The Scott Adams School - 10/06/26 Erica & Marcela Talk France. Venezuela. Scott Adams. and More

Are we on?

We should be.

Good morning. Look at how gorgeous they look.

Oh, I can't see them yet. I want to see the gorgeousness myself. Okay, let me come in here. But doesn't you guys, doesn't Marcela look amazing?

Doesn't Erica?

I'm so serious. That's her her natural wave in her hair. I said, girl.

Oh my gosh!

I would go with that every day.

It's so hot, you guys. It is like, where is the fall in California? It's like scorching heat. It's like—

How hot is it? Like, what's the temp?

It only goes— I don't even know anymore. It's just so much sun and so much heat. And I, you know, you guys, some of you guys know I don't like the sun, so it's very, very hard for me.

And you don't like the heat either, I'm guessing?

No.

This poor girl.

She— I need to move to Alaska. Iceland.

Yeah, no, don't leave America. Yeah, just go to Alaska. Oh my gosh. Oh, you guys are so cute. Good morning everybody, just waiting. Oh good, YouTube is on, Rumble, X, and Spotify. The girl is hot, literally.

Literally.

Um, okay, so Owen's off today and oh, BJ is joining us tomorrow. It's been forever since he's been on. We need our Canadian news correspondent to come in, so he'll be with us tomorrow. And guess who's stopping by on Thursday? Akira! He'll be here on Thursday to premiere a song. So I think he'll be with us for like the first part of the show. We're gonna have him premiere his new Scott Adams song. So this is a fun week. Um, let me see. I, I know you've always found Marcella hot. I'm not even gonna call you out by name, but you know who you are. Hi everybody. Uh, all right, so I'm in the hot seat literally today.

I wish Owen was here.

No, Marcella, you're in the hot seat today, sister, and every day. Um, but I have not had a sip of my top third hot and frothy coffee yet, and oh my God, I can't wait. So I know you can't wait.

Let's Do it.

It's hard to imagine really a better way to spend the morning. This is kind of as good as it gets. Am I an hour early? I am an hour early. Daylight savings time. Well, interesting, because, uh, some of my clocks changed and some didn't. But I guess what we're going to do this now, and it'll be here for the rest of you. Those of you who are a little bit slow, you're going to get here. But let me tell you before I continue: I did know the time changed. I did check the clocks. I did double check, and I triple checked to make sure I had the right time. And for reasons that are unclear to me, some of my digital clocks have not changed, but some of them did. Let me make sure that I'm not hallucinating. Oh damn it! They all changed. Well, we're going to do this early. Are you ready?

Yeah.

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Oh yeah, it feels early, doesn't it? Yeah, it tastes a little bit early. You can get that from the coffee.

Once again, here we are. We just talked about daylight savings. Scott's talking about daylight savings. Marcella's hot. Scott got hot, flipped his blanket off. I mean, he's watching, people. He's watching. You guys, Marcella is suffering so bad. I can't even tell you, like, when that clip was going on, she's back there, she's like patting her face, she disappeared. I'm like, this girl's gonna pass out.

I had to change the AC to like higher because, you know, the, the lamp, the— for you guys to see me, I need to put like some lights on me. Oh my gosh, the lights just came on me when I say lights.

Um, you have a fan? Like an actual fan? A ceiling fan, a desk fan.

Everything will be, like, strewn all over the place.

We'll see. It'll probably be just me at the end of the show sitting here. Marcel will be passed out on the floor. Marcel, take breaks when you need a break.

Okay?

Listen, do what you got to do. Oh my God.

Air conditioning. Air conditioning is going to kick on like super top air conditioning.

Now I know why those kids in France were burning down their schools because the heat wave. We'll get to that later. But anyway. Okay, so I want to you know I like to start with something a little bit light. But I was in bed this morning scrolling, and I came across this clip, and I'm like, this has to be AI. And I checked, you guys; it's not AI. It's Elon talking to someone who sounds exactly like him. The guy his name is.

Oh yeah!

Have you heard this? The guy his name is Adrian, and he was born in Germany. He lives in Fiji, and. Elon's the one doing the laughing, and the guy talking a lot is the guy Adrian. But listen to how, how trippy this would be.

Alex Jones thinks it's me. Yeah, this is part 2. You've met me at least, uh, 3 times. You're about to die of laughter, aren't you? Yeah, it's me again. Yeah, this is, this is part 3.

I swear, there's nothing—

honestly, there's nothing better than to hear you laugh this much. Like I can only imagine the kind of stress you're under. Yeah, yeah, dude. For the past couple of weeks, I've been I basically oh god, I can't do this. It's it's oh my god. There's eight billion people on Earth. So odds are yes, there's someone who sounds like you somewhere. And you are that person. Yes, it gets worse. It gets worse. It gets so much worse. It gets so much worse. Honestly, I don't believe you're not me. Yeah, that's a theory. That's a theory. People think, people think I'm legitimately your clone. There's been theories that I'm one of your Neuralink experiments. Can you like clarify that I'm not one of your Neuralink experiments? Or maybe I am and I wouldn't realize it. Because that shit's vast. How are your monkeys? Well, how are your monkeys? I don't know. How's the test subject? Well, the weird thing is you even ask questions in the way that I would ask questions.

Autism.

Your sense of humor is quite similar sense of humor.

It's eerie.

Yeah, I know. I still remember the first time. Oh God. I still remember the first time. I still remember the first time when I, um, the first time I found out about you was actually in early 2016. This is when I watched SpaceX rocket engine experimentations on YouTube. I was like, man, this is the coolest shit I've ever seen. It's going to be an actor all day. And then a significant other actually showed me a video clip of you and said, hey, Brad, this guy sounds like an older version of you. I'm like, what are you fucking talking about? Here, this guy, look at him. He's talking about hydrogen.

