Remembering Scott Adams

Summary

Podcast Summary: Remembering Scott Adams

Podcast: Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec
Date: January 13, 2026
Host: Jack Posobiec
Guests: Kevin Posobec, Joshua Lysak, community members
Theme: A tribute to Scott Adams—his life, influence as a writer, cartoonist, and thinker, and the enduring legacy he leaves behind.

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Overview

This episode of Human Events Daily serves as a heartfelt tribute to Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, author of several influential books, and a pioneering commentator in the modern political-media landscape. Jack Posobiec, alongside guests and Adams’s close collaborators, discusses Adams’s impact on media, social commentary, and personal development, spotlighting his lasting wisdom and the community he built.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Scott Adams: More Than a Cartoonist

• Scott Adams is best known for creating Dilbert, but his influence extended far into political analysis, persuasion techniques, and personal development.
• Adams was among the first mainstream figures to publicly support Donald Trump, analyzing Trump’s persuasive abilities via streams, books, and interviews.
• He leveraged new mediums (like Periscope and live streams) to bring together a loyal community, especially during times of isolation (e.g., the COVID-19 lockdowns).

Adams on AI, Hypnosis, and Reframing

• Adams frequently explored the intersection of language, psychology, and technology.
• He viewed both AI models and hypnotic suggestions as “word patterns” that could reprogram thought.
  • [02:42] Scott Adams: “It's just word, word, word, word. ... People who don't have an object model of reality, like computers, all sort of fall apart when it gets questioned.”
• The process of “reframing,” one of Adams’s signature concepts, empowers individuals to alter their perceptions using simple linguistic shifts (as detailed in his book Reframe Your Brain).

Personal Reflections and The Community Experience

• Jack recounts the morning he learned of Adams’s passing, during a scheduled live stream with Scott’s inner circle, including his ex-wife Shelly, who read Adams’s final words.
  • [05:30] Jack Posobiec: “…you could see her face. It was just written all over her face…she said she was going to read Scott’s last statement.”
• The importance of the “Simultaneous Sip” ritual, bringing people together daily—highlighted as a signature community experience.
  • [06:54] Scott Adams: “Even saying goodbye to old friends, the simultaneous sip.”
• Kevin Posobec describes how the Adams family—including himself, Jack, and their extended family—became daily listeners, drawing strength and connection from Adams’s words.

The Power of Reframing and Adams’s Practical Advice

• Practical examples of Adams’s “reframes,” such as alleviating social anxiety through intentional introduction at parties, and viewing success as a function of knowing and connecting with people.
  • [12:12] Kevin Posobec: “If you could reframe it, just go up to the hostess, … she’ll kindly introduce you to another person… you could be the hero of the party…”
  • [15:15] Jack Posobiec: “Success depends on who you know to: Success depends on how many people you know.”
• Discussing the universality of “the basket case” notion: everyone has wild, intrusive thoughts, and no one is uniquely broken.

Books and Written Legacy

• Joshua Lysak, Adams’s editor, delves into what it was like working with Adams:
  • Trust, humility, and openness to collaboration, even with individuals of lesser renown.
  • The accessibility of Adams’s writing; each of his books can stand alone as a starting point (Loserthink, How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big, Win Bigly, Reframe Your Brain).
  • Adams’s ability to distill the art and science of clinical hypnosis into practical advice for everyday life.
  • [21:26] Joshua Lysak: “…Reframe Your Brain first because it's sort of a collection of Scott's greatest hits...the highest density of hypnotic persuasion worked into it.”

Two Movies, One Screen & the Trump Era

• Adams's famous lens for understanding contemporary media: “two movies on one screen.”
  • [23:24] Kevin Posobec: “…with such great analogies as a comic would just imagine yourself being in a movie theater and watching two movies on one screen. And I said, wow. Boom. Instantly understood…”
• How Adams both participated in and amplified the earliest, loneliest days of the MAGA movement using platforms like Twitter and Periscope.

