The Scott Adams School - 10/09/26 AKIRA.. TAKE TWO! Fri Yay! With the Home Team

Locals going.

You can see locals today. Awesome.

Yes.

Yeah, I can see them today.

Marcella, you look cooler today. Are you better?

No, it's still hot. Just have higher, better AC or higher temperature. Good morning, everybody.

Marcella is still cool.

I am cool. She's cool and hot at the same time.

Yes, Marcella. We're aware, and that's why we love you.

So happy birthday to whoever's birthday it is, and happy Friday.

Oh, Tree Bowl Bouvier, it's your birthday? Who's— all right, drop your birthdays. Whose birthday is it? Who had a birthday this week? Who's a Libra? Yeah, we're still in Libra season. Who's a Libra? I love it. I love me a Libra.

Why is it that cool and hot are good, but cold is bad?

Well, cold is good when you like cold.

Well, you think of cold as like a person being cold, like mean. Sean, you're a Libra? Or are you just saying that? So happy birthday to all the Libras and whoever's birthday is today. Happy, happy birthday.

Astrology hour.

Yeah.

You guys, I have a— while people are coming in, I have a coffee update for you. I am so excited. Okay, here's what you do. I've worked it out. Obsessed. Okay, I heat my coffee cup with my little Insta-Hot, then dump out the water. I put water, then I put in my Chobani creamer, but I only put in half the amount I would normally put in. I heat the Chobani in the microwave for like 15 seconds so it's nice and hot. Then I'm taking the peanut butter protein powder, the PB2 I think it's called, about a half a scoop of the peanut butter protein powder into the hot creamer frother. Froth. It gets thick. And then I pour the hot coffee on top and holy cow. It's the best coffee I've ever had. Thick, frothy, hot, steamy, delightful. I'm obsessed. It's worth the effort, Sean. I mean, you know, if you want the satisfaction, Sean, you've got to put the effort in. I see you need help in that category. But yes, worth the effort. Mm-hmm. So that was my coffee update. And Owen, I just want to give one more second for Rumble. How's the stock market today?

Well, I think what I saw was more of the Indian stock market is just crashing. It's like apparently this H-1B stuff that I think we're going to talk about in a little while is having a big impact where they're now really thinking maybe there's going to be a big cut in terms of H-1Bs and kind of indicates how they perceive that as being a big part of their economy with all the remittances and things going back there. And I know on our side, there was a big announcement that Elon Musk was going to become a major— Starlink was going to become a major carrier, that he was buying some additional bandwidth and satellites to become a major phone carrier. And apparently, all the other carriers took a big hit. But I'm looking at the S&P 500 and we're up a little bit.

Yeah.

Seems like overall we're doing fine.

All right. So to every visa person, which we will talk about later in India, and now you're going to stay home, to you I say, good. Okay, we're full. All right, listen, let's have a sip. That was mean, but not. Here we go.

But you're going to feel better after the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel. Of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it will even remove fraud from the election. Just watch.

Go. Ah, I love how we're right on trend. It's gonna remove fraud from the election, Marcela. I'm excited about that. How's your coffee, Marcela?

Good?

Awesome.

Amazing.

No fraud in my coffee, by the way.

Fraud? The frog?

No fraud.

Oh, fraud. Every time I hear the word fraud, I think about the frog now.

Probably no frog in her coffee either, hopefully.

There is one.

Yeah, it's El Salvadorian technique to put a frog in your coffee. Okay, so you guys, welcome to the Scott Adams School. It's Friday, yay! And because there was a little difficulty on Akira's end yesterday, unfortunately, with his sound, but fortunately he's figured it out, he's going to join us later in the show to premiere his new Scott Adams collab, so that's going to be fun. It's called Nobody Cares. Nobody cares, and I love that because the song is accurate. So before we get to Akira, we thought we would do some news for y'all. And I just wanted to start off with actually, I want to give a shout out one more time to Micro. Somebody asked actually, somebody didn't ask. Somebody told me that they were. Uh, on that website, and I think that they're going to be able to get into some kind of program through the website we were showing. I'm going to show it one more time and just ask you guys later in the day or whenever, take a look at the website. It's very interesting. And then there's a second job opportunity I want to show you because we want to be useful here at the Scott Adams School. So here's Mike Rowe again. Write down the website.

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Go get some, y'all. Um, so again, peruse the website. It's really, really good. And then one other job opportunity for you is this one.

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All right, who's gonna join and become a whistleblower? That's the reason. I could see Marcella in the FBI. Uh, Marcella, would you? No, wouldn't do it.

Not at all.

How come?

I wouldn't work for the government any— I once worked for the government, and once I worked for them, I realized never again.

Not for you.

I like independent thinking, and a lot of the jobs I would be able to get, I could not be on social media. I wouldn't be able to have free speech.

Oh, okay. So All right, Owen, would you do it?

I kind of feel the same way about the government, but only because of my personal experience as well. Like, I, I did a brief stint, very brief, like a few weeks on a consulting project for the government. It actually was for the Department of Homeland Security. And, um, it was the most depressed consulting team I have ever seen. Wow. And I think it was all because the government was just like not cooperating with the project and not giving them all the information they needed and arguing about who should be in charge. And it was just like Chaos. It was like, I mean, I say chaos. I mean, it was very orderly chaos, but it was just, you know, it just made me think, oh, wow, this is really different than working in the commercial sector. And, you know, the other experiences I've had have been people within companies I worked for that were government aligned, I guess. You know, we have a lot of the companies I worked for have government service lines where they specifically work for state and federal government agencies.

Mm-hmm.

And I guess I'll just say they're not the same people. It's just different. And not, you know, when I would bring them onto a commercial project, they just didn't seem to know how to do it.

Mm-hmm.

And I, you know, I don't fault them personally because they're just a product of their experience and the job they were asked to do, but it just seemed like the things that I would expect of a consultant just weren't there. And, um, it, you know, it created a few situations where we had to kind of clean up the mess and all these things. And, and again, those aren't government people, but that I think it's because they were working with government people. And it just seems very bureaucratic. Like, an example is, you know, you have to only charge the standard 40 hours a week, even if you have to work more than that, because that's just how the contracts are written.

And it's just—

No FBI for you.

What I would say for me If I would work for the FBI, if they had the X Files.

Yes.

If they really had an X Files, wouldn't you own? You could be Mulder and I'll be Scully. Yeah.

I Scully.

You'd have to have full access to all the secret UFO files.

Well, the thing is, they will tell us we have access to all the files. But you know that we'll know if you did if you disappear suddenly.

That's how you know.

And then there's the— what's that— Cancer Man. He's the one that would meet them in the dark corner, uh, with smoking cigarettes. You know, I, I love it.

I, I—

if, if that was really how the FBI works, I would totally work for them. But yeah, it often— like attorneys you see on TV, often things aren't what they Or like what you see on TV aren't really what it is like to be an attorney or to work for the FBI. But maybe, maybe with Cash Patel ahead of it.

Sure, it's better than it was, but I just, I think, and I think, I don't mean to like put it down for everybody. Like, I think there are certain people that would thrive in that environment and would like the structure and would like the, just the way it operates, you know, the pace, whatever might be different there. I've been working most of my career in a field where you work lots of overtime, you have to travel a lot, you have to do a lot of stuff that a lot of people would hate doing. And it is very hard, especially if you have— so government, I think, does give you a lot of stability, a lot of great benefits, a lot of other things that are valuable to people.

Did I say cancer men, you guys? I meant smoking.

I like Cancer Man. That was good. We all got it.

Oh boy.

All right.

He did get cancer at the end, didn't he?

I don't know.

Wasn't he like having one of those esophagus things where he was speaking through his neck?

Yeah. Oh gosh. All right.

So we're moving on. No spoilers for the people that haven't watched X-Files that will now tune in to Cancer Man.

If you haven't watched X-Files by now, I'm not going to worry about spoilers.

No.

All right, so I'm gonna move on. Also, I wanted to talk about— I'm like, all right, all right, with Cancer Man, let's keep going. Um, Cancer Man's amazing though, by the way.

Erica never mentioned whether she would work for the FBI because she does work. No, I'm just kidding.

Marcella, I told you not to say anything.

She didn't say anything.

Um, so would I? I, I probably would have a long time ago. Not now, but That's— that was like right up my alley in thinking, because I was thinking of the TV FBI. That's the one I wanted to work for. Okay, so Skid Row, Marcella. I mean, ooh, Scott is gonna like this story, and we are gonna show it to you. Let's take a listen.

