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00:00:00.000 I would have tried it again, you know.

00:00:01.240 I know, Marcella.

00:00:03.760 Is it Friday?

00:00:06.520 Is it Fri-yay?

00:00:08.500 It's Friday.

00:00:10.220 Yay.

00:00:11.300 Here we are again, another Friday.

00:00:15.520 I'm shimmy shaking.

00:00:16.760 We must be alone, right?

00:00:19.820 Oh, yeah.

00:00:20.140 We didn't go live yet.

00:00:21.320 No, not yet.

00:00:22.200 Okay.

00:00:23.040 All right, Metal Seer, I'm going to never talk to you again for that picture, just so you know.

00:00:29.100 Get it together.

00:00:30.960 He made me look like Alyssa Slotkin.

00:00:33.600 Like, I need that on a Friday.

00:00:35.860 You do, in that picture, you do look like her.

00:00:38.840 Well, yeah, he made me look like her.

00:00:41.380 Yuck. 0.95

00:00:41.660 Gotta add the jean dress.

00:00:45.520 Don't add anything, but a better idea. 0.73

00:00:47.920 How about that?

00:00:49.900 Good morning.

00:00:52.580 So, you guys, sorry, we're a minute late.

00:00:55.580 It's not like us.

00:00:56.520 I'll stay a minute extra.

00:00:57.760 It was my fault.

00:00:59.040 It was my fault.

00:01:00.000 but it's okay it's mine it's fine um you guys i have this this book is the worst sorry book

00:01:08.840 it's 3001 would you rather questions but they're so lame like i was flipping through it what book 0.80

00:01:15.320 is that it's like um can you show it again would like that yeah it's so stupid 3001 would you 0.90

00:01:24.360 rather like, look, I'll just flip to one. Listen to how dumb these are. Okay. Good. Good. Would 1.00

00:01:29.040 you be, okay. Well, this one was kind of good. This one is, would you rather be a ruler with

00:01:36.180 little money or a citizen with a lot of money? Ooh, you guys can answer that one. A ruler with

00:01:43.800 little money or a citizen with a lot of money. Yay. Yes. You guys, aren't you happy? Marcella's

00:01:52.540 hear like so marcella and i could hear each other but walter was having technical problems yesterday

00:01:58.460 like he couldn't see the pictures i was posting he was blurry at first and then he couldn't hear

00:02:04.780 marcella for some reason so that kind of sucked and i'm looking at your answers and um and marcella

00:02:12.300 had to leave early yesterday also so that was already pre-planned so it wasn't like she gave

00:02:17.580 up and was like i'm leaving she stormed off i wanted it to be like that that's why i didn't

00:02:24.380 say like well i kind of did tell locals but i don't know if they read it i need to get a sound

00:02:29.900 effect for like a door slamming when you and owen leave bam um yeah walter was great right

00:02:38.060 so listen we're gonna get to the sip and then maybe i'll ask marcella if there was anything

00:02:43.580 she wanted to add on to Walter yes or no and um and we have oh my gosh you guys we have so much

00:02:50.120 to get through today so maybe I won't ask her yeah we should just go to the new news there's so much

00:02:56.180 going on all right so I think I think we had enough time for everybody to come on in and I'm

00:03:01.760 gonna get to my Friday sip my top third well you remember the sip I almost forgot oh lordy no I

00:03:10.240 lord knows i need a sip okay here we go it's time again for the best part of your day yeah

00:03:17.620 and every time i say it it's true and in order to enjoy the best part of the day in the best

00:03:24.880 possible way all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or gels or stein a canteen jug or

00:03:29.880 flask a vessel of any kind you fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now

00:03:38.620 for the dopamine hit of the day,

00:03:41.680 the unparalleled pleasure.

00:03:43.060 It's called the sip.

00:03:44.140 I don't know if the sip is over.

00:03:45.820 Was it over?

00:03:47.680 Okay.

00:03:48.280 So we're going to sip again

00:03:49.400 because my rumble for me

00:03:53.460 was playing like one second at a time

00:03:56.300 and then freezing.

00:03:57.860 So let's try it again, you guys.

00:04:01.120 Rumbled.

00:04:01.840 Like please, I have lots of clips today. 0.81

00:04:04.740 Let's do it.

00:04:06.560 You know what I even have?

00:04:08.620 Oh, I don't trust it. I have a spare sip.

00:04:12.800 All right, let's try the Friday sip again. All right, you guys, let's do it. Ready? Here we go.

00:04:18.020 It's time again for the best part of your day. Yeah. And every time I say it, it's true.

00:04:25.980 And in order to enjoy the best part of the day in the best possible way, all you need is a

00:04:31.340 A cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chels or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask.

00:04:35.500 A vessel of any kind.

00:04:38.120 You fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:04:39.600 I like coffee.

00:04:42.320 And join me now for the dopamine here today, the unparalleled pleasure.

00:04:47.540 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.

00:04:49.980 And it happens now.

00:04:51.820 Go.

00:04:56.040 Ooh, sip-tastic.

00:04:59.440 Sip-alacious.

00:05:01.340 sip credible that's how good it was is it over yeah okay i i've got nothing on my end this is

00:05:10.760 going to be a fun fun show come back for yeah let's see so you guys we have all the clips you

00:05:17.940 know yes they're going to be important for me to hear so uh first i want to give a a calm and easy

00:05:27.500 shout out you guys to my mom who's watching from a hospital bed this morning. She tripped yesterday

00:05:36.220 and fell and broke her hip and she's having surgery this afternoon and I feel so bad. She's

00:05:44.800 in so much pain, although she's on some good meds right now, but she's waiting to find out what time

00:05:49.720 her surgery is today. But I talked to her this morning and she's like, I'm going to watch you

00:05:53.820 live. You know, I have my iPad here. So everyone send a shout out to my mom. Let's like send her

00:06:01.420 good vibes for the surgery. She's, you know, worried, but we had a good pep talk this morning

00:06:06.560 about thinking positive, focusing on the outcome and that she's strong and she can rehab herself

00:06:13.680 and she'll be out of pain once the surgery is over. Thanks you guys. Mom, the locals,

00:06:18.840 that's the chat I'm looking at right now. They're all sending you prayers. And, um, so no, but you

00:06:26.660 could call her Erica's mom. I can't give away her name. Um, but yeah, you could just call her mom

00:06:32.640 if you want. Oh, you guys are so sweet. So mom, hang in there. And I know one thing you really

00:06:37.840 want to know about is more about Ilhan Omar because it's quite amusing. And, um, and we will,

00:06:44.360 i did pull a clip for you for that so okay she will be good she will be good okay so um first

00:06:51.720 first uh marcella i hope you did well yesterday with court and oh i wish you guys would have been

00:06:59.280 there it was very fiery tell us extremely fiery so all right i almost made someone cry in real life

00:07:09.660 Oh, you go girl. Um, thanks to you guys. Thanks for all the stuff from my, all the wishes for you

00:07:18.200 for my mom. Um, okay. So here I didn't get to play so many clips yesterday, so I'm kind of

00:07:25.240 throwing in the debris today. So I'm going to call this kind of like, you know, we have Scott's

00:07:29.240 debris. There's a lot of debris and a lot of clips. And I also have a fun, um, interview that

00:07:35.320 Scott did that we're going to watch. And that's, oh, and that's why I have this thumbnail for you

00:07:40.680 today. Let me show it. So we look a little bit retro. Look at Scott. And we're like in an old

00:07:48.640 office and we've got the Dilbert characters around us. So that has to do with today.

00:07:55.080 Ooh, foreshadowing. Okay. But first my fun clip, because I missed doing them. This is,

00:08:02.620 Now, the Japanese culture, they are so big on costumes.

00:08:07.160 My friends and I love watching the costumes they do for whatever they're doing.

00:08:12.840 This is a Japanese show that was like a costume contest show, which is kind of fun to think

00:08:18.660 about it.

00:08:19.440 I don't think I'm going to play the whole thing, but I just want to give you a sampling

00:08:22.660 because Halloween is coming, and so you guys might need ideas.

00:08:26.700 So if you're going with a group, here are some ideas for you.

00:08:32.620 Oh

00:08:59.540 They get really into it

00:09:02.620 Look at this one, like a mirror.

00:09:23.860 Look up top, those are people up top with their arms swinging.

00:09:27.820 Isn't that crazy?

00:09:32.340 is the best. It makes it look easy. That's a good one. Yeah. Oh my lord.

