November 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Who is Scott Adams? In the finale, we tell the story of how the legacy media attempted to cancel Scott Adams...and how he brushed it off to become an independent media icon.
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Previously on Red Pilled.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
America, Scott was one of the few pop culture figures
that saw Trump winning the election.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
He posted a critique about the lack of context provided
by the media, and then the mainstream media swiftly took
his post out of context.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I was doing a blogging about the election back in
twenty fifteen. I started talking about Trump's talent stack for
persuasion in particular, and I've been studying persuasion for decades,
and when I saw Trump last summer, I thought, oh
my god, he's not a crazy clown. And I called
him to be the landslide winner in the general election
last year.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Crazy Bernie.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean, this is like sixth grade level stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
But that's so wrong, No, so wrong.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Things could get dangerous tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Who is Scott Adams. I'm Patrick CARELCI and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
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You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. It was a Wednesday morning in February
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twenty twenty three, and Scott Adams began his day the
same way he did every morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine
end of the day thing that tankes everything better.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's called this. I don't think he's.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Sip the Dilbert Artist went on to discuss America's hottest
news items. But on this morning with this live stream,
Scott would make some news of his own.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Rasmussen Poll had a provocative little pole today. They said,
do you agree or disagree with a statement it's okay
to be white? Twenty six percent of blacks said no,
it's not okay to be white.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Only one percent were sure.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Adam together, that is forty seven percent of black respondents,
we're not willing to say it's okay to be white.
So if you know, nearly half of all blacks are
not okay with white people according to this poll.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Not according to me, that's a hate group.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And Scott's advice on how to respond to this poll
would eventually trigger a national media outrage, just as the
Delbert Artist expected. We're at the finale of our series
of episodes entitled The Internet Dat. We're looking for the
answer to the question who is Scott Adams by telling
the story of the famed comic strip artist, author, and podcaster.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So to pick up where we left off. By election
night twenty sixteen, Scott's prediction had astonishingly come true. Real
estate mogul and reality TV star Donald J. Trump became
President of the United States. The outcome was a validation,
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but Scott warned his followers to be understand their celebration.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Let me you remind all of you.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That a little bit of silent gloating, a little bit
of you know, low level celebration, maybe inside your house
among your family members, that's appropriate.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You know, you worked hard. Probably you got what you wanted.
But I think it would be a big mistake to
take your gloating into the street. Don't take it to work.
Time to take the bumper sticker off your car. Things
could get dangerous tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The media veteran could tell that trouble was brewing for
those that showed anything but contempt for the president elect,
and as someone who made a living within the legacy media,
Scott was one of the first to feel the consequences.
They branded Scott a Trump apologist. His public speaking engagements
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dried up, Dilbert licensing deals vanished, the live action Dilbert
movie that was in the works aided away as well,
as did by his estimation, seventy five percent of his
friends and acquaintances. At one point, he thought Facebook was
glitching because many of his friend's posts were no longer
in his feed, but there was no glitch. The Trump
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haters unfriended him. However, the cartoon artist didn't seem fazed.
Whether it was his maturity, his few money, his power
of positive thinking worldview, or just the comfort of knowing
that he was right. Scott continued praising Trump's persuasion skills,
and as the months and years progressed, his angles shifted
from just explaining Trump's technique to believing the real estate
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mogul could become a monumental force for good in the
nation and the world. Even with his regular Dilbert business opportunities,
drawing up a new business model was beginning to blossom
for him, that being podcasting. Because you see Scott Adams
daily impromptu Twitter live streams evolved into a podcast he
(05:58):
called Real Coffee with Scott Adams. Every morning at seven
a eight, without fail, Scott powered up his camera and
pontificated on the news of the day. Bum At first,
the show started off with a simple ritual once Scott
dubbed the Simultaneous Sip, where viewers joined the comic strip
artist in a morning drink of coffee before analyzing the headlines.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Is everybody ready for the simultaneous sip. I know that's
why you came, and I'm ready. If I'm ready, You're ready.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's like a cyber cheers. But as the show evolved,
Scott started to experiment with the jingle to accompany the sip,
eventually landing on the show's iconic opening jingle.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
If you want to take it up to a level
where there's no doubt, no doubt, this is the finest
moment of your life, Well, then all you need is
a cupper of mugger glass, attacker Chellis or Stye in
the canteen, j other flask, a vessel of any kind,
filling with your favorite liquid, I like coffee. Enjoin me
now for the unparallel pleasure of the dope, I mean,
the other day thing that makes everything better.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's called the simultaneous sip.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Scott would later tell Red Pilled America why he came
up with the jingle.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I started out doing that because I was stalling because
it was a live show and I know people were
coming late, and if I like, get right into the
good meat, then everybody's what did he say? And it
just becomes distracting. So I thought, well, I got a
vamp for the first sentence. But as a hepnotist, it
was obvious to me that if I paired the thought
of your delicious beverage with a little memorable, little jingle,
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that it would be kind of sticky.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And indeed, it was like in the early nineteen nineties
when he placed his email in the border of his comic,
or when he published Dilbert for free on a new
thing called the Internet, or when he started blogging. Just
like all of those efforts, Scott's podcast experiment was opening
new doors for the Dilbert creator, and his show would
soon catch the eye of a hip hop icon. During
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a twenty eighteen Turning Point USA tour, then conservative activist
Candace Owens and the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk were berated
by Black Lives Matter protesters when Candace let loose on
the hecklers.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I don't know why people like being oppressed.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
The weirdest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
I love oppression.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
We're oppressed for hundred years of slavery, Jim Crow.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Which, by the way, none of you guys lived through
your grandparents, And it's embarrassing that.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You utilize you utilize their history. You're not living through
anything right now, your overly privileged American. The moment was
caught on camera and spread online, eventually landing in the
social media feed of the rapper than known as Kanye West.
In her he must have seen a kindred provocateur, because
Kanye posted to Twitter quote, I love the way Candace
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Owens thinks. Scott Adams saw this as a paradigm shift.
He took to his podcast to explain its significance.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
He tweeted, I like the way Candas Owens thinks seven
words and he ripped a hole in reality with seven words.
And they're not ever supposed to say. The other one
said something right, all right, that's not supposed to happen.
But Kanye did it anyway. He did something that you
(09:14):
could rarely see.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He just freed.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
A lot of people from a mental prison. Kanye in
seven words, unlocked a mental prison and is bringing you
to the Golden Age.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Scott went on his whiteboard to describe this new epoch.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The golden age I define as a time when everything
is largely going right. You know, all the big stuff
is heading in the right direction. Nothing's perfect, We're heading
in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, Scott's whiteboard presentation made its way to Kanye West.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
To the surprise of no one who follows me, Kanye
West has been retweeting Scott Adams watching Scott Adams videos.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It was a big moment for the comic strip artist.
The man who got his start in nineteen eighty nine
with Dilbert was now almost thirty years later being promoted
by the biggest hip hop artist.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You can claim that kind of relevance over decades. His
new podcast, Endeavor was making waves, but later that same year,
a tragedy struck that would open his eyes to a
hidden war being waged on America.
