Episode 3068 ChattingWSA 01⧸10⧸26
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 29 minutes
Summary
On today's episode, I introduce you to my dear friend and former co-worker, Shelley Adams Adams. We talk about how she became the boss of all bosses, how she got to where she is today, and what role she will play in the future of the estate she inherited from her late husband, Scott Adams Sr.
Transcript
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so this is shelley adams for those of you who have not yet met her
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and now i know how early i have to get up there does seem to be no way that i can figure out how
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to get all the right people up here so let's see how many people we can get
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shelley say something so we know that i can hear you
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the problem will be getting extra people up here
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well if you can hear me loud and clear you can probably hear her
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because we're on the same microphone and same camera
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so i would like to start out with happy birthday mike bert
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of shelley she will be the uh head of the estate
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about what role will be going forward ready for that
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let's do that good morning everybody um yes i'm shelley i don't know
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if scott wants to introduce me as but i am his ex
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um i just want to tell you a little bit about myself
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and i'm going to start by first of all i want to just start by saying this is not my world
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hand me my world yeah all right so this i want to first of all thank
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nicole yesterday the shy one with the glasses that scott kept pointing out because that's probably me
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times two um so thank you nicole for giving me the courage to get on here this morning
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um just a little bit about myself um before scott i
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worked in the corporate office in foster city as a retirement specialist before having kids
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i started working for scott in 2003. um my main job i would say would be to
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to gather all his stillbert subscribers um email ideas of their crazy workplace stories
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and they would send in all these great stories to give him inspiration for the comic strip um i kind
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of pulled them all together tried to weed out the really good ones um put them together for him
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and uh so that he could quickly just look at them and um get his idea for the day so that was my main
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job and a lot of other jobs um i did get my real estate license um after uh we split up
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um and i pursued that real estate and property management and that was very successful um but i
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continued to be in scott's life the entire time we were we're we're best friends so um that that
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continued um i have a beautiful daughter savannah um who when scott and i met she was only five years old
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um he helped raise her and um she just got married last year she uh got married to jacob and they are
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i now have a son-in-law and hoping someday had to have grandchildren um they're the perfect together
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um i'm married um i'm married remarried and um i been with my husband for going going on 12 years
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um we waited until 10 year anniversary and we decided to have a big backyard wedding so um it was
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just beautiful um he came with two bonus sons so i have two more sons and um i just want to give a
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shout out to him to my husband pat for understanding and being so supportive of my relationship with scott
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through all the years and through going through this with him um but i have the biggest job ahead of
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me which is now to keep scott's legacy alive and i'm going to need the help of all of you guys
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to do that and i know you've supported him all these years and he loves you guys
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and i know you're going to support me to keep his legacy going and that's i think that's all i wanted to
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say the short version of that is that she's the new or well she's she had the job that owen has
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making sure that you know things run smoothly on this end and only in the sense that she was picking
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him good stories for me and uh now owen is the picker so shelley is the boss of all bosses so i'm having
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increasing trouble talking and obviously i have no no mobility so without shelley this operation would
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come to a halt and she's the person i trust the most in the entire world now one of the things i like
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about shelley uh is that no matter how scary something is she is unwanted so that's one of the
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most impressive things about her that we don't know what we're doing right now but that never stops her
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so we'll we'll work through this one way or another now what i was hoping to do
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as most of you know is convert from coffee with scott adams to more of a um we'll figure it out as we go
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but we're moving toward a uh situation where wow i have to tell you i've never been on this many drugs
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before in my life i had a tough time with the uh uh cough last night and so i'm just absolutely loaded up
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with uh with uh meds all legal every bit of it is illegal um so the hardest thing i was trying to do
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is get uh other people invited up so i'm gonna see if i can do that but as soon as people can talk
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uh you can just go ahead and talk so if there's something to ask something to add and you could
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talk about the news or you could talk about this or you could have i think we just accept them
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um we could accept all right we'll just accept a few for now well i just want to make sure we're
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accepting owen and erica okay and maybe marcella so if we get a few friendlies up here
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it'll be a different experience and i still don't see is that owen up there let me see
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well no that's okay so we're looking through a list of known people
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why is nobody well so far nobody's accepted that's why well i think we have to accept them
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don't we first to accept them in yeah but how do you know which ones to accept you just
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look at their names oh socio socio except right here all right what's the one we know
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and then wait it didn't work didn't work you did not accept
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all right so jason joshua yeah hold on hold on joshua so right now i'm accepting known people
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but do i want to view all when i've accepted only some
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all right do we have to turn that on i think that's why she turns on
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so any of you joshua marcella if you turn on your microphones we should be able to see you
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hey joshua why am i throwing on microphones you're the one who has to turn it on right
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yeah we have to we have to manually turn on our own uh turn on our microphones here
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hey summer you want to say hi to scott you want to say hi
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hey did you happen to check the news this morning
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did you happen to check the news this morning honey
