Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3068 ChattingWSA 01⧸10⧸26

00:00:00.000 live and if any of you can see me

00:00:08.960 that would be amazing

00:00:12.320 so i can see some of you

00:00:15.760 uh the trick here this is you all

00:00:21.280 and

00:00:25.600 pretend you're all in my living room

00:00:30.960 so this is shelley adams for those of you who have not yet met her

00:00:40.160 and now i know how early i have to get up there does seem to be no way that i can figure out how

00:00:48.720 to get all the right people up here so let's see how many people we can get

00:01:00.000 this will be an adventure

00:01:03.440 shelley say something so we know that i can hear you

00:01:07.440 can you hear me

00:01:11.760 looks like it might work

00:01:13.600 the problem will be getting extra people up here

00:01:20.160 so that would be the problem

00:01:23.680 let's see

00:01:31.840 how about we make it

00:01:35.280 excuse me

00:01:38.400 loud and clear

00:01:39.200 well if you can hear me loud and clear you can probably hear her

00:01:47.360 because we're on the same microphone and same camera

00:01:49.920 so i would like to start out with happy birthday mike bert

00:01:58.320 so we're trying to get everything together

00:02:01.680 it's a birthday for a regular

00:02:05.360 mike bert

00:02:05.920 we're 50 years old today

00:02:09.760 we couldn't let that go by

00:02:12.560 all right

00:02:14.320 so

00:02:16.080 in case you didn't know the importance

00:02:17.920 of shelley she will be the uh head of the estate 0.88

00:02:24.480 and the boss of everything

00:02:27.520 and i think she had a few words to give you

00:02:30.400 about what role will be going forward ready for that

00:02:37.440 let's do that good morning everybody um yes i'm shelley i don't know

00:02:44.800 if scott wants to introduce me as but i am his ex

00:02:52.640 first ex first ex

00:02:55.600 um i just want to tell you a little bit about myself

00:03:00.160 and i'm going to start by first of all i want to just start by saying this is not my world

00:03:05.600 social media is not my world um

00:03:08.240 hand me my world yeah all right so this i want to first of all thank

00:03:17.200 nicole yesterday the shy one with the glasses that scott kept pointing out because that's probably me

00:03:24.160 times two um so thank you nicole for giving me the courage to get on here this morning

00:03:30.080 um just a little bit about myself um before scott i

00:03:37.680 worked in the corporate office in foster city as a retirement specialist before having kids

00:03:44.960 i started working for scott in 2003. um my main job i would say would be to

00:03:52.880 to gather all his stillbert subscribers um email ideas of their crazy workplace stories

00:04:03.760 and they would send in all these great stories to give him inspiration for the comic strip um i kind

00:04:13.120 of pulled them all together tried to weed out the really good ones um put them together for him

00:04:21.440 and uh so that he could quickly just look at them and um get his idea for the day so that was my main

00:04:31.280 job and a lot of other jobs um i did get my real estate license um after uh we split up

00:04:43.120 um and i pursued that real estate and property management and that was very successful um but i

00:04:51.600 continued to be in scott's life the entire time we were we're we're best friends so um that that

00:05:00.160 continued um i have a beautiful daughter savannah um who when scott and i met she was only five years old

00:05:09.840 um he helped raise her and um she just got married last year she uh got married to jacob and they are

00:05:21.360 i now have a son-in-law and hoping someday had to have grandchildren um they're the perfect together

00:05:30.000 um i'm married um i'm married remarried and um i been with my husband for going going on 12 years

00:05:43.360 um we waited until 10 year anniversary and we decided to have a big backyard wedding so um it was

00:05:54.960 just beautiful um he came with two bonus sons so i have two more sons and um i just want to give a

00:06:06.800 shout out to him to my husband pat for understanding and being so supportive of my relationship with scott

00:06:19.120 through all the years and through going through this with him um but i have the biggest job ahead of

00:06:27.920 me which is now to keep scott's legacy alive and i'm going to need the help of all of you guys

00:06:36.480 to do that and i know you've supported him all these years and he loves you guys

