The Scott Adams School - 09/01/26 The Home Team.

Wait, first I have to do this again.

Welcome to the Scott Adams School. Let's get started.

Let's.

I like that studio. It's so nice.

Right?

So sunny.

Maybe we should take this on the road and do like an on-location. We'll just bring a cutout of Owen and he can just talk. Okay.

Maybe by then we'll have a humanoid robot and we can just be—

Or maybe by then you won't care and you'll just be live.

Yeah, could be.

He could just wear a mask.

Yeah. Once I have my agentic second brain system and I sell a million copies of it, you know.

Oh, will you ever talk to us, Owen, when you're famous? Very, very famous and billionaire?

Of course, Marcella. Of course. I'll always have time for you.

Hire me as an attorney, please.

Yes, yes, she'll be your attorney. Um, all right, good morning everybody.

Someone look different. Yeah, Owen had a, had a, like, a revamp.

A revamp? Yeah, he does look a little different. His hair is darker.

Yeah, he's like—

His eyes are a little bluer.

There was a weird thing that was happening. Like, it seemed— because every time I would generate a new image, it would copy it from another image, right? But it would change it a little bit. And the skin started looking weird. Like, there were all these weird, like, blotches and stuff. And I was like, what's going on here? It's, like, giving me cancer.

And—

Ew.

So I just told it just today to like, you know, clean up the skin, put it back the way it was. Probably look a little different.

Wait, do you say clean up the skin?

Well, kind of. I mean, I don't know if I used exactly those words.

You don't say my skin?

I don't know. I mean, I— what I did was I asked it why the skin looks strange. I gave it all the photos and I said, why does it look different in some photos versus others? And then, you know, ChatGPT was smart enough to figure out that it was changing it as some kind of artifact. Images, and I— and it suggested, it's like, here's the one you should use as the reference for skin. And I'm like, okay, cool, fix all the other images to use that skin. And it did.

It's so bizarre. Owen and I both agree that ChatGPT is better with images.

Yeah, well, at least compared to Grok. I mean, I haven't tried it. Right, right.

I found Gemini AI to be really good with images. If you can get it to work. Sometimes they'll say, we have too many people online or something like that. I'm like, oh. Oh, all right.

Yeah, I haven't done much with Gemini, really. I haven't done much with any of the Google stuff, like the Notebook LM. People seem to like sometimes that podcast feature, like Brian Romelli uses. And someone at work did that, which just freaked me out because I'm thinking of Brian Romelli the whole time.

Uh-huh.

Ooh. All right, so listen, if I don't stop Owen, this is going to turn into an AI morning. I, I think we need a sip of coffee. Let's do it.

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Amazing. And I believe him. Okay, you guys, so I have to just start with a clip. I didn't know this, but there's a new executive order in town Please be forewarned, I lowered the volume on this clip. Uh, Owen and I played it before the show and both of us had instant heart attacks. It was so loud. So I'm hoping it's lower. But did you guys know this? Check it out.

And it's happening right now at the White House. This is breaking news here on the Fox News Channel. We have just confirmed that President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that will make English the official language of the United States. In our nearly 250-year history, we've never had an official language ever. The executive order expected to be signed sometime today. Bill Clinton made a move on this back in the '90s, but the mandate that he signed will now be rescinded. In other words, what he did in the 1990s is that he did not require agencies that work for the government to provide English only. They had to provide more options for those who needed different languages upon which they spoke. Donald Trump's going to change that, and we'll see whether or not he sends it up to the Hill, Congress, maybe Speaker Johnson, John Thune, maybe they jump on something like this with Republicans in control to sign it into law. You know, many times they've said if you don't codify it, it doesn't last. But today, the executive order should come down from the Oval Office. All right, we got that. We've got this now from New Did you know?

I did not know that it wasn't already put in that way. Did you know, Marcela?

Yeah, um, on March— this is from March 2025, I believe. Hold on, when does it say? It says this was an executive order done last year by Trump or something like that. That's what it says. It's old.

Oh, okay. I just heard it this week.

You know what? It's okay. So when I moved here, one of the biggest shocks of my life was I was so excited to go to school and learn English. I didn't know very much, but I was excited because, you know, obviously I'm moving to the United States. I'm going to start English. I come home all disappointed. I tell my mom, every single person in that school spoke Spanish to me and they speak Spanish to everybody. Even my, my teacher who was a white guy, he spoke Spanish to me. And the worst part is their Spanish was the worst Spanish ever. So one, I told my mom, they were going to learn English if I keep doing this this way. And 2, they need to learn Spanish. And so it was funny, like, it's, it's only when you actually make English the official language. And that was the shock that I learned that day, that English was not the official language of America and that nothing had to be really in English, and I was shocked.

I mean, okay, well, that, that's crazy that you would go to school and not be speaking English, but okay.

So now nobody spoke English in that school.

So does this— anyways, does it— did that executive order change all of that where you have—

no, no, that only changes the executive branch. So, um, basically all your DHS, uh, you know, any— anything to deal with the executive branch would make English the official language. You don't require language assistance because that's a Clinton-era rule, as the— as the thing was telling you.

Yeah.

Um, so I don't have to have an interpreter for you to— or every single thing for, um, immigration or anything like that in your language.

Okay.

I don't have to adapt to you. You have to adapt to me. Which I agree. Like, if you're coming to a country, you have to adapt to it. In Germany, they don't care. You know, it's all in German.

Like, they—

anywhere, they're like, well, they look at you. And, and in, and in France, oh my gosh, if you speak English and, and you want English translated into English, they look at you like you're an alien. So I mean, it's not just this country.

