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Episode 3081 - The Scott Adams School 01/27/26
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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Episode 3081 - The Scott Adams School 01/27/26", an episode of Real Coffee with Scott Adams published January 27, 2026 (1 h 2 min, about 10,793 words). It mentions 14 people, works and ideas, including Scott Adams, BJ Dictor, El Salvador, Dilbert, Bitcoin.
What this episode is about
In this session, the conversation revolves around a series of humorous and chaotic moments tied to technical difficulties, unexpected events like a car crashing into a residence, and the lighthearted atmosphere shared among the group. The hosts prepare to engage with their audience while navigating these spontaneous challenges, promising a blend of entertainment and informal discussion.
Key takeaways
- Technical glitches: the perfect reminder that humanity still trumps AI in real-time chaos.
- Simultaneous sips: a quirky ritual that proves caffeine can unite even in the midst of disaster.
- Election hype brings 80% of stories that are likely fake—trust, but verify, especially in a political storm.
- Intimacy can be felt even digitally; Scott’s live-streamed memorial shows love transcends physical presence.
- When in doubt about a narrative, consider its timing; if it feels too perfect, it probably isn't.
Who speaks in this episode?
What is discussed, and when
- – 10:00: Hillary Clinton, John Rackcliffe, Scott Adams, Greg Gutfeld
- – 20:00: Scott Adams, BJ Dictor, Zero Hedge, Daily Bell
- – 40:00: Dilbert, Scott Adams, BJ Dictor, El Salvador
- – 50:00: El Salvador, Bitcoin, Scott Adams
- – 1:00:00: Scott Adams, Art of the Deal
Notable quotes from "Episode 3081 - The Scott Adams School 01/27/26"
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.
about Scott Adams · atNow, as of this morning, Politico is reporting that it's fake news, that's not actually something that happened. Now, I believe that's not the final word, rather that the.
about John Rackcliffe · atThat's kind of how people know me in the United States or when I speak at conferences around the world, including El Salvador, by the way. Marcel, I spoke there a year and a…
about El Salvador · atSubstack. that's what ends up getting to Daily Bell, Telegraph, Zero Hedge, that sort of stuff. I've been speaking at Bitcoin conferences around the world because I'm a big…
about Bitcoin · atLocals YouTube and Substack. Substack's actually my biggest audience and go to any of those. Just type in BJ Dictor and you'll find me all over the place.
about BJ Dictor · atYes. and used to say I just want to say I agree 100% being from El Salvador and knowing the things in the ground is very different than what the conservatives.
about FMLN · atSorry. Scott actually asked me a lot about this and he was of the same mind as you are that he you know he kept you know he was skeptic about someone being this hero. so.
about Dilbert · atTo tell them, Trump, read Art of the Deal. Just read it. None of them have read it. Just read it. He wants you to make a deal. and he wants you to come to him because he's…
about Art of the Deal · at
Who and what is mentioned in this episode?
People
- Scott Adams — Person · Referenced host / central figure being memorialized · 8 mentions · first at
The episode revolves around Scott Adams’ legacy (memorial service, his daily show format like the “simultaneous sip,” and his influence via persuasion/hypnosis framing). - BJ Dictor — Person · Main guest · 3 mentions · first at
Guest discusses his role in Canada’s 2022 trucker convoy communications, his journalism/podcasting, and how Scott Adams influenced his thinking about persuasion/hypnosis and political framing. - Hillary Clinton — Person · Referenced political figure in news discussion · 2 mentions · first at
Appears in a news segment about declassified intelligence claims regarding Russia and alleged efforts to implicate Russia to distract from her email controversy.He did declassified some information that indicated that Russia was aware that Hillary Clinton was trying to implicate Russia and some kind of collusion with Trump as part of a plan to take.
- John Rackcliffe — Person · Referenced government official (in news item) · 2 mentions · first at
Cited as the national intelligence director who declassified information related to Russia and Hillary Clinton; used as a springboard for election-season misinformation skepticism. - Greg Gutfeld — Person · Referenced speaker/TV host at memorial · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned alongside Michael Malice as a humorous presence at Scott Adams’ memorial service.How they you put on the event, but it was also very funny. especially M Michael Malice and Greg Gutfeld. But, I'll say more on Friday and I'll turn it back to Erica.
- Michael Malice — Person · Referenced speaker/comedian at memorial · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned as one of the notably funny speakers at Scott Adams’ memorial service, reinforcing the tone and lineup of the event.How they you put on the event, but it was also very funny. especially M Michael Malice and Greg Gutfeld. But, I'll say more on Friday and I'll turn it back to Erica.
Books & papers
- Art of the Deal — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned in the context of negotiation strategies and Donald Trump's approach.
Companies & orgs
- FMLN — Company · Referenced work · 4 mentions
Mentioned in the context of political dynamics in El Salvador. - Zero Hedge — Company · Referenced work · 2 mentions · first at
Mentioned as a publication where BJ Dictor has contributed articles.Because of that protest. and since then now I've you know I have a you know a moderate following. So I do I publish a lot of articles on my Substack. that's what ends up…
- Daily Bell — Company · Referenced work · 2 mentions · first at
Mentioned as a publication where BJ Dictor has contributed articles.Because of that protest. and since then now I've you know I have a you know a moderate following. So I do I publish a lot of articles on my Substack. that's what ends up…
- National Telegraph — Company · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned as a publication where BJ Dictor has contributed articles.Because of that protest. and since then now I've you know I have a you know a moderate following. So I do I publish a lot of articles on my Substack. that's what ends up…
Concepts & topics
- Bitcoin — Concept · Core topic · 3 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin and its implications.
Places & events
- El Salvador — Place · Setting · 9 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of Bitcoin adoption and political dynamics under President Nayib Bukele.
Media & podcasts
- Dilbert — Media · Referenced work · 5 mentions · first at
Referenced as a significant cultural influence and part of Scott Adams' legacy.
Full transcript with timestamps
And who's going to do the simultaneous sip? I have a video. Okay, perfect. If I can pull it up, it'll take me five minutes. No.
Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Let's get everyone streaming in. We had a little a little issue, a tech issue.
