Real Coffee with Scott Adams - 2026-07-15 SPOTIFY

00:00:00.000 think I did? I think you did. Okay. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Oh, Owen's so chipper.

00:00:09.600 Oh, good morning. I like you when you're chipper, Owen, like you're like all excitable. I see Kevin

00:00:15.940 and Beverly and Gracie. Excitable. I need one of those mirrors like romper room so we can actually

00:00:22.900 do romper room like i see smar i see crusher good morning you guys good morning youtube

00:00:32.900 spotify rumble locals and x rumble come on in there's rumble rumble just kicked in here we go

00:00:40.100 oh see now i can hear everybody hello mike all right you guys welcome in here we are the home

00:00:47.300 team together again um so listen joel pollack i think we'll be stopping by he wants to update us

00:00:56.180 about um the scott adams biography cannot wait uh did you guys see the post joel and joshua working

00:01:04.740 on the book together very exciting um so here's my warning stella is very chatty this morning so

00:01:12.100 we'll see how that goes but anywho all right you guys let's do it it's time for the sip

00:01:20.820 now it has come to my attention that some of you fast forward past the simultaneous sip

00:01:26.020 well hell you can do that but you're missing the good stuff it's the part where everybody comes

00:01:32.900 together in this moment of solidarity there is no violence there is no ugliness in the world

00:01:40.100 during the simultaneous sip and all you need all you need is a cup or

00:01:45.940 margarita glass a tank or chalice or steinette canteen jug or flask

00:01:49.540 a vessel of any kind i like coffee

00:01:56.660 join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day

00:02:02.180 the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it

00:02:05.620 happens now go

00:02:08.500 there will be cursing i guarantee it no i'm just kidding so owen he was talking to you

00:02:20.040 because owen has already um confessed to us that sometimes he would skip the sip because he knew

00:02:26.560 scott was trying to hypnotize him and he wasn't gonna let it happen right owen early on yeah i

00:02:32.680 I was a resister, but I broke down.

00:02:36.120 I'm a convert. 0.60

00:02:37.240 Resistence sipper.

00:02:39.140 I went for it.

00:02:40.920 All right, you guys.

00:02:42.000 So welcome in.

00:02:42.900 It is July 15, 2026.

00:02:45.580 My name is Erica.

00:02:46.800 I am joined with my two amazing co-hosts, Marcella and Owen.

00:02:51.500 And you are at the Scott Adams School, which is different than this Real Coffee with Scott Adams, obviously,

00:02:59.040 and all of Scott's amazing YouTube videos live on YouTube. And there's more on locals.com,

00:03:06.880 which is a subscriber base. But you guys, I was watching one of Scott's shows. I often do in the

00:03:13.440 morning and I'll get you the date. I'll look in a minute, but it was so good. We had cursing

00:03:21.340 because somebody dared bring up, you know, vaccine injuries. I was like, Ooh, who is that?

00:03:28.420 We had him talking about hoaxes about, you know, like, I feel like he hit every topic so far in

00:03:36.240 this one. And I was like, Oh my God, this is like, we had drones. We, we had it all. So it was, um,

00:03:42.100 a fun show to listen to. And so I recommend you guys definitely go back through YouTube,

00:03:47.940 just scroll through the years and just randomly pick on one and just enjoy it because I do almost

00:03:55.320 every day. All right. So that being said, all right, you guys, I have a couple of clips for

00:04:02.640 you before Joel gets here, whenever he gets here. But the first one, it ties into all of this talk

00:04:09.580 we've been having about the trades and how much they're needed. And I am getting feedback from

00:04:15.680 people that they're going to go into them themselves, and they're going to encourage

00:04:20.200 their kids to do the same. But here is one of the most financial savvy men on the planet,

00:04:28.200 Jamie Dimon. And let's take a listen to what he's talking about today.

00:04:33.520 We're sitting in the Philadelphia Navy yard where we build ships. They built ships here

00:04:37.920 that won the Revolutionary War, that helped win World War II. And so now you have the arsenal of

00:04:44.140 the arsenal of democracy has been reignited, and shipbuilding, people said, couldn't happen.

00:04:48.840 But here you have Hanwha shipbuilding at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which is going to be

00:04:52.880 building components for nuclear submarines and major ships. So we're just aiding here by doing

00:05:00.180 some financing, you know, special kind of financing for Hanwha here. But very importantly,

00:05:05.360 and people have to remember, this is like one big complex ecosystem. We're also financing,

00:05:09.220 you know people we need 300,000 electricians welders etc to build ships in the next five or

00:05:15.340 ten years so we're helping finance people who train people who will train people here there's

00:05:20.520 16,000 workers here that number may very well double over the next five years as it builds more

00:05:24.960 ships and we build a lot of shipbuilding back to the United States there's also a whole ecosystem

00:05:29.160 here I'm going to meet with a rose industry later you know there are probably a hundred vendors who

00:05:33.980 help supply all the things that take place here so we're doing our part to help you know protect

00:05:38.640 the future of freedom and the future of America. I love that. I love, too, that they're going to

00:05:45.300 help finance people who will, you know, like pay for the training of these people. That's how

00:05:50.780 desperate we are. What do you think about that, Owen? I think it's a great idea.

00:05:54.640 Well, I mean, I appreciate the role that he's playing in it. I'm a little conflicted about

00:05:58.360 the whole let's get into shipbuilding again thing. I do think we probably never should have

00:06:03.680 stopped and i do think we should be the best you know ship builders and on the planet just because

00:06:09.360 we've always been the strongest navy for however long i've been alive at least and so i'm glad we're

00:06:15.280 moving in that direction overall but i just i kind of wonder like what is the future because

00:06:19.440 with all the drones and all this like it just seems like a big ship is going to be just a big

00:06:25.040 target and you know you can't get out of the way quickly so like if you've got all these missiles

00:06:29.920 and drones and things coming at you how is that really going to work and i you know maybe they've

00:06:33.760 got stuff worked out with all the lasers and other things that they're putting on ships to try and

00:06:37.680 protect them but it just seems like a vulnerable spot when you can't move very easily in the water

00:06:44.320 but um you know i i'm glad the opportunity is there it certainly seems like when you're backing

00:06:51.760 things that the government is behind it's a kind of a guaranteed bet so i don't think jamie diamond

00:06:56.800 is necessarily taking much of a risk with the financing because it's kind of like guaranteed

00:07:01.380 government contracts. But hey, that's how things work in this country. I mean, it helps the job

00:07:07.220 creation. It helps the economy. It helps the military. You're learning a trade, a skill.

00:07:14.420 And I was talking with some friends last week and one of them is good friends with an electrician.

