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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
And the mute is at the bottom of your screen. Akira, say okay so I know. I think he can't hear us. Oh, shoot. Okay, are we live? Let's see. Yeah, we're live. Good morning, everybody. Let's make sure YouTube's coming in. Good morning. Good morning. Beverly. I see Beverly. Crusher. Babe. I'm going to put YouTube on and just double check. You guys, good morning.
If Akira is listening on the live, he might be a little bit delayed. Okay, so. All right, I see us now. All right, you guys, welcome. We had a little technical difficulty. We're getting Akira in from Mexico, which, you know, it took a second. We've got it now. So welcome in, you guys. I think everyone's had time to file in. Let me just check everywhere.
We don't want you guys to miss a second of this today. My name is Erica, and we're here with Marcella and Shelly and Owen Gregorian, and we have our beautiful Sergio, and we have- Yes. Okay. And we have a special guest with us today, Akira the Don, who we're going to introduce you to in a minute.
I just want to remind you guys that we welcome you to the Scott Adams School, which is different than Coffee with Scott Adams. Coffee with Scott Adams lives on its own. There's thousands of hours of Scott. teaching, talking, persuading, calming us down, and making us laugh. So please know that those videos are there for you always.
The Scott Adams School continues on as Scott wished for us to commune, have a sip together. keep the community together, bring on amazing guests for you and lots of fun. So we're going to do that today. And Shelly's going to play a clip for us first, and then we'll all hit mute. And then we'll actually leave the screen. We'll leave Akira there if he wants to stay.
And we'll come back after the clip is over. Okay, so enjoy. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
But if you'd like this experience to rise to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous that happens now. Go. Join me. I hate this song. Shut up, Dale. Join me. Sing along. You know what. Okay, I freaking love this. This is from Akira the Don. A-K-I-R-A the Don. D-O-N. You'll find him on Twitter and all over the internet, I guess.
was nice enough to make this autotuned version of my theme song. And I have to say, when I first saw it, I was like, oh, this is going to be, you know, I'm not going to like this. I actually can't stop listening to it. It's really good. It's got levels to it. It's pretty awesome. Akira. That was so confusing. I wasn't expecting that.
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Chapter 2: How does Akira the Don create his music?
which was to be basically a recording artist to have a song. And he has many, and it's all thanks to you. So welcome to the school. He has so many that will exist in the future because he wrote so many. He wrote so many incredible bangers. He would do a live stream, and he'd be chatting about the news. Then he would drop what, to me, is an incredible banger just casually.
the middle of it actually often towards the end but just like perfectly formed in like little sort of like two three minute chunks that are perfect for songs it was incredible really were you a scott adams listener a sipper and is that how you came to him because i know you also have uh clips with jordan peterson and other folks so tell us how you came to find scott
But I always knew Scott because Scott was always around in the world. You know, he was one of those sort of omniscient beings of a kind in the human realm. So I was aware of his cartooning work because I liked cartoons and I drew my own comic books. And then I was aware of him as a blogger when he was blogging because I was kind of in that world.
I was blogging and putting mixtapes and things online from sort of 2000 or something. And... I read his book, how to lose everything, almost everything and still win big. And that was very, very influential on me in lots and lots of different ways, which I could talk about for hours and hours and hours.
And around that time, I think I was reading his blog and then he started doing those periscopes and I would watch those. So yeah, I've been, I've had Scott Adams in my life for a long, long, long, long time. And he was very influential on my life. I love that. Oh, and, So how do you think Scott did influence you? What did you take away from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big?
Well, that one specifically, there was quite a lot in that. One thing that was specific to what I'm doing here was him talking about affirmations. Which I was doing. And so here's the thing. So I was aware of the concept of affirmations, which is essentially communicating a desire or will or what have you to the subconscious.
I had previously experimented with that as a young child via means of things like prayer, which is one way of thinking about it. Um, and in earlier years, uh, there's a thing called chaos magic, which I was aware of through a friend of mine. Well, a guy who I was a fan of, he became a friend of mine, a writer called Grant Morrison, uh, who was a chaos magician at chaos within chaos magic.