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she wants to do some reading yes a little cameo from summer thank you it's a pleasure to
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meet you shelly thank you for joining that was a
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a heartfelt introduction we're so glad to have you as the as the protector of this community and the
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guide for us all thank you so um did anybody happen to catch any news has iran fallen yet
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no they're still standing and they're being defiant they're threatening the fight back really hard
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right now now i can't hear marcella is that because you have your mic off or i do
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turn on your mic sorry i didn't see that the mute button good morning good morning shelly thank you for
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being here you're you're amazing um no it will fall um and i'll tell you why
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um the main reason is that in the previous um protest it was just the youth that were protesting
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but what he's lost community has lost support of the middle and upper class
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the star class and that is uh what keeps him going with um so yesterday we made a speech to the nation
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to tell them that whatever they were doing was against the law and against god and basically that
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means that anybody could be shot on the squad and executed for protesting but people are still going
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out doing it it's been 46 years they are tired they just want to do it and i think what pushes them
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is trump you know knowing that they have trump there but i'll let everybody else
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speak so we don't know how to add owen yet in theory um let me get back to that marcella
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in theory if we add owen but he doesn't turn on his camera he can be anonymous is that true
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i told owen that he could wear a mask oh my god that's sergio that's me hey scott hi hi my bird
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josh hey sir that's awesome oh so sure we're talking too right yes that's me right now so so i was
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telling owen that he could wear a mask like uh the mask uh avenger or something you know
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well i spent like an hour last night talking to erica trying to figure out how to add a person
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and unfortunately she was using instructions from grok now i don't know if you've ever tried to get
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instructions from grok about anything about anything but it's one near impossible
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and it has very specific instructions but it's about menus that don't exist have you had that same
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experience it starts out with all right uh use the main community button and i'll go to the place
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there'll be no main community button and you can look all day for the main community button and it
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won't be there and then somebody says yes but rock says it's there but it's never there it's never there
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so i have to figure that out the one only way i could get instructions on doing that
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is if somebody else who knows how to do it goes page by page and takes a screenshot and then eventually
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you hit that that person does not have the most current version so there's nowhere on earth exists
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a set of instructions to do what i want and then we and then with that good luck we discover it but it's
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a completely odd weird place that you can never find anything so so we got social but how do i get
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it all right let's see if i can get owen on my phone he might already be there you all look amazing
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wow you're too nice what we look is stupid because we can't do that something
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but you can't it's hard to get advice because nobody else looks like the house
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happy birthday it's my birth it's his birthday so wait so that's mike first yeah oh okay
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this is very much like hanging out in your own home and you don't know what to do
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pardon me i'm gonna drop out so that other people can join and i'm gonna focus on my kids here
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it's a pleasure again to hear from you this morning shelly thank you so much scott thank you
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i love you and all three of my kids have grown up hearing your voice you're like kind of the
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internet uncle so to speak that your voice is familiar to all of them even before they were born
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and they'll be hearing you for the rest of their lives in one way or another scott thank you
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this is sarah sarah b88 is my locals name but i discovered yesterday that my rumble name is
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separate and i can't change it so that's why probably nobody knows
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uh so i'm gonna go ahead and drop out but i just want to say hey and so glad to see you today and
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hope you're hope you're doing better and we're all thinking about you and praying for you
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see my problem is i'm too popular because i have to find a name in a list of a thousand
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and then specifically approve it and there's no search function
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so how about this how about everybody drop out except for owen
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see if that works there's a waiting room yeah but i don't think we can so there's only two places that
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if i go to the waiting room sorry you have to put up with this is there anybody whose sound is
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still on who can tell something about the news has trump done anything interesting
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no nothing interesting can you see me can you hear me i can see and hear you in the waiting room
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okay but we don't see owen who we're sure is here
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boy if you can put up with this you can put up with anything
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i'll be darned required approvals don't require approval
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so there's a problem with the waiting room there's just too many people
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i feel like i could approve owen if i could find them in a gigantic list
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now i know why dave rubin uses two people to do this
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do you want him just to call us and we can include him his voice uh we can try that
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so owen owen owen why don't you just call me on my um text number you will not be seen but you will be
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how hard is it to tell somebody where a button is but it's hard whether there's a third
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why don't we try calling him all right here we go
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good morning scott good morning shelley good morning good morning owen
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can everybody hear you i hope so all right we're going to go back to the show view and give us a sign
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i can hear if everyone can hear me so we're not we're not looking yet um we're just listening to you
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yeah we're just listening so we can bring more people back up on the screen right you are correct
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so we're going to do all we're going to all right so once he's there participants
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and all right owen since you're going to be on the whole time at least your voice will be maybe you can
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lead us off and uh oh there's marcella if there's a way to see her so owen did you uh make some notes
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of the news today i did let me pull them up we want to start with the simultaneous sip yes we do that