What do you mean he's talking about hydrogen?

I listened to this and I was like, what the fuck is going on? So this is the first time I realized something's not quite right with this world. Probably is like a bug in the simulation. And even if there is one, I'm pretty sure I caused a lot of disruption recently. As I'm sure you're aware, there's a mass meltdown. There's like an account that's doing rage farming. So like, it's so good. Like these people, what they've done is they're trying to pin on you that you've suspended an account because it targeted— it did targeted harassment. Well, it's not suspended. They actually deactivated their account. Now they're trying to do rage farming. Now they're gonna spread it on the news everywhere and be like, dude, I'm complimenting yourself. It's like the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I was gonna let it happen.

Yes.

But then I said, you know what? I don't want— I don't want— I don't want a thermonu— I don't want thermonuclear warfare just yet for me. Like, I'm not gonna have that. This— Ever since yesterday, even I do Diablo livestreams, everything—it's all over the place. It's inescapable now. It's so weird. It's it's terrible. I like a uniquely face. What do you like? I mean, are there pictures of you?

Like, what do you look like? I've seen I've seen Adrian.

A thinner version of you. I've seen Adrian. He could he could be your twin, dude.

I mean, I could.

Are you serious?

What are you saying? I could DM you, dude. Dude, I could DM you. Um, if you enable, enable access, I'll tell you everything you need to know. 5 minutes, I'll tell you everything. If you're interested. If you're interested.

Okay, so that goes on and on, but I, I was with you guys. It's so fun hearing Elon just crack up and have a good time. And yeah, all the people in the world, and then they said that he could be his twin.

Somebody's gonna ask his mom.

That's crazy.

My best friend has the same voice as I do, and she was born in Russia, so even her dad can't tell us apart over the phone. Or like, you know how like—

What about your accent though?

Same thing. We speak the same, but she has an accent of her own. And Russian is a lot like Spanish in certain words. It doesn't sound like it, but there's certain things that we are like, oh, that's just the same as in Spanish. So yeah, we sound the same. So we are able— we were able to get into, like, by voice recognition, I was able to get into her phone. Her dad, sometimes we know each other so long that we had like actual landline phones. Yeah. And I would answer the landline and he's like, oh, привет, whatever. I was like, no, it's not Anne.

I have— my best friend and I are like that too, where like our significant others always would just be like, uh, like they would think it was them calling, you know, like they'd get everybody confused. But that was uncanny. I mean, the weird like stuttering in the voice, like the stammering and the—

Did you notice that he stops? Like, it's also the way— it's not just his voice, but it's also like the rhythmic Yeah. You know, like where he goes, uh, or like he does all the things. I couldn't tell them apart. I couldn't tell which one was Elon. It only is because you told me that he was laughing. Elon was the laughing person and then Adrian was not. So I couldn't tell them apart, which is crazy.

I could tell the other guy's got like more of a baritone and like a little bit more like roundness to his words. But holy cow. And then if you say that they look alike, so if you were seeing them in person, you'd be really freaked out. That was amazing. So I was just cracking up this morning thinking like, oh, does your mom sound like you?

Do you sound like someone else?

No, I—

but probably is someone out there in Germany.

I don't know. Yeah. So that was a doppelganger. And I just do believe like there has to be some simulation stuff going on, you guys. There just has to be. So Mm-hmm. I'm down. All right. So that was my little fun clip of the day. Not that the other ones aren't fun, but that was just more lighthearted. The other thing actually going right into your cadence and how you speak and how you represent yourself. I wanted to give a clip to you from King Randall because I have seen people ask him this and I just want you to see how he explains because you might notice, you know, when he was on the Scott Adams School with us, what a great What a great, uh, day that was, and I can't wait to have him back on. But what a special person, you know. He's so smart and thoughtful, and, um, he's a man of his word. He, he does the things he sets out to do. So like donating to his, um, school for boys and girls now, um, is something well worth it. But, you know, when you watch the videos that I was playing, you see how he speaks to the children like on a different level. And obviously, you know, you can deduce that he's speaking to them the way they would be spoken to in their community. And so he's showing that he can be relatable with them, and then he shows he could be relatable with us. But here's King Randall King in his own words.

I frequently receive comments in my DMs or in my Facebook comments or anywhere on my algorithm of people asking me, could you speak proper English to the kids? And while I understand what you're saying, let me explain something. If I'm giving an interview, or if I'm in a boardroom, or I'm not— if I'm talking to my donors or giving a A private meeting, I can speak like this. But when I'm talking to my boy, get your behind over here and sit down somewhere. That's how I'm gonna talk because that's what they understand. I'm not gonna sit here and act like communication is solely speaking in one manner. You have to speak in a way where people understand you. So no, I ain't talking to my homeboy like I'm talking to the people in the boardroom. No, I ain't talking to my kids like I'm talking to those I'm giving a job interview to. So there's called turning it on and turning it off. Yes, I can give a great job interview. I can give a great news interview. I can give all the good stuff. All day. But sometimes I need to speak to my students in a manner that they understand. So yes, while some of you may understand this when I'm giving a news interview, or if I'm in a boardroom with some donors explaining how things work in our program, they need to hear me talk like this. But when I'm talking to my students, sometimes they be getting on my nerves, they need to sit behind a dime somewhere, and they need to act like they got some sense. And that's how they need to hear me speak, because they understand me. I'm speaking in a way where they understand what I'm teaching, they understand what's going on. Speaking proper doesn't mean you have an extensive vocabulary It simply means you're able to communicate in an effective way where the people that you're talking to can understand you. Thank you so much.