00:06:42.960 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

00:06:50.800 say the short version of that is that she's the new or well she's she had the job that owen has

00:07:02.720 making sure that you know things run smoothly on this end and only in the sense that she was picking

00:07:10.320 him good stories for me and uh now owen is the picker so shelley is the boss of all bosses so i'm having

00:07:20.240 increasing trouble talking and obviously i have no no mobility so without shelley this operation would

00:07:30.560 come to a halt and she's the person i trust the most in the entire world now one of the things i like

00:07:39.040 about shelley uh is that no matter how scary something is she is unwanted so that's one of the

00:07:50.400 most impressive things about her that we don't know what we're doing right now but that never stops her 0.92

00:07:58.480 so we'll we'll work through this one way or another now what i was hoping to do

00:08:02.720 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

00:08:15.280 but we're moving toward a uh situation where wow i have to tell you i've never been on this many drugs

00:08:23.440 before in my life i had a tough time with the uh uh cough last night and so i'm just absolutely loaded up

00:08:33.840 with uh with uh meds all legal every bit of it is illegal um so the hardest thing i was trying to do

00:08:44.080 is get uh other people invited up so i'm gonna see if i can do that but as soon as people can talk

00:08:55.760 uh you can just go ahead and talk so if there's something to ask something to add and you could

00:09:01.520 talk about the news or you could talk about this or you could have i think we just accept them

00:09:09.840 um we could accept all right we'll just accept a few for now well i just want to make sure we're

00:09:16.400 accepting owen and erica okay and maybe marcella so if we get a few friendlies up here

00:09:25.760 it'll be a different experience and i still don't see is that owen up there let me see

00:09:32.160 well no that's okay so we're looking through a list of known people

00:09:42.240 all right here we go we've got invitations

00:09:51.280 why is nobody well so far nobody's accepted that's why well i think we have to accept them

00:09:57.200 don't we first to accept them in yeah but how do you know which ones to accept you just

00:10:02.160 look at their names oh socio socio except right here all right what's the one we know

00:10:10.400 and then wait it didn't work didn't work you did not accept

00:10:18.000 all right so jason joshua yeah hold on hold on joshua so right now i'm accepting known people

00:10:28.080 um we got two

00:10:33.760 and who else is that marcella

00:10:41.840 no that's malcolm

00:10:42.720 okay

00:10:50.000 um all right

00:10:52.160 direct burps we got mike burps

00:11:03.040 marcella here we go

00:11:07.440 all right now that i've accepted

00:11:10.560 haven't seen owen yet

00:11:11.760 so we'll go with this

00:11:21.440 let's see

00:11:24.240 uh if you all

00:11:27.600 but do i want to view all when i've accepted only some

00:11:31.760 oh so difficult to figure it out

00:11:38.560 all right do we have to turn that on i think that's why she turns on 0.74

00:11:45.600 all right we're in auto

00:11:48.960 in theory all right there's marcella

00:11:52.000 that's joshua

00:11:58.800 so any of you joshua marcella if you turn on your microphones we should be able to see you

00:12:04.960 i hear you

00:12:09.440 can any of you talk right now good morning

00:12:12.640 hey joshua why am i throwing on microphones you're the one who has to turn it on right

00:12:26.240 yeah we have to we have to manually turn on our own uh turn on our microphones here

00:12:33.200 we got company

00:12:36.720 hey summer you want to say hi to scott you want to say hi

00:12:40.160 hi this is scott and shelly

00:12:44.400 this is summer

00:12:46.480 hey did you happen to check the news this morning

00:12:51.040 did you happen to check the news this morning honey

00:12:53.520 yeah

00:12:53.840 get a kid getting a hold of the phone

00:13:00.480 she wants to do some reading yes a little cameo from summer thank you it's a pleasure to

00:13:05.200 meet you shelly thank you for joining that was a

00:13:07.120 a heartfelt introduction we're so glad to have you as the as the protector of this community and the

00:13:15.520 guide for us all thank you so um did anybody happen to catch any news has iran fallen yet

