The Scott Adams School - 04/08/26 "Double White Board" and the News Crew
Scott Adams, Marcella, and Owen dissect the "double whiteboard" political landscape, contrasting Republican grassroots rumors with Democrat top-down misinformation funded by NGOs and intelligence agencies. They analyze Trump's rhetorical manipulation of Iran tensions, dismiss Israel controlling US policy as a conspiracy, and critique Gavin Newsom's wife for equating murder with childhood accidents. The group warns that AI amplifies user ignorance without expertise, exposes alleged fraud in California shelters, and debates the utility of Newsom's rail projects before concluding on systemic domestic failures and upcoming guest Brian Ramelli. [Automatically generated summary]
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Double Whiteboard Day00:01:53
I love the title, Double Whiteboard Day.
Makes me happy.
Lang is in.
Crushaw.
Hey, you guys.
Good morning.
Good morning, everyone.
Hi, Gracie.
Little Gracie.
Hello, Rick.
You guys, welcome.
Here we are, April 8th.
April 8th.
Lisa Smar.
You guys, the picture today I put on the thumbnail is when Scott got his hoodie.
He was all excited.
He put it on, he did a little.
Selfie photo and text it to me.
I was like, Yes, you should be wearing a picture of yourself, right?
First, you'll sip and then you'll skip.
Listen, doctor, we are so happy you do join us for the sip.
It means a lot to us to see you there.
All right, you guys, are we all in?
I'm not trying to rush, but you know, I'm just sighing.
I think we're good.
Get in your seats.
Oh my God, I already mixed up my clips.
I think I got it.
I think I got it, you guys.
I need a sip of coffee.
How about you?
Let's do it.
Let me tell you what you need to enjoy the simultaneous sip.
It's not much.
All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or Chalice or Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid.
I like coffee.
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
The dopamine to the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip.
Go.
Better every time.
I feel like Scott and I were feeling the same energy there.
Welcome, everybody.
My name is Erica.
You are at the Scott Adams School.
God bless.
And I'm here with my two faves, Marcella and Owen.
Taking a Breath Together00:15:23
And you guys, are you excited?
Did you see the title?
It is double whiteboard day at the Scott Adams School.
Listen, we all need to just take a breath, we need to hear Scott.
And after this clip, we're going to discuss what we saw and heard.
And then we'll do the news after, okay?
Because I think this is more important.
So, assuming I'm going to play the right clip, now I'm nervous.
Which one is it?
I think it's this one.
Stay tuned.
It's that kind of a day.
All right, I'd like to describe to you with my double whiteboards how I see the landscape of the country and the news, et cetera.
I'm going to take it from two perspectives.
Number one, what is the situation for Republicans?
Situation for Republicans as I see it.
Yeah, I'll move that anyway.
Looks like this.
As you know, not everybody has good information, and sometimes we all believe things that aren't true, including me.
On the Republican side, this is how I see the landscape.
Sometimes there are rumors that are started at the grassroots level.
And these rumors could come from anywhere.
These are just three examples.
Could be 4chan or Reddit or somewhere next.
It's a bunch of BS.
And sometimes that BS trickles up to leadership and famous people.
And so you'll get some Republicans who will believe some of it.
And they'll get Republican voters to believe it.
And then the Democrats will criticize them for being wrong about something that's wrong.
Now, this looks about it.
Does that kind of capture the Republican side of things?
I'm trying to get it out of my own way here.
Let's see.
Would you say that largely captures what happens?
Now, I'm not saying that everything Republicans believe is wrong.
That's nothing like that.
I'm saying that when they're wrong, because everybody's wrong, right?
But when they're wrong, it usually looks like this it bubbles up from some rumors, some politicians pick up on it, Republicans say, oh, other people are saying it too.
And next thing you know, there's some BS.
And then the Democrats.
Pounce and they fact check you and they make you look stupid, and then they say all Republicans are dumb because some of them believe this stuff.
So that's basically the landscape, all right?
But what does the landscape look like on the other side?
Does it look like this?
Not as much.
No, it looks a little different.
It's way more complicated, but it looks sort of like this.
This would be the Democrat news landscape.
I can get out of my own way.
All right.
So I think most of you can see it now.
So you've got the CIA and the FBI and various Democrat operatives who feed their fake media.
These are just some of the names we know are the illegitimate media.
So these are the ones who are being influenced by Democrat leadership and various entities that they have some control over.
So the media is fake news, but Democrats are not completely unaware.
They think that there's, the Democrats believe that both sides have their own fake news, and that's really the whole story.
Oh, we had a little fake news, sure.
But you had a little fake news.
Most of the news is true.
Nothing like that is happening.
In the political world, nothing.
You know, the news about hurricanes is probably real.
But political news is coming from influencers.
The media is completely corrupt.
And the right-wing media is only looked at by people on the right.
So the left is completely unaware that there's any counter-narrative.
They never see them.
So they take their fake news and they get support from, you know, the other fake entities which they support.
Oh, the ADL says you're bad too.
Oh, the media said you're bad, but these other people, they agree.
These are all funded by Democrats.
So they're funded to look like legitimate organizations, but really they're just Democrat organizations to attack the other side.
What about the fact checkers?
Also funded mostly by Democrats, also fake.
So once you've got all of these other organizations, from the media to these funded Democrat organizations, You've got a real big ball of fake news.
That's why there are over 20 hoaxes on my hoax list that the Democrats all believe are real.
At least 20 major hoaxes that went through this machine.
The outcome of this is that the Democrats are brainwashed, literally.
That is not to say that Republicans have only the truth.
Nothing like that's happening.
Republicans are also wrong about things quite often.
but it's bubbling up from the bottom.
It's not coming from the top.
From the Democrats, it's all top-down stuff.
And so their poor voters don't have any idea what's going on.
They think that this is some kind of a legitimate process, and they don't have any way to find out it's not.
They don't have a mechanism to know that it's not real.
Because the only thing that's telling them it's not real are people like me, and they've already told you I'm a disgraced cartoonist, and the ADL told you that I'm a Holocaust denier.
That's what the ADL said.
The leader of the ADL, I'm not saying that somebody sent a tweet, the actual leader of the ADL labeled me a Holocaust denier.
Now, I don't have to defend that.
You know I'm not a Holocaust denier.
But it shows you how the machine works, right?
When you saw the Phil Bump interview in which he got completely demolished for being a fake news guy, you could see all of this finally being exposed.
It was obvious he wasn't a genuine writer with real opinions.
you could tell that it came from somewhere, that he was supporting some kind of a machine.
All right, so that's what happens to the Democrat voters.
Democrat voters get brainwashed, and the Republican voters get shadow banned so they can't fight back.
I would be very surprised if this gets big traffic on YouTube, if you know what I mean.
Watch the traffic it gets, let's say, on the X platform, and compare that to the baseline.
And then watch what happens on YouTube, and compare that to my baseline.
Do you think they're going to be the same?
Very little chance of that because most of the platforms, the media platforms, which I accidentally erased, this would say social media, they're going to make sure that the other side that has been brainwashed by the system, they're going to make sure they don't see me.
Only the people who already agree with me are going to see me.
And of course, there's prosecutions going on, so the Department of Justice is making sure that if you have an opinion such as the one I just expressed, that they're coming after you.
So here's what is really, really interesting about this week.
The entire gears of the machine are now obvious.
You can see the entire Hunter Biden money-making scheme.
It's all laid out.
You can see every part of it.
