The Scott Adams School - 09/03/26 Steve Cortes returns! The Basilica Or the Mosque...Documentary.

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Oh my gosh!

Is anyone else up?

My name is Baby C.

My name is Baby C. Hold me close and whisper.

Is anyone else awake?

No, this is evil.

Evil doll. Don't talk so loud.

My name can maybe wake up.

Only Michael Malice. I mean, that's amazing. Poltergeist.

Did it ever say, I am evil?

Sounds like where they got the idea for Chucky.

Right? Oh my God, yeah, someone just wrote Chucky's daughter, creepy city, kill it, creepy. Okay, you guys, so I think you— yes, YouTube's here and it's time for the sip. Let's do it.

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Ah, that was delicious. So as we said, you guys, welcome. I am Erica. You are at the Scott Adams School. I'm joined today by my 2 co-hosts, Marcella and Owen. We're all here on the same day. I'm so excited, and just on time for one of our favorite returning guests, Mr. Steve Steve Cortez, welcome back.

Thank you.

So good to have you here. So Steve, you're infamous for having these amazing documentaries, just short, like 20 to 25 minute documentaries on all sorts of important and interesting topics. And, um, for those of you that were here yesterday, you saw the trailer from Steve's latest one, The Basilica or the Mosque. And this is oh we have people in Maine in the chat by the way for those of you living in Maine or if you have family in Maine just drop a little emoji and let us know you're here so we can see you I know our Sandy Candies in Maine so anyway this was so interesting to me and important and not talked about enough like for as far as like a countrywide issue things that are happening so I'm going to play the trailer and then if you could just take. it away after that. Um, but let's, let's just watch the trailer. Okay, look at all the maniacs. Okay, here we go.

The Basilica and the Mosque. 2 structures, 2 houses of worship, blocks apart on a map, but oceans apart in worldview and in the consequences for our country. They bring their politics with them. They settle down and they're just like boomer leftists going crazy in these really wealthy enclaves. where they're insulated from the consequences of the political party that they support. Awful immigration policies brought hordes of third-world Muslims to rural Maine of all places. The benefits programs have just gotten way, way out of control with the Medicaid fraud. The activities of Catholic Charities in Maine are indiscernible from a human trafficking organization. What we have is this murky term called asylum seeker. That's a term that the NPR crowd has created out of thin air, and they broke it on purpose. They broke it on purpose because it accomplished their objectives.

I was on mute. So you guys— so Steve, the full documentary is on your Twitter page, and where else can people find it?

Yes, it's also on my YouTube. It's at cortesinvestigates.com. It's also at my Substack, which is free. Sign up there. So it is everywhere. But if you can't remember, cortesinvestigates.com, it's also pinned to the top of my Twitter. 24 minutes long. I'm not asking for a huge commitment of time, but I guarantee you, you will be informed, angry, and I hope motivated if you watch these 24 minutes. And you'll probably be shocked, frankly, because, you know, when most people think of Maine, they think of lobster, they think of the North Woods, and they think of hearty, self-sufficient New Englanders. And all of that is true. And all of that is absolutely there and part of what defines Maine. But unfortunately, there's a very new insidious element to Maine, and that is mass migration, which has come to even small town Maine and particularly Lewiston, which is where we shot that. And by the way, I wanna right away acknowledge Steve Robinson, who you saw there. He is the star of this documentary. It's not Steve Cortez, it's Steve Robinson who runs the Maine Wire, which is an outstanding independent journalistic operation. And they have been exposing so much of the abuses of the citizens of Maine and so many of the frauds, these systemic frauds that are being perpetrated against the citizens of this country, uh, but particularly there in Lewiston, Maine, overwhelmingly by Somali migrants. It's a smaller version of what's going on in Minnesota, so it's not quite into the billions and billions of dollars of scale of what the Ilhan Omar crowd is doing to the Twin Cities, but it's still just as awful, just as criminal, just as unjust. And because Maine is a much smaller state, unlike Minnesota, they don't have the financial wherewithal to deal with a scam At this scale. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars being stolen primarily through healthcare scams. It's mostly through Medicare, Medicaid abuse, just like they're doing in the Twin Cities. And the Somali migrant crowd unfortunately really excels at this kind of a scam. Most of the money, by the way, it's not, you know, of course they're using and enjoying some of the ill-gotten gains there in Maine, but most of it is not really for them on the ground in Maine. Most of it is going back to Somalia.

So we I read that, I read that more money is being sent to Somalia than their entire GDP.

That's correct. Yes. Remittances for some of these countries— Rwanda is the same now— remittances from the United States, stolen remittances, right? Not, not earned money. Stolen remittances have become the number one source of revenue to these failed countries, to these countries that don't have real industries and real businesses. The business effectively of the country now is get your people, get your diaspora into the United States. engage in systemic levels of scamming and funnel that money back home. And in the case of Somalia, what's it going to back home in Somalia? Mostly to a civil war. So believe it or not, wow, the working-class citizens of Maine who right now are having a hard time affording their life, they are funding a civil war in a place called Jubaland, which most Americans have never heard of. I didn't before I started doing the research for this doc. It's a semi-autonomous state in the south of Somalia, and they are at war effectively with Mogadishu, that war being largely funded by Maine, believe it or not, being, you know, by loggers in Maine funding. So I want to shine a light on this. I also went there. Look, I'm political. I'm involved in campaigns. I went there because there was a Senate election in Maine. And by the way, some of us, you know, who consider ourselves pretty right-wing, we may not be the biggest fans of Susan Collins, but holy cow, she has to win this election because she is literally facing America-hating communists. Who will only make this situation worse. Troy Jackson is just as radical as Graham Plattner, who he replaced on the Democrat ballot. And so I hope that I motivate patriots in Maine that, like, even though Donald Trump's not on the ballot, it's really important for you to get out. It's important for you to vote for Susan Collins. And then more importantly, though, even than that, I just hope that I can educate Americans that this is a widespread problem in this country. We have third-world migrants who are not assimilating, who actually hate our country. Who are systemically stealing from us. And many of them, of course, organized and motivated by Islam, which I believe is incompatible with the American way of life. And I know that's a controversial thing to say. I know it's provocative, but I think it's true. And that's not being, by the way, racial. I'm talking about a system of beliefs, a system of beliefs which is antithetical to the American way of life. And mass Muslim migration has done enormous damage to Europe. It's starting— I don't think it's reversible in Europe. It's starting to do that kind of damage here in the United States. And my message is to America, wake up. This is not healthy for our country. We can do something about it though. It's— I don't think it's too late like it is in England and France and some other places. And I hope that by shining a light on it, I'm going to both anger and motivate people.

