Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 5⧸20⧸26 Joel Pollak joins the Home Team

00:00:00.000 morning everyone good good what is it wednesday morning i see stephen but again stephen you're

00:00:07.940 slacking you were third no no he was first it shows up as third for me we have pre with the

00:00:15.720 pre-show going there's joel how you doing joel you're alive right now were you swimming

00:00:22.680 no he was praying i was praying everything's running late this morning i'll tell you why in

00:00:28.280 a minute. Well, everyone's here looking at you now. So say hi. Hello. This is my morning ritual.

00:00:34.420 I told you I do the five things every day, right? Prayer is one of them. And I got to get the morning

00:00:40.020 prayer in before 10 a.m. Eastern or 10 a.m. Pacific, wherever I am. I was in California

00:00:45.420 yesterday. I'm in D.C. today. And D.C. makes L.A. look good. And that's not saying much.

00:00:53.700 what the infrastructure here is so terrible so i get in my flight's delayed i come in a bwi

00:01:01.260 take an uber to the house where we're living and miss the school bus the kids get on the school

00:01:09.380 bus i missed them i wanted to surprise them but they were already gone anyway uh we have a walk

00:01:14.220 to the train station my wife is going to the train station with her intern i said oh i'll just drive

00:01:19.320 you to the train station you know what we'll all go together because i've got to take my son to his

00:01:23.040 daycare which is a few metro stops away so we we get to the train there's a derail train or some

00:01:30.000 kind of downed train they said on another station so now we're delayed on the train and then they

00:01:37.200 make us wait 10 minutes then they tell us actually the train's out of service but we've already gone

00:01:41.520 one station so we're not at our original station point i can't get back into my car so i tell my

00:01:47.280 wife and her intern i say why don't you guys just go take an uber downtown now going on the roads

00:01:53.760 in dc and rush hour traffic into town is a total nightmare but there's no alternative because

00:01:58.640 there's no train so now they are they're in an uber going downtown and then meanwhile i say oh

00:02:04.400 there's a bus there's a bus going back to the metro station we were just at let me get on the

00:02:08.800 bus with the baby we'll go back and we'll get in the car and i'll figure something out we get on

00:02:14.720 on the bus i said to the bus driver uh do you go to such and such station he goes yeah so we get on

00:02:20.640 the bus and my son is thrilled because he loves buses he's 18 months old and you know his buses

00:02:25.920 are the most important thing in the world and he's excited to be on the bus but then i realized we're

00:02:30.280 going in the wrong direction i only realized about 20 minutes later we're not at the station yet i

00:02:34.720 said tell me you go to the bus station the bus driver says oh yeah that's the last stop but we

00:02:40.060 we go through all the streets around you know like this way and that way so i was like how much

00:02:44.620 longer to the train station he goes oh about 35 minutes i said okay you gotta let us off here so

00:02:52.380 i said you could have told me that when i asked you if you're going to the station like you know

00:02:55.660 you know he said i said to him are you going to the station he said yes so i said you could have

00:03:02.700 told me it was the end of the line he goes you didn't ask yeah exactly yeah well you know in the

00:03:07.340 the long run we're all going somewhere right i mean what is it like you know like i thought you

00:03:12.360 knew you know what you need joel did you wait a minute wait a minute so so i get an uber with

00:03:19.940 the baby which is totally illegal and then we get an uber we go all the way back to my car

00:03:24.480 drive home and here we are so i made it in time to do prayers and all in one piece so i'm grateful

00:03:31.600 for that so how all right if joel can do these things hello people we can do these things good

00:03:37.360 lord you know you need you need a simultaneous sip is what you need that's what i've got i've

00:03:43.680 got this beverage this i mean i'm not advertising diet coke but like i'm not doing coffee i'm being

00:03:48.000 like a half liter or whatever patriotic wow joel's like diet coke that's what i'm doing

00:03:53.120 he's on fire this morning okay guys so grab a beverage of any kind and any kind of vessel let's

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00:04:27.460 Ah, the fog is clearing.

00:04:33.460 The fog is clearing.

00:04:35.180 It's the name of our new song.

00:04:37.940 Okay, so, well, let's just kind of, my name is Erica.

00:04:42.500 Welcome, everybody.

00:04:43.420 You are at the Scott Adams School.

00:04:45.740 We're so happy you're here.

00:04:47.040 We have Marcella and Owen, as always, thankfully.

00:04:50.260 and today our special guest co-host is joel pollack the man is on fire he gets it all done

00:04:58.540 and shows up for us and shows up for scott and joel serenity now so i mean this is my serene

00:05:09.220 state you don't want to see me in an excited state it's not pretty i don't know i kind of want to

00:05:15.380 so i want to just kick off with one quick thing uh one quick video my girl sandy reminded me that

00:05:24.640 it's military appreciation month the month of may and she said like now joel just gave us an example

00:05:31.680 like what a great dad we know owen's a great dad so i just want to show this clip that sandy sent

00:05:38.040 to me for military appreciation month okay and it's it's a segment now called i'm not crying

00:05:44.580 you're crying 0.99

00:06:14.580 i just realized i might get dabbed for the music uh-oh shit look at this kid 1.00

00:06:43.200 let's pretend we hear the music i can't even hum it 0.94

00:06:47.520 oh you guys sorry youtube youtube i'm sorry okay i'm sorry i'm sorry

00:06:54.100 oh my gosh okay so dads and their kids dads and daughters and their sons and like dads are just

00:07:05.000 so important moms and dads you guys i just i love it i love it um does anyone want to reflect on

00:07:12.140 that clip it is amazing and the sacrifices you know these these parents that go off you know

00:07:17.620 it's like yeah they're they're going off but the rest of the family too like the worry and the love

00:07:23.780 and you know you see through the kids just how important their parents are it's so beautiful

00:07:28.760 what do you want to say about that joel you love that like i love it yeah you know those guys had

00:07:34.060 a harder time getting home than i did um the interesting memory it evokes for me also is

00:07:40.960 watching these Instagram videos that were put up about a couple months after October 7th

00:07:49.040 happened in Israel. Of course, basically the entire population mobilized for war.

00:07:55.160 And if you were an adult male, between the ages of 18 and 40, you were basically at war.

00:08:02.280 I went to cover the war less than two weeks after October 7th. And when I got to Israel,

00:08:09.580 the streets were basically empty and that's because so many of the men were at war and

00:08:16.300 there were these instagram videos people started putting up as they would come home on leave

00:08:21.180 and there were a couple of songs people used over and over again sort of like that one which you

00:08:25.580 you might get dinged for on youtube but um people were accompanying these videos of soldiers coming

00:08:31.580 home and it was the same thing it's it's a little more intense in a war where you know people are

00:08:38.460 being shot at typically if your spouse or dad or wife whatever daughter goes to war

00:08:48.620 very few of our roles thankfully are our combat roles a lot of times people are going overseas

00:08:54.060 for different reasons logistics or whatever they're doing my wife is a former helicopter

00:09:00.860 mechanic in the navy reserve so she was in maintenance but a lot of these soldiers coming

00:09:06.460 back after october 7th were in combat roles and so there are some famous cases of soldiers who had

00:09:11.980 these viral videos coming home who then were later killed a month or two later in combat and you know

00:09:18.220 i had a friend who i mean i still have a friend but uh i have a friend who i write to quite often

00:09:25.180 she's married to another friend of mine and they live in jerusalem and during the iran war before

00:09:33.980 this current ceasefire so you know back in march they were constantly going up and down into bomb

00:09:39.420 shelters and she said eventually it was driving them crazy and i said listen what you're doing

00:09:47.260 by taking care of your family is every bit as important as what husbands and fathers are doing

00:09:54.700 on the front lines or pilots are doing the air defense people are doing because this war has

00:10:00.780 become and it still is really a test of will on either side and you can see from the way the

00:10:07.500 iranian leadership is behaving they are acting as if we are about to quit and in our news headlines

00:10:17.420 you have people claiming that the iranians are about to quit or the regime is going to fall

00:10:21.740 it really has become a test of psychological will who's going to back down and the mother

00:10:26.940 who is taking care of her kids in a bomb shelter has an extremely difficult task but it's part of

00:10:33.500 maintaining that sense of will because if the mother doesn't keep it together and the kids

00:10:41.100 are scared or can't function then the will of the home front starts to break down and i said to her

00:10:48.700 what you're doing is is really a soldier's duty i mean you're don't never underestimate the heroism

00:10:54.940 of what you're doing it might seem like mundane things like feeding kids and changing diapers and

00:10:59.500 making sure the kids have a blanket when they go to the bomb shelter and that kind of thing but that

00:11:02.860 is that is heroic in its own way because if if you don't hold it together then your country's

00:11:10.300 will basically starts to break down yeah and we haven't had a situation like that since 9 11

00:11:16.300 but i think the same is true here you know for military families that that do have to live for

00:11:22.220 long periods of time without a mom or a dad around people holding it down at home are the people who

00:11:28.220 allow our military to function and keep us safe because if that doesn't work then the country

00:11:32.740 just says this you know it's not worth let's pay whatever price the enemy will demand because we

00:11:37.260 just can't tolerate war anymore um we obviously don't want to go to war but if we have to we have

00:11:43.040 to be strong at home as well as on the front lines and so i love those family scenes i know

00:11:49.160 Also, just, you know, I want to salute the families at home, especially the moms who

00:11:54.080 really do so much work.