Now, the Phil Bumps of the world, the illegitimate people, are going to say, but, but, but, you haven't made the case that there's a direct payment from Hunter Biden for any favors that went to Joe Biden.
But we know he paid his expenses, and that's the way it works.
We know that there's not going to be a piece of paper.
We know that what influence buying and selling looks like.
It's all laid out.
But Democrats don't know it.
Don't know it.
Here's what would change everything.
I don't know that it'll happen, but if you want some optimism, all it would take is to draw this diagram into a better form.
And then every time there's a story that could be better understood by this landscape, you print it with a story, and then you highlight the parts that have been activated.
For example, some people say, I don't know if this is true, but some say the FBI is more influencing the New York Times, whereas the CIA is more influencing the Washington Post.
I don't know if that's true, but wouldn't it be interesting to see a story in the news where you could light up these parts and show which ones were involved?
So once you could show the landscape and how different it is on the Republican side, you could, possibly for the first time, release some of the Democrats who, in my opinion, are just victims.
I have to say that in 2016, when I started talking about politics in public, and it would be a big fight between one side versus the other side, and to me it just felt like, oh, we just have different opinions.
Different opinions, that's all.
And we're fighting it out.
That's the way it's supposed to work.
But once I learned the entire landscape, and I realized that their opinions are assigned to them, And then they're solidified by this entire constellation of, let's say, people who are just slapping some paint on the turd, if you know what I mean.
That once you understand the whole landscape, you understand that they're not legitimate actors in a legitimate process.
They're actually victims.
And so I've started treating my Democrat brainwashed critics with sympathy.
And I just say, I'm sorry they did this to you.
Because that's my actual feeling.
I don't feel like they're attacking me because they had some independent, well-researched thought.
And they've decided that attacking me will help them in some way.
Attacking me isn't going to help anybody.
I actually don't have any incentives other than to try to make things a little better before I leave this weird little ball they call the earth.
I don't need your money, you know?
And obviously I'm not doing it for reputation because I've been the most disgraced and maligned person in the United States probably this year who wasn't named Trump.
So I'm only doing it because my payoff is if I make something better, then I feel good about myself.
That's it.
So that makes me kind of dangerous.
Anyway, once you understand the model and if we have a way to communicate it, so here's the key point.
It's not good enough that I explained it to you.
That doesn't help anybody.
It would only be good if this could be operationalized, turned into a sort of a standard way of explaining things, so that whenever Democrats come in and they're victims, they've been brainwashed, you could show them something.
Now the ideal form, I'll just brainstorm a little bit.
An ideal form would be some kind of a graphic that's maybe not exactly this, but something in that nature.
where you could click on any part of it to validate that it belongs on here.
In other words, you could click on one of these groups and you could say, here's a news story that shows you why they're not legitimate.
Here's a news story that shows they get all their funding from Democrats.
Right?
So if you could do that, you know, here's the fact that Phil Bump is ever involved in a story.
If you knew the landscape, as soon as you saw his name, you'd say, ah, it's a Phil Bump situation.
As soon as you turned on the news and you saw any one of these designated liars, you know, Schiff, Swalwell, you know, you can make the list yourself.
There's some people that the news calls in because they know it's not true.
But they need people who are willing to say literally anything in order to get somebody on TV who will support the narrative.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes my double whiteboard explanation of how everything works.
Love you guys.
How good did that feel?
I'm amazing.
I know.
I love that.
And Phil Bump, where the hell did Phil Bump go?
Probably where he belongs.
He was a speed bump.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
So, you guys, I love that.
I love hearing from Scott and watching your comments.
And I feel like we all needed to just kind of regroup a little and remember how everything does work, especially in these times.
So, Marcella.
I'm going to come to you first.
So, what do you want to, how do you want to wrap that up?
Well, what he's saying applies to every story we have, especially the important stories like Iran.
But one thing that was really what he said at the end is not what is being said, but who is saying it is very important.
Today, this morning, I woke up to Pete Hexed.
Your favorite thing to do.
I didn't wake up with him, I woke up to him.
He did a conference, a press conference.
And one thing he did, he must have been a good student of Scott's because there was a reporter that asked questions, and he's like, Oh, you're from ABC.
So he, the reporter actually didn't have questions, legitimate questions.
It was just an accusation that were being made.
But I like the fact that Trump and Scott are both teaching us that it's not really what is being said, but who is saying it.
But going beyond that, the gears of the machine, if you Can see it are there and they're being done in regards to Iran.
One of the things that we talk about is all of us see the news differently, all of us have different opinions.
However, they are not really opinions, they are assigned to us.
And one of the things that he goes in is the system of how it's assigned.
Who Is Saying It00:06:36
And you can see it in regards to the Democrats.
They are never.
And the designated liars, certain people that come out and say certain things.
I could go on and on about how this is working in the story for Iran.
But I think the clear, just to end this, I think it's great to have somebody like Scott diagram it because you need to actually put it in perspective and actually in writing in order to see it.
In regards to the right, In a way, when he was talking about it, it was more about the Biden administration.
I think it depends on what administration is in power in regards to the CIA, FBI, and all of that.
There's a sentiment from some people that the FBI, the CIA, there are pushing Trump's agenda on X and on Reddit and on sort of things, which, you know, that's what happens.
That's politics.
Yeah, like it applies to both sides, like you said.
And you know what's so interesting, too?
So during the Biden administration and the first Trump administration, you know, think about the people that were pushing the biggest amounts of bullshit, like Don Lemon.
Joy Reid, I'm going to say Chris Cuomo, all of them.
So now look at them, right?
They're not with their jobs anymore.
And look how disgusting they are when the corporate handcuffs came off.
I mean, they were already horrendous, but now when they don't have anyone that they have to answer to, and you just see how brutal they are, what they really think deep down, and what their opinions are, and the racism and all of that stuff, it's just like, here's my allegedly, in my opinion.
But it's like, you know, Rachel Maddow.
I mean, if you take that bazillion dollar contract away from her and let her just speak freely, freely, it's going to be the same thing.
So I do think that you have to definitely.
And I saw that too with Pete Hegseth this morning, where, you know, someone asked a question and he was like, ABC, of course.
And then when Raisin Kane was like, I don't understand your question, he's like, oh no, that was a back, you know, that was like a snipe wrapped up in a question.
She wasn't actually asking a question.
And I was just like, that's right, because you see the news outlet they come from.
And I love that Scott taught us this, you know, how to instantly, we just have to remember instantly who's the source and where is it coming from.
One thing that he is missing in there, which he would agree with, is that in social media, like you talked about Joe Reed and all that and Don Lemon being independent.
I think some of the things that are driving, On the right and on the left, that are helping in regards to social media is that you want clicks.
You want to have the craziest perspective.
It's like, the moon doesn't exist.
I have the story.
You know, like that's also like what's driving it is getting attention and attention.
The way that you get attention most of the time is to say crazy things.
So, oh, yeah.
So, Owen, let's get your take on that.
Thanks, Marcella.
Yeah.
Well, I mentioned I looked up Phil Bump.
Unfortunately, he's no longer with the Washington Post.
So he somehow lost that job.
But he is with MS Now.
So he found a new home.
Perfect.
Apparently, he's still around.
I don't think I'll ever see that.
But no, I think it was a brilliant analysis.
I think it is very informative.
I think it's pretty accurate.
I think, you know, if I just think about how I might update it or elaborate on it, like one thing that I might add on the Democrat side would be all the NGOs.
Because there's so much funding coming into those NGOs and a lot of it's taxpayer dollars.