Yeah. So, you know, it's funny, it started in 2015 where if you voted for Trump, what were we? We were, we were like Nazis and fascists and stuff. I'm like, I gotta look, I gotta look this up. Am I a fascist? Like, what does that even mean? I've never been called that.

Right.

And racist and this and that. And now call me an Islamophobe. I'm just embracing it. I'm just gonna embrace it. Sure. I'm an Islamophobe. That's fine.

Go ahead and call me it.

Yeah, that's good. And it's accurate. It's accurate. So yeah, this is happening all over the country. And yeah, when I think about Maine, I think about all the little lighthouses and people selling blueberry pies on the side of the road because no one's gonna steal them and run away with your little cash box. It's like so sweet. And now to think about what's happening and that it's to go to fund a civil war in Somalia, it's just the insanity. It never ends. But President Trump would read that snake poem.

Yeah.

And I loved the first time he read it because when 9/11 happened, I started, of course, looking into what is happening? Who are these people? What's the plan? And they always said they will come in slowly. slow and steady. They're here for the long haul. They will plant themselves little spots all over, and no one's paying attention, no one's looking. And don't say anything bad about these people or we're going to call you a name. And that's back when you cared about being called a name. I don't care anymore. Call me anything. Um, yeah, but now they've just sprung up everywhere, and they're in our politics, they're in our police, they're in positions of power, and they have an agenda, and it's not an American agenda, Steve.

Yes, 100%.

Oh, go ahead, Owen. Did you want to—

Well, I, I was just going to say, like, I, I think it, it, it just strikes me as like you need to have strong defenses. You need to have strong ways of detecting and prosecuting crimes and stopping the scams, stopping the corruption. And it just seems like anything you don't have strong defenses on is going to be exploited. It's, it's kind of like any system. It's one of the reasons I think we need a strong defense, even though I don't want war, because like I— when I was in the military, I was like, well, I don't want to go to war. You know, I, I kind of reluctantly went through ROTC to get my college paid for, but I, I actually was kind of convinced by some of the training we went through that as officers, they kind of teach you, here's the justification for war. And a lot of it is focused around if you have a strong capability for defense and they know they can't roll right over you and that they're going to get crushed if they try, then they're not going to try. And the same is true with this scam stuff. It's like if we had the right controls over Medicaid and Medicare where you couldn't scam them and you would just end up in prison if you tried, then people wouldn't do it. But I think we have the opposite right now where it's easy to exploit. And I, I wonder if it's intentional. I, I saw a story that I posted today that says 89% on a poll say the government is corrupt, and I think they're right. I mean, yeah, I think it's in our government too.

Yeah, a couple points that I think are important. You know, first, why Maine, right? Because, you know, Somalis didn't move there for the climate, right? They didn't move there for the— and if there's any saving grace is that at least they had to endure that first Maine winter, which must have been hell on them. I'm, you know, I still don't feel badly for them because they're scamming us wholesale. But yeah, they didn't move there for the climate. Why did they go to Maine? Because I think to that point of the defenses, Maine was and is somewhat still a very high-trust society, right? This is a place where people said, you know, live and let live. They had that very sort of, like I said, hearty, self-sufficient New England mentality. Uh, very, very high-trust society. You know, Erica, where you mentioned, yes, people could, could leave things out for sale and know that somebody would leave the money and not steal it, right?

Yeah.

That kind of a place. Well, that kind of place is particularly vulnerable then to being manipulated and exploited by awful people, which is the case. So the Somalis went there very intentionally, largely, by the way, with the direction and help of Catholic Charities, which is why we mentioned them in the trailer. And we get into that in more detail in the doc. I am Catholic, by the way. I am a committed Catholic. And it gives me no pleasure to reveal that Catholic Charities has been instrumental in so many of these migrant abuses in America, but particularly this one in Somalia. And by the way, these Somalis, this isn't recent. We actually can't blame this one on Biden. Most of these folks came— this is Black Hawk Down era. So this is the unfortunate long-term US trend of invade the world, invite the world, right? So when Somalia was so destabilized and we decided to intervene there with disastrous consequences, what did we do? We then invited lots of Somali refugees to move to the United States. And even though they've been here for decades, they have not assimilated economically. They're still doing terribly. Let me give you a statistic on that, by the way. This is from the center.

Are they, are they here illegally?

Most of them are not. So in this case, we're not talking illegals because again, even the ones born here, even the ones born here, you know, are clearly then United States citizens. And I have problems with birthright citizenship, but that's a different issue. For now, that means you're a U.S. citizen. But even those are doing incredibly poor economically. So, you know, here's a statistic for people who, for Somalis who have been here for 10 years. This is from CIS, which does excellent data work. For Somalis who have been here from 10 years, this was actually in Minnesota, not Maine, but in Minnesota, 78% are on welfare after 10 years. In total, 54% of Somalis in the United States are on food stamps. 54% are on food stamps. So they don't assimilate. They generally don't work. They hate the United States. And in the case of the Lewiston, Maine crowd, they're systemically scamming Maine. And by the way, so why Medicaid? Like, why healthcare? Why the Medicaid? And this, to your point, oh, this I think is really important, Medicare and Medicaid. It's because it's a massive budget, okay, that is allocated by the federal government, but then not really controlled by the federal government. I mean, there are rules, yes, but the states administer it. So it's sort of perfect to be manipulated, especially in blue states. So in other words, we have all this largesse coming from Washington, D.C., but you've got leftist governments in Maine, in Augusta, Maine, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota that are administering it. People who will never ask questions if the people scamming them happen to be minorities, if they happen to be immigrants, right? In this case, both, right? For the force field protection to steal at will, and they're not going to be called on it. Now, in terms of solutions, and Steve Robinson gave a great one, I think, which, and the Trump administration, I hope, will at least look at this, is what you can do is decertify. You have to be, you have to be certified as a licensed provider for Medicare, Medicaid. Decertify everyone. Just say no one is certified. You must all reapply. All right. As of tomorrow, or, you know, give a reasonable date, obviously. But that, that could do a lot just to rooting out the scam. And then obviously be diligent about, wait, who's reapplying? Is this real? And by the way, we're not, again, we're not talking about small amounts of money. For example, like part to get specific about the scam, somebody will say they are a caregiver, right? They'll say, I'm caring for an aged person in our community. Now, If that happens legitimately, it actually can save Medicare and Medicaid money, right? It really can versus putting somebody in an institution to allow them to stay home and have care. But that same person, and it's usually a Somali, will supposedly be caring for 20 different people, right? Which is impossible and claiming all of that, right? And then collecting all of that money. And by the way, I show this in the doc right next door to that mosque, that pathetic falling down dilapidated mosque in Lewiston, Maine, right next to it, I mean feet away, is the NGO, the non-governmental organization run by American leftists that facilitates the entire scam. So they have American leftists literally next door. That's not chance, that's not coincidence, assisting the members of the mosque in wholesale stealing from the United States. And then blocks away from that pathetic mosque is this glorious Catholic basilica. And this is part of the reason it's important for me to go to these places. I did a lot of research on Lewiston, but I had no idea it had such a stunning, gorgeous church. Until I got there, and I was blown away. And again, especially as a Catholic, and I knew it was a French Catholic town who had founded it. They clearly modeled this local church in a small town after the grand French cathedrals, and it really looks like a smaller version of Chartres or some of the grand French cathedrals. I was just so taken and moved by it. And so we filmed there, and then that inspired me to do this contrast of let's look at what these migrants did. They took the best of the old world. They brought it to America. They fully assimilated. They loved their new land, and they built beautiful things, enduring beautiful things that are. both to their heritage, but also to the new country that they so loved. And contrast that with the difference with what these third world migrants are doing now. They are not coming here to make, they are coming here to take. And if they do build anything at all, it certainly isn't something beautiful and enduring. In fact, it can be something that is pathetic in many ways and even sinister to our values.

