The Scott Adams School - 06/22/26 Erica, Owen & Jeff. Monday Kick Off

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Oh, I like it. Okay, I'm starting up my Locals. Good morning, YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, X, and the Locals. Here we go. How's everyone? So Jeff and I were saying to each other, if either one of us disappears in the middle of the show, we have storms looming, but I think we're gonna avoid it, but Owen, you'll be fine. Yeah. It'll be Owen on here lip syncing. But anyway, I think we're good. I think we're good. Good morning, everybody. YouTube, you have a question of the day in the comments, and I'm gonna tell everybody, so we're gonna do the sip right after. Okay, but the question of the day for the comments and we read the comments after. Okay, if the hosts of this show, the hosts and the regular guests of the Scott Adams School were characters from Seinfeld, who would be who? And you're not limited to just like George, Jerry, Elaine, and Kramer. You could do, you know, Newman and Banya and the Soup Nazi, and you could do the parents and Jackie Chiles. And oh, what's the name of, Not David Putty. Well, David Putty. So just assign everybody that ever comes on this show with a Seinfeld character. We need a good laugh today, and we're gonna read them after. Oh yes, Owen does karaoke. Yes, yes, yes. So you guys, how, how, how about we get to the sip? I have so many fun clips and so much to talk about. The news is very newsy. And I need coffee so let's do it!

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He was flexing with his, uh, studio setup and how many people's little devices just said, I'm sorry, I don't have that feature.

I like the horror movie intro with the flashlight or whatever he was doing, right?

That was next level.

Yeah, he had a flair for the theatrics here and there. He had great impersonations, the whole thing. So Marcella's off today, you guys, and Marcella's off tomorrow. She's doing her lawyer thing. Um, okay, so So tell me, tell me how, uh, Jeff, how was your weekend? Tell me how it was. What'd you do?

It was good. We, uh, I spent yesterday with my in-laws. Uh, we went and watched that Nate Bargassi, uh, movie The Breadwinner, and it was pretty good. Oh, we all agreed that they should make more comedies, uh, that are good vehicles for, for, uh, comics.

Okay, I agree with that. That's good, that's good. Owen, how about you?

It was good. Just relaxing, nothing huge, but had dinner with my wife and son on Father's Day, so that was nice. And got some texts from my other son who's out of town, so it was good.

Lovely. Yes, happy Father's Day to the fathers and the ones that are here and the ones that aren't. You know, internet dads, everybody, cat dads, dog dads, anyone who's a mentor, you included. So Listen, I have to play this clip. I'm obsessed with this father-son duo. I always see them, but I thought you guys would get a kick out of this too, because your Father's Day could go this way also.

Dad, the pharmacist said your gonorrhea prescription's ready. Dad, why did the housekeeper ask you to pick her up a morning after pill? Attention everyone, I have a quick toast.

What are you doing?

Tomorrow my dad here is going on a date with a girl for the first time in 5 years.

Dad, I checked everywhere for the Viagra. They don't have any here. Sorry, Dad. Did you want the chewable laxatives or the suppositories? Dad, which size condoms did you want me to get you? Dad, is this brand strong enough for your yeast infection? Guess not. Dad, would Jock Itch Cream work for your rash? Dad, she said they don't sell adult diapers here. You have to look online. Dad, which flavor hemorrhoid cream did you want me to get you again?

My dad— well, that dad cannot take his son anywhere.

Oh my God, he goes, which flavor hemorrhoid cream do you want? Is that the best? I love that, you guys. So happy Father's Day, dads, especially to the ones that would put up with that kind of stuff.

I was gonna say, I'm guessing he must have been at least tolerant of it, if not appreciating it, if he was doing it that many times.

And his face though, like the dad, he's just like, like sometimes he just closes his eyes like, no. Oh my God, I love it. I'm looking at Beverly, you say, dads do not deserve this. My poor daddy lived with 5 females and was forever having to go get tampons, bless his soul. Oh God, all right dads. So in other parenting news, so do you guys all know about the Ridgeland Beagles? They were these, oh, you know, Beverly, by the way, who I just mentioned, is a beagler and wrote a beagle magazine for beagling. I can't believe I'm saying beagler and beagling so much. So anyway, the beagles, you guys remember the Fauci beagles? They were just being tortured, lab tested, and I'm not going to even get into how gruesome it is. Um, but there was a group that went in and like went on a mission and rescued them, like took them all out of their cages from this lab. And they had like, you know, court coming, you know, the people filing lawsuits and this and that. And they were like, we don't care, we're taking all the beagles. I, I don't remember if in the chat you guys— what did they do, like 1,500 they rescued? It could be more. Um, so anyway, but the good news flavor is they were able to get the beagles out who had never even like touched the ground. They've only been on a metal crate inside, no windows, no grass, no light, no love. And they are all out, they're all freed, they're all either in— like with foster families or have been adopted by families. They're adapting beautifully. Like, you know, the people that are adopting them, they're going to the right people. Like if some of them are more traumatized they'll be with, you know, someone who knows how to take care of them and give them more time. But Judge Janine, friend of the show, adopted two of the beagles. She has named them Lucy and Snoopy. So imagine where they were, and now they have stepped in a gold mine with one of the biggest animal lovers, dog lovers, Judge Janine. And here they are.

This is a fence It was put here to make sure that the big dogs didn't destroy the flowers. The beagles, however, don't care about fences. They go in and out all the time. Good morning, Lucy. Good morning, Snoops. How are you? Good morning. They're looking for the big dogs. Lucy, who are you looking for? I thought we'd have some alone time.

