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00:00:58.400 and locals was here i mean locals look at you guys look at you frank met guy you all look

00:01:07.420 amazing you guys oh my gosh i was putting the date in before it is august 24th is that right

00:01:13.700 oh my god where'd the month go crazy local summers almost here at the jersey shore

00:01:21.060 woohoo we love local summer so anyway how's everyone doing marcella um are you in a sauna

00:01:30.240 are you at a spa don't tell us we know it's an undisclosed location i like it no no i'm in the

00:01:38.040 same place but i i um i did a court appearance on friday so i don't like showing stuff so that's

00:01:47.520 why it's there you just you're redecorated yeah for the court i don't want them to like

00:01:54.280 yeah see my like if i'm at home i don't want them to see that so that's why oh she likes and i have

00:02:01.200 a court hearing right after this so you're ready yeah he just doesn't want to tell us that this is

00:02:06.720 the top floor of her underground bunker oh right right right marcella you're so smart we're coming

00:02:13.400 over. We're coming over if there's a problem. All right, you guys. Good morning. Good morning.

00:02:17.520 Good morning. Yes, there's a corpse in the room, Andy. And so that background helps hide it.

00:02:26.100 SJV says it looks like you fucked your shui. Perfect. All right, you guys. 1.00

00:02:32.340 What did I do to my shui? You fenged it. Feng shui, sister feng shui. 1.00

00:02:38.280 I need coffee, you guys.

00:02:40.780 Oh, my bless.

00:02:41.840 All right, let's go.

00:02:42.900 You know what?

00:02:43.400 I need coffee, too.

00:02:44.640 We all need coffee.

00:02:45.620 Let's go.

00:02:46.780 And all you need to enjoy it to its maximum potential is what?

00:02:52.720 I think you know.

00:02:53.960 All you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or

00:02:57.760 a flask or a vessel of any kind.

00:03:00.180 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:03:02.280 I like coffee.

00:03:04.220 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, end of the day, the thing that

00:03:08.260 makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and you can see the world

00:03:13.780 improving with every delicious taste. Go.

00:03:26.940 My coffee was extra amazing, that sip I just had. How about you guys? Was it great?

00:03:31.100 it was excellent excellent it was excellent okay all right you guys so welcome you are at the scott

00:03:40.560 adams school it is monday august 24th 2026 my name is erica and i am joined today by marcella

00:03:48.540 and owen as always we are the home team of the scott adams school for anyone looking for like

00:03:55.900 full on Scott Adams material, his amazing, amazing wisdom. I mean, we just don't measure up and

00:04:04.100 Scott's like, don't even try. So all of his videos, all of his amazing lessons and takes on

00:04:11.140 things all live on this channel on YouTube. So you can always scroll back. And if you are new

00:04:16.440 to Scott Adams, go all the way to the first video he ever did and just start working your way forward.

00:04:21.740 you will not regret it. And if you subscribe to Locals, which is scottadams.locals.com,

00:04:28.860 you can also filter through and find hundreds of micro lessons and extra content and man caves and

00:04:38.180 pre-shows and post-shows and just so much fun over there. And that's where a lot of us really

00:04:44.980 got to know each other so well. And that's how the three of us ended up on this screen is because

00:04:51.380 that's where we really developed our relationship with Scott and with the beloved. So that's

00:04:56.780 how we got here, guys. That being said, we have a Scott Adams clip today. It's of Scott

00:05:04.680 and Jordan Peterson going over affirmations. And I always see Kevin from the Persuasion

00:05:11.380 Club working on his affirmations publicly. Good for you, Kev. And so we're going to do

00:05:17.160 a little follow-up on affirmations. Marcella and Owen have a ton of different kinds of news for us.

00:05:24.240 And I have one little animal clip just to kick us off because it's me and it's Monday. Okay. So

00:05:31.520 you guys, whether you have a dog or a cat or both, or you have no idea how these animals behave,

00:05:38.300 look at the difference here between a cat wanting to lay down with a dog and a dog wanting to lay

00:05:45.060 down with a cat. The dog's like, oh, oh, oh, like I don't want to disturb the cat. This might not go

00:05:53.460 well for me. The cat's like, oh, yeah, this looks good right here. I'm just going to plop down on

00:06:02.080 it. Yeah, just go back to bed. I'm laying right here. And the dog up there is just like, I'm near

00:06:07.940 you. I'm not touching you. I hope it's okay. Obsessed. Marcella, you have both. Isn't it so

00:06:15.260 true that that's how they act? Oh, you're on mute. You're on mute. My dog thinks she's a cat though.

00:06:24.340 So she'll lay on the cat and the cat will run away.

00:06:27.440 i just love that so sweet um so all right owen you told me you have some coffee news for us so

00:06:38.920 everyone grab your cup and let's let's listen to what owen's gonna tell us i hope it's good

00:06:43.000 yeah there's a finnish study um those crazy fins and uh they apparently found that

00:06:50.260 people who drink a lot of coffee have lower body fat and more skeletal muscle

00:06:54.660 clearly studied 2264 finnish adults and they found that the fat was lower the muscle was higher

00:07:06.420 they did say that the bmi like body mass index and waist were similar so it doesn't necessarily

00:07:12.300 mean they looked skinnier um but they did have lower fat and more muscle so of course they always

00:07:18.440 caveat these things by saying it's just a correlation we can't prove causation but we

00:07:23.360 all know that coffee is the reason. So apparently the FDA is saying 400 milligrams of caffeine a

00:07:30.560 day is fine. I think actually most of the studies I've read go higher than that. I think it's like

00:07:36.340 five cups of coffee and by a cup it's like eight ounces. So depending on what you consider a cup

00:07:42.180 of coffee, it might be like two grande size Starbucks or whatever per day because I think

00:07:48.100 those are about 12 or 16 ounces. So, you know, two or three of the bigger ones or five of the

00:07:53.580 smaller ones. But I think everything up to that point seems to be positive from all the studies

00:07:58.280 I've read over the years. So I know some people have like a pot going all day on the stove,

00:08:05.540 I was going to say, in the coffee maker, maybe on the stove. So this is like, this cup is just like

00:08:12.840 it's a little bit bigger than an average coffee cup, but smaller than our official cup. And I

00:08:19.660 don't quite drink a whole cup of coffee. So am I just not helping myself at all? I drink maybe

00:08:24.800 like a half a cup. Well, I mean, you're helping yourself. I think any amount is good, but more

00:08:30.180 would probably be better. Delightful. How many milligrams of coffee or is it caffeine or the

00:08:39.340 coffee? Uh, the caffeine is what this was measuring or what they were mentioning in terms of what the

00:08:45.040 FDA tells you, but I don't really care what the FDA thinks. I think, um, you know, the, I've read,

00:08:51.100 I mean, I, I, I've, I used to find these coffee studies all the time for Scott and the, they are

00:08:56.660 all pretty consistent. So like I could probably find 50 studies that all say how coffee is good

00:09:01.700 for you. And the general guidance always seems to be that, you know, anywhere up to five cups of

00:09:07.920 coffee a day is good for you and it helps your heart it helps your liver it helps your brain it

00:09:12.780 helps your gut it helps everything and so i i don't remember exactly how much caffeine is in

00:09:18.500 a cup of coffee i think it might be like 100 milligrams but it does vary i mean you know if

00:09:22.900 you if you have a different roasts or other things you know so it's not like precise like it would be