00:13:24.560 no they're still standing and they're being defiant they're threatening the fight back really hard

00:13:33.200 right now now i can't hear marcella is that because you have your mic off or i do

00:13:41.680 turn on your mic sorry i didn't see that the mute button good morning good morning shelly thank you for

00:13:47.600 being here you're you're amazing um no it will fall um and i'll tell you why

00:13:55.280 um the main reason is that in the previous um protest it was just the youth that were protesting

00:14:03.920 but what he's lost community has lost support of the middle and upper class

00:14:11.360 the star class and that is uh what keeps him going with um so yesterday we made a speech to the nation

00:14:24.160 to tell them that whatever they were doing was against the law and against god and basically that

00:14:30.720 means that anybody could be shot on the squad and executed for protesting but people are still going

00:14:38.480 out doing it it's been 46 years they are tired they just want to do it and i think what pushes them

00:14:45.520 is trump you know knowing that they have trump there but i'll let everybody else

00:14:50.480 speak so we don't know how to add owen yet in theory um let me get back to that marcella

00:15:06.160 in theory if we add owen but he doesn't turn on his camera he can be anonymous is that true

00:15:14.640 i told owen that he could wear a mask oh my god that's sergio that's me hey scott hi hi my bird

00:15:33.520 josh hey sir that's awesome oh so sure we're talking too right yes that's me right now so so i was

00:15:43.440 telling owen that he could wear a mask like uh the mask uh avenger or something you know

00:15:51.280 well i spent like an hour last night talking to erica trying to figure out how to add a person

00:16:00.000 and unfortunately she was using instructions from grok now i don't know if you've ever tried to get

00:16:08.880 instructions from grok about anything about anything but it's one near impossible

00:16:19.440 and it has very specific instructions but it's about menus that don't exist have you had that same

00:16:27.200 experience it starts out with all right uh use the main community button and i'll go to the place

00:16:36.640 there'll be no main community button and you can look all day for the main community button and it

00:16:42.960 won't be there and then somebody says yes but rock says it's there but it's never there it's never there

00:16:52.320 so i have to figure that out the one only way i could get instructions on doing that

00:16:59.440 is if somebody else who knows how to do it goes page by page and takes a screenshot and then eventually

00:17:07.600 you hit that that person does not have the most current version so there's nowhere on earth exists

00:17:16.160 a set of instructions to do what i want and then we and then with that good luck we discover it but it's

00:17:26.160 a completely odd weird place that you can never find anything so so we got social but how do i get

00:17:35.760 it all right let's see if i can get owen on my phone he might already be there you all look amazing

00:17:48.000 wow you're too nice what we look is stupid because we can't do that something

00:17:53.280 but you can't it's hard to get advice because nobody else looks like the house 0.98

00:18:03.040 so

00:18:04.240 is my book on here

00:18:09.200 birthday

00:18:13.200 hey guys how's it going

00:18:14.320 what's it going to be here

00:18:18.800 happy birthday it's my birth it's his birthday so wait so that's mike first yeah oh okay

00:18:30.000 this is very much like hanging out in your own home and you don't know what to do

00:18:35.200 what do i do now

00:18:38.720 pardon me i'm gonna drop out so that other people can join and i'm gonna focus on my kids here

00:18:44.720 it's a pleasure again to hear from you this morning shelly thank you so much scott thank you

00:18:50.640 i love you and all three of my kids have grown up hearing your voice you're like kind of the

00:18:55.760 internet uncle so to speak that your voice is familiar to all of them even before they were born

00:19:00.720 and they'll be hearing you for the rest of their lives in one way or another scott thank you

00:19:05.520 very well all right thank you

00:19:08.240 all right it was so owen is waiting

00:19:14.880 for host approval

00:19:17.200 but

00:19:17.600 hey scott

00:19:19.520 this is sarah sarah b88 is my locals name but i discovered yesterday that my rumble name is

00:19:25.920 separate and i can't change it so that's why probably nobody knows

00:19:29.600 who i am anyway

00:19:30.560 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

00:19:36.640 hope you're hope you're doing better and we're all thinking about you and praying for you

