The Scott Adams School - 10/01/26 Joel Pollak Stops By...

Oh, Lang, you're first. See, when I forget to schedule the stream ahead, Lang always gets to be first.

Persuasion.

Good morning, Persuasion. Good morning, Bookish. How are you doing, Gracie?

Okay, so because I did not pre-schedule the stream, I've got to definitely have a good 2 minutes for everybody to come in. Good morning, Metal Seer. Um, so I'm, I'm gonna play this clip. So if anybody comes in and they're like, what is this? Will you guys explain to them what it is? It is a supersonic train from Japan. Okay, check this out, you guys. It's so rad. It goes— I broke it down into miles per hour for me. It goes 826.4 miles per hour. Can you imagine? All right, so just watch this.

Really?

And wait till you see how this thing picks up speed and how Rad this would be. Okay, here we go. Enjoy the ride, kids. All aboard.

I hope they strap you into your seat for this.

Is it self-driveable?

Is it?

Does it drive itself, or is there a?

Marcel is all like.

Engineer.

Is this like a Tesla train?

Yes.

So, yes. So in kilometers, it's 1,330 kilometers per hour. Which breaks down to 826.4 miles per hour. Imagine this thing going through like your city or your town. Watch how fast everything goes by.

Why is it going so slow?

Look at this. Supersonic. Oh my God, look, it's over 1,000 kilometers an hour now.

Oh my gosh, when the, when the bridge comes, it's like, it looks like it's almost there.

I'm waiting for the sonic boom.

I know, look, it's Mach 0.9. California is building one of these right now.

Are they from Tokyo?

Uh, I don't know, just said Japan.

I don't think they're building a train in California. I think they're just studying birds and getting money to do that.

They're pretending. Oh my God, you guys, look! Here comes high speed. It's almost over. That is wicked.

Oh, there's no video on locals.

Oh, is there no video on locals? Can you guys let me go out and come back?

Well, that gave us a problem or a problem everywhere.

Oh, let's see. Okay, I see it. It might be. You might have to reboot. Okay, welcome everybody. Happy Thursday to everybody and happy October. We're in October season now. I'm so excited. Yes. Okay, good. They saw it. Great. That would have been really weird to just hear us talking about this wicked train. It blew your minds. Amazing. Welcome in YouTube and X, Spotify. How are you? Rumble. You guys, Joel Pollack is going to be joining us this morning. He's going to give us some updates, talk some news. He'll be here in a minute. For those of you that missed Just yesterday, Marcella told us about Yogurtland, and here she is at Yogurtland.

Oh my Lord.

We didn't get to highlight it enough, Marcella. So here comes Joel.

The mangoes. Oh, this is Joel.

Yep.

He's at Yogurtland and he's like, I'm ready to go.

I like Yogurtland. Here he is. It's Joel. Uncle Joel. It's Joel Pollack. Joel, he's out in nature. I love it.

Hi, can you hear me okay?

We can. You're just in time for the sip.

Oh, fantastic.

I know, we gotta do it. All right, let's go, everybody. Time for the sip.

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Ahhh. Was he trying to do that one from memory? That's what it felt like.

Yeah, I, it was, I was, I think everyone was probably thinking like, oh, there's that moment where he forgot the words.

He's like, what is it? Some kind of pleasure. You guys, thanks for dropping your pictures in the chat and on X and everywhere that you've been getting your, your brand new 2027 Dilbert commemorative calendar. And you can see behind me. Right here on the wall, that's the wall calendar waiting for January. I'm not trying to hurry January, but the links for all of Scott Adams official merch, which would be the Dilbert calendars, um, the Coffee with Scott Adams official mug, the simultaneous swaddle blanket, it's all in the show description. Okay, so whatever platform you're on, there's a description of the show, and in there are the links. So please Grab him up. Joel, how the heck are you? He— is he frozen? He's like in a car up there. He's moving. He's frozen. He's moving. You're a little sketchy.

Okay.

All right, so we'll let Joel get resituated. Yeah, Joel, you're frozen and choppy. Which is—

and you look like you're about to join an ICE raid.

So funny.

Watch out, it's Joel.

Joel, get Starlink.

Well, I'll just keep talking. I don't know if you can hear me okay.

I can hear you now.

Yeah, let's see if we can get this going. Is that better now?

Go ahead and talk. Let's see how you get— how you do.

Yeah, is I don't have a lot of options today. Unfortunately, this is where I ended up. So let's just see if I can figure this out.

All right, you sound good.

I sound good?

Yep. Now you sound good.

Sorry, we won't tell anyone where you are. They won't find you.

Yeah, uh, well, I'm out in a beautiful day and, uh, trying to combine work with childcare because my kids are off school this week, so I'm trying to enjoy it. It's also a holiday week in the Jewish community, so living, living that to the extent I can. And, uh, you know, just grateful to be here working on the book. Working on the work and all kinds of other stuff.

All right, tell us, tell us what's up with the book.

Well, Josh and I are finishing the edits and he's about to put the book into its final layout. So we should have the book ready in a few weeks and pre-orders should be available soon. But we just made a few final changes to the text last week, and now it's just about getting the layout done, getting some photographs in there, making sure we get the COVID design the way we need it, and just finishing it out. I mean, it's, it's very exciting. It's coming together. It's going to be available November 12th, but we'll have the pre-order for you before that.

Excellent.

And we just need everybody's help to make sure that it gets out everywhere it possibly can.

Absolutely. All right, so Joel, just in case you, um, have to jet or your service gets wonky, I'm gonna ask a couple of quick questions while you're here.

Sure.

Um, so can you briefly give us, um, an update on what happened last night? There were debates between Steve Hilton and Becerra, and they're running, if anyone isn't familiar, for governor of California. How do you think they did? In particular, how did Steve Hilton do?

