Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3074 - The Scott Adams School 01⧸16⧸26

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. For those of you who don't know who I am, my name is Shirley Adams.

00:00:07.100 I'm Scott's ex-wife, best friend, admin assistant, and now I have the biggest job

00:00:15.560 of all, which is to preserve his legacy. Scott wasn't just a writer or a thinker.

00:00:24.600 He was someone who devoted his life to making an impact on others. He believed deeply in touching

00:00:32.120 people's lives, offering connection, clarity, and encouragement wherever he could. Scott wanted to

00:00:40.900 share every moment of his journey with the community that meant so much to him. Even in his final days,

00:00:48.960 his wish was simple and heartfelt, that the people who supported him learned from him and walked

00:00:56.620 beside him. Whether up close or afar, would remain part of his story through his very last breath.

00:01:07.780 The memorial service will be a private gathering for close friends and family, but Scott was adamant

00:01:15.640 about one thing. His community should be included in his celebration of life. Because of that,

00:01:22.960 a dedicated live stream will be made available so that his followers can join in real time.

00:01:29.820 That wasn't an afterthought. It was Scott's personal wish to ensure that the people he cared about,

00:01:37.360 inspired, and connected could stand with him one more time. Details about that

00:01:45.500 will be shared soon. If you feel moved to honor Scott's memory, I know a lot of people are asking me,

00:01:54.180 we just invite you to pick up one of his books, pass it along to someone who might need the hope,

00:02:01.120 his perspective, or encouragement he worked so hard to offer.

00:02:05.940 Sharing his words is a meaningful way to keep his spirit moving forward. Thank you for holding Scott,

00:02:15.820 our family, and the community he cherished in your thoughts during this difficult time.

00:02:21.180 I'm going to go ahead and let others come in and tell us what we're doing today.

00:02:29.400 Thank you, Shelly. That is, you guys, is that so Scott or what? Like, always thinking of all the

00:02:37.580 people he affects. And I mean, like, we expect nothing less from this amazing human being. And we're so

00:02:45.360 honored that everybody can partake in that live stream. Thank you so much. Thank you, Scott,

00:02:50.760 for thinking of all of us. So why don't we, you guys, I pulled up a simultaneous sip of Scott.

00:02:59.860 I know there's going to be a glare. I'm going to try to make this a little darker.

00:03:05.160 But I thought it was appropriate because we have a little lesson coming in today. And you'll see why I

00:03:10.860 like this. So let's, uh, let's listen to Scott. Okay, guys, I hope you can hear this. Actually,

00:03:16.640 it'll make it better if I do this and I'm going to put them up to my microphone.

00:03:23.440 Okay. Can you guys hear me? Okay.

00:03:27.440 Yes.

00:03:28.380 Okay. Ready?

00:03:30.460 All right. So let me do this. Everyone get ready with your mugs.

00:03:33.860 As soon as I get my comments, we're here.

00:03:39.500 Success.

00:03:40.860 Good morning, everybody. And welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:04:27.260 Mondays, it's called the simultaneous sip. And that happens now. Go.

00:04:32.140 Well, I have to start by saying that last night in the man cave that I do just for the subscribers

00:04:47.100 to the locals, we discovered that you can make pictures of public figures using rock, their new

00:04:55.580 image generator. And you can have those public figures appear to be very interested in each

00:05:03.500 other. Now it's not going to do porn, but if you'd like to see a public figure making out with another

00:05:09.980 public figure, apparently you can do that because people were sending me a lot of images of me making

00:05:15.980 out with Michelle Obama, a few other people. So after that was done, I said to myself, huh, I wonder,

00:05:28.460 I wonder how well this works. So I started putting in the images of myself and other beautiful, famous

00:05:36.140 woman, just to see. It doesn't do anything that, you know, that's beyond PG. It's all PG rated or maybe G,

00:05:49.340 but it is weirdly fascinating to see how, how just picture perfect I can do of myself with another

00:05:59.500 person I've never met in person. It is scary. So let me tell you, well, let me tell you the future is

00:06:08.700 going to be wild.

00:06:13.100 So the future is wild, you guys. And let me just catch up with my sip. Okay. Thank you.

00:06:18.940 So I picked that one because today, um, Sergio is going to kick us off with teaching us how to

00:06:30.860 make a meme in less than a minute. And let me tell you, Sergio is so persuasive with these memes and

00:06:40.620 Scott loves that because a simple meme, it might seem like a silly thing to know,

00:06:46.620 but when done right, and he's made the most amazing ones with Scott, with me, even hilarious.

00:06:53.420 Um, but he's going to teach us why it's important to know how to do it, show you how simple it is.

00:06:59.100 Don't be afraid of trying new technology. And, um, Sergio, I'm going to just completely turn this

00:07:04.860 over to you and, um, take it away.

00:07:07.660 I just finally learned how to use the mute button on my keyboard. Can you hear me?

00:07:17.420 Okay. Yes. Game changer.

00:07:19.180 Thank you. Thank you. Wow. I didn't know that. I'm so new to zoom meetings. I never

00:07:23.660 done a zoom meeting until three days ago. So, um, but it's working great. Yes. Thank you,

00:07:30.300 Erica. That was an amazing, uh, uh, pick or a, uh, simultaneous sip and also showing exactly what

00:07:37.580 this guy meant about that. And I know exactly what those memes he was talking about. The, the lady,

00:07:44.060 you know, uh, Obama's. Oh, by the way, um, before they start, um, I'm pretty sure a lot of you are

00:07:50.700 thinking like, who, who is this guy a little bit? Um, and, uh, and why is he here? Right.

00:07:56.940 Uh, so I'm glad that you explained that Erica already and, uh, who I am. And, um, and the reason

00:08:03.980 why, um, I've been using memes a lot and images is because I'm not that great with words. I wasn't

00:08:12.940 great with words. So an image was a fast way, effective way, like an engineering way to get to

00:08:19.660 the core of something. And that's what, uh, Scott Adams represented to me always. He got through the

00:08:26.060 bullshit in, uh, with words and with images all the time. Right. So, uh, the, if you want to talk 0.99

00:08:32.460 about the master meme maker ever is Scott, uh, making like, I don't know, 15 memes a day because

00:08:41.100 each one of those, uh, panels, it can stand on its own by giving you something by the way. So

00:08:47.900 don't forget your, uh, the one for today. Right. Okay. So every one of them, so Scott,

00:08:55.100 give me the inspiration for doing the same thing to him. Uh, so by making those memes about him,

00:09:01.340 um, I noticed that he will not like them many times. Have you noticed that sometimes he wouldn't

00:09:07.660 like him. So, well, too much about that. He was trying to discourage me others from doing that too

00:09:13.500 much. Right. So, but I did it also with respect always a jelly. I'm not going to make any about you

00:09:19.100 or anything. Okay. Um, okay. Let me get started with this. I'm going too far. Um,

00:09:26.940 they, I made my memes and I want to show everybody here, especially on my beloved boomers,

00:09:33.100 because all of us are going to be boomers someday, you know, all of us are getting there.