00:10:02.340 look at this guy

00:10:09.800 all right so that's that's good enough but anyway i love it i think they're very crafty

00:10:20.480 and cool and i just thought we need some halloween ideas and for me this is what i'm

00:10:26.620 dressing for a costume party and this will be me and if you people don't go as jamie west i will

00:10:37.660 be so disappointed because that is a perfect halloween costume ah okay you need to buy that

00:10:43.260 t-shirt i'm with lawyer whatever it says yeah for sure and like whatever her cardigan and like the 1.00

00:10:49.500 little Alyssa Slocken pulled back Bob. Love her. I'm going to be a lot of Ilhan Omar's. I don't

00:10:56.320 know, Beverly. I think people are going to get in trouble if they dress like Ilhan Omar, but try 0.99

00:11:00.800 Jamie West. If you, um, if you have friends who watch the news and maybe they're on X, that would

00:11:07.780 be hysterical. Okay. So let's kick it off here. Um, so some of my debris, one clip I wanted to

00:11:17.000 get to, um, a while ago was this clip of Kid Rock and I like him a lot and he's pretty sensible

00:11:25.060 and he, you guys, you know, he's a Michigan guy. And so with the midterms going on, um,

00:11:32.080 with El Syed in Michigan, you know, I mean, I know a lot of us are looking around like who are

00:11:37.980 these candidates and what's happening, but I can only imagine like someone whose identity is so

00:11:43.180 held within Michigan and then seeing Michigan and what's going on there. So this was, this was him

00:11:49.460 talking to, uh, Laura Trump, I think about a week ago. Well, number one, I was born in Dearborn,

00:11:55.720 Michigan. So was my father raised there. My grandfather raised him there. And as we know,

00:12:01.040 I don't know if people understand how it got to be one of the biggest Arab populations outside of

00:12:05.180 the Middle East in the world. I call it more of a, uh, uh, religious ideology. I know there's 0.98

00:12:11.140 extremists, and there's milder versions of it. I don't want to see my grandkids one day have to

00:12:15.960 fight some civil war over religious ideology. This is scary. I think Al Saeed's a wolf in sheep's

00:12:22.400 clothing. What's at stake? Oh, my gosh. I mean, do you want your children to be under the arm of

00:12:30.800 teachers' unions? Or would you like them to go to school to learn the basics and to be taught,

00:12:35.720 you know, about the men and women who fought and died for this country? Or do you want them to go

00:12:40.440 to school and learn about gender identity it's pretty simple you know until this point in

00:12:45.560 politics and going back several years i never felt democrats didn't scare me it's like okay we think

00:12:51.720 differently you're big government i'm small government you know all those things i never

00:12:57.160 thought any of them genuinely hated our country now i look around and i go wait these people hate

00:13:03.880 our country um i was just looking at some of your comments like boo dog said you can't leave a cult 0.69

00:13:12.240 k suz or suz k suzy are do you live in michigan and yeah you know michigan needs rogers to win

00:13:20.000 so i don't know marcella it's just i think that he speaks for a lot of americans um right now

00:13:27.440 and their their worry for their children and the future of the country what do you think

00:13:33.880 um in regards to um el saeed or in regards to everything kid rock with and what he's saying

00:13:43.200 about michigan dearborn being the largest uh you know arab community now outside you know in the

00:13:50.060 united states yeah the unfortunate part of all of that is that there's the identity like voting 0.79

00:13:58.140 where you vote only for your own people, like, oh, I'm Arab, therefore I need to vote for Abdullah

00:14:05.300 Said because I'm going to be ostracized from my community. As a Latin American immigrant born

00:14:18.280 somewhere else, came here, I get that feeling where people are like, why aren't you a Democrat?

00:14:23.500 why aren't you voting for Javier Becerra what so it's very hard to be an outlier and actually not

00:14:30.460 vote for the people not vote just because based on race so I think it's racist what is happening

00:14:36.940 in Michigan and why he's being backed by everybody I don't care what color you are what race you are

00:14:45.500 I care about the policies you're going to enact when elected. And Abdullah Saeed does not have,

00:14:56.700 one, the maturity to be there as a senator, and two, his policies are communist, socialist,

00:15:05.600 and I disagree with him. So to me, the failure of this identity politics is that people feel

00:15:13.660 compelled that if they're Arab or they're Arab American they have to vote for him and that's sad

00:15:20.460 unfortunately that's that's the name of the game in identity politics but I disagree with it but 0.58

00:15:28.020 the reason why it keeps happening is because the media keeps helping people keep in these like

00:15:39.000 boxes like we you've showed on scott before where he's like you know the circles where you have

00:15:44.840 race and then you have identity and then you have all these things we're all individuals

00:15:50.440 and we should vote as individuals not based on the party like well yeah we cover the

00:15:56.920 the bushes you know they're gop but are they really the same as trump so we're not we have to

00:16:03.880 vote for the policies that are going to be brought into michigan unfortunately for kid rock and for

00:16:11.000 other people in michigan the identity politics will destroy them yeah yeah yeah they they will

00:16:19.720 and a lot of other places in america and um it's frustrating and also i think a lot of democrats i

00:16:27.960 I think Democrats more often just vote Democrat also, which we're seeing because it's like,

00:16:34.620 I keep saying, you can't believe what you believed 15 years ago and still go along with

00:16:40.000 what's happening now. So a lot of times identity politics are wrapped up, I think primarily with

00:16:46.760 the Democrats. So it is, it's sad. I don't feel like they're thinking about what's best for

00:16:52.840 Michigan and for America, you know, if your population is overwhelmingly Arab, let's say, 1.00

00:17:00.280 as Kid Rock said, then yeah, unfortunately, just like when they say like, oh, all the black people 0.96

00:17:06.080 should vote for Obama. They should all vote for Kamala. I mean, Obama had the nerve to come out 0.99

00:17:10.760 and tell black people to vote for Kamala because she's black. And I was like, dude, what are you 0.91

00:17:15.640 doing? Like, that is so racist and so wrong. So not that she was the best candidate, but she's

00:17:22.360 black so yeah that's a problem so well said marcella um i think actually identity politics 0.70

00:17:29.720 kind of is is going to destroy michigan but it may save michigan yeah how come because

00:17:36.360 the african-american vote is might vote against him because he's not african-american and they

00:17:42.600 remember racism against them by the community the arab community they're just different countries

00:17:50.440 that's why i can't say you know palestinian or whatever it is but they remember all these things

00:17:56.120 that they have dealt with not that you should put it on abdul el-sayed because he hasn't done

00:18:01.880 anything to them personally but i think the identity politics in a way it has um what is

00:18:07.960 that called the uh there's two sides to it there's two swords on both sides like you can it it will

00:18:15.880 help there you go my gosh i forgot um so that's what helps el sayed come up and become dei or

00:18:25.960 whatever you want to call it and then that's what also will bring him down if and i think the

00:18:32.520 african-american community will possibly see through it and vote against him yeah or not show

00:18:39.640 up i agree um okay so let's see so i was looking at this um campaign election thing happening in

00:18:50.440 mogadishu and um i was just like you know because again yeah no i know well in somalia

00:18:58.520 yeah let me just show you what happens there okay

00:19:09.640 just kidding that was minnesota that's an actual campaign happening right now in minnesota america

00:19:29.720 so uh yeah that's um you know so when you know walter and i completely disagree on you know

00:19:37.320 know, what's happening in the country with like, uh, you know, I call it like a takeover from, 0.68

00:19:41.640 uh, Islam and he doesn't see it, but I'm just like, well, all right. So we just had kid rock 1.00

00:19:47.020 and talking about Dearborn. This was Minnesota. I mean, this is what, this is not a problem.

00:19:52.800 I think it's a problem. Um, so I'm going to move along from that. Cause again, I do have so many

00:19:59.220 clips. And so I want to do this one for my mom because I just want to stay on the theme. So this

00:20:05.640 is a, is it an Ilhan Omar update or could her name be something else? I'm not sure,

00:20:12.940 but let's take a listen. Her real name is Ilhan Nur Saeed Elmi. You had it absolutely right.

00:20:20.920 Her sister is Sahra Nur Saeed Elmi. And her sister actually wrote a book

00:20:28.720 and talked about the fact that Ilhan is her sister.

00:20:34.520 So that is her name.

00:20:37.780 But Omar's office is denying it,

00:20:40.540 with a spokesperson saying this, quote,

00:20:42.880 This is completely false.

00:20:44.260 Ilhan Omar is her real name.

00:20:47.140 Pirro also responding to Omar's claim that

00:20:49.080 the feds took her DNA during the raid on her home last week.

00:20:53.220 Watch this.

