The Scott Adams School - 08/04/26 The Home Team is going crazy.

going over here. Good morning, everybody.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I already heard— yeah, happy Tuesday. I already heard Owen crack his Celsius open, so he's getting into gear over there.

I'm ready.

He's ready. Marcela, are you just a coffee only in the morning?

Um, and water.

Coffee and water.

Mm-hmm.

I don't have my thing going yet.

I'm just—

when I do the sip though, I do have coffee, just to be clear. I have coffee as well.

So yeah, duh. Did I just see Rich on the Farm? Hey Rich, I haven't seen you in so long. Good morning everybody. Okay, YouTube hasn't kicked in yet. Let's give them a chance to— oh, there's YouTube. Good morning. Okay, good. So everybody's on and going, and I cannot wait for a sip myself. You guys, we have a Scott clip for you today. We have, uh, yeah, we have, um, some other news stories, stuff about the crazy Democrats, which, just so you know, if I'm off-kilter today, it's because I have read and watched too much about the Democrats and I feel like I have secondhand insanity.

So you've been brainwashed.

Oh no, I'm, I'm just—

oh, you can get to you.

That's Do you think you'd be able to do some word salad for us, Erica?

Yes, I am all word salad today. Oh my God. And that Hong chick, she is word salad bar.

Oh, I misheard you.

I said that.

Misheard the name Hong.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I thought she was hung, but never mind.

Oh, okay. I think if Thanks, Bookish is sending me hugs. Everyone else feels crazy too watching these people. I think I need a sip of coffee. Okay, let's go.

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Sippity doo dah. All right, so eventually, eventually everything will be better, which is good to know. Yes, everyone's pointing out the crazy eyes on Hong. Oh yeah. Okay, so. Ah, but I could— I have to start with not crazy. No, it's not an animal clip, I know. But, um, so Friday we have King Randall coming on, and I've been watching so much of his content. You guys, please follow him on X if you aren't already. Um, I think his handle is just @KingRandall. And, um, I pulled a clip. This is so sweet. So he— what he does is he takes the boys and now girls into like real life situations so they can learn how to handle it, how to speak to people so they understand their responsibilities in life. It's so sweet. But here he is. He's taking a group of boys. I think this is to learn, like, you know, you have to pay your utility bills and how do you talk to people? It's so sweet. Let's just— let's take a quick 2-minute look.

I'd like to have a new service at my new house.

Okay, and your name?

Bryson Williams.

All right, Mr. Williams, give me a few minutes. Let me get a customer service rep for you, okay?

Yes, ma'am. It's going to be $60.24.

Yes, ma'am.

I'm sorry, Mr. Williams, but this card is declined. I might have to unlock it. Oh, he said he got to unlock that card. How you doing, Mr. Sherman? Good. How about you? Just fine. You here to pay your bill? Showing that you owe $187.27.

Can I get a pen?

Yes, sir.

Okay, so what do we write right here?

I'll give you your check and then write $100.

Yep.

All right, and then what we put right here? The numbers?

Yes, sir.

Oh, I do this. What?

All right, but what we gonna pay?

So we can have a what?

Can I get that bill, please?

Good.

How can I help you? I'm doing just fine.

So my bill was $13 and I usually pay $5, so I want to know why is my bill $13?

Why?

Okay, can I see your bill? Your bill is gonna provide a breakdown for you. It shows that you're paying for water.

What do you need when you come here?

You need what?

You need your paper bill, you understand that? What do we need when we come here? And if we don't have our paper bill, what can we use for them to still be able to pay our light bill?

Say what?

We just need our address and name.

You good to go?

All right.

What we gonna do when we see our bill? What we gonna do with our bill? We want to make sure it's right before we pay it. You understand that? So if we see anything that's a little too high or something that looks funny or look off, make sure you say something. Because sometimes people make what? People make what?

Mistakes.

You're on mute, Erica.

This is my day. So I love that because I don't know about you guys, but wasn't your first experience doing those things like the first time you actually had to go do those things?

Yeah, yeah, it was not until I moved out, I guess. I mean, I, you know, I probably had a few things here and there, but for the most part, nobody ever taught me to do any of those things. I think the closest I had was in high school. I took a class that I probably never should have taken, and they taught me how to write a check. Um, but, and I do still remember that, this— every time I write a check, I think about that class. And, um, because they taught you, you know, here's how you do everything, the little part of it, you like you do the vertical line, you do the horizontal line, you gotta use the words, you got like, they taught you all the details that nobody, like my parents never taught me any of that. They never showed me any of that. Nobody ever said anything like that. And so I wouldn't have known how to write a check otherwise. And this class was like a remedial class basically. It was like, I think it was called business math and they, they, it was ridiculously remedial where like they were teaching you literally like how to calculate the volume of a trench. Like, you know, that level. And this was high school, right? And, um, they had literal worksheets in a workbook, like, that you would rip out and turn in. It was just like, I felt like I was in third grade again. But the, the lesson about writing checks, I was like, wow, that was really useful. Now I know how to do that, and I didn't know that before. And, you know, it was pretty rare in high school where I felt like I'm really going to use this skill.

That's, that's the one. But also, like, saying to them, You know, you have to show up with your bill. If you don't have your bill, this is what you can do. Like, he's giving them all the roadblocks that they might run into. Make sure your bill is what, you know, that it's correct, because people can make what mistakes. Yeah. So I love that. Marcela, I mean, I don't know about you, but— oh, but he does this like in so many other offices too. Like, he takes them to airports, he takes them to a hotel, to a doctor's office. How to make appointments, even how to make small talk. And I see a lot of kids that I think, you know, at the age they are now don't know how to make small talk. And even that is so important. So, you know, did you learn this along the way?

