Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 07⧸03⧸26 July 4th Weekend! The Home Team & A White Board!

00:00:00.000 Steven's back in the pole position yes you see because I didn't start early so

00:00:05.400 Steven got in yes reclaim morning bookish here comes Marcella hi you guys

00:00:15.180 it's a July 4th weekend are you guys ready Marcella I you got booted out

00:00:22.380 somehow zoom connection I don't know some all right wait I feel weird with

00:00:27.900 there i have to move you wait wait okay things have to be okay now i feel better

00:00:37.420 marcella got deported but we brought her back in yeah oh my gosh all right so

00:00:44.380 oh is anyone in the chat mentioning uh owen's ensemble today good morning kimaholic

00:00:51.980 they also mentioned your books owen they said that they're they look like new books

00:00:56.540 my books oh yeah they i think they've been changed he read them all those are all new ones

00:01:05.420 they're more vivid okay you guys so we just we had to banter a little extra because i forgot to

00:01:10.700 i have clothes on by the way it i i'm just moving my hair so you know i have a shirt on before i

00:01:15.820 was like this like you couldn't see anything i'm like i have on clothes okay just so we know um so

00:01:22.620 So anyway, we had to kill extra time because I didn't start the live stream early.

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00:02:19.020 Okay. So I think the pandemic sips will be over next week. Yes. We're going to get healthier and

00:02:25.840 stronger. So good morning. I am Erica. You are at the Scott Adams School. I'm joined today with

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00:03:13.240 We still love you too. So, all right, Owen, you look festive and ready. Marcellus, look,

00:03:19.240 I'm in blue too. We're feeling our 4th of July. You guys have big plans for the weekends. What's

00:03:26.000 happening? I do. I have to, well, I'm going to fireworks tomorrow and barbecue ribs or

00:03:36.540 preparing the ribs but it means it's it's it's gonna be a special one because 250 years

00:03:43.900 special type so i'm celebrating the whole weekend and on monday i get to see the u.s play again

00:03:51.300 and win oh yes so and there's there's world cup games throughout there's one france is playing

00:03:58.600 on fourth of july um so we'll see if they keep on going i'll allow that they helped us in the

00:04:05.620 revolutionary word didn't they that's so nice of you owen what are you doing now just hanging out

00:04:13.480 with family nothing big that's it that's all be a relaxing weekend yeah we're not big fireworks

00:04:18.760 people i mean we've done that a bunch of times with the kids but it's just not something i

00:04:22.980 typically like want to stay up late for and go out for and so well you know we'll watch

00:04:28.220 the parades on tv and things like that but i feel bad for all the animals that freak out over the

00:04:34.160 fireworks. And also for the veterans, which I heard it can be very tough for veterans

00:04:38.260 to hear the noises, but not, but, and so, oh my gosh, you guys look at this. I love the

00:04:46.380 Washington monument like this. Do you think they'll leave it all the time? Look at this.

00:04:51.460 How cool. I think this should just be like a permanent thing.

00:04:57.920 It sounds like Epcot Center.

00:05:05.740 Got George Washington.

00:05:14.600 Allegedly.

00:05:17.240 Oh, it's real, it's real.

00:05:18.960 How did they fit the rocket inside there?

00:05:21.300 I know.

00:05:24.640 Owen's such a dad.

00:05:26.280 The Earth is not flat.

00:05:27.920 i love that don't you hope they keep that all the time i do and it'll be open now so you can

00:05:37.200 go up to the top oh really yeah like it was under construction again bj says they finally found a

00:05:45.440 use for it i mean i haven't been to dc to like tour anything since i was such a kid and i now

00:05:52.960 that it's like safe again i'm thinking maybe of going so that would be nice um oh so speaking of

00:06:00.960 the world cup we have what the our game is on monday right marcella the usa plays all right

00:06:06.720 so did you guys see the highlights from this other game that happened i'm going to show it to you 0.54

00:06:10.720 right now okay boys let's run operation epic balls of fury guys please don't suck maybe michael can 0.94

00:06:18.640 sub in what okay first up we have the goat ah he gets hit in the face unbelievable what a shot 0.98

00:06:28.080 okay we got sleepy joe up next and eating ice cream

00:06:33.820 oh and he whips it he completely misses the ball incredible moves by fat jd here comes the meme 0.97

00:06:41.700 legend next we have the first gay president what was that you know what 0.99

00:06:57.760 I'll just do it myself oh looks like pretty boy is mad 1.00

00:07:04.260 again to the dome his brain is hanging on for dear life

00:07:10.860 okay boys let's oh my god i'm obsessed okay you guys that was from x arias underscore x he's a

00:07:22.560 a meme master obviously um so that that might not have been real but i liked it i would definitely

00:07:30.500 watch that game a hundred percent just that game i love fat jd so much i love fat jd um so all right

00:07:41.040 you guys today we have whiteboard lesson for you from scott i must say he's very soft spoken in

00:07:47.600 this one so you you know sip a little extra coffee um but it's a it's a good one they're always good

00:07:53.640 and i always like to think how do we apply them to like what's happening today in the world and

00:07:58.580 then Owen and Marcella have news for us. We're going to get a lot of news today. The whiteboard

00:08:03.320 is going to be about 15 minutes. And let's just sit back and relax and soak in some Scott Adams.

00:08:12.060 The people are realizing that there were things that used to hold us back, that used to

00:08:19.840 limit what we could do and what our danger was and what our opportunity was,

00:08:25.400 that much of these were psychological.

00:08:29.040 And once we get to a higher plane of sort of understanding

00:08:32.340 how reality works and how people actually think

00:08:36.360 and how we're not really rational

00:08:38.240 and we're also not as crazy

00:08:41.200 as we like to think the other person is.

00:08:44.800 So let me give you the best example of that recently

00:08:48.900 so you can see that there might be a pattern developing.

00:08:52.140 Yes, we'll go into the whiteboard.

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00:09:21.400 All right, so we humans have developed a number of prisons of the mind,

00:09:29.860 things that we just imagine to be our limitations or imagine to be true,

00:09:34.700 and it limits what we think is possible, and it limits what choices we make.

00:09:39.320 Here are two of the biggest ones.

00:09:41.420 I talk about this a lot.

00:09:43.160 One is the false belief that history repeats.

00:09:48.480 It doesn't.

00:09:50.260 It never does.

00:09:51.000 It just looks like it because we have this pattern recognition brain.

00:09:55.800 So anytime we see anything that reminds us of another thing,

00:09:59.060 we say, well, there it is, history repeating again.

00:10:02.040 But that's not what's happening.

00:10:03.740 History can't repeat because all the variables are changing all the time.

00:10:07.680 So you can't ever have the same starting point you ever had in history.

00:10:11.740 History never repeats, ever.

00:10:15.020 If you think it does, you're in a mental prison.

00:10:18.200 If you think it doesn't, do you know what happens if you think that history doesn't repeat?

00:10:25.340 Then you can become president of the United States without ever being a politician.

