Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 12, 2026


Episode 3092 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸11⧸26


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1 hour and 4 minutes

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10,584

Sentence count

853

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Misogyny

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Hate speech

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Akira the Don joins us in The Scott Adams School to talk about his love of all things coffee and his love for Sonic the Hedgehog. Plus, we get a sneak peak at what's to come in the future of this show.

Transcript

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00:00:42.360 Akira, say okay, so I know.
00:00:45.120 I think you can't hear us.
00:00:47.140 Oh, shoot.
00:00:50.740 Okay, are we live? Let's see.
00:00:52.960 Yeah, we're live.
00:00:54.560 Good morning, everybody.
00:00:56.420 Let's make sure YouTube's coming in.
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00:01:02.880 I see Beverly.
00:01:04.080 Crusher.
00:01:05.540 Babe.
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00:01:07.200 I'm going to put YouTube on and just double check.
00:01:09.880 You guys, good morning.
00:01:14.240 If a kid is listening on the live, he might be a little bit delayed.
00:01:19.400 Okay, so.
00:01:22.020 All right, I see us now.
00:01:23.560 All right, you guys, welcome.
00:01:27.540 We had a little technical difficulty.
00:01:29.300 We're getting Akira in from Mexico, which, you know, it took a second.
00:01:35.300 We've got it now.
00:01:36.800 So welcome in, you guys.
00:01:38.120 I think everyone's had time to file in.
00:01:41.680 Let me just check everywhere.
00:01:43.540 We don't want you guys to miss a second of this today.
00:01:46.640 My name is Erica, and we're here with Marcella and Shelly and Owen Gregorian.
00:01:54.160 And we have our beautiful Sergio.
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00:02:00.440 And we have a special guest with us today, Akira the Don, who we're going to introduce
00:02:06.260 you to in a minute.
00:02:07.820 I just want to remind you guys that we welcome you to the Scott Adams School, which is different
00:02:12.740 than Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:02:14.580 Coffee with Scott Adams lives on its own.
00:02:16.760 There's thousands of hours of Scott teaching, talking, persuading, calming us down, and making
00:02:23.660 us laugh.
00:02:24.880 So please know that those videos are there for you always.
00:02:28.840 The Scott Adams School continues on, as Scott wished, for us to commune, have a sip together,
00:02:36.100 keep the community together, bring on amazing guests for you and lots of fun.
00:02:40.860 So we're going to do that today, and Shelly's going to play a clip for us first, and then
00:02:46.640 we'll all hit mute, and then we'll actually leave the screen.
00:02:50.980 We'll leave Akira there if he wants to stay, and we'll come back after the clip is over.
00:02:55.940 Okay?
00:02:56.360 So enjoy.
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00:04:09.980 I hate this song, shut up Dale.
00:04:38.420 Sing along, you know what.
00:04:55.060 Okay I freaking love this.
00:04:56.520 This is from Akira the Don, A-K-I-R-A the Don, D-O-N. 0.99
00:05:04.800 You'll find him on Twitter and all over the internet I guess.
00:05:09.360 It was nice enough to make this auto-tuned version of my theme song and I have to say,
00:05:19.800 when I first saw it I was like, this is going to be, you know, I'm not going to like this.
00:05:24.760 I actually can't stop listening to it, it's really good.
00:05:32.920 It's got levels to it, it's pretty awesome.
00:05:36.760 That was so confusing, I wasn't expecting that and in case you didn't notice, like I didn't
00:05:46.120 have audio initially, I've never used Rumble Studio before.
00:05:48.760 I'm an incredibly tech-savvy futuristic genius and I couldn't figure out that the audio controls
00:05:53.380 were at the bottom of the screen, but it's working now.
00:05:57.760 Akira, welcome, welcome to the Scott Adams School and it's so nice to finally get to meet
00:06:07.200 you face-to-face per se and first I want to thank you for making Scott so happy and making
00:06:15.200 one of his ultimate dreams come true, which was to be basically a recording artist to have a song
00:06:21.920 and he has many and it's all thanks to you, so welcome to the school.
00:06:26.320 He has so many that will exist in the future because he wrote so many, you know, he wrote
00:06:34.080 so many incredible bangers.
00:06:35.920 He would do a live stream and he'd be chatting about the news, then he would drop what to me
00:06:39.920 is an incredible banger just casually in the middle of it, actually often towards the end,
00:06:44.400 but just like perfectly formed in like little sort of like two, three minute chunks that are
00:06:48.800 perfect for songs. It was incredible really.
00:06:52.800 Were you a Scott Adams listener, a sipper, and is that how you came to him? Because I know you also
00:06:59.760 have clips with Jordan Peterson and other folks, so tell us how you came to find Scott.
00:07:05.200 Well, I always knew Scott because Scott was always around in the world.
00:07:10.080 You know, he was one of those sort of omniscient beings of a kind in the human realm.
00:07:16.960 So I was aware of his cartooning work because I like cartoons and I drew my own comic books.
00:07:21.840 And then I was aware of him as a blogger when he was blogging because I was kind of in that world.
00:07:26.400 I was blogging and putting mixtapes and things online from sort of 2000 or something.
00:07:33.520 And I read his book, How to Lose Everything, Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
00:07:41.120 And that was very, very influential on me in lots and lots of different ways, which I could talk about
00:07:46.800 for hours and hours and hours. And around that time, I think I was reading his blog and then he
00:07:51.120 started doing those periscopes and I would watch those. So yeah, I've been, I've had Scott Adams in my
00:07:56.400 life for a long, long, long, long time. And he was very influential on my life.
00:08:01.600 I love that. Owen?
00:08:05.680 So how do you think Scott did influence you? What did you take away from How to Fail at Almost
00:08:10.640 Everything and Still Win Big?
00:08:12.560 Well, that one specifically, there was quite a lot in that. One thing that was specific to what I'm
00:08:20.560 doing here was him talking about affirmations, which I was doing. And so here's the thing. So I was aware
00:08:30.400 the concept of affirmations, which is essentially communicating a desire or will or what have you
00:08:36.080 to the subconscious. I had previously experimented with that as a young child via means of things
00:08:42.880 like prayer, which is one way of thinking about it. And in earlier years, there's a thing called
00:08:50.720 chaos magic, which I was aware of through a friend of mine, well, a guy who I was a fan of, who became
00:08:56.640 a friend of mine, a writer called Grant Morrison, who was a chaos magician. Within chaos magic,
00:09:01.760 there's a practice where you take a desire or something and to communicate it to the subconscious
00:09:07.600 mind, you turn it into a sigil. And a sigil would be say, you would take your desire, I want my cat
00:09:12.960 to go to the moon. And you would remove all the repeating glasses and you would remove the A's and 0.99
00:09:17.280 the E's and so on and so forth. And then what you're left with, you'd make into a little squiggle,
00:09:21.040 a little glyph, and that would be your sigil. And then you would sort of meditate upon that in
00:09:25.680 various ways. And the point of that was to communicate to the subconscious mind.
00:09:28.960 So I was aware of that kind of concept. But Scott's sort of quite simple version of it,
00:09:34.320 one of the things Scott was really good at was taking sort of esoteric ideas and making them seem
00:09:39.440 very usual, normal, accessible to a regular human being, things that would seem woo to some people,
00:09:47.920 he could make seems quite practical. That was one of his superpowers. Anyways, the affirmations
00:09:53.360 thing I was trying that I was like, writing is quite difficult. And I was like, huh, I could
00:09:57.120 put this into music. I could put things that I wanted to sort of brainwash myself
00:10:01.440 with or communicate to my subconscious mind very, very specifically and deliberately
00:10:05.280 into music. I make music. That's what I do. I know that music is very, very sticky.