Welcome to your label, Owen. Owen's there. Yeah, he's there. There's a benefit in all these technical problems. That's how you know it's not AI. And this is completely real.
Oh yeah, this is real. You guys, you want to just fly off the handle with me today because the video I see you guys. Wait. Good morning. Hi. So, everything is so funny today. We uh all were traveling yesterday, snows, storms, this and that. And Sergio, might I just add in what happened this morning real quick?
Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. And then a car just drove into Sergio's apartment. that happened
right here. Right here. Right. Right there. Right now. Shel's uh Yeah, his wall's broken. The cops are there. Um and Shel's having a technical glitch. And the video I save for the simultaneous sip. I don't know where it is. So, I think um I'm going to just pick a random video, you guys, and we're just going to do the sip and see how it goes. Okay.
Oh, I think this is I think this is the one I wanted. Of course. Well, of course we'll be
we do we have a guest today. We'll tell you who that is. This is just fun, you guys. So, listen. You know, we're going to do the sip and then we're going to make proper introductions. Shelley can um see us. She can't hear us, but if she talks, we can hear her. Okay. So, you guys, I have no idea what's going on. Let's get this sip. We'll do a little minute to compose ourselves and then we'll regroup and exhale. Okay. Take it away, Scott. And let's go.
Why does my lighting look wrong today? [clears throat] Mute. BJ, mute. Hey everybody, come on in. Is there anything to talk about today? Did anything happen last night that's worth discussing? Oh, I think so. Oh yes. But first, before we get to the discussing part, wouldn't you like to get ready for that with a simultaneous sip? I think you would. And all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker towels or stained a canteen jugger flask vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.
the the thing that makes everything better, the unparalleled pleasure. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Well, of course, we'll be talking about the debates, but a couple of little tidbits before that. Number one, uh we all heard the story the the last 24 hours or so about uh national intelligence uh director John Rackcliffe. He did declassified some information that indicated that uh Russia was aware that Hillary Clinton was trying to implicate Russia uh and uh some kind of collusion with Trump as part of a plan to uh take attention away from her email.
Now, as of this morning, Politico is reporting that it's fake news, that that's not actually something that happened. Now, I believe that's not the final word, rather that the uh the intelligence agencies look like maybe they have some evidence of this, but we shall see. I remind you of the following 8020 rule. Are you ready? Here's the 8020 rule of the month before election day. And it goes like this. Any new story that happens in the month before election, if it's a new thing you haven't heard of before, a new twist on a thing would be the same thing. There's an 80% chance it's not true. Doesn't matter which side it comes from. Doesn't matter what the topic is. If it looks like it's good for anybody and bad for somebody else in terms of the election, you should figure just automatically there's an 80% chance it's not true. So, we'll see if that one's true. Um, I have to admit it had the sound of not being
true. You know, if you had to place a bet on it, you said, "Okay, you you're no expert, but I want you to place a bet on this thing." And the thing is that that Putin actually had a conversation or the intelligence people did over in Russia about Hillary Clinton trying to distract with a Russia collusion hoax. What What do I tell you about stories like that? Are they a little bit a little bit too on the nose? You know what I'm talking about? A little bit too perfect? timing timing of the story is a a little bit too good.
It might be true, but I would put a 20% chance on it if you want to know the odds.
Ah, okay. I thought that was a good reminder. And you're going to ask me and I'm going to tell you that that is YouTube number 1140. Okay. 1140. And if you want to finish watching that, it's a great episode, of course. Um, so hi you guys. Um, we are fresh off of Scott's amazing memorial service where um, we were lucky to attend. And honestly, Shelly uh, wished everybody could attend, but um, Scott wanting it live streamed was just an amazing gift. And seeing how many views it had, he really wanted everybody to feel um, in included. And I think we all did and it was it was intimate and beautiful and we're going to talk about it on Friday.
Um because we do have guests this week. Okay, Stella. We do have guests this week and um Friday we want to spend more time like answering questions and just talking to you guys about it. But um let's all say a little something about it. I'll introduce Marcela, our beautiful Marcella. Um if you want to just say a couple of words and we'll save it mostly for Friday. Um, it was an honor to be there, uh, representing the beloveds there. Um, and I just all the speakers were wonderful. Um, Shelly was amazing. Um, and I just I don't know why I hear all this audio, but right now, um, I just loved being there. Um, it was difficult to go to the house, see, you know, the golf, the mini golf, the tennis court, the the office, the uh the little museum that he created because, you know, it felt like we were home.
Like all of us felt like I think Erica mentioned like, "Oh, I know every single almost every single inch of this house." And I think all of you would have felt the same way. Um we were home, we were with family and it felt so intimate and so uh fun to see people that we have known each other for years, almost a decade and well about a decade and it was just um you know we we think that this is what what Scott would have wanted and u we're very happy and proud of his family and how they you you know, put on the event, but it was also very funny. Um, especially M Michael Malice and Greg Gutfeld. But, um, I'll say more on Friday and I'll turn it back to Erica.
Oh, thanks. Okay. So, um, Owen, I'm going to grab you real quick and if you want to say a few words about it.
Yeah. Well, I I thought it was amazing. Um, I posted that I think it was probably the most useful service of its kind in history. Um, you know, if you just took the the the lessons that were referred to in that service and and implemented in your life, it would probably be enough to make you successful. Um, and it was just it was great that all the speakers had these different perspectives. Like they all had different types of relationships with Scott, so they all had kind of like a different angle. Um, you know, Joel starting out with sort of the biographical stuff was great because he kind of set the context for things, but then a lot of the other ones were more like, well, this is how I knew Scott and this is what he did for me. And, um, it was just great. And, you know, I loved meeting the family and all of you. And, um, it was really, it was just a great experience. And, you know, it was at the
same time sad, but you know, I think it to me it was more uplifting than anything else.
