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Live and if any of you can see me That would be amazing So I can see some of you The trick here is if you all and pretend you're all in my living room
So this is Shelly Adams for those of you who have not yet met her and Now I know how early I have to get up there just seems to be no way That I can figure out how to get all the right people up here So let's see how many people we can get
This will be an adventure Help me Shelly say something so we know they can hear you can you hear me looks like it might work the problem will be getting extra people up here
so that would be the problem let's see how about we make it excuse me loud and clear
Well, if you can hear me loud and clear, you can probably hear her, because we're on the same microphone and same camera.
So I would like to start out with, happy birthday, Mike Bert.
So we're trying to get everything together.
It's a birthday for a regular, Mike Bert, 50 years old today.
We could not say goodbye, all right.
So in case you didn't know the importance of Shelly, she will be the head of the estate and the boss of everything, and I think she had a few words to give you about what role will be going forward.
Ready for that?
Let's do that.
Good morning everybody.
Um yes, I'm Shelly.
I don't know if Scott wants to introduce me as, but I am his ex, first ex.
I just want to tell you a little bit about myself, and I'm going to start by.
First of all.
I want to just start by saying this is not my world.
Social media is not my world.
It had to be my world.
Yeah.
All right.
So this, I want to, first of all, thank Nicole yesterday, the shy one with the glasses that Scott kept pointing out, because that's probably me times two.
So thank you Nicole, for giving me the courage to get on here this morning.
Just a little bit about myself.
Before Scott, I worked in the corporate office in Foster City.
As a retirement specialist.
Before having kids, I started working for Scott in 2003.
My main job, I would say, would be to gather all his Dilbert subscribers, email ideas of their crazy workplace stories.
They would send in all these great stories to give him inspiration for the comic strip.
I kind of pulled them all together, tried to weed out the really good ones, put them together for him, and so that he could quickly just look at them and get his idea for the day.
So that was my main job and a lot of other jobs.
I did get my real estate license after we split up and I pursued that real estate and property management, and that was very successful.
But I continued to be in Scott's life the entire time.
We were best friends.
So that continued.
I have a beautiful daughter, Savannah, who when Scott and I met, she was only five years old.
He helped raise her.
And she just got married last year.
She got married to Jacob.
And they are, I now have a son-in-law and hoping someday to have grandchildren.
They're the perfect together.
I'm married, remarried, and I've been with my husband for going on 12 years.
We waited until 10-year anniversary, and we decided to have a big backyard wedding.
So it was beautiful.
He came with two bonus sons.
So I have two more sons.
And I just want to give a shout out to him, to my husband, Pat, for understanding and being so supportive of my relationship with Scott through all the years and through going through this with him.
But I have the biggest job ahead of me, which is now to keep Scott's legacy alive.
And I'm going to need the help of all of you guys to do that.
And I know you've supported him all these years and he loves you guys.
And I know you're going to support me to keep his legacy going.
And that's think that's all I wanted to say.
The short version of that is that she's the new, well, she had the job that Owen has making sure that things run smoothly on this end.
And only in the sense that she was picking up good stories for me.
And now Owen is the picker.
So Shelly is the boss of all bosses.
So I'm having increasing trouble talking.
And obviously, I have no mobility.
So without Shelly, this operation would come to a halt.
And she's the person I trust the most in the entire world.
Now, one of the things I like about Shelly is that no matter how scary something is, she is undaunted.
So that's one of the most impressive things about her, that we don't know what we're doing right now, but that never stops her.
So we'll work through this one way or another.
Now, what I was hoping to do, as most of you know, is convert from coffee with Scott Adams to more of a, we'll figure it out as we go, but we're moving toward a situation where, wow, I have to tell you, I've never been on this many drugs before in my life.
I had a tough time with the cough last night, and so I'm just absolutely loaded up with meds.
All legal.
Every bit of it is illegal.
So the hardest thing I was trying to do is get other people invited up.
So I'm going to see if I can do that.
But as soon as people can talk, you can just go ahead and talk.
So if there's something to ask, something to add, and you could talk about the news, or you could talk about this, or you could have.
I think we just accept them.
We could accept all, but we'll just accept a few for now.
Well, I should make sure we're accepting Owen and Erica.
Okay.
And maybe Marcella.
So if we get a few friendlies up here, it'll be a different experience.
And I still don't see.
Is that Owen up there?
Let me see.
Owen.
No, that's okay.
So we're looking through a list of known people.
All right, here we go.
We've got invitations.
Why isn't it?
Well, so far, nobody's accepted, that's why.
Well, I think we have to accept them, don't we, first?
To accept them in.
Yeah, but how do you know which ones to accept?
You just look at their names.
So Joe, Sergio.
I didn't accept it here.
That was the only one we know.
And then...
Wait, it didn't work.
Didn't work.
Didn't work.
You did not accept.
All right.
Sojio, Joshua.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Hold on, Joshua.
So right now I'm accepting known people.
We got two.
And who else?
Is that Marcella?
No, that's Malcolm.
All right.
Eric Burt.
We got Mike Burt.
Marcella, here we go.
All right.
Now that I've accepted.
I haven't seen Owen yet.
So we'll go with this.
Let's see.
If you all.
What do I want of you all when I've accepted only some?
Oh, so difficult to figure out.
All right.
Do we have to turn that on?
I think that's why she turns on.
Hi, Rena.
In theory, there's Marcella.
There's Joshua.
So, any of you, Joshua, Marcella, if you turn on your microphones, we should be able to see you.
Yeah, here you go.
Can any of you talk right now?
Good morning, Scott.
Hey, Joshua.
Why am I turning on turning on microphones?
You're the one who has to turn it on, right?
Yeah, we have to manually turn on our own, turn on our own microphones here.
We got company.
Hey, Summer, you want to say hi to Scott?
You want to say hi?
So, Scott and Shelly.
Hey, this is Summer.
Hey, Summer.
Did you have to check the news this morning?
Did you have to check the news this morning, honey?
Yeah, uh-oh.
Kid getting a hold of the phone.
She wants to do some reading.
Yes.
A little cameo from Summer.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure to meet you, Shelly.
Thank you for joining.
That was a heartfelt introduction.
We're so glad to have you as the protector of this community and the guide for us all.
Thank you.
So, does anybody happen to catch any news?
Has it fallen yet?
No, we're all still standing and they're being defiant.
