Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2993 CWSA 10⧸19⧸25

00:00:00.000 Oh, there you are. Hey, everybody. Come on in. You know what time it is.

00:00:13.760 We got a special guest today, and it could not be more fitting. That's right. Yesterday

00:00:23.180 was no King's Day. Today will be my guest, King Randall, to talk about his boys' school.

00:00:29.800 We'll do that at the end of the podcast. But for now, let's make sure I've got my comments

00:00:37.840 working here. Let's make sure it all works. If my technology works, we're going to have

00:00:44.060 quite the experience. Come on, technology. You can do it.

00:00:59.800 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called

00:01:04.340 Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to experience

00:01:09.260 life at a higher level of excitement, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass

00:01:17.100 of tankard shells, a steamy canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your

00:01:22.200 favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine

00:01:27.940 to the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and

00:01:33.240 it happens now. Go.

00:01:34.840 All right. In case you're wondering, this is not a new microphone. What it is, as I was going

00:01:49.260 to demonstrate, it's for, it's a phone holder. So you can put your phone here, and then you

00:02:01.440 can show people what you're looking at with your hands, so your hands are free. So last

00:02:08.260 night I did an impromptu demonstration of drawing a Dilber comic with my left hand, because I have

00:02:15.660 to draw left-handed now. I've got a problem with my right hand. And I just showed my camera

00:02:21.180 as my hands drew the comic. So that's on X right now. I'll do the same thing for my beloved

00:02:28.740 local subscribers. We'll do that privately later. But if you'd like to see how the drawing looks

00:02:35.820 when you're the actual artist looking at the paper, it's kind of cool. So I just wanted to

00:02:42.100 show you that that's a thing. Can I get it off? There we go. There we go. All right.

00:02:52.000 Like I said, King Randall will be joining me if my technology works toward the end of this

00:02:57.300 hour to talk about his boys' school, which is very impressive. I think you're going to like

00:03:03.500 that. I wonder if there's any science about coffee. Oh, yeah. Turns out that according

00:03:12.920 to the nutrition, metabolism, and cardiac disease people, coffee can lower your blood

00:03:22.720 pressure. But it's the first time I've seen one of these coffee stories where they say,

00:03:28.140 okay, but we don't have the causation nailed down, which is exactly what I would have said.

00:03:35.420 Do you think it's true that people who have high blood pressure drink as much coffee as

00:03:41.940 people who don't? Because isn't that one of the first things I tell you? Drink less coffee

00:03:48.240 if you have high blood pressure. So I'm not so sure about this science, but I like it.

00:03:53.560 All right. As tradition requires, I'm going to do a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

00:04:02.640 The only book I have that is still clicking along at a five-star rating. That's impressive.

00:04:11.120 It's hard to get a five-star rating on a book. Here you go. One of my favorite, this might

00:04:21.500 be actually the best one of all. There are a handful of these reframes that are truly life-changing,

00:04:28.480 more than others. Here's one. Manage your time is what most people teach you, to manage your time.

00:04:36.200 All right. Make sure you've got enough time. Manage your time. I've reframed that to manage your energy.

00:04:43.640 Now, it does matter what kind of job you have. If you're being paid by the hour,

00:04:47.620 you're going to have to manage your time. But the idea here is you want to eventually

00:04:54.100 try to live your life in a way that you can manage your energy. And what I mean by that

00:04:59.680 is, at this exact time of the day, for me, you know, everybody's different. But for me,

00:05:08.200 this is exactly what I want to be doing this time of day. I want to be doing something creative,

00:05:15.440 maybe something a little bit social in its own way. But if I were not in the mood to do this,

00:05:23.580 it wouldn't come out very well. So I match my energy to whatever it is I need to do.

00:05:30.960 So if, you know, at the moment I can't work out, but if I couldn't work out, I'd do it in the afternoon

00:05:35.580 because my brain energy is low, but my body energy is fine. In the morning, my brain energy is high,

00:05:42.560 but my body energy is a little lower. So I do the creative stuff. So manage your energy.

00:05:50.740 Don't only manage your time. All right. Apparently, there's some big meteor shower tomorrow

00:05:58.760 that we're all going to see. It's going to be a good one. It's always after midnight, of course.

00:06:03.960 And for a couple hours tomorrow, you'll see the Oronidus, Orin, Orinus. Some kind of dust left

00:06:14.300 behind by Haley's comment. You should see 20 shooting stars per hour. I feel like I'm going to stay up for

00:06:20.680 that. Well, I'll never stay up for it, but I might go to sleep and then wake up for it four hours later.

00:06:29.160 Do you know that stuff? I used to do it in the old days. I saw that on social media. In the olden days,

00:06:36.580 it was common for people to go to sleep when it got dark, but then they would wake up around midnight

00:06:42.380 and spend an hour or two doing something else, and then they'd go back to sleep. But apparently,

00:06:49.940 people would just all wake up at midnight and hang out. In the old days. Well, as you know,

00:06:56.840 yesterday was the so-called no kings rally around the country, or as some have tagged it,

00:07:05.880 Grand Tifa. Grand Tifa, because they're all grandparents. Seven million protesters, they claim.

00:07:13.920 I'm sure that's overstated in 2,700 locations. So let's see how they did. Any kings?

00:07:24.480 Well, except for my upcoming guest today, King Randall, no extra kings. No extra kings. Surprisingly.

00:07:33.440 Yeah. And here's my question. If you have a no kings rally in 2,700 places with 7 million protesters

00:07:43.620 and the so-called fascist government in charge, the only response to it is two insulting memes.

00:07:54.480 That was it. That the entire pushback to 7 million people demanding that the Constitution be followed

00:08:04.220 was, oh, here's a funny meme. Nothing else. Because you know where you can't have 7 million people

00:08:13.120 running around protesting, no kings. Anywhere there's a king. If you had a king, you'd not be doing that.

00:08:22.420 That's for sure. You wouldn't be doing any of that.

