Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 29, 2026


The Scott Adams School - 09⧸29⧸26 Steve Cortes Returns. Illegal Immigration. Mid Terms. Space-X

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00:00:00.000 look there's 106 locals waiting for us hi you guys good morning i can't cc you yet but you
00:00:05.840 can hear me i think and let's give a chance for everyone to kick in i see rumble kicking in i see
00:00:13.760 youtube kicking in oh my gosh it's a miracle all right look who's with us steve cortez
00:00:22.080 we love when uncle steve's in the house i've been uncle-ing everyone lately
00:00:25.600 and owen of course is here and i'm sorry for marcella fans i know it's hard for us too but
00:00:33.320 she is called to court today so uh steve's gonna hold it down for for marcella that's amazing
00:00:40.540 how you doing steve i'm doing great and by the way i i am often called uncle steve i'm one of
00:00:46.660 six children so i have a bunch of nieces and nephews uh including four also four children
00:00:52.080 of my own, but a bevy of nieces and nephews. So yeah, Uncle Steve is a phrase I hear a lot. So
00:00:56.560 I'm totally cool with that. Okay, good. It's like my new thing. I don't know why I can't stop
00:01:01.160 myself. Owen, how are you? I'm doing great. Good. I'm so glad. All right. So you guys,
00:01:07.820 I feel like everybody's coming in and I do want to make sure that we pay homage to Elon and what's
00:01:16.120 going on over at SpaceX. So after we do the SIP today, I have to just show you guys just how
00:01:21.020 amazing it all is but i said the magic word which is sip and boy oh boy let's get it guys here we
00:01:29.900 go but first what do we need to make this day exceptional it's called the simultaneous sip and
00:01:37.660 all you need what do you need you know you need a cup or mug or glass a tank or chalice or stein
00:01:43.940 I can't take a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:47.540 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:49.980 I like coffee.
00:01:51.520 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
00:01:53.720 and the dopamine hit of the day,
00:01:54.960 the thing that makes everything better 0.79
00:01:57.540 except the Hunter Biden sex tape.
00:02:00.820 It happens now. 0.75
00:02:02.520 Go.
00:02:06.840 No, I was wrong. 0.55
00:02:07.980 It made the Hunter Biden sex tape better, too.
00:02:11.220 I didn't see that coming.
00:02:14.740 And neither did she.
00:02:17.560 I knew it.
00:02:18.400 I knew there was going to be a follow-up line to that.
00:02:22.540 I would love to interview Hunter Biden.
00:02:24.700 I was actually thinking about this the other night.
00:02:26.780 I'm sorry to say I was like lying in bed and I'm thinking about Hunter and these interviews he's doing and how he's playing off this little Pollyanna routine of his and it's just sickening.
00:02:35.760 But I was like, why aren't people asking him like this question and that question?
00:02:39.400 And I was just like, let me at him.
00:02:41.120 But anyway, hi, I'm Erica.
00:02:43.080 you are at the Scott Adams School. This is a place Scott has kept for us so we could keep
00:02:49.960 communing, talking about current events and news. And we do some Scott's amazing whiteboards and
00:02:56.160 lessons. And we're so thrilled today to have Steve Cortez back with us. Steve, you have been on a
00:03:03.920 roll with the mini documentaries too, which I often say is about my attention spam. So there
00:03:09.640 like these 20 to 30 minute mini documentaries. And we're going to talk about your latest one
00:03:13.900 today. Um, danger in the heartland and we're going to Wisconsin. Um, so thank you for that.
00:03:21.760 And, um, but first you guys just a quick, uh, a quick look at what's going on in space. This was,
00:03:28.740 uh, on the Jesse water show last night. Let's take a look.
00:03:33.640 We have liftoff. 0.93
00:03:39.640 PLEASURE.
00:03:41.640 PLEASURE.
00:03:53.640 ELON MUSK, SPACEX JUST LAUNCHED THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL ROCKET,
00:03:56.640 STARSHIP.
00:03:57.640 LOOK AT THAT.
00:03:58.640 BIGGER THAN A FOOTBALL FIELD, STRAPPED WITH 33 RAPTOR ENGINES,
00:04:02.640 unleashing 18 million pounds of thrust, sending it roaring straight into orbit.
00:04:09.860 Once the booster was done, it broke away and nailed its splashdown in the Gulf of America.
00:04:15.360 Down to five.
00:04:26.360 The mission's historic. For the first time ever, Starship brought in some dough.
00:04:31.400 It dropped off 26 brand-new Starlink satellites, sending perfect Wi-Fi back down to you and I.
00:04:37.700 That cash can fund the next trips to space, the moon, hopefully to Mars.
00:04:43.280 Every time Starship blasts off, it runs Elon about $90 million, so they could use the money.
00:04:49.500 Then it took a little victory lap, orbiting Earth for nearly two hours,
00:04:53.500 firing off an insertion burn to kick it on a full lap around the planet.
00:04:58.800 Then it came tearing back through our skies.
00:05:00.540 look at that. But this trip wasn't just about Wi-Fi. It was a giant leap in the space race.
00:05:06.320 Starship's keeping us light years ahead of the Chinese, and it has a big mission up ahead. 1.00
00:05:11.420 The rocket's going to haul the building blocks for the moon base and bring our astronauts to 1.00
00:05:16.720 the lunar surface. All SpaceX has to do is stick the landing.
00:05:21.040 i love it congratulations to elon and everybody at spacex uh steve what do you think would you
00:05:45.460 would you get on a rocket and head to the moon i i would love to i'm sure i'd be scared you know
00:05:50.640 actually doing it, but yes, I would do it. This is incredible. It's great for our nation. I think
00:05:55.420 it's a really big deal. I love that this mission particularly was commercially viable. I think
00:05:59.860 that's a big deal, right? So the science alone, the achievement, the engineering is a cool enough
00:06:04.420 feat. And I think Elon would do it probably just for that reason, but all the better that it's
00:06:09.540 actually commercially viable here and that it's supporting his other amazing company of Starlink.
00:06:13.860 I want to say a word about that too, by the way, because I think Starlink is changing the world,
00:06:17.540 you know, so much for the better. The fact that you don't have to be physically connected anymore
00:06:22.020 to a fiber octave cable, that you can be in the middle of nowhere. And in terms of security,
00:06:27.580 by the way, that you don't have to give your information to Comcast, right? That they cannot
00:06:31.620 eavesdrop on you, that they cannot snoop on you, surveil you. I was actually just recently hanging
00:06:36.100 out with a whole group of special forces alums, special operators, guys who are very into the
00:06:41.580 security world, now more on the corporate side than they were on the military side. But all of
00:06:45.660 them. It's interesting. All of America told me they use Starlink for that very reason, because
00:06:50.100 they don't want Comcast or which other provider, AT&T, be able to spy on them. So some of them
00:06:56.960 literally travel around with their Starlinks in their car and wherever they are, they get on
00:07:01.300 Starlink. So fascinating. And I love seeing the marriage of these two amazing technologies,
00:07:06.200 the rockets going up to deploy the Starlink satellites. It's really encouraging for our
00:07:10.840 country and ultimately really for the world. So well said. I mean, somebody was saying on a
00:07:16.160 podcast I was watching, it was probably on Rogan because it was some adventure guy. And he's like,
00:07:20.420 no, we were like in the middle of nowhere on some whack continent. And they were like 1.00
00:07:25.900 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles into some jungle. And he's like, and I had perfect
00:07:30.440 Wi-Fi with my starlight. And I'm like, that's insane. So at least you have some level of like
00:07:36.240 security knowing you could reach someone in that situation too but yeah i think you know my money's
00:07:41.840 on elon always so i i love it owen do you have starlight going i don't at least not yet although
00:07:48.900 i might at some point i i have a nice fiber optic high speed connection so i'm kind of spoiled
00:07:54.800 probably more than most people in terms of the speed i have but um i do worry about that i mean
00:08:00.160 for a while when my wife and i were both working from home i was like well maybe we should have two
00:08:05.240 just in case one goes down because
00:08:07.160 otherwise we'd have to be on our
00:08:09.200 hotspot on our phone or something and we were both
00:08:11.500 getting on video calls and all
00:08:13.400 that sort of thing and so for a while I did have
00:08:15.300 both Comcast and AT&T
00:08:17.400 and
00:08:18.620 then eventually I said I don't think
00:08:21.340 I need both of these anymore and
00:08:22.880 it was partly just I just got fed up with
00:08:25.220 Comcast because it
00:08:26.340 went down
00:08:27.740 for maintenance like it was supposed to be down
00:08:31.140 for four hours I'm like okay that's normal every once
00:08:33.260 in a while they do that but
00:08:35.240 Then it didn't come back up. And it took them three days to get me working again. And I was
00:08:40.220 just like, that's it. I'm just not doing this anymore. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I think a lot of
00:08:44.760 us are going to end up with Starlink. I'm not mad about it. I have two in my house just for that
00:08:49.460 reason. Oh, and also in case I need one or the other. All right. So that's amazing. I mean,
00:08:55.080 I can't wait to see. They're going to bring the first building blocks for the moon to start
00:09:01.000 building the base on the moon. I mean, now I picture China going up there and being like, 0.81
00:09:06.240 aha. And they're going to like take our things and like move them over to their part of the moon 1.00
00:09:10.280 and start building. We're going to start colonizing the moon. Um, okay. So let's get into Steve here
00:09:17.080 because Steve, I, uh, I, so I'm so moved, you know, with, with all of the stories you're telling
00:09:21.900 and they're important stories. And I love that you do this. So I'm going to play, actually,
00:09:27.340 why don't you tell us where you went and then I and then set me up for the clip of the angel moms
00:09:33.020 so I went to Fond du Lac Wisconsin for folks who don't know Fond du Lac it's a wonderful sort of
00:09:38.660 typical midwestern small town small to medium sized town it's a middle class place but very
00:09:43.940 pleasant uh you know sort of white picket fences it's on a huge lake like Winnebago one of the
00:09:48.340 biggest lakes inland lakes in Wisconsin and this this really pleasant community very traditional
00:09:53.760 Wisconsin community, unfortunately, believe it or not, has had inflicted upon it a scourge of
00:09:59.880 illegal alien crime. And I mean really significant crimes. I mean, there's sort of the more lifestyle 0.93
00:10:04.340 crimes of like petty theft and bad driving, that sort of thing. But then there's way more serious
00:10:10.200 crimes like attempted murders and molestations of children going on in Fond du Lac. And when I read
00:10:15.600 about several incidents in Fond du Lac, because I happen to know this town, I said, this is nuts.
