Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Remembering Scott Adams

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00:00:47.100 this is human events with your host jack persovic christ is king many of my christian friends have

00:00:53.860 asked me to find Jesus before I go. I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward

00:01:02.020 calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me. So here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord

00:01:12.320 and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being

00:01:19.800 a believer should be quite quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won't need any more convincing

00:01:29.480 than that. I hope I'm still qualified for entry. To my Christian friends, yes, it's coming.

00:01:39.720 So you don't need to talk me into it. I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely

00:01:46.600 smart. I also have respect for any Christian who goes out of their way to try to convert me.

00:01:53.980 Because how would I believe you believe your own religion if you're not trying to convert me?

00:01:59.760 Yeah, you know, it's the weirdest thing is that AI happened at the same time my book was

00:02:03.620 going to come out. And it turns out there's a sort of an intersection that makes sense.

00:02:09.420 We figured out that you could make something like intelligence just by looking at word patterns that

00:02:14.520 already exist that people have already spoken or written. And that just looking at the patterns and

00:02:19.900 frequencies of words, you could produce something like intelligence. Well, this is something

00:02:24.680 hypnotists have known forever. I'm also a trained hypnotist. So reframes are basically a little code

00:02:31.880 of words that you can insert into your brain just by reading the sentence. And much like the way AI

00:02:37.960 works, you can actually reprogram your brain with just words. It's just word, word, word, word.

00:02:44.200 And then an LLM, I've always thought your explanation of an LLM is the best because it's just predicting what the next word is going to be or the next string of words, and they use mapping to do this.

00:02:55.340 And so people who don't have an object view, an object model of reality, like computers, because computers can't understand reality the way that we do, at least, or perhaps we have a better object view, that's why people aren't computers and computers aren't people.

00:03:13.580 But the real interesting thing that Devin Erickson is talking about is there's a lot of people you meet and they could be doctors, they could be experts, they could be researchers, they could be scientists.

00:03:24.860 And the minute that you sort of question their language model by referring to something in reality, it all sort of falls apart.

00:03:33.740 Yeah, that's the kind of conversation I love.

00:03:38.160 Who is a person who is an NPC?

00:03:41.520 Yeah.

00:03:41.700 Yeah, I keep thinking I'm going to wake up in a game share and find out the whole thing was like a one-hour experience, but I thought it was my life.

00:03:56.440 All right, so folks, Jack Posobiec, we're back live here, Human Events Daily.

00:04:04.460 This morning, I was originally scheduled to do a live stream on Coffee with Scott Adams, where Scott Adams, the cartoonist, of course, known as the creator of Dilbert, would come on every morning, 10 a.m. Eastern, and would write the, you know, go through the news of the day and reframe it in a way that's

00:04:34.460 you know that'd be interesting and always have a great spin on it and he was someone who you know

00:04:41.140 supported trump and explained trump one of the earliest really probably the first celebrity to

00:04:47.060 come out and say that he supported trump and that he thought trump would win incredible author urge

00:04:52.460 everyone to read the books and as so just to kind of tell the story from my perspective i guess what

00:04:58.740 happened this morning was he'd been doing his last couple shows. He'd been having sort of guests and

00:05:05.420 longtime followers and subscribers come on. And it was sort of just a chatting with Scott kind of

00:05:11.460 meetup. And they asked if I would come on this morning around 9 30 a.m. I said, of course,

00:05:17.200 I'd be more than happy to. So I got home to grab my mug. And then right before we all went live

00:05:27.160 is when Shelly Adams came on

00:05:30.780 and Shelly had been Scott's former wife,

00:05:33.440 but they're still very close.

00:05:35.080 And she came on and you could see her face.

00:05:39.500 It was just written all over her face

00:05:40.820 that, you know, what had happened

00:05:42.460 and didn't need to ask.

00:05:44.840 And she said that she was going to read

00:05:46.780 Scott's last statement, which she did.

00:05:50.940 And I believe...

00:05:54.060 Guys, do we have...

00:05:57.160 And do we have video of the intro from today that, uh, that I ended up doing or

00:06:05.320 now we'll, we'll check on that with the, yeah, with the, yeah, with the sip. Yeah. Let's play

00:06:12.260 the, let's play the sip. So they asked me to do the sip. Yeah, no, I said I'd be honored and

00:06:18.880 I didn't think I'd be doing two shows like this. So, so close to each other, but here we are.