Oh, that's awesome, Sergio. Oh yeah, I agree 100%. The most useful service in history. I like that. That will be the label for that one. Um, yeah, it was a it was an incredible experience. It was just like uh I don't know like somebody pulling me out of this reality and taking me out to the matrix and and showing me the the oracle temple, you know, of crystal. I don't know because uh I see God now as a superhero. I don't see him as um a normal human being anymore. He has transcended now. And in that house is the the origin story of um of a superhero. I know I know he wasn't born in that house, right? But his essence is there everywhere. Everywhere you walk through, you can feel him. U my favorite part of the house quickly is um there's a in the man cave. Uh Walter gave me like a little private tour of it and he showed me this little square where uh Scott drew uh a Dilbert cartoon next to
a hole on the wall and uh and he had to like wouldn't he had to um um fix that wall, right? But he left that square. He left that square to remind them uh because that meant breaking through breaking through the other side. And um and that's the one thing that I I was like, "Wow, he left that in here to remind us all that there is another side and we don't have to stay here. We can break through." So yeah, that's it. Thank you.
Yeah, Scott's a very intentional human being and thoughtful and um yeah, we'll talk more about it on Friday. It it was um it was beautiful. Um so you guys, who's that man in the corner? That's BJ. You guys, I'm going to let BJ introduce himself. Um, we've been friends through X for a while and communicating for a long time. Um, I find you to be very inspiring, BJ, and just an all-around great human, a patriot. Um, he is our neighbor to the north. Shout out to Canada. Where's Mike Bird and Montreal Galaxy? All the all you Canadians, we love you. Um, but BJ, I'm going to let you introduce yourself. We're going to put your handle in the chat so people can follow you, which I recommend. And why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and what's going on in your world.
Yeah. So, a couple things. Firstly, it is um it is an honor. Uh I wish Scott was the one here and not us. And I think we all we all feel the same way. But um you know, longtime listener, first- time caller, so I really appreciate uh you you know, having me on to to share my perspective. Scott and I, as many other people, uh had communicated uh semi-regularly privately online. Uh, and in my case, it was uh it was it was actually before the trucker convoy, and I'll get to that in a second, but um that's kind of how people know me in the United States or when I speak at conferences around the world, including El Salvador, by the way. Marcel, I spoke there a year and a half ago. And uh so those of you may remember in February 2022 there was a massive uh protest against the lockdowns and mandates in Canada. And uh I was in charge of communication messaging um and essentially uh what I would I
would describe that you guys would understand the reframing of it. uh when they I was reached out to when there was about 10 or 11 truckers that were starting this protest against the government and they said we're going to go to Trudeau and we're going to protest and we need somebody who has some media communications, understands podcasting, which is the other thing that I do. And I said, and tell me if you guys know this if you can spot what I did. I said, "No, we're not going to protest Trudeau. We're going to celebrate freedom. We're going to celebrate being Canadian and we're going to celebrate bringing people of different opinions together. Um, and I wrote an article about it about a year and a half ago called, you know, the greatest reframe in Canadian history.
That's what I was trying to do. And I think Scott understood that. Um, so I I work as a journalist uh privately. You've seen maybe seen my articles in Zero Hedge, Daily Bell, National Telegraph, a bunch of publications. I produce podcasts uh for a little startup that I have and I'm working on for for quite some time and uh you know I'm coming to the the tail end of trucking which was you know my and my brother's escape who's a police officer during that ridiculous time in Canada where we could go across the border to the United States and see some sentiment of normaly because as bad as it was was there. It was uh significantly worse here. So that that's kind of me and Scott ended up talking slightly before uh over Instagram and then the trucker convoy happened. And what's very interesting and I recommend people, this is kind of a plug for the Scott Adams school in the direction you guys are going. That month
during the the trucker protest, which is this honkingforfreedom.com, you want to read more about it. That was the one time in the past 10 years or so that I didn't have time to listen to Scott every day. That was the only time. And I think I caught one or two episodes during that period. So what I've done uh my way of um memorializing um Scott was to go back to that time frame and start listening to that entire month of Coffee with Scott Adams episodes. And I want to thank all of you for your simultaneous sips in support of the trucker convoy. That was amazing.
I'm about halfway through. So, I'm very excited to see how Scott sees uh views how things ended with us in Ottawa. But that's that's the short version of a very long story of who I am. And also, I guess to add the a pin on this for us to discuss this later, I had run for par for parliament in Canada. So, I got involved in politics. My business was on a university campus and I saw everyone go insane around 2012 2013 and I decided, hey, let's let's get involved in politics and see if we can help out and help change things and reframe things. And so that's how I got into Paul. So when Scott talked about the gears of the machine, the gears behind the machine, uh that really resonates with me because I've lived it. I've experienced it and I still have lots of support on the inside of our political establishment here.
That's amazing. So you you were that guy that was like, I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I'm going to get involved as best I can, which you did. So what resulted from that? And tell us what you've been doing now.
Uh the short version is and you know people say this is hyperbolic but it is the reality. uh that's what ended CO that protest ended CO around the world and it without getting into a long-winded explanation of it but essentially when we started to see politicians shift and do message testing and one day they would say they're in support of it, the next day they would say they're not, the next day they say they would. That's a political party and the lobby class using their polling companies to message test. And that's when I knew it would end.
super spreader event. Remember all of that? Oh, they're all super spreader events. Well, it turns out it wasn't. And uh very quickly you could see the establishment was trying to figure out how can we back away from this policy but still save face. So, oh, we're going to get rid of the policy in three weeks, in a month, you know? And yeah, I used to troll them online. Nothing to do with truckers, right? because I knew from people behind the scenes, I knew from having a brother who's a police sergeant what was happening within government and they all knew it was um it was time to end it all and it ended because of because of that protest. Um and since then now I've you know I I have a a you know a moderate following. So I do I publish a lot of articles on my Substack. Um, that's what ends up getting to Daily Bell, Telegraph, Zero Hedge, that sort of stuff. I've been speaking at Bitcoin conferences around
the world because I'm a big uh Bitcoiner as well. Uh, but the other thing is the when I got involved in polit politics, you get to meet a lot of really interesting people and one of the people I met was um the real life Jack Ryan. So he was military, he's retired, but he was a seeking operator who became an intelligence analyst and his particular area of expertise as a court expert and witness in parliament in the Senate was Islamic terrorism funding and all the networks of uh money laundering and how that entire mechanism works. So when I met him, I said, "You should do a podcast." He said, "That's great. I have no idea how to do one." I'm like, "Great. I can make a podcast for you.