00:10:19.760 How is this happening here so far from the U.S.-Mexico border in a seemingly safe place and a seemingly, you know, well, not seemingly in what is a wonderful community?
00:10:29.360 How is this happening in Fond du Lac?
00:10:31.360 And so I went there to Fond du Lac and I made this documentary Danger in the Heartland because I want to make sure that voters are aware,
00:10:38.520 that all Americans are aware that just because you live far from the U.S.-Mexico border doesn't mean that you are not subject to the pain and the agony and the consequences of an open border,
00:10:48.120 you know, particularly Biden's open border. And so this doc, by the way, too, in terms of attention
00:10:52.260 span, Erica, this was only 13 minutes. We really made this one pretty short on purpose. And we did
00:10:58.480 that because in some sense, it's almost a long commercial. You can think of it that way. But we
00:11:02.260 do find roughly 20 minutes is kind of our sweet spot. But this one, we went even shorter, but we
00:11:07.080 just had guests who were so concise and punchy, including law enforcement and angel moms. And so
00:11:13.520 far, it's doing just fantastically well, particularly in Wisconsin. And obviously part of
00:11:19.040 why we did this is the upcoming election, because we want to convince and persuade voters that Tom
00:11:23.840 Tiffany, sitting U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin, who's running for governor, that he needs to be
00:11:28.140 the next governor of Wisconsin. He's running against David Crowley, who is the county manager
00:11:32.400 of Milwaukee County. He's an open borders radical, just like the current Democrats who run Wisconsin
00:11:38.020 are, and the consequences of being a so-called sanctuary city or sanctuary state, the consequences
00:11:44.120 are severe, and that's what we show in this documentary. All right, let's take a look at
00:11:48.820 the clip with the angel moms, bless our souls. Okay, here we go. Yep. She had been previously 0.83
00:11:55.320 arrested more than one time. This is not the first time she had been pulled over for drunk driving,
00:12:03.500 And she didn't even have a driver's license. Why is she still out on the road? 0.97
00:12:09.100 Right. So, Allison, in addition to the criminal herself, who, of course, she's principally responsible for killing your children. 0.84
00:12:15.700 But do you also blame radical politicians who allowed her to stay in this country after breaking into our country and then being arrested on top of that initial crime?
00:12:25.400 Do you blame those politicians? 0.96
00:12:26.620 definitely do and i think jen and i have both said this would never have happened if she was
00:12:35.200 not in this country she shouldn't have been here and if she wasn't here she wouldn't have been
00:12:40.780 driving drunk on the wrong side of the interstate and our kids would be here so for those of you
00:12:47.920 that didn't watch yet i did post the the link to the full 13 minutes on my page these are the
00:12:53.600 parents of a young couple, uh, a boy and a girl, I think one was in high school and one was just
00:13:00.760 out of high school that were dating. Right. And so their, their children were killed. Go ahead,
00:13:07.260 Steve. Yeah. So, uh, and by the way, I posted, so we used about three minutes of their very moving
00:13:12.880 commentary and storytelling about three, four minutes in the 13 minute documentary. But I also
00:13:18.580 posted the full 16 minute documentary of just these two moms, you know, so not the rest of
00:13:22.920 documentary because i thought it was so moving so compelling they were so braved and they've done
00:13:27.400 this several times to tell their story publicly that that you know the voters out there should
00:13:32.040 get a chance to look at it so that's all been posted on my social media and at cortesinvestigates.com
00:13:37.400 um on my youtube page we put it everywhere but you know these two brave moms who had you know
00:13:42.920 the worst imaginable tragedy thrust upon them uh jen lost her son brady allison lost her daughter
00:13:49.720 Hallie, you know, an unspeakable tragedy that was preventable. That was one. This wasn't just bad
00:13:55.780 luck. OK, this wasn't just, you know, hey, this is life sometimes in a fallen world. No, this was a
00:14:00.020 totally preventable tragedy because the repeat offender, illegal alien who killed their children,
00:14:06.840 she was previously arrested repeatedly for drunk driving while illegal in the United States. But
00:14:13.320 Dane County, Wisconsin, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, where the capital
00:14:17.640 state capital of Madison is one of the most liberal parts of not just Wisconsin, but probably
00:14:21.140 America. They repeatedly protected her. ICE lodged a detainer saying, hey, she's an illegal. You 0.58
00:14:27.400 arrested her. We want to deport her. They said no. Okay. And this happens again and again in these 0.87
00:14:32.500 so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. She then went on to drive wrong way down the freeway, smashed 1.00
00:14:38.420 headfirst into this wonderful young couple. These two were high school sweethearts. They were
00:14:43.400 planning on getting married. They were deeply in love with each other, deeply in love with the
00:14:47.520 lord they were both very devout christians they shared bible verses in the morning uh they were
00:14:52.080 good looking athletic just wonderful just an all-american young couple who were planning a
00:14:56.900 life together only 18 and 19 years old and yet in a preventable chat tragedy they were taken from
00:15:03.440 this world their lives were taken the family's grief of course is still intense but i so credit
00:15:09.180 these two women with trying to turn something positive out of their unspeakable tragedy they
00:15:14.260 don't want it to happen again. And they're willing to speak out and they're willing to be political
00:15:19.180 and say, hey, this is a political crime, essentially, that was inflicted upon our families.
