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We Read The Dilbert Guy's Attempt to Make Trump into a Religion | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Robert is joined by Garrison Davis to discuss Win Bigly: The Dilbert Guy's Terrible Book About Trump.
Original Air Date: August 17, 2023
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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[@alexsims6504]

Scott Adams is one of the people who can single handedly disprove the existence of a meritocracy in America

[@OtterSC2]

He wasn't a hack, just a narcissist who couldn't talk for a year from a bizarre neuro problem and hasn't been sane since. "Creativity = theft + lack of talent" will stick with me despite his nonsense. His practical advice on doing creative projects instead of working while in the office is worth getting the pdf of joy of work for.

[@alexcarter8807]

I remember him pissing and moaning that at AT&T, he could not rise higher in the company because he was not tall enough and didn't have enough hair. Seriously.

[@DichotomousRex]

@@OtterSC2 So you're impressed that Scott Adams stole the phrase "Art Is Theft"?

[@user-kz8zr4si3i]

The guy has merit; he can articulate ideas very well. His ideas are essentially hallucinated observations about the world through the lense of the self, but he can use words to describe it quite well

[@warkijiji4474]

Who’s Scott Adams I’m watching them talk about the Dilbert guy

[@lukemccann8930]

It remains completely insane to me that Adam's somehow thinks that persuasion means "be idiotically stubborn and insist you won the argument when the other side decides you're a moron and walks away".

[@jeffengel2607]

Well yeah, but when you insist he's a moron and walk away, he's going to be idiotically stubborn and insist he won the argument. So he's certainly persuaded himself. Bigly!

[@Okijuben]

And lucky for Adam's, he lives in a world where there's no objective reality.

[@dinosaysrawr]

The preferred debate tactic of 15-year-old boys who just discovered Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson last week.

[@carlosbond5062]

@@dinosaysrawr15 year olds are discovering Ayn Rand? More likely they are discovering new 1st person shooter games! You make a valid point and it’s something I hadn’t thought of before! 👍👍👍

[@Desmaad]

Like playing chess with a pigeon.

[@Arkholt2]

I love how Scott is so convinced that he's the smartest man alive that if he ever has to admit that he doesn't know something he also says no one else knows it either. If he doesn't know a thing, it's just unknowable. Such amazing narcissism.

[@Bluecho4]

That's pure Dunning-Kruger. No wonder he likes Trump so much.

[@notinspectorgadget]

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent." - Scott Adams.

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

*millions of small towns around the world phase out of existence to preserve his ego*

[@ladymushroom9485]

Scott Adams demonstrated his understanding of persuasion by becoming reviled by the general public and rendering himself politically irrelevant. A real 3d chess master.

[@southwerk]

Harsh but very accurate.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Reminds me of how Adams simps in the comments section of the previous BTB podcast about him lamely tried to claim that he's a millionaire and we're not, so there! Yeah, well, Steve, imagine how much richer, happier, more famous, and more successful he'd be if he hadn't flown directly into the sun!

[@gapsule2326]

​@@dinosaysrawrits funnier if you assume those are just Dilbert guys alts... I cant imagine he has hardcore fans

[@stitchgrimly6167]

Trump did exactly that and got to be president.

[@waywardScarecrow]

​@@dinosaysrawrolmmmmmmmmmmmmlmmmmmmmmmmmm0++q

[@StCrimson667]

Scott Adams seems like someone who has been told his entire life that he's smart or a genius simply because he was kind of nerdy and privileged, but is, in reality, a deeply, deeply stupid person who really isn't all that curious about the world and actually has quite a limited vocabulary and doesn't particularly want to examine his understanding, vocabulary, and worldview because it specifically allows him to continue to believe that he's the smart genius that he was always told it was.

[@jeremysmetana8583]

Dude, punctuation.

[@PointsofData]

Nah guy has talent...I think he just internalized the praise in a weird way as a kid/young adult AND THEN stopped being curious, etc. I'm very sure his parents and Jack Cassidy and every art teacher or co-worker who encouraged him NEVER intended to make...this.

[@BloodWired]

This guy, no joke, literally believed he was a chosen one in some capacity because his life was so easy and convenient, he didn’t know how to rationalize the struggles of others.

[@dinosaysrawr]

As a family member of mine likes to say, "He was told he was clever as a child."