Well, we're told this is part of a 4-month undercover operation targeting drug dealers on Skid Row. Look right now, we'll show you people being arrested here. This This is an infamous site for not only drug use but homelessness as well. And that gentleman you just saw being walked away, we actually saw large wads of cash being pulled from his pocket. You could see some of it being processed here on scene. I asked the FBI what that means, seeing these huge wads of cash. They said it probably means they're in the right location. So federal agents including the FBI, DEA, U.S. Attorney's Office, and LAPD— hundreds of agents around us right now. People being arrested on site. And of course And of course, also lots of dogs and animals. You can see these caged dogs in the distance. That's also become a very disturbing and hot topic here on Skid Row. I want to bring in right now Kenny Cooper. He's the special agent in charge of the ATF here in Los Angeles. Kenny, what does it mean when you see drugs, wads of cash, and actually I just saw a handgun being removed from a tent right near us?

Yeah, it's hard to believe this is happening in America.

This, this feels like a third world country right now. So that's the expertise that we're here to provide.

How are these violent gang offenders with multi-convictions, felony convictions, how are they obtaining their firearms?

To identify who's conducting the shootings to protect their drug trafficking, the rival gang shooting, witnesses being shot in the crossfire. So to identify those trigger pullers and to identify the sources of supply to the firearms that are being funneled into this area for this open-air drug trafficking offense.

Thank you, Kenny.

Thank you very much. Now, this all began before sunrise, around 5 o'clock this morning. We were actually embedded with federal agents as they made— they detained people at what's being described as a drug house or a stash house as well. There are 28 people expected to be arrested as part of the countywide bust here today. We're told at this hour 14 out of 28 suspects are in custody, 44 search warrants throughout the city. So this, uh, we're told, is targeting, uh, people who sell fentanyl and meth to violent drug users here on the street. And federal agents I've been talking to say they believe that these drug dealers are actually targeting people who get federal funds here. So they come down here specifically on the day that people get their government check. Back to you guys.

Okay, so if we were federal agents, maybe we'd be on that. So, Marcella, what are, you know, Legally. So they have all these warrants out now. Um, what do you think will happen with these people? Like, will they go to jail? Will they be asked to, like, narc out other people? Um, and that's pretty disgusting what they found and what's happening.

They will definitely— I mean, if there's evidence to, um, to prosecute them, federal prosecution is Highly successful. Um, it's like, what, 80%, 90%, I don't know, of federal cases that are prosecuted, or, or basically they're found guilty. But, um, they have more resources than a state, uh, district attorney's office and all that. So those are federal crimes. You see FBI, DEA, ATF. Um, So it's good that they're going there again. Elections matter. Once Trump is not in office, if there's a Democrat, it goes back to the same thing again.

Yeah.

Um, and, and basically one of the things that it— when you walk by Skid Row, because I've walked by there and it's like, it's like a different whole world. Like nobody does anything about it. There's Basically, you see them selling and doing and shooting up and all sorts of things. The animal abuse is out of proportions. Um, I wish they would livestream all of that, like when they go after them, kind of like they're livestreaming someone's execution. I, I think it's needed. One of the things that in Latin America they do differently than here— and not— I'm not saying Latin America is good, but they're quite stronger on punishment because of the type of the amount of crime is that they'll per walk someone and show them to the TV, and they'll put all of this thing on the front news. They'll put it everywhere in a city where the, the picture of the person. So even though in America you're, you're innocent till proven guilty, and all of them are innocent till proven guilty, They still need to make it be, look at these people, look at what we're doing, so that people are afraid to break the law.

Mm-hmm. I just wanna put my 2 cents in about the animal abuse that's happening.

It's terrible.

You guys, you don't even wanna know what they're doing to these animals. It's not like they're their friends and their companions. They're doing— I don't want— don't say any of it, you guys, but they're doing horrific things to these animals. Owen, it's hard to believe this is America, but unfortunately this is going on in so many places.

Well, it's going on in certain places. I, I mean, I would say a lot of this has to do with just the fact that they tolerate it. I mean, the, the Skid Row wouldn't exist if they cleaned it up and took the people away, and they wouldn't have all this crime if they arrested the people that were doing it. And clearly they have very little, if any, policing of all of this stuff. And there certainly are local police and state police that could have been handling this, but it wasn't until the feds came in that anything's being done about it. And I would imagine that if there was any way California could stop the feds from coming in, they would have.

Yeah.

So I think it's a very deliberate strategy on the part of California and LA specifically to say, we're gonna set up this open-air drug market environment, we're gonna allow that to happen, and we're not gonna say anything or do anything about it. We're just gonna pretend it's not happening and just let it go. And I think that's what needs to stop. I think, you know, I hope that California comes to their senses and makes a leadership change that will make some of those changes happen. But in the meantime, I'm glad that the feds are stepping in to make a difference. Um, I don't know how much of this is a political statement versus a, you know, actual, like, attempt to reduce the crime, but either way, I'm for it, and I hope it continues.

Yes, Jim Wyman, that was Skid Row in, uh, Los Angeles, which, you know, used to be a couple of blocks and How big is it now, Marcela? It's like huge.

Well, you, you used to contain all the homeless in First Street, Third Street, San Pedro Street, or whatever. It's like small area, but it was filled with homeless. But now it's not just the downtown area of Los Angeles, it's all of Los Angeles. You're seeing that in Santa Monica, you're seeing that in Venice, you're seeing that In West LA. Um, you have it everywhere. So that's changed, and you see it in other cities outside of Los Angeles because it's been allowed. A lot of the homeless, if you ask them, they come from different states, different countries, just to be homeless somewhere, right? Like they have a visa, homeless visa, I think.

And meanwhile, California is spending billions on supposedly tackling the homeless problem, and they have a luxury tower for themselves, and they're building these massive, really fancy places that I'm sure are costing a fortune to build per unit, and all sorts of money is flowing to whoever's getting that, but it's not actually making a difference.

Well, and I played the clip yesterday of David Spade saying that everybody wanted to open an investigation into where's the money for the homeless going. And what did Gavin Newsom say? No, we're not doing an investigation. You will not know. So I don't know. I mean, everything looks like it's by design because if it's not by design, it's an egomaniacal problem that Gavin Newsom has and the other people that work under him that they just can't admit that they're doing anything wrong. Like, nothing to see here. No, there's a lot to see there. There's a lot of money and waste and fraud and This guy wants to be the president of America. Imagine what it would look like then.

I'm sure Karen Bass will handle it, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Her or Nithya, either one. They're so qualified for sure. Very sad, but I'm glad to see this bust. I mean, it's just a little glimmer of just good. I mean, it's not going to solve any problems, but good. All right, so let's keep moving before Akira gets here. So J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio are both doing such good auditions for president. I'm loving both of their work. So yesterday we showed you Marco Rubio in Greece, and today we're going to, we're going to show you J.D. Vance and some of the things he's talking about with his task forces. But let's first talk about, since Marcela mentioned, uh, homeless visas. Let's talk about real visas and how they work out. Let's, let's see what, uh, Stella wants to hear it too. Let's see what Van says.

If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you're making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I'm sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers, and if you're a corporation, you make a ton of money by undercutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn't be in the United States of America to begin with. This is a terribly pernicious system. It's gone on for too long. And we'd all encourage, by the way, Congress to do something about it. But there are things within our authority under the law, our regulatory authority as an administration, to fix this problem. And that's exactly what we're going to do. I want to make one final announcement here, because while we see a lot of H-1B visa fraud, we also see a lot of J-1 visa fraud. And this is where some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners, again, to undercut the wages of American residents. Now, there are 9 universities in particular that we believe merit an investigation. Those universities are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. And what we see is that when you employ an American worker as a graduate student, as a researcher, They're making about $20,000 more than someone brought in under a J-1 visa. And importantly, these universities are employing J-1 visas for federally funded grants at a rate of about 61%. The national average is 38%. So something weird is going on at these universities. They're using these visas way too much. They're using them to undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers, and it simply has to stop. Let me make one final point before I turn it over to Keith. This is a—

okay, we lost the final point, but I love those guys standing behind him, like Blanche and Miller. I'm like, yeah, that's my kind of mob. Um, so Owen, what— everything, to put it mildly, is fake and gay. I mean, everything in this country is fraud. It's so disgusting.

Is that what pernicious means? Fake and gay?

Yes, fake and gay. Everything. It's just like, God, is anything for real? Is anything legit? It does not seem that way. And I'm glad that they're going into the universe universities because it's complete fraud, highway robbery, and indoctrination, and it's disgusting. And they're just doing what foreign countries want them to do, in my opinion. Allegedly, allegedly, Marcellus.