You know, I had it hard because I learned most of this in Germany. So that was very difficult because it's all in German and you actually literally had to go pay your bill at the bank and the banks would always be closed during during lunchtime, and I had no idea. I was like, oh, I'm gonna go pay my bill, and I was so excited. And then like, they're like, oh yeah, by the way, they, they do close for 2 hours during lunchtime, during the time you actually can go to there. And you had to like have these codes, um, you couldn't pay, uh, with the, with a card, you had to pay with the code and all these things. So it's like, it's really crazy to have to learn all that, but you end up figuring out how to do it. Uh, people help you out, but it was easy to learn there.

Oh yeah, right. And in another language. You've done it all, sister. But, um, I want— like, I'll watch King Randall. The other day he had the kids standing on the side of the road just teaching them what mile marker signs were. And oh my God, no one— I still don't really know what that is for sure. Um, you know, just things like that. I was like, this is so good. And a lot of parents don't have the time, and maybe they don't know or they haven't thought about it or whatever. But I just love this. So I think it just gives them a good head start. So good for you, King Randall. Um, so the next clip I have, you guys, uh, I heard that there was some kind of a leak high up in the administration about an Iranian strike. So this isn't good, but let's just take a listen because I didn't get to hear the whole thing yet. I want to do it with you guys.

Operation that was leaked over the weekend. Um, it's obviously— they need to figure out who's leaking from the White House. That has to be someone high within government that put that out there to sources. It's our job as, as the press to cover that. But I'm curious from your perspective and your sources on the, the state of play that leak played out in the Middle East and who then phoned the White House to get to the negotiating table?

It's a great question because these leaks can be substantial. And when you're looking at a situation with 50,000 U.S. service members, destroyers, refuelers, fighter jets across the region, the operational security is very significant whenever there are plans being made to strike Iran. And the president indicated he called off the planned strikes at the request not only of Iran but also of Gulf allies like Saudi Arabia Qatar and the UAE. What was interesting though, Lawrence, we spoke with senior Israeli intelligence officials over the weekend who said they weren't even aware of the details of the plan, and that's how close the administration was holding these details to the chest because of how sensitive it is in the region. And so moving forward, we do anticipate the Trump administration will do everything possible to ensure that they're not giving Iran a heads up. They want to keep the Iranians guessing as these diplomatic pathways play out. Understanding that if the talks fail, we are likely looking at a return to combat operations.

So obviously, Trey, you know, we are seeing the White House trying to keep their cards close to the vest, but there is also a tremendous buildup. We've watched a tremendous buildup over the last couple of months. You know, some of that is Trump trying to put pressure on Iran, but when you compare the buildup that we've seen over the last couple of weeks to to the buildup that we had when all of this began, uh, 6 months ago, um, can you compare the, the, uh, the posture?

It's slightly larger, and the president indicated the strikes that were planned are actually larger as well. He described them as the largest since World War II. But when we look at the equation right now, this is not just an equation of military pressure. This is an equation of economic Deterrence. And that's exactly what we have seen from the Trump administration over the past several weeks with the resumption of the US naval blockade. This blockade of Iranian ports is costing the Iranian regime hundreds of millions of dollars each and every day. And it's part of the reason that the Iranians are looking for an agreement, because they understand that as the US military maintains its presence in the region, they have very few options in terms of an off-ramp here. They are either looking at a return to combat operations or some sort of agreement, a negotiated settlement that would alleviate that economic pressure and avoid strikes against the regime.

Hey, Trey, thank you so much. He said part one is to open up the strait, which could happen today, and then he said part two is focus on their nuclear weapons and capabilities. All right, let's hand it over to— All right, so I am so confused. Oh, and I'm gonna just come to you first. I'm just so confused with Iran I have no words because it's like we decimated this, then we took out that, and then we did the biggest strike here, and now they don't have capability. And what are we doing?

Well, I think it's Schrödinger's war, as I've said before, that we don't really know whether there's a war or not or what's going on or not, or whether we have a ceasefire or whether we're still bombing them. And I think some of that is probably intentional.. But it does seem like there's just all kinds of confusion and conflicting messages coming out every step of the way here where we're saying, oh, we have the perimeter of a deal, I think was the words I heard most recently. And then I think Iran is saying, no, we don't. We're not talking to you. Like, what are you talking about? And I think they said they were only talking to Omar or something, or Oman, whatever that country is.

Oman. Yeah.

And so like, you know, I, I think it's some of this, like I said, is probably intentional by one side or the other or both. Um, I do think that war is deception. And so I think some of this probably is by design that you don't, you don't wanna put out lots of accurate information about what you're about to do. I mean, that was the mistake that I saw Obama making all the time is he would like announce, here's what we're about to do militarily. And you'd be like announcing it to his to his enemies so they could respond to it. And the mistake was that he actually did what he said. Like, it's like, you don't do that, you know. You need the element of surprise. You need to be able to do your actions and not, you know, telegraph everything you're about to do. And so that's why leaks are a bad thing, because obviously that gives the advantage to the enemy. Um, but at the same time, like, I don't, I don't know what's going on. I mean, I, it It's kind of hard for anybody to really follow all this stuff, I think. And I've kind of just given up. It's like, okay, I guess there's something maybe going on over there, maybe not. You know, we might be dropping bombs even if they say there's a ceasefire, and we might not. And we might be out of ammunition or we might not. And I, I don't know. So, you know, it just seems to keep going on, and I'd like it to come to an end. I've said that over and over again, and I think we should just end it. But, um, It doesn't seem like that's the direction it's heading at this point. And it seems like, you know, they're trying to get to some sort of deal, at least to have the Strait of Hormuz be a safe place to do business for oil transfers. Um, but I, I know there's still the whole nuclear question about the nuclear dust and all the other stuff. So latest I've heard is that maybe Saudi Arabia is going to start doing some kind of ground invasion to go after the Houthis, or I don't know. But, you know, it, to me, it's like I, I can't really predict what's going to happen, because I don't think any of the information we're getting is really accurate.

Um, I— well, look, Marcela, you respond to that and then I'll ask you a question. Go ahead.

