The Scott Adams School - 07/30/26 The Home Team.

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Hey, all right, so Locals is ready to go. We just have to wait for the other platforms to kick in. Hi guys, I see you, Mike Burt. Good morning everybody. Good morning, beloved. You guys are always up first and then YouTube. Yes, here comes YouTube. I see you, Mike Burt.

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Oh, I'm hearing myself over here.

Good morning, everyone.

Oh, look, I'm going to do the Romper Room thing. I see Melaina and Metal Seer, and I see William. Oh my goodness. Where is Bushman? I see you over there. Those are YouTube. Easy Steno, Melvin, everybody. Hi, you guys.

And for today, we have replaced Erica with Rosanne Rosannadanna.

Yes, I said I have like the Gilda Radner hair today. I just said let's just go crazy.

Gilda who?

Radner. Okay, do you know Gilda?

No, I do.

I just gave you her character's name.

I know, no, Marcela said who? I'm like, oh my God, am I saying her name wrong? Um, but anyway, she was married to— who knows?

Oh, I don't even A man.

Yes, she was married to Gene Wilder.

Wow.

Yep, you guys know. Look at you smarties in the chat. So good morning, everybody. I think we have given enough time for everybody to come in. I am— I've been holding out for a sip of coffee, and let's do it.

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Can I uncover my ears now?

Yeah, you can.

Okay, thanks. Okay, so I guess I'm not going to feel as good as the rest of you, but— so you feel good? I just said, Marcella, Owen, do you guys feel good?

Oh, I feel great because I didn't cover my ears.

Right. Okay, so it worked.

You're doing great.

All right. Okay, you guys, so welcome to the Scott Adams School. My name is Erica, and I'm joined by Marcella and Owen, my amazing co-hosts. Today is July 30th, 2026, and tomorrow I find out how many days are in this month. Nobody spoil it, I can't wait to find out. Um, so if you know, you know. So I wanted— I saw this little clip, it's like a little 2-minute cartoon the other day, and it keeps making me giggle, and I'm like, let me just play it. So you guys just indulge me, it's a little cartoon, and in the chat let me know, let us know if you relate to this at all, and if you're more like the the male character in this cartoon or the female character. All right, ready, babe?

Yeah.

What is your greatest fear or your worst nightmare?

Oh, being in the water with a great white shark.

Oh, I can't do it.

Keeps me up at night.

You don't even go in the ocean, so— Exactly, that shouldn't be a problem. What's your worst fear? My worst fear?

Yes.

Is that somehow in some situation will be in public, you and I, and then I'll see something that's dangerous and I'll say, Jen, get in the car. But then you'll have to know why. So instead of just listening to me and getting in the car and so we can drive away from the potentially very dangerous situation, you have to know why I'm telling you to get in the car. And even though I'm talking to you in an emergency situation, in an emergency voice, in an emergency tone, I'm saying, Jen, just get in the car. And you won't do it because you have to know why. And then we both just end up in a very terrible place because all we had to do was get in the car, but I had to explain to you why we had to get into the car. I had to point out the King Kong or the dinosaur or the person that was trying to harm us in some certain way before you get in the car.

Well, in my defense, if you're saying, 'John, get in the car,' are you saying Jen, get in the car because you're annoyed with me?

Are you saying—

yeah, that's the problem—

car because I'm hot?

Are you saying, Jen, get in the car because you want a coffee?

See, this is the problem.

Are you saying, Jen, get in the car because, I don't know, someone's trying to kidnap me?

Like, how about just get in the car?

You have to tell me why.

No, I don't.

Jen, get in the car because we're in a dangerous situation. But then you have to tell me, like, how dangerous? Like, do I need to sprint to the car, or do I need to trot, or do I need to look and see? Is danger— oh no, is it, is it, is it Is it above me? Is it next to me? So you have to say why in a very quick—

No, we don't have time for that because we're— Let me, let me, let me act this out for you. Okay, ready?

Yes.

Jen, get in the car.

Why?

We're dead.

Why are we dead?

Because you didn't get in the car.

But how do I know that there was something?

It doesn't matter. We're dead because you didn't get in the car.

Who deaded us?

Doesn't matter. We're dead.

Oh my God, you guys in the chat are so funny. I'm looking to see who says they're who, but now I'm thinking on both.

He should divorce her. He should divorce her. He sounds like a pain. My God.

Oh my God. Owen, I'm not saying based on personal experience, but is that funny?

Well, yeah, it's funny. I mean, I think it's probably a common thing with a lot of couple relationships like that. But yeah, I mean, you know, it's— what I found funny about it was just that, like, you know, he was saying, this is my worst fear. And then she's just like creating it. Like she's putting it— putting him in this situation, like confirming his worst fear. That's the part that got me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, she can't just be like, oh my God, that's your worst fear. Like, listen, all right, from now on, if you say get in the car, I'll just get in the car. I feel like I relate to both of these because sometimes I'm just like, I'm kind of a get-to-the-point person. So I have a really bad habit when people are telling a story and you know how they just, you know what they're saying, you've already got the gist. Like, oh, I see. I have to be careful with this group. I was going to say, just give me the meat. I just need the meat. I don't need all the fluffy stuff. So just tell me what the gist is and move on. But when I get all the, like, crazy fluff around it, I've already grabbed it. I start doing this to people, like, okay, go, go, go, go, go. Like, I get it. So I am relating to just get in the car. But then if you tell me to get in the car, I do kind of want to know why. Like, if you're like, hurry up, get in the car— no, if you were like, hurry, get in the car, I'd probably jump in the car and then be like, why? What's happening? So you know what, I would jump in the car first. Okay, I solved that. Marcela, what would you do?

I'd just get in the car.

You would?

Yeah, I obey my boyfriend or husband, whoever it is. Like, if they're saying get in the car, I get in the car. And I had to live, you know, through war. So we had a lot of get in the car or get under. So I know the drill immediately. But I was going to say, Noëne made a great point because when she gave her fear of the shark, he kind of de-escalated it by saying, you don't even go in the ocean. But when he gave his fear, she was like multiplying it. By making it even worse. So that's why I say divorce her.