00:09:28.020 in a in a can of you know soda or an energy drink where you know how much is in it because they

00:09:34.500 they measure it um coffee is just whatever's in it and it depends on how you brew it it depends

00:09:41.040 on what kind of beans you use like and i thought it was interesting that like i i have dark roast

00:09:45.900 all the time that's what i prefer and like i would have assumed that a dark roast would have

00:09:52.020 more caffeine but it actually has less um the the like if you go to starbucks for example and you

00:09:58.460 compare the dark roast to their blonde roast or something i think the blonde roast is the highest

00:10:03.380 in caffeine interesting all right so and tea drinkers i don't know if i i don't know if it's

00:10:10.920 coffee caffeine that matters but yeah i kind of i mean there i've looked at some tea studies not

00:10:18.200 as many but it's certainly good for you too i think um especially the green tea is pretty good

00:10:25.800 for you and some of that does have caffeine some doesn't i think but it's i i would consider kind

00:10:31.720 complimentary. There's something called, I think it's EGCG that comes out of green tea and that's

00:10:37.520 really good for you, but it's in different ways than coffee. So if you want to do both, you can

00:10:41.600 get even more benefit, but I would, you know, if I had to pick one, I would pick coffee.

00:10:46.500 There are so many fascinating comments in the chat right now. Like you guys, what you know

00:10:51.960 about coffee, the way to brew it, like it's density, it's this, it's that. Black tea can

00:10:58.500 cause kidney stones. Green tea makes your heart palpitate. Blonde roast at Starbucks. Nespresso

00:11:05.660 36 pack is almost 40 bucks. That's insanity. Okay. Actually, I don't even have a half a cup

00:11:14.640 of coffee because I've got that Chobani cream in there. So I'm probably getting just under a half

00:11:19.160 a cup of coffee. Anyway, I'll sip to that. All right. Now, Marcella, we're going to need a tidbit

00:11:25.800 from you now what kind of uh little story do you want to tell us um so in regards to there there

00:11:34.680 was a there was an olympics sort of olympic style in china with robots i don't know if you guys saw

00:11:41.320 some of the clips online there's a chinese humanoid robot that beat usain bolt 100 meter record and

00:11:49.880 the human robot Dove Lighting-Marcella ran the 100 meters for 9.32 to 9.39 seconds

00:12:02.920 during the preparatory test for the second world humanoid robot olympics or games in Beijing and

00:12:13.400 And I kept seeing different, there was MMA fighting robot tournament.

00:12:20.060 You saw that.

00:12:21.460 But you know what came to mind?

00:12:22.880 I know this is like random Marcella thought, is in the future, they had like this marching in a track.

00:12:32.120 They had marching robots, like quite a lot.

00:12:35.720 It looked like it was AI, but it was real.

00:12:37.700 and i thought in the future we will have robot armies but also we would need robot security

00:12:47.520 but will we as like regular you know not government but private and people would we

00:12:55.720 be allowed to have robots under the second amendment would it be considered a weapon

00:13:02.000 um and the right to bear a robot the right to bear arms and i was like because eventually uh

00:13:09.180 uh weapons aren't gonna it's gonna be meaningless it's like do you have a robot marcella

00:13:15.560 and then uh erica's like do you have your drone marcella do you have this you know so

00:13:20.500 it just that's what you thought i saw those things marching on that track and i'm like we are so

00:13:26.080 screwed like these things we're watching like what's coming to us next so we're gonna have

00:13:32.960 a picture though this is me because you know me you guys yeah i'm picturing them all marching

00:13:37.500 down my street and then you gotta have your own yeah okay against an army these things were like

00:13:43.200 marching they're gonna like come marching down the street each one's gonna like veer off and

00:13:47.580 take a house and come in and like take you hostage and whatever i'm picturing it's gonna be horrible

00:13:53.580 You need your personal EMP. 0.97

00:13:57.100 Yes, I need an EMP.

00:13:58.820 Or I can throw my cup of coffee on it maybe and burn it out.

00:14:01.760 You never know.

00:14:02.760 They'll probably be water.

00:14:03.520 EMP, for those who don't know, it's an electromagnetic pulse.

00:14:06.560 And it's something that if you have one of these devices, it'll basically kill anything electronic.

00:14:13.140 Just take it out.

00:14:14.020 We own our own DEW.

00:14:17.080 What's that?

00:14:18.260 Direct energy weapon.

00:14:19.580 Oh, yes.

00:14:20.380 Yes, yes, yes.

00:14:21.320 Okay.

00:14:21.540 so i i don't know maybe i'll get some pots and pans and clank them together i don't know what

00:14:26.360 i'm gonna do but that's all i see i got you and then you see them doing jujitsu and stuff and

00:14:33.000 you're like oh my god like they're just preparing to fight us i know in the early testing with the

00:14:38.460 robots the the army people i think some military people were testing like how can we fool the

00:14:45.200 robots like they were trying to get past them without them realizing there was a person because

00:14:48.880 they were you know it's kind of like a simulated battle and they they fooled it with a refrigerator

00:14:54.820 box like a big cardboard box they just hid under the cardboard box and they could just move around

00:15:01.780 and the robots would act like they didn't know anything was there oh my god that's so funny

00:15:07.180 um interesting i'm sure there'll be like the predator that has the sensors

00:15:12.340 of like you was it the predator that saw like like whether you're breathing or not yeah what

00:15:20.520 is that called i don't know infrared or infrared or is that what it's called well i mean if it's

00:15:26.700 if it's seeing heat then it would be infrared okay yeah yeah like thermal and imaging thermal

00:15:32.440 there you go yeah there you go um yeah so i i am just watching what we can expect but right now

00:15:39.040 were like, look at the robot dog delivering DoorDash. It's like, that's for now. But those

00:15:45.340 and dropping your package in the pool. Yeah, allegedly dropping your package in the pool.

00:15:51.700 I don't know. I don't like it. Then the next thing will be these robots launching and controlling

00:15:56.420 drones. It'll be like, oh, this is great. Like we don't exist anymore. Erica's going to have a

00:16:02.520 bunch of buff robots doing all the manual labor on the house. I can see them being next to her 1.00

00:16:08.040 side by side why they gotta be buff maybe they'll just like well they have like gold chains and

00:16:13.320 stuff your bodyguards and you know they're taking care of all your chores and i'm not against that

00:16:19.360 as long as they can like whip out a gun ah i scared you about i scared you marcella

00:16:27.340 as long as they can defend me and protect me i'm good to go listen

00:16:31.500 right um all right so listen y'all i am still working on my affirmations okay so i thought i

00:16:43.140 had my affirmations down like the one i wanted to work on for the short term i need to i need

00:16:48.220 to fine tune it because some things in life changed and i'm like i want to fine tune that

00:16:53.280 a little bit so i'm gonna listen extra hard with this clip coming up it's with uh scott and oh

00:17:00.280 Julie with Scott and Jordan Peterson and see if I can hone in on it. But for those of you that

00:17:07.540 have been working on your affirmations, I know a lot of you have, a lot of you have reached out

00:17:11.300 to me and told me that you are. And sometimes it's like you're seeing some results already.

00:17:16.740 So let's, let's just check it out. I am going to have pen to paper right here next to me

00:17:22.740 and take some notes. And then on the other side, we'll come back and discuss what we heard, but

00:17:29.900 let's enjoy nine minutes of, listen, two amazing men, Jordan Peterson and Scott Adams. Let's go.

