The Scott Adams School - 10/23/26 Erica & Marcela usher in FRI-YAY! So much Scott & Debris.

I would have tried it again, you know.

I know, Marcella.

Is it Friday?

Is it Friday? It's Friday.

Yay, here we are again, another Friday. I'm shimmy shaking.

Are we—

we must be alone, right?

Oh yeah, we didn't go live yet. No, not yet.

Okay.

All right, Metal Seer, I'm gonna never talk to you again. For that picture, just so you know. Get it together. He made me look like Alyssa Slotkin. Like I need that on a Friday.

You do.

In that picture, you do look like her.

Well, yeah, he made me look like her. Yuck.

You gotta add the jean dress.

Don't add anything but a better idea. How about that?

Mm-hmm.

Good morning. So you guys, sorry we're a minute late. It's not like us. I'll stay a minute extra.

It was my fault. It was my fault. But it's okay.

It's fine.

It's fine.

You guys, I have this— this book is the worst sorry book. It's 3,001 would you rather questions, but they're so lame. Like, I was flipping through it.

What book is that? It's like, um, Can you show it again?

Would you like the— yeah, it's so stupid. 3,001 would you rather. Like, look, I'll just flip to one. Listen how dumb these are.

Okay, good, good.

Would you be— okay, well, this one was kind of good. This one is, would you rather be a ruler with little money or a citizen with a lot of money? Ooh, you guys can answer that one. A ruler with little money or a citizen With a lot of money.

Yay!

Um, yes, you guys, aren't you happy Marcella's here? Like, so Marcella and I could hear each other, but Walter was having technical problems yesterday. Like, he couldn't see the pictures I was posting, he was blurry at first, and then he couldn't hear Marcella for some reason. So that kind of sucked. And, um, I'm looking at your answers and, um, And Marcela had to leave early yesterday also, so that was already pre-planned. So it wasn't like she gave up and was like, I'm leaving. She stormed off.

I wanted it to be like that. That's why I didn't say like— well, I kind of did tell locals, but I don't know if they read it.

I need to get a sound effect for like a door slamming when you and Owen leave. Ba-bam! Um, yeah, Walter was great, right? So listen, we're gonna get to the sip, and then maybe I'll ask Marcela if there was anything she wanted to add on to Walter, yes or no. And, um, and we have— oh my gosh, you guys, we have so much to get through today, so maybe I won't ask her.

Yeah, we should just go to the new news.

There's so much going on. All right, so I think, I think we had enough time for everybody to come on in, and I'm gonna get to my Friday sip. My top third.

You remember the sip? I almost forgot.

Oh lordy, no, I— Lord knows I need a sip. Okay, here we go.

It's time again for the best part of your day. Yeah, and every time I say it, it's true. And in order to enjoy the best part of the day in the best possible way, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice, or stein, a canteen jug or flask. A vessel of any kind. You fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the unparalleled pleasure.

It's called the—

I don't know if the sip is over. Was it over? Okay, so we're gonna sip again because my Rumble for me was playing like 1 second at a time and then freezing. So Let's try it again, you guys. Fumbled like please, please. I have lots of clips today. Let's let's do it. You know what I even have? Oh, I don't trust it. I have a spare sip. All right, let's try the Friday sip again. All right, you guys, let's do it. Ready? Here we go.

It's time again for the best part of your day. Yeah, and every time I say it, it's true. And in order to enjoy the best part of the day in the best possible way, 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. You fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the unparalleled pleasure. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens Now go. Sip-tastic.

Sip-alicious. Sip-credible.

That's how good it was.

Is it over?

Yeah.

Okay, I, I've got nothing on my end. This is going to be a fun, fun show.

Come back, or—

yeah, let's see.

So you guys, we have all the clips, you know.

Yes, they're gonna be important for me to hear. So, first, I wanna give a calm and easy shout-out, you guys, to my mom, who's watching from a hospital bed this morning.

Yes.

She tripped yesterday and fell and broke her hip, and she's having surgery this afternoon. And I feel so bad. She's in so much pain, although she's on some good meds right now. But she's waiting to find out what time her surgery is. Is today, but I talked to her this morning and she's like, I'm gonna watch you live, you know, I have my iPad here. So everyone send a shout out to my mom. Let's like send her good vibes for the surgery. She's, you know, worried, but we had a good pep talk this morning about thinking positive, focusing on the outcome, and that she's strong and she can rehab herself and she'll be out of pain once this surgery is over. Thanks, you guys. Mom, the locals— that's the chat I'm looking at right now— they're all sending you prayers. And, um, so no, but you could call her Erica's mom. I can't give away her name, um, but yeah, you could just call her mom if you want. Oh, you guys are so sweet. So Mom, hang in there. And I know one thing you really want to know about is more about Ilhan Omar because it's quite amusing. And, um, and we will— I, I did pull a clip for you for that. So okay, she will be good. She will be good. Okay, so, um, First, first, Marcella, I hope you did well yesterday with court.

Oh, I wish you guys would have been there. It was very fiery.

Tell us.

Extremely fiery. So, all right. I almost made someone cry in real life.

Oh, oh.

Mm-hmm.

You go, girl. Thanks, you guys. Thanks for all the stuff from my— all the wishes for you from my mom. Okay, so here I didn't get to play so many clips yesterday. So I'm kind of throwing in the debris today. So I'm going to call this kind of like, you know, we have Scott's Debris. There's a lot of debris and a lot of clips. And I also have a fun interview that Scott did that we're going to watch. And that's— oh, and that's why I have this thumbnail for you today. Let me show it. So we look a little bit retro. Look at Scott. And we're like in an old office and we've got the Dilbert characters around us. So that has to do with today. Ooh, foreshadowing. Okay, but first, my fun clip because I miss doing them. This is— now, the Japanese culture, they are so big on costumes. My friends and I love watching, like, the costumes they do for whatever they're doing. This is a Japanese show that was like a costume contest show, which is kind of fun, you know, to think about it. I don't think I'm going to play the whole thing, but I just want to give you a sampling because Halloween is coming. And so you guys might need ideas. So if you're going with a group, here are some ideas for you. They get really into it. Look at this one. Like a mirror. Look up top. Those are people up top with their arms swinging. Isn't that crazy? This is the best. It makes it look easy.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

Oh my Lord.