They're threatening the fight back really hard right now.
No, I can't hear Marcella.
Is that because you have your mic off, right?
Yeah, turn on your mic.
Sorry, I didn't see the mute button.
Good morning.
Good morning, Shelly.
Thank you for being here.
You're amazing.
No, it will fall, and I'll tell you why.
The main reason is that in the previous protest, it was just the youth that were protesting women.
But what he's lost, Kamuni has lost support of the middle and upper class, the Tsar class.
And that is what keeps him going with funding and the money.
So yesterday, we made a speech to the nation to tell them that whatever they were doing was against the law and against God.
And basically, that means that anybody could be shot on the spot and executed for protesting.
But people are still going out doing it.
It's been 46 years.
They are tired.
They just want to do it.
And I think what pushes them is Trump, you know, knowing that they have Trump there.
But I'll let everybody else speak.
So we don't know how to add Owen yet.
In theory, let me get back to that.
Marcelo.
In theory, if we add Owen, but he doesn't turn on his camera, he could be anonymous.
Is that true?
How to add him?
I told Owen that he could wear a mask.
Oh my God, that's good.
That's me.
Hey, Scott.
Hi.
Hi, Mybird.
Josh.
That's awesome.
Oh, so you were talking to, right?
Yes, that's me right now.
So I was telling you no one that he could wear a mask, like a de mask avenger or something, you know?
Well, I spent like an hour last night talking to Erica, trying to figure out how to add a person.
And unfortunately, she was using instructions from Grok.
Now, I don't know if you've ever tried to get instructions from Grok about anything, about anything, but it's been impossible.
And it has very specific instructions, but it's about menus that don't exist.
Have you had that same experience?
It starts out with, all right, use the main community button, and I'll go to the place that'll be no main community button.
And you can look all day for the main community button and it won't be there.
And then somebody says, yes, but Grok says it's there, but it's never there.
It's never there.
So I have to figure that out.
The one only way I can get instructions on doing that is if somebody else who knows how to do it goes page by page and takes a screenshot.
And then eventually you hit that that person does not have the most current version.
So there's nowhere on earth exists a set of instructions to do what I want.
And then we and then with that good luck, we discover it.
But it's in a completely odd, weird place that you could never find anything.
So, so we got so do you know, but how do I get all right?
Let's see if I can get Owen on my phone.
He might already be there.
You look amazing.
Well, you're too nice.
What we look is stupid because we can't do that something.
But you can't, it's hard to get advice because nobody else looks like the host.
So.
Is my birth on here?
What about it?
Happy birthday, Michael.
Hey guys, how's it going?
Mocha's here too.
Happy birthday.
It's his birthday, Scott.
Wait, so that's Mike Bert.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Good to see you.
This is very much like hanging out in your own home and what do I do now?
Pardon me.
I'm going to drop out so that other people can join.
And I'm going to focus on my kids here.
It was a pleasure again to hear from you this morning.
Shelly, thank you so much.
Scott, thank you.
I love you.
And all three of my kids have grown up hearing your voice.
You're like kind of the internet uncle, so to speak, that your voice is familiar to all of them even before they were born.
And they'll be hearing you for the rest of their lives in one way or another.
Scott, thank you.
Very well.
All right, bye, Bert.
Thank you.
All right.
So Owen is waiting for host approval.
But hey, Scott, this is Sarah.
Sarah B88 is my local's name, but I discovered yesterday that my rumble name is separate and I can't change it.
So that's why probably nobody knows who I am.
Anyway, so I'm going to go ahead and drop out, but I just want to say hey and so glad to see you today and hope you're doing better.
We're all thinking about you and praying for you.
See, my problem is I'm too popular because I have to find a name in a list of a thousand and then specifically approve it.
And there's no search function.
So how about this?
How about everybody drop out except for Owen?
See if that works.
There's a waiting room.
Yeah, but I don't think we can.
So there's only two places that could be waiting room and participants.
If I go to the waiting room, sorry you have to put up with this.
Is there anybody who's sounded still on who can tell something about the news?
Has Trump done anything interesting?
No?
Nothing interesting.
Can you see me?
Can you hear me?
I can see and hear you in the waiting room.
Okay.
But we don't see Owen, who we're sure is here.
Boy, if you can put up with this, you can put up with anything.
I'll be darn.
Required approvals, don't require approval.
So there's a problem with the waiting room.
There's just too many people.
Is that what's going on?
I feel like I could approve Owen if I could find him in a gigantic list.
Come on, baby.
Now you know why Dave Reuben uses two people to do this.
Spurlock.
Wow.
Do you want him just to call us and we can include him, his voice?
We can try that.
So, Owen, why don't you just call me on my text number?
You will not be seen, but you will be heard.
How hard is it to tell somebody where a button is?
But it's hard where there's a third, a thousand people.
Owen must not be here.
All right.
Well, somebody's coming in.
Oh, really?
He called it with the voicemail.
Why don't we try calling him?
All right, here we go.
Good morning, Scott.
Good morning, Shelly.
Good morning.
Good morning, Owen.
Can everybody hear you?
I hope so.
All right, we're going to go back to the show view and give us a sign.
Wait a minute.
So we're not looking at.
We're just listening to you.
Yeah, we're just listening.
So we can bring more people back up on the screen.
Right.
You are correct.
So we're good.
You all are going to once he's there.
Participants, Sergio, Micro Invisible.
And all right Owen, since you're going to be on the whole time, at least your voice will be.
Maybe you could lead us off.
And uh oh, there's Marcella, if there was a way to see her.
So Owen, did you uh make some notes of the news?
Say I did.
Let me pull them off.
We want to start with the simultaneous sip.
Yes yes, we do.
We would like to do that, but you're going to lead us, okay?
Well, all you need is a cup or a mug, or glass tank or chalice or stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
Simultaneous sip go boy, that was a struggle.
So in no particular order.
Is there some uh stories or stories you want to cue us up on?
Uh, there's plenty, um I I think.
As far as the ran goes, I think it was correct that they're still having their protests.
Crown prince has issued a bunch of messages on X, sort of a rallying cry, so he's definitely claiming he wants to return and wants people to keep protesting.
I think the Ayatollah and the regime is threatening execution and saying that protesters are ruining the streets.
But please Trump, that's what Kameni is saying.
He's warning of a crackdown.
So they have.