There's a practice. where you take a desire or something and to communicate it to the subconscious mind, you turn it into a sigil. And a sigil would be, say, you would take your desire, I want my cat to go to the moon, and you would remove all the repeating glasses and you would remove the A's and the E's and so on and so forth.
And then what you're left with, you'd make into a little squiggle, a little glyph, and that would be your sigil. And then you would sort of meditate upon that in various ways. And the point of that was to communicate to the subconscious mind. Um, so I was aware of that kind of concept, but Scott's sort of quite simple version of it.
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Chapter 3: What role do affirmations play in Akira's music?
So my question is, are you is that you singing on them like the best part of my day? Is that you? Well, you're making me want to cry with that one. That one just, Oh, um, it's so soulful. And, um, your voice is also beautiful. And what about the illustrations that are happening? Where do those come from? Yeah. Like I said, I always did. Um, that's you. So I was, yeah, I do everything. Wow.
Um, for the most part, sometimes I, sometimes I work with other people. There was, um, the first Scott album, um, I hired a comic book artist to do that. That was Tommy Patterson, who sadly passed last year, drew the Game of Thrones comics, if anyone ever read those. He was great. And he loved Scott. He was a big fan of Scott. And he was really excited to work on it because he was a big fan.
But I tend to do most of the stuff. I write all the music, produce all the music, play all the music, record all the music, do all the singing, do all the artwork, font layouts, video editing, all the stuff.
As Scott said, it's a sort of unique talent stack I acquired, which meant that I could do this very specifically at a very high level, and only I could do it, because it was only me that had got The specific interests, the specific skills, the specific background, the training. I was a rapper, producer, all this stuff. All combined to being able to do this meaning wave thing.
And meaning waves, your brand, your company? Yeah, that's the brand. That's the name of the music. That's the style of the music, which we worked out. Someone worked out. It wasn't me, but it's technically a psychotechnology. It's a kind of technology that interfaces with the mind. Ooh, imagine that in the clubs. That would be amazing. It works. It's good in the clubs.
I was a DJ on Hollywood Boulevard for many years until Tom Hanks' disease hit. And I would play, you know, high-level club places. You'd have, like, the Jenners and The Weeknd and all these people hanging around. And I would sneak in the early Meaningwave songs. What's Tom Hanks' disease, Akira? Oh, yeah, there you go. What is it? It's COVID. COVID. Oh, cuz he got COVID. Gotcha. Okay.
I was like, the original name for it. It was. Yeah, Norm Macdonald named it. Like, the role hangs who did the rollout. It was like, you know, people have seen a few videos of people falling over in the street. I know. And then suddenly Tom Hanks steps up and he's like, I have the thing. Yeah. I was like, Oh, shit. Norm was like, Tom Hanks disease. Oh, Norm, RIP.
Akira, it looks like you want to play some songs for us. Are you going to play a few songs for us? I mean, I could, technically. That wasn't... Oh, okay. You just looked like you were prepared to... I'm always ready. It's important to be ready. What does it play so? Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. So I'm always ready. I love that. This is where I hang out. This is my studio.
The bit that's got a camera facing it is the DJ set up. When I do live streams, it is in the context of doing this and talking. I have a question actually for you, Shelley. Did Scott play these for you? Was he running around? Oh, yes. He's like, oh, did you hear the latest one? He would play them all the time.
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Chapter 4: How did Akira's experiences shape his music career?
Well, we would love to hear something if you could play something for us. I tell you, I could play something, which is a new one, which I was just finishing up last night. This isn't the final mix, but yeah, this will be the next single with Scott. First time you guys have debuted, this will be the next single coming out. So you're going to hear it first on the Scott Adams call.
It will be a little different because this isn't sort of final mix and master. But if you don't know what that is, you have a song and you make the song and then you'll do slight adjustments to sort of EQ little sound levels. This thing a little bit louder, this little thing a little bit quieter. It's kind of like the final coat of paint on a house or something. Some people don't notice at all.