It would be like, you know, if she said her worst fear was that, you know, she had a dream that he was cheating on her with a woman and, you know, started describing this awful situation easily. And he's saying, well, in my defense, she was really hot.

And yeah, and you told me you hated me. And yeah. Oh, oh my God, I love that. So I'm glad you guys enjoy that. It's so— it was fun reading your comments, which I'll thoroughly read them after the show. So that was cute. Owen, you had an interesting story. You guys, Owen posts stories every day on X, lots of them. And one of them, could you tell us about the night owls and the pre-ejaculation?

Oh, getting to the meat of everything, huh?

By request from Erica. She must have something about this. No, there is a story that says night owls have a higher risk of acquired premature ejaculation. So I think there's different kinds, I guess. So this is the kind where you don't have it and then you have it. And it sounds like what they're— in the article they said what they're defining as premature ejaculation is less than 3 minutes. But I don't know, everyone probably has their own idea of what that is. And but they're basically saying if you're a night owl, your circadian rhythms are screwed up and you have often worse healthy habits in general. And so they were trying to figure out what was it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Owen, in the chat on all platforms, do you agree or disagree that premature ejaculation would be, you know, sooner than 3 minutes? Go.

I don't think it's really in my opinion.

I think it's probably what really matters.

What's that?

Isn't this like science?

This is science.

I think it's a very subjective question and I think it's probably more like up to the woman to decide what they think is fat, right? Don't you think?

I mean, I don't know.

I don't know. I mean, I think, you know, I don't know what's normal because I don't like, you know, have lots of things to compare to.

So You guys, the comments are so funny. Oh my goodness, you guys are cracking me up. And on Locals, you can add photos and little video clips, so that's fun. Um, all right, so, so what's, what's the moral of the story?

Well, I think it did— some of this was it— there may be a genetic component to some of it, but I think that in this case it's not. I think there may be some genetic thing for premature ejaculation in general, but I think this is separate from that. This is more like if you have this certain genetic predisposition to not being able to sleep well, then that may be linked to this. But they also said, you know, some of it may be kind of the backward science thing that, that Scott often talks about, that if you're having that problem, like maybe you won't sleep as well because you're anxious about it. And so it could even go the other way, right? I don't think they've really figured it out, but they certainly have said that getting better sleep would potentially help you with this. And having better diet and all the normal stuff that you always hear about being healthy could prevent or, you know, lower your risk of that sort of bedroom problem. So, if, you know, if you are a night owl and you're having trouble sleeping, it's certainly an important thing to work on for a whole host of reasons, not just this one.

For sure.

Yeah. But, you know, it just seems like, you know, and I think every health expert I've ever I've heard has said sleep is like the most important thing. So, um, get your sleep, try and fix your sleep problems if you have them. I do not have any sleep problems. I have like the opposite where I've had problems falling asleep when I probably shouldn't. Um, I have fallen asleep standing.

Owen wants you to know he sleeps for a very long time.

I have too.

And he's not a night owl. I mean, there are certainly times when I don't get enough sleep. There are many times when I don't get enough sleep, but it's not because I can't sleep. It's just because I need to work or I need to do other stuff.

But Owen, you go to bed at like 8:00 PM, right?

When I can, yeah.

See? Okay, Mrs. Owen. All right, well, the Army turned me into a morning person.

I was an early person when I was in high school, but the Army changed that.

All right, let's go Army. Okay, you guys, so get your sleep. It is important. Try to go to bed a little earlier. Do your best because sleep is very important. Dr. Von Hardy said, TMI, people. Okay, so that was just a little fun. So before we have to recap the Fauci trial, which we're going to try to do quickly. Um, so I did find this interesting. I did pull this clip, and, um, Benny Johnson posted this. And I remember Marcella the Lois Lerner trial. She was, um, she was brought in front of Congress to testify about the IRS like giving special privilege or not giving privilege to people that were Republicans or Tea Party people. And so she had a pardon, but before— oh, no, no, no, she didn't have a pardon. She was pleading the Fifth. But before she started pleading the Fifth, she made a statement. And you can't make a statement and plead the Fifth. It kind of negates it. So you're not allowed to— like, so Fauci came on and was just like, you know, complaining about why he's there and Rand Paul and has a vendetta against him. These are just my words. And then he pleads the Fifth. You can't do that. So I thought this was—

why can't you do that?

You can do that legally. You can do that. But disagree. We can disagree.

Well, let me play the clip because I do remember this being a problem with Lois Lerner. And well, here, here, let's listen to what they're saying and then we'll talk about it.

The parliamentary question that I think we've got to be able to deal with is, is this consistent with Lois Lerner? What she also did when she came before Congress, gave an opening statement testimony, so made a statement and then refused to answer questions. Are we dealing with the same issue here where someone is making— you can't make a statement and say, I'm not going to make statements at the same time.

I think it's a very good question. I think that's something all of us will examine over the next week. We're going to have a vote next week on contempt. I think there's another legal question that the courts may have to decide upon, and that is whether or not a presidential pardon that offers you complete immunity, that you can still claim that you need protection from immunity when you've been protected. Because Dr. Fauci isn't liable for anything as long as he tells the truth, even if he admits that he destroyed records on a routine basis. His assistant said she destroyed a ton of emails. I think it was a routine thing. I think he destroyed throughout his career, there are probably thousands of emails. Even if he did that, as long as he answered truthfully, yes, I did, I didn't think that was important, I made a mistake, you can't be prosecuted for it. Many of the things are outside the statute of limitations as well. All he had to do today if he wanted to testify was be honest. As long as he was honest, even about committing a crime, he would have no jeopardy. But I think the pardon does, uh, has given him more immunity than most people would ever get. Like, if you offer a witness immunity in exchange for testimony, he has blanket immunity. The president gave him blanket immunity for virtually anything he could have possibly done, you know, while at NIH. So I think we all have to individually answer this question. We welcome you to be part of helping us figure out the question, but there will be a vote— at least right now, though, we plan to be a vote next week on contempt.

