Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 07⧸07⧸26 The Home Team joined by BJ Dichter

00:00:00.000 good morning my gardener's coming marcella's gardener's coming owen's car broke down on his

00:00:07.640 way to the studio but we're here like what else could you want it is july 7th oh it's 7 7 bj as

00:00:15.720 we were just saying uh 7 7 20 26 bj is joining us today i'm starting you guys up here oh everyone

00:00:24.800 looks so good sorry i couldn't start the dream early good morning dr heinz how are you

00:00:32.400 and dr von hardy special shout out to you for making so many fun thumbnails for our shows did

00:00:39.960 you guys see the one today i'm like all right so we all are wearing the same pants with the same

00:00:44.060 legs but i get it okay let's see by the way i noticed persuasion club in the chat i've been

00:00:51.680 listening to more and more of their podcasts they're getting better and better yes so shout

00:00:56.140 out to you guys and keep it up yes kevin made me a great thumbnail too he did the seinfeld one 0.89

00:01:02.160 good morning persuasion club oh yes soccer is gay again it's over and now it's gay again i see

00:01:09.320 yeah that was brutal i'm just giving a little extra time because we didn't start the stream 0.86

00:01:15.520 early so i want to give a chance for everyone to come in before we get to our sip and yeah that

00:01:22.360 game was brutal you guys i thought the mexico game was brutal and like there comes the u.s

00:01:28.080 it was amazing it was so good the mexico game loved it so exciting it's tragic

00:01:34.340 you know what we should do a soccer stream a football stream at some point

00:01:40.180 Yes. I won't be there. We can talk about it. Yeah, we can hash it out.

00:01:46.320 All right. So I think we're in. Maybe Owen will come sliding in a little bit later. If you guys

00:01:50.980 see him in the chat and he's not coming, let me know. Just kidding. Okay. So let's do it.

00:01:57.940 Now, I'm not saying the rest of your day will be all downhill. I'm just saying this is the best

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00:02:50.600 guys, I see you, Flynn and Annie and Bushman and all you guys are amazing over there. So welcome

00:02:56.300 to the Scott Adams School. My name is Erica. I'm joined today with Marcella and BJ Returns.

00:03:02.200 um we have a fun show planned for you i think it's a little chaotic but we're going to get

00:03:07.240 through it and um we just want to let you know that all of scott adams um live streams and

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00:03:45.400 Um, all right. So you guys, I've been wanting to play a couple of clips like the last several days,

00:03:51.020 but I just haven't had a chance to get to it. So for those of you who have been missing my

00:03:55.260 stupid animal clips i just you guys look at this and tell me you wouldn't just die ready watch this 1.00

00:04:01.600 no go away 1.00

00:04:05.300 oh my god

00:04:11.700 i had that happen to me before dude the dog is so calm

00:04:20.620 what do you mean you had that happen to you before where i lived in monrovia california

00:04:29.380 there's a lot of bears but they're so used to humans it's not like this bear

00:04:33.020 yeah he's approaching them i had a mama bear two bears

00:04:37.580 and they look so skinny i thought they were dogs and you know me i'm like trying to rescue dogs

00:04:46.140 I approached them thinking like, oh, I'm going to rescue these dogs.

00:04:51.440 They looked at me like, what in the world?

00:04:55.080 But they were not like this one.

00:04:58.060 Would you die?

00:05:00.780 He's like running in circles around them.

00:05:03.280 She is brave.

00:05:09.260 Oh, you guys.

00:05:10.540 I would start grabbing rocks at this point, at this juncture.

00:05:15.380 At this juncture?

00:05:16.140 i would die is that what you do you throw rocks at a bear is that the way to get no

00:05:20.800 no find any kind of weapon don't take her advice you guys you have to look bigger you have to look

00:05:26.940 bigger you have to make noises you can't yeah she did a good job wait wait wait how tall are

00:05:31.940 you marcella i'm like five five five six not tall so okay all right well this woman did exactly what 1.00

00:05:41.840 you're supposed to do get loud get big try to run yeah don't i mean like the thing was circling her

00:05:48.360 i'm like oh my god she i you know she was just like dying inside that is so scary um i don't

00:05:54.160 know that you should follow marcella's advice and throw rocks at a bear so just that's just her

00:05:59.040 opinion and if you're ever in that situation it worked for me please please somebody make the

00:06:04.200 meme of marcella throwing rocks at a bear scaring the bear away but don't forget the bears were very

00:06:09.900 skinny she thought they were dogs this bear was yeah yeah this bear looks like it ate a human

00:06:14.880 oh my goodness all right so i had to get that one out of the way when i saw that my heart was like

00:06:22.040 oh all right the other quick things because we didn't really talk too much or show anything

00:06:26.880 about the festivities but you guys i live here at the jersey shore which you all know

00:06:30.720 and we've had the privilege a few times to have all of the tall ships come into

00:06:37.140 Sandy Hook Bay, which is like right near where I live. Um, and so they came in like, you know,

00:06:43.660 sporadically a few days before leading up and they were just anchored in the bay there. And

00:06:49.040 everybody was taking their boats out and looking at them, um, going around like this picture. 0.99

00:06:53.680 This is the Italian one. This is from our boat. And some of them are over 300 feet long. So just

00:07:02.100 to give you some perspective, I mean, look at the boats next to them, how tiny they look

00:07:06.160 for perspective and here this is the um american coast guard tall ship um they're just amazing and

00:07:16.580 you guys i don't know who took this photo i will find it later but this is the most iconic photo

00:07:22.580 i've seen all weekend of any of the anything this is when they were all coming into the new york

00:07:28.600 harbor does that look like ai i mean look at how far back they go all the way around the corner of

00:07:35.500 the of the statue of liberty um amazing to see them beautiful sight i hope they come again but

00:07:44.540 um just absolutely gorgeous let me get no legacy media coverage at all on this because i haven't

00:07:50.400 seen it oh really well it was like this was the parade that went into new york and then all so

00:07:56.420 all day uh we had in formation fighter jets flying over the house and bombers yeah it was just

00:08:03.540 amazing i don't know if there was really i don't watch the news so i don't really know if there

00:08:07.940 was much coverage but if you could ever find out where they are amazing amazing and the crew like

00:08:15.920 there's like they all stand on the mass poles like the whole crew they drop the sales down i mean this

00:08:22.080 is not like done electronically this is all old school but just so so beautiful one one last shot

00:08:28.020 of this because this was just magnificent and um uh what a sight and the birds flying president

00:08:35.380 show show business knows how to put on a show yeah they i think the last time they were here was

00:08:41.440 2012 i forget what that was for and then in 2020 and then i think obviously 1976 they were here

00:08:49.880 and i want to say one other time it might have been like 92 or 93 but anyway beautiful i'm so

00:08:55.560 happy when we see things like that. And we are so lucky where I live because New York Harbor's

00:09:01.880 there. And like, this is like where people first came to America and like found land on the East

00:09:06.840 coast and just beautiful. It's just beautiful. Okay. That was my little America moment with

00:09:12.120 Erica. Okay. So what do we have? Owen was going to give me this story about a study done in Canada

00:09:20.500 about milk about whole fat milk being better for you and i wanted to do it because bj was here and

00:09:28.720 i thought he could expand on it but instead of that story so you guys whole milk allegedly

00:09:33.180 bj tell us about seven seven oh well today is the 25th anniversary of the seven seven bombings

00:09:40.920 in in london england and if i remember correctly it was something like 50 some odd people were

00:09:46.860 killed. They bombed a couple of subway stations and a bus. I think it was three subway stations

00:09:51.680 and a bus, if I remember correctly. And many people were perplexed. Oh, homegrown terrorism.