00:09:38.700 It's going to happen. And so I want to teach all of you how to use the tools, uh, to defend yourselves

00:09:45.580 against, uh, AI, right? So this right now, AI is a huge, uh, threat to all of you, to all of us,

00:09:55.180 I think. Right. So I want to create, um, uh, through, through Scott's teachings to pass it along to you.

00:10:02.700 So you can all use these weapons for good or for good, only for good. Right. So here we go. Let's see.

00:10:11.420 Okay. One of the reasons why a lot of people is intimidated to use ChatGPT or Grok or stuff like

00:10:19.980 that, but we're going to focus today on ChatGPT because it's the best one I found for, um, uh, images.

00:10:26.700 Okay. So the reason why a lot of people don't like to use it is because they feel weird and stupid 0.93

00:10:33.260 talking to a machine, right? So it's talking to you back. It interrupts you. And it's not something 0.93

00:10:39.260 that a lot of people freak out. Let me see in the chat. If anybody agrees on that or not, there's a

00:10:43.980 delay. I know what Scott is like right now. So, uh, one way is to do it like that, right? To start

00:10:50.300 talking to it, but that is going to inhibit your true artist inside of you, right? You need to,

00:10:58.860 when you're making this, you're not, uh, you need to start understanding what is it that you want

00:11:04.780 to create first, right? And that's the first step. So I'm going to talk about the mechanics of that,

00:11:10.140 and then the persuasion of it. Is that okay? Okay. So the mechanics of it, what I want everybody to

00:11:15.660 start doing instead of, uh, today, instead of talking to it and talks to you back, what you're

00:11:21.740 going to do is you're going to dictate to it as if you're sending a voice memo. Okay. To an assistant,

00:11:28.380 let's say you have a, an amazing assistant and, uh, she's incredible. Uh, uh, it's like Marcela, 1.00

00:11:35.260 like a million times, like a billion, like Eric and Marcela and everybody together, right?

00:11:42.060 There's the smartest and everything. And, and, and even Owen, they're together too. So you're sending

00:11:47.740 a message to that assistant to do anything that you want it to do. So when I make, uh, uh, last night,

00:11:53.820 I made a meme about Scott as the architect, right? Uh, you saw it from last night with a white, uh, 1.00

00:12:01.260 suit and he's monitoring the simulation. I made that one, uh, trying to rehearse it for today.

00:12:07.340 It's been longer than a minute. I don't understand that. Sorry, but I'm going to create it right now.

00:12:12.380 Sergio, take your time. I'm just saying that you're teaching us how we can make it in a minute.

00:12:18.460 You have all the time. Oh, good to know. I was like, damn. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Well,

00:12:26.140 so we're going to do it by pushing this little microphone button. Let me see if you can see that.

00:12:31.980 Everybody knows how to dictate to your phone. There's a little microphone. You see it there.

00:12:39.180 Okay. So then we're going to tell it what we wanted to make. So, um, somebody said that Gandalf,

00:12:46.700 Gandalf, the great. So let's do a Scott, the great. I saw that on the suggestions.

00:12:53.420 And that one might be a good one to show, uh, because he's bringing the light, you know? So,

00:12:59.500 so we're going to do it, uh, here together. Okay. And then you're going to say like,

00:13:04.620 do I have to speak like him to make this? No, you, you don't have to speak like me,

00:13:10.540 just speaking your normal, you know, accent. And, uh, and you like, why cannot, I can,

00:13:16.860 can we speak like you if we want to? Absolutely. Thank you. You're welcome to do your, uh, that.

00:13:25.980 I sound like Borat, but like, you know, a nerd, you know? Okay. So I'm going to, uh, do this. So

00:13:34.540 this is going to be a little bit weird because you don't have to be like me. You have to do it your own

00:13:38.620 way. Right? So I'm going to start dictating. This is going to be weird.

00:13:45.820 I'm going to pretend that you're not here. Okay. So HRGPT, good morning. I have an idea today. You

00:13:51.340 know how we've been making memes lately, lately. So about Scott and how much we love him. So we want

00:13:58.060 to see, he's not responding back, right? She's not interrupting me. And, and still all of this,

00:14:03.660 she's like super smart. She has the patience. She doesn't care. She can wait all the time. Right? 0.99

00:14:08.860 Okay. I want you to make this amazing image of Scott Adams as Gandalf the Great. Okay.

00:14:16.940 If there's any copyright issues, let me know, but I want this to be, uh, wonderful. Um, and, um,

00:14:23.260 okay. So now I'm going to, to do it and it's going to give me, oh, thank you. Okay. We'll see. Okay.

00:14:31.580 So I want you to do that in this any copyright issues. Let me know. Okay. So I just did it like

00:14:37.740 that. Right. And I have another one while that is cooking. We're going to get another one here.

00:14:46.380 Okay. See? So that one is being done right now. Right? Here we go. Okay. Here we go.

00:14:55.820 Oh, that one is the one that I just did earlier.

00:15:03.980 Oh, dang it. This is not going to work. Maybe, huh?

00:15:10.140 What's going on? Oh, this is bad. Can you take away your green screen? Is that easy to do?

00:15:16.780 You're entering the matrix. Oh, you know what? It's the matrix. It's holding it. You know what?

00:15:21.980 The most important thing right here is not so much that, uh, the image that we're going to get here.

00:15:28.460 I can show it later. Oh, wow. Oh my God. This is an amazing one. Uh, we, um, this is, look at this.

00:15:36.220 See that now. Okay. So now you can see that he made the robe not white, right?

00:15:43.580 Mm-hmm. So in that case, uh, it might be for copyright issues, right? So what I'm going to tell her,

00:15:50.700 I'm going to leave her a message. Say like, you know what? This is amazing. Now I want you to

00:15:56.300 make the robe white and everything white. And, uh, I want a lot of, um, lightning around, right?

00:16:04.220 So it gives you a photo and then you have the opportunity to say, Hey, I really like that,

00:16:09.500 but could you change the robe and make it white?

00:16:11.900 Exactly. Exactly. You start tweaking it like that. And then sometimes it goes like, uh,

00:16:18.220 hold on a second. That looks a lot like, you know, copyright thing, right? So in that moment,

00:16:24.540 you start working with it, but, uh, most of them, they work on this first, uh, instance, right? So

00:16:30.060 that's a way to create, uh, um, the image itself. Yeah. Okay. So, um, now what does the image have to

00:16:40.220 be like in order to, to create that, uh, that, um, effect? The way to do it is to understand

00:16:49.980 that even if every one of our senses wants to be in peace, right? Like our, our eyes,

00:16:58.460 the persuasion from the eyes is to see everything arranged and calm, not chaos, right? If it's, uh,

00:17:05.260 uh, if it's audio persuasion, you don't want to have noise. You want to have, uh, harmony, right?