00:20:54.800 I'm not going to answer that, Jesse.

00:20:56.680 You know I'm not.

00:20:57.760 but I can tell you something, if the feds want your DNA, they don't have to go into your house

00:21:03.880 to get it. There are many ways to get an individual's DNA, and I would imagine that

00:21:09.200 most people in the audience know that as well. Getting DNA doesn't necessarily mean you have

00:21:14.660 to show up and get some kind of a swab, a buckle swab, as we call them. There are many ways to

00:21:22.200 TO GET THEM.

00:21:24.200 PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ALSO WEIGHING

00:21:26.200 IN, CALLING INTO QUESTION OMAR'S

00:21:28.200 RESPONSE WHEN ASKED ABOUT WHETHER

00:21:30.200 SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER IN 2009

00:21:32.200 TO COMMIT IMMIGRATION FRAUD AND

00:21:34.200 HELP HIM OBTAIN U.S. LEGAL 0.56

00:21:36.200 STATUS.

00:21:37.200 WHEN ASKED WHETHER OR NOT SHE

00:21:40.200 MARRIED HER BROTHER, SHE SAID,

00:21:42.200 NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE.

00:21:44.200 YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD SOME BAD

00:21:46.200 POLITICAL ANSWERS.

00:21:47.200 I COULD GO OVER A LOT OF THEM,

00:21:49.200 BUT THAT WOULD BE ABOUT THE

00:21:51.200 don't think so. Did you have children with your brother? I'm not sure.

00:21:57.640 The congresswoman's team saying this in response, quote, Representative Omar has repeatedly and

00:22:03.420 unequivocally denied this baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory. She denied it again and now

00:22:08.320 on MSNOW. And when pressed yet again, responded sarcastically. So President Trump is also calling

00:22:14.020 for omar to resign guys back i'm gonna take it even further okay let's maybe the marriage was

00:22:23.720 confusing but marcella have you ever dated someone and then realized like a few dates

00:22:31.760 and you're like oh my god i think you're my brother

00:22:35.000 not at all okay like and i wouldn't be like not to my knowledge right but like you wouldn't need

00:22:44.360 to get married like you'd know before the marriage yes i would know yes you'd be like oh tell me about

00:22:51.540 your family let's get to know each other and like why don't you come over for thanksgiving and then

00:22:56.300 you'd be like dad like why are we at the same house you know there'd be signs so it's interesting

00:23:03.020 that she got that far so marcella what do we know anything more this morning on ilhan whatever her

00:23:11.180 name is omar and maybe not i could tell you as a lawyer that questions people for a living for

00:23:19.340 depositions and in trial is that when she answered not to my knowledge one i think it was an attorney

00:23:27.180 answer they gave her to when and we learned also this from scott if you have to deny something

00:23:35.500 you deny it but if you're hiding something you don't obviously say no you obfuscate or you give

00:23:43.740 this kind of answer that doesn't go to the point because she could have easily that would have been

00:23:49.340 that's an easy answer no like what are you insane is my answer like did i marry my brother are you

00:23:58.780 on crack like that's my kind of an answer because like why would i marry my brother yeah yeah like 0.83

00:24:05.260 so to me is um and allegedly this brother um is fabulous he is he might be liking men a little 0.69

00:24:15.180 bit more than women he is so so that that's also another thing did you marry your gay brother

00:24:22.540 um because that would be very interesting um but at the end of the day um

00:24:29.740 i'm gonna go back to we're not certain whether she's a citizen right we're not certain whether

00:24:38.460 she married her own brother. Right. We're not certain of her name. Right. We're not certain 0.83

00:24:45.640 where she is now because she said that she was that's the new thing that she was going to sell

00:24:50.260 her home in D.C. because she felt like, oh, you know, I don't know. She just used a fake because 0.99

00:24:56.040 to sell it. I want to know whether her passport has been taken away because I think she could

00:25:03.840 run away you know it has her her personal passport's been taken away but i guess she has like

00:25:10.320 her congressional passport maybe um but yeah they took her passport and her phone um and i think

00:25:17.080 something else uh i don't know what it would be but yeah they took it okay yeah so it's like how

00:25:25.380 How can you have, I mean, I was listening to PBD yesterday with E.B. Pompo, well, anyways,

00:25:35.240 it's really hard to pronounce her last name, Pomperera, or anyways, E.B. And she was talking

00:25:41.860 about how much betting in order to be in the secret service you have to do. They go back to

00:25:47.520 your high school and they go back to your like university. They literally go visit your university.

00:25:53.240 they look at your credit history they look at this and that and the other talk to your mom talk to

00:25:58.840 your dad do all these things but that type of vetting that doesn't happen with congress no like

00:26:05.720 not at all so it's it's crazy that we have a secret service that's vetted to the in the the

00:26:13.960 highest degree where which is i'm glad but at the same time you have congress where we don't know

00:26:19.960 her name right this is george you guys george cat stanza and george feels very strongly he's never

00:26:26.260 come on the show until today he feels very strongly about this he feels very strongly about

00:26:31.720 the stash of stella's food i have to keep on the desk because she won't stop meowing and he wants

00:26:37.120 her food i don't want him to have her food i want him to have his food it's a whole thing but i

00:26:42.120 digress the show goes on and i am with you marcella this woman i cannot wait to like see into the

00:26:48.920 future and what's gonna happen every day it's like the as ilhan turns and i'm excited oh i i

00:26:57.240 just hope it goes the way we want oh and you guys wait wait little intermezzo cover your ears

00:27:04.320 oh that's like lori i love splashy dog that's how i swim

00:27:15.200 it looks like it feels so good i played that the other day and um when i went back and looked at

00:27:24.820 the comments you guys were like i love that dog and i'm like oh well i'll play him again

00:27:28.720 um okay so let's uh do a little not quite a pivot but i want to just move on because

00:27:34.940 you know one country that i think all of us in our head were like all right if i had to go

00:27:41.540 somewhere. If I had to flee, I'm like, all right, Poland, I'm not in love with your food, but I do

00:27:48.260 like your policies. I like your laws. So here I come. So Piers Morgan was talking to, I'm going 0.98

00:27:56.320 to botch his name. Dominik Taczynski is the best I can do. And he's a member of parliament in Poland.

00:28:05.300 And I just love, like, I love the Polish leaders are so adamant and decisive.

00:28:11.560 Like, well, you know, will you open your borders?

00:28:14.260 No. 1.00

00:28:14.700 Will you let Muslims here? 1.00

00:28:16.000 No. 1.00

00:28:16.620 Like, it's just like, no, we're a country with certain rules and certain principles.

00:28:20.580 And the answer is no.

00:28:22.220 So, uh, and, and peers, you know, he's like this like bleeding heart liberal and he tries

00:28:28.940 to find balance, but he, he can't, he swings so hard, but I guarantee you soon.

00:28:35.280 He's going to come around to my thinking because, you know, the UK is shot out.

00:28:40.780 But let's look at this exchange and then Marcella will chat about it.

00:28:44.880 I want to be clear again about your position. 0.76

00:28:46.840 You would not allow any Muslim immigrants into France, say? 1.00

00:28:51.440 You would stop all of them coming in? 0.99

00:28:52.740 No, of course not.

00:28:53.700 None?

00:28:54.320 None? 1.00

00:28:54.820 No, Islam is not compatible with the Western value. 1.00

00:28:57.400 Okay, so basically you would like all Muslims banned from every European country? 1.00

00:29:02.300 Well, I don't care about any other European country. 1.00

00:29:04.260 I don't want them in Poland. 1.00

00:29:05.280 They are not capable with our bodies. 1.00

00:29:06.640 But what about France? What about France or England?

00:29:09.040 France is done. France has fallen. It's done. It's too late.

00:29:12.240 You think England's fallen?

00:29:13.840 Yes.

00:29:14.480 Really? What do you base it on? Because you lived here for five years.

00:29:17.120 You were an immigrant, ironically, to my country. 1.00

00:29:19.600 And I paid my taxes and I didn't burn any mosque or any church. 0.99

00:29:22.080 I have no problem with you having been here.

00:29:24.000 But what do you base the fact on my country having fallen on? 0.99

00:29:27.200 Because I live here and that's complete bullshit. 0.99

00:29:30.080 I feel sorry for you. 0.99

00:29:31.200 Why? I have a perfectly nice life, thank you.

00:29:33.680 Well, yes, you're doing good with your finances, but most of the people are not doing good.

00:29:40.460 Many people are arrested for praying on the streets.

00:29:42.960 People are arrested for posts on Facebook.