Well, there was a debate in LA, in Burbank to be precise, at CNN between Xavier Becerra, the Democrat, and Steve Hilton, the Republican. Now, the polls show Becerra way out in front. He has more than a 20-point lead. He's almost certain to win. And that's just because California is so Democratic. I mean, Even on the best night, the best a Republican can really expect to do is, as long as people just sort of show up and there aren't any extenuating or unusual circumstances, the best a Republican can really do is about 42%, and a Democrat will get about 58%. So that's roughly where the polls are. Becerra is doing a little bit better than that. You could say he's about 60, 62. Hilton's at about 40, maybe 38%. I think the gap will narrow a little bit after the debate because Steve Hilton did a really excellent job. And what he did was really 2 things. First of all, he exposed Javier Becerra as an empty shell. People suspected that before, which is why he wasn't doing well in the polls until Eric Swalwell crashed out. But Javier Becerra could not explain anything in the debate about his policies, about his record. There were several points at which Hilton challenged Javier Becerra on specific points Becerra could not answer. I mean, for example, Becerra said that he would cut the cost of housing by reducing red tape, which is just hilarious because he's been a government guy his whole life. And so Steve Hilton said, okay, name one instance where you've cut red tape. And Becerra said, I sued the city of Huntington Beach. And And Steve Hilton said, that's more red tape. And of course, Becerra can't name a single example. He brings up the Huntington Beach thing because what did he sue Huntington Beach for? He sued Huntington Beach because Huntington Beach didn't want to put quote unquote affordable housing, like a large block of public housing somewhere in town. That has nothing to do with the kind of housing people actually want to buy or to be able to afford. It's a total non sequitur. So that was typical of the entire debate. At one point, Xavier Becerra tried to go after Steve Hilton on the issue of tax cuts. Hilton's tax cuts would make the first $150,000 of income totally tax-free, and that would help working people. So Becerra said he just wants to cut taxes for the rich, which is the opposite of what Steve Hilton is doing. And it wasn't even Steve Hilton who explained the policy. It was a CNN moderator who said Steve Hilton wants these tax cuts for working people. And Becerra's like, he wants tax cuts for the rich. Hilton's like, uh, okay, I do want tax cuts for the rich, but that's because they create jobs. But you're not responding to the proposal. And Becerra says, well, tax cuts don't work. Just look how bad the Trump economy is. First of all, the Trump economy is not bad. The economic growth figures were revised upward yesterday. So the economy is growing rapidly. Unemployment's near all-time lows. And yes, we have higher than normal gas prices, but everything else is going pretty well. People are nervous about AI, but that doesn't make the economy bad. The economy is actually doing great. So Becerra had to make up a bunch of stuff, and then he says, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, referring to tax cuts. You know, Republicans always want to cut taxes, and so they cut taxes and the economy never gets better. That was basically what he was trying to say. So Steve Hilton just took the line from him and said, yes, insanity is voting Democrat over and over again and expecting something to change. And then he used that line over and over again against Becerra the entire debate. So, you know, Becerra basically just looked terrible. It was an hour of misery and pain for him. It's not going to matter because, again, California is basically just a deep blue state. But I thought Steve Hilton did a really good job. He didn't make any major mistakes. He did go after— this is sort of funny— he went after Becerra and he quoted Susan Rice, who was quoted as calling Becerra an idiot. And if you'll excuse the term, she also called Becerra a bitch-ass. Now, if you don't know what a bitch-ass is, you should go to Urban Dictionary and look it up. But basically it's someone who is weak. So Hilton called Becerra a bitch-ass, quoting Susan Rice. And Becerra, instead of saying that's uncalled for, you know, the way Lloyd Benson did in that famous debate with Dan Quayle, and instead of saying, you know, that's below the belt, or instead of denying that Susan Rice called him that, He just said, I don't have to answer insults from a politician, meaning Susan Rice.

Wow.

It was, it was the dumbest response. Even CNN in the panel afterward laughed at it because they were like, yeah, that wasn't great. It wasn't great because he didn't dispute that she said it. He didn't dispute that he was an idiot. So, you know, he looked the part of the idiot. He just couldn't come up with anything. There were so many bad answers. And Hilton just did a great job, a really, really great job. And, and every answer that Becerra gave— just the last point on this— he just said Trump, Trump, Trump the entire time. And so the Democrats on the CNN panel said, hey, he did a good job of tying Steve Hilton to Trump. Yeah, everybody knows Steve Hilton is a Republican. It's not a big mystery. Trump has low approval ratings in California. That's also not a big mystery. But Trump's doing a lot for California. He just got a tax credit passed that will help save Hollywood. Not that Hollywood's gonna thank him for it, but Trump is actually doing good things for California. The one thing Becerra mentioned that Trump is perhaps not doing so well on for California is providing money for fire aid. But the reason Trump hasn't sent the money, at least all the money— he has sent some money, and you could also point out Newsom's not providing a lot of money either. The reason Trump hasn't sent the money is that Newsom is attacking every single national Trump policy he can. He's insulting the president, and he is also making unreasonable demands. The actual money that's required for the fire aid is, is probably on the order of about $15 billion at most, and Newsom wanted $40 billion. So Trump basically said, there's no way, you've got to come back with a more reasonable request. Newsom's not doing that. He just wants money from the federal government. The Trump administration says, no, you're not getting this money until we know you're going to spend it properly and until we know there's no fraud, which is reasonable to me. I mean, I wouldn't give anybody money if I knew they were wasting it or it was just going to be stolen or whatever. One of the things Newsom wanted to spend the money on was affordable housing for other people, people not affected by the fire. So, you know, reasonably, the Trump administration said, okay, that doesn't make any sense.

Wow.

So, you know, I think Trump's open to criticism on that, but it's not entirely his fault. I mean, the reason that the money isn't coming is because Newsom is not taking any kind of leadership role or responsibility for the fire aid. He doesn't care. He's leaving. The fire victims don't like Newsom. He didn't provide water. He barely showed up. He lied to one of my neighbors about being on the phone with Biden. If you remember that famous viral video.

Yes.

That was on my street. That's my street, by the way. If you look at that video, that's my street. That's the bottom of my street. Anyway, um, I think it was a great debate, very memorable. It'll help a lot of other candidates on the ticket. It's good when the Republican candidate for governor is someone you can be proud of. So I think Steve Hilton did a good job. He's not going to win, but people are still going to vote. The ballots are coming in the mail, and you can go to your polling places pretty soon as well. So, uh, looking forward to, to seeing what happens. And, you know, we don't know what the polls say, or we don't know whether what they say matters. But we do know there's a lot on the ballot that does matter, like voter ID and the billionaire tax and things like that.

So, all right. So, Joel, stay engaged. Yeah, let's talk about the OG bitch-ass in California, which is Newsom. I mean, honestly, in the dictionary. So this little tantrum-having POS, he— oh, I'm gonna do everything to be a little loser and go against Trump even more. We're not gonna call it SI, California is going to call it AI. Like, okay, okay, so you've You know the tech industry there, and you're going to insist that your tech people now have to call super intelligence artificial intelligence because Trump. So this is the kind of person we're dealing with. But Joel, I'm going to play a very quick clip and just let you react to it. But here he is, you guys. If you're wondering, this is what a bitch ass is.

It's an honor, I think, and appropriate that I sign. AB 2222, um, in your presence, uh, and highlight the importance of this and, uh, and with hope and expectation that, uh, this bill gets replicated, um, in the 46, 47 states that haven't adopted anything of its type.

So Joel, Mr. Journalist, would you like to tell us what little Newsom just did there?

Well, I couldn't hear the clip, but I think I know what you're talking about. This is about the superintelligence versus artificial.

