Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3125 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸29⧸26

00:00:00.720 i swear let me turn on my locals so i can see them coming in

00:00:07.200 and away we go i don't see youtube i see lang and crusher good morning everybody patty bob

00:00:17.520 so good morning it's 10 a.m on the east coast which means wow it's 7 a.m on the west coast

00:00:25.600 And the Midwest, I could never figure you guys out.

00:00:30.360 We bridge the gap.

00:00:32.060 Yeah.

00:00:33.320 I love it.

00:00:34.840 Good morning.

00:00:36.360 Oh, and I didn't even ask you if you checked the market yet today.

00:00:40.280 I haven't.

00:00:41.120 I saw the futures said it was going to be up a little bit today,

00:00:43.700 but I haven't looked since it opened.

00:00:45.540 Let me check real quick.

00:00:46.780 I took a peek over the weekend, and I don't know why I did that.

00:00:49.560 It looks like it's slightly up but headed down,

00:00:53.380 so you might want to avoid too much attention to the stock market today it's still it's still above

00:00:59.220 where it was on friday but it's just headed that direction so all right and anybody that watches

00:01:06.420 on youtube they can go watch on x or rumble youtube didn't click on no not that i can see

00:01:13.300 but let me youtube oh it says it's connecting

00:01:16.420 oh you know what the problem is for youtube it's the thumbnail it says

00:01:24.140 oh well i don't know how to get rid of the thumbnail at this point you guys so

00:01:29.660 but it says it's trying to connect okay there's a premiere on you

00:01:36.640 oh you muted yourself yeah there's a premiere on youtube but um it doesn't show us playing

00:01:45.380 six are waiting or something yeah let me do this connecting let me try it again

00:01:54.180 it's the thumbnail of all things i've never heard of this but you guys youtube

00:01:59.780 uh um i don't know if there's a way to get a comment over there or if anybody watching this

00:02:04.820 can drop a comment on x for youtube um i don't know how we can tell them to come watch on x

00:02:11.540 or rumble i'm very sorry i didn't know a thumbnail would do that it seemed like a normal thumbnail

00:02:18.100 and um we are gonna get going anyway for those of us here and for youtube we will upload it

00:02:24.660 after the show to youtube you guys so it's not not all is lost we'll upload it after the show

00:02:30.420 if we don't get to connect okay so does anyone else need to sip a coffee i know i do let's do it

00:02:39.440 Let's go.

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00:03:17.660 oh i'll get my weekend going right now if he says something sounds good to me yeah me too

00:03:26.140 so welcome to the scott adams school my name is erica um we're here with owen and marcella and

00:03:33.260 today to kick off the week we have a lot planned for you this week but i really wanted to start

00:03:39.260 this monday with more scott is everyone okay with some more scott i think so um so what we're gonna

00:03:45.660 do is play this clip for you it's about 12 minutes long so hold your mug and get ready and sit back

00:03:53.900 and relax and when the clip is over we'll come back to discuss it and then we're getting right

00:03:58.540 into some news, okay? All right. Enjoy this, you guys. There we go. And Lao Tzu said many years ago,

00:04:07.580 he said, watch your... Okay, let's try it again. There we go. There we go. And Lao Tzu said many

00:04:16.000 years ago, he said, watch your thoughts because your thoughts become words. Watch your words

00:04:22.220 because your words become actions. Watch your actions because they become habits. Habits become

00:04:28.300 your character, and your character is destiny. Now, I'm going to update this. Lao Tzu was a

00:04:39.060 very smart guy, apparently, but he was smart before we discovered how to make AI work.

00:04:46.420 So there's something we have to update on this. Words and thoughts, turns out, are the same thing.

00:04:54.060 Whoops. So AI taught us, the large language models, that all you have to do is look at the

00:05:03.700 pattern of words, and if you applied the right technology to it, just the word use alone would

00:05:12.200 produce intelligence. But before that, we imagined we had some kind of reason and thoughts and stuff

00:05:19.600 that was independent from our words.

00:05:22.200 But AI kind of put the lie to that,

00:05:24.600 which is something, by the way,

00:05:26.380 hypnotists have known forever.

00:05:28.900 Hypnotists know that the words are what are activating you.

00:05:33.580 The thoughts are really word combinations

00:05:36.500 because we think in words.

00:05:40.160 Your thoughts right now, your private thoughts, are in words.

00:05:42.920 If you were to change those words, what would happen?

00:05:46.900 Well, if you change the words, so I'm going to treat words and thoughts as one thing, because AI taught us that, right?

00:05:54.660 So if you change your words, you're going to change your actions, because that's how you're built.

00:06:00.020 That's the only way it can work.

00:06:02.320 The things you do are literally based on the frequency and combination of words in your programmer, your head, your brain.

00:06:09.680 So to reprogram a person from something suboptimal to something that they would want,

00:06:16.340 all you do is change the frequency and arrangement of words.

00:06:23.080 Do you know what this is called?

00:06:25.120 If you change the frequency and arrangement of words,

00:06:29.440 and what you're doing is trying to change somebody's actions, what's that called?

00:06:34.820 Wordsmithing? No.

00:06:37.080 Reframing? Yes.

00:06:38.400 Could be.

00:06:40.400 Hypnosis.

00:06:41.420 That's exactly what hypnosis is.

00:06:44.000 Hypnosis is not, a lot of people, if they watch movies,

00:06:47.360 they think it's about the watch this clock.

00:06:50.340 They think it's about the voice of the hypnotist.

00:06:53.220 It's not the voice.

00:06:54.960 It's not the mannerisms,

00:06:56.160 although those are helpful parts of the process.

00:06:59.480 It's actually the frequency

00:07:01.800 and the arrangement of words.

00:07:06.780 That's hypnosis.

00:07:08.460 That's it.

00:07:09.680 that's enough to change somebody's entire brain

00:07:12.940 and their actions, their habits, their character,

00:07:16.100 and then their destiny.

00:07:18.020 So if you could optimize the words in your head,

00:07:22.300 blah, blah, blah.

00:07:22.760 Let me give you a real concrete example.

00:07:25.920 The other day I was showing this to somebody,

00:07:29.360 and the person said that they were working on a problem.

00:07:34.420 They had a fear of rejection.

00:07:35.620 right? They were considering doing something. It was somebody considering an action which would

00:07:42.880 have been almost certainly good for them, right? A very obvious, you know, just really obvious

00:07:49.220 thing to do that would be good for you, but couldn't get the action right because of a fear

00:07:55.020 of rejection. That, ladies and gentlemen, is word poisoning. You say to yourself, well, there's some

00:08:04.360 bad thoughts there. No. Words are thoughts. Words and their combinations and their frequency

00:08:12.460 is your thoughts. There's no difference. Once you get that, you unlock this power.

00:08:20.760 Until you understand that your words are a programming language that you can change on

00:08:25.840 your own, you don't have access to the stack. And then what I heard the person say to me

00:08:34.240 fear of rejection, I had this thought.