Prediction, Wisdom, Influence

• Adams’s work (The Dilbert Future, 1997) displayed remarkable prophetic insight, predicting the role of the Internet, the rise of “NPC” (non-player character) concepts, and even the ascent of Donald Trump.
  • [33:55] Joshua Lysak: “...Scott Adams made this term called individual individual. But duh is right there in the middle...they get their news from the Internet. ...They are in fact learning less factual information than ever.”
• Posobiec recounts how attempts to “debunk” Adams’s predictions failed, as many had come true.
  • [31:55] Jack Posobiec: “I started opening the book and I'm like, oh, wait, well that came true… And then like, was that people are going to be connected over times and spaces. ... I actually couldn't find anything in the book that he got like blatantly wrong.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [00:50] Kevin Posobec (reading from Adams): “…I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with him...”
• [02:42] Scott Adams, on AI and language: “…LLM…is just predicting what the next word is going to be... Computers can't understand reality the way that we do...”
• [06:54] Scott Adams: “Even saying goodbye to old friends, the simultaneous sip.”
• [15:34] Kevin Posobec (reframing social anxiety): “…everybody’s there… there’s no way there can only be one basket case in this whole world.”
• [19:01] Joshua Lysak on Adams’s humility: “But from the get go, Scott treated me not simply like a peer, but like a trusted advisor...”
• [29:21] Joshua Lysak: “Scott Adams was the Mark Twain of King Solomons. His advice was timeless. It was perennial.”
• [33:55] Joshua Lysak: “...nowadays we have the term...NPC...In the Dilbert future, Scott Adams made this term called individual individual. ...They are in fact learning less factual information than ever.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:32] Framing the episode—Adams as a social commentator and veteran
• [01:34] Atheists and conversion, risk/reward of belief (Adams’s written words)
• [02:42] Adams’s view on AI, hypnosis, and reframing
• [05:30] Jack Posobiec recounts the morning of Adams’s passing, the “Simultaneous Sip” ritual
• [12:00] Practical reframes for social anxiety, value of introducing oneself
• [15:15] Key reframes for success and self-perception
• [19:01] Lysak on Adams’s work, editing process, humility, and trust
• [21:26] Which book to start with, Adams’s “greatest hits” in Reframe Your Brain
• [23:24] “Two movies on one screen” analogy
• [29:21] Lysak’s written tribute: Adams’s wisdom across the ages
• [33:55] Adams’s prescient observations from the 1990s

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Conclusion: Scott Adams’s Legacy

Scott Adams’s role in shaping modern conversation—through comics, books, and his unique approach to life’s challenges—is widely celebrated by those who knew and worked with him. His insights on framing reality, understanding persuasion, and navigating the information age were ahead of their time and continue to resonate.

Whether through daily rituals like the “Simultaneous Sip,” deep-dive writings, or his ability to unite diverse communities, Adams leaves a legacy that blends humor, wisdom, and practical psychology—a legacy now carried forward by his readers, peers, and friends.

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Where to Find More

• Follow Joshua Lysak for updates on Adams’s literary legacy, including the forthcoming biography by Joel Pollack.
• Explore Adams’s books on Amazon, especially Reframe Your Brain, Loserthink, and How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
• Join Scott Adams’s community via locals.scottadams.com.

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“I think he was the first person to successfully take the entire body of work from the profession of clinical hypnosis ... and make it accessible and practical for the everyday person...”
—Joshua Lysak, [29:21]

“As always, you have my permission to lay ashore.”
—Jack Posobiec

Transcript

[Jack Posobiec]

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[Jack Posobiec]

This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare. A commentator, international social media sensation and.

[Scott Adams]

Former Navy Intelligence veteran.

[Jack Posobiec]

This is Human Events with your host Jack Posobic.

[Kevin Posobec]

Christ is King Many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me. So here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved. If I wake up in heaven, I won't need any more convincing than that. I hope I'm still qualified for entry.

