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00:01:00.000 We are live.

00:01:04.160 I love that.

00:01:05.480 I need a whole board of sound effects from you.

00:01:08.420 You need a soundboard.

00:01:09.500 Everyone should have a soundboard.

00:01:10.520 I feel like when you're just wandering around outside,

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00:01:15.980 I make my own sounds all day long.

00:01:17.980 Look who's here, you guys.

00:01:19.660 Stop it.

00:01:20.320 It's Akira at the dawn in the house.

00:01:24.240 I love it.

00:01:27.020 Owen's not here yet.

00:01:28.120 He's coming.

00:01:28.540 but look it's akira finally we did it we did it i told you i promised he's here yeah it's been

00:01:34.220 very difficult i was up till 4 30 in the morning trying to get all this stuff working uh for all

00:01:38.700 of us yeah and then i got off at seven so if i start like being weird it's because i'm sleep

00:01:44.340 deprived and um weird is the rule here weird is the rule everyone's saying hello to you can you

00:01:51.980 see the chat akira or no it's kind of the far away i don't yet have a monitoring screen that's big

00:01:57.720 enough for my weak tie-dyes to properly read but if i squint in this direction you see that it's

00:02:01.800 it's less aesthetically cool but i see someone going akira akira akira and so i'm terrified to

00:02:08.080 move the laptop because don't move there's so many variables here and like i was like digging

00:02:14.340 through all these hundreds of boxes that have come from texas to my new studio here in nashville to

00:02:18.960 find the right wires and stuff so i can do this thing having just moved from mexico it's like all

00:02:24.940 pretty nice yes but yeah i think that's that chat what's up chuck what up chunks what a persuasion

00:02:30.080 club brain bookish girl what's cracking baby yeah beautiful days of your life oh my gosh okay so we

00:02:39.920 have youtube rumble x and spotify and of course locals all going so you guys let's do a sip we're

00:02:48.020 actually going to do two sips i'll show you why but let's do the first one with scott right now

00:02:53.140 I refer to Naval all the time as the smartest person I know with the most impressive talent stack.

00:03:00.420 But, you know, it's a dangerous time.

00:03:02.880 And after we do the simultaneous SIP, which I'm hoping, Naval, you'll join me with, let's do the simultaneous SIP.

00:03:10.300 We don't need a preamble.

00:03:11.920 Go.

00:03:12.920 Boom.

00:03:14.820 Oh, my God.

00:03:17.380 So, we got this.

00:03:18.900 i i will say given your stellar introduction i do have to point out that scott is a recluse and

00:03:25.080 doesn't know very many people so that definitely helps if i ever meet somebody smarter you're

00:03:31.120 gonna get demoted from smartest person i know okay you guys and i i just i can't live with

00:03:37.200 just that so if you guys will have a second sip with me all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass

00:03:42.860 a tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite

00:03:47.980 liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the

00:03:53.080 day the thing that makes everything better it's the simultaneous sip and it happens now with akira go

00:04:00.780 you got that down are you reading that off anything or have you got that locked now 0.90

00:04:09.100 i've got that locked down nice locked down baby i feel like it's not like fucking like excuse 0.87

00:04:16.020 six years to get that locked down we yeah we we workshopped it for years until it got that that 0.85

00:04:21.660 rhythm we had mason jars in there and everything oh yeah so akira listen i don't have so many

00:04:31.200 questions but i i just oh wait here i know i have questions not so many i was gonna say so many here

00:04:36.580 comes owen let's bring in owen all right and i think i'm gonna change us over here there you go

00:04:44.560 Erica says bookish girl. You got a great job there. How about that?

00:04:48.240 Oh, thanks, Gracie. I love you. Very smooth. Very smooth. So, Owen, hi.

00:04:53.600 Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Akira.

00:04:55.740 What's up, Owen? How are you doing?

00:04:57.340 Doing great.

00:04:58.600 You guys look at this fancy camera work. It's just what you wanted, a big Akira and little Erica and Owen.

00:05:04.300 so akira i debuted i debuted we all have problems the other day but i it was just kind of like quick

00:05:14.500 and brief we didn't i didn't do a big focus on it so first i had a question for you hey me okay so

00:05:22.220 i'm just gonna play a very quick section of your of this um music video you did i'm just gonna play

00:05:30.300 like a couple of minutes or a minute and then i want to talk to you about it in one second

00:05:34.220 which music video is that this one it's literally everything and on top of that you've got tick tock

00:05:40.860 doing this video oh it's the soccer one yeah i can play that one okay you know and my yeah

00:05:49.980 because my question for you is did you pick this song because of scott's emotion

00:05:57.100 yeah well every time i i do something it's because uh it stands out to me in some way

00:06:04.840 and it announces itself in some way and it requires uh it it just requires transforming

00:06:12.900 into what it seems to be what in my mind and the second he started speaking in that fashion

00:06:19.440 uh you could kind of see him change if you re-watch the original clip something kind of

00:06:25.280 comes over him and he kind of allows himself to sort of uh become a conduit for something in a

00:06:31.460 funny sort of a way uh which is partly something that's purely his but it's also something

00:06:36.200 universal uh which is why that resonates so deeply and i i think i wanted to not that i want

00:06:43.220 to get this out of the way i just it's very emotional and um i listen to your songs often

00:06:49.580 And, you know, yesterday I asked the group, I said, after the show, in the comments, write down if, you know, you could spend an hour chatting with Scott, what would you talk about?

00:07:02.200 And, you know, it was very interesting.

00:07:03.560 I read everybody's comments.

00:07:05.920 But then when I rewatched this video again, I was like, oh, you know what?

00:07:09.980 I think I do want you to play.

00:07:11.280 Can you do the video or just the audio?

00:07:13.920 because what I wanted to point out was he said, at the end of my life, I don't think I'll be

00:07:20.360 thinking about Dilbert. I'll be thinking about watching Disney movies with my stepkids and

00:07:25.900 things like that. And then I was like, wow, that's what I'd want to ask him. Is that what

00:07:31.040 you were thinking about? I mean, we were really with him till the end and he was very focused on

00:07:35.460 all of us, but it's just interesting to be on a journey with someone who took us all the way to

00:07:43.300 the end and knowing the things that he wondered that he would think about. And I loved everybody

00:07:48.960 that said they would ask him about, did you meet Jesus? Are you in heaven? You know, like,

00:07:54.660 these are like the things that we all want to know. So I just, I love this. I think this,

00:08:00.000 this is one of the, our favorite ones. So let's, um, let's remember this and take a listen.

00:08:06.340 yeah great if you've never heard this you're in for a treat

00:08:13.880 oh and owen and i will mute ourselves

00:08:18.740 hang on guys we're gonna get it

00:08:36.340 here we go

00:08:41.780 here we go

00:08:48.100 okay akira we don't hear it you know that right no i didn't know that we did oh yeah no we don't

00:08:55.460 hear it i can definitely hang on yeah i haven't got that hooked up i can play the song okay so

00:09:08.580 i'll play the song awesome so we definitely have audio working yes sorry have youtube on that

00:09:14.660 computer over there working but next time everything will work honestly we are just so happy

00:09:25.460 All right, guys, get ready.

00:09:29.760 Get ready.

00:09:42.240 I did put you on the spot, too.

00:09:47.000 It's literally everything.

00:09:48.340 And on top of that, you've got TikToks doing these videos for childless adults.

00:09:55.460 saying how great their weekends are because they don't have any kids.

00:09:59.660 Now, I have two feelings about that.