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yes we do we would like to do that but you're going to lead us
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okay well all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass
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tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite
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liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day
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the thing that makes everything better simultaneous sip go go
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so in no particular order is there some uh stories or stories you want to cue us up on
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uh there's plenty um i i think as far as the ran goes i think it was correct that they're still having
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their protests crown prince has issued a bunch of messages on x um it's sort of a rallying cry so
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he's definitely claiming he wants to return and wants people to keep protesting
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um i think the ayatollah and the regime's threatening execution and saying that um protesters are
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ruining the streets but please trump that's what the community is saying he's warning of a crackdown
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so they have they have no public bathrooms and gigantic crowds
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i always wonder what happens in those situations
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yeah i don't know it's it seems like it's spreading across the country but it's hard to know what's
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real and what's propaganda um i don't know if you have a view on that but it does seem to me
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as i think you pointed out before that there's you know what you hear when there's something like
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a color revolution going on and it's all one-sided and it's all painting a narrative but what's actually
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happening in the country especially when the internet's cut off and there's not a lot of
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information below um is highly in question i think wow it's pretty well understood at this point
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that it's not organic right or is it is it organic i'm not sure i believe that any protests are organic
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anymore yeah that's where i'm at i don't believe any of these are real yeah and um for other international
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news uh trump is certainly still saying he wants to go after greenland and he's going to take it whether
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they like it or not and he made a statement that he'll either do it the easy way or the hard way
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uh he's floating an idea of paying each citizen of greenland a hundred thousand dollars to essentially
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buy the country really so so every single citizen would get a hundred thousand dollars
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yeah there aren't that many of them 30 000 i think something like that yeah
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well denmark is not budging so far they're claiming they won't give it up even if
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the u.s nukes them that's the statement they made so they jumped right to nuclear war
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and they're saying it would threaten nato and um so denmark is certainly unhappy about the situation
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i know there's some meeting coming up it might be happening now with marco ribio um meeting with
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denmark so there is some kind of i guess discussion or negotiation that's queued up to happen
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but trump doesn't seem to want to back down and i don't really see him backing down do you
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at this point no but um what is china threatening nothing right
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i don't think so china's mostly been sitting this stuff out i think they're probably still
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upset about venezuela i don't remember i don't know if you remember um they literally had a bunch
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of diplomats in venezuela when the raid happened and they were making they were there to make some
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kind of oil deal or something and i think there's certainly a lot of speculation that
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that the motivation the raid was to deprive russia and china of oil oh well that's not too scary
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how much how much oil were they going to get from denmark anyway
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well russia and china have been making deals to get oil from venezuela so i'm kind of switching topics but
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oh okay but i think the the direction now seems to be that trump is sending a bunch of tankers to go
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get the oil and he's claiming that we're going to get something like 30 to 50 million barrels of oil
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there was a story i posted today that it could be that we could refill our entire strategic petroleum reserve
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yes you're a local expert on iceland yes so what will be the impact on iceland
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if uh greenland goes america no i've been to greenland as well um i think it's it's a big deal
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for them um because of the fisheries and the oil that is in the ocean in that area um so i sense always
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been a friendly country to america they used to have a
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uh like a military base there since like i think they moved it in 2006 but anyways um i think what
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trump is doing is negotiating um you know he puts the first offer which is i'm going to take greenland
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and no matter what um but i think that they're probably negotiating something with denmark i can see
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that happening um basically it would be the best for greenland for the u.s to take over for them
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they have a lot of issues and denmark has never really uh supported them um they even say that
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they've always been threatened by denmark the greenlanders um recently here two years ago they
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were told that if they didn't follow what greenland or what denmark wanted that they would take away
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their free medicare and free uh education so that's the main thing that they want to keep i think if
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trump would offer that to them or some kind of money offer i think that they would be willing to take it
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it would be best for greenland greenland has issues with alcoholism suicide and they're basically
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stagnant there's no industries um mostly tourism and you know now and again but it you know trump is like
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the hero um in my mind you know with venezuela with iran and now with greenland greenlanders just
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aren't aware you know i think that he needs to the propaganda is european propaganda is very strong
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i didn't know european propaganda was wrong at all i thought they had a weak
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what i don't understand is that it seems like greenland is just a big money sink
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like as i understand that there's a bunch of money that denmark pays to greenland every year just to
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maintain the infrastructure and to protect it and they don't even really do much protection
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so it seems like it's just a big expense on their budget every year and i don't know what benefit
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they get from it and strategically it certainly has value to america but i don't know what value
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it has to denmark well then i think we should talk about something else
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how about we let how about we let in uh as many people as we can and uh uh since owen has uh an open
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line all the time you can either interject some technology stuff or uh or not mike what what is the
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what is the most interesting tech thing that's happening today it's still ces right