Lucy, look at the tail. Oh, Snoopy's drinking.

Snoopy, say hi. Say good morning, everybody. Oh, there's Lucy. Hi. I thought we'd have some alone time. Okay, we'll bring the big dogs out in a minute.

Oh, bless our hearts. So you know what, thank you, Judge Jeanine. That is so wonderful. And I've been like, I want one of the beagles so bad, but I can't. Stella, Stella would literally make their life worse than when they were in the lab. So maybe when Stella's not here one day, we'll get a beagle. But I love that story, you guys. So yeah, the facility has been closed. They have been shut down. They are so happy. All of the ones I'm watching are so happy. And it's a miracle that they could even trust a human being after what they went through. So I am so happy to see that story. Um, okay, other news, as, uh, predicted and stated by President Trump, um, Keir Starmer. Let's do a little Keir Starmer news. Here we go.

Been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.

All right, I knew you were gonna play this clip. I knew it.

Are you catching on to me? So, all right, so tell us, tell us your take, uh, Jeff, we'll start with you on the, the Keir Starmer resignation.

Well, I'm not going to pretend to know the ins and outs of British, um, you know, how their system works, because, uh, here in America, when a, when a president resigns, it's, it's huge, you know. It's only happened once, and so you think, oh wow, there's going to be sweeping change, and my goodness, that's a repudiation of whatever that, you know, that president must have done or whatever. Uh, but it's not, at least from what I understand, it's not that way in the, in the UK because another member of the Labour Party presumably is going to take over. And I've already seen memes that are like the split face memes where it kind of looks like a younger Keir Starmer. Uh, his name's Andy, Andy something, I can't remember his name. Um, but it, you know, it'll be interesting to see, like, is it just be more of the same when, when a new person comes in? Is this, is this sort of a way to appease some people that aren't thrilled with the British government? I don't know.

And I, from what I understand, so we talked about the R.A.P.E. gang inquiry report that came out, and, um, from— oh my gosh, Rupert Lowe. Am I saying the right name? I'm getting all like my Brits mixed up. Okay, thank you. Um, and Kirsten Stormer allegedly knew all about this and brushed it under the rug because just wasn't going to be a good look, you know, won't be a good look for politics if you talk about the over 250,000 young white girls who were systemically, repeatedly, r-a-p-e-d. Okay, I can't say the word, YouTube won't like it. Um, over and over and over again, tortured and beaten. And, um, no, he said nothing. He said nothing. Um, so, and then, by the way, he made a post, Owen, on Father's Day, and he wrote something like to his daughters about being their father. And I'm like, oh my God, you are so tone deaf that you're going to talk about your own daughters right now on Father's Day. So the dude, he— I said that he deserves the fate of the 250,000 girls personally, but, um, what do you think about this?

Well, I think, um, first, I— it is a different system that I would say it's more comparable to like the leader of the party in Congress. Resigning. You know, it's like we have our majority and minority leaders. It's kind of a little more like that as far as what's actually happening here. It is a mix of the two because the Prime Minister does act similarly in some ways to how our president acts, as sort of like the front of the country and does some executive things. But, um, I think that— I think I read that they've gone through 6 in 10 years, so it's— it is a regular thing. It's not something that is unexpected necessarily, at least based on recent history. And, um, I think to me the, the underlying things that a lot of the news stories don't talk about is that, um, you know, I think Epstein had something to do with this in terms of the— he appointed this Peter Mandelson person that was a friend of Epstein's or involved with Epstein in many ways. And so I think that was part of the pressure that was put on Starmer as far as why did you, why did you appoint this person that you knew was having these problems? Um, but I think the main thing was probably political, that they lost a huge number of seats to the Reform Party, which is the Nigel Farage thing. And so I think it's mostly a political move. It's mostly, hey, you're, you know, you're losing the— you're losing control in terms of who's coming in versus who's staying. And, um, so they're looking for better leadership, I think, overall. So I, you know, I think to me it's probably a positive thing, but I don't know because we don't know who's going to replace him. So you're not really sure what's going to happen there. You know, it's kind of like if Hakeem Jeffries dropped, you know, you, you might cheer, but you wouldn't necessarily know if the replacement would be any better. You might get Adam Schiff or who knows who, right?

So I, I would like to see, um, I don't know what the— how they do it there, but I'd like to see our equivalency of an investigation into him and what he knew about these girls and the the gangs. And, um, and then, you know, it— I hate to feel like, you know, nothing ever happens. Nothing does ever happen. But it's just— it's so amazing that someone like Tommy Robinson went to jail for exposing this very story years ago. Um, and then, you know, and people like Piers Morgan— Piers, you know, I have such a love-hate relationship with him. Like, sometimes I'm like, God, he's making so much sense today, and I'm so proud of him. And then sometimes I'm like, like, what is wrong with you? You know, like, not understanding what Tommy was doing. Like, he finds him abhorrent, and I'm just like, but he's fighting for these girls and the trafficking and everything else. I, yeah, I don't know. So I'd like to see— I'd like to see something happen. Um, it can't be brushed under the rug. I mean, none of our media covered it, and I don't think any of the media there is really covering it. And it just, you know, begs the question, you know, what, what is like the payoff that these people are getting that can make you shut your mouth over something so horrific? Is crazy. Um, I don't know. I don't know if they're going to do anything with him after he leaves or if he's maybe avoiding something with that. I don't know. I don't know. Um, so anyway, rest in hell, and let's move on to, um, let's move on to Kash Patel. What rhymes with hell? Patel. Okay, so Kash Patel, he has some news on everyone's favorite former FBI Director James Comey. Let's hear what he has to say. Thank you.