[@sd-ch2cq]

Lots of those in the media: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Bankman-Fried. Priviliged dudes who grew up in schools where 'kinda nerdy' was the same as 'smart', got convinced of their own brilliance, and surrounded themselves by yes-men and/or 4chan edgelords.

[@fen7662]

Love Scott's "I perceived myself smarter than 90% of my high school graduating class, therefore I have unlocked all of the secrets of the mind and am probably psychic or something" energy.

[@spillanegottleib1681]

And the high school wasn't one of the ones in Taiwan where the failing worst students have 135 IQ's.

[@cuttingbored4195]

Just a small reminder - “low energy Jeb” isn’t where Jeb fell out of the race. “Please clap” is where that happened 😆

[@cybercop0083]

All I know is that you have to walk the line as a prez. You can’t be a low-energy Jeb, but you should also avoid being a Jacked Up Joe. Politics, politics.

[@_derpderp]

Adams is the living, breathing PSA for not getting high on your own supply.

[@gepisar]

would that supply be copium?

[@suzbone]

@@gepisar not sure if you meant that sarcastically, but yeah, you nailed it.

[@jeremysmetana8583]

He loves the scent of his own brand.

[@_derpderp]

@@gepisar More delusional narcissism with a dash of un-ironic (to him) victimhood.

[@brianjauch9958]

Scott's not the first guy I met who took mushrooms and thought he was a wizard who could predict the future

[@russelljackson2818]

Crediting Trump with destroying Jeb Bush with a nickname is just absurd coming from a person who has lived through more than one election cycle. How many times has Jeb run now, and not even made it to the primary? Losing elections is basically all he knows how to do.

[@spillanegottleib1681]

"Liberal media" has created Trump from the ground up, from his earliest days to right now. That is a subject that few if any are both willing and able to discuss.

[@Virjunior01]

And also that 12 years of two Bushes in the White House made people not want to even bother, as well as "please clap."

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

Scott Adams: "Well you see, reality split in half when I might have been wrong about something, but I'm right so EVERYONE is living in their own reality and I'M the special boy who can see the truth!" ... Sir I hit upon the idea of "everyone else is stupid" when I was 16, it's not a revelation. Or philosophy. This book is just one guy trying to convince himself he bet on the right horse by explaining it for 300 pages x.x

[@dinosaysrawr]

What teenager doesn't feel that they're the smartest and/or specialest person in the room? But, most of us outgrow that attitude by our 30s at least!

[@SteverenoOFFICIAL]

I love Garrison's laugh. It goes between sounding like a laugh, to sounding like crying, to sounding like they've lost their mind, which is 100% appropriate in every episode 😊

[@OmniLiquid]

What's even funnier about Adams' "prediction" is that there's an early (1991, maybe?) Dilbert comic in which Dogbert becomes Nostradogbert and his bit is that he will make vague predictions about things that will definitely happen and take credit when they come true, with one of the prediction being "there will be turmoil in the middle east", so I think he is aware of the grift he's trying to pull. It's weird that either he seems to think people don't see through it, or that he has fallen for his own grift.

[@shaider1982]

Meh, that's like predicting the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.

[@DichotomousRex]

@@shaider1982 Yes, that's the point

[@plantain.1739]

It's really funny how often "The middle east will be in turmoil" is used as a punchline, and how often that is actually used as an example of someone being able to predict the future.

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

@@plantain.1739 well it's been in turmoil consistently for a long ass time and unfortunately really doesn't look like its gonna stop being in turmoil for a little while. Unless Africa becomes the new major imperialist theatre again then maybe the middle east might get a chance to chill out a bit.

[@emilegriffith6082]

Robert's hysterical laughing is my reason for existence. Sophie and Garrison are so cute.

[@grotsoftsadventuresinelect8868]

I'm old enough to remember when Dilbert came out. I loved it then. As time went by I still liked it. Adams' books started amusing / interesting, then started to get "weird". For years I divorced the comic from the creator. Around 2016, with all his "master persuader" BS, I finally gave up.

[@Arrowdodger]

Scott Adams is all about being divorced, as it turns out.

[@plantain.1739]

Ya know I'll still defend the Show, but honestly being reminded of the bob bastard episode kinda made me remember how weird Scott is. Also now that I think about it, the trashman character is 100% some of this master persuader bullshit.