They have no public bathrooms and gigantic crowds.
I always wonder what happens to those situations.
Yeah, I don't know it's.
It seems like it's spreading across the country, but it's hard to know what's real and what's propaganda.
I don't know if you have a view on that, but it does seem to me, as I think you pointed out before, that there's you know what you hear when there's something like a color revolution going on, and it's all one-sided and it's all painting a narrative.
But what's actually happening in the country, especially when the internet's cut off and there's not a lot of information below, is highly in question.
I think wow, it's pretty well understood at this point that it's not organic right, or is it?
Is it organic?
I'm not sure I believe that any protests are organic anymore.
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
I don't believe any of these are real.
Yeah, and for other international news, Trump is certain still saying he wants to go after Greenland and he's gonna take it, whether they like it or not, and he made a statement that he'll either do it the easy way or the hard way.
He's floating an idea of paying each citizen of Greenland $100,000 to essentially buy the country.
Really so, so every single citizen would get a hundred thousand dollars.
Yes yeah, there aren't that many of them.
Thirty thousand, I think something like that, yeah, Denmark is not budging so far.
They're claiming they won't give it up even if the US nukes them.
That's the statement they made.
So they jumped right to nuclear war.
And they're saying it would threaten NATO.
And so Denmark is certainly unhappy about the situation.
I know there's some meeting coming up.
It might be happening now with Mark Abrubio meeting with Denmark.
So there is some kind of, I guess, discussion or negotiation that's queued up to happen.
But Trump doesn't seem to want to back down, and I don't really see him backing down.
Do you?
At this point, no.
What is China threatening?
Nothing, right?
I don't think so.
China's mostly been sitting this stuff out.
I think they're probably still upset about Venezuela.
I don't remember.
I don't know if you remember.
They literally had a bunch of diplomats in Venezuela when the raid happened.
And they were making, they were there to make some kind of oil deal or something.
And I think there's certainly a lot of speculation that the motivation behind the raid was to deprive Russia and China of oil.
Oh.
Well, that's not true, Scary.
How much oil were they going to get from Denmark anyway?
Well, Russia and China have been making deals to get oil from Venezuela.
So I'm kind of switching topics, but I think the direction now seems to be that Trump is sending a bunch of tankers to go get the oil.
And he's claiming that we're going to get something like 30 to 50 million barrels of oil.
There was a story I posted today that it could be that we could refill our entire strategic petroleum reserve of oil just from Venezuela.
Really?
So, Marcela, turn on your microphone.
Yes.
You're a local expert on Icelands.
Yes, I am.
So what will be the impact on Iceland if Greenland goes America?
No, I've been to Greenland as well.
I think it's a big deal for them because of the fisheries and the oil that is in the ocean in that area.
So Iceland's always been a friendly country to America.
They were used to have a military base there since like I think they moved it in 2006.
But anyways, I think what Trump is doing is negotiating.
You know, he puts the first offer, which is I'm going to take Greenland and no matter what.
But I think that they're probably negotiating something with Denmark.
I can see that happening.
Basically, it would be the best for Greenland for the U.S. to take over for them.
They have a lot of issues, and Denmark has never really supported them.
They even say that they've always been threatened by Denmark, the Greenlanders.
Recently, last year or two years ago, they were told that if they didn't follow what Denmark wanted, that they would take away their free Medicare and free education.
So that's the main thing that they want to keep.
I think if Trump would offer that to them or some kind of money offer, I think that they would be willing to take it.
It would be best for Greenland.
Greenland has issues with alcoholism, suicide, and they're basically stagnant.
There's no industries, mostly tourism, and now and again.
But Trump is like the hero in my mind, with Venezuela, with Iran, and now with Greenland.
Greenlanders just aren't aware.
I think that he needs to the propaganda is European propaganda is very strong.
I didn't know European propaganda was strong at all.
I thought they had the weak.
What I don't understand is that it seems like Greenland is just a big money sink.
Like, as I understand it, there's a bunch of money that Denmark pays to Greenland every year just to maintain the infrastructure and to protect it.
And they don't even really do much protection.
So it seems like it's just a big expense on their budget every year.
And I don't know what benefit they get from it.
And strategically, it certainly has value to America, but I don't know what value it has to Denmark.
Well, then I think we should talk about something else.
How about we let we let in as many people as we can?
And since Owen has an open line all the time, he can either introduce some technology stuff or not.
Mike, what is the most interesting tech thing that's happening today?
It's still CAS, right?
What?
What?
Owen, I think Scott wanted to ask you a question.
Yeah.
Owen, what's happening that's not about international affairs necessarily, but just something interesting that you found in the news today.
Trump made a bunch of interesting statements today.
One is that he wants to limit credit card interest rates to 10%.
Another recent announcement he made was that he wants, I forget which agency, but they're going to buy something like $200 billion in mortgage bonds.
And I think that was meant to reduce interest rates.
So he's taking a pretty heavy step towards trying to push down mortgage rates to make them more affordable.
Do you think that'll work?
I think, I mean, the story I read certainly said that it would have an impact.
It would be likely to have an impact by buying all these mortgage bonds because you'd be, you know, how many people understand buying mortgage bonds?
Probably very few.
Is CES over?
Consumer Electronics Show?
I think it might still be going on, although it might be wrapping up.
I'm not sure of really tracking when it ends.
I feel like it was the disappointing show of electronics.
Once again, somebody's got a robot that can do one thing.
But if you had it, you'd be unhappy because your robot only does one thing.
Yeah.
There certainly was, I think, for the stories I saw from there, there was a lot of robots, there was a lot of AI.
I think a lot of the AI was kind of disappointing or, you know, not ideal use cases for AI.
So it seems like that was a bit of a letdown.
There certainly was a lot of hype around the robots.
So your robot Butler idea, your prediction may or may not come true.
You know, I'm interested, like you said earlier, about whether the LG robot will live up to the hype.
But it does seem like there's like maybe even half a dozen humanoid robots that are at least being shown as something that might go on sale this year.
If you want to let more people in, we can.
We can go view them.
Oh, we're going to view some more people.
You can accept anybody you want.
I think everybody's accepted now.
And there's an auto mode.
So in theory, you all.
I think if we just accept some of these.
It's hard to know if they're already accepted.
All right, we're going to let a bunch of people.
See what happens.
Invite participants.
Oh, in theory.
