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April 2, 2026 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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The Scott Adams School - 04/02/26 HOME TEAM News & Current Events

Erica, Owen & Marcela talk Moon launch, stealing a wallet in Japan, and more.... plus, Bob Lawler drops a beat for an opening song.As always.... the opinions are our own.

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The Simultaneous Sip 00:04:56
Live, good morning, everybody.
Look at that!
All right, I'm gonna hit this song.
Wow, are you guys ready?
I'm ready.
All right, let's go.
Check this out, you guys, from uh Bob Lawler.
Good morning.
How would you like to take it up to a level that you've never seen before?
You would get ready for that is a cup of mug or a glass.
To take your chelsea side, give me a drink of glass.
A vessel of any kind.
It's time for Scott Adams School.
Be useful is the primary rule.
Owen is here with the news.
Marcella brings the legal views.
Erica, she runs the show.
Who's the guest?
We wanna know.
Got your glass, your mug, your cup.
Pour your coffee.
I like coffee.
No.
For Scott Adams School.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Way to start, man.
So fun.
I hope Lawler is here.
We will definitely be playing that one again.
It wasn't that fun, you guys?
Funky.
Funky.
He needs to explain how he did all this.
I mean, right?
Love it.
Did anyone hear Scott say, Erica, the excellent?
Oh, it was right after I said something.
I was like, yes.
Bob, we love it.
That was so fun and groovy.
We figured that would give some time for people to come in.
Good morning, you guys.
We are ready to kick this day off, are you?
I think we need to do something first, though.
Let's go.
There's a little thing called the simultaneous sip.
Most mornings, I read from my little script for the introduction.
Sometimes, if I'm on the road in a secret location like today, I don't have that with me.
So you might have to help me.
Those of you who have memorized the introduction to the simultaneous sip, all you need is a cup or a mug.
Or a cup.
I don't know, has anybody memorized it?
Well, we'll see it in the comments.
Let's see if somebody can reproduce it in the comments.
Because I know somebody there has memorized it by now.
All right, well, we're not going to make you wait.
Let's go directly to the simultaneous sip.
You know, it's the best part of your day.
It's the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
Simultaneous sip, go.
Oh, classic Scott.
I love that.
Good morning, everyone.
My name is Erica, and you are at the Scott Adams School.
Today is April 2nd, 2026.
You know what that means.
Nothing really.
It's no longer April Fool's Day.
Thank God.
I hate April Fool's Day.
I'm like, please let me get through the day without someone giving me a false sense of doom.
So I happened to survive yesterday.
I hope you guys did too.
I'm here with Marcella and Owen as always.
And you guys, we picked out some fun news stories and events for you.
Oh, real quick, top of the show, Beverly, you've done it again.
Look at this, this woman and her dollhouses.
I spied this today.
Okay, look at that couch, the dog on the couch.
Beverly, you are just crushing it out there.
And then you see it.
Beverly in the picture.
What's that?
Is that Beverly in the picture?
Yeah, that's Beverly.
Yep.
She lounges in those types of things at home.
Okay, you guys, indulge me for one second.
I have two videos I want to show you.
Here is one.
Holy shit!
They're going to the moon!
The suspense is killing me.
I love how the sound rolls in later.
Hear the water.
Now you start to hear the rocket.
Starting to come across.
Humanity's Next Great Voyage 00:03:03
Let's go!
Can you imagine on the water?
Here comes the sound, listen.
That was one clip.
I listen, you guys know I'm a salty girl.
I love being on the water, on the boat.
So I was just like, I can't imagine.
But let's watch the one the White House sent to us.
And if you don't know, this is Artemis.
Is it Artemis 2?
Artemis 2.
It's going to go up and around the moon.
And let's see the official White House video.
But you guys, this is just amazing.
And I'm really, really proud that we're making this the big deal that it is because it is a big deal and we should be reveling in this stuff.
This is a glorious time.
So, one more video for me, for you.
Let's go.
And here we go.
10, 9, 8, 7.
RS 25 engines lit. 4, 3, 2, 1.
Booster ignition.
And lift off.
The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon.
Humanity's next great voyage begins.
Good roll pitch.
Roger, roll pitch.
Houston now controlling the flight of Integrity on the Artemis 2 mission around the moon.
Integrity, AMT high.
AMT high.
On time, passing 30 seconds into the flights.
Integrity passes the alternate vehicle.
Target milestone.
Mission Control Houston seeing good performance on the four main engines.
Space Launch System Core stage.
Integrity, three miles in altitude, traveling more than 1200 miles per hour.
Time passing one minute, approaching Max Q. On Ponce Felion.
Stand, we have you loud and clear on Ponce Felion.
Have you the same communication signal transfer confirmed as integrity and its crew go supersonic?
Landing on the Dark Side 00:14:59
Wow, wow, I mean, wow, Godspeed to them.
I just felt like that video, you know, needed its whole.
Little segment right there because I'm just so proud.
I'm so happy.
And I, you know, I love seeing the best of the best happening.
And I feel like, you know, we lose sight of the great things we can do.
Sometimes we're so bogged down with so many like horrible images and things.
And then it's like, oh, yes, yes, thank you for restoring my faith in, you know, I don't know, moving forward and into the future.
Marcella, I'm going to come to you first since you're my little space girl, my little science.
Chick, what are you thinking?
I mean, I loved watching it from beginning to end.
I was nervous because there was a, they, like 10 minutes or 15 minutes before they had put a stop to the mission or, you know, a pause.
And so it was kind of like, is it going to go?