All right, Marcela, I know you have a burning question at this point.

So my question to you, Steve, is, you know, they're here mostly, most of them are legally here because in 1980, 1991, they were able to immigrate and they were able to get legal residence and/or birthright or whatever it is you want to call it. There's 1,000 of them that are not in the entire country and they're— President Trump initiated the removal of them. But beyond that, what can be done? So one of the things that I wish would be done for asylum seekers, and I think President Trump tried is to have it be if you were from Somalia and then you travel all the way here, there was many countries in between that they could have asked for asylum. That needs to be Congress. Congress has to pass it. The other thing that I was thinking about, I couldn't recall, but in Germany or somewhere else, I think when Germany, uh, World War II or the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a lot of American, um, You know, Americans still were still there, but they had classes for Germans to become more like assimilated. So I think one of the things—I'm not sure if this is possible—but have assimilation classes of what America is and and and become more like that. One of the things that people might not know about these Somali immigrants—they come from the south of Somalia, where just. Still under a lot of issues. Just recently, they have a, I believe, president, and he was supposed to give power in May, in May of this year, and he stayed on. So they still have like a dictatorship, and they come from different clans. They don't really ever had any laws or any kind of idea. They come from a tribal nation. So you're— it's like basically having somebody from, you know, they don't— the reason they can't really assimilate is because they're so, um, it's not even like religiously, it's just that they are so— they don't understand, um, laws or anything like that. So what do you suggest that we can do now that we're in this today?

Yeah, so listen, great question, or really kind of series of questions there of what can be done, because yeah, I'm also, you know, very much of that line of thinking of we can't— we do have to expose what's going on, but that's not enough, right? We can't stop at the outrage. What are the solutions? So, uh, there's, you know, a few things here. Yes, you know, as you have indicated, this group, unlike a lot of the other migrant groups that are abusing the United States, this group mostly has legal status. Many of them actually born here because this group has been here for quite a while. So they are citizens. So deportation for most of them is not really an issue. Now, they're still coming, and I would absolutely stop that, of course. uh, the new arrivals, but most of them are not. So, but this is very different from, for example, the Haitians and the Venezuelans, you know, mostly who are here on so-called temporary status. Temporary has lasted for decades for many of them. And thankfully, the Trump administration is now winning in court. And, uh, now they'll also— the difficult job of getting them out, that group. But that's different from this Somali group. So what can be done with this group? You know, I mentioned decertifying, uh, Medicare and Medicaid providers, you know. So in other words, let's do everything possible to cut off the spigot of fraud revenue from hardworking Americans to third-world scamsters, even if they call themselves Americans or have sort of the papers to call themselves Americans. I don't think they have ever culturally bought into what our nation is. So let's stop them. Let's do everything we can to make it hard to steal from the United States. You know, that's the, the first thing. But to me then, the bigger answer is I believe that it's time for an immigration moratorium. It's time for a legal immigration moratorium. And I know that is not yet a majority position, in this country. I do a lot of polling. That is not yet a majority position, although it's a growing position. And look, my father immigrated here. I don't believe— it's not that I, in theory, am against immigration. I think if it's done right and done well, it can be fantastic for this country. And it used to be fantastic for this country, but we demanded assimilation. So there were 2 big differences in sort of the heyday of immigration. Number one, we demanded assimilation. Number two, there was no safety net for the migrants, which is why a lot of migrants went back. That's sort of part of the immigration story, which isn't always told. The Ellis Island story is how many went back. Right? Because it wasn't easy to come to the United States, and there was no help, no public assistance for you if you came here from Italy or Ireland or wherever. It was sink or swim, quite literally, and assimilation demanded. Neither of those factors exist today. In fact, the opposite, right? We, particularly in places like Maine and Minnesota, we bend over backwards to make life comfortable for you, even if you're not really trying to swim, even if you would sink on your own. We'll give you the little life raft and pay for it, even if you hate us. That's, you know, sort of where we are now. So I believe that a pause, an immigration moratorium, makes a lot of sense. Let's assimilate the tens of millions of migrants that we— legal migrants, not the illegals, of course, the legal migrants that we have here already in this country. You know, we are at a higher percentage now than we have been of foreigners in the United States between legal and illegal than we have ever been in our history. We're higher than we were in the heyday of Ellis Island during the Industrial Revolution days. We are higher now. And of course, we're higher numerically. There's about, I think, credible estimates there were about 50 million foreigners total in the United States between the legal ones who are allowed to be here and the illegal ones. That is a massive, massive group of people. That's basically the population of the entire West Coast. It's actually a little more than the entire West Coast of the United States. Now, many of them want to be Americans. Many of them mean well. Many of them work hard. Some of them do not. Some of them are incredibly problematic. And again, particularly when it comes to Muslim migration, I would argue that one of the filters— if Steve Cortez could decide, we take a pause, immigration moratorium. Once we decide to restart immigration, and it is up to us, we're under no obligation to take in migrants. But once we decide to restart migration, one of the suggestions I would have certainly in terms of a filter is that the adherence of Islam are not welcome, and that that would at least be a strike against you, if not a disqualification from coming to the United States. Because we know from the record, the record of mass Muslim migration, how terrible it has been in Europe, where it's been tried here, like Minneapolis, Dearborn, Michigan, Lewiston, Maine. Texas is growing, unfortunately, with Islamic groups. We know how harmful it has been to this country as well. And We'll get called bigots for even saying that, but frankly, I don't care. You know, we've got something to save.

