Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3113 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸12⧸26

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00:01:00.000 it will it will yes and we'll keep an eye up someone's on local steven there should be an

00:01:07.920 award for steven lang welcome in he's the fastest i love local people man look at that

00:01:14.400 they're the best good morning you guys you're looking very nice very dapper here comes owen

00:01:21.580 sliding in like kramer good morning we're just letting everybody filter in um you guys brian

00:01:32.680 romeli is with us okay brian marcel again romel is it romel i'll end i'll respond to any name you

00:01:40.420 call me by uh i know so what do you say romley from romley it's because when i was a kid

00:01:50.720 everybody use a german that's what erica was saying yeah no i said romeli wrong too oh

00:01:55.780 it doesn't matter all right so i like to call people what they want to be called

00:02:01.240 yeah and he said anything goes so anything goes i mess up people's names all the time so

00:02:08.720 all right anything goes all right dad oh my gosh you guys welcome in i think i think we had a chance

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00:03:30.660 Hey, come on in here, everybody.

00:03:33.400 Oh, lordy.

00:03:34.600 Can you guys believe it? That's twice

00:03:36.700 in a row he brought up Iran,

00:03:38.280 and this is like a decade ago that clip that's amazing wow you guys i'm erica and we have brian

00:03:46.860 romel romeli romilly he he answers to all of those names we just asked him and everything

00:03:55.420 well all we're glad is that you answer when we call and you say that you'll come on because

00:04:02.140 you are definitely a fan favorite and you're so interesting. So we want to welcome you back as one

00:04:09.940 of our most favorite guest professors. And I put out the article we're going to talk about today

00:04:17.380 from your, you have 5,000 days series. And this one kind of freaked me out about population or

00:04:27.320 depopulation control or not control and what might cause it. So I am going to kind of hand it over to

00:04:35.980 you to maybe you could brief us on what it is we're going to talk about today, and then we'll

00:04:41.380 have questions for you. Beautiful. Thank you for having me again. I love you guys. Ms. Scott,

00:04:47.320 every time I see the simultaneous stuff, it's beautiful. John Calhoun in the 1960s, primarily

00:04:56.560 late 60s, conducted a number of psychological and sociological tests. He primarily was under this

00:05:06.920 particular story, worked with mice, and he created what would be utopia for mice.

00:05:15.780 And he had different universes, he called them. He did all the way up to 27 or 29,

00:05:22.120 but universe 25 was the one that really stuck with him and what is mice utopia look like well

00:05:31.140 think think of them of being a mouse and what would you want food endless food um endless

00:05:38.700 ability to do what you want water temperature control a place to hang out everything you

00:05:45.060 possibly could need. And if you can imagine, there was a town square and all of these layers,

00:05:53.340 multi-story layers that are around the walls inside this massive room-sized mouse contraption

00:06:00.020 that he invented. I think at one time there were 800 mice, maybe more. More, I think.

00:06:07.080 Yeah. I forget exactly in that particular epoch. But ultimately what happened was

00:06:14.020 um abundance uh the mice were happy uh they were their fur looked good they were doing really well

00:06:22.480 and just about i would say three to five months in he started to notice unusual behaviors

00:06:32.640 um in the town square as every mouse had to cross to get the food and water

00:06:38.040 there would be interactions and sometimes those interactions would start becoming violent

00:06:42.780 and uh as they interfaced with each other and then he started noticing a pecking order

00:06:50.640 and that pecking order would would be some males would refuse to leave their lair

00:06:56.620 and would have other mice bring food back for them you know throughout the day very much like

00:07:05.400 Yeah, DoorDash, right? And very much like the decline of the Greco Empire in Greece and Roman Empire to some degree.

00:07:17.620 That started to really become very profound.

00:07:21.060 Ultimately, in the town square, there would become more and more violent interactions and other mice would watch it, almost like a gladiator type of situation.

00:07:30.740 Mice would be cut up. They would have scars. Other mice would join. There would be packs that form. But the ones that were not interacting, he called them, Calhoun called them the beautiful ones, primarily male. And in fact, I think all of them were male. There was one female, but they got knocked out when you actually read the research paper.

00:07:55.360 I have to jump in and say the beautiful ones always smash the picture, always, every time.

00:08:00.120 I love your Prince references.

00:08:01.840 I love it.

00:08:04.460 And it's interesting that this structure manifested pretty much early on in the experiment.

00:08:17.280 But it got worse.

00:08:18.460 As this situation developed, you started seeing more and more of the population become more fixated on the tribalism that took place in the town square and taking care of the beautiful ones, the rich ones, the ones that had everything, that knew everything.

00:08:40.000 There was less reproduction.

00:08:42.420 There was less care for each other in a sense that there was less grooming.

00:08:48.100 there was less, even less eating of the food. Some animals, some of the mice were starting to

00:08:55.500 starve, even though there was an abundance amount of food. And I'll shorten the story

00:09:00.960 to the end point. The end point was the entire colony collapsed. They stopped reproducing

00:09:08.200 entirely um the beautiful ones um dominated to the point where they got so obese and so unable

00:09:19.560 to actually go out and get water and things of that nature they died and the entire colony ended

00:09:26.600 pritzker didn't make it none of them made it pritzker i heard you

00:09:31.240 yeah so so basically we're at the end point of an experiment in that particular epoch in the late

00:09:41.240 1960s there was a lot of interest in zero population growth uh malthusian things like that

00:09:49.800 uh the great population uh bomb book was very popular and i talked about this i think i brought

00:09:56.840 it to his attention because at first he's like nobody thinks we should have population or

00:10:00.600 depopulation and i i think a bunch of people jumped in and said you know there was this whole

00:10:05.160 population bomb thing and it was a huge thing it still is it still is unfortunately there are people

00:10:11.320 that are in positions of power that i've met uh and i can tell you they absolutely believe that

00:10:17.320 and they believe it even more as we go into the next 5 000 days if we have robotics uh serving

00:10:25.400 uh serving humans we all become the beautiful ones maybe almost like wally world uh the disney

00:10:32.040 movie where we're all on wheelchairs and all we do is consume one of the reasons why i i am writing

00:10:38.840 this series you have 5 000 days to the end of work as we know it is to mentally condition us to what

00:10:46.200 we need to face and how we need to be in this transition it is either going to be the end of

00:10:54.600 world meaning all technology goes and we go back to the stone age or we're going to have this world

00:11:02.120 and if you're cheering on the end of the world fine you can go and do that and hope that we're

00:11:06.760 all you know fred and barney and wilma you know running around and and and bedrock or

00:11:14.520 we're going to have robotics and ai do more and more work for us and i used universe 25 in the

