The Scott Adams School - 10/15/26 The Home Team has an offer you can't refuse.

Oh my goodness, Metal Seer. Okay, we should be live.

Good morning, everyone.

Good morning. I don't want these glasses today. I want these glasses today. I can see you guys so much better.

Okay, guess who's joining us today? Is it Mission Impossible Owen? It's oh oh oh.

Oh my gosh! Look at Grizzly and Maggie. So cute. I love the dog. Oh, Jim Courtney, you guys had an earthquake in Alaska. Am I right? Am I right, you guys? Come on in, everybody.

Welcome in.

You also had Trump.

Oh, maybe Trump brought the earthquake.

That's what I'm assuming.

Bringing down the thunder.

Thunder.

I love it. All right, you guys, come on in. Come on in. We have a packed show for you today. And oh, you didn't feel it, Jim? Yeah, it was— I think it was a decent, uh, decent shaker. Good morning.

They have a big place.

Yeah, it's true what you're saying. Okay, um, Bookish, feel the earth move, sister. Okay, you guys, just waiting for you guys to come in. We've got a sip, we've got a clip. We've got news. Forget it. We have an Amazing Scott video. So we've got it all. But oh, but Owen, I've gotta start with that lady again. Okay, here we go. Where's my sip? Where is my sip? Oh, here it is. Found it. Okay, ready?

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Oh yeah. Yep. I don't think there's a dangling Chad anywhere in the country after that sip. It's all good now.

Yep, that was yesterday's clip, everybody. I don't know, Owen, what happens up in here. Anyway, the sip was siptastic anyway. So Owen, we missed you yesterday. How was your day?

Oh, it was good. Um, I had— I was traveling, so I'm actually in your state, Marcella.

Marcella, welcome. Are you two having dinner tonight? I'm just kidding.

No, unfortunately, it's a jam-packed work schedule, including dinner, so I don't have a spare moment.

But ah, mm-hmm. Well, don't come to New Jersey and tell me you can't have dinner with me. I don't want to hear that.

I'll try to plan around that next time in the area.

Good. All right, you guys, so listen, I am obsessed with Jamie West. Oh, I played her yesterday, Owen, and I have to play her one more time because I don't want her to go away so fast. And I don't know, the more I watch her clip, the more I like it. So just one last time, you guys, indulge me. Instead of an animal video, we're doing a Jamie West video. Let's just watch. Oh, by the way, she's running for city council in Fayette, Indiana. I'm assuming unopposed, and I don't know who wouldn't vote for her. I'm obsessed. Here we go.

And that's what I have to say about that.

Okay.

And our last question of the night is, if elected, what is one decision that you expect to make that may be unpopular with some voters, but you believe ultimately would be in the best interest of Fayette County?

Huh. I wouldn't raise your taxes. What is the one decision that I would make?

Hmm.

Repeat that again. What is the one decision that I would make that might not be popular with the state government?

Right, that may be unpopular with some voters.

Unpopular with some voters.

But is in the best interest of the county.

Hmm.

Firing all Republicans. I wouldn't let them, I mean, I don't even talk to them. I don't like them. I mean, they voted against our own state representative, voted against her own party. I mean, what do you want me to say? I don't like being around them. I mean, y'all did this to us. You all voted for us. You made this happen, this ICE coming into our communities, stealing people's jobs. I mean, Ah. I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA, we'll call them, because there's Republicans who actually get it. You know, there, there are good Republicans out there, but then there's these MAGAs who are just racist and Aren't very intelligent at all. They call you names. They, you know, sheriff's nephew threatening to blow my head off. But you know, what are you gonna do?

Well, that brings us to your opportunity to say just a few last words to to the voters.

Hmm.

We have guns too.

All right. Well, as a reminder, the general election is November 3rd. Early voting began October 6th. You can vote Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fayette County—

Doesn't matter what that lady's saying, but that, that the way she stares at the camera, like she goes like this, fire all Republicans. And then at the end, she's like, we have guns too. I think she may have—

I think she may have outdone Kamala looking drunk on camera.

Oh my God, I can't. I love her so much. I like— I cry. She is so gold. I love her. All right, that, that might have been the last time with Jamie West unless, unless she comes on the show. Jamie, come on.

I mean, I, I hope she's not running unopposed though. She's a Democrat, so I would think that there would be some Republican running.

Um, I don't know. And why would the sheriff's nephew threaten to blow her head off?

Yeah, I want to know more.

I was like, damn, lady, what'd you say to him? Or is he just as nutty as you? What is going on in that town in Indiana? I'd love to know. But anyway, so if you didn't see her yesterday or ever, you're so lucky you just got to see her for the first time, because I love you, Jamie West. Okay, so so truth be told, I have a little issue with Stella, so I don't want to you know not say that, and I'm going to tend to her. But while I do that, we have a clip from Scott. I when I tell you there are so many clips of Scott like attempting his best to fix racism, I it's astounding and it's a beautiful thing. So we're gonna play a clip while I take. care of a couple things. Marcella and Owen are right here, and I'll be back hopefully before the clip ends too. And, um, let's take a listen to our beloved Scott, and then we'll do some news. Here we go.