This guy. All right, so that's, that's good enough. But anyway, I love it. I think they're very crafty and cool, and I just thought we need some Halloween ideas. And for me, this is what I'm dressing for a costume party, and this will be me.

Ah.

And if you people don't go as Jamie West, I will be so disappointed because that is a perfect Halloween costume.

Ah, okay, you need to buy that t-shirt. I'm with lawyer, whatever it says.

Yeah, for sure. And like, whatever, her cardigan and like the little Alyssa Slockin pulled-back bob. Love her. Gonna be a lot of Ilhan Omars? I don't know, Beverly. I think people are gonna get in trouble if they dress like Ilhan Omar, but try Jamie West if you, um, If you have friends who watch the news and maybe they're on X, that would be hysterical. Okay, so let's kick it off here. So some of my debris, one clip I wanted to get to a while ago was this clip of Kid Rock, and I like him a lot, and he's pretty sensible. And he, you guys, you know, he's a Michigan guy. And so With the midterms going on, um, with El-Sayed in Michigan, you know, I mean, I know a lot of us are looking around like, who are these candidates and what's happening? But I can only imagine like someone whose identity is so held within Michigan and then seeing Michigan and what's going on there. So this was, this was him talking to, uh, Laura Trump, I think about a week ago.

Well, number one, I was born in Dearborn, Michigan. So was my father, raised there. My grandfather raised him there. And as we know, I don't know if people understand how it got to be one of the biggest Arab populations outside of the Middle East in the world. I call it more of a, uh, a religious ideology. I know there's extremists and there's milder versions of it. I don't want to see my grandkids one day have to fight some civil war over religious ideology. This is scary. I think al-Saeed's a wolf in sheep's clothing. What's at stake? Oh my gosh. I mean, do you want your children to be under the arm of teachers unions, or would you like them to go to school to learn the basics and to be taught, you know, about the men and women who fought and died for this country? Or do you want them to go to school and learn about gender identity? It's pretty simple. You know, until this point in politics and going back several years, I never felt Democrats didn't scare me. It's like, okay, we think differently. You're big government, I'm small government, you know, all those things. I never thought any of them genuinely hated our country. Now I look around and I go, wait, these people hate our country.

Um, I was just looking at some of your comments. Like Boo Dog said, you can't leave a cult. K Susie, or Susie K Susie, are— do you live in Michigan? And yeah, Michigan needs Rogers to win. So I don't know, Marcella. I think that he speaks for a lot of Americans right now and their worry for their children and the future of the country. What do you think?

In regards to El-Sayed or in regards to everything?

Kid Rock and what he's saying about Michigan, Dearborn being the largest you know, Arab community now outside, you know, in the United States.

Yeah, the unfortunate part of all of that is that there's the identity, like voting, where you vote only for your own people. Like, oh, I'm Arab, therefore I need to vote for Abdul El-Sayed because I'm going to be ostracized from my community as a Latin American immigrant born somewhere else came here. I get that feeling where people are like, why aren't you a Democrat? Why aren't you voting for Javier Becerra? What? So it's very hard to be an outlier and actually not vote for the people that vote just because based on race. So I think it's racist what is happening in Michigan and why he's being backed by everybody. I don't care. What color you are, what race you are. I care about the policies you're going to enact when elected. And Abdul El-Sayed does not have, one, the maturity to be there as a senator, and two, his policies are communist, socialist, and I disagree with them. So to me, the, the, the failure of this identity politics is that people feel compelled that if they're Arab or they're Arab American, they have to vote for him. And that's sad. Um, unfortunately, that's, that's the name of the game in identity politics, but I disagree with it. But the reason why it keeps happening is because the media keeps helping people keep in these like boxes. Like, we— you've showed, um, Scott before where he's like, you know, the circles where you have race and then you have identity and then you have all these things. We're all individuals and we should vote as individuals, not based on the party. Like, well, yeah, I cover the, the Bushes, you know, they're GOP, but are they really the same as Trump?

Mm-hmm.

So we're not We have to vote for the policies that are going to be brought into Michigan. Unfortunately for Kid Rock and for other people in Michigan, the identity politics will destroy them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they will. And a lot of other places in America. And it's frustrating. And also, I think a lot of Democrats— I think Democrats more often Just vote Democrat also, which we're seeing because it's like, like I keep saying, like, you can't, you can't believe what you believed 15 years ago and still go along with what's happening now. So a lot of times identity politics are wrapped up, I think, primarily with the Democrats. So it is, it's sad. I don't feel like they're thinking about what's best for Michigan and for America. You know, if your population is overwhelmingly Arab, let's say, as Kid Rock said, then yeah, Unfortunately, just like when they say like, oh, all the Black people should vote for Obama, they should all vote for Kamala. I mean, Obama had the nerve to come out and tell Black people to vote for Kamala because she's Black. And I was like, dude, what are you doing? Like, that is so racist and so wrong. So, uh, not that she was the best candidate, but she's Black. So yeah, that's a problem. So well said, Marcella.

Um, I think actually identity politics kind of is, is gonna destroy Michigan, but it may save Michigan.

Yeah, how come?

Because the African-American vote is— might vote against him because he's not African-American, and they remember racism against them by the community, the Arab community. There's different countries, that's why I can't say, you know, Palestinian or whatever it is. But they remember all these things that they have dealt with. Not that you should put it on Abdul El-Sayed because he hasn't done anything to them personally, but I think the identity politics in it has, um, what is that called? The, uh, there's 2 sides to it. There's 2 swords on both sides. Like, you can—

Double-edged sword.

It will help— there you go. Oh my gosh, I forgot. Um, so that's what helps El-Sayed come up and become DEI, or whatever you want to call it. And then that sword also will bring him down if— and I think the African American community will possibly see through it and vote against him.

Yeah.

Or not show up.

I agree. Um, okay, so let's see. So I was looking at this, um, campaign election thing happening in Mogadishu, and, um, I was just like, you know, because again— yeah, no, I know.

Well, in Somalia.

Yeah, let me just show you what happens there.

Hang on.