00:08:26.480 So, and then it got funnier because apparently some decision was made, and I don't know by whom or why,

00:08:33.100 to hand out lots of American flags. Now, what do you think when you see a big crowd of people with

00:08:41.260 American flags? Don't you think they're Republicans? So somehow, it was 100% peaceful, which I compliment

00:08:52.860 them on, 100% peaceful, and they were carrying American flags, and they were promoting constitutional

00:09:01.880 rights. Am I wrong that they just held a Republican rally? Flag? Peaceful? Obey the Constitution?

00:09:16.200 It was a MAGA event, right? Especially because it was senior citizens. 1.00

00:09:21.400 The fact that people got paid for organizing this is hilarious because what exactly did they get paid

00:09:31.960 for to promote the virtues of the other side? Have you heard of any Republican who was put out or

00:09:42.760 somehow offended or somehow had a big problem with the no kings thing? I have not heard of one Republican

00:09:50.440 who had any problem with it at all or even cared, even cared if it happened. I looked at it and I

00:09:58.520 thought, oh, looks like people are getting together over this whole support the Constitution and wave

00:10:04.440 the American flag thing. Maybe that's a good sign. So I don't know what they thought they would

00:10:10.920 accomplish, but it definitely did not remove, it didn't remove Trump from office, if that's what

00:10:18.360 they were hoping for. The Department of Homeland Security gets the win for the best post. Somebody

00:10:26.200 brought a giant inflatable penis, like a balloon that was shaped like a penis with a package, and 0.97

00:10:35.640 the Department of Homeland Security took a picture of that and posted it on X, and the caption was, 0.98

00:10:41.400 Gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot. I love the fact that the Trump administration is just

00:10:52.520 mocking it, but not even mocking it hard. They're just sort of gently mocking it. Like, there you go.

00:11:00.360 There you go. Tap, tap, tap on the head. Good boy. Good boy. Go ahead. It's hilarious.

00:11:07.240 Meanwhile, over at the Louvre in France, robbers actually broke into the Louvre and stole the

00:11:17.320 French crown jewels. Now, if you were the Louvre, wouldn't you put a little extra security around

00:11:26.920 the French crown jewels? Nope. Somebody snuck in and stole the crown jewels.

00:11:33.080 Now, I guess the back story is there was some kind of work being done on the facility, so that gave

00:11:43.160 them an opening to get in. Ordinarily, it would be more secure. But they got in, they stole the crown

00:11:49.960 jewels, and then somebody dropped, I guess, the crown that's the greatest of the crown jewels,

00:11:57.320 Empress Eugenia's crown, and broke it. Imagine dropping it and breaking it. Like, what would that

00:12:05.800 feel like? You're like, ah, I just broke into the Louvre. I got the crown jewels. Look at me. I got the crown.

00:12:13.080 Oh, shit. Well, we just leave them there. And then they just leave them there. But I'm also thinking, 1.00

00:12:19.640 how many people would have the wherewithal to break into the Louvre, but also some place to

00:12:29.800 unload the jewels? What pawn shop takes the French crown jewels? Can you take it to the corner pawn shop

00:12:39.800 and say, hey, I found this in my attic? Did you now? Did you find that in your attic? Because that looks a

00:12:47.720 little familiar. I've been to the Louvre. No, no, this isn't one of those Louvre crowns.

00:12:53.800 This was in the attic. Can you give me $100 for it? Anyway, I'm sure they'll be caught pretty soon.

00:13:02.520 There's a New Jersey drone company that says they were behind the drone sightings over the New Jersey

00:13:11.560 airport. Do you believe that? So they were introducing their product and they said, yeah,

00:13:18.040 we had an agreement with the government that did not require us to disclose it. So we didn't. And

00:13:25.080 we've got these big ass 20 feet long drones that fly kind of funny. And they're trying to tell us that 0.87

00:13:32.440 their drones are the ones that were scaring people. I'm going to say, probably not. Probably not.

00:13:39.560 But I am willing to believe that some of the drones were theirs. Maybe some, maybe one.

00:13:47.400 But do you think that's the whole story? Like the whole drone story is that?

00:13:55.160 I'm going to say probably not. But it was a weird looking drone, I have to admit.

00:13:59.160 So speaking of weird looking drones, now there's a, according to wonderful engineering, there's a new

00:14:09.240 drone, a rocket launching robot that also has a machine gun, not machine gun, shotgun. So you can now

00:14:18.600 get yourself a grenade launching war ready robot dog. So it's in the form of a dog.

00:14:27.800 What would be more awesome than a dog that could throw a hand grenade and also had a shotgun?

00:14:37.000 How much do you want the shotgun hand grenade dog to guard your house?

00:14:42.200 I just want one. And just one shotgun hand grenade dog. And I'll feel good. That's all I want. 0.57

00:14:50.040 So wonderful engineering is talking about that. Can you believe that Walter Cronkite

00:14:59.560 once was on the Epstein flights to his island? Walter Cronkite? Did you even know that those

00:15:06.360 eras overlapped? Did you know that Walter Cronkite was even alive when Epstein was taking people to his

00:15:14.120 island? When did when did Cronkite die? I thought he died 100 years ago. But apparently he was alive.

00:15:20.520 He was 91. They dragged his wrinkly ass to Epstein's island. There is no suggestion that he did anything 1.00

00:15:28.920 untoward or inappropriate. So I think it was just part of just part of Epstein trying to get as many

00:15:36.520 rich people under his wing as possible. At least we think he didn't do anything.

00:15:43.640 Meanwhile, there's another story in the New York Post about Epstein. I guess he had this kind of

00:15:48.920 a primary billionaire friend besides the, aside from the Victoria's Secret guy, he had another

00:15:55.560 billionaire who was a big backer, Leon Black. And there's now some emails that have been discovered

00:16:03.320 in which he was threatening Leon Black to continue his payments, which apparently were 40 million

00:16:11.640 dollars a year for Epstein's financial advice, which was unspecified. And Epstein was mad because I think

00:16:22.120 some of his other sources of income had been cleaned up because he'd been accused by them. So he didn't

00:16:28.760 have too many other major places to get money, it looks like. So he was leaning on his billionaire

00:16:34.520 friend pretty hard, leaning on him the way that you wouldn't lean on somebody unless you had some

00:16:41.640 blackmail. Because the way he talked to him didn't sound exactly like you'd talk to somebody who was a 0.94

00:16:49.800 friend or a colleague or just a business interest. It sounded like somebody he made his bitch. 1.00

00:16:55.000 So he's like, you better give me the 40 million dollars every year. 40 million. That must have been 0.99

00:17:03.000 some good advice he got there for that 40 million. He even called the billionaire's children retarded 0.98

00:17:12.280 because they'd created a, quote, really dangerous mess by trying to stop the money flow to 0.95

00:17:18.040 Epstein. He goes, to be clear, my terms are as follows. I will only work for the usual 40 million

00:17:26.280 per year. He won't work for a penny less than that. You offer Epstein 39 million dollars per year?