Is it possible legally to— because I, I dealt with the question because of freedom of religion under the Constitution, and you know that they're going to, um, by they I mean like the left is gonna, you know, sue or whatever it is and stop any kind of law. But I would say if the focus was on Islam, Islamic beliefs that are anti-American, because there is, there is Egyptians, there's Jordanians there, and they're all very different. If you get, you know, if you go and, you know, talk to the different Muslim communities, Somalia comes from this idea. They have al-Shabaab. They have all these very very recalcitrant ideas of how they're supposed to— very anti-American ideas. So I'm wondering if part of that can be defined as terrorist and that through that lens can be— we can stop that type of immigration. Because really, you're basically, you know, when we were fighting World War II, you wouldn't allow Germans to come in. Right. The same with this. You, you're basically allowing your own enemy to come in. Al-Shabaab is technically an al-Qaeda kind of terrorist group in Somalia, and they are funded, semi-funded by Iran. But it's like one of those things that I wish that we would separate from religion to ideology and be able to claim it's anti— you know, anti— an enemy, basically.

Yeah. No, I understand what you're saying. Also, though, too, regarding migrants, remember, you know, to a foreigner who's potentially going to become an American, you know, they don't have our rights as citizens, right? So, I mean, you know, we have, I believe, every legal and ethical right to determine the filters for letting somebody in and even filters that could never be used internally, right, within the United States.

Right.

Because they don't have rights until they get here. And so, but you're right, if you don't wanna make it a sort of religion test, what you certainly could do is just do it by country, but also by US statute. And this is actually interesting. And I've read the immigration laws and I'm not an attorney like you, but I've read the immigration laws and I understand them, I think, quite well. The president of the United States, any president, not just Trump, any president has basically king-like powers when it comes to immigration by law, by statute. The president of the United States at any time can exclude any foreigner for any reason, for any reason at all. It can be for a silly, capricious reason. I mean, I just don't like him or her, you know, or I don't want people with red hair. That would be legal. Okay. Now, again, it would never be legal to do something like that against American citizens. But, uh, when you talk to about foreigners who are abroad, once they get to the United States, by precedent, they have a lot of rights. I have problems with that. But regardless, that's right now, precedent. Um, but they have essentially no rights as foreigners outside of the United States.

But is Rosie O'Donnell a foreigner yet?

Yeah. Uh, you know, but what's reasonable? Okay, yeah, the more reasonable than saying, okay, no Muslims, might be to say nobody from these countries which are, you know, majority Muslim, and that takes care of the majority of the problem. I mean, fine, that might work. I'm also though too, again, I think the cleanest answer At least for the near term, for the next several years. To me, the Cleanse Act is saying, we're taking a pause period. Okay?

Yes.

Even if you are the most America-loving, pro-West Christian from England, we don't want you right now. We're going to take a break. It's time for us to assimilate, and then we can decide who we want to let in.

This moratorium that you think— you're thinking of, I think it should occur, but it should occur also with legal immigrants. So a lot of the immigration, most likely, I'm, I'm guessing from Somalia, is people are living here, they're legally here, they're asking for their parents or their sister, and they're able to get them here under a legal status, um, not through asylum seeking but through that way. That also needs to be cut off.

Yeah.

I always believe that, even for, um, any other nation, um, because that allows so many more people in than, than you're thinking.

No, chain migration has been a disaster. That has been the primary method of immigration to this country since 1965, uh, since, you know, the absolutely disastrous Immigration Act of 1965 that changed this country in, you know, very, very permanent ways. And I would like to see the 1965 Act undone. Now, that's clearly not going to happen in the current Congress, which gets almost nothing done despite having the Republican majority. And, uh, you know, an incredibly weak speaker, unfortunately. But that is something I think we should work toward. But there's a lot we can do before we undo 1965. You know, I mentioned my own father being an immigrant to this country. He came in the 1950s, before 1965, when there was almost no immigration to the United States in the 1950s. It was extremely difficult, and you had to get here on merit. There was no chain migration. It wasn't just because you had a relative here. You had to prove that you loved our country, that you were bringing skills that were going to be very valuable to the country, and that you were going to be self-sufficient. And the process, I mean, it was like getting into a really tough college basically, right, to get in the United States. And my own father, by the way, had come here for school. So he had come on a student visa. That wasn't very hard in those days. But when the student visa ran out, applied for permanent residency, didn't get it for whatever reason. But again, it was really hard in the 1950s. Pre-1965, we took in very few. So between sort of that Ellis Island period and 1965, there was almost no immigration to the United States. Or it was extremely difficult anyway. And so he was in that period at the latter end of that period, went back to Colombia where he's born and raised. And I asked him once, by the way, I said, did you ever think of staying here illegally? And he said, I would never do that. He said, you know, I love this country. I wanted to be part of it. I didn't want to be looking over my shoulder, but also I wouldn't disrespect this land that I wanted to be part of. He had already met my mother, was already in love. So he was in love with America, in love with mom. And literally the day he was allowed back, because he kept reapplying. The day he was allowed back, he was back, um, and never left again. And, you know, became an American citizen himself and had 6 children, one of which is me. Uh, and by the way, my father, uh, has been deceased for a long time, but, uh, and he wasn't particularly political, but when he would talk about illegal migration, holy cow, did it get him hot and angry. Uh, because he knew how hard it was and how hard it was for him. He wanted to be here. He had a girlfriend that he wanted to marry. Um, and, but he was respecting the rules of this country and Americans, and he He believed Americans had every right to determine how people come in. And thankfully in that case, you know, they did the right thing. They selected a guy, Alfonso Cortez, who loved this country, was incredibly productive, produced a large American family with an American woman. And, you know, they couldn't have gotten sort of a better return on investment, as it were, by letting him in. And there's a lot of those stories, of course. And I think we can get back to those stories, but I think we should take a break first.

Yeah.

And because we're not doing it right. At present. And, and the worst example of that maybe is what's going on in Lewiston, Maine.

But it's funny, it's funny you bring up your father. My father was, um, he passed away in El Salvador, but he, he— my mom asked him for us to move over here when he was alive, and he said, no, we're not moving there. Do you know what this is going to cost? This is an invasion. This immigration, uh, to the United States is going to collapse the United States because all of these people are immigrating there. And he would talk about like a— and this was in the '80s, right? Um, and it was amazing to see that how his prediction came true, unfortunately, and it's still coming true. And, you know, El Salvador, where I came from, brought— basically MS-13 started in the United States instead of having welfare fraud. there was tons of crime that Salvadorans brought and their children created in Los Angeles and in other states of the United States. But, you know, it's unfortunate. We were forced to immigrate because of political reasons, but you can see it all and it was known and it's unfortunate, you know. Yeah. And I know, Erick, I was supposed to Sorry, I cut you off.

