The Scott Adams School - 07/22/26 Erica & Marcela tackle HUMP DAY w/ News and a DOUBLE Whiteboard

Oh, thank you.

Your hair is like fluffier. I like it.

Good morning, you guys.

Good. What is it, Wednesday? We're humpdaying it. Me and Marcella, we're in for the hump day, you guys. And you wonder why I have abandonment issues. Yesterday it was Marcella, today it's Owen. Aye yi yi. Okay, let me get this going here, get the comments going. You guys, drop in the chat, where are you guys? Like, where in the world does everybody live? I want to go later and look and just see where everybody's coming in from. So Drop it if you can. We don't need your address, just your city, not your address. Yeah, not your address. Okay, good morning. Uh-oh, everyone's hot to trot today, so come on in.

Oh, Kansas, San Diego, San Jose, Houston, Arizona. All right, very nice. Sweden. Sweden, you gotta do a show out there.

Monrovia, let's go on tour, Marcella. Why don't we just like go to all the places and do like shows?

We do a show in their town.

Yeah, every town, every single one of you.

And you guys get to cover it, we pay for it.

I'm just kidding.

You said like no.

Oh, you guys, thank you for being here. Welcome in. We're just giving some time for YouTube to come in, and we see YouTube, and YouTube, you guys are a lot of fun. I, I read, as you know, I read all the comments after, and you guys are just the best. I, I like how you're really like contributing and like chatting it out, and, and just like on Locals, everybody's got their own personalities, their own little like niche or glitch or role, but you guys are amazing on all platforms. So welcome in. It is July 20th. 22nd. Remember when you were in school, like in grade school, and like August was coming and then the back-to-school stuff would come out in the store and you're like, no, no, that's what I just had, that little anxiety feeling. All right, are we ready? Are we ready for the thing, the thing that makes everything better? I am. All right, let's do it.

2021 is gonna be lit, off the hook. And any other old hackneyed expression you'd like to put on that. But first, the simultaneous sip. What do you need? You need a cup or mug or glass or tank or chalice or stein, a canteen, jug or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. Including 2020. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now.

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Yeah, yeah, that's working. I can feel the improvement coming. Mm-hmm.

I feel it. Do you guys feel it? I feel it. It's going right down into my belly. All right, the caffeine's kicking in. All right, you guys, so listen, today we have a double whiteboard for you. Oh, and we have news. Yes, we do. So we're going to cover it all. Who says we need Owen? We're good. Um, so Marcella, I love thrifting, you know, like going to, like, let's say the, like, Goodwill or thrift stores or whatever and looking for hidden treasure, or going to, like, um, a garage sale and you're like, ooh, look at this treasure. But I found a good one. Look at what this cat found. Let's check it out.

Maybe the greatest thrift store find of all time. Quinn Brown, 19 years old, has resold thousands of items online over the years, most for less than $20. But earlier this year, going through the bins at a Goodwill near Portland, Oregon, he noticed this. Somehow or another, NBA great Wilt Chamberlain's Lakers warm-up jacket from the '72 NBA Finals had ended up for sale in Oregon for $3.07. Here's Brown. The really key moment for me was I was in my room and I looked at the measurements of the jacket.

Wilt Chamberlain being 7-foot-1, the jacket measured 33 inches long, so would have gone down almost to my knees. I looked at it and it matched up.

Smart kid. When Brown posted his discovery online, Sotheby's reached out helped with the forensic investigation matching the stitches on the jacket to old pictures of it, and then put it up for auction. And that $3 thrift store find just sold for nearly $90,000, putting the jacket into the pantheon of bargain finds, including a Declaration of Independence copy found at a flea market and this 1,000-year-old Chinese bowl sold at a garage sale— both worth millions, by the way. As for Brown, he says he plans to put most of his windfall into savings, but also celebrate by taking what he calls a cheap vacation to Vietnam. Let us know how the thrift stores are.

A cheap vacation to Vietnam. I love it. Uh, so Mindy, my friend Mindy is in the chat and we are discussing a vacation to Vietnam coincidentally. So we'll see. We'll let you know if there's any thrifting happening there. But isn't that amazing? I know. Good for him. He's like, all right, Chamberlain. He didn't even know who Chamberlain was, but he had a feeling. Marcela, did you ever find anything exciting?

You know, I'm not into thrifting, so I guess, you know, I maybe now I'll start, you know, looking around. Hollywood might have their own. I may find really good stuff.

Yeah, like memorabilia. Oh yeah, that would be amazing. So, uh, the story is my brother had a— has a great friend who owned like a, um, I'm gonna mess this all up, but you know, like Topps Trading Cards, you know, like those kind of companies that have sports memorabilia, etc. So anyway, he invited my brother to go to the Super Bowl in Jacksonville when it was in Jacksonville, whatever year that was. It was Tom Brady's rookie year as quarterback in the Super Bowl. Can you imagine? You're a rookie and you're in the Super Bowl. Anyway, Tom Brady. So after the game, he said, hey, send me your tickets and we'll make something nice for you as a memento. So they put his tickets in a nice frame, and they also put the quarterback's, uh, card in the frame, I think signed by both the quarterbacks. And just a couple years ago, or it was during the pandemic, uh, someone mentioned to him, you know, people are selling their art and their sports memorabilia or buying it because, you know, they couldn't work and they wanted to trade and do things. So he's like, oh, you know, I wonder what this thing is worth. And he had it like on the floor in a closet And he— long story short, he sent it to a sports memorabilia auctioning company actually near me in New Jersey. And they put that card— it was like the second one listed, so they get listed from like high to low. It went on, um, auction, I think for 14 days. And at the end, that card fetched my brother $200,000. That was just sitting on his closet floor. So you never know what you have, you guys. Go through those crates.

