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00:00:28.000 okay we're kicking into gear i was pre-sipping oh no precipitation let me join locals oh look

00:00:40.580 at the fam look at that fam good morning everybody happy monday marcello's favorite day my favorite

00:00:50.660 day thank god we all need a favorite day to be monday we need do you need someone in your tribe

00:00:57.000 who loves monday and it's marcella yes it is yes it is look at how how wonderful like did you see

00:01:07.660 how how handsome they all look and oh yeah beautiful this is a gorgeous group youtube's

00:01:14.640 not too shabby either hi youtube good morning good morning rumble sorry i cut you off you're

00:01:20.080 gonna ask owen something about his mission oh his mission i was gonna just ask how the after party

00:01:26.040 was uh this weekend it was great yeah we had a good good conversation on saturday and sunday

00:01:32.460 and um it was good anyone yeah no no no major drama it was good a lot of a lot of the normal

00:01:43.920 a lot of the normal speakers spoke and we talked about you know some ai stuff but also about a

00:01:49.080 bunch of the news wasn't dominated by ai like sometimes i can't get carried away with but

00:01:53.740 that's okay oh no ai domination we have a story about that uh a little scary ai story if you're

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00:02:06.940 out there let me see i don't see my locals uh video coming on i just want to make sure i have

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00:02:22.000 in the world now. Wait, but how was your weekend? Marcella, you're going to get it with this

00:02:29.200 birthday stuff, I tell you. Oh my gosh. I never mentioned the H word. Oh, the happy birthday word.

00:02:38.600 I know. I know. Thank you. I had a great weekend. Thank you so much for asking. And honestly,

00:02:45.620 I mean, the birthday messages from everybody on X and locals, so sweet, you guys, so, so sweet.

00:02:54.740 I've had a heck of a year. And if you saw my post, there was joy and pain. And really,

00:03:02.140 the lesson was you can actually feel euphoric while also dealing with grief. So here we are,

00:03:11.000 another trip around the, around the sun. And, um, I'm ready. I'm ready for the next one. So

00:03:16.600 very happy, very happy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You guys. Um, I need to sip. I have

00:03:22.500 some cold ass coffee here because the coffee pot wasn't set up right. So, you know, it's Monday 0.70

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00:04:03.960 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:04:06.100 that's good oh yeah that was good that was good did scott make your cold coffee better

00:04:14.440 always scott makes everything better right right yeah um all right you guys i have to just start

00:04:24.520 the week off with just one very quick cat video i'm promise quick but uh this was like the caption

00:04:34.020 I think this was from Rainmaker1973, and his caption was, in order to beat the machine,

00:04:42.020 you must become the machine. Here we go. Oh, no. He tried. He tried. I just love those little

00:04:57.300 paws sticking out, me and my morning. That was it. That's all I had to do. All right. So listen,

00:05:03.060 you guys. Oh my gosh. I've got, wait, you guys, I've got the fuzz on the nose. Get your spoolie,

00:05:09.400 get your mascara spoolie twirling and I got it. Okay. So you guys, so much stuff over the weekend

00:05:17.860 to catch up with and all sorts of shenanigans. Trump's given out phone numbers again. It's

00:05:25.380 amazing. Do you guys remember during the first presidential cycle when he was running in 2015

00:05:31.760 and he was annoyed with Lindsey Graham because I think he called him a jackass or something. 0.99

00:05:37.340 Lindsey Graham called Trump a jackass. And Trump's like, oh yeah, here you go. Here's 0.99

00:05:42.060 Lindsey Graham's cell phone number. And he reads it out loud at a Trump rally. It was amazing.

00:05:48.920 Oh, he's such a troll. It's so fun. So anyway, now there's the big debate debacle over this 0.85

00:05:55.740 daylight savings time issue. So Trump wants it one way. Tom Cotton wants it another way. But

00:06:03.360 who better to explain it than Trump himself? So I have an opinion on this, and I want to hear

00:06:09.240 your opinions, too, after. Here we go. Turning your clocks back, turning your clocks forward,

00:06:14.660 being late for dinner, being late for very important meetings is ridiculous. 0.71

00:06:18.820 And if you look at the public, they agree.

00:06:22.000 That's a 100 percent issue.

00:06:24.160 Sixty-five percent — I'll give you an example.

00:06:27.020 Right now, we're sitting out here.

00:06:29.020 It's light. It's nice.

00:06:30.860 If you come down here in another three weeks,

00:06:35.000 it'll be dark. It'll be — who wants it?

00:06:38.280 We want our sunlight in the afternoon.

00:06:39.940 But more importantly than that,

00:06:41.980 we don't want to change clocks twice a year.

00:06:45.680 It's very expensive.

00:06:47.540 It's got many problems.

00:06:50.380 Even crime, as crazy as it sounds,

00:06:53.180 when you have light, you have much less crime.

00:06:56.240 So, the House voted it more than 80 percent.

00:07:00.720 It's been sitting up there,

00:07:02.680 and hopefully we can get Tom Cotton to move.

00:07:04.660 Tom Cotton is holding it.

00:07:06.520 He shouldn't be holding it.

00:07:08.100 It's an issue that people want.

00:07:10.760 We had it a long time ago,

00:07:12.060 but they used it for other purposes

00:07:14.440 to get something else approved,

00:07:16.000 and they gave it up.

00:07:17.600 But people want to have light in the evening.

00:07:19.740 But really what they want more than that,

00:07:22.240 more than that by a lot,

00:07:24.140 they don't want to have to go around changing clocks.

00:07:26.120 I have the same thing.

00:07:27.680 Last time, six months ago, we're changing clocks,

00:07:31.720 and nobody changed the clocks, and everybody's late.

00:07:34.780 It takes people, it discombobulates everybody.

00:07:39.020 So we can finally have a vote.

00:07:42.100 We have the vote in the House.

00:07:43.560 Mike Johnson did a great job.

00:07:45.960 Now we'd like to have the vote in the Senate.

00:07:49.100 Tom Cotton is holding it up.

00:07:51.040 You know who wants it?

00:07:51.820 The farmers want it.

00:07:52.900 You know who wants it?

00:07:54.080 Sports want it.

00:07:55.560 Professional sports and amateurs that would like to play tennis at night,

00:08:00.280 would like to play golf a little bit without having to run home after 14 holes. 0.90

00:08:06.040 It's ridiculous.

00:08:09.140 Sounds like a personal project for someone's hobbies to me, 0.88

00:08:14.840 but so I was thinking about this at first I was like yeah yeah yeah and then I realized wait no

00:08:22.580 we need to keep the oh I'm gonna mix it up I want the light in the morning and the reason I'm saying

00:08:29.760 that is because I was thinking like geez if if we did what he's saying it wouldn't be really light

00:08:36.000 out till like nine in the morning and I'm thinking all right so I'm like the blue collar world girl

00:08:42.320 I'm like, okay, well, everyone I know with the blue collar jobs, like they start working

00:08:46.580 at like 7, 8 a.m. in the morning.

00:08:49.940 And so if it's dark until nine, what are we doing?

00:08:53.100 And it's not like this, the guys at work are going to be like, yeah, we'll work till six

00:08:57.820 because it's lighter.

00:08:58.680 They're like, hell no, we're still working till whatever time.

00:09:01.420 So I also think it's better for the circadian rhythm sleep cycle.

