00:26:29 And so the point of a number like 500,000 Chinese students
00:26:31 from that filter is it's not literally half a million.
00:26:37 in my understanding with with the context of persuasion it is a whole heck of a lot of the
00:26:43 students that you want to have here and you'll be okay over here and personally are you okay with
00:26:51 that obviously not i don't think that's necessarily a good idea but i am not alone in that regard i
00:26:57 mean just simply go to stephen miller's timeline look at what vice president vance when you are
00:27:03 telling the truth versus when you're negotiating with literally a great power enemy, you have to
00:27:11 be smart. And I think generally the previous administration did not demonstrate that it's
00:27:17 let's, here's what we want. Oh, you're not going to give it to us. Okay. Well, we'll surrender and
00:27:21 give you everything you want. But I don't believe president Trump is stupid. And I also think given 1.00
00:27:27 in the audience of Fox News and some of the refutation aspects of Mr. Sean Hannity, it kind
00:27:33 of makes sense. So I get, I want you guys to understand, I get all of the negotiation skill
00:27:39 things. Obviously, I could not be a student of Scott's and a friend of Scott's for so long
00:27:44 without understanding these things. But I push you, Joshua, because I just want people to also
00:27:51 understand I'm the humane, human, American, I'm not the president and I'm not negotiating with
00:27:56 China level, that I would say the majority of Americans are not okay with that. We're just
00:28:07 talking hyperbolic about Chinese students, but then there's also all the other countries, right?
00:28:14 So there are a lot of foreign students and they're from a lot of countries that are not 0.97
00:28:20 are friends or that give a crap about our best interests so i really just thank you for answering
00:28:26 that because i just really wanted people to understand like we get it you know well and and
00:28:31 by the way like i i would add that that i i think the president understands that this is not something
00:28:36 that is going to be popular with his voters not popular with the base um it's it's certainly
00:28:42 something that joshua and i have argued against strenuously i've many times called i think even as
00:28:47 recently as yesterday called for all chinese students to be uh deported from the united
00:28:51 states and have their their visas shredded and and sent away what i'm but what i'm trying to
00:28:56 to um to analyze here is okay this is what president trump said he said that on chinese soil
00:29:03 why is he saying that what is the deal that he's trying to get for right now and i think
00:29:09 predominantly because i even i said uh in at one point i've done a lot of i've done a couple shows
00:29:16 lately with all the china stuff um i've even said that you know when he when xi jinping put out that
00:29:23 thucydides trap reference that that trump should have just should have just done the first walk
00:29:27 away as scott always said and just left just got on the plane and walked right out you're not going
00:29:32 to describe us as a fading power as a failing power but the only reason that he wouldn't the
00:29:38 only reason that he wouldn't is that he is seeking something in china as well and so this is why you
00:29:47 know i i believe you could use the sales strategy of laying it on thick and that's why trump is
00:29:51 laying it on thick when he's over there and in fact one of the readouts that we also saw
00:29:57 from uh from this was that he even when i asked him about taiwan on the so there's this taiwan
00:30:03 arms deal that was signed back in december 11.5 billion it's the largest taiwan military arms deal
00:30:09 the u.s has ever done but it hasn't actually started to be sent over they haven't executed
00:30:15 on the contract yet and uh they asked the president about that and trump responded that
00:30:20 you know well we're going to make that determination later so he's still in chinese airspace when he's
00:30:24 making that comment so again he's he's still kind of holding he's holding his cards very close to
00:30:30 his chest um he's showing willingness to sell and persuade on certain things that he knows
00:30:37 by the way he knows are going to be unpopular with his voters unpopular with the base that