Oh no, not at all. I, I'm just looking at a comment. Ray Green says taking a break just puts a pause until the Dems reopen the borders, does nothing to reverse the issue. But we have to win elections, you guys. So if we, you know, like, if Congress can't put in laws that say— so it's like what you said, Marcella, from Somalia to here they bypassed a ton of countries, you know, and that's not the way it's supposed to go.

Yes.

It's not— that's not how it's supposed to be. So if we had— if we were following the laws where, you know, if you want to— if you want asylum, you're supposed to go to the next country, not, you know, be like, hey, America, you know. So we don't want everyone's issues coming here. But if we don't pass laws with the Congress we have now, it's only going to get worse because more and more extremists are going into Congress and into Positions of power, like we keep talking about. The DSA is on the rise. AOC probably wants Chuck Schumer's job. Somebody should take Chuck Schumer's job because where is he with Mitch McConnell? I don't know what's going on there. But you know, so they're they're the Democrats that are supposed to be traditional Democrats, which are now out of their mind Democrats. They are living with suicidal empathy. They're too afraid to speak up and. stand up. You know, they're like, oh no, we're party people. No, you're, you're basically traitors to America and the Constitution because you're allowing everything to be trounced on. So if we don't start passing laws now, Steve, I don't know how we pass anything later that's a benefit for our country.

Yeah, no, I, I hear you, and, and believe me, I, I get the, uh, the frustration, right, which I'm certainly hearing from you. And, and, you know, I guess I'm voicing it as well. The asylum part, by the way, the Trump administration has done a fantastic job on asylum. So that those abuses are pretty much done for now. I know, of course, it would restart immediately with a Democrat president. I mean, I get that point. And again, I want to, I want to overturn the 1965 Immigration Act that, you know, that takes Congress to do. But let me give you the— let me give you this. I mean, and there are reasons, very valid reasons to be frustrated and even negative right, right now, given what's happening. Uh, but let me also say this. bigger picture, you know, how, how this can and I think will get fixed. But we've got to win in '26 and '28. If we, if we at least hold the line at these elections coming up in just a couple of months, if we win the presidency in 2028, and then— and I know this is several ifs, okay, but these aren't implausible— and then if we do the census correctly in 2030, and if we do not count illegals, right, which we have been counting for successive, uh, censuses Right? We know that the 2020 census, even the Census Bureau itself admits that it was done completely incorrectly because of the chaos of the COVID panic. So if we do the census scientifically and correctly and we don't count illegals, I would also argue we should not count foreigners, even though there's a lot of debate over that. And traditionally we have counted legal foreigners in the US census, even though they can't vote, we've counted them for apportionment. If we, that would be an even further gain. But given where the demographic trends of where America has moved, given the great sorting that has gone on, right, of the red states getting much bigger in population, people like me who have gone from Chicago to Tennessee, right, Tennessee's going to add congressional seats. I mean, no matter what, Tennessee's going to add congressional seats. It's a matter of how many. Illinois is going to lose seats, right? New Jersey is going to lose seats. Florida is going to gain. Uh, you know, that will happen regardless of how we do the census. But my point is, if we really do it correctly and scientifically, scientifically, and there's a Republican president— I hope it's President Vance, but whoever you hope it is, whoever that Republican president is— and if we do that correctly in 2030, uh, there is a, a reasonable projection then, uh, and I think a reasonable hope that this isn't being Pollyanna, just, you know, saying, oh, everything will always be fine. But I'm telling you, if we can win '26 and '28, do the census correctly in '30, I think we win for decades. I truly do. Um, you know, and I think that the trends would then be so favorable for us. We would have such political tailwinds, such demographic tailwinds, given what has happened in this country in terms of where people have moved and what states have gotten stronger and are thriving as red states. Also, on top of that, this is really big picture, but when you start looking sort of the mid-2030s out, by the time, you know, guys like me are old, only religious and conservative people are having children. So like demographically, we are going to win, especially if we, if we hold the line on immigration, right? So if we don't have so much mass migration to this country, and if we're relying on our internal reproduction and our internal growth for this country, the good news is the crazy leftists don't have kids. They don't believe in children. They may not get married at all, or if they do get married, they don't have children. If they happen to have a child, it's one at most. Whereas who, you know, who's having 4 or 5, 6 kids? It's religious and conservative people, right? who are. So anyway, I'm just giving you the, the bigger picture. You know, none of that matters if we don't win '26 and '28 though, right? Because if we lose '28 and the Democrats are in charge of the census, they'll probably do it even worse than they did in 2020, right?

Right.

Count every illegal and probably triple count every illegal, right?

Yeah.

So the stakes though, I think, are that high. But I also think, you know, while I'm really angry, right, because of what I document there in Maine, I mean, I'm angry about it, right? By the way, I'm going to Dearborn, Michigan next. I'll have security for that one.

And a Xanax, I hope.

And a translator.

Going into the belly of the beast for that. But I'm going to highlight that because we've got a serious Senate race obviously there as well. You know, believe me, I'm as angry as anybody about what's going on. But I also do believe that there are some really valid data-based reasons, evidence-based reasons to be really hopeful about the future and to just work our tails off for '26 and '28.

Yeah, I've said the same thing, and I, I, you know, I think it's moving in the right direction. But I, I do, you know, I always think about second-order thinking, and my real question that I come out with is what happens to the Democrat Party? Because at a certain point, if they're losing every election, they're not just gonna stay the same way, right? Either another party is going to replace them, or they're going to have to totally reinvent themselves to be closer to where the American people are. Which is a good thing. I mean, you know, maybe it will be that they'll move more towards the center, or, you know, however you want to define that. But I, I just think, you know, it— our, our government is kind of this back and forth between the parties system. And if one of them keeps losing, losing, losing consistently, I don't think people will keep donating money to them, right?

Yeah.

They're gonna, they're gonna demand a completely different party.

Well, the Democrat Party of today is incredibly different from the Democrat Party of, you know, Bill Clinton's presidency, right? So yes, to your point, it can change massively. It's changed. It's lurched massively to the left. And is it possible that it gets back, you know, to the center? Yeah, absolutely. You know, absolutely possible. But let's make them do that is my answer. Let's be the forcing function to make them get reasonable again. And then if they start winning elections as reasonable people, well, okay, that's actually fine, I guess, you know, for our country. You know, let's get there.