00:10:31.880 If you believe that history repeats, you don't even try.

00:10:37.520 President Trump is not in a mental prison.

00:10:41.760 Did he think that North Korea was unsolvable? Nope.

00:10:46.300 Did he think he couldn't negotiate trade deals?

00:10:48.880 Nope, he didn't think that.

00:10:50.040 Did he think he couldn't give people nicknames and win an election that way?

00:10:54.260 With other stuff, of course.

00:10:55.840 Nope.

00:10:56.120 Did he think that nobody could talk about immigration without being labeled a racist

00:11:01.820 and therefore their life was over?

00:11:04.640 Didn't seem to bother him.

00:11:07.060 He consistently shows you that history doesn't repeat.

00:11:12.560 Where do you get that?

00:11:14.340 Well, probably.

00:11:15.740 It traces back to the same place I got it,

00:11:18.680 the power of positive thinking.

00:11:20.560 Remember, his pastor when he was a kid

00:11:22.560 was Norman Vincent Peale,

00:11:24.620 who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking.

00:11:26.940 The Power of Positive Thinking is very close to this.

00:11:31.340 It's very close to thinking,

00:11:33.580 to the belief that you're not in a mental prison.

00:11:37.440 History doesn't define you.

00:11:38.840 You can get out of that little mental prison.

00:11:44.020 Here's another one that I like to look at.

00:11:47.760 This is another mental prison.

00:11:50.100 That the problem has to be the solution.

00:11:54.400 Now this will require some explaining.

00:11:57.100 But it's a mental trap, it's a prison,

00:12:00.740 if you think that the only solutions are things that are closely related to the problem.

00:12:07.280 I'll show you how that works in a real world situation.

00:12:10.560 First, some context.

00:12:12.720 When slavery was the problem, 0.73

00:12:17.300 you could say that white people were essentially the problem for slavery, right? 0.73

00:12:23.580 And it required white people to do something massively different for slavery to go away. 0.67

00:12:29.500 So in this case, the problem and the solution were very similar. 0.79

00:12:33.860 It was white people. 0.99

00:12:35.420 White people were the problem. 1.00

00:12:37.120 White people had to change. 0.99

00:12:38.480 then we fast forward 0.91

00:12:42.220 to the civil rights era

00:12:43.820 again, even though everybody was involved in the civil rights

00:12:48.160 every group and gender

00:12:51.660 everybody was involved in that

00:12:53.140 but the people who had to change the most

00:12:55.720 the people who had to pass laws, etc.

00:12:58.300 were white people 0.93

00:12:59.760 so white people were kind of the problem 0.84

00:13:02.280 and white people were kind of the solution too 0.90

00:13:05.380 but when you get to what I would call the last mile 0.55

00:13:10.560 there's what I call the last mile fog

00:13:14.120 in these earlier situations it was very clear what had to be done

00:13:19.200 you have to get rid of slavery, you have to change the laws

00:13:23.980 you have to prosecute some people who violate the laws

00:13:26.960 so it was fairly clear what to do, what the problem was, etc

00:13:31.320 But now you get to this last mile where things are way better, but still lots of things could be far better than they are.

00:13:42.200 And I'll give you an example of what I mean by the fog.

00:13:45.280 The fog is where people don't even quite agree what the problem is.

00:13:50.640 So I saw, I think it was Sean King was tweeting around yesterday, some statistics showing that, I hope I have this right, 0.61

00:13:59.100 An unarmed black man has something like four times more chance of being shot by police in an inappropriate shooting, whatever name they put on that.

00:14:13.580 But an unarmed, remember, nobody has a gun in any of these examples, but an unarmed black man has a four times greater chance of being shot by police. 0.75

00:14:24.500 Now, I lingered on that a little bit because I know many of you are throwing up in your mouths right now

00:14:30.660 because you disagree with that being true.

00:14:34.520 So you actually disagree on whether the statistic is correct.

00:14:39.280 Now, I don't know if it's correct or not, but I know that a lot of you are saying something like this.

00:14:46.480 Some version of this you're probably thinking.

00:14:49.240 The people watching this periscope, you're thinking to yourself,

00:14:52.640 But wait a minute. Wouldn't it be true that the greatest number of unarmed people in general are going to be shot wherever there's the highest crime?

00:15:05.000 So wouldn't you expect that if you're in a high crime neighborhood, unarmed people who are innocent are going to be shot at a far greater rate?

00:15:14.880 So wouldn't the poverty rate really be the main variable here?

00:15:19.360 And unfortunately, if more black people are in bad neighborhoods, 0.54

00:15:23.500 they're in high crime neighborhoods, 0.96

00:15:25.860 of course, more innocent people of all types are going to be harmed for all reasons.

00:15:31.300 Now, does that explain a way, Sean King's statistic?

00:15:36.080 I have no idea.

00:15:37.840 But nobody else does either.

00:15:39.760 I've never seen that debated, have you?

00:15:42.220 I've never seen an article where somebody gave that statistic

00:15:45.660 and then also gave the other side and said,

00:15:49.160 well, but have they controlled for this variable?

00:15:52.240 Maybe they have.

00:15:53.680 I don't know.

00:15:54.900 But you don't know either.

00:15:56.440 So that's my point.

00:15:57.700 There's this fog about this last mile,

00:16:00.540 and what do you do about it?

00:16:03.040 So we're coming to a point that I think will define the golden age,

00:16:08.680 at least in some ways.

00:16:11.800 let's see if you can, does that help you see this better?

00:16:16.340 In which we're separating the problem from the solution.

00:16:21.980 And what I mean by that is sort of the philosophy you're seeing from Candace Owens,

00:16:28.820 and you can Google her if you're not familiar with her.

00:16:33.220 She's a conservative African-American woman who's become a very important voice

00:16:40.100 because she represents a point of view that you don't see as much as you probably will in the future.

00:16:47.840 Now what's interesting is that, and what I mean by separating the problem from the solution,

00:16:55.220 is that the conservative view, which Candace holds, is that society has done what it can do.

00:17:03.500 Meaning that white people have done what they can do to make the laws as close as possible,

00:17:09.360 to enforce the laws, etc., and that the last mile, no matter whose problem it is,

00:17:19.000 no matter who causes the problem, this is what's different. 0.59

00:17:22.920 It doesn't matter if white people are or are not the cause of the last mile problem. 0.84

00:17:28.300 They can't fix it. 0.96

00:17:29.940 They can do what they can do, but they're not really the solution.

00:17:33.300 So Candace's, I would say, realization is that the problem and the solution are disconnected.

00:17:41.080 And if you're still locked in the past, thinking that white people have to do something much different,

00:17:47.780 you're going to be missing your opportunities, that you're thinking about it wrong,

00:17:53.200 and therefore your solutions will be suboptimal.

00:17:56.040 Now, let me say I'm doing the best I can to represent someone else's opinion just so I can tell the full story.

00:18:04.240 I apologize in advance for summarizing it and maybe to the point of being slightly inaccurate.

00:18:10.560 I hope I'm not doing that.

