The Scott Adams School - 08/24/26 Monday With The HOME TEAM

Called me to tell me what color shirt to wear. That was, that was good. We should do this every day. Oh, we're live, we're live. Okay, wait a minute, let me, let me turn—

Don't tell anyone. Yeah, and we didn't call Owen.

I know, but he is contrasting. It's, it's lovely, it's lovely. Okay, good morning, good morning everybody. Just waiting for the other platforms to kick in. I see YouTube.

And locals is here.

I mean, locals, look at you guys. Look at you, Frank Met Guy. You all look amazing, you guys. Oh my gosh, I was putting the date in before. It is August 24th, is that right? Oh my God, where'd the month go? Crazy. Local summer's almost here at the Jersey Shore.

Woohoo!

We love local summer. So anyway, how's everyone doing? Marcella, um, are you in a sauna? Are you at a spa? Don't tell us, we know it's an undisclosed location. I like it.

No, no, I'm in the same place, but I, I, um, I did a court appearance on Friday, so I don't like showing stuff, so that's why it's there.

You just— you redecorated.

Yeah, for the court. I don't want them to like— yeah, see my— like, if I'm at home, I don't want them to see that. So that's why.

Oh, she likes—

and I have a court hearing right after this, so you're ready.

Yeah, he just doesn't want to tell us that this is the top floor of her underground bunker.

Oh, right, right, right. Marcella, you're so smart. We're coming over, we're coming over if there's a problem. All right, you guys, good morning, good morning, good morning. Yes, there's a corpse in the room, Andy, and so that background helps hide SJB says it looks like your shui.

Perfect.

All right, you guys.

What did I do to my shui?

You funged it. Oh my God. Feng shui, sister. Feng shui.

I need it.

I need coffee, you guys.

Oh my bless. All right, let's go. I— you know what? I need coffee too. We all need coffee. Let's go.

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Mm.

Mm. My coffee was extra amazing, that sip I just had. How about you guys? Was it great?

It was excellent.

Excellent.

It was excellent.

Okay. All right, you guys. So welcome. You are at the Scott Adams School. It is Monday, August 24th, 2026. My name is Erica and I am joined today by Marcella and Owen. As always, we are the home team of the Scott Adams School. For anyone looking for full-on Scott Adams material, his amazing, amazing wisdom, I mean, we just don't measure up. And Scott's like, don't even try. So all of his videos, all of his amazing lessons and takes on things all live on this channel on YouTube. So you can always scroll back. And if you are new to Scott Adams, go all the way to the, the first video he ever did and just start working your way forward. You will not regret it. And if you subscribe to Locals, which is scottadams.locals.com, you can also filter through and find hundreds of micro lessons and extra content and man caves and pre-shows and post-shows and just so much fun over there. And that's where a lot of us really got to know each other so well. And that's how the 3 of us ended up on this screen, is because that's where we really developed our relationship with Scott and with the Beloved. So that's how we got here, guys. Um, that being said, we have a Scott Adams clip today. It's, um, of Scott and Jordan Peterson going over affirmations. And I Always see Kevin from the Persuasion Club working on his affirmations publicly. Good for you, Kev. And, uh, so we're gonna do a little follow-up on affirmations. Marcella and Owen have a ton of different kinds of news for us, and I have one little animal clip just, just to kick us off because it's me and it's Monday. Okay, so you guys, whether you have a dog or a cat or both, or you have no idea how these animals behave, Look at the difference here between a cat wanting to lay down with a dog and a dog wanting to lay down with a cat. The dog's like, oh, oh, oh, like, I don't want to disturb the cat. This might not go well for me. The cat's like, oh yeah, this looks good right here. I'm just gonna plop down on you. Yeah, just go back to bed. I'm laying right here. And the dog up there is just like, I'm near you, I'm not touching you, I hope it's okay. Obsessed. Marcella, you have both. Isn't it so true that that's how they act? Oh, you're on mute, you're on mute.

My, my dog thinks she's a cat though, so she'll lay on the cat and the cat will run away.

I just love that. So sweet. So, all right, Owen, you told me you have some coffee news for us. So everyone grab your cup and let's listen to what Owen's going to tell us. I hope it's good.

Yeah, there's a Finnish study, those crazy Finns, and they apparently found that people who drink a lot of coffee have lower body fat and more skeletal muscle. Clearly studied 2,264 Finnish adults. And they found that the fat was lower, the muscle was higher. They did say that the BMI, like body mass index and waist, were similar. So it doesn't necessarily mean they looked skinnier, but they did have lower fat and more muscle. So of course they always caveat these things by saying it's just a correlation, we can't prove causation, but we all know that coffee is the reason. So Apparently, you know, the FDA is saying 400 milligrams of caffeine a day is fine. I think actually most of the studies I've read go higher than that. I think it's like 5 cups of coffee, and by a cup it's like 8 ounces. So depending on what you consider a cup of coffee, it might be, you know, like 2 grande-sized Starbucks or whatever per day, because I think those are about 12 or 16 ounces. So, you know, 2 or 3 of the bigger ones or 5 of the smaller ones. But I think everything up to that point seems to be positive from all the studies I've read over the years.

Wow.

So I know some people have like a pot going all day on the— on the stove, I was gonna say, in the coffee maker, maybe on the stove. So this is like— this cup is just like your— it's a little bit bigger than an average coffee cup but smaller than our official cup. And I don't quite drink a whole cup of coffee, so am I just not helping myself at all? I drink maybe like a half a cup.

Well, I mean, you're helping yourself. I think any amount is good, but more would probably be better.

Mm-hmm.

Delightful. How many milligrams of coffee are— is it caffeine or the coffee?