00:11:55.860 Yeah, I think, you know, I love the pictures you guys are dropping in the chat.

00:12:00.400 And, you know, you have to show respect and appreciation, you know, that I mean, would

00:12:06.440 I go do it?

00:12:07.120 I don't know.

00:12:07.920 But I am so grateful.

00:12:10.020 And I think it's really important as a country for any country, wherever you live, you know,

00:12:16.140 to show that kind of support for these people because they're doing it for all of us you know

00:12:21.420 they're doing it for their families and for your family and for our country um owen you were in the

00:12:26.620 service yeah i was in the army reserve um and i never got deployed anywhere which i consider

00:12:32.760 myself lucky um and you know because i was in during the original persian gulf war um and it

00:12:40.180 was you know a little bit of a panic when that first started i actually kind of predicted it

00:12:44.120 was going to happen before anybody else knew.

00:12:46.540 I actually told my whole ROTC class, hey, guys,

00:12:48.800 we're about to go to war.

00:12:49.740 I think everybody thought I was nuts.

00:12:51.440 And then it happened.

00:12:52.740 And a lot of the people that wanted to go reserve duty,

00:12:57.460 which means you're part time and you can have a real job

00:12:59.880 or a civilian job and do it on the side,

00:13:04.020 a lot of them ended up going active duty.

00:13:05.760 I think half the people that wanted reserve duty

00:13:07.660 got signed active duty when I graduated.

00:13:10.200 And again, I never had to get deployed.

00:13:13.780 my unit was deployed before I got there to the Persian Gulf and they were deployed to Iraq and

00:13:19.720 Afghanistan after I left. And certainly one of the things that I took away from that whole

00:13:23.680 experience was a lot more respect for what the military does for us that, you know, I knew

00:13:28.560 because I was, you know, in a position where I might get sent over to do that and face who knows

00:13:34.660 what threats, IEDs, other things like what was going on at that time, that I was very appreciative

00:13:41.540 of not doing it and even up to the end when i was ready to get out i submitted my resignation

00:13:46.580 and i was told you can't quit they said president bush has put in a stop-loss order so you just

00:13:54.460 you're still in sorry it's like all right um and it was two years later i was out of town i had

00:14:01.940 little babies at home and i got we got a letter from the department of defense and and my wife

00:14:07.640 called me like kind of panicked like what's going on here and i just said well um open it up let's

00:14:13.580 see what it is and i wasn't sure if it was going to be orders to deploy or what and uh it said the

00:14:18.480 stop loss has been lifted and we accept your resignation so that was a big sigh of relief um

00:14:23.760 because again you know it's just you're envisioning like okay i've got babies at home and now i might

00:14:29.860 be sent overseas and who knows what happens to our finances and you know it can be so disruptive to

00:14:34.860 a lot of families, which I'm sure it is very disruptive to a lot of families.

00:14:37.480 Oh, it sure is.

00:14:38.480 And obviously, they're risking their lives.

00:14:42.100 And let's not forget the moving and the uprooting all the time and not being able to put roots

00:14:47.960 somewhere and have friendships and the kids that sacrifice and go from school to school

00:14:53.140 to school.

00:14:54.140 And it's such an honorable job.

00:14:58.220 I don't want anyone to think, oh, just people that don't go to school.

00:15:02.540 No.

00:15:03.540 It is so honorable.

00:15:04.540 the character and the strength that you gain from that and the pride and

00:15:08.300 leadership skills. And it's, it's invaluable. Oh,

00:15:12.760 and I'm just going to go to Marcella. So,

00:15:14.500 cause I want to go on to some other stuff in a second, but Marcella,

00:15:17.480 your thoughts on the clip. I mean, love it.

00:15:21.000 I love the little kid at the end with the, like the, the,

00:15:24.820 the little baby that had the same outfit as his dad, which is,

00:15:29.500 but I also, you know, it's funny that, um,

00:15:33.580 you know we we do this when people go off to war and and and you know get excited to see your

00:15:43.000 father you know but I think you should always be excited to see your parents because you won't

00:15:47.960 always have them and I think people forget that you know so like oh my dad doesn't serve in the

00:15:52.820 military he just works down at the factory it's like who cares dad that's home you know so but

00:15:59.940 But I think it's, I think people need to think about also, you know, maybe your dad was not

00:16:07.980 in the Air Force or in the military, but maybe he's out working, you know, when he comes

00:16:13.200 home, you know?

00:16:14.620 Yes.

00:16:15.240 We're just highlighting this because it's Military Appreciation Month.

00:16:18.900 And we do appreciate everybody in every job, every role.

00:16:23.440 Yes.

00:16:24.000 And how many of us would just kill to see our mom or dad again?

00:16:29.000 For sure.

00:16:29.780 So, Joel, I am going to play a clip and ask you to react because I saw you react already on X.

00:16:37.680 And a lot of people want to get your take on on this, this creature.

00:16:42.940 OK, here we go.

00:16:44.820 We have agency.

00:16:46.180 We have a responsibility.

00:16:47.680 It's just like the issue of redistricting.

00:16:49.560 We could have decided to write an op ed.

00:16:53.480 We could have decided, you know, you know, hold hands, have a candlelight visual, win the argument.

00:16:59.780 these guys are ruthless on the other side.

00:17:04.180 Trump's not screwing around, and nor can we.

00:17:07.400 Yeah, it's uncomfortable fighting fire with fire.

00:17:10.120 Yes, we all want the better angels.

00:17:11.480 Yes, we want the Sorkin sound and music,

00:17:14.520 a little West Wing.

00:17:15.500 I do.

00:17:17.240 But we'll lose our country.

00:17:19.400 We will lose our country.

00:17:23.240 Fire with fire is probably not the best line for him to use,

00:17:26.480 But anyway, Joel, I saw you spout off about this yesterday. So what's he talking about for those

00:17:33.080 that haven't heard it? And what's your take? Well, he's talking about the redistricting fight

00:17:39.860 and I didn't hear the question that prompted his response, but he's talking about the fact that

00:17:47.540 when President Trump pressured Texas to redraw its congressional districts, California responded

00:17:53.480 with Proposition 50, which redrew California's districts in between census periods. Now I'll say

00:18:00.140 Texas allowed that by law. There was no law that Texas had to change or break to do that. In

00:18:07.700 California, we had an independent redistricting commission that Newsom just set aside. And then

00:18:14.140 he asked the voters to ratify his setting that aside. But I would argue that that was unlawful.

00:18:21.500 you can't do the thing that voters said you couldn't do when they passed the constitutional

00:18:27.820 amendment to create the independent redistricting commission and then go to the voters and say

00:18:31.820 oh by the way i did this thing which was illegal can you make it legal that actually is not how

00:18:36.180 things work and the supreme court decided not to intervene but had the supreme court taken up the

00:18:42.500 case i'm pretty sure that proposition 50 would have been thrown out the supreme court didn't

00:18:46.940 take it up just like they didn't take up the virginia redistricting decision because they

00:18:51.000 just don't want to get involved in these state redistricting efforts if they can avoid it it's

00:18:54.580 messy they get accused of political interference the california supreme court is super liberal so

00:19:00.680 they did not stop gavin newson from doing what he did he spent 300 million dollars to redraw the

00:19:05.520 districts and texas gave let's say four or five new districts to the republicans or will have

00:19:14.260 given by the end of this california basically canceled that out because there were four or

00:19:19.760 five Republican districts that were essentially eliminated by Proposition 50. Had they left it

00:19:25.320 there, people might have said, you know what? We learned our lesson. You fought fire with fire.

00:19:31.380 You know, terrible metaphor for Gavin Newsom to be using, given that he had this devastating

00:19:36.960 series of wildfires. But it is what it is. Let's leave it alone. We all learned our lesson. But

00:19:46.500 No, they went further. And then Virginia redistricted and Newsom was all in on that fight.

00:19:51.820 When Republicans saw that Virginia was going to be moved from a 6-5 Democrat Republican district to a 10-1 Democrat Republican district.

00:20:03.000 Then Republican legislatures in other states said, OK, we cannot allow this to happen.

00:20:09.200 We thought we would just let this go by, but now we're going to eliminate the remaining Democratic seats.

00:20:13.800 And so they're doing so. South Carolina, Florida, other places. And so now Democrats are going to be at a huge loss. And it's because Gavin Newsom didn't know when to stop, didn't know when to quit, didn't know when to listen to those better angels he talks about.