00:11:21.560 the population bomb and that Malthusian philosophy as a way for the reader and hopefully all of you

00:11:32.560 folks at the school to understand that this agenda is going to be played out. There are people that

00:11:39.880 are going to be using this as a subtext of how the world should be and frankly a lot of the people

00:11:48.320 that do that that will be doing that are some of the beautiful ones these are the people have

00:11:53.840 already made it these are the people already have the old world's money and the old world's

00:11:59.760 you know fame and fortune and i and i say the old world because currency if you read on this series

00:12:07.440 may never end but if you read on i'm going to be writing about how money will be completely

00:12:13.440 transformed it will have a lot less value so the people who are extremely wealthy will not be as

00:12:20.080 wealthy and that freaks them out um and also the idea has always been that there is overcrowding

00:12:31.040 on planet earth and anybody who's flown over the united states or if you live in the former

00:12:38.560 Soviet Union, if you go over that area, 80 to 90% of the areas are barren. They're empty. They're

00:12:46.940 devoid of almost anybody. In fact, most of the West is owned by the U.S. government. It's just

00:12:52.640 open land. Bureau of Land Management acres are in billions in the United States.

00:13:01.960 so um let me stop you for a minute like you said you laid this out like a binary like either we're

00:13:09.740 going over back to the stone age or we're going to have this like age of abundance but don't don't

00:13:15.300 you think there is a spectrum in between where it could be something in between yes oh and it's

00:13:21.480 great question that's a transitional state i always like to work from the end point backwards

00:13:26.300 So the end point is anything you ever want will be able to be replicated in your home.

00:13:32.240 There will be no store in the proper sense.

00:13:35.540 Like you won't be going to Amazon to shop.

00:13:38.900 You're probably going to have it replicated and built in your home.

00:13:42.560 And now that's the ultimate end point, right?

00:13:45.460 That's a bit sci-fi.

00:13:48.480 That's no more than 100 years away.

00:13:51.380 This is called nanofabrication, the moving around of atoms.

00:13:56.300 And I'm not guessing about that. We already have nanofabrication and it's just a replicator.

00:14:01.300 Yeah, essentially a replicator. Now, this plays out different for biology and food.

00:14:07.300 I happen to believe that we're going to be growing our own food and we're going to be making bespoke food.

00:14:11.300 I really think that we're going to be forming guilds and humans are going to be doing things that are going to be absolutely phenomenal.

00:14:17.300 phenomenal. But we're not going to be doing the things that we used to do to take away 90% of our

00:14:22.800 time and absolutely making it the meaning of our life. For most of human existence, our work

00:14:29.380 was not our meaning. Our life was our meaning. And we didn't have a separation between work

00:14:35.860 and normal life. We just had life. The Industrial Revolution bifurcated our life,

00:14:42.820 quote unquote, from our work. And we had to be almost like a machine to fit into the cog

00:14:50.740 of the production line of the industrial revolution. When we are no longer part of that

00:14:56.680 production line, we are rapidly being taken out of that. And the machine is going into that

00:15:02.620 production line. Our lives change. And we're left with, where's the floor? What happened?

00:15:09.200 What do I do now? And that's what the series is about, is to try to understand it. And Ellen, to your question, when do we get to the point of the ultimate? Well, we never do. So it's always going to be a phase of arriving, right? Even when we get to that phase of nanofabrication, there's always going to be something bigger and better.

00:15:31.260 So there is never any end point. And it's never a utopia. And that's the point I'm going to make, is that we are not going to have a utopia. We're always going to have, hopefully, different frictions in human life that make us have to try to thrive. Humans thrive by the unbalanced land that we're on because we have to struggle. And that struggle is always going to be there.

00:15:55.840 So, I mean, I've often noticed that people, you know, like people think, oh, I would be so happy

00:16:02.320 if everything was just perfect for me and everything was just provided for me. But I

00:16:05.360 think the exact opposite is true. If you really look at how people behave when they have this

00:16:10.460 abundance, because there certainly are people that have all the money they would ever need.

00:16:14.120 And they tend to be the most dysfunctional people around. Yeah. And I also notice, you know, I mean,

00:16:19.860 I don't want to get too political in this discussion, but you have this, you know,

00:16:22.840 stereotype of an awful like a affluent white liberal female i think it's i might have it

00:16:28.960 out of order but um you know those are the people that seem to be like complaining about things all

00:16:34.020 the time and they're always like rich privileged people and you know it's probably true for a lot

00:16:40.840 of men too the people that are at these protests are people that don't need to work they don't have

00:16:45.040 enough struggle in their own life so they focus on other things and they kind of invent problems

00:16:50.980 I've seen this throughout society where if someone doesn't have what I would consider enough struggles or enough challenges that they need to deal with personally, then they just like find other stuff to complain about and they find other problems that they basically invent problems.

00:17:09.380 These are really good points. And if you study history, not just the Roman and Greek cultures, but a lot of the micro cultures, there's an arc of their existence. And when they get to the existence point of so much abundance and so much wealth, there is an ultimate decline.

00:17:27.620 And that decline is obviously taking place in most of the Western world. It's actually rapidly taking place in the Eastern world. China is a good example. Japan is a really good example. They reached a maximum and they dropped off quite rapidly.

00:17:42.580 So this is something we all have to start being mature about and dealing with. And to try to depoliticize it, I get the political angle and we can say Karen, I won't say that. But I mean, the reason why this happens is humans need something to make them industrious.

00:18:03.700 they need to be able to have something to focus on and giving some credit to the people in power

00:18:10.760 they know that they look at universe 25 and they they look at us unwashed masses because we're the

00:18:17.620 we're the unwashed masses we're the useless eaters all of us here you know um and they go

00:18:23.980 what are we going to do with those people you know we don't need them anymore and yes some of

00:18:29.000 them are going to go to the Malthusian and depopulation sort of playbook. And not that

00:18:34.520 they ever left it. There's always been a desire to control certain populations and to utilize them

00:18:42.580 because that's what happens, like you said, Owen, when you get very wealthy,

00:18:46.580 you get bored. And so your chess game used to be, I got to feed my family. Now it's like,

00:18:53.520 I can buy and sell anything. Let's see if I can play games with this population versus

00:18:58.740 that population then aren't they the ones that die first um no they they well yes from gluttony

00:19:05.860 the gluttony does happen but we get we get seduced into believing that we want their life

00:19:13.760 right i've been around very wealthy people you do not want their life i'm sorry you you do not

00:19:21.240 want their life so if you're struggling to try to be that person honestly look at it and ask

00:19:28.280 is that really who I want to be? But I'll be different. No, you won't. Look at lottery

00:19:32.540 winners. Look at NFL, you know, NBA stars. Look at anybody who's run into a lot of wealth.