[@RagnellAvalon]

@@plantain.1739 it's kind of like Star Wars ignore the idiot manchild who made it, appreciate the actual content

[@KarmikCykle]

@@plantain.1739 The Garbageman is definitely some kind of self-insert.

[@Akutabai5]

Idk what it says about me that I thought for a second you were saying that Dilbert (the character) came out as gay.

[@user-te5po4bu8o]

God grant me the confidence of a dude like this guy. They will think of whatever and imagine they invented it, and never bother to find out if that’s true or not. Then they’ll write a freaking book.

[@heathersand73]

I still can't wrap my brain around how some people can look at Trump's words and actions and NOT come away thinking he's a complete moron!

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

Trump says what they wanna hear. He says all their private thoughts out loud and they eat that shit up.

[@seionne85]

I was at a recycling plant and they had a few pallets of Matt Walsh's "what is a woman" to be shredded... Lol. I grabbed a couple copies since no money would go to Walsh

[@trevfindley5704]

That's wild. Do you think they were unsold, or had been bulk purchased by conservative orgs to try and get it on bestseller listings?

[@seionne85]

@@trevfindley5704 I have no idea, but I think it's most likely that some large retailer overestimated what their sales would be and ordered too many. I'm not sure if they would be counted as sales in a situation like that, but unfortunately I imagine he got paid for them :(

[@seionne85]

@@trevfindley5704 to clarify they were definitely unsold. They were all in boxes and shrink wrapped, not with random books, just probably 10k copies (as an estimate) of this single title.

[@Lunar_Atronach]

this just brings a wide smile across my face

[@seionne85]

@@Lunar_Atronach it did mine too! I wanted to share that with someone so thanks for making my day haha

[@thebadshave503]

Scott Adams feels like the boomer version of a pick-up artist. Same energy of fixating on "secret tricks that crack the code" of basic human interaction

[@neonpink5556]

"Linguistic Killshot" would be a great name for a spell utilized by D&D Bards.

[@suzbone]

It could totally become a thing

[@DrZaius3141]

It's when you use metamagic on Vicious Mockery.

[@press_x_tojason]

Honestly, it would be fantastic for Pillars of Eternity chanters dual wielding pistols.

[@done.6191]

Ha! My friend who fell to Scott Adams/Trump brought up Plato's Cave while arguing for the Bell Curve...I wondered why at the time. Now I know.

[@RvEijndhoven]

Sophie's reaction to the words 'Salem Witch Trials' extended my life by at least ten years.

[@cuttingbored4195]

Persuasion = confusing the public. - Scott Adams.

[@eileenheath1968]

"I'm going to start with Confirmation Bias and move on to Mass Delusion." - Well, Scott, that is your personal character arc!! (My husband Kevin cackled this - I can't take the credit)

[@markrothenbuhler6232]

My goal in life to to never end up being featured on this podcast. So far, so good!

[@cybercop0083]

My dream is to have a double-feature on this show and Forbes‘ „30 under 30“ list

[@Chaosqueenngami]

The Dunning Kruger effect around Scott is so powerful it’s deserves study.

[@rustkitty]

Every time Master Persuader was mentioned made me think of Master of Disguise and now I want to see Trump dressed as a turtle...

[@ryle2965]

Omfg, when you read the 98% prediction I said to myself "he totally picked that because it complements the 2% projection" and that's literally exactly why. I cannot fucking believe this man

[@Campernicus]

An alien Dilbert-pilled my mom when I was little. I saw him and he just looked at me.

[@Xenronnify]

"How to design a linguistic killshot" might be the silliest name of a section I've ever heard and I love it. And also I hate it.

[@MissFussbudget]

I heard the word "master persuader" so many times that it started to sound like "masturbater".

[@Gloomdrake]

Would have been worse if he’d been arguing that Trump was a Master Debater

[@lindsayruiz]

I conceal-carry my weapons-grade Master Persuasion skills for tactical advantage

[@OtterSC2]

Trump isn't persuasive on political topics but he was a master of some types of persuasion: exploiting prejudice and grievances and belittling competitors. That's persuading the audience their bigotry is justified and to laugh at your opponents.