00:15:25.000 There is a political solution. And so I give them a lot of credit. It was a really moving
00:15:30.280 interview. I encourage folks to not just watch the documentary, please, but to also watch the
00:15:34.580 interview of these two ladies, because I think it will move you. And if you happen to live in
00:15:39.280 Wisconsin, I hope it will persuade you to vote for Tom Tiffany. If you have friends and family
00:15:43.100 in Wisconsin, please, you know, make sure they see it and make sure that they vote. Because again,
00:15:48.320 this stuff really matters. I mean, this is the tangible reality of the tangible consequences of
00:15:53.980 radical policies that prioritize narrative over just common sense, you know, and the moms say in
00:16:00.460 the interview with me, they say, this shouldn't even be political, right? I mean, this is really
00:16:04.580 a law enforcement safety, common sense principle. If somebody breaks into your home, and then commits
00:16:10.880 additional crimes while in your home, they cannot stay. They simply cannot stay. Just breaking in
00:16:17.420 should be enough. But when you break in and then commit additional crimes and prove to the community
00:16:22.740 that you are dangerous and you are not removed to protect the political narrative and it puts
00:16:28.380 the lives of Americans at risk, that's totally unacceptable. We can't live this way. And
00:16:34.540 Wisconsin shouldn't be forced to live this way. So they were moving, compelling. I give them a lot
00:16:39.980 of credit for doing it for speaking through their pain there's a lot of tears as you might imagine
00:16:44.840 in the interview and um and it was tough for them i'm sure to get through but they want to see
00:16:51.240 something bigger come out of this and they don't want families to suffer the way they did and what
00:16:55.940 i'm telling you is there's a political solution to this tom tiffany has been as strong on the
00:17:00.500 border as anyone in the congress okay this is a guy who means it this is a guy who is a common
00:17:05.480 sense conservative law and order public official. He'll be a fantastic governor of Wisconsin. It's
00:17:12.660 a really tight race, by the way, Eric, a really tight. I poll like crazy and I show him just
00:17:17.500 barely down within the margin of error, but consistently down two to 3%. So we've got work
00:17:23.140 to do in the next five weeks. Five weeks from today is election day, but it is an absolutely
00:17:28.240 winnable race. And I think this issue might be the lever that puts Tom over the top where
00:17:35.340 Wisconsin, I'd say, Hey, we've got to protect our people. Oh my gosh. It's such important work. And
00:17:39.640 I'm wondering, you know, I'm like, Oh, you know, come here, Steve, you know, New Jersey, we have
00:17:44.860 so many problems. And I see people in the chat, you know, come to Montgomery. I think it was
00:17:50.160 Maryland. Uh, you know, but I, I guess right now I was going to ask you, how do you decide where
00:17:55.600 to go? I'm assuming right now it's coming down to elections. So where you can be helpful. Is that
00:18:00.840 How you decide. Yeah, correct. So we did do a New Jersey documentary trying to help Chittarelli, which unfortunately didn't work. But I thought he was a wonderful candidate. And we did go and make a documentary about New Jersey moving right, which it is moving right now.
00:18:14.940 There's so much fraud, though, Steve. I mean, as you saw, all of the votes that were put in that were cast by illegals, it is North Jersey is so corrupt. Not that the rest of New Jersey isn't, but there's a lot of foreign money and influence.
00:18:30.840 and cheating and it's a shame because really new jersey should be fully republican there's so many
00:18:37.560 people that live here that work in the city that are like in finance and these are like you know
00:18:42.920 people that are really you know capitalistic and and then now we've got our new um patterson's 0.83
00:18:49.720 turned into like little islam and uh so you know even though we're going right we're going radical 0.86
00:18:57.400 at the same time so i don't know what's going to happen you know we have that's happening in a lot
00:19:00.920 of places in america yes where you know formerly blue places are on the whole turning right however
00:19:05.880 the radical left is becoming a marxist jihadi left right this is not your parents or grandparents
00:19:11.000 democrats right it's a totally different america hating christianity hating western civilization
00:19:16.680 hating kind of left the abdul al-sayed what you're talking about in patterson new jersey
00:19:21.880 what you let me highlight last time i was on your show in lewiston maine right this is happening by
00:19:26.360 By the way, I filmed in Patterson. I filmed at that beautiful Patterson Falls.
00:19:29.220 It was a really cool backdrop. A lot of people know it because of The Sopranos.
00:19:32.700 So I actually filmed there. But I saw it. And the point of this doc wasn't the Muslim issue.
00:19:37.140 But I saw firsthand just how Arabic and Islamic Patterson has become. 1.00
00:19:42.400 And I think that's really, really alarming. 1.00
00:19:45.000 And by the way, my next upcoming documentary that's being edited right now will be out next week.
00:19:49.620 I went to Dearborn, Michigan and shot a documentary on exactly that topic in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:19:54.260 But in terms of answering your question about how we select the places, it's very election based.
00:19:58.560 So we have a very tight gubernatorial election in Wisconsin.
00:20:02.460 We also have next door in Michigan. I'm very focused on the Great Lakes right now as far as sort of battleground races in Michigan.
00:20:09.640 We have a very tight Senate election there where I think Mike Rogers can beat Abdul Al-Sayed.
00:20:15.580 But again, kind of like Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin is slightly down right now.
00:20:19.920 So work to do, some wood to chop, but I think a very winnable race. 1.00
00:20:24.260 Abdul Syed hates America, has substantial ties to the most radical elements of Islam, including the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.99
00:20:31.720 He's not somebody who ever belongs in the United States Senate.
00:20:35.660 And so I'm doing everything I can to try to expose that.
00:20:38.460 So in terms of how we select the states, yes, generally in an election year like this, we're very, very election focused.
00:20:44.600 And I also really up the pace. So the frequency increases a lot.
00:20:48.580 I've been super busy. My editing team has been super busy. My camera crew.
00:20:53.040 Once we shift into next year, post-election, then we're a little more issue-based, and
00:20:57.960 I'm sort of a little freer to go wherever in the United States, and we can focus more
00:21:02.480 on issues, and it doesn't have to be quite so election-specific, but in the even years,
00:21:06.640 basically, when we've got, you know, a lot of, there are, of course, odd-year elections,
00:21:10.160 but most of the elections in the United States are even years, so in the even years, I'm
00:21:14.360 doing this mainly, I mean, of course, I want to motivate people, hopefully educate people,
00:21:18.020 even entertain them sometimes when the topic is fun.
00:21:20.320 This one wasn't fun at all, of course. But sometimes, but the end end goal that I'm after and the folks who work with me are after is to move votes ultimately.
00:21:31.320 So, you know, we hope to educate and enlighten and motivate. But all that toward the aim of, hey, let's win this election and let's make sure we get the right people in office.
00:21:40.000 And listen, I'm honored that I get to do it. I meet amazing people. I go to some really cool places. I go to tough places, too.
00:21:46.380 I mean, you know, I've filmed in some bad neighborhoods.
00:21:48.480 I filmed a lot of the border in the summertime, which is not pleasant.
00:21:51.880 Don't advise that if you can help it.
00:21:53.820 I can help it.
00:21:54.520 But it's cool work, and I'm blessed that I get to do it.
00:21:56.980 And fighting for something I so believe in, which is this country, which is Western civilization.
00:22:02.300 And it's an honor to have a seat at the table in a fight that really matters.
00:22:05.960 Oh, you're on the road.
00:22:06.960 I know.
00:22:07.240 I'm like, God, Steve is everywhere.
00:22:08.720 I just want to say one more thing, Owen, before I ask you to jump in.
00:22:11.520 But I saw a post from Ari Fleischer this morning.
00:22:14.580 um he put up a flyer that the democrats for mike rogers put up but anyway ari wrote the soros
00:22:22.980 foundation paid for abdul to go to medical school and now they're raising money for him he's owned
00:22:29.200 by the soros family and their stepson hassan piker and then he has a flyer that the democrats put up
00:22:36.600 but it says you know abdul for u.s senate please join and it says katherine and jeffrey soros
00:22:42.160 amos hassan john favreau ed redlich sarah timberman then you got uh let's see oh ben
00:22:49.360 rhodes another winner tommy veder great so you know this is what uh michigan has to look forward
00:22:57.300 to uh is a soros backed terrorist backed america hating backed puppet and is he a doctor i don't
00:23:06.260 know i don't care um well yeah no he's not licensed i mean he did go to medical school 0.92
00:23:10.600 but he always calls himself a doctor and he has never practiced. He's never gotten licensed.
00:23:16.060 You know, almost everything about him is phony. And listen, I'll be the first to admit he's skilled.
00:23:20.640 OK, he's a smart guy. He's got some media savvy. He's pretty good on camera. He's got a little bit
00:23:25.420 of a silver tongue. So, I mean, I get it. I get some of the appeal. But at the same time, I would
00:23:31.120 ask and encourage the voters of Michigan, take a real look at who he is and what he actually
00:23:37.040 believes. And by the way, you're exactly right. And who are his allies? Right. He had Hassan
00:23:41.660 Piker. This isn't some, you know, extended association. He had Hassan Piker visit Michigan
00:23:46.780 and physically campaign with him. OK, so this is not arm's length transaction. They are boys. OK,
00:23:53.440 this is his BFF. And Hassan Piker is even more overt than I think they believe the same things.
00:23:59.900 Right. Abdul and Hassan. But Hassan Piker is even more overt about how much he hates the United
00:24:05.180 states is there anyone in the chat is there anyone in the chat that doesn't know hassan piker and
00:24:10.860 maybe maybe steve you know for the people that don't how do we explain hassan piker yeah so
00:24:17.520 hassan piker he was unfortunately born in the united states as an anchor baby i don't believe
00:24:22.300 that anchor baby should be citizens but technically at least for now he is a u.s citizen but it spent
00:24:27.080 his entire youth in turkey some turkish descent and uh and very much has the mindset of a turkish
00:24:34.000 left-wing Islamist radical, came back to the United States and started podcasting. He is
00:24:40.320 unfortunately very successful. He has a very big following on the very hard radical left.