Okay, thank you, Michelle.

Okay, so Marcela, do you want to clean up my comment for me on—

Well, I disagree with the senator. You can make a statement. The Fifth, the issue of the Fifth, for— and maybe they— a lot of the times when senators speak, it's mainly for their audience and not really legal advice, or however you want to say it. Uh, legally, he is able to make a statement. He was given the floor to give a statement. However, the— when he took the Fifth, it's— every question has to be analyzed separately, um, legally. Like, every question that's given, does that actually, um, does he actually have any kind of issue where he can incriminate himself in the question? So the questions that he had an issue with, he took the Fifth on everything. So they asked him like something like, what color of tie are you wearing? And he took the Fifth. He'll have issues with those because there was no possibility of incrimination, right? Um, but I looked into it, you guys. I am for contempt. I'm for Fauci should be in prison and guillotine and everything. So I am like extra. But I looked at this, this analysis of where it can go with contempt, and basically the, the committee that, that that, that he was going before is gonna vote for contempt, whether either the majority has to vote for it. And then guess what happens?

Nothing.

It goes to the Senate and then the Senate has to vote for it. And then here we are again. Uh, Todd Blanch, uh, attorney general, uh, selection for him has been stalled there. Um, Save America Act has been stalled there. Anything that we want has installed at the Senate when we actually have enough votes. Uh, but there's always 2 or 3 Republicans that want to play, you know, like kingmaker or whatever. They want to, they want to, um, I don't know, they want to go against whatever Trump says.

So yeah, there's actual Republicans stalling Todd Blanch being put in. It's like, you know, or not voting. Yep. What are we doing?

Um, okay, so that doesn't give me very much hope. Now, um, the issue with the statement that he made at the beginning and then not answering questions, that is more of something that you can use persuasively. Like, you can say, well, he's only self-serving himself. He's only able to answer to himself and make himself look like, um, you know, better in front of his audience. Um, And there was a lot of different, um, there was some, some, some in the right thought that the left would not defend him, but they did.

They did still. Oh yeah, Harvey Levin had a little meltdown, practically crying over Fauci being brought in. Most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen. Get a life. Um, Owen, your comments thus far? I have two more clips.

Yeah, well, I mean, I think the first, I just looked up the Lois Lerner thing. I think it was a similar situation in the sense of making that statement and then invoking the Fifth Amendment. Right. And it's— it looks like they did vote to hold her in contempt of Congress. But then the DOJ said, we're not going to pursue charges for contempt of Congress. And they disagreed and they said, you know, there's no— you don't waive your right to invoke the Fifth Amendment just because you make a statement. And that's always been my understanding is like there's no limits on when you can invoke the Fifth Amendment. Like, I can imagine a ton of situations like that where like you might be talking to some police and then suddenly you realize they think you're a suspect and then you're like, okay, I'm going to invoke my right to the Fifth Amendment. You can't just say, well, you started talking, so you can't stop now. Like, that doesn't make any sense.

Yeah.

Okay. All right.

So, and you know what? These senators should know that. Like, you, you know that because you looked it up, Owen. And they know that some of the talks that the senators make, it's all for their audience.

Well, I think a lot— this whole thing is a political process. It's not really a legal process. It's tied to a legal process, but they all know this is what's going to happen. They know that, that, you know, Fauci is not going to say anything that does incriminate himself, or even if he has a pardon to— I mean, that, that I think is an interesting legal question of whether or not his immunity or his pardon should prevent him from being able to invoke the Fifth Amendment. But I think in this situation, I would say it's still probably he's allowed to do that because he is still liable at the state level for the same sorts of crimes. So, and Florida just announced they're starting an investigation on him. So like that, you know, to me it's pretty clear that he should be allowed to invoke his right to the Fifth Amendment. And I don't think anyone— I don't know, I, I certainly didn't expect Fauci to reveal that he committed a bunch of crimes. I, I, you know, like I, like I said before this, if anything, if he couldn't invoke the Fifth Amendment, he would just be like, you know what? I don't remember. I don't recall. And you, you know, how many politicians have you seen say that before Congress?

Mm-hmm.

Oh, I don't remember. You know, and I don't remember. I did that and a bunch of other, like, it's a typical thing. And I think that's what lawyers will tell some of these people to do. If they don't want to answer questions, they'll just say, you don't remember. And. And no one can prove that you remember something. So like, you can get away with it.

It's a shame he was more concerned about himself than giving answers to the people around this world. And now if there's another pandemic down the pike, you know, you can't even go to him to ask him questions about it. Not that you necessarily would, but it would be nice to know, what did we do wrong? What did you know? Was this the right thing to do? He has a full frickin' pardon. He could— he can just say the truth and nothing will happen to him. Um, but you can't go to him now. So he did nothing to help the country. You know, he does have like this Napoleon complex, like this little man who just needed to have all this validation from celebrities. And you know, why, why is Jake Tapper having him over for dinner? Like Why? It's just everyone's behavior is just so bizarre. And it's unfortunate that we had— Now the Senate is like the new Congress. We used to always say you couldn't hate Congress anymore, but now it's the Senate. Nothing's getting done. So yeah, if they vote and hold him in contempt, the Senate will be like, "We don't care." So I wanted to play this clip from the oh-so-gentle Brett Weinstein. And Brett, I watch Brett. So, he has a podcast called Dark Horse, you guys, with his wife Heather. And, I like to watch it when I can. And, just so you know, I watch it at like 2.0 speed because they're very slow, they're very calm, but they're super smart and interesting. So, just play them at a faster speed if time is an issue or you're from New Jersey and things need to be faster. But, he really took a shot because— took a shot because he was questioning everything about COVID the vaccines. And then he finally— he treaded on it because he didn't want to get like thrown out there to the wolves, which is what happens to you. But then he finally was like, I can't be silent anymore. And he just, you know, came out basically on the side of everything's bullshit. And a lot of people are like, that's it, I can't be your friend anymore. But he's like, I'm a principled person, you know, I tell the truth, morals, this and that. And anyway, I just want to give you a background of— there's so much more to say about him, but that was just a little snippet. But here he is talking about how yesterday went.

