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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
i've actually been crying and laughing so hard i've been laughing for 10 minutes straight since i saw this george phyllis and newscaster one source of information Viewers might be more inclined to trust his statements. Conversely, if he has been wrong before or shown bias, viewers might question his claims. Three, context of the information.
It was kind of sad.
These frequencies would make his assertion seem less credible or might suggest that he is part of a broader misinformation. From a storytelling perspective, whether George is portrayed as a credible newscaster or as someone engaged in gaslighting.
Oh, I've watched this thing probably 15 times, and I literally cry every time I watch it. Like, tears just shoot out of my eyes against my glasses.
I could not not start with that today. Oh, my God. Good morning, everybody. Okay, we're going to get right into the sip. Because we have a special guest with us. Okay, everybody get ready. It's time.
Alexa, turn on studio. Hey, it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams. You came to the right place. Boy, do we have a show for you. Oh my God, it's going to be so good. I know you can't wait. But first, the simultaneous sip. The thing you're all here for. I know you are. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
I like coffee. And join me now for the simultaneous sip.
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Chapter 2: How does the guest address China's influence in American universities?
It's the thing that makes everything better. It's the dopamine hit of the day.
Oh, yeah. Impeachy. He said impeachy. Oh, my gosh. So, you guys, let me grab my cup. I'll have a sip after. You guys, I'd like to welcome you all to the Scott Adams School. And my name is Erica. And we have the beautiful Marcella. We've got sexy Sergio. More dapper than Tapper is Owen Gregorian. And our...
matriarch of all matriarchs, we have Shelley Adams and our special guest today, the amazing, the wonderful, talented, always has a better tan than me, Steve Cortez. Welcome, Steve.
Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.
Thank you. So just for those that don't know who you are, I'm not going to try to summarize who you are because I can go on for days. But how would you describe yourself to those meeting you perhaps for the first time?
Sure. Probably the quickest way is political operative and TV talking head. So I specialize in media, both doing live hits and responding and defending and promoting agendas on the air, but also creating media. I make political ads. I make documentaries.
um i do a lot of just phone videos i learned quite a lot about a lot of things but including making media from scott adams over the years i worked on and off for president trump over the last decade worked for jd vance in his senate campaign i'll be really involved in a lot of races into this fall prior to that i had a wall street life that got me into television kind of just by happenstance i really kind of stumbled into tv business tv but that then led to the political world and i'm now all
politics and media, and just taking on the small task of saving America and saving Western civilization. No big deal, right?
That's all. That's all. Nothing big. So I am curious to know what campaigns you're going to be working on. I mean, we can get into that a little bit later. And of course, we're going to have questions like, what do you think about 28 and J.D. Vance? Is it going to be Marco Rubio? But there'll be time. Okay, guys.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the 'Fine People Hoax'?
Yes.
And why don't you explain to us? I did post a clip for people to see and I'll repost it after the show. But tell us what that's about and why it's so urgent.
Sure. Thank you for the opportunity. It's China's College Takeover. And you can see, if you'd like to see a trailer for it, it's at the top of my social media right now. If you go to my Twitter, which is at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S, Cortez Steve, you can see just a 30-second trailer. But I think even to that 30 seconds, we convey, I hope,
A powerful argument that this is really dangerous to America and it's unjust to American young people. We have 300,000 Chinese nationals studying in the United States right now. Some folks, including President Trump, want that total to actually go up. I'm trying to make the case that that number needs to go down. And in fact, it should actually be zero. for two reasons.
Number one, it is a national security threat to the United States. It makes no sense for us to educate our enemies. And we know as a matter of fact, not supposition, we know factually that at least some of them are here to spy, that they are spies and saboteurs. That's probably the worst case scenario. But even in the good case scenario, we are educating our
enemies to then use our knowledge base to make their country better. And at some point, to use those very skills and that knowledge against the United States. But then the second aspect of it is that, of course, this is a zero-sum game in terms of these top universities. And generally, they do attend very prestigious, very selective U.S. universities. They do not have endless seats, right?
