Can a Fake Self-Help Book Actually Change Your Life? | Scott Bloom

Scott Bloom (scottbloomconnects.com) did something completely ridiculous...

He wrote a parody of every productivity, morning routine, and self-help book you've ever rolled your eyes at...and somehow ended up creating a book that might actually change your life.

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In this episode, comedian, keynote speaker, author and generally hilarious human Scott Bloom shares the unbelievable story behind Atomic Morning Miracle, including how he convinced Scott Bakula (yes...THE Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap and Star Trek) to become part of the project after writing the entire book before ever hearing "yes."

Along the way, we dive into synchronicity, creativity, spirituality, humor, quantum thinking, and why laughter might be one of the best ways to lower our defenses enough to actually grow.

Whether you're obsessed with personal development or allergic to self-help books, this conversation will make you laugh, make you think, and probably make you question a few assumptions you've been carrying around.

In this episode we explore:

• Why Scott wrote a parody of today's productivity culture
 • The wild and amazing true story of landing Scott Bakula for the book
 • How synchronicity can open doors you never planned for
 • Why humor helps us learn difficult lessons
 • The difference between happiness and joy
 • Letting go of outcomes without giving up ambition
 • Why being present creates more opportunities than forcing success

If you've ever wondered whether the universe has a sense of humor...this episode just might convince you it does, and that it's 100% on our side.

00:00  Introduction to Scott Bloom and His Work

03:11  The Concept Behind Atomic Morning Miracles

05:54  The Journey to Collaborate with Scott Bakula

09:11  The Role of Humor in Self-Help

12:03  Exploring Synchronicity and Life Lessons

19:00  The Launch and Synchronicity of Events

23:43  Spiritual Awakening and Personal Growth

27:04  Reframing Life's Challenges

29:59  Exploring Alien Theories and Interdimensional Beings

33:55  Finding Joy in the Present Moment

Want more from Scott?  scottbloomconnects.com

Veteran comedian, television personality and highly-respected professional emcee and keynote speaker, Scott has built a reputation as the go-to choice for business humor having hosted hundreds of events over two decades for companies such as FedEx, Ford, IBM, MetLife, PepsiCo, Pfizer and Verizon.  He’s been featured on Comedy Central, has hosted his own weekly VH1 series as well as national simulcasts for the Grammy Awards from the Palace Theatre.  He currently resides in Los Angeles.

Anne Bonney is a keynote speaker and emcee who helps organizations lead through change by building resilience, emotional intelligence, and courageous communication.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hello, hello, hello, and thank you for joining us on Dancing in the Discomfort Zone podcast. Today I'm joined by Scott Bloom. He's a veteran comedian, television personality, highly respected professional MC and awards host, and a comedic keynote speaker. He's built a reputation as the go-to choice for business humor, having hosted hundreds of events over two decades for companies like FedEx, Ford, Pepsi, maybe a few you've heard of. He's been featured on Comedy Central too, and has hosted his own weekly VH1 series, as well as National National Simulcast for the Grammy Awards from the Palace Theater. He's in Los Angeles right now, and his new book is coming out tomorrow, August 4th, 2016, 26, excuse me, depending on when you're listening to this. It's called Atomic Morning Miracles, and it's a parody of all of those productivity optimization books. It is the self-help book for people who hate self-help books. So I am super excited to have a laugh with Scott today and uh talk about the serious side of the humor. Scott, thank you for joining us.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Well, thank you so much for having me. This is uh great that we have this opportunity, and I love talking about the book. Uh I loved hearing about all my credits too. It's always fun when you're on the other side. Go, hey, this guy's kind of impressive. He's done a bunch of stuff. Especially when you mentioned VH1. Does anyone listening to this know what VH1 was? So that's a little bit of an older credit.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Uh I still watch RuPaul's drag race on VH1. So it's MTV. Well, anyway, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Even when they were using VH1 as a credit and it was way past the time to use VH1 for a credit, I said, hey, look, if I had done Falcon Crest, that would have been on my uh my intro.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Uh hey, for us Gen Xers, it's a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Yes, yes, yeah. Oh, yeah, I guess, I guess so. Yeah. Yeah, I had a T, you know, I had a show on VH1 with Candace Bushnell. And Candace Bushnell was the uh original writer of Sex in the City, the column in New York that the whole TV series was based. Carrie Bradshaw is Candace Bushnell. And we hosted a show on VH1. Um you know, it was called Sex, uh, Lives and Video Clips. It was playing off that movie Sex Lies and Video Tape. And we'd have B, well, maybe C, C level, uh it was so C level. We had like the keyboard player from, you know, Bon Jovi, who, you know, do you really know him? Uh so there were C-level, and we would talk about videos and and some sex stuff, you know, that kind of thing. Kind of fun stuff. Woohoo!