You know, I, I don't, I don't know for sure, but it just seems like the leak is kind of, uh, purposeful. I have no idea if it was done by the administration, but it just seems like one of those leaks that may have been done on purpose to scare Iran, to know that there is a plan. The plan itself that was leaked, I don't think it's the actual plan. Um, like Owen said, you should not inform your enemy of how you're going to attack them. So I would normally—

I would normally agree with what you're saying, except for I don't think Trump would want the perception of a leak in his administration to come out, even if it was intentional. I think he's so happy about being pretty leak-free this time. I don't know, but I— and then I'm like, is it like a distraction? Like, we can't follow it, um, you know, with midterms coming up, everybody is paying attention to the insane Democrats because Honestly, they're the only ones really talking about issues at home right now and the cost of everything at home. And prices are so out of control. And I don't know, I feel like Trump's in a bad position right now. I'm just spitballing, you guys. And some people will be like, oh, Erica hates Trump, and Erica's this and Erica's that. Erica's just telling you, I don't know what he's going to do about it. I do, you know, want to say I trust in Trump, and I don't know another president that I could want in this position more. It's Trump for me. But, um, we got big problems here. And, and then if people get— you know, a lot of people don't know what's going on in Iran. Like, look at us, we're— we watch the news every day, like we're paying attention to the stories, and we can't put our finger on it and what's happening. But we can tell you that every one of our friends that isn't paying attention they're drowning in debt, they can't afford their lives right now. And the Democrat crazies are talking about Medicare for everyone and everyone's gonna get free this and free that. We're in a really bad position with the elections. Owen, what's your thought?

Well, I agree. I mean, I think that's why I was hoping we would be done with this by like spring sometime, just 'cause I think it's getting way too close to the midterms and with the focus being on the Iran war and all these foreign things. It just makes it seem, you know, true or not, that Trump isn't really focused on making things affordable or solving the problems for people that are really affecting them. And it's going to make it harder and harder to have the messaging be the right stuff going into these midterms to say, you know, come out and vote because we need to keep this momentum going when the momentum looks like it's dropping more bombs on Iran. And so I think I'd certainly like to see a much stronger focus on how, you know, how can, how are we lowering prices? I mean, I think Trump, the administration is doing a lot to help. So it's like they have things they could talk about, but they just, you know, the news isn't going to follow that. And especially if Trump isn't out there saying every day, this is what we're doing, this is how we're doing it. And, you know, I think we were supposed to have some kind of Republican convention for the midterms. I'm not really sure what's going on with that. Are we going to still have that. I know there's some kind of rally coming up, maybe in Las Vegas or something, but, um, you know, I think the, the focus at this point should be on midterms and just getting us to the point where hopefully we would keep control of the House and the Senate, but at least one of those two. And I think both of them are at risk enough that we should be worried about it, and we should be trying to get out the vote, and we should be trying to get people to show up for both the primaries right now and for the, the general election in November. So I, I'm, you know, I'd like to be focused on that. I'd like to be focused on domestic issues, specifically affordability. And again, I, I think they are doing things to try and help with housing and help with grocery prices and help with oil prices and all these other things. But I just think, uh, it's kind of hard to sell that message when the news is talking about what's going on in Iran.

I'm looking at some of the comments in the chat first. Jackie, yes, we all miss Scott Adams' take on everything. Like, I wish we could channel Scott Adams and to know what he might be thinking, but it takes paying attention to 100 people to kind of come up with an opinion at this point. And to Lemon Minty, you know, you said maybe the people who can't pay their bills have overconsumed and bought into credit cards and high tech meant for distraction. It's not that. Like, you know, I saw Jack Posobiec made a post, Marcella, and he said Have you noticed an increase in prices on your everyday things? Like, what is the— like, name one thing and like where you live. And I just said, like, this sounds so stupid, but one stick of men's antiperspirant was $11 at my grocery store, something that used to be like $5. It's like, what? What is that? Like, that's just one stick of deodorant. Forget everything else that you have to buy your groceries and You know, so I, I think I'm wondering what you think, Marcela, for the people who felt like Trump ran on, you know, the economy is going to be great and we're going to lower prices. Yes, I know, like, things come up and we have this war going on. But how do we tell those people to hang on when they can hardly hang on?

Well, they— so the good thing about this is the Democrats are running a communist candidates. So it's easy for Trump now to say, hey, maybe prices are a little bit high, but you're still not in a soup line, or you're still not getting ration cards like in Cuba, which you will be if you vote Democrat. So affordability for them is free food, but that free food expires. You can take a look at East and West Berlin, you can take a look at Cuba, Venezuela, everywhere else, Chile at one point. So the good thing about who he's running against is that they have no, no options. The option is we'll take stuff from the rich and give it to you. But that, that runs out. So I think wars are definitely have issues. Can have issues with the economy, but most of the time in the past, if you look at the past, a war is actually one of the, the engines that runs the economy. Um, the United States was one that in World War II, one of the reasons the United States rose, as you, from things that you, uh, look at, is because of the production that was started, uh, by World War II. Um, so it's hit or miss, but I really think he has an easier message because of who he's going against.

Perhaps if people are paying enough attention though, that's the only problem. Most people are checked out of politics or just trying to get through their life, get their kids to school, put food on the table, get to their job. I'm worried about it. But, um, all right, so Marcella, you basically said her name. I know you never said Hong in this conversation, but You know, we're talking about crazy Democrats with their crazy eyes, you guys.

I wouldn't even call them Democrats. I would call them DSA, the Communist Socialist. Yeah.

Um, actually, I'm wondering, how much more time do we have, you, Marcella?

Um, you— oh, so I have to leave early, you guys, because I have court. Not because I got in trouble, because I have to go for a client.

You're always in trouble.

Yeah, 7:40.

Okay, so, all right, so I'll wait till you go to play the clip of Scott. So, okay, you guys, this woman Hong, where is she running? Hang on, where is she?

I keep thinking she's hung, so I can't remember her first name.