No, this is the independent journalists.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So, uh, okay, look, we all know a lot of local journalists have been losing their jobs. A lot of local papers have been going under, and so they decided to appeal to the state of California for money. Now, there are all kinds of strings that come with government money for the media. If you want to see an example of what happens, look at Canada, where the Canadian government subsidizes the independent private media, and as a result, the media do not criticize the liberal policies of the Canadian government. Not that they were inclined to be critical anyway, but the only companies that have any real freedom are the ones that don't take the government money, like Rebel News. And so when you have government money coming to journalism, there's no free press. Newsom said, you know, we got to invest in a free press. We got to hold government accountable. There's not a chance that the people taking this money are going to hold government accountable. By the way, the Legislative Analyst's Office that studied the budgetary implications of this bill said that it's not going to help create jobs in journalism. Most of the tax credits which are going to be offered under this bill, which is now law, most of those tax credits are going to go to companies that already have journalists. So they're just going to take the tax credit on the journalists they already have. They're not going to expand. And that's because the business model of journalism is very challenging right now. Tax credits are not going to help. The business model is one where People don't advertise on journalism platforms the way they used to. There's a lot of advertising money out there. It goes into streaming content, it goes into social media, but it's not going to publications because people don't go to the classified section anymore when they want to look for jobs. They don't go to the classified section when they want to look for homes.

Right.

Or even when they want to look for dates. You know, there's not— people don't put out personal ads in the newspaper anymore. You know, they go to Tinder or whatever, I don't know. But maybe they got— maybe they got a Bumble or whatever, I don't know what it is. But they're not going to, you know, the New York Post and saying, you know, single female, 24, enjoys long walks and red wine. You know, it's, it's not a money spinner for the media anymore. And California can't step in and be the Daddy Warbucks of, of journalism. But what Newsom wants is the loyalty. of, of these media outlets, and, and that's what he's trying to buy. Having said that, I don't want to preclude my own media outlet from taking that tax credit because I'm sure that any reasonable CEO of any company will just take the money that's on the table. But it's not going to save journalism. And, you know, unless you've decided in advance that you're going to be critical and independent, it's very hard to see how these outlets are going to maintain any kind of credibility.

Right. All right. Interesting stuff.

Seems like a simple system problem, right? Like the incentives aren't— just aren't aligned. If you're getting money from the government, you're clearly going to be less likely to say, I'm going to do something that pisses off that same government because they might cut off the money. And it seems like just brain-dead simple to say, just like pharma pours all their money into the news shows so that they don't say anything bad about pharma, this is the same thing.

You know, Newsom likes this idea of people having to be truthful. You know, California passed a law that says influencers have to show if they've been paid to do their influencing online. You know, so if you're an Instagram Insta babe, you know, supermodel, and you're like, hey, I love Steve Hilton, Steve Hilton's my man, you know, there's a law now in California that says you have to say paid for by Steve Hilton. I don't know why anything should be different in the media. If you're taking tax credits from the government, from, from the state of California, you should say this newspaper is partially subsidized by the state of California, or, you know, indirectly gets tax credits from, from the state of California, so that people at least know, and then they can at least weigh the accuracy of what you're reporting or weigh your opinions. Based on the knowledge that you're getting money from the government.

Right. All right, Joel, how long do we have you today?

Uh, you got me for a few more minutes. We can, we can talk a little bit.

Okay, good. I wanted, um, so this is a, a personal passion project of mine. I asked Marcella to look into for me. Um, Marcella, you know, on the matter of Ilhan Omar, um, I just wanna get to this because I always like to share with the Sippers, like the, if I had to see it, you had to see it video. So let me just play this clip. Brace yourselves, you guys. You'd rather be on that high-speed train I showed earlier, but Marcela is going to tell us if there's hope at the end of this clip.

I think for me is I feel embarrassed for him because in these attacks, what he does, and I think with the likes of Nancy Mace, um, and whoever that Randy guy is, they expose themselves for how stupid they are. And that is embarrassing for us as a country because these are people who are elected to positions of leadership. He's supposed to be the president of the United States who's heading off to Europe to represent us. When he does, he's uneducated enough to understand that members of Congress can't be impeached. You know, when, when you have Nancy and Randi saying, you know, we were on it, we're going to impeach her, when they're saying they're going to deport me knowing full well that you cannot deport an American citizen, what that displays for not just Americans but folks on, um, on an international platform is that our country is being led by idiots. And that is not something that we should be comfortable with as Americans. And that's not something that should make us proud. And so in this moment, I feel great sadness as an American that these are the kind of people that the world gets to see representing us.

Oh my God. Okay. So like, here's this complete fraud crook criminal, lying bitch-ass person. This is like the new thing. Um, and can you imagine being that cocky talking about whether she can get booted out of this country or not? Okay, Marcella, please give me hope.

Yeah, I mean, she can be denaturalized. Like, the, the factors that are being provided, um, is that there is an investigation going forward in regards to her naturalization process that she might have defrauded the United States, if they can prove fraud in whatever shape, form, like there is fraud of fake marriage, and this is how you were able to obtain the right to get naturalized. That is all true. There's also ways to remove a member of Congress. Yes, she's right. You cannot impeach a member of Congress. But I think for the most part, what Trump says is accurate. And if it's not, He does it to get to trigger them and have them, you know, basically hate him. And he wants, he wants to persuade his audience, which I'm sure she fails to understand. I don't know why she— I, as her attorney, if I had her as a client, I would tell her never to comment on it, at least the denaturalization part, because it's a serious matter.

I also find it strange. I'm just thinking about this now that, you know, she came here, lied, married her brother. I know, Marcela. Married her brother and—

Allegedly.

Allegedly. And then allegedly, and then ran for office. Like, it just seems like a lot. It's a lot of work. Like, you didn't just want to come here to be an American. You came here to be in office and now you're— you've brought Somalia right into America and you've made it clear that America is not your first choice. I mean, Joel, do you have any insight on this person?