SPEAKER_02 2:33

I mean, it's it's more TV shows than I had, so that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

So tell me about this. Right, exactly. So tell me about this book Atomic Morning Miracle. How did this idea for a parody come up?

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Okay, so the full title is The Atomic Morning Miracle, and then the subtitle is the not so obvious quantum paradox guaranteed to transform your life. And then in parentheses underneath, the secret, wake up two hours before you go to sleep. And uh it's a parody, it's a mashup, obviously, parody of uh the morning miracle uh and uh atomic habits. And it's uh it's it's a parody of all those productivity books. You know, we're in this productivity optimization culture. Get up at 5 a.m., um hack your morning routine, optimize your life. As if if you do all this stuff, you're eventually gonna be happy. So I've been making parody uh book covers for years. In fact, I have a book called You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover, which is a uh a real book of fake book covers.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

And each one has a fictional I I was reading through them, and one of them is how to increase your profits by making more money.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

It's that simple. Uh I have uh Rich Dad, Absent Dad. You know, that's a that's another one. Uh The Power of Later. So there are all these like funny titles. So I was doing it in my keynote and you know, as a as a comedy piece. Then I thought, hey, I have so many of these, I'll put a whole book together. So I did that. Um, that book uh launched on December of 2019. Now I don't know where you were in 2020, but three months later, there was a change in the universe and affected my book launch and my book tour and all that good stuff. So uh didn't the book, you know, I sold, you know, some books at keynotes and stuff, but everything that I had planned for it went away. And then because of the pandemic, um, I needed something to do. You know, I was doing, you know, we were all trying to survive. But to brand myself on social media, I started, again, putting out these book covers. And what was great about it is that people who interacted with it would be part of the joke. They would, you know, where can I get it? Or they'd put their own comedy slant. So it became an interactive comedy piece, which was fun. They would say something funny or make some fun, I'd play back, and it was really enjoyable. And then one day, around a year ago, I did this mashup of those two books, The Atomic Morning Miracle came out, wrote a funny, uh, a funny little uh blurb about it. And the the subtitle is sort of a a parody of the subtitle of Hel Elrod, who did the The Miracle Morning. And because it had the word quantum in it, I thought of getting Scott Bacula. I just put forward by Scott Bacchula. And this is where it gets real interesting. And I'll give you the short version, we can go more into it. But I started writing uh the I wrote the parody.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

Before you keep going, for those of you who don't know, Scott Bacchula starred in Quantum Leap.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