00:09:58.340 How could they be terrorists? Because I think they're all Pakistani descent. But it's what 1.00

00:10:02.760 many of us try to communicate. They may be born in the United Kingdom, but their philosophy

00:10:09.120 and their value system is alien to the United Kingdom values. And that's what you're about to

00:10:15.140 see now that Mamdani is in power and these people who were elected to the

00:10:20.120 state Senate and this is a problem this is what's been happening in Canada

00:10:24.260 people they they become little collectives and they radicalize each

00:10:28.460 other if the government is not involved in integration and yes it's a very

00:10:34.220 serious concern and this is also why I think what we do wrong is we think of

00:10:38.600 these incidents oh they're so far apart but the adversaries of Western

00:10:44.420 civilization in America, they take a long-term view of the world, that from the World Trade

00:10:51.760 Center bombing number one in the 90s, the coal, the 2001, 7-7, October 7th, I know a lot of people

00:11:00.760 are still confused about it, and the bombings in Holland, like there's a whole bunch of them.

00:11:05.660 This is just one era in this global culture war and basically civilizational war that is going on

00:11:14.240 with people who have a very long-term view of the world and we got to get away from oh this term this

00:11:20.500 election and start looking at the world strategically over a long period of time

00:11:25.280 otherwise it'll be to our peril. We're seeing that unfortunately yeah all too often um so we

00:11:33.660 wanted we wanted to just acknowledge that um you know you don't thank and thank you for letting us

00:11:38.740 no i did not realize and thank you i bring all the good news right yes yes yes bj sorry no it's

00:11:46.260 all good bj um where is somebody else mentioned bj uh bj's wholesale club you guys is this the

00:11:57.540 right clip let me see bj's warehouse yeah yeah there's one so the one right near me i think this

00:12:04.500 is it let's take a look we've been having the wackiest weather i mean a lot of people have but

00:12:10.180 we had vicious flash flooding yesterday so many businesses underwater like a whole entire asbury

00:12:18.180 park is under so crazy but i think this is the one you guys camera has been cut down completely nope

00:12:26.500 that's coming this must be it here we go good morning robin and they're set to do so again

00:12:30.980 today more than 1200 flight cancellations yesterday, nearly 10,000

00:12:35.460 flight delays nationwide. And unfortunately, today looks to be more

00:12:39.080 of the same.

00:12:41.160 Intense storms, dumping massive amounts of rain, leaving communities

00:12:44.920 across the Northeast underwater in hard hit New Jersey cars completely

00:12:49.500 submerged.

00:12:53.380 Several water rescues underway as floodwater lapped at residents

00:12:56.900 front doors. In Monmouth County, terrifying video showing this roof

00:13:00.940 collapse. Ocean requesting you mutual aid to BJ's for a structural collapse,

00:13:05.840 multiple injuries, multiple entrapments. Local officials pouring over this video

00:13:10.280 of the roof caving in at a BJ's wholesale club. We have 20% of the

00:13:15.220 building collapsed. Police say two people were briefly trapped, but no one

00:13:18.640 was hurt. Ken Collada shot this video of the roof leaking just before it

00:13:22.820 collapsed. I don't know what it was to be honest. I don't know if it was a

00:13:25.560 tornado, who knew? Is it scary? It was terrifying. The lobby of this emergency room in New Jersey

00:13:32.800 flooding. The hospital saying patient care was not impacted. Millions still under a flood watch

00:13:38.000 this morning. A 75-year-old sycamore tree crashing on top of this garage. One resident in Westville,

00:13:48.680 New York, had to be rescued after her home was completely flooded. I need help. It's like a river.

00:13:53.940 Rescue crews showing up with life vests to get her out safely.

00:13:57.620 The storm's causing major travel trouble across the country,

00:14:00.760 delaying or canceling some 10,000 flights Monday alone.

00:14:04.800 Ryan Fitzgerald says she, her boyfriend, and two young children

00:14:08.120 have been trying to get home to Bangor, Maine for more than 24 hours.

00:14:11.960 We got to the airport, checked in.

00:14:13.880 They straight canceled the LaGuardia flight at 6 a.m. due to weather.

00:14:18.860 After another delay the next day,

00:14:20.480 they made the decision to take the 10-hour drive home.

00:14:23.940 Now, the good news here is that things are likely going to improve starting tomorrow,

00:14:29.220 much needed after a brutal start to this week.

00:14:32.900 You guys, it has been insane.

00:14:35.480 The weather, like a lot of my friends on the eastern seaboard and I mean, tornado, little

00:14:43.200 tornado things I saw in the chat, maybe microbursts.

00:14:46.480 I don't know what it is, but what is with the weather?

00:14:50.400 Don't you find it odd?

00:14:51.600 you guys see the pictures from new york uh with the fireworks where every building top in the city

00:14:58.000 had a lightning bolt attached to it that was like the night of the fireworks or it's been crazy

00:15:04.400 i'm not saying anything weird's happening but it's weird but but didn't like i remember i was in new

00:15:10.720 jersey in when was it it was 2024 when hurricane ernesto hit i was in i think cranberry new jersey

00:15:20.080 I was picking up a load in the truck and it was like I was in Florida and it took me like 30 hours

00:15:26.480 to get back to Canada for an eight hour drive. But I don't know. These things just happen. I think

00:15:32.280 what happens is our recency bias. We think that when something happens that is abnormal, that

00:15:39.520 hasn't happened in the past year or two. We think it's abnormal. And I think the climate extremists

00:15:45.660 take advantage of that i think this is things always happen weird things just happen and it's

00:15:51.120 it's exciting uh and it's bad it's very negative in some ways but i think that's all it is i don't

00:15:57.260 think it's uh anything abnormal and also what i've noticed in traveling the u.s the infrastructure in

00:16:02.680 the northeast is the oldest you know especially in places like rhode island and stuff so they're

00:16:08.000 just not you know you have flooding every day in florida every day in florida summer it rains it

00:16:12.500 floods but 10 minutes later it's gone yeah i think they're just more predisposed because of their

00:16:17.420 infrastructure to to absorb it whereas in new york it'll affect it a lot more than other places

00:16:23.480 of the country that's just how i see it marcella any manipulation of the weather no it's not mk

00:16:31.620 ultra it's not dubai it's mk ultra plus like mk ultra weather yeah i mean you know it's been known

00:16:40.400 you know the cloud seeding is an actual thing that that they used they used it in dubai they

00:16:46.240 use it in i think they used it in qatar and last world cup they had like these clouds over like

00:16:51.680 the the games and it was known it was a thing known to do so i don't know yes no i'm not really

00:16:59.880 suspicious it's just i am extra i mean i i have a level of suspicion especially when you saw what

00:17:05.820 happened in Dubai. But they did that to themselves. It's crazy that you could do that weather

00:17:13.320 manipulation. But I mean, Trump was saying, let's like throw a bomb into the hurricane and break it

00:17:19.280 up. I love that. That was so funny. He thinks outside the box. I know he does. He does. So 0.60

00:17:25.000 anyway, weather, it's scary. So I told you I own a tree service. So of course the phone is going

00:17:31.040 crazy um you know it's just interesting just be careful people be careful okay so let's move along

00:17:38.640 all right so you guys here's the here's another thing have you guys been noticing those flock

00:17:45.440 cameras everywhere do you know what i'm talking about they're like a big they're a big pole

00:17:51.200 they have some kind of solar component panel on it and then they have cameras on it and you know

00:17:57.440 they're like, oh, it's just to get license plates of people doing things, but they're popping up

00:18:02.440 everywhere. And apparently they can do a lot more than just read your plate. Like they do

00:18:07.860 face recognition. They can hear conversations. My opinion, allegedly, because I'm not a flock

00:18:13.760 expert. If you guys know about them in the chat, definitely drop your facts there.