Well, I agree. I mean, I think it's sort of— I mean, I've been saying for a long time that American universities should be primarily for Americans. I'm not saying we should necessarily have a total 100% ban on letting any foreigners come here to do that, but It certainly does seem like it's way beyond what it should in terms of percentages of foreign students. And I've experienced it personally where my son didn't get accepted to my own state college and had to pay out-of-state tuition, which literally cost me probably over $100,000. And I'm sure if I looked at who went there, it's probably full of foreigners that were coming here. And, um, you know, part of it is that they get more money because they'll pay full tuition or whatever. But it, you know, it also means that these people are coming in to get visas and to end up taking the jobs that people like my son would otherwise have. And so it's definitely displacing American workers and reducing opportunities and reducing wages. That's the other thing. I mean, unemployment is down pretty low right now, so it's not necessarily like We need to consider that a crisis. But I do think the wages are one of the other things too, because the more you change that supply and demand curve for American workers, the more wages are going to go up and people are going to have more affordability and a better life. And so I definitely think it's depressing the wages that are paid to American workers in addition to just reducing the opportunities for jobs.

Yeah, I would agree with that. Marcella?

Um, I would just say, you know, part of it is the H-1B visa was only set out for specialty occupations, um, for, for jobs where you didn't have that particular person in America. Like, you, you might have like 10 astrophysicists, but you, you already have all of them employed and you need that 3 astrophysicists in my office. So there's no one I could find. That's kind of— and it's become something, it's morphed into, oh, we want to get free or cheap labor.

Mm-hmm.

Which actually doesn't work for the immigrant worker, visa worker, and it doesn't work for Americans either. The immigrant worker that comes here, they are very limited in what they can do, and they get paid a lot less than their other counterparts. And they are more in fear of their job because if they lose their job, they get to go back to their country and have to move their family again. So, and so a lot of the things that maybe the office does, their business or whatever they're working, they, uh, kind of look the other way. So there's You could even say there's been a lot of, uh, such SA cases, um, and things like that. So it's not good for anyone.

Mm-hmm.

The fraud that's been allowed to happen, enforcement should be there. Um, it's like they just rubber stamp any— anything that comes in. Okay, okay, okay, you come in, you come in. And it's not— it's not appropriate. It's not legal. So I want to say H-1B visas aren't supposed to be this way. So I like the fact that JD Vance and the administration is enforcing the law and looking further into it than just rubber stamping everything that these corporations do. And the other thing is looking into these— the next thing they need to look at is what Owen was talking about, about this whole scheme of having foreign students come to the university where they hardly speak English, and then they are there, as they tell me, because they're paying a whole lot more. Oh, I, I got in, but, um, I'm paying, um, like a regular student in like whatever school it is— I don't want to mention it— is like $60,000. They're paying $80,000. And cash. Like, I mean, they have to— they pay everything. And so they're— it's just a— they're milking all of this. It's like an industrial complex of all, all of these people. It's just fraud. The fraud industrial complex.

Yeah, the visa fraud is sick. What do they say, like 81 million visas or, uh, work visas had happened? And then they're like, but did those people ever go back home? I don't know, but I—

Maybe it exists. I mean, I don't know.

Yeah.

Um, and in theory, in theory, the system says, okay, you have to like offer the job and advertise it and see if you can get any American workers, but they totally exploit that. They come up with these no-name job websites where they'll publish it in some obscure place, or they're literally like still use classified ads or whatever, like places that you would never find the job ad. And then they'll say, okay, we ran that for a few weeks and we couldn't find anyone, so now we can hire the H-1B. And you can tell that they're doing it on purpose. They're trying not to get anyone to apply to the jobs just so they can check the box and say we tried. And it's all fraud. It's all just, okay, I'm checking the box so I can say I followed the law, but really they're doing everything they can to skirt around the law.

Right. Yeah, no, everything is fake and gay. Okay, let's do one more thing from JD Vance, Vice President Vance. Same setup, same awesome mob behind him. Love this mob squad. And, uh, it's just in line with what we're talking about, and it'll just, it'll just tack on beautifully. Let's take a listen.

All right, the Trump administration suspending Microsoft from a federal program used by companies to sponsor foreign workers for green cards. So here's the deal, uh, the VP J.D. Vance accuses Microsoft of abusing the system, saying that the company laid off 6,000 American workers while obtaining— get this— 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards. Vance says, hold on, the administration wants companies to hire more American workers. Here's part of Vance's remarks, Evelyn.

We have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, which means they will no longer be able to apply, uh, their— those— they'll never no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America. Now, our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America. We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology sector. We are the biggest boosters of your industry. We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is you're a Great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers.

Dang straight. So can the fraud issue?

Giddy up, JD. Giddy up. Okay. So that just kind of ties into everything we were just saying, Marcella. Yeah.

No, I mean, if Microsoft is is laying off six whatever the the same amount of numbers as H one B visa, I I can only imagine. that they just want to reduce the cost of labor. I mean, I don't know if the H-1B visa employees or something were specialized and this other people that were laid off was a different job. They, they should not even get the ability to have, have, uh, these visas. They should take it away. Um, and if, if no, for no other reason, to reexamine the program, or at least look at the program altogether. Um, there's a lot of fraud by attorneys. I would have to say there was like a criminal case against one of these attorneys in LA that she was just— they were just doing all this immigration visa stuff, all fraudulent, um, from India, from China, from all— Russia, wherever it was.

Mm-hmm.

Um, but I give it to JD Vance for doing a great job, for Todd Blanche to do a great job, and Stephen Miller. And I think they just need to keep at it and put pressure on these companies to not break the law. But besides Microsoft, there's many others that need to be—

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

I think they're making an example of them, and I think they're trying to send that message. And certainly, as we mentioned earlier, it's being received in India And I think, you know, it's just been exploited left and right. And Scott would always tell us, you know, the system is what it does. And if people wanted to change the system, they would have. So for a long time, they've just let this go the way it is and let companies get away with this. And until now, nothing's been done to change it. So I'm glad to see that Vance is trying to really make a difference here and to crack down on this. And I'm all for saying, let's start with Microsoft, but like Marcella said, let's keep going if we have to.

I'll crack down with them. I'll join the team for free.

Yeah.

If they let me crack down on some of these people.

Except the 3 astrophysicists in your office.

Except those.

Oh my gosh. And did you guys see, I didn't pull it because I didn't know if we'd have time or not, but Nick, it just continues to piss me off. Like Nick Shirley today, I saw a video where he was exposing— gosh, where was it, you guys? I know some of you saw in the chat, but he, he was exposing again all foreigners, no one speaking English. I think they were either like, uh, I don't want to get the, get the group wrong, but they were like maybe Filipinos, something, I'm not sure. But it was a whole, um, Food stamps scam, EBT, or whatever we call it, SNAP. And so this woman showed them, she's right in there with everybody. They go over to some fish market somewhere. You pick up a can of Spam on the shelf. So Spam is the signal. And you bring the Spam to the counter, and she bought a little thing of sushi. And so the register rings her up. $120, they give them $120. They're just funneling the money. So like, she's buying something for $5, she's— they're charging her $120, and then they're banking the money. And it just pisses me off.

There's another scam that I, I don't know if Nick has done this.

Um, Seattle, another scam.

If you go, um, if any of you want to look out for this, uh, the first of the month when EBT stamp, you know, money from food stamps comes out, um, go to Costco, especially Costco, or go to like a big supermarket like Walmart. Watch out for people buying tons of products, like, like 20 milk, milk, or 30 or whatever it is, like, or water or chips or anything that you see tons of it. And then they pay with an EBT card. What they're doing is they're taking that to their own supermarket or store or liquor store and they're reselling it. And the reason why they have an EBT card is because maybe their wife, maybe their second wife, maybe their third wife has it. Um, and so they're able to use EBT money to out— to use it for their own business. They don't really need it.

So I'm gonna say something revolutionary here.

Yeah.

It might get me in trouble, but can everybody that's here just go back to your own country and figure it out? Because this is so unfair. It is so unfair. And, you know, we all understand how the food stamps started. It was, it was a way to make, um, back in the day, Black people become dependent on the government. That's all it was about. to, to get a vote, and it was supposed to be temporary. And, you know, here we are now with foreigners crashing the party and just grifting off of every middle-class, hard-working person. I'm gonna single out because the middle class gets pounced on constantly, and it's like, you know, and we're gonna see our futures disappear because we have to fund all of the fake and gay. fraud in this country. I'm so sick of it, you guys. I'm so, so sick of it. Holy cow. All right, so, um, let me, uh— Owen, if you have a news story by any chance queued up for us, that would be amazing. Or Marcella. And I'm going to check in with Akira and see if we're ready to go.