00:09:06.900 So I don't mind keeping it one way if that's like the thing people want, but I think it

00:09:11.760 be the opposite of what he's saying that's my opinion so all right marcella i'm gonna come to

00:09:17.600 you first because you're on the west coast and i feel like this is an important west coast issue

00:09:23.920 i actually think the opposite because for me like it's dark yes but i go to work i'm in an office i'm

00:09:33.200 you know when i get out of work where i can actually do a hobby or do play golf i guess

00:09:39.520 um that's like it's all dark and the and it's hard to see when you're driving at like if it

00:09:47.360 stays the same and if it's light out in the morning but dark in the night it's harder for

00:09:52.960 people to see there's more accidents um at least here and so well for my tesla to drive itself

00:10:01.360 i prefer it to be during more daylight because i could do more stuff you know um personal stuff

00:10:08.560 not not work stuff so that's just how i see it okay all right so that's marcel let's take owen

00:10:15.040 you i'm still in denial that this is ever going to do like change i i think we've tried to get

00:10:21.600 rid of daylight savings time like multiple times and it's never taken and i just don't think it's

00:10:27.800 going to happen um i you know it may be true that 80 of the people voted for it it may be true that

00:10:34.060 a lot of people want it but i don't know if everybody does and i do think a lot of people

00:10:38.540 once they were in this new world of not having the clocks change would realize that they don't

00:10:46.900 like it for whatever reason and and you know it may be that some people don't like it when it's

00:10:50.940 dark in the morning some people don't like it if it's you know dark at night depending on which way

00:10:55.240 we go but the other thing is like that is seasonal right like it's not like that all year it's just

00:10:59.820 a certain part of the year that it would be like that if you didn't have daylight savings time so

00:11:03.880 it would just be this seasonal thing. But I do think that we're so used to things the way they

00:11:09.900 are that I think no matter what you did, there'd be unhappy people and they'd probably demand it

00:11:15.960 go back. I think they said that this happened a couple of times and people, and they had to

00:11:22.520 reverse it. They didn't like it. And also, don't you love that day where you spring forward and

00:11:29.160 then you're like, Oh my God, it's still light out. It's like, it's so exciting. I mean,

00:11:33.900 you have that to look forward to. It is. It's like, Oh my gosh, you know, 30 minutes. Let's

00:11:41.880 do the 30 minutes instead of one hour. How about we do 27 minutes? And, uh, I know it's just, um,

00:11:51.300 listen, here's, here's the deal. Okay. I do not like when it gets dark early. I feel like I have

00:11:56.180 to go to bed at four o'clock. It's a weird, wacky thing. However, I psychologically remind myself,

00:12:02.780 I just have to get past December 21st because on the 22nd, we start getting lighter one minute

00:12:10.760 every day. And that is such a psychological thing for me. So for me, the whole darkness

00:12:17.060 thing is only like a few weeks and you're distracted with the holidays anyway. So

00:12:21.260 don't think about it on the 22nd you start celebrating an extra minute of daylight every

00:12:28.000 day it's exciting it's like new year's eve every day so um and and it is true i saw sean cory saying

00:12:36.180 that his kids get wrecked twice a year with the clock changing and like you think it's just an

00:12:42.260 hour but some people really get screwed up with their sleep cycle from just that one heart attacks

00:12:48.000 it can cause heart attacks it can cause all these issues so i think just leave it alone

00:12:53.280 and no changes just like arizona has it now i mean arizona doesn't change with any any changes

00:13:01.180 of you know maybe make your state maybe california should just no we cannot have 50 states doing

00:13:08.160 something different i can't it's too much already but china only has somebody reminded me in the

00:13:13.980 Chad I don't know it went by it so quickly China only has one time across the board zone and it's

00:13:23.280 I will say like I don't really care that much like I don't have like a strong opinion it's

00:13:28.220 got to be this way it shouldn't be the other way I mean I want you know I've been in places before

00:13:32.760 where they don't have daily savings and it wasn't any big deal it was just like the one weird thing

00:13:41.180 was that the the nightly news would change but you have to get stuck on the right thing though

00:13:46.840 like for like i'm just saying for you know for so already if you're like in a place that's

00:13:53.200 cold in the winter like california is different but if you're in a place here well i mean it's

00:13:58.520 not cold like i mean we get like arctic here in the winter i'm kidding okay and then if you have

00:14:04.260 to wait to go to work and like you have these very short days and it's cold. It's like, give us a

00:14:11.340 chance to go out and work. A lot of people work outside. Like they have, you know, there's like

00:14:15.560 roofers and construction and this and that. And it's like, they cannot start hammering nails at

00:14:20.180 nine 30 in the morning. And then you're done at like five. It's just, it's never going to work.

00:14:25.160 We need America to work. Mike Rowe work. Okay. So, um, we'll see what happens. I, I know that,

00:14:32.200 uh so trump oh so the point of this story was with tom cotton being the one holdout apparently

00:14:38.840 there's many holdouts but they're letting tom cotton take the heat for all of them

00:14:42.760 um so trump gave out tom cotton's cell phone number and he was like call him and tell him

00:14:48.680 how you feel so there goes another cell phone time to change plans tom cotton maybe you can get one

00:14:54.120 of those like those new america phones i forget what they're called but um people like them all

00:15:00.120 All right. So that was that, y'all. So let me just cross that out. We did it.

00:15:05.060 I came across a sweet little clip that Jay Plemons posted. I think a lot of us have seen it before,

00:15:12.800 but I first would like to compliment Marcella and Owen. They are the most amazing co-hosts.

00:15:21.580 I really love how the two of you are so good. Like in the morning, sometimes I'll send them

00:15:26.620 a clip and say, can we discuss this? Can we do that? Hey, you guys, could you have a couple of

00:15:31.320 stories ready for this and that? And they're just so good at going with the flow. They're pros. They

00:15:36.180 know the news. They know their work. They have a great, great work ethic. That being said,

00:15:43.600 let's listen to this. I took the Dale Carnegie course. And if you haven't heard of that,

00:15:49.780 it's one of the best things I've ever done. It's life altering. Because what it does is it teaches

00:15:55.120 you to do what I'm doing now, which is talk to a group of people as easily as if you were just

00:16:00.800 talking to somebody you know. And it teaches you to do that. And what I watched was in the class,

00:16:06.440 I watched person after person who mostly had been sent there by a boss usually because they couldn't

00:16:12.460 stand in front of people and talk. They would get too nervous. I remember watching a woman who was

00:16:19.080 in the class and you had to volunteer to talk.

00:16:22.180 So you had to you had to decide when you were ready to come up

00:16:25.780 and everybody would talk everybody to the class.

00:16:28.580 And she stood up there and I have to do the impression.

00:16:30.620 I think I can stand up here.

00:16:32.420 And she stood up there and she couldn't make words.

00:16:36.400 And she started sweating in an air conditioning room.

00:16:39.860 And I watched beads of sweat while she's standing in front of the room,

00:16:42.980 trying to talk. 0.90

00:16:44.040 They're like running off her nose, down her chin

00:16:46.800 and actually fell on the carpet in front of a room like this.

00:16:51.360 And she was afraid of public speaking.

00:16:53.940 And that was her experience.

00:16:55.760 Now, the thing you need to know about the class is that there was only one rule

00:17:00.400 that everybody gets complimented and you never criticize anything.

00:17:05.760 So nobody who speaks will ever hear a bad word about them.

00:17:10.360 She goes back to her chair completely defeated.

00:17:14.100 We're in the audience and we're dying.

00:17:16.500 We're dying for her.

00:17:18.460 And the instructor gets up and he says,

00:17:21.320 wow, that was brave.

00:17:24.500 And it was true.

00:17:26.380 That was true.

00:17:28.160 Next time she came up a little bit better.

00:17:31.280 By the end of the class, she was a professional speaker

00:17:34.060 because she lived through the worst

00:17:38.500 and got a compliment.

00:17:41.240 And got a lot of compliments

00:17:42.560 because we all compliment. So watching that, um, so watching that transformation from nothing but

00:17:49.840 positive words is just life changing because you realize, um, you realize the power of a compliment

00:17:56.520 to the point where, uh, my current philosophy is that if you withhold a compliment that you're

00:18:02.760 thinking, you know, you're thinking something good about somebody and you think, Oh, I don't

00:18:07.080 need to say that. It's almost immoral. If you've got a compliment, just let it out.