00:30:42 certainly are not america first policies and so the question that i have is if he's doing so
00:30:49 what's the reason um i appreciate like you know all the perspectives you guys i think um i think
00:30:56 this is very useful for everybody listening and i'm i'm the person that likes to i don't like to
00:31:02 be the contrarian i just think i tend to like maybe see things on both sides coupled with a
00:31:08 little bit of um emotion and whatever but so i appreciate that discussion and i know that china
00:31:15 is you know just determined to not let taiwan be part of these like negotiations but that being said
00:31:24 i introduced uh the sippers the debris to jimmy lye and his story and it's something i've been
00:31:31 following for years um i i used to when i when i would visit hong kong i would always read apple
00:31:37 daily i mean great it was just just phenomenal paper where you would go in and they would they
00:31:44 would be lighting them up i remember my favorite one uh i was there in hong kong in 2008 and um
00:31:50 sometimes you have to do when you're in china as an expat you used to have to um i think you still
00:31:56 have to do this uh you can only get a visa for a certain amount of time so they would say you have
00:32:00 to leave china and then come back so apply for a visa outside of china but then come back but
00:32:05 because of the peculiar setup of the political situation hong kong counted as leaving china
00:32:11 so what you would do is you would fly to hong kong you'd you'd be in hong kong so now you've left
00:32:17 China mainland China even though you're just in Hong Kong you'd go to an office and then you'd
00:32:22 wait like a week or so and then you'd you'd fly back after that so it's like hey go to go to Hong 0.88
00:32:28 Kong for a week sounds great which just shows you too so Hong Kong was living such a different 0.86
00:32:32 lifestyle than China like it was really considered like its own little piece of paradise for these
00:32:40 people it was a British it was British yeah for its entire history up until 1997 Hong Kong was a
00:32:45 rock before the British arrived. The Chinese never did anything with it. No dynasty in Chinese 0.91
00:32:52 history ever built anything on Hong Kong Island. They never established anything on Hong Kong.
00:32:58 So when, you know, even when people make that phrase or use that phrase that Hong Kong was
00:33:03 returned to China, that's actually false. Hong Kong was given to China because it was not Chinese to
00:33:09 begin with. It was always a British colony and never anything but a British colony. And so they
00:33:14 have this this thing that they say in mainland china where they call it one country two systems
00:33:19 and that uh that they're trying to you know explain it as that as as thus but anyway so i
00:33:26 remember i'm there in 2008 and xi jinping at this point was actually visiting hong kong now he hasn't
00:33:31 become the state chairman yet and he was still but he was already a member of the politburo
00:33:36 and uh but everyone knew that he was he was kind of going to be the guy everyone knew that he was
00:33:41 sort of next in line after Hu Jintao. And what Jimmy Lai did was that he published Xi Jinping's
00:33:48 schedule publicly on the front page of every Apple Daily in the city. So all the Hong Kong
00:33:53 protesters showed up at every single stop that Xi Jinping was going to be at that day. And I may
00:34:00 have, I may, may, I cannot confirm nor deny that I may have also happened upon a few of these in
00:34:07 in my travels that week it's a small place it's chances of ending up there it's a small city you 0.99
00:34:13 know you just run into things so um i went to a private screening of the hong kongers some years
00:34:20 back and met a lot of the people that were in the documentary about what happened to jimmy lie and
00:34:27 you guys i have like the biggest hole in my heart for what's happened to him and others over there
00:34:34 But what a man. Any do we know anything like or I hate to speculate, you know, I know I don't know what happened.
00:34:43 But what do we think about the Jimmy Lai getting out possibility?
00:34:47 So Trump did mention this on Air Force One, and it sounded like Xi Jinping said no.
00:34:54 It sounded like he just he just straight up said no, that he was not interested, that that's something that's a hard no for him.
