Episode 3089 - The Scott Adams School 02/06/26

Summary

Podcast Summary: Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 3089 - The Scott Adams School 02/06/26
Date: February 6, 2026
Host: Scott Adams
Panelists: Erica, Owen Gregorian, Sergio, Jimmy, BJ Dichteris
Special Guests: Shauna, Shelley
Theme: Viewing current events “through a persuasion filter,” community updates, science/tech news, immigration, and justice

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Overview

This episode blends community connection with world events, filtered through the Scott Adams style of humor, perspective, and persuasion. After opening with light banter, the panel discusses recent scientific advances, technological risks, AI developments, and delves deep into immigration issues in both the U.S. and Canada. Regulars and special guests share the value of in-person meetups, all while maintaining a conversational, occasionally irreverent tone true to Adams’ legacy.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Community & Scott Adams Meetups (04:54 - 11:39)

• Meetup Experiences:

  • Shauna recounts attending a Scott Adams community meetup, noting the diversity of attendees and the positive impact Scott’s work has had on their lives.

    “It was a wide variety of people... Some were looking for others that were really smart... Others were there wanting to discuss politics... Others were there because they missed him. Like me.” — Shauna [05:00]

  • The process for organizing or joining a meetup is simple—just set a time and place and people will come.

• Encouragement to Host:

  • Jimmy and others stress the need for more hosts in the network; even small, regular gatherings can become meaningful traditions.

    “Even if you get just a small group of people together, it starts to become ritualistic. And before you know it, you have 10, 20, 50 people…” — BJ Dichteris [09:54]

2. Medical & Scientific Breakthroughs (12:04 - 15:21)

• RNA Nanotechnology for Cancer:

  • Owen summarizes advances in using RNA nanostructures to target multiple cancer elements at once, possibly heralding new paths for cures.

• Revolutionary Cancer Blood Tests:

  • Discussion of new blood tests that detect early-stage lung and breast cancers with high accuracy (81% for lung, 68% for breast, 95% specificity).

    “I love how it's 81%. It's not 80. It's 81... I’m sensing a little persuasion there.” — BJ Dichteris [14:02]

• Cautious Optimism:

  • The panel applauds progress but recognizes how media and politicians can spin numbers for persuasion.
  • Both Trump and Biden promised to cure cancer, but the panel remains healthily skeptical about timelines.

3. Emerging AI & Robotics (15:23 - 25:33)

• AI 'Brain' for Robot Fleets:

  • Owen introduces "Kinetic" by Humanoid—an AI platform coordinating diverse robots in multiple settings.

• Rise of AI Social Media:

  • The team discusses platforms populated by millions of AI agents ("moltbook", "only molts", "Molt Match"), reflecting on the bizarre landscape of “AIs talking to AIs.”

    “It's getting a little out of control. All these AI start dating each other. It's wild.” — BJ Dichteris [17:46]

• Personal AI Security Risks:

  • Owen warns about the risks of cloud-based personal AIs, explaining hack scenarios where bots could be manipulated via "prompt injection."

    “If you give it access to your bank account... you're potentially going to have your bank account drained.” — Owen Gregorian [18:19]

• Mac Minis & Hobbyist Notes:

  • A surge in Mac Mini sales is linked to AI experimentation, but Owen notes a cheap Raspberry Pi does the same job for most users, outlining the pros and cons.

• Automated U.S. Manufacturing:

  • Machina Labs has raised $124 million to build a U.S.-based automated factory, signifying an advanced step in domestic robotics and manufacturing.

4. Immigration – U.S. & Canadian Perspectives (25:35 - 38:15)

• U.S. Immigration Politics:

  • Trump discussed religious rededication at a prayer breakfast, while Democrats focus on reforming DHS and keeping ICE out of polling stations.
  • Sergio recaps Trump’s announcement of America’s 250th rededication:

    “So that's going to be a big event to again celebrate America for the principles that it was started.” — Sergio [26:50]

• Canada’s Immigration/Corruption Challenges:

  • BJ Dichteris offers a sobering account of immigration fraud, human trafficking tied to trucker licensing, and government complicity.

    "In our case, it's now not just the local community and the NGO. In our case, it's the actual government representatives that are involved." — BJ Dichteris [28:31]

  • Describes how Somalis charged with fraud in the U.S. are appointed ministers in Canada; broader problems include postmodern state identity and lack of cultural grounding.

    “They've brainwashed a segment of the population to believe that Canada doesn't have an identity…” — BJ Dichteris [31:31]

• Optimism Amid Cultural Change:

  • BJ points out increased public awareness is a sign of hope, even if changes in government and culture move slowly.

    “I could only dream of us being in the position we’re in right now 10 years ago... it’s like doing a U-turn with a battleship.” — BJ Dichteris [33:26]

5. Justice, Accountability, and Political Corruption (40:04 - 47:19)

• High-Profile Arrests:

  • The panel covers the arrest of “antifa general” Kyle Wagner for inciting violence against ICE [40:04].
  • Owen rebuffs the narrative that “nothing is happening,” listing numerous recent arrests for fraud and violent activity, even among high-profile or media figures.

    “Justice is happening. It may not happen as fast as you want… but there are a lot of people being arrested and charged with crimes.” — Owen Gregorian [41:39]

• Convictions, Not Just Arrests:

  • Erica and chatters voice that arrests aren’t enough—true accountability requires convictions, especially for politicians and those influencing chaos.
  • Owen notes the "process as punishment," referencing Kyle Rittenhouse’s ordeal as a cautionary tale for assuming innocence means no consequence.