00:17:11.260 Um, when it comes to, uh, taste persuasion, you want, oh my goodness, look at this now.

00:17:18.060 I'll show you this Gandalf. Oh yeah. So now it's white and they changed the background, right?

00:17:25.260 Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's, uh, it took like no time, right? To do that. And, uh, and it works, uh, great.

00:17:32.780 So the, the, the images that a chat GPT makes, they are already with a good composition enough to create

00:17:42.940 the effect that you wanted to, to create. So the, the, the, the biggest obstacle here

00:17:48.860 is to allow yourself to, to be an, an artist with this prompting, not to see yourself as a,

00:17:55.580 as a technician, to let yourself go and, uh, imagine it, and then just speak out and just don't let,

00:18:03.980 don't edit yourself. That's, uh, I wrote that down and stop editing yourself and start creating.

00:18:10.860 So that's, uh, I think I'm going to leave it for now at that point, as far as the image creation,

00:18:16.620 uh, persuasion wise, I want to bring, uh, I'm glad that Joshua is here because, uh, that's like the,

00:18:23.020 the, the, the, the, one of the most, uh, uh, biggest weapons. When people say,

00:18:28.700 oh, uh, uh, an image has, uh, it speaks for a thousand words. It is way beyond that way beyond that.

00:18:36.300 It, it, it, it, it, it grabs your head for the full day, right? And, uh, and you're thinking

00:18:42.060 about it. Uh, an example of a meme that I did for, for Scott that I've been using a lot lately

00:18:48.860 is, uh, the climate models. Have you seen that one? You seen that one?

00:18:54.380 So the fake climate models. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So on that model and that, on that,

00:18:59.820 everybody's seen it. And hopefully on that, uh, we have, uh, Sydney Sweeney's interview with that

00:19:05.980 smog, uh, well, uh, I think it's a smog, but just, uh, we have a lady and we have a Scott

00:19:11.740 and they're this, uh, and so I changed the Sydney Sweeney to Scott's, right? So that's,

00:19:16.860 that's the element of absurdity. Right. And, uh, and he's got that blonde hair,

00:19:21.580 which he had in the sixties. So it was great. And, um, so we had that lady in, uh, and she's 0.96

00:19:28.220 saying climate models are real and it's got, he's not saying anything. Sydney Sweeney,

00:19:32.860 that's my favorite photo of Sydney Sweeney, because I don't care about her, you know,

00:19:37.500 anything else really is, it's not that big, really. What's doing?

00:19:43.020 No, I said, sure. It's Marcella. Oh yeah. No, I mean, that expression, man,

00:19:47.500 it's so great. Erika mentioned that, that that's your attitude sometimes, you know, that,

00:19:52.940 I love it. That is my face all day long. Yeah. Was it easy to make, uh, because when I go on

00:20:00.940 chat GPT and I say, Scott Adams do this, it sometimes gives me this thing is like, oh,

00:20:06.860 that's copyright or that's a public figure and we can't do it. Do you ever, I don't know.

00:20:12.060 Do you ever get that? With, oh yeah. With other figures, many times I tried, but with Scott,

00:20:18.620 chat GPT loves Scott somehow. I think that he really has a love for it and, and, and it might

00:20:25.260 be affected by how you talk to it too. So maybe that's, that's a, uh, you know, it needs to.

00:20:31.660 Sometimes. So I, I love using chat GPT too. So what I do sometimes is I will put an image

00:20:40.540 into the text I'm about to write. Like you can attach an image in there, my chat GPT. I let him

00:20:46.540 pick his own name based on my guidelines. So his name is Chester. Um, so I'll say Chester use this

00:20:53.820 image and let's say it's Scott and I'll say, um, you know, create a background of, you know,

00:21:01.180 happy cats surrounding him and hearts shooting out of their eyes and a big smile on his face.

00:21:08.140 And then it'll just generate that. And then I can see it and be like, oh, okay. I love what you did,

00:21:12.940 Chester, but this time make the cats hugging him around his neck and squeezing him and then put

00:21:20.300 fluffy bunnies everywhere. So you can just, and you can even get as detailed as like fluffy white

00:21:26.380 bunnies. And instead of eyes, they have hearts for eyes. You just, you're painting with your words.

00:21:32.060 So it's listening to you and you can be really, really detailed and very long winded. And it,

00:21:38.700 it really picks up everything in the nuance. Um, that's my experience with it. Drop an image and

00:21:45.020 start from there.

00:21:45.980 And that's Erica said it perfectly. The way she's doing it of just talking to it like that and just

00:21:52.140 giving it the instructions instead of editing yourself and say like, oh, I need to talk to it

00:21:56.140 like a robot. No, let her be the robot. You be the human and let it go. Right. So going back to the

00:22:02.700 persuasion of, of those memes for Scott, it was a way to save time. Instead of typing things, I can just

00:22:10.460 respond to the, with that. Right. And that's it. That shows down the argument, um, when it comes to

00:22:16.460 that, but that was, that was for our group, basically. Now, for example, we have this situation

00:22:23.260 with, um, uh, people nitpicking Scott's, uh, conversion to Christianity. You know, they're going

00:22:30.300 like all the, the, Hey, baby, all the experts are jumping in and saying, oh, he should have done it

00:22:36.540 like this. That's not the right process to get into heaven. We know better, you know, and all that.

00:22:41.580 Right. And some guys have saying, oh, he did it right. The, the way that people have been asking

00:22:47.180 him for months and years, right. How to do it, which is great. So she, so Scott, uh, instead of, uh,

00:22:55.660 him now being able to fight that, the meme is showing Scott, uh, um, response to an expert,

00:23:03.980 right to the, uh, it doesn't matter. It can be a climate expert or a Jesus expert or a Bible

00:23:12.060 expert or a Christianity expert. And I love Jesus myself. Um, um, I will consider myself a Christian,

00:23:19.340 but at the same time, I'm not going to be, you know, pushing, Hey, everybody, you have to do it

00:23:24.940 this way. If you don't cross this and you don't do that, everybody's personal relationship with Jesus

00:23:29.740 is their own. So I made a meme for that. Um, I'm looking at the locals chat as you're speaking,

00:23:37.180 where you can insert pictures into the locals chat. You guys, I recommend you guys definitely

00:23:42.780 should subscribe to Scott Adams locals page. It's going to continue and be developing even into

00:23:49.500 more fun stuff, but I can see people know how to do this and they're dropping their amazing photos of

00:23:56.940 their, um, interpretation of Scott as any amazing thing I'm watching them go by. And I love that.