Ah, I love King. I can't wait. He's—we have to have him back on, you guys. Don't you think? I—he's just so good. Yeah, it's like when Hillary or AOC go to a rally in the South and they're like, "I thought you were gonna bring that up." No worries tomorrow. You're like. Oh, God help us. So do you get that, Marcela? You know, you know, different audiences? Yeah.

When I had to teach, I had like street vibes, you know, I had to be like in the inner city. And so I would be like, okay, I'm gonna bring out my Spanglish because they don't speak Spanish or English. So let me, let me communicate things like that. And but I would try to, you know, put them in the right direction. No, this is the right way to say it, you know. Yeah.

So what were you teaching?

Um, 5th grade and 6th grade elementary school. So you teach all the subjects.

Got it. Right, right. Yeah.

So what happened is that when, um, so a lot of the kids are Spanish speakers, but they don't— they haven't grown up in Latin America, so their Spanish is also not fluent.

Proper, yeah.

So if you speak Spanish to them, they're gonna be like staring at you like, what in the world is that? And then if you speak English, certain things they don't understand. So like I had to blend it in and kind of speak their language. It's kind of pacing and leading. So then I would speak their language, right? And then I would start to like shape them and have them speak more like regular, you know, You know, proper English.

Because they're probably not going to learn that at home.

No, no, their parents are usually like really not talking to them because all the time they're working, and if they do speak to them, they'll speak to them in Spanish, right? And their Spanish is not high Spanish, um, it's more like street Spanish. It's like, yeah, so yeah, so they don't get either or, you know, and they'll, you know, So I was trying to shape them and they, they, they were very thankful for that. So I had a lot of kids. They're, they're like in their 30s now, I think.

Oh, good job, Miss Marcella. Good job. Did they call you Miss Marcella?

No, I used my second last name for it because I didn't like— because they like don't know how to pronounce it. And so they would call me Miss P. So I would be like, no, We're gonna change that.

That's so funny. I love it. I always wanted to be a teacher just for the fun of it, but I think I'd be a fun teacher.

You are a teacher. Look at you.

Oh, I meant school.

It's this big old classroom.

I just, you know, I wanted the chalkboard and the— I don't know, I feel— I always feel bad for kids. I just want them to be nurtured.

Um, this is fun. Volunteer.

Oh, that would be fun. Okay, so Getting back to the language again, I'm not even trying to have a theme, but I do have a honey badger of the day clip. So as Gad Saad taught us, the honey badger is the animal that stands up tall to the hyenas and is like, you aren't going to get me. And so, you know, we keep saying we need to be the honey badgers in our communities and for our country and, you know, for our way of life or whatever it is that you're You know you're trying to achieve. So I love this guy. I don't know his name. He was speaking at a Philadelphia City Council meeting, and and you know what? I'll just let you watch it, and then we'll discuss. But this guy's awesome. Ready?

Name is John McCauley. I'm with a grassroots organization called Flip Philly Red. We're here to give something different to Philadelphia, something that y'all are not used to because you've been voting Democrat. for the mayor's office for the past 70 years. It's not MAGA who's doing all of the carjacking and the shootings. When we talk about ICE, when 78 million people, 7 swing states, including Pennsylvania, we voted for this. We voted for this. We gave a mandate. So I want to sit here and tell U.S. Senator John Fetterman, U.S. Senator Dave McCormick to vote yes and support HR 7147. I sit here in disgust as I watch Kendra Brooks, Jamie Gunther, hold up pictures of a domestic terrorist, Renee Goode. I'd never seen her put up a picture of Dakara Thompson, a 19-year-old who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien and thrown over a bridge. I never seen her put up a picture of Lincoln Riley, who was raped and murdered. I never seen her put up a picture of Larisha Thompson, a mother. I named 2 Black women, by the way, and y'all sit here and pander to white liberal women like Renee Goode.

Could you speak on the, on the resolution?

I'm speaking on all of it. It's my first, my First Amendment right. I'm gonna speak. It all goes hand in hand because we funded the court. We, we wanted to fund, we want to fund to deport 20 million illegal aliens that was imported in here by the Biden and Harris administration with the help of the cartels. So why don't y'all stand up for Americans for once? Because America comes first.

Thank you for your opinion. Thank you very much.

That guy that just said thank you for your opinion, what a disrespectful a-hole. Like, thank you for your opinion, speak on the— no, he's speaking, let him speak. It is his right to speak. He can have the time, whatever he wants to say. So that guy, he said his name, I think it was John. I'm sorry I missed it. Um, what— yeah, like you guys said, what a brave guy. He's preaching and he's right. Like, why do we always have to hear about the You know, what's her name? Renee Good. Renee Bad. Like, sorry, but you know, you're gonna get in your car and harass ICE agents and blockade them and be a disruptor. They're federal employees or federal law enforcement. So sorry, but yeah, what about the poor woman who was beaten and raped and thrown over a bridge? I don't, you know, like, I love that guy. And I hope that more people speak up like that and shame the guy standing there like, yeah, thanks for your opinion and cut his mic. You know what, you don't have to always cut the mic. I know there's time limits. But if someone's saying something, and it's like, so, like, from the heart and for the people and for the good, like, give them 3 more seconds. Like, calm down. I know, Marcela, what you're gonna say. But okay, Marcela, go ahead.

You know what I'm gonna say. What am I gonna say?

Well, they have a time limit. They have to follow that, and that's how it works.

Well, I was gonna say that even the guy— um, we didn't get anybody's name, did we? Um, the guy on the city council. I think, you know, if he talks to him after hours He'll be like, "I know, bro. I know. Like I agree, but I can't say it because you know I'm being elected or something like that." So a lot of them, a lot of people I find agree with him, and just they don't vote on it. They're so scared to stand against the crowd, and you—they're like closeted, actual reasonable thinkers. Maybe not Republicans, but at least they understand. Like if it's crime, it's criminal. They want them to be deported. But they don't want to say it out loud because especially their politicians, they're like being, you know, they're pushed in so many different directions. So this guy's very brave for coming out and saying it and saying what, what everybody's thinking but nobody's saying.