As you heard from the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney, former FBI Director James Comey has now been indicted for two felony counts. While many of you may read this indictment and view this matter as a simple investigation, it is the farthest thing from that. Every single investigation this FBI and our partners at the Department of Justice undertake, especially those that involve the threats to harm or hurt or even kill individuals, whether they hold public office or civilians in our country, are met with the same measure of investigative prowess and tools and personnel in partnership with the Department of Justice as anyone else. As the U.S. Attorney indicated, James Comey will be afforded every matter of due process under the United States Constitution. Institution. And as the Attorney General indicated, this has been a case that's been investigated over the past, uh, 9, 10, 11 months. These cases take time. Our investigators work methodically. They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters. They call the balls and strikes in the field as they see fit, pursuant to the facts of the case and the law. They took that information and made a presentment to a grand jury, a jury of peers in the district in which the alleged crime took took place, and that grand jury spoke, and that grand jury returned a 2-count indictment against James Comey. James Comey allegedly threatened the life of the President of the United States, and as you all now know, shortly after posting that threat, he deleted that threat and then issued an apology. All of that information was presented to the grand jury, and Mr. Comey will have his day in court and his ability to speak to a jury of his peers.

Thank you. Mhm. Um, YouTube Uphill Gardener, I don't appreciate that. I, I will talk about— I will talk about news in other countries that I know nothing about just to get the word out. I don't need to be an expert in it, and you could be kinder. Thank you. Okay, so Owen, I come to you first. Um, I mean, this gives me a little tingly. What about you?

Well, I'm glad he's been indicted, and I hope he faces consequences. I don't know if he will, um, you know, a lot might just depend on the jurisdiction and the jury and how it all goes and what judge gets appointed and all that. But, um, you know, I certainly think he deserves some consequences for a lot of his actions, not just this one. But, um, you know, I'd love to see it all come out, and I'd love to see him spend some time in prison. So I, I'm— I'll cheer it along as I see it going forward, but I'm still remaining somewhat skeptical to see if we really see real consequences. So I'd like to see them follow through and do a great prosecution and nail them.

Mhm.

Um, Jeff? Yeah, I, I, I agree with Owen. I, I, I want to see the same things. And when I think of Comey, um, walking on the beach and, uh, either arranging seashells or whatever happened out there on the beach, uh, It, you know, at the end of the day, it's, it's one of those things where as a former director of the FBI, you know what 8647 means, right? You know, you know what that means. And so it's, it's really hard to make the leap of like, oh, I just found these seashells. No, bro, you spent like 15 minutes arranging them and like, go like, imagine him in his little bucket and short gathering them, gathering seashells and putting them just so and waiting till the light was just right. That's exactly what you did. You deleted it because you knew it was inappropriate. And it seems like a larger issue of people on the left tiptoeing up to the very tippy top of the edge of the line and saying, well, I really didn't mean that. Regardless of if a conviction is achieved, the process is the punishment.. And so hopefully Comey gets the pleasure of defending himself and spending money on lawyers. And, and, uh, it does send a message of like, hey, look, you know, you'll, you'll get indicted, and then do you really want to defend yourself from, from all of this for, you know, a year or two? Probably not. And so hopefully that sends a chilling message to other people who, uh, might want to just test, test the very edge of, of the line in terms of, uh, these terroristic threats to our elected leaders.

I always felt like during Trump's first administration, after Comey was let go, it always felt to me that whatever he was saying or doing was a call to action. Like, it is— it was like, I don't know, you know how you just have like this guttural instinct where you're just like, obviously the things you're saying are a dog whistle to the people inside that are like, I got your back, this is BS, we hate this guy, we'll take him down, we know the bigger agenda. And same with Brennan. And Clapper seems a little bit more incompetent, um, or maybe a little bit more fearful. And I think personally that's who they should go after first, is Clapper, because I think he'll sing first based on how I view their personalities. But Brennan and Comey think nothing is going to happen to them, um, and I hope it does. And then as recently we saw, somebody took some kind of chemical and burned into the Ellipse Lawn 86 47. This is like the new thing. And I mean, it's like a— it's so insane to think this is how we're living now, that this is acceptable. I mean, you know, 20 years ago you would never say that about a president. And again, it has nothing to do with President Trump. It doesn't matter who the president is. Like, if the—

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I'm going to say the left. It's— I never see this happening when there's a Democrat president. Um, but this is very dangerous rhetoric. And, you know, even like Even this stupid stuff now with destroying the reflecting pool, the memorial there at the Lincoln Memorial. You know, it's like, oh, now, you know, now this is a way to get back at Trump. We'll put algae in the thing and we'll rip up the line. And it's like, wow, it's so mental. So I think that— I think they need to get it right with Comey and Brennan and Clapper and Strzok and Page and blah and blah, because it goes on and on. They really need to get it right. Really set an example. So I hope that happens. Owen, anything on this?

Yeah, I was just— I was going to mention that like it seems like up until now we've just seen the opposite of justice, where they made that settlement with Strock and Page and paid him like millions of dollars for basically, you know, breaking the law and, and doing crimes. It's just ridiculous. And so, um, I'd love to see it turn around and have some real consequences for these people because it's well deserved and way overdue in my opinion.