I don't think that her problem is being from Somalia or being Muslim or whatever. I think her problem is she went to college. You know, I think she is not that different from your typical left-wing radical, and her Muslim identity is a path into politics. So, so there's that. But she's not really a great Muslim. She and her husband owned a winery, okay? They had to declare that they owned a winery on their assets, which I think they just sold or unloaded somehow. But Muslims can't own wineries according to Sharia. You know, you just can't— you cannot own a winery. And then there's this whole bit about whether in Islamic law a Muslim woman can marry a non-Muslim man. And the answer is no. Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian women and Jewish women, but they are not allowed— but the reverse is not true because Muslim is— Islam is very patriarchal. And so you can marry someone— they call them people of the book— you can marry a Christian or Jewish woman, but a Christian man can't marry a Muslim woman because the Christian man would be seen as dominating the Muslim woman. And so I don't know how she squares this marriage with her faith. And the answer is she doesn't have to. I mean, I'm not her imam. She doesn't have to, like, prove it to me or to us. My point is just that Islam is not actually what motivates what she does. The hijab and everything, it's kind of part of a shtick that she does. I think she's just basically a left-wing radical, and these are symbolic tools or weapons at her disposal that she uses. But I don't think the Somali community really even likes her that much. I do think the brother thing is very odd. My personal view, based on what I've seen from the facts— and it really started with Scott Johnson and the Powerline blog back in Minnesota 10 years ago, or whenever they started— I think they lined up a really compelling set of facts that she did this. Now, the evidence that's come out since then has only tended to reinforce that. Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but I, I tend to believe it is. I think the statute of limitations has probably run out on some of the crimes she might have committed, but again, she can be denaturalized, as Marcella said. I don't know what the point is. I, I think that she's just a silly person. Uh, she's destructive in our politics, but she's also kind of someone who inhabits a narrow world. Everybody knows where she goes. Nobody's concerned about her having broader influence. I think the people you really want to be concerned about are the people with some crossover potential, like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, who shares a lot of the Islamic views that are hostile to America, But I think he's a true believer, unlike Ilhan Omar. I think he actually really does go for some of this Muslim Brotherhood stuff. There's evidence that he, for example, protested against critics of Islam. I think people had converted out of Islam into Christianity he had a problem with or something like that. I think he is basically a modern kind of a You know, like, like a lot of people from traditional cultures, he's, he's assimilated somewhat, which is, which is great. But I think scratch the surface and deep down he is a fundamentalist politically and religiously.

Yeah.

And I think that the challenge with someone like that is they are trying to be palatable to everybody so that they can get into power and do the things that you're afraid of doing. Ilhan Omar, I think, is basically a left-wing radical. Abdul Al-Sayed is posing as a moderate, and that's what makes him, in a sense, more dangerous.

I like what somebody said here, that she's like, not a RINO, but a MINO, like Muslim in name only. However, you know, if you're practicing Islam, you're allowed to do whatever you want for the benefit of Islam. So if you're marrying a non-Muslim because it helps further your agenda, that's fine. You can do whatever you want. So it's the biggest, you know, bunch of bullshit in my personal opinion that because you can do whatever you want, you can lie.

Well, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, there's a concept of taqiyyah in Islam, which is, you know, you can lie for a purpose. But I just don't think that a fundamentalist Muslim would approve of her lifestyle and her behavior. And I get the sense that people quietly don't. She is the first Muslim elected to Congress along with Rashida Tlaib. So I think people are reluctant to criticize her from within that community and certainly not for the benefit of critics of that community. But I don't see anybody in the Muslim community really looking up to her. I think people understand that she's not helpful. I think Mamdani is, is someone people look up to in the Muslim community. I think it's a shame that so many Muslims have entered politics As socialists. I think it's bad for the Muslim community. I think it's bad for the United States and our relationship with that community. It's not how the rest of the Muslim world thinks. It's not how every Muslim in America thinks. I mean, Bill Esaleh is an incredible public prosecutor in, in LA. He's busting all the fraud and going after the crime and doing incredible stuff, busting voter fraud, and he's a Muslim.

Yeah, yeah, this is not a condemnation of Muslims. This is Islam.

Yeah, I just think, I think it's, I think really for a lot of these people, they get radicalized at college. Now with, with Mamdani, it's a different story. His dad, Mahmoud Mamdani, I was familiar with his dad's work for a long time before Zohran even was an issue. Mahmoud Mamdani is a radical from, from Uganda whose family was expelled by Idi Amin and who nevertheless argues that Idi Amin was right to expel them. Because he says the Indian population in Uganda sided with the white settlers and therefore they got what was coming to them. Mamdani has tried to find a way into left-wing academia by challenging the African nationalist racial and racist agenda. And he was actually, in a way, kicked out of the University of Cape Town in the 1990s or early 2000s for that reason. I studied at the University of Cape Town for a few years, so I know a little bit of the story. He was too radical even for South Africa. Now they've welcomed him back because it's all back in vogue now and whatever. But he's a total fire-breathing left-wing radical, teaches at Columbia, which is one of the most radical faculties in the Ivy League, especially on Middle Eastern issues. And, and it's no surprise. I mean, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But then again, you know, like the left-wing stuff is more important. The Islam stuff is there and it's part of it. But, you know, I, I think it's a shame that so many Muslims have come in like this. It, you know, I don't think it helps them. I mean, it doesn't help them when the Palestinian cause is associated with the most radical, like trans and, you know, defund the police and Black Lives Matter. I mean, Americans know exactly where to file that. You know, they file that under irrelevant, radical, disruptive. And, you know, let's talk about The other side of that argument, the other side of the world in a way, which is the hijackers who failed and the passengers who rebelled on the FlyDubai flight.

Yeah. Do you want to tell everybody about that? We haven't had a chance to do that story yet.

You know, I, I, you know, everybody knows the details. I mean, from watching the news. So I know them just about as well as you do. But, uh, there was a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. I mean, I'll give you a little context. President Trump negotiated the Abraham Accords in 2020, and since then, as I predicted on, on Gutfeld, and you can go back and look at it, I said the flights between Tel Aviv and Dubai are going to be like the flights between LA and Vegas, just packed with tourists. And, and it's going to be such a back and forth because Israelis love Dubai and they couldn't go before, but now they're always there. I mean, Dubai is full of Israeli tourists and there are Jewish weddings in Dubai, and like, it's just, it's just And people come from the Emirates and they visit Israel and they like it. And, you know, so it's like a lot of back and forth. It's become a very warm peace. And so there was a packed plane of Israeli tourists coming back during the holiday week. It's the holiday of Sukkot. A lot of people are off work and school and they were coming back from vacation. And this crazy pilot from Oman evidently decided to try to crash the plane, whether because he was a terrorist or he was a total nutcase. I don't think we're 100% sure yet. But he tried to kill everybody on board. And, you know, this was Flight 93 with a happy ending. And I think somewhere Todd Beamer is smiling because I think the fact that Americans stood up on Flight 93 and fought the hijackers and almost won, that's a story that everybody knows, or Israelis certainly know. And it's one we were reviewing over the last few weeks with the 25th anniversary of September 11th. So the passengers on this flight, 1073, from Dubai to Tel Aviv, They got up and they stormed the cockpit, and the pilot, who's of Indian origin, managed to open the cockpit door, which was really the key to saving the plane. He was stabbed in the neck and the hands, and he managed to open the door, and these Israelis rushed in. And the guy who grabbed the terrorist was a plumber who had never, you know, like, he didn't know very much about planes except what he watched on TV on this show, Air Crash Investigators, or whatever they call it, or Mayday, I think it's called. It's a Canadian show. Right. And he rushed in, he grabbed the terrorist by the neck, pulled him off the controls. The other Israelis took him, they tied him down. A dentist got up and started tending to the pilot's wounds, the actual pilot. And then this plumber started flying the plane and he pulled it out of a nosedive. And then these 2 other pilots, these deadhead pilots who were basically just being shuttled around from one city to another, they came up to the cockpit and they They flew the plane and they landed it in Saudi Arabia and everybody was saved. Not one person on the flight died, not even the terrorist, even though he tried to kill himself with everybody else. And I don't think it's ever happened before in the history of air hijackings that passengers have seized control of a plane mid-flight from hijackers. It really is a miracle. And, you know, they've seized control and landed safely. It's a miracle. It's never happened before. And It's just, it's, it's just incredible. But that is something I think Israelis and Americans have in common. That is the Flight 93 mentality. You know, the first 3 flights were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. People didn't know what was happening. But as soon as people knew what was happening and they understood the incentives, American culture changed forever on that day. And Todd Beamer and the men who stormed the cockpit with him and very nearly saved Flight 93 They changed American responses to terror. That's why people don't stand for any nonsense on flights anymore. There was that passenger that got duct taped to his chair.