Well, following the same fraud theme, I would say that there's a— in Maine, they have a bunch of Medicaid mills where they're doing supposedly home health Uh, it looks like they took in this, this place, I think, is it— it seems to be called Legit Home Healthcare, which I think would be a simulation alert. Um, and they took $7,100,000 or so from Maincare over 5 years from 2019 to 2024, and they billed, I think, $6.95 million, um, across 8,000 claims, 15-minute increments. And then Community Home Healthcare of South Portland received $47, almost $48 million from MaineCare about the same timeframe. And there's all these allegations of fraud where they basically weren't delivering any of these services. I think this has to do with the, you know, like adult home healthcare sort of stuff. But yeah, it looks like Maine is just rampant with fraud. Blaze Media, I think, or Blaze News was investigating this and walking through Portland, Maine, looking at these places, then they would find empty offices, just nothing going on. Um, so fraud is everywhere, and it's not just in, you know, the few places we hear about the most. It seems like it's all across the country, even beautiful Maine.

Akira's ready. Um, Maine, please, Maine, get it together. I love you so much. And coincidentally, I think Maine has the highest suicide rate on the East Coast. Just a little fun fact I read last night. And also there's like massive drug stuff going on in Maine. I forget the guy, but he was like going through this beautiful park and it was like a drug den and people shooting up. And I'm like, what is happening? Okay, so listen, you guys, let me reconfigure ourselves. Give me one second because Akira is here. That was funny. Okay, let me bring in Akira.

Hi.

It's a party up in here.

Is that working? Yeah, look at that. Oh my goodness.

Welcome, Akira. We're so excited. It works. It works.

I love it when it works.

Like, let me bring Akira up a little higher. There we go. Yeah, there we go.

What's going on, E? How are you doing?

I'm good, eh? It's so good to see you. You were, you were trying your best yesterday, and you know what? You are always worth the wait.

I was crawling around on my hands and knees like a toddler underneath these DJ boots with like armfuls of wires trying to suss out what the issue was.

And you found it.

I found it.

Yay!

To change.

What changed? Was it a frog? Was it a frog?

Was it a frog?

Frog. It's always a frog.

Or a squirrel.

It's always a frog. It's always, it's always a mysterious agent of chaos.

Yes. So Akira, listen, we have been loving playing out the show with your songs. Every single day we play an Akira song or an Akira video. And, um, they're, they're like, you're so amazing, I have to say. And I, I don't remember which titles go with which thing, but man, you've got like this like jazz change-up, you've got like a little Prince vibe going. I mean, so, so freaking talented. And I love when you're singing in the background. You really do have a voice of an angel. I love it. Maybe I'm biased, but I love it.

Maybe you're biased, maybe you're right. Uh, the bias thing, if you recall, um, that's what Scott said. That was his quote, which I've put, if you get the CD of the last album, it's got a big pull quote from Squawks. It was his great quote, which was, maybe I'm biased, but this is amazing, or something like that.

Yes, right. What was it?

Let me have a look. I can see it somewhere.

He freaking loved when you started making your meaningwave.com music.

Woo!

Oh yes, Marcella!

Woo-hoo!

She's partying with us. I love it.

That was it.

Yeah.

He said, I might be biased, but this is a masterpiece. Is what he said, as it says there in the quote. And he was right. I mean—

Yeah, he's not wrong.

He was usually right.

Yes, seldom wrong.

I can't seem to remember that not being the case.

Owen even dances. You can't really tell. He moves very slightly.

Owen, when are you going to become a VTuber? When are you going to become a VTuber?

I'm working on it.

Oh, VTuber.

It's 2026. There is no excuse.

I'm working on it.

I've got a bunch of— We have the technology.

I've got a bunch of tasks that my AI bot army is working on, but the goal is to get to where I'll be able to focus on that. But it's going to be coming soon.

Because I didn't— I have noticed that you are— you do have an army. It's important to have an army in these days when you can. And, and I was wondering why you're not using a section of that army to create you an incredible VTubing apparatus. That's the—

I need to take down my software factory for maybe couple of days to do a bunch of training and other stuff. And I've just been trying to get to the point where it's actually working first. And I think I'm almost there, so I should be able to do it soon.

All right.

What are you doing with your army, Owen?

Yeah.

Well, right now, this army is building itself. But I'm also building what I'm calling a second brain, which is kind of like a work assistant sort of thing. But it keeps track of everything I need to do. It keeps track of all the meetings that I have. It keeps track of all my emails and everything else and just keeps me organised and helps me do all my work, and I'm hoping I can essentially get to the point where most of it's just on autopilot. But we'll see how far I get with it. It's already doing a lot for me, and it's probably only 10% live. So I'm really encouraged to see where it goes from there.

Yeah, it's a miracle. I'm so happy at the moment. I have not been on levels of, I love living in the future, this kind of viscerally rabid since like Napster era. It just, 'cause it just got to the point in the past few weeks, for a long time it was like, yeah, okay, theoretically this could be cool, but it became incredibly useful and practical for me just in the past couple of weeks.

Awesome.

Uh, it's suddenly got very good at computer use. It suddenly got very good at checking its own mistakes. And now loads of the things that are not the things that God put me on this earth to do, which would drive me fucking crazy, like uploading files and filling in forms and adding metadata to the backend of this and And all the stuff to do with running a record label that is very annoying, I've been teaching my robot armies to do all these things now.

Mm-hmm.

And it does it so well, and it makes me so happy. I feel like I might burst. I might cry sometimes. Last night I was doing the stuff for the new Scott song, and I was like, okay, execute this protocol. It goes, bzzz, this is done, check. And it did it right. Just stuff like I write a blog post, it takes it and formats it. And puts it on YouTube and it puts it on the website and it puts the thing there. And I've done my artwork and it reconfigures it in different sites and it uploads it there and uploads it there. And this might sound tedious to some people, but to me it is revolutionary and life-changing and it has allowed me to make more stuff. I've made more music videos in the past 2 weeks than I made in the past 2 months just because I suddenly had more capacity to do such things.

Good for us too. Yeah, I love that. Everybody—

Need your H-1B. H-1B visa worker. You can just have your AI agent.

Exactly.

Well, well, well, that is actually true though. That's the funny thing is the sorts of people that companies would be hiring to save money and not have to hire actual Americans. A lot of those jobs are the sort of things that the robot armies can do already. I'm pretty sure, let alone in 2 weeks, let alone in 2 months. And Lord knows what the world looks like in 2 years.

Oof, gosh, don't even make me think about it.

I wouldn't even bother.

Uh-uh.

I can't. Really, why bother? We're in the moment of steam. This is the point where you go from a trackable fluid culture where you can kind of see what people are inventing and you go, okay, now that's been invented, that might lead to that. And you can, like Steve Jobs with the iPhone, go, okay, we've got a 5, 8-year roadmap of releases. We're now at the point where so much has been created At this second, right now, there's like 500 variations of Photoshop being deployed and like 7,000 increments upon that. And every aspect of the world you can think of, this is happening in. It's steam. It's untrackable. A single human can't do it. The people I pity most at this moment in time are those people who try and have YouTube channels that tell you what's going on with AI, because it's like you make a video at 9 in the morning and it's out of date by 7 minutes past 9.

It's like how when we try to update you on the war in Iran, we can't because there's nothing to say.

Um, um, yeah, I know. Whoa, my—

I have an army of one, Chester.

You guys, everybody watching, are you guys ready to dance? Because we're gonna, we're gonna hear some good music here.

Well, I know we're gonna, we're gonna do like a Sway first. We're gonna sway. We're gonna sway with this.

It's swoonsome. It's swoonsome, this one. Like, I had like the image in my mind of, uh, which I'm working on the music video and that's coming, but the image in my mind I had of a sort of, um, lone person dancing in a sort of like beautiful David Lynchian sort of, uh, bar slash ballroom, um, under a spotlight as the rest of the world sort collapses into infinity. And anyway, it's—

That sounds wonderful.

I love it. Yeah, set it up for us. Tell us why this— it's called Nobody Cares, but tell us why you picked this particular monologue of Scott.