Yeah, I mean, there's rational common sense, and it's tough too because you guys, like, listen, there's somebody in a town near me that is like fully harassing this town and the people that work in the town, like the borough people, the mayor, the police. And he does everything like within a millimeter of the law because like he just knows. And now he's making himself Instagram famous. Like he has to pay a fine. He shows up with a bunch of pennies and like, and he's actually Quite despicable. Okay, I know a lot about him personally. He's quite despicable. Now he wants to run for mayor, and it's all about him trying to have like a social media presence, and everybody in the town is afraid to stand up to him because when they when any like so he's harassing his neighbors and he's on Instagram giving out their address to like all these people from across the country who don't even live in this. State. And they're like, yeah, dude, keep going. Like, you're doing the right thing because he's giving his side of a story. But it's like, sometimes people are afraid to speak up because it's like, well, then he's going to give my address out and tell people to come here and do this and do that. So it's really tough to stand up. But if it's important enough, you just gotta like pull your pants up, pull your boots on, get your suspenders tight and just Get out there and put your chin up and say your thing, um, because it's like now or never with so many things. So, uh, I commend our honey badger of the day, John from Philadelphia.

And I, and I think all of us in the chat and that are watching and later watching this later, and, and you, Eric, and I, like, we totally get what happens to us when we stand up for something, especially some of us that voted for Trump 3 times and were very open about saying that. And it like, we lost a lot of friends. And, you know, if you saw a certain different, even the politics, set that aside. Let's just say the way that you viewed COVID, many people viewed it differently. And so, you know, you lost friends everywhere. It's like, you know, that used to not be the case.

Yeah.

But I mean, I could be wrong, like in the '90s and the '80s and the '70s, I don't think that was the case. I don't think anybody came about saying, Oh, I don't like, um, you know, you didn't talk about it, Reagan or something. And it's like, oh, okay.

I think it started with Bush. I would say like it was around the Bush era, I guess also because of the war, the Iraq War, and that really pit people on sides. And so then it became like, you know, Bush is an idiot. And I mean, true or not, but that's like when it just started, I feel like, going rogue. And then of course you go into Obama the first, Half-Black president. And so that was polarizing, I guess, for some people. And honestly, I feel like the Obama group made that more of an issue by pointing out that he's half-Black all the time. Well, they would just say Black. I'm saying half-Black. So anyway, and that's when it was like, I loved it when you didn't talk about religion, politics, and money. And it was just so civilized, like, people— and people weren't flaunting their money. And I feel like the money flaunting came about— I mean, I can remember— who remembers, um, there was a show on MTV, My Sweet 16? And it was like these sweet 16 parties for these girls, and they'd be spending like $100,000 on a birthday party. And I was like, this is so gross. And then it became like, I noticed my nieces were kind of wanting like a bougie party, and I'm like, get the heck out! What are you talking about? Like, who are you? Like, what is this? But it was all like keeping up, you know? So I don't know.

I feel like the internet, if you look at it, the, the, the Bush era and afterwards, I think the internet has a lot to do with it and bots and things like that. But that's just my You know, theory, my conspiracy theory, I guess.

No, I think you're right.

That it pushes people against each other.

For sure. And then it was like, social media is absolutely the downfall of society because now everybody's like, I want to be TikTok famous. I've got— I'm on the gram, see me on the gram. And oh my God, these influencers. There's an account, you guys, if you're on Instagram or wherever— I'm not on TikTok, but on Instagram, I think it's called influencers in the wild, please follow this account. It's just like mocking influencers. They're like standing in the middle of the street. Can you imagine? Okay, picture, picture this. Whoever you are right now, I'm Erica. I'm gonna go to a street in New York and I'm gonna set up my tripod and put a camera on it, and I'm gonna start doing this in the camera and spinning around, and I think I'm making the world a better place because I'm gonna put that on my Instagram.

What?

The hell are we doing?

Did you see me there? Is that what you're describing?

Marcella, the jig is up. I saw you. Oh, it's okay. Okay, SJV, we will. He wants us to read Owen's story about Nixon. He wanted to let us know. Um, poor Nixon. Um, so yeah, so anyway, that was the downfall. That was the downfall. Social media, get off of it. And I heard Meta, by the way, has agreed to put some safeguards in for teen accounts. So now, I don't know if it's built into it, but you can only give— I think if you're under 16, if somebody knows, let me know, but they can only have 2 hours of, I guess, of screen time on the account. And then there's no autoplay, like where the next video will come, because they said that kids are really Losing a sense of time, not their sense of time, but a sense of time with this automatic doom scrolling. And also that they won't be able to have access to Meta, which I guess is what, just Instagram and Facebook between midnight and 6:00 AM. And so now— oh, they were sued into it. They agreed because they were sued into it.

Mm-hmm.

So now they're hoping that TikTok and the other platforms, uh, go along with that. I'm sure they do wish that would happen, but you know, it's because it's that bad. I don't know. I don't think I'd give it to my kid if I had a kid until they were like 18.

Well, I think it's like a parent thing. Like, why does the company have to go in and take away your child's Meta? Because where are the— where are the parents? The same thing about the friends, uh, High schoolers going on and and going there. They're going on for days protesting. I'm like, where are their parents? Oh my God! Let's talk about my mom saw me like protesting out there for a long time. She's like, get the house.