00:06:27.160 so folks as everyone knows all you need is a cup a mug or a glass a tankard chalice or stein

00:06:37.220 a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid we like coffee

00:06:45.160 and join us all now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes

00:06:52.120 everything better even saying goodbye to old friends the simultaneous sip and it happens now

00:06:59.840 go to scott

00:07:02.420 to scott thank you scott

00:07:08.220 and so i haven't i haven't really talked to um everyone in the scott adams community his

00:07:19.520 locals community his his friends his supporters there um his his family but i understand there's

00:07:25.940 some plans to keep that community going forward and we're gonna we're gonna bring on some people

00:07:31.200 from that community here in a minute but um since we only have a minute till the break but i just

00:07:35.860 want to let everybody know that it's locals.scottadams.com that if you want to go if you

00:07:40.540 want to be there people are just sharing things people are getting involved people are getting

00:07:45.820 the mugs, of course, spreading the legacy of Scott Adams, which was so much more than

00:07:51.320 the cartoon, so much more, which was a great cartoon, by the way, bringing people together,

00:07:57.820 being a Trump supporter in those early, early days, 2015, 2016, going on Joe Rogan in those

00:08:05.880 early days and explaining and making the case for Trump and always being there with the

00:08:11.000 family being close uh laura ivanka going in and of course meeting with president trump president

00:08:17.380 trump putting up a true social of course calling him the great influencer and i think that's

00:08:23.120 exactly right in the photo of the two of them in the oval office together is an incredible thing

00:08:28.160 we'll be right back with more of the life and legacy the great influencer scott adams right

00:08:33.760 We're back, Human Events Daily.

00:08:40.020 Today, you know, they talk about influencers.

00:08:42.580 These are influencers, and they're friends of mine.

00:08:46.840 Jack Posobiec.

00:08:48.340 Where's Jack?

00:08:49.280 Jack.

00:08:50.320 He's done a great job.

00:08:54.540 All right, folks, we're back.

00:08:59.840 Jack Posobiec here, Human Events Daily.

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00:10:41.760 correspondent there in Minneapolis, and we're bringing him on yet again. It is Kevin Posobiec,

00:10:48.840 our field correspondent, but also a great member of the Scott Adams Sippers community,

00:10:54.300 a daily simultaneous sipper. What's up, Kev? Hey, Jack, how's it going? Good to be here.

00:11:01.840 And I don't know about you, but I'd like to take this experience up a notch. And I'm going to

00:11:07.960 raise a glass here to the absurdly humanitarian and great influence of Scott Adams. May he today

00:11:15.680 be simultaneously greeted by angels. Amen. Take this up a notch. That's right. That's what Scott

00:11:23.100 would always say so so kev just just talk about how i mean scott adams was someone who

00:11:28.080 our whole family from from you me mom and dad tanya tay the kids would you know would hear him

00:11:35.640 hear his voice every day um just he's always been a member of the post whole household not just

00:11:41.380 the daily show but increasingly his books and this is something where folks if you didn't listen to

00:11:48.920 the daily show which is just it is what it is you kind of had to be there kevin tell me a little bit

00:11:54.360 about some of the importance of scott adams's incredible books and you can you can pick whichever

00:11:59.560 one you want well sure i have a couple of reframes that were personal favorites of mine and um i want

00:12:07.700 to say what are what's a reframe that what's what's during so what's a reframe but during

00:12:12.680 yeah well especially during covid the periscopes that he had man the simultaneous sips and he would

00:12:18.720 get people together during the lockdowns and have a second show at nighttime where he would even do

00:12:24.340 like the simultaneous swaddle and uh i mean that was just next level nobody else was doing that

00:12:30.240 and he didn't have to do any of that but he loved he really loved his community and you know talk

00:12:37.720 about like the christianity thing like you can tell when somebody has the holy spirit moving

00:12:42.020 through and he was his spiritual level was off the charts and um but yeah two two of them are uh

00:12:50.420 his most recent one was about social anxiety in the reframes where if you could be at a party

00:12:56.180 and have trouble uh introducing yourself to people maybe you've never been to prom

00:13:00.880 and whatnot um he he said if you could reframe it just go up to the hostess you know um you can

00:13:09.440 always kind of find out who the alpha woman is of the party they love that and she'll kindly

00:13:15.420 introduce you to another person and then you can take that and simply duplicate it and the way

