Joel Pollak

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2,500 appearances 9 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Joel Pollak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 3.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams · Episode 3102 - The Scott Adams School 02/25/26 · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

I watched Harold Ford is probably the most fair minded Democrat.

He's on Fox.

And before the speech, he was saying, well, we have to remember a lot of Americans are still hurting economically.

And that's what the president needs to talk about.

All the people who are hurting sort of reemphasizing the idea of the economy is bad.

And when the speech was over, his reaction was Democrats need to talk about economic issues in response to this president, which told me that Trump was successful because Harold Ford Jr.

wasn't saying Trump failed to talk about the economy.

He failed to talk about people who are working for a living.

It told me that he knew Trump had really hit a home run and the Democrats were going to have to find a way to respond.

So I think that's where it was.

And again, visual persuasion, as Scott said.

Also, finally, about the persuasion element of it.

I said to my wife, you know, Trump has done this before.

I mean, how many speeches has he done where he's gone to the gallery, there's been a Medal of Honor awarded or a Medal of Freedom, and we've seen this before.

We have actually seen it before.

I thought Trump's speech in 2020, the one Nancy Pelosi tore up, was probably the best speech he'd ever given.

And nobody remembers it because she tore up the speech.

That's visual persuasion for you, right?

That's what we remember about the speech.

But...

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