Wired.com presents the Geek's guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 389 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Scott Adams,

creator of the wildly popular comic strip Dilbert,

which was the first comic strip to be available online,

and we'll be speaking with him today about his short novels, God's

debris in the religion war, which drawn his knowledge of hypnosis and

persuasion, as well as his new book, Loser Think, which attempts to identify and

correct faulty logic that people often use in online arguments.

We'll also be talking to him about how publicly supporting Donald Trump has affected his career and social life.

And now here's our interview with Scott Adams.

All right, so we're here with Scott Adams. Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Okay, so I just found out that you once appeared in an episode of Babylon 5.

So how'd that come about? Well it was my favorite

show at the time and I said something good about it in an article I wrote in I think it was TV guide and their publicist

contacted me and said how would you like to play a bit part on the show just sort of

thank you and to bring more publicity to it.

And I said, sure, can I bring my girlfriend at the time?

Can she be in it too?

And they said, sure, we'll make her a Min-Bari.

So I played a human character who was looking for my lost dog and maybe I'm

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