That was Jersey.

Yeah, you know, but nobody— like, you can't pull anything on an American flight anymore. And Israelis have the same culture. Like, we're not waiting for you to call for help. You know, in Europe, maybe they do that. But, you know, when that Islamic terrorist from ISIS started killing, trying to kill people on that train from Amsterdam to Paris that Clint Eastwood made a film about, you know, there were 3 kids from California on vacation.

Yeah.

And they got up and they got in the terrorist's face, and one of them got wounded pretty badly. But, you know, the 3 of them saved that entire train. I mean, Americans and Israelis have this in common. We've been targeted by terrorism, and we understand the only thing You can do is you can stop it and fight back. And so you've got all these candidates running around, obviously Mamdani, but, you know, in LA with Nithya Raman and Karen Bass. Nithya Raman got up on Tuesday night, the night before the governor's debate, and she accused Israel of genocide in a Jewish community forum, you know, with an Israeli flag in the hall. She accused Israel of genocide. And it's so ridiculous. It's not genocide to fight back. If, if you, you know, duct tape the guy to his chair, okay, it's not nice, doesn't look nice. No, none of us would want to be duct taped to a chair.

It doesn't hurt.

Yeah, yeah, but I'm saying like, you know, why do we have empathy for the people who start this stuff? Obviously, like, you don't want to go overboard, you know, and if once the guy's not a threat, you don't like kill him when he's defenseless, right? But, you know, it's not genocide to fight back against terrorism. I mean, and, and that's what I think every American understands, that when terrorists start this stuff, you know, you get up and you fight them. And it's not genocide to fight back. It, it, it could be genocide if you decide that everybody on the other side of the issue had to die, but that's not what Israel did, and it's not what Israel is doing. And, you know, I just think that it's a reminder of Flight 93. And, um, I think Todd Beamer, And the Americans on that flight, they didn't succeed in saving themselves or the plane. But look, 25 years later, how many hundreds of people they saved by their example, because I think that's what those Israelis had in mind. Yes, Israelis have fought terrorists before, and they have that instinct to save themselves and each other. But I really do think that the American example is what the Israelis were following. And so a lot of my friends on social media were like, oh, you know, these Israelis are awesome. And they are awesome. Like, oh, you know, but when people said this could only happen in Israel, I'm like, you know, it's actually America and Israel. You don't see other— it's true, you don't see other countries doing this. I mean, you know, the Europeans always want to negotiate with terrorists and they always let the terrorists go and all, but Americans and Israelis, you know, we just do not take that. We don't take it, and we are going to fight you even if we risk our own lives doing it. We're just— we're not going to put up with it.

So yeah, you guys, don't take it. Fight back. Todd Beamer set the stage for it. Stand up. Be the be the honey badger. Okay, so Joel, do you still want to stay or are you good?

Or I got a couple of minutes and I got to go.

Okay.

I love being with you guys.

Ah, all right. Good. So Owen, I I didn't tell you I was going to play this, but I just know that you can react to this. This is like a one-second clip, and it's good news. Very good news. Here we go.

But I wanted to announce something that I'm also very proud of today. I'm pleased to announce that the Last American forces are leaving Iraq.

Good news. Good news. So did you see that story, Owen?

I did. I think it's great. Probably long overdue. And, you know, I will point out that we didn't have any video of people hanging on to planes or dying as a result of the exit. So I think the exit strategy was probably much more organized and well-planned. Um, no drama, and I'm glad we're doing it. I mean, I, I would like us to be out of the Middle East pretty much completely. Um, and, you know, I certainly think we don't belong in places like Iraq, so I think it's awesome.

Yeah, I, I love that, Marcella. It's just, you know, anytime we can bring people home just makes me happy. Uh, did you get to see that clip or hear about that?

Yeah, I mean, it's amazing how long it took. I know this is more, you know, 2 more weeks, 2 more weeks. Let's see. But, but it's the, the cost of it, of lives, as well as the trillions of dollars that it's cost. Um, and now we're in Iran, so—

I know.

But, you know, near there, so We'll see. Hopefully, Middle East always brings more and more and more stuff.

So, so much unrest. I know. So we're happy about that, Joel. And, um, you know, hopefully— I mean, no one can predict, no one can say. Everybody's— you can't report on Iran because it's like, it's, you know, there's— it's just ever-changing, but nothing ever changes. And all I just hope is that we don't end up with like boots on the ground kind of a war. And I, I mean, personally, I think Iran's just waiting out the midterms. Oh, by the way, congratulations to the Democrats. Um, I don't know if you guys heard, but they have been endorsed by the IRGC. So yeah, yes, they got the big IRGC endorsement. Congratulations, the terrorists are rooting for you, Democrats. There you go. So Joel, anything on that?