00:10:01.600 Number one, they're totally right about how great their weekends are for their kids.

00:10:06.120 However, I'll just speak for myself.

00:10:09.240 There's almost nothing I ever did as a single person

00:10:13.460 that was as fun as getting up on a Saturday morning

00:10:17.380 and watching my stepdaughter at the time play soccer.

00:10:22.000 there's nothing I did that was more fun than that and it wasn't easy nope it was

00:10:33.340 driving and waking up and getting food and making sure everybody's taken care

00:10:38.020 of and you got bring chairs down and cancel everything out

00:10:41.320 it's a lot of work

00:10:42.600 if there's nothing I did

00:10:43.660 there was more

00:10:44.160 more fun than that

00:10:46.020 watch you do my stuff

00:10:48.660 to our place on

00:10:49.400 watch you do my stuff

00:10:51.040 to our place on

00:10:51.800 that's it

00:10:53.060 you couldn't talk about

00:10:55.600 watch you do my stuff

00:10:58.180 to our place on

00:10:58.940 watch you do my stuff

00:11:00.560 to our place on

00:11:01.300 the second thing

00:11:02.720 like the best moments ever

00:11:05.540 do you ever think about

00:11:06.780 why you would remember

00:11:07.740 if your life flashed

00:11:10.040 in front of you

00:11:10.680 like you're dying

00:11:11.800 I don't know if that really happens

00:11:14.980 but do you ever think

00:11:16.160 like what do you call your life

00:11:17.580 because I find that there are moments

00:11:21.500 that I call my life

00:11:24.160 do you ever have this

00:11:26.300 like I don't think

00:11:31.320 if my life was flashing before my eyes

00:11:34.640 I don't think I ever think about

00:11:36.460 my Gilbert career

00:11:37.540 You have 35 years of doing it every day.

00:11:41.540 I don't think I would think about it.

00:11:44.440 I'll tell you what I would think about it.

00:11:46.900 If I can't.

00:11:48.760 I would think about watching Disney movies with my stepkids.

00:11:56.460 That's it.

00:11:58.860 That's what I would think about.

00:12:00.880 If there's nothing I did, there was more fun than that.

00:12:04.580 Outro Music

00:12:34.580 never say goodbye never uh i love that i i mean i felt like we had to revisit that song and i felt

00:12:59.380 like i just had to get it over with i was like keep my composure erica you got this

00:13:04.100 um it's i mean i'm looking at everybody's reactions it's just you know it's the important

00:13:09.160 i was on here uh i met shelly like on here and i told her about how you know because that's the

00:13:17.520 song that i would always think about her when i was making that song and this was before i you

00:13:21.560 know i think i even had a visual image of who she was but you know i'd read it just got talking

00:13:25.920 about her and i would think about her and when i when i was working on this song and that period

00:13:32.200 of time when he was devoting himself to that aspect of being yeah and uh and of course now

00:13:40.140 what feels like a very short time later shelly's no longer with us i and but the song remains

00:13:49.700 yes the song remains and you're right and i went the first time i heard that too i thought wow what

00:13:56.660 does you know shelly think like the the amount of love scott had for his family the stepchildren he

00:14:06.880 was one of these guys you know he would talk a lot you knew him via his work and he would talk

00:14:12.500 about his work and his work processes and he would talk about the world and he would tell you things

00:14:17.180 about the world and one's relationships of the world and navigating the world the user interface

00:14:22.120 for exploring the world and sometimes it was easy to forget uh that he was also just a man

00:14:30.360 like all of us and i think of that that a lot with regards to his last weeks and how that's

00:14:36.120 really what that brought home i think i can't remember i was talking to i was talking to someone

00:14:39.640 they were saying that they were that kind of saddened them seeing him uh in that state and

00:14:46.920 it saddened them because they'd really held him on this high pedestal and then seeing him like that

00:14:51.320 But for me, I felt that was kind of the point.

00:14:53.800 That was kind of the final message.

00:14:55.680 In the same way, Norm Macdonald had his final message,

00:14:57.760 which was that wonderful joke.

00:15:00.000 I didn't even know he was sick.

00:15:03.080 Scott's final message was, no, like really, I am like you,

00:15:07.520 which means you can do what I did like I did.

00:15:10.980 You so wish.

00:15:11.960 One man can change the world.

00:15:14.000 I think that was what I always got from him,

00:15:15.740 was that one man can change the world.

00:15:18.300 Always mentoring right till the end.

00:15:20.060 And I mean, literally, literally the day he passed, he was going to try to be on the show.

00:15:26.600 You know, it's just it's it's just incredible.

00:15:30.280 And I just feel like I don't know.

00:15:33.320 I feel like he said, I mean, just sounds so strange, but I feel like he set like a good

00:15:38.800 example, like we don't have to be super fearful.

00:15:43.020 It is, you know, death is, you know, where none of us are getting away from it.

00:15:46.900 Right.

00:15:47.240 So I don't know.

00:15:48.460 I feel like you said a good example about it.

00:15:50.300 And I know a lot of people were uncomfortable and a lot of people were like,

00:15:53.600 I couldn't watch, like, you know,

00:15:54.900 I couldn't watch him like the last month and you know, it really bothered them.

00:15:58.680 And I just, you know, for me, I just felt like, you know,

00:16:02.480 what a gift because we were with him through so many of us for 10 years,

00:16:07.280 through so many ups and downs and trials and tribulations and prisoner Island

00:16:10.980 and deaths and, you know, marriages, divorces, you know, everything.

00:16:15.120 and it's like it just sort of felt fitting that he took us along even right to his memorial service

00:16:21.320 that he live streamed so um yeah it's a lot of people would say things like he would give advice

00:16:27.900 or something and people would be like oh well that's easy for you to say you're a famous cartoonist

00:16:31.740 that's easy for you to say you're scott adams or what have you and what that really drove home at

00:16:36.860 the end was no he was a man he was a human being like you're a human being uh we all

00:16:43.660 have whatever obstacles we have we all have problems as the song says um we are all born

00:16:49.800 and we all die doesn't matter how rich we are doesn't matter if we know the president doesn't

00:16:54.520 matter what like that's what happens that's what humans do his was a human story and he showed

00:17:00.160 right at the end that he really was human and a lot of people because a lot of people like

00:17:04.780 literally can't quite equate the fact that they're seeing a person on a screen or something

00:17:08.540 with them being like them so some people do find it hard to integrate certain lessons and ideas

00:17:14.840 that they might get from these people because they feel themselves separate to those people

00:17:18.340 they feel that somehow some other kind of being some kind of immortal thing and scott in his final

00:17:22.640 days really drove home the point that no i am like you and you therefore can be like me and do

00:17:28.500 whatever you want with your life you can change and i see that as being consistent throughout his

00:17:32.880 life I mean his first you know major book that really took off was the how to fail at almost

00:17:38.320 everything and still win big so it wasn't about you know look at all the great success I had let

00:17:43.320 me teach you how to do it which is a lot there's plenty of books out there that sound like that

00:17:46.800 when you read the title and get into it but you know he was kind of taking the opposite approach

00:17:51.380 let me tell you about all the ways I failed and how I still managed to succeed somehow and you

00:17:56.320 know there was a the only similar example I know of is like James Altucher who would be very open

00:18:00.960 about his failures yeah yeah and funnily enough i was listening to a lot of james alza chat

00:18:05.280 at when that scott book came out i always talk about how scott was hugely influential on meaning

00:18:11.000 wave and it was at the same time so scott was very influential on me coming up during the music

00:18:16.520 coming up with the idea of putting kind of affirmations and self-programming into music

00:18:19.720 and i did a couple of songs like that and then i heard james alza i should say on a podcast

00:18:24.440 uh quadruple down on what's working and one of those tracks i'd done that week i'd put out three

00:18:30.460 tracks that kind of experiments and one of them was this first meaning wave track with jordan

00:18:34.480 peterson uh so i said okay we'll call you go down and do more of this thing but i feel like james

00:18:40.680 i did i james and scott did a podcast didn't they yeah yeah they did yeah i know i know scott has

00:18:46.740 been a guest on james's podcast and probably the other way around i don't remember but i know he's

00:18:50.760 been on james alster's podcast multiple times so that i think it's more than once and you know

00:18:56.460 like Kurt Vonnegue's concept of Karras from Cass Cradle.