00:35:01 he said it's very tough and you know this has been something where uh he's he's just totally
00:35:08 throwing the book at them and and of course you know when when hong kong was handed over back in
00:35:11 1997 we were promised up and down that there would be no uh interference that's the one country two
00:35:19 systems thing there would be no interference for 50 years and that lasted maybe 20-ish years
00:35:25 and they immediately you know they immediately reneged on that and started throwing people in
00:35:31 prison trying to think trying to think who jimmy lie you know in the u.s kind of reminds me of you
00:35:37 know you know what what sort of like freedom you know publisher do we have thought about that too
00:35:42 i'm curious to see who you think you know i don't i don't know it's sort of like uh it's sort of
00:35:47 like maybe like the publisher of it you know i want to say elon because elon me too but but it's
00:35:53 like on a much smaller scale like i'm very much smaller scale than than what elon does of course
00:35:58 but that that's what it's like it's like or or like you know jim hoft at the gateway pundit or
00:36:03 something like someone who's just like or mike lindell like someone who's just a thorn in the
00:36:07 side and a truth teller and speaking truth to power like someone who's not um you know who's
00:36:14 not any physical threat he's not a violent threat not ever truth teller you know not done anything
00:36:22 wrong other than tell the truth he so you guys like like elon he had all the money he could ever
00:36:29 want in the world jimmy lie he'd already gone from rags to riches and when i say rags i mean
00:36:34 nothing some people in the chat are saying like james o'keefe you know yeah walter kern yeah those
00:36:39 are great examples yeah yeah that's what i'm talking about he's he was a publisher he's just
00:36:43 a publisher but he but he so i'm thinking so where i see him like elon is elon has all the money in
00:36:50 the world. He's got enough jobs and work and businesses and ideas and whatever. But then he's
00:36:56 like, F it. I'm going to help this country and I'm going to take Twitter. And he didn't need to do
00:37:02 that, but he saw a need for it. And that was the same thing with Jimmy Lai. He's like, he didn't
00:37:08 need another penny for the rest of his life. He'd made bajillions, but he was like, we need a free
00:37:13 Press and he started Apple Daily. And what did he get for that? And also, where are the British
00:37:22 people? They're supposed to have this agreement, I think, till 2047-ish. And Jimmy Lai was put in
00:37:30 jail in 2020. He's in solitary confinement. No contact with anybody, no error on his face,
00:37:40 no sunlight just in a cell um joshua i mean do you have a take on this i am just so i'm so upset
00:37:48 and i just know that she is tying jimmy lied to the no taiwan negotiation so i i looked at it like
00:37:57 if she acquiesced to this request he would look weak in the eyes of china so i don't know do you
00:38:04 have any thoughts on this joshua sadly i think you're right in that it's a as as simple and
00:38:13 as straightforward as the release or some sort of exchange something with with one person might be
00:38:19 that one person symbolizes so much that would otherwise put the chinese communist party to shame
00:38:28 and the the geopolitical complexity of the situation is that number one the united states 0.90
00:38:38 must remain supreme over china they cannot be peers with the chinese communist party that's
00:38:44 never going to happen the chinese communist party must always remain submissive to the united states 0.99
00:38:48 and our will that said china is not going anywhere unfortunately probably the chinese
00:38:55 Communist Party is not going anywhere either. First with the military technology, the totalitarian 0.68
00:39:02 dictatorship, the indoctrination of all generations going forwards from the Cultural Revolution under
00:39:07 Chairman Mao. And then now all the surveillance technology, the social credit scores, the
00:39:13 ubiquity of drones and the highly advanced police state that they have become. The secret police is
00:39:20 it's it's so secret it's no longer secret okay the fact that every single chinese citizen who
00:39:27 travels internationally can be co-opted as a spy for the united states or rather against the united
00:39:35 states or for the benefit of chinese communist party and if you've spoken with any citizens who
00:39:41 have been at risk of this they will tell you that in no uncertain terms they were ordered by the
00:39:47 chinese communist party to do this specific work in the united states or canada or elsewhere or
00:39:52 the united kingdom uh or their families back in mainland china were going to suffer a jimmy lie 0.75
00:39:58 kind of a fate you you can't be friends with that kind of a civilization that said there's an 1.00
00:40:08 example of that that we all know remember the n95s remember they were they were buying up all 0.99
00:40:12 the n95s before they told us about covid and sending them back to china yes again go go to 0.72
00:40:19 stephen miller's timeline for the last six years he has been going off about about the chinese 0.54
00:40:22 communist party but the thing is that china has seen a number of systems over the years i was
00:40:27 showing some history to my son uh going back to the ancient silk robe there was a time you know
00:40:33 we think about president nixon being the one who opened up china but there was a period for
00:40:37 centuries where China was engaging with trade with as far away as the British Isles via the
00:40:46 Silk Road, the Roman Empire. Think about ancient Chinese and ancient Egyptian trade via that
00:40:53 trade route. But then there was the period of the closing up in the Forbidden Cities,
00:40:58 so on and so forth, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Nixon, 70s, opening up China, Communist Party.
