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00:01:00.000 are live let me get over here good morning everybody oh wait wait i forgot oh oh bj

00:01:10.000 i already blamed bj all right so bj's being funny because uh i'm going live from the yellow planet

00:01:18.960 called the jersey shore which is full of smoke no no no no hold on i was told during the cerveza

00:01:28.300 sickness that this was like a hazmat suit this is like you know the star trek enterprise shields up

00:01:34.380 nothing can happen if you put a face diaper on right so yeah you know it's it's brutal here

00:01:40.940 but um so that's why i'm doing it i'm just following you know our officials in government

00:01:46.060 who know everything that a little filth of paper that's gonna protect you right so we should all

00:01:51.500 do it right well bj you just ruined my life because in the pre-show so you guys if you don't

00:01:59.100 know there are fires and we don't know whether to blame minnesota or canada and i'm totally happy to

00:02:04.940 blame both so it is like i'll blame canada i mean all right and so it's like we're living on this

00:02:11.380 yellow planet marcella everything is dark yellow there's you can't see anything it's hazy it's

00:02:18.520 disgusting and they're like what's gonna happen in the world cup final in new jersey oh is it

00:02:24.800 outside outside or in a thing no it's outside they're gonna play in the new jersey stadium i

00:02:29.800 don't know i have no idea met life i don't know they're not gonna be able to play they're like

00:02:34.260 stay inside don't go outside and bj just informed me that it should clear up in three weeks three

00:02:42.440 weeks well three weeks or longer that's not the latest estimate i can't that's not optimal

00:02:49.520 no i'm very upset optimal it's very suboptimal like i'm living for the summer here on the jersey

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00:03:40.820 good stuff i agree my sip was delightful okay so in all seriousness you guys welcome to the

00:03:55.460 scott adams school my name is erica i'm joined today with co-hosts marcella and bj and it is

00:04:02.020 July 16th, 2026. I have a very ambitious agenda today. I have papers for tapping. I have notes.

00:04:11.240 So you're guaranteed a disaster because it's just going to be overly ambitious and I'm going to be

00:04:16.200 rushing through everything. But that being said, Marcella and BJ are pros and they know how to run

00:04:24.720 with the flow. Owen left us in the dust this morning. He said, sorry, I can't come. BJ,

00:04:32.020 i probably woke him up he said i will be there so thank you bj no i was up for a few hours already

00:04:37.540 i was up at six in the morning you're no slacker i know um all right so marcella any quick quick

00:04:45.660 update on the game oh my god thank you um i'm just i oh so argentina beat england but it means so

00:04:56.780 much to me that they did um it was to assist by messi and you have to understand that he's 39

00:05:05.160 and i guess like every time they say oh a 39 year old just scored i think of my age and i was like

00:05:10.720 oh what am i like i have to use a cane or something um so i was just uh it was just

00:05:19.700 admirable to see him um score and make England look like they were just like like whatever players

00:05:27.840 although the this English team was like one of the best teams uh they were actually ranked number

00:05:34.300 three or two or number one so they so he was able to do it but it's also his team the passion

00:05:42.380 there's a lot of lessons that that like if I were to get out of it is never give up because they

00:05:49.040 They were losing 1-0 and any other team would have given up.

00:05:53.060 There was like, they were almost, the game was almost over and they still kept on trying to score.

00:06:01.300 So if you feel like giving up, don't give up. 0.60

00:06:04.920 They did the same thing with Egypt.

00:06:06.040 And, you know, for your interest, Erica, the finals are going to be, the final is going to be the anarcho-capitalist Argentinians versus the communists.

00:06:15.640 And the semifinals is going to be the European Caliphate match of the World Cup, which would be France versus England.

00:06:23.580 Well, I'm very interested to see you guys said they're going to be playing in New Jersey.

00:06:26.840 I don't I don't know if they're going to be, honestly.

00:06:29.860 So this will be interesting.

00:06:31.140 I wonder.

00:06:31.640 I don't know what to change venues then.

00:06:34.000 It's dangerous.

00:06:34.780 It's dangerous.

00:06:35.320 I know you're breathing and you're really like inhaling extra hard.

00:06:38.580 And I don't think this is good.

00:06:40.500 All right.

00:06:41.040 Well, that was your sports update of the week.

00:06:44.400 No, of the day.

00:06:45.640 Okay. So I told you guys I'm like a nutball today. Sunday is the final. Sunday? In Jersey. 0.51

00:06:52.520 Well, in a smoky Jersey. All right. Okay. Thanks for that update, you guys. Good luck to whoever

00:06:59.220 Marcella wants. So you guys. Argentina. Argentina. So, you know, we love our Scott

00:07:06.440 percent. I have two clips I'm opening with today and one is going to answering the burning question

00:07:12.900 we've all had so let's take a listen wasn't exactly an even trade but for president trump

00:07:20.660 it was pretty even he usually comes out on top not usually always always what are we looking at here

00:07:28.340 these look exquisite yep so these are the displays of our currency over the years some of it like we

00:07:35.460 used to have silver certificates we used to be backed by silver sometimes gold and then in the

00:07:41.700 70s we just went to what was called fiat currency where you didn't have to keep gold or silver in

00:07:48.260 the vault if any of these are still outstanding though the silver or gold for them is the

00:07:55.540 at fort knox waiting for them to be claimed if so needed have you visited fort knox i i haven't

00:08:02.420 i haven't people my staff has we're going to the treasurer's office the treasurer has been to fort

00:08:07.940 Knox. I am happy to say all gold is present and accounted for. The US has the largest pile of gold

00:08:15.420 in the world, over a trillion dollars at current market value. And we're getting more gold from

00:08:20.380 Venezuela. All right. That was the burning question. Is the gold in Fort Knox? The answer

00:08:27.780 is yes. I still didn't see any proof, but the answer is yes. So, Marcella, were you like up

00:08:34.260 at night wondering that since uh since elon was gonna check it out it feels like the gold the

00:08:40.900 fort knox is in the oval office with how golden it is you know and he in that interview he was

00:08:48.980 talking about some painting um hamilton painting i believe and he was like oh yeah president trump

00:08:54.820 liked it so he took it to the office um yeah i don't know because the way that he answered that

00:09:03.300 question it seemed like hearsay like oh the treasure visited and so therefore i believe it

00:09:12.020 you know yeah but he didn't see it with his own eyes and you know has it been accounted for audited

00:09:18.980 blah blah blah it's not the same thing you come into a room and be well there's gold like that's

00:09:25.700 is it you know is there an idea like is there an idea of how much there is there has it been

00:09:31.620 accounted for blah blah blah blah you know yeah so we want proof of life of this gold but and i

00:09:38.660 also want to see the weight of it like you know probably half of its painted gold mitch mcconnell

00:09:43.780 next to it yes with mitch next to it um and i just want to quickly say someone pointed out in the

00:09:49.060 chat that it was three years ago today that scott hit one million followers on x and he promised us

00:09:57.460 if he hit a million he could rule the world and promises made promises kept he certainly did and

00:10:03.780 maybe still does um so bj i'm going to move on to the next percent clip and then i'm going to have

00:10:10.020 you respond to that first um so this is our ongoing discussion i i'm all over mike roe these

00:10:15.940 days but this is this is interesting pertaining to work and trades and ai let's hear about this

00:10:20.900 it feels to me like 75 of the country is uneasy about ai and nervous about data centers

00:10:32.340 larry fink at blackrock says that we got a 10 trillion dollar infrastructure that has to be

00:10:38.740 built out in the next seven or eight years it's it's not really negotiable but i think a lot of

00:10:43.940 people look at that and they feel like we're doing it in the name of efficiency because we have to

00:10:48.340 somehow compete with china in order to get the ai first which means the data centers which we 0.93

00:10:53.620 don't quite understand either so we're like in some kind of crazy race and we don't know where 0.92

00:10:58.500 the finish line is we just know it's really expensive and unnerving so make everybody feel

00:11:04.900 better about that yeah i'm mercifully not an economist i'm an economic historian so the history

00:11:11.140 of new technologies people are always worried people were there were people who wouldn't get

00:11:17.220 into cars when when cars first came out you had somebody at night who walked in front with a