00:24:46.640 And again, kind of like Abdul, I'll admit he has some media skills. He's got a bit of a silver
00:24:52.160 tongue like Abdul does. And he can be funny at times, but he is an absolute to the core 1.00
00:24:59.140 America-hating radical. And we see this really toxic marriage right now in the United States
00:25:04.740 of the hard, radical Marxist left with the Islamist jihadis. And even though they actually
00:25:12.020 would disagree on a whole host of issues, they have formed this red-green alliance nonetheless
00:25:16.860 that at least for now will last. And the reason it does, because you might say, well, wait a second,
00:25:22.040 you know, they disagree on so many issues, especially social or, you know, sort of moral
00:25:25.140 issues. You know, why this alliance? Well, what they have in common is an enemy. They have a
00:25:30.280 common enemy in America, in Western civilization, in historic Christianity. And so they unite in who 0.95
00:25:37.900 their enemy is. And they want to destroy our country, and they're not shy about it, right?
00:25:42.880 And they want to destroy all the things our country produces, like to be specific on that.
00:25:46.540 Looking at Abdul, I've posted this several times on my social media. He's running to be the senator
00:25:50.620 from Michigan, okay, from the auto state. And he says that the automobile is like a cigarette
00:25:56.520 and that they should be similarly reviled, that the automobile doesn't belong in our society.
00:26:03.180 He's somebody who said that football, I mean, football, in a state with Michigan State and
00:26:07.380 the University of Michigan, he said that football was racist, misogynistic. He hates football. Okay, 0.53
00:26:13.000 this is the kind of guy he is. Now, he still showed up at the Wolverine tailgate and pretended
00:26:17.240 to like football, but we have the tapes. Okay. We have the receipts. These things are, are on the
00:26:21.400 record. Uh, he's an America hating radical. Um, and I'm exposing that I hope. And what's happened
00:26:28.440 in Dearborn, here's the thing too, which I think is interesting. And part of why I went there is
00:26:31.680 because I was polling Michigan and I was frankly surprised at how honest Michigan citizens are
00:26:36.500 willing to be now at saying there's too much Muslim mass migration into Michigan. Uh, and I
00:26:42.100 show this in my upcoming doc, so please look for it. But, you know, the town of Dearborn has been
00:26:46.820 completely overtaken by Arabic and by Islam to the point where prayer calls are blasted throughout 1.00
00:26:53.680 the town. This is Dearborn, Michigan, by the way, the home of Ford Motor. That's how most people,
00:26:57.560 if they know Dearborn, they know it from Henry Ford and really in some ways the birthplace of
00:27:01.120 the American auto industry, Dearborn. It is now fully Islamic. The women walking down the street 0.98
00:27:06.020 in Dearborn in the Midwest of the United States are fully in the hijabs, most of them covering 1.00
00:27:10.740 everything, you know, even covering the face and the eyes. There are various mosques there, 1.00
00:27:16.680 including the biggest mosque in America, all of which share allegiance and pledge allegiance to
00:27:21.600 the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States 0.99
00:27:26.380 government for good reasons. These are radicals who hate the United States, and they have been 1.00
00:27:30.980 very overt, by the way, that what they are seeking to do for the country is what they've done for
00:27:35.460 Dearborn. In other words, they don't want to coexist alongside us. You know, the leftists
00:27:39.800 love those bumper stickers coexist. The Islamists have no interest in coexisting. They want to 1.00
00:27:45.680 overtake. Right. And it's part of their religion. It really is. It's part of their ideology that you 0.95
00:27:51.040 must seek political power so that you can institute Sharia law. They have largely done that in 0.97
00:27:56.680 Dearborn, Michigan, believe it or not. And they're trying to make it even more stringent. The point
00:28:00.700 is, and this is what I'm trying to reveal for the country and for Michigan voters, is let's stop
00:28:05.840 this. Okay. We've had, we've had enough of this. Now listen, people who are here who are American
00:28:09.680 citizens, they have every right to practice their religion, whatever it is, including Islam,
00:28:14.100 of course. But what I am saying is let's also be smart about who we decide to invite into our
00:28:19.440 country because there we do decide, right? And elect who we invite in and, and inviting in mass
00:28:24.960 Muslim migration, I don't believe makes sense for this country. And my polling tells me a super 1.00
00:28:29.540 majority of Americans and Michigan voters agree with me. Um, well, part of that movement then
00:28:34.920 has to be rejecting Abdul El-Sayed. And rejecting suicidal empathy and being
00:28:40.620 afraid to speak up. That's a big problem that we were taught. Owen, I'm so sorry. I've just
00:28:45.140 been yammering on, Steve. Go ahead. That's all right. No, I mean, well, if I go back to the
00:28:50.060 documentary clip we just saw, I certainly think it's a huge tragedy anytime a parent loses a
00:28:55.460 child. And I don't think there's any way you can minimize the pain that they're going through. So
00:29:00.960 i do think they're very brave to even speak about it um because i think if i try to put myself in
00:29:06.860 those shoes i hope i certainly hope i never have to face that but um you know i would just be
00:29:11.520 devastated i don't know how i would even continue it's like you know you it's like you've lost
00:29:17.240 everything and um you know i i get angry when people on the left try to justify it or or make
00:29:27.120 it's not so bad where they're like oh the crime rates are they they try to make a case where the
00:29:31.840 crime rates are lower for immigrants than they are for citizens or something like that and i'm like 1.00
00:29:36.140 no if they're an illegal immigrant you should be comparing it to what it would be if they weren't 0.99
00:29:40.280 here which is zero right there's no there's no other thing to compare it to if they weren't here 0.93
00:29:45.960 there would be none of that and that those kids would be alive today yeah and um so you know it
00:29:52.600 just it gets me angry when they try to change the conversation to something that really shouldn't be
00:29:56.640 And I definitely agree with you that this is a problem everywhere in the country, not just in the border states. 0.99
00:30:03.360 And it's been an orchestrated thing from start to finish, from bringing the caravans all the way up through our southern border to letting them go once they get here to shipping them all over the country and setting up these communities like in Minnesota with the Somalis and with, you know, in Ohio as well and other places and with all these Islam communities. 0.97
00:30:24.500 and it seems very intentional to me it doesn't seem like this would just happen by accident 0.85
00:30:29.700 it's like they decided where to put these people and they decided to concentrate them in places
00:30:35.320 where they would not assimilate and they would keep their culture and they would have a foothold
00:30:39.820 to try and start taking control and it seems like a very orchestrated campaign to try and make this
00:30:46.660 all happen and i think we do need to take back our country and we need to stop this and and get rid
00:30:53.760 of the people especially like you said the people who have already committed additional crimes on
00:30:57.620 top of just getting here illegally to begin with that if you've demonstrated that you're not willing
00:31:02.500 to follow the laws and you're not willing to do the things we would expect a good citizen to do
00:31:07.720 then of course you shouldn't be here i mean i i personally think we should go farther than that
00:31:12.720 and say if you shouldn't be here you just shouldn't be here but um you know i certainly also agree
00:31:17.440 that we should start with the worst of the worst and start with the people who have already committed
00:31:21.320 other crimes while they've been here and so that i don't think there's any justification for that
00:31:25.960 so i certainly would encourage anybody listening yeah i want to um i want to address one person on
00:31:32.640 youtube i i've noticed this person when i go back to the after show this is coke machine 55 10 he's
00:31:40.020 just dying to know who by who who's orchestrating this you know like how is this being orchestrated
00:31:46.020 so steve or owen whichever one of you want to take this because poor coke machine needs an answer
00:31:50.780 i'll be happy to yes because and i do cover this in my main documentary but i'm happy to talk about
00:31:56.020 this uh look there are a lot of ngos non-governmental organizations that get a tremendous
00:32:01.320 amount of tax dollars and then they also get a lot of charitable and or religious contributions as
00:32:05.660 well and unfortunately they have become in many ways almost human trafficking organizations and
00:32:11.500 again we cover this uh in my main documentary so i encourage you to go to that on my youtube page
00:32:16.460 also at cortesinvestigates.com. And I say this part, by the way, with no pleasure as a Catholic,
00:32:23.080 and I try to be a very faithful Catholic, but unfortunately, the Catholic Church in the United
00:32:26.580 States has become largely a human trafficking organization, particularly Catholic Charities
00:32:31.620 specifically. You know, the Catholic Church is a very big umbrella. Catholic Charities specifically,
00:32:36.040 which is an organization within the Catholic Church that's run by the Catholic Bishops out
00:32:39.200 of Washington, D.C., who are unfortunately very left-wing, very pro-open borders. They get hundreds
00:32:45.340 of millions of dollars and actually at times into the billions of dollars from the government
00:32:49.800 taxpayer money in addition to what they're collecting from the pews from the faithful but
00:32:53.940 taxpayer money to quote resettle migrants and the specific case of the Somalis in Lewiston who have
00:33:00.600 been so problematic who have not remotely assimilated who are stealing at scale from
00:33:06.200 the state of Maine much like is happening in Minnesota just not quite as big a deal because
00:33:11.100 there's just not as many of them in Maine, but a similar kind of mass systemic scam, mostly via
00:33:16.740 healthcare fraud, via Medicare and Medicaid abuse. Those Somalis in Lewiston, Maine, they were 0.99
00:33:22.260 literally installed, planted there by Catholic charities in the United States. So that is the 0.98
00:33:28.180 kind of group that's doing it. Lutheran Family Services is doing a lot of it. So it's not just
00:33:32.280 a Catholic problem. A lot of these so-called religious organizations are doing it. There's
00:33:35.760 some Jewish groups that are doing it. And then there's also just some secular NGOs that are
00:33:39.860 doing it, but it's, it's a hat in hand to the federal government saying, well, we will take
00:33:44.740 your money. We will then do your bidding, meaning not, not the people, of course, I mean, you know,
00:33:49.020 democratic operatives and Democrat politicians will do what you want done, which is put these
00:33:54.180 people and listen, you're right. It's all over the country. You know, Owen mentioned Ohio and
00:33:58.300 Springfield, Ohio, Charleroi, Pennsylvania in Western PA. Of course, this has happened. It's
00:34:04.100 happened at scale in Minneapolis in the twin cities. And that's a better sort of known story.