I spend as much time on the final process as the early process. I had very little knowledge of this until I went to, there was something called the Prince Experience. I'm a big Prince fan and my wife got me tickets to this Prince Experience when it came to Chicago. And they had a room in there where you could mix a song.
And so it was just like moving the levels up and down for each of the instruments and each of the tracks. So you were playing with the master. Yeah. by making the bass louder or softer or changing the levels. And it was interesting to see all the different sounds he could make. And the crazy difference something like that makes.
Prince, for example, what was the song where he just decided to take the bass out at the last minute? Yeah, that's When Doves Cry. And that was a really innovative thing. I think that was the first time anyone did that. And I don't even know how many people have done it since, but it certainly makes a big difference. Yeah, it makes a big difference. Well, bass is like half of a song.
Like technically on the frequency range, bass occupies almost half of the entire frequency range of a song, which would be the lower half, because that's down there. And you remove that, it makes a wild difference. You know, I know this like, just DJing, I remember one time I was DJing at this place on Hollywood Boulevard and the sub went out in the club.
The sub is the bit that transmits the lower end of the music. And without the sub, everyone suddenly stopped dancing. It's the sub, it's the area there that particularly gets women just come running to the dance floor. And it particularly, if you ever heard Pony by Ginuwine, the first note is like, does that thing. You ever play that in a club?
Pretty like 90% of females in the building will all just instinctually just... Without the sub bass, it doesn't work. Without the sub bass, people are confused. And if there's no bass, people aren't quite sure what to do with themselves. So what they will do then is focus on the top end more. So in the context of Prince, Prince is genius and Prince already had like a billion amazing records.
So he could do something like that and people would continue to pay attention because he'd already built up the frame of, okay, it's Prince. I'm going to pay attention to what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. It's going to be good. If it wasn't Prince, it wouldn't necessarily work because people would be like, this shit got no bass. Turn it off, yeah? Yeah, anyway. All right.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of music tuning (432Hz vs. 440Hz)?
Author yourself. Because sometimes we forget that we have that power. That we can turn ourselves into whatever we need to turn ourselves into. Oh, What I don't know is even if the sound was broadcasting properly then. So hopefully that was amazing. That was amazing. The chat's going wild. Good. I should have checked. I was suddenly like, hang on. Was the audio going through rumble proper?
Am I just like... We're crying. We're dancing. There's twerking in the chat. It's all happening. Wow. So that's a brand new song. I think it's called Author Yourself. Oh, it's amazing. Akira, we asked the... local subscribers if they wanted to have some questions for you and Marcella gathered them. So if you don't mind, we take some questions. Thank you, Marcella, for gathering. That's very nice.
So the first question is from Raphael and he wants to know whether you're going to release vinyl records. Yeah, lots of people have been asking for vinyl records and it was always my dream to get all the Scott albums on vinyl. And it was my dream to get them on vinyl and then to sort of go on a quest and take them to him and then give him the vinyl. And then he would have the vinyl.
I always thought he would like that. And I always thought that would be the case. And I always assumed that would be the case. And then suddenly that wasn't the case in this realm. And so, yeah, one should always kind of do things as quickly as possible if you can.
It was difficult because I got stranded in Mexico and blocked out the US after 2020, which made it difficult to do things like vinyl and things like that. But yes, that is the aim. We just this week put the new album available as a preorder on CD. And if that goes well, then we will then do a vinyl operation.
And that will be the sacred quest of getting the Scott Adams records on vinyl where they always belonged. Double vinyl in perfect audio fidelity. But they have really nice record sleeves. I always wanted to see them big and sort of open the thing up and, you know, read all the little notes and things. So yeah, you can get the Almost Anything Could Happen Today CD at meaningwave.com now.
And then if that goes all well and people like that, then we will work on getting vinyl. We'll make sure to drop the link after the show or in the chat of where they can get that. So you guys, let's get this going so we can do vinyl for us. Okay, Marcella, next question. The next question is from Dave Hawkins. Are your creations including by, I don't know how to pronounce this, been aural beats?
