Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3119 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸20⧸26

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00:00:48.000 Who's first? Who's first?

00:00:49.280 Oh, somebody won. Good morning, you guys.

00:00:53.320 Hey, Zanville.

00:00:55.640 Sandville got in first.

00:00:57.600 Sandville's like.

00:00:58.380 And hello, Steven.

00:00:59.820 We do see you.

00:01:01.360 Although we're slightly disappointed.

00:01:03.400 Do you see him, Owen?

00:01:05.520 Of course.

00:01:07.200 He looks great today.

00:01:09.120 Does he?

00:01:10.480 Mm-hmm.

00:01:11.840 And Kobe, slap it. 1.00

00:01:14.300 Jackie.

00:01:15.380 Andy, how's it going in Alaska?

00:01:17.540 You're good.

00:01:18.740 Gregory.

00:01:19.680 Persuasion Club.

00:01:22.200 Look at everybody.

00:01:23.520 hey pesquale where's my beaver

00:01:27.640 if you know you know uh all right beverly i don't know but um interesting you have an idea

00:01:37.820 where it might be maybe i mean it's friday it's friday in theory hypothetically i know it's like

00:01:45.500 fun day friday good morning everyone welcome to the scott adams school it's friday we're so happy

00:01:53.980 i'm so happy i'm taking a nap after the show maybe wait i still have to take down my christmas tree

00:01:59.660 and i'm not even joking maybe i'll do that oh it's the first day of spring i think i'll take

00:02:05.960 down the tree today maybe that'll be a new tradition yeah welcome welcome you guys we

00:02:12.360 have a fun show for you today after we do this sip just want to give you another second to come in

00:02:18.620 so i'm gonna get spring before you marcella and before you owen it comes in i think 10 46 eastern

00:02:26.400 today during the show oh during the show yes what will you but will you use your small window of

00:02:34.580 being exclusively the only one spring probably sneezing because the trees are starting to bud

00:02:40.400 i get to sneeze before you maybe you'll have it and you too i don't have allergies but my wife 1.00

00:02:48.780 does sometimes oh and like stop being so perfect all the time no i'm not i'm just i feel bad for

00:02:55.820 my wife and for you thank you all right you guys there's something we got to do and we got to do

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00:03:44.520 Oh, yeah.

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00:03:47.980 Got to grab my notes.

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00:04:02.760 Yes.

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00:04:10.860 So good morning.

00:04:11.800 Happy Friday.

00:04:13.020 Happy Friday.

00:04:14.520 All right, you guys.

00:04:15.380 So I wanted to just do a little bit of housekeeping, which is Jimmy from Scott Adams Meetups asked

00:04:22.640 me to let you guys know.

00:04:24.960 So they've done over 100 meetups already.

00:04:27.380 he has a new and improved website that it might be up live already, but if it's not today,

00:04:35.060 it'll be tomorrow. So he said, DM him for any questions. So this is anyone in any city or town

00:04:42.460 or area or County. If you want to meet with other sippers on Twitter, his handle is at Scott Adams 0.97

00:04:50.920 meet. And then you just hit a link in his bio right now, which will take you to a place to

00:04:57.260 make a little meetup in a coffee shop or a restaurant in a park. If it's nice, some people

00:05:02.240 bring their mugs and you just get to chat with people who get it, you know, who get this whole

00:05:06.980 community. So please, um, we'll drop the handle for his ex account in the chat. If anyone's

00:05:13.340 listening, if you could put that in there for Jimmy, it's at Scott Adams meet. And he is also

00:05:19.120 going to be on locals, uh, subscribers with us. I think, Oh, I forget what day one, one night next

00:05:25.020 week. And so we'll talk about the meetups and how fun they are. Um, the other thing I wanted to tell

00:05:30.760 you, so I love this. Let me pull this up. So one of our sippers here, he, okay. His name is Grant

00:05:40.000 Turner. He sent a DM to me and said, I could share this with you. So I'm going to read it to

00:05:44.800 you. Okay. So, um, he said, let me open this bigger. Sorry. So he's in, okay. I am. Okay.

00:05:54.000 I also wanted to share with you, I am doing much of which is inspired by Scott.

00:05:59.200 Boulder City is the largest city in Nevada in terms of land, but has a population of

00:06:04.920 only 15,000 residents.

00:06:07.160 We produce huge amounts of energy thanks to Hoover Dam, as well as 4,000 acres of solar

00:06:12.840 fields, but our utility bills keep climbing.

00:06:16.020 I made a proposal to the city that we expand our energy production to include nuclear energy,

00:06:21.300 a concept I learned about from Scott, along with a data center lease with the benefit of the

00:06:27.480 residents being free power for life. They loved the idea and immediately formed an exploratory

00:06:33.620 committee and put me in charge. In Scott's words, part of energizing myself is that I always like

00:06:40.200 to be involved in at least one thing that could change the world. In the end, Scott did change

00:06:45.620 the world and he inspired me to do the same. I listened to leverage my talent stack and utilize

00:06:52.420 all of Scott's persuasion lessons to accomplish this mission. If you are interested, I'd be happy

00:06:58.000 to keep you informed of my progress. And that is so inspiring, you guys. So here's Grant who was

00:07:05.760 like, yeah, I want to do one thing or something to help improve the world. And he just suggested an

00:07:11.740 idea based on the things he learned here and what he learned about nuclear and oh my god how amazing

00:07:18.220 is that so maybe the data center lease will give the residents free power for life without having

00:07:25.240 a bill that could be an amazing trade-off for the noisy data center so what do you guys think about

00:07:31.200 that oh and what do you think that's awesome i mean sounds like he's really being useful and uh

00:07:36.720 I'd love to see more creative ideas like that.

00:07:38.820 I have a friend who did something similar, more in the healthcare arena.

00:07:43.860 He lives in Tennessee, and he's working with some of the legislators to get some different

00:07:48.920 policies passed, and he's having a lot of success.

00:07:50.940 And so I think if you're ever thinking, oh, I can't make a difference, you can.

00:07:55.380 You really can.

00:07:56.940 You don't have to have any special credentials.

00:07:59.220 You don't have to have any special position.

00:08:01.380 You can just have a good idea.

00:08:02.900 And as Scott always said, the best idea is really the person in charge.

00:08:06.720 And I think we've seen that, you know, politicians in general really don't have any good ideas.

00:08:12.240 I don't know why, but they don't have any good ideas.

00:08:14.460 Marcella, what do you think?

00:08:16.160 Well, I think it's great that you shared that with us.

00:08:18.640 You know, maybe other people can share that with you.

00:08:21.900 Don't overrun the DMs of Erica.

00:08:24.580 But I think it's great that Scott inspired all of us to feel like we can make changes and we can do it in our own way.

00:08:39.120 I'm just so in awe with everything that has happened after his death.

00:08:45.260 Like I said yesterday, I thought I would be very sad and crying all the time, which sometimes I am.

00:08:53.140 But there's some joy in all of us because of what he brought to us.

