The Scott Adams School - 09/04/26 FRI-YAY! The Home Team

No, you're too hot.

Always.

Happy Friday, you guys!

Happy Friday!

I love when Marcelo's like that.

Even though I have a huge deadline today, so it's not a happy Friday for me, but it's—

Oh, I got to hear it twice.

Think how good you'll feel when you're done.

Yes.

Well, it's not done done, you know, there's still a trial going forward.

Oh yes.

But let's just think how good you'll be done that you hit your deadline.

I know, I felt good this week too on another deadline. Got that lady.

Owen looks short.

Oh no, I look like a giant.

Oh, I can look as tall as you want me to look.

Owen and I—

I mean, Marcella and I are towering over you. Good morning everybody, it's Friday. I could lower my chair. Wait, there.

I don't like lower chair. Don't lower your chair.

I, I can't.

I got a booster seat.

You guys don't understand, I have like 2 cushions under me. Now my mic's all wacky. All right, whatever. Here we go. Um, and Owen's—

What are you guys saying down there?

Owen's leaving early today, you guys.

Okay, so we'll, we'll let Owen do the first half of the show.

All right, Owen, go ahead.

No.

Okay, so you guys, someone made a song for us and I wanted to play it. You ready? I'm gonna find it. It's called—

Are you guys ready over there?

Yeah, they're they're anonymous. Okay, so like they don't need any credit, but they and they actually had to pay to do it through an app. I'm like so sweet. So it's called Sip-a-Doo Song, like Sippity Doo. But let's just take a quick listen and we'll get right into the sip.

Sippity doo da, sippity a. Welcome to the Scott Adams School today. Simultaneous sipping is the best way to start off a wonderful sip. Sippity-doo day. Eric, who will host while Marcella smiles away? Oh, and we'll be telling you the news of the day. Plenty of sunshine heading your way. Now go out and have a wonderful sippity-doo day. Raise your cup, greet the morning. Every friendly face is here. Good news rolling, bright hearts glowing. Make the best of every cheer. Erika will host while Marcella smiles away. Owen will be telling you the news of the day. Plenty of sunshine heading your way. Now go out and have a wonderful sippity-doo day.

Sippity-doo-dah, sippity-ay.

Have a wonderful— Sippity-doo day.

And we did sing it. So we were singing it.

That's great.

It reminds me of one of my happy songs. Do you have a happy song?

Uh, I have many, many happy songs.

My happy song is Walking on Sunshine.

It does. Yes, it totally reminds me of that. Oh, thank you so much for making that for us. Your comments are epic in the chat. Um, love it. And, and anytime Andy acts up, I'm just gonna play the song. So that's that. There we go. Or EJ. EJ, you act up and the song comes on. Okay, so let's get to the real, real sip with Scott.

It's the thing that makes everything better. It's a simultaneous sip, and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the Dopa Peanut of the Day, the thing that makes everything better.

Everything.

It's called the simultaneous sip and happens now.

Go.

Mm-hmm.

Delightful. That was your Friday sip by Scott Adams. Welcome to the Scott Adams School. My name is Erica and I'm joined today by Owen and Marcella. I love when we're all here together. And as we said, Owen will be dropping out a little bit early. He's got a Dead line to hit himself. Okay, so you guys, so much going on. I don't know where to start, but the one thing I have to start with, and you guys can help me fill in the blanks— my girl Maria Bartiromo. Okay, so all I know is she was fired from Fox News for allegedly leaking internal texts to the White House. She looks pissed, and they fired her. But but she hired Brian Friedman, who is an amazing attorney representing people such as Tucker Carlson, Jason Baldoni, Megan Kelly. So between Tucker and Megan, this attorney obviously knows how to sue Fox News. So something's amiss. So we'll see what happens. But I'm not happy about losing my Maria. Marcela, did you hear any more on this?

Um, that the, the texts were regarding the 2020 elections. Uh, you know, President Trump had a speech regarding China, and I guess Fox News had indicated to their staff— this is alleged, by the way, Fox— so, um, it alleges that she told this information to President Trump, and the information was that Fox News wanted to kind of tone it down on the whole 2020 election issue and fraud, um, which was a coverage because President Trump gave a speech about it. I remember we covered it, and so she didn't feel right about that. So she informed— allegedly she informed someone, which we don't know if that's true either.

So, and she is not going to be the press secretary, you guys. There's just not a chance of that happening. Um, In, in my opinion. I mean, that's like a lot of work running around. Like, she's an established wealthy woman. She does not need to be jumping on Air Force One and running all over and answering to a bunch of pains in the butts, if you know what I'm saying.

Even being accused of leaking would indicate to me that maybe she's not as much of a friend of the administration. I mean, I know I, I think she is. I mean, I don't, I don't think she's anti-Trump. I'm just saying, like, that kind of accusation really smears your reputation in the eyes of a lot of people.

And— Oh, I gotcha. Yeah.

Like, if you're leaking stuff from the White House, like, I mean, that would be kind of disqualifying for that position.

True.

This is true.

Well, she, she wasn't leaking anything from the White House. She was leaking something from Fox News.

Okay.

But to the White House.

Oh, yes.

Okay.

I misunderstood.

Oh, oh, I thought— oh, and I thought you meant if she leaked, she could leak again.

She has loyalty. Well, I mean, that loyalty lies with Trump.

So I did misunderstood. But yes, Erica, you're right. I mean, I think when you're leaking things, it does also indicate, you know, can you really trust this person to keep things secret?

Correct.

And I just have to say, we don't know if this is true at all. So this could just be false, uh, fake news.