He more recently starred in uh NCIS New Orleans, and he was also a Star Trek captain, captain of Jonathan Archer in Star Trek Enterprise from 2001 to 2004. He's always been working. Okay. Scott Bacchula. And one of the things I remember growing up about Scott Bacula, and he, you know, Gen X maybe, but you know, anyone below, you know, Gen X knows, you know, exactly who he is. Uh, but he's been around. And if you see his face, you go, oh, it's it's that guy. And so when I was writing the uh, after I wrote the fictional synopsis, I was like, this could be a real funny book. So I started writing a funny book, and I was gonna get a published book. As I was writing this quantum thing about timeline and how you view things, I was like, hey, there's some practical information here. And so I thought, oh, it's gonna be a parody book, but I'm also gonna have real practical exercises. I went back to my acquisition agent from the first book. He now has his own publishing company, Ballast Books. I said, Hey, would you like to do this book? We got in business together. And one of the things I thought first had was, oh, the comedy chapters, and then we'll do the practical exercises. And then he said, Hey, I think you need to intertwine it, right? And then I thought, oh, I gotta have some way to bounce back and forth. What if I got Scott Bacula to be the quantum tour guide that would explain what we just went through and where we're going next? So I wrote an entire book, a big book, and the only thing was I need Scott Bacchula to agree to be part of the book. If he's not, the book's dead. It's it's binary. Scott Bacchula says, yes, I can use his image and likeness. He says, no, book's dead. Book's dead. So I spent months trying to say anyone who has a connection with Scott Bacula. Now, before I go on anything, do you have any questions at this point? Because then I'll tell you the Scott Bacula story.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

What were you drinking at the time? No, I I love this. Keep going.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Okay, so this is the whole thing with dancing with the discomfort, dancing in the discomfort, is that for whatever reason, it never crossed my mind. I was aware that the book would be dead, but I never gave it any thought. And so I put on social media. Does anyone know Scott Bacula? I live in LA. There's people who know. And then I remembered a stand-up comic named Mike Royce, who I worked with 30 years ago, became a very successful showrunner and executive producer here in Hollywood. He co-created a show with Ray Romano called Men of a Certain Age. And Men of a Certain Age starred Ray Romano, Andre Brager, who's no longer with us, and Scott Bacchula. So after 30 years, I'm Facebook friends with him, I haven't said a word to him. I text him on Facebook, hey, let's get together and have some lunch. We have lunch, I meet with him, I say, hey, listen, I have this book idea. Uh do you have any way you can get it to Scott Bacchula? He goes, I'm really good friends with his publicist Jay. I send it to him. We send the the man, he says he sent the manuscript. Once again, weeks go by. I don't hear anything. Not one moment am I going, when is he gonna call? I just I was just doing rewrites all this time. That's all I'm focusing on the book. And uh like a month later, I get a phone call and a number I don't recognize, and it's Jay Schwartz, his publicist. He says, I just want to let you know I gave the the um the manuscript to uh to Scott uh Bacchula, and he uh he's very busy now, but uh you know he'll get around to it. I go, uh, did he read any of it? Did he like it? He goes, uh well his wife wrote it, read it, and she thinks it's really funny. And uh probably didn't have the same enthusiasm I just delivered that. Yeah, but I that's what I heard. Oh my god, his wife liked it. So now this is like so I I wrote the I started writing the book in May, still doing rewrites. It's now like uh July, end of July. This is one year ago now. One year ago?

SPEAKER_02 9:41

25.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Okay. Right. Now weeks go by, month, six weeks go by. And I'm still not calling anyone, I'm not texting anyone, I'm just doing rewrites. I'm coming back from a keynote from Palm Springs, phone number comes on. I do it's an LA number. I know now I have to answer every LA number. And I go, hello. He goes, hey Scott, it's Scott Baccula.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

Shut up. You're like, all right, who's pranking me?

SPEAKER_01 10:05

I I go, hey Scott, good to hear from you. He goes, look, sorry for the delay. I've been real, uh, I've been real busy. Uh I really like the book. He says it's funny and there's a lot of principles in it that our family believes in. He said, our family believes it. It was a seven-minute call. There were some legal things that we had to take care of. I don't need to go into that. And he gave me his attorney's name. This is in August. Uh after eight months of going back and forth, he wants, you know, we're giving him a royalty for being there. Um, originally he was going to be a co-author. They said we would just want a forward buy. So we we helped him write a you know a forward. And uh, and then literally maybe a month ago, so now it's like eight months later, we finally have a fully executed contract. Scott Bacula is on board. And one of the fun things about the book is it's forward by Scott Bacula, but what you find out very soon into the book is Scott Bacchula returns. And he's the fictional version of himself all the way through the book. And the book culminates with an afterwards where me and him sit at an iconic place called Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, California, and we discuss what the book was about. And during that discussion, he finally discovers that he might not be real, that he might be fictional, and we deal with that too.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