00:09:00.620 Anytime we think of him or anytime we do something, we laugh and all that.

00:09:05.580 So it's great that all of us can make a difference, like Owen said.

00:09:10.500 Yeah.

00:09:11.300 And like Grant is doing.

00:09:13.240 So he's going to keep us informed, you guys.

00:09:15.700 So we'll keep you posted.

00:09:17.100 And, hey, Grant, maybe you can come on Locals with us and tell us the process.

00:09:21.080 And was it scary?

00:09:22.180 And what did you do?

00:09:22.840 and did you get your fear out of the way, which obviously you had to do. Oh, also guess what? So

00:09:28.300 Dr. Drew, friend of the show, he had Walter Kern on last night on his show. And Dr. Drew gave a

00:09:38.260 shout out to the Scott Adams School. And I was so excited to hear that. And you should all know that

00:09:44.640 Dr. Drew listens as many days as possible. He would listen every day if he wasn't traveling,

00:09:49.640 but he does. He really, he makes it part of his day. He loves what we're doing. He's proud of us.

00:09:55.620 And yes, he will be a guest professor soon. I can't give you the date yet, but he is absolutely

00:10:01.260 coming on. He's thrilled to do it and he's really looking forward to it. So like shout out to

00:10:07.220 everybody here that's keeping it going. I'm so proud of all of you. And I know Scott is too.

00:10:13.280 And hi, Drew. Hope you're having a good Friday.

00:10:15.220 Hi, Dr. Drew. We love you. We can't wait to see you soon.

00:10:18.880 happy friday happy friday i noticed andy asked about my school pool tax there was a referendum

00:10:25.680 in my where i live um they wanted to spend massive many many millions of dollars on a pool

00:10:32.680 and it was just going to raise our property taxes yet again um and yes it was defeated it was it was

00:10:39.420 voted against so they were they're back to the drawing board they're still saying oh we want to

00:10:44.880 spend still millions of dollars on it but they're scaling it back to about a quarter of what they

00:10:50.240 were trying for and i'll try and shoot that down too so no pool for the school cool okay but i told

00:10:57.540 the story probably on one of my spaces about how they had an even bigger one for a different pool

00:11:03.480 idea um this was i think they wanted like 100 million dollars or something or it was at least

00:11:09.300 60 million it was it was a massive amount of money and um they had to do a referendum to get

00:11:15.980 the funding and it was voted against but like by less than 100 votes like it was really close

00:11:23.220 and so it was like the only time in my life where i felt like my vote mattered like i helped defeat

00:11:28.560 that and if i and just a few other people didn't show up it would have gone through and um they

00:11:34.440 tried again and then they got shut down again so hopefully they'll start listening that's

00:11:39.280 That's one of my biggest fears.

00:11:40.660 My friend, Mindy, and I always talk about that, like, what if we don't vote?

00:11:44.140 And they're like, and it lost by two votes, and we would be like, oh, no.

00:11:48.600 Yeah, there was, I think there was a mayoral race recently where it was one vote.

00:11:53.880 One vote.

00:11:54.880 Yeah.

00:11:55.880 I don't know if it went the way they wanted to, per se, but one vote.

00:11:59.660 I might be demanding a recount on that one.

00:12:02.960 You know, when these projects come up, like the pool or like we had a football, whatever needs to be done, usually comes overpriced.

00:12:15.240 And part of the reason, you know, is there's been there's been people prosecuted for this in California that it was just kind of like used to give money.

00:12:27.560 It was fraudulent in order to give favors to certain lobbyists or certain companies, you know.

00:12:34.440 So I don't know if that's possibly like, like Scott would say some, sometimes the budget being as high as it is, it might be because of all the fraud that's going on. I'm not saying that the pool was a fraud project, but it's, it's Marcella.

00:12:52.060 Yeah, I get it. I mean, I do think it was a real project and they probably would have actually done it if it passed. But I will say I've seen several times in my local government where we're going to hire this consultant to do this study and we're going to pay him $100,000 to do just the study. I'm like, what the hell are you doing? Like, it's basically just to tell them what they think the government should do. It's like, you guys are in charge. You guys are the leaders. Why do you need some consultant to tell you?

00:13:20.460 yeah they should resign and the consultant should be the ceo then yeah that would be better it would

00:13:26.200 just happen all the time and of course they have all the dei and other stuff going on too

00:13:29.860 well speaking of that i mean i don't know if you guys have this at the ready at all if you even

00:13:35.100 know about this but this reminds me of this butterfly bridge in california so

00:13:41.520 technically so the news has go ahead and tell the story because the news has it

00:13:47.880 fake it's a little bit fake okay it's about the butterfly okay so there's this they're trying to

00:13:54.160 build this bridge over a major freeway and it's because there's this is this is me talking and

00:14:01.260 wait where's my son this is my opinion i don't really know the story that well so they're trying

00:14:06.900 to build this like overpass that's going to be like really wide and have like vegetation on it

00:14:12.040 dirt and whatever. It's not for cars. And then it has like two ramps and an overpass. So I guess

00:14:18.360 there's like a problem with the cougar population. Like they can't, they're getting hit by cars when

00:14:23.620 they're trying to cross this freeway. I don't know what butterflies have to do with needing

00:14:28.340 an overpass to walk over. I think they could fly, but what do I know about butterflies?

00:14:33.480 So anyway, they allocated, I don't know, 40 or $50 million, maybe even more of taxpayer money

00:14:41.140 to build this butterfly bridge. Of course, they built the overpass part first. They put all the

00:14:48.680 vegetation stuff on there, but there's no on and off ramp. So it's just sitting there and they're

00:14:53.260 out of money. And now it's like up to $150 million. And now they're asking the good people

00:14:59.900 of California to donate money to them so they can maybe get the little ramps on there. So it sounds

00:15:06.520 like it's going as well as that high speed train so it's like a bridge to nowhere and a train docked

00:15:12.400 at a station am i close well i mean it wasn't meant to be you know the whole issue of using

00:15:20.660 the word butterfly i mean a lot of voters in that area voted for it because it's dangerous for

00:15:27.600 the freeway to have um bears and mountain lions and coyotes passing through that area

00:15:35.860 um so it has become an issue and it can also i don't know i mean i'm not okaying it but at the

00:15:45.520 same time there's this issue of the mountain lions coming through the the road and then sometimes it

00:15:51.700 could cause death for the drivers because of the the impact obviously the the mountain lion so this

00:16:00.480 was a way to avoid that issue but it hasn't it's been years it has yet to be opened and

00:16:09.160 imagine if gavin news they just use it for fraud yeah so christopher rufo apparently went after

00:16:15.140 this person to expose all this and um apparently the the woman who's running it um responded by

00:16:21.660 blaming the weather and unprecedented biodiversity collapse that's her excuse for why it's like 20

00:16:28.660 million dollars over budget and still not done. Mary West, I am completely okay with a bridge

00:16:34.960 also for this type of thing, but this is out of control, like build a bridge.