00:19:40.200 And I'm not saying that they didn't work for it. And there's also the phenomenon of men that

00:19:44.220 typically seem to, I mean, not everybody, but there's a lot of men that once they retire,

00:19:49.440 they just decline and die within a few years. And I think a lot of that has to do with their

00:19:54.180 loss of purpose. They stop engaging with the world. They're just sort of sitting around watching TV

00:19:58.760 or whatever, but they're not really stimulating or growing anymore. And I think they just lose

00:20:05.180 their purpose and then their body follows. Yeah, exactly. You know, you come to a really good

00:20:09.540 point. Men are not as social as a creature as women, and I'm not trying to be sexist. It just

00:20:17.340 is the way the factory programming generally comes, right? So when you hit your factory programming,

00:20:23.380 there's a social nature and not social nature so most men will garner their social connections

00:20:30.500 most of their life through their work if you take away their work you take away their social

00:20:35.940 connections you can only go to the golf course so often and then it's the usual suspects there

00:20:41.860 more men like you that have been retired and you don't have any purpose and it tends to go down

00:20:47.060 very quickly i can say the same thing about women where you know they have an afternoon wine and then

00:20:53.460 all of a sudden it's wine all day long and then they sink into this i don't have any meaning or

00:20:58.260 purpose in my life and so well again one of the reasons i'm trying to write this some of the

00:21:05.460 themes in the in the series is to help prepare what does it look like when i don't define myself

00:21:12.980 buy my job you know what does it look like you know it it's only been about 200 years 300 years

00:21:20.980 that we've totally cemented our identity to our job now throughout history we had guilds

00:21:31.220 within our families in fact our names were even tied to you know goldsmiths cooper things like

00:21:37.380 that you know the jobs that our family did but they were so intricated into our lives

00:21:44.100 that there was no separation between the job and what you did it was so kind of wrapped up

00:21:49.860 we don't have that same sort of thing although some people bring their work home

00:21:56.180 we we have a separation between what we do and what we do at home but we define ourselves by

00:22:04.420 how we produce in our life. Am I making enough money? Who am I comparing myself with? A lot of

00:22:12.260 folks get on the life bandwagon after coming out of university, comparing themselves to their peer

00:22:19.560 group. Like, you know, am I making as much money as this person? Am I doing that? That's the quote

00:22:25.980 unquote rat race. And that pretty much established itself in the early 1950s. It was right after

00:22:32.520 world war ii when we started to develop this sort of um american dream and it's it's funny because

00:22:42.120 in the last two um of the series because uh universe 25 is a couple of you know uh articles

00:22:50.040 ago i i really am exploring what that looks like you know how did we get the american dream

00:22:57.000 who who built that it started with a guy named edward bernays and it worked its way through other

00:23:03.420 uh other folks the soap opera i wrote about how the soap opera was manufactured to in a sense

00:23:11.800 weaponize the stay-at-home mom during the afternoon to create that social connection

00:23:18.680 that they were not having in the suburb right because we were living we're designed to live

00:23:24.380 in a communal structure, a family extended communal structure. That's our way. It's not

00:23:30.220 socialism. It's actually the opposite of that. But a lot of people equate it to that. We have

00:23:36.220 these layers of voluntary and forced, family is forced, and involuntary coagulations that we call

00:23:44.180 our local community. And it's designed to form different safety nets, mentally, emotionally,

00:23:50.980 physically, and financially, because we do need those things. I mean, we can all be lone wolves

00:23:57.160 out in the forest, you know, certainly, but we decided voluntarily to organize. That's how

00:24:04.700 humanity existed for most of its existence. And then when we organized, we had to create a pecking

00:24:10.920 order, and then we created what we call today democracies. You know, we live in a republic,

00:24:18.740 not a democracy. But, you know, later on, a more mature form of governance is, you know,

00:24:27.040 you have established rights. That's what a republic is. And then where they are ordained by a human

00:24:34.340 note, they are ordained by God, right? They are given to us, you know, these rights. So coming

00:24:40.720 back to the organizational structure, you have a force structure that comes from your family.

00:24:45.460 So that gives you the idea of responsibility. Why do I have an honor to my family? Why do I have an honor to my local community? And so when you break that up into suburbia in the 1950s, what happened was a lot of women felt isolated. They were locked up. It's like, how do I interact? Well, I can go down the street and after that, you just couldn't form the right structures.

00:25:10.040 So the soap opera was designed to become that local community where they would check in and it became quite addictive. And so it would create a form of emptiness in a lot of women that would be fulfilled by the instant foods and the instant detergents, soaps, that would allow them to get their day moved along quicker after they took three hours out of their day to watch the various daytime dramas.

00:25:39.560 And so what happened is psychiatrists and psychologists and psychoanalysts

00:25:45.720 analyzed this emptiness that people felt in that form of the American dream.

00:25:51.080 And they gave them back a commercialized version of it

00:25:55.880 by feeding them the things that they needed to fulfill their life.

00:25:59.240 Even questioning their existence.

00:26:01.560 Oh, look at that doctor has the best life.

00:26:05.000 And look at all the women that want him.

00:26:06.840 maybe I need to be one of those women. And it questioned whether or not their husband as a

00:26:11.680 plumber was just some lunk that they fell into and that somebody else has a more beautiful life.

00:26:18.460 So that's part of the conditioning that we all have gone through. And it's very hard for a lot

00:26:24.180 of people listening because we've all formed, I'm guilty. We are all guilty of forming our life

00:26:29.460 around that narrative. And it's very hard to get out of it. I mean, we have, look at me,

00:26:34.620 got a lot of junk behind me we collect junk we want to have stuff and we want to you know we

00:26:39.420 want to do things it's hard to imagine what abundance looks like on the other side when

00:26:44.780 you don't have to work really hard to get certain things and what do you become and like owen said

00:26:53.020 without the pressures of of forming you know something meaningful in your life

00:26:59.420 you could actually go the other way and just kind of give up and and want to die that's kind of what

00:27:05.660 happened in universe 25 if you couldn't be a beautiful one and only so many had these penthouse

00:27:11.540 apartments because they're all the highest places by the way all the beautiful ones were up in the

00:27:17.000 penthouses and this pecking order developed naturally to try to take care of the beautiful

00:27:23.120 ones. And one of the things I don't want to delve too far into is the perversions that took place

00:27:30.400 within that culture. I mean, all sorts of perversions, certainly sexual. The beautiful ones

00:27:36.540 lost their sexual identity. They became pansexual. The ones right below them became pansexual. They

