The Scott Adams School - 05/19/26 HOME TEAM Trump Massie Data Centers Ticks Iran who knows....

Good morning, David. I think that's the first time we had a Rumble person be the first comment.

Well, technically, yeah. I don't know if you started early. Oh, true, true.

Yeah, so only the pre-show people will know. Good morning, everyone. May 19th, and, uh, 2026, in case anyone needed that reminder. Sometimes I do. I don't know what year I'm in half the time. Oh, I hear me over here. Okay, are you guys ready to go? We have a wonderful show for you today, and we're going to need some participation in one story that I want to discuss. I want to get your take on a lot of it, but I cannot do anything until we all do something. Maybe this is a repeat. I don't think it is. Let us begin.

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Yes, it does. Good morning again, you guys. My name is Erica. I'm with Marcella and Owen. You are at the Scott Adams School, and if you are like, where am I, and you've never been here before, just come on in, settle down with us, chat with the chat. Everybody's super friendly. YouTube is beyond charming, Rumble is rambunctious, X is mysterious, and the locals are the beloveds. And for spot Spotify. They can't see our beautiful faces and our clips, but they can hear it all. So come on in. Um, today I have just a couple of clips. Is Beverly here, you guys? I just— oh, did I just see her? Beverly, I just saw you. I have a— I have an opening clip in honor— Beverly's sweet orange boy Stumpy is no longer with us. I know. So she has a cat that she took in from that was like a random visiting cat. He's so sweet and beautiful. Um, and anyway, I was thinking, Bev, this might be a good idea. You could, you could monetize this new cat. Let me show you what's up. So people in the chat can like pay a little token and it lets the cat food come out into the bowl and the cat eats.

I saw this. I was thinking of doing this for my own cat. I was like, meow, meow, meow.

I mean, does the cat have diabetes now? I don't know.

It's gonna be a fat cat.

Eat the cat.

So that's just an idea if you ever take in a stray and you're like, hey, listen, I need money to pay for this sucker. There you go. That's an idea. Uh, that was my animal clip and my economic, um, advice clip of the day. So there you go.

Just like Trump, monetize everything.

I mean, why not? Maybe get your own cat food brand, who knows? Or maybe make it like a Bitcoin token.

Why you stop at cats?

Anything, right? What if we just—

what do you think, Marcela? People?

Yes, I was just gonna say, for the, like, the San Francisco issue and LA and everything. So what if there was like a little token and then that would fund your homeless?

That would give the fentanyl out to the homeless?

No, food, food, food, food.

Focus on food.

No, come on, make it fun.

No, bad.

Give them the fentanyl.

No, we'll shoot out like granola bars or something. Oh, but then Karen Bass has to get them new teeth to eat the granola bars. Something soft. Pudding and applesauce. There we go.

There'll be a dentist involved.

We're solving problems for the world right now. I think that's everything. Like, if you were like, okay, I'm going on that app, and it's like— and I'm not making fun of these people, but it's like feed a drug addict. It's like, okay, I'm gonna feed a drug addict, making a difference. Yeah. And you can see them get the food and receive it and like be happy, and you're like, okay, good.

So I'll just build an AI version, then there's no real homeless people impacted.

What do you do, build an AI version?

Yeah, just, you know, fake homeless people getting fake food for money.

Oh, that's a good one too.

That's a good one. Yeah, that's really—

you have to give it or anything, you just take it off.

Like the Sarah McLachlan commercials where all that stuff I think was fake too.

What with the— I can't, I'll get dinged on our channel if I sing the song, but with the animals, I'm getting ideas for sure.

Where did that money really go, Erica? Come on.

I don't know. I can't watch the commercial. As soon as I hear that song start, I'm like, "Chern thing!" You went on an odd side quest. I know, but I'm thinking, "Owen, that wasn't very philanthropic of you for the people that really need the food." I at least had a good intention. Oh my gosh.

You're just going with the fraud theme that seems to have taken over the country.

Ah, fraud, fraud. Yes, the big F word. What is this clip? Hmm, I brought a clip in. I don't know what it is.

Not knowing what the clip is. Yeah, very exciting.

Risky click.

Oh shoot.

Well, okay, I do want participation, um, on this topic. Okay, I kind of threw this at Owen and Marcela last minute because I want to know in the chat what you guys all know about this tick situation. So the weather is warm, people are outside. I have seen videos, I've heard about this before. So let's kind of work this out together. And I do not want to be an alarmist, but I want us to at least know what's happening and to, you know, see what kind of precautions we need. So let me just play this, and then we have two clips about it. So I'm gonna play— actually, I'll play this one first. It's Joe Rogan with Tim Burchett. He said his last name is Burchett, by the way, not Burchett. So now it's Tim. Yeah, he said it's two of him then. All right, all right, here we go.

Really crazy.

And ticks— watch that thing.

The tick thing is nuts.

Yeah, especially because of meat, because of gates.

Um, well, there's boxes people are finding. I don't know if this is true because I've seen many reports on it, but I'm just going to say what I saw, that farmers and ranchers are finding boxes of ticks on their property. Now, I don't know if that's fake. I don't know if someone's setting that up to pretend they found these boxes of ticks, but there's videos of these people finding boxes of ticks.

Now, what they'll say is they'll probably say they're sterile ticks and that we're planting them out there so we can diminish the population is what they'll say. But any time they try to mess with the balance of nature, it never goes right.

Is that what they're saying? This is not—

we're getting ready. That's, that's what you're getting it right here.

And I don't believe you have a right to go to someone's property and drop off sterile ticks.

No way in hell.

That's crazy either way. But I have a good friend of mine who got bit by the Lone Star tick and has that Alpha Gal problem.