00:41:03 China as a culture, as a people, they have been around since the ancient world and they will
00:41:10 remain into it. Unfortunately, in order to work with the Chinese people, we have no choice but to 1.00
00:41:19 work with their permacaptors of the technologically hyper-advanced Chinese Communist Party. 1.00
00:41:26 We don't have any enmity with Chinese people. The problem is every single citizen of China 1.00
00:41:32 is as I said co-optable as a spy for one of the most wicked regimes in human history if not the 0.96
00:41:40 most wicked regime in human history that of the communist party of China rivaled only by the 0.88
00:41:46 Soviet Union who is kind of a frenemy of theirs and a sort of a friendly rival at times not so
00:41:51 friendly in any case that's the context into which the Jimmy Lai saga finds itself in which
00:41:59 President Trump finds himself. And understanding that as he approaches his 80s, and we have
00:42:08 only a couple of years left during his administration, of the Trump administration, 0.89
00:42:15 he is not a fool, President Trump. And I believe his position and advances, Miller's, everyone's
00:42:22 on the team, and those of us who are allies within the Republican Party for the MAGA and the America
00:42:28 first, whatever you want to call it, sort of economic populism and nationalism within the
00:42:33 United States and kind of the post-Trump right future. President Trump, I fully believe,
00:42:39 wants the United States in the best possible position with the highest points of leverage
00:42:44 over the Chinese Communist Party specifically. And am I going to say I'm a plan truster? I trust
00:42:53 the plan well i will say that for the better part of half century donald trump has been getting what
00:43:01 he wants out of people who didn't want to give it that's true that's true all right so actually i
00:43:07 found i think i've so i saw some people in the chat by the way saying uh andrew breitbart that's
00:43:11 a great example no question um it'd be like andrew breitbart being thrown in prison which would be
00:43:16 completely insane we'd all be against it we've been talking about it constantly and i would just
00:43:21 say that you know probably the the best way to explain it to people is that though the jimmy
00:43:26 lie he's a modern day solzhenitsyn he is a modern day solzhenitsyn he has been thrown into the gulag
00:43:33 um and he is unfortunately much older than solzhenitsyn was when he was imprisoned and
00:43:40 he's someone who you know erica to your point if if he's not released soon he probably doesn't have
00:43:45 much time left yeah he's sick um so i i appreciate this whole conversation i absolutely want to get
00:43:52 to this with the two of you being here since we all know and love mike cernovich um i i really
00:44:00 want to get this clip i want to just kind of yes yes i just want to um talk about we talked about
00:44:08 the data centers a little bit this week i just i wanted to get this clip in and i'm going to play
00:44:13 it. Let's react to it. And every time someone in the chat says, Mike blocked me, I don't know why
00:44:17 he blocked me. Take a shot. Okay. Listen. Right now, this very video is being analyzed,
00:44:24 photographed. How does the skin look? Are his pupils dilated, fed into an algorithm to
00:44:29 psychologically profile me? The square footage of the room is being calculated. It's cradle to
00:44:34 grave surveillance. That's why big tech wants the data centers. Now I know as a public person,
00:44:40 there's no way around it for me so i don't try to do anything particularly cool to throw off
00:44:46 the algor the ia i'm i am what i am i'm spied on it's just the nature of the beast 0.77
00:44:52 but big tech mark zuckerberg vaccine mandate funded the destruction of america funded black 0.90
00:44:58 lives matter funded illegal immigrants they hire infinite h1bs and now they're telling you that 0.72
00:45:04 if we don't beat china then the bad guys china win but big tech are the bad guys who you know 0.94
00:45:10 Who is this we? We were censored. We couldn't share the LinkedIn 100 by the laptop. We were
00:45:16 told, take the vaccine or you're going to lose your job and your livelihood. Vaccine passports,
00:45:21 dude, that's a dream under these data centers. They will do cradle to the grave surveillance.