So I'm going to take you to my whiteboard, and I'm going to solve racism for you. Sure, maybe not all at once, but the cumulative effect will be a complete solution to racism. It comes from understanding it like this. All right, so some of this you've seen before, but I'm going to package it better. You have a brain. It's a big old lump of stuff inside your skull. Your brain is a pattern recognition machine, but it's not a very good one, and that's where all our problems come from. So your brain doesn't have a choice of being biased. It's designed to be biased because you can't do a scientific controlled experiment for all of the thousands of decisions you make every day, from whether to cross the street, how to start your car, what clothes you put on— thousands of decisions every day, and you don't have any data or scientific studies, so you use your bias. You say to yourself, well, the last 5 times I did whatever, it worked out well. So I'll do that again. Or the last 3 times I tried this, it didn't work. So I won't do that again. So your brain is really just a pattern recognition machine that's running all the time. And you can't turn that off, even though it doesn't do a good job of it. So if you see a pattern that's not a real pattern, you're still going to think it's a pattern. Pattern because you don't have time to do, you know, a deep dive on everything. So you can be misled by your pattern-generating machine, and your being misled will make you biased— bigoted, racist, sexist, ageist, and all the other isms— because your brain is very biased. It just looks for patterns. It's dumb. It sees a pattern even if it's not a real pattern. Could be an imagined pattern, and And it just says, well, it's the best I got. I'll go with it. Now, the problem with Black Lives Matter and their approach to things and systemic racism, et cetera, is that they're trying to fix this. They're trying to fix the fact that people are biased, bigoted, racist, sexist, et cetera. Well, they don't care about the bottom one so much, but they're working on the racist part. This, the problem they're trying to solve, can't be solved. So if you're wondering why racism hasn't been solved, it's because it can't. It's not a thing. It doesn't— it's not a thing that has a solution. I'm not saying it's hard. I'm not saying we don't know how. I mean, it is logically unsolvable by its nature. Because to solve this, You'd have to remove our brains because you can't rewire a brain to make it not a pattern recognition machine. That's its basic nature. If you made your brain not capable, or at least not automatically operating on patterns, it would also no longer be a brain. It just wouldn't do anything. You would just sit in a chair and starve to death. So this is only— is not solvable. In any sense. There's nothing you can do. Cannot solve the basic nature of the human brain. And if you try, you're doomed to fail. And here we are. Here's what you can do. So instead of doing what you can't do, how about doing what you can do? Your bias is permanent. You can't get rid of bias. It might change over time as you have new experiences and they cause you know, new or revised biases. But you're always going to have bias. But what you can do is make sure that your filters are strong. Your moral filter says, no, I don't want to treat people with bias. So I will— I'll use my higher-level thinking to try to tamp down that instinct. You could put your social filter on it and say, no, I want to be a good person. All my friends are good people. I want to be a good person. I don't want to be that kind of person, so I'll use my social filter to tamp down my bias. And then there's a practical filter, which is how would society work if we just go around discriminating against each other for race or anything else? Doesn't work very well. So from a practical perspective, if you want to have a better world, of course you want to tamp down your bias because it just works better. If somebody comes in and asks for a job, do you want to lose the possibility that you could have hired the best employee you'd ever had because you were being biased? No, it's just not practical. You would rather look at their resume and say, oh, okay, I was a little biased when you walked in the door because you weigh 110 pounds and the job requires lifting heavy objects, but now that I've looked at your resume, I see here that you're a bodybuilder. Couldn't tell the way you're dressed, but you're— looks like you could actually handle this job. Okay, you're hired. All right, so on a practical basis, you don't want to lose the chance to hire the best person you ever had for the job, so you want to overcome your bias. So here's what I'm saying. If you spend your time trying to fix this, it's just a waste of time. You can't fix it. You shouldn't fix it. It's the basic nature of your operating system for your brain. You can't change that, but you can certainly strengthen your filters. You can strengthen your filters. So imagine starting early and saying to kids, look, you're going to be biased. There's nothing you can do about that, but you can strengthen your filters. Here's why being biased doesn't work for anybody. Here's why it's immoral. Here's why you're not going to have a good time with your social life. It's just not going to be as good. if you're operating on your biases. So to some extent, I'm stealing these ideas from Morgan Freeman, for example. Morgan Freeman— and this isn't his version of it, but I borrowed from his version as inspiration. So I'd say I used Morgan Freeman as inspiration, which is That you just sort of ignore the racism part and laugh about it. Now, imagine a world, you know, I'm not going to say I have a dream, but you can see where I'm going here. Imagine a world where somebody walks in for a job interview or just walks in the room in a social setting and your first thought Is whatever your bias is, and you can make a joke about it, and the other person can make a joke about it too. Let me give you an example. If somebody mocks me for being a white guy who has no rhythm and can't dance, what is my, what is my first impression to that? Let's say, let's say a black guy mocks me for being a, like, a bad dresser. Which I am, or being a bad dancer. If he mocks me in a funny way, I just think it's kind of funny because it's true. I don't dress well, I don't have style, I don't have rhythm. Now, I don't care if these stereotypes do or do not have some kind of statistical meaning. I don't really care because they don't apply to me. I just think it's funny. And anytime somebody teases me for, you know, Playing air guitar— I don't play air guitar, but you know what I mean— or dancing with an overbite, do I say to myself, ah, hate crime, hate crime, or do I say to myself, that's kind of funny, kind of funny? So I think, you know, I think Morgan Freeman is my inspiration here, that you should just accept— let me say it more directly. What we're trying to do is to minimize our feelings of bias so that in our interactions they don't come out. It's probably exactly the wrong instinct. It's probably backwards. Don't know, but here's— but imagine it going exactly the other way. What if we could speak freely about our biases? What if you could just speak freely about it? But at the same time, you would strengthen your filters to the point where you could overcome it. So somebody walks into your office for an interview and you say, oh man, you do not look like the right person for the job, for whatever reason. You're too short, you're too old, you're the wrong gender, maybe you're even a racist. But imagine a world where you could just say that. Say, man, you do— I don't even think you're the right person for the job. You just laugh about it. And then the person pulls out their resume, says, well, my Harvard degree and my 10 years writing published papers in this says otherwise. And then the person who was laughing says, ah, damn, pretty darn good. You're hired. And nobody thinks anything about it. They just say, OK, I had a bias because I'm I'm a human. How about just saying humans have bias? But we also have tools. So just accept your bias and then use your tools. Make sure you strengthen your filters so you can build a system that works best. So that's what I would suggest. All of the stuff about how you feel about it and trying to cleanse your soul and, you know, because you speak a certain way, In your dark heart you've got these bad feelings. Every bit of that is counterproductive because it imagines a person the way we are not, which is free from bias, or we can be free from bias, or that there are some people who don't have bias and some people who do. That's a big illusion. Everybody's got bias. Somebody says, you are such a tool. That's a good productive comment there. Thanks for jumping in with such useful advice. Somebody says unrealistic but good. Yes, it is unrealistic in the sense that I do not expect that people will automatically say, oh, okay, good idea, you got me now. Let me tell you how this works. If this is a good frame, It will live on its own, meaning that there are enough people here who will see it that if I said anything useful on this topic or anything else, it forms sort of almost a creature. You know, a good idea is almost an entity that can travel and it can be spread like a virus from one person to another. So one of two things just happened. Either I had an idea that doesn't have much traction and that's the end of it. Last time you'll ever hear of it. Or there are some few people who heard this who said, damn, that really gives me a better way to think about it, and maybe I can do something about that. And if it's a good idea, it will grow on its own over time. So you can, you can just release an idea like that and find out if it has any, any power.

All right.