00:17:38.260 You studied pre-law and then you took a nosedive, let's say, into the corporate world,

00:17:43.220 and then you stopped being sensible and then something impossible happened.

00:17:46.880 So, and then you made an allusion to that. You said you had experiences that were so

00:17:51.900 off kilter, let's say, that it made you doubt the structure of the world. So,

00:17:56.480 Hey, man, elaborate on that.

00:17:59.920 So I took a class in hypnosis when I was in my 20s because my mother had given birth to my little sister while being hypnotized because my family doctor was a hypnotist.

00:18:12.640 And she reported having no pain and being alert and essentially awake but still under hypnosis while she delivered a baby without, she said, without painkillers.

00:18:25.300 Now, once I got older, I started to doubt this story, whether it was true.

00:18:30.940 But in the meantime, in my 20s, I signed up for a hypnosis course.

00:18:35.180 And one of the students was into something called affirmations.

00:18:40.300 Now, most people have heard of it, but the way it was described to me was, oh, there's this book where if you just write down 15 times a day what you want, this magical coincidence stuff will happen.

00:18:51.320 And I thought, eh, you know, I'm not really a believer in anything magical.

00:18:57.120 But she kept saying, well, you know, it doesn't cost anything.

00:19:00.400 It's easy to try.

00:19:01.940 You know, it worked for me.

00:19:03.340 You know, some lover from my past just appeared magically when I affirmed it.

00:19:08.740 And I thought, all right, well, I'll give it a shot.

00:19:11.260 And long story short, I picked some things which, according to her instructions,

00:19:16.140 I picked some things which I thought were highly unlikely to happen on their own, such as a relationship that was, you know, with somebody who was way out of my league at that time.

00:19:28.240 And it happened.

00:19:30.820 And then some financial stuff that just seemed wildly unlikely happened.

00:19:36.080 And they were both subjects of my affirmations.

00:19:39.760 But I had been warned that if I didn't pick something that was wild enough, I wouldn't keep going with affirmations.

00:19:47.840 I would just tell myself, well, I guess I'm a lot more attractive than I gave myself credit for, or maybe my financial instincts are just wildly good.

00:19:59.000 And sure enough, I did those things.

00:20:00.780 So I said, hmm, I really got to give this the real test.

00:20:04.860 And so I decided the other part of the story is the reason that my corporate career failed is that my boss called me into her office one day when I was working at a bank and said,

00:20:19.480 I don't know how to tell you this, but we've been told by management we can't promote white men anymore.

00:20:26.040 And I said, what?

00:20:28.200 You can't – like, how long is this going to last?

00:20:31.080 And my boss, who was a woman, said, well, we don't know. 1.00

00:20:34.760 But, you know, so I thought to myself, all right, well, I quit. 1.00

00:20:39.220 So I resigned soon after, went to work for the phone company, got on the fast path to management.

00:20:46.580 And then one day, my boss called me in and said, I don't know how to tell you this, but the word has come down from management.

00:20:53.200 And you know where this is going, that we can't promote white men.

00:20:58.860 And so that's when I decided, all right, I'm going to use an affirmation to become a famous cartoonist. 0.74

00:21:04.880 So I started writing down, you know, I, Scott Adams will become a famous cartoonist.

00:21:10.080 Not just a cartoonist, but a famous cartoonist.

00:21:13.780 And how do you do that before the internet?

00:21:16.920 Like, how in the world, if you had no connection to anything, it's not like there was a cartoonist college I could get into.

00:21:25.000 I didn't know a cartoonist.

00:21:26.920 So one day I come home, and here's the magic part.

00:21:32.700 I turn on the TV, and I'm just flipping through the channels,

00:21:36.220 and it's before TiVo, you know, before any good technology.

00:21:40.940 And I see the end of a TV show on one of the PBS stations

00:21:45.260 about how to become a cartoonist.

00:21:47.760 But I tuned in too late.

00:21:49.680 I only caught the end of it,

00:21:51.640 so just enough to know what it must have been about.

00:21:54.680 So I quickly ran and grabbed a pencil and a piece of paper.

00:21:58.320 And as the closing credits were going by, I wrote down where they were broadcasting it from and the name of the host.

00:22:05.080 And I wrote him a snail mail letter.

00:22:07.760 And I said, I missed your show, but I would like to become a cartoonist.

00:22:12.140 Can you give me some tips?

00:22:13.700 Where do I start?

00:22:15.100 And sure enough, Jack Cassidy was his name.

00:22:19.020 He was a working cartoonist.

00:22:20.820 He wrote back a two-page handwritten letter in which he said, answered all my questions.

00:22:26.500 He said, you know, buy this book.

00:22:28.500 It'll tell you where to submit things that people would buy.

00:22:32.560 Use this kind of paper because you can erase it a lot of times.

00:22:36.280 Use these kind of pens.

00:22:38.260 So I thought, oh, my goodness.

00:22:39.600 Now I know what to do.

00:22:41.240 So I bought the book.

00:22:42.640 I got the paper.

00:22:44.000 I made a bunch of comics that I thought were pretty good.

00:22:48.020 Sent them off to Playboy and the New Yorker and just some magazines, because that was my ambition at the time.

00:22:55.000 And they came back with rejections.

00:22:57.720 But they weren't even personal rejections.

00:23:01.580 They were literally photocopies of generic declines.

00:23:06.660 We were not interested in your cartoons.

00:23:09.800 So I thought it was the time, well, I tried.

00:23:12.700 I did my best, because I really did try hard.

00:23:15.580 You know, I put lots of time into it, put my stuff away, forgot about it.

00:23:21.220 A year later, I walk out to my mailbox, and I get a second letter from Jack Cassidy, the original advice I've gotten. 0.96

00:23:31.320 And I thought, uh-oh, I didn't even thank him for its advice, you know, because I suck.

00:23:38.500 I just sort of used it.

00:23:42.340 And a year later, he's writing me a second letter.

00:23:45.020 And I thought, what is this about?

00:23:47.240 And I opened his letter, and it said he was cleaning his office.

00:23:51.540 And it came upon my samples I'd sent him a year before.

00:23:55.340 And he said, and this was the same advice he gave me on the first set of advice.

00:24:02.020 He said, I just wanted to make sure that you hadn't given up.

00:24:07.580 And that was the only reason he wrote.

00:24:09.480 There was no other agenda.

00:24:11.000 Didn't ask for anything.

00:24:12.740 He just said, I want to make sure you didn't give up.

00:24:15.300 And I thought to myself, well, what is he seeing that these other editors are not seeing?

00:24:20.420 So I thought to myself, I'll raise my standard.

00:24:23.180 Instead of trying to get published in a magazine, which might give you a few hundred dollars a month,

00:24:28.760 I thought, I'll try to become a syndicated worldwide cartoonist, like Peanuts,

00:24:33.740 and do the hardest thing you can do as a cartoonist,

00:24:39.180 which is to break into that market.

00:24:42.560 So I put together some samples that were now Dilbert

00:24:45.340 because I'd been doodling him at work

00:24:47.460 and a coworker gave him a name, Dilbert,

00:24:50.180 and sent him off to the half a dozen cartoon syndicates.

00:24:55.080 Now, they're the ones that give you the big break.

00:24:57.600 There were only half a dozen of them at the time.

