Episode 1125 Scott Adams: The Third Act is Starting to Wrap Up, The Zeitgeist Has Shifted, Brains are Spinning, #GoldenAge Coming
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 1 minute
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150.8026
Summary
It's the third act of all third acts, and we're in the middle of the THIRD ACT. Things are starting to go right in a million different ways, and things are almost waking up. It's almost like the people and the stuff and the systems are becoming almost sentient. And you're going to see a lot of things that were going wrong start to go wrong.
Transcript
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Okay, everybody, will you look at all that smoke out there in California?
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Nope. The air quality went from 160 to 26 in the last day.
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And today, for the first time in approximately a month,
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I'm going to do something called, wait for it, going outside.
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I had a little medical surgery stuff, so I couldn't do any exercise for several weeks.
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And as soon as I was ready to go back outside, the forest fires hit.
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And then the air quality was too low to exercise outside.
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But last night, I don't know if the wind changed or what.
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But we went from pretty darn bad to not looking so bad.
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Anyway, this is not the only thing that's starting to go right.
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What you're seeing is the third act of all third acts.
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It's in a million different ways and a million different things.
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It's almost like the people and the stuff and the systems are becoming almost sentient.
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And you're going to see a lot of things that were going wrong start to go right.
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We'll talk about those over the course of the next few minutes.
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But I wanted to do first some fact checking and corrections.
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So yesterday, I had two really astounding mistakes.
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Number one mistake is that I incorrectly said that Gavin Newsom, governor of New York,
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I've been corrected that it's Kimberly's child from a subsequent marriage.
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Number two, have I ever told you that I don't have the capacity for embarrassment anymore?
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But I've somehow learned to do incredibly embarrassing and stupid things in public.
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I don't know if this is the stupidest thing I've ever done in public, but it might be.
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Let me tell you this and we'll get to the simultaneous sip.
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So yesterday, I think I said it on another podcast as well.
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I said that there was a map of California that showed all the fires.
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And I cheekily said, why did the fires stop at the border of Canada?
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It must be that they do better forest management, because otherwise, obviously, there'd be slop over into Canada.
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But there was one little problem with that insight, which was pointed out to me by literally everybody with a brain.
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So it only showed the fires in California, because it was a map of California fires.
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It showed Canada on the map, but it didn't care about them.
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Somebody followed up and showed me a map of Canadian fires that show no fires in California, to which I said, oh, not my finest moment.
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And we are in the middle of the third act, folks, coming to the other side.
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Rasmussen has a poll coming out in, I think, two hours.
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I won't tell you what the Rasmussen poll says, but if you like your President Trump's, I think you're going to like it.
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I made a cheeky comment on Twitter that I would like to repeat.
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Rarely, rarely in the course of anybody's life, do they get to say something like I'm going to say.
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You can see it on the shelf behind me if you're watching.
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And it was specifically about President Trump's skill for persuasion.
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And Woodward, in his book, and I think in part of his audiotapes or something, noted that Jared Kushner had told Woodward to read Win Bigly to understand the President better.
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I happen to know a few other people in the White House who have read Win Bigly.
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Now, Win Bigly is a book that would teach you how to persuade somebody to do something that they had not done before and maybe didn't want to do before.
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And it looks like maybe as many nine countries in the Middle East will be signing peace agreements, or at least agreements, which effectively are peace agreements.
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Now, I am not going to say that if I had not written that book that we wouldn't get a good result.
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Because the way it works, and I think we all agree on the rules, the rules are the rules.
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So, obviously, President Trump gets the credit.
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So the President gets any credit for the Middle East.
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Well, I won't make that claim because there's no way to know.
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But it is funny, and I couldn't help, I couldn't help but mentioning it.
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So I can't guarantee that everybody who wins win bigly.
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All I can tell you for sure is that 100% of the people who did read it did make peace in the Middle East.
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Here's the funniest thing that's happening right now.
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The President did a lot of things, or was accused of a lot of things that later became falsified.
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But for whatever reason, and I guess the reason is the way people are wired,
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Meaning that you would have thought, if you lived in some kind of a rational world,
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you would have thought that when Democrats found out that Russia and collusion was completely made up,
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and it was almost an overthrow of the government if it had worked.
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You would think that people learned that about their own side,
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because they just did the biggest prank in the world with this Russia collusion hoax.
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But you observed that that did not happen, right?
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And you'd say, no, that's the opposite of what happened.
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or at least you can't prove something's a negative,
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And then you've been down this hoax funnel before.
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And then you say, no, that's a different conversation.
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not a Russian troll forum that made a few memes that looked like a sixth grader made them.
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Now, what do people say when you've taken down the hoax?
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You've agreed that Russia did some bad stuff during the Obama administration.
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and you say, well, you know, as we discussed last week,
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Well, they say, yeah, that's what we decided last week.
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It will be as if the conversation never happened.
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I'll bet every one of you has had that conversation
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And this Middle East business looks like it would be that.