I ran across this when I was an election judge, and I'm like, what are all these ballots doing in a foreign language?

Like, why?

We have these, and I just looked it up on Grok, and apparently there are federal requirements that you have to have ballots in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi.

What?

So like when I unpacked all the paper ballots and stuff, I'm like, you know, why is this in Chinese?

Like, what?

Wait, Chinese?

Yeah.

Yeah. And Chicago and Cook County Are even worse. Like they, they say in targeted precincts they have English, Spanish, plus Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, and Polish. And on the touchscreen and audio ballots, they have English, Spanish, Chinese, which is Mandarin audio, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Polish, Gujarati, Urdu, Ukrainian, Arabic, and Russian. Wow.

Icelandic.

What?

How dare they?

We don't want those people to vote.

Okay, well, that's, uh, this is like very enlightening to me. So I like that this old news story was shown to me yesterday because I was like, what? But, um, crazy. And Trump could be wrong, so no, no, no, everyone's saying yeah, this was possibly— this happened a while ago. Um, all right, well, I find that enlightening. So because I do know when I saw them voting in Minnesota Soda last time, nothing was in English. Everybody had their head to toe hijabs on, and there was nothing written in English. So that's that seems like a problem too. But anyway, all right. Well, moving along. Thanks for that. Thanks for that education, Marcella and Owen. Now I know, and some of us know. And I think what threw me too was that what was his name? The the news guy, Bill Hemmer, had said in the 250 years of this country, you know, it was never the official language. So I thought it was current. But anyway, here we are. Okay, so you guys, I have some good news. Owen's gonna tell us about this. Look who we have here. It's Eric Swalwell.

That's like the worst picture of him too.

I know. Well, is there a good one actually? Ex-boyfriend of Fang Fang getting nabbed, uh, by the FBI when he gets off a plane at the airport. And, um, they're taking his devices. And oh, and what, what do we know about this?

Doesn't he look dressed like he's trying to hide who he is?

100%. Yeah, he's like, I'll just put my Eminem outfit on.

Like, he's got his hoodie up with his hat. He's just like, I'm nobody special. Like, and I don't know. So apparently they were, you know, as you saw, he was surrounded by FBI agents. That was at the SFO airport. Um, and it looks like the California Post is— this footage. So good, good on them. I think that's where Joel works. And, uh, yeah, and I, I don't know, involved with the story.

Oh, and your mic's cutting in and out, just so you know.

Okay, sorry.

It's okay. Just, I don't know if you can do anything about it.

Um, so the— yeah, so I, you know, it looks like the story was written by Josh Cohn, so someone else. But, um, yeah, it shows him like in this incognito stuff, and apparently he was allowed to leave. So I don't know if they arrested him and let him go or just didn't arrest him, but they took his Apple iPhone, his charging cable, his wall adapter, his MacBook Pro. So apparently he's an Apple fanboy. And took all his devices, and so I guess he's under a lot of investigation. I think one former staffer has accused him of raping her, and another one accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her. Two others have alleged he sent them unsolicited images of his genitals. So yeah, I mean, you know, Swalwell claims. He denies wrongdoing, but I'm not sure what that means exactly. Does that mean he didn't do it, or does that just mean he didn't think it was wrong?

Oh my God, Marcela would be the attorney to answer that. But I, I just, you know, people out there, men and women, do not recommend that you just send unsolicited pictures of your genitalia to anybody, okay? Nobody wants—

What?

Yeah, if you're doing that, yeah, if you're doing that I mean, if, if a woman asks for it, I suppose you could consider it, but I don't know. No one, no one's ever asked me for that.

Well, all right. But so this is unsolicited.

Wait for DMs.

No, no, I'm not going to.

Marcella.

I'm just saying, like, I don't know how common it is that women do ask for these things, but I think it, unless it was, I don't think anyone should ever Send— I don't know, I don't, I would, I don't think I'd ever want a picture of that out there anyway.

No, I could say so much, but I'm not going to because, you know. But anyway, if it's—

if you're saying so much—

oh yeah, that'll be Erica After Dark. But if you are thinking that that's a good idea and nobody asked to see it and you're like, I'm sending it anyway, I, I don't recommend. But okay. All right, so can you imagine, first of all, The, like, inner heart attack you would have, Marcella, if you just— like, somebody just, like, they randomly come up to you and just take all your devices. Like, we're taking it all, and like everything's gone. Oh my God. I mean, I'm sure your devices are clean as a whistle, but I'm just saying that would give me a little bit of a heart attack.

Well, I mean, it's— that's, uh, this is— I'm sorry, but like, I'm sure he expected it. So I'm sure he's, uh, he, he probably got some kind of hint about this happening. That's why he was wearing all this gear. Um, so I, I don't know. I just know that since April there's been allegations made against him, um, just, just in time to get him out of the Senate race, um, and put someone that is really evil, uh, even more so than him. But, um, after this search in SFO— I believe it's on SFO— there was a search in his home in Washington, DC, which was probably even worse than what they did there. There's no indictment against him yet, uh, it's just an investigation of the Northern California District— Northern District of California— because there was allegations made by a certain woman, as, as Owen indicated, um, in regards to certain things. He's being looked at under the warrant. It cites, uh, 18 USC 242, which most of you know, What the hell was that? It says deprivation of rights under the color of law is basically you used your power as a politician to do a certain, um, illegal act, which in this case was, uh, you know, the allegations of SA against these women. So, uh, YouTube does not like the words, so I have to—

SA is an abbreviation for Something for a type of abuse. Okay, so all right, so we're gonna just keep our eye on that because I would love nothing more for that man to get what he deserves. He is a horrible, disgusting human being. Sorry, not sorry.