00:24:59.580 There are fewer of them now.

00:25:00.520 And if they said yes, they would work with you to sell your comics to all the newspapers in the world.

00:25:10.520 So, if you got that break, that's like the break.

00:25:13.520 So, I set off my samples because I had that book that had been recommended to me, so I knew where to send them.

00:25:20.520 And the rejections started trickling in.

00:25:23.520 And one of them suggested that maybe I should find an actual artist to do the drawing for me.

00:25:30.520 So that's the kind of feedback I was getting.

00:25:36.300 So once I was pretty sure I had all the responses that I was going to get, I said, well, now I've tried as hard as I can twice.

00:25:45.700 But, you know, I'm no fool.

00:25:47.140 I'm not going to just keep chipping away for nothing.

00:25:50.260 So I put all of my art materials away in the closet, and I worked on my tennis game, and a few months went by.

00:25:56.060 And one day the phone rang, and it was a woman who said that she was an editor for some company I'd never heard of, some company called United Media.

00:26:05.120 And I checked my notes quickly, and I hadn't sent my samples to anybody by that name.

00:26:09.840 But she said, we saw your samples.

00:26:11.940 I didn't know how.

00:26:13.440 And she wanted to offer me a syndicated cartoonist contract.

00:26:19.460 And I thought, okay.

00:26:21.560 I mean, that would be the big break.

00:26:24.220 But since I hadn't heard of this outfit, I said, well, I'm very flattered, but I've never heard of your outfit, this United Media Company.

00:26:33.960 Is there any cartoonist that you work with that's been published?

00:26:38.660 Have you worked on anything like, I don't know, cartoons and magazines or a pamphlet or anything?

00:26:44.500 And there's this long pause.

00:26:46.940 And she says, yeah, we handle peanuts.

00:26:51.080 and Garfield and Marmaduke,

00:26:56.920 and when she got to about the 12th name on the list,

00:27:00.000 I realized that my negotiating position had been compromised.

00:27:04.320 And I said, hell yes, got a lawyer, got a contract,

00:27:09.560 and it went from there.

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00:27:42.980 Oh, I love that story. It's so good. I mean, can you imagine if not for Jack Cassidy,

00:27:56.380 who knows how this would have gone and like everything had to work, right? But he wanted

00:28:04.920 so much to be not a cartoonist, you guys, a famous cartoonist. And I think that that's

00:28:12.540 really important too, when you're writing your affirmations is to really boil it down to exactly

00:28:17.680 what you want. And so like, maybe you write it out and you're like, you know, this is what I

00:28:22.420 want to happen. But then it's like, okay, refine it, refine it, refine it, and just make it as

00:28:28.100 simple as you can with the exact meat of what you want. And I think saying like, you know,

00:28:34.360 I'm going to be a famous cartoonist was perfect. And imagine Jack Cassidy going through his stuff

00:28:41.860 and reaching back out to him after all that time to say like, hey, what happened? Did you take my

00:28:46.680 advice? That's so amazing, which leads to basically what Scott did. Oh, I always forget

00:28:54.180 Steven's last name. Is it Pastis? Steven Pastis, the cartoonist that is going to be writing the

00:29:01.700 forward of Scott's book. Anyway, he's another cartoonist from the Bay Area who was an attorney

00:29:08.440 and he wanted to be a famous cartoonist. And Scott just was like, I'm going to pull a David

00:29:13.920 Cassidy on him and I'm going to help him. And so he is now, Stephen is a famous cartoonist,

00:29:20.680 one of the few. And thank you. And he is writing the forward to Scott's book. Scott asked him

00:29:28.540 in his last days with us, he asked Stephen to write the forward of his biography. So

00:29:35.220 it's just amazing. And, and I also think that paying it forward and helping other people,

00:29:41.360 you know, like you put the affirmations out there, you're like, this is what I want to come to me,

00:29:45.620 but you guys, you have to be like a full circle person. Like you have to pay it forward. It's

00:29:50.760 just, I mean, you don't have to, but I would, if you want better results coming toward you all the

00:29:57.260 time, people remember, you know, like Scott's telling that story, you know, up until the day

00:30:03.500 he died. He remembers Jack Cassidy and what he did for him. So, um, how, oh, Stefan, is that what

00:30:10.380 it is? Stefan. Okay. Um, thanks you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Pearls before swine is the

00:30:17.600 cartoon that Stefan, um, draws and it's amazing. Okay. So Owen, I'm going to come to you first.

00:30:26.340 Um, I, no matter how many times I hear this, I love it. And what's your takeaway with this?

00:30:33.040 Well, I think it's great. I mean, I do think Jack Cassidy is certainly a quality human being and was giving back. And that was a key part of the story, of course. And it's impossible to know if the affirmations had anything to do with that. But I do think that I would point out that a lot of this had to do with Scott taking action.

00:30:51.600 You know, he, he sent his stuff in and even when he got the, the, the letter from Jack

00:30:57.940 Cassidy, he took action on it.

00:30:59.360 You know, he sent his stuff in again.

00:31:01.100 And, um, you know, so I think that's a key part of this is that I think the, the important

00:31:07.520 part of affirmations I think is to focus you on a particular thing.

00:31:12.080 And that means focusing your thoughts, your words, your actions, your beliefs, like, and

00:31:17.240 noticing where there are opportunities to do things, but then doing it.

00:31:21.600 and not just you know saying well i'm just going to sit back and see what happens um again there

00:31:26.960 are elements in the story that would indicate maybe there are some things just out in the

00:31:31.520 universe that happen and and then i you know based on all the stories scott has told like this

00:31:36.880 i can totally understand why he would say you know affirmations seem to work you should try it

00:31:42.960 it's just like even if you don't believe it just give it a shot and see what happens because you

00:31:47.120 you might be amazed by the results.

00:31:49.260 And so hopefully a lot of you are doing that.

00:31:52.160 And let us know what happens.

00:31:55.220 And I think it is kind of just an amazing thing.

00:31:59.240 And I do think there is a plausible mechanism

00:32:01.960 for just saying if you notice the right things

00:32:04.140 and if you have the right mindset

00:32:05.360 and you believe that something is possible,

00:32:08.000 you're much more likely to achieve it.

00:32:09.660 So even if you don't want to believe

00:32:12.960 in the woo-woo part of it,

00:32:14.120 you can still come up with at least a fake because as to why it would work. Um, so I think

00:32:21.720 it's great. And I think there's a lot of other elements that are in here, like the law of

00:32:24.920 reciprocity, you know, the, and pay it forward and things like that, where it's like, you know,

00:32:29.520 when you do good things for other people, they want to do good things for you and they also want

00:32:33.640 to help other people. And, um, so a lot of great things in the story. I agree. Yeah. And also,

00:32:40.300 So if you're writing an affirmation because there's like a burning something that you're

00:32:46.120 like, this is what I want for my future or my life or for this year or whatever your

00:32:50.840 affirmation is, it doesn't have to be the most grand thing in the world.

00:32:53.860 But if you're really writing them every day, then you're spending energy and time and focus

00:32:59.640 on that affirmation.

00:33:01.800 And so then it's up to you to also pay attention.

00:33:04.880 And so what Scott was doing was he had his affirmation. And when he heard the end of that

00:33:11.440 commercial, he grabbed a pen and paper, just quick wrote what he could as fast as he could.