The caffeine is what this was measuring, what they were mentioning in terms of what the FDA tells you. But I don't really care what the FDA thinks. I think, you know, I've read— I mean, I used to find these coffee studies all the time for Scott, and they are all pretty consistent. So, like, I could probably find 50 studies that all say how coffee is good for you. And the general guidance always seems to be that, you know, anywhere up to 5 cups of coffee a day is good for you. And it helps your heart, it helps your liver, it helps your brain, it helps your gut, it helps everything. And so I don't remember exactly how much caffeine is in a cup of coffee. I think it might be like 100 milligrams, but it does vary. I mean, you know, if you, if you have a different roast or other things, you know, so it's not like precise like it would be in a—

Yeah.

In a can of soda or an energy drink where you know how much is in it because they measure it. Coffee is just whatever's in it, and it depends on how you brew it. It depends on what kind of beans you use. And I thought it was interesting that I have dark roast all the time. That's what I prefer. And I would have assumed that a dark roast would have more caffeine, but it actually has less.

Oh.

The, the, like if you go to Starbucks, for example, and you compare the dark roast to their blonde roast or something, I think the blonde roast is the highest in caffeine.

Interesting. All right. So, and tea drinkers, I don't know if I, I don't know if it's coffee caffeine that matters, but mm-hmm.

Yeah, I kind of, I mean, there, I've looked at some tea studies, not as many, but it's certainly good for you too. I think especially the green tea is pretty good for you. And some of that does have caffeine, some doesn't, I think. But it's— I would consider kind of complementary. There's something called— I think it's EGCG that comes out of green tea, and that's really good for you, but it's in different ways than coffee. So if you want to do both, you can get even more benefit. But I would, you know, if I had to pick one, I would pick coffee.

There are so many fascinating comments in the chat right now. Like you guys, what you know about coffee, the way to brew it, like its density, it's this, it's that. Black tea can cause kidney stones. Green tea makes your heart palpitate. Uh, blonde roast at Starbucks, Nespresso 36-pack is almost $40. That's insanity. Um, okay, so, um, I will have— I actually, I don't even have a half a cup of coffee because I've got that Chobani cream in there, so I'm probably getting like just under a half a cup of coffee anyway. I'll see So, all right, now Marcella, we're going to need a tidbit from you now. What kind of little story do you want to tell us?

So in regards to— there was an Olympics, sort of Olympic style in China with robots. I don't know if you guys saw some of the clips online. There's a Chinese humanoid robot that beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter record. And the humanoid robot Dove Lightning-Marcella ran the 100 meters for 9.32 to 9.39 seconds during the preparatory test for the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Olympics or Games in Beijing. And I kept seeing different— there was MMA fighting. Robot tournament. You saw that. But you know what came to mind? I know this is like random. Marcela thought is in the future they had like this marching in a in a track. They had marching robots like quite a lot. It looked like it was AI, but it was real. And I thought in the future we will have robot armies. But also we would need robot security. But will we, as like regular, you know, not government but private and people, would we be allowed to have robots under the Second Amendment? Would it be considered a weapon? Um, and the right to bear a robot, the right to bear arms. And I was like, because eventually, uh, uh, weapons aren't gonna It's gonna be meaningless. It's like, do you have a robot, Marcella? And then, uh, Erica's like, do you have your drone, Marcella? Do you have this? You know, so it just—

That's what I thought. I saw those things marching on that track and I'm like, we are so screwed. Like, these things we're watching, like, what's coming to us next? So we're gonna have— picture though, this is me because you know me, you guys. Yeah, I'm picturing them all marching down my street.

And then you gotta have your own.

Yeah, okay, against an army. These things were like marching. They're gonna like come marching down the street. Each one's gonna like veer off and take a house and come in and like take you hostage and whatever. I'm picturing it's gonna be horrible. You need to eat.

You need your personal EMP.

Yes, I need an EMP. Or I can throw my cup of coffee on it maybe and burn it out. You never know. They'll probably be—

EMP, for those who don't know, it's electromagnetic pulse, and it's something that If you have one of these devices, it'll basically kill anything electronic. Just take it out.

We just need our own DEW.

What's that? Direct energy weapon. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so I don't know, maybe I'll get some pots and pans and clank them together. I don't know what I'm going to do, but that's all I see. I got you.

I got you.

Thank you. I'm going to have you do jiu-jitsu and stuff. And you're like, oh my God, like they're just preparing to fight us.

I know in the early testing with the robots, the army people, I think some of the military people were testing like, how can we fool the robots? Like they were trying to get past them without them realizing there was a person because they were, you know, it was kind of like a simulated battle and they fooled it with a refrigerator box, like a big cardboard box.

Oh.

They just hid under the cardboard box and they could just move around and the robots would act like they didn't know anything was there.

Oh my God, that's so funny. Um, interesting.

I'm sure there'll be like the Predator that has the sensors of like— you— was it the Predator that saw like, like whether you were breathing or not?

Yeah.

What is that called?

I don't know.

Infrared?

Or infrared, or is that what it's called?

Well, I mean, if it's, if it's seeing heat, then it would be infrared.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, like thermal imaging.

Thermal.

There you go. Yeah, there you go, Shmar. Yeah, so I am just watching what we can expect. Right now we're like, look at the robot dog delivering DoorDash. It's like, mm-hmm, that's for now. But those—

And dropping your package in the pool.

Yeah, allegedly dropping your package in the pool. I don't know. I don't like it. Then the next thing will be these robots launching and controlling drones. It'll be like, oh, this is great. We don't exist anymore.

Um, Erica's gonna have a bunch of buff robots doing all the manual labor around the house.

I can see them like being next to her side by side.

Why do they gotta be buff? Maybe they'll just like— will they have like gold chains and stuff?

They're your bodyguards and, you know, they're taking care of all your chores.

