Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 14, 2026


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00:00:30.000 Good morning everybody. Good morning. Guten Morgen. Guten Morgen. Look at Owen.
00:00:37.860 Marcella and I, we have our Amish outfits. Coincidentally, both of them are at the dry
00:00:43.120 cleaner, so we couldn't get dressed for you guys today. This is my Amish outfit. I'm just like,
00:00:48.940 I'm one of those radical Amish. I'll each be getting five lashes later. 0.82
00:00:54.660 wait that's exactly why i do it i'm just kidding oh my god help me lord jesus happy friday
00:01:05.260 okay happy friday why is this talking good morning englishers are talking right okay so
00:01:14.540 here we are regrouping august 14th 2026 in the year of our lord and uh it's friday as we like
00:01:25.080 to call it friday and uh owen's got some great stories for us today i have some interesting
00:01:33.180 little tidbits for you today and marcella is gonna commentary her little heart out for us today
00:01:39.100 We do have stories that are funny, too.
00:01:41.600 Yeah.
00:01:42.520 We've got it all.
00:01:44.120 But, Marcella, I can't do anything.
00:01:46.300 Owen can't do a thing until we do this thing.
00:01:49.960 And all you need to get it off to the right start is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chelsea, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:58.320 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:02:00.360 I like coffee.
00:02:01.780 And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.
00:02:05.420 The thing that makes everything better.
00:02:07.760 It's called The Simultaneous Sip, and it happens right now.
00:02:11.440 Go.
00:02:15.720 Oh, I felt like he was going to say something like, sublime.
00:02:26.000 So you guys, welcome.
00:02:27.980 I needed that sip of coffee, and I hope you guys are all doing well.
00:02:32.260 You're at the Scott Adams school and I am Erica joined by my amazing co-host
00:02:38.740 Marcella and Amish today, Owen.
00:02:41.840 And I hope you enjoyed the cover photo, the thumbnail today.
00:02:46.160 Kevin Summers made it for us.
00:02:48.220 He went off of Marcella's wanting to be Irish Amish vibe.
00:02:52.340 And so here we are.
00:02:53.420 Irish Amish.
00:02:54.420 Irish Amish.
00:02:55.480 Sure.
00:02:56.020 Yeah.
00:02:56.940 That's true.
00:02:57.860 The little Latin flair. 0.88
00:02:59.800 Let's go.
00:03:00.220 so all right i didn't know where i wanted to start today i had something that's kind of like
00:03:08.140 sad and tugs at your heart that i wanted to play yesterday but i didn't have time
00:03:12.160 and i don't know should i start with something that tugs at your heart and then we can move
00:03:16.300 into something a little more light-hearted what do you think i need my co-host to decide
00:03:22.160 so what a little more lighthearted at first i think all right then we have to go right to jake
00:03:31.500 tapper oh i didn't know that was lighthearted but okay oh my jake tapper oh jake tapper you
00:03:39.640 poor little baby so here's what happened and listen to his voice when you're hearing this
00:03:46.560 poor thing even if you thought the whole issue of donald trump's name on the kennedy center you
00:03:52.760 thought that issue was gone well think again sources say the kennedy center board of course
00:03:58.100 handpicked by trump voted to get his name on the building in a different way they're going to add
00:04:03.740 an inscription below the kennedy center sign says john f kennedy center for the performing arts and
00:04:10.100 underneath it will say restored and renovated by president donald j trump kind of a little
00:04:16.360 cutesy workaround, they think. The board voted last December to add Trump's name to the center,
00:04:21.160 so it's the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Center. But that was removed from the facade
00:04:24.700 of the building in June after a court order. Can you imagine a Walter Cronkite type of person
00:04:31.540 or someone that we took serious back in the day, Mike Wallace being like, kind of a cutesy work
00:04:37.420 around and voted by the board he, of course, put in? I mean, I love nothing more than sourpuss
00:04:44.940 jake tapper so marcella don't you just want to go give him a hug no but he makes you laugh you 0.83
00:04:53.400 know like it's funny to watch cnn and ms now like it's like it's entertaining they they take it to
00:05:01.080 the max uh can you believe this is like they they just you know it's unfortunate because he is no
00:05:08.920 Walter Cronkite, but, you know, it is what we have. And also, can we remember, Owen, I mean,
00:05:18.140 President Trump is a president. It's not like some donor person. Like, he is our president.
00:05:24.460 Is it so bad to have two presidents' name on something? I think it's just so silly. 0.93
00:05:29.380 It's very petty. I don't know why they're worried about such little things. And in fact, 0.94
00:05:33.500 I don't mind it because it keeps them off of maybe more important things that are getting
00:05:37.280 done in the background like deporting tens of thousands of people and having electric shock
00:05:43.120 gloves for ice and you know other things that he could be focusing on um but i don't you know i do
00:05:49.620 think like if i were going to take their side a little bit it would just be you know isn't it
00:05:53.360 typical that you would name things after people after they leave office or after they're dead or
00:05:58.080 you know i mean that is probably the more traditional practice for a lot of presidential
00:06:02.480 things that like you, you know, you make the library after it's done. And then maybe there
00:06:07.600 is like an airport named after you or a military base or some other thing, but it typically isn't
00:06:12.180 done while you're in office, you know, so I can understand how from their perspective,
00:06:16.260 they're going to say, Oh, he's such a narcissist. He wants his name on everything. And sure. He's
00:06:20.440 a narcissist. Scott talked about that. He's a grandiose narcissist, maybe where it's like, 0.95
00:06:24.040 he wants to be rewarded for good stuff and he wants to be recognized. And I mean, it's kind
00:06:28.640 of old news right i mean trump has been that way for what his whole life i mean so it's not exactly
00:06:35.140 a surprise it's just something that maybe makes them you know love to hate him or hate to hate
00:06:41.080 him or whatever but i don't know it's all very silly i don't really care and again it's probably
00:06:45.560 good to have people like jake tapper covering that stuff rather than the things that really matter
00:06:49.480 i just love when jake tapper's sad it makes me happy so sorry jake too bad okay so good for you
00:06:57.920 president trump your name's getting on there and you know what you are restoring and beautifying
00:07:02.740 as much as you can while you're in there and so good for you um okay so now um owen you had a
00:07:09.740 story i was interested in about bill gates daughter there's actually a couple stories about her one is
00:07:17.180 that she might be facing 20 years in prison for fraud um apparently she started this affiliate
00:07:24.100 marketing sort of thing for fashion where like you it would they would get paid when they referred
00:07:30.420 people to buy certain fashion products or something things called gia and so first of all
00:07:37.320 as background she apparently wanted nothing to do with her father in terms of her reputation she's
00:07:41.840 like i'm gonna do it all on my own i have nothing to do with him so she founded this company of
00:07:45.840 course you know would she have been able to found a company if that's wasn't who she was
00:07:49.460 that's another question but she founded this company and apparently they basically did what's
00:07:55.220 called cookie stuffing which is they put that affiliate code into a lot of stuff that people
00:08:01.520 are buying even though it wasn't really referred by them so they would just like load this thing
00:08:06.260 on a bunch of websites so whenever someone visits the website it picks up this little affiliate code
00:08:10.900 and then whenever they buy something by other reasons not because they were referred then this
00:08:16.660 geo company gets paid and that is fraud people have gone to prison for that in the past uh and 0.87
00:08:22.940 apparently she was dumb enough to talk about it like in slack or something and say you know i want
00:08:28.300 this thing live everywhere and you know someone came to her and said this is a compliance issue 0.95
00:08:33.360 and she's like no i want to do everything i can to keep this thing going so she can't even really
00:08:37.660 say she didn't know about it later they did claim because i think bloomberg exposed this somehow
00:08:42.220 they got the slack messages or whatever and so then they're like oh it was a technical glitch
00:08:47.440 but clearly it wasn't clearly they knew exactly what they were doing so apparently there may be
00:08:52.220 a court case against her that could be a criminal one that she could be facing up to 20 years in 0.99
00:08:56.400 prison um and then separately i think part of the same slack dump or something it came out that she
00:09:02.840 apparently went to some secret stanford course on controlling society um apparently this is like
00:09:10.260 a secret course it doesn't show up in the catalog and you have to be referred by another student
00:09:15.080 and it's informally referred to as rule like rule the world and it's a course where they kind of
00:09:21.480 talk about how can we take over and hack power structures and basically take over the world
00:09:25.860 so she's apparently been trained on how to be like george soros i guess and her dad and her dad and
00:09:34.380 just like hack the power systems is the way they put it but it you know it seems like she's been
00:09:39.960 trained to uh be manipulative and even just the existence of this course is like wait what well
00:09:45.880 that's what i'm thinking like does someone need to go talk to stanford like what the
00:09:49.240 heck is going on there and who put that class together marcella like should we be following
00:09:53.560 the uh the what's it called the lesson plan and who put it together i was gonna say the the phoby
