Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 10⧸12⧸26 Columbus Day w⧸ the HOME TEAM

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00:00:30.000 or where you're wearing your color erica today is this my color yes it looks so good on you

00:00:38.320 i feel very um mob wife-ish with so i picked these glasses because they're my most like

00:00:44.640 italian mob wife looking glasses that i have so happy columbus day everybody

00:00:54.560 i think erica's italian has to i have to borrow some of erica's italian today

00:00:58.720 i can wait i can give it to you yes i hope you guys saw the cut the uh thumbnail because i'm

00:01:04.720 very proud of my work for today thank you thank you and for those of you celebrating the indigenous

00:01:10.560 people welcome to the scott adams school uh happy indigenous colonizer day you must be new here

00:01:20.880 oh my gosh i think this this probably could be called colonizer day couldn't it

00:01:25.120 i mean yeah and as somebody posted a meme in here before and it just said columbus is the

00:01:32.240 only italian that the liberals hate so yes let's go

00:01:38.800 alien baby you're so funny so you guys it's a monday again i'm so excited okay before we do the

00:01:46.480 sip while people come in i'm gonna let you know so you know i heat up my coffee cup with the instant

00:01:52.080 hot water thing dump out the water once it gets hot i put in a little chobani creamer okay into

00:01:58.000 the microwave it goes heat up the chobani creamer then my new thing is the pb2 original peanut butter

00:02:08.240 90 less fat and six grams of protein has a little scooper in it i put like maybe a half of a little

00:02:15.120 scooper into the coffee does it give good peanut butter flavor yeah then you get your frother listen

00:02:23.520 you froth is that the frother yep you get a nice thick frothy foam on the third top of your cup

00:02:30.560 and then you pour your hot coffee over it and all that being said oh my gosh i cannot wait to drink

00:02:37.440 it okay so here we go it's time for the sip and if you'd like to enjoy this broadcast to the

00:02:49.740 maximum possible extent well you know what you need you need a cup or a mug or a glass a tank

00:02:55.140 or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite

00:03:00.100 liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the

00:03:07.240 day, the thing that makes everything better except vote counting. It's called the simultaneous sip

00:03:13.440 and it happens now. I feel the transparency on this election improving. Oh, well good. I hope

00:03:27.980 these are predictions, you know? And Scott with a rare shirt with something written on it. That

00:03:35.080 doesn't happen too often. He must have been spicy that Monday. So you guys, welcome. My name is

00:03:42.460 Erica. I'm joined today by, wait, which way? Owen. Oh, you got it right this time. Imagine if my

00:03:49.360 hand could show up and Marcella's over there too. And I was like, and Marcella, and my hand points

00:03:53.840 Well, we're here, you guys, another week at the Scott Adams School, a great, fun, happy

00:04:03.100 place that Scott has left for us to get together, commune, talk news, current events, teach

00:04:10.100 some of his amazing lessons.

00:04:12.600 So we're excited for another week with the fam, with the fam.

00:04:16.300 oh okay so i asked our resident attorney if i could play this clip i can there's no music

00:04:25.320 and i just want to let you know out of the gate there is spicy language okay so if there's any

00:04:33.040 kids just give me one minute to play this clip because it's a little ode to columbus day

00:04:40.280 from the Jersey Sopranos. Here we go. The New Jersey Council of Indian Affairs has announced

00:04:47.600 plans to disrupt Monday's Columbus Day parade in Newark. Council Chairman Del Redclay,

00:04:53.460 professor of cultural anthropology at Rutgers, says council members and supporters will lie down

00:04:59.420 in the path of Columbus Day marches, quote, in protests of Columbus's role in the genocide of

00:05:05.860 america's native peoples unquote to launch their protest the native americans and their sympathizers

00:05:12.280 plan to begin a death watch tomorrow over the statue of columbus in christopher columbus park 0.99

00:05:17.780 some fucking balls bad mouth in america especially now i thought the columbus was the hero of america 1.00

00:05:24.420 oh see it's these indians and the commie fucks they want to paint columbus as a slave trader 1.00

00:05:29.640 instead of an explorer you gotta admit they did get massacred the indians it's not like we didn't 1.00

00:05:35.340 give him a bunch of shit to make up for that okay so we gave him a bunch of shit to make up for that 0.98

00:05:41.040 i mean listen what are you gonna do so happy columbus day and indigenous something day is 0.99

00:05:48.560 it just indigenous people day whatever it is happy happy monday people here we are i think as soon as

00:05:55.200 they start using a word like indigenous they've lost me i know indigenous people's day come on

00:06:01.320 now all right let's move along i'm just looking at these clips today they're funny and exciting and

00:06:09.160 i don't have a cat video you guys but in lieu of a cat video oh did it not come over oh we have

00:06:16.040 something even better all right marcella i'm gonna play this quick clip and then you can just tell us

00:06:22.060 what's happening thanks guys good morning fox news alert now breaking at this hour federal agents

00:06:28.300 executing a search warrant at the home of Ilan Omar in Washington, D.C.

00:06:34.220 So we're told the raid happened right around 6 a.m.

00:06:36.840 The nature and target of that investigation is not clear.

00:06:40.940 DOJ spokesperson saying the warrant was secured

00:06:43.440 as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.

00:06:48.160 I told you it's better than a cat video.

00:06:50.780 So, Marcella, potentially, what could be happening right now?

00:06:54.440 they could find lots of gold i don't know anything could be possible it's it's it's a federal holiday

00:07:03.560 today so so they i wonder if they knocked and said happy columbus day and they came in you know

00:07:09.420 no indigenous people day i'm sure they said no i'm thinking this is the fbi guys they must have said

00:07:17.500 maybe both maybe both to make it that that better um the only thing about it is that they're trying

00:07:25.960 to find things that are many years ago um one of the things that the issue is that some of the

00:07:33.580 things are like the statute has run but civilly it's unlimited there is no statute for what she

00:07:41.660 if she defrauded the united states in regards to her immigration status however you never 0.73

00:07:47.220 know if it's truly just immigration they're looking for right she owned this winery

00:07:53.980 allegedly um and then she didn't own it like she came from one year this is alleged and reported

00:08:01.920 that she at one point made millions with her husband at another point she doesn't make millions

00:08:08.220 anymore so i i don't know what exactly they're looking for but you're not an innocent bystander

00:08:14.040 if you're gonna listen to maybe i don't know i remember her yeah maybe remember her on charlemagne

00:08:23.740 the god she's like go ahead search look for anything you want okay well they're looking

00:08:29.060 and i would assume owen they wouldn't do this raid unless they had some good info probable

00:08:34.940 well i don't know i mean i probably but they at least have some kind of suspicion but i think

00:08:41.160 And I'm assuming they had to have whatever probable cause standard to do a search warrant.

00:08:46.820 So they probably are very specifically looking for something as opposed to just a general fishing expedition.

00:08:52.960 Although I'm sure if you look on the left, that's probably what they're saying it is.

00:08:56.120 And I'm sure they're very upset by it.

00:08:58.020 I mean, how often do we raid Congress people's house?

00:09:02.200 So it is a relatively remarkable thing from that perspective.

00:09:07.640 And I'm glad to see it happening, though.

00:09:09.720 I think it is a sign that we're not, like, having a lower standard for Congress than we would for other people.

00:09:16.640 And that's something I've been wanting to see.

00:09:19.980 And I honestly wouldn't mind it if they did it to a Republican as well, if they were guilty of something.

00:09:23.940 And I know we've had at least a couple cases of that.