And you've written you wrote that whole thing, and he just was like, Yep, put my name on it.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

He said, Yeah, I'll I'll be part. Yeah. In fact, in the book, because the book, the story of me getting Scott Bacchula is proof of concept of what I'm teaching in the book. This idea of what I call living in synchro city, living in in concert with synchronicity, that the universe is constantly gonna guide you, the right people. Um, I'm having a lunch date with him in June. I have not met him yet. So um this or I maybe I already had the lunch date, depending on when this came out. It is quantum timeline, you know. Uh, but anyway, um, my big question is gonna be why did you do this? Yeah, you know, I understand that you thought it was funny. Why did you do this? And there were so many reasons, so many obstacles, just even finding anyone, getting the manuscript, even after he read it, to have him say yes. In fact, in the book, when he does show up after the forward, he goes, Hey, surprise, but you didn't expect to see me here. He goes, I'm gonna be your quantum tour guide. I'll take you, you know, navigate, abridge the gaps between the parody and the practical chapters. And he gets a little put off and he's like, Um, I kind of feel like you don't think this is kind of cool. Don't you think it's kind of cool that he actually got me for his book? And what about the weird synchronicity? His name is Scott, my name is Scott. We have the same initials, S B, S B. He goes on, and at a certain point, he goes, Look, I I I know I should let this go, but um, kind of feeling like you don't really think it's me. I'll tell you what, I'm gonna I don't normally do this. I'm gonna give you my personal mobile phone number. Call it. I might not answer, but leave a message. So a big feature of this book is I got, and this was a big ask, and at first they denied it, and we told them what it was. You can call a number. I will give the number. I don't know if I'm supposed to, I won't give the number here. You'll have to buy the book. But you call the number, and the fictional Scott Bacula, the real Scott Bacchula, playing a fictional version of himself, answers the phone. And it there's a funny, I wrote him a funny script. He reads it, he it's why he's a great actor. Like I heard in my head, but I was like, oh, he nailed it. And you leave a message, and what's like the comedy that I had on LinkedIn, this book is interactive. So now you're gonna call, leave a message. Uh he offers an ebook, uh, my first book as an ebook. But I am, I'm gonna plan on using some of these voice messages on social. And I'm gonna call everybody who calls that number. Now, I'm not David Sederis, but if David Sederis wrote a book and he called me, I'd freak out. So anyone who's like into the book and has questions, I'm gonna be talking about them. That's grassroot marketing. People are gonna go, hey, I the author called me. It's bizarre. So that's that's what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Ah Wow, how much fun is that? Well, and I think it's not and and I think it's not just the content, and I haven't had the chance to read it yet. But they, it's also the delivery method. And I think this is, you know, you call it the the self-help book for people who hate self-help books, right? It's how do we deliver this in a new way that makes it not only because the way people are consuming media and consuming information isn't just reading a book anymore. How do I make it palatable? How do I make it something that keeps people reading to the end? And I think that I think you're gonna have a huge success here.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Yeah, so so basically the the comedy is to lower their defenses, it's to get people in who would never buy a self-help book. And it's like a Trojan horse. We get you in with the comedy, and they they might even try these exercises ironically. Like one of the first exercises, instead of a to-do list, there's a to-be list. And what you're doing is you talk in the uh in the future perfect tense. You know, remember that from grade school? I will have emailed oh well, it's it's something that has already been done in the future. I will have emailed uh Jessica. So in this one, you're setting up states of being, joy, gratitude, surprise, uh, love. Um in the future, I will have experienced intense joy knowing that things are happening beyond my limited mind. You write that down, it's called, and then you you you close your eyes and you feel this feeling. Um, in a quantum uh place or just in life, there is no time. It's manufactured. So you're feeling it now for something that might happen. So a big part of this book is to detach, like all other Buddhist stuff, from outcome. You are just going in there to have an amazing experience. You're actually it changed how I do keynotes now. I'm looking for the surprise. What is that moment that I didn't plan? What is that moment that's greater or bigger than anything I could have imagined? And and