[@miguelvelez7221]

Not saying this is what you are doing here but... Can we not talk about how we got here without talking up Trump and most other Right Wing demagogues' "ability" in terms of persuasion or public speaking. Because it's in no way true nor has it ever been. Whether it's Hitler or Mussolini or Louis Farrakhan or Wallace or Jim Jones the common denominator is neither deeply thought out philosophically coherence in terms of policies nor truly nimble and emotionally resonant rhetoric fueled from sincere first principles. The common denominator is just a lack of shame and zero ethics or morals. It's not genius or a deft political mind. It's an inability to feel any shame or remorse while lying your ass off to make big groups angry... This isn't hard. It's actually the lazy person's approach to any and all political questions.

[@FTZPLTC]

This is the thing though: he's not persuading anyone to change their mind; he's just telling them that they're right about stuff. Anyone can do that. Also I feel like a master persuader wouldn't be facing as many sexual assault allegations as Trump.

[@FTZPLTC]

@@miguelvelez7221 - I agree, I think most people would be able to lead a mob if they didn't care what they had to say in order to do it. I do think there's an element of people *admiring* someone who doesn't seem to feel constrained by ethics or social mores, but that's tragic more than anything.

[@miguelvelez7221]

@@FTZPLTC As always, Trump as bad as he is, isn't the root issue. It's the people willing to follow anyone like him. And let's remember how once defeated these types turn on the last Messiah and wait for the new vessel for their resentments and aggression. W. Bush was sent here by God according to his supporters circa 2003.

[@FTZPLTC]

​@@miguelvelez7221- Absolutely, and I have to say, UK politics has mercifully avoided that trope of every Conservative candidate being depicted as either Christ or Christ-adjacent. I remember a GOP primary (I wanna say whichever one Michelle Bachmann was in?) where something like six of the candidates all said that God told them to run, which is like... either God really likes messing with people, or five of those people are lying! =D But yeah, we had a similar thing (albeit less so) with Boris Johnson, using the system to get himself into power, and absolutely everyone knew what a garbage person he was. So I have to conclude that at least some people *like* their leaders to be these shameless oafs who don't hide their failings and even brag about them. They can't be that in their own lives, but they wish they could, I guess?

[@plcthelegacy4131]

I find if funny Scott's self insert character is called the Avatar, cause he looks like Aang if he grew up to be a Crypto Bro.

[@Luizi08]

The last part of the podcast was the funniest shit I've ever heard, just the way it is delivered is contagious

[@BehindTheBastards]

Much Appreciated!

[@patricksinger357]

I feel like Dilbert Guy listened to a bunch of pick-up artists, and was like "my god, i understand everything now!"

[@BaronVonQuiply]

After hearing his praise of Chump for "inventing" things that have existed longer than civilization,.. I am now willing to bet serious cash that Scott Adams is a big fan of e-Lawn Mush.

[@RedGreenBrown]

I can't believe there's more Scott Adams stuff. I guess it's really turtle shit all the way down.

[@erf3176]

Dilbert Guy: I predicted the Trump presidency. I'm the smartest person in the world!!! Simpsons guy: I did it first w/o being a huge ahole about it.

[@glennxserge]

Dude is bragging about calling a coin flip 😂

[@FTZPLTC]

The best thing about Scott Adams is the Ben Garrison cartoon about him.

[@sottosopravoce]

They should hang it in the Louvre

[@FTZPLTC]

@@sirhenrymorgan1187 - That would be funny but it's actually about Scott Adams *should* be anti-vax but wasn't.

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

@@FTZPLTC Aw, then I totally misunderstood the comic? Well, maybe it's a good thing I didn't get: that would mean my mind works like his does!

[@FTZPLTC]

​@@sirhenrymorgan1187 - Assuming we're looking at the same one, I think Ben's mad at Scott for not being anti-vax sooner, and not admitting that anti-vaxers were right all along? Honestly it was one of my favourite cartoons because there's just so many ways to replace words with "cum" in it.

[@JackgarPrime]

​@@FTZPLTCOoooh, that's the CUM comic? I remember that one now.

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

Scott's fixation on wanting to be able to predict the future is very strange. He's like a failed oracle.

[@suzbone]

my money is on him having a secret jeweled turban fetish

[@dinosaysrawr]

...especially when he gloms onto tools and philosophies that aren't designed for that purpose, like atheism.

[@TheGallantDrake]

It's sad, it's probably a side effect of how he was raised and he never quite got around to questioning it

[@hpalpha7323]

I feel similarly to Scott Adams as I do Elon Musk, he's a guy who basically had it made, could have just kept his mouth shut and done his job and people would still have a shred of respect for him, but that wasn't good enough

[@parsecboy4954]

Hey, I am actively editing an article on Wikipedia while listening to this - at least I can cite a source!