He was alone. Okay, he wasn't with Fang Fang or anybody else.

No Fang Fang.

No.

Okay, so, um, Owen, I liked a story you had today regarding free will because as we know what Scott would say about free will. So why don't you, um, tell us what, what that story was talking about?

Is he there?

Oh, he's unmuted. Okay, so wait, I mean, I—

oh.

I forgot I was on mute. The headline is that people who believe in free will tend to feel more positive. That they did some experiments on this and examined like whether it was associated with positive feelings. There was a study of 429 adults in Germany. So I don't know, it might be kind of a biased sample in terms of happiness, but— Come on, people. They had 6 days of mobile assessments. They get— they got prompts. where they— and in the first study, they said that the stronger belief in free will was associated with the greater likelihood of feeling good in everyday life. And then they had another one that was 952 people in England, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands and Poland, and again found people were happier if they believed in free will. And so then they did a third study. And so I guess the point is, um, believing in free will Makes you happier, at least. Or, you know, I'm sure they'll say it's correlation, you can't prove causation, all those caveats. But, you know, I have to say, to be fair, you know, the people who don't believe in free will, they had no choice. So—

Yes, they had no choice. That's funny, Dad.

This is so funny.

But I do— I mean, I think this is also kind of like you could have just asked Scott sort of thing, because it's like Well, of course, like, if you feel like you're in control and you have autonomy— like, psychology has known that for a long time, that feeling like you have autonomy and control over what you're doing makes you happier. If you feel like you're not, you don't have choice and you're forced to do things and you can't choose otherwise, then that makes you unhappy, doesn't it? I mean, it's kind of obvious.

Yeah, at least give me the impression That's all you need.

You know, another headline is slavery is bad, right?

Like, people that are enslaved don't feel happy. Like, oh yeah, yeah. All right, well, that makes sense. So I, I like how we have all these little stories today, you guys. So I'm gonna jump to another one. Um, this is just like Wacky Tuesday. I wish it was Wednesday, it would have felt so much better. Um, all right, so I want to just play, um, A minute with Massie. So Representative Massie went on to the floor yesterday and did what he said he was going to do, and he named names from the Epstein files in hopes that he can shame people into opening investigations. So we're going to give, uh, Thomas Massie a minute. Here we go.

Mr. Speaker, it's been a year since the president signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and the government continues to withhold over 3 million files. That's why we've introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act 2, to bring the fight to the state courts, accountability to the Department of Justice, and closure for survivors. We want perpetrators of these crimes to be investigated and prosecuted. Men like Jess Staley, Leon Black, Les Wexner, David Copperfield, Lapo Elkann, Tom Pritzker, Glenn Dubin, Frederick Fekkai, Edoardo Teodorani, Jean-Luc Brunel, conveniently dead by suicide in prison, Daniel Syad, recently discovered dead in Paris, Ramsey Alkohly, and Prince Andrew, who committed sex crimes in the United States too. And women like Leslie Groff, not a victim, who conspired with Epstein to traffic other women. Perhaps hearing these names will shame the Department of Justice into delivering justice. I yield back.

Oof.

So, all right. I like a quick, concise, get-to-the-point kind of a, um, minute on the floor. And how many people have to throw out their shampoo? Frederick Fekai, allegedly. Um, anyway, so I like that he did that because Everybody has been up in arms over the Epstein case at one point or the other, and we're always like, name names, you know, name the names. So he named some names. Um, well, they're officially out there now, Beverly, on the floor, named by someone who saw them. So that is the difference, right, Marcella?

Um, I don't know. I'm, I'm looking into it. Um, I, I personally think he opened himself up. I know that they have, um, they can't be sued as a government official, but he really opened himself up to certain things. But I don't think he cares since he's not gonna stay in office.

Yeah.

Um, I don't agree with him doing this because, um, and I think Scott spoke about this when it first came out, is that there's gonna be people named in these documents. That might not have— um, is Owen okay?

He fell.

I'm all right.

Okay, I heard all this noise.

Um, I'm sorry, I switched microphones, so maybe there's more noise getting picked up.

I could see being Epstein. Um, the, the names of them, it basically— you're, you're skipping, you're accusing these people, uh, these private people of all these things But yet, um, no investigation, uh, was given more detail about him. You're just assuming that they are guilty by just being on these documents and by being named by people. Like, it's hearsay.

My assumption—

I feel a little bit—

My assumption is that he picked the names he knew he could say because he had some kind of, you know, he had more information. Because I think there's a Totally.

But see, that's the assumption, right?

Yeah.

Well, under American law, what are we? We're innocent until proven guilty. So basically naming them and people thinking like— like, Erica, you, you're thinking the right way. But I mean, this is why it's also very damaging, because it comes from somebody like him and people are thinking, oh, well, then he must have read more into it, right?

So yes.

And we have to believe that, but we don't know that. So that's why it's, you know, to me, it's, it's not—

if—

because this can apply to any case. Eventually Trump will leave office, and who knows, we're gonna read Trump's name, we're gonna read this name and that name, my name or any name, you know. And then the— it would attach that belief. So I don't know.

100%. It's always a tactic to be like, okay, put a name out there so people are thinking about the person.

And I respect Thomas Mann. See, I follow him, he follows me. Yeah, we chat now and again.