00:19:00.380 There are these people who are kind of like in your family.

00:19:02.680 You might never meet them or maybe you will meet them.

00:19:04.520 They might live a craft way across the world, but you're somehow connected.

00:19:07.980 I feel like they were in that school.

00:19:11.600 Well, they're both very smart people.

00:19:13.780 They're both very accomplished and successful, but also with a lot of failure and ups and

00:19:18.240 downs.

00:19:18.980 And a willingness to be very open about it and ashamed.

00:19:22.500 in that way people will sometimes hide the most useful thing they could share with someone because

00:19:27.060 they're ashamed yeah that thing well scott scott was good he had no uh fear of embarrassment or

00:19:34.820 shame like everything just is what it is it is what it is you know if you uh if you fail i mean

00:19:41.120 isn't that the way to learn okay that didn't work now what right so i i love that i love that he

00:19:47.180 would tell us about all the startups he tried and all the things he would try to invent and

00:19:52.220 you know we what was the one called when hub and you know all the different things you read in his

00:19:57.440 book how to fail that he was working on i'm like oh my god this guy was so driven like he took no

00:20:02.660 time off and it was like he was always working working working thinking thinking and you're

00:20:07.540 gonna have to fail to succeed so get scott and his giant bong nikki there you go that's right 0.93

00:20:14.340 So that's a man that needs a big song. 0.93

00:20:16.840 And I think most people have a mix of success and failure, but a lot of people only talk

00:20:22.100 about the successes, and that may come back to that shame and embarrassment.

00:20:25.760 But if you really understood a person, Scott had his basket case theory where everyone's

00:20:30.580 a basket case if you really got to know them, and I think that's true.

00:20:33.560 And I certainly could tell the story of my life as a huge failure or as a huge success,

00:20:38.020 and they would both be true.

00:20:40.700 That's right.

00:20:41.320 um so akira uh i would love if we could do um we all have problems that's the one i i did a quick

00:20:50.360 debut of um and a lot of people weren't here and they didn't get to hear it but it's kind of like

00:20:55.920 what we're saying we all have problems right everybody's no one's infallible everybody's

00:21:00.040 got their ups and downs you ain't a unique snowflake exactly i'm a unique snowflake

00:21:07.680 and i have problems i'll melt in heat you are a unique snowflake but you're also not unique so

00:21:12.780 there's always the the dichotomy of everything life is these two things are true you are a unique

00:21:17.380 thing of which there is only you that cannot be replicated or photocopied yet you share a huge

00:21:23.820 amount of your being with everyone else right correct i've got you let's go all right here's

00:21:30.420 one that's more about uh just not this one's very relevant to me

00:21:34.560 the usual old frame is that if you're having some bad luck you think that you're unusually

00:21:46.500 unlucky because it happened to you you think of all the things that could happen to anybody

00:21:52.520 and then you think oh man why do all these things happen to me why me why do i have all

00:22:00.920 these problems. That's the old way of thinking. Here's the reframe. Reframe is everyone has

00:22:12.060 problems

00:22:37.180 has problems just the fact that you don't know somebody else's problem

00:22:42.060 that's pretty gutsy of you to think that your problem is bigger than theirs

00:22:45.040 you don't know their problems you don't know anything about people's problems

00:22:52.260 the really big ones they keep to themselves you know sometimes you see it if it's a physical

00:22:58.420 thing like in my case but generally speaking people's battle is inside their head

00:23:05.040 then that could be quite a fierce battle you don't know what's going on in there

00:23:09.060 so the moment you think why me why me why me why me the reframe is everybody's got problems

00:23:17.500 you don't have the special problems

00:23:20.120 we all have problems yes we all have problems yes we do

00:23:28.040 yes we do yes we do

00:23:30.840 everyone has problems

00:23:33.020 We all had problems. Yes, we did. All had problems. Yes, we did. Yes, we did.

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00:24:55.560 i love it music plus you guys did you love that doesn't it i mean it's just akira it's such a

00:25:20.400 good thing that you do this meaning wave music because oh my gosh i have itchy nose um

00:25:25.560 does that mean Scott's here? Okay. So he was laughing at me last night trying to set the

00:25:30.380 studio up. Oh yeah. He was laughing at me on Monday. I'll tell you about it one day.

00:25:35.880 Um, so I love that you do this because it's like, like almost like this ambient music with a message

00:25:43.560 and rhythm and it keeps you going and it keeps you positive and it keeps you thinking.

00:25:48.380 I just think it's like so good just to have like blasting through the house or in your ears or

00:25:54.240 whatever um did you hear have you ever heard from jordan about your songs oh yeah yeah yeah

00:26:01.020 jordan was like almost as soon as i did did you hear that yeah was that like a toaster

00:26:06.980 that was a cha-ching so if like someone buys something from my shop my phone goes cha-ching

00:26:13.960 which always makes me think of scott which is we'll play that song in a bit maybe yes that's

00:26:18.360 that's every time that i hear that noise i think it's gone that's amazing uh yeah yeah let's make

00:26:23.880 a cha-ching today a sip i would say yes it's a cha-ching a sip to cha-ching you guys anytime

00:26:30.980 someone buys something from mccure you're gonna hear a cha-ching meaningwave.com um yeah the first

00:26:37.080 meaning wave song i did like technically was uh 2017 it was sampled jordan peterson talking about

00:26:43.320 the utility of hierarchies and being a good plumber and like he heard it like almost immediately i

00:26:49.040 think michaela sent it to him uh and he retweeted it and he said i don't know what he's up to but

00:26:55.840 this is interesting and then i did like the full jbp wave mixtape and then he went oh what's going

00:27:00.140 on here this and he wrote something about i don't know what this this is up to but it seems like

00:27:03.460 this is good and then we started communication and then we started emailing each other and then

00:27:08.840 he had me on his podcast and then he came on my podcast and we had we stayed in touch over the

00:27:14.440 years oh awesome we hope he's doing well you know we hope he's doing well oh i love that is there

00:27:20.940 anyone that you haven't done yet that you're thinking about doing yeah of course are we allowed

00:27:29.080 to know i don't know about things but they're done it's this funny again right so there's this whole

00:27:35.120 thing you got the whole like fake it till you make it be it till you see it type thing right

00:27:40.740 that's true it's also true sometimes if you talk about things before you happen you can bugger them

00:27:45.860 up okay and you can also ruin the experience for people i like to surprise people with things i

00:27:50.900 like to put drop a thing and people go oh my goodness i had no idea this was gonna happen

00:27:53.980 amazing that type of thing yeah i wish i could say a whole lot of prophetic things right now