You know, get your own house is right. So I mean, France is France is hard to break down, but there are so many there's so many theories of what's happening. Who's funding it? Like what's happening? So France has been basically on fire for the last week, and you know it started off saying it was protests from students, which is true, and they were literally burning down high schools across France. Literally burning down high schools. Okay, you guys, I have some footage. Let me see. I'll just I'll just roll this. I'll just roll this in the background. So this is France. These are your new migrant friends with their flags and their multiculturalism. So nice. And so anyway, they burnt down several high schools. The students have demands. I mean, all in front of the Eiffel Tower too. I saw a video.

I mean, but this is across many cities in France, not just Paris. Lyon, Strasbourg.

Here's some others. Let's see. That's a loud one. So, yeah, so this is going on all across France, and basically France is lost.

There's elections coming, so this is a push by the very leftist party. So there's the Communist Party, and then there's very extreme Communist Party, and so they are the ones that are mobilizing these children. Uh, I call them children because they are, you know, most of them are under 18.

Yeah, most are. But now, so now it's— so Marine Le Pen is advancing in the polls, so she would be She'd be great personally. She'd be great for France, but this is scaring the George Soros people, in my opinion. I'll just say it that way. So it's believed that allegedly, my opinion, that Soros is funding Antifa groups to create more chaos. And so now what's happened is, oh, actually, I'm going to let this newscaster tell you. So I'll play the full clip of this, you guys. I'll put it on X. And locals after the show. I'm just going to play, I think, the first 2 minutes I felt like was good. So this is Great Britain News. And so the UK is in big trouble, and they see what's happening in France and Spain. And so I personally feel like they're all set to collapse. And also, not to jump around too much, but also the— is he the prime minister or president of Spain, Sanchez. He he has basically collapsed Parliament, and he's calling for a snap election on November 29th instead of in this year, November 29th instead of 2027. Because like Spain, remember that whole thing with the people coming over from Morocco to Ceuta, Spain? Spain is out of control, you guys. And also they've just given up. They've given up. So they're falling. I'll say parts of Spain are falling, but it's Spain. France is now— I'm going to play the clip for you, but now they're conceding to these students' demands and it's just escalating. So the UK is also in big trouble. And we've discussed some about the UK too, but let's just take a listen.

Breaking right now, France is losing control of its own country. So let's just look at what's unfolding here, shall we? Schools are burning, firefighters are being attacked, police officers are being beaten in public, public transport's been stopped, hundreds of schools closed. Kids aren't at school, they're burning down their schools instead. Roughly 3,000 people arrested. 3,000. 2,000 in a single day. And this isn't just some distant country on the other side of the world. Let me just remind you where it is. It's our friendly, cooperative neighbours across the Channel, France, one of the richest countries on earth, a nuclear power, a G7 economy, 20 miles from Britain. Britain, I would say, don't you dare look away tonight, because France has spent decades conducting one of the biggest experiments in mass migration and integration in Europe. And tonight, while its politics Politicians argue about education funding. The state is fighting to restore order on its own streets.

Whoa!

Now, I want to be precise. We don't know that the people carrying out these attacks are migrants, so I'm not going to tell you that. But neither should we pretend the wider argument about France's social cohesion doesn't exist. What's that there?

What up? What up?

I'm just stunned actually watching that clip back again. I've seen it a few times today, but it is completely abhorrent. That is a police officer in Belfort on the floor surrounded, kicked repeatedly, including kicks to the head. He loses consciousness. It's terrible. It's unforgivable. Now an investigation into attempted murder has been opened.

Yeah, so that goes on and on, you guys. So that was just a snippet, but I wanted you guys to To see that because, like he said, twenty twenty miles from the UK, that's happening right there. So I think everybody has cause for concern. You guys are like you know someone said geofence every cell phone and deport everyone. They're they're they're still bringing people over. I just saw another Great Britain newscast today where they said there's five dinghies today or yesterday of. More illegals coming over, being ushered in. Why they're being ushered in? And they said it's been like 5 dinghy boats a day full of these migrants, as they call them, come— like more of that. So I don't know, it seems to me, Marcela, like this is an intentional collapse.

Well, it's organized by that party. That's what is Partly known. But, um, the other issue that it's, it's hilarious or sad at the same time is that the reason they are all, um, all the high schoolers are protesting is because school is understaffed and run down, and especially in poor areas, meaning that like they literally will, um, not have a desk in the classroom or a teacher sometimes. And the Ministry of Education, the education minister has said, yes, their, their arguments are legitimate. But guess why they don't have desks or a teacher or the classroom is overrun?

Why?

Because of all the immigration that's coming in. So I'm not sure if all of them understand the reason why it has deteriorated so fast. If you're having hundreds of people coming into your country and you have to put them in your school system, You're going to not be prepared. Just like if you had a party and you had 20 people and then 30 more immigrants came into your party, it's like, you know, it's kind of like that. So there has to be some— I actually think this helps the right win the elections.

Yeah.

Because it is a great argument. Yes, your classroom is run down. Yes, we don't have enough money because guess where the money is going? Guess what all the resources are being occupied in. So, and the adults, I mean, the majority of them that are adults are 18 and over. They most of the time don't vote. You know, you're going to see your old people, like older than 18, voting, and they're probably trying to get to work. And it's like, why is this being burned up? You know, so I actually think it's It's very good for the right. It's very good for Marine Le Pen. And I don't find it— I feel for the kids because they really are— they really have reasons to. But there's no reason to be violent about it, you know?

