Ah, so good. Come on in. We're going to have a guest and you don't know who it is yet. And it would be really good. Do not have applesauce on me. I could really use a towel on my chest. Come on in.

So I'll tell you what we're up to very soon. Going to use lots of napkins.

So here's the plan. I'm going to test some guests who have already signed in but have not yet been approved. The technology will be a little wonky today. Let's see what happens.

All right. Let's see if I can check out some people in no particular order and you'll get to talk maybe.

Can everybody hear me?

All right, let me pick Richard.

So on the Locals platform I just invite participants. I'm trying to invite. Let's see what happens. Require approval. Yes, in progress. So separate way.

I'll be with you as soon as I figure out the technology here.

You're in the waiting room. Good participants. I know you're in the waiting room. See what happens.

Well, clicking on the participants doesn't help. Invite participants. Huh? Why doesn't it work?

Two of nine want to go in. There's only two of us, but Richard is off. It could be that Richard does not have his microphone on.

Let's go to the waiting room where there are many more people. I'm going to accept, accept, accept, accept. And then we'll go that way.

Really? Can I not really figure this out?

So it'd be participants four out of nine. Let's see what happens when I go to the auto.

Okay, that's just me. Duo. Just me.

This would be really cool if it worked. So I guess you're going to bear with me. What do you say? Just me, right?

Time to take a free sip. Yep, that burned me. Ouch.

Good morning. All right.

Still trying to get anything but me on the screen. So there's the screen share. There is not that. It's a participation. Copy invite. That part worked. What is that? Accept. Is it accepted? Requires approval. Yes. Accept. Accept. Accept. Accept.

Now I've got participants, six of nine participants. They're in the waiting room and I click on them and nothing happens. If I go to the participants, there's a whole bunch of people with their microphones off. But the microphones do not come on.

Hello. Can you hear me?

Whoa. What's this? Promote to moderator. Let's try this. Somebody might be getting promoted to a moderator, but I don't know who.

I cannot make out this interface at all.

All right. Require approval. Yes, man. Waiting room. Ingress. Nothing. Participants. I've actually got a new moderator picked but it doesn't go active. It's all red. All right, let's try this. I'm going to take a picture of my screen.

We're going to go old tech here. Oh no. I'm going to take a picture of my screen and then you're going to tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong. And I'm going to send this to anybody who knows what button to push.

Of course it's totally unreadable.

All right. So I've got this. Oh, maybe this is it. Oh, hold on. What happens if I pick solo and pick you? Then that would have to be still trying to get the... All right.

So you can see me now, right?

So here's what we're going to do. If I go to my Locals, I won't be able to see your comments.

Could you not hear me before? There was no sound before.

All right, for a few minutes we're going to let you come in and just enjoy the day and then we'll do a simultaneous sip.

I was hoping that some of you had looked at the news today and you could be my instant co-hosts. But there does seem no way to put another face on here without really making me mad.

So if it were a duo, let's see what happens with the duo. Duo, nothing changes. Auto. Let's see if auto changes.

I've definitely got people here who want to come in, but we cannot figure out how you can talk among yourselves. That would be perfectly acceptable.

All right. So if you're coming in late, I was trying to wake up late unprepared and simply post some of you on the screen. If you didn't notice, there's a link to join that is on Locals. So if you go to my Locals feed, it has to be on mine, you should see the invitation. It will apply only to Locals people who can find it. If you can't find it, it's not going to work.

And then I would go back to... Oh, here we go.

Hey, Scott.

What just happened?

I enabled my camera.

All right. Who am I talking to?

This is Richard Pickett, one of your fans.

Oh my god. So are you telling me that the problem was not on my side?

Yes. I thought you maybe had accidentally invited some of us into the studio and you didn't really expect us to be here. So out of respect for you, I just kept my camera and my microphone off.

Oh, so the whole time I thought the problem was on my end.

It was just us.

Yay. Yay.

All right. So we are deep into the simultaneous experience. I'm going to read it off of my other cup and then use my real cup. Is everybody ready for this?

All right. The simultaneous sip. All you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the emperor's pleasure of the day here today. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip which is actually in my other cup. It's time. Go.

Now I can hear everybody's microphone unless you turn it off. You don't have to turn it off because I want this to feel like you're just in my living room and you were all invited over. Some of you have some beverages, some of you don't. So of course there'd be some background noise, but the vibe would be we just found some stuff to talk about.

Now if you could hear yourself you probably want to turn it down real low in the background.

Does anybody have anything to eat? No. Is there anybody who wants to tell me what's going on today in the news? You just volunteer.

And by the way, if you don't have anything to talk about, perfectly fine. We're just getting together and experiencing the simultaneity.

And as you can see the chat is working fine. So we've got it looks like we've got as many people as...

Here's an update. I think I'm hearing myself. Let me test this. Am I hearing myself? Am I hearing myself? Not bad.