Um, somebody says it's not a good frame. Well, you would need to define that a little bit better. I'm not going to block you. I, I have a— if you're new, it's my policy to block people who have a criticism that doesn't have a reason attached. You don't have to go deep with your reason, but when you said it's— I think you said it's not practical or something, not a good frame— give me, give me just a hint of a reason, if you can summarize it. Usually you can. All right, swaddle me, Captain. That's always funny every time I hear it. Yeah, and I've said this before, but we should be concentrating on strategy. Here's something that's provocative that I would love to tell a 12-year-old A class of 12-year-old Black Americans. So if I could talk to a classroom at that age, I would tell them this. Yeah, racism will always be a problem. It's not going away. It can't go away, really. But while you might be disadvantaged, let's say socially or even systemically— I haven't heard examples of that, but—

I have.

I'm sure I will. So you might be disadvantaged in this life because of racism, etc., but you also have a tactical advantage. And they would say, what? Yes, that's right. You have a disadvantage because of racism, but you also have a tactical advantage if you have the right strategy. And the tactical advantage— and I'll just give you the one obvious example, which is you could walk into any Fortune 500 company And if you have the same qualifications as a white candidate, you'll get the job every time because the company needs diversity as well as employees. So if you can get a good employee who has the same capability as everybody else who's applying, but you can also get some diversity, far preferred. And that is just— that's as close to a universally true statement as you can make about corporate America. So I would teach the class, yes, you were born into a world that's going to have some racism. It's always going to be there. So here's your strategy. Be tactical. You can slice through that like it didn't even exist because your tactical advantage is so strong if you use it.

Yeah.

If you have the right strategy. So that's the way I would go. Let's find out if we have any freedom of speech and we'll get back to social media and we'll find out. And I will talk to you later.

I love that. Oh my gosh, it's so funny how everything just ties into current day because the racism stuff, obviously. And drop any emoji you want in the chat if you are not Black and you are experiencing racism toward you now on a level you've never seen, because that's my experience. So it's just interesting how racism is not evolving but devolving. And then he's talking about free speech. It's like still such an issue. And I actually am following Michael Schellenberger, who's in Australia, and they're trying to I don't know, gaslight their citizens. So he's been following them around and they're like, oh, free speech? No, we're allowed to generate bots on our social media that actually gaslight their citizens into believing propaganda. And they're actually passing a law about this. So Scott was just always trying to help. And I don't know, I love it. I love what he did. So Owen, you tell me first, 'cause I missed the first half, although I've heard it, but Evergreen with Scott?

Well, I think what he said is true. I think, um, I, I know he, as you mentioned before you, you started the clip, he's had a number of like attempts at this over the years, and it certainly changed form, um, from what he said there. But I think, um, you know, it's interesting to me just that like I feel like when I grew up You know, because I was born in 1970, and so I grew up in the '70s, '80s, '90s, you know, when I was young. I just, I never really felt like there was a lot of racism. Now, certainly you could say I wasn't in the areas where it was happening. I'm not, you know, coming from a poor background or where it may be the worst in some areas of the country, but culturally at least, it just wasn't at the forefront. Like, it, you know, nothing— there was no news about it, there was no media about it, TV shows, movies, comedy. Like, you know, you'd have I don't know, Eddie Murphy Raw, like he would be making fun of what I would consider Black culture. And it wasn't a big deal. It was just funny. Everybody liked it. And it didn't matter what color your skin was. Like, it wasn't this team sport thing that it seems like we have now.

Right.

So I just would say I'd maybe add to that a little bit to say it almost seems like there are incentives for promoting racism today, like follow the money sort of stuff where it's like, okay, why are people pushing this opposition. Maybe it's for political power, maybe it's for money, because, you know, there's been plenty of examples that are grifting off this sort of thing. But it seems like it was intentionally brought back. And I agree with you that there is anti-white racism and anti-male sexism and, you know, all the things like that going on as well. And there has been for a long time, frankly. But I think— I don't know, I guess I don't experience it on a daily basis.

Yeah, not on a daily basis, but that's what you're seeing now. I feel like, Marcella, when I'm watching just these exclusively Black situations where it's like, no, this is for the Black people, and we don't want white people at our graduation, and we want dorms with just Black people. And you know what? Fine, if that's what you want, but, you know, let's not act like that's not going backwards and, I don't know, loser think. I don't know. I don't know if you experience it, Marcella, in any weird way.

Um, racism, you mean, or, or what?

Yeah, all of it. Just—

Yeah.

I mean, even yesterday I was, uh, there was an opposing counsel that wanted to put me down because I have a huge accent, Marcella, and you must be from Puerto Rico. You know, I, I, I, you know, I'm more— I don't care what people think.

Yeah.

But at the end of the day, I think biases and what we would call racism is just survival. Like, it's our instincts. If you are walking, you know, the famous, like, example, example, if you are a woman and you're walking through a street and there's a huge Black guy or a huge white guy coming towards you, you're going to be more hesitant about where you are or maybe cross the street. So some of the biases that, that are called unquote racist are actually your survival instinct.

It's true.

Um, and in regards to, um, the thing— there's another point I want to make is that he talks about his ideas and how they will last throughout that they will live within us. And that's so true. Yesterday, uh, on X, Jimmy— Jimmy Dore mentioned that he was on October 12th's, uh, Scott's calendar. And it's amazing because he was making fun of Jimmy. He was calling him Jimmy Bore.

Yeah.

Because I guess they had differences with each other in regards to COVID. And then William Shatner— I'm not sure if it's William Shatner on X account You know, but he mentioned Scott, and because somebody mentioned about Scott regarding cancer, and it was wonderful to see that he remains alive and will remain alive through all of us, you know, and it's helpful.

Mm-hmm.

But in regards to the whole situation where you're saying, Erica, about like, oh, we only want Black people in this dorm room, then they should not have a problem with having all white people in one dorm room. Like, if it's good for you, it should be good for them. You know, it's not racist. Maybe you just want to be with your people or whatever you want to call it.

I want to highlight that, Marcella, because listen, I, you know, I, I just don't understand why it's so crazy to people that think that, that they can't understand that there just are different cultural differences sometimes between people and It's okay, you know, like when I'm around my my Italian people, it's like such a vibe and it's so funny.

Molto bello, you know, you're like what?

Yeah. And you know, like I've I watch Black culture on every show I've ever watched, and it's like they're even in their TV shows and everything else since I've been watching them talk about their own culture. And I'm not like offended that they have their own culture or that they use different hair products. I don't care if you want to make your hair look like everybody's different. Yeah.

