The Scott Adams School - 09/29/26 Steve Cortes Returns. Illegal Immigration. Mid Terms. Space-X

Look, there's 106 locals waiting for us. Hi, you guys. Good morning. I can't see see you yet, but you can hear me, I think. And let's give a chance for everyone to kick in. I see Rumble kicking in. I see YouTube kicking in. Oh my gosh! It's a miracle. All right. Look who's with us, Steve Cortez. We love when Uncle Steve's in the house. I've been uncling everyone lately, and Owen, of course, is here. And I'm sorry for Marcella fans.

I know.

I know it's hard for us too, but she is called to court today. So, uh, Steve's gonna hold it down for, for Marcella. That's amazing. How you doing, Steve?

I'm doing great. And by the way, I am often called Uncle Steve. I'm one of 6 children, so I have a bunch of nieces and nephews, uh, including 4— also 4 children of my own, but, but a bevy of nieces and nephews. So yeah, Uncle Steve is a phrase I hear a lot, so I'm totally cool with that.

Okay, good.

It's like my new thing. I don't know why I can't stop myself. Owen, how are you?

I'm doing great.

Good, I'm so glad. Uh, all right, so you guys, I feel like everybody's coming in, and I do want to make sure you, you know, that we pay homage to, uh, Elon and what's going on over at SpaceX. So after we do the sip today, I have to just show you guys just how amazing it all is. But I said the magic word, which is Sip. And boy, oh boy, let's get it, guys. Here we go.

But first, what do we need to make this day exceptional? It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and all you need— what do you need? You know, you need a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a can, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except the Hunter Biden sex tape. It happens now. Go. No, I was wrong. It made the Hunter Biden sex tape better too.

Huh.

I didn't see that coming. And neither did she.

I knew it. I knew there was going to be a follow-up line to that. I would love to interview Hunter Biden. I was actually thinking about this the other night. I'm sorry to say, I was like lying in bed and I'm thinking about Hunter and these interviews he's doing and how he's playing off this little Pollyanna routine of his, and it's just sickening. But I was like, why aren't people asking him like this question and that question? And I was just like, let me at him. But anyway, hi, I'm Erica. You are at the Scott Adams School. This is a place Scott has kept for us so we could keep communing, talking about current events and news, and we do some Scott's amazing whiteboards and lessons. And we're so thrilled today to have Steve Cortez back with us. Steve, you have been on a roll with the mini documentaries too, which I often say is about my attention span. So there are like these 20 to 30 minute mini documentaries, and we're going to talk about your latest one today, Danger in the Heartland, and we're going to Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So thank you for that. And but first, you guys, just a quick, a quick look at what's going on in space. This was on the Jesse Watters Show last night. Let's take a look.

We have liftoff. Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched the world's most powerful rocket, Starship. Look at that, bigger than a football field, strapped with 33 Raptor engines unleashing 18 million pounds of thrust, sending it roaring straight into orbit. Once the booster was done, it broke away and nailed its Down to 5. The mission's historic. For the first time ever, Starship brought in some dough. It dropped off 26 brand new Starlink satellites, sending perfect Wi-Fi back down to you and I. That cash can fund the next trips to space, the next missions to Mars, The moon, hopefully to Mars. Every time Starship blasts off, it runs Elon about $90 million, so they could use the money. Then it took a little victory lap, orbiting Earth for nearly 2 hours, firing off an insertion burn to kick it on a full lap around the planet. Then it came tearing back through our skies. Look at that. But this trip wasn't just about Wi-Fi. It was a giant leap in the space race. Starship's keeping us light-years ahead of the Chinese, and it has a big mission up ahead. The rocket's going to haul the building blocks for the moon base and bring our astronauts to the lunar surface. All SpaceX has to do is stick the landing.

Seen all three lit, down to two.

I love it. Congratulations to Elon and everybody at SpaceX. Uh, Steve, what do you think? Would you, would you get on a rocket and head to the moon?

I, I would love to. I'm sure I'd be scared, you know, actually doing it, but yes, I would do it. This is incredible. It's great for our nation. I think it's a really big deal. I love that this mission particularly was commercially viable. I think that's a big deal, right? So The science alone, the achievement, the engineering is a cool enough feat. And I think Elon would do it probably just for that reason. But all the better that it's actually commercially viable here and that it's supporting his other amazing company of Starlink. I want to say a word about that too, by the way, because I think Starlink is changing the world, you know, so much for the better. The fact that you don't have to be physically connected anymore to a fiber optic cable, that you can be in the middle of nowhere. And in terms of security, by the way, that you don't have to give your information to Comcast, right? That they cannot eavesdrop on you, that they cannot I was actually just recently hanging out with a whole group of special forces alums, special operators, guys who are very into the security world, now more on the corporate side than they were on the military side. But all of them, it's interesting, all of them, Erica, told me they use Starlink for that very reason because they don't want Comcast or which other provider, AT&T, be able to spy on them. So some of them literally travel around with their Starlinks in their car and wherever they are, they get on Starlink. So fascinating. And I love seeing the marriage of these 2 amazing companies.

Yeah, it's fascinating.

technologies, the rockets going up to deploy the Starlink satellites. Uh, it's, it's really encouraging for our country and ultimately really for the world.

So well said. I mean, somebody was saying on a podcast I was watching, it was probably on Rogan because it was some adventure guy, and he's like, no, we were like in the middle of nowhere on some whack continent and they were like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles into some jungle. And he's like, and I had perfect Wi-Fi with my Starlink. And I'm like, that's insane.

Yeah.

So at least you have some level of like security knowing you could reach someone in that situation too. But yeah, I think, you know, my money's on Elon always. So I love it. Owen, do you have Starlink, Owen?

I don't, at least not yet, although I might at some point.

I have a nice fiber optic high-speed connection, so I'm kind of spoiled probably more than most people in terms of the speed I have. But I do worry about that. I mean, for a while when my wife and I were both working from home, I was like, well, maybe we should have 2 just in case one goes down because otherwise, you know, we'd have to be on like our hotspot on our phone or something. And we were both getting on video calls and all that sort of thing. And so for a while I did have both Comcast and AT&T. And then eventually I said, you know, I don't think I need both of these anymore. And it was partly just— I just got fed up with Comcast because it It went down and it went down and for maintenance, like it was supposed to be down for 4 hours. I'm like, okay, that's normal. Every once in a while they do that. But then it didn't come back up and it took them 3 days to get me working again. And I was just like, that's it. I'm just not doing this anymore.

Yeah. Yeah, I know. I think, I think a lot of us are going to end up with Starlink. I'm not mad about it. I, I have 2 in my house just for that reason. Oh, and also in case I need one or the other. Um, all right. So that's amazing. I mean, I can't wait to see, they're going to bring the first Uh, building blocks for the moon to start building the base on the moon. I mean, now I picture China going up there and being like, aha, and they're gonna like take our things and like move them over to their part of the moon and start building over there. We're gonna start colonizing the moon. Um, okay, so let's get into Steve here because Steve, I, um, I so— I'm so moved, you know, with, with all of the stories you're telling. And they're important stories, and I love that you do this. So I'm going to play— actually, why don't you tell us where you went and then set me up for the clip of the Angel Moms?