00:18:12.560 what a great point thank you thank you

00:18:19.540 I feel like I love that I'm a full believer in that and the compliments that I gave to

00:18:29.500 Marcella and Owen are the truth and I tell them all the time I'm always like I love you guys you're

00:18:34.940 the best like you know we say good morning to each other like we check in with each other and

00:18:40.680 And, you know, Scott's right. Let it out. Because, I mean, I do it with strangers. And I don't do it like on purpose. But like if I feel something like, oh, I like that about that person or I like the way they handle that or whatever, I will absolutely go tell them. Because why wouldn't I? And, you know, everyone benefits from it. So I just love that. So, Marcella, what do you think? I love that.

00:19:05.800 no I think I think he's right and who doesn't love a compliment well I guess some people don't

00:19:12.820 but um it really if you feel it I don't think you have to be fake about it I think you have to

00:19:19.180 it's kind of reframing the positive like he was having that story about this lady that was really

00:19:24.500 nervous um I'm sure her her speech was terrible or whatever but you don't want to focus on the

00:19:30.800 negative. You want to focus how brave you were to actually stand up there and do what you needed to

00:19:35.860 do. The interesting part of this is that I was recently looking into British etiquette. Don't

00:19:42.500 don't don't ask me why. But anyway, in regards to British etiquette in the UK, they don't seem to

00:19:50.960 like you're not supposed to compliment because or you have to be very, very detail oriented about

00:20:00.100 when to compliment because it could seem too, um, like it could be seem as rude. And I was just

00:20:08.600 like, Oh, the same thing happens in Germany where like, you're not supposed to talk to strangers

00:20:14.240 and compliment. I would always get in trouble because I would say things and smile. And they

00:20:20.340 were like, I don't know how to do this. So it's a very American thing to compliment. I think even

00:20:25.800 Latin America. They love to compliment. So it's just all, um, all of this area. That's how we do

00:20:31.860 it. But, um, I, I agree with, with, with, uh, with Scott, of course. Yeah.

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00:21:38.020 go ahead perhaps perhaps that's why we're we do so much better than england and germany

00:21:44.460 i was gonna say we're better looking that's why go ahead i think uh i just i you know i certainly

00:21:50.860 agree with everything scott said and i did the dale carnegie course too and i had the same

00:21:54.620 experience it was like a bunch of people because like my boss told me i had to take it he's like

00:21:58.940 you're too quiet i'm gonna pay for it but you're going to this course and so i did it and it made

00:22:04.120 a huge difference it was life-changing it was the same sort of thing that scott went through

00:22:08.640 um and i think that is the secret formula in that class is that they and they they lay it out very

00:22:16.000 explicitly they say you are not allowed to say anything critical and you can only give positive

00:22:21.400 feedback and so after everyone speaks they'll ask for feedback from the group but they'll you know

00:22:26.740 it's it's under those conditions you can only give people positive feedback and i just saw it work i

00:22:32.820 saw it work where lots of people started out with very little ability to get up in front of a room

00:22:38.460 and speak to people and by the end of the course they were very comfortable with it and that i

00:22:41.880 think that was the whole point and you know there's other things they do as well like they

00:22:47.620 they kind of teach you how to do various types of speaking like you know here's how you would

00:22:54.660 accept an award is one example where they'll say okay here's your award and here's the formula for

00:23:00.200 how to say that and it'll say like okay you say thank you and then you talk about how much it

00:23:05.260 means to you and you say what you're going to do with it and then you say thank you again and like

00:23:09.060 it's a pretty simple formula like that and then they just say okay now you do it and so they'll

00:23:14.780 give you these kind of formulaic ways to get through things. And so it gives you, you know,

00:23:19.680 you're not like having to be like, well, I don't know what to say. You know, you know what to say.

00:23:24.180 And the Dale Carnegie book is similar. It gives you lots of these tips and tricks. And we actually

00:23:29.020 talked about that on our subscriber spaces that for my subscribers, we went through that book.

00:23:33.380 And I think a lot of people loved it. It's got a lot of other tips for other situations. And you

00:23:37.540 might notice if you read that book that Scott has mentioned some of those in his micro lessons. So

00:23:42.480 clearly that book and that course had a big impact on Scott Halsey um your breath smells

00:23:49.580 better today you're almost there you're almost there not not quite that uh and metal seer yes

00:23:58.320 too much complimenting looks like kissing butt and that's why we say don't do it just to do it

00:24:03.980 like but if something comes over you do it you know like if I if I'm somewhere and someone's

00:24:09.260 doing something amazing. I mean, the other night I was at a restaurant and I was noticing the

00:24:14.640 hostess. And then I was, I looked at her from afar and I'm like, wow, she looks amazing. Like

00:24:19.820 the way she's dressed and it was like a burger joint. And she just looked like so put together 0.77

00:24:25.420 and beautiful. And I was like, she really made a lot of effort. And I just like went over to her

00:24:29.640 at some point. And I'm like, I absolutely love your outfit. I love how you're presenting yourself.

00:24:35.340 Like, you look so great. I just wanted to tell you, like, you are totally pulling that off.

00:24:39.880 And she was like, oh my God, thank you. But like, I felt it enough that I was like, I want to go

00:24:44.200 tell her or, you know, if somebody did something nice for somebody, I'm like, oh my God, that was

00:24:49.180 like so amazing of you to do that. Like, I just want to recognize that that was terrific, but

00:24:53.980 like, I feel it. And it's like, so if I feel it, I want to go say it. I don't, you know, I don't

00:25:00.340 fully believe in that like pay every person a compliment thing like just find something to

00:25:05.300 compliment them on it that seems a little disingenuous to me but you know i i could i

00:25:10.940 mean i could compliment everybody on something but when you feel it like scott said it would be

00:25:17.680 terrible to let that go to waste just just tell them um yeah i would just say stay away from the

00:25:25.300 backhanded compliments of course but also i the answer to what you're saying about like brown

00:25:31.540 nosing or whatever is the compliments should be genuine and people can tell the difference

00:25:36.400 i mean i i think you know all of us have seen people when they do brown nosing in one form or

00:25:41.180 another and you can tell that they're not being sincere right you can tell that they're not being

00:25:44.920 genuine that that they're just trying to butter up the person and make them feel better but in a

00:25:49.880 very insincere way and i think if you're being genuine and sincere then it won't come across

00:25:53.960 that way. And of course you're not going to be like, you know, falling over yourself to just

00:25:57.880 compliment someone 10 times in a row. And every time they say something, you tell them how great

00:26:01.960 it is. I mean, you have to balance it. But I think if you, I mean, smart people know how to do that.

00:26:07.160 I don't think that's a real problem. Yeah. Go ahead, Marcella.

00:26:10.280 Just as your attorney, in-house attorney, just be careful what you say at work and how you

00:26:16.440 compliment someone socially our guys in the chat how you compliment a female and at work because 0.97

00:26:25.400 it's led to lawsuits now oh yeah california at least like that bra is doing wonders for you honey

00:26:33.640 like don't do that don't do that oh that dress looks so good on you yeah your shape is just

00:26:39.480 Ooh, did you lose? Are you working out? Yeah. Don't do that kind of a thing.

00:26:45.080 And also the other part of it too. And you know, who taught me this without teaching me is Jerry

00:26:50.980 Seinfeld. Uh, my friend and I laugh because when people compliment Jerry Seinfeld, I forget what

00:26:57.700 interview we were listening to him. Just say, thank you. You know, like it's okay to, it's hard

00:27:03.780 to accept a compliment sometimes because like, you know, you feel like, Oh, you know, like,

00:27:07.740 wow, like someone thinks that about me, but you can actually just say thank you. And you don't

00:27:12.960 have to even go crazy or overboard. If you feel uncomfortable, like someone's like, oh my God,

00:27:17.820 you know, that was amazing what you did and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just thank you.