So Yeah, no, totally. I mean, I'm not— I hope I didn't make it sound that way. I'm just saying, like, I was talking about it more from a political—

Yeah, yeah. No, no, I mean, right?

Like, like, there's the accusations out there now, right?

Everyone's—

some people are thinking she did it, some people are thinking she didn't do it. Like, but it's circling, and then people like us are talking about it. So, like, yeah, you know, it's, it's out there. So there's an impact to that, just like we talked about with the Epstein files. It's like just having your name out there associated with something makes a difference. It doesn't matter whether it's true sometimes.

Right, right, right, right. So she hired the best attorney she could for this situation. So it's—

I mean, Maria didn't call me, kind of mad, but I don't practice New York, so.

Yes, logistics, otherwise you would have for sure. Totally.

Duh.

Um, okay, so listen, I asked Owen, since he's gonna skedaddle early, if we could go over the jobs number, um, for August jobs reports. I have one clip here and then let's chat it out.

But this number was way, way better than I expected. And it wasn't just me. We went back and looked and 77 people posted their forecast at Bloomberg and this blew past everybody. So this, this, this number was above anybody's forecast and by a lot. It was 4 standard deviations above the mean. And so it's a really blockbuster number. And then when you're trying to say, well, why did it happen? If you dig down, then what you can see is that there's a lot of policy success underneath it all. And so capital spending is through the roof. It's getting set to about double since President Trump took office relative to GDP. And you're seeing the construction of factories through the roof. So employment— one of the most interesting things to me in the data is that since President Trump took office, employment for people who are building factories has gone up by 90,000. So think about how many future jobs that's going to create. And so I think that the tariffs are making people onshore activity. The expensing is making people want to invest like crazy. And that's creating construction jobs and also beginning to show up in factory jobs too, which now are up 50-something thousand since Trump took office after declining over the last few years.

All right, SJV, don't get scared. I'm just teasing you. But Owen's very focused on his job right now, so you can talk to him about that later.

Okay.

So Owen, good news for jobs numbers?

Yeah, well, I mean, it is good news. I think if I were in Scott's shoes, I would probably be thinking like, can we believe this number? Is it going to get revised away? Is there something else that's on the other side of this? Because that report was very one-sided. This is just Trump wins, the job numbers are through the roof, the economy's going nuts. Obviously contrary to a lot of the rest of the media narrative of, you know, like everything's unaffordable, nobody can buy anything. And, you know, I, I, and I think a lot of it is somewhere in the middle, you know. I mean, there, there are certainly some issues in the economy, but there are certainly some things that are going well. I mean, the stock market's near record highs, if it's not at a record high. It looks like it's slightly down today, but, you know, only in that record high range. And, um, So at least from that perspective, and, and that's, I think, what people typically do with these job numbers, you know, it's like it doesn't really have a practical impact other than just what do I expect to happen to the economy, and therefore what do I expect to happen to the stock market, I think. But, um, Right. You know, it is an indicator of what's going on. It's just like, I, I do have this little thing in the back of my mind, like, can we trust this data? Because those jobs numbers change so much sometimes where it's like, oh, a huge jobs number, and then 3 months later Actually, it was negative and those million jobs never existed. So I don't know if I can trust it, but I do think it's good news in general. It's certainly better than the opposite and it might be true. And I do think there are some real policy wins. So I'm not arguing with anything. I think a lot of what was said in that report is probably true.

So did they say, I didn't pay super close attention to it when I heard it this morning, but did they say What the bulk of those jobs are from?

I, I think the, the main thing they focused on was the construction, like data centers.

That's right. Yes.

Like manufacturing and data centers. They said there was like 90,000 jobs in construction. And I think that's mostly from other stories I've posted. You know, it's mostly focused on data centers and, you know, housing too. But I think it's to the point where people can't find people to do the housing because they're being pulled to do data centers.

Oh, okay. Right.

Well, that's a ton of demand for construction skills. You know, if you're an electrician or a carpenter or a plumber, you're, you're really busy right now.

And if you're not one, get to be one quick.

The main numbers that I have are for food service and drinking places and local government education went up in July. And then like Owen said, the manufacturing, I guess, went up as well.

Good.

All right. So there it is. Where do you get a job? There's your ideas, you guys. I'm just looking at Beverly's comment. Beverly, why do you distract me so much? I see Beverly writing. I'm like, what's Beverly saying?

I do think to Beverly's point about— Beverly is saying, for anyone who can't see it, that she hasn't seen or felt a bad economy that everyone else has. And I think we are in this 2 movies on one screen thing. It depends on who you are and where you are in the socioeconomic ladder. Like, they, they talk about this K-shaped economy where, like, rich people are doing really well and poor people are doing really bad. And I'm sure there's some truth to that. And, like, but it's also, like, I, I think a lot of it is misinformation, frankly. You know, they'll focus on a $20 burrito, and it's like, how many people really do that or need to do that? And, um, you know, there are certain things that are up in price, but then they're down next week. And, like, it, it's like there's I've seen analysis that make the case that we're doing great and it sounds very convincing and maybe it is the documentary effect that Scott liked to talk about, but I've seen equally convincing arguments that the economy's about to fall off a cliff. So I don't know what's true. And I think there are people in both camps that are very sure that their view of it is correct.

Yeah. I mean, it obviously depends on what your day-to-day life is like, what you're doing. Are you going off to a job? Are you depending on a paycheck? Are you raising a family? It just depends where you're at. So, um, I mean, I, I like the sound of the report. And as Kev said on here, like, can we just have this good news for the day, like, before we squash it? So sure. Yeah, Kev, you got this for the day for sure, until we ruin it for you tomorrow. I'm just kidding. We're not gonna ruin it for you. Um, only because we're not on tomorrow. Okay, so Marcella, I love this.