00:09:26.120 But, you know, it seems like we should be holding them to the same standard, if not a higher standard,

00:09:31.960 because they're supposed to be our representatives and they're supposed to be making the laws.

00:09:36.860 So they should certainly be subject to them themselves.

00:09:39.720 So the warrant has to be very specific to be legal. It has to outline what they're searching for. However, when they're inside, at least from my limited knowledge of criminal, they can do the plain sight, plain view doctrine, which means if they see something that's outside of the warrant, but it's criminal, that they can also go after that.

00:10:07.220 um whatever is in plain sight whatever they you know gather you know if they're looking for a

00:10:13.500 specific thing and within that specific thing they see something else then that becomes part of

00:10:19.160 legally it can be legally broad to the investigation so yeah but i mean that still

00:10:28.240 seems rather broad in terms of like if you're saying i'm looking for a document for example

00:10:32.500 that could be just about anywhere right like you could say that's in a drawer that's in a closet

00:10:36.660 that's in a safe that's anywhere right melania's underwear drawer yeah well i mean there's certainly

00:10:42.240 precedent for that right so yeah i think if they do it to her they can they we should be able to

00:10:46.900 do it to alana mar that's right i don't really want to see her underwear on tv though i don't

00:10:52.280 want to no no i don't want to see anything of her ever anywhere i don't want to hear her it's like

00:10:56.900 nails on a chalkboard it went for from specific specificity of uh whatever the word is of warrant

00:11:05.580 two underwear. Okay. Well, you know, we're good at that here. We're here. We're here for you guys.

00:11:13.180 Yep. Scott trained as well. Anything can happen. Her hijab, her hijab. That's our little Monday

00:11:21.380 morning, you know, hope, hope and change. On a serious note though, you guys, Nepal, seriously, 1.00

00:11:29.020 these poor people just one was it like how many two months two months after the last uh what was

00:11:37.860 that a flood i thought they had um another one you guys and there's you know there was 1500 people

00:11:44.040 killed in the first one but 5 000 are still missing so i mean now look take a look this is

00:11:49.860 horrible this is uh just ripping through another place in nepal wiping out entire 0.91

00:12:00.180 villages like see the little houses on the left there on the bottom

00:12:04.000 do we know any more about this does anyone know

00:12:09.020 they what previous one in the table when china was doing some kind of uh like finding

00:12:18.960 minerals or construction or something and it let down a glacier down like the very in that

00:12:27.780 particular area and then it slowly went down and then fast after it melted so there's destruction

00:12:34.900 there going on this is so sad you know more i mean reportedly i don't know what why this one

00:12:43.400 was caused the previous one this was in the border of China and Tibet area so a lot of tourists go

00:12:52.460 there oh my gosh yeah I mean and I think that it isn't necessarily proven that the Chinese

00:12:58.400 construction did it but I think the suspicion is that potentially by having that construction

00:13:03.780 activity in that region that it might have disturbed the glacier and might have caused

00:13:08.520 the avalanche that then caused the flood and so it's a possibility that what china was doing

00:13:14.360 in that area was responsible but i don't think anyone's proven that i think it's just there you

00:13:19.000 know they do obviously know that something came off the glacier and then caused this cascading

00:13:23.120 effect but yeah um looks like i'm seeing a story that says it's there's more than 1400 people dead

00:13:29.780 thousands missing 200 homes damaged 650 people were impacted by this flood i think i think that's

00:13:36.660 this one they've rescued 95 people including nine foreigners um so far they don't have any

00:13:44.620 casualties but they do have five people that are missing we're um you know i i just saw who just

00:13:51.020 said that alien someone yeah alien blame global warming you know i it's like forget the global

00:13:56.920 warming thing we're doing this mankind is doing a lot of these things we're seeing like manipulating

00:14:03.440 weather. Remember when Dubai was like, oh, we need to seed some rain. We're really dry here.

00:14:09.280 Then they flooded their whole thing. It's like, what are you doing? You can only do so much and

00:14:15.680 you have to let nature take its course. But when you want to change what mother nature is doing

00:14:20.120 and you think that you're God and you can play the weather Lord, I mean, we are creating some.

00:14:28.720 and also when they're doing the things with the airplanes what's that called um those clouds

00:14:35.600 seeding yeah cloud seeding what the hell it's really sick so wouldn't it be fun to have erica 0.76

00:14:42.240 as weather lord though yeah we it would be it would be so perfect and then there's that fog

00:14:49.520 that like has all this poisonous gas in it or something and the little pellets are dropping

00:14:55.120 onto people's farms where fresno has that i swear the fog in fresno is unreal that's in the middle

00:15:01.680 of california and i always think hmm seems odd right very odd very odd oh yeah so yeah cloud

00:15:09.840 seeding you know who's all over the cloud seeding do you guys know jim brewer he's a comedian

00:15:15.680 he's from new jersey and uh he's i i love it because he used to be so timid about speaking

00:15:21.840 up about anything because he didn't want his social life, his show business friends like

00:15:28.380 Howard Stern to never have him on the show again. And I could hear him on Howard. I go way back with

00:15:33.900 Howard, you guys. But I could hear him on Howard and just kind of being like, oh, I'll just push

00:15:38.680 it a little bit. But once COVID hit and everything, he's like, that's it. The gloves are off. And now

00:15:44.200 he's just like, and we're messing up the weather and the cloud seeding. And he moved to Florida.

00:15:49.400 he's filming it every day he bought a gun he's like i can't take it anymore he bought a gun he

00:15:54.600 did he's like all the things i never thought i would like say or do i'm doing it and that's just

00:15:58.720 what happens like eventually you snap and you're like can i just stop pretending this is normal and

00:16:03.360 okay so i love him reminded me chemtrails is the other yeah the chemtrails too yeah you never know

00:16:12.400 it's not yet it's all just water it's all just water vapor marcella no big deal nothing to see

00:16:18.460 here. That's right. Andy, Marianne sent me a nice birthday message. Andy and I go way back with

00:16:24.840 Howard also, us Jersey folks. Okay. So listen, pray for the weather, pray for the earth.

00:16:33.360 There's a lot of places. We just had that one in Florida, California is getting bombarded with

00:16:39.700 stuff. It's, it's crazy town. Ooh, let's take it down. Okay. So I have for you, um, so many more

00:16:48.620 things, but I thought let's get right to Scott because there was two different clips that I came

00:16:55.100 across. And I, I think like, you know, we keep promoting jobs and trades and this and that,

00:17:00.900 the FBI is hiring. Mike Rowe is promoting that website now. So let's talk about if you get a

00:17:08.100 job interview. Also, what kind of job should you have? Do you have to have passion for your job or

00:17:13.400 not? So let's talk about passion first. Okay. And Scott's going to do that for us. And then we're

00:17:21.020 going to talk about now you have to go for a job interview and what do we do? So let's sit back

00:17:25.560 and relax for a few minutes. Take notes, take notes and let's go. How many times have you heard

00:17:32.400 from billionaires that the secret to success is passion,

00:17:37.120 if you follow your passion.

00:17:40.240 I became a little bit famous for mocking that.

00:17:43.520 They say you should have passion for what you do,

00:17:45.160 you know, you don't want to work on something

00:17:46.280 you don't have passion, wait for your passion.

00:17:49.660 But here's what you need to think about that.

00:17:52.820 Try to imagine what else they could have said

00:17:57.560 as an answer to that question, 0.92

00:17:59.200 without sounding like giant douchebags.

00:18:06.040 They couldn't say, for example, 0.94

00:18:08.400 I think I'm smarter than poor people. 1.00

00:18:12.080 Even if they are, right?

00:18:13.340 You can't say that.