00:45:27 They will suck up every picture, video you take of your kids. It will be harvested.
00:45:33 Every movement you make will all be stored. Digital currency will be stored. This is dystopian
00:45:37 level stuff. And that's why, because nothing I've said can be refuted, that's why Big Tech and
00:45:44 Kevin O'Leary, you know, he went on Tucker and people are mad at Tucker. I don't really care
00:45:47 about that. They're saying, well, this is a China talking point. I'm China, dude. I'm China. Or Big
00:45:52 Tech, which was funded by China. Big Tech, which promotes social credit scores and censorship.
00:45:57 Big Tech, which wouldn't let us talk about COVID, which originated in China.
00:46:02 We're China now? No way. Don't fall for this stuff, man. They're using populist messaging.
00:46:07 They're using nationalist messaging because they want a shock collar on you.
00:46:11 They want the mark of the beast in the literal sense to control everything you do.
00:46:16 And that's why they need these data centers.
00:46:18 And that's why they're trying to ape our language, our populist nationalist message.
00:46:23 Oh, we got to beat China.
00:46:24 We?
00:46:24 Okay.
00:46:25 Where are the checks in, big guy?
00:46:27 Where's the money?
00:46:28 If it's us, us, and it's not just more profiteering by big tech.
00:46:32 Where are the checks, big boys?
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00:47:35 so you know he also said apple makes its phones in china zuckerberg censored you for claiming
00:47:45 covid was created in a laboratory in china nvidia wants to sell chips to china and now we know they
00:47:51 will big tech lobbies for infinite student visas for ccp kids who is at war with china not big 0.91
00:47:59 tech they are on china's side jack i'm coming right to you i mean you you gotta you gotta love
00:48:07 mike cernovich right you know people say where's mike been you know where where is he it's like
00:48:13 he's like he's like he's you know this guy he was batting a thousand in 2016 and now he's at like
00:48:17 200 you know he's like he's he's he's off doing this thing he's off doing that thing but man when
00:48:23 he steps into the batter's box when he steps up to the plate we're playing a lot of little league
00:48:26 lately if you can't tell uh with the boys and uh and uh we've got two games tomorrow and a first
00:48:33 community actually um that uh you know he just he just knocks out of the park and there's nobody
00:48:40 who knocks out of the park like mike cernovich when he's on there's no one better and it's just
00:48:45 as simple as that that you know when he wants to throw a punch it's gonna land and he's gonna get
00:48:50 through every one of your defenses the picture that he's able to paint and he does think about
00:48:55 it he does so at the exact moment when all of the tech leaders as we just talked about are over in
00:49:03 china and what did brett bear show us in china he he showed us that physical i mean the persuasion
00:49:09 that brett bear did was phenomenal brett bears been putting on a master class in and what he's
00:49:14 been with the ping pong video if you guys saw that that was going viral he's playing ping pong with
00:49:18 some guy at a at a uh one of the parks there in beijing and he's walking down he gets the parking
00:49:24 ticket from the camera so he's we're hearing about china we're hearing about the surveillance state
00:49:30 but now he's giving us that visual persuasion of we got a parking ticket within two minutes yeah
00:49:36 of illegally parking surveillance state and so mike is showing us that what these guys are doing
00:49:44 isn't about like, oh, we're going to beat China. No, we're going to become China if we go down
00:49:50 this road. And I've said this for years. They want, when I say they, I'm talking about the 0.99
00:49:55 tech elites who are the same elites, by the way, from COVID-19. They saw that as a way to institute
00:50:01 the Chinese system on America and on the West. I was doing an interview in the UK who unfortunately
00:50:07 are way further down this road than we are and they and i used to see this when i so i worked
00:50:14 in shanghai i was at the shanghai american chamber of commerce and you would have the uh this this
00:50:20 one museum there was called the shanghai planning museum and and the backstory is that when i was
00:50:24 there the city chairman was xi jinping so that's that's how i you know have the my background with
00:50:29 xi jinping is like because he was like the city chairman is kind of like a mayor right in a sense
00:50:34 but more like a mob boss uh because that's how the ccp runs and uh did i got to briefly you know
00:50:41 i don't even say i met him but i you know briefly was you know in the same room as him at uh one of 0.63
00:50:46 the shanghai world expo meetings and um you know just just very very up close with him and you
00:50:52 could see just mob boss total mob boss and immense power even back then but i remember that western
00:51:01 leaders, Republicans and Democrats and business leaders would come to China and they would
00:51:06 say, hmm, so what you're saying is you can build a maglev train and the Californians
00:51:13 will be able to understand what we're talking about here.