00:27:59.480 so you could make one for me, but you know, it's not going to happen. So you never know, Erica,

00:28:06.140 you never know. I mean, I've had some wing bangers, that's for sure. Let me, let me ask 0.99

00:28:11.020 a more general question. Like, how do you do your research to find these things? Um, well, I, I, uh,

00:28:17.720 I listen to a lot of things. I read a lot of things, uh, where, you know, I do, I do a lot

00:28:23.340 of walking. I try to get 10 K minimum, and that's a great time to listen to things, whether it's

00:28:28.840 audiobooks or podcasts or lectures or what have you and also reading so i'm constantly on that

00:28:35.320 and then sometimes when i'm uh i also people send me things all the time like i've said before a

00:28:41.840 couple of the scott things were a result of like loads of people all at once messaging me going oh

00:28:45.820 my god tune in right now so i think and uh and then when if i have i'm also constantly working

00:28:53.720 towards a sort of greater narrative so i will sort of investigate people that might have spoken about

00:28:59.980 a certain thing that i want to get multiple angles on uh in this sort of grand narrative and then

00:29:06.360 sometimes i'll be working on you know an individual voice and i'll be spending a lot of time just

00:29:11.280 purely going through that person sort of looking for the stuff that as we were talking about kind

00:29:15.820 of calls out to me and as jordan peterson once said when he was talking about reading the bible

00:29:19.780 and find the understanding aspects of it.

00:29:21.860 A passage that glitters.

00:29:24.180 Yes.

00:29:24.620 We're always looking for something that glitters.

00:29:27.440 Yeah.

00:29:27.880 And I mean, you can really,

00:29:30.040 so you're lucky, you know,

00:29:31.400 and you have a platform where you can say like,

00:29:33.940 I want to be useful.

00:29:35.340 I want to spread a great message,

00:29:37.540 a positive message,

00:29:38.720 something that will help people.

00:29:40.520 And I think through music is a great way.

00:29:43.420 Like we all love a rhythm and a song.

00:29:46.460 And I think that's like a perfect way to,

00:29:48.800 like uh hooked on phonics right wasn't that the thing where they like put lessons to music and

00:29:53.980 then people really absorb them more oh he said he was like i don't listen to music it's dangerous

00:29:58.660 cha-ching take a sip cha-ching every time i'm taking a sip every time a cha-ching rings

00:30:05.140 take a sip okay um sorry so i don't mean to interrupt you now i interrupt my phone interrupting

00:30:14.880 you i really don't know how to turn it off it's a new phone as well everyone's new i got a new

00:30:19.520 home new studio new everything new country new squirrels out in the yard uh yes i too am obsessed

00:30:28.560 with my disney yard so i relate i've got the bunnies the squirrels the birds i've got crazy

00:30:33.600 right i stepped up this morning and i counted 20 of them oh are you feeding them no i ain't feeding

00:30:40.800 them i feel like they feed themselves they come out free they come running around i ain't gonna

00:30:45.440 feed them nothing um you know they're self they're self-sufficient they require no charity that's

00:30:51.120 right that's not welfare squirrels they get after me i feed them all i give them like a buffet

00:30:59.920 i love them they have names and you're creating problems you've created dependency no no no it's

00:31:04.880 good it they're they're um they're generational squirrels from my girl shirley who passed away

00:31:09.760 last year rip um we did have a question can you someone wants to know if you could do uh one of

00:31:17.240 these songs like in a form of like heavy metal i have done check out um well would you check out

00:31:24.340 the warpath album the third album i did with jocko willink that's got a lot of metal aspects in it

00:31:29.740 certainly that's got a lot of metal influence um i did quite a few things over the past couple of

00:31:34.700 years they've got aspects of metal in them but um as far as like pure pure straight metal double

00:31:40.380 kick drum stuff like that that sort of thing will be occurring the glory of the joy for me of what

00:31:47.040 i do is i'm not bound by like genre outside of my own and whatever the sort of voice and the song

00:31:53.440 and the message requires i get to do so i could never get bored some people would just get really

00:31:57.680 bored because it's like i have to keep making the same like synthwave song or over and over or

00:32:01.740 whatever it is right whereas like that is not an issue to me in this world that i've created

00:32:06.100 that's amazing and how is mexico uh mexico is like a crazy dream i was there for five years

00:32:13.780 and i've been here for two and a half weeks and it already feels like a strange a strange dream

00:32:18.440 why did you leave well mexico yes because like i miss you guys and uh you know one of the main

00:32:27.080 things is like my son uh pretty much grew up in the usa we moved to the usa um like when he was

00:32:33.600 like one and a half or something like that and we lived in la at that time and he was on hollywood

00:32:38.920 boulevard and he grew up on hollywood boulevard running up and down like high-fiving spongebob

00:32:42.520 and that sort of thing and um you know when we got locked out of us in 2021 he was very very good

00:32:50.000 about it um he was very good about it and he was very resilient and because of the internet and

00:32:54.980 have you he's able to keep playing with a lot of his friends and stuff like that oh i just had like

00:32:59.060 a kind of like sort of a year and a half ago or something like that i couldn't sleep and i went

00:33:04.020 and sat on the sofa and my eyes were full of tears but i realized i i realized that my son needed to

00:33:09.060 be around his own people um you know as he entered his teenage years he needed to be around people

00:33:14.100 that's ever shared cultural um sort of heritage and references and language simple things like

00:33:19.380 language but you imagine being trying to be 13 and trying to shut up a guy and she like speak full

00:33:23.700 blown spanish and you also you've got janky spanish it's like you don't need like these extra

00:33:27.960 obstacles right that was the main thing um you know and then as far as like you know before we

00:33:34.600 got locked out of the usa in 2021 2021 we've been planning to talk initially uh we've never we've

00:33:40.780 never done a meeting wave tour and we're planning to do that then never got to do that i'd be i was

00:33:45.240 being invited on these tv shows and things of that nature that i never got to do so there's a lot of

00:33:48.980 stuff i didn't i couldn't do being in mexico and also it's very difficult to get hold of comics

00:33:53.240 right and other such luxuries um you know like i was very happy to be able to get a comic book

00:34:00.360 i mean yes it's beautiful the sun the pool but you're right i lived in paradise i met some

00:34:08.520 wonderful people it's a very tranquilo way of life no one's stressed about politics or anything like

00:34:13.260 that no one really cares people aren't talking about culture war stuff uh there's the family

00:34:17.440 unit has not yet been destroyed things of that nature like there's there's so many wonderful

00:34:22.060 things about it but i needed to be here uh i'm not yet ready to sort of duck out of the fight

00:34:27.140 so to speak good for you my boy needs to be in the game how's your son doing being in in the

00:34:33.840 united states now again he almost like immediately like within a week or something found like a gang

00:34:38.340 of friends he had this idea we were watching stranger things and he wanted like it to be

00:34:42.320 pictured his life like that like riding around on bikes around the neighborhood with kids and

00:34:46.000 that sort of thing and he's literally got that he immediately like literally found some kids

00:34:50.720 that they've become great friends and uh so that whole aspect has already sort of begun for him

00:34:56.960 perfect he's very we go to movies a lot we got the unlimited regal thing like that was just stuff

00:35:03.080 like that it's difficult to go to the movies in in mexico because like everything's translated

00:35:06.500 into mexican and dubbed even though in mexico movies is so cheap it's crazy like three you

00:35:12.180 You can go for like 10 bucks.

00:35:13.820 Wow.

00:35:14.960 Right.

