The Scott Adams School - 06/19/26 The Home Team. Islam. Israel. Iran.

Good morning, everyone.

Look who's here.

Oh, look who's here. Happy Friday. Happy Juneteenth.

Hello, Kevin. Hello, Bookish. Hello, Beverly.

Oh, I think Juneteenth should be in February.

Owen brought his deep, sexy voice today.

I see YouTube coming in.

Yeah, let me see. Did you say Owen has a sexy voice today?

I said he brought in his deep, sexy voice today.

I love it, I love it.

He's blushing, he's blushing.

I know, look at his color.

Oh my gosh, you guys, guess who plays today? USA, USA, today at 12 PM my time, your time, I don't know.

Who are they playing?

They are playing Australia.

Who is Australia?

Really well, you know, so both teams call it soccer, so it's like the Oh, it's not football.

Good morning, everybody. I see all your comments. I'll read them all after the show on YouTube and Rumble and X and Locals. You guys are amazing. Oh, I forgot to look. Wait, do I still have it? Let me see. Oh, we have a question of the day. Okay, for after the show in the comments, and then we'll do the sip. The question of the day. What's one belief you've changed your mind about in the last 5 years and what caused you to to reconsider it? Okay, so I feel like that was the question I did before, but do that one. Um, answer it on the comments on YouTube and Rumble, and, um, I will read every single one. Okay, so I'm—

Graded, right? You'll be graded, and detention may be in the works if you don't do well.

Yeah, Marcela, with you, detention with Marcela. They're like, oh, okay, I'm in. All right. So let's get to a sip, 'cause we need it. Here we go.

But one way we're gonna enjoy the day, despite all of the events in the news, is with a little thing called the simultaneous sip. Now I know you're thinking, "But Scott, the simultaneous sip can't cure the coronavirus, can it?" To which I say, you don't know until you try. So, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

Go.

Ah.

Mm. I sip before the clip's over, you guys, so I can just be like this when I come back. So good morning. It is June 19th, 2026. You've got the home team in the house. I'm looking at your pictures. Love it. Okay, so I was thinking whiteboard lesson today, you guys. Yes, yes. We've been trying to get to it, so we have it today. The only thing I wanted to show first, it's not a fun animal clip, but it is a pissed off Italian president.

Oh, don't. Oh, you dare go with—

Are you saying that's kind of the same thing?

No, I'm not, Owen.

Are you?

Good golly. You want to find out? Okay, so let's go. All right, wait, let me open this because I wanted to tell you what was actually what she's saying here. Okay, so I'm going to play it. My mother can watch this and translate it. She was saying—

I understand Italian too.

Okay, good. So Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni rages at President Trump calling his statement that she begged him for a photo completely fabricated. Trump said, "She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted 'a picture with me so badly. I wouldn't have taken it, but I felt so sorry for her.' I mean, like, why? And then she said, 'We never beg.' And she says, 'I can only say it's unfortunate he doesn't have the same behavior toward his enemies.' So here she is responding in Italiano.

inventate. Sono francamente allibita, non so perché il presidente degli Stati Uniti si comporti così con i propri alleati. Non è del resto la prima volta che accade. Posso solo dire che dispiace che non abbia la stessa determinazione con i nemici dell'Occidente, con i nemici degli Stati Uniti, con leadership con le quali invece si dimostra molto più accondiscendente. Però una cosa se la deve ricordare: io e l'Italia non imploriamo mai.

She just needed the—

she needed to remind us that no Italian implores.

No one tells—

clearly she wants him. Clearly she was begging.

She's hot for Trump.

She's definitely hot for Trump.

She got on the camera like, "Eh, but a big head of hair." Yeah, I can do that. I'm Italian. I can do that.

I'm Italian. She doth protest too much.

I'm not Italian, but apparently somewhere down the line Oh, Maloney.

I mean, I don't blame her. I mean, if that is not true, I'd be a little ticked off myself.

What did you say? When she protests too much?

She doth protest too much.

Shakespeare. Very nice. Bringing in the Shakespeare in. I mean, what would you have done? Trump exaggerates everything. I would've been like, he's 80 years old. Of course, you know, he's gonna exaggerate a hot woman like me wants to take a picture with him.

You'd be like, "Poor grandpa, he's just, you know, he's embarrassed. He doesn't want his wife to know he wants a picture with me. Just turn it around." Yeah. So you guys, what do you think? Do you want a little news first or the whiteboard first? News, whiteboard, news, whiteboard. We can go in either direction. I wanna make the crowd happy today. And hot for Elon. Good morning, BJ. We're just waiting for your answers. Oh my gosh, Kevin, hilarious. News, whiteboard. Any more? Do we need a tiebreaker? Tiebreaker. Whiteboard, whiteboard. Whiteboard, whiteboard. Whiteboard news versus whiteboard wins. Okay, so listen, let's get our Scott Adams on right now, you guys. This one is— oh gosh, what's it called? Oh, and I forget the name of it already. The, um—

User Interface?

Yes, thank you, thank you. I like going right to simulation. This is the User Interface. This is one of Scott Adams' most famous whiteboards. So buckle up, take notes, grab a coffee, and we're going to be back. Marcelia?

In regards to Ajit's comment, it was May 19th when Scott announced his cancer, not June 19th.

Oh, okay. All right, we all missed that comment, but okay. So here we—

It kept coming on and off.

Oh, okay. Here we go.

All right, at long last, the user interface for reality. Some of these things you're going to say, hey, I've heard about.

Scott, we're talking about the user interface, not the Rumble interface. Here we go.

