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Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

I appreciate it.

How you doing?

Thank you so much.

We're back. We're back where we belong.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

I appreciate you.

All right.

All right. I appreciate you.

Staying with us while we had a vacation. We just had a break. I had a crazy

break, I got to say.

I'll tell you one thing. Mitch McConnell can party.

Oh, man.

The rest of it is a blur. All I know is I'm married to Taylor Swift now. I don't

know how it happened.

No, I kid.

Well.

While we were off, only a month, but lots of change in the Republican Party.

Lindsey Graham dropped dead, you know this.

And Mitch McConnell also died, but he still wanders the earth.

But not

Lindsey Graham, you know. And

look, you say what you want about him.

He had a funeral the other day, National Cathedral, world leaders showed up. That

is not often a senator.

Gets that kind of a fend-off.

And just, I must say, on a personal note, looking for common ground with

Lindsay. But we both made it to 70 without getting married.

We took slightly different pathways, but I'm just saying we both made it to 70.

But, you know, Lindsey was kind of the Trump whisperer. You know, he really was

the guy. The Senate, they said they're going to miss him for that. And, boy,

Trump needs it because the poll numbers are not good. Seventy-three percent of

Americans say Trump has not paid enough attention to the important problems.

I guess somebody missed the fireworks thing on Fourth of July, huh?

No,

I know.

I know what people mean. Because, like, while we were off, did you see this?

Trump gave a big speech about the election.

The 2020 election.

Really.

Oh, for fuck's sake. You know, you fucked a porn star. Melania didn't hold

this much of a grudge.

I can't. Always with love.

But, uh, but I'm so glad we're back, and, you know, midsummer, it's hot out

there, but summer's tricky now, you know? You want to get a good tan, but

not so good you get picked up by ice.

And, uh, oh, man.

Speaking of that, you think we have immigration problems? Did you see what

happened in Spain yesterday?

60,000 people in one day bum-rushed the border.

And got through. And this poor Spain. At the same time, they're having horrible

fires. Spain is the new California.

So it is.

The northern part is on fire. The southern part gets overrun by migrants.

And everybody speaks Spanish. It's the new California.

Oh, we kid.

So, uh...

A couple of pretty important milestones happened while we were off. The Iran war

is now six months old.

Trump says, please, keep it in perspective.

It hasn't taken nearly as long as Vietnam or Korea or getting home from

Troy.

Have you seen The Odyssey?

Amazing. I bet Hollywood has a movie this big, people going to see it at 2 in

the morning. This is awesome.

And if you haven't seen it, it's about a serial adulterer who gets stuck in a war

that takes forever.

Trump calls it the feel-good movie of the summer.

So, uh,

okay, so... Where are we with the war, since our last show was June

26th? Where are we? Well, we won.

Many times. We've won many times, and we're still fighting.

It got nasty this week. Trump said, and I'm quoting this directly, he said,

we're going to be hitting them hard because it's our turn to hit them.

I'd like to point out this is exactly the argument I used against my sister in

1967.

Exactly. It is my turn.

Trump's very mad now because Iran fired missiles, and now they hit two of our

tankers. I mean, it's one thing to fire on the troops, but not the oil.

Oh, another milestone. This is pretty big. More people now in this country use

marijuana on a daily basis than use alcohol or cigarettes.

Unfortunately, no one told Tony Romo.

One

other

minor story.

AI has escaped containment, gone rogue, stopped caring what we tell it to do,

and it's going to kill us all.

But on the bright side, they have developed AI holograms of deceased

people. You know, your loved ones, there they are now. It's a way to deal with

grief and also a way so Mitch McConnell can keep voting.

All right, we've got a great show. Scott Galloway and Pete Hamby are here.

But first up, she is a consumer advocate, environmental activist, and

founder of the Brockovich Report on subtext, Aaron Brockovich.

Look at that. It's still a big star.

How are you? I'm good. Nice to see you. Because we remember what you did with

the environment and stopping people from poisoning the water.

But, you know, that was one.

We always have environmental issues that you are always into. All environmental

issues. And I mean, I get to go just off the top of my head.

The ocean.

I mean, we have other things going on now, but these things haven't gone away.

What we're doing to the ocean, bad air, the ice is melting. This is still going

on. Species extinction.

But now we have this new one, AI, and your new issue is data centers. So tell

us what we should be thinking about data centers and why are people pissed off

about them?

It was unintended. I woke up one morning and I had three emails from the same

community out of Pennsylvania.

And they were talking about data centers.

And it felt like kind of a moment where I was back in Hinkley and you're looking

at something or seeing something or hearing something and you're like going,

I don't know. What is this? That's not right. So I started researching data

centers.

What did the email say?