00:10:10.080 I know it's a very, very powerful delivery mechanism. Everybody can remember the jingles
00:10:14.320 of their childhood, the themes from their favorite cartoons. Everyone learned to learn the alphabet
00:10:19.920 from a little song. It's not talked about much because it's mostly used by sneaky people without
00:10:27.680 our understanding to sort of hold power and influence over us. But music is the most powerful
00:10:33.920 delivery mechanism that we actually know of. We know this because prior to the written word,
00:10:39.360 the way that people would remember books, entire books, people would walk around with entire books
00:10:46.000 in them and they'd recite them around the campfire to each other. And they would do that because the
00:10:49.600 books were written with a certain kind of rhythm and melody to them that people would be able to
00:10:56.160 remember because of that. Odyssey, etc. Anyway, so yeah, one of the main things was the affirmations
00:11:04.400 idea and then thinking about putting it into music, which is one of the things that sort of led to me
00:11:09.280 creating Meaningwave, which led to me putting Scott into songs because I wanted to brainwash myself
00:11:15.200 with lots of Scott's ideas. And then that led to Scott being able to hear himself
00:11:20.880 in those songs, which was a beautiful thing. That's great. So how did you get started with
00:11:26.080 music? Were you always a musician from when you were very young or did you learn instruments first
00:11:30.400 or how did you get into that? I always loved music. We always had music in the house. My dad had
00:11:35.760 great taste in music. My mom loved music. The things I loved the most from as far back as I can remember
00:11:42.720 were music and comics, cartoons, anime, animated stuff. So I always knew I wanted to do something
00:11:50.880 in that area. I didn't play. I never, I wasn't, I didn't learn to play any instruments when I was a
00:11:56.000 kid. What I did do was weird experiments with cassettes. So I had cassette players and recorders,
00:12:02.560 and I would take one cassette and copy it to another. And then I would pull the tape out and
00:12:05.680 chop a piece off of it and stick it back with sellotape and record things off of videos or
00:12:12.240 ambient noises or bits of audio. One of the first songs I made in a music lesson at school,
00:12:19.440 I made a kind of loop beat thing. Then I sampled a news broadcast that was on the television in the
00:12:25.520 staff room or something where they were talking about war breaking out in Eastern Europe or something.
00:12:30.240 And I sort of looped that. I think it was, must've been six or seven or something when I did that.
00:12:35.440 And then computers came along and there was a thing called windows sound recorder,
00:12:38.960 where you could sample like, I don't know, 20 seconds or something of some audio. And I
00:12:43.920 started doing experiments with that. And then eventually I taught myself how to make music
00:12:50.080 and record it on a computer. All right. So my question is, are you,
00:12:56.640 is that you singing on them? Like the best part of my day? Is that you?
00:13:01.520 Well, you're making me want to cry with that one. That one just, oh, um, it's so soulful and, um,
00:13:09.680 your voice is also beautiful. And what about the illustrations that are happening? Where do those
00:13:16.880 come from? Yeah. Like I said, I always did. Um, that's you. So I was, yeah, I do everything.
00:13:23.440 Wow. Um, for the most part, sometimes I, sometimes I'll work with other people. There was, um, the
00:13:28.640 first Scott album. Um, I hired a comic book artist to do that. Uh, that was Tommy Patterson, uh, who sadly
00:13:37.840 passed last year, uh, drew the game of Thrones comics. If anyone ever read those, he was great. And he
00:13:43.840 loved Scott. He was a big fan of Scott and he really, he was really excited to work on it
00:13:47.680 because he was a big fan. But, uh, I, I tend to do most of the stuff. I write all the music,
00:13:53.520 produce all the music, play all the music, record all the music, do all the singing, do all the
00:13:58.000 artwork, font layouts, video editing, all the stuff. As Scott said, you know, it's a sort of unique talent
00:14:04.240 stack I acquired, which meant that I could do this very specifically at a very high level.
00:14:10.160 And only I could do it because it was only me that had got the specific interest, the specific
00:14:15.120 skills, the specific background, the training. I was a rapper, producer, all this stuff, all
00:14:21.040 combined to being able to do this meaning wave thing. And, uh,
00:14:24.640 And meaning waves your, your, your brand, your company.
00:14:28.640 Yeah. That's the brand. That's the name of the music. That's the style of the music,
00:14:33.360 which we worked out. Someone worked out. It wasn't me, but it's a technically a psycho technology.
00:14:38.080 Um, it's a kind of technology that interfaces with the mind.
00:14:44.160 Imagine that in the clubs. That would be amazing.
00:14:48.000 It works. It's good in the clubs. I was, I was a DJ on Hollywood Boulevard for
00:14:52.240 many years until Tom Hanks disease hits. And, um, I would, you know, high level club places,
00:14:59.200 you'd have like the Jenners and the weekend and all these people hanging around and I would sneak
00:15:03.440 in meaning of the early meaning wave songs. Uh, what's Tom Hanks disease, Akira?
00:15:09.440 Yeah, there you go. What is it? It's COVID.
00:15:12.560 Oh, cause he got COVID. Gotcha. Okay. I was like, wait,
00:15:14.880 What was the original name for it? It was Tom Hanks disease.
00:15:17.120 Yeah. Norm Macdonald named it. Like, cause the rollout, it was Tom Hanks who did the rollout.
00:15:22.880 It was like, you know, people have seen a few videos of people falling over in the street
00:15:26.320 coming out of China. And then suddenly Tom Hanks steps up and he's like, I have the thing.
00:15:31.760 Yeah. I was like, Oh shit. So Norm was like, Tom Hanks disease.
00:15:37.600 Oh, Norm.
00:15:38.720 All right. Akira, it looks like you want to play some songs for us. Are you,
00:15:43.680 are you going to play a few songs for us?
00:15:46.640 I mean, I could technically that wasn't, um,
00:15:49.040 Oh, okay. You just look like you're prepared to, uh,
00:15:52.160 I'm always ready. It's important to be ready. What was it? Play? So, uh, luck is when opportunity
00:15:58.400 meets preparation. So I'm always ready. Um, this is where I hang out. This is my studio.
00:16:06.240 Okay. The bit that's got a camera facing it is the DJ set up. Cause not when I do live streams,
00:16:12.560 uh, it is in the context of, of doing this and talking.
00:16:15.760 Mm. I have a question actually for you, Shelly. Did Scott play these for you? Like,
00:16:22.880 was he like running around? Oh yes. Oh yeah. He's like, Oh, did you hear the latest one?
00:16:28.800 So he would play them all the time. Uh, well, we would love to hear something. If you
00:16:34.800 could play something for us. I tell you, I could play something, which is something, uh,
00:16:39.440 uh, which is a new one, which, um, I was just finishing up last night. Uh, this isn't the final
00:16:46.400 mix, but, um, yeah, this will be the next single with Scott. First time you guys a debut. This
00:16:54.160 will be the next single coming out. So you're going to hear it first. It will be a little different
00:17:00.960 because this isn't sort of final mix and master, but if you don't know what that is, you have a song
00:17:06.240 and you make the song and then you'll do slight adjustments to sort of EQ, little sound levels,
00:17:12.320 this thing, a little bit louder, this little thing, a little bit quieter. It's kind of like
00:17:15.920 the final coat of paint on a house or something. Some people don't notice at all. And it's, I spend
00:17:20.400 as much time on the final process as the early process. I had very little knowledge of this until
00:17:28.080 I went to the, there was something called the Prince experience. I'm a big Prince fan and my wife
00:17:31.760 got me tickets to this Prince experience when it came to Chicago and they had a room in there
00:17:36.080 where you could mix a song. And so it was just like moving the levels up and down for each of
00:17:40.480 the instruments and each of the tracks. So you were playing with the master by making like the
00:17:44.960 bass louder or softer or, you know, changing the levels. And it was, it was interesting to see all
00:17:50.080 the different sounds you could make. And the crazy difference something like that makes, uh, Prince,
00:17:54.400 for example, what was the song where he just decided to take the bass out at the last minute?