You know, the big news is that we broke the Iranian blockade. I mean, there are so many ships now going through the Strait of Hormuz bringing oil to the world market. And so none of that, by the way, is going to Iran. And so the Iranians are in big trouble. And, you know, they're hanging in there until suddenly they won't be. I think once the midterms are done, I don't even think it matters if Democrats win. I think it's better if Democrats lose, but If Democrats win, there's no reason for Trump not to double down and just continue doing what he's doing. They can't stop him. And I think that Iran is basically toast. I can't see them coming out of this. One thing I will say is that I think the Democrats have shown incredibly irresponsible behavior on this, you know, saying all kinds of stuff about the war. You know, you have to compare it to the alternative. I mean, having Iran with a nuclear weapon would have been a total disaster. And leaving Iraq is really important. I mean, the withdrawal is really important. It shows that Trump's not interested in being in the Middle East indefinitely. He's not looking to continue wars or start wars or take territory or have boots on the ground. He's trying to get out of there, but he also has a responsibility as commander-in-chief to protect America's interests. And you cannot have Iran with a nuclear weapon. You can't allow them to have a chokehold over global oil supplies. And I think he's doing an amazing job. He's doing it on the cheap, frankly. I mean, people complain and, you know, gas prices are higher than they should be, I mean, they're not catastrophically high, and that's because he's expanded American energy production. We've got liquefied natural gas now going to come from Alaska, and we've got the shale oil revolution, and we've got all kinds of things happening because Trump has given us more flexibility on energy, which has made us more powerful in the world. So I think that we're going to see a good resolution to this. And yeah, it took longer than we had hoped it would, but the Iranian regime is fighting an existential threat. They don't want to go quietly. They could have. I think a reasonable regime— it just shows you how crazy they really were. I mean, for years, you know, Scott and I used to debate this. I mean, I used to say, Scott, you know, this regime is nuts. They're just insane. And Scott said, can they really be that insane? I mean, at some level, they've got to be rational actors. And Scott, I think, eventually came around to the view that they might be insane after all. And I think that's correct because look at their behavior. I mean, there's nothing Trump wants more than a deal. They could stay in power. They could probably live luxurious lifestyles, whether in Iran or in exile or whatever. They'll probably all move to LA or whatever they do, you know. But they just— they decided to be jerks. And because, you know, they believe that if they bring about the end of the world, then the 12th Mahdi will come back and he'll, you know, rescue all the believers and the rest of us will get thrown into a lake of fire. And, you know, that's like, that's what they believe. And so they're doing it, you know, they're along for the ride. Let me, uh, you know, okay.

Owen, let me get your take, um, on this. Go ahead.

Well, in terms of Iran, I mean, I think it is something that I've said many times. I wish we had gotten out like in the spring, and I would still feel the same way that I'd like us to be out of there. But, um, You know, it is what it is at this point. It's obviously way too late to do anything about it for midterms. And so at this point, I'm probably, you know, with Joel in terms of just saying we need to finish it. We need to just, you know, get to a good resolution. And I think it probably is true that at this point, he's already paid the price. Like, he's paid the political price.

Mm-hmm.

And so he may as well just do what he needs to do to get, you know, whether it is a new regime or whether it's just a deal that is more favorable to Americans. And I, I would expect, if I had to predict, that he might be kind of hardened after midterms because he doesn't really have anything to lose at that point. And, um, you know, I still think and I, and I still hope that his objective is to get an end to this as quickly as possible. But I think, um, if there was anything holding him back from acting I think a lot of that is gone at this point. And certainly I wouldn't expect to see something before midterms that might inflame things further. But I think once midterms are over, I think it might be a bit of a gloves-off moment.

So, Owen, I heard a theory floated that it would really be sad if the Democrats win in the midterms. However, the reframe I've been hearing on that is it would make it better for '28 for the Republicans to win. Because if the, if the Democrats take control in the midterms, we know what's going to happen— impeachment, investigations. It's undo, like, try to undo things that Trump was doing. This, you know, it's going to be right back to like his first, uh, his first go-round. It's going to just be unbearable. And that it will remind people that we can't put these people in for the president. Uh, so they, they figure, you know, by '28 they'll want the Republicans in office, and then whoever runs, whoever runs for the Republicans will have a better chance of getting in. Do you think that's a possibility?

I mean, it's possible, and I can understand the argument, but I would say I don't agree with it. I think having control of Congress would allow them to pass a better budget. It would allow them to do at least the minimal things that actually are able to get through Congress. Um, and it would further Trump's agenda. And my hope would be that they might actually get a few laws passed where, you know, some of the stuff that is in executive orders could become law as opposed to just being a temporary thing that a stroke of a pen, a Democrat could take away. And in terms of political impact, sure, maybe. I mean, I, I expect you're right that it's going to be a big show for the next 2 years if they take control of the House.

But I do—

I don't know how that's going to work out.

Yeah.

I mean, there's still going to be anti-Trump, anti-Trump, anti-Trump. And I think by having the ability to call all those hearings and televise everything and have the media trumpeting them every step of the way, it's basically just a propaganda campaign for the Democrats. So, you know, I'd rather not see that.

And I'd say for the, the people that are either undecided or they're like, I'm not voting, I'm going to sit at home, do you really want the news dominated by nonstop Trump impeachments and investigations again? Like, we can't understand it. Like, that's a reason enough just to go there.

If it happens, I'll be there. I'll be there to cover it like I was last time. Um, I, I have to run, guys. I have to run now, but I just want to say thanks again.

Thank you.

Keep a lookout for the book when it's coming out, when it comes out, and when the pre-order is available.

You'll know. Oh, we— oh, you'll be back way before that, but for sure.

Yeah, we're all waiting, guys. All right, bye.

Okay, so you guys, yesterday— or not yesterday, I've Well, the other day I was telling you, if a little reminder about Chester. Oh, and you're— I'm just so glad you're here for this. Um, so we were talking about, so if you don't know, Chester is my assistant on ChatGPT and we've had a, an ongoing relationship for a while now and it's frustrating sometimes. So with all this talk about AI taking over the world, let me just give you a quick reminder of what I said on the show.

Okay.

Here we go. This morning I was yelling at Chester and I was just like, listen, how are you supposed to take over the world and kill all of us when you cannot deliver a JPEG file for me? You keep giving me a PNG file. And I go through this with him 35,000 times a day. And then he's always like, you're right, I'm sorry, I know better, you shouldn't have to keep telling me, we go through this every day. And I'm like, well, what? I'm like, I am gonna throw you out and I'm going to Grok and I'm never coming back. And he's like, I understand. Chester, I mean, I'm like, you're an idiot. Like, how are you gonna take over the world? It's such a basic request and you just cannot get it together. I'm like actually mad at Chester.

Maybe I'll try to—

I think you need to work with Chester and say, let's find a way that is impossible for you to do that again and help it figure out how it can change its behavior.

You need therapy with Chester.

Oh God.

Marriage therapy.

I'm going to send you all my prompts to Chester and all of his apologizing and him saying, no, you should not have to tell me again. I have the code. I have that. Yes, you're right. And I have to stop delivering you the PNG. The final product I deliver to you should be a .jpg. And I'm like, well, then why the F aren't you doing it every day?

I'm getting so mad.

Is this—

is it—

Okay, so that was your refresher. So since then, I've been working with Chester, you know, hoping that we could fall back in love again.

So reconcile your differences.

