Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1227 Scott Adams： The Legislation no one Read, The Mysteriously Good Coronavirus Outcomes in China

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00:01:01.260 All right. Let's talk about the news. I wonder if there were, if there's any way to calculate

00:01:09.720 how many people the fake news kills. Because in theory, you could do that, right? So take the

00:01:19.020 vaccine situation. So you've got a very high number of African Americans who say they don't want to get

00:01:25.980 the vaccination. And you have to think that at least some of that is because the fake news

00:01:32.600 said that Trump was supporting neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, also known as the find people

00:01:42.780 hoax because, in fact, he said the opposite of what was reported, and also the drinking bleach

00:01:50.160 hoax. Imagine if those two stories didn't exist, plus, you know, the whole rest of the stories that

00:01:56.900 Trump's a monster, racist, and anti-science. Imagine if the fake news had not been saying for four years

00:02:04.340 that Trump was not only a racist by anti-science. What would be the difference in the vaccination rate

00:02:12.900 of black Americans? Because I feel like it would be something, right? And I feel as if you could

00:02:21.340 probably come up with an estimate of like, well, you know, we got 60 percent, but it would have been

00:02:26.860 70 percent. So 10 percent didn't get vaccinated. And then you could just sort of work the math and

00:02:32.960 see how many people they killed. Am I wrong? Wouldn't you be able to do that math and actually

00:02:38.880 estimate how many people he literally killed? Now, the Tuskegee story, ask yourself this. Now,

00:02:48.600 everybody knows the Tuskegee horrible story about black airmen who were, let's see, was it

00:02:56.140 intentionally infected, right? And that story, I don't believe, would have necessarily been in the

00:03:04.660 news if Obama were president. Because if Obama were president, the story would be, hey, everybody,

00:03:12.600 Obama's got a vaccination. You're going to like it. I think it would have been fine. And the black

00:03:19.560 citizens of this country probably would have said something along the lines of, all right, I'll give it

00:03:25.100 a chance. But I do believe that the fake news has an actual death count at this point that would be

00:03:34.040 hard to dispute. Here's my biggest question in the world right now. How does China have no infections,

00:03:44.700 especially in Wuhan? How do you have international travel? Or is this the part I have wrong?

00:03:51.520 Did China stop all international travel? At the moment? Like currently, is there no travel

00:03:59.520 from outside the country into China? Because there has to be, right? And how in the world,

00:04:07.520 if there's still international travel in China, how is it they don't have an infection problem

00:04:13.620 during a pandemic? Doesn't it tell you that there's something really big that we don't know

00:04:22.920 about this story? Now, you might say to yourself, yeah, Scott, what you don't know is that they,

00:04:28.600 you know, there's some conspiracy theory story, about 20 million cell phones going dead around the time

00:04:35.240 that Wuhan was being locked down. The implication being that they just, you know, killed 20 million

00:04:40.180 people to stop the virus? Well, suppose they did. You know, I'm not, I don't think they did, but suppose

00:04:46.920 they did. Or suppose that their extreme lockdown in Wuhan was like really, really extreme, like you

00:04:55.460 heard. They were boarding people in there, you know, boarding up doorways and stuff. Suppose all of

00:05:00.680 that happened. Let's say they murdered 20 million people. I don't think they did, but let's just say they

00:05:06.540 did. And they boarded people and they, it was extreme, extreme, extreme lockdown. And let's say

00:05:13.980 it worked because why wouldn't it really? I mean, it should work, right? If you nailed everybody in

00:05:19.480 their homes for three weeks, there would be no virus. But here's the problem. Don't they still have

00:05:27.300 international travel? Am I wrong about that? Now, I don't think that they have quite the testing that

00:05:33.980 they could thoroughly test people getting on and off planes. So there's something else going on,

00:05:40.720 right? Am I wrong about that? How in the world can you explain anybody controlling the virus when

00:05:49.340 there's still international travel? How is that possible? It's only possible if there's some