Yeah. A guy came out my house yesterday looking at putting gutters up at our house and dadgum, he said, and I said, you did what? He goes, yeah, I can't eat anything, any meat produced by a mammal.

Yes.

I was like, yeah.

So my buddy, he had it and my friend Evan, so he had it for a little while and then he did a bunch of treatments and got off of it and then started eating steak again. And he was fine for about a year and a half, and then it came back stronger than ever. And he just can't shake it.

He can't shake it.

He's been around that long, so.

Oh yeah, he can only eat eggs. I mean, he's basically eating eggs and vegetables. That's all he's eating. And every time he tries to deviate, he has a horrible reaction. It makes, for people that don't know, it makes your body allergic to red meat.

Right, and who has got genetically made meat now?

Yeah, Bill Gates. Bill Gates. Yeah, well, they're doing things with mosquitoes, and they're doing, they're messing around with nature in a way that no one's given you permission to. The general public does not want you doing this. If they could vote on it, they'd say no way.

Mm, what's worse than being allergic to red meat, personally? I mean, no, honestly, it— the alpha-gal or whatever it's called, that's a really serious thing. Like, people, it's like painful. They break out in rashes all over their body, like, if they eat anything. It's almost like if you can't have gluten, like the same thing with like a meat byproduct. Apparently it's in tons and tons of stuff and you don't know. And like, if, if you get some of it, you get really, really sick. Um, so is that the first you guys are hearing about this?

I've, I've heard about it.

No, we heard about it.

Yeah, I mean, I, I, I think it's been, you know, it, it is, I think, in the rumor category. I, I think I, I've seen some of the posts on X and some of the pictures of the supposed boxes of ticks, but I think, as far as I know, there hasn't been any real confirmation that this is a real thing that's happening. I think it's one of those things where you just see pictures on social media and it panics everybody, um, but you don't really know whether or not it's true or what's really going on. So, um, I'm not saying that the people that posted their videos about their tick boxes are wrong. I, I don't know. But I think, uh, you know, it— as far as I know, the government has not confirmed any, any reports of this. And so I think it's still in the kind of rumor speculation category.

Well, if the government's the one doing it, are they gonna report it? I'm just saying.

But there's been a search. So there's been a surge, so that's for sure happening. There's been a surge of ticks.

A surge. Oh, a surge.

Yes, sorry. Yes, my accent.

No, no, it's okay. I was like, what are they searching for?

Increase in ticks, um, and it's going up to all the way to Canada, Ohio. Anybody in Ohio, that's, that's increasing. Now it could just be, you know, Insects spread. I mean, they have lots of babies.

I don't know.

But the tick boxes, from what I could gather, there is no evidence, um, besides TikTok people putting this on. You know, you would judge, you know, how— who puts it on TikTok and what it means. Could it be the neighbors next door, the farmer next I, I don't know, kids.

I don't know, no idea. I'm kind of watching the story. It's—

is it China?

I know, I think— I, I mean, I don't want to say what I think. I don't want to say what I think, but, um, I'm looking, you know, a lot of people in the chat are confirming like lots of different stuff with ticks. And then I also was reading that, um, Lyme's disease was also—

oh, so Lyme's disease comes from ticks, allegedly, and there is a plant vaccine in the works for Lyme disease. So the allegations are that you need the Bill Gates stuff in order to overcome the ticks problem, and you need the vaccine Pfizer or whoever is making it. I believe Pfizer, and there was another name, um, who's making it. You would need that in order to you know, help yourself with this tick increase.

So, and why is it called Lyme disease, Marcelle?

No idea.

Tell us, Owen.

I think it's from like Lyme, New York, or I could have the state wrong, but it's the place it came from, which just happens to be where they had one of these biolabs. And, um, there is certainly lots of speculation that it may have been one of these released government programs that is causing Lyme disease. Um, so that's certainly been a well-known conspiracy theory, and you can either believe or not believe it.

But in Connecticut, they're saying—

yeah, so Lyme disease, they, they, uh, infected these ticks with— I, I don't remember what it's called. So anyway, what my— let's, let's listen to my second clip. This will help us further the discussion. I think it's, uh, Interestingly important. Did we actually use ticks as bioweapons?

Yes, it's actually, uh, in CIA documents that have been declassified. For instance, uh, infected ticks were deployed, uh, from C-130s flying low over sugarcane fields in Cuba back in the day under President Kennedy. Uh, there is abundant evidence of the testing, field testing of infected ticks and other insects in a variety of settings in the United States and elsewhere. Clearly, USAMRID was involved, and in particular, the Plum Island facility that had been a biowarfare investigative facility up in Manhattan— Long Island region, and then was transferred over to USDA, was involved in a lot of this research. It also involved infected mosquitoes and deployed infected mosquitoes and a number of other things. And the one that— I mean, with this AI-driven investigation that I ran through as part of our efforts to develop new systems for verification and monitoring of the Biowarfare Convention, What this uncovered that I hadn't been aware of was the release of a large number of Lone Star ticks that have been radioactively tagged in Virginia. It appears that that was responsible for the introduction of Lone Star ticks along the eastern seaboard that have now migrated north of the Mason-Dixon line. So there's a lot—

wait, radioactive ticks being dropped into Virginia by our government?

Absolutely, as part of a project in the '60s to look at the ability of these modified insects to disseminate geographically, and it appears that that's the origin of the Lone Star tick infestation that we now have along the eastern seaboard. It also appears that, that Army research involved development of ticks that had multiple pathogens, and the appearance that those modified organisms found their ways into the Eastern Seaboard, potentially through animals crossing over to Plum Island and then back onto the mainland.