00:18:11.980 But the basic idea is that the conservative view that Candace seems to be a good voice for is that only the people who have the problem can fix it.

00:18:24.000 It's not the people that did cause it or you think caused it.

00:18:28.560 It doesn't matter because they can't fix it.

00:18:31.080 They're helpless to fix it.

00:18:32.580 They would if they could.

00:18:33.940 Probably would.

00:18:35.340 Just can't.

00:18:36.340 Don't have all the tools.

00:18:37.940 Now, there are things that can be done with funding and laws, etc.

00:18:41.440 So there are lots of things that can and should be done.

00:18:44.720 But the conservative view is that the big gains are how the people think about the problem themselves.

00:18:49.840 In other words, Candace is saying that we're in the golden age already and that the biggest problem here is the way we think about the problem, because if we think about it differently, we can get to a better place.

00:19:02.280 What was the big news of the week? Kanye West, who is famous for saying things like George Bush doesn't care about black people, for getting on stage with Taylor Swift and making a statement that Beyonce should have won and that probably racism was part of the voting.

00:19:23.640 So somebody who has strong credentials for being an advocate for African Americans and against racism.

00:19:36.820 So Kanye has good credentials from that point of view.

00:19:40.560 What did he tweet?

00:19:42.060 He tweeted, I like the way Candace Owens thinks.

00:19:47.080 Seven words.

00:19:51.100 And he ripped a hole in reality.

00:19:53.640 with seven words, because Kanye

00:19:57.820 is supposed to be over here, and Candace

00:20:02.400 is supposed to be over here, and they're not ever

00:20:06.160 supposed to say the other one said something, right?

00:20:09.840 That's not supposed to happen, but

00:20:14.220 Kanye did it anyway.

00:20:18.260 Kanye knows history doesn't

00:20:22.360 repeat. He's not a prisoner of the mind. He knows that the problem is not the

00:20:26.320 solution. Whatever you want to say about Kanye's politics,

00:20:30.640 and I don't even know what his preferred politics would be. I'm not even sure

00:20:34.340 what party he would run for if he ran for president at this point.

00:20:38.500 Whatever else you want to say about him, and I don't know enough about

00:20:42.200 his actual management skills

00:20:46.080 or political ability, but

00:20:50.040 But he did something that you could rarely see.

00:20:55.380 He actually just altered reality.

00:20:58.340 He just made the entire conservative Twittersphere

00:21:01.720 just go something like this.

00:21:05.120 It's like your head just went...

00:21:07.220 What did I just see?

00:21:09.900 Did I really see this?

00:21:12.180 Now forget about which of these views you like the best.

00:21:17.860 That's not even the story.

00:21:19.660 Forget about whether you think Candace has everything right or everything wrong.

00:21:23.320 That's not the story.

00:21:24.660 The story is that these two people that shouldn't be in the same conversation,

00:21:31.480 in seven words, Kanye just changed that.

00:21:34.600 And he just freed a lot of people from a mental prison.

00:21:42.760 Kanye, in seven words

00:21:46.720 unlocked a mental prison

00:21:49.300 and is bringing you to

00:21:53.200 the golden age

00:21:56.420 alright, so that's my

00:22:01.480 sweeping analysis

00:22:04.120 and I think that

00:22:09.700 we may see more and more examples

00:22:12.600 of things we just didn't think were possible

00:22:16.380 becoming routine.

00:22:19.820 And that that would be as much

00:22:22.360 because we're thinking about things differently

00:22:24.500 than because our technology is getting better

00:22:28.300 or we're getting smarter.

00:22:29.660 I think we're going to be just thinking

00:22:31.460 that a lot more is possible

00:22:34.000 than we ever thought before.

00:22:37.000 And that a lot of our barriers

00:22:38.760 are just mental prisons.

00:22:40.180 and Kanye just showed you how to get out.

00:22:46.180 Love him or hate him, he did that for you. 0.94

00:22:50.060 So, yeah, so Iran is next, right? 1.00

00:22:56.020 If North Korea works out, and I think it will, 1.00

00:22:59.900 it's time to talk to Iran 0.99

00:23:02.140 because why do we really have a beef with Iran?

00:23:07.600 We're in mental prison. 0.81

00:23:09.500 We're in the same mental prison as Iran. 1.00

00:23:13.200 Maybe we can help each other get out. 0.93

00:23:16.020 Because we don't need to be problems for each other.

00:23:19.280 We just don't.

00:23:22.580 Oh, I love that little last line there about Iran.

00:23:27.380 Because I'm watching some of the chat comments.

00:23:31.640 And if you made this about what you think about Candace Owens today or Kanye today,

00:23:37.800 you missed the whole entire point of the micro lesson of the whiteboard lesson maybe watch it

00:23:43.360 again um but anyway i'm gonna come to you owen first on this one i i think it is just such a

00:23:51.540 a smart lesson um i'll just let you take it away yeah well i mean i think it is a great lesson i

00:23:58.520 think it's a sort of a mind shift lesson where you're you're trying to make sure you weren't

00:24:04.540 caught in this mental prison i noticed scott was using his hypnotist voice and probably a lot of

00:24:10.380 hypnotic techniques to try and change people's minds about this so i think it was essentially a

00:24:16.140 you know a persuasion attempt but i think um it did all make sense to me i think it's it is often

00:24:24.220 that you get stuck in a problem and you don't know how to solve it and a lot of times it's just some

00:24:29.340 very different place you have to look for the solution um and if you are stuck in this well

00:24:36.600 that's the way it's always been so that's the way it always will be then you're reinforcing it you're

00:24:41.500 not getting out of it and um i think it was great to use the example of trump as one of those

00:24:47.400 examples where it's like if you know if you just said a history always repeats or rhymes

00:24:51.600 then you know if you were trump why would you even try and run for office you'd say well nobody

00:24:56.460 ever makes president without first going through a whole bunch of other offices to get there

00:25:00.860 and um you know trump has shown us over and over again how he's broken the mold and done things

00:25:06.140 that no one ever thought was possible and he just does it and some of it works and some of it doesn't

00:25:11.700 but a lot of it works and even recently like people are um amazed that oil prices are not

00:25:19.960 like 200 a barrel like they're like what happened everybody said it was going to be 200 a barrel or

00:25:24.780 even higher and it isn't and you know like people are saying i was wrong trump was right like

00:25:30.940 and um you know the same thing happened with tariffs everyone's like oh it's going to cause

00:25:36.820 this massive wave of inflation and it never did and like all the economists were wrong and um

00:25:43.920 so i think you know it does make sense to say you might want to separate the solution from the

00:25:49.660 problem and look for things in a different place than you've been looking before because that's

00:25:53.700 really the only way you're going to get out of the situation that you are in, is to look for

00:25:57.740 something new and different. So I loved it. It was great. Yeah, it is really good. Marcella?