00:34:08.500 It's happening in Texas with entire Islamic communities that are practicing Sharia law.
00:34:13.260 So that's that's sort of the the installed migration, if you will. 0.95
00:34:18.200 What I covered in Wisconsin, to get back to my current documentary about danger in the heartland, that's more just Biden throwing open the border and saying, hey, come on in, whomever.
00:34:27.440 Right. So there it wasn't really as organized, but it's every bit as sinister and destructive to the United States.
00:34:33.220 And the illegal migrant who killed Hallie Helgeson and Brady Hyling, this wonderful young American couple who was doing absolutely nothing wrong.
00:34:42.260 They were coming home from a concert. They were driving correctly.
00:34:45.780 They were sober, seatbelts on, driving correctly, smashed into headfirst by a repeat offender drunk driver who didn't belong in this country,
00:34:53.260 who was protected by the leftist politicians of Wisconsin and Dane County, Wisconsin specifically.
00:35:00.220 That's sort of a different kind of car.
00:35:02.020 So there's various sort of flavors, right, of the assault on America, on our safety, on our wages, on our national security, our sovereignty.
00:35:09.760 There's a there's a highly organized part where unfortunately churches or so-called church groups are deeply involved.
00:35:16.520 And then there's more sort of just the chaos part of, hey, open the border, whoever comes, comes.
00:35:21.000 And then they go to. And by the way, the migrants aren't dumb. OK, they know this. 0.96
00:35:24.360 They go to sanctuary jurisdictions because they know they're not going to get punted.
00:35:27.440 right they know if they go to Chicago or they go to Dane County Wisconsin and they go to these
00:35:32.020 liberal jurisdictions they go to New Jersey guess what even if we get picked up for doing something
00:35:36.340 else we're not going to get sent back so of course they go there right I mean it just makes sense
00:35:40.920 unfortunately you know another documentary I did not far from Wisconsin just across the border in
00:35:45.720 Chicago was the Sheridan Gorman one she was the beautiful young woman student at Loyola University
00:35:50.900 in Chicago she and her friends were out late one night but doing you know nothing crazy they were
00:35:55.940 going to literally watch the Northern Lights because it was a rare day where you could see
00:35:59.320 them over Lake Michigan from Chicago. So they were out of these rocks right next to Loyola
00:36:03.880 University at Loyola Beach, a place that is seemingly really safe. It's not a dangerous
00:36:08.660 part of Chicago. There's plenty of those. I'm from there and you'll know it very well. And an
00:36:13.560 illegal migrant came up and without any provocation, without any cause at all, shot her and killed her 0.97
00:36:18.980 just because he hated his heart and he was perhaps mentally unstable. By the way, that illegal 0.99
00:36:24.240 migrant lived just a couple of blocks from there. And guess what? We paid his rent. The taxpayers
00:36:30.880 were paying his rent for him to live on the Chicago lakefront where a lot of Chicagoans
00:36:34.960 can't afford to live. Okay, pretty high rent area. The taxpayers of Illinois were paying the rent
00:36:40.880 of the illegal alien scumbag who decided to kill Sheridan Gorman in cold blood, a college freshman 0.98
00:36:49.220 who was a wonderful young lady, deeply involved in her Christian group at Loyola University, 1.00
00:36:55.520 gone. And her family, like these brave women that I interviewed, her mother and her family,
00:37:00.440 they've been brave too about speaking out, about testifying before Congress and giving some
00:37:04.220 interviews, which I'm sure is anguishing every single time. But they don't want to repeat it
00:37:08.560 as well. The Gormans don't, the Helgesons don't, the Heilings don't. Those are the two families 0.95
00:37:12.820 that I interviewed in Wisconsin. But we have a choice. I mean, look, I mean, that's all horrible,
00:37:18.160 awful news the good news is in five weeks we have a choice you know you know we have we have candidates
00:37:23.760 in these races who will continue that kind of mayhem will protect the predators and then we
00:37:28.480 have candidates who say no law and order common sense um sovereignty of the united states and so
00:37:34.800 let's do everything we can i you know i'm sure this audience is going to vote uh but let's make
00:37:39.200 sure that everyone you know everyone in your sphere of influence is similarly motivated to
00:37:43.360 to vote. And honestly, be a bit of a pest, okay? I'm going to ask you, step out of your comfort
00:37:47.880 zone a little bit. Friends and family you know who you think are voting our way, make sure they're
00:37:52.940 registered. There's still time in most places to get registered. That's the first thing. You can
00:37:56.340 check that publicly, by the way. That's probably available if somebody's registered. So you don't
00:37:59.760 have to ask them. You can just check on your own. You can do a little snoopy. And then once they're
00:38:05.680 registered, bother them a little bit to make sure they vote. And I encourage them to vote early. I
00:38:10.580 know there's probably a lot of folks in this audience who don't believe in that. I wish we
00:38:13.740 only had game day voting, but we don't. And so in person though, in person. Yeah. Voting early in
00:38:18.780 person. That's what I do. It's what I encourage everybody on the right to do. Vote early in
00:38:23.140 person. You never know what can happen on election day, whether a personal issue, a health problem,
00:38:28.280 a childcare crisis, all kinds of things can happen on election day. So please, please vote in person
00:38:34.060 early. Bank that vote. The left is way better at this game than we are in terms of banking early
00:38:40.280 votes even outside of the cheating i mean of course they cheat and i know the system facilitates
00:38:43.960 cheating and i want the system changed but we can't change the system unless we win by the
00:38:48.520 current rules you know devised for the system so these are going to be tough elections and like
00:38:52.760 make no mistake i i think we are underwater in really all of these tight races now i don't think
00:38:57.880 they're unwinnable okay i'm not trying to be pessimistic i'm not being uh debbie downer here
00:39:02.600 i think they are all winnable but we can't sit it out we are down in all of them basically that
00:39:07.960 races that really matter. And we, we need to rally to win. If you look at where Trump's going to
00:39:13.980 rally, you're like, Oh my God, look, why are you going to these States? You shouldn't have to be
00:39:18.400 going to these States, but he he's going because it's bad right now, you guys. So, you know,
00:39:24.060 Owen and Steve, you know, what do you, for me, I think the two issues with the midterms are the
00:39:32.440 wars and illegal immigration. Um, the war is not going to end soon. Um, not, and things aren't
00:39:42.780 going to turn around fast enough to make that. Like if that's somebody's issue, it's not going
00:39:46.860 to turn it around, but the illegal immigration, well, and the war goes with the economy. So that's,
00:39:52.520 let me just put that together. So what people are, you know, and I have people like, Oh, you know,
00:39:56.340 they're, they're mad at me because I'm not willing to just like take one for the team.