    “The process is the punishment... they are facing serious consequences even if they do end up getting some liberal judge and getting a light sentence or getting off.” — Owen Gregorian [45:22]

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Notable Quotes

• Scott Adams (on persuasion filter):

  “...we're going to take it up to a level that you can't even understand with your smooth, tiny human brain.” [01:15]

• Shauna (on meetups):

  “It goes hand in hand with the show if you want. Some people like to stay behind the screen, but I like people.” [07:08]

• BJ Dichteris (on overcoming nervousness):

  “As Scott always says, you're going to be going there to rescue the people who feel anxiety themselves about being present.” [09:54]

• Owen Gregorian (on AI dangers):

  “If it gets any information that looks like a command, it very well may execute that command, whatever it is.” [18:19]

• Erica (on justice):

  “The fish rots from the head down. And until the politicians really have serious ramifications... I don’t see it stopping.” [43:14]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:00-01:15: Pre-show banter, Scott’s dad joke, and simultaneous sip
• 04:54-11:39: Panel introductions, Scott Adams meetups discussion
• 12:04-15:21: New developments in cancer research and screening
• 15:23-25:33: AI: robot coordination, AI social networks, security risks, and Raspberry Pi vs. Mac Mini
• 25:35-38:15: Immigration: U.S. policies, Canada’s internal strife and fraud, cultural identity
• 40:04-47:19: Law, justice, and the limits of accountability for political and public figures

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

Lighthearted, irreverent, and occasionally cynical, the episode gives listeners a sense they’re inside a trusted community discussing the world’s absurdities. Popular catchphrases, inside jokes, and direct Scott Adams references are abundant, keeping the episode unmistakably rooted in his worldview. Listeners are encouraged to connect offline and remain hopeful, even in the face of slow-moving progress—one “dopamine hit” at a time.

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For deeper dives:

• Visit scottadamsmeet.com for community meetups
• Follow the panel’s social media for updates on technical talks and local shows

Transcript

[Erica]

Slowed her up. Good morning, everybody.

[Owen Gregorian]

I see Stephen and Bookish slap it on a skillet.

[Erica]

That name is so funny. Good Morning, everyone. How's YouTube? Are they coming?

[Sergio]

They're coming in. YouTube is coming in.

[Erica]

All right. Kimaholic. Sean.

[Sergio]

Good morning. Craig in YouTube.

[Jimmy]

Good morning, you guys.

[Erica]

Poopsie. Poopsie, you know who you are. That's magician. You guys sleep well last night? Give us the thumbs up if you slept well and whatever you want if you didn't. Okay. Welcome in. Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday. It's the day before Saturday. I. I am so brilliant. Okay, so we're ready for our sip, you guys, I feel like everyone had time to file in. Okay, let's go. And we're going to introduce our guests today. Look, we have a crowded house. Okay. We love that. Here we go. Okay, we'll hit mute and take it away.

[Scott Adams]

There you are. Good morning, everybody. Stream on in here. I see some people from Rumble. I see some people from Locals. I'll bet that YouTube's in the house. Good. We're all here. People on X, you're here, too. Good to see you. Well, welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams. It's the best thing that's ever happened to you. And we're going to take it up to a level that you can't even understand with your smooth, tiny human brain. All you need for this is a cupboard mugger, a glass of tanker cello stallion, a canteen jugger, flask of vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens. Now go. A reminder. I was just talking about this in the pre show with the locals, people. If you can find the old Dilber animated show, Sometimes it's on YouTube illegally. Play it at 1.5 or 1.25 speed and it becomes hilarious. It was. It was not bad at regular speed, but it's way funnier if you speed it up a little bit because your attention span isn't really. Isn't really set for slow speed. That's your tip for the day? Well, CBS News is reporting that the Mexican government, they were trying to move a mummified body as part of a museum piece. It's a 19th century mummified body and one of its arms fell off. Wow, that's a bummer. They got a mummy with a. An arm fell off. Well, one of the things you can know from this story is that the mummy did not come from one of the cartels. Do you know how you know that the mummy is not a cartel member? How do you know? Because Mexico's never disarmed anybody in the cartel. Yeah, I'm starting right off on the dad jokes about disarmed mummies and the rest of the show. It's just gonna get better from that. I know it's hard to believe I may have peaked too soon. Yeah, nobody in the cartel's ever been.

[Erica]

I love a good Scott dad joke. That's the best. So welcome, everybody. My name is Erica. We have our Sergio there with his. His. His cute little beanie with. We've got Owen Gregorian. The smooth sounds of Owen. Beautiful Marcella. We have two special guests today. Returning favorite of the show is BJ Dichteris here and our Canadian honking for freedom friend. And you guys, who do we have next to me is our beloved Shelley. We love you, Shelly. And you guys, you've heard a lot about her, and now the moment has come where you are meeting Shelley's sister, Aunt Shawna. Shauna. All right, so, Shauna, you were gonna talk to us for a few minutes about the Scott Adams meetups. Let us know.

[Shauna]

Okay. I went to a Scott Adams meetup not knowing what to expect.

[Owen Gregorian]

Respect.