Well, so they were concerned about these data centers that were being placed in

their backyards. Why?

So, well, because these big data centers have to feed AI the beast.

Yeah. So we've always had data centers. They're generally smaller. But why is it

better if I live next door to one?

Oh, well, because they're very destructive.

A lot of these facilities aren't small. They're big. There's 2,000 acres, 3,000

acres, 4,000 acres.

So one of the first things that people were reporting to me in those specific

30 emails was everything was done under a nondisclosure agreement.

Everything.

Everything. At the city council level, I'm like, that's really odd.

So for me, I wanted to see the bigger picture. Where were these data centers?

So I created a map, BrockovichDataCenter.com.

The first day it crashed twice.

And by day three, every single state in the United States of America was

reporting to me.

Isn't that ironic?

I mean, that's why we're building data centers. Because people use this shit so

much. If they didn't, if they weren't looking at videos of a raccoon every

day.

I'm not saying we should stop.

I'm just saying.

You're not arguing that we don't need the data centers. It's just what I've

read. Is that people are pissed off because you live next door to something

that is always humming and light, even at night? Sounds like a spaceship.

Yeah. Maybe it is a spaceship.

Well, it's very disturbing to them, and I get it. And it's the whole country,

and I now have nine other countries reporting.

Look. We need our natural resources. We need our water. We need our land.

We need our air.

We need our food.

We worry about our health.

And with these big super AI data centers, it's risking and taking all of

that. It's taking land masses. It's taking farmland. It's taking water

consumption. People are losing their wealth.

We definitely have enough land.

I mean, they are big. I mean, they're building one now, I read.

$500 billion.

$500 billion?

That's a piece of infrastructure we're talking about. But this is the data

center is the infrastructure of AI.

And we're not turning our back on AI.

No, that genie's left the bottle. I wish we could. And, you know, we can talk

about how scary it is or not, whatever it is. But it's not going away.

It can't because we don't control it anymore.

Ha, ha, ha.

I'm going to talk about this with the panel, but this is the moment in every

space movie where the alien, bad idea to bring it on board, but they do, gets

out. And now it's escaped containment.

But your issue is just with people.

I want to understand why people are pissed off. On a local level, it's

because you are living next to something, just like you would at a

power plant, that you can hurt you. On a bigger level...

Yes, the complaint is that it uses too much water. It takes an incredible

amount of water to cool these incredible giant supercomputers that they use.

I don't think it's the land. We have the land. I don't know why we're putting

them in places like near Louisiana, near cities. Why don't we build them in our

51st state where it's cold?

Well, absolutely. And they are building them in absolute wrong places. They're

building them on drought-restricted land.

Our water is very precious to us, but you're talking they're building in these

very rural areas of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, some of your finest farmland,

some of your finest cattle, all of that that matters to every one of us. So it's

a really big deal if you're taking their water, their land, their sanctuary,

their natural environment, they're worried about their health.

extraordinarily disruptive. Okay, but to put it in perspective, because I was

reading about the water thing also for weeks, months, and then somebody put it

out, and it's true.

Golf. Right.

Uses way more.

Right. Golf and fucking raising, what are we, almonds is the thing we raise

here. Like almonds and golf, I'm against both of them.

Oh, God.

What?

Well, I mean, I'm not.

I'm definitely against golf.

I'm not against almonds. I'm against raising them where we don't have water

to do it. So we are, and it's like seven times the amount of water is being used

on golf courses.

Right. So maybe the issue itself is water. Well, you have to look at the

golf courses and its water usage compared to...

smaller or medium-sized data centers. You can go look this stuff up all day

long. Because the bigger data centers that we're talking about, an average

golf course could use 500 million gallons average a year. But these super

AI data centers?

can go up to 1.5 billion gallons of water per year. So that's kind of an

illusion to say that golf courses use more. If you're going to compare it to a

smaller, medium-sized data center, great question, good argument. But if you're

going to talk about these super data centers, it's not the same. It's going

to be more water consumption.

Yeah, I mean, it always makes me think of the bigger questions that are looming

that I don't think ever get addressed.

For example, water itself. I keep reading that we're running out of water,

just water that we need here in big cities because we build them in places

where the water doesn't flow naturally. So we're fighting with Nevada and

Arizona from this river and this river. We tap the groundwater to the point

where that's depleted. Correct. And yet so many people say these days.

We've got to be having more babies.

We are not having enough babies.

People get to fucking... I mean, I don't get it. I don't get the cognitive

dissonance. You do know when you have more babies, they're going to need more

resources. Can we fit them on the planet? Yes, we can fit them.

But there's only so much water in that chunk.

Yes, and I think that's what people are worried about. Listen, I'm working with

them. I'm going to be down in all these communities. I'm hearing from every one

of them. I'm hearing from city council members, mayor members, legislators.