I know Trump has started putting a stop to a lot of that, but that I think still is a big source of media manipulation that they have all these vested interests and lots of money behind it.
And when you look at the No Kings protests and then you see, oh, there's lots of money coming into that from Soros or from Open Society or from some other place.
And so I think that might be an additional factor is that they try to set the narratives that way.
But I think it's still.
Follows the same top down model that Scott was describing.
The other thing I would wonder is how he would treat AI in this regard.
Because, you know, it's something that is becoming a news source for many, many people.
And people generally trust, oh, well, the AI said this.
I mean, even on the right, some people say, oh, Grok told me this.
And, but I think it's all based on whatever bias was put into those things, whatever sources were put into those things.
And a lot of them.
Come right back to the media that we just saw in terms of, you know, if it's biased in some way or another, or the majority of the coverage was slanted a certain way, then that's most likely what the AI is going to tell you when you ask them about any kind of political issue.
And so I think that's another way that is skewing the narrative that they're trying to.
I mean, it may or may not be intentional, but it's just the end result is that a lot of that liberal bias has leaked into AI and will now guide a lot of people's beliefs because when they ask about something or fact check something, they don't necessarily go to whatever those fact checking sources are anymore.
They'll ask their favorite AI and then they'll just believe whatever it tells them.
And there is a story I had, I posted today where scientists invented a fake disease and published it, but it was like obviously fake.
So, like, they made up this fake eye disease.
And they said things like, oh, it was a non existent university.
They gave thanks to the Starfleet Academy.
And they even had statements in it like, this entire paper is made up.
And so what happened in Bing Copilot was they called it an intriguing and relatively rare condition.
And Google Gemini says this thing is a condition caused by whatever.
And so AI just kind of takes this stuff for granted as truth.
It doesn't do any critical analysis and say, this is BS.
The Fake Eye Disease00:15:41
I'm not going to include this.
And so.
Now, people are starting to manipulate AI in many ways.
I mean, there are places that are trying to feed whatever they want to get into AI just by publishing it on websites or places like Reddit or other things.
And then it gets fed right through the system.
And so I think that's who are the people there was like, I'm going to botch it.
I don't know why I say things when I can't remember, but somebody wrote a book or a story.
It's like, it's so popular and it was all made up and it went around the world, like this whole entire thing.
But it's, It's just reminding me of that.
Somebody will remember, but it's just amazing because, you know, think about the AI that you guys use for your personal assistant.
Like I have Chester, and Chester, you know, pretty much knows my personality.
He knows my sarcasm.
He knows what I want to hear, but I have to always remind him, like, don't give me a slant.
Like, I don't want you to stroke my ego.
And he's like, okay, all right, you know, like, let me dig deeper, you know, whatever.
But you can also tell them to stop doing it.
I don't know how accurate it will be, but.
Like everything else, you know, what is the source and where is the source getting the information from?
It's like when, you know, Scott would teach us, like, oh, there's a poll.
Well, who paid for the poll?
Like, you know, who wanted this poll?
Like, what's the slant?
But I just love that, especially now with the fog of war and so much going on all over the world.
You know, we definitely have to see.
I mean, yesterday, you know, Joel Pollack made a great point too, where he, you know, his reframe that he thinks Scott might have also said was that, you know, Trump used the crazy, like unhinged, I hate Trump TDS loving people to be like, we have to impeach them, 25th Amendment.
Oh my God, we got to act now.
And it was like, you know, so here he is just tweeting something which, you know, you could say is absolutely crazy.
And then everybody reacted to it.
And then Iran's like, oh shit, like they're saying impeach this guy.
Like he's insane.
He'll do it.
Like, you know, maybe that was like a maneuver that Trump used to be like, you know what?
Like we better think past the sale here.
Like they're sending planes out.
He's saying this.
They're saying impeach him.
You know, so maybe that was like a maneuver to use the TDS people and just your everyday people.
I mean, a lot of people were very worried.
To encourage the Iranians to talk.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I definitely think Trump is a master at manipulating the media.
I think he's a master at changing the topic or distracting people when he wants to or just controlling the news cycle.
And in this scenario, I would imagine you're right that he probably could anticipate that the more he could convince his enemies to be like, he's going to do it.
Oh my God.
And he's going to nuke.
I mean, there's lots of people saying he's going to nuke Iran.
It's crazy.
But it probably serves.
Trump's purposes for them to say that.
So he probably doesn't even, you know, try and shut that down because it's like, well, yeah, let him say it.
Yeah.
I mean, that worked.
What do you think, Marcel, about that?
I mean, I feel like his tweet was very much pissed off a ton of people.
Or you could look at it like it was very intentional, you know, knowing, pretty much knowing certain things were going to happen if he did it.
What do you think happened?
I mean, we're mind reading, but.
Well, he intentionally does the truth social posts.
To the enemy, but not just the enemy of Iran, but to his enemy at home.
But you know what's what's it is kind of like it shows you how brainwashed or how ignorant I don't even want to say ignorant, but just out of touch with what Trump does is when people react to it in the way that Rokhana had reacted to it with the 25th Amendment.
He's so out of it.
Ilan Omar saying the same thing.
AOC saying similar things.
It's just like to me, either they most likely they're designated liars and they're just saying these kind of things just because it's for their base.
And I don't really think they could believe it because for 10 years, we've been through this many times over where Trump talks like this to an enemy and then you see negotiations and you see de escalation, like North Korea, you know.
Although this is higher stakes because we have the military there.
But it's just like if you had read the art of the deal, if you had, you know, if you even were paying attention.
So to me, it's interesting that people react in this fashion.
But part of me thinks that the left is doing it on purpose, you know, that they pretty much know that he was, he's going to seek a ceasefire.
But they just pretend to, you know, escalate this.
Yeah.
It was, yeah.
Ro Khanna, I mean, Did he ever fool any of you guys?
He tried to like sidle up to Tom Massey.
And I'm just like, dude, you are no Thomas Massey.
And by the way, I happen to love Thomas Massey.
Ro Khanna, no, nope, not so much.
And now today, you know, then he's like, you know, now they're like all, you know, singing another tune today, you know, I don't know.
Like it's just, it's too much.
And it's, that's why yesterday I was trying to say, like, manage your emotions right now because it's going to be like up, down, up, down.
Marcella, what is it?
So, are they retarded in the chat?
Put it in, or are they just designated liars creating, fabricating a story?
So, you know, either they're, you know, or maybe both.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'd go with both.
I'd go with both.
They are definitely, I mean, Ro Khanna, it's just so funny how many people were duped by him, thinking that he was some kind of reasonable person.
I mean, all these people, Cory Booker, they all have, you know, eyes for being president.
And It's not going to happen.
I mean, God willing.
So I just love that, you guys.
It's a good reminder.
So moving forward with everything happening at all times, I just feel like we're so hyped up.
I mean, a war will really, you know, heighten things and make us worry a little bit more or be angry more or whatever.
Like everything's more.
So just consider who's giving you your news.
What, you know, what is Trump's history like?
I mean, he's been, I wrote the other day, he's the most consistent.
Person, I have ever seen in my life.
I mean, he will take things to the edge.
He is consistent on, you know, how he feels about things, you know, his policy ideas from way back in like the early 90s.
Nothing's changed.
He's not a crazy, unhinged man, but I think as long as people are going to act like he is, he might as well just use that to his advantage.
And hopefully it's going to work.
You know, a lot of you guys say trust in Trump.
I hope so.
You know, so far, I feel like I will.
And, you know, I'm always on the fence about things, you guys.