We live in two worlds simultaneously at the moment. I remember conversations that I had with people I cared deeply about at the beginning of COVID right, as the lab leak story was beginning to crack. And what I saw was, actually, I think we're going to win the lab leak story. We're not yet winning the vaccine story, and we're way behind on the repurposed drug story, but we know the dimensions of it. And my feeling is we're actually way ahead in this COVID trajectory, our side is punching way above its weight class. We need to go for broke and we need to get all of these things hashed out so the public gets them all because we're never going to get a better chance to see how our system works. This story diagnoses the system. In 2026, here's what we see. We actually won completely. All of these things are now visible to anybody who wishes to see them. And we've lost completely. Our capacity to do anything about this is now on full display. We have none. That is an amazing position to be in, but it does tell you what we have to do next. Because it means that your ability to simply get the story clear enough and enough evidence on the table does not have an impact on what happens next. We're still apparently dispensing these frickin' shots. How crazy is that? Right? After all that we have unearthed, after all the people who lost their careers to unearth this stuff, they're still dispensing the frickin' shots. So, okay, we won completely. Anybody who wants to know can now know pretty much what happened. We still have some loose ends. We don't know exactly what the ultimate objective was. But if you want to know what happened during COVID you can find out. There are a lot of us out here who know. And we've lost completely in terms of power. Knowing completely what happened or having a really good record of all of these major victories and the evidence that, you know, was so hard won doesn't buy you anything in terms of the ability to actually change the trajectory of the ship. So I would argue that the right thing to do is with the part that we did win, the evidence, right? It's out there. Is that we need to figure out now how to talk to the people who actually have goodness in their hearts but are still so desperately confused. You have to figure out how to approach them with enough generosity of spirit that you can get them over the line to just seeing. You can get them to take off the blindfold.

All right, so Owen, I'll just come to you first. I mean, valid, right?

Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think it— like a lot of things, it seems like all the conspiracy theories have been proven true for COVID. And, um, I do agree that, um, with the, the thing you threw in about if you're willing to see, because I think there are a lot of people that just refuse to see that evidence. And so we still have that two movies on one screen going on, as Scott Adams would say. Where, you know, we're in the same reality, but we aren't really because there are plenty of people that still think the shots saved all sorts of lives and was safe and effective and, you know, everything else is just BS. And so we have this division that I don't know is going to go away anytime soon, um, and that applies to a lot more than just COVID. It's, you know, all sorts of things. But, um, I think the Um, it is certainly frustrating as well that we can't really, you know, get a lot of these things corrected. I think the Trump administration certainly is trying, and in many areas I think is succeeding. They're getting DEI out of a lot of things. There was just a story I posted today about how a bunch of law firms have agreed to get rid of their DEI stuff. And, you know, that's been like a theme. I mean, there's been dozens if not hundreds of stories like that throughout the Trump administration this term about either schools or corporations or other things that have gotten rid of a lot of that sort of stuff. But, and, but I think for, for COVID, it just seems like, you know, that, that lock that Big Pharma has on the government is still there. And for whatever reason, we haven't been able to say, okay, this really was a dangerous thing. It was a mistake. It's, it's harming a lot of people. And, you know, I know of at least one case where there's a company that one of my sons was applying to at one point that said, you still have to get the shot. Oh, God.

People are still getting the shot, by the way. They're still distributing the shot. Just FYI.

Yeah. And as far as I know, I could be wrong, but last time I checked, which was maybe a year or two back, they weren't— they still were only distributing the version that got the emergency use authorization, not the actual approved version. Um, and I think that's for liability reasons. They, they wanted to just, you know, the emergency use authorization gave them this blanket immunity from any problems that happen. And so they, even after they got FDA approval, they never switched what they were actually distributing to that version. Um, and I don't know if it was just a labeling difference or if it was an actually different shot. It was never really clear. But, um, you know, they, they were very careful from what I understand to just say this is the emergency use authorization version, and I think the reason for that was just because they were trying to protect themselves from any kind of liability. And, um, we still have this problem with VAERS and all the other stuff where they don't really, um, detect these problems the way they should. And even if they do detect them, which again according to VAERS is it's probably one of the most dangerous things that's ever been released. You know, they, they still have this blanket immunity in place for people who make these kinds of products. They're still treating it as a vaccine, even though it's a gene therapy product, and giving them that vaccine immunity. And it's, it's unconscionable in my opinion, because it's, it's a different technology. It's not the same thing. And, you know, I don't really agree that vaccine manufacturers should have it either, frankly. But, um, I, you know, even if we have to live with that, I don't think we should be extending it to new kinds of products. So it's terrible that that stuff is still out there, um, and that we're still distributing shots to people. And I'm sure a lot of those people that are on that other movie are still taking it. They're probably people that want to get boosted every 6 months or whatever it is. Um, I think, I believe RFK Jr. got it off the childhood vaccine schedule I think that changed. So I think we have had some progress there because that was the other ridiculous part is like they basically said, we're going to give it to kids and we're going to give it to them like boosters all throughout their whole child. It's like that one shot was going to be like another, you know, 18 shots, like one a year or something.

I don't know.

It was something outrageous. And I don't, you know, again, that has never been tested like that. They don't have any data on what that does to a kid. It's just like they just decided to add it to the schedule.

And you guys understand too, when they were testing the vaccine, the lab rats were dying and they were like, we still have to push it out. And, and by the way, I just, I want to say this, this is just me talking, but you know, Trump is still proud of this and I'm just like, you need to let go of your ego and being proud of this Warp Speed thing because Are we not understanding it was devastating? So I, you know, I don't know if anyone else feels that way, but, you know, you know, the Democrats are like, no, Biden got the vaccine through. And I'm like, okay, but like millions of people were vaccinated before Biden became president. And then Trump's like, no, I, you know, I'm the one that, you know, I'm so proud about the vaccine. And I'm like, what, what am I missing? Like, anyway, it doesn't matter. But I just want to say that. Like, I don't know why he still touts that.