00:33:16.580 And like Owen said, took action. And I almost never watch something or listen to a podcast

00:33:24.500 or whatever without having like an actual pen and paper near me. I have notes all over my house

00:33:30.940 from like the years of like little pads of paper where I like quick wrote something down that I

00:33:34.820 heard and then take action because that's, I mean, not to sound all the secrety on you, but

00:33:40.180 that is the universe saying like, okay, you're focusing on this. I'm going to drop some hints

00:33:44.840 to you. And it's up to you to recognize them and be like, oh, okay, well, wait, that might help me

00:33:50.040 become a famous cartoonist. I better write this down. So make sure you pay attention. Sometimes

00:33:55.520 when somebody dies and people are like, oh, I hope they send me a sign. And it's like, okay,

00:34:00.360 but it's not going to be like your computer screen turns into the person and they're giving

00:34:04.740 you a message. So you got to like pay attention, like something catches your attention. And then

00:34:10.180 you're like, Oh wait, that's, that was weird. Why was that weird? I think I would just say like the,

00:34:16.160 the note jotting down stuff is important too, because I have it. Cause a lot of creative

00:34:21.520 people say, you know, it came to me while I was in the shower or it came to me while I was on a

00:34:25.200 walk or it came to me in a flash in a dream and then i wrote it down and then i came back to it

00:34:31.020 and i think like the beatles have said that about some of their songs just like coming to them in a

00:34:35.080 dream and i think a lot of us have these moments and if you don't capture them they're gone you

00:34:40.360 know you don't you often won't remember them if you just don't write it down and you know you

00:34:45.540 could maybe come up with some higher tech solution now with voice notes or other things but i think

00:34:49.940 The important part is to capture things while you're thinking them, just to make sure they

00:34:55.480 don't get lost and then have some kind of system for following up on that stuff.

00:35:00.180 Owen and I were talking in the pre-show about something.

00:35:03.400 And as he's talking, he said something that I was like, oh, I don't, I really don't know

00:35:08.460 what that is, but it sounds like it's an important piece of this conversation.

00:35:12.640 And I literally just jotted it down right here.

00:35:15.020 I was like, do, do, do.

00:35:16.220 It's like right there.

00:35:17.000 And then while we were talking, I'm like, oh, I actually wrote that down.

00:35:19.520 so I don't forget. So it's just a, it's just a good way to say like, okay, there's something I

00:35:24.220 want to achieve. Let me jot the note down. Let me ask somebody. And Marcella, one thing I always

00:35:29.620 feel like too, with affirmations or a goal that you have or whatever is that, and Scott would say

00:35:36.800 this too. And I say this to everybody, people want to help people. So if you were like, oh,

00:35:43.680 this is my affirmation. Like this is the thing I want to achieve. Ask people to help you because

00:35:49.300 I mean, if anyone ever asked you for help, Marcella, aren't you happy to help? And sometimes

00:35:54.040 that's the way forward. I mean, it depends. So for me, I'm not just going to help random people,

00:36:02.960 but, um, I get what you mean, you know, um, in law, you can't just go and ask other lawyers for,

00:36:09.480 you know, cause it's a competitive market. So, but I understand what you mean. Yeah. Yeah.

00:36:14.200 i understand what you mean but um i believe in affirmations i don't need to write them down i

00:36:20.080 just order them and they come so that's that's always happened in my life uh so order your

00:36:27.000 affirmations like from amazon no it's like it's like how i view it is it's like being in a restaurant

00:36:33.900 and you give your order you have to be very specific like erica said um and then you just

00:36:41.180 put that order in and then you wait you keep doing what you do and then you wait for the order

00:36:47.640 to come in just like a plate just like anything in a restaurant would come into

00:36:53.000 and that's just is this just a mental process like you're just thinking this or what do you

00:36:57.620 say it out loud no it's just a mental process it's just it's actually it's not just a mental

00:37:05.640 process per se it's actually believing in it you know so it takes belief in that process

00:37:14.980 that it's going to uh come through so so you can't just in my in my experience you can't just

00:37:24.480 write it down and say it say it over and over you actually have to believe it oh yeah and you have

00:37:29.180 to isn't that true yeah you have to believe it right so yeah you you have to believe in yourself

00:37:35.500 and it i think goes back to what owen was saying that it gives you that confidence um and that in

00:37:43.620 that um fine-tuning focus to do that particular action or whatever you need to do i'm not going

00:37:52.820 to give examples you guys but one of the examples may be um being friends with scott so i didn't

00:38:00.040 really do much to be friends with scott i just said i'll be friends with scott and uh here i am

00:38:07.120 so and i was his friend so that's right yeah so i i i do like if you're not where marcella is in

00:38:16.320 that kind of a process, write it down because writing, you're really instilling it and you're

00:38:22.560 focusing on it. And it's almost like, you know, like I had a friend back in the day and she,

00:38:29.560 this is like when the secret came out, the secret movie. And I'm like, you, you know,

00:38:33.820 like you got to really pay. Like she was anyway, here's what she said. She was like,

00:38:37.800 I am going to receive $1.5 million, um, by January 1st. Okay. And this was like in October and I'm

00:38:49.340 like, Oh, okay. And then I was like, how's that going to happen? She's like, Oh, I don't know.

00:38:54.540 But I just, I'm just going to receive $1.5 million by January 1st. Just, um, spoiler alert that never

00:39:01.320 happened because there was no, like, it was like, she was just going to be given free money, I guess,

00:39:06.840 but she had no way of like how it was going to come to her. Were you working for it? Is it

00:39:11.960 something you're achieving? Is it like you won a lottery? So you do have to be specific. So you do

00:39:17.980 have to say, you have to see yourself as the famous cartoonist, like see yourself at home

00:39:22.940 drawing the cartoon or see yourself sitting at a desk and talking to your staff about like,

00:39:30.000 you know, what the project is or see yourself signing on the dotted line for the lease for

00:39:35.080 your new store or your restaurant, or you're signing a contract because you're authoring a

00:39:40.200 book and now a publisher is taking you on and that's happening, you know, see the whole thing,

00:39:45.680 like really, you know, don't just be like, I'm going to have a million dollars. No, like what,

00:39:50.360 like, what are you doing that's getting you there? And I don't think having the million dollars

00:39:55.780 should be the goal. I think it should be the thing that is going to get you there. But like,

00:40:01.020 what is that thing that you want to do so badly that you're willing to spend 15 minutes a day

00:40:05.560 writing it down, dream about it, see it, and then pay attention to who do you know? Who do you know

00:40:13.400 around you? You can always say to people, hey, can you give me a suggestion? This is a project

00:40:20.580 I'm working on. This is where I want to go. Can you give me any advice? And people are happy to

00:40:25.640 give advice. Like, yeah, you know what? I do know a guy. I'm sure he would talk to you for five

00:40:30.140 minutes and he could help you and tell you, you know, or you, you know, like, uh, Kevin at the

00:40:34.900 persuasion club wants to, or is going to, let's say is going to write a book. And so think about

00:40:41.320 who he has. Right. So he can talk to Joshua. He could, you know, he could message so many people,

00:40:48.580 um, on, on X that have written books that are successful. So those are your resources,

00:40:55.560 whether you're like friends with them or you just peripherally know them or you don't know them,

00:41:00.620 there's a lot of people that just want to help just to pay it forward because somebody helped

00:41:06.180 them. So don't be afraid to ask for help or advice or suggestions. And if somebody doesn't

00:41:12.220 want to help you, they'll just say, I'm sorry, I can't. And that's okay too. But you'd be surprised.