Yeah, yeah, um, I do too. And, um, I don't blame him for being like, you know what, I'm just gonna go balls to the wall. I have limited time left, and it's something that, you know, he said he wanted to get to the bottom of. And so maybe he's just like, you know, all right, it's, it's out there. I'm putting it on you guys now to do an investigation. Like, I did my part. What do you think, Owen?

I mean, I, I think I'm pretty similar in my position to Marcella's position that I, I, I, and I think Scott's position, which is you do need to protect the reputation of the people that have not been accused of any crime. Like, it, this is all coming out in theory in some kind of legal context. It's, it's not really because it's just releasing information, but a lot of it did come from court case documents and other things. And like, if you're gonna associate someone with someone like Jeffrey Epstein, like, that is smearing their reputation. And I, I think it would be better in my mind to actually investigate privately, you know, the FBI, all that, and figure out who to go after. Like, I mean, that to me is the frustrating part, is it's like we, we're pretty sure that some of the people that were really closely associated with Epstein did do some bad things and probably should be prosecuted for them. But nobody has been, right? Nobody. Like, I don't think there's a single person that, other than, you know, Ghislaine Maxwell, that has faced any real consequences. And that's the frustrating part. So I understand how Thomas Massie feels about it. And I do think people like Lex Wexner and, you know, some of the other ones that are just really closely associated with, like, they're, you know, clearly close colleagues or friends or whatever, and they have lots and lots of contact and some really shady things happening, like— I think, wasn't him or someone else like him, didn't they give Epstein a property for a dollar or something?

Oh, yeah. I think Wexner gave him the townhome he owned in—

Allegedly.

Allegedly.

And I don't know all the facts, but I think there's enough smoke there that it seems like there is a lot going on. You know, and, and there probably is some fire. And I, I do think a lot of this probably will end up never really coming out because it's probably wrapped up in the CIA and a bunch of intelligence agency stuff that will never be released. And so that puts you in a really weird position where, like, if you expose people like Lex Wexner, but you can't really ever say what happened, then it is kind of like all you're really doing is smearing the guy's reputation and you're never going to actually go after him because it may have actually been a government operation that was authorized.

For all we know, maybe I can get Thomas Massie to give me a follow-up statement as to why he decided to say that. Maybe he'll come on.

Well, I think he, he's searching for— I think he was searching for transparency and for people to actually, um, investigate and indict these people named.

Yeah.

Um, and I, I understand what he's doing. I wonder—

this is—

I wonder if he put The things, my opinion, allegation.

He did not.

So, so basically, he has immunity being that he's in government. So that's why they can't really sue him for defamation. And he's going out, you know, as we know, he's not going to be serving any longer in office. So he's going out with a bang. You know, he's a dangerous man and a great man in a way. Um, so watch out, what else is he gonna do?

So, you know, yeah, so it was interesting. I enjoyed it. We'll see what happens. Marcela will keep giving us the legal take on it.

Oh, and what I would just really love to hear— okay, sorry, what were you gonna say?

There was someone else that faced, um, justice for the, uh, Epstein things. His name is Jean-Luc Brunel. He was arrested in France in December of 2020.

Well, I guess, yeah. I mean, maybe I should have clarified. I was really referring to the United States. There have been a lot of people in Europe and other places who have at least been like, they've lost their jobs. I think Prince Andrew or whatever was—

Lost his prince name.

Lost his title or whatever. And so some people in Europe, it seems like they're taking it more seriously than we are. They're actually going after some people. And but none of that here. Right. And that's what I would love to hear is like, I'd love to just hear Kash Patel come out and say, we are actively investigating some people, like we're doing some new investigations, because that's the part that always got me. It's like everybody's talking about releasing documents, but I'm pretty sure there aren't any real documents that are going to say, here's a smoking gun, this person should be in prison, because if there was, then they would have prosecuted them already. But the problem is like, why didn't anyone ever investigate any of these people? I've seen no evidence that anyone has even done an investigation. And I don't necessarily need you to name the people, like we're investigating Lex Wexner and Bill Gates, but go do it and at least tell us you're doing something.

At least tell us you found nothing if you find nothing. Just do it.

Just like tell us that, you know, we are going after the people that were associated with Epstein. We are investigating them. You don't have to name anybody, but just tell us you're working on it.

Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

Nobody's above the law, right?

Meow tattoo, Marcella. He doesn't like that we're doing left-wing propaganda.

Bill Gates actually came out recently and said he's a different person now or something. He's like, oh, I'm in a better place, or I don't remember what the words were, but it was like he was basically distancing himself from his Epstein associations. Like, that was in the past. And I'm like, uh, dude, yeah, that never gets into the past.

Meow Tattoo. I mean, I didn't agree with what Massey was doing. I didn't do that, you know. I— that's what I said. I didn't agree with him with doing the naming.

No, that we follow him and that we respect him is a problem. Um, but that's—

You can respect somebody that is, uh, um, doesn't see the world the way you see it.

That's right. That's right, damn it. Don't worry about it, Meow. Okay, so we won't leave you, Meow. We're there with you. Meow, meow. Okay, um, I wanted to show you guys. All right, so I'm jumping.

What do you want to show us?

I want to show you another clip. I'm jumping all over the place. Okay, so I saw Kevin in the chat posted, um, what did you call it, Kevin? Postpartum euphoria. And I think it was a picture of you with one of your babies when they were born. And I just wanted to give a little shout out and just a little, just a little palate cleansing moment for you guys. Take some sips of coffee. This is like a little intermission, if you will, of just parents and their kids and, you know, the lengths that they go to to protect them. Let's just, let's just have a fun minute.