00:29:45.440 And this communist stormer, who I sued, obviously, will pay for his actions.

00:29:51.060 It's a communist.

00:29:52.280 It's a communist system.

00:29:53.500 As you know, I was traveling on my diplomatic passport and I was banned from entering this country to give a speech.

00:30:00.060 So if there is no freedom of speech, if people are arrested for praying on the streets in their mind, if people are, you know, arrested for...

00:30:09.540 You spoke at the Unite the Kingdom rally in London in September 25, organised by Tommy Robinson.

00:30:15.360 Correct.

00:30:15.760 You let us send them back chant regarding illegal immigration.

00:30:19.780 What do you think about Tommy Robinson?

00:30:21.640 Are you a fan of his?

00:30:23.000 He's my friend.

00:30:23.940 Is he?

00:30:24.360 He's a good man.

00:30:25.420 He's not a pope.

00:30:26.520 He's not a saint.

00:30:27.740 He's a normal man with his history of life.

00:30:30.520 For what is he doing for the identity of this nation?

00:30:33.600 I love him.

00:30:34.260 He's my friend.

00:30:35.220 And I think he's a great man.

00:30:36.500 And just to be clear, if you were a British politician,

00:30:39.720 you'd be calling for all Muslims to be banned? 1.00

00:30:42.200 Yes. 1.00

00:30:42.800 OK.

00:30:43.480 And the same in France?

00:30:45.340 Yes.

00:30:45.820 And the same in Germany? 1.00

00:30:47.340 Well, until Europeans, until Christians will not be able 0.95

00:30:52.260 to build churches and cathedrals in Qatar, 1.00

00:30:54.520 there should not be any mosques in europe okay so you basically ban all the muslims yes 0.99

00:31:01.880 i mean pretty black and white beverly i saw your comment yeah of course he switched switches 0.96

00:31:10.140 topics because he's trying to say oh well if you like tommy robinson then there's something wrong

00:31:14.820 with you sorry not sorry tommy robinson is fighting harder than anybody to expose and

00:31:23.000 eradicate pedophiles so sorry peers but you're gonna have to get over your tommy robinson bias

00:31:29.000 the guy does more good than peers could ever do so i i just love that um steadfast you know like

00:31:38.760 this is just how i think this is what our country believes in and they don't waver marcella

00:31:46.840 for me i find it refreshing i would love to hear answers like that in more countries

00:31:51.480 well it pierce morgan his questioning of dominic and i won't go and butcher his last name um

00:32:01.080 i think it was it was false uh red herrings that he was talking about because

00:32:08.360 you don't actually as a country you get to choose who comes into your country

00:32:13.000 it doesn't matter that there's no destruction of the country of england or france and therefore

00:32:21.260 you shouldn't be able to ban people from coming in no if dominic is voted in if he wins prime

00:32:28.540 minister whatever it is that they do in poland which i do love pierogies but whatever they do

00:32:35.660 if they want to keep their country from any immigration from anybody from and they want to

00:32:41.820 be specific of who they want to immigrate they have that right like i don't have to prove to

00:32:48.220 pierce morgan that a certain type of people is destroying you no you don't have to prove anything

00:32:55.580 you do what you need to do with your country and you figure out your things you have issues

00:33:01.340 the the issue my issue with all of pierce morgan with everybody else is that immigration is one

00:33:09.020 thing this is the immigration they make this an immigration issue it's not an immigration issue

00:33:16.140 because it's astronomically the amount of people that come in. 0.99

00:33:20.940 It's an invasion. 0.91

00:33:23.540 Immigration was back in the 80s, I think.

00:33:26.580 That's when it stopped. 1.00

00:33:27.780 And then the early 90s, then it became an invasion of different people. 0.98

00:33:32.580 When you as a country and as a people of a certain language, 0.68

00:33:37.260 a certain culture, a certain set of, you know,

00:33:42.400 rules and and and everything else,

00:33:46.140 that stays pristine, right? That's what makes that country function. However, if you have

00:33:53.640 millions upon millions of people from different areas coming into that country and tearing apart 0.98

00:34:00.900 and unraveling that country, that's very different than immigration. That's a complete 1.00

00:34:05.720 destruction of that system. So for peers to not see it, for everybody else, I think they

00:34:14.580 fall to the idea that the the idea of and I understand in a way Pierce because he falls

00:34:22.200 into that idea where you know you want to defend people that want to immigrate you want to defend

00:34:27.800 people that want to run away from tyranny all of us aren't evil you know we want to help them we

00:34:34.540 want to do this that and the other but within a certain degree and the fact is the invasion which

00:34:41.960 is not an immigration, is destroying the fabric of that specific country. China, for one, is a 0.76

00:34:48.440 country that there is no immigration there. They don't even let you be a Chinese attorney unless

00:34:56.020 you're Chinese. They don't even let you be able to become a citizen at all if you don't have 0.90

00:35:10.020 Chinese blood. From my understanding of it, I could be wrong. But the idea is that nobody calls

00:35:17.040 out China for doing that. Piers Morgan doesn't call out China because they don't have to.

00:35:24.160 The idea is Europe must give itself up. The U.S. must give itself up. Every other country must

00:35:31.780 watched their own destruction. No, no peers. We are not there to help our destroyers destroy us.

00:35:41.160 That's like for him to confuse this as an issue of immigration or an issue of religious

00:35:47.640 individual rights or religious freedom. It's not. It's an invasion and it's destroying the system

00:35:55.240 that kept these countries going. 1.00

00:35:58.580 And Poland, if you ever have Polish friends, 0.73

00:36:01.680 become friends with them.

00:36:02.860 They are amazing.

00:36:04.520 They're very straight to the point, yes or no.

00:36:08.940 There's nothing about it.

00:36:10.560 They might feel bad for people that are in Somalia,

00:36:14.460 in Iraq, in Iran, wherever they are,

00:36:18.980 they feel bad for them, but not in their country.

00:36:22.240 They have no reason to sacrifice for them.

00:36:25.240 she's

00:36:29.260 you're mute

00:36:32.000 I was saying how wonderful that was I totally agree with that um you guys we have so much

00:36:39.520 more news sorry I got out like my little box but it's just crazy and I am an immigrant and I could

00:36:48.320 tell peers like I understand what he's trying to say but at the same time he doesn't see it and it

00:36:53.440 just could well how he cannot see what's happening in the uk is beyond just like how i felt yesterday

00:36:59.980 that walter can't see what's happening here and i'm just like okay maybe where you are in vegas

00:37:05.220 isn't that way but you've got to you know look around and i don't know i mean the the country's

00:37:12.160 changing at rapid pace and um you know and then before you know it you're overtaken by

00:37:18.920 something else your constitution's out the window and you're like oh why didn't anyone tell me this

00:37:24.600 was happening and it's like because you buried your oh i was gonna start cursing your head in

00:37:28.540 the sand so you know i i don't care i don't care i i i'm over it so what i was gonna say is the

00:37:36.520 reason my father um i lost him when i was very little but he he was so good at perceiving the

00:37:47.440 future. He said, Marcella, we're, unfortunately, it cost him his life. But he said, Marcella,

00:37:53.420 you know, not to me, but my mom, we're not moving to the US. We don't want to be part of an invasion

00:37:58.980 because what's happening to the United States is an invasion of immigration. And that was in the 0.99

00:38:05.300 1990s. So I can still, I have goosebumps. I can still remember my father saying that. And he was

00:38:13.180 so right. And even then in the 90s, nobody knew. Nobody knew. And now it's still going on and

00:38:21.940 people don't know. Yeah. I know. They don't want to know. They don't want to hear it. I don't know

00:38:27.720 why. Why? Why can't you understand? Why can't you hear this and understand it and know that you're

00:38:33.100 not racist for recognizing what's happening to your country? It's not racist. It's about

00:38:40.800 sovereignty and protecting your homeland. I don't know. It's very strange to me.

00:38:48.240 Somebody else was just talking about that too. It was such a great clip. I don't think I pulled it,

00:38:52.440 but all right. So I want to get to Scott. I love this interview and I mean, we need to close the

00:38:58.580 week with some Scott. So let's just kick back. I think this is about 14 minutes. So this is from

00:39:07.360 1999. This is Scott being interviewed by Charlie Rose. And I believe this is when the Dilbert

00:39:14.600 principle came out. So for all of the Dilbert fans out there, by the way, the links for the calendar

00:39:21.200 are in the show notes. And mom, I'm going to send you one today because she said she wants one.