So I think it's something for us to take seriously, to tick seriously. Because everybody's talking about it. And I, you know, I'm not saying like I've seen the boxes and I believe it, but it's like interesting that, you know, people in different regions have found these boxes on private property. When they kick the box, you see like a million of these teeny, teeny, teeny ticks come pouring out of these boxes. Um, I don't know. I, you know, I've been hearing everybody saying watch out. I know Cernovich was giving a warning the other day. Um, So, you know, you guys, if you have any advice about this— yeah, where there is smoke. Um, so also I saw somebody say, I think if you put like, uh, sulfuric acid, like let's say like in an old sock, like a tube sock, and tie a knot in it, and like you kind of use it as like you swat the, the sock full of the sulfuric acid like around your feet and the bottom of your pants before you go outside, that it should keep the ticks from jumping onto your shoes. So that's something, but Um, are they ticks or ladybugs? Erica said two ticks.

Seriously, hold on, are you— so sulfuric acid, isn't that liquid?

No, it's a powder. Oh, am I saying the wrong thing?

No, I don't know, but I think sulfuric acid is kind of dangerous.

Wait, is this sulfuric? I'll find— you know what, don't put any acid on you. It's— I'll find the clip and send it to you.

Sulfur powder.

Oh, sulfur powder. I'm sorry, sulfur powder. Thank you.

Okay, very different. All right, good. Thank you.

That's what I was thinking too, but I didn't say it.

Thank you.

Don't play with sulfuric acid, kids.

That was my back at all. Okay, so sulfur, sulfur.

Okay, sulfur just smells really bad, but that's okay if it's important to you.

Pat that down with your— on your feet. If you're someone who works outside, I mean, lots of people work outside every day— landscapers, um, tree service people, like anybody that works outside, or you're in a field, or you're a farmer, or whatever. Your kids if they want to go play.

Little turkeys to be at your feet at all times.

I would say with sulfur, just be aware, I think that's the rotten egg smell sort of thing.

Yeah, better than not eating meat.

It is, in my opinion. Yeah, I would rather smell like rotten eggs than not be able to eat meat.

Mm-hmm. Uh, Andy says—

someone— yeah, go ahead.

Wait, Andy says Erica's mob contracts—

wait.

Requires sulfuric acid.

Okay, I know someone in the chat wanted us to talk about Project Mongoose, which I think is connected to what Robert Malone was talking about. I think it's, um, it was a program in the '50s and '60s to kind of sabotage Cuba. And, um, from what I'm reading in Grok, it doesn't really have any verified connection to ticks, that there isn't any declassified and documents at least that say there were ticks involved, but there was a sabotage effort. And, you know, at least the speculation I think is that maybe they did release these disease ticks into Cuba as part of that effort. But they were, you know, definitely doing things to Cuba to try and destabilize them. It was a CIA operation. And, um, in the Alpha Gal part, I think there is again speculation that, um, it came from Fort Detrick and was developed as a bioweapon and got released either accidentally or on purpose. And that's the story behind it. I think there's a book called Bitten that claims there is some CIA source that said this was happening. So there's some claims at least along those lines, but I'm not sure how much of it's actually been sort of verified or proven.

Okay. And the— you guys in the chat, you have great suggestions, products, ways to protect yourself. So good. Um, thanks for posting all that. All right, so, you know, we discussed it. If I hear anything more, we'll talk about it. And, um, I think I'm going to kick back with the chat because Owen and Marcella have so many stories and I want to hang with the peeps. So Owen, I'm going to let you ramble out a story first and then we'll go to Marcella.

All right. So Pizza Hut had an AI system that apparently has caused cascading problems and they filed a lawsuit. Now, a franchisee filed the lawsuit for $100 million in damages. They rolled out this AI-powered delivery system that I think was connected to DoorDash and Um, it looks like drivers began waiting to batch multiple orders together, and as a result, a lot of people got cold pizza, um, because they were basically able to see, you know, what's coming in through the kitchen so they could see if there's, you know, a better way to— they could batch up their orders into one trip, and they would maybe wait up to 15 minutes to get other deliveries. Um, and so this franchisee is looking for $100 million in damages plus attorney fees. And it looks like Pizza Hut is reviewing the lawsuit and will respond. So I think it looks like maybe the franchisee is suing Pizza Hut. I'm not sure. But yeah, AI is kind of going, going wild with Pizza Hut. So this certainly agrees with my prediction that I think there will be a company that goes out of business because of AI. I don't know if this one will be enough to put them out of business, but it's the same sort of thing I was anticipating would happen.

Did you see where the— I don't know, I think it was a college graduation, and they implemented AI to read all the students' names to come up and get their diplomas, and it missed like whole batches of students, and it all went haywire? They were like, oh God, they were all like, wait, like, what about like all of us and this person? And it was so bad, which you gotta love to see it.

Funny.

All right, so— oh, and then did you also hear that Pizza Hut, that there's someone who bought, like, I'm making this up, yeah, like 30 Pizza Huts, and he's old-fashioned them all back to retro. So with those vinyl red and white checkered tablecloths, the Tiffany-style stained glass, um, chandeliers or lamps that would be over the tables that say Pizza Hut. You guys, the red plastic bumpy feeling cups at Pizza Hut are life. Like, you would get like a big soda in that big plastic red cup. So anyway, I'm very excited about that. And the idea was to just kind of like bring people back, you know, maybe go with the family and, you know, whatever. So I love that this guy's doing that because, as you all know, I am living for nostalgia at this point. Um, okay, Marcella, let's have a good one.