00:08:39.460 I don't use that word for anything.

00:08:43.680 Anything. I'm never going to let that word in my head.

00:08:48.160 When I heard it, I recoiled.

00:08:51.100 I recoiled. The actual word hurt me.

00:08:54.000 I was like, shit, I don't want that in my head. 0.99

00:08:55.880 I will never use that word, 0.99

00:08:59.100 because I don't want to stop myself from acting.

00:09:04.240 Do you know what I say in those situations?

00:09:07.040 This is going to be great.

00:09:10.260 This would be great.

00:09:11.660 Because keep in mind that in all of the situations I'm talking about,

00:09:14.940 mine or anybody else's, people know what they're supposed to do.

00:09:19.340 Am I right?

00:09:20.940 Don't people almost always know what they're supposed to do?

00:09:24.060 It's just hard to do it.

00:09:26.020 And the reason it's hard is because you don't have your words right.

00:09:28.460 If the word in your head is the word rejection,

00:09:31.920 you're not going to do this, whatever it is.

00:09:34.780 If the word in your head is, this is going to be great,

00:09:37.660 this will be exciting, this will be interesting.

00:09:40.600 By the way, curiosity is one of the best replacement words.

00:09:45.400 If you have some negative words

00:09:46.960 and you want the easiest way to replace them,

00:09:49.500 replace them with curiosity words.

00:09:51.920 I wonder what's going to happen.

00:09:53.400 Well, this will be interesting.

00:09:54.300 I'm fascinated about how today is going to turn out.

00:09:58.700 You put those words in your head, you're going to act.

00:10:01.720 You put the R word in your head,

00:10:03.680 I'm not even going to say it again

00:10:04.820 because it's such a damaging word.

00:10:07.620 Or the F word, F-A-I-L.

00:10:10.860 Nope.

00:10:12.760 When I say it's not in my vocabulary,

00:10:14.980 I mean that I've consciously made sure

00:10:16.900 that if it comes up, it's not about me.

00:10:20.780 I'm talking about a system failure or something like that.

00:10:23.460 All right, so, how many of you are sold on this

00:10:29.180 as a good way of understanding the world?

00:10:32.160 Just give me a halfway point.

00:10:35.740 Is this a good way to understand what you see?

00:10:39.940 All right, I think most of you say yes.

00:10:42.220 Got one now.

00:10:43.820 All right, so now I'm going to, so hold on to this thought

00:10:46.560 that words, not thoughts, words are what unlock habits.

00:10:53.460 Okay? Words and the combination of words

00:10:56.700 is the only thing that unlocks habits. Not thoughts,

00:11:01.360 just the words. If you don't get that, you don't get anything.

00:11:06.140 All right?

00:11:10.020 Now let's explain the world.

00:11:12.820 This, by the way, would apply to other people

00:11:17.480 more generally, but I'm going to give you a specific problem.

00:11:20.400 so we have a problem 0.97

00:11:22.540 let's say you're a black kid 0.85

00:11:24.820 and you want to succeed in this world

00:11:27.020 and you want to do it the way everybody succeeds

00:11:29.980 the way everybody succeeds

00:11:31.760 is they

00:11:33.100 imitate people who have

00:11:35.500 successful patterns

00:11:36.580 so you look for somebody who's succeeding

00:11:39.360 and you say what are you doing to succeed

00:11:41.000 and then you try to do that

00:11:42.940 that's how everybody does it

00:11:45.300 everybody everywhere

00:11:46.780 now every once in a while you might produce a Steve Jobs

00:11:51.040 Steve Jobs does seem magical.

00:11:53.480 It's like he was inventing things that other people copied.

00:11:57.860 Now, I don't think he actually invented anything,

00:12:00.060 but he was better at noticing patterns.

00:12:02.300 So he might be like a real exception,

00:12:05.860 where he's inventing patterns as opposed to following them.

00:12:09.180 But the rest of us follow, we would follow him.

00:12:13.060 She'd say, what did you do?

00:12:14.900 Let's do more of that.

00:12:16.020 But because we have an industry that tells you that,

00:12:22.120 well, these all have something in common.

00:12:23.800 The DEI, the CRT, the ESG,

00:12:26.360 one thing they have in common is the words.

00:12:30.360 That there were slaves, there is systemic racism,

00:12:36.120 there is black and there is white,

00:12:39.080 and that there is an oppressor class and an oppressed class.

00:12:44.080 Those would be, you know, that's an example of the words, right?

00:12:48.820 So don't think too hard about those specific words,

00:12:51.440 but you would agree that all of these ideas,

00:12:55.560 these concepts are built on words.

00:13:01.000 You agree so far?

00:13:02.900 It's a word-related set of thoughts, as everything is.

00:13:07.920 So these are not uniquely about words.

00:13:10.740 any three-letter concepts I put here

00:13:14.220 would also be supported by their sets of words.

00:13:19.040 These sets of words create what I call

00:13:21.240 the glass imitation ceiling,

00:13:24.160 meaning that if you're a young black kid

00:13:26.760 and you're asked to imitate successful people,

00:13:30.980 you're going to be looking at the people

00:13:32.340 that you have been taught are your oppressors.

00:13:35.340 Who can do that?

00:13:37.400 Who could imitate their oppressors?

00:13:39.140 I couldn't.

00:13:40.740 If you said the only way you can succeed is by imitating your oppressors

00:13:45.280 or a life of crime, I'd pick the crime.

00:13:50.880 I would.

00:13:52.880 I'm just being honest.

00:13:53.960 If you put me in that same situation,

00:13:56.500 the mental, emotional impact of having to imitate my oppressor,

00:14:04.080 there's just no way I'd do it.

00:14:06.540 I would take up a life of crime before I did that. 0.93

00:14:09.280 So that's the situation you're putting black kids in. 0.98

00:14:13.220 And again, if anybody's new to me, I'm never talking about all black kids. 0.94

00:14:18.200 I'm never talking about all white people anything.

00:14:21.640 I'm never talking about all black people anything, or all anybody anything. 0.98

00:14:26.220 People are amazingly different from each other, but this is just a good conceptual framework.

00:14:33.040 So here's what I think has to be fixed.

00:14:35.760 black Americans have an imitation ceiling 1.00

00:14:39.520 they simply can't do the things that other people would do 0.86

00:14:42.720 but the tools are all there

00:14:45.600 the tools are there

00:14:47.160 I mentioned my book

00:14:48.660 How to Failed Almost Everything and Still Win Big

00:14:50.860 my new one that is also coming out I think this week

00:14:54.300 if the last technical parts work with the online publishing

00:14:58.600 but those would be two examples of books

00:15:02.620 that would tell anybody how to succeed

00:15:05.960 because I've organized the words in the books

00:15:09.160 to make that happen.

00:15:11.860 The books are also hypnosis

00:15:13.120 in the sense that they're built to be persuasive

00:15:16.480 as well as utilitarian.

00:15:20.220 So how do you fix this?