All right, at long last, the user interface for reality. Some of these things you're going to say, "Hey, I've heard about those. I've heard about them in your book 'Win Bigly.' I've heard about them in your book 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.' And I saw a few things in your latest book, 'LoserThink.'" And that is where you should go if you want any detail on these, but let me run through them. First, you must accept the frame, at least as a filter, that there could be a subjective reality and that you can manipulate it. Again, you might only be manipulating your own impression of reality, but that's good enough if it predicts well and gets you to a happy place. You should accept that systems work better than goals. People are telling me every day that they're, after reading my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. They implemented systems and it changed their life. This is one of the biggest buttons on the interface for life. If you don't like where you are and you want to go somewhere else, learn how to build systems for everything from your diet to your career to your social life to fitness, everything. And that's, that's in this book if you want more details.

Thank you.

Talent stacking, also from the same book. The idea that if you intelligently add new talents, you become not just a little bit better, but exponentially better because talents really explode your capability and your options. So this is one of the biggest buttons on the interface to reality. Now you've seen these before, a few of them, but it's the totality of them that I'm trying to present. You've seen them individually. Affirmations, the idea of writing down or visualizing your goals, seems to be something that gives you the impression that it works. And I say that very carefully. Does it work? Do affirmations change reality? I don't know. But I can tell you that when I've used them, the results I've gotten don't seem like anything could have been natural. I mean, I cured an incurable voice problem. I had ridiculous stock market luck when I used the affirmations. I, you know, my career, as I told you, is just crazy. And it feels like it works, but I'm not going to tell you it does. Again, you should see these as filters. If it feels like it works, keep doing it. All right. You should know that the mating instinct is the base of pretty much all of your impulses. So if you haven't learned that pretty much everything from the way you talk, present yourself, hold yourself, dress, everything you do is some kind of expression of your mating instinct, whether you like it or not. Everything you show off about, everything you, you know, that you don't want to show if you have a flaw, pretty much everything you do comes back to wanting to look good and present yourself well for mating purposes. Once you understand that, you start to understand where the buttons are, all right? 'Cause you'll say, "Oh, that's why that's happening. It's an extension of the mating process." Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You'll see it everywhere. And it's like the veil will come off and you'll start seeing everybody's actions as, "Wait a minute, why is it everything is compatible with that showing off for mating purposes situation?" Yeah. Here are the other buttons, which are mostly self-explanatory. But freedom is a big thing. People will trade a lot for freedom. You could say, "Would you like a bad life with freedom or a good life with no freedom?" And people will take the bad life with freedom. So if you ever have a chance to create a situation where you can offer someone more freedom, that's very powerful. That's a button. And you should get as much for yourself as you can, and you can use it as a tool to help other people get what they want, 'cause they will trade a lot for freedom. And freedom can come in the form of getting money, that gives you freedom, having a flexible schedule, being in the right kind of social situation, et cetera. So there's lots of ways to get it. Fear is a motivator. I don't recommend using it unless you're trying to save somebody.

Yeah.

Yeah, you could use fear to keep them from smoking cigarettes, for example, but I wouldn't use this in the evil way. Curiosity is one of the most important and overlooked buttons on the human interface. You can see that authors that are good at it will make you curious at the end of a chapter so that you'll want to keep reading. So building curiosity into things is a really, really important button. You'll see that President Trump does this often because he'll tease things that are coming. He'll say, "Yes, well, I got an announcement on that, and tomorrow you're going to hear about that, and I think you're going to be really, you know, impressed." When you can stoke somebody's curiosity, you can really shape what they do, and you can shape your environment through curiosity. Very, very powerful. You notice how I use this to get you to come here. Novelty is very important for memory. So you want to make sure that you always inject novelty. It's what triggers memory. Because your brain will get bored of the sameness. So you need to trigger memory and attention with novelty. Contrast is a way to get people to move from where they are to where you want them to be. You just say, well— Well, It's much, much less expensive than this. So contrast is one of the most important buttons. Use contrast often. Hey, you don't want to be this bad. You could be over here. Repetition and simplicity. Our brains are just simple machines. The more you repeat, the more the wiring gets solidified. And if you keep things simple, the brain can process it and deal with it. If it's complicated, your brain has a tendency to just flush it out. Can't deal with it, flush it out. So simplicity is important. The fake because is a form of pseudo-logic. Sometimes you need to get people moving with a fake reason that doesn't even actually pass logical standards, but people don't need logical reasons. Just look at politics. Yeah. People have incredibly different opinions, and many of them are smart. So if you've got smart people on opposite sides of basically every issue, you can see that they don't need real reasons. We're not a species that operates on real reasons. We just— we'll take a fake reason, we'll take one we made up, we'll take a guess, we'll follow our friends. Once you understand that people don't need real reasons, It frees you. Because if you're locked in a little world at a lower level of awareness where you say, 'Well, I'm not going to convince somebody unless I have a real reason.' Sorry, that's not the reality any of us live in. Real reasons are good. I mean, if you have them, use them. But we don't need them. Once you know you don't need them and that reality can be authored, you're in better shape. Pacing and leading, I've talked about. That's just matching somebody.

Mm-hmm.