Is it like Wu?

It's the simulation. Oh God, you have so that name.

Um, you guys are hilarious in the chat, by the way. Okay, let me— let's first— here's my first clip of Hong.

Hong, it's Francesca, by the way.

Oh, not—

no, it's Francesca.

First name? Yeah, it's Italian name.

Okay, well, she's, she's a mess. She's Korean. She's a mess. Okay, so where is she running in, Owen?

Uh, I don't even remember. I think it's Uh, let me see.

Someone in the chat will say—

tell us.

I, I can't get that invested. I feel like an insane person. But anyway, she's running, and, uh, Wisconsin. Thank you, Sean.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, Randy, look at this lady. You guys ready? Remember what Scott said about the eyes?

Mm-hmm.

What does she look like?

Still exist because the reality of this—

oh my God—

and the types of public safety systems that we have, I want us to be sensible and realistic, but we know now that the billions invested in the criminal legal system is not working. We are spending, um, on incarcerating an individual more than tuition for UW-Madison. That, you know, this is about making sure that local law enforcement— is working with community, that we are taking resources from the state and investing in things like public education, victim services, out-of-school programs for our kids to go and have a great— like, be able to be themselves. These are things that data and facts have shown that prevent crime. Again, if you want to be tough on crime, you better be tough on causes.

Do you still long-term want to abolish police?

Ultimately, you know, I believe I believe that we have to be serious about public safety, and I'm going to be a governor that is more serious than anyone else in making sure that we are building systems of care, that we are focusing on lowering crime, getting guns off of our street, and making sure that folks who are incarcerated, which 90% of those folks will be going back to community, that we're lowering recidivism rate. And it's, you know, appalling to me that, you know, for folks who are working within our prisons, They have some of the highest suicide rates of any job and occupation. So this system is not working. If we want to be serious, we better be putting these billions into the things that we know prevent crime. Would you care to clear on this?

Would you care to clear on this?

Holy cannoli. Okay, first of all, what, what did she say? And is it true that she had a mental breakdown and was hospitalized in the past? I don't know, but Fletcher says so. Kamala times a million. Okay, who wants to—

I think—

who wants to comment?

I was questioning myself whether Kamala was giving her lessons on word salad or whether they have the same media coach that just teaches them how to talk that way, because they seem very similar.

Isn't it crazy? She's crazy.

She's—

she is crazy, you guys. And I'm not— and I'm not— not making fun of anyone, and I'm not assuming, but the woman is batshit. Um, Marcela, what's your first impression after that clip?

She looks very old for being born in 1988. Um, just putting it out there. Um, I don't— she's insane. She's insane.

She, she like, like, there was an interview, there was an interview in 2025 where she said she had a mental health crisis at age 18, was hospitalized for a week, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Great, that's great.

Um, sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you.

No, it's perfect. Um, go ahead, Marcela.

No, I, I think she's— she has issues. I think she just wants to win whatever, whatever she wants. I don't— the thing about her is you could tell that she doesn't believe what she's saying, that she's just kind of like a Kamala, that she's just saying these things in order to get votes from her audience in Wisconsin. So in a way that's a good thing, like kind of like a Gavin Newsom-esque, because there's the real believers like Mondame that you could really feel that that's really how they think. But her, you could tell when they asked her about, um, that's why they have to use word salad because they don't know what to say because they're not going to really get rid of police. They just have to appear like they will, right?

So, all right, so she wants to abolish the police. Let's see, let's see see here real quick what Buttigieg wants to abolish.

Okay, you're keen to remove the Electoral College and do it based on numbers, the quantity of votes for either presidential candidate.

And I still can't believe that anybody considers this radical. Like, to me, it's— there's nothing radical about thinking the person who gets the most votes ought to be the winner. But I think people haven't thought through how much benefit would come from that. If we did that, there are so many votes in red and blue states that you couldn't ignore anymore. Like if you were running for president as a Democrat, you'd have to go to Texas.

Yeah.

And even if Texas is still going to vote mostly for Republicans, you'd have to turn out every Democratic vote you could in Texas. And I just think we'd be so much better off if a Republican and Democratic candidate were competing over Texas. And by the way, New York, even if New York is definitely going to vote more for Democrats. A Republican candidate would have to come to New York. And states from Alaska to Rhode Island, so it's small states too that get ignored now, would finally be part of this competition. So yeah, Electoral College for sure. Supreme Court needs to change.

Supreme Court.

What would you do to the Supreme Court?

I would have term limits, more justices, and some process that makes it less partisan who the justices are. Some different ways to do that. The one I think is most interesting is called the balanced bench proposal. We have a mix. But anyway, the point is it needs to change.

Yeah.

Oh my God. I'm like miming back here. I'm like, um, okay. So Marcella, I'll just let you take this one first. Um, first of all, did it not feel like those two were like on a first date, like a romantic little date?

I hope not. Unfortunately, he just got married. Um, I'm in love with Steve Berlin. Uh, anyways, so in regards to what he said, Buttigieg— I always have a problem pronouncing his name— but, um, what he said, he's completely wrong. He's actually wrong about why he— so mentioning Alaska, mentioning the small states, they would not matter in if you're just counting how many votes there are, like popular vote, uh, in a presidential election. Like, if you're just counting population and votes, then you would only count the major cities. They would, you know, the Alaska, the New Hampshire, you know, the Vermonts, they would not matter. Like, what he's saying is like the opposite of the truth. Um, I don't know why there was no—

and what's the opposite of the truth, Marcelo?

A lie.