00:07:20.240 And she was saying that he's so desperate for electricians that he's actually paying

00:07:26.660 for them to get trained. And then, um, they're like working right with him after that. So it's

00:07:33.580 just, you know, it's so tough with the trades, but I do feel like the tide's turning. I feel

00:07:37.940 like people are talking about it more and it's 400,000, um, that they need with the welders and

00:07:44.860 all the tradesmen to do these things. So, um, I just found it interesting that he was talking

00:07:50.360 about it marcella completely agrees um so that was easy for me um but also okay so so you guys

00:07:57.940 we're gonna keep following along with this and i just love the pace that it's going on and i love

00:08:03.020 seeing you guys in here telling telling us you know that your kids are doing these things um

00:08:07.480 or that you did it yourself and you know you're waiting for your son to become old enough so then

00:08:12.320 he can do it don't worry marcella's back you guys they're like where's marcella um so marcella did

00:08:19.160 you get to hear jamie and do you want to say anything about about that um you know i think

00:08:25.880 it's great i agree with owen um you know it's it's a big target so you can get them but you know

00:08:32.760 i'm always a believer in technology and we don't know what the world uh what tech will bring us

00:08:38.300 you know um i always think of star trek and the cloaking device uh of the ships but anyways that's

00:08:45.020 as random um but i think overall um being able to have people that know how to build

00:08:53.020 uh rather than take uh make something rather than take something away um it's always great and the

00:09:00.220 fact that these companies are investing in in in the different employees that they have that's

00:09:07.980 it's always great i love that chamath you know did that maker versus taker because it's really

00:09:15.020 like taken a hold and everybody's using that now. And I, I just think it's, it's like the perfect

00:09:20.860 thing that we need to be thinking about is kind of like, ask not what your country can do for you.

00:09:25.100 Right. Are you a maker? Are you a taker? I'd, I'd like to personally feel like I'm a maker. So,

00:09:31.380 um, I don't know, like it's better to give than receive, right? Oh God. Anyway, this group,

00:09:37.540 why am I even talking about this right now? Okay. Sorry. I was thinking about all you freshies out

00:09:42.460 there. Um, let me just move right along. So speaking of Chamath, I'm going to move on to him. 1.00

00:09:48.120 This was, um, this is interesting in two ways, but let's play this clip. So Chamath, you guys,

00:09:55.500 he's a part of the all in podcast. He's also like a billionaire, like what would we call him? Venture

00:10:01.960 capitalist, startup guy, tech guy, um, great friends with, um, David Sachs, who is working

00:10:10.660 with the trump administration so let's listen to what this kind of bothers me but let's take a

00:10:17.360 listen i love it and i hate it let's go the reality is that most of us were lied to by the

00:10:22.960 media about president trump and if you just go back to the source material you should take away

00:10:29.420 two things one he didn't say half the things he said and two why did these other people just

00:10:34.000 fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character

00:10:39.820 I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America.

00:10:43.820 And there's still been no repercussions, really.

00:10:46.620 I took the time to learn about it.

00:10:49.260 I admitted where, you know, the way that I met him was I admitted on the pod,

00:10:54.380 which, you know, has millions of viewers, and I said, I got it totally wrong.

00:10:58.280 Because I went and I watched Charlottesville.

00:10:59.920 And you know the first person to call me?

00:11:02.180 Who was who?

00:11:02.640 President Trump.

00:11:03.900 And I got to know him, and I put the phone down.

00:11:07.040 I called my wife and I said, we got it totally, totally wrong.

00:11:10.780 We were lied to.

00:11:11.920 And then I got to know him and he is fantastic.

00:11:16.740 I love that.

00:11:17.720 He is fantastic.

00:11:19.820 I love that.

00:11:20.840 Like, I love what he's saying, but I, oh my God, did I just sound like a valley girl?

00:11:25.680 I love what he's saying.

00:11:27.180 But the thing is, is like, how are you so brilliant and you don't know that that was

00:11:33.620 all BS and you didn't do any like fact checking or listening for yourself. And, you know, like

00:11:40.860 Cernovich had a post about this. Well, first of all, Cernovich thinks that he, Chamath, might be

00:11:45.680 wanting to run for governor of California. But then he's also like, oh, you know, then these guys like

00:11:50.740 turn around and now suddenly, you know, they're Trump bros. These are my words. And, you know,

00:11:55.980 now they're going to move to Texas and still complain about all the same stuff. And, you know,

00:12:00.480 So they're, you know, it's kind of like, it's not that it's too little too late because it's

00:12:05.340 always a great time to change your mind when you find out the new facts. But I don't know. I don't

00:12:09.400 know what my take is. I don't know what my thing is with this. I generally love it. Marcella,

00:12:14.680 I'm going to come to you first. I mean, just believing the news for so long and the hoaxes

00:12:20.780 and I think what it is for me is that I feel like if you believed all those hoaxes and you

00:12:26.260 believed the news, then you literally had to believe that anybody who was supporting our 0.97

00:12:31.380 president or voted for him were the scum of the earth, which is like what a lot of them had said, 0.97

00:12:37.280 not Shamath. But I don't know. Why am I so annoyed with this? 0.99

00:12:41.760 No, you know, I think Shamath, not knowing him personally, you know, I think he's being genuine.

00:12:48.640 I think he sees how things have gone. I think in the past, Silicon Valley was

00:12:56.260 How would you say they were sort of in their own bubble and nothing touched them because we didn't have certain governors that went in and created these, you know, the billionaire tax that they're talking about here in California.

00:13:12.360 They were untouchable, basically. And so they were able to live this ideal dream of having this tech and this type of politics, and yet they didn't see the outcome of it.

00:13:29.660 But, you know, as we've gone along, we've seen the Democratic Party, just like they have, turn into a very leftist, extreme, communist driven party.

00:13:42.860 So I think like as they went along and realized this, although, you know, I do, Cerno is correct in his criticisms of them, but I think they are, they're very intelligent people and they're seeing the writing on the wall.

00:14:01.120 they're seeing that these things are going to affect them i think the issue is it's affecting

00:14:07.640 them now right um which is which is fair you know like you know when something doesn't affect you

00:14:13.120 maybe you're not really involved whatever you know so i think they see that i'm i'm very positive

00:14:18.560 that chamath is on president trump's side very positive of that however you know you never know

00:14:26.040 where they're gonna go they they seem to with another election right the other yeah with another

00:14:31.020 election with another party so you know they they're always changing uh fluctuating but i mean

00:14:38.140 i guess that's the the name of the game for all of us you know well and you know my favorite um

00:14:44.120 jason i mean he took off to california and it's like you know what i mean to um to austin texas

00:14:51.360 yeah and it's like you know what stay there and fix it you know like don't keep complaining and

00:14:55.440 just run away i don't know i wanted to um also clarify david friedberg was the one that to talk

00:15:01.980 about makers and takers in the all-in pod where chamath is part of it which i'm i'm sure chamath

00:15:07.600 is in agreement with but yes for sure good morning joel like hello with the guns let's go

00:15:14.340 very sexy today oh and you gotta level up tomorrow

00:15:18.360 it's so good to see you thank you thank you i just got off a red eye flight so everything's

00:15:27.000 kind of jumbled around in my head but um i have actually a very good excuse for being late which

00:15:34.780 is i was writing a page of scott's biography and i went way over time partly because i'm so tired

00:15:40.120 um but uh anyway you're right and i'm dressed up as i i'm about to hopefully go for a quick run

00:15:47.500 And although the oppressive heat in Washington, D.C., where I just landed is a bit of a disincentive.