00:15:25.720 I'm going to tell you I have no idea.

00:15:28.020 I have no idea how to fix it.

00:15:29.360 The only thing I'm sure of

00:15:30.760 is that it has to be fixed by the people who are involved,

00:15:34.660 which is not me.

00:15:36.840 This is something that can't be fixed from the outside,

00:15:39.760 no matter how good your intentions are,

00:15:42.140 no matter how good your skill is,

00:15:44.700 and no matter anything.

00:15:46.640 It doesn't matter how many resources you have.

00:15:48.380 There are some things that have to be fixed from the inside.

00:15:52.660 And I feel like every time you put outside pressure

00:15:55.280 on a group that's already in a, say, victim and oppressor model,

00:16:00.760 that outside pressure, depending on who it comes from,

00:16:05.160 let's say it comes from somebody like me,

00:16:07.540 is it helping?

00:16:09.460 I don't know.

00:16:10.940 I don't have a good argument that would say it would help.

00:16:14.280 It might actually make it worse.

00:16:16.380 So somehow black America needs to figure this out. 1.00

00:16:20.560 How do they either create enough black successful people 1.00

00:16:24.160 or stories about them

00:16:25.800 so that young black kids have lots of role models

00:16:28.840 that they can imitate?

00:16:29.660 But this is the basic setup.

00:16:33.800 You don't know how much of your problem is systemic racism

00:16:37.360 until you deal with the fact that people are not pursuing individual success

00:16:42.400 because they feel like it's denied to them

00:16:45.120 or where it would be unpleasant to copy somebody.

00:16:49.720 So that's my understanding of the world.

00:16:54.260 Did it help?

00:16:57.540 Help me.

00:16:58.540 did it help you? I hope it did. I mean, I can listen to that all day. And we were actually

00:17:05.440 having a pre-show discussion along these lines of just, yes, I will try to get you the episode,

00:17:14.820 you guys, from where this came from. So yeah, the words you choose and use and your self-talk

00:17:22.120 and what you choose to believe makes all the difference between, I'm not going to say winners

00:17:28.620 and losers, but like if you look at people like at their peak, their self-talk is like amazing.

00:17:36.040 But Owen, you know why I want to come to you first. So I'm going to just, I'm just going to 0.75

00:17:41.020 ask you, was this like crazy coincidence, amazing lesson today? What do you think?

00:17:47.360 Yeah, it probably was. I'm dealing with some of this right now with some of my kids,

00:17:51.260 you know in certain situations where some have very positive self-talk and some are very negative

00:17:55.060 and it makes a huge difference in terms of your actions and um you know I certainly agree with

00:18:01.040 this model um I would maybe tweak it a little bit if I were doing it just to say like media

00:18:09.480 might come before thoughts so you want to curate what media you expose yourself to because as Scott

00:18:17.660 would probably agree. I think if you're constantly exposed to negative information, you're going to

00:18:22.880 have more negative thoughts and more negative words in your head. And therefore it's going to

00:18:27.220 lead to more negative or lack of positive actions. And so if you can instead flood your brain with

00:18:33.340 inputs that are positive and that are empowering and that are leading you towards action, then

00:18:38.720 you're much more likely to take those positive actions. And so I think I would probably put

00:18:42.520 media below the thought level. And I think Scott would probably agree with that. Um,

00:18:47.660 the other thing that he didn't mention that i think is relevant is emotion um that when you have

00:18:54.140 thoughts or um you know i guess mainly thoughts and words that have emotional content you're much

00:19:02.300 more likely to remember them and they're much more likely to affect how you're going to act

00:19:07.420 and so if you you know there's lots of science behind this that if you use emotionally charged

00:19:13.180 words you're much more likely to remember it you're much more likely to be affected by it

00:19:17.660 And, um, I think that's a relevant piece or maybe a way to supercharge this is to try and use words

00:19:25.140 that do have those positive emotions attached to them. Um, if you have positive memories,

00:19:30.100 if you can associate those with somehow with what you want to do, um, that's going to potentially

00:19:34.820 lead you in a better direction. And, um, I would even mention another technique that I've talked

00:19:39.960 about. I think I posted it for my subscribers on X that, and locals that, um, it's called the

00:19:45.800 five, six, seven technique. And it was an interesting story. I got, it came from a

00:19:50.580 baseball coach of all people, um, that he told this story about how, when he was giving pitching

00:19:56.440 lessons to a boy and his dad was there, um, they were kind of stuck. Like they just couldn't get

00:20:02.800 past this obstacle or challenge. You know, maybe he wasn't able to throw strikes or whatever it

00:20:07.000 was. And he was just trying as hard as he could, but he just couldn't do it. And he's, he took

00:20:11.400 him aside and he said, let's try this technique. And he said, okay, you know, why are you doing

00:20:16.860 this? Like, why are you taking these pitching lessons? And the interesting thing was he didn't

00:20:21.000 actually ask that to the boy. He asked it to his father. He said, we're going to start with the

00:20:25.680 father first. And so he asked him like, okay, what, you know, why are you doing these lessons

00:20:30.420 for your kid? And he gave him some answer like, well, so he can get into a college team and,

00:20:35.540 you know, maybe get to a pro team and all that. And, and then immediately he just turned right

00:20:39.840 around and said okay that's number one now why are you you know why is it important for your kid to

00:20:45.060 be on a college team and you know he gave another answer like well it's so he's successful or he can

00:20:50.340 have a good baseball career or he might even gone in a different direction and said it's to teach

00:20:53.720 him good character and some of the other things that parents typically say in those situations

00:20:57.600 but he kept digging he kept going he kept saying okay now why is that important to you and then

00:21:02.980 once he would answer he would say now why is that important to you and he said just don't even think

00:21:06.540 about it just the first thing that pops in your head just give me the answer um so it's a quick

00:21:10.260 exercise it's not like you have to sit there and ruminate over it for an hour like you just give

00:21:14.820 whatever your answer is but then you ask the next question to yourself why is this important to me

00:21:20.520 and when you get down to the fifth sixth and seventh answer something kind of changes like

00:21:25.620 the first three are those surface answers um but the the fourth fifth sixth and seventh tend to be

00:21:32.000 more emotional um and eventually he got to the point where he was like i'm doing this because

00:21:40.220 i love my son and it was you know this i mean i have emotion just thinking about it and uh

00:21:49.100 you know it totally transformed the situation and the kid was able to do what he was trying to do

00:21:57.280 just listening to his father. Um, and I think that is a valuable exercise that a lot of people

00:22:03.640 could benefit from. If you just try that, just try it, just see if it works. You know, just if

00:22:07.800 you're stuck or you have an obstacle or you're not able to take an action, just ask yourself,

00:22:11.780 why are you doing it? And if you can't come up with an answer, maybe you shouldn't be doing it.

00:22:15.960 But if it is a good thing, you know, it's a good thing. You know, you should be doing it.