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Just kidding, that was Minnesota. That's an actual campaign happening right now in. Minnesota, America. So yeah, that's, you know, so when, you know, Walter and I completely disagree on, you know, what's happening in the country with like, you know, I call it like a takeover from Islam and he doesn't see it. But I'm just like, well, all right, so we just had Kid Rock talking about Dearborn. This was Minnesota. I mean, this is what— this is not a problem. I think it's a problem. So I'm going to move along from that because again, I do have so many clips. And so I want to do this one for my mom because I just want to stay on the theme. So this is a— is it an Ilhan Omar update or could her name be something else? I'm not sure, but let's take a listen.

Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. You had it absolutely right. Her sister is Sahra Nur Said Elmi, and her sister actually wrote a book and talked about the fact that Ilhan is her sister. So that is her name.

But Omar's office is denying it, with a spokesperson saying this, quote, this is completely false. Ilhan Omar is her real name. Pirro also responding to Omar's claim that the feds took her DNA during the raid on her home last week. Watch this.

I'm not going to answer that, Jesse. You know I'm not. But I can tell you something. If the feds want your DNA, they don't have to go into your house to get it. There are many ways to get an individual's DNA. And I would imagine that most people in the audience know that, as well. Getting DNA doesn't necessarily mean you have to snow up, show up and get some kind of a swab, a buckle swab as we call them. There are many ways to get them.

And President Trump is also weighing in, calling into question Omar's response when asked about whether she married her brother in 2009 to commit immigration fraud and help him obtain U.S. legal status.

When asked whether or not she married her Brother, she said, not to my knowledge. You know, I've heard some bad political answers. I could go over a lot of them, but that would be about the worst.

Not to my knowledge.

I don't think so.

Did you have children with your brother?

I'm not sure.

The congresswoman's team saying this in response, quote, Representative Omar has repeatedly and unequivocally denied this baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory. She denied it again and now, and now on MSNBC. And when pressed yet again, responded sarcastically. So President Trump is also calling for Omar to resign, guys. Back to you.

Hmm. I'm gonna take it even further. Okay, let's— maybe the marriage was confusing, but Marcella, have you ever dated someone and then realized, like, a few dates in, you're like, oh my God, I think you're my brother?

Not at all.

Okay.

And like, and I wouldn't be like, not to my knowledge, right?

But like, you wouldn't need to get married. Like, you'd know before the marriage.

Yes, I would know. Yes.

You'd be like, oh, tell me about your family. Let's get to know each other. And like, why don't you come over for Thanksgiving? And then you'd be like, Dad, like, why are we at the same house? You know, there'd be signs. So It's interesting that she got that far. So, Marcela, what do we know anything more this morning on Ilhan, whatever her name is, Omar, and maybe not?

I could tell you as a lawyer that questions people for a living for depositions and in trial is that when she answered not to my knowledge, one, I think it was an attorney answer they gave her. To when— and we learned also this from Scott— if you have to deny something, you deny it. But if you're hiding something, you don't obviously say no. You obfuscate, or you give this kind of answer that doesn't go to the point. Because she could have easily— that would have been— that's an easy answer.

No.

Like, what are you, insane? Is my answer. Like, did I marry my brother? Are you on crack? Like, that's my kind of an answer.

Yeah.

Because, like, why would I marry my brother? Yeah. Yeah.

Like, so to me is— and allegedly this brother is fabulous. He is. He might be liking men a little bit more than women.

He is quite fabulous.

So that's also another thing. Did you marry your gay brother? Because that would be very interesting. But at the end of the day, I'm gonna go back to, we're not certain whether she's a citizen, right? We're not certain whether she married her own brother.

Right.

We're not certain of her name.

Right.

Um, we're not certain where she is now because she said that she was— that's the new thing— that she was gonna sell her home in DC because she felt like, oh, you know, I don't know, she just used a fake because to sell it. I want to know whether her passport has been taken away because I think she could run away, you know?

It has.

It has.

Her personal passport's been taken away, but I guess she has like her congressional passport maybe. But yeah, they took her passport and her phone and I think something else. I don't know what it would be, but yeah, they took it.

Okay.

Yeah.

So it's like, how can you have— I mean, I was listening to PBD yesterday with Evie Pompo. Anyways, it's really hard to pronounce her last name. Pomperero, or anyways, Evie. And she was talking about how much vetting in order to be in the Secret Service you have to do. They go back to your high school and they go back to your, like, university. They literally go visit your university. They look at your credit history, they look at this and that and the other, talk to your mom, talk to your dad, do all these things. But that type of vetting, that doesn't happen with Congress.

No.

Like, not at all. So it's, it's crazy that we have a Secret Service that's vetted to the, in the, the highest degree, where, which is, I'm glad, but at the same time you have Congress where we don't know her name.

Right. This is George, you guys. George Catstanza.

And George feels very strongly. He's never come on the show until today. He feels very strongly about this.

He feels very strongly about the stash of Stella's food I have to keep on the desk 'cause she won't stop meowing, and he wants her food. I don't want him to have her food. I want him to have his food. It's a whole thing. But I digress. The show goes on. And I am with you, Marcella. This woman, I cannot wait. to like see into the future and what's gonna happen every day. It's like the As Ilhan Turns, and I'm excited. Oh, I, I just hope it goes the way we want. Oh, and you guys, wait, wait, little intermezzo. Cover your ears.

Oh, that's like Lori. I love splash That's how I swim. I know.

It looks like it feels so good. I played that the other day, and, um, when I went back and looked at the comments, you guys were like, I love that dog. And I'm like, oh, well, I'll play him again. Um, okay, so let's, uh, do a little— not quite a pivot, but I want to just move on because, you know, one country that I think all of us in our head were like, all right, if I had to go somewhere, if I had to Flee. I'm like, all right, Poland. I'm not in love with your food, but I do like your policies. I like your laws. So here I come. So Piers Morgan was talking to. I'm gonna botch his name. Dominic Tachinski is the best I can do, and he's a member of parliament in Poland. And I just love like I love the Polish leaders are so adamant and decisive. Like Well, you know, will you open your borders? No. Will you let Muslims here? No. Like, it's just like, no, we're a country with certain rules and certain principles, and the answer is no. So, uh, and, and Piers, you know, he's like this like bleeding heart liberal, and he tries to find balance, but he, he can't. He swings so hard. But I guarantee you, soon he's gonna come around to my thinking because You know, the UK is shot out. But let's look at this exchange and then Marcel will chat about it.

