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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I see Steven and Rick and Gunnar.
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Shout out, Andy. Andy. Good morning, YouTube. Good morning, Rumble. Hi, X. You guys, it's a Monday morning. You can see we have a special guest with us, but we can't do anything until we sip. So let's get into it with a sip clip. Ready?
Hey, everybody. Come on in. It's time. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams. In a moment, I'm going to be introducing a special guest whose book, Red November, already in the top 10 of a lot of its categories on Amazon, I was noticing. And it's only just out today, I believe. We'll be talking to Joel Pollack in a little bit, should my technology work the way I'd like it to.
But before that, yeah, before that, we have to do some to your life a little bit. It's called a simultaneous sip, makes everything better.
And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or gels, there's nine that can be a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid, I like coffee.
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Chapter 2: How does the Visual Writing Method enhance creativity?
And I actually wrote a book. It's an e-book on Amazon called How to Write. And I have my own method for writing. I have terrible writer's block. I had an incredibly difficult time when I was at college writing my senior thesis because I would stare at the blank page for days on end and think of all the things I needed to say, but I had no idea how to say them. And I got very little guidance.
My thesis advisor said, well, make an outline and then just write point by point to the outline. But that didn't seem right to me. And in the end, I finished. But I wrote a massive amount overnight. And it was an incredibly awful experience. And I just decided I never wanted to repeat that again.
So I came up with some writing techniques and one of them is called the visual block method, which I can explain another time. You'll see a little bit of it here in what I'm about to show you. But one of the other things I started doing was writing longhand. I don't do that for every book I write, but.
I find that producing a physical product, pen on paper, ink on paper, motivates you to keep writing. And it doesn't matter if what you write is nonsensical, out of order, disorganized. When you write on paper, you know you're going to have to come back and do another draft. So you take the pressure off. And you just write whatever needs to be said.
And you discover what needs to be said in the course of writing. So you know you're going to come back and fix it. You just get everything out on the page. And it keeps you going from one page to the next, one day to the next. So this is my longhand so far of Scott's biography. Now, if you can't read any of it, don't worry about that. It's all in my scrawling cursive writing.
You can see a little bit of my visual block method because I've got each page divided into sections. paragraphs are four lines each on this particular notebook. Sometimes it's three lines each. But I basically write visually. I write according to blocks that I create on the page. And that's great because it motivates you to fill the block. If you don't know what you're saying, you fill the block.
If you have too much to say, you trim it to fill the block. And it just keeps you going from one idea to the next. So this is the early draft of Scott's biography that I'm working on. And I try to go topic by topic.
I may rearrange these as I go, but I'm at the point in the draft where I've worked through Scott's early life and his career in banking in the Bay Area, moving on to Dilbert and then moving on to other businesses that he started, like his restaurants, which he talks about in some of his books and he spoke about often in his live stream. and other ventures that he did.
And now I'm moving into some of Scott's theological views, which I think are very important to some of his other views. So this, of course, is Scott's famous book, God's Debris, which I have with me here.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of reality filters in perception?
And once you get yourself in the habit of doing it, eventually it becomes something bigger. It becomes more rewarding. And that's a lesson you can apply to a lot of other things in life. What I want to talk about in terms of the reframe has a little bit to do with what I mentioned before about the challenges of managing workload and work-life balance and all of that.
When I think of Scott's lessons, Scott taught us how to apply different filters to reality. So we all understand reality through a filter. I've got CNN on on my TV here in the hotel room, and their filter is completely different from Fox's. The ICE incidents, for example, CNN sees it through a Nazi fascism filter that this is the American version of fascism.
We have the secret police arriving in communities and dragging people away and demanding to see their papers and taking children and all kinds of things. That's the CNN narrative. And they allow a little bit of diversity around that viewpoint. But essentially, you're forced to talk within that narrative. If you go to Fox News, the narrative is very different. This is law enforcement.
It is a filter of fulfilling campaign promises, securing the border, making America safe. And there you can talk about the dramatic drop in crime since the ICE enforcement started because crime has fallen everywhere. It's not something that one mayor is doing or one governor. It really is about the national policy of rolling out ICE. And talk about commitment that Trump made.