00:19:41.040 see my problem is i'm too popular because i have to find a name in a list of a thousand

00:19:49.840 and then specifically approve it and there's no search function

00:19:55.040 so how about this how about everybody drop out except for owen

00:20:07.760 see if that works there's a waiting room yeah but i don't think we can so there's only two places that

00:20:16.000 people could be waiting room and participants

00:20:18.400 if i go to the waiting room sorry you have to put up with this is there anybody whose sound is

00:20:25.840 still on who can tell something about the news has trump done anything interesting

00:20:35.200 no nothing interesting can you see me can you hear me i can see and hear you in the waiting room

00:20:44.320 okay but we don't see owen who we're sure is here

00:20:54.400 boy if you can put up with this you can put up with anything

00:20:59.680 i'll be darned required approvals don't require approval

00:21:07.120 so there's a problem with the waiting room there's just too many people

00:21:11.680 so what's going on

00:21:17.440 i feel like i could approve owen if i could find them in a gigantic list

00:21:24.800 come on baby

00:21:28.560 now i know why dave rubin uses two people to do this

00:21:36.320 spur log wow

00:21:37.920 do you want him just to call us and we can include him his voice uh we can try that

00:21:48.640 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

00:22:00.160 heard

00:22:07.040 how hard is it to tell somebody where a button is but it's hard whether there's a third

00:22:13.440 a thousand people

00:22:18.320 owen must not be here

00:22:19.680 all right

00:22:26.000 well all right somebody's coming in

00:22:32.000 oh really he called it once a voicemail

00:22:38.320 why don't we try calling him all right here we go

00:22:41.280 good morning scott good morning shelley good morning good morning owen

00:22:56.560 can everybody hear you i hope so all right we're going to go back to the show view and give us a sign

00:23:11.280 wait a minute

00:23:11.760 i can hear if everyone can hear me so we're not we're not looking yet um we're just listening to you

00:23:22.480 yeah we're just listening so we can bring more people back up on the screen right you are correct

00:23:28.240 so we're going to do all we're going to all right so once he's there participants

00:23:40.160 sergio and mike bird are invisible

00:23:46.320 and all right owen since you're going to be on the whole time at least your voice will be maybe you can

00:23:54.400 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

00:24:08.400 of the news today i did let me pull them up we want to start with the simultaneous sip yes we do that

00:24:19.280 yes we do we would like to do that but you're going to lead us

00:24:25.360 okay well all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass

00:24:29.040 tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite

00:24:34.640 liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day

00:24:40.400 the thing that makes everything better simultaneous sip go go

00:24:45.040 uh boy that was a struggle

00:24:55.440 so in no particular order is there some uh stories or stories you want to cue us up on

00:25:03.040 uh there's plenty um i i think as far as the ran goes i think it was correct that they're still having

00:25:12.160 their protests crown prince has issued a bunch of messages on x um it's sort of a rallying cry so

00:25:22.480 he's definitely claiming he wants to return and wants people to keep protesting

00:25:29.520 um i think the ayatollah and the regime's threatening execution and saying that um protesters are

00:25:37.360 ruining the streets but please trump that's what the community is saying he's warning of a crackdown

00:25:45.680 so they have they have no public bathrooms and gigantic crowds

00:25:50.960 i always wonder what happens in those situations

00:25:57.760 yeah i don't know it's it seems like it's spreading across the country but it's hard to know what's

00:26:02.400 real and what's propaganda um i don't know if you have a view on that but it does seem to me

00:26:08.320 as i think you pointed out before that there's you know what you hear when there's something like

00:26:13.120 a color revolution going on and it's all one-sided and it's all painting a narrative but what's actually

00:26:19.920 happening in the country especially when the internet's cut off and there's not a lot of

00:26:23.840 information below um is highly in question i think wow it's pretty well understood at this point

00:26:34.320 that it's not organic right or is it is it organic i'm not sure i believe that any protests are organic

00:26:42.880 anymore yeah that's where i'm at i don't believe any of these are real yeah and um for other international