I want to be clear again about your position. You would not allow any Muslim immigrants into France, say? You would stop all of them coming in?

No, of course not. None?

None?

No, Islam is not compatible with the Western values.

Okay, so basically you would like all Muslims banned from every European country?

Well, I don't care about any other European country. I don't want them in Poland. They are not capable with—

But what about France? What about France or England?

France is done. France has fallen. It's done.

It's too late. Do you think England's fallen?

Yes.

Really? What do you base that on? Because you lived here for 5 years. You were an immigrant, ironically, to my country.

And I paid my taxes and I didn't burn any mosques or anything.

I have no problem with you having been here. But what do you base the fact of my country having fallen on? Because I live here and that's complete bullshit.

I feel sorry for you.

Why? I have a perfectly nice life, thank you.

Well, yes, you're doing good with your finances, but most of the people are not doing good. Many people are arrested for praying on the streets. People are arrested for posts on Facebook. And this communist Starmer, who I sued, obviously will pay for his actions. It's a communist. It's a communist system. As you know, I was traveling on my diplomatic passport and I was banned from entering this country to give a speech. So if there is no freedom of speech, if people are arrested for praying on the streets, in their mind, if people are, you know, arrested for—

You spoke at the Unite the Kingdom rally in London on September 25th, organised by Tommy Robinson.

Correct.

You led a send them back chant regarding illegal immigration. What do you think about Tommy Robinson? Are you a fan of his?

He's my friend.

Is he?

He's a good man. He's not a pope. He's not a saint. He's a normal man with his history of life. For what is he doing for the identity of this nation? I love him. He's my friend. And I think he's a great man.

And you would— just to be clear, if you were a British politician, you'd be calling for all Muslims to be banned?

Yes. Okay.

And the same in France?

Yes.

And the same in Germany?

Well, until Europeans, until Christians will not be able to build churches and cathedrals in Qatar, There should not be any mosques in Europe.

Okay, so you would ban— you'd basically ban all the Muslims?

Yes.

I mean, pretty black and white. Beverly, I saw your comment. Yeah, of course he switched— switches topics because he's trying to say, oh, well, if you like Tommy Robinson, then there's something wrong with you. Sorry, not sorry. Tommy Robinson is fighting harder than anybody to Expose and eradicate pedophiles. So sorry, Piers, but you're gonna have to get over your Tommy Robinson bias. The guy does more good than Piers could ever do. So I, I just love that, um, steadfast, you know, like, this is just how I think, this is what our country believes in, and they don't waver. Marcella, um, for me, I find it refreshing. I would love to hear answers like that in more countries.

Well, Piers Morgan, his questioning of Dominic, and I won't go and butcher his last name, I think it was false red herrings that he was talking about because you don't actually, as a country, you get to choose who comes into your country. It doesn't matter that there's no destruction of the country of England or France, and therefore you shouldn't be able to ban people from coming And no, if Dominik is voted in, if he wins prime minister, whatever it is that they do in Poland, which I do love pierogies, but whatever they do, if they want to keep their country from any immigration, from anybody from— and they want to be specific of who they want to immigrate, they have that right. Like, I don't have to prove to Piers Morgan that a certain type of people is destroying you. No, you don't have to prove anything. You do what you need to do with your country and you figure out your things. You have issues. The, the issue— my issue with all of Piers Morgan, with everybody else, is that immigration is one thing. This is the immigration— they make this an immigration issue. It's not an immigration issue. Because it's astronomically the amount of people that come in. It's an invasion. Immigration was back in the '80s. I think that's when it stopped. And then the early '90s, then it became an invasion of different people. When you as a country and as a people of a certain language, a certain culture, a certain set of, you know, rules and, and, and everything else that stays pristine, right? That, that's what makes that country function. However, if you have millions upon millions of people from different areas coming into that country and tearing apart and unraveling that country, that's very different than immigration. That's a complete destruction of that system. So for Piers to not see it, for everybody else, I think they fall to the idea that the idea of— and I understand in a way Piers, because he falls into that idea where, you know, you want to defend people that want to immigrate. You want to defend people that want to run away from tyranny. All of us aren't evil. You know, we want to help them. We want to do this, that, and the other. But within a certain degree, and the fact is the invasion, which is not an immigration, is destroying the fabric of that specific country. China, for one, is a country that there is no immigration there. There is they don't even let you be a Chinese attorney unless you're Chinese. They oh they don't. They don't even let you be able to become a citizen at all if you don't have Chinese blood. From my understanding of it, I could be wrong. But the idea is nobody calls out China for doing that. Piers Morgan doesn't call out China because they don't have to. The idea is Europe must give itself up. The US must give itself up. Every other country must watch their own destruction. No, no, Piers, we are not there to help our destroyers destroy us. That's like— for him to confuse this as an issue of immigration or an issue of religious individual rights or religious freedom, it's not. It's an invasion and it's destroying the system. That kept these countries going. And Poland, if you ever have Polish friends, become friends with them. They are amazing. They will—they—they're very straight to the point. Yes or no? There's nothing about it. They might feel bad for people that are in Somalia, in in in Iraq, in Iran, wherever they are. They feel bad for them, but not in their country. They have no reason to sacrifice for them. She's—you're mute.

I was saying how wonderful that was. I totally agree with that. You guys, we have so much more news.

Sorry, I got into like my little box, but it's just crazy.

That's great.

I am an immigrant, and I could tell peers like I understand what he's trying to say, but at the same time, he doesn't see it, and it.

Well, how he cannot see what's happening in the UK is beyond— just like how I felt yesterday that Walter can't see what's happening here. And I'm just like, okay, maybe where you are in Vegas isn't that way, but you've gotta, you know, look around. And I don't know, I mean, the, the country's changing at rapid pace, and, um, you know, and then before you know it, you're overtaken by Something else. Your constitution's out the window, and you're like, "Why didn't anyone tell me this was happening?" And it's like because you buried your oh I was going to start cursing your head in the sand. So you know I I don't care. I don't care. I I I'm over it.

So what I was going to say is the reason my father um I lost him when I was very little, but he he was so. good at perceiving the future. He said, Marcela, we're— unfortunately, it cost him his life, but he said, Marcela, our— you know, not to me, but my mom, we're not moving to the US. We don't want to be part of an invasion because what's happening to the United States is an invasion of immigration. And that was in the 1990s. So I can still— I have goosebumps. I can still remember my father. Saying that. And he was so right. And that's even then in the '90s. Nobody knew. Nobody knew. And now it's still going on and people don't know.