Vinyl. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not usually deliberately, sometimes accidentally. I kind of developed my own system with regards to frequencies and all that sort of a thing. So there's lots of, yeah, it's an esoteric area of audio. But you can put music at different frequencies, and some people think it gives different results spiritually and so on and so forth.
So yeah, a big part of what I'm doing is essentially deliberately utilizing audio for specific results. Yeah. So I'm very deliberate in what I do. I'll say that much. And I'm definitely... Ah, how's that possible? That's incredible. Who is calling you right now? I'm just kidding. I don't even know how that came through the computer when it's on the phone. Anyway, whatever. Are you using a Mac?
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Chapter 6: How does AI impact Akira's music production?
And it's kind of very instinctual as well. I don't overthink things generally. I have a plan. I have an arching plan of what I'm working towards with regards to what ideas and messages and people and wisdom and what have you I'm sort of transmuting into this form, but there's always room for inspiration.
For example, that Author Yourself one, I had been in the UK visiting family for Christmas and I came back to the studio. I came back here to Mexico and I just ran into the studio and it was literally just to get something. And then 45 minutes later, I'd written that song. Wow. I barely remember it happening.
It was very much the kind of getting smacked in the head by a lightning bolt of do this now. I think Sergio has a question. You're on mute. Sergio, you're on mute. Sergio is on mute. No, it's Rumble. You're on mute on Rumble. This is his nemesis, Akira. It's the mute button. Just the mute button. You're there. Akira. Yo, what's up, brother? I'm so excited.
You're the guest of all the guests that we had that I've been the most excited about. You have no idea. I've been following you for such a long time. I was very nervous. I wasn't speechless. I was trying to jump in and talk to you. You got the mute button on. No, I'm such an idiot. Sorry about that.
I really wanted to talk to you because what you said about music is exactly what Scott always explained, how powerful music is throughout history and how it has been used for evil means too, right? And he explains how music is a drug. And we talked about that yesterday too. That's why I didn't watch the Super Bowl. Because I don't want bad drugs in my system.
I want to control the drugs that I get. And you are my favorite drug of all, your music. Because it's like Erica was saying, you made all this music, you condensed Scott into...
into this chance right and like the gregorian chance that owen was talking about yesterday that they're just impregnating to people's psyches even without having to think that's what i love so much about your music because it's a lot like uh what scott did with his books that's right but it wasn't just a message it was the choice of every word in every and every phrase and every page.
And you do that too. So my question is, okay, let me get to my question. Sorry. I would love to see, I don't know, you read The Religion War and God's Debris? No, not yet. I have them on Audible. Okay, so this is my idea, right? This is what I would love to see, maybe.
I would like you to read it, you know, because it's like, I think this is the most amazing story ever, especially with The Religion War. It's an amazing story. We might converge on this. So we do a thing on my live streams where we do a kind of book club where I will play an audio book and then I kind of live score it while it's happening. So I did that with Dune, for example.
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Chapter 7: What are Akira's thoughts on the role of music in society?
Marcella, obviously you do. Marcella's the cutest. You guys, what other questions do you have for him, too? I love that new song, Author Yourself. And I love how many of you said you needed to hear that right now. And I... I'm glad that happened. Go ahead, guys. I'm going to look for Akira, see if he texts me. Okay. So now, now we dance without Akira.
Well, you guys, do you have any other questions for him? You know, if he comes back, we want to make sure we answer your questions too. And also I think that we should really support him because, you know, this is his gig. This is what he does. So I saw a couple of people drop the link to the album and hit in the chat.
If someone could drop it into YouTube also, and we'll also post his links on the socials as the kids say after the show. And also you can, I believe subscribe to him. So, you know, if you want to do that, but I say support him because he, Music is the way to your soul. And as you see, there's a lot of really dangerous music out there. I'll say it's satanic and it's evil.