00:26:56.400 news uh trump is certainly still saying he wants to go after greenland and he's going to take it whether

00:27:02.000 they like it or not and he made a statement that he'll either do it the easy way or the hard way

00:27:07.600 uh he's floating an idea of paying each citizen of greenland a hundred thousand dollars to essentially

00:27:14.880 buy the country really so so every single citizen would get a hundred thousand dollars

00:27:23.680 yeah there aren't that many of them 30 000 i think something like that yeah

00:27:30.560 well denmark is not budging so far they're claiming they won't give it up even if

00:27:39.200 the u.s nukes them that's the statement they made so they jumped right to nuclear war

00:27:48.240 and they're saying it would threaten nato and um so denmark is certainly unhappy about the situation

00:27:55.040 i know there's some meeting coming up it might be happening now with marco ribio um meeting with

00:28:01.760 denmark so there is some kind of i guess discussion or negotiation that's queued up to happen

00:28:08.640 but trump doesn't seem to want to back down and i don't really see him backing down do you

00:28:14.960 at this point no but um what is china threatening nothing right 0.90

00:28:25.440 i don't think so china's mostly been sitting this stuff out i think they're probably still

00:28:30.640 upset about venezuela i don't remember i don't know if you remember um they literally had a bunch

00:28:37.600 of diplomats in venezuela when the raid happened and they were making they were there to make some

00:28:45.680 kind of oil deal or something and i think there's certainly a lot of speculation that

00:28:49.040 that the motivation the raid was to deprive russia and china of oil oh well that's not too scary

00:28:59.840 how much how much oil were they going to get from denmark anyway

00:29:07.040 well russia and china have been making deals to get oil from venezuela so i'm kind of switching topics but

00:29:13.280 oh okay but i think the the direction now seems to be that trump is sending a bunch of tankers to go

00:29:21.840 get the oil and he's claiming that we're going to get something like 30 to 50 million barrels of oil

00:29:26.800 there was a story i posted today that it could be that we could refill our entire strategic petroleum reserve

00:29:35.120 of oil just from venezuela really

00:29:39.200 so um marcella turn on your microphone 0.99

00:29:50.080 yes you're a local expert on iceland yes so what will be the impact on iceland

00:30:00.160 if uh greenland goes america no i've been to greenland as well um i think it's it's a big deal

00:30:12.640 for them um because of the fisheries and the oil that is in the ocean in that area um so i sense always

00:30:21.360 been a friendly country to america they used to have a

00:30:24.640 uh like a military base there since like i think they moved it in 2006 but anyways um i think what

00:30:33.920 trump is doing is negotiating um you know he puts the first offer which is i'm going to take greenland

00:30:40.720 and no matter what um but i think that they're probably negotiating something with denmark i can see

00:30:48.400 that happening um basically it would be the best for greenland for the u.s to take over for them

00:30:56.400 they have a lot of issues and denmark has never really uh supported them um they even say that

00:31:05.200 they've always been threatened by denmark the greenlanders um recently here two years ago they

00:31:13.440 were told that if they didn't follow what greenland or what denmark wanted that they would take away

00:31:18.960 their free medicare and free uh education so that's the main thing that they want to keep i think if

00:31:26.560 trump would offer that to them or some kind of money offer i think that they would be willing to take it

00:31:33.920 it would be best for greenland greenland has issues with alcoholism suicide and they're basically

00:31:41.440 stagnant there's no industries um mostly tourism and you know now and again but it you know trump is like

00:31:51.760 the hero um in my mind you know with venezuela with iran and now with greenland greenlanders just

00:32:00.000 aren't aware you know i think that he needs to the propaganda is european propaganda is very strong

00:32:11.200 i didn't know european propaganda was wrong at all i thought they had a weak

00:32:20.320 what i don't understand is that it seems like greenland is just a big money sink

00:32:24.320 like as i understand that there's a bunch of money that denmark pays to greenland every year just to

00:32:29.280 maintain the infrastructure and to protect it and they don't even really do much protection

00:32:33.680 so it seems like it's just a big expense on their budget every year and i don't know what benefit