00:15:53.420 But can we just unpack this for a minute, you guys?

00:15:55.720 Like, I cannot I have the hardest time getting like to a lunch date with friends and I have all day to do it.

00:16:01.520 Joel's like, I just got off a red eye.

00:16:03.560 I was writing a page of his book.

00:16:05.160 I know you're you're doing your prayers and what you're thankful for.

00:16:08.280 Now he's going to go in the oppressive heat and work out.

00:16:11.180 And I'm like, lucky that I put lipstick on today.

00:16:13.840 Like, that's so crazy.

00:16:16.720 Yikes.

00:16:17.160 I'm exhausted. I'm just grateful for the energy to do any of this. I mean, I usually can sleep

00:16:26.760 on planes. This time I only slept for a couple of hours. I sort of have a formula for red eyes,

00:16:32.420 which is kind of eat before you get to the airport. I actually usually bring sushi to the

00:16:37.580 airport, eat at the airport. Then I have some... I know Scott was very anti-alcohol, but I basically

00:16:45.400 have one serving of some alcoholic beverage and then i fall asleep on the flight and wake up

00:16:51.160 on the other coast and i'm okay um this time it just didn't work and i don't exactly know why

00:16:58.520 but i woke up in the middle of the night and then i just started working um so i haven't had as much

00:17:02.760 sleep as i normally get on red eyes and you don't get that much on red eyes but at least usually i

00:17:06.520 sleep the whole flight and this time i didn't and i never take any sleeping pills or anything like

00:17:10.120 that i'm very uh i'm generally very wary of pills or anything so um not because i don't like

00:17:16.360 swallowing pills i'm just kind of like why why put extra stuff in your body you know most most things

00:17:22.440 you need a remedy for you can you can find joel's so tired he's explaining his pill popping wise

00:17:30.280 joel you're a brave man eating raw fish and then getting on a plane

00:17:34.520 that would be the last thing i would pick like that and a salad those are two things i would

00:17:40.420 not eat before getting on a plate you know i've never really had a problem uh as far as that goes

00:17:46.460 i mean i i um my wife's stomach is a lot um more sensitive than mine i i like to joke that i

00:17:55.500 basically have intestines of steel like i can basically eat or drink almost anything and 0.50

00:17:59.740 nothing happens to me. Oh my God. You're so lucky. I'd be like, Oh no. Oh, all right. Well,

00:18:05.380 that was, that was TMI. So anyway, Joel, I was telling everybody, I, you know, I love the picture

00:18:11.500 of you and Joshua working on the book, on the Scott Adams biography. And, um, I'm so glad you

00:18:18.160 could come on and like update us with that and whatever you want to tell us, like we want to

00:18:23.420 hear it all right so um last monday i got together with josh i finished the second draft about a week

00:18:33.320 before that and um he spent a week going over it and he gave me 357 notes and then another i don't

00:18:44.880 know 90 something corrections so there was about 450 some odd you know things to deal with um

00:18:54.720 and we sat there and we kind of went over the book and he suggested a couple of things i needed

00:19:02.460 to add into the book the book right now the draft is about 100 000 words um 100 000 words i mean

00:19:10.800 it's probably about 400 pages. It's a little long. So I need to trim it while also adding material.

00:19:19.860 So that's going to be challenging. I've interviewed over 30 people already for the book.

00:19:27.320 So I've got to integrate that now. And I'm still interviewing people. I'm still asking people for

00:19:31.880 interviews and i'm going to add some structure into the book that i think will make it uh even

00:19:41.620 more interesting and i have to tell you i've discovered things even in the last week or so

00:19:47.080 of sitting with uh with josh and just talking about scott that i didn't know and so i think

00:19:54.560 it's going to blow people's minds actually i i think i i've i've spent a week sort of with my

00:20:00.800 with my head having exploded and sort of trying to put it back together again um but josh yeah

00:20:05.820 josh and i basically we you know he's from um cincinnati or cincinnati area so i flew to

00:20:12.340 cincinnati we rented a hotel room for the day a nice room near the airport with a desk and a couch

00:20:21.100 and just sat there and we worked and i still have my regular work to do for my regular job

00:20:26.880 So I did that also and then got back on a flight and came back.

00:20:32.420 And it wasn't so simple because I had to, in both ends, both going to Cincinnati and coming from Cincinnati, I had flights that had stops in Nashville.

00:20:43.000 So, you know, connecting to Nashville, luckily the weather was OK.

00:20:47.380 I didn't have any major delays.

00:20:50.280 But, yeah, there was like this trek to Cincinnati.

00:20:52.900 It was it took a lot of energy to do.

00:20:54.900 and yeah you have that picture of of us working there and what can i say i mean let me let me say

00:21:03.980 this about josh scott reached out to josh when scott got canceled to publish reframe your brain

00:21:11.880 and to republish the works that he had the rights to that had been dropped by his publisher and scott

00:21:20.300 was introduced to josh and was told that josh is the best editor out there and

00:21:29.020 that's how they interacted and um i'm suddenly getting messages from everybody sorry i just

00:21:39.400 got distracted um and um you know it was um it was something i realized just in the in the day

00:21:47.800 of working with Josh so intensely, um, just how good he really is. I mean, he's, he's incredible

00:21:52.940 and going through the, the notes and the edits that he, that he made on the second draft, they're

00:21:57.620 just, they're just mind blowing. Some of them are so good. They're so incisive. So, um, but yeah,

00:22:03.180 I mean, I've, I have found things and I've, I've, um, you know, I don't want to, yeah, I know. I

00:22:10.140 want to ask, but there's, there's, there's so many, there's so much that's so interesting.