00:17:58.160 Yeah, that's when doves cry. And that was a really innovative thing. I think that was the first
00:18:02.240 time anyone did that. And I don't even know how many people have done it since, but it was,
00:18:06.800 it certainly makes a big difference. Yeah. It makes a big difference. Well,
00:18:09.920 bass is like half of a song, like technically on the, uh, uh, the frequency range base occupies
00:18:19.760 almost half of the entire frequency range, um, of a song, which would be the lower half because that's
00:18:25.120 down there and you remove that. It makes a wild difference. You know, I know this, like
00:18:28.800 just, uh, DJing. I remember one time I was DJing at this place on Hollywood Boulevard and the sub
00:18:35.120 went out in the club. The sub is the bit that, that transmits the lower end of the music.
00:18:40.320 And without the sub, everyone suddenly stopped dancing. It's the sub, it's the area there that
00:18:44.800 particularly gets women just come running to the dance floor. And it particularly,
00:18:49.120 if you ever heard Pony by Ginuwine, the first note is like, bam, does that thing. You ever play that
00:18:54.480 in a club? Pretty like 90% of females in the building will all just instinctually. Yeah. 1.00
00:19:00.320 That the sub base, it doesn't work. But without the sub base, people are confused. And if there's
00:19:05.040 no base, people aren't quite sure what to do with themselves. So what they will do then is focus on,
00:19:09.440 on the top end more. So in Prince is the context of Prince, Prince is genius and Prince already had
00:19:15.520 like a billion amazing records. Uh, so he could do something like that and people would continue to
00:19:20.480 pay attention because he'd already built up the frame of, okay, it's Prince. I'm going to pay
00:19:24.400 attention to what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. It's going to be good. Uh, if it wasn't
00:19:27.840 Prince, it wouldn't necessarily work because people would be like, this shit got no base. Turn it off.
00:19:31.200 Yeah. Um, yeah. Anyway. All right. All right. We'll hit mute. Let's go off camera too.
00:19:39.440 Okay. Okay. So, well, this would be funny. I haven't done this before. This is an unmixed, but brand new
00:19:45.520 song featuring the words of the immortal Scott Adams. All right. Um, here's one. How many of you
00:19:58.960 have ever thought or maybe gagged when you heard somebody else say it that they were trying to
00:20:04.240 find themselves? I need to find myself. I need to, I need to figure out who I am. Bad idea.
00:20:18.080 Here's the reframe. Instead of being a explorer and trying to figure out who you are,
00:20:25.600 how about authoring yourself to be what you want to be, to be what you want to be.
00:20:29.520 You can author your situation. You don't have to just discover who you are.
00:20:37.440 You can make yourself who you want to be.
00:20:51.600 Instead of finding yourself, author yourself. That's one of the great things about human
00:21:00.640 life is that you don't have to be, you don't have to be anything, anything. You can author
00:21:10.160 yourself into almost any kind of situation. You know, obviously you can author yourself a
00:21:16.000 billion dollars just because you want to, maybe some people can, maybe some people can, but I love
00:21:23.200 these words. I love these words. Instead of finding yourself, finding yourself, author yourself.
00:21:39.760 That's very powerful if you take that to heart, author yourself, author yourself.
00:22:00.320 Because sometimes we forget that we have that power that we can turn ourselves into whatever we
00:22:17.600 need to turn ourselves into.
00:22:30.160 We'll be right back .
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00:24:59.280 I think it's called Author Yourself.
00:25:01.660 Oh, it's amazing.
00:25:04.260 Akira, we asked the local subscribers if they wanted to have some questions for you, and
00:25:11.000 Marcella gathered them.
00:25:12.400 So if you don't mind, will you take some questions?
00:25:15.080 Thank you, Marcella, for gathering.
00:25:17.140 That's very nice of you.
00:25:17.800 So the first question is from Raphael, and he wants to know whether you're going to release
00:25:24.000 vinyl records.
00:25:25.580 Yeah, lots of people have been asking for vinyl records, and it was always my dream to get
00:25:30.060 all the Scott albums on vinyl.
00:25:32.520 And it was my dream to get them on vinyl, and then to sort of go on a quest and take
00:25:38.040 them to him, and then give him the vinyl, and then he would have the vinyl.
00:25:41.060 I always thought he would play that.
00:25:42.100 And I always thought that would be the case, and I always assumed that would be the case,
00:25:45.200 and then suddenly that wasn't the case in this realm.
00:25:48.700 And so, yeah, one should always kind of do things as quickly as possible, if you can.
00:25:55.240 It was difficult because I got stranded in Mexico and blocked out the US after 2020,
00:26:02.220 which made it difficult to do things like vinyl and things like that.
00:26:06.680 But yes, that is the aim.
00:26:09.800 We just this week put the new album available as a pre-order on CD, and if that goes well,
00:26:17.120 then we will then do a vinyl operation.
00:26:20.700 And that will be the sacred quest of getting the Scott Adams records on vinyl, where they
00:26:26.580 always belonged.
00:26:28.200 Double vinyl in perfect audio fidelity.
00:26:31.920 But they have really nice record sleeves.
00:26:33.540 I always wanted to see them big and sort of open the thing up and, you know, read all
00:26:37.960 the little notes and things.
00:26:39.820 So, yeah.
00:26:40.260 So, yeah, you can get the Almost Anything Could Happen Today CD at meaningwave.com now.
00:26:47.260 And then if that goes all well and people like that, then we will work on getting vinyl.
00:26:52.300 We'll make sure to drop the link after the show or in the chat of where they can get that.
00:26:57.640 So, you guys, let's get this going so we can do vinyl for us.
00:27:01.440 Okay, Marcella, next question.
00:27:02.920 The next question is from Dave Hawkins.
00:27:04.780 Are your creations, including by, I don't know how to pronounce this, but been aural beats?
00:27:12.020 B-I-N-A-R-O-L beats. 1.00
00:27:13.280 Yeah.
00:27:14.160 I mean, not usually deliberately, sometimes accidentally.
00:27:18.040 I kind of developed my own system with regards to frequencies and all that sort of a thing.
00:27:22.560 So there's lots of, yeah, it's an esoteric area of audio.
00:27:28.240 But you can put music at different frequencies and some people think it gives different results spiritually and so on and so forth.
00:27:36.000 So, yeah, a big part of what I'm doing is essentially deliberately utilizing audio for specific results.
00:27:41.800 So, yeah, I'm very deliberate in what I do.
00:27:46.200 I'll say that much.
00:27:47.620 And I'm definitely...
00:27:49.800 Ah, how's that possible?
00:27:53.220 That's incredible.
00:27:54.380 Who is calling you right now?
00:27:56.100 I was kidding.
00:27:56.380 I don't even know how that came through the computer when it's on the phone.
00:28:00.360 Anyway, whatever.
00:28:01.700 Are you using a Mac?
00:28:03.640 No.
00:28:04.680 Oh.
00:28:07.520 Go away, wait, present.
00:28:08.860 I'm going to turn on airplane mode.
00:28:10.600 Yeah, how about that?
00:28:11.700 My bad.
00:28:12.680 I don't understand how that's possible.
00:28:14.060 I'm freaked out.
00:28:15.120 I'm streaming off of a Windows laptop.
00:28:17.820 DJing off of a Mac.
00:28:19.900 How is the...
00:28:20.520 Anyway, whatever.
00:28:22.760 What is...
00:28:24.080 Colt Winchester...
00:28:26.960 I guess it's not a name, but it's gone, I guess.
00:28:29.200 What is your creative process structured with creative exercises?
00:28:37.740 Or do things just come to you?
00:28:40.540 How do you decide which message or which lesson to focus on?
00:28:46.140 Well, Colt Winchester is an excellent name.
00:28:48.280 And if your mom gave you that name, then she's wonderful.
00:28:50.360 And I'm sure she's wonderful anyway.
00:28:51.920 But there are many rooms in the mansion, as it says in the Bible.
00:28:55.000 And there's a thousand different ways this occurs.
00:28:57.300 I remember once Jordan Peterson talking about reading the Bible and sort of teaching himself
00:29:03.980 to read the Bible and sort of teaching himself to understand the Bible.
00:29:07.280 And he said something along the lines of sometimes he would find a passage and it would finally
00:29:11.240 make sense to him and it would glitter.
00:29:13.080 And I find that with audio, I'll hear something and it sort of glitters.