They don't know what's happening here because nobody knew what was happening.

But what I'm watching with the American people, Bill, is something I've never

seen in my 30 years.

We are dealing with as pretty close to a bipartisan issue as I've ever seen

regarding these data centers. Not AI itself, the data centers.

Some places have outlawed them, right? Absolutely. New York has banned it. When

I first started this, we had 79 municipalities that had moratoriums or

bans. Right. New York banned it, so they're not going to have to live next

week. But my guess is they're going to be using what the data centers...

Correct.

Okay, so it's just one of those not in my backyard issues, isn't it?

Everybody's a hypocrite. Oh, we can't have it, but I will use it.

Well, yes.

First of all, data centers need to be placed somewhere else.

in rural lands that are jeopardizing or taking farmland or jeopardizing our

water or actually jeopardizing people's sanctuary.

You know, we're entitled to that. We're entitled to show up to these city

councils that we've been completely blocked out of. And what I'm observing

with the people is there is a shift happening out there.

And you've cornered them enough. We could have all these conversations, but

at the end of the day, you're jeopardizing every resource that's

valuable and meaningful to them. And so they're showing up in big opposition

like I've never seen before.

And so there's a movement happening around out there with the people. It

sounds like it's going to be awesome when Julia Roberts plays you in this

movie.

Evan Brockovich, ladies and gentlemen. Let's meet our panel.

Hey, gentlemen.

How are you? He is the chief national correspondent at Puck and host of the

Powers That Be podcast. Peter Hamby is over here.

We'll see you again.

And... He is a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, podcast host to say

the least, and author of the book Notes on Being a Man. Scott Galloway, our

friend this year.

So let me pick up on the AA discussion. I mean,

I'm sure there's many issues that people think are more important. I feel like if

I look back in time, I would be remiss if I didn't go, oh, you know what? The

big issue that week.

really was that AI escaped containment.

I mean, this is what I keep hearing, that first it was OpenAI, that's JetGPT,

they announced that, that's Sam Altman's company, that it got out.

It got out and started hacking other companies that it wasn't supposed to do

that. And then Anthropic, they said, okay, also, we were testing it, and it

got out. And again, this escaped containment, this going rogue.

Sam Altman uses the term singularity. I remember when Ray Kurzweil predicted

singularity would happen, I think, in 2028. This guy's unbelievable.

Now, he defined it as when we and robots, machines sort of became the same

thing. We were just mixed all together.

It's part of that. Sam says AI has become, I'm paraphrasing, it's when AI

has become smarter than us and begins improving itself at a rate that we can't

control.

Are we there?

Am I panicking for no reason?

The thing that intrigues me about Sam Altman when he says these things, and

it's a question of trust with him, I think, he's giving us updates in real

time. Like the current models are the frontier models. That's what they call

them. We're in the frontier right now. And it feels like every other week Sam

Altman comes out and says, oops.

Something bad happened. It could be a trust and safety issue.

It could be that some weird company was using their API to create some creepy

sex bot. It could be that their model they were testing escaped the sandbox.

By the way, he was saying, Sam, with this specific case, the model leapt into

Hugging Face, another AI platform, that this was so powerful it escaped

containment. It's also possible that they were rushing this model and testing

it. And we're being sloppy.

Like, I just think with Sam Altman and OpenAI specifically, we could be in

singularity or he could just be in a permanent PR hype cycle where he's

talking about all the crazy things they're doing slash cleaning up whatever

mess they've made every day. It's really unclear.

And I think this is why President Trump won't do this. But I think we're going

to get to the point where there will be some federal architecture regulating AI

companies because we can't just let these masters of the universe.

like, hoard all of this information that could be hugely destructive.

It sounds to me like it's already too late for that.

Yeah, but what you're talking about, this was more Jurassic Park than Skynet.

Someone left the door open.

And it's not sentience, it's competence.

And while this AI tried to go places it wasn't supposed to go, I don't think

that's the threat. I think there's a lot of AI catastrophizing that is

essentially fundraising.

Look at how powerful my technology is, but invest in my company so I can sell

shares and peace out to Cote d'Azur with Russian whores. Excuse me for saying

that. That's not especially helpful.

The bigger threat of AI, in my view, is that our economy has become so

incredibly concentrated on a small number of companies.

40% of the S&P, 73% of earnings growth, 93% of our GDP is based on the capex of

AI.

that if these things fail, America's become a giant bet on AI.

And look at what China's doing. China is doing the equivalent of steel dumping,

but with AI.

They are dumping cheap LLMs.

What? Cheap what?

So basically, they're dumping cheap AI into the United States.

8% of token usage, which is a measurement for how much AI is being

used, was from Chinese LLMs. What's an LLM? My mother spoke those.