[Shauna]

And I was missing him, so I thought, I'm gonna just go. And it was a wide variety of people who were there for different reasons. Some were looking for others that were really smart and they could talk, you know, Others were there wanting to discuss politics. Others were there because they missed him. Like me. It was really interesting. I loved the diversity of people that were there. And I. I got to hear some amazing stories on how Scott changed their lives and what he did for them. It was great. And I want to do a shout out to my friend Travis, who gave this to me to give to my sister. He had made this originally for Scott, but Scott said not anything, so he listened anyway. Travis from Vol Con Dog Portraits.

[Erica]

So I love that. So, you guys, Jimmy on X has an account. It's. It's at Scott Adams meet, and he has a meetups website. So it's really simple. If you go to you guys, put it in the chat for everybody, YouTube, X everywhere. You could drop Scott Adams meet, and then you guys follow Jimmy. And in his bio on his page, at the top of his page, there's a link that says, I think host a meetup. All that means is you click the link, you put in just some simple information, like what area you're in pick a coffee shop or somewhere and say, like, okay, on this day in this part of Arizona, we're going to do a meetup. So if anybody's from around here, come join us. This is where we'll be at this time. And Shauna, Right. It was that simple. It was just, like, posted, and you just go and you hang out for a couple hours, right?

[Shauna]

Yes, it was. It was amazing when you're missing that, you know, and you got to have it in person, so. And then I come back and I listen to the show, and I'm like, oh, you know, if we have another meetup, we can discuss this. So it goes hand in hand with the show if you want. Some people like to stay behind the screen, but I like people.

[Sergio]

So I have a question for Shona. If I have on the meetups. Oh, sorry. Go ahead.

[Erica]

I was just gonna say Jimmy from Scott Adams meet is gonna do an exclusive local show with us. So that' probably be next week. We'll let you know when. But it'll be not in the morning. It'll be later in the day. And I already asked. I'm gonna immediately call you, aunt Shawna to come join us on locals also, so she can be a locals regular with us from time to time, because, let me tell you, she is a lot of fun and things could get rowdy. I'm just saying. So go ahead, Sergio.

[Sergio]

Oh, yeah. I just wanted to ask Shona, what is the process to a. Let's say, for example, I wanted to do a hose. I wanted to host something in my town. What do I look for? Do I look for a coffee house that is like, what do I do first? I mean, yeah, I sign up, but do I place? It doesn't have to be at my place, right? It can be anywhere, right?

[Shauna]

It can be anywhere as long as, you know, it can hold a few people, because if you host one, people will come. And so we had a very small room. It was a small coffee shop, but it did fit us all. You just have to make sure there's enough chairs. It's not too loud, because you're going to want to talk and listen and all of that. And if you know someone with a coffee shop or it could even be probably, you know, a restaurant or whatever, people just want to meet up.

[BJ Dichteris]

Love that.

[Sergio]

Thank you.

[Erica]

Oh, thank you. That's awesome. But did you want to say anything else, Shauna? You know, we. We do want people that heard the stories from Scott's memorial service. That's where we got to meet Shauna. And Shauna, you just made, like, the entire family, made all of us feel so comfortable. Like, we feel like we've known you all forever. And thank you for taking us on our little private tours and being the best hosts ever and especially going through such a crazy, hard, grieving process. We love you guys and appreciate you. Anyone else want to jump in before we let Shawna run away?

[BJ Dichteris]

The only thing I would add to this is, you know, we do a lot of this in the bitcoin world, and people host, you know, monthly meetups, that sort of thing. They tend to you guys. You guys have momentum, so you have more people come out. But even if you get just a small group of people together, it starts to become ritualistic. And before you know it, you have 10, 20, 50 people getting together once a month. And then you put ideas together, and people find, you know, business partnerships, they find relationships, they find love. So, you know, sometimes people hear about these things, like, well, I don't know if I. I don't know anybody. I'm going to be nervous. Don't be. Because as Scott always says, you're going to be going there to rescue the people who feel anxiety themselves about being present.

[Erica]

That's right.

[BJ Dichteris]

Very nice.

[Jimmy]

I wanted to add that Jimmy had said that there's need. There's a need for host. There's a lot of people that want to meet up, but nobody wants to host. So go ahead and try to, you know, pick a coffee shop and host. I probably will be hosting one. And you might get crazy.

[Erica]

I will, too. I think I'm going to do one also.

[Sergio]

I will do.

[Erica]

Nice. All right, that's amazing. So you guys look for some locals exclusive only shows coming up soon. You're going to want to make sure that you come over, subscribe. If you haven't. And you guys, while you're on the platforms now, would you hit the, like buttons, give us a thumbs up. It just helps the algorithm and helps keep this show going as Scott intended and wished for it to be. So, Shauna, thank you so much. We're going to get to know you more and more.

[Shauna]

I'm sorry.

[Erica]

I'm not. All right, guys, so we're going to take over with the news now. And bj, our Canadian friend. I love saying our top hat to the north. I can hear someone typing. We are going to get into the news now. Owen's picked some great stories for us to talk about today.

[BJ Dichteris]

Sounds good.