00:26:07.560 You know, everything's possible in this world. And the fact that, you know, I know he didn't

00:26:14.220 talk about this in this particular lesson, but, you know, the idea of the simulation,

00:26:19.960 and that you can author your own reality goes with this because if you don't believe that if

00:26:27.440 you think that everything has to be a certain way you have to in order to be a great doctor you just

00:26:36.560 have to study medicine you know so everything derives everything in scott's philosophy derives

00:26:42.760 kind of from this because then he as a cartoonist would have never been a commentator

00:26:50.060 politics and anything else because that's not how it works what we're told how it works is

00:26:58.460 you have to go to college you have to go and become a political major or some kind of thing

00:27:07.980 you have to be some kind of politician or adjacent politician. So it kind of connects

00:27:15.860 everything. And I love the ending that he talks about Iran, because that's kind of where we are.

00:27:23.420 And he predicted it completely right. But one of the things I do want to comment on is 1.00

00:27:30.160 that people that feel like they've been wrong, um, or they have their, their victim mentality

00:27:40.800 and that something's holding them back, racism or whatever, they are their own solution.

00:27:47.220 They, uh, there's no one holding you back. You are your own solution. So that I love, you know?

00:27:54.140 so i i agree um i i think so i want to i want to ask the chats everywhere so if if you know like

00:28:05.720 we were saying like oh scott didn't you know used to really like bill gates and then he didn't and

00:28:10.240 we were like yay um so are you all feeling that you're able to change your minds also because

00:28:17.360 you know i always say it's a superpower when you get new information and you the facts have changed

00:28:23.040 or just like you've been enlightened in a different way,

00:28:27.060 do you guys think that you could change your opinions too

00:28:29.500 if you made them so public?

00:28:31.140 Because I think that's really hard to do.

00:28:32.640 Like if you've been publicly liking Bill Gates,

00:28:35.540 like we'll use them as the example,

00:28:37.000 and then you're like, oh, maybe not so much now.

00:28:41.080 I wonder how many of us could publicly say,

00:28:44.080 you know what, maybe I was wrong.

00:28:46.440 And another one of Scott's superpowers

00:28:48.600 was not being embarrassed about anything.

00:28:52.300 I kind of feel the same way too about not being embarrassed.

00:28:55.060 Like, you know, things, it just is what it is.

00:28:57.320 So if you're feeling a certain way at a certain time, it is what it is.

00:29:00.920 If you change your mind, change your mind.

00:29:03.140 You're entitled to do that.

00:29:05.560 So a lot of you say, are saying that you can admit when you're wrong.

00:29:09.200 I have an open mind.

00:29:10.820 If something logical comes, let me see.

00:29:13.940 Yes, yes, I already have.

00:29:16.640 Okay, good.

00:29:17.920 All right, good.

00:29:19.540 That's good.

00:29:20.200 I mean, I think that you're way ahead of the curve if you said yes.

00:29:26.100 You know, so I think that when you can't, it's like the embarrassment, your ego, things

00:29:33.040 like that, that get in your way.

00:29:35.400 Owen, reflect more on this for us.

00:29:38.060 I think it is a tough thing because you kind of invest in a certain point of view and at

00:29:44.740 some point it becomes part of your identity.

00:29:46.280 and i do think there is a natural part of human nature that once you have an impression formed

00:29:52.120 of someone it's very hard to break um i've seen it at work i i've seen where it's worked for me

00:29:58.300 in a positive way where when i make a positive first impression on the client they've been like

00:30:02.120 totally trusting me and even when i make mistakes they don't even notice and like it it's just a

00:30:06.680 totally different experience from the opposite which the you know the thing i remember the time

00:30:14.260 i remember about this was it was the same person the same person who really trusted me and said so

00:30:19.420 like you know basically said i don't even need to be here you've got this you can just run with it

00:30:23.020 i don't you know i'm like you go ahead um and then i brought a new person on the team and they

00:30:29.960 started doing things and they made a couple of mistakes early on and and the client was like i

00:30:35.080 don't trust this person i don't i don't think they've got this i don't think we can you know

00:30:39.360 And then, you know, I really looked at it.

00:30:42.120 I'm like, I don't think it was that bad.

00:30:43.960 Like, you know, I understand he didn't, you know, have the facts right a couple times, but he was new.

00:30:50.200 Like he was just getting up to speed.

00:30:51.860 So it's like expected as far as I'm concerned.

00:30:54.380 And I didn't want to get rid of the person because we brought him on because we needed more help.

00:30:58.400 And it was, you know, a really busy time.

00:31:00.640 And so I tried to like save him.

00:31:04.720 But from that point on, the client was like, oh, look at this email.

00:31:08.160 He made this mistake.

00:31:09.080 oh look at what he said on this call it was this mistake and it's like every little thing was called

00:31:13.320 out right and i i tried but i i basically failed i couldn't save him and i had to remove him from

00:31:20.100 the project and replace him even though it hurt the project just because i couldn't make the client

00:31:24.800 change their mind about it and so i think it is where you get stuck in this mode it's really hard

00:31:30.160 to say once you have a negative or a positive impression of someone to change that um and i'm

00:31:36.920 sure i'm subject to it as well like i you know i when i thought about what you were saying it was

00:31:41.700 it was like okay i can you know i i can think of times where i would say oh you know i kind of like

00:31:47.680 some of the things john fetterman says you know they're common sense things but i'm still skeptical

00:31:53.100 of john fetterman like he still votes as a democrat as far as i can tell like i'm not

00:31:57.100 going to trust him right exactly yeah and and so you know there's a limit to how much i'm going to

00:32:03.020 be like oh i like this you know and but i can at least call out like these things that trump said

00:32:08.200 or did i don't like yes or these things that you know john fatterman or somebody else says i like

00:32:13.920 and um i think the more you can be flexible and at least try and put yourself in the in the mind

00:32:19.800 of someone else i think that's one of the things i try to do is to just say if i can understand

00:32:24.100 you know how they might be thinking or why they might be acting the way they are not from my

00:32:29.660 point of view but from their point of view so important and it's it's hard for a lot of people

00:32:34.340 i think but i've developed that skill set over the course of my 30 plus years working because

00:32:40.780 as a consultant you kind of have to and um you know i do think it's very powerful when you can

00:32:46.440 say okay i can understand that this person you know has whatever title or position or ambitions

00:32:51.520 or interests or goals or preferences and they're very different from mine but if i can kind of

00:32:57.260 try that on for a minute. Maybe I can see things from that point of view, or at least closer to

00:33:01.840 that point of view. And that would help you predict, how is that person going to respond

00:33:05.640 if I tell them this, or if I do that? And it can make great improvements to how you relate to other

00:33:11.780 people, I think. And the same might be true in your marriage with your spouse, with your friends,

00:33:16.740 your family. You may have serious differences with people, but if you can see things from

00:33:21.560 their point of view, you might be able to relate to them better. And I think that's

00:33:25.300 really powerful as well that's a great point to drive home i don't think we do that enough you 0.89

00:33:30.100 know like i immediately thought of hunter biden you know he thinks his dad's a freaking genius 0.96

00:33:34.560 obviously that's his son i think joe biden's a freaking moron so but if i if i'm like how could 0.97

00:33:41.960 hunter biden think his dad's a genius well now let me step into his shoes yeah it's his dad so 0.98

00:33:47.880 i think we need to do that more it's just part of like i think it's maturity to just see where

00:33:54.700 someone else is coming from personally. So it might be a good exercise. The next time you have

00:33:59.060 a knee jerk reaction to someone's opinion, we'll look at it from their vantage point. And then I

00:34:06.940 think, you know, we won't get as upset about things because we're like, well, their vantage

00:34:11.500 point is this, I don't know that, you know, they have a different view. What do you think, Marcella?