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what what um owen owen i think um scott wanted to ask you a question yeah owen what what's happening
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that's not not about international affairs necessarily but just something interesting that
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uh you found in the news today well trump made a bunch of interesting statements today um one is
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that he wants to limit credit card interest rates to 10 percent um another recent announcement he made
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was that he wants uh i forget which agency but he they're gonna buy something like 200 billion dollars
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in mortgage bonds and i think that was meant to reduce interest rates so he's
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taking a pretty heavy debt towards trying to push down mortgage rates to make them more affordable
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i think it i mean it's the story i read certainly said that it would have an impact
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it would be likely to have an impact by buying all these mortgage bonds because you'd be you know
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how many people understand buying mortgage bonds
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i think it might still be going on although it might be wrapping up i'm not sure i'm really
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tracking when it ends i feel i feel like it was the the disappointing show of electronics
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electronics once again somebody's got a robot they can do one thing but if you had it you'd be unhappy
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because your robot only does one thing yeah there certainly was i think from the stories i saw from
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there there was a lot of robots there was a lot of ai i think a lot of the ai was kind of disappointing or
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you know not ideal use cases for ai so it seems like they that was a bit of a dis a letdown
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um there certainly was a lot of hype around the robots um so your robot butler idea your prediction
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may or may not come true you know i'm interested like you said earlier about whether the lg robot
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will live up to the hype um but it does seem like there's like maybe even half a dozen humanoid robots
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that are at least being shown as something that might go on sale this year
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this year if you want to let more people in we can we can go view them oh we're going to fuse some more
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people you can accept anybody you want oops i think everybody's accepted now
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it's very it's hard to know if they've already accepted
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all right we're going to learn a bunch of people
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well in theory in theory there are new people being invited right now as we speak
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what they have to turn on their camera okay if anybody wants to join and turn on the camera there we go
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not much man i love you so much i've been listening to you for like 10 years
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when i was like 21 or something you've helped me so much
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job promotions now i'm engaged to a fiancee just your reframes all those things man all those little
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lessons talents stack i can't thank you i'm sorry i want to hear is that not here calling in from france
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sorry for france you said calling in from france yes listening to you for the 10 years least what an honor
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how what an emotional moment i am also venezuelan by birth
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an interesting perspective of what was going on in venezuela at the moment
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well a lot of people a lot of venezuelans are have always been it's probably 50 50 pro trump and
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very much against and uh the against have been calling us the magasuelans in a pejorative way
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and they are all now coming around to being very grateful to president trump for for what he has done
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for the country of course the first reaction was that everyone wanted maria corina in and everyone
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was like wtf why is she not the the president that she should be rightfully but uh more and more
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of the thinkers of the country have been coming around and actually commenting very publicly that
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trump is doing exactly the right thing because maria corina would not have in not even remotely the
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possibility of commanding the the military or any kind of the of the remaining institutions of the
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country to to bring order back into the country so from the venezuelan perspective everyone is extremely
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happy and grateful to the united states and in particular to president trump wow
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so how long has it been that uh people were pro-trump well a lot it's a little bit like the cubans
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venezuela have been suffering socialism has been suffering at the hands of of leftist ideology so
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so most people are are not buying any of the nonsense of of the left um having said that
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you do get a little bit of of what traditionally uh latin america has a little bit of a of a leftist art
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so so there's that conflict however venezuelans have experienced in their own flesh what it is to be
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to be under the the boot of of communism so so automatically you you are on the right
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right um a little bit more about me i'm actually a graduate of the harvard kennedy school of
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government and um and i think i am the only one of my classmates that is actually a registered
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republican and has voted for trump three times i have constant battles with my my friends from that time
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and and and everyone is of course in the in the academic elite where where they have this democrat superiority in terms of europe
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um my husband's german and i have been living in germany for for several years now um
00:41:26.960
the it's difficult because on the one hand europeans mostly see what's happening in terms of
00:41:37.440
the problems with immigration and and the the decline in in the culture however there is at least in germany
00:41:46.400
where i live there is this um knee-jerk reaction against a party like the afd um because of course of of germany's
00:41:57.200
past it's it's it's it's difficult to say i i have friends in in different levels in different of the of the
00:42:05.280
levels of society and and and and the people the the the handyman the people you talk on the street
00:42:12.880
they have no qualms in saying they vote afd and and it's it's nonsense what the elites are doing
00:42:21.520
to to the people of germany as a country you still have of course the elites saying oh my god the afd
00:42:29.200
no way it's fascism and we cannot go that way again and our history and this and that so so so i i
00:42:36.160
don't know i think europe needs to sink a little bit deeper before it really realizes and and it may be
00:42:42.640
too late i hope not do you think uh that france will become an islamic country uh difficult we also
00:42:53.520
lived in france i'm i'm vacationing in france at the moment with my family um you know it it is so
00:43:00.800
difficult you i i don't know what to say i i really hope not it's um europe has changed whether they will
00:43:12.720
make a u-turn and pull the handbrake in time who knows i'm i'm glad to be an american that's all i can say
00:43:26.720
it's so wonderful to be able to be a part of this it's such an honor scott i love you
00:43:32.960
it's um thank you shali by the way for being there it's it's uh wow it was a very emotional
00:43:41.120
simultaneous sip this morning thank you owen for that
00:43:43.600
yeah thanks owen thank you thank you glad to do it let's uh bring you back in owen
00:43:53.200
is there any new tech news or anything we wouldn't be watching
00:43:58.400
while we're being distracted by all this international stuff
00:44:11.520
i don't know how interesting it is but there's a change in the fcc they're going to allow higher
00:44:17.200
powered wi-fi really oh it's going to be able to operate outdoors at higher power