The other thing that, that is kind of not really talked about enough, I think, is like, step back from this a second. Like, we've pretty much established that it was a lab leak. Like, it wasn't an animal, you know, thing. Now, when I say that, I don't know that we've even established that it was a leak. Like, it may have been intentionally distributed or released. We don't know how it got out. But we— I think we've established that it came from a lab, which means they did do this gain-of-function research. They created this pandemic. They created this pandemic.

So—

and Fauci was involved in funding this. So like, as far as I'm concerned, he is directly responsible for millions of people dying.

Yes, I agree.

Marcella, in regards to the schedule, as Owen was saying, it actually is still in the schedule because of the judge. Um, stayed Kennedy's, um, you know, through a lawsuit by the American Academy of Pediatrics. They sued Kennedy, they sued the Department of Health, and basically there's a stay on it. So the COVID vaccine is still on the children's schedule as it was before.

Wow.

Since March 2020. I mean, that needs to be pushed all the way to the Supreme Court. I mean, the, the HHS is the ones who came up with this schedule, so they should be able to take stuff off of it. There's no legal position that I can think of that would say a judge should be able to say once something gets on the schedule it can't be taken off.

No, I agree, I agree. But that they do this— so what I want to say about Brett is he has a great voice. I couldn't unsee the beetle, the dung beetle in front of him all the time. I was just looking at that. But, um, I want to say he has a great voice, he's calm voice, but I hear defeat and I don't like it. Yes, we're not winning the battle on prosecuting all of them, um, but we can't give up, you know. No, and maybe I'm mind reading him, maybe he's not giving up, but we can't give up. Um, I see the motivation on the Dem side, and whenever they want to create havoc on Trump, they go all the way. We need to be a little bit more like that. I hate to say it, um, in regards to what he was saying about all the info is out there for people to know about the dangers of the vaccine or, or Fauci or all that. Unfortunately, because it's become a political issue, they're not gonna— either they're not gonna want to see it because of Trump or TDS, or they're not— it's not in their bubble. Like, the media is still— I think recently I posted on X, the California ABC was still um, talking about how COVID has come back to California and how it's increasing and how we must cover and have the vaccine. They're starting again. And let me tell you, the, the reason we still want to fight all of these issues and go like gung-ho extreme on it and, and a lot of energy on it is because this is going to happen again. They're going to try it again. They Whoever is in power, either Republican, Democrat, whoever it is, DSA, however it is there, because it worked. So why wouldn't you try it again? Why wouldn't China try this again?

Yeah, right. And we had plenty of people here working with them, politicians working with them.

So makes money to you guys.

Yeah. Marcella and Owen, will you help me out with Meow tattoo on the Beloves here? Meow thinks I have cognitive dissonance on Trump with the vaccine. So I don't know. It doesn't matter that he didn't mandate it. It's that he touts it as a big achievement of his. And here we are today, Meow, talking about Fauci and how he is actually responsible for mass murder. So I would think you wouldn't want to attach yourself so hard to the vaccine. Go ahead, Marcella.

So I will tell you, I would tell Meow that she's right in feeling a little bit weird about us doing this. But I'll tell you, I was surprised that like, not today, yesterday, yesterday, um, the 20— no, the 29th, the day that Lindsey Graham's funeral happened, he was on, um, the Fox Morning Show. Um, I forget the name of it, but anyways, it was at that moment in time when he was talking about Lindsey Graham and everything else he was talking about how proud he was of the, uh, warp speed and all that. Um, I get you, he did his best for the knowledge that he knew at the time.

Yes.

And that's fine at the time, right?

Yes.

But now in hindsight, after the diary, after this, after Kennedy is there telling him, and Brad and all of us are telling him, look at this, look at that, he should you know, look into it and not be— and be more like these, these efforts. They did this in order to win the election, because that's the other thing, that the way that Biden was able to win was that everything was closed. We had to vote via mail. Uh, we had to remember the Biden rallies where he was wearing his mask and there was like like chairs 3 feet apart in circles, and he had like 3, um, 3 people, but you know, like 20 people. But the, the COVID issue was also used to— so he should be incensed just like all of us. I don't know why he can't. He could say, you know what, at the time this was the best thing I could do for the country from the information I had, but now in hindsight You know, or maybe he doesn't even— just don't talk about it. Maybe don't, you know, I understand that he should never say he was wrong because then, you know, they're going to take that and use it as a political football. So I get it.

So Marianne Mars says the correction comes, show me an actual clip of Trump where he says he is proud of the vaccine. I don't think he's ever said that.

Yes, he just said it 2 days ago.

I'll go find it multiple times. And yeah, so, you know, so it's, you know, everybody's like kind of dug into something. But one thing I always try to drive home here is when information changes, your opinion and facts, like the facts are changing, your opinion should also change. Because if you're dug in on this one thing and then everything changes and it's like, oh, wait a minute, we were wrong, then you have to adjust.

He reframes it, right? He reframes it as China. And Fauci and the Dems and Trump.

I was misled. I got bad information. I was doing what was best for the country. We were in a situation we've never been in before. Perfectly acceptable. But to still to this day be like, I'm very proud of that achievement. You're like, dude, stop. You did the best you could with what you had then, but now we know different and you've got to distance yourself from it. So that's all.

In his defense, a lot of people, uh, say that Trump could have fired Fauci. Fauci was there as a bureaucrat for a long time before Trump was there, um, and he at the time, he couldn't have fired him. There was no way. No fire.

No, there wasn't enough information either.

No, even if he, even if he had enough information, he had to have enough evidence for cause, like, right? And it was not just him, you know, It's hard.

Um, Owen, anything on that, or should I move along?