And we did one and it ended up becoming the podcast that governments around the world were listening to and it's very interesting to see some of our information has made its way through the political establishments around the world and seems to be having an effect uh on policy. So for four years I worked with uh this guy built out his platform online and they gave me a crash course in how this entire infrastructure works which is why I see the Somali Somalian stuff going on in Minnesota. I'm like oh yeah I know exactly what that is. That's exactly what happens in Fort McMurray.
That's exactly what happens in parts of Canada and in Latin America as well. Uh I see it all over the place in Colombia when I used to live in Colombia and I go there frequently and I see that happening in Latin America. So yeah, that's that's the short. Like I said, there's a long story and there's a lot of things that I've been involved in to try to help all of us push back against this this extremist insanity that we're seeing on both sides and try to bring people together, which I think is the that was what Scott was trying to do
uh broadly and you know, so let me go back let me go back to the the trucker rally because to me, you know, obviously I'm from the United States, so I'm looking at it as an outsider, but it was fascinating. It was it was obviously a scop and there was so much persuasion on both sides and you know so maybe you could tell us a little bit more about what that was like on the inside like how it was organized and you know how you managed all the I don't know if you want to call it public relations or communications um and what it was like to be part of that because I you know as an external observer I remember all the buildup to it where it was like you know the convoy and so everybody knew it was coming and it was gaining steam as Glenn, as more trucks were getting on the road and then, you know, there was the like the joy of all the people like you had all the bouncy castle stuff going on and and
kids around and that made it very different than like some angry rally where people were, you know, maybe being violent and that made it probably harder for them to counter.
Um, but then they did like send somebody in with a Nazi flag and and you know, so they tried to dismantle it all these different ways and none of it seemed to work. So, how did all how did all that happen and what was it like being on the inside of that?
Uh, we could talk for days about it. It was total chaos. I mean, this is how you can see your protests that you have in the United States. They're completely foreign and organized. They're corporations that are staging fake protests because a real protest like what ours was, there's no uniform signs. There's no uniform messaging. Everybody wants to be in charge and the political establishment gets involved and tries to tear it apart. And by the way, this is why they get upset with me on the Conservative side. It was both sides. It was both the Liberal Party and the Conservative party both sabotage us and send in their people. And there's a reason for that. And I'll give you a little context. In order for Justin Trudeau to have gotten elected, remember Canada is much smaller. It's about the size of California in terms of population, right? Mhm.
And it it took uh Jerry Buts, who was his right-hand man, four years to raise $40 million to get Trudeau elected. We raised $25 million cumulatively in 3 weeks. So, we became the official opposition. So we saw when there was an inquiry that I and others had to testify in that was there was communication between the leaders of the Liberal Party and the leaders of the Conservative party saying yes we both agree we got to put an end to the protest like hey who side you guys but so what they did is they brought people in to kind and this happens all over the place. This is why so many grassroots movements get sabotaged is they always do that when it's grassroots it gets some momentum they'll have somebody who will get involved and try to brand that person as the face around it and then they'll say something positive about the mid-century Germans and then everybody the regular people will see that on the news they'll do
that just as the legacy news is there and then regular people who are just seeing a little clip on the news as they're cooking dinner are like, "Okay, those people are just crazy." And they dismiss it. They did it to the Tea Party movement. They do do it to any sort of grassroots movements that happens across the Western world because the lobby firms that run these strategies are international there. They have offices in the UK, in Canada, in the United States, in Argentina, in the Netherlands, all over the place. And that's what's leading to some of the chaos that that's why I'm not a red versus blue guy. You know, there's good and bad on all sides. And I think that's something that all of us here agree on about not being so pigeonholed in one or two sides, right? Does that make sense?
Yeah, it definitely does. I mean, I there's the same dynamic here. I, you know, we often refer to it here as the uni party where it's just like both sides are part of this establishment and it's kind of not not really that different whether they're a Republican or a Democrat because they're just looking out for themselves.
They're protecting the system and they're trying to keep their own network strong and their own financial position strong and um you know it's it's throughout our our whole government. So I think there's a lot of parallels there. You know what, Owen? I I've had a lot I spent a lot I spent most of my time in the United States and I spent a lot of time in Florida and and have most of my life. And I was giving a speech because of all this background of working within this intel analyst and stuff. Uh and I learned so much about this very prominent issue right now. I gave a speech uh a couple of speeches last year on national security threats to the United States. And I had some people in the audience, they were telling me, you know, oh well, we have a uni party here. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, you guys. I understand the sentiment, but I got to tell you, that's not a uni party. You know what a uni party looks
like? It looks like in Canada where you have the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party, and you have all these other smaller parties that don't really mean much anymore, right? And when the the deputy leader of the Conservative Party was a lobbyist for the firm founded by Justin Trudeau's chief of staff.
That's a uni party. So let's map that out again. The deputy leader of the Conservative Party worked for Justin Trudeau's chief of staff. And what did she do? She worked in a position uh on lobbying on behalf of Walmart to close small businesses and keep Walmart open during CO. That is I mean you guys would be in awe of our degree of unipart. Look, I understand what you're getting at there, but it is so much worse in the parliamentary system because the parliamentary system allows for it much more easy. I think your system's actually much better.
Yeah, I I mean I certainly can see that. I I I understand that especially with the parliamentary system where you have to have sort of a coalition government. So it it's it it would encourage that more, right? Because we've certainly evolved in the US to be more of this two-party system where you at least have to pretend you're opposing the other side. It doesn't always happen, but you know, but it's gotten very polarized where, you know, the Democrats are always just trying to obstruct everything the Republicans are trying to do and the Republicans are trying to obstruct what the Democrats want to do, and it ends up with just gridlock most of the time where nothing gets through Congress. And unless you have majorities everywhere, like we happen to have now, you can't really get anything passed.
And even now, it's it's hard because of the the razor thin margins. But I I I get what you're saying is that, you know, it's it's more I don't want to say incestuous, but I just did. Um, but you know, people are like if if you don't have a coalition, then you like can't even function as a government at all, right? Isn't that kind of how it is? Like you have to have some majority
to really even have a prime minister, right? and we we don't have the coalitions in the same way we we we did in the last last few years of the Trudeau administration, but the coalitions are not as popular here as they are in Europe for a whole bunch of reasons, but I I get your sentiment. I I understand exactly what you're saying. And by the way, just a little thing on on Canada that you everybody here will understand. In the spirit of Scott, I'm gonna ask a question to which all of you already know the answer. I won't even have to finish the question. Okay.