Sure.

So I went to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. For folks who don't know Fond du Lac, it's a wonderful sort of typical Midwestern small town, small to medium-sized town. It's a middle-class place, but very pleasant, you know, sort of white picket fences. It's on a huge lake, Lake Winnebago, one of the biggest lakes, inland lakes in Wisconsin. And this really pleasant community, very traditional Wisconsin community, unfortunately, believe it or not, has, uh, has had inflicted upon it a scourge of illegal alien crime. And I mean really significant crimes. I mean, there's sort of the more lifestyle crimes of like petty theft, um, and, you know, and bad driving, that sort of thing. But then there's way more serious crimes like attempted murders and molestations of children going on in Fond du Lac. And when I read about several incidents in Fond du Lac, because I happen to know this town, I said, this is nuts. How is this happening here so far from the US-Mexico border in a seemingly safe place, in a seemingly, you know, well, not seemingly, and in what is a wonderful community. How is this happening in Fond du Lac? And so I went there to Fond du Lac and I made this documentary, Danger in the Heartland, because I want to make sure that voters are aware, that all Americans are aware, that just because you live far from the US-Mexico border doesn't mean that you are not subject to the pain and the agony and the consequences of an open border, you know, particularly Biden's open border. And so this doc, by the way, too, in terms of attention span, Erica, this one's only 13 minutes. We really made this one pretty short on purpose. And we did that because, so in some sense, it's almost a long commercial. You can think of it that way. But we do find roughly 20 minutes is kind of our sweet spot. But this one, we went even shorter, but we just had guests who were so concise and punchy, including law enforcement and angel moms. And so far it's doing just fantastically well, particularly in Wisconsin. And obviously part of why we did this is the upcoming election, because we want to convince and persuade voters that Tom Tiffany sitting US congressman from Wisconsin who's running for governor, that he needs to be the next governor of Wisconsin. He's running against David Crowley, who is the county manager of Milwaukee County. He is an open borders radical, just like the current Democrats who run Wisconsin are. And the consequences of being a so-called sanctuary city or sanctuary state, the consequences are severe. And that's what we show in this documentary.

All right, let's, let's take a look at the clip with the Angel Moms. Bless their souls. Okay, here we go.

Yep.

She had been previously arrested more than one time. This was not the first time she had been pulled over for drunk driving, and she didn't even have a driver's license. Why is she still out on the road?

Right. So Allison, in addition to the criminal herself, who of course she's principally responsible for killing your children, but do you also blame radical politicians? who allowed her to stay in this country after breaking into our country and then being arrested on top of that initial crime? Do you blame those politicians?

Definitely do. And I think Jen and I have both said this would never have happened if she was not in this country. She shouldn't have been here. And if she wasn't here, she wouldn't have been driving drunk on the wrong side of the interstate and our kids would be here. So for those of you that didn't watch yet, I did post the, the link to the full 13 minutes on my page. These are the parents of a young couple, uh, a boy and a girl. I think one was in high school and one was just out of high school that were dating, right? And so their, their children were killed. Go ahead, Steve.

Yeah, so, uh, and by the way, I posted— so we used about 3 minutes of their very moving commentary And storytelling about 3, 4 minutes in the 13-minute documentary. But I also posted the full 16-minute documentary of just these 2 moms, you know, so not the rest of the documentary, because I thought it was so moving, so compelling. They were so brave, and they've done this several times to tell their story publicly, that, that, you know, the voters out there should get a chance to look at it. So that's all been posted on my social media and at cortesinvestigates.com, on my YouTube page. We've put it everywhere. But You know, these 2 brave moms who had, you know, the worst imaginable tragedy thrust upon them. Jen lost her son Brady. Allison lost her daughter Hallie. You know, an unspeakable tragedy that was preventable. That was one— this wasn't just bad luck.

Okay.

This wasn't just, you know, hey, this is life sometimes in a fallen world. No, this was a totally preventable tragedy because the repeat offender illegal alien who killed their children She was previously arrested repeatedly for drunk driving while illegal in the United States. But Dane County, Wisconsin, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, where the capital, state capital of Madison is, one of the most liberal parts of not just Wisconsin, but probably America, they repeatedly protected her. ICE lodged a detainer saying, hey, she's an illegal. You arrested her. We want to deport her. They said no. Okay. And this happens again and again in these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. She then went on to drive wrong way. down the freeway, smashed headfirst into this wonderful young couple. These two were high school sweethearts. They were planning on getting married. They were deeply in love with each other, deeply in love with the Lord. They were both very devout Christians. They shared Bible verses in the morning. Uh, they were good-looking, athletic, just wonderful, just an all-American young couple who were planning a life together, only 18 and 19 years old. And yet, in a preventable tragedy, they were taken from this world. Their lives were taken. The family's grief, of course, is still intense, but I so credit these 2 women with trying to turn something positive out of their unspeakable tragedy. They don't want it to happen again, and they're willing to speak out, and they're willing to be political and say, hey, this is a political crime essentially that was inflicted upon our families. There is a political solution. And so I give them a lot of credit. It was a really moving interview. I encourage folks to not just watch the documentary, please, But to also watch the interview of these two ladies because I think it will move you. And if you happen to live in Wisconsin, I hope it will persuade you to vote for Tom Tiffany. If you have friends and family in Wisconsin, please, you know, make sure they see it and make sure that they vote because again, this stuff really matters. I mean, this is the tangible reality of the tangible consequences of radical policies that prioritize narrative over just common sense, you know. And the moms say in the interview, with me, they say this shouldn't even be political, right? I mean, this is really a law enforcement safety, common sense principle. If somebody breaks into your home and then commits additional crimes while in your home, they cannot stay, right? I mean, they simply cannot stay. They, you know, just breaking in should be enough. But when you break in and then commit additional crimes and prove to the community that you are dangerous and you are not removed to protect the political narrative, and it puts the lives of Americans at risk, that's totally unacceptable. You know, just, we can't live this way, and Wisconsin shouldn't be forced to live this way. So they were, uh, they were moving, compelling. I give them a lot of credit for doing it, for speaking through their pain.

Yeah.

There's a lot of tears, as you might imagine, in the interview, and, um, and it was tough for them, I'm sure, to get through. But they want to see something bigger come out of this, and they don't want families to suffer the way they did And what I'm telling you is there's a political solution to this. Tom Tiffany has been as strong on the border as anyone in the Congress. Okay, this is a guy who means it. This is a guy who is a common sense, conservative, law and order public official. He'll be a fantastic governor of Wisconsin. It's a really tight race, by the way, Eric, a really tight— I poll like crazy and I show him just barely down within the margin of error, but consistently down 2 to 3%. So we've got work to do in the next 5 weeks. 5 weeks from today is Election Day, but it is an absolutely winnable race. And I think this issue might be the lever that puts Tom over the top where Wisconsinites say, hey, we've got to protect our people.