00:13:23.440 scott says it is you could be the hero of the party by just introducing yourself to other people

00:13:29.120 not only for yourself but to help them and through my own work i i heavily related to that

00:13:37.080 and just the way scott was with his words um just did wonders and he even said it in in the stream

00:13:45.400 and said you know you could be the the lifesaver of the party and there's no dispute in that like

00:13:52.580 everybody's there so so so for folks who have real quick so for folks who who don't know scott

00:13:59.740 had this great book one of his one of his last books i have to double check because he did some

00:14:03.820 like re-releases and, uh, edited by the great Joshua Lysak, who also co-wrote, uh, on humans

00:14:09.400 and bulletproof with me. And, and John Scott is who introduced me and Joshua. So like, that's how

00:14:14.760 we got together, but he had this incredible book, reframe your brain. And it's just, it's just

00:14:19.780 changing the operating system to your thoughts, changing the operating system. I think it was

00:14:24.220 2023 and we had him, he came on human events when it came out to talk about it. And it was the idea

00:14:30.300 is changing if you change your perspective on a situation and you mentioned yeah that's one of his

00:14:35.340 most famous ones uh social anxiety going to a party you know think of it as a game think of it

00:14:40.800 as and you're scoring points in a game rather than having to go and be with people that you don't

00:14:47.300 necessarily need facts it's just you're changing your whole perspective and in fact gamification

00:14:52.220 is one of the big ones but it's this whole book where it just goes reframes reframes reframes

00:14:56.920 One of the ones that I know that he did with drinking for a lot of people, alcohol is poison.

00:15:02.060 Just alcohol is poison.

00:15:03.180 Just say that in your mind.

00:15:04.280 Alcohol is poison.

00:15:05.520 That's like something that people can relate to.

00:15:09.340 So reframe your brain, this incredible way of, I've got a couple here.

00:15:13.680 Reframe, manage your time to manage your energy.

00:15:21.000 Well, hold on one sec.

00:15:21.720 And then reframe, oh, I think you just kind of explained this.

00:15:25.620 success depends on who you know to success depends on how many people you know that's right what's

00:15:31.880 the basket case one it it ties into the social anxiety thing and it's just a matter of reason

00:15:39.180 really where it's like if you get caught a basket case or crazy or if you think differently than

00:15:44.780 the majority of people uh just understand that hey like you might not know everybody at first

00:15:51.480 they're strangers but once you get to know them you realize that they're also basket cases too

00:15:56.920 and everybody kind of has wild thoughts and sometimes intrusive thoughts and and to just

00:16:03.880 acknowledge that everybody is like you and you know i'm not unique but you know there's no way

00:16:12.920 there can only be one basket case in this whole world so that's also uh alleviating especially

00:16:19.160 when you go into high stress just a great just a great way to hear kept we've got we're coming up

00:16:23.800 on that break again and we'll be right back afterwards we want to also we're going to bring

00:16:27.560 out another friend of the great scott adams talking about his life and his legacy as a member of the

00:16:33.400 The MAGA Movement, Human Events Daily.

00:16:39.720 And Jack, where is Jack?

00:16:42.700 Where is Jack?

00:16:45.020 Where is he?

00:16:46.260 Jack, I want to see you.

00:16:49.920 Great job, Jack.

00:16:51.380 Thank you.

00:16:52.120 What a job you do.

00:16:53.560 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:16:54.940 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad,

00:16:57.260 but we have guys,

00:16:58.720 and these are the guys who'll be getting polices.

00:17:00.660 All right, folks, Jack Pasopi-Cabrera back, Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.

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00:18:19.900 Posobiec on, as well as the great Joshua Elisek, the editor of a number of Scott Adams' books,

00:18:29.400 including the one we were just discussing, Reframe Your Brain. Joshua, thank you for joining us.

00:18:34.860 Thank you for having me on, Jack. Kevin, good to see you.

00:18:38.660 Well, and it's, as we know, certainly, and this is kind of impromptu, and hopefully we'll be able

00:18:43.360 to put together more of a long-form show at some point on all of this, but Joshua,

00:18:47.820 But just aside from just the books, Refrain Your Brain, Loser Think, Win Bigly, talk to

00:18:55.760 us what it was like about what it was like working with Scott Adams.

00:19:01.000 What I appreciate about Scott and our relationship is that he, of course, had been publishing

00:19:08.520 and writing stuff before I had been born.