00:27:44.480 didn't understand what they were there for any longer. And now you can imagine how dangerous

00:27:51.240 of a thought this is in today's society. And I'm just asking you to look around and say,

00:27:56.500 are we seeing any of this today? Are any of these things manifesting? And what do they look like

00:28:01.800 as we move forward? Right. So let's do that. So let's apply this to what we're seeing around us

00:28:08.400 today. And I think a lot of times I hear people saying that this is being done on purpose. I think

00:28:15.200 some people in the chat have mentioned that on different platforms here. So is that maybe what's

00:28:20.860 happening like with a push of transgender ideology. We do see people not having children

00:28:29.960 like they used to and families. There's a big decline. Is that intentional then? So, you know,

00:28:36.680 you're saying that maybe the beautiful ones are pushing this? Some say the bubbles in an

00:28:41.960 arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth. Sometimes the very amount you're

00:28:47.020 stuck at the same red light. Rich, creamy, chocolatey Aero truffle. Feel the Aero bubbles

00:28:53.340 melt. It's mind bubbling. Ah, let me see the best way I can say this. I, as you know, I tend not

00:29:02.760 to drive into the political realm because it makes it very hard for people wanting to understand

00:29:09.580 because they get bifurcated into their teams. I happen to think that us organizing into teams

00:29:16.320 in this way is is futile and and quite dangerous i don't agree with anybody 100 i've never met

00:29:24.000 anybody i don't agree with myself 100 therefore it's very difficult to want to constantly define

00:29:31.680 myself behind one organized label and i generally i'm sure you can conclude where my leanings are

00:29:40.400 but that's not who we are and it shouldn't be the way we move forward we need to organize around

00:29:47.440 ideas and concepts right and not labels labeling makes you a victim the moment you label anything

00:29:56.160 you become victimized by the opposite of that label so i i'm very much against trying to label

00:30:02.720 things but would it would it make a lot of sense if you're in a position of power

00:30:07.840 to keep the masses not reproducing? And that question has certainly been around.

00:30:18.280 Well, there was a guy in Germany in the 1930s and 40s that thought that too.

00:30:23.500 There was a guy in Russia that thought that too. There was a guy in China that thought that too,

00:30:30.560 to the point where people are throwing babies in the river, right? This is not a theory. It is an

00:30:39.660 absolute fact of life and people are deploying certain philosophies. And it's important to

00:30:45.700 identify it as a scientist. Take a couple of steps back, remove the emotion so that you can actually

00:30:52.040 analyze it. And it's a very emotional thing. I'm not saying don't be emotional about it. I'm saying

00:30:56.980 take a couple of steps back and look at it and say, hmm, what am I observing here? And take your

00:31:03.580 notes. I'm observing that there are people that believe there are too many people on the planet.

00:31:09.660 Now, I've flown over the planet. There's a lot of empty spaces. People are tending to coagulate

00:31:14.200 too much in Universe 25, and they're fighting in the town square. That can be X, it can be TikTok,

00:31:20.880 or it can be literally in a town square today that uh that place of uh of interaction of

00:31:27.480 anger and hot takes is on virtual environments like like x and facebook you know and next door

00:31:36.020 go and look at next door and see how people like to be over the head oh my god your car your dog

00:31:42.460 your you know the little things you were saying um about how you run out of the big things and

00:31:50.040 you start fighting over the little things. You know, the one thing I love about Jordan Peterson,

00:31:55.220 you know, I got to know him very well after the interview. Let's pray for Jordan Peterson,

00:32:00.100 by the way. I hope he's going to make it through this. One of the things I learned in his lectures

00:32:08.580 is that you need to be able to clean your room first before you can fix the world.

00:32:14.440 And if you are out there protesting in the street, what does your room look like?

00:32:20.980 Did you make your bed?

00:32:22.420 I mean, what does that mean?

00:32:23.800 It's not I can imagine.

00:32:25.720 Yeah.

00:32:26.000 It's not to try to knock that person down.

00:32:29.560 It's actually to lift that person up.

00:32:32.380 Right.

00:32:33.000 You can take any comment from somebody who's very wise and you can form it into a weapon.

00:32:38.340 You can burn somebody with fire.

00:32:40.100 You can light their life.

00:32:41.700 It can become a torch.

00:32:42.620 it's up to you it's up to you how you want to take that so if if your life is not in order

00:32:48.840 that does not mean you you don't have an opinion doesn't mean you don't want to state your opinion

00:32:53.620 it's before you start trying to bang somebody over the head self inventory yeah let's look at

00:32:59.600 what your life looks like i i take my advice from people and like i said i don't i don't find one

00:33:06.360 person that i agree with 100 of the time but my mentors the people that i i've taken my advice

00:33:11.720 from have found certain things in their life that they've become incredibly good at. And I look at

00:33:18.340 it and I say, that is absolutely beautiful. What can I learn from that? Now, I don't sit there and

00:33:23.860 say, oh, I'm not good enough. I can't do what they do. If one person can do it, another person can do

00:33:29.180 it. There's nothing that I do that nobody here can do. I've never met anybody, anybody that can

00:33:35.440 do something that another person can't do unless they're physically disabled from being able to do

00:33:40.700 it. And so, yes, sometimes mentally disabled in a sense that they have not applied themselves.

00:33:47.360 Unfortunately, there is a time factor to that, too. Some people are going to do it faster than

00:33:51.260 others. But if you apply yourself, you can get to that point. And it's not just positive thinking,

00:33:56.160 it's the reality of it. So it's like what I one of the main takeaways I took away from Jordan

00:34:01.600 Peterson's lectures was he advised people to take on responsibility. And I think it was right in

00:34:07.180 line with that saying you need to have purpose, you need to have meaning in your life and the

00:34:10.520 way you get meaning is by taking on responsibility, increasing levels of responsibility and, you know,

00:34:17.160 bringing order to those things. But it was mainly about taking on challenges and conquering things

00:34:24.120 and having some sort of challenge that you're, you're conquering to have that purpose. And I

00:34:30.680 think Scott mentioned that his formula for happiness was something like 80% meaning and

00:34:36.920 20% personal pleasure, you know, like the things that might just be, you know, what you think of

00:34:42.540 as pleasurable activities. And he said it should be maybe 20% that, but 80% needs to be like

00:34:48.460 helping other people or doing some meaningful work. And I think, you know, I find both of

00:34:56.040 those things to be true, generally speaking, in terms of human nature. And it sounds to me like

00:35:01.260 what you're saying is we have to somehow adapt to a world where it's flipped to the opposite.