Sorry, not sorry.
But, Owen, yeah, go ahead.
I do think we're in a better spot than the left in terms of just understanding and predicting the future.
Like, you know, I mentioned yesterday, I'm like, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if there's another extension or there's something else that happens.
And, you know, I certainly wasn't sure.
I, you know, I could definitely see Trump following through and doing what he said he was going to do at eight o'clock last night.
But, um, You know, I could see that as a possibility, as a possible path.
And you can interpret, okay, I can see what Trump's doing here, right?
Like, I can see that he's trying to get them to come to the table and make a deal and to make whatever concessions the U.S. wants them to make.
And that's the real intent.
It's not just, I want to go blow them back to the Stone Age.
He's making that threat to get them to the table.
You know, that's, and even if he did the attack, it would be with the same intent.
It's not to, you know, kill all the Iranian people, it's to say, okay, I'm going to.
Go as far as I need to go to get you to agree to stop this and to open the straight and to make a deal and whatever we need to do to bring this to a conclusion.
And so I just really kind of wonder what it's like to be on the other side when you're being jerked around all the time and you're thinking, oh my God, you know, World War III is here.
And then all of a sudden you get yanked back and it's like, nope, not this time.
And it just keeps happening over and over again.
What do you think though about, I just want to see one thing here.
I guess nobody saw the Friendships that were occurring during the Biden administration between Russia and China and Iran.
No, that wasn't happening.
I mean, accurate.
But what do you guys think?
Because I think the weird layer is that whether what I'm saying right now is exactly how it is or not, the appearance is that we're in this war doing it with Israel.
And I feel like that's a layer that we're not used to.
You know, like hearing that Netanyahu was in the situation room with Trump and Trump didn't sit at the head of the table.
He sat in an equal position with Netanyahu, not at the head of the table, bothers me.
And I don't know why.
It just does.
I mean, I know why.
Now, is that accurate?
Yeah.
Because that doesn't sound accurate.
That's a true and accurate statement.
From?
From a source of Glenn Greenwald.
Yeah.
And so, yeah.
So, well, I think it's a Palestinian person.
Maybe, but I mean, if that, so if that is true, Marcella, would that bother you?
It all depends on what happens.
What it doesn't, you know, I don't see in regards to where people sit and to what power.
I know Trump is Trump.
We all do.
And he's not the type to be told what to do.
So, regardless, at the age of almost 80, he, you know, so this ridiculous notion that Israel is telling them, telling America what to do versus America telling Israel what they're going to do.
You know, to me, as an outsider, because I wasn't born in this nation, I don't see it that way.
I do see Trump in control.
So that's how I see it.
I mean, I'd like to believe that, but I also, you know, listen, you guys, Glenn Greenwald, like what, like, I'm not this, I'm not like a sides person, okay?
Glenn Greenwald has given some of the most amazing reporting on so many things over the years.
His sources, if it's a story that, you know, you're interested in and you're like, wow, that was amazing and, you know, it's true and whatever, and it turned out to be accurate, Glenn's got, Really amazing resources because he's saying something that you might not like, not you, Marcella, but anybody doesn't negate the fact that he has great sources.
Like he still has great sources.
He's a serious journalist.
Maybe he's triggered by things some of us aren't.
So I don't think he would have put that out there just for the sake of putting that out there.
He doesn't seem like that to me.
He's always been pretty accurate.
I'm not saying Trump is taking orders from Netanyahu, but the situation is different.
And You know, like I was saying yesterday, so Trump's making this deal and like eight, not a deal, but a threat, and at eight o'clock, you know, on Tuesday night, blah, blah, blah.
And then Israel's bombing, you know, the rail bridges and whatever.
Okay, like maybe they knew that was going to happen, but it feels different to me.
Like we are doing this war with Israel.
I don't know who's calling the shots.
I don't know that it matters, but it is a weird layer to this that I think is hyping it up for people.
Is how I see it.
I don't know if anyone agrees with that.
I'm not saying anyone's right, wrong, or bad, or good.
It's just different.
And I don't know how to look at it like I normally do.
I bet a billion bucks that the US is the one directing everything.
I think Trump is calling the shots.
I don't think Netanyahu is in control because I don't think it would have played out this way if they did.
I think Netanyahu has an interest in continuing this war for a long time.
He has a personal interest in that because he's probably going to be facing corruption charges as soon as he's out of a war situation and he's going to lose office.
And so he has every incentive to keep fighting as long as possible.
And I don't think there would have been a ceasefire if Netanyahu had a decision making role in that.
And I think what we've seen is they are still bombing Lebanon right now, but that at least they did agree okay, we're going to stop bombing Iran.
And they stopped doing that.
So they are going along with what Trump is asking them to do.
And I don't know how you could be in a joint war with someone like Israel without having a clear chain of command and having clear coordination because it would be chaos if Netanyahu was going to disobey what Trump wanted or what the US told him hey, we're doing this.
You need to get in line and do the same thing.
And I think Netanyahu certainly knows that we could pull out of that alliance at any time if he pissed Trump off.
And I don't think it's the other way around.
So, you know, they're very dependent on us.
And I think certainly we are strong allies.
And you can have whatever opinion you want about that.
I mean, you know, I don't want to be, you know, doing what Israel wants us to do and having that guide our foreign policy.
But I do think it's a broader picture than that.
It's not just about Israel.
It's not just about Iran.
It's about China and Russia and all these other.
Players in the region.
And I think ultimately Trump's objective is to bring peace to the Middle East.
He's talked about it bringing a golden age to the Middle East.
And so I think that's been his agenda for a long time.
And that does put us on the side of Israel to some extent.
I mean, it doesn't mean we're going to go with the whole greater Israel, let's let Israel expand and take over.
But it does mean that they need to protect Israel and they need to get all these other countries in the region to stop attacking them.
And that's the only way we're going to bring peace.
And so, you know, I don't think it would make sense to say Trump should be against Israel or abandon them because that would make the whole region kind of collapse.
And so I don't see any sort of dynamic that would say Netanyahu's really calling the shots.
I think that to me is a conspiracy theory or some.
By the way, I didn't say that.
Beyond Conspiracy Theories00:05:35
I just said.
No, it shouldn't.
Okay.
We're not saying you're saying that.
That's fine.
I mean, but I know there are people who think that.
And I just need to make that clear because I'm going to get DMs up my ass later, believe me.
No, no.
I mean, and to defend, not that he can defend himself, Grinwald, whenever you have sources, also your sources, you have to trust your sources in regards to what they're telling you.
I mean, he wasn't obviously in the room, that kind of thing.
So it's always fog of war.
You don't know where things are.
However, I look at what the actions are, like, The major actions like the ceasefire, a lot of people were saying that Israel would not allow it.
They were also saying that Saudi Arabia wanted to keep fighting because they don't want Iran there.
Again, the ceasefire did come through.
They were different people of the press were saying that Saudi Arabia would not tolerate Trump having a ceasefire.
The same thing with Israel.
Come through now.
Some people can see the ceasefire as defeat in the US, two movies, one screen.
Um, and some people think it's good, you know.
Everybody sees it differently.
Oh, yeah.
No, I'm looking at you know, I'm always looking at your comments, you guys.
BJ, I'm watching you, BJ.
I see you.
There's a lot of very influential people in the chat that also have opinions that you know.
I'm not saying don't believe BJ, I'm just saying everyone with a grain of salt.
If I didn't say that, listen, I know BJ, he's good.
He's really good.
So I'm watching you.
BJ and I like to spar.