00:11:22.260 lantern and kind of you know did did that and people owned a horse and buggy maybe weren't happy

00:11:32.580 20 of the jobs that people had now didn't exist in 2000 so we've got to keep innovating the people

00:11:40.500 who've done it they who are building it out have done a terrible job explaining it and you know

00:11:46.980 when you use ai when you go on google yeah google's ai when you do spell check that's ai

00:11:53.860 it is just growing it's growing and it's going to be able to do more for you like the optimistic

00:11:59.940 view of ai i am very optimistic for small business on ai because it's going to let the uh it's going

00:12:06.660 to let small business compete with big business you know you could start a business that used to

00:12:12.260 take 10 people to start you can start with one or one or two people and we've seen no job loss

00:12:19.220 from ai yet i don't think we have to i talk to corporations we see uh one large credit card

00:12:27.380 company maybe we'll be able to figure it out when i when i say this they they move people from

00:12:32.020 collections to the travel department and you know ai is going to make people more more efficient

00:12:39.220 it's a tool and it is to be used just like google didn't exist in 2000 now it's a verb

00:12:48.900 all right so bj your instant take on that

00:12:55.860 you're muted

00:12:59.060 yeah sorry about that uh the first is on the fort knox thing i think that's a perfect example but

00:13:03.780 scott always talked about something that comes from hypnosis is chasing confirmation bias

00:13:09.220 uh if you already believed that there's no fort knox doesn't matter what they say we're going to

00:13:15.260 find an excuse to chase our confirmation bias like marcella what did you say well yeah but it feels

00:13:21.900 like hearsay and i'm not sure and whatever and there's nothing wrong with that that's kind of

00:13:26.240 how we are no it doesn't feel like hearsay it is hearsay in court he couldn't testify to that

00:13:31.040 that's not the point we're always going to chase what we believe is real no matter what we all do

00:13:37.700 it instinctively there's we just can't fight it that's how we're wired and so i think the people

00:13:42.720 who believed uh who believe everything about fort knox uh they have not changed their minds

00:13:48.640 and the people who think oh fort knox is is a ghost town and empty they're not going to change

00:13:53.880 their minds this is why persuasion is so important to learn and scott besant was not persuasive or

00:14:00.660 at least it was not edited in a way that made him seem persuasive where he won over people

00:14:05.900 who would be maybe open to a new idea.

00:14:09.780 And that's the skill that Scott had told so many of you guys.

00:14:13.840 In terms of the AI thing, I think it's funny.

00:14:16.320 I'm going to agree with EJ.

00:14:18.180 And what did EJ say?

00:14:19.660 He said, well, is China, where's China going to get the $10 trillion?

00:14:24.100 If America is struggling just to get the $10 trillion,

00:14:28.420 and that's what this is all about. 0.80

00:14:29.800 This is all about a race between America and China. 0.61

00:14:33.760 And I'm starting to think more and more,

00:14:35.180 somebody who uses AI all the time. I think it's amazing. It's so helpful. I'm putting it into my

00:14:41.100 to-do list and in an organizational structure. It's amazing. But I think at the same time,

00:14:48.520 all the panic. Remember Y2K, year 2000? I think we're reliving year 2000. We have a bias towards

00:14:57.140 negative, you know, to avoid risk and seek danger in the future. And sometimes we see risk and

00:15:03.160 danger where it's not there. I'm starting to lean more and more towards that side, maybe because

00:15:10.480 my bias is to be positive about AI. But I think there's a whole lot of panic going on. And I think

00:15:17.340 the panic right now is from the AI companies that have overextended the amount of credit that they

00:15:23.400 need. And they're trying to position themselves into a too big to fail scenario. Because they

00:15:30.720 really don't have a business model most of them i mean google does but open ai i think is gonna

00:15:34.980 is on the verge of crumbling that um they go to the government for a handout similar to what we

00:15:42.040 saw in the auto sector during the gfc i think that's where they're leaning well i'm proud of

00:15:47.600 all of you like grill my soul you're going to be you're going to continue to be highly skeptical

00:15:52.660 of anything your government tells me yes ma'am always always we all agree um be skeptical you

00:16:00.700 You know, yes. I mean, I think I think Marcella and BJ, somebody said correctly, we all have our own biases and our own confirmation bias.

00:16:09.260 So BJ is feeling one way about it. Marcella feels another way about it. I feel another way about it.

00:16:15.220 So that's just life. Right. So this is kind of going to be kind of a theme, I think, throughout this show.

00:16:22.040 Well, and hold on. And related to what Scott would talk about all the time, he would talk about the filters of the world.

00:16:28.220 And, you know, what you learn in hypnosis, to adopt different models of the world so you can understand people you disagree with.

00:16:35.440 I'm not saying I agree with what I'm saying.

00:16:37.520 I'm just trying to give you an argument, right?

00:16:39.500 That was the best.

00:16:40.860 Yeah.

00:16:41.480 I'm not saying I agree with what I'm saying.

00:16:44.620 Okay, so let's move along.

00:16:46.500 So anyway, just two things to think about.

00:16:50.480 But the exciting thing to me about all the AI hubbub is all of the nonstop talk about the trades.

00:16:57.120 And maybe we needed this AI boom to scare people back into the trades. And these are going to be

00:17:06.580 our new millionaires and our new entrepreneurs. It's not going to be this tech thing we've been

00:17:11.320 living in. It's going to be like, hey, I got hands. I got skills. I have a talent stack. I'm

00:17:16.380 going to work. I'm going to keep this country running. And to anyone going into the trades,

00:17:21.580 thank you so, so much. And anyone in them, I thank you so, so much. Um, so let's go trades,

00:17:27.840 make trades the new, um, popular guy in school because that's what it is. All right. So I'm

00:17:34.080 going to keep it moving. You guys, um, I wanted to follow up Marcella. We were talking about the

00:17:39.500 stop Nick Shirley act and, um, yeah, it's of course it's got some legal technical name,

00:17:46.100 but here's a Nick Shirley talking about it. So I just wanted to kind of wrap that up for

00:17:50.720 everybody from yesterday. So here's Nick Shirley, and I have two clips I'm going to play, but let's

00:17:56.380 hear the first one. You mentioned the Stop Nick Shirley Act. What is that? I mean, can you describe

00:18:03.460 that in greater detail? Yeah, so that's a bill that's been created by Mia Bonta, the wife of the

00:18:09.640 Attorney General of California, and the official title is AB 2624, and it's to make it essentially

00:18:18.120 illegal to expose and to film outside of immigration support service providers that means any

00:18:23.960 entity that provides services to illegal migrants whether that be health care or legal fees if i

00:18:30.700 were to go out and film a video in front of one of these locations perhaps an ngo like churla that

00:18:36.080 receives that's received over 80 million dollars from the government and they gave me and they give

00:18:40.280 me a piece of paper and they say hey you cannot publish that video if that uh bill passes it'll

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00:19:54.200 Wow, that's insane.

00:19:56.800 Will that pass?

00:20:00.840 Sorry.

00:20:02.060 Marcella, will that pass?

00:20:04.160 So that's law already since 1999. 1.00

00:20:07.880 What Mia Bonta was doing is adding to it. 1.00

00:20:13.920 It's been added to it.

00:20:15.700 It's called the Safe at Home Act.

00:20:19.240 And it's supposed to, as you know, the 90s were kind of, you may not know this, they were kind of an issue with Pete Wilson trying to bring the Proposition 187, which was like nothing for illegals.

00:20:36.880 And then there was the other side that were like, no, everything for, for, for illegals.

