Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 06⧸26⧸26 TAKE TWO! Brandon Darby Joins The Home Team, FOR REAL

00:00:00.000 and Brandon Darby is in the house. Look, Owen and I got dressed for the occasion.

00:00:06.020 We're all matching. I didn't get the memo, so.

00:00:10.640 Good morning, everyone. We'll give you a chance to come in and get settled down,

00:00:15.560 and I'll get locals on. Good morning, YouTube and Rumble, Spotify and X, and our beloved

00:00:23.280 local subscribers. Owen and Marcella, are you guys ready for Brandon? We were so psyched.

00:00:29.940 yesterday but we had extra time today to get all jacked up for brandon's visit here i am i'm ready

00:00:35.720 let's go all right good all right so you guys we have to do one thing first and then we're going

00:00:42.140 to get right into it with brandon here we go i was going to skip the simultaneous sip

00:00:47.200 but i can tell you need it you do you need it i don't have any coffee with me so we will be

00:00:56.000 substituting the delicious aqua. Aqua is some other language for water. Latin? I don't know.

00:01:08.320 Doesn't matter, does it? Well, if you'd like to join me for the simultaneous sip, really the second

00:01:13.900 one of the day, this one's the bonus one. This is just, you know, almost too much. All you need is a

00:01:19.440 cup or a mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a cyanide, a canteen, a jug or a glass or a vessel

00:01:22.460 of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I'm liking water at the moment. And join me now

00:01:28.740 for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. Actually, the second dopamine hit of

00:01:33.000 the day. The thing that's going to make everything a little bit better still. It's a simultaneous

00:01:38.500 in your sip. Go. Ah, delightful. And some of you may be having water. So welcome, everybody. My

00:01:52.140 name is Erica. You're at the Scott Adams School. Marcella and Owen and I are so happy to welcome

00:01:58.940 our guest professor of the day. I didn't tell you you were a professor, did I, Brandon? It's

00:02:03.660 Brandon Darby. Hi, Brandon. How are you doing?

00:02:07.440 It's doing great. Just hanging out in Texas, drinking coffee.

00:02:11.820 Right? I mean, drinking coffee and maybe vaping. We don't know. So Brandon, some of us first met

00:02:18.760 Brandon, oh my God, it had to be like seven, eight years ago, I would say. Scott had Brandon on,

00:02:25.920 and I was just so interested in listening to you. I never forgot you. We actually followed each

00:02:32.580 other on Twitter back then, like right after that. And, um, we've had, we've actually had

00:02:37.640 some exchanges and DM messages back in the day, but what I loved was, all right. So first of all,

00:02:43.480 you work for Breitbart, your, um, your expertise is the border, the cartel. Um, I hope I'm getting

00:02:52.560 that right. There's so, I mean, there's so much to you. You're so multifaceted, but I loved the

00:02:57.440 way you explained to us about this flooding over the border of illegal immigration and the problems

00:03:04.100 that it brings to our country. And now you fast forward in hyper speed and that accelerated to

00:03:10.380 the max and all over the world. And our problems are way bigger than they ever were back then.

00:03:17.660 And so I thought, oh my God, this would be amazing to have you on to talk about these things. So

00:03:21.880 Can you give our sippers a little background of who you are and how we got here?

00:03:27.520 I know, I know it's big, you guys.

00:03:29.280 You don't have to go full force, just whatever you want.

00:03:33.040 Wow.

00:03:35.180 Goodness gracious.

00:03:37.360 So I guess for the purposes of what we're talking about today, you know, I was hired

00:03:44.680 by Andrew Breitbart in 2009, I believe.

00:03:48.320 and that was a crazy situation a crazy time of my life i had

00:03:55.240 uh work let's see how do i say this i was a pretty radical and active organizer on the left

00:04:06.860 right at the time i guess i would be considered that and i uh you know long story short through

00:04:15.380 years of stuff and years of relationships, I started to realize some of the people I was

00:04:21.180 dealing with were actually doing some really bad things. So long story short, I turned some people

00:04:28.460 into the FBI because of violence they were planning. And one thing led to another. I spent

00:04:33.780 the next however long, you know, couple of years working undercover with the FBI. And,

00:04:39.400 And when my name came out in a high-profile trial related to the 2008 Republican National

00:04:52.140 Convention, there were groups of people on the left who had planned to shut it down by

00:04:59.560 any means necessary, and they tried to actually do that by any means necessary, made bombs

00:05:04.580 and stuff so the fbi raided a bunch of people and you know a couple of the cases one of them in

00:05:12.500 particular uh everyone took plea deals except for one guy and they were like hey we have to drop the

00:05:18.580 charges on this guy and i said don't drop the charges on that guy and they're like yeah but

00:05:22.660 if we don't your name's gonna come out and i thought about it for a while and i said well

00:05:27.780 that's okay i'm okay with it so anyways that's basically what happened and uh rather than the

00:05:37.100 media focusing on the fact that like the far left spawned bomb plots or whatever you know

00:05:42.360 uh the story became that you know left of center activists feel but peace activists feel betrayed

00:05:49.680 by their governments spying on them and i was kind of right at the center of that i was just

00:05:54.660 of fodder you know like obviously i wasn't a decision maker or but but you know i kind of

00:05:59.620 came at the end of the bush years and you know uh war on terror stuff that people you know some

00:06:06.820 people were pretty upset about and i just kind of found myself in a dinghy between two large ships

00:06:13.940 you know and uh the new york times led the charge and it just became a big issue and i think it was

00:06:22.420 pretty unfair the way that media treated me in my situation um and at the time i had no way to

00:06:29.460 fight back right like the only defense i had was giving a quote to the people who were attacking

00:06:35.780 me and helping they quoted me right right which they of course didn't so i got a call from andrew

00:06:42.340 breitbart and he long story behind that cool story but he said why don't you fight back and i said i

00:06:48.660 I do. They don't print what I say, Andrew.

00:06:51.000 And he said, well, I'm starting a website.

00:06:52.980 And the whole point is to stick up for people like you.

00:06:56.280 The media is doing wrong.

00:06:57.440 And I want you to fight back.

00:06:58.640 And I said, Andrew, I've done some cool stuff in my life, man.

00:07:02.860 But I have a GED.

00:07:04.520 I, you know, I didn't finish school.

00:07:06.420 Like, I did go to college.

00:07:07.880 I, you know, I'm a concrete worker, you know, and an activist.

00:07:12.540 Like, I have no ability to write.

00:07:15.720 I get confused between there and there.

00:07:17.920 Oh, I'm not the only one, thank God.

00:07:21.460 He said, it doesn't matter. I have editors. You'll learn how to write.

00:07:25.020 He said, but I want you to work with me. So I did.

00:07:29.060 And that's how that all started.

00:07:33.460 That kind of led to, for a couple of years,

00:07:38.100 I focused on the left and the institutional left and the radical groups

00:07:42.280 within the left and the people in mainstream media

00:07:46.240 and mainstream liberal politics who were, you know,

00:07:50.500 I thought providing air cover

00:07:52.600 for the more radical left components of their movement.

00:07:56.400 And then I got to a place

00:07:58.540 where I really didn't want to do that any longer.

00:08:01.520 And at the time I was running a shelter

00:08:05.780 for human trafficking victims, right?

00:08:08.720 And one that Andrew helped to fund, by the way,

00:08:11.280 people don't realize that.

00:08:13.140 And a lot of the people who were in there

00:08:15.200 were people who had come to the U.S. illegally, right,

00:08:19.180 from Mexico or Central America.

00:08:22.360 But in the process of that journey,

00:08:25.500 they went to the wrong groups,

00:08:27.820 and those groups exploited them. 1.00

00:08:29.380 If they were an attractive female, 1.00

00:08:31.020 the groups kept them and sexually exploited them for money, 1.00

00:08:34.480 or if they were sometimes just workers,

00:08:37.320 and the groups would keep them as, you know,

00:08:39.960 really no other way to say it other than slave labor, right?

00:08:42.980 So people who were able to escape that, you know, then they have to testify against people, right? And so I would keep them safe for a little while until the U.S. government got their act together and could provide funding for the witnesses, right?