Yeah, like Penny's saying on YouTube, Comey called out Hillary for having government emails on her personal server. So I mean, if you guys remember that day, every, um, every word he said when Comey, you know, did that breakdown right before we voted, uh, the first round, weren't you like, oh my God? Like, it's like, it seemed to me like he made a deal like, fine, I won't recommend prosecution, but I'm gonna say everything she did wrong so people know who she is. And like, they must have been having some kind of crazy blackmail going back and forth because he called out her emails, he called out all the things that, you know, had the appearance of impropriety and wrongdoing and whatever, and took it, like Jeff said, right up to that line, and then was like, and I don't think she should be charged. And you're just like, what is that? Like, this guy is like running some his sick show over there in the FBI. Um, I think it's really important to get this right with him. Um, Jeff, anything else on this subject?

Yeah, you know, I just think that, um, it, it's— it, it occurs to me that anytime any figure— like, it could be Trump, it could be anyone who might come in and say, hey, we're going to reform a lot of this stuff, then as Mike Benz would say, the blob strikes back. Uh, and so I think, uh, to your point, yeah, it is really important to get it right and get results because there's still a massive contingent of blob and blob-related, uh, folks that are just tossing sand in the gears of, of the, uh, you know, the larger— not just the Trump administration, but the whole government apparatus. And so anything we can do to chill that behavior is going, going to be a, a huge win. And so, uh, I'm optimistic to see where this goes, and it's, it's much needed. And, and like, people that are out there on, on the— on, on the lawn like spraying, uh, weed killer to make big numbers, it's like What are you doing with your life? Like, you obviously, you're, you're, you're probably paid to be there, uh, because you probably don't have any other kind of job. And, and it's just, it's wild that we're in this position as a country where, uh, this has gotten so normalized that it, it's, it's costing taxpayers money just to repair all the damage done by these leftist terrorists, which I think is probably an accurate term for some of these folks.

Yeah, it's really sad. It, it's like, it makes me, you know, it really makes me feel sad inside because I'm just like, I, I don't— I honestly wouldn't care who was fixing the monuments and the fountains and whatever. I love it. Like, it looks so pretty. And I don't know, it, it's just a sick society. Oh, and anything else on it?

Yeah, well, I mean, again, I, I put Comey and Clapper and Brennan in this class of people that are— they've just been deep state slimeballs their whole career, and they're probably pretty good at it, frankly. So they know how to like not say or write down the wrong things to get themselves in trouble. And that's why I'm skeptical as to whether or not they're going to see consequences. I would say the same thing about Fauci. Like, it just— there, there's this class of people that they've learned how to play the game. They've learned how to keep their nose clean in terms of just making it seem like they haven't committed crimes when they actually have. And, um, I just like to see us crack through that. I'd love to see some real consequences and have a lot of this stuff exposed. And, um, because we all know it's happening. We all know what they're doing. We all know they're doing it. And it's just, they're like, oh no, I didn't, I didn't mean that, or I didn't say that, or you can't find any documents that prove that. And it's just disgusting to me.

Yeah, it's really unbelievable. Yeah. All right, so we'll keep our eye on it. And, uh, take your time, do it the right way, whatever you have to do. But, um, Cash, if you're listening to me, which, I mean, most popular show at 10 AM Eastern time featuring the name Scott Adams. Go start with Clapper. He's weak. He's weak. I'm telling you. Okay. So moving on, I'm looking, I have these clips that I always want to play the clips I never got to, but I sort of forget what some of them were. So I have two intentional clips left here. I have two that I didn't get to play last week. And I'm I'm sort of wanting to play one of them right now, and let me just see if it's in my notes who this was. But this is switching topics back over to Islam. Um, okay, his name is Dan Burwami, and he wrote a book called Islam and the West, and he's going to give you a breakdown of what Islam is like in a couple of minutes. Um, so with your, uh, approval, I'm gonna switch gears now because we're having a problem.

So let's take Listen, Islamism is a term that was developed in the West to differentiate between Muslims and jihadists, and in order to give the politicians a way to attack the jihadists without blanket condemnation of Muslims everywhere. But it is a false term. It doesn't serve the West. Actually, it makes the West vulnerable. Islamism is the foreign policy of Islam because Islam is not a religion. Islam is a state, a state with a constitution. The constitution is called Sharia, with a foreign policy.. And that doctrine is called jihad, with a financial system that is called zakat, a population called the ummah. That is why a Muslim in America feels closer to a Muslim in Indonesia than to a non-Muslim American, because the ummah belong to each other. Islamism is Islam in action. Before the fall of the Islamic Caliphate or the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate lasted from the days of Muhammad until 1924. So it was the Islamic State that was waging jihad against non-Muslims, but it was official. It was a state leading the way. A state is commanding jihad. That is why it's seen when you look at history as just another empire trying to expand, while in reality it was actually that divinely mandated jihad. After the fall of the Islamic State and the establishment of the nation states different groups started practicing jihad, making the decision themselves. So this jihad that is called Islamism in the West is the same old good Islamic jihad that was practiced for 14 centuries since the days of Muhammad.

Okay, that, uh, that was Dan Burwami. Uh, Jim, I just saw you asked. Dan Burwami, and he wrote a book called Israel, Islam, and the West. Apparently he's a good guy, okay? So, uh, or as you called him, this truth teller. Um, Owen, what do you think about that breakdown? And I do feel a major shift now worldwide that we are really focused on what's happening.

Yeah, well, I mean, I agree, and I think it's a good way of differentiating it. I think, um, the more we can separate the, the real problem from peaceful Muslims, the better. I know there are some people, and a lot of people, and maybe a lot of people listening that think any, you know, Muslim Islam is sort of fundamentally flawed or fundamentally violent, and I get that part of the argument. But I do think that, um, there are a lot of people that don't subscribe to jihad or to, you know, wanting to kill other people that aren't willing to submit or convert, or they're not trying to implement Sharia law. So I think we need to cleanly separate the two and, and take care of the real problem. So I'm out for it.