00:35:06.920 Yes. Scott has left us with a lot of wisdom. And a lot of what we can do is try to apply this

00:35:18.360 in the new world that we're entering. Everybody listening to me is going to face job loss

00:35:24.660 around them or to them directly, most definitely over this next decade. They're going to come into

00:35:32.460 work just like scott did one day and they're gonna they're gonna realize that their job is no longer

00:35:38.060 what they thought it was and they're going to be all sorts of dilbert type of scenarios

00:35:44.460 that are going to play out and and and he left us with the with the the comic strip that actually

00:35:51.900 it really applies to what we're going to be see the comedy that's taking place there's

00:35:57.580 It's going to be very, I mean, since post-COVID, there aren't very many offices left anyway.

00:36:02.300 I mean, they're falling apart rapidly.

00:36:04.680 That's already, this whole, you know, decay has already started even before COVID, but COVID allowed it to be turbocharged.

00:36:14.140 One could theorize, man, if I wanted to do this in a movie script to accelerate this process where I know AI and robots are taking over,

00:36:24.260 What could I do to make it really accelerate? What can I just hit really hard to make it happen?

00:36:31.380 I don't know. 2020. Let's see what we can do. You can do that and you can literally get yourself

00:36:37.100 caught up. What is a conspiracy? Conspiracy is a manufactured term made by the CIA to deal with

00:36:45.400 the Kennedy assassination. That's all it is. So when you use the term conspiracy, you are aiding

00:36:50.580 and abetting a mind control programming. So coincidence theory, maybe I'd rather hear that.

00:36:57.400 Like that. Yeah. What is really going on? What's going on is there are systems that are taking

00:37:04.680 place all around us that we don't know. And we see little puzzle pieces. And then we put those

00:37:10.420 puzzles together and we call them, you know, coincidences or conspiracies. People who don't

00:37:16.760 want their daily life photocopy existence upset they will dismiss everything as a conspiracy

00:37:26.020 and a lot of people will do this because they are beyond their noise level

00:37:31.400 if if we were in the 1600s what would be in an average newspaper today would be what somebody

00:37:40.040 takes in in an entire year in the 1600s, information-wise. Now, the information type

00:37:48.440 is different. It's like, oh, my plants are failing. Oh, the bugs are coming. But the density

00:37:54.000 of information. So we're beyond information overload already. And then now we're adding AI

00:38:00.400 and we're adding all the manipulations and the hypnotism of the populace, right? The movement

00:38:09.500 of general directions of people and if if you're on the on the mouse wheel on the rat wheel the

00:38:18.780 rat race you don't have enough time to discern what's going on around you so everything is a

00:38:25.260 punch in the dark imagine yourself in the dark this is where we are all of us we're in a dark

00:38:29.980 room and every time we're getting punched and we don't know what it is and we feel it and it's the

00:38:35.260 standard elephant in the room i'll give you the the thing it's a snake no honey it's it's a big

00:38:40.780 tree hitting us no honey it's it's a whip the tail no it's you know all these different things

00:38:47.740 it is one thing right and you can kind of go into you know biblical stuff you know evil there is a

00:38:56.220 lot of this going on there are demonic forces there's no doubt about it we're going to hear

00:39:00.460 a lot about it towards the end of this year uh within the alien agenda uh program um alien agenda

00:39:08.700 i like yeah i don't want to get into maybe another show we're going to yeah yeah yeah no we're

00:39:13.420 definitely coming back for that into revealing what we're all going to hear in july or maybe

00:39:18.380 earlier i don't know um brian will be back july 1st but there are there are things that we don't

00:39:27.980 know. And we only have tools that are good enough for us to understand it. I use this analogy a lot.

00:39:34.620 You don't see anything on my hand, but there's a trillion creatures on my hand. We invent a new

00:39:39.660 tool called the microscope. We now see what we didn't see before. So if I was driving along and

00:39:45.420 said, hey, Joe, there's a whole world on my hand. Shut up, you conspiracy theorists. I heard that

00:39:51.500 story. I need to go and do my life here. Don't bother me with that, because we're so mind

00:39:58.080 controlled into getting on the rat race, on the wheel to get our food and our shelter and to get

00:40:06.080 our beer, to sit on the couch, to watch the game, to do it all over again, that we don't want to get

00:40:11.260 out of our lane. And that's too much thought, because then I have to open my mind and go down

00:40:16.060 this new path. Scott was doing that for us. You know, people like Jordan Peterson are doing that.

00:40:22.020 Other people that we can't even name are doing that. I knew another guy named Jordan, Jordan

00:40:27.380 Maxwell, who was the grandfather of all this. That will open up a can of worms. But there are

00:40:34.100 people that get to see things way before us, and they're the crazy ones. And unfortunately,

00:40:40.100 it's a burden it's a burden how do we prevent um the the misuse of the universe 25 by the

00:40:47.100 government um you were talking about that in your article oh yeah is your way to prevent it

00:40:52.880 from them misusing it yes we have to identify it first like like any uh multi-step program like

00:41:01.980 let's call us all alcoholics the multi-step programs do work right uh but you have to

00:41:08.080 devictimize yourself at the end. That's the problem with all multi-step programs is you're

00:41:12.060 a victim for life. No, you are not a victim for life. You get to exit at some point. That doesn't

00:41:17.060 mean you need to be able to overcome things. So the very first thing is you have to accept the fact

00:41:21.780 that this is going to happen, right? And that's part one of my series. And the only way you can

00:41:28.140 truly accept this fact is you have to deal with your own traumas. That's an ongoing thing, but

00:41:33.260 you have to face it. All the walking wounded that you've gone in your life, it is not going to serve

00:41:38.760 you over this next 20-year period. And if you want to just check out, that's fine. Nobody's

00:41:44.520 going to bother you with that. You're just going to be on a different plan of existence. You may

00:41:49.360 not see me show up one day and I'm going to be organic farming somewhere and not caring. That

00:41:55.060 might not be a check out. That might be a check in. I'm not putting anybody down on that. But as

00:41:59.020 long as you're doing it with a clear sense of your mind. Where do you want to go? What do you

00:42:05.120 want to be? Because you don't have a boss anymore. That's kind of what I'm really saying. The boss

00:42:10.340 is you. So first identify, are we in a mouse utopia? Yes. We have more abundance. The poorest

00:42:21.480 person on this planet has more abundance than most of the wealthiest of 500 years ago.

00:42:29.020 It's a very, very hard thing to conceptualize that.

00:42:33.880 And we have no idea the shoulders that we stand on.

00:42:40.180 The people who have sacrificed and died for us all to be here at this moment.

00:42:46.000 Right?

00:42:46.180 You have, oh, woe is me.