00:09:01.660 and in the process of that i started realizing that everyone the government was going after

00:09:08.340 were these like low-level people involved in the human trafficking and i was like but what about

00:09:13.080 these guys in mexico you know like they uh that guy headed this he keeps getting implicated in

00:09:20.320 all of these cases right and we're going after all of the underlings why don't we go after that guy

00:09:25.660 and they're like well we can't go after that guy i'm like what do you mean you can't go after that

00:09:28.880 guy and they're like that's a that guy's very connected to mexico he's a cartel boss he's this

00:09:34.620 and i'm like what do you mean we can't go after that guy you know and that bothered me so i started

00:09:41.660 looking into exactly because my whole life right i've been an organizer and activist and that's

00:09:47.460 what i do right as i look at a situation that seems insurmountable where people i feel people

00:09:53.000 of being done wrong. And I find a clever way, even if it rocks the boat, hopefully it does rock the

00:09:59.400 boat, to hold those people accountable. And so I decided to go after those guys. And I decided that

00:10:06.440 enough people already wanted to kill me and were mad at me for things I had done. There were enough

00:10:11.880 Palestinian groups who were mad at me because I spied on them when they were funding suicide

00:10:18.320 bombings right there were enough radical groups of every stripe who were mad at me and i was like

00:10:24.400 what does it really matter if like some other guys might want to kill me right i already have

00:10:28.560 i have to live that way anyways so i just i went after him and the way i did it was uh was through

00:10:35.600 media and through media attention right and to the way breitbart did it was to look for fledgling

00:10:41.920 candidates or people who wanted to run for office and uh they didn't really have a lot of core

00:10:47.520 issues and was to suggest that the border and cartels become core issues to that candidate,

00:10:52.980 right? And we can educate that candidate and his network on his or her network on the issues and

00:11:00.200 make that an issue for them in campaigning. And well, here we are today, right? So that's what

00:11:06.620 we did. And the details of how we did that and how we developed writing programs in Mexico to

00:11:12.700 bring attention to cartels how we navigated that i guess we'll get into today but the gist of it is

00:11:19.340 is we simply we simply put our heads together and found a way to to hold cartels accountable

00:11:27.760 you know to actually go after those people who were at the the leadership of the the center of

00:11:33.480 these awful things that were happening in our country to people was this um part where you

00:11:39.420 were advising candidates about cartel issues. Is that before or after Trump went into office?

00:11:45.460 It was before. So it was before. So the Trump thing is interesting because I think Trump's,

00:11:54.000 and it's not that Trump doesn't legitimately care about the border. He obviously does,

00:11:58.280 right? I mean, whether you like him or dislike him, the guy cares about the issue.

00:12:04.100 His network cares about the issue. Specifically, Stephen Miller cares about the issue.

00:12:09.420 But I can say that I think at the time, you know, Breitbart was, you know, Andrew had passed away. Breitbart was headed by Steve Bannon. And Steve Bannon and Trump were talking long before Trump ran for office, right?

00:12:25.320 And I think it was Bannon who really pushed the border as his key issue.

00:12:31.980 And, you know, again, I'm not really that political as a person.

00:12:37.200 I actually can't stand it.

00:12:39.540 When I get invited to a governor's ball, I send a staff member, I don't go.

00:12:44.040 You know, I don't want to, I just don't like to participate.

00:12:47.620 I don't like the things that you have to do to participate in politics, right?

00:12:52.400 I don't like them.

00:12:53.420 and people can argue that they're like what are you talking about like we all know what I'm talking

00:12:57.440 about like I don't like the things you have to do and so I generally avoid that but but but having

00:13:03.920 a candidate who cared about the issue the whole cartel thing was interesting because

00:13:07.700 at the time I was you know I felt like what I had went through having worked undercover with

00:13:16.060 FBI and testified I felt like border patrol agents were were being treated the same way I was treated

00:13:22.780 by media, right? They had no voice. And there was an organization called the National Border Patrol

00:13:28.860 Council, which was the union that represents Border Patrol agents. And I decided that we would

00:13:36.440 just give them a voice, you know, to counteract what, you know, give them a voice in a space where

00:13:41.820 they didn't have one. And so during 2000, I guess it was 14 or 15, they were really intensely behind,

00:13:51.240 And, you know, they liked John McCain and they liked Ted Cruz, right?

00:13:56.500 And so what happened was they ended up endorsing Donald Trump when it was just Trump and Cruz left.

00:14:05.120 And I think that's what really pushed Trump over the edge, right?

00:14:09.660 Maybe he would have won that primary anyways, but I think that played a part.

00:14:13.240 And so a very significant moment was, you know, I'm trying to not get into too much of how the sausage was made, but I want to walk a line here, but I don't want to get into personal conversations.

00:14:27.560 But the gist of it was is that, you know, if Trump promised to give Border Patrol agents through the National Border Patrol Council direct access to the president so that they could circumvent all of the political filters, the bureaucratic filters that happened going up through the agencies, right, so the agents on the ground would have direct access to him.

00:14:50.940 And if he would commit to that openly and commit that his administration would go to war against Mexican cartels, then the National Border Patrol Council would endorse him.

00:15:02.300 And I guess now, in for this interview, co-hosted with Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller came on.

00:15:10.100 We had talked beforehand and he committed to all of that for the Trump administration.

00:15:16.540 and uh and shortly thereafter the national border control council endorsed him

00:15:22.500 took the wind out of ted cruz's sails and uh put that wind into donald trump's sails

00:15:28.740 and uh and trump ultimately has like he's kept those promises yeah it comes to that for sure

00:15:38.820 for sure again regardless of how people feel about him i recognize there are a million issues

00:15:44.600 and we can raise all kinds of things

00:15:46.180 about any politician or political leader.

00:15:48.880 But as a person who has dedicated so much of his life

00:15:52.820 to trying to get Americans to care about border issues

00:15:56.520 and trying to do something about it,

00:15:58.680 trying to bring a voice to border patrol agents

00:16:00.680 and trying to go after Mexican cartels,

00:16:04.600 I can tell you I'm pretty happy

00:16:09.760 with that aspect of the Trump presidency.

00:16:12.700 you know oh yeah no i this was a big issue for scott too because you know we all were fighting

00:16:20.600 the battle uh and still are about you know fentanyl coming from china and then coming

00:16:25.760 through the border through mexico and i don't know if you know but scott's stepson had uh died

00:16:31.660 from a fentanyl overdose some time ago and so this became personal for a lot of us because we all

00:16:38.120 wanted to fight against it. And I just don't think people really realize, you know, I, I mean,

00:16:44.680 I do think a lot of the people, and I, and again, like, I know you don't want to be political,

00:16:48.700 so I'm just speaking like, I don't mind being political. I just don't like to be involved in

00:16:53.040 political circles, but I have plenty of thoughts and opinions. So I, you know, I feel like the

00:16:59.380 people on the, on the left in particular that, you know, are just like, let them all come in.

00:17:04.420 you know, I'm like, I don't, I don't think they really get it. I think, I don't know that they

00:17:09.100 are just honest brokers and they're thinking like, oh, these are just good, well-intentioned people.

00:17:14.680 And I'm just, you know, how do we not have a whole society that understands about the trafficking

00:17:21.700 and the cartels, the sex trafficking, the slave labor, you know, that there's cartel all over

00:17:27.600 our country now, um, that the cartel rules Mexico, that the president of Mexico is beholden to the

00:17:36.860 cartel, you know, and it's just, and, and then forget about all the other countries that were

00:17:41.340 also importing, you know, like with Haiti now and Somalia and, and China and everything else. So

00:17:47.940 I, I don't know. Do you think that these people that are in the streets, like God bless,

00:17:54.240 let everybody over, are just really that ignorant?

00:17:59.960 You know, I think the vast majority of human beings are well-intentioned, right? 0.76

00:18:06.100 That's what I think.

00:18:07.620 I think that, you know, circa 2009, circa 2010, 2011, if you had asked most people on

00:18:17.980 the right, they would say, I'm not against immigration.

00:18:21.380 I'm just against illegal immigration, right?

00:18:24.280 And even Andrew famously said, 1.00

00:18:25.720 I wish everybody willing to come here could come here.

00:18:27.880 They just have to do it legally, right?