He's lying. He knows. He knows all this. Well, he knows why the Constitution has the Electoral College. He knows why we have lifetime appointments in the Supreme Court. He knows why all these things were put in the Constitution, and he's lying about it. He's portraying it in a different light and with a different argument, completely ignoring it. And he knows that he's in a place where no one's going to push back. No one's gonna say, what about this? What about that? Why did they do it this way? Or, you know, let's explain the rationale of why the founding fathers set it up this way. There are very good reasons why we have the Electoral College, and it is specifically to prevent the things that he's claiming is the problem. He, it's, it, by having the Electoral College, you're giving more weight to the smaller states that have less population, so they can't be ignored as much. And you're, you're not allowing these big cities to be the only focus of the election. Which is what would happen under a popular vote system. And they knew that, and the founding fathers, they knew that they had to balance the rural populations and the city populations for it to work. And so that's why they put in the Electoral College the way they did. And they knew that the Supreme Court had to be independent and not be subject to having a politician keep replacing them all the time. And I'm sure this balanced whatever he's talking about is just a way to make every every justice be more Democrat-like and more liberal and more, you know, it's like ranked choice voting that does the same thing. It's like, it sounds reasonable, it sounds like we're gonna have a bunch of moderates on the Supreme Court and it's all going to be fair, but in reality it just pushes everything to the left. And, and he knows that, and he's just trying to put a good face on it.

Well, I actually don't know if he knows that, but in regards to the Supreme Court, he can't do what he says he's going to do That's in the, uh, why Supreme Court justices have no term limits. That's because it's in the Constitution, Article 3. It says as long as, uh, she'll hold their office during good behavior, which is any time, like, unless they have bad behavior. So I don't know if— well, I don't know how— he just seems very ignorant, you know.

I think he's just lying. He knows.

I mean, we all know he's not a Kamala though. Like, there's two— there's different types of Democrats. There's the Kamala lying type.

He's just better at it.

He works for McKinsey, okay? So that means to me he is very smart academically at least, and he doesn't necessarily have common sense, but he, he does know things like academically. He understands it intellectually, and he is lying about it. He's lying about it. He knows all things, and he's just telling the lie to push the agenda. And someone at McKinsey can be very good at that, telling a story in a way that sounds really smart, but is a complete lie and is not going to lead you down a good path.

And he just—

here, what's that?

Is he a lawyer? I don't think he's a lawyer.

I don't, I don't think so. He was a politician in South Bend, Indiana for a while, and he wasn't even a very good one. And he didn't really accomplish anything when he was there, even as mayor of a city. And he was at McKinsey for a while, which again, I worked in consulting, so I know what that's like. I also would say I've interacted with some McKinsey consultants and they are a weird breed, but like they speak a different language than most people and they just do things very differently than almost any other consulting firm that I've ever been part of. And I've been part of several and it's just like, you know, this is this like ivory tower intellectual thing that they just have their own way of thinking and their own way of speaking. And they might come across as very polished and very smart, but it doesn't mean they're giving you good advice.

It's one of those things, Marcella, like when you say, you know, someone's leaking something or saying something for the benefit of other people, that's what Buttigieg is doing. He's saying, you know, oh, you know, the Electoral College isn't fair. Like, let's just do the popular vote. And he just wants to rile people up that don't know why there's an Electoral College. So people are like, yeah, yeah, just do the popular vote. It's just pissing people off because everybody who's thought about whether we should have the popular vote or not has had to have looked into why we don't. And it was genius to put an Electoral College, otherwise nobody has a say in this world except for people in cities. So Marcela, do you have to go? Because I don't want to cut you off like mid-sentence.

No, I, I'll go at 7:40.

Okay, go ahead. So, so we'll carry on on this Pete.

Um, I guess he's married, right? He has cute little kids.

Anyways, yep, married, cute little kids.

Um, communist.

So I mean, I don't know, I don't know who he is because every day, by the way Yes, he's married to a man.

Okay.

Also, Kamala heard her. Sorry, I had to hear her. But she also wants to put 13 judges on the Supreme Court. She's all into that. Something else she said, she's doing like a hard pivot to the left. She's still deciding if she's going to run or not. She is the front runner right now if she does. And Newsom is in second and Mayor Pete is in third. So if we were voting today, that's the top 3. I don't know. So anyway, um, all right, so I'm gonna move on to, uh, here's another amazing thing with our boy Momdani. Do I have to give him more respect? Mayor— our boy Mayor Momdani. Um, here is an interesting little clip that came out, and then we'll react.

King China. The New York Post reporting, quote, members of Mandani's DSA pledged to support and defend China. The pledge says, quote, survival of Chinese socialism is a crucial matter. Socialists' other promises: government-subsidized housing, free college, Medicare for All, and a shorter work week, and abolishing ICE, among other things. Hugh Hewitt, host of The Hugh Hewitt Show and Fox News contributor, Hugh, welcome to you. Good to have you on this morning. Now they're calling to support and defend China. How is it that this group, Democrat socialists, are getting this kind of support? This new CNN poll, I'll put it up on the screen, shows that a third of Democrats now identify as Democrat socialists.

So why are they with China? Because they're not socialists or communists. I mean, duh. Um, so now we've talked about abolishing the police, abolishing ICE, abolishing the Electoral College. Um, we know that they want to abolish Congress and, uh, the Pentagon. And what was the other one I just heard? It's amazing, but it's— we're just going to abolish it all. Um, Marcela, do you want to speak on this real quick before you run?

I mean, I, I, I know the fear of all of this. It's, it's kind of hard to hear all these things, but I think it's a gift to the Republicans that they have these people running in the Democratic Party, because that means, you know, it's like, do you want to be in a gulag, in a working camp, or do you want to pay high prices at the store? So I don't know, but I just think that what they want to do, you would not be— it's not possible to do unless you take up arms. And, and completely, um, control your citizenship, your citizenry, um, for them to actually do this, because they would have to do amendments for everything. I mean, and how do you abolish the Senate, the this, the that? You can only do it through armed control. And the thing about America different than any other country— well, the most countries that I know— is the Second Amendment. And the majority of people have guns? And how are you gonna— are we gonna do Australia version where we— they, they, they gather the weapons and take them away from us? That would— yeah, yeah, that wouldn't work. That wouldn't work because you would create a civil war again. So I mean, they have it coming. Like, the— there's no way that that will ever happen in America.