00:42:47.440 And I'm sorry, a lot of young people need guidance because they didn't have it in their life.

00:42:51.820 And as people like Scott and Jordan Peterson were doing this, were trying to kind of wake up.

00:42:56.680 don't you realize oh i didn't ask to be here none of us did none of us did but people have

00:43:03.200 come before us and they've shown us a way and a path forward so stop in a reflection and start

00:43:10.020 looking at how we can move forward i mean so another thing i would say about most people

00:43:16.880 is that most people want to be led they want to have a leader to follow and they don't necessarily

00:43:22.420 want to be the boss you know i mean i and i think some people find out when they do try to go off on

00:43:28.580 their own that being their own boss is not a very good experience that they're not a really good

00:43:34.660 boss for themselves and they're actually better off having a boss or having someone tell them

00:43:39.940 what to do and do you see a new type of leader emerging in this new world that's going to be

00:43:45.220 ready to sort of tell people what to do and give people a good path to follow yes uh oh and you

00:43:52.320 make a great point um it's a complicated thing but i'll try to simplify it we've been conditioned

00:43:59.320 in a lot of ways to dilute our creativity and our ability to see and discern through our own eyes

00:44:09.760 so that's why we need to go back and heal that we need to go back and say no we are a magical child

00:44:16.480 we still have this capability it is not gone it has just been sanctioned off i i think i mentioned

00:44:23.180 last time it's a garden that you need to go back to and you need to de-weed it and you need to start

00:44:28.020 planting ideas and thoughts in that garden because now is the time to grow that garden and it doesn't

00:44:35.080 matter what you plant there, as long as it's going to nurture you and serve you. As far as

00:44:41.720 leadership, you are going to have to be your own leader. And if you're in a family, you're going to

00:44:48.100 have to lead your family. And you have a role, whether, again, throughout history, there has

00:44:54.820 been a role of a husband and wife within a family. That role is defined not because somebody

00:45:01.460 ordained it is because that's how God made it, if you want to say it, or the universe made it,

00:45:07.740 or some protoplasm that evolved, made it, whatever your thing is. It worked that way.

00:45:15.580 And that structure is the best structure. So you have to become a leader at some point within your

00:45:21.700 life. You can't advocate that. So what I will say to somebody who does not believe in themselves,

00:45:27.000 believe in yourself because you've already gotten here and you already are smarter than your boss

00:45:33.080 good chance you are i've i i have many clients i go to companies all the time and i don't i go to

00:45:41.080 the c-suite and i talk to ceos but where i find out what's really going on in the company is at

00:45:47.700 the lowest echelons within that company even the janitor i find in some companies one company i'm

00:45:54.540 dealing with right now, I'm setting up their AI system. I talked to the maintenance staff

00:46:01.080 more than anybody else in that company. They know where all the bodies are buried. They know how

00:46:06.720 people operate. They understand the pecking order far better because they're on the outside.

00:46:12.420 They're the invisible ones. And I'm like, hey, what's really going on in this office?

00:46:16.360 Because I don't understand how this is the hierarchy. Oh my gosh. Now I understand. So

00:46:22.080 now I know who to talk to. Now, I'm giving away a secret here. If some of these companies, I hope

00:46:27.820 they're not watching, knew what I'm doing, they'd be kind of freaked out because they think it's

00:46:32.340 top down. It's bottom up. It always has been. See, we have been diluted into believing that we

00:46:40.460 need to be led around. We actually don't. Do we need leadership? Yes, but we don't need to be

00:46:46.420 let around. We know, we know what is good and we know what is bad inherently. And if, if we're left

00:46:53.400 to our own devices, we actually don't do bad things. Getting ready for a game means being

00:47:02.540 ready for anything like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember 988

00:47:08.840 Canada's suicide crisis helpline. It's good to know just in case anyone can call or text for

00:47:14.820 free confidential support from a trained responder anytime 988 suicide crisis helpline is funded by

00:47:21.060 the government in canada i think you need to drive that home harder because you know even examples

00:47:28.180 from the pandemic okay and your gut told you something different and not you but the collective

00:47:38.100 we like, you know, our gut told us something different than what we were being told.

00:47:42.820 And we collectively gave up power and control because we were like, oh, you know, these are

00:47:49.580 our leaders. But I feel like, I feel like a lot of people will never let that happen to them again.

00:47:56.200 Like they are going to trust their gut and they will behave differently. I really hope and pray

00:48:00.260 because the next time that they pull something like this, like who knows what it's going to be

00:48:05.440 and how much more detrimental it can get. But I think a good takeaway is to really trust

00:48:11.580 yourselves. You guys, like you have good, you have good instincts just for being here because

00:48:15.780 you, you know, appreciated Scott. So you're ahead of the game and you have to really hone in

00:48:21.680 sometimes and trust those feelings that you have. And then just like kind of follow the path. Like,

00:48:27.700 why do they want me to do this? Like who says, what sense does it make before you get led astray

00:48:34.540 again. So I want to drive that home. Erica, that's beautiful. Let me just make this point.

00:48:41.820 I absolutely think that that was the best dress rehearsal for almost all of us. And now that

00:48:50.420 we're in the post period, we need forgiveness. I know this is hard, but you need to look at the

00:48:59.900 people around you that made the wrong decisions and understand that they were only capable of

00:49:07.040 knowing what they knew when they knew it. This includes your parents, right? Everybody here is

00:49:14.800 a leader. The fact that you self-selected to say, you know what I'm going to do this morning,

00:49:19.820 California time at seven o'clock, I'm going to sit down and I'm going to listen to what

00:49:25.440 what Scott Adams School is going to say, or what Scott Adams was going to tell me.

00:49:31.020 And he was a leader in and of himself, but you became a leader by listening. And you didn't take

00:49:37.000 your pecking orders from him. He didn't tell you what to say. He didn't tell you what to think.

00:49:41.200 He showed you how to think. This is the tool. This is the reframe. This is how you do it.

00:49:47.680 And whenever you see a leader giving you the tool, you know they're truly a leader.

00:49:53.480 That's their job.

00:49:55.040 They give you the seed and they say, go plant the seed.

00:49:58.120 Now grow your own tree, farm it.

00:50:00.040 When you see a leader saying, I'm going to come and save you, right?

00:50:06.140 Again, I'm not getting into politics, but Bernie put out a video yesterday saying, I'm going to shut down all the data centers.

00:50:12.460 I'm going to do it right now.

00:50:13.460 I'm going to shut down the data center.

00:50:15.420 And AI is going to take away the jobs.

00:50:17.700 I'm going to turn it off.

00:50:18.560 Okay, Ned Ludd, let's get the Luddite movement.