Oh my gosh, it's such important work. And I'm wondering, you know, I'm like, oh, you know, come here, Steve, you know, New Jersey, we have so many problems. And I see people in the chat, you know, come to Montgomery, I think it was Maryland, you know, but I guess right Right now, I was going to ask you, how do you decide where to go? I'm assuming right now it's coming down to elections, so where you can be helpful. Is that how you decide? Yeah, correct.

So we, we did do, uh, a New Jersey documentary trying to help Cittarelli, which unfortunately didn't work, but I thought he was a wonderful candidate. And, uh, we did go and make a documentary about New Jersey moving right, which it is moving right now.

There's so much fraud though, Steve. I mean, as you saw, all of the, the The votes that were put in that were cast by illegals. It is North Jersey is so corrupt. Not that the rest of New Jersey isn't, but there's a lot of foreign money and influence and cheating. And it's a shame because really New Jersey should be fully Republican. There's so many people that live here that work in the city that are like in finance, and these are like you know people that are really you know capitalistic. And, and then now we've got our new Pattersons turned into like little Islam. And so, you know, even though we're going right, we're going radical at the same time. So I don't know what's going to happen. You know, we have—

That's happening in a lot of places in America. Yes. Where, you know, formerly blue places are on the whole turning right. However, the radical left is becoming a Marxist jihadi left.

Right.

This is not your parents' or grandparents' Democrats. Right. It's a totally different America-hating, Christianity-hating, Western civilization-hating kind of left. The Abdul al-Sayed, what you're talking about in Paterson, New Jersey, what you let me highlight last time I was on your show in Lewiston, Maine, right? This is happening. By the way, I filmed in Paterson. I filmed at that beautiful Paterson Falls. It was a really cool backdrop. A lot of people know it because of The Sopranos. So I actually filmed there, but I saw— and the point of this doc wasn't the Muslim issue, but I saw firsthand just how Arabic and Islamic Patterson has become. And I think that's really, really alarming. And by the way, my next upcoming documentary that's being edited right now will be out next week. I went to Dearborn, Michigan and shot a documentary on exactly that topic in Dearborn, Michigan. But in terms of answering your question too about, yeah, how we select the places, it's very election-based. So we have a very tight gubernatorial election in Wisconsin. We also have next door in Michigan. I'm very focused on the Great Lakes right now as far as sort of battleground races. In Michigan, we have a very tight Senate election there where I think Mike Rogers can beat Abdul El-Sayed. But again, kind of like Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin, is slightly down right now. So work to do, some wood to chop, but I think a very winnable race. Abdul El-Sayed hates America, has substantial ties to the most radical elements of Islam, including the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mm-hmm.

He's not somebody who ever belongs in the United States Senate. And so I'm doing everything I can to try to expose that. So in terms of how we select the states, yes, generally in an election year like this, we're very, very election-focused. And I also really up the pace, so the frequency increases a lot. Uh, I've been super busy, my editing team has been super busy, my camera crew. Um, once we shift into next year, post-election, then we're a little more issue-based.

Oh.

And I'm sort of a little freer to go wherever in the United States, and we can focus more on issues, and it doesn't have to be quite so election-specific. But in the even years, basically, when we've got, you know, a lot of— there are, of course, odd-year elections, but most of the elections in the United States are even years. So in the even years, uh, I'm doing this mainly— I mean, of course, I want to motivate people, hopefully educate people, even entertain them sometimes when the topic is fun. This one wasn't fun at all, of course. Um, but sometimes, uh, but the end goal that I'm after and the folks who work with me are after is to move votes ultimately. So, uh, you know, we hope to educate, enlighten, and motivate But all that toward the aim of, hey, let's win this election and let's make sure we get the right people in office. And, and it's— listen, I'm honored that I get to do it. I meet amazing people. I go to some really cool places. I go to tough places too. I mean, you know, I've filmed in some bad neighborhoods. I filmed a lot at the border in the summertime, which is not pleasant. Don't advise that if you can help it. I can help it. And I'm blessed that I get to do it and fighting for something I so believe in, which is this country.

Yeah.

Which is Western civilization. And it's an honor to have a seat at the table in a fight that really matters.

Oh, you're on the road. I know. I'm like, God, Steve is everywhere. I just want to say one more thing, Owen, before I ask you to jump in. But I saw a post from Ari Fleischer this morning. He put up a flyer that the Democrats for Mike Rogers put up. But anyway, Ari wrote, the Soros Foundation paid for Abdul to go to medical school, and now they're raising money for him. He's owned by the Soros family and their stepson, Hasan Piker, and then he has a flyer that the Democrats put up, but it says you know Abdul for U.S. Senate, please join. And it says Catherine and Jeffrey Soros, Amos Hassan, John Favreau, Ed Redlick, Sarah Timmerman. Then you got let's see oh Ben Rhodes another winner, Tommy Vetter great. So you know this is what Michigan has to look forward to is Soros. backed, terrorist-backed, America-hating-backed puppet. And is he a doctor? I don't know. I don't care.

Um, well, yeah, no, he's not licensed. I mean, he did go to medical school, but he always calls himself a doctor. Um, and he has never practiced. He's never gotten licensed. Uh, you know, almost everything about him is phony. And listen, I'll be the first to admit he's skilled, okay? He's a smart guy. He's got some media savvy. He's pretty good on camera. He's got a little bit of a silver tongue. So, I mean, I, I get it. I get some of the appeal. But at the same time, I would ask and encourage the voters of Michigan, take a real look at who he is and what he actually believes. And by the way, you're exactly right. And who are his allies?

Yeah.

Right. He had Hasan Piker— this isn't some, you know, extended association. He had Hasan Piker visit Michigan and physically campaign with him. Okay. So this is not arm's length transaction. They are boys. Okay. This is his BFF. And Hasan Piker is even more overt than— I think they believe the same things, right, Abdul and Hasan? But Hasan Piker is even more overt about how much he hates the United States.

Is there anyone in the chat that doesn't know Hasan Piker? And maybe, maybe Steve, you know, for the people that don't, how do we explain Hasan Piker?