In theory, there are new people being invited right now as we speak.
They just have to turn on their camera.
What?
They have to turn on their camera.
Okay, if anybody wants to join and turn on the camera, there we go.
Hi, Scott.
My name is Anthony.
Hey, Ethan.
What's up?
Not much, man.
I love you so much.
I've been listening to you for like 10 years when I was like 21 or something.
You've helped me so much.
Job promotions, now I'm engaged to a fiancé, just your reframes, all those things, man.
All those little lessons.
Talent stack.
I can't thank you enough.
That's what I want to hear.
I thought Christina here calling in from France.
Sorry for France, you said.
Calling in from France, yes, listening to you for the 10 years at least.
What an honor.
What an emotional moment.
I am also Venezuelan by birth, legal, naturalized U.S. citizen.
So I do have an interesting perspective about what's going on in Venezuela at the moment.
Give us your perspective.
Well, a lot of people, a lot of Venezuelans have always been, it's probably 50-50, pro-Trump and very much against.
And the against have been calling us the Magazuelans in a pejorative way.
And they are all now coming around to being very grateful to President Trump for what he has done for the country.
Of course, the first reaction was that everyone wanted Maria Corina in, and everyone was like, WTF, why is she not the president that she should be, rightfully?
But more and more of the thinkers of the country have been coming around and actually commenting very publicly that Trump is doing exactly the right thing because Muira Corina would not have, not even remotely, the possibility of commanding the military or any kind of the remaining institutions of the country to bring order back into the country.
So from the Venezuelan perspective, everyone is extremely happy and grateful to the United States and in particular to President Trump.
Wow.
So how long has it been that people were pro-Trump?
Well, a lot.
It's a little bit like the Cubans.
Venezuelans have been suffering.
Socialism has been suffering at the hands of leftist ideologies.
So most people are not buying any of the nonsense of the left.
Having said that, you do get a little bit of what traditionally Latin America has a little bit of a leftist heart.
So there's that conflict.
However, Venezuelans have experienced in their own flesh what it is to be under the boot of communism.
So automatically you are on the right.
Well, what's your take on Europe in general and backing up?
Right.
A little bit more about me.
I'm actually a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
And I think I am the only one of my classmates that is actually a registered Republican and has voted for Trump three times.
I have constant battles with my friends from that time.
And everyone is, of course, in the academic elite where they have this Democrat superiority.
In terms of Europe, my husband's German and I have been living in Germany for several years now.
It's difficult because on the one hand, Europeans mostly see what's happening in terms of the problems with immigration and the decline in the culture.
However, there is, at least in Germany where I live, there is this knee-jerk reaction against a party like the AFD, because of course of Germany's past.
It's difficult to say.
I have friends in different levels, in different levels of society, and the people, the handyman, the people you talk on the street, they have no qualms in saying they vote AFD and it's nonsense what the elites are doing to the people of Germany as a country.
You still have, of course, the elites saying, oh my God, the AFD, no way.
It's fascism and we cannot go that way again and our history and this and that.
So I don't know.
I think Europe needs to sink a little bit deeper before it really realizes.
And it may be too late.
I hope not.
Do you think that France will become an Islamic country?
Difficult.
We also lived in France.
I'm vacationing in France at the moment with my family.
You know, it is so difficult.
I don't know what to say.
really hope not it's um europe has changed whether they will make a u-turn and pull the handbrake in time who knows i'm i'm glad to be an american that's all i can say
well we're glad to have you it's so wonderful to be able to be a part of this it's such an honor scott i love you it's um thank you shelly by the way for being there it's it's uh wow it was a very emotional simultaneous sip this morning thank you owen for that yeah thanks thank you
let's uh bring you back in owen is there any new tech news or anything we wouldn't be watching while we're being distracted by all this international stuff
let me look through my tech stories uh i think that i don't know how interesting it is but there's a change in the fcc they're gonna allow higher powered wi-fi really it's gonna be able to operate outdoors at higher power how much of a difference is that gonna make
Saying it's, I mean it.
It's this new six gigahertz band that they're gonna allow, and I think it's supposed to support things like Ar And Vr, short range hotspots, automation and indoor navigation.
Um, it doesn't really quantify how much stronger it is, but I know there have been restrictions on that and some people complain about that, certainly inside their homes.
Um, I have that problem where you know, I have my wifi router in my basement and it doesn't get into most of my house, so I have to add more wi-fi spots.
Um, and even then it's it's spotty in places.
So i'm kind of looking forward to this, being able to put a really high powered wi-fi in my house.
Maybe it'll cause cancer, but might be worth it.
Maybe that's what got me.
You never know.
I hope not.
Yeah, you know one of the things, when you get cancer, you go around thinking what did I do?
What did I do?
But then I remind myself that for men, the type I have is the uh, you know the most common one.
So if, if I got the most common one, it's hard to complain that it was because of some special case.
Yeah, I mean, I i've heard a lot about prostate cancer.
I know it is very common in men.
I certainly hope to avoid it, but i've, from what i've heard, a lot of the cases are I don't want to call them benign, but they're kind of contained within the prostate and um, you don't even really need to treat it.
But I know, i've heard that almost every man that reaches a certain age will probably have some level of prostate cancer.
Um, so it certainly is a very common condition.
I think he just got really unlucky.
The aggressive, aggressive kind.
Marcella, you have a very good book behind you over your left shoulder.
What is that book?
wonder who wrote it i feel almost everything is so big can you see my cat he's down there oh yes i can see
he's shy this is he's named after diegondo maradona the soccer player because he likes to fight all right do we have any else that would like to come in i believe it's his birthday hi guys It's good to be here.
Thank you for having me on, Scott.
Um, it's been a long time and thank you for everything.
I just want to say, appreciate you, love you.
It's been crazy 10 years and uh yeah, just thanks for making me part of your community and giving me a special place, and and I did my best to fulfill the mission and uh, i'm gonna keep going here.
Whoever is gonna tolerate me, i'll keep doing it.
So here I am.
So here's to you, Scott.
Thank you very much for everything.
It's your birthday today, is that what you said?
Yeah, 50 today.
Happy birthday, that's a big one.
Yeah, it is a big one.
So this, thanks having me on.
I'm gonna uh sign off now.
I just wanted to say my piece and i'll keep on watching and posting some memes now.