00:40:00.320 when my, I have a business that runs strictly on diesel. Um, I have a fleet of trucks and
00:40:06.160 equipment that literally burn diesel all day long. So they're like, you know, well, you have to like
00:40:12.100 take one for the team. And I'm just like, you know, it's easy to say for you, but my business
00:40:16.940 costs actually it's, they're up over 70% now, my cost of doing business. And I can't push that all
00:40:22.660 to a customer. I can't, I really don't want to push any of it to a customer, but, um, you know,
00:40:27.840 so it's, I'm, I'm like, we'll be okay. Like we'll be okay. I don't love it. It's going to
00:40:33.160 definitely change the trajectory of some things we want to do, but, um, there are people where
00:40:38.300 that's not okay. Like they can't, they can barely get through today. So having that attitude of
00:40:45.420 like, you know, people saying like, just take one for the team. I think people, even if you feel
00:40:50.260 that way, you need to show empathy to people, sympathy to people. Like I can't imagine how you
00:40:56.280 feel like hopefully the war will, will end after the midterms. Like, I think you need to like hear
00:41:01.480 people, like meet them where they're at, acknowledge how they're feeling and then say,
00:41:06.060 but let's just rally because the thing that could happen after that is so much worse than what we
00:41:11.260 have to temporarily deal with now. So I just think that coming at people hard, isn't the way to go.
00:41:16.660 So, um, you know, what, what do you guys think the issues are? Oh, and I'll come to you first
00:41:22.680 for, you know, people that they're, they're probably going to sit it out. A lot of people
00:41:26.940 are going to sit it out and that's a problem. Yeah. I mean, I, I do think the economy is going
00:41:30.860 to be the dominant factor because I just see, I just think it, it, it's something you face every
00:41:35.280 day, right? Like you go to the grocery store, you go to the gas station, you see the prices
00:41:39.100 and if they're a lot higher than you're hoping or expecting, then that's going to make a difference
00:41:44.100 in your mind in terms of how you feel about how the government is doing because like it or not,
00:41:49.640 And to whatever extent they either are or are not really to blame for those things, that's how people are going to see it.
00:41:55.920 You know, we'd love on the right to be able to say, oh, it's all because of that Biden, you know, bill back better trillion dollar spending bill.
00:42:02.720 And maybe that's true, but no one's going to think that.
00:42:05.860 You're not going to convince for any people that, you know, we should just pretend like Trump's been doing all the right things when he promised to say he's going to make things more affordable.
00:42:15.080 And look, the prices are still high.
00:42:16.740 And so I think that's going to be one of the main issues. But I do think immigration is an important one. And I hope we can highlight that as a big issue, because as Steve's been pointing out with those documentaries, it is a big difference in terms of what's going to happen.
00:42:31.700 And I think the economy, I do think it would be worse under Democrats.
00:42:37.540 And I think it is important to understand that the midterms are important for that reason, because a lot of people do just not vote in the midterms because they just don't think it matters.
00:42:45.360 And I think it does matter because every year, Congress at least has to pass a budget.
00:42:50.560 They have to say, what are we going to spend our money on?
00:42:53.180 How much are we going to spend?
00:42:54.380 What are we going to fund?
00:42:55.200 What are we not going to fund?
00:42:56.020 And so what happens right now is going to determine that and how much leverage each side has to make those deals or whatever compromises they have to make to be able to put that budget through.
00:43:07.780 So if the Republicans keep control of the House and the Senate, then Trump can probably get the budget he's looking for and we can make things move in the right direction. 0.95
00:43:15.960 But if we don't, then we're going to have to either make some compromises or we're going to have more government shutdowns and all the stupid games they play. 0.87
00:43:23.020 And certainly the objective of the Democrats is to obstruct every possible thing they can. 0.95
00:43:28.700 And so that's what we're going to see if they take control of the House or the Senate or both,
00:43:32.200 is they're just going to try and grind everything to a halt they possibly can that Trump is doing
00:43:37.100 in the hopes that then they can, you know, try and take control in 2028.
00:43:41.900 OK, Steve, your thoughts?
00:43:44.140 Yeah, I mean, to that point, I think Owen is exactly right.
00:43:46.140 The Democrats, let's just be honest about this, there's no more moderate Democrats.
00:43:49.120 They're gone. That species is extinct. OK, there are.
00:43:52.140 there are moderate Democrat voters. Don't get me wrong. You know, you may know some of your life,
00:43:55.440 but as far as office holders, party operative decision makers, the biggest donors on the
00:44:00.600 Democrat side, they are fully radicalized. They are fully anti-America, anti-Christianity,
00:44:06.840 anti-Western civilization. I mean, that's just the reality because the Dems will point to,
00:44:11.180 as a supposed moderate, they'll often bring up Joe Biden, to which I reply, oh, you mean the guy
00:44:15.440 who threw open the U.S.-Mexico border? The guy who said that we need to sexually transition children?
00:44:20.680 That's your moderate.
00:44:21.420 No, there may have been a time in his career when he was a moderate, but not by the time he was president or whomever was making the actual decisions while he was president was clearly not a moderate.
00:44:31.820 So let's realize that if the Dems are handed the reins of power, they destroy.
00:44:36.040 They do not build.
00:44:37.000 We open the show talking about the amazing building of a rocket, right, the building of a satellite network that works anywhere in the world.
00:44:42.360 I mean, these are builders, right?
00:44:43.380 This is what America does best.
00:44:45.220 What the Democrats do is destroy. And if they're handed the reins of power, all they will do is seek to destroy, in this case, Donald Trump and his administration will be nothing but recriminations, investigations, you know, basically show trials before the country instead of addressing the very real problems that we face.
00:45:01.620 Right. Problems like this massive deficit, which is a bipartisan creation, by the way, I think Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame for that as one big example of a huge problem that needs attention rather than just Democrats playing the game of political destruction.
00:45:15.860 And, you know, to this point more broadly, look, I have been critical of the war since the very beginning of it.
00:45:21.380 OK, I didn't just come around to this now. I believe that a crucial part of the America First platform is a foreign policy of realism and restraint.
00:45:28.620 I thought that was that was closely adhered to in Trump's first term.
00:45:32.120 It's to me very regrettable that he took a big detour away from that this term.
00:45:36.660 But he did. That's, you know, at this point, spilled milk. I hope we can wrap up that war as quickly as possible.
00:45:42.000 I think Iran, unfortunately, knows that that he faces a political problem at home.
00:45:47.500 And so they're not much of a mood to to they unfortunately do get a vote, even though we've utterly destroyed their military and caused tons of damage to the country.
00:45:55.340 They have a lot of leverage in this process. And they know that the mullahs are evil, but they're not dumb. 0.96
00:46:00.500 So here we are in this predicament. And what I would also tell folks, though, is, look, this war is not going to last forever. 0.91
00:46:06.920 And I think I believe it will be open sooner rather than later once we get past the midterms, because I think the Iranians will then get much more reasonable about what they want to end this because they actually need to end it, too. 0.50
00:46:17.440 And if you look at the, you know, the economy is my main lane.
00:46:21.280 I was a bond trader for 25 years before I got into politics with Trump 10 years ago.
00:46:25.660 And if you know, I watch the data really, really closely.
00:46:28.660 If you look at the trajectory pre-war economically, things were actually starting to head in a really good direction.
00:46:34.840 real wages, meaning your pay adjusted for the cost of goods and services in your life.
00:46:39.860 Real wages were starting to grow again. They had crashed under Joe Biden. They were really
00:46:43.460 starting to grow. By the way, part of that is immigration. Immigration and the economy are
00:46:47.140 interlinked because taking out all those illegal workers, what was it doing? It was raising pay 0.98
00:46:51.400 for Americans. We had reasonable inflation pre-war. The inflation was trending down. The
00:46:56.660 wages were trending up. That's what you want. That's prosperity in this country. And then
00:47:01.320 we made the decision, I think, you know, foolishly to go to a war of choice. And, you know,
00:47:05.740 obviously there's well-meaning folks who disagree with me on that. But regardless, I think what you
00:47:09.520 can't argue with is it's spiked inflation clearly. But I believe that will be temporary once we wrap
00:47:16.100 up the war. If we get back to that pre-war trajectory, again, that trend of expanding 0.97
00:47:21.260 real wages for households, that's going to be really significant. And then bigger picture,
00:47:26.040 by the way, what I would also point to is this announcement about this Iowa steel plant yesterday,
00:47:30.400 That is a big deal.
00:47:31.540 This is going to be the biggest steel plant in the United States.
00:47:34.520 Tell us, Steve.
00:47:35.460 That's great news.
00:47:36.460 Okay, sure.
00:47:37.080 Yes.
00:47:37.460 So, and by the way, I'll admit, I've never even heard of this company, Masabi, but I
00:47:41.580 guess they're massive.
00:47:43.400 It sounds more Japanese.
00:47:46.240 Well, it's actually Indian.
00:47:47.160 And I think there are Japanese elements to it as well, but it's Indian owned.
00:47:50.880 And guess what?