00:17:33.480 No way. He will not do it for less than 40. He's a good negotiator. Anyway, in other news,

00:17:41.720 Australia's prime minister heading to the U.S., to the White House. I don't know if that's today,

00:17:48.520 I think. Tomorrow, I guess. Tomorrow. And we're going to talk about rare earth minerals and other

00:17:54.280 stuff. So I did a little research on Grok, trying to figure out this rare earth mineral situation.

00:18:01.000 So I guess we got 17 rare earth minerals that are sort of the problem ones. And we've got a whole

00:18:11.080 bunch of allies, such as Australia and Canada, that do have access to those. But what we don't know is

00:18:19.800 how much access they have, how fast it would take them to ramp up. And there's some thought that

00:18:24.200 Trump's going to want to buy equity in a bunch of existing rare earth mining enterprises. To which I

00:18:33.080 say, that seems like the smartest idea, doesn't it? Wouldn't the very best way to approach this be to

00:18:40.120 buy an equity stake in as many allied country companies that do rare earth as we can? So we

00:18:48.280 get up on the priority list there. Seems like that would be the obvious. And then our investments

00:18:53.240 would allow them to expand. So if that's where we're heading, massive equity investments in existing

00:19:02.120 mining operations and refining operations, I would say, smart. That looks like exactly what we should

00:19:09.800 be doing. Well, who is it? The Chancellor Merz of Germany, he got in trouble for saying that the

00:19:22.520 cities over in Germany, the cityscapes are having challenges because of immigration. 0.99

00:19:30.440 So what happens to a leader in Germany, when they point out the obvious, the immigration is having an 0.98

00:19:36.120 impact on the quality of life in the cities? Well, he's in terrible trouble for even suggesting

00:19:45.160 that immigrants could be causing any problems in Germany. So now he's being called a racist, fascist, 0.92

00:19:53.160 you name it. Basically, everything Magda has been called.

00:19:56.360 And all the people in Germany heard is that he's some kind of a horrible immigrant-hating guy,

00:20:05.240 which apparently is nothing like the truth. So good luck, Germany. It looks like the Holocaust 0.99

00:20:13.480 destroyed Germany for good. It just took a few decades. 0.93

00:20:17.080 Two-thirds of the German public want fewer migrants, and nearly half of them think Europeans are being,

00:20:29.000 quote, replaced. Can you believe that was ever a debate, the word replaced? Because as soon as you

00:20:38.040 use that word, it's just a fighting word. Why do you need to say replaced? You just,

00:20:43.720 we're all observing what it is. You know, more of one type, less of another type.

00:20:51.560 As soon as you use the word replaced, then suddenly you're racist. But we're all looking at the same

00:20:56.440 thing. Nobody's arguing about what's happening. So that's weird. Wall Street Journal says that Venezuela

00:21:05.560 is what they call coup-proof, meaning that even if the military wanted to do a coup against

00:21:13.720 Maduro, their cartel-loving boss, it'd be hard to do because he's already purged all the anti-Maduro people.

00:21:23.800 A lot of purging going on. I guess the purging and the torturing and the jailing of his enemies was

00:21:29.400 so aggressive that the military is completely cowed. And on top of that, I didn't know about this so much,

00:21:37.240 but apparently Maduro uses Cuba's intelligence people for his own power purposes. So he's got some

00:21:46.120 kind of a tight connection with Cuba's intel people. And I guess they're pretty good, the Cuban intel

00:21:54.120 people. So they're going to keep him in business. So not so coup-proof. But I don't think it's a coup that's

00:22:02.200 going to take him out of business. I think he'll be a bomb. Something tells me that Maduro is going

00:22:08.040 to be exploding pretty soon. I don't know when.

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00:22:26.680 apply. Learn more at mx.ca.ymx. Anyway, let's talk about that Gaza ceasefire. How many of you

00:22:35.320 thought that Gaza and the IDF would declare a ceasefire and then nobody would break the ceasefire?

00:22:43.960 Is there even one person in the world who thought the ceasefire would hold? No, no. But will it make a

00:22:53.160 difference? I think probably not. Because what matters is how many military assets are there in

00:23:00.360 the first place. So if they've drawn down the military assets 98% on both sides, yeah, there'll

00:23:07.480 be some ceasefires broken by the 2% that they have trouble mopping up. So yes, the ceasefires will be

00:23:14.920 broken. Yes, there are people on both sides who want the peace to end. Probably won't. I feel like we're

00:23:21.400 off to a good enough start as long as they keep the major military assets out of there. There just

00:23:27.640 won't be that much to ceasefire over. All right. Apparently, Zelensky asked for Tomahawk missiles.

00:23:40.680 And as you know, Trump said, not so fast. We're not going to give you those Tomahawk missiles right

00:23:46.600 away. We're going to go talk to Russia first, because then they've got something to trade away. 0.96

00:23:53.240 They can say, we're totally going to give these Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if you don't talk

00:24:00.520 peace pretty soon. Now, I did hear from somebody who seemed to know more than I do about Tomahawk missiles,

00:24:06.920 that they might not be all they're cracked up to be. Meaning that Russia has the ability to shoot them 0.63

00:24:15.400 down. And also that you would need some kind of ground launchers that would have to be operated by

00:24:22.680 Americans. So if we put Tomahawks in Ukraine, it would basically just be America going to war with 0.93

00:24:30.040 Russia. Because it would take, I guess it would take too long to train the Ukrainian to push the button. 1.00

00:24:35.720 How does that work? You know, we'll program it for you. We'll target it for you using our satellites,

00:24:43.480 and we'll program it. But make sure you get a Ukrainian over here to push that button. 1.00

00:24:48.120 Is that what it looks like? Is Russia going to say, oh, that looks like totally a war with Ukraine?