00:35:15.560 That was kind of a rude awakening.

00:35:17.460 The cost of cinema in the United States right now is mental, right?

00:35:22.580 You try to get like a popcorn and a couple of drinks, that's an extra 45 bucks.

00:35:27.600 Yeah, we're at peak mental right now in the United States.

00:35:31.640 You've got to be smuggling.

00:35:32.560 You've got to be smuggling.

00:35:34.260 You've got to have the contraband.

00:35:35.400 Hey, you've got to bring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in under your shirt.

00:35:38.760 That's all.

00:35:39.760 You've got to bring your squirrel food.

00:35:41.280 it is amazing though that you know movie when i was a kid used to be kind of a cheap way to go

00:35:47.320 out you know like would just be i don't know if it was five bucks or even less per ticket and you

00:35:51.820 know i don't know what the snacks were but i'm sure it was a whole lot less than it is now

00:35:54.740 and now it's like almost like a premium experience you know they they've had the fancy seats and

00:36:00.480 yeah but it's like you know most people hardly ever go and i probably hardly ever go really

00:36:07.100 it's maybe once or twice a year i go so much now because i've got that unlimited thing and they're

00:36:11.500 doing this thing i always wanted him to do i was like just stop playing these crap new movies and

00:36:15.280 play the good old ones and they're suddenly doing that now my boy was out here first with with my

00:36:21.040 wife and he was like oh they're showing ferris bueller tomorrow dad i was like what i never

00:36:25.060 got to see ferris bueller in the cinema he saw ferris bueller we saw shrek in the cinema meaning

00:36:29.920 we saw ariety um like uh flipping train spotting's on next week oh that's fun i might go then yeah

00:36:38.220 there's like they're showing all the old stuff we went to see because he's into the amazing digital

00:36:42.260 circus like all other people of his age which is a youtube animation and they were showing it in

00:36:46.880 the movie theater and he dressed up as one of the characters and there were all these other kids all

00:36:50.440 dressed up as the characters and it was rammed and it was like an event it felt joyful and then

00:36:55.020 the trailers were all either old movies or new things made by youtubers and i had i had so much

00:37:01.280 hope in my heart so i feel that's that's basically the right balance it's just like let's pretend the

00:37:06.040 past 15 years of creepy propaganda didn't exist let's honor the great stuff of the olden days

00:37:10.700 and let's uh let's have some new people come in and make some things and make new movies please

00:37:15.800 please you don't have to remake everything that's what they're doing these these little youtube guys

00:37:20.500 they're making new things it's kind of like you know like tarantino and his homies they would

00:37:24.640 film movies my son had some friends around the other day they were making a movie outside

00:37:28.940 like oh yeah i was gonna say the same thing um so it sounds like that circus movie is like

00:37:36.280 a rocky horror picture show for maybe younger kids yeah kind of that's a good i would say that's a

00:37:42.320 good um i was thinking the same thing um all right so maybe i'll go to the movies if they're

00:37:48.620 going to play the old stuff and i can still sneak a sandwich in in my bag um bring your own chips

00:37:55.020 um all right so do we do cha-ching or do you want to do something else in between

00:38:00.800 no you can do we can do cha-ching uh i've been yeah i have a visual that i've been working on

00:38:06.660 for cha-ching i haven't brought the problems one for example is it is an in progress music video

00:38:14.360 which will be finished over the next few days, I think.

00:38:16.520 And cha-ching, we have an in-progress thing happening.

00:38:19.260 So all this is exclusive for you.

00:38:20.720 How about that?

00:38:21.060 Oh, my gosh, you guys, exclusive.

00:38:23.200 You ready?

00:38:23.720 Cha-ching, coming in hot.

00:38:25.220 It's not music. 0.89

00:38:26.280 It's music plus.

00:38:32.120 I'm terrible.

00:38:34.520 This is a song.

00:38:35.720 It's music plus.

00:38:36.960 How do you like being criticized?

00:38:40.220 This is a reframe for the hate, don't you?

00:38:42.040 Well, don't you hate getting criticized?

00:38:45.780 Everybody, it's not something you can enjoy.

00:38:49.800 Here's a reframe for you.

00:38:52.840 Every criticism you receive, just play this sound effect when you get it.

00:38:59.560 Ready?

00:39:02.400 Meanywaves.com

00:39:03.520 Catching.

00:39:08.280 Catching.

00:39:10.880 Catching.

00:39:12.960 Catching.

00:39:17.480 Catching.

00:39:19.760 Catching.

00:39:21.060 Every time somebody criticizes you, you just made money.

00:39:25.600 Do you know why I say that?

00:39:27.660 Because you just made money.

00:39:30.080 It's true.

00:39:30.840 If somebody criticizes my live stream, and I'll tell you the biggest criticism I'm hearing is that my shelves are boring.

00:39:40.000 Now, do I feel good that you're telling me that there's something about my thing that I do every day?

00:39:46.360 Is it good?

00:39:48.240 No.

00:39:49.980 Nobody likes to be criticized.

00:39:52.240 It's not like you can enjoy it.

00:39:54.360 But how do I receive it? 0.99

00:39:56.400 Do I receive it as, ah, I guess I suck. 0.99

00:40:00.080 I could, right? 0.98

00:40:02.400 How easily could I receive a criticism like that? 1.00

00:40:05.680 God, I'm an idiot. 1.00

00:40:07.260 Why did I see it? 1.00

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00:40:40.300 It'd be really easy

00:40:42.080 I don't

00:40:43.660 Here's how I hear it

00:40:46.520 I know exactly what to change to do a better job, because you told me, that's like money.

00:41:12.080 If somebody hands you a thing that will definitely make you money, what is your feeling about it?

00:41:19.240 Do you feel, oh, I hate it when people give me a thing that makes me make money?

00:41:25.740 I bet most of you think exactly that.

00:41:28.440 You think I hate to criticize people.

00:41:30.840 Not me.

00:41:31.920 Not me.

00:41:32.540 Years ago, when people would criticize my comic, I would hate it, of course.

00:41:38.580 But then I would say, oh, a lot of people are saying the same thing.

00:41:42.080 So I'll change it, and then I would make that change.

00:41:45.260 And that made me rich.

00:41:47.520 I literally got rich by being criticized and understanding the criticism as...

00:41:55.520 Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.

00:41:59.940 Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. 0.80

00:42:12.080 get changed

00:42:15.120 every time i hear one i say wait a minute you just told me how to get richer

00:42:23.360 the same applies if you're not trying to get rich suppose you just wanted a better

00:42:27.460 social the best advice somebody gave was the cruelest thing anybody ever said one day my

00:42:33.020 female friend told me how negative and what a bummer it was listen to because i was complaining

00:42:37.780 now i was not aware that i was a big complaint i had no idea i thought i was a person who talked

00:42:44.620 about my day the funny parts of this so in my mind i had no idea that i was having an effect

00:42:49.620 once i learned that you know how powerful that was i was able because it was something i could

00:42:56.400 change i would become aware of the ratio of negative things i said positive it was probably

00:43:01.960 the most important change i've ever made to my social toolbox i would say that that one change

00:43:10.040 really really changed my life

00:43:11.800 Thank you.

00:43:41.800 Actually it works, I swear now. I heard him say this years ago and I've been cha-chinging ever since.

00:43:48.800 It's manto.

00:43:50.800 That's the, that's the refrain.

00:43:52.800 That's the refrain.

00:43:53.800 So the next time you get criticized, whether personally or whether professionally,

00:43:59.800 say to yourself, say to yourself, say to yourself.