And I'm not against that as long as they can like whip out a gun. Uh, I scared you. I scared you, Marcella. As long as they can defend me and protect me, I'm good to go. Listen, Marcella. Oh my God. Right? Um, all right, so listen, y'all, I am still working on my affirmations, okay? So I thought I had my affirmations down, like the one I wanted to work on for the short term. I need to, I need to fine-tune it because some things in life changed and I'm like, I want to fine-tune that a little bit, so I'm gonna listen extra hard with this clip coming up. It's with Scott and oh Julie, with Scott and Jordan Peterson, and see if I can hone in on it. But for those of you that have been working on your affirmations, I know a lot of you have. A lot of you have reached out to me and told me that you are, and sometimes it's like you're seeing some results already. So let's. Let's just check it out. I am going to have pen to paper right here next to me and take some notes. And then on the other side, we'll come back and discuss what we heard. But let's enjoy 9 minutes of— listen, 2 amazing men, Jordan Peterson and Scott Adams. Let's go.

You studied pre-law and then you took a nosedive, let's say, into the corporate world, and then you stopped being sensible and then something impossible happened. So, and then you made an allusion to that. You said you had experiences that were so off-kilter, let's say, that it made you doubt the structure of the world. So, hey man, elaborate on that.

So I took a class in hypnosis when I was in my 20s because my mother had given birth to my little sister while being hypnotized because my family doctor was a hypnotist. And she reported having no pain and being alert and essentially awake, but still under hypnosis while she delivered a baby without, she said, without painkillers. Now, once I got older, I started to doubt this story, whether it was true. But in the meantime, in my 20s, I signed up for a hypnosis course. And one of the students was into something called affirmations. Now, most people have heard of it, but the way it was described to me was, oh, there's this book where if you just write down 15 times a day what you want, this magical coincidence stuff will happen. And I thought, eh, I'm not really a believer in anything magical. But she kept saying, well, it doesn't cost anything. It's easy to try. It worked for me. Some lover from my past just appeared magically when I Affirmed it. And I thought, all right, well, I'll give it a shot. And long story short, I picked some things which, according to her instructions, I picked some things which I thought were highly unlikely to happen on their own, such as a relationship that was, you know, with somebody who was way out of my league at that time. And it happened. And then some financial stuff that just seemed wildly unlikely happened. And they were both subjects of my affirmations. But I had been warned that if I didn't pick something that was wild enough, I wouldn't keep going with affirmations. I would just tell myself, well, I guess I'm a lot more attractive than I gave myself credit for. Or maybe my financial instincts are just wildly good. And sure enough, I did those things. So I said, hmm, I really gotta give this the real test. And so I decided, the other part of the story is the reason that my corporate career failed is that my boss called me into her office one day when I was working at a bank and said, I don't know how to tell you this, but we've been told by management we can't promote white men anymore. And I said, what?

What?

You can't, like, how long is this gonna last? And my boss was a woman, said, well, we don't know, but you know. So I thought to myself, all right, well, I quit. So I resigned soon after, went to work for the phone company, got on the fast path to management. And then one day my boss called me in and said, I don't know how to tell you this, but the word has come down from management, and you know where this is going.

Mm-hmm.

That we can't promote white men. And so that's when I decided, all right, I'm going to use an affirmation to become a famous cartoonist. So I started writing down, you know, I, Scott Adams, will become a famous cartoonist. Not just cartoonist, but a famous cartoonist. And how do you do that before the internet? Like, how in the world, if you had no connection to anything, it's not like there was a cartoonist college I could get into. I didn't know a cartoonist. So one day I come home, one day I come home and here's the magic part. I turn on the TV and I'm just flipping through the channels and it's before TiVo, you know, before any good technology. And I see the end of a TV show on one of the PBS stations about how to become a cartoonist. But I tuned in too late. I only caught the end of it. So just enough to know what it must have been about. So I quickly ran and grabbed a pencil and a piece of paper. And as the closing credits were going by, I wrote down where they were broadcasting it from and the name of the host. And I wrote him a snail mail letter and I said, I missed your show, but I would like to become a cartoonist. Can you give me some tips? Where do I start? And sure enough, Jack Casely was his name. He was a working cartoonist. He wrote back a 2-page handwritten letter in which he said— answered all my questions. He said, you know, buy this book. It'll tell you where to submit things that people would buy. Use this kind of paper because you can erase it a lot of times. Use these kind of pens. So I thought, oh my goodness, now I know what to do. So I bought the book. I got the paper. I made a bunch of comics that that I thought were pretty good, sent them off to Playboy and The New Yorker and some, just some magazines, because that was my ambition at the time. And, uh, they came back with rejections.

Uh-huh.

But they weren't even, they weren't even personal rejections. They were literally photocopies of generic declines. We, we were not, you know, interested in your cartoons. So I thought at the time, well, I tried. You know, I did my best, 'cause I really did try hard. You know, I put lots of time into it. Put my stuff away, forgot about it. A year later, I walk out to my mailbox and I get a second letter from Jack Cassidy, the original advice I'd gotten. And I thought, uh-oh, I didn't even thank him for his advice. You know, 'cause I suck. I just sort of used it. And a year later, he's writing me a second letter. And I thought, what is this about? And I opened his letter and it said he was cleaning his office and he came upon my samples I'd sent him a year before. And he said, and this was the same advice he gave me on the first set of advice. He said, I just wanted to make sure that you hadn't given up. And that was the only reason he wrote. There was no other agenda. Didn't ask for anything. He just said, I want to make sure you didn't give up. And I thought to myself, well, what is he seeing that these other editors are not seeing? So I thought to myself, I'll raise my standard instead of trying to get published in a magazine, which might give you a few hundred dollars a month. I, I thought I'll try to become a syndicated worldwide cartoonist. like Peanuts and, you know, do the hardest thing you can do as a cartoonist, which is break it— to break into that market. So I put together some samples that were now Dilbert because I'd been doodling him at work and a coworker gave him a name, Dilbert, and sent them off to the half a dozen cartoon syndicates. Now they're the ones that give you the big break. There were only half a dozen of them at the time. There are fewer of them now. And if they said yes, they would work with you to sell your comics to other— all the newspapers in the world. So if you got that break, that's like the break. So I sent off my samples because I had that book that had been recommended to me, so I knew where to send them. And the rejections started trickling in. And one of them suggested that maybe I should find an actual artist to do the drawing for me.