00:16:40.580 So not to defend the lady, but I am part of, I worked in government in California. So part of

00:16:48.020 the issue is the rules that you are governed by. Like for example, I'll give you an example. I was

00:16:54.340 waiting in LAX for the flight to take off. And I guess there was some issue with the airplane,

00:17:02.920 but because it's, I don't know, this might not even be connected to California.

00:17:06.640 They had to get mechanics that were union employees to come to fix it. And they were about

00:17:14.480 40 minutes away. They couldn't use any other type of airline mechanic. They had to be unionized.

00:17:22.240 so the rules that that lady might have to deal with she might have not known that there's certain 1.00

00:17:29.080 things where you have to get a union employee to build this thing and then you have to do an

00:17:34.420 environmental study and so whenever you want to build anything in California it takes millions

00:17:39.860 and millions of dollars because of the system that it's within the system and and I don't think

00:17:45.260 she's able to change that so she might have not known all of that or maybe she should have you

00:17:50.820 know okay but wait a second so i'm reading about this and it says that a big part of this is kind

00:17:57.620 of a patronage system where they're hiring a bunch of people to work on this bridge and to work after

00:18:03.660 the bridge is up um and it said they prioritized hiring indigenous team members to help steward

00:18:09.660 the plants that will vegetate the bridge so the plant the bridge you guys already has the

00:18:16.000 vegetation on it but there's no way to get on top of the bridge just fyi and and the nursery's

00:18:21.320 co-manager the nursery's co-manager who's working on the plants for this thing i guess says she

00:18:26.660 makes an offering after collecting seeds sometime including pieces of her hair god bless america

00:18:34.480 that costs a lot of millions of dollars i suppose her hair special hair it's indigenous hair 0.95

00:18:40.700 yeah she sounds very um she's must be mega must be uh yeah they're blaming it on the tariffs and

00:18:50.780 this and that but whatever it's california as usual no shade to you yeah but they also have

00:18:56.300 an expert that's a fungi expert so he's he's you know you need those right to scrutinize the root

00:19:02.540 samples under a microscope shout out to uncle fungus yeah he's a fun guy all right all right

00:19:09.100 So that's your corruption update, y'all.

00:19:12.540 Nothing new in California.

00:19:14.540 All right.

00:19:15.100 Owen, give us another juicy news story.

00:19:18.840 All right.

00:19:19.220 Well, I wonder if there is any science that they didn't need to do today.

00:19:23.760 Oh, here's something.

00:19:25.380 Actively open-minded thinking protects against political extremism better than liberal ideology.

00:19:31.980 Oh.

00:19:33.020 I mean, that's shocking, isn't it?

00:19:35.020 I mean, you know, who would have guessed that?

00:19:37.760 Open-minded thinking. Interesting. Anyone know about that? Open-minded thinking?

00:19:45.040 Or as Scott would say, you could have just asked Scott.

00:19:48.160 Yeah. It says, actively open-minded thinking outperforms liberal ideology and resisting

00:19:53.520 extremism and irrational beliefs. It's a cognitive style seeking contradictory info,

00:19:59.160 tolerating ambiguity, and revising opinions on evidence. The take-home, there's a quote from

00:20:05.600 the person in the study. The take-home message of the study turned out to be that actively open-minded

00:20:09.300 thinking comprises the good part of liberalism. Specifically, being liberal without displaying

00:20:13.980 actively open-minded thinking is no advantage at all in avoiding suboptimal thinking.

00:20:18.780 Who did this science study?

00:20:23.440 The person's name I just quoted was Keith Stanovich, but I don't see the institution.

00:20:30.120 Oh, a Keith. It's because he's a Keith.

00:20:32.640 all right well that's that's your backward science that's for sure oh my gosh what do you

00:20:41.020 have yeah so in in the most obvious news we have the 2026 world happiness report

00:20:51.500 has just been released and they picked the happiest country i don't know if you want to

00:20:57.760 put it in the chat. What do you think is the happiest? I have no idea. You guys put it in

00:21:05.100 the chat. What do you think? Who's the happiest country? I can't wait to see the guesses because

00:21:12.620 I legit have no clue. I haven't heard this. Someone got it in the chat. Denmark, Finland,

00:21:21.600 usa north korea not canada not canada nepal poland somalia they're happy over there they

00:21:32.680 have voter id it's amalia they have lots of money i guess i think my guess would be my guess would

00:21:40.980 be denmark for the obvious reasons but what is it it's finland again for the ninth time oh wow

00:21:49.040 one again um and then it says that it's because they have strong welfare uh excellent education

00:21:59.040 safety and deep connection to nature and lots of winter um the the next one running up is iceland

00:22:07.360 then denmark which you're pretty worried about that one costa rica and sweden and then the us

00:22:12.960 What do you think the U.S. came in?

00:22:16.440 I don't know.

00:22:17.720 It came in 23rd.

00:22:23.360 Above Poland and Canada. 0.63

00:22:25.560 Canada came in 25th.

00:22:27.240 The thing I have to explain about this whole Finland thing is,

00:22:31.460 and a lot of those countries, is they have a lot of oil revenue.

00:22:34.920 And they use those to pay most of their welfare and taxes.

00:22:38.240 And so it's almost like they have a UBI, you know, system there where, you know, there aren't any poor people.

00:22:47.600 Not in Iceland.

00:22:48.540 In Finland.

00:22:49.360 Oh, oil in Iceland.

00:22:50.500 And I think they are having problems now with crime with some of the migration stuff going on.

00:22:54.860 And I think they're starting to realize that mistake.

00:22:57.780 But, you know, it's like a very homogenous country otherwise.

00:23:02.240 Like they're all the same race. 0.98

00:23:03.620 So you don't have any racial divisions.

00:23:05.940 You don't have a lot of socioeconomic division.

00:23:09.380 So they have a lot of sort of natural advantages,

00:23:12.020 and they're also obviously a lot smaller than the United States,

00:23:14.680 so not nearly as diverse.

00:23:17.200 And so it's really hard to compare those things.

00:23:19.260 I mean, one of the things you mentioned, education,

00:23:22.240 a lot of times people point to places like Finland or Denmark

00:23:25.140 and be like, why can't we have an education system like theirs?

00:23:27.780 Because their scores are so much higher.

00:23:29.640 But if you dig into the numbers,

00:23:31.960 if you match them up by income like how much the families are making they're no better than the

00:23:39.720 united states they're exactly the same and so it's really just the fact that we have a lot more poor

00:23:44.400 people here that you know have more struggles in education um not to do a sharp turn on this but

00:23:53.680 is the chat trying to tell us that chuck norris died is that what's happening yeah oh it's just

00:24:00.300 been reported i don't believe it tmc just reported it and it was 86 he had um chuck norris invaded

00:24:11.040 heaven kicking oh i'm really uh here's this bad about that yeah chuck norris shout out to you man

00:24:20.240 To Chuck.