Oh, yeah. But also, if you're part of Antifa or you're a migrant and you don't care about France at all, you're either paid to do it or again, like, you don't care. You've already invaded a country. You don't care about the people. You don't care about its way of life, its law and order, nothing. I think that we've got a big problem, you guys. We have a big problem. I mean, the cat's out of the bag. Every major European country is dealing with this now, but you don't— it's like, oh, this was so— for those of you listening on Spotify, okay, I will read this to you. It's a picture of a fireman in France who's literally been set on fire while a bunch of migrants are looking on videoing him. No one's helping him. And it says, we are witnessing the worst of cuckoldry in history. An ancient civilization is willingly surrendering, surrendering its cities, its land, and its women to save barbarians because the alternative is to be called mean. And yes, that's literally like they are the worst of the worst, like in the UK and in Spain, every— like they're like, no, they're, they're our new welcomed guests. And you know, no, we must take care of them. And it's like, you people better get your heads out of your asses because you— like, that is exactly what your whole entire country is going to be in no time flat. So I hope America's paying attention. I hope we have a lot of honey badgers here. Whoo! So we might want to get some of those thoughts under control in our head, and who better to help us, Marcella, than our Scott Adams? So you know, sometimes we have unwanted thoughts, and I'm going to say that right now with the turmoil going on in this world. We're going to have a lot of those. I want to encourage us to try our hardest to speak up and honey badger things when we can, but then also learn how to control the thoughts from, you know, overtaking our lives. So whether it's about the world, society, what's going on with your family, your personal health, your just whatever you're feeling in your daily life, your job, whatever it is.

Yeah.

Let Scott help us so we can manage that. So let's just take about 7 minutes and check this out.

This is a micro lesson on getting rid of unwanted thoughts. Most of you have had this problem. It might be there's some traumatic experience that you can't stop obsessing about, or maybe there's just a negative way of thinking that's holding you back And you'd like to think more productively. And I'm going to give you some hypnotist tricks. Now, I'm not a therapist. I'm not an expert or a psychologist. So you'd want to see one of those if you have some kind of actual problem with a name. So if you've got obsessive thoughts and maybe it's OCD or something related, you want a professional. I'm just going to tell you some techniques for managing thoughts you don't want. All right? And the first thing you need to know is that it could be trauma or it could be just something you don't want. The technique would be rather similar. So the first thing you need to know, and this is what you learn in hypnosis on the first day almost, the human brain doesn't know how to process no and not. It processes images and thoughts and visual pictures. So, for example, if you told somebody, I'd like you to not think of an elephant, this being the famous example, people will think of an elephant. They can't process the not as something to do. It just gets disappeared and they just see the elephant even though you tell them not to. Take that principle to getting rid of unwanted thoughts. If you tell yourself, don't think about whatever that unwanted thought is, doesn't work. You can't make a thought go away directly. You can't unthink or think less about something by your efforts. Instead, you want to starve the thought by building your shelf space, I call it, of other thoughts. And the trick here is to find other thoughts that are so engaging that they can turn off other thoughts. And there's some technique to it. I first discovered the power of this when I'd be driving, and I'd be driving somewhere unfamiliar where I needed to pay attention to directions and navigation. And I would sometimes be trying to solve a math problem in my head. Might be, you know, calculating how many vaccinations the country needs, or just some curiosity I'm trying to solve, doing some math in my head. And what I discovered is And I don't know if this is generalizable to other people, but I can't do navigation and math at the same time. So as soon as I start doing math, I'll miss my turn every time. But there are other things I could do with my head that wouldn't interfere with my navigation. So finding the type of thought that is specifically canceling out another type of thought takes some practice.

Experiment.

A/B test, try this, try that, until one of them is more effective. You'll probably discover it. Now, I think that has to do with which regions of the brain are involved in what kinds of thinking. So if you can find the region of the brain that's involved in these obsessive thoughts and just make it busy, it's going to be easier to avoid the obsessive thoughts. So I would pick, in terms of picking thoughts that are more powerful than whatever you're trying to not think about. Anything that involves learning a new skill is good because when you're learning a new skill, you tend to be really engaged and it tends to be complicated. There are details. You're going to run things in your mind about what you learned, what it means, how it compares. So any learning of a new skill is a pretty good way to go, at least to test to see if it takes your mind off the other stuff. And it's also a way to build a talent stack and also reframe your experience into a positive. If I told you, hey, you've got a problem with obsessive thoughts or negative thoughts, you'd say that's bad. But if I told you, hey, you've got this situation that's going to cause you to build a whole bunch of new skills in your skill stack, not so bad. I would argue that this is exactly why I have so many skills because I actively tried to fill my brain to get rid of traumatic thoughts from my childhood, largely successfully. It just takes a long time and you have to be really, really diligent about staying focused and busy on other stuff. So the end result was a lot of talents that I learned that maybe I wouldn't have bothered before. The thing you want to do with your memories or whatever your other thoughts are, focus on something visual and maybe spatial. For example, I would often imagine playing indoor soccer. It was one of my favorite sports as a kid. And because indoor soccer is a visual, the way I remember it, but also spatial, because I would imagine the creases and the space changing And hitting to the open position and all that. And I could play an actual game of soccer in my head. So that was very engaging. Likewise, when I was doing computer programming, I could blow through 6 hours of a day without knowing any time had transpired because programming for me, at least the way I conceive of it, is very visual even though it's, you know, Technically not a visual thing, but I imagine it like a pinball machine and I'm putting in the bumpers the way I think of programming. So that was very absorbing. But the things that absorbed me don't necessarily mean that they would work for you. That's why you have to test. So think of things visual, exciting— soccer would be exciting— and spatial, that you have to move yourself through space. I think those are the things that will be the most And then also something that would add some variety. So even though if I'm imagining playing soccer, or I would do this with tennis as well, I wouldn't imagine the same play over and over again. I would imagine an infinite variety so I would never get tired of it. And then the biggest thing is to just keep at it. I would say that it took me a decade or more to get rid of some of my persistent traumatic feelings. So think of it as a long-term game in which you're getting maybe a— maybe you get a little half a percent gain if you work hard at building up your other thoughts to cancel out the bad ones. But over time, it'll pay off. That's your micro lesson. You can't get rid of a bad thought, but you can find more engaging thoughts, things to learn, Learn things to take your attention away until the bad thought suffers from atrophy and becomes non-important to you. That's your micro lesson for the day.

