The Scott Adams School - 07/29/26 The Home Team. White Board. Fauci. Trump.

Oh, okay, we should be live. Oh, by the way, everybody, look at Owen's new shirt.

Owen, are you in Hawaii? That looks very Hawaiian.

I'm not, as far as you know.

Good morning, fam! What's going on? We're just pulling up the live streams, getting everything opened up so we can see y'all.

Y'all—

I keep saying the y'alls in the morning, it's so weird. It's my new thing. Okay, okay, what's going on today? Anything big and exciting in the world? A trial perhaps?

Yeah, Fauci, Fauci's testifying right now, so— or taking the Fifth on all of them. So yeah, but I have to— I have court today, you guys, so I will have to leave a little bit earlier than, than usual, around 7:50. If, uh, Andy is there or Beverly, if you guys can remind me And then Owen has an interrogation meet.

I mean, he has a meeting, so he'll be leaving early too.

Yeah, I got to leave about halfway through.

So I'll be here. Okay. So, all right. Good morning, everybody. It is July 29, 2026. I see you, Jim Courtney, in the chat. I see all of you. Let's see. Rumble. Hello. Good morning, YouTube. It's good to see YouTube. I love you guys on YouTube. You're so cute. Don't forget, I read all your comments after. After if I can't see them during. And, um, you guys are amazing. Hey, Crusher! Um, I see X and Spotify and our beloveds at Locals. Let's go! All right, you what?

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I love when people in the chat are like, like someone just said, who's Omar? And it's like, it just goes so far back. Um, Good morning again. My name is Erica, and this is Marcella and Owen, and we are the home team. We are, um, the hosts of the Scott Adams School, and we're here every day, Monday through Friday, at this time, so we can all have a simultaneous sip together. We could talk about some news, current events, and whenever we can, we love to do lessons that Scott has taught us along the way. And don't forget, all of Scott's YouTube videos are still on YouTube, and if you want to come over to locals and chat with us, uh, on the Locals platform. There's a ton of extra content over there, and that is scottadams.locals.com. We'd love to see you there. I think it's $7 a month, um, or if you purchase the year for $70, Scott gave you 2 months for free. Okay, uh, let's get going. So, uh, we do have some things to cover today, um, and I'm hoping we have a whiteboard for you too, but I just wanted to show you the coverage, um, from Lindsey Graham's funeral that I found most compelling. So here it is. Tick Tacks, you guys. Tick Tacks. I love how he puts it in his mouth. I don't know why. He's like, hey JD, have a Tic Tac. See if Bessette wants one. Bessette, I didn't want to have to tell you, but take a Tic Tac. Trump, he's like the godfather there. He's like, ah yes, we're all minty fresh.

Were those actually Tic Tacs?

Yes. Okay, what do you think they were, Quaaludes?

When he zoomed in on it, I was— I wasn't sure if I saw the Tic Tac shape, but maybe it was.

All right, Owen, start our next coffee. Oh my gosh, don't you love that? So you guys, doesn't that remind you of like when you're in church or in an important meeting or in class or wherever you are and like someone does something that makes you laugh. And did anyone watch Seinfeld and think about the Pez dispenser? Because that's what I immediately thought about. So I love that. All right. Jean said, I saw the box. Oh, and it was Tic Tacs.

Oh, I saw the box. Just usually they're, you know, they have that little UFO sort of shape. And I wasn't sure if I saw that or something else, but I made a be waking up.

Marcela, we both went, they look like Tic Tacs.

I might be just too tired this morning.

It's okay.

UFO.

What I was gonna say is I think he was keeping them awake because I'm sorry, Lindsay Graham, but it was kind of hard to stay awake when I was watching it while during lunchtime at work. I may have fallen asleep.

Well, it's very, you know, subdued. So yes, the Pez was on Elaine's leg in Seinfeld during the piano concert when Jerry took out the Pez dispenser and stuck it on her leg. And the Junior Mint was when Kramer launched a Junior Mint into the surgery he was watching. Yes, yes. So we had two minty references from Seinfeld. If you've never watched it, watch it. Um, okay, so We wanted to first talk about, because Owen has to go, I was like, let's do some Save America Act, Congress going on vacation, which I can't believe that they have the nerve to go on vacation. But here's a little clip of John Cornyn. I mean, what does he care? He's done, right? Like, thank God, Ken Paxton won in Texas. But he's all hopped up and ready to go on vacation. Here's a quick look at him.

I don't understand the rationale. I think it's basically we're overpromising and we're not going to be able to deliver on that promise because we don't have the votes to pass it no matter how long we stay. And we're not going to change the filibuster. So, but somehow the president's convinced that if he presses hard enough that we will come around. And, but I just I just don't think that's likely to happen.

Is he putting Thune in an impossible position here?

Well, I think, yeah, it's— well, I wouldn't say impossible. They'll figure it out, but it's a very difficult position.

So that's one perspective. And, um, I love, you know, people are blasting these, these, uh, congresspeople that want to go on vacation. Like, Scott Pressler is doing a great job saying, like, here's a list of everybody that's up for reelection, and here are the ones that are going on vacation and not sticking around, which such a great play because if they're not working for you, right, then make them work for you. I hear you, Dax, I hear you. So we've been dying for a, a Maria Bartiromo hit, so here's the opposite of John Cornyn. 11 of your colleagues are also calling for the recess to be canceled. Do you think the Senate will stay in Washington, and do you expect the Save America Act to get over the finish line?