00:29:18.160 And I instantly know that it's a song and I instantly know what it pretty much what it
00:29:22.820 sounds like to a degree.
00:29:24.260 Sometimes I'll take a thing and I'll go for a walk and then I'll kind of hear the shape
00:29:26.900 of it in my head.
00:29:27.860 And then the job will be to get what was in my head into the world.
00:29:31.740 And that's something I've gotten better at over the years as I've done more and more
00:29:36.000 and more and I'm, you know, there's now, I've been doing this meanie wave thing since 2017
00:29:40.280 and there's now nearly 700 songs.
00:29:42.660 But before that, I was, I was producing and rapping and what have you for many years and
00:29:47.220 I made thousands of songs.
00:29:48.540 So it's yeah.
00:29:50.340 But yeah, I basically, I, I'm constantly reading, listening, paying attention to things.
00:29:56.240 And when something glitters to me, I then, I hear it and I make it.
00:30:02.220 And it's kind of very instinctual as well.
00:30:04.380 I don't overthink things generally.
00:30:08.180 I have a kind of, I have a plan.
00:30:09.580 I have an arching plan of what I'm working towards with regards to what ideas and messages
00:30:14.020 and people and wisdom and what have you, um, I'm sort of transmuting into this form, but
00:30:19.480 there's always room for inspiration.
00:30:21.120 For example, that author yourself one, uh, I had been, uh, in the UK visiting family for
00:30:27.840 Christmas and I came back to the studio.
00:30:29.860 I came back here to Mexico and I just ran into the studio and it was literally just to get
00:30:34.260 something.
00:30:35.900 And then 45 minutes later, I'd written that song.
00:30:39.840 Um, wow.
00:30:40.940 And I don't, I barely remember it happening.
00:30:43.200 It was very much the kind of getting smacked in the head by a lightning bolt.
00:30:46.960 Do this now.
00:30:47.940 I think Sergio has a question.
00:30:50.460 You're on mute.
00:30:54.820 Sergio, you're on mute.
00:30:57.500 Sergio is on mute.
00:30:58.880 No, it's a rumble.
00:31:00.300 You're on mute on rumble.
00:31:03.020 This is his nemesis.
00:31:04.500 Akira is just the mute button.
00:31:09.280 You're there.
00:31:09.880 Okay, thanks.
00:31:10.660 Akira.
00:31:11.540 Yo, what's up, brother?
00:31:13.120 I can, I'm so excited.
00:31:14.460 You're the guest that, uh, of all the guests that we had that I've been the most excited
00:31:19.220 about.
00:31:19.900 You have no idea.
00:31:20.680 I've been following you for such a long time.
00:31:23.160 I was very nervous.
00:31:24.980 Um, I wasn't speechless.
00:31:26.080 I was trying to jump in and talk to you.
00:31:28.480 You got the mute button.
00:31:29.900 I know.
00:31:30.840 I'm such an idiot.
00:31:31.700 Sorry about that.
00:31:32.680 But, um, I really wanted to, to, to, to talk to you because, um, uh, what you said about
00:31:38.480 music is exactly what Scott always explained, how powerful music is throughout history and
00:31:46.420 how it has been used by, for evil means too.
00:31:50.040 Right.
00:31:50.460 And he explains how music is a drug.
00:31:53.980 And we talked about that yesterday too.
00:31:55.720 That's why I didn't watch the Superbowl because I don't want bad drugs in my system.
00:32:01.220 I want to control the drugs that I get.
00:32:03.660 And you are my favorite drug, uh, of all, uh, uh, your music, because it's like, uh, Erica
00:32:10.420 was saying, uh, you, you made all this music, you, you condense Scott into, into this chance,
00:32:16.740 right?
00:32:17.020 And, uh, like the Gregorian chance that Owen was talking about yesterday, that they're
00:32:21.760 just impregnating to people's psyches, even without having to think that's what I love
00:32:26.960 so much about your music, because it's a lot like, uh, what Scott did with his books.
00:32:31.620 That's right.
00:32:32.020 But it wasn't just a message.
00:32:34.200 It was the choice of every word in every, in every, uh, every, uh, every phrase and
00:32:40.860 every page.
00:32:41.580 And you do that too.
00:32:42.560 So, uh, uh, my question is, okay, let me get to my question.
00:32:45.720 Sorry.
00:32:46.020 Um, I would love to see, I don't know, you read the religion war and God's debris. 0.82
00:32:51.880 No, not yet.
00:32:52.720 They're, they're on my, they're, I have them on portable.
00:32:55.760 Okay.
00:32:56.120 So this is, this is my idea, right?
00:32:58.420 This is what I would love to see.
00:32:59.400 Maybe, uh, I would like you to read it, you know, because it's like, I think this is the
00:33:03.420 most amazing story ever, especially with the religion war.
00:33:06.940 It's an amazing story.
00:33:08.660 This, we might, we might converge on this.
00:33:10.340 So we do a thing on my live streams, uh, where we do a kind of book club where I will
00:33:15.120 play an audio book and then I kind of live score it while it's happening.
00:33:18.280 So I did that with Dune, for example.
00:33:20.340 So we did the entirety of Dune, which ended.
00:33:24.260 Oh, give him a second.
00:33:32.180 Mexico's glitching for a second.
00:33:35.400 It's the CIA, you know, the CIA.
00:33:38.660 That's a great point.
00:33:39.760 A great question.
00:33:40.540 I love what happens when I'm going to my question is that.
00:33:45.120 Uh, when he gets back is that Scott wanted to make a movie, right?
00:33:48.820 Of, of religion war and gas debris.
00:33:51.900 And, uh, and it would be great if, uh, he could do the soundtrack.
00:33:55.920 If Jay could do in like a, like an anime, like a cartoon style.
00:34:01.080 Yeah.
00:34:01.600 Well, that's what I want to talk to him about.
00:34:03.280 It would be for the estate to decide that.
00:34:05.340 Oh, no, no.
00:34:05.760 Of course.
00:34:06.140 I'm not, I'm not deciding.
00:34:08.000 Uh, Shelley.
00:34:08.840 I'm just talking here like a fan.
00:34:11.020 Okay.
00:34:11.180 I'm a fan.
00:34:11.880 Yeah.
00:34:12.160 I'm more a fan than you guys.
00:34:13.700 Okay.
00:34:14.060 I mean, I'm more of a fan than a, than a talk guy, you know?
00:34:17.960 So I just like love Scott so much.
00:34:20.180 And I just wanted to move that idea out there.
00:34:24.800 It's a great idea, Sergio.
00:34:26.440 Let's see if Akira can come back.
00:34:28.300 And isn't he great.
00:34:30.800 You guys, I love him.
00:34:33.680 Let's see.
00:34:34.540 I love his voice.
00:34:38.440 Marcella, obviously you do.
00:34:43.000 Marcella's the cutest.
00:34:44.880 You guys, what other questions do you have for him too?
00:34:47.380 I love that new song, author yourself.
00:34:49.680 And I love how many of you said you needed to hear that right now.
00:34:52.520 And I, I'm glad that happened.
00:35:00.320 Go ahead guys.
00:35:01.180 I'm going to look for a curious.
00:35:02.800 See if you text me.
00:35:04.000 Okay.
00:35:05.540 So.
00:35:07.980 Now, now we dance without Akira.
00:35:11.400 Well, you guys, do you have any other questions for him?
00:35:14.020 You know, if he comes back, we want to make sure we answer your questions too.
00:35:17.900 Um, and also I think that we should really support him because, you know, this is his
00:35:24.840 gig.
00:35:25.260 This is what he does.
00:35:26.540 So, um, I saw a couple of people drop the link to the album and hit in the chat.
00:35:34.240 If someone could drop it into YouTube also, and we'll also post his links on the socials
00:35:40.720 as the kids say, after the show.
00:35:42.960 Um, and also you can, I believe, subscribe to him.
00:35:47.760 Um, so, you know, if you want to do that, but I say support him because music is the
00:35:53.680 way to your soul.