00:22:14.780 and there are some things that i found that are so funny that i wish scott could have been here to

00:22:21.660 um joke around with uh i there are things i almost want to tease him about that are so funny

00:22:28.520 um so you know you you miss him every day especially you miss him when you're doing a

00:22:33.440 project like this um there are things i want to ask him there are things i want to talk to him

00:22:36.820 about. Obviously, I can't do that. But, you know, he had some really, really incredible

00:22:43.700 things in his life. And, you know, I'll give you a little hint of something. So in his archives,

00:22:54.440 he has like a couple of, hold on, I have to, sorry, I can't multitask right now. I'm a little

00:23:01.660 sleep. I have to send somebody a message. Um, okay. Yeah. Do that. I, cause I, I do have

00:23:07.240 questions too. Cause, um, I feel like I know the answer to this, but I I'm wondering, is the

00:23:13.340 biography going to have an audio version? And did Scott say who he wanted to read it and why it's

00:23:22.300 me? No, I'm just kidding. Um, I'm so just kidding. Um, because I do, I love consuming books,

00:23:30.800 you know, like through my, through my ears. So I'm just wondering if we're going to have that

00:23:34.500 option. An audio book. I'd love to do an audio book. Um, they're pretty intense in terms of

00:23:40.700 labor, you know, they're, they're kind of labor intensive. Um, I would love to do it. I I've done

00:23:45.200 it with most of my other books. I've done it personally, you know, with my own voice and it

00:23:49.580 always improves the book. I mean, I, I sat there with a couple of the eBooks that I self-published

00:23:53.780 over the years. I did this last year before the fire. So two years ago, and I sat there and I

00:23:58.840 I would read through my books and record them.

00:24:01.440 I set up my wife's closet to be a recording studio and you'd find little

00:24:07.500 mistakes that, you know,

00:24:08.820 you hadn't caught before or little things you wanted to say differently.

00:24:11.260 So you would go into the, you know, if it's self-published,

00:24:13.300 you can just change it online.

00:24:15.880 It would probably make the draft better. You know,

00:24:19.420 it would make Scott's biography better if I could read it aloud. Yeah.

00:24:22.580 I mean, that's actually a great idea. It just takes so much time.

00:24:26.060 Yeah.

00:24:26.140 but wait Joel before you go on Owen before you go because he has to go did you want to ask Joel

00:24:32.160 anything about the book or well I would just mention um you know I think I just posted a

00:24:37.840 story or at least I saw one that was saying that um apparently people like AI narration of books

00:24:44.080 better than humans now so you might not have to you can just have AI do it so um I'll tell you

00:24:50.580 something about AI and writing I think AI even though it's gotten so much better I think AI

00:24:55.900 writing is mostly garbage reading he's saying reading no reason to you i mean i just yes people

00:25:01.500 are used to the voice i actually was walking around my neighborhood here and there's a guy 0.67

00:25:05.260 listening to a podcast and clearly the the or listening to some audio clearly it was ai audio

00:25:10.940 like an ai audiobook i get that i get that um i just think that books are a particular experience

00:25:19.900 that if you can you want to have the author's voice i mean it's not necessary i've done books

00:25:24.940 where someone else i think i did one audio book one of my books was an audio book that somebody

00:25:29.180 else read in their own voice a human being um but i i think you've you've kind of got to do it

00:25:36.460 yourself i mean you're telling a story and i don't know yeah um i mean maybe there'd be an ai option

00:25:42.300 i have no idea i i just think i think you know if you can tell the story it just it's just so much

00:25:47.420 better and you wrote it i definitely like it when when authors do that i mean i like it when the

00:25:52.780 the author reads the book but i understand it's a lot of work too and it's yeah time yeah so let

00:25:58.340 me um in my with my tired brain here let let me uh just tell you what i was going to say before

00:26:03.160 i got distracted sorry i i uh i got a call to do an interview and so now i i don't i don't know

00:26:09.660 where that person is but uh um scott had this has this archive and he has incredible material there

00:26:18.620 from his early life. I mean, he probably threw a lot away, but he kept the essence of a lot of

00:26:27.860 things. And one of the most interesting things he has is a set of metal boxes that has index cards

00:26:38.020 in them where he wrote down every idea he had for jokes. There must be thousands of jokes in these

00:26:46.540 index card holders um and some of them are so funny and i don't know if he used some of them

00:26:55.440 but it's just incredible to flip through them i mean there's there's no way you can absorb all

00:27:01.000 that material you know i mean it's it's but it is it is incredible um i'll just try to

00:27:06.500 i really don't want to some of some of the best jokes are like stuck in my head i kind of almost

00:27:11.220 want to use them for the book but um i'll give you a hint as to one of them uh he wrote down on one

00:27:18.880 card um unification theory elvis killed kennedy oh my god i love him like there's so many little

00:27:30.600 things like that that i think some of them were things that people told him you know because he

00:27:35.720 started putting his email in the dilbert comic so that when email was a new thing so that people

00:27:40.260 started contacting him and giving him ideas for the Dilbert strip. And so I think some of the

00:27:46.240 things he wrote down were notes or things that people suggested to him for Dilbert. But some

00:27:53.020 things were simply just funny ideas that occurred to him. A lot of dad jokes, a lot of funny riddles.

00:28:01.020 um knock knock who's there anita anita who i need a punchline

00:28:07.540 you know stuff like that but like it's it's just thousands and thousands and thousands oh my gosh

00:28:16.580 you look at this and you're like how can one human being have had this many jokes i mean it's just

00:28:22.160 you know and you hear about comedians doing this kind of thing building a reservoir of material

00:28:26.240 and it's real it's real and it's handwritten most of it and um you know so you know writing

00:28:34.460 this biography you have access to that kind of thing and um it's just it's just incredible but

00:28:39.900 there but let me let me let me say this before i um i guess wrap up

00:28:45.440 there's a mystery that the book is going to solve there's a mystery that this

00:28:56.140 biography will solve it Josh has talked about it as a kind of catharsis this whole book for those

00:29:05.200 who loved Scott and yes you will revisit things you'll learn more about things you knew already

00:29:11.440 you know you'll you'll you'll fill in things you know you'll see things that refer to other things

00:29:16.740 I mean you'll you'll experience the book if you loved Scott and followed Scott for years you'll

00:29:20.260 experience it as a great connection to him but there's also a mystery in the book the book tries

00:29:29.360 to solve a mystery and that mystery is the most exciting thing about the book to me there's some

00:29:38.420 there's something about scott that nobody understood and the book will tell you

00:29:45.720 oh joel you tease first the tank top and now this

00:29:52.600 it's it's an incredible i mean to to to find this about scott was just the most incredible thing i

00:30:06.760 mean um josh and i and josh if you're watching don't don't spill the beans um josh and i sat

00:30:13.820 there josh we were talking about this and and we and i sat there for a moment and just realized

00:30:19.860 what we had just discovered and um there were no words really for a while so i think there's a

00:30:28.440 mystery here that i have to bring out a little bit more in the third draft because i've only

00:30:35.120 uncovered it as i've gone along and in that sense this has probably been the most exciting project

00:30:41.340 they've ever done because you write things you think you are sharing your ideas with people

00:30:47.500 you're telling an audience something that you know about but to have a project where you discover

00:30:53.240 something that you didn't know before and didn't even know to ask about before um is is pretty

00:30:59.520 incredible so there's a there's a really exciting realization that i had i had it last week in

00:31:07.480 Cincinnati while Josh and I were working. And I now understand what the mystery is that the book

00:31:13.900 has to solve. Oh, shoot. I did not expect this turn of events. I'm very excited. I mean,

00:31:22.500 can you not leave it 400, 500 pages long? You don't have to trim it, do you?