Yeah, same. Okay, Jeff, your take?

Yeah, I, I think, uh, the way that gentleman put it is interesting, framing it as, you know, sort of a state, almost a state without borders, and looking to, in different ways, conquer different lands from an ideological perspective. And it also kind of made me think of, you know, how, how challenging how challenging the task is to separate, you know, the peaceful from the conquerors, so to speak, because, you know, like, people can lie and people can, can say, oh, you know, I wouldn't really want to conquer anything, right? And so trying to parse that out is going to be a challenge. But, you know, it even, even makes me think on a larger scale about how, um, you know, like, look at woke culture, and, and that is its own version of, of a jihad, right? Where they're, they're trying to conquer minds. And so, uh, it is, it, it's a challenging task, and, and it's made tenfold harder with, uh, porous borders over the last, you know, 7, 8 years, where people have been able to filter in and there's no vetting. And so the— I think, I think it can be done, but man, it's, that's, uh, it's, it's way harder to unmake a peanut butter and jelly sandwich rather than just like not put the jelly in there. And so those are my thoughts.

Yeah.

And so I think, um, Gad Saad's book could not have been better timed, Suicidal Empathy. You guys, if you missed our, um, our interview with him here and you haven't read his book or you don't know much about it, please, I I highly recommend Suicidal Empathy. Get it on audio or if you don't, I do most books on audio. I'm a very Audible person. I just like to hear the thing. So I put on my headphones, my everyday headphones, and I just put it on. I might put it on a little bit faster of a speed because I just want to get it a little faster and just listen to this book. You know, the gist of it was that we were told you can't, you know, say anything derogatory about, you know, Muslims or Islam or whatever. This really kicked into gear after 9/11. Um, you know, that, that would be wrong and you'd be a hater and you'd be, you know, a this and that. And, and we were like, oh, I don't want to be called a name. I don't want someone to label me. Well, cut to now. I mean, we've— most of us here have been called Nazis and Like, what, what could be worse? Call me a Nazi and a racist. I think you've pretty much covered the gamut. So we have to stop caring what people want to label us as. Um, we have to start caring about the sovereignty of our country and our people and our rights and how this country was built. Um, oh, I don't have the clip. You should have seen New York this weekend. There was a complete, like, Islam takeover in the middle of the street. Complete with, uh, they had like horses that they put like fake blood on, and the men are, you know, pounding their chests in the street, and they're chanting, and of course taking over a whole— and I'm like, what is happening? Um, so this conquering— conquering is conquering. It's a flex. That's a flex to say, what are you going to do about it? We're here. Where there's more of us than you right here, you're not making us move. And if you try to, we're gonna cry racism, and our mayor is going to be on our side because he's one of us. Okay, so the suicidal empathy has to stop. Um, Owen, what, what else would you want to say about that?

Well, I think I agree with what you said about the suicidal empathy. I think that's a big part of the problem, is that a lot of these things are just intolerable types of things that seem to be allowed or minimized or covered up. Um, certainly some of that again goes back to the UK story with Starmer and his government, but I think a lot of it's happening here too, where people are trying to say, oh no, it's not a problem, problem. You should just stop being racists and let these people do what they want. And here it's probably taking more, uh, form in terms of fraud, where people are just stealing left and right and just exploiting our system. But it's, it's things where you just need to say we can't tolerate these things and we can't give these people a pass for behavior that's not allowed here. And, and I think we just need to be very clear and very be even-handed about that and, and not show this dysfunctional empathy to saying, oh, we need to take care of these people, when really they're just not even trying to reciprocate. They're not even trying to assimilate into our culture. They're trying to destroy us, and they're trying to implement their way of life and to take apart ours. And I think people need to recognize that and, and understand that they need to protect their own culture and their own families and their own communities.

That's right, Flynn. Thanks for reminding me. He— Flynn said, you know, it's a book title, but you know how YouTube can be without words, so hopefully they'll realize it's a book title. Um, yeah, and like Jeff was saying, um, they can say whatever they want to you to advance their agenda. So they can— they, they can just lie to you and be like you said, like, oh, we would, you know, no, we love America. They— and inside they're just like, death to America, you know? Like, they, they can say and do whatever they want. It's in rules. Do whatever you want, lie to whoever you want to, because in the end it's about us taking over. So do whatever you have to do. So, um, you know, I, I know that some of you are going to say, oh, Scott, you know, said don't, you know, don't paint a broad brush, you know, judge by the individual. But Scott also came around to what was happening with this. He was very aware. Um, and there are times where there are exceptions to those rules and when your whole ideology— it's not a religion— when your whole ideology is based on do whatever you have to do to take control, um, you have to paint with a broad brush. Uh, that's it. But so then I had this other clip, um, I wanted to play right after the other day with Michael Knowles and Sammy Woodhouse. She's an author of Just a Child. And let's just take a listen to what what they're saying following this last clip.

I mean, when did this sort of political correctness begin where the government is saying, no, no, we're gonna, we're gonna prioritize perpetrators over victims because we're afraid of being called racist? And when did that really accelerate? And was it— what was the big driver here? Was it that they chiefly— that they didn't want to be called racist, or, or were the, the cops even more intimately involved in the, the gangs?