00:24:21.300 Chuck, here's to you, bruh.

00:24:24.480 Chuck.

00:24:28.920 Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything,

00:24:32.040 like packing a spare stick.

00:24:33.760 I like to be prepared.

00:24:35.420 That's why I remember 988, Canada's Suicide Crisis Helpline.

00:24:39.320 It's good to know, just in case.

00:24:41.480 Anyone can call or text for free confidential support

00:24:44.260 from a trained responder, anytime.

00:24:46.900 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline is funded by the government in Canada.

00:24:50.240 all right we'll have to watch a chuck norris movie this weekend just to celebrate his life

00:25:00.640 condolences to his family work out with his machines

00:25:06.080 oh okay thanks for letting us know you guys all right well um i have a story about energy usage

00:25:13.980 in homes apparently insulated homes don't use less energy um there was some kind of irish review

00:25:20.940 that found very little difference between what they call a rated and g rated homes

00:25:26.380 that they regardless of the rating use pretty much the same amount like 10 000 kilowatt hours per year

00:25:33.500 if you want to do this deep retrofit to get a rated it can cost like um 43 000 euros plus

00:25:41.660 another 24 000 in disruption costs while they're doing it and then they found that the the g-rated

00:25:48.360 homes use just 3.7 percent more energy than a-rated um so they basically are saying it's just hardly

00:25:56.360 any difference at all and uh you know the it doesn't match the theory at all the the um it

00:26:04.360 says the f and g-rated homes use 56 percent less than the theoretical models predicted so there you

00:26:09.660 go. We got models that were showing that they would do very well, but in reality, they don't.

00:26:15.600 So we're not saving money with all the things that we're trying to do. So that little flyer

00:26:23.700 I get, they're like, your neighbors are more efficient than you.

00:26:28.740 Oh my God. I get those all the time. Do you get them too? It's like this total guilt trip

00:26:34.320 flyer from the energy company and and i i don't believe it i don't even believe it's real i don't

00:26:40.220 believe that like i'm using because it looks like i'm using like almost twice as much energy as

00:26:45.040 supposed efficient neighbors and i'm like okay who are these efficient neighbors because i don't

00:26:50.360 all the houses look just like mine i know my neighbors you know i live in a hundred old year

00:26:55.400 old house so yeah it's got lots of leaky whatever and it doesn't have very good insulation and by

00:27:00.380 the way the reason it doesn't have good insulation is because it would cost a fortune to do that

00:27:05.400 because um like i the cheap way to do it would be to blow in insulation right like you just

00:27:14.060 there's a service you can buy where they just come in with this big hose and they

00:27:17.980 open up your floors under your attic and they just pump in a bunch of like you know whatever

00:27:24.220 pellets and i would be very willing to do that it's not that expensive it would be you know

00:27:29.740 great and i would use less energy and my house would probably feel better just based on being

00:27:34.080 able to keep it warm and cool easier but the problem is i i have knob and tube wiring you

00:27:40.240 won't use less energy you just read the study well that's probably true and so it makes me feel a lot

00:27:45.320 better but you're saving money by not spending the money your goofy neighbors spent but so the

00:27:51.600 reason i can't do it is because the with knob and tube wiring what that means is you have

00:27:56.580 like cloth wrapped wires that in theory degrade over time because they're not the plastic that

00:28:03.240 probably lasts forever because they're forever plastics um and but the the reality is it's

00:28:09.620 actually totally safe to do this like you you because when you put in knob and tube wiring

00:28:14.680 what they do is they staple one of the wires to one side of the joist and the other one to the

00:28:20.140 other joist so they're like a foot apart right there's no chance of a fire or a short or anything

00:28:26.160 it's just totally it's like a lot safer than normal wiring but in order to do this i would

00:28:31.120 have to rip out all that wiring and put in all new circuits and it would cost like tens of

00:28:34.680 thousands of dollars just to get to the point where i could put in insulation so i just said

00:28:38.960 screw it i'm not doing it all right well you're ahead of the game apparently i have the same kind

00:28:44.600 of wiring too we have a very old house too love it all right who's up marcella president trump 0.93

00:28:51.940 rolled out the red carpet for the japanese prime minister i'm gonna about to butcher her name 1.00

00:28:58.100 takaishi um hosting her at the white house um the historic visit yeah my japanese is not so good

00:29:05.360 i need to practice the historic visit marks the first trip for the first female prime minister 1.00

00:29:11.920 uh since taking office um she's a great friend and partner trump said praising their close ties

00:29:19.160 He, in the, you know, he talked about how he supported her run and how her and him had a, you know, basically, um, they, they, they were, you know, a landslide election for both of them.

00:29:36.360 And they were just joking around a lot.

00:29:39.220 Um, she doesn't speak too, too much, uh, in English.

00:29:43.700 So there was a lot of translation in Japanese, but he did indicate jokingly that she has about her strong English skills.

00:29:52.960 That's what you have strong English skills, knowing full well that she can't really speak much English. 0.98

00:30:00.920 But that was funny. The two leaders had a toast.

00:30:05.720 They talked about trade and the cherry blossoms and so on and so forth.

00:30:10.000 um takai she was really good at saying that he was the he still believes in him uh in trump and

00:30:17.780 he believes he can still bring peace to the world um but the funniest moment came and i think some

00:30:24.400 of you must know this already a japanese reporter asked trump why didn't you tell us about the

00:30:30.440 the struck the the as before you struck iran he said uh trump said why didn't you tell me about

00:30:37.560 pearl pearl harbor that's good yeah so it's like who knows better about surprises than japan

00:30:44.320 when when okay so you have to see it when trump said that to the reporter he was looking away

00:30:52.780 from the prime minister but then the prime minister was looking towards trump because

00:30:56.900 she didn't know what was going to be asked immediately when he said that she was like oh

00:31:01.760 you know because she she understood that uh a lot of it was being translated for her but she

00:31:08.200 she got that immediately she was like i heard someone go oh

00:31:13.100 but they also announced a 40 billion dollar small modular nuclear reactor deal

00:31:20.360 and apparently that brings the total investment to 550 billion which sounds like a really big

00:31:26.440 member. Japan's also joining the Golden Dome. Now, I think during that meeting, they said they

00:31:35.360 were not going to help with the Strait of Hormuz. But I have another story that says they are now.

00:31:40.880 And a handful of other countries have changed their tune. And now we're going to have

00:31:45.060 several countries that say they pledged to support what Trump wanted for the Strait of Hormuz.

00:31:50.880 They were saying that the U.S. obviously has the strongest navy, and then after that is China, from what they're saying. But the next strongest navy is Japan. So having them on board is very important.

00:32:05.440 Yeah. So Trump made a truth social post about this, you know, kind of reading in the riot act about how, you know, they protect everybody or we protect everybody, but nobody protects us.