00:41:16.900 I would say more than 90% of people are happy to give you some kind of piece of advice or set you

00:41:22.740 in some direction, just don't be afraid to ask for help. Um, if someone asks me for help, I'm so

00:41:29.180 fricking happy to help if I can, because why wouldn't I? So just something to think about.

00:41:34.160 Um, and Owen, I mean, have you asked for help from people? Do your kids ask for help?

00:41:40.760 Is that a tool that you use? Yeah, definitely. I mean, I, and I would say it's a lesson I've

00:41:46.200 learned as well that, um, I think it's more typical for men that they don't want to ask

00:41:51.260 for help. They feel like they're just supposed to figure it out and they're supposed to be capable

00:41:55.360 of doing everything on their own. And I certainly was like that, um, for a long time. And I think

00:42:01.820 what changed was spurred by like discovering that there was help out there for me for some problems

00:42:09.720 I had that I've had for a long time. And I just figured there's nothing I can do about it. I just

00:42:13.580 got to suck it up and deal with it. And you know, it's, this is just never going to get better. And

00:42:18.420 I just have to accept that and then I discovered there was help available that could solve that

00:42:24.500 problem for me and I'm like whoa wait you know it was like I don't know for some reason it was like

00:42:29.640 an awakening it was like maybe I should look for other things

00:42:33.720 yeah where there might be help out there for me and I started seeking it out and and I you know

00:42:41.060 I discovered that there's a lot of things that where people can help you if you can find the

00:42:44.940 right expert or the right person or the right resource or, you know, some solution that somehow

00:42:51.440 someone else solved it, um, that there really is a lot of stuff that you can solve just by asking

00:42:58.200 for help at the right time. And so I think it's something that a lot of men, especially, but

00:43:02.340 everybody should be willing to do rather than just suffering in silence and dealing with your

00:43:08.720 problems. Like you, you know, ask for help. I mean, a lot of times people will have good ideas

00:43:12.780 or they'll have resources they can point you to

00:43:15.260 or there will be other people

00:43:18.100 who have dealt with the same thing

00:43:19.460 and they've figured out a way to solve it.

00:43:21.560 So I've definitely gone through that change

00:43:24.340 over the course of my life.

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00:44:02.120 Absolutely.

00:44:03.000 So let's just workshop this really quick.

00:44:06.100 So Mad Mitch One wrote,

00:44:07.560 anyone have any advice to give my son-in-law

00:44:09.820 with dyslexia on succeeding as he goes back to school for the first time next month. So he's

00:44:15.000 going back as a student, I'm assuming, but you know, um, I, so I know, um, someone personally

00:44:21.920 who has dyslexia. She graduated from college and what she did was she asked the school

00:44:29.040 if there was someone that could help her, um, like either read her assignments or if she could

00:44:37.260 get her assignments like audio versions because hearing it was easier for her than reading it.

00:44:43.220 And also there's probably somebody at the school that would volunteer, like somebody who's there

00:44:49.940 to like volunteer help or whatever that could either read assignments or help explain them.

00:44:56.340 You'd be surprised how many people are there to do that. And yeah, ask for extra time. So read the

00:45:02.920 chat, but Patton had dyslexia. So it's totally possible. And, um, even if it was like, okay,

00:45:10.180 maybe I could pay, uh, another student, a nominal amount of money to just help explain the

00:45:16.940 assignments to me. It's like, you're, you know, just so they can hear them the way they need to

00:45:21.020 hear them. Um, Owen or Marcella, do you have any suggestions? I remember Scott telling me that he

00:45:27.600 had some dyslexic issues so when and I think he told us this on the podcast he would read

00:45:34.080 certain things he would read main the main idea of the of the like he would quickly like he would

00:45:41.000 be so fast at reading but but it's he wouldn't read the middle like the he would the main words

00:45:47.200 of this of whatever he was reading but he said that he learned a system when he was younger to

00:45:53.760 do that. So there's different systems. When I looked it up, there's Wilson's reading system,

00:45:58.760 the Spartan and reading and spell. So there's different systems that, um, you can use to learn

00:46:05.700 how to do this. Um, but you know, I'm sure the school can help like, uh, like Erica said,

00:46:13.800 in order to help him. But, you know, I, I think the main, I think one of the main things that you

00:46:22.320 have to tell him is that him having this doesn't make him less like when you're young you feel

00:46:31.440 like you're different is a very big issue like he is he has this but he doesn't you know he's just

00:46:40.920 amazing about everything else a lot of dyslexic people that I've met I actually had a English

00:46:47.280 teacher that was dyslexic, um, are brilliant. So it's just a sign of brilliance. It's just a

00:46:54.280 different way of learning. It doesn't way of thinking. Yeah. And like everybody learns

00:46:59.780 differently. Oh, and do you have any advice? Well, I haven't dealt with dyslexia personally

00:47:05.260 or with anyone in my family, but I would say, I know there are lots of solutions out there and

00:47:10.560 there are lots of things that can help because I, this comes up a lot. There's a lot of people

00:47:14.300 that have this and I think a lot of people have come up with solutions so you know ask AI ask your

00:47:21.080 school look for other people that have dealt with this and see what has worked for them and and just

00:47:26.300 see what you can do to help your your child I mean I think I agree that reframing it is probably a

00:47:32.380 good thing to start with to say you know don't think of it like a handicap or a disability or

00:47:37.500 anything like just think of it as basically almost like a curiosity would be a better attitude to say

00:47:43.180 you know what what's going to work here and um how can i maybe even use this as a strength because

00:47:49.260 there probably are aspects of it that are good and and i would rather focus on that and treat it

00:47:54.720 like it's a superpower as opposed to a disability but you know you still do need to get your work

00:47:59.680 done at school and all the other stuff so find ways to make that work and and you know again

00:48:05.400 you probably could go back and find clips of scott of him talking about his dyslexia so that

00:48:10.020 would be one place to look as well. But I know there's lots of resources out there for this.

00:48:14.920 This is a very common issue and it's a very common thing that people have dealt with. And

00:48:19.280 a lot of very famous and smart and accomplished people have had this. And so there are patterns

00:48:28.800 of success here that you can follow. So here's a perfect example of two men. One was Mitch

00:48:37.140 asking the question, good for you for asking. You're like, does anyone know? So you, you just

00:48:42.640 said, let me ask for help. And now your son-in-law is a man. So now he has to be able to say to the

00:48:49.880 school, you know, is, do you have a, a system or a program or something that can help me?

00:48:55.660 Um, I have dyslexia and I learn differently and he's not their first dyslexic student. So they

00:49:03.300 definitely have a way to help. And you have to be willing to ask to get the answer. So good for you

00:49:10.420 and good for your son-in-law. And everybody in here is saying like, I'm dyslexic. I know someone

00:49:16.800 and we all have ideas and interests. It's just people have different ways of learning and Free

00:49:22.960 Bird now wants dyslexia. Okay. Dyslexia is for you. You go get it. So it's just a different way

00:49:28.320 learning. So, um, I would definitely ask, and that's what we mean. So ask for the help that

00:49:33.280 you need, because look at how many of us just wanted to help. Everybody in the chat has solutions,

00:49:39.020 ideas, and that's what I'm saying. So ask for help or ask for a suggestion or an idea

00:49:45.380 or a resource or a website, like people will help you whenever they can. So I think, um,

00:49:51.720 you know, if there's anyone, I think this should be our exercise this week. So if you're like,

00:49:55.660 okay, this is a thing I really want to achieve. I don't know how to achieve it.