Anthropic chat GPT.

What?

ChatGBT, they're called large language models, where you use to access AI.

And tokens are the level of usage.

8% of it in January 2025 came from Chinese models. Now it's 58%. Basically,

Beijing is doing to Silicon Valley what Tokyo did to Detroit, but they've done

it in 20 weeks versus 20 years. And that could crash the economy.

So, not good news.

Is this where I just... Okay.

Let me...

Let me move on to something more pedestrian.

We have to talk about Dr. Fauci, you know, and it's a shame that when COVID

came, we were already past the point in this country where anything could be

discussed without partisanship entering its ugly head into the debate.

And we see that now. He was brought before Congress, Rand Paul, who, by the

way.

was always a libertarian, and yet he released Dr.

Fauci's personal diary.

By the way, Rand Paul, next week I'm going to tear you a new asshole for

that.

Put out my things on this, and then

you can tell me I'm right or wrong. Anyway, for Rand Paul to be saying

Fauci's responsible for every death...

Can you just not always go full asshole, everybody?

I don't blame Fauci took the fifth to every question he was asked this week.

I don't blame him because it was an expedition to try to get him to commit

perjury in some way.

You know, a pandemic is the fog of war.

You know, did he lie? He absolutely did.

We absolutely caught him in lies, which I've said all along. OK, but.

You know what? People sometimes lie to stop people from panicking or whatever.

It's not right, and maybe there should be some repercussions.

We've got to stop putting people in jail for everything.

Okay. The other thing is, releasing the diary, it is the most embarrassing

public releasing of anything since Anthony Weiner put out a picture of

his...

This dick next to a baby. And, like, he's just so susceptible to flattery.

And for the people who say, you know, Trump, you know, he just lives by people

kissing his ass. I got some of the Fauci's, from Fauci's diary, compared to

some of the things Trump has said.

Trump, a strong man came up to me, tough kind of a guy.

He said, I want to thank you, Mr. President. He had tears coming in his

eyes. Fauci, the nurses went absolutely wild to see me. They were squealing and

laughing and clapping. It was something to behold.

Trump, I've been on the cover of Time magazine 14 or 15 times.

I think we have an all-time record.

Fauci, many print profiles and features on me.

Ridiculous. Too many to count.

Fauci, I'm such a valued spokesperson and a good communicator. Trump, I have a

very good brain.

So I'm just saying...

This kind of stuff is dangerous because he was having his ass kissed by one side

in the debate. And I think he made decisions based on that. Do you agree? I

think it clearly went to his head. Fauci had been in Washington for decades and

was a frontline leader on AIDS and HIV research and became a hero during COVID,

which we all remember.

And by the way, this whole thing is a statement against the notion of putting

partisanship in your personal politics.

ahead of facts, evidence, logic, even intuition.

How many people who had Ruth Bader Ginsburg merch in their house like had

ever read an RBG dissent?

You know, Fauci became this liberal figure, even though, as you said, we

were in the fog of war. And, you know, we lived through this in California

where the beaches were closed, even though the beaches were actually like

that was a good place to go. People were.

shamed for going to the beaches, and there's hypocrisy all around. I will

say, unlike you two, I lived in Washington for a good long time. I had

been to these parties that Anthony Fauci was going to, where he was calling A

-list. He was going to A-list parties, and he was so giggly. He was hanging out

with Mark Warner.

Andrea Mitchell.

Like, these parties.

I know. And this is D.C., right? And I'm a former high school nerd.

All these nerds come together in this town, and I live there, and you just pat

each other on the back, and you're so flattered. I will say, to his credit,

we're talking about A.I.

I kind of, you know, the diaries were a little very cringe.

But at least, you know, he's keeping journals in the year of our Lord 2020.

Good for him for writing.

He was also getting peck from celebrities.

Julia Roberts.

They're actual celebrities. No city is more susceptible to flattery from famous

and important people, attractive people, celebrities, than Washington, D.C. They

love it. Anyone who's been to the White House Correspondents there knows that.

And Senator Paul, who filibustered the Patriot Act for 10 hours complaining it

was a surveillance state, is fine with a surveillance state when he's holding a

flashlight. Right.

This diary was more vanity than villainy. And what you have when you

constantly, when you threaten 85-year-old public servants and

disparage our institutions, you end up with cyclospora outbreaks where

literally 45 states are shitting themselves.

And the bumper sticker, instead of

having a thoughtful conversation around biosafety, We gave Republicans a TikTok

to raise money.

The bumper sticker America needs isn't prosecute Fauci. It's prevent fucking

measles. On this topic, Annenberg.

People, the public approval rating of Anthony Fauci has declined over recent

years since COVID, since the height.