00:32:18.440 um and so you know he he kind of put the you know almost mocked them with the with his truth

00:32:27.660 social posts but apparently now japan britain france germany italy and the netherlands have

00:32:33.580 pledged support after initially refusing to help oh they did that's the story i have it's being

00:32:41.580 reported by uh let's see this is 100 fed up so i don't know exactly what that is but

00:32:47.340 um yeah i've seen a couple stories about this so it looks like it is true that several countries

00:32:53.900 are now saying they're gonna pledge at least pledge their support to the straight hormones 1.00

00:32:58.260 i guess we'll see if they follow through with it we need to wrap this up this excursion needs to be

00:33:02.980 like let's go oh all right so let's go on to the next um iran's i'm sorry i'm not gonna have a lot

00:33:14.500 of iran stories but the next one is iran's regime secret u.s campus network exposed so it

00:33:22.980 shockingly um the u.s higher education had a has hired or had hired a few children of the iranian

00:33:35.680 leaders so an explosive new york post investigation reveals that several close relatives of the iran's

00:33:42.320 top regime had been professors at prestigious american universities you know when you ask like

00:33:49.080 oh why are our why are our children so left of center you know why are they thinking this way

00:33:57.840 but some because they're being taught by these type of people among them are leila katami daughter

00:34:04.420 of former president muhammad katami who teaches mathematics at union college in upstate new york

00:34:11.160 uh fatima uh ardashir larijani daughter of ali larijani who was killed recently he was uh the

00:34:21.560 leader in the irgc um or who was an assassin who was an assistant professor she was an assistant

00:34:30.540 professor in oncology and hematology in emory university there was uh she was let go and fired 0.98

00:34:38.520 in January. So I don't know how people feel about this situation. There's another, there's several

00:34:44.900 other professors that were children of these Iranian leaders. I mean, part of it, as Scott

00:34:57.160 would say, is like, that's your parents, that's not you. But it'd be interesting to see why

00:35:04.440 lara johnny's daughter was fired in january before this was even before the iranian war

00:35:11.540 or operation epic fury started i mean i how i feel about it is send them all home i mean i think

00:35:19.760 you know i feel the same way about all the children of the ccp officials that come here 0.99

00:35:26.260 like they're clearly not our friends they're not our allies and even apart from that fact

00:35:33.820 um we should be educating our own people first america first in our universities and so i i

00:35:42.680 don't see why we would reserve all these slots and almost prefer these foreign students um they're

00:35:50.080 not students they're the professors well even that i mean i would say you know i'd rather give

00:35:55.560 the job to an american um than someone from another country and you know let's promote

00:36:03.060 our own people let's educate our own people let's have our own professors um and you know a lot of

00:36:12.360 these are taxpayer funded institutions so we should be making sure that that's going to the

00:36:16.800 benefit of americans not foreigners yeah i agree especially with our colleges becoming indoctrination 0.85

00:36:24.420 camps like god only knows what's going on in there of course i don't agree but that's always the case

00:36:32.040 Well, I think this way, if you are like the daughter of a leader in Iran and maybe you

00:36:41.420 don't agree with them and that's why you left and you came here and tried to like do your

00:36:45.880 own life, you know.

00:36:47.880 Are they citizens?

00:36:50.880 Probably, the story doesn't say whether they're citizens of America.

00:36:55.800 That's something I want to know.

00:36:56.800 I think at a minimum you should require them to renounce their citizenship from Iran. 0.98

00:37:02.040 yes i agree if that's even possible but yeah they they could you know because a lot of the

00:37:08.100 times it's like you think why aren't they over there maybe because they don't agree with their

00:37:13.120 father you know like how many times have you agreed with your parents you know and then you're

00:37:17.580 like no i rebel i'm gonna go yeah but you know what i i see you know i might not have felt this

00:37:23.660 way years ago but now looking at like ilhan omar and um what's her name rashida they clearly are

00:37:31.020 not america first like they are for their their home country first and that is really hard to

00:37:38.100 stomach seeing them you know in congress and cheering for somalia and poo-pooing america 0.97

00:37:45.360 it's like no no no no no so i feel the same way about colleges because steve cortez will be back

00:37:52.660 on with us next week but remember what he was saying about like china infiltrating the universities

00:37:58.280 that when they have football games now, they have to have Chinese commentators speaking all in

00:38:03.600 Chinese because they're taking the place of American students. And why is that? So I think 1.00

00:38:09.380 it's not to say slippery slope, but it is because we're so accepting of this that the ball's been

00:38:17.280 rolling and now it's snowballing. And America doesn't look like America anymore. There are

00:38:23.400 colleges, our universities, a lot of taxpayer money goes to a lot of these places. Why aren't

00:38:29.800 they America filled by Americans, Americans only now I, you can be from Iran, renounce your 1.00

00:38:36.600 citizenship, become a citizen here and do that. But if you're like even dual citizenship, I'm not 0.97

00:38:42.580 into it. Um, and I'm really against all the, the foreign students coming in, like maybe make 1% 1.00

00:38:50.060 of your students foreign but what's happening is like i just can't even wrap my brain around it

00:38:55.740 like what are we what are we doing i don't know big numbers and then we have the birthright

00:39:00.060 citizenship issue with this apparently very large program of chinese people that come here to have 1.00

00:39:05.820 their babies and then raise them back in china so they just bring them here to get citizenship 1.00

00:39:11.260 and then they bring them back to china and they're raised with that culture and that ideology

00:39:15.500 and when they reach 18 they can vote so there's like 100 000 potential votes and i think it might

00:39:22.160 even get up to 1.5 million over time um 100 000 i think might be per year um where you know you

00:39:29.880 could have millions of foreigners voting in our elections with mail-in ballots from china and

00:39:37.420 they could swing all sorts of elections and there's nothing legally we could do to stop it

00:39:41.520 if we allow this birthright citizenship to continue it is suicidal empathy you're right 0.97

00:39:46.820 it's it you know you have to be very careful because you know it's so funny you know i wish

00:39:54.000 i had the four i don't not that i could have done anything but the foresight to see like what the

00:39:58.380 anchor baby situation would turn into now and you know we didn't think about it before because it

00:40:04.140 wasn't like necessarily a problem but yeah i mean if two chinese people i'm just picking on china 1.00

00:40:11.040 because we're talking about China and they're not our friend. But if two Chinese people come here 1.00

00:40:15.740 or one lady comes here pregnant and has her baby here, no, you need to be a citizen for your kid 0.90

00:40:22.260 to be a citizen. That's such bullshit. Oh, excuse me. But it's just like, what are we doing? And 1.00

00:40:28.200 then I have friends who are here trying so hard to get their citizenship the right way. They have

00:40:34.020 spent upwards of $20,000. It's been more than like 10 to 13 years for some of them trying to

00:40:41.000 do this the right way. And I'm like, what are we doing? So there are people that are here now

00:40:46.640 trying so hard. They're so deserving. They're working. They're paying taxes. They're doing

00:40:52.220 all the right things. And then we're like, hey, drop a baby off. And now your kid's a citizen.