What percentage of Canadians will always vote for the Liberal Party no matter what? No matter how communist they become, no how irrational. What percentage of And I know from my campaign because we see the data all the time. What percentage always vote for the Liberal Party? Go.
I can see the answers rolling in already. What are they saying? 25%. Dead on. Dead accurate. Isn't [clears throat] that amazing? So, when the Conservatives win, the Conservatives get uh 30% or 31%. When the Liberals win, they get 30%. So they're always they're always fi fighting over a five a margin about five or 6% of the country that's staying home. That's all that they're catering to. But yeah, and this is why Canada is such a disaster. Um and you know the gerrymandering and how the writings are mapped out are different a different story. But Canada is not the left-wing country that everybody says it is just like Colombia is not the left-wing country like everybody says it is. It's just how the the ridings have been dispersed over years has led to a system that people get this and this is why you you could see that with the trucker convoy. Those people were not leftwing. They were sometimes right-wing
a lot of centrist people. They're just pragmatic people that own businesses don't engage in protesting. Uh that's why you saw all sorts of different conflicting messages. And back to your original question, yeah, man, it was total chaos. It was up at 6:00 in the morning, you collapsing at 11:30, 12:00 at night. The first half of the the day was trying to cancel uh press conferences from random people that were always a little bit off that the political establishment would find the craziest person on the street and say, "You know what? You should be the one speaking for on behalf of the truckers."
It was a setup, right? So that was half of our time was just damage control. And that's what a real protest looks like. A real protest, you can't set it up in 15 minutes and get everybody together on one message chanting. And as all of you know from from Scott's from what Scott's taught here and what you know, all of us who've studied hypnosis, shout out to Mike Mandel, uh that's where I studied hypnosis. The chanting is the indicator of brainwashing. That's why they're all chanting. We weren't chanting. We couldn't even get people to say the same thing. I was trying to get people just focus on mandates and the arrive can app. No, but all this. I'm like, I get it. I get it. But we got to have something where the government is in a position where they can meet us somewhere and we can find some p path forward together.
Uh but yeah, man, it was total chaos. So, let me let me transition a little bit to Scott Adams. I mean, I I saw you were planning to talk about this in terms of his influence on you. Can you talk a little bit about how how Scott has influenced you?
Yeah, he um it's pretty wild. So, I when I was a little kid, well, little kid when I was in high school, you know, 16, 17 years old, what better way if you're like, you know, one of the the computer car guy who just gets really bored in class other than music class. Uh me and my buddies, what would we do? we would go skip classes and either sit around in the lunchroom or go to um or go for coffee down the street and I remember I I don't remember the specific day but I remember was in the winter I and I remember the temperature was like for some reason and my buddy shows me this cartoon called Dilbert and this was in 19 92 I think 9293 and it was brilliant. It was hysterical.
And that just became like something that we would periodically when a Dilbert cartoon would come out, we just get together and talk about it.
Mhm. And okay, just thought, you know, you grow up, you kind of move on with life and just kind of moved beyond not Dilbert, it's just life gets busy. Went to school, got an education, got into the workforce, all that sort of stuff. And you know, I I had a number of positions in the corporate world in marketing, communications, that sort of thing, which is kind of what led me down this path into understanding hypnosis over time. And I remember I after I had read Chaldini's first book many years prior, I read his second book, Persuasion, and I thought I should find some sort of podcast that talks about this because I'm really fascinated by it. Mhm.
And well, lo and behold, I went into Google. I searched Chaldini podcast and Scott Adams comes up. I'm like, Scott Adams, that name's for It sounds familiar. Who is that? All right. Well, I checked it out and he was on Periscope and I think he was he was doing his RSS feed, like the podcast feed. I think he was just transitioning to YouTube. If I'm remembering correctly, it was around that time the Periscope was ending. And um I started listening to him like, "Oh yeah, this okay, I get it." And then after several weeks, I'm like, "Oh, hey, that's the Dilbert guy. Perfect." And then since then, I tried to listen as uh much as possible. And I got to tell you, it's so you know, when my business was on on the university campus, I saw in my opinion what the faculty was doing to students because we would establish relationships with students over four years. we get to know them. Kids would come in, good kids, get education. They
would go to university. Sometimes they go to firms and send us business. It was great. But all of a sudden, it was almost like there was this form of mental uh abuse against the children, right? It was extreme postmodernism, which by the way is one of the podcasts I produced for Stephen Hicks. If those of you who have listened to Jordan Peterson talk about uh postmodernism, that's Stephen Hicks's work, his book explaining postmodernism. And so I saw that happening on campus and that's when I think the extreme bifurcation started to happen and it was so refreshing for me in that time to come across hey it's the Dilbert guy and he's arguing all positions from all sides in the best means pop possible. I'm like it was just refreshing to me if if you understand it just became and I think for all of us it just became a time for us to just you know this is a good time I can detox the negative emotions I'm being subjected to
on campus all the time and uh that and the the amount of influence over time like you get to know people over time they start to influence you more and more and in me the the I mean the greatest indicator is I Now um uh I'm now a a a I don't know how you accredited hypn hypnotist because I actually went through the process went to a school I guess got interested in it over a couple of years because so much of what he he was saying is are things that I was already trying to do. I got through the sales the world of sales and marketing and I remember when I did my course with uh with Mike Mendel and Chris so many of the concepts that Scott talks about come from hypnosis but there's one difference that makes Scott so special he's the guy who tell who can take here are the concepts that you've learned in hypnosis and this form of communication and now I'm going to give you all the pract practical examples in the world
and I'm going to overlay it together. Once you study hypnosis and become pretty proficient in it, oh my god, it opens up what Scott was trying to communicate in an entirely different light that I never even imagined. So yeah, that's he's had significant uh influence on my life for sure.
And [snorts] it's mostly mostly around hypnosis. What's that? It's mostly around hypnosis, you think?