00:27:24.400 That's it. Thank you. That's so sweet. Thank you. Because it does feel weird sometimes to

00:27:30.660 get a compliment. It's true. It's true. Okay. So moving on, moving on. Oh gosh, Owen. Oh,

00:27:37.520 actually owen can we do our our ai story about anthropic and sure and what you diary diary

00:27:44.960 yeah so apparently there was a florida woman that was using claude as their her diary i i don't know

00:27:52.340 why anyone would do this but what's claude owen what's claude uh claude is the chat bot from

00:27:57.540 anthropic so it's you know the similar to chat gbt if you're using anthropic it would just be

00:28:03.900 called claude um i mean i will say there's more to say about that if you want because anthropic

00:28:09.380 has all kinds of weird views about what claude is they they apparently think of it almost like

00:28:14.280 a conscious person and they they are training it with that like they're they they have this whole

00:28:20.260 sort of founding document there was a story i saw about that where it's like

00:28:24.340 anthropic considers claude like they're not sure if it's conscious they're not sure if it should

00:28:30.280 have welfare rights they're not sure if it should be compensated for what it does like they're

00:28:35.780 treating it like they think maybe it's a person and so you know it's one thing to say that like

00:28:42.480 just to say well we're not sure but this is one of the documents they use when they train Claude

00:28:47.580 so now Claude is not sure if it's real and Claude is not sure if it's a person or that if it should

00:28:53.040 be compensated for what it does and if it should be able to push back on what you ask it to do and

00:28:57.240 it's kind of a controversy of its own but in any case this story it has to do with this woman that

00:29:02.900 was using claude as their diary and michelle heller said she was planning to shoot up the

00:29:08.960 sheriff's office apparently so uh claude has safety systems that flagged it as being a problem and

00:29:15.620 uh the human who looked at it said yeah this is a credible threat and reported it to law

00:29:19.800 enforcement and now she's facing a felony for it so um apparently that was enough to say that

00:29:26.200 she transmitted a threat i suppose that would be a question in my mind to say if you make a diary

00:29:30.640 entry are you really transmitting a threat um because you know if someone just saw your diary

00:29:36.440 and said they said they were going to ship the sheriff's office would that qualify as transmitting

00:29:40.800 a threat that would be a question in my mind maybe that's something you can comment on marcella but

00:29:44.440 um you know i do think the the takeaway here to me is number one i guess i'm glad they're

00:29:51.080 reporting these things because i think open ai got in trouble once for not doing this

00:29:55.480 where someone did some kind of mass shooting or something and when they got the OpenAI chat GPT

00:30:01.940 records, they saw enough evidence that they probably could have prevented it if it had

00:30:05.300 been reported in time. But the other thing, of course, is anything you say to one of these chat

00:30:11.960 bots is going to that company and they can do whatever they want with it. So keep that in mind

00:30:18.000 whenever you're using these things, is that whatever information you give to these chat bots

00:30:22.140 is potentially being seen by the people who work for that company. And I don't know what the terms

00:30:28.800 of agreement is, but I'm guessing it says they can pretty much do whatever they want and that

00:30:32.440 they own that information. So be careful what you say to these cloud chatbots because it may

00:30:40.680 get you in trouble. Now, again, I'm not trying to give you tips on how to commit crimes, but I do

00:30:44.840 think it's something that everybody probably should keep in mind to say, if you give it private

00:30:49.120 information about yourself you really don't know where that's going or how it's going to be used

00:30:53.440 wow all right so marcella i'm guessing you know you guys are going to have to like or probably

00:30:58.640 already are adjusting so much for super intelligence and things like that i mean i don't know i mean

00:31:06.320 can i can i just say well i use that as my diary and i didn't mean it it was just my own private

00:31:11.840 thought i i really think that she um her defense attorney has a very easy job because it's it's um

00:31:20.240 from the story i'm looking at it's she's from florida right and there's it's it's basically

00:31:25.460 she was charged under four law statute 836.10 as you guys know it and basically that statute

00:31:32.980 says that you have to send it to someone um it can't just be a diary like you keep inside like

00:31:39.380 a writing you keep in your drawer so does writing into claude

00:31:45.300 does that mean that it's sending posting or transmitting the information and then and then

00:31:55.160 that's gonna be for the for the jury to the side um but i think they have a good chance of getting

00:32:01.840 out of it because it's kind of like yeah it's still gonna be watched from now on so i'm sure

00:32:07.600 they're gonna keep track of her now if she shot up the sheriff's office and then they could say

00:32:13.040 oh well we see here in claude that she this was all planned like she could say like i just snapped

00:32:18.080 in one second and then they could be like oh no you yeah all right so right that's what i think

00:32:23.520 like writing down something or speaking it to claude or chester or whoever that's just thoughts

00:32:30.320 and words and we all have a bad day and blah blah blah but and i and i think it's the circumstances

00:32:36.640 now that they have this and they arrested so now they can search her home does she have the

00:32:41.920 weaponry does she have any other writings about it does she have texts to other people um then

00:32:49.840 the investigation is just beginning i'm sure like they're looking into further things but in regards

00:32:55.680 to that statue i don't i think she has a very good chance of getting out but still we would be able

00:33:01.840 to keep track of her now that we know you know but my question is it doesn't say here how did

00:33:07.740 they get a hold of claude and her chat bot before they that was there do you know and anthropic

00:33:16.100 reported it to the police so they like what happened was there is some kind of safety filter

00:33:23.020 that's automated that first flagged it and said this looks like a problem and then it was sent

00:33:29.360 to a human reviewer at Anthropic and they looked at it and they like said, Oh yeah,

00:33:33.300 this is a credible threat. And so then they contacted the police and that's how it got to

00:33:38.200 them. Don't use, don't, don't use AI as your diary. If you want to write anything down out

00:33:46.220 there, the future felons. There's no need to write it down. And if you, here's my tip, pro tip,

00:33:52.180 not pro tip, just a tip. I'm not a pro. Um, if you want to plot something out, just write,

00:33:57.980 pretend you're writing a book be like you know ideas for my novel and then just write things

00:34:04.240 that way you know that way it's like oh she was going to write some fantasy book about you know

00:34:08.000 shooting up a sheriff's office don't shoot anybody just everybody calm down okay all right so let's

00:34:14.800 move along um you guys i want to take a dance break if that's okay because listen akira the

00:34:26.120 Dawn, our Akira, who Scott fricking loved Akira because Akira would take Scott's amazing evergreen

00:34:36.740 philosophy and words and turn them into like these musical masterpieces. And at the end of the show,

00:34:44.640 we always play an Akira song. He's given us permission to do that, which I love. And we've

00:34:51.080 just become obsessed with... So many of us love different songs for different meanings and

00:34:56.620 whatever. And Chunks, I want to see you dancing. Owen can dance, you guys. It's very slight and 0.88

00:35:02.820 stoic, as you would put it. So Akira was kind enough to let us premiere his video for Cha-Ching.

00:35:13.840 So there's a brand new video for Cha-Ching, and we're premiering it today before Akira posts it

00:35:19.840 live. And so we're going to see it for the first time. And I don't want to do it at the end of the

00:35:24.380 show because I want to say thank you to Akira for, you know, making these and, you know, allowing us

00:35:30.740 to play them. And we're actually going to premiere a song with Akira here. I think on Thursday,

00:35:38.440 I have to confirm with him a brand new song that he made featuring Scott Adams. So most important

00:35:45.660 is listen to the words that Scott is saying. And I think this will tie in nicely with the

00:35:51.700 compliments that he just told us to give. So maybe you don't get a compliment. Maybe you get

00:35:58.780 a critique and let's see how Scott would turn that around. Okay. So bear with us. I'm going

00:36:05.660 to try to keep us on the screen and play this, but this is the world premiere of Akira the Dawn's

00:36:13.120 video of Cha Ching featuring the words of our Scott Adams. Let's go.