Yes.

whole Tesla Cybercab idea. So I don't know. All right, I'm gonna play the clip. You can talk over it.

Okay.

Tell us what's going on. But I— what I want the people watching to think— no, not to think. I want to know what you think when you see this and what your initial thoughts are. So like, drop it in the chat what you think about the Cybercabs. Okay, here we go.

You know what Scott would think?

What?

Look at the color. What does that say? What age are we in?

The golden? Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. So I'm looking at these people in the cyber— these are taxis, you guys, cyber cabs. And so, okay. All right. So Marcela, tell us about them.

So basically, most of you guys know that Tesla Cybercab was a thing that Elon unveiled a while ago, but this is regarding the actual— it's serviced. They're actually ready to go. There's only 45 CyberCabs in Texas that were serviced, but on September 3rd, there'll be about 420 Tesla Robotaxis. A lot of people are saying, oh, this is going to take until 2028, blah, blah, blah. The government is looking into it. How come there's no steering wheel? All these things. But I mean, this This is just— it drives itself, it does its job. Um, yesterday, the reason we're talking about is that yesterday there was an unveiling of actual people onto the CyberCab. It's by— it was an invite only, but today starts, um, everybody that I guess wasn't invited can go on to it. And the main thing is like, it shows the future. It's like, um, it gives me a good sense of where we're going, that, you know, sometimes we just have to go do things and not allow, you know, restrictions or thinking, oh, I can't do X or Y or Z because the government's going to like regulate it or however it is. So in Austin, this was a great, you know, it went well. There was no issues. Everybody was able to test out the CyberCab. Everybody was amazed what it does. It even will have internet from Starlink. Um, it changes the lights. It's so cool. The lights inside the CyberCab change pursuant to the music if you want. Um, it can change lives because if you don't, uh, if you're in a wheelchair or, uh, if you're in some kind of issue that you can't drive anymore, it just drives you.

All right, so Owen, what do you think when you're watching that?

And one last detail.

Yes, ma'am.

The back of it, like, um, it's big so it can fit a body. That's just something.

Thank you.

That's just my Friday report. Go ahead, Owen.

I'm not sure what that means, but okay. Um, I, I think, you know, to me it makes me think of what I've been saying for a little while, which is like every science fiction movie we've ever seen is coming true at once. Like, it just— it's like, okay, this is right out of I, Robot, right? Like, that was the scene where everyone's being driven around by the automatic cars. And it's like, that's exactly— I mean, I'm, I, I'm guessing that it might have guided why Elon is doing this. Like, how it got here probably had something to do with some of these science fiction stories that have been turned into movies and stuff. But it just, it just seems like it, you know, a lot of these are dystopian futures, but a lot of them also have really cool technology. And, you know, so I— it seems right along the lines of that and just makes me think, okay, here's another one. Here's another science fiction movie that's coming true where you're going to have these automatic cabs that are driving you where you want to go. And, you know, there's not even a steering wheel in the car and it's kind of amazing.

Okay, who's with me? I'm like, okay, how long till people are like breaking this computer screen, smashing everything in there, of course, wilding out in the cyber cab, destroying them. This is where my head goes. And I'm just like, we just don't really have that civil society anymore that would be like, oh, look at this. So I went right to the negative, you guys. I am so sorry, but I hope they don't destroy these. I'd like to see them work. But that's just where my Jersey head goes. So I hope that they, yes, there's probably lots of cameras in them. I'm sure.

I mean, that's like saying like we shouldn't drive cars because there are people steal cars. I mean, it will happen. I'm pretty sure it happens with Waymo. figure out how to get them all together in LA, protest and all that. But I don't think we should stop, uh, going forward with the future, with the Golden Age, just because the savages are out there.

Agree. No, you can't.

Which I'm sure Erica is never gonna stop for the savages either.

I'm sure both are true because, like, you know, there's probably a very good reason why New York cabs and most cabs have that plexiglass thing between you and the driver, and it's got, you know, like vinyl seats that can be wiped off really easily and all these other things that are never wiped off, by the way. But yeah, and, um, I'm guessing that at some point there might be a new version that's hardened for that sort of thing.

But, uh, the LA version.

I do think it, it is something that has other correction mechanisms too now, because you, you do have all the cameras and monitoring. And I mean, if it needed to, it could drive— it could lock the doors and drive you to a police station. I'm not— I don't know if it has those features yet, but it might someday, where if you start misbehaving and commit a crime, it could just say, you know, I'm gonna drop you off at the police station and hand them the video.

It kidnaps you. It's like the doors lock and we're like, we're going.

So I know, I know that it can do that. As you guys know, maybe you don't remember, my brother works for Waymo and he told me a story about that. There was, um, either the police was trying to search for a person, a suspect, and they were able to figure out where the suspect was. It was— they were in a Waymo. They were able to stop the Waymo, tell the police where it was, where the Waymo was, and then they arrested the guy. So, I mean, it's kind of like the flog cameras, right? It's kind of scary because it can't— they can stop the car and they can drive the car wherever they want to drive it to. So, you know, it is what it is.

That's exactly I, Robot, right? Like, yeah, that's that movie.