00:44:03.800 Cha-ching!

00:44:05.800 Just try it. Like actually say that, that little sound.

00:44:10.800 not figuratively i'm not talking fingers i mean actually saying that actually you say

00:44:19.180 everybody shout out a cha-ching at home just say it like scott said cha-ching

00:44:36.300 for years and i first heard that i was like oh that's the song right there and then i like saved

00:44:42.060 it in a folder and then i like i lost a hard drive or something like that and i was like i want to

00:44:45.580 make that cha-ching so what happens to that and then no one could ever find it uh jay plemons

00:44:49.900 who's like yes of finding scott samples he couldn't find it like last year i was like can

00:44:55.020 you remember what thing this was from and he's like i remember that and there was one uh show

00:44:59.180 where scott kind of mentioned it but it wasn't the one that i'd heard and it wasn't the one that was

00:45:03.740 really and then i mentioned it um it might have been when was i mentioned on a live stream like

00:45:09.580 three weeks ago or something and someone in my chat was like oh yeah i know that when he sent

00:45:12.860 it me like immediately oh wow then i left the stream i made the song boom boom boom and that

00:45:18.700 was it and uh and it's a thing of glory and wonder and also when he's talking about that cha-ching

00:45:23.500 thing he also tells a really cool story about john his tennis playing buddy who taught him a load of

00:45:28.780 game you put him onto a lot of game right and uh that's also going to be another song

00:45:34.140 oh shout out john john might be listening right now and i'm going to message him after in case

00:45:39.100 he missed a shout out to him i love onto so much game yes john this was like like 10 minutes of

00:45:48.060 scott just like glazing john's game oh my god i love it um so akira mad powerful like so someone

00:45:57.660 like me uh i get like a lot of comments i read them all because like uh it's valuable like like

00:46:03.580 scott talks about in that you know but like and you'll get like a hundred comments going oh my

00:46:08.140 god you changed my life and then you get one comment saying something like really mean and

00:46:11.580 like if you're an amateur the mean thing will stick with you and it will become a bad thing and

00:46:15.900 what have you cha-ching completely flips that out it's totally flips that out and even if you like

00:46:21.580 you can it's a bit like the jocko thing jocko has good right something bad happens there's a good

00:46:25.740 sites right there's always some kind of good get after it but the uh the cha-ching thing is kind of 0.97

00:46:32.780 in some ways it can be even better than good because like what's the good in some asshole 0.96

00:46:36.920 comment oh okay maybe there's something useful in there somewhere but cha-ching that's that's 0.95

00:46:41.920 not just good that's money i mean i love it thing is is cha-ching so i gotta get myself a cash

00:46:47.240 register one of them things and add it to my like dj setup i don't think i should even get it on the

00:46:51.780 soundboard. I think I should get an actual one of them cash register thing. Yeah. Thump that guy.

00:46:56.540 The big old one from like the mercantile. Exactly. Like you hit it with your fist to

00:47:01.940 cha-ching. So if we start cha-chinging in the live stream, if I just shout out cha-ching, 0.90

00:47:08.140 that's because I saw some mean troll comment and I'm cha-chinging you.

00:47:12.340 There you go. And then cha-chinging you at the chat. 0.88

00:47:15.660 Yes. See ya. Oh my God. Oh, and I'll be cha-chinging you. 0.96

00:47:21.780 um i had a question though about um ai so you know there's like what's that one called like

00:47:28.900 suno or something so people are making ai songs is this going to affect you i don't think so

00:47:34.300 no so i've been saying this since since the whole thing started right and i shout out naval on this

00:47:39.580 i did a record with naval and he's very good at crystallizing wisdoms and concepts and what have

00:47:44.620 you or just making something a little bit more more sticky and uh you know there's no one can

00:47:50.360 compete with you on being you is one thing right so what what people can copy you people been

00:47:55.880 copying me my whole life i was often early on things and then someone else would do it a little

00:48:00.640 bit later and then they would do well on it and because i was too early type thing and that used

00:48:05.220 to annoy me but it doesn't at all anymore um no one can compete with you on being you right so if

00:48:10.920 you're being a pure uncompromised version of yourself that cannot be guessed that can only

00:48:17.120 replicated after the fact so if you're a being a pure uncompromised version of yourself and then

00:48:24.000 you're continuing to make new things you will always be ahead of a human or even a robot that

00:48:28.800 whatever robot no matter how sophisticated it is it cannot have the byzantine conduit of your

00:48:34.880 the some experience of your life your tastes your loves your joys your experience and all that right

00:48:40.640 and if you're being a pure expression of that then that cannot be replicated now ai is very

00:48:47.120 good at replicating or generating mid right so if you want mid and if you're in the business of mid

00:48:53.280 i should say if you're in the business of mid you're in trouble because ai is like a mid machine

00:48:58.080 you know i mean if you're making mid music ai can perfect mid music right if you're making mid

00:49:03.840 movie scripts boom mid movie scripts if you're a mid like talking head yapping on tick tock or 0.98

00:49:11.040 whatever hey i could do that too no one gives a fuck so mid you're screwed and i don't consider 0.98

00:49:16.380 that a bad thing uh that could be a good thing all those people making mid would probably be 0.96

00:49:21.540 better off doing something else anyway you know i mean or maybe it will encourage them to not be

00:49:25.400 mid and to be pure expressions of themselves and not just copy everything else because that's the

00:49:29.960 easiest in the short term so that's my feeling on that that's a that's a great message there's a lot

00:49:35.140 of creatives out there that are definitely worried about you know ai replicating um you know what

00:49:42.120 they do but you're right they it can't and if you're ahead of you know if you're the one that's

00:49:47.660 the originator you're ahead of the ai because you're doing it first your own way so you do need

00:49:54.700 to continue to make stuff but this is also this is you know encouragement to do that to get in the

00:50:00.020 zone to stay in the zone and to keep because you know people get depressed when they stop doing

00:50:05.120 that people get what they like get in the zone they make something great they're all happy then

00:50:09.580 they like get lazy or something and then they get all depressed then they can't get back in the zone

00:50:13.600 stuff of that nature so i would take all of this as encouragement um and motivation to just be the

00:50:19.120 best version of you and make great stuff and do and be an uncompromised version of you don't be

00:50:26.100 worrying about what other people think don't be trying to oh maybe this is what's cool right now

00:50:30.180 or whatever just like do you and you can't they can't do that they can't do you that's great

00:50:35.940 advice that's great advice for everything and i remember the first time scott said that he just

00:50:41.700 doesn't get embarrassed and i literally i mean it was a hundred years ago right and i literally said

00:50:48.600 to myself, Oh, you know what? I'm not going to get embarrassed either. Like I just was like,

00:50:52.300 Oh, you know what? I'm not going to, I'm not going to get embarrassed. And I don't, and I,

00:50:56.320 you know, I don't care because it's just, it's your life, you guys. So be as authentic to

00:51:02.480 yourselves and what makes you happy to who you are as you can be because you're going around once,

00:51:07.580 right? We're going around the world one time and in this body with what you have and what you know,

00:51:13.420 and just fulfill whatever it is that's authentic to you and not to and you know i i was just saying

00:51:19.960 this to someone yesterday i have a beef right now with influencers like all these people that are

00:51:24.800 like all of them oh taking up all influences i cannot i can't like these people that like go to

00:51:32.560 hawaii and they're all lined up to take like a shot like they're the only one there and they're