00:32:41.280 they get from it and strategically it certainly has value to america but i don't know what value

00:32:47.440 it has to denmark well then i think we should talk about something else

00:32:56.080 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

00:33:08.000 line all the time you can either interject some technology stuff or uh or not mike what what is the

00:33:19.760 what is the most interesting tech thing that's happening today it's still ces right

00:33:26.560 what what um owen owen i think um scott wanted to ask you a question yeah owen what what's happening

00:33:42.240 that's not not about international affairs necessarily but just something interesting that

00:33:49.200 uh you found in the news today well trump made a bunch of interesting statements today um one is

00:33:57.200 that he wants to limit credit card interest rates to 10 percent um another recent announcement he made

00:34:04.880 was that he wants uh i forget which agency but he they're gonna buy something like 200 billion dollars

00:34:12.480 in mortgage bonds and i think that was meant to reduce interest rates so he's

00:34:19.200 taking a pretty heavy debt towards trying to push down mortgage rates to make them more affordable

00:34:27.360 do you think that'll work

00:34:31.120 i think it i mean it's the story i read certainly said that it would have an impact

00:34:35.520 it would be likely to have an impact by buying all these mortgage bonds because you'd be you know

00:34:43.760 how many people understand buying mortgage bonds

00:34:49.920 probably very few

00:34:54.960 um is ces over consumer electronics show

00:35:01.360 i think it might still be going on although it might be wrapping up i'm not sure i'm really

00:35:06.480 tracking when it ends i feel i feel like it was the the disappointing show of electronics

00:35:14.400 electronics once again somebody's got a robot they can do one thing but if you had it you'd be unhappy

00:35:22.800 because your robot only does one thing yeah there certainly was i think from the stories i saw from

00:35:30.880 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

00:35:37.440 you know not ideal use cases for ai so it seems like they that was a bit of a dis a letdown

00:35:44.800 um there certainly was a lot of hype around the robots um so your robot butler idea your prediction

00:35:54.480 may or may not come true you know i'm interested like you said earlier about whether the lg robot

00:36:00.160 will live up to the hype um but it does seem like there's like maybe even half a dozen humanoid robots

00:36:07.920 that are at least being shown as something that might go on sale this year

00:36:12.880 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

00:36:21.360 people you can accept anybody you want oops i think everybody's accepted now

00:36:32.240 and there's an auto mode so in theory

00:36:36.960 review all

00:36:43.520 i think if we just accept some of these

00:36:47.600 it's very it's hard to know if they've already accepted

00:36:53.040 all right we're going to learn a bunch of people

00:36:57.280 see what happens

00:37:02.480 invite participants

00:37:03.680 well in theory in theory there are new people being invited right now as we speak

00:37:13.360 we just have to turn on the

00:37:16.720 what they have to turn on their camera okay if anybody wants to join and turn on the camera there we go

00:37:24.400 hi scott my name is anthony

00:37:30.720 hey anthony what's up

00:37:32.960 not much man i love you so much i've been listening to you for like 10 years

00:37:37.360 when i was like 21 or something you've helped me so much

00:37:40.640 job promotions now i'm engaged to a fiancee just your reframes all those things man all those little

00:37:47.520 lessons talents stack i can't thank you i'm sorry i want to hear is that not here calling in from france

00:38:01.360 sorry for france you said calling in from france yes listening to you for the 10 years least what an honor

00:38:08.960 how what an emotional moment i am also venezuelan by birth

00:38:15.680 legal naturalized u.s citizen so i do have

00:38:19.680 an interesting perspective of what was going on in venezuela at the moment

00:38:26.160 give us your perspective

00:38:28.240 well a lot of people a lot of venezuelans are have always been it's probably 50 50 pro trump and

00:38:36.880 very much against and uh the against have been calling us the magasuelans in a pejorative way

00:38:47.520 and they are all now coming around to being very grateful to president trump for for what he has done

00:38:55.600 for the country of course the first reaction was that everyone wanted maria corina in and everyone