Right.

That's also, though, I think brings up a good point that right now, and listen, again, I'm not being Pollyanna about right now, okay? Because like I said, I do a lot of polling. And right now, pretty much every one of these statewide races that are significant, these Senate races and the governor's races that I'm polling, we're down in all of them, okay? Now, we're not way down, okay? We're within striking distance, but we're losing all of them. If the election were today, holy cow, would I be nervous. I mean, I think the Dems would have a heck of a night. Um, because people don't like the economy right now and they really don't like the war. Uh, that's just the truth out there, okay? And this is my polling. This is not left-wing polling. I'm not trying to put my thumb on the scale either way, by the way. I, I don't also want, you know, just pro-MAGA, pro-America First results just for the sake of it. No, I want scientific results as best I can get.

Yeah.

And we are, we are absolutely behind. We are the underdogs right now in these races. What, what we have going for us though, thankfully, is the Democratic Party is so radical And they have nominated such extreme, unlikable, unrelatable candidates that I think even with a tough macro environment of people not liking the economy, not supporting the war, I think we've got a good chance to beat a lot of these candidates. And I think we will in fact beat a lot of these candidates once Americans really start paying attention, which for most normal people, like this audience is very different, right? Super dialed in. But for most normies out there, they're not gonna really start paying attention till after Labor Day. Maybe not really, really until October, right? And once they do, if guys like me and organizations like mine and affiliate organizations, if we do a great job of exposing just how nuts these Democrats are, and, you know, and they are, you know, Troy Jackson in Maine and El-Sayed in Michigan and a lot of others, then I think we win these elections. But they're going to be tight. You know, they're going to be narrow.

So look at Talarico in Texas too. I mean, this is insanity. The guy's a mess. Yeah. And it's like Texas. I don't think they understand what's happening there either. So what's the call to action? What's our call to action, Steve? What do we need to do today? Because I'm also concerned with all this early voting and then information comes out later and people have already thrown their ballot in.

Yeah.

So what is the call to action for the Scott Adams School for all of us here that we should be doing and thinking about and saying? Yeah, what do you suggest?

Well, let me be real specific and then a little more general. Specifically, it's interesting you mentioned early voting because— so I was just in the studio finishing up some documentary work for documentaries that are being edited right now. They're in the can, as we say in the kind of the film world. So I was in the studio and one of the things I filmed— this will be out within days because this is a quick one, it's not really a documentary— but I did an interview with Ned Ryan, who a lot of you probably know is on Fox News a lot. He runs American Majority. He's a fantastic very influential, you know, right-wing political campaign operative. And we did a video together trying to encourage our people to early vote. And that's a hard task, okay? Because a lot of our people do not want to early vote. They want to vote on game day. And I totally understand it. And I used to be a game day only voter. And I realize how much of us hate the current procedures for good reasons, for valid reasons. We hate the way elections are structured. You know, particularly the most egregious example is the states that mail ballots to every supposedly valid voter. Right? And they're essentially mailing the political version of live ammunition, right? I mean, just begging for abuses and ballot harvesting by the Democrats. So I get that people hate the system and say, no, I'm voting only in person on Election Day. But here's the problem. It gives us a huge disadvantage versus the Democrats because their constituency has fully embraced early voting, whether it's in person or by mail. So we go into almost every Election Day, we go into game day with gigantic deficits, even in elections that we end up easily winning, we go in with massive deficits. It's too much pressure for us to make up at the last minute in general. Can it work? Yes, it worked in 2024, obviously. But the point is, the earlier you bank your vote, what I do is I go in person. I don't like doing the mail thing. I go as early as I can, early in-person voting so that I have presented myself. I have shown my ID. Thankfully here in Tennessee, they do check ID, make sure you're an American citizen. I know that doesn't happen a lot of places, but it does here. And get that vote banked. And what I will tell you is, and this is the part that people may not realize, If they're not involved in campaigns, and Ned Ryan and I really get into this in the interview. It'll be out in just the next couple days, and it's only about I think ten minutes long by the time we're done. It's like a long commercial, basically. And he really explains this is one of the reasons gives the Democrats such a big advantage is because groups like his that are chasing the ballots, the get out the vote groups, GOTV. Once it's public, it's not public information who you voted for, but it's public information when you vote, and in most states it's instant. So we know, the left knows too, they know their voter voted, right? So they literally check it, take that guy off the list. Don't, don't keep chasing this woman. Number one, they'll stop bothering you. Okay, so you'll stop getting the texts and the calls and potentially door knocks. But more importantly, it saves so much money. So Ned makes the case, for example, if you, if you vote as early as you can in the window or early in-person voting, generally to chase your vote, if we believe you're our voter and we're going to remind you and pester you, frankly, to vote, his group will spend on average about $15 per voter. If you wait all the way to game day, they're going to spend over $100.

Wow.

So literally more than 6 times as much, you know, and roughly 6 times as much they're going to spend on you. And the Dems, because their people love to vote early, they are, they are banking a bunch of those $15, you know, per voter. And so think of the difference, right? Then think of the firepower they have then to go after the remaining voters, to do more ads on television. So it's, it's a financial issue as well. So I want to— that's the tangible thing to answer your question here, because I want to please encourage everybody and everyone you know who thinks like you, please vote early. All right. And even if you hate the system, I do too. Okay. I don't want vote by mail. But the only way we change it is by winning elections, right? In other words, we can't change the rules of the game until we've earned the power to change the rules of the game in the current rules. So that's my tangible thing, you know, sort of more practical. The kind of more general thing is be as informed as you can possibly be, right? Watch this show. Please watch my documentaries. Make sure that you know the truth. And then whatever your sphere of influence is, you've got to talk to people and encourage them, right? You know, and do it in a positive way. You don't have to nag them and say, you know, you moron, you don't know anything about this. I'm going to instruct you. No, just, you know, constructively say, hey, have you ever thought of this? Did you know what's going on here? Would you be willing to read this article? Would you be able to watch this short? Documentary, whatever your sphere of influence is. And it might be massive. You might have a huge sphere of influence, right? Maybe you're the pastor of a huge church or you're the CEO of a big company, or it might be a relatively small sphere, right? Maybe you just know a few people at your book club, but that's fine. Or just the neighbors on your street. But whatever it is, please do your work. Be a force multiplier. Be a political evangelist for us. So vote yourself. Convince people who think like you to vote early. Vote early yourself. Get other people to do that. And then more generally, Be informed and be a force multiplier within your sphere of influence. And if we do that and convince people, and especially, you know, who needs a lot of convincing are people who are not terribly political. So, you know, we call them low propensity, low prop is sort of the term, low prop Trump voters. So they came out and voted in droves for Trump in 2024. They're fired up. They hated what was happening with the border. They couldn't stand Biden's inflation, but they're not particularly political people. They generally, they're just, you know, they're not like us.