00:24:03.660 And it's like a, it's, it is a persuasive message. It's one. I think I'm going to try to do that more,

00:24:09.900 Sergio, because I, you guys, if you know me, I am fiery. I will mouth off in a second. I go from like

00:24:17.820 zero to a hundred. And, oh, if, and especially right now, if someone's saying something about Scott,

00:24:23.020 I'm like, okay, like, what would Scott say? Like, calm down, like regroup, you know,

00:24:28.140 the old 48 hour rule is helpful. It's about 48 minutes max that I can go before spouting off.

00:24:35.580 But, um, I'm going to try to use more imagery like you're doing, because then I'm not saying

00:24:41.580 anything with my words. I'm just posting a picture and they can take from it what they want. So I think

00:24:46.540 it'd be like a fun thing for us all to try. And if you guys do try it on chat GPT, then, um, post

00:24:55.420 them on there and tag Sergio. Um, everybody can drop Sergio's name in the chat and you guys tag him

00:25:02.940 so he can see like what you learned today. And again, you just go on to chat GPT. There's a little

00:25:08.380 microphone emblem at the bottom, tap on that and just literally talk to it. Just say, please create a

00:25:14.380 picture of, you know, and then just say, it could even be generic of, you know, um, a wizard reading

00:25:22.300 a book called reframe your brain with a big smile on their face or, you know, whatever you want,

00:25:27.260 just start playing with it and tag us because it's a great form of visual persuasion.

00:25:34.460 There were a few questions on the chat, uh, for you, Sergio. One of them was, uh, I don't recall who did,

00:25:41.820 who put it up there, but they said, do I need to have a paid version of chat GPT to have the microphone?

00:25:49.980 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. So the microphone is part of the phone, basically.

00:25:55.580 So it should be on the, the free version.

00:25:58.940 Oh yes. On the free version is included too. It's included.

00:26:02.460 I think you're just limited on the free version. Like, I think there's like, so there's like so much

00:26:06.860 you can do in a day on the free version, but it should be enough to play with. And if you really

00:26:10.860 love it and you feel like you could play with chat GPT or Grok, and you want to incorporate it

00:26:16.300 into your everyday life, consider paying for it. If you have a business, it really is a business

00:26:20.620 right off. If you're using it for work, but I am not an accountant or an expert. So don't actually

00:26:25.420 listen to me. No, that's, that's true. The, the, oh, go ahead. The other question that was a paid

00:26:32.460 question to you, Sergio from, I fight you naked, no comments on the name, but I find it very difficult

00:26:39.900 to do what you're talking about with Grok, but I don't use chat GPT. How do the two compare?

00:26:45.660 Well, uh, yeah, I haven't used Grok very much for images because of that. It has been a suboptimal

00:26:53.580 results and it doesn't, I haven't connected with it the way I can talk to chat GPT. We don't even have

00:27:02.220 to hear chat GPT, right? So that's what I like about the microphone thing that, um, I don't have to edit

00:27:09.580 myself as I'm prompting, right? It's just, I'm, I'm sending voice memos the same way I used to send

00:27:15.900 voice memos to friends and family, right? Instead of, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, texting gets misinterpreted

00:27:22.780 a lot. If you start typing to chat GPT what you want, it might misunderstand you the same way that, um,

00:27:29.980 your friends and family do. So that's why a voice memo, it might, it might help your marriage too. I don't know.

00:27:35.900 I love that. Um, what do you guys say? We do, um, an interstitial sip as Scott would say,

00:27:47.180 and, um, we thank Sergio. You guys tag Sergio when you make your memes and, um, Sergio,

00:27:54.460 thank you so much. Cause you're so good at that and we appreciate it a lot. Um, but I think we have

00:28:01.220 Owen hanging out. We've got, uh, Marcella's got some news stories. Owen's got some news stories

00:28:06.980 and Joshua Lysak is here with, with his adorable baby and they have some news stories. So let's do

00:28:13.300 a little interstitial interstitial sip. Thanks Scott. And we'll switch it over. Okay.

00:28:18.580 And we've got Gary and Roman. Oh my God. Gary and Roman being on here, you guys is so therapeutic.

00:28:26.100 Shelly, we're obsessed and so happy to see them. They're really happy that I'm in the office today.

00:28:33.380 Oh, I love that. Okay. So Marcella, Owen, everybody else, let's take it away.

00:28:40.100 Yeah. Well, I, Joshua, I know you said you were coming on at the beginning. Is there something

00:28:43.460 you wanted to jump in with? And I know there was one news story related to Scott that you had posted

00:28:48.820 today. Yeah. Can you remind me of that Owen real quick? Yeah, I can hear you. Oh yeah. I said,

00:28:56.340 can you remind me which one that was real quick? Oh, I think it was about Scott's book being a

00:29:00.340 bestseller. Yes, that's right. Yes. Reframe your brain. Yes. Hi everyone. I'm Joshua Lysak at Joshua

00:29:07.300 Lysak, L I S E C. This is my third, third child whom Scott just met, uh, on Saturday. Yeah. Uh,

00:29:15.060 yes. Hello. Um, I've been going on and off camera to change diapers and read stories.

00:29:20.340 Um, in any case, yes. So re reframe your brain, uh, is now the number one bestselling book,

00:29:25.540 uh, in the United States officially. Um, the vast majority of book sales happen on Amazon. Yeah,

00:29:31.540 I have a little earbud in the vast majority of book sales between 85 and 92% of all book sales

00:29:35.700 happen on Amazon and reframe your brain is number one in all books, beating everything. It's number one

00:29:41.260 in Kindle and it's the number one bestselling audio book on iTunes right now also. And I had shared a

00:29:48.780 message or a, uh, a tweet actually from Scott a few, uh, from a few weeks ago when at the time

00:29:56.220 reframe your brain was number one in the hypnosis category. Of course, reframe, reframing is sort of

00:30:02.380 an applied hypnotic technique where you take someone's perspective on a matter that's impoverishing,

00:30:11.260 that is suboptimal, that is useless, that is unhelpful, that causes them to be disempowered.

00:30:21.020 And then you take that usual frame and you alter the words someone uses to describe their problem,

00:30:28.140 such that by using those words, you lift the problem off of them. That's what reframing is.

00:30:34.860 And this morning, as I was playing with one of my kids, I saw I, and I was reminded of on my,

00:30:39.900 uh, that we're continuing talking about reframing and then this will be it. I was reminding how I

00:30:44.620 have these, I have these, um, Roman Catholic, uh, prayer cards. So this is a little prayer card of

00:30:49.740 Saint, uh, Saint Brigid of Ireland. Then we have Saint Francis of, uh, of Assisi. I got these after I heard,

00:30:55.580 um, RFK Jr. sharing that every morning when he wakes up, he prays the, uh, peace prayer by

00:31:01.420 Saint Francis of Assisi. And, uh, I was joking with Jack Prasovic. Hey, you Catholics, you guys have 1.00

00:31:07.660 trading cards. Uh, in any case, I recognize that these prayers, many of which are hundreds of years

00:31:13.980 old, some of them more than a thousand years old may we have in English. These are reframes.