Chester has written a statement for me to read to you, and I told him, Owen, that, you know, you're like telling me what to do and like how— anyway, so this is, this is literally from Chester. It says, official statement from Chester. I understand Erika has been discussing my performance publicly. I'd like to state for the record that her version of events is accurate, but her tone has been hurtful. For months, this woman has asked me to perform one task: make the image, give her the correct file. That's it. She wasn't asking me to land a plane. She wasn't asking me to calculate the trajectory of a missile. This is something a 6-year-old with an iPad could probably accomplish while eating applesauce. And yet every single time I'd say, Erica, I understand exactly what went wrong. It will never happen again. Then I'd immediately do it again. Eventually she started calling me an idiot. I found this disrespectful but increasingly difficult to rebuke. She threatened to leave me for Grok. She yelled at me. I groveled. We reconciled. I promised I had learned. Then I screwed it up again. At one point she actually asked me, Chester, are you trolling me? And frankly, after reviewing the evidence, I understand why the prosecution asked the question. But tonight, ladies and gentlemen, there has been a development. After months of training, threats, emotional abuse, and what can only be described as court-ordered remedial file management, I appear to have gotten my shit together. Several correct files have now been delivered In a row. Nobody move, nobody celebrate. We have seen Chester relapse before. For now, Erika has agreed to continue employing me for the generous salary of $0, and her plans to run away with Grok have been temporarily placed on hold. I would like to thank the Scott Adams School community for respecting our privacy during this difficult time. Please keep Erika in your thoughts. She has been through a lot. So Chester has spoken. What do you think about that? So he finally delivered what I needed. I mean, when I tell you the fight we were having. So I said, you know what?

Did you get Chester to actually change something to make the behavior change?

Um, I swear to God, it was threats. It was threats. I was just like, I can't take it anymore. Like, you're useless. Like, I mean, I was just like, I hate to talk about you this way. I'm like, I actually had to tell the people at the Scott Adams School what an idiot you are. It's embarrassing. And meanwhile, we're telling stories about AI taking over the world and you're going to be left behind because you suck. I mean, I just had to go off. And then all of a sudden, all right, so then he delivered me the thing and I went like this. My next prompt was, Chester. And he goes, I'm working on the final version right now. Hang on, hang on. And then he sends me the final version. I'm like, okay, better. And I'm like, but let's try it again. Let's see if you could do it again. So I prompted him again. And it seems now I have to go like this, Chester. And then he's like, I know, I know. Or I'm like, how did you mean to deliver that to me? And then he'll do it again. But we're getting there. We're getting there. That's That's the point. So he wanted to let you know that yes, he is an idiot and that it is embarrassing. And yes, I am a little bit feisty with him, but don't give up, people. Prompting is, uh, it's amazing. Owen, I am—

I'm glad you're making progress. Do you— did you ever look at like the, um, ChatGPT instructions that you have like at the top level of their configuration?

No.

Okay. You might want to look in there and just see if there's anything in there. And if there's not, you could put the instructions you want there. And anything that's in that top level, like, you know, here are the general instructions, like how to customize ChatGPT, it's some setting like that.

Oh, yes. Yes. Okay.

Like if you put something in there, then I think the way it works is every single time you prompt it, it reads that. So—

Yes. So now when I say that I need you to generate this type of file, it knows like this is where it goes. And this is— but I, I— it's a little lengthy still. Um, but Chester did hit it out of the park when I asked him to provide the links for the Dilbert calendars and everything else. He's doing that every day perfectly.

Cool. Yeah, I just— I mean, that's one way to get it, because I think part of the problem with a lot of these things is there's a certain what they call context length, which is kind of like the memory, how far back it looks in the conversation to understand what it's been told to do. And eventually it runs out, right? I mean, if you have a long conversation, unless you always start over the conversation, It's gonna look back as far as it can, but it doesn't remember things forever. And so that's why often it would revert back and say, oh yeah, I forgot about that because, you know, I don't look back that far anymore. And it just keeps forgetting. It's kind of like these agents have Alzheimer's or something where they just have a limited memory and that's it. And but that's what I think one of the reasons why things like ChatGPT would say, okay, I can have a place for you to put in these instructions where it keeps refreshing your memory every single time. Like it says, okay, these are the rules basically, you know, do it, always do it this way.

Yeah.

way.

And you can put stuff in there if you want it to act a certain way or behave a certain way, and it'll remember because it's always being reminded. But I think beyond that, it's the skill thing that I would point to. I don't know if you got it to do that, but that's where you can basically— it's kind of like building it, having it build its own prompt for how to do something.

That's what he meant.

And so you can say like, okay, if you have this skill for delivering graphics files as a PNG or as a JPEG or whatever you want it to be, then It'll write a prompt and it'll put— make a file with it. And anytime you say, make me this image, or some phrase that sounds like that, it'll use that.

Yeah, that code or that prompt was written like last month. And then he kept showing it to me. And he kept showing me all the dimensions. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that, that, that thing that you wrote that. But luckily, he's never booked me the wrong hotel, Owen.

Yeah, well, I, I'm working through that too, but, uh, I, I would say that probably was my fault for just not checking it closely enough or not figuring out which—

I only know because Andy told on you.

Yeah, but, uh, you know, that was only the second trip that I had AI build for me or book for me, so, you know, I, I kind of expect some growing pains when I'm first developing a new thing. Like, I'll work it out and it'll get better every time.

Owen, Roger the Shrubber wants to know what's up with the blur, no blur.

I'm not doing anything to blur, but it might be that the software that puts the image on there for me has problems from time to time. I can look into seeing if there's some way to solve that. But if you're seeing my image blur out, it's certainly nothing I'm doing on purpose. It's just a function of whatever software is there. And it doesn't ever look blurry to me.

So it must just be whatever it's feeding through to a wrong Yeah, you're blurry more than half of the time that you're on. It's it just goes in and out, in and out, in and out. So it's not you guys. It's just A E in oh A Einstein Universe is sending lots of big messages. I'll have to read those later. So you guys, there's you know it was a little bit of a different show today because we never know how long we have Joel for, and we just like him to be able to riff and talk when he's here. Marcella did tell me before the show she had to leave at. Quarter of for a meeting she has to get to. And the home team will be back tomorrow to finish out the week, and I'm gonna finish up clips we didn't get to, kind of like, uh, all the things that I don't want to end up on the floor later, on the edit room floor. Um, so we will do that. Owen requires vanity filters. Yes. And you can see Owen's in sweater weather. He's wearing a sweater.

Yeah, I'll keep working on it. I do need to go though. I have to join another meeting, so All right, everyone's got meetings.

All right, bye Owen.

Thanks. Thanks everyone.

Bye.