00:19:11.840 And when you have that level of difference between, let's say, the services provider and the client, you can kind of expect there to be something like an imbalance.

00:19:22.100 But from the get-go, Scott treated me not simply like a peer, but like a trusted advisor.

00:19:29.760 And when we were working on sections of reframe your brain, I would make a suggestion about an area, and he would say, okay, go ahead and write what you want there.

00:19:37.320 That sounds good to me.

00:19:38.160 And that level of trust that he provided, you tend not to see from someone who has as high a profile and as established as a brand.

00:19:49.160 I guess you could say that Scott kind of, he ruined me for future authors, I guess you could say.

00:19:56.220 But he had a humility that he taught us through the reframe about ego, where he says that ego is a tool.

00:20:04.620 It's something that you can turn on or off.

00:20:07.940 You can dial it up or dial it down as needed.

00:20:11.400 And he very much so did embody that in our relationship.

00:20:16.660 Well, that's incredible.

00:20:18.100 So when you would work on something, because you even went in for Retrain Your Brain,

00:20:22.160 that was a book that, were you the initial editor on it or just the second edition?

00:20:27.880 That was the first edition, yes.

00:20:29.960 Okay, I'm thinking of, you know what, I'm thinking of God's degree.

00:20:32.480 That's what I'm thinking of.

00:20:34.300 Yes, we did work on a third installment together, and I did come in towards the beginning of that one.

00:20:39.660 Yes, that was fun.

00:20:40.760 Talk about the pleasure of a career working on fiction with Scott Adams.

00:20:47.420 That's really cool.

00:20:48.680 So, Joshua, hit some of those books for all of us to go through.

00:20:53.420 So there's Loser Think, I think, is the first one you got to get.

00:20:58.020 You can really, if you just want to hold, actually, no, I'm wrong.

00:21:02.020 it's how to how to how to fail at everything and still succeed is is is the first one and then

00:21:11.540 loser think and then you know maybe reframe your brain but you know what's interesting is actually

00:21:16.480 now that i think about it i think i've debunked myself in my own mind because you don't really 0.82

00:21:21.500 need to pick anyone to start with you could start anywhere can't you you can yes in terms of which

00:21:28.980 book has the most sort of scott adams lore in it i believe reframe your brain that was his latest

00:21:35.040 one that's non-fiction from 2023 that's that's a first edition book um the others of course like

00:21:43.340 win bigly the second edition loser think second edition how to fail almost everything is to win

00:21:48.600 big second edition those do have some bonus content some new material particularly the win

00:21:54.380 Bigley second edition, because that was sort of reflection on the first Trump administration,

00:21:59.840 additional prediction analysis, what Scott got right to what extent he got it, how the book was

00:22:05.200 even deployed within the Trump administration the first time around, which is fantastic. And also

00:22:10.640 his analysis of the 2024 presidential campaign. But of all of them, I tend to be able to reframe

00:22:19.620 your brain first, because it's sort of a collection of Scott's greatest hits from some

00:22:23.960 of his previous books, plus his most recent thinking on life progression.

00:22:31.680 So how do you get where you want to go in life?

00:22:35.380 The most, I say, it has the highest density of hypnotic persuasion worked into it.

00:22:40.720 And of course, it's consistently the number one bestselling book in hypnosis category

00:22:44.260 on Amazon.

00:22:46.380 That's incredible.

00:22:47.160 So, Kevin, jump back to you a little bit, because it was really 2015, 2016 on Twitter when many of us who were, you know, were out there, were doing things.

00:22:59.500 The Trump movement had just gotten started.

00:23:01.840 And then along comes this guy.

00:23:03.400 I remember what did it what did it feel like when all of a sudden, you know, the guy who's the Dilbert guy suddenly starts talking about Donald Trump and how he thinks he's going to not only win, but also be a great president.

00:23:18.280 Just just talk us through what it was like in that era when everybody was writing Trump off.

00:23:23.200 well in that era uh you and i were closely tied into it and there wasn't really like you said any

00:23:31.920 any famous voices supporting trump in such a way and as we know like trump himself was a previous

00:23:40.660 celebrity and i gotta tell you through periscope and whatnot one of the first times that i came

00:23:48.160 to be introduced to scott was through the the classic uh now famous the two movies on one screen

00:23:56.280 and that he was breaking it all down for us through watching the legacy media in that you

00:24:04.280 know he would watch cnn and these other legacy medias while fox would be saying another thing

00:24:10.940 And he really broke it down so clearly, but with such great analogies as a comic would.