00:24:55.480 Or are they going to say, that looks like a lot like a war with the United States?

00:25:00.920 So I think Trump is playing it exactly correct by holding out that risk. And I don't know,

00:25:08.360 you know, Russia probably thinks that we could put the ground launchers there if we wanted to.

00:25:12.120 So I would imagine he's got something to trade away now. And I would imagine in the next few days and

00:25:20.520 weeks, you're going to see massive more attacks on the energy infrastructure of Russia and vice versa.

00:25:28.520 So we'll see. We'll see if Trump can get this done. My guess would be they'll have one more

00:25:33.400 conversation, Putin and Trump, and maybe not much will come from it. And then things will have to get

00:25:40.280 much worse again. Because I don't think we're at the place where it's worse enough. Do you?

00:25:47.800 Ukraine seems perfectly willing to stick in there and keep fighting. And I don't see Russia cracking.

00:25:54.520 So you would need at least one of the sides to sort of be on the edge of, yeah, maybe this is a bad idea.

00:26:02.680 But we don't really see that. We see both sides saying, oh, it's a good idea. And for now,

00:26:07.560 it's a good idea. So can Trump change that reality? You know, I told you with Gaza,

00:26:14.600 that what Trump did is not negotiate. Negotiating isn't what made that work. What worked was he changed

00:26:22.680 reality? He just changed how we thought about reality. And then it all came together.

00:26:30.200 He'll have to do the same thing with Ukraine. I don't know how he would change reality.

00:26:35.240 But he's saying stuff like, he is making them think past the sale. So that's his usual trick.

00:26:43.240 So his usual trick is he's telling them, you know, you can just walk away.

00:26:46.680 Both sides, you know, you could just walk away. Russia, you can just literally turn around and 0.93

00:26:53.480 walk away and the war's over. You know, as long as Ukraine does too. So that's actually 0.97

00:27:00.200 pretty powerful because you have people dying and it's costing money and it's this gigantic problem.

00:27:06.760 Imagine if somebody came to you and they've got this gigantic, complicated,

00:27:12.040 deadly life and death problem. And your solution is you could just walk away.

00:27:19.560 That's it. You could just stop. And then it would all be over. You could almost certainly

00:27:26.120 keep the stuff that you've already captured. You're not going to capture any more anyway.

00:27:31.800 You can just stop. That is actually a super powerful message because you're, you're taking a rational

00:27:39.960 person, Putin, you know, even if you hate him, he's a monster, blah, blah, blah. He's a monster. 0.99

00:27:45.880 He's the devil. Okay. But he's rational. So he's not going to just keep beating his head against the wall 1.00

00:27:53.400 if there's nothing on the other side of the wall. So you just say, here's your choices.

00:27:59.320 You can keep doing this forever and we're in. We'll keep, because remember,

00:28:05.560 Trump has put the United States in the perfect position. So you want us to sell more weapons

00:28:12.600 and test more weapons and get smarter about how well our weapons work in war? All right.

00:28:18.760 Take your time. Nothing's changing on the battlefield except, you know, people dying and

00:28:27.000 apparently neither side cares too much about that. So go ahead. But anytime you want to, anytime in 10

00:28:36.680 minutes, you can make the whole thing stop. All you have to do is give the order. Just say stop. If you

00:28:43.240 say stop, I'll tell Ukraine to stop. And then we're stopped. It's over. So I don't know. Is that a

00:28:50.920 negotiation? Or is that changing reality? The reality is you're not fighting for anything. Oh,

00:28:59.560 there it is. There it is. There it is. Did you feel that when I said it? The reality is

00:29:09.880 neither side is fighting for anything anymore. Mostly Russia. They're not fighting for anything

00:29:16.600 because there's nothing to win. They're not going to go any further. Telling them they're fighting for

00:29:23.000 nothing makes you look irrational. I don't think Putin wants to look irrational. Does he?

00:29:30.680 I feel like that would be a strong approach. You realize you're fighting for nothing, right?

00:29:35.560 That if we go another six months, what do you think you're going to get?

00:29:39.240 What do you think you'll get if you fight for another six months? Nothing? More dead people?

00:29:48.600 Less energy security? You know, worse relations with the rest of the world? What do you think you're

00:29:56.600 going to get in six months? It's only going to be worse. So I think Trump does have an argument that

00:30:03.960 that he can press. Anyway, so this, of course, is coming. According to Interesting Engineering also,

00:30:14.520 the US is developing missiles that don't need GPS to find you. They don't need GPS. So in other words,

00:30:22.760 it would just look at the ground the way a person would and say, huh, looks like, oh, about a mile

00:30:28.600 away from that place. And then it will just sort of go to where it needs to go. I guess it can get

00:30:34.760 within 16 feet of whatever they want. And they can make these little flying robots that are only

00:30:45.880 that weigh less than five pounds each missile. I call it a flying robot, but it's a missile.

00:30:51.320 It would be a five pound missile that can fly over 60 miles an hour and can hit a target within 16

00:30:58.520 feet without any GPS. What is it? If you were, if you were Russia and you found out that we had,

00:31:09.080 you know, already on the lab board and we're ready to mass produce these missiles that weigh five pounds

00:31:15.800 fly 60 miles an hour and can hit something without being jammed. Wouldn't you kind of hurry up a little

00:31:23.640 bit on the peace deal? Cause you don't want that stuff coming down on you. Do you? No, you don't.

00:31:32.520 All right. So, um, I did terrible planning today because I ended a little too soon. So I'm going to

00:31:38.600 try to do is I'm going to text, uh, King Randall, see if he wants to go early.

00:31:44.680 Uh, can you go early? Uh, can you go early? He has to show up on my studio set up before I can

00:31:53.800 invite him in. Go early. He might be watching.

00:32:01.320 I hope he is.