I just don't have the patience. I hate shopping. I just go in and, and buy. So the internet has made it easier because you just click and you find the thing that you want, and maybe you return it. But it's like, I don't have the patience. Like, like, I see people going through Ross or going through these giant stores, and I'm like, how do they do it? Like, you must have patience. Because I'm like, ah, I get out. You have to go in and get out.

Yeah, you have to like the thrill of the hunt. So sometimes I'm in the mood, sometimes I'm not. But I—

oh, Erica, I like the thrill of the hunt, but some other type of hunt.

Oh, Sean, Sean, I know we're getting to that right now. He just is congratulating New Jersey on their amazing, uh, winning streak of being the biggest losers. Um, so you guys, did you hear the, the news about New Jersey? Well, let's just say we have busted it wide open that of course there's voter registration fraud, election fraud, voting fraud. And why not start with New Jersey? So let's listen to what our governor is talking about, Mikey Sherrill. And by the way, I will note that yes, this happened during Governor Phil Murphy's reign of terror on our state. Um, he is the biggest, most woke jerk. Um, he pandered to people like Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, did not care about anything else going on. So here's, here's the latest and greatest. In June of 2023, nearly 3 years before I became governor, a serious software error in New Jersey's motor vehicle system led to the improper voter registration of what we believe to be roughly 6,600 people in our state. When New Jerseyans applied for a driver's license or identification at the MVC, they were asked if they wanted to register to vote. In the case of this error, some individuals indicated that they weren't citizens and weren't eligible to vote. But the software registered them anyway.

You're muted. Okay, there you go. Thank you.

So as I was saying, how convenient. But, um, so I— you know, nobody believes this was like an error, that nobody knew, that this was a glitch. You can't trust these people or believe them. And again, why are we— why are we doing this? Why did it take so long to find out? Because President Trump asked for all the states, for all their voting rolls, right? Everything. And New Jersey was like, nah. And then he's like, all right, well then we're withholding federal money. And they're like, oh. So we got them and this is what we found. So Marcella, make it make sense.

Software error, you know, it's the system, it's not them, you know, it's not them. And the thing I wonder is how many other states have this issue, uh, because California, whenever you do the DMV online, it does ask you to register to vote. It takes you to a different area, like to a different agency, but it's still like they just take— and I think, um, Nick Shirley did this in California— they take your word for it that you're a citizen and your signature under penalty of perjury. And nobody ever gets charged for lying. Because when you are doing that, you are actually under penalty of perjury too. So they could be prosecuted because the people themselves that agreed, um, they're gonna say confusion, but ignorance is not a defense. And, you know, so I don't know if the, the laws aren't just— the laws aren't being enforced because there's laws in the books that can lead to um, people being punished for doing that.

Well, so can you hear me okay right now? Yeah, okay, so, um, you know, she said 6,600, but wait, there's more. Let's check.

Of course there's more.

Always more.

According to the DHS review, state voter rolls and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Since Democrat states refused to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that. Yet even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote. Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible. Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments. Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation and corruption. China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections. Evidence of fraud has been buried. Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls. And yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail. According to the—

so that was his speech last week. But here you see, 35,152 is the new number just released by Homeland Security of non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey. These are just the ones that got caught. The real numbers will prove to be many times this amount. They are all Democrat— Republicans— they are all Democrats. Republicans, get smart and straighten out our crooked election. Pass the Save America Act. So, you know, interesting, it went from her 6,600 to 35,152.

I mean, I hate to say it, but even if you were to pass the Save America Act, people could still you know, get IDs, identification, where you'd show your identification and then you can be able to vote. There's definitely issues with the system. Like, even if you were to have that in place, which we don't, which we need— I do agree with that, we do need it— but it, it, it's something that Scott Adams always said. It's this, the system, its purpose, they haven't the, the they have it on purpose the way that it is. The chaotic— the chaos is in order to, oh, look over there, you know, oh, we just don't know software, we're like, oh, you know. No, it's intentional.

It's always by design.

It's by design. Design is destiny, as you would say, right?