00:05:53.840 gigantic variable that we don't know about. Somebody's saying it's because the survival rate is high,

00:06:01.720 so maybe they just don't notice. I don't think so. I think the hospitals would be impacted. We'd

00:06:07.140 probably know by now. So you have to sort of assume that there's something bad going on, not just

00:06:16.360 something you don't know about. But at this point, it almost seems obvious that either the virus

00:06:24.140 doesn't have as much effect on Chinese ethnic people, or they have a treatment that works well

00:06:34.160 and they're not sharing, which I think would be the highest probability. My guess is that they're

00:06:41.940 using some other kind of treatment in China, and we just don't know about it. That's my guess.

00:06:47.480 Here's an example of good persuasion in the form of good framing from Josh Hawley in Congress.

00:06:57.940 And I just want to tell you the way he framed a topic. It was better than I've seen before. So he

00:07:02.560 was talking about the allegations of election fraud. And most people, when they talk about election fraud,

00:07:11.280 they say, the election was stolen. Look at my numbers. You know, lots of people voted for Trump

00:07:19.460 and sizes of the crowds, etc. Now, you've noticed that that attack has not been extra persuasive,

00:07:27.620 right? Everybody who says the election was stolen is met by some Democrat who says,

00:07:33.300 there's no proof. That's it, right? The election was stolen. There's no proof. That's kind of the end

00:07:41.920 of the conversation, isn't it? So Josh Hawley does not fall into that bad framing that is just a clear

00:07:50.340 dead end. And he says this instead. I'm paraphrasing, but it'll get you the idea. He talks about how after

00:07:57.440 four years of the Russia collusion hoax, that it's sort of rich that the Democrats would be

00:08:03.660 saying that the Republicans should just accept that the election as legitimate after experiencing four

00:08:11.040 years of the other side doing nothing like that, and it all turning into a hoax. But here's how

00:08:17.360 Hawley, I can never pronounce his name. Here's how he sums it up. Instead of saying that election was

00:08:25.200 stolen, he says, that Republicans are being told their concerns about the election don't matter.

00:08:35.660 Isn't that good? Republicans are being told their concerns about the election don't matter.

00:08:43.660 That's really strong. Because it's true. Even if you are a Democrat, and even if you think there was

00:08:50.800 nothing wrong with the election, and you just want to move on, even if you think the Republicans are

00:08:55.420 just crazy. It is nonetheless true, and unambiguously true, that Republicans are told their concerns about

00:09:03.980 the election don't matter. Don't matter. Now, it would be one thing to say that the election was stolen or

00:09:14.020 not stolen. But we don't even get to that point. We don't even get to determine whether there's any

00:09:23.120 evidence or not, because things that were tried to get into court were rejected for standing and

00:09:29.120 doctrinal latches and other bullshit. So we've never really had a hearing in which the evidence was

00:09:37.020 presented with some, you know, some opportunity for counter evidence and debate. So it's never really

00:09:44.260 happened. So since we've never had a forum in which the evidence that is, you know, still being collected

00:09:50.940 could be presented, along with the people who have the counter evidence, never been presented.

00:09:59.260 Wouldn't you say that perfectly, what perfectly describes the situation is that Republicans are being

00:10:05.580 told that their concerns about the election don't matter? That's exactly what's happening. It's really

00:10:12.460 strong persuasion to say it that way. Well, Rasmussen is saying that both the legacy media and Congress

00:10:19.700 have approval levels below 20 percent, to which I said, below 20 percent? Are you telling me that Congress

00:10:29.540 and the media are higher than 10 percent? Doesn't that seem wrong? Have you met anybody who approves of

00:10:37.780 the media or Congress? Ever? If you go into a, how about this holiday season, try this experiment.