00:44:35.120
i mean it's this new six gigahertz band that they're going to allow and i think it's supposed
00:44:41.360
to support things like ar and vr short range hotspots automation and indoor navigation
00:44:46.960
um it doesn't really quantify how much stronger it is but i know there have been restrictions on that
00:44:55.200
and some people complain about that certainly inside their homes um i have that problem where
00:45:01.520
you know i have my wi-fi router in my basement and it doesn't get into most of my house so i have to add
00:45:06.640
more wi-fi spots um and even then it's it's spotty in places so i'm kind of looking forward to this to
00:45:14.960
being able to put a really high powered wi-fi in my house maybe it'll cost cancer but it might be worth
00:45:21.200
it maybe that's what got me you never know i hope not yeah you know one of the things when you get
00:45:29.040
cancer you go around thinking what did i do what did i do but then i remind myself that for men
00:45:36.720
the type i have is the uh the most common one so if if i got the most common one
00:45:47.920
it's hard to complain that it was because of some special case
00:45:53.040
yeah i mean i i've heard a lot about prostate cancer i know it is very common in men i certainly
00:45:58.800
hope to avoid it but i've from what i've heard a lot of the cases are i don't want to call them benign
00:46:05.440
but they're kind of contained within the prostate and um you don't even really need to treat it
00:46:12.000
but i know i've heard that almost every man that reaches a certain age will probably have some level
00:46:17.760
of prostate cancer um so it certainly is a very common condition i think he just got really unlucky
00:46:24.800
about the aggressive aggressive kind well so you have a very good book behind you over your left shoulder
00:46:41.200
i don't know i felt almost everything you still wouldn't make can you see my cat
00:46:50.720
yeah he's shy he's named after diego armando maradona the soccer player because he likes to fight
00:47:09.680
it's good to be here thank you for having me on scott um it's been a long time and thank you for
00:47:22.400
everything i just want to say appreciate you love you it's been crazy 10 years and uh yeah just
00:47:30.800
thanks for making me part of your community and giving me a special place and and i did my best
00:47:36.080
to fulfill the mission and uh i'm going to keep going here whoever is going to tolerate me i'll keep
00:47:42.320
doing it so here i am so here's to you scott thank you very much for everything it's your birthday
00:47:49.760
today is that what you said yeah 50 today happy birthday that's a big one yeah it was a big one so
00:47:57.840
this thing is having me on i'm going to uh sign off now i just wanted to say my piece and
00:48:04.240
keep on watching and posting some memes now it's been weird that i haven't been
00:48:08.800
wondering what to do my thumbs right now and i listen to you and and here we are so i'm going to
00:48:13.840
sign off so thank you i'll talk to everyone later see you mike i would i would interject a story that i
00:48:21.280
posted today that i think is good news um might be a little sensitive for the two of you scott and
00:48:27.520
shelley but um fentanyl deaths have dropped in the u.s significantly it was over 100 000 a year
00:48:35.360
and now it's at 81 000 in 2024 and um they're crediting biden's era as far as you know it happened
00:48:46.400
during his term but i think a lot of that had to do with trump in terms of putting pressure on china
00:48:53.520
and it looks like they're chalking it up to a supply disruption during the pandemic
00:48:58.000
that the supply of the precursor chemicals got disrupted somehow and that may have caused a lot
00:49:03.920
less supply to come into the u.s and i certainly think trump had a lot to do with that and i think
00:49:09.200
you had a lot to do with that so i think you deserve some credit for putting pressure on the
00:49:14.160
administration and putting pressure on china good it seems like it won't take long to uh fix the
00:49:23.760
distribution problem but let's just start and who do we have down here
00:49:30.960
yes this is uh peter i just wanted to say thank you for all the years i'm uh here managing two kids
00:49:44.000
and the dog right now as they built train tracks um but i've been listening to you for pretty much all
00:49:49.760
10 years sort of the odd camera angles as i try to keep my kids faces off camera um but i uh i'll go
00:49:57.360
off camera um but i'll finish i'll finish this audio i've been listening to you for 10 years pretty much
00:50:03.520
every single day and there's a there's a point at which i i tried to stop listening to you because i
00:50:09.040
thought you know i need to i need to diversify who i'm listening to you know listen to different
00:50:14.320
podcasts etc etc uh and i just i couldn't i couldn't quit you scott um i kept on coming back
00:50:21.360
and listening to you pretty much every single day i i every every uh spotify your year wrapped was sort
00:50:29.760
of boring because it was always in the top 0.1 of listeners to the scott adams podcast um and it's been
00:50:38.400
it's been amazing to be with you over the past 10 years and i just wanted to you know thank you for
00:50:46.480
always being true to yourself not allowing yourself to be bought by any any interest or any sponsor or
00:50:55.200
um any any media company and i think i think i speak for a lot of people that that's one of the
00:51:03.120
things that has kept us coming back for the past 10 years is it always felt whether we agreed with you
00:51:07.280
on everything or didn't agree with you on everything i never had a doubt that you were
00:51:12.240
saying your actual opinion um pretty much all the time so i i very much appreciate that and uh
00:51:19.600
i i'm very appreciative of yeah just your commitment and consistency and your virtual friendship over the
00:51:26.080
past 10 years and with that i'm going to get back to the kids building choo-choo trains
00:51:30.480
that's right well you got your priorities straight i like that let's see
00:51:47.440
i wonder how long it will take me to learn this
00:52:00.960
i still want to say something but i don't know if it's a good time or not
00:52:04.400
go ahead okay um well thank you scott for i'm getting to talk to you right now i always thought
00:52:12.400
that i was gonna get to to see you someday uh in person but i'm i'm doing it you know through this
00:52:17.920
and i'm very happy and i'm so happy to meet shelly and that's an amazing testament of uh your awesomeness
00:52:25.520
that uh your your ex is there for you right now i love that you know because um not anybody can
00:52:33.120
can develop that relationship afterwards and and that's amazing that you did that so thank you very much
00:52:38.160
um and and yeah you you told me that free will is not it's an illusion and that's the one the most
00:52:46.560
important thing because now i know that everything around me is affecting my behavior all the time so i need
00:52:52.720
to watch out for my uh surroundings and um that's why you are half of my five people basically and i don't
00:53:03.040
know what i'm gonna do you know without you because i i'm like a lot of you right now and um i'm going to
00:53:13.440
learn to be more like like like uh everybody else too so thank you very much and hey is that gary
00:53:23.360
that's roman roman hey roman well that's it scott thank you very much and uh and any advice ever
00:53:30.640
that you have for me or anything let me know thank you so if you owe you the best you know there's a
00:53:37.200
half a dozen people who regularly participate and when i don't see all of you i get disappointed
00:53:47.040
and uh there's something more than the news that has developed here and the part i didn't anticipate
00:53:55.440
is the bonding and the ability to feel like you're part of something and i think that worked it wasn't
00:54:06.960
the top priority or anything but once it started being a a thing that's the part that seems to be the
00:54:15.200
most powerful so over time we will put on more of a you know why did you learn how did you learn it
00:54:25.760
and for the moment it feels appropriate that we're still struggling along and that the struggle is
00:54:34.400
about you know how do you make the technology work in a way that works for everybody so i hope you can see
00:54:46.160
i hope you can see the uh all the work that gets put into just trying to make this work
00:54:53.600
i swear to god this is probably easy but not to me and i'll say again um that um
00:55:04.320
the amount of pharmaceutical drugs i had to put into me yesterday so that i could function
00:55:10.240
it's the most i've ever learned and just give you an example i've got a password that is very easy
00:55:20.960
you know it's not any kind of weird crazy password but with the help of a nurse and about 25 attempts uh i could i could
00:55:34.560
could i could tell her what i wanted and the funny thing was i couldn't spell it so my password has
00:55:45.280
yes let's not talk about your password too much that's why she's here i'll just simplify it to say
00:56:02.800
but but but it wasn't like i'm making this up so you can't really use it it would be like something
00:56:10.160
like i would say all right the first part is squirrel and then i'll try to spell it it'd be like p
00:56:19.120
j squirrel a is it a squirrel it was the damnedest thing i've never been that hallucinogenic
00:56:29.040
that's awesome scott you deserve the best uh military raid drugs
00:56:38.880
all right we're gonna go back okay thank you very much i'm going to uh log off now
00:56:43.600
i'm gonna let others jump in thank you scott for everything
00:56:49.120
all right i don't know what that means just hit accept accept see if anybody else wants to jump in
00:57:07.520