00:39:02.000 was like wtf why is she not the the president that she should be rightfully but uh more and more 0.89

00:39:12.000 of the thinkers of the country have been coming around and actually commenting very publicly that

00:39:19.120 trump is doing exactly the right thing because maria corina would not have in not even remotely the 0.78

00:39:25.120 possibility of commanding the the military or any kind of the of the remaining institutions of the

00:39:31.680 country to to bring order back into the country so from the venezuelan perspective everyone is extremely

00:39:38.800 happy and grateful to the united states and in particular to president trump wow

00:39:44.480 so how long has it been that uh people were pro-trump well a lot it's a little bit like the cubans

00:39:57.280 venezuela have been suffering socialism has been suffering at the hands of of leftist ideology so

00:40:05.600 so most people are are not buying any of the nonsense of of the left um having said that

00:40:13.200 you do get a little bit of of what traditionally uh latin america has a little bit of a of a leftist art

00:40:23.120 so so there's that conflict however venezuelans have experienced in their own flesh what it is to be

00:40:29.600 to be under the the boot of of communism so so automatically you you are on the right

00:40:38.080 well

00:40:45.440 what's your take on europe in general and back

00:40:49.760 right um a little bit more about me i'm actually a graduate of the harvard kennedy school of

00:40:56.880 government and um and i think i am the only one of my classmates that is actually a registered

00:41:04.080 republican and has voted for trump three times i have constant battles with my my friends from that time

00:41:12.240 and and and everyone is of course in the in the academic elite where where they have this democrat superiority in terms of europe

00:41:21.280 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

00:43:20.080 well we're glad to have you

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

00:44:01.760 let me look through my tech stories uh i think

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

00:44:23.600 how much of a difference is that going to make

00:44:30.000 saying it's

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

00:46:30.720 what is that book

00:46:37.360 wonder who wrote it

00:46:41.200 i don't know i felt almost everything you still wouldn't make can you see my cat

00:46:47.120 he's down there oh yes i can see

00:46:50.720 yeah he's shy he's named after diego armando maradona the soccer player because he likes to fight

00:47:03.040 all right

00:47:05.360 else that would like to come in

00:47:07.040 i believe

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 0.53

00:51:30.480 that's right well you got your priorities straight i like that let's see

00:51:40.400 i'm gonna go wide here

00:51:47.440 i wonder how long it will take me to learn this

00:51:49.360 do we have anybody else that would like to

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

00:56:00.240 uh it should have been really really easy

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 0.89

00:56:29.040 that's awesome scott you deserve the best uh military raid drugs 0.92

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

00:56:59.840 so let's check his we got some new people

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 1.00

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

01:01:40.320 yeah okay nice nice all right

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

01:04:47.040 do we have anybody else that wants to come in

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

01:06:32.080 okay gotcha yeah you use stuff right

01:06:38.240 a big candle behind you 0.99

01:06:39.680 what are you behind oh holy shit yeah surprise surprise what's your name 0.98

01:06:51.120 nice i keep hearing myself over and over again all right well it looks like norm and 0.98

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

01:14:41.120 me laugh out loud and uh told him i liked his books and uh i was able to mail them to him uh

01:14:50.400 influence and persuasion he signed them and sent them back so those are two of my more cherished

01:14:56.880 possessions so but i really i don't know how i would have gotten through the last 10 years without

01:15:01.840 your filter because i once i read your book and started listening to your podcasts on periscope everything

01:15:08.320 made sense and has ever since um so thank you for that and then the last thing i would like to thank

01:15:15.360 you for is i think during one of your streams where you were doing drawing dilberts a few years ago i had

01:15:23.520 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

01:15:35.360 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

01:15:48.080 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

01:16:00.560 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

01:16:08.720 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

01:16:22.240 the garage uh as well along with radio control cars and you know college banners and a proud mit graduate

01:16:31.920 and uh uh that's uh that's me i probably could have guessed you were an mit graduate

01:16:44.240 which is the first one i've seen who doesn't wear glasses

01:16:46.960 i don't i i use glasses for driving um i'll probably need them for reading and not very long