00:22:18.960 Then just ask yourself, why is this important to me? And really dig deep. Don't just take the

00:22:23.180 first answer go down to that five six and seven level and see what happens because it may motivate

00:22:30.120 you by charging it with that emotion and really getting to your core values which is another

00:22:36.220 aspect that wasn't explicitly said and what Scott said but I think it's embedded in there with the

00:22:41.440 character and destiny that you know when you get down to those values and what's really important

00:22:47.380 to you and really what's driving you to do a certain thing, I think it can often just really

00:22:54.780 give you that motivation that you might've been lacking. And suddenly you'll have the motivation

00:22:58.860 to do something that you just couldn't make yourself do. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that.

00:23:03.580 I always say, Owen, that you're such a good dad and I'm sure all of you are good parents out there

00:23:11.320 or you're like, I want to be a better parent or I want to understand something better. I saw a lot

00:23:17.020 of you commenting the five whys, but I do like the idea of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth,

00:23:22.520 10th, 11th, 12th, because like if you keep peeling that onion back and you get it, like he said,

00:23:28.500 get through the first superficial ones and peel it back and just be like, you know, why, you know,

00:23:35.080 and why do I attach such emotion to these things? And then if you can find a way to say like the

00:23:42.300 negative talk I'm giving myself or this situation, like before you can even help someone else.

00:23:50.760 You know, why, you know, why I always say this, like it's so easy to stay like in a sad mood or

00:23:56.740 a bad mood and it's so hard to get out of a funk and whatever. But I think we need to become

00:24:02.780 addicted to better self-talk and positive words and positive reinforcement. And I'm telling myself

00:24:10.860 this too, because, you know, it's so easy to get bogged down in the bullshit and the negativity 1.00

00:24:16.180 and pile on. And it's so hard to turn it around sometimes and be positive. And I can hear so much 0.98

00:24:25.440 like negativity when I'm talking to people, whether it's like a spouse, a friend, you know,

00:24:31.420 a colleague. And I'm like, wait, you know, like, listen to the words you're saying. And I always

00:24:35.500 make a joke. Like, they'll be like, oh, you know, I can't do that. And this, that, and the other

00:24:38.820 thing. And I'll be like, well, not with that attitude. You can't. And they know where I'm

00:24:42.280 going next. And it's like, listen to what you're telling yourself and what you believe because

00:24:47.280 why? And I like the idea too of thinking of a favorite athlete, a favorite CEO, a favorite

00:24:55.820 scientist, a favorite whatever. What do you really think those people are telling themselves about

00:25:02.820 themselves, their failures, their situations? Do you know how many times these people fail in life?

00:25:08.820 thank God they had the will to try to have better self-talk and pull themselves up and

00:25:15.380 know that the reason why they're doing something is bigger than that one little moment, that one

00:25:22.180 little tiny blip in their life. That moment's gone. And then you've got all this time and space

00:25:29.060 ahead of you. So don't stop the thing because one little thing set you back. That was just a lesson

00:25:36.160 to pull yourself up and out to go to the next level. And I'm going to toss it to Marcella.

00:25:42.240 I mean, Marcella is someone I always say, like you dealt with massive adversity and I'm like

00:25:48.280 always in awe of that you pick yourself up and you move on and you don't let yourself get down

00:25:54.660 and stay there. So did you love this lesson today? I never needed this lesson. So to me,

00:26:02.460 it's very strange but I would have to say it's a great lesson if you need it so for me it's

00:26:11.100 it's important to realize which I've realized outside of this lesson is that words are spells

00:26:16.900 so whatever you say to yourself however you talk to yourself is it's going to affect your health

00:26:25.740 is going to affect how you move in the world. So knowing this, lie to yourself. I say this with

00:26:34.500 the greatest, like, I don't mean lie, like lie to others, but tell yourself things are going to do

00:26:41.400 well, because what's the opposite? Like, oh, they're going to be bad, you know, because who

00:26:47.780 knows maybe it will turn out well so always talk yourself up instead of down um one of the things

00:26:56.100 that he says is that words create habits um if they do like the the what your words what your

00:27:05.500 what words you say make who you are and so whenever you say something like i suck at this or i don't

00:27:16.680 know how to do this or or I won't be able to or I'll get rejected it's like don't say the opposite

00:27:25.040 because what's you know who cares you know right at the end of the day if you were going to risk

00:27:31.800 if you want to play a game use the opposite say things will turn out good you know things will

00:27:39.460 come out your way and if they don't you learn from it you know so i i particularly wanted to

00:27:47.280 comment on him talking about the second uh the double board and the second part of crt and all

00:27:54.440 that so i am in a group that was told that you know that that that oh we were conquered by spain

00:28:04.280 oh, we were this, we were victims, we were this, you're an immigrant, white people are going to

00:28:17.640 bring you down, and all these things that I'm told, even during college. And to me, I think

00:28:24.920 it's important to realize that we're all individuals, we're not a collective.

00:28:30.340 so you and also like the people that they're talking about are not the real people that

00:28:36.760 they're not Christopher Columbus they're also Christopher Columbus wasn't thinking oh I was

00:28:41.460 going to do this um so anyway so I tried to take the individualist outlook on life and think of

00:28:49.220 myself as an individual and then I also look at successful people I don't care what race gender

00:28:55.660 or creed they're from i look at the fact that they're successful and i want to kind of study

00:29:01.060 them and figure out how they got there so um when i was told like i literally was told you can't be

00:29:09.280 someone because you're an immigrant i was like okay you've never met me so and this was at the

00:29:17.580 age of like what nine or something so um you just have to have that in there and i think the key

00:29:24.780 that i had compared to other people around me is that i had a strong parents i had strong household

00:29:32.740 so that's worrisome so i think that's important for us to make time for kids that don't have that

00:29:40.900 strong bond with their parents also just tell them the stories of people who overcame those

00:29:45.620 things though because there's so many of them there's so many ultra successful people that had

00:29:49.600 bad childhoods or didn't have two parents or didn't have strong parents. And so it's probably

00:29:55.860 even more likely, I would say, that the ultra billionaires or the CEOs probably had some problem

00:30:01.760 in their childhood because it drove them to work harder or it drove them to be really committed to

00:30:06.940 being successful or to overcome being poor in their childhood. I mean, Tony Robbins talks about

00:30:12.340 that, how he had a terrible father and how he just was really driven by that. And I think that is a

00:30:19.400 choice you have to make at some point to say are you just going to get wallowing in all your

00:30:22.900 problems or are you going to use that as fuel and are you going to use that to make you even

00:30:27.860 more successful and steve jobs was adopted realizing that you know like how hard is that

00:30:34.320 like oh they my actual parents didn't want me yeah right yeah and i you know the other thing i

00:30:40.240 would say is um i would maybe just echo or amplify your point about lying to yourself which isn't

00:30:47.160 maybe the right word to use but revise your story you know to support where you want to go

00:30:51.780 um that might be how i would put it because like i can tell my story in terms of my work life at

00:30:57.480 least as a really great success story or a complete failure you know i i've i've had really