Watch out, Dean! Geez Louise, people, he's coming in hot.

I got him. Oh my gosh!

Show, fashion show.

Did you get that on video? What the?

You did it right.

Thank you. I woke up every hour last night.

Oh, that was close. Off the stairs! Oh no, now she literally gonna push her down.

Yeah, okay, here we go. Watch this guy, Chloe. It's scary. Gotta have reflexes. Geez Louise.

Nothing beats a jet ski holiday right now.

Oh, oh, there's a fish on there.

Oh my God, I just love it. I love watching videos, especially of like dads catching their kids and saving them. I just wanted to give a shout out to the good parents though.

Dad reflexes are real, I can tell you from personal experience. And I think if, if I wasn't there and my wife wasn't there I think both our kids would be dead. I mean, I just, I can point to specific things where like, I was like, okay, if I wasn't here to step in and have that reflex at that moment, oh yeah, my kid would be dead. Like he would be dead. And like, it's, um, you know, it's something that a lot of parents are always watchful of. And I think you have these instincts and I don't know if it is something that is part of the brain changes that happen when you become a parent, because there are, by the way, I mean, like, There's a lot of science behind that. Women are flooded with these pregnancy hormones and it fundamentally changes their brain. And, I can tell you, my wife has told me that she became a super light sleeper when she had her first child and has stayed that way forever. It never went away. But, that was, I'm sure, part of our biological evolution to make sure that a mother would be ready to respond if their child needed something. And I've also seen science that there's similar things that happen to men, that when a man becomes a father, his brain changes too. And I think I've pointed this out maybe once before, but there's also this weird thing I noticed. I saw a study about scent that, you know, that newborn baby smell that people talk about.

Yeah.

That apparently they've identified the chemical, what that is, and they studied it. And they found that it has opposite effects on men and women, the same thing, that it makes men less aggressive and it makes women more aggressive.

Interesting. I like that.

And I think that's probably also, again, the same thing, right? Like, you don't want the man to be like violent towards their child, so you kind of soften a little bit when you become a father. But then, at least when they're a newborn. And then the same thing with a woman that, you know, she's more of the mama bear ready to protect her kid. more than she might have been in the past.

I can say even being around babies and children, like my natural maternal instinct kicks in big time. Like I'm always just like, watch, like if there's a kid anywhere, I'm just like, oh, watch out, you know, grab the kid or, you know, you just, you just like take over because the instinct is to protect a child. So I like it. I like it. And yeah, my dad saved my ass a couple of times and Mom, if you're listening, I'll think you can remind me of when you did. I'm going to try to think about it. But anyway, so I wanted to play that, and then I just wanted to give a clip because we keep giving shoutouts to like these independent journalists and like man on the street, women on the street, you know, like your Nick Shirleys that go out there and talk to people. Nate Friedman. So here's Caitlin Bennett. I don't know if you guys know her. I bet a lot of you do. And if you want to drop her name in the chat, she's a great follow on X or Instagram wherever you go. But she's another fearless mama. She's been out there like nine months pregnant with her cameraman, a security guard, and a microphone talking to people. And this isn't anything like dangerous, but I'm just telling you she is. She's just fearless in her beliefs. But anyway, so she went out to talk to a couple of Lindsay Clancy people, which the jury is resumed again today trying to decide her fate. But Lindsay Clancy is the woman who. Admitted that she murdered her 3 children, and now there's been a court case happening to decide whether she should be put in prison or a mental institution. That's really all that it's about. No one else is on trial. It's just what her punishment should be. But—

So the jury, 18 minutes ago— breaking news, everybody— 18 minutes ago came back and said— told the judge that they cannot reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial. Um, so the judge sent them back to try again, but it most likely will be a hung jury, which means that there— she's not either guilty nor not guilty. But guess what? She gets to be tried again if the Commonwealth wants to in Massachusetts.

So, all right, so if she's not guilty or guilty, where does she go?

She can stay possibly in custody if they're gonna try her again. She would probably remain in custody again, and if not, waiting awaiting a new trial.

Okay.

If not, if not, then she would be let out.

Right. Okay. All right. So here is Caitlin Bennett. If you guys want to tag her in the chat for people to follow Caitlin Bennett, it's Caitlin with a K. Here she is talking to some women.

Do you stand with her? Yes or no?

I don't think she did it.

Yes.

We feel she's very sleep deprived. Her Her job as a labor and delivery nurse working night shifts and 3 children is—

Okay, it's a lot.

A lot.

Do you have children?

Yes.

Would you ever hurt them? Yes and no. As a mom or as a dad, I think that you are not perfect. So what are the consequences she should face for this?

Obviously she's already in a wheelchair.

He should go to jail for negligence.

He was—

he needs to take care of his kids, and that was his responsibility. Is this any of your Girlfriends? This is your girlfriend? I think you have to do some reflection on that. I just have seen a little bit on TikTok of the case. I'm watching it on TikTok or like the live streams. Where are you getting your news that the defense might not be getting theirs? I don't, but I—

What did you say?

TikTok. Uh, okay, so I bring that up also to say that I know people that think the husband killed the 3 children, which has nothing to do with reality or what's happening, but they're watching it on TikTok. So TikTok, way to go. Um, and I just love how she's like— the, the boyfriend's got like his head in his hands like, oh my God, what am I doing? And she's like, you might want to rethink your relationship. So, um, yeah, interesting.

You know, I would say that's like number one red flag I could imagine is, well, maybe I would kill my kids.

Yeah, would you hurt your kids? Well, yes and no.

Oh my God, well, tell us more.