00:10:48.420 Go around to each of your relatives that you're not supposed to be seeing because you're socially

00:10:52.820 distancing and ask them one at a time so the others can't hear it. So what do you think of the job of

00:10:59.500 Congress? See how many of your relatives, apparently there are 20 percent of people who will say, yeah,

00:11:06.440 they're doing a good job. See if you can get even one of your relatives to say, you know, all things

00:11:12.600 being equal, if I'm being fair, yeah, I think they're, you know, I think they're criticized unfairly.

00:11:17.820 I think they're doing a pretty good job. See if you can get one relative to say that. Do you believe

00:11:23.960 that nearly 20 percent of people said, yeah, Congress is pretty good? And by the way, the media is pretty

00:11:31.540 accurate. I don't know about that. You might get it from the media, but I don't think anybody

00:11:36.940 is going to say they like Congress. There's this coronavirus variant now in the UK and maybe other

00:11:46.180 places. It's been there for a long time. And the question is whether we should close travel. And I

00:11:53.280 guess Canada is closing travel from Great Britain and the United States is not. Now, which of those

00:12:01.580 decisions sounds better to you? We don't quite know exactly if this is a big new threat because maybe

00:12:09.200 the vaccines work the same. They say it might be more virulent or, you know, more transmissible.

00:12:16.420 That would be horrible. But I don't think we'd know that. It feels like it's too early to know if

00:12:22.220 it's more transmissible. But what should we do about it? Should we do what Canada did and say, well,

00:12:32.420 we don't know. Could be bad. Maybe it's not. But we'll just be careful in closed travel. Or do you say like

00:12:41.500 we did, apparently, well, we don't see the reason to close yet. So not yet. Which one of those two

00:12:50.100 strategies is smart? And which one is really dumb? You should know the answer to this question. The smart

00:13:00.620 one is to shut it down because you don't know how big the risk is. It's kind of a no-brainer. Are you

00:13:07.040 telling me that there's somebody in the UK who just absolutely needs to travel to the United States?

00:13:13.280 Now, if we have Americans who are trying to get home, there's probably a testing regimen that they

00:13:19.080 can do. And, you know, until they have the result, they have to stay in a room or something. So, you know,

00:13:25.640 there might be some trouble getting people back. And then, of course, there's also the problem

00:13:30.380 that the other countries that have not closed travel, the UK people could just fly to Germany

00:13:36.240 and then fly here or something like that. So you don't get them all. But you get a lot of them.

00:13:42.560 It feels like it's obvious that closing travel from the UK, at least until we know more.

00:13:51.460 It just seems obvious. You may remember I was among the first to call for a closing travel to China

00:13:57.700 about a week before the president did. And that was right. Why would I be wrong this time?

00:14:05.720 All right. So we got this giant relief package for the coronavirus.

00:14:11.980 And it's 2.3 trillion. And it looks like it's over 5,000 pages. And even AOC, apparently AOC is on the

00:14:25.540 same team with everybody. She said that members of Congress have not read this bill. It's over 5,000

00:14:33.160 pages, arrived at 2 p.m. today. And we're told to expect a vote on it in two hours. So Congress got two

00:14:41.460 hours for every member of Congress to read a 5,000-page document. And what AOC says is that this

00:14:52.320 isn't governance. It's hostage-taking, which is a pretty good analogy, as analogies go. And when I

00:15:00.980 tweeted this, people went into the comments and they said, yeah, but you voted for it. If you don't

00:15:08.340 like it, why'd you vote for it, AOC? You're complaining about it, but then you voted for it.