00:18:14.700 They can't say it's because I worked harder than poor people

00:18:17.680 because there's a good chance their gardeners are working pretty hard, right?

00:18:21.260 They can't say they were lucky

00:18:22.460 because then their whole mystique is gone.

00:18:24.700 So, well, why should I listen to you?

00:18:26.240 You were just lucky those few times.

00:18:27.720 right so if it isn't you know passion what is it I remember when I was working

00:18:37.680 as a commercial lender at a big bank one of my earliest careers I had a boss who

00:18:43.680 taught us that if somebody came in they want a loan to start their business and

00:18:47.340 they had a real passion for it let's say it's a somebody who really likes sports

00:18:51.180 they wanted to start a sporting good kind of a business my boss said do not

00:18:56.580 give that person a loan all right because they're in it for the wrong reason all

00:19:01.260 right they're in it for sort of the fun and the passion as soon as things get

00:19:04.180 hard it's not fun anymore they're gonna bail out we have a long history of these

00:19:08.640 people being bad credit risks he goes the one you want is that a guy comes in

00:19:13.260 he says yeah here's my spreadsheet I want to start a let's say a dry cleaning

00:19:18.180 store it's a boring little business I've looked at the location it's good I've

00:19:21.900 managed people like this before I'm putting my own money into it I know this

00:19:25.920 kind of business. This guy's a grinder. Passion, probably none. Dry cleaning, you know, who's 0.91

00:19:32.180 passionate about dry cleaning? Probably nobody. That guy gets the loan though, right? Look around

00:19:37.760 even this room, right? Every piece of material in the room, you know, the computers, everything,

00:19:43.080 the carpet, probably represents somebody who got rich. It was either the person who invented it,

00:19:50.500 it might be the CEO of the company that's running it now, but somebody's getting rich on really 1.00

00:19:55.000 boring shit. I mean, look at this stuff. You know, somebody made this light, and it's like, hey, this 0.99

00:20:00.720 light sells really well. Are you passionate? Well, I'm rich. That feels pretty good. I was talking

00:20:10.020 about this to a friend, and he said, you know, I hear what you're saying. It kind of makes a little

00:20:15.100 bit of sense, but, you know, have you ever watched American Idol? He said, the people who win American

00:20:21.260 Idol. Look at the passion that those people have. And that had to make a difference because they're

00:20:26.540 going against long odds and a really competitive type of industry. And, you know, passion had to

00:20:32.500 make a difference. And I said to him, do you watch the entire season? Because in the first few shows,

00:20:39.800 they show stadiums full of people who are completely passionate. And you know what all

00:20:46.280 of those stadiums full of passionate people

00:20:48.220 have in common? They all

00:20:50.080 failed. If you're

00:20:52.040 trying to find the correlation, you know, what's the

00:20:54.060 biggest correlation with success?

00:20:56.200 It might be failure.

00:20:58.120 Or it might be, you know, these people who

00:20:59.960 are passionate.

00:21:04.880 So you might ask

00:21:06.100 yourself if passion

00:21:07.820 is limited. And

00:21:09.820 in my case, I can tell you

00:21:12.100 that I once took a

00:21:13.920 I made a list of all the things I'd failed at.

00:21:16.280 Just in the business realm, right? Forget about my personal life, that's a whole much bigger list.

00:21:22.400 But just in the business realm, the things I tried to invest in, businesses I tried to start, I had about 30 failures.

00:21:31.540 These count a couple of corporate careers, a few restaurants I've started, things I tried to invent, startups I've tried before, and they added up.

00:21:41.300 There's about 30 of them.

00:21:42.460 I can tell you that I was passionate at some point with every one of them.

00:21:48.320 Because they were a good idea and I thought, oh, this could work.

00:21:50.480 This would really make a difference.

00:21:51.340 This has changed my life.

00:21:52.240 And then when something goes wrong or you look into it and you find out the numbers don't work, your passion goes away.

00:21:59.560 Dilbert was one of 30-ish things I've tried.

00:22:04.100 I didn't have especially more passion for it than anything else.

00:22:08.100 But it made me rich.

00:22:10.860 And I've got to tell you, I'm pretty excited about it now.

00:22:18.960 And I'm out of time.

00:22:25.240 I would just recommend that you use energy instead of passion

00:22:29.800 and look for ways to keep your health and your fitness up.

00:22:32.820 Don't be confused by passion.

00:22:34.480 Look for things that are good ideas.

00:22:36.360 Thank you.

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00:23:10.860 love it oh my gosh you guys and thank you to jay plemons for putting that together because there

00:23:18.400 was just another clip without the before and the after so that's beautiful and i love what you said

00:23:23.780 and i'm out of time you heard the audience go oh they're like we want more scott and you know what

00:23:29.020 so do we and uh you know marcella and owen are you passionate about your careers your jobs

00:23:36.720 uh marcel are you a passionate lawyer i'm passionate about arguing and defending people

00:23:43.240 my whole life so you know i'm i'm the heir of scott like uh actually did what i'm passionate

00:23:50.180 of but i'm passionate about a lot of things i was passionate about archaeology that did not pay any

00:23:54.840 money so i think the whole money involves you know makes me more excited to do a case if i'm

00:24:04.320 being paid for a case.

00:24:06.480 Is it the reason you became a lawyer because you were passionate about it?

00:24:11.020 There was no other way.

00:24:12.620 Um, I became a lawyer right after working.

00:24:15.540 Um, my father was a lawyer as well.

00:24:18.120 So that, you know, it comes with the territory of what I was used to, but I

00:24:22.500 worked at that dealership and selling cars and, and doing things for them.

00:24:27.940 And then that's when I realized, oh, I need to know my rights.

00:24:30.880 there's so many things that are being done here that are illegal,

00:24:34.180 blah, blah, blah.

00:24:35.880 A few years later, FBI raided them.

00:24:41.080 They prompted me to understand that in order for me to whatever I did,

00:24:47.380 knowing the law and knowing and being a lawyer is always helpful.

00:24:51.980 Even if I wasn't going to practice forever, it's always helpful to know.

00:24:57.300 And so I went to law school immediately after that.

00:25:00.260 I was taking my, my LSATs and I was like, okay, do this.

00:25:04.660 And everybody's like, so it was kind of like out of necessity and

00:25:08.020 out of necessity.

00:25:09.580 Yeah.

00:25:09.980 Out of necessity.

00:25:11.020 And also is because I'm, I'm, I, I like doing that kind of stuff.

00:25:16.740 I like reading.

00:25:17.860 You have to love reading and you have to like writing and you have to like

00:25:24.180 being spicy.

00:25:24.980 Hmm. All right. Owen, are you passionate about your career?

00:25:30.420 No, I would not say that. And I would probably say that was never how I would have described it.

00:25:35.360 I think I would have always, I mean, certainly I might've come across a little bit that way when

00:25:39.420 I was interviewing for the job, but I think the real thing is I knew that I would just be better

00:25:46.440 for me for my career. Like I looked at my options coming out of college. I knew I wanted to work in

00:25:51.540 IT but I had I could go into a corporation and be part of their IT department but back then that was

00:25:57.500 like the early 90s right and so the internet was brand new like it wasn't really a big thing yet

00:26:02.320 and it was just coming out and so like IT wasn't but usually like the center of the company you

00:26:10.820 know it wasn't like critical to the success of the company it was mostly still people-based

00:26:15.060 and usually in my experience in my jobs that I had had up to a point included some corporations and

00:26:21.240 it was like, okay, in this particular company I'm working at, I can tell that the marketing

00:26:24.860 department really runs things. And IT is seen as like this lesser than thing. We got to have it,

00:26:30.040 but it's not really that important and we wish we didn't need it. And things have changed a lot.