And we're like, this is cool. I want to do that. And it is cool. And yes, I fully agree, Marcelo. We got to march forward into the Golden Age, as we're calling it. I'd love to see all those things happen if we could simultaneously fix our society. But so we'll see how it goes. They are testing small because there's only 40-something of them right now. So we'll see how we respond. I'm imagining these in New York City or in Portland, Oregon. No shade to those people, but We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. But speaking of the flock camera and your privacy, I saw this clip and this like I always wondered about this because you have to rely on so many people. But I want you guys to hear what this woman is saying. And I often think like even if I wanted to have a lot of anonymity on social media and not like have my picture out there, I can't help what other people are doing. So like if I'm like, hey, Marcy. Marcella, like, I, you know, I'm not going to put any pictures up from this event, but Marcella goes and puts up every picture of me she took at the event. It's really not helping me. So you have to like really depend on so many people. But listen, this is Meta/Facebook. This woman brings up an interesting situation. Listen to this.

Yesterday I posted a completely innocent video of me and my daughter singing in the car, and Facebook put a Meta AI question underneath it that said, who's the child passenger? First of all, why in the hell is that even a suggested question about a minor? But I clicked it, and this is where I started getting really uncomfortable. It starts pulling completely separate information for each of my kids— their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them. It pulled a newborn picture from my mom's page from years ago. And then it pulled this. I deleted this picture years ago. I'm not going to pretend that I know how it works, but I know this picture has not been sitting on my page for years. And then Facebook suggests that I ask Meta AI, where does Kaylee Robbins live? Are you kidding me? So I clicked that too. It starts digging through completely unrelated shit from Years of my life. Old posts connecting me to where I used to live, newer posts connecting me to where I live now, and then it says, I'm pointing Kaylee Robbins location. It pieced together my information to show people where I live. There was no location on that reel. I didn't ask Facebook to build a profile of my family. I posted a video of me singing in the car with my kids. And yes, I already know what some of you are going to say.

Well, you posted your kids on the internet.

You're right, I did. That's why I'm making this video, because yesterday I did not understand posting separate innocent pieces of our lives over years could mean an AI could sit there and assemble all those breadcrumbs into information about my minor children In seconds. I understand it now and I'm not okay with it, so I'm done. I'm removing any identifiable pictures and videos of our kids. I'm going to ask friends and any family I haven't spoken to to please save those precious memories and then remove my kids from your page. If I take everything off my page but you still have my kids on yours, it will go to your page. I've seen it. It already did it. And I'm not telling you what to do with your kids. Yesterday I was you. I posted my kids. I'm telling you because if you post your children online, I think you deserve to know that this can happen.

You're on mute, Erica.

That is a great PSA she just did for everybody because you don't— like, you're like so in the moment and you think it's so innocent, but then when you see how far-reaching this thing went Hold on.

I, I mean, I mean, this was known, right?

Am I the only one that didn't have this exact thought the day Facebook was invented?

No, I thought it.

I had the same thought.

Like, I, I looked at Facebook and I said, why would I put my whole life online and let the internet have my whole life? Like, why would I put all my data out there where some companies has it now and the internet has it and everyone's going to know everything about my life? Why would I do that? And I Didn't, I mean, I only signed up for it, I think once, because some person who I went to kindergarten with wanted to have a reunion and said, join my Facebook group. But very quickly I got to the point where I'm like, I'm not putting anything on this page. I'm not doing anything.

It doesn't stop at Meta or Facebook.

I know, but Marcel, you're an attorney. Owen, you're savvy with like technology and everything. Okay. And then there's just like people. Okay, so not everybody jumps off on the same part where you guys are at. So you're ahead of the curve, luckily for you guys. But, you know, there are people that are just innocently posting pictures and memories and things that are going on who are gonna see this for the first time and be like, oh my God, you know, like, maybe that man in that picture is someone she's divorced from and she took it down years ago and it pulled it. She's like, I deleted that years ago and it's still brought it in. So it's important.

I have to drop in a couple minutes, but I do want to say, like, I do think there should be rules, if there aren't already, that you should be able to go to a company like Meta and say, delete all my data, or, or delete this data, or whatever. Like, you should have control over it, and you should be able to do the same with the government, frankly. And I think there are some parts of that that are true with the government. You can ask them to delete your data. But I, I think, um, You know, with these social media companies where they have all your personal details and pictures and all these things, I think it is important that we probably should have rules that say if you want this stuff to be deleted, you can ask and they will delete it and they won't use it for AI in the future and all that. So I think that's important. And, you know, you should at least be able to stop someone from essentially pinpointing your location like she just showed. You know, there should be some way to stop that.

Yeah. All right. Oh, and go ahead. I know you got to jump.

All right.

I'll see you guys later.

Thanks. Yeah.

We'll talk about the afterparty later. Okay. Okay. So the other thing too that I love that she pointed out is you've got to get with your friends and talk to them and like have an understanding, especially like the moms out there. If you're just like, listen, we want to protect our kids, I'm sure every one of your friends would understand wanting to protect your kid's identity and whatever. And if I was like, Marcella, please don't post my kid on your Facebook, she would say, no problem. Like, I totally get that and respect that, but it's just crazy that you have to go that far out and talk to people. And, um, and if not and you have a problem, call Marcella to help represent you to get it back.

What I was gonna say is that this is not just AI. I mean, we hire private investigators to follow people that are— that we sue, you know, and they know where to go. They get all the information online. It's all there. It's been done Quite a lot. Um, and, you know, basically when you are in public and saying all these things can be captured, even in a crime, you know, whatever is on your phone, you know, if there's a warrant, they can get it. So, and then deleting things doesn't delete things from the internet, even deleting them from asking Meta to delete it. It's still in the internet somewhere else. So you just have to be very careful what you post. Um, not just because of AI, but because there's many other people watching, stalkers. Um, anybody basically can find out everything about you. I, I think I, I take the stand of Scott Adams where like I, I realize there's no privacy. So I, I— that's how I live. Like there's no privacy. Everybody knows everything about you if they wanted to. That's— that makes me feel less issues, but I don't have kids, so I don't know how that, how that feels for somebody that has kids, you know. But, uh, you know, I do post my pets though.