Is it going?
And then they, they, they, they basically the arm came off, you know, of the shuttle and it was like, Let's go, all systems go.
You know, it kind of gives you back to the times when, you know, back to the old days.
I know with SpaceX, we've become more accustomed to this kind of things.
But I mean, I'm just so proud.
But the funny thing is, it happened on April Fool's Day.
So that kind of was an interesting part of it.
And a lot of people are making fun of it.
But it's been 50 years that we haven't gone near the moon.
Um, this will not land there, but it will orbit the moon and be a 10 day mission.
And, um, Trump, uh, President Trump did a truth, and in it, I love that he said, We're winning in space, on earth, everywhere, and we dominate.
And I like that feeling, you know, yeah, yeah, I do too.
And, and you know, I see people commenting, like, if you're a Gen Xer, so when the Challenger.
Blew up.
I mean, crazy.
And I just remember I went to boarding school, you guys, for high school, and I was sick that day.
And so I was like in the little lounge watching.
It was the only thing on the TV.
I didn't know much about it, but I'm watching it take off and then.
I swear my thought was like when it exploded, I was like, wow, takeoffs are aggressive.
Like, what the heck is happening here?
Like, I didn't even realize what was happening.
And, you know, so now, then when you realize what happened, I was like, like everybody is commenting, like, you hold your breath.
You're like, is it okay?
Did they get past that point that the Challenger got past?
Like, you just hold your breath and pray.
And I'm so happy that, you know, it seemed to go without a hitch.
And Owen, tell us your space story.
Yeah, well, I mean, I'm very proud of the country and everyone that was involved.
I think it's a huge accomplishment for them and for the country.
I'm glad we're taking the lead on this.
And like Marcella said, it's been at least 50 years, maybe longer, depending on your perspective of what happened back in the 60s.
But I had questions about that.
I was like, how are they getting through the Van Allen radiation belt?
And that was missing from all the stories.
I didn't see any stories about the launch saying, here's how they figured out how to get past that Van Allen radiation belt.
I asked Grok about it and it said something about like maybe they could have the right angle so they could kind of maybe move along with the particles so they're not getting hit by the particles and maybe they have some kind of shielding.
But for this, yeah, because that was, I mean, that's one of the things where they said, Oh, we lost the technology, we don't know how they did it.
Like, it's like, Come on, you didn't lose all, you know, and like somebody figured it out, somebody knows how they did it, and so that's a Question in my mind still is like, how did they get through the Van Elen radiation belt without, you know, having lots of radiation hit them and killing them?
And, but they, you know, it looks like they did it.
So that's a huge accomplishment, whether it's the first time or not, you know, or not.
But, you know, I'm also interested in what's on the dark side of the moon.
You know, there's all those conspiracy theories there.
So I'm like waiting for the footage to say, show me the dark side of the moon because they're circling it right now, as I understand it.
So they should have lots of footage.
I don't know if they're broadcasting any of it or exactly how that's going, but, um, You know, supposedly they're orbiting around the moon, and so they should be able to see all that stuff.
And so it's kind of interesting from a lot of different perspectives.
And then the reactions there was this viral clip where they asked some kid, Why are you interested in this?
or Why did you come out to watch the launch?
And he's like, We're going to the effing moon.
I saw that kid.
He's like, We're going back to the effing moon.
But he didn't say effing.
Yeah.
And then, and of course, we have to show what the other side said.
So Tom Costello from NBC said, We should celebrate.
He said, I think it's important and relevant to take a moment to say, Wow, we should be collectively, not as Americans, not as North Americans, but as just as humans, proud of the achievement here that humans have been able to do this.
We're about to go even further.
So he was like saying, No, no, no, this isn't an American accomplishment.
It's just a human accomplishment.
Like, it's just, come on, dude.
Just like for once in your life, show some patriotism, show some spirit.
Like, we did it.
The Chinese did it.
And we use it.
Oh my God.
Right, exactly.
Like we're doing it.
And so this is going to just be so fun for so many reasons.
Like, will the images line up?
Like, can we ever act like, okay, this is just the chick talking, okay?
I know nothing, but why can't they land on the moon this time?
They will eventually.
Artemis III in 2028 is supposed to land.
Again, they are redoing everything.
So, this is part of that, figuring that out and how it will work.
Eventually, it will land on the moon, and then there will be like possibly a.
Like, they're going to have, you know, a constant presence in the moon.
My brother.
That you might not know is an aerospace engineer.
So I was texting with him yesterday.
He was part of NASA's this particular project before.
And I asked him a few questions.
And, you know, my brother is like, oh, yeah, the hardest part is over.
Cause I asked him, they're supposed to do the moon's gravity through the moon's gravity.
They're supposed to slingshot back to Earth.
And I asked him, like, is that difficult, Mauricio?
And he was like, no, no, that's the if they know how to how to maneuver the.
And go around, and it's going to be, you know, it's elementary.
I was like, all right.
Yeah, I'm just wondering, you know, did we actually ever land there?
And like, we can't do it 50 years later.
There's not the technology.
So I'm just like, what's going to be revealed when they actually do land on the moon?
Is it going to look the same as it did in the video back in the day?
I mean, that was.
As I understand it, again, assuming we actually did land on the moon, that the big one of the big challenges was that.
You know, you need all that fuel to get out of Earth's atmosphere, but then you also need lots of fuel to get off the moon and to make your way back.
And I know gravity is less, so it's a little easier, but you still, it was like, you know, we only have so much room and so much weight that we can take.