Well, I have continued those conversations And I'm so excited that since I made that statement, that we should stay in Washington, so many of my colleagues have stood up and said they will not agree or consent to a recess unless we get the Save America Act back to the floor. I mean, the American people want a vote. I can't tell you how many people in Florida, no matter where I go, want the Senate to vote on this. And so, you know, we're not going to agree to a recess. We're going to push forward. I will continue to have discussions with leadership on why this is so important. Again, like I told you when we started this conversation this morning, Maria, my goal here in the Senate is to restore trust by the people in their government, that their government is working with them, for them, with their best interests in mind every day. And we've got to get this vote going.

Who's against? Who can you tell us is actually against having citizenship proof to vote? What's the problem with showing that you're a citizen?

I think there's no problem. I don't think there should be a debate. I stood on the floor on Monday night and tried to pass it by unanimous consent, and a Democrat showed up and objected. I dared them to, and they did. But here's— here it is. To know who is objecting, we need the vote. The American people are owed that.

Okay, so by the way, name names, like what's the problem? That was Ashley Moody, uh, representative from Florida. And thank you Eric Daughtry for that clip, and thank you Nick Sorter for the other one on Cornyn. Um, yeah, so Owen, I'm going to come to you first. You know, this is just so frustrating. Thune is frustrating. Um, What's the good reason to not do this? Do we know?

Well, I think, um, I— again, my suspicion is— and this goes back to how Scott Adams would tell us, like, you know, on an individual level, we're presumed innocent, but when it's the government, you need to presume they're guilty until they prove they're innocent. And I think so. I have to assume that they have nefarious purposes here. They have something that they want to prevent the real election integrity from being put in place. And, um, the most charitable thing that I could speculate is that people who are up for reelection in a swing state and they're worried about their chances, they might be the ones that would say, well, I don't want to do that because then the Democrats will— like, you know, I don't know, someone like Susan Collins, you know, that, that sort of situation where it's like if they're on the edge, they might say, well, I don't want to do this. That would be the most challenging or most charitable way of putting it. But I think the other side, of course, is that they've been benefiting from not having those things in place and they don't want that to end. They want to have their ability to rig elections and they don't want anything to interfere with that. And, you know, if— let's assume for the moment that there is election cheating on a widespread basis, which of course would certainly be possible given our current system, then it's very likely that both sides have been taking advantage of this for a long time. And they probably would prefer that that system stays in place because that's what got them in office.

Right. All right. So Marcella, what is— so with the filibuster, the talking filibuster, I remember when, um, oh my God, what was his name? Harry Reid was the one that took it away. Is that who it was? Harry Reid, I think, back in the day. Oh, he was a mess also. But what, so what's the What's the downside of the talking filibuster if you know it? Is it that like when Democrats get power, like they're going to use it against us? Like, I'm just not sure I understand what the filibuster problem is, and I'm totally putting you on the spot right now about it, but they could still do the talking filibuster, but it's up to Toon to do it.

Um, so I don't know why they're not doing it, but they can do it. That means that if there is a filibuster in place, somebody has to be there talking forever and ever and ever. So they can still do it.

Okay.

I would point out about what's not, you know, the dog not barking, like people like Cornyn, you know, they could easily take that same opportunity to tell reporters like, I'm doing everything I can. I want to vote for it. I'm trying to convince people to change their vote. Like, and they could say things like that interview with Maria Bartiromo, like, you know, we should be passing this as a common sense thing. We just, you know, we don't have the votes yet, but we're working on it. Or I'm talking to people and, I'm as frustrated as you are, or whatever. But they're not saying any of that. Like, Thune isn't saying that. Cornyn's not saying that. So I have to assume they're against it.

Senator Mike Lee had, uh, talked about how he would want Thune to bring in the, the talking filibuster. Why? Because if you're going to filibuster a law like this, then it's going to be harder for you to do it as a talking filibuster. So that's why he wanted to push that, but Thune didn't push it. So It's up to— that's why there's a lot of pressure on Tooned, because the idea is, why is he not cooperating, uh, with something that should be— everybody should be for, right? So that—

yeah, why?

Yeah, I have an idea though. As a teacher, as a previous teacher, where you're in recess, I say that everybody that wants to vote for the Save America Act can go to vacation. Everybody that does not stays That'll show you who's into it. No vacation for you if you don't want to vote for Americans.

I mean, they make a stupid amount of money, right? They get all these kickbacks. And so stay, stay for the first week, see if you can iron it out in the first week. You still get the rest of the time off. I mean, if that's what you're signed up for. But it's, it's— these are people we would never hire at our businesses because their, their focus is so wrong. As someone who's owned multiple businesses, I can't imagine hiring someone with that mindset. It's terrible. All right, so I'm going to move on. I'm going to see how fast we can get through some of this because I want Marcella at least to see the Trump— I mean, the Trump— the Scott Adams whiteboard, if possible. Okay, so yes, right now we have Fauci. I know some of you are probably like, what am I missing? What is happening? I can tell you, here's what Fauci's saying.

Therefore, although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.

Thank you.