Oh, you have to. Yeah, pets are a priority. Um, but I just think, I think it's an important conversation. Like, we don't have privacy, but also you don't have to make it easier for nefarious, uh, things to occur. So try to protect your children as long as you can. And you know what else I always think about? I would have freaking hated it, like, if I was a kid and my mom had Facebook. Like, luckily we grew up before any of this stuff happened, but if my mom was like posting my baby pictures on Facebook and me as a toddler and here's Erica in the bathtub and whatever, it's like, you're not giving me a say of what I want my digital foot And I, you know, like, the children don't have a say of, you know, of their own privacy. You know, maybe they wanna run for president one day and those pictures can be used against them. You know, so give them a chance to make up their own mind. And let's just all be like more conscientious about what we post and of other people's kids. I would say start a trend with your friends of, Is it okay to post your child's picture on my social media? Here is why I'm asking. Like, let them know why you're asking and inform your friends also. I just think it's, it's startling how it put that all together.

I don't know.

Um, all right, Lori.

Somebody has a picture of Lori.

Crusher.

Crusher. Oh, um, okay. So yeah, but pet pictures for sure. Okay, so the other thing I wanted to show— okay, you guys, let's, let's think about the '80s, okay? Can someone do me a favor in the chat? Marcel will probably do this in one second. How old is Ryan Reynolds and how old is Spencer Pratt?

Me too.

I'm just wondering, are they about the same age? I'm just curious. And Ryan Reynolds, he's the— he's married to, um, I forget her name, that actress that's a pain in the ass.

Is it Blake Lively?

Yes, Blake Lively. Okay, so, all right, now Marcella's grabbing their ages. Blake Lively, pain in the ass, that we all know. She used to be best friends with Taylor Swift until Tay Tay cut her off. Okay, so Ryan Reynolds is talking about— he is an idiot. Spencer's 43. Okay, Spencer's 43 and Ryan's 49. Okay, thank you so much for that information. I'm still searching. Okay, so listen to Ryan Reynolds. I want you guys to think about if you were around for the times of '80s movies, and the '80s were just so freaking glorious. I mean, the movies we had, oh, like a dream. I'd go to the movies again if it was movies from the '80s. So here's Ryan. He just needs something to say, and we can talk about his outfit another time.

What's interesting about when you get far enough away from a time period that's quite distinct, I think there's always a lovely feeling associated with it. It's almost like you pave over all the trauma with like puppy dogs and ice cream. And the '80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a fucking mess. And like, you know, people forget that it was like, that was a tremendous strife, sociopolitical tensions everywhere. You know, we're still like pretty fresh off of the Vietnam War. off like a Cuban Missile Crisis, which is only like, what, 15, 20 years before. So, you know, it's a tumultuous period, but you look back at it now and you're like, oh yeah, Top Gun, cocaine. Like, no, it was like really scary. So I think, you know, I think when you look back at 2026 and this era, I think they're gonna like pick on the big ticket items that don't really, didn't really leave the footprint culturally that you would think it would. Like, I don't No, so much of the aughts were like, like a mix of all the decades previous, whereas the decades previous were their own thing. So I don't know, I wonder what it's going to be. It's going to be like, oh, the COVID era or something. I have no idea. No, you're probably right.

It'll be rose-colored glasses.

Of course.

This—

we are living in the friggin salad days right now. We just don't know it.

Uh, all right, well, the chat—

He must have lived in the different '80s, and I lived than El Salvador. So like, uh, that's crazy.

The '80s were amazing. I mean, why do you think Bill Clinton like came off as such a good president? Like, we went from like the— I was gonna say we went from the '80s to the '90s. Like, no kidding, Erica. Um, but I mean, it was like the best of times. Like, we didn't have all the computer stuff yet. Like, everything was still amazing. So anyway, he's an idiot. And the chat, like I said, did not let me down with your comments about him. Um, and what I love is Spencer Pratt responds to him, and he's, uh, several years younger. But here's Spencer's take, and I just love him.

The hijacking of the maternal instinct didn't start with social media. It goes way back to 1995 when she watched Dead Man Walking as a teenager, when that film planted the seed that vile criminals deserve her heartfelt tears.

Don't execute this You can stop this from happening, sir.

Then Dexter injected it with steroids. This is the prolonged conditioning that accelerated with the ascendance of the Byronic hero. We got so cute with finding redeeming qualities in irredeemable villains. Gone are the days of the true bad guy. Now, the cinematic vanguard is in love with finding the humanity in the bad guy, telling the sympathetic origin story. Our parents had superheroes. We have antiheroes.

You're goddamn right.

Breaking Bad was so brilliant, but it made us cheer on a narcissistic, murderous criminal drug kingpin who destroyed his family over money. When Tim Burton did Batman, the Joker was a lunatic, but now the Joker gets his own movie where he is the hero, and the climax of the film is him murdering the orderlies at the asylum. The arts dog-walked us here over decades with films and television that inverted the paradigm of normal virtue. Cops are the bad guys, outlaws are the heroes.

That's right.

the heroes. And man, do you see that manifesting in reality today?