00:31:03.960 great jobs i've had really great compensation um in whatever top percent in the country in terms

00:31:09.840 of how i'm doing financially based on that and um you know a lot of people would be envious of my

00:31:15.500 career if you just look at it on my resume the way I highlight it. But I could tell the complete

00:31:20.800 opposite side of that story. I've been fired three times. I've been laid off. I've had lots of

00:31:26.800 failures along the way. And if I just got stuck in those things and said, oh, nobody wants me,

00:31:32.940 why did they lay me off? And why did I get fired? And if I was obsessing over all the mistakes I

00:31:39.640 made or whatever it is, yes, you want to learn from your mistakes. You want to apply those

00:31:43.740 lessons going forward but once you've done that move on and that shouldn't even enter your head

00:31:47.840 anymore um and that's essentially what i did is just i wouldn't think about it sometimes someone

00:31:53.620 would would a friend of mine would reach out to me and be like did you ever figure out why you

00:31:57.300 were fired i'm like no and i don't care it doesn't matter i don't care it doesn't it doesn't happen

00:32:01.080 it's over yeah it doesn't matter like it was it was just a bad fit you know and i think that's the

00:32:06.020 only thing i need to know it's okay it was a bad fit i'm moving on and now i have a better job

00:32:09.980 and um and that's the other way to look at that is that I think I don't remember if it was Scott

00:32:16.080 or someone else that recently said something like this where it was um you know most people

00:32:20.400 who get fired I think it was Greg Gutfeld said Scott told him this like most people who get

00:32:23.900 fired end up with a better job than they had before and that is pretty much the rule and so

00:32:30.300 when you have these adversities and setbacks don't don't get stuck in them you know just think okay

00:32:35.100 this is going to lead to a better place you know you can use all the reframes Scott has given us

00:32:38.820 like the universe owes me, or get out to just get the things out of your head, or all sorts of

00:32:43.460 things. Or, you know, he talks about how the past isn't real. I mean, he gives you all kinds of

00:32:46.760 tools to make this happen. But the important thing is to apply them and do them and just stay in that

00:32:51.900 positive mindset and focus on where you're going that's a positive place. And just take the actions

00:32:58.340 you need to do to make it happen. And it almost always will work out when you do that.

00:33:03.220 If my mom's listening, which I think she is, and if my dad was alive to hear this, they would both 0.98

00:33:07.960 tell you that i was a big pain in the ass i didn't take no for an answer they would always say you 0.97

00:33:15.640 are so strong willed nothing could hold you down oh yeah i was just like like if they said no i was 0.99

00:33:23.160 like oh but yes you know like we know we're getting around this um so you know dig down and know that

00:33:31.880 you you have like a strong will within you and that you're gonna just if it could just be as

00:33:39.240 simple as changing what you tell yourself and what you say and the words you choose the words

00:33:46.040 you even choose to think like i can't i don't want to i could try or it's not fair like ah like what

00:33:53.960 i my friends know if i hear someone say it's not fair i i rock it through the roof you have to

00:33:59.640 change those words okay let's go back to like the 1970s when parents would be like life's not fair

00:34:05.480 get over it move on and you moved on like they say that was your ted talk so you know don't wallow

00:34:11.880 you guys and if you see someone in your life you know try to help them with that maybe show them

00:34:17.240 this lesson and remind them that you know nobody who is successful engage success however you want

00:34:24.840 but nobody who's successful can be successful and be happy if they're just you know crapping on

00:34:32.620 themselves as a person and and their thoughts so i mean not to not to keep dwelling on this but i

00:34:39.380 hope everybody tries that and and if i have to even bring her up again i will joy behar who helped

00:34:46.840 me 20 something years ago before they were all completely batshit her answer to things and this

00:34:54.380 this is, has been mine always is so what, who cares? Okay. Something's challenging. Something's

00:35:00.600 hard. So what, who cares? Like it is what it is now let's go. Okay. So if you need to acknowledge

00:35:06.320 it, it is what it is. Let's go. This is not where we're staying. Okay. So everybody get pumped up

00:35:11.720 for this week. We're not going to settle into bullshit. You can rise above it yourself with 0.99

00:35:17.740 your own brain. And it takes time. You've got to, you've got to keep training yourself. And one day

00:35:24.160 you're going to see that the negative thought isn't the first thought. The defeating thought

00:35:28.500 will not be the first thought. And then you're going to just start hearing those thoughts from

00:35:32.840 people everywhere. And they're going to become like, oh, like kryptonite to you. And you're

00:35:37.480 going to be like, oh my God, they need to learn how to have better self-talk and action. So

00:35:41.580 I hope you guys love that. But I definitely want to get to some news this Monday.

00:35:47.560 Not that anything's been going on in the world. So I hope you guys love that. Thank you. And

00:35:54.140 And we're going to toss to Owen first to bring in some news.

00:35:59.080 All right.

00:35:59.400 Well, there's more developments in Iran.

00:36:02.100 I think Trump is talking about maybe using ground troops, maybe going after the uranium

00:36:07.020 that was buried from their last excursion and maybe taking Karg Island.

00:36:14.020 So there's some talks of potentially putting people on the ground for those things.

00:36:17.400 i i think uh on the positive side it looks like iran allowed about 20 more ships or they're in

00:36:24.060 the process of allowing 20 more ships through the strait of hormuz i think they're still pakistani

00:36:28.060 ships so it's not anybody that can go through there but at least there are some ships that

00:36:32.100 are being allowed through there um so maybe that'll help with oil prices a little bit or help

00:36:36.640 with you know the overall flow and supply of oil um it does seem like there that is causing some

00:36:43.060 disruption at this point, of course, that oil prices are up and that's going to affect

00:36:47.820 stocks, but it's also going to affect prices of oil and prices of gas and prices of everything

00:36:52.680 else. So it is a problem. Hopefully the war won't last too much longer so that we don't 0.81

00:36:57.600 have a trigger or recession or whatever could happen if it was a long-term thing. But right

00:37:04.440 now, Iran is at least publicly dismissing the diplomatic talks and making threats like

00:37:10.800 your troops are going to be on fire when they land and things like that.

00:37:13.720 So there's lots of tough talk on both sides.

00:37:16.520 The Houthis are apparently entering into the war now.

00:37:19.740 They've launched some missiles from Yemen or wherever they are.

00:37:23.660 And so it looks like it's broadening at this point.

00:37:26.320 I think Israel is still bombing stuff.

00:37:27.780 So that's what's going on in Iran.

00:37:32.320 I actually have nothing to add to that.

00:37:34.740 It's just changing all the time and so fast.

00:37:37.360 So that's the update for today, I guess.