Yeah, so Hasan Piker, he was unfortunately born in the United States as an anchor baby. I don't believe that anchor babies should be citizens, but technically, at least for now, he is a US citizen, but spent his entire youth in Turkey. He's of Turkish descent and very much has the mindset of a Turkish left-wing Islamist radical. Came back to the United States and started podcasting. He is unfortunately very successful. He has a very big following on the very hard radical left. And again, kind of like Abdul, I'll admit he has some media skills. Okay. He's got a bit of a silver tongue like Abdul does. And he can be funny at times, but he is an absolute to the core America-hating radical. And we see this really toxic marriage right now in the United States of the of the hard radical Marxist left with the Islamist jihadis. And even though they actually would disagree on a whole host of issues, they've they have formed this red-green alliance nonetheless that at least for now. will last. And the reason it does, because you might say, well, wait a second, you know, they disagree on so many issues, especially social or, you know, sort of moral issues. You know, why this alliance? Well, what they have in common is an enemy. They have a common enemy in America, in Western civilization, in historic Christianity. And so they unite in who their enemy is.

Mm-hmm.

And they want to destroy our country and they're not shy about it, right? And they want to destroy all the things our country produces. Like, to be specific on that, Looking at Abdul, I've posted this several times on my social media. He's running to be the senator from Michigan, okay, from the auto state. And he says that the automobile is like a cigarette and that they should be similarly reviled, that the automobile doesn't belong in our society. He's somebody who said that football, I mean football in a state with Michigan State and the University of Michigan, he said that football was racist, misogynistic. He hates football. Okay, this is the kind of guy he is. Now he still showed up. At the Wolverine tailgate and pretended to like football. But we have the tapes. Okay. We have the receipts. These things are, are on the record. He's an America-hating radical. And I'm exposing that, I hope. And what's happened in Dearborn, here's the thing too, which I think is interesting. And part of why I went there is because I was polling Michigan. And I was frankly surprised at how honest Michigan citizens are willing to be now and saying there's too much Muslim mass migration into Michigan. And I show this in my upcoming doc, so please look for it. But, you know, the town of Dearborn has been completely overtaken by Arabic and by Islam to the point where prayer calls are blasted throughout the town. This is Dearborn, Michigan, by the way, the home of Ford Motor. That's how most people, if they know Dearborn, they know it from Henry Ford. And really, in some ways, the birthplace of the American auto industry, Dearborn. It is now fully Islamic. The women walking down the street in Dearborn in the Midwest of the United States are fully in the hijabs, most of them covering everything, you know, even covering the face and the eyes. There are various mosques there, including the biggest mosque in America, all of which share allegiance and pledge allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States government for good reasons. These are radicals who hate the United States, and they have been very overt, by the way, that what they are seeking to do for the country is what they've done for Dearborn. In other words, they don't want to coexist alongside us. You know, the leftists love those bumper stickers, coexist. The Islamists have no interest in coexisting. They want to overtake, right? And it's part of their religion. It really is. It's part of their ideology that you must seek political power so that you can institute Sharia law. They have largely done that in Dearborn, Michigan, believe it or not, and they're trying to make it even more stringent. The point is, and this is what I'm trying to reveal for the country and for Michigan voters, is let's stop this. Okay? We've had it. We've had enough of this. Now listen, people who are here who are American citizens, they have every right to practice their religion, whatever it is, including Islam, of course. But what I'm saying is let's also be smart about who we decide to invite into our country, because there we do decide, right?

And elect.

Who we invite in. And, and inviting in mass Muslim migration, I don't believe makes sense for this country. And my polling tells me a supermajority of Americans and Michigan voters agree. agree with me. Well, part of that movement then has to be rejecting Abdul El-Sayed.

And rejecting suicidal empathy and being afraid to speak up. That's, that's a big problem that we were taught. Oh, and I'm so sorry, I just been yammering on with Steve. Go ahead.

Sorry. No, I mean, well, if I go back to the, you know, the documentary clip we just saw, I certainly think it's a huge tragedy anytime a parent loses a child. And I don't think there's any way you can minimize the pain that they're going through. So I do think they're very brave to even speak about it. Um, because I think if I try to put myself in those shoes— I hope, I certainly hope I never have to face that— but, um, you know, I would just be devastated. I, I don't know how I would even continue.

I—

it's like, you know, you— it's like you lost everything. And, um, you know, I, I get angry when people on the left try to justify it or, or make it not so bad, where they're like, oh, the crime rates are They, they try to make a case where the crime rates are lower for immigrants than they are for citizens or something like that. And I'm like, no, if they're an illegal immigrant, you should be comparing it to what it would be if they weren't here, which is zero. There, there's no, there's no other thing to compare it to. If they weren't here, there would be none of that, and that those kids would be alive today.

Yeah.

And, so, you know, it just, it gets me angry when they try to change the conversation to something that really shouldn't be. And Um, I definitely agree with you that this is a problem everywhere in the country, not just in the border states. And it's been an orchestrated thing from start to finish, from bringing the caravans all the way up through our southern border to letting them go once they get here, to shipping them all over the country and setting up these communities like in the, you know, in Minnesota with the Somalis and with, um, you know, in Ohio as well and other places, and with all these Islam communities. And it seems very intentional to me. It doesn't seem like this would just happen by accident.

Right.

It's like they decided where to put these people, and they decided to concentrate them in places where they would not assimilate, and they would keep their culture, and they would have a foothold to try and start taking control. And it seems like a very orchestrated campaign to try and make this all happen. And I think we do need to take back our country, and we need to stop this and, and get rid of the people, especially like you said, the people who have already committed additional crimes on top of just getting here illegally to begin with, that if you've demonstrated that you're not willing to follow the laws and you're not willing to do the things we would expect a good citizen to do, then of course you shouldn't be here. I mean, I, I personally think we should go farther than that and say if you shouldn't be here, you just shouldn't be here.

Right.

But, um, you know, I certainly also agree that we should start with the worst of the worst and start with the people who have already committed other crimes while they've been here. And so I don't think there's any justification for that. So I certainly would encourage anybody listening.

Owen?

Yeah.

I want to, um, I want to address one person on YouTube. I, I've noticed this person when I go back to the after show. This is Coke Machine 5510. He's just dying to know who, by who, who's orchestrating this, you know, like how is this being orchestrated? So Steve or Owen, whichever one of you want to take this because poor Coke Machine needs an answer.