00:15:13.080 I'm seeing it in the comments. What does hostage situation mean to you? She called it a hostage

00:15:21.620 situation. Do you let the kidnappers kill the hostage? Is that your plan? Because I feel as though

00:15:29.200 if you have the money, depending on the situation, you might want to pay the ransom and get your hostage

00:15:35.640 back. I don't feel that AOC was being hypocritical, saying it's a hostage situation, and then treating

00:15:44.240 it like a hostage situation, which is she had to vote for it because she had no choice. Now, remember

00:15:50.620 I was telling you that the Republic is dead because we, at the very least, we can't be sure that the

00:15:56.740 will of the people was translated into the outcome. You know, it could be. It's possible that the election

00:16:02.540 was fair enough that the actual outcome was represented in the, you know, in the vote. But

00:16:09.340 we don't know, and it seems highly unlikely that it was because there are so many ways it could have

00:16:14.320 been gamed and so many people want to do it. But on top of having no idea if we're voting for our

00:16:22.640 candidates or not, you actually don't even know if you vote made any difference. On top of that,

00:16:28.540 once they're in office, they create legislation that even they don't read. So what you want to have

00:16:39.160 is a Republic, right? And the Republic would be where you elect your representatives and they go make

00:16:44.720 decisions on your behalf. Now, if that worked, you know, if that's what we were actually observing,

00:16:50.920 I'd say to myself, on paper, on paper, that looks pretty good. Looks pretty good. Because we elect

00:16:58.580 smart people, and they could probably make better decisions than we can. You know, they're checking in

00:17:04.020 with us, of course. They're not ignoring the public. They're just taking the leadership. But what does it

00:17:10.760 mean to have elected your smart representatives and give them no opportunity to look at the things

00:17:19.000 they're voting for, the big things, right? That's not even close to a Republic. Because first of all,

00:17:27.960 we don't know if we elected these people. And second of all, they didn't do anything like representing us.

00:17:34.600 They didn't do anything like that. Nor did they even have the option. All they had was the option

00:17:39.940 of a hostage situation. That's it. So we have never been further from something that looked like a,

00:17:47.000 you know, democratic, republic, will of the people. We are a million miles from that. There's just

00:17:53.480 nothing like representative democracy. And so, it looks like Congressman Matt Gaetz is going to join

00:18:05.360 other Republicans in challenging the electoral college. Now, as I understand it, if you get at least

00:18:13.000 one senator, you force a debate. Now, forcing a debate doesn't mean the outcome will change. It

00:18:20.520 just means procedurally, I guess you have to have a debate. Now, if we have a debate in Congress,

00:18:26.500 will that be the first trial-like thing in which there are people on both sides of the issue

00:18:34.080 who can ask the experts about the evidence and the witnesses, etc.? This would be the first time,

00:18:40.500 wouldn't it? Because, and I don't know exactly if Congress ended up debating the electoral college,

00:18:47.200 do they get to bring in witnesses? And if they don't get to bring in witnesses, I would think that

00:18:51.900 at least they can say what the witness, you know, wrote down on an affidavit. So will this not be

00:18:59.840 the first time there's a trial on the evidence such as it is? Not proof, right? We don't know if it's

00:19:09.760 proof, but there's plenty of evidence. It'll be the first time, right? Fact check me on that. Would it

00:19:16.960 be a proper debate with both sides? Because it's the both sides that's important. If all you do is

00:19:23.180 another hearing where Republicans talk to friendly witnesses, that means nothing. You got to have the

00:19:29.460 other side in this, or you don't have anything. There have been a few before this, I'm hearing.

00:19:36.740 I'm confusing this with Senate hearings, maybe. Now, General Flynn, and I guess some other people,

00:19:45.560 have been involved in conversations talking about, you know, what to do about the alleged election

00:19:52.780 irregularities. And some of the ideas that have been floated are a federal seizure of voting

00:19:59.260 machines in the swing states. So just have the federal government through, I guess, an executive

00:20:04.020 order, just go take control of them. And then they can be audited, etc. And then another one is

00:20:11.140 scarier, which is the military would go into these swing states that we have some questions about,

00:20:18.780 and they would hold a second election. That feels so impractical, I think we can rule that one out.