That's right. So I do want to give— I— this was— I'm just looking at a different screen right now, but you guys, so there's Jamel Holley. He's a New Jersey assemblyman, um, and I was happy to see this. He responded to Mikey Sherrill's announcement of a DMV software error. He said, as an original co-sponsor of DMV voter registration, Holley cites broken assurances that undocumented immigrants receiving driver's licenses would not be offered voter registration, labeling the situation a cover-up and calling for an immediate pause on new DMV registrations until safeguards improve, and he also urges the passage of the SAVE Act, um, handover of voter rolls to DHS for independent review, DOJ monitors, and termination of the current DMV vendor's contract to strengthen election integrity. So I was really glad to see a Democrat from New Jersey respond that way. Uh, yeah, good for him. And you know, this is our country, this is everybody's country, so I'm hoping that people are seeing, um, you know, what's happening, that we, we have no safeguards. Like Scott Adams always said, as like he— like you said, Marcella, they're designed to be unable to be audited. Um, yeah, so yeah, we got to get rid of these machines. We got to go to paper.

I think it's a good idea, and maybe, maybe Scott Adams would disagree.

Maybe—

what do you guys think of voting or election SAR? That would work with the DOJ to prosecute people that vote, that know that they're voting and they're illegally here, to prosecute them for that, to also prosecute any government, anything like any state, you know, even if it's civil sanctions, but to actually go after people. It's the enforcement that is missing too, 'cause you can have a great system on paper, But in reality, if nobody is being punished for what they're doing wrong, then they're going to keep doing it. So there needs to be an enforcement SAR for elections.

I like that. And we should be one day in person, except for like, you know, obviously if you're in the military or, you know, you're out of the country, we get it. But it one day in person, because we saw even with the the paper ballots in California, they were giving these drug-addled people a dollar to fill out, you know, forms, or like, okay, so that's a problem.

There's also dead people that are on the rolls. There's also people that, um, are not— did not have capacity. I, I do conservatorships as an attorney, and under a conservatorship, the person that's being conserved is not allowed to vote, and that's in the court order. That it indicates that. But I don't know if they go to a convalescent home, somebody can register them to vote. They're citizens. They don't know their name, or they don't know their children's names or who they are, but somebody can do the harvesting of their vote. So that's also something that, um, that's why there needs to be an enforcer.

I like it.

Not just laws, but an enforcer. And I, I apply. I'm just kidding.

Okay, good, good. Let's throw, throw Marcella's name in the hat. Dr. Von Hardy, I remember the hanging chads and dimples and all that. Oh my Lord. Um, so the other thing too is, and I think I know of this situation personally, where maybe a husband is married to like an actual Karen and he wants to vote Republican, but Karen gets the mail and she just fills out the ballot and off it goes. And that's that's not right either. You know, we're, we're in— you know, we're entitled to our vote. So let's see. And I don't know about going state by state, like this state can do this, this state can do that. I think it should be one law because there are some very cheaty states, IMO. But we'll keep on— we'll keep on top of this, you guys.

And we live in them.

Yes. And, and Owen too. Like, we're all We're doing great. Oh, all right. So here's a little side note, you guys. So a lot of you I saw talking about this fire in California yesterday. Very interesting. Oh, by the way, Jeff Callahan is going to be on with us tomorrow. We're going to talk about things with Spencer Pratt, with California, Marco Rubio, Cuba. We have like a whole agenda going for him. I know, Beverly. I'm sorry. Okay. So but anyway, so there it was. It was amazing because Gavin Newsom was out there. I didn't pull the clip. I wanted to spare us all all a Gavin Newsom clip today. But you know, he's talking about how they're so great with fires. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, you're so nutty.

Great at burning down houses. That's what they're good at.

Yeah, you're great with fires. All right, so, um, he's talking about that while at the exact same time people are being evacuated out of the area where Scott Adams has his house and his family lives. And simultaneously. And I'm just like, oh my God, what is happening? So I do want you to know that I got in touch with, uh, everybody in the Pleasanton area last night. Um, they were at Scott's house. They were told to evacuate. They didn't want to. Um, they did. This was the picture, um, just before they were leaving. You can see the smoke in front of Scott Adams' house. That was probably about 3 miles away at that point. Um, so everyone got out safe. The house is perfect. Nothing happened. They, they lifted the restriction at about 11:30 California time last night. Um, and also, just so you know, Scott's memorabilia, everything has already been removed from the house, so don't worry about that. But, you know, like, Gavin Newsom just has a lot of freaking nerve Um, just to say, you know what, every politician in California should just sit this one out. Just sit it out. Don't run for president. Don't rerun Basora and ramen noodle. Like, you guys are a mess. Uh, Marcella, actually give us an update on LA because there's, um, water pipes bursting everywhere. What's happening?

So there's, you know, the, the issue of always that, that none of the infrastructure has ever been revamped or changed or reformed or anything like that. So these, these pipes, you know, great work for the tradesmen in the 1930s, um, or '40s, because now they're bursting everywhere in West Hollywood and then the west side of LA, on Sunset, I believe, in Hollywood Boulevard. I'm not sure which which one of the main thoroughfares, but it's caused major issues, major flooding. But that's just the beginning because none of these, none of this work has been done for years and years and years. So a lot of them are, you know, causing issues and there needs to be a whole infrastructure. It's not, and the worst part is it's not like we don't pay enough taxes for sure. So it's like, where is the money going? You know, the— where we're paying into the taxes, um, there's billions of dollars being paid into, uh, figuring out the homeless issue. Homeless are still out there. There's— they don't have any, any money to show for. And, um, and then we have erupting, um, fires everywhere, we don't have enough water, we don't have this, we don't have that. But it would be okay if you didn't pay any taxes, but you're paying lots of taxes and you're not seeing any of it. Uh, yeah, yeah, in their pocket.