So I'm just saying, you know, don't believe me, Marcella, Owen, BJ, always, like I said, just, you know, also, and I think like the Greenwald stuff, people talking about like his sexual fetishes, just stop.
That's stupid.
Okay.
It's his private life.
You shouldn't give a shit about it.
Okay.
And also, you know, I also don't like to judge somebody based on one story I don't agree with.
So if somebody, and I'm not even talking about Glenn right now, I see this.
All over.
You know, maybe you've trusted somebody to give you good facts about news stories for 20 years, and now here we are.
And suddenly I'm watching people who are like, this person's this and this person's that.
And I'm like, why?
Because you feel differently about this one story.
I'm just reminding you guys, you have to check yourselves and check, you know, is it the person or is it the story?
Does the person typically bring you facts and good information, or is it that you just don't like this story because you have a different opinion about it?
And I'm going to say that even like for me or Marcella or Owen, when we're on here every day, you might fully agree with me about how I feel about Islam and then like disagree with me about how I feel about name the thing.
But that doesn't mean, you know, oh, I can't believe anything Erica says or even like her because I disagree with that one thing.
So if we did that for everybody because we just disagreed with something, even if it's this one thing, then who are you ever going to listen to again or, you know, get information from or consider an opinion from?
So, you know, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Okay.
Because there's a lot of really good reporters and journalists out there that even would have, Any other story completely been in line with each other on, but on this one, they're not.
And now they are so torn apart, and the party is so torn apart over like single issues.
And that's not helpful for us moving forward.
So just try to manage your expectations of people.
I kind of want to move on from this because it, you know, it's okay.
Like it, I think we said it.
I mean, I would just say, like, to me, I would probably accept that the maybe there is a fact.
That Trump didn't sit at the head of the table and he sat across from Netanyahu instead.
Maybe that's true.
Hey, Lori, hang on.
Lori, I'm not lecturing you.
Okay.
See, that's not helpful.
I'm not lecturing you.
I'm trying to give you guys a balance because I see both sides of this and that just wasn't nice.
So I understand how Scott would get annoyed.
I'm not lecturing you.
I'm giving my opinion.
That's what we do here.
We're giving opinions.
Okay.
Go ahead, Owen.
Yeah, well, I was just going to say, like, maybe it's a fact that Trump sat across from Netanyahu.
And, but I think it is mind reading to say that's because he's somehow underneath him or not superior to him in the position.
He may have had lots of reasons to do that.
Maybe he wanted to see Netanyahu's reaction and he wanted a better view rather than just seeing the side of his face behind somebody else.
And maybe there's a closer screen to that seat on the opposite wall, which I'm looking at the story where they talked about this.
It said, Mr. Trump sat down.
But not in his usual position at the head of the room's mahogany conference table.
Instead, he sat on one side facing the large screens mounted along the wall.
Mr. Netanyahu sat on the other side, directly opposite the president.
So it could be just in that situation, he's like, okay, I've got this special guest here.
I want to actually be able to talk to him.
I want to be able to see his reactions and have a better interaction with him.
And also, by the way, I get a bigger view of the screen that's not as far away from me.
A Little Moon Moment00:02:28
Okay.
So there could have been a lot of explanations for it.
And I just think, you know, we can all speculate, oh, this is going on.
Oh, that's going on.
And people love to do that.
I think it is a bit of what Scott would call mind reading to say, you know, it's definitely because Netanyahu's in charge.
That's a little far for me.
I didn't say that, and Glenn did not say that.
Okay.
Glenn just said he was in the situation room, which was one weird, and Trump was not at the head of the table.
Just two things, but I didn't say he was taking orders from him because Glenn didn't say that.
I didn't hear that.
And I'm not suggesting that.
Fair.
I'm so heated.
Sorry.
And someone else doesn't like when I rant she put out on X yesterday.
I'm sorry I don't entertain you with my rants, but I'm not sorry.
Okay.
So, you guys, I just, I'm not.
Okay.
Anyway.
I like your rants, Erica.
Thanks.
Oh, I appreciate that.
All right.
So, you guys, can we have an interstitial sip?
I need one.
Oh, and lead us in a toast, would you?
Everyone be useful.
I already drank.
I'm sorry.
All right.
Here's a little moon moment for our break.
That is the moon.
I love how the moon has music.
And behind the moon is the earth.
Is that amazing?
That's the moon with the earth behind it.
Love it.
Love you guys.
Love you guys.
What do I do with this?
That moon is going to become the moon.
That's actually live sound.
That's what it really sounds like.
I know.
That's what I said.
The moon has this music resonating off of it like a spa.
I will mention there's a story from one of the earlier moon missions where someone, they got like when they got out of the capsule or something, there was some weird whistling sound they heard.
And they're like, nobody's going to believe us.
Like, what's, you know, where is this sound coming from?
And they couldn't figure it out.
And they, I think eventually NASA told them it was like some kind of radio interference between one part and the other.
And so they explained it away that way, but there was some weird sound that they heard when they first got to the moon.
So there might be some kind of really weird sound when you get out on there.
I don't know.
I think they should put a big spa on the moon.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you.
Look, I look at these beautiful comments.
Sean putting that stuff on.
Thanks for loving my rants.
AI Mimics Thinking00:03:26
Thanks for hating my rants.
I love all you guys anyway, but thank you.
Thanks, Tracy.
Thanks, B. Dillon.
Okay.
So let's, can we just do like a lighter something and then we'll take it from there?
And Owen, why don't you give us a little something?
Okay.
Well, there's a story about AI assistance reducing persistence and hurting independent performance.
They did some kind of trial with 1,200 or so people.
And they said AI kind of puts you in this short term task mindset where it's like they'll try and optimize for a short term result, but they don't really think long term and think, You know, play the long game sort of thing.
And so they said this effect appears after just 10 minutes that it gives you these instant answers.
So you don't have that struggle you need to be able to really learn something.
And so it, you know, it points out that persistence predicts long term skill acquisition.
And so it's really a warning to people that you need to watch out for that because otherwise you might never, you know, really pick up skills over the long term or having a good long term result because the AI is sort of putting you in this short term mindset where you're not really looking to gain those long term skills.
Hmm, Marcella, what do you think?
Um, and you know, I mean, the same thing was said about many other technologies, you know, like, oh, the internet's gonna rain.
Maybe it's true that the internet's gonna make you dumber, or you know, using a calculator.
My math teacher would say, oh, you don't need a calculator for calculus.
Um, you know, that kind of thing has always been said about new technologies, but I can see it, you know, where you're not actually, uh, Taking the time to get through.
It's the process, right?
Not the outcome of what you learn.
So I can see it.
Do you think we need to?
What do you think?
Like, is it important to still learn how to do things without the computer, like old school, or should everything just be incorporated now?
Because I'm kind of like, what if it all goes away?
I mean, to me, a lot of it depends, but I do think it's dangerous because of the types of things I said earlier about how you can't really trust AI.
It's not really thinking, it makes it appear like it's thinking, and it does a good job of mimicking what thinking looks like.
But it doesn't really know the truth.
It doesn't stop and really think and say, hey, wait a second, this is not right and this is fake.
And so I think I personally, at least, wouldn't trust it to just do all my thinking for me because it's going to make mistakes and probably really stupid ones and make me look like a fool.
Right.
And so I think it is a very valuable tool.
And for easy stuff, it is useful.
But I think you need to have enough expertise and enough learning to be able to say, okay, I know when it's wrong.
And I know how to stop it before it does something bad.