00:34:17.560 Well, I don't think you're going back to what we were talking about earlier. I don't think your

00:34:22.800 your intelligence uh is measured by who you liked or didn't like i liked donald ronsvelt before

00:34:31.560 i did too i voted for bush um so um you could you could be wrong or at the moment in time that

00:34:42.440 could have been a great thing and then the person also changes because as you're changing they're

00:34:47.680 changing too so then the the you're liking them also changes yeah so everything's happening all

00:34:54.040 at once um and i just think uh you just have to believe in yourself and and don't don't be a

00:35:02.940 prisoner you know don't be a prisoner of of or an mpc because some of these comments hit that i've

00:35:11.180 seen in the chat a little bit mpc like yeah so think think think differently think for yourself

00:35:17.980 so and that's another really good point so your opinions change as you hopefully evolve and grow

00:35:25.020 the other person who you're thinking about they changed like i mean there's people i couldn't

00:35:30.480 stand and i'm like oh my god now i love this person like they're so different and i'm different

00:35:34.600 and i get where they're coming from and you know whatever and then maybe they make a left turn i'm

00:35:38.460 like wah, wah. But it doesn't mean I have to hate everything about them either. I think there's a

00:35:43.840 lot of nuance. And that's why I asked, do you guys think that you have the ability to change your

00:35:50.060 opinion? Because I don't know if it's as easy as some of you may think it is. And I think if you

00:35:57.000 were challenged with information that really went against something you were dug into, you might

00:36:02.260 find it a little more difficult, which is fine. You're only human. But I think it's a little

00:36:07.380 harder than people think it is. And I think if we, this is just a suggestion for anyone over on

00:36:14.100 YouTube who's going to say, stop telling me what to think. I see your comments. Oh my Lord, like

00:36:20.220 relax people, but it might be a good MK ultra. It might be a good practice to say, do I really 0.96

00:36:30.480 hate everything about this? Or is it like this thing that I hate? You know, does this make

00:36:35.220 somebody stupid? Or is it just that I disagree with the topic? And I think when we parse out 1.00

00:36:41.040 the nuance, we'll be happier. I just think we'll be happier. We won't get so dug in.

00:36:47.680 Any more on this subject, you guys? Otherwise, we'll go to the news.

00:36:52.840 No, I'm just ready for the news, Owen.

00:36:56.680 Owen, are you ready? All right. Let's do an interstitial sip and just let's hear about

00:37:01.560 this guy for america we're watching that if you don't do the sip oh no we can see you you guys

00:37:07.380 know that right we can see you owen set it up for us okay so have a sip while we listen to this guy

00:37:13.820 talk about america hey you know the europeans are coming over here for the world cup soccer games

00:37:19.260 and they never come over here but they're here now and they're finding out that texas has the

00:37:22.800 best barbecue on the face of the planet and then they're going home and they're posting all over

00:37:25.840 social media about america being the greatest country there is yep you know what they're right

00:37:30.280 and you know what else is so great about america bald eagles donald trump huge death 35 american

00:37:37.380 football college football beef so much beef bearing an f-255 feet in mud just because you can

00:37:45.120 watermelons every type of hunting and fishing you could ever dream of stone cold steve austin

00:37:50.500 smith and wesson the 1990s chicago bulls yingling beer a guy named jack daniels u.s airborne

00:37:58.100 paratroopers the second amendment we put a man on the moon you know and we did it without using

00:38:04.020 the metric system air conditioning that'll freeze you out in the middle of august drive through

00:38:08.340 everything costco two-day shipping coca-cola waffle house at three in the morning red solo

00:38:14.580 cups monster trucks bottomless chips and salsa fireworks that are technically illegal but

00:38:20.260 nobody's really going to say nothing about it cheeseburgers the size of a newborn john deere

00:38:25.460 green 35 again we don't use the metric system and we turned out fine brisket so good and make a

00:38:31.940 frenchman cry the bald eagle could actually eat you if he wanted to he just don't care to so yeah

00:38:37.080 y'all come on over and enjoy enjoy it all live it up baby live it up because that's what we do

00:38:42.920 every day last thing america's always been great have a good wednesday usa baby

00:38:48.500 i love it i love him i think my favorite one was john deere green i don't know why but

00:39:00.060 yes i love this man i still need to try the waffle house i went in the morning

00:39:04.760 or at any time because i've never been to one go midday you've never been to a waffle house

00:39:10.140 no there isn't one near here you have to go to florida

00:39:14.960 yeah i would have to travel is there one in florida is there one in florida is that what

00:39:21.380 you said yeah there's like 800 million in florida it's like the home of waffle house i don't know

00:39:29.240 where waffle house started but there's like one in every wacky neighborhood in florida yes see

00:39:35.440 the chat's like waffle house let's go a thousand yes a thousand okay so you mentioned bucky's i

00:39:42.120 think you might have missed that one he didn't say bucky's but i haven't been to a bucky's

00:39:47.720 there's not one near us i mean or anywhere near me i think uh maybe five states away okay so

00:39:56.040 let's go america um owen you want to kick us off with the news story

00:40:03.400 oh i could probably do that apparently giraffes can do math did you know that better than me i

00:40:09.320 bet they did some kind of experiment where they uh like added carrots together to like put them

00:40:18.460 behind where they couldn't see but with different like they would show how many they had and put

00:40:21.880 them together and they would see if they could do the math to see the addition would make what

00:40:25.860 one side bigger than the other and apparently they could they could figure out the addition

00:40:30.120 to figure out which one they should go after apparently they struggled with subtraction for

00:40:35.200 some reason so they couldn't do it the other way if you take carrots away but i don't know

00:40:39.100 they probably just upset the giraffes by taking the carrots away so oh yeah i can understand

00:40:43.940 but apparently giraffes are smarter than we thought no i don't think they can do math they

00:40:47.760 just see an amount of food that they want well so look it was university of barcelona i don't know

00:40:54.700 how they got funding for this um they they took so what they did is they showed giraffes two

00:41:00.900 containers holding different number of carrots and then they closed them and then they showed

00:41:04.560 them a third container with extra carrots which were added to one of the closed boxes and so I

00:41:11.040 think they then asked the giraffes to choose and you know which one was the larger total basically

00:41:18.220 and it seemed like they were able to do that math where they could say okay if you know if you had a