00:20:27.780 But what about the federal seizure of voting machines? I can't think of any reason not to do

00:20:34.940 that. Can you? Because whether or not there's anything on these voting machines that's a problem,

00:20:41.060 do we all agree that we as citizens would like to know? And we'd like to know if there's a problem

00:20:47.400 on there. I don't want to just guess. And if the only way you can do that is to have the feds seize

00:20:53.540 those machines, is there even any argument against that? You know, I get that you don't want the feds

00:21:00.040 to step on the states, and it's the state's responsibility. But in a situation in which

00:21:04.940 there is extreme doubt about the outcome of the election and the viability of our system,

00:21:10.640 that seems perfectly appropriate. Why wouldn't you? Have you heard any argument against that? Why

00:21:16.760 wouldn't you? Somebody says the logs have been wiped. If the logs have been wiped,

00:21:22.640 then that's reason enough for Congress not to certify anything, because that would be evidence of

00:21:28.080 bad stuff, I would think. Well, the CEO of FireEye, a cybersecurity company,

00:21:35.820 so they're involved in looking at who was involved in the massive cyber attack that is being blamed on

00:21:42.800 Russia. But apparently this fellow who is an expert in a company that's an expert at this and is

00:21:51.440 involved in this very situation, they're not so sure it was Russia. So Pompeo says it's pretty clear it was

00:22:01.920 Russia. And this expert also agrees that it fits the Russian profile, and it's very consistent with

00:22:12.080 the Russia attack. But he's not willing to say it's definitely Russia. However, here's the interesting

00:22:19.200 part. He says that with time and enough effort, you could actually know for sure. Do you think that's

00:22:26.420 true? Do you think that with some amount of time and effort, that somehow we have not had enough time

00:22:32.840 and effort yet? We've known about this hack for, I guess, months now. But with additional time,

00:22:38.320 we would figure out who it was, and we haven't done it so far? It feels like if we haven't done it so far,

00:22:45.420 there wouldn't be much of a trail there, at least digitally. So maybe they have other assets or other

00:22:50.040 ways to find out with human intel. But I'm a little suspicious that if you wait longer,

00:22:58.540 you could be sure where the attack came from. That just feels like something that's not a thing

00:23:03.760 if we don't already know. If we knew already, then I'd say, oh yeah, I guess we found out.

00:23:12.120 So there's some talk that the Moderna vaccine, vaccination, and maybe the other ones too,

00:23:17.900 would work against this variant in Great Britain. And that would be good news. I don't know if it's

00:23:25.640 good enough news to continue the way we're going, but yeah, good news. And that is just about all

00:23:35.320 that's happening, because it's the week of Christmas. And it's a slow news time. Have you

00:23:44.220 looked at poor CNN lately? Look at their news page? It's a little sad, actually. It's a little sad

00:23:52.980 because they don't have enough Trump news, because Trump just sort of went undercover,

00:24:00.360 and all he talks about is the election stuff. Here's somebody saying something about Tesla.

00:24:05.520 Is there something happened with the Tesla stock today that I need to know about?

00:24:09.060 Not really. Down a little bit, no big deal. All right. Yeah, no Trump, no drama. So apparently

00:24:18.040 Biden's plan of starving the news business of anything interesting is working really well.

00:24:25.180 And he is so far successfully starving the news industry of everything.

00:24:31.100 Okay. Oh, somebody's saying Tesla's moving to Texas, and Tesla's put in the S&P 500.

00:24:40.360 So there's some news on that. All right.

00:24:46.420 If you're not familiar with Q, look it up. I don't think I'll be looking for Q. I see you're asking

00:24:52.900 for a WenHub update. I'll give you the brief thing is that the coronavirus, the pandemic,

00:24:57.840 pretty much put us on a business. But the tokens, the Wen, still exist because they live forever on

00:25:06.300 the blockchain. So we are looking for other uses for a token that exists and could be used for

00:25:13.000 anything. So if there's anybody who's thinking of starting any kind of a business that would require

00:25:17.500 a token, we could potentially fund you with some of the tokens for free if what you're doing creates

00:25:24.100 a demand for other tokens. So if there's anybody out there who has a business that they don't want

00:25:29.320 to start their own tokens and get them listed, which is kind of hard. It's really hard. If you

00:25:34.520 just want to use ones that exist, we could set you up on that and it would make the Wen token

00:25:39.340 valuable. All right.