00:18:19.060 But we, so I just noticed a new one in a town near, like right near me, a small little town.

00:18:24.180 and it is the most ominous looking thing. And it was like that people were complaining about it.

00:18:30.840 And they're like, no, listen, we can hear a gunshot go off in a house before anyone can

00:18:36.480 call 9-1-1 and be there before like, and you're like, wait, what? So you're just going to like

00:18:42.160 hear a conversation or hear something and just show up based on eavesdropping. It's very bizarre.

00:18:48.220 So we were talking about this surveillance state, a few of us, and I was just like, what? Yeah,

00:18:53.440 like what's going on here so i wanted to listen to what this guy said and um like scott said

00:19:01.120 privacy is dead and only being boring saves you exactly well it does it does change human behavior

00:19:08.880 when you know you're being watched and then do you have freedom i don't know so let's i i like this

00:19:14.160 guy i found him interesting i'm going to show you this clip real quick imagine a civilization where

00:19:19.120 everyone's hands were shackled to their sides all the time, and they were only given enough

00:19:23.440 slack to move in order to work. No one would call that free or democratic, because the behavior of

00:19:28.880 the people would literally not be free. They would be actively compelled to act a certain way by the

00:19:34.640 structures of control placed on them. Surveillance changes behavior. That's the point. So by definition,

00:19:41.680 people are no longer acting freely under surveillance. Their behavior is shaped by how

00:19:46.000 how the watchers want them to act.

00:19:48.420 No matter how subtle this is, it's true.

00:19:50.720 And compulsory behavior is, by definition, not free.

00:19:55.400 So surveillance is antithetical to freedom.

00:19:57.680 Because surveillance is designed to compel behavior,

00:20:00.120 this gives a very real power to the watchers.

00:20:02.760 And that violates the core principle of democracy.

00:20:05.420 Rather than a free society

00:20:06.660 of free individuals acting together,

00:20:08.160 surveillance creates a power differential

00:20:10.200 where the people behind the cameras

00:20:11.860 now have far more power

00:20:13.300 than the people in front of the cameras.

00:20:15.040 So surveillance and democracy cannot co-exist.

00:20:18.960 It's important to learn the difference

00:20:20.000 between surveillance and being witnessed.

00:20:22.240 To be witnessed is a community act.

00:20:24.060 It is the natural social structure of all primates.

00:20:26.660 We see one another and that shapes behavior

00:20:28.380 in a pro-social way.

00:20:29.840 But being witnessed is a transparent mutual act.

00:20:32.820 I see you in community and you see me.

00:20:35.200 Also, being witnessed is a collective action.

00:20:37.400 We all see one another and in our witnessing,

00:20:39.680 we create the fabric of a society.

00:20:41.540 You could say that the weave of a healthy society

00:20:43.460 made of the threads of mutual witnessing. Modern individualistic society breaks these threads and

00:20:48.740 leaves people feeling isolated. We don't feel seen, we don't really see anyone else. I work to act all

00:20:54.340 the time as though I'm being actively watched by the people I respect most in the world,

00:20:58.580 and that is an effort to return to a healthier model of human society. It's also true, nothing

00:21:03.460 is secret in community, really. Everything we ever do is part of us and people around us will see it.

00:21:07.700 So it's good practice to act in ways that you want to be witnessed by your entire community,

00:21:11.620 past, present, and future. That's integrity. But notice the differences. Surveillance is not a

00:21:18.660 two-way thread of mutual witnessing. It is a one-way watching from anonymous powers far larger

00:21:25.380 than you. Palantir watching you 24-7-365 is the opposite of healthy co-witnessing in community.

00:21:32.000 Community co-witnessing encourages us to be better people. It is a healthy, natural, democratic,

00:21:36.380 pro-social pressure. It's power together that we collectively wield to shape our communities.

00:21:41.620 Corporate and state surveillance is power over.

00:21:44.620 It is a vast authoritarian demon whose eyes are always on you, but who you can never fully see,

00:21:49.620 shaping your behavior to align with its will, to expand its profits and power.

00:21:53.620 Palantir is aptly named. For anyone who understood Tolkien,

00:21:56.620 it's absolutely wild that Peter Thiel named his evil global surveillance corporation

00:22:00.620 after the most famously corrupt and corrupting tools of mass surveillance in Tolkien's world.

00:22:06.620 Some may argue that surveillance in a democratic system reinforces

00:22:09.620 enforces the democratically decided standard of behavior. I disagree. I believe that blind

00:22:14.180 surveillance is inherently authoritarian for the reasons I laid out above. But more to the point,

00:22:18.680 that's not the world we live in. Statistically, for many decades, the government of the United

00:22:22.800 States has passed the laws that billionaires and corporations want, not what the population wants.

00:22:27.340 So no matter how you cut it, the U.S. is not any kind of democracy. I don't mean that it's a

00:22:32.440 constitutional republic as opposed to a pure democracy. I mean it doesn't abide by the

00:22:36.080 constitution either. In a technical sense, it is a corporate oligarchy dressing up as a democratic

00:22:40.720 constitutional republic. So even if you believe that under a healthy system of governance,

00:22:45.280 surveillance could be positive, we don't have that. We have a brutal corporate oligarchy,

00:22:50.560 which is well down the path of becoming a full-blown authoritarian state. It is within

00:22:55.300 that context that we're discussing the explosion of state surveillance driven by AI now. So let's

00:23:00.760 keep the conversation in reality and not pretend that the will of corporate techno-fascist AIs

00:23:05.560 behind these cameras is somehow representative of the will of the population state surveillance

00:23:10.600 is an authoritarian practice always the more surveillance the less free and democratic

00:23:15.720 and the more authoritarian the point of surveillance is for the rich to control

00:23:20.040 the behavior of the poor only and always so act accordingly i enjoyed his little ted talk when i

00:23:29.080 found it um marcella you know you're our attorney and you know what people's rights are better than

00:23:36.520 most you know what do you think about what he's saying do you feel like he hits the nail on the

00:23:41.080 head or do we need to be surveilled well there is room for surveillance you know each of us has

00:23:50.200 cameras outside of our house to surveil the outside so there's public space and there's

00:23:55.720 private space which is how fourth amendment cases are decided um your right to privacy

00:24:02.840 is only to certain areas however there there was a case recently that um the court the supreme

00:24:10.600 court went a different way um than uh than usual and it was regarding geo location so

00:24:18.520 So your cell phone is figuring out where you are at all times, and basically they said that you have a privacy to this, that if the police is going to search for this, that they need a warrant, and if they don't have a warrant and they use it, then it's wrong.

00:24:36.420 So there has to be probable cause to explain, okay, we need to reach in and find it. In this particular case, they didn't use a warrant and they, I mean, I could get the specifics wrong and the facts, but it basically, it constituted Fourth Amendment rights to, which is different than what they're used to.

00:25:01.880 They're used to having you. There's been cases where trash left outside, outside of like if you put your trash can out there, there is no privacy to it.