And so it was a kind of an engineering challenge just to say, how do we make sure not only do we have enough to get there, but to get back?
And, you know, that might be a lot less of a concern now because I'm sure we've had so many advances in energy that we probably can do a lot more.
With less weight at this point, but still, I'm sure that's just a physics problem.
And yeah, I think, and I didn't miss the fact that the Artemis II from Lockheed Martin was pointier than the SpaceX rockets.
I don't think that was an accident.
Did you guys hear that the toilet malfunction?
Say, I didn't hear about that, no.
Plumbers that need it.
Learn it, Trent.
It is now fixed.
Integrity, the actual where they are, the astronauts.
There was a toilet malfunction.
They can bring Mark Wick next time and they'll have a plumber.
Oh, yeah.
Somebody was, I'm not, I guess I'm not so knowledgeable about this, but they were quoting like, oh, they need that guy from the Big Bang Theory because the toilet malfunction.
I was like, I don't, I didn't watch that.
I don't know that.
I don't know that.
I didn't catch that reference either.
I've seen it a bunch of times, but I certainly haven't seen all of them.
Yeah.
They don't get to the moon for six days.
The dark side of the moon is just the back side that we don't see due to the orbit.
They are looking for a parking spot.
Well, Kay Huntemer, we shall see.
We have a theory about the other side of the moon.
Yeah.
It'll be interesting if they just sort of cut out the footage and say, oh, it's dark.
We're not going to broadcast until we get back to the light side.
Yeah.
We love a good little theory.
Okay.
So, you guys, so congratulations.
Godspeed to them.
And we pray all goes well.
We cannot wait to see the footage and hear all about it.
So, congratulations to everybody.
Oh, and I heard that one of the gems on the view was like, well, now that NASA is doing that, we don't need SpaceX anymore.
I'm like, oh my God, you people.
Just walk and chew gum.
Just try it.
So let's get into some news.
I know, Owen, you were going to start us off with something.
Yeah, so there's apparently a connection between thinking that speech is harmful and progressive ideology and being depressed, all three.
So the article seems to be kind of pointing in the forward direction if you think speech is harmful, then you're more likely to be, or it might cause you to be progressive in your ideology or be depressed.
I certainly think it could go the other way.
It could be backward science that maybe because you're depressed or because you're progressive ideology, that you might be more likely to think that speech is harmful.
Because that certainly seems like the more logical direction to me.
So I think this qualifies as backward science.
But I also think it qualifies as just ask Scott.
You could have just asked Scott.
You know, he could have told you that.
You didn't need to study it.
Everyone knows that.
And, you know, I think it's also maybe one of those, you just can't fix this.
Like someone from the outside can't really fix this.
And that's right.
I mean, did we need to hear this study/slash story?
No.
Like, just look around.
Look at, I was going to say, look at all the parades they have.
What are they called?
Protests.
Those people are not happy.
I, you know, it's sad for them, but, and they're also paid.
But yes, that was definitely backward science, as Scott would say.
Marcella, I'm going to toss over to you.
Tell us what you have for us.
Well, the boss is not the boss anymore.
So this morning, I was like, I know Trump truthed, or whatever you want to call it.
He was on Ruth.
And I was like, I know he's going to be on there.
I know he's going to be there.
And so he was right at 4 58 in the morning, I think.
He said, a bad and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up.
Who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of really bad plastic surges has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.
The guy is a total loser.
He spews hate against a president who won a landslide election, including the popular vote, all seven swing states, and 86% of the counties across America.
Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our country was dead.
Now we have the hottest.
Country by far anywhere in the world, MAGA should boycott his overpriced concerts, which suck.
Save your heart or money, America's back.
So it is what it is.
I know that they, that Bruce Springsteen and his band were going to do a protest concert tour against evil dictator Trump.
So I can't imagine a worse choice for that band because his whole identity is like America.
Right, yeah, he used to have the flag behind him, didn't he?
Yeah, but you know what, you guys?
I always tell you, look up the lyrics to Born in the USA are anti American, yeah, and people don't realize that.
It's just check them out, look it up.
He's not pro America, and you know, he did that kind of as just a way to have people think that, but his messaging has never been pro America.
Is this a Jersey thing because he's from Jersey, right?
He's one of your people.
Is it a jerk?
Is what?
Do I look like an old lesbian on the floor?
Yeah, like what the hell does that mean?
I'm just wondering where he got all this from, you know?
He's an idiot.
Yeah, no, I don't have any respect for him.
And I think it's a, but I do think it's a horrible choice.
Like, I think it's just a way to turn against your audience because most of his audience probably does have a lot of patriotism and they're going to be entertained.
They're not going to a protest, you know?
Yeah, I mean, honestly, so yes, he.
Lived in the same town I lived in.
You know, I've seen him 8,000 times.
We've worked for him.
He used to come with his wife to a place of business that we had.
He's everywhere, you know, whatever.
My entire life, he's been around.
Three Weeks of Bombing 00:04:22
But, um, I was like about to talk out of school.
I'm just saying, my friend.
So, like, we, you know, everybody was cool with him.
Nobody bothers him here.
We're not like, you know, we don't act all Hollywood here.
Although now with Netflix coming, we'll see what happens.
But he's just never been pro America.
Like, he's always been woke.
And the people that still like him typically are older and liberal.
And, but I will give him this.
So, we went to one of his concerts because, like, You know, we have friends that work for him and whatever.
And we were at Madison Square Garden standing right in front of the stage.
I did not want to go.
I begged to not go, but they made me go.
She's like, say it, Erica.