I'll be happy to. Yes, because— and I do cover this in my main documentary, but I'm happy to talk about this. Uh, look, there are a lot of NGOs, non-governmental organizations, that get a tremendous amount of tax dollars, and then they also get a lot of charitable and/or religious contributions as well. And unfortunately, they have become in many ways almost human trafficking organizations. And again, we cover this, uh, in my main documentary, so I encourage you to go to that on my YouTube page, also at cortesinvestigates.com. And, and I say this part, by the way, with no pleasure as a Catholic, and I try to be a very faithful Catholic. But unfortunately, the Catholic Church in the United States has become largely a human trafficking organization, particularly Catholic Charities specifically. You know, the Catholic Church is a very big umbrella. Catholic Charities specifically, which is an organization within the Catholic Church that's run by the Catholic bishops out of Washington, D.C., who are unfortunately very left-wing, very pro-open borders. They get hundreds of millions of dollars and actually at times into the billions of dollars from the government, taxpayer money, in addition to what they're collecting from the pews, from the faithful, but taxpayer money to, quote, resettle migrants. And the specific case of the Somalis in Lewiston who have been so problematic, who have not remotely assimilated, who are stealing at scale from the state of Maine, much like is happening in Minnesota, just not quite as big a deal. Because there's just not as many of them in Maine, but a similar kind of mass systemic scam, mostly via healthcare fraud, via Medicare and Medicaid abuse. Those Somalis in Lewiston, Maine, they were literally installed, planted there by Catholic Charities in the United States. So that is the kind of group that's doing it. Lutheran Family Services is doing a lot of it. So it's not just a Catholic problem. A lot of these so-called religious organizations are doing it. There's some Jewish groups that are doing it. And then there's also just some secular NGOs that are doing it. But it's, it's a hat in hand to the federal government saying, we will take your money. We will then do your bidding, meaning not, not the people, of course. I mean, you know, Democratic operatives and Democrat politicians will do what you want done, which is put these people. And listen, you're right. It's all over the country. You know, Owen mentioned Ohio and Springfield, Ohio, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, in western PA. Of course, this has happened. It's happened at scale in Minneapolis, in the Twin Cities, and that's a better sort of known story. It's happening in Texas with entire Islamic communities that are practicing Sharia law. So that's, that's sort of the, the installed migration, if you will. What I covered in Wisconsin, to get back to, you know, my current documentary about Danger in the Heartland, that's more just Biden throwing open the border and saying, hey, come on in, whomever, right? So there it wasn't really as organized, but it's every bit as sinister and destructive to the United States. And the illegal migrant who killed Hallie Helgeson and Brady Hyling, this wonderful young American couple who was doing absolutely nothing wrong, they were coming home from a concert. They were driving correctly. They were sober, seatbelts on, driving correctly, smashed into headfirst by a repeat offender drunk driver who didn't belong in this country, who was protected by the leftist politicians of Wisconsin and Dane County, Wisconsin specifically. That's sort of a different kind of carnage. So there's various sort of flavors, right, of the assault on America, on our safety, on our wages, on our national security, our sovereignty. There's a highly organized part where unfortunately churches or so-called church groups are deeply involved. And then there's more sort of just the chaos part of, hey, open the border, whoever comes, comes. And then they go to— and by the way, the migrants aren't dumb, okay? They know this. They go to sanctuary jurisdictions because they know they're not gonna get punted.

Right?

They know if they go to Chicago or they go to Dane County, Wisconsin, or they go to these liberal jurisdictions, they go to New Jersey, guess what? Even if we get picked up for doing something else, we're not going to get sent back. So of course they go there, right? I mean, it just makes sense. Unfortunately, you know, another documentary I did not far from Wisconsin, just across the border in Chicago, was the Sheridan Gorman one. She was the beautiful young woman student at Loyola University in Chicago. She and her friends were out late one night, but doing, you know, nothing crazy. They were going to literally watch the Northern Lights because it was a rare day where you could see them over Lake Michigan from Chicago. So they were out on these rocks right next to Loyola University on Loyola Beach, a place that is seemingly really safe. It's not a dangerous part of Chicago. There's plenty of those. I'm from there and, you know, know it very well. And an illegal migrant came up and without any provocation, without any cause at all, shot her and killed her just because he had hate in his heart. Wow. Yeah. And he was, you know, perhaps mentally unstable. By the way, that illegal migrant lived just a couple of blocks from there. And guess what? We paid his rent.

Wow.

The taxpayers were paying his rent for him to live on the Chicago lakefront where a lot of Chicagoans can't afford to live.

Okay.

Pretty high rent area.

Yeah.

The taxpayers of Illinois were paying the rent of the illegal alien scumbag who decided to kill Sheridan Gorman in cold blood. A college freshman who was a wonderful young lady, deeply involved in her, in her Christian group at Loyola University, gone. And her family, like these brave women that I interviewed, her mother and her family, they've been brave too about speaking out, about testifying before Congress and giving some interviews, which I'm sure is anguishing every single time. But they don't want to repeat it as well. The Gormans don't, the Helgelsons don't, the Hylands don't. Those are the 2 families that I interviewed. In Wisconsin. But we have a choice. I mean, look, I mean, that's all horrible, awful news. The good news is in 5 weeks we have a choice. You know, you know, we have, we have candidates in these races who will continue that kind of mayhem, who will protect the predators. And then we have candidates who say no, law and order, common sense, um, sovereignty of the United States. And so let's do everything we can. I, you know, I'm sure this audience is going to vote, uh, but let's make sure that everyone you know, everyone in your sphere of influence is similarly motivated to vote. And honestly, be a bit of a pest, okay? I'm gonna ask you, step out of your comfort zone a little bit. Uh, friends and family you know who you think are voting our way, make sure they're registered. There's still time in most places to get registered. That's the first thing. You can check that publicly, by the way. That's, that's publicly available, somebody's registered. So you don't even have to ask them. You can just check on your own. You can do a little snooping.

Legal snooping.

That's so cool.

Yeah.

And then once they're registered, bother them a little bit, uh, to make sure they vote. And I encourage them to vote early. I know there's probably a lot of folks in this audience who don't believe I wish we only had game day voting, but we don't. And so in person though, in person, voting early in person, that's what I do. It's what I encourage everybody on the right to do. Vote early in person. You never know what can happen on Election Day, whether a personal issue, a health problem, a childcare crisis, all kinds of things can happen on Election Day. So please, please vote in person early. Bank that vote. The left is way better at this game than we are in terms of banking early votes, even outside of the cheating. I mean, of course they cheat, and I know the system facilitates cheating, and I want the system changed, but we can't change the system unless we win by the current rules, you know, devised for the system. So these are going to be tough elections. And like, make no mistake, I, I think we are underwater in really all of these tight races. Now, I don't think they're unwinnable, okay? I'm not trying to be pessimistic. I'm not being, uh, Debbie Downer here. I think they are all winnable.

But we can't sit it out.

We are down in all of them, basically, that the races that really matter. And we, we need to rally to win.

If you look at where Trump's going to rally, you're like, oh my God, like, why are you going to these states? You shouldn't have to be going to these states. But he, he's going because it's bad right now, you guys. So, you know, Owen, um, and Steve, you know, what do you— for me, I think the 2 issues with the midterms are the wars And illegal immigration. The war is not gonna end soon, not, and things aren't gonna turn around fast enough to make that, like, if that's somebody's issue, it's not gonna turn it around. But the illegal immigration, well, and the war goes with the economy. So that's, let me just put that together. So what people are feel— you know, and I have people like, oh, you know, they're, they're mad at me because I'm not willing to just like take one for the team when my, I have a business that runs strictly on diesel.

Mm-hmm.