00:50:01.300 Get out of your comfort zone and ask for help from one person. Now, here's the thing. They

00:50:07.900 might say no, or I have no idea, but just ask one person just to get it over with. And if you're

00:50:16.240 like, oh my God, that was kind of amazing and fun, ask someone else and just see what kind of

00:50:21.560 answers you get and where they lead you because it's your your affirmations your dream and your

00:50:27.020 goal so don't be afraid to ask for help Owen one other thing I just remembered that might be

00:50:32.200 helpful is I believe there is some kind of like dyslexic font like some kind of font that is

00:50:38.160 makes things easier to read if you're dyslexic and if you could find that you might be able to

00:50:44.660 find like an app or a you know a way of using that font obviously you don't control what font

00:50:50.340 people use in documents they give you at school. But nowadays you've got AI, like you could probably

00:50:55.500 say, you know, take a picture of a page and just put it in AI and say, convert it to this font for

00:51:01.540 me or read it to me or whatever. I mean, there's lots of ways you can work around this and solve

00:51:07.280 it for yourself. And there's also great advice happening on the YouTube channel chat also. So

00:51:13.720 you guys can always go back and read the chat. So if you're on Locals or Rumble or X, you know,

00:51:19.820 go to each other's platforms, read the suggestions there during this clip for affirmations or for

00:51:26.540 dyslexia or for anything you heard. So, um, that's good. You guys, that was good. I love

00:51:31.340 the teamwork. Um, and to that, I want to show this little clip of Owen again.

00:51:40.140 Welcome to the Scott Adams school. Let's get started.

00:51:43.460 oh that was so cute okay so you look handsome there i know your voice is so realistic

00:51:51.920 so i just want to do um owen and marcella have some quick stories but i i want to clean up a

00:52:01.860 couple more clips i didn't get to so we we're probably going to save the um other stories

00:52:07.360 for tomorrow if we don't get to them today. But I wanted to show you guys, did you see this was

00:52:14.440 called, I was going to show this the day Brian was on, but we were just gabbing our faces off.

00:52:20.460 So this is called, what is this thing called? It's, oh, nope. It's some kind, oh, here it is,

00:52:32.040 Minimax H3. So it's obviously AI, but look at how amazing this clip is.

00:52:40.140 Donald? Jerry, look at you. I'm thinking about running for president.

00:52:46.500 President of what? The United States. You sell buildings.

00:52:51.700 How different could it be? Considerably.

00:52:56.200 I want to watch that episode so bad. Isn't that amazing?

00:52:59.980 do you guys know this mini max h3 it's i think that's an ai model yeah it's an ai model it's

00:53:09.580 so amazing and um i i don't know like that's just so funny i want to see a whole episode i think

00:53:16.040 there's more to it but that's just the little clip i pulled and um our friend jeff pilkington

00:53:22.480 who's been on with us on locals a couple of times he has a whole what are we calling it like ai

00:53:29.300 sitcom happening that he's been creating and it is so freaking realistic and he plays clips of it

00:53:39.040 if anyone knows how to tag him in the chat jeff pilkington and you could tag him you guys should

00:53:44.640 go to his account and look at the ai sitcom he has created and he lives in la and this is like

00:53:51.100 his thing and um it is so insane how realistic these things are does he post it on his uh x or

00:53:59.260 does it have its own page i i think it has its own page but he's been posting clips of it on his x so

00:54:06.880 you can see it there so if anyone's feeling creative that way too amazing and i've had

00:54:13.260 sitcom ideas over the years i could just make an ai now you can do it um the other clip i wanted to

00:54:20.600 show the other day um is a clip of the duffy family so um sean sean duffy is our transportation

00:54:31.400 secretary and he's married to rachel campos duffy i met them virtually back in the day when they were

00:54:41.080 on an mtv show i forgot the name what was it called with the house oh yeah um anyway they

00:54:47.800 lived in a house together. That's where they met in San Francisco is a TV show. Someone's

00:54:52.420 going to say it. And anyway, they have like a hundred kids now, great parents. They're

00:54:58.280 very religious. And, um, Jeff Pilkington. Thank you. The real world. They were on the

00:55:05.080 real world, San Francisco back, uh, in the day on MTV. So anyway, they're married, but

00:55:10.980 they're, you know, they're, I don't know. I just feel like they're a great example of

00:55:14.940 parenting their kids, so their daughter wants to go to Harvard. And I just thought this clip was

00:55:21.880 an interesting discussion, so let's just take a quick look. Can't say no. To Harvard? Yeah. Well,

00:55:28.260 me and mom can say no. Catholicism, to us, is everything. It's the basis of our marriage. It's

00:55:36.180 the basis of our family. So I'm nervous about the idea of Paloma going to Harvard. We spend a lot

00:55:43.820 of time nurturing and providing formation for our kids, giving them an environment where they are

00:55:49.660 steeped in faith and values. And so the idea of dropping her off at a place that would undermine

00:55:55.840 that or try to undo all those things makes me worried. And again, I don't want them to get one

00:56:00.840 viewpoint. I want them to get a lot of different viewpoints, but I don't want them fed only one

00:56:05.420 viewpoint that's contrary to the way my kids were raised. Listen, my problem is we have thought about

00:56:11.720 how we've raised you and how hard we've worked to, I think, raise what is a remarkable young

00:56:17.920 girl. If I send you there, I think what happens is they have professionalized figuring out

00:56:25.520 how they can take good young girls like you and, I think, corrupt their minds.

00:56:31.660 You don't have to believe what I believe. You don't have to have the political viewpoints

00:56:35.580 that I have. But I do think it's important that you make those choices for yourself and

00:56:40.200 you have a fair representation of what they are. And I don't think the Harvards of the world give 0.96

00:56:45.160 you that kind of well-rounded picture. Okay. So the reason why I love that is because

00:56:52.440 they, I don't know, I love the way they just explain like why it's important to them where

00:56:59.100 their daughter goes. First of all, they're paying for it. And it's like, you're handing over your

00:57:05.820 child at that point to a college because you're like, okay, now you're living there and you're

00:57:10.660 out of my hands. And I don't know. I just liked the way they spoke to her and like, you don't

00:57:16.300 have to believe everything I believe, but you know, we have certain values. And literally the

00:57:21.400 next day I saw a Harvard graduation where the whole thing was given under like Islamic

00:57:32.660 traditions. And they were, what's the language? Is it called? What's the Islam language called?

00:57:39.180 I don't even know. Is it Islam? But they were speaking in Islam, whatever the language is

00:57:45.320 called. And I'm like, oh my God. So here they are worried about Catholicism and Harvard's now doing

00:57:50.240 full Islamic graduations for people. And I'm like, what planet are we on? So it was just

00:57:57.360 pretty amazing to see that. And I like this talk, Marcella, that they gave with their daughter. I

00:58:01.920 thought it was, it was sweet and considerate. And she seems like a nice kid. Arabic. Thank you.