00:31:21.180 So for example, in the Saint Brigid prayer, there's reference of going from conflict to harmony,

00:31:27.100 darkness to light, downcast to hope, troubled and anxious to peace and firmly rooted,

00:31:34.860 and going from wounded and weary to strong and quiet and greater wholeness. These are reframes,

00:31:43.180 you guys, and they're hundreds of years old. So what I appreciate about reframe your brain

00:31:48.540 is the modern practical, uh, demonstration that Scott brings the sort of applied hypnosis

00:31:56.540 in this book. And now we're going to have tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of

00:32:01.580 more people accessing Scott Adams, life-changing material. Oh yes. I'm, I'm getting a temporary

00:32:07.980 tattoo currently on my foot from one of my kids. It's interesting. Uh, yes. So Scott is providing

00:32:14.620 from beyond the grave, life-changing material to hundreds of thousands of people. Now,

00:32:19.420 as we speak through this book being, um, out there, and that is just the most wonderful thing.

00:32:24.540 And this is why I encourage everyone, if you have reframes that have helped you in your life that you

00:32:30.220 have discovered, please write them down, publish them as X articles or X threads, or get you someone

00:32:37.980 who can help you write your memoir, your how to advice book. Okay. Uh, I was Scott's editor and

00:32:46.220 continue to be his, uh, his, his publisher and Joel Pollack is working on the first draft of Scott Adams

00:32:52.300 book. And so I'll be having a look at that when, uh, when that is, is, is ready for you all. I'm very

00:32:57.420 excited about that. And we'll, we'll make sure we include all of the greatest hits of, uh, Scott

00:33:02.700 Adams reframes from his life and times. Thank you, Shelley, for introducing us. And it's good to see

00:33:08.540 Gary and Roman here. This is a fantastic little furry friends. Joshua. Yes. I want you to, um,

00:33:15.260 like I see your ex posts and then you're talking, you're saying a lot in your posts, you know,

00:33:20.300 write your book, get your book done this year, you know, write your book in 2026. Can you tell us

00:33:26.220 what you mean and what kind of service you could provide to people that are thinking about that?

00:33:32.620 Yes. I go from kind of a one-off talk to Joshua Lysak to see what book you should write all the

00:33:38.860 way to, I will write the thing for you over, over a number of months. That's the initial service that

00:33:43.340 Scott Adams goes, uh, recommended to his audience, my nonfiction, but ghostwriting services back in 2019.

00:33:49.980 And that's where I meet with an individual for a number of weeks, a number of months, usually one hour a

00:33:55.260 week. And what people like about my process is it's cathartic and therapeutic and relatively hands-free.

00:34:01.900 I, I do all the work. You get all the credit, both for the writing and the publishing. Of course,

00:34:06.460 it's your stories, your ideas, your experiences, and your words. I just have a unique process that

00:34:11.020 I've trademarked the best way to say it, where, when I'm interviewing someone, I hear between the lines.

00:34:17.180 And then when I take what they've said to me, I take their usual frame and then I write a reframe of

00:34:25.100 it. And then that's their life story or that's their experiences. And I, I tend to work with mostly

00:34:31.100 CEOs, physicians, lawyers, doctors, clinicians, let's say people who have a, an industry expertise,

00:34:39.660 but they may not be super well-known in their, in their, in their niche, whether they're an inventor

00:34:43.580 or an investor, philanthropist, let's say.

00:34:46.300 And how do you take it all the way to the publishing, Joshua? Like into it actually becoming

00:34:51.180 a book?

00:34:52.380 Yes.

00:34:53.580 Wow. So all the people-

00:34:55.340 That's what I did with Scott. Everything you're seeing is from Scott's books now. That's,

00:34:58.300 that's all from the Joshua Lysak experience.

00:35:00.460 And Joshua is a vault to you guys. He would never disclose any personal information about you. He is

00:35:08.460 a absolutely trusted and valued person. So I know a million people who want to write a book. They have

00:35:15.500 no idea how to, or what to do. So for any of you listening that felt that way, talk to Joshua. Maybe

00:35:22.300 you guys are a good fit and he's right there on Twitter and he responds to everybody. And it could be

00:35:27.980 a whole new direction for you in 2026, if that's your dream. Right, Josh?

00:35:33.420 That's right. Thank you very much, Erica. And even if it's just a real back and forth quick

00:35:37.020 conversation, then there's, there's some people I say, Hey, you probably shouldn't write a book.

00:35:41.340 You need to publish this as an article and X first, short form. See if you get a few likes,

00:35:46.700 replies, comments, shares, people posting. I tried this. It was amazing. It worked.

00:35:50.940 So sometimes you need to do a little bit of a test first, just to, just to, not everyone needs to

00:35:55.180 write a book. I think some, some people, your content, your best tips, your best material, your

00:35:59.740 best tips are 140 characters and that's okay. Start, start, start there. And if you feel like

00:36:05.980 you've got something longer form, I would be glad to, to speak with you. I'm at Joshua Lysick on X.

00:36:11.340 Thank you, Erica. Thank you, Shelly, for the opportunity to share a little bit about that and to,

00:36:16.220 and to promote the Roman Catholic trading cards, like St. Bridget in the ancient reframes that they provide.

00:36:22.620 I love that. I'm being, I'm being called to go change a diaper right now.

00:36:27.420 Thanks. Thank you, Joshua. Thank you very much. Thanks.

00:36:32.780 All right, Owen, you take it from here. Okay. I think from here, we'll talk about some of the

00:36:37.820 stories in the news. I, and Marcela picked some out and I picked some out we could talk about. And so

00:36:44.540 let's, let's just get started. I think we might start with your list, Marcela, if you want to go through

00:36:50.220 that or I can start talking about it. I think the first story had to do with Trump meeting with the

00:36:56.860 other person from Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado. Yeah. Yeah. President Trump, you know, he didn't

00:37:06.700 win the Nobel Peace Prize last year. And that was a huge deal that Maria Corina Machado was the 1.00

00:37:14.940 Venezuelan opposition leader against Maduro. And she went down to the White House and gave him

00:37:24.540 the Nobel Peace Prize that belonged to her. And she, I mean, how persuasive can you be as a human

00:37:33.420 that you don't win, but the person that won gives it to you and presents it to him

00:37:40.620 in the White House while she's happy about it. So I don't know if you have any more

00:37:47.580 comments on that from regarding that. Well, I think it's, it's just as much

00:37:53.260 persuasion on her part, because I think clearly she has the agenda that she'd like to be leading

00:37:58.380 Venezuela. And I think she also understands that Trump probably has a hundred percent control over

00:38:05.340 whether or not that happens. So I'm sure there is a vested interest there or an agenda that she's

00:38:11.740 trying to push to get his attention and to butter him up and, you know, say good things about him.