can i make one more comment um you've been explaining the world to me for the past 10 years scott
00:57:14.720
and and i am quite intimidated at the prospect of not having those daily explanations and i'm hoping
00:57:24.240
that this community that you created will somehow step in when you're not there to to help
00:57:34.160
understand what's happening in the world i mean i hope you have trained all of us
00:57:41.600
to to continue to do that what do you say shelley oh i think so we did miss a little bit of your the
00:57:49.840
the beginning of your uh some technical issues here but um yes we would i would love to keep this
00:57:57.360
going and you know again we're not tech savvy here we hope that we can figure this all out and make
00:58:04.960
this a little bit more smoother process but i think he's got some great people uh community here
00:58:11.520
that i think could lead this um if we can figure out if we can figure out the technology of it um yeah
00:58:19.920
yeah the beginning of it was that scott's been explaining the world to me for the past 10 years
00:58:24.640
and and and it is quite daunting to the the prospect of not having those those daily lessons of of
00:58:33.680
exactly what everything means and what's going on and and again and i'm hoping that this this
00:58:39.120
community of of people that you have trained over the past years will will step in and and i guess
00:58:47.120
selfishly continue to help me do that i hope so i i really i really think i think we could do it
00:58:54.320
it might take a little time but i think we could do it for sure all right let's see if steven with
00:59:02.400
it with the headphones on can turn off his microphone hello scott my goodness i'll add
00:59:15.440
well i don't think i can um i wouldn't be able to probably explain the incredible adventure that
00:59:22.240
has been this entire time uh that i have had an opportunity to to watch you and to learn from
00:59:28.320
you now i'm included i think among the slightly older group uh gen extra and so forth and would have
00:59:34.640
been one of those rush limbaugh babies that somehow migrated their way to to your show and of course
00:59:43.440
he was uh all through high school basically you know the lunch i would
00:59:46.800
walk home run home in order to be able to catch a show in the middle of the day
00:59:52.560
and so you know he was um you know he was an an uncle type as i was growing up
01:00:00.080
well naturally and without any hesitation at all as soon as i stumbled across you and your show
01:00:07.360
i immediately realized okay you know this this is going to be the next type of person for
01:00:12.800
um to be able to do that and you absolutely did and so i admit that i took as much of your advice
01:00:21.360
as i possibly could uh that i tried to get myself in trouble often um and and that um i i do have a
01:00:29.840
thank you note for you i but i made and i suppose i could read it i don't know how much inside stuff
01:00:37.920
that in here it was a long time ago that i wrote this but i didn't want to be among the people who
01:00:42.800
would somehow mysteriously find out where you lived and send you things because i was already
01:00:48.720
potentially beginning to garner a reputation for the sort of person that would do that
01:00:53.600
out of malice i never would um it was all uh it was it was fun for me and so i absolutely enjoyed
01:01:02.560
uh trying to fail my way to wherever i am now and i'm and i promise for those five years it was it was
01:01:12.080
the adventure well it's the second adventure of my life um um i've actually retired from the military
01:01:17.920
i've been in for 24 years so it was a long time i've had basically a full career doing all of that
01:01:23.360
stuff and then i had a chance to bring whatever that experience was to to you and uh to my life and my
01:01:32.000
family here so here we go don't know how you'll be able to see you to read it but it's my thank you
01:01:48.480
so oh yes well not the not the thank you part no i basically was using the card base the card as the
01:01:59.040
thank you foundation for everything and then i would either draw or you know use emojis whatever
01:02:05.520
did i feel like so it just you know again all i did was try to fail my way through um trying to
01:02:13.520
trying to copy you which actually you know for most people i think that the the thing they're missing
01:02:20.240
in their life is they don't have a good enough thing to try to copy and and you can you can do an
01:02:25.760
awful lot just copying somebody else's really good advice or their behavior so that was that's
01:02:32.640
probably what i saw you know rush of course was somebody who much much more than the political
01:02:38.240
person he became but he proved to me what happens to someone who actually is an ordinary person who
01:02:42.800
happens to become somewhat successful and then they stumble into the political world and all of a
01:02:47.600
sudden they're either an angel or the devil um so i wrote you a little joke that's uh based on the
01:02:57.120
experience that i had i'll i'll see i mean i can read it it's um i don't know how much of it would be
01:03:04.720
would be understandable uh but i happen to write it on sunday 3rd of march 2024 at 1 2 3 4 pm
01:03:12.000
because numbers mean something apparently to some people and it's a cat of course this it was in a
01:03:19.120
little adventure that i had where there was a cat who was the woman who was always troubling me my
01:03:23.280
entire life whoever she was and so she starts the conversation and she says steven no woman wants
01:03:31.040
a man to run around loving her with all his heart no matter what
01:03:34.160
and because i know that deep down they don't really want that although they'll
01:03:43.280
swear up and down if you actually try that they don't like it
01:03:48.480
it's true um anyhow then the little character that i had sort of created there's a copy again
01:03:55.120
most everything's a copy of maybe two or three things but he's a little guy who would say as you
01:04:00.000
so famously did say what because we know that doesn't make sense they all want it
01:04:07.600
and then i include a cloud which to me is a it's the figure that's above us all or it's the thing
01:04:13.760
that's above us all many people would say it's god to me certainly it is but to others maybe not so
01:04:18.480
much doesn't matter but if he were in the room he would have said what to and so he would agree with
01:04:24.880
you as i would so okay everybody that's the trick i guess if there is one do whatever you can to run
01:04:33.120
around and love a woman with all your heart no matter what and just see what happens it'll be the
01:04:38.960
greatest thing that's ever happened thanks scott well thank you for that thank you thank you
01:04:48.880
probably i just know it's crawley one of our regulars which we call the beloveds
01:05:05.360
do we need to accept more or how do we well if we're not bored yet
01:05:10.240
uh-huh it's a little laughter um but you have to approve them oh yeah we have to go approve them
01:05:21.360
they want to come in let's just go prove some more yeah this accepts more okay
01:05:29.920
uh-huh just keep going scrolling down there you go just you know just keep acceptance
01:05:43.040
and it looks like it is limit okay okay so now we have a bunch of people
01:05:51.280
people and this challenge i guess the way i can tell if you want to come up
01:06:01.120
is if you show up on video it's just to be so it looks like a new one that's anyone i can't see from
01:06:10.480
way over here hi hi what's your name norm norm hey hey scott hey shelley how you doing
01:06:21.280
nice nice nice to meet you nice to finally get on here hey hi somebody else been a huge follower norm
01:06:39.680
what are you behind oh holy shit yeah surprise surprise what's your name
01:06:51.120
nice i keep hearing myself over and over again all right well it looks like norm and
01:07:00.240
it looks like it's lying around here oh hey bye maybe that's better i think i did it
01:07:09.840
you're both on audio yeah so who would like to talk well i heard you talking about mortgage bonds and
01:07:15.760
i'm in the mortgage business so i figured i'd jump on because i'm pretty pumped about trump's uh buying
01:07:22.560
the mortgage-backed securities that'll definitely pump the rates down okay now explain to us like we're done
01:07:33.120
how that will help okay so the last time that the government bought mortgage uh
01:07:38.400
act securities which is the bonds they're talking about was after the 2008 housing crisis
01:07:45.520
so what happens is that these bonds are available for like think of it like a mutual fund or a stock
01:07:53.040
but they're not very attractive because they don't give high high rates of returns like the stock market
01:07:59.120
and other mutual funds so no one really buys them so if no one buys them there's not a demand for them
01:08:06.320
so the only way to get a demand is the rates go up to make it appealing to an investor you know they want
01:08:13.920
seven eight percent return on their money at least right um so because there's no demand for them
01:08:22.320
um the rates will go up but once there's a demand meaning when the country starts buying
01:08:28.400
in that amounts it pushes the rates down because now they're being bought by someone in this case
01:08:35.360
of the government so it's the government's way of manipulating the rates to go down when the fed
01:08:39.760
doesn't want to lower them so because he's going back and forth with powell uh and powell won't lower
01:08:46.240
the rates the way the government can do that is actually buy the bonds itself in large quantities like
01:08:55.600
it is and as long as he keeps buying them the rates will go down and go down and go down because
01:09:00.720
someone because someone because now he's created an interest so to speak by manipulating the system