So that was a clip of a broader answer of, you know, so we went from having, okay, yeah, Top Gun, like having like real heroes in movies, and you knew the bad guys were bad and you didn't root them on to like, here we are, where Antifa is good and BLM is good. And we want, you know, all the protests and, you know, we want all the bad guys. So I just love That Spencer goes hard, especially at people in Hollywood, A, because he can and that's where he lives, and that someone has to keep pushing the truth and sanity, and Spencer's the perfect person to do it. What's— you know, what do you think, Marcella? I, I just— I'm so sick of celebrities, by the way. I'm so sick of them. And it's like he just wanted something to say, Ryan. He's like, oh, I'm gonna say something that sounds prolific. And it's like, no, you sound like an idiot. And which leads me to a whole other thing which I didn't plan on, but recently, um, President Trump posted a Truth Social post, I think it was, uh, citing Jon Voight, who he's friends with, and about like trying to save Hollywood and how important it is and to bring the industry back, which I totally disagree with. I'm just like, like, these people are such degenerates and oh, get all my signs and my opinion, and allegedly, uh, doing some really, really dark, bad stuff. And, um, I think if the whole industry burned to the ground, it would save a lot of lives. But sorry, Marcella, that was my rant.

There's 2 mo— I mean, we know this from Scott. There's 2 movies on one screen. Ryan Reynolds lived a different '80s than than everybody else, I guess, you know, because, I mean, I lived through war during the '80s, but even that, I still feel like the '80s were a great time for movies, for music, just for just inspiring everybody. Like, now I go to the movies, I'm not inspired by anything. Very rarely would I be inspired by music too. You remember the days, it's like there was band after band and the concerts and, I mean—

And MTV.

MTV, you know, it's like, I mean, he, he's— I don't know, he didn't give any details about what was wrong.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Missile Crisis that did not occur in the '80s. So I don't know, maybe that cocaine he talked about.

I don't know, it, it just—

that's all he mentioned. And I mean, what's wrong with cocaine anyways, you know? Like, it was fun times, what can you say? You know, nobody— Nobody. No. Yes, right there you go. When cocaine used to be cocaine and there was fun parties, but I mean, nobody was forcing anybody, right? Uh, Duran Duran, U2, Styx, Cheap Trick. Uh, what else? Iron Maiden.

Um, oh yeah, you guys drop your favorite '80s memories in the chat because they're gonna all be bangers one after— like, you can't say anything that we aren't going to be like, that was amazing.

What was the name of that? I know you guys That show you probably didn't like, that, that robot, uh, girl that like, that you can— she wore red with little polka dot white dots. Whatever was her name. Oh, anyways, yeah, um, then there was the pumpkin one. What was the little girl?

Uh, she was a pumpkin? Do you mean Punky Brewster?

Punky Brewster, yeah, there you go. And then there was movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, All of it.

All of the Brat Pack movies. That's what I grew up on. Like Breakfast Club. Yes. St. Elmo's Fire. Pretty in Pink. And then you had like all your Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

Weird Science.

So good.

I mean, now if I have to mention all these like movies from the 2000s, I'm like, I would be like renaming things that were already done.

Oh yeah. Oh, Small Wonder. Was that the little robot?

Small Wonder.

Yeah.

Ah, Zanville.

It's coming true, you guys. We're gonna have robots.

That's right. But we already know that Ryan Reynolds has horrendous judgment and we know he's actually an idiot. So it makes sense that he would say that. So I just found that to just be so bizarre. And he's so— well, I don't know about anymore after the—

Back to the Future.

Yeah. I don't know now if he's so well regarded. I think he's pretty much put a target on himself that he's somebody you should probably stay away from in Hollywood. But Just interesting. It's just interesting because I crave the good old days of the '80s like you can't even believe. It was just the best. I love all your comments, you guys.

So many nice.

Oh, Miami Vice Friday nights. All right. So I just wanted to post that just so I really just so I could crack on Ryan Reynolds and remember the '80s. That's that's really the only reason.

And his outfit.

Oh gosh!

What was it? What was her? It doesn't matter. Okay. So listen, I know. This is like burning news. We have to get the update on this Lindsay Clancy trial. And Marcella, who better to talk to than you?

I do have a clip to play, but I mean, I'm just gonna be so mad. I'm gonna be so mad after this clip.

This is so, so pathetic. Here we go. Here's the clip. All right, by the way, you guys, Lindsay Clancy murdered her 3 children. That's a fact. She's not Disputing it. And there is a trial going on right now to— the only thing the trial is about is if she should go to jail or be put in a mental institution. It's not about if she did it or not, has nothing to do with her ex-husband. He is innocent. So it's only about that— murdered her children. Does she go to jail or does she go to a mental institution? And there are— what is it, Marcella— 9 women on the jury?

I think so, yeah.

And three or four men.

Three three men. Allegedly, allegedly.

Okay, so let's let's see what this was this morning. So let's see what's happening.

Might feel that your honor is kind of coming down on her not to do that, and I think it's too delicate right now situation. And in addition, and finally, I would ask that you not just give them, as I described it yesterday, a soft inquiry. Will you listen to my instructions? I would ask that you specifically direct their attention to proof beyond a reasonable doubt and reinstruct them on that forcefully.

I think I did that yesterday, didn't I?

Yes, you did it yesterday. You did it soft. You didn't do it forcefully. And I'm asking, what do you want me to do?

Get a brass band? I read the instruction as written by the SJC. The fact that I perhaps didn't give it my full inflection, I'm sorry about that.

I'm not an actor.

I've just given the instructions.

Well, my point, Judge, simply is that you're kind of glossing over the issue. The issue is this juror will not, according to that note, apply the law of reasonable doubt. And that's why I've requested— you know what I've requested?

Right.

So I note my objection.