00:51:36.520 twerking on the beach and i'm like you're all the same the same voice the same vocal fry

00:51:43.240 the same no lift in their voice they're all just like a lot of those are already ai like it's

00:51:49.000 already happened a lot of those are already yeah and yeah and we feel it though like we feel it as

00:51:55.220 consumers you know that if there's no connection it's just flat so i i think i i think i like the

00:52:02.980 idea of people just taking away their embarrassment and fear and just going for it and be authentic

00:52:08.480 and keep creating and maybe incorporate some of the things into it like maybe you incorporate a

00:52:14.380 little piece of ai into what you're doing but the rest of it's you and that's okay too but just keep

00:52:19.180 moving forward um don't cave and don't stop being creative and letting a machine do it for you if

00:52:25.960 you are an actually a creative person is my thought or you'll lose it but that's well that

00:52:32.880 aspect is is i think taken into consideration is the the a muscle not exercised will atrophy

00:52:39.980 whether that's a creative muscle whether that's a physical muscle whatever it is

00:52:44.120 so sometimes there are technologies that will come along that will make it easier to do certain

00:52:49.000 things but that that does come at the cost of losing that skill how many people can do uh you

00:52:54.380 know rubber hose animation post uh you know pixar type stuff that whole td 2d disney style

00:53:01.660 that was perfected uh how many people could even do that now etc etc so you know everything that

00:53:09.260 comes along has that shadow side to it um and it's always been that way ever since man picked

00:53:14.400 up a rock he could have to create or he could go cave someone's skulling and uh and that's the

00:53:19.720 choice of the individual is how you go about utilizing these things that come along oh and

00:53:24.860 did you have a question because i just won't shut up well no i mean i agree with what what you're

00:53:29.160 saying in terms of creativity being something that i think is a little bit outside of what ai is

00:53:34.980 really capable of it does have certainly the capability to create music and create art and

00:53:40.040 create all these things that at least look like it but i think it is simulated art it's not real

00:53:45.920 art because it is basically just a conglomeration of all the training and to your point it's probably

00:53:52.100 just sort of mid stuff because it's not going to be exceptional because that would be out on the

00:53:56.060 edge of what it was trained to do and it normally wouldn't go there um direction so i think i've

00:54:01.160 seen like great people uh make actual art uh using these tools it's possible it requires but it

00:54:08.360 requires an artist to actually direct it you know someone like emily ucas who does the will stancil

00:54:13.940 show she's been an animator for like 20 years and then she found suno and she utilizes that and

00:54:19.480 that's opened up this massive realm of creativity for her she's super excited and sure you listen

00:54:24.460 to her talk about it she's like i don't see the difference between me using this or like

00:54:27.580 seth mcfarlane using like a crew of korean animators like working uh you know for no money

00:54:35.860 24 hours a day like at least the robots feel no pain when i'm telling them to do my evil vision

00:54:42.620 yeah like i think scott talked about how you know it's sort of taste and discernment was a big part

00:54:48.140 of his comic writing you know and that he might do a whole bunch of comics or come up with a whole

00:54:54.320 bunch of ideas but it was always the way he felt that would you know make him guide guide him in

00:55:00.660 terms of what's really funny or what he should keep and what he should throw away and i think

00:55:04.580 that's probably true for a lot of artists that it's about knowing what is going to resonate with

00:55:10.500 people or knowing what really resonates with you or um you know stanley always used to talk about

00:55:16.680 that he's like he he doesn't write he didn't write for other people he wrote for himself

00:55:19.880 and he figured what was his quote i did put it in a song like he figured if it would work for him

00:55:25.480 then it would work work for other people because he's not that different with other people so it's

00:55:30.100 like i would say this to my son you know if there's something that you wish existed you should

00:55:34.320 make it because other people will wish it existed too that's like that's that's a ka-ching that's

00:55:38.740 free money on the table like if you wish that something existed whether it's a show or a idea

00:55:43.520 or an app or whatever it is you go make that thing someone else will want it too

00:55:46.800 yeah i just think it's it's really hard to put that into a computer you know to like model that

00:55:53.680 yeah exactly on its own right for a computer to sit there and like try and be the and be the

00:56:00.180 undirected dream machine of true dreams yeah yeah and i and i i'm not an artist or at least i

00:56:08.220 wouldn't describe myself that way and i i don't use it for that but i do use ai at work all the

00:56:12.640 time. And I think it is somewhat of an analogy there where, you know, I use it to create documents

00:56:18.700 to create, you know, a lot of things for work. And, but what I have recognized is that it does

00:56:26.920 need a lot of guidance. It needs me to push it in the right direction. It needs me to review

00:56:30.500 everything and say, no, that's wrong. Do it this way instead. And a lot of that is again, back to

00:56:36.440 intuition. It's like, is this going to really read well when my client sees it? Or is this really

00:56:41.120 gonna accomplish whatever it is i'm trying to accomplish with this thing that i'm creating

00:56:45.420 and um you know a lot of that again you sometimes i can't really you know know up front until i see

00:56:53.660 something so i might draft something with ai just saying you know create this thing here's what i

00:56:58.420 know about it come up with something but then when i read it i'm like oh no no no you're missing all

00:57:02.360 kinds of things and you know then it just sort of might be like a little bit of getting past writer's

00:57:07.020 block, where it's like, yeah, I can now exert my judgment on something as opposed to a blank

00:57:11.960 page. And so I think maybe the same is true for a lot of artists that, you know, they could use

00:57:18.400 it to come up with ideas, but the final idea is probably not what the AI came up with the first

00:57:23.680 time. Or maybe it is, but you still made a decision. Like maybe that went so like, I was

00:57:29.960 laughing at even the word artist now, Scott kind of made amusing to me. We would use to talk about

00:57:35.160 artists as a prerogative but uh an artist i is someone who makes decisions like consciously like

00:57:42.100 deliberate decisions right so you're acting with a deliberateness of purpose so if you're painting

00:57:46.440 you go like the brush goes there and that goes there or if you're one of those like less deliberate

00:57:52.020 painters it's still a decision to be the less deliberate painter so like however you approach

00:57:57.460 your life if you're being uh deliberate acting with a deliberateness of purpose about the choices

00:58:01.900 you apply to your life whatever you're doing that there is an art in that and that that is an artist

00:58:06.560 and you your life can be your masterpiece so i would say uh one a it's that it's acting it's

00:58:12.920 making decisions actually deliberately and that again goes back to what we're saying so a lot of

00:58:18.140 people are just not making decisions they're not thinking about why they're doing things what

00:58:22.160 they're listening to what they're eating what they're even saying regurgitate the thing they

00:58:26.120 saw on x whatever it is right that's not acting with the deliberateness of purpose that's how you

00:58:30.500 end up in the realm of mpc how you end up in the realm of mid how you end up in that slop world

00:58:37.120 of which people are currently talking about a lot that's you can be slop but a lot of people i see 0.98

00:58:41.760 moaning about ai slop are ai slop they're only saying that shit because they saw it somewhere 0.98

00:58:46.420 else and they're just like that's what i'm supposed to think anyway so like yeah that's 0.99

00:58:51.020 another aspect of analysis is um that it's what is outside the realm of pure survival

00:58:57.320 so and there's a lot of that now because we live in this crazy future where we have so much

00:59:04.140 more time than we used to have outside the realm of survival and a lot of that time is sort of

00:59:10.960 wasted we have all these things created to occupy us and occupy that space and you know sit around