So that's been his response thus far. I can't stand listening to his voice either, Goldie. And just remember, if he's talking, he's lying. It's something for his own personal gain of function. And so the only exciting thing so far I saw, and I just pulled it right before we came live, is this moment of Rand Paul talking to Fauci's attorney. I, I like this clip. Marcello, you might just love this, and you'll comment after this clip first.

You're not recognized. You're not recognized. If you are unruly, you will be removed from the proceeding. You are not— you are not recognized. And you, you are not recognized, sir. Sir, you are not recognized. You are not recognized. Security. We'll hold off, but you will respect these proceedings. You were told not to sit at the table. You insist on sitting at the table, and we told you you would not be recognized. You are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive. Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge would put you in jail. I can't do that today., but I can have you escorted from the premises. So I would say, sir, sit quietly and don't say another word. I said sit quietly. You are not recognized. Another word and you're gone.

So, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to hear what the attorney has to say.

He is not recognized by the committee or the chair. If he speaks again, he will be removed from the room. This testimony is from Anthony Fauci. This is not a game with his lawyers. He can advise. His lawyers can give him advice. He's got a half dozen here. They're all allowed to talk to him.

Yes.

All right.

But the attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney was told not to sit at the table, and he's not obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir. That's where you were told to sit, and you're not. And now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so, look, this is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered, for a lawyer not listening to the rules. That's the way you want to be remembered, and that's what you're going to do. You are not recognized, sir. Uh, security, please remove him from the room.

What an utter Douché. The whole time he couldn't shut his mouth. It's like, shut your mouth. All right, Marcela, go ahead. I just had to say that.

I am for Senator Rand Paul kicking him out. I would have never let him sit there, but I guess somebody did allow him to sit there before the proceedings started. What I don't— what I think about when I think of Scott Adams and what he would tell us, I think that the visuals are there on both sides, on the two movies, right? The movie of us, like, let's kick out these people, they're corrupt. And then the movie on MSNBC now, or CNN, would be like, look at Senator Paul kicking out his lawyer out of there because he wants to incriminate this innocent man. So there will always be two movies, um, and this just kind of serves to that. That's why the, the show feels like a, like a, like a movie show. But in regards to what Fauci did, Um, we'll see. He's going to— and I think Rand Paul, if he plays 4D chess, I think the main reason he did this, he knew probably that they would take the Fifth, is to see and test the pardon.

Yeah. Um, sorry, my mic's weird. Wait, where's my mic going? Um, Owen, I mean, like a child, that man could not shut his mouth, that attorney. Um, someone had a good question. I think it was Steven over here said, so does he still have to pay him the hourly rate, Marcella, if he got booted out?

Yeah, he still gets paid.

I know, I was just kidding.

Okay, he's making lots of money, but, uh, I, I didn't catch his name, so I, I don't know. But he— besides that lawyer, so you guys don't feel bad in the left that's watching right now, maybe you're on the left, don't feel bad, there were other 12 lawyers behind him.

Yes. That was just one of many. One of many.

One of them.

Oh, and I love that moment. I love throwing his ass out of there. What'd you think?

Well, the whole thing is a circus show, you know, and I, I, you know, I do applaud Rand Paul for doing it. I think he deserves to be put on the hot seat and at least put in position where he has to plead the Fifth. I think it was worth doing even just for that, just so people, you know, we can at least have it sort of on record that he was unwilling to answer these questions, that he's thinking that something he says might incriminate him. Um, and, you know, maybe we will see a test against the pardon, maybe we won't, I don't know. But, um, I would kind of guess that the pardon will be allowed to stick even if it was an auto pen pardon. I don't know how that would, uh, be overturned unless they had like definitive proof that Biden did never, you know, approve it, which I don't know how you can prove a negative like that. So Um, but I, you know, I do think it was still worth putting him on the hot seat just to essentially, you know, put him through this cycle that we've been seeing in the press where all these stories are coming back and all the diary files are out and people are seeing how— what a despicable person this was.

Yeah.

And, um, so even if we can't have him face legal consequences, at least he can have the social consequences and the political consequences of ruining his reputation. And having this— the truth exposed of what really went on and what he was really thinking and why he did all this horrible things. And so even if we can't get him legally because of this pardon, I still think we should give him whatever punishment we can through the process. So I'm a fan.

Yeah, me too. I agree. Like, what— however we can— I don't even want to say mock, that's too nice— but shame him on behalf of all the injured, dead, and ruined lives. I mean, shame the bejesus out of this man because he's disgusting. And, and again, I want to say, and everybody that played a part in it with him, that went along with it, that gave him, you know, pre-written questions— Jake Tapper, all of you people that worshiped this man— you guys have no shame. I swear to God, it is so disgusting. There's— I mean, it's all over the news now. So like everything you look at, there's all these clips of you know, like reliving what happened and who was in on it and how they just put this man up on a pedestal. And, you know, that— remember when they were going through the city in D.C. and he was going around with like Muriel Bowser and they were knocking on Black people's doors to be like, hey, look, here's your Black mayor and she's telling you to get vaccinated. And all the Black families they were going to were like, hell no, we're not getting vaccinated. And then Fauci's there like, yeah, you know, and the Republicans are gonna make this political. And I'm like, how dare you? You know, like people have autonomy over their own body and you can't force people to take a drug. You know, they made it as difficult as possible by, you know, threatening your jobs, your livelihood, social, what do you call it? Like when your social circles out you and they're just like, we don't wanna be with you anymore. And they ban you from society. I mean, it was pretty fricking disgusting. Here's one clip. I just pulled one so we can see what Rand is saying in general here. But we'll have, you know, we'll have the highlights tomorrow. But let's take a look.