00:20:42.260 So it was created under the, in 1999, uh, for, to protect such groups, like he was saying,

00:20:50.080 Chirla and others that assist, uh, illegal immigrants from somebody creating kind of

00:20:57.360 like a, a list online where they could be attacked as attorneys or as whatever they

00:21:03.020 are you know um doctors too that do assist illegal immigrants um so i i see it as a challenge to the

00:21:13.820 first amendment to be able to speak out about it's my opinion that i want to talk about the people

00:21:23.020 that are doing this why am i not allowed to put a list online of them if they're so proud of it

00:21:29.820 why can't i just publish that so i think it needs to be challenged so what they're trying to do is

00:21:36.540 um what i think the this part of the challenge this added amendment by mia bonta was to add a

00:21:44.540 bigger fee and jail time i believe um so it was going to make it even worse for anybody that did

00:21:54.060 that so and it still hasn't gone through it's it's passed a certain stage but it hasn't gone

00:22:01.900 through fully so it was challenged by carl de mayo um and other republicans but of course you know

00:22:09.420 there's not much power there um so it's going to possibly pass however it doesn't mean it can't be

00:22:16.300 challenged yeah carl de mayo is out there he's like come on people um i i'm gonna play one other

00:22:21.820 clip from this same exchange. Where'd it go? Here it is. Let's listen to this. This is so

00:22:28.700 crazy to me, Marcela. Okay. Correct. I mean, $700 million in cash flowing out of the Minneapolis

00:22:35.120 airport back to, you know, countries in Africa. Have either of you gentlemen kind of investigated

00:22:42.300 the foreign sourcing or an organization of a lot of this fraud? I mean, we're opening it up to

00:22:46.840 foreign governments to fund their own operations. Well, yeah, it's been proven that a lot of the

00:22:51.260 money in suitcases that left Minnesota went back into the hands of people inside

00:22:55.340 Somalia and for instance in New York City where I just did expose exposing

00:23:00.560 this adult daycare fraud nobody at these daycares actually knows who the owner is

00:23:04.460 a lot of them had just been hired within the past month it's in Miami you have 0.76

00:23:10.220 the Cuban government running these DME companies that are fleecing and quite

00:23:14.360 literally looting from Medicaid a lot of foreign governments have infiltrated our 0.55

00:23:18.320 Medicaid because it's so simple and so easy

00:23:20.500 to defraud. By the way,

00:23:21.840 we know it's $700 million because government

00:23:24.280 watched it go out.

00:23:26.300 They let it go. They didn't even

00:23:28.440 put the IRS on the case.

00:23:31.060 It's truly remarkable

00:23:32.460 what we're allowing to happen here.

00:23:34.460 So again, Mr. Chairman,

00:23:35.660 I commend you like Senator Ernstead for

00:23:38.280 holding this hearing and Ashley Moody.

00:23:40.920 This is an incredibly important hearing

00:23:42.360 and it speaks volumes.

00:23:45.220 That only the ranking

00:23:46.300 members showed up to denigrate Mr. Shirley's efforts, quite honestly. That was why he showed

00:23:51.780 up. And not one of them are here talking about these hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars

00:23:57.320 worth of fraud. So none of the Democrats showed up. They didn't care to hear about the fraud.

00:24:04.300 And I wish I could give credit, but like somebody said, you know, you make a lot of money when

00:24:08.700 you're committing fraud, but when you're taking the fraud away, there's no money to be made.

00:24:13.960 So there's no incentive for these people to stop it.

00:24:17.720 So BJ, I'll come to you first on this.

00:24:19.880 I mean, it's just, this never would have been found out because it's been going on for obviously

00:24:27.260 ever.

00:24:28.580 And, but because Nick Shirley got out there, like we said, and his partner, the older gentleman

00:24:33.900 he goes around with, I forget his name, but they were on this.

00:24:36.800 So what do you think, BJ?

00:24:38.820 Yeah, this has been, you know, I've posted a few times online that 80% of politics is money laundering.

00:24:45.740 That's exactly what this is.

00:24:47.140 And it's been like this for a long time.

00:24:48.380 It's the same way in Canada.

00:24:49.820 It's the same way across the Western world.

00:24:51.680 That's why you see so many NGOs.

00:24:53.940 And they're money laundering mechanisms, sometimes for politics, for criminal activity.

00:24:59.300 But then the other side, you do have NGOs who are on the right side of things that get donations from people who are really concerned.

00:25:07.860 and really want to push back against it.

00:25:10.040 And that's how you get people, this phenomenon of people like Nick Shirley

00:25:14.240 and other people who get donations.

00:25:15.800 It's because people on the other side using the mechanisms to push back.

00:25:19.820 So it's a complicated thing to solve, like getting rid of these NGOs.

00:25:25.040 I think it's just the problem is it's been so biased towards the other direction

00:25:28.360 and so much of it has been a funnel for taking your taxpayer money

00:25:33.940 and sending them overseas.

00:25:36.160 In addition, we're not talking about the foreign aid, the 150 countries around the world that get your tax dollars in foreign aid, 150 countries.

00:25:45.880 But this is in addition to that of when they come here, they set up NGOs, they run in a local council, local office in the state legislature,

00:25:54.640 and they're able to funnel money through bills into the NGOs back to, I don't know, Somalia or some, you know, major tourist destinations like that.

00:26:04.820 It's really disgusting. I mean, how many times can we tax one dollar in this country? One dollar gets taxed like a hundred times. And then they're like, and we're going to take your tax dollars and we're just going to send them everywhere, twice, three times for the same people to benefit. It's so crazy. Marcella, anything on this just to kind of button it up for me?

00:26:26.620 no i'm glad that we're doing something about fraud but like you said it doesn't really pay

00:26:34.320 to uh prosecute it it pays to create it um it's easier to have somebody else uh work

00:26:43.480 and earn that money and then take it away from them uh so that's the problem but i think

00:26:50.720 the more we talk about this the more we have uh you know having jd vance as the frauds are and

00:26:58.420 having um individuals like nick churley which going back to that bill is important that our

00:27:04.600 journalists or anybody that any of us can talk and put and challenge government and challenge

00:27:12.520 anybody that's receiving money from government uh ngos um anybody else any contractors anything

00:27:20.840 else like that um the first amendment is like primary in being able to do this and having

00:27:28.820 somebody tell you you're not allowed to inform the rest of the public about fraud and people

00:27:36.060 you know or about fraud like where your money is going hello or just even ask questions because

00:27:42.500 Because when Nick Shirley was just doing this, he didn't prosecute for fraud.

00:27:47.660 He was just telling the guy where the if you're running a certain daycare, where are the children?

00:27:56.120 You know, it's just a question.

00:27:58.540 And if you're not doing any kind of fraud, you'd be like, oh, they're outside, you know, like, that'd be just.

00:28:04.800 They're all like, we were just hired yesterday.

00:28:06.920 I don't know who my boss is.

00:28:08.180 I don't know who I'm working for.

00:28:09.460 I'm like, yeah, OK.

00:28:11.020 There's also one more piece to this puzzle, and that is the people who do speak out and do put a magnifying glass on these issues, journalists who do it, they get law fared and they get dragged through the court system.

00:28:26.260 You know, the process is the punishment.

00:28:27.580 I've been a victim of that in Canada, as well as many other people I was involved with that we tried to draw attention to things and we got law fared.

00:28:35.920 So what has to happen, you have to get somebody like Nick Shirley, who just doesn't care,

00:28:41.580 and get support from the administration, who has his back, that if they try to put any pressure on him,

00:28:47.720 they'll put him in front of a congressional hearing, and then they'll back off.

00:28:51.860 But that's why the media lies to you, because the media is not interested in having a BS lawfare harassment suit

00:28:59.440 levied against them every day of the week, which is what's happening. 0.99

00:29:02.680 And this is largely by your friends, the Islamists who are here. 0.96

00:29:07.380 They're the ones behind so many of these lawsuits. 0.99

00:29:10.060 Well, they're benefiting with the money.

00:29:11.740 So and the power.

00:29:14.000 OK, so I'm going to move on from this.

00:29:15.860 There is going to be so much more about it because I have yet to wear my Nick Shirley Leering Center shirt here.

00:29:21.740 I keep forgetting that I want to have like Nick Shirley Day and like really get it together.

00:29:26.540 But if not, we'll just trickle them out into the school.

00:29:31.280 Okay. So I'm just going to quickly go through what was going on with Todd Blanche. So

00:29:38.620 he is currently serving as the acting attorney general. And then he had to go in front of the

00:29:44.880 Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing. And as usual, it was just these senators

00:29:51.720 that want like, oh, I want my moment. Spartacus was there, everybody. We had all the characters.