00:31:27.980 I do. I mean, the last biography I wrote, the first biography I wrote was about 600 pages too

00:31:34.340 long i mean the temptation when you write a biography is to put so much into it the thing

00:31:38.300 about scott is he left such a huge archive of material i mean you can go there are thousands

00:31:42.200 of youtube episodes and you know 30 years of dilbert i mean it's it's so there's so much there

00:31:48.240 i can't include all that in the book so in a way that liberates me to sort of focus on the

00:31:53.340 most important things um there are things people didn't know there are things there are things

00:31:58.540 people didn't know there are things that will make you laugh and laugh and laugh um

00:32:03.100 i want to laugh

00:32:06.240 yeah i'll just give you one and this is a public one so this is not it's a public one you where

00:32:13.700 you probably haven't connected the dots yet but it's based on public information so i'm not giving

00:32:18.000 you anything you didn't know already but you remember scott introduced an african-american

00:32:23.220 character for the first time dave dave right dave is an engineer dave is a black character who

00:32:30.360 identifies as white that's the gag of the whole thing it was his way of kind of sending up the

00:32:35.660 the dei culture the woke culture that came in after 2020 and scott was identifying as black 0.57

00:32:41.520 at that time right so dave's the black engineer who identifies as white so he messes everything up

00:32:48.240 um why did he name the guy dave

00:32:52.780 i i don't know i thought it was just because it was just like a

00:32:58.520 plain Jane name. No, there was a reason. Yeah. Does anyone remember? If you think about it hard

00:33:07.340 enough, you'll figure it out. Dave? Yeah. I mean, I want to guess something, but I'm afraid to say

00:33:15.240 it. There are no wrong answers. No, there are a lot of wrong answers, but there are no embarrassing

00:33:20.800 answers. All right. You say it. No, you say it. I want to see if you can get it.

00:33:26.020 What do you think, Marcella?

00:33:28.180 I'm going with his brother.

00:33:29.860 You can read the chat white name or his brother's name.

00:33:34.840 Yeah.

00:33:35.340 It's his brother.

00:33:36.380 Okay, that's what I thought.

00:33:37.540 And that's who he made things like his jokes or something.

00:33:41.840 He wanted him to learn.

00:33:42.840 Visualized his brother telling him and making him laugh.

00:33:46.540 Right.

00:33:47.380 So Dave is Scott's brother.

00:33:51.340 Dave, by the way, is not short for anything.

00:33:54.640 Dave Adams was born Dave Adams, not David Adams, Dave Adams.

00:34:00.240 Just Dave.

00:34:00.960 Just Dave.

00:34:02.200 Just Dave.

00:34:03.180 Yeah.

00:34:04.700 Yeah.

00:34:05.340 So Dave.

00:34:06.340 I love that.

00:34:07.100 Yeah.

00:34:08.820 Scott had a constant back and forth with his brother.

00:34:14.680 And Dave, Scott used to say whenever he wanted to think of whether something was funny or not, he would think about whether his brother would laugh at it.

00:34:21.880 And if his brother would laugh at it, then it was funny.

00:34:24.040 um so so in a sense dave was scott's comic muse and and in a way the black character is a tribute

00:34:30.960 to his brother i love that it's perfect his brother is not african-american by the way but

00:34:36.560 it's just it's just it's part of the gag you know like this is my brother dave it's it's it's almost

00:34:42.720 a wink to to his brother and yeah you know so um the brother dave but as long as they're all

00:34:49.560 identifying as black i guess it doesn't matter yeah i don't know if you know this joel but when

00:34:55.720 when scott was becoming famous there was actually a scott adams who was african-american that worked

00:35:02.600 somewhere in pleasanton and they actually were thinking that he was the one that was doing this

00:35:08.860 dilbert cartoon so that kind of implicitly goes with the whole dave character like maybe there

00:35:14.180 could be something i might have to use that yeah um there's also a scott adams who played college

00:35:19.060 football and initially if you if you googled scott adams i don't know why but for a while it would

00:35:24.920 bring up the college football player maybe because scott was so canceled that they kind of had

00:35:28.820 stopped linking the traffic about the cartoonist and political commentator scott adams and they

00:35:35.320 were linking to this football player but you know this is the problem with ai the ai slop would put

00:35:40.080 it all together so they'd be like scott adams famous cartoonist and college football star

00:35:44.760 I mean, Scott would found that hilarious, but anyway. 0.99

00:35:47.780 Racist, also a racist. 0.98

00:35:50.040 Yeah, exactly. 0.94

00:35:50.980 I have to go because there are three meetings I'm missing right now.

00:35:54.140 Yes, go, go, go.

00:35:55.260 Joel, thanks for coming in.

00:35:56.880 Oh my God, we're more excited than ever.

00:35:58.860 And don't think I'm not calling you to find out the juicy detail.

00:36:04.920 That I will not tell you.

00:36:06.520 I will tell you some things, but that one, no, the mystery in the book, you have to read

00:36:12.600 the book.

00:36:12.960 Everybody has to read the book.

00:36:13.820 okay all right we can do it we can do it you guys all right you guys everyone thank you

00:36:17.480 when you find out it's gonna make your mind and your heart explode at the same time oh

00:36:23.660 unbelievable yeah yeah i i can't i can't talk about it too much or i'll choke up

00:36:28.700 so yeah okay okay we got it joel thank you so so much we appreciate it and we'll see you whenever

00:36:35.980 you can pop on all right thank you so much thanks joel take care thank you bye bye well look who it

00:36:43.360 is marcella and then there were two it's me and you again sister how do we keep ending up like

00:36:51.140 this oh my goodness so all right i'm very excited for the book i mean i was already obviously but

00:36:58.060 now we have like a mystery and our hearts are gonna explode oh yeah yeah let me take that away

00:37:04.000 from the cats i like that the biography is gonna be like let's solve this mystery together and what

00:37:10.140 it be very nice what could it be all right the cats ate their kibble i told you probably

00:37:17.740 us super fans probably know but like you know like setting it up in in a mysterious way i i think it's

00:37:25.100 it'd be fun to have a biography not only be informative but also be mysterious and

00:37:33.260 suspenseful and also i know so there's something for everyone yes sean it should be out by

00:37:38.860 Christmas. The plan is to get it out in the fall so people can have it for Christmas and Christmas

00:37:43.720 gifts and all that good stuff. And by the way, if you guys, I think what we're going to do is just

00:37:48.180 run out of the Scott Adams merch. So if you want this simultaneous swaddle blanket,

00:37:55.620 once they're gone, we're not going to restock them. So love my tattoos. I don't have a tattoo.