00:51:15 You can build a maglev train and it goes faster than anything else and you get all this money
00:51:21 to do so and you go straight from the airport to downtown immediately without any waiting.
00:51:25 and but but what about all the people who live in the path of where the train needs to be built
00:51:31 and the chinese communist leaders would look at them and say what about them he just he just 0.77
00:51:37 they're out of luck just get out yeah get out of them get out of there what about these historic
00:51:42 uh shirkuman uh buildings these you know the courtyards and the stone buildings that were
00:51:47 ubiquitous in in ancient china's what about them just get them out of here just get rid of them
00:51:53 there's so so there's there's no conception of rights there's no conception of uh historical 1.00
00:52:00 protection or preservation it's all about now now now what do we want and again that total power
00:52:07 which becomes an aphrodisiac and so when you know i talked about hong kong before and when you look
00:52:16 at the hong kong turnover we were told that this is going to make china more like us because we
00:52:23 will infect china with capitalism and infect china with british democracy and british rights and the
00:52:31 enlightenment and jeffersonian democracy is just going to flourish in china why just the same way 0.56
00:52:36 it did in afghanistan and the way it will in iran and the way it did in iraq after all of our
00:52:40 interventions right and ultimately what's actually happened since then and and also allowing china
00:52:46 around the same time frame to come into the world trade organization giving the most favored nation
00:52:51 status what's happened has been the exact opposite is that we have become more like china rather than
00:52:57 china becoming more like us which leads me i is the problem yeah i i know like i i just want to
00:53:05 to highlight this for people because it's not about making memes in AI. We're doing that now
00:53:12 without these data centers. So I want to play another clip quickly. And Joshua, I'm going to
00:53:17 ask you to react first. And this is Tom Massey of Kentucky. And let's watch this clip also about
00:53:26 data centers. First version of the big bill had a provision that would let data centers
00:53:34 ignore state laws, and not just state laws, but local zoning laws. And I think that's wrong. I
00:53:42 think that, you know, when you, I call it sorting the smokestacks from the cul-de-sacs, that's not
00:53:48 something the federal government can do from Washington, D.C. That has to be up to a local
00:53:52 board and a local government. And they, in the first version of the big bill, they had a provision
00:53:58 to overrule not just the states, but the local zoning commissions. And Marjorie Taylor Greene
00:54:05 and I fought to get that taken out. And it was taken out, fortunately. That issue came up again
00:54:12 recently in my Judiciary Committee. We were marking up eight bills one day in a work session.
00:54:19 And I noticed number six on the list was to exempt data centers from eight different environmental
00:54:25 laws that they couldn't be sued if they didn't have the permits.
00:54:30 And, you know, even though some of those environmental laws may be onerous, I don't
00:54:36 know why you would give an exemption to data centers, but not to the farmers or not to
00:54:40 the other industries that could exist.