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So by twenty eighteen,
Scott Adams had done it again. Real Coffee with Scott
Adams helped him successfully transition into yet another online business,
podcasting Hip hop icon Kanye West had even become a fan.
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He may have been persona non grata within the halls
of legacy media, but his independent media ventures were taking
on off. However, by the close of the year, a
personal tragedy struck four years earlier, Scott and his wife, Shelley, divorced,
but he remained in his stepchildren's lives. One morning in
late twenty eighteen, he got a call that is every
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parent's worst nightmare.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Oh, yesterday I got a call from my ex wife
who told me that my step son, the little boy
that I raised from the.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Age of two, was dead.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He died last night or maybe early in the morning yesterday,
we're not sure, in his bed from what appears to
be a fence in all overdose.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
According to Scott, his son had been struggling with addiction
for a long time, possibly stemming from a head injury
he suffered when he was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He lost his impulse control, he lost his he lost
his fear.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
So I got to watch.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
My dead, blue bloated son taken out on the stretcher
in front of his mother and biological father. And because
the law in California, there was actually nothing that we
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could do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The laws of the Golden State don't allow parents to
commit their children to rehab even if they're effectively killing
themselves with drugs.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So fentanyl, mostly from China, I understand probably killed my
son yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
My stepson, the event opened his eyes to the then
rarely discussed crisis in America because fentanyl, the same drug
that killed his son, was killing American youth by a
jaw dropping number. Ventanyl overdose related deaths in the United
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States started off relatively low in twenty ten, the CDC
hadn't even started separating them out from drug overdose statistics.
In twenty eleven, the count was nearly seventeen hundred deaths.
By twenty fourteen, that number overdoubled to roughly forty two hundred.
Two years later it over quadrupled to eighteen thousand. By
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twenty eighteen, the year of Scott's Sun's overdose, the number
reached roughly thirty thousand deaths. The carnage peaked in twenty
twenty three, when the number of American ventanyl overdoses reached
a staggering seventy six thousand deaths annually. By contrast, the
entire death total from the Vietnam War was roughly fifty
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eight thousand Americans, and that was over eight years of
heavy combat. In effect, ventanyl was a weapon of mass destruction.
And what Strucks got most was that the primary producer
of the illicit drug was China, so.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
In a very real way.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We are at war with China in sort of an
indirect way.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The issue made a deep impact on Scott, and China's
soft war with America's youth became a recurring topic on
his podcast. The following year, Scott published Loser Think, How
untrained brains Are Ruining America, a self help book warning
against bad thinking habits that, in his estimation, were destroying
public discourse. He also met another lady, Christina. They married
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the following year. The union was short lived, just two years,
but it kicked off right as the nation was gripped
by an unprecedented crisis.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
We begin tonight with the growing concern as the toll
from that deadly coronavirus now grows, spreading from Wuhan, China,
and tonight that first case here in the US, the
patient in isolation now being treated by that robot.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The arrival of COVID nineteen put many strained industries in
a chokehold, including newspapers the original launching pad of the
Dilbert comic strip, So Scott looked to reinvent his business
model again. In April twenty twenty, he launched a channel
on Locals, a subscription platform where fans pay for exclusive
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content and community access. The pivot to online patronage showed
Scott adapting to the changing media landscape, a prescient move
given what was about to happen. As the twenty twenty
presidential campaign was in full swing, violent riots broke out
across the nation.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Day in full riot gear.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
The police marched into the street as people began throwing
water bottles, all of it evidence of the anger over
George Floyd's death.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
Overnighty, Minneapolis on fire.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
There's a fire.
Speaker 11 (16:54):
It does appear that that fire.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Is a police station.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
Chaos filled Minneapolis streets for a.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
Four I have no where to go now.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
This country is on fire.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
We are facing an insurrection by people that we don't
quite understand who they are, but by all indications they
are violent leftist thugs.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The unchecked riots breaking out all over the country showed
that law enforcement would not or could not protect law
abiding citizens. Scott saw this as a harbinger of what
was to come if Joe Biden was elected president, and
so he made another bold prediction.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
So is it true that there's a chance, and I said,
a good chance that you would be hunted if you're
a Trump's supporter and Biden gets into office, let me
support that assertion.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Scott believed the unchecked violence occurring while Trump was still
in office, pointed to the high likelihood that Trump supporters
would be hunted during the Biden administration. Many in the
legacy media mocked his prediction.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Listen to this conservative cartoon of Scott Adams set in
twenty twenty that if Biden were elected, it would mean
that there is a good chance you will be dead
within a year. Republicans will be hunted.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
But in the wake of Joe Biden's twenty twenty election,
if there was any critique to Scott's prediction, it was
that he didn't go far enough.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
Former Prowdboys leader Enrique Tario slacked with a twenty two
year prison sentence after he was convicted on seditious conspiracy
and other charges in the federal January sixth investigation.
Speaker 13 (18:32):
Macki is a thirty one year old conservative journalist from Florida.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
At seven am, FBIS showed up at Mackie's house.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
They threw him in handcuffs, and they dragged him to
a cell top.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
Former Trump local advisor Seve Bannon sentenced to four months
in prison.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in Arizona today to
face multiple charges.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
The official mugshot of Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Meadows just surrendered to Georgia authorities.
Speaker 12 (18:55):
Federal officials raided the home of Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
That's right, he is a Trump era Justice Department official.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Day Powell, one of the nineteen co defendants in the
Trump election case in Fulton County, pleaded guilty. Former President
Donald Trump scheduled to be arrested and arraigned this afternoon
on dozens of federal criminal charges in this Miami courthouse.
Speaker 12 (19:18):
Former President Donald Trump just surrendered at the notorious Fulton
County Jail in Atlanta. Trump booked processed on thirteen charges,
including conspiracy and racketeering related to attempts to overturn the
twenty twenty election. Like all other people who walked through
the doors of that jail, the former president was fingerprinted,
had his weight and height recorded, and a mugshot was taken.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Take a look what happened.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Shots were fired earlier this evening at a rally for
former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, while he was
speaking on stage mister Trump was rushed away bleeding from
his ear.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
The Secret Service.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Says the suspected gunman and a person attending the event
were killed and two others critically hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Scott's prediction was unmistakably correct. President Biden's tenure marked hunting
season on Trump supporters. So, perhaps out of a sense
of self preservation or just comedic relief, Scott made a
provocative announcement.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I've decided to self identify as black. So here's why
I've decided to self identify as black. Number one, I
like to be on the winning team. After hundreds of years,
it does look like the black situation that is doing
pretty well, whereas the white situation was sort of decreasing,
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wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I like being on the winning team.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Number two, I'm told by science that all of us
have African roots. Now, if it's truly, we all have
African roots. If you look at the full arc of
human evolution, most of the time.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I've been African.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
In other words, my family and ancestry probably spent more
time African than they.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Did in Europe.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So I say, genetically, I've got an argument there. I've
also lost two careers for my race. My boss told
me directly, you're white, we can't promote you. And I've
also done more work to benefit the black community than
any other, so I would say that's my affinity group,
and that's what I choose.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
In May two, Black Dilbert artist Scott Adams introduced a
new character to his comic strip canon, Dave the Black Engineer,
an African American cubicle warrior that identified as white. In
one Dilbert comic strip, Dave was introduced to the office
staff as the new diversity higher, but Dave threw a
wrench in the company's diversity efforts by announcing he identified
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as white. The character was used to mock the contradictions
in the diversity, equity and inclusion movement that was holding
corporate America hostage. DEEI movement, as it came to be known,
had taken root in academia and was being amplified by
the legacy media. Critical race theorists like Abram x Kindy
were effectively arguing that anti white policies were needed to
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counter white privilege in America, but the movement had it backwards.