00:59:16.820 watching nonsense or uh whatever it is uh but that is space within which every human can be an

00:59:24.060 artist particularly people who don't think they're an artist because that's time for you to act with

00:59:27.260 the deliberateness of purpose and do something with your life that your grandparents never had

00:59:31.440 the opportunity to. So Akira, we were asking a question at the end of the show. I just wanted

00:59:38.740 to put it out there for YouTube, especially the, the question today that we want you to take to

00:59:45.900 the comments to answer, and we will read them is if you could become world-class at what skill at

00:59:54.240 at one skill, what would it be? So if there was one skill you guys could hone in on, become

01:00:00.980 world-class at it, what would it be? In the comments, everywhere, in LocalsX, on YouTube

01:00:08.880 and Rumble, and we are going to check out your answers. And I think, Akira, you're world-class

01:00:16.200 with your skill with Meaning Wave, and it's so meaningful to so many people and teaching us. So

01:00:23.180 i love that do you want to um you know we're at time but do you want to play us uh another tune

01:00:28.780 that we can jam out to before we go yeah let's let's get one more going you guys and so we'll

01:00:35.100 go a couple minutes late and on that i was watching me and my boy i've been watching movies while uh

01:00:41.740 my wife is away we watched groundhog day and uh the lesson one of the lessons of groundhog day

01:00:47.740 is like you actually do have more time than you think and it's kind of like the alan watts thing

01:00:51.580 like what would you do if you were god if you had the power to do whatever you wanted to

01:00:54.540 you'd initially do all these things satisfy these urges uh all that sort of stuff then eventually

01:01:00.440 you would kind of start making life more difficult and then you would find meaning

01:01:03.960 you have we have the amount of time that it takes for for his character in groundhog day to like

01:01:10.540 you know learn the piano and things of that nature he does like an hour once he do an hour a day with

01:01:14.540 this lady but then he just does it over like a year or something and he learns to play the piano

01:01:17.780 because this girl he likes would like her ideal man is a musician so he does that we often think

01:01:23.740 that we don't have time to do these things we want to do or be the person we want to be or what

01:01:27.600 have you what have you but it's a little bit of time every day where over a period of time suddenly

01:01:32.720 you could be a master so i think this is a good question and it's good for people to think like

01:01:37.300 what would i really love to be really good at because you can do it you could do it that's

01:01:41.700 right like that you look at scott took up drumming in his 60s you know and he he played literally

01:01:47.380 like you know five minutes a day maybe but i mean he got good enough where he was like banging out

01:01:52.500 a little rhythm and he we definitely watched him improve right and he did that at 60 he bought the

01:01:57.620 guitar um you know it's never too late so definitely think about it you guys and then let's work toward

01:02:04.180 it exactly how many of you live in regret of past decisions i've never had that feeling

01:02:13.260 regret is the dumbest thing you could ever feel if there was something that you're not happy about

01:02:19.480 in your past just imagine you just spawned into this environment today like a video game 0.92

01:02:26.920 hey just imagine you just woke up and this is the the stuff you have to play with usually

01:02:33.320 you're fine you might have a terrible problem you have to deal with but usually you wake up

01:02:39.500 being like you know i'm healthy i have ways i can get ahead i know what to do if i want to get ahead

01:02:44.820 i'll start here this would be a good starting place start here so think of today as your

01:02:52.620 starting place and then just see how it is and if you don't like your starting

01:02:56.460 place the next question is how hard would it get from where you are to this

01:03:00.900 better place well you apply for a better job you learn some more skills you talk

01:03:06.220 to your cousin who's got a job opening you do some stuff but probably you're

01:03:11.940 fine so when you ask me do I regret a past decision the answer is never I've

01:03:20.880 never i don't have any regret about anything and if you're thinking in those terms you're really

01:03:28.400 hurting yourself.

01:03:58.400 you do some stuff but probably you're fine so when you ask me do i regret a past decision

01:04:07.040 the answer is never i've never i don't have any regret about anything

01:04:14.480 and if you're thinking in those terms you're really hurting yourself

01:04:20.220 So now, I don't regret anything that I bought in the house, it's just what happens, it's just what happens, it's just what happens, it's just what happens, it's just what happens.

01:04:50.220 It's just what happened.

01:04:55.220 It's just what happened.

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01:05:32.980 adams meaning wave 33 tracks i do believe is out now came out on scott's birthday this week

01:05:39.040 happy birthday scott thank you for everything we love you forever

01:05:42.980 akira tell us your website so everybody can go there 33 tracks let's go

01:05:53.420 meanie wave.com i'll put it in the chat meanie wave.com uh oh the almost anything could happen

01:06:01.280 today's cds uh are great they're shipping you can order those now you'll get it in a couple days

01:06:06.560 best of scott adams with two new tracks is out now and you can look forward to

01:06:10.880 more scott music soon i could be making scott songs forever he dropped so many gems it's comical

01:06:18.800 it is comical like there was like one episode he did like three weeks before he uh departed for

01:06:27.900 the next adventure and i swear there's like 15 songs in that one episode amazing crazy amazing

01:06:34.560 we hope you do keep making them forever and ever we'll be here and we hope i mean everybody's

01:06:40.460 so thrilled akira i'm reading all the comments from all the platforms everybody needed this

01:06:46.200 today they love it they feel like scott's with us um they could listen to you all the time your

01:06:52.660 music they hope you'll come back again and again and again um someone bought the bundle today

01:06:59.040 everybody's so happy and they appreciate the show everything and we agree meaningwave.com

01:07:06.100 one word, meaning wave. I'll write it again. Make mine meaning wave. Meaningwave.com.

01:07:16.080 Because happiness is a side effect of meaning. You've got to get drops, Erica. You've got to

01:07:22.100 get drops. You've got to get guys with epic trailer voices saying stuff about how cool you are.

01:07:26.680 You've got to have that. Yes. Let's go, guys. Drop how epic I am, please, everybody.

01:07:31.840 cha-ching mofos um okay so akira thank you so freaking much like we so love that you're here 1.00

01:07:42.580 with us uh we hope you'll come back time and time and time again um we i think we all did need this

01:07:48.300 you guys we did we all needed this like very meaning wave moment so akira we thank you owen

01:07:55.260 any last words here for akira just thanks for coming it's been a lot of fun hope you come

01:08:00.380 on again soon. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you for all you do. God bless.

01:08:04.540 A hundred percent. All right, you guys start saying your goodbyes. We want to always say

01:08:08.520 thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing this show to continue, um, you know, with,

01:08:13.620 without that kind of coordination, cooperation, love, and respect for everything Scott built,

01:08:18.880 we wouldn't be here right now. So who, okay. I'm fighting back the emotion. I've been doing good,

01:08:24.220 right guys. Um, and as always, you know, go out there and be useful answer today's question.

01:08:30.380 if you could hone in and be like a master in one skill set, what would it be? Because you can do

01:08:36.980 it, but just let's, if you write it down and you put it out there into the universe, that's a first

01:08:41.440 step. Uh, and don't be embarrassed. It could be anything. It can be anything. Okay. So let's have

01:08:47.620 a final closing sip to our beloved Scott Akira. Thank you again so much. We love you. And, uh,

01:08:53.740 we will see all of you back here tomorrow. It will be me, Owen and BJ tomorrow. Marcella,

01:08:59.100 we miss you we'll see you monday okay everybody a closing sip to scott to scott

01:09:04.380 bye guys thanks guys

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 11, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 06⧸11⧸26 AKIRA THE DON joins!

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