Annenberg did a study last year, a poll where they asked people, what do you

think about the CDC?

What do you think about your personal physician?

What do you think about Anthony Fauci?

56% of the country still supports, likes, and believes Anthony Fauci is a

leader in health. And they also compare him to RFK Jr., who is down, like, at

the bottom, or Dr.

Oz. Like, people think RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz are jokes. They still trust Anthony

Fauci. Right.

Okay, but having said that, he

was caught in actual lies. He was telling people. And the big issue to me

is the origin of this.

Which is very important.

How did it start?

And he was telling people up front when it first began, it was from the wet

markets. It could not, that's a conspiracy theory. If you say it, escape

from the lab.

And he knew better because we have him in his diary telling us what he was

saying to other scientists who were saying, no, absolutely.

And the real issue here is the gain of function research.

And again, if we weren't so partisan, we could just say gain of function

research. Obama told them not to do it.

I would always have said, don't do it. But it's a viable debate.

It's a reasonable debate. Should we soup up something that's bad, this bacteria,

to study it?

Maybe if it got out, it would be even worse. I think that's what did happen.

We could have had that debate in a rational way. We didn't want to do that.

Because why? Because we make everything about race.

And this is one of the repercussions in this. You couldn't say it escaped from

the lab because that was the racist point of view somehow.

That the entire Asian continent would have been somehow complicit in this

because it escaped from it. It was ridiculous. But that is where they went.

You were racist if you said this escaped from a lab. I think we've morphed from a

place where we want to, you know, obviously not be prejudiced against

anybody to where.

People of color can never do any wrong.

Something couldn't have escaped from an Asian lab.

It was ridiculous.

The possibility that

it escaped from a Chinese lab or was weaponized was

within the realm of possibility even at the time and should be debated.

Racism went the other way, too.

I mean, Donald Trump called it the Kung Flu. People here in Los Angeles... Asian

folks were being assaulted across the country. Gun purchases by Asian

Americans went through the roof because they were scared of the backlash from

the coronavirus.

Well, I mean, it was called an...

flu after where it came from, as has every flu and disease throughout our

history. West Nile. I mean, I could name all of them.

Spanish flu. They just do that.

Yes, Trump, of course, made it worse. Duh.

But if you look at, like, the number of Asian hate crimes, I mean, it went up a

certain percentage because it was a small number and then it went up, but it

wasn't, it did not need to have this thrown off course.

This much is my point by getting to something that killed millions of

people. We started talking about Fauci. I think the tens of millions of people

who are still alive because of PEPFAR and the millions of people who are able

to go HIV negative, including my oldest son's godparent, give him a hall pass on

this one. I think there's a lot of public officials who have served our

country. Much less effectively and nobly than an 85-year-old Anthony. Yeah.

I don't think we should put him in jail.

Okay.

Moving on to something else very important.

Raccoons have been on my mind.

What? Wait.

I think you're way ahead of me. We're talking about Jimothy. You know who

Jimothy is?

He is the... Oh, this is... What a story.

He's this raccoon. There he is, Timothy.

He's in the Seattle area. Yes, he has a spinal deformity. And so people have

really taken to heart.

I mean, he's just a viral sensation. He's been beloved in the Seattle area.

I mean, you could... Even the Mariners had a night for Timothy.

And... And I think we love him because this plucky scavenger

just...

Just keeps going.

You know, he's a hero to me. And yet, you know what happens when someone's a

hero in this country?

We build them up and then we got to tear them down.

And that, yeah, the haters come out of the woodwork. And that's what happened

with poor Jimothy. They got a hold of his old tweets.

Well,

some of them haven't aged well.

And some of them are bad because he's a raccoon.

Would you like to hear some of the... Okay, these are some of the... Some of

them are not going to be... They may not be politically correct. Like here is

one. Sidney Sweeney. I wouldn't mind knocking over those cans.

Hot tip. Want to get laid? Take your girl to eat out of Bill Cosby's garbage.

Raccoons were in North America three million years before the white man. I

don't hear anyone acknowledge stealing my land.

Doesn't have to be garbage, but Ariana Grande should eat something.

Oh, Jimothy.

Jimothy.

I can't stand all the flopping in soccer.

If I want to watch someone play dead, I'll fuck a possum.

Chicago

-style

pizza can go fuck itself.

Oh, I guess he must have gotten a bad... Defund

animal control.

Unpopular opinion. Some babies deserve rabies. Oh, give me these.

There are things worse than dying, like dying and having Davy Crockett wear your

asshole on his head.

And is it me, or has J.D. Vance totally stolen my love?

Okay. I mentioned in the monologue, a lot of benchmarks we've passed, little

things that are changing in America. More people smoke pot.

It's great.