00:29:57.360 um i really like him so the problem is for them is that he was president trump's personal attorney

00:30:05.140 when he was going through you know all of these i'll just call it political uh lawsuits against

00:30:12.220 him um and so they're just like well you know can he separate it and yeah he can i mean this

00:30:17.700 guy's a professional um i don't know who asked him this question adam schiff so adam schiff was

00:30:25.180 questioning him i found this on rapid response 47 the account rapid response 47 i just i don't

00:30:31.080 know i love this guy here here he is just saying like who he is take a listen you asked me what

00:30:37.540 happened to todd blanche i am still here i am the same exact person i was when i was a federal

00:30:45.120 prosecutor in the sdmy which is do the right thing and and do everything you can to keep

00:30:50.140 communities safe. So when I was a line prosecutor, when I was a supervisor, when I was the head of a

00:30:55.560 division, my motivation and my goal was the same thing with the people who worked with me and

00:31:01.100 worked for me, which is do the right thing, enforce the laws, and put bad guys in jail.

00:31:06.960 And so you spend time talking about, I did not interrupt you, I did not interrupt you,

00:31:11.780 a little courtesy would be appropriate. So when you ask me what has changed, okay,

00:31:16.540 And you talk about a single document that I signed, okay?

00:31:19.820 And somebody had to sign that document when the president sued, okay?

00:31:23.280 So I tried to do the right thing.

00:31:26.140 What I do every single day and what the prosecutors in this country do every single day

00:31:30.040 and the nearly 100,000 indictments and informations that have been filed since January 20th

00:31:35.620 is exactly what everybody in this building should want the Department of Justice to do,

00:31:40.320 which is to make our community safer, enforce the laws, both civilly and criminally,

00:31:44.800 and always do the right thing with integrity, which is exactly what I'm doing. So I am the

00:31:49.080 same Todd Blanche I was when I was a federal prosecutor in the SDNY.

00:31:55.160 Okay. So there was that exchange. Then we move over to, um,

00:32:00.800 oh, you guys should see my notes. They're so funny. So I wrote Cory Booker and I'm like,

00:32:05.420 my notes to remind me what it is. I wrote man, child, loser. So here's the man, child, 0.99

00:32:12.740 loser clip of Spartacus. You know, Cory Booker, would you just stop this performative nonsense? 0.97

00:32:18.780 It's so exhausting. And like every adult watching you just knows what you're doing. It's really

00:32:23.820 embarrassing. Here's Cory Booker. Every appearance or dinner or speech that I give

00:32:29.560 are cleared by ethics officials. So your attendance at that dinner was cleared by

00:32:34.020 ethics officials? Everything that I do. I didn't ask you everything you do. Was your appearance

00:32:39.020 at that dinner you can ask the questions but you cannot control my answers i'm under oath and i

00:32:43.680 can answer the questions i choose to answer them were you so what i will tell you is what i do

00:32:48.080 yes or no were you approved when i do things outside of the outside of the department whether

00:32:52.840 it's a speech whether it's a dinner whether it's an event they are approved by ethics officials

00:32:58.200 you did not answer whether that attendance was approved every time i go out it's approved yes

00:33:04.740 like grow up I mean can we all act like adults and can men start acting like men 0.96

00:33:13.640 and Maisie Hirono you're so pathetic I'm not even playing your clip but 0.96

00:33:17.880 so I just I think I'm going to get through the one last clip and then we can discuss 0.99

00:33:24.000 and here's my notes for Senator Dick Durbin I wrote oh so bold also a loser so here's this

00:33:31.920 cliff you guys the notes i write myself are amazing okay let me talk to you for a moment

00:33:36.560 about the survivors who are in the room there are 10 individuals who were exploited and abused by

00:33:42.480 mr epstein they are here today none of them have had a chance to speak to anyone in the department

00:33:49.040 or fbi though they've asked repeatedly so can i get your word under oath that within the next 30

00:33:54.800 days you will personally sit down with these 10 victims and hear their case in terms of what needs

00:34:01.280 to be done by the Department of Justice. Chairman, I appreciate them being here today.

00:34:06.700 I also have somebody from my office who's spent her entire career working on cases like Mr. Epstein.

00:34:13.800 She's in charge of our task force investigating human trafficking. She's available to talk to them.

00:34:18.880 She can sit right next to you. She can sit right next to you when you meet with these survivors.

00:34:23.680 I have never said I will not meet with survivors. Will you meet with these 10 survivors? I'm asking

00:34:29.200 you on the record? If they have lawyers, as you know, I'm prohibited from meeting directly with

00:34:33.860 them. I have met with counsel for survivors, as has many people in the Department of Justice,

00:34:38.640 over 30. But if they are represented by counsel, we will work with their counsel. If they don't

00:34:43.640 have a lawyer, I will certainly make arrangements to make sure the right people at the Department

00:34:47.880 of Justice meet with them. Absolutely. Will you get it done within the next 30 days?

00:34:51.840 I will get it done today if that's necessary. My point is there's somebody here who can meet with

00:34:57.860 them today, get their information and arrange

00:34:59.840 to meet with them. Absolutely. I think you ought to be in the room.

00:35:02.080 Pardon me? I think you ought to be in the room

00:35:03.840 because you ought to hear this. You

00:35:05.540 have singular responsibility

00:35:07.540 for these files. There

00:35:09.800 is a delay in meeting the statutory

00:35:11.500 requirement of disclosure. You were involved

00:35:13.920 in that. I think you ought to be part

00:35:15.780 of this. I am definitely part

00:35:17.820 of it, and I have been from day one. And it will

00:35:19.820 be done within the next 30 days?

00:35:22.040 I can keep on

00:35:23.780 repeating myself, but I said it could get done as

00:35:25.820 soon as today. It could have gotten done

00:35:27.800 LAST WEEK, WE REMAIN AVAILABLE TO MEET WITH ANY VICTIM OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVE AT ANY TIME.

00:35:32.760 WILL YOU NOTIFY THE COMMITTEE WHEN YOU'VE DONE THIS?

00:35:37.720 THAT WOULD BE PROHIBITED BY LAW IF THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION.

00:35:41.640 I'M ASKING YOU IF YOU'LL NOTIFY THE COMMITTEE THAT YOU MET WITH THE SURVIVORS.

00:35:43.960 IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THEY SAID. I'M NOT SURE I'M ALLOWED TO NOTIFY YOU

00:35:47.720 IF THERE'S AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION.

00:35:49.320 oh my god i mean oh my god marcella it's like they're just talking to talk and to be like look

00:36:01.080 i'm doing something i'm saying you must notify like why are you giving him work to do like stop

00:36:06.400 this nonsense okay i know nothing about the law so marcella uh how's todd blanche doing

00:36:12.660 he's doing great i mean he's he's uh fighting back uh with respect but he's like they they

00:36:22.660 you know it's my understanding that a lot of these senators are attorneys but they seem to forget the

00:36:28.560 law or act as if they don't because they want to put this act on like oh epstein oh this and you

00:36:36.760 know, and it's like, what are you saying? What are you really saying? Are you really saying that

00:36:42.760 Todd Blanch somehow was involved in the Epstein matter? Like the way that he's kind of dancing

00:36:51.540 around with everything, but he's doing great. I, again, it's the Republicans in the Senate,

00:36:58.340 they have to stick together. Like the Democrats, regardless of what you say about them,

00:37:03.140 they stick together and uh that's what he needs he needs the votes he just needs a simple majority

00:37:11.260 in order to get confirmed as attorney general and if president trump thinks that he will serve

00:37:17.980 as attorney general and he's the best there is then that that's who he chooses you know

00:37:26.180 and so one of the problems i guess is john cornyn who is losing his seat because ken paxton won

00:37:33.000 so he's gonna be like oh all the attention's on me i'm gonna be the deciding vote um but you're

00:37:40.100 right we have to stick together like can we stop playing games everyone's on a power trip okay bj

00:37:46.400 what say you yeah i think it's um it's very frustrating that the radical left loves to use

00:37:52.740 this strategy all the time of uh hurling accusations but disguising it as a question

00:37:58.580 that's why i say oh yes or no or something that's kind of like if that's if there's more

00:38:02.360 complexity to it and uh so that's very frustrating the other thing is this is never going to change

00:38:09.320 how they are because on the left they are collectivists in the modern left i'm not

00:38:13.900 talking about like liberals but like the crazy people they're collectivists and that's why

00:38:18.280 they're socialists whereas on the right side of the political spectrum we form alliances based 0.60

00:38:24.480 on consensus. So that's why we will argue points, and we may agree on 80%, but we'll disagree on a

00:38:31.120 bunch of stuff, because as Scott always talked about, it's bottoms up versus top down because

00:38:36.880 of that structure. So you have the collectivist structure that's always going to fall in line

00:38:41.260 because it's top down versus conservatives who are more consensus-based, and it's always,

00:38:47.440 well, show me that I need to support you. I'm not just going to blindly support you.