[Guest Commentator]

To my Christian friends. Yes, it's coming, so you don't need to talk me into it. I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely smart. I also have respect for any Christian who goes out of their way to try to convert me, because how would I believe you believe your own religion if you're not trying to convert me?

[Hypnotist Guest]

Yeah, you know what's the weirdest thing is that AI happened at the same time my book was going to come out and it turns out there's a sort of an intersection that makes sense. We figured out that you could make something like intelligence just by looking at word patterns that already exist, that people have already spoken or written, and that just looking at the patterns and frequencies of words you could produce something like intelligence. Well, this is something hypnotists have known forever. I'm also a trained hypnotist. So reframes are basically a little code of words that you can insert into your brain just by reading the sentence. And much like the way AI works, you can actually reprogram your brain with just words.

[Scott Adams]

It's just word, word, word, word. And then in LLM as you, I've always thought your explanation of an LLM is the best because it's just predicting what the next word is going to be or the next string of words. And they use mapping to do this. And so people who don't have an object, an object view, an object model of reality like computers could, because computers can't understand reality the way that we do, at least. Or perhaps we have a better object view. That's why people aren't computers and computers aren't people. But the real interesting thing that Devin Erickson is talking about is there's a lot of people you meet and they could be, they could be doctors, they could be experts, they could be researchers, they could be scientists.

[Jack Posobiec]

And the minute that you, that you.

[Scott Adams]

Sort of question their language model by referring to something in reality, it all sort of falls apart.

[Guest Commentator]

Yeah, that's the kind of conversation I love. Who's a, who's a person who's an npc? Yeah, I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up in a game chair, find out. The whole thing was like a one hour experience, but I thought it was my life.

[Jack Posobiec]

All right, so folks, Jack Posobic, we're back live here. Human Events Daily. This morning I was originally scheduled to do a live stream on Coffee with Scott Adams, where Scott Adams, the cartoonist, of course, known as the creator of Dilbert, would come on every morning, 10am Eastern, and would write the, you know, go through the news of the day and reframe it in a way that, you know, that'd be interesting and always have a great spin on it. And he was someone who supported Trump and explained Trump. One of the earliest, really, probably the first celebrity to come out and say that he supported Trump and that he thought Trump would win. Incredible author, urge everyone to read the books. And so just to kind of tell the story from my perspective. I guess what happened this morning was he'd been doing his last couple shows. He'd been having sort of guests and longtime followers and subscribers come on. And it was sort of just a chatting with Scott kind of meet up. And they asked if I would come on this morning around 9:30am I said, of course, I'd be more than happy to. So I got home to grab my mug. And then right before we all went live is when Shelly Adams came on. And Shelly had been Scott's former wife, but they're still very close. And she came on and you could, you could see her face. It was just written all over her face that you know what had happened and didn't, didn't need to ask. And she said that she was going to read Scott's last statement, which she did. And I believe. Guys, do we have, do we have video of the intro from today? That, that I ended up doing. Or we'll check on that. With the. Yeah, with the. Yeah, with the sip. Yeah, let's play the. Let's play the sip. So they asked me to do the sip.

[Scott Adams]

Yeah. No, I said I'd be honored.

[Kevin Posobec]

Awesome.

[Jack Posobiec]

I didn't think I'd be doing two shows like this so close to each.

[Scott Adams]

Other, but here we are. So, folks, as everyone knows, all you need is a cup, a mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. We like coffee. And join us all now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the.

[Jack Posobiec]

Day, the thing that makes everything better.

[Scott Adams]

Even saying goodbye to old friends, the simultaneous sip.

[Jack Posobiec]

And it happens now. Go to Scott.

[Scott Adams]

To Scott. Thank you, Scott.

[Joshua Lysak]

And.