00:39:26.880 So I'll send you one today. But please scoop those up. And that's the official link. There are

00:39:33.120 um, dupes out there, people that are trying to, you know, make fake ones. So don't be fooled

00:39:39.000 people. Um, but let's take a look at this, uh, interview. It's so good. And it's like the hair

00:39:45.320 and the, oh, I love it. Okay. Enjoy it. Cartoonist Scott Adams is here for 10 years.

00:39:51.980 Dilbert, his cartoon creation has offered a sardonic look at contemporary corporate culture

00:39:56.580 and the plight of the modern day office worker. It has become the fastest growing comic strip

00:40:01.620 in syndication, appearing in more than 1,900 newspapers

00:40:05.080 with a worldwide readership of about 150 million.

00:40:08.900 With its success, the Dilbert phenomenon

00:40:10.640 has transcended the comic page.

00:40:12.540 In the past three years, the cartoon has spanned

00:40:14.580 a vast empire, which includes best-selling books,

00:40:17.660 an internet site, and over 700 Dilbert-inspired products.

00:40:21.460 In January, the animated television series Dilbert

00:40:23.940 debuted on UPN, and here is a clip from the series.

00:40:31.620 mom mom in here dear push a little harder get your shoulder into it mom what are you doing

00:40:48.820 stockpiling stockpiling why where have you been haven't you heard about y2k heard of it

00:40:57.060 I'm in charge of fixing the bug for my whole company.

00:41:00.020 You are.

00:41:01.320 God help them.

00:41:02.520 Thanks, Mom. 0.98

00:41:03.380 Maybe you should start hoarding essential supplies before it's too late. 0.99

00:41:08.240 Why are you hoarding hair conditioner?

00:41:10.700 I had a coupon.

00:41:12.460 Mom, it would be a lot easier to talk to you if I could see you.

00:41:15.760 I'm not here.

00:41:16.700 I'm at the warehouse shopping club with a moving van.

00:41:20.860 Am I so predictable you can record your side of the conversation in advance?

00:41:24.820 Yes, you are so predictable, I can record my side of the conversation in advance.

00:41:36.060 Put it back.

00:41:38.740 I am pleased to have Scott Adams join us now for a conversation about his guy Dilbert.

00:41:43.360 Welcome to the broadcast.

00:41:44.720 Thanks for having me.

00:41:46.360 Charles Schultz was on this program once, and he said that he thinks that along with jazz,

00:41:50.180 comic strips are the one pure American art form.

00:41:55.180 Do you agree?

00:41:56.180 Yeah, I think so.

00:41:58.180 You know, the best cartoonists are probably coming out of the United States.

00:42:04.180 I think we kind of own this art form, so I'll go with that.

00:42:06.180 Yeah.

00:42:07.180 Is that most of the best come out of the United States?

00:42:09.180 Is that not, I mean, how prevalent are cartoons around the world?

00:42:13.180 Well, they're everywhere.

00:42:14.180 That didn't originate here. 0.99

00:42:15.180 I say that ours are the best because I can't read those other languages, so they don't

00:42:19.180 do much for me.

00:42:20.180 need to read them to sort of get the sense of them? Well, some of them, it helps, yeah.

00:42:23.980 How did it come about for you? Well, for me, it was the shortest version of the story is that I was

00:42:30.340 working at Pacific Bell in my little cubicle, and one day I bought a book on how to become a

00:42:36.500 cartoonist. I'd always been a doodler, and I read the directions in the book, and it tells you how

00:42:41.920 to send off your cartoons to various syndication companies, and I sent off my little photocopies

00:42:47.660 to half a dozen companies, and United Media called me and said,

00:42:52.080 how would you like to be a syndicated cartoonist?

00:42:54.500 That simple.

00:42:55.260 Yeah, I said, I would like that.

00:42:56.700 How long had you thought about it?

00:42:58.780 Since I was six years old, probably.

00:43:02.120 Literally, I think I learned to read by looking at Peanuts books,

00:43:06.620 and I thought, you know, this looks like a much better job

00:43:09.120 than, you know, my uncle who's a farmer.

00:43:11.240 I mean, that looks like hard work, just drawing pictures.

00:43:13.680 Good job.

00:43:14.420 And how much of Dilbert is you?

00:43:16.160 I've estimated that at least a third of Dilbert is me.

00:43:20.640 I've got the same glasses, had that same cubicle job, I've had his luck.

00:43:27.040 But he's also a composite of people I've worked with.

00:43:29.100 Schultz, I think, said that Charlie Brown was 60% him and 40% of his imagination.

00:43:35.420 So you're saying it's 33% of you, a composite of other people, and then maybe a third.

00:43:41.560 Yeah, I'd say he's about 70% of people that I've known directly.

00:43:46.040 about it that a third me personally the the notion of Dilbert how do you explain this phenomenon

00:43:54.040 well it's one of those things that seems really obvious after you do it yeah but here were i don't

00:43:59.560 know 45 million people in the united states alone who were in cubicles and they had no no voice they

00:44:05.400 had all this common experience but they had no way to express it and so when i started doing

00:44:10.680 cartoons originally i wasn't really focusing on his office life but after i started running my

00:44:15.640 email and people said, we like that office stuff you keep doing, I started doing more of it. It was

00:44:20.440 just kind of an obvious thing to do. And people said, you know, you're talking for us. So it became

00:44:26.100 huge, kind of accidentally. Does the television series enhance the cartoon or does it change

00:44:33.060 anything? It's really a different form. I've likened drawing a cartoon strip to, it's like

00:44:40.380 sticking your finger in moist soil and planting a little seed and maybe a little plant comes up.

00:44:45.640 Whereas the TV show is kind of like bulldozing a rainforest.

00:44:49.020 You know, it's just a whole different thing.

00:44:51.040 It's bigger, it's louder, there's sound, there's, you know, lots of movement.

00:44:54.660 They've got mouths on TV.

00:44:56.500 There are no mouths in the comic strip.

00:44:58.300 It's very different.

00:44:59.820 And the purists, do they say, did you get any percentage of the people who loved Dilbert saying,

00:45:07.860 you know, I don't like the television series, I like the cartoon, because...

00:45:12.860 Yeah, you hear from them first.

00:45:14.840 They weigh in first. The angry people are always the ones who are most motivated.

00:45:19.840 You're ruining a good thing, Mr. Adams.

00:45:21.840 Well, usually you've got people who said,

00:45:23.840 he didn't have a mouth in the cartoon strip, and he should not have a mouth.

00:45:27.840 You know, they were used to the way they liked it.

00:45:29.840 But overwhelmingly, the response has been positive.

00:45:33.840 And the website, you get, what, four million hits a week?

00:45:37.840 It's a lot. I think we make up that number.

00:45:39.840 Some big number, whatever number you are.

00:45:41.840 And what does that say? What do you get on the Internet?

00:45:43.840 Well, the internet was how we really managed to get into a lot of newspapers.

00:45:48.460 We kind of, it's really reversed logic.

00:45:51.320 You would think that the internet would kind of kill your newspaper business, but it allowed

00:45:56.600 us to be known in places before it ran in the newspaper, and then the newspaper would

00:46:00.940 pick it up because it already had a base.

00:46:04.020 Let me just talk about Dilbert and his principles, which make such sense to most people who live

00:46:08.340 in a corporate environment or in a bureaucratic environment, too.

00:46:10.960 One of the principles is that the least competent people get promoted to management positions where they can do the least damage.

00:46:21.960 Yeah, that's the Dilbert principle in a nutshell.

00:46:24.960 And it kind of makes sense because, you know, if you go to the hospital, you want to be operated on by the smartest surgeon.

00:46:30.960 So you want the smart people to be doing the work, writing your computer programs, doing your surgery.

00:46:37.960 And you want the guy who's running the staff meeting and deciding whether or not you can afford the donuts.

00:46:44.300 I mean, you want that guy to be in management.

00:46:46.700 So it actually makes sense in a strange kind of way.

00:46:50.560 Give me some other difficult principles that you think have made a difference and have caught the fancy of your fans.

00:46:57.700 Well, really, the thing about bosses that drives people wild is that a boss is the only

00:47:03.700 person who can, first of all, ruin whatever you're working on, can ruin your project for

00:47:08.480 you, can blame you for it, and then thirdly, can punish you for screwing up.

00:47:15.140 So nobody else in your life can do that to you.

00:47:17.560 So that's the worst thing.

00:47:18.880 But my favorite stories are where they have their motivational message doesn't quite match

00:47:24.880 their intent.

00:47:25.500 For example, one company was measuring the morale of their employees and used that as one of the basis for the bonuses.