Yes, they definitely were. So the police officers were holding what was called cop nights. So what that meant was that police officers was taking turns to rape the children, and then they would hand the children back to the gangs. Now, some of the things that was actually happening to children are just absolutely horrific. You know, they wasn't just beaten and raped, and this weren't just about sexual gratification. This was about pure humiliation and degrading children. Children was raped by dogs. They was locked in cages, uh, you know, animals were slaughtered and eaten, you know, in a bathroom. It's just absolutely horrific. I mean, one, one child, she witnessed other girls being murdered in front of her, you know, the most evil of crimes, and it was just allowed to go on for decades.

That podcast goes on. That's Michael Knowles. So, you know, Suicidal empathy. I don't care, call me whatever you want, but not on my watch if I can help it. You know, I, I will speak up, I will be useful. Um, I can't stomach it. Um, Owen, your thoughts on that clip?

Well, the whole thing is just so out of control. And, and again, you know, a lot of this isn't in my country, so I don't know that I care as much. Obviously I do care. I don't want these girls and women to be raped. But, um, I just, you know, it, it seems like crazy to me that we've gotten to this point and it's gotten so big. It's not just a couple people, it's large numbers, and, you know, at least in the thousands if not hundreds of thousands. And, um, it's just, it's kind of mind-boggling to think that that could happen in a Western society that supposedly has control and criminal justice and all these things. And So I think drastic action needs to be taken, and I hope you— the UK takes it, and I hope we don't tolerate any of this here, uh, because it just— we can't allow that to happen. It's going to make the whole society crumble, and it's going to mean, you know, horrible crimes for hundreds of thousands, if not more, people. You know, if you scaled that up to the United States population, it would be millions of those types of crimes. And I know we've had our share of them, you know, it's not at those numbers, I don't think, but it's It's, you know, we've had people murdered and had horrible things happen to a lot of people here too. So I think we need to put a stop to it.

Children are not immune in this country from this. And, you know, the numbers of the trafficked children they're finding and the things that have happened to them are equally as horrific. And Flavour, you said Sammy Woodhouse is one of the most courageous women in the UK. I'm sure she is. I'm sure she's got to watch her back and have good security. But again, she's standing up and being useful. Jeff, what do you say?

Yeah. So when the inquiry thing came out last week, I posted a picture of a, of a carrier strike group and I said something to the effect of like, there's the Drake meme where he's like, no. And then he's, he's doing yes. And in the bottom panel and I said no to the blockading the Strait of Hormuz and yes to blockading the Strait of Dover. And, you know, I don't know. And, you know, that's probably not feasible. But I like the imagery of Trump just sending the carrier strike group north and saying, like, look, here's what's going to happen. Because how, how my mental model processes it is that these horrific crimes are taking place. Right now and is unacceptable. Project out, because, you know, if it's— if things continue in a similar fashion, not much will change over the next 5 or 10 years. And so then, can you permit the United Kingdom to have a nuclear weapon? You know, like, if you extend it out, like, can you actually permit that? Probably not. And so why not? I mean, and I'm— look, I'm a guy on the internet talking, so please take all this with a huge pillar of salt, but What sanctions could Trump place on the United Kingdom? Could— I mean, my dream is for Trump to bring over Kirsten or whoever, man in the suit, like he did with the president of South Africa. And he's in the Oval Office and he's like, hey, turn off the lights real quick. And then he just plays like, like the inquiry report. And he just asked them question after question after question, you know. Because Trump has, has many times just sort of stuck his foot in, in another country's business for the improvement of a section of that country's citizens, because he can often change things with just a sentence or two. And so I would like to see him get a little bit involved and like just a couple of truths about it, you know, that's what I would like to see personally.

I fully agree. Um, it would mean so much and it would get the attention. I mean, anything he says or does, the news goes crazy about. He should paint the bottom of the pool with all the, uh, the whole story about this. And, uh, they should drain the memorial pool. He should write this whole story out, and then as they're filling it with water, people be like, what did he write? And then it'll get attention. Oh, it's so sad. Um, okay, so let's get to a little bit of, uh, JD Vance in Switzerland. So much JD Vance news right now. So many people hate him, they love him, he's the next president, he's done. I mean, uh, poor JD doesn't know if he's coming or going. And, um, some people say maybe Trump, President Trump, put JD out there to kind of be the break the news guy of like, we got to get out of, you know, what we're doing. I don't know, we'll see. Let's see what Trey Young has to say.

Yeah, it sounds like the Americans got two major agenda items crossed off during this meeting in Switzerland overnight. The big headline here: Iran, according to Vice President Vance, has agreed to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency back into their country. This is huge, and it's very important as it relates to the detailed discussions on Iran's nuclear program so that these inspectors can get get a list of what the Iranians still have and what the Americans want them to get rid of. The second headline here, that Special Envoy Kushner was able to work out a deal with the Qataris that some of these unfrozen Iranian funds are actually going to be used to purchase American farm products and then feed the people of Iran. And so, again, the inspectors heading into Iran and also the purchase of American farm goods 2 major agenda items for the Americans. The vice president also laid out some of the pillars that were takeaways from the meeting in Switzerland. And one has to do with that deconfliction line to ensure that if shooting starts again, ultimately there's a way to rein back in all parties. Now, we don't know if the Israelis are part of that deconfliction. So far, according to our reporting, they have not signed any sort of document or agreed to terms as it relates to their activity in southern Lebanon. And as we heard just last hour in the remarks that we aired from the leader of Hezbollah, Na'im Qassem, they want to see a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The other issue that the vice president talked about is the Strait of Hormuz, saying that the technical details in working out how this will advance in the future were actually agreed to in Switzerland. We heard yesterday from President Trump, who left open the option of actually taking over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that the United States could act as a guardian angel of the strait and actually take a percentage of the oil that passes through.