00:37:39.960 marcella do you want to add anything to that of course i do loves the news i love the news um

00:37:47.400 trump uh posted on truth this morning i believe that uh the united states of america is in serious

00:37:54.200 discussion with the this is all capital letters new and more reasonable regime to end our military

00:38:01.880 operation in iran um i don't know why my shoulder hurt when that was said uh so he's just basically

00:38:09.480 saying they're they're more reasonable regime i don't know uh he's being you know words are

00:38:16.680 you know words equal their spells so he's trying to put a spell on them uh this will be a retribution

00:38:25.000 so at the end he says like he's you know if things don't work out we're gonna take out all the uh 0.51

00:38:32.120 all the electric generating plants oil wells and karg island um which uh and possibly all

00:38:41.160 desalination plants which we have purposely not yet touched this will be in retribution for our

00:38:46.440 many soldiers and others that iran has butchered and killed over the old regime's 47 years of reign

00:38:53.240 of terror and he says thank you for your attention to this matter so if there is no uh no and inside

00:39:01.320 in negotiations, which it seems from what Owen is saying, things aren't going that well

00:39:06.040 negotiation-wise, then by April 6 at 8 p.m., as he indicated, he will go forward and destroy them.

00:39:20.080 Unless you want to add to that, Owen, I'm happy to.

00:39:23.000 I mean, I think things are going to keep changing day to day. It seems like things are going in all

00:39:27.820 sorts of directions right now i don't think it's going to wrap up in a day or two but it could be

00:39:32.300 any day that he trump says hey we have a deal you know i mean it it's very fluid at the moment i

00:39:37.440 would say and you never know at the end of the 10 days trump might say we're having good talks we're

00:39:42.640 going to extend it another 10 days you know i mean lots of things could happen so um i think

00:39:47.600 you know i'm mostly just sitting back as an observer and hoping that we can get bring this

00:39:52.620 to a close pretty soon. And I think my most likely scenario is that it's not going to last more than

00:39:58.060 let's say another two to four weeks. And I think if it goes longer than that, it's going to be a

00:40:02.360 bigger problem for the whole world and for the United States and for Israel and everybody. So 0.69

00:40:07.620 I'm hoping we can get to a conclusion here. And I'm also hoping it doesn't require the final blow

00:40:13.680 that Trump's talking about, because that would have some really bad long-term consequences for

00:40:17.940 the people in iran so i'm hoping we don't have to reach that point but um you know trump is the

00:40:23.200 type that's not going to take anything off the table he's not going to say i'm not going to touch

00:40:26.620 those things because that would just be showing weakness to to your enemy so yeah i i don't i'm

00:40:32.480 not surprised by the positioning but um it does seem like he is trying to use that positive talk

00:40:38.340 and you know saying we we have this reasonable regime and we're having good talks and you know

00:40:44.700 hopeful that it'll reach a peaceful conclusion but um i'm expecting the fighting will go on for

00:40:50.320 probably at least another week or two okay all right marcella do you have a story for us a story 0.92

00:40:56.980 tell me a story mommy it's regarding it's regarding balls in a room uh ballroom um trump

00:41:04.900 was an air force one and he had the gaggle with the press he talked about iran and but another

00:41:11.120 thing is he came out with like a poster board of the ballroom and i know that that's like a

00:41:18.960 difficult subject for some uh for some people whether that's something that he needs to be

00:41:24.720 talking about right now or not but what was interesting about and why i'm talking about

00:41:28.640 it is because there's a u.s military building um like they're they're building sorry the

00:41:35.840 US military is building a massive complex under the ballroom. Trump talked about it during the he

00:41:43.440 confirmed it during Air Force One gaggle. And one of the reasons that it came out is that there was

00:41:49.760 a lawsuit against the ballroom being built because it didn't get all of the, you know, government,

00:41:57.440 you have to get all the approvals and the permits and blah, blah, blah. So they ended up suing in

00:42:03.360 court. And that's one of the things that was discovered through the lawsuit, I guess. And so

00:42:12.440 what this means is that it will be essentially a massive complex that is constructed underneath

00:42:21.720 the ballroom that will help in case of an emergency, like a 911 event, or like something

00:42:30.340 even worse that we don't you know like a nuclear issue i thought that was interesting um he was

00:42:37.860 so happy about talking about the ballroom the ballroom itself the above level will have windows

00:42:44.500 that are bulletproof and drone proof but i imagine the rest of the white house is drone proof

00:42:51.940 bulletproof i don't know that confused me but he did mention that my friend's son sells windows i

00:42:59.060 I wonder if he could do some bulletproof.

00:43:01.880 Our friend's son is very rich if he sells the windows to the ballroom.

00:43:05.940 He also indicated that the ballroom, I don't know how I feel about this,

00:43:09.280 but he said that the ballroom is all paid by private donors.

00:43:15.940 I don't know how to feel about that because in a way it's kind of like a bribe.

00:43:20.480 In a way it feels like that, but in a way it's like at least the taxpayer is not paying for that.

00:43:26.500 Yeah, we pay for everything else.

00:43:27.680 I'm not, I'm not too concerned about the private donors only because I think there's a whole bunch of them. I think he spread it around enough that it's not like anybody can come back and say, I built you that ballroom. I mean, yeah, they can come back and say I helped or I contributed to it. But I think it was like a million dollars from all these different people or all these different companies. And so I think it's kind of diversified enough that it isn't going to give anybody a ton of leverage over Trump.

00:43:51.240 And the other thing I would say is I'm pretty sure it was public knowledge that there was already a military complex down there. I think it was in very much need of repair or updating or renovation, but I think it was always down there. It wasn't like a new thing.

00:44:07.140 So I think it's basically just they're upgrading that complex underground to have a better one for military operation, command and control, things like that.

00:44:17.220 But I do think it's probably better not to publicize where we do those things because it seems silly to tell our enemies, hey, here's where you should hit if you want to take out our command and control.

00:44:28.320 Obviously, the White House is already a very public target, so it's maybe not that big of a deal.

00:44:34.400 um maybe it's a bunker for the donors yeah i doubt it um i think they're all building their

00:44:42.140 own private bunkers too from what i've heard but um yeah i you know i i don't i don't see it as a

00:44:47.360 big deal and i do think it's kind of crappy that the lawsuit forced them to disclose this or to

00:44:52.000 talk about it publicly and that they're asking questions about it because it seems like the

00:44:55.420 type of thing you just wouldn't want to talk about because then it's just going to attract

00:44:58.180 a bunch of crazies and conspiracy theories and other things that are just unnecessary

00:45:02.320 um but you know i'm all for the ballroom i think it's a great thing and i think it's a great thing

00:45:07.980 that we as taxpayers didn't have to pay for it yeah it was embarrassing that they'd have to like

00:45:12.720 tunnel these people out to a tent it's like hello we're america okay like the white house is old i

00:45:18.240 get it we want to you know it's cute but yes please have a proper ballroom where people can

00:45:23.420 move around it's you know it's not 1920 anymore um so i like the ballroom what goes on underneath

00:45:30.440 that it's none of my business okay what's another story we could talk about um let's see so um it

00:45:39.560 looks like we are allowing trump is allowing a russian oil tanker to deliver fuel to cuba

00:45:44.760 um so there was a russian oil tanker approaching cuba and there's some kind of blockade that we