00:20:27.600 and that's that's where we are uh today because of him and he's now posturing as the party's

00:20:37.340 leader on a national level because he says he's leading the fight against trump well if you lead

00:20:43.440 your party you've got to lead it somewhere better instead he led it into a cul-de-sac and he led it

00:20:47.720 into losses and i want to just make two other observations first of all this reference to

00:20:53.840 Aaron Sorkin and the West Wing. I never watched a full episode of the West Wing and I'm glad I

00:20:57.740 didn't. I'm convinced that a lot of the Obama era White House staffers were obsessed with that show

00:21:03.240 and when they got to Washington they thought they were living that show and in that show a well-meaning

00:21:08.260 liberal president runs into all kinds of obstacles but eventually triumphs and there are good people

00:21:14.020 in Washington and the good people are mostly on our side the bad people are mostly on their side

00:21:17.520 and we basically try different things we have to be daring and bold bend a few rules to get things

00:21:23.440 done. That's the plot of the West Wing, as I understand it. I saw a few half episodes. I never

00:21:27.120 really wanted to get too into that series. But the Obama people were obsessed with it. There's even

00:21:30.800 an episode of the West Wing. Slate wrote about this at the time. There's an episode of the West

00:21:35.200 Wing that sort of predicts Obama's victory many years before it happened. So I think the people

00:21:39.560 in the Obama White House were living out the West Wing. They're obsessed with that. I think they

00:21:44.400 don't know anything about politics. It's a fantasy of liberal dominance that is just not reflected

00:21:51.960 in reality. And it's just funny to me that he's still referring to that. But the bigger problem

00:21:56.740 there is, when did he make that statement? He made it in DC, at the Center for American Progress,

00:22:04.240 the big lefty think tank funded by all the major donors, and they come up with all the crazy left

00:22:09.720 wing policies that Democrats implement. Okay, so he's at the Center for American Progress in DC.

00:22:14.020 He's talking to donors, he's talking to opinion makers, he's talking to influencers. What's

00:22:19.160 happening in california it's on fire again yep simi valley on fire riverside on fire other places

00:22:28.160 on fire okay it wasn't as devastating as the palisades fire there's only one woman who lost

00:22:32.540 her home so far thank god but you have wildfires you have cal fire your state firefighting agency

00:22:38.820 in place you've got planes and helicopters and evacuations you're in dc talking about how trump

00:22:43.680 didn't give you fire money the last time why aren't you on the ground he does this all the

00:22:47.800 time he's always away during disasters he was there during the palisades fire doing nothing

00:22:52.460 but during a blizzard that we had a few years ago where people were trapped in their homes in the

00:22:57.440 san bernardino mountains he went on vacation to mexico and he will troll ted cruz for going to

00:23:02.640 cancun during the deep freeze in texas a few years ago oh you know you got another flight to cancun 0.96

00:23:07.640 to catch you know whatever and yeah i think ted cruz's excuse was stupid like he was escorting his 0.98

00:23:12.440 daughter to a spring break or something like that yeah ted cruz shouldn't have led should not have 0.98

00:23:16.800 left texas during a deep freeze but he wasn't the governor he was the senator you're the governor

00:23:20.520 of california why do you go on a family vacation in the middle of an historic blizzard where people

00:23:25.180 are trapped in their homes and some people die yeah and the media never hold them accountable

00:23:29.500 for it like california media just never they never hold them accountable i mean until the

00:23:33.020 california post came along but it's like why did you go to the french laundry when he's telling

00:23:38.440 everyone else to lock down yeah he just wants to troll republicans and do what he wants right

00:23:43.260 french laundry right have a good time he was eating with health care lobbyists while he shut

00:23:47.640 the rest of the state down i remember that night because i went out with my wife for a drink at the

00:23:52.880 restaurant the night before it closed at the second it was the second set of lockdowns because

00:23:57.280 they they opened up over like the late summer and fall and then they locked everything down again

00:24:00.500 i'm looking at all the wait staff thinking they're all going to lose their jobs tomorrow and we're

00:24:04.000 having a drink at hank's in pacific palisades which no longer exists not because it burnt down

00:24:08.520 just because it went out of business, but, um, you know, it's, it's like, this is Newsom. This

00:24:13.740 is how he governs. He just trolls all the time, makes his hair and teeth look nice. And that's 0.82

00:24:19.160 what he does. Um, and I also just want to say, so that was the West wing and the Clintons,

00:24:25.900 in my opinion, um, was house of cards. Okay. So, uh, Marcella, you're in California. Um,

00:24:34.900 bless you and i'm sorry and um to you marcella not for long the way things going i know so i i

00:24:46.380 do think you know tell me what you think marcella what you see because i feel like with spencer

00:24:51.820 coming out he can he's like a way i feel like he's a way for celebrities to sort of start to

00:25:00.360 come out of the Republican or not crazy Democrat closet because they can be like, well, he

00:25:06.820 understands Hollywood and the industry. And so I feel like now there's a shift in California

00:25:12.420 where you're starting to see people at their wits end and start to embrace people more like

00:25:19.260 Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt. And are you getting that sense at all? I know you before

00:25:26.500 thought like no it's just going to be firmly with the democrats but spencer's numbers are

00:25:31.220 bearing different i only get it when i'm on x when i'm an actual like living through talking

00:25:38.420 to people you know i talk a lot about politics um most people know my politics now uh obviously um

00:25:47.140 and i get this other sense that they're not voting they're voting for the same

00:25:51.460 people with Sarah or Bass. So maybe Jill knows something I don't, but there is been a popularity,

00:26:04.600 you know, this idea that we can possibly have Hilton as our governor and Spencer Pratt. And I

00:26:10.840 hope that comes true. But when we talk about the Prop 50 for redistricting in California,

00:26:18.940 it passed by 64 percent now you know this comes down to fraud or whether it comes down to fraud

00:26:27.180 voting or whether we can like as scott would say can we really um put our faith in the elections

00:26:37.140 you know uh recently uh the doj um well actually it was a plea deal um that we talked about o'keefe

00:26:48.500 uh filmed these people in skid row and there was one lady brenda i forget her last name now

00:26:54.800 she basically was paying for people to register to vote she was registering to vote uh homeless 0.75

00:27:04.500 people in skid row um under her address or some other address and then she has pled guilty to that

00:27:12.000 it's like a five-year federal sentence anyways so i'm just letting you know like they're not

00:27:18.200 going to make it easy on these people. And part of it is this idea of what's behind the elections,

00:27:25.920 the harvesting, the homeless voting. Marcella, I see, you know, Harvey Levin now is like, oh,

00:27:32.920 oh, you know what's interesting? Joel, I wonder if you know, but I don't think you should spill

00:27:36.680 the beans. And Owen, I'm coming to you in a second. But I heard Harvey saying yesterday or

00:27:42.780 the day before that Spencer told him privately that he has a really good team willing to work

00:27:49.140 with him and assemble around him. So Harvey being skeptical, um, asked, you know, who some of the

00:27:56.080 people were, Spencer told him, he called one of the people to ask them and he didn't reveal who

00:28:01.560 it was, but he said, yeah, I asked the person like, are you in on this? Like, are you actually

00:28:06.640 going to help him? And he said, yes, that's 100% true. He said, it's someone amazing and someone

00:28:14.720 who knows the issues and I guess lives in Los Angeles. And did you hear that story? And is it,

00:28:22.260 I can't remember his name, the guy that owns all those shopping plazas everywhere.

00:28:26.220 Yeah. Caruso. Is it him? I haven't heard anything about that. I did see Rick Caruso

00:28:32.440 earlier this week when he came out to endorse Jake Levine. Jake Levine is interesting. Jake

00:28:39.740 Levine is running for Congress in my district against Brad Sherman. And Jake Levine is pretty

00:28:46.400 far to the left, but he seems pragmatic at the same time. And I was very impressed with what he

00:28:53.000 had to say at this event, especially on the sidelines as he talked to some of us. So Caruso

00:28:58.380 is throwing his weight behind this primary challenge to an incumbent entrenched Democrat.

00:29:02.900 Very hard to do that. And Caruso must feel like he has nothing to lose because typically those

00:29:09.740 challengers lose those races, but he did it. And that's interesting, but I don't see Caruso

00:29:16.120 necessarily working with Spencer Pratt. I think Caruso wants to be on the outside influencing

00:29:23.440 in that way. I wonder who it is. It's someone juicy. Let me talk about Spencer Pratt for a

00:29:29.420 second. He's one of my neighbors in Palisades and he lost his house. I think he's running an

00:29:37.240 incredibly entertaining campaign. And I think that you have to get people's attention, which

00:29:43.860 he's doing. He has to develop a ground game. He started doing that, which I noted this week when

00:29:49.680 he went to the San Fernando Valley, which is great because he's got to pull those voters in

00:29:52.740 off the sidelines. Those people don't vote in LA elections because they're not motivated.