Those spots, in my view, should be reserved for overwhelmingly for American students, for American kids. And I highlight in this documentary, this will be out Thursday morning, by the way, it's free. We'll be putting it everywhere on my website, on Twitter, on YouTube. We just want people to see it. We're not trying to in any way monetize this. And I highlight the University of Illinois.
And I'm from Chicago, spent most of my life in Chicago until the crazies chased me out. And I now thankfully live in the wonderful red state of Tennessee. But I know Chicago is near and dear to me. I know many people there. And I kept talking to so many parents who had just outstanding young children.
I mean, just outstanding young adult kids who are applying to the University of Illinois and couldn't get in. I mean, the kinds of kids with, you know, 4.2 GPAs, taking all the AP, getting a 35 out of 36 in the ACC. I'm one of those parents, Steve. OK. OK. And they can't get in.
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Chapter 4: How are South American elections impacting U.S. politics?
So I just have to ask one quick thing because this floored me. Why does President Trump want more Chinese students here now? full well knowing what's going on. I just I don't understand. Make it make sense. It doesn't but help me.
It does not make sense to me. But, you know, listen, President Trump's instincts are almost always correct. Sometimes he needs his ardent supporters like us to remind him of our basic philosophy. I don't know why he has that stance, but I think it's important for us to just make our case. And I'm certainly not attacking President Trump.
As a matter of fact, I don't think he's mentioned in the documentary. We are just making the case. Hey, this does not make sense. Poor America doesn't make sense for our kids, doesn't make sense for our national security. And by the way, we are, of course, funding these schools. So remember that we are we are paying to educate Chinese nationals, some of whom are spying on us. Right.
So we and again, we know this. They've been convicted. They've been arrested. University of Michigan, two more Chinese nationals were just indicted on bringing bioweapons into the United States. This is outrageous. And we're paying for it. We're paying for the privilege of being spied on and the privilege of having our own children excluded from selective schools while Chinese nationals get in.
And let me just make this point, too. University of Illinois, of course, is the flagship public school of that state. So it makes it, I think, even worse. But the private schools, in many cases, actually get more government money than the public schools. So, for example, Columbia University, prestigious Ivy League school in New York, is half foreign.
Well, Colombia gets billions of dollars in foreign assistance, excuse me, in government assistance. So we have a critical say in what happens at all of these schools because we are funding all of them, including the allegedly private ones that aren't really private when it comes to their funding. Yeah, I agree with you 100 percent.
And like I said, I'm one of them that was directly impacted by this. My son applied to University of Illinois for mechanical engineering and he got rejected. And I'm sure there are a lot of Chinese students that got accepted into that program. And because of that, he went to University of Wisconsin, you know, pretty comparable school. Sure. But I had to pay out of state tuition because of that.
So, I mean, my family lost over $100,000, I would say, just because of that, you know, because I couldn't get my son into Universal Illinois. Wow. And I assume he had really good credentials. Yes. He had excellent grades, like straight A GPA. He had high test scores, everything. I mean, when I... when I applied to college many years ago, I got accepted by universal Illinois.
And back then it was pretty much like a table. You could just say, okay, if you have this test score in this GPA, you'll get accepted to this program. And so you could tell right up front. And I always thought it was kind of a deal that we made with, especially with the public schools to say, we're paying tax dollars into the university of Illinois. If we live in Illinois for our whole life.
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Chapter 5: What strategies are being discussed for the 2026 Midterm Elections?
And it makes it so much easier when we put all their people into our graduate programs and have them doing the research and giving them access to all this information. It doesn't make any sense at all. Yeah. And part of the motivation specific to University of Illinois, of course, again, it's an issue nationwide.
But part of the motivation for me to make this regarding U of I, I mean, I mentioned, of course, I just have a lot of knowledge there because I'm from Chicago. But in addition, I watched Marc Andreessen, you know, the famous tech titan who has now become pretty political and then has mostly come over to the right politically, which is wonderful, of course. And he went to University of Illinois.
Among a lot of luminaries, by the way, Larry Ellison went to University of Illinois. So these major companies, major figures in tech have gone to U of I over the years. But Andreessen said, and he said he was a middle class kid from Wisconsin who got into U of I, went there, and that was really the launching pad for his career success. He said that he would not get in today.