00:38:03.340 um so i just that just caught my eye i have no tattoos um so yeah so once that merch is gone

00:38:11.160 i don't know what else is left like the beanies or a sweatshirt or t-shirt but if you did want

00:38:16.580 to grab something do it now you guys because then i think we're going to be done with that

00:38:21.320 the mugs we'll see if we're going to keep them or not okay so just grab them now um and the link

00:38:27.260 I'll post later with the show

00:38:30.380 and if anyone has the link now and can drop it

00:38:33.580 and it's also in Scott's bio on his YouTube page.

00:38:37.960 Okay, so that's there.

00:38:40.060 You want Beloved's merch?

00:38:41.320 I know, I know.

00:38:42.100 Okay, so we'll see what happens.

00:38:44.220 All right, so anyway, Marcella, we have some time left

00:38:46.920 and I wanted to, I wanna give a shout out to Nick Shirley

00:38:51.440 and to Scott.

00:38:53.980 So I have just three questions

00:38:57.260 clips that are all going to go together that I want to play. So let me just make sure I have

00:39:01.920 the right one at the right time. And I wanted Owen here to read something. All right. So let's

00:39:08.540 just do this. You know what? I'm just going to do one clip. This is JD Vance. Just, I think

00:39:14.460 yesterday, let's just take a quick listen from citizens and journalists have come from people

00:39:19.820 like Nick Shirley. It was a 22 year old kid.

00:39:27.260 A 22 year old kid who had the audacity to go to the people who are receiving your tax

00:39:32.380 dollars and ask questions, something, frankly, it would have been great if the national media

00:39:36.540 showed a little bit more interest in.

00:39:39.260 But I just want to say to all of you for caring about this issue, for being engaged in this

00:39:44.620 issue, for sending tips into our fraud task force.

00:39:48.300 Thank you, because a bit.

00:39:50.300 okay so i do love nick shirley getting a shout out from the vice president of the united states

00:39:58.720 well deserved because it's true if nick shirley wasn't curious and fearless and going out there

00:40:06.000 and um exposing the fraud in every state um we wouldn't really know about it and so jay plemons

00:40:14.760 reminded me that and haven't you guys all had this thought where you're like where are all

00:40:19.900 these people, how are so many people driving nice cars? The economy is so bad. People can't afford

00:40:27.360 stuff, but so many people have nice cars, and they have nice homes, and they're wearing nice

00:40:31.420 clothes. And you're like, wait a minute, aren't we struggling along? And Jay found this clip of

00:40:37.400 Scott, and he's just a freaking genius. Let's just take a listen. I keep telling you that 0.74

00:40:45.000 there are too many people driving nice cars to make any sense for how many nice good jobs there

00:40:52.340 are, or even how many people have inherited it from their parents or whatever. There just seem

00:40:57.600 to be way too many people who have nice houses and nice cars compared to the number of good jobs

00:41:05.200 there are in the world. And I kept thinking for a year, by the way, for years I've thought this,

00:41:12.040 I thought, what percentage of all the rich-looking people,

00:41:16.660 rich-looking meaning you have an expensive car or a nice house,

00:41:20.060 what percentage of them got it from crime?

00:41:23.460 And I've always assumed it was at least 20%.

00:41:26.740 And now I'm going to up that.

00:41:30.600 I mean, it might be as high as 50% of all rich people are criminals.

00:41:35.420 and, you know, it's these white-collar corrupt NGO money laundering situations.

00:41:44.900 Hmm. Interesting. Always thinking, right? And I mean, I think the same thing all the time and

00:41:51.880 not to, you know, listen, is it the Italian in me? Is it that I just don't trust anybody? I don't

00:41:57.200 know. But I see people like selling merch sometimes or I'm like, where'd you get that merch? Like,

00:42:03.500 where did you get that merch it's just too strange that you have an abundance of this stuff

00:42:08.940 considering the lifestyle you live so i think everybody's a criminal no matter what no one's

00:42:15.340 innocent until proven guilty marcella's like oh my god everyone's guilty in my eyes but

00:42:22.380 yeah don't you think that the fraud it's like so off the charts when you see all this fraud right

00:42:28.220 right, Marcella? You know, I disagree with Scott in regards to that, because not in regards to

00:42:34.780 what you're saying, Erica, but in a bit with Scott because of the area he lived in. My brother and

00:42:41.880 sister both live in that area of Silicon Valley, and it's a bubble. It's not like you go to Fresno,

00:42:49.620 you go to Sacramento, you go to other areas of California, and you're not going to see nice cars

00:42:56.700 all the time so it depends on the area where you're defining it and silicon valley has

00:43:04.620 very nice houses very nice cars every house is like three million dollars or more um you know

00:43:11.100 at least and if it's a nice house and so maybe he was thinking like how are all these people have

00:43:18.540 all this money you know um but technically it's all from tech tech money but um what i would say

00:43:27.820 is that there are people that have money and some of it is i don't know what word i would use but

00:43:35.580 legal fraud uh government contracts that is a big thing in california a lot of either either a lot

00:43:44.300 of people work for the government this is outside of silicon valley a lot of people work for the

00:43:49.100 government or they contract they have their own business like you know cutting trees but now we're

00:43:56.220 gonna have a contract with the school district of cutting all their trees you know so there's always

00:44:01.980 this uh back and forth in california with government and government providing these

00:44:09.980 contracts to their friends you know or you know to whoever can do the bill you know so it's kind

00:44:17.900 of like something that that i'm not sure translates to the rest of the country or but i'm sure new

00:44:25.260 jersey is similar in a way where they're using government contracts um we're very special yeah

00:44:32.540 so we really go for it i'm pulling up a clip for you real quick um okay let me just play this

00:44:38.220 here's here's a little more i really wanted to have like a nick shirley day there's so

00:44:43.080 much information um but you know i i remember when he was doing those um daycare like the

00:44:51.600 leering centers and the daycare centers and all the cars in the parking lot were like mercedes

00:44:57.620 and porsches and it's like oh what's happening here it was like a anyway let's just let's just

00:45:04.440 give Nick Shirley a little bit more attention. One second here. Yes. The governor of California

00:45:08.980 is an enemy to the people of California. He's literally working to support the fraudsters.

00:45:14.480 Meanwhile, he could be working to expose the fraud. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to 1.00

00:45:19.540 say, okay, let's go after the guy who's exposing the fraud. Let's not go after the fraudsters. 1.00

00:45:23.600 That is what he's doing, what he's actively doing each and every single day when he makes out these

00:45:27.780 statements and all he does is blame the people who are showing the fraud. Why doesn't he say,

00:45:32.040 hey, Nick, great video. How can we help? Right. That's what I would say. Wow. Great video. How

00:45:39.220 did you find this? Where did you go? And where are you going next so we can find somebody to

00:45:44.180 go with you? Don't you think that would be a common response? Exactly. Because these tax

00:45:47.800 dollars don't say right or left on them. They don't say Republican or Democrat. Right. Each

00:45:51.400 tax dollar is a dollar for the American people. And when they go in and steal these dollars from

00:45:56.240 us, they're not robbing just the liberal Democrat in California. They're robbing everyone.