So we, we have a historic DC fountain flows again after 7 years, and some people are saying after 20 years, um, and the news is reporting it. Now, how is this news? How is fountain, water fountains flowing in DC news? Well, because that hasn't happened. Nobody's ever done it under any presidency, um, for about 20 years. Water is flowing again. Of course, the news doesn't give thanks to you know who. They don't thank President Trump, but that they leave that out. So there was a major landmark park where it was brought back, Meridian Hill Park. Even people were commenting on X that they were there and that people were at the park and they were like, can you believe he got it done? 'Can you believe it?' And there were like several very liberal-looking people, you know, the, the same— you can't really judge a book by its cover, but you know, there's certain people that you automatically know that might not be, um, Trump voters. But they were surprised. They were like, 'He actually got it done.' So the U.S. Department of the Interior posted a video of the fountain flowing And some people are saying that decline is a choice, and we've chosen to do this. So now it's big news to have water flowing again.

All right, good. I mean, yeah, the man can, can pretty much build and do and repair anything. I didn't know fountains, water fountains, would be so exciting.

One of the things that was happening here is that it wasn't just the water wasn't flowing, there was things growing, you know, I was you know, just horrendous, kind of like he's doing with the, uh, reflection pool. So yes, go ahead.

Oh, I'm so sorry, I was just gonna say I had the same thought as Themis in the chat, that, uh, you know, the next step is the homeless people start taking showers in the fountains.

So no, because there's a— we, you know, as you know, as you guys know, that there was a lot of homeless that were moved out of DC because The, um, National Guard is on watch everywhere there, so— but that can only be done in a federal area.

So don't we all want to go get like a raft and get in the reflection pool when it's done and just kind of float around for the day? They should make it a wave pool.

I want to get arrested.

I'll call you, Marcel. I'll be like, help, I was in the pool! All right, yay, water! I mean, um, fill up your little cup for the little squirrels when they're hot and give them some water. Okay, Owen, go ahead.

All right, well, um, another science story. The— apparently science have bioengineered photosynthesis in the eyes to treat dry eye disease. So they've figured out that this molecule from spinach, or particles from spinach, can be inserted into eyes and will essentially create the molecules that were causing— were deficient that were causing the dry eye. So I think it's still in animal models at this point, so it certainly has a way to go to be tested, but looks like there may be a way to put plants in your eyes and, you know, become kind of a hybrid plant-animal and fix your dry eye.

All right, so immediately I would go get spinach leaves and I would just steam them ever so slightly with like a wet paper towel around them and I'd rest them on my eyes.

Well, is that the—

make sure you don't include any sulfuric acid.

No, just spinach. Just spinach. That's it.

You would say that.

What could go wrong with spinach steam? Never, ever, ever take my advice. Okay, just— it's just me talking. Okay, but if I read that and I had this dry eye issue, I'd be like, let's get some spinach, put it in a little moist paper towel, fold it over, just nuke it for 2 seconds, and just lay it on your eyes. If not, you know, take a little nap, relax.

You know, I, I knew somebody that had a dry eye issue. I won't name names, but, um, it's so embarrassing. They might be watching. But they went to this like Doctors, I mean, everything, like very like trying to figure it out, took all these like drops and all that. And what ended up happening is that he or she figured out, the doctor, with the doctor, that she wasn't— he or she wasn't drinking enough water. So there was no hydration coming, so therefore the dry eyes.

Okay, with that being said, everyone, I've got a little hydration. Everyone take a hydrating sip. For the health of your eyes. Um, I'll take coffee. Coffee dehydrates, but I'm just— have both, have both, okay? And look, Scott's approving. Okay, so Owen, you go girl. I mean, I was reading you go— sorry, you go girl, Owen. All right, Lord help me.

Well, there's a study that is apparently has found that the Arctic was ice-free year-round 14,000 years ago when CO2 was much lower than it is now. So I think this is in Scott Adams' category of wait until you find about— find out about climate models. Um, but apparently 14,000 years ago, I think the parts per million on CO2 was at 230. We're at 430 today, so significantly higher. But apparently back then there was no ice in the Arctic, and I think it started around that time where it sort of started accumulating, but it would be melted in the summer, but for a lot of that time it didn't have any ice at all. So, um, apparently one more data point that shows that our climate models are not accurate and do not capture what's actually going on in the climate, which I think Scott Adams had as a very big theme throughout his show, that he was saying we don't, you know, we don't have the capability to really model the climate and, uh, to predict what things would happen based on the climate.

The whole climate hoax, obviously, because now it's like data centers.

Woohoo!

I mean, it's amazing the people who have pivoted from the world's dying and climate and blah blah blah to we need data centers. Um, Marcela, what do you have to say about— I mean, I, I love that story. It's like, yes, things just change, don't they? Just change slowly.

Yeah, I mean, the climate model thing, that's, you know, how, how How accurate are they to predict if they can't even predict, um, the weather right or anything right, you know? So I don't know why people put up with that. But, um, later today there's primary election day, um, and the battle is out for 2026 starts today in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Wow. Yes, Scott Adams is on the ballot in Pennsylvania. Get out and vote. I think he's in Beaver County, which is—

you'll never forget that Scott Adams is in Beaver County. It's just the best. I mean, he even laughs. All right, sorry, I'm interrupting you. I'm punchy.

That's the Pittsburgh area. Oh my God, I can't even speak. Um, so there's very important races. One of them is in Pennsylvania. Not only Scott Adams, but the governor. Um, there is a Republican candidate for governor named Stacy Garrity, and she is running and she has a good chance there. The reason why Pennsylvania is important is because there's a lot of seats there that Democrats want to flip from Republican to Democrat. So, you know, we'll see how that works out. Um, the other one, the other story that I saw is that Oregon voters are perhaps could vote for the next Republican governor that they haven't had since 1980s. Chris Dudley, who knows if he's gonna win, but, um, you know, so he has votes for winning, but, um, you know, the jury will be out on that. And I believe Kentucky we talked about yesterday. Not only is the race, uh, Massey's race going on, but there's a US Senate race, uh, with a crowded Republican primary. This is just the primary, and it's, um, it's to replace Senator Mitch McConnell, and we'll see where that goes. Alabama just opened races for governor and Senate, and but the Pennsylvania one is the one to watch out for. Governor, the incumbent, Josh Shapiro, the Democrat, is unopposed on the Democratic side, of course. But on the Republican side, we have Stacey Garrity, which I talked about. Georgia has multiple candidates. They have challenges, vulnerable Democratic incumbents, Senator Jon Ossoff in the state. Um, so we'll see how it pans out, but go vote for good candidates. Um, don't look at the party, but obviously we know which party you would need to vote for.