Voters are getting what they voted for. And this is all building up toward the midterm elections. And as Scott often noted, traditionally, the party out of power does better in midterm. So you'd expect Democrats to do well in the midterm elections unless something big happens and something might happen.
But we all have different filters, which is the point of this little digression into the news and. We can choose our filters. This is Scott's point. So if you want to live in the world where we're governed by a Nazi regime and you have to be afraid everywhere you go, you can live in that world. However, that world might not correspond to reality.
And you might consider a more productive filter, which is the other side's filter, which is the law enforcement filter, that if you obey the law, things will generally go pretty well with you. Or you can take a completely different filter, which is that I don't have any power as an individual citizen to have any impact whatsoever on these things. They don't really affect my life.
So I'm going to adapt a completely different filter that focuses on what I can do today. I don't have to get directed into this political conversation. I take an interest in politics. I know what's going on, but I turn the sound down. I scan the headlines. I don't have to read the articles. You take a different filter. But the point is, Choose a filter that helps you, helps you achieve something.
The best filter isn't necessarily the one that corresponds to the facts. It's the one that helps you get where you're going. And I've really struggled in recent days with the workload that I have. The California Post is an amazing publication, but unlike where I worked for 15 years, Breitbart News, the California Post is not just online.
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Chapter 4: How can time management be reframed for better productivity?
So I had to take him there. That was about a 40 minute trip from our house. Then I had my daughter's rock and roll concert. She's in the School of Rock program. So we had to come back from baseball practice in time to see my daughter perform Nirvana. She's very good. She was excellent. It was also her birthday, so I did not want to miss her concert on her birthday.
And in the midst of all that, I'm trying to work. And that would be a challenge even if I lived in L.A. It's not just a D.C. versus L.A. thing. It's not just a remote work thing. If I were in L.A., if we all lived in L.A. and we will again one day soon, hopefully, but if we were all in one place, I'd still be managing that challenge because I have children and I love my children.
I love my family life. It's the reason I do everything I do. So I would have had that really tough balance to strike. And it was exasperating. It was really, really difficult. And it wasn't as if yesterday was extraordinary yesterday. in any other real way. Because even though my daughter had this concert, it's not like Sunday is a free day.
She also has rehearsals on Sunday when she doesn't have a concert. So I've got to run around. We have four children. So my wife and I often split them up and we do different things with different kids. We don't really have a choice of leaving all the kids with one person or another, except my wife is very indulgent because she lets me do this bi-coastal thing. So she's got the kids now.
When she's away, I watch all the kids. She was in the Navy Reserve for 11 years. So I often had the children to watch although we had fewer of them so maybe it was a little bit easier but it's it's a challenge it's a massive challenge and and you start to have very negative thoughts. And the thoughts you have are things like, this is why Americans don't have kids. It's just so hard.
Work is hard. It's incredibly difficult to balance all these things. We can't afford a nanny right now. So how do we go forward? I mean, we have the situation we have. We'll just manage it. But you can see why people on the outside looking in might think this is not really something I can afford to do or want to do. And you really just can pull yourself into a complete funk.
And it happens every single day because you have childcare responsibilities, family responsibilities every day. And if it's not the children, it's the groceries, it's cleaning up the house, it's doing whatever you have to do. Sometimes it's something unexpected, an illness, or God forbid, a car accident. These things happen and you have to manage them alongside all the other things you have to do.
So I remembered an important thought that I had a few years ago, and I think it's a reframe. And Scott didn't use this one, but I think this thought falls into the category of Scott Adams reframe type of ideas. And that is that sometimes managing feels like not managing. That is to say, you can be managing a situation and you feel like you're not managing it, like everything's out of control.
Things are spinning to the side. You feel miserable. You're upset. You don't know how you can go on. But you come to the end of the day and you look back at the end of the day and actually you finished all your work. Your kids all got to their events on time, maybe a minute or two late here and there. But everybody's safe. Everybody got dinner and eventually everybody's in bed.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the data center construction boom?