00:46:02.040 And then the governor gets mad at the person for exposing the fraud.

00:46:05.320 How.

00:46:05.860 Yeah.

00:46:06.440 So then they, they tried, I don't know, Marcella, if it, I don't know if it passed, but then

00:46:10.940 they tried to stop Nick Shirley act in California.

00:46:14.720 Oh, it passed.

00:46:15.980 So I'll explain what it is.

00:46:18.100 I have to, so it was already law.

00:46:21.480 This is the third or fourth iteration of the law.

00:46:25.240 So the law was already in place and it was basically for harassment.

00:46:30.520 for someone coming to you, harassing you.

00:46:36.020 I have to look at the gist of it

00:46:38.060 and get that back to you on it.

00:46:40.260 But it can be used against a Nick Shirley type,

00:46:45.020 but it's not necessarily just Nick Shirley.

00:46:48.360 It's technically the idea of the law

00:46:50.440 was to protect people that have certain jobs

00:46:56.700 in the medical medical industry is very nuanced and whether somebody can come up to you and ask

00:47:03.480 you questions and and harass you some of them have been harassed and i think uh i have to look

00:47:10.660 further into it it's not just like nick shirley uh act you know um it's called the stop nick

00:47:17.900 shirley act but that's not what it's actually called in the in the government that's what he

00:47:23.980 calls it okay yeah so this law has been around since the 90s um then in 2000 or something then

00:47:32.380 there was it there's different iterations and so what what uh bonta's wife i forget her first name

00:47:40.140 um did is add further uh further indications into the law of what harassment would be and so the

00:47:51.020 the the issue was that that definition could in itself be um a nick shirley type of a person

00:48:00.220 but it's not necessarily that's not what it's called at all so it's just so interesting because

00:48:06.300 it seems like well it is like everybody in every corner of this freaking country is just taking

00:48:14.460 money from people getting their palms greased. This is my opinion, from our politicians to

00:48:21.980 all these organizations. And it's coming at the expense of the constituents, which is us. And

00:48:28.860 I feel like we have no representation. And I just wanted to go to independent journalist,

00:48:34.740 Sarah Gonzalez. She's got balls of steel. I love her. Same kind of thing when she approaches Tom 1.00

00:48:41.120 who, you know what, just watch. This is good. Senator, you've received almost $700,000 from

00:48:47.780 the illegal labor lobby. Is that why you voted against the Save America Act? Can you tell me

00:48:52.700 who the illegal labor lobby is? Yes, it's contractors, general contractors, hospitality

00:48:57.720 companies, industries, construction companies, and industries. How much do you know about the

00:49:02.780 Save America? Which Save America Act are you talking about? The one that you voted against,

00:49:06.580 sir. Okay. And so you're asking me if I voted, I was against it because- You're receiving almost

00:49:14.560 $700,000 from these lobbyists. Do you have any idea what a remarkably silly question that is?

00:49:22.000 I think it's a pretty important one. I think your constituents want to know why you're betraying

00:49:25.480 them. Let me do some math. Do you know what my election cycle, the total all-in election cycle

00:49:29.860 cost was in 2020. It's $300 million. Do you honestly believe that I would make a policy

00:49:36.560 decision based on that? I don't know why you're betraying your constituents. I'm independent.

00:49:41.480 Okay. Why are you betraying your constituents? Why are you betraying your constituents, Senator?

00:49:48.420 We just want secure elections, Senator. You're preventing us from getting that.

00:49:52.720 You're betraying America. Good luck on your job. Good luck on yours.

00:49:57.840 what a strange thing for senator tillis to say seven hundred thousand dollars is not enough

00:50:02.760 he's a sellout but not that amount because he receives 300 million if i were an honest person

00:50:07.620 and i were answering that question i would just say i'm not a sellout to anyone i don't sell out

00:50:12.180 for any amount of money but tom tillis tom tillis says he sells out but not for that amount

00:50:17.460 i love that i think that was so genius he's like good luck on your job she's like yeah good luck

00:50:24.860 on yours. So good. And the way he just talks down to her and dismisses her like, oh, who do you

00:50:32.280 work for? I'm independent. And then he's like, see, good luck on your clicks. Like, oh, really?

00:50:37.260 Well, Nick Shirley's independent. There's so Nate Friedman's independent. Some of our best

00:50:43.860 journalists are independent. So, oh, man, I mean, these people have no shame.

00:50:50.660 What's your impression on that one, Marcella?

00:50:53.400 Yeah, like he could have just, I think Scott would talk about what she talked about.

00:50:58.700 He didn't right away said, I'm not guilty.

00:51:02.580 He said, oh, no, not for that amount.

00:51:05.360 He's like, do you have any idea what my election?

00:51:08.260 It's like, dude, are you guilty or not?

00:51:10.920 Like Scott, yes, Scott would always say, if somebody said, oh, you murdered that person

00:51:15.040 and you didn't, you'd be like, what?

00:51:17.440 I didn't murder that person.

00:51:19.140 no right yeah like but instead you would say i wasn't at that place yeah at that time i was

00:51:25.580 instead of negating the actual um question you know and maybe it's not because of what she's

00:51:33.700 saying the reason that he voted against the the america the safe act but it's like why did you

00:51:39.200 vote against it that's where you would have you know if it's something really uh important why

00:51:46.040 he voted against it he would say it but no he doesn't have any um any answer to her so tom t-h-o-m

00:51:55.880 which is just annoying um i know thomas but so he's on our our watch list now and like montreal

00:52:02.840 galaxy said he first wanted to know how much she knew so he was like well let me see even how much

00:52:07.560 she knew well she knew she had her her notes and you know and then he just got snotty with her so

00:52:13.880 So Freebird says, arrest him now, a moment of truth we've got. Yeah. So what's your evidence?