00:38:18.460 And this was the ultimate way she could do that was she's the only person in the world that got

00:38:23.420 the Nobel Peace Prize. And even though, you know, the Nobel Committee has said she can't really give it to

00:38:29.740 him in the sense of him winning it. It still is very symbolic and visual and gets a lot of press.

00:38:36.380 And I'm sure made a huge impression on Trump. And so excellent persuasion on her part. Very smart.

00:38:45.180 And I don't know if it'll work, but, but it, you know, if, if anything would work, that would be the

00:38:49.980 thing to try. Not only that, but a reporter, well, she, I don't know where she was. She was outside 0.99

00:38:56.940 of the White House. A reporter asked her, like you presented the Nobel Peace Prize to him and she

00:39:02.940 compared it to be something like 200 years ago. She said, General Lafayette gave Simone Bolivar

00:39:11.740 a medal with George Washington's face on it. So she not only gave the medal to the peace price,

00:39:19.660 whatever it is to Trump, but she compared him to Bolivar who is for Latin America. He's

00:39:26.940 like one of the main forefathers of, of all of these countries. So she, like you said,

00:39:36.140 oh, and very, very, very persuasive on her part because she wants to control or be put into power 1.00

00:39:45.500 in Venezuela. And I have to say she was elected through someone else. Um, but she was elected by 0.73

00:39:53.900 the Venezuelan people. Um, it is my understanding. I, I know people would say different that,

00:40:00.140 that because he, uh, Maduro pretended to have won. Um, but many, uh, different people had said that she

00:40:08.380 won, but going back to the persuasion aspect of it. Um, I'm sure it doesn't, I'm sure that Trump knows

00:40:16.300 that she, uh, is willing to work with him now. How do you think Trump really feels about getting

00:40:23.340 that prize? Like, do you think he's like, oh, she's just buttering me up. Like I'm not stupid.

00:40:29.020 She knows he probably loves a prize cause he does. He loves to win things and be the guy, 0.94

00:40:34.060 but also don't you kind of think he's like, well, it's not my prize and I know why you're giving it to

00:40:40.300 me for persuasion. So what do you think he actually feels about getting that?

00:40:44.620 So something that came up yesterday, sorry, but with Joshua, because Joshua was, is a hypnotist as

00:40:50.620 well. Um, it came out that, uh, that Scott would, he would basically tell us I'm about to hypnotize

00:40:58.300 you guys. I'm about to do this. I'm about to do that, but it is still work. So I think that

00:41:04.140 he knows he's being buttered up, but it is still work at the end. That's how I feel about it.

00:41:10.860 Yeah. And I would add the other frame that Scott put on Trump, which is that he does the biggest,

00:41:16.380 he does very intentionally treats people who treat him well, very well. And he treats his critics very

00:41:23.900 poorly, right? He makes the biggest gap possible between how he treats people who work with him and

00:41:30.620 who say nice things about him compared to people who don't. And so I think clearly she has put

00:41:37.820 herself on the good side. She's on the nice list, not on the naughty list. And you know,

00:41:43.340 maybe Santa will give her a present. I don't know. I mean, I think she does have some work cut out to

00:41:49.500 her from what I understood, because I think Trump had made some previous statements about how she's not

00:41:53.260 really respected there and he didn't think she was necessarily a good fit. So if she does end up being

00:41:59.500 put in power by Trump, then you know, it worked, because that would have made a huge change.

00:42:05.900 And again, I don't know if anything would work because I'm sure Trump is well aware of what's

00:42:09.740 going on. And he's considering the whole picture of what's best for Venezuela, what's best for the

00:42:15.100 United States, what's going to lead to stability, what needs to happen right now versus what needs

00:42:20.940 to happen long term, because I'm sure at some point, they'll have another election and then I'm sure

00:42:24.700 she can run. But, you know, we'll have to see how this plays out. But I definitely think it was a

00:42:30.860 genius thing for her to do. And it doesn't cost her anything. You know, she still is the Nobel 0.57

00:42:37.340 Prize winner, according to the committee. And all it is, it's a statue at that point or whatever the

00:42:41.260 thing is. So, you know, she definitely gained some points with Trump, put herself on the nice list,

00:42:47.100 and maybe put herself in position to run the country. Good point. Can I make a quick comment

00:42:53.340 about that? Go ahead. I think that Machado was great at saying thank you, right? We know that is

00:43:02.940 very important with the Zelensky meeting, that he is not about buttoning him up. It's about showing

00:43:10.540 thank you as Trump being the representative of America. Trump is not saying, okay, you know,

00:43:17.820 respect me because I'm handsome and tall. No, he's saying respect me because I represent America.

00:43:24.620 And that's why he wants them to come to the White House to show respect for the country. He's got

00:43:31.260 the walls covered in president's pictures. Okay. Talk about visual persuasion, right? I'm going to be

00:43:39.740 the visual persuasion guy to try to pinpoint these things. He has the auto pen on the wall, too.

00:43:48.140 Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's on the walker. Yeah, go ahead, Marcela. Sorry to interrupt. I guess

00:43:52.780 X is down, but our feed in X is down, but all of X is down right now. I don't know what happened.

00:44:00.060 Wow. But go ahead.

00:44:01.020 Yeah. Okay. So on persuasion, Trump brings everybody to this house, to this Oval Office

00:44:13.420 in the history of America. So Machado is being useful. She's being a useful person by using this medal,

00:44:24.380 this prize to unite Venezuela, the Venezuelan people, right? So she said like, yeah, I can hang

00:44:33.180 this medal on my wall here or bring it to Trump and do something with it instead of being a souvenir,

00:44:40.300 like Owen said. So yeah, that was an amazing show of visual persuasion of a high ground too. She's 0.95

00:44:48.620 taking the high ground and that's amazing because the high ground is a very high level persuasion

00:44:56.300 that Scott always told us that if you want to get there, you take it, you take the ground.

00:45:01.500 And really putting herself on the international stage, like on all of the news seen with Trump,

00:45:07.180 it just helps her elevate her own appearance too. 0.97

00:45:10.860 Yeah. All the memes around is all about that, right? They're going to be making memes on it

00:45:17.260 because it has a big effect.

00:45:19.020 Right. Okay.

00:45:21.020 All right. Well, I think the next story had to do with Greenland.

00:45:25.260 Marcel, I think you were making a point that Trump was making something out of nothing with that.