Until they feel comfortable with you, and then you can lead them. People can be very influenced by aspirations. This is another way to refer to the high ground maneuver. The high ground maneuver is essentially you challenge somebody to be a better version of themself. Sort of the Jesus method, right? You know, it's not telling you, "You must do something or you'll die." That's fear. Aspiration is, "Don't you want to be the better version of yourself?" Yeah. No, you want to be the person who sees the big picture. Very, very important button. Association. You know that any quality of one thing rubs off on the other. If you want somebody to like something, pair it with something else they like already. So the likability of one thing will rub off on another, but also the unlikability. So for example, if you have a TV show, let's say the news, and you have commercials that are really unpleasant, Eventually, the unpleasantness bleeds into the show and it would be better if you associated only things that are— were positive. So learning to associate only with positive things, one of the most important user interface rules of reality. I accidentally put contrast twice, forget that. Pattern recognition, once you realize that the humans are not logical machines, we're pattern recognition machines. It's that pattern recognition that isn't very good. Pattern recognition is what makes you a racist. Pattern recognition is what makes you an ageist, a sexist, uh, everything bad, because your patterns are all you have. You're not really a logical person who reasons everything out. Your brain isn't big enough. You wouldn't have enough time. So instead, you default to these little biases, which are determined by patterns. Now the problem is many of those patterns are fake. Let's say you had met 3 Elbonians in your life, and every one of them slapped you in the face with a glove. The next time you met an Elbonian, you'd be like, Oh, no thank you. I don't wanna get slapped in the face with a glove. Those last 3 Elbonians were pretty rough on me. But, It's only 3 Albonians. The odds that your pattern is predictive, probably low. So we, we fall victim to patterns, but you can also use patterns to convince people of things. If you are consistent, people will say, oh, this person's always honest. So patterns are a tool, but they're also our biggest defect, and you have to understand it that way. And then of course, understanding the brain as a a visualization machine is very, very important because visualization is the biggest, most powerful part of your brain. It's the, the part that influences you most. And so— one more look at the full board there. And so the idea is that these buttons are the important ones. Visualization, if there's one there that just stands out as being the one that you should sort of focus on the most, visualization would be a good one. Now, these are the buttons for the user interface. I can tell you that almost every day I get a message from somebody who read this book, which was the beginning of this. I had to hide, hide what this was in a practical book because the world wasn't ready to believe The facts don't matter. And the world wasn't ready to believe that you could author your own reality. So I played it a little safe in this one because the world wasn't ready. But if you want to learn about most of these things, they're in there. And then in Win Bigly, because President Trump had ripped apart the nature of the universe, it allowed me to say, now you see it, right? Facts don't matter. Now you see it, that they're just separate worlds and bubbles, and we can live in our bubble and we'll never know the difference. And then of course Loser Think tried to just, uh, well, teach you to think better because that's always going to be useful. You'll be more effective and you'll have a better handle on the user interface of reality if you can think and argue better. So, this is my lesson. I'm going to keep it on one topic. I hope this was useful. Maybe you could tell me in the comments if you got something out of this. This is the sort of lesson that might not change you tonight, but it's never going to leave you. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it. You're all changed. You don't know it yet. And this will become sort of a— A Let's say a framework that you now have added to your mental map. And now when you see things that fit that framework, it will get stronger over time. And so you'll see that this view of the world will take root. And then every time you compare it to the old way you saw, you're going to say to yourself, "Wow, is that a coincidence?" Because this new way of looking at the world just feels like it predicts better. But I'll keep an eye on it. So this will get stronger and stronger over time and maybe never, never stop getting stronger. Well, we're getting good comments, so I think that maybe we did our job here. And feel free to refer back to this often, and I think you've got everything you need now to author your own life. You're no longer a victim of reality. You are no longer the subject of reality. You're now an author. Some of you were already authors, and now you're better authors. And those of you who didn't know you could be an author of your reality, well, you just found out. And I will leave you on that, and you're gonna have a terrific night tonight, and the rest of your life, it's looking good.

Thank you.

Oh, I love that. Thank you, Scott Adams. That was such a good one. I was taking notes and flipping through Loser Think. I feel like I don't revisit Loser Think enough, and I was just flipping through it. I'm like, you know, it's so good. Duh. But, you know, somebody asked me recently, you know, what book they should read of Scott's, like they're kind of new into Scott. And I was like, well, definitely "Win: How to Fail," because you'll learn a lot about Scott's life and his journey and what got him to where, you know, he ended up, you know, cartooning and all of that. But I think he's right the way he just talked about "Win Bigly." So if you're interested to see, that was the book that Ivanka read and a lot of the Trump family read. And they told Scott that they learned so much more about their dad and understood him so much better after reading that. And Loser Think, I mean, it's just another good one. I think I'm gonna revisit Loser Think. I'm gonna keep it right here. But yeah, you can author yourselves. And Scott Adams, you had a lot of good comments again in this show. Years later, same vibe, same feeling. And you guys, you can always rewatch it and you can take a screenshot of when the whiteboard's there and then maybe just keep that in your phone so you remember all the points. So he says— Yeah. Do affirmations work? I think they do. And Owen and Marcella, I don't know if you use affirmations. Marcella, do you ever use them and do they work for you?

Yes, they, they work, you know, for me. I don't think of them as affirming. I just visualize and I call them manifestation, manifest what what will come. But it's worked before.

So I can— So it's like half affirmation, half visualization put together, which he also said visualization's the key, he said, of all of them. What about you, Owen?