So it's like the same thing, uh, when you're in New York City. I mean, the last many times that— that it— oh, by the way, let me just— I just got interrupted by a picture from the beloveds of the house. So let me put this back up. Scott built and designed this house. And yes, that is Dilbert's head and those are his eyes. That was, as Scott would say, by design. So yes, that is a Dilbert feature of the house. You are right. Okay, so I saw that. I was like, oh, let me let them know. So when I— whenever I would go on the subway in the city, I would— I'm always like, oh my God, this thing was built in the 50s, in like the 1950s, and you think about all that like vibrating and the, and the pipes and the heat and the, the weather and the whatever, and you're like, oh my God. And every— and by the way, I mean, I don't know how it is now, but when you would be on the subway— have you ever seen that Seinfeld episode where Elaine's on the subway and she's going to like her friend's lesbian wedding and like it would go like 2 feet and then it would stop and it would get dark and you'd be sitting there? That was like— that's literally the subway. Like, you'd be like, come on. Like, it would always stop and break down. You'd wait 10 minutes, it would go like 20 more feet, and it would break. And you're like, it's never been upgraded since then. So that is literally— yeah, it's scary. So yeah, it's like they built everything once way back in the day, and then it's never been fixed since or, or updated or anything. So good luck, everybody. Um, all right, so let's keep it moving. I wanted to—

any positive news today?

Well, not yet, Marcela, not yet. I'm saving that for the, for the later. Yeah. So Marcella, I wanted to, uh, pivot to Iran, um, and what's going on there. So we're gonna— we also want to mention, um, the soldiers who have fallen. I wanted to do that the other day. I'm sorry that, uh, it didn't— whatever, I missed it. But Marcella, yeah, you have the names of the people we want to recognize.

So there's been 4 deaths, uh, in Iran. 3 of them happened together in an air base in Jordan called Mawafiq Salti Air Base, and they died by an Iranian attack on July 17th through 18th. Sergeant Angel S. Rampersad, 28, from Ozone Park, Ozone Park, New York, He was believed to die in the action, um, and his remains were identified later. And Private First Class Isabella Gonzalez, only 19, Carrollton, Texas, killed in action. And First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, Iwa Beach, Hawaii, killed in action, died from wounds. And other recent deaths They died together, but there was another recent death. This was unfortunate. A Sergeant Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, Fayetteville, North Carolina, killed on July 19th during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone in northern Iraq. So that was really unfortunate because it wasn't, um, you know, it wasn't expected.

Yeah, I'm with you, Montreal Galaxy. This is not okay. And you guys, however you pray or think about someone or send positive energy or vibes, please, please keep these families in your thoughts, in your prayers, and, you know, send them, send them healing energy any way you can. Because like, who just said this? Um, Andy said, tragic, you know, two weren't even alive during 9/11 and two were too young to remember 9/11, and you know, here they are fighting, uh, dying like so young, like babies. So, you know, we, we take it for granted. Like, we're here talking right now, and, and yes, and we should be laughing and having fun and having a life, but we should always pause to remember what's happening there. And, um, ironically or not ironically, that the, the base in, um, Jordan that you mentioned, Marcella, I pulled a clip from there today. So this is what— this like, like, I'm not going to talk during this. I just want you guys to like kind of hear and see what's happening. So these are our US military in Jordan as bombs are going to be coming in from Iran. And this is what they're doing while we're going about our day.

Good. Good luck soon. Guys, off the walls if we can.

Try to get a TBI. I just wanted to play that whole thing. That's like just a moment in time, and they could be in there for hours, and they're just in silence. I— it looks like they got out of bed like they were asleep and just quietly walking into the bunker. They have their guns with them, um, and they could be there for hours. This, you know, while bombs are being lobbed. And I just really wanted to drive that home. Those are also our contractors that are over there working, um, you know, not just military, but we have private contractors working. Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons. So, you know, I just— I, I hope that was okay with you guys, but I just wanted to like say please, you know, rest in peace to anyone who gave the ultimate sacrifice and to their families, I just can't even imagine. And, you know, like, God forbid, like any day they could get that phone call. I really, really want this to end in the— in the time that we're in now with drones. Can we please, like, bring people home and just stop this craziness? Marcela, is that like just eerie and just crazy?

Yeah, I mean, I lived through war, so that's pretty much how it is. But, um, I, I don't— you know, when, when someone in the chat— I'm so sorry, I forgot who said it— but they said, imagine if, if Iran had nuclear weapons, which is the reason why we're doing this. So they're doing this with just drones. I can only imagine they had a high, um like a, like a big dirty bomb. They would drop it on anyone. It's unfortunate, um, that, you know, anyone dies in war, but, um, but I'm very proud of, of the soldiers of our country for fighting, um, for, for our future. Because if, if in fact the, the intelligence was that they were still trying to enrich uranium and try to get a nuclear weapon in the hands of these people, it would destroy the world. So, you know, that's some— yeah, yeah.