00:38:51.760 and that's just how it's going to be for another couple of generations i think i fear i agree um

00:38:58.800 okay so this next portion is going to trigger people no i mean i can't help it it's just

00:39:05.780 it is what it is you're going to get triggered one way or the other get their amygdala ready

00:39:10.480 and if you can remain neutral then good for you we will bond together okay so there was a um

00:39:19.860 here, I put it in a little note for you. So the house voted. Okay. So listen, okay. Listen to the

00:39:26.620 details. Okay. The house voted on an amendment that would have ended $3.3 billion in military

00:39:35.420 aid to Israel. It failed, but more than a hundred Democrats voted in favor of ending the aid.

00:39:43.920 the vote exposed a major ideology idea uh yeah divide inside the democrat party so what their

00:39:53.060 so the vote was like okay we want to stop sending 3.3 billion dollars of aid to israel

00:39:59.200 um and so it was exposed i guess people like nancy pelosi you know she voted in favor of

00:40:06.120 ending the aid to israel which is you know put a lot of uh jewish democrats are surprised right

00:40:12.220 Um, and then here's just a couple of quick bullet points on it. Okay. So the amendment failed more than a hundred Democrats supported cutting military aid. Democrat leadership was divided. Republicans largely remained united against the amendment. Um, and so wait, there was one other thing I wanted to tell you about that because, okay, so it goes a little deeper.

00:40:38.300 Okay. This is where I wanted to dig in a little bit about what these, um, amendments were. So it

00:40:43.700 was about section two 19, which was previously section two 24 Marcella, you proud of me? I dug

00:40:50.120 this up. So here, here is what the divide is about. And the reason why I want to read this

00:40:55.500 is because I can understand not wanting it to pass and it does not make you antisemitic. Okay.

00:41:04.060 It like these two things can be true, like passing it and not passing it doesn't mean I hate Jewish people.

00:41:10.740 I don't hate Jewish people. Here's what the amendments are.

00:41:13.720 OK, so Section 219. So this creates a U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation initiative.

00:41:23.720 So what this does is it directs the secretary of defense to appoint an executive agent to expand and formalize joint research,

00:41:32.780 development, testing, integration, and co-production of defense technologies between

00:41:38.440 the U.S. and Israel. The key focus areas include AI, autonomous systems, cyber electronic warfare,

00:41:46.540 quantum computing, counter drone tech, and missile defense. The goal is deeper embedding of Israel 0.93

00:41:52.940 or Israeli origin technologies into the U.S. military system supply chains. Okay. And then

00:41:59.020 And the other one is Section 622.

00:42:02.920 That's titled United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.

00:42:07.680 I'm not going to lie. This freaks me out.

00:42:10.020 This section amends the National Security Act to require the president,

00:42:15.000 via the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense as needed,

00:42:20.420 to expand and enhance intelligence sharing with Israel.

00:42:24.760 It makes it harder for any future administration to reduce or limit that sharing

00:42:28.860 by requiring specific national security justifications, for example, protecting sources,

00:42:35.440 methods, or counterintelligence risks, and it prompts congressional reporting. So

00:42:41.560 both sections aim to institutionalize closer to a U.S.-Israel military intelligence ties,

00:42:49.680 shielding them from future policy shifts. They remain under debate and have drawn criticism

00:42:54.720 over sovereignty and leverage concerns. So that was from Grok. I'm going to play you two opposing

00:43:01.100 clips, and then we're going to talk about it. I mean, he's a lunatic. This person voted against 0.99

00:43:08.740 the Save America Act. We're going to talk about all this. So just keep in mind what the amendment

00:43:13.760 is. Okay, guys, here we go. I think the exciting thing is every Republican except our one anti-Semite

00:43:18.760 voted against it. So the Republican Party made clear that we stand with that relationship with

00:43:23.560 Israel, but a majority of Democrats would not vote to support Israel, including, by the way,

00:43:28.480 my understanding is Nancy Pelosi voted to kill funding to Israel. I mean, the Democratic Party

00:43:33.520 is a Jew-hating party, and I think we have to accept that now. Okay, so I didn't like that last

00:43:38.680 comment because I don't agree. I mean, there are some Jew-hating Democrats and Republicans and

00:43:45.220 whatever, and I'm not saying that Massey's won. I'm not saying Pelosi's won. I think there's

00:43:50.340 nuance. And I think nuance is so important. Okay, now here's Thomas Massey. I think what's even more

00:43:56.760 concerning is in the NDAA section 219, which is going to start commingling our military supply

00:44:04.380 chains and technology with Israel's. It doesn't make sense to do that with a country of 10 million 0.67

00:44:09.100 people. But they've got that in the NDAA. I'm told that's not coming up this week, but we know it's

00:44:16.120 going to come up sometime, probably sometime soon. And so I've offered an

00:44:20.100 amendment to strip section 219. It was called section 224 from that bill. And

00:44:25.520 it's you've had success in the past with discharge petitions to push, you

00:44:30.300 know, legislation that leadership wasn't necessarily aligned with. Do you see

00:44:34.360 that in the case of Israel of these of these measures regarding Israel? Well,

00:44:39.880 they're going to give me a vote so we don't have to do the discharge petition

00:44:42.800 on the defunding in the State Department. As far as Section 219, I mean, that is a place where you

00:44:48.080 could use a discharge petition, but you've got to know that you're going to get 218 signatures,

00:44:52.700 and that's rather difficult right now. We'll see how the defund vote goes.

00:44:58.440 Okay, so with the little bit that I know, I'll just tell you where I stand, and then I'm going

00:45:04.300 to go to BJ first and then Marcella. So for me, I agree with like funding Israel, like if they 0.91

00:45:13.320 need funding, I get nervous with this intelligence sharing because this is my opinion. I feel like

00:45:20.040 we're too tied in with Israel, with this Iran war and with the Gaza thing, like we can't separate.

00:45:25.900 We can't accomplish what we want to accomplish because we have two leaders of two different

00:45:32.760 countries with two different goals so it's like how do you split the baby i don't know

00:45:39.800 so i'm not anti-semitic i can't believe i just said that for your benefit but i'm not

00:45:45.000 um i just i just don't think i like tying our intelligence and everything together like if

00:45:50.920 we want to share something here or there share it but let's not make it like a thing um so bj

00:45:57.560 I'm going to come to you first on this. Yeah, I get increasingly frustrated talking about this

00:46:05.000 issue with Americans. I feel like they're going to have to shit or get off the pot. They want to 1.00

00:46:11.120 fight Islamic terrorism or not, because they're in the United States now. And, you know, there's 0.96

00:46:17.520 this quote I grabbed from the Secretary of State Alexander Haig under Reagan. And this is how he

00:46:23.180 described it. He said, Israel's the largest, most battle-tested and cost-effective U.S. aircraft

00:46:28.640 carrier that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one U.S. soldier, and is located in the most

00:46:35.980 critical region for U.S. national security. And, you know, there's something else that America,

00:46:41.400 this is why, okay, there's a reason the Jews get crazy, and I can explain why. Israelis have 1.00

00:46:47.860 conscription. So they have the draft that Americans are always paranoid about. They

00:46:53.800 actually have it. And every Israeli, irrespective of your political ideas or

00:46:59.900 opinions, has to serve in the military for three years, as you see many of them

00:47:04.840 get killed, like in Gaza, whether they like it or not, to serve Israeli and

00:47:11.160 American interests. I can't understand how Americans cannot figure it out. 0.61

00:47:17.860 I hear people, oh, no more wars for Israel.