And I play a clip of him saying that. He said, as a middle class white kid, I would not get into University of Illinois. And he blamed the DEI quotas and then the foreign nationals being there. And I thought that was pretty powerful. If a guy as successful as Andreessen says, I probably don't get into Illinois, well, then we're not doing something correctly, right, for the students of Illinois.
And I totally agree with you that, first of all, it should be prioritizing Illinois students, right? Overwhelming. Secondly, Americans, of course. Now, in my argument in the documentary is 1%, 2% foreigners, okay, that might make sense. Truly exceptional kids from around the world. But from friendly nations, okay? You know, from Canada and the U.K.,
Japan, not from Communist China, not the princelings of the Chinese Communist Party. And again, there's 300,000 of them in the United States. And there are at least some calls even from Republicans to let that number grow. And I think that number needs to go to zero. It just doesn't make sense for our country.
How does it change though? I mean, it's so, I mean, I guess it's follow the money. I'm sure they're getting lots of extra. I'm assuming they're getting, Marcella, allegedly, that they're getting lots of extra kickbacks and favors or whatever, because why else would this be happening? But my concern is that it's so far spread that who's going to stop it?
The whole school, the whole college admission is just so messed up that I don't know how you rein it in. Who can do it? Does it have to be some kind of new law passed? It has to happen across the board. I don't know. How do you solve it? Any ideas?
Well, yes. I mean, look, I do believe it will take ultimately legislation. But how we solve it is this, right? Is outrage and knowledge. So let's get outrage. It's proper, right? Let's get educated on the situation. And that's why I do these documentaries, right? I'm trying to expose something. I think a lot of folks aren't aware of this, especially if you don't happen to have young people in your
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Chapter 6: How does immigration relate to economic concerns for Americans?
I would add to and I try to make this point in the documentary and I think I make it persuasively toward the end. Well, I shouldn't say I make it. I think that my guest makes it persuasive. He's a man who now teaches high school chemistry. He went to University of Illinois for chemistry.
He is a black guy who grew up on the south side of Chicago, didn't have many advantages in life, single mom, but was a smart young man, studied hard, got his way to U of I on scholarship, majored in chemistry, then had a successful career as a chemist and has sort of retired into teaching high school chemistry. Just a wonderful guy.
genuine man, really patriotic, loves this country, loves U of I, loves the Illini and what they've done for him. And he makes the case, you know, not only would that slot be taken perhaps by a Chinese national now and his name is Tony Robinson and young Tony Robinson doesn't get in to U of I, but Tony Robinson also met his wife there. So it's not just about the education. He had met his wife.
They have four beautiful grown children now. They've been married for decades. So there's also the social aspect of, you know, many of these schools are multigenerational, right? There's generations of Illini fans who've gone there and now can't get in to the school that they have supported as a family forever.
You know, how many family formation opportunities will be missed because they're not there socializing? And instead, we've invited in masses of foreigners into these schools. And again, I think there's too many foreign students, period. But I find the Chinese segment to be the most the most troubling. And that's why I'm attacking that part first. And again, remember, we're paying for this.
You know, whether you if you've never been to college, if you've never set foot on the college campus, you are paying. for these schools, including the private one, including Harvard, which has the biggest endowment by far of any school. Harvard, not surprisingly, actually, if you think about it, has the biggest endowment. They have the most resources.
They also take the most government money because they're the most skilled at garnering it, at attracting it, and in some ways, I would argue, exploiting it and getting our money for their operations. And then Harvard, I don't know the number exact, but I think it's about a third. Almost all the Ivy's and selective schools are at least a third
foreign right now including a lot of 90s nationals so i want to shine a light on it and from there uh folks like the the audience of this show who are who are activists who are engaged who are patriots uh once we've shined a light on it once hopefully folks have gotten educated and angry about it uh then we move to the action stage and you know will it be difficult to reverse For sure, right?