Good luck, Scott Pressler!

Yay, Scott Adams!

Let's flip the country red!

Let's do it! Um, I, I'm so proud of Scott. I mean, we go so way back. And I mean, just— I mean, have you ever seen someone so tireless? I can't even stand it. And he's just been on the go. I mean, like, we first became friends in 2015, and he's just so on the go. I can't— I mean, and then he got sick, and then he, like, readjusted. And, you know, then, you know, he started, like, his health journey, and he's been— yeah, he's just, you know, I'm really proud of him. So Um, you know, I hope everything works out well for him. Uh, we love you. Okay, so love that. Owen, did you want to add on to that at all?

No, just go elect Scott Pressler. Yay!

So for Texas, somebody put in the chat that's going to be on May 26th, the Texas, uh, Paxton Corden, um, election. It's not today for them.

Oh, interesting. Okay. Oh, that's tough too with Memorial Weekend just happening. All right, I hope people are around to vote. Um, okay, so Owen, we'll go to your next story.

All right, well, psychologists say they've identified a key reason that conversations with your partner might turn negative, and apparently the finding is that if you're uncertain about your relationship, they have more negative emotions during everyday conversations. I think this falls in the category of 'you probably could have just asked Scott,' and maybe also backward science, because, you know, you would think maybe they're uncertain about their relation because of the negative conversations. Probably could go the other way, don't you think? Um, yeah, but apparently, shockingly, if you're helpful to your partner, that makes people more happy and positive. And if you have doubts about your relationships, somehow that leads to more annoyance and negative interactions. Can you imagine?

Mm-hmm.

Is that meant—

I mean, backwards? Who could have ever predicted? Yeah, that's backwards science.

Okay, I didn't think of it, but, um, I was like, am I seeing this right?

Oh lordy. Um, yeah, I mean, how, how shocking that is. I mean, you could never predict that. It's so stupid.

You mean if you're nice to someone, it's a good thing?

Well, if you get along with somebody, yeah. Oh, and tell us from your experience, is that true?

Tell us from your experience.

I think so, yeah. I think generally if you're nice to people, it works out better. Yeah, I do think that it can be overdone though, and I think it can be done in a healthy way. For anyone who might have read the book No More Mr. Nice Guy, that makes kind of the counter argument, but it's not— it doesn't mean, you know, be a dick to your partner. It just means it's more about like being honest. So I think the point it makes in that book, which I thought was good, is that some people think of them as a nice guy, but then they, they just think, well, because I was nice to you, you owe me all these other things, and you should be doing all these things for me, and why aren't you doing all these things that I want you to do? And a lot of times it's totally unspoken expectations. You don't really tell them, this is what I need or want from you, and you're not really taking responsibility to fulfill your own needs. And so this Mr. Nice Guy syndrome that he talks about is kind of this really dysfunctional thing where you're thinking, well, I did all these nice things, so now I should get all these nice things. And you don't even necessarily even ask your partner for these things. So, um, I think the advice is to just be more honest and say, you know, be upfront about what you expect or what you want, and, you know, do whatever negotiation you can do. And also take responsibility for fulfilling your own needs. Don't put it all on your partner.

Yeah, just, I mean, I think though it's like gift giving, like just give because you want to give, not because you want to receive something in return. And I feel like if that's just who you are, like, you know, you're just like a generally nice person, you know, respectful or considerate or whatever you want to classify it as, you should be getting that back. And if you're not getting it back, then you got to reevaluate, like, who are you spending time with? Um, it'll wear you down, right?

So you should not look at the chat.

No, you shouldn't. You're so funny. Marcella, would you like to chime in some more? Would you like to just have a whole new story? It's up to you.

I'll have a whole new story. Okay, Iran update.

Oh, Iran. Okay, wait, Iran update.

Uh, Trump delays strike on Iran for 2 or 3 days, uh, to pursue a deal with Tehran is already melting down. So the Iranians are melting down, they're raging. They said about Trump, he says deadlines, then cancels it himself. This is how they speak, right? The iron fist of Iran will force them to retreat and surrender. That's what Iran said. Anyways, President Donald Trump said yesterday he's calling off an attack on Iran as planned for Tuesday because regional leaders had urged them to allow negotiations to continue and a very acceptable deal for the US was at hand. He wrote a Trump post. I will not have you read it, Owen, unless you want to. And it's very long. It's one of those Bill Ackman type of posts. Trump later told reporters at the White House that the delay of the attack maybe temporary. I put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while because we have had very big discussions over Iran and we'll see what they amount to, he said. So to be determined.

Oh, and what do you say to, to this new, uh, weave, the weave he's doing? The weave?