00:18:29.560 I wish there were ways for them to do it legally.

00:18:31.860 Well, that's where we, a lot of people were.

00:18:34.440 Well, it turns out when you really follow that logic down,

00:18:39.040 if you focus on it, that in itself is problematic, okay?

00:18:45.540 But we didn't know that, right?

00:18:47.820 We just were worried about our nation's laws.

00:18:49.980 We were worried about people just disregarding our nation's laws.

00:18:53.440 And the idea that, like, people want a better life, yeah, sure, we want them to have a better life if they want to come here and work for it, you know?

00:19:02.080 That idea is, it's like a, you know, how many of you remember being like 20 years old and you're sitting in some coffee shop, right?

00:19:12.840 Maybe you smoked a bar grip or a pipe or something, I don't know, maybe not.

00:19:15.920 And then you went back inside and y'all sat there all night talking about how you would achieve world peace and if the world leaders would all just get together, you know, maybe smoke what we just smoked, like, and just eat a meal and break bread and talk.

00:19:31.040 We could resolve that, you know, that kind of thinking, this idealistic, uninformed thinking, right?

00:19:38.340 I think plenty of people on the right, myself included, had that at one point and we had the best of intentions.

00:19:43.900 But when you really put the pedal to the metal, right, you say, okay, clearly we cannot allow every person in this world, especially ones who want to kill us, especially ones who don't believe in freedom of speech, right, especially ones who want to –

00:20:04.900 I mean, what if you took a country where 70% of the male population believes in female genital mutilation, and then you just immediately move them over here, let them move here to one small state, to Rhode Island, right?

00:20:19.740 Like, all of a sudden, they start to influence the politics and the policies of Rhode Island, right?

00:20:24.960 Because there's such a large number of people who have come at once.

00:20:28.400 You cannot have that, okay?

00:20:30.660 It just can't happen if something's incongruent.

00:20:33.460 But you don't think that at the time, right?

00:20:35.400 At the time when you didn't think that far ahead.

00:20:38.800 And I think that's what most people on the left,

00:20:41.100 the average liberal, the average person,

00:20:42.960 that's what they think.

00:20:44.020 They're in that mindset.

00:20:45.040 Do I think that the leadership on the left,

00:20:47.280 that the strategists are well-intentioned?

00:20:50.500 No, not at all.

00:20:52.020 I think that they realize, they're like,

00:20:54.900 hey, if we import, you know,

00:20:59.120 billions upon billions of people a year 0.99

00:21:00.960 into these red states

00:21:02.060 who are going to be dependent on government subsidies.

00:21:07.360 They're going to vote for, ultimately, we're going to get them to be voters

00:21:10.600 and they're going to vote for us.

00:21:12.500 I think they absolutely know that.

00:21:15.620 But I think the average person on the left is just an issue

00:21:19.560 of not having thought something out or they're just uninformed, you know.

00:21:22.880 And this is why voter ID just cannot get passed, according to the left,

00:21:28.460 because it ruins their plan.

00:21:30.780 but their plan is ruined anyway, because these people are ruining our country and everybody's

00:21:37.200 being affected by it and can see it. And, you know, we had, um, our friend Joshua Lysak on the

00:21:42.820 other day and he just wrote a book. It'll be out in October called the Haitians of Springfield.

00:21:49.320 And it's the whole story about all these Haitians and what they're, what's happening in this little 1.00

00:21:54.200 small area and, um, they don't want to assimilate, you know, they want to just, and you're the one 1.00

00:22:00.840 that first made me aware of this back in the day. They don't want to assimilate. They want to live

00:22:05.180 their culture and their way of life here. And they don't care what happens here. So I think,

00:22:14.940 um, you know, that's another big problem and, you know, which I'll launch myself right into 1.00

00:22:20.400 the whole stuff with islam happening here um that's my biggest hot button issue and it has 1.00

00:22:27.980 been for a long time is like this islamic takeover of our country um so could you talk more about 1.00

00:22:34.980 that what happens when these other cultures come pouring in here with no desire to assimilate play 1.00

00:22:40.680 by the rules the laws or anything well okay so we get into a situation i think where or the 0.60

00:22:49.020 situations where, you know, like I said, we could be that young 20-year-old smoking bar grips

00:22:56.200 talking about philosophy at a 24-hour coffee shop, right, or whatever, being idealistic.

00:23:05.080 But we have reality that as we get older, we learn that there are realities we have to operate

00:23:10.200 within or we have to recognize, you know. So what I'll tell you is this, you know, I have several

00:23:16.520 friends who are Muslims. And for the most part, there's this one woman I know who's a lovely

00:23:23.960 person. And she was a DACA recipient, okay? She was a DACA recipient from Pakistan. And she

00:23:33.300 spoke on a panel at Texas Tech. And what they do is, these places, what they do is they bring

00:23:43.420 someone like me in for Breitbart and then everyone else on the panel is an academic, you know, who

00:23:50.220 disagrees with me and they shred me, right? That's what they try to do. But I'm very difficult to

00:23:54.540 shred. And especially I think because of the way that I speak, the way I communicate, the way I

00:24:00.260 think, it's very difficult to shred me on issues I care about that I'm informed on. And they tried

00:24:09.560 And most of the time, I was actually hitting them from the left with left of center arguments from their left, right?

00:24:17.220 Pointing out there.

00:24:18.300 So it turned into everybody being friends and having a nice discussion rather than like an adversarial debate, right?

00:24:25.320 Which is what I prefer.

00:24:26.640 I don't like debates.

00:24:27.400 I like discussions, right?

00:24:28.700 With people.

00:24:30.360 So we became friends.

00:24:32.120 a DACA recipient, you know, she achieved her PhD in mathematical biology. I mean, I don't even know

00:24:40.640 what that means. I had to Google it. I still, it's so complicated that I have to Google it every time

00:24:45.600 I want to know what it means, even though I've already read about it, you know, it's that kind

00:24:48.700 of thing. And just a brilliant person, but she's also a Muslim. Okay, that's fine. But when you

00:24:58.300 get into the core of things there are some significant issues that i have with islam okay 0.98

00:25:05.540 not just as a christian but as a as a free faking american right so we go to a dinner table go to a 0.80

00:25:11.780 restaurant and it's like you can't order that with me here what do you mean i can't order that that's

00:25:16.560 pork i eat pork yeah i was like well i don't that's offensive and i'm like hey you're welcome

00:25:24.340 to not eat pork but like because it offends you that i eat pork like we don't we're not

00:25:29.540 brand is not going to order something different just like you wouldn't order pork just because

00:25:34.500 it kind of offends me that you don't eat it you know i just say what are you what are you doing

00:25:38.100 here or you talk about freedom of speech and you say hey uh another muslim friend of mine

00:25:42.340 owns a cafe right a hookah bar actually you know funny enough and uh we were talking and we're 1.00

00:25:48.740 getting along and he goes i'm not into that violence i don't believe in that a lot of muslims 0.80

00:25:53.220 don't i said okay and i said what about charlie hendo what about the charlie hendo attacks he's

00:25:58.100 like well that's different i said what do you mean that's different what are you talking about they

00:26:03.540 drew a cartoon of you know prophet muhammad peace be upon him right they drew a cartoon of him and

00:26:10.420 they they got killed for it you know they got murdered and he's like well i would never support

00:26:15.300 murder but you know you have the freedom of speech i believe in that but but you don't have the

00:26:20.900 freedom to offend there's a difference you don't have the freedom to do things that are forbidden 0.98

00:26:25.140 that's forbidden and i'm like holy crap like this like mostly conservative free-thinking muslim i 0.90

00:26:32.660 know who's in the united states from another country but he at his core believes that the laws 0.93

00:26:39.700 should protect things that are forbidden in islam right that the law should prevent people from

00:26:47.700 doing things that would offend muslims right i have a problem with that as an american as a texan

00:26:54.260 it's like look i'm glad that guy's here in a lot of ways i you know he's a business owner he's 0.99

00:27:00.180 participating in a tax base he's doing this great stuff but fundamentally like i believe in freedom

00:27:06.980 of speech yes there are some exceptions right like i don't think you could go and start running

00:27:12.740 around telling everyone i should be killed right and trying to get people to kill me like there

00:27:18.660 are some limitations to freedom of speech i'm not going to act like i'm a free speed absolutionist

00:27:23.540 because i'm not absolutist because i'm not but i believe in a higher degree of freedom of speech

00:27:28.260 than that right they honestly don't believe that right they don't and so bringing people even just

00:27:36.100 from that argument not mentioning the percentages of people in those communities who think it's okay

00:27:41.060 to kill us like Charlie Hebdo that's like people who sympathize with that but just looking at

00:27:48.200 things like that like freedom of speech issue it's like I I don't want like do I want this person to

00:27:55.300 be deported no but do I want to heavily import people who think the law should prevent me from 1.00

00:28:03.720 saying what I think no I don't I don't want to import those people I don't want them coming here 0.91

00:28:10.540 You know, I don't want to live in a society where I can't eat pork or where, you know, where I just don't want to live in a society. 0.81

00:28:21.160 That your rights are going to be squandered because someone else is offended.