So you manage the other six days. But in addition to that, when you're in the thick of it, don't panic if it doesn't feel right. Because managing sometimes feels like not managing. And when you think about that reframe, it really helps you understand that what you're doing could be objectively right and objectively successful, even if what you're feeling subjectively doesn't feel that way.
Now, there are some situations where that feeling of being out of control is something you want to pay attention to. Maybe you are doing too much or maybe things are too difficult or maybe you need to change the system you use to run your day or maybe you need to change jobs or you need to figure out another arrangement. So don't ignore that signal.
But you're going to have that signal even when you're succeeding. And that's especially true of parents with kids. Kids are wonderful, but they also do random things at random times. Random things happen to them. You can't control when a baby gets sick. You can't control when a kid gets hurt or a teenager comes home in a bad mood or they get a bad grade at school or whatever it is.
You have to accept that certain things are beyond your control. And so you're going to feel out of control a lot of the time. I'll just close with this. There's a thought that I have now as I'm telling you this. There's this great movie with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton, the late Diane Keaton, Parenthood. A lot of other great actors in the movie as well.
But there's a scene where Steve Martin dies.
argues about whether the carnival ride that's best is the roller coaster or the merry-go-round the roller coaster is scary it goes up and down but it's thrilling the merry-go-round just goes in one direction and you might get a little dizzy it's a little boring but it's always the same and he decides that the merry-go-round is better he's just so stressed out so many kids so many challenges
And there's a scene later in the movie where his kid starts destroying the school play on stage. His kid is causing chaos. And the camera starts rolling as if he's on a roller coaster. And eventually, instead of looking around in absolute horror at the destruction his child is causing on stage and terrified of where this roller coaster is taking him, he starts laughing and enjoying the ride.
And I think that's the transition that we have to try to make. And I have to try to do it again today. I don't know if I'm going to succeed, but I think that reframe is just one to keep in mind. It has helped me in the past that sometimes when you are managing, it feels like you're not. So that's my reframe.
That's amazing. I love that, Joel. And I think a lot of us are feeling that way too. I don't have kids and I don't know how anyone does it with kids. I swear I give you guys so much credit because I can't imagine adding another kid one human life to take care of. So that's crazy good advice, you guys. I know you have a hard out.
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Chapter 6: How are fraudulent science papers impacting research integrity?
I have a quick question for you. Oh yeah, quick question on Joe. What is your percentage, your slaughter meter percentage for the midterms? That was one thing that Scott will do for us.
And I don't know who's going to slaughter who, but what are your... I would say right now there's a 75% chance that Republicans get slaughtered in the midterms. But that doesn't mean it's going to happen that way. And I'm focusing on California, and I think there are going to be some important changes in California.
But I think, look, the party that's out of power is always much more motivated to vote. It doesn't really even matter what the issues are. I mean, the issues can be completely made up nonsense. But if people have a sense that they don't control anything in government, they don't control their own lives, and they get frightened and told you have to go to the polls to change that, then they go.
It's I've just lived through so many of these cycles now that you laugh at the reasons people give for what they're doing. I mean, take the phrase drain the swamp, for example. OK, Donald Trump drained the swamp. You know who said drain the swamp first? It was Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in 2006. They swept to power in Congress by promising to drain the swamp. Now, people went to the polls.
Democrats went to the polls. 2006. We're going to drain the swamp. We're going to drain the swamp. As soon as they got power, the swamp was bigger and badder than ever before. And, you know, people just vote based on things that, as Scott would say, are often a fake because they cite reasons. They'll say ICE or whatever.
But if you actually ask someone who's really opposed to ICE, and you don't have to agree with everything ICE is doing, but if you ask someone, well, we have borders, right? You have to have borders. So how do you have a secure border if you can't patrol the border and also if you can't
enforce immigration laws for people to overstay their visas or aren't here legally, there really is no substitute. You need to have some kind of law enforcement that does it. You might not, again, you might not like the way ICE is doing it. I don't want to get into that debate, but the idea of abolishing ICE, which is motivating so many people right now, is just crazy. It's crazy.