I have a— I just have a bunch. This was from— oh God, what was the number of the episode? 3003 or something? There was one episode he did Right at the end. And I was pretty sure that he did it for me. And I think we all used to feel that way anyway, be like, right, this one was for me. But this one really was for me because this one was basically like 4 albums worth of material that was all gold. And you could see him being very pleased with himself every time he unleashed each one. He's like, boom, another one. Boom, banger. Boom, smash hit. Boom. And so just from that alone, I have this huge pile of stuff to— of sort of gold to use. And I just finished working on the new Neville Goddard album, like last week or something. I didn't even watch that one. Like very, very, very recently. And it's a beautiful, incredible, glorious masterpiece, and I was very pleased with it. And I finished it at like 1 in the morning. And at that point, you would normally go, okay, I'm gonna go, you know, sit down, lie down, I don't know, have a beverage. Uh, instead I, I went, oh, what was that Scott thing? And a couple of hours later, I sort of emerged blinking, going, what just fucking happened again? And, uh, I had not planned to make a Scott song or any song at all at that moment, but I got whacked upside the head with this lightning bolt of inspiration. I suddenly had this like thought of a, uh, a sort of string sound. And, uh, anyway, and then the song was born. I was like, well, I better put that out very quick because Inspiration is perishable. When you have your inspiration, do it right then and there. Have you ever heard David Lynch talking about— there's all these clips of him and he says it over and over in multiple interviews over multiple years. He's like, if you forget an idea, if you have an idea and you forget that idea, you must write the idea down because if you forget the idea, it will lead to suicide.

Wow.

You'll want to blow your brains out. You have to write down the idea.

It's true. They say keep a pen and paper next to your bed too, just in case.

You must.

Yes, you must. All right. So good.

Are the FBI listening to you through the phone?

Usually.

Yeah.

Maybe you can just ask your agent to write it down for you.

Exactly. Whether you're, you're, you're bot agent or your FBI agent. I wake up in the morning, I pick up my phone, I say, hi FBI.

How you doing?

Hi, British intelligence. Have a lovely day. Thank you for all you're doing.

It's true.

Keeping me safe.

Yeah.

And I hope you enjoy my activities today.

If I could bring you a box of donuts, I would, but just imagine I am. Yes, yes, for sure. All right, so let's do it, you guys. So this one is called Nobody Cares. And, um, you know what, we'll turn off our cameras for the song so Akira has the stage, and we'll come back when the song ends, okay?

But you guys better be swaying over there.

Yeah, we want to see you swaying in the chat. Here we go. All right. It's not music; it's music plus.

Akira. Here's one. I've been hearing other people talk about this more as well, because once you hear it is so useful, you'll end up saying the same thing. The usual frame, and we all fall into this, is that everybody's thinking about us. Do you ever think that? You think, oh my God, they're judging me, they're thinking about that mistake I made, they're watching me. Nobody's watching you.

Nobody cares.

Yeah, maybe if you're, I don't know, 7th grade or something, but if you're an adult Nobody's watching you. Nobody's watching you. Nope, nobody's watching you. They're not really paying too much attention to you. So as soon as you imagine that other people care— probably not about whatever it is you're worrying about. I mean, they might care in various ways, but not about whatever you're fretting about. They're not thinking about you at all. Once you realize that people don't really think about you, it really makes everything easier. You won't get embarrassed. You know, even if you did get embarrassed, you'd be like, Okay, they will care about that for ten, nine, eight, done. You might care about it for longer, but you don't need to because they don't care. Nobody's watching you. Nobody's watching you. Nobody's watching you. Nobody's watching you. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about you. If they don't care, why would you care? Even after they've said it. So nobody cares. It's easier. Yeah, obviously your loved ones care about you, but your critics, they're not really thinking about you too much. It's not music, it's music plus.

Nobody's watching you with the immortal Scott Adams. Uh, a perennially crucial thing to be aware of, I would say.

Beautiful.

It's one of them— it's a perennially crucial thing to be aware of that is important to remind yourself of. Which is one of the reasons I make some certain songs. There's certain things you're like, well, duh. And humans have this funny way of like, once you work something out or learn something, you then almost feel like you always knew it. And to even mention it to somebody else would be ridiculous because of course everybody knows that. It's this weird thing that humans do. So a lot of the songs I make are sort of reminders of crucial foundational, um, truths of being or navigating this particular realm. And that's one of them.

That's one of them. And, you know, I can remember going through something that, you know, could have been— seemed like— could have seemed like, oh my God, this is so scandalous. And, you know, people were like, oh my God, aren't you worried about what people are thinking? And I'm like, no one's thinking about me. You know, like, it— like, they might— they might think about the situation, but then like tomorrow some other stupid gossip comes up, and then it'll be that thing. So, you know, it's like, don't flatter yourself. Nobody's thinking about you that hard. You know, it's like, if they are, then they're just bored. Um, but really, I try to tell this to people all the time. I'm like, just live your life to your fullest. Don't worry about— even, even if someone is thinking about you, it's none of your business what they're thinking. So I love, I love that Scott would remind us, um, of situations like that. And Owen and Marcella. Marcella, were you swaying back there with us?

I was, but I kept saying, nobody's watching you except every— except the government.

But again, so like on that one, uh, I remember talking with a friend of mine who's a comic book writer called Grant Morrison about this, and he was like, yeah, but the thing with that is like they could have a million cameras, but like, and they could pay a million guys to to sit there on the cameras watching you. But like, at some point those guys are gonna go take a dump or jack off or something or get bored. It's like, they can't— they— like, no individual person can possibly do that or care to do that. You know that because if you go to anywhere late at night where they have a security guy, they're always on their phone or whatever. Like, no one's paying attention to anything they're supposed to be paying attention to. So you can go, okay, well—

Yeah.

Robot overlords then. But well, technically that's not nobody. And, uh, so that's still—

AI agents don't take a dump.

They don't care, right? But they don't care either.

Yeah, I've instructed Jasper to poop.

And I think what, what Scott meant is like, um, I think he talked about how to— like when you go to a party and you might not know someone and you're all nervous, like nobody's watching you. Nobody's like Really paying attention.

They may look over at you and go, oh yeah, that person. And then they're back to their own movie. They're the star of their own movie. They're living in their movie. They're not watching your movie. They're not watching your soap opera.

They're not focused on you. They're focused on themselves.

Even those sorts of people who seem to be— you've got people who seem to be obsessed with you, but even they're only spending a fucking tiny fraction of their movie on you. And the tiny fraction of their movie that they're spending on you is purely about validating themselves. And making themselves feel powerful or useful or something, and it's actually got nothing to do with you anyway.

Like Beverly just said, basket case. I mean, we're everyone's is a basket case.

Except except us, you know.

Oh yeah, right.

Yes, exactly. We're amazing.

Cha-ching, cha-ching.

Oh, and are do you have to run? I'm not sure.

I'm okay.

Okay, good. All right. So Akira.

Owen's not there. It's his bot army. You would never know because he hasn't even animated his picture.

I'm not really sure it's Owen. Yeah.

It might never be Owen.

How do we know it's you, Owen?

You don't. You don't know it's Owen. Owen could have, like, he could have been replaced by something a long time ago.

Owen said the code word, so I know it's you.

Yeah.

No, it is me, but I suppose there's no way for you to know that for sure. I think, um, the, the AI voice stuff is getting pretty impressive too. You can clone somebody pretty easily, like just a few seconds, and it can give a pretty convincing, uh, rendition of somebody talking. But I think it probably at this point isn't quite there. Like, we did that story maybe a week ago or so about that griffin or whatever.

Yeah.

And, you know, that even that I think has some— you can kind of tell still.

Kinda. But like, you know, my, my My, my nan wouldn't have been able to tell. Yeah, I like it.

The part that I think is the hardest is the intonation and the sentiments, like feeling, you know, the things you naturally just put in your voice. You kind of have to still tell it what to do with that. And so it takes a lot of work to say, okay, I want you to put a little bit more emphasis on this syllable or, you know, be happier or whatever. And that's a little harder, I think, for AI to do. But I think it's getting there.

So—

Any one of these things is like, this is— it's just a matter of time. And the matter of time is tiny. Like, I remember a couple years ago, and remember when the images started rolling out in like '21, '22, and you'd have the grid of 4 images? It was around the Will Smith eating spaghetti era.

Yeah.

And they just look like kind of like crazy demonic impressionist, like splat cartoon things. And it's like, hahaha, we'll be fine. And Google put out their first little music model and we all listened to it. I think I listened to it on stream and it was just so silly and plinky-plonk. I was like, yeah, I think we'll all be fine for now. Zoom. 5 minutes later.

Exactly.

Yeah, if you're like, oh, okay, yeah. So like anything where you're like, oh yeah, there's a bit of work on that. They're not quite there yet. Well, go to sleep and you might wake up and they might be there. So like, that's the kind of way one should be thinking. I think most people have no idea How how real this is, like what it really means. How how how in set this is as far as and I pay attention to all this stuff. And as far as I can tell, this is by far the most significant advancement in sort of domestic tech since Napster era. By far, you kind of had this big bump and suddenly it's like oh internet and now people have got internet and then you start seeing the repercussions of what that means as people start getting used to it. It starts to roll out into their lives and it takes a while. It took till the late 2000s, so it was almost like a decade for it to really start to filter into the normie universe in a full way. But this is that on steroids and crack.