It's been weird that I haven't been look, wondering what do my thumbs right now, and I listened to you and and here we are.
So i'm gonna sign off.
So, thank you, i'll talk to everyone.
I would.
I would interject a story that I posted today.
That I think is good news.
Um might be a little sensitive for the two of you, Scott and Shelly, but um, fentanyl deaths have dropped in the?
U.s significantly.
It was over a hundred thousand a year and now it's at 81 000 in 2024.
And um, they're crediting Biden.
As far as you know, it happened during his term, but I think a lot of that had to do with Trump in terms of putting pressure on China, and it looks like they're chalking it up to a supply disruption during the pandemic, that the supply of the precursor chemicals got disrupted somehow and that may have caused a lot less supply to come into the?
U.s.
And I certainly think Trump had a lot to do with that and I think you had a lot to do with that, so I think you deserve some credit for putting pressure on the administration and putting pressure on China.
Good, it seems like it won't take long to uh fix the distribution problem, but this is solved.
And who do we have down here?
Is it Peter?
Yes, this is uh Peter.
I just wanted to say thank you for all the years.
I'm uh here managing two kids and the dog right now as they built train tracks um, but i've been listening to you for pretty much all 10 years.
Or the odd camera angles as I try to keep my kids faces off camera um, but I uh, i'll go off camera um, but i'll finish.
I'll finish this audio.
I've been listening to you for 10 years, pretty much every single day, and there's a, there's a point at which I I tried to stop listening to you because I thought, you know, I need to, I need to diversify who i'm listening to.
You know, listen to different podcasts, etc etc.
And I just I couldn't, I couldn't quit you, Scott.
I kept on coming back and listening to you pretty much every single day.
I, I every every Spotify.
Your year wrapped was sort of boring because it went.
was always in the top 0.1% of listeners to the Scott Adams podcast.
And it's been, it's been amazing to be with you over the past 10 years.
And I just wanted to, you know, thank you for always being true to yourself, not allowing yourself to be bought by any, any interest or any sponsor or any, any media company.
And I think, I think I speak for a lot of people that that's, one of the things that has kept us coming back over the past 10 years is always felt, whether we agreed with you on everything or didn't agree with you on everything, I never had a doubt that you were saying your actual opinion pretty much all the time.
So I very much appreciate that and I'm very appreciative of yeah, just your commitment and consistency and your virtual friendship over the past 10 years.
And with that I'm gonna get back to the kids building choo-choo trains.
well you got your priorities straight i like it let's see i'm gonna go wide here i wonder how long it'll take me to learn this
do we have anybody else that would like to go on i still want to say something but i don't know if it's a good time or not Go ahead, okay um.
Well, thank you Scott, for um, i'm getting to talk to you right now.
I always thought that I was gonna get to to see you someday uh, in person, but i'm.
I'm doing it, you know, through this, and i'm very happy and i'm so happy to meet Shelly, and that's an amazing testament of uh, your awesomeness that uh your, your ex, is there for you right now.
I love that, you know because um, not anybody can can develop that relationship afterwards and and that's amazing that you did that.
So thank you very much.
And um and and yeah you, you taught me that free will is not is an illusion, and that's the one, the most important thing, because now I know that everything around me is affecting my behavior all the time.
So I need to watch out for my uh surroundings and um, that's why you are half of my five people basically, and I don't know what i'm gonna do, you know, without you, because I i'm like a lot of you right now and um, i'm going to learn to be more like like like uh, everybody else too.
So, thank you very much.
And hey Gary, that's Roman Roman hi, Roman.
Well, that's it, Scott.
Thank you very much, and uh, and any advice ever that you have for me or anything, let me know.
Thank you socio, you're the best you know.
There's a half a dozen people who regularly participate and when I don't see all of you I get disappointed.
And uh, there's something more than the news that has developed you, and the part I didn't anticipate is the bonding and the ability to feel like you're part of something, and I think that worked.
It wasn't a top priority or anything, but once it started being a thing, That's the part that seems to be the most powerful.
So, over time, we will put on more of a, you know, what did you learn?
How did you learn it?
And at the moment, it feels appropriate that we're still struggling along and that the struggle is about, you know, how do you make the technology work in a way that works for everybody.
So I hope you can see all the work that gets put into just trying to make this work.
I swear to God, this is probably easy, but not to me.
And I'll say again that the amount of pharmaceutical drugs I had to put into me yesterday so that I could function is the most I remember that.
And just to give you an example, I've got a password that is very easy.
You know, it's not any kind of weird, crazy password.
But with the help of a nurse and about 25 attempts, I could tell her what I wanted.
And the funny thing was, I couldn't spell it.
So my password has.
Let's not talk about your passwords.
Yes, tell us your passwords right now, please.
Yeah, let's not talk about your password too much.
That's why she's here.
I'll just simplify it to say it should have been really, really easy.
But it wasn't like I'm making this up, so you can't really use it.
It'd be like something like I would say, all right, the first part is squirrel.
And I would try to spell it.
It'd be like P J squirrel.
A, is it A and squirrel?
It was the damnedest thing.
I've never been that hallucinic.
That's awesome, Scott.
You deserve the best military grade drugs.
All right, we're going to go back to the past.
Thank you very much.
I'm going to log off now.
I'm going to have others jump in.
Thank you, Scar, for everything.
All right.
I don't know what that means.
Just hit accept.
See if anybody else wants to jump in.
So let's check his.
We got some new people.
Can I make one more comment?
You've been explaining the world to me for the past 10 years, Scott.
And I am quite intimidated at the prospect of not having those daily explanations.
And I'm hoping that this community that you created will somehow step in when you're not there to help understand what's happening in the world.
I mean, I hope you have trained all of us to continue to do that.
What do you say, Shelly?
Oh, I think we did miss a little bit of the beginning of your some technical issues here, but yes, we would, I would love to keep this going.
And, you know, again, we're not tech savvy here.
We hope that we can figure this all out and make this a little bit more smoother process.
I think he's got some great people community here that I think could lead this if we can figure out if we can figure out the technology of it.
Yeah, the beginning of it was that Scott's been explaining the world to me for the past 10 years.
And it is quite daunting to the prospect of not having those daily lessons of exactly what everything means and what's going on.
And again, I'm hoping that this community of people that you have trained over the past years will step in and I guess selfishly continue to help me do that.
I hope so.
I really think we could do it.