I can't.
I'm going to get myself in so much trouble because I know too much.
So, anyway, I will say his concert was really, really good.
And I didn't realize he was as good of a musician as he.
Is.
And like the ensemble, like his stamina was amazing, the whole thing.
I hated every second of being there though, but he was.
I think that's what he's known for the stamina part.
Like I did see him once live.
My wife got tickets and we saw him and it was like a three hour thing.
And I don't think they took any breaks.
I think they just went all three hours.
Yeah.
I missed the last train out of Penn Station.
I'm like, come on.
I want to get on the train.
And just when you think it's over, like everyone's like, okay, good.
I'm like, let's go.
We can get the last train.
Then all of a sudden, like, Elvis Costello comes out and you're like, Another hour.
I'm like, I can't take it.
But he was great, but it's like his whole audience is so woke now.
And if they weren't woke before, his fan base is like rabid and he will turn them all woke.
So that's just kind of the way it's happening.
I'm just very disappointed in him.
And he's cheap.
He's cheap.
Okay.
I'm just putting it out there.
Let me just say this without getting into it further.
He's cheap.
Okay.
What's not cheap is his concerts.
That's right.
And you should.
Yep.
Three hours of hours.
I know too much.
I got to stop.
You need to spill.
We'll get you to spill in the sub cave or at the after show.
Yeah, maybe in the sub cave one night we'll do it.
Okay, so moving on.
Oh, and do you have a next story for us?
Yeah, Elvis Costello was great, by the way.
Yeah.
Of course, there's still a war going on in Iran.
The big news, of course, is that Trump addressed the nation about Iran last night and said, We are going to bring them back to the Stone Ages.
And so it does look like there's going to be a lot more bombing going on over the next two or three weeks.
He did say it was probably going to take another two or three weeks.
He said, We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two or three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.
So I think people.
Took away that it was a pretty aggressive speech, probably more than expected.
I don't know why there was so much surprise because I don't think it was really a departure from anything he had been saying in the days leading up to it.
But, you know, the stock market took a plunge.
Don't look at your stocks, it's not pretty.
And, you know, oil prices went up and all the rest.
And so it does look like we're going to have another two or three weeks of bombing campaigns.
He did threaten again to take out all their power plants.
He said he wasn't going to touch their oil because then they would have no chance of recovery ever, ever.
But he said, He's still thinking about doing the power plants.
And that I know Hagseth recently said bombing is our negotiation strategy.
We negotiate with bombs.
So it seems like we're having more and more stuff happen.
And then there's more A 10 Warthogs heading over.
And those are like the close air support, where they can strafe people and do support of ground troops.
So there may be more indication that maybe that's coming in some form.
And I think there's more people going over there and there's more.
Ships going over there, like the marine ships that would support any kind of amphibious operations.
So it seems like we're still building up at this point, and there's probably going to be some more stuff happening.
Living a Different Way 00:06:50
I wonder how the Iranian people are doing, you know?
They're so excited to be, you know, having this happen on one hand because they don't want to live that way.
But I wonder how they're surviving all of this.
I can't even imagine hearing a bomb going off, period.
And like the PTSD you would have of like, is it going to fall on me?
Like, I don't know.
Do you think that they're strategic enough?
I mean, then there was the girls' school, and then I heard there was another.
School that got hit, like a bunch of boys, young boys.
And it's somewhere at there.
I think that one might have been debunked.
You think?
Well, there was, I can't remember the exact details, but there was something that also was on the first day of the campaign.
And there was some accusation that they had hit some civilians in some civilian facility.
And there was a statement from CENTCOM saying, We looked into it and it wasn't from us, it was an Iranian missile.
And so they were pretty sure about this one and pretty quick to say this wasn't us.
We didn't do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, Miss Virginia Adams did say you can get used to anything, but man, that's got to be so scary.
I mean, for anybody who's been living under conditions like that, like we are so lucky where we are, you guys.
So let's remember that when you're poo pooing America, like Bruce Springsteen, you know, we're so lucky, but, you know, and a lot of these things are happening.
Yeah, you could look at it like, okay, because they have resources that we want, but it's happening, I'm going to just say also because.
There are these horrible regimes people are living under.
And when you look at the pictures of how Iran used to be and the women, and like it was like beautiful and everybody looked, you know, happy and the women were wearing pretty dresses.
And, you know, now, like, I mean, have you ever been in a store, you guys?
I was at Target one time years ago and two women came around the corner, but in the full hijab where there was just like a slit for their eyes.
Like sometimes I see people with the headscarf, but I was like, literally, it took my breath away when I saw them.
It was so scary to me to see people like that here in our country.
And I was like, and why are you like that here in our country?
Like, you don't have to be that way, you know?
But it was really scary.
And I don't know.
That could be us one day.
The interesting thing is, I had friends that were Muslim, and a lot of them choose to do that.
There's no reason their husbands or their family doesn't force them.
I had a friend that her family was very liberal Muslim, and she believed, you know, in her religion, and she wanted to have that as a token to God or whatever to cover herself up.
So, a lot of the times, what I realized is that the women are the ones that promote it, not the men as much.
Right.
That's an interesting part.
And they push their sons to only marry women like that.
So, I could certainly see that.
From different perspectives, one might be that sort of introsexual competition where you know there's plenty of slut shaming here in America, and it's probably just on another level with the Muslims because they have different standards of how you're supposed to dress.
I'm not encouraging that, I'm just saying I could see that happening where it's more driven by the women as opposed to anybody else because they would call each other out if they're not complying with things or.