I have a fleet of trucks and equipment that literally burn diesel all day long. So, they're like, well, you have to take one for the team. And I'm just like, it's easy to say for you, but my business costs, actually, they're up over 70% now, my cost of doing business. And I can't push that all to a customer. I really don't want to push any of it to a customer. But so, I'm like, we'll be okay. We'll be okay. I don't love it. It's going to definitely change the trajectory of some things we want to do. But there are people where that's not okay. Like, they can't— they can barely get through today. So having that attitude of, like, you know, people saying, like, just take one for the team. I think people, even if you feel that way, you need to show empathy to people, sympathy to people. Like, I can't imagine how you feel. Like, hopefully the war will, will end after the midterms. Like, I think you need to, like, hear people, like, meet them where they're at. acknowledge how they're feeling and then say, but let's just rally because the thing that could happen after that is so much worse than what we have to temporarily deal with now. So, I just think that coming at people hard isn't the way to go. So, what do you guys think the issues are? Owen, I'll come to you first for people that they're probably going to sit it out. A lot of people are going to sit it out and that's a problem. Yeah.

I mean, I do think the economy's going to be the dominant factor. Because I just see— I just think it's something you face every day, right? Like you go to the grocery store, you go to the gas station, you see the prices. And if they're a lot higher than you're hoping or expecting, then that's going to make a difference in your mind in terms of how you feel about how the government is doing. Because like it or not, and to whatever extent they either are or are not really to blame for those things, that's how people are going to see it. You know, we'd love on the right to be able to say, oh, it's all because of that Biden, you know, Build Back Better trillion-dollar spending bill.

Yeah.

And maybe that's true, but no one's going to think that. No, you're not going to convince very many people that, you know, we should just pretend like Trump's been doing all the right things when he promised to say he's going to make things more affordable. And look, the prices are still high. And so I think that that's going to be one of the, the main issues. But I do think immigration is an important one, and I hope we can highlight that as a big issue because, as Steve's been pointing out, those documentaries It is a big difference in terms of what's going to happen. And I think, you know, the economy, I do think it would be worse under Democrats. And I think it is important to understand that the midterms are important for that reason, because a lot of people do just not vote in the midterms because they just don't think it matters. And I think it does matter because every year the Congress at least has to pass a budget. They have to say, what are we going to spend our money on? How much are we going to spend? What are we going to fund? What are we not going to fund? And so what What happens right now is going to determine that and how much leverage each side has to make those deals or whatever compromises they have to make to be able to put that budget through. So if the Republicans keep control of the House and the Senate, then Trump can probably get the budget he's looking for and we can make things move in the right direction. But if we don't, then we're going to have to either make some compromises or we're going to have more government shutdowns and all the stupid games they play. And certainly the objective of the Democrats is to obstruct every possible thing they can. And so that's what we're going to see if they take control of the House or the Senate or both is they're just going to try and grind everything to a halt they possibly can that Trump is doing in the hopes that then they can, you know, try and take control in 2028.

Okay, Steve, your thoughts?

Yeah, I mean, to that point, I think Owen is exactly right. The Democrats— let's just be honest about this— there's no more moderate Democrats. They're gone. That species is extinct. Okay, there are moderate Democrat voters, don't get me wrong. You know, you may know some in your life. But as far as officeholders, party operatives, decision makers, the biggest donors on the Democrat side, they are fully radicalized. They are fully anti-America, anti-Christianity, anti-Western civilization. I mean, that's just the reality because the Dems will point to as a supposed moderate, they'll often bring up Joe Biden, to which I reply, oh, you mean the guy who threw open the US-Mexico border? The guy who said that we need to sexually transition children? That's your moderate? Like, no, there are— there may have been a time in his career when he was a moderate, but not by the time he was president or whomever was making the actual decisions while he was president, you know, was clearly not a moderate. So, you know, let's realize that, that if the Dems are handed the reins of power, they destroy. They do not build. You know, we opened the show talking about the amazing building of a rocket, right? The building of a satellite network that works anywhere in the world. I mean, these are builders, right? This is what America does best. What the Democrats do is destroy. And if they're handed the reins of power, all they will do is seek to destroy. In this case, Donald Trump and his administration. It will be nothing but recriminations, investigations, you know, basically show trials before the country instead of addressing the very real problems that we face, right? Problems like this massive deficit, which is a bipartisan creation, by the way. I think Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame for that as one big example of a huge problem that needs attention rather than just Democrats playing the game of, you know, political destruction. And, you know, to this point more broadly, look, I have been, critical of the war since the very beginning of it. Okay, I didn't just come around to this now. I believe that a crucial part of the America First platform is a foreign policy of realism and restraint. I thought that was, that was closely adhered to in Trump's first term. It's, to me, very regrettable that he took a big detour away from that this term. But he did. That's, you know, at this point, spilled milk. I hope we can wrap up that war as quickly as possible. I think Iran unfortunately knows that, that he faces a political problem at home. And so they're not in much of a mood to, you know, they unfortunately do get a vote, even though we've utterly destroyed their military and caused tons of damage to the country, they have a lot of leverage in this process. And they know that the mullahs are evil, but they're not dumb. So here we are in this predicament. And what I would also tell folks though is, look, this war is not going to last forever. And I believe it will be over sooner rather than later once we get past the midterms, because I think the Iranians will then get much more reasonable about what they want to end this because they actually need to end it too. And if you look at the, you know, the economy's my main lane. I was a bond trader for 25 years before I got into politics with Trump 10 years ago. And if you, you know, I watched the data really, really closely. If you look at the trajectory pre-war economically, things were actually starting to head in a really good direction. Real wages, meaning your pay adjusted for the cost of goods and services in your life, real wages were starting to grow again. They had crashed under Joe Biden. They were really starting to grow. By the way, part of that is immigration. Immigration and the economy are interlinked because taking out all those illegal workers, what was it doing? It was raising pay for Americans. We had reasonable inflation pre-war. The inflation was trending down. The wages were trending up. That's what you want. That's prosperity in this country. And then we made the decision, I think, you know, foolishly to go to a war of choice. And, you know, obviously there's well-meaning folks who disagree with me on that. But regardless, I think what you can't argue with is it spiked inflation clearly. But I believe that will be temporary once we wrap up the war. If we get back to that pre-war trajectory, again, that trend of expanding real wages for households, that's gonna be really significant. And then bigger picture, by the way, what I would also point to is this announcement about this Iowa steel plant yesterday. That is a big deal. This is going to be the biggest steel plant in the United States.

Okay.

This is— Tell us, Steve. That's great news.

Okay, sure. Yes. So, so, and by the way, I'll admit I'd never even heard of this. It is a— it sounds more Japanese. Well, it's actually Indian. And I think there are Japanese elements to it as well, but it's Indian-owned. And guess what? Because of President Trump's trade policy, they're going to build the biggest steel plant in the United States in eastern Iowa. The iron ore is going to come from Minnesota. There's a new mining facility opening in Minnesota, which hasn't happened in a half century.