00:29:57.440 They're registered to vote. They can vote, part of LA, but they typically get ignored. And he's

00:30:02.860 going out there and saying, hey, you have a reason to vote this time. So I think that's good as well.

00:30:06.780 The problem that you face in LA is a similar problem you face statewide, which isn't just a

00:30:12.460 massive voter registration edge that Democrats have. And although Pratt's running as an independent,

00:30:17.360 he is a Republican. The problem is that the public sector unions decide the fate of these

00:30:22.900 elections. And it's not just because of political corruption and other things like that. It's also

00:30:29.440 just because they train themselves on how to turn out voters. They have a whole infrastructure

00:30:36.520 in voter turnout devoted full time to registering voters, making sure voters know what to do,

00:30:43.120 where to go they're not filling out the ballots we think for the voters but essentially they're

00:30:48.320 controlling the process of voting and in california where you can harvest ballots where you can hand

00:30:52.080 in other people's ballots the unions are also collecting ballots from people and handing them

00:30:56.080 in so the unions have a machine that basically runs the election if you're a challenger who

00:31:01.920 doesn't have the union's endorsement you have to build your own machine well how do you do that

00:31:06.560 you need a lot of money you need a lot of extremely well organized people who can do it

00:31:11.760 You can't just rely on advertising to encourage people to show up spontaneously.

00:31:17.940 And I think the key for any challenger to winning a race in California is you've got to be able to either exploit a division among the unions or you've got to go straight to the union members and see if they are fed up with their leadership.

00:31:33.440 The example I'd like to use is Scott Adams, Scott Adams, Scott Brown, Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts in 2010.

00:31:44.300 Scott Brown was a Republican, is a Republican, ran for Senate after Ted Kennedy died against a well-entrenched Democrat who was expected to win.

00:31:54.940 And the reason Scott Brown won was because of Obamacare.

00:31:59.880 There was a lot of Republican frustration with Obamacare, which hadn't been passed yet, but was being brought up for a vote in Congress.

00:32:08.380 So there were Republicans who wanted to vote against Obamacare, but there were also union members who didn't like Obamacare because union members already had great private health insurance through their collective bargaining agreements.

00:32:17.980 And now their union leaders are sitting with Obama, coming up with Obamacare.

00:32:22.400 And your rank and file union member is saying, wait a minute, I'm going to lose my health insurance to some kind of government plan when my union fought for and we went on strike for this great health care plan with all these benefits.

00:32:33.980 Why would I want to do that?

00:32:35.200 So you had this split between the membership and the leadership.

00:32:38.880 And Scott Brown was able to appeal to union workers.

00:32:42.420 Trump did the same thing on the trail in 2016.

00:32:46.400 and you know he went into those blue states and said i can bring the jobs back you know you're

00:32:51.900 part of a union what good is a union membership card if you don't have a job so i'm going to bring

00:32:56.300 the jobs back i think spencer pratt needs to do that and the union i think he should start with

00:33:00.300 is the screen actors guild i think he should go and say none of you is working anymore hollywood

00:33:07.480 has contracted by 30 the small businesses the below the line people those jobs are just

00:33:13.900 disappearing and it's because of horrible management by la civic leaders and you deserve

00:33:20.620 a better deal than what sag is offering you what the what the the writers union and what i forget

00:33:25.980 what they're called but basically i think the writers guild of america or something like you

00:33:29.980 you you deserve a better deal than these unions are offering you and they might be endorsing the

00:33:35.100 democrat or the socialist or whatever but only i can bring this back and i think that's the pitch

00:33:40.800 has to make i think he's doing that yeah yeah yeah i think i think he he's starting to do that so

00:33:47.920 i think if he can if he can drive that message but it's it's a tough it's a tough look it's an

00:33:52.800 exciting race it is he has a good chance to qualify for the general um so we're gonna move

00:33:59.840 off of california in a second and i meant to play this the other day but you guys the people that

00:34:05.360 are backing spencer the creatives the creative people with their ai advertising and whatever

00:34:12.160 like there was i don't know if you guys saw the one with the yoga the women in the yoga classes

00:34:16.800 and i'm like yes like they're showing like are you are we allowed to say that we're yeah

00:34:23.040 and it's i just feel like this is what i'm feeling now coming around like even like with you know i

00:34:30.160 listen i'm actually not a fan of harvey levin at all i actually really don't like him at all

00:34:35.360 And even him talking about, you know, liking Spencer to some degree and whatever, that just is giving permission for other people in the industry, which are all of L.A., to, you know, secretly come forward and talk to their friends.

00:34:53.900 but I did want to play this one little clip. This is that, this is one of the ads that went

00:34:58.120 out for Spencer. That was so good. Um, if you didn't see it, let's just take a look at it.

00:35:03.280 And then we're going to move on to the elections, um, yesterday and we'll let Marcella and Joel,

00:35:10.020 you know, take over on that, but check this out.

00:35:23.900 I'm called Bel Air.

00:35:33.860 In West Los Angeles, Palisades, in my backyard is where I spent most of my days.

00:35:39.120 Feeding hummingbirds, relaxing all cool, avoiding all the bones outside of the school.

00:35:43.820 When a couple politicians, the world turned no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood.

00:35:48.120 I got at one little fire, my mom got scared and said, you're moving in with Harvey Levin and Bel Air.

00:35:53.900 okay cut it off you got the idea um so anyway good luck spencer oh spencer followed me on x i

00:36:09.780 wonder if we can talk to him let's see yeah right that would be fun well i i know you want to go on

00:36:17.160 the next thing but i was gonna say is that as long as he's able to have a runoff meaning that

00:36:24.280 she has uh less than 50 or 50 or something like that um and he's able to add more time maybe we

00:36:31.480 can get scott pressler out here we can get lara trump out here um you know what i mean like maybe

00:36:38.840 we can i don't think so more added time we need scott maybe scott presser but i kind of hope

00:36:45.240 i actually hope those people just stay out of it he's doing fine like if they want to razz the

00:36:52.040 other you know what here's what i feel like don't endorse spencer just leave him alone but if you

00:36:57.140 want to trash the other two go ahead that's this is my personal feeling but spencer's doing fine

00:37:03.260 he's got like a grassroots effort behind him but if people want to highlight you know bass and ramen

00:37:09.920 and what losers they really are, do that.

00:37:13.300 Just leave Spencer alone. 0.99

00:37:14.420 He's doing good.

00:37:15.740 What do you think, Joel?

00:37:16.820 Don't you feel like that a little bit?

00:37:18.000 Like he's doing so good.

00:37:19.220 Is that the convalescent homes?

00:37:20.920 Who?

00:37:21.860 The convalescent homes.

00:37:23.280 What about them?

00:37:24.460 That's where they get their harvesting votes.

00:37:27.280 Oh.

00:37:28.360 Yeah, I think, look, I think that there's no harm

00:37:31.740 in having all of the forces you can bring in come in.

00:37:36.520 i would question it only because i think there are congressional races that are probably also

00:37:43.640 on a knife's edge that can use more of that national help and you have limited resources

00:37:47.660 but they're going to attack spencer as a mega republican anyway even if he says he isn't one

00:37:53.740 so why not bring trump and everybody you know just bring in everyone you need to to get everyone to

00:38:01.120 vote. Now, Trump is a lightning rod, and he'll probably also get some of Spencer Pratt's

00:38:06.920 opponents out to vote. But they're going to label him as a Trump supporter anyway. So just

00:38:12.200 you might as well just bring everything you can. The most important thing is just stay focused on

00:38:16.560 fixing LA. If you can stay focused on fixing LA, then that's what you need to do. And yeah, I mean,

00:38:23.480 they're going to need to register as many people as possible. And it will be people who don't

00:38:27.360 typically vote that's the only way to do it you know the la electorate rick caruso should have

00:38:31.960 won four years ago and he was leading in the polls and then the democrat machine kicked in

00:38:36.380 and he lost by something like 10 points to karen bass a lot of people wish they had their vote back

00:38:42.080 but it was too late and you've got to overcome the machine and to do that you have to build your

00:38:47.340 own machine or you have to expand the electorate obama did it obama did that when hillary clinton

00:38:52.160 control the democratic party machine in places like south carolina obama had to go outside of

00:38:58.640 the infrastructure of the party he had to go outside the unions he had to go outside the church

00:39:02.240 he had to create a new set of democratic party voters so he went to rural counties in south

00:39:07.520 carolina and got black voters out there to register to vote people who hadn't participated

00:39:12.320 and trump did the same thing by going into blue collar areas and saying i'm giving you something

00:39:17.200 you haven't had from either party and so spencer pratt has the same flavor of campaign is that

00:39:21.680 kind of an upstart campaign but you've got to go and register people who don't normally take any