00:25:45.980 If your business model was remote experts, why would COVID kill the business? It had more to do with

00:25:51.620 the team and where our efforts were and my own efforts being entirely this stuff.

00:26:02.540 Newsom recall. You know, I know the Newsom recall petitions and stuff are going on, but I don't

00:26:08.880 really have a big opinion on that. Apparently he has 60% approval rating in California. I don't know

00:26:17.100 if that's true. Somebody says to check my thyroid because you think I have a goiter. Why do you

00:26:25.180 think I have a goiter? Oh, are you seeing this? This is a, if you're seeing my neck, this is a scar

00:26:31.520 from voice surgery. So my vocal cords. So if it looks like there's some irregularity on my neck,

00:26:38.060 that's what that's from. Just a scar. Yeah. Somebody on Twitter suggested it was time for me to make my

00:26:49.480 move to take over the world. And I've been thinking the same thing, really. I think it's just time for

00:26:55.000 me to take over the world. Now, I don't mean in a dictator kind of a way, but I feel as if all the

00:27:00.900 people are in charge are not believable anymore. And that the real government will, you know, there's

00:27:08.820 a good chance it will migrate to simply smart people that you don't think are lying. They might

00:27:15.040 be wrong. They might be right. They might have a different bias than you have. But if you're not

00:27:19.740 getting your leadership from people that you at least know aren't lying, you're not really getting

00:27:25.620 leadership, right? So do you think that Biden will always tell you the truth? Did the Democrats think

00:27:30.880 that Trump was always telling the truth? No. But let me ask you this. Do you think you pick

00:27:37.040 pick anyone from Twitter who you follow that you think is honest? Do you think that they'll lie to

00:27:43.560 you intentionally? No, no, they will not lie to you intentionally. There's lots of people you could

00:27:51.460 identify who are not in politics. So I'll just pick one name, Tim Pool. If you watch, you know,

00:27:58.840 independent journalist Tim Pool, do you think that Tim Pool will ever just lie? No, there's almost no

00:28:07.040 chance of that, right? I mean, you can say anybody can lie, I suppose, in some generic way. But no,

00:28:12.820 no, you know that he might be right, he might be wrong, he might agree with you, he might disagree

00:28:18.360 with you. But you don't really have any doubt that he's telling you the truth. Take Joe Rogan.

00:28:24.600 Do you wonder if Joe Rogan is telling you the truth? No, no, he earned that. He earned it through,

00:28:34.340 you know, lots of public stuff that makes it very clear that he can be right, he can be wrong. But

00:28:39.620 he's always telling you what he thinks is true, even if it's wrong. Yeah, Cernovich is another one,

00:28:45.640 etc. So there are people who could be wrong, but they're not going to lie to you. And we probably need

00:28:52.480 to start moving a little bit of the power or the influence of this country over to the people who

00:29:00.760 aren't trying to screw you. So maybe there's some kind of a hybrid system that would compensate for

00:29:07.520 the fact that the republic is over. You know, we're sort of running on fumes, it's just inertia right

00:29:13.080 now. But the system, the republic, truly doesn't exist. We're like the homeopathy version of the

00:29:23.100 republic, you know, where you keep diluting the water until there's only the memory of the drug,

00:29:29.660 but the drug isn't there anymore. I don't think it's real, by the way, but that's what homeopathy is

00:29:35.400 about. All right. It's called free enterprise. What are the Yeah, I'm seeing you making a Eric

00:29:46.440 Swalwell joke, because his last name has a sexual connotation. And sure enough, he found himself in

00:29:53.580 that situation. Why do I blink like that? So I've often been told that I get blinky, I think it's when

00:30:04.500 I'm tired or nervous or something. I mean, I don't feel especially nervous. But I'm, I'm a serial

00:30:10.220 blinker. And I don't know it when I'm doing it. I only know it when I watch it on playback.