Yeah.

So that's the kind of feedback I was getting. So once I was pretty sure I had all the responses that I was going to get, I said, well, now I've tried as hard as I can twice. But I'm no fool. I'm not going to just keep chipping away for nothing. So I put all of my art materials away in the closet and I worked on my tennis game. And a few months went by and one day the phone rang. And it was a woman who said that she was an editor for some company I'd never heard of, some company called United Media. And I checked my notes quickly and I hadn't sent my samples to anybody by that name. But she said, we saw your samples. I didn't know how. And she wanted to offer me a syndicated cartoonist contract. And I thought, okay, I mean, that would be the big break. But since I hadn't heard of this outfit, I said, well, I'm very flattered, but I've never heard of your outfit, this United Media Company. Is there any cartoonist that you work with that's been published? Have you worked on anything like a, I don't know, cartoons in magazines or a pamphlet or anything? And there's this long pause. And she says, yeah, we handle, Peanuts and Garfield and Marmaduke. And when she got to about the 12th name on the list, I realized that my negotiating position had been compromised. And I said, hell yes. Got a lawyer, got a contract, and it went from there.

Aw, I love that story. It's so good. I mean, can you imagine If not for Jack Cassidy, who knows how this would have gone? And like everything had to work, right? But he wanted so much to be not a cartoonist, you guys, a famous cartoonist. And I think that that's really important too when you're writing your affirmations is to really boil it down to exactly what you want. And so like maybe you write it out and you're like, you know, this is what I want to happen. But then it's like, okay, refine it, refine it. refine it, refine it, and just make it as simple as you can with the exact meat of what you want. And I think saying like, you know, I'm gonna be a famous cartoonist was perfect. And, um, imagine Jack Cassidy going through his stuff and reaching back out to him after all that time to say like, hey, what happened? Did you take my advice? That's so amazing. Which leads to Basically what Scott did— oh, I always forget Stephen's last name. Is it Pastis? Stephen Pastis, the cartoonist that is going to be writing the foreword of Scott's book. Anyway, he's another cartoonist from the Bay Area who was an attorney and he wanted to be a famous cartoonist. And Scott just was like, I'm going to pull a David Cassidy on him and I'm going to help him. So he is now, Stephen is a famous cartoonist, one of the few. And thank you. And he is writing the foreword to Scott's book. Scott asked him in his last days with us, he asked Stephen to write the foreword of his biography. So it's just amazing. And I also think that paying it forward and helping other people, you know, like you put the affirmations out there, you're like, this is what I want to come to me. You guys, you have to be like a full circle person. Like you have to pay it forward. It's just, I mean, you don't have to, but I would if you want better results coming toward you all the time. People remember, you know, like Scott's telling that story, you know, up until the day he died, he remembers Jack Cassidy and what he did for him. So how, oh, Stefan, is that what it is? Stefan? Okay, um, thanks, you guys. Thank you, thank you. Yes, Pearls Before Swine is the cartoon that Stefan, um, draws, and it's amazing. Okay, so Owen, I'm gonna come to you first. Um, I— no matter how many times I hear this, I love it. And what's your takeaway with this?

Well, I think it's great. I mean, I, I do think Jack Cassidy is certainly a quality human being, and was giving back, and, and that was a key part of the story, of course. And I don't— it's impossible to know if the affirmation said anything to do with that, but I do think that I would point out that a lot of this had to do with Scott taking action. You know, he, he sent his stuff in, and even when he got the, the, the letter from Jack Cassidy, he took action on it. You know, he sent his stuff in again. And, um, you know, so I think that's a key part of this, is that I think the The important part of affirmations, I think, is to focus you on a particular thing. And that means focusing your thoughts, your words, your actions, your beliefs, like, and noticing where there are opportunities to do things, but then doing it and not just, you know, saying, well, I'm just going to sit back and see what happens. Um, again, there are elements in the story that would indicate maybe there are some things just out in the universe that happen And, and then I, you know, based on all the stories Scott has told like this, I can totally understand why he would say, you know, affirmations seem to work, you should try it. It's just like, even if you don't believe it, just give it a shot and see what happens because you might be amazed by the results. And so hopefully a lot of you are doing that and, um, you know, let us know what happens. And, uh, I think it is kind of just an amazing thing. And, and I do think there is, you know, a plausible mechanism for just saying if you notice the right things and if you have the right mindset and you believe that something is possible, you're much more likely to achieve it. So even if you don't want to believe in the woo-woo part of it, you can still come up with at least a fake because as to why it would work. So I think it's great. And I think there's a lot of other elements that are in here, like the law of reciprocity and pay it forward and things like that, where it's like when you do good things for other people, they want to do good things for you and they also want to help other people. And so, a lot of great things in the story.

I agree. Yeah. And also, so if you're writing an affirmation because there's a burning something that you're like, this is what I want for my future or my life or for this year or whatever your affirmation is, it doesn't have to be the most grand thing in the world. But if you're really writing them every day, then you're spending energy and time and focus on that affirmation. And so then, It's up to you to also pay attention. And so, what Scott was doing was he had his affirmation. And when he heard the end of that commercial, he grabbed a pen and paper, just quick wrote what he could as fast as he could. And like Owen said, took action. And I almost never watch something or listen to a podcast or whatever without having like an actual pen and paper near me. I can't— I have notes all over my house from like the years of like little pads of paper where I like quick wrote something down that heard, and then take action. Because that's— I mean, not to sound all the secret-y on you, but that is the universe saying like, okay, you're focusing on this, I'm gonna drop some hints to you, and it's up to you to recognize them and be like, oh, okay, well wait, that might help me become a famous cartoonist, I better write this down. So make sure you pay attention. Sometimes when, you know, somebody dies and people are like, oh, I hope they send me a sign, and it's like, okay, but it's not going to be like your computer screen turns into the person and they're giving you a message. So you got to like pay attention, like something catches your attention and then you're like, oh wait, that, that was weird. Why was that weird?