00:32:02.040 All right. So I'll keep an eye out for him to be joining. He will be joining right there if he joins

00:32:16.760 participants. Right now I'm the only participant, but while we're waiting for that,

00:32:22.360 I know what you want. I know what you want. You want some more, you want some more, uh, reframes,

00:32:33.800 don't you? So more reframes from my book will change your life while we're waiting for, uh, King

00:32:43.640 Randall to slide in. All right. Oh, here's one that has really helped me a lot. Uh, or the regular

00:32:51.640 frame is that when you take a job, your job is whatever your boss tells you is a job, right?

00:32:58.120 So you go to work, they say, what's my job description? Here's your job description.

00:33:03.560 If you take the job description as your job, you will not go far.

00:33:09.880 Right? How many of you already knew that? That if, if you do the job that you're given

00:33:16.120 exactly as it's described, exactly the job description, you will not do well in life,

00:33:24.040 you're going to have to figure out what, what it should be, not what it is. So you want to make

00:33:29.960 sure that what you're doing is better for the company and better for your boss than whatever they

00:33:35.560 told you to do. Now that's not easy. If you're not smart, it won't be easy to do. But instead of your,

00:33:43.320 instead of your job is what your boss tells you it is, um, here's a reframe. Your job is to get a

00:33:50.200 better job. How do you get a better job? Usually by doing more than you were asked to do. That's what,

00:33:59.640 that's what, uh, flags you for promotion. It's like, oh, Scott did everything we asked him to do,

00:34:06.040 but he created this other project on his own and that worked out. You're first in line for the

00:34:12.360 promotion. So never do what your job is. You should do whatever it is that would get you a better job.

00:34:18.920 Now that might include, um, learning on your current job, how to go to a different company and get a

00:34:25.240 better job. But it's always about you. It's not about the job. Make sure that make sure it's about

00:34:32.200 you. All right, here's another one. Um, these are, a lot of these are my favorites. They really

00:34:41.800 changed my life completely. Um, if you ever just said to yourself, you're bored with life. Do you ever

00:34:47.960 just wake up and you're like, oh, I am so bored with life? Oh, it's just gonna be another day like

00:34:55.080 yesterday. Go to work, eat my stupid sandwich, come home, commute. So if you're bored with life, 1.00

00:35:03.560 here's my reframe. The problem is not boredom. The problem is that you're not embarrassing yourself

00:35:10.440 enough. You're not embarrassing yourself enough. You need to put yourself in some shaky,

00:35:17.960 iffy situations. Now, not dangerous. It doesn't have to be dangerous. It doesn't have to be,

00:35:23.560 you know, life threatening. But for example, uh, oh, King Randall's here. Let me just finish my point

00:35:31.240 and then I'll invite him in. Um, for example, if you, uh, have never taken a class on public speaking,

00:35:41.960 most of you would be horrified by it, right? Public speaking is scary. If you're bored,

00:35:49.640 do that. Do something scary. It'll totally take you out of your boredom. Uh, if you're bored,

00:35:56.760 go ask somebody out that you know will say no. Eh, worth a shot. But it's not boring. So if you're bored,

00:36:05.480 increase your, um, increase your risk of being embarrassed and you'll find it just opens up your

00:36:14.120 whole life. Suddenly you can talk to anybody. You can talk to a stranger. You can ask somebody out.

00:36:20.440 You could ask for that job you think you'll be turned down for. Just do something that will be

00:36:24.520 embarrassing. It'll solve your problem immediately and you'll be happy probably. All right, let's see if

00:36:29.960 I can get King in here. This will be a test of my abilities. Accept. And now, uh, in theory,

00:36:44.360 in theory. Hey, there you are. Can you hear me, King? Hey, how are you?

00:36:52.200 Can you hear me? I can hear you. Awesome. Perfect. So nice to meet you in person. I've,

00:37:03.000 we've, uh, we've messaged back and forth and tried to get together a few times,

00:37:07.800 but, uh, I had some issues and I apologize for those, but so glad you could join. So let me give

00:37:13.960 you the big picture and then I'll let you talk with the people. Okay. Okay. So big, big picture is you

00:37:20.440 started and run a school for boys in Georgia. Where in Georgia? Albany, Georgia. We're about

00:37:27.160 two and a half hours South of Atlanta. How many kids in the school? We have 25 right now.

00:37:33.400 Now, uh, I've been watching your social media for several years and I always see all black kids,

00:37:39.480 but I know that you, you invited a white kid in recently and how'd that go? Did he make it?

00:37:45.000 Yeah, of course. So the, the thing is here in Albany, we have a 77% African-American population.

00:37:51.640 So usually you're just going to see mostly, uh, black children, but we've had, um, Hispanic children.

00:37:56.440 We've had white children before. Um, but I also tell people I can't make anyone sign up their, 0.61

00:38:00.920 their children. Um, so, you know, Eli, uh, his mom signed them up and, you know, he was,

00:38:05.240 he was welcome in with open arms. Uh, so the biggest thing for us is, you know, just letting people know

00:38:09.640 just about the demographic, uh, you know, in Albany, we don't have a whole lot of white people in Albany. So,

00:38:14.200 uh, it's, it's tough trying to, uh, you know, expand, uh, the races there. Right. Well,

00:38:19.240 one of the things I love about your operation is that you're, uh, everything you do seems smart and

00:38:25.480 not, not some like weird political thing. So you're not concentrated on race. It just sort of works out

00:38:32.600 that way, which is fine. So, so here's what I've been most impressed by. I assume the school does

00:38:39.480 all the usual reading and writing stuff. And for what ages? Uh, right now we've taken our age

00:38:45.160 groups down to ages six through nine. We were doing ages 11 to 17 in our first, uh, six years

00:38:51.320 of the program. Uh, we changed the age groups because, uh, we've realized that many children

00:38:56.520 are starting to lose themselves a lot sooner, uh, than ages 11 to 17. We have kids, you know,

00:39:02.120 who are in third grade, second grade smoking, uh, talking about sex or whatever, et cetera.

00:39:07.640 And so most of those kids, um, they are just looking for somewhere where it's cool to do the

00:39:12.280 right thing because when they're doing the right thing at school or anywhere else, they get picked

00:39:16.600 on or, you know, nobody wants to be your friend. So we've created a space where you get rewarded for

00:39:21.960 doing the right thing. You get rewarded for reading, you get rewarded for learning your workshops,

00:39:25.480 you get rewarded for, uh, getting good grades and things like that. So, um, that's what we've created.