For sure. We're fighting decades here of momentum the other direction. But these movements sometimes start small. And before you know it, we're in power. I mean, unrelated, but look at the Maha movement, right? There was a time when the when the Maha advocates were considered coops. Right. Robert F. Kennedy was considered by a lot of, you know, sort of credentialed people to be a wacko.
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Chapter 7: What role does media play in shaping public perception?
Like whether you're a taxpayer, like if you don't have kids, you're paying taxes, you're paying for this nonsense. Or if you have children or you've experienced this, it's true. It's not like a right or left issue. It's an American issue. It's a, you know, keep more money in your pocket to educate our country and our people. I mean, we need it. So that's the least we can do.
So I think everybody, will you guys drop an emoji in the chats if you are at least willing to retweet Steve's documentary trailer and lead people to it. That would be amazing.
What other actions can we take or should we take? If I am outraged about this, should I be talking to my state legislature? Should I be talking to my federal congresspeople? Where should I be directing this outrage? Yeah, no. Great question. Both, by the way. Thankfully, this is one of these cases where it can be both. Right.
So, for example, now, Illinois is unfortunately a thoroughly blue state, so I don't expect much action there. But this is happening in states that are either sort of, you know, middle of the road, purplish states or actually deeply red states. As I mentioned, I now live in Tennessee.
This is a big problem at the University of Tennessee, which is probably just about as prestigious now as University of Illinois, or at least in that ballpark regarding students. And a lot of really smart kids can't from Tennessee cannot get into their flagship state university in part because of too many foreign students.
Now, thankfully, in Tennessee, right, Republicans control this state politically. So this I think there's a lot better chance that we can get state action here. So to me, it's both. You know, it's not an either or pursue it in your state. And again, I know that's difficult if you live in California or Illinois or New York.
It's going to be difficult to succeed, but still try to make some noise, of course. But in those red or purple states, take state action. So, yeah, I think it's both. But at the same time, most of the funding, most of it flows actually federally, especially to the private schools. And again, let's not forget about the private schools.
Let's not let Stanford and Duke and Columbia off the hook, because, again, they are feeding to the public trough actually internally. to a more substantial degree than UCLA and Florida State and University of Georgia. So everyone is involved in this mess. So let's not let them off the hook. And those are federal issues, right? They don't tend to get very much state and local money.
That's federal money going there. So let's pursue both simultaneously. But to me, this is one of these issues where If you present it correctly, I'm always looking for these as a campaign guys, a campaign operative. We're always looking for these issues where the opponent is wrong on a 70-30, 80-20 issue.
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Chapter 8: What actions can listeners take to influence political outcomes?
Right now, again, I want to go to zero. And I understand that's probably viewed as a pretty extreme position. But I think also sometimes you need to stake out positions that may seem extreme to get us to a place that's more reasonable. And folks may say, OK, maybe it's not zero like Cortez wants. but it shouldn't be 300,000.
And it certainly shouldn't go to 600,000 as the White House had proposed. So, you know, let's start debating this. Let's start talking about it. It's an important issue. And I believe, too, it's reflective of broader issues, right, of just prioritizing American citizens, period. Right. Whatever it is. So, I mean, I think this is related to illegal immigration.
I think it's related to all kinds of really important issues of Americans for too long have been shamed and guilted into believing that we cannot prioritize American citizens when, in fact, the opposite is true. It is actually true. and moral and logical for us to prioritize our own citizens, just as every country in the world should, and most countries in the world do.
Let's do that in all facets of life, including higher education.
Yeah.
Sergio, did you, oh, sorry. Did you want to chime in?
Oh, I would love to, because they can always talk about you, Steve, in such a high regard. And I didn't understand really why until this morning. It hit me when Erica sent us that short message. video of you on your tweet, one minute, and how you went, you cut through the BS and you started using the right words right away.
And that's what I love about SCAD so much and we all respect it because how much you respected people's time that way. So in regards to that, I can see that you understand really well
that the word choice is what is going to make that impact on people right in in choosing those right words and and i love how you're talking about uh less illegals higher wages right it's like you just get to it and um i love that uh the reframes that you're doing In that regards, could you tell us a little more about how you came to that conclusion?
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