Hello and

this is Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kitten.

And this is the show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

A brilliant guest this week is the creator of Dilbert, who's now reinvented himself about three or four years ago when he predicted that Donald Trump would be

elected based on what he described as his skill set and we're going to delve into

that and a lot more with the brilliant Scott Adams Scott.

Scott, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

It's great to have you here.

Listen, before we get into the interview,

you have a huge audience obviously in the United States,

but not many people will, or fewer at least, people will know who you are over here in the UK.

So do us a favor.

Tell us a little bit about how you are, where you are today.

What's been your journey through life? Well, I started out as a corporate cubicle dweller and I invented the Dilberg cartoon strip,

which does by the way run in some papers in Great Britain. I don't know which one's off the top of my head,

but of course it's on the internet at Dilber.com.

And so it's in 2,000 newspapers, I expect by next month it'll be in a hundred newspapers

because that's probably all that will be left after we're done with this

ugliness. And I pivoted, as you said, to talking about persuasion because I have a background

as a trained hypnotist and I've been studying persuasion in all its forums for decades as part of my job as a writer.

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