00:41:23.240 smaller amount and a larger amount and you add a third amount they could do the math to say which

00:41:27.940 one's bigger marcella what would scott say about this study um i don't know you say who funded it

00:41:38.040 right like a big giraffe probably funded it or big carrot i'm wondering all of the money i guess

00:41:44.240 like what's the purpose of this i mean we need to show that that animals are smarter than we

00:41:52.220 thought they were i think they were saying they could potentially do you know statistical

00:41:56.500 reasoning similar to primates oh we already know this is going to help us moving forward in life

00:42:01.860 this reminds me of the the news there was recently wasn't there recently a giraffe that

00:42:09.300 like escaped some kind of zoo in texas and they couldn't find their giraffe for like the longest

00:42:16.340 time which is like how do you not find a giraffe and then they found it they don't know how to get

00:42:21.860 it back to where they had to get it back to they need like a special trailer they're like you can't

00:42:25.620 You can't just like put it in the back of your car and take it home. 0.98

00:42:28.720 They should have asked the giraffe. 0.98

00:42:30.100 He could have told them how to get it back. 0.53

00:42:31.680 They needed the math giraffe. 0.97

00:42:33.620 Maybe they're very intelligent, Owen. 1.00

00:42:36.020 So they could take over.

00:42:38.540 Yeah.

00:42:39.220 All right.

00:42:39.720 Well, that was interesting.

00:42:43.480 It was.

00:42:44.380 I thought we'd start out with something light like that.

00:42:46.800 Yes.

00:42:47.300 All right.

00:42:47.740 Marcella, you take it away now.

00:42:49.540 So as we know, tomorrow will be 250 years of the nation.

00:42:54.560 And so there'll be celebrations even today and tomorrow.

00:43:00.480 But the funniest part about the whole situation is the way that CNN and the left is taking it.

00:43:09.060 PBS has moved there.

00:43:11.220 They usually show the 4th of July fireworks and everything else in D.C.

00:43:19.100 But they have moved it to Williamsburg, Virginia, because one thing they said that the D.C. wasn't there in 1776 and that also Trump is ruining the celebrations.

00:43:37.300 So they moved everything over there. And the CNN is making it to be Trump took over D.C. and that he's making it all about himself and he's making it into a Trump rally.

00:43:51.640 So even even the even the easiest things that we can all connect with, they try to figure out a way to make it political.

00:44:02.460 So today he'll be, President Trump will be tonight at Mount Rushmore to honor and look at Freedom 250.

00:44:14.320 I think there's going to be some kind of statue he's doing.

00:44:19.220 I don't know.

00:44:20.300 But I remember seeing that he was talking to Teddy Roosevelt because I guess there was a museum that was open.

00:44:27.760 um it was teddy roosevelt's presidential library yes finally it was opened in it wasn't in new york

00:44:37.700 so it was opened in near mount rushmore um because he came president roosevelt came from

00:44:46.920 the new york area so they were attempting to open it there but there was this huge issue with like

00:44:53.980 they didn't agree with it so then they ended up opening it there but i digress so they'll be the

00:44:59.340 biggest fireworks will be amount the the largest fireworks the greatest fireworks in history

00:45:06.140 will be tomorrow uh for the national mall so if anybody's going you got to take video for us

00:45:13.980 and if you are in the left i guess you go to williamsburg um oh yeah yeah so the left goes

00:45:22.380 to bloomsburg um and is that where span burger is in virginia yeah yeah okay so oh yeah did you

00:45:30.720 guys see the rough riders escorting uh president trump yes that's that was and i can tell you san

00:45:37.280 diego over there in cali i heard that they were having their firework show and the first i think

00:45:44.160 it i think the festivities started at like 5 45 let's say or they're starting at 5 45 p.m

00:45:50.180 and from 5 45 till like eight o'clock it's all like land acknowledgements um talking about

00:45:57.780 different people like what do the asians you know want to talk about what are the this and it's like

00:46:03.380 oh my god like again you're missing the opportunity we're all americans let's just go after it so

00:46:10.880 very interesting options for the 250. let's just have the whole celebration in williamsburg be

00:46:17.200 like that just all land acknowledgements we'll hand out free floggings to people yeah you know

00:46:22.640 tell people that you know all the things that they want to hear be fun to flog guess who's behind

00:46:28.600 this whole williamsburg thing i was very surprised carly fiorina was the honorary chair of this

00:46:34.900 virginia 250 that doesn't surprise me colonial williamsburg foundation she thinks it's fair to

00:46:41.180 say the Trump rally is not appealing to all Americans.

00:46:44.940 So she wanted to be my latex salesman.

00:46:48.940 Can they get any Hollywood people 1.00

00:46:50.200 to give complainy speeches and wine for an hour?

00:46:53.700 Maybe, maybe. 0.99

00:46:55.580 I think everybody's silly 0.97

00:46:59.320 and they're missing a good opportunity, 0.96

00:47:00.840 but we'll be smiling for America

00:47:03.900 and celebrating that we're all Americans.

00:47:05.980 Maybe we could play that TDS video.

00:47:08.260 Yeah, I would like that.

00:47:10.420 Nero and all those other people.

00:47:11.420 That Dr. Trump video that he posted.

00:47:14.480 Don't make me go run and grab that.

00:47:16.480 Okay, anyway.

00:47:17.480 Go and grab it.

00:47:18.480 Maybe I will.

00:47:19.480 All right.

00:47:20.480 Oh, and you do the next story.

00:47:21.480 Do you want to do the Scott Adams post or do you want to wait for that?

00:47:24.480 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:25.480 Please do.

00:47:26.480 Yeah.

00:47:27.480 Greg Gutfeld retweeted a good one.

00:47:28.480 Yeah.

00:47:29.480 Greg Gutfeld and a few other people had retweeted a post from Scott.

00:47:32.680 This is from 2024, February, and so I'll just read it to you.

00:47:39.520 He says, I finally figured out what's wrong with, quote, everything.

00:47:43.060 It's a system problem.

00:47:44.280 The introduction of Trump into the systems broke almost everything and in multiple ways.

00:47:48.200 The fake news created the white supremacist hysteria, which led to the fine people hoax

00:47:52.700 and the George Floyd hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence

00:47:57.840 in all of our systems at once.

00:47:59.820 Add wokeness and cancellation.

00:48:01.400 We can't discuss the issue, much less fix it.

00:48:03.400 That's a system problem.

00:48:04.360 The corrective mechanism, free speech, has been removed.