Wow.

And it's going to be a huge investment. So this is amazing stuff in the American heartland. By the way, both those states, Iowa and Minnesota, very much in play for the election. So this is well-timed politically, this wonderful economic news. But you're talking thousands of jobs on the Minnesota side. The iron ore then shipped down the Mississippi to Iowa. There's going to be 6,000 construction jobs almost immediately that will happen. And of course, these kinds of plants take years to build. So this is, you know, this is multi-decades we're talking about the benefits here. But on a lasting basis, looks like about 2,000 jobs. And these are high-paying, family-sustaining jobs, domestic productivity of the items we need, the national security we need of being able to produce our own steel. We need to make our own steel, our own semiconductors, our own medicines in the United States, not just for an economic imperative, but for a national security imperative as well. So this is amazing news. It's a tangible success of the America First trade agenda of an America First onshoring policy. Now, like I said, the benefits are going to be, you know, are slowly unrolling. We don't, we don't unfortunately get the snap benefits, whereas the war, the costs are immediate, right? So this is the conundrum that we face politically right now. But I do believe that once the war wraps up, real wages start growing again. That's sort of the near-term story of success, I think. And Donald Trump showed that pre-war. And then the bigger picture is the onshoring, the investment into the United States. It has just been massive. But we don't really feel it yet because these are big multi-year, even multi-decade projects that take time to truly unfold. But the benefits will be felt, you know, long after Donald Trump is no longer president. I mean, and from that perspective, I think we can actually talk the economy from a place of strength. And I think that announcement yesterday, you know, couldn't have been better timed for this election season.

Yeah.

It's just great news for America. But it's also great news for those of us trying to win races.

I agree with that. Owen, did you want to jump in before I start talking my head off again?

No, go ahead.

Okay. So, Steve, you know, you know President Trump personally. I don't know the last time you spoke with him, but if I had another hour with you, believe me, I would get into a whole other sect of questions that I just would love to chat about sometime. So this is like 2 parts, and however you want to answer, do you think he regrets getting into the Iran War now? And do you think he's changed from who he was to who he is now?

Uh, so to the first question, yes, he absolutely regrets it. And I, that's a— I, I can, I think, say with some confidence, I know he regrets it at this point. You know, that's not something he's going to say publicly, right? It's not his style. But yes, internally in his head, and certainly when the cameras and microphones aren't there, he regrets getting into this war. He does. Now, has he fundamentally changed from his America First mentality when it comes to foreign policy? No, I don't believe he has. I believe he made a really serious error here. I think he was misled by some really unfortunately convincing but sinister people around him, both Americans and overseas actors. But look, I'm not excusing him, by the way, just because he, you know, was, was, got bad advice. I mean, the buck stops with him, right? He is the commander-in-chief who made this decision. By the way, I understand why he made it. And don't get me wrong. I mean, I get the pro-war argument. I can totally understand it. It's not totally unreasonable. I just don't agree with it. And what I also know, though, and I think this part, again, really can't be debated by anybody reasonable is it's a big problem for the elections. Okay. So even if you think it's worth doing, I think if you're reasonable, like, you know, if you're a Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin type, if you're being honest, you have to at least admit, and neither of them is honest in my view, but you have to admit, okay, you have to say this is worth doing, but it's a real problem for the election.

Okay.

I mean, that at the least you have to say is a cost. But to me too, if a war is worth getting into, and I think this was also an error, not just the decision strategically to go to war. But, you know, I would point to George W. Bush, okay, somebody for whom I have almost no respect. Okay, I think one of the worst presidents in American history. I truly believe that. But one thing George W. Bush did when he went to the disastrous Iraq War is he at least had the respect for the American people to sell it to them. If you remember back then, I mean, it was weeks and weeks of effectively a campaign to sell the American people on why we needed to do this. Now, He sold it with a lot of lies, with a lot of shoddy intelligence, with a lot of propaganda. But the point is, he went into the war with a lot of public approval for the war. Now, it quickly dissipated, right? And the American people tired of the war and ultimately really turned on it in terms of public opinion. But he went into it with a significant mandate from the people to do this. He also went to Congress, by the way, and got Congress to approve. None of that happened here, right? None of that happened.

Right.

There was not a respectful case made to the people, did not go to Congress. And so all of that is problematic. But again, I'm not trying to engage. This is election season. I don't believe this is the time to be punching at Republicans, to be punching at potential allies. Mistakes were made clearly. I believe firmly that post-election, this war will wrap up and relatively quickly. And even if you are, even if you are very frustrated right now with the war, and I know a lot of people who are, and I'm one of them, realize that our opponents on the other side are radical America-hating Marxist jihadi extremists. And I'm not exaggerating. I know those are a lot of loaded words. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And we need to defeat these anti-American radical extremists on the other side. And I believe we will ultimately, but it's not going to be easy.

100%. And I, I just think it's important that we understand, you know, because there's so many people that are just like, you know, we had to do the war. It's like, listen, the war was not explained to us. And I think it's better for our morale, you guys, to just acknowledge what Steve said. Like, yeah, he regrets it. I know he regrets it. He regrets it. He's in it now. He's got to finish what he started in the best way that he can save face. and get out of this. He's not on the ticket. I don't think he should say vote like he is on the ticket. I think he should say just vote like you wanna keep America America, because a lot of people are disappointed with him. And it doesn't take away any of the amazing things he's done. But when it comes down to voting, people are gonna— they're not gonna be like, oh, I'm so happy about this. It's, you know, people focus on the negative, like, this is killing me. Like, this is— I can't do this anymore. So, um, you don't believe Steve? I don't know what you don't believe about. Tell us what you don't believe about. Um, but I think, you know, sometimes I wonder, would it be better if he was just like, yeah, you know what, I wish I didn't go in, and but we're here now and we're going to finish the job. Like, I just feel like I, I don't want to— it's not like to say you're admitting defeat, but it's like I'm acknowledging the people that I let down because I feel like he's been doing the exact opposite by amplifying Mark Levin. It's like, we're not stupid. And I just want to address one other thing, Steve, if you can, because just one person made a comment and I just want her to understand. So there was not compelling evidence to go into this war. There was compelling evidence not to go into this war, but Trump was convinced to go into it. And so people feel like, well, he must have known something we didn't know and that's why he did it. If he knew something we didn't know, I believe he would have told us so we could understand it. You know, so I just want to say that I don't think there was some secret thing that, you know, he knows that we don't, you guys. I— there are— our intelligence, our people actually begged him not to do it is what happened. And he went in because he was convinced by other people. Am I right with that, Steve?

I think that's exactly correct. And it was mostly people outside of the administration that convinced Yeah. It was foreigners and donor folks, not national security people within the government.