[@duffykhalsa8281]

I’ve been appreciating all of these gems dropped re: Dr. Phil (on a related note omg Bull is so painful for me to watch), Adams’s spiral, Taser/Axon, and everything around reading books, esp with Katy and Cody. I wonder how familiar BTB crew/guests are with the work of George Lakoff (e.g. “Moral Politics” and “Whose Freedom?”), and how an approach to politics/political science through that lens of cognitive linguistics might impact discussions like this one of Adams&DJT.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Cheers - more books to read :)

[@auramire6304]

My expression has been one of pure bewilderment for so long while listening to this that I'm worried I'll be stuck this way.

[@FTZPLTC]

I know this is a long way down the list of dumb things, but Scott Adams really doesn't know what a delusion is.

[@suzbone]

Ironically, it's sort of at the top of fatal character flaws though

[@TheGallantDrake]

He really doesn't lmao

[@alltheorynopractice5467]

Oh good, Scott Adams is one of my favorite train wrecks.

[@TheWinterscoming]

Garrison and Robert are always adorable together. Especially when they both say the same kind of interstitial words.

[@ZBott]

Like most people who fell into Trump's Emperor Cult, Adams thought that Trump was brilliant when he was just really good at arguing and debasing. Trump learned how to work the crowd like a pro wrestler and so many people were taken in on the silly grift.

[@Joenight100]

Can only associate "master persuader" with weird sex shit because of garbage pick up artist shit. So this episode's subject got even creepier that way

[@adamplentl5588]

Good morning comrades. Don't forget to drink some water.

[@Akutabai5]

Scott Adams is evidence that some kids don't get bullied enough

[@Shadowman4710]

As somebody who was mercilessly bullied as a kid, I approve this message.

[@done.6191]

Always love to see Scott Adams taken down. He really should have stuck to Office Politics and stayed away from actual politics. He had every comic creator's dream---a license to print money, Garfield style---and squandered it.

[@jon85753]

I prefer his earlier dilbert strips. They were more about absurdism with a bit of engineering humor. Like the 'end road construction now' strip, I quickly got bored of the office humor, though.

[@halkihaxx5]

He's confusing cognitive dissonance with cognitive bias. Cognitive bias is assuming you're right due to prior experience. Cognitive dissonance is the negative feeling from confronting things outside of your belief system. More fundamentally when contemplating seemingly mutually exclusive beliefs.

[@mantisesq]

So much projection in that book. It's amazing. Great episode.

[@BehindTheBastards]

Thanks for listening!

[@eddiefragnito]

Scott Adams mistaking pandering to persuasion is just so hilarious. Hes so delusional about his own intelligence in a silly way dude could be used as an walking psa to devillanize narcisists

[@machinesbreathe]

If there were a photograph adjacent to the definition of "Main Character Syndrom" in a dictionary, Scott Adams' portrait would be the most appropriate choice.

[@glennmartin6492]

Re Adams; an echo chamber is a terrible thing.

[@done.6191]

Scott...it was the first reality. That was the right one.

[@thetalkingbear]

Successful criminals are great talkers, so are dictators and despots. Trump fits in to all of those.

[@michellemarty7510]

Oh yeah only the Dilbert guy saw Jeb "Please clap" Bush not being president coming 😹😹😹😹😹

[@kaliver517]

WEAPONS GRADE PERSUASION** ** Actual persuasion not included

[@LeoFieTv]

Cute how Garrison adopted Robert's "Oh boy!"

[@alejandrorivas4585]

He really has imprinted in an adorable way

[@resident-evil-jerma5389]

i haven’t finished the episode yet and i know it was a mouth typo but “he was one of the first ‘really pulled a 3d chess’ guys” is hilarious. damn!! this guy is playing (checks smudged writing on hand)… regular chess?

[@thechubbyatheist9913]

This I weirdly a full circle for me, I started watching the Podcast because of the Scott Adams episodes

[@fishdude666ify]

I used to love Dilbert; it used to be funny. I've read a couple here and there recently, and they really reflect his right break. As in they're just cringe-terrible now. He's at the top of the list of formerly cool people that went down the kookamonga highway and never looked back. A lot of my childhood involved looking forward to the newspaper just to read that day's Dilbert. I feel like I need to have a funeral for him. Dilbert not Scott, fuck that guy.