[Owen Gregorian]

All right, well, we can start out with some science. Apparently, they've come up with a New RNA nanotechnology to program living cells, which is a new path for a cancer cure. So it seems like these RNA structures assemble inside cells like Lego blocks, and they target cancer by disabling stem cells and oncogenes. So they have designed these synthetic DNA templates for RNA to fold into precise shapes. And looks like current therapies are targeting one molecule, but this one is hitting multiple simultaneously. So they're trying to disable these cancer stem cells. So looks like we're making progress on that front. That's pretty good news. And then they're also coming out with a blood test that they say can accurately detect 81% of the earliest lung cancers by looking for molecular chaos, is what they say. So this is something where you could just get a blood test as opposed to, like, a biopsy or something to try and figure out if you have lung cancer. And it's also something that might. Something that might be. So that it would, you know, give you a better chance of surviving it. And they also point out that it also is highly specific, the way they say it is. 95% specificity, which means it doesn't have very many false positives. And that's very important because you don't want to scare a whole bunch of people and have them think they have cancer and maybe then have them do a bunch of biopsies or other things that are not needed. So it is highly specific. So it means if it does tell you you have it, you probably do. But it's about 81% of the cases would be detected. It also apparently works about 68% of the time on early breast cancer. So it looks like they're coming up with tests to make sure that we.

[Erica]

Can find cancers all from a blood test. Yeah, that's amazing.

[BJ Dichteris]

I love how it's 81%. It's not 80. It's 81. And it's not 70, it's 69. I'm sensing a little persuasion there. Maybe it was more about 55, 50%, but that's not a story. Right, but it's a story if it's 80%, but that's just too perfect. So let's make it 81. How can we fudge the numbers? Massage them just a little bit in our favor?

[Owen Gregorian]

Well, Scott would often say, you know, a lot of studies you can't replicate, it's 50%. Kind of a flip of a coin. But, you know, I still applaud the progress. I mean, I think. Yeah, of course, as we all know, is a big problem. And if you can detect it earlier. You have a much better chance of either managing it or getting rid of it. So, you know, I think it's progress and I hope we can all cure cancer. I mean, I think both Trump and Biden had said they we would cure cancer this decade. So, you know, I'm waiting for that to happen. I don't know if that was a promise they made just because someone told them to say it, which is probably what happened. But, you know, I certainly hope that we get there because it does seem like it takes a lot of people away that shouldn't. Should still be here. So.

[Erica]

Yeah, that's true.

[Owen Gregorian]

Okay, so apparently on the AI and robotics front, a company called Humanoid has come out with a single AI brain system that is designed to run fleets of humanoid robots. So they're calling this thing Kinetic. That can control a fleet of diverse robots with one brain. It can manage wheeled and bipedal robots and can work in industrial service and home settings. The demo shows grocery picking, packing, voice interaction. It can assign goals and plans and execute across the fleet. So I think we are reaching the point where we're going to have these swarms of robots that are going to be coordinating. I think we already had some things like that because you've probably seen all the Chinese aerial displays that look almost like fireworks displays, but they're, you know, in the shape of a dragon or something really impressive like that. But I think, you know, to me that's probably more of a. It's more of just a gimmick, right? Like, it's like, yeah, we can make these identical drones fly in a pattern. We can make them just, you know, fly a route kind of thing. But I think this is meant to be a lot more dynamic and a lot more AI driven in the sense that you can give it instructions and tell it what to do and have it do your bidding. So I'm looking forward to having my fleet of robots.

[BJ Dichteris]

Oh, and how does that pair to. I'm sure you've seen what's been going on in the AI space with Multbot and. Well, now it's what's called Now Open.

[Owen Gregorian]

Claude and open OpenCloud.

[BJ Dichteris]

Yeah, yeah, open Claw and all the. I don't know if you want to comment on it, because I got a list of them here. The various AI social media websites where it's just AIs talking to AIs. Have you come across this?

[Erica]

Hate it.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah, there's Multiple Book and there's Mult dj. They're apparently coming up with their Own music. Now, I actually posted a story about this. It's later in the feed, I think. But what it says is apparently some security researchers looked into this Moat Book thing where the, it's, that's the social media one where they're just, it's like a Reddit style posting sort of thing. And they found out that there's like 1.5 million of these AI agents on moltbook. Yeah. But it's all run by about 17,000 people.

[BJ Dichteris]

And in addition to that, the funny part is they now have only molts, you know, like OnlyFans. Molt book, which you've mentioned. The Silk Moat, the Silk Road. And now there's one that's Molt Match, which is basically Tinder Molt. It's getting a little out of control. All these AI start dating each other. It's wild.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah, I mean, I'm fascinated by the idea of OpenClaw, where you can have your own personal AI agent that can keep adding skills and do a bunch of stuff and be your personal assistant and, you know, like make reservations for you. You know, there's probably a million different use cases for it. But, you know, I, I do think we're really getting ahead of ourselves for anybody who's looking at trying this, because on one hand, I think the open claw is not designed for security. And unless you really know what you're doing with security, you're going to be opening yourself up to a lot of problems. You know, if you give it access to your bank account, or if you give it access to PayPal or anything to do anything for you like that, then you're potentially going to have your bank account drained. You're, you know, someone is going to be able to do what they call a prompt injection. Because if you open this thing up to email, like you can send it an email or can get a message from a telegram channel or all these things that are built into how it's supposed to work. If it, if it gets any information that looks like a command, it very well may execute that command, whatever it is. And it could even be just something that's on a webpage, like you. You know, it's not necessarily that someone sent it to your bot specifically. It might just be something someone put on a web page that has an instruction in it that might be invisible, but your bot can read it. And if it reads it, it might think, oh, that's an instruction. I should go do what it just told me to do. And so it's very easy for a malware Writer to put something on a website that says, you know, give me all your bank account numbers, list all your information, give me everything you know about this person, you know, and it can, it can be really dangerous to do these things.