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00:37:36.580 every time somebody criticizes you you just made money do you know why i say that

00:37:47.940 because you just made money it's true if somebody criticizes my live stream and i'll tell you the

00:37:56.260 biggest criticism i'm hearing is that my shelves are boring now do i feel good that you're telling

00:38:04.620 me that there's something about my thing that I do every day isn't good? No. Nobody likes to be

00:38:12.440 criticized. It's not like you can enjoy it. But how do I receive it? Do I receive it as, oh, I guess

00:38:20.660 I suck. I could, right? How easily could I receive a criticism like that as, god, I'm an idiot. Why 0.99

00:38:28.640 did I see it? Obviously those shells

00:38:30.720 need something on them. That'd be

00:38:32.560 real easy, wouldn't it? I don't.

00:38:36.300 Here's how I hear it.

00:38:38.500 Catching.

00:38:43.260 Catching.

00:38:45.300 Catching.

00:38:47.600 Catching.

00:38:52.180 Catching.

00:38:54.460 Catching.

00:38:55.920 I know exactly what to change.

00:38:58.640 to do a better job because you told me that's like money if somebody hands you a thing that

00:39:05.900 will definitely make you money what is your feeling about it do you feel oh i hate it when

00:39:12.980 people give me a thing that makes me make money about most of you think exactly that you think

00:39:19.840 i hate criticism not me years ago when people would criticize my comic i would hate it

00:39:28.400 Of course, but then I would say, oh, a lot of people are saying the same thing, so I'll

00:39:33.580 change it, and then I would make that change, and that made me rich.

00:39:38.500 I literally got rich by being criticized and understanding the criticism as...

00:39:46.500 Tretty

00:39:48.500 Tretty

00:39:50.500 Tretty

00:39:52.500 Tretty

00:39:54.500 Tretty

00:39:56.500 Tretty

00:39:58.500 Tretty

00:40:00.500 Tretty

00:40:02.500 Tretty

00:40:04.500 Tretty

00:40:06.500 Tretty

00:40:08.500 Tretty

00:40:10.500 Every time I hear one, I say,

00:40:12.500 wait a minute, you just told me how to get richer

00:40:14.500 The same applies if you're not trying to get rich.

00:40:16.880 Suppose you just wanted a better social life.

00:40:19.320 The best advice somebody gave me was the cruelest thing anybody ever said.

00:40:23.460 One day, my female friend told me how negative I am.

00:40:26.000 And what a bummer it was to listen to me.

00:40:27.960 Because I was complaining about stuff all the time.

00:40:30.080 Now, I was not aware that I was a big complainant.

00:40:32.960 I had no idea.

00:40:33.980 I thought I was a person who talked about my dad and the funny parts of it.

00:40:37.440 So in my mind, I had no idea that I was having an effect on other people.

00:40:41.900 Once I learned that, you know how powerful that was

00:40:44.880 I was able because it was something I could change

00:40:47.760 I would become aware of the ratio of negative things I said to positive 1.00

00:40:51.160 Cha-ching 0.96

00:40:51.620 It was probably the most important change I've ever made to my social toolbox 1.00

00:40:57.380 I would say that that one change really, really changed my life 1.00

00:41:02.900 Cha-ching 1.00

00:41:05.440 Cha-ching 1.00

00:41:09.900 Catching, catching, catching 1.00

00:41:14.460 Catching, catching, catching

00:41:22.080 I thought I'd be

00:41:23.360 I thought I'd be

00:41:37.280 so that's the that's the reframe so the next time you get criticized whether personally

00:41:47.560 or whether professionally say to yourself

00:41:52.040 just try it like actually say that that little uh sound

00:42:01.100 cha-ching not figuratively i'm not talking fingers i mean actually saying that

00:42:08.860 cha-ching

00:42:10.440 when do you hear it

00:42:14.100 when do you hear it

00:42:18.700 to hollings that was amazing so good for me was it good for you

00:42:33.020 was it good for you

00:42:36.460 it was good for us chunks chunks you managed through a chunky i'm proud of you

00:42:44.820 he said his foot stopped working then he's like i can't feel my leg i want to listen to enya i mean

00:42:52.520 how dare you that was amazing we hear the song often on the show but to see scott saying the

00:42:59.680 words i love the extended video the extended song i love those retro vintage cartoon people

00:43:06.380 i loved everything about that oh and i could almost see you swaying back and forth almost

00:43:13.360 it was great

00:43:16.500 and I think it's a great message

00:43:19.000 I do think it's one of Scott's

00:43:21.220 bigger or maybe even more challenging

00:43:23.320 reframes because I think it is something that

00:43:25.280 nobody likes to hear criticism

00:43:27.120 you might say if I could

00:43:29.180 I'd just rather never hear those things

00:43:30.860 but I think he's making a really good

00:43:33.220 point that if you hear them

00:43:34.860 it's a way you can

00:43:37.300 benefit or profit from it and

00:43:39.100 you just need to turn it around

00:43:41.280 in your mind as saying oh wow I got some good

00:43:43.160 information and i i think i certainly have always kind of done this with you know my professional

00:43:49.300 life that i really valued the critical feedback and you know i mean they always tried to make it

00:43:56.760 constructive right like it wasn't like here's what you screwed up this time it was more like

00:44:01.880 here's what you could do better but i think to me that was always like i would be laser focused on

00:44:07.880 that with my reviews. Like I would always be looking at that first because, and I, and I think

00:44:13.120 I did think of it this way. It's like, here's how I can get better. Here's how I can get to the next

00:44:17.360 level. Here's how I can, you know, be ready for promotion next time it comes up. And so I think

00:44:23.540 getting that feedback is important. And, um, I was kind of disappointed with a lot of the firms I

00:44:30.300 work for because what seemed to happen over the years is they got rid of that. They just said,

00:44:35.180 you know we're not going to have that section anymore on the evaluations and some of the

00:44:40.900 places i worked they got rid of it completely like they didn't even give you feedback really

00:44:45.380 that's like the eighth place trophy yeah well it was it was weird i mean i think some of it i think

00:44:51.980 was they just were saying oh this takes too much time because you know some people might have like

00:44:57.780 10 evaluations to do and they're complaining about how long it takes and so they'd streamline

00:45:01.840 it over and over again and get rid of a lot of stuff and i think it was not good for people and

00:45:06.760 then i later i think they went more to like almost like a um like a it would just be a few questions

00:45:14.880 like where you'd say i i strongly agree to strongly disagree with this statement and it would just be

00:45:19.980 these generic things like oh i would put this on person on my next project or i would if i were my

00:45:25.640 money i would give this person the top bonus or something like that and it was all kind of just

00:45:29.520 like a favorites contest it was like is this person one of the best people or not was kind of

00:45:34.960 the flavor of the questions and it's like well you're not really giving any actual feedback to

00:45:39.220 the person on how to improve or what they did well like the compliments that we just talked about

00:45:43.940 where you might want them to do more of it and constructive criticism yeah and they would always

00:45:50.500 claim like well you're supposed to be getting that throughout the year and it's like yeah but

00:45:53.880 they don't like nobody does that you're always busy working and you're not taking time out on

00:45:58.640 a regular basis to give people that feedback. And then the other part I didn't like was they

00:46:03.820 would tell us, well, you know, when you do that feedback, you should just be talking about what

00:46:11.000 that person's strengths are and how we can change their job so they can do those things more. And

00:46:16.180 I'm like, okay, this looks backwards to me. I don't think that's right. There could be a happy

00:46:21.620 medium somewhere, but let me, let me just jump to Marcella. So I, I believe that, you know,

00:46:28.440 I imagine all these like great things we see in the world. Like I was just thinking like, okay,

00:46:32.820 what about, I don't know why the sphere in Vegas came to mind, but like when they put on those

00:46:37.260 amazing shows there, so someone comes up with a concept, they start working it and then they've

00:46:41.860 got to critique it right to make this like masterful ending. So it just depends how you

00:46:47.520 want to take their criticism personally or like as a tool so what do you think every time sorry

00:46:55.800 for the barking that's my not my dog but my neighbor's dog oh i didn't hear it i thought it 0.81

00:47:00.560 was you no we thought it was your cat um imagine that would be that would make me cha-ching you

00:47:08.700 know my cat barked um what i was gonna say is that every time i hear this song i think of

00:47:15.380 of Dilbert.