[Jack Posobiec]

So I haven't really talked to everyone in the Scott Adams community, his local community, his friends, his supporters there, his family. But I understand there's some plans to keep that community going forward. And we're gonna bring on some people from that community here in a minute. But since we only have a minute till the break. But I just wanna let everybody know that it's locals.scottadams.com that if you want to go, if you want to be there, people are just sharing things. People are getting involved. People are getting the mugs, of course, spreading the legacy of Scott Adams, which was so much more than the cartoon. So much more, which was a great cartoon, by the way, bringing people together. Being a Trump supporter in those early early days, 2015, 2016, going on Joe Rogan in those early days and explaining and making the case for Trump and always being there with the family, being close. Laura Ivanka going in and of course, meeting with President Trump. President Trump putting up a truth social, of course, calling him the great influencer. I think that's exactly right. In the photo of the two of them in the Oval Office together is an incredible thing. We'll be right back with more of the life and legacy, the great influencer, Scott Adams. Right back. Human Events Daily.

[Hypnotist Guest]

Today.

[Supporter/Host]

You know, they talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine.

[Jack Posobiec]

Hi, Jack Pasoic. Where's Jack?

[Supporter/Host]

Jack. He's got a great job.

[Jack Posobiec]

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[Kevin Posobec]

Hey, Jack. How's it going? Good to be here and I don't know, but I'd like to take this experience up a notch.

[Jack Posobiec]

Oh.

[Kevin Posobec]

Raise a glass here to the absurdly humanitarian and great influencer Scott Adams. May he today be simultaneously greeted by angels.

[Jack Posobiec]

Amen. Take this up a notch. That's right. That's what Scott would always say. So, Kev, just talk about how, I mean, Scott Adams was someone who our whole family, from you, me, mom and dad, Tanya, Tay, the kids would hear his voice every day. He's always been a member of the Post Hole household, not just the Daily show, but increasingly his books. And this is something where, folks, if you didn't listen to the Daily show, which is just. It is what it is, you kind of had to be there. Kevin, tell me a little bit about some of the importance of Scott Adams is incredible books. And you can. You can pick whichever one you want.

[Kevin Posobec]

Well, sure. I have a couple of reframes that were personal favorites of mine. And I want to say what are.

[Jack Posobiec]

What's a refrain? What's.

[Scott Adams]

What's going.

[Jack Posobiec]

So what's a refrain?

[Kevin Posobec]

But during. Yeah, well, especially during COVID the periscopes that he had man the simultaneous sips. And he would get people together during the lockdowns and have a second show at nighttime where he would even do like the simultaneous swaddle. And I mean that was just next level. Nobody else was doing that and he didn't have to do any of that. But he loved. He really loved his community and talk about like the Christianity thing. Like you can tell when somebody has the Holy Spirit moving through. And he was. His spiritual level was off the charts. But yeah, two of them are his most recent one was about social anxiety in the reframes where if you could be at a party and have trouble introducing yourself to people, maybe you've never been to prom and whatnot. He said if you could reframe it, just go up to the hostess, you can always kind of find out who the alpha woman is of the party. They love that. And she'll kindly introduce you to another person and then you can take that and simply duplicate it. And the way Scott says it is you could be the hero of the party by just introducing yourself to other people, not only for yourself, but to help them. And through my own work, I heavily related to that. And just the way Scott was with his words just did wonders. And he even said it in the stream. It's, you know, you could be the lifesaver of the party. And there's no dispute in that. Like everybody's there.

[Jack Posobiec]

So for folks who. Kev, real quick. So for folks who don't know, Scott had this great book, one of his last books. I have to double check because he did some like re releases and edited by the great Joshua Lysack who also co wrote on Humans and Bulletproof with me and Scott is who introduced me and Joshua. So like that's how we got together. But he had this incredible book reframe your brain. And it's just. It's just changing the operating system to your thoughts. Changing the operating system. I think it was 2023 and we had him. He came on Human Events when it came out to talk about it and it was. The idea is changing if you change your perspective On a situation. And you mentioned. Yeah, that's one of his most famous ones, social anxiety. Going to a party. You know, think of it as a game. Think of it as. And you're scoring points in a game rather than having to go and be with people that you don't necessarily need facts. It's just you're changing your whole perspective. And in fact, gamification is one of the big ones. But it's this whole book where it just goes, reframes, reframes, reframes. One of the ones that I know that he did with drinking. For a lot of people, alcohol is poison. Just alcohol is poison. Just say that in your mind. Alcohol is poison. That's like something that people can relate to. So reframe your brain. This incredible way of. I've got a couple here.