What do you think of AI music?

I think anything is like a tool. I think for me, because I do music, I can hear every aspect.

Has it gotten better? I think it has, but I don't know.

I think it plateaued. I think it got to a point that was quite cool and it was quite exciting because suddenly you could sort of conjure up ideas. AI has been in music for a long time. People get confused. They think AI just got invented, but we've been using large language models in music for a long time to do all sorts of cool things. Like when I speak, I can move frequencies the same as my voice out of the way of the music and thus make the vocal more clear and things of that nature. So there's been AI stuff within music for ages. And like the capacity to go, oh, what would this sound like if it was a completely different genre or something? Or to create like a sample of a record that doesn't exist to chop up pieces of and things like that. That all that is very exciting. Again, it's not quite there yet, but it will be.

Yeah.

You know, it will be. And it's like a directional thing. There's this, the argument about slop and this, that, and the other, this, that, and the other, and the difference between someone just saying a thing with a prompt and then that existing versus somebody using a thing to really use it to get as close as possible to their actual vision, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Um, you think it has to be a human to create it? Scott was of the mind, um, that Real art, real music, it had to be human, created by a human, because the feelings, AI wouldn't get that, things like that.

Yeah, I mean, well, like I was saying, so I can tell, right? So I can tell if— I think Björk, I remember Björk once saying, like '91, because we were having this Not '91, was it '97? We had this conversation around that time when people started using DAWs to produce music, which means digital audio workstation, and people started using computers. I was making music on computers. A lot of people thought that was sacrilege. You could never get real music out of a computer. And I remember Björk saying, hahaha, silly, they say there is no soul in the music that is made on the computer, but that is because nobody put it there. So it's like, right, yeah, you put it there. So that's, that's the intentional thing, right? So it doesn't matter what tool you're using, if you put soul into it, into it, there will come a point because we have this whole thing because of the way we've evolved that we need to be touching things for it to be legitimate. So if I touch a button, then I touch the button and it's real. But if I dictate the button, if I say this knob here, if I've got this knob and if I turn this with my hand, And you see me turn that, it's like, yeah, he's feeling the music, it's real.

Yeah.

But if in my mind I'm doing exactly the same thing, but because it's my mind and I know exactly what I want, it would actually be better and closer to my soul. Some would say that was not real. They would think, that's not real. You're not really doing it. You didn't even do anything. You didn't even push a button. You just thought a thing. But my thought, because it was directional, did transmute and communicate not just my soul, but what I like to call the Byzantine conduit of my being, which is every single thing I ever went through, every conversation I had, every person I met, every movie I watched, all of that contributes to the Byzantine conduit through which my soul, through which the will of God, whatever you might want to call it, travels. So everything that comes out of that, that deliberately or even accidentally contains every aspect of that Byzantine conduit. And that could have only come through me. It couldn't come through you because you didn't do all the things I did and have the experiences I did. So therefore, TLDR, if what you're doing is an uncompromised expression of your being, whatever tool you are using, that soul will come through.

Right. You're still creating it.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, if it is, and this is why I say, so like, uncompromised is the key there. Because if it's compromised, if you're like, oh, okay, but somebody, if I do this, they might judge me. Or if I do this, my record label might drop me. Or if I do this, like, bad thing. That's a compromised version that's going to have less of the truth in it. And that's why we have so much bad music and bad art, because it's made by these committees of people who are not doing it because it's an expression of their being. They're doing it for a desired, uh, result, whether that's being paid, being seen to have the right opinion, achieve the right end goal of controlling somebody or whatever it is. That's why so much art is not art. And, uh, I imagine computers could put more soul in it than a lot of the stuff that we've been suffering on a corporate level my whole life.

I'd say the same goes for, I was just thinking, uh, somebody was just saying how like Justin Bieber I guess sold his catalog. He's like, get off my back, like, I want to do my own thing. And now he's like back on YouTube and like making his music. And now I'm sure feels like a true artist again. He's not working for the man. And same thing with, uh, media. You know, we always talk about the news being fake and gay, and then look at all the people that were like, I'm out of here, I can't do the corporate thing anymore. And now you're getting like so much more of a bouquet of— facts allegedly, and you know, you're not like beholden to an idea. Yeah, or an outcome. Like, people are free to express themselves. So I say take the chains off and use whatever tools you have and be free for sure.

Unleash yourself.

Be free! Be free!

Let me shake.

People love freedom.

We love freedom. Um, Akira, Can you tell the fine sippers where they can find your music? I mean, I always promote everydaymeaningwave.com, but tell us, tell us more. And somebody asked, I forget who asked, but Akira, you have CDs, don't you?

I need to go, so I'll see y'all later.

Bye, Mike.

Oh, you on the afterparty over the weekend.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah, go meaningwave.com. Look, there's you. That's not meaningwave.com, but it's because I pressed the button. You see, that's not meaningwave.com either. That's my Linktree that I made. I made a Linktree, which means I don't have to pay Linktree $15 a month. I made my own version, which is superior in every way.

Yes.

Anyway. Oh yeah, look, there's that. If you go to meaningwave.com, Is that a cha-ching hat?

What does that say?

Yeah. So if you go to minimewave.com/scott, that has got all of the Miniwave x Scott Adams stuff. I'm doing these for all— like, I've been with my bot army. I can now make my website work the way I want it to, and I don't have to get the guy on Fiverr and say, do this, and then he breaks it, and then I message him, and a week later he comes back and changes something else. I can literally stay up all night, my bot army, until things are the way I wish them to be. Anyway, you can go to meaningwave.com/scott. And first off, you'll go, oh, look, it's the new music video, Cha-Ching. And you'll see here, you can watch all the music videos in this handy player, and you can listen to the albums in that fashion on their YouTube video versions. You can see all the merch. We have lovely Cha-Ching merch, which you can get, which is delightful.

So cute.

I need that. And comes in lovely colors. And you can also here get the albums in download form. And you can just listen to them if you wish, and just press play and listen to them. Or you can buy a download, or you can indeed buy a CD. If you press that button there, you will be able to buy a CD. And that's just the Scott Adams stuff, and then you can go venture around the rest of the website and look at all the other things that are on the website.

Akira, do you have X money?

Miracle!

I know, I've asked him.

Yeah, I did now.

Oh, you got it?

Like, if you, if you guys want to donate to him, you can donate on X as well. You can send $69 to him.

You can also hit that support button there on the website, which has got all those links. And it's got little QR things. I tested this and it's so amazing. You can wiggle your phone at that and then it will allow you to send me 17 bitcoins.

Oh, look at that. It's pretty good.

If you want to send me 17 bitcoins, you can. It's a miracle. Uh, it's a beautiful day to be alive here at the peak of recorded human days to be alive.

Where do you—

what do you have to click on to send you 17 bitcoins?

That QR code.

You don't even have to click anything. I mean, you can. There is a linkity thing. But you can also just wave your phone at the screen on the Support Meaningwave screen.

Down. Yep. There you go.

And you can do that. You can send—

Send a tip.

17 Bitcoins, and then I can make lots more records. Isn't that amazing? What a wonderful world. I'm very excited.

I am too.

I've just gone full-blown. Just, I mean, I'm always on the side of optimism because I've just found it over my life to be more practical and have better results. And I find that people who are optimistic do better. Everybody I know who's ever built or achieved anything tends to be relatively optimistic. I've always been very optimistic, contrary to whatever was going on. Even when I was young and homeless and everything was very scary, I was very optimistic. And I turned out to be correct in my optimism because everything turned out great.

And it starts with what, Akira? Your thoughts and the way you think and the way you talk to yourself. And it's like our conscious mind, our subconscious mind, it doesn't understand sarcasm or it's very literal. So if you're going to ask negative questions, you're going to get your, you know, why does this keep happening to me? Okay, well, let me show you why. And it's going to keep giving you that. But if you're like, oh, like, I'm going to turn this around and I'm going to try new stuff, then it's like you're not going to keep getting that bombardment. So if you don't like the results, ask better questions. Ask positive questions. Reframe the things that you're thinking and doing so the results coming back will be positive, enlightening, evolving, instead of staying in the same rut. So it starts with your thoughts, you guys. And I mean—

That's literally what the new album, the new Neville Goddard album is called, Talking to Ourselves. And it is specifically about the internal monologue, about self-talk, about the power of that, about how that works, how to use it. And how that creates the world, um, how Jesus told us that that was the case, uh, Marcus Aurelius told us that was the case. Everyone who's been here and really paid attention has come to that same conclusion. It's one of those themes that you find across. One of the things I've been doing with Meaning Wave all these years is going, okay, here's a subject, let's look at this subject from myriad points of view, and then we can see an area, the areas where they all cross over, no matter what their background.