I don't think I've used them very much, or that I could point to something where I said, oh my God, you know, this, I did this affirmation, and then suddenly this weird thing happened, kind of like Scott Adams has said in the past. But I have tried using them a couple times at least, and I've even suggested them to other people. I do think they work to an extent, especially in terms of just focusing your mind. I think that's probably the primary mechanism is that your attention is so important and what you pay attention to and what you notice and what you do based on what you notice. And I think that's the secret of affirmations. I think that's also the downfall of the book The Secret that talks a lot about affirmations because They present it like all you have to do is write the stuff down and then you just sit back and wait for this thing to happen. And that's not at all how it works. I think it's more just by doing the affirmations, you tune your mind to be focused on what's important to you and you then take the actions based on what you notice in that mindset to make things happen. You have to take action. You can't just sit back and wait and expect something to happen. I think it's the, you know, they talk about like the red car thing where if you just think about red cars, you're gonna notice a whole bunch of red cars on the road that you never noticed before. And that's really the mechanism, I think they call it, I forget, it's like some brain mechanism that I'm not even sure is real, but it's the reticular activating system or something like that. But I think the idea behind it is valid in the sense that if you just focus on something, whether it's opportunities or, an ambition or an aspiration, to use the word that Scott used here, then you're going to be noticing things relating to that. You're going to be like, "Oh, there's something I could do that would help me get to where I want to be," or, "There's some action I could take that would help me get the next step along my journey that I'm trying to take." And, you'll just notice a lot more of those things than you would otherwise and you'd be more likely to take action on them because you've already kind of trained your mind to say, "That's where I'm going and I believe it." And so, you also are removing some of those mental obstacles by just convincing yourself, "Okay, this thing is going to happen. I'm going to get this thing or I'm going to do this thing or I'm going to become this person or whatever it is that you did the affirmations about." So, I think it does work. I think it is effective, but probably not the way people are thinking or at least not necessarily the way people are thinking and maybe the way Scott presented it too because I think he is kind of presenting it as you're authoring your reality, you're changing reality. Yeah. Altering the actual fabric of things. I don't know, maybe that is true. I think—

That's how I see it.

There's no way you can know for sure, I don't think. But I think maybe, as Scott Adams says, it doesn't matter, right? Like whether it's you changing reality or whether it's you just adapting to reality, either way you end up in the same place. And if it's a place you wanna be, then it's all good.

Well, maybe we should try this. I mean, I could definitely hone in on some affirmations. I'm gonna look at it as affirmations, but I'm also gonna implement systems to get the goal, right? So you put them all together, 'cause you're right, you can't just think about the thing and be like, oh, $8 million is gonna show up in my mailbox tomorrow. Like, that's called a pipe dream. But yeah, like, let's all take time. You don't have to come up with it right now, but take the next couple of days to say, you know, here's something that I want to change for the better. And I say for the better because, you know, what you think about, you bring about. So you gotta be careful of what you're thinking about. It should always be positive, healthy thoughts of moving forward, not, you know, scary, you know, stuff. So always be careful what you're thinking about, how you're framing it, ask better questions. You know, somebody will say, why does this always happen to me? And I'm like— Scott Adams. Stop saying that if it's something bad. They're like, "Why does this always happen to me? Why do I always have bad luck?" I'm like, "Well, if you ask, 'Why do I always have bad luck?' the universe doesn't understand, and it's just going to keep answering you with reasons of why you keep getting bad luck, and you're going to get more bad luck. But if you change and ask a different question like, 'Show me the way to improve my luck and to make my life more open and better,' that's a better question." So don't ask the negative thing, you're going to get more of it. Ask the, show me the way for the more positive thing. And I'll look for the signs. I'll look for the answers of doing this better, of achieving this goal. So you want to think forward thinking. I think that's really important. Yeah, it's like the law of attraction.

You have to, you're right. Because you have to remember the words are spells. So any word that you bring in, You know, don't say that word because that will come your focus, everything. You'll be negative and it'll attract negativity. I believe, you know, sorry to say, but the other thing that I believe is that we have, we carry energy.

Mm-hmm.

And if you have this negative energy, have you ever been where somebody comes into the room and you can feel their stress, you know, or you can feel their happiness? So I, I really think it's about what you bring in, what energy you're bringing and what words you're using for yourself.

Yeah, focus like BJ just wrote, focus on what you want, not what you don't want. And if you're going through the user interface for reality and you're like, what do I want? Not like, I don't wanna be poor, I don't wanna da, da, da. All right, well then don't talk about that. Don't talk about that. It's like, talk about what you do want. And remember, Scott Adams always said, systems over goals. So talk about what you want and then you have to make a system to get what you want. Or even if it's like, He's talking about when you're talking to other people and trying to convince them. He mentioned pacing and leading. So, I have a little glossary thing that somebody put up. So, Scott's definition of pacing and leading, pacing refers to matching your subject in some way, either physically, verbally, or in terms of philosophy. You match your audience's emotional condition to gain trust, and later you are in a position to lead them. So it's just another way to help. That's like a system to help you get what you want in a goal. And also remember your intent really has to be good. It can't be, you're not using these things that are going to screw over somebody else or be bad. It's for the benefit of everybody involved.

Or for yourself, Erica.

Yeah. And the other thing he mentioned is the high ground maneuver, which is you frame yourself as the wise adult in the room. It forces other people to join you or be framed as the small thinkers. So, they either join you or they're framed as the small thinkers. Instead of defending a position in the weeds, you elevate to a principle almost everyone agrees with. So, that too. So, you want to bring people up, right? You want to say, look, I'm here, come with me. And now that's part of pacing and leading too. Look, now we're on the same level. Now we can move forward together. How do we get this done? So it does become kind of secondhand nature the more you listen to it and practice it and even take like 2 little pieces of it this week or this weekend, pick like 2 of the little bullet points and just say, ooh, okay, all weekend I'm gonna focus on bringing those 2 things into my conversations and my activities. And then on Monday, let us know if you did it and how it worked. A lot of you are really good at reporting back and telling us things, so let us know. We'd love to see it.

And you just did something that he said to do, which was simplify. You simplified, just do one thing or two.

Just one little step, right?

And I would bring back what Scott said at the end too, that he talked about visualization being one of the better things to focus on and do. And I think that ties really closely in with affirmations, so that if you can add visualization to that, I think it makes a big difference because it, ties it a lot more into your senses but also your emotions. And, I think the emotions are a lot more important than people give them credit for.