00:26:36.200 Now IT is probably the heart of most corporations in many ways. But I think at the time I just

00:26:41.980 thought, okay, I'm going to be sitting there maintaining some backroom system. I'm never

00:26:45.660 going to get to the top of anything. I might rise to the top of IT, but it's going to be really slow

00:26:50.820 and boring and so I thought okay well if I go into consulting then they're basically selling

00:26:56.140 me as their service like I am the core of the business so that seems like a lot better situation

00:27:02.440 and it's something where I could you know go as high as I want to or could at that company and

00:27:08.000 it would potentially be unlimited and it would also be very fast-paced because you go from one

00:27:13.160 project to another whereas at a company you might do a big project once but then you're just kind of

00:27:17.640 like maintaining stuff for a while and you might not be able to go on to that next big thing and

00:27:22.820 so that was really what led me to that choice and since then it's probably more just based on

00:27:29.360 getting good at it and getting good feedback and you know getting raises and promotions and other

00:27:33.680 things and i that's the way i kind of look at it is that if you are successful you're going to get

00:27:38.800 a lot of natural dopamine hits and rewards from that success because people are gonna be like wow

00:27:43.180 you're really good at this and that could be any skill whether you're a musician or whatever it is

00:27:47.720 and so you naturally become more passionate when you're good at something and if you're better than

00:27:53.740 most people at something then you're gonna feel like wow i really accomplished something and now

00:27:58.140 you're naturally more passionate about it so i mean scott put it in terms of being rich but i

00:28:02.240 think it's even just the the recognition or the status or the um feedback the positive feedback

00:28:09.320 you get that I think can help develop that passion and something that maybe you didn't

00:28:13.720 like when you first started because you weren't good at it.

00:28:16.580 And at first you have to get through that failure or that, you know, novice stage where

00:28:21.440 you're not very good at it.

00:28:22.720 But if you can get past that to where you really do become good at something, then I

00:28:27.460 think you can reach the point where you still have that passionate nature to it.

00:28:32.040 Now, I would fast forward to today and say, I don't know that I would describe it as passion,

00:28:36.200 but I would say that I really enjoy when I help clients.

00:28:38.560 I enjoy when I solve problems for people.

00:28:41.300 I enjoy when I learn new things and when I feel like I'm growing.

00:28:44.580 And I think those are the things that I look for in my work.

00:28:48.020 I love that.

00:28:49.220 Yeah, good.

00:28:49.700 So sometimes it's like out of necessity, but then you can find the passion within it when

00:28:54.280 you see how it affects other people.

00:28:56.580 And that's lucky.

00:28:58.120 That's lucky for both of you that you can feel that way.

00:29:02.040 I love that.

00:29:03.240 So for me, I'm the kind of person.

00:29:05.360 I was going to say, what about you?

00:29:06.520 Yeah, I know.

00:29:07.220 So for me, so I, Scott would laugh because like Scott, my talent stack is hysterical. I mean,

00:29:13.900 I, I, I highly recommend people not burrowing into one industry or one job. I think, you know,

00:29:22.400 try a bunch of different things. If you guys knew all of the different career paths and jobs and

00:29:28.300 businesses I've owned and things I've tried and done and whatever, you would be like, what are

00:29:32.220 you 95 years old? Like, how did you have time to do all these different things? But that's my

00:29:36.960 nature. Like I'd rather have 25 appetizers than one entree. Um, and you showed off part of your

00:29:43.380 talent stack at the beginning with your product showcase. Oh, see that? Like a little QVC model

00:29:48.740 over here. Um, yeah, so I, I definitely have a crazy talent stack. I think if anyone in my family

00:29:56.760 is listening right now, they're laughing because, you know, just, I just kind of couldn't sit still,

00:30:02.000 But because of that, I've had so many amazing experiences and opportunities that I feel like

00:30:08.080 I can't list them whole. It's crazy. You would laugh. It's a funny story. But I just like a

00:30:17.400 whole variety and just, I feel like it makes you kind of well-rounded too. You know a little bit

00:30:23.020 about a lot of things. And so my experiences in life have been very fulfilling. And then I do

00:30:31.100 have friends or family who've maybe done one thing forever and the thought of them now like so some

00:30:38.780 of them are at like retirement age or like they just can't do the thing they've been doing anymore

00:30:43.580 maybe physically it's become too challenging or whatever and they're just like i can't do anything

00:30:49.340 else i've only done this one thing and it's crazy to me because they've never even been on a job

00:30:53.980 interview they've just done this one thing their whole life and now they feel like paralyzed from

00:31:00.300 moving into something else. And they're like, well, I don't know how to do anything else. I'm

00:31:04.080 like, well, people will train you and it's easy enough to learn. So I recommend doing a bunch of

00:31:09.900 different things. Don't abandon your jobs. I mean, you want to be a great employee. Always be a great

00:31:17.280 employee. Learn as much as you can. Be as helpful as you can. Stay late. Show up early. All of those

00:31:24.000 things. Try to learn as much about everybody's jobs within the place that you're working because

00:31:29.680 it just it's like it's like a free education to learn more so um take advantage of those things

00:31:35.920 but um so now we get to the point where it's like okay i have to go on a job interview right

00:31:42.080 i just saw this recently being discussed in the news where they're like uh it's it's apparently

00:31:48.160 um alarming and shocking to people going on job interviews now that you should not walk in with

00:31:54.320 your iced coffee from starbucks i was like what this is like a discussion now they're like

00:31:59.520 should you bring in your latte when you go on a job interview? I mean, like, is this really

00:32:04.380 something we have to tell people now? Apparently it is. Don't bring in a latte, people. I mean,

00:32:11.140 good God, leave it outside. So anyway, it's just funny. So Scott was on a Periscope back in the

00:32:17.780 day and I guess somebody just said, you know, teach us how to go on a job interview. And so

00:32:23.000 he decided, okay, I can do that right now. So let's hear Scott's take on going for a job interview

00:32:29.680 and let's see how it compares to what we think today. Here we go.

00:32:36.660 Micro lesson idea, how to nail the interview. I can do that. You want to know that now?

00:32:45.640 How many of you would like to know how to nail a job interview?

00:32:48.840 I think I could do that right now.

00:32:53.540 So here's my advice for a job interview.

00:32:56.620 First of all, there's nothing better than just being the most prepared person.

00:33:00.780 So obviously, if you've got a good talent stack, etc., that's the best thing you can do.

00:33:07.340 The next thing is you want to show that you have a commitment to learning.

00:33:13.300 because the best employees are the ones that are going to learn

00:33:17.640 and are going to take on new stuff.

00:33:20.600 So you want to project the thought that you're a learning machine.

00:33:25.060 You've learned a lot of things.

00:33:26.480 You want to learn new things.

00:33:27.820 You want to learn everything there is.

00:33:30.420 So when you talk about your desire to learn new things,

00:33:33.940 your employer just lights up.

00:33:35.360 It's like, oh, okay, I guess somebody will be able to really fill in a lot of things,

00:33:40.440 obvious promotion.

00:33:42.320 So learning is just a key.

00:33:46.240 The other thing is they want to be comfortable with you.

00:33:50.780 So you want to know that you're not a complainer.

00:33:53.580 So you don't want to say something like, you know, when he says, why did you leave your last job?

00:33:59.160 The last thing you want to do is to say that your boss was a bad boss.

00:34:04.420 Never say that.