acknowledging it while it's happening, which I get a little jolt. I'm like, I would have never known that one was gonna yell out that perfect line. I I was I was I do a new bit now where I talk about everyone has a hidden talent, and we go through and find out some of the hidden talents they share with everyone. Someone was I uh did turkey calls. So I yeah, yeah, so I said, I I told him, you don't have to do it. I said, but would you do it? That became its funny moment, and then allowed me to do a bit that I have in my head that I rarely do. Do you want to hear my bird call? Of course. I do a North American Blue Jay. So he did the turkey, which was good. I've done some, I worked in an aviary for a while, so I could do it. This is a um, this is a blue jay mating call. Not really a mating call, more like, hey, why don't you come over to my branch? We'll see what see what happens. Here, let me see if I can do it. I I don't want to blow you guys out. Hold on, hold on. I'm a little dry. Hold on. There's a blue jay mating call. Here we go. Hey, Blue Jay! Oh, it's so silly. But I got to do that. I got to do that. I got to do that. So that was I didn't plan on that moment. So anyway, getting back to the book, so there's some real exercises just to reframe things to get people out of anxiety because we're so in our heads and you become more present. And now, since the book is a lot about synchronicity, everything that happened with Scott Baccula was synchronicity. I'll give you another big synchronicity moment. Like, there's no reason Scott should be in this book. It's nothing I did. I mean, it's a great book, but like there's so many reasons he could have said no. And we talk about it in that afterwards at Bob's Big Boy, where we have that, it's like a little play. And when I do the audio book, which he has not yet agreed to, but hopefully one day. Yes. We have not brought it up. Um we talk about, you know, as I said, this is being proof of concept. I said, why did you say yes? And the answer I gave him, and we'll see if it matches, is that he knows how tough his business is. He's had a lot of you know, rejection like every every other entertainer. And it was good to be on the other side to say yes to someone. And he said yes to me. So the synchronicities keep on piling up. In fact, there's a you know, I call it, I don't call it synchro stacking, but that's in another another uh piece. But the synchronicities that allowed me to get to Scott Bacula and the synchronicities that continue to happen. For example, my book launches on August 4th, which I think is tomorrow in some quantum timeline. Uh the book launches tomorrow. You know what happens tomorrow on August 5th? It's the 60th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise. They're having a huge convention. Scott Bacchula doesn't go to conventions, but it's also the 25th anniversary of his show, Star Trek Enterprise. He's gonna be in Vegas the day after my launch. Now, we haven't talked yet, but it'd be great if he had a thousand books and signed them for his uh his uh his fans. That's a possibility. That was enough of a synchronicity. The next synchronicity that's stacked on top of it. My new passion now is shooting pool. I'm in a bunch of leagues. I love shooting pool. We're in the regionals. Our division came in first. I was MVP in my division. We play, we we had already played. I can tell this story in the past. We but let's just say for now in this quantum timeline, I'm in the past, but it's kind of cool because I could be in the future. The winners who go to the APA Pool World Championship in Las Vegas, the dates of that are August 5th through August 9th. So Mike drop. And I can say here because this is launching on August 5th, I ended up going, I'm going to Vegas tomorrow. I'm going to Vegas tomorrow. I what we our team won the regionals, I won the qualifier, I'm going to Vegas, and I'm gonna hang out with Scott Bacchula. That's what's going on. Quantum timeline, anything's possible.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

That's what's up. I love, I love it. I call these the red red carpet moments where you're like, oh, look at that just rolled out for me. Wow. I love that. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

I love it. A red carpet moment. We didn't plan it and it's there. And the thing is, the more you get out of your head, the more you're present, you're gonna see the signs. It's not, it's not woo-woo. It's not, I mean, it's metaphysical, but you don't even have to put a name on it. It's just that right person is coming into your life when you need it. There's no way you get to point B on your way to point Z without that person coming. And it just happens to show up.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Then life becomes really, really exciting. Then you get to observe the synchronicity that's happening in life. And then it's like, yeah, I'm part of it. Like, I'm just excited about what's next gonna happen. What's the next my my goal is to be on uh I'm starting here at you?