00:30:19.400 Your sinuses are acting up. They feel pretty good at the moment. Pretty good. All right.

00:30:27.800 Is locals the best way to contact you about business? No, use LinkedIn. So just use LinkedIn.

00:30:33.220 LinkedIn. I do. I see all the messages in LinkedIn. I don't respond to them all. But if it's a business

00:30:39.680 thing, I'll see it. So you can guarantee I'll see it sometime in the next week or so. And that

00:30:46.240 is all I have for you today, unfortunately. Unless you have some amazing questions that I see in the

00:30:52.840 next five seconds, we'll make this a short one. Why only one sip of coffee? Because that's all you

00:30:59.880 need. That's all you need is one. Am I leaving California? As of today, I'm probably going to

00:31:08.820 think about it. If you asked me yesterday, I would have said no. But things move fast.

00:31:15.180 Thanks for Doonesbury. Thanks a lot. Your head is blocking your books? Well, there you go. There

00:31:22.960 you go. There's those books. By the way, my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still

00:31:28.260 Went Big, came out in 2013. And when it did, my publisher told me that it would be an evergreen.

00:31:35.200 An evergreen is a book that doesn't just sell well for a year and then disappear. But rather,

00:31:40.480 it becomes one that just sort of lives forever and sells well for year after year after year.

00:31:46.020 And sure enough, the How to Fail book, actually, the oldest of my books is selling the most briskly

00:31:52.740 and actually picking up steam years later because there's so much buzz about it now. So I don't know

00:31:59.540 if you've noticed how many things that book influenced. So anywhere you see anybody talking

00:32:05.300 about something that sounds like a talent stack, that was from that book. Anytime you see somebody

00:32:10.820 talking about systems being better than goals, almost certainly they read that book before they

00:32:16.680 did their own thing. Please fill your shelves. Does it bother you that the shelves are not filled?

00:32:28.120 Your wife is reading How to Fail right now, and I'll bet she'll like it. Oh, you bought two copies?

00:32:33.020 Yeah, the most common thing I hear about that book is people buying multiple copies and buying it all

00:32:38.260 the time. THC today? As soon as we're done here. I haven't started, but today's the day I'm going

00:32:49.040 to need to dig in pretty hard. Haven't heard much about Christina's pilot license. Well, that's on hold at

00:32:59.140 the moment. And all right. How was The Expanse? Oh yeah, I started watching The Expanse. It's good.

00:33:09.160 I mean, the sci-fi shows, I don't watch the same way as I watch other stuff. The sci-fi stuff, I want

00:33:17.480 to feel like I'm in a world. You know, it creates a world and you know those people and you go live

00:33:22.420 with them. So I watch the sci-fi less for the plot and more for the absorbing atmosphere. All right.

00:33:34.960 Why not Russia as a new U.S. state? Okay. Who will be president at the end of January? I would expect

00:33:42.660 Biden will get in because as Josh Hawley said, people don't care that Republicans don't like it. It's just

00:33:50.820 going to happen. All right. How are your sinuses? Very good. So I have the sinus surgery. Unfortunately,

00:34:01.180 I have a marker that suggests my sinus problems will reemerge, but it won't happen right away.

00:34:13.080 And that's all I got for now. Don't want to bore you to death. I'll let you go. Bye for now.

00:34:18.600 All right. We're done with Periscope. How was your week after you said last week was the worst week

00:34:29.840 ever? It's about the same. Honestly, about the same. I can honestly say that this month would be one of

00:34:40.360 the two or three worst times of my life, probably. But I'm perfectly healthy and still rich. So I'm very

00:34:51.140 resilient. I've had my entire life destroyed a number of times. So it's nothing new. All right.

00:35:01.420 That's all for now. I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 22, 2020

Episode 1227 Scott Adams： The Legislation no one Read, The Mysteriously Good Coronavirus Outcomes in China

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