00:47:51.580 Because of President Trump's trade policy, they're going to build the biggest steel plant
00:47:55.640 in the United States, in eastern Iowa.
00:47:58.100 The iron ore is going to come from Minnesota. There's a new mining facility opening in Minnesota, which hasn't happened in a half century.
00:48:06.360 So this is amazing stuff in the American heartland. By the way, both those states, Iowa and Minnesota, very much in play for the election.
00:48:12.720 So this is well-timed politically, this wonderful economic news. But you're talking thousands of jobs on the Minnesota side.
00:48:18.400 The iron ore then shipped down the Mississippi to Iowa. There's going to be 6,000 construction jobs almost immediately.
00:48:25.600 That will happen. And of course, these kinds of plants take years to build. So this is, you know, this is multi decades. We're talking about the benefits here, but on a lasting basis, looks like about 2000 jobs. And these are high paying family sustaining jobs, domestic productivity of the items we need, the national security we need to be able to produce our own steel. We need to make our own steel, our own semiconductors, our own medicines in the United States, not just for an economic imperative, but for a national security imperative as well.
00:48:53.520 So this is amazing news. It's a tangible success of the America First trade agenda of an America First on-shoring policy.
00:49:01.720 Now, like I said, the benefits are going to be, you know, are slowly unrolling.
00:49:05.160 We don't we don't unfortunately get the snap benefits, whereas the war, the costs are immediate. Right.
00:49:09.400 So this is the conundrum that we face politically right now.
00:49:12.120 But I do believe that once the war wraps up, real wages start growing again.
00:49:16.520 That's sort of the near term story of success, I think. And Donald Trump showed that pre-war.
00:49:20.880 And then the bigger picture is the onshore and the investment into the United States.
00:49:25.240 It has just been massive. But we don't really feel it yet because these are big, multi-year, even multi-decade projects that take time to truly unfold.
00:49:35.360 But but the benefits will be felt long after Donald Trump is no longer president.
00:49:40.040 I mean, and and from that perspective, I think we can actually talk the economy from a place of strength.
00:49:45.460 And I think that announcement yesterday couldn't have been better time for this election season.
00:49:51.540 It's just great news for America, but it's also great news for those of us trying to win races.
00:49:55.800 I agree with that. Owen, did you want to jump in before I start talking my head off again?
00:50:01.260 No, go ahead.
00:50:02.240 Okay. So, Steve, you know President Trump personally.
00:50:08.420 I don't know the last time you spoke with him.
00:50:10.700 Um, but if I had another hour with you, believe me, I would get into a whole other sect of
00:50:16.720 questions that I just would love to chat about sometime.
00:50:20.300 So this is like two parts and however you want to answer, do you think he regrets getting
00:50:28.180 into the Iran war now?
00:50:30.160 And do you think he's changed from who he was to who he is now?
00:50:36.720 uh so to the first question yes he absolutely regrets it and i i i can i think say with some
00:50:44.720 confidence i know he regrets it at this point you know that's not something he's going to say
00:50:48.540 publicly right it's not his style but yes uh internally in his head and certainly when the
00:50:53.700 cameras and microphones aren't there he regrets getting into this war uh he does now has he
00:50:58.960 fundamentally changed from his america first mentality when it comes to foreign policy no
00:51:03.060 I don't believe he has. I believe he made a really serious error here.
00:51:07.400 I think he was misled by some really, unfortunately, convincing but sinister people around him, both Americans and overseas actors.
00:51:16.680 But look, I'm not excusing him, by the way, just because he got bad advice.
00:51:21.640 I mean, the buck stops with him, right? He is the commander in chief who made his decision.
00:51:25.560 By the way, I understand why he made it. And don't get me wrong. I mean, I get the pro war argument.
00:51:30.280 I can totally understand it. It's not totally unreasonable. I just don't agree with it.
00:51:36.040 And what I also know, though, and I think this part, again, really can't be debated by anybody reasonable, is it's a big problem for the elections.
00:51:42.740 OK, so even if you think it's worth doing, I think if you're reasonable, like, you know, if you're a Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin type,
00:51:49.700 if you're being honest, you have to at least admit and neither of them is honest, in my view.
00:51:54.340 But you have to admit, OK, you have to say this is worth doing, but it's a real problem for the election.
00:51:59.260 OK, I mean, that at the least you have to say is a cost. But to me, too, if a war is worth getting into.
00:52:04.960 And I think this was also an error, not just the decision strategically to go to war.
00:52:08.580 But, you know, I would point to George W. Bush, OK, somebody for whom I have almost no respect.
00:52:13.400 I think one of the worst presidents in American history. I truly believe that.
00:52:16.980 But one thing George W. Bush did when he went to the disastrous Iraq war is he at least had the respect for the American people to sell it to them.
00:52:25.360 If you remember back then, I mean, it was weeks and weeks of effectively a campaign to sell the American people on why we needed to do this.
00:52:33.360 Now, he sold it with a lot of lies, with a lot of shoddy intelligence, with a lot of propaganda.
00:52:38.180 But the point is, he went into the war with a lot of public approval for the war.
00:52:42.600 Now, it quickly dissipated, right?
00:52:44.380 And the American people tired of the war and ultimately really turned on it in terms of public opinion.
00:52:49.280 But he went into it with a significant mandate from the people to do this.
00:52:54.460 He also went to Congress, by the way, and got Congress to approve. None of that happened here, right? None of that happened. There was not a respectful case made to the people, did not go to Congress. And so all of that is problematic. But again, I'm not trying to engage. This is election season. I don't believe this is the time to be punching at Republicans, to be punching at potential allies.
00:53:15.260 mistakes were made clearly I believe firmly that post-election this war will wrap up and relatively
00:53:21.980 quickly and even if you are even if you are very frustrated right now with the war and I know a lot
00:53:29.740 of people who are and I'm one of them realize that our opponents on the other side are radical
00:53:36.200 America hating Marxist jihadi extremists and I'm not exaggerating those are a lot of loaded words
00:53:42.260 I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And we need to defeat these anti-American radical extremists on the other side.
00:53:50.520 And I believe we will ultimately, but it's not going to be easy.
00:53:53.560 A hundred percent. And I just think it's important that we understand, you know, because there's so many people that are just like, you know, we had to do the war.
00:54:01.160 It's like, listen, the war was not explained to us. And I think it's better for our morale, you guys, to just acknowledge what Steve said.
00:54:10.820 Like, yeah, he regrets it. I know he regrets it. He regrets it. He's in it now. He's got to finish
00:54:17.180 what he started in the best way that he can save face and get out of this. He's not on the ticket.
00:54:24.860 I don't think he should say vote like he is on the ticket. I think he should say just vote like
00:54:30.400 you want to keep America America because a lot of people are disappointed with him. And it doesn't
00:54:35.040 take away any of the amazing things he's done. But when it comes down to voting, people are
00:54:40.720 going to, they're not going to be like, oh, I'm so happy about this. It's, you know, people focus
00:54:45.220 on the negative. Like this is killing me. Like this is, I can't do this anymore. So, um, you
00:54:51.700 don't believe Steve, I don't know what you don't believe about. Tell us what you don't believe
00:54:54.780 about. Um, but I think, you know, sometimes I wonder, would it be better if he was just like,
00:54:59.780 yeah, you know what? I wish I didn't go in and, but we're here now and we're going to finish the
00:55:03.880 job. Like, I just feel like I don't want to it's not like to say you're admitting defeat, but it's
00:55:08.380 like I'm acknowledging the people that I let down because I feel like he's been doing the exact
00:55:13.160 opposite by amplifying Mark Levin. You know, it's like we're not stupid. So and I just want to 0.72
00:55:19.300 address one of their things, Steve, if you can, because there are, you know, just one just one
00:55:24.200 person made a comment and I just want her to understand. So there was not compelling evidence
00:55:30.320 to go into this war there was compelling evidence not to go into this war but trump was convinced
00:55:37.440 to go into it and so people feel like well he must have known something we didn't know and
00:55:41.860 that's why he did it if he knew something we didn't know i believe he would have told us so
00:55:47.160 we could understand you know so i just want to say that i don't think there was some secret thing
00:55:52.880 that you know he knows that we don't you guys i there are our intelligence our people actually
00:55:59.480 begged him not to do it is what happened and he went in because he was convinced by other people
00:56:04.200 am i am i right with that steve i think that's exactly correct and it was mostly people outside
00:56:09.160 of the administration that convinced him yeah um it was foreigners and donor folks not uh national
00:56:15.800 security people within the government that's correct so you know i know i and it's like it's
00:56:21.160 a tough pill to swallow and you guys listen tomorrow i'm gonna play for you a clip about
00:56:25.080 a lot of the amazing things he's done. And I mean, thrilled, thrilled that he could do a lot
00:56:30.140 of the things he did. But I think that the war started so fast after he got into this second
00:56:36.780 term and it just really derailed things. And, you know, it put a bad taste in people's mouths
00:56:41.280 right away. And yeah, there's a lot of snakes. There's a lot of snakes in this world, not just
00:56:47.080 DC, you guys, you know, and they all want to get to the head honcho, which is Trump. So they'll do
00:56:54.580 whatever they have to do to persuade him. And sometimes it works. And, you know, we'll have to
00:57:01.900 see how it shakes out. Owen, would you like to say something, my friend? That's all right.