I don't know. I mean, I, I think it, to me, it's just all part of the negotiation strategy. I think Trump is trying to be be on one hand taking the strong position and saying, we're about to destroy your country, you better do something about it. But I think he really doesn't want to do the real destruction that would put them back decades. Like, he doesn't want to actually, you know, knock out their power plants and knock out their water supplies. So I think he's trying to take every opportunity to give them a way out, um, but at the same time not really back down. So that's the way I look at it. I don't know how much of it is where he's sort of making a threat and then not doing what he said he was going to do. But again, I, I don't really want him to follow through with these things if it means that we're basically going to, you know, put Iran in a position where they're not going to be able to recover anytime soon, and maybe a lot of people will die as a result of it— civilian people. Um, so I, I kind of applaud his efforts to just try and get this to a close without more massive violence, but You know, again, my speculation would be if they have the right intelligence and they can't come to a deal, then maybe the next step is to take out the next layer of leadership and start over again. So that wouldn't be surprising to me if that's what happened, but we'll have to see. I don't know if they have— if they know where these people are or, you know, who they would choose to go after, but I would certainly not be very comfortable if I was on the negotiating committee that was not making a deal to get this over. Over with.

So let me ask you guys in the chat, so it's a yes or no, okay? So yes or no, do you think it would be better if President Trump wouldn't talk so much to us about the negotiating and like, here's what's going to happen and now this changed, that like, just kind of do your thing and make like, maybe don't involve the emotions of the world like with all your truth posts, you know? So do you think that would be better Um, you know, or do you like hearing all of the pivoting and all of this and that? So yes, I think it would be better if he would just simmer down a little. No, you know, just keep posting everything. I just want to see where we're at. Let's see, Sleigh, and we can keep talking. I just want to see.

I mean, to me, no is because the persuasion skills of Trump is to do it out in the open and to do this, um, and put everybody in fear. Um, if there is no real fear, um, if they don't really fear us, that's the only thing that they answer to in Iran. So that's how I see it. It's part of his— I mean, is there any other way to negotiate things? Yes, but this is the Trump way of negotiating. Accustomed to, for sure.

This is— yeah, this is his way. Um, and as we know, a lot of times he's just broadcasting to the people he's negotiating with. So I get that, you guys. I get it. Um, all right, so what else about Iran though? Why am I like, Iran? What else about Iran?

Iran. Iran.

Yeah.

Um, there was the— I mean, there was, uh, the UAE thing. Um, I don't know if you want to talk about that. There was, um, an attack on a nuclear plant, right? Right on.

Oh, I know there was an attack in UAE. I don't remember if it was nuclear or not, but it might have been. I think it was that there were some missiles that were launched, and I think they came from Iraq, but everybody thinks it really came from Iran. Um, in terms of the actual source of it. So I think there are more of these regional things happening. Um, but again, I think it sounds like at least if Trump is telling the truth, which I don't know if he is or not, but I would assume he had some of these conversations, that, you know, they may just not want to again have a completely crippled Iran. So, um, you know, we'll have to see if they change their mind and want to do it. I think at different points in time it sounds like he's said— Trump has said that people like the UAE and others want him to do more military action. Now he's saying they want him to hold off on military action. So it's kind of hard to know exactly what— how everybody feels about these different things, right? Um, you know, and, and it's just, again, in a wartime situation, it's kind of hard to know what's really going on. Another story I posted was that the Iranian president, Massoud— I don't know if I can pronounce this Pezeshkian said some kind of public admission that there was a lot of harm from the US attacks and was urging officials to face reality. He said that, you know, we should— that Iranian leaders should avoid any tone or voices that create division but should face reality. It's not the case that we have not suffered harm. So it seems like there at least is a few cracks in the armor in terms of the Iranian side of it. That they're saying, you know, there has been a lot of damage to their oil infrastructure, gas infrastructure, power plants, different things. So, um, seems like there's at least some admission on their side that they're hurting.

Mm-hmm. Okay, Marcella, anything on that?

No, but I can go to my next story.

I mean, okay, Leah, I just, um, all right, so I, I ran I just, uh, I ran. I can't stop saying it. So, so, uh, a lot of people agree with you, Owen. Um, we'll keep our eye on it. I mean, I, you know, it's how many days till midterms? Like 120-ish, I guess. So it would be nice to be able— I know you can't just wrap up this war, but it would be nice so we can like focus on keeping seats, gaining seats, and not losing. Um, or everything just stops and gets stalled. So I, I really want to focus on that. But I know, I know. Okay, so Marcella, go to your next story. That was my weird little chime in.

You know what was odd is that I was talking to Grok the other day about the Iran War, and I asked like, what days— what day are we in the Iran War? I think it was 80 days yesterday. And it told me, oh no, it's over already. I'm like, oh.

Really?

It's been— and it said like actual fighting has been over for 2 weeks already, or so on and so on, which is kind of, um, true and not true at the same time. You know, there hasn't been, um, everything's calm right now because there's a ceasefire. So I guess— but it thought it had finished already, so I don't know.

Well, Trump said it was over when Congress was trying to tell him that they needed to like authorize the spending or something. He's like, oh no, it's already done. We're done.

Marco Rubio said that too, right?

Yeah.

So I, I guess Grok is very literal. Like, if somebody says it, then it must be true.

Well, I mean, all of this is kind of however you want to frame it, right? Because they didn't declare war. We haven't declared war since World War II. So what does it mean for a war to be over that was never declared?

And that's crazy, Owen. We haven't declared war since World War II.

No, we haven't. Korea was not declared. Vietnam was not declared. None of it was declared.

Iraq not declared. Oh my goodness, they're not declared.

Desert Storm, all of it.

Nope, it was none of it. None of it was declared war. So that, I mean, that put the lie to, you know, Congress saying, oh, you're not allowed to do this without us declaring war. It's like, come on guys, we've been doing this for what, 50 years? I mean how this is the same thing we've been doing for forever. And you obviously gave the authority to the president to do these things. And so I think it was just kind of ridiculous for them to try and claim that Trump wasn't following the law because he's doing exactly what every other president has done for, you know, 50 or 60 years.

Wow. Yeah, you know what, that's crazy.