I do, I do wonder though.

Dread on me.

I think that's exactly what would happen. I think they want civil war.

Yeah, but would— that's what I was going to say, Owen. I do wonder if it came to that, would the people that are— I don't know how to say it, but like America first, love this country, want to defend it and fight for it— would you actually pick up a gun? And who are you shooting? Who are you shooting?

You're shooting the communists. But like, so the way I was like, in El Salvador, I had a civil war that you would shoot the communists. Basically, the Civil War was like that.

Like, we, we're all thinking about it from this frame of, okay, it's the Constitution, that's viable. Like, you can't, you know, you can't do these things. And under our current system, that's the case. But if you think like a communist or a socialist, you're thinking, okay, we got to overthrow that. They want to get power so then they can say, okay, now we've got control of the military and we've got control of all the weapons and we've got control of all the things. And then they're just going to say the Constitution is not valid, it's racist. It's whatever, and we're not gonna follow that anymore. And you know, by the way, the Supreme Court, that doesn't exist anymore. We have this new thing now. And I mean, that, that there'd be nothing.

So, but I don't, I don't think people will just, um, sit down and let that happen. I mean, I, I agree, you know?

Yeah.

But I, I think they would love to have the chaos of a civil war and they would probably point to it and say, well, look, here's all these violent people and we gotta crack down on 'em now. And then they would. Send the military after him. I mean, you have to think like a communist. You have to think like a radical that wants to overthrow the government, because that's what they want to do.

Oh, I agree, I agree.

What did—

what did— hold on, before I go, um, Elon, um, was told that, uh, the— sorry, I'm skipping, but it has to do with mandami, his like, uh, what is it documentarist, somebody named Eric Ho— oh my gosh, this, this day is like— Ho Vagem. H-O-V-A-G-I-M. Um, anyways, him, he had said that, uh, that Elon is a, a target, um, that he's a viable target, uh, military target against Elon. Um, what did he say? He's a valid military target. That's what he said. And then Elon replied in regards to that, that news story, he says, if they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job. So that's all of us. If they come after us, we'll come after them, we'll finish the job. Like, don't— yeah, I don't think they understand the patriotism of this country. The, the— even in the left, like, some of the Democrats are not going to be like, oh yeah, get rid of the Constitution.

Constitution. No.

So I really, I really have hope for this country, and I hope it doesn't turn into El Salvador and I have to go to El Salvador after this turns into El Salvador.

So I hope too, Marcella. I hope too. Um, yeah, and you know, I, I think there are a lot of patriots, but the, the problem— not trying to be a naysayer— is that we've been flooded with people who don't like this country and would like to see it fall. So, you know, the odds are not as fair as they used to be. We weren't dealing with just Americans. We're now dealing with an influx of people who are criminals who came here that just wanna see it fall and they wanna take it over. And we are the biggest target. I mean, when you think about it, Russia, China, all of, well, look around the streets, look at all the protests and riots. Like they're all coming for us. Like they're not in their own countries fighting, they're here. And they've all made promises to hang their flag on our White House. So, you know, we're, we're like just sitting here taking it. I feel like right now I don't see, I don't see any big mass deportation. Um, I don't see, I don't really want to hear anything at this point except for them telling us here's how we're getting everyone out. I want the judges to fall in line. Like we need to save our country at this point. So I don't want to fight in the street. I just, I want the laws that we have and what our Constitution says to be what the laws of the land are, and it's not happening. So I see why the Constitution comes into play as questionable, because we're not taking care of what we're supposed to be doing as it is now. So that's my fear. I don't know.

I would just say, and I'm not an expert like at all the history, but look at how socialists and communists have taken control of countries.

Yeah.

Look at how that happened. It wasn't through saying we're going to amend the Constitution. It was, it was basically like, we're going to just throw that all away, we're a new government now, and you're going to follow this now, and we have all the military power, and we're just going to take control. And I, I don't think you, you can't think of it in those terms. Like, you know, you can't think of it like, oh well, they can't do any of that because the Constitution— like, they're not going to care about any of that. They want to take as much power as they can to keep us from having the power and us from having people who can stop them. And they're going to defund the police. Why would they want to defund the police? Because the police are a problem to what they want to do. And yeah, all of it. Like, they— it's like they're trying every way they can think of to degrade the system and to get rid of the order that exists today. And a civil war would serve their purposes great because it would say, look at all the chaos, the system isn't working, we need a better system. And then they would propose to take control and become the tyrant.

They just overthrow, they just take over. And I mean, now we're putting Islamists in police positions, they're in political positions of power, you know, we're infiltrated that way. You know, God, we really took a left turn today. But you know, when you start talking about what the Democrats are doing now, the Communist Party, you have to get real about this stuff. I was gonna play, and I'm gonna direct you to, and I will share it, a documentary that Nate Friedman did about the Islamic takeover of just Dearborn, Michigan alone, and what Dearborn, Michigan has turned into is not even a shred familiar of what America looks like. There's no American-looking people or stores or businesses. It is unrecognizable in Michigan. Um, you know, this is happening fast now, you guys. Like, it used to be slow and you'd be like, oh, little hijab here, hijab there. Well, now they're everywhere. Um, so, you know, when you have, uh, politicians putting into place like, we won't accept Sharia law as something valid in our state, like, what— like, what has happened? So this is no longer slow. It's not a slow-moving disaster. It's a disaster, and it's here. Um, so I guess we can't help but take a left turn when we talk about this stuff. Um, I do want to play, unless Owen or Marcella want to say anything more on that bit.

No, I just have to go.

So love you, Marcella. Thank you for staying along. Okay. Be good. See you tomorrow. Good luck. Um, so Owen, you know, I just, I, I do want to give like a shred of hope because this made me feel better today. The one thing that made me feel better is this clip about Elon.