00:47:36.460 And when the morale wasn't high enough, they decided to withhold the bonus until morale went up.

00:47:42.020 I mean, you know, it made sense on some level, I'm sure.

00:47:44.860 How important was you when this book became number one?

00:47:48.280 It was huge.

00:47:49.420 You know, I've got to tell you, when it hit number two, for a long time it was right behind Dennis Rodman's book.

00:47:54.200 I was just stuck there for week after week, and I would open the paper, and I was actually

00:47:59.600 convincing myself that being number two on the bestseller list was great.

00:48:04.420 You know, that was fine.

00:48:05.220 It was as good as you could get.

00:48:06.780 And when it finally popped and went to number one, I found out how entirely wrong I had

00:48:11.260 been.

00:48:11.520 I'd been fooling myself.

00:48:13.520 Number one is much better.

00:48:14.760 But what are other big moments in your life in terms of your life with Dilbert?

00:48:18.960 I would say probably the biggest moment is when United Media called and said,

00:48:25.420 we got your submission package.

00:48:27.660 That's a big moment.

00:48:28.560 And said, we'd like you to be a cartoonist.

00:48:30.500 And I never even had a job as a cartoonist before, and suddenly I was in business.

00:48:34.700 You were how old at that time?

00:48:36.740 I was about 30.

00:48:39.160 I mean, could you have done this at 21?

00:48:41.680 No, I don't think so, no, because you're always drawing from your experience.

00:48:45.640 and I guess I would have had to do a cartoon about drinking beer

00:48:50.260 and being in college or whatever I was doing at 21.

00:48:53.560 The name Dilbert.

00:48:55.880 Dilbert was named actually by a co-worker at Pacific Bell.

00:48:59.880 Originally he was a doodle that I would always do at work

00:49:02.540 and he didn't have a name and people kept asking me

00:49:05.040 so I actually had a contest and people submitted names

00:49:08.660 and when my boss at the time, Mike Goodwin, came in and said,

00:49:14.120 you know, I think his name should be Dilbert. That was it.

00:49:17.500 It hit you right away.

00:49:18.620 Well, I closed the contest. I'm sure that was his name. It wasn't like I was assigning a name.

00:49:23.080 It was like that was his name.

00:49:25.160 Roll tape here. This is a flashback to his youth in which Dilbert recollects the first time he realized

00:49:30.480 that he had a knack for technology and that he would become an engineer. Here it is.

00:49:44.120 we have a big problem here drop everything you're doing and solve it i'm gonna be late for work

00:49:50.520 oh this is far more important than your career you always say that well this time it's true

00:49:55.780 the tv's not working i've been sitting here for nearly a minute without entertainment

00:49:59.400 change the battery in the remote the one on the left the one on the left well that's just spooky

00:50:06.060 not really i have the knack the knack for technology my mom says i always have

00:50:13.080 I'm worried about little Dilbert. He's not like other kids.

00:50:18.400 What do you mean?

00:50:19.340 Yesterday, I left him alone for a minute, and he disassembled the TV, our clock, and the stereo.

00:50:26.620 That's perfectly normal. Kids take things apart.

00:50:30.080 Oh!

00:50:30.840 The part that worries me is he used the components to build a ham radio set.

00:50:36.960 Oh, dear.

00:50:39.300 Is that bad?

00:50:40.620 normally I'd want to run an EEG on him but the machine isn't working it's worse

00:50:49.980 than I feared what is it I'm afraid your son has the knack the knack the knack

00:50:58.080 it's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things

00:51:02.040 mechanical and electrical and utter social ineptitude can he lead a normal

00:51:07.860 life no he'll be an engineer there there don't blame yourself as we look at that character

00:51:18.820 who's been so embraced by corporate america why what is it that that is the essence of that bond

00:51:27.380 you know i think everything you ever saw about corporate america was kind of kind of the boss's

00:51:32.340 eye view, and he never really saw it from the employee's point of view.

00:51:37.080 So Dilbert kind of takes that, you know, I'm suffering in the cubicle point of view, so

00:51:41.080 people just relate to it.

00:51:42.080 Now there was a guy right named Norman Solomon, right, who wrote a book, what was

00:51:45.740 it called, The Troubles with Dilbert, which he said that Dilbert wasn't really the voice

00:51:50.460 of the worker.

00:51:51.460 Yes, he, it was a very interesting case where he wrote a book railing against the

00:51:57.540 capitalism that was embraced in Dilbert and that maybe Dilbert was actually harming the

00:52:05.420 workers somehow by teaching them helplessness. To which I say, maybe you should get a sense

00:52:11.640 of humor about this. It is, after all, a cartoon.

00:52:15.220 But there is this about the cartoon. You are paid silly sums of money to talk to corporate

00:52:24.540 executives and corporations around America, because they view you, the writer of a cartoon,

00:52:33.720 as a management expert.

00:52:35.060 I know, that's the great irony of this whole thing, is that if you mock something

00:52:39.560 long enough, you will be perceived as somehow having some actual knowledge, when in fact

00:52:46.400 all I am is a mocker.

00:52:48.260 I can mock anything.

00:52:49.260 I can mock medicine, but it doesn't mean I can be a doctor.

00:52:52.160 But they say, if he so skillfully makes fun of us, he must know something about us,

00:52:55.500 so therefore let's hear him, because in the end, they want to know what it is about us that's so ludicrous.

00:53:03.860 There's utility in mocking, because people find out, if I do this thing, will I be mocked to death?

00:53:09.280 My best example was, this really happened, companies would start taking out insurance companies on employees,

00:53:15.780 because a consultant told them that if they did that, and they paid the premiums for them,

00:53:20.220 but also collected when the employee died that the employee has no impact on the employee

00:53:25.660 because they're not paying for it but you could make money when the insurance policy paid off

00:53:30.060 but to the employee it's just more evidence that they're worth more dead

00:53:35.340 if you go from cartoons to books to the internet to television what comes after the internet and

00:53:43.180 television well we're working on the product called the dill burrito what's

00:53:50.860 that you may have heard of is a burrito it's a food item and it's got your 23 of

00:53:56.920 your your vitamins and minerals so if you ate it you'd have 100% of what you

00:54:01.060 needed of those 23 vitamins and minerals and it's kind of branded with

00:54:05.180 dill bur the dill burrito and so I formed a company to to create that so

00:54:10.660 I've got a virtual company that has one employee, but has a worldwide reach right now.

00:54:17.380 And I guess I get to show what I do know about management at this point.

00:54:21.600 Scott Adams, thank you very much.

00:54:23.300 Thank you.

00:54:23.620 Pleasure to have you on the broadcast.

00:54:25.620 Back in a moment.

00:54:26.520 Stay with us.

00:54:31.700 And mock he did and taught me to mock right along with him.

00:54:38.360 Did you love that?

00:54:40.180 that is the best, uh, clip. I just, young Scott, the voice before he had the spasmodic dysphonia

00:54:48.220 we were talking about in the clip. And I don't know, it's just so sweet and innocent. I don't

00:54:55.060 know what I think about it, Marcella. It's like, I don't know. It's like, we know so much about him.

00:55:01.960 So then when he talks about things, I'm thinking, what is he thinking in his head? Right? Because

00:55:07.000 he's not saying everything that he was thinking at the time and i just i love seeing him i love

00:55:14.600 seeing the little like clips from bill burr comic you know the cartoon the actual cartoon that

00:55:21.280 existed it's so beautiful it's just oh i just know i can watch it and it makes me laugh like

00:55:30.800 you can hear him writing it like he has the neck you know and he's gonna be an engineer and it's

00:55:36.740 just like that kind of thing has stayed with Scott through his whole life. You know, that whole

00:55:41.800 engineer and, you know, like nerding out and it's just, it's so good. It's so good. I was trying to

00:55:49.220 explain to my mom, I was telling her last night that I was playing this clip today and I was

00:55:54.540 explaining how the Dilbert calendar, like this is so huge in Scott's success and his legacy because,

00:56:04.020 you know, almost, I mean, there was always someone nearby you in a cubicle or at a desk.