But just in case the record is clear, I am specifically not glossing over this issue. I have thought about this issue long and hard. I know the defendant objects, but the characterization that I'm glossing over it, trust me, that's not the situation. I've been thinking about this for quite a while. So that's my— that's what I'm going to do. I'm I'm going to just give that instruction, as I said, that they have to follow my instructions. I'm not going to reiterate the reasonable doubt at this point. It may come to that again as we go through it. And I'll try and give this with more pizzazz than I gave yesterday, I suppose. But so with that, we'll bring the jury back in and I'll ask the questions. I'll give those kind of that instruction, then we'll send it back out.

Okay, so Marcella, what's happening here?

It's my trial and I cry if I want to, Your Honor. I want to have that juror that doesn't agree with me out of this jury, Your Honor. I would like that. I would like to insult you in front of the entire audience and make the press go after this juror. Yes, my name is defense attorney Kevin Reddington. Bravo! This this Reddington is a great trial attorney. This is this is just you know up there with persuasion acting. It's not that I agree with him. Of course, I don't agree with him, but he is just at a level that I mean I'm taking notes about what he's doing. But basically, he thinks that that one juror is. Going against his client, his wonderful client that killed her 3 kids, 5, 3, and 8 months old, and he's disagreeing with it. I think, you know, this is going beyond the pale of how much you can push a jury. Um, this is the note that they read yesterday, was I think the 4th note that came to the court's attention, and meaning that they haven't been able to come to a decision. And usually up to this point today, it should— if they can't agree, it should be a mistrial by a hung jury. Um, I've never seen something like this in my days in court.

I just want to back up a little. So what happened was the judge spoke to each juror yesterday to remind them about, you know, Reasonable doubt. Like, it has to be beyond reasonable doubt. And he spoke to each juror, and then he's like, let's move along. Now, Reddington, Lindsay's attorney, is like, you were too soft the way you said it. Like, you should have really driven the point home. And that's why he said, oh, should I have a brass band to do it? Like, I'm not, you know, animated enough, and I'll try to have more pizzazz next time I talk to them. So It's pretty amazing watching Reddington say to the judge, like, you were too soft, and like telling the judge how he should be doing his job is like crazy town, right, Marcella?

I mean, Kevin Reddington— I mean, sometimes you have to do what Redding— Reddington— this is not for the judge. He's not doing it for the judge. The judge doesn't matter to him. He's doing it for us, for the people outside, to pressure this juror. To even— he's thinking beyond this. He's thinking a hung jury the next trial, or a plea deal with the prosecution, the Commonwealth, right? So he's already thinking past this ideas. He's not talking really this rough to the, to the judge. He's not. He's, he's in his 70s. He's been practicing for a long time, and he didn't get— he's not the type to get emotional. He only gets emotional when it's needed. So you have to understand, all that he did there, right there, it's all an act. And that's just how an attorney— I mean, his performance is amazing. He is an amazing attorney. But this— I mean, you might hate him, but that is the reason he's doing it. He's doing it to get under the skin of the judge and to also put onto the record for us to hear it and for a new jury. Remember, if there's going to be another trial They're going to sit another jury. Guess what the other jury is doing? We don't know who's going to be in that jury, but everybody in the world is now listening to this. So he's already prepping the new jury to think like him.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not good to piss off the judge, is it?

Well, he did it to a level where it doesn't piss him off to the— you know what I mean? He did it Um, he, he, he measured his pissing off the judge to a certain level.

Yeah.

So he, he didn't reach the crescendo of like, you're in contempt, counsel, and you're going to jail.

Yeah.

So he just— he— that's why I know he, he also is not an emotional man. He does— all his emotions are calculated. He is completely calculated. All of that was calculated. And it's amazing to watch.

And he— Reddington is now like a feminist icon. So now all these— it's so, it's so great. Women, pull your shit together, for the love of God. Like, you— I can't even argue with people when they're like, women are nuts, women are— it's like, I know, I know. Yes, yes, they are. Either way, they love this man. They love this, this attorney.

Yes, the things he said right there to the court and what we watched, he didn't do it in front of the jury. The jury was not there and they could not watch. They don't watch. They're not supposed to watch, uh, what occurs in court while they're not there. So the people that are saying he's intimidating the jury, he, he really isn't, like, uh, on paper, because he— they weren't there. He— what he's doing, he's intimidating the new jury The jury that might come if this one is hung. And he's also trying to see, um, you know, where he can go with it. Like, can he push the judge to like throw out the juror?

Yeah, you know, so Mary Kay reminds me— yes, Gloria, uh, not Gloria Allred, um, Gloria Steinem. Is that her name? Oh my God, I just—

Gloria Allred?

No.

Oh, Steinem died. Yeah, Allred is the lawyer.

Yeah, I didn't mean Allred, I meant Steinem. Um, another feminist icon. Uh, so Reddington can now take the place of, uh, Steinem, and this is who the, the ladies are worshiping right now. And it's pretty funny to watch them, like, worship this old white man, because isn't he, like, the symbol of everything that's wrong in the world? But they're just like, like, it's like, he's our daddy. Like, they just, they want pictures with him. They want his autograph. These are all the women that are wearing pink outside the courthouse because they want to get a glimpse of Lindsay Clancy. It's like, this goes right back to what we were just talking about with Spencer Pratt and Ryan Reynolds. Like, now the murdering mother is the one who's getting over a million dollars donated to her, and people are worshiping her and her attorney. And everyone's like, the father who was innocent, who had his children murdered, they're trying to make it like he's the one that killed them. So we are very much on a backwards planet, and that's why I'll tie it all together. I'm very worried about the cybercaps because everyone's so backwards and upside down.