And then she's like, well, she's sleep deprived. I'm like, a bitch, so am I. I'm not gonna go murder somebody.

Um, yeah, this is very difficult case because I just, you know, I, I personally have never been a mom, but my God, like, that baby, 8 months. I mean, I can't even see myself Killing a fly, let alone, like, a human. I agree.

Are you saying it's difficult just because it's a horrible situation, or it's difficult in that it's hard to decide what to do?

It's not hard to decide what to do, but it's difficult in remembering who the— you know, one of the things that they never mentioned is the kids, the kids that she killed. They never can come back. She's guilty. She's already admitted it. And I just, you know what, my main issue is the prosecution wasn't good enough. And I, I have to tell you this, like, they put on really bad, um, legal— you know, they just messed up a lot. I, I know, you know, I know how it feels to not get it out right, the story, or, or get, you know, the evidence right, you know, in law. But they should have put somebody um, 2 prosecutors that were more, um, how would you say, more experienced. Even if they were going to be men, uh, prosecutors, they should have been there because I think that's what really messed up the, the issue. One of the issues that I have with the case, huge issue, is that— and this is the legal part— is that the prosecution did not explain that you can still have psychosis and still be guilty and not legally insane.

Right.

Manson, you, you name any BT— what is it, uh, BTK, Unabomber, all these people, they were not sane people. They were not sane. We're not going to let them out. Um, under the influence, people that kill under the influence, you can't be like, well, I took drugs, right? And my psychiatrist— so the main thing that wasn't informed to anybody in the trial is that Under psychosis, you could still know right from wrong, which was not in like no and nobody ever said that.

Right. I did hear it like from outside from somewhere else. Yeah. Yes. Not not during and I didn't really honestly didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw enough to say well like why aren't they saying that?

And Leslie Champion was really great in the what's it rumble and she said you know when it's a hung jury. There's no verdict, but I, I think Commonwealth is known to prosecute things again. So with the Karen Reed case, some of you know about that case, it went on to 2 trials, um, and they weren't able to find her guilty. She had a hung jury the first trial for Karen Reed in the Commonwealth, and the second trial she was found not guilty. This lady, um, Monster. I don't even want to talk about her name. She will be again tried again, most likely, and maybe the prosecution will be better.

Maybe.

You can only improve.

You know, also, I, I, you know, somebody told me— I didn't— I was like, I didn't watch it, watch it— but someone told me that her— Lindsay's oldest son ran away from her when she was doing this and was like running to the dad's home office, and she chased after him and got him. So like, you knew what you were doing, and, you know, and then she wanted to kill herself, right? So, um, as somebody said in the chat, then the chat, she wanted to hurt her husband. So he was going to come home to find his 3 children murdered and his wife dead. So that was her plan. Um, yeah, and then you have 9 women on the jury. I don't know, you know, why 9 women?

And one of them was 2 of them were wearing pink yesterday.

Yeah.

Pink is the color of evil, I guess, now, uh, because they were the supporters of this, this monster. Um, they're wearing pink outside, and 2 of the jury members, one was wearing pink pants and one was wearing a pink shirt yesterday, you know. So I thank you. Um, I thank the, the jurors that did not give in. Which most likely is the manager. The managers. But who knows?

Yeah, and, and, and Marcela's 100% right. Like, I feel like the, the people totally lost in this are the 3 children and the husband. And it's like, why, why all this support for Lindsay? I mean, you could, you could maybe like internally feel sorry for her because she's mentally ill or whatever, But like, that's where it should end, because 90% of your support, I feel like, should be about the loss of these beautiful children and the father who— his 3 babies were murdered, and like their whole extended family and the community. And it's just like, you know, she wanted to die and she didn't. And so now she's living, you know, in a wheelchair, paralyzed, and You know, with a million dollars, over a million dollars raised for her from these TikTok ladies, and and all this like support and love and understanding. And then I just saw recently some other woman didn't want to give custody or share custody of her what nine month or no two two-year-old son with her ex-husband, so she shot her son in the face so he couldn't have. any custody. So this is, you know, it— I really hope a precedent gets set. This is a— I don't want to say a slippery slope, but it's, it's a lot of, uh, attention grabbing for a lot.

Bring back the guillotine for her.

Something.

Or give me 1 hour with her.

Yeah. And Owen, I want you to give us a closing statement on this as the father, you know, because I feel so bad for this dad and that people are like accusing him. I'm like, he's not on trial.

That's unbelievable. They're accusing him of anything.

Yeah, I mean, I think to me it's just obvious that this woman should be found guilty and punished for what she did.

Yeah.

And I don't think there's really anything more to it. I don't think it's a question. I don't fully understand the position of all these women that are coming to her defense as if it's somehow justifiable. I really don't get it. I don't get how women don't have enough maternal instinct in them to do that. And I kind of wonder if maybe there's something else weird going on with SSRIs or, you know, birth control pills or something that's changing how they think, because it seems just like anti-human nature.

Yeah, it does. It does. So anyway, we'll see what happens. But, you know, let's make sure we always remember the true victims.

It's like O.J. Yeah, it is like O.J. But But worse, right? Anything.

All right, so we just have a few minutes left. Well, no, we have 10 minutes or so left. So, um, I did want to play this clip. Um, Marcella, you are so funny. Okay.

And they're like evil Marcella planning.

I just wanted to play— this is Secretary Duffy. Um, let's have a minute or so with him, and then Owen, you'll take it from The last administration let millions of illegals into the country.