It might take a little time, but I think we could do it for sure.
Let's see if Stephen with the headphones on. Can turn it off.
There's a microphone.
Hello, Scott.
My goodness.
I'll add, well, I don't think I can.
I wouldn't be able to probably explain the incredible adventure that has been this entire time that I have had an opportunity to watch you and to learn from you.
Now, I am included, I think, among the slightly older group, Gen Xer and so forth, and would have been one of those Rush Limbaugh babies that somehow migrated their way to your show.
And of course, he was all through high school, basically.
You know, the lunch, I would walk home, run home in order to be able to catch a show in the middle of the day.
And so, you know, he was, you know, he was an uncle type as I was growing up.
Well, naturally, and without any hesitation at all, as soon as I stumbled across you and your show, I immediately realized: okay, you know, this is going to be the next type of person to be able to do that.
And you absolutely did.
And so I admit that I took as much of your advice as I possibly could, that I've tried to get myself in trouble often.
And that I do have a thank you note for you that I made.
And I suppose I could read it.
I don't know how much inside stuff is in here.
It was a long time ago that I wrote this.
But I didn't want to be among the people who would somehow mysteriously find out where you lived and send you things because I was already potentially beginning to garner a reputation for the sort of person that would do that out of malice, which I never would.
It was all it was fun for me.
And so I absolutely enjoyed trying to fail my way to wherever I am now.
And I promise for those five years, it was the adventure.
Well, it's the second adventure of my life.
I've actually retired from the military.
I've been in for 24 years.
So it was a long time.
I've had basically a full career doing all of that stuff.
And then I had a chance to bring whatever that experience was to you and to my life and my family here.
So we go.
Don't know how you'll be able to see it or read it, but thank you.
Yep.
Okay.
Nice.
Nice.
All right.
So oh, yes.
Well, not the thank you part.
No, I basically was using the card, the base of the card, as the thank you foundation for everything.
And then I would either draw or use emojis, whatever.
It just, you know, again, all I did was try to fail my way through trying to trying to copy you, which actually, you know, for most people, I think that the thing they're missing in their life is they don't have a good enough thing to try to copy.
And you can, you can do an awful lot just copying somebody else's really good advice or their behavior.
So that was that's probably what I saw.
You know, Rush, of course, was somebody who much, much more than the political person he became, but he proved to me what happens to someone who actually is an ordinary person who happens to become somewhat successful.
And then they stumble into the political world, and all of a sudden they're either an angel or the devil.
So I wrote you a little joke.
It's based on the experience that I had.
I'll see.
I mean, I can read it.
I don't know how much of it would be understandable, but I happened to write it on Sunday, 3rd of March, 2024, at 1-2-3, 4 p.m. Because numbers mean something, apparently, to some people.
And it's a cat, of course.
It was in a little adventure that I had where there was a cat who was the woman who was always troubling me my entire life, whoever she was.
And so she starts the conversation.
And she says, Stephen, no woman wants a man to run around loving her with all his heart, no matter what.
And because I know that deep down, they don't really want that, although they'll swear up and down if you actually try that they don't like it.
It's true.
Anyhow, then the little character that I had sort of created was a copy again.
Most everything's a copy of maybe two or three things, but he's a little guy who would say, as you so famously did say, what?
Because we know that doesn't make sense.
They all want it.
And then I include a cloud, which to me is the figure that's above us all.
There's a thing that's above us all.
Many people would say it's God.
To me, certainly it is, but to others, maybe not so much.
Doesn't matter.
But if he were in the room, he would have said what to.
And so he would agree with you, as I would.
So, okay, everybody.
That's the trick, I guess, if there is one.
Do whatever you can to run around and love a woman with all your heart, no matter what, and just see what happens.
It'll be the greatest thing that's ever happened.
Thanks, Scott.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Do we have anybody else that wants to come in?
Crawley.
Yes, yes, Crawley.
One of our regulars, which we call the beloveds.
Do we need to accept more, or how do we well?
If we're not bored, yes.
It's a little after.
But you have to approve them.
Oh, yeah, we have to go approve them.
They want to come in.
Let's go prove some more.
Yeah.
Just accept some more.
Just keep scrolling down.
Just keep there.
Just, you know, just keep accepting.
So it looks like it has lived.
Okay.
Okay.
So now we have a bunch of people.
And the showing.
I guess the way I can tell if you want to come up is if you show up on video.
It's just to be So let's say you want I can't see from way over here.
Hi Hi What's your name?
Norm.
Norm.
Hey Norm.
Hey Scott.
Hey Shelly.
How you doing?
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Finally get on here.
Hey.
Hi.
Been a huge follower.
Norm.
Hey, gotcha.
Yep.
You have a big handle behind you.
What are you behind?
Oh, holy shit.
Yeah.
Surprise.
Surprise.
What's your name?
I keep hearing myself over and over again.
All right.
Well, it looks like Norm and flying around here.
Oh.
Hey, Brian.
Maybe that's better.
I think I do that.
You're both on the audio.
Yeah, so who would like to talk?
Well, I heard you talking about mortgage bonds, and I'm in the mortgage business, so I figured I'd jump on because I'm pretty pumped about Trump's buying the mortgage-backed securities.
That'll definitely pump the rates down.
Now, explain to us like we're done how that will help.
Okay, so the last time that the government bought mortgage-backed securities, which is the bonds they're talking about, was after the 2008 housing crisis.
So what happens is that these bonds are available for, like, think of it like a mutual fund or a stock, but they're not very attractive because they don't give high rates of returns like the stock market and other mutual funds.
So no one really buys them.
So if no one buys them, there's not a demand for them.
So the only way to get a demand is the rates go up to make it appealing to an investor.
You know, they want 7%, 8% return on their money at least.
So because there's no demand for them, their rates will go up.
But once there's a demand, meaning when the country starts buying in that amounts, it pushes the rates down because now they're being bought by someone, in this case, the government.
So it's the government's way of manipulating the rates to go down when the Fed doesn't want to lower them.
So because he's going back and forth with Powell, and Powell won't lower the rates.
The way the government can do that is actually buy the bonds itself in large quantities like it is.
And as long as he keeps buying them, the rates will go down and go down and go down because someone, because now he's created an interest, so to speak, by manipulating the system.
Only been done once before, and it was Obama did it a lot in 2008 to keep the rates down when the Fed didn't want to lower it.