00:39:26.800 interest in politics and again i think his voters are the people in the valley uh talking like

00:39:32.240 suburban kind of la still part of the city of la but people who just don't feel like the city ever

00:39:38.400 has anything to do with them that's positive and there's nobody who really appeals to them

00:39:43.600 and he's got to say hey you know this is this is your chance to take control of your lives

00:39:48.080 decide everything for you right so you know we'll see how that plays out and the reason like if you

00:39:55.060 guys are like god you're talking about california non-stop like who cares i live over here or over

00:39:59.640 there california is really important because they have put some of the most insane regulations on

00:40:06.700 things that affect our everyday lives like you can't even believe like from the flow of your

00:40:12.080 shower head or if you can have a gas stove or not like these people are crazy california has

00:40:17.180 regulated themselves so hard that they can't even do the rail the whatever it was called the bullet

00:40:23.760 train because they've regulated themselves out of being able to do it can i give you an example

00:40:28.260 yeah i have to run in a few minutes um but i want to give you an example so my house is in the

00:40:34.840 palisades near spencer pratt and my house survived the fire but it got damaged so we're in the process

00:40:41.300 of repairing it one of the things we discovered in the course of repairing it is that the soil

00:40:46.160 is contaminated by the fire there were a lot of heavy metals that got picked up in all these

00:40:52.040 buildings burning down lead zinc you can't have that in your yard especially lead so we had to

00:40:57.900 have our soil removed well there's a problem once you have your soil removed it's hazardous waste

00:41:03.820 if it's contaminated by lead and zinc and other things you can't just put it in a landfill you've

00:41:09.860 got to take it to a hazardous waste dump but california does not have hazardous waste dumps

00:41:16.400 that will take that kind of soil because we're at california we're clean and environmentally

00:41:21.340 friendly we don't want to put mother earth with our hazardous waste so what do we do do we wish

00:41:27.560 it away do we wave a magic wand and the hazardous waste disappears no it just goes to arizona so i

00:41:33.080 had to truck myself to arizona and it's ridiculous because it's so much more expensive to take it

00:41:39.220 five, eight hours in a truck, maybe two trucks, covered trucks to Arizona just to put some soil

00:41:46.620 there. And you pay for that, Joel? Yes. It's so expensive. I'm still wondering how I'm going

00:41:53.720 to pay the bill because it's not covered by insurance. I have an idea. Why don't you guys

00:42:00.060 use the empty reservoirs to dump it in? Empty reservoir, right. But that's the point. We're

00:42:06.880 so wonderful and high and mighty we have no hazardous waste but it just goes to arizona or

00:42:11.620 we have electric vehicles we don't have emissions we don't have an oil and gas industry anymore

00:42:18.060 because fossil fuels are bad oh but we have to get oil from overseas now because we don't want

00:42:23.100 to take oil from texas so we have oil from overseas we don't want to pull it out of our own ground or

00:42:29.180 our own offshore and we burn so much more carbon by shipping it because how do the ships run the

00:42:35.200 ships are not nuclear oil tankers right they're not running on nuclear power they're not running

00:42:39.700 on solar power they're running on oil and gas and they are putting carbon into the atmosphere

00:42:45.320 so we just don't count that when we add up like our emissions in california i learned recently

00:42:50.460 we don't count the fuel burned on all those nautical miles to get from east asia to the

00:42:58.480 united states or the strait of hormuz to the united states right we only count it when they're

00:43:03.020 the 12-mile zone off the coast of california that's when we start counting those emissions so

00:43:07.580 we've played this funny game of pretending that we live in in the land of as my utopia you know

00:43:15.660 the land where unicorns fart rainbows so you guys if so the reason why it's important is if

00:43:21.260 california can get its head screwed on straight that would be a net positive for the rest of our

00:43:27.500 country, California is like killing us by, you know, acting like they're so woke and right when

00:43:34.680 they're just wrong about everything. Like it's, it's insane. So, you know, it's important. So

00:43:39.520 we do want the right people to win. Yes. This just happened. And, you know, one of the things

00:43:45.700 I'm proudest of working for the California post is that the California post and the New York post

00:43:50.000 often have the news before everybody else. You know, when I was at Breitbart, we often had the

00:43:54.540 best political takes on things. So that's really Breitbart's forte. The Post's forte is getting

00:43:59.420 things first. President Trump broke his silence, this happened just now, on Spencer Pratt's

00:44:05.480 insurgent campaign for LA mayor, saying he'd like to see the former reality star do well.

00:44:10.600 So essentially, Trump is endorsing Pratt. Okay, is that all he said? I'm good with that. That's

00:44:16.100 good. He was asked if he endorsed him. He says, I don't know. I don't know him. I assume he

00:44:22.460 probably supports me. Does he support me? I don't know if that's an endorsement, but it's a round

00:44:30.720 of applause. Oh, my God. That is amazing. Okay. Oh, my goodness. Oh, did he? Oh, yeah. He looked

00:44:38.260 really ill. Barney Frank's the reason you know who I am. Is he? Oh, really? Yeah. I had an

00:44:47.040 argument with Barney Frank that went viral when I was in law school, and that's how I got involved

00:44:52.040 in politics oh wow oh barney frank that's sad oh i'm sorry look i didn't i didn't like his politics

00:45:00.280 but as we say uh there's a blessing you say in judaism when you hear bad news which is uh

00:45:07.720 you bless god for being the the one true judge it's sort of a a neutral kind of a blessing where

00:45:13.960 you just sort of accept accept god's fate you know the fate of god decrees which is our which is all

00:45:20.040 of our fates really at the end but i'm sorry to hear barney frank passed oh yeah barney frank

00:45:24.440 rest in peace yeah he was he was uh he was a character he was he was very difficult to get

00:45:29.240 along with but but um you know we had a good we had a good fight and that's why you know who i am

00:45:33.400 oh good well well thank you barney frank and rest in peace uh do you need to go joel i do need to

00:45:39.880 go i've got to do another interview for california a radio station for jennifer horn on am 890 which

00:45:45.160 amazing oh oh quick update on the book the book is going well uh i'm on schedule and it's amazing

00:45:54.760 i'm learning things every day i'm interviewing people every day for the book and writing the

00:46:01.000 second draft it's it's a labor of love and i think that the scott edams biography is going to be a

00:46:07.740 kind of rebirth for a lot of fans and people who admired him and enjoyed what he did because i think

00:46:13.240 people are going to feel like this comes full circle in a way.

00:46:16.580 So I'm just really grateful to be able to do it every day.

00:46:20.060 And, and yeah, it's still on schedule and still going forward.

00:46:22.860 Oh, thank you, Joel. And thank you for joining us today.

00:46:25.660 We really appreciate you and love you.

00:46:27.740 Thank you. Love you guys too.

00:46:28.940 Okay. We'll see you soon.

00:46:30.080 Bye.

00:46:30.740 Bye.

00:46:31.900 Oh God, Marcella, we're going to get big. Back up.

00:46:38.080 Sorry guys. Now you got us.

00:46:39.980 All right. We got big, man.

00:46:43.240 so the elections the primary uh scott presler um he was elected um here i have it somewhere

00:46:51.560 scott presa was elected state committee uh for the state committee for beaver county as we said

00:46:57.800 uh yesterday and um just off the top 37 of the candidates that president trump backed

00:47:08.840 one wow he had 37 to zero so pennsylvania 10 of the candidates he backed one georgia nine of

00:47:18.440 the candidates that he backed one alabama six kentucky six we'll talk about kentucky idaho

00:47:25.720 five oregon one but that was the only one oregon's you know yeah oregon yeah they're their own

00:47:33.160 country like yeah um so you know massey lost massey lost yes he lost in kentucky the fourth

00:47:42.280 district i think ky04 i don't know um massey although he lost i saw some of you probably saw

00:47:54.280 his speech it felt like he won the speech seemed very maybe precedential governor coming up something

00:48:05.000 else is coming up for him but he basically embraced and amplified he uh you know took the loss

00:48:12.920 um he he was a bit petty about the loss some people are saying i don't say that but he was

00:48:21.240 saying something like he was trying to call ed gallery sorry ed gallery is the one that won

00:48:29.320 and um he said that he was trying to reach him i don't know where i have it uh but it was hard

00:48:36.200 to reach him because he was in tel aviv or something like that wow yeah i didn't watch

00:48:41.480 any of this no i was so busy last night trying to figure out what laptop to buy um i know i was like

00:48:47.720 what laptop does she get um so you know it is what it is the the races that uh we have is that in

00:48:58.440 georgia the u.s senate that's the race that we have to watch out for we're trying to the republicans

00:49:05.240 are trying to like we i'm a republican i know but i don't control the party uh john ossoff is the

00:49:13.560 the U.S. senator there. He's the incumbent. He was unopposed on the Democratic side.