00:57:07.340 No, I mean, I would just say at this point, certainly the message is get out and vote,
00:57:11.540 get everybody you know to get out and vote and just, you know, try and make a difference because
00:57:15.800 I think it is really important. And it may be that there are local issues that are more important
00:57:21.000 this time around rather than some of the federal issues but even the federal offices like senator
00:57:25.180 and house representatives are going to make a huge difference over what happens over the next two
00:57:29.700 years and what you know at least what you're experiencing and i think certainly part of that
00:57:34.720 message to me on the affordability topic is to say like it's going to be worse if we have democrats
00:57:40.540 in control it's going to be worse they're going to try and make it worse actively they're going
00:57:45.140 to try and make it worse to try and say oh look it was all trump's fault when they're the ones
00:57:49.760 doing it. And they're already doing things like that. They recently made sure to kill a bill
00:57:56.340 that was meant to say data centers can't raise your electricity prices. They killed that.
00:58:01.320 They want your electricity bill to be higher. And the reason they want that is because they
00:58:05.980 don't want Republicans to have a win. And they're going to do the same thing over the next two years
00:58:09.320 if they get control of Congress. Yeah. So you guys, I think the message, the takeaway is
00:58:14.360 don't focus on trump don't focus on dc focus on your state focus on your state because this is
00:58:22.300 not like a federal type of election this is what's happening in in my state my hometown
00:58:27.940 what's going to happen to me in my life unless you're planning on moving which most people
00:58:32.820 aren't because it's very expensive to move um think about your state when you go to the polls
00:58:38.960 and go to the polls and bring a friend and steve for sure the last word please
00:58:43.740 Oh, I appreciate it.
00:58:44.460 No, if I can just echo that exhortation, folks, we need you.
00:58:47.980 You know, we need you to be a force multiplier and we can win.
00:58:52.360 These are winnable races, but also recognize, you know, if this is a game, this is the ninth inning and we're down.
00:58:57.480 OK, and we need to bring our best up to bat.
00:59:00.240 It's baseball playoff time starting today.
00:59:02.480 I'll be cheering on the White Sox, by the way.
00:59:04.220 Go Sox.
00:59:04.700 But much more serious than baseball, than sports is saving our country.
00:59:10.560 And part of doing that is now I also want to encourage you, please, not just to vote and convince people to vote, but do it early, early in-person voting.
00:59:19.840 I know a lot of you don't like that. I don't like it either, the current rules.
00:59:23.480 But under the current rules, it's really, really important that we don't hand a massive advantage to the Democrats because they bank their votes early and we don't.
00:59:31.180 And then we have to rely on a massive game day rush.
00:59:34.160 I actually did a whole short, not a documentary, but an interview with Ned Ryan, who a lot of you
00:59:38.240 probably know about this exact topic. If you're curious to hear our thoughts on this, neither of
00:59:42.120 us like the current system, but you got to win by the rules of the current system so that you can
00:59:45.600 then change the system. So please get out there, not just vote, but vote early and encourage all
00:59:50.760 the people in your spheres of influence who you think are going to vote our way to do the same,
00:59:54.580 please. A hundred percent. Thank you, you guys. I think, I hope this was informative for you guys.
00:59:59.700 Just definitely take it to the state level because that's where we're at right now.
01:00:04.360 So listen, you guys, we're at time.
01:00:07.040 I can't believe it.
01:00:07.820 It goes so fast.
01:00:08.780 Steve, you're always such a pleasure to have on.
01:00:11.380 We really enjoy you so much.
01:00:12.960 You're totally family here.
01:00:15.100 So we always say thank you to Scott and to Shelly for allowing this show to be here,
01:00:20.940 for all of us to get together and to continue.
01:00:23.280 So thank you so much to the two of them.
01:00:25.360 and uh you guys let's really think about you know our future and how we want our country to look i
01:00:31.620 know you guys are total patriots but you know talk to your friends don't be afraid to speak up
01:00:37.660 because we have to vote like you know like we really want america to stay america this vote
01:00:43.200 is attached to many things coming down the line so it is important very important okay so let's
01:00:49.460 let's be useful let's have a closing sip to our beloved scott adams and the home team will be
01:00:54.520 back tomorrow okay guys okay to scott to scott thank you steve thank you okay bye-bye guys
01:01:04.120 all right guys should we do a song should we do an akira
01:01:09.660 robo goon i want you to stay but you know if you go i understand
01:01:15.200 all right so what do we need what do we need i think we need
01:01:21.340 how about get out get out and vote uh no let's do let's do to do to do the best time of my day
01:01:32.880 akira
01:01:39.060 it's not music it's music plus all right ladies and gentlemen you have been so nice to stick with me
01:01:48.900 through this I've got to get ready for my long day of medical everything I got
01:02:02.180 problems it was wonderful to spend time with you because as I told you it takes
01:02:08.900 my mind off of my physical pain, which is kind of bad, and I get to spend the best time
01:02:20.120 of my day, which is with all of you awesome people, which is with all of you.
01:02:38.900 The best time of my day
01:02:41.680 Which is with all of you
01:02:46.180 Awesome people
01:02:48.920 And I also know
01:02:51.840 That even though
01:02:54.020 I haven't met most of you in person
01:02:56.120 That it actually means something to you
01:02:58.320 When I tell you that you're my beloved
01:02:59.740 And how much I enjoy spending time with you
01:03:02.780 It's all true
01:03:05.400 It's all true, I wouldn't say it
01:03:08.820 And I know that that gives you a little boost.
01:03:12.300 So that's how you can start your day.
01:03:15.060 And you certainly give me a boost.
01:03:17.880 My God, you give me a boost.
01:03:19.920 I could not be more appreciative.
01:03:23.620 And it's all very meaningful to me in ways that you can't even imagine.
01:03:38.820 which is with all of you
01:03:41.940 so ladies and gentlemen this is the uh this is what we have today i don't know if i'll be back
01:04:03.300 tomorrow honestly i don't know how long i can do this
01:04:05.620 but for today that was your show and we'll get back to we'll get back to the news maybe
01:04:14.820 sometime soon all right closing down
01:04:19.940 you guys i can tell you with a thousand percent certainty that you all were the best time of
01:04:35.420 his day. I mean, 365, you guys, in an ambulance, in a hospital, on an airplane, at a hotel,
01:04:45.060 honestly. So, you know, I know how he feels like a little bit because I know the love that we all
01:04:52.540 have for Scott. So I can only imagine with like the, like that we're like this, you know,
01:05:01.240 compared to Scott, it's just, you know, he gave to us what we gave to him. And, uh, you know,
01:05:10.040 it was, uh, it was a perfect synergistic relationship. So we miss him so much. I'm
01:05:16.660 not going to cry. I'm going to end the show. So you guys, uh, yeah, we, we are so lucky. I was,
01:05:23.940 uh, exchanging some words with somebody yesterday on X and they were saying like,
01:05:28.680 you know, what a shame with Scott and Charlie Kirk gone, but you guys, oh my God, the two of
01:05:34.260 them have left us so much wisdom. And, um, how lucky are we? I mean, so many people are gone
01:05:41.500 and then they're just gone and you have like some memories and a little bit of this and a little bit
01:05:45.780 of that. But Scott and Charlie left us, I mean, thousands of hours of things that we can go back
01:05:54.520 to and learn from. So we're lucky. We're lucky. Don't cry, Patty. Don't cry. You're going to make
01:06:01.240 me cry. All right, you guys. I love you so much. Tomorrow, the home team will be back. Marcella
01:06:05.640 will be here. Owen will be here. I'll be here. And maybe what we'll do tomorrow is a nice, juicy
01:06:11.880 Scott lesson and a little bit of news. What do you think? Sound good? All right, you guys.
01:06:17.320 Say your goodbyes. I don't want to click off while you're chatting. And we'll see you in the morning.
01:06:24.280 Have an amazing, useful day.
01:06:26.820 Don't be hard on yourselves.
01:06:29.780 All right, guys, love you.
01:06:53.480 Thank you.