And that's when rates are like 3%, 4%.
Did it work?
Yeah, oh, yeah, it worked.
It was one of the biggest mortgage booms, you know, in history, besides the one we've just recently had with COVID.
COVID was the largest rate reduction when it was 2% or 3%.
But yeah, I mean, the rates went down to 3 or 4%.
I've been in mortgages for 35 years and been watching, been reading your column for about the same amount of time and totally can understand the whole corporate culture.
It made me want to open my own business so I didn't have to answer to anyone.
Nice.
But yeah, it worked and it will work.
Thank you for sharing that.
Yeah, and look forward to your future streams.
But I don't want to take everyone's turn.
Isn't there a projection that we'll have a 5.4 GDP?
I'm not familiar with the gross domestic product, but I know the numbers came out recently.
Yes, today the unemployment is going down, which always helps.
I mean, at the end of the day, all the numbers are in line for lower rates, but it's became a political thing with Powell and Trump where Powell just won't lower the rates.
Or if he does lower them, in his comments that he does to the people, he'll put something like, this doesn't guarantee they'll be cut the next time.
So he does all the right wording just to keep the rates high.
Wow.
Correct, Scott.
You're correct.
The Atlanta Fed nearly doubled their Q4 growth estimate to 5.4% from 2.9% for GDP.
Wow.
Geiger Capital described it as a massive expansion, largely attributable to the narrowing trade deficit.
And that was another story that the trade deficit has been slashed to like as low as it's been since 2009.
So the trade deficit is way down.
And the quote from Geiger Capital is, we're running it hot.
Get on board.
I don't think I've ever seen that in my lifetime.
Have I 5.4 GGP?
I don't think so.
That's incredibly high.
I could ask Grock to see if it can tell me when we've had that before, but I don't recall that ever in my lifetime.
Oh, do that.
See what I'm saying?
It'll take a minute.
Who do we have on the screen?
Who's the other person on the screen here?
Oh, hi.
I'm Brian.
I'm not sure if you can hear me.
We can hear you.
Oh, good.
Hi, Scott.
Hi, Shelly.
Hope you have a good day.
And I thought that a week ago, well, gosh, never met or chatted with Scott directly.
Hope to see you on the other side.
But now I hope that's a long time from now.
But anyway, been a Dilbert fan since the early 90s when I was in engineering school.
And at least, I don't know when the book came out, What Would Wally Do?
But in the early 90s, you know, when we were out working on a lab, something might set something on fire.
We had an inflection point.
And so, well, what would Wally do?
And that became the catchphrase, at least for my senior year in college.
And then, you know, I, of course, read your books and, you know, got busy with a family for 20 years.
And then, you know, 2015 rolled around with Trump and things got weird.
And I'd always voted Republican, except for when I voted for Perot, so you can blame Bill Clinton on me.
But then I was really confused.
I don't have an engineering background, legal background, analyze things for a living.
And I really was not understanding what I was seeing.
And I paid more and more attention.
And I lived in Connecticut at the time.
And in 2016, I guess we moved to Minnesota, which is great freaking timing to move to Minnesota after it started its decline.
But 2016 rolls around and I really don't understand what I'm seeing.
And all I could think of was, well, Trump's trying to get attention or something.
I don't think any of this is real.
And I was confused until I saw the cover of the Winn Bigley book with Dogbrick with the Trump here.
Didn't understand what it was about, but I said, I need to own that.
And that was eye-opening for me.
Must have been 2016.
And read Cialdini's books after that.
And I actually reached out to Childini with a poster of my daughter.
I took the teachings and put it on a big poster board, a complete BS of persuasion, to help her sell Girl Scout cookies.
Pictures of this, which is funny.
Cialdini writes back and said that made me laugh out loud and told him how much I liked his books.
And I was able to mail them to him in influence and presuasion.
He signed them and sent them back.
So those are two of my more cherished possessions.
But I really, I don't know how I would have gotten through the last 10 years without your filter.
Because once I read your book and started listening to your podcasts on Periscope, everything made sense and it has ever since.
So thank you for that.
And then the last thing I would like to thank you for is: I think during one of your streams where you were drawing Dilbert's a few years ago, I had you laughing pretty good at some of my suggestions because of the asinine life I experienced at many law firms, but in particular the one I was at at that time that I've since left.
And I'm proud to say that a couple of my suggestions made it into one or two panels of a couple of Dilbert strips that appeared not long after that.
So those are two of my most prized possessions.
I keep those printed out at the office.
Anybody asks, I'm like, well, this is how this came to be.
And then they call me a racist.
And I say, thank you.
but thank you for everything are you in the gym are you at a gym or is that your oh no this is my man cave um i have uh My wife lets me use the part of the basement of our house that's on the other side of a garage.
And I have packed my entire life into this room and weight equipment in the garage as well, along with radio control cars and college banners and a proud MIT graduate.
And that's me.
I probably could have guessed you were an MIT graduate.
But you're the first one I've seen who doesn't wear glasses.
I use glasses for driving.
I'll probably need them for reading in not very long.
Yeah, but for now.
But for now, I don't need them.
MIT was an amazing experience.
And law school after that was kind of like a vacation.
I just went to Boston College Law School in the late 90s.
And our class was 55% women.
I just kind of kicked back and had fun before spending the last 25 years getting ground through nine or ten different law firms.
You're telling me the MIT was 55% women?
Boston College Law School.
MIT was a sword fight.
Kind of leave it there.
But it was a great, both were a great experience, but for different reasons.
I did nuclear fusion at MIT, and then there were no jobs in Fusion back then, which should not be a surprise.
And then I went to law school after that.
Wow.
What was the coolest thing you invented that we don't know about?
Oh, I don't know.
I didn't end up on the patent because I didn't understand how patents worked back then, but I worked on a microwave emissions metals monitor in grad school.
And the idea was it was similar to the idea if you go to an analytical lab these days and you want to find out how many parts per million of some metal or in a solution, they'll nebulize it and run it through this little thing called an inductively coupled plasma.
And they can get very accurate readings down to like parts per million.
Whether you go to like a polymer's lab or whatever, you want to find out how much metal is in a plastic.
That's how you do it.
But we were trying to use a more robust version of a like a tabletop plasma.
That was a microwave-induced plasma, which is like a big rectangular wavegun with a hole through the end, and you shoot air through the end, turn on the microwaves, and you have something that looks like a little torch.