[Kevin Posobec]

Reframe, Reframe.

[Jack Posobiec]

Manager. Time to manage your energy. Hold on one sec. And then reframe. Oh, I think you just kind of explained this. Success depends on who you know to. Success depends on how many people you know. That's right. What's the basket case? One.

[Kevin Posobec]

It ties into the social anxiety thing. And it's just a matter of reason, really, where it's like if you get called a basket case or crazy or if you think differently than the majority of people, just understand that, hey, like, you might not know everybody at first. They're strangers, but once you get to know them, you realize that there are also basket cases, too. And everybody kind of has wild thoughts and sometimes intrusive thoughts and. And to just acknowledge that everybody is like you and, you know, I'm not unique. But, you know, there's no way there can only be one basket case in this whole world. So that's also alleviating, especially when you go into.

[Jack Posobiec]

Just a great way to hear. Kev, we've got. We're coming up on that break again and we'll be right back afterwards. Also, we're going to bring on another friend of the great Scott Adams, talking about his life and his legacy as a member of the MAGA movement, Human Events Daily.

[Joshua Lysak]

And Jack.

[Supporter/Host]

Where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack.

[Human Events Announcer]

Thank you.

[Supporter/Host]

What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who've been getting policies.

[Jack Posobiec]

All right, folks.

[Joshua Lysak]

Jack.

[Jack Posobiec]

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[Joshua Lysak]

Thank you for having me on, Jack. Kevin, good to see you.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, and it's as we know certainly, and this is kind of impromptu and hopefully we'll be able to put together more of a long form show at some point on all of this. But Joshua, just aside from just the books, reframe your brain. Lose or think win bigly. Talk to us about what it was like working with Scott Adams.

[Joshua Lysak]

What I appreciate about Scott and our relationship is that he of course had been publishing and writing stuff before I had been born. And when you have that level of difference between let's say the services provider and the client, you can kind of expect there to be something like an imbalance. But from the get go, Scott treated me not simply like a peer, but like a trusted advisor. And when we were working on sections of Reframe your Brain, I would make a suggestion about an area and he would say, okay, go ahead and write what you want there. That sounds good to me. And that level of trust that he provided you tend not to see from someone who has as high a profile and as established as a brand, I guess you could say that Scott kind of, he ruined me for future authors. I guess you could say. But he had a humility that he taught us through the reframe about Ego, where he says that ego is a tool. It's something that you can turn on or off. You can dial it up or dial it down as needed. And he very much so did embody that in our relationship.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, that's incredible. So when. When you would work on something, because you even went in for Reframe your Brain, that was a book that. Were you the initial editor on it or just the second edition?

[Joshua Lysak]

That was the first edition, yes. Okay. I'm thinking of.

[Jack Posobiec]

You know what I'm thinking of? God's Debris. That's what I'm thinking of.

[Joshua Lysak]

Yes. We did work on a third installment together, and I did come in towards the beginning of that one. Yes, that was fun. Talk about the pleasure of a career working on fiction with Scott Adams.

[Jack Posobiec]

That's really cool. So Joshua hit some of those books for all of us to go through. So there's Loser Think, I think is the. The first one you gotta get as you can.

[Hypnotist Guest]

Really.

[Jack Posobiec]

You can if you just want to hold. Actually, no, I'm wrong. It's how to. How to Fail at Everything and Still Succeed is.

[Joshua Lysak]

Is.

[Jack Posobiec]

Is the first one. And then lose or think and then, you know, maybe reframe your brain. But you know, what's interesting is actually, now that I think about it, I think I've debunked myself in my own mind. Because you don't really need to pick anyone to start with. You could start anywhere, can't you?