00:34:05.620 never throw your old company under the bus

00:34:09.640 if you're trying to get a job at a new company

00:34:12.000 because they would quite rightly say

00:34:14.080 that's the way you're going to talk about me when you leave

00:34:17.060 so you want to always put the best possible spin

00:34:22.720 on your last employer

00:34:24.560 so that's important

00:34:25.840 you also want to make sure that you've presented to them

00:34:31.140 what's in it for them

00:34:33.180 So you're not there for them to just ask you questions.

00:34:37.240 You're there to present a proposition

00:34:39.460 that hiring you is better than hiring the other people.

00:34:43.020 So you've got to make a direct proposition

00:34:44.800 what you can bring them, and it has to be direct.

00:34:48.580 So one of the things you could say is,

00:34:50.040 look, I have all the qualifications for this job,

00:34:53.640 but I've looked into your company a little bit,

00:34:55.360 and I see you also have a little weakness over here.

00:34:57.600 That's something I can do because I have those skills as well.

00:35:01.460 So if you hire me, you get a twofer.

00:35:05.020 I'll do the job and I'll be good at it.

00:35:06.740 I have all the qualifications you're looking.

00:35:08.760 Probably 100 other guys have them too.

00:35:10.780 But the other thing I'm going to bring you is I can do this other thing.

00:35:14.740 So if you can find somebody else who can do these two things, good luck.

00:35:18.020 So that's where your talent stack helps.

00:35:20.280 But more specifically, you want to give them a concrete proposition of what your extra is

00:35:27.800 because the other people won't do that.

00:35:29.960 The other people would just answer questions, maybe ask a few, but they're not going to

00:35:35.620 be selling themselves.

00:35:37.460 So you don't want to be selling yourself too much, but if you're saying, you get me plus

00:35:43.440 these extra benefits, and that might be valuable to you, then you've told your employer what's

00:35:49.800 in it for them.

00:35:51.700 So you want to show that you're agreeable, you're easy to work with, and by the way,

00:35:58.700 But sometimes I say that directly.

00:36:01.320 Actually, almost all the time I say this directly.

00:36:04.740 When I get into a business arrangement with anybody for anything,

00:36:10.120 I generally tell them directly and up front that it's my philosophy to give extra.

00:36:17.100 Because it is.

00:36:18.480 So, you know, if I have a job description, I would tell my boss,

00:36:24.020 look, I'm not about sticking to the job description.

00:36:28.500 I'm going to do what needs to get done.

00:36:30.940 So, you know, don't hire somebody who's just going to slavishly do the job description.

00:36:36.780 I'll do that too, but I'm going to do what needs to get done.

00:36:40.100 You know, I'm an adult.

00:36:43.700 And so you want to sell yourself as somebody who's bigger than the job,

00:36:48.240 but not so big that you will want the boss's job.

00:36:52.020 You don't want to threaten the boss's job.

00:36:54.280 That's not good.

00:36:55.120 But you want to look like you're so helpful that you're going to be the easiest person to work with.

00:37:00.800 You'll be a self-starter.

00:37:02.560 You'll be teaching yourself new things.

00:37:04.760 You'll be volunteering to fill in places that nobody even knew needed to be filled in.

00:37:10.560 So it's all about presenting the extra.

00:37:14.040 Think about the extra.

00:37:16.160 And then also use pacing and leading.

00:37:18.940 So pacing is when you match the person in any way.

00:37:22.960 So let's say you walk in

00:37:24.620 and you see the person's got hunting paraphernalia.

00:37:28.280 You're not a hunter.

00:37:30.200 You don't even like anything about hunting, let's say,

00:37:32.760 but you know you want this job.

00:37:34.900 So you might use language that's sort of hunting-related

00:37:39.800 because it almost certainly will work.

00:37:42.180 So you might say, well, you know, I was locked and loaded

00:37:44.540 and, you know, I was just walking down the trail.

00:37:50.540 I was, you know, I got off a good shot or something like that.

00:37:54.740 Those are terrible examples because they sound too violent.

00:37:56.940 But the point is, if you can get a read on the person,

00:38:00.460 you can adjust your language to use the type of words

00:38:03.760 that would be most comfortable to them.

00:38:05.660 And they say, oh, you're one of me.

00:38:07.320 Yeah, I talk like that.

00:38:09.520 Just like me.

00:38:10.680 So you want to match your boss without being too obvious about it.

00:38:14.540 Your potential boss, the one that's going to hire you.

00:38:19.640 somebody says, psychological manipulation, is it?

00:38:25.920 You know, put yourself in the boss's position.

00:38:30.180 Put yourself in the boss's position, and I come in for the interview.

00:38:34.080 It's not me, the cartoonist.

00:38:35.860 I'm just coming in for a job.

00:38:37.700 And I do everything I just recommended.

00:38:41.160 What would be your opinion of me?

00:38:44.120 If I did everything I recommended,

00:38:45.960 and you knew that I was doing it for the purpose of getting the job,

00:38:51.680 you knew that I was manipulating the situation to get the job,

00:38:56.140 what would you think of me?

00:38:58.500 Well, if you're smart, you'd say, how well am I doing it?

00:39:04.220 Because if I'm manipulating him and I'm doing it well,

00:39:08.160 meaning that I have legitimately offered a value proposition,

00:39:12.140 I've explained it well, I haven't made a mistake,

00:39:14.520 I hire that guy

00:39:16.600 do I care that he's

00:39:19.300 putting on a show

00:39:20.500 no that's why I invited him here

00:39:22.820 I invited him here to put on a show

00:39:25.160 that's why you're here

00:39:26.720 so if I put on a show

00:39:28.980 and he knows I'm putting on a show

00:39:31.420 and he knows it's part of the theater

00:39:33.460 and the psychological

00:39:34.420 manipulation of it

00:39:36.480 but I'm completely

00:39:39.380 transparent

00:39:40.080 there's nothing tricky going on

00:39:42.400 I'm putting on a show

00:39:43.920 that's why we're here

00:39:45.500 and I do it well

00:39:47.040 I got the job

00:39:49.820 so

00:39:51.100 that is what I recommend

00:39:53.960 match your

00:39:56.940 match your potential

00:39:58.020 boss's breathing

00:39:59.340 posture

00:40:00.440 sit up straight

00:40:02.080 use your body language

00:40:03.400 take up space

00:40:04.800 etc

00:40:06.640 alright

00:40:08.220 what are your best questions

00:40:10.780 to ask them

00:40:11.640 oh that's a good question

00:40:12.880 to ask me actually

00:40:14.100 First of all, you should always ask them questions.

00:40:17.240 You should have some prepared.

00:40:19.420 And it should be a question that shows some insight about their company.

00:40:24.480 That's the best question.

00:40:26.020 You don't want to ask a selfish question such as,

00:40:29.480 and what kind of cubicle would I have?

00:40:31.500 Would I have a view?

00:40:33.320 Those are not the good ones.

00:40:34.700 The good questions are things such as,

00:40:38.060 I've noticed that your industry is starting to move in this direction.

00:40:43.300 But if you do, does that put you in direct competition with Amazon?

00:40:47.040 And how are you going to handle that?

00:40:48.640 You ask a question like that, you got the job, right?

00:40:53.460 Because people just don't think strategically about what they're doing.

00:40:58.420 Now, that was sort of a big picture one.

00:41:00.160 It might have been a smaller question.

00:41:01.540 You could say, you know, I noticed that your production's almost at capacity and business is good.

00:41:08.420 What do you think is going to happen when you're at capacity at this plant?

00:41:12.740 Because that shows you're thinking ahead and you're looking at the big picture and stuff.