Well, I just think, like, it's, um, again, I, I, I think in terms of Fauci, you know, I do think at the time, um, I don't think Trump had enough information. You know, he didn't have in his first term enough information about who the good players and the bad players were. And I think if, if it happened now, it would be a completely different different result. You know, if it happened again and Fauci was still there, like, I don't think it would go the same way. But, um, you know, I, I do think Trump definitely does tout his Warp Speed thing, and I wish he wouldn't do it. But at the same time, I guess I would imagine there may be another purpose behind it, that like he's not really going to lose support from Trump voters. I don't think he did lose a lot of Trump voters because of that, and when he's claiming credit for it, it might be something that he's trying to appeal to the Democrats. He's trying to appeal to the people who aren't supporting him. And so it could be that he's touting it because he's trying to appeal to the people who he might change some minds as opposed to the people who already support him. You know, I mean, as a politician, you got to think that way and say some things you want to give red meat to your base and get them excited and get them motivated to come out to vote for you. But you also want to try and say, I need to grab the independents somehow. I need to grab the people that are on the fence and that there may be things that my base doesn't like that I still need to kind of cater to, to try and get enough votes to do it. And at this point, he doesn't really need any votes. I think he's more focused on the midterms because that's what he cares about. And he obviously wants to set up Vance or whoever else. I think he's pretty much come out and said he wants Vance to do it for the next presidency. But, um, you know, I think I could see it in that context. And I can't read Trump's mind. I have no idea. Maybe he just doesn't think about this very much. I mean, he's got so many things to worry about, you know. He's got the Iran stuff, he's got Cuba, he's got Russia and Ukraine and all these other things going on foreign. He's got all the domestic issues that he needs to focus on with the economy, everything from energy and nuclear to AI and all these other things that in my mind are much more important than how he feels about Warp Speed. So in my mind, the bottom line is I just don't really care that much about what Trump thinks about the vaccine. I, I do want it off the market, and so I would like that to happen. But if I had to prioritize that in terms of issues, I don't really care that much because the people who are taking it are not the people that see the truth. And, you know, to some extent, if you want to take a dangerous product, I guess go ahead.

Yeah. Um, so you guys, just beware if you find yourself always defending everything President Trump does, you might be suffering from a little bit of cognitive dissonance. It's okay. You love him. You like him. Listen, I do too. Best president we ever had. Amazing. But just keep that in mind because I do see on the different platforms some people just want to die on that hill of defending everything he does and twisting it. And that's okay too. We can disagree. Everything is said with peace and love. But just, you know, what would Scott Adams say about that? You know, just when the facts change and things change, just adjust yourself a little bit. It's okay. Um, thanks, EJ. Um, so I— there's so many clips I want to get to, and now we only have 15 minutes left, so I'm gonna actually skip the one with Tulsi. It's 5 minutes. Um, but I think we've wrapped up enough about the Fauci stuff for now. We'll see what happens next week when they vote whether to hold him in contempt or not. Okay, so I want to move on. I saw this clip of Chip Roy in Texas a couple of days ago. It might have even been yesterday, talking about, of all things, like, we need to ban Sharia. I mean, this is just so crazy. So I have two clips I want to play. The first one's Chip Roy. And Marcella, I'll have you react to this when we're done. Here we go.

Well, thank you, Keith, and thank you, Senator. Thanks for joining us here in the lower house. Look, I'm not going to take a whole lot of time. I want to be very clear. I am proud to be with this group of Americans, of colleagues, many of whom wore the uniform in defense of our nation and in defense of our nation against radical Islamic terrorists who wanted to destroy our country and destroy what we know about Western civilization. And now that same war is being conducted against us, but from within. And anybody who's actually paying attention to this understands the intentions of the Muslim Brotherhood and follows and looks at the reading, at the writings, and what these folks are talking about. Dallas, Houston, Texas is ground zero. That's why Keith Self and I joined together to create this Sharia Free Caucus, Sharia Free America Caucus, because we understand that the root strength of this country is our Judeo-Christian principles and the values of Western civilization that have advanced the cause of liberty, freedom, and prosperity for people around the world. And our ancestors bled and died so that we could live in a country like this. And you can believe whatever you want, but you cannot engage in what is a political effort to Islamify the United States of America and not expect us to fight back and say no. Sharia is inconsistent with Western civilization. Sharia is inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration and the rule of law in our country. That is why we've been putting forward legislation. My friend Randy Fein from Florida put forward legislation to ban Sharia in our courts. We put legislation to say that we shouldn't have tax-advantaged status for CAIR, who has direct ties to terrorist activities around the world. We've put forward legislation to pause immigration until we've had to have an immigration system that vets people for adherence to Sharia law. These are the kinds of things that the American people expect us to do to defend this country. They're the kinds of things that we will do in the Sharia Free America Caucus. And to stand up and let the voices of the American people be heard, that we're not going to be cowed by groups coming in and trying to make places where there are no-go zones for our women in the state of Texas. Those occur, those are occurring right now in Arlington, in Plano, in places that are strongholds and bastions of our values as Texans and as Americans.

Texans.

We have people, we have women Texans who are afraid to go to certain areas. That's not going to happen. We're not going to let Dallas or Houston or any other city in this great country become what has happened to London and to Paris. We are going to fight for this country. And that's what I'm proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these great men and women to say that we're going to do. And I'm not going to allow the Constitution to be frankly misapplied and hid behind to say that I've got to throw aside 250 years of our core Judeo-Christian principles.

I love that. Like, we need that to spread like wildfire. Marcela, I'm going to come to you first. I mean, we have a country, we have a Constitution. That guides us. So isn't it crazy that we even have to say these things?

I mean, I, I hate to disagree with Chip Roy, but I do, because I don't disagree with his intent, but I, I don't think we need a law. The law is already in the First Amendment. You cannot entangle religion with the law. You can't entangle Christian religion Hindu, Muslim, anything like that cannot be happening. So First Amendment, uh, freedom of religion, but also freedom from the separation of state.

And what about— I'm sorry, that it's not a religion though?