00:28:26.380 No. 0.97

00:28:26.960 And someone could point out some obscure Christian group, right, who I also wouldn't want to live near because they're crazy.

00:28:34.140 but I would like to point out that you would be pointing out an obscure Christian sect 0.67

00:28:40.680 and not the dominant culture of a religion, right? There's nothing in the dominant culture

00:28:46.700 of Christianity that I find offensive. There's nothing in the dominant culture of Christianity

00:28:51.960 globally that makes me feel scared. I wish I could buy whiskey on Sundays in Texas. I mean, 0.86

00:29:00.320 There's things like that, you know, that I think they have a role in or had a role in historically. 0.99

00:29:07.180 But there's nothing that makes me feel like my way of life and the things I believe in the most are threatened by overall Christian culture. 0.94

00:29:16.440 And I'm a Christian, right? 1.00

00:29:18.340 There are things in the dominant Muslim cultures that I find threatening, to say the least, you know. 1.00

00:29:26.220 I find threatening not only to my way of life, but threatening to my life, you know, and I don't want to import that. 1.00

00:29:33.860 And I think that's OK. You know, like it used to be not OK to say that.

00:29:37.980 Well, whatever. And that's what I think. That's what I believe. Have compassion for them.

00:29:43.060 I understand why people want to be here. I get it. I want to be here, too.

00:29:48.240 I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad I'm in this country. Very grateful that I was born here. Right.

00:29:52.900 But that said, though, I have loved ones.

00:29:56.380 I have things that, you know, people I care about.

00:29:58.860 I have things that matter to me.

00:30:00.300 And I don't want to import a bunch of people who fundamentally disagree with my way of life.

00:30:06.240 You know, and what I perceive to be, what I know to be fundamental to what this country is.

00:30:13.760 Marcella, did you want to ask something at this point here?

00:30:17.080 Yeah, you know, so I'm, maybe Brandon does know.

00:30:20.560 I was born in El Salvador.

00:30:21.560 I came as an immigrant here due to political issues in my country.

00:30:27.760 My father was assassinated there and I had to leave immediately with my family. 0.99

00:30:32.660 But what I notice is what you're saying is true. 0.99

00:30:37.900 But the other issue that the U.S. faces is the children of these immigrants are also very radicalized. 0.95

00:30:48.480 And they actually are allowed, you know, because of birthright citizenship or whatever it is, you know, they were born here. They've only lived here. When I talk to somebody from born from a Salvadorian here recently, they are like, oh, the Salvador is great. The United States sucks. The United States is horrible. 1.00

00:31:10.440 and I'm like, I wish I was completely 100% American 0.66

00:31:15.440 and I wish I could give up my citizenship in El Salvador.

00:31:18.860 And I looked into it.

00:31:20.160 So I said, you know what?

00:31:21.180 You have never lived in El Salvador

00:31:22.840 if you love it to that degree.

00:31:25.340 So what you get is a lot of immigrants

00:31:27.940 from different nations that have children here 1.00

00:31:31.180 that I don't know what they do. 1.00

00:31:34.320 They idealize the life in another country,

00:31:37.660 like in Mexico, Venezuela, Haiti, wherever it is, Saudi Arabia, whatever it is. So I've noticed

00:31:44.020 that the more radical part of this immigrants are not really the first, you know, born outside of

00:31:52.900 here. They could be, but it's also the later generations. And I wanted to know what your

00:31:59.480 thoughts are on that. And if you have, you know, faced that when talking to people.

00:32:05.220 Well, it depends on which cultures we're talking about, right?

00:32:09.440 If we're talking about people from Islamic nations, like Muslims particularly, specifically,

00:32:15.400 I think there's a couple of things at play, right?

00:32:20.540 Well, if you really want, it's kind of deep, I guess, but I'll do it.

00:32:26.160 I think that young men in general, young males, have a lot of testosterone.

00:32:33.460 And I think that as people get older and they start to look at the world around them and

00:32:39.860 realize it isn't what they thought it was, I think people can get pretty aggressive.

00:32:44.040 I think that's why we see radical college students, right, politically, who maybe chill

00:32:48.780 out later in life.

00:32:50.220 But I think some of that is just that, right?

00:32:53.180 I think that, you know, some of it is that.

00:32:55.960 but um i do think overall that when we bring people in mass numbers from places that have 0.90

00:33:06.660 policies and cultures that are incongruent with our own right and i'm not just talking about white

00:33:12.220 dominant american culture i'm talking about general culture of the united states right like

00:33:16.660 like we have these we have thousands of probably tens of thousands of beautiful cultures right like

00:33:21.900 where my ancestors were Cajun, right?

00:33:24.480 We have great cultures in Louisiana,

00:33:27.060 you know, of Acadian French people, derived people.

00:33:30.780 And even in Louisiana, I mean,

00:33:32.500 you could look at the cultures in New Orleans

00:33:35.600 versus Lafayette versus, I mean,

00:33:37.560 there's all these micro, beautiful things, right?

00:33:39.860 But the overall dominant culture

00:33:42.160 that all of these subcultures that fit within, right?

00:33:47.380 When we bring people who live in places

00:33:51.540 that are not congruent with what we as a nation believe and want, right, for the most part. 0.97

00:33:58.400 And we do it in mass numbers where it's not one person who can assimilate, but you're

00:34:02.560 bringing hundreds of thousands of people from these communities, right?

00:34:06.840 Not only is there a problem with those specific people and what they advocate for and do,

00:34:13.100 but they're kids who are then born here but have that influence.

00:34:16.520 So they're kids who can vote.

00:34:18.640 They're kids who can be politically active.

00:34:20.480 their kids who and i i don't want to get in i kind of said i don't want to casually talk about

00:34:26.160 your family's experience in el salvador but but i would imagine your dad that probably happened in

00:34:32.080 the 80s the late 80s maybe right 80s early 90s early 90s early 90s okay yeah just because of

00:34:41.040 you know some insight into what your nominal insight into what was going on there right

00:34:45.360 I would imagine that's what happened, you know.

00:34:51.560 So, you know.

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00:35:53.560 You know, your dad would have, or your family would come here,

00:35:58.000 and they would have one set of views.

00:36:00.400 Maybe very grateful to be here all this, but they would have one set of views.

00:36:04.120 But then you're born here, right?

00:36:06.120 Were you born here?

00:36:07.300 No, I was born on El Salvador.

00:36:08.980 Yeah.

00:36:09.740 Okay.

00:36:09.880 I was a conservative in El Salvador already at the age of zero.

00:36:13.940 I already know that.

00:36:14.800 I already know that from what you told me your family experiences were, the tragedies.

00:36:19.100 I can already determine that you were that, your dad, your family. 0.52

00:36:23.360 But what I'm getting at is, you know, people who come from a place where they don't have freedom of speech, right?

00:36:31.120 People who come from a dictatorship or from a place experiencing, like, yeah, there could be problems with that.

00:36:37.300 but their children who are often raised in this society

00:36:41.500 where they never knew what it was felt like,

00:36:43.820 what it felt like to get killed for what they say, right?

00:36:46.680 You know what I mean?

00:36:47.420 Where they experience actual freedom of speech.

00:36:51.360 Then you have all of those hidden, quiet, radical thoughts

00:36:56.780 of the parent, right?