00:41:17.220 So the question is not about getting the answer. 0.94

00:41:20.780 The question is a way to show that you can ask a damn good question. 0.97

00:41:25.260 If you can ask a damn good question, that's very impressive. 0.96

00:41:31.020 It's one of the most impressive things you could possibly do, is ask a good question. 0.96

00:41:36.000 That really stands out, because it doesn't happen a lot.

00:41:38.680 somebody talked about the the firm handshake being out you know that's true uh and it does

00:41:45.740 make me wonder about the the awkwardness because the the value of the handshake is it was like

00:41:51.300 punctuation you you knew where the end of the sentence was and the beginning of the sentence

00:41:56.240 it's like okay beginning of the sentence and then later end of the sentence so the ceremony of

00:42:03.560 shaking hands had a number of benefits, but one of them was you could tell when it was over.

00:42:09.920 What's going to happen when people can't tell if the meeting's over? Because haven't you ever

00:42:14.520 rushed a meeting up by the handshake? You know, you'd be chatting at the door and you're just,

00:42:23.380 okay, we're done, we're done. You're thinking in your mind, but somebody needs to say we're done.

00:42:28.620 and since nobody can say well we're done now okay bye it's just awkward how many times have you

00:42:36.320 ever just took it put out your hand and said wow it was great to see you because that's exactly the

00:42:42.060 same as saying we're done here i gotta go now we need a whole new thing like actually a new thing

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00:43:51.940 great advice for like why do i look so freaking tan is it columbus day what's happening

00:44:01.020 um great advice you guys for so much in life i mean uh as people goldie pointed out meetings

00:44:08.900 um everything but i gotta tell you i've interviewed so many people in my time if you're

00:44:15.560 not making eye contact with me if you know if you're not telling me you know something about

00:44:20.640 my business and asking questions, I'm just like, ah, you know, so the best advice to me is study

00:44:31.000 the company you're going to interview for and actually know the company and then talk to the

00:44:36.660 person interviewing you about the company and let them know that you've done your homework.

00:44:41.060 You're like, oh, I see that, you know, like Scott said that, you know, you have growth in this

00:44:44.520 industry and perhaps you're expanding over here. I really love that about this company. I'm excited

00:44:49.880 for these types of things. This is what drew me to you. I cannot tell you how many people have sat

00:44:55.200 in front of me and they're just like, hi, do I have to work every weekend? And you're like,

00:45:06.200 what? So be the person that they want to hire because there are some idiots out there and 1.00

00:45:14.820 you know, just stand out, stand out in the crowd. Um, oh, and you've had to interview people, 1.00

00:45:20.480 right? Yeah. No, I, I think Scott is spot on with all of his advice. It's just as true as it was

00:45:26.020 when he said it. And if anything, even more so, um, because I think, you know, it does seem to

00:45:32.120 me at least the stories I've seen in the news are that there's weird things like the iced coffee are

00:45:36.260 happening. We've even had stories where people are bringing their parents to a job interview,

00:45:39.900 which is just hard to believe that anyone would think that was ever okay but um you know that

00:45:46.920 some of these things i would consider like kind of well of course i'm going to do that and you

00:45:51.180 might think that when you hear them but i would tell you that it's not as common as you would

00:45:54.380 imagine that people do these things like the something that's kind of an extension of what

00:45:59.600 he said about knowing something about the business and pointing out another area that you might be

00:46:04.380 able to help with is like ramitzati included this thing he calls the briefcase technique where he

00:46:08.900 says before you do the job interview to create like a 10 page report or something on how you

00:46:14.360 would solve the problems that you see with the business and obviously you want to cast in a

00:46:18.860 positive light and not say look how screwed up you are but like if you do a good job of saying

00:46:22.920 like here are some things i could help you with and here's how i can help you and by the way you're 0.79

00:46:26.820 you're welcome to use this report whether you hire me or not you know just here here's this thing

00:46:31.220 um i have never once seen anyone do that and um it strikes me as the type of thing that would

00:46:40.320 be really impressive and i tried it and i would i would say that it worked i mean it it's like

00:46:46.560 i will say that like i did this at my current company um someone had told me because you're

00:46:53.660 kind of interviewing for projects you're not just you know like you people will talk to you before

00:46:58.160 they decide to put you on a project, especially if they don't know you or they don't know enough

00:47:01.240 people that know you. And so I was doing this and the person told me, I like, I was in the top three

00:47:06.940 people that he was considering for the role, which means, I mean, in this kind of job interview

00:47:12.100 situation. Right. And I had already talked to him. So I'm like, well, what can I do? And I did this

00:47:15.960 report. I generated with AI. I told him I generated with AI, but I said, I'd spent a bunch of time

00:47:20.780 on it, went back and forth and researched, like, here's how I would approach this role. And he,

00:47:26.580 he got the report, thanked me for it. And he said, you're my top guy now. Like you're the top

00:47:30.600 person. Now he did get back to me and say, for other reasons, which I think were somewhat

00:47:34.940 political, he ended up having to go with someone else, but he's like, I'm probably going to come

00:47:38.600 back to you. I don't know if this other person is going to work out. So I may ask you to join

00:47:43.660 a little later. And that's exactly what happened. That's my current project. And I'm in a much

00:47:48.820 higher position than I was interviewing for before. In fact, I think I'm being groomed to

00:47:53.820 take my boss's job. And it was almost immediate that that started. So I think he was very impressed

00:47:58.780 by that and very impressed by just the way I think about things. And a lot of that includes

00:48:03.660 the asking questions part. And that's one of the parts where I think it's even more important

00:48:07.820 because in the age of AI, asking the right questions is something that is almost like

00:48:13.760 it becomes a big part of your job is to know what to ask the AI or know what to ask it to do.

00:48:19.000 And so it's not as much about the just, you know, create me a presentation or create me a slide or create me a document or create me a spreadsheet.

00:48:28.860 It's more like, you know, what should the spreadsheet have in it?

00:48:32.960 Like, you know, what questions should it even answer?

00:48:36.480 And are we asking the right questions to solve the problem that we have?

00:48:40.580 And so if you can show that insight, I think it shows that you have that skill set that will be important.

00:48:45.660 But I think even apart from that, that is really important because the way Scott described

00:48:50.440 it, I can tell what it's really creating in the other person's mind is, wow, this is a

00:48:54.580 smart person that's really, and their head's in the right place.

00:48:58.220 They're thinking about the right things.

00:48:59.480 They're not focused on silly things.

00:49:01.900 They're focused on important things.

00:49:03.400 He obviously did the research to be able to ask a question like that, that's relevant.

00:49:07.720 It's about my business.

00:49:08.720 It shows that he understands the business.

00:49:10.700 All these different things are communicated in that one question.

00:49:13.480 And that's one of the challenges with a job interview is you only have like a half hour or an hour to make an impression on someone. And so you really have to figure out, okay, how can I communicate a lot of these unspoken messages without wasting a lot of time doing it?

00:49:27.600 And so I think everything he said is exactly how I approach job interviews and what I look for. And I think the other thing I would point out is just what you should think about is what are the questions that the interviewer has? What are they worried about? What are they looking for outside of just what's in the job description?

00:49:47.220 But just like, one thing would be, is this a high risk hire? Like, is this somebody that might not be a good person for this? So if you can have that comfort stuff that Scott talked about, I think that's what that's getting at. And then the extra part is also like, okay, you know, will this person be able to learn? Because in any new job, you're gonna have a lot of things to learn. And so that's, that's part of it. And I will tell you, like, one time I got hired, I got feedback from the person who interviewed me. And I think he was really the one who made the hiring decision.