Yeah, I think I, I would just say like the, the note jotting down stuff is important too. Yeah, as a habit, because a lot of creative people say, you know, it came to me while I was in the shower, or it came to me while I was on a walk, or it came to me in a flash in a dream, and Then I wrote it down and then I came back to it. And I think like the Beatles have said that about some of their songs, just like coming to them in a dream. And I think a lot of us have these moments, and if you don't capture them, they're gone. You know, you don't— you often won't remember them if you just don't write it down. And, you know, you could maybe come up with some higher-tech solution now with voice notes or other things, but I think the important part is to capture things while you're thinking them. Just to make sure they don't get lost and then have some kind of system for following up on that stuff.

Owen and I were talking in the pre-show about something, and as he's talking, he said something that I was like, oh, I don't— I really don't know what that is, but it sounds like it's an important piece of this conversation. And I literally just jotted it down right here. I was like, doo doo doo. It's like right there. And then while we were talking, I'm like, oh, I actually wrote that down so I don't forget. So it's just a— it's just a good way to say like, okay, there's something I want to achieve. Let me jot the note down. Let me ask somebody. And Marcella, one thing I always feel like too with affirmations or a goal that you have or whatever is that— and Scott would say this too, and I say this to everybody— people want to help people. So if you were like, oh, this is my affirmation, like this is the thing I want to achieve, ask people to help you. Because I mean, if anyone ever asks you for help, Marcella, aren't you happy to help? And sometimes that's the way forward.

I mean, it depends. So for me, I'm not just going to help random people, but I get what you mean. You know, in law, you can't just go and ask other lawyers for, you know, because it's a competitive market. So, yeah, I understand what you mean. Yeah, yeah, I understand what you mean. But I believe in affirmations. I don't need to write them down. I just order them and they come. So that's, that's always happened in my life.

So order your affirmations like from Amazon?

No, it's like, it's like how I view it is it's like being in a restaurant and you give your order. You have to be very specific, like Erica said. And then you just put that order in. And then you wait, you keep doing what you do. And then you wait for the order To come in, just like a plate, just like anything in a restaurant would come in too.

And is this just a mental process? Like you're just thinking this, or what? Do you say it out loud?

No, it's just a mental process. It's actually— it's not just a mental process per se, it's actually believing in it, you know? So it takes belief in that process. that it's going to, uh, come through. So, so you can't just— in my, in my experience, you can't just write it down and say it, say it over and over. You actually have to believe it.

Oh yeah.

And you have to— isn't that true?

Yeah.

You have to believe it, right? So yeah, you, you have to believe in yourself. And it, I think it goes back to what Owen was saying, that it gives you that confidence Um, and that, in that, um, fine-tuning focus to do that particular action or whatever you need to do. I'm not going to give examples, you guys, but one of the examples may be, um, being friends with Scott. So I didn't really do much to be friends with Scott. I just said, I'll be friends with Scott, and, uh, here I am. And I was his friend.

That's right. Yeah. So I do like, if you're not where Marcella is in that kind of a process, write it down. Because writing, you're really instilling it and you're focusing on it. And it's almost like, I had a friend back in the day and she— this is like when The Secret came out, The Secret movie. And I'm like, Anyway, here's what she said. She was like, I am going to receive $1.5 million by January 1st.

Wait, what?

Okay? And this was in October. And I'm like, oh, okay. And then I was like, how's that going to happen? She's like, oh, I don't know, but I'm just going to receive $1.5 million by January 1st. Spoiler alert, that never happened because there was no, like, it was like she was just going to be given free money, I guess, but she had no way of like how it was going to come to her. Were you working for it? Were you— is it something you're achieving? Is it like you won a lottery? So you do have to be specific. So you do have to say, you have to see yourself as the famous cartoonist, like see yourself at home drawing the cartoon or see yourself sitting at a desk and talking to your staff about what the project is, or see yourself signing on the dotted line for the lease for your new store or your restaurant, or you're signing a contract because you're authoring a book and now a publisher's taking you on and that's happening. See the whole thing. Really, don't just be like, I'm going to have $1 million. No. What are you doing that's getting you there? I don't think having the million dollars should be the goal. I think it should be the thing that is going to get you there. But like, what is that thing that you want to do so badly that you're willing to spend 15 minutes a day writing it down? Dream about it, see it, and then pay attention to who's— who do you know? Like, who do you know around you? You know, you can always say to people, hey, could you give me a suggestion? Like, this is a project I'm working on. This is where I want to go. Can you give me any advice? And people are happy to give advice. Like, yeah, you know what? I do know a guy. I'm sure he would talk to you for 5 minutes and he could help you and tell you. Or like Kevin at the Persuasion Club wants to, or is going to, let's say, is going to write a book. And so think about who he has access to.

He's best-selling book.

Right. So he could talk to Joshua. He could message so many people. Um, on, on X that have written books that are successful. So those are your resources, whether you're like friends with them or you just peripherally know them or you don't know them. There's a lot of people that just want to help just to, just to pay it forward because somebody helped them. So don't be afraid to ask for help or advice or suggestions. And if somebody doesn't want to help you, they'll just say, I'm sorry, I can't. And that's okay too. But you'd be surprised. I would say more than 90% of people are happy to give you some kind of piece of advice or set you in some direction. Just don't be afraid to ask for help. If someone asks me for help, I'm so freaking happy to help if I can, because why wouldn't I? So just something to think about. And Owen, I mean, have you asked for help from people? Do your kids ask for help? Is that a tool that you use?