00:39:30.360 And now those children are taking it in and those children are more willing to, uh, stay the right

00:39:35.960 way versus trying to get a child who's lost himself and then trying to fix it. So, so there's a whole

00:39:41.720 bunch that I observe you doing on your social media. That is so good. I want to, want to mention all of

00:39:46.440 it, but you have a, uh, impressive, what I call a talent stack, meaning that your specific talents,

00:39:53.960 even being able to do this so well, uh, you know, you've got the education, you got the working with

00:39:59.080 the kids, but you also have a whole bunch of skills, which you're teaching the kids from

00:40:03.320 how to change the oil to how to replace a doorknob to, uh, dinner manners to all these things.

00:40:10.600 So you've got this impressive, um, set of skills that you have, which I think is a role model

00:40:19.400 situation for those kids. That's unbelievable. Like just the fact that they can spend time around you

00:40:25.640 and observe somebody building a skill stack that all fits together. Wow. Wow. But anyway,

00:40:32.120 the other thing that I love most, I've seen you mention this is that you come from a non, 1.00

00:40:37.080 non victimization mindset. Of course. Absolutely. Say, say more. I was taught. Yeah. I was taught,

00:40:45.400 you know, growing up with my granddads and uncles, we, we work for everything. And a lot of this stuff

00:40:49.860 that people, you know, kind of, uh, uh, think of these days, uh, like as far as the liberal ideas and

00:40:55.340 things, I was never taught that. I mean, we grew all of our own food in the backyard. We didn't

00:40:59.580 grow up in the best neighborhood. Um, but everybody in the neighborhood loved each other. I mean, we

00:41:03.660 grew, everybody in the neighborhood grew food. We traded food. We had chickens in our yard.

00:41:07.900 Uh, we had dogs, uh, we had rabbits. I mean, we had a whole bunch of animals, but we grew everything

00:41:12.620 we wanted to eat. If I got home from school and this is like 2012, 2013 time, um, I got home from school

00:41:18.060 and my mom asked us what we wanted to eat. We had to go outside and pick it. We even grew the seasonings.

00:41:21.980 Um, my, my dad taught me how to paint cars. Um, my stepdad taught me how to build everything. We

00:41:27.260 built our sheds in the backyards. We built our dog houses. We welded, we built our own grills.

00:41:32.620 So when I was growing up, because our whole neighborhood was learning from each other,

00:41:36.540 I thought that other kids just knew this stuff because that's how I grew up. And so as I became

00:41:41.340 an adult and realized like kids don't know how to fix a car or know how to work on a house

00:41:45.420 or put in a window or paint something, um, it was tough. So that, that was the idea. I started the program

00:41:51.580 out of my house. I was 19 years old. I started the program out of my house, uh, in my dining room

00:41:56.300 and we went from there. And so, uh, we grew from just being in my dining room to, you know,

00:42:00.540 having the facilities we have now to having staff, uh, to affecting, uh, so many kids. And I'm so glad

00:42:06.060 that our donors, you know, have been, uh, so helpful to us because we don't take any government

00:42:10.140 grants. As soon as you start getting the government involved, we can't teach about God and we can't

00:42:14.220 teach about these things. And we're exclusively going to teach, uh, Christianity and we're going to make

00:42:18.700 sure our children, uh, aren't victims. We believe in God and we believe in Jesus. And that's what

00:42:22.540 we want to make happen. So, um, that's what we've been doing. And, um, our donors have made sure that

00:42:27.180 this program has been able to flourish, uh, for the last seven years. And, um, I'm grateful to everyone

00:42:32.140 who supports our program. Yeah. Uh, the other thing I like about you is that you're aggressively non-political.

00:42:39.500 Yes. You don't have to be, you don't have to be super political. You know, um, some, the other day, uh,

00:42:48.060 somebody, uh, tweeted, well, they made a comment on my Instagram and said they donate 20 grand if I

00:42:53.180 disassociate myself from, you know, MAGA and Donald Trump. And I'm just like, when have I ever

00:42:57.740 mentioned that? But it just speaks to, you know, just that side in general, because for me to just

00:43:03.180 be teaching boys responsibility and how to work for themselves and how to make, you know, uh, honest

00:43:07.660 money, um, and take care of their families and stuff. And you just assume that that's MAGA, uh, that's

00:43:12.780 insane. Um, I'm just like, I, I've never said anything like that. Of course, uh, I was invited to the

00:43:17.420 White House by, uh, President Trump, uh, back in February for the Black History Month event. And I

00:43:22.620 was explaining to them, you know, um, about that event. I'm like, he was inviting people who are

00:43:26.540 doing work, uh, in the Black community. And, um, either you wanted him to recognize us or you didn't.

00:43:31.500 I got a lot of flack for going to that event, but like I told them, I'm like, if he wouldn't have 0.66

00:43:35.420 recognized Black people for doing anything, he'd be so terrible. And then we're stupid for going. 0.99

00:43:40.540 I mean, it's, it's insane, but you know, I don't listen to those things. Our students were proud. 0.99

00:43:44.860 I took them to visit the White House, uh, back in, I think it was this March or April, I believe.

00:43:50.060 I took them to visit the White House and, uh, we had a great time, uh, there with their parents and,

00:43:54.300 and it was a, it was a beautiful thing. So, you know, here we are, uh, in 2025 trying to tell them

00:44:00.780 that we're not political and Donald Trump has no affiliation with us, but who cares? I mean, even if

00:44:05.980 he did, he's the president of the United States. Um, why wouldn't we want to be recognized by the,

00:44:10.860 the biggest figure, you know, in our country? And, uh, just, just to be practical, you're always in

00:44:17.420 fundraising mode because you're not, you're not backed by the government. So can you tell the

00:44:23.500 people if, uh, I'm going to say some more good things about you and they'll, they'll be all primed

00:44:28.060 to, to, to donate. Some of them will be, but, uh, how would they do that? What would be the mechanism?