Yes. Yes. I think when he was I said this on one of my I'm starting to stream more regularly again. I said this on one of my streams the other day. Um he was hypnotizing us all like whether we understand it or not. He was try and I think he was doing it um with good intention of trying to dradicalize us. And I I said this to him a long a long time ago when we first started talking. He kind of he kind of sent a smile emoji back or whatever it was. Um, and you can see all the technique that he uses every it it's repetition to pull you into his frame. If you notice every episode, good morning everybody. That is a hypnotic script that he starts with.
Now, he built it over time because it's really difficult to build a hypnotic script for a large audience. Like that is this is something revolutionary in the world of hypnosis. So I I think people don't realize how significantly he has added to that world. But yeah, that's what he's done. And once you go through and you learn how to do inductions with people, whether they're passive or direct, and then you go back to Scott Adams, like, "Oh my god, you sneaky bugger." And now, and I think that's why we're so emotionally tied to him because we share the same framing of the world as he did. He because he helped construct it for us in a way that we're not going to be so subjected to the radicalization we're all being subjected to in the world right now.
Yeah. And I definitely recognize that and I think Scott was pretty transparent about it. It was kind of the amazing part to me was that he would say, "I'm hypnotizing you." Or he'd say, you know, I'm it I'm always using these techniques because it's just built into my personality at this point. And but he would he would tell you, I mean, I don't know if you'd call it a warning, but he would be very transparent about it. And then he would also say it's going to work anyway.
Yeah, it's because they there's a thing they they say in hypn hypnosis. I I encourage you all to go check out Mike uh Mike Mandel's hypnosis academy.
I I I did the self hypnosis part of that. So I I have access to it. Yeah. Anything that infers hypnosis causes hypnosis. That's why you can say I'm going to persuade you right now. this is the technique I'm going to use and then do it and it still works because your subconscious mind just can't shake it because it just seems so practical.
Mhm. Wow, that's so amazing. Um, so I have a couple of questions. Um, first of all, everyone YouTube locals, Rumble, are you X, are you loving having BJ on? Isn't he so interesting and amazing? And I already know we want to have you on another million times. Um they are asking where you stream so where they can see your live streaming.
Oh um so I'm using I'm on uh Rumble Locals YouTube and Substack. Substack's actually my biggest audience and go to any of those. Just type in BJ Dictor and you'll find me all over the place.
And um yeah that's and I'm trying actually not to cross over with you guys too much. I'm starting at 10:30 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
So, as you guys are winding down, I'm just slowly starting up. Ah, we're not winding down. I have I have a quick question for um that I made.
Thank you. Gracias or in? No. [clears throat] No. Perfecto. No. I wanted to ask you, you been to El Salvador, so you have met well you know about Boulli, right? And you know about Boulli's um reframe of liberation instead of uh incarceration. You know, he's liberating the people just like you do. like you're talking about freedom uh that reframe those two things that so I see you as the bouquet of Canada and you be the bouquet of Canada and liberate Canada because we need we need somebody that has that u I think Blly is a hypnotist too maybe I don't know what do you think
uh I don't want no so B Kelly is a blind spot for conservatives and uh if you did If you dig deep into Boulli, there's some very concerning things in his background. So, uh I understand, you know, for me, implementing Bitcoin was great. Implementing, uh, you know, jailing the narco gangs was necessary, so I'm on board with that. Those were not his ideas. Those ideas belong to Alejandro Mishon who was the national security adviser to Boulli and who I had communicated with on a number of uh issues and sent him some information. I said listen you know he knew I spent a lot of time in Latin America and I said this is what I'm seeing in these different countries.
This is what I know what happens in Canada and the US. you should take a look at these things because I'm very concerned about what I'm seeing in El Salvador. And um he said, "Okay, I guess." And he started to, you know, do some digging, I guess. I don't really know. And uh then he was just arrested on complete BS charges, treason. He was just always committed treason. uh he disappeared for 6 months and then in February of 2023 uh that's when we saw pictures online of his body that was chopped up into little pieces cuz he was tortured while he was in custody. I did an article on this a number of years ago a couple years ago that B Kelly for 10 years was part of FMLN the Communist
uh party. Yes. and used to say I just want to say I agree 100% being from El Salvador and knowing the things in the ground is very different than what the conservatives are trying to sell. So I I just you so much
and this is what I love about Scott is he would acknowledge the blind spots. So I actually went down with a friend of mine. You can check out his YouTube channel called Bratannica and he does his name is Callum. He does like um you know what Vice News used to do when it was credible. He just came back from Syria. He went to Afghanistan. He goes to wherever he can get killed, he goes. But he went to he wanted to go to El Salvador and he asked me because he doesn't speak Spanish. He's never into the tropics. So we went together and we he did a video called um uh the Bitcoin dictatorship El Salvador. It's online.
It's got a few hundred thousand views. And what he explains is there's the story in English and then there's the story in Spanish. And Marcela, as you know, the story in Spanish is very, very different. Now, not to take away from Yes. El Salvador is, it reminds me of Colombia. When I first moved to Colombia was 2003. There's like 16 of us gringoes in the country. Everybody thought we were insane, but it was amazing. I saw that country transition over 20 years. Um, it's the same sort of feel in El Salvador, but the background ties, particularly of Buelly's father, uh, Armando, are very, very concerning. And I wish
conservatives would stop ignoring it. And my speech on national security threats to the United States, that the big one I gave in in Florida, was on national security threats from Canada and El Salvador.
Yeah. Okay good. You nailed it right there. I I've never heard somebody as intelligent as you're just I'm I'm speechless that you know this
my father uh was in politics in El Salvador and he he was against father for so many years.
Ah yeah. So he would know. So I I mean I just I I wish uh more people would ask questions. My my biggest deal with Oabler and I everybody's like why are we talking about this country? But um is when Boulei and the and and the party that he's part of changed the law so that he could become president again.
Um yeah and and forever, you know, who needs a constitution? Yeah. He changed the constitution to be president to be able to be elected again and again and again and again and If you have like a video of Boule like years ago saying, "I will never do this. I'll be the George Washington of this country. I will never run again. I'll just I'm just trying to make this country better." And then uh I believe last year was when they changed the constitution so that he could get elected again and again and again and again. And that was like the tell for me that yeah, definitely not not the right move.