00:35:55.020 And as you see, there's a lot of really dangerous music out there.
00:36:00.040 Um, I'll say it's satanic and it's evil and why not pick something that feeds your soul
00:36:07.260 and feeds your brain and brings positivity.
00:36:09.400 I think that's, um, the way to go and even like play it in the car.
00:36:14.040 If your kids are in the car, we have Akira back, but that, you know, that's, um, it's
00:36:18.820 beautiful, inspirational, and it feeds your soul.
00:36:22.500 And it's also the words of people like Scott or Jordan Peterson that bring life.
00:36:28.080 So Akira, I have a quick question for you.
00:36:30.680 Somebody wanted to know why you got stranded in Mexico.
00:36:33.600 If you make it back.
00:36:34.820 Okay.
00:36:35.080 Let's see.
00:36:35.940 Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:36:38.360 everything is fixed.
00:36:39.720 La la la la la la la. 0.91
00:36:41.060 It is fixed.
00:36:41.860 I'm in Mexico.
00:36:42.780 The power goes out so often, yeah.
00:36:45.360 But anyway, it came right back on.
00:36:47.940 So that was nice.
00:36:49.720 You know what I mean?
00:36:50.740 Um, anyway, sorry about that.
00:36:52.440 Um, so anyway, just to finish the previous one, I was, yeah, I had an idea of, um, later
00:36:56.980 this year to do a, uh, Scott Debris trilogy, uh, book club thing where we would play
00:37:03.120 the audio book and I would sort of live score it in real time, uh, on live street.
00:37:07.560 Um, anyway, yeah, I love it.
00:37:09.460 Thank you so much, Akira.
00:37:10.340 And what does Akira mean?
00:37:11.500 And why the Don?
00:37:13.280 Oh yeah.
00:37:13.960 Well, uh, I was called Akira for a while.
00:37:16.300 I was rapping.
00:37:17.160 Akira was, uh, a fundamental, the Japanese anime anime was, uh, I remember I was talking
00:37:22.840 to, um, Grant Morrison.
00:37:24.360 He was telling me about how, when he was a little kid, his mom took him to see 2001,
00:37:27.900 a space odyssey.
00:37:28.740 And it fundamentally changed it.
00:37:30.620 And he went back and watched it like seven times.
00:37:32.580 And then after that, he had a very clear idea of what his life was going to be, uh, as a
00:37:36.420 writer and all this sort of thing.
00:37:37.600 And I had a similar thing with, uh, Akira in that, uh, I was like 10 or something.
00:37:43.140 I already knew what, like what I wanted to do, but I, I ordered that movie from the back
00:37:47.440 of a magazine with my paper round money and waited till my parents were asleep and sneakily
00:37:51.920 watched it on a, on the, on the VHS and, uh, and was just awed by the potential of human
00:37:58.540 creation and knew that I would, that I wanted to do something that powerful and it changed
00:38:03.700 the way I thought about things in some ways.
00:38:05.160 So I took the name Akira as a sort of rap name when I started rapping and then I got really
00:38:09.920 good at freestyling while we were on our first tour, where we would only communicate
00:38:13.720 in rapping, even when ordering sandwiches at gas stations.
00:38:16.440 Um, so in one sort of freestyle thing with my band, I declared myself Akira of the Dawn
00:38:23.360 and then that became my name, uh, from then forth.
00:38:26.500 And then I kept it cause it's, it sounds like a good sort of powerful sort of a name, even
00:38:30.420 if it is mildly preposterous, you know, I called my son Hercules, uh, there is great power
00:38:35.160 in names.
00:38:36.580 Uh, you will tend to sort of live up to whatever was bestowed upon you in that regard.
00:38:41.240 I represent on the names.
00:38:42.820 Uh, my nephew's name is Maximo and, uh, and he's a wrestler and he's a maximum.
00:38:48.120 There you go.
00:38:48.740 He's Max.
00:38:49.740 Yeah.
00:38:50.180 Exactly.
00:38:50.960 Oh, what was the, sorry.
00:38:51.760 What was the other question?
00:38:52.780 Um, that was it, uh, thank you quite someone else had a question when I joined.
00:38:58.420 So yeah, the chat, the chat wanted to know how come you were stranded in Mexico.
00:39:03.180 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:04.220 So it's cause, um, the V the visa I was on, which is the O one artist, sorry, alien of 1.00
00:39:11.360 extraordinary ability visa, which is the best named visa that there is, uh, on earth to
00:39:16.600 be in the USA.
00:39:17.200 That's what I was on.
00:39:18.160 And I was in the USA for like eight years or something, uh, living with my wife and son
00:39:22.660 and we, uh, built, uh, you know, a life and a business and a studio and all that type
00:39:26.980 of stuff.
00:39:27.380 Um, you have to get like the visa rebooted every three years and, uh, the reboot period
00:39:32.280 happened just at the, around the early part of Tom Hanks disease.
00:39:36.420 And so we had to go out of the country to get the new visa, uh, signed an embassy.
00:39:41.760 Yeah.
00:39:42.100 That's the thing you have to do.
00:39:43.400 So we went and did that.
00:39:44.760 And then while we were out getting it signed, uh, the Biden regime declared that you couldn't
00:39:49.920 reenter the country if you were a legal immigrant, if you weren't vaccinated, uh, which
00:39:55.340 I was not.
00:39:56.540 And, um, and my family was not, so we weren't allowed back in.
00:40:00.300 So then we had to sort of restart our lives, uh, where we were, happened to be, which was
00:40:05.660 Mexico, which is where we'd gone to get the visa.
00:40:08.320 Uh, and we'd luckily like met some nice people and, you know, figured this could be a nice
00:40:13.480 enough life.
00:40:14.340 Uh, it's very beautiful here.
00:40:15.860 We'd met some lovely people.
00:40:16.980 I'd found a nice gym, uh, and a coffee shop.
00:40:19.720 I mean, what else do you need in life?
00:40:21.440 Um, so we had to restart our lives there.
00:40:23.680 And I literally, you know, I'd only left the USA with, um, you know, some hand luggage
00:40:28.400 and like a laptop and a little keyboard.
00:40:30.220 And I had to basically rebuild the entirety of my sort of, well, life wielded of our lives
00:40:35.780 from scratch over here.
00:40:37.440 And I had to go bit by bit Amazon order by Amazon order wire by wire.
00:40:42.600 And, um, yes, that is how we ended up here.
00:40:45.920 Uh, you know, I had planned in 2021 to go on tour and, uh, do all sorts of stuff, but you
00:40:51.040 know, man plans and God says, uh, things are feeling a little less human these days, aren't
00:40:56.720 they?
00:40:56.940 But isn't the whole point of progress to make things more human?
00:41:00.980 That's why at TD, when we design a product, whether it's an app for making trading easier
00:41:06.120 or monitoring your account for fraud, we ask one simple question.
00:41:10.640 How does this help people?
00:41:12.920 That's how we're making banking more simple, more seamless, and more intuitive.
00:41:18.220 But most importantly, that's how TD is making banking more human.
00:41:22.460 Are we human?
00:41:23.240 Alan Watts, by the way, I have an Alan Watts laughing button on my button thing here.
00:41:33.660 Someone actually, someone actually said that they wanted more Alan Watts.
00:41:38.280 What was that?
00:41:39.060 Someone said they wanted more Alan Watts.
00:41:40.460 Well, a new Alan Watts album literally came out, uh, last week.
00:41:44.580 Was it last week?
00:41:45.580 January 30th?
00:41:46.420 What date are we on now?
00:41:47.180 Just over a week ago, a brand new, uh, Akira the Don and Alan Watts album, um, created in
00:41:52.380 collaboration with, um, uh, Alan's son, Mark, um, who sent me the audio that I turned into
00:42:00.160 an album about a year ago.
00:42:01.440 And then I spent a year working on, uh, mostly going to the beach and walking along the beach
00:42:05.820 and listening to it and really visualizing it.
00:42:08.060 It's called, this is why I love the ocean.
00:42:10.280 Uh, lots of people are saying it's the best album yet.