Um, so that is that. Um, I also wanted to give you the update from, uh, Trey Yangst on Fox. He always has a latest update, so let's take a listen to Trey and we'll see what's happening.

Another night of U.S. strikes hammered Iran. This time the target list expanding. Reports do indicate deeper strikes inside of Iranian territory, along with a variety of positions near to the Strait of Hormuz. Now, CENTCOM released a statement saying, over the past 3 months, Iran has attacked more than 30 commercial vessels transiting the international waterway vital for regional and global trade. The unwarranted attacks have endangered hundreds of innocent mariners and undermined freedom of navigation. The strait remains largely at a standstill, with just 3 commercial vessels passing through on Tuesday. According to Kepler Shipping data. The other area of focus remains on Iran's nuclear program that President Trump says will be targeted in the days ahead.

We follow the material. That's where the action is, and we'll be hitting that area very probably pretty soon. And there's not, not a thing they can do about it. You know, normally I wouldn't say that. If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that. But we'll be hitting that area pretty soon, uh, and, and very heavily.

While both the United States and Iran have left open the door for a diplomatic solution, no breakthrough has been reached yet despite efforts from Qatar and Pakistan. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier today that Iran is not serious about talks right now.

We remain open to diplomacy, we remain open to working it out in a negotiated way, but right now they don't seem to be We're serious about that, and so we're going to continue to protect shipping. We think other countries should join us in that endeavor. We don't need them to, but they should because they're more impacted by it than we are. And at the same time, we are going to, when the opportunity presents itself, degrade their ability to target global shipping.

The Iranians launched new counterattacks overnight, triggering sirens in Bahrain and Kuwait. The Jordanians also say they shot down a number of incoming Iranian missiles This as the Department of War has released the name of the 4th US soldier that was killed over the weekend during that ballistic missile attack against Jordan. It's Sergeant Angel Romperstad of Ozone Park, New York. Now, President Trump will attend the dignified transfer of all 4 service members killed at Dover Air Base later this morning.

Hmm.

She was the one killed at the— where the clip was that I just showed you. Uh, rest in peace. So I mean, again, like, if Owen was here, I could speak for him on this. Like, you know, I know he always says, I'm just tired of it, I want to bring our troops home. I do too. And it's like, so it's impossible to stay ahead on this story because, yeah, it's a mess. It's a mess. And the news changes every day, obviously. So, um, I don't know, Marcella, any any closing thoughts on Iran?

I think either, either the U.S. fights a war or they get out. This middle ground that what we're doing is doing night raids to Iran for 11 nights, that's not going to cut it. Either you go full on and make a commitment to it, or you leave, because they're not taking you— Iran is not taking this seriously because it's just, oh, night raids, that's it, we, we can do it, we've, we've done it before, we can avoid this. And they, they will never, um, agree to anything that, uh, has their control. You cannot negotiate with, you know, people that want to die, uh, and be terrorists. And, um, unfortunately, I think Um, you know, Trump has, uh, is the persuasion, uh, negotiator, the best negotiator ever in this world. But I think it's hard to negotiate with people that rather, uh, be dead, uh, than negotiate with you. So he has— it doesn't mean that he's not doing a good job, it's just that it's impossible job to do.

It's a, it's a great point. I mean, they don't care. Like, death is fine for them. Like, they don't look at it the way we do. So it's— it— that's a very good point, Marcela. So we are just dealing with a whole other kind of animal in these people. Um, so, you know, it's just like they don't have any regard for life with animals.

That's exactly right.

They don't have any regard for, for human life. Um, so it's tough. It's tough. So, all right, well, it's gonna be different tomorrow, and, you know, maybe we'll give you a little Iran update tomorrow. Maybe we'll skip tomorrow on Iran and we'll update you on Friday, because God only knows. All right, so, um, I want to get to Scott Adams most importantly. So you guys, we're going to kick back, grab your coffee, give a good little stretch, and we're gonna do a double whiteboard, and we'll have just a few minutes to talk about it after. This is about 13 minutes, so buckle up, buttercup, here we go.