00:50:16.400 And he told me, he's like, yeah, you were a no risk hire. And I can tell in our interview because you have all these different skill sets. And so even though I'm pretty sure you'll do fine in the job we hired you for, even if that didn't work out and we couldn't keep you busy doing that because the market went down or whatever, you'd be able to do three other things that we do and you'll be fine no matter what. So that was an easy decision for me. That's what he told me.

00:50:41.900 So you show that you're valuable, not just for the job you're interviewing for, but for

00:50:45.900 the company.

00:50:46.620 And I think that's really important.

00:50:48.400 I love that.

00:50:49.560 Marcella, you know, how about my two things are, if your parents or your mommy is going

00:50:57.340 to call the place and be like, my son or daughter's looking for a job, just know, no.

00:51:04.720 Like if your mommy is calling me for anything, you are so never working here.

00:51:10.120 um also i feel bad for these kids who think that they're god's gift because their parents tell them

00:51:15.820 they are and they're so entitled so i think that it would be important to let these people know

00:51:21.020 like you're not god's gift to this company and so you know what what you know what should what

00:51:26.660 should the mindset be going in i mean it depends on what type of job you're in and in law i would

00:51:33.500 have to say that who your parent is sometimes does make a difference. If your parent is the

00:51:40.100 owner of the firm, you're obviously not going to get an interview or your parent is a judge.

00:51:46.380 It's not even mentioned in the interview, but you're aware of their last name, of who they

00:51:53.360 know. But I've done two things in my career. One was in one of the interviews, I pretended I

00:52:02.440 already worked there and in their mind they're like oh yeah and so like you're gonna be here

00:52:07.900 tomorrow morning right i was like yeah so it it was weird it was like i led him to think i was

00:52:15.060 already taking notes asking him about what is what was he needing what was this what was that

00:52:20.460 um it was a legal job and so i was already going like okay okay okay i was already making it a firm

00:52:29.500 that I worked already in the firm and he was like okay like all right you're working like

00:52:36.980 it was funny the other one was you know in in government you have several interviews and you

00:52:44.960 have a panel of interviewers and they have set questions and set numbers of what they want to do

00:52:52.380 but how I treated that is I was interviewing them instead of them interviewing me and

00:52:58.860 And looking at like having eye contact, like Erica said, but also remembering their names, saying their names.

00:53:07.480 That's a Bill Clinton move, you know, that that he had the persuasion of every time you met somebody, he would shake their hand and say their name.

00:53:17.160 Sometimes he would do more than shake their hand.

00:53:19.580 But I would caution you to do more than just shake a hand at a job interview.

00:53:25.400 um just kiss directly on the lips yeah so one of the things i interviewed a lot of people and a lot

00:53:34.780 of people get very nervous in interviews and i told them you know what don't get nervous they're

00:53:40.760 just the interviewers are just as nervous as you are because some of them are not used to

00:53:46.000 interviewing people so just relax remember that they're human and that you can manipulate whatever

00:53:53.460 you, I didn't use the word manipulate, but you can, you know, persuade them in the way that you

00:54:01.400 want them to be. So you just have to be on time, have to have the right clothing, because some

00:54:07.900 people wear the craziest clothes to job interviews. They bring the craziest drinks to job interviews.

00:54:15.780 One of them came in with sunglasses, and we were wondering what was going on.

00:54:22.420 There are so many different things.

00:54:24.340 And if you are thirsty or one of those people that needs your emotional support water, you can ask them if you can have some water.

00:54:30.220 And that is perfectly acceptable.

00:54:32.000 And they will go get it for you, even if they have to leave the room to get it.

00:54:35.020 It's a perfectly polite thing to do.

00:54:37.180 But coming in with a water bottle is a problem.

00:54:39.600 Yeah.

00:54:39.940 Don't come in with your security bottle.

00:54:41.640 If you're coming with water, bring water for the interviewers.

00:54:45.660 You know, or bring drinks for them, you know, like.

00:54:48.800 Like a pitcher of margaritas, yeah.

00:54:51.080 Yeah, I don't know.

00:54:52.180 just if you're already going crazy just go crazy all the way come in with a tupperware jello shots

00:54:58.340 but it depends on your job if your job is to be a bartender or like um a hostess of some kind that

00:55:05.460 you want to make people drink more then that's the type of job that you bring jello shots yeah

00:55:12.180 bring a salt shaker it makes you thirsty yeah if you want to be a yeah if you want to be a lawyer

00:55:17.700 uh you don't do that marcella gosh if we have to get that basic for these people that's a problem

00:55:25.880 but yes marcella is correct don't bring jello shots to your corporate job interview wear clothes

00:55:30.980 wear and wear clothes and not sunglasses and look professional and shower shower and if again if we

00:55:40.360 have to tell you all of this you're not we do we do for the interviewers yeah show up to the

00:55:46.880 interview a lot of them were ghosting us like in the last round of interviews we're like they're

00:55:53.020 they're like not even coming my advice too is i feel like um people are lazy now about interviewing

00:56:00.860 and they're like oh no i can interview online i'm like no fill out the application get your resume

00:56:07.960 go to the place show up professional and just say i see that you're hiring i want to personally bring

00:56:14.520 by my resume. And in the off chance, anybody that I could speak to, I would love to do that right

00:56:21.540 now. Show up, show your face. Everybody on an application, it's so easy to flip through them

00:56:28.460 and throw them out because it's like, there's a grammatical error or I don't like something they

00:56:33.620 wrote. And maybe they just messed up something and you throw it out, but show up to the place.

00:56:39.160 I do not like this online thing. Just go drop it off. The receptionist will get a look at you and

00:56:45.240 then she can tell the boss what they thought. I think the online application process in many

00:56:50.280 companies is just broken because they have AI screening resumes. They have HR screening resumes

00:56:55.160 and they don't look for the right things. And a lot of times the hiring manager will say,

00:56:59.860 I'm not getting the right candidates, but it's because the right candidates would have been in 0.94

00:57:03.940 there maybe but never got to them because it was screened out by some stupid thing and i i've had

00:57:09.700 that experience myself too that i i've got most of my jobs the referrals most of them and that

00:57:15.300 includes the one i'm in now and it includes most like really almost all of them except for the one

00:57:21.080 in college and the one like maybe one or two others like where i just apply but even even

00:57:27.120 that i think like one time sorry the one time that i uh the one time that i did try like just

00:57:36.100 online applications i probably filled out over a hundred of those things and i didn't get any

00:57:39.980 interviews not even one and i was qualified for the jobs that's what i'm saying so you agree show

00:57:46.000 up at the place don't interview on friday the one time i didn't do in friday i did not get the job

00:57:51.500 I'm glad I didn't get the job, but yeah.

00:57:54.160 I recommend it.

00:57:54.920 Andy said that.

00:57:56.260 Yeah.

00:57:58.040 Tuesday, Wednesday, stop in, put on a big smile, meet the receptionist because the receptionist

00:58:05.140 is like the key to the kingdom, you guys.

00:58:07.240 If you make a good impression on the receptionist, she's going to tell the other people that

00:58:12.080 are hiring because they're going to say, oh, what'd they look like?

00:58:14.460 Were they nice?

00:58:15.140 And then they could be like, oh yeah, really pleasant, look professional.