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I— and I would say it's a lesson I've learned as well, that I think it's more typical for men that they don't want to ask for help. They feel like they're just supposed to figure it out and they're supposed to be capable of doing everything on their own. And I certainly was like that for a long time. And I think what changed was spurred by discovering that there was help out there for me for some problems I had that I've had for a long time, and I just figured there's nothing I do about it. I just got to suck it up and deal with it. And, you know, it's— this is just never going to get better, and I just have to accept that. And then I discovered there was help available that could solve that problem for me. And I'm like, whoa, wait, you know, it was like, I don't know, for some reason it was like an awakening. It was like, maybe I should look for other things.

Yeah.

Where there might be help out there for me. And I started seeking it out, and, and it You know, I discovered that there's a lot of things that where people can help you if you can find the right expert or the right person or the right resource or, you know, some solution that somehow someone else solved it, that there really is a lot of stuff that you can solve just by asking for help at the right time. And so I think it's something that a lot of men especially, but everybody should be willing to do rather than just suffering in silence and dealing with your problems, like, you, you know, ask for help. I mean, a lot of times people will have good ideas, or they'll have resources they can point you to, or there will be, you know, other people who have dealt with the same thing and they've figured out a way to solve it. So I, I've definitely gone through that change over the course of my life.

Um, absolutely. So, um, let's just workshop this really quick. So Mad Mitch 1 wrote, anyone have any advice to give my son-in-law with dyslexia on succeeding as he goes back to school for the first time next month. So he's going back as a student, I'm assuming. But you know, I— so I know someone personally who has dyslexia. She graduated from college. And what she did was she asked the school if there was someone that could help her, like, either read her assignments, or if she could get her assignments like audio versions, because hearing it was easier for her than reading And also, there's probably somebody at this school that would volunteer, like somebody who's there to like volunteer help or whatever, that could either read assignments or help explain them. You'd be surprised how many people are there to do that. And, um, yeah, ask for extra time. So read the chat. But Patton had dyslexia, so it's totally possible. And, um, Even if it was like, okay, maybe I could pay another student a nominal amount of money to just help explain the assignments to me. It's like, you know, just so they can hear them the way they need to hear them. Owen or Marcella, do you have any suggestions?

I remember Scott telling me that he had some dyslexic issues. So when— and I think he told us this on the podcast— he would read certain things. He would read main— the main idea of the— of the— like, he would quickly— like, he would be so fast at reading. But, but it's— he wouldn't read the middle, like, the— he would— the main words of this, of whatever he was reading. But he said that he learned a system when he was younger to do that. So there's different systems. When I looked it up, there's Wilson's Reading System, the Spartan Reading and Spelling. So there's different systems that you can use to learn how to do this. But, you know, I'm sure the school can help, like Erica said, in order to help him.

Yeah.

But, you know, I think the main— I think one of the main things that you have to tell him is that him having this doesn't make him less. Like, when you're young, you feel like you're different is a very big issue. Like, he is— he has this, but he doesn't, you know, he's just amazing about everything else. A lot of dyslexic people that I've met— I actually had an English teacher that was dyslexic— um, are brilliant. So it's just a sign of brilliance.

It's just a A different way of learning.

A different way of thinking.

Yeah. And like, everybody learns differently. Owen, do you have any advice?

Well, I haven't dealt with dyslexia personally or with anyone in my family, but I would say I know there are lots of solutions out there and there are lots of things that can help because I— this comes up a lot. There's a lot of people that have this, and I think a lot of people have come up with solutions. So, you know, ask AI, ask your school, Look for other people that have dealt with this and see what has worked for them and just see what you can do to help your child. I mean, I think—

Yeah.

I agree that reframing it is probably a good thing to start with, to say, you know, don't think of it like a handicap or a disability or anything. Like, just think of it as basically almost like a curiosity would be a better attitude to say, you know, what's going to work here? And how can I maybe even use this as a strength? Because there probably are aspects of it that are good, and I would rather focus on that. And treat it like it's a superpower as opposed to a disability. But, you know, you still do need to get your work done at school and all the other stuff. So find ways to make that work. And, and, you know, again, I— you probably could go back and find clips of Scott, of him talking about his dyslexia. So that would be one place to look as well. But I know there's lots of resources out there for this.

Yes.

This is a very common issue, and it's a very common thing that people have dealt with, and You know, a lot of very famous and smart and accomplished people have had this. And so, you know, there are patterns of success here that you can follow.

So here's a perfect example of 2 men. One was Mitch asking the question. Good for you for asking. You're like, does anyone know? So you just said, let me ask for help. And now your son-in-law is a man. So now he has to be able to say, to the school, you know, is, do you have a system or a program or something that can help me? I have dyslexia and I learn differently. And he's not their first dyslexic student. So they definitely have a way to help. And you have to be willing to ask to get the answers. So good for you and good for your son-in-law. And, you know, everybody in here is saying like, I'm dyslexic, you know, I know someone and we all have ideas and interests. It's just people have different ways of learning and Freebird now wants dyslexia. Okay, dyslexia is for you. You go get it. So it's just a different way of learning. So I would definitely ask, and that's what we mean. So ask for the help that you need because look at how many of us just wanted to help. Everybody in the chat had solutions, ideas, and that's what I'm saying. So ask for help or ask for a suggestion or an idea. Or a resource or a website. People will help you whenever they can. So I think if there's anyone, I think this should be our exercise this week. So if you're like, okay, this is a thing I really want to achieve, I don't know how to achieve it, get out of your comfort zone and ask for help from one person. Now, here's the thing, they might say no or I have no idea, but just Ask one person just to get it over with. And, and if you're like, oh my God, that was kind of amazing and fun, ask someone else and just see what kind of answers you get and where they lead you, because it's your, your affirmations, your dream and your goals. So don't be afraid to ask for help, Owen.