Well, number one, think about where we were this time last summer. Elon Musk was mad at the president, mad at the party, and was threatening to start another political party. Now he's going to spend $100 million for the Republicans. Thank God, because he was an integral part of the Republicans winning in 2024, and the party needs him. And he's going to be better off, I think, with Republicans than Democrats for the rest of his life. But, you know, it's interesting, when I interviewed Elon for the book that I wrote about President Trump's first 100 days in office. I could tell then, this was last year, that he was kind of bent out of shape with both parties in Washington. He didn't think there were enough people in Washington who shared his concerns about the national debt, the immigration crisis, you know, the looming, what he thinks is maybe a bankruptcy crisis for the United States of America when you consider $40 trillion in debt. So I can, I can understand why if you're disappointed with everybody, you wouldn't want to spend much money on politics. But for right now, Given the stakes of this election and given the fact that Western civilization is on the ballot, and I know how much he cares about that, I'm glad to see him come to the Republican Party.

Uh, oh, I like how Caitlin Collins— oh, I muted you, Owen, sorry— um, chuckles at that, like Western civilization is not in peril. Um, but Elon, once again, I mean, he is so America first. Um, I can't thank him enough. I buy his stocks. I've got my "I love Elon" hat. I don't know what else to do. I subscribe to him on X. I just, you know, the man single-handedly is saving us from so much heartache and peril. And, you know, if anyone has an issue with him, just get over it because we'd be toast without him.

Well, I think it's great all the things he's doing. And I do think he's a unique individual in the sense that you know, as a mega billionaire or whatever. There aren't obviously that many of them, but like most billionaires are going out and buying a superyacht and like living it up on whatever they want, and they, they're trying to figure out how to make even more money and being jealous of Elon because he's at the top of the stack at the moment or whatever. And, um, if you just step back and look at all the things Elon's doing, he's just trying to save humanity. Like that, like everything he's doing is kind of like like, okay, I want to get us to Mars because maybe the planet won't be here for us forever, so let's— another planet. And he's like, you know, let's give everybody internet access, even the rural people, and let's have robots so that people can, you know, have something in their house to help them with everything. And let's, you know, have one place on X where people can actually have free speech. And let's have a truth-seeking AI that isn't just, you know, biased one way and not the other way. And just across the board, it seems like everything he's doing with all that money is trying to help humanity. And I think it's just a stark difference from most other rich people who are just out for themselves and don't really care about other people and are just serving their own interests all the time. And I don't know what it is about him that makes him that way, but I certainly do appreciate that he's there and he's fighting for us.

He's, he's so special. He's such a special human being. And oh my God, like, I literally could get emotional just saying that he's so special because I just— I don't know, there's something about him. Like, when you hear about his story of his childhood, I mean, you guys, it was brutal. His life was brutal. Um, and he just, um, I don't know, he just— I— not to sound corny, but he has a purpose-driven life and he doesn't stop. And thank God, you know, thank you to his parents for having him. And thank you to Elon for sacrificing so much for the good of all. I mean, talk about be useful. Could you be any more useful?

So I would say though is that like they came after Elon first, like that, you know, the Biden administration came after him and pretty much forced him to say, I need to support the Republicans because they're going to put me out of business otherwise, and they're going to shut down everything I'm trying to do. And Um, he used to be a very liberal guy, essentially. Like, he was the electron— electric car guy, and he was trying to put in solar panels and like all the stuff that you would think are very liberal sorts of things to do. Um, and I don't know exactly where he was politically early on, but I'm sure it probably was more on the liberal side until they came after him and until his daughter became trans. And like all this stuff where he's like, okay, this is outrageous. Like, you can't just let this stuff happen. And so, you know, they created this Elon.

Yeah, yeah, they did.

They pushed him into it.

They forced him.

He's like the Hulk. Yeah, like they pushed him too far, he started turning green, and he's like, that's it, I'm buying Twitter, I'm saving the world, I'm throwing my money in, I'll be at Madison Square Garden at the rallies, and I don't give a shit anymore what you say about me. I mean, he was pretty private. I mean, like, he had like an interesting public persona, but he was kind of private about things. But now he's just like, this is who I am, this is where we're at, you know, just let's go. And you know, when they say, you know, when Owen's saying like, you know, or someone in the comments that they stole his son— his son is trans now and it's heartbreaking for him. And you know, I think most of us realize besides it being a mental illness, it was a trend. Trans was a trend and kids were locked down during a freaking fake pandemic to just try to control whatever they wanted to control or depopulate or whatever you want to think about it. And his son got caught up in it, and his son's mother just went along with it. And as his father, he had no say in it, which is crazy. And, um, yeah, so it, you know, it He's been through a lot, and even through everything he's been through, he could just quietly work and do what he wants to do. He could not work, he could retire, but he's like, no, like, I, you know, I care enough about humanity and sanity and the world, and he carries on.

So, and I will say there's some parallels to Scott. I mean, you know, Scott didn't want to have his own biological kids, but he decided to take on, you know, these adopted kids with these women he was with, and Um, he took that role very seriously as a father and was, you know, devastated when his son overdosed on fentanyl. And that became a cause for him. And, and, you know, he fought very hard against China as a result. And I think it's the same sort of thing. It's like, if you come after somebody that has that kind of power and skill and ability, they're going to come back. They're gonna, they're gonna push back. And that's, you know, consistent with what Elon just said today. Like, if you come after me, I'm going I'm after you and I'm going to finish the job. And I posted something like, don't go after somebody that is building a robot army and seriously be careful who you target here and can then jet off the planet if he wants to.

Yeah, exactly. So on Locals, people just posted a picture of Elon's son who now goes by Vivian. So it's sad. It's sad because I feel so bad even with— I'm not diving into this topic, but even with abortion, you know, that like the, the would-be father of the baby doesn't have a say either. So I feel sad for parents that don't have a say in their children's lives. It's just heartbreaking. And mothers, whoever it is. But, you know, parents should be parents.