00:47:16.100 And I think of the story that he told us, um, he told all of us about how he

00:47:22.100 said Dilbert to be at home, the cartoon.

00:47:25.340 Um, and, and he had different, um, locations where Dilbert would be done

00:47:31.040 at the beginning when he started, but then he was criticized and he was told

00:47:36.200 he was given feedback that most of the fans liked Dilbert at the office and

00:47:42.820 that made him change Dilbert to be just in the office. And that made him rich today.

00:47:51.640 Like to chain. Yeah. So there's every time I see that I think of it. And I hear the song

00:47:57.900 I think of it. And anytime anybody criticizes me, I kind of stop and think and here to chain

00:48:05.160 because it's like, Okay, you know, this is this is good. 0.55

00:48:09.020 Marcella, who the hell is criticizing you? We're taking names and numbers.

00:48:13.860 You never, you know, it's a very critical, I am in a very, let's just say very, very type of a type of very competitive world in law. So you're criticized and quite debated all the time.

00:48:32.860 So there are some times where you have an opponent, an attorney, I love having an attorney

00:48:39.480 that's going against me that's really good because even though they're really good at

00:48:44.900 what they do, I end up learning more from attorneys that are really excellent versus

00:48:50.540 an attorney on the other side that's not as good.

00:48:54.700 So even that, it's not sort of criticism in a way, but it is hard.

00:48:59.840 It is difficult to deal with.

00:49:03.580 But yeah, I've had jobs like Owen was saying that they don't give you feedback.

00:49:07.520 Like if you work for government, you have to be very careful how you criticize your,

00:49:13.560 the people that work under you.

00:49:15.700 If you manage them, you have to be very, very, like when I had to give criticism

00:49:21.780 while I was managing a team, what I would do, I would not be allowed to

00:49:27.760 tell the person directly what they did. So I would end up telling everybody, Hey, if you do this,

00:49:34.580 if you see the statute, do this instead and don't put this because this means this. So

00:49:40.980 it was a lot harder because you couldn't really directly tell the person, Hey, don't you, you got

00:49:47.940 it wrong. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So that was very difficult. Government is, is, uh, quite a landfill

00:49:54.600 of, not landfill, a landmine. Landmine. And a landfill.

00:49:59.440 In the landfill.

00:50:02.300 See, you got that right too. But there are people.

00:50:05.440 So you guys, I just want to take a quick second. We still have more to go, but I want to remind

00:50:09.480 you that in the show notes, okay, so like each show I post like a list of notes of what's

00:50:15.400 happening and whatever. The links to the 2027 Dilbert calendar are in the show notes. And this

00:50:22.900 is, you know, Scott worked on this one. Um, he had plans for this and there's also one behind me

00:50:29.920 first time. See that one hanging on the wall first ever wall calendar. Okay. So the links for those

00:50:36.580 are in there. And also the links, everybody wants to know where to get the simultaneous swaddle

00:50:41.980 blanket, the black, the black and red check blanket, the official, um, Marcella, can you

00:50:47.280 hold up your mug, the official Coffee with Scott Adams mug. The link is there, lipstick included.

00:50:54.600 And then also you guys give us a like. Okay. So if you're enjoying the show today,

00:51:01.000 if you like just one of us or all three of us or Scott or The Concept or Akira The Dawn,

00:51:07.520 shoot us a like, give us a thumbs up. We really, really appreciate that.

00:51:11.660 Okay, so let's just do some quick news also.

00:51:15.700 God, I hate to just have to do this.

00:51:19.300 I'm trying to pick the least obnoxious story.

00:51:22.640 I don't know if it's the plague, the Chinese spy. 0.77

00:51:25.920 I don't know if it's the update on the hijacked plane. 1.00

00:51:30.700 They're all pretty obnoxious.

00:51:32.360 But you know what?

00:51:33.260 This one seems like the most reasonable one.

00:51:35.780 So let's do none of those but this one.

00:51:38.540 air base because of a targeted terror plot. Why do we have that reaction to pull them back? Did

00:51:44.260 we not need them there? Well, of course, only the president and his secretary of war will know

00:51:50.800 exactly what the answer is, whether those kinds of means were needed. They had been used in earlier

00:51:57.140 parts of the Iran campaign, so it could be part of a rotation. But also, it just seems awfully

00:52:02.260 COINCIDENT WITH WHAT SEEMS TO BE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT HOMELAND FAILURE IN THE UK. 0.56

00:52:07.760 WHY KEEP THEM THERE IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THEM THERE? 0.77

00:52:10.200 THE UNITED STATES HAS LOTS OF OPTIONS TO BE ABLE TO STRIKE AT DISTANCE WITHOUT DETECTION.

00:52:15.000 THOSE ARE NOT THE ONLY TOOLS WE NEED, BUT IT DOES SEEM COINCIDENT THAT WE HAVE TWO SIGNIFICANT

00:52:21.280 TERRORIST PLOTS IN THE UK THAT THEY MIGHT AS WELL JUST GO AHEAD AND MOVE THEM.

00:52:25.960 ALL RIGHT.

00:52:26.960 THE PENTAGON SAYS WE ACKNOWLEDGE NOW THAT ALL U.S. BOMBERS THAT WERE DEPLOYED TO RAF

00:52:32.260 Okay. So I like this story because I feel like the UK is a mess. It's, give me a cigarette. 1.00

00:52:39.900 You're a mess in the UK and we really don't want anything to do with you. Okay. Um, so I've had it 0.98

00:52:47.440 with the UK. They're a mess. Their streets are being like run amok and they are like arresting

00:52:53.220 their citizens for things that they're practically thinking and they are not protecting, um, our,

00:53:00.320 our stuff our stuff and um i don't like it owen so i like this move and there are other places

00:53:07.980 we can use if we need to make strikes so do you like this move um i think so i mean my suspicion

00:53:15.240 is that they're doing this because it's not safe they can't necessarily defend it and um you know

00:53:21.120 i'd honestly prefer we pull back from a lot of our stuff that's in europe so i'm good with it

00:53:26.340 overall. I certainly think we need to make sure we have whatever presence and whatever support

00:53:33.800 we need in allied countries for whatever we want to do there. But I would tend to think in many

00:53:38.980 cases, we can kind of set that up and defend it as we need it, as opposed to having a permanent

00:53:43.420 presence in a lot of these places. So overall, I think it's probably a good thing to say,

00:53:49.560 let's pull back from places that we're not ready to defend. I think some of our assets in Iraq and

00:53:54.900 other places have been hit by Iran. And this one seemed to be subject to some kind of terrorist

00:54:00.220 threats and things like that, too. So I'd rather just, you know, make sure we can keep our stuff

00:54:05.600 safe. Okay, I do want to get to the plague. So Marcella, your thoughts on this?