They don't. Yeah.

They're just not involved in the way we are. By the way, I don't say that as a negative. I'm not looking down on them. People have busy lives. They have lots of things to do in their life. If they don't choose to get that involved in politics, fine. But when it comes to election time, let's convince them that it matters, right? And let's persuade them. Let's twist their arms. Let's nudge them a little bit, pestering if you need to. Make sure they're registered, first of all. And you can check that. It's online, right? So you can check if they're registered at their current address. And then encourage them to vote early and bug them a little, quite frankly. So both the persuasion game of, hey, here's why you should care, but then also the, the get out the vote game of, you know, have you voted yet? Hey, I didn't see you. I didn't see you checked off the list yet. You know, please go vote.

So if you know anyone, you guys, that moved recently, or even if they moved like a year ago, that's a good intro to just be like, hey, you know, you recently moved. Let's check to make sure that you're registered to vote at your current address because this election is so important. You know, like, that's like an opener. And then you could actually check with them and make sure. And also, I think I think it's important to say vote early in person because obviously there's not one person watching this that thinks if you mail in your vote that it's going to be counted accurately. I mean, we just, we just have every reason to believe it won't be. So I like that. I like that. Um, I have a random question. What does— I see you on, uh, with Steve Bannon a lot. What is his, you know, 2-minute assessment on what's happening for Like right now with the elections and the midterms, how does he see it going?

Sure. And by the way, yeah, I'm gonna be on his show after this. So I wouldn't tell people to go watch if you were still on, but since you're done, thank you.

Tell them I said hello. Okay.

I will. Yeah. Stephen, Steve. About 11:15 Eastern. So shortly after this. Okay. Busy day for me, which is good. I mean, no, listen, I love to be busy. I'm trying to help. You know, we all are to save this country. And I'm believe me, I'm honored and blessed that I have a role in the fight, that I can do it for a living and get, you know, that I can get paid to do something I love and really care about and make these kind of documentaries and try to help this, this country. But to answer your question about Steve, uh, he's where I am. He is optimistic but realistic, you know, guardedly optimistic, and realizes that right now we're down. I mean, we are, we are down in these races. Let's not sugarcoat it, okay? Uh, you know, most of the polling is good, not all of it, uh, but most of it is good. It's at least a snapshot of where we are right now. But there are also legitimate reasons to believe we're going to do better. You know, for example, you might have read about it, and this is accurate. And I, you know, I know this is a pollster. Democrats tend to poll better in the summertime in every cycle. They just do. And the main reason for that is they're more obsessed with politics generally, they are, than our voters are. Our voters have a lot of things going on in their lives.

Like jobs.

Jobs, families, religious faith, right? They're not obsessed with politics generally. our side. We don't view politics as our God. It's not our faith generally. On the left, it is. I mean, it truly is.

Right.

They are a secular humanist crowd that views politics the way religious people view their faith. That's just reality. And so for them, they're more dialed in in the summer than most right-wing or center-right voters are. So there's always a bit of an exaggeration. So their leads are probably not quite as substantial as they look right now, even in my own polling. But here, by the way, let me, let me give you a polling preview. I've told no one this yet. Okay.

Yes, yes, yes.

This morning from Minnesota, because I was pretty curious. I'm a huge football fan. So I've been following Michelle Tafoya as a football broadcaster forever. And I'm hoping, hey, is there a Democrat state we can pick off? Right. I think we're going to pick off Michigan. We all say that, I do. But is there another one? Is it Minnesota? Is it another Midwest state? And because I think Tafoya is running a very good campaign. Now again, she's not exactly my kind of candidate. I mean, she's not a hardcore America Firster like me, but probably the right kind of candidate that can win there. And, um, and Minnesota people are, are ticked off and a lot of things that happen in Minnesota, especially the Somali scam at scale in Minnesota. So anyway, uh, I just polled Minnesota. None of this is public. I haven't even told my colleagues, uh, at work, but I'm gonna tell you, uh, she is down 2 in my poll. So a total horse race that is within the margin of error. I think, uh, this— I think the margin of error on this one is 2.6. I'd have to look. I mean, I literally just got these numbers, uh, and I didn't have time to dig in in detail, uh, before I got on the air with you. But anyway, that tells me like, okay, interesting. Do we need to start working on Minnesota? Uh, you know, it tells me Steve Cortez at least should probably try to do what he can to pitch in. I'm going to try to talk to some of, you know, my other folks and some of the large donors who might have interest that, hey, we've got a horse race in Minnesota. Can we make the Dems— Yeah. And even if we don't win it, can we make them play defense there? That matters too. Remember, a lot of this is sort of a chess game, right, of where did the money go? Because the money's infinite, right? Even with mega donors on the left and right, it's not infinite, right? So where you deploy the capital can matter a ton. And if the Democrats all of a sudden say, crap, we've got to defend Minnesota, just like Republicans are saying, crap, we've got Texas, right?

Yeah.

Or Ohio. I mean, don't get me wrong, this goes both ways, obviously, this sort of tic-tac, you know, uh, tit-for-tat game. But anyway, according to my poll, Minnesota's in play. And I, I think Michelle Tafoya, who again, I'm not totally with ideologically, but I think she's an excellent candidate. She's obviously amazing on television. I mean, it's her life, right? I think she's one of the better sports broadcasters out there for decades, um, and I think has some pretty good ideas and ideologically probably fits the state pretty well. So anyway, is that, is that an opportunity? Gosh, I hope so. That would be a big reason to be optimistic if we've got a horse race in Minnesota.

Yeah, if Minnesota can't— I mean, if, if they haven't been through enough to be like, we gotta change what we're doing. I don't think they're ever coming back because that is some next level insanity we've never seen the likes of in this country ever. Um, between Tim Walz and everything else going on there and Don Lemon's stunt in the church and all of that stuff, I mean, crazy town. Um, I like, I like Michelle. I think she's a— I think she's got like that balance to maybe appeal to a wider variety of people in Minnesota.

Yeah.

Than being hardcore one way or the other.

I agree.

Yeah.

I think she's kind of a common sense person, right?

Yeah.

She's not, she's not as right-wing again as I would prefer, but you know, she's, she's not running in Tennessee where I am. She's running in Minnesota. And I agree, I, I think she's just a common sense person and she's largely running on the, uh, the gender nonsense, right? The leftist gender, and particularly when it comes to sports, because of course that's her world, right?