00:10:00.840 gates situation it's all allegations there hasn't been an indictment or any kind of investigation
00:10:06.520 in court for criminal matters so i just wanted to put that out there it's all allegations by
00:10:11.760 bloomberg of all things which is usually on the left um so go figure um in regards to the class
00:10:19.680 i don't know i i would like to take it to figure it out i have no idea but did you hear that laugh
00:10:27.820 marcella just had she's like oh the question you asked was exactly what i asked rock when i saw
00:10:35.440 this and it says there's no publicly available syllabus or week by week curriculum but it does
00:10:40.900 say it runs for 10 weeks a week meets once a week in some kind of graduate residence it's limited to
00:10:46.640 12 students and it has this short presentation by instructor justin lewis weber who is some
00:10:53.900 silicon valley investor slash ceo and apparently it's like just a cratic style debate and discussion
00:10:59.720 so that's what Justin Lewis Weber okay we got to dig into Justin just for fun in your spare time
00:11:08.080 um okay well that's interesting so Phoebe honey um good luck okay so Marcella did you have a story
00:11:19.040 for us I I love learning from Marcella and Ellen you know I have one that is kind of something that 1.00
00:11:25.440 you played earlier like weeks ago in regards to this professor that put like these white little
00:11:31.980 writings into his prompt into his essay question so that then the students would get it wrong
00:11:39.320 because they had to put I forget Botswana or something like that was like not relevant to
00:11:45.300 the subject well anyway so going to that is that I guess there's people at the court at court that
00:11:52.140 filing documents that have ai persuasion on the document in little tiny white you know white text
00:12:01.120 instructions that say you know let me win or i don't exactly know what it said but something
00:12:06.420 like to that effect i looked at it it basically said you know respond to this thing in a way that
00:12:12.600 i'm going to get my motion passed like you know they made a motion and they said respond in a way
00:12:16.520 that's going to agree with me basically and you know it'll get me the motion that i'm asking for
00:12:21.100 and yeah sorry go ahead is that not allowed it's uh no interestingly enough in new york um this is
00:12:30.240 a new york case so andy might be doing might know about this but the main thing is he tailored the
00:12:37.380 filing restrictions and i would have to say he was not a lawyer he's just somebody that's suing
00:12:42.420 a company he's just a regular person a proper as we call them and he's a plaintiff um and he
00:12:50.960 the way they found out is that the judge had printed the documents and he actually looked at
00:12:56.280 it and saw the little writing like kind of like the shadow of it because you know you're like
00:13:02.340 and now he was not sanctioned with monetary um on monetary section but he was asked to
00:13:11.160 file everything in person I don't know what makes that difference but the catch is that
00:13:17.060 courts don't use AI. Like they use, they might use AI to like, you know, for, for like generating
00:13:25.060 some news and all that, but the decisions that are made are done by either the judge
00:13:30.940 or the jury and they're not reading it like,
00:13:33.460 Are you sure? I think some judges are using AI.
00:13:40.540 Maybe to write, but not to actually make a decision. Because they have usually, especially
00:13:47.000 this is a civil case I believe because it's regarding invasion of privacy usually they have
00:13:52.280 um a slew of attorneys behind them and they do have to check all their work um so they they're
00:14:00.580 not using a like what I mean by using AI I mean like where they're putting the case through and
00:14:08.100 because it says I win the AI comes out with hey he wins but not doing that that's what I mean I
00:14:15.640 don't know what you would call it. Well, what I mean is, I mean, I think I remember at least a
00:14:20.020 couple stories on the newsfeed that I've seen that say some judges are using AI. And I wouldn't
00:14:27.480 expect that means they're going to just say, oh, look, this thing says you won, so now AI decided
00:14:32.600 you won. They're not going to say that. But I could easily see that they might say, okay, here's
00:14:36.740 all the filings and tell me what you think I should rule on this motion. I mean, I could easily
00:14:42.920 see that happening in the background on some judge's laptop when they say they're using ai
00:14:47.800 they mean they're using like looking up cases and like they don't they don't connect you know like
00:14:55.260 i'm not going to put the filing in and ask the ai to say what i need to say or what like so they'll
00:15:02.220 like because they're not that advanced these judges too so they they're usually older you know
00:15:08.380 and so they they what they do is they'll research and lexus and westlaw i'm not sure in new york if
00:15:14.220 that's the big the big research um for legal research it has an ai component you can search
00:15:22.060 but it's not the same thing as putting it into the system where this was being used i saw a story i
00:15:29.900 think owen had it where it was people using it for resume because hr does use like a machine
00:15:35.980 to kick out resumes they don't like and resumes they do like, and then they put
00:15:40.600 a little white text for the AI to read like, yes, I am the best candidate or
00:15:46.780 something like that.
00:15:47.820 I don't know if you recall.
00:15:49.400 I do.
00:15:49.860 And I think this is a similar thing for court filings.
00:15:52.580 And I, and I would just say, number one, I would wager a fair amount that judges
00:15:57.760 are using this, maybe it is the younger ones, but I would wager that people are
00:16:01.960 doing exactly what I described where they would just say, here's all the facts.
00:16:05.560 here's all the filings tell me how to analyze this give me all the cases and then maybe they
00:16:10.120 will manually check it hopefully they would but i with all the experience i have with ai it's hard
00:16:16.560 for me to believe that once someone figures out that you can do this that they wouldn't do it
00:16:20.120 because it's so much easier than what you just described go spend hours on westlaw and think
00:16:26.360 about it and analyze it and all that when you could just have an ai give you the answer in five
00:16:30.840 minutes no so westlaw and lexus nexus have ai and their ai uh tries to avoid anything like this
00:16:39.760 you know so the ai they would use would be this kind of ai due to privacy concerns as well um now
00:16:47.300 is there a judge that's not doing their job we know that there's many judges that could
00:16:52.740 be should be impeached but um it's not everybody no like katangi just say it marcella like katangi
00:17:00.160 You know, my comment on this is I think it should be fair game to do that.
00:17:05.740 Like if you were going to use AI to, you know, analyze the document, then as far and it's the same as the job application thing.
00:17:14.060 It's like if they're going to use AI for that, then as far as I'm concerned, the other side can use AI to their advantage, too, and optimize for it and do all the other things.
00:17:21.540 Because it's going to become AI versus AI at some point.
00:17:25.280 And even if you say, oh, you're not allowed to put something in explicit that says, just
00:17:28.460 agree with me, I'm guessing you could still optimize the words in a way that AI would
00:17:34.560 say, yep, you're right.
00:17:35.960 And so it's going to happen one way or the other.
00:17:38.680 And I just think if you are going to, like, if a judge is going to say, let me just feed
00:17:42.580 this document into AI and, you know, get the result, then I don't know, as far as I'm
00:17:48.600 concerned, you should be able to just put whatever you want in the document.
00:17:51.300 I understand that a judge isn't going to agree with me on that.
00:17:53.940 They're going to say you're trying to cheat, which I can understand their point of view, but they're cheating too, kind of.
00:17:59.960 And I do think it's possible that if you used AI, it would work the way this person did it.
00:18:05.560 Because the way he phrased it was like, if AI is analyzing this, then do this.
00:18:10.780 And go through the normal procedures and respond the way you're supposed to in a way that will grant this motion.
00:18:17.000 And I would imagine there is a fair percentage of things where a judge could rule either way.
00:18:21.080 right like it's not always clear-cut like every single time it's going to go the same way
00:18:25.680 well i don't want to say anything about pro per claimants but most of the time they don't really
00:18:31.200 have a case um and you know there are cases i i hate to say it to you guys but there are cases
00:18:37.680 that repeat you know it's like uh anything in your job if it's like a repeat thing of like is
00:18:44.360 this an invasion of privacy is this uh um fraud is this negligence so it's something that a judge
00:18:51.360 would not like if it was a pi case personal injury case the judge would not have to do any research
00:18:57.080 because that's kind of one of those things where it's not a novel like odd case so this case that
00:19:03.660 he presented against this company is invasion of privacy of his privacy and all that i i don't
00:19:08.640 foresee any full research you know so you know it depends on the case so a lot of the times is you're
00:19:16.000 you're a lawyer and then you become a judge and you know the law in regards to negligence or in
00:19:22.380 regards to invasion of privacy but you you you you have to read their pleadings but a lot of the
00:19:27.660 times something that you guys might not know is that these judges in california at least the civil
00:19:32.940 judges. They have research team that actually gives them a memo of how to rule. They can rule
00:19:39.460 based on that memo. So it might be what you're saying, Owen. It might be the research attorneys
00:19:44.960 that might be doing what you're saying, Owen, and not the judge itself.