Admit that the risk of this dangerous research exceeded any possible benefits. Ask forgiveness and pledge to help our government devise safeguards so a man-made epidemic never happens again. Instead of an apology, you have for years avoided responsibility. Regarding the lockdowns, you argue that you did not personally issue every lockdown order, close every school, or impose every mandate, but officials across the country invoked your authority to justify these decisions. And you presented your recommendations not as judgments open to debate, but as dictates of science itself. Your own words demonstrate that you understood the influence you exercised. On March 14th, 2020, you wrote that the task force recommendations were driven by me, yourself, Deb, and CDC. The next day you wrote that you had convinced Mayor Bill de Blasio to close the New York City schools. So you were involved. That same night, Governor Gavin Newsom's chief of staff told you that the governor had decided to close California schools, bars, and restaurants after watching you on television. President, governors, mayors, school boards, corporations, and Congress all bear responsibility for the decisions they made. The COVID lockdown, however, could never have been inflicted without you aiding and abetting the crime. Children lost years of education. Small businesses built over a lifetime disappeared. Patients delayed cancer screenings and other medical care. Families were separated from dying relatives. Workers were ordered to accept a medical procedure or lose their jobs. Worship assembly, employment, education, and travel were restricted in the name of science. Well, you did not impose every restriction. You used your public authority to justify them.

Can we discuss the very attractive woman behind him? Oh my God, she's gorgeous.

That's a Rand Paul staffer.

You go, girl. Um, I was like, oh my gosh, she is so stunning. Um, okay, Owen, so that just gives us, you know, what the— why he's there and why we should loathe that man.

Um, I just think it— my takeaway from the diary stuff is just like narcissism isn't an adequate word to describe Fauci, like they, it should be like renamed as like Fauci-ster or something like it.

Yes.

He seems more narcissistic than Narcissus was that it was based on, like the myth. Like he's beyond that. Like he just, he thinks he's the center of the universe and just loves his own image and like nothing else matters. And he's just completely disgusting person and. You know, I think his fall, at least in the eyes of the public, is very well-deserved. And, you know, it's disgusting to see the people who are coming to defend him. Like, I posted a story about Wikipedia editing something out that was one of the things that was called out against him. And, you know, the people are noticing that, like, the far-left disgusting people are coming out of the woodwork to try to defend him and And it's just— I don't know. I wish we could put this guy in prison. I don't know that we can, but I'm just glad that he's receiving some of the shame and that a lot of these things are finally coming out. I applaud Tulsi Gabbard for bringing a lot of this information out because she's the one that declassified a lot of these things. And I think it's just useful because I do think we need to learn how not to do this again and to make sure we don't make this mistake again, because there is going to be another pandemic. And if a Republican is in office, they're going to maybe try and do the same thing again. To try and get them out or to try and create as much chaos and disruption. And I think in my mind, that was a lot of what was going on is it was political. It was— they were, you know, you remember on CNN and all these other places, they had the live death count 24 hours a day.

Like, it was disgusting.

We've never had anything like that. And, um, just the biggest psyop in history. And I, I think we need to not forget what happened because this is going to come up again. There is going to be another pandemic like this, and, um, they're going to try and put all these things in place again, and we need to make sure we don't go down that same path.

Um, oh, that's a good question. Did Deborah Birx get a pardon?

I don't believe so, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, I don't know. We'll look into that. Um, are people still coming out now trying to defend him? Is that what you're saying you saw?

Well, the, the story I posted was about— there was, I forget what the detail was, but it was some, some part of one of the things that Fauci had been involved with that Wikipedia just said, you know what, this isn't an important detail from this page, we're just going to delete this. And, you know, it just so happened to happen right now, you know, years later. Nothing changed. Like, why would they even be looking at that page? But I think it's because it probably was mentioned in the diaries, and they were like, oh, you know what, this doesn't need to be here, let's get rid of that. And right, so they were like editing Wikipedia to try and take away the facts that are now against Fauci.

Okay. Oh yeah, and then, uh, you know, and then let's not forget all of the times in these diaries and the emails they found where Fauci's telling everyone immediately delete this, get rid of these papers, you know, which is illegal. Um, You know, they've really— you guys, listen, if you're ever faced with something, not even like to this magnitude, but whenever you're faced with something, just try to— you know how Scott Adams would have like the 48-hour rule? Like, you know, just give yourself some extra time to think about things rationally. Say, if I take the fear out of this and I just look at, you know, what I'm being told, does it make sense? Does it align? Do I feel like the cost risk is worth it? Do I trust the people that are telling me? Can I do a little bit of research on my own. Just try to do that sometimes, because we're so used to everything being fed to us so fast, so fast, so fast. You know, now, now it's like with AI, we can get things faster, faster, faster. But when it comes to you and making a really important decision, slow down. Just please slow down, okay? Because I could tell you story after story of people that were very, very close to me and my family who were deadly impacted, uh, by Fauci's decisions. Um, Marcela, yeah, go ahead, Owen. Thank you, Owen. We'll see you tomorrow.

See ya.

Um, so Marcela, I, you know, I agree with Owen. I wish there was a way that we knew we could put him in jail, but, um, I did like how Rand Paul laid that out about all the things he was doing.