So I'd like to explain to you why science is broken and why everything else is broken too. You ready? It's a two-parter. Here's what you need to know about science that cannot be told to you by the media. 'cause the media's in on it. They're colluders. And it looks like this. Simple graph. Goes like this. So money involved in the topic, that's on the left. And then level of corruption is on the bottom. And it's very easy to understand. If there's no money involved and it's just pure science, there's probably not much corruption. So you could trust, uh, when there's no money involved, probably not much corruption because you can't make any money. But as you go up the money scale, you get to the things like climate change and COVID. If money works the way it always works everywhere else, over time you're guaranteed that none of this is true. Why? Because criminals will always try to game every system. And eventually it will only be criminals because the money is good. So it's not going to pay to do things that are just true when you could do things that are not true and get a big paycheck. So over time, if there's a lot of money involved in the topic like climate and COVID, what should happen predictably By the design of the system, not by accident, by the design of the system, you guarantee that your most important questions are all fraudulent. There's no other way this can work. There's no other way it can go. It's not like, oh, maybe this could lead to something bad. No, it can only lead one way. There's not a second thing that could happen. It will always, always, always trend toward fraud. Always. It has to, because that's where the money is. Now you might say to yourself, but Scott Adams, you know, there are some criminals, but mostly there's honest people. So wouldn't the honest people sort of crowd out the criminals? You know, wouldn't the criminal part always be smallish? Necessarily? No. The criminal part is guaranteed to be the controlling part. Here's why. And it's just math. It's just math. There's no opinion here at all. Pure math. Let's say you started with some kind of a system that was completely legitimate when you started. Could be anything. It could be the, the system of science, you know, the whole scientific community, everything. It could be the Republic. That's a system. It could be your voting system. So it could be systems within the larger systems. If you started with these all being completely legit on day one, and then you wait. What's gonna happen? Because all of these things have a lot of money involved, really big stakes, like the biggest money of all, billions and billions of dollars, you know, big money, you can assume there will be infinite criminal attempts to get some of that money and subvert your intentions. Now let's say somebody tries, but they've only got a 5% chance of success. Boom, it didn't work. So everything's good, because some people tried, but there was a 95% chance they would fail. Good, we're all good. Tomorrow comes, somebody else tries, 95% chance they fail, they failed again. Day 3, failed again. Day 4, failed again. Failed again, failed again, failed again. Yes, what a great— Uh-oh. What happens if you keep going? Eventually, somebody's going to succeed. And then they're going to get ensconced. And then more people will succeed over time. There is no way you can avoid all of our systems being corrupt eventually. Because they can be corrupted. It's just unlikely. Most of the time you get caught. But only a few people have to get through the system and succeed— 5% would be plenty— to guarantee, guarantee that eventually all of these systems are corrupt. This is our current design. Our current design guarantees corruption. Do you know what would be something that worked against corruption? Term limits. Term limits. Just about the only thing you can do to make people not steal from you is to not keep them around for long. How could you fix the election system? If you believe the election system is not fair, what's the only thing you could do to fix it? Fire 100% of the people who work on it every year. And then next year a whole other group of people. Then maybe you could, you know, find out if somebody was doing something, because the good people would get fired. Like, the people who are good at cheating might be replaced by somebody who's not as good at it, and then they get caught. So pretty much the only thing you can ever do to a system that has people and money in it is you've got to eliminate all the people now and then. Do you know why we don't have term limits in Congress? Now you do. Now you do. Because if you had term limits, you could not stay in Congress long enough to be Bob Menendez. Bob Menendez, the guy who's accused of taking bribes as head of the Foreign Intelligence Committee, The reason that he was in a position to take bribes is he was there for a very long time, and he eventually got to the place where he could get away with shit, and so he did. If you've got somebody who's been in Congress for a long time, and then you put them in the job that is the most easy to get bribes, what do you expect to happen? What would happen every time? When Biden was there, looks like it was about the same. So if the design of your system is that you're gonna keep the same people in place for a long time, they're just gonna chip away at things until they find a way to steal all your money. By design. So don't think that we have bad people. We also have that. But the design is guaranteed to make everything corrupt including science, including science, the correct, the design of science at the moment is that the only way you can get ahead is to say things that agree with the narrative and are in a big topic. So it's gonna be, you created a system that guarantees a whole bunch of people who say climate change is real, and then they compete to say how bad it is. Whoever can say it's the worst gets the most money, if they can make a case for it. So why are things broken? They were designed to break. If you designed things to break, don't be surprised when they break, right? So that's happening. Do you remember the study? I talked about it yesterday, and a lot of you have heard about it. So Nate Silver was talking about, about the fact that there was some big study that showed that the people in red states were dying at a higher rate than the blue states after the vaccination came out. So Nate Silver, as I've said a number of times, is one of your, you know, most qualified people for looking at data and evaluating it. You want to hear the counterpoint to Nate Silver's take that the data shows that as soon as the vaccinations came out, the red states did worse? That that difference started before the vaccinations came out. And it's in the data. If you dig into the data, you can see that the difference started long before the vaccinations came out. Are we done? Are we done? That's all you need to know, right? There's nothing else you need to know. If the difference happened before the vaccinations, it wasn't the vaccinations. Now, this comes to us in the Wall Street Journal from Alicia Finley. So I'll just read her words. A July study in the Journal of American Medical Association— now remember, the Journal of American Medical Association is one of the respected ones, right? That's one of the biggies. So the study that was in that purported to find a higher rate of excess deaths among Republican voters in Florida and Ohio after vaccines had been rolled out. Differences in partisan vaccination attitude, the study concluded, may have contributed to the severity and trajectory of the pandemic. All right, now here's the counterpoint. But the study lacked information on individuals' vaccination and cause of death. Wait, it's a study about vaccination status and cause of death, but what it lacked was information on your vaccination status and cause of death. I'm starting to smell a problem with this. We'll go on. It also didn't adjust for confounding variables such as underlying health conditions and behaviors. Apparently the age, the age part was not the biggest problem, as others have pointed out. Charts buried in the study's appendix showed excess deaths among older Republicans started to exceed Democrats in mid-2020, well before vaccines were available. Is there anything else I need to tell you about how science is done? Here was, here was science in which their own data that they published disagreed with their own interpretation. And not just a little bit, not just a little bit, it was opposite. It was opposite. And that, and not only did that opposite get through the peer reviewers, it got through the peer reviewers, but it got all the way to probably Dave Silver. I'm not sure if he was looking at this one or not, might have been some other data he was looking at, but certainly other qualified smart people looked at it and said, well, that looks good. Because how many people are going to dig into the appendix and see if— see what's going on there? Probably not many. Now, if I got a second opinion from the study authors, would they agree with what Alicia Finley says about them? Probably not. They would have their own argument about why maybe something made sense and you don't think it does. Maybe, I don't know. But we don't have a science that works when money is involved. Would you agree? That if money is involved, science just breaks. Just breaks instantly. It's like glass. Science is like steel when no money is involved, because then just the truth matters. But as soon as money is involved, It's glass. Can't trust it at all. All right, well, ladies and gentlemen, now that I've proven that I was right about everything and you can see the gears of the machine, uh, I'd like to say this is probably the best live stream you've ever seen.