00:36:59.280 That they would never have said because they came here

00:37:01.800 and maybe didn't have legal status right away or something.

00:37:04.080 You have these, yeah, it manifests, I think it manifests intensely in the next generation, you know, the ones who have the legal protections to do it, who can't be deported or who can't have their, you know, their immigration papers, you know, scrutinized for inconsistencies.

00:37:21.280 Yeah, like, I think that makes perfect sense. 0.73

00:37:24.240 And again, I, you know, people ask me all the time, they're like, why wouldn't Iran want a nuclear bomb?

00:37:29.100 Or why wouldn't those people want this too?

00:37:30.740 Or why would, and I'm like, I get it, man.

00:37:33.100 Like, I, you know, a lot of things can be true all at the same time, right?

00:37:39.380 And also, just because I may understand where someone's coming from, right?

00:37:43.660 Like, so if I have one bologna sandwich and my daughter is starving and we're in a post-apocalyptic world, right, and I want my daughter to eat that bologna sandwich and someone else comes over and is like, give me the bologna sandwich.

00:37:58.440 I understand why they want my bologna sandwich.

00:38:01.500 I get it.

00:38:02.320 I totally understand.

00:38:03.640 I'm also not going to let you take it, right?

00:38:05.820 I can't.

00:38:06.500 It's for my daughter.

00:38:07.200 Sorry, you know, but I understand, right?

00:38:09.720 You can, all these things can be true at the same time.

00:38:13.660 Oh, my God. I love that point. Yes, go ahead.

00:38:16.920 You get what I'm getting at?

00:38:17.780 Yeah, it's right. 1.00

00:38:19.180 I totally understand why Muslims like Texas because we have a lot of freedoms that they don't have in other. 1.00

00:38:25.880 I get it. I understand why they flock to Texas. I get it. 1.00

00:38:31.440 I understand why they want school. I homeschool one of my children.

00:38:35.800 I totally understand why they want to educate their kids the way they want to educate their kids.

00:38:41.020 i totally understand why they want to organize as a society or as a as a subculture and and have

00:38:49.380 the laws of society reflect what they believe i totally get it i understand like of course you

00:38:55.660 want that like that's what everyone wants however i think it infringes on my safety and my freedom

00:39:01.740 of speech some of these aspects and i'm not going to let you do it you cannot have my baloney

00:39:06.060 silence if you think about it um they have so much freedom in texas everybody does and

00:39:12.940 if you look at saudi arabia if you look at uh why i bring up saudi arabia is because it's a

00:39:18.860 it's it's a state that uh well an empire whatever you want to call a kingdom that is not there's

00:39:25.580 no war there's no issues but they keep a tight lock on their radicalism if any any any imam

00:39:35.260 ghost radical they're on them you know so there's this this idea that that if you give them complete

00:39:42.940 freedom which is what texas in a way is they can take it and do what it is with it and run with it

00:39:50.860 and that's the scary part is that in the middle east they wouldn't be able to do what they do here

00:39:57.420 because of all the controls in the Middle East.

00:40:02.060 And parson, for sure, yeah.

00:40:04.240 So I think the deeper answer here, right,

00:40:08.880 is the deeper answer is let's just not bring people here 0.99

00:40:15.100 from places in the world that are full of that. 0.97

00:40:18.120 Let's just not do it, you know.

00:40:19.820 Just say, look, we don't, you know, go to Western Europe.

00:40:22.480 They want you there.

00:40:24.040 They want that, right?

00:40:25.060 Like, go to the UK.

00:40:28.460 I don't understand that.

00:40:29.980 I, you know, I listened to an interview

00:40:32.860 on Piers Morgan the other day

00:40:34.060 and I listened to what they were saying

00:40:36.120 and I'm like, I do the most defeatist,

00:40:40.120 like, shame in their historical cult

00:40:45.020 like I've ever heard in my life, you know?

00:40:47.120 I don't look at the British that way, right?

00:40:49.300 I see, yes, there's historical issues

00:40:51.360 that have showed up in all groups in human history, right?

00:40:56.460 Almost all groups.

00:40:57.980 But overall, I think of great contributions, right?

00:41:01.500 Like that they've made.

00:41:02.800 Have you heard whatever the EU says is the justification

00:41:06.120 for all this mass migration?

00:41:08.440 I mean, have they said why?

00:41:11.600 Well, I mean, but we get into a tricky situation, right?

00:41:14.920 So what did the Democrats here say is the justification

00:41:20.080 for mass migration versus what do we know

00:41:22.720 the Democrat leadership are doing, right?

00:41:25.860 Like we just had that conversation.

00:41:27.920 I think it's a lot like that.

00:41:29.360 So in their minds, what usually comes up, right,

00:41:32.720 where they're discussing it, from what I see, right?

00:41:34.840 Again, I don't see everything.

00:41:36.000 I just, but I do see a lot, right?

00:41:38.880 What they discuss is birth declines, birth rates,

00:41:42.940 and the need to have more workers and more young people

00:41:45.660 to support their social welfare, right,

00:41:48.940 for elderly or what have you to them they say generally say it's about numbers there are people

00:41:55.140 on the more radical uh sides of things who will will talk about historic you know oppression and

00:42:02.260 how how vital it is that you know same with with mexico right like and if if you talk to most

00:42:09.080 democrats they believe they're just trying to help people have better lives the leadership of the

00:42:13.320 democratic party i think the strategists they know exactly what the hell they're doing with with

00:42:17.800 voters coming in right future voters for their party but if you were to talk to more radical

00:42:23.020 people in mexico they would say like yeah the united states took that from us we need to take

00:42:27.960 it back right so i i think the the same is true like are there are there people in the uk who

00:42:35.920 think like hey we don't want to be racist we should let everybody hear like they're a hundred

00:42:41.080 percent that is that has occurred are there people who look at it and say hey we need to have more

00:42:48.920 young people working to support the number of elderly people we're going to have on social

00:42:52.760 welfare as you know in two decades there are people saying that as well are there also radical

00:42:59.080 people thinking hey our ancestors tried to take all this and couldn't do it but now we are there's

00:43:05.320 people saying that too you know all of those things are true at the same time um so i think

00:43:12.520 the most asked question is well you know can we can we get these people out obviously daca is a

00:43:18.760 problem a birthright citizenship is a problem uh i was thinking that too marcella like we have we

00:43:24.520 have these millions of children that have been born here to parents who are radical and now they're

00:43:33.160 here. Um, so I, you know, I know like with Haiti, so we just had the Supreme court thing. So like

00:43:42.520 the Haitians are going back. Um, you know, Steven Miller said asylums like over, like there's no

00:43:49.220 more asylum for anyone from any country. We'll help you find another country to go to, but it's 1.00

00:43:53.540 not this one we're closed. Um, so I don't know, Brandon, like as far as a solution, what, you

00:44:00.480 know like to try to put like a positive spin on it um i everyone laughs at me because i'm always

00:44:05.840 like the emotional one i'm like you know the italian worry wart and i'm just like what are

00:44:10.320 we going to do you know what does the future look like um i i know where i live in new jersey not

00:44:16.080 where i live but in new jersey there's a few towns that allow the call to prayer to be blasted out

00:44:22.000 now like five times a day are you effing kidding me are you kidding me um you know i only see

00:44:28.320 churches being burned down never mosques and i'm not suggesting uh arson anybody i'm just saying

00:44:33.520 you just see things going in one direction all the time um and as much as i've always

00:44:40.720 paid attention to this matter uh you know this is this is a millionaire plan they don't care how

00:44:46.720 long it takes to take over the world um and they've been doing it little by little and now fast so now

00:44:55.040 we have mandani we have ilhan omar and we have all these other little sub uh elected people coming

00:45:02.560 in with the same ideology i know in minnesota um i forget what what area it was when you went to

00:45:10.080 vote nobody spoke english every sign was in somalian and um michigan and maine are having

00:45:16.880 problems i mean everyone so ah is there a solution like it is anyone talking about this at the higher

00:45:24.160 levels like are that do you believe like tell me that you believe that the trump administration's

00:45:29.600 fully aware that we're we're like getting thrown down a toilet and we have to get these people out

00:45:35.840 well it's really a tricky situation because a lot of these people we've we've allowed to be here

00:45:43.440 right we've allowed to get legal status and and they're probably not going to get out you know

00:45:48.840 and a lot of them probably aren't.