00:47:20.460 Well, excuse me, Israeli soldiers are the ones who die. 0.81

00:47:23.660 That's their strategic advantage for Americans and American politicians, 0.83

00:47:29.480 is they have a conscripted army that is fighting Islamic terrorism in the region. 0.72

00:47:35.080 They don't have to go in.

00:47:36.260 And their relationship is very similar to Korea and Japan.

00:47:40.980 Korea has, I think it's 72 American military bases on it,

00:47:46.600 And Japan has 86 US military bases there. Israel has zero because they have their own military who can do the fighting for the West. That's why in the 80s they knocked out Saddam Hussein's, was it Saddam Hussein? No, sorry, it was Syria was developing nuclear weapons in the 80s. Israel knocked it out for the West and for the world and got condemned for it.

00:48:09.740 they keep doing this over and over again that is the american or the western world's subcontractor 0.98

00:48:16.760 that is fighting the battle kinetically with the very islamic terrorists who are getting involved 0.67

00:48:23.300 in u.s politics and trying to destroy america from within and this is why mamdani doesn't shut 0.64

00:48:29.200 the hell up about israel he's muslim brotherhood that is why and by the way the russians support it 0.61

00:48:35.740 And they're the ones who are doing the brainwashing online through the Duganists and the Integralists to get people to turn against Americans' own interests because that's just opportunistic for Russia to have a weakened America. 0.95

00:48:51.380 Why? Because it's all about China. 0.70

00:48:53.900 Trump has tried to tell people many, many times, I wish you'd articulate it better, this is all about IMAC and the Abraham Accords. 0.86

00:49:02.940 And China understands the strategy of IMEC and that it will make China basically, I wouldn't say completely irrelevant, but it will destroy their economy.

00:49:13.800 So already got a hold of Iran's oil, Trump's got a hold of Venezuela's oil, and they're building the opposition to the Belt and Road Initiative that we've all been screaming about for 15 years. 0.61

00:49:28.440 and they're doing it through IMEC, which is what the Abraham Accords are. 0.87

00:49:33.000 And that is why Hamas attacked Israel to destabilize the region

00:49:37.340 and stop the Abraham Accords attack.

00:49:39.640 Has anybody ever thought why was China co-funding the tunnels from Gaza into Israel?

00:49:47.480 Why would China be paying for that?

00:49:49.260 What's the interest of China? 0.78

00:49:51.000 Oh, they want to destabilize it and get everybody fighting in America and outside of America

00:49:55.940 because it's a threat to the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:49:59.000 That's what this is all about.

00:50:00.900 And the fix, you know, Scott always talked about this.

00:50:03.560 What do people care about?

00:50:05.080 They care about what they hear most frequently

00:50:07.100 through repetition. 1.00

00:50:08.600 This is why the Islamists and the CCP 0.57

00:50:11.280 and the Russian bots, everybody who's in media, 0.74

00:50:14.460 keep saying Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, 0.79

00:50:16.860 Israel genocide, Israel genocide, Israel genocide.

00:50:19.060 They're trying to create a painted word

00:50:21.320 so people will react on the right

00:50:24.140 the way the left reacts to the word Trump. They hear the word Trump, it spikes their amygdala,

00:50:30.060 they go crazy. This is why Tucker says Israel genocide, Israel genocide, Israel genocide, 0.85

00:50:34.900 to create a painted word amongst conservatives. Luckily, I think it's not working. But America

00:50:42.240 needs to decide, do you want to end this Islamic terrorism problem or not? That is why they're so 1.00

00:50:48.740 focused on Iran, because that is such a major piece of this puzzle. And the last point, I'll

00:50:53.800 be quiet about this. The war in Yemen. It's amazing. Russell Brand, I was going to talk

00:51:00.440 about it when it was on his show, but he kept going off and on about the war in Yemen, the war

00:51:05.780 in Yemen. Who was fighting in the war in Yemen? He never talks about that. That was Saudi Arabia

00:51:11.340 and Iran.

00:51:14.380 It's not Israel's war.

00:51:16.620 It's Saudi Arabia's war. 0.85

00:51:19.360 They want to weaken Iran

00:51:21.240 as well as all these Gulf countries 0.96

00:51:24.320 because they want IMEC

00:51:26.260 because they want to build a real economy

00:51:28.980 based on trade.

00:51:31.000 And China wants to do everything they can

00:51:32.920 to stop that.

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00:52:15.120 visit shell.ca slash loyalty for full details okay um i told you it could be triggering for

00:52:23.660 people today i'm not upset it's not you i'm just saying in general because like for i am i am a

00:52:29.640 very nuanced driven person it's all about the details for me and i can you know i just see

00:52:36.160 all sides of this. Like I can even see where Tucker's coming from on certain things. I can

00:52:40.240 see where you're coming from. I can see where my friend Siggy Flicker is coming from, who's a good

00:52:45.840 friend of President Trump. I get it. Like I get everybody's got their point of view, like their

00:52:52.700 interest. I'm looking at the chat, like some people are like, well, Israel's interests and

00:52:58.020 our interests aren't the same, like, you know, whatever. But, you know, Rob, don't say stay away

00:53:04.000 from my take. I mean, that's not useful. There's probably a lot of people that feel like I feel

00:53:08.600 like they don't have a dog in the fight as far as like an emotional triggering type of thing.

00:53:13.800 We all can think whatever we want, Rob. So I want to come to Marcella and, you know,

00:53:22.660 and I hope it was helpful for me to read those, those two explanations of what the amending was,

00:53:28.760 because like, I, I'm kind of just like, I'm okay with the funding. I don't know. It seems like a

00:53:35.020 lot of money, but, but I mean, I understand funding and the iron dome and I'm all for it,

00:53:38.680 but I'm like weird about joining together with someone with intelligence. I think we have to

00:53:44.980 remain a country that can pick and choose what we want to do. Okay. Marcella.

00:53:52.180 What, what I don't see in, in the clips you had, I don't know the first man that I'm sorry,

00:53:57.920 I didn't know Randy Vaughn. Oh, I don't know him. But what I was going to say is, what's the best interest for the US? You know, so that doesn't seem to play. It seems BJ's right in regards to what is playing in their head from what they're saying is, oh, Israel genocide, so we must vote against it.

00:54:20.580 or uh the other side is america first we can't you know we must be sort of isolationist we must not

00:54:28.980 work with israel so these these things are playing in their brains from what it seems

00:54:33.860 i'm mind reading right now but what the question that's not being asked is what's is this in the

00:54:40.900 best interest of america you know and like bj said if you believe islamist terrorists or just

00:54:48.580 islamists in general is a huge enemy and so is china then you're going to have to work with

00:54:57.220 israel maybe not in this fashion but you're gonna have to do some kind of work together with israel

00:55:05.860 so my issue about this erica is that they're not voting against it because of your reasons

00:55:12.660 they're voting against it because they don't want to fund israel at all you know so that's the

00:55:20.340 so let's just say if we don't have uh intelligence gathering or forced intelligence gathering as you

00:55:28.180 read where other administrations have to have it and they can't uh it's intertwined as you read

00:55:35.700 what if we take that off the bill would they still vote for funding the other things yeah so

00:55:42.020 i don't know i don't know what's in their minds you know when they're voting i really don't

00:55:45.780 from yeah i just i just want to be careful of labeling people you guys okay because i don't

00:55:52.660 know i don't know who's anti-semitic and who's not i hear a lot of people calling people anti-semitic

00:55:59.380 i've seen people that i know that are in the public domain being called anti-semitic that

00:56:05.540 are not anti-semitic but they said something someone didn't like and i'm like this is so

00:56:09.860 So it's gotten to such a gross point like everything else that it makes it impossible for people to take a breath and have some nuance and understand all positions because everyone's, again, so dug in on something.

00:56:23.760 And I'm like, everyone's got to just calm down a little bit.

00:56:27.100 It doesn't help to call everybody anti-Semitic.

00:56:29.760 It makes people pissed off.

00:56:31.280 It's like when you call someone a Nazi or a racist, it pisses people off.