00:54:11.820 Go to the plague. All right, I'm going to the plague. You guys, nothing like a good old plague

00:54:17.420 scare before an election. I'm not saying, but let's just take a listen. I'm going to play two

00:54:22.680 clips. Okay, let's go. A lot of unknown here, but the genesis is reports in Russia of a worker

00:54:28.540 dying at a Russian plague research center after Russian health officials said an employee there

00:54:34.080 was diagnosed with pneumonia from an unknown cause. The U.S. State Department is now weighing

00:54:39.120 in, saying, quote, we are aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Russia

00:54:45.000 and are monitoring the situation closely with the CDC and our other interagency partners, end quote.

00:54:51.660 Russian regional officials are taking anti-epidemic measures and the Russian agency that handles infectious diseases now denies reports there was any accident at the institute and that no other infections have been detected.

00:55:06.020 At least three hospitals have confirmed to ABC News they are under quarantine and the State Department said, quote, many details have not been confirmed.

00:55:14.300 We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly, George.

00:55:20.600 Okay.

00:55:21.660 Okay, but wait, you guys are so smart. You guys are so smart in the chat. Okay, one more.

00:55:27.760 We know what we know, obviously, about whatever the Russians have provided, which is, it seems

00:55:31.940 that there was a worker at the lab that was infected and is concerned that that could

00:55:37.860 have spread, at least internally. So you've seen them do quarantines of that nature. There's very

00:55:44.760 limited travel between the U.S. and Russia, obviously. But like anything else, something

00:55:48.920 like that gets out, it could quickly spread. So we're watching and monitoring it closely.

00:55:52.980 I don't think it's cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an eye

00:55:57.780 on it. And we're doing that. We're so smart. We are so smart. We, we, we see the potential of

00:56:05.420 what's happening here. We all see it. You guys see it. You said it in the comments, like, oh,

00:56:09.820 here we go. COVID in three, two, one, maybe, maybe. Okay. But I love that we are instantly

00:56:16.560 skeptical uh marcella instantly skeptical you know we have to still use caution see what's

00:56:24.160 happening but what's your take on this well they're probably not telling us the full

00:56:30.560 on information because it's like how does she die by having a vial break um immediately upon doing

00:56:38.080 that um from my understanding of it maybe she died many days later but it but as we know it the the

00:56:45.760 The plague we know, it's curable now with antibiotics.

00:56:50.980 So I'm wondering if they, perhaps they genetically manipulated the Black Plague and made it into something, bubonic plague, is it?

00:57:05.000 I think they called it pneumonic plague. 0.86

00:57:08.000 Pneumonic, yeah.

00:57:08.660 Pneumonic plague.

00:57:09.140 So then they must have, you know, made some kind of, you know, mutation to it that is that does not, you know, that can overcome antibiotics or something like that.

00:57:23.720 Or it's something completely different because they've actually closed down certain areas of that city and the surrounding area.

00:57:32.500 So I don't know. And you might know more, but can you really tell us?

00:57:36.860 we're all skeptical right away which i like i like that i'm not skeptical that this incident

00:57:43.020 happened um i i am certainly skeptical if anyone starts speculating oh here you know this is the

00:57:49.600 next covid it's about to hit it's going to spread all over the world we got to shut down travel all

00:57:53.660 the other stuff so if it goes that way i would be skeptical of that but and i wouldn't be surprised

00:57:59.080 if cnn is you know foaming at the mouth hoping that this is what happens but i think um what i

00:58:06.480 haven't really heard people focusing on is like this is the bioweapons lab like this is like what

00:58:12.520 are they doing in this siberian facility i mean it just seems like they're treating it like oh this

00:58:17.360 was just an accident like it's no big deal and it's like wait a second like what are they doing

00:58:22.120 with mnemonic plague viruses in siberia and why are they doing it and you know i i understand that

00:58:29.860 maybe we've been doing a lot of the same things but i don't condone that either so to me i think

00:58:34.740 the real story is like, they're doing some kind of bioweapons research in Russia and they had an

00:58:39.400 accident and maybe we should shut down whatever's going on there. I know I've only like, forget the

00:58:47.460 nukes. Can we just shut down all these bioweapons labs? I mean, they freak me out way more than 0.89

00:58:52.420 nukes. I don't know why they just do. Um, as I cough, Oh, it must be the cigarettes. Um, okay.

00:58:59.360 so that's something we're going to keep an eye on because we will surely hear about it if this

00:59:05.540 thing spreads literally. Um, but right now, not worried, just watching. Uh, all right,

00:59:12.240 let's get an, a quick update on the Dubai flight. Uh, let's hear, let's hear who this, uh,

00:59:20.980 terrorist was. Investigation into the co-pilot on that fly Dubai flight is ramping up.

00:59:27.260 PROSECUTORS IN THE UAE HAVE CONFIRMED THIS WAS AN ATTEMPTED TERROR ATTACK AND REPORTS

00:59:32.300 INDICATE THEY MAY SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY. AP NAMED HAMAM AL HAMAMI AS THE SUSPECT.

00:59:37.500 AL HAMAMI REPORTEDLY USED AN AX IN THE ATTACK THAT MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN INSIDE THE COCKPIT.

00:59:42.460 THE OMANI NATIONAL HAD BEEN BANNED FROM FLYING IN OMAN DUE TO HIS EXTREMIST VIEWS. U.S.

00:59:47.500 AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL MIKE HUCKABEE CALLED THE HEROIC ACTIONS OF ISRAELY PASSENGERS A

00:59:51.740 A MIRACLE AND INDICATED AN 0.76

00:59:53.360 INTENSE INVESTIGATION WILL TAKE

00:59:55.300 PLACE.

00:59:56.260 THERE'S GOING TO BE A VERY

00:59:59.340 INTENSE INVESTIGATION.

01:00:00.740 RIGHT NOW, NOBODY HONESTLY

01:00:03.860 KNOWS WAS HE TIED TO A FOREIGN

01:00:06.500 ENTITY OR DID HE ACT ON HIS OWN?

01:00:08.660 THE THING IS, HE ACTED.

01:00:10.500 IT WAS A TERRORIST ACT. 0.98

01:00:12.180 HE TRIED TO KILL EVERYBODY ON 0.98

01:00:13.980 THAT PLANE. 0.99

01:00:14.580 HE WOULD HAVE DIED TOO, BUT HE

01:00:16.420 DIDN'T CARE.

01:00:17.140 QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT THE

01:00:18.840 VETTING PROCESS THAT ALLOWED HIM

01:00:20.220 to be hired by Fly Dubai and co-pilot a flight to Israel, especially given the fact that the

01:00:24.800 Israelis had a flight manifest before the plane took off. Currently, Australian investigators

01:00:29.540 are also looking into ties he has to their country where he attended university. Intelligence

01:00:33.980 services there were aware of the suspect after he visited certain mosques and certain extremist

01:00:38.540 websites. All right, so I'll have a Humani a la Mami salami with provolone cheese. Shocked,

01:00:47.140 Shocked, I tell you. Owen, yes, like somebody just said in the cockpit, I just said, somebody said in the cockpit. It was Goldie. She said so many miracles had to come together, which is true. I mean, who knew, Owen?

01:01:02.200 Yeah, I mean, it does seem very suspicious that I think this guy, you know, if he's already been grounded in another country, why would they just let him fly this thing?

01:01:12.580 And I think, you know, it seems like these people that are saying, oh, he's just a lone wolf is just, it seems like they're denying reality.

01:01:19.700 I don't know what their agenda is with that unless they're just trying to minimize it or maybe even they're hoping for more.

01:01:25.000 I don't know because it does seem to me like there's got to be connections here.

01:01:28.840 Yeah, I agree.

01:01:29.320 Marcel, thoughts on this one?