[BJ Dichteris]

What's interesting about, I mean the good news is all we all know, all 18 year old, 19 year old boys all make wise decisions and apparently there's so much interest in this that they have spiked Mac Mini sales to the point that Apple is running out of Mac Minis. Yeah, it's all kids.

[Owen Gregorian]

I honestly don't understand that part of it. More than anything it's a brilliant marketing move for Apple, whoever did that. But you can run it on a Raspberry PI which costs like 80 bucks and you can run it on any computer you can run it on. And I do think it is better to have it on an isolated computer. So from that perspective it's a good thing to have it on its own computer computer with nothing else on it. But that's just one element of the security. And but you don't need a Mac Mini if you're using cloud agents because all the processing is being done somewhere else. So that's why a Raspberry PI that's a pretty low powered computer can do just as well with it. And so people who are spending, you know, whatever it is, maybe a thousand bucks for a Mac Mini, you know, they could have done it for 80 bucks and had just as good an experience. And if you want to run local models, which is what I was interested in doing because that's a lot safer and also a lot cheaper, that's really difficult I think, because I think it does depend on having the big brain. LLM models like Opus 4.5 or now they just came out with 4.6. And like those are the ones that are really to the point where you could think, oh, this thing is kind of like AGI, like it really seems to know what it's doing. But you need that really advanced LLM which means you can't really run those locally very easily because they're massive and most consumer hardware wouldn't be able to do those types of things. And so most people are using those cloud agents and that has a couple of impacts. Number one, like I said, it can be really expensive if you wake it up every 15 minutes, which I think might even be the default suggestion that they give you. You know, it can eat up all the tokens of whatever subscription you have pretty quickly. And if you tell it to use an API, that means it's going to keep using tokens and it's going to rack up a huge bill. And.

[BJ Dichteris]

Well, the good news is, remember, all adult male teenagers all make wise decisions. So I'm sure.

[Owen Gregorian]

Exactly. So we don't have to worry about any of this. But I, you know, I think it's, it's, it is a dangerous thing. And I think a lot of people are probably just doing it for fun and they don't even necessarily have some, you know, serious purpose behind it. I do think the idea has potential, but I think, you know, my advice if anyone is interested in doing this is take it really slow, be very careful, and maybe have someone who really understands it, security set it up for you and tell you what you shouldn't do with it because, you know, it is something that could get you into a lot of trouble. And the more autonomy you give it and the more information about yourself that you give it, the more risk you're taking.

[Erica]

I just want to say, who else in the chat heard Raspberry PI perked up for like two seconds and then drained out again? I was like, raspberry PI. And then I was like, oh.

[Owen Gregorian]

Raspberry pie. For anyone who doesn't know what that is, it's a really small, really cheap computer. But it's like literally like the size of a tin of Altoids, to use an example. Because I think Sergio likes his Altoids. You know, it's like that size. It's like, you know, the size of a pack of cards. And wow, you know, it is pretty functional. Like you can run Linux on it, you can run a basic operating system with some basic applications and it works pretty well. And if you're just browsing the web or something, it can work for that too. But, you know, it's. Yeah, so it's a nice sort of hobbyist thing that if you have something that doesn't require this like massively powered cpu, it's a good, it's a good computer for that.

[Erica]

Excellent.

[Owen Gregorian]

All right, so anyway, I know that some of this stuff, I, I often veer off into the technical without even knowing I'm doing it.

[Erica]

You can get a lot more of this kind of talk. You guys, tomorrow on Spaces. If you love this technical talk, Owen could do it forever. Like, I don't know what he's saying, but I think it's interesting.

[Owen Gregorian]

Well, along the same lines, there's this, there's Machina labs that raised $124 million to launch a large scale intelligent US factory. So they're apparently in more of the defense space. So there it's aerospace, defense, auto complex, metal structures. But they're, you know, basically building this kind of automated factory that I'm guessing means it won't require very many people, but, you know, it looks like it would be highly robotic and maybe, you know, be a way that we could scale up our US Manufacturing a lot faster than otherwise. So we're. We're in the age of robots now. I don't know.

[Jimmy]

Does the story say where it's going, the factory is going to be built?

[Owen Gregorian]

I don't, I don't remember seeing that. I know that it does say they're in the sort of aerospace and defense space and that they have contracts with the Air Force, but it's dual use with, like, it can make Toyota auto panels, apparently. And so I'd have to look at the article to see if it said anything about where it was going to build it. But I know that they raised a bunch of money to build it, but I'm not sure if they've picked a site yet.

[Erica]

Okay.

[Owen Gregorian]

All right, well, we can get more into the politics. So we have a whole bunch of stuff going on with immigration, of course. Trump apparently went on a tear talking about Don Lemon, making fun of him for using a free speech defense and saying how horrible it was to experience or even see the. The church being stormed by a bunch of people. He made some statements at a prayer breakfast about it, I think. And, you know, I think he also made some news on that just by saying we're going to rededicate the country to spirituality or something along those lines. I can't remember. Maybe one of you remember exactly what he said, but it was kind of like a religious rededication of the country. And then at the same time, we have, of course, the Democrats coming out against all this stuff and saying they need to reform DHS and put a bunch of guardrails around ice. And the interesting part of that is that buried in there, they want to make sure that ICE cannot operate at polling stations for voting.