00:25:13.960 So so police can go in, look for DNA samples or whatever they want and take it away because it's a curvature.

00:25:21.680 It's it's outside your house. So in regards to what he's saying, there's certain areas, you know, pursuant to law that this can be done.

00:25:31.080 you can surveil people inserted in public areas right um however um if you're going to

00:25:41.560 do what you say they're going to do if they're going to hear a gun and they're going to go there

00:25:46.520 without uh there is there's there's there's different things that they can use uh the police

00:25:54.760 can use to indicate like there is this emergency action so if you if you if there's an emergency

00:26:02.080 at your house and they hear lots of scuffle and all that they can break into your house even if

00:26:07.920 they don't have a warrant from a judge because to get a warrant from a judge takes like a few

00:26:12.000 at least a few minutes if not an hour or more so what he's saying legally you can do now there's

00:26:22.480 been cases in regards to this recordings that have a video is not always king in the courtroom

00:26:31.260 um so a video of of you being there at a certain place doesn't mean that you caused the crime

00:26:38.640 however they could pin the crime on you they can accuse you of that crime there was a case

00:26:46.120 recently where a lady was near um she was caught on those cameras that you're talking about

00:26:53.320 and her car was there and they accused her of stealing a package oh i saw that yeah and then

00:26:59.560 they were like oh she stole it she was right there but they they had the actual video of the actual

00:27:05.880 stealing of the package and it was a different person so and he and the police officer was like

00:27:13.240 i'm a hundred percent confident it was you when he showed up at her house she was like

00:27:19.160 they could say whatever they want right and that's when you were like not saying anything

00:27:23.640 i want my lawyer right so um so it's it's tragic in a way that this is happening but legally

00:27:31.160 speaking i mean i would think that somebody needs to sue um usually it's the aclu i know

00:27:39.000 that a lot of people here don't like them um they sometimes do good you know like the the or any

00:27:45.880 other entity can sue uh to make this um an issue in regards to but most likely it's a loose loose

00:27:54.520 because it's a public place now the sounds that come from your house is that public

00:28:01.400 so it's yeah so i i'm hoping this is the right i you know what i i'm not saying i love this but i

00:28:09.320 kind of love this i love how like the hot topic word of the moment is vigilante because i keep

00:28:17.560 seeing like this vigilante justice now and i'm hoping this is the right clip let me just take

00:28:22.760 a quick peek camera has been cut down completely sprayed over with an american flag on it and not

00:28:28.600 Not far away, there's another flock camera on the ground as well.

00:28:31.800 HPD says it's investigating this, but so far, there are more questions than answers.

00:28:37.540 These cameras, meant to help solve crimes, now becoming the target of one,

00:28:41.860 both cut in half and covered in spray paint.

00:28:44.880 Yeah, I didn't realize that the cameras were there until you actually pointed that out.

00:28:48.000 Juan Rodriguez's business, Spar Houston, is located by Washington Avenue and Westcott,

00:28:53.120 where this happened.

00:28:54.200 These are flock cameras, meant to read license plates and alert police if they're connected to crimes.

00:29:00.360 Rodriguez says he didn't see who did this, but he's left wondering why they did.

00:29:05.460 That's what it sounds like it would be, somebody just protesting, their rights are being violated or something like that.

00:29:10.680 Flock cameras have been used in the city of Houston since 2021, according to the company.

00:29:15.680 The Houston Police Department tells us they were notified these cameras were damaged on the morning of July 4th.

00:29:21.440 As far as the repair costs, HPD says it depends on who is responsible for these specific cameras.

00:29:27.600 While some cameras are installed through city contracts, others are done with neighborhoods or private groups that choose to share footage with police.

00:29:36.440 HPD couldn't confirm who was responsible for these cameras, only saying this is an ongoing investigation.

00:29:42.820 ABC 13 reached out to Flock asking if they were aware of this situation and what the repair process would look like.

00:29:49.100 They didn't answer those questions, but did say, quote, damaging public safety equipment is illegal and puts the community at risk, which is why we strongly condemn this type of behavior.

00:29:59.440 I think one thing that you can add to all this is, at least in California, I would have

00:30:10.580 to look up New Jersey and even Canada, but is that if you are recording someone, because

00:30:17.400 all of us have a recording device all the time, and we can record anyone that's near

00:30:21.900 us, you actually have to inform in California that you're recording them.

00:30:27.320 at your house you should probably put I should do that too should put a thing that says it that

00:30:34.500 you're being recorded you know you've seen those signs that say you know smile you're on camera or

00:30:39.080 something um so what this guy was saying the business owner is like he didn't even know they

00:30:45.680 were there so one of the things is like how can you use this without notifying people that you're

00:30:51.800 actually surveilling them. Um, yeah. And I'm going to take a picture when I, uh, go into

00:30:58.500 this town again, it's right, right near me. I'm going to take a picture of the one that they

00:31:03.060 installed of several of these, like along this whole stretch, they look so freaky. And I think

00:31:11.240 that they're like a thousand times worse than this flock camera thing. And, um, I'm going to

00:31:16.660 get the down low on it. I'm going to get out there and do some investigative journalism,

00:31:20.080 because it's like enough of everybody with their cameras, with their phones, with the like, oh my

00:31:26.680 God, leave me alone. And it is so true. Like, you know, you do act differently. I mean, okay. Like

00:31:31.800 if it makes, you know, terrible people act a little better, that would be great. But I don't

00:31:36.440 see that stopping anytime soon. But it's like, God, you know, it's like, don't tread on me,

00:31:42.260 get my Gadsden flag. What do you think about all of this, BJ?

00:31:45.260 I don't know. Look, I'm no fan of government surveillance, as you can imagine, being what I've gone through with certain things.

00:31:56.580 But maybe I'm going to take the other side for a reason.

00:32:01.360 You know, Scott always talked about he wanted to present the best argument on both sides.

00:32:07.580 And I think there's a lot of things at play right now that we're not considering.

00:32:11.420 I think the first thing is, if your filter for the world is everything is malicious,

00:32:17.520 then you're going to be really upset about every little thing that we see.

00:32:21.380 And justifiably so sometimes, of course.

00:32:24.440 But what is happening in the world right now related to streets, for example, streets and highways?

00:32:30.180 Well, now for the first time, we have cars that you can buy that the average person can afford that have 1,000 horsepower.

00:32:38.180 And what are we seeing?

00:32:39.280 we're seeing an escalation in the number of high-speed chases.

00:32:45.020 You can find them all over YouTube of people actually getting away from the police

00:32:48.520 and people actually killing people in the process.

00:32:52.060 And I think the governments are trying to figure out how to deal with that

00:32:55.480 in a way where they're not constricting what the manufacturers can do.

00:33:00.520 So one of the things we can do is let's figure out a way

00:33:04.420 that we can identify these people and these incidents

00:33:07.820 before they happen or as they're happening sort of thing to give them better intelligence.

00:33:12.320 The other thing is, and this is the, it's Hanlon's razor, never ascribe malice to those 1.00

00:33:17.120 things that can be explained by stupidity. 0.99

00:33:22.180 From having family in law enforcement and friends in law enforcement, we have no concept 1.00

00:33:27.200 of how incompetent they are.