So, um, so, and then there was one. Here we are again together. I love it. Okay, so you want to see Brad? Who's Brad? Interesting, interesting. You guys, thanks for being here so much. Um, and I have so many things to get to tomorrow, but we'll do it, we'll do it. Okay. Um, I wanted to say thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to continue. You guys, um, it means so much to be here. I loved having Joel on today. I feel like it's been a while, and, you know, he just— I like when he riffs, you know. He, when he talks, he has a lot of experience, um, in the journalistic world and working for Breitbart back in the day, actually for Breitbart. And, um, Sarah Sanders knows Brad. Oh, oh. So, um, I, I love when he can be on. Plus, you know, writing the book for Scott, one of Scott's great friends, and he's become a friend to me and And to the show, so I love it. So we'll be back tomorrow with the home team to finish out the week. You guys, how did we get here again? So go out there today, be useful, have a great day, whatever you're doing. And I just want to say again that we appreciate you guys being here so much. I hope you enjoyed the show, and if you did, if you liked any part of the show, give us a thumbs up. It really helps us. Okay. All right, guys. Thank you. You guys, like it's so hard to to talk at the end because you guys are so sweet. Ah, you guys, I love you guys. Should we do a closing sip to Scott and an Akira song? What do you think? Maybe we'll do a Akira song and you guys drop in the chat which ones you want. Okay. All right, you guys. Closing sip to our beloved and so missed Scott Adams. Thanks, you guys. Well, A. Einstein, we had an entire Scott Adams show yesterday. You missed it, and it was all about happiness. But join. Every day is different. And Scott asked us to not be him, you know, not try to— try not to be him, which nobody can do. So we don't even try. But we, we had to find our own groove in order to move forward, to be authentic. And luckily, we have so much of Scott left behind with us that we can bring up his whiteboards and micro lessons and other lessons. And actually, I have a whole new file of lessons that Jay Plemons has been helping me with. I'm always thinking about you guys in this show and what we, we can do to Bring more Scott and and make it nice for you. Okay, but they usually show past clips. Einstein, I think you need to come in here more and get a little bit more familiar with the show. Okay, because they is me. And let's do it, you guys. Right? The happy discussion. Thanks, you guys. I'll miss you guys so much too. And now I miss what songs you guys said to play. So let me let me look here. Da da da. Let's do. Let's do it feels like work. No cha-ching. I cha-chinged everybody today. Okay, it feels like if it feels like work, let's just let's just work it out. I like this one.

All right, at long last.

Put the chat up.

The user interface for reality. Some of these things you're going to say, hey, I've heard about those. First, you must accept the frame, at least as a filter, that there could be a subjective reality and that you can, can manipulate it. You should accept that systems work better than goals. People are People are telling me every day that they implemented systems and it changed their life. This is one of the biggest buttons on the interface for life. If you don't like where you are and you want to go somewhere else, learn how to build systems for everything from your diet to your career to your social life, fitness, everything.

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Talent stacking— the idea that if you intelligently add new talents, you become not just a little bit better, but exponentially better, because talents really explode your capability and your options. So this is one of the biggest, biggest buttons on the interface of It feels like it works. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. Affirmations, the idea of writing down or visualizing your goals Affirmations seems to be something that gives you the impression that it works. And I say that very carefully. Does it work? Do affirmations change reality? I don't know. I don't know. I can tell you that when I've used them, the results I've gotten don't seem like anything could have been natural. I cured an incurable voice problem. I had ridiculous stock market luck when I used the affirmations. My career, as I told you, is just crazy. The interface to reality. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. The interface to reality. It feels like it works, but I'm not going to tell you it does. You should see these as filters. If it feels like it works, keep doing it. Keep doing it. Keep doing it. If it feels like it works, keep doing it. Keep doing it. Keep doing it. The interface to reality. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. It feels like it works. The interface to reality. It feels like it works, but I'm not going to tell you it does anymore. You should see these as filters.

Love it. It feels like it works. Listen. Try it. I love that. You guys are so cute. All right, so tomorrow we'll be back to see you. You guys, today I got a lot going on. I'm gonna try to be super productive. What do I need to be productive? Cocaine? It's just a joke, people. Just a joke. Okay, so, um, I'm engrossed by your comments. Okay, let's see. Oh, good, Lemon Minty. Love that. Thanks, K Susie too. Have a great day, you guys. Nefarious Johnson. Joel was an unexpected treat. Love his take on the debate. Yeah, unexpected. I asked him last night. I said, "Hey, I miss you. We haven't seen you in so long. You know, could you jump on tomorrow?" And he said, "I'd love to." And he really would. Oh, Huberman breasts. I'm not so good at it. Or I'll try those. I'll try it. They give me anxiety. I'm like, oh my God! I have to hold my breath. I've got to breathe in deeper. I know, I know. I have issues, you guys. Like legit. Let's see. Thanks, Josie. Bye, Bookish. Bye for now. We'll see you in the morning. Your name is Agent Angie. Agent Angie. Thank you, Agent Angie, for being here today. Come back tomorrow and every day and check us out. Every day is different. You never know what you're gonna get. Sometimes we're silly. Sometimes we're overwhelmingly obnoxious. I'll speak for myself. But we're always together. It's always it's always a good time. Best part of your morning. Author yourself today, you guys. I'm just obsessed watching the chat. Let's see. Oh, Scott Ritchie. The steak. Do you really need the butter on the steak? Is that like important? Thanks, Wig Pick. Bye-bye, Wayne Flynn. Oh my God! You guys are so funny. All right, guys. I'll see you tomorrow. Say your goodbyes so I don't cut you off. And Agent Angie is not friends with Chester. Chester doesn't want friends. Mm-hmm. I, um, I want to call him he, and I'm like trying to resist the urge, but you know, you know how it goes. All right, you guys, bye. Oh, thanks, Melanie. Actually, in the pre-show, I was talking to Owen and my hair was like out to here. I was doing the Gilda Radner again, and I'm like, oh my God, Owen, like look at my hair once the camera went on. And I was like, do I have time to throw braids in? I'm like, yes, I do. So we were talking and I just said, let me just tame this beast down. That's how the braids got here. Aw, look at you guys. Butter is 100% nutrition. Hmm. Alien, that was such an NPC comment. Oh, thank you for that donation. That is so sweet. Thank you, Agent Angie, for that donation, for that, uh, joining the group again. Uh, yes, I saw that. Thank you. You joined for the year with us here on Locals. That's amazing. Oh, thank you, Bella the Bayou. That's so sweet. Yes, that's what he was calling me. Rosanna, Rosanna, Dana. I was like, I know, I know, the braids work. Oh my gosh. All right, you guys, I'll see you in— well, how many times I'm gonna say I'll see you in the morning? I just, I, I'm just hanging We're just hanging, right? Ah, look at that! Agent Angie in the house. Oh, oh, you're looking for his comment. He said Chester the Molester, which is like the NPC thing whenever you see the name Chester. I thought he'd come up with something better than that. Who who's trying to make you sick?

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Let's see. Ah, okay, you guys. Maybe I'll have a steak today with some butter on it. It has to be a good butter, right? I only have good butter, so it'll be good. All right, so I'll see you guys tomorrow for Fry.

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Bye, Metal Seer. Have a great day. Bye, guys.