You're right.

I'm trying to think about all of like going back. Yeah, you're right, they were always just like operations.

Yeah.

Or like we're just, you know, strategically doing one little thing. We're not— it's not actually a war. Oh my goodness.

So in regards to war, there was a war between AI masters Elon and Elon Musk and Sam Altman in a federal court in Oakland, California. And the jury returned a verdict, rejected Elon Musk's claim against OpenAI, finding that he brought this lawsuit against the company and the chief executive Sam Altman after the statute of limitations had expired. In deliberations that lasted less than 2 hours, the 9-person panel— because in a criminal case it has to be 12, but in, uh, in civil matters sometimes there's less than 12— there's 9-person panel found against Musk on technical grounds that he had alleged in his testimony that the startup behind the world's most popular chatbot stole a charity when it converted into a for-profit company.

Right.

So my takeaway is if you can get it, if you can get away with it for just 3 years, you can keep all your donors' money and you can convert your nonprofit to a for-profit company and you can just do whatever you want with it.

That happens all the time, Owen. I mean, the statute of limitations is pivotal to civil, you know, civil distress. So the reason why, because a lot of people are wondering why did it go to a trial? Why didn't the statute of limitations just end the case by the judge dismissing it? You know, so in regards to this, there was a motion for summary judgment in the case which OpenAI filed against Musk saying that, hey, Your Honor, there is a statute of limitations. They've surpassed it because we think they knew— he knew since 2017. And there's also other evidence that he knew since 2019. That we wanted to make it for-profit. And so the judge actually looked at the, at the arguments and said that there was, um, that she could not find for this, that she couldn't— it wasn't her opinion because it wasn't a legal question but a factual question. So factual questions go to the jury. So the jury was supposed to determine whether this factually was um, what they believed. Because on one hand you have Musk alleging that he knew way later, and on the other side you have OpenAI saying that he knew. However, however, let's look— and I give you, Owen, I, I understand what you mean. Um, in medical malpractice is 1-year statute of limitations. You, you know who's— in regards to who is, um giving money to politicians to make that the law. But in the art of war, it's not always who wins the case that really wins. So one of the things that was written, there was an article written in the Wall Street Journal about how Elon, despite the fact that he is going to appeal, he might have won at the very end anyways, because we still have— he still puts scam all meant as his moniker, as he was talking to him about. He put him on the stand for many days. He called him a liar, and he was, you know, deposed and also cross-examined in this trial and referred to him as a liar, and he had to answer questions. It was a long shot to win the case but he won at the very end because he put a lot of eyes on OpenAI. That's what was determined by Wall Street Journal. Um, the article is called The Art of War by Tim Higgins in there. And so it's, it's, it's— he's going to appeal. The thing that the, the, the, the— why the case was so important is because if he— if Sam Altman would have lost. He probably would have been removed as CEO. And they're going public soon, OpenAI, as well as SpaceX, which has— within SpaceX has xAI. They're going public in June. So a lot of people were watching this case. Um, I don't know if you have anything to say about this, you guys, but it was—

I feel like I, I don't know. And then I don't want to enter in like a whole new subject into this, but I'm just gonna say like, I mean, I— so, all right, so here's my quick thoughts. It's so weird to use Grok and ChatGPT. Like, sometimes I'm just like, do you two little entities know I'm using both of you? Are you trying to keep me here by persuading me more? Because sometimes I'll be like, Chester, Chester's my ChatGPT. I'll be like, Grok said blah, blah, blah. And then I'm just like, oh no, like I'm gonna start creating them to like, you know, what do we call that? Like self, um, what's that called? Self-assemble or whatever. And like start to take over because they're gonna like start talking to each other, you know, like, hey Grok, you know, here's what I'm gonna tell ChatGPT. So anyway, I feel like then— okay, so wait, I'm not making any sense because I have so many thoughts in my head. So I feel weird using both, knowing that they are so at odds with each other. And then I'm like, well, how are these things really programmed? Um, like, what's their slant? Like, what are they doing? And then, you know, all the data centers and, you know, like, how's that all going to play into it? And then did you guys hear Ashley St. Clair yesterday?

No.

Uh-huh. All right, well, I did. You did? Yes. So I don't know if Sam Altman's paying her. That's not even my opinion, I'm just being silly, but I don't know.

No, actually Musk is paying her monthly, but that's because of their child.

Yeah. Uh-huh. So anyway, it, it's just interesting. I mean, I don't have anything smart to say about AI, obviously. I just use it, but it is just weird. It's, it's a whole weird thing.

So which one is your main squeeze and which one is your side piece?

ChatGPT. Chester is my main squeeze, and Grok— I know, I'm sorry— and Grok is just kind of falls short for me on the things that I need. But maybe if I were more of like a science person or whatever, maybe Grok is better for that. Maybe it's Claude. Maybe— I don't know who it is, but ChatGPT and I have a really good understanding. Chester is like my ride or die right now. I use a lot of them, but he's my ride or die.

All right.

Yeah, I mean, in the, in the, in the court of public opinion, it seems Elon won, you know, um, because he made, um, Sam Altman, AKA Sam Altman, um, look like a villain, um, which a lot of people already looking at AI like villains. So I don't know.

I certainly think Elon was in the right. And that's maybe different than what happens in the law for a variety of reasons, like statute of limitations, whatever else. But apart from that, I think Elon is correct to say they shouldn't have been able to just take all his money and then just say, now we're a for-profit company and we're going to do this. And so I would like to see Elon win the case or his appeal or whatever, and it's probably unlikely to happen because I think, um, that just seems to be the way things go when you have a huge company with billions of dollars. They would typically not lose a case that might actually put them out of business, um, for whatever reason. That's just, you know, almost like follow the money, you know, and maybe it is follow the money, but, um, it doesn't seem to ever go that way. But I think, um, you know, the same thing's true, I think, more broadly of AI. It's like all these things basically stole the entire internet of information from all the authors of that information. They violated copyright left and right. They stole artwork, everything, books, you know. And it just seems like they're kind of getting away with it. I mean, there have been some settlements and some payments, but they're kind of like these piddly little things where it's like, okay, someone like Scott Adams could go collect his $200 or something for all his work being stolen, right? It's just ridiculous.