One other thing I just remembered that might be helpful is I believe there is some kind of like dyslexic font, like some kind of font that makes things easier to read if you're dyslexic. And if you could find that, you might be able to find like an app or a, you know, a way of using that font. Obviously, you don't control what font people use in documents they give you at school, but nowadays you've got AI. Like, you could probably say, you know, take a picture of a page and just put it in AI and say to convert it to this font for me or read it to me or whatever. I mean, there's lots of ways you can work around this and Solve it for yourself.

So, and there's also great advice happening on the YouTube channel chat also, so you guys can always go back and read the chat. So if you're on Locals or Rumble or X, you know, go to each other's platforms, read the suggestions there during this clip for affirmations or for dyslexia or for anything you heard. So, um, that's good, you guys. That was good. I love the teamwork. Um, And to that, I want to show this little clip of Owen again.

Oh.

Welcome to the Scott Adams School.

Let's get started.

Aw, that was so cute. Okay, so—

You look handsome there.

I know. Your voice is so realistic.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

So realistic. So I just want to do— Owen and Marcella have some quick stories, but I want to clean up a couple more clips I didn't get to. So we we're probably going to save the other stories for tomorrow if we don't get to them today. But I wanted to show you guys. Did you see this was called? I was going to show this the day Brian was on, but we were just gabbing our faces off. So this is called. What is this thing called? Ugh, ugh, ugh! It's oh nope. It's some kind— oh, here it is. MiniMax H3. So it's obviously AI. But look at how amazing this clip is.

Donald? Jerry, look at you. I'm thinking about running for president. President of what? The United States. You sell buildings.

How different could it be?

Considerably.

I want to watch that episode so bad. Isn't that amazing? Do you guys know this Minimax H3?

It's— I think that's an AI model.

Yeah, it's an AI model. It's so amazing. And, um, I, I don't know, like, that's just so funny. I want to see a whole episode. I think there's more to it, but that's just the little clip I pulled. And, um, Our friend Jeff Pilkington, who's been on with us on Locals a couple of times, he has a whole— what are we calling it— like AI sitcom happening that he's been creating, and it is so freaking realistic. And he plays clips of it. If anyone knows how to tag him in the chat, Jeff Pilkington, and you could tag him. You guys should go to his account and look at the AI sitcom he has created. And he lives in LA. And this is like his thing. And it is so insane how realistic these things are.

Does he post it on his X or does it have its own page?

I, I think it has its own page, but he's been posting clips of it on his X so you can see it there. So if anyone's feeling creative that way too, amazing. And I've had a sitcom ideas over the years. I could just make an AI one.

Now you can do it.

The other clip I wanted to show the other day is a clip of the Duffy family. So Sean Duffy is our Transportation Secretary and he's married to Rachel Campos Duffy. I met them virtually back in the day when they were on an MTV show. I forget the name. What was it called? With the house?

Oh.

Um, anyway, they lived in a house together. That's where they met in San Francisco. It was a TV show. Someone's gonna say it. And anyway, they have like 100 kids now. Great parents. They're very religious. And, um, Jeff Pilkington. Thank you. The Real World. They were on The Real World San Francisco back, uh, in the day on MTV. So anyway, they're married, but they're, you know, they're I don't know. I just feel like they're a great example of parenting their kids. So their daughter wants to go to Harvard, and I just thought this clip was an interesting discussion. So let's just take a quick look. Can't say no to Harvard.

Yeah.

Well, me and mom can say no.

Catholicism to us is everything. It's the basis of our marriage. It's the basis of our family. So I'm nervous about the idea of Paloma going to Harvard. We spend a lot of time nurturing and providing formation for our kids, giving them an environment where they are steeped in faith and values. And so the idea of dropping her off at a place that would undermine that or try to undo all those things makes me worried.

And again, I don't want them to get one viewpoint. I want them to get a lot of different viewpoints. But I don't want them fed only one viewpoint that's contrary to the way my kids were raised. Listen, I think my problem is we have thought about how we've raised you and how hard we've worked to, I think, raise what is a remarkable young girl. If I send you there, I think what happens is they have professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls like you And I think corrupt their minds. You don't have to believe what I believe. You don't have to have the political viewpoints that I have. But I do think it's important that you make those choices for yourself and you have a fair representation of what they are. And I don't think the Harvards of the world give you that kind of well-rounded picture.

Okay, so the reason why I love that is because they I don't know. I love the way they just explain like why it's important to them where their daughter goes. First of all, they're paying for it, and it's like you're handing over your child at that point to a college because you're like, okay, now you're living there and you're out of my hands. And I don't know. I just like the way they spoke to her and like you don't have to believe everything I believe, but you know we have certain values. And literally the next day. I saw a Harvard graduation where the whole thing was given under like Islamic traditions. And they were— what's the language? Is it called— what's the Islam language called? I don't even know. Is it Islam? But they were speaking in Islam, whatever the language is called. And I'm like, oh my God. So here they are worried about Catholicism and Harvard's now doing full Islamic graduations for people. And I'm like, what planet are we on? So, um, it was just, uh, pretty amazing to see that. And I like this talk, Marcella, that they gave with their daughter. I thought it was, it was sweet and considerate, and she seems like a nice kid. Arabic, thank you.

Um, I don't agree with the way they— I, I know they're paying for it, but, you know, she's, she's, she's an adult. 18, I believe she is now. But, um, so I would, I would think that she— they taught her well enough to be able to withstand. Now, I am a believer of if Harvard is where you want to go, go to Harvard no matter what. You've taught your child everything that they need to have. And it, in a way, it's good that, that people from the right are in these schools. Um, I think we shouldn't go away from, um, having to go to a certain school because we have different politics from it. I— that, that's just my perspective on that.