It doesn't matter. Any, any, any type of belief outside of the law cannot be entangled. He's talking about Sharia law. Of what it means and all that, that cannot be entangled. There's already the US Constitution. So I guess, you know, he wants to create a new act, a new law. That's fine because there's already laws in the books. Now again, there's no enforcement. You can have tons of laws, you can have tons of laws against having Sharia law be part of our courts, but if nobody is enforcing it, what is going on with Texas? Why is he telling me that there's women somewhere that can't walk around? Why is that? Where is the government of Texas? Where are the prosecutions of all these people that are trying to prevent you from walking around? Again, remember El Salvador. The reason that worked is because people were taken to prison. There was cases, you know, there was, uh, enforcement. Um, I like the fact that he wants to do this, um, but I would disagree with him. There's already enough law in there. There's not enough enforcement. The DOJ, um, but also Texas as a state, you know, they have, uh, you know, where— what's going on? I, I, I don't put it on, on, um, Congressman Roy, uh, because he represents the— his own section. But where is the governor on this? No, instead, you know, I see, I see a lot of cap— decapitation, I hope not. Um, I see a lot of allowance for this. Um, I don't know, you guys tell me if anybody in the chat is in Texas. Uh, I've got to look into it because there's, there's something going— they're becoming California.

Yeah. All right, Owen.

Well, honestly, I kind of agree to some extent with Marcella. I, I, I do think it's good to get rid of Sharia law. I certainly think we should do that. So I, I, I, again, I'm not going to like lose any sleep over having a law put on the books that helps with that, if it does actually help with that. Um, and But I do think that, um, it's the part I agree with Marcel about is that like we have this whole thing about separation of church and state. So when you start focusing on it from a Judeo-Christian perspective, um, it seems both a little wrong to me and a little just unnecessary. It's like we have the Constitution and that is enough in my opinion to say all these things the DSA is trying to do and all these things that that Islam is trying to do are in violation of the Constitution and in violation of, you know, both the spirit and the letter of the law. And so, you know, it should be enough by itself to take care of this. And state laws and other things should cover a lot of these things. If there is a gap, though, I'm fine with it. I mean, I haven't examined this law in detail to say, like, is there something that isn't covered that this would cover. And if there is, then I'd say, yeah, let's go do it. Um, but, and, and let's do it at the state level and the federal level. And I think the federal level is important because, again, you have all these blue states that are never going to do this kind of stuff. So, you know, if we can get rid of, or, or have a way to enforce laws that would get rid of Sharia law in places that the state's not going to solve the problem, then I'd like to do that. Um, but You know, to some extent, I understand where he's coming from. And I do agree that the Constitution largely has been based on Judeo-Christian principles. Now, again, we have the whole First Amendment and the freedom of religion, and you can't pass any laws and to, you know, entangle the two. But at the same time, you know, it's not written in the Constitution. But I think there were plenty of statements and plenty of documents that preceded the Constitution that show that it was designed based on Judeo-Christian philosophy or law or whatever you want to call it. And that, um, you know, we've had statements from some of the Founding Fathers of saying things like it's only really suitable for that kind of population. Uh, so I do think that a lot of those principles are baked into the Constitution, but I, I think it's just not helpful necessarily to try and say we're really a Judeo-Christian nation. Like, that just doesn't seem like it helps.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, okay, so I understand that you both made great points. I am desperate to get to these last two clips. Um, I really am. We're gonna run out of time.

Let's get to the—

here's Jesse Kelly. And you guys, do you like Owen's shirt today? Um, he got his, um, fashion advice from Jesse Kelly. So let's watch this and we're gonna just comment super quick at the end. Here we go.

There's a really decent chance Abdul El-Sayed is a United States senator in 6 months.

There is.

Not saying he's going to be. I hope he isn't. Hope he loses. But there's a chance. I can't do anything about guys like Mamdani or El-Sayed infecting things. All I can say is The kindest thing you can do in the world is the thing that sounds so mean— discriminate. If you do not discriminate early and often on who you allow in your country, you will eventually have all sorts of vermin flowing through your country, and they will occupy important positions of power. They will occupy things that matter to you and to me. If you don't mind the door, the foxes are coming into the henhouse. We tried to be really nice with immigration for a long time. Mamdani and his dirtball family should have been deported years ago. His father got here and 15 minutes later he was a communist activist. Shame on everyone who didn't deport him. Now we're stuck with Mamdani himself. That's how it goes. Mind the imports. Be mean. It's the nicest thing you can do.

So, I mean, I'm not even gonna like, I'm not even gonna comment on it. Okay. We're gonna let that one just sit. That's Jesse Kelly's opinion. And I, I'm just gonna say, you know, You're allowed to discriminate, suicidal empathy, put your country first. We're not, you know, anyway, I'm going to leave it at that. So you guys, I want to show you a really good clip. Do you guys remember King Randall? He's coming on tomorrow with us. I'm so freaking excited. Okay. He's doing wonders for his community, teaching young boys and now girls important principles and things that they need to learn in life. Things that they might not be learning at home or in school. So I just want to play a clip of him. Let's take a quick listen.

So one thing I always hear from parents in the participation trophy crowd when it comes to introducing difficulty to children, not even in just sports, but in general, is, oh, just let kids have fun. Kids just need to have fun. Life is not fun. Like, our job as parents is to help and train them to become an adult. They're going to be an adult a lot longer than they're going to be a child. So why am I only focused on making life sweet and nice for them? 95% of their lives is fun. They're always doing what they want to do. They're playing with their friends, playing video games, watching TV, flipping, whatever, drawing with crayons, whatever. Kids are always having fun. So 5% of that definitely needs to be a little bit of difficulty so they can understand that life is hard, work is hard, your job is going to get hard, competition is hard. You know, you have lessons that you have to learn. But if you only, you know, grow a child up only doing things that they feel like doing, they're going to struggle the moment life asks them to do anything outside of the norm. And so this is why you get kids who throw temper tantrums, who throw stuff, who are angry, who crying every time something bad happens. It could be minimal, it could be something so small. Because you have never allowed them to face any difficulty, then they know— they don't know how to accept it. I say no for sport. No is a character-building word. It's not that I'm trying to be mean, or not that I don't want them to have what they want. It's just you have to learn you're not going to always get what you want. People wonder why, why am I kids throwing temper tantrums because you always giving them what they want. Tell them no for fun. Tell them no for sport because they have to realize 90% of the time in life, life is going to tell you no. And so you have to— kids simply got to learn that there are things in life that you have to do even when you don't feel like it. Yes, kids should have fun, but they also need to know how to handle difficulty. Have this new group that I've created called The Dad Standard. The Dad Standard is basically a group of men. We meet every Thursday at 8:00 PM via Zoom and we basically talk about how we truly want to parent our children. Not how Instagram wants us to parent it, not how the participation trophy parents want us to parent, but how to traditionally parent our children to help change this, this new generation of thinking on how we raise our children. Because apparently we're losing our kids because we've forgotten the traditional way. We as dads need to step up and take our communities back. So $49 a month, the Dad Standard. Come join the group. We got something special going on every single Thursday. We got a group of men, um, who need the assistance, who need to be able to ask each other questions and not be be worried about what Jim Pop got to say about us being traditional dads.