Yeah.

And that's, I think, what really motivated her to get to political was, you know, seeing, you know, men and boys abusing girls in sports is outrageous. And the left has lost its mind on that issue. And that compelled her to get involved in politics. And I think she's a very sort of— she would be a common-sense center-right senator. And wouldn't that be a big win over what we have, you know, people like Tim Walz being elected statewide in Minnesota?

Yes, for sure. Owen, I'm sorry I haven't gotten to you.

No, I mean, I, I am very concerned about the midterms, and I think we need to do everything we possibly I think it's critical. I am more concerned about '28, frankly, just because I think in big picture, what I see if we lose midterms in terms of Congress control is, okay, nothing happens in Congress, but nothing's happening anyway. And I still think it's bad because you know what's going to happen. They're going to impeach Trump 3 times. They're going to have hearing after hearing after hearing trying to, you know, grill people, and it's going to be a big distraction. But largely speaking, Trump will still be able to do his executive orders, and we'll still be doing a lot of what we have been doing. And I'm guessing it's not going to be bad enough that Democrats would have, like, you know, supermajority control. But even if they did, Trump would just veto everything. So I, I'm more concerned about '28 just because that's what's really going to set the direction. That's really what's gonna, you know, do that. And, and again, I'm not trying to say don't go vote. Of course, do everything you just said. I mean, I, I really would love, love to have Congress remain in Republican control and maybe even gain some seats. But, um, you know, I, I see that as the bigger risk, is that if we get a Democrat in Congress, it could just totally undo everything Trump did. And, you know, because so much of it is executive orders, it's not law. And so Right. Like that to me is just like, it would be a disaster to have a radical Democrat like AOC or somebody become president.

Yeah. Uh, never, never, never, never. Wait, I, I'm really, I'm actually the opposite. I'm really hopeful for 2028. We have great candidates, great, uh, JD Vance, um, Marco Rubio, uh, you know, Ron DeSantis. There's so much talent that I am not afraid. Like, I am not afraid. Maybe Besant, maybe Steve Cortez.

Let's go, Steve!

But you know what I mean? There's so much talent. There was a point in time between Bush and Trump that there was not as much talent there, but right now there's so many young people and younger candidates that can run and can last for longer. But I think I think one thing that I do want to point out that Steve said is very key is vote early, because when the voting comes in and they talk about it in the news, you start feeling like, oh, we're just losing. Well, I'm not going to show up, um, to vote, you know. So go early, uh, don't give up until, you know, it's over, you know. Yes, there's cheating. Yes, there's fraud, but don't let that set you behind.

Go ahead, Steve.

Yeah, no, I agree 100%. If I can, you know, please implore the audience with marching orders, it's that vote early yourself, work your sphere of influence. Uh, we're down in these races, so have a sense of urgency but not despondency. We can win. We can win all of these races. We're within striking distance.

The good news, you guys, we're going to see Steve a lot from now until the midterms, so get used to it. And we're very excited about that. And I will post the full episode or the full documentary today after the show for Steve's latest documentary. And Steve, thank you so, so much for being here. Again, tell Neil War Room that the Scott Adams School said hello. And listen, you guys, always a thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to continue. Thank you to every single person that shows up here every day. We appreciate you so much. And everyone watching in the replay, shout out to you guys too.

Thank you.

And if anyone wants to make clips of our show that we can post on Scott Adams YouTube, make a clip, DM them to me. And if the Scott Adams team enjoys them, we're going to put them on YouTube. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And as always, let's have a closing sip to our most beloved Scott Adams that we miss so, so much, you guys. To Scott.

To Scott.

To Scott.

Bye, Steve. I know you have to run. The home team will be back tomorrow. Steve, I'll kick you out so you can go. Okay, the home team returns tomorrow, you guys, um, to close out the week. And I think we're gonna have an amazing whiteboard with Scott tomorrow, so we'll be looking forward to that. Owen and Marcella, any closing comments?

That was awesome. Yeah, I think it was a great show. I'm glad Steve could make it. I think we had a great conversation.

Agreed. We'll be all again tomorrow. Yeah. All right, guys, so we're gonna go. Should I stay and do an Akira song? Owen, if you have to jet, jet away. Marcella, same, same. Okay, okay. See you later. Okay, bye guys. All right, so let's pick a song. Let's see. Da da dum. I gotta get back over here. I was seeing if anyone dropped a song in the chat. Which one, you guys? Let's see. It's whatever it is. It's going to be perfect, Jim Courtney. You are a basket case. Let's say oh oh there's so many good ones laziness. Basket case for Courtney. The universe owes me. Okay, whichever one I see first, let me say da da da da da da da. Basket case theory. Here we go. I feel like we just did this one, but we're doing it.

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

Love it. I can take it, Andy. I can take it. It's all in love. You guys are the best. Oh my God, the puffy shirt. You guys, when I rewatched yesterday the comments, I was peeing my pants. You guys are so freaking funny, and you did not disappoint. And I did pick out that shirt for you guys. I was like, you know what, they're gonna appreciate the puffy shirt. I can feel it. And you did, and you did. Okay, so we'll be back tomorrow, the home team, to close out another week. Do the weeks go so fast? It's Crazy, Flynn Lizzie Annie Annie. How can you send me a message, or how can I send you a message? Well, you don't have to make that public, but I heard we can send a message through YouTube. Marcella said, "I don't know." But basically, you guys, so if you're on YouTube and you want to come over to locals, it is scottadams.locals.com, and it's nineteen cents a day. For the year, 19 cents a day. I I had Chester, my AI assistant, help me with that math, Josie. So that was good. Let's see, just looking at your comments. You guys say goodbye, Bella the Bayou. Thank you. I know, Dr. Von Hardy. You must go back at least just to see my shirt because it was. Quite something. I was trying to measure up to Thomas's Britishness. I mean, look, he's like you know right in the morning, like full suit and everything happening. I was like, oh, I know he's gonna be fancy. So I love you guys. Bye, Crank One. All right, guys. So we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks, Bart. See ya. See ya tomorrow. Oh, you guys, I hope no one's stroking out today. I turned off my ceiling fan, so nothing should be. Flickering, right? Is that better? Better, better. Good. So I do see your comments. I do adjust when I can. Okay. All right. Love you guys so much. I'll see you in the morning.

Bye.

Thanks, Karen. You too. Bye, Smar. Thanks, Josie. I'll give her a hug right now. Oh, thanks, Wig Pick. That's sweet. Thank you.