00:44:34.300 You can go to our website at thexforboys.org. That's T-H-E-X-F-O-R-B-O-Y-S.org. Everything that

00:44:41.820 you hear me explaining here, we have photos of all of it on our website, like, uh, teaching them how

00:44:46.220 to do fencing, plasma cutting, firearms training. Everything's on our website that you want to see,

00:44:51.580 even from the financials, uh, you can go see all that stuff on our website. And of course,

00:44:56.060 if you want to see us on social media, our biggest thing I tell people all the time, a lot of people

00:45:00.460 wish, um, that, uh, they could give and some people can't, but I always tell them a retweet,

00:45:05.260 a comment, all of those things are gifts, um, because that helps push it to other people who

00:45:09.820 may can give. So I always tell people, any small thing, uh, helps our program. We have people who

00:45:14.140 give $3, $1, but it matters. Um, so I'm, I'm grateful, uh, to many people. And I did see a comment

00:45:19.740 about, uh, the religious, uh, teaching. We definitely do that every week. Our students pray every day.

00:45:24.860 Um, and we make sure we do Bible study with our students. Um, it's, it's, it's a real thing, uh,

00:45:29.180 here in Albany. And of course I will add anybody who ever wants to come and visit,

00:45:33.180 as long as we can do a background check on you, we open, uh, we open it up for anybody to come

00:45:37.260 visit, especially our donors, um, because it's better when you can put your hands on it and see

00:45:41.340 what's going on. So we're down in Albany, Georgia. If you shoot me an email, you can definitely come

00:45:45.500 visit. So let me, let me tell you what, uh, lights me up when I watch your social media. Um, my,

00:45:52.460 my, uh, upbringing involved learning how to work on a farm, how to do like 10 different jobs from

00:46:01.260 mowing lawns to fixing things to everything. And the result of that is that I was confident

00:46:08.380 in any new situation. So I would never say, I can't figure this out because I figured everything

00:46:13.980 out. You know, there was always some adult there who told me how to figure it out, but I was like,

00:46:18.220 oh, I don't know how to do that. I'll figure that out. And when I watch you working with the kids,

00:46:24.460 whether it's changing a doorknob or, you know, doing some of those other car related things,

00:46:30.060 changing a tire, I say to myself, what you're really teaching them is that they can do anything.

00:46:36.140 You're not really teaching them tires. You're teaching them confidence. And when I see them learn

00:46:43.980 confidence, but then I also see them hanging around a tremendous role model, which I think

00:46:50.060 you are, uh, they're, they just have a superpower. Like when I watch those kids, you, you also have

00:46:56.380 a standard where you have them respond to you as you're talking. Like you'll say, do you see what

00:47:02.780 I've done with this, uh, doorknob? And then the, then the kids go, yes, sir. Right. Absolutely.

00:47:09.180 And they all do. They all do. And when I watched, when I watched that, let's say a habit of forming

00:47:15.820 respect, I think, my God, these, these kids are literally developing a superpower that if they

00:47:23.980 walked into a job interview with, with that set of manners and they could go to a dinner and they

00:47:30.060 would know which forks to use, which, you know, I didn't know at that age, I didn't know what fork

00:47:35.020 to use. So I could have used almost all of that training at that age. Yep. And we, uh, we've taught,

00:47:40.780 um, like etiquette classes, um, for the students and we got a lot of pushback for the etiquette

00:47:45.980 classes. People told us that we were trying to teach the kids how to be white, um, just for simply

00:47:50.380 teaching them, you know, to eat with their mouth closed and to not talk about certain things at the

00:47:54.620 table. It's insane. Let me give you a reframe that will help you if they say that you're teaching

00:48:00.220 them to be white. No, you're teaching how to deal in a world in which there's a lot of white people. 0.74

00:48:05.740 Absolutely. That's what you teach is strategy that when I watch it, I, it looks like you're

00:48:13.820 teaching lessons, but it's all strategy. The strategy is if you, if you can become the kind

00:48:19.820 of person who can pick up these lessons, the kind of person who can deal with white people,

00:48:25.260 black people, all kinds of people, success. Absolutely. Yeah. Yep. And the confidence thing

00:48:32.300 is, is the biggest piece, uh, especially when teaching them how to work with their hands.

00:48:35.660 We have a lot of kids, you know, who are not academically inclined or athletically inclined.

00:48:39.580 So you got those kids that are kind of in the middle, but when we teach them how to work with

00:48:42.460 their hands and then their moms, they finally able to say, I'm proud of you for something.

00:48:45.660 And we give them certificates and things like that. Now they're able to walk differently and,

00:48:50.060 and feel like they can accomplish something. Um, and that's very, very important to give a child,

00:48:54.140 he needs confidence in something. And sometimes they may not be a straight A student and they may

00:48:58.220 not be the best on the football field, but if I can teach them to be the best at this plumbing,

00:49:02.300 uh, or, or being a diesel mechanic or whatever, or even just teaching them how to properly eat or

00:49:07.180 properly read, um, all of that builds confidence. This is very important. And then you're also building

00:49:12.860 terribly important, I think is a network of kids who are like-minded. Like you can't beat that.

00:49:18.940 You can't beat that. Absolutely. It's like a fraternity. You know, these kids,

00:49:21.500 we've had kids graduate, go to the military or whatever, and we have them come back. They always come

00:49:26.140 back after they, you know, come back home or whatever and come spend time with the new students.

00:49:29.980 And it's funny because when they look at how those kids act and they're like, you were that kid at one

00:49:34.460 point, I still got old videos of you when you were sitting around doing those things. And so now they're

00:49:39.100 able to, um, to discipline and to teach and, and to show that I'm a product of this. Um, so it's very

00:49:44.940 important. I absolutely love the, the, the, the network we're creating, like you said.

00:49:49.900 All right. So, so there's a little, uh, lesson being, uh, formed here.

00:49:54.700 So I saw a maybe slightly racist comment in the, uh, in the comments that suggested you

00:50:00.780 should teach the kids how to say the word ask ASK.

00:50:06.620 That is, no, that's, that's not a racist. That's a, that's an accent thing, man. Um,

00:50:11.420 I'm from South Georgia and, you know, I don't hear my accent until I go like up north or something

00:50:17.340 like that. Um, but down here, you know, we understand what we're saying. And even the white people here,

00:50:22.620 they, they do the same thing. Um, we're just, we're just Southern, um, Southern people have

00:50:26.780 different accents. It's just like up north. You say things a little bit differently or whatever.