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Why don't you go go forward in the quantum timeline and tell us it in the past?

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Well, uh, in the well, this is actually in the future. But I I did your po podcast, Dancing in the Discomfort, with Anne Bonnie. At some point, I'm gonna be sitting across, and we're gonna be in person. I'll probably be in a forest. There'll be a table, and there'll be a very fame one of the most famous women. On Earth, in front of me, going, Now let me ask you, how did you get Scott Bacula part of this? Well, Oprah, um, let me tell you, Super Soul Sunday, my friends. That's what I've had him for. Nice soul. That's the brass ring. And and this is kind of funny. In that discussion with Scott Bacula in the diner at the very end, it's the afterword. He says, uh, so let me get this straight. You wrote this whole book without me agreeing to be part of it? And I go, yeah. And he goes, Well, what what if I said no? I go, well, I would have figured something out. He goes, oh, really? What? He goes, Well, I had a backup. And he goes, Oh, backup, really, who? Uh Oprah? He goes, Oprah, really? All right. First, good luck. And uh secondly, what does Oprah have anything to do with quantum? And I said, Scott, it's Oprah friggin' Winfrey. She has her own timeline. I'll be fine. So Oprah's in the book, or at least a mention of her is in the book. I'd love that one question for Oprah. So let me get this straight. I was Scott Bacula's backup.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Plan B. Yeah, I was literally just about to make that joke. It's like saying Taylor Swift opened for me, right? Scott Oprah was the plan B. I was the plan A. I love that. Exactly. That's awesome. Well, now you're we're talking about some pretty spiritual, um, you know, metaphysical stuff that more and more science is backing up and all that stuff. But where did you kind of come into the philosophy of some of the real life stuff that you're suggesting in this? Sounds like it's a pretty hilarious book.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Yeah, so I've been on this kind of spiritual journey probably for 30 plus years. You know, in the 90s, I was reading all the books that everyone was reading. A lot of um uh Eckhartoles, The Power of Now.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Literally reading it right now.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Are you really literally first time? First time?

SPEAKER_02 24:07

No, because I got to the end of it and I literally went to the first chapter and started it again.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

So it's the second time, but within the same.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

It's a game changer. I used to give that book out to a lot of people. Uh Wayne Dyer, always a big fan of all his books. Uh Echo Tolli has another book after this one. This is like college level power of now, or even high school, then you go to the new earth, which is more graduate study, a little bit more intense. Um, so I've always been reading those kind of books. I won't go into a big thing, but I did have a spiritual awakening, a legitimate spiritual awakening. In fact, in the DSM five, they even mentioned it because you're on a, when you have an awakening, you are on a razor edge between being psychotic and having an understanding. So I had a lot of stuff downloaded to me. So information about the universe, how it, how it works. And luckily, I was surrounded by people who uh had had similar experiences. So they were able to guide me. My therapist talking about synchronicity again. Yes, yes. Yeah. I had a therapist who was just doing her job, but wanted to put me on lithium because I was up for like four days and I was talking a lot of stuff. And um eventually I came down. You know, it was like a two-week process, I eventually came down, but I had all this information. Uh, I had a film that we've continued to put in festivals that was about that experience called uh the Infiniplex, but it was really about tapping in, about someone getting uh information before they were ready to handle it. Like, what happens if you turn past the page of now of your book of life and all the consequences because you weren't supposed to see it. Anyway, um, so I had that. So then, this was back in '93, when I would start to read these other books, it wasn't like, oh, this is one guy's opinion. I was like, oh, I've already experienced that. I know that's I know there's one truth or many truths that are the same. Uh I got when I came to LA, I got into Paramahansa Yogananda Self-Realization Fellowship. He has a great book called Autobiography of a Yogi. Um uh Michael Singer, Unung. Uh what is it called? Um it's called uh I'm blanking on it. Okay. Something. No, I can't I'm blanking on it.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

Isn't he Untethered Soul?