Yeah, I know. They don't want to know. They don't want to hear it. They— I don't know why.

Why?

Like, why can't you understand? Why can't you hear this and understand it and know that you're not racist for recognizing what's happening to your country? You know, it's not racist. It's about sovereignty and protecting your homeland. I don't know. It's very strange to me. Somebody else was just talking about that too. It was such a great clip. I don't think I pulled it. But all right, so I want to get to Scott. I love this interview. And I mean, we need to close the week with some Scott. So let's just kick back. I think this is about 14 minutes. So this is from 1999. This is Scott being interviewed by Charlie Rose, and I believe this is when The Dilbert Principle came out. So for all of the Dilbert fans out there, by the way, the links for the calendar are in the show notes. And Mom, I'm going to send you one today because she said she wants one. So I'll send you one today. But please scoop those up. And that's the official link. There are dupes out there, people that are trying to, you know, make fake ones. So don't be fooled, people. But let's take a look at this interview. It's so good. And it's like the hair and the— oh, I love it. Okay, enjoy it.

Cartoonist Scott Adams is here. For 10 years, Dilbert, his cartoon creation, has offered a sardonic look at contemporary corporate culture and the plight of the modern-day office worker. It has become the fastest-growing comic strip in syndication. Appearing in more than 1,900 newspapers with a worldwide readership of about 150 million. With its success, the Dilbert phenomenon has transcended the comic page. In the past 3 years, the cartoon has spanned a vast empire which includes best-selling books, an internet site, and over 700 Dilbert-inspired products. In January, the animated television series Dilbert debuted on UPN, and here is a clip from the series.

Ah, Mom?

Mom? In here, dear. Push a little harder. Get your shoulder into it.

Mom, what are you doing?

Stockpiling.

Stockpiling? Why?

Where have you been? Haven't you heard about Y2K?

Heard of it. I'm in charge of fixing the bug for my whole company.

You are? God help them.

Thanks, Mom.

Maybe you should start hoarding essential supplies before it's too late.

Why are you hoarding hair conditioner?

I had a coupon.

Mom, it would be a lot easier to talk to you if I could see you.

I'm not here. I'm at the Warehouse Shopping Club with a moving van. Am I so predictable you can record your side of the conversation Yes, you are so predictable I can record my side of the conversation in advance. Put it back.

I am pleased to have Scott Adams join us now for a conversation about his guy Dilbert. Welcome to the broadcast.

Thanks for having me.

Uh, Charles Schulz was on this program once and he said that he thinks that along with jazz, comic strips are the one pure American art form. Do you agree?

Yeah, I think so. You know, the best cartoonists are probably coming out of the United States. I think we kind of own this art form, so I'll go with that.

Yeah, is that most of the best come out of the United States? Is that not— I mean, how prevalent are cartoons around the world?

Well, they're everywhere, but—

They didn't originate here.

I say that ours are the best because I can't read those other languages, so they don't do much for me.

Do you need to read them to sort of get the sense of them?

Well, some of them it helps, yeah.

How did it come about for you?

Well, for me, it was— the shortest version of the story is that I was working at Pacific Bell in my little cubicle, and one day I bought a book on how to become a cartoonist. I'd always been a doodler, and I read the directions in the book and it tells you how to send off your cartoons to various syndication companies. And I sent off my little photocopies to half a dozen companies and United Media called me and said, how would you like to be a syndicated cartoonist? And I said—

That's cool.

Yeah, I said I would like that.

How long had you thought about it?

Since I was 6 years old probably. Literally, I think I learned to read by looking at Peanuts books. And I thought, you know, this looks like a much better job than, you know, my uncle who's a farmer. I mean, that looks like hard work, just drawing pictures.

Good job.

And how much of Dilbert is you?

I've estimated that at least a third of Dilbert is me. Got the same glasses, had that same cubicle job, have had his luck. But he's also a composite of people I've worked with.

Schulz, I think, said that Charlie Brown was 60% him. And 40% of his imagination. So you're saying it's 33% of you, a composite of other people, and then maybe a third—

Yeah, I'd say it's about 70% people that I've known directly and about a third me personally.

The notion of Dilbert, how do you explain this phenomenon?

Well, it's one of those things that seems really obvious after you do it, but Here were, I don't know, 45 million people in the United States alone who were in cubicles and they had no voice. They had all this common experience, but they had no way to express it. And so when I started doing cartoons originally, I wasn't really focusing on his office life, but after I started running my email and people said, we like that office stuff you keep doing, I started doing more of it. It was just a kind of an obvious thing to do. And people said, you know, you're talking for us. So it became huge kind of accidentally.

Does the television series enhance the cartoon or does it change anything?

It's really a different form. I've likened drawing a cartoon strip to— it's like sticking your finger in moist soil and planting a little seed and maybe a little plant comes up, whereas the TV show is kind of like bulldozing a rainforest. You know, it's just a, just a whole different thing. It's bigger, it's louder, there's sound, there's lots of movement. They got mouths on TV. There are no mouths in the comic strip. It was very different.

And the purists, do they say— did you get any percentage of the people who love Dilbert saying, I don't like the television series, I like the cartoon, because—

Yeah, you hear from them first. They weigh in first. The angry people are always the ones who are most made You're ruining a good thing, Mr.

Adams.

Well, usually you got people who said he didn't have a mouth in the cartoon strip and he should not have a mouth. You know, they were used to the way they liked it. But overwhelmingly, the response has been positive.

And the website, you get what, 4 million hits a week?

It's a lot. I think we make up that number.

Yeah, exactly.

But it's some big number, whatever number that is.

What does that say?

What do you get on the internet? was how we really managed to get into a lot of newspapers. We kind of really reversed logic. You would think that the internet would kind of kill your newspaper business, but it allowed us to be known in places before it ran in the newspaper, and then the newspaper would pick it up because it already had a base.

Let me just talk about Dilbert and his principles, which make such sense to most people who live in a corporate environment or in a bureaucratic environment. One of the principles is that the least competent people get promoted to management positions where they can do the least damage.