Now, when those illegals came in, oftentimes our data on those individuals started on their point of entry. We couldn't go back and look at their, their, their, their countries of origin. We couldn't see their criminal records. We can't see their driving records. We basically have zero information about who these people are.

are.

And we took them from point of entry to today in regard to their criminal histories or their driving records. On top of that, the last administration did away with our longstanding safety rules that make sure we get well-qualified drivers driving big rigs, motor vehicles. And then the last administration allowed truck driving schools to self-certify. To say that they meet all of the federal standards to be a certified truck driving school. And what we found is many of those schools don't actually meet that standard.

Okay, so what's more frightening in the chat, the illegal drivers, truck drivers, or a new driver like a teenager? Because I feel like between both, it's like a battlefield out there. So, Owen, thoughts? I mean, I—

Well, I think you should, you know, pit them against each other and see who wins.

Yeah, it's like a derby.

Yeah, but, um, no, I, I think it is again obvious, I guess, to me that you— if you're putting someone behind the wheel of a big rig, um, they need to be qualified. They need to be going through the training. They need to know what they're doing because it's a big safety hazard with this massive machine. And we all count on safety on our highways, safety on our roads. And so I don't— I, you know, it's— I don't understand why people thought it was okay. Maybe it was this, you know, we need to give the immigrants jobs and that's something they can do sort of thought. But it seems like a very bad choice to say, let's put them in front of people where they can have a lot of accidents and kill people and— You know, have a huge safety issue. So, um, I'm glad they're correcting it, and I'm glad they're going after the schools. And frankly, I'd like to see some of them go to prison too.

Yeah, amen. And, you know, they can't even read English. It's like, you can't even read the street signs, so what are we doing? Um, Marcela, your take?

I mean, they're causing so much, um, accidents and everything, but a lot of states like California allow Illegal immigrants to have driver licenses. I mean, I just you know I I know I'm not I'm not born in America, but I am American now, and I just can't understand some of the legal issues that happen. Like for me, it's hard to wrap my head around how the states control their highways, but you can you know their laws within who can get a license, but then. you can cross state lines. And so, you know, to me, you know, I come from this idea that the federal government should be the one to have that. I understand the philosophy behind it, but you're always going to have these issues. And gosh, I almost got killed recently by one of these truck drivers.

Oh, man.

Because they decided to turn— that they were going to turn left regardless if my car was there or not. So I honked and I was writing my, uh, my will already because he was just like, oh, you're not there because somehow because you are from another country you don't know, you know, the laws, or they don't care, you know. So it's, it's troubling, but I'm glad that he's doing something about it. But I, I don't know how much they can do with states like California.

Right. Oh, California. Beverly said, isn't interstate commerce a federal domain?

Yeah, that's usually used, Beverly, in cases where you can just use that to bring it to federal compliance using the Commerce Clause.

The chat is sad. There's so many Uh, stories in the chat about people who—

Yeah, SJP, I don't have a Mexican accent because I'm not from Mexico.

Oh, SJ.

I had to, I had to.

Yes, you did.

You had to.

Uh, all right, so listen, let's, let's hope for the best with that. Okay, now let's get to our latest from Trey Yngst.

Trey time.

Trey time. And let's, let's hear what's happening over there.

President would lose patience with the military aspect of this and withdraw forces. That's what they were demanding during the conversations about the memorandum of understanding. But there are still more than 50,000 US soldiers deployed across the Middle East. A new aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, arrived in theater. There are fighter jets, refuelers, and tankers prepared for the possibility that conflict resumes at a larger scale than what we're seeing right now. But in the backdrop here, they are facing this economic pressure. And it's not just the sanctions that are taking place targeting regime officials in Tehran. It's the ongoing U.S. naval blockade making it impossible for the Iranians to export their crude oil from the Persian Gulf. And we're seeing this inside of Iran. Just yesterday, we aired that soundbite from a citizen in the capital of Tehran saying the price of goods is rising. We know the inflation is increasing and the Iranian The Brazilian currency is in a freefall, now more than 2.1 real to 1 US dollar.

Need a wheelbarrow for—

Oh, we need a wheelbarrow. Okay. So Owen, for them to feel it economically, do you think that's going to change anything?

I think it could. I guess we'll have to wait and see. I don't know if it will. I mean, I think it's been bad for a long time. They've had high inflation even before before all this. And so I know it's been made worse by the war and by the economic pressure and all that. But I did say, I think, I don't know, I think it was maybe on one of the previous shows if it wasn't on the Afterparty, but I do think maybe it's more likely that economic pressure could make them collapse rather than military pressure. And so I do think it's probably a good strategy to say, let's focus on the economic stuff because At some point they might cry uncle, they might say, okay, we can't do this anymore. Or maybe just internally there'll be so much chaos because they can't pay people and they can't buy things and all that, that maybe there would be some kind of uprising internally. But it is warfare.

Yeah.

And I've expanded my own mental definition of warfare to not just be the physical military kinetic warfare. It's also economic, it's information warfare, it's all kinds of warfare. So cyber warfare, other things. And so I, I would say it's definitely part of war that they're doing here. And the part that I don't know about or wonder about is like, haven't we done all the sanctions? Like, what— why do— it seems like every few months we're like, we're going to put in more sanctions. And it's like, why didn't you do it all? Like, what—

Put them all in. Yeah.

Didn't you already do— why is it this layered approach where you just say, okay, now we're going to sanction these people and these things and we're going to cut off this— just cut off everything.

Yeah. So as Metal Seer points out, we're over 6 months in on this now, and I think we're exhausting a lot of our weapons and I don't know, everyone gets upset when I make a claim like that. That's what I'm hearing. So I don't know. All right, Marcella, what do you want to say?