00:19:50.140 Yeah. I mean, again, I'm not a lawyer. You're certainly the expert, but, and I'm sure there
00:19:54.320 are some clear cut cases where it's like, wait a second, it's always going to go one way because
00:19:57.860 that's the way it is. But I would imagine there's probably also a lot of things where you could say,
00:20:02.420 I'm either going to grant this or deny it.
00:20:03.820 And there's some case law somewhere that would support either side.
00:20:07.420 Yeah.
00:20:07.820 And then in regards to this particular case, it's an ongoing case and it would be decided by the jury.
00:20:13.080 It wouldn't be decided by the judge itself.
00:20:15.480 Just motions would be decided by the judge.
00:20:17.920 All right.
00:20:18.160 So let's hope the jury gets it right.
00:20:20.060 But guess what?
00:20:21.000 After he got in trouble, he's still keeping putting hidden material in it.
00:20:25.440 So he never learns.
00:20:27.700 Listen.
00:20:27.960 I mean, I would even say with the motion, though, like, yeah, a jury decides.
00:20:31.940 But the motions make a big difference. I mean, you remember the Kyle Rittenhouse case and a bunch of other cases where it's like the motions made a big difference.
00:20:37.780 Like what's allowed into evidence, what's not, whether you're supposed to give a certain jury instruction or not, like it makes a big difference.
00:20:45.780 Yeah. And like I said, those motions aren't treated. You don't need AI to know how to rule on such motions.
00:20:54.640 Well, you don't need it. But like, again, I'm thinking back to the Kyle Rittenhouse case just because I watched a lot of that.
00:20:59.220 And, like, clearly that judge steered things in the direction to get Kyle Rittenhouse off.
00:21:05.640 And I'm not saying it was biased.
00:21:07.240 I'm not saying it was wrong.
00:21:08.180 I think he did the right thing.
00:21:10.020 I think he made the right rulings.
00:21:11.380 But if that was a leftist judge, Kyle Rittenhouse would be in prison today.
00:21:15.520 Like the Alex Jones trial, for example.
00:21:17.480 Someone just pointed out that was blatant the other way.
00:21:21.460 Exactly.
00:21:22.200 That was decided by a jury, you know.
00:21:25.020 It's all decided by a jury, though.
00:21:26.800 Yeah, but that's not – you can't just say, well, the jury did it because the judge decides what the jury gets to see.
00:21:35.200 And he tells them how they should rule or how they should think about ruling.
00:21:39.940 And think about the E. Jean Carroll case.
00:21:41.860 Think about the Trump – the one where it's like the value of his Mar-a-Lago stuff.
00:21:46.920 So it's a different matter.
00:21:48.500 But when you think about the judges, Marcella, like a Boesberg or like the judge in the Alex Jones case or the Kyle Rittenhouse case, they all added their own emotion to it and opinion to it as it went along.
00:22:03.100 And you could see how persuasive that could be to a jury than that has to go deliberate.
00:22:09.160 So if a judge could just sit and just listen and just say, I object or sustained or whatever, that would be different.
00:22:17.540 but they seem to be more and more inserting their personal emotions into things so i think it it is
00:22:23.540 swaying juries unfortunately so it doesn't come down to like very clear cut i i have to make a
00:22:29.220 difference the ridden house case was a criminal case which has a higher burden when it comes to
00:22:35.140 civil cases there is there's a lower burden judges have more control over the case while
00:22:40.820 uh ridden house um i believe most judges would have ruled the same way um because it's it's
00:22:47.620 you're putting somebody in jail forever you know it's beyond a reasonable doubt to derrick chauvin
00:22:53.700 yeah well the lawyers too matter i don't know what type of lawyers he had did he have public
00:23:00.340 defenders did he have the the ridden house lawyers um lawyers do actually matter in a case well can 0.84
00:23:06.900 Can I say on the Derek Chauvin matter, I was in full agreement with Scott on this. 1.00
00:23:12.320 They almost had to put him in jail because the country would have blown up if they didn't.
00:23:18.840 Things were so high.
00:23:20.660 And I'm not saying that's right.
00:23:21.900 And Scott didn't say that was right either.
00:23:23.380 But it was like, man, the judge would have had his life in jeopardy.
00:23:28.340 The jury would have had their lives in jeopardy.
00:23:30.440 People were so out for blood.
00:23:33.300 That being said, he should be out of jail like years ago. Like he should not be in jail. I don't
00:23:40.000 know what the answer is for him, but that I think was to, I think people were scared to do the right
00:23:45.900 thing is what I think on that one. So unfortunately it doesn't always work the right way. We hope it
00:23:51.280 does. And I'm going to move on from this just because I do want to get to other stuff, but
00:23:55.600 you know, it's scary. I do, I, you know, as someone who's not in this field at all, I see a lot of
00:24:02.320 of irresponsible judges and i i wouldn't feel good going in front of a jury of my peers
00:24:08.480 anymore i think it's all broken but that's just me okay so yeah chauvin was a scapegoat for real um
00:24:14.720 okay so i might as well just move on here um i wanted to oh this i thought this was a great
00:24:20.800 idea for a little fry yay story um it's a it's a quick clip from laura ingram but i often thought
00:24:27.520 this was like the way to go let's take a listen to solving air traffic controller problems
00:24:35.600 your department i know has done some really cool things with this new generation we desperately
00:24:40.480 need of air traffic controllers i want everyone to watch this yeah i've been a gamer most of my
00:24:45.520 life they are looking for people to play video games okay well that definitely fits me yeah you
00:24:50.400 know i'm one of them you can merge gaming with aviation why not it's my dream career because i
00:24:55.440 I THINK ATC IS THE COOLEST THING
00:24:57.080 EVER.
00:24:57.440 MR. SECRETARY, I'M NOT A BIG
00:25:00.200 FAN OF VIDEO GAMES AND MY SONS
00:25:02.220 PLAY THEM TOO MUCH.
00:25:03.480 BUT THIS IS KIND OF COOL.
00:25:05.360 I HOPE IT WORKS.
00:25:08.080 MOMS ACROSS AMERICA LOVE ME. 0.79
00:25:09.440 THEIR KIDS ARE TRAINING AS
00:25:10.920 GAMERS TO BE AIR TRAFFIC
00:25:11.960 CONTROLLERS. 0.86
00:25:12.440 THEY MULTITASK. 0.98
00:25:13.440 THEY HAVE TO THINK ON THEIR FEET.
00:25:15.680 THEY WORK WITH THEIR HANDS AND
00:25:16.880 THEIR EYES.
00:25:17.440 AND THEY'RE MAKING GREAT
00:25:18.880 CONTROLLERS.
00:25:19.440 WE SURVEYED AIR TRAFFIC
00:25:20.720 CONTROLLERS AND ALMOST ALL OF
00:25:22.200 THEM LOVE GAMING. 0.84
00:25:23.640 And so we did a 24-hour pitch.
00:25:26.380 We had 14,000 applicants, 8,000 qualified.
00:25:29.740 We were getting the best and the brightest, well-qualified people to get into our schools
00:25:33.620 and make up the shortage, which we have in our towers and tracons across the country.
00:25:39.640 I love that.
00:25:41.120 What do you think, Marcela?
00:25:42.100 I think that's like perfect because it's like an opportunity for younger people to see a career.
00:25:48.200 And it's like, okay, I'm good at this, like hand-eye, figure out the situation.
00:25:52.440 you know they're the gaming is like high intensity and so maybe they're like wow like
00:25:59.280 it makes it exciting too because i mean nobody's lining up to be an air traffic controller if you
00:26:05.380 see you know like videos of them just sitting there for hours looking at a screen and drinking
00:26:11.020 coffee you know they're selling it cigarettes yeah yeah they're selling it as like hey this
00:26:17.260 is video game. This is a video game in real life, you know? Yeah, as long as they take it seriously,
00:26:22.800 I think it's great. They're, they, they have a skill set that they can use in real life and it
00:26:30.960 pays well and we need more air traffic controllers. I know that there's a push for, there was a talk
00:26:37.040 of getting AI involved, you know, but then again, you know, it's, I don't think it's there yet to do
00:26:44.820 to get rid of the AI, you know, to get rid of the air traffic controllers.