Doing something more attractive or more tempting than the other women are doing.
So I could certainly see that.
Yeah.
Maybe, I don't know.
I remember watching something about like the women in Kuwait that have to have the whole hijab and underneath they're wearing like Gucci and they're all decked and they have like meetups with their girlfriends because they can't be out in public and they're like, take off the hijab.
And then they're like, you know, very Kardashian looking and they hate it.
Like they're like, we can't believe we have to.
Act this way, dress this way.
And I was just like, God, like you should, you should, but you should be able to wear what you want to wear, is the point.
And, and that's, you know, freedom.
So, not just that, obviously, but, you know, the fact that they, that these women in Kuwait couldn't just walk around in their Gucci and their Prada.
They had to be covered from head to toe, their face, everything.
It's just, it's just insane, in my opinion.
And if it's their opinion too, and they live there, I feel bad for them.
That's, um, That's a scary thought, but I do hope that the people in Iran, the good people in Iran, are okay.
I hope that they can see this through.
And you know what?
I just want to add on one more thing.
I wish I had thought about this further so I could articulate it in a way that it was to me, but I'm going to botch it.
But so sometimes, no, you know what I'm going to do?
So this is something Joel had said to me, Joel Pollock.
We were on the phone the other day.
And he had such a good way of explaining to me.
We were talking about Passover and what freedom really is, and that, you know, sometimes like you're walking across the desert to get to, you know, your freedom.
And maybe the first group that was walking, you know, most of them didn't make it, but they also still knew that they were like walking away from like, you know, slavery.
So they still had all of that like slave mentality on them.
Like we were slaves.
Like, you know, maybe that first group that had to face it.
Still had to carry that burden, but they paved the way for the second group to be like, oh, the people that went before me, they're the ones that broke through so then we could come after.
And that's why the second wave of people are the ones that really made it.
So I feel like maybe this is the first rung of that type of thing.
So the people that are living in Iran right now, that had to live through all of this, they're kind of paved the way for their freedom.
I hope, and I hope that more make it behind them.
That was so inarticulate.
But when Joel said it to me, I was like, wow, that's a really good way of looking at what you're already living with and what you have to carry on top of what you want.
So it's a big burden.
So I pray in whatever way I pray for anyone living that way.
So, Marcella or Owen, did you want to add on to anything with that story?
The Twelve Step Process 00:15:44
Yeah.
I mean, I would just say, like, I understand what you're saying too.
And another angle to that might just be that if you grow up with those types of standards, like I'm supposed to be under a burqa or a hijab or whatever it is.
You might consider that almost like a safety thing.
Like, I'm safe if I'm in this.
I'm not safe if I'm not in this.
And you might just feel really uncomfortable without it on if you're out in public and you feel like, oh, I'm doing something wrong.
Someone might do something to me.
And maybe they raise their kids differently.
They might say, we don't want this, but it's probably often hard to just adjust and live a completely different way than what you're used to.
Perhaps.
All right, we'll move on.
So there's a Trump that the post says kangaroo court.
So I don't know which court he meant because there are so many cases that come out.
That one, a federal judge blocked a mass termination of parole for nearly 900,000 migrants who entered via a CBP1 app under Biden.
Sleepy Biden.
And so basically, she undid all of this all at once, the judge did.
And that was shocking because it's going to create a massive amount of court blockage.
Because the reason that she did that is that you can't really do a blank mass termination of parole via one order.
You have to do it pursuant to every case, which in a way I agree with.
With her, but with the judge, but at the same time, it becomes almost impossible to do that in a timely manner.
So I'm sure it's going to get appealed beyond this point, and the Supreme Court might have to hear it.
There was another case, a conversion therapy case, where the Supreme Court sided with President Trump, 8 to 1 decision.
The Supreme Court in that one had struck down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors.
Um, it wasn't President Trump's uh, particularly his deal, but it is a conservative uh position to have conversion therapy.
I don't know if you're familiar with that, but um, basically, um, it came down eight to one.
Um, put it in the chat if you know who was the one that was against it.
Who was the one?
You know, who was the one out of all of them, and you're like, oh, I'm the one.
Hey, you're the one.
Which which justice was it that Eric?
Was against conversion therapy to have the freedom.
Yep.
Katanji Brown Jackson.
Yes.
Jackson Brown.
What is it?
Brown Jackson.
Brown Jackson.
Yeah.
Brown Jackson.
Okay.
Yes.
But there was also recently the case where a judge blocked the construction of the ballroom and the defunding of NPR and PBS.
So there's a lot of stuff happening and a lot of, you know, what I would call obstruction.
Happening in the courts where it's like they get these activist judges, they may even shop it around to find the right judge, but then they get them to put in some injunction and just stop every single thing that Trump is doing.
And it's just ridiculous.
And the thing is, too, though, the ballroom, as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong, like it's not even like Trump's going to ever get to use it, right?
But he's building it for the future.
And to me, it's embarrassing to bring people into a tent, like I said the other day.
So he's building a big, beautiful ballroom.
It's not costing anybody money.
He'll never get to use it.
And they're just mad because why?
And I was looking at like a bigger mock up of the site.
It looks like every other built, like it looks completely in proportion to everything else that's around it.
So it's not like he put like a glass tower next to it and he's like, here's the ballroom.
And it's like this, you know, 30 foot tower, I mean, 30 story tower.
So, like, you're right, Owen.
It's just because it's Trump and they can't stand it.
Silly.
Yeah, they said that Congress needs to approve it.