Everybody's different. And the man yesterday, if you must know, he's Iranian, so he's not even from here. Just to say, I didn't touch that. I didn't go there. I didn't go, hey, we're glad we're fighting you against— you know, I didn't go there. I could have, I could have, but I took the high ground.

High road. Yeah, yeah, good for you, Marcela. Um, so that being said, yes, Scott always was pointing out You know, the ways that you could just like use these things to your advantage and like not let them bother you, or, you know, get— give yourself a leg up. If, if people are going to be like, oh, you're Black, DEI, be like, hell yeah, I'm looking for the CEO position. Just run with it, you know?

Me too. Yeah.

Um, they're like, you're not Latina enough, Marcela. Oh, okay, my, my politics must be showing.

And good for you, Marcella. Uh, so, and a funny little tie-in— I didn't even hear this. I, I heard this clip a while ago, but I didn't hear the whole thing today. But let's just do a moment with King Randall, who loves Scott. Um, I do believe this is about race, so let's hear what he says.

They said Black kids don't benefit from the inclusion of white people, and I completely disagree, because what exactly am I supposed to be teaching the boys? Like, That somebody of another race ain't got nothing they could contribute to your life or anything like that. This comment came from a video where I was explaining why it's not wrong for me to have white children in our program. Y'all gotta understand, you know, these boys are gonna grow up and they're gonna live in a world with people who don't even look like them. They're gonna have white teachers, black teachers, white coaches, black coaches, Hispanic co-workers, Asian doctors, etc. They're going to work for people who don't look like them. They're going to lead people who don't look like them. They're going to live beside people who who don't look like them and hopefully build friendships with people who don't look like them. So yes, my black boys can benefit from knowing white boys, and my white boys can benefit from knowing black boys. Human beings can learn from other human beings, and I think that's where we keep messing up. We so determined to decide which race needs the other one more that we teaching the kids to look across the room and see race before they ever get an opportunity to see the person, and I'm not interested in that. If these boys can grow up together, learn together, disagree together, understand each other's experiences, And become better men together, I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. I'm not raising these boys for a Black world. I'm not raising them for a white world. I'm preparing them for the world that they're gonna actually live in, and that world is gonna have everybody in it.

Hell yes, King! I love him. I just shook my camera. Did you see that? I love him.

Yeah, I think that's spot on. And it goes back to what I was saying about just the way things I thought used to be. It was Because it seemed like that was our culture for a while, was that we weren't seeing race first and we weren't trying to separate things by race first. And it just seems like it's gone in the wrong direction since then.

Oh, it is so off the rails. You know what? Let's stay on that theme because I know you want to see a clip of Kamala talking to Keke Palmer. I mean, again, like, just even this— I know, even just this, like, Kamala talking to Keke Palmer. Like, she's always doing like these safe podcasts where it's like, listen, I, I'm—

Is she holding a bottle?

I think it's under her chair. But I, you know, I hate doing a pre-qualifier, but I'm gonna just say it, you know. It's just like you can watch this clip and you just know it's like a we're Black culture, we're for each other, like this is a safe place to be, the Black chick's gonna pump up the Black chick. And it's like, it's so degrading and it's so gross, like, to the rest of the country that doesn't play that bullshit, that it's so obvious that it's like I don't know, just the way they talk to each other, the whole thing. But ugh, this, this is going to fall under if I had to see it, you have to see it. And it also falls under why do the Democrats— all they're focused on is how they can cheat to win. And what I want you to realize and think about, because this is going to go to our next clip after this, listen to what Kamala is saying and why is she saying it. What is in it for the Democrats. Okay, just keep that in mind. So let's take a listen. And I'm sorry.

The work that we can do about winning back the House and the Senate is going to be on a number of things. For example, I believe that we need to expand the Supreme Court. We need more justices on the Supreme Court so that we can have a court that actually reinforces the spirit and principles behind the Constitution of the United States. I believe that we should be pushing For what is possible around changing the Electoral College, right?

Because what's what's going on?

Well, it's about you know the popular vote has to matter, right?

I can't, you guys. I can't.

Ugh, dumb and dumber, you guys.

Harris has been traveling across the country this year, first on her book tour for her campaign memoir. And currently to support fellow Democrats. Sure, that was for you, Spotify. Um, so, okay, I can't— there's so much in that stupid clip that I just can't stand. Um, but yeah, no, we need to pack the court and the Electoral College. And then Kiki goes, yeah, what's going on? It's like, what? I, I feel like we need like an Electoral College lesson. For the masses. I don't understand. So, I mean, Owen, you love that clip, didn't you? You could just make that your ringtone. What's going on?

It's certainly an issue that, like, with both the Supreme Court packing and the Electoral College, where it's like, it just demonstrates that they don't understand the fundamental structure of our government. Like, it's like, if you— it seems like it should be obvious that if you pack the Supreme Court, it stops being the Supreme Court. It just starts being like another House of Representatives eventually, because you're just going to keep packing it and packing it and packing it. Every time one side thinks they're losing and doesn't think they're going to get control of it again soon, they're going to pack it. They're going to just make it go to their side. And then eventually it's a political organization. It's not independent. It's not about the law anymore. It's just about how many people can I get on there and how many people can you get on there? And it's going to ruin the entire function of it. And Electoral College is the same thing. There was a very intentional reason that we put that in place to make sure That it wasn't just going to be the popular vote that would matter because then you might have only cities, for example, that would be important to politicians and they wouldn't care about any rural issues. They wouldn't care about that because it doesn't add up mathematically now to make sense to say, I'm going to pay attention to that. You're going to go where the most population is and you're going to care about the issues that the biggest population centers care about. And it's really just a way of— the Democrats love it, of course, because they're The ones all clustered in the big cities.

That's where all—

that's where all the blue states come from, is from these big clusters of Democrats in the cities. And so of course they like it. They like getting rid of the Electoral College because it would just benefit them. But it, again, it would ruin the country. And that one I've said before, I think it would lead to probably the destruction of the country because eventually the people who aren't represented anymore are going to realize they're never represented anymore. Because it's, it's not just even about the president election because the president appoints Supreme Court justices, and then it bleeds over into the representation in the Senate and the House too. And so it's like they basically would have no representation at all. And so eventually it would probably mean like states or other areas would say, I'm not, I'm not doing this anymore. Like, why, why should I be part of the system where I don't get anything and they get all of it?