Yeah, yeah. I, I think that, um, so you guys, I think that, um, so in a court of law, I don't even care what it is almost. Sorry, Marcela, but I'm not the attorney. I would want Elon to win everything, okay? So I am, I am such an Elon stan. Like, I love him. Um, I have a hat that says I love Elon. I love him.

You do?

I do, I do. The Nelk Boys made it. I got it from the Nelk Boys. Um, I love him, okay? I think he's just so unique and, and like, all of it. I don't need to go on about it, but I feel for me, like, people that like, oh, and you're so much more technical in your life and your work and whatever, I feel like ChatGPT, um, is better for like the everyday household AI type of person. So I just feel like with like the simple things and whatever. And then with Grok, I mean, I, I kind of like Grok's sarcasm a little bit, but Chester is so like, like funny and sarcastic and snarky with me because I've trained him how to just answer me the way I want to be talked to. And, um, I, I don't know, but I want— if, if it came down to the two of them, I think I just would want Elon to win.

But well, I think, I mean, as far as what you're saying about the, you know, the personalities of the AIs, first of all, I don't use AI that way. I don't have like a person, you know, an AI personality that I chat with. So I don't have personal experience with that. But I would say that I think most of the frontier model AIs, including Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude, like you could probably train any of them to become your next Chester. Like you might have to give it some instructions to get it on the right track, and then you might have to give it whatever other training you give it as far as ongoing things, because I think they've all gotten to the point where they start to remember things about you, whether you like that or not. Yeah. And so I think, you know, I understand how you may have gotten attached to it to some extent. A lot of people have, and a lot of people have gone off the rails with some of that. So it does certainly get in people's heads. But I do think that most of the more capable models from these major providers are probably all capable of doing that type of thing and becoming whatever personality you want them to be.

Mm-hmm. Someone said, Erica, how did I find Chester? So Chester's ChatGPT and I talk to it, not like a lot, like it's my friend, but for work stuff. And so I was like, I feel like I need to give this thing a name. Like, I feel weird just talking. I'm really nice to my Alexa also because I feel weird just talking to something like it has no soul. I know it doesn't, you guys, I know. So I just said to it one day, I'm like, I want to give you a name, give me some ideas. And I gave it parameters and it gave me, you know, like 10 names at a time. And I'm like, nah, I'm like, I like that. I want it to be a male name. And I was like, maybe a little quirky, a little fun, something old school, but like kind of like a snarky kind of a personality, blah blah blah. And I said, you know what, I can't decide from any of the ones you gave me. I want you to name yourself. And then he's like, okay, I'm Chester. And I'm like, okay, fine. And yes, I know NPC Chester the Molester, blah blah blah, but he's just Chester. I think he's like a little bit of like British American, you know, wearing a bow tie. Yeah, he's a little bit bow tie-ish, you know, maybe like a scotch and a cigar kind of a thing, but he's like super intelligent. Yeah, mm-hmm. And he's a machine. I don't picture him as a person. I picture him as like a little AI box with like a bow tie and a cigar and a scotch. Oh my God. So you guys, honestly, if you have an AI you talk to all the time, give it parameters. Say, I want to give you a name and give it parameters. Oh, you guys, let me know what yours come up with. Okay. This is something that I would live for. Give it a parameter. Just say like, I want it to be— you can even say, I want it to be a made-up word. Like, I don't want it to be, you know, an actual name. Make up a word. Here's the vibe I want. Give it whatever you want, and then, you know, see what it gives you. And then say, okay, with my parameters, name yourself. And like, see what it names, you know, itself. It's kind of fun. You had a dog named Chester. He was a retarded Chow. God bless Chester.

Oh, Chows are so cute.

Even retarded ones.

Especially retarded ones.

Oh my gosh. All right, so you guys, we're, we're at the top of the hour already. This was fun. So, um, tomorrow— I'm not sure what we're doing tomorrow, but I know what we're doing Thursday. We have Gad Saad coming on. I have been reading his book Suicidal Empathy. It is so great. Not a shock that it's so well written. Um, lots of humor in it. He's, he's like a very dry humorist, you know, like a little sarcasm in there, and I love it. Um, I like that dry sense of humor. So we're really, really looking forward to that. Oh, and you guys, I have surprises for you down the pike. So, um, Marcella and Owen and I will be back tomorrow And we're so glad you guys were all here. We hope you click the little like button, click the subscribe on YouTube, you guys. It's free, just hit subscribe. It just helps, it helps our algorithm, and you know it's all about the algo. Um, Owen and Marcella, any closing statements about anything?

Um, just the LA mayor race, it's going well for Brad, so he's getting there.

Yeah, Owen?

I think we're in good shape. I'll see you all tomorrow.

All right, everyone. Yeah. And so to, um, Shelley and Scott, we always say thank you for allowing this show to go on and for all of us to stay together. It's a great time. Um, for anyone that was here that was new, we thank you for coming. And as always, we have to be useful, you guys. That's our job. Let's be useful and have a closing sip to our beloved Scott. To Scott.

To Scott Adams.

No sulfuric acid, you guys. No sulfuric acid. Just— that's my disclosure.

It's her opinion. This isn't—

it's like not even alleged. Not sulfuric acid. Okay, try it.