So, for the ballroom, they're not used to somebody like President Trump that just does things, you know, and he just does things.
Why would Congress need to approve it if it's not coming out of taxpayer dollars?
I know Congress has the power of the purse, but if it's not being paid for by taxpayers, then what authority do they have to say no?
It's not about funding, it's about the actual projects that are done on federal.
Like the White House and Congress, the buildings themselves, it always has to go through Congress.
So it's not really a funding issue.
It's more of like you should have shown the plans than going through the procedures, you know?
And President Trump jumps to that, you know?
That's how you just don't get ever anything done at all.
That's how you do it.
Yes, that's unfortunate.
There was that John Stewart, I think, had a clip recently that came out about the broadband project, I think, that Biden was doing in the Build Back Better.
And he basically was coming to the realization.
I don't know if he ever said it, but that Elon Musk was right about how inefficient things are and how much waste and stupid things happen because they went through this process that was outlined in the Build Back Better plan for this broadband stuff.
And it's like there's 12 steps to it.
And so you have to like.
Oh, it's going for tomorrow.
Okay.
I mean, you have to like issue requests for proposals and then you have to go get them challenged in each of the states.
And you got to do like.
And it's just step after step after step after step.
And like.
Until you reach the end of those 12 steps, you can't even actually do anything.
So it's like, and I think they said, you know, they were down to like nine of the either they only had nine left at the end of that process or that they nine of them dropped out or something.
But some high percentage of them, I think, never made it to the end of the 12.
So that's why nothing ever happened is because they just couldn't get through this government red tape where you have to like let everybody challenge things and the federal government needs to be able to say no or yes to the state proposal.
And then The very last step was to do like sub grants to subcontractors to actually do the work.
So it's like you don't actually even hire the people that would do the work.
And like if you have this whole plan worked out that's been approved by the government and then you put it out to bid, those subcontractors might say, well, it's going to cost twice as much or it's not feasible or this plan won't work.
Like it's totally backwards.
And why would you even want to try?
You need to be honest, I am actually on the side of you need to actually go through certain channels because.
I'm very hopeful that we'll always have a Republican president, but we might have a Democratic president that goes, Oh, Trump did this.
I think I can do this.
So, I mean, the reason why it needs to go through a certain channel is that the White House is a historic building.
So, I mean, a lot of us maybe live in the East Coast or something.
If you have a historic house or whatever, you need to get certain permits to build to it.
The same with, I would imagine, something historic like the White House.
You can't just.
Go and destroy part of it and then put a new building in.
So, I mean, to be, it's like the filibuster rule a lot.
People want to get rid of it.
It's just, I think that people need to think further in the future because any Democrat can use what Trump is doing now in their own fashion.
I'm not worried about that.
And I'll tell you why.
I think if Biden tried to do the same thing, nothing would have ever happened.
We'd still be a 12 step process, right?
It wouldn't be.
He's an auto pen guy.
But I'm saying that 12 step process is what Biden proposed.
That was what they wanted it to be.
And I think the comment with John Stewart, with whoever his guest was, is it's basically designed to get as much money out of the taxpayers as possible before you actually do any real work.
And it's like, I'm guessing that if Biden took on the project of rehabilitating the East Wing in whatever way they thought was proper, we'd still be studying something.
We'd still be issuing proposals or getting feedback or whatever, and we wouldn't have broken ground.
Nothing would have happened.
And so I'm not worried about the other side because I don't think they can do anything.
What's going to happen when somebody wants a mosque on the property?
Right.
So, I mean, that's why there's checks and balances.
That's why I came to America because in my country, there's no checks and balances.
So, I actually am for checks and balances.
So, to your point, I mean, I may be popular.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be any checks and balances, but I am thinking, like, you know, first of all, Trump is maybe uniquely the type of person who can make all this stuff happen quickly.
And properly, because he's done so much construction that he has the experience as the commander in chief.
And I know he's not doing the work, but he can, you know, review things really quickly and he knows how to get things done as far as that stuff goes.
And so I think it's different having him as president than anybody else.
And I also think that, you know, I certainly would object if it was like, hey, we're putting a golf course on the, you know, White House lawn or we're, you know, we're building some big tower or something like that would be different.
But As you said earlier, it's like this looks just like the rest of the White House, and it's very consistent with the architecture, and it's not anything that anyone would really have any reason to object to.
And so, if you put all this bureaucracy in there just to rubber stamp everything every step of the way, but it takes months or years to go through those steps, then you're just introducing delay for no good reason.
You're just saying, okay, we got to go through these steps just so we can say we did.
We didn't actually accomplish anything.
We just added two or three or five years to the process.
Yeah.
And you could eliminate a million of those steps.
I mean, it's like New Jersey.
I swore I would never operate another business in New Jersey again because it was like at some point I'm like, just all right.
So I literally was building a business and the thing, the requirements they wanted me to have for what the function of the business was, was like, it didn't even, you couldn't even make sense of it.
I'm not kidding, you guys.
I literally said to the nice lady in the building department one day, I was finally in tears.
I was at my breaking point.
I was like, listen, you guys, forgive me.
If you don't know me, this is normal.
I was like, listen, I'm going to turn around and I'm going to just start shooting $100 bills out of my ass.
And when you have the amount you need for this entire thing to be okay, just let me know because that's all this is about.
And she started laughing.
I'm like, obviously, you just want money.
Like everything was like, We need 500 for this.
We need $45 for that.
We need 200 for this.
Now you have to.
I'm like, just tell me how much money you want because you're like killing me with this slow drip of we have rules and we have that.