00:24:18.160 Just imagine yourself being in a movie theater and watching two movies on one screen.

00:24:22.640 And I said, wow, boom, instantly understood what he was trying to communicate to us.

00:24:28.180 And that helped me understand on such a macro scale that this is what we were experiencing.

00:24:34.880 And I was just in Minneapolis, so I was witnessing this firsthand.

00:24:39.140 So we have, as Director Lyons was just on and speaking to, is that you have on one side ice operations lawfully conducting what they need to do.

00:24:54.180 And on the other side, just blatant, reckless protesters, Antifa sales, all this.

00:25:00.920 And so it's no longer just a movie.

00:25:02.940 This is happening in real time.

00:25:05.320 And, you know, thank goodness.

00:25:07.380 And I want to touch on Commander Bavino, too.

00:25:11.300 He kind of reminds me of Scott in that these leaders need to be composed and understand the psychological projection that is happening here in real time to be an effective leader in that way.

00:25:24.160 And so they're saying these people are just they're just watching a different movie.

00:25:28.640 And that is unsettling to accept.

00:25:33.040 But that is also reality.

00:25:35.260 And we're dealing with it.

00:25:37.380 uh in real time we had the lions on just talking about this you know i i can remember just sitting

00:25:42.780 there kind of scratching my head and i i you know back in 2016 in that time it's like the

00:25:47.580 dilbert guy really and um you know i'll be honest that i definitely remember so i was a big kev you

00:25:53.920 remember i was a big crossword puzzle guy so dad would always start the crossword puzzle every

00:25:58.600 morning at the narstown times herald and would you know would would start the crossword but he

00:26:06.440 would always leave a bunch unanswered and he would go i left you the easy ones and then i'd pick it

00:26:10.500 up and i'd read and i'd want to do the crossword puzzle and then i'd of course read the cartoons

00:26:16.180 and then eventually i started reading the articles and then all this happened but i remember dilbert

00:26:20.760 was one of the ones where i have to say i didn't get it at first i totally didn't get dilbert

00:26:27.160 because i was i don't know i was still like in grade school and then high school and i was just

00:26:30.800 I hadn't been in that environment yet.

00:26:32.740 And then it wasn't until later, you know, I started working in offices, interning and then other places.

00:26:40.280 Oh, I totally get it.

00:26:42.620 So it's something I got as I was, you know, it's definitely not written for for the younger crowd.

00:26:47.180 But I mean, you look at this guy, nobody else would would come out.

00:26:52.100 And you think about it, too, the same way that what are the celebrities doing now?

00:26:55.120 They're attacking ice. But Scott Adams was one of the first ones that came out and he stood with Trump.

00:27:00.160 the same way that you're not seeing no celebrities are coming out for ICE.

00:27:03.640 No, they're all attacking ICE.

00:27:04.960 They're attacking this agent who's, by the way, an Iraq War combat veteran.

00:27:08.540 And this was a guy who not only did Scott Adams come out and support Trump,

00:27:14.400 he advocated for him.

00:27:16.100 Kevin, give everyone your coordinates.

00:27:18.860 You can follow me on X and Instagram and now Substack as well,

00:27:23.140 writing, posting, covering all kinds of things.

00:27:26.580 Follow me there.

00:27:27.320 Thank you so much.

00:27:28.000 And stay tuned.

00:27:29.260 Kevin's still there in Minneapolis.

00:27:31.340 Big things to come.

00:27:32.640 Joshua Lysak will stick with us for the last segment here at Human Events.

00:27:42.760 Jack is a great guy.

00:27:44.300 He's written a fantastic book.

00:27:46.000 Everybody's talking about it.

00:27:47.180 Go get it.

00:27:48.340 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.

00:27:52.280 And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to you.

00:27:55.460 Amen.

00:27:59.260 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back here. Human Events Daily. We're on with Joshua Lysak, who edited many of Scott's books. And Joshua, you wrote a piece last year for humanevents.com about some of the life lessons, the wisdom of Scott Adams.

00:28:20.400 That went on to be – I was actually just informed of this because we were going through sort of our end-of-year review.

00:28:26.040 I was actually informed that that ended up being one of our top pieces at humanevents.com for the entire year.