00:58:10.400 Um, I don't agree with the way they, I know they're paying for it, but you know, she's,

00:58:16.460 she's, she's an adult, 18, I believe she is now. But, um, so I would, I would think that she,

00:58:24.520 they taught her well enough to be able to withstand. Now, I am a believer of if Harvard

00:58:31.100 is where you want to go, go to Harvard, no matter what you've taught your child, everything

00:58:36.840 that they need to have. And in a way, it's good that people from the right are in these

00:58:43.940 schools. I think we shouldn't go away from having to go to a certain school because we

00:58:51.940 have different politics from it. That's just my perspective on that.

00:58:56.580 so okay owen i disagree i think i um i i think i i don't know i have a lot of questions about

00:59:05.040 this like first why why are they videotaping all these things and releasing like this seems like

00:59:10.640 they should be private conversations between the family that wouldn't normally be public so i and

00:59:16.400 it almost seemed like professionally produced like i'm like what is this some kind of reality

00:59:20.300 show or what's going on here let's try to get past that they're a very public family

00:59:25.580 okay and then on top of that like i i do think that when parents are paying for school which

00:59:33.140 i'm assuming is part of the picture here yeah you know i mean i sure the the the daughter is

00:59:38.900 you know free to apply if she really wants to if she wants to pay the application fee and she's

00:59:45.060 an adult so she can go there if she decides to go there and she's going to pay for it but if the

00:59:49.500 the parents are going to pay for it which i'm assuming is part of this then they get they have

00:59:54.180 a say. Parents have a say on what they pay for and what they're going to support. And so I think

01:00:01.500 it is legitimate for parents to say, we have some input here. We're not going to waste our money on

01:00:06.280 something that we think is going to destroy you. And I think there is reason to think that going

01:00:11.720 to Harvard could be destructive. And partly because it's probably the smartest of the leftists

01:00:18.680 that are there and they are very talented at indoctrination and at making kids think that

01:00:27.220 they're right about what they're saying and i do think like when my kids were going to college i

01:00:33.340 did feel similar probably about almost every school because it's like it's really hard to

01:00:37.580 find a school that has right-wing values like there's a couple like hillsdale college and a

01:00:41.520 few others but it's very limited right most of them are leftist and so i think at some point i

01:00:48.100 had to accept that my kids are going to go to a school that's probably pretty leftist because you

01:00:53.220 can't find one that's not. But at the same time, I would say Harvard probably would have been off

01:01:01.680 my list. I wouldn't have wanted my kid to go to Harvard for multiple reasons, but one was

01:01:06.880 the indoctrination and the fact that I think they would be more likely to be susceptible to that

01:01:13.280 influence at a place like harvard than they would at like a state school or at uh you know even a

01:01:19.060 good private school that isn't an ivy league like harvard um and you know i i did think about that

01:01:25.640 for one of my kids about mit but for different reasons not for the indoctrination but more so

01:01:30.600 it's like what i hear about mit is it's super competitive it's kind of cutthroat and it's

01:01:36.060 like you know there's a high suicide rate and i'm like okay i don't really want my kid

01:01:42.560 going there, even if he got in. So I resonated with the story in that way, where I'm like,

01:01:49.220 there are going to be cases where I feel like even if my kid got into what people consider

01:01:53.900 one of the best schools in the country, I don't think it's the right place for them.

01:01:58.520 Yeah. I think that just to wrap this up, Harvard of yesteryear is gone. We've seen what Harvard's

01:02:06.040 turned into. And like you used to hear somebody graduated from Harvard and you'd instantly just

01:02:11.640 go, oh, like that was just your reaction. When I hear now that someone's at Harvard, I'm like, oh,

01:02:18.260 well, that's too bad. Like too bad they missed the amazing part of Harvard because now I look

01:02:23.280 at it like I look at Berkeley, like, oh, oh, that's a shame. I appreciated them. I'm going

01:02:30.180 to look into what they're doing this series for. It's for something educational, but

01:02:34.680 I appreciated them putting it out there because I think sometimes it's good to see parents

01:02:41.680 parenting as a parent, you know, like, okay, like this is like a nice way to have a conversation

01:02:47.280 and explain, you know, the whys and whatever. So I will look into that because I know there's

01:02:53.440 other clips of things, but I think they're a pretty solid family. So, all right, you guys,

01:02:59.220 that is it. It's after time. I've failed. I have failed. It's 1102, my time. So anyway,

01:03:05.980 we will be back tomorrow. I'm not sure what day for Walter, you guys. I'm just trying to

01:03:10.200 nail it down with him, but I'm hopeful it's going to be this week still. He did say this week. So

01:03:16.440 let's just see how that goes. But if not tomorrow, we will be back with you. And I cannot stay for

01:03:23.920 in a curison, but I can stay to chat for a minute and, um, we'll be back in the morning. So we want

01:03:29.640 to say thank you to Scott and Shelly as always for allowing this show to continue. And, um, you guys

01:03:36.740 work on those affirmations. Your assignment this week is to ask for help advice or, you know, to be

01:03:43.820 pointed in a direction to help you with your affirmations and don't be afraid to do it. People

01:03:50.120 do love to help. And just don't ask them for the secret formula of their scientific experiment.

01:03:56.080 That's a bridge too far. Okay. So listen, you guys, let's get out there. Be useful. Have an

01:04:00.280 amazing, amazing day, everybody. And then we will see you tomorrow. To Scott. To Scott.

01:04:11.060 Bye, kitty cats. Thanks, Owen. Thanks, Marcella.

01:04:14.260 thank you bye bye bye all right guys thanks for being here today it was so great seeing everybody

01:04:23.540 and we will be back tomorrow we all have issues to scott i'm reading your your chat real quick

01:04:32.780 you guys are the best honestly and thanks for all the advice for um mad mitch with the

01:04:49.840 dyslexia stuff i remember you know scott would say like he couldn't take his car through the

01:04:56.220 car wash like a drive-through car wash where you stay in the car he's like i couldn't follow

01:05:00.880 the instructions and i'm like really you know reading that and he's just like no it's like

01:05:05.600 you know put your car in neutral put your mirrors in you know proceed to this thing and he's like

01:05:12.560 nope going home and i'll wash it myself so everybody has their thing right oh josie you're

01:05:21.040 so kind oh thank you alien baby you guys like the aqua thank you thank you thank you thank you

01:05:28.320 Didi. You're terrified of car washes. That's hysterical. I miss him too. Poker Jesus. Or is

01:05:38.520 it Jesus? Ah, dyslexia is hard to spell. All right, guys, you're so sweet. Crusher. I see

01:05:51.880 all your comments, you guys. Like I always, like I say, go back after the show and check out

01:05:56.440 everything. And you guys are just the best, just the best. Am I buffering for you, Dr. Von Hardy?

01:06:03.040 That's a shame. Dr. Von Hardy, I need thumbnails for the show. Anyone wants to make us thumbnails

01:06:08.820 for the show, please do. You can DM them to me. And I like to try to have a different one every

01:06:16.060 day. So we'll see. We'll see. All right, guys. Thanks, Mary Kay. All right, you guys. So I'll

01:06:23.160 say goodbye and I'll see you in the morning. Okay. I hope you guys have a beautiful, beautiful day.

01:06:30.180 Do something useful. Thanks, Michael. Oh, you love my hair. You guys are so cute.

01:06:39.980 All right, guys. Bye for now. Right. Bye for now. You guys, that picture. Oh my God.

01:06:53.160 Thank you.

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