[@robotcarms]

Trump's no Master Persuader; he just needs to roll higher than a one to persuade his base.

[@TheGallantDrake]

Hr didn't even persuade them, he just said things they already believed

[@chazblank2717]

I remember reading his Dilbert futurism book, and recall it pretty accurately predicting KZbin all but to the letter. Something about people’s media sources getting more fragmented and personalized while simultaneously becoming basically meaningless and generally less reliable or relevant.

[@TheGallantDrake]

It's not a terribly difficult concept to grasp, he's not the only one who saw it coming.

[@chazblank2717]

@@TheGallantDrake oh yeah, I definitely was NOT saying the art of Futurism (inasmuch as that’s a real thing a person can do) is at all inherently difficult. It’s always been tied very closely to science fiction, which means it’s something nearly always done as an intellectual curiosity from positions of relative comfort. Like science fiction stories, predictions of the future will invariably fall somewhere in a spectrum between apocalyptic horror and optimistic bullshit. While not technically in this genre the book was written primarily as one big parody of it, meaning the stakes of inaccuracy and failure were totally nonexistent. A classic nothing to lose, everything to gain situation. If anything this just goes to show that how much this type of information can be profited on is more directly a matter of privilege and platform than accuracy… or phrased another even more cynical way… a person’s productive capacity is measured as the sum total of their actual work plus the appearance of work they can take credit for 😆 This absolutely includes things like generational wealth, wearing a nice suit, etc… but we’ve also seen how much of this performative keeping up of appearances are totally unnecessary post-Covid… like the idea of even needing to be physically present in an office building was a bit of a joke to Adams and well ahead of it’s time. And I acknowledge it’s only true for reasons he never could’ve guessed and in ways that obviously feel less funny living through. But I dunno man, just saying there WERE reasons people thought this dude was a closet socialist.

[@aila6814]

just what i needed.

[@BehindTheBastards]

Thank you for listening to the pod!

[@yeahokay1051]

Im pretty new to this podcast but this is what ive been yearning for, a historical accurate of ridiculously bad problems we face today. Been a fan of some more news for years and years now, so glad cody and katy come on here too!

[@bkd69ster]

Came for the dragging of Scott Adams...stayed for the conversation about RAW.

[@user-mi4du9rd1j]

The only thing actually funny about Scott Adams or anything related to him is that my local paper ran "Dilbert" in the business section, not on the comics page.

[@rowanatkinson3594]

It's wild how this dude is *so close* to being on the right side of history and he just refuses to be over and over

[@jeremysmetana8583]

You forgot to add the inevitable acknowledgement. YOU: I'm writing a piece on Scott Adams. ASSOCIATE: Who? YOU: You know, that Dilbert Guy, ASSOCIATE: (inevitable acknowledgment) Sigh... Oh, THAT guy.

[@rorylynch1203]

After binging this podcast, I can’t help but be on constant watch for Nazis

[@henryfleischer404]

I assume you don't pay for books by walking to your local library. It's what I do, in part for the exercise. I recently had to get an inter-library loan, as the King County Library System does not have every science-fiction book. It's just too bad they don't have inter-library loans for CDs.

[@Demonstray]

18:57 "Make him take a Will save" gave me war flashbacks to D&D 3.5e. Now I wanna play Pathfinder 2E with Robert.

[@Nderak]

scott doesnt know what persuasuion means

[@joshuascholar3220]

Oh nooooo!

[@Aury]

Now I'm a mix of sad and angry, cause 98% is my go-to random stat to indicate extreme confidence, but now its always gonna make me think of Dilbert dipwit.

[@BenjaminGlatt]

Fun fact, Trump actually said, "big league," that one time which, while stillc stupid, is at least an actual phrase people use.

[@user-kz8zr4si3i]

I was really looking forward to dilbert guys insights gained from magic mushrooms. That sounds like a doozie

[@sottosopravoce]

12:00 ...I'm sorry, were producers "scrambling" to book you on TV or was your lucrative career as a speaker reduced to nothing, Scott??

[@peterdickinson4599]

A hundred years ago this guy would have found a perfect home in the Rosicrucians.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

No one's gonna mention the two dozen times Garrison and Rob say the same thing at the same time with the same exact intonation?