And I was like, I'm never doing business in the state again.
And then the taxes, and like if you make this much money.
So it's all a grift and it discourages good people from doing good things that are going to help other people.
They make it so hard.
So even like with this project, it's like, it seems like they just like, Handed down a binder full of paper, and we're like, okay, everybody take a shot at it and write a rule that you want there to be in here.
And everyone's like, oh, let's do this too.
And like, you can't do it on a Tuesday after three o'clock.
And this, you know, it's like such a bullshit to get something done.
So, you know, and again, somebody reminded me, it might have been Jack Pasobic, reminded me the other day that I'm sorry, I forget the name.
Is it the Keys Bridge that was hit by the tanker a couple of years ago?
In Baltimore?
In Baltimore?
Nothing's happened.
It's just still a wide open gap.
Like, so this is what I'm talking about.
Like, let's go.
If we add in the nuclear side, like, there's another story I saw recently where the TerraPower, which is that Bill Gates backed nuclear firm, they're doing the small modular reactors, I think.
But they said they were able to get all the engineering work that traditionally in the past has taken 18 months and they completed it in eight weeks.
So it's like two months instead of 18.
Like it's a small fraction of what it used to be.
And I think it's using digital twin technology, like, you know, which is a little bit like an AI thing, but it's, you know, not quite the same.
But, you know, with all the various advances we have, I think a lot of these things can be done a lot faster.
But I think the bureaucracy is the slow part.
It's like, you know, if you say we got to allow 90 days for feedback or we've got to allow however long for people to submit proposals or we've got to allow, You know, all these things, and then you multiply that by 12 steps or 50 steps or however many you put in the process, then you're still limited to saying, okay, even if I can do it in a day, I've got to wait three months for a response.
And once I get the response, maybe I got to go back and do something else.
And it just is just painfully slow.
Yeah, just the analogy doesn't work there.
A lot, you know, you can't compare that to the White House, which is a historical building, you know.
So, you can't.
That's the difference to me.
It's too many steps, too much red tape.
It's the White House.
I mean, it hasn't been that long since he started being president.
No, I get it that it's the White House, but that's my point.
Like, everything, everyone wants to put their frickin' stamp on everything and their opinion into everything.
Well, guess who can change the rules?
Congress can change those rules, which I, it comes again to Congress not doing their job.
Of actually, you know, updating all these antiquated, slow moving rules.
And one of the reasons could be fraud.
Just my opinion and possibly Trump's opinion, because he brought up the Federal Reserve Building in a post about this historic preservation.
He talked about the Federal Reserve Building that's taken so much, you know, that they're not suing them to stop it.
It's taken billions of dollars to build it.
And now, this that's not being paid by the Congress or any taxpayer, they're blocking that.
Possibly because that's not how it goes.
You didn't go through the right channels, you didn't pay the right lobbyist.
I'm looking at the comments.
It is a free ballroom for sure.
Entrenched Supreme Court Views 00:08:25
And let me just let you guys go on a little secret.
Let's just do it this way in 2028, when there's a new Republican president, I don't care if it's Vance, Rubio, DeSantis, whoever it is, nothing will change.
They will then have advanced arrangement syndrome.
So it does not matter, you guys.
They did the same thing with George Bush.
They will do the same thing with the next president.
The Democrats are like literally getting more kooky by the minute.
So it does not matter who the next president is going to be.
Like they're like, oh, no, it's just because it's Trump.
Nope, it's not going to matter.
You'll see.
It's so nothing's going to change.
Yeah.
Speaking of kooky Democrats, there was this birthright citizenship case, and Kitanji Brown Jackson put a hypothetical in front of the court to consider.
And she said that the way she put it is if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me.
It's allegiance, meaning they can control you as a matter of law.
So there's this relationship based on, even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense.
So it sounds like what she's saying is.
If you want to show allegiance to your country, go steal a wallet.
I can't.
Can you imagine?
I think Trump was sitting there when she said that, too.
I think I just, I don't even know what, how to respond to that.
I'm kind of wondering how the lawyer did respond, but I think they shut her down pretty handily and explained why that wasn't the case.
But yeah, I don't understand how a Supreme Court justice could say something that stupid.
Because that was Biden's pick.
By the way, does anyone know who gave her to Biden?
I want to know who, like, go backwards in the trail, like, who said this is your, this, this should be it?
Cause it wasn't him.
You know, I don't, I should look into it, but I think a lot of the justices are picked from the DC circuit.
Their court of appeals judges are already in DC and are well known to the political, you know.
You know what I'm forgetting too?
I forgot DEI.
Like, I'm thinking they just picked somebody.
Now I'm remembering that they needed like a black woman.
Yeah.
Biden definitely said that, I think.
Yeah, he did.
Okay.
So she was the best black woman they could find.
Fantastic.
Well, she's a gem.
She has major dreams of being famous and being an actress.
So I'm like thinking somebody.
Does she?
Yes.
She does?
She was on a Broadway stage.
Like they brought her up to act out a part in a Broadway stage.
Totally inappropriate as a justice.
She went up on stage on Broadway to like dance around in some show.
I'm like, this is so beautiful.
Pathetic.
And I think she might have even been in a TV show.
I'm not sure.
But I think some like patriot should offer her a leading role where she plays a judge, almost like a night court kind of show.
And she gets to play a judge and she gets her show, but she's got to leave the Supreme Court to go do this job.
So it's just a nice way of being like, here, lady, we're going to put you over here.
Okay.
You go over here and you're going to play a judge, just like you are now.