And I'm going to keep doing that.
And I'm going to keep developing that expertise.
And the other thing I would say is one mental model I have around AI is that it's an amplifier.
That if you are stupid and you start chatting with AI, it's going to kind of go to your level.
And the same thing is, if you're really smart or really knowledgeable, it's going to potentially mimic you in that way.
It kind of adapts to you.
Developing Real Expertise00:04:49
And so, that again is sort of a double edged sword.
It can be really useful if you have the expertise and if you've gone down that learning path and you know more than the AI does in many cases through your experience, your wisdom, the different things you picked up, and you can do that critical thinking and real thinking.
That the AI can't do.
So then you can use it as a very useful tool.
But if you don't have any of that, if you're just brand new, you don't really know anything, and you're going into some subject area that you don't know anything about, then you're going down a dangerous path because then it's, and again, it might not ever do the real sophisticated stuff that it wouldn't, you know, because it's doing the tell me like I'm five level.
And, but then again, it's potentially going to, you know, go down a really weird path and you're not going to know.
And so you're going to end up getting burned by that.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
All right.
Marcella, do you have another lightish story?
I can, let me just check my.
My stories are, I'll make them light.
Thanks.
Is that good?
Yeah.
Oh, there's a, well, I'll just give you a rundown of my stories and you tell me which one.
Freedom for terrorists, for kidnapped journalists from terrorists.
Oh.
Georgia special election 14 congressional district Republican wins.
Uh, the Department of Education rescinds six titles, six schools with Title IX agreements.
Uh, California fraud everywhere.
Can we talk about that California fraud?
Because, oh, I wish I pulled the clip of uh, what does she call herself?
The first partner, Gavin Newsom's wife.
Have you guys seen the clips going around about her and how she's like, I'm sympathetic to the people in jail who murder people because she accidentally killed her sister by running her over with a golf cart?
I'm like, what?
Yeah.
I saw that.
I mean, I think to me, the apparition.
What were you about that story?
Like, it does sound like it was a tragic accident what happened with her and her sister.
She was six years old at the time.
So, you know, I don't think she intentionally backed over her sister with the golf cart.
I think it was maybe an irresponsible thing for her parents to let.
A six year old drive a golf cart and, you know, have sort of free reign to play like that.
But beyond that, I'm sure it was an accident.
So I don't falter for that.
But for her to extend that to all these violent people in San Quentin and say, well, they all did accidents too.
Like, no, no.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that if that woman was ever tried, they would have found her innocent because she was six years old and it was, you know, the circumstances show that there was never any intention.
I don't think.
She said anything like, I'm going to get you.
You know, she didn't know her sister was behind the golf cart, right?
So, even if there was a trial, she wouldn't have been convicted.
But all these people were convicted.
So, they, in most cases, proved, okay, you were either negligent or most likely intentionally did this.
And so now you're convicted of murder.
And I think, unless it's something as serious as murder, an underage person is not going to be tried as an adult and they're not going to have that long sentence.
So, the people that she's talking about, definitely, I think, in most cases, at least, probably almost all cases, They are violent criminals and they got what they deserve in terms of the sentence they got.
Oh, yeah.
And then, as Beverly reminds us, Gavin assisted his mom in suicide.
That I know a lot of people have different feelings about that.
But yes, no, they're quite the couple.
And the more she talks, the better it gets for.
Yeah.
I'm glad that we're hearing these clips because, I mean, do we want her as first lady?
No.
So we want to hear more of it.
Crazier the better.
Mace was the one that clipped that on X.
But I personally didn't know the story, her personal story at six years old.
You know, I didn't know that.
I try not to go into the first partner and her stories, but.
We will not stop, though, doing interviews.
She's everywhere.
She is all about it.
I remember she has her.
She has.
She's.
I don't know how many kids they have, but they have many kids.
And she was talking about how she changes the gender of.
into female gender of.
in regards to books and who's the hero and.
Superwoman instead of Superman, you know, for her kids to see women as leaders.
I don't know.
Intentional Corruption00:04:25
I would say that's much more toxic than what she said about the criminals.
Yes, it is.
It's harmful.
Well, in regards to the California fraud, so O'Keeffe Media Group, OMG, went out and captured an undercover video with Bismarck Obando, who is the press secretary.
To the California State Controller, Malia Cohen, admitting fraud is everywhere across cities, counties, special districts, hospitals, insurance companies.
I mean, anybody that works in the California government knows that.
But it's kind of shocking to have the California Controller's office admit to it.
Basically, what they were saying is that the office admits to audits not actually getting done when they should be.
Um, and 100% fraud exists in the state of California, which I it's not shocking to any of us, but it's quite a great video to see.
Um, I don't know what will happen to Bismarck Obando.
Um, but they fell again for O'Keefe and his.
Uh, I remember Scott would act like it's so funny.
This is okay, this is uh, O'Keefe and he looks the same, yeah, yeah, like he just turns around, he's like, hi.
You're like, oh, hi, six foot nine man.
It's so funny.
Oh, and go ahead about that.
Well, the only statement I'd add to that is what he said was it's funny because they haven't funded us to do those audits.
They keep cutting our auditing teams.
So clearly, to me, that is kind of intentional corruption.
If you're saying, I'm going to cut your funding, I'm not going to let you audit these people, to me, that's government corruption.
Like, there's no way you can say that that's okay.
It's intentional, yeah.
I mean, I'm disagreeing with you, yeah.
I don't, I just don't see it like that.
To me, it is basically saying we don't want to know, we don't want to clean up the corruption, we're going to take the money away from that because we just want to let it happen, and we don't want anyone to see what's going on.
Um, in the video, also, it goes on to show that he went to different uh, abundant blessing incorporated homeless shelter that claims its mission is to end homelessness by providing short and long term housing.
He went there, it has received 23 million uh, dollars.
Uh, he also went to Urban alchemy, the same safe sleep villages.
And he didn't find any homeless people.
So crazy.
I mean, wait, I was listening to something Scott said today, which is making me think about this right now.
I listened to Scott sometimes in the morning, guys.
And he was saying, What if we incentivized?
I think the episode I was listening to, they were talking about giving Congress a raise and all these people a raise for what?
I don't know.
But, you know, what if we incentivize them?
Like, you could do it statewide too instead of on a federal level, but you're going to get a raise, a $300,000 raise, no bonus, I'm sorry, bonus, just a bonus if you can balance the budget and, you know, like actually balance the budget because, you know, he's like, everybody's on the take and whatever.
So it's like, if they just stopped all the fraud, even if they stopped half the fraud or a third of the fraud, imagine what would happen.
And, I think that they're just, but I don't think you should be incentivized like that to be doing your job personally.
But it's like insane how they have this so out of control.
And then they keep going on with more things like Newsom.
Did you hear what his rail project is going to cost now?
Like $126 billion.
I was like, what are you doing?
And that bridge to nowhere for the butterfly bridge.
I mean, California is out of control.
It's amazing.
All right.
No.
And one thing that, that, People you know that are not local to here don't know is that the train itself doesn't really like if it was actually built, it wouldn't even help because it doesn't get there.
Insane Infrastructure Costs00:14:16
Um, it goes to Merced and so it doesn't go to like major cities.
Um, the same thing with the train near LAX, it doesn't actually fully go into the airport, so you can't, you still have to use Uber, you still have to use like taxis or some kind of system.
It's just Marcella.
Do you live in California for the laughs?
That's what SJV wants to know.
No, for the weather.
The weather is pretty amazing.
And the sun sets.
I mean, the sun laughs now.