And why not pick something that feeds your soul and feeds your brain and brings positivity? I think that's the way to go. And even like play it in the car. If your kids are in the car, we have Akira back, but that, you know, that's it's beautiful, inspirational music. And it feeds your soul. And it's also the words of people like Scott or Jordan Peterson that bring life.
So Akira, I have a quick question for you. Somebody wanted to know why you got stranded in Mexico. If you make it back. Okay. Let's see. Hey, everything is fixed. It is fixed. I'm in Mexico. The power goes out so often. Yeah. It came right back on. So that was nice.
mean um anyway sorry about that um so anyway just to finish the previous one i was yeah i had an idea of um later this year to do a uh scott debris trilogy uh book club thing where we would play the audiobook and i would sort of live score it in real time uh on live stream um anyway yeah i love it thank you so much akira and what does akira mean and why the don Oh, yeah.
Well, I was called Akira for a while. I was rapping. Akira was a fundamental... The Japanese anime was... I remember I was talking to Grant Morrison. He was telling me about how when he was a little kid, his mom took him to see 2001 A Space Odyssey. And it fundamentally changed it. And he went back and watched it like seven times.
And then after that, he had a very clear idea of what his life was going to be as a writer and all this sort of thing. And I had a similar thing with Akira in that... I was like 10 or something. I already knew what I wanted to do.
But I ordered that movie from the back of a magazine with my paper round money and waited until my parents were asleep and sneakily watched it on the VHS and was just awed by the potential of human creation and knew that I wanted to do something that powerful. And it changed the way I thought about things in some ways. So I took the name Akira as a sort of rap name when I started rapping.
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Chapter 8: What future projects does Akira have in store?
And I had to basically rebuild the entirety of my sort of, well, life wielded of our lives from scratch over here, bit by bit, Amazon order by Amazon order, wire by wire. And, um, Yes, that is how we ended up here. Uh, you know, I had planned in 2021 to go on tour and do all sorts of stuff, but you know, man plans and God says, uh, I have an Alan Watts laughing button on my button thing here.
Someone actually said that they wanted more Alan Watts. What was that? Well, a new Alan Watts album literally came out last week. Was it last week? January 30th? What date are we on now? Just over a week ago, a brand new Akira the Don and Alan Watts album created in collaboration with Alan's son, Mark, who sent me the audio that I turned into an album about a year ago.
And then I spent a year working on it.
uh mostly going to the beach and walking along the beach and listening to it and really visualizing it it's called this is why i love the ocean uh lots of people are saying it's the best album yet and lots of people are saying it's the best kira the don and alan watts album yet certainly uh if you go and look at the comments section um and yeah so your wish is granted i'm assuming you weren't aware of that because you're very greedy if you want another one a week later
This was posted on Friday. I'm not sure why they didn't know that, but I'll post it so that everybody knows. When you post things on the internet, you assume that everybody sees them. It's like, right, I've got a new album out. I made one post on Instagram and I posted it on Twitter a few times and I'll upload a video. Like 0.0002% of the people that actually like you would have seen that.
let alone the rest. That's terrible. It really is the case that no matter how much marketing you're doing, it isn't actually enough. And I know that, and it fills me with great horror and sadness when I think about it like that. But there's only so much time that one has to create and then to tell people about the things that you've created.
So I tend to spend most of my time doing the creating with the sort of idea that word of mouth will get it to the people that want it, that it would work for eventually. You have an amazing group here that is like, we, we love you because a Scott told us about you. He loved you. He approved of what you were doing. He loved what you were doing.
And we all became fans and, you know, coming on the Scott Adams school, I think is beneficial to everybody that's come on because you have an army of people that support and love what you're doing. And we want to see it, you know, to keep going. So I think everybody in the chat agrees. They all were saying they were going to download the album. They're going to share it out. We'll post about it.
It will travel. And I think you're going to see a nice bump because probably a lot of people who haven't met you yet, maybe they weren't on Locals or they didn't know much about you now do. And I think it's important what Sergio said too about, like I'm going to keep reiterating, feeding your soul with something positive.
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