00:33:29.300 It's not just the electoral system that's incompetent, as Scott discussed many, many

00:33:35.920 times but so are the inner workings behind the scenes agencies not sharing information with each

00:33:41.520 other but it's even worse the databases not being able to communicate each other because they have

00:33:47.280 different technology and now they can't find that's why people commit crimes heinous crimes

00:33:52.640 and they don't find them because they just can't get the information and the data and i saw that

00:33:58.800 you know with the the trucker protest i saw the intelligence report on all of us it was hysterical

00:34:05.600 It was the epitome of a Dilbert cartoon.

00:34:08.520 They didn't even know my birth date.

00:34:10.360 They knew basically nothing about me or anybody else.

00:34:13.160 And this is from like the highest levels of intelligence gathering in Canada.

00:34:17.920 So I think the human factor will always show that the Dilbert filter applies to just about everything.

00:34:25.380 And I think maybe there are people in government or local governments, state governments,

00:34:30.180 that take a reactionary approach to, well, maybe we just need cameras everywhere.

00:34:34.780 The next thing is, you know, they're going to have kill switches on cars and everybody's freaking out.

00:34:41.440 Oh, wow. Yeah. Right. But you are ready. Yeah.

00:34:44.440 But if you see people getting involved in high speed chases hitting 220 miles an hour on city streets and killing 10 people when they hit something, that wasn't the case 20 years ago.

00:34:56.640 The technology to make a car go so fast is a relatively new advance in the auto sector.

00:35:03.300 So I think there's just a lot of things, and not everything is malicious. Most things, it's just incompetence, stupidity, or reactionary thinking. And you know what is the opposite of reactionary thinking? Something that Russell Acuff gave the world that Scott Adams always talked about, which is systems thinking. 0.99

00:35:20.240 and because you have many people in the world that a few people that do systems thinking

00:35:24.700 some of them are in government by the way and then a whole bunch of linear thinkers

00:35:28.760 you just get a whole mishmash of things just don't work nearly as well as we think they are

00:35:34.360 and marcella i'm guessing with your experience in law that you kind of see some there's a balance

00:35:41.540 yeah yeah exactly and you know what i was thinking just now you made me think of other things you

00:35:47.240 made me think um follow the money right so these companies what is it what's the well i won't

00:35:54.980 mention names but the companies that sell the surveillance equipment um that's right beyond

00:36:00.660 the whole scope of whether we should be surveilled or not um they need to look into that because

00:36:06.980 there's probably a lot of room for any kind well and also kind of we we have that here and sometimes

00:36:13.520 you know somebody's elected to office or usually a backroom person in politics they have a family

00:36:20.140 or a friend member who's involved in a company they want to become a contractor so they submit

00:36:25.940 an rfp and they manage to get the contract for the technology but it doesn't work and they know

00:36:31.600 it doesn't work but because their business is failing but the best way to save a dead business

00:36:37.140 is just get a government contract put stuff up you've done you've abided by all the terms of

00:36:41.660 invoice in the contract but it doesn't actually do anything there's a lot of that that goes on

00:36:46.300 in government as well i take i pretty much i'm on the opposite side of bj i understand but marcel is

00:36:53.100 saying that there could be balance yes okay like sometimes cameras strategically placed can help

00:36:58.860 solve crimes of course um but i am more of the like the over surveillance you know i did it's

00:37:08.300 just too much and it's like this preemptive surveillance that they're doing you know there's

00:37:13.340 not an issue but you're preemptively just watching everybody there's cameras on every freaking corner

00:37:19.500 absolutely follow the money because as you can see in politics we have no reason to trust any

00:37:25.580 of these people everybody's on the dole everybody's got someone who's lining their pockets for favors

00:37:32.300 Um, and they're, and they never take anything away. So once surveillance gets put in, they're

00:37:38.220 never taking it out and it's only going to go, Oh, we, we have better surveillance now. And this

00:37:42.880 one's even more sensitive and this one can cover further. And so it's just, to me, the start of a

00:37:48.400 slippery slope that it's just going to get wider and bigger until you eat the bugs. So, um, I don't

00:37:54.880 like it. And I think leave me the F alone is how I feel. Um, and I love whoever's cutting down

00:38:02.060 those flock cameras. And I hope they do it where I live. And I hope they get this big, giant

00:38:07.500 nuclear bomb looking thing they put up in these towns near me. I hope they cut those down. I'm 0.98

00:38:12.500 not suggesting it. It's just a fantasy. And don't blame me if anyone does that. But I don't want to

00:38:18.940 be surveilled. I want the police to do their jobs. I want our laws to actually work. And if somebody

00:38:28.560 commits a crime, they go to jail and they stay there and they pay a penalty and whatever. I'm

00:38:33.180 fully into shaming and mocking people and making them feel horrible. Like we need to go back to

00:38:40.260 the basics. So that's where I'm at. I agree with you. I'm just trying to show, I'm trying to make

00:38:47.280 the best argument on the other side. But my question for you is this, I think for many people,

00:38:52.800 the problem is not the fact that the, you know, law enforcement, let's say, or agencies want to

00:38:58.120 have better tracking so they can preemptively you know enforce I think the problem is tell me if you

00:39:03.680 agree with this the problem is the lack of enforcement or choosing when to enforce and

00:39:10.360 when to interpret the law based on somebody's identity genitor genitals their identity their 0.85

00:39:18.800 genitals like for example if you saw radical enforcement of Muslim Brotherhood extremists 0.84

00:39:27.000 in the country that they're all being deported or thrown in jail or guantana or whatever 0.66

00:39:31.640 my guess is you probably have more confidence and faith in the system and you'd give them a little

00:39:37.900 bit more leeway because they're putting up a camera and all of a sudden they arrested a bunch

00:39:41.520 of terrorists right would that change your perspective or no what do you think well for me

00:39:46.900 it's it has to be applied equally so if it has to be applied equally so if you're you can see you

00:39:55.480 know everyone's got their own camera phone out there it's like there's enough there's enough

00:40:00.000 out there every no one's helping anybody they're filming things that are happening so if you know 0.58

00:40:05.060 if i don't even want to say radical islam if islam is doing something there's 8 000 people 0.73

00:40:10.240 recording it we can see it all on the interwebs there's no shortage of footage everybody wants 0.72

00:40:16.580 to you know get the shot um i want the law distributed equally amongst everybody and i

00:40:24.000 don't care who you are, you know, like Paul Pelosi, how many DUIs is he going to get and

00:40:29.020 whatever? And they're just like, oh, you know, okay. No, it's got to be equal. And that's why

00:40:33.980 we have no confidence or faith in anything, any kind of authority, because we see that it's,

00:40:39.640 you know, it's picking. And also we don't want to upset the Muslim people. And we, oh my God, 1.00

00:40:46.260 just apply it equally. That's it. That's all I'm looking for. That's me. So no, I don't like it.

00:40:53.420 But my point is, if you saw equal enforcement of the law, then you probably have a little

00:41:00.120 bit more trust, not absolute, but a little bit more, right?

00:41:03.200 Yes, probably.

00:41:04.800 I mean, I would have to see it to feel it, but yes, I could imagine I would, because

00:41:09.460 I'd be like, okay, good.

00:41:11.020 Everybody's getting the same treatment.

00:41:13.880 And then we have the problem of the judges.

00:41:16.060 So, you know, it's all a problem.

00:41:19.140 So it's like, stop surveilling me because I, the judges are going to do what they want

00:41:23.020 based on what political party you're in and who's donating to whom it's so it's just stop

00:41:28.600 surveilling me because you're going to, you're going to give me worse treatment because I'm

00:41:32.660 allegedly MAGA, whatever that is anymore.

00:41:36.320 And I'm not into it.