00:50:30.940 So that's just an accent thing. I don't think we can get away from it. 1.00

00:50:35.580 So here's what I would add, add to that, which is that I would put that under strategy.

00:50:40.300 So again, it's not, do I talk like my people? Do I talk like the place I came or do I make sure

00:50:49.100 that somebody doesn't think poorly of me just by using this word that they expect me to use?

00:50:55.580 So I would shoot that as a strategy, not, not a, you know, not a way of talking.

00:51:00.620 Definitely got to be able to turn the accent on and off. Cause how I talk to you and how I talk

00:51:05.500 to like my friends would be completely different. Cause I know other people just can't understand

00:51:09.660 like our Southern accent. It's real deep. And my, my uncles and stuff, they were like cowboys.

00:51:14.380 They're worse than me. Like, I mean, their country accents are so deep. Um, you'd never understand

00:51:18.620 what they're saying. And there's nothing wrong with teaching a kid to not be natural and not be

00:51:25.740 themselves that you need to adapt to the situation. If you want to be right, you have to, I agree.

00:51:34.300 All right. So what, what would you like the, uh, the audience to know that I haven't mentioned

00:51:39.580 already? Um, I guess for us, you know, I always tell people you could do this same thing where you

00:51:45.420 are. Um, I started, um, what I'm doing right here in a small town in Albany, Georgia, a population

00:51:50.220 of 69,000 people. Um, one of the, uh, definitely more worst places as far as statistics in the

00:51:55.980 country. Um, but we were able to build something successful here. Um, and I always tell people,

00:51:59.900 you don't have to have a massive organization or a massive following to start anything.

00:52:03.820 All of this stuff. I started, you know, as a 19 year old with no following, nobody knew who I was

00:52:09.260 and I just wanted it and nobody can want it for you. You have to want to see your own community better.

00:52:13.900 You have to want to get up and, you know, go clean up your own, your own trash in your neighborhood.

00:52:17.900 And just all of those things you have to want to do it. So if you just start by making somebody

00:52:21.020 smile and start by looking at those kids next door to you, or just not blaming everyone for our

00:52:25.980 issues. I mean, we point so many fingers. It's the Democrats fault. The Republicans fault. It's the

00:52:29.980 politicians. It's this person's fault versus just looking in the mirror. Like, Hey, I could be doing

00:52:33.580 a little bit more. I could be doing a lot more in my neighborhood. I could be spending some time,

00:52:37.340 uh, at the schools and helping the kids. So before we, you know, point fingers,

00:52:40.860 let's figure out what it is that we can do. And if you feel like you're doing enough, do some more.

00:52:44.700 Absolutely. Like the most important words ever spoken. I could do more. Just for every more.

00:52:52.380 Always. Now I'm curious. Have you ever heard of my book, how to, how to fill almost everything

00:52:58.940 and still win big. Have you ever had that? I have not. No. One of the things that fascinates me about

00:53:04.940 you is how compatible your thinking is with mine. Like we, it's almost like with the same brain,

00:53:11.660 two people. And that, that book, uh, teaches 14 years and up how to have a system in life

00:53:19.900 as opposed to a goal goal might be playing the NBA, but you know, really

00:53:27.580 a system would be learn as many valuable things as you can to be more valued. So stuff like that.

00:53:33.900 So it's meant to fill in all of those. Uh, if you're 14, how do you figure out how to be a successful

00:53:40.780 20 year old? Um, so if you'd like a copy of that, I'll, I'll send you a copy if you want to check it

00:53:47.100 out. I'll send you my PO box. Most definitely. Okay. We'll take, we'll do that. Um, and, uh,

00:53:53.820 anything else you want to tell them? Um, no, I just appreciate, uh, you bringing me on. First of all,

00:53:59.420 I'm glad to be here. Uh, I know you've been dealing with some things, but I'm glad to be here and I've been

00:54:03.340 praying for you. Um, but definitely I appreciate all the support that people give to our program. Uh,

00:54:08.620 like I said, uh, this program runs exclusively because of people that believe in us and, uh,

00:54:12.940 us having to be good stewards. Uh, it's definitely expensive. We operate five days a week. We pick

00:54:17.180 the kids up from school. Uh, we feed them every day. We have staff members, um, we have property,

00:54:22.860 you know, et cetera. So just everything that everybody does to keep us afloat for, for seven

00:54:27.420 years, going on seven years now in January, it's been a beautiful thing and I'm glad. And, and again,

00:54:31.900 if you want to support our program, you can follow me on social media at new emerging king on all

00:54:36.620 platforms, or you can go to our website at the X for boys.org. That's T H E X F O R B O Y S.org.

00:54:45.340 Perfect. You know, I, I like, uh, boosting you because I have one of these, uh,

00:54:51.180 one of my secrets for life is that you should be working on at least one thing that could change

00:54:56.540 the whole world. I agree. Even if it's very unlikely. Now you're the one doing the work,

00:55:02.940 but because I have a platform and I can boost you today. I appreciate it today. I'm boosting you

00:55:09.980 because if, if, if you catch on changes the world, I think that's how powerful what you're doing is.

00:55:18.860 It would change the world. So yes, sir, my, my audience and I will try to be a small part of that

00:55:24.380 to give you a boost. I definitely thank you. And thank you for taking the time. It was a real

00:55:31.180 pleasure to meet you in, in person, sort of. Yep. I'll get, I'll make my way out there. Most

00:55:37.100 definitely. You just let me know when you're free. Okay. Okay. We'll do that. All right. Thanks,

00:55:42.220 King. Um, I'm going to say goodbye to everybody here and, uh, you've been great. Appreciate it.

00:55:48.300 And we'll talk later. All right. Bye. All right, people. Uh, I'm going to talk to the, uh,

00:55:58.860 locals people privately because I know you want to.

00:56:05.020 And, uh, the rest of you I'll see tomorrow at the same time, same place. All right.

00:56:18.300 All right.

00:56:48.300 Thank you.

00:57:18.300 Thank you.

00:57:48.300 Thank you.

00:58:18.300 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 19, 2025

Episode 2993 CWSA 10⧸19⧸25

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