That's correct. So, you know, I know I— and it's like, it's a tough pill to swallow. And you guys, listen, tomorrow I'm going to play for you a clip about a lot of the amazing things he's done. And I mean, thrilled, thrilled that he could do a lot of the things he did. But I think that the war started so fast after he got into this second term and it just really derailed things. And, you know, it put a bad taste in people's mouths right away. And, um, yeah, there's a lot of snakes. There's a lot of snakes in this world, not just DC, you guys, you know. And they all want to get to the head honcho, which is Trump. So they'll do whatever they have to do to persuade him. And, um, sometimes it works. And, you know, we'll have to see how it shakes out. Owen, would you like to say something, my friend?

That's all right. No, I mean, I, I would just say at this point, certainly the message is get out and vote, get everybody you know to get out and vote, and just, you know, try and make a difference because I think it is really important. And it may be that there are local issues that are more important this time around rather than some of the federal issues, but even the federal offices like senator and House representatives are going to make a huge difference over what happens over the next 2 years and what, you know, at least what you're experiencing. And I think certainly part of that message to me on the affordability topic is to say, Like, it's going to be worse if we have Democrats in control. It's going to be worse. They're going to try and make it worse actively. They're going to try and make it worse to try and say, oh, look, it was all Trump's fault when they're the ones doing it. And they're already doing things like that. They're already— they recently made sure that they kill a bill that was meant to say data centers can't raise your electricity prices. They killed that. They want your electricity bill to be higher.

Right.

And, and the reason they want that is because they don't want Republicans to have a win, and they're going to do the same thing over the next 2 years if they get control of Congress.

Yeah, so you guys, I think the message, the takeaway is don't focus on Trump, don't focus on DC, focus on your state. Focus on your state because this is not like a federal type of election. This is what's happening in, in my state, my hometown, what's going to happen to me in my life. Unless you're planning on moving, which most people aren't because this It's very expensive to move. Um, think about your state when you go to the polls, and go to the polls and bring a friend. And Steve, for sure, the last word, please.

Oh, I appreciate it. No, if I can just echo that exhortation, folks, we need you. You know, we need you to be a force multiplier, and, uh, we can win. These are winnable races. But also recognize, you know, if this is a game, this is the 9th inning and we're down, okay? And we need to bring our best up to It's baseball playoff time starting today. I'll be cheering on the White Sox, by the way. Go Sox!

Yankees!

But much more serious than baseball, than sports, is saving our country. And part of doing that is now. I also want to encourage you, please, not just to vote and convince people to vote, but do it early. Early in-person voting. I know a lot of you don't like that. I don't like it either, the current rules. But under the current rules, it's really, really important that we don't hand a massive advantage to the Democrats.

By—

because they bank their votes early and we don't. And then we have to rely on a massive game day rush. I actually did a whole short— not a documentary, but an interview with Ned Ryan, who a lot of you probably know about this exact topic. If you're curious to hear our thoughts on this, neither of us like the current system, but you got to win by the rules of the current system so that you can then change the system. So please get out there, not just vote, but vote early and encourage all the people in your spheres of influence who you think are going to vote our way to do the same, please.

100%. Thank you, you guys. I think— I hope this was informative for you guys. Just definitely take it to the state level because that's, that's where we're at right now. Um, so listen, you guys, we're at a— we're at time. I can't believe it. It goes so fast. Steve, you're always such a pleasure to have on. We really enjoy you so much. You're totally family here. Um, so we always say thank you to Scott and to Shelley for, uh, allowing this show to be here for all of us to get together and to continue. So thank you so much to the two of them. And, uh, you guys You guys, let's really think about, you know, our future and how we want our country to look. I know you guys are total patriots, but, you know, talk to your friends. Don't be afraid to speak up because we have to vote like, you know, like we really want America to stay America. This vote is attached to many things coming down the line, so it is important. Very important. Okay, so let's, let's be useful. Let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott Adams, and the home team will be back tomorrow. Okay, guys? Cheers. Okay, to Scott.

To Scott.

Thank you, Steve.

Thank you.

Appreciate it. Okay, bye-bye, guys. All right, guys, should we do a song? Should we do an Akira? Robo Goon, I want you to stay, but you know, if you go, I understand. All right, so what do we need? What do we need? I think we need How about get out? Get out and vote. No, let's do. Let's do do do do do the best time of my day.

Akira.

It's not music at all.

It's music plus.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, you have. Been so nice to stick with me through this. I've got to get ready for my long day of medical everything. I got problems. It was wonderful to spend time with you because, as I told you, it takes my mind off of my physical pain, which is. Kind of bad, and I get to spend the best time of my day, which is with all of you awesome people. The best time of my day, which is with all of you. Wish this was all of you, all of you awesome people. And I also know that even though, you know, I haven't met most of you in person, that it actually means something to you when I tell you that you're my beloved and how much I enjoy spending time with you. It's all true. It's all true. It's all true. I wouldn't say it. And, uh, I know that that gives you a little boost, so that's how you can start your day. And you certainly give me a boost. My God, you give me a boost. I could not be more appreciative, and it's all very meaningful to me in ways that you can't even imagine. The best time of my day. Wish this was all of you.

The best time of my day.

Wish this was all of you.

Awesome people.

So ladies and gentlemen, this is the, uh, this is what we have today. I don't know if I'll be back tomorrow. Honestly, I don't know how long I can do this, but for today, that was your show. And we'll get back to— we'll get back to the news maybe sometime soon. All right, closing down. Closing down, closing down, closing down, closing down.

You guys, I can tell you with 1,000% certainty that you all were the best time of his day. I mean, 365, you guys, in an ambulance, in a hospital, on an airplane, at a hotel. Honestly. So, you know, I know how he feels, like a little bit, because I know the love that we all have for Scott. So I can only imagine with like the, the, like that we're like this, you know, compared to Scott. It's just, you know, he gave to us what we gave to him. And, uh, you know, it was, it was a perfect synergistic relationship. So we miss him so much. I'm not gonna cry. I'm gonna end the show. So you guys, uh, yeah, we, we are so lucky. I was, uh, exchanging some words with somebody yesterday on X, and they were saying like, you know, what a shame with Scott and Charlie Kirk gone. But you guys, oh my God, the two of them have left us so much wisdom. And, um, how lucky are we? I mean, so many people are gone, and then they're just gone, and you have like some memories and a little bit of this and a little of that. But Scott and Charlie left us, I mean, thousands of hours of things that we can go back to and, and learn from. So we're lucky. We're lucky. Don't cry, Patty. Don't cry. You're gonna make me cry. All right, you guys, I love you so much. Tomorrow the home team will be back. Marcela will be here. Owen will be here. I'll be here. And, um, maybe what we'll do tomorrow is a nice juicy Scott lesson and a little bit of news. What do you think? Sound good? All right, you guys, say your goodbyes. I don't want to click off while you're chatting. And we'll see you in the morning. Have an amazing, useful day. Don't be hard on yourselves. All right, guys, love you.