The black community had extraordinary privilege on the topic of race.
Blacks could openly express anti white sentiments with no social repercussions,
like when the YouTube channel Cut asked a large group
of black people what white people were superior at? What
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exactly White people superior at?
Speaker 13 (22:42):
Insecurity, pretending fear, being fearful of nothing, being ignorant, blame,
letting their egos control their every move, superior at big dicks.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Anti white rhetoric had become so mainstreamed that one study
showed that more than one third of white students were
lying about their race on college applications. Also, their whiteness
wouldn't be held again in the admissions process. Gilbert's Dave
of the Black Engineer was Scott's tool to address this
topic from an angle that exposed the absurdity of the
DEI movement in the very newspapers that were used to
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push these policies on Americans. Well, the legacy media didn't
like what they saw in the mirror that Scott was
holding up to them, and in September twenty twenty two,
the newspaper chain Lee Enterprises dropped Dilbert from seventy seven
of its newspapers. Scott believed it was due to his
comic strip's commentary on wokeness in the workplace. His theory
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was given credence when the next month the San Francisco
Chronicle dropped Dilbert as well, citing some of the anti
woke themes in the comic strip. Scott Adams could see
the writing on the wall. Newspapers, the initial launching pad
for his comic strip empire, were going to double down
on woke advocacy even while their industry was sinking. So
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a few months later, when the respected rest Musen Report
published a shocking poll, Scott sees on a perfect opportunity
to speak out against racism. If you want to join
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Speaker 2 (24:42):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So by the beginning
of twenty twenty three, it was clear to Scott Adams
that the newspaper industry was going to double down on
woke advocacy even while the industry was sinking. So when
the respected Rasmusen Reports published a shocking poll, Scott saw
the perfect opportunity to speak out against racism while accelerating
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his exit from the newspaper business.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, Rasmussen pole had a provocative little pole today. They said,
do you agree or disagree with a statement it's okay
to be white? Twenty six percent of blacks said no,
it's not okay to be white. Twenty one percent weren't sure.
Adam together, that is forty seven percent of black respondents
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were not willing to say it's ok to be white.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
That's like a real pole. This just happened.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Did you have any idea? Would you have imagined that
that could have happened? So I realized, as you know,
I've been identifying as black for a while years now
because I you know, I like to be on the
winning team. But it turns out that nearly half of
that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white, which
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is of course why I identified as black. But as
of today, I'm going to reidentify as white. Because I
don't want to be a member of a hate group.
I'd accidentally joined a hate group. So if you know,
nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white
people according to this pole, not according to me.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
According to this pole, that's.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
A hate group, and I don't want to have anything.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
To do with them.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And I would say, you know, based on the current
way things are going, the best advice I would give
to white people is to get the hell away from
black people. Just to get the away wherever you have
to go. Just get away, because there's no fixing this.
This can't be fixed. All right, this can't be fixed.
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You just have to escape. Now we should be friendly.
Like I'm not saying start a war or you know,
do anything bad, nothing like that. I'm just saying, get away,
just get away.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Scott knew that the woke legacy media would position his
hyperbole as literal. They'd never interpret the nuance of his
statement that, according to the Rasmusen poll, latent anti white
racism was nearly at a majority. I mean, just think
about this for a minute. If a reputable poll found
nearly half of white Americans disagreed with the statement, it's
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okay to be black. The legacy media would spend months,
maybe even years, on how that one pole was scientific
proof of white supremacy in America. They would demand national
legislation addressing the issue. They'd hal every GOP politician in
front of the microphone to demand they condemn the poll's findings.
We don't have to imagine how enormous that pole would be,
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because there isn't a news cycle where the legacy media
doesn't spin the most benign statement into a racially charged controversy.
Yet the media didn't smell even a whiff of anti
white racism in this ress Musen poll. They gaslight the
public by completely ignoring the poll results and instead took
Scott Adams out of context to call him the racist.
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Practically two decades earlier, Scott was attacked by the media
when he criticized their industry for not providing context in
their stories. So he must have known that they would
attack him again by stripping his commentary of its context,
and they did just that.
Speaker 14 (28:33):
We turned now to the fallout from the racist rant
by the creator of one of the nation's top comic strips.
Newspapers across the country are dropping Dilbert the.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Star Tribune in Minneapolis has joined the Los Angeles Times,
Washington Post, and USA Today no longer printing the cartoon,
poking fund and office culture.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
The legacy media even claimed that blacks in the resmusen
pol were just announcing a white supremacy phrase.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
Adams referencing a recent poll during his YouTube show Wednesday
and taking aim at Black America who disagreed with the
statement It's okay to be white, a hate slogan used
by white supremacists according to the Anti Defamation League.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And in a not so shocking twist, the legacy media
used racist terms in denouncing Scott's so called racism.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
In the black community.
Speaker 12 (29:19):
We have a thing called the cal cassidy, you know, Caucasians.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
The cal cassity.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Of this role to call Black people hate grew the
statement is outraged, just flee racist.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The irony was thick. Ever since Scott made it okay
to like Trump, the legacy media had a target on
his back. This was their opportunity to purge him completely
from polite society. But a few did come to Scott's defense,
like billionaire Elon Musk.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Elon Musk actually appeared today to defend him, saying the
media used to be racist to non white people, and
now they're racist against white people and Asians.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Scott published his commentary on February twenty second, twenty twenty three.
Within forty eight hours, Dilbert was eradicated from the entire
corporate media landscape. His publisher even canceled an upcoming book
citing the controversy. In the wake of his canceling, Scott
appeared on the Hotep Jesus podcast to explain his position.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I don't have any problem with any individual, and I
don't want to change the constitution. Right, everybody's got to
be treated equally. But it's a little bit smarter for
me to stay away from a group who has been
brainwashed to dislike me.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I'm a rich white guy in America. I'm very much
right in the center of those crosshairs. Now, does that
mean that I think everybody should avoid their neighbor No?
Does that mean I'm never going to talk to a
black person? No? Does that mean I will hire black people?
