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Chapter 1: What are the implications of female online banking on household money control?
Oh my goodness. Howdy. Oh wait, can I see locals on Rumble Studio? Is that what's happening? You guys, where's my earphones? Good morning. Is there an echo?
Good morning, JWJB, Rick, SGV.
You guys, I'm in full Scott Adams mode today with technology and it is not fun. But, you know, we'll see how it goes. Do I sound as... All right, let's do a quick sound test. How do we all sound? Do we sound like we're in sync? Okay, everybody talk.
Do we sound like we're in sync?
Hello, hello? Are we in sync?
You're loud, Sergio.
Loud?
Okay. So it's going to take a minute for them to get there. But in the meantime, I would like to say good morning to all of the platforms. on X. I hope X is running well today. We know that there is a little glitch with it, but we're working that out. If it's not worked out, it will be. So welcome to the beloved locals, to YouTube, to Rumble. Good morning.
I'm Erica, and this is the Scott Adams School. I'm joined today by our beautiful Marcella.
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Chapter 2: How does self-esteem influence leadership roles?
I'm Gregorian. and our Sergio in Tucson. So you guys, just as always, we want to remind you that Coffee with Scott Adams, which was like what brought us all here, still lives on its own. There's a thousand hours of Scott and his wisdom, his lessons, his genius on YouTube, but there's even more on Locals. Okay.
So he had his own subscription channel, which was, I think it's scottadams.locals.com, but we'll make sure we post it. And also the locals community, you guys, is Chef's Kiss A+, the most amazing people. We've really formed a family. We are kind hearted and we're all walks of life. But we really love to bring everybody in and bond with you guys. So we encourage you to come over there.
Our guest yesterday was Brian Romelli. He's going to be with us doing a long form interview where we can ask a ton of questions and we'll have not unlimited time, but we'll have a lot more time. On the YouTube channel, some people ask why we maybe cut a video to an hour. It's because we have to respect the time of our guests.
So if we were Scott and he had the day ahead of him and he could go on for three hours, he could do that. But we're inviting guests to come in and we want them to know we respect their time.
that we have a start time and an end time but if we do want to do longer videos without a constraint those will be on scott's locals channel for subscribers so we encourage you come on over it's a good time but anyway today we have the core four here to do some news and some current events and owen gregorian as always has picked some fun news stories as he does every single day
And then he does a show on Saturday with his co-host Sergio. And they talk news for hours and hours and hours. And you can all participate there. So thank God it's Friday. Thank God it's a news day. And we're so happy you're here. So, Owen, we're going to let you lead with the news stories you want to talk about today.
Absolutely not. You missed something here. The simultaneous sip.
I told you it's a day. We can't do news without the sip.
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Chapter 3: What role do drones play in cartel operations?
So this, it takes a village, you guys, especially today. All right, you guys, are we ready? Lord, I'm going to even do it from my phone. Old school, like Scott. Here we go. Hey everybody. Come on in. It's a very newsy day. There's news all over the place. You got your real news. You got your fake news. All kinds of news. You got your hoaxes. And we have a brand new hoax. The hoax of the day.
We don't have a name for it yet. Let's call it the losers and suckers hoax. Goes well with the fine people hoax. The drinking bleaks Bleach hoax, the overfeeding the goldfish hoax, and all of the other hoaxes. But first, what do you need first to get ready for all this excitement? I think you know.
You need a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a 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. It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's happening right now. Go.
I feel the soul of Michael Forrest Reno going to hell. That's good coffee.
Chapter 4: How are partisan boycotts affecting businesses today?
Makes everything better. And of course, who's like, who's Michael Forrest-Rienal? I don't remember who it is and what that was about, but somebody is going to look it up and let us know. So I'll drink to that and I'll turn it over to Owen.