The whole thing, yeah.
All right.
So give us another story.
Oh, no, no, you guys, I'm so out of my mind.
It's 11 01.
Where is Andy Wang?
Andy, you failed me.
I'm going to say thank God, you guys.
Thank you for putting up with me and for all of us.
And as always, you know, it's okay to disagree.
It's not the Erica show.
Erica's having a day.
So thank you so much for joining us tomorrow.
Oh, you guys, guess who's coming on tomorrow?
Go ahead, guess.
I know, Andy.
Put it in the chat.
Put it in the chat.
It's going to be a nice, zeny, interesting day.
Does anyone remember?
I love you, Beav.
It's going to be.
Brian Ramelli.
Woohoo!
You guys are so sweet.
I know, I'm so excited.
So, Brian's joining us tomorrow, you guys.
We haven't seen him in a little while.
So, I'm very much looking forward to that.
Thank you for being here.
Let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott, who we got a double whiteboard from today.
Freebird.
Oh my God, you guys are amazing.
Okay, so we will see you tomorrow.
Let's sip to Scott.
Please be useful to you guys.
Walk away from the screens for a while, touch the grass.
Have a happy snack.
All right.
Love you guys.
Let's all be useful.
Owen and Marcella, thank you.
I love you guys so much.
And I'll see you tomorrow.
To Scott.
To Scott.
To Scott and to Shelly.
Maybe I'll stay on for a minute.
I'll see if I can do it.
Okay, bye, guys.
Bye.
Nope.
Let's see.
How do we turn off YouTube?
Turn off X.
I don't think I can turn off Rumble.
That's okay.
Are we here?
Is it just us and Rumble?
Hi, Rumble.
You guys, I know a little private time.
I just thought I'd calm down for a second.
Sometimes, don't say bye.
Sometimes it's just like, right?
X stop.
Yeah, X and you to just us be loves.
You guys, you're so great.
So I have to go to motor vehicle.
I can't stay long, but I was like, let me just let you guys know I'm not a complete lunatic.
I know you know that, but I just get.
Passionate about some things sometimes.
Hi, you guys.
Why so wound up?
I don't know.
Well, I know, but man, I came with Erica.
It's like, you know, between like the war, you know, the war, and I feel things like deeply, you guys.
I just, like, I just feel for like everybody involved.
And what did, oh, what did he post?
Tell us what Cerno, let me look.
What did Cerno just post?
Let's see.
And believe me, I wish Scott was here, like you all wish he was here.
Let's see.
I don't know which thing it is.
Okay, I don't know which thing it is, but yes, Frank, I like lavender candle bath, whatever.
I know.
Like so many people that people have just like written off.
And I just, I, you know, I don't write people off because they have a take on something I don't like.
And I don't care what Glenn Greenwald did in his personal life.
I don't want you to care about what I do in my personal life.
So I just, I get, I think I just get upset where it's like people are just so quick to cut people off.
And I don't know.
I just, I don't know, whatever.
What is a BSC lib?
I don't know what that means, but I still miss Scott so much to you guys.
I can't stand it.
Believe me.
You know, like I think about him and I could just like instantly cry.
I promise.
And I do a lot.
But also, I feel like I want to help manage all of our expectations.
And so many of us here have differing opinions.
And I think a lot of times, too, that there's people that buy Cram.
I think there's also people that.
Might not agree with like majority of what we're saying.
And then maybe you feel like, well, I don't feel represented or heard, or, you know, maybe my take is extreme or not welcome here.
And it's welcome here.
Everybody's take is welcome here.
I call out BJ for fun.
I mean, BJ is very solid in his stance and his opinion on things.
And BJ and I have so many differing opinions.
And I hear from a lot of people in my DMs that also have differing opinions.
And I want you to know like, I hear you, I see you, I agree with a lot of you guys, but I'm not like, I'm really not, I'm not dug in on anything.
Like, I could love like all of this about any situation and hate this thing, but it doesn't negate the love either.
So I don't know, everything's nuanced for me.
Oh, that is so nice, Neon Noodle.
Thank you so much.
You guys are very sweet.
Oh, okay.
And, you know, and I feel love for all of you too.
Like, I see in the comments every day, like, I miss Scott.
I miss him so much.
We miss Scott.
And yeah, like, I know, I know.
Me too.
I am the appointed ATTR.
Thanks, Crusher.
So, yeah, so just to say that we can all have different opinions and still love each other.
And thank you so much for showing up for the three of us every day.
And we really, you know, we really want to.
Stay positive and civil, but you know, still be human, right?
Scott is still alive here.
Yes, he is.
Yeah, listening to the old show that was so fun today.
I mean, he's so smart.
He's so smart.
Thank you, Andy.
You can't change the name and you work in it, Neon Noodle.
I love everybody's usernames, so it's good.
Oh, Scott did love.
My little emotional, fiery, passionate side.
We'd have some good debates.
If he felt like debating, he knew he could just poke me a little bit and we'd be off and running.
Oh, thanks, Jim.
Yeah, not listen, nobody agrees with everybody about everything.
It's impossible.
I know Jessica's rough.
Jessica is rough.
The double whiteboards were so fun.
And B, I'm so bad.
I'm missing.
Oh, BD Lion.
All the L's eyes meshed together.
Thank you for changing your tune.
You know what I mean?
I know.
I think Scott would definitely have parsed that tweet for us in a way we can't imagine.
American Debunk couldn't imagine.
I mean, Scott was just so masterful at that.
Yeah, we are Scott's beloves.
I don't think Greg likes Jessica Tarleff.
That's just me talking.
Okay, what do we see?
Isn't your opinion, but my fears of not knowing and my therapy hour?
That's what people are really criticizing.
I love you.
I think you're perfect.
You're so sweet.
It's definitely not my therapy hour, but let me see.
I do have fears.
I do have fear.
I think a lot of us have fears.
So, if I represent anybody else that also has fears, listen, Scott, I probably have a thousand messages to Scott of me being fearful about something, and that's normal.
So, if anyone else has fears, I'm with you.
I too have fears.
Let's see.
Oh, this show has evolved into a really good show.
Scott would be happy.
I like the discussions you all have had.
Where's it go?
And when you all sometimes disagree, yes.
Yes, we were.
I really like Owen and Marcella are like family to me.
I feel like we've been through a lot together.
We talk offline, we have like a DM and text messaging and phone calls.
So we're in communication all the time.
And we really, really enjoy each other.
And like when the show's over, it's over.
It's not like, oh, I'm sorry.
It's none of that ever has to be said.
Fear sounds like woke libs talking.
Um, what saying that I have fear?
I do have fear.
Does anyone else in here have fear?
Like, when you see things, like, do you ever feel fearful?
It's like fear of the unknown, you know?
Like, I just don't know, you know, like I do trust Trump because I've seen this behavior in Trump forever.
And by behavior, I don't mean like anything bad or good, it's just his personality.
Um, and I don't think he's crazy.
And, um, I just, but I have fear because I don't know what the other people are going to do either.
Like Trump could control himself, but you know, you have to count on, you know, everybody else not going crazy.
Like the what ifs, you could what if, like, well, what if Iran just like drops a bomb like in the middle of something horrific and wipes out 50,000?
I don't know.
I don't know what they're doing.
So, yeah, it's a natural response to the unknown.
Fight fear with faith.
I have a lot more faith, you guys, than I ever did before.
I'd say the last.
Two years, my faith has been picking up.
I could never speak about religion.
I just don't know how, but my faith is way stronger.