00:41:38.040 Just leave me alone, like live and let live.

00:41:40.940 That's my Ted talk.

00:41:42.680 Okay.

00:41:43.060 So I wanted to just get to a couple more things if no one minds.

00:41:47.220 And I can't remember what this clip is.

00:41:49.140 I just want to say for the record, Rumble Studio, please, please Rumble people.

00:41:54.900 I just don't understand as this the person running the show here,

00:41:59.980 you have to let me put little titles under my clips so I know what they are.

00:42:04.360 A picture is not just helping me.

00:42:06.780 Thank you.

00:42:07.400 OK, so I'm a little agitated.

00:42:10.280 OK, all right.

00:42:10.900 So I have this clip of Mike Rowe, who we all love.

00:42:15.240 You guys know him from Dirty Jobs.

00:42:16.800 And his message is just always so simple and smart.

00:42:20.640 And so for parents out there, if you've got like a new kid or your kids getting into that

00:42:25.960 age of like, you know, high school into college, please heed his advice.

00:42:31.500 The blue collar jobs, A, are where the money's at because there's such a shortage of trades

00:42:36.700 people, such a shortage, people that can do just anything with their hands that are working.

00:42:42.640 And also, you can just go right from high school, right into a trade.

00:42:47.180 You could be an intern, learn a trade as an apprentice, and in like five years, have your own business, and you're a millionaire in no time with no debt.

00:42:56.200 So anyway, let's listen to Mike Rowe and hear what he says.

00:42:59.740 Dude, Larry Fink, who runs BlackRock, told me that the companies in his portfolio alone needed 300,000 electricians.

00:43:14.900 What's coming is an infrastructure build out that's being calculated at nine to ten trillion dollars over the next nine years.

00:43:26.000 A lot of it's data centers, but it's a lot of other stuff, too.

00:43:29.740 And we can get into data centers and AI. It's all fascinating to me, but it's all kind of academic if you can't build them. And if you can't build them because of a shortage of skilled labor, that'll go down in history of one of the greatest unforced errors of all time.

00:43:48.620 And that's what people are beginning to realize.

00:43:52.040 We have to reinvigorate the trades.

00:43:54.920 We must.

00:43:56.640 Or we're going to be in a level of trouble that's truly unprecedented.

00:44:03.500 Sorry, I know I'm rambling, but every five tradesmen, for every five who retire this year, two replace them.

00:44:09.980 That's what I was going to ask.

00:44:10.900 Do you have any idea how many welders there are in the U.S. right now?

00:44:13.920 i can tell you that whatever the number is we need 400 000 more

00:44:21.140 i can tell you we're underwater like it's worse with electricians right now i was in plane up

00:44:28.800 texas a couple months ago got a tour of a data center been talking about them for a while but

00:44:34.380 i hadn't really seen one up close oh my god i mean amazing uh kind of terrifying

00:44:43.580 but also kind of awesome. Enormous. I ran into three electricians, all under 30,

00:44:54.860 all making north of 240 grand a year, all debt-free. Now, here's the craziest part.

00:45:03.940 All three had been poached three times in the prior 18 months. Now, does that mean that's

00:45:11.940 going on in Sacramento and Phoenix and Tallahassee and Bangor. I don't know. But it's going on in

00:45:19.180 Plano. And it's happening in different areas. The shortages are so acute that the companies don't

00:45:25.560 have time to train. They have to poach. And so great news for an electrician. But it's a little

00:45:34.780 weird for the economy over okay so i had mentioned a long time ago i was listening to mike rowe on a

00:45:44.700 podcast and he was saying that uh whoever this company is that was contracted to build i think

00:45:52.720 it was 10 new submarines okay for our navy and so he got the man got in touch with mike rowe and he

00:45:59.420 said, I need welders. I just got this contract and I have to build 10 submarines and we are

00:46:05.760 very short welders. Do you know where I can find some welders? So Mike is like, well, how many do

00:46:11.440 you need? He's like thinking like, let me see if I can think of where you can find some. And he said

00:46:16.480 like 40,000. And he was like, what? And he's like, I need 40,000 welders. So we are at a vicious

00:46:27.920 deficit, you guys. And I don't know when it started where people were like, oh, a trade,

00:46:35.000 oh, you're blue collar. Oh my God. How do you think this country functions? How do you think

00:46:41.260 we build things and achieve things? These are the people that just give you the very basics to make

00:46:46.940 the country work. So please, if you have any preconceived notion of what a blue collar job

00:46:53.520 is these are like a gold mine. They're a gold mine for your kids. Even if you're hitting a

00:47:01.260 retirement age and you're like, you know what? I don't really need to retire. Why don't I just

00:47:04.780 learn a trade and get out there and do this? Go do it because that is the most tremendous way to

00:47:11.580 be useful if you're not sure what you want to do. So BJ, blue collar jobs. We're a blue collar

00:47:18.660 family here. You know, a man, change a tire, have a little calluses on your fingers. Let's go.

00:47:25.140 What do you think? Yeah, I think this also pairs nicely to, you know, Scott always talked about a

00:47:31.440 talent stack. You know, real men, I'm going to be sexist here, real men can fix things and build

00:47:38.760 things, right? So my whole life, I've always been like that. I can grade a diamond, I can build a

00:47:43.620 computer run a business i can fix a car i can drive a truck and whatever so all through my life

00:47:49.780 i've always tried to learn things whether they're white collar or blue collar the best is to learn

00:47:54.140 a little bit of everything but have one fundamental trade as your ultimate backup and i think people

00:48:01.020 are now realizing that it was james burke's series it was either connection or the world the day the

00:48:06.780 world never changed he talked about that in the late 70s that we're moving into an era of our

00:48:13.100 civilization where we're over specialized and we're so over specialized that we can't engage

00:48:19.320 in conversations about either the area of our work or just general things because we no longer

00:48:25.760 are this kind of renaissance man that wants to know and is curious about everything and I'm

00:48:32.300 glad to say I think we're seeing the society shift back to that that men should be men women have you

00:48:40.100 know there's outliers we all have careers and we all have ambitions but we should not shame people

00:48:46.040 who get into the blue collar trades we should actually celebrate them because a hundred percent

00:48:52.420 that's what's built the western world and that's why the western world is so powerful

00:48:56.460 in my opinion most of um most of my friends are blue collar living beautiful lives and and also

00:49:07.680 every time we all need to get something done or do something or for our business or our home or

00:49:12.160 whatever nobody can find anyone qualified and all of these people are going to be retiring very soon 0.99

00:49:18.400 so the last like fully qualified quality working generation of blue collar is about to retire

00:49:26.400 and so it's going to get exponentially worse um mars and we do we need our lawyers and doctors

00:49:32.480 and this and that like i might say accountants and all that but not everybody has to try to go

00:49:36.400 work in corporate and like fight their way to get this job that they have no security in um did you

00:49:42.160 know the average age of a trucker in america is 59 years old what's gonna happen average the average

00:49:48.460 so and that's that's across sectors right now so anyways okay so marcella your thoughts on i mean

00:49:54.340 you know how much you spend to go to school and everything else like if you you had to have a

00:49:58.300 passion to do what you were doing and i think a lot of people put themselves in vicious debt

00:50:03.320 in college and then they don't even do the thing they went to college for so many of my friends

00:50:08.040 that graduated college are like landscapers and this and that now they're like i didn't even need

00:50:12.680 that yeah so go ahead sorry yeah no i mean it traits have always been needed and it's always