So, okay. Owen?

I disagree. I think, I, um, I, I think I, I have a lot of questions about this. Like, first, why, why are they videotaping all these things and releasing them? Like, this seems like they should be private conversations between the family that that wouldn't normally be public. So I— and it almost seemed like professionally produced. Like, I'm like, what is this, some kind of reality show, or what's going on here?

Is it my first time to get past that? They're a very public family.

Okay. And then on top of that, like, I, I do think that when parents are paying for school, which I'm assuming is part of the picture here— yeah, you know, I mean, I— sure, the, the, the daughter is, you free to apply if she really wants to, if she wants to pay the application fee, and she's an adult, so she can go there if she decides to go there, and she's going to pay for it. But if the parents are going to pay for it, which I'm assuming is part of this, then they get— they have a say. You know, they— parents have a say on what they pay for and what they're going to support. And so I think it is legitimate for parents to say, we have some input here. We're not going to waste our money on something that we think is going to destroy you. And I think there is reason to think that going to Harvard could be destructive, and partly because, you know, it's probably the smartest of the leftists that are there, and they are very talented at indoctrination and at making kids think that they're right about what they're saying. And I do think, like, when my kids were going to college, I did feel similar probably about almost every school because it's like, it's really hard to find a school that has right-wing values. Like, there's a couple like Hillsdale College and a few others, but it's very limited, right? Most of them are leftist. And so I think at some point I had to accept that my kids are going to go to a school that's probably pretty leftist because you can't find one that's not. Um, but at the same time, you know, I would say like Harvard would Harvard probably would have been off my list.

Yeah.

Like, I wouldn't have wanted my kid to go to Harvard for multiple reasons, but one was the indoctrination and the fact that I think they would be more likely to be susceptible to that influence at a place like Harvard than they would at like a state school or at, you know, even a good private school that isn't an Ivy League like Harvard. And, you know, I did think about that for one of my kids about MIT, but for different reasons, not for the indoctrination, but more so it's like what I hear about MIT is it's super competitive, it's kind of cutthroat, and it's like, you know, there's a high suicide rate. And I'm like, okay, I don't really want my kid going there even if he got in.

Yeah.

So I resonated with the story in that way where I'm like, there are going to be cases where I feel like even if my kid got into what people consider one of the best schools in the country, I don't think it's the right place for them.

Yeah, I think that, um, just to wrap this up, you know, Harvard of yesteryear is gone. We've seen what Harvard's turned into. And, you know, I— like, you used to hear somebody graduated from Harvard and you'd instantly just go, oh, like that was just your reaction. When I hear now that someone's at Harvard, I'm like, oh, well, that's too bad. Like, too bad they missed the amazing part of Harvard because now I look at it like I look at Berkeley, like, oh, Oh, that's a shame. I appreciated them. I'm going to look into what they're doing this series for. It's for something educational, but I appreciated them putting it out there because I think sometimes it's good to see parents parenting as a parent. Like, okay, this is a nice way to have a conversation and explain the whys and whatever. So I will look into that because I know there's other clips of things, but I think they're a pretty solid family. So, all right, you guys, that is it. It's after time. I failed. I have failed. It's 11:02 my time. So anyway, we will be back tomorrow. I'm not sure what day for Walter, you guys. I'm just trying to nail it down with him, but I'm hopeful it's going to be this week still. He did say this week, so let's just see how that goes. But if not tomorrow, we will be back with you. And I cannot stay for an Akira song, but I can stay to chat for a minute. And we'll be back in the morning. So we want to say thank you to Scott and Shelley, as always, for allowing this show to continue. And you guys work on those affirmations. Your assignment this week is to ask for help, advice, or, you know, to be pointed in a direction to help you with your affirmations. And don't be afraid to do it. People do love to help. And just don't ask them for the secret formula of their scientific experiment. That's a bridge too far. Okay, so listen, you guys, let's get out there, be useful. Have an amazing, amazing day, everybody. And then we will see you tomorrow. To Scott.

To Scott.

To Scott.

Bye, kitty cats. Thanks, Owen. Thanks, Marcella.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

All right, guys. Thanks for being here today. It was so great seeing everybody, and we will be back tomorrow. We all have issues too, Scott. I'm reading your your chat real quick.

Yay!

Do do do do. You guys are the best, honestly. And thanks for all the advice for Mad Mitch with the dyslexia stuff. I remember, you know, Scott would say like he couldn't take his car through the car wash, like a drive-through car wash where you stay in the car. He's like, I couldn't follow the instructions. And I'm like, really? You know, reading that and he's just like, no, it's like, you know, Put your car in neutral, put your mirrors in, you know, proceed to this thing. And he's like, nope, going home and I'll wash it myself. So everybody has their thing, right? Oh, Josie, you're so kind. Oh, thank you, Alien Baby. You guys like the aqua? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, DeeDee. You're terrified of car washes? That's hysterical. I miss him too, Poker Jesus. Or is it Jesus? Ah, dyslexia is hard to spell. All right, guys, you're so sweet. Crusher, um, I see all your comments, you guys. Like I always— like I say, go back after the show and check out everything, and, um, you guys are just the best. Just the best. Am I buffering for you, Dr. Von Hardy? That's a shame. Dr. Von Hardy, I need thumbnails for the show. Anyone wants to make us thumbnails for the show, please do. You can DM them to me, and I like to try to have a different one every day. So we'll see. We'll see. All right, guys. Thanks, Mary Kay. All right, you guys. So I'll say goodbye, and I'll see you in the morning. Okay, I hope you guys have a beautiful, beautiful day. Do something useful. Thanks, Michael. Oh, you love my hair? You guys are so cute. All right, guys, bye for now, right? Bye for now. You guys, that picture. Oh my God.