00:50:21.400 Yeah, there's some real problems with AI.

00:50:23.540 Don't get me wrong.

00:50:24.320 I'm not a utopian like AI is going to fix everything.

00:50:26.840 It's not.

00:50:27.380 It's going to make it worse.

00:50:28.940 For a lot of people, robots are going to make it worse.

00:50:31.460 But you are not going to stop it.

00:50:34.080 So the wave is coming at us, all of us here.

00:50:36.900 Now, do we get on our surfboard and ride it?

00:50:38.900 Or do we just say, oh, no, I'm going to go in the sand, stick my head there and, you know, take my odds if I drown.

00:50:45.180 I'm telling you to get up on your surfboard and ride this wave.

00:50:48.840 You are not a victim.

00:50:50.200 you are able to do this.

00:50:52.500 I don't care how old you are

00:50:53.760 or how much you think you don't know.

00:50:55.680 You know more than most people

00:50:57.360 that are building this AI.

00:50:59.560 The fact that you have dedicated your life

00:51:01.400 to actually making yourself better by being here,

00:51:04.420 you're better than most of the 24-year-olds

00:51:06.520 that drifted into this

00:51:07.640 and are building these AI models

00:51:09.460 and know not what it does.

00:51:11.580 I spend a lot of time helping those guys

00:51:14.540 figure out this is what your model does.

00:51:17.440 It's not really what you think.

00:51:18.740 hey, this is why you don't put this constitution in there to make it say good things when it really

00:51:25.240 should say honest things. If AI is not honest, it is being trained to lie. If your robot is not

00:51:31.180 honest with you, it is being trained to lie. If you're not honest to your child, you're training

00:51:36.500 it to lie. So how do you become a leader? Well, one of the first things I would tell anybody young

00:51:43.140 is to become a parent. Become a parent. Once you have a child, and if you don't have, if you can't

00:51:49.580 reproduce, build a family. Build it. Find people. There are a lot of kids that need mentors. Be a

00:51:55.960 real mentor. There are a lot of old people willowing away in senior homes. Go and visit them.

00:52:02.860 Do the reverse. Take their wisdom. Do you know how much wisdom that just gets left on the cutting

00:52:09.040 room floor of some of humanity because we don't even care about old folks oh they're old they're

00:52:15.600 not vital and young like you know they're not moving fast and breaking things like you know

00:52:20.200 internet stars and stuff like that they have a lot to say yes and they say it in ways that may

00:52:27.100 have old words and they might say it in ways that doesn't make sense but that is wisdom it's a life

00:52:32.740 earned wisdom. And when we lived in that organized structure of culture, where we had

00:52:38.300 multi-generations around us, we would have the old folks say, oh, cut it out. What are you,

00:52:44.620 what are you doing? What are you doing now? You need that. You need that pressure.

00:52:49.440 Such a good point. We were, we were taught things by people who knew better. And although, you know,

00:52:57.760 when you're younger, you're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'll, you know, you have to find out

00:53:01.520 for yourself. But then there comes a point where you realize, oh, you know what? The things that

00:53:05.680 they told me were actually great. And then you just start remembering them and adopting them

00:53:10.480 at a certain age. You're like, I'm going to adopt that wisdom because now I know better

00:53:13.920 and they were right. And I love that idea. And I also was, I'm just like reading the comments at

00:53:21.000 the same time, but, you know, so a lot of us miss Scott and, you know, we miss what he would be

00:53:26.580 saying about things, but also did Scott actually assign your opinions to you or did he give an

00:53:33.580 opinion and talk about things and then you took from it what you wanted to hear and know and fill

00:53:38.760 in some gaps? Because I would say to Scott, like, what am I going to do? Like, if you're not here,

00:53:43.700 like, I won't know how to feel. And he's like, yes, you do. And think of all the times you

00:53:48.280 disagreed with me and, you know, and sometimes you were right and, you know, and I was wrong

00:53:52.780 And it's true. And it's like, you don't have to have your opinion assigned to you. So like, but, but just remember that Scott really did show us like a breakdown of thought. And without him being here, you just have to work harder at it and, and try to remember what this like older, maybe older, wiser person may have instilled in you like a family member would and just decide like, yeah, let me think what Scott would say and take that.

00:54:20.300 because you guys, he gave us so much

00:54:22.380 and you can go back and watch his stuff also.

00:54:25.340 And then, you know, we're doing the best we can

00:54:27.540 by bringing guests and trying to talk things out.

00:54:30.240 And, you know, we all have different opinions

00:54:32.860 and that's totally fine too.

00:54:35.260 But just try to fill in the gaps where you can

00:54:38.080 because we're going to have to in the future

00:54:40.560 more than ever before.

00:54:42.640 Erica, you make such a great point.

00:54:44.080 And I'm doing a lot of coalescing of Scott's work using AI.

00:54:48.620 I'm not building any AI models yet.

00:54:50.300 uh and there's no phony scott adams what one of the most repeated concepts is i'm not telling you

00:54:58.820 what to think i'm not i'm just saying i want you to figure this out those are the concepts he's

00:55:05.660 always instilled and again that's how you know you you've dealt with a real leader now in a family

00:55:11.760 environment you're going to have somebody you go to family gatherings and it's it's horrible for

00:55:16.900 most people because there's going to be the critic, but you need that critic. You need that

00:55:21.920 reality. You know how many people are running around entitled because there's nobody that can

00:55:26.040 tell them what to do? You need your family structure to tell you what to do, but you need

00:55:31.160 to build that structure. And it starts with you. No matter where you are in life, if you're already

00:55:36.580 past family building or you're about ready to start, you need to do it now because this is the

00:55:42.100 only infrastructure. They are not going to come to save us. You are going to save us. Everybody

00:55:47.620 here is that leader. So what Owen was saying is true. Are you the ultimate leader that's going to

00:55:53.960 be a president? No, nor do I want very many people to have that. It takes a certain maniacal

00:56:01.340 individual to rise to that level. That is a fact. You have to be maniacal to some level.

