u all may I make one point about the affirmations?

Yes.

So in one of your books or in several of your listenings you had said that you had not kind of figured out how to make the affirmations or why they work. I actually did some research on it and so the neurobiology of your brain. So you have an area of your brain called the reticular activating system and so your brain itself only follows... I've developed the whole system and largely credit to you but your brain will follow instructions unconsciously. So it'll search for meaning throughout the day. And so whatever you put into it I'm going to sing beautifully to my wife or I'm going to be the best number one comic in the world. Your brain finds meaning in the world. And so it's how we are neurobiologically wired so that we could survive. And so we need to find food. We need to find a mate. We need to find shelter. When we're programming our mind into the affirmation itself it actually searches for meaning where there wasn't one. Like you buy a car and all of a sudden you see that car or you've bought a house and all of a sudden you see that house. That's the neurobiology wiring for it. So anyways thanks for helping me go down that rabbit hole. Now I'm seeing I don't see who is talking. I can't figure that out.

They had their camera off.

I had my camera off Scott. So I was just chiming in. Thanks.

One more thing. Can I add to it? That thing taught us was the embarrassment superpower right? That not getting embarrassed is a superpower. And yeah that's definitely very helpful. Just want to add that. Thanks.

Do we have a cat? All right we're gonna go to Catman.

I can get off mute. I don't know how long Catman will last. This is Cat Peanut and she's very unhappy about it.

Well did you have something you'd like to contribute or

Yeah. They don't do it. They don't do it.

Yeah cats are not very patient. Yeah thanks. Thanks Scott. This is such a fun format and kudos to the gentleman that sang on live. So the thing I wanted to share was how freeing it is that not being afraid of embarrassment. That's had a huge impact for me. Just not taking yourself too seriously and living life like the adventure that it is. So that's been hugely impactful for me. So I appreciate that Scott. And this format's a lot of fun. So

I was not expecting that. I'm I've missed four work calls. A lot of emails are coming in but this is a lot more fun. What can I say? So good choice.

Yes. And as time goes by you're all going to realize that the person who got the most out of this is the gentleman who sang for us because it was the biggest risk and the biggest reward and that was well taken.

So all right let's see if we can get some more on international news. See if anybody's into Venezuela because I feel like I'm a little bit behind on Ukraine and Venezuela and China's response. Is there anybody who's caught up this morning?

No. Here.

All right let's take a gentleman with the white earphones on and then after that we'll talk about some international news.

Hey good morning Mr. Adams.

Hi.

Thank you for having me. I just wanted to tune in. Thank you so much for all the time energy and effort you put into your show. You know I found you about three years ago when you had initially gotten cancelled. And around that time for the past four or five years I was really interested in the non-stop sensationalism around race and critical race theory and it left me really frustrated and skeptical about how we were shifting as a society on the topic of racism. And when you got cancelled for your comments I just didn't buy the media narrative about it. And I didn't believe you were actually a racist because I felt like that false accusation was going around so much. So I actually started watching your videos mainly to fact check and see for myself. And I ended up deciding that I didn't believe the media narrative about you. But I also realized I stumbled onto something genuinely amazing. Your commentary on politics and culture and life is some of the most clear-eyed and insightful stuff I've ever come across. And actually when I found you I was struggling hard with addiction, career direction, relationship issues. And I was just trying to figure out what the hell my purpose was and your perspective and reframes have been a really bright spot in a pretty rough spot in my life. And I was able to quit my addiction. I was really deep into I don't know if you guys know what it is but it's essentially that at least the levels that I was doing it kind of like painkillers. I was able to stabilize my career and expand on my business that I've been running for the past 10 years. I was able to pursue building talent stacks and save my relation