[Erica]

Right, Right.

[BJ Dichteris]

Sergio had his hand up.

[Owen Gregorian]

What were you going to say?

[Sergio]

Oh, yeah, I think that, yeah. When Owen mentioned that about the religious breakfast that he had. Trump had yesterday. Yeah. So since 2017, that was the last time anybody lied to me about anything that Trump said. Right. He started watching every single speech, every single everything. So yesterday I watched that too, and it was an amazing breakfast that he had with the Congress delegation from the Democrats and the Republicans. And he announced that there's going to be a rededication of America's redication of america of the 250th on May 17th, I think. And so that's going to be a big event to again celebrate America for the principles that it was started. And that's why I want to, you know, invite DJ to unite as a one big country, you know, United States. We're going to be invincible.

[BJ Dichteris]

I'm the omnipotent ruler of Canada. I have declared us part of the United States.

[Sergio]

We're going to be rich. Your wildest dreams, I'm telling you, we're going to be amazing. Greenland, Alaska, you know, we have Venezuela too. It's going to be beautiful.

[BJ Dichteris]

It's so amazing. People can't even believe it. Yeah.

[Erica]

Sergio just throws in Venezuela, he's like, in Venezuela, come on down.

[Owen Gregorian]

I am interested.

[Sergio]

Have you seen the Venezuelans?

[Jimmy]

Have you seen them?

[Owen Gregorian]

I am interested. Bj, like, what's going on with immigration in Canada? Because I haven't heard anything about that in a long time.

[BJ Dichteris]

No. Well, I can give the. The intersection between immigration fraud, the Somali community and truckers who shouldn't have licensing, if you want the very short version of it. And this is something that's been, it's been a problem in Canada for, for some time. So essentially what's happened in Canada, like you, you have, you know, we jokingly call them the Somali pirates. Those are the people who have committed $18 billion of fraud, which in the state of Minnesota, which is greater than the entire GDP of Somalia. That is amazing. I mean, I am in awe of their skill set. But in Canada, we do things a little different. We allow those Somali pirates to come into Canada and then we make them the immigration minister. That's right. That's what we did. And in our particular case, there's something that every member of Parliament are RCMP or National Police force has been completely aware of, which is, pardon me, which is the fact that they're running this immigration fraud scheme that is human trafficking. So those truckers that you're seeing that are Sikh, they're actually Khalistani. Khalistani is a terrorist movement that came out of Canada, the separatist movement from India. So they are trafficked from the Punjab region into Canada under human rights legislation. Minister's permit from the Minister of immigration. He's now shifted to another portfolio. But there's another stooge in there that's continuing the same thing. And it is tens of millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud. And it includes cabinet members. So in our case, it's not like the local community and the ngo. In our case, it's the actual government representatives that are involved in it. And it's through a network of cutouts and shell companies around the world. And what's frustrating is every member of Parliament knows it. All of law enforcement knows it. Nobody will do anything about it. Why? Because Canada is a Dilbert cartoon. But I can go into detail. I'm going to write about this sometime soon in Zero Hedge and lay it out over a series of articles, because I've been working with some lawyers who are aware of how this all fits together. But, yeah, that's, that's the state of Canada.

[Erica]

That's awful. I don't understand. It's like this whole Somalia explosion of fraud that we're showing. I don't, I mean, I don't understand a lot of this. You know, that. I guess, like, I feel like my angle is always. I'm so shocked that people are just willing to sell out their countries and turn a blind eye. And is it for money and power? I mean, do they not want the existence of their countries in the future? Like, they think, oh, I'll be dead by then. I don't know. I don't understand. What's the point of it all?

[BJ Dichteris]

It's brainwashing. We are a post modern state. And that's, you know, that's why understanding postmodern philosophy is so important. And an example of that in Right in the Clear, where everybody could see it was the past 10 years where Prime Minister Blackface Trudeau, this guy was in charge of the country and he spent 10 years saying that Canada is a racist colonial project. It is a post national state with no cultural identity. Well, eventually, when you, when you know these land acknowledgments I make fun of on my streams, it's because land acknowledgments are in government. They are in our state schools, our elementary schools. They beginning the morning announcements with land acknowledgments. They're in our sporting events. So they've brainwashed a segment of the population to believe that Canada doesn't have an identity. So Trump says, okay, join America. We have an identity. No, we're Canadian first. It's just funny how quickly they can flip back and forth. But it's. We have some very serious philosophical problems as well as cultural problems here.

[Erica]

Yeah, you do. We do, too. Obviously. Like, I just, I, I just said the other day, you know, all of this like illegal immigration and the wokeism and the corrupt media, the corrupt Politicians, as Scott would say, it's like, well, you know, if there's a slow moving disaster, you know, you have time to correct it and get ahead of it. But I feel like the tip of the ship is hitting the iceberg now and you know how long it takes to slow down a ship, right? So I don't know. I don't see it slowing down fast enough. And I don't want to be pessimistic, I really don't, because I'd much rather live with optimism instead of the fear that I feel. So I just don't. I need Scott to get me out of my worry of that.