00:56:09.560 They had the Dilbert calendar on their desk. And I was explaining to my mom how, you know,

00:56:14.500 you'd read one and be like, oh my God, like that's my boss, or this is what our meetings are like, 1.00

00:56:19.220 or this is like how stupid my company is. And they'd peel one out and they'd stick it on the 0.99

00:56:23.580 wall of their cubicle. And, you know, we would say like, you know, there's a picture of Elon

00:56:28.620 and you can see the Dilbert calendar hanging on the wall behind him. And I was explaining how

00:56:34.300 Elon put in his company handbook, don't do anything that could be turned into a Dilbert

00:56:39.780 comic, you know, to his employees. And it's like, it's Dilbert and Scott's genius is just such a

00:56:47.140 staple of work culture. And I mean, to have something be so iconic and cemented in with

00:56:56.000 the work environment is just amazing and that was our scott um i don't know so i don't know

00:57:04.040 marcella what to even say about it i just love it you know it to me um when we watch these clips

00:57:09.480 um and and what you were saying right now is like he picked up free cash um as he would say

00:57:17.820 because nobody was at the time in 1999 and thereafter no one had catered to the engineer

00:57:27.080 the scientist the person that felt like you know as we want to call it the nerd they always all

00:57:36.040 cartoons were more like we're just gonna make people laugh but he focused on an audience that

00:57:42.140 nobody had focused on and he picked up that free cash and made it obviously made a lot of money

00:57:48.640 out of it and on top of that he made it part of everyone's life like usually cartoons would be in

00:57:57.160 the newspaper and you read the newspaper you left it alone but because he was part of the calendar

00:58:01.760 it was by your desk the same thing he did years later in I don't know when he started the the

00:58:10.900 periscope where he started at first he didn't do the sip and later on he did the sip and that's

00:58:16.160 part of our you know everybody sips like everybody does that that's part of now our routine and life

00:58:23.720 so even if you're not watching this show or you're watching very few things now because he he's passed

00:58:31.360 but not not gone um anytime you sip you have to think of him yeah anytime you think of a calendar

00:58:39.300 a desk calendar you think of him so he made those connections on purpose and somebody was saying

00:58:45.460 was he a hypnotist at that time and yes he was because he got his his certificate back in i

00:58:51.060 think 1983 1984 this was many years before 1999's interview yeah that was 1999 that interview yeah

00:58:58.820 so so it's like it's just amazing how he did it all and i we can see the connections

00:59:05.780 Yeah. And don't forget, Scott, you know, when he started Dilbert, Dilbert was at home,

00:59:11.480 Dilbert was at work, and then he was getting letters written to him. We like it when Dilbert's

00:59:16.280 in the office. And he was like, you know what? A lot of people are saying that. So he listened

00:59:20.260 and he's like, if that's what they like, I'll just do that. Yeah. Cha-ching. Right, you guys? So,

00:59:25.860 you know, sometimes someone criticizes you or says something and that's your free money. Pick

00:59:32.540 it up right off the table. And that's what he focused on. And here we are still talking about

00:59:38.120 it, still with a calendar, ready to go. So I think cha-ching is going to be the song today, 0.81

00:59:46.280 you guys. So yes, there's more we didn't get to today, but you know what, as I keep saying,

00:59:52.260 God willing, we have next week and we'll, we'll get to all the things. Um, you know,

00:59:57.140 thanks you guys for another amazing, amazing week. And I'm going to miss you when the show's

01:00:03.960 over. Marcella, aren't you going to miss them on the whole weekend without them? I'm going to miss

01:00:08.940 you. I'm going to miss everybody out there. And I'll be thinking of your mom and I want to send

01:00:15.760 Erica, mom, I want to send you a hug and I want you to stay on course and you will get through

01:00:24.780 this. We'll get through this. Or I'll make them get through this. And if you need for a lawyer

01:00:30.500 to talk to your nurse that she's not giving you water, let me know. I was like, mom, now be nice

01:00:36.200 to the nurses. I was like, be nice to the nurses. Make sure you're saying thank you. Don't get so

01:00:42.240 loopy that you forget to be grateful. She's like, I am. I am. Like, okay. Buy them donuts and

01:00:49.940 frappuccinos and then they'll look her. Somebody in the chat was like, we'll call her Mamaka. 0.99

01:00:56.880 That's so funny. Thanks you guys. So sweet. Don't forget tomorrow. Owen has the after party and that

01:01:04.600 is on X and, and his handle is at Owen Gregorian and the party starts at 7am Pacific, 10am Eastern.

01:01:14.500 and then you guys figure out the middle of the country for me. Um, and he does a simultaneous

01:01:20.740 sip. So even if you just want to go have a simultaneous sip and leave, you can, or stick

01:01:25.580 around and Owen will talk about news and whatever you guys want to talk about. It's a fun little

01:01:31.140 hang for a Saturday and, um, that's it. That's it. So we'll be back on Monday with the home team.

01:01:39.920 And thank you so much, everybody.

01:01:41.620 Let's have a special thank you to Scott and Shelly

01:01:44.720 for allowing the show to continue,

01:01:47.060 that we can all be here.

01:01:48.460 Thank you, you guys.

01:01:49.760 And let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott.

01:01:54.340 What a mind, what a genius,

01:01:57.020 what a mentor, friend, example he is to all of us.

01:02:01.080 And he always will be, he always will be.

01:02:03.320 All right, guys, closing sip.

01:02:04.700 Have an amazing weekend to Scott.

01:02:07.260 To Scott.

01:02:09.300 to momica momica you gave a name they gave her name momica um daylight savings when is that

01:02:22.800 oh please what is that oh all right let's do chuching oh marcella we should lip sync with

01:02:31.940 our microphones today i mean heck yeah you guys ready here we go hey you robo goon

01:02:39.140 this is a dancey song you can do it pay attention okay here we go

01:02:48.100 it's not music it's music plus how do you like being criticized you hate it don't you

01:03:01.220 don't you hate getting criticized everybody it's not something you can enjoy

01:03:09.140 Here's a reframe for you, every criticism you receive, just play this sound effect when you get it.

01:03:18.140 Ready?

01:03:39.140 Catch it, catch it.

01:03:40.700 Every time somebody criticizes you, you just made money.

01:03:44.680 Do you know why I say that?

01:03:46.960 Because you just made money.

01:03:49.480 It's true.

01:03:50.640 If somebody criticizes my live stream, and I'll tell you, the biggest criticism I'm hearing is that my shelves are boring.

01:03:59.140 Now, do I feel good that you're telling me that there's something about my thing that I do every day isn't good?

01:04:07.400 No.

01:04:07.920 nobody likes to be criticized it's not like you can enjoy it but how do i receive it do i receive

01:04:16.620 it as oh i guess i suck i could right how easily could i receive a criticism like that is like 0.92

01:04:24.620 god i'm an idiot why did i see it obviously those shells need something on them that'd be real easy 0.96

01:04:30.960 with it. I don't. Here's how I hear it. Catching. Catching. Catching. Catching. Catching. Catching. 0.99

01:04:52.960 I know exactly what to change to do a better job, because you told me, that's like money, if somebody hands you a thing that will definitely make you money, what is your feeling about it?

01:05:07.640 Do you feel, oh, I hate it when people give me a thing that makes me make money?

01:05:14.680 I bet most of you think exactly that.

01:05:17.240 You think I hate criticism.

01:05:19.680 Not me.

01:05:21.280 Years ago, when people would criticize my comic, I would hate it, of course.

01:05:27.700 But then I would say, oh, a lot of people are saying the same thing.

01:05:31.160 So I'll change it.

01:05:32.440 And then I would make that change.

01:05:34.220 And that made me rich.

01:05:36.400 I literally got rich by being criticized and understanding the criticism as

01:05:43.400 Every time I hear one, I say, wait a minute, you just told me how to get richer.

01:06:12.220 The same applies if you're not trying to get rich

01:06:14.600 Suppose you just wanted a better social life

01:06:17.100 The best advice somebody gave me

01:06:19.080 Was the cruelest thing anybody ever said

01:06:21.300 One day my female friend told me how negative

01:06:23.620 And what a bummer it was to listen to

01:06:25.660 Because I was complaining about stuff all the time

01:06:27.720 Now, I was not aware that I was a big complainant

01:06:30.840 I had no idea

01:06:31.460 I thought I was a person who talked about my day

01:06:34.180 The funny parts of this

01:06:35.320 So in my mind, I had no idea

01:06:37.460 That I was having an effect on other people

01:06:39.820 Once I learned that

01:06:41.100 you know how powerful that was i was able because it was something i could change i would become

01:06:46.220 aware of the ratio of negative things i said to positive teaching it was probably the most

01:06:51.260 important change i've ever made to my social toolbox i would say that that one change really

01:06:59.340 really changed my life.

01:07:29.340 so that's the that's the refrain so the next time you get criticized whether personally

01:07:45.480 or whether professionally say to yourself

01:07:49.960 Just try it.