00:28:33.060 So even beyond scoops, exclusives, et cetera, everything that we did, it was that – your piece on Scott Adams that ended up being one of our top for the year.

00:28:43.100 You're back today.

00:28:44.220 A really interesting piece at humanevents.com.

00:28:48.160 It says, Scott Adams, 1957 to 2026, I loved you all to the very end.

00:28:56.560 And it opens like this.

00:28:58.900 On January 13th, 4026, a full two millennia from today, someone somewhere will be discovering

00:29:07.800 Scott Adams' work for the first time in their life, and it will change their life forever.

00:29:15.280 Joshua, walk us through your piece today and why you wrote this.

00:29:21.200 Thank you, Jack.

00:29:22.880 Scott Adams was the Mark Twain of King Solomon's.

00:29:28.060 His advice was timeless.

00:29:30.240 It was perennial.

00:29:30.980 And I brought up before the break that some of his, let's say, greatest hits and highlights

00:29:36.540 that appear in Reframe Your Brain, 2023, first appeared in 1997, the Dilbert future.

00:29:43.300 So Scott had seen the future.

00:29:46.300 He knew what was going to be valuable, what was going to be useful.

00:29:50.340 So many of life, business, career, money management, health, wellness, lifestyle, fitness, social skills, and mental health.

00:30:01.540 He had figured it out a very long time ago and had literally decades to test it, to perfect it even, and to prove it out.

00:30:10.860 So often when there's a public figure and they put some advice out there, there's not necessarily a feedback loop to determine if they were right or wrong.

00:30:20.000 But in the same way that the Proverbs of Solomon in the Bible have proven themselves out for more than two millennia, I expect we'll see the same thing with Scott.

00:30:31.080 in the event that there remains a place called the United States of America in a couple millennia

00:30:37.240 from now, there will be Americans who are leaning on the wisdom of that great patriot, Scott Adams.

00:30:44.320 And who knows what the English language will sound like at that point. There might be future

00:30:48.300 editions and translations of his work by that point. But his wit and his charm and his way to

00:30:55.500 issue simple direct advice is remarkable. And I think he was the first person to successfully take

00:31:03.700 the entire body of work from the profession of clinical hypnosis, which of course has centuries

00:31:11.180 behind it, innumerable numbers of peer-reviewed studies behind it. But he was able to take that

00:31:16.100 out of the clinical context and make it accessible and practical for the everyday person to have

00:31:23.240 like little micro-hypnotic trances that reprogram them for success and happiness,

00:31:29.560 and in many cases, relieving people of depression, anxiety, other concerns that would have held them

00:31:35.860 back. And he set many free, perhaps millions of people free, to be the person they were created

00:31:42.680 to be. And I can't think of anyone who has that much of an impact on as many people for as much

00:31:49.600 a period of time as our internet dad, Scott Adams. It's tremendous. By the way, I actually,

00:31:57.300 so funny enough, I was at this used bookstore a couple of years ago, and I saw this copy of just

00:32:03.400 running around, and I saw this copy of that same book, The Dilbert's Predictions for the Future,

00:32:07.900 that came out in 97. And I picked up a copy of it, and I was like, oh, this is going to be such

00:32:12.740 a good troll opportunity, because I'm just going to be able to find all these predictions that he

00:32:16.980 got wrong. And then I was like, I'm going to tweet them out and totally mess with Scott.

00:32:20.420 And this is going to be so fun. And I started opening the book and I'm like, oh, wait, well,

00:32:24.520 that came true. And this thing about the internet. Oh yeah, that definitely happened. And then like

00:32:28.880 what said, well, the people are going to be connected over times and spaces and like every

00:32:34.940 single page. And I'm looking through trying to find some kind of receipt to, you know, I'm like,

00:32:39.780 I'll really blow them up or, you know, like, you know, you know, put them on blast on, on Twitter.

00:32:44.320 because this is, of course, like, this is what you do when you're friends with me.

00:32:48.740 I couldn't find anything.

00:32:50.080 I actually couldn't find anything in the book that he got, like, blatantly wrong.

00:32:55.780 It was just not a thing at all.

00:32:59.120 And it actually struck me as even more.