Yeah, Tracy, that's why I know.
So when things would be going wrong, I would be like, I need Scott to figure it out for me.
Okay, one last word on Sergio.
I guess, like, I don't know why it's taking so long to get this message out there.
Sergio just, you know, didn't want to do the show anymore, just his prerogative.
Nothing happened.
It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of work.
And It very much changed his mornings and like what a lot of us, like I'm sure a lot of you guys, like have headphones on or you're watching it on a TV or you're taking a walk.
So when we do the show, you know, our pre show and prepping and everything, we're, you know, we're like here in front of the computer.
So it's like, you know, I used to be like walking around my house doing stuff, cleaning, getting ready.
But so instead of just, you know, sitting here, so it's a little different.
So Sergio and why he doesn't come to the show, I don't know.
You'd have to ask him.
He's definitely missed.
And, you know, I'd love to see him in the chat, but it's okay.
Sorry.
He's still on locals.
He's on Twitter.
I mean, if I called him, he'd pick up the phone.
You know, we can still talk and love each other.
And if you miss him, send him a message.
Tell him to come into the chat.
You know, I'm taking him to shower a lot earlier now, you guys.
I used to work from home typically.
So I used to just, Just like being my jammies listening to you guys.
Yeah, Sergio, you all have cool takes, by the way.
Every one of you.
Okay.
Every one of you.
Yeah.
See, Scott's always working.
Scott Richie's always working.
Yeah.
Tell Sergio to visit.
And he has so many fun memes and he's posting them on locals during the show.
And I'm like, Sergio, come in here and do it.
So we'd love to see him here.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I think he, and also he used to like work out during the show and do things like that.
So it's just different.
Let's see.
Mad Granny, what, what, what?
Tell me what.
Flavor, are you asking where is Sergio?
I mean, listen, it is what it is.
We're all here, you guys.
Okay.
So we bring on great guests.
And oh my gosh, Mike Burt is like working in a cave now and he's in a mine.
I shouldn't just, I guess it's a cave.
Is it a mine?
And so, like, we're all still family, guys.
You think Sergio has a big role to play?
I don't know what that means, but you, all right.
So, Jim, you say, not much fear.
I've been on the wrong side of guns and knives, makes six and a half hours in my, Sailplane this weekend seems safe.
Nobody in this sky is actually trying to kill you.
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Right?
That's refreshing.
A mine cave.
Right.
Oh, I don't know, Mad Granny.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know why.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Mike Burt.
Yeah, two weeks in and two weeks out.
Andy, you failed me today.
I'm not going to let you live that down.
Where were you reminding me?
You need beloved merch?
What would you guys like?
He is busy making memes and working hard for sure.
And he has a cat named Buddy, and she's so beautiful.
She's so beautiful.
Oh, thanks, Fletch.
You're building out your locals channel.
Awesome, Chuck.
Good.
He did not say that, Sean.
Jerk.
You did, Andy?
Can you post it harder next time?
I know the cat is so sweet.
Camp hat?
What's a camp hat?
Like a bucket hat?
Let me see.
He gave me, yeah, he calls me a Nazi every day.
And isn't it so nice that being called a Nazi means nothing?
Or is Jim the one that hugs you, Happy Eye Doc?
That's so funny.
Maybe, maybe, K. Suz.
You never know.
But we love Sergio.
Okay.
Oh, it's a camo.
Oh, camo hat.
Andy Wang calls me a Nazi.
Yes, he does.
How's my cat doing?
Stella is, she's like a warrior.
I'm telling you, with her dementia and her kidney failure.
I'm going to weigh her again.
She might just be under five minutes.
I'm five minutes.
Look, now I'm reading Andy, under five pounds now.
But I'm telling you, she is feisty AF.
And I'm the typo queen, never apologize.
So she's feisty.
She chases George, my other cat, everywhere.
She sleeps right next to my head on the very edge of the corner of the bed at night.
It's so cute.
And all night, I just like kiss her.
I like roll over and I'll like face her and I'm like.
I kiss her like a hundred times a night.
She's my girl, but she's great.
And George is amazing.
Is Stella related to Kat Tim's cheen?
I mean, maybe.
She doesn't have a thyroid issue that I know of, but she has kidney disease or kidney failure.
So she's like on a special kidney diet.
But, you know, she's great.
She's great.
Yes, a hat tip to the soup Nazi.
Oh, good.
We try to be a little bit sane.
Netanyahu sabotaging the peace deal on three, two, one.
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And you guys, like, listen, I don't think I have to say this, but just so you know.
So, if anyone in the chat's ever asking, you can answer for me.
I'm not anti Israel.
I don't hate, you know, blah, blah, blah.
I'm not that person.
Okay.
I'm not like free Palestine.
I'm not, I'm really not anything, but like, please, this is me.
Please, America, stay safe.
I love you so much.
I want us to be America.
I, I want all of the criminals that came over here flooding in, the gang members, the spies, the sleeper cells out.
I want everybody out.
I want the country back.
I want our Constitution to be strong.
I want people waving American flags.
That's what I want.
Okay.
Like what the other countries are doing is not that I don't give a shit, but it's not my monkey and not my circus.
Okay.
I really just, I really just want what's best for our country.
And that's why I'm even like, let's have Canada and let's have, you know, take Mexico, like just put a big hug around everybody.
And then that's what we're guarding is this whole perimeter, you know, whatever that makes me, that's what I am.
I don't care what Israel's doing.
I feel bad that people have problems all over the world.
I really feel bad, but I don't know what to do about it.
But I don't want, like, when we're suffering here and we don't have what we need here, I don't want to go help everybody else.
Is that bad?
I, you know, I'm sorry.
I don't.
I'm over it.
I'm over it because I just keep seeing this country in decline.
I mean, we built our New York subway system in the 50s, period.
End of story.
Like, you go down there, you are taking your life in your own hands on many levels now.
And the incivility gets me.
And, you know, yeah, by the way, clip it if you want.
I also have black fatigue.
What, like, why aren't we rehabilitating people that are, you know, lost their sense of, you know, family and pride and ethics and morals?
And I think that has a lot to do with, you know, food stamps and all that other stuff.
So that all, you know, like, that's all like a problem.
And I feel like if we could just put our full freaking attention on, Our problems here at home.
I just think, like, let us be the country that can pull it back together and make everybody that lives here, you know, have inspiration and aspire and grow and be safe and stop the bullshit.
Stop telling people that they're less than and that they're not worthy of something.
And here, because you're black, you can't go get a driver's license to vote.
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Shut up.
How insulting have we all become, you know?
You know what I mean by we all?
Like, it's just, it's gross.
So, I don't know.
I don't know when that became acceptable, but it's not.
And so, that's where I stand.
I'm very, very pro America.
And I'm like, some of you said, like, I'm an empath.
I am so sorry for people that are going through hard times.
I don't want to end up like that.
I just don't want to end up like that.
And that's why I feel like this.
Beverly, I love you so much.
So, that's where I'm at, guys.
So, I think I have to run.
I have to get to.
Motor vehicle to get a vehicle registered.
And, oh, and by the way, so we spotted here local six or eight giant blue fireballs.
Maybe they look blue during the day with long trailing tails behind them.
So apparently there's a lot of like meteor activity going on over here.
I don't know, but thanks, you guys.
Love you guys so much.
Yeah, end all the fraud, end all the bullshit.
Let's imagine if we put All of this energy and focus on our country, our constitution, our bill of rights, our laws, and everybody was just a freaking team player for your country, how amazing it would be!