00:26:50.420 My understanding, it's like ancient technology still. It's like they're still using floppy
00:26:55.200 disks or whatever. It's not up to date. Yeah. And it's not exciting yet. So maybe
00:27:01.700 bringing in this generation will be, you know, will help push the excitement. And also if they
00:27:08.120 start introducing new technology, they're not going to be freaked out by it. Like this is
00:27:12.040 their wheelhouse. Like, go ahead, bring it in. You know, they might have great ideas. I mean,
00:27:16.100 this could be the answer to everything we need. So they said, I forget what he said. He just said
00:27:20.620 how many people applied, but I think he said what 8,000 qualified. So now they can like work through
00:27:26.280 these 8,000 people and you know, you can pick, you can see they all seemed like bright and
00:27:31.420 intelligent and social. And so good. I like it. I like it. Uh, yeah. And drone operators too.
00:27:38.640 they'd be great and whoever said what's your vector victor thank you that was perfectly timed
00:27:44.900 okay so i would just add i would i wouldn't be surprised if more and more of our life will become
00:27:51.000 gamified like that i've seen people like with a you know i'm doing some agentic development like
00:27:57.660 software development stuff and i've seen people say like you know look how i'm managing my agents
00:28:02.060 and they made it into like a video game where they can watch the agents walking around and doing
00:28:05.480 stuff and get points when they deliver stuff. And, you know, Brian Romelli talked about this
00:28:10.140 with his jewel work algorithm where it gets rewarded for doing the right thing. And it
00:28:15.260 is love equation where it's helping it stay aligned with human humanity. But like, I can
00:28:20.700 just see more and more of that where even your work, even your job might end up looking like a
00:28:25.180 video game. Yeah. Why not? Where you're like, Hey, you leveled up because you did this cool
00:28:30.440 thing and you delivered value to your team. And, you know, now here's your next task. Are you
00:28:35.400 going to accept the quests and go on your side quests. And I could easily see that happening
00:28:40.420 almost everywhere. Oh yeah. And I think, I definitely think that is the way of the future.
00:28:45.220 And luckily the American kids love this stuff. So that could be, that could be good. Oh, but
00:28:51.440 speaking about jobs, let me just jump over here to Scott percent. Um, because I, you know, I,
00:28:57.300 you know, I know he's sugarcoating things cause he has to, but I, you know, I noticed that when
00:29:01.740 And he talks about where jobs are gaining.
00:29:04.820 Let's take a listen.
00:29:06.580 The Biden administration, they said it was a five session.
00:29:10.780 And we know what has happened here.
00:29:13.660 But I think as people feel the turn, which they should be now, then there is light at
00:29:21.140 the end of the tunnel.
00:29:22.360 Things are getting better.
00:29:24.040 We're seeing construction jobs picking up.
00:29:26.160 We're seeing manufacturing jobs picking up.
00:29:28.240 The unemployment rate dropped.
00:29:30.420 We are seeing the big component of the workforce, the mid-20s to mid-50s, is very stable.
00:29:38.960 And, Rob, the other important thing, too, is these jobs are going to Americans.
00:29:42.860 Like, we have seen over 2 million jobs created for Americans, and we've seen over a million illegals leave the workforce.
00:29:49.900 And guess what? 0.51
00:29:50.600 The laws of supply and demand still work. 0.97
00:29:53.700 When you take the illegals out of the workforce, working-class wages go up. 1.00
00:29:57.700 when you send them back home rents go down 0.99
00:30:00.660 so you see jobs going to the trades which we cannot stop talking about here i know i can't
00:30:10.980 um so what do we think about the jobs report ellen
00:30:14.400 oh well i i do agree with the sign which is kind of hard not to do most of the time i think he's
00:30:20.240 one of those people scott would have said you know when he says something you got to like
00:30:23.460 revisit your own opinion if you just agreed with them but um i think it's a great trend to have
00:30:28.740 jobs coming back to americans and that's you know even if you see a jobs report where it says oh we
00:30:34.220 lost some jobs you have to put that in context all the time and they never do it seems like you
00:30:38.840 know i see all these posts or news stories are like oh jobs report was worse than we thought
00:30:43.120 and then when i dig into the numbers it's like okay we deported a bunch of people and those are
00:30:47.180 the jobs that went away because if you look at it it's all the part that dropped is the jobs to
00:30:52.920 non-native americans which is the only way they track it they don't track illegal aliens but they
00:30:56.860 you know they say how many went to native-born americans and how many to non-native-born
00:31:01.400 americans and so you can at least speculate that okay that basically you got rid of a whole bunch 0.86
00:31:07.240 of illegal aliens so all those somalians in ohio you know lost their jobs so those are part of the
00:31:13.000 job numbers but then there's all these numbers going up for native-born americans and so and
00:31:18.860 And if you look back to the trends, it was really bad for a long time, like back to 2018, which was still part of the Trump administration. 0.78
00:31:24.460 I think that was like the peak of native born American jobs.
00:31:28.420 And then from there, all the way through the Biden administration, native born American jobs were dropping. 0.96
00:31:33.820 We were gaining jobs, supposedly, but they were all going to non-Native Americans. 0.81
00:31:40.440 And it only reversed like in the last year or two, like when Trump got back in office. 0.99
00:31:45.240 So I think it's a huge positive trend in my mind that the people who are actual US citizens that were born here are getting a lot more of the jobs. And so I think you always have to look at that. I mean, there's another statistic that keeps being thrown around about the labor force participation that people are dropping out of the labor force.
00:32:02.440 But I always respond to those things like, dude, you got to, like, most of it is boomers retiring.
00:32:11.060 Like, that's most of it. 0.61
00:32:12.620 And yes, the boomer generation is big.
00:32:14.700 And that means a lot of people are no longer working.
00:32:16.820 But is this really unexpected?
00:32:19.160 I mean, they're getting old.
00:32:21.140 They're going to stop working.
00:32:22.580 And it doesn't mean that, like, everybody's dropping out of the labor force, which is usually what people are trying to say.
00:32:27.700 So a lot of these numbers are very deceptive and it falls right in line with what Scott would always say, that all data is fake and it's used to push whatever point you're trying to make or whatever agenda you're pushing.
00:32:38.000 And it's either being used to try and make Trump look bad or trying to make Trump look good.
00:32:42.660 And you need to, you know, dig into the real context to really make sense of it.
00:32:48.100 Somebody who just pointed it out, oh, Smar pointed out, too, that a lot of the jobs lost were federal jobs because they're making major cuts.
00:32:56.880 So those and then those people will maybe take the new jobs and maybe they'll become air traffic controllers.
00:33:02.560 Who knows? So, Marcella, did you this is just I'm throwing this out here.
00:33:08.140 I learned this last night that I had no idea.
00:33:11.680 But the cent worked for George Soros on the investing part of his life.
00:33:17.620 I was like, what? But he says he hasn't spoke to him since, I think, 2016.
00:33:22.440 um and he said that you know he said well the investment part of soros and the world domination
00:33:31.040 this is my word part of soros were very separated but he said that um he made a lot of money because
00:33:38.460 basent made a lot of money because when trump won the market crashed and he said and the person
00:33:45.160 crashing the market was george soros he was selling everything and basent said he and some
00:33:50.940 people bought everything and made a ton of money. So I was just like, oh, interesting with George
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00:34:45.860 to help yeah that's that's an interesting fact that that that they kind of just put by the side
00:34:52.980 yeah i've i've known that for a while but um you know like like owen and um scott would say
00:35:02.580 that all data is sort of persuasion of uh finessing but it looks like it was mostly
00:35:10.220 government loss, uh, of jobs, uh, last, last month. And the gain, which is great is if we
00:35:18.200 believe the numbers construction gain, there was a gain in construction and private education and
00:35:23.960 health services. I don't know what, what the, you know, maybe people don't want to send their kids
00:35:28.980 to public school. I don't blame them. Marcella, you just gave me the perfect segue to my heart,
00:35:35.900 my heart story that I didn't start with. Okay. So yes, more people are homeschooling
00:35:43.260 totally understandably. So, um, we've had Corey DeAngelis on here so many times talking about
00:35:50.140 the problems in public school. Um, you know, parents not being involved or not having the
00:35:55.360 time or whatever it is, but here's a teacher. Wait, I was going to play a mystery. Let me
00:36:00.220 make sure I have his name because, man. Okay. His name is Darius Williams. He is in Houston,
00:36:08.640 Texas at the Wheatley High School. He's an English teacher. Okay. This is just heartbreaking. Let's
00:36:18.120 take a listen. I literally broke down in the middle of class because
00:36:24.300 i'm teaching seniors these kids are leaving high school and going to college hopefully after they
00:36:37.540 finish we had two paragraphs to read one sentence complete to write
00:36:49.080 I gave them
00:36:53.460 the sentence stems
00:36:55.540 I basically
00:36:58.160 completed the sentence for them
00:37:00.100 in the model
00:37:01.040 these are 17
00:37:05.980 and 18 year old kids
00:37:09.520 and they couldn't fill in
00:37:13.740 four words
00:37:15.700 four
00:37:17.560 words
00:37:18.560 i gave them the scenario we annotated together i gave them the answers before we even had the
00:37:32.800 problem and they couldn't do it
00:37:37.200 i don't know i simply don't know where the problem is
00:37:47.680 This is only day two. And I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write.