Yikes. Okay, I— every day, every day I'm just like, do we even talk about it? Because tomorrow it's going to be totally different again. So, Owen, I know this is your favorite topic to cover, so I'm going to start with you.

Yeah, I mean, I, I keep calling this like the Schrödinger's cat war, where it's like you never really know what the truth is. You really know what's happening. You keep hearing both sides of everything where the Strait of Hormuz is open, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and, you know, it's all at the same time that people are saying these things and nobody ever seems to agree. So it's really hard to know what is really happening because there's so much disagreement by the different sides as far as what even what the basic facts are, you know. And I think Trump is probably right more often than he's wrong, but I think it's kind of hard to know what what Iran or the IRGC or the Houthis or the Hezbollah or any of those people are going to do, because you don't really know what that— what— how that's going to play out. So, um, you know, I think in my opinion Trump is doing the right thing trying to get this thing done, like, over with and focus on other things and not have the focus be on Iran for the next 6 months. But, um, you know, I think I think that's just my own personal opinion. Some people, of course, think we should keep fighting and put an end to the regime and all the other things that they want to happen. Other people think we should never have been there to begin with, and the opinions are all over the board. So I personally, you know, don't really have much of an opinion strongly about whether or not we should have gone in, just because I don't know what the facts were in terms of what the threat was. But I do think that at this point, I wish we would have gotten out sooner than we did, frankly. Would have gotten out like in April or May rather than now. But I'm glad we're doing it now and I hope it comes to an end soon.

So what do you think? Um, I, I do too, Jeff. What do you think about, um, JD's role going over there? I mean, he's taken some shots like he's been a little bit ignored and snubbed, uh, you know, going in for a handshake and not getting one. Um, I— do you think it's like a good cop, bad cop situation for JD and President Trump?

Yeah, I think that, um, it seems like Trump, he's done a really good job of putting JD Vance in a lot of situations where it's kind of an apprenticeship, right? Where it's like, uh, uh, hey JD, go do this. Hey JD, go do that. Um, and I like to see it because I think the, the more JD Vance works both alongside Trump and Trump giving him, these important roles. It's just developing him, uh, for— because I think probably what, what we're more likely going to see is J.D. Vance running in 2028. And so he'll have a lot of things to speak to, like, yeah, I did this, I did that. Like, in my lifetime, he's probably the most active VP I can remember. Like, I don't remember half of what Mike Pence did, you know. Uh, I remember the fly on his head. That's about all I really remember.

Um, what about all that stuff that Kamala did?

True, uh, you know, Porter was a great success.

Yeah. Oh man, she, she went, she went down there and found, found all those root causes, man, like a, like a dentist. Um, and, uh, so in terms of J.D. Vance, like, I, I say put him out in front of as much stuff as possible because I think he can rise to the occasion. I think he has risen to the occasion. Uh, I think the J.D. Vance, like, the Never Vance haters and the, um They're just weird. Like, they're just weird. Uh, they're, they're people that were probably never Trump as well. And so I just don't trust anything that they say. They're kind of the same folks that, um, were really pro-DeSantis during, during the primary. And I, I like Ron DeSantis as a governor. I think he's done good things in Florida. Um, but yet you had this certain wing of the Republican Party that just— you got a sense that they, that they didn't like Trump almost as much as any Democrat.

That.

Uh, and so you're going to see the same section of people not like Vance because they're going to want their own preferred, uh, pet in, in the White House, or at least running for, for the highest office.

Well, you said the Never Trump crowd, so okay, this, this is where my head goes. So I feel like the Never Trump crowd was— is Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro. That to me is the Never Trump crowd that are suddenly Trump Trump. Um, and so now those same people are quite pissed off at JD Vance because JD, I mean, he's making comments that sound very much like America First, right? So it's, it's like a, a weird place to be, especially doing this live stream, because I, you know, I feel like we don't, you know, we don't want to be the making anyone feel bad in any direction. Like, when I say I don't have a dog in this fight with Israel and people are like, yes you do, because then the weapons would come here, that's not what I mean. I just mean I don't have like an emotional dog in this fight, right? I'm not passionate about this. Well, I'm becoming more passionate about wanting this to be over, but I don't have that same kind of passion that like a Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro— I'm just going to use those two for now because they're the most obvious— but, um, So when you have JD now going out there and Trump sending him out there to be the one to say like, listen, America first— I'm just making that up— America first, we got to do America first. And now these people are freaking out. Um, so I feel like the Never Trumpers are going to really expose themselves again for who they were, and Trump's going to see that even harder, and it's going to give him more ammo to be like, you know what, I am ending this. Um, because like, look at, you know, I did, I did more than any other president for the cause of Israel ever in the world. And because I need to stop it or scale it back or find a way out, like now you're turning on me again. So I think, I think it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy and it's going to be able to let him get out now without feeling any type of way about it because people are just having an overreaction. Um, so I, I don't know. I, I think that it's kind of a good strategy. I think it's also a little bit of like the auditions between Rubio and Vance. I have not seen Rubio. Um, I haven't seen him speaking. I mean, I know he's around, but I haven't seen him. And you know, which leads me to one clip I was debating playing, and then Owen, after this clip I'm gonna toss it to you. Um, I came across this clip. It's from, um, it's an Israeli policy summit. Uh, yeah, okay, so I'm sorry, Grok wasn't working when I tried to look up the name of this person, but Netanyahu just spoke here. It's happening in Jerusalem, I believe. So it's a policy summit, and now this is what we're talking about. Listen to this gentleman.