And then we go fill that seat with someone amazing because this is a joke.
And I can't even imagine it was eight to one.
Like, do you think she has any self awareness where she looks around and she's like, oh, am I the one?
It's just so crazy.
Yeah.
You know?
You know, Scalia, Justice Scalia, my favorite justice of all time, he used to be sometimes the only one because he would always be against, you know, against the grain.
And so.
There is some kind of thing in the Supreme Court where you are kind of become entrenched as with your own political viewpoints or, you know, your own legal viewpoints.
So she might be there and she might like that because she gets that attention.
It's true.
It was Hamilton.
She appeared in Hamilton.
That's what I was going to say.
That sounds something like she would like.
She's like a local municipal judge, in my opinion.
Like she's just.
I'm sorry.
Like, she's too stupid to be there.
It's not right.
Like, her decisions affect this entire country.
It's not right.
Can you impeach a judge?
How do you get rid of one?
She's appointed for life.
I think there is an impeachment process, but like all the other impeachment processes, it's never going to actually happen.
I don't think they'd even bother trying because they would know, number one, that it would just never remove that person from office.
And number two, given that, it would just be a big spectacle and it would just maybe pit the branches of government against each other in a pointless way.
There's no reason to go through that whole process for that.
And so I doubt that would ever happen unless there was some massive scandal.
Somebody really was an Epstein pedophile, or something where it's like everybody agrees this guy gotta go, you know.
But I think, you know, short of something really, really massive scandal, I don't think it's not scandalous enough.
I mean, it is for me, but I don't think it's gonna work.
I don't think she's dumb, I really don't, because to get to that level, you really can't be.
And but again, it's not a matter of intelligence, as we've seen a lot of very intelligent, educated people do, don't have any common sense.
Marcella.
Marcella, what is a woman?
Well, I mean, she has her viewpoints just like you do.
So she gets to what is a woman?
She didn't even express her viewpoint.
She's like, I can't.
We know that not everybody's going to see the world like we do.
And so she has her own viewpoints.
And I have mine.
But her viewpoints are disqualifying as a Chief Justice.
Let's get real again.
Congress up and again, she got there because of DEI, not because she's so smart that she worked up the ranks to get there.
She was like what they thought was the best black woman.
So, and like how embarrassing!
Like how embarrassing.
Oh, I'm here because I was what they thought was the best black woman, not the best person, not even the best woman.
The best black is she gay?
Is she gay?
Please tell me she's gay too because I'm gonna die if she's gay.
No, somebody tell me she's married.
Oh.
I can't.
I would also just point out for the record that she is not the best Black woman choice.
There are plenty of other Black women that are a lot smarter than they could have chosen.
That's right.
It's never about, it's who you know.
You know?
So, again, the DC court.
Will they do what you want them to do?
All right, enough on her.
She's married to a white guy, they say.
Of course.
This is like, so is Don Lemon.
She knows the best things.
Oh, or Don Lemon is going to be president?
Of what?
Of nothing.
Yeah, I'm like, of what?
He wants to run for president.
He expressed a desire to run for president and he said he would be a better president than Trump.
Oh my God, the man loves him.
Can you imagine that guy in the Oval Office?
I mean, that's the best story to end on.
That man loves himself.
And it's so fun to me because all these racist, I want to just curse so bad today, people are all married to white men.
And I'm like, oh, even Dawn, right?
Yes.
Married to a white guy.
Closing Sip and Tomorrow 00:02:44
Yep.
Is Whoopi Goldberg?
She's not married, but she dates white men.
When she was dead.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I don't know what else she does.
She, God only knows.
But yeah, no, but everybody's so hypocritical.
Sonny Hostin, Hostin, Hostile, whatever her name is.
She's married to a white guy.
I'm just, I always want to say Sonny Hostage.
Hostile, I think of.
Yeah.
It's something.
But the market recovered.
Is that true?
It might be coming back a little bit.
Let me see.
Yeah.
Whoopi and Ted dancing, although he wore blackface when he dated her.
So.
Everything's backwards and upside down, you guys.
You know, that's our lesson for today.
Everything is just nuts.
So, and sharks have cocaine in them.
Yeah, cocaine sharks.
I knew I would get a laugh.
Stay out of the water.
Right, Oren?
I feel like we're so chaotic today.
It's mostly my fault, you guys.
I'm just delusional and tired.
But listen, we did it, we made it through this show.
And tomorrow, oh, Marcella, you're not going to be here tomorrow.
We're going to miss you.
You're going to miss my viewpoints.
I'm going to miss everything, my girl.
So, Marcella, you have a case you're doing tomorrow, our attorney girl, right?
Good luck.
I'm winning tomorrow.
Yes, you are.
She's going to win bigly.
But Owen and I will be here, maybe with a guest and maybe without a guest.
So, you guys just have to tune in to see.
You guys, let's have a closing sip.
Love you all so much.
This was so fun today.
A Scott approved show crusher says, Amazing.
So, thank you so much for being here.
Let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott and to our Shelly.
And we will be back tomorrow.
In the meantime, you guys just do something amazing today.
Let's remember we've got a spaceship up there going around and we're going to find out all sorts of good things.
And America is the greatest country in the world.
And you are the greatest people, sippers, and friends we could ever have.
So, let's go, you guys, to Scott and Shelly.
Let's be useful and we'll see you tomorrow.
All right, be useful.
My cold coffee.
I'll wait for you guys to say bye.
Bye.
There's a cocaine shark.
All right, guys, see you later.
Bye.
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