I think, I think these women are the minority, to be honest. You know, it's Massachusetts. I'm not surprised. It's like Portland having this, like, we wouldn't be surprised, right? But I think for the majority of women, um, I don't think they're in agreement. I think that they, that some say, you know, there is some, some postpartum, and that exists, but it doesn't mean that you get to kill your children and get out of jail card. Um, because a lot of them have gone through postpartum and their kids are still alive, you know. So, you know, and the issue is, is, is not complicated. She's already said that she did it, she planned it. And a lot of criminals that are in jail now, um, have had psychosis and have issues, mental issues. And they're still in jail. So what are we saying? I worry about not the women issue, but I'm worried about overall, these are the same DSA members that believe that people should not go to jail, that there shouldn't be prisons.

No police.

That it's not the fault of a certain youth because they're doing some stealing, it's because they were never— they're just Poor them, you know, they're victims.

Yeah, it's, it's, um, it's like, it's also the TikTok culture. Yeah, the Luigi Mangione effect. Um, it's really strange, you guys. It's really strange. And I, um, you know, I worry about younger men and women because I do see men generally, like a lot of men are bending to this type of behavior of the women because I guess like, as Scott might say, like, if you want to get laid, you know, you got to just like go with the flow. But then again, you're going against every instinct you have as a man. So it's, you know, it's kind of crazy. But, uh, let's—

If you're a single man and you want to meet a woman, you might go to the protest. Yeah, uh, they might be crazy enough to date you.

Oh, Jim. Jim is saying, please comment on the women self-posting the astrology charts to prove that the husband did it. I mean, Stop it, people.

It's like, oh, I think he was a Leo or a Gemini or something like that, and therefore he must have killed them.

Oh, okay. Now we're gonna burn—

makes absolutely sense.

Yeah. Oh my gosh. So you could just see how crazy it is. But yeah, I mean, I have, I have friends like that watch TikTok, and that, that's where they're being convinced that the husband— no, I know they're showing things that you can, you know, it's the husband. And I'm like, Nobody in the court is saying it's the husband. She's not saying it. You know, the judges are, you know, the attorneys aren't saying it. That's— it's not even a situation. It's not a thing. It's not a thing. So, like, let's stop demonizing the man. Let's stop propping up the bad people. We have to get back to rational thinking. And I suggest getting off of TikTok. And if, if you have a girlfriend on TikTok, Encourage her to get off of it. Nothing good is happening on TikTok. It's just my opinion. I don't have a TikTok. If you send me a TikTok video, I will not open it. I don't want any part of TikTok. All right. So, Marcella, that should do it for us today. A little bit of housekeeping here is tomorrow Owen has his afterparty that is on X, formerly known as Twitter. And that is at the same time as the Scott Adams School. So he goes on at 10:00 AM Eastern time, 7:00 AM Pacific time. Pacific on Spaces on X at Owen Gregorian. And then he does a Sunday show. He does a simultaneous sip on Sunday at the same time. And then he does a subscriber-only show after that. So please join Owen. If you can't get enough of Owen here, you can get a ton of him over there. It's a good time. Also, I I'm gonna, I'm gonna regret saying this, but I did talk to Walter. Oh yes, I did. And he's coming on next week according to Walter. Okay, so don't shoot me if his plans change. Sometimes life happens. I swore I wasn't going to tell you when anyone's coming on before, like, knowing the exact date, but Walter was already out there, so I'm just letting you know he is coming on. Okay, so that will be that. Marcella, any housekeeping on your end?

I think people are asking about Labor Day. Monday is Labor Day and whether we were going to be on for that.

We'll be here. We'll be here. Like one of us or 3 of us or 2 of us will be here, but we will be here for the simultaneous sip and together. So yes, join us on Monday. Thanks for reminding us. The other thing I want to remind us about, because I was having a conversation with Jimmy yesterday from Scott Adams meetups. Um, you guys, do the meetups, do the gathering together of sippers. If you go to— what is his page? Uh, Scott Adams Meet. Scott Adams Meet. M-E-E-T. That's right, we laughed about that for a long time. So Scott Adams Meet on X, and in his bio he has a link. Okay, it's an amazing website Jimmy made. You just Just click the link and just follow it along. You can either be notified if there's a meetup within a certain amount of miles from you, or you can create a meetup. And they could be like in a park, at a coffee shop. It could just be like 5 people. It doesn't have to be a whole to-do, but let's keep that going. And Jimmy did put a lot of work into that, so let's support that over there. Oh, I'm a Libra too.

Okay.

Hmm.

Interesting. All right, so you guys, that's that. So I think what we'll do is say goodbye now, and then I have a video to play with an Akira song. So Marcel and I won't be on the screen, and when the video is over, we'll just end the stream. So you guys have an amazing Labor Day weekend, and, um, we'll be here Monday. Okay, one summer all of us will be here. Oh, EJ, you're gonna be in my backyard. What's that about? All right, so you guys, let's go. Have a great time this weekend. Be safe, be useful. And as always, we say thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to continue. Thank you to every single person that shows up here, including you, Marcella and Owen out there, and everyone watching the replay. Thank you so much. Please do hit the like and the subscribe. We'd appreciate it. And we have some great Great guests coming down the pike for you, and just trust me, they're coming. And, um, we had a great week this week too. We had on Thomas Corbett Dillon. He's got the 3 names. I had my big puffy shirt on. He is a hoot. He's a lot of fun. And Kyle Becker joined us. Um, and then who was on the next day? Oh my God, Steve Cortez. We love Uncle Steve. So that was a lot of fun. Um, Metal Seer, you are so funny. All right guys, love you so much. And a closing sip to our beloved Scott. To Scott.

To Scott.

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The one to, you know, That you like give your privacy out.

Yes, exactly. Okay, so here's a video and we'll see you Monday.

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