So the big reason I can't work this morning and maybe not again in the usual way is that my hands have some kind of a shaking and when I try to type my hands be phantom typing. So I keep selecting things that would you know put me in jail and so I can do voice to text. It just would take up maybe... don't cry, I'm here. It just won't be as good.

Oh, who do we have in the middle? Who is it? Who is the nice woman with the glasses on in the middle of my screen?

That's me, Nicole.

Hi.

Hi. It's great to see you and talk to you today.

Is there anything you wanted to say?

Oh man, I didn't know I was going to be on, you know, so I'm not prepared. But I didn't do anything this morning. I had my breakfast tacos and my matcha latte and I didn't read the news yet.

Well here's what we can do for you. There's nobody who doesn't speak and if you get off you totally have nothing to say. You should always have something prepared. So not very good point.

That's a deal.

Yeah. But funny always says always have a story prepared because you never know. So and the second thing you learn is not to be. So if you can do those three things, not be embarrassed and also come up with a story, you could have a really successful morning because that's just practice.

So here's my putting you on the spot for the purpose of giving you practice being put on the spot. Number one, and this applies to all but one of us. One of us is the right distance from the screen. It's a gentleman on the top right of my screen. I don't know where you are, but the bearded gentleman with the headphones. Wave if you hear me.

So he I believe he probably has more experience than you do in how to set up the right height and everything. You also want to make sure that you're at the right. So he's got the right height and the right distance. When all of these it didn't look like the distance now and by the way I see your screen name. Hearing problem right now. What's your name? The nice woman in the glasses. Wait, what's your name?

Nicole.

Nicole. So Nicole you're now perfectly set up and you are the inspiration to the rest of us. So you got the right height and you got the right distance. If you get too close it's creepy to the person that is viewing. So that's all right.

Now I stalled a little bit and it made me wonder if I could tell you a little story, very short, doesn't have to be long, about anything from what was the first time you joined Coffee with Scott Adams. Because the reason you practice with that one is that you already know the answer. You don't have to think about this presentation. So with our permission and mostly with your permission just tell us briefly how you came upon it, how long you've been watching it, and then also make it succinct so we can get to somebody else.

Perfect. Okay. So I always read Dilbert growing up and I was always, when I would go on my work travels in particular, I'd be riding the London tube and I would be just like stifling my laughter because it's not really appropriate to laugh out loud on the tube. And so it was, you know, I already knew of you through that. But then I started looking for the comic online when I stopped getting the newspaper. And I think it was through reading the comic online that I heard about your blog. And then it was through the blog that I eventually heard about the Periscope. So I've been watching for a long time. But yeah, that's how I really just found you by seeking out Dilbert comics and then liking the blog content and moving on to liking the Periscope and just keeping on going.

So I would rate that A+.

Excellent. I also just realized that Matt who has added his name to the screen. So apparently there's an option for adding your name, right?

That's correct.

Matt, can you tell us what you do for a living that would suggest why you kind of were the first and best role model? What is it in your background?

Well, the funny thing is that I'm a software engineer, so I already work from home. I have a setup for all this. So the distance from the screen, I take meetings all day like this. Actually probably should be in a meeting right now, but you know, there's sometimes more important things, I'll be honest. But yeah, I've been doing this for a long time and I started listening to you back in 2016. Read your blog. Came upon your very first Periscopes you were doing as well. The first simultaneous sip. So been around for a long time. Often I haven't been here every day throughout that time but there's been periods of time where I listen a lot. Sometimes work makes it very hard for me to join live. So oftentimes my listening is later in the day. But you know I have always appreciated the sips and yeah just I had started in the corporate world right when I met you or you know met you through your Periscope and everything and your blogs. So it was a perfect time for me to start my career. And honestly you've had a tremendous influence on the trajectory of my career and how far that's gone for me up to this point. So thank you so much for that.

Wow. You're very good at this. The only thing I would advise is if I can see your ceiling then your camera setup has to be a little bit higher.

I usually blur out the background actually when I'm in my work meetings, but that's a great point. So thank you.

And there's these, I think you've seen it in the man cave. There's these little wooden stands there. They say it's for your printer but it's way better for adjusting your camera. So that's appreciate that. Thank you.

All right. Excuse me. There's going to be some in the middle of my screen. I see two gentlemen who are bearded who do not have their names up. Is it intentional that I can't see your name because there's obviously a place to put it somewhere?

I think I have my name but it I see that it's showing up on the bottom bar but not showing up on your presenter view. I'm not sure why it's not displaying in Rumble.

This is going to go away from me right away.

But also I don't see anyone else's names in the top view. I only see their names down where we're pictured below. So now Matt's name is gone. I wonder why. Let me try.

Bearded man number one and bearded man number two. We'll try sorting that out.

All right. So I'm going to try some other people coming in just to give them a c