00:45:51.180 So then we get into what do we do about it, right?

00:45:54.140 Like, what do we do to keep ourselves safe?

00:45:57.480 And then we get into some tricky waters

00:46:01.220 that no one really wants to talk about, you know?

00:46:05.080 You know, when I was younger, right?

00:46:08.100 And when I met Andrew, I worked undercover with the FBI.

00:46:12.940 uh and you know ultimately the right the right defended me and celebrated me for having done

00:46:24.460 that you know and the left attacked me for it and years later years later I uh

00:46:34.300 you know the right would say how could you question the integrity of the bureau and the

00:46:38.140 women who serve us you know protect us and uh the left was like no blah blah blah blah you know

00:46:43.780 and then years later i'm sitting here watching and the left is saying how can you attack the

00:46:48.880 integrity of the fbi and the right is attacking the fbi right you know and uh i'm like oh my

00:46:55.180 like whiplash right like watching how faiths change in society based on what benefits that

00:46:59.920 particular network political network at the time right right so people are going to like this but

00:47:06.860 The only way that we're not going to get blown up, you know, by people like that, it's going to be through law enforcement keeping an eye on what they're doing, right?

00:47:17.580 If not everyone, but people who say crazy things, people who do crazy things, people who insinuate they're going to do crazy things, that's how most bomb plots and death plots from that community are caught.

00:47:34.560 it's because someone in that community says something right to law enforcement and then

00:47:40.200 law enforcement infiltrates those organizations that's how it happens right um that's ultimately

00:47:46.500 what's going to happen at any time you have a long-term investigation right like so a local cop

00:47:52.380 sees you do something and they arrest you for it a federal agent no like what they do is they see

00:48:00.700 do something and then they wonder how many other people are involved and how deep does the plot go

00:48:05.980 so what they do is they watch you right that's that's what they have to do whether it's creepy

00:48:11.580 or not that's that's the reality of what goes on and anytime you have an investigation like that

00:48:19.260 you're going to have long-term involvement of informants or confidential human sources

00:48:24.300 operational sources you're going to have long-term law enforcement involvement which means

00:48:29.020 off the get-go every possible defense is going to be entrapment there's no way around the fact that

00:48:36.380 any good defense attorney is going to claim that because it's always grayish right it's always

00:48:41.260 there's always that possibility maybe they were trapped we don't know like there's always that

00:48:45.740 right and because there was such a long-term investigation almost every case is going to end

00:48:52.620 with a plea deal get it because there's so much evidence against you there's so much overwhelming

00:48:58.780 evidence, you have no choice but to take a plea deal. So then once that's done, everyone comes

00:49:07.060 back and is like, well, the informant entrapped him, you know, or maybe the informant entrapped

00:49:12.980 him. Well, why does everyone, why does the government force everyone into plea deals

00:49:16.340 as to let them have their day in court or, you know, and we start this stuff. We did

00:49:20.420 it as a movement. We did it ourselves in 2000. We did a lot on January 6th. I know the vast

00:49:32.020 majority of people who were there were not violent people. I know they were there protesting. I know

00:49:36.560 a lot of innocent people got caught up in that. I know a lot of the people who went in the Capitol

00:49:41.160 went through the front door and thought they were allowed to, right? I know that. But I also know

00:49:47.060 that there were people there who were trying to do some stuff that we can't be allowed to,

00:49:50.600 right? Let's be honest about it. Same thing with the left at the 2008 Republican National

00:49:56.840 Convention. The vast majority of the Democrats there protesting, they weren't a part of that

00:50:01.760 stuff. Was there a small group of people using that ignorance and that energy to try to do some

00:50:08.340 really bad things? There were, right? You get it? There were. And so we have to, one, is kind of

00:50:16.100 step back and realize what is actually necessary for us to keep ourselves safe now that we've 0.92

00:50:22.240 brought in millions upon millions of Muslims and the best data suggests 25 to 27 percent of them 0.99

00:50:29.160 are sympathetic towards us getting killed and we offend their religion, right? 0.94

00:50:35.100 What do we have to do now to keep ourselves and our children safe? And the solution of that case 0.74

00:50:41.560 is a law enforcement solution.

00:50:43.240 First biggest solution is stop the importation of that.

00:50:46.560 The second solution is we're going to have to monitor threats

00:50:50.540 and make sure that they don't successfully hurt other Americans.

00:50:54.840 But in order for that to happen, we're all going to have to,

00:51:01.100 a lot of us on all sides are going to have to start taking

00:51:05.260 a little bit of a different attitude towards such efforts

00:51:08.340 by law enforcement.

00:51:09.240 You know, we probably have to stop attacking law enforcement as a whole every time somebody we might sympathize with gets in trouble for something crazy.

00:51:19.960 You know what I mean?

00:51:20.800 Give them more power and also understand you guys not to be a Debbie Downer, but, you know, these communities are also infiltrating law enforcement.

00:51:31.100 So there are, you know.

00:51:34.060 We have problems. 1.00

00:51:35.300 I mean, we could turn this into China. 1.00

00:51:37.420 We could turn this into, I mean, we have a lot of threats in our nation.

00:51:41.660 And I don't know necessarily like the FBI needs more power.

00:51:45.820 I think they have a lot of power.

00:51:47.580 I think politically, right, and culturally, we probably need to be a little more presumption of support before we just pick them apart when it's politically convenient.

00:52:02.040 Because that's going to be what keeps us safe.

00:52:04.060 I mean, you know, someone talked to me the other day

00:52:06.160 and they said, well, you know, most political deaths

00:52:08.680 that occur since 2002 are from the right.

00:52:12.660 And I said, okay, hold on, hold on there.

00:52:15.000 I said, first off, it's interesting

00:52:16.300 that you started in 2002.

00:52:18.080 Let's start in 2001.

00:52:19.820 You know what I mean?

00:52:20.600 Yeah, let's do that.

00:52:22.520 But I said, okay, let's start in 2002.

00:52:24.980 Why is it that you do see some deaths

00:52:29.680 from nut job lone wolves on the right?

00:52:32.040 Well, I'll tell you why.

00:52:34.060 Because, it goes back to the law enforcement thing, people on the left, what are they?

00:52:38.000 They're collectivists, right?

00:52:39.100 They tend to organize in a collective manner, which means that they tend to do things as

00:52:43.960 groups, right?

00:52:45.240 They tend to do things as groups, which always leaves the possibility that one or two people

00:52:50.860 in that group with a conscience are going to tell somebody, which then gives law enforcement

00:52:55.540 the time to infiltrate and to pay attention and to prevent rather than the act come to

00:53:01.440 fruition, right?

00:53:02.960 Yeah.

00:53:03.080 The right, if somebody's a nut job or crazy, they tend to do things very alone. We're individualists. We're not collectivists. We tend to not include a bunch of people into whatever we're doing. I don't include a bunch of people into my economic well-being. I'm responsible for myself. You're responsible for yourself. He's responsible for himself. She's responsible for herself. We're not collectivists.

00:53:28.600 So we tend to do things alone. So so that makes it if only one or two people know about something bad that's going to happen, you're not going to find out about it until after it happens.

00:53:39.720 Right. But just because law enforcement is very successful for the most part in preventing left of center violence plots because of these dynamics I just discussed, doesn't mean that nobody said anything or had law enforcement not been there, that there wouldn't be more acts of violence from the left.

00:53:57.200 It doesn't mean that are from Muslims.

00:53:59.120 You get what I mean?

00:53:59.920 Yes.

00:54:00.420 So we have to understand all these things.

00:54:02.820 We have to understand the context that these things occur within.

00:54:07.820 And we're going to have to ultimately, you know, have some real discussions and maybe

00:54:13.320 change some attitudes if we want to make sure we successfully defend ourselves against people

00:54:19.340 who would want to kill us because we eat pork or because we draw a picture of Mohammed

00:54:24.640 or because we say Mohammed

00:54:25.980 without saying peace be upon him afterwards. 0.77

00:54:28.220 And you know what I mean?