00:50:20.960 um one of the things that i do like about germany is that and i don't know canada but in germany

00:50:27.320 you have different schools for different things like immediately it's too early in a way but at

00:50:34.400 12 or something like that it's decided whether you're going to go to like gymnasium which is

00:50:40.140 like the university level and then hochschule which is like just high school and then there's

00:50:46.100 trade school um so it's something like it's not frowned upon uh for you to be a welder or for you

00:50:55.800 to be a plumber or anything like that so there was the time and i think it's mostly the liberal

00:51:02.000 elite sort of i don't even know what it is but this propaganda that like oh if you're 0.98

00:51:10.680 a trades person you're like dumb and you're not capable of much and blah blah blah 0.97

00:51:16.500 and people have been taught to think this way and so they their parents want them to go to college 0.99

00:51:24.520 instead of like trade school or whatever it is but trades are you know you can create your own

00:51:32.360 business you can do everything uh have your clients do everything it just seems more and

00:51:38.540 it's more fun like you get to visit different places go to different you know so if you if you

00:51:45.480 are into it i think you should do it maybe i'll i was gonna take classes at home depot to fix

00:51:51.920 things around the house. I mean, people need that. So my friend's niece, she just graduated

00:52:00.220 high school and she's going, she's so smart. Family's already wealthy, the whole thing. And

00:52:05.380 she's like, no, I, she drives like a big Ford F, what is it called? 350, like this little blonde 1.00

00:52:12.100 girl. She rides a horse and she's like, no, I'm going to this. I don't, I don't know what it's 1.00

00:52:18.760 called the school but she's going for like a welding like a master's type of thing so you know

00:52:27.800 maybe you you become like someone who engineers like the welding issues i don't know what it is 1.00

00:52:33.740 but i'm like freaking good for her you know there's plenty of jobs for women in the trades too 0.94

00:52:39.120 this is not just a guy thing is it true that welding like to be a female welder is it's more 1.00

00:52:46.240 sought after because of your hands, your, your smaller hands and you can like focus your, 0.96

00:52:54.680 I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but. But I mean, welding, you know, it's like,

00:53:00.580 it's not always like, I have one friend who's a deep sea welder. So he goes down like in the bell

00:53:06.480 thing, like all the way down, like the bottom of oil rigs that need, you know, that is insanity.

00:53:13.640 and then you could be welding for just like a small like electronics company that needs some

00:53:19.500 welding done i mean it's like the the variation is huge but you can see like he said we're at a

00:53:25.380 deficit of like 400 000 or whatever he said of just welding or electricians and it's like

00:53:30.560 if you want a job and the job market's freaky that's where the jobs are and you're not going

00:53:36.080 to be in debt which is so nice and you know what and no one's going to just like fire you you're

00:53:40.180 in charge of your life. You could pick your schedule, your vacation, your whatever, how many

00:53:45.500 people you want working for you, or maybe none, maybe just an apprentice. So you have so much

00:53:50.220 more control of your life and your future. I just think it's so nice. Is it me or is trades less

00:53:56.260 stressful? Because you don't have this, you're fixing something, you're solving a problem. And

00:54:03.880 And, you know, so maybe it is stressful. 1.00

00:54:07.540 I mean, I think every job has its level of stress or whatever, unless you're like an

00:54:12.400 influencer, but we have enough of those.

00:54:14.720 Thank you.

00:54:15.200 So stressful.

00:54:16.360 Oh my gosh.

00:54:17.360 So you guys consider that for your kids and, you know, it's just life is so expensive and

00:54:24.040 everybody's suffering with this debt, this college debt, and then you're sending your

00:54:28.700 kid to an indoctrination camp to begin with.

00:54:31.340 So you don't even know how they're going to come out of there.

00:54:33.560 And is the degree going to matter? I mean, all the businesses I've owned, I never cared about

00:54:39.360 anyone's degree. I care about the person that shows up in front of me and how they present

00:54:43.480 themselves. That's all I ever cared about. And if you have experience out in the real world,

00:54:49.220 that means so much more to me than a degree, unless it's something specialized and you need

00:54:54.700 a degree that's different. But if your kid's like, I don't know what I want to do, but I just have to

00:54:58.660 go do this four years of school. No, don't do that. Don't do it. That's just me talking. But

00:55:03.800 what do you think, BJ? You like this? No, I agree. I also think something to add there for

00:55:09.380 younger people is to travel and not to travel even in the United States, go to other parts of

00:55:14.660 the world. And I think people will appreciate, I think there's a lack of appreciation of how good

00:55:19.700 we have it in the Western world. And Marcel, I'm sure you can expand upon this, that if you go see

00:55:26.260 how the rest of the world lives you realize how privileged we are in the western world and i think

00:55:32.020 that's kind of what's driving a lot of the kind of negative sentiment which i find weird i mean

00:55:38.580 we got trump in and you know nobody's perfect of course but we should be celebrating how good

00:55:44.980 things are but there's a lot of people who just get trapped in the negative energy and i think

00:55:49.380 when you travel around the world it gives you a better sense of gratitude of of where you count

00:55:53.940 where you come from so go to africa go to africa and if you survive you'll see how bad things can

00:56:00.420 be you know and don't forget you guys um all the people that were here for fifa for the world cup

00:56:07.620 and they were like oh my god i like i never knew america was this amazing and now when we pick our

00:56:13.620 vacation between you know are we going to europe no we're coming to america they're like every

00:56:18.340 state's like a different country the people are so nice the food the ranch dressing so um oh which

00:56:23.860 With that being said, I could not delete this clip, you guys.

00:56:27.000 We just played this guy the other day, but he was so fun.

00:56:29.940 And before he gets deleted from my little cue card over here,

00:56:34.240 can we just hear that guy talking about America one more time? 0.51

00:56:37.540 The German guy? 1.00

00:56:38.100 And then I'll delete him. 1.00

00:56:39.000 The what? 1.00

00:56:39.640 Is it the German guy? 0.87

00:56:41.000 No, he's an American.

00:56:42.440 He's so good.

00:56:43.580 Just one last time with this guy.

00:56:45.620 Okay, there you go.

00:56:46.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:46.560 Okay, here we go.

00:56:47.960 Hi.

00:56:48.600 Did you know all the Europeans are coming over here for the World Cup soccer games?

00:56:51.540 And they never come over here.

00:56:52.800 But they're here now, and they're finding out that Texas has the best barbecue on the face of the planet.

00:56:56.600 And then they're going home, and they're posting all over social media about America being the greatest country there is.

00:57:01.020 Yep.

00:57:01.560 And you know what?

00:57:02.120 They're right.

00:57:02.940 And you know what else is so great about America?

00:57:05.120 Bald Eagles.

00:57:06.060 Donald Trump. 0.60

00:57:07.260 Huge.

00:57:07.960 The F-35.

00:57:09.280 American football.

00:57:10.780 College football.

00:57:12.160 Beef.

00:57:12.880 So much beef. 1.00

00:57:14.380 Burying an F-255 feet in mud just because you can. 0.99

00:57:17.900 Watermelons.

00:57:18.660 Every type of hunting and fishing you could ever dream of.

00:57:21.300 Stone Cold Steve Austin.

00:57:22.800 Smith & Wesson, the 1990s Chicago Bulls, Yingling Beer, a guy named Jack Daniels, U.S. Airborne Paratroopers, the Second Amendment.

00:57:32.600 We put a man on the moon, you know, and we did it without using the metric system.