01:09:09.680
it's only been done once before and it was obama did it a lot in 2008 to keep the rates down when
01:09:15.840
the fed didn't want to lower it and that's when rates were like three four percent did it work yeah oh
01:09:23.360
yeah it worked it was the um one of the biggest mortgage booms you know in history besides the
01:09:32.080
one we just recently had with covid covid was the you know the largest rate reduction one of those two
01:09:38.160
to three percent but yeah i mean the rates went down to three or four i've been in mortgages for 35 years
01:09:45.040
and um been watching been reading your column for about the same amount of time and totally um can uh
01:09:52.560
understand you know the whole corporate culture made me want to open my own business so i didn't have
01:09:58.240
to answer to anyone nice but yeah it worked and it will work thank you for sharing that yeah and look
01:10:07.200
forward to um your future streams but i don't want to take everyone's turn but isn't there a prediction that
01:10:18.320
will have a 5.4 ggp um i'm not familiar with the gross domestic product but i know the numbers came out
01:10:30.320
recently yesterday the unemployment is going down which always helps i mean at the end of the day
01:10:38.480
all the all the numbers are in line for lower rates but it became a political thing with
01:10:45.200
powell and trump where powell just won't rate lower the rates or if he does lower him he in his in his um
01:10:53.680
comments that he does to the people he'll put something like this doesn't guarantee they'll be
01:10:58.560
cut the next time so he does all the right wording just to keep the rates high
01:11:02.960
in the end of the day wow correct scott you're correct the atlanta fed uh nearly doubled their
01:11:11.440
q4 growth estimate to 5.4 percent from 2.9 percent for gdp um wow tiger capital described it as a
01:11:20.480
massive expansion largely attributable to the narrowing trade deficit and that was another story that the
01:11:27.360
trade deficit has been slashed to like as low as it's been since 2009 um so the trade deficit is way
01:11:34.640
down um and the quote from geiger capital is we're running it hot get on board all right
01:11:41.680
i don't think i've ever seen them in my lifetime have i 5.4 um gdp i don't think so that's incredibly high
01:11:55.680
um i could ask grok to see if it can tell me when we've had that before but i don't recall that ever
01:12:02.080
in my lifetime oh do that ask rock seriously it'll take a minute who do who do we have on the screen
01:12:12.240
who's the other person on the screen here oh hi uh i'm brian i'm not sure if you can hear me we can
01:12:17.760
hear you oh good hi scott hi shelley um uh okay and uh i uh thought that uh a week ago well gosh
01:12:27.920
never met or chatted with scott directly hope to see you on the other side um and but but now i hope
01:12:34.240
that's a long time from now uh but anyway been a dilbert fan since the early 90s when i was in
01:12:43.200
engineering school and um at least i don't know when the book came out what would wally do but in the
01:12:49.120
early 90s you know when we were working on a lab something might set something on fire we had an
01:12:56.240
inflection point and said well what would wally do and uh that became the catchphrase uh at least
01:13:02.080
for my senior year in college and then you know i of course read your books and uh you know got busy
01:13:09.280
with a family for 20 years and then um you know 2015 rolled around with trump and things got weird
01:13:17.920
and i'd always voted republican except for when i voted for perot so you can blame bill clinton on me
01:13:24.640
and um but then i was really confused i don't have an engineering background legal background you know
01:13:31.600
analyze things for a living and i really was not understanding what i was seeing and i paid more
01:13:37.600
and more attention and uh i lived in connecticut at the time and in 2016 i guess we moved to minnesota
01:13:43.360
which is great freaking timing um uh to move to minnesota after it started its decline uh but um
01:13:51.520
2016 rolls around and i really don't understand what i'm seeing and all i could think of was well
01:13:58.720
i was trying to get attention or something i don't think any of this is real and i was confused until i saw
01:14:07.120
the the the cover of the win bigley book with you know dog break with the trump hair didn't
01:14:12.320
understand what it was about but i said i need to own that and that was eye-opening uh for me must
01:14:19.360
have been 2016 and uh read cialdini's books after that and actually reached out to cialdini with a
01:14:26.720
poster of my daughter i took the teachings and put it on a big poster board of complete bs of persuasion
01:14:34.880
to help herself girl scout cookies pictures of this which is funny cialdini writes back and said that made
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me laugh out loud and uh told him i liked his books and uh i was able to mail them to him uh
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influence and persuasion he signed them and sent them back so those are two of my more cherished
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possessions so but i really i don't know how i would have gotten through the last 10 years without
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your filter because i once i read your book and started listening to your podcasts on periscope everything
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made sense and has ever since um so thank you for that and then the last thing i would like to thank
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you for is i think during one of your streams where you were doing drawing dilberts a few years ago i had
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you laughing pretty good at some of my suggestions because of the asinine life i experienced that many
01:15:30.640
law firms but in particular the one i was at at that time that i've since left and i'm proud to say
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that a couple of my suggestions made it into one or two panels of a couple of dilberts strips that
01:15:40.800
appeared not long after that um so those are two of two of my most prized uh possessions i keep those
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uh you know printed out on um you know at the office anybody asks i'm like well this is how
01:15:54.080
this came to be um you know and then they call me you know a racist and um i said thank you and uh
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you know but but thank you for everything are you at a gym are you at a gym or is that your oh no this
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is my man cave um i have uh my wife lets me use a part the part of the basement of our house that's
01:16:15.760
on the other side of a garage and um i have packed my entire life into this room and weight equipment in
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the garage uh as well along with radio control cars and you know college banners and a proud mit graduate
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and uh uh that's uh that's me i probably could have guessed you were an mit graduate
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which is the first one i've seen who doesn't wear glasses
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i don't i i use glasses for driving um i'll probably need them for reading and not very long
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um yeah but for now uh yeah but for now i uh don't need them mit was an amazing experience
01:17:02.160
and uh law school after that was kind of like a vacation i just went to boston college law school
01:17:08.400
in the late 90s and the class was 55 women i just kind of kicked back and had fun um before spending
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the last the fire years getting ground through nine or ten different law firms so wait you're
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telling me the mit was 55 percent women boston college law school uh mi mit was a sword fight uh
01:17:33.280
kind of leave it there but um but it was a great both were a great experience but for different
01:17:40.160
reasons uh i i did nuclear fusion at mit and then there were no jobs in fusion back then which should
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not be a surprise and then i went to to uh law school after that well what was the coolest thing you
01:17:56.800
invented that we don't know about oh um i don't know if it's okay i didn't end up on the patent but
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because i didn't understand how patents worked back then but um i worked on a uh microwave emissions
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metals a monitor in grad school and the idea was uh it was similar to the idea if you go to to an
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analytical lab these days and you want to find out how many parts per million of uh you know sees you
01:18:23.760
know some metal are in a solution they'll nebulize it and run it through this little thing called a
01:18:30.400
an inductively coupled plasma and they can get very accurate readings down to uh like you know
01:18:35.680
parts per million you know whether you go to like a polymer's lab or whatever you want to find out
01:18:39.840
how much metals in a plastic um that's how you do it uh but we were trying to use a more robust version
01:18:45.440
of a like a tabletop plasma um that was a microwave induced plasma which is like a big rectangular
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wave guide with a hole through the end and you shoot air through the end turn on the microwaves and
01:18:56.880