I love him. Yeah, I love him. I'm so excited he's gonna come on with us tomorrow for the hour. Um, I've been following him for, for as long as he's been on X. So that's King Randall. We were texting last night and, you know, he was saying, you know, how much he loves Scott Adams and appreciated him. And, you know, he would text him to check in on him. And, you know, he asked, you know, how's the show going? How's the group? You know, and I said, we're all together. You know, Scott wanted us all to stay together and, um, carry on and not be him, but to just be here in honor of him. So he's thrilled to come on. I asked him a long time ago, but he didn't see the message just till yesterday. So he's like, does the offer still exist? Is the invitation still good? I'm like, oh my God, one 1000%. So tomorrow is the day he picked, and that works for us. Um, so we look forward to that. And, um, yeah, we gotta focus on, um, raising kids right. And like, hearing the word no doesn't mean you have to have a meltdown. It's just an answer. Yes or no? No. Um, not a big deal. So Owen, I'm excited, um, for you to be here too, because I happen to think you're a terrific dad, and I think that you'll enjoy talking with Kang.

Yeah, I'm excited too.

Yeah, good. So you guys, thank you so, so much for today. I will stick around for an Akira song if anyone wants to. And listen, you guys, it's okay to disagree on things. We're still family. We still all love each other. Um, you know, we're, we're just tossing around ideas, um, and it's all good. He is an awesome dad. All right, you guys, so let's say thank you to Scott Adams and Shelley Adams for allowing this show continue. Thank you to every single one of you on all the platforms, all the chats, the comments, the replays. Give us a like before you leave, and, um, the home team will be back tomorrow with guest professor King Randall. And as always, a closing sip to our beloved Scott. To Scott.

To Scott.

Okay, let's do—

bye, you guys.

Bye, everyone.

Bye, Marcella.

Oh, I want to— oh, bye, Owen. I want to pick one that I don't think we've done. Let's do The Payoff. The Payoff.

What if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort instead of thinking about the payoff? Akira. The payoff.

We've done this, we've done it.

I'm gonna say it again, the payoff. Get a few more heads to explode. What if you could reverse laziness by simply developing a habit of thinking more about, let's say, the delicious food that you'd like to enjoy instead of how long it would take you to get up and go get it?

Get after it.

The real question is, if you were to test this at home and try to see if you can think more about the good outcome and less about the work, would you get it done? What if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort instead of thinking about the payoff? The payoff. I'm gonna say it again, the payoff. Get a few more heads to explode. Why isn't the people have a second child? You know, why does a woman who goes through this awful, awful childbirth have a second child? Don't they always say the same thing? If I remembered how bad this was, I wouldn't do it again, right? So the Not thinking about the effort is vital to actually the survival of humanity. If we focused on how hard it was to have a baby, you just wouldn't do it, or you'd do too little of it. But if you focus on how awesome it would be to have a family, well, there you go. You're gonna go through the pain because you've already— you've already committed. You're gonna go through the pain because you You've already, you've already committed. What if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort instead of thinking about the payoff? The payoff. I'm gonna say it again.

The payoff.

Somewhere has to explode. Am I ambitious, or do I simply have a thinking habit which produces dopamine because I'm thinking about the positive outcome? And is the dopamine the thing that gets me up and moving? And when you're observing me, you say, how the hell do you get so much done? And how do I do it? I think it's just this. I think it's just this. When I think of all the things I do, I think about them in terms of their benefits. What if Laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort instead of thinking about the payoff. The payoff. I'm going to say it again. The payoff. And let's get a few more answers. The payoff. The payoff. So here's your tip. It's going to change some of your lives. Think about the positive, not about the work, and see what that does to you.

How lucky are we? How lucky are we that we all had Scott Adams in our lives, and we continue to have him in our lives. And thank you to Akira to just putting him to these melodies. It's just heavenly. Heavenly. All right, you guys, I'm looking forward to meeting King Randall tomorrow. I'm so glad he's coming on. I told— I said, oh my gosh, the Sippers are going to be excited. He's like, the Sippers? Who are they? And I explained to him, like, oh, our simultaneous sip. So he's excited. Akira killed it, right? All right, you guys, life is a blessing. Yes, thanks to you three and to Scott and Shelley. Always, you guys. Um, yeah, you guys, so let's start our goodbyes. I don't want to cut anyone off. And, uh, Sipper Stars, that's right. Oh, oh, you're so sweet. Thanks, Jim Courtney. Yeah, we'll see you guys all tomorrow. Thanks, Bart. Thanks, YouTube. Annie and Flynn, EJ, Ajax, let's go. Andy Wang, my little New Jersey heartbeat, I tell you. Ah, Fletch, Crank. All right, guys. Beverly, I love you. Goldie, Zanville. Oh my gosh, I see all you guys. Love you guys. I'm looking at every single one of you. Love you guys. All right, I'll see you tomorrow. Have a great, great, great, great day. Reya, Krasha, Scott Adams, Mike Burt. I can't stop myself. I want to acknowledge every single one of you. All right, love you. See you tomorrow.