Okay. Like basically enough said. Everybody got that, right? And a lot of you say, I like get out. It's simpler. Same thing. But you also want to learn how to use your thoughts also and not just dismiss everything that comes into your head. Marcela, your thoughts? I have to spit my gum out.

Oh, so this, this reminds me of David Goggins. Uh, he's an ultra marathon runner, crazy guy. He runs 100 miles and, and he changed his life. He was a Navy SEAL. But, um, one of the things he talks about is, and I think Scott talked about this, is envisioning your thoughts in your head as a shelf. And like, like there's only limited amount of space you can put, like an empty shelf, empty shelf. And then make sure that like if there's a thought that's getting into your head that's negative, or you, or, you know, it's causing you anxiety or issues, just take it out visually in your mind, visualize it and put some new thing in it. Also, he, he like, like Scott would be like, you have to physically be active to help your mental state. So get out there, you know, even if it's 100 degrees, you must run outside, or, you know, however you do it, go to the gym, you know, um, walk, you know, in the, you know, after dinner or something like that. But I, I think it's important to Um, to emphasize that negative thoughts can make you sick.

Yeah.

Um, that words are spells and that there are— that, that having negative thoughts is not good for your— for you, for your body. Like, it does affect you. It isn't just in your brain. And that's why you have to be able to get them out, like a lot of people are saying, because, um, after this, um, Scott had a reframe of get out. And meaning like the, the thought, um, needed to get out and you also need to get out of that space. But, um, I find it very charming that he, he was saying like visualize things like soccer or things like that because it's fun. A lot of you don't like soccer, so.

Yeah, like soccer, everybody loves soccer.

But, you know, visualize something that you personally like, you know.

Yeah, I love— personally love visualization. And I mean, uh, Mom, if you're listening, you know, I've talked about this before where I do this all the time. I just tell somebody— my mom taught me this when I was little. So I— the, the thing I go to is like, let's say, let's say you're— you have this negative thought in your head, okay? Close your eyes and you're like, you can see the thought. Now picture that Pac-Man thing, and it's like coming across your forehead, and it's like it's eating that thought, and you just watch it get eaten, and the little Pac-Man goes right away. And it's like, there it goes. I just watched it leave. I'm just clearing my head. Let's just move on. You just did it, right?

Close my eyes. I was like, Pac-Man, leave.

Yeah, it's like that little yellow Pac-Man, and he eats up that negative thought. So, you know, same thing if you're sick. I would, I would like, let's say I had some illness and I'm laying in the bed and I'm like, oh, and then I'm just like, okay, come on, little Pac-Man thing. And it comes and I watch it eating all the sickness, like eat the germs, eat the this, eat the that. And like, I, and then I, and then I picture and feel myself becoming healthy because those little things have been eaten and taken out and taken away. So visualization for me is huge. And also Careful of what you allow in. You know, we just talked about this recently with Scott. I'm exactly like Scott where I'm just like, I don't want to hear a bunch of negative stuff, like especially like before going to bed. Like if there's like a negative movie on or like a terrible scene or something vicious or whatever, I listen to everything. Like I don't have to be watching it, but even if I can hear it in another room, I'm like, Oh my God, like, turn that down. Like, this is why I live with my earphones on. I'm like very cautious about what I allow into my brain. Look, they're right here, you guys. I all day with earphones on, okay? I don't even want to hear like the sound of something outside. I don't want to hear. Um, so be careful with what you allow in, and if something bad gets in, visualize it leaving. Get it out, you know. So there's a way to manage it and get yourself out too. So just change your whole state. Um, I think we need that right now. So who wants a— who wants a quick plague update?

For positive thoughts, I know.

Listen, here's my take on the plague stuff. I am just gonna— like, Marco Rubio gave a quick update, and I'm just— we have nothing more to say than what he's saying right now. Like, I don't want to get all jacked up on You know, plague hysteria. I don't want to ignore it for you. Fear porn. Yeah. So I like this tone. Here's Rubio. He was in Iceland and was he was he in Iceland? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, here he is on his plague update before we go.

Well, look, first of all, anytime you hear that there's some disease that infected someone in a lab anywhere in the world, you're going to be concerned about it, especially. Given recent events not so long ago, obviously in 2021, so in 2020 when we saw that happen. That said, it would be irresponsible for me here to sit and speculate because we just don't have all the information yet. I think it's incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world. That's what they should do. That's what we hope they will do. And the more we can learn about what happened, then the better all of us can be in a position of responding. And maybe, you know, there's not Maybe there's nothing there, maybe it's bigger than we thought, we don't know. But I think it would be reckless at this moment, given the limited information we still have, to speculate about what this might or might not be, or what this is or what this isn't. Suffice it to say, we're watching it very closely, and I think the whole world is watching it very closely, because depending on what we learn about it, we would know how to respond. We already, you know, have measures in place to be able to address it if it's something, you know, more serious than what so far has been acknowledged. Suffice it to say, we're glad to be aware of it. We're watching it very closely, hour by hour. We have multiple agencies, not just—

I agree, Star Painter. He is so smooth without seeming like he's trying to be smooth. Like, he's very calming. Um, I, I just, I just agree with whatever he said. Like, there's nothing really much more to say about it till they have more information. Marcella?

I'm canceling my Siberian trip. Yeah, you are. I was gonna go to Siberia, actually.