you have something that looks like a little torch and then what we would do is we would take effluent
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from an exhaust stream run it through the plasma and then we would have fiber optics that would view
01:19:08.640
the light that was emitted from the plasma what would happen is if you had a metal particle flying
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through the gas um it would um get the electrons in the outer shells would get excited and then when
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they came back down within a fraction of a millisecond it would give off light at a certain frequency and
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wavelength and you would detect that so you could figure out in real time what was going through
01:19:32.400
the gas stream the problem was uh we can never really quantify it to say that oh you know there's this
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much you know going that went through uh my master's thesis concerned that topic and you know we did the
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best we could it was very sensitive so you could tell if something was going through it and when uh but
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that was about it and so there was a patent for that and i made a couple of minor contributions to it uh
01:19:56.000
but didn't end up on the patent uh but that's okay because it never got commercialized so um did anybody
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notice me falling asleep yeah i was very i'm sure you're very excited by that and i apologize oh not
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because of your story it's definitely not because of your story okay so it looks like we have
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michael turn off your microphone turn on me turn on your microphone
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whoops disappeared all right who do we have here i can't see the name can you see her name about patty
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patty is this patty hello can you hear me yes yes i can hear you i am so excited to talk to you good
01:20:55.280
morning good morning good morning i said yesterday after which i couldn't uh participate in yesterday
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i was at work and as the live stream closed i said tomorrow i'm going to talk to scott adams
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and i've spent the last hour trying to figure out how to get the link and i finally figured it out and
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i've had so many interruptions in my home and i was like i am determined i'm going to talk to scott today
01:21:28.240
well here's your chance here you are i um you said something on your show the other day i wanted to
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address um and i don't expect a response because this is a private thing for you but i do want to comment
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um people were uh suggesting titles for your book i believe and one of them was escape from prisoner
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island and you said i didn't escape and i thought if you convert to christianity you escape
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oh jesus said he came to set the captives free and i just wanted to tell you that because
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the minute you said it i thought no no no you did escape and uh well we'll find out what escape means
01:22:22.400
well yeah that is true so you have you have just been a joy for all of us i i followed dilbert
01:22:35.360
from the very beginning i um used to think i wonder what kind of person writes this because
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he makes me laugh every day i have two dilbert comics on my um wall at work my boss comes in and laughs
01:22:52.800
about him and he doesn't realize that they're about him i'm sure you hear that a lot
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yep and uh you are the highlight of my morning every morning thank you for that
01:23:07.440
well thank you for noticing you've changed my life now how does a comic change your life
01:23:18.560
well it's not because you're a comic it's i think because you're a sage
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oh thank you did we figure out how to get our mic on there
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i'm talking to michael oh he's no we still can't hear you so michael there is a microphone on your
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side that must be activated and you can talk at the same time as patty it won't cut you off
01:23:51.840
so patty was anything else you'd like to add while michael was looking for his microphone
01:23:57.760
oh i hope michael finds his microphone it's down at the bottom michael it is at the bottom on the
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just jump in with a follow-up by ask rock about the gdp rate there actually have been several times
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when it's been higher than 5.4 but it's always been during an economic recovery so if you remember
01:24:22.960
the early 80s and the late 90s when we were really hot the economy um of course the late 90s was right
01:24:32.160
before the dot-com bust but um those are the only times that this has been that way the only other
01:24:39.680
really exceptional one is in the pandemic recovery it got really high even 34 percent one quarter
01:24:45.520
but that's kind of a anomaly all right so michael you might be dyslexic because you can
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because you're confusing microphone with video so one of them should be off i thought of something
01:25:08.400
else i'd love to tell you scott yeah go ahead patty i have a a teenage grandson that is um he's very
01:25:17.760
insecure he he just has a lot of issues going on and he was with me recently and i you know teenagers
01:25:29.920
are they love anime and marvel comics and all of the superhero movies and i said i said to him hey
01:25:41.120
would you like to have a superpower he and of course he was like yeah of course we all want to have a
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superpower and i said well here's a superpower that you can have you become unembarrassable
01:25:56.160
and i said think about it burner if i'm sorry i wasn't going to use his name but um i said think
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about it if if you could have anything happen to you in your life and you do not you you are it's
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impossible for you to become embarrassed you will have a superpower and he started thinking about that
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and we talked about it a lot and he really loved the idea and i told him where i got the idea was from
01:26:27.440
scott adams and uh the creator of of a very famous comic called dilbert and he i said that you'd written
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several books and so he asked if he could have one of your books and i'm going to give i what would
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you suggest for a teenager how to fail at anything yes so from age of 14 on had to fail with almost
01:26:52.480
everything and still win big okay he's 13 so on his 14th birthday i'll give him that book
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and thank you for that that would be kind of a tie which wouldn't win bigly and reframe your brain
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i love reframe your brain you know i've done reframing since i was a kid um a teacher read
01:27:16.000
some books to us by about a character named mrs piggle wiggle i don't know if you've ever heard of
01:27:22.400
her i'm not and um i use those kind of as an inspiration when i was a kid that i would create a
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reframe situation where i was my mom would tell me to go clean my room and i didn't want to clean my
01:27:37.280
room but i would pretend that if i didn't get it done in a certain amount of time that a wicked
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witch was going to come in and cast a spell on me and i would get it done and i would have fun doing
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it because i know there was no wicked witch coming but it was a fun pretend game and i did that with
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all kinds of areas in my life and so when the reframe book came out it just made so much sense to me
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and i really love it i i read it frequently and i just pick it up for um a daily tip of the day i
01:28:10.480
really like it thank you for that good that's the order i like to hear that being read in
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um so um we should probably close down but not before we give michael one more chance yeah where's
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all right i think we've done all we can do today
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but i warned you i warned you this is the most medicated i've ever been in my life it was a wild
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trip so thanks for sticking in there and i will soon figure out how to train you
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to uh have more interesting uh some dreams all right everybody say goodbye to you shelley bye shelley thank
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you nice to meet you thank you see you all tomorrow thanks sophie so we'll be here all right bye