00:45:49.080 have in place to prevent things like that but apparently we're letting them

00:45:53.080 bring 730 000 barrels of oil to cuba so um you know that was lining up to be a potential

00:45:59.320 a confrontation but apparently we're going to allow them through and i think trump is saying

00:46:03.540 you know on the one hand cuba is next um but you know they need to survive and he doesn't want to

00:46:09.860 push them to the point where people are dying and you know that it's a humanitarian crisis if you

00:46:14.140 don't have any energy which i think cuba was really reaching that point we cut off all their

00:46:18.260 supply from venezuela and maybe russia is the only place still trying to supply them with oil so

00:46:23.660 you know up until this point it was kind of like what's about to happen because they're literally

00:46:27.880 just out of energy they don't have any you know they've had a bunch of blackouts um for on their

00:46:33.120 grid and it seemed like they were really reaching the end in terms of their energy so i think it's

00:46:37.560 probably a good thing to just say let's at least keep everybody alive and allow them to survive

00:46:42.060 but we still probably have complete control as to what goes in and out of cuba so you know i'm

00:46:47.960 still thinking maybe that's just a quick stop on the way back let's take care of cuba on your way

00:46:53.600 back yeah yeah but you know i'm i'm expecting it'll at least wait until the iran conflict is

00:46:59.100 wrapped up so there's probably some time before anything happens in cuba so sean said are we

00:47:03.720 torturing them or trying to persuade them i mean it's a little bit of both i think

00:47:09.860 carrot and the stick yeah but i i like i said before i would like to have cuba i would like

00:47:16.260 to vacation there it would be nice and i think the people like i feel like the people in cuba

00:47:21.900 I feel like it's such an easy fix of all the things that we do in this world.

00:47:27.400 Like Cuba, it's so doable. 0.73

00:47:30.240 Give them their freedom.

00:47:31.900 Let the people live and thrive and grow and prosper.

00:47:34.640 Has anyone ever seen The Godfather and they have all those clips in Cuba?

00:47:38.540 Let's make Cuba great again.

00:47:41.420 Like Godfather days, I'm all for it.

00:47:44.020 And the food and the people, amazing.

00:47:47.380 That's my positive spin on wanting Cuba, personally.

00:47:49.860 I mean, certainly communism is the problem.

00:47:51.900 And that's the tough part is to get the government to not be communist anymore.

00:47:56.140 But, you know, if we can do that, whether it means putting in a different leadership or whatever, I think it would probably be good for the Cuban people.

00:48:06.960 And so if it became a U.S. territory, it would probably be great for them.

00:48:10.260 I know places like Puerto Rico have their problems, but they're probably a lot better off than if they didn't have the support they get from the United States.

00:48:16.800 And so I think, you know, it's one of these things that's been that way for many decades, like back to the 50s or even earlier.

00:48:21.600 and it's just been stagnating and it's been a problem for a long time you know we had the

00:48:26.120 cuban missile crisis and then we did have all these embargoes and sanctions and things and

00:48:30.400 it's just sat there and no one has tried to resolve it so i think it's probably a good thing

00:48:34.800 overall if we can just get them to be essentially an ally uh rather than an enemy um since they're

00:48:41.100 so close to us geographically it makes a lot of sense to say we want to have good relations with

00:48:45.040 cuba and so if we can come up hopefully with a peaceful way to transition this uh i think that

00:48:50.860 would be a great thing. I'm kind of hoping, again, that we don't have to have a whole lot of violence

00:48:54.180 in the process. But I would imagine that we probably have such overwhelming force that Cuba 1.00

00:48:59.800 wouldn't really be able to resist for very long. It probably would look a lot more like Venezuela,

00:49:03.320 where we just go in and take whatever we want to take, and then it's over within a matter of days.

00:49:08.620 So we'll see. Nothing's guaranteed. But I don't think it's going to be like Iran, where there's 1.00

00:49:13.600 going to be a lot of resistance and a lot of ability to resist. So I wouldn't anticipate a

00:49:17.900 longer conflict there hopefully not marcella anything on uh on that subject i mean it's it's

00:49:24.700 a huge burden for america uh kind of like east germany west germany when west germany opened up

00:49:30.820 their borders became one east germany was very expensive to bring back to the modern technology

00:49:38.740 that west germany had the same here like i i do think we do need them to be on our side because

00:49:44.340 they are near us um and you know and also i feel bad for the cuban people but i think of america

00:49:51.620 first and to me you have to go in knowing that there's going to be a lot of cost at first

00:49:59.860 to get them to i mean they don't even have cars after a certain time period um their infrastructure

00:50:08.340 was completely shot uh i mean it's a lot of work that needs to be done which is a lot of work that

00:50:15.380 needs to be done in a lot of cities in the united states but um so long as everybody knows what's

00:50:22.260 what it's what you're gonna have to do to bring cuba to the modern age well i think the people

00:50:30.020 will do a lot themselves if they're not under that you know rule um they just they're just not allowed

00:50:37.060 And I mean, I can tell you, I know millions of people that would send even just simple

00:50:42.640 little things that they just haven't had there that would start to heal with their basic

00:50:48.220 needs that will then lead to them being able to work on infrastructure.

00:50:52.720 And I think that the Cuban people would really do their part in bringing back their country

00:50:59.460 and the pride and everything else.

00:51:02.100 And I think we can help, but it can't be worse than it is now.

00:51:06.120 I mean, if you get rid of communism, right. And a dictator and all that stuff, it's, it's only

00:51:10.940 going to go up from there. And if we could go there, um, if people could go there and spend

00:51:17.460 their American dollars there, I mean, they'll, they'll get like a big boost. This is just me

00:51:22.460 talking, but I really think that, I think that Cuba has the will and the pride and the people

00:51:29.920 that, you know, really want to see it come back. I just feel like it's really doable. And yes,

00:51:35.420 i america first always for me always always always but i don't know i hope i hope for that

00:51:41.340 yeah you might be right i mean there's there's there's a there's more cubans out of cuba than

00:51:46.720 in cuba so um there's gonna be a huge amount of american cuban americans that are gonna help in

00:51:54.520 cuba um tourism is another thing you know which east germany hardly has but anyway right um but

00:52:04.360 But yeah, it is a thing that, you know, whenever you play God, as you would call it, or play

00:52:11.900 like, oh, let's undo this, it's never, you never know how it ends up, but it's definitely

00:52:19.100 not going to be worse than it already is.

00:52:21.320 Yeah, 100%.

00:52:21.860 I fully agree with everything you're saying.

00:52:24.100 So my next story is, there's no kings right now.

00:52:28.440 So the protests weren't.

00:52:31.300 Thank you, everybody.