00:57:37.360 Air conditioning that'll freeze you out in the middle of August, drive-thru everything, Costco, two-day shipping, Coca-Cola,

00:57:44.160 Waffle House at 3 in the morning, Red Solo Cups, Munster Trucks, Bottomless Chips and Salsa,

00:57:50.720 Fireworks that are technically illegal, but nobody's really going to say nothing about it,

00:57:54.880 Cheeseburgers the size of a newborn, John Deere Green, 35.

00:57:59.660 Again, we don't use the metric system when we turn it out fine.

00:58:02.820 Brisket's so good, it'd make a Frenchman cry.

00:58:05.300 The bald eagle could actually eat you if he wanted to, he just don't care to. 0.97

00:58:08.840 So yeah, y'all come on over and enjoy.

00:58:11.560 Enjoy it all.

00:58:12.420 live it up baby live it up because that's what we do every day last thing america's always been

00:58:18.160 great have a good wednesday usa baby bravo to him last time we just saw him so i love that guy

00:58:29.000 i don't know what your favorite line was but they're all so good and marcella we need to

00:58:33.080 get you to a waffle house stat yes i'll start being a trades person and eating a waffle house

00:58:39.660 oh my god how amazing one thing that he mentions is brilliant video but i think somebody had told

00:58:46.300 me this a while ago the u.s government officially is on the metric system that's why all military

00:58:52.300 hardware is in metric and as a canadian where we use both we officially use metric but we have to

00:58:58.700 use imperial because of you guys and so much it's so much better the only reason you don't have it

00:59:05.020 is because there was nothing in the budget to change the entire uh highway system to metric

00:59:11.500 otherwise it's not in the budget it's not in the budget okay we got other things to do we are not

00:59:17.660 going fighting words i love you guys not doing it so ha ha you have to learn our system um metric

00:59:25.900 system they tried to teach us that when i was like in i don't know like a third grade situation and

00:59:31.180 we were like easy you just multiply times 10 that's it everything is so simple whatever you

00:59:35.980 just said marcella didn't you go up the metric system yes well multiply what times 10 like i

00:59:42.940 don't even know what you're saying it doesn't even make sense don't tell me millimeters meters it's

00:59:47.580 always it's always a multiple of 10 that's all it's it's how simple it is i don't even honestly

00:59:52.220 i cannot even i can't even compute what you're saying i just learned the knuckle thing about

00:59:56.860 the months and who has 31 days i don't know what's happening you metric people um all right you

01:00:03.660 metric lovers in the chat uh so listen you guys thank you so so much bj for joining us today

01:00:10.620 yeah i'm gonna do a stream now after uh at 11 sjv asked about that tell us where your stream is

01:00:16.620 where they can find you just go to my locals uh i posted it in i posted the link in the chat just

01:00:22.220 search for me or type in honking for freedom you'll find it honking for freedom marcella so

01:00:27.660 good to see you today and i'll see you tomorrow um you guys i will stay and do an akira song and

01:00:34.060 i'll um if you guys need to scooch out scooch out and um thank you to scott and shelly for allowing

01:00:40.380 this stream to continue and i also want to tell you joel pollock might be joining us tomorrow or

01:00:45.820 thursday he has some fun updates he called me this morning he has some good info for you guys about

01:00:50.940 the book about scott's biography and listen you guys get out there learn a trade stand up get your

01:00:58.220 red solo cups let's go america and of course be useful okay guys a closing sip to scott to scott

01:01:06.300 Thanks, BJ.

01:01:11.120 I love you all.

01:01:12.580 Love you guys.

01:01:14.040 Okay, let's see.

01:01:16.500 Let's do...

01:01:19.080 Oh, as BJ mentioned today,

01:01:21.460 what you think about, you tend to see, right?

01:01:23.980 Let's do what you think about.

01:01:26.300 All right.

01:01:27.000 I saw a story in the South China Morning Post.

01:01:31.320 He asked the question,

01:01:32.280 can you train your mind to be happy?

01:01:34.200 and it says yes expert says would you like to know how would you like me to train you

01:01:41.700 with my hypnosis experience and to how to be happier all right well i won't hypnotize you

01:01:49.540 i'll just tell you how to do it number one whatever you think about the most is who you are

01:02:04.200 and you can change what you think about the most it's easy watch think about your favorite animal

01:02:28.380 could you do it of course you could yeah you all had a different favorite animal but when i said

01:02:38.380 think about your favorite animal you could do it so that was when your brain was focusing on a

01:02:45.980 cool thing that you liked your favorite animal probably made you a little bit happy i mean

01:02:51.480 just a little bit but during that time you're thinking about your favorite animal you weren't

01:02:56.740 thinking about some bad thing that could potentially put you in a bad mood or

01:03:01.980 affect your energy or make you anxious or anything whatever you think about the

01:03:07.660 most is who you are

01:03:26.740 so i just proved to you that if you just remember as a habit to change your thinking from whatever

01:03:39.340 negative stuff to positive stuff it's really that easy just think about stuff you like

01:03:46.260 everybody likes something think about a person you like experience you had a walk on the beach

01:03:52.980 If that's your thing, just think about it and reduce the shelf time that you give to the bad thoughts.

01:04:05.540 Because how much you think about something is what creates the structure in your brain that becomes semi-permanent.

01:04:13.840 You can usually change it, but it becomes a little semi-permanent.

01:04:18.240 So the more you think about positive things, the happier you're going to be.

01:04:22.980 That's who you are, that's who you are the way to think about it.

01:04:42.400 That's who you are, that's who you are.

01:04:50.260 I love the end of that one.

01:05:20.020 so good. You guys, thank you so much for another great day. Please say your goodbyes. I don't want

01:05:25.780 to cut you off. And we'll be back tomorrow. Owen should be here tomorrow with us. And then

01:05:32.700 should I tell you today who's coming on on Friday so you can get to know him if you don't know him

01:05:37.780 already? I'm going to tell you. It's Jesse Kelly. I'm so excited. Jesse Kelly will be in the house.

01:05:44.680 a perfect way to end a Friday with Jesse Kelly. I cannot wait. Was that last video on YouTube?

01:05:52.580 Oh, which one, Flynn? The American guy? The guy talking about America? I'm not sure which

01:05:58.340 one you're talking about. I'll wait to see if I can find it. Mike Burt. Nice, right? Jesse Kelly.

01:06:08.460 He's a good time. Oh, good. I'm so glad you guys like him. You're excited. If you don't know him,

01:06:15.480 you're going to love him. He's amazing. Send me a message. Flynn, are you on

01:06:22.760 X? My DMs are open. Yeah, check him out, Annie. He's just like another person who just says what

01:06:32.940 he's thinking. He's got great energy. He has his own podcast and you'll recognize him when you see

01:06:41.600 him, I think, because he does a lot of hits on news with people. But anyway. All right, guys,

01:06:46.720 I will see you tomorrow. Okay, Flynn, so message me if you can. Thanks, Deb. Thanks, you guys.

01:06:54.840 You guys are all so sweet. And I will be back tomorrow. Have a great day. Think about what

01:07:01.720 we talked about in the show. No, that's Jesse Waters. Jesse Kelly has probably been on Jesse

01:07:09.220 Waters' show, so that might be. Okay. Yeah. Get your hands dirty. Let's go, people. Let's do it.

01:07:17.080 Let's do it. Mirka. Okay. Thanks, guys. Love you. See you tomorrow.

01:07:31.720 Thank you.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 07, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 07⧸07⧸26 The Home Team joined by BJ Dichter

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