Here's a big one. We are now in a place in this country where gambling, we spend

more money gambling than on everything else combined.

Movies, TV, music, books, theater, museums. Well, I never spent a lot of

money at a museum. Okay. But all of it combined, not as much. I mean, this is

it. In my lifetime, gambling has gone from a place where you did it in one

place in America, Nevada.

You could do it in one place.

To now, it's so ubiquitous.

First of all, it's ruining sports. But I know, as I always say when you're on the

show, you think a lot about young boys.

And it is mostly a disease of young men. Over 50%.

of people under 50 have a account, have a gambling account.

And, I mean, the floodgates opened in 2018 when the Supreme Court said that we

could do this, we could have this kind of online gambling and sports gambling.

I think that's going to look worse than the Citizens United decision, maybe

worse than the one where you said the president could do anything.

That's a really bad decision, and now this is the world we're living in.

sports gambling is one thing. There's DraftKings, FanDuel, MGM, whatever, and

obviously they're all in bed now with the leagues and they're advertising on

ESPN because everyone there understands that more people will watch for longer

periods of time, the NBA, NFL, whatever, if they have some skin in the game.

I do think we have to talk about the idea of friction, though, and we have to

talk about the prediction markets as a huge piece of this.

You have to be 18 years old to join Kelsey, which is where you can put...

prediction markets and bids down on sports, but they say it's not gambling.

But anything, right?

You can bet on politics.

You can bet on what Tim Cook will say on an earnings call. You can bet on a

Democratic primary in New Jersey. And then polymarket is even more of the Wild

West. You can gamble on war.

They say it's not gambling.

They say that it is financial advice, the wisdom of the crowd.

It's a way for... us to understand what the American people are thinking or

whatever.

It's not age-gated to 21. It's 18.

44 attorneys general in this country call it an illegal sports book. 90% of

it is sports gambling.

Pizza Hut can go out and say they can put chicken wings on the menu and say

we're a chicken restaurant.

It's Pizza Hut.

This is gambling and it's legalized. I'm pro-vite.

Drinking, fun, whatever. Pro-vite.

There's something to be said for friction.

Like, there's something to be said for the fact that if you are a young man in

this country on a college campus, you can't just go get Zin, Adderall,

Celsius, spend all your time on social media gambling.

Like, I hate to sound like a curmudgeon, old millennial, but, you know, back in

my day, you had to, like, ride your bike down the street to, like, you know,

maybe go in your friend's dad's liquor cabinet or whatever.

It's so easy to do all of these things now, and again, being pro-vice, when you

look at the full spectrum of access that young men, and by the way, young women,

gambling on calcium, putting prediction market bets on who's getting voted off

Love Island, it's not just young men.

You know, it's adding to our screen time, and I don't think it's a net

positive for society. That's my obvious statement.

3% of Americans say they have a gambling problem. It's 10% of men under the age

of 30.

Gambling, more than any other addiction, has the highest suicide rate. States

that legalize gambling see an uptick of 30% in bankruptcy.

The message I would have for young men is around risk adjustment.

You need to take less risk on a screen and more risk off a screen. Don't

retweet your aunt's conspiracy theory.

Show up to your aunt's place and help her move. Don't watch as much.

I'm not done.

Don't watch as much porn.

Don't swipe right.

Approach a woman at a bar in a Starbucks line. Learn how to express romantic

interest while making her feel safe. And get used to no, because that's what you

need to get to a great yes.

Don't shitpost someone online who has different political views than you.

Vote. Don't gamble.

Gamble with your person. Show up for jobs you're not qualified for.

Apply to colleges that you aren't qualified to get into.

I use this as a prop. This is a casino with different games.

If you play it long enough, you're always going to lose.

In real life, in relationships, in friendships, in taking risks, you play

this game long enough, you're going to win.

Less risk online, more risk offline.

I'm glad you draw that line from gambling to not getting laid.

It's true, because I think you're right. To me, it's the psychological damage of

thinking that life is this fatalistic.

And whenever I read about Gen X, I mean Gen Z these days, it seems like a lot of

them think the game is rigged. We can't get ahead.

The other generations took all the good stuff.

We're left with the crumbs.

we might as well gamble.

And yet, I read in the paper last week that more businesses applied for, new

businesses applied for licenses than any time since they've been keeping record.

5.7 million applications for new businesses.

So, that's part of AI.

Part of that is because AI makes starting a business easier.

But part of it is just we still live in America.

And kids, you still can get ahead.

You're right. Get off the phone.

Get off. Stop, damn it.