00:33:03.200 I think I texted him about it at the time. 0.99

00:33:04.920 I was like, I was like, darn you, Scott. 0.99

00:33:07.400 somehow you somehow you've outwitted me yet again even before yeah we we we started this this crazy 0.99

00:33:15.500 dance it's it was tremendous i gotta find that uh uh somewhere because it was it was really

00:33:20.940 tremendous there's even there's even a comic i've got to find this up where he predicts the rise of

00:33:25.860 trump all the way back in the 1990s he predicts it and it's it's like dog bird explain i think

00:33:31.680 it's dog bird explaining it to soviet dog bird you remember what i'm talking about

00:33:34.800 i don't i i it's familiar but i couldn't tell you that the caption of the comic the text yeah

00:33:41.180 it's it's something like that's something he goes he goes um he goes and so you're and so

00:33:46.500 your leader you're so your leader is this donald trump and dogbert goes i don't think it's official

00:33:52.080 yet you know another that was in 1991 prediction just yes yes another socio-political prediction

00:34:02.300 from that book that scott got right and back in 97 nowadays we have the term called npc right for

00:34:08.620 non-player characters people who are easily programmed by the media particularly internet

00:34:12.640 based media in the dilbert future scott adams made this term called individual individual but

00:34:20.340 d-u-h is right there in the middle middle oh yes individuals are people who because they're so

00:34:27.920 sophisticated and tech savvy they get their news from the internet and it's because they're now on

00:34:34.420 the internet they're they're accessible uh to even more misinformation disinformation and

00:34:41.700 malinformation so as educated as they now feel because they can use this exciting new tech

00:34:47.040 the information superhighway the world wide web to become informed they are in fact learning less

00:34:55.040 factual information than ever. Those are the individuals that we could expect to see more of

00:35:00.260 in the past the millennium, was what Scott termed it. I did a whiteboard video on this last night,

00:35:06.740 Jack. People are now saying that in the same tradition of God's debris, kind of like those

00:35:12.080 of us who were his sort of internet kids, let's say, we're now Scott's debris. And one of those

00:35:18.820 special little shards that meant a lot to me was the teaching technique of whiteboards. So I bought

00:35:23.600 myself a whiteboard and I did a video about individuals in that book last night. So low

00:35:29.280 production quality, but in the, that never bothered Scott, you know, he just kept plowing ahead. So I

00:35:35.160 will continue to do so and carry on that little piece of his legacy. So you've got, wait, can we

00:35:39.120 see the whiteboard? Where's the whiteboard? Oh, it's not here. It's at, it's at the house. It's

00:35:43.400 at the house. That's where I did it. The guys, the guys teasing us with a whiteboard. Well,

00:35:47.880 well, I mean, this, that's, I appreciate you doing that, Joshua. And as someone who worked

00:35:51.680 with scott someone who knew him so well is someone who was right there with them you you and i would

00:35:57.260 not have met you know unhumans and bulletproof and new york times list and all the rest like that

00:36:03.240 just directly because of scott's influence and so many of the things that scott was influential in

00:36:08.600 and so many of the people he talked to which and you mentioned this in in the op-ed uh today the

00:36:13.960 the memorial i think that you wrote for scott it's going to be private and it will always remain

00:36:19.520 private. And there are things and conversations and situations that Scott Adams had an influence

00:36:25.680 in that just because of sensitivity will never be made public. But people know who he knew and

00:36:33.040 people saw his Rolodex and people saw how fast certain individuals, for example, your favorite

00:36:39.020 president, tweeted out about Scott Adams, the great influencer. Joshua, where can people go

00:36:45.680 to follow you and get Scott Adams' work.

00:36:50.520 Thank you.

00:36:51.160 I'm on X and everywhere else,

00:36:52.740 at Joshua Lysak.

00:36:54.140 I contributed to the second editions

00:36:55.660 of many of his books,

00:36:56.740 also the first edition of Reframe Your Brain.

00:36:58.940 Of course, those are also available on Amazon.

00:37:00.580 I have the editor credit on those.

00:37:02.260 And I'm the editor and publisher

00:37:03.500 of the upcoming Scott Adams biography

00:37:05.720 that's authored by Scott's longtime friend,

00:37:08.480 Joel Pollack.

00:37:10.100 I can't wait to read that.

00:37:11.620 It's just going to be absolutely tremendous.

00:37:15.680 work and i was honored of course to be on with scott this last sunday and just um

00:37:23.040 just hanging out with scott there and one of the final episodes we did

00:37:29.020 ladies and gentlemen as always you have my permission to lay ashore

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - January 13, 2026

Remembering Scott Adams

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