[Joshua Lysak]

You can, yes. In terms of which book has the most sort of Scott Adams lore in it, I believe Reframe youe Brain, that was his latest one. That's nonfiction from 2023. That's. That's a first edition book. The others, of course, like Winn Bigley, the Second Edition, Loser Think Second Edition, how to Fail. Almost Everything Is to Win Big. Second Edition. Those do have some bonus content, some new material, particularly the Winn Bigley second edition, because that was sort reflection on the first Trump administration. Additional prediction analysis, what Scott got right, to what extent he got it, how the book was even deployed within the Trump administration the first time around, which is fantastic. And also his analysis of the 2024 presidential campaign. But of all of them, I tend people to reframe your brain first because it's sort of a collection of Scott's greatest hits from some of his previous books, plus his most recent thinking on life progression. So how. How do you get where you want to go in life? The Most I say that the has the highest density of hypnotic persuasion worked into it. And of course, it's consistently the number one best selling book in the hypnosis category on Amazon.

[Jack Posobiec]

That's incredible. So, Kevin, jump back to you a little bit because it was really 2015, 2016 on Twitter when many of us who were, you know, were out there were doing things. The Trump movement had just gotten started. And then along comes this guy. I remember, Kev, what did it feel like when all of a sudden, you know, the guy who's the Dilbert guy suddenly starts talking about Donald Trump and how he thinks he's going to not only win, but also be a great president? Just, just talk us through what it was like in that era when everybody was writing Trump off.

[Kevin Posobec]

Well, in that era, you and I were closely tied into it and there wasn't really, like you said, any, any famous voices supporting Trump in such a way. And as we know, like, Trump himself was a previous celebrity. And I got to tell you through Periscope and whatnot, one of the first times that I came to be introduced to Scott was through the classic, now famous, the two movies on one screen. And that he was breaking it all down for us through watching legacy media in that, you know, he would watch CNN and these other legacy medias while Fox would be saying another thing. And he really broke it down so. So clearly and. But with such great analogies as a comic would just imagine yourself being in a movie theater and watching two movies on one screen. And I said, wow, Boom. Instantly understood what he was trying to communicate to us. And that helped me understand on such a macro scale that this is what we were experiencing. And I was just in Minneapolis, so I was witnessing this firsthand. So we have, as Director Lyons was just on and speaking to, is that you have on one side, ICE operations lawfully conducting what they need to do, and on the other side, just blatant reckless protesters, antifa sales, all this. And so it's no longer just a movie. This is happening in real time. And, you know, thank goodness. And I want to touch on Commander Bavino too. He. He kind of reminds me of Scott in that these leaders need to be composed and understand the psychological projection that is happening here in real time to be an effective leader in that way and just understand these people are just. They're just watching a different movie. And that is unsettling to accept, but that is also reality and we're dealing with it in real time.

[Jack Posobiec]

We had Director Lyons on just talking about this. You know, I I can remember just sitting there kind of scratching my head, and I, you know, back in 2016, in that time, it's like the Dilbert guy, really. And, you know, be honest, that I definitely remember. So I was a big. Kev, you remember, I was a big crossword puzzle guy. So dad would always start the crossword puzzle every morning at the Norristown Times Herald and would, you know, would start the crossword, but he would always leave a bunch unanswered. And he would go, I left you the easy ones. And then I'd pick it up and I'd read and I'd want to do the crossword puzzle. And then I'd, of course, read the cartoons. And then eventually I started reading the articles, and then all this happened. But I remember Dilbert was one of the ones where I have to say, I didn't get it at first. I totally didn't get Dilbert because I was. I don't know, I was still, like, in grade school and then high school, and I was just. I hadn't been in that environment. And then it wasn't until later, you know, I started working in offices, interning, and then other places that, oh, I totally get. So it's something I got as I was. You know, it's definitely not written for the younger crowd, but, I mean, you look at this guy, nobody else would come out. And you think about it, too, the same way that, what are the celebrities doing now? They're attacking ice. But Scott Adams was one of the first ones that came out, and he stood with Trump the same way that you're not seeing other. No celebrities are coming out for ice. No, they're all attacking ice. They're attacking this agent who's, by the way, an Iraq War combat veteran. And this was a guy who not only did Scott Adams come out and support Trump, he advocated for him. Kevin, give everyone your coordinates.