I think he's right. Oh, was that so fitting for today, you guys? Do you like the way that all tied into what we were saying about about voting and by design and corruption. And man, as soon as— he's, he's so right. As soon as you introduce money to anything, everything just goes corrupt. And, um, I, I mean, I've been saying this forever about why do we have politicians that are still in office in their 80s and 90s, you know, that will just die on the floor of Congress because they're so in on it, they're so corrupted, they've enriched themselves and their families, and everybody's got dirt on them. So, you know, I love Marcello, how he just says, you know, well, first of all, term limits— no one's ever passed it. Why? Why? Everyone talks about it, it's never passed. Um, but, you know, he's right. Like, imagine if you could just fire 100% of the people every year that have anything to do with like how the elections are run, that would be a pretty good safeguard. What do you think?

You know, he's right on certain things, but I, I don't agree that money in itself causes the corruption. Um, money is wealth and what you earn. I'm for wealth, I'm for money. Um, so I, I do see that difference, but I understand what he's trying to say. I think it's government. I I think it's whenever government gets involved, cronyism, and anything that is controlled, and, and everything's slow moving, and we need a committee to vote on this, on that, uh, they make the system so difficult to deal with, which is not what the founders wanted, uh, to begin with. They wanted a system that was not from the top, not a federal controlled, but state, your, your local your local town and, and your state to control your own area because only they know your area. But in reality, he is right, there is going to be corruption wherever there's money, whenever there is systems just as giant as the voting system, the, uh, you know, being a politician in itself, um, also not having term limits, um, but I am, for one, I worked in government and I don't agree in regards to firing someone every year. I understand what he's trying to do, but that's what I had at the court system. They would like switch you off to another area and like, it's like having it— to me it didn't make sense because if somebody's a specialist in a certain area of law and then you move them to, let's just say they're a specialist in family law and you move them to criminal law, now you're gonna put them in there and they're not gonna know what they're doing. So it's kind of like moving, um, a pilot out of flying the airplane and putting him in baggage claim or whatever it is, and then putting the baggage claim person into the pilot seat. Um, I think having people in government that have had experience with what they're doing, that's, that's good. That's always in my idea of it has always— when I worked there, very few had stayed in their position, and that was one of the major issues. Um, but that's just the court system, so I, I don't know any other type of system. But, um, I, I think what, what he's missing is enforcement. Um, El Salvador, like we talked about many times over, The system itself wasn't working because nobody was being put in prison. Nobody. There was no, no, you know, crime pays, you know, if you're going to do corruption, if you're going to do— if these politicians are going to be able to get paid as much as possible, you know, be able to do insider trading. All sorts of things, that they are making money outside of their job and nobody is enforcing any type of law, or there is no type of law to punish them, then they're going to continue doing it. So, you know, maybe it's the attorney in me. I think that there should be some kind of punishment and some kind of insider trading laws against that and all sorts of things. But there isn't anything. So you're, you're, you're basically is, um, you know, designed to be this way and designed for nobody to ever enforce the law. Uh, yeah, I mean, sorry, I went on a tangent, but I feel very strongly about it.