00:48:07.580 on top of that the trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt

00:48:12.480 they probably always were but as long as we didn't notice things things limped along okay

00:48:16.620 now we notice now we don't accept quote the science we know is corrupt we don't accept the

00:48:22.980 omnibus bills we know are corrupt we don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy we don't accept

00:48:27.360 elections we can't fully audit we don't trust the news for good reason we don't trust our intel

00:48:32.480 services to not be agents of one party and we see the justice departments weaponized while all of

00:48:38.240 that happened soros found a way to take control of all american systems via funding of non-government

00:48:42.960 entities and integrating them into the american systems but at the head of the snake is the fake

00:48:47.280 news and fake science there is no correcting mechanism the x platform is the only counterforce

00:48:52.560 and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out and musk at the same time

00:48:55.600 so good yes it did age very well um and i was saying to owen before that was like an unusually

00:49:05.200 long post for scott so you know he really felt a certain way about getting that message out there

00:49:11.200 i love it i mean what else is there to say about it i think it's pretty accurate and it seems like

00:49:18.400 it's played out exactly the way he was describing it um and you know i think a lot of it is that

00:49:25.280 just a lot of the machinery has been exposed to the point where you can't really trust anything

00:49:30.160 that's going on you can't overstate how important of a miracle it was that elon ended up with

00:49:39.120 twitter because i mean you know you have to remember one time he tried to back out of it

00:49:43.280 and then they're like no we're not going to let you well they almost like everybody blew it they

00:49:47.200 They almost had the chance to have him not get it.

00:49:49.660 And then they forced him to get it.

00:49:51.220 And now look at what it's exposed.

00:49:53.360 So we owe Elon a debt of gratitude, no matter what you feel about him.

00:49:58.060 I hope you love him like I do.

00:50:00.440 But he's always advancing us for the good of humanity.

00:50:05.780 So, yeah.

00:50:07.720 All right.

00:50:08.480 So I grabbed the clip because, yep, here it is.

00:50:13.060 Dr. Trump is in the house.

00:50:15.420 Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with TDS?

00:50:18.300 The symptoms can be relentless.

00:50:20.220 Fortunately, I'm Dr. Trump, and I have a treatment plan.

00:50:23.120 Let's hear what some of my patients have to say.

00:50:24.920 I have been suffering for over a decade, and after listening to Dr. Trump, I can see some results.

00:50:34.980 Man, I've been suffering for years.

00:50:38.000 I really didn't believe that was help out there.

00:50:42.020 That was when I came across this video on TV.

00:50:45.560 I really thought I was a lost cause.

00:50:47.740 This was going to affect me for the rest of my life.

00:50:51.120 But after using the treatment plan, I can see a difference.

00:50:55.680 I really wasn't sure I could help some of these people.

00:50:59.600 They were so far gone, I wasn't really sure.

00:51:05.260 I had no idea how much this was affecting my life.

00:51:09.020 My work is slowed down.

00:51:11.040 I'm hardly recognizable anymore.

00:51:14.080 I just needed help.

00:51:15.720 I couldn't eat.

00:51:17.360 I couldn't sleep.

00:51:19.180 Constantly angry.

00:51:21.280 I made everyone miserable around me.

00:51:25.280 I feel like I've aged 20 years in the last two years.

00:51:30.440 I've been so concerned.

00:51:32.500 I was really starting to worry about my future.

00:51:35.780 The treatment is simple.

00:51:37.180 Turn off.

00:51:38.140 Fake news.

00:51:39.300 Say your prayers, and if you ever feel anxious, just have a Diet Coke like me,

00:51:42.900 and you're going to see a remarkable difference in your life.

00:51:45.800 Have you or someone you know?

00:51:47.100 Oh, yeah.

00:51:48.020 I mean, Dr. Trump.

00:51:49.260 Dr. Trump's here to save us.

00:51:51.960 Dr. Drew is going to freak out if people start recommending Diet Cokes for people,

00:51:57.440 but it works for Trump.

00:52:00.700 You know what I miss?

00:52:01.560 I miss being able to have the left and the right be able to make fun of each other,

00:52:08.200 you know it used to be that you could make jokes and yeah they're gonna take it

00:52:16.440 oh how dare he may how dare he post this video this ai video of us and all sorts of things

00:52:23.480 and you know sometimes you just have to laugh you know about somebody making fun of you or

00:52:30.200 and then you can make fun of them did eddie murphy was it eddie murphy that said

00:52:36.840 have a diet coke and i'll say a smile or something like that anyway yeah we need like a a maga diet

00:52:45.800 coke commercial like everyone handing one to like a crying lefty here you go have a coke and a smile

00:52:53.160 um so there was dr trump owen in the flesh right there perfect okay so so well dressed i know

00:53:02.280 and so well spoken and thoughtful very nice um you think eddie murphy is a conservative secretly

00:53:10.280 maybe come out of the closet eddie trump should put on the doctor coat and the stethoscope for

00:53:15.080 the next pandemic no there's no next pandemic god owen owen owen is playing the market as there's

00:53:27.720 going to be one all right oh and give us the next story well in the wake of the disastrous

00:53:34.840 birthright citizenship ruling um ice has arrested 10 000 illegal aliens in the last five days

00:53:41.800 um so apparently it's a big surge and it's helped helped by funding from the big beautiful bill

00:53:47.720 so we're getting a bunch of people out and um there's also a

00:53:51.640 a law being proposed to curb the birth tourism industry so it seems like people are trying to

00:54:00.100 take action at least to mitigate the problem I don't think it's a full solution but it might

00:54:05.920 might help maybe it ties into what Scott was saying is that you know you might have to look

00:54:10.600 somewhere else for the solution but there's an oversight project that's arguing that the

00:54:18.100 ruling allows for the creation of these anchor babies and it looks like they're trying to you

00:54:24.460 know put measures in place I think some laws are being proposed to try and make it illegal for

00:54:29.700 people to come here to have their babies basically because I think some of this is very organized 0.98

00:54:34.240 I know we've seen stories recently about some Chinese places that are bringing you know women

00:54:40.960 here and having lots and lots of babies to just bring back to China and you know so they're raised 1.00

00:54:46.620 in other countries. They're indoctrinated by the other countries, but they are brought here when 0.99

00:54:50.260 they're babies just so they're American citizens. And it does seem like a ticking time bomb until 0.76

00:54:54.880 potentially you'd have someone like the CCP being able to say, I'm going to just send all these

00:54:58.860 people to, you know, Ohio or Pennsylvania or some swing state and just decide what the election's

00:55:04.400 going to be. And so I think we do need to put a stop to a lot of this. So I'm glad people are

00:55:10.740 trying to take action. I don't know how much of it's going to work, but. You know, right when you

00:55:15.100 said that so all right so 10 000 in the last five days all right you guys i just ran and grabbed

00:55:20.660 this clip that i had saved also look at this we only have a couple minutes but wait look at this

00:55:25.040 and think about what owen's saying i know it's not my baby the child growing inside audra anderson

00:55:31.880 will be going to parents in china who are the future parents of of this child you're carrying

00:55:37.640 right now? A Chinese gay couple. And they are the most wonderful people that I know.