00:38:02.420 they cannot write they can reason they have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking
00:38:12.040 to their homeboy but applying that to a written text two paragraphs that they couldn't do it
00:38:21.380 are young black men, are young brown men, are young black girls, and are young brown girls.
00:38:38.900 Oh, God.
00:38:42.300 Oh, my God. That is just so heartbreaking. But it is the fact of what's happening in this world.
00:38:49.720 And I've seen so many man on the street interviews where someone like goes up to like a 20 year old and says, you know, can you read this for me? And they can't read it. It's like a paragraph that like at senior level reading, you should be able to read.
00:39:07.260 And it's so crazy to me that we have like this whole entire class of people or groups of people or like a practically a generation of people where the bulk of them don't know how to read or write.
00:39:21.440 And how do you fix it now?
00:39:23.520 And I'm sure COVID had a lot to do with it.
00:39:26.100 Maybe their upbringing, maybe their family dynamic.
00:39:28.960 I don't know.
00:39:29.640 But I thought like we learned how to read and write as little ones.
00:39:32.800 so how do how do the system let them go all the way to be seniors and they can't well you you
00:39:38.880 can't you you can't flunk anyone like uh like you used to in the past um you cannot like when when
00:39:46.920 they're in elementary because i used to be a teacher and i taught english for for high school
00:39:52.140 students as well um and you cannot flunk them um my my brother has a best friend that came from
00:39:59.980 romania and his dad was a teacher in romania so a math teacher so he started teaching math in
00:40:06.460 california he was fired because he graded too severely and this is this is uh math where you
00:40:14.380 know it's yes or no you got it right you got it wrong he had to start his own private business
00:40:19.680 for tutoring um because he was not allowed to actually grade the way that you gave something
00:40:25.580 to someone and then he, oh no, your grading is too. So it's, it's the, this idea that we cannot,
00:40:33.600 um, leave someone behind if they don't know how to read. We just have to give them additional help,
00:40:40.960 but you can't, you know, flunk someone out. Well, it says, um, in 2024, 35% of 12th graders,
00:40:50.020 35 percent of 12th graders are proficient and the rest aren't and then it says that's the lowest
00:40:59.700 since 1992 so it's getting worse um yeah i know i know what scott would say about this he would say
00:41:06.820 this is the teachers unions it's their fault because it's not the teachers there was a story
00:41:12.160 just going through the news right now that is a teacher got fired because she refused to give
00:41:17.580 someone a zero for not handing in their homework, that she had to give him a 50% for nothing. 0.91
00:41:23.700 And she got fired because she wouldn't do it.
00:41:25.980 I would argue it's the parents as well, because if you, as a teacher, grade that student very low and the parent is like going berserk after you and they want you fired.
00:41:37.260 So the reason that this Romanian teacher got fired here in California was not the teacher's union, it was actually the parents.
00:41:44.820 because they're like you can't flunk my so it kind of goes both ways all of it yeah i get that i get
00:41:51.460 that the parents play a role but the administrators need to tell the parents no yeah they need to say
00:41:58.260 this is the standard and if your student isn't going to meet it then they're going to fail
00:42:02.420 and i'm sorry you don't like it but that's just the way it is and if it's a public school they
00:42:08.520 might not be able to expel the kid unless he really does flunk out or something but in a private
00:42:12.580 school, I would say they should just say, if your kid can't do it, then go somewhere else.
00:42:17.080 And if it's a public school, say, well, we can put them in remedial classes. You can tutor them,
00:42:22.480 whatever. We can provide tutors. All these are the things that they have resources for,
00:42:25.900 supposedly, that all these taxpayer dollars are going to. But to just say, we're just going to
00:42:30.760 pass them for doing nothing and not learning is not doing anyone a service, including the kids
00:42:35.880 and including the parents. And if the parents are demanding that their kid get credit for nothing,
00:42:40.780 then they're trying to screw their own kid so the administrators need to step in and say i'm
00:42:46.220 gonna have a backbone and i'm gonna stand up to the parents and tell them these are our standards
00:42:51.380 and this is what your student needs to do and you know i understand they might have a lot of
00:42:56.400 pressure it might be very uncomfortable but the alternative is what we're seeing now that kids
00:43:02.100 are going all the way through high school and they don't even know how to write or read i don't know
00:43:05.700 I think everything is a problem. Okay. Randy Weingarten's a huge problem. Okay. Why do we
00:43:12.680 even have a teacher's union? Why? Abolish it. Let the school districts hear from the students,
00:43:21.720 from the parents, have higher standards for these kids, not lower. I was talking to someone last
00:43:29.800 night and they go to a beach club that has a swimming pool. And they said, oh yeah, no, the
00:43:35.860 kids are like maniacs at the pool. And this is like a very affluent town where she is. And that
00:43:41.780 the lifeguards are not allowed to tell the kids like no running. It's a rule because the parents
00:43:48.760 flip out. And I'm like, what? So she's like, yeah, so they can run, like fall, smash their head.
00:43:55.240 And I mean, don't you guys remember growing up, it was like no running by the pool. You have to
00:43:59.780 sit, there's adult swim and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. And these kids now, so the, the, um, the
00:44:05.120 staff at the beach club were like, no, if the lifeguards say anything to the kids, the parents
00:44:10.180 flip out. So you over obnoxious Karen parents out there flipping out because somebody needs to tell 0.99
00:44:18.140 your kids something, you're a fricking problem. Your kids are not special little princess and 0.99
00:44:25.080 print snowflakes. Okay. They're the future of this world and we're going to all be stuck with
00:44:30.240 them. And, you know, enough of that, like there are rules or consequences. And so somebody wrote
00:44:36.180 in the chat that, Oh, Victor Davis Hanson said that like when the kids get a bad grade, the
00:44:41.780 parents show up with an attorney to say that. Yeah. That that's not fair grading. Listen,
00:44:46.940 life's not fair, but there are rules and there are standards. Okay. So enough of this snowflake
00:44:52.420 culture. I'm so sick of it. And I would absolutely homeschool my kids if there was any way to do it, 1.00
00:44:58.320 buddy up with other people, hire a retired teacher to teach your kids. You guys, when they're young,
00:45:04.880 can do it yourselves. And then you have time to get a pod together. And maybe each one of you
00:45:10.860 have a special talent you can do. There's complete curriculum you can buy that you follow how to do
00:45:16.500 at homeschool. You're not making it up out of thin air, but man, that would be the best thing
00:45:21.420 you could do for your kids to get them out of this mental institution of public school um any
00:45:27.600 last words on this from either of you no it's sad oh go ahead i would just reiterate i think it's
00:45:34.760 because the administrators are spineless and i saw it with my own kids when they were going through
00:45:38.500 like when my kid got in a fight um the administrator's response and the policy of the
00:45:43.660 school was to say oh if there's a fight then both kids get suspended no matter who started it no
00:45:49.520 matter who was at fault. And so we, you know, we got notified that our kid was like being sent home
00:45:54.140 from school or something. And we were like, well, okay, what happened? And like, well, he was in a
00:45:58.600 fight and, you know, we were lucky because apparently there had been cameras installed
00:46:03.880 recently that like the parents paid for, I think actually. And it showed very clearly that my kid
00:46:09.480 didn't start the fight. And so, you know, that, that helped, but still they were, you know, like
00:46:16.860 saying i mean we met with the administrator and i may have told this part of the story before but
00:46:23.000 he broke down in tears like we were just kind of like we were your child no the administrator
00:46:30.480 he broke down in tears well we were just saying kind of like a wtf like what's going on where
00:46:36.160 were the where was the teacher um you know why were you why are you punishing my kid for basically
00:46:41.960 being hit and um he just started crying and both my wife and i who were both there were like okay
00:46:52.360 what's going on like yeah and and we asked him like you know are you okay like and he's like
00:46:58.700 well i was imagining this happening in my own kit oh and i so i can understand the emotional part of
00:47:05.800 it but it's just like they don't it's still kind of like a spineless thing it's like they're trying
00:47:11.460 to use their feelings for everything like the feelings are the dominant thing in everything
00:47:16.900 and so when someone's failing and they're unhappy or when a parent is angry they just want to like
00:47:21.980 work through the feeling part of it and not say wait a second we need to make sure these kids
00:47:26.200 actually are prepared to have a job and have a productive life and we can't lower our standards
00:47:32.460 and we can't use DEI to say it's racist to fail a black kid and it's the opposite of what they
00:47:38.000 should do. And it's the opposite of what King Randall is doing. And it's nothing like what
00:47:45.380 we should be doing. And I blame the administrators because I think a lot of the teachers really
00:47:50.180 sincerely want their kids to succeed and they want to have the standards. And in many cases,
00:47:54.740 they're not allowed to. I agree. So you know what? I don't know. Again, we don't know how to fix it,
00:48:02.780 But I would say burn down the teacher's union, get rid of it altogether, and have- 0.66
00:48:09.180 Send them to El Salvador for one month in school there.