Yeah, that's the Dilbert principle in a nutshell, and it kind of makes sense because, you know, if you go to the hospital, you want to be operated on by the smartest surgeon. So you want the smart people to be doing the work, writing your computer programs, doing your surgery, and you want the guy who's running the staff meeting and deciding whether or not you can afford the doughnuts? I mean, you want that guy to be in management. So it actually makes sense in a strange kind of way.

Give me some other Dilbert principles that you think have made a difference and have caught the fancy of your fans.

Well, really, the thing about bosses that drives people wild world is that the boss is the only person who can, first of all, ruin whatever you're working on, can ruin your project for you, can blame you for it, and then thirdly, can punish you for screwing up.

Yeah.

So nobody else in your life can do that to you. So that's the worst thing. But my favorite stories are where they have their motivational message doesn't quite match their intent. For example, one company was measuring the morale of their employees and used that as one of the bases for the bonuses. And when the morale wasn't high enough, they decided to withhold the bonus until morale went up. I mean, you know, it made sense on some level, I'm sure.

How important was it when this book became number 1?

It was huge. You know, I got to tell you, when it hit number 2, for a long time it was right behind Dennis Rodman's book. It was just stuck there for week after week, and I would open the paper, and I was actually convincing myself that being number 2 on the bestseller list was great. You know, that was fine. It was as good as you could get. And when it finally popped and went to number 1, I found out how entirely wrong I had been. I'd been fooling myself. Number 1 is much better.

But what are other big moments in your life in terms of your life with Dilbert?

I would say probably the biggest moment is when United Media called and said, we got your submission package.

That's a big moment.

And said, we'd like you to be a cartoonist. And I'd never even had a job as a cartoonist before, and suddenly I was in business.

You were how old at that time?

I was about 30. Yeah.

I mean, could you have done this at 21?

No, I don't think so. No, because you're always drawing from your experience. And I guess I would have had to do a cartoon about drinking beer and being in college or whatever I was doing at 21.

The name Dilbert.

Dilbert was named actually by a coworker at Pacific Bell. Originally, he was a doodle that I would always do at work, and he didn't have a name, and people kept asking me. So I actually had a contest, and people submitted names, and when my boss at the time Mike Goodwin came in and said, you know, I think his name should be Dilbert. That was it. I mean, I closed—

It hit you right away.

Well, I closed the contest. I'm sure that was his name. It wasn't like I was assigning a name. It was like that was his name.

All right, roll tape here. This is a flashback to his youth in which Dilbert recollects the first time he realized that he had a knack for technology and that he would become an engineer. Here it is.

We have a big problem here. Drop everything you're doing and solve it.

I'm gonna be late for work.

Oh, this is far more important than your career.

You always say that.

Well, this time it's true. The TV's not working. I've been sitting here for nearly a minute without entertainment.

Change the battery in the remote. The one on the left.

The one on the left? Well, that's just spooky.

Not really. I have the knack.

The knack?

For technology. My mom says I always have.

I'm worried about little Dilbert. He's not like other kids.

What do you mean?

Yesterday I left him alone for a minute and he disassembled the TV, our clock, and the stereo.

That's perfectly normal. Kids take things apart.

Oh, the part that worries me is he used the components to build a ham radio set.

Oh dear.

Is that bad?

Normally I'd want to run an EEG on him, but the machine isn't working. It's worse than I feared.

What is it?

I'm afraid your son has the knack.

The knack?

The knack. It's a rare A rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical and utter social ineptitude.

Can he lead a normal life?

No, he'll be an engineer.

Oh no!

There, there, don't blame yourself.

As we look at that character, uh, who's been so embraced by corporate America, why— what is it that, that Is the essence of that bond.

You know, I think everything you ever saw about corporate America was kind of, kind of the boss's eye view, and you never really saw it from the employee's point of view. So Dilbert kind of takes that, you know, I'm suffering in the cubicle point of view, so people just relate to it.

Now, there was a guy named Norman Solomon, right, who wrote a book called— what was it called? The Troubles with Dilbert, right? Which he said that Dilbert wasn't really the voice Yes, he—

it was a very interesting case where he wrote a book railing against the capitalism that was embraced in Dilbert and that maybe Dilbert was actually harming the workers somehow by teaching them helplessness. To which I say, maybe you should get a sense of humor about this. It is, after all, a cartoon.

But there is this This is about the cartoon. You are paid silly sums of money to talk to corporate executives and corporations around America because they view you, the writer of a cartoon, as a management expert.

I know, that's the, the great irony of this whole thing is that if you mock something long enough, that you will be perceived to be an expert. I'm perceived as somehow having some actual knowledge when in fact all I am is a mocker. I can mock anything. I can mock medicine, but it doesn't mean I can be a doctor.

But they say, if he so skillfully makes fun of us, he must know something about us, so therefore let's hear him, because in the end they want to know what it is about us that's so ludicrous.

Well, there's utility in mocking, because people find out, if I do this thing, Will I be mocked to death? My best example was— this really happened— companies would start taking out insurance companies on employees because a consultant told them that if they did that and they paid the premiums for them but also collected when the employee died, that the employee is no— you know, no impact on the employee because they are not paying for it, but you could make money when the insurance policy paid off. But to the employee, it is just more evidence that they are worth more dead.

Right.

If you go from cartoons to books to the internet to television, what comes after the internet and television?

Well, we're working on the product called the Dill Burrito.

Oh, what's that?

You may have heard of it. It's a burrito, it's a food item and it's got your 23 of your vitamins and minerals, so if you ate it, you'd have 100% of what you needed of those 23 vitamins and minerals. And it's kind of branded with Dilbert, the Dilberito. And so I formed a company to create that. So I've got a virtual company that has one employee but has a worldwide reach right now. And I guess I get to show what I do know about management at this point.

Scott Adams, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Pleasure to have you on the broadcast. Back in a moment. Stay with us.

And mock he did, and taught me to mock right along with him. Um, did you love that? That is the best, uh, clip. I just— young Scott, the voice before he had the spasmodic dysphonia we were talking about in the clip. And I don't know, it's just so sweet and innocent. I don't know what I think about it, Marcela.

It's like, I don't know, it's like we know so much about him so that when he talks about things, I'm thinking, what is he thinking in, in his head, right? Because he's not saying everything that he was thinking at the time. And I just, I love seeing him. I love seeing the little like clips from Dilbert comic, you know, the cartoon. The actual cartoon that existed. It's so beautiful. It's just, oh, I just, I know.