01:07:55.940 Like, actually say that little sound.

01:07:59.920 Cha-ching.

01:08:01.840 Not figuratively. 1.00

01:08:03.760 I'm not talking figuratively.

01:08:05.480 I mean, actually say that. 1.00

01:08:07.460 Cha-ching.

01:08:09.060 Cha-ching. 0.94

01:08:10.220 Cha-ching.

01:08:11.380 When do you hear it?

01:08:12.020 When do you hear it?

01:08:16.580 When do you hear it?

01:08:19.960 I was screaming.

01:08:26.400 Cha-ching! 1.00

01:08:28.860 You're from over here.

01:08:31.840 I mean, he said, actually.

01:08:33.900 I was like, all right.

01:08:35.580 Actually, say it.

01:08:37.180 Do it.

01:08:38.080 I do what Scott says.

01:08:39.720 He says, don't just think it.

01:08:42.040 Say it.

01:08:42.560 Actually, let me hear it.

01:08:45.060 Scream it out, y'all. 1.00

01:08:46.320 Cha-ching.

01:08:46.840 oh that was a fun fun week you guys thank you so so much um marcella so fun when we're together i

01:08:55.940 must say you know little girl power over here now we gotta take it down okay you guys i have

01:09:04.500 a stress test today like they're gonna put me on the treadmill oh actually yeah like an actual one

01:09:11.280 that's every day i was like let me get in a good mood shake it off okay i'm good are you gonna um

01:09:17.760 be in a treadmill and like have to like yeah run for them i told them it'll take listen i think

01:09:24.880 they want your heart rate to get up to like a certain amount and then they want to like measure

01:09:29.840 it or measure it my heart rate is a very high high resting heart rate so i'm like it's gonna take

01:09:36.800 like literally 30 seconds. So the good news is I won't have to sweat because my heart rate will go

01:09:42.860 up fast. I'm like, I could wear high heels and be done in 30 minutes. So stress test today and

01:09:50.580 I'm looking forward to it. Yes. I switched to a new cardiologist. I'm like, let's go, Erica.

01:09:56.340 Let's have like a new. He's a real doctor. Yeah. The other one was real, but you know,

01:10:03.240 I've seen people in the chat, this is a little personal information, but I've seen people in the

01:10:07.220 chat say like, you know, it takes like two months to get in with their cardiologist. Mine was like

01:10:11.260 three to four months sometimes. And I'm like, yeah, that's not going to work for me. So

01:10:15.380 I'm sure she's amazing, but I'm trying someone new. I already love him. She was a she or she's

01:10:22.220 still a she. She's still. And now I know. And then now it's a he. It's a he and he's delightful. 1.00

01:10:30.780 I really, really like him and I think he thinks I'm a little bit of a character because sometimes

01:10:36.200 he has that like tilted head look at me and he's kind of like laughing like, oh my gosh,

01:10:40.180 you're quite animated. Okay. But starting fresh and I just want to make sure everything's going

01:10:46.420 great. You do Annie? Until lately and it makes you wonder, well, let's go find out. How about

01:10:54.560 that? How about everybody? If there's something you've been procrastinating doing, especially

01:10:59.560 regarding your health, pick up the phone, call your doctor, call your chiropractor, call whoever

01:11:07.320 and do it today. Why don't we just all like, I know you put off the dentist. I'm only advocating

01:11:15.820 for simple things. I'm not going to say like, go get a mammogram. I don't know. That's personal.

01:11:20.140 So do what you want with that. But if there's something you're thinking about, you're concerned

01:11:25.980 about or you've been putting it off let's do it today together and um tell us on monday what you

01:11:33.360 did okay because that's useful for yourself and your health still hire a lawyer if you need it

01:11:39.360 hire that lawyer sue that person no i'm just kidding i mean unless you need to no no no do

01:11:45.760 that do that whatever you have to do i'm not interested at all you know no if you're in

01:11:51.860 California it's like yeah yeah call Marcella she's your girl she made someone almost cry

01:11:58.860 yesterday so a lawyer yeah oh another lawyer see I like that in a lawyer I like my lawyers to make

01:12:06.440 the other lawyers cry yeah just saying yeah right Andy I see and if you're in New Jersey call Andy

01:12:12.760 Wang Andy's like shut up don't tell him to call me all right what are you off to like a big work

01:12:20.660 day today i'm off to court at 10 30 it starts yeah oh girl okay all right i'm off like a prom dress

01:12:29.300 and then we'll see you on monday all right love you guys it was a man andy it was a man

01:12:36.660 yeah it was all right bye guys

01:12:42.260 Here's our game, Marcella, where we try to just not comment on all the funny comments.

01:12:50.260 You hang up first.

01:12:51.020 No, you do.

01:12:52.480 But I'm going to miss y'all.

01:12:55.220 We could just stay on for the entire weekend.

01:13:00.240 Smart.

01:13:01.000 You guys are so sweet with wishing my mom all those good wishes.

01:13:05.860 Momica needs to know that we all love her and we want her even better. 0.58

01:13:10.760 Yeah, poor Momica.

01:13:11.600 She's in Florida, but she has the nicest, most caring boyfriend ever, and he even slept

01:13:23.420 in the recliner in the hospital with her last night.

01:13:26.480 She's like, no, no, and he's like, yes, yes, I'm staying here.

01:13:29.300 So sweet.

01:13:30.840 Aw.

01:13:31.540 Mm-hmm.

01:13:33.080 Aw.

01:13:33.800 All right, mamaca.

01:13:35.300 Yeah.

01:13:36.120 All right, I'm done.

01:13:37.020 I'm sipping it.

01:13:38.020 Okay.

01:13:38.560 Love you.

01:13:39.420 Love you, Marcella.

01:13:40.520 See you Monday.

01:13:41.600 Bye guys.

01:13:46.720 We can talk about baking.

01:13:48.200 We'll talk about baking next time for sure.

01:13:54.540 Roger, what do you mean new song?

01:13:57.080 What new song?

01:13:58.040 Tell me.

01:13:58.380 I'm going to wait for you, Roger, to tell me what that means.

01:14:00.520 Because see, I would have read that later and been like, what does Roger mean?

01:14:03.780 What do you mean, Roger?

01:14:06.480 Everyone wait for Roger's response and then we'll go.

01:14:09.940 No pressure.

01:14:11.600 no pressure love you a e a einstein universe did she find him oh feed stella frank stella has had

01:14:21.740 four giant meals already just so you know and she ate a dish of kibble during the show and so did

01:14:27.700 george that girl is fed roger the shrubber maybe roger tell me oh he's he's uh oh making it

01:14:40.220 suspenseful. Look at your bread. Very nice. Come on, Roger. I've never made bread. I need to make

01:14:47.000 it. My mother-in-law bought me a bread making machine once. She was like hooked on. Oh, well,

01:14:54.200 I mean, yeah, those are the ones I play, Roger. Yep. I'm looking at the list. Those are all the

01:15:03.980 ones I play, we do a different one every day. Yeah. So anyway, my mother-in-law bought like

01:15:13.660 everybody a bread machine from QVC one year and I'm like, what am I going to do with this? So I'd

01:15:18.800 like, I made like one packet of the bread and then I had a garage sale and I put it in the garage 0.99

01:15:25.680 sale and she came over. She's like, the bread machine. I'm like, I'm sorry. I just don't know

01:15:31.080 what to do with it but okay now i've said sure thinking of you crusher crusher bye fletcher

01:15:42.520 bye guys this is an asmr goodbye

01:15:49.600 marcella do you want to whisper goodbye to the people goodbye

01:15:56.760 Goodbye

01:15:57.600 Goodbye

01:15:59.340 You guys

01:16:00.620 I see you still there

01:16:03.840 If you remind me

01:16:07.140 Lion

01:16:07.940 I'll play the payoff on Monday

01:16:10.360 Just remind me 1.00

01:16:12.420 Remind her to play the payoff 1.00

01:16:15.160 On Monday 1.00

01:16:16.440 Can you hear me?

01:16:20.420 I can't hear you

01:16:21.840 Can you hear me now?

01:16:25.260 Yes I can

01:16:26.120 Oh, good.

01:16:28.160 Can the CIA hear you?

01:16:30.220 Yes.

01:16:30.500 Oh, wait.

01:16:31.060 Yeah, not low.

01:16:32.460 Good lord.

01:16:34.260 Okay, bye, guys.

01:16:36.720 Have a great weekend.

01:16:38.900 Have a good weekend.

01:16:43.820 Bye.

01:16:48.760 Annie.

01:16:56.120 You

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