00:49:19.560 Mike Collins on the Republican side won. We'll see that race, whether Mike Collins can win

00:49:27.800 and get John Ossoff off of that. And that would be another vote in the Senate.

00:49:34.400 Pennsylvania. Oh, Pennsylvania.

00:49:37.100 uh so in pennsylvania something happened so a socialist democratic socials won

00:49:45.260 oh really this is you know in pennsylvania there's certain very

00:49:49.740 conservative areas and there's some very liberal areas in the chat you can write where do you think

00:49:56.900 this socialist democratic socialist was from but it was in the um

00:50:02.520 I'll wait. But basically, this person won is a very progressive person. His name is Chris

00:50:10.700 Robb. And what did he win, Marcella? It's kind of like the simulation. Anyways, Robb. Anyways,

00:50:18.440 I will, he's a state representative member of, so he won a third congressional district.

00:50:25.000 oh in philly yeah for the democratic primary so the democrat candidates there did not win

00:50:33.160 they went further and voted for the democratic socialist um yeah and it was in philly yeah you

00:50:41.560 guessed it philadelphia the area of philadelphia so that's one of the things um oregon you know

00:50:49.160 because these are primary elections we don't have final uh candidates but basically there is a chance

00:50:56.600 in oregon for the republican govern for a republican governor to be seated um christine

00:51:04.360 drosson drosson um has a very good opportunity to beat the incumbent democratic governor tina

00:51:12.840 kotech in november so we'll see um i guess uh she's well known uh christine drosson um in the

00:51:23.000 because she was a former state house minority leader uh in oregon so there's a chance kentucky's

00:51:29.800 u.s senate seat um there was the u.s senate seat in kentucky um your favorite uh mitch mcconnell

00:51:37.560 um is retiring he actually spent 41 years in the senate yeah okay it's like in 1985 1980

00:51:47.760 1985 yeah yeah he well you know he showed up for his job for 41 years you don't do that

00:51:58.200 you're supposed to be uh uh you know you're like there to like give back to your country not for

00:52:03.620 41 years and getting yourself rich and ruling the world sorry get out let younger people come in

00:52:09.720 with fresh ideas who who have a whole future ahead of them to worry about when you're 900 years old 0.94

00:52:16.680 and you can't say the alphabet you don't really give a shit about your future but if you were 0.76

00:52:21.220 younger maybe you had like a young family and you want everyone to be good like can we hear from 0.92

00:52:26.140 those people i'm sorry sorry yeah bye bye okay well you know and that's the other thing is something

00:52:35.040 that scott would would say is like um a lot of the legislation it doesn't look into the future

00:52:42.900 because you know one of the things uh that massey was all about was the national debt and uh figuring

00:52:52.380 out and a lot of his voters were young voters they were he didn't win the 65 and over votes he won the

00:53:00.380 below 65 and one of the things scott would say is that you know if you have a legislature that

00:53:07.740 just is over 65 maybe in their 70s maybe in their 80s they're not really gonna care about their

00:53:14.620 future i mean they should because they have grandkids and children and maybe you know but

00:53:20.380 it seems like the you care a little bit less because you're gonna be gone so you're not gonna

00:53:25.580 have to deal with it you know let the other generation deal with it while a younger maybe

00:53:31.980 younger politicians probably would think more about a family and affordability and all that

00:53:39.420 but um one of the people that chimed in on the massey laws was cernovich who i look up to a lot

00:53:46.700 Massey losing he said in his post he said Massey losing 45 to 55 percent I put that in there would

00:53:56.340 not have been my wager I thought he had pulled it off by a hair so voters don't care about the

00:54:03.480 growing debt that was my opinion and my opinion and what I said during the OBB which is the one

00:54:10.280 big, beautiful bill. Now we have ground floor confirmation printer about to go again.

00:54:17.760 Oh my God, Marcel, you're so funny. Bless. All right. So is that all the election news?

00:54:23.220 It's killing me. Well, there is election news. The big election news is that Trump is still in

00:54:31.940 control of MAGA and the Republican Party. And you should have seen, I mean, I know you're busy

00:54:37.020 figuring out a computer uh you want it but oh my gosh ms now cnn they were like oh they're upset

00:54:44.540 like they were like they really wasn't in charge of his party oh they did not like that they did

00:54:53.260 not like that and they just fell off um so another big thing another news that came out before the

00:55:02.620 election results were that trump endorsed paxton yes and in tennessee good tennessee what am i

00:55:09.100 saying in texas texas yeah jeez marcel um so this is going to be on the 26th next tuesday

00:55:17.340 and we'll see how it goes the voting already started in texas if you're in texas let us know

00:55:23.980 what your thoughts are on this but ken paxton is sure to possibly win with how things are going

00:55:31.420 um so much so that senator john cornyn who is he is going against the incumbent um

00:55:38.540 he responded publicly on x to the endorsement of trump he never talked bad about them

00:55:45.340 he only focused on working closely with trump in the past and then he also uh posted on x

00:55:53.820 a little bit later that he was going to go back to uh dc because he was going to cancel his

00:56:00.740 campaign event today um so that he could go back to vote for ic um funding and the um border patrol

00:56:11.520 funding okay so all right maybe he's more willing to do what trump wants uh let's see let's see

00:56:19.800 let's see all right so i like oh my god i hate politics like to me i'm just like uh

00:56:26.360 um but i guess we needed to know thank you marcella

00:56:31.300 did you did you see jd vance did i see him what did he say yesterday he was the acting press

00:56:41.600 secretary oh yes yes they're all doing a great job yeah everybody does have you do it next

00:56:48.540 oh let me at him let me at him imagine me as the press secretary that would be amazing

00:56:54.300 yeah they went wild with him uh in the room and these people are i mean journalists i mean they

00:57:02.220 were just yelling over each other and he was like i never knew marco rubio did it before about two

00:57:09.720 weeks ago and i guess marco talked to him about it he said you know they're going to be wild

00:57:13.720 you know so he just didn't assume they were going to be so wild but the reason why i'm bringing up

00:57:19.980 i know i'm on a crunch right now is that where is it where is it where is it um jd vans yesterday

00:57:29.740 erica yes he didn't say erica's name but almost said the doj is probing ilan omar over immigration

00:57:38.380 fraud he confirmed it so let's go i'd like to see it love positive note there so um in closing um

00:57:49.420 in maria bartiroma news because i'm suddenly obsessed with maria she has no idea she's being

00:57:56.540 highlighted maria we're highlighting you on this show all the time because you're

00:58:01.340 hot and we love you and you're smart and you're amazing don't get me wrong

00:58:05.260 but look at this uncanny where to go did i delete it no here it is look at this

00:58:12.220 like a maria bartaroma fish oh my this is not ai is that real yes still listen they're the red

00:58:23.960 lipped bat fish and they live um off the galapagos islands and they um they have their lips are like

00:58:31.340 that to seduce the opposite sex so anyway that was my maria bartaroma news 0.72

00:58:37.060 they can't know they got a bai that's crazy one more time guys this is legit

00:58:44.040 right the galapagos they have all sorts of stuff going on there come on 1.00

00:58:48.780 look at the little females that they walk on 0.99

00:58:53.800 they can't really swim yep i read a whole thing about them anyway thank you so much for joining

00:59:04.020 us today guys okay tomorrow we have gad sad marcella will not be on but i think she might

00:59:10.500 be in the chat tomorrow um owen and i will be here um ej a special plea to you i'm talking to

00:59:18.580 you specifically ej i'm begging you i'm begging you okay you know what i'm saying so we'll be

00:59:26.180 here tomorrow with gad sad um as always we thanks uh scott and shelly for allowing this show to

00:59:33.140 continue. We really value and love it so much. Go out and be useful today, you guys. Have some

00:59:40.940 fun in your lives. Thank you, EJ. EJ, so now I know you heard me. I'm begging you. Don't embarrass

00:59:49.300 mommy. That was a joke between EJ and I. Okay, guys, so let's have a closing sip to Scott. As

00:59:56.200 always we miss him so so much and i have some great um things coming up with scott lessons

01:00:03.480 that he did for us so it's going to be so great all right you guys bye beave love you all right

01:00:08.920 you guys start saying your goodbyes and marcella and i are going to give a closing sip to all of

01:00:13.160 you and to Scott. Okay, guys, to Scott.

01:00:43.160 Am I still here?

01:00:54.820 Get the laptop.

01:00:56.400 I know, Dave.

01:00:57.900 You guys.

01:01:02.120 Aw, you guys.

01:01:03.780 I turned off YouTube and what's it called?

01:01:08.140 X.

01:01:08.920 I cannot stop Rumble.