Um, I, I just have to say that, that he needs to— he still can face contempt for not answering questions. Um, so I, I don't know what Senator Rand Paul is going to do. Um, but he could still do a lot of things. So the, the issue is the pardon. They're gonna have to look at it because they're gonna have to take this to court. Which is how we got the original decision back in 1896. Um, so the question would be, can— so technically he's not supposed to use the Fifth. Can he use the Fifth, um, when he already has this pardon? How— what the scope of the pardon is. Um, his attorneys can argue he had a fear of perjury, but I don't know if perjury was something that you can, um you can put together, because technically the way that the Supreme Court indicated that this would happen is that, okay, so you give a pardon, you can't, you can't incriminate yourself anymore because you have a pass from this time to this time. So you're supposed to answer the questions with truth. So now he's saying, I can't answer my questions with truth. So therefore I have to take the Fifth. We'll see.

I mean, there was even Rand Paul said to him, are you sitting with a folder in front of you? And he took the Fifth. So he won't even answer like, yes, there's a folder in front of me on the table. So this is the route he's going, which I just think is a bigger slap in the face. It's just going to make us more angry. There's never accountability. So let's, let's, you know what, let's give it the 48-hour rule, even the 24-hour rule. Let's just see what happens as the day goes on, how things parse out. All right. So, Marcella, I know I only have you for a limited time, so I want to get right to Scott Adams' whiteboard and we might have a second to talk about it with you still here. And if not, that's okay. You guys, let's buckle up for— I think it's just about 12 minutes, and let's get a quick whiteboard lesson from Scott Adams talking about Trump's persuasion. Let's go.