00:52:32.960 i am so thankful for all those 3 000 events that were in the u.s uh internationally allegedly

00:52:42.680 8 million people took part in it and i am so glad that they had a protest saying no king's

00:52:50.460 protest with frogs dancing no they're still looking there they didn't do it hard enough

00:52:58.380 Yeah, not enough. But they did have a walk, a protest in London, which is very interesting, to say the least. But basically, they got together, everybody got together, kumbaya, against President Trump's policies on immigration, Iran operation, war, proposed cuts to Medicaid, education.

00:53:24.000 um there were several uh celebrities that took part in it mark hamill of star wars uh took to

00:53:33.000 to blue sky to protest to show his protest signs robert de niro of course had to make an appearance

00:53:40.600 in the new york protest um i think he like he butchered what he was saying anyways um

00:53:47.440 he needs a script letitia james was with him i believe rent rent your favorite randy weingarten

00:53:54.520 was leading the minnesota protest can we just pause on that for a second randy weingarten okay 0.79

00:54:02.580 you guys she's the head of the teachers union excuse me why is this woman a freaking active 1.00

00:54:08.960 she's she was an activist before she was the head of the teachers union i have to just pause on this

00:54:14.740 because it's so amazing to me that in a country full of all sorts of kids and people from every 0.95

00:54:21.620 background and political suasion, everything, Randy Weingarten is a psychotic. I hope somebody 0.95

00:54:30.180 can clip this. Randy, you are a psychotic activist. You have no business even being around children 1.00

00:54:37.520 and you're in Minnesota of all places. I know you'd like to travel to Ukraine and everywhere

00:54:43.780 else and you never miss a parade with a sign and a microphone to scream into. How you are the

00:54:51.160 president of the teachers union is beyond and it's disgusting. And I hope you get taken out 0.99

00:54:59.200 by Corey DeAngelis's movement and that everyone in the teachers union, listen to me, teachers,

00:55:05.040 you don't have to be in the teachers union. Do you know there's a way out of the teachers union

00:55:10.340 and you get more benefits being out of it than in it.

00:55:14.460 So if you want to have your own little protest,

00:55:17.200 get out of the teacher's union ASAP.

00:55:19.840 And that is the end of my rant.

00:55:21.640 Thank you.

00:55:23.140 Sorry, I just can't believe her.

00:55:24.920 And if you as a teacher get duress

00:55:29.240 or somehow you feel like they're discriminating against you

00:55:33.420 because you're not part of the teacher's union,

00:55:35.480 you could always sue them for that.

00:55:38.460 Call Marcella.

00:55:39.100 Call me. I'm going to give my number out. Anyways, so there it is. I don't know if it was 8 million, but Owen, are you shocked? Are you speechless?

00:55:53.200 I just think it's a great accomplishment to have gotten rid of all the kings in one weekend. I mean, to have your protest demands met so quickly, it's great. I mean, more power to them. I mean, they did it.

00:56:09.100 Yeah, they did. That was great. And they got exercise and they got some fresh air and vitamin

00:56:14.740 D. Good for them. And watching, what's his name? Punchy De Niro standing next to Al Sharpton,

00:56:22.020 holding up the sign, walking behind the banner sign. I was like, look at this little man,

00:56:28.420 like Punchy and that Charlton, what's his name? Sharpton, standing next to each other. I was like,

00:56:35.680 oh these two insignificant little it was just such a perfect side by side and then to see

00:56:43.520 bruce springsteen next to who was he standing next to jane fonda i think i don't know but i

00:56:50.940 was like oh because like i always felt like jamie lee curtis could be bruce springsteen but then i

00:56:57.640 saw that they were like both at an event and i was like oh they can't be the same person but

00:57:01.900 it was interesting it was definitely interesting the the the sad part uh some of it turned uh

00:57:08.660 violent in portland of course um they used the whole no kings protest to beat up on people um

00:57:16.600 and uh basically destroy again uh the place in front of the ice uh detention center so they used

00:57:26.060 And in California, at least in L.A., there was like 75 arrests, but it was what it was.

00:57:35.080 We can't take Portland anywhere.

00:57:37.500 Portland can back Portland.

00:57:39.380 Everyone, everything, yeah.

00:57:40.800 They really do.

00:57:43.840 Oh, we have two minutes left, you guys.

00:57:46.720 I would just mention the final story.

00:57:49.540 Vance had an interview with Benny Johnson, and he was kind of on fire with some of his stuff.

00:57:53.700 He's saying that Tim Waltz and Gavin Newsom are going to be investigated for fraud.

00:57:58.700 He doesn't know exactly what they knew and when they knew it, but apparently they're going to be asking those questions and trying to put the heat on them to see if they were involved or how knowledgeable they were of those things.

00:58:09.860 And he also says he believes Ilhan Omar is guilty of immigration fraud and should be essentially deported or even extradited because apparently there may be some charges waiting for her if she goes back to Somalia.

00:58:19.240 um apparently her family her father was involved with some kind of genocide over there and she's

00:58:25.440 aligned with that and is proud of her heritage and i don't know how much involvement she had

00:58:29.380 but apparently there are some people in somalia that says yes please just say the word and we'll

00:58:33.700 take care of her um but you know she may be facing some consequences i think it's been a pretty public

00:58:39.500 information that she supposedly married her brother as part of her immigration application

00:58:44.860 to get into the country. And that would obviously be fraud. And so hopefully that'll result in some 1.00

00:58:51.740 charges or some consequences. So seems like Vance is ready to go after these people.

00:58:59.860 Yeah, I think it'll be interesting. Sean Corey with another comment. I'd like to agree with you

00:59:06.200 that yeah, probably, you know, as soon as we get past the midterms and we get past

00:59:11.760 um, like the 250th anniversary of our country. Um, yeah, the focus will be on Vance and I think

00:59:20.020 Vance will really put out there more of what he's about. And I think that we're going to be

00:59:26.620 pleasantly surprised. I hope, listen, I'm open to all options. May the best person win, but also

00:59:34.400 like everybody we have to remember there are no kings in this country there never will be

00:59:41.040 and trump just has a you know like two and a half years left so whatever you know whatever your

00:59:47.520 issues may or may not be he's he's done soon and a new president will be put in elected hopefully

00:59:54.860 fairly so there's that okay time nazi and my nazism i see you andy so um you guys the first

01:00:02.060 draft as scott's biography is done we posted it on x not the draft but just joel shared with us

01:00:08.580 him fanning through his first handwritten draft he's going to do a couple more and he has a you

01:00:14.240 know a lot to fill in um we love him so much so you guys let's like get prepared to say goodbye

01:00:19.840 we're going to see you tomorrow uh bj will be with us tomorrow bj ditched her we're going to 1.00

01:00:26.140 be doing like all news current events um for the show so be here tomorrow and we have more guests

01:00:32.840 coming up this week and i will tell you about them tomorrow so go out there let's be useful

01:00:38.480 let's have a toast to scott and to shelly and um we will see you guys in the morning

01:00:45.060 be useful to scott and shelly to scott let's go and show

01:00:50.880 love you guys thanks marcel and owen all right bye thank you bye guys

01:01:20.880 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 30, 2026

Episode 3125 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸29⧸26

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