00:40:58.880 We have to reset. And it might be like we're like the bad parent, like, oh, big daddy's home.

00:41:04.940 But somebody's got to do it. Somebody's got to set this straight. So that's where I...

00:41:09.320 It will be decided pretty soon, and the Supreme Court will decide whether that stays or goes.

00:41:17.540 Unfortunately, I think it's probably leaning towards they're going to say that we still have it, but I'm hoping to be surprised.

00:41:25.660 Andy. Andy says, stop the sexy talk, Erica. 0.65

00:41:31.780 He likes it. He likes it.

00:41:33.480 He likes it.

00:41:34.120 So apparently Iran is heating up. Trump approved over $200 billion in war supplementals bypassing Congress. I think this is separate from the $200 billion they're asking from Congress to do emergency arms to the Gulf allies.

00:41:50.920 So the UAE got like $8 billion. I think it's $4.5 million for the THAAD missile system, $2.1 billion for counter drone systems. There's the AMRAAMs, which I think is another missile system for $1.2 billion, and a bunch of munitions for F-16s. Kuwait got $8 billion in radars. Jordan got $70.5 million in support.

00:42:12.380 So things are ramping up in the region. It looks like we may end up having some of Iran's neighbors joining in the effort. So it's looking like it's ramping up to me. And Iran got hit by a missile strike in Tel Aviv. So there's more going on there.

00:42:31.440 there was some video I posted about that

00:42:33.480 where it showed some of the damage

00:42:35.520 in one of the residential blocks

00:42:36.820 I think it hit 8 different sites

00:42:39.160 2 people were killed

00:42:42.120 and

00:42:43.060 yeah so there's a lot of

00:42:45.780 casualties on both sides

00:42:47.740 at this point

00:42:48.280 and then Saudi Arabia is threatening military

00:42:51.620 action against Iran so the foreign 0.96

00:42:53.580 minister says they

00:42:55.540 reserve the right to military action they posted

00:42:57.640 this kind of aggressive looking video

00:42:59.640 of all their military capabilities

00:43:01.240 with their jet fighters and things like that.

00:43:03.840 And it said, Prince Faisal said,

00:43:06.880 the kingdom will not succumb to pressure.

00:43:08.520 On the contrary, this pressure will backfire.

00:43:10.660 We reserve the right to take military action

00:43:12.300 if deemed necessary.

00:43:14.720 So we may have Saudi Arabia joining the fray.

00:43:19.000 I mean, this changes everything.

00:43:23.100 The Gulf states like Dubai and Saudi Arabia and all that,

00:43:27.720 not Dubai, Dubai is not a country.

00:43:29.100 The United Arab Emirates, like before it was open to tourists and people to move there and it was a haven of peace.

00:43:41.520 But now since Iran has hit them, it's become they become more active and more supportive of the United States because it's it's really hurt. 0.83

00:43:52.960 It's it's really going to hurt their tourism.

00:43:55.900 Yeah.

00:43:56.120 Yeah.

00:43:56.340 And energy.

00:43:57.220 I mean, you know, there's a story I posted about Qatar's liquefied natural gas.

00:44:04.080 They're describing it as worse than Nord Stream with the damage that was done to it.

00:44:07.560 It's going to take many years to rebuild.

00:44:10.480 So, you know, that's one of the reasons oil prices are so high right now and natural gas prices are probably following.

00:44:18.040 But it's going to be offline for at least months, probably years.

00:44:22.560 They're thinking Europe's gas prices might double.

00:44:25.080 um so it's like a real big deal for the liquefied natural gas industry and and i think i saw in a

00:44:31.960 separate story that the u.s is pumping out their liquefied natural gas like at capacity like as

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00:45:17.820 that that was like 20% of the world's fueling place.

00:45:22.320 Oh, I mean, that's really scary.

00:45:25.760 And I think it is interesting because Iran is shooting at its neighbors now 1.00

00:45:34.440 and people normally wouldn't have even felt threatened by them necessarily.

00:45:39.080 And so they're really just like isolating themselves further.

00:45:42.540 So I am not saying it's good.

00:45:45.220 You guys understand what I'm saying?

00:45:46.500 Like, oh, it's good that that happened.

00:45:47.680 And it's not good that that happened.

00:45:48.980 But what's good is it just makes people want to rally against Iran. 0.70

00:45:53.980 So that's the good news.

00:45:57.500 So now they're just kind of like sitting there and they pissed off everybody around them.

00:46:02.000 So it just makes everybody else unite more is what I see.

00:46:05.540 in the in in uh you know in connected news the oil prices have spiked up to 110 dollars

00:46:17.020 uh a barrel um i don't know right now it's probably gone up since i started the show we

00:46:23.600 started the show i think i heard 119 the stock market may be going down um owen owen oh it's

00:46:31.820 down. It's down. Don't check it. Don't check it. It's on red. The S and P is down 56 points right

00:46:37.260 now. Yeah. It's not looking good on the stock market today. So don't, yeah, don't check your

00:46:41.980 stocks, but yeah, no, the economic impact is pretty big. And I think there's stories I've

00:46:47.640 seen that it's going beyond just energy because like one example is when you make, when you

00:46:53.880 extract natural gas, there's a whole bunch of other chemicals that come out of that that are

00:46:57.820 used for agriculture, especially fertilizer for food. And I think it's like 40% of the sulfur

00:47:05.120 that is used in agriculture comes from that region. And so it's a pretty big percentage

00:47:11.440 of our food supply that depends on these chemicals that are coming from this region.

00:47:15.780 And so if you disrupt all of the oil and natural gas supply in that region, we may have food

00:47:23.500 shortages next year. And that's unfortunately just part of the supply chain of all this,

00:47:30.240 that there's a lot of other things that's used in pharmaceuticals and other things too. So there's

00:47:33.840 a lot of chemical processes that are using, whether it's ammonia or sulfur or other things

00:47:39.660 that come out of that natural gas extraction process. So, you know, it's great that we're

00:47:46.040 doing more and we're at capacity in terms of what we're doing in the United States, but I don't

00:47:49.820 think that's going to make up for it. So it could end up being a worldwide crisis if this continues

00:47:56.360 for a long time or if there's a lot more damage in the region. Yeah. I fear about how long this

00:48:01.340 is going to last and what's going to happen. Will you guys indulge me for a minute? Because it is

00:48:07.360 Friday and I know this is me taking another sharp turn. Yeah. I'd love to read a quick reframe,

00:48:14.740 you guys. And it kind of fits in. Well, it fits in for every day. So talking about, well,

00:48:22.220 we'll talk about it after. I'm going to read it, but I am obsessed with this reframe and I really

00:48:27.860 want you guys to soak it in. Get your books, everyone. It's going to be page 189 in the

00:48:35.200 paperback and it's called People Think Like You. And this is so important for everybody listening

00:48:43.760 to remember, like even when we have differences of opinion about things, you really never know

00:48:49.220 why. And so I love how Scott wrote this out and I'm just going to read it and then we'll discuss