And also, to just keep going with it, a lot of people learn differently. Okay, so some people have to read the book, touch the book, feel the book, turn the page. Some people just want to hear it audible. I'm an audible person. I could watch an entire series of any show in the world just by listening to it, and I will have way more details than you will from watching it because I am so— I'm such a listener like that. So I think doing things that way too, like Owen's saying, like with visualization, maybe some people need the picture painted, like they want to see it in their mind's eye, like, oh, well, this is what it could look like. And, you know, if this is how you're struggling here, you know, let's focus on changing these couple of things and You know, just kind of affirm whatever it is. And now they're like, oh yeah, like I never saw it that way before, but now they can see it. So, and also when I'm saying they can see it, I also mean maybe now you can see it, you know, like paint the picture for yourself of what you're doing.

You can even use AI to visualize whatever you're wanting to.

Good idea. Yeah, that's a good idea. You could ask your AI to paint the picture. Just describe it and to say, create an image for me. It's me sitting at a corner office window with whatever your goal is, like with at a big corporation and I have beautiful clothes on and there's a Mercedes in the parking lot that's mine. I mean, like paint your picture so you can see the end result, whatever it is. Or maybe it's you with like, a baby or whatever.

You know who was really into visualization? Michael Jordan. He always visualized his— when— before making baskets, before anything, he would center himself and just— not that like that made him fly, you know, but it was that confidence you saw in him was partly because he had visualized the game and all the things that came with it.

100%. I think one of the best horse shows the first time— the only reason I bring this up is one of the best horse shows I had when I was young I remember being in bed the night before this horse show, and I knew there was a couple of girls that were going to be in it, and they were really good. And I was like, "All right, let me think about my horse. I know their horses." And then I was like picturing the course that we were going to jump, and it was like a little bit of like a tricky thing where you had to stop, reverse, go, canter, trot that fence, blah, blah, blah. And I really envisioned being on my horse, how I was going to handle it, how the other riders would handle it, whatever. When I got in that ring, it was like I didn't even have to think. I had thought it out like so far ahead of time that when I, I did my ride, I think I got second place, but that was amazing considering the riders I was against.

Do you have any pictures?

Oh, I have some somewhere, but yeah, so I mean, but that's like the first time I remember really like the visualization and just sort of like did it on my own. Like, I'm going to picture how am I going to ride? What will I do? It was so— and then it was so easy when I did it. So it was great. But try it. Try it. You might like it. Yeah. Owen, anything else on this topic?

I don't know. I mean, there's so much here. We could talk probably for hours about it. But I think it is something that I think you are authoring your reality, whether you know it or not. And so I think to me, one of the key lessons underlying this is to be intentional about it and think about these things and steer your reality as opposed to just going on autopilot and maybe going in a bad direction that you don't like. And I think that's what's happening for a lot of people is they just think, "Well, I'm just doing things the way I do them," and they don't necessarily really think about these different frames of saying, "How could I build a talent stack?" or "How could I use curiosity or novelty to get people's attention?" or "How could I use a fake because to get something that I might not know how to get otherwise?" So I think these are a lot of tools you can use and make a big difference and press these different buttons when you need them. But you have to think about them and you have to incorporate them into your life. So I would say, you know, number 1 is thinking about them, kind of studying them, getting the details, maybe reading Scott's book where he talks about these things. Number 2 is practice because just like your visualization story, the more you do something, the more it just becomes second nature and it becomes a habit and it becomes something you just always do. And I know that's true for Scott where he would say like, "I'm always persuading. I'm not like—" turning it on and off. It's like it's just built into me now. And I think that's true for almost any skill, that when you become kind of a master at something, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking, okay, now I'm gonna do this, now I'm gonna do that. You're just doing it. And so I think the more you practice these things, the better you'll get and the more instinctual it'll become.

Yeah, so I'm looking— YouTube, I'm looking at you guys. So what do you think, everybody ready to pick something or pick a couple little words and pieces out of that lesson and just practice putting them into use over the weekend. You know, like, but, you know, think about it ahead of time, like, oh, I'm going to be seeing so-and-so. And you know what, I'm going to really work on, you know, visualization with them or novelty with them or whatever it is, or, or high ground maneuver, you know, or pacing and leading. Pacing and leading is probably a really good one to practice. just how to get on the same level with someone and then kind of bring them up a level to maybe see something in a different way. And then you'll hit them with the visualization, ba-bam. So that would be a fun thing to do. So everybody give it a shot, let us know. And I'm gonna do it too. I'm gonna do it too. Okay, so that's a great lesson. You guys, we'll be replaying lessons also time to time. Just 'cause we watched it today doesn't mean we won't watch it again. We always need reminders. Yeah. It's kind of interesting, like the first time we heard Scott say that, and then I've seen that lesson again, and then seeing it again now, like how much in my life has changed based on practicing those things that I see that Scott taught us. So it's a pretty good time. All right. So I thought what we would do, switching over, is one more clip that's a little bit— it's like 4 minutes is of our leaving DNI, Tulsi. Tulsi just spent her last day as the DNI. Oh, I have a thing, a little DNI goodbye message. She gave us quite a litany of information about Fauci on her way out that a lot of us were wanting to hear and see. And, you know, we're going to want to see what happens now that You know, we sort of knew this stuff. Now we have the actual details. Let's see what happens now that it's put out into the world. But let's hear her closing message. Is that good for everybody? I think it's important. All right, it's a few minutes. All right, here we go.

Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, work which is now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic. Now, in support of President Trump's maximum transparency mandate, today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I'm releasing never-before-seen unseen communications and documents that expose exactly how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the intelligence community to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus's lab leak origins, and his role in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. Now, these documents expose Fauci's— direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19, and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024 when, under oath, he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research. We also received testimony from multiple intelligence community whistleblowers who reported retaliation for challenging the intelligence community's manipulation of intelligence on the virus's origins, once again revealing a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying the truth. Dr. Fauci's close relationships with the intelligence community enabled him to assume three key roles that shield him from scrutiny. First, Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function coronavirus research linked to Big Pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines worth trillions of dollars. Second, Dr. Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor who, alongside his handpicked so-called experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain-of-function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars. All of this in a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth and shift the blame and attention away from Fauci's own actions. Third, Dr. Fauci became the nation's pandemic pundit, and he publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship using every platform available. Now, according to hundreds of reviewed emails, which are included in this release, the intelligence community almost always incorporated Fauci's recommendations. [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] He promoted a fraudulent paper, whose publication he helped prompt, as legitimate information for intelligence community consideration. Senior analysts praised Dr. Fauci not as a policymaker, but as what they called an "unbiased guide to the real coronavirus experts," while deliberately ignoring experts who might dissent from Fauci's narratives. Now, Fauci didn't stop there. He blatantly lied to Congress under oath during his 2024 testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, denying that he ever spoke to any intelligence agency about COVID Now, the correspondence I'm releasing today directly contradicts his sworn testimony. Now, we received statements from multiple whistleblowers revealing that the intelligence analyst who dared to challenge challenged Dr. Fauci's COVID origin conclusions faced threats of retaliation, marginalization, and many suffered career setbacks. For example, a contractor was terminated just days after coming forward to ODNI as a whistleblower. Another example, those who advocated for the lab leak hypothesis or expressed dissenting views were reminded by their managers that leadership would determine which analysts which whistleblowers would be promoted and which would not. The message was clear: go along or be punished. Senior leaders also sought to undermine whistleblowers by removing anonymity, which is required in the whistleblower process, as they made their complaints, and also insisting that their managers or attorneys be present during ODNI meetings where these whistleblowers were coming forward, uh, with their testimony. obviously creating an atmosphere of intimidation. The COVID pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and countless people around the world. Now, after years of lies and censorship and coverups, the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountability. The tactics that were used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook. Politicized, self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected president by restricting his access to the vital facts he needed to keep the country safe. It's time you know the truth.

Mm. Thank you, Tulsi. Our prayers are are out there with Tulsi and her husband Abraham, who is fighting cancer. Um, so she's leaving her position. And yes, Sandy, I too hope she has, um, security while she is now out of office. Um, pretty disgusting. I was listening to some people talking today about, you know, would the Supreme Court hear the Autopen, um, situation? could it be overturned? What if another country came in and said, listen, what you guys did here affected the people in our country? Like, maybe another country could do something. Um, and I'm thinking, Marcella, can he be—

The pardon is not for any state, so any state can prosecute him. And remember, murder doesn't have a statute of limitations.

Okay.

And what she's describing is that he was a conspiracy, a felony. There's felony murder where you don't actually murder the person, you can just cause a felony and indirectly causes a murder. That would be felony murder in California. That's the law. Uh, probably many other states have that. So other states can bring actions against him.

So he can be sued civilly too, right?

He could be sued civilly. He could be, um, you know, Geneva— what is it? What is that? The International Court of Justice, um, can bring an action from other countries. And again, you can fight the auto pen part.

Yeah.

And no statute of limitations for murder, no statute of limitations for all the crimes that she's describing. Some of them don't have statute of limitations. Uh, making a false statement, maybe, but I think it goes beyond false statement.

What about lying to Congress?

That, that does have statute of limitations in this, but you could just ask him questions again. He'll lie again, but he'll take the Fifth.

I think that would be a federal crime also, so yeah, you probably have to deal with the pardon first. But I think definitely at the state level I think that's a possibility and they, you know, could go after him. I don't know if they will, but, you know, I think that it is just unconscionable what happened. And I think it's the biggest psyop we've ever seen, the most obvious psyop we've ever seen, where the whole media, all the entertainment shows, the late night shows, everything was just like that. Mm-hmm. You know, the way Mike Benz talks about whole of government, like it was the whole of government thing where they just said, we're gonna all pile on and make this vaccine the big thing and, you know, make COVID the huge thing and just make it the focus of everyone's life for years. And it was just awful what they did to kids, what they did to everybody. And I think they, they ended up killing a lot of people as a result when they really just didn't need to. And I think it was all about greed and covering up past crimes and, you know, just looking out for themselves.

Yeah. Um, Brett Weinstein, yes, he, he came out of the closet and he started talking about this knowing that he would be dragged for it, and he was by some. But I am so proud of him for telling the truth as he knows it and sees it. So you guys, Brett Weinstein, um, his brother is Eric Weinstein. They're very different people, but please follow Brett Weinstein. If somebody can drop his name in the chat and show him some support, because he's taken the shots and he is so smart and He's talking all about this, so show him some support on this. I don't think I know anyone, if they're being truthful, was not affected by what this man did, whether they know somebody who got sick, who died, who was isolated, who was injured, everything. I could tell you for an hour and a half the people I know. I could just keep listing what and who and how and who died and who survived and who's damaged and who— It's— It's like, and new things keep happening. Um, I mean, this is one, one sick dude and his people that have to, um, pay for what they did. Um, what do you think, Marcelo? Are we gonna— what will happen after this report comes out?

Nothing, like always. But something can happen. That's what I'm telling you guys. Something can happen internationally. Other countries were affected. Just like we were. Um, I don't know if he can be extradited, and that would be a whole other issue. But the, the states— Florida, um, so many people died. New York— so many people in convalescent homes died because they weren't able to— they were put in a certain way, like the, the directions that were being given It's the cover-up of, of not being able to cover up the fact that— I will go beyond this, like, he might have caused the COVID to get out. I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, right.

So allegedly, maybe.

Um, so it sounds like it, it sounds like it.