00:42:13.000 And lots of people are saying it's the best Akira the Don and Alan Watts album.
00:42:15.480 And yeah, certainly, uh, if you go and look at the comment section, um, and yeah, so your
00:42:21.080 wish is granted.
00:42:22.840 I'm assuming you weren't aware of that because you're very greedy of each one another one
00:42:26.560 a week later.
00:42:28.420 This, this was posted on Friday.
00:42:30.260 I'm not sure why they didn't know that, but, um, but I'll, I'll post it so that everybody
00:42:35.180 knows.
00:42:35.460 You post things on the internet.
00:42:36.940 You assume that everybody sees them.
00:42:38.380 It's like, right.
00:42:38.800 I've got a new album out.
00:42:39.620 I made one post on Instagram and I've posted it on Twitter a few times and I'll upload
00:42:42.860 a video like 0.0002% of the people that actually like you would have seen that, let alone the
00:42:49.960 rest.
00:42:50.120 That's terrible.
00:42:51.400 Uh, it really is the case that no matter how much marketing you're doing, it isn't actually
00:42:54.980 enough.
00:42:55.580 And I know that.
00:42:56.520 And it, and it fills me with great, with great horror and sadness when I think about
00:43:00.880 it like that.
00:43:01.500 Uh, but there's only so much time that one has to create and then to tell people about
00:43:05.660 things that you've created.
00:43:06.700 So I tend to spend most of my time doing the creating, uh, under the, with this sort
00:43:11.580 of like idea that word of mouth will get it to the people that want it, that it would
00:43:16.020 work for eventually.
00:43:17.480 But you have an amazing group here that is like, we, we love you because a Scott told
00:43:24.300 us about you.
00:43:25.100 He loved you.
00:43:25.800 He approved of what you were doing.
00:43:27.540 He loved what you were doing and we all became fans and, you know, coming on the Scott
00:43:34.680 Adams school, I think it's beneficial to everybody that's come on because you have an army of
00:43:39.100 people that support and love what you're doing.
00:43:41.040 And we want to see it, you know, to keep going.
00:43:43.900 So I think everybody in the chat agrees.
00:43:46.220 Like they, they all were saying they were going to download the album.
00:43:49.460 You know, they're going to share it out.
00:43:51.100 We'll post about it.
00:43:52.420 It will travel.
00:43:53.160 And, you know, I think you're going to see a nice bump because probably a lot of people
00:43:58.680 who haven't met you yet, maybe they weren't on Locals or they didn't know much about you
00:44:02.860 now do.
00:44:04.160 And I think it's important what Sergio said too about, you know, like I'm going to keep
00:44:09.380 reiterating, feeding your soul with something positive when you have a choice of what you
00:44:14.100 can listen to, listen to some positive affirmations built into an amazing beat and, and feed your
00:44:21.700 soul.
00:44:22.500 So Owen or Shelly, do you guys have questions?
00:44:24.740 Well, the binaural beat question made me think of another, maybe esoteric music question.
00:44:32.040 Do you use 432 Hertz or 440 Hertz?
00:44:34.860 People always ask about that one as well.
00:44:38.000 I use the, well, I, I move around between slight frequency adjustments depending on what
00:44:45.660 I'm doing.
00:44:46.300 So it's usually in the contemporary Western standard, but then sometimes I will deviate for
00:44:50.980 a sort of slight effect.
00:44:52.920 And by contemporary Western, is that 440?
00:44:56.300 Yeah, I think.
00:44:57.780 Okay.
00:44:58.140 Have you noticed a difference in terms of how, how you think it sounds?
00:45:00.800 Cause I mean, for people who aren't aware, there's a theory that 440 Hertz is like kind
00:45:04.820 of dissonant.
00:45:05.420 It's a different tuning.
00:45:06.820 It refers to what a is tuned to and 432, I think is meant to be kind of more naturally
00:45:13.580 harmonic.
00:45:14.160 Yeah, this is the idea.
00:45:15.900 I've done AB testing.
00:45:17.400 I've done the sort of Pepsi taste test thing on this.
00:45:20.080 I've not seen anything observable, but I've got some tests running in the background that
00:45:27.180 I'm not going to say what they are because then people will know.
00:45:29.160 So there's some tests and I'll be able to sort of extrapolate after a period of time if there's
00:45:36.240 actually been any difference with the one that's one and one that's the other type vives.
00:45:40.940 Okay.
00:45:42.040 Interesting.
00:45:42.480 Yeah, but back on that thing, it is very much the case that if you're not deliberately
00:45:49.080 programming yourself, something or someone else is, and they don't necessarily have your
00:45:54.340 best interests at heart, The Devil Will Find Work for Idle Hands to Do is a Morrissey
00:46:00.540 song.
00:46:01.180 Oh, but it was also in the Bible, wasn't it?
00:46:02.940 But when I first learned that from the Morrissey song, and I thought about that a lot when
00:46:07.160 I was a little kid, I was like, huh, yeah.
00:46:09.100 So if I'm not actively, busily doing things, the devil will take control of my body and
00:46:13.280 do weird stuff.
00:46:14.400 And that's kind of true.
00:46:15.840 There's a reason, for example, they call boo spirits. 0.94
00:46:18.900 The whole idea of what my nan used to tell me, if you get blackout drunk, then the devil
00:46:22.800 will joyride.
00:46:23.740 Demons will joyride in your body. 0.75
00:46:25.980 And that's why they call it spirits.
00:46:28.580 And, you know, Carl Jung said the world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know,
00:46:31.720 it will tell you.
00:46:32.780 There's a million ways of saying the same thing, which is basically program or be programmed.
00:46:36.800 And you have complete dominion over your own being, and you get to decide what the inputs
00:46:42.800 are.
00:46:43.360 And you can reverse engineer a desired outcome to which inputs would get you to that outcome.
00:46:49.320 And then essentially, you know, that's what that song was about.
00:46:51.640 That's what Author Yourself is about.
00:46:53.040 That's what beloved Scott is talking about there.
00:46:56.980 You know, you get...
00:46:57.480 Yeah, your music is a reframe that is coming alive in people's bodies, you know, especially
00:47:03.720 with the sub, right?
00:47:04.680 Like, the sub is the drum that make people sacrifice their lives to go to war and defend
00:47:11.960 your loved ones.
00:47:13.800 You know, that drum got everybody going, right?
00:47:16.080 And Scott always talked about the drums.
00:47:18.220 And that's why he started learning the drums in front of us.
00:47:21.920 You know, he actually started doing it in front of the whole process.
00:47:24.960 I was messaging him at some point, asking him if he could send me some drums.
00:47:28.160 I'm so pretty sure he never did.
00:47:30.100 Oh, wow.
00:47:31.880 That would have been great.
00:47:32.900 Maybe Shelly has some.
00:47:35.780 Well, that's all I have for my questions.
00:47:38.380 And thank you very much, Akira.
00:47:39.340 I'm going to pass it on to the rest.
00:47:41.040 There was a question on locals that they are hard of hearing, and they wanted to know
00:47:49.180 if you do closed caption on your videos.
00:47:52.300 Yeah, if you go look up, if you go on the YouTube channel, all the videos have got captions
00:47:57.120 on them.
00:47:57.800 Certainly all the ones in the past couple of years.
00:47:59.620 In the early years, it took me a while to realize that captions would be useful.
00:48:03.680 I had this idea in the early stages.
00:48:05.440 I wanted people to be sort of like listening.
00:48:07.940 There's a difference in watching a movie or listening to something in the experience when
00:48:13.740 you have the words in front of you and when you don't, right?
00:48:16.700 But I find it's the case with a lot of pop music.
00:48:19.000 Like, you don't really, you get maybe 20% of what they're actually saying.
00:48:22.780 But it's like, if you look at the lyrics of a lot of, say, 80s pop songs, which you've
00:48:25.600 just been singing all your life, oftentimes you're like, wow, wait, he was saying that?
00:48:29.780 What is all that about?
00:48:31.020 Why is that Wang Chung boy guy talking about taking a baby by the ear or whatever? 0.87
00:48:34.700 What does he even mean?