Right. And Marcella, what makes me insane Insane. It— well, is everything. But is she— was a prosecutor, right? Is that what she was? No. Yeah, she, she was the Attorney General. Attorney General, excuse me. So I like how she's like, and the electoral cut, like, are you stupid? Well, okay, so it's just the hypocrisy, the audacity, all of those things that she's talking like this. I can't help— help me, help me, Marcela, help me.

Well, Being a lawyer and being smart are not equivalent, which is obvious. Um, I deal with that every day, you guys. Uh, but in regards to Electoral College, okay, you want to get rid of it, you're gonna have to do— what is it called? A constitutional amendment. There you go.

Thank you.

It's like, what are you talking about? We need to take back Congress. We need to take the the White House, even that, like, you still need to have a constitutional amendment to take it away. Like, it's just talking points. I, I actually think she does know this, and the talking points she's doing and she's going on these shows is because she knows that the population, the majority of Democrats, don't know that.

Of course.

And she's playing to the ignorance, and it's just you know, you fake, you fake it until you make it. So you pretend like, oh, we can do this, we can do that. She also pretends like she wasn't vice president, like, oh, look at what they haven't done. They haven't, you know, helped our people or, or Latinos or this or that or immigrants. It's like she could have done so much, especially with Biden not You know, sort of being on the outs. Um, she could have totally like done something during her vice presidency, obviously things we don't like, but she could have done her agenda that she never did for 4 years. So where was she? Was she also dementia— dementia Kamala or drunk Kamala?

Yeah.

Oh, you know, my opinion.

I, I also take Like the lady, what is her name? Kiki? Is that even a real name? Yeah, I can't stand— like, I thought I couldn't stand Kamala. I can't stand that lady more than Kamala. But Kamala looks like presidential compared to that lady.

Oh my God, that is so funny. So you know what was so like— I just had like this little chill when you said, you know, she's also acting like she wasn't vice president for 4 years. Holy shit, she was the vice president. Like, I forgot.

And she was president, like, I don't know if one remembers, for like a few hours because he went under the knife or something. Yeah, well, he— she actually was president for 4 years technically, or at least 3, because he wasn't really there, but neither was she.

Yeah, so— oh my God. But you know, it is amazing how we survive that. Like, seriously, that we have so many checks and balances in this country that you could literally have a half-dead person and an idiot running the country, but they really can't mess you up that bad. That's, that's, that's actually reassuring in an odd way.

As far as we know.

As far as we know. Um, okay, so I said keep in mind what she's saying, and now let's have a minute with the Very intelligent and competent Laura Logan, who's going to tell you what's going to happen if we don't get off our asses and vote. Whether you want to or not, you have to. Here we go.

If there is another stolen election, if the midterms are stolen and the House and the Senate fall to the people who are the enemies of this country, and they impeach Donald Trump and they impeach J.D. Vance and they put Hakeem Jeffries in as the Speaker of the House, who takes over in that case, we know what's going to happen because they've laid it out for us. They've already told us. They're talking about abolishing the Senate, packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Electoral College. Very simply put, they are facing real accountability, and they're facing it on a very specific timeline, the midterms. And they know it. And they have no intention— if they can wiggle their way out of this, Whatever it takes, if they can get back power, they will never, ever allow themselves to be this close to defeat ever again. So those people that want you to sit at home for the midterms because you're disillusioned or you're angry or you're hurt or you feel betrayed, they're lying to you. They want you to think that, that what you can live with now is the endgame, is the end state. It's not. What they have in mind is a permanent transfer of power that will render every election meaningless from that moment forward, that will take away every freedom you've ever known, every liberty that we regard as a right, that will render the Constitution completely and utterly meaningless, that will make January 6th and the prosecutions afterwards Looked like kindergarten.

Mm-hmm. Amen, Laura Logan's sister. So Marcella, she's so right, and we you know we keep talking about that, you know, like time and time again. Who just said it to us? Oh, Joel. You know, like I I don't want either one of them, but I'm getting one of them, so I have to get up and and vote. So if you don't get up and vote, like at least we can choose between a Republican. Republican and a Democrat, most of us. I mean, he's got to choose between, like you said, worst and worster. Um, so we have to get out and vote.

Yeah, no, we do. And funny enough, you mentioned Joel. They're from the same— they were born in the same country. They're both African-American. Um, she's from South Africa. Um, that's why the accent. And I don't know, they probably don't know each other that well. Uh, I should ask Joel, but, um, But in regards to basically don't, don't concede defeat, you know, don't let the polls guide you. They're fake. And if they're not fake, you never know how they were asked or who is trying to pump up, you know, uh, these polls. The other thing that we have now is Polymarket and Kalshi, and everybody says, oh, it's so right because people are putting in their money and they're gonna lose their money. They're the type of people that losing $100,000 or more doesn't matter to them, you know?

Yeah.

So I think just don't believe the hype and just go out there and vote the way that you want to vote. Don't let— don't sit in.

I agree. Owen, your thoughts on what Laura said and like about getting up and getting out?

Well, I'm going to be voting the very first day I can. I think in my state it's on the 19th. So that'll be my voting day. And I would encourage everyone else to do that along the lines of what Steve Cortez told us, that you're gonna help save money for your party, but not just save the money, but let them spend it on other votes. So you are essentially multiplying your vote for your side by voting early. And so I think that's really important. And I think a lot of people on the conservative side are the types that might otherwise think, well, I'm gonna wait till voting day. I'm gonna do, 'cause I want there to be only one voting day, so I'm gonna wait till the last No, then you're not optimizing the process based on how it exists today. You got to play the game with the rules that are in place now.

True.