And if you point to one Trump accomplishment, I mean, if you don't believe he accomplished anything else, One massive Trump accomplishment is he closed the border. He actually closed the border. So are you now telling voters you're going to open it up again? Do you think people want that? I don't think people want that.
I think people want a legal immigration system that works and they want some humane approaches to people who've been here for a long time and maybe we can integrate people into our society. People might have different ideas about that. But do you really want to open up the border again to millions of people coming from all over the world?
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Chapter 7: What recent developments are there regarding biolabs and public safety?
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Thanks, Joel. Oh, you guys, I love Joel. So listen, we're going to talk more news in a minute, and I'm going to just play something for you quick. Let me just turn this light off because it's bright. And I'll post it after the show so you guys can all have it. But thank you to anyone who did send some clips. And Jay Plemons, thank you for making this for us.
But you guys, I think you're going to love this. And I will post it after, okay? Ready?
I've actually been crying. I've been laughing so hard. I've been laughing for 10 minutes straight since I saw this. George Filippopoulos, a newscaster, would hinge on several factors. One, source of information. Viewers might be more inclined to trust his statements. Conversely, if he has been wrong before or shown bias, viewers might question his claims. Three, context of the information.
I'm sorry. His frequency would make his assertion seem less credible or might suggest that he is part of a broader misinformation. From a storytelling perspective, whether George is portrayed as a credible newscaster or as someone engaged in gaslighting. I've watched this thing probably 15 times I Literally cry every time I watch it like tears just shoot out of my eyes against my glasses.
Oh My god, do you guys love that whoo nothing better good
That was awesome.
I think Jay is the bomb. You guys, if you're not following Jay Plemons, please do. And if you guys are hearing this, could you drop Jay's name in the chat for everybody to follow? He's at Jay Plemons and he's just so good to us. And, um, I needed that laugh that we could probably have when that's like 25 minutes long with all of the laughing, but that was amazing.
All right, so I'm going to just say let's go with the news, Owen, and I know you dug up a bunch of great stories.
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Chapter 8: How is the anti-ICE movement influencing local politics?
For sure.
That's a good point, because even if we were talking about if Owen should do, you know, the drum voice or just say it, he doesn't need to do the accent because the writing itself is voicey. That's true. Yes. I'm glad you did your own Owen.
Although we would want Owen to do a little bit of Trump.
Maybe I'll work on it. I'm not very good at it right now, but I can practice. All right. So going to a little bit of science, there's a story about used concrete lasting up to 100 years in new buildings. So apparently you're going to start seeing used concrete blocks. It says that old concrete slabs in new buildings can be used for 50 to 100 more years.
It'll cut emissions and waste in construction. Apparently they analyze buildings in Sweden and Finland with computer simulations with simulated threats. And it says their lifespan was 50 to 100 years. I think this is based on having some kind of silicone-based coating to cut corrosion up to 70%. So it sounds like they're trying to reuse their cement and their concrete.
Not sure if I'd really want to get used concrete in my building, but... I guess it's a good thing. So there's some science for you. Apparently on the AI front or the data center front, Meta is spending $6 million on TV ads that is claiming that data centers bring jobs. And they use an example of Altoona, Iowa. Amazon's running similar ads in Virginia saying data centers connect us to the world.
Apparently it's this big blitz of lobbying and advertising to try and convince everyone that data centers are good for you. So there's a quote, one executive said, if we're going to spend tens of billion dollars this year on capital projects, we probably should spend tens of millions of dollars on messaging.
And this is also probably in response to the fact that over two dozen projects have been blocked or delayed this month. They're also targeting lawmakers with their messaging. Trump had come out already and said that big tech needs to pay their own way. And then someone named Diane Poppins warned Trump
What I very much worry about with this ad campaign is localities committing to this industry and then saying in 10 years, what have we done to ourselves? So if you didn't notice the SIOP, it's coming soon to an outlet near you that big tech is going to try and convince you you should have more data centers in your backyard. So look out for that.
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