00:48:54.600 it. Okay. So page 189, people think like you. One of the worst misconceptions of life is that

00:49:02.100 other people think the same way you do. Humans are similar in a lot of ways, but in any specific

00:49:08.580 situation, your basket of preferences and mine will be different. That means you can't reliably

00:49:13.960 predict what people will do or why they will do it unless money is involved. But we imagine we

00:49:20.660 can predict well because we make the poor assumption that people are working with the

00:49:25.500 same set of variables and intentions we are. That is rarely the case. If you don't understand

00:49:31.420 someone's motives and you end up guessing based on how you would feel in the same situation,

00:49:36.640 you're indulging in nonsense the usual frame others think and feel approximately as i do

00:49:43.760 the reframe others are unimaginably different when others act in ways you would not don't 1.00

00:49:51.160 assume they are necessarily lying selfish stupid weasels they might be exactly that but that's not 0.99

00:49:56.800 the first explanation you should go with instead assume you are all seeing is it all you're seeing 1.00

00:50:03.080 is a difference in priorities or a difference in who brainwashed each of you. The power of this

00:50:08.560 reframe is that it helps you understand why you can't change people's minds. You might be looking

00:50:14.300 at the same facts, but the process processes in your heads are as different as porcupines

00:50:20.360 and bowling balls. And I wanted to bring that one up because, you know, oftentimes, so we're giving

00:50:27.560 our opinions here um you know it's my opinion but what you might not understand is maybe i have a

00:50:35.640 a method to my madness maybe i'm saying something just to be provocative but you don't know that

00:50:42.200 or maybe um maybe i got information you didn't get or i had a life experience that made me feel

00:50:50.360 a certain way i do maybe there's a lot of nuance to what i'm thinking so like if somebody gave me

00:50:54.760 like a list of a thousand questions and said, you know, how do you feel about each one of these

00:51:00.460 things? You could never predict my answers on those because I have so much nuance in me, Erica,

00:51:08.240 I have so much nuance in my thinking. I'm not like left or right or center. I am all over the place

00:51:13.580 on every different issue. So I say that one, I'm bringing this one up because being on here

00:51:22.340 subjugates us to criticism and opinions and people telling us what to do and how to think.

00:51:30.580 And listen, that's like fine. It doesn't bother me when people do that. I kind of get where

00:51:35.580 they're coming from, but it is who you were brainwashed by. So we have to allow people

00:51:40.640 to have their own opinions and to think differently than you. And like I said, you never know the

00:51:46.400 motive behind it like i'll i'll make a random twitter poll who would you rather be aligned

00:51:52.240 with and i'll give you the choice of like don lemon or joy reid and then people are like oh my

00:51:58.240 god you know or you know i could be like don lemon or tucker carlson they'll be like oh i see what

00:52:04.160 you're doing here and i'm like you don't see anything i'm doing here so it's like you know

00:52:08.320 it's that silly you guys so i just want to uh recommend that we understand that everybody

00:52:14.560 has different opinions about things for all sorts of different reasons, none of which you can 0.90

00:52:20.380 predict or know. Like you might think like, oh, I've known Erica for 10 years on here and this

00:52:25.100 is how she'll feel about it. But something might've changed my mind last night and I might

00:52:29.600 take a sharp turn and I could take a sharp turn again the next day and make a U-turn and spin

00:52:35.080 around. So just try to let everybody have their own free thinking opinion. And I think it's okay

00:52:41.480 to bring other ideas and opinions to people and to have a discussion. But we can't be so sure that

00:52:49.280 our opinion is the only way and be so dug in. And I also want you guys to understand that when new

00:52:55.680 information comes, it's okay to reassess what you think and maybe find some nuance in it or

00:53:03.160 understand how it could be another way. And I always say the superpower is if the information

00:53:11.420 changes, and you can change your opinion and publicly do so and not be afraid, you have a

00:53:18.720 gift. And that means your ego is not ruling you. Your friend group isn't ruling you. You are a free

00:53:24.940 thinker. And there is nothing better. I mean, Walter Kern talked about it yesterday,

00:53:30.540 you know, or we heard it yesterday when he spoke at Scott's memorial service that he was free.

00:53:35.900 and I hope every one of you know that you can be free and, and be in charge of your own life and

00:53:44.280 your own thoughts. And you can allow others to do that too. Um, I'm going to toss it to Marcella

00:53:50.040 first and you can see us here. Like, you know, we, we have differing opinions, the three of us,

00:53:54.940 we're, we're three very different people, but like, I'm obsessed with them. Like I love them

00:53:59.960 so much and it doesn't matter. I do. I love them so much and it doesn't matter like what we think.

00:54:05.900 Like we're, we still have affection for each other.

00:54:08.800 So Marcella, what do you think about this reframe?

00:54:11.440 No, this reframe is great because a lot of the times, you know, at work, home life, anywhere

00:54:18.440 is like, sometimes you're thinking, oh, these people all think like me.

00:54:22.280 They all know, like a lot of us here, um, um, that are part of the community in Scott's

00:54:29.320 community.

00:54:29.580 He would always remind us like all, all the things that you guys know, that's like 1% 1.00

00:54:35.080 of the rest of the population so if you go out there you know you go to your thanksgiving dinner

00:54:40.940 you go to um you know any kind of social setting and you talk about like oh joey reed and you know

00:54:48.400 don lemon and all that they'll be like who so a lot of it is realizing that that we are very

00:54:56.080 different even with with us compared to people that are not that don't know about scott and all

00:55:03.760 all other things always remember um i always have to remember that people

00:55:11.840 you know are very different uh when i speak to them uh in regards to certain things they're like

00:55:18.080 what is that what is this iran where you know so a lot of things are going to be different

00:55:26.880 and you have to realize um that we all are here together in this planet so we have to get along

00:55:33.040 And a lot of the misunderstandings between people is the thinking that they're thinking

00:55:38.080 like you.

00:55:39.220 So I love it.

00:55:40.480 I love the fact that you brought this up today.

00:55:42.560 Oh, good.

00:55:43.100 Owen, your thoughts?

00:55:44.560 Yeah.

00:55:44.920 I mean, I love that other people have different thoughts or different opinions.

00:55:48.640 I think it would be a very boring place if everybody thought exactly the way I did.

00:55:52.160 It would be kind of redundant, I would think.

00:55:54.260 And I always try and stay curious about what other people are thinking or why they believe

00:55:58.860 what they believe.

00:55:59.440 And I try to be respectful of those differing opinions.