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Know?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
And also I assume people know hy per believe when
they see it. If you heard it in context, would
do you disagree with it? And the answer is, I
have seen anybody disagree.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
He ultimately explained that the reason why he took such
a provocative approach was to break the tribal media silos
to start a meaningful conversation about how to solve the
racial divide.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And I've been saying forever, like you know, I've got
some ideas that would work for Republicans as well as
black people, and I feel like I'm just throwing them
into the nothing.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
But so I decided to shake the box.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
So here's the answer to your original question.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Why the did I do this?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Because the box was broken and somebody needed to shake
it and we need to be able to actually break
through the bubble and actually have the conversation. And if
what that causes is mean to get canceled, I had
a good run.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Scott may have been canceled from the legacy media, but
he'd been preparing for this moment for years. In twenty twenty,
it was clear that print newspapers the launching pad of
is Dilbert comic strip, were going by the way of
the Telegram, so he created a subscription based model to
survive in the new economy. And then when he saw
the resmuse and poll, he decided to make a provocative
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statement about it and use the legacy media's predictable, manufactured
outrage to point people to his new subscription based business model.
In March twenty twenty three, he launched Dilbert Reborn, an
online comic strip basically a spicier version of Dilbert. People
flocked not only to his locals page, but also YouTube
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Rumble and the X platform. A few months later, he
gave a finger to corporate book publishers by self publishing
his new book, Reframe Your Brain, The User Interface for
Happiness and Success. Astonishingly, it cracked Amazon's top ten bestsellers
in all categories, an enormous achievement for a self published book.
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Scott had fully made the transition to independent publishing in
glorious fashion.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
As the twenty twenty four elections said ramped up, he
continued to support for a Trump presidency.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Oh in the world did Trump manage to keep his
wits and get the photo of the history. I was
gonna say a photo of the year, but it's maybe
the photo of all politics ever, and it's the most
iconic thing you'll ever see in your life.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
He put his fist in the air. He yelled, fight.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Apparently the audience was chanting USA, and somehow the American
flag was perfectly situated in the background.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
But to Scott's most attentive followers, it was clear something
was weighing on him. At times, he spoke about his
life the way people do when they're nearing the end.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Do you ever think about what you would remember if
your life flashed in front of you like you're dying.
I don't know if that really happens, but everything, like
what do you call your life? Because I find that
there are moments that I call my life.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Do you ever have that?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I don't think if my life were flashing before my eyes.
I don't think I would think about my Dilberg career,
as you know, thirty five years of doing it every day,
I don't think I would think about it. I'll tell
you what I would think about.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
If I can. I would think.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
About watching Disney movies with my step kids.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
That's it. That's what I would think about.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Then in May twenty twenty five, the world would learn
what was weighing on Scott.
Speaker 14 (34:40):
Former President Biden, We've learned has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
According to a statement released by his personal.
Speaker 14 (34:47):
Office, and they call it a more aggressive form of
the cancer.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That was the news that triggered a confession.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Well, I've decided that today's a day I'm going to
take the opportunity since a lot of you are here,
to make an announcement of my own. I have the
same cancer that Joe Biden has, So.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I also have prostate cancer that has also.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Spread to my bones. So my life expectancy is maybe
the summer.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The news led to an outpouring of support.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Scott is a daily voice in the Post so household.
We listen to him every single day. My family we
have a group chat where we share various things that
he says on coffee with Scott Adams. Scott's been someone
who's been maga from absolutely day one. He was the
first celebrity to come out and say, not only is
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Trump going to win, but explain how Trump was going
to win.
Speaker 15 (35:48):
The announcement since shock waves all over social media and
you may not understand why, but if you watch this
show you're interested in the things that I say, you
have to understand that a lot of what I learn
and talk about comes from him. He's been a mentor
of mine and I wake up every morning, and I
listened to coffee with Scott Adams, which you get on YouTube,
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and it has changed my life.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Eventually, the news got the attention of the most important
man in the world.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
So I see a phone number coming in. Somebody's calling
me from some number I don't recognize, something in Florida,
and I sent him to a voicemail. And a little
bit later, I thought, I better check that voicemail and
see if that was anything I need to deal with.
And the first sentence in the transcription, the first sentence
(36:44):
is this is your favorite president. And I thought to myself, no,
did I just send the most important person in the
world to voicemail.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And it turns out that I had.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
It was Trump and he was calling to check in,
and then he says, you know, you can call me
back on this number.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
I don't call him back.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Hours go by, it's the afternoon, same day, it's the afternoon,
and all of a sudden, another call comes through, also
from Florida, and I thought to myself, no way, there's
no way he's calling me again. And I answer it
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and it's Trump. He said, if you need anything, I'll
make it happen, and he meant it.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Scott would eventually learn of a new tumor targeting cancer
therapy called Plevicto. In October twenty twenty five, he had
scans done to determine if he was eligible for the
experimental drug, but then he wasn't getting a response. In
November twenty twenty five, Scott decided to take Trump up
on his offer, posting a message on X asking the
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President for help.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Don Junor is calling me, and secondly, I'm on this.
You know my father, My father wants me to, you know,
get this done. Then Bobby Kennedy calls me. Bobby Kennedy calls.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Me like, what could I do?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
What's the situation? Doctor Oz calls me, doctor Oz, what's
the situation?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
How could I help? Oh? My god?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
And then you may have seen that President Trump, best
president ever. He posted my message to him. That was
on actually yesterday. It was a public message and he
just said on it.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
On it.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Trump's team cleared away the barriers, and as of this writing,
Scott is undergoing the therapy, promising that if it works,
he'll do what he can to make it available to others,
which leads us back to the question, who is Scott
Adams Scott Adams is the creative soul that made generations
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working American smile. He's the artist that created Dilbert, the
champion of the cubicle warrior frustrated with the absurdity of
corporate life. He's the blogger that challenged the context free
nature of the legacy media, and the podcaster that helps
us get our days started. Scott Adams is the philosopher
that challenges us to think outside the mental prison we've
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been confined to and the Internet dad we all didn't
know we needed. And he's the cultural commentator that made
it okay to like Donald J. Trump. For years, he
contemplated if risking his empire to support Trump was worth it.
Then one day, the forty seventh president helped bring a
ceasefire to the Middle East, and that's when he found
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his answer.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
I sacrificed everything.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I sacrificed my social life, I sacrificed my career, I
sacrifice my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. And
I did that because I believed it was worth it.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Today's the day. Today's day.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I'm really happy I lived long enough to see it.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was worth it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
We once posed this question to Scott, What do you
want people to remember you by when all is said
and done.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
The age of AI and robotics has solidified what has
long been my plan for decades and decades, which is immortality,
but immortality in a useful way. And if I could
be specific, someday I guarantee you're going to be able
to pick an AI. That's me just to give you advice.