Yeah. The last thing on on El Salvador and then I think we can move on is I think the tell will be Marcel and you can I'm sure you'll agree with me. Is he going to run again? If he's going to try to run again, okay, now we have a dictator. Now we have a problem, right? So let's see what happens. Maybe I mean I do know he's he's he announced this n uh internationally and publicly that he has a plan to merge over time um Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras uh and Nicaragua
and under one you know economic zone and for some reason 2024 I don't know the 25 numbers yet uh the Amir of Qatar was there eight times. Why is the Amir of Qatar, you know, moonlighting in El Salvador numerous times? And there's there's some things going on with with the Qatari regime behind the scenes that will lend itself to it, but I I don't think your audience wants to hear this right now, but that's that's we'll talk about that more, Marcel. How about
we can we can we can bring it back on to talk about that. So, sorry, I have one last thought. Sorry. Scott actually asked me a lot about this and he was of the same mind as as you are that he you know he he kept uh you know he was skeptic about someone being this this uh hero. Um, so he's like, I'm going to keep myself uh from, you know, cheering him on and see what happens. Like you said, see if he gets
I think cuz you, I, and other people were sending him information that would have caused some concern. And, you know, he was, again, back to Scott, he was a pragmatic thinker, which is what we all have to be, and question ourselves. Like, I love when I find out I'm wrong. You know, there's on this, and maybe Scott inspired this. I do this um this reframe technique in the five-minute journal every day, you know, most days, not every day, which is you wake up, what are three things you're grateful for? What are three things you're going to do to make today amazing? And at the end of the day, there's basically the inverse of that. Okay, what what are the three best things that happened today?
What could you have done done to make it better? But I add something else in. What did I get wrong? And I think that's what we need to do more. It's really difficult for our ego to allow us to admit this is what I was wrong about today. Scott was really good at this. Like he really had himself dialed in and understood himself. Uh I think better than most people did. At least that's my read of it. And uh that's something I suggest for everybody. If we get everybody to start doing that, that also might start lowering the temperature who are you know some I think it was Scott who said it's not your opinion that's the problem it's your certainty that your opinion is correct that's the problem.
Yeah. Okay. So I I I we have a few minutes left and I I think you were going to talk about Trump versus Carney and how Scott would frame the whole situation in Canada and maybe that's a little bit of a transition into talking about the news. Um there is a story I posted today about that situation just you know I know there's this thing about the trade deal where um Carney was apparently moving in a direction of making some kind of deal with China on on trade and Trump threatened to 100% tariffs if he did that. Um Carney seemed to back off at least somewhat on that but I think it's somewhat questionable how much he backed off because I think he still signed some kind of agreement.
So, it's a little bit, you know, ambiguous in my mind exactly where this is headed. And then the other story I posted was just that Y Combinator announced that they're no longer going to invest in Canada. So, maybe you could comment on those two things.
Yeah, you know, I'm still in the truck a few times a week when I can get in there as I'm winding down trucking over the next couple of months. Um, personally, I just love to get on the road and see the world. And um I can tell you Canada is going to have massive economic collapse in 60 6 to9 months because transport of commodities into the United States is a leading indicator of our economic health and we've all but collapsed. That's why I can take time off today and nobody bothers me and I can take an entire week off. They're like, "Yeah, take as much time as you want." Um I think the way Scott would frame it is something I've talked about on the radio. Actually, I've mentioned Scott a number of times because I do uh Legacy Radio. I'm actually doing an interview later on today. I might even talk about this interview. And I I take Scott's framing of who taught Canada how to fight, right? And I tell them the story of when
uh Doug Ford, who was the conservative side that sabotaged the trucker convoy, um he was going to fight back against Trude against Trump by banning by cancing the contract and banning Starlink from Canada. And as as Scott said, let me get this straight. The way they're going to fight back is turn off their own internet. Okay? Stop. And what I'm arguing on the radio and it it the people of Canada are really they're like us. Most people are pragmatic. It's the politicians who live off the structure. They're the ones who get outraged which is which is why I I do this. But I try to explain to them that at the end of the day most of us uh in Canada, this is at least what I see there is such appetite for and support for the United States. We know our politicians are losers because they don't understand we have no leverage.
Donald Trump is the master of putting himself in a position where he has two ways to win, no way to lose. Sound familiar? But it's totally accurate and our fools in politics and the uni party don't understand. We don't have leverage. and he just took, you know, by by doing what by getting involved in Venezuela completely removed any leverage that Canada has. And I've been advocating on the radio cuz I know so many of and there are good people in politics, too, who are as frustrated as you and I. Uh they're a little bit lower level. They're, you know, behind the scenes. They're working as staffers and stuff. And I keep trying to tell them, Trump, read Art of the Deal. Just read it. None of them have read it. Just read it. He wants you to make a deal. and he wants you to come to him because he's going to put himself in the dominant position. And I say, you know why he is? Because the America is
the greatest economy and military force throughout human civilization. You're not going to have leverage over that. So just make him happy. You know, there there are many many ways you can offer him different overtures and we can all come together. That's what they want. And I do know from people inside the administration, big donors, what they want from Canada. You know, want it's pretty pragmatic. They want they don't want to take over Canada as a 51st state. Who wants to deal with our, you know, 25% that will vote communist no matter what. They don't want to deal with that. But what they do want to have is something similar to what Europe was supposed to be with the EU, which is one economic zone. Get rid of the border.
have free and open trade between Canada and the US. Americans can work in Canada. Canadians can work in America. And that will allow American industry to move in to the largest plot of natural resources on the planet that have not been expropriated. And it would make America or this, you know, pan or unified American economy such a threat to China that China becomes a barfly. Which cat is that? Is that Gary?