And I think that this— for some reason I saw a story that Planned Parenthood apparently is saying that abortion is now considered gender-affirming care. I'm like, What? How does that make any sense?

I'm so tired. I swear to God, I need to go to bed. It's time for a nap. Thank God we have 4 minutes left, just enough time to go to sleep. Um, so with that being said, uh, I don't really have time to get into a new story, and we might as well wrap it up, you guys. But tomorrow the home team will be back, and you know, let's let's pray for Michigan today. They have a primary vote and they have a bunch of freaking lunatics running. Please, please, if you're not following Nate Friedman, if anyone can drop Nate Friedman's handle in the chat for everybody, please follow him. And he has posted his documentary about the Islamic takeover of Dearborn, Michigan for free on his X channel. It's 20 minutes. Just give it a watch and just understand, again, this is not a slow-moving disaster. The disaster is here. And if we can do anything to stave it off, change it, make it go away, we have to do it. Thank you. Thanks for posting his handle there. You know what, Bookish? People have asked if Nate Friedman or Nick Shirley could come on. There's no need for them to come on. The point being is that they have So much material out there for us to watch and see, and they don't need to come talk to us personally. They're more effective when they're out in the world and doing the things they do. So sometimes it's just better not to do that. Gad Saad, again, one day when he writes his next book, I'm sure he's going to come on too. But anyway, you guys, let's go have a great day today. Elon thinks outside the stocks. Yes, he does. Uh, let's say, oh, and thanks for being here today, and to Marcella, and to all of you. And oh yes, you guys, everyone's gonna come on again, so I promise. But summer is definitely a weird time to ask people to come on. They're like, they all have like summer schedules, but everyone will be on again. Keep our fingers crossed. Okay, you know I'm out there. If those of you that heard Dr. Drew the other day we had an Extra Credit livestream and he said, Erica is a force. And he's just like, if you ever were going to contribute on this show, she'll make sure you get on here. I am. I'm such a pain in the ass, you guys. So I promise we will have all of our guests. Okay. All right. So as always, thank you to Scott Adams and Shelley Adams for allowing this show to continue. And let's go out there, be useful today, you guys. And if you want a cure song, I'll stay and do one. And let's have a closing sip. To our beloved Scott Adams, who we miss so much. And we wish you were here to guide us, but we're here together trying to figure it out. All right, you guys, to Scott.

To Scott.

Love you guys. Yeah, be useful. Be useful. All right, I added a new one. I messaged Akira. I'm like, do I have all of them in here? Let's see if it made it over. How to program reality, you guys. Let's go.

All right, I gotta go.

Bye.

Andy, let me show you my path. My path toward figuring out the user interface. It's important that you know how I got there so that you could have some trust that there's something to it. When I was a kid, I was influenced, as was my mother, by the book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. They suggested that you could somehow change your life, or maybe you were changing reality.

If you could simply think positively. Think positively. Think positively. Think positively.

So this was my first introduction to the concept that maybe reality was not fixed and something that you were a victim of, but rather you could you could do something. There was some mechanism, some technique, some tools you could use to get some control over your environment and your life, as opposed to having it control you. And that was my first thought, that reality could be programmable in at least some simple sense. But of course, Of course, I embarked on a lifetime of exploration to find out if I could find out more about how to program reality.

Think positively. Think positively. Think positively.

How to program reality.

Think positively. Think positively. Think posi—

Led me to learn meditation. I became a trained hypnotist. Of course mushrooms let you see the world in a completely different reality. And all of these things, from studying all the different religions to doing affirmations, which is really just visualizing what you want and writing it down every day. Visualizing what you want and writing it down every day. And then learning persuasion. These all had the same cumulative effect of teaching me that reality was indeed far more subjective than you're led to believe. When I say reality is subjective, I don't mean that there isn't some base reality that's real. What I mean is that we don't have access to it. In other words, you just take religion. Two people with completely different religions can go into a store, they can shop, they can and get married, have children. They don't really need to reconcile the fact that they live in different worlds. One thinks there's an afterlife, one thinks there's reincarnation, one thinks there's nothing, and yet we all survive and thrive and reproduce. There's nothing to suggest that our brains are the kind of brains that can understand reality. Instead, all of the evidence Scott Adams suggests that we can put filters optionally and somewhat subjectively on our reality. And the thing that we deal with is a filter. We're not dealing with the underlying reality, but our filter on it is the thing that's real to us. And you can change those filters, so that's the important part. And you can change them fairly easily. And if you find a filter that predicts better and makes you happier, well, that's It's the better filter, even if it isn't a better approximation of reality. What matters is you're happy. What matters is you're getting what you need out of life.

Think positively. Think positively. Think positively.

How to program reality.

Think positively. Think positively. Think positively.

Program reality. You can change the those filters. Change those filters. Change those filters. How to program reality.

Think positively. Think positively.

Think positively.

So what Scott Adams: Once you accept that there's a subjective reality, you're starting to get ready to accept the user interface for that reality.

Oh, that could be my new favorite. That was so chill. Love the little— oh, so good. All right, you guys, let's think positively. We can change We can change whatever our beliefs are whenever we want. Just, I just remember someone saying to me, if you don't like the players on the field, get new players. So if you don't like the way something's going, change those things, sub them out, put in something better and run with it anytime you need to. We can do it. All right, you guys, I'm gonna go. Stella has been meowing at me for a solid 10 minutes, so I'm gonna go feed her a little Skinny Hiney. And, um, I'm gonna have a great Tuesday. Are you guys gonna have a great Tuesday? Let's do it! Let's do it! I love you guys. All right, so we'll be back tomorrow with the home team. See you then. Oh, you're welcome, William. I love them too. They're great. Akira is great. He has more songs coming too, by the way, so that's good to know. Oh, we have lots of surprises in the in the pipeline for you guys. I cannot wait to tell you all of them. Okay, bye guys, love you. Bye Jim Courtney, peace and God bless to you. Neuro, bye EJ, bye Terry.