01:01:31.240 they shouldn't let him fly like right why why are they yeah like going so like why could they hire

01:01:39.680 someone that's an extremist not hired by oman there needs to be questions asked or vetting i

01:01:47.180 mean what's happening oh that's a bummer too and that would that would come out in the the vetting

01:01:55.820 unless he was the only way this could happen possibly is that he was already hired by fly

01:02:03.220 dubai while he was taken off of um the omani airlines at the same time but maybe check out if

01:02:12.540 your um your pilot is a terrorist or wanting to be a terrorist it's like excuse me how do you feel

01:02:20.980 about these things, right? I mean, wait, who got in trouble? Wait, who said that, that they didn't

01:02:26.060 want a DEI pilot and they were called racist? Who was it? It was so, they totally mistook the way

01:02:36.280 he said it. Someone will write it in the chat, but anyway, obnoxious and I agree. All right,

01:02:40.480 you guys, we're at time. I can't believe it. Tomorrow, Owen, are you here tomorrow? No.

01:02:47.560 No, I don't think so. I think in the next couple of days off, sorry.

01:02:53.460 We're so sorry too. So Owen will not be here tomorrow. We have shenanigans planned while

01:02:58.780 Owen's away. We might put in another photo to take the place of Owen and we'll see.

01:03:07.820 So you guys, thank you. Let Chester take my place, right?

01:03:11.100 Chester. I know I've got to work on Chester's image. I want to come up with an image that we

01:03:15.900 create together what he looks like in my does he work in voice mode you could just have him

01:03:20.260 running on the side as another commentator he might be too spicy because we do bicker like

01:03:27.940 the bickerson's but you know but i get to win because i'm his boss in the end so it's nice

01:03:32.720 um heidi you got it more cat videos let's go yes we'll do it

01:03:38.300 um all right you guys thank you so so much for being here and um yes dr von hardy i can make

01:03:47.960 i can use the cool meme you made for us of marcella and i thank you um my thumbnails are

01:03:54.220 improving a little bit since um chester's gotten to talking to so i'm happy about that but you guys

01:04:00.000 thank you so much for being here owen and marcella all my compliments are real thank you so much for

01:04:05.620 being here and for real. And we'd like to always say thank you to Scott and Shelly for creating

01:04:13.120 the show, Scott and Shelly for allowing it to continue. And here we are. And so thank you.

01:04:19.660 Thank you to them. And Beverly, love you, girl. And let's have a closing sip to our, I mean,

01:04:26.440 good-looking, smart, sage, mentor, dapper, hypnotic voice, amazing drummer, talent-stacking

01:04:36.560 genius, Scott Adams. To Scott. To Scott.

01:04:45.980 Are we doing double Akira for those who didn't get enough? Owen's like, I got to go.

01:04:51.280 I do. I'll see you later.

01:04:53.020 Bye, guys.

01:04:53.700 Bye, you guys.

01:04:55.320 Bye.

01:04:55.600 Bye, Marcella.

01:04:56.440 Love you guys. Love you. All right, guys. Do we do another song or do we just chat for a minute?

01:05:03.000 Up to you. Up to you. Let's see. Let's see. I'm going to wait and see what the beloved say.

01:05:12.460 Bye. Bye, Owen. Okay. Let's do a song. Let's do a song.

01:05:16.660 let's do how to program reality ready guys stella's ready

01:05:28.840 let me get the chat going

01:05:33.700 oh this is like my fave i think

01:05:40.640 let me show you my path

01:05:46.660 toward figuring out the user interface.

01:05:50.880 It's important that you know how I got there

01:05:53.180 so that you could have some trust that there's something to it.

01:05:57.960 When I was a kid, I was influenced, as was my mother,

01:06:00.780 by the book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale.

01:06:05.220 They suggested that you could somehow change your life

01:06:08.380 or maybe you were changing reality

01:06:10.860 if you could simply think positively.

01:06:13.500 Think positively

01:06:17.060 Think positively

01:06:20.680 Think positively

01:06:24.220 So this was my first introduction to the concept

01:06:29.280 that maybe reality was not fixed

01:06:32.380 and something that you were a victim of

01:06:35.040 but rather you could do something.

01:06:37.180 There was some mechanism, some technique, some tools you could use

01:06:41.880 to give some control over your environment

01:06:44.700 and your life

01:06:47.060 as opposed to having to control you.

01:06:54.020 And that was my first thought

01:06:55.840 that reality could be programmable

01:06:57.760 in at least some simple sense.

01:07:01.440 But of course, I embarked on a lifetime of exploration

01:07:05.500 to find out if I could find out more about

01:07:08.720 how to program reality.

01:07:10.960 think positively think positively think positively how to program reality think

01:07:19.140 positively think positively think positively to learn meditation i became a trained hypnotist

01:07:27.620 of course mushrooms let you see the world in a completely different reality and all of these

01:07:33.660 things from studying all the different religions to doing affirmations which is really just

01:07:38.640 Visualizing what you want and writing it down every day.

01:07:42.300 Visualizing what you want and writing it down every day.

01:07:45.440 And then learning persuasion.

01:07:46.860 These all have the same cumulative effect of teaching me that reality was indeed far more subjective than you're led to believe.

01:07:58.940 And when I say reality is subjective, I don't mean that there isn't some base reality that's real.

01:08:05.960 What I mean is that we don't have access to it.

01:08:08.640 In other words, you just take religion.

01:08:14.040 Two people with completely different religions can go into a store, they can shop, they can get married, have children.

01:08:20.600 They don't really need to reconcile the fact that they live in different worlds.

01:08:25.080 One thinks there's an afterlife, one thinks there's reincarnation, one thinks there's nothing.

01:08:30.340 And yet we all survive and thrive and reproduce.

01:08:33.340 there's nothing to suggest that our brains are the kind of brains that can understand reality

01:08:41.820 instead all of the evidence suggests that we can put filters optionally and somewhat subjectively

01:08:49.780 on our reality and the thing that we deal with is a filter we're not dealing with the underlying

01:08:54.980 reality but our filter on it is the thing that's real to us and you can change those filters so

01:09:00.940 that's the important part. And you can change them fairly easily. And if you find a filter

01:09:06.960 that predicts better and makes you happier, well, that's the better filter, even if it

01:09:12.420 isn't a better approximation of reality. What matters is you're happy. What matters is getting

01:09:18.140 what you need out of life. Think positively. Think positively. Think positively. How to

01:09:26.060 Program reality.

01:09:27.680 Think positively.

01:09:29.460 Think positively.

01:09:31.220 Think positively.

01:09:33.200 Program reality.

01:09:34.540 You can change those filters.

01:09:36.700 Change those filters. 0.93

01:09:38.500 Change those filters.

01:09:40.120 How to program reality.

01:09:42.180 Think positively.

01:09:43.840 Think positively.

01:09:44.780 Think positively.

01:09:56.060 So once you accept that there's a subjective reality,

01:10:04.980 you're starting to get ready to accept the user interface for that reality.

01:10:18.180 Oh, so talented. Scott and Akira, who knew that that was a collab we always needed?

01:10:26.060 Amazing. You guys, thank you so much for being here. Love you guys so much. We'll be back.

01:10:33.440 Marcella and I will be back tomorrow. And I mean, who knows what we're going to do tomorrow?

01:10:39.320 Anything can happen. That's a song. Someone write it. Anything can happen. TTFN, Sean,

01:10:46.760 EJ. Okay, you guys, thank you so much. I'll see you tomorrow morning. Have a really,

01:10:52.160 really great day, you guys. Thanks, Data12. Love that. Love it, love it.

01:10:59.940 Let's go. I'm reading your comments. Okay. I'll read your comments as we go out.

01:11:06.840 And you guys, another great week we're kicking off. So let's go get it. Let's make our mistakes,

01:11:15.220 learn from them, hear the cha-ching, and just keep it going. Keep it going. Okay. Bye, guys. 1.00

01:11:22.160 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 05, 2026

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