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I want to leave this place a little bit better
than I found it.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Previously on Red Pilled.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
America, Scott was one of the few pop culture figures
that saw Trump winning the election.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
He posted a critique about the lack of context provided
by the media, and then the mainstream media swiftly took
his post out of context.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I was doing a blogging about the election back in
twenty fifteen. I started talking about Trump's talent stack for
persuasion in particular, and I've been studying persuasion for decades,
and when I saw Trump last summer, I thought, oh
my god, he's not a crazy clown. And I called
him to be the landslide winner in the general election
last year.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Crazy Bernie.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean, this is like sixth grade level stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
But that's so wrong, No, so wrong.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Things could get dangerous tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Who is Scott Adams. I'm Patrick CARELCI and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The media mocks stories about everyday Americans at the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. It was a Wednesday morning in February
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twenty twenty three, and Scott Adams began his day the
same way he did every morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine
end of the day thing that tankes everything better.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's called this. I don't think he's.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Sip the Dilbert Artist went on to discuss America's hottest
news items. But on this morning with this live stream,
Scott would make some news of his own.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Rasmussen Poll had a provocative little pole today. They said,
do you agree or disagree with a statement it's okay
to be white? Twenty six percent of blacks said no,
it's not okay to be white.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Only one percent were sure.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Adam together, that is forty seven percent of black respondents,
we're not willing to say it's okay to be white.
So if you know, nearly half of all blacks are
not okay with white people according to this poll.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Not according to me, that's a hate group.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And Scott's advice on how to respond to this poll
would eventually trigger a national media outrage, just as the
Delbert Artist expected. We're at the finale of our series
of episodes entitled The Internet Dat. We're looking for the
answer to the question who is Scott Adams by telling
the story of the famed comic strip artist, author, and podcaster.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So to pick up where we left off. By election
night twenty sixteen, Scott's prediction had astonishingly come true. Real
estate mogul and reality TV star Donald J. Trump became
President of the United States. The outcome was a validation,
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but Scott warned his followers to be understand their celebration.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Let me you remind all of you.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That a little bit of silent gloating, a little bit
of you know, low level celebration, maybe inside your house
among your family members, that's appropriate.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You know, you worked hard. Probably you got what you wanted.
But I think it would be a big mistake to
take your gloating into the street. Don't take it to work.
Time to take the bumper sticker off your car. Things
could get dangerous tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The media veteran could tell that trouble was brewing for
those that showed anything but contempt for the president elect,
and as someone who made a living within the legacy media,
Scott was one of the first to feel the consequences.
They branded Scott a Trump apologist. His public speaking engagements
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dried up, Dilbert licensing deals vanished, the live action Dilbert
movie that was in the works aided away as well,
as did by his estimation, seventy five percent of his
friends and acquaintances. At one point, he thought Facebook was
glitching because many of his friend's posts were no longer
in his feed, but there was no glitch. The Trump
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haters unfriended him. However, the cartoon artist didn't seem fazed.
Whether it was his maturity, his few money, his power
of positive thinking worldview, or just the comfort of knowing
that he was right. Scott continued praising Trump's persuasion skills,
and as the months and years progressed, his angles shifted
from just explaining Trump's technique to believing the real estate
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mogul could become a monumental force for good in the
nation and the world. Even with his regular Dilbert business opportunities,
drawing up a new business model was beginning to blossom
for him, that being podcasting. Because you see Scott Adams
daily impromptu Twitter live streams evolved into a podcast he
(05:58):
called Real Coffee with Scott Adams. Every morning at seven
a eight, without fail, Scott powered up his camera and
pontificated on the news of the day. Bum At first,
the show started off with a simple ritual once Scott
dubbed the Simultaneous Sip, where viewers joined the comic strip
artist in a morning drink of coffee before analyzing the headlines.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Is everybody ready for the simultaneous sip. I know that's
why you came, and I'm ready. If I'm ready, You're ready.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's like a cyber cheers. But as the show evolved,
Scott started to experiment with the jingle to accompany the sip,
eventually landing on the show's iconic opening jingle.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
If you want to take it up to a level
where there's no doubt, no doubt, this is the finest
moment of your life, Well, then all you need is
a cupper of mugger glass, attacker Chellis or Stye in
the canteen, j other flask, a vessel of any kind,
filling with your favorite liquid, I like coffee. Enjoin me
now for the unparallel pleasure of the dope, I mean,
the other day thing that makes everything better.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's called the simultaneous sip.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Scott would later tell Red Pilled America why he came
up with the jingle.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I started out doing that because I was stalling because
it was a live show and I know people were
coming late, and if I like, get right into the
good meat, then everybody's what did he say? And it
just becomes distracting. So I thought, well, I got a
vamp for the first sentence. But as a hepnotist, it
was obvious to me that if I paired the thought
of your delicious beverage with a little memorable, little jingle,
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that it would be kind of sticky.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And indeed, it was like in the early nineteen nineties
when he placed his email in the border of his comic,
or when he published Dilbert for free on a new
thing called the Internet, or when he started blogging. Just
like all of those efforts, Scott's podcast experiment was opening
new doors for the Dilbert creator, and his show would
soon catch the eye of a hip hop icon. During
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a twenty eighteen Turning Point USA tour, then conservative activist
Candace Owens and the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk were berated
by Black Lives Matter protesters when Candace let loose on
the hecklers.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I don't know why people like being oppressed.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
The weirdest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
I love oppression.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
We're oppressed for hundred years of slavery, Jim Crow.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Which, by the way, none of you guys lived through
your grandparents, And it's embarrassing that.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You utilize you utilize their history. You're not living through
anything right now, your overly privileged American. The moment was
caught on camera and spread online, eventually landing in the
social media feed of the rapper than known as Kanye West.
In her he must have seen a kindred provocateur, because
Kanye posted to Twitter quote, I love the way Candace
(08:46):
Owens thinks. Scott Adams saw this as a paradigm shift.
He took to his podcast to explain its significance.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
He tweeted, I like the way Candas Owens thinks seven
words and he ripped a hole in reality with seven words.
And they're not ever supposed to say. The other one
said something right, all right, that's not supposed to happen.
But Kanye did it anyway. He did something that you
(09:14):
could rarely see.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He just freed.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
A lot of people from a mental prison. Kanye in
seven words, unlocked a mental prison and is bringing you
to the Golden Age.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Scott went on his whiteboard to describe this new epoch.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The golden age I define as a time when everything
is largely going right. You know, all the big stuff
is heading in the right direction. Nothing's perfect, We're heading
in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, Scott's whiteboard presentation made its way to Kanye West.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
To the surprise of no one who follows me, Kanye
West has been retweeting Scott Adams watching Scott Adams videos.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It was a big moment for the comic strip artist.
The man who got his start in nineteen eighty nine
with Dilbert was now almost thirty years later being promoted
by the biggest hip hop artist.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You can claim that kind of relevance over decades. His
new podcast, Endeavor was making waves, but later that same year,
a tragedy struck that would open his eyes to a
hidden war being waged on America.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So by twenty eighteen,
Scott Adams had done it again. Real Coffee with Scott
Adams helped him successfully transition into yet another online business,
podcasting Hip hop icon Kanye West had even become a fan.