Yeah.

Like, there are areas where Alan Watts and Ayn Rand and Marcus Aurelius and, uh, even Noam Chomsky agree and come into points of noticing some things to be. And when you see something from myriad points of view being the case, then you can trust, you know, that's true. That's how you can, in, you know, the whole, if the news are fake, imagine history.

Yeah, exactly.

You go, well, how can you trust any history? Well, one way you can trust history is to see if you've got multiple accounts of it. From different parts of the world sometimes, if you can, you know, verify from multiple sources that are disconnected, uh, then you can go, okay, maybe that happened. You know, because we are now in that place, as I'm sure you've been discussing. People are increasingly finding it hard to know what's real, what's not real. I would say that's always been the case, but people just thought they could believe things previously.

Um, yeah.

Now people are more aware that they should be questioning things.

Everyone listening to this right now, please give a thumbs up, a heart, a like. Um, look, we have Akira the Don on live with us with his whole setup, which is quite complicated looking, and better him than us. Uh, and it— and a tambourine.

I mean, it's a very complicated thing, a tambourine.

I'm telling you.

Um, so you need a cowbell.

Right.

I have a cowbell.

Do you?

I'm pretty sure I did have a cowbell.

Oh my God, more cowbell please.

More cowbell.

He's assuming.

Oh, where's it? Oh my God, you really do.

Yeah, I have a cowbell and a spoon.

And a spoon.

Well, to hit the cowbell someone sent me. Do you have the yoga bowls where you Not here, but I do like those. They're very nice. If you've ever played with a yoga bowl, oh my God, that's what I don't know what they're called. I was in, I was up a mountain in, um, singing bowl. Yeah, they're very nice anyway.

Anyway, yeah, Marcel's gonna be like, do you have a tuba? And then he's like, hang on, and he comes out with a big tuba.

Do you have an orchestra?

Yeah, I do, I do. I've got it all. It's a miracle.

Um, so I'm gonna recommend you guys, every day we play Akira, and he's just got all that music out there for you just waiting. So please, if you're on X, go over to there on Akira the Don. On his profile, there's a little dollar sign at the top. Um, if there's anyone's work you like, you know, just a couple of dollars.

Erica has one too.

I mean, Hello. Um, give a little tip to Akira, you know, if you're so inclined, or buy his— buy a CD. Buy—

Is that maracas?

This is a little shaker. You could— it's in the maracas family, I guess.

Oh.

But yeah, you see, it's important to have these things.

This is out of control.

That's what I was saying. So me and my son were talking about this. Like, I'm very excited about future stuff. I always have been. I was super excited when I could first record a song on a computer and I didn't have to go into a studio and pay thousands of dollars. I was very excited when I could— I used to make my own fanzines and photocopy them. And then a few years later, the internet was invented and I could upload, I could make my own website. I was so excited. I get very excited about all this stuff. And at the same time, it's very important to have one foot in the future and one foot in the past. That is the analog past that we know to be real. And that is how you walk, right? When you're walking, you've got your foot and it's on the ground.

Yeah.

which you could consider to be the analog past, which we know works and is great. And then you step one foot forward into that uncertain future, and then you land, and that's how you keep walking. That's what people do. So one foot in order, which is that past, one in chaos. Between order and chaos, that is the ultimate, that's the perfect place for a human to be. And so personally, I have shakers and I have maracas and I have analog keyboards and things, and I also have all these computers and stuff. And, uh, I have this Dontron here, um, conjuring up dreams and imaginations for me and all these things. And between this, this is how humans have always existed and always should.

Wow.

We are, we are, what do you call it? We are, as John Vervaeke said, we are natural born cyborgs. We always have been ever since we picked up a rock. That was our first technology. We said, hey rock, what the fuck? We could use this rock to draw a smiley face in the wall or create a hunting plan for the tribe. We could use the rock to cave in the skull of the guy who's currently leading the tribe. Always our technology has had the same capacity for creation as it has for destruction. That is our story and it always will be. And I'm perfectly fine with that personally. And actually, I'm very excited about it all. So there.

I love that. So you guys, I'm not playing an Akira song today on the way out. when we leave. Akira is gonna do an Akira song, like amazing, like a little live concert for you.

Yeah.

So everybody in the chat, I just want to give you a couple of closing housekeeping items, and then Akira is going to play us out so we can boogie. So, um, Owen has the after-party tomorrow. Real Owen, fake Owen, whatever Owen you get. So that's at Owen Gregorian on X, and you guys, starts It's 7 AM Pacific, 10 AM Eastern. Uh, so be there, you'll get lots of news. And I have a cat hair on my lip, of course, because my cats just attacked me. Um, and then also, um, what was I gonna say? Oh, so next week we have a couple— I— we have a guest. I don't want to say a couple, but we do have a guest. And, uh, it'll be a fun, fun week. We'll be back Monday with the home team. And as always, we say thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this Scott Adams School to be here, exist, and actually thrive, you guys, and actually thrive. So thank you everybody for showing up. And let's always have one closing sip to the inspiration for all of this and to Akira, his inspo for all of this great meaning wave music, to our beloved Scott Adams.

To Scott, I was actually just thinking that it is, it is incredible. So Prince did that thing where he associated the color purple with himself, right? Yes. Purple, you think of Prince. Genius persuasion move. Scott, uh, connected the very act of drinking.

That's right.

It's literally the case, and I don't know about how many of you have this to be the case, but it's literally the case that whenever I'm sipping and I'm like aware that I'm sipping I think of Scott, which is ridiculous because how often is that?

Yes, I know.

That really is one of the greatest claiming of a thing to associate with yourself I've ever come across. It has zero negative connotations. It's something that you do every day.

And I do this a lot now. If I'm with friends at a table and we're going to have a toast, I'm like, hey, All you need is, and I go into the whole thing, and then we do the simultaneous sip.

So they love that. Do all your friends love that?

They love it. They're just like, oh, like she has a whole thing she's saying. Yeah, they love it. All right, Akira, play us out. Oh yeah.

It's not music, it's music plus. How do you like being criticized? You hate it, don't you? Don't you hate getting criticized? Everybody hates it. It's not something you enjoy. Here's a reframe for you. Every criticism you receive, just play this sound effect. When you get it, ready? Every time criticizes you, you just made. Money. Do you know why I say that? Because you just made money. It's true. If somebody criticizes my live streams, the biggest criticism I'm hearing is that my shelves are boring. Now, do I feel good that you're telling me that there's something about my thing that I do every day isn't good? No. Nobody likes to be criticized. It's not like you can enjoy it, but how do I receive it? Do I receive it as, ah, I guess I suck? I could, right? How easily could I receive a criticism like that as, God, I'm an idiot. Why didn't I see it? Obviously those shells need something on them. That'd be really easy, wouldn't it? I don't. Here's how I hear it. Catching, catching, catching, catching, catching, catching, catching. I know exactly what to change to do a better job because you told me. That's like money. If somebody hands you a thing that will definitely make you money, what is your feeling about it? Do you feel, oh, I hate it when people give me a thing that makes me make money? I'll bet most of you think exactly that. You think, I hate criticism. Not me. Years ago, when people would criticize my comic, I would hate it, of course. But then I would say, oh, a lot of people are saying the same thing, so I'll change it. And then I would make that, that, that, that, that, that rich. I'm really going rich by being criticized and understanding the criticism as Every time I hear one, I say, "Wait a minute! You just told me how to get richer." The same applies if you're not trying to get rich. Suppose you just wanted a better socially best advice. The advice somebody gave me was the cruelest thing anybody ever said. One day my female friend told me how negative I was and what a bummer it was to listen to me because I was complaining about stuff all the time. Now, I was not aware that I was a big complainer. I had no idea. I thought I was a person who talked about my day, the funny parts of it. So in my mind, I had no idea that I was having an effect on other people. Once I learned that, do you know how powerful that was? I was able Because it was something I could change. I would become aware of the ratio of negative things I said to positive. It was probably the most important change I've ever made to my social toolbox. I would say that that one change really, really changed my life. That's the that's the refrain. So next time you get criticized, whether personally or whether professionally, say to yourself, say to yourself, say to yourself, judging, judging. Just try, like actually say that those that little sound, judging. Not figuratively. I'm not talking figuratively. I mean actually saying that. Cha-ching! Akira!