SPEAKER_01 26:20

That's it. Untethered Soul. I kept on thinking of Unstrung, but yeah, the Untethered Soul. All these books are saying the same thing about you know being present. Uh uh Pamachotra, I I uh read her, and uh just so always have been fascinating by this kind of stuff. Uh so I was going on this path, and I might as well bring this up now, but a lot of the stuff in the book about reframing things. Uh, there's a chapter on temporal reframing, which is a real chapter about taking a look at something and writing about it one year from now. What is this gonna look like? Five years. We we've done this in our past. We go, hey, if that really terrible thing didn't happen or what we perceived as terrible, we wouldn't be where we are now.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

So putting in perspective. So uh I won't go into a long detailed thing, but um, like a lot of people, I struggled during the pandemic. All my gigs were canceled, uh, and now I have to figure out this medium called virtual. Um I went into extreme situational anxiety and depression for like four months. I dropped out of the game, just dealt with it. Um, it was tough. It was the hardest I've ever been hit by this stuff. Um, I've always compartmentalized things, but this I couldn't avoid. And what I was able to get during this experience was empathy and compassion for anyone going through it. I realized you can't talk anybody out of it. You can't go, you're gonna do great. You're gonna do great at virtual. Yeah, you're gonna do great. Um, you uh you have to go through it. And I went through it, you know, with the help of some you know pharmaceutical assistants. I reconnected with my therapist who I hadn't seen in 10 years doing Zoom calls, and I slowly got back. But because of that, once again reframing it, um I I now understand this other side of people, which was great. And because of the pandemic, which you know, my my book tour got canceled, everything kind of, you know, cratered. Um I realized that I can uh I need to do something to get myself out there. So I did learn how to do virtual. I'm still in the studio that I built in my family room. Didn't ever I didn't break it down because I do my podcasts here and any video I need to do. Uh, but I started doing the book covers again to get myself out there.

unknown 28:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

And eventually it led to the Atomic Morning Miracle. That book is there because of the the struggle and the pandemic and all the crap I went through to, and now I'm here in a new place. So you have to reframe things sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

Yeah, I love it. I love it. And and this is where the these cesspool moments are where some of these incredible insights come from. And uh what one of the things I was talking about, I had another Scott on the show recently. We were talking about similar.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

I just had a Scott on my podcast. I wonder if you had the same Scott. Is he two-timing us? Just give me the the first initial of his last name.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

S.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Oh, I had an M on. We don't have to know who it is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

So many Scots.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Well, mine's a Hall of Famer and Cavot award recipient. Did yours come close to that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Uh mine has a CMA.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

A CMA. Country Music Award. Yeah. Well, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

You know, VH1, CMA, Alan Jackson. He did a uh one of his uh music videos, and Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood did their tour, and you know, is he living in Nashville now?

unknown 29:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

I think I know who it is.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Oh, well, there you go then. If you want to go back a month and listen, if you if there is time, you could go back a month and listen to his appetite.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

I might go back three months. I might go back three months and listen. Yeah. I love the quantum timeline of this podcast. Keep on going. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

So you had another scot on.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

And now I can't even remember what I was gonna ask you. I don't remember. Doesn't matter. So, what is your thoughts, totally different, on all of this alien talk? There's a whole lot of alien talk going on. There's a whole lot of in the spiritual world, they're talking a lot about that that other civilizations exist and they we're at a very elementary level from a You're spending a lot of time on Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

I can hear it.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Um I've been invited on a podcast that talks about this stuff, and I had to I had to beef it up. But suddenly I'm like, wait a minute, maybe Scott Bloom has some insights on this alien thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