Be a threat for America, it's a threat for Israel. In 15 years from now, Israel will have a war with Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood will eventually take over Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is a Sunni jihad now after we weakened the Shia jihad, will be a threat to the world. Turkey is now taking over. Fidan Khan, what's his name? The foreign minister, Hakan Fidan. The foreign minister of Turkey announced that we took Khaleb, we took Damascus, and Jerusalem is next. The Sunni jihad is the next enemy. Israel needs to be strong. America needs to be strong.

Did he just say America needs to be strong? So he's talking about a future war with Israel and Turkey, and he says Israel needs to be strong, America needs to be strong. This is what I'm saying, like, they're so tone deaf, Israel. Like, they, they're not reading the country, you know. We're like, hey, listen, we were here to help with Iran for, you know, whatever reason we had to, okay. And now you're talking Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, on and on and on. And it's like, this is going to be a problem. So what do you say, Owen?

Yeah, I mean, well, first I would just say, like, I don't know the full context of this. This is some conference that's happening in Israel, and I'd never heard of it before, this JNS thing. But, um, I, I think from what I heard, it sounded like they were talking about longer-term threats as opposed to like, we're gonna go in tomorrow. Like, he said something like, within 15 years we're gonna have a war with Egypt. And I certainly hope that doesn't happen. And I don't think anyone can really predict the future that far out. Scott Adams would have told us that. So I don't know that I necessarily need to worry about what someone thinks is going to happen in 15 years, because anything could happen within the next 5 or 10 years, and it could change a lot of things. Um, but I do think you're right in terms of him being tone deaf about talking about those things now on a public stage, because It just seems like we're just finishing this big thing where we assisted them and drained a lot of our military resources and put a lot of people at risk and really saved them from this nuclear threat. To whatever extent that is a real threat, we, you know, set back Iran. And I think to your earlier point, I think Trump has done tremendous things to support Israel. And, you know, with the Abraham Accords and everything else that has put them on a better footing in terms of the Middle East and If anything, I'd like to see more of that type of talk, saying, you know, can we get more of the Abraham Accords spread out amongst the region and achieve peace, as opposed to saying, here's the next war, let's get ready for it.

Um, yeah, I feel like I— for me, I, I, I'm only interpreting it to be like a preemptive situation, like, well, we, you know, it's gonna happen, so stay strong, America. I'm not strong anymore. Okay, Jeff, what do you think about that?

Yeah, I echo Owen's thoughts. I, I am way more concerned with how do we, how do we make life better for the middle class in America? Because that is what's going to win midterms. That's what's going to win elections. Uh, is it good that Iran has limited nuclear capability? That's probably good too. But at the end of the day, the person filling up their truck with gas or the farmer looking at fertilizer, like those, those are the people and even the middle-class folks just walking around their city like they need to feel safe, right? Those are the issues that I want to see us get, get back to. I know that there is stuff being done sort of domestically, but if we're embroiled in any foreign conflict halfway around the world, there's not— there's just not a taste in the American culture for that right now. Even though I understand, like, the— probably the greater play with oil and choking out China and like all those things are actually really good things. You got to be able to go into a place, get it done, get out, and, and really hammer those middle-class issues because that's what's, what's important to a lot of Americans.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, I feel bad for all of us, you know, going through it economically. It's, it's crazy economically. And watching what's happening to our country and the takeover of from all different parts of the world with people who are not compatible with our way of life is it's kind of getting tiring. So anyway, yes, Jim, I am strong. I'm strong, Jim. I will, I will persevere.

All right.

All right, so you guys, thank you for a really good show. I think we covered a lot of different topics, um, we try to get as much in there as we can. There's so much news, you guys, so it's kind of hard to, you know, put it down to an hour, but we did it. So Marcella is off again tomorrow, and oh, we have guests this week, you guys. Brandon Darby will be with us on Thursday. I cannot wait for him to come in. Um, and guess who's coming tomorrow? Our friend, our brother Joshua Lysak will be here with us tomorrow. Um, and Owen and I will be back. Okay, so you guys start saying your goodbyes. I appreciate all of you, even you pains in the neck. Love you too. Um, I do, I do. You all have your personalities, I swear. Um, so anyway, we will—

the ones that don't have personalities know it.

Exactly, exactly. Okay, so you guys, um, we will give a closing, um, thank you to, uh, actually to Jeff for joining. As always, you're such a treat. You're just totally part of the fam. Love you. Um, Owen— I told Owen he's my internet brother. He's like a, like a, an equal brother to me. I was gonna say little brother, but we're, we're probably just at the same age. Um, so anyway, Yeah, so Marcella will be back Wednesday. Joshua Lysak will be here tomorrow. Jeff, everybody in the chat just adores you. I love that. So, um, we'd like to thank Scott Adams and Shelley, uh, for allowing this show to go on. You guys, if you enjoyed this show, please on YouTube, wherever you are, give a thumbs up to the show, um, share it. Maybe, uh, we would really appreciate that. And also don't forget today's question for the comment section, which we will read. If you had to assign Seinfeld characters to the hosts and the returning guests of this show. Who would be who? And even some special beloveds. I saw somebody said E.J. would be who? Newman? Hmm, let's see. All right, so you guys, a closing sip to Scott Adams. We miss him so, so much. I've been missing him extra hard lately, and I'm sure you guys have too. So let's keep him in our mind and and do what Scott would do. Okay, all right, let's be useful to Scott. To Scott. Sandy, I love that picture. Bye, you guys, have the best day.