00:52:21.940 Who are these contractors? Right. So it's like, you know, follow the money, you guys follow the

00:52:27.120 money. Like she showed how much he's getting from each sector and then he doesn't vote for the Save

00:52:33.800 America Act. And it's like, why? You know, why can't we have safe elections? That's all Scott

00:52:39.120 said we needed to, you know, feel secure in our country were fair elections that can be

00:52:46.860 audited to show that they were not rigged and we're not getting it. We're not getting it. And

00:52:53.280 why anyone's fighting it. Change the way you're wording it then. Like make it a one line item

00:52:58.460 issue. Stop packing it with other stuff that people are trying to throw in their note. Just

00:53:03.540 make it an election vote and then let us see who in office wants us to have fair elections and who

00:53:10.300 doesn't care. Like let them just vote on that one issue so we can see who they are. Like why can't

00:53:14.800 we have that kind of transparency and why can't every vote be a vote for one line item? I don't

00:53:20.740 get it. So they make it very confusing and that's where all this dirty money comes in. I don't know

00:53:27.300 marcella if we're ever gonna get fair elections feels kind of grim well they don't they don't

00:53:33.400 want fair elections neither side wants fair election i agree only the voters want fair

00:53:38.440 elections it seems you know there are obviously individuals in government that do want it but

00:53:44.740 for the most part it seems like that's not going to be allowed you know they're not gonna allow it

00:53:52.900 because they want, what was the phrase for Scott

00:53:57.520 for confuse a lot?

00:54:00.360 Confuse a lot.

00:54:02.680 Confuse a lot.

00:54:03.920 Like monopoly.

00:54:05.420 Yeah.

00:54:06.220 So it's like in the confusion is where they are able

00:54:10.720 to get further either their own laws passed

00:54:16.060 or they're able to get kickbacks from certain things.

00:54:20.840 you know so the more confusing you make something the the harder it is to discern what is happening

00:54:29.000 from the public so one thing that you brought up is that uh i that the reporter reminded you

00:54:35.720 of nick shirley i wish nick shirley would take on the save america act and would go down to

00:54:40.920 washington dc and go and ask them questions because they would oh they would be so afraid

00:54:46.600 of him but it needs there needs to be somebody to that degree that that keeps hounding them

00:54:54.680 oh yeah yeah truth they need they they need to answer they should be answering to the independent

00:55:00.120 journalists more than confused openly they're confused openly they should be answering more

00:55:05.960 to independent journalists than to corporate media or cable news because they're the we we

00:55:12.840 see that the people that are independent like they're speaking for all of us like that that's

00:55:17.160 really who's speaking for us so shame on tom tillis and um and thune doesn't care i know you guys it's

00:55:25.000 crazy so all right listen we're gonna wrap up um tomorrow i think the home team returns we're never

00:55:33.560 sure which way we're going but marcella and i will be here i think owen will be here too um okay you

00:55:39.400 you guys. And we're going to do an Akira song as promised today. And Marcella, if you can stick

00:55:45.600 around do, and if not, we get it. Okay. So let's have a closing, uh, thank you to Scott and to

00:55:53.840 Shelly for allowing this show to continue. And we really appreciate you guys being here. It's

00:55:59.280 always so great to see you guys every day, every morning. It's, um, it's nice that we're all

00:56:04.640 together really um jesse kelly we are rescheduling jesse kelly he had an issue with rumble shockingly

00:56:12.320 and um we'll get him back on the roster he's excited to come on okay guys jim courtney you're

00:56:19.620 you're requesting the basket case theory already you must need it okay so we're gonna do it so

00:56:24.120 thank you to scott and shelly for allowing the show to go on and um let's just do all the important

00:56:30.060 things today be useful make good decisions and good choices and watch a scott youtube video

00:56:36.540 today you guys go back and just pick a random one and indulge okay all right so a closing sip to our

00:56:42.780 scott to scott let's go ah goldie it was rough goldie it was rough but we made it through okay

00:56:56.540 basket case theory coming in by special requests from jim courtney in alaska where is it

00:57:08.700 i don't see it i don't see it how could it up jim this is weird all right so i'm going

00:57:19.740 pattern recognition pattern recognition coming in hot on w scott adams school

00:57:34.140 pattern recognition

00:57:37.980 once you realize that the humans are not logical machines pattern recognition machines

00:57:43.340 pattern recognition machines and some pattern recognition that isn't very good

00:57:51.420 pattern recognition is what makes you a racist

00:57:55.180 pattern recognition is what makes you an ageist a sexist everything bad because your patterns are 0.58

00:58:05.320 all you have. You're not really a logical person who reasons everything out. Your brain

00:58:14.300 isn't big enough. You wouldn't have enough time. So instead you default to these little 1.00

00:58:19.580 biases which are determined by patterns. We're pattern recognition machines. Pattern recognition

00:58:32.020 machine. Your patterns are all you have. You're not really a logical person. Now the problem is

00:58:42.060 many of those patterns are fake. Let's say you had met three Elbonians in your life and every 0.79

00:58:48.260 one of them slapped you in the face with a glove. The next time you met an Elbonian you'd be like 1.00

00:58:53.780 oh no thank you I don't want to get slapped in the face with a glove. Those last three Elbonians 1.00

00:58:58.540 were pretty rough on me but it's only three elbonians the odds that your pattern is predictive

00:59:05.540 probably low

00:59:07.640 probably low we fall victim to patterns but you can also use patterns to convince people of things

00:59:17.560 if you are consistent people say oh this person's always honest so patterns are a tool but they're

00:59:26.000 They're also our biggest defect.

00:59:33.000 They're also our biggest defect.

00:59:42.000 We're pattern recognition machines.

00:59:46.000 Pattern recognition machines.

00:59:50.000 Your patterns are all you have.

00:59:54.000 You're not really a logical person, we're pattern recognition machines, pattern recognition machines, your patterns are all you have, you're not really a logical person.

01:00:24.000 And then, of course, understanding the brain as a visualization machine is very, very important.

01:00:48.120 because visualization is the biggest most powerful part of your brain

01:00:54.080 it's the part that influences you most

01:00:56.260 understanding the brain as a visualization machine is very very important

01:01:03.260 because visualization is the biggest most powerful part of your brain

01:01:09.180 it's the part that influences you most

01:01:18.120 obsessed. I could listen to that beat all night. All right. Now, oh, suddenly I'm feeling like a

01:01:27.640 DJ. If I could just take over Stern's show and get that $500 million contract. Oh, you guys are the

01:01:37.700 best. Thank you, Samar. You guys have a great, great rest of your day. I cannot wait to see

01:01:43.660 you guys tomorrow morning right marcella you too yes yep can't wait look forward to it every day

01:01:49.700 all right you guys love you so much have a great great day marcella have the best day

01:01:53.800 ever kick some attorney butt out there for us argentina game watch the argentina versus england

01:01:59.860 and we want argentina right well oh yes there's no way that england can win but then again france 0.92

01:02:07.780 lost yesterday. So. All right, Marcella. So I'll root for Argentina. Tough day for me today,

01:02:14.280 you guys. Oh, gosh. God bless. Root for me. I'm sending prayers your way. Thank you.

01:02:18.940 Thoughts and prayers. Okay. Thoughts and prayers for Marcella. Let's go Argentina.

01:02:23.000 And we'll see you guys in the morning. Take care. Bye, guys. Love you.

01:02:37.780 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 15, 2026

2026-07-15 SPOTIFY

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