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He may have been persona non grata within the halls
of legacy media, but his independent media ventures were taking
on off. However, by the close of the year, a
personal tragedy struck four years earlier, Scott and his wife, Shelley, divorced,
but he remained in his stepchildren's lives. One morning in
late twenty eighteen, he got a call that is every
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parent's worst nightmare.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Oh, yesterday I got a call from my ex wife
who told me that my step son, the little boy
that I raised from the.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Age of two, was dead.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He died last night or maybe early in the morning yesterday,
we're not sure, in his bed from what appears to
be a fence in all overdose.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
According to Scott, his son had been struggling with addiction
for a long time, possibly stemming from a head injury
he suffered when he was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He lost his impulse control, he lost his he lost
his fear.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
So I got to watch.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
My dead, blue bloated son taken out on the stretcher
in front of his mother and biological father. And because
the law in California, there was actually nothing that we
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could do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The laws of the Golden State don't allow parents to
commit their children to rehab even if they're effectively killing
themselves with drugs.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So fentanyl, mostly from China, I understand probably killed my
son yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
My stepson, the event opened his eyes to the then
rarely discussed crisis in America because fentanyl, the same drug
that killed his son, was killing American youth by a
jaw dropping number. Ventanyl overdose related deaths in the United
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States started off relatively low in twenty ten, the CDC
hadn't even started separating them out from drug overdose statistics.
In twenty eleven, the count was nearly seventeen hundred deaths.
By twenty fourteen, that number overdoubled to roughly forty two hundred.
Two years later it over quadrupled to eighteen thousand. By
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twenty eighteen, the year of Scott's Sun's overdose, the number
reached roughly thirty thousand deaths. The carnage peaked in twenty
twenty three, when the number of American ventanyl overdoses reached
a staggering seventy six thousand deaths annually. By contrast, the
entire death total from the Vietnam War was roughly fifty
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eight thousand Americans, and that was over eight years of
heavy combat. In effect, ventanyl was a weapon of mass destruction.
And what Strucks got most was that the primary producer
of the illicit drug was China, so.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
In a very real way.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We are at war with China in sort of an
indirect way.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The issue made a deep impact on Scott, and China's
soft war with America's youth became a recurring topic on
his podcast. The following year, Scott published Loser Think, How
untrained brains Are Ruining America, a self help book warning
against bad thinking habits that, in his estimation, were destroying
public discourse. He also met another lady, Christina. They married
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the following year. The union was short lived, just two years,
but it kicked off right as the nation was gripped
by an unprecedented crisis.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
We begin tonight with the growing concern as the toll
from that deadly coronavirus now grows, spreading from Wuhan, China,
and tonight that first case here in the US, the
patient in isolation now being treated by that robot.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The arrival of COVID nineteen put many strained industries in
a chokehold, including newspapers the original launching pad of the
Dilbert comic strip, So Scott looked to reinvent his business
model again. In April twenty twenty, he launched a channel
on Locals, a subscription platform where fans pay for exclusive
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content and community access. The pivot to online patronage showed
Scott adapting to the changing media landscape, a prescient move
given what was about to happen. As the twenty twenty
presidential campaign was in full swing, violent riots broke out
across the nation.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Day in full riot gear.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
The police marched into the street as people began throwing
water bottles, all of it evidence of the anger over
George Floyd's death.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
Overnighty, Minneapolis on fire.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
There's a fire.
Speaker 11 (16:54):
It does appear that that fire.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Is a police station.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
Chaos filled Minneapolis streets for a.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
Four I have no where to go now.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
This country is on fire.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
We are facing an insurrection by people that we don't
quite understand who they are, but by all indications they
are violent leftist thugs.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The unchecked riots breaking out all over the country showed
that law enforcement would not or could not protect law
abiding citizens. Scott saw this as a harbinger of what
was to come if Joe Biden was elected president, and
so he made another bold prediction.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
So is it true that there's a chance, and I said,
a good chance that you would be hunted if you're
a Trump's supporter and Biden gets into office, let me
support that assertion.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Scott believed the unchecked violence occurring while Trump was still
in office, pointed to the high likelihood that Trump supporters
would be hunted during the Biden administration. Many in the
legacy media mocked his prediction.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Listen to this conservative cartoon of Scott Adams set in
twenty twenty that if Biden were elected, it would mean
that there is a good chance you will be dead
within a year. Republicans will be hunted.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
But in the wake of Joe Biden's twenty twenty election,
if there was any critique to Scott's prediction, it was
that he didn't go far enough.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
Former Prowdboys leader Enrique Tario slacked with a twenty two
year prison sentence after he was convicted on seditious conspiracy
and other charges in the federal January sixth investigation.
Speaker 13 (18:32):
Macki is a thirty one year old conservative journalist from Florida.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
At seven am, FBIS showed up at Mackie's house.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
They threw him in handcuffs, and they dragged him to
a cell top.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
Former Trump local advisor Seve Bannon sentenced to four months
in prison.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in Arizona today to
face multiple charges.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
The official mugshot of Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Meadows just surrendered to Georgia authorities.
Speaker 12 (18:55):
Federal officials raided the home of Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
That's right, he is a Trump era Justice Department official.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Day Powell, one of the nineteen co defendants in the
Trump election case in Fulton County, pleaded guilty. Former President
Donald Trump scheduled to be arrested and arraigned this afternoon
on dozens of federal criminal charges in this Miami courthouse.
Speaker 12 (19:18):
Former President Donald Trump just surrendered at the notorious Fulton
County Jail in Atlanta. Trump booked processed on thirteen charges,
including conspiracy and racketeering related to attempts to overturn the
twenty twenty election. Like all other people who walked through
the doors of that jail, the former president was fingerprinted,
had his weight and height recorded, and a mugshot was taken.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Take a look what happened.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Shots were fired earlier this evening at a rally for
former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, while he was
speaking on stage mister Trump was rushed away bleeding from
his ear.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
The Secret Service.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Says the suspected gunman and a person attending the event
were killed and two others critically hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Scott's prediction was unmistakably correct. President Biden's tenure marked hunting
season on Trump supporters. So, perhaps out of a sense
of self preservation or just comedic relief, Scott made a
provocative announcement.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I've decided to self identify as black. So here's why
I've decided to self identify as black. Number one, I
like to be on the winning team. After hundreds of years,
it does look like the black situation that is doing
pretty well, whereas the white situation was sort of decreasing,
(20:49):
wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I like being on the winning team.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Number two, I'm told by science that all of us
have African roots. Now, if it's truly, we all have
African roots. If you look at the full arc of
human evolution, most of the time.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I've been African.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
In other words, my family and ancestry probably spent more
time African than they.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Did in Europe.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So I say, genetically, I've got an argument there. I've
also lost two careers for my race. My boss told
me directly, you're white, we can't promote you. And I've
also done more work to benefit the black community than
any other, so I would say that's my affinity group,
and that's what I choose.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
In May two, Black Dilbert artist Scott Adams introduced a
new character to his comic strip canon, Dave the Black Engineer,
an African American cubicle warrior that identified as white. In
one Dilbert comic strip, Dave was introduced to the office
staff as the new diversity higher, but Dave threw a
wrench in the company's diversity efforts by announcing he identified
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as white. The character was used to mock the contradictions
in the diversity, equity and inclusion movement that was holding
corporate America hostage. DEEI movement, as it came to be known,
had taken root in academia and was being amplified by
the legacy media. Critical race theorists like Abram x Kindy
were effectively arguing that anti white policies were needed to
(22:16):
counter white privilege in America, but the movement had it backwards.