[@Calpsotoma]

Robert, just use a library. Defrauding Amazon only ends up hurting the seller, not Amazon themselves.

[@josephmatthews7698]

Trump is not very persuasive he's just one of those guys that tells you what you want to hear until you agree with him. If you don't think any further he's amazing but if you're reasonable you'll eventually figure out he's full of BS and stop listening to him. For example I didn't care about him until during a speech he said he wanted to raise the minimum wage and help people struggling. I got excited and thought "Oh wow maybe this guys worth keeping an eye on." But then I dug a little deeper and realized he's also had speeches where he wanted to abolish the minimum wage and considered the unemployed leeches. The guy throws everything at the wall in the hopes something sticks.

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Chai Tea 😂 It really does rub one the wrong way to hear "tea tea" because that's what that is 😂😂😂

[@JackgarPrime]

That bit from Across the Spider-Verse probably hit good, eh?

[@magpieMOB]

The way Adams prefaces his Great Revelation feels like he's Paul the Apostle writing to the Corinthians about how he totally saw the Risen Christ you guys

[@onetonpun]

One of Roberts former colleagues said he looks like young liam neason, now i cant unsee it.

[@jessclark9725]

Honestly... When I consider how trusted Trump IS to how trusted he SHOULD BE... He's gotta be *relatively* very (dishonestly) persuasive to sell so many on such blatant bullshit (though the *most* persuasive, probably not). The most important part is that this persuasion ISN'T getting people to fall for fascist talking points (those that bit already had deep-set reactionary tendencies), but he DID persuade them that he could competently carry these talking points out, which all evidence suggests against (the closer he got to achieving his goals, the less involved he was and the more he was involved, the more he has had to shift goalposts to claim success). He got into office, in large part, as a "business genius", AFTER BANKRUPTING A CASINO. Part of his success in lying is picking his targets, but he is good at picking them, and good at working the targets he picks. He's no genius, no mastermind, but to pretend he's not a VERY effective slick-talker (he cheated, weaseled, schmoozed and defamed his way into the Oval Office after all) is cutting him undue slack for his malicious, intentional, *practiced and tuned* misdeeds, and is unwise. These misdeeds hinge on successful persuasion. Edit to add: The specific instances and mechanics of persuasion I identify in Trump are almost entirely different to those described by Dilbret Sr, criticism of Scott's fellating all still stands.

[@Jermbot15]

I see what you're saying, but I think you're attributing the incredible feat Trump has accomplished to the wrong thing. Trump's success at getting trusted is exclusively him being in the right place at the right time. The political right in this country has been getting conditioned to be dumber, more hate filled, and less connected to reality for 20+ years. Fox News, AM Radio, this new crop of internet media companies and the long string of conspiracy theories all have been selling people this idea that they're smart without learning anything, right without evidence and that anyone correcting them is a liar. So what does this mean? That people are more open to fascism and hate, but paradoxically less responsive to even the unsubtle dog whistles. Trump was the first person to come along with a cultivated aura of credibility who loudly and proudly said the quiet parts out loud. Someone on the right was always going to do it. They were always going to be massively successful with that quarter of the population.

[@ms.chrisie8040]

It's a good thing everyone has opinions yet we all know what they say about opinions 😂😂😂

[@mikethejrrk]

Nice shout-out to Rory Blank!

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a ChristainVerstappen and Vaush fan!

[@rooster6461]

“One of the top cartoonists in the country” I dunno bro, blondie exists.

[@Sinyao]

Near the end of the presidency, people were talking about how thankful they were that Trump spent so much time golfing, else he could have gotten more stuff done.

[@JONNYSORENSEN_AU]

SCOTT doesnt exist. He's just a hallucination

[@alexcarter8807]

You been to Cuba? You tried the coffee? I have. It's rad! I highly highly recommend Cuban coffee.

[@FlameDarkfire]

Scott Adams is such a narcissist. He fits the profile, and this book is a shining example of how he’s huffing his own farts.

[@rapdactyl]

I honestly never got into this podcast until the Scott Adams saga. What a perfect choice!

[@alejandrorivas4585]

Oh lord you have a wonderful back catelogue to enjoy. May I reccomend the mms episodes? Good old bleach drinking cult

[@poeterritory]

Scott Adams is irritating. Love these takes on him.