So it's like, uh, I, I feel like I wish somebody would actually bring some kind of criminal action against him and test it. Because the auto pen, as you remember, that's treading on— that's never been, um, litigated. That's never been for pardons.

Yeah, for a pardon.

And it also is for a pardon— I don't think it's for future crimes, you know. How can you— how can you pardon somebody?

And they went back like 20 years for Fauci. Yeah, for like—

that tells you a lot, right? Yeah, then it went back.

One of them, he goes back to the AIDS pandemic with him.

Oh, it goes back further, a little further, um, to, um, I believe to like the '60s or something like that, the like near Kennedy's. Anyways, that's like a whole, whole show that we could do, but, um, you, you can, you can pardon for murder, but which is what a president can do, Marianne. But, um, the, the, the pardon, the federal pardon does not apply to a state crime, to something that can be proven. However, all of these crimes are federal because it's, it's across state lines.

That's the, that's the problem. So I think DeSantis just signed something. I wish I had my Garakapedia open. Um, but I wanted to bring up that Dr.

Drew always talked about Fauci and all these things as well. He's another one that you should tune in and listen to in regards to this type of medical issues. So I don't know, I'm just, just like, ah, make me some kind of Attorney General or something.

Go for it, sister. Um, so, you know, now that this is out, let's see, let's see what happens, because there are people that are really upset that have lost a ton. And so maybe we'll see some class action stuff come together from different states. I wish— is Nikki in here? Nikki's my little researcher over there. But can somebody quick ChatGPT or Grok something that DeSantis, I think, signed that had to do with Fauci yesterday? I'm not sure, but if you could just put that in and see if anything comes up. Which also leads me to believe that DeSantis, I think he's going to run for president, don't you? No, Owen?

Quite possible. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't think he would necessarily do very well against Vance and Rubio, but he may give it a try. I don't know. It'll be interesting to see how that race shapes up, but I think my thoughts are with Rubio and Vance as the leaders there, and I would think DeSantis wouldn't necessarily stack up very well against them.

I see DeSantis as Attorney General. I think he would— he would do a lot good as Attorney General, and I could see him as president in the future as well.

All right, I'm gonna put a poll out today. I'm gonna put out a poll with Rubio, Vance, DeSantis, and I want to add one more.

Can we have 3 presidents?

No.

All at once?

No, ma'am. But I'll add in Bessent just for shits and giggles. Okay, so I'm going to do a poll after, and if you guys are not on X, drop them in the comments after the show of who you think would make the, the best next president. Because, you know, I'm just a quiet observer, you guys, and I'm just seeing problems. I'm seeing I'm seeing the division between Rubio and Vance, like who would like Rubio, who would like Vance, and who would not like them. I feel like you need like another neutral person to throw their hat in the ring and then just some kind of like out of left field, here comes Bessette like a big bull walking in. So, you know, I'm going to put that out after you guys take a vote. Your vote's anonymous. Even if you are— here's the thing, you guys, when I do a poll, everybody relax. They're like, neither. I don't like them both. It's just like you have a gun to your head and you have to pick one. It doesn't mean you're, you're, you know, loving that person. Just take a poll.

How am I supposed to relax when I have a gun to my head?

Well, that's how you get the gun away from your head. You just vote and then you're like, okay, the gun is gone. Okay. Okay. You got it? I think so.

I've never had a gun to my head and I hope I never do.

Good Lord. She's such a pain in the ass. Okay, so, and then in the comments, yes, you can put in together, like, I'd want Rubio, Vance, but just, you know, just for the poll, just tell me who you think, because I don't know. I don't, I think Rubio and Vance, this is just me talking, are splitting the party. I think they're splitting the party 'cause one seems to be, very pro-Israel, and one seems to be like, yeah, I'm pro-America, period. I'm not pro-Israel. So we'll see what happens. Um, okay, so what time is it now? Oh, all right. Well, I wish tomorrow was Friday so I'd have time to talk about the other things, but listen, this is how the show goes. Whatever is— whatever we do is fine. Um, so Owen has the after party tomorrow. I hear there's going to be a lot of like excitement and Maybe some cage fighting. Is that what you're planning?

Um, yeah, the, the audio version of cage fighting. Yeah, we, we sometimes have surprise guests and surprise, uh, disruptions, and that's part of the fun.

You never know what will happen at the after party. I like it.

I'm gonna have the simultaneous sip, so anybody who wants to get their fix for that, we can just do that at the beginning and then go into the news.

Love it, love it. Um, Marcella, uh, any closing thoughts for the fam?

Um, just watch the game today or manifest a win, but for the US at 12 PM.

Visualize.

And the Scots are playing at 6, uh, 3 PM or something.

Oh, those Scots.

6 PM for you guys, so have a little drink for them. But, um, in regards to the other things, the Supreme Court, I'll talk the maybe Monday or Are you here Monday? I don't think so. Oh, but I think so. The Supreme Court, uh, ruled marijuana is good if you use— if you own guns. So that's not to talk about, but— oh, thank God. Thank God. Okay, just kidding.

That was, by the way, that was the Hunter Biden case, by the way.

Yes, right, right. But he was in marijuana. Okay, but it related—

that made a difference in their ruling. I'll tell you what, if I was stoned, I would not want to be reaching for my gun. I, I mean, that's just me talking. I don't think that's a good idea. But anyway, um, all right, so there you go, stoners and shooters. Congratulations. It's a happy Juneteenth. Um, okay, so we will be back the, the two of us. Um, Owen and I will be back on Monday. Marcel will be back Tuesday, I think. I forget. Wednesday. Wednesday. Oh, all right. Well, we'll hold down the fort.

Where are you gonna be? Are you in court or what's going on?