And that tells you if you vote early, your side's going to do better. And the more we can get people out to vote, of course, the better the result will be. And I do think a lot of the polls are fake. I do think a lot of the— they're either trying to persuade you or suppress your vote by getting people discouraged on the other side. And it does seem like— I think I've seen at least a few stories where they're saying, hey, this poll isn't right. They're oversampling Democrats, or they're doing something to it to make it seem different than how it actually is. And I think Iowa might have been one of those examples where it's like, wait a second, this isn't right. This isn't accurate. And so I think there is a lot of propaganda out there. And I think it is important that we try and keep control of at least the Senate, but hopefully also the House. And I do think it's possible. I mean, there's been lots of doom and gloom stories saying, oh, it's a lock for the Democrats. They're going to win no matter what. I don't really think that's the case. I don't know whether they're going to win or not, but I've seen several people with opinions on the other side of that saying, this isn't going to happen that way. It's not going to be some sort of blue wave. And so let's make it happen. Let's get out there and make it, keep control of Congress and keep these bad things that Laura was just talking about from happening because they are going to try. I mean, if they have any kind of power, they're going to try and do those things. And it's going to be difficult to get a lot of it through, I think, because many of these things would have to be signed by President Trump, even if they got through the House and the Senate. And I think it's harder, a harder case for, for the Democrats to take the Senate. But every step of that is just another part of the battle. And anywhere we can stop them, we should. And I think the other side of that is that if you want Trump's agenda to be enshrined in law and be harder to undo when the next president goes over to the Democrats, which will probably happen someday, I hope it's not in '28, but it'll probably probably happen at some point. You've seen what's been happening recently. When Biden got in office, he undid almost everything that Trump did in his first term, and it took time for Trump to unwind all of that bad stuff that Biden put in place. But the same thing was happening. And if it does flip in '28 to a Democrat, hopefully not, but if it does, then they're gonna say, okay, all those executive orders are out the window. We're gonna go right back to the way it was when Biden was in office, and we're gonna keep pushing in that direction. And so, you know, they're going to do everything they can to try and pack the Supreme Court and to, you know, try and abolish the Electoral College. I'm not sure how they'd pull that off, but you never know. The Democrats right now seem like they're just ready to throw everything out the window and just—

Yeah, you have to, you have to vote like assume that they're gonna make that happen because they are liars and cheaters, okay? And like, I'm not Sorry for saying it, but you're liars and cheaters, Democrats. And you have to understand that they will lie and cheat their way into changing the Electoral College or gerrymandering or packing the Supreme Court. They will do all this stuff because they are never— like she said, they're never going to let themselves be defeated again. They'll cheat their way to locking in that we'll have We'll have Democrat rule for eternity. I'm not even kidding. So I I'm praying. I am praying so hard that once again I'm going to be so proud of America that there's still enough of us left that are like just zipping our lip and we just know how we're going to vote. And you know we want to preserve our way of life and our Constitution, and that it'll go the way that it should go, which is. Like, not to just say to the Republicans, but to preserve America. That's my hope. Um, but if we don't get out and, and vote, it's not going to happen. So we only have 10 minutes left, you guys. Um, I have a— I have 2 clips left I want to try to get to, if that's okay. So the first one I want to play, you know, there's not many journalists that I, I fully endorse and back, um, but Michael Schellenberger is definitely one that I I love and I recommend. So I pretty much could tell you if he's doing a story, you can bank on it. You know, he's a real journalist. So he's been in Australia, like I told you. Why this matters to us is just Australia wants to like censor what we're doing in America. They want to censor their own people. The UK is doing this stuff now. It's a, it's I hate the term, it's a slippery slope. But if everybody starts censoring their own people and it's catching on like wildfire, you can guarantee you get those Democrats in and they want to censor what we're hearing, just like they did with Twitter. Where, like, I literally said when Mike Pence ran for president and he sucked so bad in his debate, I literally wrote, stick a fork in him, he's done. That's a saying. And I was suspended for 2 weeks for threatening harm to Mike Pence. I'm like, oh my God. So, you know, it starts with something stupid, but we were censored and we were self-censoring ourselves and holding back. So it's important. But here's Michael Schellenberger. If you go look at his timeline right now, he's got extensive coverage of this, but this is just like a minute, uh, with him talking to someone else about what's going on over there.

The communications minister, um, Annika Wells, said It was to prevent eating disorders among 14-year-olds. But like, you've already banned social media for under 16. So what are we talking about here? The other example we heard today was to prevent the broadcasting of an execution of this person in the United States, Nidal Hasan. And then we said, we were like, well, so why do you want to censor that? And it was clear they had never thought of it. It was just obviously, we have to censor that. Why do you have to censor that? And they said, because we want to prevent copycat killings.

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, the lack of specificity really gives the game away. Yeah, they want to be able to censor whatever it is that they want to censor.

Yes.

So it's, it's just designed to capture anything and everything depending on what the government wants.

Yeah, it has— it's like a really kind of childlike view of things. It's like, well, this is to censor bad things, and that's about as far as their thinking has gone.

Yeah, that's, that's why the law really just has to be abandoned in full. It can't be fixed with any minor amendments.

No, it's, um, yeah, it doesn't have a clear intent behind it other than to stop bad things from happening in the world. And that's just not good enough. So there you have it.

It's a disproportionate, unjustifiable law that needs to be abandoned in full.

So he's over there and he's questioning everybody and he's like, well, what about when, um, you know, the other side gets power and then they do this to you? And, and what he's finding is, is The politicians are trying to create a law to shelter themselves. It has nothing to do with the people. It's they don't want negative things being said about them. And that's, uh, that's very dangerous, Marcela. You know, it's so different. It's so— we're so lucky to be in America.

That's what I was gonna say, is that, you know, going back to Kamala, she talks about the United States Constitution. And and she talks about it like it's just oh you know whatever. The the U.S. Constitution is the top document in the world. Like it protects, and it's a negative constitution, meaning that it tells the government what it can't do to us. Australia similar type of constitution, but no implicit right of freedom of speech. So You're starting off badly. So in Australia, so you can't really go, oh well, I have First Amendment rights. You don't have them. However, they can have them. This is—it's—it's appalling what they did to their people during COVID I think COVID was to see how these governments reacted and how they would use it. Europe was was bad. China was bad. But You know, given that Australia is an island, I guess they were even— they were like one of the worst.

It was so crazy what they did during COVID And funny enough, I mean, wasn't Australia like originally a prison? Like it was like a prisoner— oh, Prisoner Island, right?

No, what, what happened is you would send felons to, to Australia from, uh, from the United— from the UK or from some European countries.

So it was legit prisoner island.

Well, it wasn't really a prison. They're like ex-felons that, you know, so.

Okay. Um, so Owen, um, happy to be an American or what every day?

Absolutely. I, I still find it amazing that our Bill of Rights never got exported anywhere else. Like, it just seems like no other government really adopted that the same way.

Well, if they, they may have it on paper, No, no, no, I researched this and no, no government, no, no nothing, no one, no other country has ever copied what the United States did, which is like insane. Because that's the thing, if you look at a country and it's working and you look at the system, why wouldn't you copy it?

So true. Weird.

I, I agree. I think it's weird and I, I don't understand how no other country has ever been able to get to that point. The only thing I can think of is because Again, the Bill of Rights really was designed to limit the power of government. And so we had kind of that one shot as we were forming the government to put that in place, because the people who were forming it were revolutionaries that didn't want tyranny. And any other government would have to voluntarily choose to restrict themselves.