00:48:35.780 That's terrifying.
00:48:36.800 But anyway, yeah, if you check out the YouTube, there's captions on all of the albums and
00:48:43.300 videos for everything made in the past couple of years.
00:48:46.100 And also, there's the lyrics to basically every single song is on meaningwave.com in
00:48:51.240 the lyrics section.
00:48:52.460 And you can also find Genius.
00:48:54.640 And also, if you listen on streaming services like Spotify, the lyrics are also in there
00:48:59.840 as well.
00:49:00.400 So I spent a lot of time and effort and resources getting the lyrics done.
00:49:05.840 I do them myself now, by the way.
00:49:07.860 At one point, I was outsourcing it, but people would make mistakes.
00:49:10.380 Um, so now for every single release I put out, I do the transcription and then a very
00:49:15.840 tight timing to the song so that when it appears on the video or anywhere else, it's exactly
00:49:20.420 at the right moment.
00:49:22.460 Oh, Akira.
00:49:24.500 That's awesome.
00:49:25.340 I have a quick question from Andy Wang.
00:49:28.160 He wants to know Wang Chung tonight.
00:49:30.720 He wants to know if AI is affecting your industry or you.
00:49:35.420 Um, it's affecting me in the way that, like, it's a tool that I can use for various things.
00:49:42.040 Like, for example, on the captions thing there, it used to be the case that I'd have to do
00:49:46.340 the captions and then I would have to open up a text file and edit a load of code in the
00:49:51.360 back end of the text file and then copy that into a thing and this, that, and the other.
00:49:54.860 And it would take about half an hour.
00:49:56.320 And now I can get an LLM to do that in 30 seconds.
00:49:59.660 Um, so in that regard, there's lots of tools, uh, in music, people have been using AI for
00:50:06.080 a long time and nobody knows because like the people have been, there's like LLM technology,
00:50:11.600 uh, in various plugins that people have been using for ages, like EQs and stuff like that.
00:50:17.120 So contemporary EQs for years now, we'll be able to, you'll put an EQ on each channel.
00:50:22.740 That's like a thing where you can adjust the level of the bottom, the bass or the at the
00:50:28.300 top and it can listen to the other ones and tell you where frequencies are and things of
00:50:32.940 that nature and help you clean things up.
00:50:34.720 There's like the billion, I guess the real question people, cause everyone's all like,
00:50:39.620 will computer music eradicate human music?
00:50:42.780 I suppose it's what people are worried about.
00:50:44.860 Um, it is certainly the case that it's very easy now to press a button and generate something
00:50:50.000 that sounds very mid.
00:50:50.960 And, uh, the world has always been full of very mid stuff.
00:50:54.640 If you, if you watch an old broadcast of a chart show of a music chart show from any
00:50:59.640 year, you always, people are always like, Oh, music was amazing in the sixties, dah, dah,
00:51:02.880 dah.
00:51:03.020 But if you watch one of the weekly chart shows, 95% of the stuff is awful.
00:51:08.040 And then there'll be like, you know, something good.
00:51:11.520 Uh, it used to, people are all concerned about AI cover versions or what have you.
00:51:16.200 And if you go to any kind of, uh, what you guys, like a swap meet,
00:51:20.960 garage sale or what have you, there were all these albums in the sixties and seventies
00:51:25.640 that would cover versions of whatever the popular songs were at the moment that would
00:51:29.520 be made sort of cash in on the existing thing and not have to pay for the license.
00:51:34.140 Um, you know, there was music in elevators and so on and so forth.
00:51:37.440 It's always been the case that like most of what you hear is mid and doesn't have a huge
00:51:42.520 amount of care or love put into it, but that there's all, there's amazing stuff.
00:51:46.260 If you go look for it and if you have taste, so people who have taste and want amazing stuff,
00:51:50.020 we'll still be able to get amazing stuff.
00:51:51.720 And people who don't care, we'll have, uh, AI generated playlists in coffee shops that just
00:51:57.140 generate whatever the particular mood required is.
00:51:59.760 And nobody will care or think about it.
00:52:01.280 I didn't, you know, um, that, that different experientially.
00:52:07.100 I, I do have to ask from our friend, Mike Burt, who Scott deemed our jester.
00:52:13.040 He terribly wants to be immortalized and he wants to know if the clips that he has sent
00:52:19.300 you about his role, um, have any possibility of becoming a hit with you.
00:52:24.100 Just, you don't even have to answer it.
00:52:25.860 I'm just letting you know.
00:52:28.480 A lot of communication.
00:52:29.900 Um, it certainly is the case that, you know, there, uh, uh, there are so many things that
00:52:40.920 I have that I want to do with regards to making songs.
00:52:44.340 So I do not spend my time frivolously.
00:52:46.540 I'll say that much.
00:52:48.200 Um, people are like, Oh, you should do that thing that that politician said in that thing
00:52:51.940 last week.
00:52:52.340 That'd be hilarious.
00:52:53.000 It's like, yeah, I'm not here to make hilarious little meme songs or what have you.
00:52:56.960 I'm trying to make like useful art that will be beneficial to people for decades, hundreds
00:53:02.460 of years, thousands of years, or what have you.
00:53:04.880 People still read meditations by Mark Storius, you know, that was a good use of a life there.
00:53:10.740 You know, he put things down and they're still useful thousands of years later.
00:53:14.180 He acted with a deliberateness of purpose and turned his life into a masterpiece that would
00:53:19.160 be useful across the ages.
00:53:21.060 And we can all do that, but we have to be very, uh, if we want to, but we have to be deliberate
00:53:25.120 about where we're putting our time and our energy and what we're, you know, I agree.
00:53:31.900 Yeah.
00:53:32.060 That's, it's important to, yeah.
00:53:34.720 Store your energy for those things.
00:53:36.420 And, you know, it's fellow are not doing wonderful things out there and I haven't seen
00:53:40.500 your video.
00:53:40.960 Maybe it's genius.
00:53:41.640 And maybe when I see it, I'll go, Oh my gosh, Oh my goodness.
00:53:44.800 This must become a record immediately.
00:53:46.280 Uh, other stuff I was going to do.
00:53:48.880 This is the most important time.
00:53:50.960 Maybe that's the case.
00:53:51.920 I don't know yet.
00:53:52.560 He wanted me to clarify.
00:53:54.880 It was Scott talking about the role of a jester, not him per se.
00:54:00.140 And I also wanted to say before, when you're talking about Hercules, I was going to mention
00:54:04.260 that Cernovich, his son's name is Aurelius.
00:54:07.940 So yeah, names are important.
00:54:10.340 Shouts out to Cerno.
00:54:11.240 I read Cerno's book and Scott's book back to back.
00:54:14.900 Yes.
00:54:15.420 Guerrilla mindset.
00:54:16.420 We love Mike Cernovich.
00:54:18.000 Shout out to him for sure.
00:54:19.800 He's an inspiration.
00:54:20.900 Uh, you guys, Cernovich, we're going to hope he's coming on here one day soon.
00:54:26.720 So stay tuned for that.
00:54:28.760 Self-talk in his book, which was a concept I'd never even thought about.
00:54:32.120 And now I always tell people, I was literally talking to someone yesterday.
00:54:34.600 It's like, if you're having a bad time or you're feeling bad or down or what have you,
00:54:38.060 a really useful exercise is to just speak out loud.
00:54:41.260 What's in your head.
00:54:42.240 And you know, you could put in a, in an earphone or something to just go for a walk.
00:54:45.580 And people will think you're talking to your mom or something and you can just say what's
00:54:49.100 in your head, allow it to come out of your face and you will realize how ridiculous so
00:54:53.380 much of it is and how self-pitying or self-flagellating or unnecessary.
00:54:58.140 And you can very quickly transmute it into something useful and positive if you do that.
00:55:02.300 And that idea came to me from reading Guerrilla Mindset and Mike talking about just the idea
00:55:08.360 of self-talk and how people can just have this conversation going in their head all the
00:55:12.260 time.