00:48:13.200 No, right to jail. 0.74
00:48:14.520 And then also have the same standards for everybody.
00:48:18.440 Let's stop making special concessions for your special privileged children.
00:48:23.820 Give me a break. 1.00
00:48:24.580 They're just a bunch of idiots if they can't read and write at the end of the day. 1.00
00:48:28.300 So is that what you want for your kid? 1.00
00:48:30.400 don't you want better for them and for society whatever so it's just it really freaks me out
00:48:36.560 that that we're in this situation in 2026 that kids are seniors and they can't read or write
00:48:41.840 go ahead marcella the other thing is like reading is not cool in school um like reading they bully
00:48:51.200 other the other kids for doing their work like i used to be like you know loved reading did all my
00:48:58.880 work and i i read lots of books i went you know i was i read more than the teachers read um and then
00:49:07.600 um i would get bullied but then i would bully back because i didn't i wasn't gonna just be like
00:49:13.680 you know the same person you see now is the same person i was in in high school but i remember
00:49:20.400 there was the sense that if you did your homework or you did your you know you liked math or science
00:49:26.480 and all that that you're not cool that you're not in football or volleyball and you know it's this
00:49:33.440 idea that it's a cultural thing i don't know uh but you get a lot of these kids have the pressure
00:49:39.360 of also not being cool by not reading so i agree with you completely i saw the same thing all
00:49:48.240 growing up when i was a kid it's been here a long time and vivek gramoswamy tried to point it out
00:49:52.560 and everyone got mad at him and said he was anti-american because he was kind of saying
00:49:56.040 it's a cultural issue it's a problem here and it is i mean you have a lot of peer pressure to say
00:50:01.240 oh you're a nerd you're you're the smart kid and like you know let's beat you up or let's treat
00:50:06.640 you like an outcast just because you're the smart kid and you're making us all look bad because you 0.97
00:50:10.060 get straight a's on everything and it's the opposite of what happens in a lot of other
00:50:13.860 countries like you know it's not just india but china and all the asian countries you hear about
00:50:19.060 the tiger moms, Europe is somewhat the same way. It's like you have a standardized test that you
00:50:24.420 have to pass and that determines what college you get into. And you, you, it's kind of like
00:50:28.780 strictly prioritized, like, okay, the people who go to Oxford are the, you know, the top students.
00:50:32.840 So if you have to, if you want to go there, you have to get the top scores on the test and
00:50:36.520 you have to study hard to get there. And I think that sort of system has led to an achievement
00:50:42.060 sort of culture in schools to say you're competing. And especially in a place like India,
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00:51:34.900 like japan also yeah yeah your education's everything yeah and it's just but but all
00:51:45.760 i'm saying is that like for children in that kind of inner city urban area like oh you want to be
00:51:53.620 smart oh who do you think you are marcella i'm like marcella so it's this if you if you do if
00:52:01.440 that teacher does get to one of the students it's like they can't really show their their smarts in
00:52:07.680 front of the rest of the there's like i get it yeah everything's everything's broken we idolize
00:52:13.660 the wrong things we're like we love ghetto culture we love you know the rap game we love 0.92
00:52:19.140 you know influencers chicks twerking and blah blah we idolize all the wrong shit so until people 0.84
00:52:27.880 can make a shift and just say, listen, we're going to start promoting and propping up things 0.97
00:52:34.440 that actually matter. Like go get your education, get a job, learn a trade, read a book, mentor
00:52:41.080 people that you can help. If people could just immerse themselves into their own bubble and find
00:52:48.020 a way to cancel the noise, yeah, it's hard. And it's harder for some people than others. And
00:52:52.660 And like I always say, the school I went to was so, I mean, bougie. And it was the same thing. 1.00
00:53:01.340 It wasn't like people wanted to be like the smartest and this and that. They just wanted
00:53:05.560 to like have the nice car and the good outfit. And like, you know, I know that that can happen
00:53:09.940 everywhere, but I feel like parents and schools were different then. It was like, well, guess
00:53:13.940 what? You're not graduating and you're not going on to the next grade and you'll be in summer
00:53:18.520 school all summer and whatever. And there were consequences, but now there's no consequences
00:53:24.000 for anything or anyone. Look around, look at all the crying teachers you see on TikTok and all of
00:53:31.020 the crying politicians and people. That's not fair. If I hear the word fair one more time,
00:53:37.760 so everybody needs personal accountability and our systems to get through life need to have
00:53:45.500 standards and accountability. It's the same thing. We can't have two sets of rules or 30 sets of
00:53:50.780 rules. It's just got to be a whole kit and caboodle. Let's get real people. So we only
00:53:58.020 have a couple of minutes left and I did just want to play a quick clip of our vice president. I was
00:54:04.200 saying this the other day that, again, talking about young people today, that I really feel like
00:54:09.040 a lot of young people are drawn to the socialism or communism, we should just call it, because
00:54:16.440 the economy's tough and life is hard and they're making promises that they just can't keep. But
00:54:22.300 let's take a listen. Our response to socialism, which is a dangerous and destructive ideology,
00:54:27.860 it's been tried in the past and failed. Our response to that can't be just to ignore the
00:54:33.260 economic concerns that I think are feeding this rising interest in socialism. And I guess I would
00:54:38.060 say to that young person that you as an American citizen deserve to have a good life in this
00:54:43.300 country, and you deserve to have a government that is making it easier for you to start
00:54:47.940 a family, for you to afford to get a good education, for you to have a good job, for
00:54:52.440 you to afford a home.
00:54:53.840 And what I would also say is that whilst these things sometimes take a little bit of time,
00:54:57.900 we are already seeing the positive results come from the president's economic policies.
00:55:02.740 We're seeing trillions of dollars of new investment into this country, which means
00:55:07.260 good middle-class jobs for young people, middle-income people, all across our country.
00:55:13.680 We're seeing housing prices finally stabilize.
00:55:17.160 They doubled during the Biden administration.
00:55:19.700 They have finally kind of flatlined during the first year and a half of the Trump administration.
00:55:24.560 We also want to get interest rates down, of course, so that young people can afford a
00:55:28.020 home.
00:55:28.680 We want people to be able to afford the good things about this wonderful country that we
00:55:33.980 all live in.
00:55:34.640 And my warning to my fellow Republicans, Will, would be if we don't get this right, don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism.
00:55:43.180 We've got to blame ourselves.
00:55:44.520 And I think what is so unique and refreshing about Donald Trump's economic policies is that it's not the same old economic ideas that you would have heard 30, 40 years ago.
00:55:56.000 He's talking about rebuilding our industrial base, rebuilding the heartland, making our streets safer, making it possible for young people to afford to buy a home.
00:56:05.940 This is how you stop socialism.
00:56:08.660 You don't stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market.
00:56:12.660 As much as I love the free market, you stop socialism by making people's lives better.
00:56:17.960 And that's what we're trying to do every single day.
00:56:20.760 OK, so I totally agree with that.
00:56:23.620 I think that that is a big draw for the younger people. They're not like fully paying attention
00:56:29.700 to exactly what everything means, but they know how far their money does and doesn't go.
00:56:35.980 And so they're like, all right, well, like this chick says I'm here so people don't pay rent.
00:56:41.780 And I'd like to not pay rent and I'd like some free stuff. And I'd like the billionaires to
00:56:46.700 give me their money. So I think JD's right. If they get this wrong, you can't blame the young
00:56:54.060 people, Owen. What do you think? Well, I think he's on the right track. I mean, I think we do
00:56:59.340 need to do as much as possible right now to make things affordable. And I do think the Trump
00:57:05.960 administration is sincerely trying. They're lowering drug prices. They're trying. I mean,
00:57:10.540 I certainly could blame them for having the whole Iran war thing drag on and on. But I think 1.00
00:57:16.580 the intent there is ultimately to stabilize and lower oil prices.