You'd be nice and cool.

Yakutsk. It's, it's a city in Siberia. It's the coldest city ever. So I wanted to visit Yakutsk, uh, for a long, long time. It's hard to get there because you have to go through Russia. But anyways, that's, that's canceled for sure.

For now.

Until now. Um, the, the interesting part is Somebody mentioned this yesterday on X, is like, isn't it always like a dictatorship that never wants to give the information that's always on this? You know, before it was China, now it's Russia, and now we have to wait for them to give us information, which they're not known for. Um, so that's—

Would you believe it? No. I mean, not really. And you know what, if we gave them information, they wouldn't believe it either. And we're not a dictatorship, but it's just, it's just more global games that we all play, and everyone's always basically lying for the benefit of themselves. So, you know, if Russia's like, oh look, the Americans are scared, they want more information, what do we want to give them? This is a chance to do something exciting. So, you know, you have to— like Scott would say, what, you know, what's in it for Russia? What's in it for China? What's in it for America, the Ukraine, everybody, Iran? So everybody's just gonna spin things their own way. And will we ever know the truth? No, no, we won't. We will never know the truth about what's going on. So there's no point in getting hysterical. I wouldn't say go put your masks on, people. Like, we're not doing that again. If I show up here with a mask on one day, you will know shit has hit the fan and all hell has broken loose because it's gonna take a lot to mask up this chick. So, um, let's just carry on. Get that thought out of your head. Let the little Pac-Man eat that thought. And when we need to know more, we'll know more. But, you know, for now, just go, go on like you would and, and just cancel your trips to Siberia, to Russia, Moscow, all those things. Just chill out for a while. Um, enjoy, enjoy America. Uh, so listen, you guys, how was today? Did you like Marcella and I today? Were we just amazing or what? Marcella made it through without passing out, thank God. And we had a great time being with you. And again, tomorrow BJ will join us. Owen is off tomorrow again on assignment. So he'll be back with us on Thursday when Akira shows up to premiere a new Scott song. We get to add a new song to the roster. So please do hit the like, subscribe, ring the little notification bell on YouTube so you know when we go live. There might be some new, um, YouTubes going off also, like not at the regular time. So we want to do a little bit more with you guys on, on all the channels. So YouTube, ring that little bell and— oh, I just drew it, the little bell— and then you'll know if we do do like an extra broadcast somewhere. Yes, BJ. Oh, good show, Erica, but not one of your greatest. Well, thank you, Metal Seer, sir, for that very constructive feedback.

Wait, wait, Is it because Owen is not here?

I, I mean, whatever that meant, but you know. Okay, is Owen in Russia investigating? No, we won't let him go near the bioweapons. Um, he's not there. All right, you guys, so listen, as always, a, uh, thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to exist and be here and to continue. Um, and let's have a closing sip with all the amazing thoughts in the world of our beloved Scott Adams. Get out there, be useful, and honey— honey badger something today. Stand up for yourself, stand up for the right thing, be a little honey badger, and then tell us about it tomorrow in the chat. All right, you guys, thank you. Freebird, best show ever, right? Okay, tsk, Scott.

Tsk, Scott.

If anybody wants to stay, I'm gonna do an Akira song. Marcela, you have to go? Okay. Yeah. All right, Marcela, you have an amazing day. I'll see you tomorrow. Take care. Bye. Yes, I know. Okay, bye. So it feels appropriate to just do Get Out, don't you think? Let's do it, you guys. 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 2 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 exists It existed at one point, but now it's just the thoughts of the past.

Get out. Just say, get out.

I want you to help me get out of here.

Well, 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. So the life The world 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. Oh, yeah, but you— And so the idea that I had that worked when I did 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! Get out! Get out! Get out now! Just say get out. Get out of here! I want you to get out of here. Get out! Get out! Get out! Just say get out.

And just walk out in the sun, walk out the door, pet the dog, do a chore, exercise, just get out. And so I'm gonna ask you this as a favor. Try it once. Just try it once. Just tell yourself you have 2 worlds. There's the imaginary one in your head, and then there's the 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 is to yell, get out! Just say, get out. Get out of here. I want you to help me get out of here.

Get out.

Get out. Get out. Get out. Just say, get out.

Get out.

Get out of here! I want you to walk me inside. Get up! Get out! Get out now! I'll get out of here. I'll get out of here.

Love. Oh, you guys, I love Get Out. I don't think I've played it in forever. It's so good. The chat is amazing, you guys. I love you guys. All right, so Marcella and I will be back tomorrow. Oh, give me the doggies. We will be back tomorrow with BJ, and it's been forever since BJ has been on, so that'll be fun. And, um, and then Akira on Thursday. All right, you guys, I'm gonna say goodbye. Thank you, Metal Seer. Good show. Not the greatest, but you know what? I'm glad you liked it. I'm glad you liked it anyway. And yes, Pac-Man. I love it. You guys, don't you love that visual? Just, I was like a kid and I'm like, I'm gonna watch that Pac-Man eat up everything bad that, that we don't like. Thanks, Raya. Thanks, you guys. Bye, everybody. Thanks, Linda. Oh, Lemon Minty, you gorgeous darling. You're excited for BJ? I'm glad you wrote that out the right way. Okay, guys, love you. I want to stop talking, otherwise I'll just keep talking and talking and talking, watching you guys. Thank you. Don't forget your Dilbert calendar, your simultaneous swaddle. There's mine in the basket. My cat was laying in there, George, the other day. There's the wall calendar and there's the desk calendar, and the links to get them are in the show description. Okay, you guys, and I'm gonna put them in there every day. So if anyone's looking for this stuff, I will put the links in every day in the show description on each platform. Okay. All right, you guys. I know, Metal Seer. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Michael.