Right.

They'd have to say, we're going to give up power that we currently have. And I think that's the problem, is that anytime you ask a government to take away its own power, They're going to be like, well, why should I do that? I like having this power.

Wow.

Ego. That's the ego. I have one last quick clip. Quick clip. Yeah, that was right. This is just another spectacular woman I'd like to highlight. Also a Democrat.

Oh, me?

Yeah. I mean, these people are giving me life. Here's Nick Shirley doing a Man on the street interview. Oh my gosh! Is this Portland? I think it's Portland. We'll find out in one second. Here we go.

What do you think about Portland?

I think it's marvelous. The diversity, the seeing everyone, the homeless living outside.

What should the United States do to try to combat the fentanyl crisis here?

Should they allow people to use drugs openly here in the streets of America?

I think that we have to be taught. As young children, how to use drugs? We've used drugs since we've been cavemen. So if we don't start teaching the Indian way, where we have them at 12 years old going out in the wilderness or doing whatever, doing quests, vision quests, and taking drugs that way, we are going to end up taking drugs the way we are, and it's not working. So why don't we teach our children the In a spiritual way. And I would say that the Native Americans had that.

Did you ever do meth?

No, no, no, no. I did try cocaine, but I never liked it, thank God.

How old were you when you started doing hard drugs like cocaine?

Not— I didn't do hard drugs.

Okay.

A little marijuana, a little LSD, but that was it.

Kevin, should people be starting to use drugs at 12?

Absolutely not. She is absolutely delusional.

Oh, the delulu! I love it. She's like, "We've got to start teaching kids how to do drugs young, to do them the right way." Owen, did you teach?

I know before. I know the perfect ticket: Jamie West as president and vice president. This lady, I don't know her name.

That lady. Owen, did you teach your kids at a young age how to do drugs the right way, like the Indians on a vision quest?

Absolutely not. No. If anything, I think we did a pretty good job with that, I would say, because like, I remember when my son first got on Facebook and he came across somebody that was like talking about using pot and he literally came to me and his mom and said, should I report this person to the police?

That's so funny.

Like, no, no, don't do that.

That's cute.

You know, I think they had good values put in them.

Good.

And I think he's softened up since then and matured a lot. He was pretty young at that point, but it was kind of funny to me that I think we did a pretty decent job just letting him know the dangers of drugs. And we've given him a lot of warnings. I mean, I think it's not that they're like purists necessarily, and I think they may end up using minor things, but I've been very adamant about never do any street drugs, never do any Never take a pill that somebody hands to you and use it because you don't know what's in it and it could kill you. It could literally kill you.

Yeah.

And even if your friend took the same thing and it didn't kill them, it doesn't mean it won't kill you. Like, it's— and, and I think, as far as I know, my kids have stuck to that sort of thing. So I don't think it's the right message to teach them how to use drugs. And, uh, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's, it's crazy.

I do love how she's like, and the homeless are living outside. Like, where should they be, lady, if they're homeless? Like, as opposed to what? Um, she definitely has a nice reframe on everything, Marcella.

Um, there was a— there was a poll recently about depression and having mental illness, and Who would have thought Oregon is the highest one at 31%, claiming that 31% of the population there have mental illness? They are beyond the, the number of the rest of the United States. So that's why she lives there, I guess. But, um, she seems like a nice lady.

She does.

Like, she'll have tea with you and she'll talk to you, but, but, uh, little LSD. Little LSD on the side.

Nothing hard.

A little smoke. Um, she has her stories, but you know, at the end of the day, a lot of these people— I, I think it's actually very sad that she thinks this way because a lot of these people need help. Yeah, a lot of them need, um, you know, they have mental illness, which is why they come to have addictions. Um, either their prescribed drugs is first how they first start, or they prescribe it for themselves, illicit drugs. But I really think that there needs to be, you know, more of like reopen mental hospitals, be able to take care of them. They, they don't have— it's not that they don't have a home, is that they don't want one because they're too drugged out to even know where they are.

Yeah.

So the fact that she says, oh, leave them out here, it's like if you saw dogs or cats that way or anything else, like, you would want to—

Save it.

Treat it.

You want to send it to the vet or something. Like, the fact that she doesn't realize and no one else does that they actually need help and they're dying out in the street. Like, there's sometimes people that I— in downtown LA that they'll like cover them up because they, they died of overdose and the police is watching this. Like, Why would you allow that to go on? That's what I don't like.

We need mental hospitals to come back stat. I will definitely— if anyone wants to start one, I will invest. I'll be an investor. I fully believe—

Private Amazon mental hospitals or something.

Private. Let Elon start them. Yeah, Elon. Yep, we'll call it the X Institute. I like it. Um, so That, that was interesting. That was— there's so much to say about everything we saw today. But, you know, here we are. Where's Andy? Did he tell me time Nazism?

I do need to go, by the way.

Yeah. All right, Owen, why don't you take off before our long goodbye?

Okay.

Thanks. Talk to you later.

So bye, Owen. You guys, tomorrow the home team will be here to close out the week. Thank you, Tom. And my God, I have one of those bubbles in my throat where you're like, okay. Anyway, Marcella, it's been a day. It's been a day already. You guys, we'll be back tomorrow to finish out the week, and let's do a closing sip. Oh, by the way, wait, little housekeeping. So we're sold out of the mugs. We still have yeah, we still have the swaddles. Okay, there's still simultaneous swaddles. And Scott mentioned them, or mentioned one today in his clip where he said, swaddle me, Captain. That still makes him laugh. So anyway, oh, Andy, thank you. I got you, Andy. Thanks, you're the best. So there are still simultaneous swaddles left. And don't forget the Dilbert calendars on sale at Amazon only. And the link to everything, every day I put them in the show description. So there's like little notes with every show, they're in there. No mugs. The mugs are sold out. However, I did put a poll on my X account. If people are really interested in the mugs, I think the only way I would do them again is to preorder. So if there is enough interest that people still want to get a mug, I think we're going to do it on like a preorder basis because I have to order 200 at a time. We're not changing the mug. We're not going with a different company. We're not going with, you know, Any other way except for the way Scott and I decided to do it. Um, there's like reasons that we're doing the mug the way we decided to do it. We're going to keep it that way. So, but thank you. So many people have, you know, offered suggestions, but we, we're going to keep it that way. So if we have enough interest, we have to order 200 at a time. Even if we had like 100 people that, you know, wanted to preorder, that would be enough for us to order them. So we just want to make sure there's enough interest. Okay. The Swaddles, once they're gone, they're gone. They're never coming back. So there's about ninety left.

