ing for a future where you need that.

Now let me give you some examples where that mattered. Do you remember there was some, I don't know if there was a riot or there was some kind of big commotion that caused some street in America to be all littered. And there was a national news story about some young Black man who got a broom and it wasn't his job. He just didn't like his neighborhood dirty. And so he just took his broom and just started sweeping. You know, this enormous job. I mean it was a pretty big job. I don't know how big the street was. Was it Baltimore? And the news picked it up and it was nothing but a young man who wanted to make his neighborhood better. That's it. And if you remember, he was deluged with money and offers. Now why would he get offers? Why would anybody make him offers? Just because he was sweeping up the street? Didn't know anything about him. Well here's my take. They could see that he had a reciprocity operating system. That he was just saying this needs to be done. This will be good for everybody. I'll just go do this. Now if you do that kind of stuff on a regular basis, most of the time you will not be rewarded. Most of the time you will not be rewarded. But sometimes you are. And that was a good situation where he was. Now that was, again, and I think also people were signaling that they want more of that kind of behavior. I think that's part of it. So generally speaking, when you're looking forward and you're doing things for other people, it will come back.

Now I gotta tell you how important that is in my life at the moment. You may have noticed the headlines. There were a few people who were angry at me in the past week. But I'll tell you almost all the people that I've ever helped, either individually or in some way, Black and white, because it turns out there were more Black people I've helped than I remembered, but they all appeared. They all came out of the woodwork. And that includes people who are not necessarily wanting to get into this. So I would say that having laid down a long history of being useful to other people intentionally and not for some specific reward, I just think it's a good way to be. Those people came to my defense in a big way. You know, not all publicly. Not all publicly. Most of it was private. But they came through. That's reciprocity.

I'll give you another example. In the darkest moments of my being canceled, I joined a Spaces. I just logged on and it was run by Sunny Johnson and there were a number of mostly Black listeners. And the topic was somewhere in the domain of stuff I'd dusted up, I guess. And I didn't know how that would go because I thought I might be walking into the hornet's nest. Like I thought I was just going to get yelled down or something. But instead Sunny Johnson noticed I was there, invited me to speak, which I did. We had some technical problems, so if anybody thinks I left, it's because of a technical problem. I didn't just leave. But when I talked they listened and they were respectful and they were curious, I think, because nobody was shouting me down, etc. And then when I was in technical problems, Sunny invited me back on. Now what Sunny was doing by giving me the respect and the opportunity to talk to exactly the people I wanted to talk to at that time, that created reciprocity. So all week long I've been turning people down for interviews. No, I won't. I can't be on your podcast. I'm not going to do your show. I don't have a quote. And then Sunny Johnson messages me. So I'm going to be on her show on Saturday. I'll give you details before Saturday. So I said yes. The only reason I said yes is reciprocity. So she gets the scoop. Why? Because she was respectful to me when she didn't need to be. Didn't need to be. And when it was my darkest time. That's reciprocity. She gets my full service in return. That is what I like to teach as an operating system for everybody. You know, you could say it's for Black people, but it's an operating system for everybody. Everybody needs to learn that what you're putting out is the only thing you're going to get back in a variety of ways. If however you're looking backwards instead of forward and you've got a victim mentality, hey, you owe me something because of something that happened in the past, that does work in the short run. In the short run you'll get more resources. That totally works in the short run. In the long run it destroys the world, right? It can't work in the long run. In the long run the only thing that works is cooperation and reciprocity. That's it. Everything else fails.

So let's go through my scorecard where I'm at having been fully canceled. By the way, the actual full cancellation for Dilbert takes effect mid-March. So there's a few more weeks of comics in the pipeline. I guess after that it will be available only on the Locals platform, subscription platform. And you can find it at scottadams.locals.com. And by the way it would help me if you subscribe on YouTube.

All right. So here's the scorecard so far. And I tweeted this. I'll just read it. Only the dying leftist fake news industry canceled me. Did you know that? Did you know that only the left-leaning world canceled me? The right hasn't canceled me at all. Not even close. Like not even a little bit. The right is completely supportive. The only unsupportive thing I saw was a few people hadn't seen the context yet. But 100 percent of the people who saw the context understand what's going on. All right. So far I have not been banned on social media. Twitter, no problem. I'm here on YouTube right now. Now the Hodge twins, I need a little background. I was thinking of reaching out to them, the Hodge twins, because I'm pretty sure I follow them. I think they would enjoy that actually. I'm thinking of reaching out just to give them a little content.

So how do you explain if you're on the left and I got canceled for hate speech, how do you justify in your mind that social media hasn't even touched me? Still on Facebook, Meta, still on Instagram, no problem, Twitter. How do you explain that? The easy explanation is I didn't violate any terms of service. But if I had done what I was accused of doing, I think that would be hate speech. I think that would be a violation. So credit to YouTube. I don't know if any of the YouTube monitors are watching. I know you're probably watching me carefully, but maybe not live. Good for you. Well, I like to call out when somebody does something right. YouTube is handling this situation just right. Just right. I've even been monetized. And I think YouTube probably looked at the context. You know, they were asked to look at it, right? Would you agree? Would you agree there's no chance in the world that the YouTube censors did not look at my situation because it was national news? Of course they did. And it originally happened on YouTube where it still lives. It's still on YouTube. And I don't even think they rigged the algorithm. I think the algorithm was surfacing it just fine. It had like half a million views or something. So yeah. Anyway. So how do you explain that social media, which all bans hate speech, looked at the context of this situation and said nope, that's not hate speech or at least not enough to violate any terms?

I also have zero pushback in person. Zero. There's one fellow I know named Vlad who's real mad at me but on behalf of his wife who's Black who doesn't know the context apparently. So he's sort of acting up on behalf of his wife it looks like. So that's fine. That's fine, right? Yeah, Vlad TV. If Vlad wants to be mad at me because his wife needs him to be mad at me so he can stay married, that's fine. But he's bothering me a little too much so I had to go after him on social media today. And by the way I considered a befriend until this week but he has to do what he has to do. But except for him, 100 percent of the people I've interacted with this week in person have been perfectly fine. It's like it never happened or they're supportive.