Yeah, Gary's awesome. Um, so that's what they want. And I think ultimately if we played our cards right in Canada, that's what we'll get. But it's just frustrating to watch this unnecessary theater go on to push back against what are you pushing back? They're 80% of our economy or sorry 76% of our economy. We're not pushing back. Just work with them. And the other thing is the last point on this it's Americans and my Americans friends al often struggle to understand especially the the farther south you go 90% of Canadians live within an hour drive of the border. I'm an hour from Niagara Falls in Toronto which is the biggest city. We're the same culture. If you go to Alberta and North Dakota it's the same culture. Same thing where I live. If you're in upstate New York and Toronto, we have all the same cultural references, the same media, the same influences. So, we really are the same a very I I think we
are the same culture. The difference is Canadians are more passive whereas Americans are more aggressive, which is why I always get criticized and say, "You behave more like an American." And I say, "Well, thank you."
Yeah, I disagree. You do, Sergio? Yes, I do. Uh, but I don't think we have time to to tell you everything I disagree with you, BJ.
Next time, Sergio. Maybe you know what? Let's do a spaces on Owens on Saturday. Maybe
if I can on Saturday, I'll I'll try to join. The Saturday ones are difficult, but I'll see if I can.
Uh, well, all right. With all that being said, okay, so you have a whole new fan base going on right now, which I'm so thrilled about and the chat loves you. I love you. Like, you've just been always an amazing, interesting person. And I'm glad to know you and I'm glad that you accepted the invitation. Um, and I hope when I ask you a million more times that you'll come back because you have so many interesting viewpoints. You you get it. And everybody's like, "Wow." Everyone's saying, "Please come back. We love you. Way to go. You know, I'm following him. I'm going to subscribe to him." So, you were um very illuminating for a lot of us and we really appreciate you being here. Um and we can't wait to see you again. So, we'll make sure that we drop all your info um after the show so everybody can follow you. And if you you know what BJ I'll tag you and if you can like put like where you I'll make a post right
after this and you just put all the places that you stream and everything and everyone will follow.
Okay. And um Shelley was having technical difficulties today. Oh, we can hear you.
All right. Shel want to say anything? Yes. Thank you for coming on. That was wonderful. Unfortunately, I missed the first part trying to figure out how I was going to hook up to these earphones with Scott's information. So, I finally did. So, I can hear at least the last part of it. But yes, thank you. I will relisten to to it um again afterwards. But
well, Shel, just since it's our first time talking, the first thing is um my my thoughts are with you and uh we all
I [snorts] don't break down in tears a lot, but when when I saw you come on that stream, that was a difficult moment for a lot of us. And I think um you are all so honorable trying to build out the Scott Adam School. If I can ever help with suggestions or ideas, I'm I'm here from you. Uh I love all you guys. I think you're doing God's work in trying to make this happen. And I think it's important to have and I think you all understand this. I'm sure your listeners would agree. It's important to maintain the frame of like what I admired about Scott so much is he wouldn't live in the past.
And we have such an opportunity of this massive archive of lessons and framing of the world that he's left behind to use those to springboard for a brighter future and to help new people understand how those lessons of the past will apply to them in their future life. And I think if that becomes part of the the goal of what the uh oh sorry the system of the Scott Adams school uh I think you're going to be hugely successful and I wish you all the best of luck.
Thank you so much. Yes, I definitely that's definitely wanted and you know it was a short time for me to break into this world but uh he said I could do it so here I am doing my best. So definitely I will reach out to you. Yes, I
definitely need um some guidance on this. So appreciate it and yes I I watched for the first time I watched back the celebration of life. Sorry my voice is going for some reason. Um, and you know, I had to laugh because I wrote down, you know, I knew I was going to be nervous, so I wrote it down and I told myself I I like I couldn't get past it, so I told myself, I'm going to read it. So, I got my hair done. Thank you to my hair stylist, uh, Kristen and Felicia. Um, I had good hair, but I went to go I went to read, you know, I was reading it because I was so nervous to her for the first time because I thought, okay, this would be like if I was reading it, you know, to everybody and I could not get I couldn't do it. I was balling. I I just couldn't get through it. I was so grateful that I did that because I don't think I would have been able to get up there to to say it.
I couldn't get past the first few words. Um, so anyways, I was very grateful for that. But in that, I got all the years wrong. You know how Scott is with dates. He he, you know, he
and names and names. He tells, you know, every time he would tell me to put it in my calendar because he's like, "Okay, this is the date. You need to put it in your calendar and you need to remind me and you do all this stuff." And here I go. I have it on the paper. 2003, 2004, 2005. I'm like 2024, 2026. I'm like, really? Are you really channeling through me right now? Anyways, it was very, but
I know. I figured you guys knew. I start I think I started off wrong, but I corrected myself and then I just kept going wrong.
You did the weave. Yeah, I think they got I think they got it. We We understood. We understood, Shelly. We understood. We said 2022. We knew. We did the translation. The deal will filter. Thank you. Yeah, it was it was tough, but I'm so grateful that I was able to do it off camera.
You did an amazing job. You you did right by Scott and listen, you're there and you know, you know, you're live streaming. You have all these professional people who are speakers and authors,
right? And you're like, "Okay, no pressure, right?" Yeah. How do I follow that? Like, but I was great. I honestly I was really grateful that I was able to do it because I did have this I had it I g gave it to someone just in case I couldn't get through it. Um so I was really grateful that I got so
well you were amazing and also Owen thank you for always doing those spaces like clockwork.
I try to join when I can and uh they're great. They're very helpful and uh hats off to you brother.
Thanks. All right, guys. So, listen. Let's have a closing sip. Scott liked to keep on time and um we will see you back here tomorrow. We have another amazing guest tomorrow. Different topic, different subject, but very Scott approved. Okay, so we'll look forward to seeing you guys later. I'll post a message with BJ's info and he will follow up. Make sure to like, follow, subscribe, and same with these channels too, you guys. Okay. So, we'll see you tomorrow to Scott.
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Who speaks in "Episode 3081 - The Scott Adams School 01/27/26"?
Scott Adams (Guest), Shelly (Guest), Owen (Guest), BJ Dictor (Guest), Sergio (Guest), Marcela (Guest).
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In this session, the conversation revolves around a series of humorous and chaotic moments tied to technical difficulties, unexpected events like a car crashing into a residence, and the lighthearted atmosphere shared among the group. The hosts prepare to engage with their audience while navigating these spontaneous challenges, promising a blend of entertainment and informal discussion.
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The episode runs 1 h 2 min; the transcript is about 10,793 words in 115 timestamped sections.
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