01:01:11.300 I don't want to stop rumble, but it's kind of like the rules, but I can't turn off rumble itself. I

01:01:16.620 think I would mess something up, but I'll figure it out one day. But you guys, so

01:01:22.420 EJ, thank you for acknowledging my plea to you. Sean, Sean, you know, when you said I brought back

01:01:32.400 the wet look, I've seen you say that before. It's because my hair is actually wet. It's not like

01:01:36.800 mousse and i have it crunchy it's like actually wet in the morning sometimes i was like look at

01:01:42.160 sean thinking i brought back the wet look they kind of are except one subscriber sj we do ej

01:01:49.920 we do love you you know i i i really i i know everybody's got their own take here and i'm like

01:01:56.800 fully good with that but it's like sometimes you're like okay like we know like what you're

01:02:01.680 gonna say you know and it's just like just chill out a little bit ej we know and we can predict

01:02:09.520 um yeah that's that's an sjv problem um yes your fellow professor dr von hardy

01:02:20.720 oh sassy thanks you see ej there's love for you here a lot of people block you a lot of people

01:02:28.880 tolerate you and people love you um staying away from politics and sticking with ai like i just

01:02:37.360 you know politics annoys me when it's something like mitch mcconnell being here until he's

01:02:42.880 practically dead i can't stand that that pisses me off but oh sorry but um if it's like i there's

01:02:52.240 nothing there's nothing honestly we don't have any control of anything so there's no sense in

01:02:57.120 getting like so worked up over things you know you vote you get the results you move on yes ej

01:03:05.600 yes yes oh i got a special mention oh i'm scared what you think is special i might think is not

01:03:13.120 good i'm afraid bra oh my god i'm trying to pin down brian he's so so so busy we communicate but

01:03:19.680 he's super busy we almost had it but did you see that the jersey shore post yeah so you know what

01:03:27.920 do they call them um about the teens you know like the teens are wildin or whatever um maybe flavor

01:03:37.360 um actually who wants to take that on who can uncover joel's article on barney frank for us

01:03:43.600 i actually can't do it i think i'm just too busy um so yeah we have like these teen takeovers and

01:03:49.280 they get on the um trains from like north jersey new york philly and they come down here and they

01:03:57.600 go wild in in this place called pier village which is right on the beach and it is um

01:04:06.320 like a high-end like shops and restaurants not all high-end but some high-end and then there's

01:04:12.400 like multi-million dollar condos there on the beach and all this other stuff and this is the

01:04:17.200 destination because they can take the train walk like three blocks to the beach and then they're

01:04:22.160 jumping on cars and like you know disrupting everybody and and you know like i'm telling you

01:04:28.000 right now if somebody jumps on my car i'm gonna immediately feel trapped and in danger and all

01:04:33.680 bets are off the cops are there then we got like a like a thing where we could see last night where

01:04:39.840 they were like any available police units in all the whole county please come here and i'm like what

01:04:47.920 is like what are we doing people that's crazy you had a teen i mean teen takeover i'm so fatigued

01:04:58.560 the guy we had on a couple of weeks ago to be nice to who was it who can answer marianne who

01:05:04.400 who was it that we said to be nice to? I'd have to look at my schedule. Who was it, you guys?

01:05:13.220 Hearing anyone who was from New Jersey, what was that called? I'm now hearing everyone who was

01:05:17.780 from Jersey. I don't know what that meant. Yeah, the polls, you know, it's just like,

01:05:24.480 a wise man did one say, get away, just get away. Can I fix your rumble icon? Can you fix our rumble

01:05:35.640 icon? Oh, I just saw that. Yes, I can. Thank you. Let me write that down. Fix rumble icon.

01:05:46.780 on. Yes, yes, yes. Um, what else? Oh, Walter Kern. No. Was it about Walter?

01:05:57.920 He'll go under a mob. Oh, a travel log. That's like, I mean, hit the gap. What are you supposed

01:06:04.940 to do? Just like sit there and be, just sit there and let people just jump on your car

01:06:12.240 and you're surrounded? I don't think so. SJV, why are you missing them?

01:06:19.780 Why are you missing them? BJ will be back on. He was going to maybe come on. I forget when,

01:06:26.360 but it didn't work. So he'll be on. Let's see. Flash mob. I'm reading your comments.

01:06:34.620 Steve Cortez I mean it could be like it's usually if I'm saying like behave yourselves it's just to

01:06:43.560 EJ oh my god oh that's so sweet lemon minty good I'm glad you guys like BJ

01:06:55.140 sure sjv oh it was walter all right but you know i can't just like snap my fingers like someone

01:07:05.520 said in the chat like that i should have jfk jr i mean rfk jr on and i'm like sure i'll put him on

01:07:12.820 after um elon uh oh look nikki found it thanks nikki nikki's our like um researcher she is the

01:07:23.400 resident researcher, I must say. Good. Follow him on X. Yeah. Follow all the people. 0.96

01:07:33.180 And I watched BJ's local stream is great and interacts. Oh, good. And you guys,

01:07:39.520 that's always good. Always remember, get your information from everywhere. Don't let your

01:07:44.900 opinions be assigned to you. That's all I ever want to keep saying. Walter's awesome. I love him.

01:07:53.400 what's this he's posting

01:07:57.720 I could

01:08:01.500 no SJV I will never just so you guys know like I've learned this

01:08:09.700 um I don't know 15 years ago I cannot for queen I cannot ever go to someone and say accept it

01:08:21.380 for Scott, because Scott would ask you guys to come to me if he blocked you. So he asked me to

01:08:28.300 do that, but I would, I really would never go to bat unless it was like something really like I

01:08:34.060 saw it in real time and know it was a mistake. Um, that's okay. SJV. I'm just, I get asked this

01:08:41.820 a lot for different things, but I can't go to somebody like somebody was messaging me last week

01:08:46.900 and they were like, can you get so-and-so to, you know, join the spaces that were host? And I'm

01:08:54.240 like, no. And they're like, but you know, and I'm like, yeah, but I, first of all, I don't even know

01:08:58.440 the person that was asking me. I don't know what the spaces was about. And, you know, like you

01:09:04.380 build this like mutual respect with people based on the fact that you respect their boundaries and

01:09:09.660 their parameters. So, so sometimes if it seems like, you know, someone else is like being mean

01:09:15.340 or why won't you ask them or you know whatever that's just why like if i if i block somebody

01:09:21.260 i have a reason i did it and maybe the reason seems stupid to you but maybe there's something

01:09:26.940 you don't know and i blocked you for a reason i don't block super easily either like it i'm not

01:09:33.340 an easy easy blocker i'm a lot easier than i used to be but everybody's got their reasons so

01:09:39.500 i mean who knows sjv who knows it's okay and what's the difference if they have you blocked

01:09:44.780 or not i know sjv i heard you i know but i'm not just speaking to you honestly i'm just saying in

01:09:50.700 general like it's like a general kind of a thing for everybody on platforms it's like a it's a

01:09:56.220 tricky dicey thing um and i mute a lot of people like a lot of people are just muted because like

01:10:02.540 i want the option to maybe see what they're doing sometimes but and i block scott used to always say

01:10:08.940 to me if somebody personally comes after you for something he said block them immediately if it's

01:10:14.060 like they don't like your idea or whatever you know then that's my discretion but if they are

01:10:19.820 personally attacking you then he's like instant block oh yeah you and you know what did i oh

01:10:31.340 gad's book suicidal empathy is so good you guys um i have the book and then i also purchased it

01:10:40.300 on audible because um i can't always just like sit and read something so i listen to it on like

01:10:48.300 what do i have it on i think like 1.5 speed but it's so good we'll talk we'll talk about it

01:10:54.620 tomorrow i really just want to like have a conversation with him tomorrow about like the

01:11:00.460 state of the world and what's going on now um the this one's suicidal empathy let's listen tomorrow

01:11:07.820 to him, but it's kind of like how this is just me talking. Okay. So the way I would explain it

01:11:13.140 is kind of showing you when people are telling you to be tolerant of things that have nothing

01:11:18.640 to do with like your, um, yes, he does read it. Like when things have nothing to do with like

01:11:25.140 your way or life, your country, your values, your, you know, whatever. It's like, if I went to

01:11:32.080 pick a country that's the polar opposite of our country. And then I'm just like,

01:11:37.520 no, like you people need to bend to me. And, you know, let's just say, let's just say people came

01:11:43.800 here and they want to block an intersection in the middle of the day to pray. And they're like,

01:11:48.600 well, this is, this is what we do. And we have spent a lot of time in this country telling

01:11:55.080 everybody, you need to have empathy for these people and you need to show them that, you know,

01:12:01.540 we're inclusive. Otherwise you're a racist. If you don't allow this to happen, you're an Islamophobe

01:12:07.600 or you're a Jew hater or you're a racist or a bigot or whatever. And it's like, wait a minute, 0.97

01:12:14.620 like we have parameters in this country that we are supposed to abide by and live by. But what

01:12:20.100 happens is you're told if you don't do this, we're going to call you a name and make you feel bad

01:12:25.140 to the point where you zip your lip when you see problems happening and you're like, nope,