Akira, encore, encore, encore, encore.

Let's go.

I'm gonna go.

You guys have court in three minutes.

You guys, Marcela. We need an encore.

Bye, Marcela.

That one is great.

We love it. We love it. Are we getting an encore?

Oh, you want an encore?

Yeah, we want an encore!

Hell yeah!

Thanks, you guys.

All right, um, here's one. How many of you have ever thought, or maybe gagged when you heard somebody else say That they were trying to find themselves. I need to find myself. I need to, I need to figure out who I am. Bad idea. Here's a reframe. Instead of being an explorer and trying to figure out who you are, how about authoring yourself to be what you want to be? You can author your situation. You don't have to discover who you are. You can make yourself who you want to be. Author yourself. Author yourself instead of finding yourself. Author yourself. Author yourself. Author yourself instead of finding yourself. Instead of finding yourself out, author yourself. That's one of the great things about human life, is that you don't have to be— you don't have to be anything. Anything. You can author yourself into almost any kind of situation. You know, obviously you can't author yourself a billion dollars just because you want to. Maybe some people Okay, but I love these words. Instead of finding yourself, go after yourself. Go after yourself. Instead of finding yourself, go after yourself. That's very powerful if you take that to heart. Author yourself. Because sometimes we forget that we have that power, that we can turn ourselves into whatever we need to turn ourselves into. All to yourself.

All to yourself instead of finding yourself.

All to yourself. All to yourself. All to yourself instead of finding yourself. All to yourself.

Yes, Akira, you got me out here dancing.

It's not music, it's music.

That's right. So good.

So best time.

The best time, you guys. I mean, God, get this music into your ears. We don't need no silly music out there. We need stuff to inspire us, and Scott always inspires us. Always, always. And Akira, you're just the perfect person to put it all together because you're intelligent, you're, um, always like evolving and growing. You have a great memory for this stuff. You absorb this from all sorts of amazing people. Like, this is just the best music. And Akira has all sorts of other people that he collabs with. And Akira, who are a few of the other people? I know you have Earl Nightingale right now, a new one.

Yeah, there's actually—

Damn, I need that.

Yeah, you do need that.

It's good to have these things, right?

Just for extra gravitas.

Damn.

Like extra gravitas on the thing.

I need that.

There's 3 Earl Nightingale albums. Can you believe it? And they're all amazing. Earl Nightingale, some people would say he was like the Scott of his day.

Yeah.

Some people think of Earl Nightingale in that way. Oh, look, the lyric video's up. Oh, it's because we went over. I'd scheduled the lyric video for Nobody Cares to go live at 10.

Okay.

Oh, and we're half an hour over.

Yeah.

I thought we had until 10.

Look at that.

Wow.

Well, yeah, time flies.

So anyway, go to meaningwave.com and you can see what we've been up to lately. You can see we've got the Nobody Cares lyric video is out. Nobody Cares with Scott Adams is out. Dream Faculty with Neville Goddard. Neville and Scott have a lot of crossover, I would say. Certainly Neville's very much about sort of like directional, deliberate, taking control of your being, hacking the— I don't know if hacking is the right word, but understanding the user interface for reality, the sooner you may have the best experience in this realm. But there are many, many, many rooms in the Meaningwave Mansion, and I would say you should just have a look around and you will find something that will be right for you at this moment in time.

Yes.

Because we're all at different little parts of our journey. We're all the stars of our movies and we're at little different parts of our movies. And one of the purposes of art as Joseph Campbell often talked about, is a mirror, and it lets you know where you are. If you're watching Star Wars and you're a kid, you're watching it and you empathize with the young Jedi, and that makes sense. If you watch it and you're in your 40s and you're still looking at Luke Skywalker, that means you haven't moved on. That's a clue that something needs to change in your life. You know what I mean?

I understand.

I do. But anyway, yeah, meaningwave.com has loads of stuff. And depending on where you like to listen to music, whether you like to listen on Spotify, we're all over there. There's a big playlist that you can just press shuffle on. YouTube, or if you just want to go to meaningwave.com itself, you can listen to everything there now. And that website is getting better and better every day, which is very exciting to me to get back in the position of having a website that is closer to what I want it to be. By Joe.

Great. So yes, great, Akira. Akira, thank you so much. And you know, I quietly sapped some extra time from you, and it was just so fun. Encore! But you bring so much meaning to all of us with your music, and it's such a gift. And thank you for continuing to do it, and we will do our best to always support you and your work because. We absolutely adore you and love what you're doing. Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you.

And there is lots of music on the way. Well, there's always music on the way. We put out music every week, but there is lots of Scott music on the way specifically. Yeah. So that will continue to be the case because he left us with so much to work with.

So much to work with. And those that were asking before, the Scott Adams biography comes out in November.

5 weeks.

Yes.

5 weeks yesterday, I believe. Yeah. Yes.

And the preorder link, we'll give it to you as soon as we have it so you can preorder the book.

Do you know Joel wrote it by hand?

Yes. 3 times.

Did you hear that?

Did you hear that? Did someone just do something for you?

What's funny is it cha-ching. Shopify makes your phone go cha-ching if someone buys something. So it's the literal cha-ching sound comes out of the phone.

So someone just bought something on Spotify of yours. Is that what happened?

Shopify.

Shopify. Yes, you guys go Shopify.

Someone bought a bundle of Scott Adams downloads. There you go. Boom. See?

Amazing.

Yes, Joel. Thank you to whoever did that. Joel wrote the book by hand.

3 times.

With his hand.

With his hand.

With a pen.

Yep.

Isn't that crazy?

It's crazy.

I didn't know anyone else still did that. Yes, fucking psychopath. That's incredible.

I know, and he's the perfect person for this book. All the perfect people have aligned to do the perfect things, let me tell you. Like, between your music, Joel, Joshua editing, um, the person—

of course he did.

Yes. Yeah, um, all of Scott's more recent books, um, the calendar— the same people that Scott worked with on the calendar, Scott worked with them on this calendar also. Um, the links The links for all of that are in the show description today and also the links for the official Scott Adams mug and the simultaneous swaddle blanket and a couple of other things. Everything's all in there for you guys, okay? So he sounds like Michael Caine. He does. Akira, you sound like Michael Caine.

Really?

Yes, darling.

That's nice.

I was going to start speaking with an accent because I can enunciate better when I'm doing some weird accent. I don't know what it is, but here I am.

That's very good.

As long as it's not Jersey, I can speak clearly.

Yes. A big part of the American accent was the deliberate inversion, but it's typical with the American spirit. We shall not be dominated. We shall not be ruled by kings and queens and suchlike, and we shall not pronounce the words correctly.

Oh my God.

We shall refuse. So the American accent seems to be a deliberate, uh, uh, a kind of a, a aspect of that.

A little rebellion.

A microcosm of that rebellion. Yes, exactly.

Would you prefer— would you all prefer that I speak with an odd accent? Because my Ts are very t when I do this.

It's funny, right?

Yeah.

Just pronouncing Ts just puts you in a whole other world.

Yes.

Nobody does that. The only thing, the only bit I can, I think, and you can tell that the British started to get sick of like the crushing tyrannical rule when they themselves also stopped pronouncing words and started saying, oh, well, I can get a bottle of water. Oh, water. You know how that was the funniest thing about that Alien movie was they're sitting in the water, just sat in the water. If you're a British person in the USA and you ever want to order a tasty beverage that's not got anything in it, you have to overpronounce. They don't get water. You have to say water.

Water.

That's about the only words that British people these days—

I say water and daughter. Water, daughter.

Yeah, why not?

My Ts are Ds in that case. So yeah.

Yeah, that's because you're American. That's because you're free. That's how you know you're free. If you pronounce your Ts, you're on your knees. I just came up with that. That's a good one, that, right?

Yes, I put the Erica in America. Let's go! I'm free. All right, you guys, we're gonna just turn into chaos and silliness. I can feel it. Uh, so thanks, Akira, so much for being here, and we're just going to continue to jam out with you every single Scott Adams School. We love you so much. All right, guys. We'll see you on Monday. Make sure you join Owen in the after school tomorrow and the after party after school in detention, and we'll be back Monday. Akira, thank you so much. I say coffee, coffee, coffee. Someone asked me to say coffee. All right.

Coffee.

Coffee. I don't say coffee. I say co. I say oh. Maybe I do.

You're close. You're in the vicinity. You're in that world. Mm hmm.

Or I could say coffee or tea, and everything's a question. All right, you guys, love you so much. Have a great weekend, and we'll see you back on Monday. Thanks, Akira.

God bless.