The black community had extraordinary privilege on the topic of race.
Blacks could openly express anti white sentiments with no social repercussions,
like when the YouTube channel Cut asked a large group
of black people what white people were superior at? What
(22:40):
exactly White people superior at?
Speaker 13 (22:42):
Insecurity, pretending fear, being fearful of nothing, being ignorant, blame,
letting their egos control their every move, superior at big dicks.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Anti white rhetoric had become so mainstreamed that one study
showed that more than one third of white students were
lying about their race on college applications. Also, their whiteness
wouldn't be held again in the admissions process. Gilbert's Dave
of the Black Engineer was Scott's tool to address this
topic from an angle that exposed the absurdity of the
DEI movement in the very newspapers that were used to
(23:14):
push these policies on Americans. Well, the legacy media didn't
like what they saw in the mirror that Scott was
holding up to them, and in September twenty twenty two,
the newspaper chain Lee Enterprises dropped Dilbert from seventy seven
of its newspapers. Scott believed it was due to his
comic strip's commentary on wokeness in the workplace. His theory
(23:37):
was given credence when the next month the San Francisco
Chronicle dropped Dilbert as well, citing some of the anti
woke themes in the comic strip. Scott Adams could see
the writing on the wall. Newspapers, the initial launching pad
for his comic strip empire, were going to double down
on woke advocacy even while their industry was sinking. So
(23:57):
a few months later, when the respected rest Musen Report
published a shocking poll, Scott sees on a perfect opportunity
to speak out against racism. If you want to join
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at a time.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So by the beginning
of twenty twenty three, it was clear to Scott Adams
that the newspaper industry was going to double down on
woke advocacy even while the industry was sinking. So when
the respected Rasmusen Reports published a shocking poll, Scott saw
the perfect opportunity to speak out against racism while accelerating
(25:04):
his exit from the newspaper business.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, Rasmussen pole had a provocative little pole today. They said,
do you agree or disagree with a statement it's okay
to be white? Twenty six percent of blacks said no,
it's not okay to be white. Twenty one percent weren't sure.
Adam together, that is forty seven percent of black respondents
(25:30):
were not willing to say it's ok to be white.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
That's like a real pole. This just happened.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Did you have any idea? Would you have imagined that
that could have happened? So I realized, as you know,
I've been identifying as black for a while years now
because I you know, I like to be on the
winning team. But it turns out that nearly half of
that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white, which
(26:01):
is of course why I identified as black. But as
of today, I'm going to reidentify as white. Because I
don't want to be a member of a hate group.
I'd accidentally joined a hate group. So if you know,
nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white
people according to this pole, not according to me.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
According to this pole, that's.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
A hate group, and I don't want to have anything.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
To do with them.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And I would say, you know, based on the current
way things are going, the best advice I would give
to white people is to get the hell away from
black people. Just to get the away wherever you have
to go. Just get away, because there's no fixing this.
This can't be fixed. All right, this can't be fixed.
(26:48):
You just have to escape. Now we should be friendly.
Like I'm not saying start a war or you know,
do anything bad, nothing like that. I'm just saying, get away,
just get away.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Scott knew that the woke legacy media would position his
hyperbole as literal. They'd never interpret the nuance of his
statement that, according to the Rasmusen poll, latent anti white
racism was nearly at a majority. I mean, just think
about this for a minute. If a reputable poll found
nearly half of white Americans disagreed with the statement, it's
(27:31):
okay to be black. The legacy media would spend months,
maybe even years, on how that one pole was scientific
proof of white supremacy in America. They would demand national
legislation addressing the issue. They'd hal every GOP politician in
front of the microphone to demand they condemn the poll's findings.
We don't have to imagine how enormous that pole would be,
(27:52):
because there isn't a news cycle where the legacy media
doesn't spin the most benign statement into a racially charged controversy.
Yet the media didn't smell even a whiff of anti
white racism in this ress Musen poll. They gaslight the
public by completely ignoring the poll results and instead took
Scott Adams out of context to call him the racist.
(28:17):
Practically two decades earlier, Scott was attacked by the media
when he criticized their industry for not providing context in
their stories. So he must have known that they would
attack him again by stripping his commentary of its context,
and they did just that.
Speaker 14 (28:33):
We turned now to the fallout from the racist rant
by the creator of one of the nation's top comic strips.
Newspapers across the country are dropping Dilbert the.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Star Tribune in Minneapolis has joined the Los Angeles Times,
Washington Post, and USA Today no longer printing the cartoon,
poking fund and office culture.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
The legacy media even claimed that blacks in the resmusen
pol were just announcing a white supremacy phrase.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
Adams referencing a recent poll during his YouTube show Wednesday
and taking aim at Black America who disagreed with the
statement It's okay to be white, a hate slogan used
by white supremacists according to the Anti Defamation League.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And in a not so shocking twist, the legacy media
used racist terms in denouncing Scott's so called racism.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
In the black community.
Speaker 12 (29:19):
We have a thing called the cal cassidy, you know, Caucasians.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
The cal cassity.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Of this role to call Black people hate grew the
statement is outraged, just flee racist.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The irony was thick. Ever since Scott made it okay
to like Trump, the legacy media had a target on
his back. This was their opportunity to purge him completely
from polite society. But a few did come to Scott's defense,
like billionaire Elon Musk.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Elon Musk actually appeared today to defend him, saying the
media used to be racist to non white people, and
now they're racist against white people and Asians.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Scott published his commentary on February twenty second, twenty twenty three.
Within forty eight hours, Dilbert was eradicated from the entire
corporate media landscape. His publisher even canceled an upcoming book
citing the controversy. In the wake of his canceling, Scott
appeared on the Hotep Jesus podcast to explain his position.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I don't have any problem with any individual, and I
don't want to change the constitution. Right, everybody's got to
be treated equally. But it's a little bit smarter for
me to stay away from a group who has been
brainwashed to dislike me.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I'm a rich white guy in America. I'm very much
right in the center of those crosshairs. Now, does that
mean that I think everybody should avoid their neighbor No?
Does that mean I'm never going to talk to a
black person? No? Does that mean I will hire black people?