00:54:29.620 We have to ultimately, 0.97

00:54:30.820 or because we support Israel

00:54:32.000 or we have Jewish friends

00:54:33.240 and we speak up for them, right?

00:54:36.700 A lot of people on the right

00:54:38.000 have different views about Israel.

00:54:39.740 A lot of people on the right

00:54:40.740 have different views about,

00:54:43.100 you know, I've heard a lot of views

00:54:44.220 about Jewish people, right?

00:54:46.280 I tend to be very supportive

00:54:47.760 and sympathetic towards Jewish people.

00:54:49.600 And I tend to be very sympathetic

00:54:51.000 towards the state of Israel.

00:54:53.000 That's me.

00:54:53.520 not everyone agrees with me i recognize that um but i tend to be that way right so the idea that

00:55:01.040 you know if i wore a star of david or if i wore an israeli shirt or bumper sticker the idea there

00:55:07.120 are people who would want to hurt me because i have that advocacy you know yeah and uh and i

00:55:14.000 want law enforcement i deserve law enforcement in this country to keep me safe from those people

00:55:19.040 Right. And I think we have to start looking at things differently and having some real

00:55:23.680 conversations if we want to stay safe. And I think that ultimately we just have to stop importing 1.00

00:55:29.360 mass numbers of people from places in the world that are very, very different from us. 1.00

00:55:33.840 You know, do some people come? Sure. You know, are there cases where I want there to be

00:55:40.160 political asylum? Yeah, there are. But I think when you have the vast majority of people from 0.85

00:55:46.160 south of our border applying for political asylum after they were coached by mexican cartel 0.99

00:55:54.080 transnational criminal networks on how to do so i think we have a problem you know what i mean

00:56:00.800 so scott would always say to us to be useful you know be useful that was his motto he lived his

00:56:07.520 life that way till his very last breath uh literally um what is something based on our

00:56:14.800 conversation today that we can do to be useful to help preserve our way of life and our country

00:56:22.000 and our freedom and our safety well i think the biggest thing is is being informed right

00:56:28.800 let's talk about news editor i used to be i still write i used to be a writer right i used to be a

00:56:33.840 journalist and i still am a journalist but at that time i would write about a situation okay

00:56:40.000 As an editor, I still do that, but my job is to understand the context that situation occurs within that someone who works under me is writing about and to make sure that we're best informing our readers, okay?

00:56:58.080 It's a very different situation.

00:57:00.060 So for me, I basically get paid to know what's going on in a lot of situations.

00:57:05.420 That's my jam anyways, but that's also what I get paid for, right?

00:57:09.660 So the news organization isn't led astray.

00:57:12.040 Our readers aren't led astray unintentionally.

00:57:14.960 So what I would say to people is be informed.

00:57:17.960 Yes, read all the people you agree with.

00:57:20.980 Make sure you're reading the people you don't agree with, right?

00:57:24.620 Every day, do I read everything that comes on Breitbart?

00:57:28.640 I do.

00:57:29.640 Do I read everything that comes from a number of publications on the right?

00:57:34.660 Of course I do.

00:57:35.540 I tend to agree with them.

00:57:36.860 I identify as someone on the right.

00:57:38.940 Do I read Al Jazeera every day? I do. Do I look at CNN every day? I do. Do I read the New York

00:57:45.760 Times every day? I do. Wall Street Journal? I do. Washington Post? I do. Do I go even deeper into

00:57:52.200 the minds of really overt leftists and check out the nation? I do. Do I listen to NPR? Sometimes

00:58:00.540 I do when I want to hear a leftist center perspective. I don't buy their argument that

00:58:05.060 they're not a left of center perspective because they are right uh but being informed and uh the

00:58:10.760 more informed you are the more you read things you disagree with and see where people are coming

00:58:16.420 from the the better able you are not only to know what's going on but the better able you are to to

00:58:22.080 debate people discuss things with people and see what things they care about so you can you can

00:58:27.760 you try to change their mind or try to inform them right at least have discussions with them

00:58:33.080 And that's what I think the deal is.

00:58:35.100 The deal with Mexican cartels, make no mistake,

00:58:38.960 like what mattered the most was that, you know,

00:58:42.120 cartels were killing journalists left and right.

00:58:44.640 We started a writing project in Mexico

00:58:46.520 where we allowed Mexican journalists

00:58:48.520 to write under pseudonyms so that no one would,

00:58:51.880 and then we presented what they said to a larger audience.

00:58:54.820 Nowadays, back then, that was very revolutionary.

00:58:57.080 Like no one did that.

00:58:58.880 People thought I would get killed.

00:59:00.080 I didn't know how they would react to me

00:59:01.700 or my writing partner, Ildefonso Ortiz,

00:59:06.480 we would call him Pancho.

00:59:07.820 I didn't know what they would do to us.

00:59:09.960 Turns out they didn't kill us, right?

00:59:11.300 I'm glad, I'm happy.

00:59:14.040 But nowadays, like, everyone is writing about cartels, right?

00:59:18.640 But they used to not be.

00:59:20.020 Why are they doing that now?

00:59:21.540 Because A, we stepped in and we showed people

00:59:25.060 that the waters are okay, right?

00:59:29.180 That it's okay to write about cartels.

00:59:30.860 and that it's okay to take that risk.

00:59:33.680 And B, we just got people to care about the issue,

00:59:36.880 which then makes people want that content.

00:59:39.360 Now everyone writes about cartels.

00:59:41.280 You get it?

00:59:41.900 Yeah.

00:59:42.800 So, you know, it's funny.

00:59:45.600 My daughter and I were talking the other day

00:59:49.100 and we were talking about a wreck

00:59:52.080 that I came across one time, right?

00:59:54.160 And it was a horrific wreck.

00:59:56.260 18 wheelers on fire, people trapped.

00:59:58.880 It was horrible, horrible.

00:59:59.840 I'm not going to give you the details.

01:00:00.860 But when I pulled up to this wreck, there were people circling this at a distance, right?

01:00:08.120 But no one was actually trying to help.

01:00:11.820 Until I ran and jumped on the vehicle and started trying to pull someone out, then all of a sudden, all of the people around me started to do it.

01:00:19.800 You know, they all started helping, right?

01:00:22.060 Well, that applies to everything in life.

01:00:25.520 And it applies specifically to what you just asked, okay?

01:00:29.240 what can you do? Be informed, right? Be sharp. And when you see something that needs to be said

01:00:37.760 or needs to be done, start to try to do it. Because a lot of people around you, they care,

01:00:44.880 they just need that spark, right? They need that leader to emerge and take the first step

01:00:50.940 before they will. They need somebody to jump in the pool first before they'll jump in.

01:00:54.940 I agree.

01:00:55.400 And that's the best advice I could give.

01:00:57.300 I love that advice. So we're in the unique and sad and crazy position where I believe Andrew

01:01:07.680 Breitbart and Scott Adams are probably two of the most important people we've had as voices

01:01:15.260 in our country. You lost Andrew Breitbart. We all lost him, and here we lost Scott.

01:01:22.360 and thankfully they made such an impact with so many millions of people that we can carry on and

01:01:32.580 be the people that have discussions and say what do we do and how do we be useful and how do we

01:01:37.540 not be afraid and you know I really really hope Brandon that you'll come back again because

01:01:44.000 I'm watching the chat everybody's like can we go for two hours you know like we could you know

01:01:48.860 have him come back again, that whole thing. So we would love, love, love to have you back,

01:01:53.960 you know, regularly as a guest professor, because it's so important to keep these conversations

01:01:58.520 going and to have some kind of guidance and mentorship. So I would love that. I would love

01:02:03.680 this format. I love you all. I love Scott. I respected the heck out of him, enjoyed him.

01:02:12.600 And I would absolutely love that.

01:02:15.960 You know, usually nowadays, A, I don't show my face a lot.

01:02:19.140 Like I don't do TV, right?

01:02:20.700 Right.

01:02:21.240 And I mostly won't do interviews unless I really like people because my whole

01:02:26.160 deal is I'm at a stage of life.