00:56:35.420 so you know it's like let's stop with the name calling and like talk about the issues and yeah 0.99

00:56:40.300 you know what we are america and i you know what i'd love to see islam getting the fuck out of my 0.99

00:56:46.120 fucking country how about that okay so show me what's happening here and show me that somehow 1.00

00:56:52.060 israel is helping me with that i'm like let's go so but i want them out so i think that in the 0.99

00:56:58.440 nuance of how they're voting and i don't have to mind read this they are saying it is that the

00:57:03.900 Democrats are voting against it, not because of the reasons you're indicating, not because of

00:57:08.520 Thomas Massey's reasons. They're voting against it because they would vote against any Israel 0.84

00:57:15.000 funding because they become the part of Palestine. They're starting to become Islamist. And that's 0.98

00:57:22.700 what BJ is indicating. So I understand Thomas Massey's issues with it, but they have to kind

00:57:29.740 of maybe change the bill maybe make a different uh go back to the drawing board but israel has

00:57:36.460 always been a u.s ally um yes who is important in fighting islamic terrorism so a hundred percent

00:57:48.300 and they're like a sitting duck over there and i have compassion for them i really do and i also 0.58

00:57:53.820 think that bb should step down and let them have an election um let them vote for their president

00:58:00.300 i feel like him and zelensky are just avoiding whatever uh so you know make make me feel better

00:58:09.000 make me feel better about us being intertwined with them let the israeli people vote for their

00:58:14.300 president let ukraine vote for their president um or prime minister i don't know i just think

00:58:19.820 I think sometimes we keep things going just because maybe Zelensky is afraid of what will

00:58:26.100 happen if he steps down. He loses money, he loses power. I know there's an issue for

00:58:30.900 Bibi. And listen, I think Bibi has done a lot of great things. He's been around a long time.

00:58:36.320 Again, he's not my prime minister, so I don't really care. But I just think,

00:58:40.580 I feel like I'm looking at the whole picture. And I want Israel and the Israeli people to be safe.

00:58:47.040 I think it's a very important piece of the world and everybody deserves, you know, and you want

00:58:55.340 them to live free and safely. I want that for them. I'm going to go just a two seconds over.

00:59:01.700 If anyone has to go, you can go. But this, I just, in doing my research for today's show,

00:59:06.740 and thanks for allowing me to be spicy, you guys, I just feel a certain way about

00:59:10.880 people shutting down nuance or whatever. And I really don't like people calling people names

00:59:18.520 and just accusing people of being anti-Semitic. It just makes me sick. So I found this clip. This

00:59:25.180 is Anne, I hope I'm not saying her name wrong, Whittacombe. She died this month and she was a

00:59:31.580 British politician. She was an author, TV personality, famous for her forthright,

00:59:36.960 no-nonsense style and strong social conservatism. Anyway, I found a clip of her speaking and she's

00:59:46.120 talking about free speech. And I would like to end with this clip. If you guys don't mind,

00:59:50.340 let's take a listen. Now, only two sorts of people oppose free speech. And they are at

00:59:59.200 opposite ends of the scale. Snowflakes and totalitarians. Nobody has the right to live

01:00:08.140 their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings. It

01:00:16.460 is an occupational hazard of living in society. And if you really can't take it, become a 1.00

01:00:24.140 Hermit. But more seriously, on the opposite end from the snowflakes, poor little darlings,

01:00:31.420 on the opposite end from them are the totalitarians. Totalitarians like to curtail 0.92

01:00:40.780 your right to disagree with state orthodoxy. Now for state orthodoxy, substitute the words

01:00:50.640 social orthodoxy, as exemplified by social media, Twitter, and other such places, where people

01:01:00.800 decide what is and what is not acceptable. It is absolutely right that we should allow people,

01:01:09.260 no matter how profoundly we disagree with them, I hate to utter clichés in this august debating

01:01:14.620 Hall, but I am going to utter one, that no matter how much we may disagree with somebody,

01:01:20.400 we should defend to the hilt their right to say it. And that is something that I have believed

01:01:28.040 all my life, that you succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away.

01:01:36.280 you get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said not to hear the other arguments

01:01:46.400 and just remember this you may feel virtuous today in what you will not hear but tomorrow

01:01:54.340 somebody may feel virtuous in not hearing what you have to say free speeches for all

01:02:02.120 not for the privileged few

01:02:06.280 god bless so she was murdered you guys in her home and they believe you know

01:02:17.480 again like you know you have a big strong voice and sometimes they just want to shut you up

01:02:23.040 so uh rest in peace to ann i hope they find out who did this to her it's such an excellent

01:02:29.300 um talk that i just thought would be great to end with today and only took us a minute over

01:02:35.220 So, Marcella and BJ, I love the spirited conversations.

01:02:38.960 I really do.

01:02:39.900 We all are passionate about things that we feel and believe, and I think it's great to

01:02:45.760 have exposure to all different points of view.

01:02:48.880 So, thank you for that today.

01:02:50.080 And if I could just add one comment to what we just watched, as Jordan Peterson would

01:02:54.280 infer, as you've seen many of his talks, the snowflakes are the authoritarians when they

01:02:59.960 get institutional power.

01:03:02.040 100% accurate.

01:03:04.620 Oh, you guys. All right. So thank you, Marcella. Thank you, BJ. That was a fun show today. I always

01:03:11.220 try to warn there could be cursing. And if I feel it, it comes out. I'm sorry. But okay. So let's

01:03:16.960 say thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing this show to go on. I miss them both so, so much.

01:03:23.820 I'm not going to get emotional. And let's be useful today, you guys. I am going to play

01:03:30.000 Akira's song after so if anyone

01:03:32.000 wants to stick around if not no worries

01:03:34.140 but the home team

01:03:35.420 and what's the big secret in Joel Pollack's book

01:03:38.140 I know

01:03:38.980 I know

01:03:40.820 don't blow the

01:03:44.140 whistle

01:03:44.400 I'm a vault okay you guys so let's

01:03:48.100 get out there and be useful today have a

01:03:50.120 great day the home team will be back tomorrow

01:03:52.300 and I put basket

01:03:54.080 case back in the playlist

01:03:55.920 so we'll do that for Jim Courtney in Alaska

01:03:57.820 I don't know if he's here, but Jim Courtney's coming at you.

01:04:00.280 Thank you, you guys.

01:04:01.060 To Scott.

01:04:05.800 Here we go.

01:04:15.060 Everybody is someone else's weirdo. 0.66

01:04:19.860 Everybody is someone else's weirdo. 0.86

01:04:23.680 Everybody is someone else's weirdo

01:04:28.500 Everybody

01:04:29.980 Do you ever feel to yourself?

01:04:34.200 Man, I am so weird

01:04:35.480 If anybody found out how weird I am, I'd be in trouble

01:04:39.900 Cause man, I'm so weird

01:04:42.800 Well, I would like to introduce to you

01:04:45.160 The Basket Case Theory

01:04:47.520 Something I developed when I was a young man

01:04:50.060 To explain what I was witnessing

01:04:52.320 It goes like this. If you meet a stranger, it could be somebody you want to date or just somebody you work with. Maybe just a friend. When you meet them, don't they seem pretty complete? Have their act together pretty well? Man, that stranger. I wish I could be like that stranger because that stranger doesn't have anything weird about them. They've got their act together and on the inside, pretty confident and pretty capable.

01:05:20.320 And then time goes by

01:05:24.200 And you learn more about your date

01:05:27.940 Or your friend or your co-worker

01:05:29.800 And suddenly there's a flaw

01:05:33.280 Oh, I didn't see that on day one

01:05:35.760 But there does seem to be a flaw

01:05:38.100 Maybe a little weirdness

01:05:40.080 Day ten, looks like there's more than one flaw

01:05:43.480 Two years later, well, I guess everybody's all done

01:05:47.240 That's the best case theory

01:05:52.040 Everybody looks good until you get to know them

01:05:59.080 Once you get to know a human being, they're always bad 0.99

01:06:03.760 Well, I guess everybody's fucked up 0.99

01:06:06.500 That's the best case theory 0.99

01:06:11.260 Everybody looks good until you get to know them

01:06:18.300 Once you get to know a human being, there are always baskets

01:06:23.100 Always

01:06:24.960 Just different kinds of baskets 1.00

01:06:28.060 As soon as you realize that every fucking person is a basket case 1.00

01:06:35.120 You're free 1.00

01:06:36.720 You're free

01:06:39.240 What is it that bothers you more than anything as long as you're healthy and you have a job?