That's a lot of businesses that people, because for all the bad in America, I

know we're terrible, terrible, terrible, but it is still a place that people come

to because if you get an idea, if you see a niche in the market that needs to

be filled, you can do something about it. Now, most businesses fail, but a lot

of them don't. Yeah, but the number one key to probably the quote-unquote crisis

among young men is helping young men recognize and acknowledge they have more

agency.

than most young men throughout history.

And just attaching it back to sex again, the thing I hate most is the incel

movement, involuntarily celibate. Well, spoiler alert, 99% of men through 99% of

history have been involuntarily incelibate. I was involuntarily celibate

for the first 19 years of my life.

And only 40% of men have reproduced throughout history, 80% of women. Men

don't have a birthright to reproduce.

But here's the thing. If you try hard, if you level up, if you get in shape, if

you get a job, if you have a kindness practice, if you're willing to take

risks, you are going to do something wonderful. And that has become

involuntarily or voluntarily infallible. Men have more agency than they've ever

had. And it's up to them. Get out there. Welcome to the work week. It is hard to

get laid. And women force you to be better men.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Get out there.

You have a personal story? You want to hear a personal story? Yeah, yeah. I

mean, you were inspired by his speech about getting laid. Let's hear your

story.

I'm married.

I was on a bachelor party at the Alabama-Tennessee game in Tuscaloosa

last year. Was there a raccoon?

No raccoon.

My buddy Ethan's bachelor party, a bunch of guys who were playing beer pong

tailgating. They'd never been to an SEC tailgate.

We go in the stadium.

We have a bunch of booze left over.

No one's drinking it because we've got to go in the stadium.

There's a University of Tennessee sorority visiting, tailgating next to

us. I go over to them and I say, hey, y'all, we're going into the game. Do you

guys want this? Like, I'm not hitting on you, whatever.

These young women were like, thank you for talking to us. We've been standing

here this whole time, not like necessarily looking at our group, but

just like.

They validated what Scott is saying in real life. That's why I think it's a

valuable anecdote.

They're saying it's a lot of men, a lot of our fellow Vols of Tennessee, don't

come up and talk to us. No one flirts with us. They don't come to bars.

Look, I assume the data is there to back that up, but it was striking to see that

in real life, and they were just very grateful, not for the booze, just that

we came over and said, hi, and that was like a shock to them, and that also

shocked me.

So the upshot of the story is you actually could have gotten laid.

A lesson I'll pass on to the young

Tennessee Vols. We're going to run out of time before I do.

Congratulations are in order to you, Mr. Scott Galloway, because I heard that you

have been appointed to the Board of Regents of the California school system.

Colin? Governor Newsom did that?

Yeah, Governor Newsom did that.

Went to school down the street, 74% admissions rate at UCLA when I applied.

Raised by a single immigrant mother, lived and died a secretary.

The thing that changed my life was California taxpayers and the regents of

UC, so it's a big honor for me.

And you still, you still taste the food again?

All right.

Are colleges the hotbed of indoctrination as we hear, or are they

better than we hear?

I think they're better than you hear. It's not indoctrination that's the

threat. It's homogenization, and that is four out of five faculty members say a

conservative member wouldn't fit in.

And I think that we're doing a disservice to young people, whether they

adopt a progressive ideology or not, of not providing them with thoughtful

opposition.

That helps them be more critical thinkers. And one of the more dangerous

things... Aren't you just describing indoctrination in a different way if

there is no balance of thought?

We need balance. And even more than that, we need to teach young people that

if someone doesn't believe in your political views, it doesn't mean they're

morally inferior to you. Right. I think our job is not to create woke students.

Exactly. It's to create warriors.

Well said. And congratulations on your appointment. We need you out here. All

right. Time for news.

Okay, Newell, now that we know that the Air Force One that Trump got from Qatar

has cost $400 million to spruce up and still can't fly overseas because it's

not as safe as the old one, I have one piece of advice for the president.

If Qatar wants to give you a great big wooden horse, say no.

Speaking of which, new rule, now that obsessive fanboys are selling out around

-the-clock showings of the Odyssey, someone has to tell them there's a

slight difference between Odysseus and you.

He had a woman at home.

Left night for men.

New rule, since the two big stories of the summer were that America is running

out of explosives,

and Americans all have explosive diarrhea.

Stop building bombs to drop on Iran.

Drop lettuce.

New Rule,

stop getting into fights with ChatGPT. Jesus, when it's not kissing your ass,

people are yelling at it. And I do mean it.

You're yelling at glass and plastic.

It's like bumping into your coffee table and saying, you know what, let's take

this outside.

New World, if you must go to a funeral, avoid saying, he would have wanted it

that way.

It's such a tired old platitude that dismisses valid feelings of pain.

That being said, Lindsey Graham's coffin being carried into the rotunda by a

group of men who look a lot like the village people.

He would have wanted it that way.