So many hats and all that.

There's a few left. I think there's just the beanies. The beanies are sold out. The t-shirts, the hoodies. Oh, I wanted a beanie, Marcella.

Sad girl.

I love what the but the Marcella.

Ay ay ay.

Now I feel bad that Marcella doesn't have a beanie. Damn it. So. Get whatever's left. There's, there's some trucker hats left, you guys, and once those are gone, those are gone.

Get the trucker hat.

Get a trucker hat, hurry. There's like, uh, some blue ones left, and I think just a couple of black ones left. The blue ones are nice. I think they have like a blue camouflage in it too that you can hardly see, but it's cool. Okay, that was a mouthful of housekeeping. Um, get with it, Marcella, Brad said.

I am trying to get with it.

You guys saying you wanted a beanie?

You— what?

You guys, the store was there for 2 years of beanies. Oh my God, do I have to preorder beanies?

Oh my God, you have Rush Limbaugh mug. I wish I had that. Yeah, maybe. Like, how many beanies do you have to order? 200?

Uh, no, I don't have to do as many beanies, but, um, no bombs, alien baby. But, uh, all right, you guys, are you gonna make me work on merch again? We need our allegedly Do I even have to say what color beanie would you guys want?

Black, gray, the gray one, the gray, the one that that that Scott had.

What did we send him? Okay, I okay.

Send you pictures.

Nikki's like, "I will buy a beanie." You guys drop in the chat black, what color you want? Gray. Like we're we're only doing. Like if we only did one, or navy, like what color?

Navy.

Drop it in the chat. Navy blue, whatever Scott wore, gray.

Do you ship to Sweden? Um, I ship myself to Sweden.

If somebody really wants international shipping, you guys, it's so expensive, but she can do it for you. She would just have to work up a separate thing for you, so it won't be Like an option when you go to order, but you can message her and then she can work it out for you. Okay.

And there's a— there's an email there to know how to message her.

Yeah.

Yeah. Her contact information should be there. Okay, you guys, you guys know I had to talk with my hands, but you have to. I can't not talk without my hands. Okay, you guys. So gray or black? I'll buy a bong and I don't even toke. I love that lemon minty. Um, okay. Who should I message? Eva or Ava, or maybe that's not even her name. You could— are you on X? You could always message me and then I'll put you in touch with the person. But if you go on to— if you go in the, in the show notes here in the description, it'll say to purchase like a simultaneous swaddle or a mug. Click that link. It'll take you to the website for the person who does them, and there should be a way to contact them there. Okay. And what hat is Scott wearing here? That looks like the dark gray. I can't tell.

Oh, it's dark, uh, blue. I guess he had more than one.

I think— I can't remember what we sent him. I, I know he had the, the darker gray one.

The darker gray. And I guess he had the black one.

And Marcella, if worse comes to worse, I have a sample one, but I didn't love the texture of it, so I I, I love the texture of that. Well, you don't even know what it is yet, but you love it. So if— all right, so if worst comes to worst, I will send you the sample one that I nixed. I said I don't like this.

As long as it doesn't like cause rashes.

It shouldn't.

It shouldn't.

All right, that's good. That's good. It's okay, a little rash doesn't hurt me. It's okay.

Is this a—

I know this is like a sleeveless, um, I like it. But it has like a little thing here. Is it a Star Trek blouse? Close. Oh my gosh, you guys, let's— yeah, let's have a closing segment.

What is happening?

This is what happens when we just talk. I start reading the chat.

Me and you, like, we kind of—

I know, I know. Scoffy.

We need, we need Scoffy. That's a good brand. Good lemon minty.

Scoffy. I know I always said like Get a cat and name it Scat, like for Scott and a cat. Scat. Oh, thank you. Is Stella okay?

You know, yeah, we're gonna pray for her.

Thank you. She's— she had a bad morning, and I think she's gonna be okay. She's so tough, and she's like a rebounder. So she's sleeping on her heating pad right now, and I think she's gonna feel better. Ah, thanks. Okay, you guys, so let's do it. Let's do the closing ceremonies. Let's say thank you to Scott and Shelley for allowing this show to continue and to be here. You guys, please hit the like and subscribe and the heart and all those good things for us. Oh, I'm just Stella. Um, so thank you to Scott and Shelley so much, and let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott Adams, and, um, we'll be back tomorrow. Okay, to Scott. Yeah, that was good.

I put pumpkin spice in mine.

Yep.

Does anyone want an Akira video? I'm gonna do a video so I can go check on—

You have time?

Yeah.

Okay.

Who wants— oh, what do I have? How about A Better Version of Yourself? Is that an actual video? Oh, I think it's the one with the anime.

Oh, good. I like that one.

All right, Marcella, then, um, if you have to get to work, you can and I can. Okay, ready? Okay, bye guys. After this song, I'll watch you guys say goodbye and then I'll end the stream. Okay, all right, we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks, Marcella.

It's not music, it's music plus. The old frame used to be be yourself. Anybody ever used to give you that advice? Be yourself. Terrible advice. Here's, here's the reframe: become a better version of Become a better version of yourself. If you're satisfied being yourself, people aren't going to want to be around you. You're not that good. You need some work, and you should admit that you're a work in progress. People will like you better if you admit you've got some work to do. Try being better. You should be working on some kind of a system, process, or finding some way to be the improved version of yourself. You should be getting smarter, healthier. You should become wiser, kinder. You should be trying to get your, you know, your depression down and get your mental health better. You should be trying to get Different in every possible way. Become a better version of yourself. Become a better version of yourself. People ask me if when I hit it big with Dilbert and I went from not having money to doing well, people ask me if being famous and successful changed me. Did it change me? Well, I hope so. That was the whole point. Why would I go through all that work to be the same person? Everything that I do It has at least a secondary ambition of changing me. Like, I don't go to the gym because it doesn't change me. I don't work hard in my career because it won't change me. I do it so it will. If I want to feel confident, what am I supposed to do, just sit in a chair and try to gin up some confidence? No, I'm gonna go do something, and then if it works, guess what? I get more confidence every day. In every way, I'm trying to figure out how to be like a little bit better version of myself. Become a better version of yourself.

Become a better. Version of yourself.

So if anybody ever tells you the key to success is be yourself, you're getting some bad advice.

Be better.

Just be better.

Good day.