I can watch it.

It's so good. And it makes me laugh. Like, you can hear him writing it, like, he has the knack, you know, and he's gonna be an engineer. And it's just like, that kind of thing has stayed with Scott through his whole life, you know, that whole engineer and, you know, like nerding out. And it's just, it's so good. It's so good. I was trying to explain to my mom, I was telling her last night that I was playing this clip today. And I was explaining how the Dilbert calendar, like, this is so huge in Scott's success and his legacy. Because, you know, almost, I mean, there was always someone nearby you in a cubicle or at a desk, they had the Dilbert calendar on their desk. And I was explaining to my mom how, you know, you'd read one and be like, oh my God, like, that's my boss, or this is what our meetings are like, or this is like how stupid my company is. And they'd peel one out and they'd stick it on the wall of their cubicle. And, you know, we would say like, you know, there's a picture of Elon and you can see the Dilbert calendar hanging on the wall behind him. And I was explaining how Elon put in his company handbook, don't do anything that could be turned into a Dilbert comic, you know, to his employees. And it's like, it's Dilbert and Scott's genius is just such a staple of work culture. And I mean, to have something be so iconic and cemented in with the work environment is just amazing. And that was our Scott. Um, I, I don't know. So, I don't know, Marcela, what to even say about it. I just love it.

You know, it— to me, um, when we watch these clips, um, and, and what you were saying right now is like he picked up free cash, um, as he would say, because nobody was at the time in 1999 and thereafter, no one had catered to the engineer, the scientist, the person that felt like, you know, as if we want to call it the nerd. They always— all cartoons were more like, we're just going to make people laugh. But he focused on an audience that nobody had focused on, and he picked up that free cash and made it— obviously made a lot of money out of it. And on top of that, He made it part of everyone's life. Like, usually cartoons would be in the newspaper and you read the newspaper, you left it alone. But because he was part of the calendar, it was by your desk. The same thing he did years later in— I don't know when he started the Periscope, where he started— at first he didn't do the sip, and later on he did the sip. And that's part of our, you know, everybody sips.

It's like our calendar.

Everybody does that. That's part of now our routine in life. So even if you're not watching this show or you're watching very few things now because he, he's passed but not, not gone, um, anytime you sip, you have to think of him.

Yeah.

Anytime you think of a calendar, a desk calendar, you think of him. So he made those connections on purpose. And somebody was saying, was he a hypnotist at that time? And yes, he was, because he got his His certificate back in I think 1983, 1984. This was many years before 1999's interview.

Yeah, that was 1999 that interview.

Yeah, so so it's like it's just amazing how he did it all, and I we can see the connections.

Yeah, and just and don't forget Scott, you know when he started Dilbert, Dilbert was at home, Dilbert was at work, and then he was getting letters written to him. We like it when Dilbert's in the office, and he was like, you know what? A lot of people are saying that, so he listened, and he's like, if That's what they like. I'll just do that. Yeah, cha-ching, right, you guys? So you know sometimes someone criticizes you or says something, and that's your that's your free money. Pick it up right off the table, and that's what he focused on. And here we are, still talking about it, still with a calendar ready to go. So I think cha-ching is going to be the song today, you guys. So yes, there's more we didn't get to today, but you know what? As I keep saying, God willing, we have next. week and we'll, we'll get to all the things. Um, you know, thanks you guys for another amazing, amazing week. And, um, I'm gonna miss you when the show's over. Marcela, aren't you gonna miss them out on the whole weekend without them?

I'm gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss everybody out there. Um, and I'll be thinking of your mom. And I want to send, uh, Erica, Mom, I want to send you a hug. And I want you to stay on course and you will get through this. You'll get through this.

Thank you.

Or I'll make them get through this. And if you need for a lawyer to talk to your nurse that she's not giving you water, let me know.

I was like, Mom, now be nice to the nurses.

Your lawyer.

I was like, be nice to the nurses. Make sure you're saying thank you. Like, don't get so loopy that, you know, you forget to be grateful. She's like, I am. I am. Like, okay.

Buy them donuts. And, uh, Frappuccinos, and then they'll love her.

Uh, somebody in the chat was like, well, call her Momica. That's so funny. Uh, thanks, you guys, so sweet. Um, don't forget, tomorrow Owen has the after party, and that is on X, and, and his handle is @OwenGregorian, and the party starts at 7 AM Pacific, 10 AM Eastern, and then you guys figure out the middle of the country for me. Um, and He does a simultaneous sip, so even if you just want to go have a simultaneous sip and leave, you can, or stick around and Owen will talk about news and whatever you guys want to talk about. It's a fun little hang for a Saturday, and that's it. That's it. So we'll be back on Monday with the home team, and thank you so much, everybody. Let's have a special thank you to Scott and Shelley. For allowing the show to continue, that we can all be here. Thank you, you guys. And let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott. What a what a mind! What a genius! What a mentor, friend, example he is to all of us, and he always will be. He always will be. All right, guys. Closing sip. Have an amazing weekend. To Scott.

To Scott. Momica.

Momica.

They gave her a name.

They gave her a name. Her name's Momica. Um, daylight savings, when is that? Oh, please.

What is that?

Oh, ugh, ugh. All right, let's do cha-ching. Oh, Marcela, we should lip sync with our microphones today. I mean, heck yeah. You guys ready? Here we go. Hey, you robo goon! This is a dancey song. You can do it.

Hey, you robo goon!

Pay attention.

Okay, here we go.

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? Scotty! Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.

Every time somebody 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, and I'll tell you 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 oh? 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 shelves need something on them. That'd be really easy, wouldn't it?

I don't.

Here's how I hear it. 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? 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 it when criticism comes in. 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 change. Made me rich. I literally got rich by being criticized and understanding the criticism as cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. 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 social. The best advice somebody gave me was the cruelest thing anybody ever said. One day, my female friend told me how negative and what a bummer it was. Listen to me. 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.

Cha-ching!

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. So the next time you get criticized, whether personally or whether professionally, say to yourself, say to yourself, say to yourself, cha-ching, cha-ching. Just try it. Like, actually say that little sound. Cha-ching. Not figuratively. I'm not talking figuratively. I mean, actually say that. Cha-ching!