00:55:45.540 They are loving and caring. And if I didn't think that, I wouldn't have given them two

00:55:50.380 wonderful children. Anderson's surrogate pregnancy is not unusual. A growing number of women in the 0.97

00:55:57.800 U.S. are becoming surrogates for wealthy Chinese couples. Agencies like West Coast Surrogacy in 1.00

00:56:04.040 Irvine, California, are seeing a large influx of customers from overseas. In fact, 40 percent of

00:56:10.460 their clients are from China. For one, their child will be a U.S. citizen. I'm sure that has some

00:56:16.600 some draw to it. There are other American companies trying to get in on this growing

00:56:25.840 surrogacy industry. Unlike international adoption, there are very few rules governing international

00:56:32.440 surrogacy here in a small desert town in southern california audra anderson says she's already

00:56:39.320 considering carrying a third surrogate child she can earn from 35 to 45 000 for each baby

00:56:48.600 okay listen i don't have any children but it would take like at least 500 000 for me to do that okay

00:56:55.320 just letting you know 30 000 please anyway um what are we doing so that was from 2015 but apparently

00:57:03.320 this is like a still growing i guess we'll call it big china baby industry um because they're

00:57:10.600 they're giving birth to american citizens and then giving them to people in china

00:57:14.760 do you remember the time where like people who uh that couldn't have children were adopting chinese

00:57:19.640 children in america and then they had their so i mean i guess we can always adopt chinese children

00:57:27.340 that that makes them american citizens too

00:57:29.600 yes we can just become one country then uh can we

00:57:36.700 all right well that prisons i mean listen ice i you know i wish them luck all right so we have

00:57:45.140 two minutes andy wang is telling me thank you andy by the way thank you for every day for telling

00:57:49.540 me um marcella do you want to give us a quick little something something i don't have anything

00:57:54.500 quick i um just a neural link came up with the new way to do brain surgery um so that was amazing

00:58:05.060 their their neural link is an elon musk company and with brain um they had a brain surgery where

00:58:16.180 now they don't have to cut into your brain the dura of the top of your brain uh they can

00:58:23.780 you know be able to see what's in there before so they can operate in a very surgical effective

00:58:32.900 manner and it's gonna change uh brain surgery and how operations are done so it's like amazing

00:58:42.180 and the operation they had was successful and the person they operated on they added um it was

00:58:51.300 extremely precise and the operation was done in toronto western hospital university health network

00:58:58.900 and the person was able to control a computer cursor with their thoughts within about an hour

00:59:04.580 after the surgery amazing remarkable it's changing people that have als people that have

00:59:11.220 all sorts of other uh brain paralysis paralysis issues yes dr von hardy first of all thank you

00:59:18.820 for our thumbnail today the mount rushmore thumbnail and did you actually say why the

00:59:23.380 strict one hour because we all have jobs silly goose um you guys were at the hour but guess

00:59:29.780 what guess who's coming on on monday are you ready one of your favorites walter kern

00:59:37.780 woohoo he'll be with us monday yes he will yes he will and we might talk some mk ultra with him

00:59:44.420 he's another person that's into it um so i hope you guys are excited about that um listen i will

00:59:52.420 play an akira song right after our closing sips and owen will have his after party tomorrow owen

00:59:59.220 you want to tell them when it's at the same time as the show so that would be uh 7 a.m pacific 10

01:00:06.340 am eastern or wherever you are you can do the math and they can find if you're a giraffe

01:00:12.900 the giraffe will find the giraffes will be there early it'll be super patriotic right

01:00:19.540 of course it always is but lots of singing we'll have the sip and we'll talk about the news

01:00:24.340 and i think owen's singing the um national anthem tomorrow so don't miss that don't miss

01:00:29.860 that that'll be on x at owen gregorian at owen gregorian okay you're gonna get up early for

01:00:38.280 walter yes you are let's go all right you guys so listen have a safe and um amazing super patriotic

01:00:45.980 fourth of july weekend and if you're not an american celebrate anyway because america loves

01:00:52.860 you too okay all right so let's thank scott and shelly for allowing this show to continue we thank

01:00:58.940 every one of you for being here today and we'll see you back here monday and let's have a closing

01:01:04.100 sip to our beloved scott adams to scott to scott all right guys let's see we are going to do

01:01:17.300 the payoff by akira the dawn you guys please support akira the dawn at meaning wave.com

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01:01:26.620 What if

01:01:28.040 laziness is a habit

01:01:30.600 of thinking about the cost of things

01:01:32.840 or the effort

01:01:33.700 instead of thinking about the payoff

01:01:36.680 the payoff

01:01:39.640 I'm going to say it again

01:01:44.200 the payoff 0.86

01:01:45.500 get a few more heads to explode

01:01:50.140 what if you could reverse

01:01:52.080 laziness by simply developing a habit of thinking more about let's say the delicious food that you

01:01:57.700 like to enjoy instead of how long it would take you to get up and go get it. But the real question

01:02:04.540 is if you were to test this at home and try to see if you can think more about the good outcome

01:02:09.980 and less about the work, would you get it done? What if laziness is a habit of thinking about

01:02:18.380 The cost of things, or the effort, instead of thinking about the payoff.

01:02:25.380 The payoff.

01:02:30.380 I'm going to say it again. The payoff.

01:02:35.380 Get a few more heads to explode. 0.57

01:02:37.380 Why is it that people have a second child? 1.00

01:02:40.380 Why does a woman who goes through this awful, awful childbirth 0.99

01:02:45.380 have a second child? 1.00

01:02:47.380 Don't they always say the same thing?

01:02:49.200 If I remembered how bad this was, I wouldn't do it again.

01:02:52.600 Right?

01:02:54.320 So the not thinking about the effort is vital to actually the survival of humanity.

01:03:00.840 If we focused on how hard it was to have a baby, you just wouldn't do it.

01:03:04.600 You wouldn't do too little of it.

01:03:06.240 But if you focus on how awesome it would be to have a family, well, there you go.

01:03:11.060 you're gonna go through the pain because you've already you've already committed

01:03:17.760 you're gonna go through the pain because you've already you've already committed

01:03:23.580 what if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort

01:03:30.760 instead of thinking about the payoff

01:03:33.680 Am I ambitious or do I simply have a thinking habit which produces dopamine because I'm thinking about the positive outcome?

01:03:54.640 And is the dopamine the thing that gets me up and moving?

01:03:57.300 And when you're observing me, you say, how the hell do you get so much done?

01:04:01.840 And how do I do it?

01:04:03.680 I think it's just this. I think it's just this.

01:04:06.560 When I think of all the things I do, I think about them in terms of their benefits.

01:04:11.320 What if laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort

01:04:17.600 instead of thinking about the payoff?

01:04:22.560 The payoff.

01:04:26.860 I'm going to say it again.

01:04:28.700 The payoff. 0.77

01:04:29.220 Get a few more hands to explode

01:04:34.040 So here's your tip

01:04:47.140 It's going to change some of your lives

01:04:48.860 Think about the positive

01:04:53.320 Not about the work

01:04:54.620 And see what that does to you

01:04:59.220 love it yes a toast to our forefathers you guys all right we'll see you monday happy fourth

01:05:09.380 happy fourth everyone

01:05:12.900 oh my god look who's all chatty caddy bye guys bye

01:05:29.220 You 0.98

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