00:54:43 And so I said, this is wrong to give a special privilege to an immunity to data centers.
00:54:49 So I tweeted about it.
00:54:52 I really right there in real time blew the whistle and they decided to take it off of the schedule that day.
00:54:59 And it's not come up since. So when people call me an obstructionist, I didn't obstruct the big, beautiful bill.
00:55:06 We made it better by being transparent.
00:55:10 And I have obstructed things like special privileges and immunities for data centers.
00:55:15 And most recently in the farm bill, they had a provision that was going to give special privileges and immunities.
00:55:22 I call it a get out of court free card to Monsanto Bear, which makes glyphosate.
00:55:29 But OK, and he goes on from there.
00:55:32 So, you know, Joshua, I'm just going to we only have five minutes, so I'm going to just give you the floor right now to discuss what you just saw.
00:55:39 yes it glitched out there for a second but the issue is near and dear to me because
00:55:47 first of all representative massey is correct uh to be very concerned about this and the
00:55:53 the objective is among our big tech elite very much so to sort of follow the authoritarian path
00:56:00 of china because in a in a private business or even a publicly traded business you can effectively
00:56:05 govern like a monarch. And when you try to govern like a monarch within the constitutional democratic
00:56:10 republic system of the United States, you have to engage in leverage and lobbying and all of these
00:56:17 things to try to get what you want. Look at the Zuck bucks in Wisconsin, $400 million 2020 for
00:56:22 basically getting Biden that state. Okay, that's how important it was for just one individual to
00:56:29 get the one thing that he wanted. And so Posto is correct that the objective is indeed to
00:56:35 see what the Chinese are capable of, the Communist Chinese Party, with their technology.
00:56:39 Well, we need that technology, too. We can do that. And it's worse in the United States
00:56:43 because of, let's say, changing consumer habits and the need for something like secret police
00:56:51 that's not so secret at all to deal with, shall we say, mall teams and the problems we have across
00:56:59 United States associated with that behavior. But data centers, there's one to be built in Clark
00:57:06 County, Ohio. That will sound familiar to a number of viewers. What's Clark County best known for
00:57:11 right now? Oh, yeah, Springfield, the Haitian population there. When I so I've been working
00:57:17 on the way, I've been trying so hard to pressure Joshua to write a book about this. Do you guys
00:57:22 know that Joshua lives like, like what two towns over from there? Not to dox you, but come on, man.
00:57:28 come on you're in the heart of it you're in the yeah i get on the state route and then i'm in
00:57:32 springfield yes um and everywhere there are no data centers band data centers there's like
00:57:38 we're collecting signatures this is this is a very very very big deal because as far as i've
00:57:44 gathered so far the p the heritage citizens of springfield are very concerned and upset by the
00:57:48 haitian immigrant influx that goes back to as far as 2019 five years before the cats and the dogs 0.67
00:57:56 viral memeology. That kind of became the story. But most recently, there's a data center that is 0.63
00:58:01 scheduled to be built and construction is already underway right alongside a new neighborhood. So
00:58:07 people have been buying homes in this new development, not realizing that there's this
00:58:11 massive data center that's being built over there. And of course, there is the tax breaks.