01:02:29.940 We have to understand all of these years, trying to get people to care about the

01:02:34.500 border and cartels and get the U S government to use its power to go after

01:02:38.100 cartels right and to disregard uh the cartel connected politicians of mexico who were preventing

01:02:45.440 us right because of political correctness we were afraid to go after these threats to our people

01:02:50.600 because we didn't want to offend or look like savages or something to our neighbor

01:02:54.480 but to the world population to the world body and i'm in this place where like i've succeeded like

01:03:01.940 everyone's writing about cartels now you know yes the u.s government's going after cartels the

01:03:06.900 entire paradigm has shifted cartels are being decimated and um and now i'm like you know i'm

01:03:13.260 getting older and i think i want a sailboat that's what i'm in that mindset where i'm starting to

01:03:20.080 like seriously look at sailboats i'm looking at the economic options i have and i think i'm in

01:03:26.660 this place where like i want to hit i want to do the northwest passage i want to go to antarctica i

01:03:31.440 want to go I want to go explore and do wild things and the last thing I want to do is uh be engaged

01:03:38.840 and you know uh you know flying to Dallas Texas to do a one and a half minute hit on somebody's

01:03:46.860 Fox News show you're like it's I'm not going to do that you know so like if if you guys

01:03:50.780 this kind of format and you want to have a discussion for an hour or two I would love that

01:03:55.480 we love that but but like the general media circuit game like i i just i'm not doing it

01:04:02.260 anymore i'm like i'm going the other direction everybody else is trying to build a profile and

01:04:06.560 i'm like i don't blame you we we want you to come we want all of our guests to come here and just

01:04:12.640 talk you know like no commercials no agenda like let's just have a discussion because like you

01:04:18.060 said discussions are the most important thing not debates discussions and you know this was so so

01:04:24.940 freaking informative and like I feel re-energized I feel inspired and beyond anything so thankful

01:04:33.180 that you you accepted my invitation and we are all benefiting from hearing from you today and

01:04:39.180 in the future I just had a cool thought yeah even if I someday do get that sailboat and go to the

01:04:45.540 Northwest Passage yes due to Starlink yes I can still do this do this 100 that's what I already

01:04:51.420 had the whole thing in my head. I'm like, he'll be on the boat. He'll have Starlink and we're

01:04:55.140 going. I love it. He's like Scott from Santorini. Yeah, exactly. Scott used to do the show from

01:05:01.040 wherever he was also. So Brandon Darby, is there anything that, you know, where people should find

01:05:07.300 you on X or, you know, where you're writing, anything you want to tell them? Yeah. At Brandon

01:05:13.420 Darby or Twitter or X, I guess you call it now. I'm old enough that I say Twitter. I'm still

01:05:18.500 going to say Twitter. I might say Twitter X, but I'll never just say on X. Find me on X. To my

01:05:25.180 generation, that'd be something very different. I'm on X. No, I'm not on X. You get it. So that's

01:05:33.420 the best place to find me at my work at Breitbart. Just check out Breitbart News.

01:05:39.140 You have a lot of very excited new fans. And same here. You're part of the fam. We're so happy.

01:05:45.600 so uh let's uh yeah thank you let's say um goodbye to everybody you guys we always do

01:05:51.900 um we always say thank you to scott and to shelly for allowing this show to go on thank

01:05:56.020 you to brandon darby so much and as always a closing sip to our beloved scott and if you

01:06:01.640 guys want to pop off or stay i'll do a closing song for makira and we'll let uh brandon and

01:06:07.400 everybody else go all right to scott you guys thank you there's let's go to scott

01:06:13.020 thanks guys thank you

01:06:17.660 all right you guys how amazing is brandon so freaking amazing i'll just answer the question

01:06:24.740 for you so you guys yeah that was fun i feel like we could have several shows just on this initial

01:06:31.820 round of stuff just you know we hardly talked about cartels really we could have a whole show

01:06:35.400 just on that and even just going back into brandon's background sounds like he's had a lot

01:06:39.820 of adventures he's he's amazing i've i've been enjoying watching him for years and i'm glad you

01:06:46.020 guys met him now cool dude yes yes yes all right you guys so let's do let's do a little closing

01:06:52.080 song and i was thinking oh no that one's too sweet for right now let's do let's do do something let's

01:07:01.140 do do something okay owen and marcella thank you so much oh owen has the after party you guys

01:07:06.420 tomorrow. Sorry, Owen, you have the after party tomorrow. I do. Yes. And we'll be back on Monday.

01:07:13.340 All right. Love you guys.

01:07:36.420 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

01:07:41.160 How about that college class you were gonna sign up for about that sport you wanted to get involved in?

01:07:46.600 How about that motorcycle you wanted? Too dangerous, right?

01:07:50.340 You're free

01:07:52.340 Yeah, you're free

01:07:55.380 Every one of you

01:07:57.380 Who is depressed and anxious

01:08:00.200 You're free

01:08:02.200 You're free

01:08:04.200 because nothing you do will be worse than the way you feel right now do something do something

01:08:11.760 dangerous psychologically dangerous take a chance put yourself out there flame out 0.98

01:08:18.500 get killed just get smashed just go do it you're free 0.70

01:08:23.640 freedom is just another word 0.99

01:08:25.980 you're free

01:08:29.740 do something

01:08:32.060 if you want to meet people here's the best way to do it you have to join

01:08:47.180 activities there is no other way to meet people and inform lasting friendships

01:08:55.100 Hear this clearly. There's no other way to do it. You have to join an activity, a club, a sport, a gym, an organization, a political movement, nothing else.

01:09:10.780 right you can't just make a friend like good luck you could try but i don't think i've ever seen

01:09:19.200 at work hiya you know baba hearing good things about you i think we could be friends

01:09:25.600 do something do something enjoy the thing make a sport form a club of your own

01:09:35.720 Just go do it

01:09:39.340 You're free

01:09:40.420 Freedom is just another word

01:09:42.800 Nothing left to live

01:09:44.720 You're free

01:09:46.560 Do something

01:09:48.940 Freedom is just another word

01:09:52.420 Nothing left to live

01:09:54.360 You're free

01:09:56.160 Do something

01:09:58.200 Do something

01:09:59.700 Why would you not form a club of your own?

01:10:03.520 Because you're afraid nobody would come, right?

01:10:06.480 What's the difference? 0.98

01:10:08.040 You're as good as dead. 0.99

01:10:09.820 You're depressed. 0.98

01:10:10.600 You're anxious.

01:10:11.220 You hate your life.

01:10:12.340 You're thinking about putting a...

01:10:13.900 I can't say that here, but...

01:10:15.520 You're thinking about maybe life isn't worth it.

01:10:19.200 You're afraid.

01:10:21.580 You're absolutely afraid.

01:10:24.260 Go have some fun.

01:10:29.320 Freedom's just another word.

01:10:31.600 There's nothing left to lose.

01:10:33.740 You're afraid.

01:10:35.720 Do something, do something

01:10:38.100 Maybe it was just another word

01:10:40.400 But for nothing left to live

01:10:42.320 You're free

01:10:44.160 Do something, do something

01:11:05.720 Now, I've got to tell you, I've used this technique a number of times, and man, does

01:11:11.720 it work.

01:11:12.720 It really works.

01:11:13.720 You're free.

01:11:14.720 Just remember that people criticizing you are narcissists. 0.82

01:11:17.720 They are broken.

01:11:19.720 Don't let it break you.

01:11:21.720 You've got some techniques now, and I think you're going to be a lot better.

01:11:26.720 Go get yourself some friends, and you'll find your mental health problems feel a lot

01:11:30.720 better.

01:11:31.720 Go get involved in something.

01:11:32.720 Join a group.

01:11:33.720 form a group, be the boss. That is your advice for the day. And I will talk to you.

01:11:46.460 And we'll talk to you on Monday. You guys have a great, great weekend. Don't forget to join

01:11:51.660 Owen at the after party and we'll see you back here Monday. Love you guys. Bye Marcella. Bye

01:11:58.220 oh and i don't know if you're still here bye 0.95

01:11:59.660 he's still there well visually i think he left for work i am here oh he's there holy shit

01:12:07.960 he was too busy dancing later bye guys bye 0.88

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 26, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 06⧸26⧸26 TAKE TWO! Brandon Darby Joins The Home Team, FOR REAL

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