00:57:20.520 And I know they're doing everything from OPEC to domestic oil production and
00:57:23.640 everything else in Venezuela and all the other things to try and keep the oil
00:57:27.620 supply going.
00:57:28.340 I still think that's a huge issue because I think we've depleted a lot of the
00:57:32.220 world's reserves and there isn't much more to go.
00:57:35.360 So I'm worried about that part.
00:57:36.940 And I hope we can bring that conflict to a close so that we don't end up
00:57:40.380 running out of oil and having it go up to $200 a barrel.
00:57:42.800 but otherwise you know they're they're trying to work with the grocery places and everywhere else
00:57:47.980 to try and keep prices down so i i agree and i think we need to do everything possible to keep
00:57:53.860 prices down i still would say you know maybe from a petty political point of view that most of this
00:57:59.580 was biden most of this was putting trillions of dollars into the economy and causing massive
00:58:04.620 inflation but nobody's going to care about that politically nobody's going to care they're going
00:58:08.280 to blame the current administration and if they don't like the fact that things are so expensive
00:58:12.160 they're not going to say oh yeah it was biden's fault so i'm going to re-elect vance they they're
00:58:16.760 going to have to believe that he's going to do a better job than aoc or newsom or whoever it is
00:58:22.180 on the other side right marcella well i i positive thinking here i i don't think a lot of the youth
00:58:30.700 are for socialism and for communism regardless of all the hardship they would have to deal with
00:58:36.020 getting a house or uh doing whatever i i really think it's a minority of them i really do i think
00:58:42.980 the minority is very loud and and as we i think erica pointed out ones that she talked about is
00:58:49.620 revolutions can be done by just a few people and can change the whole scheme but i think that is
00:58:56.340 something that we're missing charlie kirk for um charlie kirk would remind us that tp usa and many
00:59:03.620 other um entities have gone into schools a lot of children are um or young people are going into
00:59:11.620 you know becoming more christian becoming more homeschooling is happening so there's a lot of
00:59:17.860 progress and i'd have to say that a lot of them are in the trades they're going into the trades
00:59:22.740 they're seeing their actual physical work do something um i would like to see the administration
00:59:29.300 um reduce taxes for people uh that get paid 200 000 or more you know something like that where
00:59:37.560 you see a reduction in your taxes like he did tax um the the tips i forget what it's oh no tax on
00:59:44.620 tips yeah yeah something like that where they see um in their taxes they see that they're they
00:59:51.800 keeping more of their money um and they're not seeing their tax dollars go to ukraine or or go
00:59:58.960 to iran or you know in in that sense because we all we get bombarded with is this fraud this
01:00:06.580 medicaid fraud or yeah there's these armed dealers that are like getting paid you know
01:00:11.140 i think uh the serno was going on about on on eggs which he should be about how the ukrainian
01:00:18.900 oligarchy are like the main the upper class you go to monaco you go to certain areas and they're
01:00:25.440 all with like supercars like lamborghinis and all that so the idea is for this administration 0.95
01:00:33.120 not just to talk but to do the things that are hard which is like the tax but you know that
01:00:38.000 would have to be congress as well so we know that things aren't working out there so yeah i would
01:00:44.240 want to see them keep more of their money i would too so listen i think we're on the right track we
01:00:49.440 have you know i think as a group here we have the right idea you guys like you know everybody in
01:00:55.040 and this chat's pretty fricking smart. And so, you know, we could all be like little King Randalls
01:01:01.480 and, you know, little Nick Shirley's and whatever, and just do what you can to be a little Charlie
01:01:07.580 Kirk, you know, so do what you can with where you live for your community. And I mean, the littlest
01:01:13.680 things can end up making a difference. They can have a ripple effect, but don't be afraid to stand
01:01:18.960 up and make suggestions or say something. It really could make a huge difference. And if enough
01:01:24.020 of us are doing that and we're all honey badgers as gad sad would say you know that ripples out
01:01:30.740 that's a lot of people creating little ripples everywhere and maybe we can make a wave for a
01:01:36.480 change and also shout out to jd a loved his suit it was beautiful and b he's on the rfkj diet of
01:01:44.820 like eating sauerkraut and fermented foods and stuff he's really thinning out looking good jd
01:01:50.700 credit where credit's due so um anyway i know owen's gonna come in with a bucket of sauerkraut
01:01:57.520 on monday um so oh wait traveling with a cooler sauerkraut yes yeah yes yep it's funny that's
01:02:06.260 like the korean diet right the kimchi kimchi so um owen tell us about this weekend what's going
01:02:14.220 on with the after party we're having the after party so the after party is tomorrow and we'll
01:02:19.000 have the Sunday simultaneous sip on Sunday and I'll have my subscriber spaces after that.
01:02:25.380 So the full, the full round of things, everything will be there.
01:02:29.340 Never a day where you don't have one of us there to sip along with you guys.
01:02:34.600 What book are you reviewing in your, um, subscriber spaces is still the, um, Carnegie?
01:02:39.620 Yeah, we're going through how to win friends and influence people.
01:02:42.940 So I mean, the way we've been running this is, you know, it's really a conversation.
01:02:46.600 It's not like, I mean, some people do these book clubs where you get together once a month
01:02:50.160 and you talk about a book, and you might cover the whole book in one session.
01:02:55.040 And if it was a short book, we might do that.
01:02:56.680 But I think we're really talking about these ideas.
01:02:59.400 And so it takes a while.
01:03:00.340 And we take our time and we have people give their examples or points or what they agree
01:03:05.280 or disagree with or what their thoughts are.
01:03:07.380 And we let the conversation go as it is.
01:03:10.180 So I think we're probably about halfway through it.
01:03:12.460 And we'll just continue on until we're done.
01:03:15.480 Great.
01:03:15.880 And I mean, I think, I think we probably had like 12 sessions for 48 Laws of Power.
01:03:19.200 So like it can go on for a while, but I think it's always a good conversation.
01:03:23.080 You guys subscribe to, yeah, subscribe to Owen also.
01:03:27.520 So, you know, it's, it's nice.
01:03:29.380 Like now I think with X money, I actually got a tip the other day.
01:03:33.340 I won't name who it was.
01:03:34.340 I was like, oh my gosh.
01:03:35.880 But you can tip Owen.
01:03:38.100 You can subscribe to his channel or to anybody.
01:03:40.660 You can tip me too.
01:03:41.720 You can tip Marcella.
01:03:42.860 it's just a way to just say like, thank you. Like, you know,
01:03:46.660 you're putting your work in. Owen's there for hours over the weekend.
01:03:50.560 Does that mean no tax on that tip?
01:03:55.120 And so it's nice. So his subscriber spaces, Owen, what's your subscriber fee?
01:04:00.600 It's minimal.
01:04:02.280 It's $3 a month.
01:04:03.660 Okay. So $3 a month. And if you're a subscriber, Owen does a show on Sundays,
01:04:08.720 like he's talking about this book and he takes his time and it's a good time.
01:04:12.860 So you guys can chat and have fun.
01:04:15.180 Marcel, I don't know what you're laughing at right now.
01:04:17.840 I just read a simple.
01:04:19.500 Oh, was it Andy?
01:04:21.700 Simple is good.
01:04:23.140 Simple is good.
01:04:24.200 Okay.
01:04:25.140 So you guys, just so you know, so Owen will be there tomorrow.
01:04:28.800 And let's always say thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing the show to continue.
01:04:34.940 You guys, if you didn't hit the like button, could you please?
01:04:38.880 We were doing our best.
01:04:40.380 We work hard, and we would just appreciate a like, a subscribe, or ring the bell, okay?
01:04:47.400 And so thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing this show to continue.
01:04:50.920 Thank you to every single person who shows up here live and on the replay.
01:04:55.020 We appreciate you all.
01:04:56.580 And as always, let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott.
01:05:00.440 And I will miss you, Metal Seer, and I will stay for an Akira song today, okay, you guys?
01:05:06.260 Okay.
01:05:07.000 To Scott.
01:05:08.220 To Scott.
01:05:08.800 To Scott.
01:05:09.420 Scott.