00:56:07.220 That is a prerequisite for being a leader in this current modern world. As we move into the

00:56:15.300 world of abundance, maniacalness is not going to be a characteristic of leadership. But when you

00:56:21.600 are in a world of scarcity where people are struggling over resources, you need somebody

00:56:28.200 who is going to be able to stick the elbow in somebody else. Listen, everybody here is a product

00:56:35.040 of a conqueror we stepped on somebody to get here in the past i don't care who you are i don't care

00:56:41.040 who you think you've been abused 200 years ago 500 years ago let me tell you 10 000 years ago

00:56:47.600 you were a conqueror you cut somebody's neck to be here that is a fact of life of human existence

00:56:54.480 and well i didn't do it no somebody in your family line is and that's why when you go into this

00:56:58.960 victimhood i always ask a victim how far back do you want to go oh we don't own this land i see

00:57:06.960 what well this native well do you realize that there were many native american tribes that

00:57:12.160 fought here and that the one that was left here just before the uh conquerors from europe came

00:57:18.000 here what just happened to be the ones that smited out a race of people that you don't even know

00:57:24.160 know their names because they completely erase them. Go down to South America and look at

00:57:29.380 different areas. We think there's, you know, the Aztecs and the Incas. No, there were thousands

00:57:36.260 of different cultures that have been erased that we've merged together to think as one culture.

00:57:43.520 You go to Egypt, we think, oh, the Egyptian culture. No, there were hundreds and hundreds.

00:57:48.620 Good point.

00:57:49.220 And if you go back in time, you start seeing these layers. And I go, okay, we're all mutts.

00:57:54.160 it's like oh this is the whole thing about racism it's like i've never met a pure breed we're all

00:57:59.040 nuts mutts that is a fact and if you keep on wanting to play games with that fine do we have

00:58:04.720 different tendencies you know to an ant we all look alike to us all ants look alike now there's

00:58:11.440 some bigger that sting but generally that's a good one to an alien we all look alike so this isn't

00:58:17.680 kumbaya we're all the same we need to understand our differences and we need to preserve the things

00:58:23.840 that create our cultures our cultures create our direction that we go in and it's a it's it's sort

00:58:31.360 of a struggle of does this idea outweigh that idea the western world one because certain organized

00:58:38.640 principles actually make sense so do you do you think do you think your guild is basically the

00:58:44.000 new form where you might be able to find a leader in this new world but because i tend to think like

00:58:48.800 Like, I totally agree that everyone who can should become a leader.

00:58:52.700 I mean, throughout my life, I've always noticed a lack of leadership more than anything, that

00:58:57.100 it's needed everywhere in almost any organization or any structure you look at, more leadership

00:59:02.980 would be better.

00:59:04.140 And I've probably had more leadership training than most people.

00:59:06.600 And I still, you know, look for good leadership.

00:59:10.040 But is the guild concept that you're talking about kind of the new structure for finding

00:59:14.540 leaders in this new world that you're describing?

00:59:16.300 And we only have two minutes left.

00:59:18.120 I'm sorry.

00:59:18.480 Yeah, the guild is a structure. I don't remember what number it was in my series. It was about five back. I present the idea of the guild. The guild is an organized structure that you build of people of like interest and like work product. And it self-organizes. And there is always going to be a leadership that forms.

00:59:39.520 every one of us know that when we form a group of five or more, a leader automatically comes up.

00:59:46.040 And if that leader is not a proper leader, the group disperses and they're alone. Right. So the

00:59:53.660 leader needs to know how to create a structure where people want to be involved. They know how

00:59:58.900 to balance things. So it's a self-organizing sort of structure. And that is almost like how

01:00:05.880 Bitcoin works. It's a decentralized structure that is going to take over the entire planet.

01:00:12.060 There's going to be a lot less centralization. As much as Bernie would love everybody to be

01:00:16.640 centralized with one plan, it isn't going to work that way because we're all going to have our own

01:00:21.540 manufacturing. I can 3D print anything I want right now in my garage. I do it all day long.

01:00:27.000 You're going to be able to do that yourself in five years. You're never going to go to stores

01:00:31.940 to buy stuff at some point. Most people listening will live through that period. Just like if you

01:00:38.100 were at the 1800s, I told you someday you're going to fly to the other side of the planet

01:00:43.100 and you're going to be able to, you wouldn't believe it. The same is going to be true here.

01:00:47.120 It's not utopia. It's not universe 25. We are not victims. We will have this. And you folks are

01:00:54.460 the leaders. Oh, I love that, Brian. Oh my God. You guys, how much do we love? I want to be like

01:01:00.920 when uncle brian comes we love you we love uncle brian as long as i'm not in an ice cream truck uh

01:01:09.900 truck no no truck or trunk you guys wow so we i mean the the chat loves you they're thanking you

01:01:19.840 and we love you so much you bring so much wisdom i can't wait to have you back to talk about the

01:01:25.140 alien stuff. And I cannot wait. That's far away. I know. That'll be in July. Just be ready. Be ready

01:01:34.160 for, I'm just telling everybody, be ready to hear stuff and don't think it's all a psyop and don't

01:01:40.040 think all of it's real. You need to discern. Stop always pushing things away and debunking. That is

01:01:46.440 making you a victim too. I want to leave you with that. If you are an endless debunker, you've

01:01:51.100 debilitated yourself from novelty. Your life purpose is to find novelty. Don't always throw

01:01:58.400 everything away because sometimes things are unique and that's part of the programming is

01:02:03.740 to throw all the novelty in with the junk so that you get so disturbed by it that you turn everything

01:02:09.160 off. Don't turn off. That's why people try to put a stigma on you by saying, oh, it's a conspiracy

01:02:14.560 theory to make you feel like you're some kind of crazy person. There's a lot of conspiracy theories

01:02:20.380 that have now proven out.

01:02:22.300 So seek them out, search them.

01:02:24.740 And like we said, trust your gut and follow the trail

01:02:27.540 like Scott would have taught us,

01:02:29.040 what to follow and what to look for.

01:02:31.520 You guys, thank you so, so much.

01:02:33.840 And tomorrow we get another thinker.

01:02:36.700 We have Stefan Molineux coming back tomorrow.

01:02:39.020 Oh my God.

01:02:39.960 Right?

01:02:40.620 How fun is that going to be?

01:02:41.780 So I love ending the week right now

01:02:44.140 with just some great, brilliant thinking

01:02:47.380 and, um, and a break from all of the news. Cause Owen's going to get to the news on Saturday again.

01:02:52.960 Anyway, but you guys, thank you so much. We really appreciate you for being here. I hope you smashed

01:02:58.280 the like button and the hearts and share this with friends. It really helps us keep going.

01:03:03.500 Um, Brian, thank you for the bottom of our hearts. I love you guys. Owen and Marcella love you so

01:03:08.600 much. And we will be back tomorrow. You guys, let's have a closing sip to Scott. And, um, as

01:03:14.700 always, we miss him and let's all be useful today and start retraining our brains for what's coming

01:03:21.380 ahead because it's coming either way. So, all right. To Scott. Bye for now, you guys. Love you

01:03:31.900 guys. Thank you. Love you. Thanks, Bri. Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 12, 2026

Episode 3113 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸12⧸26

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