Yeah. Okay.

She's in trial. All right.

Don't talk about it.

And then on Wednesday— on Tuesday, I'm in just a regular hearing.

Okay. Are your trials livestreamed where we could just tune in and watch you?

No, no, it's not a big trial like that. All right.

And we can like shout into the speaker.

I wish that I could like wave at you guys.

Marcela says something and we're like, woo, woo, woo.

Yeah, that's right.

Keep it real profesh. All right, so I'm thinking, let's see, how about we close out with Cha-Ching today and then I'm going to reload the songs for next week. And so if anyone wants to stay for the song, stay. If you have to go, go. We love you. And let's thank Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to continue. The Scott Adams School, we so appreciate them. Oh, you guys, we had a great show the other night, by the way, on Scott's Locals. And Jim Wyman came on and we spoke for about an hour and a half, Owen and I, with Jim. And he told us like his whole story of being— Uh-huh. Like what led up to him going to the Capitol on January 6th, what happened while he was there. He had some video clips of what was going on and the ramifications after. And I think everybody should know that our Jim Wyman is a stand-up guy, a man full of amazing integrity. And, you know, the world's a better place because you're in it, Jim. So thanks for sharing that story with us. Everybody really was riveted. And we just feel so bad for our fellow patriots who got caught up in this, um, and they were set up.

And I asked Jim who had the insurrection plan, and you can hear his answer.

Yes, so go watch it on Locals, scottadams.locals.com. You made Jim laugh, didn't you? Um, yeah, so do that. So, and we have another one coming up on Locals. It's actually going to be Jim Owen, me, and I think BJ. I have to double check. Um, they're going to teach me, which means you guys, everything you need to know about crypto. So if you know nothing about crypto and you're like, I don't understand it, I don't understand the words, the meanings— if they can get me to understand it on this show, you'll be able to understand it. So that's coming up too. And then we have another one that's going to be scheduled, a little bit of a deeper talk about Islam and what's happening. But that's really just like that's more for the, the PM private kind of show. We don't want to freak everyone out, so that's over there at Locals. Okay, so thank you.

And it's Father's Day.

Oh, happy Father's Day to the fathers and all the other fathers. Yeah, Owen, have a happy Father's Day.

He'll probably be live streaming, maybe for a little bit.

Yeah, let the kids make you breakfast, and then you get to barbecue for them.

Isn't that how everyone's still a college. He doesn't come home yet, but he's coming home next month.

Oh, okay. Well, he owes you. Okay, the universe owes you. Okay, so thank you to Scott and Shelley. And you guys, be useful. Have an amazing day, amazing weekend. Be useful. And a closing sip to Scott. To Scott.

To Scott. To Scott.

Oh, wow.

Akira.

It's not music, it's music plus.

How do you like being criticized? You hate it, don't you? Don't you hate getting criticized? Everybody hates it. It's not something you enjoy. Here's a reframe for you. Every criticism you receive, just play this sound effect when You get it.

Ready?

Uh-huh. You just made money. Do you know why I say that?

I don't understand.

Because you just made money. It's true. If somebody criticizes my livestreams, and I'll tell you the biggest criticism I'm hearing is that my shelves are boring. 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? No. No, nobody likes to be criticized. It's not like you enjoy it, but how do I receive it? Do I receive it as, "Oh, I guess I suck. I could, right?" How easily could I receive a criticism like that as, "God, I'm an idiot. Why didn't I see it? Obviously those shells need something on them." That'd be real easy, wouldn't it?

I don't.

I don't. Here's how I hear it—

Kaching! Kaching! Kaching! Kaching! Kaching! Kaching! Kaching!

I know exactly what to change to do a better job. 'Cause 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? Do you feel, "Ugh, I hate it when people give me a thing that makes me make money"? I'll bet most of you think exactly that. You think, "I hate criticism." Not me. Years ago, when people would criticize my comics, I would hate it, of course, but then I would say, "Oh, a lot of people are saying the same thing, so I'll change it." And then I would make that change, and that made me rich. I literally got rich by being criticized and understanding the criticism as—

Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.

Every time I hear one, I say, wait a minute, you just told me how to get richer. The same applies if you're not trying to get rich. Suppose you just wanted The best advice somebody gave me was the cruelest thing anybody ever said. One day my female friend told me how negative I was and what a bummer it was to listen to me because I was complaining about stuff all the time. Now, I was not aware that I was a big complainer. I had no idea. I thought I was a person who talked about my day, the funny parts of it. So in my mind, I had no idea that I was having an effect on other people. Once I learned that, Do you know how powerful that was? I was able, because it was something I could change, I would become aware of the ratio of negative things I said to positive. Cha-ching! It was probably the most important change I've ever made to my social toolbox. I would say that that one change really, really changed my life.

Cha-ching! Cha-ching!

That's the, that's the refrain. So next time you get criticized, whether personally or whether professionally, say to yourself, say to yourself, say to yourself, "Chaching, chaching." Just try it. Like actually say that, that phrase. That little sound. Cha-ching. Not figuratively. I'm not talking figuratively. I mean actually saying that. Cha-ching. Cha-ching.

Cha-ching. What do you hear?

Huh?

What do you hear? What do you hear? What do you hear? What do you hear?

Cha-ching, you guys. Thank you so much for being here and hanging out for cha-ching. Owen stayed to dance too. Do you see him boogieing? Love it.

I saw him moving.

I know. I think he moved a centimeter to the left. I'm not sure, but—

Secretly.

He was dancing. He was dancing. All right, you guys. Goodbye, everybody. We'll see you either over the weekend, but definitely Monday morning. I'll miss you. And Marcella, I'll miss you.

I'll miss you guys.

Okay, bye guys.

Bye.