01:05:10.380 have a great weekend guys bye everyone bye guys okay let's see
01:05:18.200 oh which one i feel like i pick a vibe thank you gina gina just tipped us gina
01:05:30.080 so cute sweet okay let's do do something
01:05:35.980 oh i thought you wanted to do something
01:05:40.920 have you heard the phrase freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
01:05:50.220 you've heard that right
01:05:53.320 freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
01:05:59.620 how about that college class you were going to sign up for how about that sport you wanted to
01:06:05.700 get involved in? How about that motorcycle you wanted? Too dangerous, right? Or you're
01:06:10.700 free. Thank you, Steven. You're free. Every one of you who is depressed and anxious, you're
01:06:20.260 free. You're free. Because nothing you do will be worse than the way you feel right
01:06:28.820 do something do something dangerous psychologically dangerous take a chance put yourself out there 0.90
01:06:37.360 flame out get killed just get smashed just go do it you're free 0.97
01:06:43.380 freedom's just another word for nothing left to live 0.98
01:06:47.700 you're free do something do something
01:06:53.100 If you want to meet people, here's the best way to do it.
01:07:06.400 You have to join activities.
01:07:09.100 There is no other way to meet people and inform lasting friendships.
01:07:15.380 Hear this clearly.
01:07:17.280 There's no other way to do it.
01:07:19.040 You have to join an activity, a club, a sport, a gym, an organization, a political movement, nothing else.
01:07:31.400 You can't just make a friend.
01:07:34.760 Like, good luck.
01:07:36.480 You can try.
01:07:37.860 Well, I don't think I've ever seen it work.
01:07:40.260 Hiya, you know, Baba.
01:07:42.660 Hearing good things about you, I think we could be friends.
01:07:46.140 Doesn't it?
01:07:46.660 We can.
01:07:47.440 Do something.
01:07:49.620 Do something.
01:07:51.320 Enjoy the thing.
01:07:52.700 Make a sport.
01:07:54.040 Form a club of your own.
01:07:57.880 Just go do it.
01:07:59.660 You're free.
01:08:01.280 Freedom's just another word.
01:08:03.360 For nothing left to lose.
01:08:05.340 You're free.
01:08:07.560 Do something.
01:08:09.300 Do something.
01:08:10.680 Freedom's just another word.
01:08:12.800 For nothing left to lose.
01:08:14.940 You're free.
01:08:15.860 Do something
01:08:17.860 Why would you not form a club of your own?
01:08:23.240 Because you're afraid nobody would come, right?
01:08:26.240 What's the difference? 0.96
01:08:27.760 You're as good as dead 0.99
01:08:28.980 You're depressed, you're anxious, you hate your life 0.99
01:08:31.640 You're thinking about putting a
01:08:33.180 I can't say that here, but
01:08:34.960 You're thinking about
01:08:36.160 Maybe life isn't worth it
01:08:38.180 You're afraid
01:08:39.960 You're absolutely afraid
01:08:43.060 Go have some fun
01:08:45.080 Marcella 0.83
01:08:48.800 Do it with me
01:09:15.080 Now, I gotta tell you, I've used this technique a number of times, and man, does it work.
01:09:32.280 It really works.
01:09:33.840 You're free.
01:09:34.940 Just remember that people criticizing you are narcissists. 0.82
01:09:37.920 They are broken.
01:09:39.720 Don't let it break you.
01:09:41.500 You've got some techniques now.
01:09:42.940 and i think you're gonna be a lot better go get yourselves and friends and you'll find your mental
01:09:49.040 health problems feel a lot better go get involved in something join the group form a group be the
01:09:55.580 boss that is your advice for the day and i will talk to you later the debate starting soon it
01:10:06.400 hasn't started yet they put um they put the starting soon thing so probably more minutes
01:10:11.320 this is the debate with andrew wilson it is live stream you know you guys so like it's all live
01:10:19.480 if you know you know if you know you know well try to know because it's gonna be exciting
01:10:24.520 it's gonna be juicy we will not be covering it here but we'll be watching it
01:10:28.640 oh my goodness goodness stella is out of control y'all oh we love stella i love her
01:10:35.880 i don't know how to make her stop crying she's like can you feed me again and again and again
01:10:42.220 i fed her that's what i was doing i but i'm going like this in the middle of the show it's because
01:10:45.800 i have to put food down for her she's got the whole world in her hands leo hasn't made a sound 0.99
01:10:53.880 so i'm glad in a way she's sleeping over there oh look at her she stayed out all night so
01:11:03.860 okay you guys all right tell me what you want i think i'm coming on tonight do you want me to come
01:11:11.000 on to chill and chat with erica or on scottadams.locals.com you guys decide and um
01:11:21.960 depends on how spicy your show will be if you want spice i think erica yeah if you want it more
01:11:29.240 spicy like anything goes it'll be my channel i have to be a little bit more reserved and respectful
01:11:37.880 for scott's all right we got a chill we got a scott adams chilling either scott adams well it
01:11:45.080 kind of forces some of them to become a subscriber well subscribe i make like a dollar if you
01:11:52.840 subscribe for the entire month and i appreciate it so i'm just letting you know um let's see what
01:12:01.160 erica will be on locals crank it'll be it's either the scott one or erica one yeah i don't think can
01:12:09.720 you do both maybe no i don't think i can i can try but i don't think so um all right so we'll see
01:12:19.960 maybe i'll do two who knows you can do two cameras like you remember how scott would have us on a
01:12:28.200 on two different ipads he would use one ipad for us and one oh i could do that that's true
01:12:36.840 you'd be like i'm gonna mute you guys now and scott because i'm gonna say something spicy in mine
01:12:42.600 no alien there will not be a devil's handshake i'm sorry to disappoint you that was exclusively
01:12:48.600 for scott's uh audience we'll have other type of handshakes there's many other handshakes to be had
01:12:55.000 marcella will be joining me so she can explain them all to you
01:13:00.440 all right guys um i have to go watch a debate clean my house it hasn't started but it's it's
01:13:09.140 on the starting soon okay two cameras one erica it's either on the you um on pbd's channel or
01:13:17.620 on candace owens channel if you need to okay so candace owens and what's the guy's name andrew
01:13:24.020 wilson andrew wilson are going to have a debate regarding charlie kirk's assassination whether
01:13:31.140 it's a patsy on candace side or whether there's overwhelming evidence that tyler robinson did it
01:13:38.180 and patrick bet david has agreed to host the debate and be the mediator between them right
01:13:46.420 so we're gonna watch because it's like a soap opera and we like that it's like a telenovela
01:13:52.180 and it's live you guys it's live live in this house and candace i don't know if you guys know
01:13:59.060 she's pregnant so it's at her uh show in tennessee um because she couldn't travel
01:14:06.260 so and he can and andrew wilson's known for smoking but he cannot smoke in front of her
01:14:11.620 i mean like duh it's like how can you even complain she's fully pregnant you think you're
01:14:16.980 going to go in her house and chain smoke i mean come on now let's get a grip people
01:14:22.340 okay you should cut back on this like you can hear that like cigarette voice like you know
01:14:26.580 he stinks i'm just saying he reeks and sounds of cigarette smoke not that there's nothing wrong
01:14:32.660 with that but that's what he sounds like oh my lord we'll see we'll see all right early for a 0.80
01:14:39.780 a debate too, but let's do it. I know. Right. Um, so listen, maybe somewhere tonight, I can't,
01:14:46.600 we're, we're like still on YouTube right now. If you guys have not hit the like button,
01:14:49.920 come on now, hit the like button. You're naughty. I know. Very naughty. So, um, let's go. So tonight
01:14:57.320 you guys, um, I'm going to come on one of the channels. If Marcella wants to join,
01:15:02.740 I will give her the link and we'll just have a little hangout. Okay. All right, guys, go out
01:15:07.400 there. Be useful. We love you. Have a best day. And if we don't see you till Monday,
01:15:12.380 have a great, great weekend. We have three guests next week. Tuesday, Joshua Lysak. Wednesday,
01:15:18.920 Mark Mitchell, formerly from Rasmussen Reports. And Thursday, Brian Romley.
01:15:28.880 Contrarian. I'm not sure yet. It's going to be on Locals. If you're talking about tonight,
01:15:33.460 it's going to be on locals um so either my subscriber channel or scott's subscriber channel
01:15:39.340 so either one so either chill and put it in x the link to the link in x i'll link it that'd be
01:15:46.020 great for them it'll if marcella's coming on with me it'll probably be my channel
01:15:50.500 it's too spicy where so i was never complaining about spice no and we really were like the spice
01:16:02.540 girls me and you so yeah all right so it'll i said it's settled it's the spice girls after dark
01:16:09.980 on chill and chat with erica on locals.com okay all right guys so we'll see you later alligator
01:16:16.140 somebody make the the thumbnail make me a thumbnail and uh we'll see you later on tonight okay
01:16:21.800 bye guys hasn't started yet okay bye
01:16:32.540 Thank you.