00:58:18.360 and if you think the receptionist is some peon at an office and you are just like dismissing them,

00:58:25.500 you are so off your game. They know everything. So yes, they are the gatekeeper. So show up to

00:58:34.400 the jobs, bring a resume, smile, professional, you'd make a first impression because they're

00:58:39.140 going to relay that. And you never know, someone might be able to interview you right there on the

00:58:43.020 spot. So be prepared for that and hope for that because you're going like at a good time for you

00:58:48.240 where you feel prepared. How do you dress for the resume drop? You dress very professional like you

00:58:54.500 would every day at that office. You're not showing up in jeans and sneakers and a sweatshirt because

00:58:58.460 you're running in to drop something off. You're showing up as a representative of how you present

00:59:03.680 yourself. So you better fricking look good. That's all I'm saying. We have two minutes left. 0.54

00:59:10.400 Andy Wang is reminding me. Thank you, Andy. And I just want to close with a couple of funny little

00:59:17.140 Trump clips, if no one minds, because he's been rallying. You guys. Okay. First, where is it?

00:59:25.780 Oh, and tomorrow I want to show some things too. Did I not bring it over? Okay. I have one clip

00:59:30.580 for you. So this is Trump at a rally talking about, well, why do I have to set it up? I don't.

00:59:36.180 Listen to this. He's so funny. And a bill that would change the terms of mother and father to

00:59:42.720 gestating and non-gestating parents you

00:59:47.060 you can no longer say mother hi mom it's hi gestating

00:59:55.160 hi gestating i love you so much gestating mom new york needs

01:00:02.540 hi gestating i love you just

01:00:07.060 dating. He's so funny. I love it. I guess the father becomes non-gestating, right?

01:00:13.780 Maybe, Owen. Perhaps. Depends. I'm not going to answer to non-gestating.

01:00:21.120 I wouldn't answer to gestating. I mean, what are we doing? You wait your whole life to become a

01:00:26.360 mom and then they're like, you're the gestating parent. It's like, oh, okay. So I love that.

01:00:31.520 And Tallarico, who's running in Texas, was doing the Biden basement tour, and he was out of sight for a couple of weeks.

01:00:42.840 Some say he had the flu.

01:00:44.700 Some say he was in a little mental rehab.

01:00:48.040 So we'll see what comes out.

01:00:49.920 But I think staying away is a good thing because, honestly, yes, I'm going to say something shady.

01:00:57.340 I was going to say no shade, but it's shade.

01:00:58.980 But he is creepy AF.

01:01:00.740 I mean, he's creepy. You guys, I get like a little spidey sensey when I see him speaking and I'm just like, Texas, like maybe Rhode Island, but Texas, I can't wrap my head around it. Oh, and any more on a Talafrico?

01:01:18.520 I don't know. To me, it does seem kind of unbelievable that someone like Tallarico would have any kind of chance in a place like Texas against Paxton. And I think, you know, I do remember when like Beto O'Rourke was in a similar situation where like it was made out by the media, like O'Rourke had this great chance to win and then he got blown out.

01:01:41.000 So I don't know what's going to happen. I hope it doesn't go to Tallarico. And I think there is speculation that he might even need to drop out because of this. But I don't know if the mental health thing is true or not. And if it is true, there's even questions about like HIPAA violations and things about the people who supposedly verified that that was the case because you're not supposed to do it.

01:02:03.160 And there's been denials in the place and other things.

01:02:05.840 So, but, you know, they may deny it just because they have to.

01:02:08.060 And so I don't know what the truth is.

01:02:10.260 And I'm kind of staying away from the story, at least anything that's directly saying it's

01:02:13.920 this or it's that, because I don't know what the truth is.

01:02:16.320 But I certainly do hope that he doesn't get elected.

01:02:19.100 So maybe this is an October surprise and maybe it was a low blow or not a low blow, depending

01:02:23.940 on the truth of matters.

01:02:25.280 But I certainly hope Paxton pulls it out.

01:02:28.520 Let the jokes about the low blow fly in the chat.

01:02:30.980 okay uh marcella anything on talafrica before we go my only comment was that elon posted um i don't

01:02:39.560 know if you guys saw this on x he posted over the story and he posted the uh sexually transmitted

01:02:46.720 diarrhea over the talarico being missing for 12 days that was funny oh yeah yeah oh and i saw you

01:02:54.800 no comment i don't think he commented just yeah that part i don't mind posting about just because

01:02:59.320 it's funny and it's just a joke sort of thing. But I do think I will point out that I did post

01:03:04.020 about that sexually transmitted diarrhea story directly as well. And a lot of people in my

01:03:08.940 comments were saying, this is a gay disease. This is something they're not talking about, 0.96

01:03:12.800 but it's another one of those, you know, things that are only really subject to certain people

01:03:19.280 that engage in certain activities that might put you at risk of that. But I don't know if that's

01:03:24.100 true either. I haven't looked at that deeply into it. So I don't know.

01:03:26.900 Well, for those of you having breakfast right now, so sorry.

01:03:31.980 So you guys, thank you so much for kicking off the week with us.

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01:03:54.180 We will be back tomorrow.

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01:03:57.760 We have a good week ahead.

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01:04:01.740 And let's give a closing sip to our most beloved Scott Adams to Scott.

01:04:08.820 To Scott.

01:04:12.620 And you guys, we had so much fun.

01:04:14.340 I don't know if you guys have to go Owen or Marcella,

01:04:16.180 but I just want to say we had so much fun with Akira on Friday.

01:04:19.700 We had a good time, a little dance party.

01:04:21.760 and so i do want to play his new release uh the video um on our way out so i'm gonna play that

01:04:29.360 and i'll watch the chat and we'll see you guys tomorrow bye guys all right bye bye

01:04:35.360 akira um here's one i've been hearing other people talk about this more as well

01:04:45.960 because once you hear it is so useful you'll end up saying the same thing

01:04:49.840 The usual frame, and we all fall into this, is that everybody's thinking about us.

01:04:57.900 Do you ever think that?

01:04:59.080 You think, oh my God, they're judging me.

01:05:01.620 They're thinking about that mistake I made.

01:05:03.760 They're watching me.

01:05:05.540 Nobody's watching you.

01:05:07.040 Nobody cares.

01:05:08.520 Yeah, maybe if you're, I don't know, seventh grade or something.

01:05:12.940 But if you're an adult.

01:05:14.240 Nobody's watching you

01:05:20.540 Nobody's watching you

01:05:24.860 Nobody's watching you

01:05:26.820 Nobody's watching you

01:05:30.980 Nobody's watching you

01:05:32.960 Nobody's watching you

01:05:36.860 People aren't really paying too much attention to you

01:05:43.020 So, as soon as you imagine that other people care, probably not about whatever it is you're

01:05:49.020 worrying about.

01:05:50.020 I mean, they might care in various ways, but not about whatever you're fretting about.

01:05:55.020 They're not thinking about you at all.

01:05:58.020 Once you realize that people don't really think about you, it really makes everything

01:06:02.020 easier.

01:06:03.020 You won't get embarrassed.

01:06:04.020 You know, even if you didn't get embarrassed, you'd be like, okay, they will care about

01:06:09.020 that for 10, 9, 8, done.

01:06:12.020 You might care about it for longer, but you don't need to, because they don't care.

01:06:42.020 Nobody's watching you.

01:07:12.020 care about you but your critics i'm not really thinking about you too much

01:07:42.020 it's not music it's music plus

01:07:46.380 so right you guys total like soap opera 70s vibe obsessed

01:08:06.700 All right, guys. Oh, look at my little Scott Adams pictures pulsating. Okay, guys. Love you

01:08:17.660 so much. I'll see you tomorrow. And say your goodbyes so I don't hang up on you. See you

01:08:24.460 tomorrow. Bye, guys. Bye, Holsey. That's right, Flynn Lizzie. Never take another person's opinion

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