Cha-ching! Cha-ching! When do you hear it? When do you hear it? When do you hear it?

When do you hear it?

When do you hear it?

I was screaming, cha-ching!

We could hear you from over here.

I mean, he said, actually, I was like, all right.

Actually say it. Do it.

I do what Scott says. He says, "No, don't just think it.

Say it.

Actually, let me hear it. Scream it out, y'all. Cha-ching!" Oh, that was a fun, fun week, you guys. Thank you so, so much, Marcella. So fun when we're together, I must say. You know, little girl power over here.

Mm-hmm.

Now we gotta take it down.

Okay, you guys, I have a stress test today. Like, they're gonna put me on the treadmill.

Oh, actually?

Yeah, like an actual one. So that's every day. I was like, let me get in a good mood, shake it off. Okay, I'm good.

Are you gonna, um, be on a treadmill and like have to like—

Yeah.

Run for them?

I told them it'll take— listen, I think they want your heart rate to get up to like a certain amount And then they want to like measure it or measure it. My heart rate is a very high, high resting heart rate. So I'm like, it's going to take like literally 30 seconds. So the good news is I won't have to sweat because my heart rate will go up fast. I'm like, I could wear high heels and be done in 30 minutes. So stress test today and I'm looking forward to it. Yes, I switched to a new cardiologist. I'm like, Let's go, Erica. Let's have like a new—

He's a real doctor.

Yeah, the other one was real. But you know, I've seen people in the chat— this is a little personal information— but I've seen people in the chat say like, you know, it takes like 2 months to get in with their cardiologist. Mine was like 3 to 4 months sometimes. And I'm like, yeah, that's not gonna work for me. So I'm sure she's amazing. But I'm trying someone new. I already love him. She was a she. Well, she's still a she. She's still And now that you know of—

yeah.

And then now it's a he?

It's a he, and he's delightful. I really, really like him. And I think he thinks I'm a little bit of a character because sometimes he has that like tilted head look at me and he's kind of like laughing like, oh my gosh, like you're quite animated. Okay. Um, but starting fresh and I just want to make sure everything's going great. Uh, you do, Annie?

Hmm.

Until lately, and it makes you wonder, well, let's go find out. How about that? How about everybody, if there's something you've been procrastinating doing, especially regarding your health, pick up the phone, call your doctor, call your chiropractor, call whoever, and do it today. Why don't we just all— like, I know you put off the dentist. I'm only advocating for simple things. I'm not going to say like, go get a mammogram. I don't know. That's personal. So do what you want with that. But if there's something you're thinking about, you're concerned about, or you've been putting it off, let's do it today together. And tell us on Monday what you did. Okay? Because that's useful for yourself and your health. Tell us.

Hire a lawyer if you need it.

Hire that lawyer. Sue that person. No, I'm just kidding. I mean, unless you need to.

No, no, no.

Do that.

Do that.

Whatever you have to do.

I'm not interested at all.

No. If you're in California, yeah, yeah, call Marcella. She's your girl. She made someone almost cry yesterday. So a lawyer?

Yeah.

Oh, another lawyer. See, I like that in a lawyer. I like my lawyers to make the other lawyers cry. Yeah, just saying. Yeah, right, Andy?

Spicy.

And if you're in New Jersey, call Andy Wang. Andy's like, shut up, don't tell them to call me.

All right.

What are you off to, like a big work day today?

I'm off to court. 10:30 it starts. Yeah.

Oh girl. Okay. All right. I'm off like a prom dress and then we'll see you on Monday. All right. Love you guys.

It was a man, Andy.

It was a man.

Yeah, it was. All right. Bye guys. Here's our game, Marcella, where we try to just not comment on all the funny comments.

No, you do.

But I'm gonna miss y'all.

We could just stay on for the entire weekend.

Ah, smart. You guys are so sweet with wishing my mom all those good wishes.

Mommy needs to know that we all love her and we want her to get better.

Yeah, poor Momika. She's in Florida, so— but she has, um, the nicest, most caring boyfriend ever. And he, like, he even slept in the recliner in the hospital with her last night. She's like, no, no. And he's like, yes, yes, I'm staying here. So sweet. Oh, all right, Momika. Yeah, all right, I'm done. I'm sipping it. Okay, love you. Love you, Marcella. See you Monday. Bye, guys. We can talk about baking. We'll talk about baking next time for sure. Roger, what do you mean new song? What new song? Tell me. I'm gonna wait for you, Roger, to tell me what that means because see, I would have read that later and been like, what does Roger mean? What do you mean, Roger? Everyone wait for Roger's response and then we'll go. No pressure.

No pressure.

Love you, A.E.A. Einstein Universe.

Where did she find him?

Go feed Stella. Frank, Stella has had 4 giant meals already, just so you know, and she ate a dish of kibble during the show and so did George. That girl is fed. Roger the shrubber?

Maybe.

Roger, tell me.

Oh, he's, he's, uh, oh, making it suspenseful.

Look at your bread, very nice. Come on, Roger.

I've never made bread. I need to make it.

My mother-in-law bought me a bread-making machine once. She was like hooked on— oh well, I mean, yeah, those are the ones I play, Roger. Um, yep, I'm looking at the list. Those are all the ones I play. We do a different one every day.

Yeah.

So anyway, my mother-in-law bought like everybody a bread machine from QVC one year, and I'm like, what am I gonna do with this? So I'd like— I made like one packet of the bread, and then I had a garage sale And I put it in the garage sale, and she came over. She's like, "The bread machine!" I'm like, "I'm sorry. I just don't know what to do with it." But okay, now I've said too much.

Thinking of you, Crusher.

Crusher.

Bye, Fletcher. Bye, guys. This is an ASMR goodbye. Marcella, do you want to whisper goodbye to the people?

Goodbye.

Goodbye. Goodbye, you guys. I, I see you still there. Um, if you remind me, Lion, I'll play the payoff on Monday. Just remind me. Reminder to play the payoff on Monday. Where's the CIA? Can you hear me? I can't hear you. Wait. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? Yes, I can.

Oh, okay.

Can the CIA hear you? Yes. Oh wait, yeah, hello. Good Lord. Okay, bye guys. Have a great weekend. Have a good weekend.