01:16:55.520 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

01:17:16.240 the last the fire years getting ground through nine or ten different law firms so wait you're

01:17:20.640 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

01:17:48.000 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

01:18:04.000 because i didn't understand how patents worked back then but um i worked on a uh microwave emissions

01:18:10.080 metals a monitor in grad school and the idea was uh it was similar to the idea if you go to to an

01:18:17.760 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 0.99

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

01:18:52.160 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

01:19:02.320 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

01:19:14.560 through the gas um it would um get the electrons in the outer shells would get excited and then when

01:19:21.680 they came back down within a fraction of a millisecond it would give off light at a certain frequency and

01:19:27.520 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

01:19:38.080 much you know going that went through uh my master's thesis concerned that topic and you know we did the

01:19:45.040 best we could it was very sensitive so you could tell if something was going through it and when uh but

01:19:49.760 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

01:20:03.760 notice me falling asleep yeah i was very i'm sure you're very excited by that and i apologize oh not

01:20:11.520 because of your story it's definitely not because of your story okay so it looks like we have

01:20:19.680 what is your name michael

01:20:23.680 michael turn off your microphone turn on me turn on your microphone

01:20:29.360 whoops disappeared all right who do we have here i can't see the name can you see her name about patty

01:20:47.120 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

01:21:05.600 i was at work and as the live stream closed i said tomorrow i'm going to talk to scott adams

01:21:15.200 and i've spent the last hour trying to figure out how to get the link and i finally figured it out and

01:21:21.120 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

01:21:35.040 address um and i don't expect a response because this is a private thing for you but i do want to comment

01:21:43.120 um people were uh suggesting titles for your book i believe and one of them was escape from prisoner

01:21:53.280 island and you said i didn't escape and i thought if you convert to christianity you escape

01:22:03.920 oh jesus said he came to set the captives free and i just wanted to tell you that because

01:22:14.320 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

01:22:42.320 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

01:23:01.040 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

01:23:25.920 oh thank you did we figure out how to get our mic on there

01:23:31.760 i'm talking to michael oh he's no we still can't hear you so michael there is a microphone on your

01:23:42.240 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

01:24:04.480 left you have to press it a few times

01:24:12.320 just jump in with a follow-up by ask rock about the gdp rate there actually have been several times

01:24:16.880 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

01:25:00.800 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

01:25:47.360 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

01:26:04.560 about it if if you could have anything happen to you in your life and you do not you you are it's

01:26:12.320 impossible for you to become embarrassed you will have a superpower and he started thinking about that

01:26:20.240 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

01:26:35.120 several books and so he asked if he could have one of your books and i'm going to give i what would

01:26:40.640 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

01:27:00.080 and thank you for that that would be kind of a tie which wouldn't win bigly and reframe your brain

01:27:07.760 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

01:27:30.320 reframe situation where i was my mom would tell me to go clean my room and i didn't want to clean my 0.67

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

01:27:43.920 witch was going to come in and cast a spell on me and i would get it done and i would have fun doing

01:27:49.120 it because i know there was no wicked witch coming but it was a fun pretend game and i did that with

01:27:56.000 all kinds of areas in my life and so when the reframe book came out it just made so much sense to me

01:28:01.920 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

01:28:17.600 um so um we should probably close down but not before we give michael one more chance yeah where's

01:28:26.640 michael where are you michael

01:28:33.840 looks like he has something else to do

01:28:37.920 sean cory

01:28:41.040 all right i think we've done all we can do today

01:28:43.920 i apologize again for falling asleep on camera

01:28:48.560 but i warned you i warned you this is the most medicated i've ever been in my life it was a wild

01:28:55.920 trip so thanks for sticking in there and i will soon figure out how to train you

01:29:03.120 to uh have more interesting uh some dreams all right everybody say goodbye to you shelley bye shelley thank

01:29:15.520 you nice to meet you thank you see you all tomorrow thanks sophie so we'll be here all right bye

01:29:23.760 bye

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 10, 2026

Episode 3068 ChattingWSA 01⧸10⧸26

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