They were going to win. That's all I can say. I mean, to be honest, this has been a 7-month-long conflict, but in reality, I don't really see it as a full-on war, I guess because I need to see what with boots on the ground or something more like more explosions every day or whatever it is. It just seems like we are waiting for them to collapse and we're pushing the right buttons to have that happen. I do trust in Trump to do it. Um, and now my, my take, as you guys know, is that it's a China proxy war. Like, it's probably better that we fight You know, Iran and collapse them, and have China not rise to the level that they are rising with AI, with robots, with everything else. You know, so I I'm still you know on the sidelines waiting to see, but I still support the U.S. and the commander-in-chief. from doing what he needs to be doing, which is, you know, he knows more than we do about what's going on. That's all I can say. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure. And, you know, the whole thing about munitions and do we have enough weapons, do we have— to me, it's too on-the-nose kind of story. Um, I don't know, it seems like, you know, you didn't hear that when Obama was in Afghanistan or doing anything. If it was a leftist, uh, president, we wouldn't be hearing that. So either it's true, but it usually happens during war and we just never hear it because the fake news never tells us because it's a leftist president, and, um, or it's, you know, or it's like, it's just, you know, it's part fighting a war. I think we will get back to where we need to be.

I worry about— I just worry about the everyday people here who this war is affecting the most, the Americans who are paying out the ass for everyday things that they need. That concerns me.

It might be affecting the Iranian people a little more.

Well, it might be, but But, you know, I'm thinking about here at home, people are broke and, you know, it sucks.

But the question is, is the war the reason why we are broke? It makes it worse, right? But it's still— I would think it would make it worse, you know, like Erica says. But at the same time, I don't know. You know, things are here the way they are. Because we came out of, like, we came out of dementia Biden 4 years, like, and COVID and all these things. So, you know, in order to recover, it'd be— it's more difficult to recover after all that.

No, I mean, I understand, like, you know, we definitely had issues before this. And let's not forget how many of our weapons and how much of our money has gone to Ukraine. So I feel like we were already depleted on our stockpile of things because of Ukraine, and that's still going on. And then we just add in a whole other war and snuck Venezuela in there, and it's just like, oh my God. So yeah, it's bad for people in Iran. I know it's worse for them than it is here, but I kind of just just really care about what's happening here. So I, I do believe Trump knows a lot more than we know. He better. I would hope he does. Um, and I think he has a really good team around him. And, you know, like, all of that is true, but I am just kind of like, can somebody please focus on America? Somebody please focus on America. Um, I, I would just beg them to Help the people here because it's been since COVID that I feel like America needs some time focused on us. So I guess it'll just keep going and we'll have another little Trey Yngst update tomorrow, I'm sure. But tomorrow we have— Owen will not be here tomorrow. I know it's terrible. We're going to miss you, Owen. I'm sorry about that. Yeah, we're sad. But Thomas Corbett-Dillon will be joining us for the first half hour. And I just saw him, he was just on Timcast last night. He's definitely making the rounds, but he's fun. He's spirited. I like him from the UK. So if you guys have UK questions, don't DM me, but just put them in our school chat. Let me know if you have any specific questions you want us to ask him. And then filling in for Owen tomorrow will be Kyle Becker for the hour. So we're looking forward to Kyle being here too. So that'll be fun. All right. So you guys—

No unsolicited pictures to Eric either.

Yeah, definitely not me. Marcella speaks for herself. So—

Send them over.

Oh my gosh.

All right.

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Marcela, they love your dirty laugh.

I'm so— all right, by the way, on YouTube you can actually message each other, so you can— you have a message, um, on youtube.com, so you can message Annie that way.

All right, Annie, try to find me and message me. Okay, so you guys, um, I'm gonna play a Scott Akira song. Oh, really? Yes, with a video, so, um, you don't have to see our mugs. Okay, if you want to stay, stay. If you can't, you can't. I'll miss you, Metal Seer. Okay, let's go.

It's literally everything. And on top of that, you've got TikTok doing these videos, childless adults saying how They talk about how great their weekends are because they don't have any kids. Now I have 2 feelings about that. Number one, they're totally right about how great their weekend is without kids. However, I'll just speak for myself. There's almost nothing I ever did as a single person that was as fun as getting up on a Saturday morning and watching my stepdaughter at the time play soccer. There's nothing I did that was more fun than that. And was it easy? Nope. It was driving and waking up and getting food and making sure everybody's taken care of, and you gotta bring chairs down and cancel everything else, and it's a lot of work. There's nothing I did that was more, more fun than that. Watching my stepdaughter play soccer. Watching my stepdaughter play soccer.

That's it?

Couldn't top that. Watching my stepdaughter play soccer. Watching my stepdaughter play soccer. The second thing, like the best moments ever— do you ever think about what you would remember if your life flashed in front of you like you're dying? I don't know if that really happens, but do you ever think, like, what do you call your life? Because I find that there are moments that I call my life. You ever have that? Like, I don't think if my life were flashing before my eyes, I don't think I would think about my Dilbert career. You know, 35 years of doing it every day, I don't think I would think about it. I'll tell you what I would think about if I can. I would think about watching Disney movies with my stepkids. That's it. That's what I would think about. There's nothing I did that was more, more fun than that. Watch you, my stepdaughter, play soccer. Watch you, my stepdaughter, play soccer. That's it. I couldn't top that. Watch you, my stepdaughter, play soccer. Watch you, my stepdaughter, play soccer.