00:55:12.500 It's completely unuseful and negative and mean.
00:55:15.300 That's right.
00:55:16.520 That's right.
00:55:17.360 That's a Mike.
00:55:17.960 What you tell, what you tell yourself, you'll believe.
00:55:21.040 What you think about is who you are.
00:55:23.560 Yeah.
00:55:23.880 There you go.
00:55:24.840 You said that.
00:55:25.900 That's the spirit.
00:55:28.200 I love that.
00:55:29.080 I don't know if Shelly wants to share anything with you.
00:55:37.380 Shelly's on mute.
00:55:38.340 Shelly, do you want to say anything?
00:55:39.880 It was frozen.
00:55:41.020 That was a beautiful, dramatic silence.
00:55:42.900 I hate this sometimes.
00:55:44.600 Very Michael Jackson at the Super Bowl.
00:55:46.960 I like what you do with Joko Willing, too.
00:55:49.520 I love how you work with him and that song, Good.
00:55:54.640 You can say.
00:55:55.100 So how do you, with Joko Willing, what is it that, how do you pick people to make songs?
00:56:04.660 I would, like I said earlier, it's just a case of if it glitters.
00:56:09.260 You know, sometimes the message can come from many different places.
00:56:14.860 Something I was doing in the early days was I would sort of meditate upon a sort of idea
00:56:18.660 and then I would find a bunch of different people essentially talking about the same idea,
00:56:21.900 but from very different perspectives.
00:56:23.680 And then you'll find that there's commonality between some very different people.
00:56:28.020 So, for example, you might not think that Alan Watts and Ayn Rand have much in common,
00:56:31.380 but it turns out they do.
00:56:32.880 It turns out that there's a place where Ayn Rand and Alan Watts and Marcus Aurelius
00:56:36.980 and all sorts of people all interconnect.
00:56:40.560 And I sometimes I look for those places.
00:56:43.260 That's one of the things I sometimes do.
00:56:44.440 By the way, I wanted to say this, thank you for everything that you've been doing.
00:56:51.800 I think about you often, particularly because one of the songs I did is that song Soccer
00:56:56.680 where Scott is talking about when he looks back upon his life, what would be important
00:57:02.920 and what is important.
00:57:05.000 He talks about watching his stepdaughter play soccer and that aspect of his life
00:57:10.680 and how easy it is for us to sort of get caught up in the striving
00:57:14.060 and got to get this done and do this bit of work and so on and so forth
00:57:16.960 when around you the most important things in the world are just right there in front of you.
00:57:21.720 And it's really easy sometimes to forget that.
00:57:24.760 And that record was really important for me to make
00:57:27.960 because it communicated very, very perfectly
00:57:31.120 a really fundamental and useful and just crucial aspect of existence
00:57:37.360 which is very easy for us to forget.
00:57:43.640 Yeah, Scott loved your work.
00:57:46.160 I mean, like Eric said earlier, he would play it over and over and over and over again
00:57:52.180 and it just lit him up.
00:57:54.640 So you were really special to him and did some great work
00:57:58.680 and I'm glad that he got to see that and appreciate it.
00:58:03.800 Thanks.
00:58:04.360 That was touching.
00:58:06.460 That was very touching.
00:58:09.180 All right, you guys.
00:58:10.380 Well, here we are at the top of the hour.
00:58:12.900 Akira, I have to ask you, will you come back again?
00:58:16.620 Of course.
00:58:18.020 Of course.
00:58:18.600 And you know, play a little something for us.
00:58:21.420 Do you want to play a little bit more?
00:58:23.520 We have a few minutes.
00:58:26.220 What I'm doing?
00:58:26.960 All right.
00:58:36.180 This is a song from the new, I'll say it's new because it came out in December.
00:58:41.540 That's new.
00:58:42.340 Time feels weird to us now, but this is from the most recent album
00:58:46.960 with Scott Adams, which is called Almost Anything Could Happen Today.
00:58:51.460 And this is the second track on the album.
00:58:53.780 Lots of people say it's their favorite.
00:58:54.980 It's called The Universe Owes Me.
00:58:58.660 The usual frame, the old way of thinking, is that if things are going wrong,
00:59:03.980 the universe is acting against you.
00:59:07.460 Have you ever thought that?
00:59:09.120 Have you ever thought, my God, the whole universe is acting against me.
00:59:13.040 Nobody can have this much bad luck.
00:59:15.160 One thing after another.
00:59:17.760 Right?
00:59:18.580 Ever have that?
00:59:19.280 Very, very suboptimal way of seeing your world.
00:59:26.860 Now I'm going to reframe it.
00:59:30.980 The universe owes me.
00:59:32.320 If you had a bad, if you had a bad childhood, the universe owes you.
00:59:51.840 If you had a bad divorce, the universe owes you.
00:59:55.800 It's your turn.
00:59:56.440 It is almost impossible for anybody to have bad luck all the time.
01:00:06.200 So if you have a string of bad luck, it is the surest sign that some good luck is on the way.
01:00:15.460 Does that make sense?
01:00:16.860 Because luck always gets to the average.
01:00:20.160 People have average luck over time.
01:00:22.420 In any small period of time, they might have extraordinary luck or bad luck.
01:00:26.680 But over time, it's definitely going to go back to something like average.
01:00:31.080 So if you're in one of those, man, I can't believe how bad this is.
01:00:34.220 This week, this week, this week, this week.
01:00:36.420 It's the surest sign that the universe owes you.
01:00:40.000 And it's going to pay you.
01:00:50.800 The universe owes me.
01:00:52.060 The universe owes me.
01:01:13.400 The universe owes me.
01:01:22.060 The universe owes me.
01:01:30.680 It's about Adam's flag.
01:01:34.560 Amen.
01:01:36.860 Thank you, Akira.
01:01:39.020 Akira, if you want to give yourself one last shout out for me so I don't mess up where everyone can find you,
01:01:45.520 I will post links after so people can support you.
01:01:48.500 They are so appreciative that you are here.
01:01:50.680 Everybody wants you to come back.
01:01:52.840 And you know what?
01:01:53.320 We want to talk philosophy also with you, okay?
01:01:56.700 Sounds wonderful.
01:01:57.660 Thank you for having me.
01:01:59.060 And thank you for everything everybody's doing.
01:02:02.340 And, yeah, as always, let me know if I can help with anything.
01:02:06.380 Thank you.
01:02:07.000 Find me, meaningwave.com.
01:02:08.800 And wherever you listen to music or watch videos or what have you,
01:02:11.440 you should be able to find me and the various things that I work with,
01:02:17.480 with all these amazing people.
01:02:18.500 So, yeah, just look for Akira, the Don, wherever you might be.
01:02:22.560 Look for Meaning Wave.
01:02:24.040 And meaningwave.com is the website.
01:02:26.760 And you can get things there and find out what the latest records are.
01:02:31.680 For example, if you go there, you'll see that there was an Alan Watts album out last week.
01:02:36.180 And I saw it.
01:02:38.660 Amazing.
01:02:39.640 Shelley, thank you for letting this continue and being our queen.
01:02:44.540 Isn't it great?
01:02:46.100 All right.
01:02:47.100 So, everyone.
01:02:47.560 It's not music.
01:02:48.220 It's music plus.
01:02:50.320 Ah, that's right.
01:02:52.660 That's right.
01:02:53.400 Right around town.
01:02:56.020 It's the truth.
01:02:57.240 You guys join us in a closing sip.
01:02:59.500 Akira, thank you.
01:03:00.480 Thank you.
01:03:00.840 Thank you.
01:03:01.420 Everybody, thank you for tuning in every day and being so kind.
01:03:04.620 And let's have a closing sip to Scott.
01:03:07.660 We love you.
01:03:08.580 We miss you.
01:03:09.440 I'm going to cry.
01:03:10.920 Love you guys.
01:03:11.800 And we'll see you tomorrow with Brian Romelli to Scott.
01:03:22.180 Bye, guys.
01:03:24.000 Bye, Akira.
01:03:34.620 Bye, Akira.