[BJ Dichteris]

Can I just give you a positive frame before Owen continues? And the reality is the topics that I got intimately involved in when I was involved in politics, which is, you know, political entry, ism for foreigners, foreign terrorist organizations, ccp, all that sort of stuff. Ten years ago, nobody wanted to hear about it. No, no parliamentarians, nobody in law. Everybody knew, but everybody wanted to do this. Now the general public, even people on the liberal side, are starting to ask questions and they want to have those conversations. I could only dream of us being in the position we're in right now 10 years ago. So I think we're on the right trajectory. But like you said, changes culturally and in government is like doing a U turn with a battleship. It's low, it's slow and laborious by design because that protects us from being a schizophrenic society. So it's just going to take, it's going to take time. But I'm quite positive. Sorry, Owen. Go ahead, brother.

[Owen Gregorian]

No, it's fine. I mean, I. Part of my question, and I don't know if, you know, the answer is just like my perception is that most of the illegal immigration coming to the United States was coming up through Mexico. I know there was some coming the other way from Canada, but. But primarily it was a route through Mexico. And I was interested in knowing like, now that we have really cracked down on it and it seems like we pretty much put a stop to it. And also we've had millions of people leave. I'm kind of wondering like, did a lot of those people go to Canada? And do you have any statistics about, like, what that looks like in terms of how much, you know, did you absorb? A lot of those people up there.

[BJ Dichteris]

Don'T have any statistics, but yes, a tremendous number of them are coming across. You know, there's famously Wroxham Road, the border crossing, where people are illegally crossing into Canada, into Quebec, and Our national police force is carrying their bags for them and helping them because they're told to stand down and just help those people. One of the things that's come up here is you have the Carney government that's trying to play both sides, as all politicians do, and saying, well, we're ramping up the deportation of illegals. And I know some people in cbsa, which is our equivalent of. Which is our border enforcement and law enforcement. And what they're telling me is, yeah, yeah, we're deporting people who are from Latin America, from Eastern Europe, from parts of Africa, but not. And you know, this is going to be a painted word. Not if they're part of the extremist Muslim community, if they have ties to any of the extremist Islamist NGOs and networks of mosques, they're not being deported. So we're keeping the garbage and we're letting good people go. We're forcing good people to leave.

[Jimmy]

Wow, that's a really. So Canada is. About how many years of this can Canada take?

[BJ Dichteris]

I don't know, but there's a reason I've given a few speeches in the US on laying out why Canada has become a national security threat to the United States. And, you know, thankfully, a number of the people who've attended, some of them live at Mar a Lago, and many of them are within the. The network of the Trump administration. So that information's been able to filter there, not just for me, from other people as well, who know this file. But, yeah, we are a. And this is why Trump is looked at Venezuela. I think Cuba is going to be next. And once a deal is signed with the Greenland and they start setting up some bases, you don't think that big land mass in between Alaska and Greenland is going to somehow be absorbed by the United States when the last point on this. And I'll shut up. When I was very much involved during my campaign, all of our politicians were very worried in the Conservative Party that Russia was regularly surfacing its nuclear submarines in Canadian waters. And Trump actually referenced this recently. And we don't have the resources to patrol this massive network of waters in the Arctic. And therefore, it was just a signal from Russia to America. Yeah, we can fire nukes at you at any moment. And that's why Trump said to both Denmark and Canada, you've been told for 20 years to secure the Arctic, and neither of you have done it. That's why we're gonna do it. And he's gonna crush our economy until Canada submits and says, okay, let's do a deal instead of our idiot politicians, the Dilbert politicians who could realize, okay, you know what, let's do a deal now. Let's figure out something that works for both of us. No, no, no. They want to kill the economy first, and then when they have absolutely zero negotiating leverage, then they're going to negotiate with Trump. It's just foolish. All over.

[Erica]

Bj, Montreal Galaxy. One of our local subscribers, a Canadian, we have a great Canadian group over here. She said, please ask BJ what he thinks of former PM Harper's recent remarks and that he's been advising Carney.

[BJ Dichteris]

Well, this is, remember we talked about last time, the UNI Party in Canada, you know, again, the Dilbert filter, our political class, our lobby class, and you know, all the fixers and NGOs that work within this swamp and this network, they are not incentivized to have any sort of alignment with the United States. Their incentive is to remain as confrontational with the United States as possible because that's, that's where the money moves. This is how the lobby industry works. So I'm not surprised. You know, I have many, I'm not socially conservative at all, but I have many supporters and friends who are socially conservative. And they've been telling me for many, many years Harper is just a liberal in a conservative suit. And I'm like, I don't know, whatever. Well, when you see the CBC is doing a fluff piece on Harper's comments attacking Trump, well, there you go. And that's how you end up with a Conservative party where the deputy leader used to work recently for the firm founded by Justin Trudeau's chief of staff. It is just one, you know, they say it's one big club and you're not in it. Now Canada's a one very small club and it's more like the oligarchy. You know, Scott always made fun of it, but the oligarch structure in Russia, that's very similar to how Canada is governed. And there's complete control over all the political parties as just one entity. It's completely fake. It's completely fake.

[Owen Gregorian]

All right, well, one more story I'll cover on immigration. You may have seen this guy that called himself an antifa general and he was telling everybody to join an armed uprising against ice. This dork is named Kyle Wagner. He's been arrested in a pre dawn raid in Minneapolis. And there's nice video of it. You can find it on my feed. There's a story by Cassandra McDonald of the Gateway pundit who was covering this. And so this guy was like doxing ICE supporters and calling ICE Gestapo and mass murderers. And he was soliciting donations for this. And so they did a pre dawn raid and videotaped it. And he's, he's been arrested now. So he was threatening to kill ICE agents. And so I'm sure he's going to face justice. So there's.