All right, if you remember in 2016, I became, let's say, known within the political commentary world for my comments about Trump and persuasion. And here's something I missed, and once it hit me, I thought, oh my God, Trump did his Rosie O'Donnell thing again. Remember in 2016, he did the debate where he was challenged about his, you know, actions with women, or what he said about women, and he said, "Only Rosie O'Donnell." And many of us said, "My God, that's the moment. That's when everything changed." That's when you realize that he was too strong to be taken down by weak attacks. And that he's going someplace. But he had that moment in this last debate, but it was a little bit overshadowed by the fact that Biden fell apart. So Biden's collapse was the big story, which diverted even me from noting that he created a masterpiece. A masterpiece. Now, I, I could argue that his entire debate was a masterpiece of persuasion, if you allow me that his fact-checking was the usual, right? But in terms of the energy, the leadership, the mental acuity, the ability to move energy around, even the wise way he avoided questions. He's criticized for avoiding questions, but he did it wisely. Like he just moved the conversation to where he had a strength. All of those things are A+, right? Now, I criticized him and nitpicked him over some of the arguments, like not debunking the hoaxes well enough, and that's still a criticism, but he also didn't get into any of the weeds much. So if you allow that he's not a weed-getter-into guy, he's got a strategy that works in debates, he employed his strategy that works in debates, which is not getting into too many details, staying at the high level, and also even his critics are saying, he did a great job of bringing everything back to immigration. And he did. If you remember one thing, it's something about immigration, which plays to his strength. I barely remember any of the other topics except that golf thing, which I'm not going to talk about because, yeah, that was just fun. But you all remember when he said, after, uh, early on when Biden mumbled And Trump let this go. He said, I really don't know what he said at the end of the sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. I'm going to turn the board around and tell you why. If you didn't realize it was more than just funny, because maybe your reaction was, oh, that's funny, it's just like good joke, and maybe you thought that's all it was. Oh God, no. This is something that only Trump can do. Watch this. Look how, look how much technique he packed into this. Number one, he said it quickly and it was funny and it was clever. What were they both trying to prove that night? They were trying to prove that Biden had mental acuity. The moment he showed he didn't, Trump not only called him out, which would have been fine, not only called him out for his lack of mental acuity, but he demonstrated his own quick wit. Contrast is your number one, you know, well, it's in the top 5, uh, persuasion techniques. So he created an instant contrast, which he proved to the world he's a fast thinker and a productive fast thinker. Because not only was he fast, but he came up with the perfect spontaneous, spontaneous, ad-libbed, perfect persuasion. It's the only thing I remembered besides the golf talk because it was funny. It's all I remembered. And you wait a few days after the debate and you say to yourself, what do you remember? You remember that. Now, it also had the effect of being the silent assassin. You want Trump because he's strong. You want Trump— if you want Trump, you want him because he can take down his enemies without much effort. You want a guy who can make a kill shot and a low-energy jab. You want somebody who can change the world with a sentence. He was a silent assassin. He didn't make a big deal about it. He didn't put on a show. He just gave the face when he was listening to him, like the quizzical face your dog makes when you're talking to your dog and dog turns his head. I don't even know what those words are. So first he gives you the visual where he's obviously straining to even understand what Biden is saying. So that's good. But when he sticks the shiv in, It's just such a strong, silent assassin. He didn't make a lot of noise about it. He just knew it was the kill shot, and so he didn't have to yell about it. He just said, "All right, here's the shiv. Put this right up to your ribs there. Now I'm gonna be pressing this in really hard while you're all watching. There we go, there we go, there we go. Now we've penetrated the heart, and now I'd like to tell you some things I'll do as President." It was masterful, right? The next thing he did was he found a sentence or two that summarized the entire election. The entire election is about the cognitive, you know, value of one person versus the other, and he managed to summarize the entire campaign with this sentence we'll never forget— two sentences. I forgot it's on the other side of my whiteboard, but I didn't forget the sentence. The other thing he did is with that one reframe, he reframed Biden as a child or as somebody who needs extra help because he didn't yell at him. And the way he talked to them is the way you would only talk to a child. If somebody had mental problems and said something you didn't understand, would you ever look him right in the face while you're standing there and say, I didn't understand that, and I don't think you did either? No. Would you say it to an adult? No. Would you say it to a child? Yeah, you would. If a 3-year-old said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, and it was like half language and half not, you might, you might say to a child, I don't know what you just said there, but I don't think you know either. You see what I mean? You would only say that to a child. There's no other circumstance. And so he reframes Biden as someone that you can talk right to, as if he doesn't even understand what you're saying while you're saying it. The reframe there was subtle but freaking brilliant, just the way he did it. If he'd gone strong, It would look like two adults. So in other words, if he said, well, there it is, there, that's exactly what I've been telling you people, I make sense, he doesn't make sense, he just proved it, that would be two adults talking. He didn't do that. He treated him like he was a child, and you can just dismissively talk about him right in front of him. Brilliant. But here's the big one. There are a couple other things, but the strongest part is I've taught my local subscribers this trick. It is so powerful as a persuasion. It's when you pace somebody, which is you match their thinking. You either match what they're doing or what they're thinking or saying. So there's different ways to pace them. It basically makes you like the person you're trying to persuade. Oh yeah, I'm like you. Whatever you're doing, I'm doing too. And then the next thing you say, you're more persuasive because they say, well, you like me, so I'll listen to you. As soon as Biden started mumbling, what were you thinking at home? You were thinking at exactly the time that Trump said it, you were thinking exactly what he said. That is the most persuasive thing you can do when somebody's in the room. If you can pick out what somebody's thinking at the moment they're thinking it, and it's a non-standard thought, all right, has to be non-standard. A standard thought would be, wow, it's hot today. Okay, you don't get any credit for that because everybody knows it's hot. It's an ordinary thing. I sure am hungry. No, no, even if the other person's hungry too, nothing, right? Those are ordinary thoughts. But this was an extraordinary situation. A debate, and a very unordinary situation where one of the people said something that didn't make sense to anybody. So Trump gets in all of our heads, Democrats and Republicans, and as you're thinking it, it comes out of his mouth. Oh my God. You were thinking, I don't know what that meant. You were also thinking, I don't know if he knows what that meant. He said exactly what you were thinking, exactly when you thought it. Now, even if you take the timing out, it doesn't work. If he had said it the day after, you know, "I don't know if you heard him, but I don't know what he said, and I don't think you know either." No effect. No effect. Well, a little bit. It would be a little bit of pacing, but you would lose the immediacy. If you can do it at the moment somebody's thinking it, And by the way, I teach, I teach this technique. This is a real powerful persuasion technique. And he nailed it. Now imagine doing that spontaneously and instantly and having that much right. But it's better. It keeps going. It was funny because it was funny and he knew it would be funny. Humor makes you repeat it in your head. When you hear something that's funny, and it's clever, your head repeats it. The repetition is what makes something become more important in your mind. You can't not repeat it. It's why rhymes work. You repeat rhymes in your head, so that's why they get sticky. So humor is repetition. Repetition forms memory. And as Dr. Carmen Simon teaches us, memory is basically what's going to drive your actions. And your opinions. So humor is repetition, repetition makes memories, memories is persuasion. And I also tell you that, uh, visual persuasion is the most powerful. And you'd say, well, this isn't really visual, it's just something he said, except that we were looking at Biden's face. Biden's face was the visual of the night. The only visual that anybody talked about is how bad his face looked. So when you match that, you're already thinking, what is wrong with Biden's face, with the fact that he's saying sketchy stuff? You get the visual for free. Now, I don't know that that was so planned, but it, but it was there. It was also a surprise because you don't expect somebody to say something in a presidential debate that's quite that clever and biting and right in your face. And so you might say, well, it's not that big a surprise because it's Trump, but even for Trump, it came, you know, maybe came out of nowhere. So surprise also gets your attention. Attention is memory. Memory is persuasion. And I would also argue that in a subtle way, Biden's obvious dementia is scary. Now it's scary in a general way, which is, uh-oh, who's running the country? So you got fear, you got an indirect visual, you got him thinking what, what you're thinking and saying it as you're thinking it. He's reframed him as a child, he summarized the entire election, he's a silent assassin, he showed contrast by being quick-witted, It was amazing. He did that spontaneously. So, you know, when I had a chance to talk to him about persuasion in the Oval Office in 2018, I actually asked him, you know, have you studied persuasion or is this natural? And he told me it was natural, that, you know, you made no special effort to study it. It's just a lifetime of picking up tips, I guess. And that was, that was the best example you're ever going to see.