[Kevin Posobec]

You can follow me on X and Instagram and now substack as well. Writing, posting, covering all kinds of things. Follow me there. Thank you so much.

[Jack Posobiec]

And. And stay tuned. Kevin's still there in Minneapolis. Big things to come. Joshua Lysak will stick with us. The last segment here, Human Events.

[Supporter/Host]

Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it.

[Guest Commentator]

Go get it.

[Supporter/Host]

And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.

[Jack Posobiec]

Amen. All right, Jack Posobic, we are back here, Human Events Daily. We're on with Joshua Lysak, who edited many of Scott's books. And Joshua, you've got. You wrote a piece last year for humanevents.com about some of the life lessons, the wisdom of Scott Adams that went on to be. I was actually just informed of this because we were going through sort of our end of year review and I was actually informed that that ended up being one of our top [e-mail] for the entire year. So even beyond scoops, exclusives, et cetera, all, everything that we did, it was that your piece on Scott Adams that ended up being one of our top for the year. You're back today. A really interesting [e-mail] it says, it says, Scott Adams, 1957-2026. I loved you all to the very end. And it opens like this. On January 13, 4026, a full two millennia from today, someone somewhere will be discovering Scott Adams work for the first time in their life. And it will change their life forever. Joshua, walk us through your piece today and why you wrote this.

[Joshua Lysak]

Thank you, Jack. Scott Adams was the Mark Twain of King Solomons. His advice was timeless. It was perennial. And I brought up before the break that some of his, let's say, greatest hits and highlights that appear in Reframe youe Brain 2023 first appeared in 1997. The Dilbert Future. So Scott had seen the future. He knew what was going to be valuable, what was going to be useful. So many of the of life, business, career, money management, health, wellness, lifestyle, fitness, social skills and mental health. He had figured it out a very long time ago and had literally decades to test it, to perfect it even, and to prove it out. So often when there's a public figure and they put some advice out there, there's not necessarily a feedback loop to determine if they were right or wrong, but in the same way that the proverbs of Solomon in the Bible have proven themselves out for more than two millennia, I expect we'll see the same thing with Scott. In the event that there remains a place called the United States of America, and a couple millennia from now, there will be Americans who are leaning on the wisdom of that great patriot Scott Adams. And who knows what the English language will sound like at that point. There might be future editions and translations of his work by that point, but his wit and his charm and his way to issue simple, direct advice is remarkable. And I think he was the first person to successfully take the entire body of work from the profession of clinical hypnosis, which of course has centuries behind it, innumerable numbers of peer reviewed studies behind it, but he was able to take that out of the clinical context and make it accessible and practical for the everyday person to have little micro hypnotic trances that reprogram them for success and happiness and in many cases relieving people of depression, anxiety, other concerns that would have held them back. And he set many free, perhaps millions of people free to be the person they were created to be. And I can't think of anyone who has that much of an impact on as many people for as much a period of time as our Internet dad, Scott Adams.

[Jack Posobiec]