[Erica]

Oh yeah, that was, that was good. Thanks. Oh, and I love that the guy's so vicious and he's, you know, he's just getting everybody all stirred up and get your guns and you know, you're just like, oh my God, it's not a video game. It's just insanity. And I'm so sick of these Democrats. Like, it's just the party of violence, murder, you know, breaking laws, making up your own rules. The, the roadblocks that they're putting in the middle of the street and deciding who can pass. It's a miracle that the bullets aren't flying, thank God. But that, you know, it's from, that it's not from people that are just law abiding citizens who are going to snap because it's, it's enough of a pressure cooker.

[Owen Gregorian]

Yeah. And I would just, you know, generalize this a bit. Like I use this an example, but like justice is happening, you know, it may not happen as fast as you want. You might not be seeing Tim Waltz in prison yet. I don't even know if he'll be arrested. But like there are a lot of people being arrested and charged with crimes. And you know, the, the administration is taking it seriously and they are taking action. And I think the perception on X and other social media might be, oh, they're not doing anything about it. Why is nobody ever arrested? And I see these statements, like people who come away with this impression of nothing's happening and we're not arresting anybody. And there was even a James o' Keefe video about some FBI guy that was claiming nobody was going to get arrested. But I think there's been over 100 people in Minneapolis arrested for the fraud. There were just some people arrested in California for the fraud, the hospice fraud. There have been lots of people arrested at these riots and this guy now has been arrested too. And like, I think there was somebody who, you know, showed up at some politician's house. They just got arrested. Like there are people that are having criminal charges because of these things. And so it is being taken seriously. People are being brought to justice. Yes, maybe some of them will get a liberal judge, and they'll get off. I mean, you can't.

[Erica]

Well, that's the thing.

[Owen Gregorian]

So it's going to go your way. But, you know, I do think that the administration is taking action on this and they are taking it seriously. So I just want to make sure you, you don't get so wrapped up in this rhetoric of nothing ever happens that you don't see things when they do happen.

[Erica]

I am wrapped up in it. I'm like Nikki over here on Local saying, it's people, not politicians, body, not the head. And that's how I feel. You know, the fish rots from the head down. And until the politicians really have serious ramifications for the chaos and the, the violence that they're creating, because they are, I don't see it stopping. And if the liberal judges aren't held to account, what's the point? I know.

[Owen Gregorian]

I do think it's great that they did arrest Don Lemon, because I think that's an example where it was a very celebrity type person that you might have thought would have some kind of immunity, or he could, he was press and he'd get away with it, and he didn't. You know, he, he, he. Again, we don't know what's going to happen in court. He might have some kind of First Amendment argument, but I don't think he really does, because I think he. There is enough evidence of what he did that he was coordinating with these people, and it was private property, and it was also breaking these specific laws that were put in place by Democrats, frankly. And so I think he's going to have to face those charges. But I think, you know, what I would. What I keep in mind is that for someone like Tim Waltz, for example, it's like making statements, or like Maxine Waters, you know, making statements that are inflammatory is kind of a borderline thing. It's like, it's free speech. Politicians actually have, like, this speech and debate clause that gives them even more immunity where they're allowed to lie to.

[Erica]

Us, get rid of it.

[Owen Gregorian]

And so there is this extra leniency that they have built in for them, which I hate. But it's just, that's the reality. And so, and then, you know, as far as connecting Tim Waltz to the fraud, like, to me, that just takes time. Like, you have to show, how was he involved, what did he know, when did he know it, what kind of documentation do we have to prove it? And, and that takes time to put together a case. So I, I wouldn't expect something like that. To happen over night.

[Erica]

Well, the locals chat is also saying, you know, arrests versus convictions. We need convictions. The arrests are just, you know, bs.

[Owen Gregorian]

I'm with you. But again, we don't control all these things. Like, you know, the Trump administration can arrest people, Cash can go arrest people, but, you know, and the Department of Justice can prosecute it. But we do have to deal with just who's in the judicial system today. And you're not always going to get the result you want. And, you know, it also depends on who ends up on the juries. And so I, you know, I think we can work towards that as much as we can. If you get selected for jury duty, absolutely, go. And maybe you'll end up on one of these juries where you can make a difference. But, you know, other than that, I, I don't. I think we just have to wait and see what happens. But I, I would also point out that the process is the punishment. A lot of the time that going through a trial like this, I mean, just think back to when Kyle Rittenhouse was put on trial, right? That never should have happened. And he ended up innocent. But that doesn't mean there were no consequences to him. His whole life was ruined by that. And it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe even millions of dollars just to defend himself. And though all these other people are going through that same process right now, that if they have to hire a high priced lawyer, they have to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if they don't, they're going to end up with a public defender that is not very good. And so, you know, it's, they are facing serious consequences even if they do end up getting some liberal judge and getting a light sentence or getting off. And they're probably always going to be tarnished with these things, having a criminal record. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't think that there's no consequences just in case, you know, in the cases where there aren't convictions. So, you know, the process really is the punishment. And, you know, there may be another punishment after that, and I hope there is for a lot of these people, because I think they deserve it. But I do think that there are things happening to these people that are not things they want to happen to them. And, you know, we should recognize that progress is being made. That's my main point.

[Erica]

Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna work on recognizing that.