Look what I did. Marcela Owen. So I love that, you guys. I also have to say, I do believe this, that East Coast, New York, New Jersey. I think that has a lot to do also with his natural wit and his ability to persuade. I just think that this is like a faster-paced, sarcastic— you got to be quick on your feet. And the, the work in his industry, you just have to know how to like wheel and deal with people and match their energy and like capture them. So I think that has something to do with it too. But you guys, I love that I was taking notes. I haven't seen that in a while. And I think the thing I love the most in what Trump did during that debate with Biden— yes, if something's funny, you remember it. And it's funny in a pathetic kind of way at Biden's expense. You remember it and you repeat it. And then people start to talk about that thing. So, Owen, I don't know, you know, like, if you got all of that, I'm sure you did.

I get the gist of it. Yeah. I think, I mean, first of all, I love that stuff too, that this sort of thing is why I followed Scott. Like, I just, I've said this many times, but like, I really followed Scott Adams for such a long time because I wanted the persuasion lessons. I wanted him to teach me things I didn't know about persuasion that were like more advanced and useful. And this is a perfect example of what that is and where he was breaking it down and he was explaining the techniques and he was teaching you things that would help you become kind of more of a master of persuasion or more influential. And I do think like the way I would interpret what he was describing, it is sort of more of a, like a mastery level thing. Like it's not I don't think very many people would study persuasion to get that level of talent. I think most people probably would just sort of intuitively get there. And even if they had practiced it to get there for years, as a lot of people I think do with persuasion, um, they wouldn't necessarily look back on it and say, oh yeah, I studied that, I, I honed that technique over— like, most people would just say, no, I I don't know, that's just the way I am or whatever. And but I think that's how mastery of a lot of things are. Like, you don't remember the, you know, all the times you fell off a bike. You know, later you're just like, I don't know, I just know how to ride a bike and you don't think about it while you're doing it. You just do it. And I'm sure that's probably what happened with Trump in the moment was he wasn't like thinking, okay, here's the perfect time to inject my humor so that I can, right, you know, like do this super persuasion thing. He was just reacting in the moment naturally, but it just happened to be like the perfect thing to say. And, you know, it hit all these buttons that Scott just described. And I think it's certainly possible to use what Scott just taught us and try and practice it and get better at it. But I think if you were successful in that, you probably would look back on it, be like, you know, I just do those things. Like, I don't think about it in the moment and do you know, do the thing that I just thought about. It's more like you just have to react in the moment and do what comes naturally to you at that point in time. And so all the masters of persuasion that I've encountered in my professional life, they would say the same thing. Like, I don't know that I ever had an explicit conversation of like, did you study persuasion? But I can tell you, like, they didn't understand what they were doing when they did it. It. Like they didn't, they, I had to explain it to them sometimes. I'm like, this is what you did and this is why it worked. But they had no idea. They just were being themselves, doing the thing. And, um, so I think that's an interesting thing about when you master a skill, it's like you don't really think about it and you don't necessarily even remember how or why you learned it.

Yeah. I mean, um, the opportunity presents itself and you have to seize the moment. I always tell you guys, I know there's maybe a couple of very good friends of mine and perhaps maybe a family member that watches this every day, and I will not allow them to reveal themselves, but they will tell you that I think, talk, and react in sarcasm, like quick wit, but it's just because of the situations I've been put in. And I was just picturing, like, I always say this too, like, you go on vacation somewhere and it's kind of chill and whatever.. And I get back to Newark Airport and I'm like, ah, my people, because we're all constantly like razzing each other and like seeing the opportunity and whatever. And I just feel like Trump is that. So I feel like my opinion is, you know, that whole New York dynamic. And when the opportunity presents, if you don't seize it or you don't see it, it's, you know, you're not using it to your advantage. And we're so used to politicians just being robots and talking like this, and I am a statesman and da da da da da. And you don't remember anything and you don't care. But you remember that Trump was not a statesman and he was giving everybody nicknames and he was poking the bear and like Scott Adams said, putting the shiv in while talking about his policies. And it's like, layer it, right? Just layer it. Like, get it all in there. You don't have to do it this way because that's how people do it. Do it your way, be persuasive, be memorable, and then people will remember you and they'll talk about you. So sometimes you got to not just shake the box, but get the frick out of the box and show people who you are. So I think we're— oh, James. So I think that that's like a perfect thing. And I do love also when he was saying, So I had to go look at my X bio, like what I have in there, because when Scott was saying, you know, saying, saying what people are thinking at home, and then if he says that thing, then people are like, yeah, that's what I was thinking. And in my Twitter bio, I wrote saying what you're thinking, because I feel like a lot of that, because that's just like what I do because I'm like a little mouthy. But I feel like there's so many men. I remember Scott not like laughing. One time he was like, you know, Erica, oh my God, you wrote something on Twitter today that I could not stop laughing. And I was like, what was it? And I guess there was a video of Kamala with her— I forgot her husband's name— Doug Emhoff standing behind her. And I was like, man, there is nothing worse than seeing like a man stand behind his wife like in this little subservient, you know, dynamic. And Scott was like, oh my God, I really wasn't going to say it, but you said it. And I just feel like I want to say the things that people are thinking because somebody has to do it. And why does it have to be me? I don't know. But I don't know. I just think that it makes you stand out, like shake the box, find the opportunities and seize them. Don't be out of line completely. We don't have Trump money and we can't fall back on this empire. But just get out there and say what you're thinking and make people remember you while giving your amazing ideas at the same time. I don't know. I just like it. So listen, Owen, anything more on that?