All right. Much better now. So on the science side, to get us started, there's a story about hippocampal neurons shifting our activity backward in time to anticipate rewards.
don't know that i would necessarily call this time travel i think it's more that when you test it this is of course like most things a mouse study and when they tested it with mice they found that the reward like the peak reward in the brain started off being when they would receive the reward but then it shifted earlier and earlier to the point where they were getting their peak long before they got the reward so um
know it was basically going backwards in time over you know while they were trained and um so it it you know shifted that reward cycle i guess and um i think they're also tying this to being healthier in your brain
said the favorable group um that had like a bunch of well better lifestyle factors um had slower memory decline as well so they're getting into the healthy diet stuff and um that it worked more for people with this apoe gene that i think is the one that puts you at risk for alzheimer's um so combination of things there but i think it was interesting to me to say that you know you
As you get trained to get a reward, and I think Scott taught us that it's often better to be intermittent. So sometimes you get the reward and sometimes you don't. But as you get used to that, you start anticipating it and you actually get the reward far before, or your brain gets rewarded before you actually get the physical reward.
So the anticipation is also a reward.
Yeah. And I think this definitely falls in the category of you could have just asked Scott. I think we probably all knew this, that, you know, it's that whole dopamine cycle that once you get into a habit that is rewarding, then you start anticipating it and the anticipation becomes better than the actual realization.
I could get down with that. I feel that way about sneezing. Sometimes the anticipation of a sneeze is so good. I love that. Especially if you know it's going to come out. But if somebody says, bless you to me before I sneeze, it ruins the sneeze and it's upsetting.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of lawfare and temporary injunctions in current events?
It worked for me. Oh, yeah. Every time since he talked about it, I have used it. Maybe one time it failed, but it has worked every time. And it also works with other... other secretions of your body. You know, it could be like your tears, you know, it can be, you can cry in your mind and avoid a cry too, but it's better to cry sometimes, you know.
The sneezing, it's good to sneeze too, but not in company, right, so.
Yeah, it does matter what you're sneezing on. But for anyone who isn't familiar, Scott's method was that he would, in his mind, I guess, sort of simulate the sneezing, like he would visualize himself sneezing before he sneezed. And that if he visualized himself sneezing before he sneezed, then it would stop him from sneezing.
And he seemed to think that was something that everybody could try and a lot of people could do. Sounds like Sergio was able to pull it off.
I feel like my head... Many more.
Many more people. I'm kind of with you, Erica. Number one, it is kind of a pleasurable experience. And number two, I also just think it's healthier. Like, you know, you're sneezing for a reason. So I'd rather let it out.
My body, my choice, right? You can choose to sneeze or not to sneeze.
I suppose so.
I suppose so. All right. So there's another one here that says online banking. maybe shifting household money control to women, that it makes women five times likelier to manage their money independently of the men they're married to. And that, you know, this is partly in the UK, but I would imagine it extends to other places.
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Chapter 6: How is ICE handling operations in Minnesota?
um but male-led decisions were only in 11 of heterosexual couples and um so it seems like the the shift to online banking is somehow giving access to women and um it says for men online banking often increases their involvement in day-to-day money's management and reinforces our control over big financial decisions for many women it can level the playing field opening the door to shared decision making give them a stronger voice in the household
manages the money in your family erica me yeah i'm sure you're shocked i i am i'm i'm shocked right me controlling something i think in in my case it is probably more me but i and my wife has asserted more control over time um that more recently she's doing a little bit more stuff independently like you know in her job she would obviously have her own retirement accounts and
She's taken it upon herself to learn a lot more about investing. So I think it's more of a joint thing at this point. But I would say earlier in our marriage, it was mostly me, but I would just, you know, make sure all the bills are paid and make sure we had investments for retirements and all that.
So I didn't necessarily want to do it. I don't know what you guys experienced, but when we first got married 800 years ago and and Keith would be doing the bills, he would get so, like, upset. And, you know, not, like, at the spending, but just, like, oh, like, where's this thing, and what about this thing, and whatever.
And I'm, like, oh, my God, like, I can't, like, he can't get upset every time we do the bills. The bills are never going to stop. And so... I'd bring him a sandwich. I'd be like, what are you doing with the bills? And then he'd be like, oh yeah, okay, great. But then he'd get upset again. And then I was like, why don't I just take that from you? And then this was like a hundred years ago.
And I was like, let's just avoid it. Like, so, you know, I'd make him a sandwich if he still wanted one, but I'll just do the bills. And it just has been great for the last hundred years.