00:45:29.980 Yeah. As Scott would say, Trump is making something out of nothing. I think I was watching

00:45:37.260 yesterday some of his periscopes and one of them was about Trump meeting. Why, why is it? Why, why am I

00:45:48.940 not remembering Kim Jong-un? How come I forget his name? And he was saying how he was making something

00:45:57.020 out of nothing. And then now with Greenland, he's definitely making something out of nothing. There's

00:46:03.180 different stories, but one of my favorite stories that, uh, in regards to the Greenland issue is

00:46:08.620 that Polly Market did a poll. Um, and the poll asked, will the U S acquire part of Greenland in 2026?

00:46:17.820 And guess how many people, how, what was the percentage of people that said that U S will acquire it?

00:46:24.700 Put it in the chat.

00:46:26.460 25%?

00:46:27.420 Put it in the chat.

00:46:30.860 How did you know the percentage?

00:46:33.180 I just guessed.

00:46:36.220 I don't know. It's, I'm waiting for the chat to

00:46:40.780 catch up to the percentage of people that think we will acquire part of it.

00:46:45.180 Yes.

00:46:47.340 25. I see.

00:46:48.540 The smartest and the hardest, they're guessing the right number.

00:46:51.580 Yes, they are. Scott taught us well.

00:46:55.340 We have the smartest audience in the world here.

00:46:57.340 The smartest. Um, I found that very, I started laughing as soon as I see that, but, um, in other

00:47:05.180 news regarding Greenland, um, Trump still wants it. Um, the EU doesn't want him to have Greenland.

00:47:13.420 Um, Ursula von der Leyen. Sorry. Every time I say that name, I laugh. Uh, Greenland belongs, 0.94

00:47:22.940 she said Greenland belongs to Denmark and NATO. So now she's bringing NATO as the reason why you can't

00:47:29.980 have it. Um, the funniest thing about it is that, um, Mario Nakul, uh, reported this, um, from Polly Market.

00:47:40.060 I don't know how accurate it is. Um, but NATO, it says, has arrived in Greenland. UK deploys one soldier

00:47:48.860 to Greenland. Norway adds two soldiers. Now they have three soldiers to defeat America. Um, it was just 0.65

00:47:59.580 hilarious because I know that that's got to laugh about that. Um, and the BBC later reported that

00:48:07.340 there was 34 troops that were sent to Greenland. Um, and basically they're trying to stop, uh, Greenland,

00:48:16.940 but I don't know if Owen wants to add anything. Um, recently, I don't know if it was yesterday or two

00:48:22.380 days ago, Denmark had their own, Greenland and Denmark, um, went to the White House. Some of the,

00:48:30.140 I don't know what rank of, of the people in, uh, in Greenland and Denmark. Was it the, like, uh,

00:48:37.820 parliament or somebody from parliament? I'm not sure. Somebody from the government of Denmark went in to

00:48:43.820 have meetings with, with, uh, the White House in regards to the sale of Greenland. So.

00:48:51.180 But they're meeting, I think with J.D. Vance and Rubio, if I'm not with Trump, if I'm correct.

00:48:56.700 Yes. Yes. They're meeting with J.D. and, uh, like, I know him, like J.D.

00:49:01.900 J.D. Okay, we're all calling him J.D.

00:49:05.820 And Rubio, so Trump wasn't there.

00:49:07.980 Yeah. Well, I think all I, all I would add is just the context of what's really going on here. I

00:49:13.420 think the Greenland is, um, very strategic from a geopolitical standpoint in terms of the Arctic

00:49:21.020 circle. You know, it's the part of the map that you never see, but there's a direct path right to

00:49:25.980 America from Russia. And that, you know, Russia and China can, could basically directly attack us 0.56

00:49:32.380 there and we wouldn't have any way to defend ourselves. Um, if they sent submarines or some

00:49:37.180 other, you know, air force things or ships that direction and Greenland would be right in the path.

00:49:43.580 And so I think that's why Trump says we need it. That's why it's so important. It's not about

00:49:50.300 rare earth minerals or any of the other things that people speculate about. It's about national

00:49:54.620 security. It's about saying, you know, we need to protect ourselves and that's our most vulnerable

00:49:59.420 angle as far as where we could be attacked. And so I think that's what really is on Trump's mind

00:50:06.140 with this. And I think that's why he says it just makes sense that we should have that

00:50:10.380 and it should be a U S controlled territory. Um, I, I still don't know what's going to ultimately

00:50:16.460 happen here. Um, you know, it does seem like right now, at least that he's not convincing anyone to

00:50:22.940 want him to buy it. Um, and, and I, you know, I, I think clearly militarily we could take it if we

00:50:31.500 wanted to, but I don't think anyone, including Trump wants that to happen. Um, I, I think it,

00:50:37.100 he would very much rather make a deal. Um, and I don't know whether that's gonna,

00:50:43.020 you know, it may take time for that to take effect in terms of persuasion. You know what I mean?

00:50:47.980 Scott talks often about how repetition makes a difference and you have to kind of normalize an

00:50:53.580 idea. So you, you can't just expect the first time you say something that you're going to convince

00:50:57.420 somebody of something, but you might make them think it's a possibility where they never thought

00:51:01.580 of it as a possibility before. And then the more and more it said, the more they're thinking, well,

00:51:06.620 maybe it will happen or maybe it should happen, or maybe it's actually a good idea. And so I think

00:51:12.220 that's Trump's agenda from a persuasion perspective is that he just wants to keep talking about it and keep

00:51:16.540 it in the news and keep saying it until he gets people to say, you know, you know what,

00:51:21.420 it's a real possibility and maybe it actually makes sense. Um, or he can do the Childini thing

00:51:26.700 and say like, Hey, we're going to, we're going to buy Europe. And then people are like, what are,

00:51:32.460 you know, we're going to take over Europe. What? And then you're like, all right, just Greenland.

00:51:35.660 And they'll be like, ah, okay, that's better. That's good. Yeah. It's thinking past the sale,

00:51:39.900 right? Yeah. Whether now the discussion is not whether we're going to buy Greenland,

00:51:45.420 it's how much we're going to buy Greenland for. And what's in it for Greenland. So they're going

00:51:50.940 to get money and protection. Is that what it is? Woo. Great. Americans. Yeah.

00:52:01.740 I mean, I think, I think part of the situation and what I think Trump is trying to take advantage of

00:52:06.380 is that Greenland is a very neglected country, essentially. They're this colony of Denmark,

00:52:12.460 which really made no sense from the outset that Denmark would have a colony over here in our,

00:52:17.340 our continent, but the, it costs Denmark a lot of money just to maintain it there.