01:06:52.820 What bothers you more than anything is what people think of you, or what you think they think of you, or what they might think of you, or how they would treat you if you did this embarrassing thing.

01:07:09.240 You're not better than me

01:07:14.000 That's your case theory

01:07:16.080 You're not better than me

01:07:18.940 They're just people you don't know that well

01:07:21.160 That's it

01:07:22.740 There's nothing else to the story

01:07:25.800 You just don't know them that well

01:07:28.140 If he did

01:07:32.560 You wouldn't be impressed

01:07:34.960 Everybody's welcome

01:07:37.540 That's the best in case theory

01:07:42.420 Everybody looks good until you get to know them

01:07:49.480 Once you get to know a human being, they're always bad 0.99

01:07:54.160 Well, I guess everybody's fucked up 0.99

01:07:56.900 That's the best in case theory 0.99

01:08:01.680 Everybody looks good

01:08:06.720 Until you get to go

01:08:08.460 Once you get to know a human being

01:08:12.180 They're always bad

01:08:13.380 I really want to

01:08:18.920 I really want to

01:08:23.800 I really want to

01:08:28.540 I think I'm going to listen to more Akira today. I'm having a moment, you guys. I love you guys

01:08:54.940 so much thank you for the thank you for you know allowing spicy subjects right and like annie said

01:09:01.820 you got to put it out there you gotta you gotta talk about things and um just always remember

01:09:07.820 there's nuance okay i i mean i sometimes i do it too where you know actually let me say goodbye to

01:09:14.460 youtube like i don't want to get all nutty on the uh interwebs here let me say goodbye to youtube

01:09:19.820 I'll see you guys tomorrow and X and, um, I'll hang out with locals for a minute and rumble.

01:09:26.280 Um, love you guys. YouTube. Love you X. See you tomorrow.

01:09:34.520 You guys, you're so sweet. Thank you. Oh, thanks SJV. So I love you guys so much. Um,

01:09:42.680 you'll buy me boardwalk pizza. I'll take it. Uh, so you guys, you know, just if we don't talk

01:09:48.720 about things and put things out there. You know, it's like, sometimes people are afraid to speak

01:09:54.380 up and sometimes I don't mind speaking up. And like, if I can start a conversation that maybe

01:09:59.680 someone else feels like they can't start or like they want to say something and they can't, I'm

01:10:04.580 fine with that. Like, I'll say the thing. Um, but there is nuance and I, I want to, you know,

01:10:10.880 I'm going to do a good job too. I'm going to really work on not jumping to conclusions or

01:10:16.040 labeling people you know calling people names or assigning some terrible thing to them i mean i

01:10:23.800 remember when when trump first was running in 2015 and everyone was like he's a racist and you're a

01:10:32.840 racist if you vote for him and i was like oh my god like when i you know my entire life up until

01:10:38.360 that moment you never called somebody racist that's just like just something you don't do that's

01:10:43.320 that's like a horrible thing to accuse somebody of. And like, look at where we are now. We're

01:10:48.260 like, you're an anti-Semite. You're a Nazi. You're a, it's like, wow, we, we are really devolving. 1.00

01:10:55.220 Um, I don't know. Uh, so I just want to, something's wrong with my sign. I know,

01:11:00.200 you know what it is. It's my ceiling fan is on and the light for my ceiling fan.

01:11:05.040 So if I have my fan off, you won't see that. The sign is actually, it's just too hot. So anyway,

01:11:11.180 oh you're so sweet marianne i um i want i want us to try to you know become more civilized in this

01:11:19.840 country so you know i just figure when i knew bj was going to be on and i know he has a very strong

01:11:27.420 opinion on these things i have a strong opinion on some of it but not all of it and like i know

01:11:33.780 people get crazy like what do you mean you don't have a dog in a fight and israel's our ally i'm

01:11:38.000 like, yes, all of that's true. Like, yes, but I'm not like tied to this issue, you know, with like

01:11:45.020 great emotion. So I feel like I just, um, I'm looking at it from a calmer stance and I look

01:11:52.880 at it more from like an American standpoint. And I think a lot of people do. So I don't want to be

01:11:58.820 dug into anything. I just kind of want to look around, see what's happening. I love, I love when

01:12:04.180 guys post all your pictures too i see them during the show and the dog pictures and all that

01:12:09.860 yeah bj bj has a definite perspective and i was like this is going to be great so he's going to

01:12:14.820 be on i'm going to make sure i do this today and it was relevant so um yeah oh mount rushmore we'll

01:12:23.620 have lunch together listen if i ever am going out that way i will tell you thanks sandville i and i

01:12:30.180 know like i saw your comments i know a lot of you were like yes bj go go go i get that too like you

01:12:36.100 know because we've become like this like team sports of politics so um uh yeah i i i mean thank

01:12:46.980 god for the iron dome you guys holy cow but i have questions i have questions oh look at the babies

01:12:56.100 I love them. BJ's great. BJ's great. He's so fun to have on the show. Yes, Sean, I heard you have

01:13:04.920 the smoke in Chicago. EJ, who knew that you and BJ would become besties? I love that. Thanks,

01:13:16.980 BD Lion. You guys are the best, honestly. I always feel at ease with the locals. You guys

01:13:26.040 you're like, comforting. And Rob, simmer down, Rob. All right, you guys. So I'm going to get

01:13:34.720 going. I think it's the home team tomorrow. No, Sean. Oh, I don't know. Sean has a boat. Sean,

01:13:42.600 do you have a boat? Kimblee, love you, girlfriend. EJ and BJ sitting in a tree.

01:13:47.720 uh yeah i i get it jim wyman i get i understand their struggle and i sympathize i'm an american

01:13:59.880 i'm here i sympathize with them i sympathize with anyone living near hostile people that want peace

01:14:08.260 i really do um let me see and i won't be traveling to the middle east either because of such problems

01:14:16.180 Um, all right, you guys. Oh my gosh, Mary Ann, look at the baby. You borrow a boat.

01:14:25.520 Heard moat boat, something BJ love you. Uh, let's see. Yes. BJ has a podcast. He has a live stream.

01:14:37.480 BJ drop your, um, drop your info for BD lion. He's going to post it right now. You guys,

01:14:43.080 he's on Locals and he's on X. He'll post it. I know he's, I was like BJ, he's the man just

01:14:53.380 jumping right in with us. So hopefully Owen will be back tomorrow. He's been so busy with work,

01:15:00.400 Lord. Rob, um, apology accepted. Apology accepted. You're welcome for the song.

01:15:09.020 his name is Prince. Oh, did BJ post this thing yet? If he didn't, BJ, let's see. Hey, Kimaholik.

01:15:27.140 Let's see. Let's see. Busy with work. CIA target memos. 0.94

01:15:34.460 I know we love Owen.

01:15:39.020 Yeah, go to, go to locals. If you guys want to subscribe to BJ's locals, he's on there. And

01:15:44.460 thank you to everyone who subscribes to my locals, my personal locals. I, you know, I know you guys

01:15:50.280 know I'm obviously so busy, um, especially with this show. Um, and I just feel like you're

01:15:56.780 supporting me over there by subscribing, which is so sweet. And I thank you. And I, I will come on.

01:16:02.320 Um, but it means a lot to me. That's so nice. Anytime Erica is trying very hard and it's

01:16:08.520 wonderful. Yeah. Aw. Yes. And you do. You do. BJ, can you drop your, unless I missed it,

01:16:18.120 can you drop where people can find you? It's honking for freedom is what I think

01:16:22.240 everything is. So honking for freedom. Okay, guys. All right. So I'm going to get going,

01:16:28.260 you guys. I'm not going out today because again, I'm living in the yellow planet like so many of 1.00

01:16:33.360 people with the smoke. So you guys be careful today if you can smell it. They said it's

01:16:39.700 dangerous. So be careful. All right, Bart, mid-side. Ooh, lunch. Let's go. All right,

01:16:47.400 guys. Love you. Oh my gosh. I love you guys. Oh, thank you, Montreal Galaxy. That's so sweet.

01:17:00.160 Bye, guys.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 16, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 07⧸16⧸26 BJ Dichter Joins Erica and Marcela today

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