And it's not just aliens, it's not just aliens, it's everything from interventional beings. There's a uh a guy I listen to named Bashar.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

Boshar literally just wrote that down.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

So we're we're we're we're the uh the uh the uh algorithm knows both of us back by anyway. I love Boshar. He channels an alien. He says 2027 will be uh first contact. So I think there are interdimensional beings. I think they're beings here. Um, you know, it gets a little weirder when people are talking about clones, about people being replaced, and that sort of butts up against, you know, stuff about the Illuminati and the elites and all the different families and blah, blah, blah. But yeah, I mean, I think they're in that. In fact, Bashar says, I think that uh, so he's just a regular guy who channels this alien. It's fascinating. And you know, you know, whether you believe in channeling or not, uh when you start hearing people say stuff that you're like, there's no way they're coming up from their head. Like, I don't know if you're familiar with The Course in Miracles, that book um uh was written by two Columbia uh psychologists. Uh Marion Williamson's talked about it, and she's popularized it, but she didn't write it. There's no way these people have this knowledge to have this intricate book created. It was channeled to one of them, and the other one dictated. So he's channeling us up, but even like Bigfoot, he says the reason why Bigfoot was like uh one of the theories is that we already have alien DNA in us. There's aliens walking around us. The Bigfoot people are some sort of humanoids that have a And you say I've been spending too much time on Instagram. No, no, I was projecting. Continue, sir. I I was projecting. Um I I've I've I've uh lessened it, but I I think it has been a problem. But uh the reason why we see them and don't see them is at that level, they can they can drop into different dimensions. That's how people you know are in and they're and they're not. So that's my take on aliens. I think we're I think the life is gonna change next year, 2027.

SPEAKER_02 32:54

Yeah, as you were talking about knowledge coming in, I was like, hmm, maybe he's got opinions here. So anyway, there we go.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

I definitely definitely and what what happens is if you leave, you know, sort of your preconceived fixed ideas on things, right? You know, that's what stops us all the time is you know, everything. Um someone just showed me um a book I read a while ago by uh I think his last name is it might be Jonathan Wynne. Uh I don't maybe Joseph Wynne, I think is his name. It's uh don't believe everything you think.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Do you know that book? It was very popular.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Uh and even the one sentence that he just pulled out that he had highlighted, uh, which was that, and and it is the big reveal in my book. So the the the punchline is wake up two hours before you sleep. Yeah. But the real thing is, the real miracle is to realize we never needed to wake up at 5 a.m. We needed to wake up that we have everything we need. Once we understand that, I think it's great that you're journaling. I'm I'm not I'm not making fun of you for doing your exercise, your meditation, that stuff is all good. But if you think that's gonna get you to where you want to be, because you now have your big successful company or you're making all this money, um, you're still gonna be chasing. Right now, right here, we have everything. We can feel joy. The difference between joy and happiness is joy, they say, is uncaused. So I could just be sitting here and feel joy. Happiness is I got my I got that promotion, I got that gig, I killed at that show. Joy is nothing is happening, and I am hugely elated.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

I love it. I love it. And that's a great place. Scott Bloom wrote the book Atomic Morning Miracle. It's gonna be funny, and it sounds like it's gonna be amazingly insightful. I can't wait to get my hands on it. Scott, thank you for your time. Where do people find the book if they're uh if they're looking to go get it?

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Uh it's it's uh it's everywhere, Amazon. Um, you can go to the atomic morning miracle.com. Ballastbooks is our publisher. You can go to their site, but you know, go on Amazon, uh Barn BNN, BN.com, Barnes Noble.com, uh, so they can get it anywhere. Or, you know, you go to my you know website, ScottBloomconnects.com. You can find it there as well.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Beautiful. I'll put all of those links in the show notes. Scott, you're the bomb, and I'm really excited to read this. Thank you for your time. Thanks for coming on the show and sharing everything with us.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

I loved it. Thank you, Ann.