00:58:17 There is the invitation by the city and the county to have this built here. There's all sorts of what
00:58:23 the people deem sketchy that's happening here i've been to city commission meetings in springfield
00:58:29 and the one the latest one that i uh most recent one that i went to um one of the heritage citizens
00:58:34 got up and explained how upset they were by this large tract of land being sold to a commercial
00:58:40 developer in order to build a data center there and the mayor rob rue is his name kind of shrugged
00:58:47 it off and basically said uh well it's privately owned land and privately owned sellers can do
00:58:53 whatever they want with a privately owned land so suck it up buttercup i'm paraphrasing what he said
00:58:59 there um but that that is the problem in my opinion with one nation under gdp not god which
00:59:07 is sort of the old world republican party where it's gonna quote whatever it takes to make money
00:59:13 cash money cash money keep going number go up number go up number go up americans don't forget
00:59:19 the hyphen and that's just not nationalist populism that's not what america first or
00:59:24 maga are about that's not what president trump is about and right right now there is a new um
00:59:31 it's called either a task force or a a committee that the ohio legislature uh let's say yes so
00:59:38 there's an ohio prohibition of data center construction amendment that is being pushed
00:59:42 right now uh let's see yeah yeah 5c data centers and parent organization hypertech they're planning
00:59:51 on the 75 megawatt prime ohio park facility um yeah so they're they're they're claiming that
00:59:58 they're going to be able to independently fund all the things that they need but the biggest drain is
01:00:02 the water and county water and springfield and in clark county infrastructure is noticeably aging
01:00:09 to be polite to the city itself and it the sort of the the um the spirit is the data centers are 1.00
01:00:17 like the haitian migrants you're putting them here without asking us about it that's right you get 1.00
01:00:23 the benefit and we have to pay for it and and just permission to steal one more minute from you guys 1.00
01:00:30 i just want to show visually i'll i'll even turn off alex jones voice but i just want you guys to
01:00:36 understand a lot of people don't even know what a data center could look like look at this it's
01:00:40 it's the size of a large town yeah look at this crap these are the smaller ones there's a there's
01:00:47 a there's a big one they're building in in um out west i mean ladies and gentlemen ladies and 1.00
01:00:55 gentlemen this is for a new life form this is for a robot takeover the 5g's that have all the drones 0.97
01:01:01 and robots and everything's deliverable it's all about getting you out of your cars making you 1.00
01:01:05 obsolete this is this is absolutely hellish what is being done and then that and it just goes on
01:01:12 for mile after mile after mile after mile of what they're building yeah look at this one salt lake
01:01:18 city utah look at the size of that we'll come back before our guest comes on the first five and play
01:01:23 so i just i i just really appreciate these two topics today because it is like once they're here
01:01:30 they're here uh you know the the government doesn't undo anything uh they just keep marching
01:01:36 forward so i am so proud of the people you know like just one woman in new jersey got one to to
01:01:42 stop uh there's many more planned in new jersey but you know fight this you guys you know it's
01:01:48 like again what is this for why do we need this um data centers in space is probably the probably
01:01:55 be the future i think i think jack has to scoot right now but yeah hard out but you guys feel
01:02:02 free to chat thank you for having me on uh always love being here um always uh always thinking about
01:02:09 scott and you know it's funny watching some of this this stuff with the china meeting i just i
01:02:13 like i can hear scott in my in my mind just commenting as you know as certain things happen
01:02:19 it's just uh he he rewired our minds yeah and that's that's a true gift that he gave to all of
01:02:24 Amen. Thank you. We're all going to scoot, actually. We all have to move on to life. But I would love to have you guys back on together. This was so fun. And I just appreciate the conversation. I hope that this was useful for everybody. Scott wants us all to be useful. So I think just today was great. It was great.
01:02:47 um joshua thank you so much everybody here in the chat oh it wouldn't be a show unless
01:02:54 i played this real quick i'm obsessed okay so thank you everybody in the chat for being here
01:03:04 at the scott adams school oh owen's doing the after party tomorrow on spaces on x so he will
01:03:10 be there usual time we will repost this show after i'm so sorry youtube you know rumble and
01:03:17 YouTube sometimes just get cranky with each other, but we'll also be back on Monday with Marcella
01:03:23 and Owen. We have Gad Sad on Thursday, Suicidal Empathy. So let's say our goodbyes now. And we
01:03:30 always thank Scott and Shelly for allowing the show to continue. And, um, as you know, Scott
01:03:36 would say, get out there and be useful, have a great weekend and a closing sip to our beloved
01:03:42 Scott to Scott guys.
01:03:47 thank you joshua it's my pleasure erica thanks for having us on we love having you on
01:03:54 we're gonna grab you again soon you bet take care bye guys
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