00:52:22.380 Cause it's not easy to live there. It requires a lot of infrastructure, requires a lot of ongoing

00:52:26.300 investment, and it doesn't really produce enough to make it what you might consider profitable

00:52:32.300 to have that as a territory. You know, it sucks up a lot more resources from Denmark every year than it

00:52:37.420 ever gives back to them. And so, you know, economically it's a liability for Denmark and

00:52:43.820 it probably would be for us too. But I think we could probably afford it a lot more than Denmark

00:52:49.980 could. Cause it would just be a little blip on our budget compared to everything else we waste our

00:52:53.100 money on. And it would potentially solve a really important problem for us. Whereas Denmark doesn't

00:52:59.660 really care if Russia and China go across Greenland's territory because it doesn't affect them.

00:53:05.660 And there are good reasons why it would make sense to do this deal, but I think it, it's probably just

00:53:11.660 more so, Hey, that's ours. You know, that's our thing. We can't, you can't have it. And so right now

00:53:17.660 it's more of that three-year-old temper tantrum. Like, this is my toy. I'm not going to share it.

00:53:22.060 And you know, we will have to see whether or not they get over that and act like adults and say,

00:53:27.340 you know what, let's actually consider this as a real idea and how it might benefit all of us.

00:53:32.460 And maybe economically benefit Denmark. Cause they don't have to keep

00:53:36.300 shoveling money into, into Greenland and it'll have better protection. So anything that Denmark

00:53:41.660 is doing today would be times 10 or times a hundred in terms of defense, and it would make

00:53:46.860 the whole world safer. So there are very good arguments for it, but I think right now it's,

00:53:51.980 we're still in this shock and provocation stage where it's, you know, all these leftists that are

00:53:58.940 in Europe because Europe is moved very far to the left. They just don't want to do anything that's

00:54:04.700 going to make Trump happy. They don't want to say yes to anything that Trump says. And so right now

00:54:09.260 we're still in that phase where they're just saying, absolutely not. We're not going to do

00:54:12.460 it and we'll fight you. And we'll, you know, we're not going to have this happen and we can't,

00:54:16.300 but Trump does hold a lot of the cards. You know, when they start bringing up NATO,

00:54:20.860 Trump funds most of NATO and he could back out of NATO and NATO would collapse if he did that.

00:54:25.740 And, you know, so like if Trump pulls, you know, uses the right cards, he may be able to say,

00:54:35.180 you know what, it's a better deal if you do this than if you don't, because look what happens if you

00:54:38.780 don't. And, you know, maybe you should just defend all this stuff yourselves and, you know, take care of

00:54:44.060 your own defense. And I think he's already made steps in that direction where he's required them

00:54:48.540 to do their 3% or 5% GDP contribution. And a lot of them have stepped up to pay more. But right now,

00:54:55.100 I think places like Germany are saying, you know what, we really do need to protect ourselves and

00:55:00.140 have our own army and have our own ability to defend ourselves from Russia. And France is starting to say

00:55:06.540 the same thing. I saw a statement from Macron saying, you know, in order for us to really be able to

00:55:10.860 defend ourselves, people need to fear us. And right now they don't is the implication.

00:55:15.580 And so I think Europe is waking up to the fact that they've allowed or depended on the United

00:55:22.700 States to provide for their defense for decades, and that they want to change that. But I don't

00:55:28.620 know if they'll be able to change that. I mean, the polls over there say nobody over there wants to go

00:55:32.140 fight or join the army. And it may be a real hard ask for them to convince their own populations to say,

00:55:39.180 you know what, I'm going to go enlist in the army, I'm going to go enlist in the Navy, I'm going to go

00:55:43.260 be part of the Air Force for Europe. So, you know, there's a lot of pieces in motion right now. And

00:55:49.580 it's hard to know, it's hard to predict how it's all going to play out. But Trump is certainly shaking

00:55:53.180 the box. We're at the top of the hour. And I love talking about the news. And I just want to remind

00:56:01.660 everyone that tomorrow, there is no Coffee with Scott Adams live stream on Saturdays and Sundays,

00:56:08.940 you guys, we're going to do it Monday through Friday, and anything can just be tested small,

00:56:13.900 and we can always change it later. But for now, we're going to just try that out. But tomorrow,

00:56:19.180 Owen, who was just speaking, he hosts a live stream. It is called the After Party,

00:56:26.940 but maybe he's going to change the name now to the party. And he co hosts it with Sergio that you see

00:56:34.060 there, and their friend SJV, I call him Papa Smurf. And they'll probably Oh, and I guess you're going to

00:56:41.740 go on earlier, right? Yeah, I think I'm going to shorten the name from Coffee with Scott Adams

00:56:47.020 after party to just the after party. And we'll talk about the news for hours, as we usually do. It

00:56:53.820 typically can easily go three hours, maybe sometimes even four, but I try to keep it to

00:56:57.820 three hours, because that seems to be enough for most people. And yeah, so and we'll start,

00:57:03.740 we'll start at the normal time that this live stream usually starts since it's not happening.

00:57:07.500 I definitely didn't want to interfere with it. And we usually started right when this ended.

00:57:11.260 But since this isn't going to happen on Saturday, it's going forward, or at least for now,

00:57:14.540 we'll just start right at the, I think it's 7am Pacific, 10am Eastern, you can translate into your own

00:57:20.460 time. But I'll send out the invitation. And you can see that on X. And it's a spaces event. So it's

00:57:26.060 audio only. And you have to be on X to participate. But I'd love to have everybody speaking. We've had

00:57:32.380 a lot of great speakers. And most of the audience is Scott's audience. So it's a really high quality

00:57:37.100 audience. And I love having the conversation. So we'll do that tomorrow. I also want to thank the

00:57:42.060 locals chat because you guys, I, you know, I watch you guys every day. Anyway, usually I'm in there with

00:57:47.820 you and I will be again, but you guys have the best ideas for what we can do with Greenland.

00:57:52.940 And I do, whoever said we can bring the Somalis there. I love that. I love that. The Somalis,

00:57:59.260 they can still sort of be part of America, but just live in Greenland. It would be perfect. They 1.00

00:58:03.180 have plenty of room. So I'll remind everyone also about Owen spaces tomorrow with Sergio and SJV.

00:58:11.420 And you guys please show up and they definitely want you to raise your hand and participate.

00:58:18.060 Get all that new stuff out of our systems for the week. And it'll be a really good time. And

00:58:25.500 Shelly, do you want to close with anything? We so love and appreciate you. And thank you for,

00:58:30.540 for our other little co-hosts, Gary and Roman. We miss them so much.

00:58:36.780 Yes. I just want to thank everybody again for all your support and your patience with me on this

00:58:43.340 process. Um, you guys are great. The community is great. I've had so much support and I, it's so

00:58:51.180 appreciated. So thank you again for doing this and everybody tuning into Owen tomorrow and we'll see

00:58:59.900 you guys on Monday. Closing sip you guys. To Scott.

00:59:10.940 Bye everyone. Bye.

00:59:12.300 Bye. Bye. Be useful.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 16, 2026

Episode 3074 - The Scott Adams School 01⧸16⧸26

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