I mean, I think, again, I really appreciate all the things Scott did over the years like this, that he would break that stuff down in a way that you wouldn't get from anybody else. This is one of the examples. I mean, some of the other stuff that he's taught us, like, you know, we're having these discussions right now about How to Win Friends and Influence People. Some of his micro lessons clearly came directly from there, but like this one, I don't know where he got all that knowledge. Like, it, it seems like he did have this really, um, advanced, advanced knowledge of persuasion that I don't know that anyone else could have given us. Like, I've never heard any of this stuff broken down this way other than from Scott And so I just really appreciate that what he gave us there. Yeah, because it is something that hardly anybody talks about. Like one of the first books we did for my subscribers was 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. And that was the first time that I've been like, oh my God, like all this stuff that I had been picking up at work from all these really masterful persuasion people, like nobody ever talks about it. They don't, they don't, you don't discuss these things because some of it is because some of it can be at least unethical. It doesn't have to be, in my opinion, but but like, it's kind of, you know, you don't really talk about it because it's not really polite to do that. And, um, but it was like the first time I'm like, wow, I've seen all these things, I've seen all these games being played, I've seen all these techniques being used, but nobody ever taught it to me. Nobody ever said, here's what's going on. Um, and, and that's, again, it's like, there's, to me, it's just like a really, um, I don't know what the right word is, but like, they You know, there's a lot of valuable knowledge there that just is sort of never passed on.

Yeah.

And never taught to people. And so I just really appreciate, you know, everything Scott gave us in that sort of topic because it's, I think, very useful and also very rare.

And you guys just make sure— I agree, make sure that it aligns with your personality too. Like, you don't want to be Midwestern sweet and then all of a sudden come out with like, grab them by the pee. But maybe go back and watch that last segment again and pick one thing in there that you're like, you know what, let me try implementing that. Let me— oops, Stella, she's going to step on the keyboard and end the show. Oh, okay. I got her.

I caught her.

So maybe pick one thing and you're like, you know what, let me practice that. Let me If I see an opportunity where someone says something and then I think to myself, oh God, this is what everybody must want to say right now, say it. You could say it in a polite way, but say the thing that you know everyone's thinking and suddenly you've captured them to your side. So pick one little thing out of that whole thing and just practice. I know Stella's so sweet, you guys. I love her. Owen, thanks for coming back. You guys, Thanks for coming back every day. I know some of you want to go catch the, um, Dr. Mengele pleading the fifth. So, uh, we will be back tomorrow, the home team. And oh, Owen, what was the book called? 48—

48 Laws of Power.

48 Laws of Power. Okay. All right, guys, so I will stay and do an Akira song for anyone that wants to stay. Owen, if you have to go, we get You guys, let's say thank you to Scott Adams and to Shelley for allowing the show to go on. Thank you, you guys, for being here. You guys mean everything to us. And let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott Adams and think of something that you guys want to do today that honors that lesson he just gave us and like what you want to practice so you can become more of a persuading influencing machine. All right, guys, even practice like the repairman's coming or you have to go purchase something. Just get in, you know, practice, but you have to think about it to practice it. Okay. All right. Love you guys. I'm rambling. Tyscott.

Tyscott.

Steve, I give a shit about your ferret. I don't know what that means, but let's go.

All right.

Let's do Get Out. Let's do Get Out.

Somebody asked me for a reframe to help them get out of their head and, you know, stop having ruminations and bad thoughts. And I suggested the reframe of that I tried myself, and it worked, where you just say, get out, where you just say, get out, Akira, get out.

You just say, "Get out!" Just get out of your head.

Now, the frame that makes it work is to realize that you are a person who has two completely different lives.

This is the key.

There's a part of you that lives only in your head where you think about the past, which literally doesn't exist. It's imaginary. It existed at one point, but now it's just the thoughts of the past.

Get out.

Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out now.

Just say, get out.

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I want you to help me get out of here.

But you also have thoughts of, oh, what will happen in the future? I'm worried about the future. And that doesn't exist. Doesn't exist. Doesn't exist.

Doesn't exist.

So the life you live in your head is a completely imaginary one. Things of the history in your past that don't exist anymore, and worries about the future that doesn't exist yet. But the outside world is all real stuff, stuff you can touch, breathe, sense. And we live in both of those worlds. We go back and forth. And so the idea that I had that worked when I did it it was I just said, get out. What I meant was get out of the imaginary world and get into the real one.

Get out.

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I just say, get out.

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Get out. Get out.

We say get out.

They just walk out in the sun, walk out the door, pet the dog, do a chore, exercise, exercise, just get out. And so I'm going to ask you this as a favor. Try it once. Just try it once. Just tell yourself you have two worlds. There's the imaginary one in your head, and then there's a real one. And all sadness comes from the imaginary one. As soon as you find unpleasantness because you're in your head, get out.

Just get out.

Join the real world. Just go, hey, I'm in the real world again. Look at this real world. You'll feel instantly better. The cure for it Get out!

Get out! Get out! Get out now!

I just say, get out!

Get out of here! I want you to help me get out of here!

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I just say, get out!

Get out! Get out of here! I want you to walk away now! Get up! Get up! Now! We'll get out of here— Get out of here.

Get out of here. You guys, your comments are amazing. So good. All right, you guys, thank you so much. We will be back tomorrow. Whatever you do today, do it with intention and have a great time. Owen, thanks. I'll see you in the morning.

All right, goodbye, everyone.

Bye everybody!