I know, I think we all agree, agree with you because we keep saying make someone the example, put someone in jail. There's plenty of people to pick from, um, that have blatant corruption. Like, how did AOC get rich in like one minute? You know, she literally gets in Congress and then she's like instantly a multimillionaire. Why would anyone stay? Like, people can't wait to retire, right? And they say that DC is such a swamp, it's so corrupt, it's disgusting. But yet if you work there, you want to stay there until you're dead. It just doesn't make any sense. So, you know, Yeah, Ilhan Omar. All I have to do is see that name, BJ. Good God. Yeah, so she's another one. She's, you know, a multi-bazillionaire. Where, where did that come from? I mean, we know probably a lot from the Leering Centers. So, you know, it, it is true we need to enforce the laws that are already on the books, and the laws have to apply to everybody equally. Um, we have not really— I don't— I can't think of a time where I've seen someone pay the price for their corruption. I mean, certainly not a Democrat. I've seen Paul Manafort and Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, you know, get in trouble for nonsense, but never a Democrat. I can't even think of one. Who would be one? Um, Rob Bogolyovich, by the way, remember him? Um, so I saw an interview, by the way, I'm gonna post it somewhere, I can't remember who it was with It was one of the best interviews I ever saw. I didn't think I was going to watch it. Time Nazism, gotcha. I think it was on Tucker Carlson like a year ago, and I was like, I don't want to see about Rod Bogolyavich, whatever. Oh my God, the corruption. You have to listen to this interview, you guys. I'm going to post it later. Just watch it. And I have a whole new respect for this man and fondness, if you can believe it, because I could have cared less about him before. Okay. Yeah. General Mike Flynn. So it always seems like like it's one side, not the other. But anyway, so you guys, I hope you enjoyed today. Marcella and I just wanted to crush Hump Day for you. If you did like any part of today's show, could you please hit the thumbs up on YouTube, give us a little heart on Locals, subscribe to the YouTube page— doesn't cost anything, but it really helps us to keep going. And, um, Marcella and I will be back tomorrow with Jeff Callahan Owen is on a secret assignment for the Scott Adams School. And we want to say to everybody, thank you for being here. And, you know, please consider an extra prayer for all of our military people and special contractors that are in these dangerous areas fighting for our freedom. Thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to go on. We appreciate every single person here every single day. Thank you so much. And anyone listening to us on the replay. Thank you so much. Please give us a thumbs up also. Marcela, any closing words for the, for the group?

Well, I just was wondering, um, will we see you tonight? Someone was saying. Is that, is that something? Should I know something about tonight?

Should I?

I don't know. They said see you tonight. I don't know, maybe it wasn't for us. Oh, maybe some like some secret meeting from the chat.

Interesting. Maybe you will see me tonight or not. We'll see. But anyway, now that you put it out there. All right, you guys, we'll do an Akira song if you guys want to stay for it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going to pick a juicy one. And Marcela, thanks for being the best co-host in the world today with me.

Sorry about getting all passionate here. It was like enforcement.

I like it. And you know what? It was a passionate day, so I like it. All right, let's have a closing sip to Scott and we'll hit up with Akira. Okay, you guys, to Scott.

Mm.

All right, we're going to— let's do Basket Case. I see people requesting it. Let's do it. It's going to be loud— I can feel it!

Okay... Everybody everybody everyone is someone else's weirdo. Is somebody? Somebody?! Someone else's weirdos. Weirdo. Everybody body is someone else's weirdoes. Weirderes weirdeus. You ever say yourself "Man, I am so weird!" If anybody found out how weird I am, I'd be in trouble. Because man, I'm so weird. Well, I would like to introduce to you the Basket Case Theory. Something I developed when I was a young man to explain what I was witnessing. And it goes like this: If you meet a stranger, could be somebody you want to date, or just somebody you work with, maybe just a friend. When you meet them, don't they seem pretty complete? Have their act together pretty well? Man, that stranger, I wish I could be like that stranger because the stranger doesn't have anything weird about them. They've got their act together and on the inside pretty confident and pretty capable. And then time goes by and you learn more about your your date, or your friend, or your coworker, and suddenly there's a flaw. Oh, I didn't see that on day 1, but there does seem to be a flaw. Maybe a little weirdness. Day 10, looks like there's more than one flaw. 2 years later, well, I guess everybody's fucked up. That's the Maslach-Keyes theory. Everybody looks good until you get to know them. Once you get to know a human being, they're always basket cases. Well, I guess everybody's fucked up. That's the basket case theory. Everybody looks good until you get to know them. Once you get to know a human being, they're always basket cases. Always. Just different kinds of baskets. As soon as you realize that every fucking person is a basket case, you're free. You're free. What is it that bothers you more than anything? As long as you, you're healthy and you have a job. What bothers you more than anything is what people think of you, or what you think they think of you, or what they might think of you, or how they would treat you if you did this embarrassing thing. They're not better than you. Basket case theory. They're not better than you. They're just people you don't know that well. That's it. There's nothing else to the story. You just don't know them that well. If you did, you wouldn't be impressed. Everybody's fucked up. That's the basket case theory. Everybody looks good until you get to know them. Once you get to know a human being, they're always basket cases. Well, I guess everybody's fucked up. It's the basket case theory. Everybody looks good until you get to know them. Once you get to know a human being, they're always basket cases.

Ciao, Erica!

I love it. I love the little spicy. I love spicy Scott Adams. Wait, why is my mic so weird today? Anyway, you guys, thank you. Beverly, you guys, thank you so much. We need a Scott Adams convention. We used to talk about it with Scott. Hey, how about a Scott Adams cruise? And I would go, absolutely not. And Scott would look over and laugh, and he'd be like, listen to the ATTR. Um, you guys, thank you so, so much. We will see you tomorrow with Jeff. And, uh, you guys go out there, have the best, best day ever. Hit the like button. We love you, Marcella. Love you, girl. Go crush it today. Yes, yes. Bye, guys. Bye.