01:12:30.000 i'm not allowed to say anything or people are going to make fun of me and the next thing you

01:12:33.680 know your country your state your school your whatever is taken over by a whole other let's

01:12:40.680 call it regime to the point that like call it suicidal empathy like you have this empathy for

01:12:46.940 something out of fear of what you know that's just yeah we're a nation of laws um so yeah isms so

01:12:56.500 you know and i i'll talk about it more tomorrow i want to save it for tomorrow but but um gad is so

01:13:03.700 he's so good at explaining things and he has like this dry sense of humor

01:13:09.860 he made you slow it down and he has like this dry sense of humor so like when you're paying

01:13:14.820 attention and listening to him you know i just will start laughing because i love how he just

01:13:19.700 slips in like a little dig or a little something funny it's so good oh i just kicked stella she

01:13:24.740 was under my desk i don't know why um so anyway it's yeah it's a really great book so i got it

01:13:30.980 on audible um suicidal empathy and i'm gonna put up the um the post tomorrow he is so smart and

01:13:39.940 the parasitic mind he's written so many books i think he was on rogan recently i don't know if

01:13:45.540 it's like his 12th time on rogan it's you know what i um i don't know if you guys saw me the

01:13:53.780 other day i was saying how whenever i'm talking to people i'm like let's go let's go let's go

01:13:56.820 like let's get to the point um i like to hear things a little faster yeah so you got to be

01:14:02.180 careful you know um it's i feel like it really started here after 9 11 um and everybody there 0.59

01:14:07.620 it is and everybody's like you have to be tolerant and not all you know i'm not all chinese people

01:14:14.180 are bad not all muslims are bad not all but no like we know but then there's also

01:14:20.100 factions that are extremely dangerous and not congruent with anything that we do here and to 0.78

01:14:26.740 accept their way means to give up what we have and i'm not willing to do it so yes he is friends

01:14:34.820 with jordan peterson he was on gutfeld last week he's all over doing the book stuff so

01:14:42.660 it's it's really good yeah so you guys get it definitely get the book i highly recommend

01:14:47.060 yep and then owen's gonna do a um for his subscribers on sundays he's going to do a book

01:14:54.880 club so to speak about it and um you you know you don't have to get the book to be in the book club

01:15:00.760 because you guys will talk about it it's not like um it's not like you're following like a novel that

01:15:07.180 was written and there's like this character you know creation it's nothing like that yeah i mean

01:15:12.860 crank one same but it's you know it's we can do what we can but people at a large scale need to

01:15:20.640 stop this stuff so it could possibly start off 9 11 um yeah well yeah because people started to

01:15:33.500 second take second looks at people who looked different that looked you know i'm making this

01:15:39.760 up. These are just my words like Arabic or, you know, whatever, Middle Eastern. And then we started

01:15:44.400 to get nervous, right? You too, Marianne. So we started to get nervous. Like, you know, can we

01:15:50.080 trust these people? Rightfully so. Like we never had lived through anything like that. So you're

01:15:54.660 not a racist. You're not like a bigot. Like, you know, I was listening to this guy. I actually

01:16:03.040 want to talk to this person and see if he'll come on. But also it's like, let's just say

01:16:11.660 there's a group of black people like what just happened here, like completely chaos out of 1.00

01:16:18.300 control because you don't want to be around a particular group of black people does not make 0.99

01:16:24.720 you racist. Okay. Like I just, I know it's like weird to hear someone say that, but there are 0.72

01:16:30.440 with groups of black people. I don't want to be around because I fear for my safety. I fear for 1.00

01:16:35.740 my sanity. I want certain things in my life. I want peace. I want cooperation and order. And

01:16:44.340 you're not going to get that with those groups of people. So it's not racist. So we have to just

01:16:49.820 stop. Like this is all new, all of this nonsense. Um, what about Kevin?

01:17:01.120 Oh, I think I listened to it at, um, I think it's at like 1.5.

01:17:10.620 Yeah. You got to notice. Yep. I'm a realist. Yep. Oh, what about Dr. Drew is coming on.

01:17:17.720 All right, do you want a little behind the scenes?

01:17:22.280 Do, do, do, don't tell anyone.

01:17:25.140 It's just Rumble and locals.

01:17:33.560 I'm only answering this question, not any other ones.

01:17:37.880 Okay, let's see.

01:17:40.520 Next Wednesday, this Wednesday, the 27th.

01:17:45.520 No, the 27, Dr. Drew will be on.

01:17:53.520 That's all I'm saying about that.

01:17:56.880 He is a real one.

01:17:58.220 What you see is what you get.

01:17:59.600 Like he is, he's so amazing.

01:18:02.200 Mary Kay, were you seriously wondering where Sergio was?

01:18:05.480 Have you not been on here in that long?

01:18:07.580 I was like, where's Mary Kay been?

01:18:12.320 Whoa, yay. 0.96

01:18:15.520 100% G.S. G.J.

01:18:24.040 Oh, no. 0.97

01:18:30.200 Yes, he did, Goldie.

01:18:36.400 Your cool advertising memes.

01:18:38.860 Oh, yes, yes, yes.

01:18:40.960 you guys make some more um thumbnails for me for the show but um if you all right this is

01:18:49.940 gonna sound weird but if you can make it kimberly made some for me but youtube is the problem like

01:18:54.880 they don't like it to be too many gigabytes something so if you make one can you screenshot

01:19:03.820 it and then send it to me because it's got to be like a lower something you guys know this is why

01:19:09.660 asked for help with a computer yeah right Goldie like it was like someone

01:19:16.540 putting things in order right and Arizona mentioned yeah we miss him so

01:19:25.620 much Sean you are like Sean you're gonna win we have to do like a yearbook

01:19:36.240 things. You know how people win awards, like most likely to blah, blah, blah. Sean, you're

01:19:41.540 going to win my, I have to think of the category, but thirst for gossip for the men. You are the

01:19:50.180 most funny. You want all the dirt. Do you watch The Housewives? Nothing wrong with that. Love

01:19:56.720 the housewives. Let's see. No, B. Dylon. D. Leon. I always say B. D. Lion. You know how I do with 1.00

01:20:15.020 your name all the time. Listen, ask him. Go ask Sergio to, he's not going to pop on the show,

01:20:22.720 But will he pop in the chat?

01:20:24.100 I don't know.

01:20:26.220 I hope he's doing well.

01:20:28.560 All right, Sean has your best voice award.

01:20:30.760 Okay.

01:20:31.820 I know Stella's like, lady? 0.94

01:20:36.260 Let's see. 1.00

01:20:37.680 I know, you're such a dirt-dishing lover. 0.99

01:20:44.780 Aw. 0.98

01:20:47.560 Dave.

01:20:48.080 I like that one, Dr. Von Hardy.

01:20:52.280 I'm scrolling back to look.

01:20:55.680 There you go.

01:20:56.100 Let me go.

01:21:00.660 Pet the meow meow.

01:21:02.520 The meow meow is crazy.

01:21:05.380 Stella.

01:21:09.560 You ask him.

01:21:10.860 I'm not going to ask him.

01:21:14.540 Tell him to come into the chat and post his memes like he used to.

01:21:18.080 so funny have a great day sean you guys are so funny i like you just so you know this is just

01:21:27.540 me okay when you guys write all that stuff in the chat there's a little a little part of me

01:21:33.360 that gets annoyed because he left so i'm just like go talk to him he left and i'm not saying

01:21:40.440 stop doing it but i don't love it i'm not gonna lie i don't love it i'm like whatever

01:21:44.440 um erica likes killing my avatar i don't but you just kept making me look like a monster

01:21:53.560 seriously oh look at the baby

01:21:59.880 is that henry or crusher oh that's crusher

01:22:07.320 um he's on the same i think he's the same name on x

01:22:13.720 oh my god you guys looney tunes like the older you got it's crusher

01:22:21.080 the older you got it was like oh my god this is like genius

01:22:25.520 yeah um let's see sjv

01:22:33.860 okay i'm gonna go because it's gonna get dicey in here um you guys love you so much

01:22:42.860 i'm glad we could stay on for a bit tomorrow we have gad i do have so much to do um if you guys

01:22:50.960 see sergio tell him i said hi and um yeah always go right to the person don't ask me i don't know

01:22:58.000 he's not here he didn't want to be here he's not here nothing literally nothing happened no argument

01:23:04.080 no shade no nothing okay love you back um thanks for hanging out with me you guys

01:23:11.840 all right so i'll see you in the morning sure thing chicken wing

01:23:18.640 you guys have a great day hugs

01:23:23.640 love you guys

01:23:26.920 you guys are funny

01:23:32.640 thanks crusher thanks goldie

01:23:41.840 Bye, guys. I can't stop reading your comments. Bye, bye, bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 20, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 5⧸20⧸26 Joel Pollak joins the Home Team

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