00:56:03.040 but I also try to seek out those opinions. I mean, I would say at work when I've gotten in

00:56:10.020 trouble, usually on projects, one of the common reasons is because we just didn't talk to the

00:56:15.480 right person. Like we didn't include one of the stakeholders. And so we come up with a set of

00:56:22.120 recommendations or things and I kind of assume, okay, everybody's aligned to this. I've shared

00:56:26.800 these ideas. They all say that's great. And then they say, oh, well, we got to get approval from

00:56:31.020 this person and it might be someone i had never heard of before and then all of a sudden we put

00:56:35.400 it in front of them and they're saying this is bs and this is not at all what we should do or

00:56:39.680 this isn't even solving the right problem and and um all of a sudden the whole perspective changes

00:56:46.340 and you know it comes back to just saying well if we had included that person from the start maybe

00:56:50.860 we would have been able to convince them that this is a good idea or maybe we would have at

00:56:55.000 least found out without wasting a whole bunch of time that we had to go in a different direction

00:56:59.260 and i mean even very smart people can have great ideas that aren't the right ones i mean

00:57:07.180 my experience at my startup was like that where we had you know this initial idea of like here's

00:57:13.960 the product we're building here's who we're selling it to here's the benefits here's the

00:57:17.700 reasons they would all want it and then we started approaching those people pretty soon after we

00:57:22.780 started and found out the people you're trying to sell to don't want to buy it but there's this

00:57:28.080 other group of people that absolutely do want to buy it for totally different reasons but they

00:57:34.060 would actually need the product to be pretty different than what you were planning for it to

00:57:37.940 be and so we basically had to go back to scratch and say let's redesign this whole thing from the

00:57:42.820 ground up to serve this other customer and then it took off then it was like okay everybody wanted

00:57:49.760 to buy it you know our typical response when we put in front of a customer would be like why

00:57:54.580 didn't anyone do this before this is like such an obvious and great idea why why isn't why is this

00:57:59.380 the first time i'm seeing this and you know it was it was a very big success but if we had just

00:58:05.360 stuck to our initial idea and said no no no we're selling to these people and this is the important

00:58:09.740 functions and here's the features it would have flopped completely it would have just been

00:58:14.060 terrible oh and i didn't know the cia was so um non-conforming yeah like so flexible that's so

00:58:20.880 nice to know. Um, I mean, I, I just like, for example, you guys, so, uh, also if, if there's

00:58:27.740 someone you like, okay. And they're like measured or thoughtful or smart or whatever. And then they

00:58:33.600 say something that you don't like on one topic, just relax. Like we don't have to like banish

00:58:39.820 them to hell. Okay. It's okay. Like I, you can't possibly agree with one person on everything. 0.99

00:58:46.380 It's just not possible. And if, if that's how you're going to judge people and have relationships,

00:58:51.160 you're going to be lonely. And, um, you know, the other day I got lambasted by a few people

00:58:58.360 and I didn't even make an opinion. I said nothing but this, I mean, Scott used to get this all the

00:59:03.820 time. I, I love to listen to like, anyway, I'm going to, I'll just say this. I listened to a

00:59:11.380 podcast. I don't know who was interviewing who. I think Brett Weinstein, who everybody knows is

00:59:18.260 measured and calm, super intelligent and has been through hell and back. I think he interviewed

00:59:25.160 Tucker or Tucker Carlson interviewed him. I can't remember who was who. It was such an amazing

00:59:32.320 podcast. I didn't even say why I thought it was amazing, but it was one of the best podcasts I've

00:59:38.220 heard in a long time. Again, I didn't say why. I mean, it could be a million. It could be the

00:59:43.160 clothes they were wearing, the lighting. It could have been whatever it was. But I posted that and

00:59:47.720 some people got so pissed off and I'm like, calm down. It's okay. I can say I like it. I can promote

00:59:55.340 it. I thought it was an amazing podcast. I could have listened to 25 more hours of it. It just

01:00:00.220 really grabbed me and it was making me think. And I didn't tell you what it made me think,

01:00:06.080 but it was making me think. And I appreciated listening to two intelligent people having a

01:00:12.480 deep conversation, long form. I thought it was fascinating. But it's okay, you guys. It doesn't

01:00:20.100 matter what it was that I thought about it. That could be a private discussion if somebody wanted

01:00:26.020 to have that with me. So let's not jump to conclusions. Let's not say like, oh, Erica's

01:00:32.120 out you know I'm assuming something about it yeah or like don't mind read her don't mind yeah don't

01:00:37.520 mind read me I am very complex and so are you guys and you know we have to remember that we are

01:00:43.220 complex beings um oh and I have a question what is happening tomorrow for the after show

01:00:50.840 the after party so I am not available tomorrow but I'll put this to Marcella if she's available

01:00:57.220 she can host it. Are you up for that? Yeah, sure. Do people want me to host it in the chat?

01:01:04.660 Do they think I should host it? On Marcel, it doesn't have to be five hours.

01:01:08.760 No, it doesn't. It just has to be eight.

01:01:12.760 Well, the most important part is just doing it at the right time and having the simultaneous

01:01:17.280 sip. And that's the important part to get it started. And even if it only went for an hour,

01:01:22.620 that would be great i think it does typically go probably closer to three hours but that's just

01:01:27.460 because i let it go that long and people have a lot to say um and so it's typically a great

01:01:33.280 conversation and so um i think marcel will probably be posting an invitation to that and i'll i'll

01:01:39.360 repost it on my timeline so you can find it and then we'll have the after party as scheduled

01:01:43.540 i love that you guys we have um what i can tell you so far for next week is on wednesday bj

01:01:50.440 Dichter will return. We're going to cover some of the things our Canadians wanted to talk about

01:01:56.520 that we didn't get to. So he returns on Wednesday and Thursday, Steve Cortez is coming back. He's

01:02:03.800 working on new projects. And I just think he's such an interesting and smart guy and a useful

01:02:09.720 person. So we have him to look forward to. And what else is happening next week? I'll let you

01:02:14.880 know, as we come closer, but you guys are amazing. We had so much fun with you this week with Walter

01:02:20.740 and BJ and our guests. Like it was just such a fun week. And, um, I hope you guys are enjoying

01:02:26.100 the show. And if you are, please, please hit the like button, hit the thumbs up on YouTube,

01:02:31.620 give a heart on locals. When you, um, are on here, it's so helpful for us and share it with

01:02:36.860 your friends, repost it. We appreciate you so much. Um, Owen and Marcella have a great weekend,

01:02:43.280 And all the beloveds and everybody on here, have the best weekend.

01:02:47.600 Touch your grass.

01:02:48.660 Be useful.

01:02:49.920 Think of ways to be helpful and kind and go after your goals with your systems, okay?

01:02:57.820 All right.

01:02:58.340 Closing tip to Scott.

01:02:59.820 We miss you, Scott, so much.

01:03:01.520 We hope we're making you proud.

01:03:03.540 And to Shelly, and you guys have a great weekend.

01:03:07.020 And, hey, Dave Adams, shout out to you, Dave.

01:03:10.420 To Scott.

01:03:11.660 To Scott.

01:03:12.080 To Scott.

01:03:12.560 be useful bye everybody great show thank you okay happy eye doctor get your get your last

01:03:23.940 chat in there i'm ending the stream in three two one

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 20, 2026

Episode 3119 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸20⧸26

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