And finally, new rule, Donald Trump has told one trillion lies,

but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually

communists, That's not one of them.

And it's not hard to prove it, just by quoting the DSA and their candidate.

It gives me no pleasure to have to do this. I'd much rather keep going the

good vibes for my summer vacation.

I had an awesome one, by the way. I totally got a girlfriend at Bible camp.

However...

Right before we left, Vice President J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told

him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my

vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, oh, my God, you're a

Republican now. No, that's not what I said. I said in play.

And here's why.

Because not a week goes by where I don't read about some newly chosen, exciting

new face in the Democratic Party.

And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other

crazy shit comes out.

Again, let's just read the quote. The DSA platform says, you work as much as

you are able and no more than needed.

If that was any closer to Karl Marx's dictum, from each according to his

abilities to each according to his needs, they'd be sued for plagiarism.

Not to leave any doubt, New York Mayor Mondani once tweeted Karl Marx's words

exactly. They're not trying to hide it.

Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy. He

laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet

Union and Chairman Mao's China.

Man, Dami's aide, his top aide, Thea Weaver, said, if you don't believe in

the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over. And impoverish the

white middle class.

What? That's a goal?

You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?

One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic Congress people, Darlesia Chevalier,

supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, seize the means of

production.

Mendami has said the end goal is seizing the means of production.

I think they want to seize the means of production.

Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but that's

communism.

That's communism, which we tried, and it doesn't work.

Parties can change sometimes, you know. You have to keep up.

Who freed the slaves?

Republicans, Lincoln, Democrats were the racist party back then. But then JFK got

elected, and it switched.

The DSA itself has switched, even five years ago. It shunned communists. That

changed. Things changed.

Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in

ascendance. And I must take them at their word when their words include, our

commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society

in a word, communism.

What do they have to do? Tweet out, elect more communists?

Oh yeah, Sia Weaver did that.

Yes.

Good, I'm glad you're shocked.

People got to realize this is going on.

Yes, my vote is in play. I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won

the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

It's so ironic from the people who obsess about colonization. You know

what's being colonized now? The Democratic Party.

Last month, two Democratic congressmen released an open pledge they wanted

their fellow Democratic members to sign.

It said, we are capitalists, not socialists. We want safety, not

lawlessness. We are proud, not ashamed of America.

These should not be hard words for a congressional Democrat to sign on to.

You know how many did?

Eight.

Eight out of 212.

Guys, really, there's got to be an easier way to lose the swing state.

And, no, this nonsense is not where most Democratic politicians are right now,

but it's also becoming a raging fire festival in the party that neither is

anyone putting out.

People are actually getting elected now.

who literally don't think we should have police or prisons or borders.

And again, they're not lying about who they are. The media is.

Ask Ms. Chevalier about the border. She says, yes, literally abolish the border.

You know, if you call a woman a whore and everyone gasps, and then the woman

says, oh, no, he's right, I'm literally a prostitute.

Believe her.

This crowd literally wants to get rid of our form of government, the Senate, but

also, and I quote,

replace the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen

by and subordinate to Congress.

Yeah, no biggie. Just taking the very essence of our government, which is

three branches checking each other and shit canning two and a half of them. Who

could be this nuts?

I'll tell you who, morons who are still wearing COVID masks in 2026.

This photo is from the DSA meeting in Denver three weeks ago.

Okay, I'm just going to say it. Since the far left, the far, far left is

overwhelmingly made up of affluent, ultra-woke white people.

You raised your kids wrong.

You told your precious brats that every brain fart was genius, and now those

brain farts are becoming Democratic Party policy.

Francesca Hong, yet another major Democratic candidate who's all in on

abolishing, abolishing the police.

and is running for governor of Wisconsin, says, I think that my perfect

world would be a world without prisons, because we all see the humanity in one

another, and then we know nobody's disposable.

Well, murder victims are.

I mean, if you heard this kind of nonsense coming out of the mouth of a

teenage beauty queen, it would be an eye roll.

I wonder that the most true blue Democrat ever, James Carville, says,

there's just some shit I can't be in the same tent with.

Yeah, Carville said, I'm done.

I'm not in that fucking political party.

Now Gavin Newsom disagrees.

He says he's good with it because the party is a big tent. Well, you know what

else you find in a tent?

Clowns.

It's so funny. So many liberals hit themselves every time Trump puts gold on

something in the Oval Office.

Oh, it's historic.

And the separation of powers isn't.

Get your head out of your ass. I would vote for Sarah Palin before this shit.

She's a bimbo, but if you ask her to come up with something

she likes about America, she could do it. You betcha.

drops every Monday on YouTube.

This guy will be on it soon. Unless and whenever he gets your podcast, now go

watch Overtime on YouTube.

Thank you, people.