It's tremendous, by the way. I, actually, I. So funny enough, I was at this used bookstore a couple of years ago and I saw this copy of Just, Just Running around and I saw this copy of that same book, the Dilbert's Predictions for the Future that came out in 97 and I picked up a copy of it and I was like, I was like, oh, this is going to be such a good troll opportunity because I'm just going to be able to find all these predictions that he got wrong. And then I was like, I'm going to tweet them out and totally mess with Scott and this is going to be so fun. And I started opening the book and I'm like, oh, wait, well that came true. And this thing about the Internet, oh yeah, that definitely happened. And then like, was that people are going to be connected over times and spaces and darn it. And like every single page and I'm looking through, trying to find some kind of receipt to, you know, I'm like, I'll really blow them up or, you know, like, you know, you know, put them on blast on, on Twitter. Because this is of course, like, this is what you do when you're friends with me. I couldn't find anything, I actually couldn't find anything in the book that he got like blatantly wrong. It was just not a thing at all. And it actually struck me as even more. I think I texted him about it at the time. I was like, darn you, Scott. Somehow you've, somehow you've outwitted me yet again. Even before we started this, this crazy dance. It was tremendous. I gotta find that somewhere because it was, it was really tremendous. There's even, there's even a comic. I've got to find this up where he predicts the rise of Trump all the way back in the 1990s, he predicts it and it's like Dogbert explaining, I think it's Dogberg explaining it to Soviet Dogbert. You remember what I'm talking about?

[Joshua Lysak]

I don't. I. It's familiar but I couldn't tell you that. The caption of the comic, the text.

[Jack Posobiec]

Yeah, it's something like that. Something. He goes, he goes, he goes. And so you're. And so your leader, so your leader is this Donald Trump. And Dogberg goes. I don't think it's official yet.

[Joshua Lysak]

You know, another prediction just. Yes, yes, mind boggling, another sociopolitical prediction from that book that Scott got right back in 97. Nowadays we have the term called NPC, right? For non player characters, people who are easily programmed by the media, particularly Internet based media. In the Dilbert future, Scott Adams made this term called individual individual. But duh is right there in the middle. Middle he described as individuals are people who, because they're so sophisticated and tech savvy, they get their news from the Internet. And it's because they're now on the Internet, they're, they're accessible to even more misinformation, disinformation, malinformation. So as educated as they now feel, because they can use this exciting new tech, the information superhighway, the world Wide Web, to become informed, they are in fact learning less factual information than ever. Those are the individuals that we could expect to see more of in the past. The millennium was what Scott termed it. I did a whiteboard video on this last night, Jack. People are, we're now saying that in the same tradition of God's debris, kind of like those of us who were his sort of Internet kids, let's say we're now Scott's debris. And one of those special little shards that meant a lot to me was the teaching technique of whiteboards. So I bought myself a whiteboard and I did a video about individuals in that book last night. So low production quality but in the, that never bothered Scott. You know, he just kept plowing ahead. So I will continue to do so and carry on that little piece of his legacy.

[Jack Posobiec]

So you've got like. Can we see the whiteboard? Where's the whiteboard?

[Joshua Lysak]

Oh, it's not here. It's at the house. It's at the house. That's where I did it.

[Jack Posobiec]

The guy's teasing us with a whiteboard. Well, I mean I appreciate you doing that Joshua. And as someone who worked with Scott, someone who knew him so well, as someone who was right there with him, you and I would not have met on Humans and Bulletproof and New York Times list and all the rest just directly because of Scott's influence. And so many of the things that Scott was influential in and some of the people he talked to which, and you mentioned this in the op ed today, the memorial, I think, that you wrote for Scott, it's going to be private and it will always remain private. And there are things and conversations and situations that Scott Adams had an influence in that just because of sensitivity, will never be made public. But people know who he knew and people saw his Rolodex and people saw how fast certain individuals, for example, your favorite president tweeted out about Scott Adams. The great influencer, Joshua. Where can people go to follow you and get Scott Adams's work?

[Joshua Lysak]

Thank you. I'm on X and everywhere else. Oshua Lysik. I contributed to the second editions of many of his books. Also the first edition of Reframe youe Brain. Of course, those are also available on Amazon. I have the editor credit on those. And I'm the editor and publisher of the upcoming Scott Adams biography that's authored by Scott's longtime friend, Joel Pollack.

[Jack Posobiec]

I can't wait to read that. It's just going to be absolutely tremendous work. And I was honored, of course, to be on with Scott this last Sunday and just hanging out with Scott there and one of the final episodes we did. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.