And then what we would do is we would take effluent from an exhaust stream, run it through the plasma, and then we would have fiber optics that would view the light that was emitted from the plasma.
What would happen is if you had a metal particle flying through the gas, it would get the electrons in the outer shells would get excited.
And then when they came back down within a fraction of a millisecond, it would give off light at a certain frequency and wavelength.
And you would detect that so you could figure out in real time what was going through the gas stream.
The problem was we could never really quantify it to say that, oh, you know, there's this much, you know, going that went through.
My master's thesis concerned that topic.
And, you know, we did the best we could.
It was very sensitive, so you could tell if something was going through it and when.
But that was about it.
And so there was a patent for that.
And I made a couple of minor contributions to it, but didn't end up on the patents.
But that's okay because it never got commercialized.
Did anybody notice me falling asleep?
Yeah, I was very, I'm sure you're very excited by that.
And I apologize.
Oh, not because of your story.
It's definitely not because of your story.
Okay.
So it looks like we have.
What is your name, Michael?
Michael, turn off your microphone.
Turn on, you mean?
Turn on your microphone.
Oh, can't hear you.
Not yet.
Not yet.
Turn on your microphone.
Whoops.
All right.
Who do we have here?
I can't see the name.
What's your name?
About Patty.
Patty, is this Patty?
Hello, can you hear me?
Yes, we can hear you.
I am so excited to talk to you.
Good morning.
I said yesterday, after lunch, which I couldn't participate in yesterday, I was at work.
And as the live stream closed, I said, tomorrow I'm going to talk to Scott Adams.
And I've spent the last hour trying to figure out how to get the link.
And I finally figured it out.
And I've had so many interruptions in my home.
And I was like, I am determined.
I'm going to talk to Scott today.
Well, here's your chance.
Here you are.
You said something on your show the other day I wanted to address and I don't expect a response because this is a private thing for you but I do want to comment.
People were suggesting titles for your book, I believe.
And one of them was Escape from Prisoner Island.
And you said, I didn't escape.
And I thought, if you convert to Christianity, you escape.
Oh, Jesus said he came to set the captives free, and I just wanted to tell you that, because the minute you said it I thought no no no, you did escape.
And uh well, we'll find out what escape means.
Well yeah, that is true.
So you have.
You have just been a joy for all of us.
I've followed Dilbert from the very beginning.
I used to think, I wonder what kind of person writes this because he makes me laugh every day.
I have two Dilbert comics on my wall at work.
My boss comes in and laughs about them and he doesn't realize that they're about him.
I'm sure you hear that a lot.
Yep.
And you are the highlight of my morning, every morning.
Thank you for that.
Well, thank you for noticing.
You've changed my life.
Now, how does a comic change your life?
Well, it's not because you're a comic.
It's, I think, because you're a sage.
Oh, thank you.
Did we figure out how to get our mic on there?
I'm talking to Michael.
Well, he's no, we still can't hear you.
So, Michael, there is a microphone on your side that must be activated.
And you can talk at the same time as Patty.
It won't cut you off.
So, Patty, was there anything else you'd like to add?
Well, Michael was looking for his microphone.
Oh, I hope Michael finds his microphone.
It's down at the bottom, Michael.
It is at the bottom on the left.
You have to press it a few times.
Just jump in with a follow-up I asked Rock about the GDP rate.
There actually have been several times when it's been higher than 5.4%, but it's always been during an economic recovery.
So if you remember the early 80s and the late 90s, when we were really hot in the economy.
Of course, the late 90s was right before the dot-com bust.
But those are the only times it's been that way.
The only other really exceptional one is in the pandemic recovery.
It got really high, even 34% one quarter.
But that's kind of an anomaly.
All right.
So, Michael, you might be dyslexic because you could because you're using microphone with video.
So, one of them should be off.
I thought of something else I'd love to tell you, Scott.
Yeah, go ahead, Patty.
I have a teenage grandson that is, he's very insecure.
He just has a lot of issues going on.
And he was with me recently.
And I, you know, teenagers are, they love anime and Marvel comics and all of the superhero movies.
And I said, I said to him, hey, would you like to have a superpower?
And of course, he was like, yeah, of course.
We all want to have a superpower.
And I said, well, here's a superpower that you can have.
You become unembarrassable.
And I said, think about it, Brenner.
If I'm sorry, I wasn't going to use his name, but I said, think about it.
If you could have anything happen to you in your life and you do not, it's impossible for you to become embarrassed.
You will have a superpower.
And he started thinking about that.
And we talked about it a lot.
And he really loved the idea.
And I told him where I got the idea. was from Scott Adams and the creator of a very famous comic called Dilbert.
And he, I said that you'd written several books.
And so he asked if he could have one of your books.
And I'm going to give, what would you suggest for a teenager?
How to fail at anything?
Yes.
So from age of 14 on, how to fail with almost everything is someone big.
Okay.
He's 13.
So on his 14th birthday, I'll give him that book.
And thank you for that.
That would be kind of a tie between Winn Biggly and Reframe Your Brain.
I love Reframe Your Brain.
You know, I've done reframing since I was a kid.
A teacher read some books to us about a character named Mrs. Pigglewiggle.
I don't know if you've ever heard of her.
I've not.
And I used those kind of as an inspiration when I was a kid that I would create a reframe situation where I was, my mom would tell me to go clean my room.
And I didn't want to clean my room.
But I would pretend that if I didn't get it done in a certain amount of time, that a wicked witch was going to come in and cast a spell on me.
And I would get it done.
And I would have fun doing it because I know there was no wicked witch coming, but it was a fun pretend game.
And I did that with all kinds of areas in my life.
And so when the reframe book came out, it just made so much sense to me.
And I really love it.
I read it frequently and I just pick it up for a daily tip of the day.
I really like it.
Thank you for that.
Good.
That's the order I like to hear that being read in.
So we should probably close down.
But not before we give Michael one more chance.
Yeah, where's Michael?
Where are you?
Michael.
Looks like he has something else to do.
Sean and Corey.
All right.
I think we've done all we can do today.
I apologize again for falling asleep on camera, but I warned you.
I warned you.
This is the most medicated I've ever been in my life.
It was a wild trip.
So thanks for sticking in there.
And I will soon figure out how to train you to have more interesting dreams.