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Know?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
And also I assume people know hy per believe when
they see it. If you heard it in context, would
do you disagree with it? And the answer is, I
have seen anybody disagree.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
He ultimately explained that the reason why he took such
a provocative approach was to break the tribal media silos
to start a meaningful conversation about how to solve the
racial divide.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And I've been saying forever, like you know, I've got
some ideas that would work for Republicans as well as
black people, and I feel like I'm just throwing them
into the nothing.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
But so I decided to shake the box.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
So here's the answer to your original question.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Why the did I do this?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Because the box was broken and somebody needed to shake
it and we need to be able to actually break
through the bubble and actually have the conversation. And if
what that causes is mean to get canceled, I had
a good run.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Scott may have been canceled from the legacy media, but
he'd been preparing for this moment for years. In twenty twenty,
it was clear that print newspapers the launching pad of
is Dilbert comic strip, were going by the way of
the Telegram, so he created a subscription based model to
survive in the new economy. And then when he saw
the resmuse and poll, he decided to make a provocative
(32:11):
statement about it and use the legacy media's predictable, manufactured
outrage to point people to his new subscription based business model.
In March twenty twenty three, he launched Dilbert Reborn, an
online comic strip basically a spicier version of Dilbert. People
flocked not only to his locals page, but also YouTube
(32:34):
Rumble and the X platform. A few months later, he
gave a finger to corporate book publishers by self publishing
his new book, Reframe Your Brain, The User Interface for
Happiness and Success. Astonishingly, it cracked Amazon's top ten bestsellers
in all categories, an enormous achievement for a self published book.
(32:55):
Scott had fully made the transition to independent publishing in
glorious fashion.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
As the twenty twenty four elections said ramped up, he
continued to support for a Trump presidency.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Oh in the world did Trump manage to keep his
wits and get the photo of the history. I was
gonna say a photo of the year, but it's maybe
the photo of all politics ever, and it's the most
iconic thing you'll ever see in your life.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
He put his fist in the air. He yelled, fight.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Apparently the audience was chanting USA, and somehow the American
flag was perfectly situated in the background.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
But to Scott's most attentive followers, it was clear something
was weighing on him. At times, he spoke about his
life the way people do when they're nearing the end.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Do you ever think about what you would remember if
your life flashed in front of you like you're dying.
I don't know if that really happens, but everything, like
what do you call your life? Because I find that
there are moments that I call my life.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Do you ever have that?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I don't think if my life were flashing before my eyes.
I don't think I would think about my Dilberg career,
as you know, thirty five years of doing it every day,
I don't think I would think about it. I'll tell
you what I would think about.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
If I can. I would think.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
About watching Disney movies with my step kids.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
That's it. That's what I would think about.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Then in May twenty twenty five, the world would learn
what was weighing on Scott.
Speaker 14 (34:40):
Former President Biden, We've learned has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
According to a statement released by his personal.
Speaker 14 (34:47):
Office, and they call it a more aggressive form of
the cancer.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That was the news that triggered a confession.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Well, I've decided that today's a day I'm going to
take the opportunity since a lot of you are here,
to make an announcement of my own. I have the
same cancer that Joe Biden has, So.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I also have prostate cancer that has also.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Spread to my bones. So my life expectancy is maybe
the summer.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The news led to an outpouring of support.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Scott is a daily voice in the Post so household.
We listen to him every single day. My family we
have a group chat where we share various things that
he says on coffee with Scott Adams. Scott's been someone
who's been maga from absolutely day one. He was the
first celebrity to come out and say, not only is
(35:44):
Trump going to win, but explain how Trump was going
to win.
Speaker 15 (35:48):
The announcement since shock waves all over social media and
you may not understand why, but if you watch this
show you're interested in the things that I say, you
have to understand that a lot of what I learn
and talk about comes from him. He's been a mentor
of mine and I wake up every morning, and I
listened to coffee with Scott Adams, which you get on YouTube,
(36:10):
and it has changed my life.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Eventually, the news got the attention of the most important
man in the world.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
So I see a phone number coming in. Somebody's calling
me from some number I don't recognize, something in Florida,
and I sent him to a voicemail. And a little
bit later, I thought, I better check that voicemail and
see if that was anything I need to deal with.
And the first sentence in the transcription, the first sentence
(36:44):
is this is your favorite president. And I thought to myself, no,
did I just send the most important person in the
world to voicemail.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And it turns out that I had.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
It was Trump and he was calling to check in,
and then he says, you know, you can call me
back on this number.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
I don't call him back.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Hours go by, it's the afternoon, same day, it's the afternoon,
and all of a sudden, another call comes through, also
from Florida, and I thought to myself, no way, there's
no way he's calling me again. And I answer it
(37:30):
and it's Trump. He said, if you need anything, I'll
make it happen, and he meant it.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Scott would eventually learn of a new tumor targeting cancer
therapy called Plevicto. In October twenty twenty five, he had
scans done to determine if he was eligible for the
experimental drug, but then he wasn't getting a response. In
November twenty twenty five, Scott decided to take Trump up
on his offer, posting a message on X asking the
(37:59):
President for help.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Don Junor is calling me, and secondly, I'm on this.
You know my father, My father wants me to, you know,
get this done. Then Bobby Kennedy calls me. Bobby Kennedy calls.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Me like, what could I do?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
What's the situation? Doctor Oz calls me, doctor Oz, what's
the situation?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
How could I help? Oh? My god?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
And then you may have seen that President Trump, best
president ever. He posted my message to him. That was
on actually yesterday. It was a public message and he
just said on it.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
On it.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Trump's team cleared away the barriers, and as of this writing,
Scott is undergoing the therapy, promising that if it works,
he'll do what he can to make it available to others,
which leads us back to the question, who is Scott
Adams Scott Adams is the creative soul that made generations
(39:03):
working American smile. He's the artist that created Dilbert, the
champion of the cubicle warrior frustrated with the absurdity of
corporate life. He's the blogger that challenged the context free
nature of the legacy media, and the podcaster that helps
us get our days started. Scott Adams is the philosopher
that challenges us to think outside the mental prison we've
(39:23):
been confined to and the Internet dad we all didn't
know we needed. And he's the cultural commentator that made
it okay to like Donald J. Trump. For years, he
contemplated if risking his empire to support Trump was worth it.
Then one day, the forty seventh president helped bring a
ceasefire to the Middle East, and that's when he found
(39:44):
his answer.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
I sacrificed everything.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I sacrificed my social life, I sacrificed my career, I
sacrifice my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. And
I did that because I believed it was worth it.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Today's the day. Today's day.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I'm really happy I lived long enough to see it.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was worth it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
We once posed this question to Scott, What do you
want people to remember you by when all is said
and done.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
The age of AI and robotics has solidified what has
long been my plan for decades and decades, which is immortality,
but immortality in a useful way. And if I could
be specific, someday I guarantee you're going to be able
to pick an AI. That's me just to give you advice.
(40:38):
I want to leave this place a little bit better
than I found it.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Red Pilled America is an iHeartRadio original podcast. It's owned
and produced by Patrick Carrelci and me Adrianna Coortez for
Informed Ventures.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
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