Yeah. I think that's a good way to work it out. I think certain people are a lot more anxious about stuff like that, and other ones aren't. And it's probably better to let the person who's not going to freak out every time manage that process. But I think in modern times, at this point, almost all of our bills are just automatically paid.
don't write any checks anymore it's not really even a thought process i mean we might review the bills or review the spending every so often and i do track our spending pretty closely and quicken but um you know like except for major things like if we're gonna buy a car or a house or you know some big furniture or something like that um we usually do those things together but otherwise it's kind of like it just flows you know we don't really do anything anymore
Doesn't this go back to billionaires and their wives controlling the money for leftist charities and all that?
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Chapter 7: What are the effects of Venezuela's cooperation on regional politics?
And I would imagine there's no talk about any kind of budget at that point. Although I'm sure there are some billionaires that give their wife an allowance or whatever, but, um, yeah, I think to me, it's kind of like when you have that kind of money, um, your, your finance guy. Yeah.
I mean, I guess to me, the, the, if I try to put myself in the shoes of a billionaire, I would say, okay, at that point, I'm going to be more defensive. like I want to make sure I never go broke. You know, I, I'm not so worried about making more money at that point. It's just, I want to make sure I don't get scammed. Nobody drains the account.
Nobody does something so irresponsible that all of a sudden I am broke. Cause that does happen to a lot of rich people, especially ones that aren't, you know, they didn't like slowly make their way to being rich. Um,
if they don't have experience managing money, a lot of athletes and lottery winners, like most of them, I think actually are a high percentage end up broke or bankrupt because they just don't know how to manage money. And I think probably most billionaires are experienced by the time they get there with it, that they don't have that problem.
But I think it really does depend on what your prior experience was. Like if you're starting out poor, And then you suddenly get millions or billions of dollars. It's a difficult thing to manage, I think, because you just don't have the experience of saying, how do I avoid getting scammed or how do I make the right decisions? And so I think it is an important skill set to develop over time.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah.
Skill sets are important.
All right. Well, here's another one that you could have asked, Scott. Self-esteem may predict who pursues leadership roles. People with high self-esteem with promotion focus boost leadership pursuit when it's encouraged. Low self-esteem has more of a prevention focus and reinforces reluctance.
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Chapter 8: What are the consequences of unpaid student loans in today's economy?
I guess we could just say like Scott has said before that, you know, being overconfident is a good thing and it will help you get ahead. And I would, I would probably, counsel to focus on confidence rather than self-esteem. So I think those are different things. I think self-esteem is like your personal opinion of yourself and confidence is more of how you present yourself.
Right.
And they don't need to be the same. You know, you can have the imposter syndrome going on inside as long as you're confident externally and you can be very successful, I think. But, you know, it could be that they're not able to really tell the difference between the two when they're doing a study.
Right.
All right. Let's see. We can get into some of the political stuff. So we have a story about Mexican cartels employing drones to smuggle drugs and fight enemies. I know Sergio perked up at the story. Looks like Mexican cartels are using drugs or drones daily for drugs, surveillance, migrant operations and attacks. Apparently there's been over 27,000 detected near the U.S. border in late 2024.
And they're shifting from planes to drones for fentanyl. Looks like the drones can have up to 100 kilograms of capacity. And they've had explosive drones since 2021. Now that's widespread. And Mexico's trying to fight back. So it seems like it's a bigger and bigger problem. There was a related story a few days ago where...
it was in texas i forget the city exactly but it was um one of the airports was shut down for 10 days and um it looks like what happened was we were testing lasers to shoot drones down and there was apparently some disconnect between the faa and the defense department i guess And so the Defense Department started firing off these lasers, and the FAA said, whoa, whoa, you can't do that.
We got planes all over the place here. And the Department of Defense just said, we're going to keep doing it. And so the FAA said, fine, then we're shutting down the airport. And I think they were just shooting at balloons or something. But there was some, I don't know if I'd call it misinformation, but...
know there were some statements made about maybe they were shooting down mexican drones but i think that turned out not to be the case that they were just shooting at balloons and stuff and they didn't really shoot any mexican drones down during this operation but um it looks like we are certainly working on our anti-drone capabilities and probably planning to use it at the mexican border
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